So NASA wants to go to private industry and say "spend billions developing something that we'll use for 5 years and then go back to our own stuff"? The only question is whether private industry will laugh at them to their face, or just behind their back...
The big plus for me is that I can have dozens of books to choose from without the associated weight
Completely agreed! I'm dumping all (ok, most) of my paper --- my entire electronic library fits on one sd card, not a literal half ton and an entire room. I mainly use my Treo 650 at the moment, and it makes an excellent e-reader.
"Imminent Death of the Net" has been a joke since the 80's: "it'll take more than a day to transfer a day's worth of USENET with 1200 bps modems!", then 2400 baud modems came out, etc. The more things change, the more they stay the same... Fortunately, data transmission is a highly parallelizable operation, and if people want to pay for it, they'll get it...
I really like my Sony Reader, except for one thing: contrast. When I was in my 20's, it probably would be fine, but now, well, *not* in my 20's;-), combined with the fact that it won't scale pdfs to the large print size, I have to have really good lighting to be able to read it. It turns out that my treo is a better e-reader than the Reader, and, if I absolutely have to, I can install additional proprietary readers (I currently have Ereader and Mobipocket, though I am refusing to buy any additional drm'd content). Fictionwise has a great selection of non-drm'd books too, though all too many publishers are going the drm route...
I'm hoping the new version of the Reader will be useable for me, and if so, I'd be happy to give younger eyes a good deal on mine...
In any case, you should be using Shadow Copy...er...Time Machine which would have protected you from going and losing track of your own files.
Except Time Machine doesn't work if you have File Vault turned on (an admittedly hard problem to solve), which eliminates the main reason I wanted to upgrade to Leopard.
This damn thing just bit me because I'd previewed some pictures on an sd card, then closed Preview and moved them onto my file server. Except for some reason it thought they were "still in use", causing the move to fail, taking the pictures with it. Fortunately not important ones.
Not too surprised, being essentially a.0 release, it's to be expected to be a beta tester...
I do propose at some point the ubiquitous rude behavior on cell phones dictates some solution.
The problem isn't "rude behavior on cell phones". The problem is "rude behavior". It's not just limited to a few cell phone users. And some overly sensitive bystanders, or maybe other places are worse, but I rarely see anything like what a lot of people seem to complain about. I do see a lot of rude driving, and that has no relationship to cell phones.
I don't know anything about what you can or can't do with a facebook id number, but it could be a way to increase the sparseness so they're harder to guess for some sort of security reason (well founded or not...)?
That is actually the right solution: the last mile should be public property, just like roads, sewer and water. Then the telcos, cablecos and isps all get access on equal footing.
Apparently all those years on drugs are taking their toll on the brains of the music industry...
Thunderbird is the worst email client out there...
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...except for all the rest.
* does not handle large mailboxes well * if it can't connect to a mail server, it throws away everything it knows about mail in that account * after years, they still haven't made the minor modifications to fix encryption ** "encrypt when possible" ** trying to save drafts signed * it does not keep track of what's happening in imap folders very well * it does not handle text replies to html messages well (e.g. any email addresses get duplicated as mailto tags)
Someday I may even be able to find the time to fix some of these, but for now, well, it's still better than anything else...
The music people just want you to buy their stuff over and over and over.
They can want all they like; I won't be buying it (or downloading it either) the first time now. Artists: if you're on Sony, you've lost one member of your audience.
Since when has anyone had to show any kind of id to go into a park? There are problems with RealID, but if you overhype the problems, it discredits the opposition to it.
It could easily be that passports will be needed to get on an airplane, or to do business with the feds, but they're already tracking you on airplanes, and it wouldn't be hard to (if they haven't already) built a drivers license database to track anything you do with them. But in fact, these are state databases, not federal, and states can control access to them.
The standardized format is actually the good part of Real ID, as it makes it easier for people that need to validate id to do so.
The bad part of Real ID is the coordinated database; if that were implemented in a way that the query to validate an ID were done anonymously, with phishing safeguards, it would actually be a decent system.
The real attack needs to be on pushing back on *when* id is required in the first place. You can't hardly look at someone without them wanting to know who you are, and if we don't get out of that mindset, it won't matter how hi or low-tech the id system is.
What I find interesting, and realize it may just be coincidence, but from the global graph, it looks like WWII saved us by delaying the rise by 30 years. Would we have noticed 30 years ago? On the other hand, would it have been easier to deal with with the smaller population of 30 years ago, or did we just not have tech to be able to do so then?
Just a "what if" game, but it sparked my curiosity...
And well they should! People have been getting away with illegal sharing of media through such devices known as "speakers" forever, and it's time it stopped! *anyone* within earshot can listen to the content, not just the person who paid to hear it. Everyone should listen to music with closed headphones attached only to their own device playing only content they've paid for so that they're not illegally distributing what they're listening to. It protects people from having to put up with that awful independent stuff, and protects the income of the popular artists who put out what people actually like. It's a win-win for *everyone*!
This is why you need to encrypt everything as a matter of course: the valid argument is privacy in the face of all the data theft reports coming out nearly daily, you don't know where stuff is stored all the time, so just encrypt everything.
Anything you *do* want hidden, needs to be done in such a way that there's nothing that indicates that there *is* anything hidden, ala Truecrypt's multiple volumes. "I don't need to *hide* anything, so I'm not using that feature, it's just a good encryption tool"
Pricegrabber et al need to start flagging brands that come with price fixing limits. I already refuse to by anything that says "$CALL" for the price. If I wanted to call for the price, I wouldn't be shopping online. Given how that seems to have quickly turned to "add it to your cart to see the price", I'm probably not the only one. When I want a lot of support, I'll go buy from Crutchfield, otherwise, I don't want to pay for what I'm not using.
I don't care if it runs on my mac or not --- if they are restricting when/where I can watch the content, then I'm not going to download it in the first place. I would be more than happy to pay the license fee to get bbc shows, but not with restrictions.
Like hell it's not. The legal system may not recognize it as such, but it is nevertheless. As are paparazzi, and the protestors that illegally blocked the entrance to a local fur store enough to put it out of business because the city wouldn't enforce the law. It may be legal harassment, but it's harassment, *shouldn't* be legal and *should* be stopped.
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So NASA wants to go to private industry and say "spend billions developing something that we'll use for 5 years and then go back to our own stuff"? The only question is whether private industry will laugh at them to their face, or just behind their back...
The big plus for me is that I can have dozens of books to choose from without the associated weight
Completely agreed! I'm dumping all (ok, most) of my paper --- my entire electronic library fits on one sd card, not a literal half ton and an entire room. I mainly use my Treo 650 at the moment, and it makes an excellent e-reader.
"Imminent Death of the Net" has been a joke since the 80's: "it'll take more than a day to transfer a day's worth of USENET with 1200 bps modems!", then 2400 baud modems came out, etc. The more things change, the more they stay the same... Fortunately, data transmission is a highly parallelizable operation, and if people want to pay for it, they'll get it...
I really like my Sony Reader, except for one thing: contrast. When I was in my 20's, it probably would be fine, but now, well, *not* in my 20's ;-), combined with the fact that it won't scale pdfs to the large print size, I have to have really good lighting to be able to read it. It turns out that my treo is a better e-reader than the Reader, and, if I absolutely have to, I can install additional proprietary readers (I currently have Ereader and Mobipocket, though I am refusing to buy any additional drm'd content). Fictionwise has a great selection of non-drm'd books too, though all too many publishers are going the drm route...
I'm hoping the new version of the Reader will be useable for me, and if so, I'd be happy to give younger eyes a good deal on mine...
In any case, you should be using Shadow Copy...er...Time Machine which would have protected you from going and losing track of your own files.
.0 release, it's to be expected to be a beta tester...
Except Time Machine doesn't work if you have File Vault turned on (an admittedly hard problem to solve), which eliminates the main reason I wanted to upgrade to Leopard.
This damn thing just bit me because I'd previewed some pictures on an sd card, then closed Preview and moved them onto my file server. Except for some reason it thought they were "still in use", causing the move to fail, taking the pictures with it. Fortunately not important ones.
Not too surprised, being essentially a
I do propose at some point the ubiquitous rude behavior on cell phones dictates some solution.
The problem isn't "rude behavior on cell phones". The problem is "rude behavior". It's not just limited to a few cell phone users. And some overly sensitive bystanders, or maybe other places are worse, but I rarely see anything like what a lot of people seem to complain about. I do see a lot of rude driving, and that has no relationship to cell phones.
I don't know anything about what you can or can't do with a facebook id number, but it could be a way to increase the sparseness so they're harder to guess for some sort of security reason (well founded or not...)?
That is actually the right solution: the last mile should be public property, just like roads, sewer and water. Then the telcos, cablecos and isps all get access on equal footing.
Apparently all those years on drugs are taking their toll on the brains of the music industry...
...except for all the rest.
* does not handle large mailboxes well
* if it can't connect to a mail server, it throws away everything it knows about mail in that account
* after years, they still haven't made the minor modifications to fix encryption
** "encrypt when possible"
** trying to save drafts signed
* it does not keep track of what's happening in imap folders very well
* it does not handle text replies to html messages well (e.g. any email addresses get duplicated as mailto tags)
Someday I may even be able to find the time to fix some of these, but for now, well, it's still better than anything else...
The music people just want you to buy their stuff over and over and over.
They can want all they like; I won't be buying it (or downloading it either) the first time now. Artists: if you're on Sony, you've lost one member of your audience.
...I'm glad I switched to Sprint several years ago.
One of Star Trek's more disturbing ideas is about to come to life...
the creation of smarter-than-human intelligence beyond which the future becomes unpredictable
And the future is predictable now? Suuuuuurrrrrreeeeee...
Just reiterates my resolve that I'll buy a player when there's a decent dual-format player.
There's no rockets involved, it's actually steam powered, fueled by rocket fuel (hydrogen peroxide).
Since when has anyone had to show any kind of id to go into a park? There are problems with RealID, but if you overhype the problems, it discredits the opposition to it.
It could easily be that passports will be needed to get on an airplane, or to do business with the feds, but they're already tracking you on airplanes, and it wouldn't be hard to (if they haven't already) built a drivers license database to track anything you do with them. But in fact, these are state databases, not federal, and states can control access to them.
The standardized format is actually the good part of Real ID, as it makes it easier for people that need to validate id to do so.
The bad part of Real ID is the coordinated database; if that were implemented in a way that the query to validate an ID were done anonymously, with phishing safeguards, it would actually be a decent system.
The real attack needs to be on pushing back on *when* id is required in the first place. You can't hardly look at someone without them wanting to know who you are, and if we don't get out of that mindset, it won't matter how hi or low-tech the id system is.
What I find interesting, and realize it may just be coincidence, but from the global graph, it looks like WWII saved us by delaying the rise by 30 years. Would we have noticed 30 years ago? On the other hand, would it have been easier to deal with with the smaller population of 30 years ago, or did we just not have tech to be able to do so then?
Just a "what if" game, but it sparked my curiosity...
And well they should! People have been getting away with illegal sharing of media through such devices known as "speakers" forever, and it's time it stopped! *anyone* within earshot can listen to the content, not just the person who paid to hear it. Everyone should listen to music with closed headphones attached only to their own device playing only content they've paid for so that they're not illegally distributing what they're listening to. It protects people from having to put up with that awful independent stuff, and protects the income of the popular artists who put out what people actually like. It's a win-win for *everyone*!
This is why you need to encrypt everything as a matter of course: the valid argument is privacy in the face of all the data theft reports coming out nearly daily, you don't know where stuff is stored all the time, so just encrypt everything.
Anything you *do* want hidden, needs to be done in such a way that there's nothing that indicates that there *is* anything hidden, ala Truecrypt's multiple volumes. "I don't need to *hide* anything, so I'm not using that feature, it's just a good encryption tool"
Pricegrabber et al need to start flagging brands that come with price fixing limits. I already refuse to by anything that says "$CALL" for the price. If I wanted to call for the price, I wouldn't be shopping online. Given how that seems to have quickly turned to "add it to your cart to see the price", I'm probably not the only one. When I want a lot of support, I'll go buy from Crutchfield, otherwise, I don't want to pay for what I'm not using.
I don't care if it runs on my mac or not --- if they are restricting when/where I can watch the content, then I'm not going to download it in the first place. I would be more than happy to pay the license fee to get bbc shows, but not with restrictions.
See parent article.
And they want to drop support of 1.5 this month, when 2.0 isn't even really ready yet? When did Microsoft take over the Mozilla Foundation?
and it's not harassment
Like hell it's not. The legal system may not recognize it as such, but it is nevertheless. As are paparazzi, and the protestors that illegally blocked the entrance to a local fur store enough to put it out of business because the city wouldn't enforce the law. It may be legal harassment, but it's harassment, *shouldn't* be legal and *should* be stopped.