It would be one thing if Netflix and other streaming sites allowed offline viewing (use similar drm to how Google does it with Google Music and Youtube), but as it stands, no one really needs more than 16GB--enough to store a metric ton of photos and cell-phone-camera-quality video.
But how much less likely are you to down-mod a score-5 tweet than a score-1? And how much more likely are you to read-and-upvote a red firehose submission than an indigo?
It's not just Comcast IPs. No matter how many times I corrected Gmail, it never stopped marking emails sent from my university research computer (namely notifications that a job had completed) as spam.
Presumably you might want to access your mail via webmail, in which case you're off-LAN. Interestingly this seems to forbid me from SSHing into my home computer from the outside world.
use or run dedicated, stand-alone equipment or servers from the Premises that provide network
content or any other services to anyone outside of your Premises local area network (“Premises
LAN”), also commonly referred to as public services or servers. Examples of prohibited
equipment and servers include, but are not limited to, email, web hosting, file sharing, and proxy
services and servers
However, I don't think they go to the trouble of enforcing this very often.
To me, the takeaway message from all of this is that, if you value privacy above all else in your email exchanges, you can't trust a company, because either they'll sell you up the river for a song, or they'll shutter themselves to avoid government pressure. So here's my question: why don't more people simply run their own mail servers? It's certainly not difficult. There are a few problems, of course, namely, needing an always-on computer, sorting out the issue of dynamic IP (dyndns is a great, free solution), and the issue of small mail servers flagging spam blacklists. I also seem to remember various residential ISPs (like Comcast) having running a mail server be against their TOS, but I can't find anything to back that up, so I might be remembering incorrectly. In any case, none of these problems are insurmountable, and I really wonder if this is the solution for the privacy-paranoid among us.
So from what I can read, this particular joke generator uses pretty straightforward word association and some Bayesian weighting. This article describes model that's a bit more complicated (having to do with graphs of word associations and forming loops of optimal length), and I wonder if it'd produce better (that is, funnier) results.
The fascinating thing to me was that the funniest jokes it managed to come up with had a definite misogynistic streak. Is it because misogyny is inherently amusing, or because sexist jokes are low-hanging fruit? Link to more coverage of the same story.
You can do that far more cheaply and effectively with pamphlets than with floating wifi hotspots that still require computers on the ground. The general point that knowledge is power is a good one, and the calculation I'd like to see is how many people are not dying of malaria thanks to the Gates foundation's contributions, vs. how many people are getting access to the internet thanks to Google's baloons. If the ratio is 1:1 or even 1:2, I think Gates has a point. But if, say, 20 students are able to take online courses and educate themselves for every person who is cured of malaria, then Google's initiative has merit. I just have no idea what the death rates due to malaria are right now, nor how many people in these regions have access to wifi-capable computers.
Does it matter? You should have backups either way.
Well you're the one who just made the case that NAND failure isn't a big deal because the data is still intact on the HDD. That argument only makes sense if you're assuming no backups. The answer I was looking for was
assuming the platters are intact, you could send it off for extreme recovery
because if the answer to my question was that (say) Seagate drivers include built-in functionality for accessing the HDD directly in the event of a NAND failure, I would have thought that was pretty awesome.
Is it easy enough to access the HDD in this circumstance, though? Again, this is an honest question--having never had a hybrid drive, I just don't know.
Honest question: how do hybrid drives compare to traditional HDDs when it comes to wear? To they tend to fail more (less) often / die faster (live longer) than traditional drives? What about pure SSDs?
Oh wow. Even more amusingly, the link embedded in that quote is to the article announcing that the bypass of the twelve-regen limit. Was this a bit of snark on the part of the submitter?
I was actually unaware of the warrant-less searches in the aftermath of the marathon bombing, but doing a Google search, I found this analysis. So, just to make sure I'm understanding your point, are you're saying that in Japan the debate concerning what constitutes an offensive military vs. a "self-defense force" is regarded similarly to the "grey area" in the US about what is considered "exigent circumstances" justifying a warrant-less search?
Like probably most people, I started with iTunes (originally, I was even using it with a non-iPod mp3 player, burning tracks to a CD-RW 20 at a time, then ripping them back). I stuck with it for a good long while, even going to the trouble of maintaining an old iMac G4 (beautiful art piece of a computer, btw) just to run it and to allow me to sync my iPod, even after switching all my Windows computers to Linux (this was back in the day when iTunes support in Wine was a fevered dream).
Then Google Music came along. At first, I thought the idea of storing all my music in the cloud was ludicrous (Google will seriously let you store tens of GB of music NOT purchased from them FOR FREE? Gotta be a catch), but when the headphone jack in my Gen 1 iPod Touch gave out, I decided to give it a shot and make my Android phone my primary audio device. It was brilliant--namely the ability to cache music offline; they really won me over, and since then, my poor iMac has been relegated to the role of multimedia server (got a bunch of external Firewire HDs hooked up to it), and I don't think I've spent a dime on iTunes in years.
So now what I'm wondering is whether there will ever be a service that does for video what Google did for music, in the sense that you can take your DVDs and other video content and upload them to the cloud, for access anywhere, any time. Of course, DVD encryption means that *in theory* you shouldn't be able to rip a DVD like you can a CD, and I actually know of not one legal source of non-DRM purchasable video content, so I suspect the answer is that there will NEVER be a service that allows you to store your existing, "physical" video library in the cloud. But if such a service existed, and it allowed me to cache offline, I think they'd "win."
I suspect this is a "feature" not a "bug," since instant video is basically your only incentive to get a Kindle Fire. It's actually kind of a royal "fuck you" to Google to say, "Hey, thanks for doing all the heavy lifting making this Android OS. We're just gonna take it, remove your app store in favor of our own, and develop an app that only works INSIDE our walled garden. Thanks!"
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It would be one thing if Netflix and other streaming sites allowed offline viewing (use similar drm to how Google does it with Google Music and Youtube), but as it stands, no one really needs more than 16GB--enough to store a metric ton of photos and cell-phone-camera-quality video.
that should have said "comment" not "tweet."
But how much less likely are you to down-mod a score-5 tweet than a score-1? And how much more likely are you to read-and-upvote a red firehose submission than an indigo?
It's not just Comcast IPs. No matter how many times I corrected Gmail, it never stopped marking emails sent from my university research computer (namely notifications that a job had completed) as spam.
Presumably you might want to access your mail via webmail, in which case you're off-LAN. Interestingly this seems to forbid me from SSHing into my home computer from the outside world.
Under "Technical Restrictions," they list
use or run dedicated, stand-alone equipment or servers from the Premises that provide network content or any other services to anyone outside of your Premises local area network (“Premises LAN”), also commonly referred to as public services or servers. Examples of prohibited equipment and servers include, but are not limited to, email, web hosting, file sharing, and proxy services and servers
However, I don't think they go to the trouble of enforcing this very often.
To me, the takeaway message from all of this is that, if you value privacy above all else in your email exchanges, you can't trust a company, because either they'll sell you up the river for a song, or they'll shutter themselves to avoid government pressure. So here's my question: why don't more people simply run their own mail servers? It's certainly not difficult. There are a few problems, of course, namely, needing an always-on computer, sorting out the issue of dynamic IP (dyndns is a great, free solution), and the issue of small mail servers flagging spam blacklists. I also seem to remember various residential ISPs (like Comcast) having running a mail server be against their TOS, but I can't find anything to back that up, so I might be remembering incorrectly. In any case, none of these problems are insurmountable, and I really wonder if this is the solution for the privacy-paranoid among us.
I like my men like I like my acorns ... buried (misandristic)
I'd argue this one is misogynistic, if you interpret it as a woman talking about being a grave-robber.
So from what I can read, this particular joke generator uses pretty straightforward word association and some Bayesian weighting. This article describes model that's a bit more complicated (having to do with graphs of word associations and forming loops of optimal length), and I wonder if it'd produce better (that is, funnier) results.
The fascinating thing to me was that the funniest jokes it managed to come up with had a definite misogynistic streak. Is it because misogyny is inherently amusing, or because sexist jokes are low-hanging fruit? Link to more coverage of the same story.
You can do that far more cheaply and effectively with pamphlets than with floating wifi hotspots that still require computers on the ground. The general point that knowledge is power is a good one, and the calculation I'd like to see is how many people are not dying of malaria thanks to the Gates foundation's contributions, vs. how many people are getting access to the internet thanks to Google's baloons. If the ratio is 1:1 or even 1:2, I think Gates has a point. But if, say, 20 students are able to take online courses and educate themselves for every person who is cured of malaria, then Google's initiative has merit. I just have no idea what the death rates due to malaria are right now, nor how many people in these regions have access to wifi-capable computers.
Does it matter? You should have backups either way.
Well you're the one who just made the case that NAND failure isn't a big deal because the data is still intact on the HDD. That argument only makes sense if you're assuming no backups. The answer I was looking for was
assuming the platters are intact, you could send it off for extreme recovery
because if the answer to my question was that (say) Seagate drivers include built-in functionality for accessing the HDD directly in the event of a NAND failure, I would have thought that was pretty awesome.
Is it easy enough to access the HDD in this circumstance, though? Again, this is an honest question--having never had a hybrid drive, I just don't know.
Honest question: how do hybrid drives compare to traditional HDDs when it comes to wear? To they tend to fail more (less) often / die faster (live longer) than traditional drives? What about pure SSDs?
Oh wow. Even more amusingly, the link embedded in that quote is to the article announcing that the bypass of the twelve-regen limit. Was this a bit of snark on the part of the submitter?
the character's 13th regeneration could be his last
Okay, first, the article means his TWELFTH regeneration, his thirteenth INCARNATION. Secondly, it's already canon that doctors can regenerate far more than twelve times.
I was actually unaware of the warrant-less searches in the aftermath of the marathon bombing, but doing a Google search, I found this analysis. So, just to make sure I'm understanding your point, are you're saying that in Japan the debate concerning what constitutes an offensive military vs. a "self-defense force" is regarded similarly to the "grey area" in the US about what is considered "exigent circumstances" justifying a warrant-less search?
So am I correct in inferring that no one really takes Article 9 very seriously any more?
He's not making an assumption--it says so right in the article.
The north pole lake first of all is not a lake (it's a "melt pond") and second of all is not thought to be caused by global warming--it's just what happens when summer sun shines down on arctic ice. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/29/us-northpole-lake-idUSBRE96S16620130729
Convoluted? http://i41.tinypic.com/npnyx3.png
Like probably most people, I started with iTunes (originally, I was even using it with a non-iPod mp3 player, burning tracks to a CD-RW 20 at a time, then ripping them back). I stuck with it for a good long while, even going to the trouble of maintaining an old iMac G4 (beautiful art piece of a computer, btw) just to run it and to allow me to sync my iPod, even after switching all my Windows computers to Linux (this was back in the day when iTunes support in Wine was a fevered dream).
Then Google Music came along. At first, I thought the idea of storing all my music in the cloud was ludicrous (Google will seriously let you store tens of GB of music NOT purchased from them FOR FREE? Gotta be a catch), but when the headphone jack in my Gen 1 iPod Touch gave out, I decided to give it a shot and make my Android phone my primary audio device. It was brilliant--namely the ability to cache music offline; they really won me over, and since then, my poor iMac has been relegated to the role of multimedia server (got a bunch of external Firewire HDs hooked up to it), and I don't think I've spent a dime on iTunes in years.
So now what I'm wondering is whether there will ever be a service that does for video what Google did for music, in the sense that you can take your DVDs and other video content and upload them to the cloud, for access anywhere, any time. Of course, DVD encryption means that *in theory* you shouldn't be able to rip a DVD like you can a CD, and I actually know of not one legal source of non-DRM purchasable video content, so I suspect the answer is that there will NEVER be a service that allows you to store your existing, "physical" video library in the cloud. But if such a service existed, and it allowed me to cache offline, I think they'd "win."
Google Music lets you download your content as mp3 as well.
I suspect this is a "feature" not a "bug," since instant video is basically your only incentive to get a Kindle Fire. It's actually kind of a royal "fuck you" to Google to say, "Hey, thanks for doing all the heavy lifting making this Android OS. We're just gonna take it, remove your app store in favor of our own, and develop an app that only works INSIDE our walled garden. Thanks!"
Rovio declined to comment. My guess is that it was pirated.