The article makes this situation comparable to the current wikileaks situation, which it isn't.
Some IT person left the data freely accessible on the internet and eventually a crawler found it. They're guessing it was a malicious person but in all odds it is not.
This is just another IT mistake not an act of whistleblowing or terrorism or something else the government wants to make illegal.
What entitles you to an illusion of a third option?
The society and both the rich man and the poor also prevents the poor from simply stealing from the rich man. Society benefits the rich man by protecting his goods, therefore the rich man owes something back. The poor man contributes to society (not all poor people are poor because they're "lazy") therefore also deserves some benefit.
A civilized society benefits all. All should benefit from living in a society.
Sounds like they simply corrected a disease that was purposefully inflicted upon the mice. I don't see this as "Aging reversed" more like "Abnormally quick aging can be corrected."
I believe the end of the Nature article link agrees. It also points out that shortening telomeres isn't the only thing that causes aging and it's defects.
It's actually important for me. From Google Analytics and Yahoo Finance
Thank you for informing me of legitimate Flash uses. Those and Hulu, that someone else mentioned, are good uses of Flash.
However, I do still think that the lack of Flash support isn't a way to shoot yourself in the foot. Apple obviously didn't support it. I'm just wondering if any other companies will follow suit because of whatever reason or do they really believe Flash is a must-have.
Does Flash support really make or break the deal when buying a smartphone or a tablet? Do people really double think that iPhone/iPad purchase just because of Flash? Does anyone even on Slashdot go Android just because of Flash?
Maybe I'm biased as I have an iPad but lacking Flash is a minor annoyance at best. If I switched to some other OS for a tablet or smartphone, Flash support is way at the bottom of the list of features I would switch for.
Personally, I think Flash needs to just die as it's only used for games and annoying ads.
Also, I really don't see why Flash should be in the headline. Unless BlackBerry is really targetting the Farmville segment of users.
I'd rather hear about "minor" upgrades to the 360/PS3. While this motion controller may not be anything revolutionary when compared to the Wii, some people might find it fun and buy it as a totally optional upgrade.
The example of the 360's DVDs is valid but does solving that problem require a totally new console? There could be another optional upgrade to Blu-ray (I wonder why that isn't out yet) to increase disk capacity.
I'd rather have small ones too just because I'm not ready to buy a totally new console when good games with really good graphics are still coming out for my existing one.
I see a lot of comments about LCD being the way but what made me go Plasma was simply the quality of black. I had planned on getting LCD, but looking at the colors at the actual store, I had to go Plasma. At the time, the 40-42 inch price point was about the same for either.
Playing Guitar Hero (PS2) on it did give me a scare about burn-in. So far, the Wii has less problems than TV logos.
I still think Plasma is better image quality since movie watching is what I primarily do. I guess I'll find out in the long run if LCD TVs last longer.
The interview was completed through IRC chat. The whole text is released under a "verbatim copying" licence, so we encourage you to re-publish it if you wish (see the full licence at the end).
Nikolaos S. Karastathis: Hello, please introduce yourself and briefly describe the utilities you developed.
Alexander Noé: I'm Alexander Noé:, currently studying computer science at TU-Chemnitz. The utilities PxScan/PxView i've developed perform error scans on Plextor PX-712/716 and Plextor Premium drives. The tests are the same, but PlexTools had some handling I didn't like, for example you can run several tests on DVDs, but in PlexTools you couldn't trigger them at once, but rather had to trigger one test at one time. My goal was just to make all that more convenient.
Nikolaos S. Karastathis: You received a letter via email about these utilities. Who sent the letter and what did it say?
Alexander Noé: The letter was sent by lawyers working for Shinano Kenshi. The Lawyers claim those utilities would violate their clients rights.
Nikolaos S. Karastathis: Have you replied to this letter?
Alexander Noé: No, I haven't.
Nikolaos S. Karastathis: Why do you think the lawyers sent this letter, and what are their requests?
Alexander Noé: Plextor maybe sees me as competitor. However, they don't offer any Linux version, neither free nor for money, so I have absolutely no idea what their problem with pxlinux could possibly be. They demand that I cease-and-desist from any further infringements, and demand that I comply a list of all steps I've taken to ensure that their clients' rights will no longer be infringed.
Nikolaos S. Karastathis: Have you contacted a professional lawyer yet? Did you receive any legal advice?
Alexander Noé: A professional lawyer said that in his opinion, none of the accusations made by Shinano are justified.
Nikolaos S. Karastathis: Is the letter confidential, can you post it for everyone to see?
Alexander Noé: The letter itself is not explicitely marked as such, but I'm not sure if I have the right to publish an email sent to me in general without the sender agreeing on this.
Nikolaos S. Karastathis: In the last years there are increasingly more legal problems for free/libre/open-source software projects. Now software patents may be introduced in Europe. What are your views on this issue?
Alexander Noé: I *really* hope that software patents will not be introduced, but I can't do much about it... as I don't really understand lawyer and politician language, like most people, I can hardly assess the consequences software patents would cause, but it wouldn't make life of free developers easier.
Have your say! Discuss in Wikinerds Forum (unregistered users are welcome).
Nikolaos S. Karastathis: What do you plan to do now?
Alexander Noé: I'm waiting what will happen....
Nikolaos S. Karastathis: Anything more you want to say?
Alexander Noé: Considering that Plextor did, not long ago, announce that they would be supporting open-source, I really wonder what all this is supposed to be about. Either they support open-source, or at least "tolerate" it, or they don't.
Nikolaos S. Karastathis: The interview appears to be finished. Thank you very much!
The text of this article is Copyright (C) 2005 by Alexander Noé and Nikolaos S. Karastathis. Verbatim copying and redistribution of the entire text of this article are permitted provided this notice is preserved and a reference to its original location is provided: http://portal.wikinerds.org/interview-alex-noe-200 5jun
He also seems to think you're going to be REQUIRED to use the touch screen. I doubt a fighting game will require touches on that pad while trying to kick ass.
To be fair, Azureus is a horribly coded application. I'm currently working on a clone of it using a different core. Core is snark and I'm calling my app, Comrade.
"Lastly, if a p2p network is just beginning, it's very likely to be slow due to a lack of users rather than inherent technical limitations of the network itself."
Its slow because of asymmetric connections, which most of us have. You'd be transfering data through your connection that you have nothing to do with. I can download 150 kb/s but upload at 26 kb/s max.
BitTorrent suffers from the same type of issue. Unless you have some people on a torrent with high-speed symmetric connections, transfer is pretty slow since upload caps are low (or worse, people are being selfish and uploading nothing)
1. 6 hours is not enough battery, ok fine. 2. Jogging with an iPod could be bad, ok fine. 3. iPod is expensive, duh.
4. Voice recording is an add-on. Find a better one. 5. Since when is the online store a part of having a portable mp3 player? Alsoi, "Microsoft's secure WMA files" made me laugh.
All-in-all, seems like weak reasoning. Yes, its expensive, but I think its high quality.
- AAC format which has very limited industry support"
Yes iPod only.
You can stream, well to other iTunes players over a local network. Although I guess its only a matter of time before someone writes plugins for other players.
AAC is just the default ripping format. MP3 is there.
Slashdot Mirror
The article makes this situation comparable to the current wikileaks situation, which it isn't.
Some IT person left the data freely accessible on the internet and eventually a crawler found it. They're guessing it was a malicious person but in all odds it is not.
This is just another IT mistake not an act of whistleblowing or terrorism or something else the government wants to make illegal.
What entitles you to an illusion of a third option?
The society and both the rich man and the poor also prevents the poor from simply stealing from the rich man. Society benefits the rich man by protecting his goods, therefore the rich man owes something back. The poor man contributes to society (not all poor people are poor because they're "lazy") therefore also deserves some benefit.
A civilized society benefits all. All should benefit from living in a society.
Sounds like they simply corrected a disease that was purposefully inflicted upon the mice. I don't see this as "Aging reversed" more like "Abnormally quick aging can be corrected."
I believe the end of the Nature article link agrees. It also points out that shortening telomeres isn't the only thing that causes aging and it's defects.
That said, this is a good baby step forward.
It's actually important for me.
From Google Analytics and Yahoo Finance
Thank you for informing me of legitimate Flash uses. Those and Hulu, that someone else mentioned, are good uses of Flash.
However, I do still think that the lack of Flash support isn't a way to shoot yourself in the foot. Apple obviously didn't support it. I'm just wondering if any other companies will follow suit because of whatever reason or do they really believe Flash is a must-have.
Does Flash support really make or break the deal when buying a smartphone or a tablet? Do people really double think that iPhone/iPad purchase just because of Flash? Does anyone even on Slashdot go Android just because of Flash?
Maybe I'm biased as I have an iPad but lacking Flash is a minor annoyance at best. If I switched to some other OS for a tablet or smartphone, Flash support is way at the bottom of the list of features I would switch for.
Personally, I think Flash needs to just die as it's only used for games and annoying ads.
Also, I really don't see why Flash should be in the headline. Unless BlackBerry is really targetting the Farmville segment of users.
Most phone/devices do not get updates, even premium ones. How many other consumer devices that are 3 years old still get updates?
My 1st Gen iPhone isn't getting the updates either. Do I wish did it? Of course.
I got good updates and upgrades for 3 years. It was worth the cost.
I'd rather hear about "minor" upgrades to the 360/PS3. While this motion controller may not be anything revolutionary when compared to the Wii, some people might find it fun and buy it as a totally optional upgrade.
The example of the 360's DVDs is valid but does solving that problem require a totally new console? There could be another optional upgrade to Blu-ray (I wonder why that isn't out yet) to increase disk capacity.
I'd rather have small ones too just because I'm not ready to buy a totally new console when good games with really good graphics are still coming out for my existing one.
I see a lot of comments about LCD being the way but what made me go Plasma was simply the quality of black. I had planned on getting LCD, but looking at the colors at the actual store, I had to go Plasma. At the time, the 40-42 inch price point was about the same for either.
Playing Guitar Hero (PS2) on it did give me a scare about burn-in. So far, the Wii has less problems than TV logos.
I still think Plasma is better image quality since movie watching is what I primarily do. I guess I'll find out in the long run if LCD TVs last longer.
I guess this doesn't look good for PJ to make The Hobbit with New Line.
It was already slow for me:
0 5jun
The interview was completed through IRC chat. The whole text is released under a "verbatim copying" licence, so we encourage you to re-publish it if you wish (see the full licence at the end).
Nikolaos S. Karastathis: Hello, please introduce yourself and briefly describe the utilities you developed.
Alexander Noé: I'm Alexander Noé:, currently studying computer science at TU-Chemnitz. The utilities PxScan/PxView i've developed perform error scans on Plextor PX-712/716 and Plextor Premium drives. The tests are the same, but PlexTools had some handling I didn't like, for example you can run several tests on DVDs, but in PlexTools you couldn't trigger them at once, but rather had to trigger one test at one time. My goal was just to make all that more convenient.
Nikolaos S. Karastathis: You received a letter via email about these utilities. Who sent the letter and what did it say?
Alexander Noé: The letter was sent by lawyers working for Shinano Kenshi. The Lawyers claim those utilities would violate their clients rights.
Nikolaos S. Karastathis: Have you replied to this letter?
Alexander Noé: No, I haven't.
Nikolaos S. Karastathis: Why do you think the lawyers sent this letter, and what are their requests?
Alexander Noé: Plextor maybe sees me as competitor. However, they don't offer any Linux version, neither free nor for money, so I have absolutely no idea what their problem with pxlinux could possibly be. They demand that I cease-and-desist from any further infringements, and demand that I comply a list of all steps I've taken to ensure that their clients' rights will no longer be infringed.
Nikolaos S. Karastathis: Have you contacted a professional lawyer yet? Did you receive any legal advice?
Alexander Noé: A professional lawyer said that in his opinion, none of the accusations made by Shinano are justified.
Nikolaos S. Karastathis: Is the letter confidential, can you post it for everyone to see?
Alexander Noé: The letter itself is not explicitely marked as such, but I'm not sure if I have the right to publish an email sent to me in general without the sender agreeing on this.
Nikolaos S. Karastathis: In the last years there are increasingly more legal problems for free/libre/open-source software projects. Now software patents may be introduced in Europe. What are your views on this issue?
Alexander Noé: I *really* hope that software patents will not be introduced, but I can't do much about it... as I don't really understand lawyer and politician language, like most people, I can hardly assess the consequences software patents would cause, but it wouldn't make life of free developers easier.
Have your say! Discuss in Wikinerds Forum (unregistered users are welcome).
Nikolaos S. Karastathis: What do you plan to do now?
Alexander Noé: I'm waiting what will happen....
Nikolaos S. Karastathis: Anything more you want to say?
Alexander Noé: Considering that Plextor did, not long ago, announce that they would be supporting open-source, I really wonder what all this is supposed to be about. Either they support open-source, or at least "tolerate" it, or they don't.
Nikolaos S. Karastathis: The interview appears to be finished. Thank you very much!
The text of this article is Copyright (C) 2005 by Alexander Noé and Nikolaos S. Karastathis. Verbatim copying and redistribution of the entire text of this article are permitted provided this notice is preserved and a reference to its original location is provided: http://portal.wikinerds.org/interview-alex-noe-20
Yeah, but the system is from Microsoft.
I'm sure the securities you describe will be full of holes just judging from past systems Microsoft has designed.
He also seems to think you're going to be REQUIRED to use the touch screen. I doubt a fighting game will require touches on that pad while trying to kick ass.
To be fair, Azureus is a horribly coded application. I'm currently working on a clone of it using a different core. Core is snark and I'm calling my app, Comrade.
I should update the CVS sooner or later.
http://www.macosxhints.com/ is a great place to start looking for the misc answers you may need.
Wrath of Khan is great and is definately much better than the Search for Spock
WEP had a flaw in the protocol.
The flaw made it possible to inject unauthorized packets and reduce the time/space needed for brute forcing the key.
NetBSD I would have believed
Waste doesn't try to hide IPs to keep people pseudo-anonymous. All traffic is encrypted, but you know who is sending it pretty much.
"Lastly, if a p2p network is just beginning, it's very likely to be slow due to a lack of users rather than inherent technical limitations of the network itself."
Its slow because of asymmetric connections, which most of us have. You'd be transfering data through your connection that you have nothing to do with. I can download 150 kb/s but upload at 26 kb/s max.
BitTorrent suffers from the same type of issue. Unless you have some people on a torrent with high-speed symmetric connections, transfer is pretty slow since upload caps are low (or worse, people are being selfish and uploading nothing)
damn beat me to it.
Turing Test
1. 6 hours is not enough battery, ok fine.
2. Jogging with an iPod could be bad, ok fine.
3. iPod is expensive, duh.
4. Voice recording is an add-on. Find a better one.
5. Since when is the online store a part of having a portable mp3 player? Alsoi, "Microsoft's secure WMA files" made me laugh.
All-in-all, seems like weak reasoning. Yes, its expensive, but I think its high quality.
"But iTunes has it's shortcomings......
- iPod-only support
- no streaming service
- AAC format which has very limited industry support"
Yes iPod only.
You can stream, well to other iTunes players over a local network. Although I guess its only a matter of time before someone writes plugins for other players.
AAC is just the default ripping format. MP3 is there.
nevermind, I'm stupid
wouldn't that be 102 million?
"Please support gentoo by going to gentoo.org and buying the livecds..."
Why? Gentoo is a for-profit company, donations and other typical "support the unpaid open source developers" sentiments don't apply.