Ok i am probably going to show my ignorance here, almost certainly, but it seems to me that this is a good thing, isn't it? Don't we want to have a secure DNS system? Or is it the case that securing the system will somehow limit our freedom or something like that?
Yes i know this is a very generic question but i would like to know
All i can say to that is, i grew up extremely dirt poor living most of the time in an industrial space and sleeping on shelf in my dads workshop, and coincidentally we didn't have a TV for most of my life. amazingly enough i grew up to be very smart and figured out how to be successfull. I don't think its a coincidence that i had no TV, rather i think its the CAUSE of my success. Yes i have the luxury of being lazy now because i didn't have the luxury of TV when i was young.
And to answer your first question, No you don't have a real job if all you are doing is flipping burgers, if you are fool enough to think that you can survive your whole life with that kind of mentality then i feel sorry for you. And yes i have taken a job away from another "lazy" person, but every 40 year old, career burger flipper has also taken away a job from the young enterprising teen who should be doing that job to pay his way through college.
TV is a distraction from reality and NOT a necessity.
Seriously, we've got more important things to worry about in this country that weather people can watch their soaps on channel 4. Why are we wasting money on this.
Here's a wake up call to all those who are watching regular TV and can't afford to get a box. Perhaps they should stop watching so much TV and get a real job
Having been involved in the music industry for many years, and watching first hand from the inside as major retailers like Tower Records have fallen almost directly as a result of pirates. I will say one thing that has happened as a side affect that is a good thing. It's forced musicians to actually write good music.
Five years ago I had all but given up on new music, every single band that came out seemed to be just another corporate generated cookie cutter band. But now that the major source of income for new bands has switched from selling CD's to actually playing shows and selling merchandise, they have been forced to actually write good music, and be better musicians. (in my opinion at least)
So what you're saying is that microsoft should be all knowing and be able to predict every possible permutation of security hole before ever releasing software, and if they don't do this then they should be held liable?
Imagine if we had that same standard for cars. now everyone who has ever died because they bought a car 60 years ago without airbags can sue because the company should have thought of that before selling the cars. This is obviously rediculus. The fact is no one ever said Windows was perfect and infallable and it NEVER will be.
Now, imagine also that microsoft actually finds a defect in their software (which i'm sure happens all the time) I guess you think they should just take out a big add in the paper saying "Heres how to get past our gaping security hole!" or more to the point "Hey hackers, have fun with this one while we twiddle our thumbs not fixing it", Not.
regarding everything you said, i agree. and i am not just posting this to hear the sound of my own voice (or keyboard as it were)
It just occurred to me though that there should be a way to only view the positive modded posts, this way you wouldn't have to wade through all the stupid comments that people make and you would only see the posts that someone else actaully thought were good.
or even better, what if you could chose to read all the +1 Funny or all the +1 interesting (or whatever other types of mods there are) as separate threads
um yeah, thats about as much of this thought as i can get out right now in my hungover state of mind
Oh and one last though regarding the anonymous crapflood post, For all the time you wasted writing that post had you ever stopped to think "Hey what can i do to fix these problems" My guess would be no, all you wanted to do is whine and complain about the system. You sir are worthless.
Everything you say here does make sense, however i can think of alternate explanations as well, and you are correct I don't really know. i say however that it takes just as much "belief" and "faith" to believe in a god like being as it does to be an athiest. It's just another choice that we must make because we could spend the rest of our lives pondering the question.
perhaps it is the case that for whatever reason evolution has favored those who do believe in a god. maybe it's becuase they can more successfully get on with their lives and the more important task of reproduction
Getting back to the subject of this story though, i do believe that this is in fact life. i think the only logical next step is to have various teams of scientists come up with their own self-replicating RNA and have them fight , then we can all start placing bets on which strands will win!
the second question is obvious, your communication device (you're brain/body) is broken therefore the message is screwed up
And the buck cannot stop with the brain because every action has to have a reaction (and vice versa). I'm surprised however that no-one told me this in answer to my question "Who told my brain to tell my thumbs to move? You did!" This is a valid answer but then you trace it back to what told me to tell you to tell your brain etc... you see that this eventually has to trace back to something that just happened spontaneously, however spontaneous action is not something that jives well with the laws of the physical universe, this is why i say that somewhere along the line something (if you want to call it metaphysical) but something like a god perhaps had to either make the first move (outside the laws of our universe) or is perhaps still making moves. i'm guessing the latter
IMHO nothing can either prove or disprove the existence of God, at least nothing in the physical world. If god created everything, then he must by definition not be part of it because creation is an action and in order for an action to occur there must be two things A) the thing doing the action and B) the thing being acted on.
here is something to ponder for those of you who only believe the the physical world: Close your eyes, and twiddle your thumbs, now think what told your tumbs to twiddle? your brain right? yes, but what told your brain to tell your thumbs to twiddle? this is what i would call god. i am god.
Sure i agree the U.S. (and the "western" world) has not been very nice in the past and we've given a lot of people reasons to bomb us, but even if we could all of a sudden start being really great people, you would still not be able to stop every single crazy person from wanting to bomb a plane.
And regarding a non-bombable plane, unfortunately i think a non-bombable plane would also be a non-flyable plane. And if i remember correct the terrorists on 9/11 didn't have any bombs (or at least thats what i've been told)
I love this logic that a lot of you are using here, which is basically this: Apple is such a huge company why would they bother attacking such a small company unless that company is backed by someone else
This is pretty much the same logic that has been used time and time again by ultra-conservative patriot types when they try to justify why the United States invaded their tiny republic. "I'm bigger so i must be right, I heard they were backed by communists!"
Oh crap, i hope i don't get sued here, does anyone know if apple patented the analogy yet?
I didn't realize i was griping, but i'll address your points one at a time here:
Commercials yes i realize they make money from the commercials, why don't they just make their own torrents which include commercials? Personally i wouldn't mind a bit, it's not the commercial-freeness of the shows i see online that i like, it's that i can get an entire series all at once and not have to worry about missing an episode.
No TV/Radio/Internet without advertizing? I agree on the TV and the Radio, but i pay for my internet with cold hard cash, without advertising, there may be less content, but advertising has nothing to do with my internet connection, or are you saying that they subsidize the internet with advertising dollars that they make from cable?
Higher Prices yes, perhaps for some the prices will be higher, however if they were to offer many tiers of bandwidth then the prices might actually be lower (assuming that all programing and internet were through one connection) Here's an example. i use an average amount of bandwidth, and watch relatively few shows on cable, so adding the cable shows to my internet bandwidth would not really affect it much, for others however, they might not use the internet much and instead chose to spend countless hours watching some inane completely mindless utterly ridiculus cable programming (such as ESPN) for them, adding the cable would drastically increase their bandwidth and therefore they would have to pay more for it.
Other countries? first, i mentioned absolutely nothing about other countries, but what you say is probably true, and the reason for it is likely that the technology originated in this country therefore since it's been around awhile we now have an antiquated system whereas newly connected countries can put the highest quality systems in right from the begining. its the same reason why there are more cell phones vs landlines in Iraq than there are here. it costs money to change the systems, but at some point you have to do it if you are going to remain competitive.
I've been waiting for someone to say this. Sure, I've used torrents for other activities, but my primary one is watching TV shows because it's simply easier, and as far as i know this should be legal. I think the ISPs (in my case Time Warner) need to realize this and adjust their strategy accordingly. I've often wondered why it is that i really pay for cable TV when i can pretty much get the same stuff over the net. I think eventually all we will have is a network connection and all TV/Phone/Internet will flow over it.
I'm not so sure about that (that the parent was joking) Whatever happened to buyer beware? Do you believe every salesman that comes to your door? of course not.
The fact is, the internet is still the wild west, there are still people selling potions and tinctures that promise to fix every problem. The only solution is for everyone involved to get a little smarter. If you coddle the consumer and protect him from scam artists, they will never learn
Now i don't know the specifics of this case, but obviously if they were straight up lying about their service, then that should be punished. If however they were just giving the customer the information (correct information) which led them to believe that they were going to get something out of it, then i think they should be off the hook. If they win this case, it will set a precedent that might not be good. You will now be able to sue because you didn't comprehend properly what was being sold to you, and who's fault is that?
I think the author of this article has completely missed the point of stretching. It has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with increasing or decreasing your overall muscle strength. Additionally it has nothing to do with preventing injury or warming up either. In actuality stretching for humans is the same thing as frogs inflating their bellys. It is solely to attract the opposite sex.
Study after study has proven than men who stretch their forarms (also known as guns) in front of women have a greater likelyhood of mating. It's a known fact also that women who do yoga are more likely to excel in the reproductive arts.
A more interesting study would be the effect of biker shorts on your ability to determine potential danger (such as a speeding car) or how fanny packs have led to retardation and uneven hair growth (re. the mullet)
I have a few things to say about this. First this is being blown all out of proportion, anyone who has ever driven past on of these checkpoints knows that they wave %95 percent of the traffic right through no big deal, and I have never ever been stopped for someone asking for my papers. Nevertheless I do see the potential for abuse with this program
This is the wrong solution to the illegal immigrant invasion that we have witnessed over the past few decades. It is attacking the symptoms of the problem while ignoring the real cause. That cause is simply this, given all the dangers of crossing the border and getting caught it is still on average a profitable enough risk to take and for that reason many take it (i would too if i were in their situation) The proper way to fight this is to make it not profitable, you do that by going after employers of illegal immigrants and fining and jailing them, all they need to do is make a couple if big examples and everyone else will fall in line. Take away the profit and the people will go somewhere else on their own.
But why should we turn them away? (i know this is what your wondering) Imagine this, you build a house an a peice of land that you own (sure maybe you're great great great grandfather kicked some people off that land many years ago, but the fact is they weren't doing much with it anyway) Now someone barges into your home and demands that you make him dinner. what are you gonna do? Me personally, i'd kick him out, if he really wanted what i have so bad then he'd come in with a few friends and some guns and take it from me just like my great great great grandfather did to the original occupants, and if that happened, well then touche to him, but i'll be damned if i'm gonna be guilted into just handing it over
Regarding the previous post: Thank you, i was wondering that myself
As to which phone to develop for i guess it kinda depends on what you have to do. But the very first thing i would look into is weather or not the app could be web based, the obvious advantage to this would be that all phones that can access the internet should be able to access your application (that is of course if you don't use and flash because for some idiotic reason apple has decided not to support something that %95 percent of current web browsers support, but i digress). The other advantage would be the ability to access the app from your computer.
I see what you're saying and i agree, Firewire is obviously better than USB, the problem here is that it is not enough better than USB for anyone besides us geeks to care. It's the same reason that Blue Ray is going to die, DVD is good enough so who cares?
Also manufacturers benefit when there is only one standard, USB is clearly ahead of Firewire in popularity so it will eventually win (at least until something comes out that is truely a major step forward)
I work for a major cable manufacturing company, which has made both the standard 6 pin firewire as well as 9 pin. what i do for this company specifically is make their catalog, and i can tell you that in our upcoming 2009 catalog we will not be offering 9 pin firewire at all, and our 6 pin stock selection has been greatly reduced. Obviously (to me) firewire is loosing in popularity (to usb) so get ready to upgrade your soon to be obsolete peripherals.
this is obviously just my opinion, but unfortunately most games suck these days. in fact in my life i have only actually purchased 3 games; Lemmings, Sim City and Civilization (several versions)
The problem with most new games is that all they developers concentrate on is graphics, they have no strategy, every game is the same just walk around point and shoot BOOOORING!!
Slashdot Mirror
Ok i am probably going to show my ignorance here, almost certainly, but it seems to me that this is a good thing, isn't it? Don't we want to have a secure DNS system? Or is it the case that securing the system will somehow limit our freedom or something like that?
Yes i know this is a very generic question but i would like to know
All i can say to that is, i grew up extremely dirt poor living most of the time in an industrial space and sleeping on shelf in my dads workshop, and coincidentally we didn't have a TV for most of my life. amazingly enough i grew up to be very smart and figured out how to be successfull. I don't think its a coincidence that i had no TV, rather i think its the CAUSE of my success. Yes i have the luxury of being lazy now because i didn't have the luxury of TV when i was young.
And to answer your first question, No you don't have a real job if all you are doing is flipping burgers, if you are fool enough to think that you can survive your whole life with that kind of mentality then i feel sorry for you. And yes i have taken a job away from another "lazy" person, but every 40 year old, career burger flipper has also taken away a job from the young enterprising teen who should be doing that job to pay his way through college.
TV is a distraction from reality and NOT a necessity.
My apologies, i'm a vodka and olives taste tester so i completely understand.
Seriously, we've got more important things to worry about in this country that weather people can watch their soaps on channel 4. Why are we wasting money on this.
Here's a wake up call to all those who are watching regular TV and can't afford to get a box. Perhaps they should stop watching so much TV and get a real job
Having been involved in the music industry for many years, and watching first hand from the inside as major retailers like Tower Records have fallen almost directly as a result of pirates. I will say one thing that has happened as a side affect that is a good thing. It's forced musicians to actually write good music.
Five years ago I had all but given up on new music, every single band that came out seemed to be just another corporate generated cookie cutter band. But now that the major source of income for new bands has switched from selling CD's to actually playing shows and selling merchandise, they have been forced to actually write good music, and be better musicians. (in my opinion at least)
Does anyone else notice this?
and they do:
Click here to read an article about the software used for air traffic
you may see this as proof of your point, but ask yourself this question, why aren't they using macs?
So what you're saying is that microsoft should be all knowing and be able to predict every possible permutation of security hole before ever releasing software, and if they don't do this then they should be held liable?
Imagine if we had that same standard for cars. now everyone who has ever died because they bought a car 60 years ago without airbags can sue because the company should have thought of that before selling the cars. This is obviously rediculus. The fact is no one ever said Windows was perfect and infallable and it NEVER will be.
Now, imagine also that microsoft actually finds a defect in their software (which i'm sure happens all the time) I guess you think they should just take out a big add in the paper saying "Heres how to get past our gaping security hole!" or more to the point "Hey hackers, have fun with this one while we twiddle our thumbs not fixing it", Not.
WTF? how did Jews get into this conversation?
and when did Jews become Vampires?
- uh oh, is that blood I smell? I must suck ze blood from ze internets now. I am zo thirzty. BLOOOD
- Jew for net neutrality
regarding everything you said, i agree. and i am not just posting this to hear the sound of my own voice (or keyboard as it were)
It just occurred to me though that there should be a way to only view the positive modded posts, this way you wouldn't have to wade through all the stupid comments that people make and you would only see the posts that someone else actaully thought were good.
or even better, what if you could chose to read all the +1 Funny or all the +1 interesting (or whatever other types of mods there are) as separate threads
um yeah, thats about as much of this thought as i can get out right now in my hungover state of mind
Oh and one last though regarding the anonymous crapflood post, For all the time you wasted writing that post had you ever stopped to think "Hey what can i do to fix these problems" My guess would be no, all you wanted to do is whine and complain about the system. You sir are worthless.
Everything you say here does make sense, however i can think of alternate explanations as well, and you are correct I don't really know. i say however that it takes just as much "belief" and "faith" to believe in a god like being as it does to be an athiest. It's just another choice that we must make because we could spend the rest of our lives pondering the question.
perhaps it is the case that for whatever reason evolution has favored those who do believe in a god. maybe it's becuase they can more successfully get on with their lives and the more important task of reproduction
Getting back to the subject of this story though, i do believe that this is in fact life. i think the only logical next step is to have various teams of scientists come up with their own self-replicating RNA and have them fight , then we can all start placing bets on which strands will win!
The answer to your first question is yes
the second question is obvious, your communication device (you're brain/body) is broken therefore the message is screwed up
And the buck cannot stop with the brain because every action has to have a reaction (and vice versa). I'm surprised however that no-one told me this in answer to my question "Who told my brain to tell my thumbs to move? You did!" This is a valid answer but then you trace it back to what told me to tell you to tell your brain etc... you see that this eventually has to trace back to something that just happened spontaneously, however spontaneous action is not something that jives well with the laws of the physical universe, this is why i say that somewhere along the line something (if you want to call it metaphysical) but something like a god perhaps had to either make the first move (outside the laws of our universe) or is perhaps still making moves. i'm guessing the latter
IMHO nothing can either prove or disprove the existence of God, at least nothing in the physical world. If god created everything, then he must by definition not be part of it because creation is an action and in order for an action to occur there must be two things A) the thing doing the action and B) the thing being acted on.
here is something to ponder for those of you who only believe the the physical world: Close your eyes, and twiddle your thumbs, now think what told your tumbs to twiddle? your brain right? yes, but what told your brain to tell your thumbs to twiddle? this is what i would call god. i am god.
God wants pizza
great idea, but easier said than done though
Sure i agree the U.S. (and the "western" world) has not been very nice in the past and we've given a lot of people reasons to bomb us, but even if we could all of a sudden start being really great people, you would still not be able to stop every single crazy person from wanting to bomb a plane.
And regarding a non-bombable plane, unfortunately i think a non-bombable plane would also be a non-flyable plane. And if i remember correct the terrorists on 9/11 didn't have any bombs (or at least thats what i've been told)
I love this logic that a lot of you are using here, which is basically this: Apple is such a huge company why would they bother attacking such a small company unless that company is backed by someone else
This is pretty much the same logic that has been used time and time again by ultra-conservative patriot types when they try to justify why the United States invaded their tiny republic. "I'm bigger so i must be right, I heard they were backed by communists!"
Oh crap, i hope i don't get sued here, does anyone know if apple patented the analogy yet?
Oh SNAP!
I didn't realize i was griping, but i'll address your points one at a time here:
Commercials yes i realize they make money from the commercials, why don't they just make their own torrents which include commercials? Personally i wouldn't mind a bit, it's not the commercial-freeness of the shows i see online that i like, it's that i can get an entire series all at once and not have to worry about missing an episode.
No TV/Radio/Internet without advertizing? I agree on the TV and the Radio, but i pay for my internet with cold hard cash, without advertising, there may be less content, but advertising has nothing to do with my internet connection, or are you saying that they subsidize the internet with advertising dollars that they make from cable?
Higher Prices yes, perhaps for some the prices will be higher, however if they were to offer many tiers of bandwidth then the prices might actually be lower (assuming that all programing and internet were through one connection) Here's an example. i use an average amount of bandwidth, and watch relatively few shows on cable, so adding the cable shows to my internet bandwidth would not really affect it much, for others however, they might not use the internet much and instead chose to spend countless hours watching some inane completely mindless utterly ridiculus cable programming (such as ESPN) for them, adding the cable would drastically increase their bandwidth and therefore they would have to pay more for it.
Other countries? first, i mentioned absolutely nothing about other countries, but what you say is probably true, and the reason for it is likely that the technology originated in this country therefore since it's been around awhile we now have an antiquated system whereas newly connected countries can put the highest quality systems in right from the begining. its the same reason why there are more cell phones vs landlines in Iraq than there are here. it costs money to change the systems, but at some point you have to do it if you are going to remain competitive.
Exactly!
I've been waiting for someone to say this. Sure, I've used torrents for other activities, but my primary one is watching TV shows because it's simply easier, and as far as i know this should be legal. I think the ISPs (in my case Time Warner) need to realize this and adjust their strategy accordingly. I've often wondered why it is that i really pay for cable TV when i can pretty much get the same stuff over the net. I think eventually all we will have is a network connection and all TV/Phone/Internet will flow over it.
I'm not so sure about that (that the parent was joking) Whatever happened to buyer beware? Do you believe every salesman that comes to your door? of course not.
The fact is, the internet is still the wild west, there are still people selling potions and tinctures that promise to fix every problem. The only solution is for everyone involved to get a little smarter. If you coddle the consumer and protect him from scam artists, they will never learn
Now i don't know the specifics of this case, but obviously if they were straight up lying about their service, then that should be punished. If however they were just giving the customer the information (correct information) which led them to believe that they were going to get something out of it, then i think they should be off the hook. If they win this case, it will set a precedent that might not be good. You will now be able to sue because you didn't comprehend properly what was being sold to you, and who's fault is that?
I think the author of this article has completely missed the point of stretching. It has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with increasing or decreasing your overall muscle strength. Additionally it has nothing to do with preventing injury or warming up either. In actuality stretching for humans is the same thing as frogs inflating their bellys. It is solely to attract the opposite sex.
Study after study has proven than men who stretch their forarms (also known as guns) in front of women have a greater likelyhood of mating. It's a known fact also that women who do yoga are more likely to excel in the reproductive arts.
A more interesting study would be the effect of biker shorts on your ability to determine potential danger (such as a speeding car) or how fanny packs have led to retardation and uneven hair growth (re. the mullet)
I Love this idea, yes, lets get a million people with cars to all converge on one spot and just park, just imagine the chaos!
oh wait, it's already been done. it's called the 405/101 interchange.
I have a few things to say about this. First this is being blown all out of proportion, anyone who has ever driven past on of these checkpoints knows that they wave %95 percent of the traffic right through no big deal, and I have never ever been stopped for someone asking for my papers. Nevertheless I do see the potential for abuse with this program
This is the wrong solution to the illegal immigrant invasion that we have witnessed over the past few decades. It is attacking the symptoms of the problem while ignoring the real cause. That cause is simply this, given all the dangers of crossing the border and getting caught it is still on average a profitable enough risk to take and for that reason many take it (i would too if i were in their situation) The proper way to fight this is to make it not profitable, you do that by going after employers of illegal immigrants and fining and jailing them, all they need to do is make a couple if big examples and everyone else will fall in line. Take away the profit and the people will go somewhere else on their own.
But why should we turn them away? (i know this is what your wondering) Imagine this, you build a house an a peice of land that you own (sure maybe you're great great great grandfather kicked some people off that land many years ago, but the fact is they weren't doing much with it anyway) Now someone barges into your home and demands that you make him dinner. what are you gonna do? Me personally, i'd kick him out, if he really wanted what i have so bad then he'd come in with a few friends and some guns and take it from me just like my great great great grandfather did to the original occupants, and if that happened, well then touche to him, but i'll be damned if i'm gonna be guilted into just handing it over
Regarding the previous post: Thank you, i was wondering that myself
As to which phone to develop for i guess it kinda depends on what you have to do. But the very first thing i would look into is weather or not the app could be web based, the obvious advantage to this would be that all phones that can access the internet should be able to access your application (that is of course if you don't use and flash because for some idiotic reason apple has decided not to support something that %95 percent of current web browsers support, but i digress). The other advantage would be the ability to access the app from your computer.
I see what you're saying and i agree, Firewire is obviously better than USB, the problem here is that it is not enough better than USB for anyone besides us geeks to care. It's the same reason that Blue Ray is going to die, DVD is good enough so who cares?
Also manufacturers benefit when there is only one standard, USB is clearly ahead of Firewire in popularity so it will eventually win (at least until something comes out that is truely a major step forward)
I work for a major cable manufacturing company, which has made both the standard 6 pin firewire as well as 9 pin. what i do for this company specifically is make their catalog, and i can tell you that in our upcoming 2009 catalog we will not be offering 9 pin firewire at all, and our 6 pin stock selection has been greatly reduced. Obviously (to me) firewire is loosing in popularity (to usb) so get ready to upgrade your soon to be obsolete peripherals.
this is obviously just my opinion, but unfortunately most games suck these days. in fact in my life i have only actually purchased 3 games; Lemmings, Sim City and Civilization (several versions)
The problem with most new games is that all they developers concentrate on is graphics, they have no strategy, every game is the same just walk around point and shoot BOOOORING!!