The edutainment industry spends lots of money making video and sims that teach kids things - the premise being kids develop useful content, behaviour and attitudes from looking at / using these things without traditional instruction modes.
The gaming industry spends lots of money making video / sim packages called games, and then the premise is that nobody develops useful content behavior or attitudes from these things.
"The effort started nearly three years ago to battle a surge in the number of cases in which savvy computer criminals have used commercial or free encryption software to safeguard stolen financial information, according to DNA program manager Al Lewis."
I know a few people who keep Norton Utilities and AV at their computer's side and at the first sign of trouble (and trouble has known to include network down, hung app, complicated print job, print queue stopped, DNS errors...) and run AV and defrag the drive. Several hours later...
I had a few grand taken two years ago - including some genius who paid their car insurance. We got the name, address, account number, phone number all in similar fashion to this story. When faced with all this info from me and the bank security team, and the question "what are you going to do to this felon?" The Progressive rep's answer was "I guess we'll hafta make them pay cash." "But they just committed a FEDERAL OFFENSE!" "Well, even criminals have to buy car insurance."
iTunes / iTMS works fine. I can buy a traditional CD then hear it on my home stereo, a portable, my computer. I buy a song from iTMS and I can play it on my home stereo, a portable, my computer. What am I missing? How has been harmed by agreeing to those
Ditto movies. As long as I can view a DVD on my computer and or home player - that's what I need to do. Again, what am I missing / what harm has come to any party?
And before anyone says it, "information wants to be free" is only half the original quote.
... you get ahold of apple and tell them / show them the exploit.
He's doing this as the self-appointed saviour of linux users who want to use iTMS music.
But that's disingenuous because the linux users would have to buy the track with a legit version of iTunes first - for pay - with Mac or Windows - then redownload it under linux.
AND the people who are applauding this are chiefly the noisy ones who (1) claim they should not have to pay for music / **AA is evil / DRM is evil / and (2) won't use for-pay software / OS in the first place
Well, good for them - this sort of software is free-as-in-syphillis - you had to do something a little dirty to get it.
Jon breaks something for the sake of breaking it*. The other party patches it.
Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
(ok - but now he says he's doing it for the sake of linux users...)
----- *: if not true, then sell your services as a white hat consultant. You could make money. Though arguably his targets are getting this service for free along with the gratis notification of his fans...
When AppleLink Personal Edition morphed into America Online, some of us making the switch were beta-testers - we got a special disk with the client SW on it, and were to use it for a few months at half price as their way of thanking us, after which we'd get the real disk with the full release / full price client. Another few months went by, then I got a call from the main office, Steve Case called to let me know that the 'full' client was NG and had been still charging us the beta rate, and could I please send them a check for the amount I'd already spent with them in the last oh, 6 months? Um, no - but I will send you six checks, a month at a time. He thought that might work. I asked how many of us this had affected - a dozen? Yes. Hundreds? Yes. Thousands? Look , that's not the point. So I methodically settled up, and once the full client began to suck wind, I ended up elsewhere...
I think I speak for many when I say...
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iTunes DRM Hole Closed
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*yawn*
Jon breaks something for the sake of breaking it*. The other party patches it.
Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
----- *: if not true, then sell your services as a white hat consultant. You could make money. Though arguably his targets are getting this service for free along with the gratis notification of his fans...
For every example you can give me of a kid who can't stay on task and get their standard work done because they are distracted by something other than real work, I can show you an example of students doing much better at some measure of success.
Put a bunch of kids within reach of a playground, freely able to access it, and a pile of work and guess what...?
This is why we organize what students do, in school (by teachers) and hopefully out of school (by parents).
Of course if we don't, unintended results take over, as they clearly have.
*sigh* Cordless was supposed to be better. - Yes, because I'm not tethered to a wall in my house. - No, because the neighbors can eavesdrop. Cell was supposed to be better, - Yes, in that I'm not tethered to my house. - No, in that it still doesn't work as well or as often as my landline. VOIP was supposed to be better - Yes because it's cheaper / no old stakeholders - No because it's not protected like my landline, - No because this new stuff can happen, - Maybe since we're not sure is it an intermediate step or is this "it"
And how many times have we had to ask THAT question... CDs were "it". DVDs were "it". Cable was the last pipe we'd ever need. No make that IP over Powerlines. Scrap that - wireless broadband! This just in - WiFi Mesh. 802.11 A - I mean B... er, no, um... G! Oops - N!
And I thought they were making up that stuff in the Matrix movies about only trusting physical landlines...
He's using very specific code names in his hardware prediction on the front page. Apple has been known to use several code names for the same piece of hardware, giving different names to different labs, testers, etc. One advantage of such a strategy is that if anything leaks, you can narrow down the source. I can imagine the same can be done with dates. This kid HAS figured out that if he loses the original case, they'll be back with both barrels on every subsequent leak, right?
So people have less reason to tear up the legally binding NDA they freely agreed to. So a few rumor sites become obsolete. So did buggy whips. These guys are really just in competition with each other to see who can spill the beans seventy-THREE hours before Steve takes the stage. Whoo-hoo. Speculate all you want, but once contracts are breached or laws are violated, you have to deal with the consequences.
We have 7 of these, bought the first week they were out. Beat on by kids day after day for many years now. Not a stitch of trouble with any of them. In fact the only layer of Macs we've ever had that have not sent a unit to the shop. Snappier with every release of OS X, the G4 even at those speeds takes anything iLife & iWork can throw at them.
...but come on - I guess I could conceivably end up with an uber-gadget that is my phone, gps, iPod, PDA, universal remote, pedometer, Speedpass, web browser, biometric verifier, flash drive, camera, pager, video player, voice activated game console, garage door opener, pill timer, and nose hair trimmer, but do I want it?
It's pretty much the current definition of jack of all trades, master of none. The browsers all suck wind from the first click. No way the phone camera matches the 4MP with optical zoom and full controls. With my luck, I'd go to open the garage door and dial the Pentagon, who'd read the fix from my GPS and catch me screaming "Attack! Attack! - No, use the sniper rifle!" in the middle of a Halo session...
So it's really just a away of any one manufacturer making sure you buy the whiz-bangiest phone instead of someone else's.
What if I lose it? Right now I keep track of my GPS, iPod, camera and cell phone. Suppose I lose one device. I'm either out a copy of my music, or my most recent photos, or a location fix, or my phone. Lose the uber-device and I'm out all of them at once.
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The edutainment industry spends lots of money making video and sims that teach kids things - the premise being kids develop useful content, behaviour and attitudes from looking at / using these things without traditional instruction modes.
The gaming industry spends lots of money making video / sim packages called games, and then the premise is that nobody develops useful content behavior or attitudes from these things.
"The effort started nearly three years ago to battle a surge in the number of cases in which savvy computer criminals have used commercial or free encryption software to safeguard stolen financial information, according to DNA program manager Al Lewis."
Oh, how the might have fallen...
I know a few people who keep Norton Utilities and AV at their computer's side and at the first sign of trouble (and trouble has known to include network down, hung app, complicated print job, print queue stopped, DNS errors...) and run AV and defrag the drive. Several hours later...
I had a few grand taken two years ago - including some genius who paid their car insurance. We got the name, address, account number, phone number all in similar fashion to this story. When faced with all this info from me and the bank security team, and the question "what are you going to do to this felon?"
The Progressive rep's answer was "I guess we'll hafta make them pay cash."
"But they just committed a FEDERAL OFFENSE!"
"Well, even criminals have to buy car insurance."
Verbatim, folks. Ver-freaking-batim.
iTunes / iTMS works fine.
I can buy a traditional CD then hear it on my home stereo, a portable, my computer.
I buy a song from iTMS and I can play it on my home stereo, a portable, my computer.
What am I missing? How has been harmed by agreeing to those
Ditto movies. As long as I can view a DVD on my computer and or home player - that's what I need to do. Again, what am I missing / what harm has come to any party?
And before anyone says it, "information wants to be free" is only half the original quote.
... you get ahold of apple and tell them / show them the exploit.
He's doing this as the self-appointed saviour of linux users who want to use iTMS music.
But that's disingenuous because the linux users would have to buy the track with a legit version of iTunes first - for pay - with Mac or Windows - then redownload it under linux.
AND the people who are applauding this are chiefly the noisy ones who (1) claim they should not have to pay for music / **AA is evil / DRM is evil / and (2) won't use for-pay software / OS in the first place
Well, good for them - this sort of software is free-as-in-syphillis - you had to do something a little dirty to get it.
*yawn*
Jon breaks something for the sake of breaking it*. The other party patches it.
Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
(ok - but now he says he's doing it for the sake of linux users...)
-----
*: if not true, then sell your services as a white hat consultant. You could make money.
Though arguably his targets are getting this service for free along with the gratis notification of his fans...
When AppleLink Personal Edition morphed into America Online, some of us making the switch were beta-testers - we got a special disk with the client SW on it, and were to use it for a few months at half price as their way of thanking us, after which we'd get the real disk with the full release / full price client. Another few months went by, then I got a call from the main office, Steve Case called to let me know that the 'full' client was NG and had been still charging us the beta rate, and could I please send them a check for the amount I'd already spent with them in the last oh, 6 months?
Um, no - but I will send you six checks, a month at a time. He thought that might work. I asked how many of us this had affected - a dozen? Yes. Hundreds? Yes. Thousands? Look , that's not the point. So I methodically settled up, and once the full client began to suck wind, I ended up elsewhere...
*yawn*
Jon breaks something for the sake of breaking it*. The other party patches it.
Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
-----
*: if not true, then sell your services as a white hat consultant. You could make money.
Though arguably his targets are getting this service for free along with the gratis notification of his fans...
...this is about USING computers for CRAP.
For every example you can give me of a kid who can't stay on task and get their standard work done because they are distracted by something other than real work, I can show you an example of students doing much better at some measure of success.
Put a bunch of kids within reach of a playground, freely able to access it, and a pile of work and guess what...?
This is why we organize what students do, in school (by teachers) and hopefully out of school (by parents).
Of course if we don't, unintended results take over, as they clearly have.
just google irs and gambling - i never intended to start all these questions - it's just a joke.
They also have transdermal patches for many things including nitrolglycerine, scopalamine (seasickness), duragesic (mega painkiller)...
And they have a patch for birth control drugs, the ad has scantily-clad women with these things placed somewhere below their navel.
They could have saved a lot of money on this, just get a big band-aid and write "GET OFF ME" on it...
The multi-prong thing you had might have been a Tuberculosis "tine" test.
... all I can think of is "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury...
She resembles the character, she's done some other superhero-ish role, she can act (Wiseguy)... OK she's in her 40s...
And who can forget those hairy-foot-tapping show tunes,
"I'm Just Wild About Merry"
"Send In the Orcs"
"Hello, Gollum!"
"Get Me To The Crack On Time"
"I find your lack of faith in the /. Effect disturbing..."
*sigh*
Cordless was supposed to be better.
- Yes, because I'm not tethered to a wall in my house.
- No, because the neighbors can eavesdrop.
Cell was supposed to be better,
- Yes, in that I'm not tethered to my house.
- No, in that it still doesn't work as well or as often as my landline.
VOIP was supposed to be better
- Yes because it's cheaper / no old stakeholders
- No because it's not protected like my landline,
- No because this new stuff can happen,
- Maybe since we're not sure is it an intermediate step or is this "it"
And how many times have we had to ask THAT question... CDs were "it". DVDs were "it". Cable was the last pipe we'd ever need. No make that IP over Powerlines. Scrap that - wireless broadband! This just in - WiFi Mesh. 802.11 A - I mean B... er, no, um... G! Oops - N!
And I thought they were making up that stuff in the Matrix movies about only trusting physical landlines...
He's using very specific code names in his hardware prediction on the front page.
Apple has been known to use several code names for the same piece of hardware, giving different names to different labs, testers, etc.
One advantage of such a strategy is that if anything leaks, you can narrow down the source.
I can imagine the same can be done with dates.
This kid HAS figured out that if he loses the original case, they'll be back with both barrels on every subsequent leak, right?
So people have less reason to tear up the legally binding NDA they freely agreed to.
So a few rumor sites become obsolete. So did buggy whips.
These guys are really just in competition with each other to see who can spill the beans seventy-THREE hours before Steve takes the stage.
Whoo-hoo.
Speculate all you want, but once contracts are breached or laws are violated, you have to deal with the consequences.
We have 7 of these, bought the first week they were out.
Beat on by kids day after day for many years now.
Not a stitch of trouble with any of them.
In fact the only layer of Macs we've ever had that have not sent a unit to the shop.
Snappier with every release of OS X, the G4 even at those speeds takes anything iLife & iWork can throw at them.
...but come on - I guess I could conceivably end up with an uber-gadget that is my phone, gps, iPod, PDA, universal remote, pedometer, Speedpass, web browser, biometric verifier, flash drive, camera, pager, video player, voice activated game console, garage door opener, pill timer, and nose hair trimmer, but do I want it?
It's pretty much the current definition of jack of all trades, master of none. The browsers all suck wind from the first click. No way the phone camera matches the 4MP with optical zoom and full controls. With my luck, I'd go to open the garage door and dial the Pentagon, who'd read the fix from my GPS and catch me screaming "Attack! Attack! - No, use the sniper rifle!" in the middle of a Halo session...
So it's really just a away of any one manufacturer making sure you buy the whiz-bangiest phone instead of someone else's.
What if I lose it? Right now I keep track of my GPS, iPod, camera and cell phone. Suppose I lose one device. I'm either out a copy of my music, or my most recent photos, or a location fix, or my phone. Lose the uber-device and I'm out all of them at once.
TurboTax Deluxe+State - $34.95 - WalMart.
Once a year, peace of mind, this is a pittance.
Same as 2 Airzookas.
"...anyone who sells a lot." refers to the guy who stiffed one of the bill's author on the the discount "24" Season 1 DVD?
I just sent a suggestion that they make "wx" interchangeable with "weather" as in "wx 02134" or "wx boston, ma"
so the cart doesn't mean it's just domesticated?
*ahem*
i'm sorry - someone took that post seriously?