This comment is definitely humourous, but doesn't it perfectly illustrate one of today's biggest hinderances to information security implementation? "Who would target me, and why should i care anyway? I have nothing to hide."
What will it take to bypass this copy protection method? We've seen Sharpies and Post-It Notes used for one other infamous copy protection scheme. Perhaps with this one, we'll need to use more technologically advanced Sharpies and Post-It Notes?
There's a rather interesting trend going on with the regulation of commercial speech in America. You can read about it here.
Just four years ago in an advertising class I took, the professor stood upon the mount and proclaimed that advertising isn't "protected free speech." Take that as you will.
Ahh, crap, I'm getting all varklempt. Talk amongst yourselves! Here, I'll give you a topic. With fax.com's assertion, the trend continues towards paid messages being allowed to be progressively more intrusive. Discuss!
These people do their creative work with a pencil. I can run the same programs they use, but can produce only mediocre art.
That's one of the best comments I've read lately on Slashdot; thanks for saying it.
There is an astounding number of people out there who are convinced that they can produce stellar visuals on the computer by simply having access to the right tools. Having the right tools is important, but having vision and drive are exponentially more important than that.
You can give a monkey a hammer and chisel, but there's not a very high chance that it'll sculpt Michealangelo's David.
I mean, sure, I enjoy working with computers and it pays okay, but I don't kid myself that it has a big positive impact on the world. In ten years no one will care much what I did last week. In a hundred years, "Casablanca" will still be worth watching.
The surprising thing is that Boucher is from one of the less technologically inclined corners of Virginia (i.e. not NOVA and not near Jefferson Labs...).
I wonder if some Slashdotters realize just *how* technologically uninclined Rep. Boucher's district is.
The "Fightin' Ninth's" major issues include assistance for tobacco farmers, improving transportation (only one major highway runs to the district), and getting *any* sort of information technology industry to locate in the area. A large portion of Virginia's ninth Congressional district is virtually impoverished, with unemployment rates in some areas being as high as *13 percent*. The region receives very little attention from Virginia's state government, being overshadowed by the fast-paced, high-tech, (incredibly fortunate) Northern Virginia/Washington DC area.
Geographically, the ninth Congressional district in Virginia stretches from the western edge of Roanoke county to the western-most area of Virginia, commonly referred to as "Southwestern Virginia." Major industries include trucking, coal mining, farming, and service businesses.
So, keeping this in mind, it truly is a considerable wonder that Rep. Boucher is interested in these issues.
Because of this fact, added to the fact that you didn't disclose your company name, nor exactly what idoes, chances are your company really deserves it. In this case, keep your head down and just accept it.
Excuse me??? I have no idea how your comment got modded "4, Insightful," as this appears to be total flamebait.
What if he's not allowed to identify what company he's working for? At many companies, it's standard policy that employees don't reveal their company's name in public forums such as Slashdot. Even if it's not company policy, it's often a smart thing to do so that someone doesn't get flooded with comments about the company they work for when they have no control over the direction of the company.
So, he doesn't say his company's name, so they are probably doing something bad and therefore are deserving of any abuse.
Guilty until proven innocent.
Terrorist until you tack a flag up in your home.
It's all sounding more and more familiar lately. *sigh*
It never ceases to amaze me that the major record companies don't see *free advertising* when it's in front of their faces.
Here's a tidbit of info I paid $300 bucks in college to learn:
There is no such thing as free advertising. By definition, advertising is when an entity pays another entity to convey a message. Included with the purchase, the entity designing the message virtually gets total control over the format and content.
If it's not being paid for, then it can't be totally controlled and so it isn't "advertising" by definition. Companies don't like that. A good impression isn't guaranteed if a company doesn't have total control over a message that's about them.
Finding ways to make OS X more OS 9-like seems to be a pattern among users of OS X (especially among those graduating from OS 9).
Those using OS X who want to implement things such the password-free login method mentioned in this article may want to think twice. Defeating the need to enter a username and password removes a layer of security from an OS that is still ironing out the kinds of problems that we find in the youth of virtually every OS.
Run Pro Tools Free on your iBook; get it from Digidesign's website. As the name implies, the software is free. It meets all the criteria you've mentioned except for live mixing, and it can do that as well if you install it on a G4 minitower and add some of Digidesign's hardware.
Congratulations, you just got some potentially expensive consulting for free.:)
If the universe stretches out infinitely in all directions, is of a density similar to here everywhere, and somehow replenishes matter lost to black holes and..stuff.. by a mechanism that we don't understand yet,
...aaaand, stop right there.
Matter isn't lost when it goes into a black hole; it ends up in the black hole's singularity, an infinitely dense point of matter in the center.
Black holes are also thought to "leak" material in the singularity back out over time.
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My office just received one of the 1GHz XServes on Friday. This new model is significantly better and $200 cheaper.
I guess that's progress for you, but we can't help but feel screwed over.
Commercial speech has little to no first amendment protection.
"Sooonny! What's a segfault? And what's a root?"
What options are likely to exist for people that do not wish to use Palladium?
If MS gets their way, I'd imagine they'd range from "eating shit" all the way to "dying."
...there's no pulldown menu on the story, so I can't mark the whole thing as "troll."
Please correct this in the next version of slashcode.
He has a consistent record of supporting electronic freedoms, and I believe he deserves credit.
Nevermind the whole little thing about when he voted FOR Internet censorship in the form of a variation on the now-infamous Communcations Decency Act.
Don't laugh. Having big corporate sponsors is becoming less and less important with new campaign finance laws.
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http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.as
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Or great hits like Anticipation and Taboo: The Sixth Sense.
This comment is definitely humourous, but doesn't it perfectly illustrate one of today's biggest hinderances to information security implementation? "Who would target me, and why should i care anyway? I have nothing to hide."
...just don't be a moron like your friend. Spray it on the cloth.
And no two towers ain't out yet, whoever wrote that story has no clue how the VCD scene works and is full of shiat.
On behalf of the entire Slashdot community, I apologize for the fact that we're not as 1337 as you.
What will it take to bypass this copy protection method? We've seen Sharpies and Post-It Notes used for one other infamous copy protection scheme. Perhaps with this one, we'll need to use more technologically advanced Sharpies and Post-It Notes?
My M1A1 Heavy was hit by an RPG during Desert Storm. I didn't even notice until we were recovering and rearming after that mission.
:)
What about if it got hit by a BFG?
There's a rather interesting trend going on with the regulation of commercial speech in America. You can read about it here.
Just four years ago in an advertising class I took, the professor stood upon the mount and proclaimed that advertising isn't "protected free speech." Take that as you will.
Ahh, crap, I'm getting all varklempt. Talk amongst yourselves! Here, I'll give you a topic. With fax.com's assertion, the trend continues towards paid messages being allowed to be progressively more intrusive. Discuss!
These people do their creative work with a pencil. I can run the same programs they use, but can produce only mediocre art.
That's one of the best comments I've read lately on Slashdot; thanks for saying it.
There is an astounding number of people out there who are convinced that they can produce stellar visuals on the computer by simply having access to the right tools. Having the right tools is important, but having vision and drive are exponentially more important than that.
You can give a monkey a hammer and chisel, but there's not a very high chance that it'll sculpt Michealangelo's David.
I mean, sure, I enjoy working with computers and it pays okay, but I don't kid myself that it has a big positive impact on the world. In ten years no one will care much what I did last week. In a hundred years, "Casablanca" will still be worth watching.
Aram Fingal agrees with you on all counts.
The surprising thing is that Boucher is from one of the less technologically inclined corners of Virginia (i.e. not NOVA and not near Jefferson Labs...).
I wonder if some Slashdotters realize just *how* technologically uninclined Rep. Boucher's district is.
The "Fightin' Ninth's" major issues include assistance for tobacco farmers, improving transportation (only one major highway runs to the district), and getting *any* sort of information technology industry to locate in the area. A large portion of Virginia's ninth Congressional district is virtually impoverished, with unemployment rates in some areas being as high as *13 percent*. The region receives very little attention from Virginia's state government, being overshadowed by the fast-paced, high-tech, (incredibly fortunate) Northern Virginia/Washington DC area.
Geographically, the ninth Congressional district in Virginia stretches from the western edge of Roanoke county to the western-most area of Virginia, commonly referred to as "Southwestern Virginia." Major industries include trucking, coal mining, farming, and service businesses.
So, keeping this in mind, it truly is a considerable wonder that Rep. Boucher is interested in these issues.
Because of this fact, added to the fact that you didn't disclose your company name, nor exactly what idoes, chances are your company really deserves it. In this case, keep your head down and just accept it.
Excuse me??? I have no idea how your comment got modded "4, Insightful," as this appears to be total flamebait.
What if he's not allowed to identify what company he's working for? At many companies, it's standard policy that employees don't reveal their company's name in public forums such as Slashdot. Even if it's not company policy, it's often a smart thing to do so that someone doesn't get flooded with comments about the company they work for when they have no control over the direction of the company.
So, he doesn't say his company's name, so they are probably doing something bad and therefore are deserving of any abuse.
Guilty until proven innocent.
Terrorist until you tack a flag up in your home.
It's all sounding more and more familiar lately. *sigh*
didn't take their "irony pills" this morning.
Irony would be if your Windows boxed blue-screened just after you submitted that comment.
Cheesy retorts written as Anonymous Coward: a Slashdot tradition since 1997.
Why play stereo music (2-channel) when you could have surround (5.1-channel)?
I always tell my friends that I'll get a 5.1 surround sound system when I grow an extra three ears.
It never ceases to amaze me that the major record companies don't see *free advertising* when it's in front of their faces.
Here's a tidbit of info I paid $300 bucks in college to learn:
There is no such thing as free advertising. By definition, advertising is when an entity pays another entity to convey a message. Included with the purchase, the entity designing the message virtually gets total control over the format and content.
If it's not being paid for, then it can't be totally controlled and so it isn't "advertising" by definition. Companies don't like that. A good impression isn't guaranteed if a company doesn't have total control over a message that's about them.
Finding ways to make OS X more OS 9-like seems to be a pattern among users of OS X (especially among those graduating from OS 9).
Those using OS X who want to implement things such the password-free login method mentioned in this article may want to think twice. Defeating the need to enter a username and password removes a layer of security from an OS that is still ironing out the kinds of problems that we find in the youth of virtually every OS.
Run Pro Tools Free on your iBook; get it from Digidesign's website. As the name implies, the software is free. It meets all the criteria you've mentioned except for live mixing, and it can do that as well if you install it on a G4 minitower and add some of Digidesign's hardware.
:)
Congratulations, you just got some potentially expensive consulting for free.
If the universe stretches out infinitely in all directions, is of a density similar to here everywhere, and somehow replenishes matter lost to black holes and ..stuff.. by a mechanism that we don't understand yet,
...aaaand, stop right there.
Matter isn't lost when it goes into a black hole; it ends up in the black hole's singularity, an infinitely dense point of matter in the center.
Black holes are also thought to "leak" material in the singularity back out over time.