"It's a simple concept but the actual implementation gets a little complicated. In short, we alternate good bits with Evil bits so they cancel each other out in a matter/antimatter sort of way. It's real "star wars" technology and I can't comment further due to patents pending.
(mumble) Damn engineers. Always ruining the fun. Quit asking questions and just buy some shares in the company so I can cash out and retire at 40.(/mumble)
Hey, did you notice my thick hair and shiny teeth? Let's move on. Yes, you, there in the back. A question?..." --salesman
If this decision holds, offshoring is going to take a beating
Indian wages - American taxes = not much. Oh, but I forgot. The lowest 50% of income earners in America only pay 4% of the income taxes and because Indian salaries would wall within the lowest 50% of income, nothing really changes.
(And no, that not flamebait, it's a fact. Go to the IRS web site and look it up yourself)
Should have been named the Panopticon. A warden can watch only one person at a time. The Panopticon was designed to watch all prisoners at all times, without that prisoner's knowledge.
Either way, F that. Either the software makers tells me exactly what the hell they're doing within very well-defined boundaries, or their anti-cheat code never gets installed. So what's allowable? Watch the gameplay for typical cheats/exploits? Yeah, sure. Take snapshots of the video buffer? Yeah, for the game window. Snapshots of the whole desktop? NO way. Keylogger? Hell no.
Of course, this is going on faith (or what the game maker tells us) since, without reverse engineering (surely a violation of DMCA?) no one but the maker knows what the code can do and there's no technological way to enforce limits on the roles the software performs.
DotNet has some degree of component permissions but nothing this fine-grained. I want more control over my PC. Not less. I want each app playing in it's own well-controlled sandbox.
In short, on my system I want to be The Warden, to prevent apps like "The Warden" from watching *me*.
Things are about to get really interesting. Why? This quote from PennyArcade, updated at 6:30pm: "I don't think we can just ignore him anymore. --Gabe"
Translation: "Jack, you are about to be ridiculed like no other person in the history of the internet. Before this is over, you will be embarassed to speak your own name outloud, former friends will openly laugh in your face, children and animals will mistrust you, and you will reflexively spit at your own reflection out of disgust. And just when you think that things can't get worse, or perhaps it's all over, the fun will begin anew. "
Or, to paraphrase: "Jack, baby, you really fucked up."
>>I bet he doesn't have over 1 million friends now.
No kidding. But look on the bright side -- he has dramatically increased his chances of having at least one *very* close, long-term friend. Bubba, meet your new cellmail, "Samy."
>>the iPod keeps a record of maximum and minimum temperatures >Any source for this tidbit?
The iPod Diagnostic menu.
Restart ("Select"+"Menu") Press & hold the center button ("select") and the left button (">" buttons to navigate. Center button to select, play/pause button to exit.
Select "DRV TEMP" from the menu on the second page. Shows max, min and current temperatures.
How does the iPod hold up with sub-freezing -> 130+ degree F temperatures? I live in a state that routinely sees 110 degree days in the summer (130 is not surprising inside a closed automobile) and single-digit days in the winter. According to Apple, the iPod Operating temperature: 32 to 95 F (0 to 35 C); Non operating temperature: -4 to 113 F (-20 to 45 C)
Considering the iPod keeps a record of maximum and minimum temperatures, if you exceed either of these and experience a HDD or battery failure I'm wondering whether you'll eat the costs of replacement.
IOW, remove the iPod each time you leave the vehicle and take it with, or you risk serious damage.
Now, if I could get an iPod that communicates with the car via bluetooth that'd be ideal -- I wouldn't have to remember to plug the thing in every time I wanted to use it/remove it every time I leave the vehicle; Just keep it in my briefcase or jacket pocket and everything works.
>>Well, have fun then, cause a global network is sure going to be useful when it's not global.
How true. The internet just won't be the same without money scams from Africa, enormous quantities of porm spam from Europe, and beheading videos from the middle east.
It was unintentional, but considering the way Slashdot leans to the left, perhaps that's more appropriate... Consider it a Freudian substitution, at least.
Look on the bright side. Three years ago, investors would have been throwing money their way without a pause. Now all they get is \. ridicule and suspicious glares. Perhaps the right balance is somewhere between the two extremes. Deliver a little product, show us something, and then we'll decide. Right now it looks like "Too little, too soon."
I guess it's true, as they say in the comedy business "timing is everything."
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It's not just mp3 players, it's car stereos (especially the 1000+ watt "boom cars") and loud exhausts. Some of the cars on the streets in my town can produce sound pressures that are actually painful -- from a distance of ten feet, in another car, with the windows up!!
Even base stereo systems these days are 60+ watts. That's enough to cause substantial hearing loss in a matter of weeks if listened to repeatedly, for an hour or more per day.
I can't even imagine how profound the boomcar boyz hearing loss must be. Not that I care... karma and all that.
Ever attended a rock concert? It's a near certainty that you did permanent damage toyour high frequency hearing.
Bring lawn tools into the equation (leaf blowers, lawn mowers, chainsaws, etc.) and that == more hearing loss.
However, it's not just the under-thirty crowd. Many of our fathers served time in the military, when hearing protection meant sticking your finger in your ear before the guy next to you threw a grenade or fired a 30.06. Hearing loss didn't mean shit when your biggest concern was not being shot on a beach landing. The difference is the genX'ers are *choosing* to damage their hearing.
You've quite possibly written the stupidest thing I've ever read.
>>An exploding subway is annoying and scary, but it's not a serious threat to our way of life.
And neither is a collapsing skyscraper? Oh,well, then... what the hell. I guess we're all just overreacting! I mean, what's a few thousand countrymen dead just because some brutal fuck wants his 71 virgins? But first, before you answer that rhetorical question, I'd like to try a little test. Let me turn this around then and see how you like it.
I propose that cannibal child molestors not be arrested nor prosecuted. After all, children die all the time. And canibals only eat a few every year. What the hell? It's not a serious threat to our way of life.
Outrageous, isn't it? See. It's not about numbers, it's about INTENT. Evil is evil, and if you can't see the difference, then you're a fool at best and a co-conspirator at worst.
If you don't think that radical islamic fundamentalists will take away your precious freedoms, then you're sorely ignorant of modern and recent history. One needs look back no further than Afghanistan circa 5 years ago to find evidence of the hideous brutality of the terrorists' intent. The sore of islamic ignorance has been allowed to fester for forty years, unchecked and fueled by proceeds from drug trade and oil sale. Now, they've brought the fight to the Western World and we can either respond with fight or surrender. Radical islam is a threat to our way of life, even if cowards and fools such as you choose ignorance over courage.
>>The solution will be to stop the government from allowing companies to screw us over like this!
Oh, get off of it. The solution is to grow up and exercise the power you have as a consumer. Quit playing the victim and recognize that you're not helpless.
Companies have the freedom to create any shitty product (including this one, apparently) they way. And YOU, sir, have the freedom not to buy them. Circuit Shitty's time-expiring divx or whatever it was called is a prime example of crapware that nobody (outside of the CC boardroom) wanted. The consumers ignored it and it promptly went away.
You're not powerless, give Capitalism a chance to work. And if the market only offers one solution (one which you happen to loathe), then it would seem to me that it's a perfect time for you to enter the market with your own HDDVD solution.
>>And yet, the drug maker that supplied all these over priced pills to a single doctor in such a short time gets what? Fined? Prosecuted? No, they get richer! I love the US medical industry.
1) The pills aren't supplied to the Doctor, they're sold by individual pharmacies. The doctor writes a 'script. The patient takes that script and fills it at the location of their choice. There's no central repository for perscription information (due, in part, to privacy laws), therefore it's easy to see how, in a geographically distributed body of patients, it was difficult to detect this abuse simply from examining prescription records.
>>over priced pills 2) Over-priced? Drugs cost billions of $$s to develop and bring to market. In your perfect world, how would you compensate the pharama company for the costs of years of research, clinical trials, and FDA submission and allow them to turn enough profit to reward their shareholders/investors, and fund the research needed to discover the next generation of medicines?
Except that it doesn't work that way. Our patent system (flawed as it may be) works on rewarding patent to the first to invent, not the first to register for patent. Since Apple can demonstrate that they were shipping product well before MSFT submitted their patent applications, this should be an easy appeal for Apple to win. It's still a hassle, though and in the end the only ones who will benefit are the lawyers.
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"It's a simple concept but the actual implementation gets a little complicated. In short, we alternate good bits with Evil bits so they cancel each other out in a matter/antimatter sort of way. It's real "star wars" technology and I can't comment further due to patents pending.
..."
(mumble) Damn engineers. Always ruining the fun. Quit asking questions and just buy some shares in the company so I can cash out and retire at 40.(/mumble)
Hey, did you notice my thick hair and shiny teeth? Let's move on. Yes, you, there in the back. A question?
--salesman
If this decision holds, offshoring is going to take a beating
Indian wages - American taxes = not much. Oh, but I forgot. The lowest 50% of income earners in America only pay 4% of the income taxes and because Indian salaries would wall within the lowest 50% of income, nothing really changes.
(And no, that not flamebait, it's a fact. Go to the IRS web site and look it up yourself)
I'm just hoping they don't ban a character named "Violated" or /. will never hear the end of it.
Should have been named the Panopticon. A warden can watch only one person at a time. The Panopticon was designed to watch all prisoners at all times, without that prisoner's knowledge.
Either way, F that. Either the software makers tells me exactly what the hell they're doing within very well-defined boundaries, or their anti-cheat code never gets installed. So what's allowable? Watch the gameplay for typical cheats/exploits? Yeah, sure. Take snapshots of the video buffer? Yeah, for the game window. Snapshots of the whole desktop? NO way. Keylogger? Hell no.
Of course, this is going on faith (or what the game maker tells us) since, without reverse engineering (surely a violation of DMCA?) no one but the maker knows what the code can do and there's no technological way to enforce limits on the roles the software performs.
DotNet has some degree of component permissions but nothing this fine-grained. I want more control over my PC. Not less. I want each app playing in it's own well-controlled sandbox.
In short, on my system I want to be The Warden, to prevent apps like "The Warden" from watching *me*.
Things are about to get really interesting. Why? This quote from PennyArcade, updated at 6:30pm: "I don't think we can just ignore him anymore. --Gabe"
Translation: "Jack, you are about to be ridiculed like no other person in the history of the internet. Before this is over, you will be embarassed to speak your own name outloud, former friends will openly laugh in your face, children and animals will mistrust you, and you will reflexively spit at your own reflection out of disgust. And just when you think that things can't get worse, or perhaps it's all over, the fun will begin anew. "
Or, to paraphrase: "Jack, baby, you really fucked up."
>>Thompson resorted to mere name-calling when he couldn't win his argument.
>>
>>What a fucking moron.
Did anyone else find these two lines amusing due to their immediate proximity?
>>I bet he doesn't have over 1 million friends now.
No kidding. But look on the bright side -- he has dramatically increased his chances of having at least one *very* close, long-term friend. Bubba, meet your new cellmail, "Samy."
>>the iPod keeps a record of maximum and minimum temperatures
>Any source for this tidbit?
The iPod Diagnostic menu.
Restart ("Select"+"Menu")
Press & hold the center button ("select") and the left button (">" buttons to navigate. Center button to select, play/pause button to exit.
Select "DRV TEMP" from the menu on the second page. Shows max, min and current temperatures.
How does the iPod hold up with sub-freezing -> 130+ degree F temperatures? I live in a state that routinely sees 110 degree days in the summer (130 is not surprising inside a closed automobile) and single-digit days in the winter. According to Apple, the iPod Operating temperature: 32 to 95 F (0 to 35 C); Non operating temperature: -4 to 113 F (-20 to 45 C)
Considering the iPod keeps a record of maximum and minimum temperatures, if you exceed either of these and experience a HDD or battery failure I'm wondering whether you'll eat the costs of replacement.
IOW, remove the iPod each time you leave the vehicle and take it with, or you risk serious damage.
Now, if I could get an iPod that communicates with the car via bluetooth that'd be ideal -- I wouldn't have to remember to plug the thing in every time I wanted to use it/remove it every time I leave the vehicle; Just keep it in my briefcase or jacket pocket and everything works.
Talk about unexpected... that Apple sure can keep a secret!
The Joy of Directory Traversal Attacks
In other words, if you're in the UK, don't type "../" in a URL or you go to jail.
>>Well, have fun then, cause a global network is sure going to be useful when it's not global.
How true. The internet just won't be the same without money scams from Africa, enormous quantities of porm spam from Europe, and beheading videos from the middle east.
Gee, why didn't we think of this sooner?
>>Btw., I'd really like to hear some examples of the US carrying out UN resolutions and then getting blamed for it. Thanks in advance.
I'll take "War in Iraq" for 100, Alex.
>> this is /. not \.
It was unintentional, but considering the way Slashdot leans to the left, perhaps that's more appropriate...
Consider it a Freudian substitution, at least.
Look on the bright side. Three years ago, investors would have been throwing money their way without a pause. Now all they get is \. ridicule and suspicious glares. Perhaps the right balance is somewhere between the two extremes. Deliver a little product, show us something, and then we'll decide. Right now it looks like "Too little, too soon."
I guess it's true, as they say in the comedy business "timing is everything."
Looks more like a phishing exercise:
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Over the next few weeks, we'll be seeding invites to a few lucky folks. Sign up to find out when invites are available:
Thanks for your interest!
Email: And no, we won't spam you, sell your address or do anything else but use this info to let you know when invites are available. We hate spam just as much as you!
Oh and hey, wanna join the flock? We're hiring! So guess what? Send us your resume!
First of all, you violated the basic tenets of logic by beginning an arguem... WHAT? I'M MISSING SURVIVOR? DAMMIT!!! [dashes to television set]
It's not just mp3 players, it's car stereos (especially the 1000+ watt "boom cars") and loud exhausts. Some of the cars on the streets in my town can produce sound pressures that are actually painful -- from a distance of ten feet, in another car, with the windows up!!
Even base stereo systems these days are 60+ watts. That's enough to cause substantial hearing loss in a matter of weeks if listened to repeatedly, for an hour or more per day.
I can't even imagine how profound the boomcar boyz hearing loss must be. Not that I care... karma and all that.
Ever attended a rock concert? It's a near certainty that you did permanent damage toyour high frequency hearing.
Bring lawn tools into the equation (leaf blowers, lawn mowers, chainsaws, etc.) and that == more hearing loss.
However, it's not just the under-thirty crowd. Many of our fathers served time in the military, when hearing protection meant sticking your finger in your ear before the guy next to you threw a grenade or fired a 30.06. Hearing loss didn't mean shit when your biggest concern was not being shot on a beach landing. The difference is the genX'ers are *choosing* to damage their hearing.
Mildly funny, but also a bit irresponsible without a warning:
Folks, sudo puts you into superuser mode and executes a command, rm. rm removes files, in this case, all of them.
Unless you enjoy completely rebuilding a system and losing all your data files, don't run this command.
Another tip: never enter console commands you don't understand.
You've quite possibly written the stupidest thing I've ever read.
>>An exploding subway is annoying and scary, but it's not a serious threat to our way of life.
And neither is a collapsing skyscraper? Oh,well, then... what the hell. I guess we're all just overreacting! I mean, what's a few thousand countrymen dead just because some brutal fuck wants his 71 virgins? But first, before you answer that rhetorical question, I'd like to try a little test. Let me turn this around then and see how you like it.
I propose that cannibal child molestors not be arrested nor prosecuted. After all, children die all the time. And canibals only eat a few every year. What the hell? It's not a serious threat to our way of life.
Outrageous, isn't it? See. It's not about numbers, it's about INTENT. Evil is evil, and if you can't see the difference, then you're a fool at best and a co-conspirator at worst.
If you don't think that radical islamic fundamentalists will take away your precious freedoms, then you're sorely ignorant of modern and recent history. One needs look back no further than Afghanistan circa 5 years ago to find evidence of the hideous brutality of the terrorists' intent. The sore of islamic ignorance has been allowed to fester for forty years, unchecked and fueled by proceeds from drug trade and oil sale. Now, they've brought the fight to the Western World and we can either respond with fight or surrender. Radical islam is a threat to our way of life, even if cowards and fools such as you choose ignorance over courage.
Can J. Robert Oppenhiemer claim prior art on multi-car pileups?
>>The solution will be to stop the government from allowing companies to screw us over like this!
Oh, get off of it. The solution is to grow up and exercise the power you have as a consumer. Quit playing the victim and recognize that you're not helpless.
Companies have the freedom to create any shitty product (including this one, apparently) they way. And YOU, sir, have the freedom not to buy them. Circuit Shitty's time-expiring divx or whatever it was called is a prime example of crapware that nobody (outside of the CC boardroom) wanted. The consumers ignored it and it promptly went away.
You're not powerless, give Capitalism a chance to work. And if the market only offers one solution (one which you happen to loathe), then it would seem to me that it's a perfect time for you to enter the market with your own HDDVD solution.
>>And yet, the drug maker that supplied all these over priced pills to a single doctor in such a short time gets what? Fined? Prosecuted? No, they get richer! I love the US medical industry.
1) The pills aren't supplied to the Doctor, they're sold by individual pharmacies. The doctor writes a 'script. The patient takes that script and fills it at the location of their choice. There's no central repository for perscription information (due, in part, to privacy laws), therefore it's easy to see how, in a geographically distributed body of patients, it was difficult to detect this abuse simply from examining prescription records.
>>over priced pills
2) Over-priced? Drugs cost billions of $$s to develop and bring to market. In your perfect world, how would you compensate the pharama company for the costs of years of research, clinical trials, and FDA submission and allow them to turn enough profit to reward their shareholders/investors, and fund the research needed to discover the next generation of medicines?
If there's any intelligence in the court system...
/Yoda
Ah, young Jedi. Much to learn, you have.
Except that it doesn't work that way. Our patent system (flawed as it may be) works on rewarding patent to the first to invent, not the first to register for patent. Since Apple can demonstrate that they were shipping product well before MSFT submitted their patent applications, this should be an easy appeal for Apple to win. It's still a hassle, though and in the end the only ones who will benefit are the lawyers.