...a group of scientists calling themselves "Hippy Anarchists" has called for sweeping changes in the telecommunications consultant industry.
"By adding 'intelligent' consultants, we believe, the system could work faster, avoid stupid-ass quotes in large newspapers, distinguish between their assholes and a hole in the wall, and generally live up to its promise as a profession that might, on occasion, provide useful information to their clients".
Well no KIDDING. Every time they have a major breakthrough in the Skycar someone submits it to/. and we end up eating the rest of their development money in unexpected bandwidth charges and toasted-router replacement.
...those who play games "moderately" -- generally defined as no more than two hours a day -- had more friends, were better adjusted, and tended to read more.
Maybe my experiences with jocks in school were vastly different from the norm, but I don't recall the majority of them being any better-adjusted socially or better read than a bowl of week-old pudding. You know, the stuff with the "hardened protective layer" on top.
Those who still harbor illusions about the accuracy of what pols and the popular media tell us about "geeks,"...
While this stereotyping of the Polish community as geek experts is a new one on me, nevertheless, we should not single them out in this form of generality.
However, the notion that the popular media being inaccurate is perfectly acceptable, and Jon Katz is a walking reminder of it.
I'm sure that our congressional representatives get dozens of snail mail and email messages a day, and they have numerous interns hired to answer the letters with canned responses.
To really get your point across, try replacing their home page with a doctored version with the caption "We're tired of taking it up the ass by the DMCA" or something similar.
I'm pretty sure that they would take notice of the situation.
If you are willing to spend 60 or more hours of your life to get a super-spiffarific weapon for an online RPG game then your time is most certainly NOT worth $20/hr.
Just because someone pays you that much to do important work for them doesn't mean that you deserve $5 for taking a healthy dump in their restroom.
[Adobe] is committed to strengthening the security of its products by using sophisticated, industry-standard levels of software encryption...
A new oxymoron if I've ever heard one. Also the following:
Adobe encourages its customers and the software community, including White Hat security experts, to provide feedback on the performance of its software in order to make improvements.
I've very familiar with our friends at Red Hat but White Hat? So I checked them out. Relying on spammers for security auditing! No wonder they're format can be cracked with my son's Speak and Spell.
Lastly...
To the best of Adobe's knowledge, the Acrobat eBook Reader is the only product that allows for the lending and giving of eBooks.
From what I read here there is a little-known competitor to Adobe's ebook format that allows transfer from one computer to another, and they don't rely on the publisher to turn the feature on. If this is "the best of Adobe's knowledge", then they'd better give it up now before someone finds out that the next eBook incantation that they come up with will use Pig Latin encryption.
I don't give a shit that Adobe is going to meet with the EFF. The meeting doesn't mean that Dmitry gets to be released from jail until a summit is reached. He's still in jail, and we shouldn't settle for anything less than his immediate release and reimbursement for his time.
A quote from the story for those who don't read the story before they put it on the front page:
However, Jan van den Beld, ECMA secretary general, said the licence would cover only Microsoft's own implementation, not the standard itself. "There are no known rights owned by Microsoft that would require a licensing agreement," he said.
Miguel de Icaza, Mono's founder, said, "The consensus is that [Microsoft] could stop someone from implementing the specs by using patents. [But] nothing in dot-Net is really innovative, so it would be simple to use alternative non-patented approaches."
This says nothing about Mono being "unimplementable" as the/. headline questions. It's just Microsoft's implementation of the submitted standard that is in question, which is dealt with in the last sentence of the article quoted above.
AFAIK Microsoft cannot patent a "standard", unless it's one of those unofficial standards that they create through their monopoly.
I'd find it most interesting to hear how much the average/. effect costs the smaller websites that get nailed...imagine the poor cuss who gets billed for all the bandwidth that goes above and beyond his chosen rate plan.
If you *really* wanna piss off the labels, buy your CD's on the used market from the smaller stores. Places like Djangos music have great online databases of fairly recent used music and movies that cost a crapload less than the new stuff does.
Support your local used music shop.
I can say with certainty that the Dave Mathews CD you mentioned is using the classic "hidden track at the end of the album" game that some artists play. They don't mention it on the CD, but the song is there.
IIRC, Marilyn Manson's "Antichrist Superstar" CD does the same thing. Both CD's have been out a couple-few years now so I doubt that they were created to screw with "pirates".
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Might make killing those extraneous processes and locked-up users a bit more envigorating.
...a group of scientists calling themselves "Hippy Anarchists" has called for sweeping changes in the telecommunications consultant industry.
"By adding 'intelligent' consultants, we believe, the system could work faster, avoid stupid-ass quotes in large newspapers, distinguish between their assholes and a hole in the wall, and generally live up to its promise as a profession that might, on occasion, provide useful information to their clients".
Well no KIDDING. Every time they have a major breakthrough in the Skycar someone submits it to /. and we end up eating the rest of their development money in unexpected bandwidth charges and toasted-router replacement.
The headline screams:
Are Games Turning Kids Into Jocks?
...and later in the story...
Maybe my experiences with jocks in school were vastly different from the norm, but I don't recall the majority of them being any better-adjusted socially or better read than a bowl of week-old pudding. You know, the stuff with the "hardened protective layer" on top.
Those who still harbor illusions about the accuracy of what pols and the popular media tell us about "geeks,"...
While this stereotyping of the Polish community as geek experts is a new one on me, nevertheless, we should not single them out in this form of generality.
However, the notion that the popular media being inaccurate is perfectly acceptable, and Jon Katz is a walking reminder of it.
I'll just encrypt my social security number using the strong ROT13 encryption that Adobe uses.
Er, I may have to put more thought into this. Let me get back to you on that.
Hmmmm...not Oregon, Washington, or California.
I'm sure that our congressional representatives get dozens of snail mail and email messages a day, and they have numerous interns hired to answer the letters with canned responses.
To really get your point across, try replacing their home page with a doctored version with the caption "We're tired of taking it up the ass by the DMCA" or something similar.
I'm pretty sure that they would take notice of the situation.
How very convenient.
Microsoft was the true source of the Red Worm virus in an attempt to remind the Whitehouse who REALLY is the world super power.
Luckily their planned attack went through the same beta testing and forethought as the rest of their software.
IIRC Portland Oregon is the home to the only active TI user group around. And yes, they have a great website for all your 99er needs.
If you are willing to spend 60 or more hours of your life to get a super-spiffarific weapon for an online RPG game then your time is most certainly NOT worth $20/hr.
Just because someone pays you that much to do important work for them doesn't mean that you deserve $5 for taking a healthy dump in their restroom.
[Adobe] is committed to strengthening the security of its products by using sophisticated, industry-standard levels of software encryption...
A new oxymoron if I've ever heard one. Also the following:
Adobe encourages its customers and the software community, including White Hat security experts, to provide feedback on the performance of its software in order to make improvements.
I've very familiar with our friends at Red Hat but White Hat? So I checked them out. Relying on spammers for security auditing! No wonder they're format can be cracked with my son's Speak and Spell.
Lastly...
To the best of Adobe's knowledge, the Acrobat eBook Reader is the only product that allows for the lending and giving of eBooks.
From what I read here there is a little-known competitor to Adobe's ebook format that allows transfer from one computer to another, and they don't rely on the publisher to turn the feature on. If this is "the best of Adobe's knowledge", then they'd better give it up now before someone finds out that the next eBook incantation that they come up with will use Pig Latin encryption.
ICANNWatch carries an update on efforts to block the .us giveaway...
Look, the election ended months ago and Bush won. I don't like it any more than you do but do we really need to keep bringing it up?
Holy creeping zombie Jesus! Liberty is nothing but a freaking STATUTE? No wonder Dmitry is in jail.
I don't give a shit that Adobe is going to meet with the EFF. The meeting doesn't mean that Dmitry gets to be released from jail until a summit is reached. He's still in jail, and we shouldn't settle for anything less than his immediate release and reimbursement for his time.
However, Jan van den Beld, ECMA secretary general, said the licence would cover only Microsoft's own implementation, not the standard itself. "There are no known rights owned by Microsoft that would require a licensing agreement," he said.
Miguel de Icaza, Mono's founder, said, "The consensus is that [Microsoft] could stop someone from implementing the specs by using patents. [But] nothing in dot-Net is really innovative, so it would be simple to use alternative non-patented approaches."
This says nothing about Mono being "unimplementable" as the /. headline questions. It's just Microsoft's implementation of the submitted standard that is in question, which is dealt with in the last sentence of the article quoted above.
AFAIK Microsoft cannot patent a "standard", unless it's one of those unofficial standards that they create through their monopoly.
Most curious about that DAY=30 part in the opt-out link. Wonder how much one can add to it to make the opt-out more....permanent.
This is not a professional journalism site. This is a rumour mill, a flame room, and all kinds of other things.
I just checked, and www.tacoreport.com is available!
I'd find it most interesting to hear how much the average /. effect costs the smaller websites that get nailed...imagine the poor cuss who gets billed for all the bandwidth that goes above and beyond his chosen rate plan.
If you *really* wanna piss off the labels, buy your CD's on the used market from the smaller stores. Places like Djangos music have great online databases of fairly recent used music and movies that cost a crapload less than the new stuff does. Support your local used music shop.
I can say with certainty that the Dave Mathews CD you mentioned is using the classic "hidden track at the end of the album" game that some artists play. They don't mention it on the CD, but the song is there.
IIRC, Marilyn Manson's "Antichrist Superstar" CD does the same thing. Both CD's have been out a couple-few years now so I doubt that they were created to screw with "pirates".
Crank up those microwave towers a bit more and I'll be able to reheat my lunch and talk on the cell phone at the same time.
They can afford to go that cheaply because there is a lot of redundancy in your text downloads, with every 5th word being "eh" and all.
It's actually a pretty easy fix. In Explorer, if they go to View->Options they need to choose the "Show All Nuclear Stockpiles" option.
That one tripped me up too until I read about it in the tips section of "PC World Domination" magazine.