Still amazes me that people don't have a dedicated "trash" e-mail for stuff like this.
I don't. I use Guerrilla Mail for that. Some sites block those addresses but in those cases I generally decide not to register on them, then...
On a side note, I registered to slashdot using GuerrillaMail. I later on changed the email to my gmail account to be able to recover password in case I need to.
In all seriousness, this happened in the US, so I'd say it's only fitting that the units of measure are ones that Americans use.
I agree. Because if this would have happened in france, it'd be only fitting that these news were in french.
Only reason to use american measurements would be if this would be aimed directly for americans. If so, why post it on international site (I think that the majority of people browsing this site aren't americans. Are there any public statistics?)
Then again, I don't know who is this aimed to. Why is this on "News for nerds" site as it isn't really news or for nerds... So I don't personally care which measurements are used.
...but I can't think of any reasons to buy PS3 anymore. Metal gear solids seem to be the only one as I don't really have need for Blue ray now (if I have in a few years, they will propably be cheaper by that time anyways).
Windows servers require (shut up. I am sure that there are some workarounds so "require" isn't a good word but that's the default way to deal wit it) access to network for some of the configuring during installation. So if he put ethernet cable for that time, took it off after it was done and later on found that the computer had been infected... Just one feasible option.
This is/.
There is no need to explain the bug!...I think!
I think you were joking... Perhaps? Not sure. But just generally on this subject...
There are a lot of people here who wouldn't know about those bugs. I personally study computer science (Or well, I'll start studying it in two months when the school starts again.) but have mostly done webmastering, PHP coding, Search engine optimization (as a job)... I would have no idea about some Intel Bug from the year 1994. For the record, I was 5 years old at the time.
So the audience of/. is a lot wider than many people assume and at this time of the internet, a lot of people are good in some aspects of computers (I am rather pleased in my skills at web developing) while having no clue about others (namely, hardware).
That said, ofcourse the point could could be made that if people just don't get a joke about old processor bug, they don't need to get it and it doesn't need to be explained...
Umm, nope. Even by that definition, German has as many words as english. There are still different words for church, fire, snow and human just like in english. It is just that with the polysynthetic definition they all just have one word (like english has) instead of each having half a dozen forms (having studied german for 5 years, I find it disturbing and embarassing that I don't remember how many are there exactly).
Finnish (my native language) is even more dependant on different forms of the words. German still has in, im, aus, etc. words corresponding to english which has in, from, etc... Finland doesn't have these.
English: "Hello from Berlin!"
German: "Hello aus Berlin!"
Finnish: "Terveisiä Berliinistä!"
Those all mean the same thing. It is just that finnish doesn't have one additional word there but modifies both words (Terveiset to Terveisiä and Berliini to Berliinistä) to mean the same thing. Doesn't mean that finland would have fewer words when counting those to all be part of the same word (like in english). Or well, it means Finland has a dozen words less (no from, to, into,...) but that's not much.
Why should gasoline be used? As far as I see, electric cars can do the trick. I'm not saying that today but really, we are looking for what to do within the upcoming years and I see electiricity (and thus nuclear) based cars as feasible solution as liquified coal.
Also I find it interesting what americans think of the gas prices. "Oh no, 4 dollars! Our economy might collapse!". Well, know what? It's 2.5 times as much here in Finland (and most of Europe at that) without economy having collapsed. So could someone who panics about those things explain what's all the fuss about?
When Finland started "Filtering the internet to protect the children" and among other sites filtered a website that criticized quality of the work that police was doing with the internet censoring it got difficult for me to get to that site by using TOR. Why? Because with so many tor servers in Finland it often took several extra reloads to get a server outside the borders of the censorship.
The last thing I want to do now is add more anonymous and uncontrolled hops, which could be to servers in countries that watch the traffic too closely or even ran by such governments. Every hop is an extra chance to MitM attack. Unless I first aquire the Public Key directly in which case anyone monitoring already knows what site I'll access to and makes TOR needless.
You can't expect people to just up and leave software that they're familiar with. I reference college students where I work. We have two rooms, similarly laid out. One room has HP DC7600s, the other Intel iMacs. People chose the room with the HPs showing the typical Windows screensaver over the Macs (which dual boot!) - why? Because it's friggin familiar. And you can't change that by saying the software is crap, because there isn't a usable alternative that appeals to the masses.
Or because MAC has horrible user interface? I know some like it but I don't. Its not just about "What is familiar". Or well, to some extent. Perhaps I would hate it less if I had used it primarily for 5 years but I have used enough to make my opinion based on my experiences. I wouldn't choose windows because it is familiar but because I hate it's user interface less than mac's. It's just an opinion and not all opinions are based on "Well, they just don't know it well enough".
That all said, I could never go to using windows as a desktop OS before there are some minor but significant improvements. The lack of being able to choose *any* window to have "always on top" is just horrifying to us who have gotten used to that option. Also, I am forced to use Vista on my work laptop and it seems that 2 gigs of ram isn't nearly enough to run it well...
Clearly, you are not aware of the upcoming movie Iron Skies. (From the makers of Starwreck for those of you who have seen it. For those who haven't... It is available as a free download.)
P.S. This isn't advertising... Or well, it is but I am in no way assosciated to the people making those. Just seemed fitting here...
But, you have to remember, most of the world considers the UK to be part of Europe, British opinions aside.
European opinions aside, too.
Come to Finland. See how many people you can find here that consider Brits to be a part of Europe and how many people consider it to be an extension of USA.
I'm not being a flamebait but that is how a lot of people in the Europe see Brits. I don't remember a single political decision in which the UK would have standed against USA.
Even the Brits know this and joke about it. In british comedy "Yes, minister" (aired 2003-2005 I think?) there are a lot of joking about whether the foreign politics of UK are decided by USA or UK.
"But those are just jokes? You said how many people I can find that think like that? Well, always some but not everyone!"
Well, now try to see how many people think like that about Germany. See the difference. We really don't consider UK to be all that European.
nahhh look at the money trail. When you look at exactly HOW MUCH money goes into lobbying. Then how much goes into donations, how much goes into favours its worrisome. A few years back I used to hang out in some shady corners of the internet so I got a lot more of this sort of information. Even if not all of congress is corrupt I can assure you at least 80 have been bribed whether they returned the favour or not.
A quote from a philosopher saying something is not any better than lyrics saying that same thing.
Personally, I haven't ever heard those lyrics before and I think they left a lot stronger impact on me than some short quote from some philosopher I have never heard of before.
Yes, some of us haven't studied philosophy or anything like that and Walter Lippman doesn't say anything to me.
Yeah. My Linux and programming teacher in college was also competing for finnish championship on heavy weight boxing, he taught Krav Maga and free wrestling (not with shows and faking but the real thing) on evening and had been years to israel to study Krav Maga.
Needless to say, he had a decent authority at keeping the class quiet.
Anyways, the said teacher would propably have exceled at this sport. I don't think that my 9th grade math teacher who was a basketball player and over 7 feet tall would have totally sucked in it either.
The SEO guy next to me (I work at internet marketing company and yeah, I should be working right now) played on finnish championship level in icehockey.
My boss used to do thai boxing.
Aye but well, even though they might seem to have most power in EU, in reality most of Europe doesn't get much worried when they try to push through some idiotic rulings like that. The french and the italians are doing that constantly and it is not often they get something actually through.
They spammed this to all Australian users. They must think we're really stupid to swallow this corporate propaganda:
I love the naive faith in mankind that you seem to have but yes, most likely a large majority of the people do swallow corporate propaganda. That is why they have been written for decades and don't seem to be going away.
I do know that google keeps data about me. A lot of sensitive data. It includes one of my primary private email addresses (and as such, my passwords to forums, communities and such), my search history and more.
But I also know that google earns a lot of money from keeping that private. They would instantly lose their position as a primary search engine if they started giving everyone's personal history to third party advertisers. Even more so with email.
Google has a lot of data on me but their interests are in keeping it to themselves and I know exactly what data they have and have given it all to them.
Verizon is a company I have never dealt with at all, only read about it on slashdot, they might well have interests in abusing that data and to which I have never given any info about myself. Thus, they shouldn't have it but have a lot of it.
Some of us don't have a chance to do such decisions.
I live in Finland so Viacom doesn't affect here. Still, Google is giving them all the records of my personal video watching too.
Some might say "So what, nothing personal on youtube..." but for some of us there is. A lot of information about my friends, what kind of videos I watch, etc. are stuff that I don't want any third parties to know, really.
I think I don't quite yet need to wait for my mother to ask
Why did you get a "It seems you have been watching slash videos, would you be interested in these magazines..." mail?
but it won't be far away if this kind of stuff gets more common.
I can't answer for company customers some of which might use a lot of messaging but for me, I am just a common consumer and can answer why I put up with this.
It doesn't even pinch.
I live in Finland (the promised land of cellphones) and I have a GSM contract that costs 0.66 euros (about 1.2 dollars) per month and 0.069 euros (0.11 dollars) per each text message or a minute of calling. Receiving calls and messages is free in Finland.
I had to check those prices. I had no idea what they were. Never cared.
My phone bill is normally around 10 euros (about 15 dollars) a month and I don't care if it is 15 or 10. Hell, even if I was able to more than halve it to 7 dollars a month, I don't think I would care enough to switch operators.
Am I saying it doesn't cost more to companies and heavy users? Ofcourse it does and they should care but they are propably aware of the subject allready.
And if not comparing to just bandiwth (for which I pay about 50 dollars a month) but to how much benefit I get for my 15 dollars to mobile phone and 50 dollars to bandwith, I don't really feel ripped off in either.
While I am all into bashing USA, that doesn't seem right here.
I had so much hope for our species.
Your problem is assuming Western, and specifically US Conservative culture is the norm for humanity. Nope. Even in USA, a LOT more bought the game then 3 000. A lot, lot more. Yet, so few people actually demanded that money.
So while that number is still high, saying that this is American culture doesn't quite do the trick. This seems to be the vocal minority of it.
However, this case shows that american *justice system* is a joke and on that the rest of the world has agreed on for decades.
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Still amazes me that people don't have a dedicated "trash" e-mail for stuff like this.
I don't. I use Guerrilla Mail for that. Some sites block those addresses but in those cases I generally decide not to register on them, then...
On a side note, I registered to slashdot using GuerrillaMail. I later on changed the email to my gmail account to be able to recover password in case I need to.
who the hell said he'd get access to sensitive systems?
He already proved his ability in getting such accesses. ;)
In all seriousness, this happened in the US, so I'd say it's only fitting that the units of measure are ones that Americans use.
I agree. Because if this would have happened in france, it'd be only fitting that these news were in french.
Only reason to use american measurements would be if this would be aimed directly for americans. If so, why post it on international site (I think that the majority of people browsing this site aren't americans. Are there any public statistics?)
Then again, I don't know who is this aimed to. Why is this on "News for nerds" site as it isn't really news or for nerds... So I don't personally care which measurements are used.
...but I can't think of any reasons to buy PS3 anymore. Metal gear solids seem to be the only one as I don't really have need for Blue ray now (if I have in a few years, they will propably be cheaper by that time anyways).
Windows servers require (shut up. I am sure that there are some workarounds so "require" isn't a good word but that's the default way to deal wit it) access to network for some of the configuring during installation. So if he put ethernet cable for that time, took it off after it was done and later on found that the computer had been infected... Just one feasible option.
This is /.
There is no need to explain the bug! ...I think!
I think you were joking... Perhaps? Not sure. But just generally on this subject...
There are a lot of people here who wouldn't know about those bugs. I personally study computer science (Or well, I'll start studying it in two months when the school starts again.) but have mostly done webmastering, PHP coding, Search engine optimization (as a job)... I would have no idea about some Intel Bug from the year 1994. For the record, I was 5 years old at the time.
So the audience of /. is a lot wider than many people assume and at this time of the internet, a lot of people are good in some aspects of computers (I am rather pleased in my skills at web developing) while having no clue about others (namely, hardware).
That said, ofcourse the point could could be made that if people just don't get a joke about old processor bug, they don't need to get it and it doesn't need to be explained...
Umm, nope. Even by that definition, German has as many words as english. There are still different words for church, fire, snow and human just like in english. It is just that with the polysynthetic definition they all just have one word (like english has) instead of each having half a dozen forms (having studied german for 5 years, I find it disturbing and embarassing that I don't remember how many are there exactly).
Finnish (my native language) is even more dependant on different forms of the words. German still has in, im, aus, etc. words corresponding to english which has in, from, etc... Finland doesn't have these.
Those all mean the same thing. It is just that finnish doesn't have one additional word there but modifies both words (Terveiset to Terveisiä and Berliini to Berliinistä) to mean the same thing. Doesn't mean that finland would have fewer words when counting those to all be part of the same word (like in english). Or well, it means Finland has a dozen words less (no from, to, into, ...) but that's not much.
Mod parent up. I'm tired of seeing this "Inuits have many words for snow" myth constantly when it doesn't hold true.
Why should gasoline be used? As far as I see, electric cars can do the trick. I'm not saying that today but really, we are looking for what to do within the upcoming years and I see electiricity (and thus nuclear) based cars as feasible solution as liquified coal.
Also I find it interesting what americans think of the gas prices. "Oh no, 4 dollars! Our economy might collapse!". Well, know what? It's 2.5 times as much here in Finland (and most of Europe at that) without economy having collapsed. So could someone who panics about those things explain what's all the fuss about?
Won't work like that, I'm affraid.
When Finland started "Filtering the internet to protect the children" and among other sites filtered a website that criticized quality of the work that police was doing with the internet censoring it got difficult for me to get to that site by using TOR. Why? Because with so many tor servers in Finland it often took several extra reloads to get a server outside the borders of the censorship.
The last thing I want to do now is add more anonymous and uncontrolled hops, which could be to servers in countries that watch the traffic too closely or even ran by such governments. Every hop is an extra chance to MitM attack. Unless I first aquire the Public Key directly in which case anyone monitoring already knows what site I'll access to and makes TOR needless.
Or is there something I have missed?
You can't expect people to just up and leave software that they're familiar with. I reference college students where I work. We have two rooms, similarly laid out. One room has HP DC7600s, the other Intel iMacs. People chose the room with the HPs showing the typical Windows screensaver over the Macs (which dual boot!) - why? Because it's friggin familiar. And you can't change that by saying the software is crap, because there isn't a usable alternative that appeals to the masses.
Or because MAC has horrible user interface? I know some like it but I don't. Its not just about "What is familiar". Or well, to some extent. Perhaps I would hate it less if I had used it primarily for 5 years but I have used enough to make my opinion based on my experiences. I wouldn't choose windows because it is familiar but because I hate it's user interface less than mac's. It's just an opinion and not all opinions are based on "Well, they just don't know it well enough".
That all said, I could never go to using windows as a desktop OS before there are some minor but significant improvements. The lack of being able to choose *any* window to have "always on top" is just horrifying to us who have gotten used to that option. Also, I am forced to use Vista on my work laptop and it seems that 2 gigs of ram isn't nearly enough to run it well...
Clearly, you are not aware of the upcoming movie Iron Skies. (From the makers of Starwreck for those of you who have seen it. For those who haven't... It is available as a free download.)
P.S. This isn't advertising... Or well, it is but I am in no way assosciated to the people making those. Just seemed fitting here...
But, you have to remember, most of the world considers the UK to be part of Europe, British opinions aside.
European opinions aside, too.
Come to Finland. See how many people you can find here that consider Brits to be a part of Europe and how many people consider it to be an extension of USA.
I'm not being a flamebait but that is how a lot of people in the Europe see Brits. I don't remember a single political decision in which the UK would have standed against USA.
Even the Brits know this and joke about it. In british comedy "Yes, minister" (aired 2003-2005 I think?) there are a lot of joking about whether the foreign politics of UK are decided by USA or UK.
"But those are just jokes? You said how many people I can find that think like that? Well, always some but not everyone!"
Well, now try to see how many people think like that about Germany. See the difference. We really don't consider UK to be all that European.
nahhh look at the money trail. When you look at exactly HOW MUCH money goes into lobbying. Then how much goes into donations, how much goes into favours its worrisome. A few years back I used to hang out in some shady corners of the internet so I got a lot more of this sort of information. Even if not all of congress is corrupt I can assure you at least 80 have been bribed whether they returned the favour or not.
So it must be true!
A quote from a philosopher saying something is not any better than lyrics saying that same thing.
Personally, I haven't ever heard those lyrics before and I think they left a lot stronger impact on me than some short quote from some philosopher I have never heard of before.
Yes, some of us haven't studied philosophy or anything like that and Walter Lippman doesn't say anything to me.
Yeah. My Linux and programming teacher in college was also competing for finnish championship on heavy weight boxing, he taught Krav Maga and free wrestling (not with shows and faking but the real thing) on evening and had been years to israel to study Krav Maga. Needless to say, he had a decent authority at keeping the class quiet. Anyways, the said teacher would propably have exceled at this sport. I don't think that my 9th grade math teacher who was a basketball player and over 7 feet tall would have totally sucked in it either. The SEO guy next to me (I work at internet marketing company and yeah, I should be working right now) played on finnish championship level in icehockey. My boss used to do thai boxing.
Aye but well, even though they might seem to have most power in EU, in reality most of Europe doesn't get much worried when they try to push through some idiotic rulings like that. The french and the italians are doing that constantly and it is not often they get something actually through.
They spammed this to all Australian users. They must think we're really stupid to swallow this corporate propaganda:
I love the naive faith in mankind that you seem to have but yes, most likely a large majority of the people do swallow corporate propaganda. That is why they have been written for decades and don't seem to be going away.
But I also know that google earns a lot of money from keeping that private. They would instantly lose their position as a primary search engine if they started giving everyone's personal history to third party advertisers. Even more so with email.
Google has a lot of data on me but their interests are in keeping it to themselves and I know exactly what data they have and have given it all to them.
Verizon is a company I have never dealt with at all, only read about it on slashdot, they might well have interests in abusing that data and to which I have never given any info about myself. Thus, they shouldn't have it but have a lot of it.
Do you really not see any difference?
I live in Finland so Viacom doesn't affect here. Still, Google is giving them all the records of my personal video watching too.
Some might say "So what, nothing personal on youtube..." but for some of us there is. A lot of information about my friends, what kind of videos I watch, etc. are stuff that I don't want any third parties to know, really.
I think I don't quite yet need to wait for my mother to ask
Why did you get a "It seems you have been watching slash videos, would you be interested in these magazines..." mail?
but it won't be far away if this kind of stuff gets more common.
It doesn't even pinch.
I live in Finland (the promised land of cellphones) and I have a GSM contract that costs 0.66 euros (about 1.2 dollars) per month and 0.069 euros (0.11 dollars) per each text message or a minute of calling. Receiving calls and messages is free in Finland.
I had to check those prices. I had no idea what they were. Never cared.
My phone bill is normally around 10 euros (about 15 dollars) a month and I don't care if it is 15 or 10. Hell, even if I was able to more than halve it to 7 dollars a month, I don't think I would care enough to switch operators.
Am I saying it doesn't cost more to companies and heavy users? Ofcourse it does and they should care but they are propably aware of the subject allready.
And if not comparing to just bandiwth (for which I pay about 50 dollars a month) but to how much benefit I get for my 15 dollars to mobile phone and 50 dollars to bandwith, I don't really feel ripped off in either.
Why do people put up with this?
Because we can.
"What is a totem and WTF does it have to do with playing media?"
What's a Nero?
With names like these, no one will ever use them.
Actually, Nero is a pretty good (and humorous in a dark way) name for cd *burner* if you know a bit of history...All robots aren't the same just because they have a common snakey look. The difference here is that movement method is entirely different.