The song "Lube It With Me One More Time" was recorded the night of the murder and the recording studio is just three blocks away from the crime scene.
Let me put it in the computer here.... okay. Now let's rip the song to FLAC, filter out the vocals and the instruments, increase the gain on the background noise, filter out electrical hum, enahance the sine wave, refactor the coefficient of the waveform and run in through a furry transformer and we should be able to hear the victim's last words.
> Joel Stein has struck a major blow to personal privacy, and passively helped usher in the insidious and pervasive personal data overuse that Philip K Dick imagined in Minority Report.
Hyperbole much?
But does this mean I'm going to get awesome computer displays that give me an upper body workout while I browse for porn^H^H^H^Hnews and can buy cool little spider-bots with built-in tasers to chase the neighbors' kids with?
Thank god we have people like you. If we didn't have so many people who were eager to cancel anything that doesn't meet their personal expectations, people might actually be exposed to a wider range of choices. Top 40 radio might die!
My hat is off to you, sir, for keeping the world safe for mediocrity and sheep-like behavior.
At the crosswalk, I doubt you weren't aware of the car, even if was silent. The car door opening doesn't have anything to do with the engine running. Nobody walking on a sidewalk beside a road is going to suddenly dive for cover if they hear an engine.
How would the vehicles that hit you being noisier have made any difference in any of the examples you offer? The reality is that bad drivers will still kill people no matter how noisy their cars are.
That said, I think the the law is a good idea since blind people exist. It doesn't matter if it's only 1 in 600 people that's blind, either, because that's still around half a million people who need this safety standard to be put in place.
I have a post-it note labled "passwords" with about a dozen random 12 character strings stuck to my monitor at work. None of them are actual passwords that are used anywhere.
It's surprising how often I find my network login has been locked out.
> I didn't bother to read the article as the summary contains no information.
And if you'd read the article, you would have found that there was a study that showed a correlation between reduced CMV antibody levels and increased BPA levels.
But no... you can't be arsed to actually read something. If it's not in the summary that a slashdot editor writes, it obviously doesn't matter.
You and people like you are the reason everything gets reduced to a sound byte. Congratulations on being part of the problem.
So I may well be one of the greatest minds on the planet as long as you go by how much time I spent socializing (read:sleeping around) in college. My GPA might lead you to believe otherwise, but now I know better!
> In January 2008, Steve Jobs publicly stated in February 2007 that Apple would sell DRM free music if allowed.
You actually believed that?!?
Consider: If Apple wanted to sell DRM-free music, it would mean that that they wanted people to be able to play music they bought from the iTunes store on any MP3-capable device they owned. If that's the case, why has Apple spent years updating iTunes, sending cease and desist letters and filing lawsuits to prevent people from being able to do so?
Actions speak louder than words. Apple loves their FairPlay DRM and loves having users who buy music they can only play on Apple products. It's no coincidence that Apple sells DRM-free music at a higher price than the DRM-encumbered music. They would much rather people buy the DRM protected files because that will keep them buying only Apple products.
And EMI's DRM-free offerings through iTunes? They did their own tests and discovered that higher quality DRM-free songs outsold lower quality DRM-encumbered songs 10-to-1. EMI was the one who stepped up and made deals with Apple, Amazon and several other stores in addition to making a deal with YouTube to allow EMI music videos to be shown.
Apple didn't kill music DRM, no matter how you look at it. They followed the trend of businesses moving away from it.
Apple didn't kill DRM. Music from the iTunes store continued to be laden with DRM for more than a year after Amazon's DRM-free MP3 store opened. It was only after Amazon took away about 10% of the MP3 market that Apple removed DRM and that was only done in order to remain competitive.
Thanks Amazon! Without you, we'd still be stuck choosing between piracy, buying CDs to rip to MP3s or buying DRM-laden MP3s that could only be played on iPods.
I enjoy talking about books and movies and music and things with my friends. We recommend stuff like that to each other all the time. I know the things they like and they know the things I like as a result.
Why would I want a search engine to parrot the opinions I've already heard and not give me new results that might lead to something interesting that I wouldn't hear about otherwise? Wouldn't this make search results less useful? I also wouldn't want everything my friends like excluded because I may well be searching for something they recommended.
I honestly can't think of any reason I would want a search engine to filter things based on my friends' tastes.
OMG! My cable company transmits a bunch of channels that my cable box could decode, but won't because I haven't paid for them to be unlocked. This makes me so mad! They should either make cable boxes that can't receive channels or let me watch all those channels for free!
I'm willing to bet that you will not only not see a penny of the money, you will find that any profits you would have made will be reduced by a charge that's supposedly to recoup copyright enforcement costs.
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The song "Lube It With Me One More Time" was recorded the night of the murder and the recording studio is just three blocks away from the crime scene.
Let me put it in the computer here.... okay. Now let's rip the song to FLAC, filter out the vocals and the instruments, increase the gain on the background noise, filter out electrical hum, enahance the sine wave, refactor the coefficient of the waveform and run in through a furry transformer and we should be able to hear the victim's last words.
> Joel Stein has struck a major blow to personal privacy, and passively helped usher in the insidious and pervasive personal data overuse that Philip K Dick imagined in Minority Report.
Hyperbole much?
But does this mean I'm going to get awesome computer displays that give me an upper body workout while I browse for porn^H^H^H^Hnews and can buy cool little spider-bots with built-in tasers to chase the neighbors' kids with?
So you're saying that this is an ideal way to fuck with people you don't like if they happen to be under in-house arrest?
Oh how I wish I had a mod point to give to this post. That is a perfect response.
Thank god we have people like you. If we didn't have so many people who were eager to cancel anything that doesn't meet their personal expectations, people might actually be exposed to a wider range of choices. Top 40 radio might die!
My hat is off to you, sir, for keeping the world safe for mediocrity and sheep-like behavior.
4chan is really more of an eternal April 1st.
Next week they're going to put together a chart showing sales of Apps versus retweets of Kanye West's comments on Twitter.
Then we'll know for sure.
And you get a free groping with every ticket!
No happy ending, though.
At the crosswalk, I doubt you weren't aware of the car, even if was silent. The car door opening doesn't have anything to do with the engine running. Nobody walking on a sidewalk beside a road is going to suddenly dive for cover if they hear an engine.
How would the vehicles that hit you being noisier have made any difference in any of the examples you offer? The reality is that bad drivers will still kill people no matter how noisy their cars are.
That said, I think the the law is a good idea since blind people exist. It doesn't matter if it's only 1 in 600 people that's blind, either, because that's still around half a million people who need this safety standard to be put in place.
> It is, but you can't debug the user
Yes you can
I have a post-it note labled "passwords" with about a dozen random 12 character strings stuck to my monitor at work. None of them are actual passwords that are used anywhere.
It's surprising how often I find my network login has been locked out.
> I didn't bother to read the article as the summary contains no information.
And if you'd read the article, you would have found that there was a study that showed a correlation between reduced CMV antibody levels and increased BPA levels.
But no... you can't be arsed to actually read something. If it's not in the summary that a slashdot editor writes, it obviously doesn't matter.
You and people like you are the reason everything gets reduced to a sound byte. Congratulations on being part of the problem.
So I may well be one of the greatest minds on the planet as long as you go by how much time I spent socializing (read:sleeping around) in college. My GPA might lead you to believe otherwise, but now I know better!
> In January 2008, Steve Jobs publicly stated in February 2007 that Apple would sell DRM free music if allowed.
You actually believed that?!?
Consider: If Apple wanted to sell DRM-free music, it would mean that that they wanted people to be able to play music they bought from the iTunes store on any MP3-capable device they owned. If that's the case, why has Apple spent years updating iTunes, sending cease and desist letters and filing lawsuits to prevent people from being able to do so?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairPlay#Circumventing_FairPlay
Actions speak louder than words. Apple loves their FairPlay DRM and loves having users who buy music they can only play on Apple products. It's no coincidence that Apple sells DRM-free music at a higher price than the DRM-encumbered music. They would much rather people buy the DRM protected files because that will keep them buying only Apple products.
And EMI's DRM-free offerings through iTunes? They did their own tests and discovered that higher quality DRM-free songs outsold lower quality DRM-encumbered songs 10-to-1. EMI was the one who stepped up and made deals with Apple, Amazon and several other stores in addition to making a deal with YouTube to allow EMI music videos to be shown.
Apple didn't kill music DRM, no matter how you look at it. They followed the trend of businesses moving away from it.
Apple didn't kill DRM. Music from the iTunes store continued to be laden with DRM for more than a year after Amazon's DRM-free MP3 store opened. It was only after Amazon took away about 10% of the MP3 market that Apple removed DRM and that was only done in order to remain competitive.
Thanks Amazon! Without you, we'd still be stuck choosing between piracy, buying CDs to rip to MP3s or buying DRM-laden MP3s that could only be played on iPods.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe
Now that you know how it all ends, have you lost all interest in life?
I dunno if I believe you. Your story sounds fishy.
> You do, however, usually (but not always) pay for what you get.
Not according to the RIAA.
I enjoy talking about books and movies and music and things with my friends. We recommend stuff like that to each other all the time. I know the things they like and they know the things I like as a result.
Why would I want a search engine to parrot the opinions I've already heard and not give me new results that might lead to something interesting that I wouldn't hear about otherwise? Wouldn't this make search results less useful? I also wouldn't want everything my friends like excluded because I may well be searching for something they recommended.
I honestly can't think of any reason I would want a search engine to filter things based on my friends' tastes.
"...an animated Android robot"
Don't be fooled. It's Clippy in disguise.
"You appear to be driving along the edge of a cliff. Can I help you with that?"
I look forward to playing Crysis 3 for 2-3 minutes before my battery dies!
Twitter is almost like a valid news source. And the rumor was retweeted 29 times! How could it not be true?
And justinbieber is 27.4 times as popular as JESUS, too.
It's amazing how much you can learn about the world from Twitter.
OMG! My cable company transmits a bunch of channels that my cable box could decode, but won't because I haven't paid for them to be unlocked. This makes me so mad! They should either make cable boxes that can't receive channels or let me watch all those channels for free!
Sounds fucking retarded, doesn't it?
That's what I see in 90% of the comments here.
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"God Himself could not sink this tree!"
I'm willing to bet that you will not only not see a penny of the money, you will find that any profits you would have made will be reduced by a charge that's supposedly to recoup copyright enforcement costs.