As far as wasted disk space for ads goes, after my tivo was updated to 2.0.1 I got an extra two minutes on my 30 hour sony pvr.
Also, Tivo's privacy policy is posted on their web site, and you can opt out of even the "anonymous" information sharing scheme with a simple phone call.
Personal data - stuff that identifies you by name - is never "shared" with Tivo's partners unless you actuallyt OPT IN!
As a previous poster said, the privacy protectors are out of line on this one.
Hopefully they will move on to more important battles (there are many!)
I don't know where you live, but my pay tv stations also have commercials (HBO, etc.)
My only concern is that, once the pay model is adopted (because I think that it will be) web sites will continue to place "appropriate" ads to reinforce a revenue model.
That would "force" me to deploy junk buster against web sites where I had a subscription -- a really paradoxical and ridiculous situation.
I agree. I would be willing to pay up to $30.00 a year for ad free access to Slashdot.
Hell, I pay more than that for magazine subscriptions that are becoming increasingly unreadable -- because of the increasing number of ads. See PC Magazine for a good example of a magazine that is fast becoming (if it isn't already) a sales brochure for computer companies.
Sign me up if you want to conduct "pilot" tests of the subscription model.
Imagine the combination of this technology with the "electronic text books" profiled on slashdot a while back. Those medical, dental, and other professional schools -- and the companies that supply them -- who have decided to sell textbooks to students on digital media would be able to ensure that students had to regularly "refresh" their books through contact with the providers' servers.
Equally, digital media with a "stale date/stale - {defined condition}" feature would ensure against people selling their old books once they graduated.
I can see why the publishing/mpaa/riaa/(fill in your favorite intellectual property monopolist) communities would love this!
I am glad that the model referenced here is so obviously vulnerable to userland/client-side hacking. Otherwise this is would be an information-freedom nightmare.
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I would suggest you tune in to Fox tonight.
The Lone Gunmen premieres. This looks at least mildly interesting.
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"Selective Availability" - the US government's policy of degrading the GPS signal available to commercial and civilian receiver operators was ended last year.
Selective regional or local denial of GPS signals (through the equivalent of jamming) is possible, howvever.
Just some hopefully useful background information.
Ask the folks over at Kaleidoscope.net what Apple's attitude is to the theming of its OS?
I would love to look at the "prior art" search conducted by the patent examiners. This is a particularly brain-dead patent -- granted I will note -- just one month before the release of a new OS that touts its use of Open Source derived software elements.
For those of you who are ignorant of both politics and history, the states rights argument was also the one used by white segregationists in the south to constrain black voting and civil rights. These arguments were also tolerated by both democrats and republicans for political reasons.
Bottom Line:
Don't depend on republican states rights arguments to defend the free software movement.
This is all very fine. If, that is, a viral outbreak emerges in an area of low population density where modern social amenities are not present. In a highly modern urban area, any airborne virus would be transmitted through central air conditioning systems in buildings, HVAC systems in subways, and any of a myriad other mechanisms enabled by the close proximity of large numbers. In such an environment the quick fatality period would only mean that millions would be consigned to quick horrible deaths with no hope of assistance. Which, incidentally, is one of the things that makes chemical and biological weapons so horrific.
Imagine if a virus entered the human food chain through contaminated meat or poultry, hung around for a while in a state where hosts could infect one another, but showed no significant symptoms, and then killed very quickly (in hours or days).
Imagine now a mutation of a less serious E-Coli, or Botulinum bacterium with similar capabilities.
Yes, it does. And one does not have to be white to be racist. And all (most?) whites are not racist.
Given engineering as a field, how long is it before the assumed white and near-white birthright to jobs over african american or other under represented candidates can be questioned?
Speaking as ANOTHER Black Man I have to agree whole-heartedly with this poster. While I work in an industry only tangentially related to tech (a public policy/R&D thinktank) I too have experienced the second-guessing and the seemingly constant justifications I have to go through to get usually older caucasian staff to follow clear direction.
I also do not agree with the $5 billion law suit. When are Americans going to realize that suing over everything is not the answer?
Anyway. I would like to see some other remedies used to correct any localized abuses. Suggestions ?
I doubt that Microsoft has a corporate wide racist policy. Just look at the varied ethnic makeup of their workforce. Such a policy would be unimplementable!!
You owe it to yourself to see a well acted, intelligent movie that takes the book and intellectual heritage of the original seriously.
I saw the David Lynch movie and was embarrassed by how half-assed it appeared. The less obvious portions of the Dune story were played up, and the actors were allowed to go to ridiculous extremes of characterization (Sting in the bathtub as the most stunning example).
The SCIFI Channel production is high quality, well acted, and skillfully directed. I only hope that the next two segments are as good as the first.
Nader's support in Florida is a little over 90,000 votes. The margin of Bush's (apparent victory) is likely to be much less than that, probably less than 5000.
As a result, Nader denied Gore victory, and the democrats who warned of this outcome were right.
Now we get to see Nader explain how more Clarence Thomas clones and the loss of reproductive rights for women (overturning of Roe v. Wade) were inevitable "whichever candidate (Bush or Gore) won.
Nader is a self indulgent, self-aggrandizing idiot, who apparently cares nothing for female reproductive rights, gender and racial equity, or the long-term health of a progressive democratic alternative in the United States.
I for one will never again believe a word he says.
He has let everyone who cares for issues he championed down.
Now hopefully he will reap the whirlwind he so richly deserves.
As a proud West Indian (at least, my parents are!), I would like to say that I have seen limbo, and it takes a lot of physical flexibility to perform it. Do you suppose the Pope did some tests. Or something.
I have 5, one from my employer (a Dell Inspiron 7000), two apples (an iMac and a G4), a thinkpad 560 (for my suse linux fanaticism), and an unused Lexmark subnotebook from 1995. Oh wait. If forgot my AST Ascentia 810N (with transplanted 3,8 Gb hard drive), that my wife uses on occasion.
I find them all *absolutely* essential to my daily living.
The power company also thinks that they are important.
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As far as wasted disk space for ads goes, after my tivo was updated to 2.0.1 I got an extra two minutes on my 30 hour sony pvr.
Also, Tivo's privacy policy is posted on their web site, and you can opt out of even the "anonymous" information sharing scheme with a simple phone call.
Personal data - stuff that identifies you by name - is never "shared" with Tivo's partners unless you actuallyt OPT IN!
As a previous poster said, the privacy protectors are out of line on this one.
Hopefully they will move on to more important battles (there are many!)
D
I don't know where you live, but my pay tv stations also have commercials (HBO, etc.)
My only concern is that, once the pay model is adopted (because I think that it will be) web sites will continue to place "appropriate" ads to reinforce a revenue model.
That would "force" me to deploy junk buster against web sites where I had a subscription -- a really paradoxical and ridiculous situation.
D
I agree. I would be willing to pay up to $30.00 a year for ad free access to Slashdot.
Hell, I pay more than that for magazine subscriptions that are becoming increasingly unreadable -- because of the increasing number of ads. See PC Magazine for a good example of a magazine that is fast becoming (if it isn't already) a sales brochure for computer companies.
Sign me up if you want to conduct "pilot" tests of the subscription model.
D
Imagine the combination of this technology with the "electronic text books" profiled on slashdot a while back. Those medical, dental, and other professional schools -- and the companies that supply them -- who have decided to sell textbooks to students on digital media would be able to ensure that students had to regularly "refresh" their books through contact with the providers' servers.
Equally, digital media with a "stale date/stale - {defined condition}" feature would ensure against people selling their old books once they graduated.
I can see why the publishing/mpaa/riaa/(fill in your favorite intellectual property monopolist) communities would love this!
I am glad that the model referenced here is so obviously vulnerable to userland/client-side hacking. Otherwise this is would be an information-freedom nightmare.
D
I would suggest you tune in to Fox tonight.
The Lone Gunmen premieres. This looks at least mildly interesting.
Are you joking?!
"Selective Availability" - the US government's policy of degrading the GPS signal available to commercial and civilian receiver operators was ended last year.
Selective regional or local denial of GPS signals (through the equivalent of jamming) is possible, howvever.
Just some hopefully useful background information.
D
yeah!!
Are you serious?!!!
Ask the folks over at Kaleidoscope.net what Apple's attitude is to the theming of its OS?
I would love to look at the "prior art" search conducted by the patent examiners. This is a particularly brain-dead patent -- granted I will note -- just one month before the release of a new OS that touts its use of Open Source derived software elements.
Typical. And Hypocritical.
Geeks that made fun of "him" in school? You have it backward. Dubya was a jock/party animal. The geeks would have been his principal targets.
For those of you who are ignorant of both politics and history, the states rights argument was also the one used by white segregationists in the south to constrain black voting and civil rights. These arguments were also tolerated by both democrats and republicans for political reasons.
Bottom Line:
Don't depend on republican states rights arguments to defend the free software movement.
Talk about an "unholy alliance"!!!
As others have already said, how do you know she isn't.
...barely hidden bigotry showing under your hood...
dickhead
This is all very fine. If, that is, a viral outbreak emerges in an area of low population density where modern social amenities are not present. In a highly modern urban area, any airborne virus would be transmitted through central air conditioning systems in buildings, HVAC systems in subways, and any of a myriad other mechanisms enabled by the close proximity of large numbers. In such an environment the quick fatality period would only mean that millions would be consigned to quick horrible deaths with no hope of assistance. Which, incidentally, is one of the things that makes chemical and biological weapons so horrific.
Imagine if a virus entered the human food chain through contaminated meat or poultry, hung around for a while in a state where hosts could infect one another, but showed no significant symptoms, and then killed very quickly (in hours or days).
Imagine now a mutation of a less serious E-Coli, or Botulinum bacterium with similar capabilities.
I assume that you will make yourself available to the defense during the discovery process of the lawsuit...
Ignorant Asshole.
> Does this make me racist?
Yes, it does. And one does not have to be white to be racist. And all (most?) whites are not racist.
Given engineering as a field, how long is it before the assumed white and near-white birthright to jobs over african american or other under represented candidates can be questioned?
Speaking as ANOTHER Black Man I have to agree whole-heartedly with this poster. While I work in an industry only tangentially related to tech (a public policy/R&D thinktank) I too have experienced the second-guessing and the seemingly constant justifications I have to go through to get usually older caucasian staff to follow clear direction.
I also do not agree with the $5 billion law suit. When are Americans going to realize that suing over everything is not the answer?
Anyway. I would like to see some other remedies used to correct any localized abuses. Suggestions ?
I doubt that Microsoft has a corporate wide racist policy. Just look at the varied ethnic makeup of their workforce. Such a policy would be unimplementable!!
To paraphrase another responder to your message.
Dude. It is a six hour mini-series broken into three episodes. The first one was yesterday. There is a show tonight, and one tomorrow.
The chances of Sci-Fi cancelling the show TODAY are fairly low.
Idiot.
Another lame commment from the uninformed masses.
As far as picture quality, maybe you need a new tv. I watched it on scifi via my new dishnetworks satellite system and it was near-DVD quality.
And as far as your KPT Bryce skills, well, I guess you can just go ahead and make demo CGIs of "your best effort" for the slashdot audience.
I for one look forward to that.
Lame-O
Maybe you should have written your response AFTER you saw the movie last night.
Quicktime trailer-based reviews. A new low in critic over-estimation of their own importance.
Dimwit.
You owe it to yourself to see a well acted, intelligent movie that takes the book and intellectual heritage of the original seriously.
I saw the David Lynch movie and was embarrassed by how half-assed it appeared. The less obvious portions of the Dune story were played up, and the actors were allowed to go to ridiculous extremes of characterization (Sting in the bathtub as the most stunning example).
The SCIFI Channel production is high quality, well acted, and skillfully directed. I only hope that the next two segments are as good as the first.
Not to criticize your friends....
But they need to get a clue.
Er...
Had to point out. You can get Tivo in silver as well. My new Sony SVR-2000 is a nice silver/platinum and matches the new Sony Wega TVs.
D.
Ridiculous. Add it up.
Nader's support in Florida is a little over 90,000 votes. The margin of Bush's (apparent victory) is likely to be much less than that, probably less than 5000.
As a result, Nader denied Gore victory, and the democrats who warned of this outcome were right.
Now we get to see Nader explain how more Clarence Thomas clones and the loss of reproductive rights for women (overturning of Roe v. Wade) were inevitable "whichever candidate (Bush or Gore) won.
Nader is a self indulgent, self-aggrandizing idiot, who apparently cares nothing for female reproductive rights, gender and racial equity, or the long-term health of a progressive democratic alternative in the United States.
I for one will never again believe a word he says.
He has let everyone who cares for issues he championed down.
Now hopefully he will reap the whirlwind he so richly deserves.
Ralph Nader -- the Republicans best friend.
Limbo?
As a proud West Indian (at least, my parents are!), I would like to say that I have seen limbo, and it takes a lot of physical flexibility to perform it. Do you suppose the Pope did some tests. Or something.
There.
Someone had to say it.
:)
I have 5, one from my employer (a Dell Inspiron 7000), two apples (an iMac and a G4), a thinkpad 560 (for my suse linux fanaticism), and an unused Lexmark subnotebook from 1995. Oh wait. If forgot my AST Ascentia 810N (with transplanted 3,8 Gb hard drive), that my wife uses on occasion.
I find them all *absolutely* essential to my daily living.
The power company also thinks that they are important.
:)