At my University we boot you off the network when we detect worm-like or spamming activity and only let you back on after you've proved you've regained control of your machine. It works, and doesn't shift the burden of work from students to IT employees.
Automating the process is just going to make users even more lazy than they already are anyway, cause they'll just come to rely on the IT department to fix everything on their computer that they cause to break.
iCal is the best scheduling/to-do software I've ever used. Its not some grand application like Outlook, and thats good, cause iCal's only focus is scheduling and appointments. It's also beautiful, friendly, and easily syncs with any phone that is supported by iSync.
We get about one DMCA notice a week (usually from Paramount) at the university I work at. Either they suck at tracing other methods, or they only focus on BitTorrent, because every single notice is someone sharing on BT. Beware!
but only if you have a 600Kbps connection or higher
The post says download and watch - this is Real Networks, though, so what they really mean is use up all your bandwidth to watch stuttering video with horribly out of sync audio.
Really, how does streaming help anyone? I can handle the minor inconvenience of waiting a bit to view what I'm downloading, and once I've downloaded it I won't be stressing the servers of whoever I got it from if I want to watch it a second time.
2. In particular, effective legal remedies shall be provided against those who:... (iii) participate in the manufacture, importation, sale, or any other act that makes available a device or system capable of decrypting or helping to decrypt an encrypted program-carrying signal.
So while we may encrypt things, we will never under any circumstance be able to decrypt them. This would outlaw DVD players, too.
The UN charter (and US Constitution) need amendments outlawing illogical legislation.
A wing underwater will work much the same way as a wing in the air. If this were a vacuum, you'd definitely have a problem, but I think liquid would work plenty fine.
I can't think of any other device that will get you laughed at more in public than a Dell DJ.
Actually, there's a point to be made in that trollish comment: the general public cares a lot more about look and feel than features. If Microsoft makes a player that looks like the iPod, but only has a 32MB flash card inside, they can still charge $50, and it will sell well.
Why can AT&T suck it? Because they charge $.02 a kilobyte for their GPRS network while killing all modem calls made on their phones. I thought I'd be able to use all those currently unused minutes while on the road, dialing up with my Bluetooth phone, but no dice! And the AT&T rep? "Uhh, you need a data plan..." "I have a data plan, but I want to use my free university dial-up instead of GPRS." "Uhh, here's an mMode brochure."
Hotmail used to sync with OE - last time my quota was reaching 100% and I tried to move everything to a.pst I found Outlook would no longer connect. It is now a premium feature.
Anyone know of any other way to export your Hotmail messages? Two megs fills up awfully quick.
I think all the posters who are so annoyed by cell phone usage are suffering from the same condition as people who get rageful when someone is having a conversation in a language they don't understand. They feel left out of the club - notice no one (at least at the level I browse at) is complaining because their conversations are being interrupted, its always someone trying to have some alone time on the subway. They get paranoid, thinking that the club is against them, too. Any laughter - whether in the middle of a one-sided cell phone conversation or interrupting Chinese - is thought to be laughter at their expense. The cell phones aren't the issue, its the people that react to them.
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What? No.
ReplayTV
TiVo
Take a slightly closer look.
"Darwinian selection" - that's a nice phrase to describe my move to OS X.
The article doesn't mention CSS or Region encoding, but if he's truly the father, then Lieberfarb must've had something do with it.
I say good riddance to anti-consumer corporate tools like that.
Assemble an army of fainting geeks and march to Anderer's house!!!
At my University we boot you off the network when we detect worm-like or spamming activity and only let you back on after you've proved you've regained control of your machine. It works, and doesn't shift the burden of work from students to IT employees.
Automating the process is just going to make users even more lazy than they already are anyway, cause they'll just come to rely on the IT department to fix everything on their computer that they cause to break.
iCal is the best scheduling/to-do software I've ever used. Its not some grand application like Outlook, and thats good, cause iCal's only focus is scheduling and appointments. It's also beautiful, friendly, and easily syncs with any phone that is supported by iSync.
burn it unlimited times to unlimited CD's
iTunes will only allow you to burn seven copies of a playlist that has DRM'd works in it.
We get about one DMCA notice a week (usually from Paramount) at the university I work at. Either they suck at tracing other methods, or they only focus on BitTorrent, because every single notice is someone sharing on BT. Beware!
but only if you have a 600Kbps connection or higher
The post says download and watch - this is Real Networks, though, so what they really mean is use up all your bandwidth to watch stuttering video with horribly out of sync audio.
Really, how does streaming help anyone? I can handle the minor inconvenience of waiting a bit to view what I'm downloading, and once I've downloaded it I won't be stressing the servers of whoever I got it from if I want to watch it a second time.
Someone should tell these blind people about Braille.
Or are they deaf, too?
Perhaps we could use some sort of water pump to verify their votes.
If it's only broadcasting your plate number, which is visible anyway, why is there a need to hide the content of the broadcast?
from Article 16, Alternative V:
2. In particular, effective legal remedies shall be provided against those who:
(iii) participate in the manufacture, importation, sale, or any other act that makes available a device or system capable of decrypting or helping to decrypt an encrypted program-carrying signal.
So while we may encrypt things, we will never under any circumstance be able to decrypt them. This would outlaw DVD players, too.
The UN charter (and US Constitution) need amendments outlawing illogical legislation.
A wing underwater will work much the same way as a wing in the air. If this were a vacuum, you'd definitely have a problem, but I think liquid would work plenty fine.
...especially for this guy.
A cell phone that's equivalent to 87.66234 T-1 lines..
I wonder what it's like to have 87.6623 T1 lines running through your HEAD!
Score:3, Insightful
Only on Slashdot is acting like a mental patient insightful.
I can't think of any other device that will get you laughed at more in public than a Dell DJ.
Actually, there's a point to be made in that trollish comment: the general public cares a lot more about look and feel than features. If Microsoft makes a player that looks like the iPod, but only has a 32MB flash card inside, they can still charge $50, and it will sell well.
...will anything ever beat the value of my 15GB, 16-hour battery life, personal voice recording, $200 Dell DJ?
Why can AT&T suck it? Because they charge $ .02 a kilobyte for their GPRS network while killing all modem calls made on their phones. I thought I'd be able to use all those currently unused minutes while on the road, dialing up with my Bluetooth phone, but no dice! And the AT&T rep? "Uhh, you need a data plan..." "I have a data plan, but I want to use my free university dial-up instead of GPRS." "Uhh, here's an mMode brochure."
Bah.
Hotmail used to sync with OE - last time my quota was reaching 100% and I tried to move everything to a .pst I found Outlook would no longer connect. It is now a premium feature.
Anyone know of any other way to export your Hotmail messages? Two megs fills up awfully quick.
If XP is embedded, is it still patchable? Is it on a ROM chip, or what?
I think all the posters who are so annoyed by cell phone usage are suffering from the same condition as people who get rageful when someone is having a conversation in a language they don't understand. They feel left out of the club - notice no one (at least at the level I browse at) is complaining because their conversations are being interrupted, its always someone trying to have some alone time on the subway. They get paranoid, thinking that the club is against them, too. Any laughter - whether in the middle of a one-sided cell phone conversation or interrupting Chinese - is thought to be laughter at their expense. The cell phones aren't the issue, its the people that react to them.
Dammit, I had this idea like two months ago while laying in bed with busted nuts. I should've patented it.