Yeah I had a semi-grudging respect for what they were trying to do...One thing I do not get about this whole thing is their version of making it free is take someones hard work, and let anyone who wants it get it without collecting any monetary reward for the person who did the work.
I don't understand your confusion -- catering to a bunch of greedy, selfish leeches *is* what they're trying to do.
The worst part is that on many printers, once it "thinks" it's out of ink, it will no longer print until you change the cartridge.
I'd wondered if that's what they were talking about in this study, but the article (which doesn't have a link to the study itself, so maybe it's misleading) seems to be referring to the gap between when a message pops up and when printing stops, not to users being locked out with ink still left.
1) Reporting "Empty" when a single color in a multi-ink cartridge runs out is hardly "lying".
2) It's pretty easy for Epson to have rigged the test so that multi-ink cartridges did particularly badly (although in my experience they really are that wasteful).
3) Assuming accurate wording of the message, I'd much prefer to get a warning when the ink is low but there's time to get a replacement than to get it only at the last possible moment -- I can figure out for myself when the ink is really gone. The article claims users rush to change cartridges as soon as a message pops up, but those workers are a lot more proactive than those in any office I've ever worked in.
Why don't they just move the whole operation to a classified network behind NSA Type I devices?
I'd imagine for the same reason businesses don't run their entire IT operations that way -- the financial and practical costs of doing it far outweigh the benefits of protecting some low-level person's unclassified laptop from every possible threat.
Assumes that the DHS is somehow competent to fix anything at all.
Another day, another round of Slashbots turning a complete inability to read into an opportunity to hold forth on how much smarter they are than the people in the story they're unable to read correctly.
No, there were over 800 incidents ranging from a single (if I'm understanding correctly) break-in to other problems from malware and less.
By the way, seven comments already and not one anguished wail from a 14-year-old pretending to be a grizzled veteran upset about the changing meaning of "hacker"? Get a move on, guys!
I was going to suggest that "public" means that discussions from the conference can be openly discussed afterwards, in contrast to some I've been to where the proceedings were confidential.
But maybe you're right. The article is so vague and makes so little effort to explain the W3C's side that it only really serves as a platform for flamebait, which is how Taco seems to have decided to use it.
I haven't been following what's going on with this crew, but I was reading the blurb here and thinking that Shannon Lucid certainly wasn't "in the right place at the right time". As you say, neither was Polyakov.
And how about all those Harley Davidson tattoos out there, would you call that 300 lbs leather-clad biker a fanboy?
Absolutely! Someone who ties his self-image to a motorcycle he went into the shop and bought is every bit as pathetic as some nerd who does the same with electronics or entertainment industry products. I'd be less likely to tell the biker that to his face, but that's not the same thing. Anyway, nowadays someone who even owns a motorcycle is less lame than the guys sticking Orange County Choppers stickers on the back window of their SUVs.
The one group I'd single out as especially lowly are the file sharers whose lives revolve around stealing products and denouncing the people who make those products. At least the bikers don't say "Harleys suck so that's why it's OK for me to steal them."
Sure, we could use this amazing chip to help get clean air/food/water so other people without it can get it. Ah, screw them...they can die. Let's play games and forget about their problems.
Yes, that's precisely what the joke is.
Realistically, it's not like they could only make a limited number of chips. Engineers and scientists were buying their cards just like gamers were.
Sorry, the 3Dfx "We have in our possession a chip..." commercials (example, and see the Related Videos for the other two) are far and away the best computer ads ever.
I need to find out who funded this research. With the chance for practical usage ever at about 0.001%, it's clear that someone just has money to piss away if this is the research they're doing.
As is frequently the case here (think yesterday's story about the judge supposedly demanding that RAM be turned over), if you read a blurb here and think "If true, that person must be really stupid!", it's worth R'ingTFA.
As usual, the submitter completely missed the point of the link.
Yes, but acceleration is defined in terms of mass, so that doesn't get you anywhere in defining a standard for mass. Unless you have a different standard for acceleration, which is what the OP's link was trying to do with gravity.
My impression is that, at least in this case, the issue is logging specific data going forward, not retroactively demanding bits that were in memory months ago. (And definitely not demanding the RAM itself.)
I haven't been doing my part -- dial-up at home is still good enough for me. Sorry if your self-esteem is based on national broadband penetration rates...
Keep in mind this is a magistrate judge, which is one step below a trial court judge (who is already generally below 2 levels of appeals courts).
Also, keep in mind that you're reading this on Slashdot, which operates at one step below typical geek literacy (which is already generally below two levels of normal literacy). The judge understands what RAM is; the submitter and editor just can't read. (Not that most of the commenters can either, but given the bad link, they can get the benefit of the doubt this time.)
Also, the description of the ruling is inaccurate. The issue is whether data "stored" in memory but never written to disk are sufficiently stored in the user's system that a user might be compelled to archive them to disk or paper. The judge isn't AFAICT saying that the bits actually in the RAM can be demanded.
These plants aren't giving anything up in this case...
Of course they are! As the article explains, and anyone who has ever grown a garden knows, they're conceding water, nutrients and sunlight to the plant they're sharing with.
Could it be, gasp, that saying that plants recognize and display altruism towards siblings gets more reads than that plants have displayed abnormal behavior towards those with similar genomes?
If that "abnormal behavior" involves sacrificing one's own god for the good of others, those two statements are pretty much the same. I'm not sure why you think they're so opposed. Anyway, the OP was making a completely different point than yours.
'Radar Love' (as made famous by White Lion), 'Ballroom Blitz' (as made famous by Krokus)
That's an odd choice of 'as made famous by's, although I confess I can't remember who Ballroom Blitz was actually made famous by. And where's Sister Christian?!?!? And Photograph?
Has anyone ever been accused of spamming who wasn't described as "the Spam King"? The UCE world sounds like medieval Europe, where everyone with a castle and a few horses was the King of Whateveritania.
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I don't understand your confusion -- catering to a bunch of greedy, selfish leeches *is* what they're trying to do.
Yes, we refer to those as "Outlook killers".
Stellarium, by the way, is a superb piece of software and it's good to see it get attention even via a route as clueless as this article.
I'd wondered if that's what they were talking about in this study, but the article (which doesn't have a link to the study itself, so maybe it's misleading) seems to be referring to the gap between when a message pops up and when printing stops, not to users being locked out with ink still left.
2) It's pretty easy for Epson to have rigged the test so that multi-ink cartridges did particularly badly (although in my experience they really are that wasteful).
3) Assuming accurate wording of the message, I'd much prefer to get a warning when the ink is low but there's time to get a replacement than to get it only at the last possible moment -- I can figure out for myself when the ink is really gone. The article claims users rush to change cartridges as soon as a message pops up, but those workers are a lot more proactive than those in any office I've ever worked in.
Same here. I could swear we saw a movie in junior high school science class where a cartoon clock slowed and stopped as it fell into a black hole.
I'd imagine for the same reason businesses don't run their entire IT operations that way -- the financial and practical costs of doing it far outweigh the benefits of protecting some low-level person's unclassified laptop from every possible threat.
Another day, another round of Slashbots turning a complete inability to read into an opportunity to hold forth on how much smarter they are than the people in the story they're unable to read correctly.
No, there were over 800 incidents ranging from a single (if I'm understanding correctly) break-in to other problems from malware and less.
By the way, seven comments already and not one anguished wail from a 14-year-old pretending to be a grizzled veteran upset about the changing meaning of "hacker"? Get a move on, guys!
Out of curiosity, why are you so obsessed with MIT?
But maybe you're right. The article is so vague and makes so little effort to explain the W3C's side that it only really serves as a platform for flamebait, which is how Taco seems to have decided to use it.
I haven't been following what's going on with this crew, but I was reading the blurb here and thinking that Shannon Lucid certainly wasn't "in the right place at the right time". As you say, neither was Polyakov.
Absolutely! Someone who ties his self-image to a motorcycle he went into the shop and bought is every bit as pathetic as some nerd who does the same with electronics or entertainment industry products. I'd be less likely to tell the biker that to his face, but that's not the same thing. Anyway, nowadays someone who even owns a motorcycle is less lame than the guys sticking Orange County Choppers stickers on the back window of their SUVs.
The one group I'd single out as especially lowly are the file sharers whose lives revolve around stealing products and denouncing the people who make those products. At least the bikers don't say "Harleys suck so that's why it's OK for me to steal them."
Sorry -- force, not acceleration.
Yes, that's precisely what the joke is.
Realistically, it's not like they could only make a limited number of chips. Engineers and scientists were buying their cards just like gamers were.
Sorry, the 3Dfx "We have in our possession a chip..." commercials (example, and see the Related Videos for the other two) are far and away the best computer ads ever.
As is frequently the case here (think yesterday's story about the judge supposedly demanding that RAM be turned over), if you read a blurb here and think "If true, that person must be really stupid!", it's worth R'ingTFA.
As usual, the submitter completely missed the point of the link.
Yes, but acceleration is defined in terms of mass, so that doesn't get you anywhere in defining a standard for mass. Unless you have a different standard for acceleration, which is what the OP's link was trying to do with gravity.
My impression is that, at least in this case, the issue is logging specific data going forward, not retroactively demanding bits that were in memory months ago. (And definitely not demanding the RAM itself.)
I haven't been doing my part -- dial-up at home is still good enough for me. Sorry if your self-esteem is based on national broadband penetration rates...
Also, keep in mind that you're reading this on Slashdot, which operates at one step below typical geek literacy (which is already generally below two levels of normal literacy). The judge understands what RAM is; the submitter and editor just can't read. (Not that most of the commenters can either, but given the bad link, they can get the benefit of the doubt this time.)
Also, the description of the ruling is inaccurate. The issue is whether data "stored" in memory but never written to disk are sufficiently stored in the user's system that a user might be compelled to archive them to disk or paper. The judge isn't AFAICT saying that the bits actually in the RAM can be demanded.
Of course they are! As the article explains, and anyone who has ever grown a garden knows, they're conceding water, nutrients and sunlight to the plant they're sharing with.
Could it be, gasp, that saying that plants recognize and display altruism towards siblings gets more reads than that plants have displayed abnormal behavior towards those with similar genomes?
If that "abnormal behavior" involves sacrificing one's own god for the good of others, those two statements are pretty much the same. I'm not sure why you think they're so opposed. Anyway, the OP was making a completely different point than yours.
That's an odd choice of 'as made famous by's, although I confess I can't remember who Ballroom Blitz was actually made famous by. And where's Sister Christian?!?!? And Photograph?
Alan Ralsky
Scott Richter
Ryan Pitylak
Sanford Wallace
The first ten results on Google give four different Spam Kings, none of which is the guy here, one of which involves Burger King and real Spam.
Has anyone ever been accused of spamming who wasn't described as "the Spam King"? The UCE world sounds like medieval Europe, where everyone with a castle and a few horses was the King of Whateveritania.