I see some posts already about how $400,000 is a lot of money for the letter, but they're completely disregarding the painstaking work and research that went into drafting that letter.
Oh come on, painstaking work and research that amounts to $430,000 (the actual amount claimed in lawyers fees) ? The EFF only sued last July, so that amount equates to at best 6 months of work... of course we all know how the legal system works, so lawyer A files some document, lawyer B sits on it for two months before responding, lawyer A sits on it another two months before making another response... so in essence about 2 days *real* work on either side.
200 grand a fucking day ? Something is seriously wrong with our world.
For the same reason is wasn't laughed out of the patent office in the first place... the patent office are a bunch of assholes who rubber stamp any patent that ends in the words "... using a computer".
I mean seriously, prior art ?
A DVR is nothing more than a "VCR using a computer"... you see how that magic phrase works now ?
Even in computer terms, the TiVo is not the first playback device that had a seek bar to rewind / forward-wind content to the desired position. This should never have made it out of the patent office's door (along with about another 100,000 software "innovation" patents each year).
You *have* to be a fanboi to post here... you must take a side, there is no fence-sitting allowed on Slashdot.
You can take the "M$ sucks" route for infinite karma heaven, or the "A$$le sucks" route for instant karma hell. The "Linux (no dollar sign of course, this is FOSS) sucks" route simply leads to much debate and handwringing, with unknown karma effects... look on that path as something like Buddhism.
Where we go from here, that's a choice I leave up to you. (oblig. Matrix reference)
Can we get this stickied ? Oh, damnit, I thought we were on a forum for a minute:-(
I know of a lot of advertisers who would kill for a 44% clickthru rate... hell, I know a lot of advertisers who would kill for a 1/10th of that clickthru.
Fine, if newspapers are finally waking up to the 21st century, and wish to put content behind a paywall, then they should go for it. And Google should send them a huge bill every month for referrals to paid content.
In fact, if Google did this for all paywall sites, maybe there'd be less useless crap in the results. Tired of seeing search results for pages that when you clickthru to them, turn out to be behind a paywall / login page.
Isn't this cheating anyway, presenting one version of the page to Googlebots, but putting a wall in place for regular users ?
Honestly, for someone on purely 32 bit hardware and not needing massive amounts of RAM, is there any notable benefit to 64 bit ? Please, tell me about these improvements ?
For better or for worse, that basic "what happened" account is all that most people really give a shit about.
Amen to that. I could care less about Christiane Amanpour talking to suicide bombers wives about how Abdul used to be such a gentle man, and wouldn't hurt a fly... right up until the point he strapped 10kg of cemtex around his waist and headed for the crowded marketplace to blow up some of his fellow Allah worshippers.
Give me the facts... another crazy Muslim blew himself up in some desert shithole. Finished, all I need to know. And I'm not paying $5.99 a month for that.
I have a 32 bit processor on a 32 bit motherboard and 2GB of DDR2.
Why in fucks name would I want 64 bit OS to do the same thing as I can do with a 32 bit OS, and mores to the point, why do *I* deserve crappy code written by someone else ?
You don't *have* to upgrade just because "it's the latest thing". And saying 64 bit is somehow better when it can't even run the same legacy code that 32 bit still can is hardly a valid reason to upgrade. (The fact that some of that legacy code is vulnerable is beside the point).
No, probably just the fact that a limited number of tech-minded people buy the N900, whereas millions of idiots tend to buy expensive shiny crap. Apple is the bling of the tech world.
So there's a problem with the MMS, how long before someone codes a solution to fix it ? Yes, because with the N900, you are *allowed* to do things with the kernel without having to seek Steve Job's permission first. Kind of laughable you'll attack a missing feature on another phone, when iPhone users had to wait for version N even to get a video recorder or GPS that actually worked.
Face it, the ONLY innovation Apple has is that they design good user interfaces for morons who need to mash the screen with their fingers rather than use an accurate stylus. Apart from that, there is NO innovation in the iPhone... they play follow-the-leader after Nokia, Samsung, Sony Eriksson by 6 to 12 months, AND charge their users twice the price for the priviledge.
Anyhow, based on your logic, a Big Mac must better quality than a Fillet Mignon with Blue Cheese Sauce, simply based on number of units sold, right ? You want fries with that, dumbass ?
and it could possibly be modified to work on more recent versions of the International Space Station / McDonalds Drivethru Menu Backlight / Diebold Voting Machine etc etc...
Blanket statements like this are at best ignorant, and at worst downright FUD.
An exploit that works on a 9 year old version of the browser (6 years if you consider SV1 was the last major upgrade to IE 6), and two revisions back of the operating system (XP) is hardly newsworthy anymore.
What *is* newsworthy however, is why exactly Google of all people are still using it ? All their "support" for Firefox, and even developing their own browser / OS, and they get pwned by a Javascript running on a production server that presumably had access to their storage system ?
I must be allergic to beer then, because around 12 hours later I end up with a splitting headache, dry mouth and the desire to vomit.
Seriously though, the only reason these psychosomatic morons want everything termed as an "allergy" is so they can get time off work. Tell your boss you are suffering from a delusional reaction to something, he'll tell you to GTFO. Tell him you have an "allergy", that makes it kosher and he has to address it as such. Likewise it's so much easier to sue someone, just try proving that he *doesn't* have some adverse reaction to WiFi, even if the science says it's not possible, his brain believes it and a polygraph will probably back him up.
Believing in something doesn't mean it's actually there, but it can *seem* real enough for these crackpots. Whether or not this guy does have some reaction, it's psychosomatic or a learned response, and probably nothing to do with the actual physical EM radiation. Calling it an allergy does not make it so.
Now that's not really fair... all those chocolate bars and nylons came in real handy when the soldiers in the trenches ran out of bullets. A few kgs of Hersheys Kisses in a stocking leg makes an excellent cosh and can be whirled around the head and body, keeping those nasty Nazis at bay.
Maybe screenwriters and filmmakers could come up with an ORIGINAL idea for a change. Getting tired of inferior remakes, all they do is cause me to download and watch the original again.
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I see some posts already about how $400,000 is a lot of money for the letter, but they're completely disregarding the painstaking work and research that went into drafting that letter.
Oh come on, painstaking work and research that amounts to $430,000 (the actual amount claimed in lawyers fees) ? The EFF only sued last July, so that amount equates to at best 6 months of work ... of course we all know how the legal system works, so lawyer A files some document, lawyer B sits on it for two months before responding, lawyer A sits on it another two months before making another response ... so in essence about 2 days *real* work on either side.
200 grand a fucking day ? Something is seriously wrong with our world.
Because any half-decent database never stores the original password, only a hash of it.
So in principle, no one can tell you your password, unless they found a way to reverse SHA or whatever hash is being used.
For the same reason is wasn't laughed out of the patent office in the first place ... the patent office are a bunch of assholes who rubber stamp any patent that ends in the words "... using a computer".
I mean seriously, prior art ?
A DVR is nothing more than a "VCR using a computer" ... you see how that magic phrase works now ?
Even in computer terms, the TiVo is not the first playback device that had a seek bar to rewind / forward-wind content to the desired position. This should never have made it out of the patent office's door (along with about another 100,000 software "innovation" patents each year).
You *have* to be a fanboi to post here ... you must take a side, there is no fence-sitting allowed on Slashdot.
You can take the "M$ sucks" route for infinite karma heaven, or the "A$$le sucks" route for instant karma hell. The "Linux (no dollar sign of course, this is FOSS) sucks" route simply leads to much debate and handwringing, with unknown karma effects ... look on that path as something like Buddhism.
Where we go from here, that's a choice I leave up to you. (oblig. Matrix reference)
Can we get this stickied ? Oh, damnit, I thought we were on a forum for a minute :-(
kdawson ?
I know of a lot of advertisers who would kill for a 44% clickthru rate ... hell, I know a lot of advertisers who would kill for a 1/10th of that clickthru.
Fine, if newspapers are finally waking up to the 21st century, and wish to put content behind a paywall, then they should go for it. And Google should send them a huge bill every month for referrals to paid content.
In fact, if Google did this for all paywall sites, maybe there'd be less useless crap in the results. Tired of seeing search results for pages that when you clickthru to them, turn out to be behind a paywall / login page.
Isn't this cheating anyway, presenting one version of the page to Googlebots, but putting a wall in place for regular users ?
that doesn't have anything to do with an update for OSX somehow implying that OSX is less secure than it was yesterday
What kind of fanboi drivel is this ?
They've just patched 12 serious vulnerabilities, how could it NOT be less secure yesterday before the patch than it is now after the patch ?
Please hand in your geek card on the way out !
We are talking old school here ... Commodore PET.
Screen buffer started at address 32768, and the character set used was NOT ASCII, but PETSCII. Go Google it.
Support for 16 bit legacy apps ?
Wider range of driver support ?
Wider selection of applications / games ?
Honestly, for someone on purely 32 bit hardware and not needing massive amounts of RAM, is there any notable benefit to 64 bit ? Please, tell me about these improvements ?
Commodore screen addresses ... I just wrote PWND in the top left of the display.
For better or for worse, that basic "what happened" account is all that most people really give a shit about.
Amen to that. I could care less about Christiane Amanpour talking to suicide bombers wives about how Abdul used to be such a gentle man, and wouldn't hurt a fly ... right up until the point he strapped 10kg of cemtex around his waist and headed for the crowded marketplace to blow up some of his fellow Allah worshippers.
Give me the facts ... another crazy Muslim blew himself up in some desert shithole. Finished, all I need to know. And I'm not paying $5.99 a month for that.
POKE 32768,16
POKE 32769,23
POKE 32770,14
POKE 32771,4
I have a 32 bit processor on a 32 bit motherboard and 2GB of DDR2.
Why in fucks name would I want 64 bit OS to do the same thing as I can do with a 32 bit OS, and mores to the point, why do *I* deserve crappy code written by someone else ?
You don't *have* to upgrade just because "it's the latest thing". And saying 64 bit is somehow better when it can't even run the same legacy code that 32 bit still can is hardly a valid reason to upgrade. (The fact that some of that legacy code is vulnerable is beside the point).
and if there were any winners in all this!!!
The lawyers of course. Whoever else wins or loses is academic, the lawyers *always* get their pound of flesh.
No, probably just the fact that a limited number of tech-minded people buy the N900, whereas millions of idiots tend to buy expensive shiny crap. Apple is the bling of the tech world.
So there's a problem with the MMS, how long before someone codes a solution to fix it ? Yes, because with the N900, you are *allowed* to do things with the kernel without having to seek Steve Job's permission first. Kind of laughable you'll attack a missing feature on another phone, when iPhone users had to wait for version N even to get a video recorder or GPS that actually worked.
Face it, the ONLY innovation Apple has is that they design good user interfaces for morons who need to mash the screen with their fingers rather than use an accurate stylus. Apart from that, there is NO innovation in the iPhone ... they play follow-the-leader after Nokia, Samsung, Sony Eriksson by 6 to 12 months, AND charge their users twice the price for the priviledge.
Anyhow, based on your logic, a Big Mac must better quality than a Fillet Mignon with Blue Cheese Sauce, simply based on number of units sold, right ? You want fries with that, dumbass ?
Yes, fine, test boxes ... NOT production servers with access to the storage system where these bloggers details were stored.
And I should know better and close my italics properly. D'oh.
and it could possibly be modified to work on more recent versions of the International Space Station / McDonalds Drivethru Menu Backlight / Diebold Voting Machine etc etc ...
Blanket statements like this are at best ignorant, and at worst downright FUD.
An exploit that works on a 9 year old version of the browser (6 years if you consider SV1 was the last major upgrade to IE 6), and two revisions back of the operating system (XP) is hardly newsworthy anymore.
What *is* newsworthy however, is why exactly Google of all people are still using it ? All their "support" for Firefox, and even developing their own browser / OS, and they get pwned by a Javascript running on a production server that presumably had access to their storage system ?
They should know better, really.
I must be allergic to beer then, because around 12 hours later I end up with a splitting headache, dry mouth and the desire to vomit.
Seriously though, the only reason these psychosomatic morons want everything termed as an "allergy" is so they can get time off work. Tell your boss you are suffering from a delusional reaction to something, he'll tell you to GTFO. Tell him you have an "allergy", that makes it kosher and he has to address it as such. Likewise it's so much easier to sue someone, just try proving that he *doesn't* have some adverse reaction to WiFi, even if the science says it's not possible, his brain believes it and a polygraph will probably back him up.
Believing in something doesn't mean it's actually there, but it can *seem* real enough for these crackpots. Whether or not this guy does have some reaction, it's psychosomatic or a learned response, and probably nothing to do with the actual physical EM radiation. Calling it an allergy does not make it so.
Jokes like this will always be with us, perhaps you should just surrender to the inevitable ?
Now that's not really fair ... all those chocolate bars and nylons came in real handy when the soldiers in the trenches ran out of bullets. A few kgs of Hersheys Kisses in a stocking leg makes an excellent cosh and can be whirled around the head and body, keeping those nasty Nazis at bay.
<sarcasm>
My list of remaks that were better than the original :-
1. The Fly (Jeff Goldblum).
2. ???
Nope, that's it.
Maybe screenwriters and filmmakers could come up with an ORIGINAL idea for a change. Getting tired of inferior remakes, all they do is cause me to download and watch the original again.
No, it means the iPhone is best at determining finger position and movement
Yup, it's Steve's finger, and it's rammed right up the user's ass.
When was the last time you saw a new movie on VHS ?
1990 called, they want their Analogue Tape Formats back. And that Sony Walkman you've got stuffed in your back pocket.