This does look like a good way to go, and its good they also list the main features of every browser. This way more users also get to see how good Opera is too. However to make the list completely unbiased, they could randomize the order on every page load.
Seeing it uses IE to download the browser you want, have they made it so that IE gets removed after that too?
Dont worry people! This will be broadcasted on television too so you wont be missing anything. As you know, the tv show "Big Brother" viewer amount has been going down and advertisers want something fresh!
It's not like nobody knew this was possible. If you have physical access to the computer, you can plugin hardware keylogger to get the crypt keys, or you can get them in countless other ways. Same applies to software, if your system gets rootkitted you've screwed anyways and its obvious your keys can get stolen.
Examining the meters themselves could yield additional vulnerabilities that might allow someone to conduct other kinds of attacks, such as propagating a virus from meter to meter via the smart cards or a meter minder's PDA."
I, for one, welcome our new parking meter botnet overlords.
If Amazon purchased Skype, it would make absolute sense but not eBay. Amazon had their "expand to new horizons" since the beginning, remember how people laughed at them when they enabled competitors to advertise on their own pages? That was ages ago. Remember S3 first launch?
Companies evolve too. Just because they dont have a history in "expanding to new horizons" doesn't mean they couldn't start doing it now. And it might even be good -- Its a more bad thing to rely entirely on one business.
Other than seeing Skype as a good business, I dont get why eBay would need an another reason to buy it. It doesn't need to expand eBay's core business. It doesn't need to make their core business easier. It just needs to provide income for the parent company. It also provides better stability if the core business model starts to go worse, for example with current recession people probably dont buy stuff that much hence impacting both eBay/PayPal income. However I dont think Skype is affected by that so much, people that use it will still use it and pay when they need to contact people.
Well, if you're spending $1 million a day, that $2.6 Billion is only going to last 2600 days which is only about seven years.* You need to make sure your elder years will be good aswell.
(* This calculation doesn't take into account one time purchases like houses, cars, airplanes, some nice island near hawaii)
Because large companies usually try to expand to new areas too. For example see Virgin Group and even Microsoft, who are doing hardware (and xbox) even if their core business is in Operating Systems.
You dont always need a direct connection between a parent company and the one bought - They can continue to operate like they have, which is even more true when you're buying an existing company.
So do IP address assignments. So do AS number assignments. Why does nobody ever complain about them? If you want something to be uniquely assigned (domain names, IP addresses, AS numbers) then it seems to me that it's going to have to be centrally managed by someone.
I would.
However, IP address assigment is not handled by single entity. Theres separate organizations for north and south america, europe, africa and asia. So you're missing the point there.
It's interesting that Network Solution was the only handler for domain registration back in 90's and while there are lots of registrars now, they still work under ICANN. Yeah the usual argument in slashdot is that you could always start your own tld, but nobody is going to support it unless you're high in chain, aka ICANN.
Interesting aspect was a few months ago when EU wanted more freedom from ICANN and its association with US. Currently the internet domain name system is pretty much controlled by one entity, which isn't really the purpose of internet, and its also why Network Solution was taken off the domain registration game as the single player. Monopoly is never good.
Fact is, currently DNS still relies entirely on *one entity*. It goes completely against the distributed structure of the internet.
I agree. There's a reason why Red Hat is corporation oriented -- If you need something critical to your systems, go with those who are more reliable to provide the support and isn't so much volunteer projects.
Yeah, and it actually works perfectly on Wine. There's also native linux libraries released to develop linux clients when people just do it, and despotify linux hax client (you need premium tho).
Yeah, thats how it would be professionally handled. But from experience, thats not how it always works. People just go to other stuff and ignore older work (not saying this would be the case here tho)
If you read the message in TFA, it kind of seems like a cry for your ex-gf to get back together.
Joking aside, I dont think it's really a surprise for anyone that people have other things to do sometimes, or even getting interested in different stuff. I actually feel sorry for the guy that this got slashdotted and all. If he's on holiday, it's gonna ruin his day. If he's away doing other stuff, he probably dont want to hear his co-admins crying to get him back.
Really, give the guy a peace. I bet he has used serious amount of time on CentOS project and deserves some time off and respect.
What most people dont see is that's what major music labels are doing. To get some superstar, you take risk. Most of them never get to anywhere. Some of them get mediocre success and what most of us like to listen aswell. Then there's the megastars and teen idols like Britney Spears, who are great for a bit and then come down. Surprisingly, they still are able to stay on, be that by lame publicity stunds or whatever else. And it's enough big market so there's probably still lots of who listen to Britney Spears.
However, just because some label has some Britney Spears or equivalent doesn't really mean they cant work with other kind of bands or better artists.
Oh probably they do. But do they need to be done by the labels? Wouldn't any number of small management agencies handle things just as well? And more to the point, does this function justify the hideously over-inflated prices charged by the record labels? Getting back to the original point, if they're adding value, then they have to be adding from the consumer#'s viewpoint, and I'm far from convinced that's the case here.
Actually I think the shares are calculated more on the investment. Record labels sponsor more, they get more from sales. When they think its a sure deal and theres no risk, they dont need to sponsor as much and the artists get better deals. Its quite like investing start-ups in IT, you calculate the risk based on the possible revenue (and include your own costs obviously). Its business as usual.
That comes to adding value to consumers, it comes in some kind of quality. Quality and "good" music is obviously easy for everyone to argue, but if you're ever listened to the bands demo tapes you know they're horrible to professionally made studio albums. That being said, I love the demo songs of bands I like otherwise too -- but I wouldn't listen to such from random bands I dont like and only those. Music labels play a major role in bringing those "probably-awesome" bands from their demo's to professionally made music.
Of course, the welfare and quality of life of the animals that make up our food is of no concern to you? Or the effect on the environment? Just that the food is not "risky" to your health?
I'm not a vegetarian, but frankly, the shit that we're doing to our animals to mass produce meat cheaply is disgusting.
Sadly, thats how nature is. I mean, even humans kill each other for whatever idiotic reasons (fighting drunk, robbing a store and shooting the clerk for some freaking $200, attacking other countries). Personally I would like to live in a better world, but you usually have to go by the rules. And that also means killing the animals to eat our meat.
However, it really is something tech can help with. Producing food by technology instead of killing animals. Producing energy instead of attacking other countries just to get some oil. Providing well-being for everyone. I bet we're far off for slave-ages and such just because technology has bring the level up for everyone of us, and even the most moneyless people can have some standard of lifestyle, that is all the time improving.
Technology is actually a good answer to many of the world's problems.
You might want to take a look into what carbs actually are. I mean, there's both good and bad carbs. Maybe someone can come up with informative post about the differences about carbs, but its more than true that theres different kind of carbs and some of them are more bad than others.
I agree. Actually pure fat is not even bad, its just bad when its combined with other things. I mostly eat meat, grounded beef or chicken and it makes me full and feeling great for long time, while keeping me in shape too. Problems just comes when you mix bad carbs and those flavour enhangers into it, because instead of burning the fat you burn those. Which is the case with mcdonalds and hamburgers -- they're both high-fat and high bad carbs. Personally I've felt a lot better when I dropped all of those, with a minor side effect thinking how great they would taste:)
But the point being, tech has improvement a lot and why not with food aswell. Maybe it can even make those hamburgers healthy without affecting the taste or health issues. We live happily in cities that aren't exactly "natural" kind of living based on history, so why is food technology such a problem.. if done correctly.
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This does look like a good way to go, and its good they also list the main features of every browser. This way more users also get to see how good Opera is too. However to make the list completely unbiased, they could randomize the order on every page load.
Seeing it uses IE to download the browser you want, have they made it so that IE gets removed after that too?
It doesn't need to last. Personally I will just use this to send myself pizza's and beers in here. And some WoW subscription cards, please.
Without the CCTVs, it's not really that different from homes for the elderly.
Yeah, I want my family living under forced 24 hour supervision, like elderly homes.
Dont worry people! This will be broadcasted on television too so you wont be missing anything. As you know, the tv show "Big Brother" viewer amount has been going down and advertisers want something fresh!
Well if you could do better, go try :)
It's not like nobody knew this was possible. If you have physical access to the computer, you can plugin hardware keylogger to get the crypt keys, or you can get them in countless other ways. Same applies to software, if your system gets rootkitted you've screwed anyways and its obvious your keys can get stolen.
Examining the meters themselves could yield additional vulnerabilities that might allow someone to conduct other kinds of attacks, such as propagating a virus from meter to meter via the smart cards or a meter minder's PDA."
I, for one, welcome our new parking meter botnet overlords.
If Amazon purchased Skype, it would make absolute sense but not eBay. Amazon had their "expand to new horizons" since the beginning, remember how people laughed at them when they enabled competitors to advertise on their own pages? That was ages ago. Remember S3 first launch?
Companies evolve too. Just because they dont have a history in "expanding to new horizons" doesn't mean they couldn't start doing it now. And it might even be good -- Its a more bad thing to rely entirely on one business.
Other than seeing Skype as a good business, I dont get why eBay would need an another reason to buy it. It doesn't need to expand eBay's core business. It doesn't need to make their core business easier. It just needs to provide income for the parent company. It also provides better stability if the core business model starts to go worse, for example with current recession people probably dont buy stuff that much hence impacting both eBay/PayPal income. However I dont think Skype is affected by that so much, people that use it will still use it and pay when they need to contact people.
Well, if you're spending $1 million a day, that $2.6 Billion is only going to last 2600 days which is only about seven years.* You need to make sure your elder years will be good aswell.
(* This calculation doesn't take into account one time purchases like houses, cars, airplanes, some nice island near hawaii)
Because large companies usually try to expand to new areas too. For example see Virgin Group and even Microsoft, who are doing hardware (and xbox) even if their core business is in Operating Systems.
You dont always need a direct connection between a parent company and the one bought - They can continue to operate like they have, which is even more true when you're buying an existing company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
This should be fun when the vaccine mutates in the mosquitoes that carry and spread it :)
So do IP address assignments. So do AS number assignments. Why does nobody ever complain about them? If you want something to be uniquely assigned (domain names, IP addresses, AS numbers) then it seems to me that it's going to have to be centrally managed by someone.
I would.
However, IP address assigment is not handled by single entity. Theres separate organizations for north and south america, europe, africa and asia. So you're missing the point there.
It's interesting that Network Solution was the only handler for domain registration back in 90's and while there are lots of registrars now, they still work under ICANN. Yeah the usual argument in slashdot is that you could always start your own tld, but nobody is going to support it unless you're high in chain, aka ICANN.
Interesting aspect was a few months ago when EU wanted more freedom from ICANN and its association with US. Currently the internet domain name system is pretty much controlled by one entity, which isn't really the purpose of internet, and its also why Network Solution was taken off the domain registration game as the single player. Monopoly is never good.
Fact is, currently DNS still relies entirely on *one entity*. It goes completely against the distributed structure of the internet.
I agree. There's a reason why Red Hat is corporation oriented -- If you need something critical to your systems, go with those who are more reliable to provide the support and isn't so much volunteer projects.
This was detailed a few days ago -- more details on http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136008/Some_SMS_networks_vulnerable_to_attack
How many times it needs to be said.. *never* trust the client.
Yeah, and it actually works perfectly on Wine. There's also native linux libraries released to develop linux clients when people just do it, and despotify linux hax client (you need premium tho).
Yeah, thats how it would be professionally handled. But from experience, thats not how it always works. People just go to other stuff and ignore older work (not saying this would be the case here tho)
If you read the message in TFA, it kind of seems like a cry for your ex-gf to get back together.
Joking aside, I dont think it's really a surprise for anyone that people have other things to do sometimes, or even getting interested in different stuff. I actually feel sorry for the guy that this got slashdotted and all. If he's on holiday, it's gonna ruin his day. If he's away doing other stuff, he probably dont want to hear his co-admins crying to get him back.
Really, give the guy a peace. I bet he has used serious amount of time on CentOS project and deserves some time off and respect.
What most people dont see is that's what major music labels are doing. To get some superstar, you take risk. Most of them never get to anywhere. Some of them get mediocre success and what most of us like to listen aswell. Then there's the megastars and teen idols like Britney Spears, who are great for a bit and then come down. Surprisingly, they still are able to stay on, be that by lame publicity stunds or whatever else. And it's enough big market so there's probably still lots of who listen to Britney Spears.
However, just because some label has some Britney Spears or equivalent doesn't really mean they cant work with other kind of bands or better artists.
Oh probably they do. But do they need to be done by the labels? Wouldn't any number of small management agencies handle things just as well?
And more to the point, does this function justify the hideously over-inflated prices charged by the record labels? Getting back to the original point,
if they're adding value, then they have to be adding from the consumer#'s viewpoint, and I'm far from convinced that's the case here.
Actually I think the shares are calculated more on the investment. Record labels sponsor more, they get more from sales. When they think its a sure deal and theres no risk, they dont need to sponsor as much and the artists get better deals. Its quite like investing start-ups in IT, you calculate the risk based on the possible revenue (and include your own costs obviously). Its business as usual.
That comes to adding value to consumers, it comes in some kind of quality. Quality and "good" music is obviously easy for everyone to argue, but if you're ever listened to the bands demo tapes you know they're horrible to professionally made studio albums. That being said, I love the demo songs of bands I like otherwise too -- but I wouldn't listen to such from random bands I dont like and only those. Music labels play a major role in bringing those "probably-awesome" bands from their demo's to professionally made music.
Wikileaks did the exact same thing. Later someone send the leak to them, and they had to give out those donators info per their rules :)
People working at these positions should really check their emails before they mass send them..
Of course, the welfare and quality of life of the animals that make up our food is of no concern to you? Or the effect on the environment? Just that the food is not "risky" to your health?
I'm not a vegetarian, but frankly, the shit that we're doing to our animals to mass produce meat cheaply is disgusting.
Sadly, thats how nature is. I mean, even humans kill each other for whatever idiotic reasons (fighting drunk, robbing a store and shooting the clerk for some freaking $200, attacking other countries). Personally I would like to live in a better world, but you usually have to go by the rules. And that also means killing the animals to eat our meat.
However, it really is something tech can help with. Producing food by technology instead of killing animals. Producing energy instead of attacking other countries just to get some oil. Providing well-being for everyone. I bet we're far off for slave-ages and such just because technology has bring the level up for everyone of us, and even the most moneyless people can have some standard of lifestyle, that is all the time improving.
Technology is actually a good answer to many of the world's problems.
You might want to take a look into what carbs actually are. I mean, there's both good and bad carbs. Maybe someone can come up with informative post about the differences about carbs, but its more than true that theres different kind of carbs and some of them are more bad than others.
I agree. Actually pure fat is not even bad, its just bad when its combined with other things. I mostly eat meat, grounded beef or chicken and it makes me full and feeling great for long time, while keeping me in shape too. Problems just comes when you mix bad carbs and those flavour enhangers into it, because instead of burning the fat you burn those. Which is the case with mcdonalds and hamburgers -- they're both high-fat and high bad carbs. Personally I've felt a lot better when I dropped all of those, with a minor side effect thinking how great they would taste :)
But the point being, tech has improvement a lot and why not with food aswell. Maybe it can even make those hamburgers healthy without affecting the taste or health issues. We live happily in cities that aren't exactly "natural" kind of living based on history, so why is food technology such a problem.. if done correctly.