It's funny how you never hear the phrase 'right to privacy' nowadays. Is privacy no longer a concern to people now that we have terrorists to worry about? The things I think about and read and what I do in my personal space (yes, my computer is MY space) is frankly not the business of anybody except me. Get a warrant, then search me - I'll live with the fear of a terrorist attack, I can handle the responsibility.
This is not meant as flamebait, and I'm also not saying that "1500 HD channels" doesn't sound sexy to the geek in me -- but doesn't anybody else think $40 dollars a month is too much to pay for television? Personally, anything is too much to pay for television but the wifey over-rides me on that issue.
Anyway, $40/month is the basic price, movie channels are much more and then when you add in the cost of a DSL/Cable modem connection the costs become absurdly high. But what do I know anyway, I still check books out from the library.
I would concur, and did below in my post. To me, the biggest issue in the article is barely grazed as the author stumbles through the subject matter....the mobile domain is not just another Internet domain like.biz, extending the address space. Instead, it is a new text-based user friendly addressing scheme for phones and mobile devices, which could replace and extend the power of phone numbers - just as the current Internet domain scheme did for numeric Internet addresses, replacing 207.46.245.214 with "microsoft.com", for instance.
Does anybody else get the feeling that the author has no idea what the issue is? Of course if the industry group has a good idea they should create.mobile (or.mob as some/.'ers have suggested) but they should not get exclusive control over it. Instead of discussing this very important issue, they're off on some tangent discussing an imaginary showdown with a different group. The issue is not WHO gets control, ICANN should retain control over.mobile. The issue is WHAT are the planning to use the domain for.
And on an even more basic level, in anthropology back in school (was it that long ago?...I'm getting old) we learned that conflict rises in direct proportion to population density. So, as areas become more densely populated, they also become more beleaguered by violent clashes. Hence the need to increase security and, as a by-product, erode personal freedoms.
...does anybody else find name "Karl Cocknozzle" at least a little humorous?
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It's called clip-art or stock photography. Both companies could've conceivably bought the same images from a third-party stock photography vendor. It's quite common and most likely the reason behind the coincidence.
Inferring that SCO are 'dirty Internet image theives ' is really pointless...their legal claims are either right or wrong and it will be worked out, hopefully in short order. In the meantime, there's no real need for us all to become MSLZs.
You know, I'm as privacy-sensitive as anybody, but I find it all that shocking or really that it's a "terrible privacy decision" to allow owners of cyber cafe's to video-monitor their patrons. I have no right to privacy while sitting in a business establishment owned by somebody else. Ethically (and maybe legally, I'm not familiar with local ordinances) the business owners should probably notify people they're being surveilled, but otherwise they're fair game. Inform them and let them decide if they'd like to be video-taped...if I were a proprietor of one of these cafe's it would be nice to lessen the chances of somebody unleashing something malicious using my service.
I have a question that EEs or radio enthusiasts might consider banal...
I have a RadioShack Pro-94 handheld scanner...I was under the impression that, because it is passive and not a transceiver, it's not detectable. Isn't that the case with their ICOM scanner as well? Maybe I misinterpreting the reason why they split when they saw the cop waving the antenna.
In regard to mileage, the CVT (continuous variable transmission, which basically makes your car into a non-shifting gocart-type vehicle) apparently gets better mileage in the city. So, if you spend a lot of time in stop-and-go traffic like many Americans, you may want to consider this somewhat spendy upgrade on your Civic or Insight (around 2K I think, definitely check that figure). Not sure if the Prius comes with that option or not. I know that a Saturn does, but I don't think it's a hybrid Saturn.
Of course, as mentioned above, it will probably be difficult to find somebody to work on that transmission, so you may wonder to consider trying to determine of this technology is just a temporary novelty, or here to stay.
...rich people ought to be able to do whatever they want, even if that means using their vast financial resources to keep their sinking ship of a distribution model afloat.
Being There (1979) Wow. Peter Sellers considers this his best work. Although the central idea gets some mileage, this is satire at it's best. An there's a little treat for you paranoid Illuminati fans at the end. Up there with Dr. Strangelove.
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"I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way -- by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!... this kind of fragility is, in fact, fairly common, even with more learned people." --Richard Feynman
I think few would argue that there is a marked campaign, deliberate or otherwise, demonizing the idea of what a 'hacker' is in the minds of people. It is my contention that there is, and probably always will be, a certain paranoid fear driving the campaign, a fear of those who understand how to figure out how things work. To what degree is this fear justified? How should the need for security (personal, national, corporate, etc.) be balanced with the freedom to explore and disseminate information?
I'm not sure why there are so many people sickened as disgusted by resources be allocated for the ASCI project.
http://www.llnl.gov/asci/overview/
br> Personally, I don't have a problem with spending money on making sure that a warhead doesn't detontate when it's not supposed to. Do I care that they might find ways to make the warhead more efficient in the mean time? No. Military projects have always driven technological progress...I'd be willing to bet that the majority of you squawkers will happily reap the benefits of parallel computation discoveries made by project like this without thinking twice about it.
For the amount of money you want to spend you'll probably need to go for products that have the best 'bang for the buck'.
Yamaha and Denon are generally considered to be the highest quality receivers for the amount of money you spend on them. I've owned both and were equally pleased with both. Currently, I own a Denon AVR-2801 which i bought for $450 online ($50 shipping) and it normally sells for $700. It's OK to buy your receiver online because you can demo them in the store and then generally get a better deal online. Watch out for warranty problems though as not all manufacturers are happy about honoring the warranties of products sold over the web. TWO IMPORTANT THINGS: Does the receiver have a Dolby Digital decoder? You'll want to get a receiver equipped with a DTS decoder as well if you can. Dolby Digital and DTS are surround sound standards that a lot of DVDs are encoded with. Dolby Digital is by far more prevalent, but DTS is catching on. ALSO, make sure the receiver has all the inputs and outputs you need. (Be sure to set aside money for interconnects and speaker cable. I've spent about $500 on mid-grade cable/wire alone.)
As far as the speakers go, DEMO DEMO DEMO. People that try and shove their brands down your throat saying they're the best are full of sh*t. The right speaker for you is just that...the right speaker for you. Speaker selection is a personal, subjective thing so look through some magazines, find some good brand names and go demo them at your local stereo/home theater shops. Trust me and do this...you'll be much happier with your purchase if you spend time listening to the speaker set you buy.
(NOTE: most quality speakers cannot be sold online per manufacturer mandate. I've only seen Klipsch and PSB. Wouldn't even consider buying Klipsch but I've heard good things about PSB. Canadian brands tend to follow the 'more bang for the buck' philosophy because of government funded research into acoustics that is free to Canadian companies...something to consider.)
I think the theory you're alluding to, that goverments are going to be made obsolete by the Internet, is a tad reductionist and just plain ridiculous. Ever heard of the USS Cole? Hmm...to hell with the US intelligence/military, I'll get my ICQ buddies together to crack that case. Remember that little genocide incident awhile back in the Balkans?...would we just spam Milosevic to death to make him stop or what?
Like it or not, there's are thousands of hard working Americans within our government whose job it is to give people like you the freedom, prosperity, and peace-of-mind it takes to sit around all day dreaming up your bizarro fantasy world. "But there are bad people in the government!" you say. Yes, that's nice. We've heard that countless times before and I think we all understand that. THERE ARE BAD PEOPLE OUT THERE. Let's all acknowledge that, and move on with a little less talk and a little more action.
I can't believe you've got a (3, Insightful)! I think what you're attempting to explain is the Buddhist belief about "dependent origination". Basically, DO is the chain of causation and it acknowledges that we're all caught within this neverending chain of cause and effect.
One other thing, with Zen, asking what the sound of green is very much applies. If you asked a Zen master what green sounds like he would take his shoe off and set it on your head. (Moreover, if you asked about the beginning of the universe he would bash you with a stick.)
The goddamnedest most lucid thing that's been said so far. Let's not forget the words of another famous Dirk...
"It's my big dick and I say when we roll!"
--Dirk Diggler
Something I find most troubling about Dr. Palmer is that he doesn't seem as though any real thought or consideration has gone into what a hacker really is. He seems completely uninterested in good, old-fashioned curiousity. I am curious, therefore, I hack...pretty simple. Take all those who called themselves hackers and stick them in a parallel universe where only unsensitive, uninteresting information is protected...those who continue the pursuit are hackers. This isn't all that earth-shattering, it seems fairly obvious. Runners don't win gold medals because they're dying to have the medal and hang it on their wall, the win gold because they love to run.
Pardon me if I continue my pursuit outside Dr. Palmer's "...controlled environment where there are ground rules and contractual agreements."
"...it's been going on a long time in viruses."
it seems to me that dyson has a point. you can't buy a car, replicate it and put it on napster and deliver it to millions of people over night. there's no need to grant license for the use of tangible goods; their nature implicitly controls their distribution. it seems as though dyson was remarking about the self-replicating nature of software distribution on the internet, and not subtley pushing her own secret corporate agenda, as wayner insinuates.
but I could be mistaken...
why go out? we're just going to wind up back here anyway.
--h. j. simpson
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It's funny how you never hear the phrase 'right to privacy' nowadays. Is privacy no longer a concern to people now that we have terrorists to worry about? The things I think about and read and what I do in my personal space (yes, my computer is MY space) is frankly not the business of anybody except me. Get a warrant, then search me - I'll live with the fear of a terrorist attack, I can handle the responsibility.
This is not meant as flamebait, and I'm also not saying that "1500 HD channels" doesn't sound sexy to the geek in me -- but doesn't anybody else think $40 dollars a month is too much to pay for television? Personally, anything is too much to pay for television but the wifey over-rides me on that issue.
Anyway, $40/month is the basic price, movie channels are much more and then when you add in the cost of a DSL/Cable modem connection the costs become absurdly high. But what do I know anyway, I still check books out from the library.
This story makes it immediately apparent what a ridiculous bunch of blowhards Slashdotters are. This program is a pile of crap, I've used it.
Have any of you used it? It's a silly cumbersome little program. This should be obvious to all the piercing intellects we have here. Hmm....
I would concur, and did below in my post. To me, the biggest issue in the article is barely grazed as the author stumbles through the subject matter. ...the mobile domain is not just another Internet domain like .biz, extending the address space. Instead, it is a new text-based user friendly addressing scheme for phones and mobile devices, which could replace and extend the power of phone numbers - just as the current Internet domain scheme did for numeric Internet addresses, replacing 207.46.245.214 with "microsoft.com", for instance.
Come again?
Does anybody else get the feeling that the author has no idea what the issue is? Of course if the industry group has a good idea they should create .mobile (or .mob as some /.'ers have suggested) but they should not get exclusive control over it. Instead of discussing this very important issue, they're off on some tangent discussing an imaginary showdown with a different group. The issue is not WHO gets control, ICANN should retain control over .mobile. The issue is WHAT are the planning to use the domain for.
And on an even more basic level, in anthropology back in school (was it that long ago?...I'm getting old) we learned that conflict rises in direct proportion to population density. So, as areas become more densely populated, they also become more beleaguered by violent clashes. Hence the need to increase security and, as a by-product, erode personal freedoms.
...does anybody else find name "Karl Cocknozzle" at least a little humorous?
It's called clip-art or stock photography. Both companies could've conceivably bought the same images from a third-party stock photography vendor. It's quite common and most likely the reason behind the coincidence.
Inferring that SCO are 'dirty Internet image theives ' is really pointless...their legal claims are either right or wrong and it will be worked out, hopefully in short order. In the meantime, there's no real need for us all to become MSLZs.
MSLZ = mindless Slashdot Linux zealots
You know, I'm as privacy-sensitive as anybody, but I find it all that shocking or really that it's a "terrible privacy decision" to allow owners of cyber cafe's to video-monitor their patrons. I have no right to privacy while sitting in a business establishment owned by somebody else. Ethically (and maybe legally, I'm not familiar with local ordinances) the business owners should probably notify people they're being surveilled, but otherwise they're fair game. Inform them and let them decide if they'd like to be video-taped...if I were a proprietor of one of these cafe's it would be nice to lessen the chances of somebody unleashing something malicious using my service.
I have a question that EEs or radio enthusiasts might consider banal...
I have a RadioShack Pro-94 handheld scanner...I was under the impression that, because it is passive and not a transceiver, it's not detectable. Isn't that the case with their ICOM scanner as well? Maybe I misinterpreting the reason why they split when they saw the cop waving the antenna.
Any RF experts out there? What's the deal?
In regard to mileage, the CVT (continuous variable transmission, which basically makes your car into a non-shifting gocart-type vehicle) apparently gets better mileage in the city. So, if you spend a lot of time in stop-and-go traffic like many Americans, you may want to consider this somewhat spendy upgrade on your Civic or Insight (around 2K I think, definitely check that figure). Not sure if the Prius comes with that option or not. I know that a Saturn does, but I don't think it's a hybrid Saturn.
Of course, as mentioned above, it will probably be difficult to find somebody to work on that transmission, so you may wonder to consider trying to determine of this technology is just a temporary novelty, or here to stay.
...rich people ought to be able to do whatever they want, even if that means using their vast financial resources to keep their sinking ship of a distribution model afloat.
...nobody has mentioned...
Being There (1979) Wow. Peter Sellers considers this his best work. Although the central idea gets some mileage, this is satire at it's best. An there's a little treat for you paranoid Illuminati fans at the end. Up there with Dr. Strangelove.
cronenberg fan?
"I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way -- by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile! ... this kind of fragility is, in fact, fairly common, even with more learned people."
--Richard Feynman
I think few would argue that there is a marked campaign, deliberate or otherwise, demonizing the idea of what a 'hacker' is in the minds of people. It is my contention that there is, and probably always will be, a certain paranoid fear driving the campaign, a fear of those who understand how to figure out how things work. To what degree is this fear justified? How should the need for security (personal, national, corporate, etc.) be balanced with the freedom to explore and disseminate information?
I'm not sure why there are so many people sickened as disgusted by resources be allocated for the ASCI project.
http://www.llnl.gov/asci/overview/
br>
Personally, I don't have a problem with spending money on making sure that a warhead doesn't detontate when it's not supposed to. Do I care that they might find ways to make the warhead more efficient in the mean time? No. Military projects have always driven technological progress...I'd be willing to bet that the majority of you squawkers will happily reap the benefits of parallel computation discoveries made by project like this without thinking twice about it.
For the amount of money you want to spend you'll probably need to go for products that have the best 'bang for the buck'.
Yamaha and Denon are generally considered to be the highest quality receivers for the amount of money you spend on them. I've owned both and were equally pleased with both. Currently, I own a Denon AVR-2801 which i bought for $450 online ($50 shipping) and it normally sells for $700. It's OK to buy your receiver online because you can demo them in the store and then generally get a better deal online. Watch out for warranty problems though as not all manufacturers are happy about honoring the warranties of products sold over the web. TWO IMPORTANT THINGS: Does the receiver have a Dolby Digital decoder? You'll want to get a receiver equipped with a DTS decoder as well if you can. Dolby Digital and DTS are surround sound standards that a lot of DVDs are encoded with. Dolby Digital is by far more prevalent, but DTS is catching on. ALSO, make sure the receiver has all the inputs and outputs you need. (Be sure to set aside money for interconnects and speaker cable. I've spent about $500 on mid-grade cable/wire alone.)
As far as the speakers go, DEMO DEMO DEMO. People that try and shove their brands down your throat saying they're the best are full of sh*t. The right speaker for you is just that...the right speaker for you. Speaker selection is a personal, subjective thing so look through some magazines, find some good brand names and go demo them at your local stereo/home theater shops. Trust me and do this...you'll be much happier with your purchase if you spend time listening to the speaker set you buy.
(NOTE: most quality speakers cannot be sold online per manufacturer mandate. I've only seen Klipsch and PSB. Wouldn't even consider buying Klipsch but I've heard good things about PSB. Canadian brands tend to follow the 'more bang for the buck' philosophy because of government funded research into acoustics that is free to Canadian companies...something to consider.)
what were they suspected of?
I think the theory you're alluding to, that goverments are going to be made obsolete by the Internet, is a tad reductionist and just plain ridiculous. Ever heard of the USS Cole? Hmm...to hell with the US intelligence/military, I'll get my ICQ buddies together to crack that case. Remember that little genocide incident awhile back in the Balkans?...would we just spam Milosevic to death to make him stop or what?
Like it or not, there's are thousands of hard working Americans within our government whose job it is to give people like you the freedom, prosperity, and peace-of-mind it takes to sit around all day dreaming up your bizarro fantasy world. "But there are bad people in the government!" you say. Yes, that's nice. We've heard that countless times before and I think we all understand that. THERE ARE BAD PEOPLE OUT THERE. Let's all acknowledge that, and move on with a little less talk and a little more action.
I can't believe you've got a (3, Insightful)! I think what you're attempting to explain is the Buddhist belief about "dependent origination". Basically, DO is the chain of causation and it acknowledges that we're all caught within this neverending chain of cause and effect.
One other thing, with Zen, asking what the sound of green is very much applies. If you asked a Zen master what green sounds like he would take his shoe off and set it on your head. (Moreover, if you asked about the beginning of the universe he would bash you with a stick.)
The goddamnedest most lucid thing that's been said so far. Let's not forget the words of another famous Dirk... "It's my big dick and I say when we roll!" --Dirk Diggler
the guy's name was robert, chowder head.
Something I find most troubling about Dr. Palmer is that he doesn't seem as though any real thought or consideration has gone into what a hacker really is. He seems completely uninterested in good, old-fashioned curiousity. I am curious, therefore, I hack...pretty simple. Take all those who called themselves hackers and stick them in a parallel universe where only unsensitive, uninteresting information is protected...those who continue the pursuit are hackers. This isn't all that earth-shattering, it seems fairly obvious. Runners don't win gold medals because they're dying to have the medal and hang it on their wall, the win gold because they love to run. Pardon me if I continue my pursuit outside Dr. Palmer's "...controlled environment where there are ground rules and contractual agreements."
"...it's been going on a long time in viruses." it seems to me that dyson has a point. you can't buy a car, replicate it and put it on napster and deliver it to millions of people over night. there's no need to grant license for the use of tangible goods; their nature implicitly controls their distribution. it seems as though dyson was remarking about the self-replicating nature of software distribution on the internet, and not subtley pushing her own secret corporate agenda, as wayner insinuates. but I could be mistaken... why go out? we're just going to wind up back here anyway. --h. j. simpson