A zip file can crash the anti-virus software when it tries to scan it? Is that what this is about? But why does it have to be an archived file, and not just any file? I was under the impression that any file could possibly crash any program that trips over an unexpected error....
Also if you need to unzip a random file for the virus to release, then how is that much different from your typical.exe attachments that you're not suppose to execute.
a. Rental is not illegal, so they are all legitimate businesses. And neither is selling blank CDs, no matter where they are stacked.
b. Manga cafe's are also legal. They are protected under fair use. Each cafe has their own copy. However, one cafe company tried to scan all their mangas and upload them as ebooks. They were arrested.
c. The magazines you are refering to are slightly naughty in nature (often bundled with porn, etc). So it isn't like the mainstream media is embracing or promoting p2p in any manner. But of course, Japan has a free press, so they can print anything they want.
d. As for the peeps on the streets at akihabara, they would get arrested if the copyright holder pointed them out. For example if you sell a Gundam DVD on yahoo, it isn't the police who catch you. Bandai calls the cops, and then the cops come get you. So the people on the streets are there at their own risk. If they were to sell uncensored porn however, a cop walking by or anybody at all could point them out and they would get arrested.
e. Most of the big retail brands know the cops will help them against copyright violators, and are very active in monitoring the marketplace. For example to buy good counterfit handbags, you would have to go to China, whereas in the States you can find anything in chinatown. You would then have to smuggle it into the country.
Rocketdisk is a retailer, so they get their supply from Mtron at wholesale. At this time though it doesn't look like any of the big brands are sporting Mtron drives (even the non-Pro series which are cheaper). You are correct though in that the big brands are buying up Samsungs entire supply. Samsung has yet to release a retail line of their SSDs.
SSD outperform the macbook air sans-SSD; but being outperformed by the macbook and macbook pro without SSDs. I never looked into macs, but this Mac review confirms my suspicion that the Air has a lower-end SSD drive. It isn't a surprise though. I mean, a 64Gig high end SSD would buy you the notebook, so that is expecting too much. It is suprising though how slow the standard hard drive is.
In anycase, I am sure I am not alone in wanting a 120mb/sec drive even if it means half the capacity, and the big brands don't seem to mind misinforming their consumers a little to sell what they got (business as usual).
This is about ISP guidelines changing so they obide to requests of copyright holders concerning illegal sharing of their material, and, only on Winny. And this is actually already done in larger scale in the US, and hence the outcry, and the retraction of some actions. This story is more symbolic than anything. Those with a clue have already switched to the latest platform, and they are in the clear. This is more of a PR move to get people to think p2p is bad and banned and to not even try it. This works to some extent, and looking at how even some people in the US think p2p is now illegal in Japan, it shows how the gullible news agencies are willing open to manipulation for an excuse to print something outrageous.
On yahoo the title of their featured story was "Japan to ban file sharers". This made my friend think file sharing became illegal by law in Japan. The original article is titled "Japanese ISPs to ban file sharers", which changes the scope completely. But even this is overblown, because ISPs aren't really making the move, the Associations are. So complaining to your ISP is like complaining to the writer who was forced to go on strike. There is a huge difference.
In Japan, copyright enforcement is far stronger. Selling illegal copies of Gundam DVDs on an auction site will not only get you arrested, but it will get you on the 6 o'clock news. Counterfit merchandise is illegal to bring into the country, and will get confiscated at customs if you are caught. So the fact that the Associations have to create their own rules might be a sign of weakness on their part, as it implies they failed to get the necessary laws created to get the police to enforce an outright ban.
There is also the background of Winny. The author has already been arrested and charged, and that is probably the prime reason the Associations feel they can take the extra leap against that specific platform. There have also already been arrests regarding file sharers on Winny. Winny is also nutorious for viruses and spyware. What's worse is many of the public Winny servers (initial nodes) keep changing, meaning Winny is a broken platform at this point, although it does seem some updates have been made since I last checked.
Although I am not sure if those that get banned won't be arrested, if they don't, then I am sure they would prefer the disconnection over an arrest. The Associations may just be looking for an easier alternative before calling the cops.
There are no consumer rights in Japan. Actually, there may be even more than in the US. In the US, in exchange for customer service and consumer rights, people line up in court.
In Japan, change often happens in response to customer complaints, which is extremely rare, if not nonexistent in the US.
because, honestly, most Japanese people can barely even type. I regret I took you seriously.
... it's secure. And because it's free, because it's customizable, because it's free (the other meaning), because it has excellent community support. What is the REAL reason it is fun? That is the question.
I've been looking for Flash drives for a while now, and it seems the best option at the moment perfomance wise is the Mtron Pro series at 120Mb/sec. But 32 gigs will cost you 1129.
Which is why I wonder how Dell and Apple and everyone else can provide 64 gig SSD options for their notebooks for less than 1000 dollars. None of the brands had any info on the specs of the drives easily locatable, and I am worried these are the low end SSDs that are much much slower... which is a shame, because performance driven users would probably prefer better drives even for an extra 500 to 1000 dollars.
Later this year Intel is suppose to release 200Mb/sec 80G drives, which is really the only reason I haven't gotten one yet, but I have yet to find any info on pricing.
This is a good step, but wouldn't hackers just be able to work around this too? eg. just put the bad stuff on the same host, etc.
This precaution is currently not enforced, and hence current attacks don't consider it, but if it were enforced, then I have a feeling hackers would just find another way, just as they have done to create the current exploitations.
It is disturbing that plugins such as real player and acrobat can be exploited, since often times an old plugin that is no longer in use will never get updated, and a lot of "smart" users will still have backdoors available on their system just for not updating something they no longer use or want.
The history of Whale fishing/hunting goes back as far as 8000 years. And if it were cheaper, more people would probaby eat it today. There are places that soley serve whale cuisine, and to say no normal japanese person would eat it is speaking for *a whole lot of people*.
The rise in whale consumption after WW2 may have to do with a shortage of food, but it also has to do with the navy redirecting their resources. Initially the navy took over many of the larger fishing boats and armed them for miliary use. After the war, they started fishing with them again.
As for rice paddies, no the government does not own them. As far as I know they are owned by farmers, and because of the value of the land, they would rather keep it, doing what they've been doing, than sell it and do something else. If anything, the government has been kicking them off their land to make way for rails, roads and airports.
Reality mining? Offline web apps? Surprise modeling? OMG!! Microsoft researchers!? How did microsoft get in there!!! Maybe their work was lacking surprise. What next, XML2?
Yup, there are definitely some of those incompetent execs types... But on the flipside, the antitype would be the IT guy who did all of those things right, but might not have a clue about running a company. Many of my comp-sci friends had a phobia for the suits and their like, so some of the ignorance - avoidance rather - does go both ways.
But of course, you can always count on idiots being everywhere, just as you can count on those who are good at everything and go on to succeed... who just piss me off:)
Let the record show I do not like conspiracy theories, let alone turn to them for comfort.
This is a legitimate theory, and the suspicion needs to be raised. You have to at least consider the possibility when there is solid evidence that this is how Microsoft has operated in the past.
It couldn't have anything to do with the machines being garbage regardless of OS could it? It most definitely could. But any computer can be a nightmare, and no, I do not think many of us agree that cheap hardware is necessarily bad. Cheap hardware of today is often the superior hardware of yesterday, and note that the Windows box on the same hardware is still on the shelves. Windows is far more resource consuming than a sane Linux installation, and if the hardware was the issue, then why would it just affect Linux? If the Linux installation was crap, then that says something about the efforts of WalMart, but I cannot say.
In a free market, when one company always wins, flags need to be raised. But we are not in a free market. We are in a "free to cheat until regulated" market. In the case of MS, the flags were raised, but they more or less got away with it. A crook that gets away with its crimes has no new incentives to behave.
It is extremely convenient for the big corporates when the consumers are led to believe that they are in a free market. Was BeOS better than Windows? Well I guess not if Hitachi ditched it. Why did the Linux box disappear from store shelves? It probably sucked. But the truth is, most of us don't really know, and for all of us who follow, we are no longer even given a choice. I never chose Windows. Did you?
The top execs are the true victims of the IT bubble and nonsense IT sales pitches they bought into that ended up just costing them and their company valuable time and resources. Add to that the possibility that they lost boatloads of personal capital on IT stocks, it should be enough to justify their phobia for the sector altogether.
To us IT folk, the nonsense might seem clear, but to those who are targeted and easily confused, treading waters softly is really a matter of safety, not ignorance.
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In Japan, most artists are like Hiyao Miyazaki in that they are responsible for creating their own worlds. Artists in Japan have real freedom when it comes to what they create, and they pretty much do everything themselves. That is how you get Dragonball, Fist of the North Star, Akira, etc... The diversity found in Japanese manga and especially their classics make US comics look all the same, and that is one of the prime reasons why Japanese Manga and Anime took the US by storm.
I think the distinction needs to remain between Comics and Manga, since the environment and industry surrounding the artists has about as much to do with what they produce.
At the end of the day its all entertainment, and for some that means literature, for others graphics, etc, but the only justification that really matters is sales.
How about google ads in the corner clearly marked and unintrusive? Or even just a list of "sponsored links" at the bottom of each page after "external links".
There are many ways Wikipedia can add advertising without adding banners or having any of the advertising interfere with the content.
And being able to successfully generate revenue would mean a better Wikipedia if the people who run it wish to invest in improving what they have.
The main problem though is the advertisers editing content. This is already happening and a lot of articles are compromised. Although this problem should be addressed NOW, and is a problem that precedes this issue, this trend may accelerate with the increase in ties between Wikipedia and its advertising clients (so to avoid creating these ties, something like Google Ads might be best).
Yup. And no one ever really dropped Linux... it just isn't in stores... exactly.
But I am not drawing any conclusions. There simply isn't enough information or evidence to draw anything. But suspicion? Why most definitely.
"This really wasn't what our customers were looking for," said Wal-Mart Stores Inc. spokeswoman Melissa O'Brien. Is it just me or does this quote sound like a spoonfed excuse made up by an MS rep?! It is EXACTLY what MS would want WalMart to say. Something along the lines of: "Linux is not right for you, but Windows is."
On the other hand, if this doesn't have to do with MS, then I would be even more concerned for Linux. That would mean MS is getting its way without even fighting, and that the windows cheap PC did beat out its cheaper Linux counterpart to the extent that the execs felt it wasn't even worthy of shelf space.
There is this view held by some (of which some are posting here) that somehow CPUs are primitive brains and that improving them will eventually result in a non-primitive brain. Hello, there is nothing remotely human about what my computer has done for me lately. Computers and humans *do* very different things, and *are* very different things.
I beg that the distinction between acquiring hints from brain structure vs creating brain structure not be blurred, and that no moderator marks "brains are like this so chips should be like that" type posts as informative or insightful.
No one at Intel has their chipset blueprints confused with an x-ray of Einstein's brain.
How often does a company actually get the queue and do something right? The fact that they tested their assumption and made a move based on evidence is praise worthy. Not that they will give up, but at least they figured out how they aren't going to win.
Maybe these books that everyone talks about actually do make you smarter.
It starts with providers offering unlimited data for phones. At the right price, users will pay to watch youtube videos and unlimited email. Then, when the mobile pc option becomes affordable, hey why not, it would be convenient. And if we pay for it, we are going to use it, so no more WiFi even when its available - just like the guy in the phone booth on his cell.
And WiFi isn't free. Someone pays for it. There is a better chance that your WiFi spots will survive if you pay for it, but if its free, you can expect it to terminate once mobile data users start to ignore its presense.
In am not a fan of conspiracy theories, but have we forgotten how Microsoft became a monopoly in the first place? It bullied all its retailers to drop alternatives. On the surface this is exactly the type of press that the consumers were fed. Yet at the end of the day, no one was left standing but Microsoft, and only then did we start asking the right questions and figured out how it happened. By then it was too late.
There are many "possible" reasons why the Linux box was dropped, and some are more convincing than others. But the bottomline is, they simply aren't telling us the sales figures, aren't revealing that there were any increases in support costs, that returns were a problem, or that Microsoft had nothing to do with it.
All we know is that they dropped Linux, that they are a huge Windows retailer, and that some MS rep near Walmart headquarters has them on speed dial.
why is this marked "troll"? The post he is replying to might sound good but is questionable in its accuracy, and there should be more people questioning accuracy than marking questionable information "informative".
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A zip file can crash the anti-virus software when it tries to scan it? Is that what this is about? But why does it have to be an archived file, and not just any file? I was under the impression that any file could possibly crash any program that trips over an unexpected error....
.exe attachments that you're not suppose to execute.
Also if you need to unzip a random file for the virus to release, then how is that much different from your typical
There are a lot of strangeness, but FYI:
a. Rental is not illegal, so they are all legitimate businesses. And neither is selling blank CDs, no matter where they are stacked.
b. Manga cafe's are also legal. They are protected under fair use. Each cafe has their own copy. However, one cafe company tried to scan all their mangas and upload them as ebooks. They were arrested.
c. The magazines you are refering to are slightly naughty in nature (often bundled with porn, etc). So it isn't like the mainstream media is embracing or promoting p2p in any manner. But of course, Japan has a free press, so they can print anything they want.
d. As for the peeps on the streets at akihabara, they would get arrested if the copyright holder pointed them out. For example if you sell a Gundam DVD on yahoo, it isn't the police who catch you. Bandai calls the cops, and then the cops come get you. So the people on the streets are there at their own risk. If they were to sell uncensored porn however, a cop walking by or anybody at all could point them out and they would get arrested.
e. Most of the big retail brands know the cops will help them against copyright violators, and are very active in monitoring the marketplace. For example to buy good counterfit handbags, you would have to go to China, whereas in the States you can find anything in chinatown. You would then have to smuggle it into the country.
In anycase, I am sure I am not alone in wanting a 120mb/sec drive even if it means half the capacity, and the big brands don't seem to mind misinforming their consumers a little to sell what they got (business as usual).
This is about ISP guidelines changing so they obide to requests of copyright holders concerning illegal sharing of their material, and, only on Winny. And this is actually already done in larger scale in the US, and hence the outcry, and the retraction of some actions. This story is more symbolic than anything. Those with a clue have already switched to the latest platform, and they are in the clear. This is more of a PR move to get people to think p2p is bad and banned and to not even try it. This works to some extent, and looking at how even some people in the US think p2p is now illegal in Japan, it shows how the gullible news agencies are willing open to manipulation for an excuse to print something outrageous.
On yahoo the title of their featured story was "Japan to ban file sharers". This made my friend think file sharing became illegal by law in Japan. The original article is titled "Japanese ISPs to ban file sharers", which changes the scope completely. But even this is overblown, because ISPs aren't really making the move, the Associations are. So complaining to your ISP is like complaining to the writer who was forced to go on strike. There is a huge difference.
In Japan, copyright enforcement is far stronger. Selling illegal copies of Gundam DVDs on an auction site will not only get you arrested, but it will get you on the 6 o'clock news. Counterfit merchandise is illegal to bring into the country, and will get confiscated at customs if you are caught. So the fact that the Associations have to create their own rules might be a sign of weakness on their part, as it implies they failed to get the necessary laws created to get the police to enforce an outright ban.
There is also the background of Winny. The author has already been arrested and charged, and that is probably the prime reason the Associations feel they can take the extra leap against that specific platform. There have also already been arrests regarding file sharers on Winny. Winny is also nutorious for viruses and spyware. What's worse is many of the public Winny servers (initial nodes) keep changing, meaning Winny is a broken platform at this point, although it does seem some updates have been made since I last checked.
Although I am not sure if those that get banned won't be arrested, if they don't, then I am sure they would prefer the disconnection over an arrest. The Associations may just be looking for an easier alternative before calling the cops.
In Japan, change often happens in response to customer complaints, which is extremely rare, if not nonexistent in the US. because, honestly, most Japanese people can barely even type. I regret I took you seriously.
... it's secure. And because it's free, because it's customizable, because it's free (the other meaning), because it has excellent community support. What is the REAL reason it is fun? That is the question.I've been looking for Flash drives for a while now, and it seems the best option at the moment perfomance wise is the Mtron Pro series at 120Mb/sec. But 32 gigs will cost you 1129.
Which is why I wonder how Dell and Apple and everyone else can provide 64 gig SSD options for their notebooks for less than 1000 dollars. None of the brands had any info on the specs of the drives easily locatable, and I am worried these are the low end SSDs that are much much slower... which is a shame, because performance driven users would probably prefer better drives even for an extra 500 to 1000 dollars.
Later this year Intel is suppose to release 200Mb/sec 80G drives, which is really the only reason I haven't gotten one yet, but I have yet to find any info on pricing.
Ya, except the post that it links to is modded -1... But I agree that slashdot doesn't do much towards rewarding the factual.
To say microsoft strong-arms its retailers is not really a theory, it is fact.
This is a good step, but wouldn't hackers just be able to work around this too? eg. just put the bad stuff on the same host, etc.
This precaution is currently not enforced, and hence current attacks don't consider it, but if it were enforced, then I have a feeling hackers would just find another way, just as they have done to create the current exploitations.
It is disturbing that plugins such as real player and acrobat can be exploited, since often times an old plugin that is no longer in use will never get updated, and a lot of "smart" users will still have backdoors available on their system just for not updating something they no longer use or want.
The history of Whale fishing/hunting goes back as far as 8000 years. And if it were cheaper, more people would probaby eat it today. There are places that soley serve whale cuisine, and to say no normal japanese person would eat it is speaking for *a whole lot of people*.
The rise in whale consumption after WW2 may have to do with a shortage of food, but it also has to do with the navy redirecting their resources. Initially the navy took over many of the larger fishing boats and armed them for miliary use. After the war, they started fishing with them again.
As for rice paddies, no the government does not own them. As far as I know they are owned by farmers, and because of the value of the land, they would rather keep it, doing what they've been doing, than sell it and do something else. If anything, the government has been kicking them off their land to make way for rails, roads and airports.
correct... except technically the government is suppose to == the people, hence the dilemma...
Reality mining? Offline web apps? Surprise modeling? OMG!! Microsoft researchers!? How did microsoft get in there!!! Maybe their work was lacking surprise. What next, XML2?
Yup, there are definitely some of those incompetent execs types... But on the flipside, the antitype would be the IT guy who did all of those things right, but might not have a clue about running a company. Many of my comp-sci friends had a phobia for the suits and their like, so some of the ignorance - avoidance rather - does go both ways.
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But of course, you can always count on idiots being everywhere, just as you can count on those who are good at everything and go on to succeed... who just piss me off
This is a legitimate theory, and the suspicion needs to be raised. You have to at least consider the possibility when there is solid evidence that this is how Microsoft has operated in the past. It couldn't have anything to do with the machines being garbage regardless of OS could it? It most definitely could. But any computer can be a nightmare, and no, I do not think many of us agree that cheap hardware is necessarily bad. Cheap hardware of today is often the superior hardware of yesterday, and note that the Windows box on the same hardware is still on the shelves. Windows is far more resource consuming than a sane Linux installation, and if the hardware was the issue, then why would it just affect Linux? If the Linux installation was crap, then that says something about the efforts of WalMart, but I cannot say.
In a free market, when one company always wins, flags need to be raised. But we are not in a free market. We are in a "free to cheat until regulated" market. In the case of MS, the flags were raised, but they more or less got away with it. A crook that gets away with its crimes has no new incentives to behave.
It is extremely convenient for the big corporates when the consumers are led to believe that they are in a free market. Was BeOS better than Windows? Well I guess not if Hitachi ditched it. Why did the Linux box disappear from store shelves? It probably sucked. But the truth is, most of us don't really know, and for all of us who follow, we are no longer even given a choice. I never chose Windows. Did you?
Correct, thank you.
All this speed posting has got me publishing embarrassing errors with no recourse!
The top execs are the true victims of the IT bubble and nonsense IT sales pitches they bought into that ended up just costing them and their company valuable time and resources. Add to that the possibility that they lost boatloads of personal capital on IT stocks, it should be enough to justify their phobia for the sector altogether.
To us IT folk, the nonsense might seem clear, but to those who are targeted and easily confused, treading waters softly is really a matter of safety, not ignorance.
In Japan, most artists are like Hiyao Miyazaki in that they are responsible for creating their own worlds. Artists in Japan have real freedom when it comes to what they create, and they pretty much do everything themselves. That is how you get Dragonball, Fist of the North Star, Akira, etc... The diversity found in Japanese manga and especially their classics make US comics look all the same, and that is one of the prime reasons why Japanese Manga and Anime took the US by storm.
I think the distinction needs to remain between Comics and Manga, since the environment and industry surrounding the artists has about as much to do with what they produce.
At the end of the day its all entertainment, and for some that means literature, for others graphics, etc, but the only justification that really matters is sales.
How about google ads in the corner clearly marked and unintrusive? Or even just a list of "sponsored links" at the bottom of each page after "external links".
There are many ways Wikipedia can add advertising without adding banners or having any of the advertising interfere with the content.
And being able to successfully generate revenue would mean a better Wikipedia if the people who run it wish to invest in improving what they have.
The main problem though is the advertisers editing content. This is already happening and a lot of articles are compromised. Although this problem should be addressed NOW, and is a problem that precedes this issue, this trend may accelerate with the increase in ties between Wikipedia and its advertising clients (so to avoid creating these ties, something like Google Ads might be best).
But I am not drawing any conclusions. There simply isn't enough information or evidence to draw anything. But suspicion? Why most definitely. "This really wasn't what our customers were looking for," said Wal-Mart Stores Inc. spokeswoman Melissa O'Brien. Is it just me or does this quote sound like a spoonfed excuse made up by an MS rep?! It is EXACTLY what MS would want WalMart to say. Something along the lines of: "Linux is not right for you, but Windows is."
On the other hand, if this doesn't have to do with MS, then I would be even more concerned for Linux. That would mean MS is getting its way without even fighting, and that the windows cheap PC did beat out its cheaper Linux counterpart to the extent that the execs felt it wasn't even worthy of shelf space.
There is this view held by some (of which some are posting here) that somehow CPUs are primitive brains and that improving them will eventually result in a non-primitive brain. Hello, there is nothing remotely human about what my computer has done for me lately. Computers and humans *do* very different things, and *are* very different things.
I beg that the distinction between acquiring hints from brain structure vs creating brain structure not be blurred, and that no moderator marks "brains are like this so chips should be like that" type posts as informative or insightful.
No one at Intel has their chipset blueprints confused with an x-ray of Einstein's brain.
How often does a company actually get the queue and do something right? The fact that they tested their assumption and made a move based on evidence is praise worthy. Not that they will give up, but at least they figured out how they aren't going to win.
Maybe these books that everyone talks about actually do make you smarter.
It starts with providers offering unlimited data for phones. At the right price, users will pay to watch youtube videos and unlimited email. Then, when the mobile pc option becomes affordable, hey why not, it would be convenient. And if we pay for it, we are going to use it, so no more WiFi even when its available - just like the guy in the phone booth on his cell.
And WiFi isn't free. Someone pays for it. There is a better chance that your WiFi spots will survive if you pay for it, but if its free, you can expect it to terminate once mobile data users start to ignore its presense.
Did microsoft have anything to do with this?
In am not a fan of conspiracy theories, but have we forgotten how Microsoft became a monopoly in the first place? It bullied all its retailers to drop alternatives. On the surface this is exactly the type of press that the consumers were fed. Yet at the end of the day, no one was left standing but Microsoft, and only then did we start asking the right questions and figured out how it happened. By then it was too late.
There are many "possible" reasons why the Linux box was dropped, and some are more convincing than others. But the bottomline is, they simply aren't telling us the sales figures, aren't revealing that there were any increases in support costs, that returns were a problem, or that Microsoft had nothing to do with it.
All we know is that they dropped Linux, that they are a huge Windows retailer, and that some MS rep near Walmart headquarters has them on speed dial.
why is this marked "troll"? The post he is replying to might sound good but is questionable in its accuracy, and there should be more people questioning accuracy than marking questionable information "informative".
Just mark it as "deleted". ;)