While it was certainly a hard-fought race, one that was quite heated at times, the people have spoken and I am glad that our country will not be forced to endure weeks of court battles over the results.
Granted, it's low-tech, but I'd imagine any AM radio will do the trick just fine. Or sign up for any of the countless "breaking news" services (CNN has one, MSNBC does, and others) which will e-mail your cell phone with breaking news.
While this is an interesting concept, trust me, it will NEVER happen. I am a contractor in the railroad industry (working with all levels of railroading, from engineers/conductors to high-level management) and have a long family history of railroading. Union agreements currently in place will continue to make it unprofitable for railroads to serve the occasional branch-line customer when BLE locomotive engineers continue to price themselves so friggin' high. They manage to demand and make close to and more than $100,000 a year, simply for driving a locomotive.
They would NEVER let anyone other than a locomotive engineer, making that sort of obscene salary, drive one of these things without implementing a union strike, and making it significantly unprofitable for railroads to use.
It's a nice idea, certainly, but thanks to the choke-hold that the BLE and UTU have on railroads, it'll never (profitably) happen.
I'll admit to not RTFA, but for people to say it is scary that a couple grad students with $200,000 were able to do this is unfortunate. I'm assuming they mean they are scared that the heavyweights couldn't do it with hundreds of millions of dollars, and yet a couple grad students do it with $200k. Ugh. To put profits so far above people's health truly is sad.
Leave it to these bloodsucking bastards to take a shotgun to the latest non-RIAA success story in the music industry. Here we finally have a successful, and wildly so, online music purchasing and distribution system, 100 percent legal, and RIAA HATES it, and seems to be doing everything they can to stomp it out. Download a CD for $17? Holy friggin' crap! I can buy the (nearly) worthless piece of plastic at Best Buy for the same price! Are they just doing it for an excuse to ass rape us at the music store too? Sure as heck wouldn't surprise me.
On a somewhat related side note, I am running for Congress in Nebraska. Conservative? Yes, I am. But, pro-technology, anti-RIAA/MPAA/DMCA? Darn right! Want real change? Vote Ringsmuth for Congress May 11 in Nebraska. That is the only way things will happen. If elected, I will do everything in my power to bring down these cartels.
Just pick up one of these. It's a Yamaha receiver, about $300, that allows you to adjust the audio to match the video and eliminate the problem! Adjustable from 0 to 100 ms.
Lemme check, this IS Slashdot, right? (glances at location bar in Safari) Yup, it is.
People here know what cooking is? I figured we all lived off cereal, chinese takeout and pizza! Hmmm, I might have to try one of these "recipe" things and see what happens. Maybe I can actually use that large appliance in the kitchen my friends call a "stove." It's got a bunch of buttons and knobs on it, lets see what it does....
I am happy to see that HP has some sense in this. Instead of picking Napster, which is doomed to failure, they instead went with a company who has a solid, proven track record of being THE industry leader in online music distribution and top-of-the-line MP3/AAC players.
Smart move, HP! Good on their part, good for Apple, and most importantly, good for the customer.
I was working cleanup at a stadium over the weekend, as part of a church fundraiser (I'm an adult advisor for the youth group). Just by picking up empty bottles, I snagged 19 winning caps.
It truly is sad to think that Microsoft can block distribution of a particular flavor of Linux. I guess when you can't win in the free marketplace, you resort to sleazy underhanded tactics such as this.
In all seriousness, I would be willing to volunteer for a one-way trip to the Red Planet. Crazy? Probably. Suicide? Who knows. Incredible opportunity? Darn right. Give me 5 or more years of notice, a hefty paycheck for those years ($1 million-ish, to toss out a figure) and I would be willing to board the ship on a one-way trip there.
As is fairly common knowledge, one of the chief functions of a computer case is to restrict stray electromagnetic fields to inside the box. If it's all made out of plexiglas (or other compounds other than metal, as are many typical case mods), wouldn't this end up doing something like, say, causing all your sperm to mutate?
Oh, wait, this is Slashdot. Like those spermies are ever going to end up anywhere but a tissue anyway.....
I've always wondered why a network couldn't be set up like this for dialup (shudder) ISPs. I travel frequently, and it's still fairly rare that I am in a place that does have WiFi, but nearly every mom & pop motel has a phone line in the room I can use (only twice in 5 years have I found a phone system old enough that it was proprietary and wouldn't work). I've got Earthlink for when I'm on the road, but they don't have numbers everywhere.
Why couldn't a handful of ISPs get together for this concept via dialup? You could log in with a username (during the dialin process) of something like and it'd be routed towards my Earthlink account for metering, etc., and be able to dial in from virtually any ISP's local number.
Just like someone said with ATMs, you can go to nearly any ATM in the world and use your card to get cash. I do this when I travel internationally, much easier and quicker than screwing with Traveler's Cheques. Same goes with cell phones. These days, if you can get a signal, regardless of whose it is, you can make and receive calls.
Sounds like what Bill is actually saying is that "It's not our fault!" or "Security is not our responsibility!". By saying that security should fall to firewalls, etc., he is trying to shift responsibility from his company to the end user. Sounds to me like it is nothing more than justifying the trend in software, particularly MS (but admittedly others) to let software schedules be driven by the marketing department as opposed to when the software is actually ready for prime time.
I hope people see this for what it is: states experiencing financial hardships are looking for new cash cows to balance their budgets, thanks to years of overspending during the false and short-lived economic boom of the late 90s, that is now coming back to bite them. They will say that it is "lost" revenue. Something cannot be lost if it never existed in the first place!
I find it interesting that when a business experiences tight finances, they must improve efficiency and trim costs in order to stay afloat. Heaven forbid a government entity have to do the same thing! Cut one penny from a bloated government program (or even cut the rate of growth!), and suddenly the headlines scream about no school lunches and seniors losing social security.
Well, it's a foregone conclusion that it'll take about 30 seconds to hack one of these, so you get a halfway decent digicam for $11.
Obviously, if the camera store can download the photos quickly, it can't be very hard for the rest of us. It's probably got either a hidden/internal USB connector, or some proprietary thing (unlikely, would require new equipment at all the places to print/burn the pics).
This is nothing new. This has been done in agriculture for decades. A guy at my church, who is an agriculture professor at a local community college, used this method to take aerial photos of the site for our congregation's new church. I know him pretty well, he said that method has been used for a long, long time.
In my opinion, NASCAR is nothing more than rich white trash driving in circles for a few hours, sponsored by cheap beer. No talent whatsoever. Any idiot can drive a car. It takes a lot more guts and brains to fire yourself into space on a rocket.
Finally, this idea is taking hold. I'll admit it does run a bit contrary to my conservative, smaller government, pro-business beliefs, but on this issue, I agree, this is the right thing to do. Of course, we'll hear a bunch of whining and moaning from the telemarketers about how it will hurt them. And, quite frankly, I don't care. Their calls harass me enough that I think it is worth it.
I worked at RadioShack for six months a few years ago, and we were supposed to try and push additional things on our customers (cell phones, batteries, cables, more cell phones, and cell phones again). I hate suggestive selling. I hate doing it and I hate it being done to me. If I want it, I will buy it.
If I want info on refinancing my home, new windows, fixing my credit, buying a coupon book, getting another credit card, etc., LET ME SEEK IT OUT. I despise the thought that others (aka telemarketers) believe they know what I want or need better than I do. I am perfectly capable of deciding what products or services I wish to purchase, so let me decide on my own without invasive selling.
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This concept has been around for a few years. In some railroad locomotives, virtually identical devices have been installed. They look out the front window of the locomotive, and also record whistle noises. This way, when Joe Sixpack says to the judge "Honest, he didn't blow the whistle, I didn't see him coming," they can pop the tape in and see that Joe pulled up to the railroad crossing, looked right at the train, and then decided to make a run for it before getting pulverized by the train, while the whistle was blowing. Those tapes are watermarked quite well, it was that intent so they would stand up in court.
While this may be interesting, in a capitalist society such as the U.S., it is not the government's responsibility to provide Internet access to individuals. I am perfectly happy with my DSL as is, and i don't want them meddling in it. If I wanted socialism, I'd move to South Korea or Europe. But I don't.
We've all heard the quote, "Everything that can be invented has been invented." by Charles H. Duell in 1899, insisting that his office be closed (he was the top guy at the Patent office in the U.S.). And a lot has happened in the last 100 years. Anyone who thinks that is true for software should get his head out of the sand.
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While it was certainly a hard-fought race, one that was quite heated at times, the people have spoken and I am glad that our country will not be forced to endure weeks of court battles over the results.
Granted, it's low-tech, but I'd imagine any AM radio will do the trick just fine. Or sign up for any of the countless "breaking news" services (CNN has one, MSNBC does, and others) which will e-mail your cell phone with breaking news.
They would NEVER let anyone other than a locomotive engineer, making that sort of obscene salary, drive one of these things without implementing a union strike, and making it significantly unprofitable for railroads to use.
It's a nice idea, certainly, but thanks to the choke-hold that the BLE and UTU have on railroads, it'll never (profitably) happen.
I'll admit to not RTFA, but for people to say it is scary that a couple grad students with $200,000 were able to do this is unfortunate. I'm assuming they mean they are scared that the heavyweights couldn't do it with hundreds of millions of dollars, and yet a couple grad students do it with $200k. Ugh. To put profits so far above people's health truly is sad.
On a somewhat related side note, I am running for Congress in Nebraska. Conservative? Yes, I am. But, pro-technology, anti-RIAA/MPAA/DMCA? Darn right! Want real change? Vote Ringsmuth for Congress May 11 in Nebraska. That is the only way things will happen. If elected, I will do everything in my power to bring down these cartels.
Whips out credit card......
People here know what cooking is? I figured we all lived off cereal, chinese takeout and pizza! Hmmm, I might have to try one of these "recipe" things and see what happens. Maybe I can actually use that large appliance in the kitchen my friends call a "stove." It's got a bunch of buttons and knobs on it, lets see what it does....
Smart move, HP! Good on their part, good for Apple, and most importantly, good for the customer.
I was working cleanup at a stadium over the weekend, as part of a church fundraiser (I'm an adult advisor for the youth group). Just by picking up empty bottles, I snagged 19 winning caps.
It truly is sad to think that Microsoft can block distribution of a particular flavor of Linux. I guess when you can't win in the free marketplace, you resort to sleazy underhanded tactics such as this.
In all seriousness, I would be willing to volunteer for a one-way trip to the Red Planet. Crazy? Probably. Suicide? Who knows. Incredible opportunity? Darn right. Give me 5 or more years of notice, a hefty paycheck for those years ($1 million-ish, to toss out a figure) and I would be willing to board the ship on a one-way trip there.
Oh, wait, this is Slashdot. Like those spermies are ever going to end up anywhere but a tissue anyway.....
Why couldn't a handful of ISPs get together for this concept via dialup? You could log in with a username (during the dialin process) of something like and it'd be routed towards my Earthlink account for metering, etc., and be able to dial in from virtually any ISP's local number.
Just like someone said with ATMs, you can go to nearly any ATM in the world and use your card to get cash. I do this when I travel internationally, much easier and quicker than screwing with Traveler's Cheques. Same goes with cell phones. These days, if you can get a signal, regardless of whose it is, you can make and receive calls.
Time to start checking Amazon for pre-orders!
Sounds like what Bill is actually saying is that "It's not our fault!" or "Security is not our responsibility!". By saying that security should fall to firewalls, etc., he is trying to shift responsibility from his company to the end user. Sounds to me like it is nothing more than justifying the trend in software, particularly MS (but admittedly others) to let software schedules be driven by the marketing department as opposed to when the software is actually ready for prime time.
What about Apple's new codec, Pixlet (scroll down about 2/3, on the right)?
I find it interesting that when a business experiences tight finances, they must improve efficiency and trim costs in order to stay afloat. Heaven forbid a government entity have to do the same thing! Cut one penny from a bloated government program (or even cut the rate of growth!), and suddenly the headlines scream about no school lunches and seniors losing social security.
Sickening.
Obviously, if the camera store can download the photos quickly, it can't be very hard for the rest of us. It's probably got either a hidden/internal USB connector, or some proprietary thing (unlikely, would require new equipment at all the places to print/burn the pics).
This is nothing new. This has been done in agriculture for decades. A guy at my church, who is an agriculture professor at a local community college, used this method to take aerial photos of the site for our congregation's new church. I know him pretty well, he said that method has been used for a long, long time.
Sign me up, where do I get tickets?
How do we know we can believe NYT? These days, I'd put more trust in National Enquirer than NYT. At least everyone knows the NYT prints fake stuff...
I worked at RadioShack for six months a few years ago, and we were supposed to try and push additional things on our customers (cell phones, batteries, cables, more cell phones, and cell phones again). I hate suggestive selling. I hate doing it and I hate it being done to me. If I want it, I will buy it.
If I want info on refinancing my home, new windows, fixing my credit, buying a coupon book, getting another credit card, etc., LET ME SEEK IT OUT. I despise the thought that others (aka telemarketers) believe they know what I want or need better than I do. I am perfectly capable of deciding what products or services I wish to purchase, so let me decide on my own without invasive selling.
This concept has been around for a few years. In some railroad locomotives, virtually identical devices have been installed. They look out the front window of the locomotive, and also record whistle noises. This way, when Joe Sixpack says to the judge "Honest, he didn't blow the whistle, I didn't see him coming," they can pop the tape in and see that Joe pulled up to the railroad crossing, looked right at the train, and then decided to make a run for it before getting pulverized by the train, while the whistle was blowing. Those tapes are watermarked quite well, it was that intent so they would stand up in court.
While this may be interesting, in a capitalist society such as the U.S., it is not the government's responsibility to provide Internet access to individuals. I am perfectly happy with my DSL as is, and i don't want them meddling in it. If I wanted socialism, I'd move to South Korea or Europe. But I don't.
We've all heard the quote, "Everything that can be invented has been invented." by Charles H. Duell in 1899, insisting that his office be closed (he was the top guy at the Patent office in the U.S.). And a lot has happened in the last 100 years. Anyone who thinks that is true for software should get his head out of the sand.