How did they pick that for a name? It's like they had two dart boards, one with nouns, the other with verb. At least some of the other web browsers' names made sense, (Navigator, Explorer or Safari). Firefox, Chrome & Opera don't really make much sense either, but at least they don't sound ridiculous.
It's not that bad. Look at it this way: one of the darts could have landed on "ass" and the other on "wipe".
Considering that MS did not invent the GUI, Spreadsheet, Word Processor, Browser, Mobile OS, or anything else they might well known for, it would be more interesting to read about just what the heck these people *have* been doing for 25 years.
Money. Apparently that's good enough for them and the shareholders...
People worrying about Firesheep, or any other form of password sniffing, all make one crucial wrong assumption, and it's that any aspect of their digital life is of any interest whatsoever. The truth is, unless you're someone who matters, nobody cares about your rambling on your blog, your Facebook account or your Facebook friends, what you tweet about, your nickserv password on IRC or your POP3 email password. Nobody... cares...
And if you're someone who matters (no, really, no you), someone probably made sure your digital details are pretty secure for you. As for those who are very VERY important and famous, they have nothing to worry about, as their Twitter or Facebook accounts are usually fake, with one of their staff behind the keyboard, so they look cool and digital and in touch with their constituency to get more votes at the next election.
Finally, those who might have something to hide from, say, the law, already know how to encrypt their partitions, run ssh tunnels or use TOR, and do that in a bar with a laptop using an insecure Wifi hotspot. Nobody can sniff any password from them if they stay careful.
So in short, if you're a harmless Joe Blow, you can stop worrying about securing your digital presence: it only makes you look suspect if your computer or your communications are investigated for any reason. Your place in the Who's Nobody pretty much ensures your security and anonymity on the internet.
Firstly, I'm not paying for ads. Period. That's the reason why I ditched my TV too.
Secondly, I like documentaries, British comedy and things like the Daily Show or South Park (well, at least when SP was good). There is plenty of all that for free on Youtube and the kajillion video-hosting clones out there, especially on Chinese video sites that don't give a flying fuck about US copyrights. All my TV needs are fulfilled by the internet already.
For older movies or shows, there's emule or bittorrent, and I don't even feel bad about using them because older movies are difficult to get hold of. Try to get Nash Bridges episodes legally to see what I mean. For newer movies, the local movie rental store is good too, and there's always swapping with friends and neighbors.
So why would I pay for Hulu or any other pay site?
The next Harry Potter (or other such insanely popular movie) should feature wild killer possums with rabies as pets. That should take care of the problem.
There's not many dumb terminals around any more for sure
The dumb terminals are the users these days, as demonstrated by this guy watkin5 who thinks it's such an incredible discovery that a Linux distro can handle a VT320 that he has to write an article about it (complete with a confusion between parallel and serial port DB25s that screams "I don't know what the heck I'm talking about but I'll talk about it anyway"), this other guy muirhead who think it's worthy of a Slashdot story and submits it, and kdawson who accepts the story.
I guess in 15/20 years, we'll have a story on how Linux can still run keyboards and mice equipped with a PS2 plug originally invented by Sony...
I agree with you. Strapping a set of wheels on a rocket motor is pointless, even though the technical challenges are probably fantastic. In fact, generally speaking, breaking a record just for the sake of being in the Guinness book of records is pointless.
I could understand if the technology they use to achieve the record could be reused some place else, like paving the way to faster high-speed trains for instance, but all they seem to do is apply clever design to make the body as non-lifting as possible, and use big fins to plant the thing firmly on the ground. Nothing earth-shattering, impressive though it may be.
From TFA: Mr. de la Torre was taking the computer science class for a second time in his junior year when he cheated. After he was disciplined, he resigned from his position as student body vice president in November
He shouldn't have resigned, I think he has the makings of a great politician...
The previous attempt at practical EVs was GM's EV1. Apparently, their owners were mostly happy with the thing, despite its 1990s shortcomings and lack of charging stations, until GM decided to kill the program and take away all the vehicles, in typical GM-style idiotic managerial fashion. So maybe there's more to it than a craze or fad...
It's not a matter of legality, it's a matter of public perception. TPB is looking like they're slapped on the wrist for doing something, and their response is "okay, we'll do that instead. Catch us now!". There's no better posture to adopt to attract the ire of the law, which, incidentally, does seem to operate on black and white more often than not...
So they go from hosting a tracker to hosting a bootstrap node that gives clients access to the DHT swarm? In short, in the eyes of the law (and probably of the general public), they're still facilitating the illegal distribution of copyrighted material. At the very least, they look guilty as hell, because they seem to do try their hardest to stick it up to da man.
The first 3 bytes transmitted over what was to become the intarwebs were "log", and already it was porn - scatophilia in that case. Was that a sign or what...
Don't be a party pooper and join the web two-oh revolution. Nowadays, you hear people say snail-mail to make sure people understand it's the pen-and-paper version, biological virus to differentiate between a case of the flu and a piece of malware, or sneakernets to refer to swapping floppies (well, usb keys I guess these days).
Technologies change all the time, and those who bathe in it every day end up having skewed ways of looking at the non-tech world. Case in point, my colleague, who's a lathe/mill operator and a fitter, has a wife who recently had a baby. He asked me (in his own words) if I knew whether women who have had a baby got "freeplay" (apparently because sex has gottten a lot looser for him after the birth of his son). Honestly, he just didn't think of another term to use. That's what came to his mind naturally.
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How did they pick that for a name? It's like they had two dart boards, one with nouns, the other with verb. At least some of the other web browsers' names made sense, (Navigator, Explorer or Safari). Firefox, Chrome & Opera don't really make much sense either, but at least they don't sound ridiculous.
It's not that bad. Look at it this way: one of the darts could have landed on "ass" and the other on "wipe".
corralling all vital information and favorite services in panes and drop-down windows.
You mean like tabs and bookmarks?
Considering that MS did not invent the GUI, Spreadsheet, Word Processor, Browser, Mobile OS, or anything else they might well known for, it would be more interesting to read about just what the heck these people *have* been doing for 25 years.
Money. Apparently that's good enough for them and the shareholders...
What happens if you need to run more than two applications? Do you buy another monitor?
Must be costly to browse deeper than two directories with the explorer and separate windows...
People worrying about Firesheep, or any other form of password sniffing, all make one crucial wrong assumption, and it's that any aspect of their digital life is of any interest whatsoever. The truth is, unless you're someone who matters, nobody cares about your rambling on your blog, your Facebook account or your Facebook friends, what you tweet about, your nickserv password on IRC or your POP3 email password. Nobody... cares...
And if you're someone who matters (no, really, no you), someone probably made sure your digital details are pretty secure for you. As for those who are very VERY important and famous, they have nothing to worry about, as their Twitter or Facebook accounts are usually fake, with one of their staff behind the keyboard, so they look cool and digital and in touch with their constituency to get more votes at the next election.
Finally, those who might have something to hide from, say, the law, already know how to encrypt their partitions, run ssh tunnels or use TOR, and do that in a bar with a laptop using an insecure Wifi hotspot. Nobody can sniff any password from them if they stay careful.
So in short, if you're a harmless Joe Blow, you can stop worrying about securing your digital presence: it only makes you look suspect if your computer or your communications are investigated for any reason. Your place in the Who's Nobody pretty much ensures your security and anonymity on the internet.
Firstly, I'm not paying for ads. Period. That's the reason why I ditched my TV too.
Secondly, I like documentaries, British comedy and things like the Daily Show or South Park (well, at least when SP was good). There is plenty of all that for free on Youtube and the kajillion video-hosting clones out there, especially on Chinese video sites that don't give a flying fuck about US copyrights. All my TV needs are fulfilled by the internet already.
For older movies or shows, there's emule or bittorrent, and I don't even feel bad about using them because older movies are difficult to get hold of. Try to get Nash Bridges episodes legally to see what I mean. For newer movies, the local movie rental store is good too, and there's always swapping with friends and neighbors.
So why would I pay for Hulu or any other pay site?
The next Harry Potter (or other such insanely popular movie) should feature wild killer possums with rabies as pets. That should take care of the problem.
Here is the one they're after.
use an older version of Windows in a virtual machine.
Rishi Sowa is gonna be so jealous...
In other news, U.S. Radium says radium paint is safe. News at 11...
There's not many dumb terminals around any more for sure
The dumb terminals are the users these days, as demonstrated by this guy watkin5 who thinks it's such an incredible discovery that a Linux distro can handle a VT320 that he has to write an article about it (complete with a confusion between parallel and serial port DB25s that screams "I don't know what the heck I'm talking about but I'll talk about it anyway"), this other guy muirhead who think it's worthy of a Slashdot story and submits it, and kdawson who accepts the story.
I guess in 15/20 years, we'll have a story on how Linux can still run keyboards and mice equipped with a PS2 plug originally invented by Sony...
So did you type
-9
[ENTER]
process-name
[ENTER]
killall
[ENTER]
I agree with you. Strapping a set of wheels on a rocket motor is pointless, even though the technical challenges are probably fantastic. In fact, generally speaking, breaking a record just for the sake of being in the Guinness book of records is pointless.
I could understand if the technology they use to achieve the record could be reused some place else, like paving the way to faster high-speed trains for instance, but all they seem to do is apply clever design to make the body as non-lifting as possible, and use big fins to plant the thing firmly on the ground. Nothing earth-shattering, impressive though it may be.
From TFA: Mr. de la Torre was taking the computer science class for a second time in his junior year when he cheated. After he was disciplined, he resigned from his position as student body vice president in November
He shouldn't have resigned, I think he has the makings of a great politician...
Slashdot at its best!
I've been reading that for at least a decade. At least you can't fault them on editorial style inconsistencies...
Nexuses are retired, not terminated.
Just saying...
-- Roy Batty
as pointed out by Harry Harrison, humans in the distant future may wonder why the original home planet of Humanity had a name which means "Dirt"
Considering humanity's history, it makes as much sense as naming their fist to-be colonized planet after a god of war.
The previous attempt at practical EVs was GM's EV1. Apparently, their owners were mostly happy with the thing, despite its 1990s shortcomings and lack of charging stations, until GM decided to kill the program and take away all the vehicles, in typical GM-style idiotic managerial fashion. So maybe there's more to it than a craze or fad...
This confirms what I've always suspected: the green fashion is for rich suckers first, then for the rest of us when oil runs out anyway.
It's not a matter of legality, it's a matter of public perception. TPB is looking like they're slapped on the wrist for doing something, and their response is "okay, we'll do that instead. Catch us now!". There's no better posture to adopt to attract the ire of the law, which, incidentally, does seem to operate on black and white more often than not...
So they go from hosting a tracker to hosting a bootstrap node that gives clients access to the DHT swarm? In short, in the eyes of the law (and probably of the general public), they're still facilitating the illegal distribution of copyrighted material. At the very least, they look guilty as hell, because they seem to do try their hardest to stick it up to da man.
The first 3 bytes transmitted over what was to become the intarwebs were "log", and already it was porn - scatophilia in that case. Was that a sign or what...
Quite frankly, I'd love to see trolls try to get first post on the guy's whiteboard...
Don't be a party pooper and join the web two-oh revolution. Nowadays, you hear people say snail-mail to make sure people understand it's the pen-and-paper version, biological virus to differentiate between a case of the flu and a piece of malware, or sneakernets to refer to swapping floppies (well, usb keys I guess these days).
Technologies change all the time, and those who bathe in it every day end up having skewed ways of looking at the non-tech world. Case in point, my colleague, who's a lathe/mill operator and a fitter, has a wife who recently had a baby. He asked me (in his own words) if I knew whether women who have had a baby got "freeplay" (apparently because sex has gottten a lot looser for him after the birth of his son). Honestly, he just didn't think of another term to use. That's what came to his mind naturally.