Where I live, in the United States of America, "Land of the Free", Companies can monitor all email of their employees and do so routinely. In fact, my company provides software to other companies that let them montitor information going across ftp, telnet, and instant messenger. We can even give them the ability to monitor outgoing SMTP connections to their own ISP's mail server! Not only is the legal, but the company doesn't even have to give notice to their employees that they are being monitored. I really look forward to the day when everyone uses encryption and this sort of envasion of privacy stops.
Actually they do. My company used to send out a news letter for a client of ours. It was an opt-out news letter that you were subscibed to when you ordered from their web site. I'm sure many people didn't even bother to read the opt-out information and would have considered the news letter spam. At any rate, at the bottom of every news letter we included a link to unsubscribe that worked. This not only made the consumer happy, it made the company happy because they didn't have to pay us for sending out emails that were unwanted, although we lost some revenue from it, (this wasn't our primary income and we were just doing it as a service for our client) it cut down on the load on our outgoing mail server (which serviced many of our other clients). So to wrap it up, unsubscribe links that work and removing bounced email addresses were in the best interest of all involved!
I think the Slashdot crew could care less about mirrors and Bittorrents. If they did they would incorporate links to them in the stories before posting!
I don't like halo, I don't particularly like the limitations that are imposed on Red Vs. Blue by the Halo engine, but the script and dialog is very funny and most of the voice acting is very well done. Go and download the first episode if you don't know what it is. Watch it and then make your own determination.
I must say I am opposed to this. I will not patronage any place that jams my mobile. A good technical fix for this would be "silent" zones that told the mobile to go into vibrate or one beep only mode until it left the zone and then went back to its default mode. This could easily be achieved with Blue Tooth. But for the record, who really can forget to change their ring setting when they are in such an enviornment?
The Archos AV400 supports audio, video (divx/xvid), photos and act as a USB external drive too. 80GB models are available today and work with most any OS. At every turn Apple is playing catch up but seems to have the marketing power behind it. I am suprised that so many geeks have fallen for it. Though, I am thinking less and less geeks hang out on/.
Forgot to mention that I have lost Cds and tapes three times due twice to my car being broken into and once when my car was stolen. The first time they were mostly original tapes, about $250 worth. I learned my lesson. Now the best a thief will get is a handful of CDs with MP3s on them.
I do and have for years. At first I copied the best songs from CDs to tape to make a compilation so I always had the best songs I owned in my car, at my dorm or whereever. Now I copy everything to MP3 so I can have all the songs I own readily available wherever I am. The CDs are safely stored and alpha organized where they are seldom needed. In essence the CD itself is the backup, and the copy is the main one used.
We should turn this discussion towards a more proactive topic... Does anyone know which networks were targeted by the RIAA? Was any one network targeted more than the others? Which P2P is best for sharing with the least chance of getting caught? Are there any tools, services, or procedures one can use to reduce the chance of being caught? These are all good questions that we should be discussing.
Last time I heard, the iPod supported the open and widely used MP3 format, so why did Real need to do *anything* to get their music to play on it? Oh, yeah, they are using a proprietary DRMed format, just like Apple is trying so desperatly to push. I'll stick with my Archos and MP3s, thank you very much.
Is it just me or has Google gotten less and less useful for returning web results over the last few years? I still like the usenet portion (though I liked it better when it was Deja-news) but the web results are becoming less and less helpful. The ranking system seems to be self supporting. Does anyone have any suggestions for other good search engines? I have started to fall back to altavista again and will be trying out vivisimo.com. Don't care for Yahoo at all.
They couldn't drop the price low enough for me to use their service. DRM in any form is bad. I'll stick to straight mp3s thank you. This allows me to easily and seamlessly move my music around all of my home machines, Linux, Windows, and Mac, my portable Archos and Diamond players, and my work machine. Let me see anyone offering DRM solutions offer me that type of freedom.
There was a time when factories ran around the clock and would then close down for months on end until all their stock was sold. The workers had a great solution to this problem called "The Stint," an agreed upon rate of production that no worker would go over. To quote Joanne B. Ciulla:
Employers were constantly trying to make employees work faster. Most workplaces had a stint, and those who failed to maintain it by doing too much or too little were ostracized. Workers who upheld the stint despite the curses of their boss earned reputations as "good men" and trustworthy masters of the trade. The worker restriction of output symbolized "unselfish brotherhood," personal dignity, and "cultivation of the mind." One reason why the stint was important is that workers wanted control over the amount of time that they worked. Businesses at this time often ran factories around the clock and then shut down for months at a time.
Another interesting part of the workingman's moral code was having a "manly bearing" toward the boss. In the nineteenth century this popular expression was an honorific signifying dignity, respect, and egalitarianism. A person earned his honorific by refusing to work while the boss was watching. It is useful to reflect on the difference between only working when the boss is watching and not working when the boss is watching. They are both gestures of defiance, but one is about keeping one's job and the other is about keeping one's dignity. The first says, "I don't want to work, but I will, because you are watching." The second says, "I'll work because I want to, not because you are watchingThere was a time when factories ran around the clock and would then close down for months on end until all their stock was sold. The workers had a great solution to this problem called "The Stint," an agreed upon rate of production that no worker would go over. To quote Joanne B. Ciulla:
Employers were constantly trying to make employees work faster. Most workplaces had a stint, and those who failed to maintain it by doing too much or too little were ostracized. Workers who upheld the stint despite the curses of their boss earned reputations as "good men" and trustworthy masters of the trade. The worker restriction of output symbolized "unselfish brotherhood," personal dignity, and "cultivation of the mind." One reason why the stint was important is that workers wanted control over the amount of time that they worked. Businesses at this time often ran factories around the clock and then shut down for months at a time.
Another interesting part of the workingman's moral code was having a "manly bearing" toward the boss. In the nineteenth century this popular expression was an honorific signifying dignity, respect, and egalitarianism. A person earned his honorific by refusing to work while the boss was watching. It is useful to reflect on the difference between only working when the boss is watching and not working when the boss is watching. They are both gestures of defiance, but one is about keeping one's job and the other is about keeping one's dignity. The first says, "I don't want to work, but I will, because you are watching." The second says, "I'll work because I want to, not because you are watching."
You guys are too whiny:) I passed the test with 100% accuracy in Mozilla where the links were not showing up. It is much better to not have to rely on looking at the links, the average person wouldn't be able to do that acurately anyway. In the past I have (almost) missed a http://www.paypal.com.somehost.com/somelegitlookin g/directorystructure/update.asp url before.
Just make sure you get fairly compensated for carrying a company issued pager/phone. Your personal phone you can always decide not to answer, but when you have a compnay phone they will see it as having you on call whenever it is in your possesion.
Get a DirectTV with built in Tivo. You will not regret it.
When I lived in apartments I was a longtime Comcast subscriber and had a Tivo. When I bought a house I went with two DirectTiVos and droped Comcast (due to poor quality) for everything excpet the local channels (I still have the old TiVo) and internet connectivity.
I mounted the DirectTV dish at the top eve of my house and ran all new wiring. It took only a couple of hours. Reception is near perfect and it rarely goes out (once last year) and when it does it goes out for only a few minutes (missed about 20 minutes of three seperate shows when it did go out)
Fast forward. My new room mate works for Comcast, so we now get all of the Comcast channels as well as the DirectTV channels so I can compare them both side by side. DirectTV has a better signal, better quality compression, goes out less, and the TiVo built into the receiver is much more reliable than the TiVo using infrared to talk to the Comcast receiver. The infrared works about 98% of the time... which means we miss 1 out of every 50 recordings which comes out to about a show every two weeks or so. Sometimes it is nothig important like the nightly news and sometimes it is a first run show.
Comcast's non digital channels are of poor to great quality - depending on the channel. DirectTV's channels are consistantly great. Comcast's signal tends to go out at least a couple times a year. Especially during storms when lines go down. When it goes out it tends to stay out for a couple of hours.
Victory -- The RIAA wins the trial. But wait, suddenly they've gone from being "defenders of their legal copyright" to the 2003 version of the woman who spilled coffee on her lap
In reference to Stella Liebeck, the victim in the McDonalds lawsuite you make reference to. I do not believe you know all the facts to the story.
I have had the mp3 player for over a year now and simply love it! I use it to store all of my CDs for taking to and from work. I always have my CD collection with me. I can also use it to transfer data that I download to my home or work machine and as a second harddrive for my work laptop.
My friend has one that she uses to record lectures with. She can record weeks worth of lectures without ever having to worry about flipping a tape:)
The Archos that I have is a wonderful product, the only thing keeping me from upgrading is that it is still in perfect condidition and the price of the latest and greatest model is a bit out of my price range.
But, I can see one day (in the future) walking around with one of these with not only my entire CD collection, but my entire DVD collection.
I agree, I was really disappointed in the magazines available. I thought I would see at least a couple of PC magazines and a video game magazine or two. It looks like a big audience would be the tech sector which the list of magazines neglect. Oh, and adult material too. Without at least a couple of adult magazines how can you take a magazine subscription service seriously? I think if the site had back issues of at least 4 magazines that I read regularly I would consider subscribing. Of course I didn't notice what format they are in, I'm assuming PDF which would keep the magazines intacked (including ads and pictures).
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Where I live, in the United States of America, "Land of the Free", Companies can monitor all email of their employees and do so routinely. In fact, my company provides software to other companies that let them montitor information going across ftp, telnet, and instant messenger. We can even give them the ability to monitor outgoing SMTP connections to their own ISP's mail server! Not only is the legal, but the company doesn't even have to give notice to their employees that they are being monitored. I really look forward to the day when everyone uses encryption and this sort of envasion of privacy stops.
Actually they do. My company used to send out a news letter for a client of ours. It was an opt-out news letter that you were subscibed to when you ordered from their web site. I'm sure many people didn't even bother to read the opt-out information and would have considered the news letter spam. At any rate, at the bottom of every news letter we included a link to unsubscribe that worked. This not only made the consumer happy, it made the company happy because they didn't have to pay us for sending out emails that were unwanted, although we lost some revenue from it, (this wasn't our primary income and we were just doing it as a service for our client) it cut down on the load on our outgoing mail server (which serviced many of our other clients). So to wrap it up, unsubscribe links that work and removing bounced email addresses were in the best interest of all involved!
I think the Slashdot crew could care less about mirrors and Bittorrents. If they did they would incorporate links to them in the stories before posting!
I don't like halo, I don't particularly like the limitations that are imposed on Red Vs. Blue by the Halo engine, but the script and dialog is very funny and most of the voice acting is very well done. Go and download the first episode if you don't know what it is. Watch it and then make your own determination.
I must say I am opposed to this. I will not patronage any place that jams my mobile. A good technical fix for this would be "silent" zones that told the mobile to go into vibrate or one beep only mode until it left the zone and then went back to its default mode. This could easily be achieved with Blue Tooth. But for the record, who really can forget to change their ring setting when they are in such an enviornment?
The Archos AV400 supports audio, video (divx/xvid), photos and act as a USB external drive too. 80GB models are available today and work with most any OS. At every turn Apple is playing catch up but seems to have the marketing power behind it. I am suprised that so many geeks have fallen for it. Though, I am thinking less and less geeks hang out on /.
And if you don't like/can't use Myth try out Sage... Sage.TV
Forgot to mention that I have lost Cds and tapes three times due twice to my car being broken into and once when my car was stolen. The first time they were mostly original tapes, about $250 worth. I learned my lesson. Now the best a thief will get is a handful of CDs with MP3s on them.
I do and have for years. At first I copied the best songs from CDs to tape to make a compilation so I always had the best songs I owned in my car, at my dorm or whereever. Now I copy everything to MP3 so I can have all the songs I own readily available wherever I am. The CDs are safely stored and alpha organized where they are seldom needed. In essence the CD itself is the backup, and the copy is the main one used.
We should turn this discussion towards a more proactive topic... Does anyone know which networks were targeted by the RIAA? Was any one network targeted more than the others? Which P2P is best for sharing with the least chance of getting caught? Are there any tools, services, or procedures one can use to reduce the chance of being caught? These are all good questions that we should be discussing.
Last time I heard, the iPod supported the open and widely used MP3 format, so why did Real need to do *anything* to get their music to play on it? Oh, yeah, they are using a proprietary DRMed format, just like Apple is trying so desperatly to push. I'll stick with my Archos and MP3s, thank you very much.
Is it just me or has Google gotten less and less useful for returning web results over the last few years? I still like the usenet portion (though I liked it better when it was Deja-news) but the web results are becoming less and less helpful. The ranking system seems to be self supporting. Does anyone have any suggestions for other good search engines? I have started to fall back to altavista again and will be trying out vivisimo.com. Don't care for Yahoo at all.
They couldn't drop the price low enough for me to use their service. DRM in any form is bad. I'll stick to straight mp3s thank you. This allows me to easily and seamlessly move my music around all of my home machines, Linux, Windows, and Mac, my portable Archos and Diamond players, and my work machine. Let me see anyone offering DRM solutions offer me that type of freedom.
There was a time when factories ran around the clock and would then close down for months on end until all their stock was sold. The workers had a great solution to this problem called "The Stint," an agreed upon rate of production that no worker would go over. To quote Joanne B. Ciulla:
Employers were constantly trying to make employees work faster. Most workplaces had a stint, and those who failed to maintain it by doing too much or too little were ostracized. Workers who upheld the stint despite the curses of their boss earned reputations as "good men" and trustworthy masters of the trade. The worker restriction of output symbolized "unselfish brotherhood," personal dignity, and "cultivation of the mind." One reason why the stint was important is that workers wanted control over the amount of time that they worked. Businesses at this time often ran factories around the clock and then shut down for months at a time.
Another interesting part of the workingman's moral code was having a "manly bearing" toward the boss. In the nineteenth century this popular expression was an honorific signifying dignity, respect, and egalitarianism. A person earned his honorific by refusing to work while the boss was watching. It is useful to reflect on the difference between only working when the boss is watching and not working when the boss is watching. They are both gestures of defiance, but one is about keeping one's job and the other is about keeping one's dignity. The first says, "I don't want to work, but I will, because you are watching." The second says, "I'll work because I want to, not because you are watchingThere was a time when factories ran around the clock and would then close down for months on end until all their stock was sold. The workers had a great solution to this problem called "The Stint," an agreed upon rate of production that no worker would go over. To quote Joanne B. Ciulla:
Employers were constantly trying to make employees work faster. Most workplaces had a stint, and those who failed to maintain it by doing too much or too little were ostracized. Workers who upheld the stint despite the curses of their boss earned reputations as "good men" and trustworthy masters of the trade. The worker restriction of output symbolized "unselfish brotherhood," personal dignity, and "cultivation of the mind." One reason why the stint was important is that workers wanted control over the amount of time that they worked. Businesses at this time often ran factories around the clock and then shut down for months at a time.
Another interesting part of the workingman's moral code was having a "manly bearing" toward the boss. In the nineteenth century this popular expression was an honorific signifying dignity, respect, and egalitarianism. A person earned his honorific by refusing to work while the boss was watching. It is useful to reflect on the difference between only working when the boss is watching and not working when the boss is watching. They are both gestures of defiance, but one is about keeping one's job and the other is about keeping one's dignity. The first says, "I don't want to work, but I will, because you are watching." The second says, "I'll work because I want to, not because you are watching."
You guys are too whiny:) I passed the test with 100% accuracy in Mozilla where the links were not showing up. It is much better to not have to rely on looking at the links, the average person wouldn't be able to do that acurately anyway. In the past I have (almost) missed a http://www.paypal.com.somehost.com/somelegitlookin g/directorystructure/update.asp url before.
Screw that, I want to use it to create the worlds largest archive of porn! Have it traveling across the net day and night looking for nipples!
Is there a bittorrent or download site I can get this at. Don't really want to spend $22 for the DVD without at least seeing a low res version first.
Just make sure you get fairly compensated for carrying a company issued pager/phone. Your personal phone you can always decide not to answer, but when you have a compnay phone they will see it as having you on call whenever it is in your possesion.
Get a DirectTV with built in Tivo. You will not regret it.
When I lived in apartments I was a longtime Comcast subscriber and had a Tivo. When I bought a house I went with two DirectTiVos and droped Comcast (due to poor quality) for everything excpet the local channels (I still have the old TiVo) and internet connectivity.
I mounted the DirectTV dish at the top eve of my house and ran all new wiring. It took only a couple of hours. Reception is near perfect and it rarely goes out (once last year) and when it does it goes out for only a few minutes (missed about 20 minutes of three seperate shows when it did go out)
Fast forward. My new room mate works for Comcast, so we now get all of the Comcast channels as well as the DirectTV channels so I can compare them both side by side. DirectTV has a better signal, better quality compression, goes out less, and the TiVo built into the receiver is much more reliable than the TiVo using infrared to talk to the Comcast receiver. The infrared works about 98% of the time... which means we miss 1 out of every 50 recordings which comes out to about a show every two weeks or so. Sometimes it is nothig important like the nightly news and sometimes it is a first run show.
Comcast's non digital channels are of poor to great quality - depending on the channel. DirectTV's channels are consistantly great. Comcast's signal tends to go out at least a couple times a year. Especially during storms when lines go down. When it goes out it tends to stay out for a couple of hours.
DRM "enabled". No thanks.
Non-MP3 DRM enabled. Nuff said.
In reference to Stella Liebeck, the victim in the McDonalds lawsuite you make reference to. I do not believe you know all the facts to the story.
I have had the mp3 player for over a year now and simply love it! I use it to store all of my CDs for taking to and from work. I always have my CD collection with me. I can also use it to transfer data that I download to my home or work machine and as a second harddrive for my work laptop.
My friend has one that she uses to record lectures with. She can record weeks worth of lectures without ever having to worry about flipping a tape:)
The Archos that I have is a wonderful product, the only thing keeping me from upgrading is that it is still in perfect condidition and the price of the latest and greatest model is a bit out of my price range.
But, I can see one day (in the future) walking around with one of these with not only my entire CD collection, but my entire DVD collection.
Sounds interesting. I will read it when it comes out in an electronic format such as Safari. Or does anyone know if it is already available elsewhere?
I agree, I was really disappointed in the magazines available. I thought I would see at least a couple of PC magazines and a video game magazine or two. It looks like a big audience would be the tech sector which the list of magazines neglect. Oh, and adult material too. Without at least a couple of adult magazines how can you take a magazine subscription service seriously? I think if the site had back issues of at least 4 magazines that I read regularly I would consider subscribing. Of course I didn't notice what format they are in, I'm assuming PDF which would keep the magazines intacked (including ads and pictures).