Most storage devices I know of use FAT32. Converting to NTFS means loosing partial or full compatability with your camera, consumer devices (PS3, Wii), Mac and Linux. I haven't seen a camera yet that uses NTFS - and doing so would probably mean paying licensing fees to Microsoft.
Also, wouldn't surprise me if some of these kiosks are running Windows 98. This would prevent them from reading NTFS.
Have you ever actually used a photo kiosk? While I haven't seen a Woolsworth in 25 years, I have used them at other locations. The purpose of the write is so that you can save changes back to the device. While not all kiosks offer this functionality, many offer scanning and basic photo editing services. You can sometimes save these back to the device, depending on store and vendor.
That being said, when I take my SD cards into the store (when I need something printed out quickly, rather than waiting the couple of days for the lab - which is better quality, to print from what I upload to the website), i switch the switch to read only. Never thought much about viruses, I am just paranoid about loosing pictures. If I have time, I will pop my card into a laptop, pick out what I want printed and transfer onto another SD card, but there have been a couple of times when I needed immediate prints (rare, but happens) and just took my master card into the store.
Dry ice should come with parental supervision, not just the parent "knowing about it". Dry ice in a bottle can be dangerous, and if the child (cough, I mean teenager), was doing it by themselves, this could constitute child endangerment. Its probably not a matter of that they were doing stuff with dry ice, but rather appropriate parental supervision was not applied.
Baking soda volcanos and model rockets are also a part of childhood, but can also be dangerous if done wrong. I doubt that anyone would let a kid play with those without proper supervision.
There is a big difference between "Knowing about it" and "supervision"
Apparently you haven't read the 5th Harry Potter book. Umbridge believed that the theory was enough for anyone, while the actual practice could lead to dangerous desires amongst the kids of Hogwarts. She pushed the idea that, with proper study of the theory, you can do spells perfectly if and when you desire.
Of course, half the kids in the school revolted against her, and started their own group where they learned on their own.
I was thinking of Avast Bart myself. MiniPE with updated virus definitions will also do the trick, although I have not tried putting MiniPE on a thumbdrive. Although with MiniPE, you could get into some licensing issues, really never checked into it.
Garland's film 'Sunshine,' directed by Danny Boyle, was one of the stand-out science fiction films of the last decade
Has anyone here even heard of this movie? I'm sure I'll probably get marked Troll, but can you call a movie "Stand-out science fiction" if no one has ever heard of it? I'm not saying that it may not be a great film, just saying that I have never heard of it. I pulled it up on IMDB and didn't recognize the name of anyone in it either, which suggests that it is either an independant film or a low budget film (or both).
As for Logan's Run, I am just not sure a modern-day remake would work. Post-appocolyptic world (oh no, is Iran going to nuke the planet?), free-love society, hippie culture... Just not sure if a remake of these themes will work in 2010.
The funny thing is that their OCR seems to be pretty good for Google Books. Yes, its photographed pictures, but you can search the text, which means some type of OCR must be going on. So, unless they are using a completely different technology, than this should really only have issues with hand-written text.
I can't read captcha's 60% of the time, and am not always in an area where I can listen to the audio hint. An OCR would be nice. On Boing Boing, I usually mistype the captcha's about 3-4 times before finally stumbling on one I can actually read.
I haven't watched the nightly news in years, nor have most people I know my age. And print newspaper is dead for everyone under the age of 55. As online newspapers are gravitating toward paywall systems, many people are turning to social media outlets to get news out. I mean, didn't Twitter give us all that news coverage from Iran a few months back, and wasn't it praised for such?
Quite frankly, I get news headlines from several sources through my Twitter. As Twitter loads up (usually) much faster than grapic laden sites, I find it more convienient.
And getting news directly from the person stating it is much better than having it censored and editorialized by sites such as Fox, CNN, MSN, MSNBC and the BBC.
I was thinking the same thing - this sounded a lot like a swamp cooler. Worthless in 2/3rds of Texas. Otherwise I would jump on this - would love to see my summer electric bills match my winter electric bills (gas heating!).
The Swedish anti-piracy bureau could already be gathering data using the exploit."
Um, not sure about Swedish law, but isn't this similar to like, breaking DVD encryption? Just because the encryption is week or has a security flaw in it, I am pretty sure it is still illegal to break or exploit it. If that's the case, could IP addresses gathered using this exploit be permissable in a court of law?
I do not like the title of the slashdot article - Anyone on slashdot should know there is more to the internet than the Web. However, I could also see 37% of e-mail, p2p traffic, and newsgroups being "pornographic" (although, with my experience in newsgroups, depending on where you draw the pornographic line, it could be much higher. Some might considered clothed people in provocative poses or situations to be pornographic which, to pull a number out of my ass, would mean taht probably a good 75% of usenet is pornographic, 24% is pirated and the following 1% is everything else).
That being said, with stuff like google, and ad filters, I don't "stumble" upon the porn sites anymore unless I am specificly looking for them. Back in the days before google, doing a search for something like "Sailor Moon" or "Dragonball" (yes, I'm an anime geek) on Alta Vista or Webcrawler (is that its name?) would return several hundred sites, and you would have to wade through probably dozens of porn sites before you found what you want. Google has changed everything - at least on the web.
If you are using some p2p sharing program, well, do so at your own risk. A 300 meg MP3 is probably not an MP3. A search for Lolita is probably not going to yield a movie with Dominique Swan. And depending on which p2p network you are on, a browse of a random users shared files will most likely yield more porn than everything else combined.
But, back to your argument, even on P2P, what is porn? Is a german porn video on the same level as a picture of a college girl doing stuff to herself, and is that on the same level as meeee.jpg of some random girl flashing her tits in a mirror and taking a picture of it?
If nudity = porn, I could probably make the statement that 20% of all art in musuems in Europe are porn.
Now, what I am also wondering is where do these studies come from? I have heard anywhere from 10% of all websites to a staggering 80% of all websites are pornographic in nature. Are they returning results from just search engines? Darknet? Are they including sites that are not indexed by search engines? Or are they really browsing porn sites in these studies and then pulling a number out of their butts?
I have relatives who live in rural areas (towns of 200-300 people). They have wireless cable out there, however, the price of equipment may be more than one is willing to pay for basic only. You could probably also get like the base Dish Network package, which is like $20 a month, then the $5 a month to add locals, however, in the end, after equipment rental, even this is likely to run you around $35 a month, then you are back to the VCR not controlling the unit again.
Yes, many cable providers in rural areas get channels from multiple markets. I have an aunt and uncle who get channels from Abilene, Austin and Waco. They are just in a really strange area - pretty much smack dab in the middle of all three of those areas - about 70 miles from Waco, 90 from both Abilene and Austin. However, they just went HD about a year ago, so are looking at ditching wireless cable and going Dish.
I don't think they get any channels over antenna. Just too far away from everything. Maybe if they were to errect a 40 foot tall antenna. Got friends in another rural town who do that. However, and I told them this before, after the thousands they spent on the antenna, mast, and labor installing it, wouldn't it have been easier and cheaper, in the end, to just get satelite?
Hate to say it, but if you are living in a rural area, you are just going to have to make some tradeoffs.
I was thinking the same thing. Wow, hot new product goes on sale today, so website is a little slow! Lets make this a story on Slashdot!
Seriously? Must be a slow news day.
I will probably wait a couple of weeks - got to pay a couple of bills first. In 3-4 weeks, there should be a good supply of them at my local AT&T store.
Dreading updating my iphone 3G to iOS4 - may hold off. It seems that every time Apple releases a new iPhone OS, my iPhone gets a little slower.
Just wish that the announcement of the iPhone 4 also included AT&T announcing 4G. Or just more cell towers - the cell tower in my area seems to be popular, and as such, 3G is SO slow on it. I go out about ten miles, and my 3G flies.
Totally agree. I live in one of the top 5 markets in the US. For the most part its good. Problem is, I got alluminum siding to the house. So, Dish Network reciever in living room hooked up to outside antenna = strong signals on everything except PBS - which is worse. Complained to their engineers, cause there are times when the signal drops from 70% (get 95% or above on all other stations) to 20-30%, and they swear its not them.
However, in the bedroom, I'm too lazy to run a coaxe cable, and was running analogue antenna from rabbit ears for years. Worked just fine - a little fuzzy, but I could live with it. However, when I added the digital converter box... digital channels, indoor antenna and alluminum siding = BAD combination. Strongest signal was NBC, and only got 45% signal on it. Most channels had less than 35% signal, and totally unwatchable. Finally gave my converter box to a friend. Yes, I do have Dish in the back bedroom as well, but Dish does not carry the additional channels that I get on broadcast DTV (Qubo, Worship Network, ION Life, Universal Sprts, etc).
As for the VCR, totally understand, but really havent recorded since upgrading to HD several years ago. I did have the VCR hooked up to the mix at one time, but DVRs, and the ability to add external harddrives to back up movies, made it so that now I only power up the VCR to watch home movies, which I am rapidly converting to DVD (had a tape break on me a week ago. Did handyman splice (scotch tape), and captured the thing on PC immediately).
No, I totally understand the frustration.
As for the parent's grandmother, just pay the $15 a month to get her basic cable (if she lives in an area that has it) and use the cable tuner in the VCR. The $15 a month you spend on this will probably be worth it to YOU to no longer have to support the converter box.
Hate to say it, but training costs is BS. Most users don't even know the capabilities of their OS. To them, they click on an icon, and go. Do you really need to retrain a user how to do that? Does the end user need to know how to disable User Account Controls, know that the Documents and Settings have now moved to Users folder, or so forth and so on? Simply distribute to the whole company a front and back side color xeroxed sheet of paper explaining a couple of new features with screenshots (the start button is different, snap-view windows, themes, where to adjust screen resolution) and tell them to call the help desk if they have any issues.
The issue should be if your software works on Windows 7, but even that is mostly a crock now. Pretty much, any software that works on Vista works on Windows 7 (I have yet to see the exception, although I am sure there probably are some). If you are still using some legacy software that requires XP, Windows 7 allows you to run programs in a virtual Enviornment (you can actually run an entire virtual machine, but this mode, while it boots a virtual XP enviornment, makes the program run ALMOST like a native app. Its kinda cool. And no, I am not a MS PR rep). The exception seems to be programs that require lots of hard drive activity, such as p2p apps (but you don't want that on your network anyways).
Now, the only real complaint left should be about system specs, but that is mostly crock nowdays as well. Pretty much, any machine built in the past 3 years, and any business-class machine built in, oh, the past 6-7 years, should be able to handle Windows 7 Professional or Enterprise fine, with enough room left over for your apps. (Vista is another matter, but amazingly, Windows 7 seems to have lower system specs than Vista. Would have to look that up). Most companies lease machines in 2-4 year lease cycles (3 seems to be industry standard), so, with probably the exception of a few machines back in your mail room, you should be good for Windows 7,
I think the two biggest things that keep people from upgrading is familiarity with XP (we have been on it for, what, 9 years now?) and the fact tha Vista was just so God-awful. Push Windows 7 out to a test group, and see how they react
Totally agree, about ten years ago, in Fort Worth, they lowered the speed on 820 from 70 to 60. No reason whatsoever.
On 635 in Dallas, its not unusual to have people pass you up if you are doing under 70 in a 60. The highway is very wide, clear, straight, there is really no reason why the inside lanes are at 60. (It should be noted, though, on 635, we tend to have several people who seem to think the speedlimit posted is in kph, not mph, and will do 42).
During rushhour, on I30 and I20, heavy traffic will, on average, be moving 3-7 miles over the speed limit (source - morning news traffic reports).
Maybe this is because BP is being charged actual damages rather than statutory (spelling / wording) damages. Now, if everyone in costal states were to sue BP for, say, disruption of lifestyle, mental stress and anguish, loss of income, etc... Lets say everyone gets awarded $250,000, multiply by, oh, ten million people (conservative estiamte for conservative states), then we could probably get into the trillions.
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I agree.
Most storage devices I know of use FAT32. Converting to NTFS means loosing partial or full compatability with your camera, consumer devices (PS3, Wii), Mac and Linux. I haven't seen a camera yet that uses NTFS - and doing so would probably mean paying licensing fees to Microsoft.
Also, wouldn't surprise me if some of these kiosks are running Windows 98. This would prevent them from reading NTFS.
Have you ever actually used a photo kiosk? While I haven't seen a Woolsworth in 25 years, I have used them at other locations. The purpose of the write is so that you can save changes back to the device. While not all kiosks offer this functionality, many offer scanning and basic photo editing services. You can sometimes save these back to the device, depending on store and vendor.
That being said, when I take my SD cards into the store (when I need something printed out quickly, rather than waiting the couple of days for the lab - which is better quality, to print from what I upload to the website), i switch the switch to read only. Never thought much about viruses, I am just paranoid about loosing pictures. If I have time, I will pop my card into a laptop, pick out what I want printed and transfer onto another SD card, but there have been a couple of times when I needed immediate prints (rare, but happens) and just took my master card into the store.
Why does this not have a score of 5? If I had points, I would give them to you
It was a 14 year old with dry ice. How much common sense do you think he has? Just asking.
Dry ice should come with parental supervision, not just the parent "knowing about it". Dry ice in a bottle can be dangerous, and if the child (cough, I mean teenager), was doing it by themselves, this could constitute child endangerment. Its probably not a matter of that they were doing stuff with dry ice, but rather appropriate parental supervision was not applied.
Baking soda volcanos and model rockets are also a part of childhood, but can also be dangerous if done wrong. I doubt that anyone would let a kid play with those without proper supervision.
There is a big difference between "Knowing about it" and "supervision"
Apparently you haven't read the 5th Harry Potter book. Umbridge believed that the theory was enough for anyone, while the actual practice could lead to dangerous desires amongst the kids of Hogwarts. She pushed the idea that, with proper study of the theory, you can do spells perfectly if and when you desire.
Of course, half the kids in the school revolted against her, and started their own group where they learned on their own.
I was thinking of Avast Bart myself. MiniPE with updated virus definitions will also do the trick, although I have not tried putting MiniPE on a thumbdrive. Although with MiniPE, you could get into some licensing issues, really never checked into it.
Since their current petaflop systems are clearly not enough for them, can I pick up a few for $5 a piece at their next salvage sale?
Garland's film 'Sunshine,' directed by Danny Boyle, was one of the stand-out science fiction films of the last decade
Has anyone here even heard of this movie? I'm sure I'll probably get marked Troll, but can you call a movie "Stand-out science fiction" if no one has ever heard of it? I'm not saying that it may not be a great film, just saying that I have never heard of it. I pulled it up on IMDB and didn't recognize the name of anyone in it either, which suggests that it is either an independant film or a low budget film (or both).
As for Logan's Run, I am just not sure a modern-day remake would work. Post-appocolyptic world (oh no, is Iran going to nuke the planet?), free-love society, hippie culture... Just not sure if a remake of these themes will work in 2010.
Photographed text. Blah. Should have proofread before I hit submit.
The funny thing is that their OCR seems to be pretty good for Google Books. Yes, its photographed pictures, but you can search the text, which means some type of OCR must be going on. So, unless they are using a completely different technology, than this should really only have issues with hand-written text.
I can't read captcha's 60% of the time, and am not always in an area where I can listen to the audio hint. An OCR would be nice. On Boing Boing, I usually mistype the captcha's about 3-4 times before finally stumbling on one I can actually read.
Funny, Black Holes and Wind say the same thing
I haven't watched the nightly news in years, nor have most people I know my age. And print newspaper is dead for everyone under the age of 55. As online newspapers are gravitating toward paywall systems, many people are turning to social media outlets to get news out. I mean, didn't Twitter give us all that news coverage from Iran a few months back, and wasn't it praised for such?
Quite frankly, I get news headlines from several sources through my Twitter. As Twitter loads up (usually) much faster than grapic laden sites, I find it more convienient.
And getting news directly from the person stating it is much better than having it censored and editorialized by sites such as Fox, CNN, MSN, MSNBC and the BBC.
I was thinking the same thing - this sounded a lot like a swamp cooler. Worthless in 2/3rds of Texas. Otherwise I would jump on this - would love to see my summer electric bills match my winter electric bills (gas heating!).
The Swedish anti-piracy bureau could already be gathering data using the exploit."
Um, not sure about Swedish law, but isn't this similar to like, breaking DVD encryption? Just because the encryption is week or has a security flaw in it, I am pretty sure it is still illegal to break or exploit it. If that's the case, could IP addresses gathered using this exploit be permissable in a court of law?
Just wondering out loud
I do not like the title of the slashdot article - Anyone on slashdot should know there is more to the internet than the Web. However, I could also see 37% of e-mail, p2p traffic, and newsgroups being "pornographic" (although, with my experience in newsgroups, depending on where you draw the pornographic line, it could be much higher. Some might considered clothed people in provocative poses or situations to be pornographic which, to pull a number out of my ass, would mean taht probably a good 75% of usenet is pornographic, 24% is pirated and the following 1% is everything else).
That being said, with stuff like google, and ad filters, I don't "stumble" upon the porn sites anymore unless I am specificly looking for them. Back in the days before google, doing a search for something like "Sailor Moon" or "Dragonball" (yes, I'm an anime geek) on Alta Vista or Webcrawler (is that its name?) would return several hundred sites, and you would have to wade through probably dozens of porn sites before you found what you want. Google has changed everything - at least on the web.
If you are using some p2p sharing program, well, do so at your own risk. A 300 meg MP3 is probably not an MP3. A search for Lolita is probably not going to yield a movie with Dominique Swan. And depending on which p2p network you are on, a browse of a random users shared files will most likely yield more porn than everything else combined.
But, back to your argument, even on P2P, what is porn? Is a german porn video on the same level as a picture of a college girl doing stuff to herself, and is that on the same level as meeee.jpg of some random girl flashing her tits in a mirror and taking a picture of it?
If nudity = porn, I could probably make the statement that 20% of all art in musuems in Europe are porn.
Now, what I am also wondering is where do these studies come from? I have heard anywhere from 10% of all websites to a staggering 80% of all websites are pornographic in nature. Are they returning results from just search engines? Darknet? Are they including sites that are not indexed by search engines? Or are they really browsing porn sites in these studies and then pulling a number out of their butts?
Of course, if you are stuck in a rural area, you can bet that they are probably not going to have high speed internet unless they have HughesNet.
I have relatives who live in rural areas (towns of 200-300 people). They have wireless cable out there, however, the price of equipment may be more than one is willing to pay for basic only. You could probably also get like the base Dish Network package, which is like $20 a month, then the $5 a month to add locals, however, in the end, after equipment rental, even this is likely to run you around $35 a month, then you are back to the VCR not controlling the unit again.
Yes, many cable providers in rural areas get channels from multiple markets. I have an aunt and uncle who get channels from Abilene, Austin and Waco. They are just in a really strange area - pretty much smack dab in the middle of all three of those areas - about 70 miles from Waco, 90 from both Abilene and Austin. However, they just went HD about a year ago, so are looking at ditching wireless cable and going Dish.
I don't think they get any channels over antenna. Just too far away from everything. Maybe if they were to errect a 40 foot tall antenna. Got friends in another rural town who do that. However, and I told them this before, after the thousands they spent on the antenna, mast, and labor installing it, wouldn't it have been easier and cheaper, in the end, to just get satelite?
Hate to say it, but if you are living in a rural area, you are just going to have to make some tradeoffs.
I was thinking the same thing. Wow, hot new product goes on sale today, so website is a little slow! Lets make this a story on Slashdot!
Seriously? Must be a slow news day.
I will probably wait a couple of weeks - got to pay a couple of bills first. In 3-4 weeks, there should be a good supply of them at my local AT&T store.
Dreading updating my iphone 3G to iOS4 - may hold off. It seems that every time Apple releases a new iPhone OS, my iPhone gets a little slower.
Just wish that the announcement of the iPhone 4 also included AT&T announcing 4G. Or just more cell towers - the cell tower in my area seems to be popular, and as such, 3G is SO slow on it. I go out about ten miles, and my 3G flies.
Totally agree. I live in one of the top 5 markets in the US. For the most part its good. Problem is, I got alluminum siding to the house. So, Dish Network reciever in living room hooked up to outside antenna = strong signals on everything except PBS - which is worse. Complained to their engineers, cause there are times when the signal drops from 70% (get 95% or above on all other stations) to 20-30%, and they swear its not them.
However, in the bedroom, I'm too lazy to run a coaxe cable, and was running analogue antenna from rabbit ears for years. Worked just fine - a little fuzzy, but I could live with it. However, when I added the digital converter box... digital channels, indoor antenna and alluminum siding = BAD combination. Strongest signal was NBC, and only got 45% signal on it. Most channels had less than 35% signal, and totally unwatchable. Finally gave my converter box to a friend. Yes, I do have Dish in the back bedroom as well, but Dish does not carry the additional channels that I get on broadcast DTV (Qubo, Worship Network, ION Life, Universal Sprts, etc).
As for the VCR, totally understand, but really havent recorded since upgrading to HD several years ago. I did have the VCR hooked up to the mix at one time, but DVRs, and the ability to add external harddrives to back up movies, made it so that now I only power up the VCR to watch home movies, which I am rapidly converting to DVD (had a tape break on me a week ago. Did handyman splice (scotch tape), and captured the thing on PC immediately).
No, I totally understand the frustration.
As for the parent's grandmother, just pay the $15 a month to get her basic cable (if she lives in an area that has it) and use the cable tuner in the VCR. The $15 a month you spend on this will probably be worth it to YOU to no longer have to support the converter box.
Um, end of life for security updates for XP coming up, possibly? Its why we are upgrading. Rollout begins around Christmas.
Hate to say it, but training costs is BS. Most users don't even know the capabilities of their OS. To them, they click on an icon, and go. Do you really need to retrain a user how to do that? Does the end user need to know how to disable User Account Controls, know that the Documents and Settings have now moved to Users folder, or so forth and so on? Simply distribute to the whole company a front and back side color xeroxed sheet of paper explaining a couple of new features with screenshots (the start button is different, snap-view windows, themes, where to adjust screen resolution) and tell them to call the help desk if they have any issues.
The issue should be if your software works on Windows 7, but even that is mostly a crock now. Pretty much, any software that works on Vista works on Windows 7 (I have yet to see the exception, although I am sure there probably are some). If you are still using some legacy software that requires XP, Windows 7 allows you to run programs in a virtual Enviornment (you can actually run an entire virtual machine, but this mode, while it boots a virtual XP enviornment, makes the program run ALMOST like a native app. Its kinda cool. And no, I am not a MS PR rep). The exception seems to be programs that require lots of hard drive activity, such as p2p apps (but you don't want that on your network anyways).
Now, the only real complaint left should be about system specs, but that is mostly crock nowdays as well. Pretty much, any machine built in the past 3 years, and any business-class machine built in, oh, the past 6-7 years, should be able to handle Windows 7 Professional or Enterprise fine, with enough room left over for your apps. (Vista is another matter, but amazingly, Windows 7 seems to have lower system specs than Vista. Would have to look that up). Most companies lease machines in 2-4 year lease cycles (3 seems to be industry standard), so, with probably the exception of a few machines back in your mail room, you should be good for Windows 7,
I think the two biggest things that keep people from upgrading is familiarity with XP (we have been on it for, what, 9 years now?) and the fact tha Vista was just so God-awful. Push Windows 7 out to a test group, and see how they react
Totally agree, about ten years ago, in Fort Worth, they lowered the speed on 820 from 70 to 60. No reason whatsoever.
On 635 in Dallas, its not unusual to have people pass you up if you are doing under 70 in a 60. The highway is very wide, clear, straight, there is really no reason why the inside lanes are at 60. (It should be noted, though, on 635, we tend to have several people who seem to think the speedlimit posted is in kph, not mph, and will do 42).
During rushhour, on I30 and I20, heavy traffic will, on average, be moving 3-7 miles over the speed limit (source - morning news traffic reports).
Maybe this is because BP is being charged actual damages rather than statutory (spelling / wording) damages. Now, if everyone in costal states were to sue BP for, say, disruption of lifestyle, mental stress and anguish, loss of income, etc... Lets say everyone gets awarded $250,000, multiply by, oh, ten million people (conservative estiamte for conservative states), then we could probably get into the trillions.