Forget jailbreaking the iShit.... just don't buy one, problem solved. Ohhhh, you want to use the iWhateverStuff? Live with the DRM then, sucker!
I'm not sure I agree. Sure, I've had to jump through hoops to get it to do what I want but once I do configure it, it's one of the coolest/funest things I have. I could say almost exactly the same about my linux install too.
This may be more of a generation gap than anything else. My Godmother would always have a newspaper around and she'd be reading it but I was never inclined to do so. As a matter of fact, I'm not sure I'd have the attention span to go through a newspaper like she did. Some people can read a newspaper from beginning to end but I'm more of a target reader. I read only something that caught my eye and even then I may only skim it unless I'm genuinely interested in it.
Will the Kindle bring us back to reading news stories like our parents? I'm not sure. It's a new twist on old technology (print) but I'm not sure it'll be enough. The advantage to the newspaper is it was inexpensive and you could carry it around and read it on the train, bus, etc . when you had downtime. A kindle isn't $0.75 and can be broken. The worst that could happen to a newspaper is that one can rip it or leave it behind. Either of those would be tragic if it happened to a Kindle.
I think this would catch on better if it were a feature included in something people already use all the time like a cell phone. The Kindle is more of an at-home thing.
It's easy for me to say that this sounds ridiculous but then again I wasn't in the surrounding buildings evacuating when the towers were on fire. I think it'd be safe to assume that any plane being tailed by military fighters isn't going to be causing much trouble though.
You wouldn't necessarily buy it at this point but should movies go super-ultra-mega-HD, I somehow doubt netflix is willing to send you a 1TB HDD. A disc may be more practical...possibly.
While this seems like a great idea if you're being targeted at random to see what you're downloading (and by proxy getting the community at large) it won't help if Symantec, MS, EA, etc., catches you downloading their software from a honeypot seeder. It seems to be that the only true protection is the use of darknets and sharing with friends only.
The only problem there is it isolates the users from the community so much that it's hard to get the wares because there is no set distribution pipe, only the hopes that somebody in your darknet/friends list downloaded what you want. Otherwise you must begin the search for a network that has what you're looking for, and hope you can trust them to not be law enforcement.
But, you can just close the browser or type "killall firefox" and the program dies and you have to go to the URL again to get to it. So, though this is bad for other reasons, yours just isn't one of them.
please reread the following section:
masked by a fun but pointless flash game people could enjoy for hours on end
As in, people would keep it open playing the flash game. I didn't say you couldn't close the browser, I implied one could be tricked into keeping it open. I would again contend that my reason is one of them.
If clicking a link is all it would take to donate my CPU cycles I'm getting off the internet now. I'm sure we've all been conned into clicking on tubgirl, goatse, lemon party, etc. what's to stop somebody from conning you into clicking a mass computing (see botnet above) cloud masked by a fun but pointless flash game people could enjoy for hours on end?
One-click CPU cycle donation is a bad idea. Make it deliberate, make it a program that has 30 checkboxes making sure the user understands they're donating cycles and on their terms.
While laptops and notebooks seem to be headed in the direction of the netbook, I don't think desktops are headed in the same direction.
Even laptop users have reasons to using a laptop instead of a netbook (portable but powerful?) if they need to do anything heavy on the CPU or GPU. The netbook can't handle either very well.
I think everybody's jumping on the bandwagon without thinking why.
Just because you have access to a system doesn't mean anything you do is authorized. Even if you have admin privileges you're not allowed to throw scripts on there to steal passwords. That'd be unauthorized. Hijacking the system would fall under this category of use.
First, this story sounds very one-sided and has quite a bit of sensationalism. Ok, a lot. I'm sure they can charge him with something to the effect of unauthorized access to a government computer system. Nobody's going to be pointing out modems as tools of a crime. That's like saying having a car means you're a bankrobber because bankrobbers use getaway cars.
Now we only have to worry about IE7 and the perpetual crashing of IE8 (though that's more of the user's problem than mine). Now if only FF3.1 would be released final then we'd be all set on becoming more standards compliant.
Somehow I don't see IE6 being phased anytime soon with the exception of some really awesome malware targeted specifically for IE6 (hint hint).
It's this very secrecy that protects them and also caused the outrage. The fact that they don't really answer to anyone means there's nobody to appeal to should you disagree. On the upside, this very secrecy and lack of accountability means the public expressed far more outrage.
I somehow doubt it makes a difference in the end, though. As the article says, nobody is going to disagree with anything that was blocked by the IWF. Nobody will admit they were looking for something that could be considered child pornography.
Then again, I disagree with child pornography laws. I personally think if you're a child there should be a different set of requirements to be charged with child pornography...especially if the pictures you possess are of yourself
Half of the consumers don't know or care about their model numbers and use adapters interchangeably as long as they fit. I've seen it and it's scary. I've had people say to me a few years ago "You don't have a VX9800, you have 'The V'!" or "How do you remember all these model numbers?"
There's data missing for the Atom in the wattage test to the 132 second HTML rendering, I'm not sure this test is anywhere near correct...for anything.
What kind of MONSTER HTML file are they throwing at these systems? Why put the Cinebench multi CPU benchmark up if it doesn't show any data at all except for the Pentium E5200 (the Atom is a single core CPU, why even run it?). And how is a Cinebench 64 bit test running on Vista 32 bit?
Chuck doesn't like it when people try to keep tabs on him. It will most likely show your current location because he'll be standing behind you snapping your neck.
on releasing a version that WORKS before we think of the version after. A novel idea. Mozilla's been promising to fix a bunch of bugs in 3.1 that 3.0 broke which worked just fine in 2. I might believe them after they release a final version of 3.1 if it works as promised. Otherwise, I've lost all respect for the quality FireFox usually delivered (with the exception of the damn memory issues).
Honestly, I'm just waiting for Google Chrome on Linux at this point.
Contracts are legally binding but if the terms of the contract are outlandish, the contract can be deemed null and void by a court. Same thing with this, they can't expect me to not monitor my network because they said so. The key word was MY. Next thing you know their EULA will say you must run the software for a minimum of 8 hours a day.
Titanoboa Cerrejonensis on a Plane? Doesn't roll off the tongue. I'm not sure Samuel L. Jackson would like the line "I've had it with these motherfucking Titanoboa Cerrejonensis on this motherfucking plane!"
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Forget jailbreaking the iShit.... just don't buy one, problem solved. Ohhhh, you want to use the iWhateverStuff? Live with the DRM then, sucker!
I'm not sure I agree. Sure, I've had to jump through hoops to get it to do what I want but once I do configure it, it's one of the coolest/funest things I have. I could say almost exactly the same about my linux install too.
Do away with the babies, then we don't need baby monitors anymore. Voila! Better wi-fi. I'm willing to sacrifice all your babies for better wi-fi.
I think the UK should declare independence from the UK...that's just my take though.
This may be more of a generation gap than anything else. My Godmother would always have a newspaper around and she'd be reading it but I was never inclined to do so. As a matter of fact, I'm not sure I'd have the attention span to go through a newspaper like she did. Some people can read a newspaper from beginning to end but I'm more of a target reader. I read only something that caught my eye and even then I may only skim it unless I'm genuinely interested in it.
Will the Kindle bring us back to reading news stories like our parents? I'm not sure. It's a new twist on old technology (print) but I'm not sure it'll be enough. The advantage to the newspaper is it was inexpensive and you could carry it around and read it on the train, bus, etc . when you had downtime. A kindle isn't $0.75 and can be broken. The worst that could happen to a newspaper is that one can rip it or leave it behind. Either of those would be tragic if it happened to a Kindle.
I think this would catch on better if it were a feature included in something people already use all the time like a cell phone. The Kindle is more of an at-home thing.
It's easy for me to say that this sounds ridiculous but then again I wasn't in the surrounding buildings evacuating when the towers were on fire. I think it'd be safe to assume that any plane being tailed by military fighters isn't going to be causing much trouble though.
You wouldn't necessarily buy it at this point but should movies go super-ultra-mega-HD, I somehow doubt netflix is willing to send you a 1TB HDD. A disc may be more practical...possibly.
While this seems like a great idea if you're being targeted at random to see what you're downloading (and by proxy getting the community at large) it won't help if Symantec, MS, EA, etc., catches you downloading their software from a honeypot seeder. It seems to be that the only true protection is the use of darknets and sharing with friends only.
The only problem there is it isolates the users from the community so much that it's hard to get the wares because there is no set distribution pipe, only the hopes that somebody in your darknet/friends list downloaded what you want. Otherwise you must begin the search for a network that has what you're looking for, and hope you can trust them to not be law enforcement.
But, you can just close the browser or type "killall firefox" and the program dies and you have to go to the URL again to get to it. So, though this is bad for other reasons, yours just isn't one of them.
please reread the following section:
masked by a fun but pointless flash game people could enjoy for hours on end
As in, people would keep it open playing the flash game. I didn't say you couldn't close the browser, I implied one could be tricked into keeping it open. I would again contend that my reason is one of them.
If clicking a link is all it would take to donate my CPU cycles I'm getting off the internet now. I'm sure we've all been conned into clicking on tubgirl, goatse, lemon party, etc. what's to stop somebody from conning you into clicking a mass computing (see botnet above) cloud masked by a fun but pointless flash game people could enjoy for hours on end?
One-click CPU cycle donation is a bad idea. Make it deliberate, make it a program that has 30 checkboxes making sure the user understands they're donating cycles and on their terms.
While laptops and notebooks seem to be headed in the direction of the netbook, I don't think desktops are headed in the same direction.
Even laptop users have reasons to using a laptop instead of a netbook (portable but powerful?) if they need to do anything heavy on the CPU or GPU. The netbook can't handle either very well.
I think everybody's jumping on the bandwagon without thinking why.
Apparently real men wear New Balance
Just because you have access to a system doesn't mean anything you do is authorized. Even if you have admin privileges you're not allowed to throw scripts on there to steal passwords. That'd be unauthorized. Hijacking the system would fall under this category of use.
First, this story sounds very one-sided and has quite a bit of sensationalism. Ok, a lot. I'm sure they can charge him with something to the effect of unauthorized access to a government computer system. Nobody's going to be pointing out modems as tools of a crime. That's like saying having a car means you're a bankrobber because bankrobbers use getaway cars.
a horrible way to die. Poor kid.
Now we only have to worry about IE7 and the perpetual crashing of IE8 (though that's more of the user's problem than mine). Now if only FF3.1 would be released final then we'd be all set on becoming more standards compliant.
Somehow I don't see IE6 being phased anytime soon with the exception of some really awesome malware targeted specifically for IE6 (hint hint).
It's this very secrecy that protects them and also caused the outrage. The fact that they don't really answer to anyone means there's nobody to appeal to should you disagree. On the upside, this very secrecy and lack of accountability means the public expressed far more outrage.
I somehow doubt it makes a difference in the end, though. As the article says, nobody is going to disagree with anything that was blocked by the IWF. Nobody will admit they were looking for something that could be considered child pornography.
Then again, I disagree with child pornography laws. I personally think if you're a child there should be a different set of requirements to be charged with child pornography...especially if the pictures you possess are of yourself
Half of the consumers don't know or care about their model numbers and use adapters interchangeably as long as they fit. I've seen it and it's scary. I've had people say to me a few years ago "You don't have a VX9800, you have 'The V'!" or "How do you remember all these model numbers?"
No more "Anybody have a Nokia?" in the office
There's data missing for the Atom in the wattage test to the 132 second HTML rendering, I'm not sure this test is anywhere near correct...for anything.
What kind of MONSTER HTML file are they throwing at these systems? Why put the Cinebench multi CPU benchmark up if it doesn't show any data at all except for the Pentium E5200 (the Atom is a single core CPU, why even run it?). And how is a Cinebench 64 bit test running on Vista 32 bit?
Chuck doesn't like it when people try to keep tabs on him. It will most likely show your current location because he'll be standing behind you snapping your neck.
on releasing a version that WORKS before we think of the version after. A novel idea. Mozilla's been promising to fix a bunch of bugs in 3.1 that 3.0 broke which worked just fine in 2. I might believe them after they release a final version of 3.1 if it works as promised. Otherwise, I've lost all respect for the quality FireFox usually delivered (with the exception of the damn memory issues).
Honestly, I'm just waiting for Google Chrome on Linux at this point.
Contracts are legally binding but if the terms of the contract are outlandish, the contract can be deemed null and void by a court. Same thing with this, they can't expect me to not monitor my network because they said so. The key word was MY. Next thing you know their EULA will say you must run the software for a minimum of 8 hours a day.
...I don't see the problem. That sounds like a service you'd otherwise have to pay for.
Titanoboa Cerrejonensis on a Plane? Doesn't roll off the tongue. I'm not sure Samuel L. Jackson would like the line "I've had it with these motherfucking Titanoboa Cerrejonensis on this motherfucking plane!"
Some should rip in to the fake person giving out the tickets
How do you catch a fake person? Fake traps?