Nonsense, nobody ever fills up a glass and with the "swimming-pool" type ones you only have a thin strip of wine in the bottom.
Big glasses are better to develop aromas as all wine geeks will tell you (that's a fact you can check for yourself), so the glassware manufacturers took notice, made them bigger and so even the dollarstore glasses have changed because everybody wants to look cool. There are even glass shapes per grape variety these days, and you'll find wine geeks ascertain they work, although that is very doubtful.
The "oversea" profits are in fact, as the article said, invested right here in the US. That's because the foreign subsidiaries are perfectly entitled to make investments here. That's called free flow of capital. So why paying taxes when you're a global mega-corp? Because of an historical "community responsability" to provide jobs and pay a fair share of tax to the government?
That died long ago under the heels of Reagan/Thatcher/Rubin etc.
...part is that according to Stamos, the scan code was so poorly written that "Due to a programming flaw, he told them hackers could have accessed the stored emails."
Also imagine that the CEO did not warn his top security guy after receiving the order.
Also imagine that not only Yahoo was targeted.
This is not really a comment, more of a question: wasn't the biggest complain about Diablo 2 the fact that it was wide open to cheating/hacking due to the fact that you could bring online the stuff you acquired offline? I'm not really familiar with the genre, I only played like three D2 sessions and no torchlight so don't bash me for my ignorance but isn't it exactly the same here ?
What is gonna prevent my neighbor's kid from hacking the sandworm-slaying-axe-of-madness and bringing it online to cut me in half? Damn kid, always playing on my lawn instead of grinding his gear like a real man.
FLAC is lossless from an audio CD perspective. There is a huge difference between studio recordings and CD content (you lose a lot on both ends of the spectrum, among other changes). That's why audiophiles prefer vinyl, because it captures more sound from thestudio recording. Pono is a try to capture like 100% of what the musician get on the studio tapes.
That's just a way of giving their innovator employees a cut of litigations. Because no employee will ever want to refuse to litigate aggressively if offered a cut of the supposed profits to come from it. And of course I guess it will make sure twitter never behave like Lodsys, but that was not really expected. They may also refrain from behaving like Microsoft, the half-demon, half-angel on the block, which is a good thing I guess.
Oh and it also piss on the future buyers of twitter which will have to manage a gazillion good relations with ex-employees just to make sure the portfolio does not vanish into thin air.
How in hell is this on/. frontpage? Or on the site even? Will the editors cover every weapon sale from now on? Is this because it's a disappointment for the US of A? Because it involves the french?
Why is the US pointed at as the reason for their culture loss?
Because the US is the biggest exporter of culture in the world. It's not a secret that since WWII the US understood the concept of soft power and that culture projection is a big part of it. It's good for the diplomacy, it's good for the economy (everybody wants to resemble the americans, listen to their bands, wear their gear, etc.).
It's also very annoying, mainly because it brings uniformity. And because, yes, it crushes other cultures in its path. Not willingly, more like Walmart kills small retailers.
There's a very good article at The Register (I know, a lot of people here consider it a tabloid but the author is Alexander Hanff of Privacy International) explaining why it is almost impossible for Google not to have planned the storage and processing of the unencrypted data. It's here.
Their argument boils down to:
- They have software-building experience and processes and therefore it's not possible the code that stores/parses the unencrypted data is rogue code.
- They actually stored the data, they were not just processing it for location purposes then discarding it (as confirmed by the french agency in charge of privacy that obtained a portion of the data (article here). It's doubtful they exploited the passwords they found, though.
So they broke the law by retaining private data and they planned on doing it (their code development processes surely would have picked up the code doing the storing before production if this code was not wanted) thereby proving intent.
I don't think (as the author does) that they intended to use the code for location-based advertising, but nonetheless Google must respond of its actions before the justice of the offended countries.
A CCTV system from BT cellphones ? Why, oh why ? Because boffins have time and my money to lose ?
Somebody please explain the use of such a... discovery ?
Ah.
Surveillance.
I get it now. The T word is about to be spoken, again. Great. I'm looking forward to BT-holding surveillance militia roaming the streets.
This tells me nothing until I know the target audience for your site and the number of visitors. Dude, GP poster has an ID lower than 5000 ! He could well have the data compounded from half of internet servers, including yours. So do as every smart slashdotter would do : accept his numbers and nit-pick them a bit and pray he doesn't pull the plug from your petty web server...
I live in Canada, and connect through an Ontario-based provider : myCybernet. Yeah, crappy name, but great ISP. 5 Megs plan for C$42 (approx US$36). C$5/month for a static IP.
You're not drooling yet ? Allows servers (upload speed is only 800Kbps though). Superb tech support. Geek-friendly. No caps. Really. I hit something like 5 to 50G a month, they never complained.
This is the internet. It's too late to pull the plug. It's already (I'm guessing) on bittorrent and most importantly on various caches either in right-wing bloggers' basements who tried to analyze the data or in interested scientists' basements, the clever ones that thought that there oughta be something good in those files, and, guess what, were proven right.
As a father of a two years old, I must say that such a test could have saved me from 1 year of random nightmares. Because having the possibility of your kid dying with no warning is very very troubling.
OTOH, it prepares you for the rest of their youth when they seem to make every attempt at reaching a premature death through various foolish activities they call "extreme sports":)
What sick engineer came with this idea ? One with shares in screen-making company ?
Because I'm not sure the screens will last long. Because, y'know, usually they put the screen on the *inside* part of the laptop to actually *protect* it.
Plus they make the laptop thicker.
Plus it is *still* on and sucking batteries.
Plus it requires additional external controls to be of any use
It takes 2 seconds to disable it if you don't like it. Windows R, msconfig, disable UAC, reboot.
I couldn't help but laugh out loud after reading that. You owe me one very complicated explanation to my boss for this sentence.
- Method is not really straightforward... But I heard you could use the control panel to disable it.
- Reboot = 2 secs ? That's where I really laughed.
- Reboot in the first place ? Jeez, I thought they would have learned after so many years. WinXP removed the reboot after the IP address change and a few others, but Vista seems to still have some of those unnecessary reboots after all...
Why in Osama's name do this discussion happens on/. ?
Because of the "stuff that matters" part of the slogan ? Hey, why not talk about Lebanon then ? Or maybe Chechnya ? Or My grand-aunt that broke her ankle walking on a banana peel placed in front of her home by 9-year old terrorist ?
Jeez, I read 10 online newspapers every day, and I come here expecting not more of the same, but frickin' discussions about tech matters...
The future, as I (and a lot of others) envision it, will be essentially DC-based. Some day they will standardize battery form factor, and I'm talking about things like our curent ion/Lith batteries here, and you will basically only have that for each of your appliances. Shapes will range from watch battery to big "cellpacks". This will be the so needed end of wires. We will have only one outlet to recharge them all in the whole house, or even dispose of them if they last a very long time.
Of course, this will require a revolution in batteries technology, but I'm sure deep down in the googleplex some mad PhDist with an ugly assistant is already working on it.
So, yes Edison was right, but he may have been slightly optimistic about the pace of change.
We do have precedent. It's called "jurisprudence", and although a judge is not legally bound to apply the same judgment twice for two similar cases, it is was is done in the courts.
And when the judge deviates (because the precedent is obsolete for example), he better have good reasonning wrapped around its verdict, because higher courts will break the judgment if not.
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...of value was lost!
Nonsense, nobody ever fills up a glass and with the "swimming-pool" type ones you only have a thin strip of wine in the bottom. Big glasses are better to develop aromas as all wine geeks will tell you (that's a fact you can check for yourself), so the glassware manufacturers took notice, made them bigger and so even the dollarstore glasses have changed because everybody wants to look cool. There are even glass shapes per grape variety these days, and you'll find wine geeks ascertain they work, although that is very doubtful.
The "oversea" profits are in fact, as the article said, invested right here in the US. That's because the foreign subsidiaries are perfectly entitled to make investments here. That's called free flow of capital. So why paying taxes when you're a global mega-corp? Because of an historical "community responsability" to provide jobs and pay a fair share of tax to the government? That died long ago under the heels of Reagan/Thatcher/Rubin etc.
...part is that according to Stamos, the scan code was so poorly written that "Due to a programming flaw, he told them hackers could have accessed the stored emails." Also imagine that the CEO did not warn his top security guy after receiving the order. Also imagine that not only Yahoo was targeted.
Now you regret taking the Google job instead of the one at Microsoft!
This is not really a comment, more of a question: wasn't the biggest complain about Diablo 2 the fact that it was wide open to cheating/hacking due to the fact that you could bring online the stuff you acquired offline? I'm not really familiar with the genre, I only played like three D2 sessions and no torchlight so don't bash me for my ignorance but isn't it exactly the same here ?
What is gonna prevent my neighbor's kid from hacking the sandworm-slaying-axe-of-madness and bringing it online to cut me in half? Damn kid, always playing on my lawn instead of grinding his gear like a real man.
FLAC is lossless from an audio CD perspective. There is a huge difference between studio recordings and CD content (you lose a lot on both ends of the spectrum, among other changes). That's why audiophiles prefer vinyl, because it captures more sound from thestudio recording. Pono is a try to capture like 100% of what the musician get on the studio tapes.
That's just a way of giving their innovator employees a cut of litigations. Because no employee will ever want to refuse to litigate aggressively if offered a cut of the supposed profits to come from it. And of course I guess it will make sure twitter never behave like Lodsys, but that was not really expected. They may also refrain from behaving like Microsoft, the half-demon, half-angel on the block, which is a good thing I guess.
Oh and it also piss on the future buyers of twitter which will have to manage a gazillion good relations with ex-employees just to make sure the portfolio does not vanish into thin air.
How in hell is this on /. frontpage? Or on the site even? Will the editors cover every weapon sale from now on? Is this because it's a disappointment for the US of A? Because it involves the french?
Because the editors are drunk?
Why is the US pointed at as the reason for their culture loss?
Because the US is the biggest exporter of culture in the world. It's not a secret that since WWII the US understood the concept of soft power and that culture projection is a big part of it. It's good for the diplomacy, it's good for the economy (everybody wants to resemble the americans, listen to their bands, wear their gear, etc.).
It's also very annoying, mainly because it brings uniformity. And because, yes, it crushes other cultures in its path. Not willingly, more like Walmart kills small retailers.
There's a very good article at The Register (I know, a lot of people here consider it a tabloid but the author is Alexander Hanff of Privacy International) explaining why it is almost impossible for Google not to have planned the storage and processing of the unencrypted data. It's here. :
Their argument boils down to
- They have software-building experience and processes and therefore it's not possible the code that stores/parses the unencrypted data is rogue code.
- They actually stored the data, they were not just processing it for location purposes then discarding it (as confirmed by the french agency in charge of privacy that obtained a portion of the data (article here). It's doubtful they exploited the passwords they found, though.
So they broke the law by retaining private data and they planned on doing it (their code development processes surely would have picked up the code doing the storing before production if this code was not wanted) thereby proving intent. I don't think (as the author does) that they intended to use the code for location-based advertising, but nonetheless Google must respond of its actions before the justice of the offended countries.
You. must. be. new. here.
The revolution will not be televised, my friend.
A CCTV system from BT cellphones ? Why, oh why ? Because boffins have time and my money to lose ?
Somebody please explain the use of such a... discovery ?
Ah.
Surveillance.
I get it now. The T word is about to be spoken, again. Great. I'm looking forward to BT-holding surveillance militia roaming the streets.
I live in Canada, and connect through an Ontario-based provider : myCybernet. Yeah, crappy name, but great ISP. 5 Megs plan for C$42 (approx US$36). C$5/month for a static IP.
You're not drooling yet ? Allows servers (upload speed is only 800Kbps though). Superb tech support. Geek-friendly. No caps. Really. I hit something like 5 to 50G a month, they never complained.
One more reason to cross the border, folks.
This is the internet. It's too late to pull the plug. It's already (I'm guessing) on bittorrent and most importantly on various caches either in right-wing bloggers' basements who tried to analyze the data or in interested scientists' basements, the clever ones that thought that there oughta be something good in those files, and, guess what, were proven right.
What a backfiring.
As a father of a two years old, I must say that such a test could have saved me from 1 year of random nightmares. Because having the possibility of your kid dying with no warning is very very troubling.
:)
OTOH, it prepares you for the rest of their youth when they seem to make every attempt at reaching a premature death through various foolish activities they call "extreme sports"
What sick engineer came with this idea ? One with shares in screen-making company ?
Because I'm not sure the screens will last long. Because, y'know, usually they put the screen on the *inside* part of the laptop to actually *protect* it.
Plus they make the laptop thicker.
Plus it is *still* on and sucking batteries.
Plus it requires additional external controls to be of any use
Should I continnue ?
- Method is not really straightforward... But I heard you could use the control panel to disable it.
- Reboot = 2 secs ? That's where I really laughed.
- Reboot in the first place ? Jeez, I thought they would have learned after so many years. WinXP removed the reboot after the IP address change and a few others, but Vista seems to still have some of those unnecessary reboots after all...
Cut the workforce ? Cut the R&D ? Make billions more ? Why do the black suits only want more money ? Humans can't eat it, dammit !
Please let my shiny Microsoft live like that, with their beautiful innovations, solid products and work schedules respectful of the family. *grin*
Why in Osama's name do this discussion happens on /. ?
Because of the "stuff that matters" part of the slogan ? Hey, why not talk about Lebanon then ? Or maybe Chechnya ? Or My grand-aunt that broke her ankle walking on a banana peel placed in front of her home by 9-year old terrorist ?
Jeez, I read 10 online newspapers every day, and I come here expecting not more of the same, but frickin' discussions about tech matters...
The future, as I (and a lot of others) envision it, will be essentially DC-based. Some day they will standardize battery form factor, and I'm talking about things like our curent ion/Lith batteries here, and you will basically only have that for each of your appliances. Shapes will range from watch battery to big "cellpacks". This will be the so needed end of wires. We will have only one outlet to recharge them all in the whole house, or even dispose of them if they last a very long time.
Of course, this will require a revolution in batteries technology, but I'm sure deep down in the googleplex some mad PhDist with an ugly assistant is already working on it.
So, yes Edison was right, but he may have been slightly optimistic about the pace of change.
We do have precedent. It's called "jurisprudence", and although a judge is not legally bound to apply the same judgment twice for two similar cases, it is was is done in the courts.
And when the judge deviates (because the precedent is obsolete for example), he better have good reasonning wrapped around its verdict, because higher courts will break the judgment if not.