I agree with rsmith-mac and mean this in the most polite of ways...
Now I do go to idle to use up free time every so often and I would have enjoyed hearing about this story there. This is not to say that Soulskill did not recognize something that was interesting, rather like rsmith-mac stated it was not News for nerds, stuff that matters. We visit and participate here to get our nerdy fix: we have a serious addition...help us.
Just 10 months later, Kandlbauer passed his driving test and was given a specially-adapted Subaru. He returned to work as a warehouse clerk with his former employer.
The clearinghouse also intends to fight piracy by relying on a tracking system, called a “news registry,” that the AP began developing more than a year ago.
Besides detecting unauthorized use of content, the registry’s tagging system can provide insights about the people who are viewing content or the frequency with which a specific company or expert is mentioned in news coverage.
I value my privacy. My preferences are my opinions, my decisions, and my content. Perhaps they should be paying me for use of my preferences...after all I am the original content producer here!
Don't normally reply to AC, but thought why not once...:)
But they could if they put in cameras and water meters on every tap, using networked devices to relay the data.
I guess they really could if they wanted...haha
Although this is unrelated to your argument (I understand your point), restaurants must meet an "average" and even then they are allowed some margin of error. No exacts in grilling a burger when one side of the burner is hotter...The veggie burger analogy, well give the exact ingredients, to measure calories if you are going to be a purest about science, we have to burn it.
I agree with you that open wifi is not the "highly monitored" system you speak of, and I believe also that just because something can be done, does Not mean it should be done...rather I am saying there is much more personal information involved (for the average-Joe user). I do not believe that this is a good idea but rather what I meant when I said
you have a valid point in saying why the legislation likely had ground due to those other industries
was that this was likely along the lines of thought that the politicians had when they pushed this legislation.
Very true news. But someone cannot track me back for the exact water I extracted out of a faucet at 11:00pm to swallow an Advil. Rather they knew water was consumed, perhaps, but not for what purpose. The internet is different because this is a two way flow of information. AC you have a valid point in saying why the legislation likely had ground due to those other industries.
How to abuse this system (and possibly get fired) Step 1: Find some known banned words that are not easily noticed Step 2: Get access to coworker's Microsoft Word. Step 3: Set Auto-correct to change similar spelled words to these banned words. Step 4: Don't get caught.
If you're referring to the "Offtopic" rating...well that makes sense sorta. Supposed to be V for Vendetta quote but I actually never even mentioned that it was...
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine- the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, thereby those important events of the past usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, a celebration of a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night I sought to end that silence. Last night I destroyed the Old Bailey, to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you then I would suggest you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot.
Oh wait. Crap. Misplaced cliche quote... Wrong country, this is France!
I can't wait for the poor bastards to try outsourcing development to India.
Um...this is India that is developing this? I do understand the sarcasm though. On that note, from India's Economic Times
"We have to protect it (data)," Saraswat said, adding, "Only way to protect it is to have a home-grown system, the complete architecture...source code is with you and then nobody knows what's that."
He said DRDO is putting in place a dedicated team of 50 software professionals in the Bangalore and Delhi software development centres to accomplish the task.
I am not trying to be demeaning, but that is a small number of people for one task...considering this is India.
It also has the largest surface-to-weight ratio: with one gram of graphene you can cover several football pitches (in Manchester, you know, we measure surface area in football pitches).
Can someone put this in terms of American Football fields please? Or perhaps school buses will work...thanks.
Your right, smaller well formed applications and languages that include automatic garbage collection (eg Java) may completely avoid this issue. You are right in saying that it isn't every application but many applications do leak small amounts (tolerable) of memory, like Firefox on my computer. I should not have used a universal qualifier there...
Really every application leaks memory. I use Firefox and will continue to use Firefox regardless of it leaking on my desktop. Sure the portable version leaked early in Alpha stage a bit more than preferred from what I hear, but what I said was meant as a joke not an insult towards the device. My comment...
More ways to leak memory!
...also was completely ambiguous in relation to the four bullet points above I have no idea why people rated it as a troll, until I read your comment:
Sigh, I wish that meme would die a horrible death.
hedwards, I really am only halfway in tune with the latest memes it seems and I can see how my comment could have been annoying if everyone keeps on saying that memory leaks memory leaks (sorry Slashdot, oops)
There is a little red line that tells me when I am an idiot and cannot spell. I need a blue line or some different color to tell me where potential meme infringement may occur...
I will not comment on the quality of the changes made, but here is a snippet from an article comparing what is new in nice layout.
Syncs bookmarks, tabs, history, passwords, and form data to and from your phone. Firefox Sync and the Firefox Awesomebar help you enter URLs and passwords with less typing, and move seamlessly between your desktop and your mobile phone.
Lets anyone write add-ons that can customize any part of the user interface. (Dolphin HD is another Android browser with some great add-ons, but its add-ons are provided by the browser vendor.)
Uses the Jaegermonkey JIT, which is getting faster all the time. It runs JavaScript much faster than the Android 2.1 browser, and is starting to overtake the Android 2.2 browser on benchmarks in the WebKit SunSpider suite and elsewhere.
Supports web technologies like SVG, ECMAScript 5, WebM, and HTTP Strict Transport Security. Firefox for Android currently scores 217 points plus 9 bonus points on html5test.com. (Warning: Those tests can be deceptive; use them as a starting point for comparison only.)
Oh don't worry, they will integrate Adobe Flash at the kernel level in Windows. That will make everything super safe!
Or maybe integrate it into the context menus or associate it with explorer - we can only hope...
Plus with automatic updates you can be sure that updating other operating systems will become "less important", but that is okay, like everyone uses Windows right?
I am not sure if Slashdot had an article similar: Super Loud TV Commercials One Step Closer to Extinction It is referred to as the CALM Act and still is pending House approval having already passed the Senate. Convenient as elections are soon, eh?
Not as an insult. By all means, its the motivated people that get change done. Motivation however is not always morally or logically driven.
I meant it more as an ironic musing how such a shallow type insult can seem insightful to some. Don't get me wrong, however, there is ignorance and sometimes even intelligence on both sides of the isle...
The Earth is certainly not a cake, but you also have a good point there:
but I think it's foolish to just let a good resource go to waste.
Perhaps some feel the technology is here, just impeded by our current system. Making oil harder to obtain allows these systems to begin to take root. Either way there is one word that can sum this up: Politics.
I could make a cynical remark in AC about some political bias this or that...but honestly I don't think it fits here.
With this economy, green technology today is not the extent of the "green-washing" we saw during the housing bubble in 2006. I believe in many ways that a good portion of what we dub "green technology" today is rather fiscally smart investments - good for our pocket and the environment. There should be no contest to what decision Obama may have pushed...hell this is like voting to reduce the volume on commercials: it is something which just about everyone agrees.
or providing an API/RSS feed for you to know when anyone replies to you, for example?
http://slashdot.org/faq/feeds.shtml - Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the feature already exists. Just make sure your preferences are set such that you receive a message regarding a reply...
You said:
what's the problem with offering a few convinience tools like letting people login to other websites using their/. profile (using OpenID, obviously) or providing an API/RSS feed for you to know when anyone replies to you, for example?
Other websites that I go to have different user ID's, and completely original passwords. Cross contamination of passwords is a great way to lose when your password gets stolen one day. To me it is just not worth the headache.
Now for the access to all this data, the real question is for what? I think to me this could be be summed up by the text located beneath every poll I've seen on Slashdot:
This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
Got another chance to witness it today. He said he jail-broke it and got a java run-time environment similar to that on an Android running (I think he said Android...?). He then had to write some code to get the Maple environment to start up, but once it was running there isn't much of an issue he claims. He does not use VNC, however it may be a viable alternative for him on some software.
BTW that is also one of the proposed solutions for Flash on ipad, and was also proposed for playing big games on small portable hardware (Crysis on a NetBook). Except over the internet instead of the uni local net. (and thus more risks of latency problems).
Interesting, Crysis on a Netbook seems like overkill, delivering frames at any rate for a gaming environment would prove painful however. VNC from my experience has trouble keeping up at 20 fps in some scenarios even at lower resolutions. Remember we are talking wifi here so there isn't that much to work with...:)
If you take notes, i.e.: take time to digest the content of the lecture, extract key points and write down a few keyword a few sentences that you reworded to your liking, to help you remember the most important stuff - then no matter the support, notes are going to be much more helpful.
Paper notepads helped you because, apparently, you don't scribble as fast as you type. And thus you *have* to write down a condensed version of the lecture material, and thus have you brain active during the process.
Myself, I got used to re-word what's being said from secondary level, and the move to Palm for university wasn't much a change. Except perhaps that quickly drawing figures isn't that easy on a Palm and therefor I had to do even more reprocessing of the information before writing it.
Very true. I guess I find it ironic however that I have seen 3 ipads in 3 of my classes, (3/17 individuals) between the math classes and the computer science classes)
Although by far the best "hack" (yes he had to manipulate it to make it do this) was Maple on an iPad. Because our classroom has a wifi input for the display, the teacher already has toggled to his iPad screen a few times. Granted the resolution is a little weird and I have no idea how he accomplished it, but I just thought it was interesting as hell...
You know, now that I think about it I don't remember what we were doing that class, but it involved an iPad!
(yes I am still trying to figure out how the hell he got java...ah whatever)
Me I will stick to a graph pad and a pencil, writing in pencil is so satisfying; I agree I do take time to think about what I write.
where technicians must orchestrate knowledge and skills across a variety of technology products
Let me put this in real terms: submit an ___(insert name of company document here)___, IT gets overworked. End users on phone support and other end seem determined to reduce the machine from a multicore to a TI-83Plus equivalent.
This summary was obviously written by upper management...the above description has not been my experience.
(Sorry for the mean words.)
Slashdot Mirror
I agree with rsmith-mac and mean this in the most polite of ways...
Now I do go to idle to use up free time every so often and I would have enjoyed hearing about this story there. This is not to say that Soulskill did not recognize something that was interesting, rather like rsmith-mac stated it was not News for nerds, stuff that matters. We visit and participate here to get our nerdy fix: we have a serious addition...help us.
Just 10 months later, Kandlbauer passed his driving test and was given a specially-adapted Subaru. He returned to work as a warehouse clerk with his former employer.
"Only in a Subaru"
The clearinghouse also intends to fight piracy by relying on a tracking system, called a “news registry,” that the AP began developing more than a year ago.
Besides detecting unauthorized use of content, the registry’s tagging system can provide insights about the people who are viewing content or the frequency with which a specific company or expert is mentioned in news coverage.
I value my privacy. My preferences are my opinions, my decisions, and my content. Perhaps they should be paying me for use of my preferences...after all I am the original content producer here!
Don't normally reply to AC, but thought why not once... :)
But they could if they put in cameras and water meters on every tap, using networked devices to relay the data.
I guess they really could if they wanted...haha
Although this is unrelated to your argument (I understand your point), restaurants must meet an "average" and even then they are allowed some margin of error. No exacts in grilling a burger when one side of the burner is hotter...The veggie burger analogy, well give the exact ingredients, to measure calories if you are going to be a purest about science, we have to burn it.
I agree with you that open wifi is not the "highly monitored" system you speak of, and I believe also that just because something can be done, does Not mean it should be done...rather I am saying there is much more personal information involved (for the average-Joe user). I do not believe that this is a good idea but rather what I meant when I said
you have a valid point in saying why the legislation likely had ground due to those other industries
was that this was likely along the lines of thought that the politicians had when they pushed this legislation.
Very true news. But someone cannot track me back for the exact water I extracted out of a faucet at 11:00pm to swallow an Advil. Rather they knew water was consumed, perhaps, but not for what purpose. The internet is different because this is a two way flow of information. AC you have a valid point in saying why the legislation likely had ground due to those other industries.
cheers
How to abuse this system (and possibly get fired)
Step 1: Find some known banned words that are not easily noticed
Step 2: Get access to coworker's Microsoft Word.
Step 3: Set Auto-correct to change similar spelled words to these banned words.
Step 4: Don't get caught.
Confused to your question?
If you're referring to the "Offtopic" rating...well that makes sense sorta. Supposed to be V for Vendetta quote but I actually never even mentioned that it was...
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine- the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, thereby those important events of the past usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, a celebration of a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night I sought to end that silence. Last night I destroyed the Old Bailey, to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you then I would suggest you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot.
Oh wait.
Crap.
Misplaced cliche quote...
Wrong country, this is France!
cheers!
I can't wait for the poor bastards to try outsourcing development to India.
Um...this is India that is developing this? I do understand the sarcasm though.
On that note, from India's Economic Times
"We have to protect it (data)," Saraswat said, adding, "Only way to protect it is to have a home-grown system, the complete architecture...source code is with you and then nobody knows what's that."
He said DRDO is putting in place a dedicated team of 50 software professionals in the Bangalore and Delhi software development centres to accomplish the task.
I am not trying to be demeaning, but that is a small number of people for one task...considering this is India.
It also has the largest surface-to-weight ratio: with one gram of graphene you can cover several football pitches (in Manchester, you know, we measure surface area in football pitches).
Can someone put this in terms of American Football fields please? Or perhaps school buses will work...thanks.
Your right, smaller well formed applications and languages that include automatic garbage collection (eg Java) may completely avoid this issue. You are right in saying that it isn't every application but many applications do leak small amounts (tolerable) of memory, like Firefox on my computer. I should not have used a universal qualifier there...
Really every application leaks memory. I use Firefox and will continue to use Firefox regardless of it leaking on my desktop. Sure the portable version leaked early in Alpha stage a bit more than preferred from what I hear, but what I said was meant as a joke not an insult towards the device. My comment...
More ways to leak memory!
...also was completely ambiguous in relation to the four bullet points above I have no idea why people rated it as a troll, until I read your comment:
Sigh, I wish that meme would die a horrible death.
hedwards, I really am only halfway in tune with the latest memes it seems and I can see how my comment could have been annoying if everyone keeps on saying that memory leaks memory leaks (sorry Slashdot, oops)
There is a little red line that tells me when I am an idiot and cannot spell. I need a blue line or some different color to tell me where potential meme infringement may occur...
cheers
I will not comment on the quality of the changes made, but here is a snippet from an article comparing what is new in nice layout.
More ways to leak memory!
Oh don't worry, they will integrate Adobe Flash at the kernel level in Windows. That will make everything super safe!
Or maybe integrate it into the context menus or associate it with explorer - we can only hope...
Plus with automatic updates you can be sure that updating other operating systems will become "less important", but that is okay, like everyone uses Windows right?
I am not sure if Slashdot had an article similar:
Super Loud TV Commercials One Step Closer to Extinction
It is referred to as the CALM Act and still is pending House approval having already passed the Senate. Convenient as elections are soon, eh?
FYI :)
Not as an insult. By all means, its the motivated people that get change done. Motivation however is not always morally or logically driven.
I meant it more as an ironic musing how such a shallow type insult can seem insightful to some. Don't get me wrong, however, there is ignorance and sometimes even intelligence on both sides of the isle...
The Earth is certainly not a cake, but you also have a good point there:
but I think it's foolish to just let a good resource go to waste.
Perhaps some feel the technology is here, just impeded by our current system. Making oil harder to obtain allows these systems to begin to take root. Either way there is one word that can sum this up: Politics.
The planet makes them money. Think of it as a giant chocolate cake. You wouldn't want to just leave it there and have it go to waste now would you?
I could make a cynical remark in AC about some political bias this or that...but honestly I don't think it fits here.
With this economy, green technology today is not the extent of the "green-washing" we saw during the housing bubble in 2006. I believe in many ways that a good portion of what we dub "green technology" today is rather fiscally smart investments - good for our pocket and the environment. There should be no contest to what decision Obama may have pushed...hell this is like voting to reduce the volume on commercials: it is something which just about everyone agrees.
Heck, I might forget a 1 letter password, it happens I am human. Again prove I am not telling the truth.
I was going to reference Unicode, but then I remembered the Unicode "standard", if you could call it that, is about as politically correct as the U.N.
or providing an API/RSS feed for you to know when anyone replies to you, for example?
http://slashdot.org/faq/feeds.shtml - Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the feature already exists. Just make sure your preferences are set such that you receive a message regarding a reply...
what's the problem with offering a few convinience tools like letting people login to other websites using their /. profile (using OpenID, obviously) or providing an API/RSS feed for you to know when anyone replies to you, for example?
Other websites that I go to have different user ID's, and completely original passwords. Cross contamination of passwords is a great way to lose when your password gets stolen one day. To me it is just not worth the headache.
This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
BTW that is also one of the proposed solutions for Flash on ipad, and was also proposed for playing big games on small portable hardware (Crysis on a NetBook). Except over the internet instead of the uni local net. (and thus more risks of latency problems).
Interesting, Crysis on a Netbook seems like overkill, delivering frames at any rate for a gaming environment would prove painful however. VNC from my experience has trouble keeping up at 20 fps in some scenarios even at lower resolutions. Remember we are talking wifi here so there isn't that much to work with... :)
If you take notes, i.e.: take time to digest the content of the lecture, extract key points and write down a few keyword a few sentences that you reworded to your liking, to help you remember the most important stuff - then no matter the support, notes are going to be much more helpful. Paper notepads helped you because, apparently, you don't scribble as fast as you type. And thus you *have* to write down a condensed version of the lecture material, and thus have you brain active during the process. Myself, I got used to re-word what's being said from secondary level, and the move to Palm for university wasn't much a change. Except perhaps that quickly drawing figures isn't that easy on a Palm and therefor I had to do even more reprocessing of the information before writing it.
Very true. I guess I find it ironic however that I have seen 3 ipads in 3 of my classes, (3/17 individuals) between the math classes and the computer science classes)
Although by far the best "hack" (yes he had to manipulate it to make it do this) was Maple on an iPad. Because our classroom has a wifi input for the display, the teacher already has toggled to his iPad screen a few times. Granted the resolution is a little weird and I have no idea how he accomplished it, but I just thought it was interesting as hell...
You know, now that I think about it I don't remember what we were doing that class, but it involved an iPad!
(yes I am still trying to figure out how the hell he got java...ah whatever)
Me I will stick to a graph pad and a pencil, writing in pencil is so satisfying; I agree I do take time to think about what I write.
The TFA provided links to the twitter account it seems. Are there any other sources? I mean I do not trust anyone that does not speak American.
However if this is true, I say we build more pipelines so it is harder for them to enforce.
I enjoyed that, thanks Ethanol-fueled
where technicians must orchestrate knowledge and skills across a variety of technology products
Let me put this in real terms: submit an ___(insert name of company document here)___, IT gets overworked. End users on phone support and other end seem determined to reduce the machine from a multicore to a TI-83Plus equivalent.
This summary was obviously written by upper management...the above description has not been my experience.
(Sorry for the mean words.)