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On January 19th, a Florida state appeals court decided that minors could be prosecuted for child pornography even if the subject of that pornography is him/herself. The case involved two Florida teens who took pictures of themselves involved in sexual behavior. The photos were intended for their own personal use and neither teen shared the photos with anyone else. From Police Blotter:

On March 25, 2004, Amber and Jeremy took digital photos of themselves naked and engaged in unspecified âoesexual behavior.â The two sent the photos from a computer at Amberâ(TM)s house to Jeremyâ(TM)s personal e-mail address. Neither teen showed the photographs to anyone else. Court records donâ(TM)t say exactly what happened nextâ"perhaps the parents wanted to end the relationship and raised the alarmâ"but somehow Florida police learned about the photos. Amber and Jeremy were arrested. Each was charged with producing, directing or promoting a photograph featuring the sexual conduct of a child. Based on the contents of his e-mail account, Jeremy was charged with an extra count of possession of child pornography.

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Note that everyone is expected to know about the "P55" already. It is assumed that no explanation is needed.

Here is a fairly typical article: Intel P55 Ibex Peak Chipset Features.

Intel marketing words:
Ibex Peak
P55 Express
Lynnfield
Havendale
Penryn
Montevina
Cantiga
Core 2 Duo
Centrino 2

You can mix and match them. For example, this random article I found with a Google search says: 'The processor specifications for the Pioneer DreamBook Style 9008 speak for themselves: "Intel Core 2 Duo Centrino 2 processors (45nm Penryn CPU, Montevina Platform)." '

Maybe they "speak for themselves", but I can't hear them.

I like "Core 2 Duo Centrino 2". Not one, not two, but THREE uses of the concept 2 in five words. Awesome!

Okay, I will try some Intel-speak myself: "Ibex Peak Core 2 Duo Centrino 2 with Lynnfield and Core 2 Quad with Havendale are together known as Summitlake". How did I do? I have no idea.

Does Intel take the position that it doesn't matter how disfunctional Intel marketing is, because you have to buy from them?

There is a conspiracy theory that MS kept supporting Apple even in its darkest days just to prevent a possible monopoly lawsuit.

It wasn't a rumour - it was a fact. Microsoft bought $150 million of Apple shares to help prop up Apple back in 1997, when Apple looked like it was circling the drain. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-202143.html

An Eagles stadium operator was angry the team didn't re-sign Brian Dawkins, let it be know on Facebook, and was subsequently fired.

Tried Plasma Pong?
http://download.cnet.com/Plasma-Pong/3000-2099_4-10511143.html

It's been done.

It's been done.

Funny, Microsoft did the steps in reverse...

5. Profit!
4. ...

3. Start crying how the GPL is a communist cancer that should stay away from corporate source code to avoid "infection"

That was in 2001.

2. Make sure that someone drags you to court for the violation

That was in 2003. Not directly but supposedly partly founded by them.

1. Violate the GPL

That is in 2009.

It appears that you somehow are forgetting the multiple reports that the judge was clearly biased.

I guarantee they're going to pull an "operation squirrel."

That happens far more than you may realize. The San Jose attack was a pretty big one. We had about a dozen OC-192 outage tickets open on that, and we were just riders on that line. Turns out it was cut, quite deliberately, with a hacksaw. Neat and clean as you please. It was also cut in a place where it would be easy to repair. They could have cut them off where they come into the manholes and CEVs, but they cut them at the junctions, where there's plenty of slack.

The article also fails to mention that it was a very precise and coordinated strike. They knew exactly where to go, exactly which manholes to get into, and precisely which cables to cut and where, all within a 2 hour period. It also fails to mention very similar attacks that happened in Baltimore that same week. Those "vandals" were even meaner, cutting cables that had no markings and went under a railroad bridge over the Chesapeake. In several places.

Someone was sending a message. Well, we got the message, and I haven't heard anything regarding the one that was sent back.

They didn't actually make a profit in 93. What they did is known as "channel stuffing."

Last fall, to reach its goal of posting a profit for 1993, Saturn slashed its advertising after it added a new, third crew of workers to raise production at its assembly plant in Spring Hill, Tenn. Partly as a result, dealer inventories soared in January above a 100-day supply.

In other words, GM decided to try to cook the books (and inflate its' stock value) by forcing dealers to carry MUCH more inventory than was financially sound. The SEC doesn't like this; you may recall that Corel did the same thing, lost investor confidence, and then ended up circling the drain. Chrysler is another company that did this as it lurched towards bankruptcy.

Channel stuffing in order to show a profit when GAAP would show a loss (ie: you don't make reserves for the discounts and incentives you'll have to pay out to move the goods you artificially stuffed into the channel) tends to piss off the SEC. More importantly, it weakens your dealer network (siphoning off cash from your dealers to pay the carrying costs of the bloated inventory), weakens your business in the next year (too much inventory means more incentives for "inventory clearances"), and is a sign that you aren't able to properly forecast demand so your figures shouldn't be trusted in the future.

So no, no profit. Ever.

Don't forget Stac Electronics, Microsoft fucked them over real good too on their way to the top. Then there is their history of subtlety (or overtly) fucking around with specifications specifically to cause pain to their own customers who dare to choose to use non-Microsoft products. For example the DHCP "bug" in Vista, the 500mb memory check in Windows 3.1 (which broke IBM's then-fairly-successful OS/2 for Windows product), their incompatible kerberos strategy, their undermining of Java, their web page editors that made pages look fucked up in non-IE browsers.

Microsoft has justifiably earned the hatred they receive, it's not like this aggravation with them happened for no reason.

Inspired by Torvalds' I-don't-care-who-it-comes-from stance, Adolf Hitler held a press conference in Brazil to announce he would open source the previously-proprietary algorithms behind the IBM Hollerith punch-card machines used by Nazis.

I was asking this as I heard about Germany wanting or doing wiretapping Skype, but this article says it isn't possible except by breaking AES. German police uses a trojan.

Probably the reason why China has its own version of Skype, TOM-Skype.

Windows Server's ability to hypervise Linux is actually a feature, since many enterprises are mixed environments.

Yes, it makes Linux better. This isn't in doubt. The slight hit to Microsoft comes from a lost sale of Windows for a guest OS, but it's countered by a customer (who, hypothetically, MUST have a perfect Linux guest) being able to use Windows as a hypervisor.

When I say "entire program", I'm referring to the entirety of what Microsoft made to make Linux work better as a guest (which I'm assuming is everything released in these past few days)

As for the other projects, Microsoft does have a obvious stake in both PHP (improving IIS's performance and market) and Mono (improving the same for C# and .NET). Apache's license, unlike the GPL, allows them to use any technology in their own software. Funding Apache becomes a gamble on the foundation producing something useful in the future.

I have yet to see a contribution from Microsoft that didn't appear selfish. That includes these recent events. I realize that being a corporation they're only concerned with their bottom line, but it seems to me that having fewer unhappy potential customers would lead to higher profits.

Perhaps I'm just ignorant, and hatred is a new business strategy.

Here's a company that's had wireless power tech since 2007:
http://www.powercastco.com/
They even won a best of CES 2007 award from CNET:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12760_7-9673092-5.html
They released working wirelessly powered Christmas tree lights in December 2007 as a consumer product!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9793204-1.html
So this type of wireless power tech has been available in consumer products since 2007 and it appears that there has not been a lot of interest. I am really mystified as why nobody cares. Is it because they mistake this technology for some other kind of well known technology? I can't figure out the psychology here.

Here's a company that's had wireless power tech since 2007:
http://www.powercastco.com/
They even won a best of CES 2007 award from CNET:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12760_7-9673092-5.html
They released working wirelessly powered Christmas tree lights in December 2007 as a consumer product!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9793204-1.html
So this type of wireless power tech has been available in consumer products since 2007 and it appears that there has not been a lot of interest. I am really mystified as why nobody cares. Is it because they mistake this technology for some other kind of well known technology? I can't figure out the psychology here.

LOT of the security of linux is due to a limited (unfortunately) market share

Well, it is hard to compete with Apple's 91% market share.

This isn't market share; it's a niche. The 91 percent figure is among desktop and laptop computers whose MSRP is greater than 1000 USD. But even if all expensive computers were hardened against such exploits, the majority of computers aren't expensive.

He's not in business anymore. Therefore he is replying as a person and not as a business. No need for professionalism, unless there is some rule that persons have to communicate like lawyers and businesses.

Anyone with a job is "in business".
Some legal letterhead and a motion to dismiss is all it takes to make the case go away.
In the meantime, this guy could have worked his victimhood positively.
Instead, anyone googling the case will inevitably end up reading his poorly spelt and argued rant.

Off the top of my head, two high profile examples of "Victimhood 101: Doing it right" are nissan.com and Ernie Ball

LOT of the security of linux is due to a limited (unfortunately) market share

Well, it is hard to compete with Apple's 91% market share.

Yes, Pirate Bay could secretly store that information, but I somehow doubt they would.

Yeah, because no one would think that the soon to be new CEO, who happens to be good friends with the RIAA, would ever do such a thing as log traffic or identifiable information. Right? ..right?

This version of Windows will be a good one.

Forget what we said about other versions: Buy Vista for the security.

"Only 2 more service packs until it's stable."

Small correction: Only 2 service packs until it is what a customer would call a release version.

Permanent sales message: "This version of Windows will be a good one."

Previous sales message: Buy Vista for the security.

Sales message before that: Microsoft Says Recovery From Malware Becoming Impossible . Therefore buy a new computer.

I see what you're saying and don't disagree, but I think there's a better solution that's already being tested: swapping out batteries (the article is old, but it outlines the idea better than other links I found). Why charge your car when you can keep one battery at home on the charge and swap it out with the one in your car? As long as the battery is easily accessible and replaceable, it would should be faster than 10 minutes. I don't see any advantage to fast charging besides not having to get your hands dirty, which may be taken care of by the robots anyway.

Show me any time open software has done anything like what the BSA/Microsoft did to the makers of Music Man guitars (Ernie Ball) and we'll talk: http://news.cnet.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html Worrying about what could happen is one thing, but knowing what has happened is more significant.

You need to show them what the BSA can do. I'd rather have a surprise inspection of source code over a surprise subpoena or surprise lawsuit.
http://news.cnet.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html
and
http://advice.cio.com/msweinberg/year_of_the_software_audit

Or use an Apple notebook. Their products are constantly bursting into flames and exploding.

Negropontes' biggest mistake was getting into bed with Wintel. We don't really have any idea of the machinations that went on in the background to sabatage the OLPC. But his road to Damascus conversion must be one of the most unexpected since Scott McNealys.

"AMD is our partner, which means Intel is pissing on me. Bill Gates is not pleased either, but if I am annoying Microsoft and Intel then I figure I am doing something right,", 2006

'Negroponte says that a Windows operating system is in the process of being fine-tuned on the XO as we speak. "Microsoft and OLPC are in discussion on how to release it', 2008

'Intel .. is promoting its Classmate PC (CMPC) in Nigeria to various organisations as well as government'

'The organization is in negotiations with Microsoft to load Windows on dual-boot versions of the XO laptop', May 2008

But the "fuel" for the wind turbine is just wind - which is free

And that is compensated by the construction cost, which is extremely high. Everything included, wind electricity is substantially more expensive, per kWh, than conventional sources (coal, nuclear, hydropower).

Beat THAT with your nuclear reactors and their uranium mines,

What, the amounts of uranium needed are very small. And don't pretend wind farms don't need mines, for their hundreds of tons of iron and copper and whatnot. And more interestingly, lanthanide metals ("rare earths"), for high-density permanent magnets in the wind motors. Interesting because these occur in the same ores that thorium is mined from (not exactly uranium, but another nuclear fuel and radiologically similar).

See for instance Atlantic's recent Clean Energy's Dirty Little Secret, subtitle: "Hybrid cars and wind turbines need rare-earth minerals that come with their own hefty environmental price tag."

processing plants

The amounts of material used in enrichment facilities, or in chemical reprocessing plants, is very small, and it is manipulated in hot cells, and not released into the environment in any meaningful quantities. (I consider this the great theme of nuclear power: everything is "small", because the energy density is extraordinarily dense.) In contrast, (e.g.) solar photovoltaics go through large amounts of solar photovoltaic waste, which is not held to the high standards of radiological material, but (in many countries) simply dumped. Sure not in the US, but then we do import much of our PVs, no?

See for example WP's Solar Energy Firms Leave Waste Behind in China (about dumping of SiCl4 byproduct used in Si-cell manufacture), or CNET's E-waste looms behind solar-power boom, which points out that PV cells die and need special disposal considerations, because they contain toxic pollutants.

It should be regulated so long as we have draconian laws that let Apple say that jailbreaking violates copyright ( http://news.cnet.com/apple-iphone-jailbreaking-violates-our-copyright/ ) and so long as we have a legal system that awards outrageous "damages" for "infringements" we need regulation to keep them in check.

Everything is supposed to be a compromise, if the government didn't help businesses at all, than we wouldn't need laws protecting consumers, similarly when the government over-protects consumers you need balance by giving businesses certain rights. With copyright you have a few publishers screwing the masses and so long as the DMCA and other similarly absurd copyright laws are in effect, you need government protection to protect you from them.

I can't think of their names right now (because it's not music which I would listen to), but I know there are a few pretty large groups out there giving their albums away for free; not sure if it's a fan service or if it's in response to all the crap the RIAA puts listeners through. Then there's ***holes like Gene Simmons from Kiss who go as far as to openly state their hatred, not even dislike, for today's young people for downloading music.

"Because I haven't found a big box retailer who has near the selection as local game shops."

No matter, just wait: of course the developers should shut up, they only have to put up with it until the next generation of consoles, so another 2-3 years before everything is download only.

Games on the new PSP Go are all downloaded. There is no drive, just 16gb built-in and expandable cards, so that means places like GameStop and GameFly have about 10 years before they vanish because there's no doubt the next Playstation will also be all download and I'm sure the Xbox will follow suit. I've already stopped renting games because you can download demos, and if the demo is good enough I just go buy the game.

Cutting out the rentals and used games is smart for Sony because it means more sales. Only problem I see with this is you can't let your friends borrow games anymore, but I guess Sony doesn't think that matters.

If Sony was really smart... and I mean super uber l337 smart... they'd figure out a online game rental system, where you pay a few bucks and get a game for a few days or follow Netflix movie idea and pay a set $10/month and play all the older titles. I don't see that happening because I don't think Sony's that bright, but if they did I have my $$$ ready. It's more $$$ for everyone though, because now you're leasing the games instead of selling them, and little Timmy's mom would probably be more willing to pay $5 to let him play for 5 days then $65 to buy the game that little Timmy might play for 5 hours and throw in the corner (of the hard drive).

Come on Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo, show me you're smart, give us the holy grail of software money making: lease us the software already!

"if you look at the news reports from yesterday (15/7/2009) you'll see that Amazon sold out of the pre-orders within hours for Home premium"

Why would people pre-order something that is going to totally wipe out their current desktop. I mean having to reinstall and configure your current apps and data must be a major hassle.

Windows 7 pre-orders big in Europe

Why not put yourself out of your misery and upgrade to Mac OS X?

FUCK NO !!!

NEVER EVER UPGRADE MAC OS X.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-9806005-37.html

BACKUP - backup then backup again.
clean install new version of mac os x
then use transition assistant.

Christ don't give me nightmares.

You don't seem to grasp the issue here. Say there is a bug in DirectX where if you send a certain pixel shader program to it there is a buffer overflow allowing execution of arbitrary x86 code. Keep in mind that DirectX cannot run inside the sandbox because in order to render anything with the GPU it has to access the video driver. The same sort of thing goes for the display driver itself too.

This sort of thing has happened before. Flaws in the sandboxes of Firefox and Internet Explorer have allowed Javascript to access the filesystem by breaking out of the sandbox:

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-214620.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2005/mfsa2005-41.html

That isn't even mentioning XSS vulnerabilities, the most common kind these days.

MindRover came out about ten years ago with a programming model that sounds like this one.

It was really cool. The GUI generated code in an intermediate language ('Ice', C-ish I think), then compiled that to some kind of VM. You were never meant to see those guts though, and it didn't let you hack the intermediate files. It's a shame, it would have gotten a lot more geek cred, even if it shattered the level playing field :\

This, will probably be limited to the GUI parts, being on a console and all.

...been impressive when compared to Flash? Really? Then why did mlb.com switch from Silverlight to Flash? I remember when they did this - I had unsubscribed because the Silverlight player was such a mess, and I went back and signed up for the rest of the season.

That said, the ability to write Silverlight apps in Ruby is interesting.

Because so many more people already have flash installed.

...been impressive when compared to Flash? Really? Then why did mlb.com switch from Silverlight to Flash? I remember when they did this - I had unsubscribed because the Silverlight player was such a mess, and I went back and signed up for the rest of the season.

That said, the ability to write Silverlight apps in Ruby is interesting.

I think you got it about right. Glaskowsky sizes things up in a similar way: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13512_3-10282844-23.html

From the first hit on Google for "first 1gb drive":

World's first 1GB disk drive (IBM 3380) introduced 1980, was the size of a refrigerator, weighed about 250 kg and cost $40,000 link

Then there was this tidbit:
in 1982, Hitachi shipped the first drive with more than 1GB of storage. The 1.2GB H-8598, seen here, consisted of 10 14-inch platters and two read-write heads. ... kilogram-to-gigabyte ratio from 121 kilograms per gigabyte... link.

Assuming it was ~18 months later do we have another close analog to Moore's law? A 1.5TB HDD weighs only .72kg or .00048Kg/GB which is EXACTLY the predicted value (250Kg * (1/2)^19) so it would appear so!

Probably not SCO..

... but maybe ex-Microsoft-CTO Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures

So what you're saying is that it's a really well disguised trap?

Note that what Microsoft is stopped from doing has no bearing on what they can fund other companies to do on their behalf.

There's no legal basis for any third party to sue .NET implementers, you say? Well, gosh darn, I guess there's no way that Microsoft could fund them to file a bullshit case that drags on for year after year after year, tying up court time, costing the defendants millions in fees, and eating away at the hearts of souls of good men like a cancer. Is there?

Conviction. Do you know the word or what?

Your above post was the first time the word "conviction" was used in this thread. You replied to a post that used the term "locked up", which Mr. Skylarov most certainly was.

He was given bond, he couldn't pay it.

So, I'll ask you again, has there been a single person convicted of a DMCA charge? Anyone? If not, why would you bet your business on it happening?

I called you an idiot because you're clearly too dumb to follow a simple argument.

You say you'll ask me again, when were you going to ask the first time? Just to humor you, here is a DMCA conviction:
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1025-5080807.html
Also, there have been thousands of DMCA takedown orders sent to content providers, the circumvention clause is not the only part of the DMCA.

Your argument is not valid but you think if you somehow insult me it will make it so. Your personal attacks, moving of the goalposts and rejection of evidence make it obvious that you are just a troll and not interested in reasonable discourse, so this will be my last post on the matter.

Sorry, I'm not understanding from where your confusion stems.

The first thing I tried to do after getting the iphone 3gs was to make a ringtone. I tried with AAC as numerous forums/blogs/etc mentioned--it did not work. I tried with apple lossless as other posts suggested if the first method didn't work. That worked. Does that make sense?

I just tried again with several different files...oddity upon oddity, aac method worked fine on all except for the first file I had tried which simply does not import into itunes after converted to aac and changed to m4r. So it appears I was more or less wrong--AAC _does_ still work (at least most of the time). The file that fails as a aac ringtone is an ogg file before conversion...I wonder if that could be an issue.

And also, FWIW, have no idea if this is trustworthy or not... http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-10115290-233.html

"Prodigy Classic", the walled-garden part of the service (as opposed to "Prodigy Internet", their direct ISP service), shut down in 1999 due to insurmountable Y2K issues in the software.

Symantec Exec to board members: "Holy underwear! Free Antivirus! From Microsoft! We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!

Actually that probably is how it went but if I remember correctly the reason that Microsoft did not provide free Anti Virus software was due to the fact that the other Anti Virus software vendors threatened to take Microsoft to court over antitrust practices especially since they were convicted of being a monopoly.

Actually the way Microsoft can possibly get around antitrust practices is to make sure that their Anti-Virus software is only available as a download that the user must initiate (massive advertising does not count). If Microsoft forced the download via an update then they could be litigated against. Again Microsoft has to tread carefully otherwise (from my reference).

Antitrust regulators in the U.S. have tended to focus on harm to consumers as opposed to competitors. Authorities in Europe and Korea have taken a broader view, taking action against Microsoft for actions deemed to hurt competitors, such as bundling its media player into Windows.

The above can easily apply to free Anti-Virus software as well.

...except at least they were attemping to make a useful device from day one, while Nokia has totally let that ship sail into Apple's hands.

Is that Kool-Aid good?

Nokia sells 4x more smartphones than Apple does, with over 40% of the worldwide market. Nokia has won more design awards for phones than Apple, by a long shot. They even have smartphones (n97) that handily beat the iPhone. The problem is, Nokia caters to users NOT phone companies and thus the North American carriers don't sell their smartphones. All you can really get in the U.S. is their standard phones.

They're trying to get a bigger presence in the U.S. market, and are examining how to leverage QT, Symbian and Linux in doing that. At least they aren't sitting on their collective asses (like Motorola) and getting crushed.

Don't write them off.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/12/technology/hempel_nokia.fortune/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10245339-37.html
http://www.nokiausa.com/find-products/phones/nokia-n97/specifications

Algae. They expect by 2020 to have 5-10% of the American market JUST BY THEMSELVES.

(I firehosed this story too with some extra information about how the Copyright Lobby primed the Australian Media to run a ridiculous piracy=terrorism story, complete with a claim by Australian Reporter Mike Munroe that pirates could "burn a DVD in 3.5 seconds":)

Australia's Fairfax group published an article by Journalists Eamonn Duff and Rachel Browne claiming that people who download films from illegal file-sharing websites are financing terrorism. The article only quoted media industry sources and was basically a warmed-up press release. That evening Channel Seven "Sunday Night" current affairs program claimed how how movie piracy is being used to fund terrorist groups including Hezbollah and Jemaah Islamiah, responsible for the Bali bombings in 2002 which killed hundreds including 94 Australians. Reporter Mike Munro claimed pirates "could burn a DVD in 3.5 seconds."

While technically-savy voters can sort fact from fiction, technically-illiterate politicians are easily swayed. What's the best way to combat this sort of misinformation? Is it possible to educate our politicians that there are two sides to every story? Or are they hopelessly in the lobbyists pockets.

I was originally going to mod you +1 Funny, but then I realised; there are people in the world (namely the RIAA) who genuinely, honestly believe that. It's kinda like modding a holocaust joke +1 Funny, then you realise it's posted by a neo-nazi...

From http://www.smh.com.au/national/movie-pirates-funding-terrorists-20090627-d0gm.html?page=-1

"It has been recognised by governments ⦠that there is a link between movie piracy and terrorist funding."

From http://news.cnet.com/Terrorist-link-to-copyright-piracy-alleged/2100-1028_3-5722835.html

"Some associates of terrorist groups may be involved in IPR crime," Stedman said. "During the course of our investigations, we have encountered suspects who have shown great affinity for Hezbollah and its leadership."

There was a big Slashdot thread about it a while back... http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/08/140216

I genuinely believe there are some people in this world who believe that downloading a torrent of a movie that's been out for a year or more is akin to terrorism and should be punished accordingly. Given that the people who persue this woman (who, by the way, is obviously guilty) believe that she should spend the rest of her life as a debt-slave confims this.