It makes sense that those with a lot of money would hire the best lawyers. Now that Obama chooses the cream of the crop, suddenly these guys are somehow no good?
They are paid to do their job. If their job is prosecute then they will do it to the best of their ability, if it is to defend they will do that. If deciding between prosecution and defence then they will do that. There are two sorts of lawyers, IMHO, those that will do the bidding of who ever pays them the most and the other who has principles. I get the feeling the vast majority fall into the first category.
The biggest loser here could indeed by the RIAA, since some of the best lawyers are no longer available and are now working in the interests of the federal government. I wouldn't be surprised if these now judges, formerly lawyers, are quite capable of turning the tables.
I was coding in portable building, (looks like a shipping container), in high summer. No a/c, no breeze... I was working with two cute and VERY well-endowed female coworkers who decided to skip bras and wear the smallest cut-away T shirts possible. Oh, and thin summer mini-skirts.
They might just as well have been naked.
Well you have earned your/. badge: despite the offerings you managed to concentrate on the code;) Heck, you should have suggested you go have a drink after work.
Why is there so much resentment over Microsoft's different OS versions? How is this different than what almost all major software publishers offer? If you liken it to Adobe, you could compare the super ultimate version to CS, and Windows 7 Starter to Elements. Sure, the professional needs all the plugins, but your parents don't and won't miss the difference.
Sure, but in my mind there is simple 'desktop' and 'server', and corresponds to Ubuntu and CentOS. At the same time I consider all the other distributions as competing products from different companies. At the same time, with Linux I know if I choose the wrong version, it is financially easy to correct my mistake. The same can't be said for Windows and the other issue is takes a whole lot me of marketing speak translation to know which one you really need.
Can someone remind why they did it this way again, other than for annoyance? Whatever good reason they had is probably nullified by the fact people try to remove it, because of its annoying behaviour. Please just let me know when I use the application, and not when I haven't opened the application for over a month.
On MacOS X Sparkle is a nice way to go about things, and something I would like to see ported to other platforms.
First it's 84% of IT pros [zdnet.com] and now it's 83% of businesses? Might have something to do with these surveys being carried out on a submission basis, where the only people who respond are a minority that are either passionate "must-have-the-latest-version" fanatics or passionate "anything-other-than-XP-sucks" fanatics. The apathetic majority isn't taken into account.
Yup, this is why I prefer to base myself on real market statistics. People often don't know what they'll do until its time to buy.
My reasons for not wanting to move to Windows 7 is pretty much the same reason for not moving to Vista:
- Windows 7 feels like a Vista 2
- Windows XP works well enough
- I get the feeling that real people weren't taken into account with some of the UI changes
- I don't see the "must have" features (maybe someone can convince me otherwise?)
- I don't want to reward a company that needs 6 versions of the same release
I am probably expecting too much from the OS and maybe I'll have a change of heart in six months. I can't say I'm someone who doesn't want the latest and greatest since I tend to keep up to date with whatever the latest version of my Linux Distro or MacOS X, when then there hardware is covered. These latter two probably have their own issues, but apparently I am capable of overlooking them for whatever reason.
what if these online people express a view that does not flatter one of your advertisers. Would you take them seriously then.
The irony here is that a readership who feels involved in the publication, is probably going to come back more often. For an advertiser this means being exposed to negative comments, yet at the same time have more chance to influence said eyeballs.
I'm concerned that after reading the article, and apt-p2p's FAQ page, that I can't find any guide to how much upload bandwidth this thing will use. While I'm all for sharing, I find it important to cap my upload speed so my connection performs well on other stuff I'm doing, and also stop uploading once I'm at 1:1 sharing or so. Some of us pay if we use too much bandwidth!
I hope that there is still an option to limit the downloads to mirrors, otherwise at company I work at I will probably be unable install/upgrade anything. This is because while they do tolerate a 1GB download, they don't tolerate P2P style behaviour.
If by recently you mean in the past 6 months, I am terribly puzzled by this, as all currently shipping Precisions use the Intel 82567LM chipset, which has a direct download from Intel's website here [intel.com].
I mean the past six months. I wasn't aware of the download from Intel, though neither Red Hat or Dell had links to the driver. For me if the operating system is sold with the hardware, then it should have all the necessary drivers bundled. Asking someone to work out where the driver can be downloaded from is not really acceptable.
I have 13 e-mail addresses. E-mail the public one, and you get sent a riddle, which if you answer correctly gets you the next e-mail address. Each riddle is more fiendish than the last, and nobody has reached the 13th e-mail address
I just redirect them all to dev null. Now everyone just ignores me:)
Ah see this is why the original poster didn't bother, since you were nice enough to do it for him. Well there is that and/. tradition of only reading the article summary - tradition is sacred, well that's what they tell me.
To clarify: At work we recently ordered a Dell Precision Mobile Workstation (forget which exact model it is) with Red Hat Linux preinstalled. When we got it we found that it did not have the necessary drivers for the Ethernet port (wireless worked fine) or the audio output device. Going to Dell's and Red Hat's web site resulted in nothing. We scrounged around the internet, but find some partly working solutions. In the end we just ended up installing Ubuntu which worked out of the box.
For me this is the sort of thing that makes Linux look bad and PCs in general look bad. It is if they don't care. For me it unacceptable for a computer to be supplied with an operating system that does not support completely the hardware it is bundled with, whether it is due to missing drivers or something else.
I blame Dell here for being to lazy to ensure quality of product. Techies may be the primary market for the product, but techies don't want to spend time fixing someone else's fuck-ups either.
I think the moral of this story is backup your data, even when it's on a flash based drive, and don't code directly on a cheap thumb drive:)
Yup, this is important, but then again this important because for me the single biggest cause for data loss related to thumb-drives is: loss of drive.
I would like to say that I am very careful with my drives, but the truth is the loop holding the drive to the key chain is usually very weak. There is also the person is in question which has something to do with it, but that is a little harder to change.
I am currently taking a class on solid state devices, and we just talked about how MOSFETs would fail. Basically, a high voltage to the gate would create these electrons that have so much kinetic energy that they create pairs of opposing charges (electron-hole pairs) in what was supposed to be the insulator. These pairs of charges would create an internal electric field inside the insulator. This process reduces the barrier for tunneling to occur, so more electrons are able to tunnel through the insulator and do the same thing, creating a runaway effect.
This being the case, is there any way to isolate the chips from voltage spikes, either on the computer side or on the card?
Since we are talking XMPP/Jabber, I would be interested to see the User Gaming specification implemented by XMPP messengers. This would make a nice open cross-platform alternative to XFire and the likes.
I noticed someone elsewhere suggested implementing this and then grafting a XFire compatibility layer around it, so that people could migrate to the open platform.
I don't know how it is like on Windows Vista or Windows 7, but on MacOS X there is a 'backup and install' option. Basically this renames the existing system folder and then install the new one.
From my experience with Windows XP, is that any time you wanted to reinstall the OS you would have to reinstall tons of other software, simply because the registry gets recreated from scratch. These programs can't deal with recreating the missing data, so you are force to reinstall the application. This is a major pain in the butt. Of course, things with Microsoft's latest systems may have improved. Can anyone tell me whether it has?
Sometimes, the captchas are ALWAYS unsolvable, like one site that uses complimentary colours of the same intensity. That works well unless you can't read text on a complimentary colour background, in which case you're always fscked. I am one of those.
Sounds like an animated captcha could be an alternative approach, since here you could vary the intensity over time. Of course the animated captcha should only be server generated series of bitmaps or vectors, and not be client generated (Flash would fail), for obvious reasons.
Has anyone recorded earthquake prediction measurements and compared them? I would be curious to know which ones have been closest to the mark and on what frequency? I suspect different measurements are likely to be right some of the time, but not all the time, because the seismic triggers may vary from region to region.
Computer data is not fixed though. It would surely be possible to take a high quality jpeg file and construct a realistic RAW file with a given serial number such that, when converted to a jpeg would be bit for bit identical with the original. I'm not aware of any such software and perhaps it would be difficult but thats not always a barrier.. computers are hellish good at data processing, after all.
You make a good point, and this is a reason I always suspect of any electronic document as being legally binding. Anything that can be represented by 1s and 0s can be faked. On the other hand send the original by mail, in a sealed envelope which you never open is probably a safer bet, since at least in this case the date stamp is by an independent third party.
There a number of different types of copyright infringers, including the accidental, the casual, the professional and the sharks. For me the sharks are the ones who are likely to try to tamper with the original watermarks for personal gain, and the ones that you should protect yourself against. At the same time nobody really expects themselves to be in the sort of situation this designer is in.
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It makes sense that those with a lot of money would hire the best lawyers. Now that Obama chooses the cream of the crop, suddenly these guys are somehow no good?
They are paid to do their job. If their job is prosecute then they will do it to the best of their ability, if it is to defend they will do that. If deciding between prosecution and defence then they will do that. There are two sorts of lawyers, IMHO, those that will do the bidding of who ever pays them the most and the other who has principles. I get the feeling the vast majority fall into the first category.
The biggest loser here could indeed by the RIAA, since some of the best lawyers are no longer available and are now working in the interests of the federal government. I wouldn't be surprised if these now judges, formerly lawyers, are quite capable of turning the tables.
I was coding in portable building, (looks like a shipping container), in high summer. No a/c, no breeze... I was working with two cute and VERY well-endowed female coworkers who decided to skip bras and wear the smallest cut-away T shirts possible. Oh, and thin summer mini-skirts.
They might just as well have been naked.
Well you have earned your /. badge: despite the offerings you managed to concentrate on the code ;) Heck, you should have suggested you go have a drink after work.
Why is there so much resentment over Microsoft's different OS versions? How is this different than what almost all major software publishers offer? If you liken it to Adobe, you could compare the super ultimate version to CS, and Windows 7 Starter to Elements. Sure, the professional needs all the plugins, but your parents don't and won't miss the difference.
Sure, but in my mind there is simple 'desktop' and 'server', and corresponds to Ubuntu and CentOS. At the same time I consider all the other distributions as competing products from different companies. At the same time, with Linux I know if I choose the wrong version, it is financially easy to correct my mistake. The same can't be said for Windows and the other issue is takes a whole lot me of marketing speak translation to know which one you really need.
Someone add a feature to turn it off completely.
Can someone remind why they did it this way again, other than for annoyance? Whatever good reason they had is probably nullified by the fact people try to remove it, because of its annoying behaviour. Please just let me know when I use the application, and not when I haven't opened the application for over a month.
On MacOS X Sparkle is a nice way to go about things, and something I would like to see ported to other platforms.
First it's 84% of IT pros [zdnet.com] and now it's 83% of businesses? Might have something to do with these surveys being carried out on a submission basis, where the only people who respond are a minority that are either passionate "must-have-the-latest-version" fanatics or passionate "anything-other-than-XP-sucks" fanatics. The apathetic majority isn't taken into account.
Yup, this is why I prefer to base myself on real market statistics. People often don't know what they'll do until its time to buy.
My reasons for not wanting to move to Windows 7 is pretty much the same reason for not moving to Vista:
- Windows 7 feels like a Vista 2
- Windows XP works well enough
- I get the feeling that real people weren't taken into account with some of the UI changes
- I don't see the "must have" features (maybe someone can convince me otherwise?)
- I don't want to reward a company that needs 6 versions of the same release
I am probably expecting too much from the OS and maybe I'll have a change of heart in six months. I can't say I'm someone who doesn't want the latest and greatest since I tend to keep up to date with whatever the latest version of my Linux Distro or MacOS X, when then there hardware is covered. These latter two probably have their own issues, but apparently I am capable of overlooking them for whatever reason.
what if these online people express a view that does not flatter one of your advertisers. Would you take them seriously then.
The irony here is that a readership who feels involved in the publication, is probably going to come back more often. For an advertiser this means being exposed to negative comments, yet at the same time have more chance to influence said eyeballs.
I'm concerned that after reading the article, and apt-p2p's FAQ page, that I can't find any guide to how much upload bandwidth this thing will use. While I'm all for sharing, I find it important to cap my upload speed so my connection performs well on other stuff I'm doing, and also stop uploading once I'm at 1:1 sharing or so. Some of us pay if we use too much bandwidth!
I hope that there is still an option to limit the downloads to mirrors, otherwise at company I work at I will probably be unable install/upgrade anything. This is because while they do tolerate a 1GB download, they don't tolerate P2P style behaviour.
Whereas in Europe you can head over to a pub to relax and chit chat, in AMERICA (and English Canada) it is completely frowned upon.
Its an anglo-saxon thing. It isn't much better in the UK, believe me.
If by recently you mean in the past 6 months, I am terribly puzzled by this, as all currently shipping Precisions use the Intel 82567LM chipset, which has a direct download from Intel's website here [intel.com].
I mean the past six months. I wasn't aware of the download from Intel, though neither Red Hat or Dell had links to the driver. For me if the operating system is sold with the hardware, then it should have all the necessary drivers bundled. Asking someone to work out where the driver can be downloaded from is not really acceptable.
I have 13 e-mail addresses. E-mail the public one, and you get sent a riddle, which if you answer correctly gets you the next e-mail address. Each riddle is more fiendish than the last, and nobody has reached the 13th e-mail address
I just redirect them all to dev null. Now everyone just ignores me :)
Lets give them a big hand of applause ... 'hand' get it? ... oh dear I need my coffee.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Prof.+Pamela+Samuelson [lmgtfy.com]
Ah see this is why the original poster didn't bother, since you were nice enough to do it for him. Well there is that and /. tradition of only reading the article summary - tradition is sacred, well that's what they tell me.
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... or maybe Red Hat is.
To clarify: At work we recently ordered a Dell Precision Mobile Workstation (forget which exact model it is) with Red Hat Linux preinstalled. When we got it we found that it did not have the necessary drivers for the Ethernet port (wireless worked fine) or the audio output device. Going to Dell's and Red Hat's web site resulted in nothing. We scrounged around the internet, but find some partly working solutions. In the end we just ended up installing Ubuntu which worked out of the box.
For me this is the sort of thing that makes Linux look bad and PCs in general look bad. It is if they don't care. For me it unacceptable for a computer to be supplied with an operating system that does not support completely the hardware it is bundled with, whether it is due to missing drivers or something else.
I blame Dell here for being to lazy to ensure quality of product. Techies may be the primary market for the product, but techies don't want to spend time fixing someone else's fuck-ups either.
Nice to meet you, Spartacus. I'm Spartacus10000221, the 10000221st of the name.
Genius. How great would it be if Slashdot changed 'Anonymous Coward' to Lone Wolf for a few weeks?
I would rather push for "OMG Ponies" instead, as this would certainly make the report more fun to read ;)
"Lone wolf" sound MUCH better than anonymous coward!
Yeah, this certainly has a better ring than the counselling group for "ACA" - Anonymous Cowards Anonymous.
I think the moral of this story is backup your data, even when it's on a flash based drive, and don't code directly on a cheap thumb drive :)
Yup, this is important, but then again this important because for me the single biggest cause for data loss related to thumb-drives is: loss of drive.
I would like to say that I am very careful with my drives, but the truth is the loop holding the drive to the key chain is usually very weak. There is also the person is in question which has something to do with it, but that is a little harder to change.
I am currently taking a class on solid state devices, and we just talked about how MOSFETs would fail. Basically, a high voltage to the gate would create these electrons that have so much kinetic energy that they create pairs of opposing charges (electron-hole pairs) in what was supposed to be the insulator. These pairs of charges would create an internal electric field inside the insulator. This process reduces the barrier for tunneling to occur, so more electrons are able to tunnel through the insulator and do the same thing, creating a runaway effect.
This being the case, is there any way to isolate the chips from voltage spikes, either on the computer side or on the card?
Since we are talking XMPP/Jabber, I would be interested to see the User Gaming specification implemented by XMPP messengers. This would make a nice open cross-platform alternative to XFire and the likes.
I noticed someone elsewhere suggested implementing this and then grafting a XFire compatibility layer around it, so that people could migrate to the open platform.
Is this something that would interest any /.ers?
I don't know how it is like on Windows Vista or Windows 7, but on MacOS X there is a 'backup and install' option. Basically this renames the existing system folder and then install the new one.
From my experience with Windows XP, is that any time you wanted to reinstall the OS you would have to reinstall tons of other software, simply because the registry gets recreated from scratch. These programs can't deal with recreating the missing data, so you are force to reinstall the application. This is a major pain in the butt. Of course, things with Microsoft's latest systems may have improved. Can anyone tell me whether it has?
Sometimes, the captchas are ALWAYS unsolvable, like one site that uses complimentary colours of the same intensity. That works well unless you can't read text on a complimentary colour background, in which case you're always fscked. I am one of those.
Sounds like an animated captcha could be an alternative approach, since here you could vary the intensity over time. Of course the animated captcha should only be server generated series of bitmaps or vectors, and not be client generated (Flash would fail), for obvious reasons.
So if the CAPTCHA is doomed, what is the next approach? Letting spam bots go rampant over a site is not an acceptable alternative.
Has anyone recorded earthquake prediction measurements and compared them? I would be curious to know which ones have been closest to the mark and on what frequency? I suspect different measurements are likely to be right some of the time, but not all the time, because the seismic triggers may vary from region to region.
Wow, and after reading about the police in Phoenix, I almost wondered whether the heading was wrong.
Computer data is not fixed though. It would surely be possible to take a high quality jpeg file and construct a realistic RAW file with a given serial number such that, when converted to a jpeg would be bit for bit identical with the original. I'm not aware of any such software and perhaps it would be difficult but thats not always a barrier.. computers are hellish good at data processing, after all.
You make a good point, and this is a reason I always suspect of any electronic document as being legally binding. Anything that can be represented by 1s and 0s can be faked. On the other hand send the original by mail, in a sealed envelope which you never open is probably a safer bet, since at least in this case the date stamp is by an independent third party.
There a number of different types of copyright infringers, including the accidental, the casual, the professional and the sharks. For me the sharks are the ones who are likely to try to tamper with the original watermarks for personal gain, and the ones that you should protect yourself against. At the same time nobody really expects themselves to be in the sort of situation this designer is in.