I'm entering this conversation late, but here it is, how I handled it when my MacBook's 80GB drive died:
I sat down for my appointment at the Genius Bar. I asked him if I would get to keep the drive, since I was worried about my data. He said no, since they have to return the dead drive to the manufacturer. Fine, I agreed with that, so I asked if he could certify that the drive was indeed "dead" and worthy of replacement, so I could take it home and sandpaper the platters. He said that was fine; I didn't take his word for it, and made sure the manager was okay with it, in case his shift ended and there was no record that my drive was officially declared under warranty repair.
So I went home, and completely took out the platters, and put back together the case of the drive (sans platters) and took it back to the Apple store.
They put a new drive in my MacBook without fuss, and took the old drive's metal shell to give back to the manufacturer. I don't know if this scenario is officially endorsed by the corporate office, but it worked at the Cambridge, MA Apple store.
According to a Ponemon Institute survey written up on MSNBC.com, people think Obama is the candidate most likely to care about privacy, and Giuliani is the one most likely to care the least. There's some errors in the survey results (of course Ron Paul got less than 5 percent, nobody knows who the fuck he is), but its interesting to see.
Of course this only bares a vague resemblance to the candidates' *actual* stances on privacy...
Based on this article over at ars, it seems like Google had a big part in this. Pushing for open access rules in the FCC frequency auction (that Verizon originally SUED OVER but relented), and creating the Android platform that Verizon KNEW it had to somehow get a piece of, after viewing AT&T laughing all the way to the bank with the iPhone deal... yeah I think this wouldn't be happening without Google.
Hey, I give EMI a little more leeway than the others. EMI is the one that has been speaking about having to change their business model, and is the one offering DRM-free music on iTunes, etc. There were a couple more recent factoids that were slashdotted that showed they were different than the rest of the RIAA.
So try to hate EMI a little less than the rest. Thanks.
I was considering karma whoring and making a Natalie Portman joke early on in a discussion, almost guaranteeing a +5 Funny...
But I decided to actually read the story. According to the article, and also Wikipedia, shes a Psyc student, published a couple papers. Seriously, thats enough to make the geek list? Am I in a dillusioned world that of the thousands of "stars" out there, there aren't many with more geek cred than this?
Oh and I will karma whore... here's the link to the full article print link:
I VPN into a server and upload gigabytes worth of photos per week. Right now, my upload speed on comcast is 768kbps, and is slow as balls. My life would be much better with 20mbps up... even if my download speed was only 5mbps.
MSNTV (formerly WebTV) is what my grandma uses. Hooks up to her TV set, uses dialup (I think the new versions allow you to plug in a cable modem or otherwise use ethernet). Simple, not much to screw up. I think there are some anti-phishing and anti-virus things done on the server end.
Do well-educated geeks (the readership of this site), on average, make their credit card companies less money than the general public? I'm guessing yes.
Generally speaking, I think people on here pay off their cards and don't get their payments in late. There isn't really much of an incentive for a bank to cater to this crowd... I've had Bank of America credit cards for a couple years, put on around $50K worth of charges, and have paid $0.00 in fees. They don't like me. My parents were actually told that if they kept paying off their monthly bill in full (and thus not allowing any interest to be collected), that their card would be dropped.
But I admittedly don't know that much about the business model of a credit card issuer.
Not that I'm a genius, but I did have above average math skills. My 9th grade math teacher wanted to tutor me over the summer before 10th grade. She would even do it for free. But my school refused to let her, on the basis that she wasn't tutoring all of the other kids for free.
Something so nice and innocent, and potentially helpful, squashed by the school district. Remember, it wouldnt of cost them a thing.
This is probably more useful for tired drivers than drunk drivers, as more people drive tired than drunk.
The other day, I was traveling down I-90 in Mass and I was pretty tired. At point point I think I closed my eyes for around 5-10 seconds, and snapped out of it and was half-way into the next lane. I stopped, got out and stretched, and finished my drive with the windows down (which did a good job of keeping me awake). Ok, sure, I *shouldn't have been driving in the first place*, but if the automatic system would have snapped me out of it when it saw me going into the next lane, or saw my eyes closed, that would have been a big help.
Maybe, just maybe, we're viewed as LESS ATTRACTIVE by normal-IQ people. I know when I was in high school, one of the reasons girls wouldn't touch me is because I was the smart kid. Different areas of the country are different, but smartness is NOT attractive everywhere.
If we were really smart, opposite-sex smart people would pair up and spend nights in the sack, making babies. This would increase the general level of intelligence in the gene pool, increasing the level of human advancement, yadda yadda.
Not trying to go on a socioeconomic rant here, but, again generally speaking, its those with the least desirable traits that have the most influence in the gene pool due to their high amounts of fornication. Evolution worked for a long time, since smarts actually increased your survivability; however in modern culture, anyone can survive due to soup kitchens and welfare and all (which I support), so we have to take explicit means to keep the gene pool smart.
Get in bed with another slashdotter today!
Once these things start connecting to smart phones and laptops, and are thereby connected to the outside world... viruses!
I think a particularly funny one would be to lower the windows and make them unable to go up as long as the windshield wipers are on.
I think a particularly not funny one would be to somehow mess with the steering/breaking/stability systems to deliberately cause people to drive off the road.
I've been going to OC on a regular basis for years now, as I grew up in south jersey. Tagged beaches are nothing new, and its pretty much the only way to get shoobees (aka out-of-towners) to help pay for the beach maintenance costs.
And for the 7-8 dollar burgers, sure you can spend that much for a burger. You can spend that much too at the Applebees down the street. But there are many cheaper places. Go get yourself a slice at Mack and Manco's.
Its a little bit of a touristy location. What, do you think you can actually feed three people a meal for under $20 while on vacation, really? Believe me, its more of a playground for the teenagers of south jersey than the rich.
You may have a better chance of surviving an accident if you're sitting in the back... but I bet turbulence is more bearable in the front!
Back when I was riding the school bus, we would all sit in the back because it was more bumpy (and fun). So I'm going to assume that airplanes are exactly the same, and are less bumpy in the front.
So you're telling me that the hundreds/thousands of desktops for the Worker Bees in every medium/large sized company in America are being replaced with laptops?
Laptops cost twice as much as equivalent desktops. Good luck! I might believe it if this article limited the conversion to home computers, but businesses will continue to use desktops as long as they are cheaper.
Note: Laptops do use less power than desktops. If a laptop uses 100W less power than a desktop, and the computers are left on 10h a day, thats 1kWh of saved energy per day per computer. At $0.10 per kWh, if the computers run 300 days a year, thats $30 a year saved. It would take approximately 10 years worth of life for a laptop to be cheaper than a desktop when to factor in energy usage. Clearly, computers don't last this long.
So this claims that most hard drive *failure* is caused by this. Now, I'm sure this causes isolated data loss here and there, and maybe I've had a different experience than the average person, but most of my hard drive failures in the past had loud screeching or clicking noises. I dont think this was caused by magnetic spin!
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I'm entering this conversation late, but here it is, how I handled it when my MacBook's 80GB drive died:
I sat down for my appointment at the Genius Bar. I asked him if I would get to keep the drive, since I was worried about my data. He said no, since they have to return the dead drive to the manufacturer. Fine, I agreed with that, so I asked if he could certify that the drive was indeed "dead" and worthy of replacement, so I could take it home and sandpaper the platters. He said that was fine; I didn't take his word for it, and made sure the manager was okay with it, in case his shift ended and there was no record that my drive was officially declared under warranty repair.
So I went home, and completely took out the platters, and put back together the case of the drive (sans platters) and took it back to the Apple store.
They put a new drive in my MacBook without fuss, and took the old drive's metal shell to give back to the manufacturer. I don't know if this scenario is officially endorsed by the corporate office, but it worked at the Cambridge, MA Apple store.
http://redtape.msnbc.com/2007/11/americans-think.html
According to a Ponemon Institute survey written up on MSNBC.com, people think Obama is the candidate most likely to care about privacy, and Giuliani is the one most likely to care the least. There's some errors in the survey results (of course Ron Paul got less than 5 percent, nobody knows who the fuck he is), but its interesting to see.
Of course this only bares a vague resemblance to the candidates' *actual* stances on privacy...
Based on this article over at ars, it seems like Google had a big part in this. Pushing for open access rules in the FCC frequency auction (that Verizon originally SUED OVER but relented), and creating the Android platform that Verizon KNEW it had to somehow get a piece of, after viewing AT&T laughing all the way to the bank with the iPhone deal... yeah I think this wouldn't be happening without Google.
Great story, thanks for sharing.
Farther... sure, because it's a focused beam.
But faster? Don't radio waves and laser beams both hit the same speed limit (the speed of light)? Radio waves are photons too.
Hey, I give EMI a little more leeway than the others. EMI is the one that has been speaking about having to change their business model, and is the one offering DRM-free music on iTunes, etc. There were a couple more recent factoids that were slashdotted that showed they were different than the rest of the RIAA.
So try to hate EMI a little less than the rest. Thanks.
I was considering karma whoring and making a Natalie Portman joke early on in a discussion, almost guaranteeing a +5 Funny...
But I decided to actually read the story. According to the article, and also Wikipedia, shes a Psyc student, published a couple papers. Seriously, thats enough to make the geek list? Am I in a dillusioned world that of the thousands of "stars" out there, there aren't many with more geek cred than this?
Oh and I will karma whore... here's the link to the full article print link:
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9043739
I VPN into a server and upload gigabytes worth of photos per week. Right now, my upload speed on comcast is 768kbps, and is slow as balls. My life would be much better with 20mbps up... even if my download speed was only 5mbps.
I have a G4 with dual 800mhz CPUs. I wonder if the leopard install engine is smart enough to allow me to proceed with the install?
Which is it:
1) Does the seller have the "burden of proof" to prove that he uninstalled his copy and is not violating his license or
2) Is the seller to be given the "benefit of the doubt" and assumed to have uninstalled his copy, unless information is found to indicate otherwise?
note: I am probably using legal terms like "burden of proof" incorrectly. but you get my question.
MSNTV (formerly WebTV) is what my grandma uses. Hooks up to her TV set, uses dialup (I think the new versions allow you to plug in a cable modem or otherwise use ethernet). Simple, not much to screw up. I think there are some anti-phishing and anti-virus things done on the server end.
I always love when summaries on /. have useless unit conversions to somehow make them more tangible.
I think people here can handle 60nm.
Hymm, I just installed the new version on my mac, did the Command+option+A, and its not working!
Great! Now I won't be able to access my email when I'm drunk!
Do well-educated geeks (the readership of this site), on average, make their credit card companies less money than the general public? I'm guessing yes.
Generally speaking, I think people on here pay off their cards and don't get their payments in late. There isn't really much of an incentive for a bank to cater to this crowd... I've had Bank of America credit cards for a couple years, put on around $50K worth of charges, and have paid $0.00 in fees. They don't like me. My parents were actually told that if they kept paying off their monthly bill in full (and thus not allowing any interest to be collected), that their card would be dropped.
But I admittedly don't know that much about the business model of a credit card issuer.
Not that I'm a genius, but I did have above average math skills. My 9th grade math teacher wanted to tutor me over the summer before 10th grade. She would even do it for free. But my school refused to let her, on the basis that she wasn't tutoring all of the other kids for free.
Something so nice and innocent, and potentially helpful, squashed by the school district. Remember, it wouldnt of cost them a thing.
This is probably more useful for tired drivers than drunk drivers, as more people drive tired than drunk.
The other day, I was traveling down I-90 in Mass and I was pretty tired. At point point I think I closed my eyes for around 5-10 seconds, and snapped out of it and was half-way into the next lane. I stopped, got out and stretched, and finished my drive with the windows down (which did a good job of keeping me awake). Ok, sure, I *shouldn't have been driving in the first place*, but if the automatic system would have snapped me out of it when it saw me going into the next lane, or saw my eyes closed, that would have been a big help.
Its simpler than that for the high IQ group.
Maybe, just maybe, we're viewed as LESS ATTRACTIVE by normal-IQ people. I know when I was in high school, one of the reasons girls wouldn't touch me is because I was the smart kid. Different areas of the country are different, but smartness is NOT attractive everywhere.
If we were really smart, opposite-sex smart people would pair up and spend nights in the sack, making babies. This would increase the general level of intelligence in the gene pool, increasing the level of human advancement, yadda yadda. Not trying to go on a socioeconomic rant here, but, again generally speaking, its those with the least desirable traits that have the most influence in the gene pool due to their high amounts of fornication. Evolution worked for a long time, since smarts actually increased your survivability; however in modern culture, anyone can survive due to soup kitchens and welfare and all (which I support), so we have to take explicit means to keep the gene pool smart. Get in bed with another slashdotter today!
Once these things start connecting to smart phones and laptops, and are thereby connected to the outside world... viruses!
I think a particularly funny one would be to lower the windows and make them unable to go up as long as the windshield wipers are on.
I think a particularly not funny one would be to somehow mess with the steering/breaking/stability systems to deliberately cause people to drive off the road.
I've been going to OC on a regular basis for years now, as I grew up in south jersey. Tagged beaches are nothing new, and its pretty much the only way to get shoobees (aka out-of-towners) to help pay for the beach maintenance costs.
And for the 7-8 dollar burgers, sure you can spend that much for a burger. You can spend that much too at the Applebees down the street. But there are many cheaper places. Go get yourself a slice at Mack and Manco's.
Its a little bit of a touristy location. What, do you think you can actually feed three people a meal for under $20 while on vacation, really? Believe me, its more of a playground for the teenagers of south jersey than the rich.
You may have a better chance of surviving an accident if you're sitting in the back... but I bet turbulence is more bearable in the front! Back when I was riding the school bus, we would all sit in the back because it was more bumpy (and fun). So I'm going to assume that airplanes are exactly the same, and are less bumpy in the front.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/2 2/009216 From two months ago.
So you're telling me that the hundreds/thousands of desktops for the Worker Bees in every medium/large sized company in America are being replaced with laptops? Laptops cost twice as much as equivalent desktops. Good luck! I might believe it if this article limited the conversion to home computers, but businesses will continue to use desktops as long as they are cheaper. Note: Laptops do use less power than desktops. If a laptop uses 100W less power than a desktop, and the computers are left on 10h a day, thats 1kWh of saved energy per day per computer. At $0.10 per kWh, if the computers run 300 days a year, thats $30 a year saved. It would take approximately 10 years worth of life for a laptop to be cheaper than a desktop when to factor in energy usage. Clearly, computers don't last this long.
So this claims that most hard drive *failure* is caused by this. Now, I'm sure this causes isolated data loss here and there, and maybe I've had a different experience than the average person, but most of my hard drive failures in the past had loud screeching or clicking noises. I dont think this was caused by magnetic spin!