The perfect storm of apathy, lack of understating and short slightness of the masses, what I find ever funnier was that some people thought the internet was going to be different, Books, Radio,TV all get controlled in the end, well it will be a little bit different, there will be two internet’s.
One that is corporate/government approved and the crypto-anarchy overlay. They will keep pushing the line until people have had enough, but by then it will be to late for the masses to catch up.
Deciphering the marketing speak: “All our game have scantly clad women, guns, and blood, we need to make games for women with puppy’s,unicorns and rainbows”.
It’s the same bullshit targeted marketing you will find in all industry’s, Most women I have known, got in to gaming because of there boyfriends/husbands, when alone form other females, and most enjoy so called boys-games.
It’s the same with men, I started watching Gilmore Girls and Army Wives because of a girlfriend , Yet I would never crack open a beer and start taking about it with my mates.
When you get down to it and have a deep look at so called male-thing and female-thing, you will find they actually have a broad appeal it is just skewed by marketing and gender role ignorance.
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Separation of code, If Firefox is compromised, So is SSH and all of you keys. The more stuff you run in Firefox the juicer the attack vector.
Have you used firefox recently it's all ready a OS
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That's why its fucked in my eyes. Mozilla or extension developers have strayed to far for the main concept of small tool that help to full blown lunacy. The other day I came across fireSSH that's right a an SSH client inside a browser! As a network security guy I felt like going to a field where there is no technology or civilization for hundreds of miles, taking a deep breath and scream every obscenity under the sun. There is just no hope for some people.
You can see Alan Cox in his natural environment, here’s a bit feral, but you can coax him out with a rump of steak, that has a picture of Linus taped to it.
In fact both your points are right. The fail is with filesystems, I know I will get a lot of flack form the filesystem guy's but it's their fault for not developing a way to maintain metadata in a ubiquitous way, a media player should just be a overlay on top of the filesystem used to view and the OS should manage the metadata not individual applications.
How it work with iTunes,WMP,Amarok, etc. it's kludgy at best, having to keep the data and metadata in separate databases.
I keep my music is top notch order with album art embedded in the ID3 tag. So it's portable and because I hate having lose pictures in my dirs. But if I load my music with different player there's always a bit of metadata missing.
The beast manager I found before I got an iPhone was Jajuk but it was written in Java so I despise it more that iTunes.
I propose a new file format, like the bundles concept in OS X, just plonk all the data raw in a dirs, give it an extension, like.album, show me the album art as a thumbnail and have the info in an XML file. we could use compressed achieves like rar or zip to be cross-platfrom. They did the same with comic books, the CBR/CBZ are just rar and zip files treated differently, it keeps the raw file for easy editing, a lot more elegant then PDFs.
I use to think that the economics for open source hardware cloud not work, but a while back I thought about it.
One way would be for the R&D to be done by a community. Licensed to manufactures at fixed rates to recoup cost, kinda like a non-profit, any surplus could go to new or related projects.
Manufactures could build the designs. The market would be leveled because it's not who has the biggest patients or latest tech anymore, But who can make the most cost effective/efficient component.
Efficiency is the new selling point for hardware, So the marketing would not be that difficult for the masses to understand.
Obversely there world be resistant from the old guard but what's new there.
I know the situation is a lot more complex than I just stated, But you know the old Einstein quote about simplicity/complexity.
This is so true, The UK’s computer education courses are a joke. I spent three years at college and I learned more about computers form pissing about with Linux, Networking at home, Playing with Windows server and messing about with active directory, Working in a production environment.
When I was working in a repair shop there was a lad who worked there part time while at university. One day he came in and asked me to help him with his project, It was on studying viruses. His first question was how to get them, I said just go to any shady porn site and you bound to pick up a few. At this point I though wow! this guy gets straight A’s and is at Uni, and he doesn’t even know where to find viruses. He did have a descent excuse as he was Muslim, So at the mention of porn sites, He went bright red and really quiet. I was laughing until he asked me the second question, which was how to study them without trashing his system.
That’s when I stop laughing and said to myself, The UK is so screwed if this is the level of talent that's going to university.
At the moment I am jobless so I thorough I might as-well get a degree while there is a recession. Beats doing nothing on the dole and why not, If it get’s boring I can just dropout and get a job. I went to an open day and it did look quite interesting, But at the end of the day I thought, The degree is not worth the paper it is printed on. An MCSE or LPI certificate will give you a better chance at getting a job than a degree.
The amount of times I have seen students come out uni with all the knowledge pack in there heads but no practical skills what so ever. As soon as you put them in a production environment they fall to bits, With the stress of keeping things running. It’s not like I gave them important tasks like maintaining servers, I learned that the hard way, When I first started I was a lot less hands on with the junior techs, But after all the stupid things I have seen them do, Back-end server rooms are now guarded like a prison, YOU HAVE TO SIGN IN AND OUT. My boss thought the cavity search where a bit too much (joking).
Now I continually shadow them to make sure they fear my wrath, So they think twice before committing configurations.
But not all of us have a twin to share doubt with. If this guy had been an only child, then they would have convicted him solely on DNA.
This is a real problem with public knowledge about DNA, The masses think it's some magic barcode that proves 100% that is belongs to the subject.
DNA like Barcode's have a margin of error.
Such as Reflection,Quality of barcode,Optical Efficacy and their is also a fair amount of error checking going on.
DNA has the same kind of problems and government's are content with this status quo.
A lot of people blame shows like CSI for making the population aware of how to avoid leaving DNA. The worse thing that CSI has done is reinforce the fallacy that once they have DNA, The suspect is arrested and the case is over.
Can we now stop with this over the top propaganda that Firefox is somehow the most bloated slowest memory hungry browser.
I admit that Firefox 2 was little bit naff, But version three pulled it together and is on par with other browsers.
Factor in the extendability of Firefox and the cost aren’t really that bad are they?
Safari.
Pros: Good speed, Nice clean UI.
Cons: Mostly proprietary, Little to no extendability, Over the top OpenGL effects (could be considered a pro, I’d like a web browser not a flight simulator)
Opera
Pros: Lot of features, I mean lots.
Cons: Crap JS engine but is been slowly fixed, Proprietary. (I like Opera and have tried to switch many times but something just rubs me the wrong way and I back to Firefox after a day, Anyone else do this form time to time?)
Chrome
Pros:Fast a hell, brillant UI,FOSS.
Cons: Well they are been hashed out here so I am not going to repeat what’s been said many times before.
IE is well it’s IE, I am not even going to try with this one.
The main problem that Firefox has is it’s a bit of a monolithic turd at the moment.
Version four will address this problem.
The monolithic approach has been show to use less memory compared to the modular approach that other browsers use.
Wouldn’t that be illegal under US law? As it uses libdvdcss. According to Wikipedia it’s never been tested in court against the DMCA, But I think it falls under the circumventing or bypassing DRM stature.
So by using VLC, I have gone from legitimate to illegitimate. I personally think that if I am going to be labeled as a theft, then I might as well not pay for the experience.
Also to be a legitimate DVD player don’t you have to follow all the rules of the standard even the silly ones like respecting the no skip flag, Otherwise you not allowed to sell it.
Which means most standalone players can not get away with, what VLC can.
(I am not American so my understanding of US law is limited to what I read on Wikipedia and the Web)
You want to know why is not cost effective to repair old computers greed, simple. I came to the town I now live in and I had a lot of time while I was getting my company of the ground. So I got a job in one of the high street computer repair shops, not a chain like PC World. I would rather stab myself in the leg with a fork than work at one of those places.
When I started it was like doing the time warp back to 1995. Every component was the oldest cheapest crappies piece of shit on the market and have a mark up of several times the actual price.
The owner even made sure that no mater what the problem was with the computer was, to some how justify reinstalling Windows so he could charge.
Every customer who would come in, spend at lest £100, for so little work mostly not needed.
Plus the crappy components he sold them would fail and they would be back, he would give them some techno-babble bullshit and they would pay again!!!
After six months I lost my rag with the guy and left.
I the got the iPhone 3G on 02 in the UK when it come out. I finished my contract, well it was canceled for non payment, for been three week late with a payment, which I payed off the following week, effectively early terminating, costing me £280.
So 02 offers an unlock, So I put in my IMEI number in there web system and nothing, I try again still nothing. So I ring up customer service which is awful, and ask them to unlock it, they say I have to go to the shop where I bought it. So I go and ask, they say I have to ring customer services. By now I am fuming with rage.
I ring up customer service and asked for an unlock, they say I am not in the system, I give account details and three months later still not unlock.
I believe that when my contract was closed, My IMEI number was removed from the system. I keep ringing customer service and I have to keep explain my situation.
This is Apple’s and 02’s fault for there stupid unlock system which can not be done locally (Some would say that’s a good system)
Now I am on T-mobile and I can not use the iPhone’s, inbuilt tethering. Because my phone is not unlocked and requires signed setting from the carrier, which i don’t think T-mobile provide.
Basically getting anything done on the iPhone has become so much trouble that I am done with it and I am getting a N900.
It is 2010 tethering should not be this much of a problem, data is data. It is simple greed.
A big shout out to all the people behind the jailbraking and unlocking tools.
With out you guys my phone would be an over priced paper weight.
I lived in a VM cable area for two years now, I was perfectly happy with Virgin until the DPI rollout. To be fair at least they told us about it unlike BT. I have always got the speed I was promised, if you could find a server fast enough to fill the line. And as far as caps go, they where also clear about it and even upgrade the cap or turn it off when possible.
But DPI was the last straw for me. Most of the other things where technical problems to do with networking, DPI is not, It is spying for the sake of greed and puts the cost on to us customers, who don’t need it for any reason.
So when I went to cancel my service, I was told that I would have to finish my contract with them or pay off the rest of the contract!!!. After a few emails and calls I gave up, only had three months left. I still think it is outrages that they will not let me go, since they are the ones that broke the contract with me.
Now I am off, back to ADSL land. At least I can switch providers if they start using DPI.
Been looking at some of the LLU in my area. It looks like it might be better to stick with the devil I know.
I like the look of these guy’s http://www.aaisp.net.uk/. But with my usage it would cost a fortune.
Ok mate apples and oranges, embedded devices have higher cost for many reasons. Making mobile’s is expensive. Putting then together and developing them cost a lot more as people expect a level of service above that of a netbook.
If you call was drop because your Anti-Virus was updating you would irritated to no end.
Plus operating system need to be design for mobile needs even Linux. This is not “Slap Windows on it and sell it” kind of market.
Also production cost are not on the same level as common P.C/Laptop parts how many 3.5 screens are made V.S 8.9 - 13 laptop screens.
Not to mention the thousand other reasons, I think the Google phone price is really low for what you get.
The proprietary world must be laughing there arse's off at this, If there is this much misunderstand of the GPL “In House”, So too speak. How the hell do you expect companies who are still in the mindset of “License it and Forget it” to follow along.
I think most of the violations are just misunderstanding of the GPL on the companies part, And if we go at them to aggressively them might not use GPL software next time.
I knew I would make a spelling mistake and some Anonymous Coward would point it out. But I am one person who made a mistake, by not proof reading a post. Verizon had five people look at this and endless emails.
Not to mention the suspicion that people who jailbreak phones are likely to know how to pirate software as well, making them a less desirable market as well.
Please don't lump us jailbreakers in with pirates, Having the power to pirate and doing it are two different things. I take your point, But I just don't see most people going to all that trouble just to dodge a small fee.
I would so get one, if only there wasn't a massive bevel between the screens. Having two screens if useful, but having two that can combine into one, would be brilliant. How hard is to make the split not stand out so much. All then need to do is make the inside edges of the screen bevel really thin and then have the two halves lock in to place with some latch at the back of the screens. If you get them lined up enough, It would make the split a lot less noticeable. They could even go all the way and have no bevel on the inside.
Good job I am British then:) I actually meant Slashdot readers have a higher I.Q in general to the public, which is debatable. But never the less, We still think we are above human nature because we are more clued in about technology.
Slashdot Mirror
The perfect storm of apathy, lack of understating and short slightness of the masses, what I find ever funnier was that some people thought the internet was going to be different, Books, Radio,TV all get controlled in the end, well it will be a little bit different, there will be two internet’s.
One that is corporate/government approved and the crypto-anarchy overlay. They will keep pushing the line until people have had enough, but by then it will be to late for the masses to catch up.
Deciphering the marketing speak: “All our game have scantly clad women, guns, and blood, we need to make games for women with puppy’s,unicorns and rainbows”.
It’s the same bullshit targeted marketing you will find in all industry’s, Most women I have known, got in to gaming because of there boyfriends/husbands, when alone form other females, and most enjoy so called boys-games.
It’s the same with men, I started watching Gilmore Girls and Army Wives because of a girlfriend , Yet I would never crack open a beer and start taking about it with my mates.
When you get down to it and have a deep look at so called male-thing and female-thing, you will find they actually have a broad appeal it is just skewed by marketing and gender role ignorance.
Separation of code, If Firefox is compromised, So is SSH and all of you keys. The more stuff you run in Firefox the juicer the attack vector.
That's why its fucked in my eyes.
Mozilla or extension developers have strayed to far for the main concept of small tool that help to full blown lunacy.
The other day I came across fireSSH that's right a an SSH client inside a browser!
As a network security guy I felt like going to a field where there is no technology or civilization for hundreds of miles, taking a deep breath and scream every obscenity under the sun. There is just no hope for some people.
You can see Alan Cox in his natural environment, here’s a bit feral, but you can coax him out with a rump of steak, that has a picture of Linus taped to it.
In fact both your points are right.
The fail is with filesystems, I know I will get a lot of flack form the filesystem guy's but it's their fault for not developing a way to maintain metadata in a ubiquitous way, a media player should just be a overlay on top of the filesystem used to view and the OS should manage the metadata not individual applications.
How it work with iTunes,WMP,Amarok, etc. it's kludgy at best, having to keep the data and metadata in separate databases.
I keep my music is top notch order with album art embedded in the ID3 tag. So it's portable and because I hate having lose pictures in my dirs. But if I load my music with different player there's always a bit of metadata missing.
The beast manager I found before I got an iPhone was Jajuk but it was written in Java so I despise it more that iTunes.
I propose a new file format, like the bundles concept in OS X, just plonk all the data raw in a dirs, give it an extension, like .album, show me the album art as a thumbnail and have the info in an XML file. we could use compressed achieves like rar or zip to be cross-platfrom. They did the same with comic books, the CBR/CBZ are just rar and zip files treated differently, it keeps the raw file for easy editing, a lot more elegant then PDFs.
I use to think that the economics for open source hardware cloud not work, but a while back I thought about it.
One way would be for the R&D to be done by a community. Licensed to manufactures at fixed rates to recoup cost, kinda like a non-profit, any surplus could go to new or related projects.
Manufactures could build the designs. The market would be leveled because it's not who has the biggest patients or latest tech anymore, But who can make the most cost effective/efficient component.
Efficiency is the new selling point for hardware, So the marketing would not be that difficult for the masses to understand.
Obversely there world be resistant from the old guard but what's new there.
I know the situation is a lot more complex than I just stated, But you know the old Einstein quote about simplicity/complexity.
This is so true, The UK’s computer education courses are a joke. I spent three years at college and I learned more about computers form pissing about with Linux, Networking at home, Playing with Windows server and messing about with active directory, Working in a production environment.
When I was working in a repair shop there was a lad who worked there part time while at university. One day he came in and asked me to help him with his project, It was on studying viruses. His first question was how to get them, I said just go to any shady porn site and you bound to pick up a few. At this point I though wow! this guy gets straight A’s and is at Uni, and he doesn’t even know where to find viruses. He did have a descent excuse as he was Muslim, So at the mention of porn sites, He went bright red and really quiet. I was laughing until he asked me the second question, which was how to study them without trashing his system.
That’s when I stop laughing and said to myself, The UK is so screwed if this is the level of talent that's going to university.
At the moment I am jobless so I thorough I might as-well get a degree while there is a recession. Beats doing nothing on the dole and why not, If it get’s boring I can just dropout and get a job. I went to an open day and it did look quite interesting, But at the end of the day I thought, The degree is not worth the paper it is printed on. An MCSE or LPI certificate will give you a better chance at getting a job than a degree.
The amount of times I have seen students come out uni with all the knowledge pack in there heads but no practical skills what so ever. As soon as you put them in a production environment they fall to bits, With the stress of keeping things running. It’s not like I gave them important tasks like maintaining servers, I learned that the hard way, When I first started I was a lot less hands on with the junior techs, But after all the stupid things I have seen them do, Back-end server rooms are now guarded like a prison, YOU HAVE TO SIGN IN AND OUT. My boss thought the cavity search where a bit too much (joking).
Now I continually shadow them to make sure they fear my wrath, So they think twice before committing configurations.
This is the way it's supposed to work.
But not all of us have a twin to share doubt with.
If this guy had been an only child, then they would have convicted him solely on DNA.
This is a real problem with public knowledge about DNA, The masses think it's some magic barcode that proves 100% that is belongs to the subject.
DNA like Barcode's have a margin of error.
Such as Reflection,Quality of barcode,Optical Efficacy and their is also a fair amount of error checking going on.
DNA has the same kind of problems and government's are content with this status quo.
A lot of people blame shows like CSI for making the population aware of how to avoid leaving DNA.
The worse thing that CSI has done is reinforce the fallacy that once they have DNA, The suspect is arrested and the case is over.
Can we now stop with this over the top propaganda that Firefox is somehow the most bloated slowest memory hungry browser.
I admit that Firefox 2 was little bit naff, But version three pulled it together and is on par with other browsers.
Factor in the extendability of Firefox and the cost aren’t really that bad are they?
Safari.
Pros:
Good speed, Nice clean UI.
Cons:
Mostly proprietary, Little to no extendability, Over the top OpenGL effects (could be considered a pro, I’d like a web browser not a flight simulator)
Opera
Pros:
Lot of features, I mean lots.
Cons:
Crap JS engine but is been slowly fixed, Proprietary. (I like Opera and have tried to switch many times but something just rubs me the wrong way and I back to Firefox after a day, Anyone else do this form time to time?)
Chrome
Pros:Fast a hell, brillant UI,FOSS.
Cons:
Well they are been hashed out here so I am not going to repeat what’s been said many times before.
IE is well it’s IE, I am not even going to try with this one.
The main problem that Firefox has is it’s a bit of a monolithic turd at the moment.
Version four will address this problem.
The monolithic approach has been show to use less memory compared to the modular approach that other browsers use.
Wouldn’t that be illegal under US law? As it uses libdvdcss.
According to Wikipedia it’s never been tested in court against the DMCA, But I think it falls under the circumventing or bypassing DRM stature.
So by using VLC, I have gone from legitimate to illegitimate. I personally think that if I am going to be labeled as a theft, then I might as well not pay for the experience.
Also to be a legitimate DVD player don’t you have to follow all the rules of the standard even the silly ones like respecting the no skip flag, Otherwise you not allowed to sell it.
Which means most standalone players can not get away with, what VLC can.
(I am not American so my understanding of US law is limited to what I read on Wikipedia and the Web)
Having Dyslexia some time make's me laugh, The title was suppose to be "The tax dodging fuck's"
Take a guess what I been doing with my spare time.
You want to know why is not cost effective to repair old computers greed, simple. I came to the town I now live in and I had a lot of time while I was getting my company of the ground. So I got a job in one of the high street computer repair shops, not a chain like PC World. I would rather stab myself in the leg with a fork than work at one of those places.
When I started it was like doing the time warp back to 1995. Every component was the oldest cheapest crappies piece of shit on the market and have a mark up of several times the actual price.
The owner even made sure that no mater what the problem was with the computer was, to some how justify reinstalling Windows so he could charge.
Every customer who would come in, spend at lest £100, for so little work mostly not needed.
Plus the crappy components he sold them would fail and they would be back, he would give them some techno-babble bullshit and they would pay again!!!
After six months I lost my rag with the guy and left.
I the got the iPhone 3G on 02 in the UK when it come out. I finished my contract, well it was canceled for non payment, for been three week late with a payment, which I payed off the following week, effectively early terminating, costing me £280.
So 02 offers an unlock, So I put in my IMEI number in there web system and nothing, I try again still nothing. So I ring up customer service which is awful, and ask them to unlock it, they say I have to go to the shop where I bought it. So I go and ask, they say I have to ring customer services. By now I am fuming with rage.
I ring up customer service and asked for an unlock, they say I am not in the system, I give account details and three months later still not unlock.
I believe that when my contract was closed, My IMEI number was removed from the system.
I keep ringing customer service and I have to keep explain my situation.
This is Apple’s and 02’s fault for there stupid unlock system which can not be done locally (Some would say that’s a good system)
Now I am on T-mobile and I can not use the iPhone’s, inbuilt tethering.
Because my phone is not unlocked and requires signed setting from the carrier, which i don’t think T-mobile provide.
Basically getting anything done on the iPhone has become so much trouble that I am done with it and I am getting a N900.
It is 2010 tethering should not be this much of a problem, data is data. It is simple greed.
A big shout out to all the people behind the jailbraking and unlocking tools.
With out you guys my phone would be an over priced paper weight.
At least with my 1.5Mbps ADSL, I can actually GET 1.5Mbps even in peak time.
RAOTFLOL
ADSL is also a shared connection. I have cable and push 50Mb easy.
Your are mixing up the last mile and the backhaul.
In the U.K for BT it is ADSL/ATM. which is crap. That's the reason why they are rolling out 21CN
It is difficult to get copper at those speeds virgin have and then you have the distance problem.
I lived in a VM cable area for two years now, I was perfectly happy with Virgin until the DPI rollout. To be fair at least they told us about it unlike BT. I have always got the speed I was promised, if you could find a server fast enough to fill the line. And as far as caps go, they where also clear about it and even upgrade the cap or turn it off when possible.
But DPI was the last straw for me. Most of the other things where technical problems to do with networking, DPI is not, It is spying for the sake of greed and puts the cost on to us customers, who don’t need it for any reason.
So when I went to cancel my service, I was told that I would have to finish my contract with them or pay off the rest of the contract!!!. After a few emails and calls I gave up, only had three months left. I still think it is outrages that they will not let me go, since they are the ones that broke the contract with me.
Now I am off, back to ADSL land. At least I can switch providers if they start using DPI.
Been looking at some of the LLU in my area. It looks like it might be better to stick with the devil I know.
I like the look of these guy’s http://www.aaisp.net.uk/.
But with my usage it would cost a fortune.
Ok mate apples and oranges, embedded devices have higher cost for many reasons.
Making mobile’s is expensive. Putting then together and developing them cost a lot more as people expect a level of service above that of a netbook.
If you call was drop because your Anti-Virus was updating you would irritated to no end.
Plus operating system need to be design for mobile needs even Linux.
This is not “Slap Windows on it and sell it” kind of market.
Also production cost are not on the same level as common P.C/Laptop parts how many 3.5 screens are made V.S 8.9 - 13 laptop screens.
Not to mention the thousand other reasons, I think the Google phone price is really low for what you get.
The proprietary world must be laughing there arse's off at this, If there is this much misunderstand of the GPL “In House”, So too speak. How the hell do you expect companies who are still in the mindset of “License it and Forget it” to follow along.
I think most of the violations are just misunderstanding of the GPL on the companies part, And if we go at them to aggressively them might not use GPL software next time.
This might be what you are looking for
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntop
I knew I would make a spelling mistake and some Anonymous Coward would point it out. But I am one person who made a mistake, by not proof reading a post. Verizon had five people look at this and endless emails.
This is one of the funniest and sadist things I have ever heard in my life and does not paint the American educational system in a good light.
http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/
That’s what we need at FPS LAN parties, A bunch of nerds showing up with skinheads.
Not to mention the suspicion that people who jailbreak phones are likely to know how to pirate software as well, making them a less desirable market as well.
Please don't lump us jailbreakers in with pirates, Having the power to pirate and doing it are two different things. I take your point, But I just don't see most people going to all that trouble just to dodge a small fee.
I would so get one, if only there wasn't a massive bevel between the screens.
Having two screens if useful, but having two that can combine into one, would be brilliant.
How hard is to make the split not stand out so much.
All then need to do is make the inside edges of the screen bevel really thin and then have the two halves lock in to place with some latch at the back of the screens. If you get them lined up enough, It would make the split a lot less noticeable.
They could even go all the way and have no bevel on the inside.
Good job I am British then :) I actually meant Slashdot readers have a higher I.Q in general to the public, which is debatable. But never the less, We still think we are above human nature because we are more clued in about technology.