Why are people apologising for this recommendation? IMHO, this is actually a fairly good recommendation!
POTA is a movie about civil rights, in this case across species, not races. One species (the monkeys/gorillas) effectively enslaves another species (humans) and the base message of the movie is about the struggle for emancipation by this enslaved species.
So exactly how is a movie about enslavement and emancipation not related to real life civil rights issues?
I'm not American so I'm not really exposed to this over-the-top sensitive PC stuff, but this seems just silly to me. Franky, I find the people who did the complaining about this issue offensive and ignorant.
Go read up on Netflow. This is basically exactly what they want - a log of all packet flows.
Current there is no router that can log at a 1:1 sampling rate for any modern ISP traffic flows. The Juniper routers at ISP I work can sample traffic at 1:2000 before they crap out (this is about 25Gbit traffic). Now asking us to do it at 1:1?? It'll take a couple of years for any router vendor to offer that, and with the rate traffic is increasing, they may never catch up.
NoScript only lets me whitelist sites. I'd use it if I could have it allow by default and blacklist certain sites.
Why? Because rather than being of the "i hate JS and only want to run it in certain places" type, I'm an "let it run but i'll turn it off on annoying sites" person.
They will also want to eliminate the p2p aspect of it. From the article:
"Audible Magic involves getting the fingerprints for all songs," said a QC acting for Sharman, John Ireland. "You put a black box between two peers and if someone wants to copy something on the list, you can't do it," he said.
They want to basically make all transfers centralised through this black box, making Kazaa nothing more than a glorified web-based download service.
Not that it matters to anyone...does anyone use Kazaa anyway? Those who want to obtain their music via questionable means probably use other services nowadays.
Similar to Australia and the UK. Pretty much every powerpoint is required by law to have an individual switch, which is also a safety bonus. When growing up, it's drilled into you to turn off the power before plugging/unplugging a device.
I'm scared of the European sockets, which are rarely earthed, non-polarised (no active/neutral differentiation) and unswitched (scared me for a while, as I was brought up to turn a switch off before unplugging). Dangerous buggers, not to mention the floating chassis on PCs (love that tingle if you cross the chassis with a heater or somesuch).
So far google has resisted censoring imagery, but how much longer can they hold out?
The/. crowd is one that's all for open-ness (and the public availability of imagery tends to favour this), but politics is not known for making logical decisions. It will probably take one major criminal incident (aka terrorist attack) to occur where there's proof of GE being used, at that point perhaps google will cave.
Personally I hope this never happens, but you can never tell what will happen...
This seems to be a unique problem to US mobile phone markets. Why the hell do they require the phone company's own phone?
In any other part of the world, you buy your own phone from wherever you choose (even another country) and just plug in a sim card from your chosen provider and it just works.
If any provier here tried to pull those tricks, the market would take care of the problem very quickly.
Is GSM actually getting any foothold in the US market?
Here in the Netherlands, the country's media was recently abuzz for a while over news of a puma living in the forests here. Given the tiny nation here is not much bigger than tasmania and with 16m people, it got locals rather nervous:
No that is not secure - it's still trivial to determine the right information.
American and Australian banks need to take a leaf out of the books from the European banks (erm the good ones anyway). To log in to my ABN AMRO account, I need the following:
- My ATM card with a chip in it (not just magstripe). - A little calculator doohickie - My ATM PIN
To log into the site, you give it the ATM card number (printed on the card), then it presents you with an 8 digit number. Pop your card in the doohickie, type in your PIN then the 8 digit number, and it gives you a 6 digit number back that you type back into the site (takes under 10 seconds).
This has to be done to login and to make transactions.
Someone would need all three to successfully phish, at which point you're probably being held at gunpoint anyway and they might as well march you to an ATM to skim you.
Anyone know if region-free DVD players are also openly sold in australia?
It's fairly easy to thus deduce that large retailers can also sell region free DVD players, and in fact even have those same large retailers sell pre-modded consoles, not just the small shop on the corner.
In other matters, it also looks like precedent is set that merely "using a copyrighted work" does not constitute infringement, a tactic that some have used before against others (as in "copying to memory is infringement").
Looking at the patent, it looks quite specific. Example:
selecting a category in the first display screen of the portable media player;
displaying the subcategories belonging to the selected category in a listing presented in the second display screen;
selecting a subcategory in the second display screen;
displaying the items belonging to the selected subcategory in a listing presented in the third display screen; and
accessing at least one track based on a selection made in one of the display screens.
Never seen an iPod screen, but it should be simple enough to have the first screen of the ipod not actually show categories, but simply "Select track".
Surely there's a way to bypass the patent (if it does turn out that it's not overturned).
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Why are people apologising for this recommendation? IMHO, this is actually a fairly good recommendation!
POTA is a movie about civil rights, in this case across species, not races. One species (the monkeys/gorillas) effectively enslaves another species (humans) and the base message of the movie is about the struggle for emancipation by this enslaved species.
So exactly how is a movie about enslavement and emancipation not related to real life civil rights issues?
I'm not American so I'm not really exposed to this over-the-top sensitive PC stuff, but this seems just silly to me. Franky, I find the people who did the complaining about this issue offensive and ignorant.
You mean the "microsoft-french-division-surrenders dept'...
just 5 minutes on procmail and bash scripting left me with *plenty* of time to be with my woman :)
Its the geeks who don't automate tasks that fail to get laid...
I've kept every spam caught by myself or spamassassin for the past couple of years and have just checked the top 10 subjects of the spam caught:
380 Subject: Remember the old days?
442 Subject: Impotence treatment
443 Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender
467 Subject: Re:
534 Subject: Message subject
861 Subject: New product! Cialis soft tabs.
932 Subject: Tadalafil Soft Tabs - Great results!
933 Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
1024 Subject: The Ultimate Online Pharmaceutical
1030 Subject: failure notice
Not sure how accurate this is, but it's all from SA. Seems I'm targetted for pharmaceuticals (though i dont need them, really!)
Go read up on Netflow. This is basically exactly what they want - a log of all packet flows.
Current there is no router that can log at a 1:1 sampling rate for any modern ISP traffic flows. The Juniper routers at ISP I work can sample traffic at 1:2000 before they crap out (this is about 25Gbit traffic). Now asking us to do it at 1:1?? It'll take a couple of years for any router vendor to offer that, and with the rate traffic is increasing, they may never catch up.
NoScript only lets me whitelist sites. I'd use it if I could have it allow by default and blacklist certain sites.
Why? Because rather than being of the "i hate JS and only want to run it in certain places" type, I'm an "let it run but i'll turn it off on annoying sites" person.
They will also want to eliminate the p2p aspect of it. From the article:
"Audible Magic involves getting the fingerprints for all songs," said a QC acting for Sharman, John Ireland. "You put a black box between two peers and if someone wants to copy something on the list, you can't do it," he said.
They want to basically make all transfers centralised through this black box, making Kazaa nothing more than a glorified web-based download service.
Not that it matters to anyone...does anyone use Kazaa anyway? Those who want to obtain their music via questionable means probably use other services nowadays.
Or in Australia, already recovering from your Friday hangover. Or in Europe, just waking up and feeling the hangover.
:)
You Americans are so behind the times!
Similar to Australia and the UK. Pretty much every powerpoint is required by law to have an individual switch, which is also a safety bonus. When growing up, it's drilled into you to turn off the power before plugging/unplugging a device.
I'm scared of the European sockets, which are rarely earthed, non-polarised (no active/neutral differentiation) and unswitched (scared me for a while, as I was brought up to turn a switch off before unplugging). Dangerous buggers, not to mention the floating chassis on PCs (love that tingle if you cross the chassis with a heater or somesuch).
This is slashdot. We like free software!
http://www.truecrypt.org/
Encrypted disks, crossplatform (win/lin).
As pointed out many times, turn off Java in the OOo options. It will start a *lot* faster.
This is slashdot. Please simplify your explanation for us in terms of variables. Vis:
root@laws> cat law_x
$PENALTY_UNIT = 110;
root@laws> cat law_y
include 'law_x';
[..]
$penalty_for_crime = 2000 * $PENALTY_UNIT;
(At a later date...)
root@laws> vi law_x
root@laws> cat law_x
[...]
$PENALTY_UNIT = <something else>;
Many organisations and governments around the world have expressed these sorts of fears about GE.
/. crowd is one that's all for open-ness (and the public availability of imagery tends to favour this), but politics is not known for making logical decisions. It will probably take one major criminal incident (aka terrorist attack) to occur where there's proof of GE being used, at that point perhaps google will cave.
Not long ago, the operators of Australia's only nuclear reactor expressed concern about GE.
Korea (both north and south) have expressed their concerns about it.
The Dutch have expressed concern.
Even in Russia they are nervous.
So far google has resisted censoring imagery, but how much longer can they hold out?
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Personally I hope this never happens, but you can never tell what will happen...
Does that mean it's full of holes?
*rimshot*
This seems to be a unique problem to US mobile phone markets. Why the hell do they require the phone company's own phone?
In any other part of the world, you buy your own phone from wherever you choose (even another country) and just plug in a sim card from your chosen provider and it just works.
If any provier here tried to pull those tricks, the market would take care of the problem very quickly.
Is GSM actually getting any foothold in the US market?
Here in the Netherlands, the country's media was recently abuzz for a while over news of a puma living in the forests here. Given the tiny nation here is not much bigger than tasmania and with 16m people, it got locals rather nervous:
details at expatica
No that is not secure - it's still trivial to determine the right information.
American and Australian banks need to take a leaf out of the books from the European banks (erm the good ones anyway). To log in to my ABN AMRO account, I need the following:
- My ATM card with a chip in it (not just magstripe).
- A little calculator doohickie
- My ATM PIN
To log into the site, you give it the ATM card number (printed on the card), then it presents you with an 8 digit number. Pop your card in the doohickie, type in your PIN then the 8 digit number, and it gives you a 6 digit number back that you type back into the site (takes under 10 seconds).
This has to be done to login and to make transactions.
Someone would need all three to successfully phish, at which point you're probably being held at gunpoint anyway and they might as well march you to an ATM to skim you.
Anyone know if region-free DVD players are also openly sold in australia?
It's fairly easy to thus deduce that large retailers can also sell region free DVD players, and in fact even have those same large retailers sell pre-modded consoles, not just the small shop on the corner.
In other matters, it also looks like precedent is set that merely "using a copyrighted work" does not constitute infringement, a tactic that some have used before against others (as in "copying to memory is infringement").
No wonder it took 2-3 years. He's a bloody consultant- it's in these people's interest to drag projects on forever!
Every singel time I've seen a consultant used for some software project, it ends up taking ten times longer than an inhouse person.
clasic web cartoon with their take on the 40 year old slurpee.
to the term "catalytic convertor"...
Never seen an iPod screen, but it should be simple enough to have the first screen of the ipod not actually show categories, but simply "Select track".
Surely there's a way to bypass the patent (if it does turn out that it's not overturned).
I knew I was right when they tried to take take my coffee away from me!
Perhaps they can get their cameras out and take more hi-res photos for Google Earth and Google Maps...
(joke)
Looks like they have quite a massive plant in Arizona. See Google map.
Plenty of housing nearby for the workers too. It's almost like a whole town for them.