Er... "Verizon" should have been "VeriSign" there. Silly me, confusing two dishonest companies that changed their names to start with "Veri" so people would trust them again.
VeriSign handles second-level domains. You would ask VeriSign for the nameserver for whatever.com, then ask that server for www.whatever.com. The only way Verizon could do what they claim would be by falsely claiming that whatever.com exists.
It's ubiquitous in places that aren't, y'know, flyover country. Hick.
(In what passes for downtown in itty-bitty Providence, Rhode Island, there are at least 10 access points within a short walk of my apartment, at least 3 of which are open to the public.)
I doubt thats the case, arent the newer sony crts built using a better technology than trinitron anyway?
You shouldn't make statements like that without at least googling for support. I haven't heard of Sony having any more interesting CRT patents after Trinitron.
Besides anyone selling a trinitron monitor pays to use the name because of the quality recognition associated with it.
Trinitron is the same thing as "aperture grill". Plenty of people sell aperture grill monitors rather than Trinitron monitors. They are indeed outcompeting Trinitron licensees on price. Talk not out of thy ass, for it will leak and make thy underwear messy.
While true, I don't think that applies here. A computer is not a tool we use directly, but rather a tool that we build layers of tools on top of. Building a layer of limited, easily-comprehended functionality for lusers on top of the same basic tool that has the powerful, complex functionality i need does not harm me. (It has consequences that irritate me, because the lusers think they're using a tool remotely comparable to what I use and yammer ceaselessly at me, but it doesn't harm me directly.)
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Enough, that is, of distributions that are "for the masses". It should be clear to everyone by now that this phrase is utterly meaningless, since it encompasses a huge number of possible approaches to the problem of making lusers happy with Unix. I propose that this phrase and all similarly generic phrases be officially declared Fucking Useless, and anyone who uses them be savagely beaten until they come up with a particular differentiating feature for their distribution.
So what is special about the distro of the week? Hardware autodetection? Careful customization of packages to provide a uniform and sensible default UI? Good paper documentation?
Oh, Jesus, if I just stop there, someone will moderate this up. Do you people realize how pathetic you are, that you're reading this? Writing it was bad enough (shame, shame, shame!), but reading it... can't get read again. Come on, eat me! Burn, karma, burn! SLASHDTO DEITORS SUX0000RZ1!!1! Bibbity bibbity bibbity!
It is universally agreed that privacy and security are in conflict with each other and must be balanced.
My own personal security is not enhanced in the least by an organization representing millions of heavily armed enforcers watching my every move. Quite the opposite, really: if I do something that gets on the nerves of some frustrated jerk in the Department of Ugly Euphemisms, he can most likely direct some men with guns to emphatically worsen the state of my world.
Government needs reasonable resource allocation first (I know, let's let murderers out early so we have more room to imprison pot smokers!), greater competence second, and maybe, just maybe, more investigative power last.
For actual human beings, it was. PCs you could actually buy in stores and run actual software on were suddenly running at 32 bits. It's nice that you had a VAX at home in 1986 and all, but the rest of the world had a use for this stuff.
So what are those two MP3 files, both featuring classical music arranged for guitar, doing in iPhoto?:)
They are there as accompaniment for slide shows. If you set up a slide show, you get an option to play music with it, and those two are on the default menu.
The sounds you hear do not add together in quite so simple a way as the physical sounds. For example, if you add two pure tones of similar frequencies together, you hear beats in addition to the two separate tones. It's not at all clear that the noise itself is what you are missing.
The point is, if you take down the web site, you've done all you reasonably can (and more than a newspaper can do). The existence of third-party archives should be handled in the same way as library archival of newspapers: in neither case can the publisher take it back; all they can do is publish a retraction and stop distributing the original. The damage that's done in both cases depends on how far the message ends up getting, and that depends on a lot of factors besides the medium.
When a newspaper retracts information, people don't go around redacting it from all library archives. If anything, it's easier to remove information from the web: there is usually only a single source for a web site and perhaps a few archives of it, rather than thousands or millions of copies of a newspaper (hundreds or thousands of which are in libraries).
Who wants another Slashdot? The Other Site does discussion much better (mostly because THE SLASHDOT MODERATION SYSTEM DOESN'T SCALE) (ahem, sorry, tic), Google does news aggregation much better, and there are countless superior mindless link propagation technologies. Slashdot was obsolete when it started, but it filled a void for a couple of years until people managed to come up with something decent. Just let it lie.
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Er... "Verizon" should have been "VeriSign" there. Silly me, confusing two dishonest companies that changed their names to start with "Veri" so people would trust them again.
VeriSign handles second-level domains. You would ask VeriSign for the nameserver for whatever.com, then ask that server for www.whatever.com. The only way Verizon could do what they claim would be by falsely claiming that whatever.com exists.
It's ubiquitous in places that aren't, y'know, flyover country. Hick. (In what passes for downtown in itty-bitty Providence, Rhode Island, there are at least 10 access points within a short walk of my apartment, at least 3 of which are open to the public.)
The pure tribal satisfaction of seeing our fellow Slashdotnik is a movie would have to count for something.
Excuse me. I don't know what came over me.
You shouldn't make statements like that without at least googling for support. I haven't heard of Sony having any more interesting CRT patents after Trinitron.
Trinitron is the same thing as "aperture grill". Plenty of people sell aperture grill monitors rather than Trinitron monitors. They are indeed outcompeting Trinitron licensees on price. Talk not out of thy ass, for it will leak and make thy underwear messy.
The Hindenburg fire was not a hydrogen fire.
While true, I don't think that applies here. A computer is not a tool we use directly, but rather a tool that we build layers of tools on top of. Building a layer of limited, easily-comprehended functionality for lusers on top of the same basic tool that has the powerful, complex functionality i need does not harm me. (It has consequences that irritate me, because the lusers think they're using a tool remotely comparable to what I use and yammer ceaselessly at me, but it doesn't harm me directly.)
Enough, that is, of distributions that are "for the masses". It should be clear to everyone by now that this phrase is utterly meaningless, since it encompasses a huge number of possible approaches to the problem of making lusers happy with Unix. I propose that this phrase and all similarly generic phrases be officially declared Fucking Useless, and anyone who uses them be savagely beaten until they come up with a particular differentiating feature for their distribution.
So what is special about the distro of the week? Hardware autodetection? Careful customization of packages to provide a uniform and sensible default UI? Good paper documentation?
Oh, Jesus, if I just stop there, someone will moderate this up. Do you people realize how pathetic you are, that you're reading this? Writing it was bad enough (shame, shame, shame!), but reading it... can't get read again. Come on, eat me! Burn, karma, burn! SLASHDTO DEITORS SUX0000RZ1!!1! Bibbity bibbity bibbity!
An attornery general is an attorney general who's spent too much time trying to depose Bill Gates.
I thought they piloted pirate ships.
My own personal security is not enhanced in the least by an organization representing millions of heavily armed enforcers watching my every move. Quite the opposite, really: if I do something that gets on the nerves of some frustrated jerk in the Department of Ugly Euphemisms, he can most likely direct some men with guns to emphatically worsen the state of my world.
Government needs reasonable resource allocation first (I know, let's let murderers out early so we have more room to imprison pot smokers!), greater competence second, and maybe, just maybe, more investigative power last.
For actual human beings, it was. PCs you could actually buy in stores and run actual software on were suddenly running at 32 bits. It's nice that you had a VAX at home in 1986 and all, but the rest of the world had a use for this stuff.
That was an utter stock Slashdot stupid fucking joke that's been told 34912093 times before, but you moderated it "Funny". Fuck off and die.
Know text.
They are there as accompaniment for slide shows. If you set up a slide show, you get an option to play music with it, and those two are on the default menu.
You're clearly not operating your women correctly.
The sounds you hear do not add together in quite so simple a way as the physical sounds. For example, if you add two pure tones of similar frequencies together, you hear beats in addition to the two separate tones. It's not at all clear that the noise itself is what you are missing.
The point is, if you take down the web site, you've done all you reasonably can (and more than a newspaper can do). The existence of third-party archives should be handled in the same way as library archival of newspapers: in neither case can the publisher take it back; all they can do is publish a retraction and stop distributing the original. The damage that's done in both cases depends on how far the message ends up getting, and that depends on a lot of factors besides the medium.
When a newspaper retracts information, people don't go around redacting it from all library archives. If anything, it's easier to remove information from the web: there is usually only a single source for a web site and perhaps a few archives of it, rather than thousands or millions of copies of a newspaper (hundreds or thousands of which are in libraries).
Yeah, that's why you always extract a name, organization, and contact info before you ask to be put on the don't call list.
Slashdot moderators dumber than rocks. Film at 11.
You were perfectly polite on the last one, too, as far as I can tell. Take 'em to court, win some money, donate it to the ACLU.
Sez you.
That's about why I leave my phone unplugged and set my cell phone not to ring except in response to a whitelist. I'm much happier that way.
If I wanted to implement a whitelist on my landline, I would buy a telephony card and run Asterisk.
Who wants another Slashdot? The Other Site does discussion much better (mostly because THE SLASHDOT MODERATION SYSTEM DOESN'T SCALE) (ahem, sorry, tic), Google does news aggregation much better, and there are countless superior mindless link propagation technologies. Slashdot was obsolete when it started, but it filled a void for a couple of years until people managed to come up with something decent. Just let it lie.