This is very common for companies to do; companies like IBM or TSMC will manufacture chips designed by other companies but it's not considered a re-branding.
Do these companies actually manufacture this stuff in North America? Or do they just out-source the actual work to China anyway?
I though that the vast majority of such stuff was already made in China by now, no matter whose name is on the final part. Though, it's possible (likely even) that I'm wrong and only certain kinds of fab is done in China.
"This just seems like one of the most useless ideas Hollywood has had."
Hollywood made "Battlefield: Earth." This isn't even in the top ten, sorry buddy.
Hmmm, so, we've got "Battlefield: Earth" and "Uwe Boll"... I'm thinking fleshing out the rest of the top ten can't be that tough.
From the looks of box-office figures, I'm going to suggest "Star Wars: Clone Wars" is right up there.;-)
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It reminds me of the guy yesterday who was complaining about the quality of science education, as evidenced by his neighbors not knowing who the Borg are.
That, is hilarious. Knowledge of the Borg as a yardstick for science education.:-P
I trust you informed him of the error of his ways?
What makes you think, gstoddart (321705) Alter Relationship on Friday August 29, @06:02AM (#24792607) Homepage that we don't know your parents' basement address?
My parents don't have a basement you insensitive clod.:-P
I thought it was standard procedure to first kidnap and then request a ransom. Why would people pay a ransom -provided they feel really threatened by the email - if noone is kidnapped yet? They can always pay ransom when the kidnapping is actually done?
For the same reason that people fall for all kinds of scams and other stupid stuff on the internet that they might not fall for in real life -- some subset of the recipients actually believe it is real.
If you send enough, it only takes an exceedingly small percentage of people to respond to any attempt to get cash and it probably works. Same for "p3n1s 3nl4rgm3nt", Nigerian scams, or phishing.
In this case, people might actually believe (as much as you and I can't see how) that someone they know might be in real peril of getting kidnapped. Yup, it's naive, but we know people believe all sorts of things.
However, in this case, I should think that sending such threats over email is probably a federal crime, and the people doing this are going to be hosed if they get caught. I'm sure it's probably at least 2-3 felonies to do such a thing.
I don't recall the specifics, but it seems to me that countries are sharing their lists. So, if you're on one, your generally screwed.
Otherwise, all of the terrorists would just go with non US carriers and fly with impunity on all of those terrorist friendly airlines who aren't screening their passengers. I can't imagine it's that easy to just side-step the no fly restrictions that a lot of governments are maintaining -- people would be doing it if it as that easy.
You may be able to get between a couple of smaller countries which aren't well regulated, but I don't think you could transit through a major international hub (where the flights are) and not have your name checked and then get refused.
I bet my next rice krispie block that the MPAA/RIAA are going to raise a hissy fit over this. Their entire business plan seems to resolve around ripping away the rights of the consumer under the guise of "anti-piracy."
Well, with luck, the courts will start swinging back towards being a little more sane and decide that these groups need to have proof and follow the rules.
It really can't be allowed that the *AA's have a consequence-free use of the courts to enforce their own agenda and don't need to back up their claims. They've been skirting around the edges of what's legal for a while, it's time someone yanked on their leash.
I know Slashdot is not a true news site and is more so a news aggregater of whatever CmdrTaco feels is relevant but does anyone else get a sinking suspicion that we might look a bit biased to outsiders?
Suspicion??
I know for a fact that an outsider to Slashdot is going to mostly view us as a bunch of bickering, squabling wankers who divide into camps defined by who makes out favorite operating system, music player, or role playing game.
It's a little late to be worried that someone else might notice. Slashdot is what it is. Yup, the summaries are biased, frequently containing glaring grammatical errors, and may get posted multiple times in the same day.
Me, I think that's (mostly) part of its charm. I don't want something written for Joe Average in a neutral way. I use google news as an aggregator to get the big picture of what's going on and what several different sources say about it.
Now if that other person is such a threat that under no circumstance should they be allowed to board a plane etc. then why aren't they keeping track of their location sufficiently well to know that they are not at your current location attempting to board a plane.
Well, the obvious fact is that none of the above is true.
These are people who we have no actual evidence against, but we suspect that they might now or in the future present an unspecified risk.
This isn't a list containing people we know to be bad. This is a list of people suspected of being naughty, sympathizing with people who may or may not be naughty, or who have met a naughty person at some point in their lives. There simply is no credible, useful evidence that any of these people are actually a threat to anyone.
This is like, innuendo and rumor on a government scale.
But don't be fooled... the only reason to keep CDs around is because of the need to cheap, disposal media distribution.
Well, that at the fact that everybody is set up to handle this particular kind of media.
Seriously, my car, my computer, my CD changer, the stereo in my living room... they all support the physical medium. Coming out with the "new hotness" of form factor and expecting everybody to re-tool everything is stupid. Even if we can do better, CDs have the advantage that everyone has the gear to deal with them.
Once technology becomes that ubiquitous, throwing away the form factor because you've thought of a cooler way that people should pay you for would be stupid... sounds like something Sony would do. Consumers don't want to replace every damned thing they own every couple of years just because some company has come up with a new shape or format.
It's be like saying "hey, I know, let's completely change all of the AC plug designs because this one is prettier". You're not going to get everyone rushing to your door to switch over to this new plug format, because the nuisance and cost of switching vastly outweigh any small benefit to the consumer.
Things like this persist because they work, they're well understood, and the technology to work with them is everywhere.
Got a new idea for a 1" cube to be a replacement for the CD player? Sorry, just not interested. But, don't think that it isn't the combined amount of places where we use the 5 1/4" media that's keeping it around as a form factor -- it's the standard, and we're not looking for a new one.
Someone who has already celebrated a 25th, but hasn't reached a 27th.
Seriously, I don't know about you, but my birthdays and anniversaries happen every year. The coolest parties happen on the ones divisible by 5, but people do acknowledge them as they happen.
... but only in a district 6000 miles away, with an ocean between?
Indeed. There are cases of non-American citizens, not in the US, who can't fly to the country they hold a passport for because their name, or one like it, shows up on a US watch list.
Terrorist's wouldn't even need to use fake names! They'd just need to abbreviate their real ones.
And, what's more astounding is that it would work.
For all of the braying about how this list would improve safety, if you can just slightly change the way you present your name (and still use the same piece of ID) and get onto a plane, the list of less than useless.
We've already known they can't tell the difference between two "John Smiths", but if they can't even identify the same "John Smith", then this really is a farce.
Anyone wanna bet that people who push back like this will find themselves on a different list accidentally, say a sex offender list, or a criminals sentenced to death row that have escaped list. Accidents happen...
Oh, no. It'll be a much more nefarious list that maintained by an agency which nobody officially acknowledges exists and that they're not legally allowed to tell you about.
It'll be a special list for agitators and other enemies of the state who challenge the authority of the government and disagree with the official policies or who report on embarrassing truths.
Its existence and specifics will be deemed a matter of "Executive Privilege" and those who create it will claim they don't need to be accountable to the public since the president said it was OK.
And then, 1984 will have truly arrived. We get closer every day. *sigh* Where'd I leave my roll of foil?
Well it's certainly an under-the-table something. Microsoft always hides large money transfers for underhanded deals under some other guise. It could be that, or it could be that Microsoft is trying to get SuSE to do something else that would further splinter the free and open source software communities further.
Well, remember, this is Novell. So, the details of the deal with Novell and MS are already public and well known.
This could have an ulterior motive by MS, but it could still be an above-board deal in terms of the paper of it. On the surface, this might be exactly what it says it is, but, as you say, MS could well be hoping for a secondary outcome.
Remember, interoperability is one of the things MS is getting dinged for. This very publicly has them working towards that end even if privately they're also working to scuttle Linux.
I really have no idea what this means, or why it is news.
I believe, though I'm not certain, that by providing these vouchers, M$ is in fact helping to support interoperablity across platforms. Or, at least, they can be seen to be trying to help this. As a side benefit, they cycle some revenue through Novell, who they currently aren't at war with.
I think this is part of the contact they entered into with Novell that everyone initially said would be used to fragment the OSS people by saying that only Novell would be unencumbered by patent claims.
That's probably oversimplified, but that's my quick take on it.
It would be amusing to see a mass boycott of all the airlines by all travellers until they learn to stop being such officious pricks.
Good luck with that.
People can't just walk away from air travel as in many cases it would simply mean not travelling. And, then airlines have the support of governments which allow them to be fairly arbitrary in terms of rules -- all in the name of safety.
I think it would be interesting if what you suggest happened. I just don't think enough people can walk away from air travel for this to significantly impact the airlines. Certainly, business travel will go on.
The researchers made a model of a weasel that was making the chicken noise. Hens exposed to this experienced software failure: they would freeze and stop reacting to all other external signals/impulses until the chirping weasel was removed.:)
Fox will let it out, believe you me. They'll just want a percentage of the royalties.
Well, with the way movie studios do accounting, that could be interesting. We're talking about an industry which tried to tell Marvel that they didn't make any money from Spiderman 3 and therefore didn't owe them money.
I think if Fox really believes they owned the rights, some corporate bickering could leave the movie DOA. If it does get released, and unless it does exceptionally well in the box office, WB could be left losing money on the deal, and having to fork over to Fox.
Nobody ever willingly agrees to that shit, they're tricked into agreeing every single time.
Or, the company outright lies and says you did. Or, since they're affiliated with a company who knows a guy who worked for a company that you actually did consent to this with, then they're covered.
But, yes, basically an exemption that is big enough to drive a truck through. I get a lot of calls in which the telemarketers are sending a bogus caller ID and there's just a recording when you answer.
I say take off and nuke them from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.:-P
You could just create multiple profiles in Firefox, and then load the secondary profile with "-no-remote" so that it doesn't intercept any URLs or clicks that would normally load in your primary browser.
But, you still can't (AFAIK) run two instances of the browser running under different profiles at the same time. Sometimes it would be nice to have 2 different profiles running at the same time so you could go to sites you trust in one, and sites you don't in another.
Now, I'm perfectly willing to be told I'm wrong (in fact, if someone can I'd love to know how), but I have yet to find a way to have two profiles of Firefox running under Windows at the same time in the same Windows session. It would be nice to copy a link from a trusted site into a browser set up to not trust anyone and be in a very locked down mode.
For me, I would find that to be a useful feature -- two browsers with two profiles, and as long as the two have distinct visual settings, you can have the best of both worlds.
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Do these companies actually manufacture this stuff in North America? Or do they just out-source the actual work to China anyway?
I though that the vast majority of such stuff was already made in China by now, no matter whose name is on the final part. Though, it's possible (likely even) that I'm wrong and only certain kinds of fab is done in China.
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Hmmm, so, we've got "Battlefield: Earth" and "Uwe Boll" ... I'm thinking fleshing out the rest of the top ten can't be that tough.
From the looks of box-office figures, I'm going to suggest "Star Wars: Clone Wars" is right up there. ;-)
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That, is hilarious. Knowledge of the Borg as a yardstick for science education. :-P
I trust you informed him of the error of his ways?
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My parents don't have a basement you insensitive clod. :-P
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For the same reason that people fall for all kinds of scams and other stupid stuff on the internet that they might not fall for in real life -- some subset of the recipients actually believe it is real.
If you send enough, it only takes an exceedingly small percentage of people to respond to any attempt to get cash and it probably works. Same for "p3n1s 3nl4rgm3nt", Nigerian scams, or phishing.
In this case, people might actually believe (as much as you and I can't see how) that someone they know might be in real peril of getting kidnapped. Yup, it's naive, but we know people believe all sorts of things.
However, in this case, I should think that sending such threats over email is probably a federal crime, and the people doing this are going to be hosed if they get caught. I'm sure it's probably at least 2-3 felonies to do such a thing.
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Primarily "Blinding Yourself with Science", with a minor in "Sound and Signal Processing".
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I don't recall the specifics, but it seems to me that countries are sharing their lists. So, if you're on one, your generally screwed.
Otherwise, all of the terrorists would just go with non US carriers and fly with impunity on all of those terrorist friendly airlines who aren't screening their passengers. I can't imagine it's that easy to just side-step the no fly restrictions that a lot of governments are maintaining -- people would be doing it if it as that easy.
You may be able to get between a couple of smaller countries which aren't well regulated, but I don't think you could transit through a major international hub (where the flights are) and not have your name checked and then get refused.
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Well, with luck, the courts will start swinging back towards being a little more sane and decide that these groups need to have proof and follow the rules.
It really can't be allowed that the *AA's have a consequence-free use of the courts to enforce their own agenda and don't need to back up their claims. They've been skirting around the edges of what's legal for a while, it's time someone yanked on their leash.
Cheers
Suspicion??
I know for a fact that an outsider to Slashdot is going to mostly view us as a bunch of bickering, squabling wankers who divide into camps defined by who makes out favorite operating system, music player, or role playing game.
It's a little late to be worried that someone else might notice. Slashdot is what it is. Yup, the summaries are biased, frequently containing glaring grammatical errors, and may get posted multiple times in the same day.
Me, I think that's (mostly) part of its charm. I don't want something written for Joe Average in a neutral way. I use google news as an aggregator to get the big picture of what's going on and what several different sources say about it.
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Well, the obvious fact is that none of the above is true.
These are people who we have no actual evidence against, but we suspect that they might now or in the future present an unspecified risk.
This isn't a list containing people we know to be bad. This is a list of people suspected of being naughty, sympathizing with people who may or may not be naughty, or who have met a naughty person at some point in their lives. There simply is no credible, useful evidence that any of these people are actually a threat to anyone.
This is like, innuendo and rumor on a government scale.
Cheers
Well, that at the fact that everybody is set up to handle this particular kind of media.
Seriously, my car, my computer, my CD changer, the stereo in my living room ... they all support the physical medium. Coming out with the "new hotness" of form factor and expecting everybody to re-tool everything is stupid. Even if we can do better, CDs have the advantage that everyone has the gear to deal with them.
Once technology becomes that ubiquitous, throwing away the form factor because you've thought of a cooler way that people should pay you for would be stupid ... sounds like something Sony would do. Consumers don't want to replace every damned thing they own every couple of years just because some company has come up with a new shape or format.
It's be like saying "hey, I know, let's completely change all of the AC plug designs because this one is prettier". You're not going to get everyone rushing to your door to switch over to this new plug format, because the nuisance and cost of switching vastly outweigh any small benefit to the consumer.
Things like this persist because they work, they're well understood, and the technology to work with them is everywhere.
Got a new idea for a 1" cube to be a replacement for the CD player? Sorry, just not interested. But, don't think that it isn't the combined amount of places where we use the 5 1/4" media that's keeping it around as a form factor -- it's the standard, and we're not looking for a new one.
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Someone who has already celebrated a 25th, but hasn't reached a 27th.
Seriously, I don't know about you, but my birthdays and anniversaries happen every year. The coolest parties happen on the ones divisible by 5, but people do acknowledge them as they happen.
Cheers
Indeed. There are cases of non-American citizens, not in the US, who can't fly to the country they hold a passport for because their name, or one like it, shows up on a US watch list.
What recourse do these people have?
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And, what's more astounding is that it would work.
For all of the braying about how this list would improve safety, if you can just slightly change the way you present your name (and still use the same piece of ID) and get onto a plane, the list of less than useless.
We've already known they can't tell the difference between two "John Smiths", but if they can't even identify the same "John Smith", then this really is a farce.
Unbelievable.
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Oh, no. It'll be a much more nefarious list that maintained by an agency which nobody officially acknowledges exists and that they're not legally allowed to tell you about.
It'll be a special list for agitators and other enemies of the state who challenge the authority of the government and disagree with the official policies or who report on embarrassing truths.
Its existence and specifics will be deemed a matter of "Executive Privilege" and those who create it will claim they don't need to be accountable to the public since the president said it was OK.
And then, 1984 will have truly arrived. We get closer every day. *sigh* Where'd I leave my roll of foil?
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Dude, be a mensch. Let him know which of the random whack-jobs on his Freaks list you are.
I bet the ones on my list don't even know why they added me in the first place. :-P
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OK, on behalf of those of us who live in Canada and actually have girlfriends .... *phbtbtbbtbt*. :-P
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Well, remember, this is Novell. So, the details of the deal with Novell and MS are already public and well known.
This could have an ulterior motive by MS, but it could still be an above-board deal in terms of the paper of it. On the surface, this might be exactly what it says it is, but, as you say, MS could well be hoping for a secondary outcome.
Remember, interoperability is one of the things MS is getting dinged for. This very publicly has them working towards that end even if privately they're also working to scuttle Linux.
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I believe, though I'm not certain, that by providing these vouchers, M$ is in fact helping to support interoperablity across platforms. Or, at least, they can be seen to be trying to help this. As a side benefit, they cycle some revenue through Novell, who they currently aren't at war with.
I think this is part of the contact they entered into with Novell that everyone initially said would be used to fragment the OSS people by saying that only Novell would be unencumbered by patent claims.
That's probably oversimplified, but that's my quick take on it.
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Why, you wake them up from their cryo sleep at area 51, of course. :-P
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Good luck with that.
People can't just walk away from air travel as in many cases it would simply mean not travelling. And, then airlines have the support of governments which allow them to be fairly arbitrary in terms of rules -- all in the name of safety.
I think it would be interesting if what you suggest happened. I just don't think enough people can walk away from air travel for this to significantly impact the airlines. Certainly, business travel will go on.
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Norman: co-ordinate.
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Well, with the way movie studios do accounting, that could be interesting. We're talking about an industry which tried to tell Marvel that they didn't make any money from Spiderman 3 and therefore didn't owe them money.
I think if Fox really believes they owned the rights, some corporate bickering could leave the movie DOA. If it does get released, and unless it does exceptionally well in the box office, WB could be left losing money on the deal, and having to fork over to Fox.
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Or, the company outright lies and says you did. Or, since they're affiliated with a company who knows a guy who worked for a company that you actually did consent to this with, then they're covered.
But, yes, basically an exemption that is big enough to drive a truck through. I get a lot of calls in which the telemarketers are sending a bogus caller ID and there's just a recording when you answer.
I say take off and nuke them from orbit, it's the only way to be sure. :-P
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But, you still can't (AFAIK) run two instances of the browser running under different profiles at the same time. Sometimes it would be nice to have 2 different profiles running at the same time so you could go to sites you trust in one, and sites you don't in another.
Now, I'm perfectly willing to be told I'm wrong (in fact, if someone can I'd love to know how), but I have yet to find a way to have two profiles of Firefox running under Windows at the same time in the same Windows session. It would be nice to copy a link from a trusted site into a browser set up to not trust anyone and be in a very locked down mode.
For me, I would find that to be a useful feature -- two browsers with two profiles, and as long as the two have distinct visual settings, you can have the best of both worlds.
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