Why are you using your personal property to do work for your job in the first place? Your post sounds like you've worn out your own laptop working for your boss and now you have to replace it? Not smart. He should replace it, yes -- but then he should also provide another one, if necessary, for company business, and never the twain shall meet. Now go forth, and transgress no more, grasshopper!
1. Remove drive from computer
2. Dismantle drive, remove platters and magnets
3. Use magnets for interesting things
4. Either: Use platters for interesting things, or: Destroy platters (bending them up works well)
Cost: essentially nothing.
Just fold the magazine sharply and firmly in half. No more annoying ad!
Seriously though, if it's possible to erase the ad content and use the mini-player for other video, I think I (and at least half of/.) would buy the mag just to dink around with the player.
..and there's always the advantage of having data with a warmer, richer feel to it than using a solid-state amp. Just think how much better the data will be once they start storing it on vinyl!
Sob! they're calling me names on teh interwebs! I'm-a sue them for it! I'm-a get me all lawyered-up and sue them for defamation WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!
Come ON, people! First they create the 'crime' of cyber-bullying, now you can't have a negative opinion of someone without it becoming something you can sue someone in civil court over? When I was growing up, you were considered a loser if you went crying to an authority figure because some other kids were calling you names. We're talking about adults here, people! More to my point, we're talking about someone who is, in many respects, a public figure: she (ostensibly at least) puts herself before the judgement of the public on a routine basis because it's her job to do so; while I'm sure it's the aspiration of every model to be universally accepted and desired, the reality is that there are people who are NOT going to like someone; so what do you do? Do you (A)Accept that's life and move on, or (B)Sue everyone in sight who has something bad to say about you? Oh, and for the record: I looked her up on Google Images, and I don't think she's attractive at all! Oh no I'm-a gonna get sued now aren't I, whatever will I do? XD
Grow up, honey, it's a tough world out there.
How does that comment make me a troll? Because it's one sentence? Is that the standard for being a troll now? Would you rather I blather on for a couple paragraphs about something I can say in 16 words? What I have to say is 100% NOT TROLL: Their ruling is STUPID, anybody with a blog (or who STARTS a blog) that doesn't bear their real name or anything to link to their real name will NOT be affected, they'll post whatever they want and it's essentially untraceable.
Mod parent up! See the movie if you haven't; what that movie shows you is potentially where this is going, especially in the case of China where individual rights and freedom of expression aren't important.
The new BSG was great, I thought. Awesome. That being said, and even though I have all the original broadcasts of it on DVD (or waiting to be made into DVDs), I doubt I'll watch it again anytime in the next decade. Why? Because it was so awesome, it held my attention so well that I know I won't forget significant details about it before then. Also because it was such a journey to make watching it, and I've still got the taste of dust from the trail of that journey in my mouth for at least 10 more years. I don't NEED some movie muddying up all my memories of watching BSG. Leave it the fuck alone!
We do NOT NEED everything on the planet to be made childproof. This is a world of adults, and adults deserve to have adult choices for entertainment. There's plenty of child-appropriate entertainment out there, go find it.
You can have your sanitized little entertainments all you like -- so long as you do NOT EVER try to sanitize everything else. This is a world of ADULTS, we don't WANT to live in a childproofed world.
As is I'd NEVER so much as visit the UK. It's very very bad that the UK is starting to remind me IRL of V for Vendetta, and it's time for that trend to stop and start shifting back towards the middle.
What it means is that the average person doesn't have any idea what "data security" is all about, not even when they read news stories about breaches in data security. The only time any of it gets through their heads is when their identity has been stolen and their lives are ruined because of it.
There's nothing funny about the idea of being monitored in your own home. It's a disgusting concept, and YES, I would go without cable if the choice was that or be monitored. Not. Their. Business!
5) CMX will be able to be converted to common formats using a FOSS utility within days (if not hours or minutes) of being released because NOBODY will want it.
Back in the days before even MSDOS was around, let alone Windows, there was no standardization of the basic hardware of any computer, and in many cases there wasn't even anything remotely resembling a BIOS ROM (My IMSAI 8080 with a 6MHz Z80 CPU was an excellent example of this). Part of configuring an OS for a specific computer was writing basic I/O routines in assembly language, inserting it into the boot code and OS runtime code, and writing it to a disk you could actually (attempt to!) boot from. When the original IBM PC came around we started to see a standard for hardware -- which made writing an OS that would boot and run out of the box a reality. It seems to me that there is going to have to be some sort of standardization, at least in part, of robotic hardware before there can be a common robot OS.
Anything that can be made can also be broken. I don't think it matters how well we THINK any OS is secured, someone will find something about it they can exploit anyway.
Who appointed Apple to be the legal guardian and nanny of iPhone users? Are they going to block internet access to http://dictionary.com/ because you can look up words like "motherfucker" there too?
Thanks to Slashdot I wasn't at all surprised when I received the "opt out" email, and once I checked to make sure it wasn't some sort of phishing attempt, opted-out of their jacked-up search page crap immediately -- as should everyone else.
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If it was a dedicated "security chip", responsible for ecryption/decryption, they'd never be able to export the thing, that's for sure.
Why are you using your personal property to do work for your job in the first place? Your post sounds like you've worn out your own laptop working for your boss and now you have to replace it? Not smart. He should replace it, yes -- but then he should also provide another one, if necessary, for company business, and never the twain shall meet. Now go forth, and transgress no more, grasshopper!
1. Remove drive from computer
2. Dismantle drive, remove platters and magnets
3. Use magnets for interesting things
4. Either: Use platters for interesting things, or: Destroy platters (bending them up works well)
Cost: essentially nothing.
Just fold the magazine sharply and firmly in half. No more annoying ad! /.) would buy the mag just to dink around with the player.
Seriously though, if it's possible to erase the ad content and use the mini-player for other video, I think I (and at least half of
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..and there's always the advantage of having data with a warmer, richer feel to it than using a solid-state amp. Just think how much better the data will be once they start storing it on vinyl!
Sob! they're calling me names on teh interwebs! I'm-a sue them for it! I'm-a get me all lawyered-up and sue them for defamation WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!
Come ON, people! First they create the 'crime' of cyber-bullying, now you can't have a negative opinion of someone without it becoming something you can sue someone in civil court over?
When I was growing up, you were considered a loser if you went crying to an authority figure because some other kids were calling you names. We're talking about adults here, people! More to my point, we're talking about someone who is, in many respects, a public figure: she (ostensibly at least) puts herself before the judgement of the public on a routine basis because it's her job to do so; while I'm sure it's the aspiration of every model to be universally accepted and desired, the reality is that there are people who are NOT going to like someone; so what do you do? Do you (A)Accept that's life and move on, or (B)Sue everyone in sight who has something bad to say about you?
Oh, and for the record: I looked her up on Google Images, and I don't think she's attractive at all! Oh no I'm-a gonna get sued now aren't I, whatever will I do? XD
Grow up, honey, it's a tough world out there.
How does that comment make me a troll? Because it's one sentence? Is that the standard for being a troll now? Would you rather I blather on for a couple paragraphs about something I can say in 16 words? What I have to say is 100% NOT TROLL: Their ruling is STUPID, anybody with a blog (or who STARTS a blog) that doesn't bear their real name or anything to link to their real name will NOT be affected, they'll post whatever they want and it's essentially untraceable.
I'd like to see them enforce that rule on blogs that don't bear someone's "legal" name.
Haven't we already known this for decades now? Is it a slow news Monday or something?
Are you kidding? China wouldn't use eugenics techniques to create a super-race, they'd more likely create a race of more docile people!
Mod parent up! See the movie if you haven't; what that movie shows you is potentially where this is going, especially in the case of China where individual rights and freedom of expression aren't important.
The new BSG was great, I thought. Awesome. That being said, and even though I have all the original broadcasts of it on DVD (or waiting to be made into DVDs), I doubt I'll watch it again anytime in the next decade. Why? Because it was so awesome, it held my attention so well that I know I won't forget significant details about it before then. Also because it was such a journey to make watching it, and I've still got the taste of dust from the trail of that journey in my mouth for at least 10 more years. I don't NEED some movie muddying up all my memories of watching BSG. Leave it the fuck alone!
We do NOT NEED everything on the planet to be made childproof. This is a world of adults, and adults deserve to have adult choices for entertainment. There's plenty of child-appropriate entertainment out there, go find it.
You can have your sanitized little entertainments all you like -- so long as you do NOT EVER try to sanitize everything else. This is a world of ADULTS, we don't WANT to live in a childproofed world.
As is I'd NEVER so much as visit the UK. It's very very bad that the UK is starting to remind me IRL of V for Vendetta, and it's time for that trend to stop and start shifting back towards the middle.
What it means is that the average person doesn't have any idea what "data security" is all about, not even when they read news stories about breaches in data security. The only time any of it gets through their heads is when their identity has been stolen and their lives are ruined because of it.
There's nothing funny about the idea of being monitored in your own home. It's a disgusting concept, and YES, I would go without cable if the choice was that or be monitored. Not. Their. Business!
Need I say more? Not their damned business, would NEVER give permission for such a thing in my home.
The MPAA and RIAA are trying to create precedent elsewhere so they can ram this bullshit down the throat of the U.S. is what's going on here.
5) CMX will be able to be converted to common formats using a FOSS utility within days (if not hours or minutes) of being released because NOBODY will want it.
Back in the days before even MSDOS was around, let alone Windows, there was no standardization of the basic hardware of any computer, and in many cases there wasn't even anything remotely resembling a BIOS ROM (My IMSAI 8080 with a 6MHz Z80 CPU was an excellent example of this). Part of configuring an OS for a specific computer was writing basic I/O routines in assembly language, inserting it into the boot code and OS runtime code, and writing it to a disk you could actually (attempt to!) boot from. When the original IBM PC came around we started to see a standard for hardware -- which made writing an OS that would boot and run out of the box a reality. It seems to me that there is going to have to be some sort of standardization, at least in part, of robotic hardware before there can be a common robot OS.
Anything that can be made can also be broken. I don't think it matters how well we THINK any OS is secured, someone will find something about it they can exploit anyway.
Who appointed Apple to be the legal guardian and nanny of iPhone users? Are they going to block internet access to http://dictionary.com/ because you can look up words like "motherfucker" there too?
Thanks to Slashdot I wasn't at all surprised when I received the "opt out" email, and once I checked to make sure it wasn't some sort of phishing attempt, opted-out of their jacked-up search page crap immediately -- as should everyone else.
Go back to 4chan where you belong, /b/tard, Slashdot is Serious Business.