Think Newton. It still runs circles around the Palm, but was a commercial failure
Egg freckles?
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No DRM on iPod, as far as I can tell. This is actually a big selling point. Of course it's firmware "upgradable" but you don't have to upgrade if you don't want to.
I like it, mainly because it's small, has a nice UI, and auto-syncs with iTunes. I was thinking of buying the Archos jukebox (20GB) but might get iPod instead - though since it requires FireWire it costs me an extra $100 for a FireWire PC card. (Old powerbook)
Why? It's pretty and light, and it auto-syncs. Style and convenience matter!
Micropay system? Pain in the butt if you ask me. I'd gladly subscribe to the tune of $5-10 per month. What can I say? I'm a junkie.
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What a dumb idea. Just wait until Scientology gets a hold of those IPs, or RIAA, or any of the other bad guys we trash on a regular basis. "Anonymous" has to mean "Anonymous!"
Am I the only one on/. who actually likes it? It puts Search in an easily accessible place, which can't be bad.
Now what I would like is a customizable toolbar, a la the slashboxes. That way the trolls could have a link straight to goatse.cx at the top, and I could add some other OSDN and/or news sites I like to read - could be useful.
Yes, sleep mode is one of the huge benefits of Mac to this day. My Win98 (okay, okay, not even updated Windows, much less Linux, shoot me) Toshiba crashes on sleep 75% of the time. When it doesn't crash it takes forever to wake up. Mac wakeups are nice and fast.
BUT...
Mac reboots are still slow as molasses. As bad as or worse than win. Maybe OS X.1 fixes this?
Correct. At least this coalition has been formed, though, and perhaps with a little leadership it can be used to defeat other dumbass bills like SSSCA.
and my Mom still uses it to this day! Now I must note that it has required a new:
- motherboard
- daughterboard (twice)
- hard drive (twice)
- floppy drive
- power adapter
But it has done awfully well for itself, all things considered. I'm typing this now on my third PowerBook (G3 Bronze, preceded by the awful 5300) and this has been the most reliable yet!
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Yes. Buy shirts, mugs, soda, and other crap from ThinkGeek. I often buy stuff there, and I like to think that some of it helps out slashdot.
1) Make it so you can post anonymously, but must be logged in. Ie, (like on half-empty) your karma is still affected and there is still an internal link to your post with your account, but
nobody knows who you are.
Bad, bad, bad idea. Lots of people post stuf AC because they KNOW their identity won't be revealed - about their employers, or Scientology, or other such. Without AC this won't happen. I'll gladly take 100 goatsex posts for the few good posts that come from ACs.
And yes, I routinely post AC. It's because I don't want it on my users.pl page. Sometimes it's a flame, sometimes it's a joke, sometimes it's on a hidden sid I don't want to show off, but whatever: I think the ability to do this is one of the things that makes/. great, and they should definitely not kill it.
And when I get bored, I read at -1. It's funnier than you think sometimes.
"Funny" is the one excuse you have for modding up a post that's really offtopic or trollbait.
Which is exactly why it's there! I for one would give Funny posts a +1 bonus, and -1 all the Informatives, some days.
More seriously, I would love to see arbitrary bonuses and filtering. Let me add or subtract points for any moderation choice; high mod totals; poster's karma; +1 bonus [used / not used]; on my Friends list; on my Ignore This Person list; and so on. Could be fun.
I used to live in the Washington, DC area. About 15 years ago there was a retired guy who used to drive 55 mph (then the national speed limit, widely ignored) in the left lane of the Beltway, just to piss people off as far as anyone could tell. After a while he got a ticket for blocking traffic.
Well, really centralizing traffic in "just a few" locations would be a moronic idea. But I think they're thinking of adding these devices to peering points, where a lot of traffic does in fact go.
Wasn't there an Internet-Draft a few years ago that involved adding surveillance to basic router function, that was shot down loudly by the IETF community?
Yes, but don't forget that IPSec can be used with IPv4 which we all use now. IPSec is normally used for virtual private networks, but there's no particular reason you couldn't extend it to other services. It's not so useful for any-to-any communication (it assumes PKI availability) but perhaps this will change as users get more paranoid.
Okay, so he's preaching to the choir, just like everyone on slashdot. How is he taking the argument to those whose opinions need to be changed, notably Congress? I don't think of Congress members reading Linux kernel changelogs!
Through his own building? I find it hard to believe that he has people in the building who would tap fiber and do traffic analysis, but hey, who am I to question the premise? In this case I would agree with the oher poster that random noise running through the ipsec devices at all times would be the right choice.
Shoot me an email with "WozScript" in the subject if you'd like to
participate, and I'll give the first volunteers (it shouldn't take that many) a randomly-drawn three-minute segment to type up, as well as more
instructions on how to format it.
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Egg freckles?
No DRM on iPod, as far as I can tell. This is actually a big selling point. Of course it's firmware "upgradable" but you don't have to upgrade if you don't want to.
I just checked at the Apple Store. Oh well.
Why? It's pretty and light, and it auto-syncs. Style and convenience matter!
Micropay system? Pain in the butt if you ask me. I'd gladly subscribe to the tune of $5-10 per month. What can I say? I'm a junkie.
What a dumb idea. Just wait until Scientology gets a hold of those IPs, or RIAA, or any of the other bad guys we trash on a regular basis. "Anonymous" has to mean "Anonymous!"
Now what I would like is a customizable toolbar, a la the slashboxes. That way the trolls could have a link straight to goatse.cx at the top, and I could add some other OSDN and/or news sites I like to read - could be useful.
BUT...
Mac reboots are still slow as molasses. As bad as or worse than win. Maybe OS X.1 fixes this?
I read somewhere that RIAA staffers won't wear logo t-shirts in DC because they get harassed on the streets - good! They deserve everything they get.
Correct. At least this coalition has been formed, though, and perhaps with a little leadership it can be used to defeat other dumbass bills like SSSCA.
- motherboard
- daughterboard (twice)
- hard drive (twice)
- floppy drive
- power adapter
But it has done awfully well for itself, all things considered. I'm typing this now on my third PowerBook (G3 Bronze, preceded by the awful 5300) and this has been the most reliable yet!
Yes. Buy shirts, mugs, soda, and other crap from ThinkGeek. I often buy stuff there, and I like to think that some of it helps out slashdot.
Bad, bad, bad idea. Lots of people post stuf AC because they KNOW their identity won't be revealed - about their employers, or Scientology, or other such. Without AC this won't happen. I'll gladly take 100 goatsex posts for the few good posts that come from ACs.
And yes, I routinely post AC. It's because I don't want it on my users.pl page. Sometimes it's a flame, sometimes it's a joke, sometimes it's on a hidden sid I don't want to show off, but whatever: I think the ability to do this is one of the things that makes /. great, and they should definitely not kill it.
And when I get bored, I read at -1. It's funnier than you think sometimes.
Which is exactly why it's there! I for one would give Funny posts a +1 bonus, and -1 all the Informatives, some days.
More seriously, I would love to see arbitrary bonuses and filtering. Let me add or subtract points for any moderation choice; high mod totals; poster's karma; +1 bonus [used / not used]; on my Friends list; on my Ignore This Person list; and so on. Could be fun.
I used to live in the Washington, DC area. About 15 years ago there was a retired guy who used to drive 55 mph (then the national speed limit, widely ignored) in the left lane of the Beltway, just to piss people off as far as anyone could tell. After a while he got a ticket for blocking traffic.
That's a clever idea. Won't it require PKI though? (You can't pre-share a secret with someone you don't know.)
Or just set up an IPSec VPN between trusted hosts.
Wasn't there an Internet-Draft a few years ago that involved adding surveillance to basic router function, that was shot down loudly by the IETF community?
Yes, but don't forget that IPSec can be used with IPv4 which we all use now. IPSec is normally used for virtual private networks, but there's no particular reason you couldn't extend it to other services. It's not so useful for any-to-any communication (it assumes PKI availability) but perhaps this will change as users get more paranoid.
Okay, so he's preaching to the choir, just like everyone on slashdot. How is he taking the argument to those whose opinions need to be changed, notably Congress? I don't think of Congress members reading Linux kernel changelogs!
Just a thought.
Through his own building? I find it hard to believe that he has people in the building who would tap fiber and do traffic analysis, but hey, who am I to question the premise? In this case I would agree with the oher poster that random noise running through the ipsec devices at all times would be the right choice.
Shoot me an email with "WozScript" in the subject if you'd like to participate, and I'll give the first volunteers (it shouldn't take that many) a randomly-drawn three-minute segment to type up, as well as more instructions on how to format it.
I haven't used Nautilus in a while either. And I must have gained at least 15 pounds as a result!
CmdrTroll's right: although SSSCA is an abomination, we can't allow lesser measures to be passed in the name of compromise.