I would love to be able to feel it when I erase something or use a colored pencil in photoshop. It brings the mouse one step closer to a stylus and drawing tablet without the expense and extra hardware.
Even on a T3 at school, when I tried to set gnutella for sharing, a few hundred people would immediately begin leeching from me. In no time at all, a few hundred outgoing connections would all be crawling along at less than 1 k/s.
Granted, I was on a 10 mbit line, but the point remains. If there was a way to limit the number of outgoing files by bandwidth, or number of connections, or something, I would share files.
I suspect that when the sony does get released in the United States, as the CNet article seemed to indicate that it is going to be, Intel will probably drop prices on notebook procs so far that none of us will be able to buy a Crusoe machine without wincing. It should be interesting to see how AMD reacts once they're in a position similar to Intel's a few years ago. That is, an up-and-coming chip manufacturer is offering a really neat product at a decent price, and performance doesn't seem to suffer for it.
Good question. Nice to see ask slashdot getting some meaty topics again.
There are some words which you can add to the list that, you can be absolutely sure, will only appear in inappropriate content. I don't think any examples are necessary for this point.
In addition, a physical sign in the establishment pointing out that some web sites will be blocked, but not all, and there is the potential for misuse.
A clearly stated Terms Of Use sign as well: "No illicit or illegal content, or you'll be removed."
Separate logins with separate rulesets; one for over 18 (or 16 or 21 or whatever your threshold is). Employees can enforce this one with probably not too much difficulty.
OR, don't censor anything at all. Just post a terms of use sign and keep an eye on things.
During the Olympics, footage of last year's events is sold on DVD to attendees. A person from New Zealand gets the DVD home and finds it encoded for region (wherever the games are held at the time). That person got screwed to the tune of, conservatively, at least $20. Probably more, considering how everything is priced even beyond retail at sports events.
Is there something in the DVD region spec to address this? Is it "Caveat emptor?"
My boss just opened one up not five minutes ago, and it has already been dropped. Sustained no damage after a drop onto thin carpet from a height of ~4 feet, so at least we know they're resiliant.
I may actually have to sell my car and current computer in order to spend the rest of my life playing surround-video Quake. Anyone looking to buy an Integra?
How cynical can you guys be? ITS A BUCK FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. He isn't making any unreasonable demands, unlike many publishers. I look at King's offer and think, "hey, great deal on a book that probably won't suck."
Moreover, it isn't actually a book in the literal definition. Its a serial. Comic books are more expensive, and follow pretty much the same business model. That is, if its profitable, they continue publishing. If not, it goes bye-bye.
I plan to buy the book. Assuming the first part is okay, I'll exercise my choice to buy more. And considering how much/.ers bitch about "megacorps" controlling our lives and reducing our choices, I think its a little hypocritical to bitch about this too.
I wonder if the FBI will preemptively deploy Carnivore at the Alexis Park Resort in Vegas during DefCon, just in case. How difficult would it be for the feds to fabricate prior suspicion if they catch someone doing something wrong?
"Who gets to define "porn" or "obscenity" or "objectionable"? These are subjective personal definitions."
Any company that has that "content contained herein is explicit, if you're not 18 or older click here for disney.com" front page, for starters. If this warning is required by law, any company that is forced to display it could also be forced to add the porn tag.
And stileproject.com =)
"Whether or not I agree with the definitions of which sites should be blocked or what books I should be forbidden to read or whatever, I refuse to delegate the authority to make those decisions for myself."
Thats the whole point, silly. If you don't actively set your browser to respond to the presence of the porn tag, it can ignore it and continue to load all the content. Parents can configure it to read the tag and do something about it, while you and me can spank it without ever realizing the tag exists. Did you actually read my post?
I wouldn't be offended if a law was passed requiring all porn sites to put a tag around pages with that kind of content. Browsers, either through a downloadable plugin or the vendor writing in the functionality, could demand a password to load anything inside the tag. Anyone see any problems with that kind of scheme?
"Do any of you think software can really protect privacy from government surveillance and corporate tracking programs."
The irritating thing about it is that the question has to be asked. Why should I even have to think about my government surveilling me? If my employer wants to make sure I'm not porning it up at work, thats cool. If my ISP checks my home directory on their FreeBSD box every so often just to find out if I'm stashing kiddie porn (or something else illegal) there, I can even understand that, as long as they have reasonable suspicion before going through my files.
But when my government, the institution I turn to if I'm in trouble in another country, the ones I look to for protection from hostile nations bent on making a point by making me a martyr, puts on me the burden of wondering if they're watching, I can't help but be a little pissed off. In fact, very pissed off. I don't care if its under the guise of protection. The government should not ever preemptively watch citizens.
It reminds me of a short story by Issac Asimov. Multivac, the big government computer, has so much data on its citizens that it can predict if they're even thinking about commiting a crime.
The article states that sites might demand payment from a search engine before allowing the site to be indexed, which is the exact opposite of what happens now. We've all heard of engines being paid for the first result from a search for, say, coffee (this isn't a vague reference to anything, it really is just an example). I have serious doubt that most companies will want to exclude themselves from the only catalogs of the web that make any sense of it.
"Last I checked, the US (which is not a free country, since every aspect of life is largely controlled by megacorps) has never forced anyone to watch the total crap the networks put on TV, eat the crap food the food establishments like McDonalds advertise there, drink the piss-poor beer that dominates 85% of the market, and so on. Still, that's what most unitedstatesians do."
First of all, we're called Americans. Unitedstatesians is not a word.
Second, your comment is a complete load of bullshit. The United States *is* a free (as in speech, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness) country. "Megacorps" do not tell me when to wake up, when to eat and what to eat, when to sleep and what pillow to buy, and how many times a day I should pray. Case in point: I *don't* pray. By contrast, there are places in the world where people are told to obey or die. Therein lies the difference, which you don't seem to grasp.
"Even if people are not forced to take this service, what's put on it is of essential importance, since a huge public will be watching. Millions of lives could end up being shaped by this. Do you really want anonymous, unaccountable corporations to decide for you what's worthwhile seeing and/or listening?"
You're right, what they broadcast is of essential importance. Not enough content or too many commercials will, without a doubt, end the service. On the other hand, you ludicrously overestimate the power of the medium.
"Millions of lives could end up being shape by this."
Specifically, what you refer to with that statement is the content of the service. Unless they implement some kind of subliminal messages, I'm skeptical how many lives will be "shaped" by niche radio stations.
The last statement in your comment is a rant about anonymous, unaccountable corporations making decisions for people. The company is hardly anonymous, and is probably accountable to investors who will no doubt closely monitor subscription rates. The fact that they will ultimately decide what the content is really isn't all that different from the current radio model. Listeners can call in and request songs, but the DJs and station owners still make the final choices of what to broadcast.
"I'll keep sampling until I find a band I like, then I'll order the $8 CD from the artist."
This is a pretty accurate description of how, for example, amazon.com is set up on the music sales portion of the site. You can listen to streaming clips via Realplayer and then buy if you like what you heard. After I saw Titan AE, thats exactly what I did to make sure I liked the soundtrack enough to pay for it. Sure, Realplayer stinks, but the model still stands. And you *don't* need high bandwidth to use Realaudio.
I wouldn't, and for the same reason I wouldn't use DivX (the extinct DVD thing, not the codec).
I'm the kind of person who likes to listen to songs over and over and over again. Maybe for you, its $160 a year, but I'd pretty much go broke listening to Blink 182 alone (set flame_retardant_suit 1).
On a practical note, how would I use the service in my car? And do we really want a fleet of discmans with IP addresses? My home isn't the only place I listen to music.
(I'm not a Mac person, so these newbie-sounding questions are exactly that)
Could I use a free compiler a la gcc on OSX? Is one likely to ship with OSX?
Can the gui (shell?) be altered to make an OSX desktop look like, for example, KDE? Is there support for themes, and does the word themes even apply?
I'd love to be able to run OSX on my P3 machine, but is S3 even going to think about putting out a driver for my Diamond video card? More succinctly, are hardware manufacturers going to be willing and/or able to ship drivers for PC hardware?
Is there a particularly good Mac site I can get this information from, so I can stop trolling/. for it?:P
I read somewhere (might have been Sky&Telescope) that an alternative to a glass mirror could be a large concave disc with a puddle of mercury on it. The idea is that the disc spins fast enough that the mercury becomes the reflector. Is this science, or science fiction? Is it even a viable (or safe) option for a scope as large as OWL?
A thought occurs: virtually any search engine can be used to find MP3s on the web, or links to MP3 sites, or something related to the format. The difference between MP3Board and, for example, Google, is that it takes one extra step to use Google to find MP3s. The fact is, you still get links to music.
That got me thinking, is the RIAA planning to start going after search engines too? If they win the MP3Board case, any judgement handed down could be worded to establish precedent for a case against (search engine name here).
Sidebar: I once had a web page with three MP3s posted. One day I got an email from the ISP admin that was essentially just a note saying "get rid of the files or your account is gone" and a letter from the RIAA quoted below it. The RIAA had noted that I had posted two songs by bands signed to a major label (Sony, I think it was) and that I was distributing them illegally. The third song I had posted was a song released by a minor label based in Kansas or something, but the material was copyrighted nonetheless. The RIAA letter didn't mention it. Hmm.
"...I should have the right to determine what kinds of traffic I will deliver to my users..."
Isn't that called Facism?
A friend of mine stayed in China for a year, and noted that cnn.com as well as a whole host of other news sites throughout the world were entirely blocked from the general populace.
To summarize, I think this falls under the "slippery slope" heading.
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Granted, I was on a 10 mbit line, but the point remains. If there was a way to limit the number of outgoing files by bandwidth, or number of connections, or something, I would share files.
I suspect that when the sony does get released in the United States, as the CNet article seemed to indicate that it is going to be, Intel will probably drop prices on notebook procs so far that none of us will be able to buy a Crusoe machine without wincing. It should be interesting to see how AMD reacts once they're in a position similar to Intel's a few years ago. That is, an up-and-coming chip manufacturer is offering a really neat product at a decent price, and performance doesn't seem to suffer for it.
The solution is flawed. If I want to get the latest pictures from the Hubble Telescope, which is a perfectly legitimate use, I would be denied.
There are some words which you can add to the list that, you can be absolutely sure, will only appear in inappropriate content. I don't think any examples are necessary for this point.
In addition, a physical sign in the establishment pointing out that some web sites will be blocked, but not all, and there is the potential for misuse.
A clearly stated Terms Of Use sign as well: "No illicit or illegal content, or you'll be removed."
Separate logins with separate rulesets; one for over 18 (or 16 or 21 or whatever your threshold is). Employees can enforce this one with probably not too much difficulty.
OR, don't censor anything at all. Just post a terms of use sign and keep an eye on things.
During the Olympics, footage of last year's events is sold on DVD to attendees. A person from New Zealand gets the DVD home and finds it encoded for region (wherever the games are held at the time). That person got screwed to the tune of, conservatively, at least $20. Probably more, considering how everything is priced even beyond retail at sports events.
Is there something in the DVD region spec to address this? Is it "Caveat emptor?"
My boss just opened one up not five minutes ago, and it has already been dropped. Sustained no damage after a drop onto thin carpet from a height of ~4 feet, so at least we know they're resiliant.
I may actually have to sell my car and current computer in order to spend the rest of my life playing surround-video Quake. Anyone looking to buy an Integra?
Moreover, it isn't actually a book in the literal definition. Its a serial. Comic books are more expensive, and follow pretty much the same business model. That is, if its profitable, they continue publishing. If not, it goes bye-bye.
I plan to buy the book. Assuming the first part is okay, I'll exercise my choice to buy more. And considering how much /.ers bitch about "megacorps" controlling our lives and reducing our choices, I think its a little hypocritical to bitch about this too.
I wonder if the FBI will preemptively deploy Carnivore at the Alexis Park Resort in Vegas during DefCon, just in case. How difficult would it be for the feds to fabricate prior suspicion if they catch someone doing something wrong?
Any company that has that "content contained herein is explicit, if you're not 18 or older click here for disney.com" front page, for starters. If this warning is required by law, any company that is forced to display it could also be forced to add the porn tag.
And stileproject.com =)
"Whether or not I agree with the definitions of which sites should be blocked or what books I should be forbidden to read or whatever, I refuse to delegate the authority to make those decisions for myself."
Thats the whole point, silly. If you don't actively set your browser to respond to the presence of the porn tag, it can ignore it and continue to load all the content. Parents can configure it to read the tag and do something about it, while you and me can spank it without ever realizing the tag exists. Did you actually read my post?
I wouldn't be offended if a law was passed requiring all porn sites to put a tag around pages with that kind of content. Browsers, either through a downloadable plugin or the vendor writing in the functionality, could demand a password to load anything inside the tag. Anyone see any problems with that kind of scheme?
The irritating thing about it is that the question has to be asked. Why should I even have to think about my government surveilling me? If my employer wants to make sure I'm not porning it up at work, thats cool. If my ISP checks my home directory on their FreeBSD box every so often just to find out if I'm stashing kiddie porn (or something else illegal) there, I can even understand that, as long as they have reasonable suspicion before going through my files.
But when my government, the institution I turn to if I'm in trouble in another country, the ones I look to for protection from hostile nations bent on making a point by making me a martyr, puts on me the burden of wondering if they're watching, I can't help but be a little pissed off. In fact, very pissed off. I don't care if its under the guise of protection. The government should not ever preemptively watch citizens.
It reminds me of a short story by Issac Asimov. Multivac, the big government computer, has so much data on its citizens that it can predict if they're even thinking about commiting a crime.
The article states that sites might demand payment from a search engine before allowing the site to be indexed, which is the exact opposite of what happens now. We've all heard of engines being paid for the first result from a search for, say, coffee (this isn't a vague reference to anything, it really is just an example). I have serious doubt that most companies will want to exclude themselves from the only catalogs of the web that make any sense of it.
Check out these search results.
I don't get it. Whats with the soup reference?
First of all, we're called Americans. Unitedstatesians is not a word.
Second, your comment is a complete load of bullshit. The United States *is* a free (as in speech, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness) country. "Megacorps" do not tell me when to wake up, when to eat and what to eat, when to sleep and what pillow to buy, and how many times a day I should pray. Case in point: I *don't* pray. By contrast, there are places in the world where people are told to obey or die. Therein lies the difference, which you don't seem to grasp.
"Even if people are not forced to take this service, what's put on it is of essential importance, since a huge public will be watching. Millions of lives could end up being shaped by this. Do you really want anonymous, unaccountable corporations to decide for you what's worthwhile seeing and/or listening?"
You're right, what they broadcast is of essential importance. Not enough content or too many commercials will, without a doubt, end the service. On the other hand, you ludicrously overestimate the power of the medium.
"Millions of lives could end up being shape by this."
Specifically, what you refer to with that statement is the content of the service. Unless they implement some kind of subliminal messages, I'm skeptical how many lives will be "shaped" by niche radio stations.
The last statement in your comment is a rant about anonymous, unaccountable corporations making decisions for people. The company is hardly anonymous, and is probably accountable to investors who will no doubt closely monitor subscription rates. The fact that they will ultimately decide what the content is really isn't all that different from the current radio model. Listeners can call in and request songs, but the DJs and station owners still make the final choices of what to broadcast.
Palm IIIc from buy.com: $449
Gameboy from buy.com: $70
Gameboy games from buy.com: $25 each
I only have to steal 17.96 games to make it worth it!!!
Then again, I've had a Game boy since 1997 and I only ever actually bought Tetris and Spider-Man anyway. And Tetris came with the thing. Hm.
This is a pretty accurate description of how, for example, amazon.com is set up on the music sales portion of the site. You can listen to streaming clips via Realplayer and then buy if you like what you heard. After I saw Titan AE, thats exactly what I did to make sure I liked the soundtrack enough to pay for it. Sure, Realplayer stinks, but the model still stands. And you *don't* need high bandwidth to use Realaudio.
I wouldn't, and for the same reason I wouldn't use DivX (the extinct DVD thing, not the codec).
I'm the kind of person who likes to listen to songs over and over and over again. Maybe for you, its $160 a year, but I'd pretty much go broke listening to Blink 182 alone (set flame_retardant_suit 1).
On a practical note, how would I use the service in my car? And do we really want a fleet of discmans with IP addresses? My home isn't the only place I listen to music.
Could I use a free compiler a la gcc on OSX? Is one likely to ship with OSX?
Can the gui (shell?) be altered to make an OSX desktop look like, for example, KDE? Is there support for themes, and does the word themes even apply?
I'd love to be able to run OSX on my P3 machine, but is S3 even going to think about putting out a driver for my Diamond video card? More succinctly, are hardware manufacturers going to be willing and/or able to ship drivers for PC hardware?
Is there a particularly good Mac site I can get this information from, so I can stop trolling /. for it? :P
Thanks in advance.
I think the point was that Intel has duped consumers into believing that anything with the word Pentium etched into it is a bad-ass mofo.
Kudos to the marketing department. I suppose.
That got me thinking, is the RIAA planning to start going after search engines too? If they win the MP3Board case, any judgement handed down could be worded to establish precedent for a case against (search engine name here).
Sidebar: I once had a web page with three MP3s posted. One day I got an email from the ISP admin that was essentially just a note saying "get rid of the files or your account is gone" and a letter from the RIAA quoted below it. The RIAA had noted that I had posted two songs by bands signed to a major label (Sony, I think it was) and that I was distributing them illegally. The third song I had posted was a song released by a minor label based in Kansas or something, but the material was copyrighted nonetheless. The RIAA letter didn't mention it. Hmm.
Isn't that called Facism?
A friend of mine stayed in China for a year, and noted that cnn.com as well as a whole host of other news sites throughout the world were entirely blocked from the general populace.
To summarize, I think this falls under the "slippery slope" heading.