This project is prety non-informative at this point. C'mon, how about linking to his page after he reads his Microwave Data Link for Dummies(TM) handbook.
Call my post a flame, troll, off-topic, whatever, but certainly not redundant. Where else did you see a post ridiculing this haiku? I'm just tired of seeing these poorly written haiku all over slashdot lately, and your moderating down a dissenting voice isn't helping any.
I'm repeatedly amazed at how these non-funny, non-witty, non-poetic haiku get immediately moderated through the ceiling by some remedial-English moderator who thinks that since an otherwise dumb comment is in haiku form, it must be funny.
...but I'm really sick of people knee-jerk posting rants without even having a clue what they're posting about. It's UCITA--Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act--not UTICA.
I'm sick of being under fire from people who know little or nothing about what we do, [...]
By your own ignorance (above) you've displayed that you know little or nothing about what they do, either. Are you as forgiving when you're on the other side of the table? Instead of posting "poor me" rants and childlishly threatening to take your ball and go home (i.e., turn off your servers) perhaps you should read about how the law works, and how you can make the law work for you.
You've already seen the results of these actions. [...] which makes sure that if any corporation covets your domain name, they can take it away without any problems.
When will Slashdot editors start using some journalistic integrity and stop pandering to the paranoid extremes? At best, the above statement is barely true. More probably, it's an outright lie. Can XYZ corporation actually take any domain name they want? Then why hasn't any "corporation" snatched away slashdot.com?
Perhaps when Slashdot editors start to practice honesty and truthfulness in their articles, instead of the ethics of self-interest and paranoia, we'll have some objective reporting. Until then, I'll take most of what I read here with a big grain of salt.
This is more or less the same thing as a line doubler. We've used one on our 42" Plasma Display and the picture quality is nothing short of incredible. It almost looks like there's a "depth" in the screen. For example, if you put The Mummy DVD in, on the main intro page, the foreground of the characters and menu actually appear to be several inches in front of the background heiroglyphics.
Anyway, it makes sense for expensive solutions. If you're going to buy a $7,000 visual system, it certainly isn't going to hurt to spend a few hundred more for a line doubler or special cabling.
Everyone is whining about how this ruling prevents spiders/robtots from traversing the web and how this somehow impacts free speech and infringes on our rights. That's crap. The analogy to yahoo/google/etc. not being able to index the web because of this ruling is even worse. What this ruling does affect is whether spiders can traverse eBay, and only eBay. And I heartily agree.
Who wants a search engine cataloging dynamic sites like eBay? Not me. Oh, look! There's that watch I wanted!
SUPER DUPER WATCH COMPUTER ***NO RESERVE!!*** $19
[click] Drats! That auction ended over a year ago. I can't remember once browsing to an auction site from a search engine and hitting a valid link. It just doesn't happen.
Dialeckizer Shet Down Th' Internet | Posted by emmett on Wednesday May 17, @12:40PM fum th' this-is-sad-bawk-bawk-bawk depp. endisnigh writes: "T'other fun, interestin' an' innovative online resource goes th' way of co'po'ate igno'ance - due t'threats of legal ackshun, th' autho' of th' dialeckizer, a Web page thet dynamically translates t'other Web page's text into an alternate 'dialeck' sech as 'redneck' o' 'Swedish Chef' an' displays th' result, has packed up his dialeckizer an' gone home - see th' notice hyar."
...(Reuters, Seattle) in an unconfirmed report, McAfee Associates reported today that the new Microsoft Outlook patch can be defeated by amateur hackers sending email attachments containing the following text:
!seineew era srekcah onipiliF omaL
Microsoft could not be reached for comment. Other Anti-virus software vendors said they were looking into the report.
For serious code-freaks like me, I really recommend VBScript. It has powerful features, like being able to integrate your operating system with your Outlok address book. I was recently able to write a powerful script that sends itself to all of your friends, thus proving the power of the Windows Scripting Host! (Unfortunately, this powerful script also sent itself to all of my friends' friends, and that started to get crazy. Then these security companies started calling me, and now the NBI in Manila is cooperating with the FBI? Puta'ng ina!)
Oh, where was I?--oh yeah, back to how powerful this scripting tool is. It's really powerful, and I seriously recommend it! (In fact, my boss said that when I come back to work after my 10 years in the "big house" it will be even more powerful than it is today.)
[...] and speech are under the gun and on the run. First of a series. (Read More).
I didn't think anything was worse than being forced to install IE5 inside another program's installation the other day. Now I find that there's going to be more articles like this one? This is truly horrible!
As hard as I tried to stay objective, I felt my blood boiling as I read the comparison chart yesterday. Some of the comparisons are just plain wrong (e.g., IrDA), and for most of their categories you just can't make the comparison that they make. Why limit everything to an "out of the box" experience? What if Microsoft's own operating system was limited to an out-of-the-box trial?--who'd use it then? That said, I think the new PocketPCs' are a great step for MS and friends. Perhaps they really did get it right on the third try; a hit on an 0-2 count is still a hit. But don't listen to these foolish numbers from IDC analyst Jill House and the Gartner Group. Remember when Jill House was the one that forecast a 70% market share with the last incarnaton of Palm-size PC's? Bye-bye, credibility. I think the new Pocket PC's are nice, but don't look for them to be that widespread for two major reasons: They still haven't found the right form factor. Pocket PC's are too big and too heavy. If you factor height, width, depth and weight, and call it bulk, the smallest Pocket PC, Compaq's iPAQ H3600, is still 3.1 times bulkier than the PalmV. They still haven't found the right price point. At a whopping $450, these new models are nowhere near the IIIe-price of ~$200. And where the money is made--at the average consumer level, not the early adopter--that's a huge difference.
Moderate this flamebate or troll or whatever you want, but at the risk of sounding like Bill Joy I agree with James Billington. Let's remember that in essence he's a librarian, and take his comments with that flavor.
Computers are great for disseminating information, but lousy when it comes to what most people consider traditional book reading. Let's face it--you can't curl up on a couch on a rainy day with your 750MHz mini-tower and 19" monitor. And even if you could, why put the unnecessary strain on your eyes?
Personally, I'll wait till I can buy a decent-sized tablet reader that's less than half an inch thick, has a wireless connection to my in-home LAN, can download any document and has a great screen that I can read in sunlight.
Until then, kudos to Billington for waiting when everyone else is running like rabid rabbits towards whatever technological fad is in vogue this year. When the time is right, we'll have the Library of Congress accessible over the Internet. Till then, I'll take it easy on my eyes.
Actually, Quantum Money is no more secure than current money because of one simple fact: counterfeiters don't have to fool the banks, they only have to fool the people they're handing the fake money to.
The problem with checking quantum money (this is explained in the book) is that by checking it you destroy the value. (Subject to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, etc.) The only good thing about quantum money (IMHO) is that quantum cryptography evolved from it.
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Having just finished this book two weeks ago (I couldn't put the thing down, honest), this is a wonderful book that explores codes not necessarily from a codes and codebreaking standpoint, but from a historical perspective. Singh weaves a compelling narrative about why codes and codebreaking were important, and outlines the leapfrog game that codemakers and codebreakers have played for the last eight hundred years or so.
IMHO Singh really does a fascinating job of writing this book. There are only two downsides to this otherwise-excellent book:
A digressive chapter on the "breaking" of the heiroglyphics and Minoan Linear B; interesting, but didn't have much to do with codes.
After spending the entire book showing how every "unbreakable" code was broken, Singh gets way too excited about the coming "unbreakable" code, Quantum Cryptography. Granted, it certainly seems secure, but it seems strange to me that he would herald this method as unbreakable when there barely exists a means of transmitting it in the first place.
Other than these two minor points, I would seriously recommend this book. Also, the book delves extensively into the workings of the Nazi Enigma machine, which is also featured in the upcoming movie U-571.
Wow, Jon, at last you're not hyping some non-issue no one knew (or cared) about five minutes previously, or bashing some lamo with that National Enquirer-styled writing. Thanks for one of the most sincere articles I've read on Slashdot in a long time. You did a wonderful job of presenting both sides of the issue fairly and responsibly.
It is inherently more difficult to do this on a V-series device. For one, the V and Vx are glued shut. You'd have to use a heating element to unglue them, make the mods, then glue them back shut. There have been reports of people who bought original V's and had them upgraded to a V8 (before the Vx was released) that the reglue job starts to fall apart after a while. More importantly, internal space is at premium on the V to make room for the LiIon battery. It's unlikely that you'd even find the room to solder in your mods.
It seems that the browser preview is still available. You can download it here. Be aware that the link is prety slow already; don't/. it.
And FWIW, it's not necessary to install all the mindless crap like Instant Messenger, Quality Feedback Agent (if they didn't want this preview to be out yet don't be sending back crash data!), the spell checker and Net2Phone module. Just select the Custom install and unselect those options.
Call this off-topic or premature, but this might be a demo of MS's as-of-yet phantom X-box. (Someone posted it to SharkyExtreme) You can get it here. (11MB MPEG)
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This project is prety non-informative at this point. C'mon, how about linking to his page after he reads his Microwave Data Link for Dummies(TM) handbook.
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Is it just me?--or does anyone else see 22 computers in that rack.
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www.ironchef.com
and some sites not (yet) down:
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCi ty/1365/ /html/iron_chef.html
http://home.pacbell.net/ogytork
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Best regards,
Daniel.
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I'm repeatedly amazed at how these non-funny, non-witty, non-poetic haiku get immediately moderated through the ceiling by some remedial-English moderator who thinks that since an otherwise dumb comment is in haiku form, it must be funny.
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I'm sick of being under fire from people who know little or nothing about what we do, [...]
By your own ignorance (above) you've displayed that you know little or nothing about what they do, either. Are you as forgiving when you're on the other side of the table? Instead of posting "poor me" rants and childlishly threatening to take your ball and go home (i.e., turn off your servers) perhaps you should read about how the law works, and how you can make the law work for you.
Best regards,
Daniel.
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When will Slashdot editors start using some journalistic integrity and stop pandering to the paranoid extremes? At best, the above statement is barely true. More probably, it's an outright lie. Can XYZ corporation actually take any domain name they want? Then why hasn't any "corporation" snatched away slashdot.com?
Perhaps when Slashdot editors start to practice honesty and truthfulness in their articles, instead of the ethics of self-interest and paranoia, we'll have some objective reporting. Until then, I'll take most of what I read here with a big grain of salt.
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Anyway, it makes sense for expensive solutions. If you're going to buy a $7,000 visual system, it certainly isn't going to hurt to spend a few hundred more for a line doubler or special cabling.
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Who wants a search engine cataloging dynamic sites like eBay? Not me. Oh, look! There's that watch I wanted!
SUPER DUPER WATCH COMPUTER ***NO RESERVE!!*** $19
[click] Drats! That auction ended over a year ago. I can't remember once browsing to an auction site from a search engine and hitting a valid link. It just doesn't happen.
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If you liked this book you'll certainly be thrilled by its provocative sequel: Fahrenheit 452!
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Mark D. Robins
Hutchins, Wheeler & Dittmar
A Professional Corporation
Boy, it sure is good to see you guys picked a professional corporation! (You never know when you might get hoodwinked by some "amateurs.")
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Dialeckizer Shet Down Th' Internet | Posted by emmett on Wednesday May 17, @12:40PM fum th' this-is-sad-bawk-bawk-bawk depp. endisnigh writes: "T'other fun, interestin' an' innovative online resource goes th' way of co'po'ate igno'ance - due t'threats of legal ackshun, th' autho' of th' dialeckizer, a Web page thet dynamically translates t'other Web page's text into an alternate 'dialeck' sech as 'redneck' o' 'Swedish Chef' an' displays th' result, has packed up his dialeckizer an' gone home - see th' notice hyar."
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!seineew era srekcah onipiliF omaL
Microsoft could not be reached for comment. Other Anti-virus software vendors said they were looking into the report.
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Oh, where was I?--oh yeah, back to how powerful this scripting tool is. It's really powerful, and I seriously recommend it! (In fact, my boss said that when I come back to work after my 10 years in the "big house" it will be even more powerful than it is today.)
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I didn't think anything was worse than being forced to install IE5 inside another program's installation the other day. Now I find that there's going to be more articles like this one? This is truly horrible!
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Computers are great for disseminating information, but lousy when it comes to what most people consider traditional book reading. Let's face it--you can't curl up on a couch on a rainy day with your 750MHz mini-tower and 19" monitor. And even if you could, why put the unnecessary strain on your eyes?
Personally, I'll wait till I can buy a decent-sized tablet reader that's less than half an inch thick, has a wireless connection to my in-home LAN, can download any document and has a great screen that I can read in sunlight.
Until then, kudos to Billington for waiting when everyone else is running like rabid rabbits towards whatever technological fad is in vogue this year. When the time is right, we'll have the Library of Congress accessible over the Internet. Till then, I'll take it easy on my eyes.
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The problem with checking quantum money (this is explained in the book) is that by checking it you destroy the value. (Subject to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, etc.) The only good thing about quantum money (IMHO) is that quantum cryptography evolved from it.
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IMHO Singh really does a fascinating job of writing this book. There are only two downsides to this otherwise-excellent book:
- A digressive chapter on the "breaking" of the heiroglyphics and Minoan Linear B; interesting, but didn't have much to do with codes.
- After spending the entire book showing how every "unbreakable" code was broken, Singh gets way too excited about the coming "unbreakable" code, Quantum Cryptography. Granted, it certainly seems secure, but it seems strange to me that he would herald this method as unbreakable when there barely exists a means of transmitting it in the first place.
Other than these two minor points, I would seriously recommend this book. Also, the book delves extensively into the workings of the Nazi Enigma machine, which is also featured in the upcoming movie U-571.--
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And FWIW, it's not necessary to install all the mindless crap like Instant Messenger, Quality Feedback Agent (if they didn't want this preview to be out yet don't be sending back crash data!), the spell checker and Net2Phone module. Just select the Custom install and unselect those options.
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