They want to use 500,000 handhelds with GPS and wireless communications abilities. And they want to do it for $100 an unit.
Can't the Blackberry almost do this already? In 7 years, we'll have nothing to worry about. You vastly underestimate the pace at which technological innovation moves on this planet.
Yes, nobody else reads at -1, especially not people like me who have actually been here for a while and like to read everyone's comments, not just those of new-guard slashdroids like you.
Maybe if you'd been here in 1997 when anyone could post under any nickname and things that really were funny were just funny and not Score +5, Funny Yet The Worst Joke Ever, and things that were insightful weren't +5, Insightful Yet Author Is Completely Full Of Bullshit you'd understand.
Of course, if you're really just a troll yourself, I salute you.
If they'd bothered with a S/PDIF input, I can assure you it would be the only thing you'd see in the tapers' section. I'd be using one now if that were the case...
They already exist, for one thing. The problem I have with recording audio to MP3 or MiniDisc is that you start off with a lossy compressed format. Solid state recording is finally starting to come into fruition, with companies like Nagra (and even the new Nomad) offering harddisk-based portable units. I'd personally rather have the option of recording to PCM/WAV (at either 16 or 24 bit) and doing any compression (probably SHN) on the "master" copy later on. Storage is so cheap now that there's no reason not to at least record in uncompressed format.
Yet another person too lazy to do even the very most basic of research who instead asks slashdot.
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Way to invoke Godwin's Law there, sport.
Corporations have had the ability to spy on us for years. My auto insurance company knows everything about my driving history. My health insurance company knows everything about my medical history. My bank knows the date, time, and place of every purchase I've ever made and every dollar I've ever withdrawn from my account. Do I give a flying fuck if AOL knows that, on Sunday, March 10th, I typed in "large-breasted women" into my Search box? Hey, did you know that anyone sitting in a NOC anywhere along the route from my computer to www.google.com's CIDR block can do the same thing?
Why do you morons only trust certain companies??? Put your money where your mouth is; hide it under your mattress. Drive without a license or insurance. Never go to a doctor. People can and will collect information about you, with and without your knowledge. What are you going to do about it? Sit here on slashdot and preach to the choir?
>> The chicken-little-syndrome on this site is absolutely astounding sometimes.
The utter apathy on this site is absolutely astounding sometimes.
Yeah, and the funny thing is, it comes from the same group of people. DVDs are evil! The MPAA is evil! Oh shit, when's Episode 1 coming out on DVD? Amazon.com needs to die for 1-click shopping patents! Oh shit, check out this book you can buy at amazon.com! Congress wants to ban everything on the Internet, but writing a letter is hard and I'm too busy to do anything more than click a web form button to send a standard form letter to my state rep. AOL is watching everything I do! I'll just sit here and post to slashdot; that'll fix everything!
But -- and this is the absolutely salient point -- they could.
Yeah, and they could send a squad of death ninjas after me too, or tickle me to death. But I'm quite confident the odds of either of these three things happening are about equal and probably an integer no greater than zero.
Am I willing to trust them with my browsing info? I trust my employer to not give a shit that I'm reading slashdot right now. Why should I care one whit what AOL knows about the search keywords that come from my IP address?
The chicken-little-syndrome on this site is absolutely astounding sometimes.
Who here has been locked in jail or harassed or abused by AOL or the authorities because of what they typed into their netscape 6 search bar? Hm, nobody? Okay, nothing to see here. Move along.
- A.P.
You must be a troll, but for the benefit of others, OpenBSD doesn't install telnetd, named, or sendmail by default.
Then what the hell good is their claim? Wow, yeah, there's no remote hole because we don't fucking enable anything that accepts remote connections. OpenBSD's claim is as empty as its feature set.
Put down the crack pipe. What on earth do you need to do that requires liquid nitrogen to cool it. This has got to be the worst "ask slashdot" ever, except for the one where the kid wanted us to do his homework for him.
A supercomputer your PC ain't. Cool it the sane way.
If you've got a Dell with PERC controllers, they come with great PERC utilities that will do everything you need. Install them. It's a good idea to be able to monitor your RAID 5 sets.
Jack, you should know that some companies in the computer industry make more than the entire membership of the MPAA combined. You won't have much luck twisting their arm...
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What the hell good is SSH on a windows box? Ooh, I can run "cmd.exe".
- A.P.
Does anyone here know how to use google?
They want to use 500,000 handhelds with GPS and wireless communications abilities. And they want to do it for $100 an unit.
Can't the Blackberry almost do this already? In 7 years, we'll have nothing to worry about. You vastly underestimate the pace at which technological innovation moves on this planet.
- A.P.
Are you stupid, or just dumb?
The only people who read at -1 are trolls.
Yes, nobody else reads at -1, especially not people like me who have actually been here for a while and like to read everyone's comments, not just those of new-guard slashdroids like you.
Maybe if you'd been here in 1997 when anyone could post under any nickname and things that really were funny were just funny and not Score +5, Funny Yet The Worst Joke Ever, and things that were insightful weren't +5, Insightful Yet Author Is Completely Full Of Bullshit you'd understand.
Of course, if you're really just a troll yourself, I salute you.
- A.P.
50-pound computers are what we here in the industry call "desktops".
- A.P.
If they'd bothered with a S/PDIF input, I can assure you it would be the only thing you'd see in the tapers' section. I'd be using one now if that were the case...
- A.P.
They already exist, for one thing. The problem I have with recording audio to MP3 or MiniDisc is that you start off with a lossy compressed format. Solid state recording is finally starting to come into fruition, with companies like Nagra (and even the new Nomad) offering harddisk-based portable units. I'd personally rather have the option of recording to PCM/WAV (at either 16 or 24 bit) and doing any compression (probably SHN) on the "master" copy later on. Storage is so cheap now that there's no reason not to at least record in uncompressed format.
- A.P.
But where can I get a NUMA cluster for $80? Should I Ask Slashdot?
- A.P.
Yet another person too lazy to do even the very most basic of research who instead asks slashdot.
- A.P.
Way to invoke Godwin's Law there, sport.
Corporations have had the ability to spy on us for years. My auto insurance company knows everything about my driving history. My health insurance company knows everything about my medical history. My bank knows the date, time, and place of every purchase I've ever made and every dollar I've ever withdrawn from my account. Do I give a flying fuck if AOL knows that, on Sunday, March 10th, I typed in "large-breasted women" into my Search box? Hey, did you know that anyone sitting in a NOC anywhere along the route from my computer to www.google.com's CIDR block can do the same thing?
Why do you morons only trust certain companies??? Put your money where your mouth is; hide it under your mattress. Drive without a license or insurance. Never go to a doctor. People can and will collect information about you, with and without your knowledge. What are you going to do about it? Sit here on slashdot and preach to the choir?
Put up, shut up, or do something about it.
- A.P.
>> The chicken-little-syndrome on this site is absolutely astounding sometimes.
The utter apathy on this site is absolutely astounding sometimes.
Yeah, and the funny thing is, it comes from the same group of people. DVDs are evil! The MPAA is evil! Oh shit, when's Episode 1 coming out on DVD? Amazon.com needs to die for 1-click shopping patents! Oh shit, check out this book you can buy at amazon.com! Congress wants to ban everything on the Internet, but writing a letter is hard and I'm too busy to do anything more than click a web form button to send a standard form letter to my state rep. AOL is watching everything I do! I'll just sit here and post to slashdot; that'll fix everything!
Don't tell me about apathy. What have you done?
- A.P.
Perhaps they don't harass you or jail you yet.
But -- and this is the absolutely salient point -- they could.
Yeah, and they could send a squad of death ninjas after me too, or tickle me to death. But I'm quite confident the odds of either of these three things happening are about equal and probably an integer no greater than zero.
Am I willing to trust them with my browsing info? I trust my employer to not give a shit that I'm reading slashdot right now. Why should I care one whit what AOL knows about the search keywords that come from my IP address?
The chicken-little-syndrome on this site is absolutely astounding sometimes.
- A.P.
They are doing the same thing. You can probably guess the typical slashdroid response.
- A.P.
Who here has been locked in jail or harassed or abused by AOL or the authorities because of what they typed into their netscape 6 search bar? Hm, nobody? Okay, nothing to see here. Move along. - A.P.
Then what the hell good is their claim? Wow, yeah, there's no remote hole because we don't fucking enable anything that accepts remote connections. OpenBSD's claim is as empty as its feature set.
-A.P.
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Putting out a product worth buying at a price worth paying.
The RIAA has neither of those; the software industry, in some cases, does.
- A.P.
Put down the crack pipe. What on earth do you need to do that requires liquid nitrogen to cool it. This has got to be the worst "ask slashdot" ever, except for the one where the kid wanted us to do his homework for him.
A supercomputer your PC ain't. Cool it the sane way.
- A.P.
Slashdot uses the word "wends" properly.
- A.P.
is anyone aware of some kind of 'packaged' firewall with a slick interface available for free?
Yeah. It's called "stealing a copy of Firewall 1 from work". Sometimes you have to spend money for things.
- A.P.
It's nothing like the Quake rifle. I tried killing *THREE PEOPLE* with mine, and all it did was hit them in the head a little.
What a waste of time!
- A.P.
Why on earth would I tear my Indigo^2 apart to make a boring, normal PC out of it? It's still perfectly useful; an Iris Indigo would've been, too.
- A.P.
If you've got a Dell with PERC controllers, they come with great PERC utilities that will do everything you need. Install them. It's a good idea to be able to monitor your RAID 5 sets.
- A.P.
Step two: Make your site look nothing like Slashdot.
Repeat on a per-site basis.
- A.P.
Jack, you should know that some companies in the computer industry make more than the entire membership of the MPAA combined. You won't have much luck twisting their arm...
- A.P.