He ends the article with "If it works for you, please let me know". Typically before writing and publishing an article, you should test that your code is going to work on some other configurations than your own. Rather than using the article, and subsequent slashdotting as a test bed for your crap.
what fantasy land do you live in where your xbox outputs ANYTHING other than 480i? it might show up on your hi def tv, but just because the picture is on the screen doesn't mean its 'hi def'.
its sad how many people run around thinking they have hi-def just because they purchased the equipment. Then they hook up thier set top boxes via composite (rca) cables and brag about the picture quality. hilarious.
They must be using some NSA type shit. From TFA:
He learned quite a bit through forensics. He learned, for example, that an aquarium employee had downloaded an audio file while eating a sandwich on her lunch break. Now thats what i want, a tool that can tell if someone was eating a sandwhich while downloading a particular file.
If my work is so important and that time sensitive, i'll make sure i have a reliable connection, and if thats not possible i'll make damn sure im not dependent upon that connex to get my work done
This type of stuff just promotes crappy data. "Oh let me see if we have any appointments available, oh wait, i cant... all this data i have access to is shit, because half the workforce is using it in offline mode, and i have no idea what data is out there in the wild waiting to be uploaded when they connect." And what happens when steve and sally are both working on the same record while offline, who gets their version sync'd and who gets theirs overwritten. In anything i've ever seen that requires syncing, you will constantly be dealing with data loss and bad data, or wasting time to prevent it.
What do you expect? I feel the same way about this as I do about the story earlier today regarding fanfic. If you don't want your content being controled, censored, changed, mangled, sold, etc, host it on your own domain on your own dedicated server. You could still get screwed, your hosting provider can sqaush you out if they feel the push. So whats next, you install a lamp stack on some spare box with a sad 30k upload cap; Even so you're not protected because your ISP could get wind of your server from some fanatics claiming its content evil and wrong, and they'll shut your account down for sake of the children.
"After downloading the Gears plug-in, the browser will automatically determine whether a user is online or offline. If it's the latter, the next time the user is online, the application will synchronise with the server." Wow, brilliant, how about i just wait til i have a connection and use my web app then. This would have been more useful during the days when dial up was the defacto standard. We should be working towards a true 'always' connected state, rather than figuring ways to disconnect. Pump these resources into global wireless and give us some decent services that we can get online anywhere without being raped up the ass by cell phone companies and their nickel and dime tactics. It just doesnt make a lot of sense to even use web apps, without a connection. The benefit of web apps is that you've always got fresh data, and you've always got the latest version of the app, because you are requesting it each time you use it. If those features dont interest you, use a desktop app. If your app doesnt come in desktop flavor, install php/apache/mysql or iss/mssql your box and run the web apps off a local server... still its just as clunky and worthless without live centrally located data.
The bank could give you a CD (or a link to a website) when you open your account and you could install some bank created desktop software to access your accounts. I can imagine the nightmares caused by insane UI's, and highly doubt we'd see a lot of linux support, but it'd stop the phishing aspect of it. You're getting it from one place, an app on your desktop, not the wild wild web and some link you got from some random person that 'looked' like the actual bank.
Unfortunately, people are stupid, and all it'd take is someone saying "hey, the desktop software is broken, go here and input your password and social security # etc etc, then it'll work again, thanks, evil guy." or " the software is updated, download this NEW version and login immediately". Its the ole make it idiot proof, and someone will make a better idiot quandry.
Start by looking at LSD. Users of the mind bending substance often experience crossed senses. Seeing music, and also hearing what you see, among other things.
haha, didn't see that one coming did you, ya litigious bastards. Now you're actually going to have to come of with proof of your bullshit claims, good luck. Here's an laughable quote from some jerkwad in response to the defendants claim that someone else (the neighbor kid) downloaded the songs.
"The chances of it not being the right person or someone in that household are slim," -Stanley Pierre-Louis, senior vice president for legal affairs at the RIAA.
Yeah, be afraid of the RIAA, they must have some secret CIA shit that allows them to know exactly what person was sitting at the computer based upon an IP address.
The cell phone companies are idiots and i for one am sick of it, this needs to happen just to lessen the grip of their control if nothing else. They should open the network, and open the phones as well.
It seems most people don't even realize how screwed up the cell phone world is just because they don't know any better. Firstly, these pieces of shit are not worth $400, I can put together a low end computer for less than that. Or I can get one for.99 cents, if i sign up for a 3 year contract. That is the REAL reason they are 400-600 bucks, to force you into the contract. So now you have your $400 phone and your $60 a month plan for the next 3 years. Ok great, now you want the internet. What most of these idiots pass off as the internet is a tiered 17 layer system of bullshit with new charges along every step of the way. You pay $10 a month for 'internet' access. What this gets you is access to a bunch of crappy applications, and they are not free, each one costs money. Say you want ringtones, you pay $5 for the ring tone browsing application, and then each crappy tone (aka mp3 or wav file) is another $2. You want to get weather, maps, or anything else on your phone, another application, another 1 time fee for the app, and then usage fees on top of that. If you're real lucky, you can hook your phone to the computer via usb and add some wav files.
Then there's text messaging, what a crock of shit, tiny messages hardly more than a few hundred bytes for the maximum size message (compared to full duplex audio on phone conversations), and they have the balls to charge 20 cents each. If the 'internet' on phones was real, we could send text with it, for free.
Anyways thats my rant. I'd love to see more linux phones, and get the actual internet on phones as standard and stop locking people out of everything. Let everyone else have a stab at developing useful things for phones. Then we'll start seeing the true potential of having little computers in our pockets always connected to the interweb. I hope someday i can actually USE my phone like i do the computer.
..can't wait to see the cool software and ideas the true hackers of the world come up with in order to steal neighbors connections and find even better ways anonymize their activites. I can think of a few things around already that would help, namely ssl, it just needs to be a little faster. When will the idiots up on the hill figure it out that the tech crowd will find a way to get around their garbage so why waste money on somthing that doesn't make sense.
Im not too worried though, I just don't see it happening. That is a massive amount of data we're talking here. Imagine how this conversation would go:
"Hello,::insert major cable provider here::, uncle sam here, yeah, you know that massive piece of fiber you have running through::insert major city here::, we're gonna need to you to open about 100 data warehouses and store all of your users traffic for us... forever... thanks." Then think about joe bloe isp in anytown kentucky. He has 1000 subscribers, and pays and arm and a leg for data already, maybe he cant afford a 2tb raid array and the cash its gonna take to set that system up and support it... forever. And ultimately within 20 minutes, you'd have some hackers looking up taliban shit and kiddie porn from government officials computers so they get the hi-speed watching police knocking on their doors for a change!
10 meters to feet Cowabunga Dude! (hey that reminds me, someone is making a new TMNT flick)
Disclaimer: Yeah, yeah, i know the rest of the free world uses metric, so save your self some typing by not replying to let me know i'm an asshat. yeah, you know who you are... limey bastard
I was in an unfortunate scenario a while back, I had to move back in with my parents for a month or two. And my teenage little sister is quite disgusting, doesn't flush the toilet, leaves trash all over the house, etc, and expects everyone else to clean it for her, it was getting to me. My attempts using normal avenues of compromise to remedy the situation were thawrted.
So I installed a keystroke logger on her laptop while she was at school, and waited til it captured her myspace password. I then proceeded to post bulletins in her name on her own profile with attached pictures of the disgusting messes. Oh man she was pissed, but guess what, a lot of the annoying stuff stopped, probably for fear of the repercussions. I know, its kind of an evil thing to do, but myspace is the only thing your average highschoolers care about these days.
Just a few weeks ago I noticed a certain IP address was hitting wierd pages that didn't even exist, causing a boat load of 404 traffic, and doing all sorts of other nasty things it shouldn't be doing. So I did a whois on it and found it was some place called turnitin.com, advertises as a service to assist educators in finding plagirism. I promptly blocked them and immediately uploaded every paper I wrote in college and highschool.
The article hints that the fabricators of this device were slightly ahead of their time:
"...the mystery finally unveiled, we found the purpose of this device is finding duplicate articles on slashdot then preventing them from being posted, saving the editors much embarassment and nay saying. In addition to saving thousands of people having to compose lengthly dupe messages in high hopes it will get modded '+5 Insightful'"
Yeah, yeah, I know its already been stated, but I couldn't resist.
Windows Vista will solve every security problem imaginable, flawlessly. Eliminating the need for IT security professionals and their absurdities, entirely.
Remember the 1st xbox, not so popular when it came out, everyone complaining it was the size of a house, etc. Then a few years down the road... you can mod it without a hardware upgrade, install linux, all kinds of emulators, and pretty much do whatever you want with it. Thats when I actually bought one. I always wondered if microsoft kinda did that on purpose.
HOPEFULLY, the same thing will happen with the zune, someone will hack the crap out of it, release the code for all to enjoy, and we can use the wi-fi to its full potential. And if we're lucky, maybe install linux (and you thought YOUR wireless chipset was a pain to get drivers for)!
for blindness. I landed there by mistake once and the purple and red text with tiled gif butterflies blinking in the background made me take an olive fork and start stabbing.
Anyways TFA basically says myspace is acting as accomplice to the end users infringement simply by formatting the uploaded videos, they're really casting the net pretty far and wide. Do they expect myspace to police everything the kiddies are uploading? Damn sue happy lawyers, it will never end.
We've got human eating robots that love the bacony taste of their prey, robots with freakin machine guns attached to their heads, and now this. I for one... , blah blah.
Im to lazy to post the robotic links, its not like you dont know what im talking about if you're in this discussion at 3am rushing to check if someone already posted the "i for one" on the robot article. Really though, its cool to see robotics doing some crazy things.
Slashdot Mirror
He ends the article with "If it works for you, please let me know". Typically before writing and publishing an article, you should test that your code is going to work on some other configurations than your own. Rather than using the article, and subsequent slashdotting as a test bed for your crap.
what fantasy land do you live in where your xbox outputs ANYTHING other than 480i? it might show up on your hi def tv, but just because the picture is on the screen doesn't mean its 'hi def'.
its sad how many people run around thinking they have hi-def just because they purchased the equipment. Then they hook up thier set top boxes via composite (rca) cables and brag about the picture quality. hilarious.
http://www.cio.com/article/print/114550
Take that advertisers!
If my work is so important and that time sensitive, i'll make sure i have a reliable connection, and if thats not possible i'll make damn sure im not dependent upon that connex to get my work done
This type of stuff just promotes crappy data. "Oh let me see if we have any appointments available, oh wait, i cant... all this data i have access to is shit, because half the workforce is using it in offline mode, and i have no idea what data is out there in the wild waiting to be uploaded when they connect." And what happens when steve and sally are both working on the same record while offline, who gets their version sync'd and who gets theirs overwritten. In anything i've ever seen that requires syncing, you will constantly be dealing with data loss and bad data, or wasting time to prevent it.
What do you expect? I feel the same way about this as I do about the story earlier today regarding fanfic. If you don't want your content being controled, censored, changed, mangled, sold, etc, host it on your own domain on your own dedicated server. You could still get screwed, your hosting provider can sqaush you out if they feel the push. So whats next, you install a lamp stack on some spare box with a sad 30k upload cap; Even so you're not protected because your ISP could get wind of your server from some fanatics claiming its content evil and wrong, and they'll shut your account down for sake of the children.
Now there is a missing option from the most hated cliches poll : "think of the children"
The bank could give you a CD (or a link to a website) when you open your account and you could install some bank created desktop software to access your accounts. I can imagine the nightmares caused by insane UI's, and highly doubt we'd see a lot of linux support, but it'd stop the phishing aspect of it. You're getting it from one place, an app on your desktop, not the wild wild web and some link you got from some random person that 'looked' like the actual bank.
Unfortunately, people are stupid, and all it'd take is someone saying "hey, the desktop software is broken, go here and input your password and social security # etc etc, then it'll work again, thanks, evil guy." or " the software is updated, download this NEW version and login immediately". Its the ole make it idiot proof, and someone will make a better idiot quandry.
Start by looking at LSD. Users of the mind bending substance often experience crossed senses. Seeing music, and also hearing what you see, among other things.
wait til it comes on in the middle of the night, and put a 5lb speaker magnet on top of my 13 inch tv, crappy nostalgic goodness.
ps i think the slashdotit thing is broken, has wierd numbers in it etc.. i dig it though hope it stays.. omg ponies
Yeah, be afraid of the RIAA, they must have some secret CIA shit that allows them to know exactly what person was sitting at the computer based upon an IP address.
That is what i got from the comment rotator, nice. Sometimes that thing scares me... sure its random, sure.
of the robot mentioned a while back that thinks humans taste like bacon. Lets see what this thing thinks your hand is.
The cell phone companies are idiots and i for one am sick of it, this needs to happen just to lessen the grip of their control if nothing else. They should open the network, and open the phones as well.
.99 cents, if i sign up for a 3 year contract. That is the REAL reason they are 400-600 bucks, to force you into the contract. So now you have your $400 phone and your $60 a month plan for the next 3 years. Ok great, now you want the internet. What most of these idiots pass off as the internet is a tiered 17 layer system of bullshit with new charges along every step of the way. You pay $10 a month for 'internet' access. What this gets you is access to a bunch of crappy applications, and they are not free, each one costs money. Say you want ringtones, you pay $5 for the ring tone browsing application, and then each crappy tone (aka mp3 or wav file) is another $2. You want to get weather, maps, or anything else on your phone, another application, another 1 time fee for the app, and then usage fees on top of that. If you're real lucky, you can hook your phone to the computer via usb and add some wav files.
It seems most people don't even realize how screwed up the cell phone world is just because they don't know any better. Firstly, these pieces of shit are not worth $400, I can put together a low end computer for less than that. Or I can get one for
Then there's text messaging, what a crock of shit, tiny messages hardly more than a few hundred bytes for the maximum size message (compared to full duplex audio on phone conversations), and they have the balls to charge 20 cents each. If the 'internet' on phones was real, we could send text with it, for free.
Anyways thats my rant. I'd love to see more linux phones, and get the actual internet on phones as standard and stop locking people out of everything. Let everyone else have a stab at developing useful things for phones. Then we'll start seeing the true potential of having little computers in our pockets always connected to the interweb. I hope someday i can actually USE my phone like i do the computer.
wait.. wrong country.
Im not too worried though, I just don't see it happening. That is a massive amount of data we're talking here. Imagine how this conversation would go: "Hello,
21 millimeters to inches
Thats it!? I would have imagined somthing larger.
10 meters to feet
Cowabunga Dude! (hey that reminds me, someone is making a new TMNT flick)
Disclaimer: Yeah, yeah, i know the rest of the free world uses metric, so save your self some typing by not replying to let me know i'm an asshat. yeah, you know who you are... limey bastard
I was in an unfortunate scenario a while back, I had to move back in with my parents for a month or two. And my teenage little sister is quite disgusting, doesn't flush the toilet, leaves trash all over the house, etc, and expects everyone else to clean it for her, it was getting to me. My attempts using normal avenues of compromise to remedy the situation were thawrted.
So I installed a keystroke logger on her laptop while she was at school, and waited til it captured her myspace password. I then proceeded to post bulletins in her name on her own profile with attached pictures of the disgusting messes. Oh man she was pissed, but guess what, a lot of the annoying stuff stopped, probably for fear of the repercussions. I know, its kind of an evil thing to do, but myspace is the only thing your average highschoolers care about these days.
Just a few weeks ago I noticed a certain IP address was hitting wierd pages that didn't even exist, causing a boat load of 404 traffic, and doing all sorts of other nasty things it shouldn't be doing. So I did a whois on it and found it was some place called turnitin.com, advertises as a service to assist educators in finding plagirism. I promptly blocked them and immediately uploaded every paper I wrote in college and highschool.
Glad I didn't buy blue-ray or HD-DVD, I knew they were both scams!
The article hints that the fabricators of this device were slightly ahead of their time:
"...the mystery finally unveiled, we found the purpose of this device is finding duplicate articles on slashdot then preventing them from being posted, saving the editors much embarassment and nay saying. In addition to saving thousands of people having to compose lengthly dupe messages in high hopes it will get modded '+5 Insightful'"
Yeah, yeah, I know its already been stated, but I couldn't resist.
Windows Vista will solve every security problem imaginable, flawlessly. Eliminating the need for IT security professionals and their absurdities, entirely.
Remember the 1st xbox, not so popular when it came out, everyone complaining it was the size of a house, etc. Then a few years down the road... you can mod it without a hardware upgrade, install linux, all kinds of emulators, and pretty much do whatever you want with it. Thats when I actually bought one. I always wondered if microsoft kinda did that on purpose.
HOPEFULLY, the same thing will happen with the zune, someone will hack the crap out of it, release the code for all to enjoy, and we can use the wi-fi to its full potential. And if we're lucky, maybe install linux (and you thought YOUR wireless chipset was a pain to get drivers for)!
for blindness. I landed there by mistake once and the purple and red text with tiled gif butterflies blinking in the background made me take an olive fork and start stabbing.
Anyways TFA basically says myspace is acting as accomplice to the end users infringement simply by formatting the uploaded videos, they're really casting the net pretty far and wide. Do they expect myspace to police everything the kiddies are uploading? Damn sue happy lawyers, it will never end.
We've got human eating robots that love the bacony taste of their prey, robots with freakin machine guns attached to their heads, and now this. I for one... , blah blah.
Im to lazy to post the robotic links, its not like you dont know what im talking about if you're in this discussion at 3am rushing to check if someone already posted the "i for one" on the robot article. Really though, its cool to see robotics doing some crazy things.