You shouldn't feel the need to apologize. The people who are presumably being paid to act in an editorial capacity for Slashdot are the individuals who should be taking the time to ensure submissions are readable. They're clearly willing and able to edit submissions, yet have rarely shown any inclination toward putting effort into anything beyond adding subjective comments or making questionable changes that result in submitters having to point out what the editors have done.
This has been a problem for as long as I can remember, and while it's excusable from a volunteer-run operation, a paying for-profit operation should be willing to invest in someone willing to do basic proofreading and fact-checking while approving reader-submitted links, favoured weblogger glurge, and Slashvertisements.
Then again, I don't think much of the hypothesis that financial profit is an obligatory motivator for competence, so I'm not surprised that garbled sentences go right by the staff; hiring someone to check the spelling and grammar would cut into profits, after all, and as long as people keep paying for crap, what motivation is there to change?
Have any details been released? This sounds curiously like an e-mail-based phishing campaign, if the passwords weren't obtained from Gmail's own systems and they weren't exploiting a software vulnerability.
This is ultimately no different from the days of downloading trojan-laden warez from a BBS or pr0n site and getting infected with an autodialer that calls some random long-distance number through the modem.
If you're not willing to be careful about what you're installing, or where you're downloading it from, don't be surprised when your phone racks up random charges without your direct input.
This thing isn't even out of the design phase, so it's a bit... i dunno... presumptuous to state it's "currently" capable of anything.
On top of that, 21 days doesn't let you get very far from Earth into "deep space", unless LM is sitting on a revolutionary propulsion system for the capsule, which given the budgets and proposals involved doesn't seem likely. Moon missions are possible, which would be neat to get back into, but until NASA gets the budget of their dreams while DoD has to hold a fundraiser to pay for those new aircraft carriers (or a non-gubmint concern cooks up something awesome), I just can't get too excited over these press releases.
In other words, about as much evidence as other claims that Anonymous, PS3 hackers, or Osama bin Laden were involved.
Hey, gotta fill that news cycle. Gotta draw eyeballs for advertisers. Content is just a vehicle for making money. Truth is incidental, and at this point often accidental.
What are you going to do with that molten mess? Remember; it's basically all radioactive waste now, good luck finding a country that will take it. Nope, that witches brew of toxic heavy metals is staying there for a long, long time. An earthquake-resistant, tsunami-resistant structure is goin to have to be built and maintained for, oh, the next few thousand years.
If nuclear reactors were treated as lackadasically as fossil fuel-burning facilities have been until recently (and may still be), you bet your arse there would be many more deaths and sicknesses. The paranoia exists because we know very well what an uncontrolled release of radiation, or a power excursion in an operating reactor, can do.
Cute feature list. Too bad my Linux machine does everything I need it for, at the cost of only the hardware. Microsoft has given me no reason to consider spending money when the free options fill my needs, from normal end-user stuff to web design and system administration.
At some point, a person should stand before a legislative committee dealing with copyright term extensions - pick a country where these discussions are happening, any one - and ask just how many more term extensions will be granted, or whether copyright terms will be made permanent de jure, not just de facto.
I'm sure this will seem like a great idea... until the power goes out. I would think that the residents of a state subjected to power outages for profit not too long ago might be a bit more careful about increasing their reliance upon electric current for basic information accessibility.
If we don't replace fossil fuel generation with something more sustainable before peak extraction hits, we are all going to be knocked back to the Paper Age pretty fast. Say what you will about dead trees - they don't require current to operate.
... don't leave it in a place where a random disaster (or random disgruntled third-party employee) can wipe it from the face of the Earth. Terabyte-size drives are cheap nowadays. Buy them. Buy many of them. Back up elements to them on a regular basis. Don't destroy raw material until the editing is done and the master has been copied at least twice purely for long-term storage, never mind how many copies need to be made available for distribution. Don't even rely on just hard disks - dump masters to tape if you can afford it. HDCAM's not completely overpriced; hell, even standard-definition Digital Betacam is better than, quite literally, nothing.
If they're lucky, the animated contributions and sound elements may be retrievable should the individuals responsible for those be more scrupulous about their material retention than the studio (the story didn't quite make clear what, if anything, they've been able to recover), but any location shooting lost is going to be a pain to redo.
This should be a very expensive lesson for their technically-inclined production crew and, if they have any, actual IT staff.
Goodness forbid an "educated" person get their hands dirty. It is useful to put theory into practice through direct effort, and it demonstrates a proficiency with the practical tools and results that can only lead to better theory.
As a Canadian, I think we are in no position to pity or criticize our neighbours. Our media and telecom industries are in some ways even more integrated and oligopolistic than our neighbours' equvialents. Most of the private terrestrial broadcasters happen to be owned, in whole or in part, by the same companies that own what are known as "broadcast distribution undertakings" - basically, the cable, satellite, and IPTV providers. Several also own digital pay TV channels, cellular and landline telecom providers, and probably backbone services as well.
Hope you like vertically integrated telecommunications/content cartels. My only question is whether Comcast will buy a wireless service provider or AT&T will buy digital TV channels and fund original programs first.
"Real 4G" is clearly whatever the cell service providers want it to be. Between the meaningless buzzwords in ads and promotional literature, and the alphabet soup of acronyms used to name specific data transmission schemes, it's no wonder so much confusion reigns about which service is "the best".
I think this was actually floated here in Canuckistan early last decade. It never made it into a piece of legislation; it's effectively a tax on any computer with storage that plays music, whether it's a little $50 flash-memory player with cheap plastic buttons to $3500 laptop gaming rigs. There's no hope of equal enforcement, and either the loopholes would be massive or the entire industry would smash it down before it could ever be legislated.
Hey, while we're all getting drawn into well-burnt flamewars, can we get a vi vs. emacs story for our weekend debating pleasure? Maybe some BSD vs. GPL flavour for good measure?
My partner and I dumped cable TV when it was clear we were only watching a few shows on the hundred-or-so channels we had access to. 95% of the content was repetitious junk, with the same amount of annoying ads and infomercials as terrestrial broadcast. At least we don't have to pay to pull in HD OTA content, aside from the $45 for the secondhand indoor antenna I bought[0]. Between that and Netflix, we're set. I've thought about slapping together a MythTV box from time to time for recording purposes.
There's some neat stuff happening in OTA broadcasting post-analog shutdown. Some NBC affiliates carry Universal Sports on a subchannel, and some other stations carry things like Retro Television Network (cheesy old TV!), music video channels, and in the case of my area an extra news/educational channel on the PBS feed. Once Canada switches off the analog TV spectrum[1], I expect to see a few more neato things on the air.
[0] We have an unusually good view in the direction of signal sources around here, so costs would probably run into the low hundreds for a proper roof/mast antenna, rotor, preamp, and coax for most suburbanites. It's still worth it, IMHO.
[1] This assumes the telecom/media cartel up here doesn't cook up an excuse to delay the digital switch even farther into the future. The switchover was supposed to be August of this year, though I half-remember rumours that they may push it back to 2013 or beyond. Part of the problem is that most private OTA stations are owned by media conglomerates that also own cable/satellite/IPTV operations, and they're much more interested in squeezing money out of subscribers. Go ahead, ask me about the kabuki fee-for-carriage "debate" that took place here last year. I'm still brassed off at how everyone in this country fell for it.
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You shouldn't feel the need to apologize. The people who are presumably being paid to act in an editorial capacity for Slashdot are the individuals who should be taking the time to ensure submissions are readable. They're clearly willing and able to edit submissions, yet have rarely shown any inclination toward putting effort into anything beyond adding subjective comments or making questionable changes that result in submitters having to point out what the editors have done.
This has been a problem for as long as I can remember, and while it's excusable from a volunteer-run operation, a paying for-profit operation should be willing to invest in someone willing to do basic proofreading and fact-checking while approving reader-submitted links, favoured weblogger glurge, and Slashvertisements.
Then again, I don't think much of the hypothesis that financial profit is an obligatory motivator for competence, so I'm not surprised that garbled sentences go right by the staff; hiring someone to check the spelling and grammar would cut into profits, after all, and as long as people keep paying for crap, what motivation is there to change?
Have any details been released? This sounds curiously like an e-mail-based phishing campaign, if the passwords weren't obtained from Gmail's own systems and they weren't exploiting a software vulnerability.
This is ultimately no different from the days of downloading trojan-laden warez from a BBS or pr0n site and getting infected with an autodialer that calls some random long-distance number through the modem.
If you're not willing to be careful about what you're installing, or where you're downloading it from, don't be surprised when your phone racks up random charges without your direct input.
This thing isn't even out of the design phase, so it's a bit... i dunno... presumptuous to state it's "currently" capable of anything.
On top of that, 21 days doesn't let you get very far from Earth into "deep space", unless LM is sitting on a revolutionary propulsion system for the capsule, which given the budgets and proposals involved doesn't seem likely. Moon missions are possible, which would be neat to get back into, but until NASA gets the budget of their dreams while DoD has to hold a fundraiser to pay for those new aircraft carriers (or a non-gubmint concern cooks up something awesome), I just can't get too excited over these press releases.
The word you're looking for is "rival".
In other words, about as much evidence as other claims that Anonymous, PS3 hackers, or Osama bin Laden were involved.
Hey, gotta fill that news cycle. Gotta draw eyeballs for advertisers. Content is just a vehicle for making money. Truth is incidental, and at this point often accidental.
IIRC TMI's reactor vessel was intact. That's likely not true for Fukushima 1, and that doesn't even bring in cores 2 and 3, plus 4's spent fuel pool.
What are you going to do with that molten mess? Remember; it's basically all radioactive waste now, good luck finding a country that will take it. Nope, that witches brew of toxic heavy metals is staying there for a long, long time. An earthquake-resistant, tsunami-resistant structure is goin to have to be built and maintained for, oh, the next few thousand years.
If nuclear reactors were treated as lackadasically as fossil fuel-burning facilities have been until recently (and may still be), you bet your arse there would be many more deaths and sicknesses. The paranoia exists because we know very well what an uncontrolled release of radiation, or a power excursion in an operating reactor, can do.
So who is Sony blaming for the SOE hack? /b/?
The ad for a free copy of "Vulnerability Management for Dummies" that appeared beside this article when I first clicked on it was a nice touch.
The voice recorder may be completely destroyed. Keeping them separate decreases the possibility that a single force or impact will destroy both units.
Same reason enterprise IT departments (should) maintain multiple, separate backups of critical data.
Cute feature list. Too bad my Linux machine does everything I need it for, at the cost of only the hardware. Microsoft has given me no reason to consider spending money when the free options fill my needs, from normal end-user stuff to web design and system administration.
At some point, a person should stand before a legislative committee dealing with copyright term extensions - pick a country where these discussions are happening, any one - and ask just how many more term extensions will be granted, or whether copyright terms will be made permanent de jure, not just de facto.
Since you're already at +5 and you said it better than I could have, can I just tack on "me too"?
It's almost as if "trust" is an unknown concept to many people.
I'm sure this will seem like a great idea... until the power goes out. I would think that the residents of a state subjected to power outages for profit not too long ago might be a bit more careful about increasing their reliance upon electric current for basic information accessibility.
If we don't replace fossil fuel generation with something more sustainable before peak extraction hits, we are all going to be knocked back to the Paper Age pretty fast. Say what you will about dead trees - they don't require current to operate.
... don't leave it in a place where a random disaster (or random disgruntled third-party employee) can wipe it from the face of the Earth. Terabyte-size drives are cheap nowadays. Buy them. Buy many of them. Back up elements to them on a regular basis. Don't destroy raw material until the editing is done and the master has been copied at least twice purely for long-term storage, never mind how many copies need to be made available for distribution. Don't even rely on just hard disks - dump masters to tape if you can afford it. HDCAM's not completely overpriced; hell, even standard-definition Digital Betacam is better than, quite literally, nothing.
If they're lucky, the animated contributions and sound elements may be retrievable should the individuals responsible for those be more scrupulous about their material retention than the studio (the story didn't quite make clear what, if anything, they've been able to recover), but any location shooting lost is going to be a pain to redo.
This should be a very expensive lesson for their technically-inclined production crew and, if they have any, actual IT staff.
Goodness forbid an "educated" person get their hands dirty. It is useful to put theory into practice through direct effort, and it demonstrates a proficiency with the practical tools and results that can only lead to better theory.
As a Canadian, I think we are in no position to pity or criticize our neighbours. Our media and telecom industries are in some ways even more integrated and oligopolistic than our neighbours' equvialents. Most of the private terrestrial broadcasters happen to be owned, in whole or in part, by the same companies that own what are known as "broadcast distribution undertakings" - basically, the cable, satellite, and IPTV providers. Several also own digital pay TV channels, cellular and landline telecom providers, and probably backbone services as well.
Hope you like vertically integrated telecommunications/content cartels. My only question is whether Comcast will buy a wireless service provider or AT&T will buy digital TV channels and fund original programs first.
Wake me when evolution deniers have a a testable hypothesis. "Goddidit" is not a theory.
"Real 4G" is clearly whatever the cell service providers want it to be. Between the meaningless buzzwords in ads and promotional literature, and the alphabet soup of acronyms used to name specific data transmission schemes, it's no wonder so much confusion reigns about which service is "the best".
I think this was actually floated here in Canuckistan early last decade. It never made it into a piece of legislation; it's effectively a tax on any computer with storage that plays music, whether it's a little $50 flash-memory player with cheap plastic buttons to $3500 laptop gaming rigs. There's no hope of equal enforcement, and either the loopholes would be massive or the entire industry would smash it down before it could ever be legislated.
Hey, while we're all getting drawn into well-burnt flamewars, can we get a vi vs. emacs story for our weekend debating pleasure? Maybe some BSD vs. GPL flavour for good measure?
Wake me when the author pits NCSA Mosaic against lynx.
Hear, hear.
My partner and I dumped cable TV when it was clear we were only watching a few shows on the hundred-or-so channels we had access to. 95% of the content was repetitious junk, with the same amount of annoying ads and infomercials as terrestrial broadcast. At least we don't have to pay to pull in HD OTA content, aside from the $45 for the secondhand indoor antenna I bought[0]. Between that and Netflix, we're set. I've thought about slapping together a MythTV box from time to time for recording purposes.
There's some neat stuff happening in OTA broadcasting post-analog shutdown. Some NBC affiliates carry Universal Sports on a subchannel, and some other stations carry things like Retro Television Network (cheesy old TV!), music video channels, and in the case of my area an extra news/educational channel on the PBS feed. Once Canada switches off the analog TV spectrum[1], I expect to see a few more neato things on the air.
[0] We have an unusually good view in the direction of signal sources around here, so costs would probably run into the low hundreds for a proper roof/mast antenna, rotor, preamp, and coax for most suburbanites. It's still worth it, IMHO.
[1] This assumes the telecom/media cartel up here doesn't cook up an excuse to delay the digital switch even farther into the future. The switchover was supposed to be August of this year, though I half-remember rumours that they may push it back to 2013 or beyond. Part of the problem is that most private OTA stations are owned by media conglomerates that also own cable/satellite/IPTV operations, and they're much more interested in squeezing money out of subscribers. Go ahead, ask me about the kabuki fee-for-carriage "debate" that took place here last year. I'm still brassed off at how everyone in this country fell for it.