I think the tivo is cool, but I really dilike devices which require subscription services... seems like we should demand simplicity and independence.
As long as these companies continue to make devices that connect to central servers and require the company to be involved in my life beyond the purchase, then the devices will continue to be fundamentally flawed in my view and I will have trouble defending them against even these frivilous law suites.
Computers should empower people not subjugate them.
Funny they might have been screwed because they used the word keyboard in the patent... If they had said any input device then they may have had something...
But aren't hyperlinks described in early 1950's and 1960s research. I couldn't find anything, but I thought I remembered some history of the internet show talking about this a few years back.
You could also say that adding gui after the app is written complicates everything.
I was responding to the idea that security is great for a desktop, which is great if you mean security from the public network. Nobody wants people logging in to your system and deleting your work. But If you have to log out and log back in locally as another user to install basic software, then that is crap. (yes, I know about su at the command line, but I'm talking about through a desktop gui) You should be able to just type in a root or administrator password and click ok. Maybe the problem is that Linux makes no allowance for trusted environments, and is only thought of as a university OS. Sitting at open stations.
But I'll stand by my point, that security always means delay and restrictions on what you can do. That delay can be minimized, but it is always there. Sometimes it is important to protect things and sometimes it is not. It is not important to protect my computer from me installing software through the gui however...
So, if anyone is serious about linux for everyone (and they should be) then a look at permissions could help sort out some new user issues. Unless you think computer users shouldn't install their own software?
Someone said something about security being a good point for linux security... Security in general complicates the ui, so I'm sure this will be a hurdle for linux and not a help.
Having to su on the command line every time I wan't to put some file in a restricted directory... stupid. Why can't I do this through the GUI? Great for a server which you don't have to interact with all the time, but not a desktop which you want to personalize. (Remember the P in PC?)
That's what I am running now after IE 6 screwed up my win2k system. Gnome/Linux comes very close to being a nice fully featured desktop. Very responsive and simple to use and fully configurable.
My biggest complaint so far is that I have to spend too much time associating file types with applications. I'd like some more defaults...
Also, the installation for redhat 7.2 was still a bit too much for the average user. I think maybe a few small mom and pop shops could specialize in selling some systems with redhat preconfigured and we might have a market or at least force Dell to (really) support the option on the desktop.
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I couldn't find anything that confirmed that, but I've heard that for quite some time and have no reason to think otherwise. And email is very far from isolating.
This is just a bunch of out of work techies scaring tv executives into spending money on their new "copy" protection schemes. If they listen to them, then they deserve what they get... reduced viewership.
Imagine sharing of tv shows.... how many people would actually edit out the commercials? Isn't that the frigging point of tv from the executives perspective? what does it matter when someone views your show as long as they do? Keep the scramblers only on pay cable...
Retransmission? The use of the word in this context is absurd. This is like calling hooking up your vcr between your tv and the cable box "retransmission"
Screw the airlines, I want one of these: http://www.moller.com
Seriously, does anyone else think the solution to this mess is to forget about the airline industry altogether? Soon after the Hindenberg disaster, that form of transportation went away. Seems that nobody really likes to fly on airlines anyway, they are cramped, expensive and waste so much time on the ground.
This past century, Cars supplanted the railroad as the best way to go medium to long distances, So wouldn't it make sense that personal air travel would largely replace large airliners as the preferred way to travel. The rich already take their own planes wherever they want without having to go through searches or long waits in security checks. And small craft don't carry enough fuel to be a threat like Sept 11. They would still need to stay out of restricted airspace, but they do that now.
We really just need the FAA to get out of the way of travelling freedom and let more people take to the skies.
Or maybe America is too afraid to lead in this area anymore, so maybe other countries should take the lead on this. Underdeveloped countries could probably improve their economies by orders of magnitude by developing their economies around fast, cheap, reliable, point to point, small air transport.
It is truly inspiring that one of the tallest buildings in the world, the Empire State Building, was built in under a year. I was just there last weekend and visited the tower for the first time.
It was both a humbling experience and encouraging. People can do both great and horrible things when working in concert. We just need good ideas to rally around, rather than sitting idly by or doing repetitive tasks.
I don't see walking speeds being very useful, even to someone on their feet all day it would slow people down all that stopping leaning it up against a wall and then getting back on... What is wrong with a good pair of sneakers for one hundredth the cost?
But if this thing goes reasonably fast, can take hills and lasts all day then a lot of people will want them. I could see the post office buying a couple thousand of them.
Executive orders aren't exactly law. And can be changed by the president whenever he feels like it for any reason and they can sometimes remain secret.
Also, this statement covers the NSA iteself and not other agencies. Not sure about the order itself, but my reading of this FAQ leaves open the possibility that the CIA could ask a foreign government for information and circumvent the NSA. Hell, if a foreign government has information about a suspect are you going to specifically ask them to withold info that was derived from means that are illegal in the US?
Didn't know about the executive order though. Thanks.
The NSA wasn't allowed to spy on americans.. Not sure about these days. Besides they got around this possibly by getting other nations aka Great Britain to spy on the US and by sharing intelligence.
"It's the age-old debate; what follows the heart of the scientific method more? Peer review, or getting the information out as fast as possible? "
Both peer review and getting the information out there are both important. Honesty in publication is most important. If your work has not been peer reviewed, then you should just say so.
There is also a danger in peer reviewed work being too easily accepted by people even though the work itself is shoddy.
I think the problem isn't a new one. Over time certain individuals, families and now corporations accumulate things. Many of those things are needed by people and many more of those things are merely wanted by people. The "haves" realize the leverage they have and use it to in debt the "havenots". They also create a system of laws to support and perpetuate this arrangement. The only thing preventing this from becoming slavery is opportunity. Opportunity is what has made America and Americans free, if that ever fades, then so will our freedom.
Eventually, opportunity is lessened by using up our natural resources and growing our population, we should have enough resources to go around for a few billion more people, but we must make sure that our laws don't begin to exclude people from society if they don't "buy" into the dominant culture.
I for one think it is better that the big guys are getting out of the wireless internet service. It gives incentive for us little guys to get off our duff and start setting up relays and access points.
Under the requirements it lists MacOS. Useless for those of us that don't have a new mac. This isn't a serious attempt to mass market a consumer mp3 player, but rather just a way to get more money out of their customers.
whether it is cool or not doesn't matter to me, I can't use it.
"If you can keep it from forming a fuel-air-explosive."
Ummm "fuel-air-explosives" are basically made from gasoline not hydrogen. The only explosive device using hydrogen I know of is the hydrogen bomb, but they don't exactly use a match to light off those firecrackers.
The ACLU (http://aclu.org)is already very sypathetic to the issues that seem to be recurring themes here on slasdot. There are some differences. But also the Libertarian party (http://www.lp.org/)is very much against the types of infringments on freedoms that we talk about.
Although, there are pitfalls with supporting a third party in a two party system which should be under
dumb post yesterday. I am hesitant to post again so soon. but her it goes...
For speed and price, it very much makes sense for communities to roll out there own high speed internet. They should be able to do so more cheaply than the big companies because of less overhead and more quickly because they should be more driven to serve themselves.
My concern would be over local control of content which is allowed in. No doubt some local communities would try to filter out "bad" speach and writings just as they do with libraries and some cable networks. Also, what about privacy?
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I think the tivo is cool, but I really dilike devices which require subscription services... seems like we should demand simplicity and independence.
As long as these companies continue to make devices that connect to central servers and require the company to be involved in my life beyond the purchase, then the devices will continue to be fundamentally flawed in my view and I will have trouble defending them against even these frivilous law suites.
Computers should empower people not subjugate them.
Funny they might have been screwed because they used the word keyboard in the patent... If they had said any input device then they may have had something...
But aren't hyperlinks described in early 1950's and 1960s research. I couldn't find anything, but I thought I remembered some history of the internet show talking about this a few years back.
Does this sound familiar:
You "Hello, Hello, Hello?"
The phone Silence....maybe some clicking
You again, Hello? Then you realize it is an autodialer and this is an unsolicited sales call. I get one every couple days... Just make it stop!!
You could also say that adding gui after the app is written complicates everything.
I was responding to the idea that security is great for a desktop, which is great if you mean security from the public network. Nobody wants people logging in to your system and deleting your work. But If you have to log out and log back in locally as another user to install basic software, then that is crap. (yes, I know about su at the command line, but I'm talking about through a desktop gui) You should be able to just type in a root or administrator password and click ok. Maybe the problem is that Linux makes no allowance for trusted environments, and is only thought of as a university OS. Sitting at open stations.
But I'll stand by my point, that security always means delay and restrictions on what you can do. That delay can be minimized, but it is always there. Sometimes it is important to protect things and sometimes it is not. It is not important to protect my computer from me installing software through the gui however...
So, if anyone is serious about linux for everyone (and they should be) then a look at permissions could help sort out some new user issues. Unless you think computer users shouldn't install their own software?
PC used to mean "Personal Computer"
Someone said something about security being a good point for linux security... Security in general complicates the ui, so I'm sure this will be a hurdle for linux and not a help.
Having to su on the command line every time I wan't to put some file in a restricted directory... stupid. Why can't I do this through the GUI? Great for a server which you don't have to interact with all the time, but not a desktop which you want to personalize. (Remember the P in PC?)
That's what I am running now after IE 6 screwed up my win2k system. Gnome/Linux comes very close to being a nice fully featured desktop. Very responsive and simple to use and fully configurable.
My biggest complaint so far is that I have to spend too much time associating file types with applications. I'd like some more defaults...
Also, the installation for redhat 7.2 was still a bit too much for the average user. I think maybe a few small mom and pop shops could specialize in selling some systems with redhat preconfigured and we might have a market or at least force Dell to (really) support the option on the desktop.
I couldn't find anything that confirmed that, but I've heard that for quite some time and have no reason to think otherwise. And email is very far from isolating.
This is just a bunch of out of work techies scaring tv executives into spending money on their new "copy" protection schemes. If they listen to them, then they deserve what they get... reduced viewership.
Imagine sharing of tv shows.... how many people would actually edit out the commercials? Isn't that the frigging point of tv from the executives perspective? what does it matter when someone views your show as long as they do? Keep the scramblers only on pay cable...
Retransmission? The use of the word in this context is absurd. This is like calling hooking up your vcr between your tv and the cable box "retransmission"
nah... Magazines pre date their issues, so I'm betting this was okayed by apple for release, but probaly is a few hours early.
Screw the airlines, I want one of these: http://www.moller.com
Seriously, does anyone else think the solution to this mess is to forget about the airline industry altogether? Soon after the Hindenberg disaster, that form of transportation went away. Seems that nobody really likes to fly on airlines anyway, they are cramped, expensive and waste so much time on the ground.
This past century, Cars supplanted the railroad as the best way to go medium to long distances, So wouldn't it make sense that personal air travel would largely replace large airliners as the preferred way to travel. The rich already take their own planes wherever they want without having to go through searches or long waits in security checks. And small craft don't carry enough fuel to be a threat like Sept 11. They would still need to stay out of restricted airspace, but they do that now.
We really just need the FAA to get out of the way of travelling freedom and let more people take to the skies.
Or maybe America is too afraid to lead in this area anymore, so maybe other countries should take the lead on this. Underdeveloped countries could probably improve their economies by orders of magnitude by developing their economies around fast, cheap, reliable, point to point, small air transport.
It is truly inspiring that one of the tallest buildings in the world, the Empire State Building, was built in under a year. I was just there last weekend and visited the tower for the first time.
It was both a humbling experience and encouraging. People can do both great and horrible things when working in concert. We just need good ideas to rally around, rather than sitting idly by or doing repetitive tasks.
Anyone want to help me with my spaceship?
I'm glad you aren't human.
I don't see walking speeds being very useful, even to someone on their feet all day it would slow people down all that stopping leaning it up against a wall and then getting back on... What is wrong with a good pair of sneakers for one hundredth the cost?
But if this thing goes reasonably fast, can take hills and lasts all day then a lot of people will want them. I could see the post office buying a couple thousand of them.
Executive orders aren't exactly law. And can be changed by the president whenever he feels like it for any reason and they can sometimes remain secret.
Also, this statement covers the NSA iteself and not other agencies. Not sure about the order itself, but my reading of this FAQ leaves open the possibility that the CIA could ask a foreign government for information and circumvent the NSA. Hell, if a foreign government has information about a suspect are you going to specifically ask them to withold info that was derived from means that are illegal in the US?
Didn't know about the executive order though. Thanks.
The NSA wasn't allowed to spy on americans.. Not sure about these days. Besides they got around this possibly by getting other nations aka Great Britain to spy on the US and by sharing intelligence.
"It's the age-old debate; what follows the heart of the scientific method more? Peer review, or getting the information out as fast as possible? "
Both peer review and getting the information out there are both important. Honesty in publication is most important. If your work has not been peer reviewed, then you should just say so.
There is also a danger in peer reviewed work being too easily accepted by people even though the work itself is shoddy.
I assume everyone is a crackpot and try to discount all your crazy theories.
I think the problem isn't a new one. Over time certain individuals, families and now corporations accumulate things. Many of those things are needed by people and many more of those things are merely wanted by people. The "haves" realize the leverage they have and use it to in debt the "havenots". They also create a system of laws to support and perpetuate this arrangement. The only thing preventing this from becoming slavery is opportunity. Opportunity is what has made America and Americans free, if that ever fades, then so will our freedom.
Eventually, opportunity is lessened by using up our natural resources and growing our population, we should have enough resources to go around for a few billion more people, but we must make sure that our laws don't begin to exclude people from society if they don't "buy" into the dominant culture.
I for one think it is better that the big guys are getting out of the wireless internet service. It gives incentive for us little guys to get off our duff and start setting up relays and access points.
Under the requirements it lists MacOS. Useless for those of us that don't have a new mac. This isn't a serious attempt to mass market a consumer mp3 player, but rather just a way to get more money out of their customers.
whether it is cool or not doesn't matter to me, I can't use it.
It is called a Mobile Ad-hoc Network (manet) and the IETF has a working group which has come up with some protocols and such.
. ht ml
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/manet-charter
"If you can keep it from forming a fuel-air-explosive."
Ummm "fuel-air-explosives" are basically made from gasoline not hydrogen. The only explosive device using hydrogen I know of is the hydrogen bomb, but they don't exactly use a match to light off those firecrackers.
The ACLU (http://aclu.org)is already very sypathetic to the issues that seem to be recurring themes here on slasdot. There are some differences. But also the Libertarian party (http://www.lp.org/)is very much against the types of infringments on freedoms that we talk about.
Although, there are pitfalls with supporting a third party in a two party system which should be under
dumb post yesterday. I am hesitant to post again so soon. but her it goes...
For speed and price, it very much makes sense for communities to roll out there own high speed internet. They should be able to do so more cheaply than the big companies because of less overhead and more quickly because they should be more driven to serve themselves.
My concern would be over local control of content which is allowed in. No doubt some local communities would try to filter out "bad" speach and writings just as they do with libraries and some cable networks. Also, what about privacy?