There are still some guys around that remember things like Arcnet, RLL drives and ISA bus. Using a paper hole puncher to affect storage capacity. Aww yeah.
But... but some executives shook hands, and some lawyers wrote a contract, and some PR folks even wrote a press release! Surely they are to blame for this technical problem, somehow.
Or maybe the author just has an axe to grind and doesn't care how stupid his argument is.
I haven't seen so much unjustified criticism from so many people who so poorly understand the topic since... well, this being/., I guess it was yesterday.
But anyway, please read the article. It does not say what you think it says, if you only read the summary.
The iPod was ubiquitous and nearly a de facto digital music device way before they integrated wireless, which didn't happen until the iPod Touch. Nothing's being glossed over.
You'd have to look very, very hard to find a motherboard with parallel or serial connectors, from any manufacturer. I don't think I've seen either on a motherboard for several years, at a minimum.
If the file is strongly encrypted, who cares where it is? Brute-force is always a possibility, I suppose, but I doubt anyone wants your phone data badly enough to do that sort of thing. And if they do, don't use Dropbox.
Uh, this kind of debugging has been in use since the late 1980's. The only things that have changed are the vendors who build the emulators and the size of the hardware that can be emulated. Why is this amazing?
I concept isn't amazing. The scale of execution is. It's like saying that the Grand Canyon isn't amazing since your street is riddled with potholes.
They should just sue Mozilla, Microsoft, Google and Opera for providing the web browsers used to access the downloads. Then the world would finally be safe. Won't someone think of the children?
Either you have an excellent memory or you're reusing the same password on multiple sites. If you're a mere mortal, like me, and you don't want to reuse a few passwords over and over again, you need a password manager.
They didn't issue a DMCA takedown notice (which would have been perjury). They claimed that they had received one, which is either simply lying or an honest mistake.
Perjury is lying under oath during a judicial proceeding. This would not have been perjury.
How about "not at all". There's nothing "fake" about it. A DMCA takedown notice isn't sent by any government agency. It is simply a claim from a content owner to someone else, usually a content host, claiming that copyrighted content is being illegally published.
Seeing that those who disagreed, disagreed because they wanted to keep people as property...I'm thinking we did a solid on that one.
No argument that ending slavery was the right thing to do, but claiming that's the primary reason for the Civil War is revisionist history. It was an interesting time. But we're a bit off topic.
I believe states rights fell to the weaker position in the US, because in essence we were all from the same culture and strong states rights were more divisive than unifying at the time.
Actually, it's because we killed everyone who disagreed in the bloodiest war we ever fought.
As a Brit, I find your tax system very strange. Also it seems rather complex for a country that decided Bush was a good idea (I jest). Why do things differ so much from State to State?
Prior to the Civil War, the US was similar to how the EU is today. Strong state governments with a weak central one. After the Civil War, the federal government became far stronger than originally intended by the founders.
There's holes in that analogy you could drive a train through, but that's the simplest explanation I can think of.
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There are still some guys around that remember things like Arcnet, RLL drives and ISA bus. Using a paper hole puncher to affect storage capacity. Aww yeah.
It's nostalgia for those of us that actually used it.
But... but some executives shook hands, and some lawyers wrote a contract, and some PR folks even wrote a press release! Surely they are to blame for this technical problem, somehow.
Or maybe the author just has an axe to grind and doesn't care how stupid his argument is.
I haven't seen so much unjustified criticism from so many people who so poorly understand the topic since... well, this being /., I guess it was yesterday.
But anyway, please read the article. It does not say what you think it says, if you only read the summary.
The iPod was ubiquitous and nearly a de facto digital music device way before they integrated wireless, which didn't happen until the iPod Touch. Nothing's being glossed over.
Professionals care very much about price versus performance.
You'd have to look very, very hard to find a motherboard with parallel or serial connectors, from any manufacturer. I don't think I've seen either on a motherboard for several years, at a minimum.
If the file is strongly encrypted, who cares where it is? Brute-force is always a possibility, I suppose, but I doubt anyone wants your phone data badly enough to do that sort of thing. And if they do, don't use Dropbox.
Isn't this zombie-mania past its prime yet? It was funny for a while, but now it's just overplayed.
That's exactly what a zombie sympathizer would say. Traitor.
Uh, this kind of debugging has been in use since the late 1980's. The only things that have changed are the vendors who build the emulators and the size of the hardware that can be emulated. Why is this amazing?
I concept isn't amazing. The scale of execution is. It's like saying that the Grand Canyon isn't amazing since your street is riddled with potholes.
Are solar powered predator helicopters for good, or for awesome?
Presumably things could be learned that have practical applications for powered aircraft.
I saw this on This New House on the DYI network about six months ago this is really old news. Really neat news but really old news.
I didn't and had never seen it before, so I'm happy /. posted it. It's not material that ages quickly or is no longer relevant.
"Imagine a room where a band is playing. Neighbors can't hear the music, but if someone outside the room is talking, the musicians can hear it."
How does this wall mean the musicians will hear the talking over their own music? Is there one-way sound air coming soon too?
They're just trying to explain the concept in very simple terms. Read the abstract instead if you're going to be pedantic.
They should just sue Mozilla, Microsoft, Google and Opera for providing the web browsers used to access the downloads. Then the world would finally be safe. Won't someone think of the children?
Either you have an excellent memory or you're reusing the same password on multiple sites. If you're a mere mortal, like me, and you don't want to reuse a few passwords over and over again, you need a password manager.
They didn't issue a DMCA takedown notice (which would have been perjury). They claimed that they had received one, which is either simply lying or an honest mistake.
Perjury is lying under oath during a judicial proceeding. This would not have been perjury.
Exactly how illegal is this? My guess is "very."
How about "not at all". There's nothing "fake" about it. A DMCA takedown notice isn't sent by any government agency. It is simply a claim from a content owner to someone else, usually a content host, claiming that copyrighted content is being illegally published.
Seeing that those who disagreed, disagreed because they wanted to keep people as property...I'm thinking we did a solid on that one.
No argument that ending slavery was the right thing to do, but claiming that's the primary reason for the Civil War is revisionist history. It was an interesting time. But we're a bit off topic.
I believe states rights fell to the weaker position in the US, because in essence we were all from the same culture and strong states rights were more divisive than unifying at the time.
Actually, it's because we killed everyone who disagreed in the bloodiest war we ever fought.
As a Brit, I find your tax system very strange. Also it seems rather complex for a country that decided Bush was a good idea (I jest). Why do things differ so much from State to State?
Prior to the Civil War, the US was similar to how the EU is today. Strong state governments with a weak central one. After the Civil War, the federal government became far stronger than originally intended by the founders.
There's holes in that analogy you could drive a train through, but that's the simplest explanation I can think of.
Those who believe so are simply uninformed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_tax
First, paper folding. Then, protein folding. Then, a cure for cancer.
Then profit, of course.
I think this is the first post on /. where there wasn't a step "???" right before profit.
Assuming SPDY is a documented and patent-free protocol standard, what Google is doing is exactly what the spirit of the web is about.
How do you think standards are created?
HTTP has been in use since 1990, but the first RFC defining HTTP/1.0 wasn't until 1996. If a protocol is open, and is good, it will become a standard.