So does this mean they'll be taking a SCO approach and be going after whomever inherited ReplayTV and other companies with DVR's on the market? Or even those OSS apps that make your Linux box into a DVR?
It's a shame because I like Tivo alot but saying you're not wanting to litigate people while suing them seems kinda silly.
Wow, this writer for PC Magazine obviously has some issues when it comes to attitudes. This article is written mostly as an "IN YOUR FACE" to the Mac community. I also find humorous the huge, honkin' HP advertisement right in the middle of the article.
Anyway, while it may be true that there have been some insecurities with OS X (as you'll have with _any_ operating system), most of them have been what I'd classify as low-risk. Go read all the advisories for them, they all require either physical access to the local box/network or are vulnerabilities with the open source components of OS X (like OpenSSL) that affect everybody in our (Geek) community.
So quite frankly, I see this as overreacting on the writer's part and worse, it's not terribly objective and horribly whiney.
(btw, as you read my sig, you'll say I'm just as bias and you're right. But I'm not whining am I?)
He was campaigning, folks! What do people do when they want to get elected.. well, let's see they brag about things they have accomplished in the past. So without further ado, AL GORE DID TAKE INITIATIVE IN CREATING THE INTERNET.
He fathered the bill that changed that odd, government and acedemic research network known as Arpanet into the Internet where people from all around can use it for all different sorts of purposes.
So if he wrote the bill, does that not mean he didn't take initiative in creating the Internet? Would it not be unreasonable for him to bring up this fact while he was campaigning and trying to get people to see "Hey, look what I did!"?
So please, get with it and stop political trolling. Thanks!
It's a resin mold of a moon rock with "presumably" dust from the bottom of the box they were toted in. I shit you not, that's from the description (which you didn't read). So the title of the article is misleading which in turn is resulting in these screwed up comments.
You have to believe that the same teacher who can't teach 4th graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex.
I didn't realize reading was a prerequisite for sex. I must have missed that article in Playboy.
You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than U.S. nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Chinese communists.
I like guns actually, but there's a whole lot less thought that goes into picking up a gun than a nation setting off a nuclear weapon.
You have to believe that there was no art before Federal funding.
No, don't you remember what the RIAA/MPAA told you?? There was no art before copyrights!
You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical, documented changes in the earth's climate, and more affected by yuppies driving SUVs.
I never thought I'd hear somebody defend yuppies driving SUVs. Please drive through.
You have to believe that gender roles are artificial but being homosexual is natural.
Homosexuality isn't natural? Oh, you're one of those people. Being a bigot is fun isn't it.
You have to be against capital punishment but support abortion on demand.
Abortion is quite possibly the most hotly debated subject ever and it's unfair to sum it up in a quick one-liner but.. a conservative would say "Kill that abortion doctor instead!" which makes even less sense than the aforementioned capital punishment/abortion issues.
I'm running out of time so I won't go through all of them but many of these quips are silly and the parent post was ultimately more insightful and I'm not saying that just because I believe in different things than you do.
But my personal favorite.. You have to believe conservatives telling the truth belong in jail, but a liar and sex offender belongs in the White House.
I would love to know what the fuck you are talking about.. I didn't know we were putting Michael Jackson in the White House.
Only 2,254,364 to go for credit card fraud alone...
When you add the extra 3 million for spamming and the extra... [population of the United States] for copyright infringement, you can see they're off to a good start!
Let's come a little bit closer to "super-routine" (read: daily) space flights before we even think about giving people the (recognized) right to claim property in outer space.
To think about it now would be like a caveman contemplating if he should choose an AMD or Intel processor. We're so far off, it would be somewhat of a waste of time to argue about it now.
It's so blatantly obvious that this wacko is only interested in his $20 to establish a precident. He set that so "reasonably low" in the hopes that NASA would just make it go away and pay him (unlikely) the $20 and establish a precident he can use in the future for equally insane claims.
I love how he contrasts, "$20 is a great deal since a $225 million piece of equipment is 'parked' there."
Great, so do that give everyone the right to charge other people $1 a day to breathe because after all, you take over 14400 breathes per day on average! SOOOO CHEAP!
Quite simply this unauthenticated method of changing something so vital to our daily life is idiotic. Beyond that, companies that make this device and market it them to the average consumer as a "Hey, take advantage of the system" product should have the FBI on their door.
It all comes down to morals and concious. This is not some debacle about copyright, this is about abusing something that actually serves a good purpose for everyone (when have you heard someone complain about the purpose, the purpose not the actual function, of the stop light?). It's bizarre that some people could use this and actually feel good about it.
I hated the idea of bluetooth when I first heard about it. Why would anyone want short communications with anything? Then it started coming out and I started messing with it.
Bluetooth is cool technology. I have it linked up with my Powerbook so I can control iTunes and my screen saver based on my (actually my phone's, but it's in my pocket) proximity to the laptop.
Incoming calls mute my music and display the caller id on my laptop. No wires, no mess, and little noticeable additional power usage (my P800 has more than enough charge to make it through a standard 24-hour cycle).
Just because there's alot of FUD out there and propaganda that says Bluetooth sucks doesn't make it suck automatically. In additional to all that listed above, I can also sync it to my laptop's calendar and address book all without taking the phone out of my pocket.
I don't see why people automatically disown it upon mention. Maybe they love cradles so much? I don't know. It reminds me of how people react when I say Apples are now cool. It's not their fault they don't know the advantages of the technology, they just don't know any better I guess.
Liz Phair was on Real Time with Bill Maher a few weeks ago. She was pleading her case and yada yada and over and over again she used the word "stealing". Whether or not she actually believed what she was saying (or being told to believe it) was unclear.
It was rather sad though that Bill wasn't having the slightest bit of an opposition on this one. I would have loved for him to ask "How much do you get paid per album anyway?".
In any case, I'd like to think the camera man just neglected to show the man stage left that had the.40 calibur handgun trained on her temple.
Yes, you are. When this technology first came out years ago/. had the story and umpteen million other related artcles can be found in the older stories..
Anyway, to save you some trouble, the idea behind the "copy protection" is that they fudge the error correction on the disc's in such a way that a less complex (i.e. your home stereo cd player) will read them just fine and ignore the garbage and your more complex, cd-rom drive in your computer will barf attempting to use the error correction and be unable read the disc.
I'm running Mozilla 1.4 on OS X and I get... A BLANK PAGE for the infiniumlabs.com splash page. Gotta love silly FrontPage 5.0 IE proprietary "features". With interoperability like that I don't even want to think about their crap product.
And fyi for super gamer geeks, never heard of the company before. I doubt the WHOLE WORLD has heard of it considering seemingly only your niche (and not even half at best of your niche) has heard of it. So give it a rest.
Standard copper cabling I can't imagine will get much faster. The maximum feasible speed over 8 wires is pretty much 1 Gigabit/s and thats with Cat6. Wiring your new house with Cat5e would be silly if you're really serious about "keeping up with the times" although I highly doubt the consumer will be using GigE any time remotely soon.
If you want to really future proof your house, go multi-mode fiber. I will cost more than alot of your appliances but the geek factor would be sky-high.
I'll stop trolling here after I get this out: stop thinking this has anything to do with your top-of-the-line, supergeekin' Athlon.
This technology is namely meant for backbones, be it on a campus level or as a longer haul backbone. Obviously, your desktop will not need to transfer anywhere near that much data within the next, say, 25 years. If you were using your head while you were reading the (albiet poorly written) article, I wouldn't have to troll.:(
FoxNews! The most factually solid news organization ever... anyway, I'm inclined to believe he was bullied into this plea deal.
"Just say you're guilty and we'll be easier on you"
Of course, I don't have any proof of this. But I just get that feeling. There is absolutely _NO_ reason to hold a person without charging them for five weeks. That's absurd. But then again, drumming up some charges does take a while.
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So does this mean they'll be taking a SCO approach and be going after whomever inherited ReplayTV and other companies with DVR's on the market? Or even those OSS apps that make your Linux box into a DVR?
It's a shame because I like Tivo alot but saying you're not wanting to litigate people while suing them seems kinda silly.
Personally, I got toothpaste, tic-tacs, deodorant,
Maybe your friends/family are trying to tell you something!
Wow, this writer for PC Magazine obviously has some issues when it comes to attitudes. This article is written mostly as an "IN YOUR FACE" to the Mac community. I also find humorous the huge, honkin' HP advertisement right in the middle of the article.
Anyway, while it may be true that there have been some insecurities with OS X (as you'll have with _any_ operating system), most of them have been what I'd classify as low-risk. Go read all the advisories for them, they all require either physical access to the local box/network or are vulnerabilities with the open source components of OS X (like OpenSSL) that affect everybody in our (Geek) community.
So quite frankly, I see this as overreacting on the writer's part and worse, it's not terribly objective and horribly whiney.
(btw, as you read my sig, you'll say I'm just as bias and you're right. But I'm not whining am I?)
He was campaigning, folks! What do people do when they want to get elected.. well, let's see they brag about things they have accomplished in the past. So without further ado, AL GORE DID TAKE INITIATIVE IN CREATING THE INTERNET.
He fathered the bill that changed that odd, government and acedemic research network known as Arpanet into the Internet where people from all around can use it for all different sorts of purposes.
So if he wrote the bill, does that not mean he didn't take initiative in creating the Internet? Would it not be unreasonable for him to bring up this fact while he was campaigning and trying to get people to see "Hey, look what I did!"?
So please, get with it and stop political trolling. Thanks!
Didn't _anybody_ RTFA?
It's a resin mold of a moon rock with "presumably" dust from the bottom of the box they were toted in. I shit you not, that's from the description (which you didn't read). So the title of the article is misleading which in turn is resulting in these screwed up comments.
You have to believe that the same teacher who can't teach 4th graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex.
I didn't realize reading was a prerequisite for sex. I must have missed that article in Playboy.
You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than U.S. nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Chinese communists.
I like guns actually, but there's a whole lot less thought that goes into picking up a gun than a nation setting off a nuclear weapon.
You have to believe that there was no art before Federal funding.
No, don't you remember what the RIAA/MPAA told you?? There was no art before copyrights!
You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical, documented changes in the earth's climate, and more affected by yuppies driving SUVs.
I never thought I'd hear somebody defend yuppies driving SUVs. Please drive through.
You have to believe that gender roles are artificial but being homosexual is natural.
Homosexuality isn't natural? Oh, you're one of those people. Being a bigot is fun isn't it.
You have to be against capital punishment but support abortion on demand.
Abortion is quite possibly the most hotly debated subject ever and it's unfair to sum it up in a quick one-liner but.. a conservative would say "Kill that abortion doctor instead!" which makes even less sense than the aforementioned capital punishment/abortion issues.
I'm running out of time so I won't go through all of them but many of these quips are silly and the parent post was ultimately more insightful and I'm not saying that just because I believe in different things than you do.
But my personal favorite..
You have to believe conservatives telling the truth belong in jail, but a liar and sex offender belongs in the White House.
I would love to know what the fuck you are talking about.. I didn't know we were putting Michael Jackson in the White House.
Only 2,254,364 to go for credit card fraud alone...
When you add the extra 3 million for spamming and the extra... [population of the United States] for copyright infringement, you can see they're off to a good start!
Let's come a little bit closer to "super-routine" (read: daily) space flights before we even think about giving people the (recognized) right to claim property in outer space.
To think about it now would be like a caveman contemplating if he should choose an AMD or Intel processor. We're so far off, it would be somewhat of a waste of time to argue about it now.
It's so blatantly obvious that this wacko is only interested in his $20 to establish a precident. He set that so "reasonably low" in the hopes that NASA would just make it go away and pay him (unlikely) the $20 and establish a precident he can use in the future for equally insane claims.
I love how he contrasts, "$20 is a great deal since a $225 million piece of equipment is 'parked' there."
Great, so do that give everyone the right to charge other people $1 a day to breathe because after all, you take over 14400 breathes per day on average! SOOOO CHEAP!
Quite simply this unauthenticated method of changing something so vital to our daily life is idiotic. Beyond that, companies that make this device and market it them to the average consumer as a "Hey, take advantage of the system" product should have the FBI on their door.
It all comes down to morals and concious. This is not some debacle about copyright, this is about abusing something that actually serves a good purpose for everyone (when have you heard someone complain about the purpose, the purpose not the actual function, of the stop light?). It's bizarre that some people could use this and actually feel good about it.
That's interesting considering I saved a combined amount of $610 in student discounts at the Columbus/Cleveland stores on a new G5 and iMac.
You must've gotten the new guy.
Wow, you know the tech world is turning to shit when people on Slashdot aren't even putting Microsoft on thier "Most Evil" list. :)
I hated the idea of bluetooth when I first heard about it. Why would anyone want short communications with anything? Then it started coming out and I started messing with it.
Bluetooth is cool technology. I have it linked up with my Powerbook so I can control iTunes and my screen saver based on my (actually my phone's, but it's in my pocket) proximity to the laptop.
Incoming calls mute my music and display the caller id on my laptop. No wires, no mess, and little noticeable additional power usage (my P800 has more than enough charge to make it through a standard 24-hour cycle).
Just because there's alot of FUD out there and propaganda that says Bluetooth sucks doesn't make it suck automatically. In additional to all that listed above, I can also sync it to my laptop's calendar and address book all without taking the phone out of my pocket.
I don't see why people automatically disown it upon mention. Maybe they love cradles so much? I don't know. It reminds me of how people react when I say Apples are now cool. It's not their fault they don't know the advantages of the technology, they just don't know any better I guess.
What's up with all this "Ctrl C" and Ctrl V" copy/paste stuff?
Well, It's certainly handy when you don't want to paste a huge block of text everytime you SNEEZE.
Liz Phair was on Real Time with Bill Maher a few weeks ago. She was pleading her case and yada yada and over and over again she used the word "stealing". Whether or not she actually believed what she was saying (or being told to believe it) was unclear.
.40 calibur handgun trained on her temple.
It was rather sad though that Bill wasn't having the slightest bit of an opposition on this one. I would have loved for him to ask "How much do you get paid per album anyway?".
In any case, I'd like to think the camera man just neglected to show the man stage left that had the
Am I missing something?
/. had the story and umpteen million other related artcles can be found in the older stories..
Yes, you are. When this technology first came out years ago
Anyway, to save you some trouble, the idea behind the "copy protection" is that they fudge the error correction on the disc's in such a way that a less complex (i.e. your home stereo cd player) will read them just fine and ignore the garbage and your more complex, cd-rom drive in your computer will barf attempting to use the error correction and be unable read the disc.
Better than my luck...
I'm running Mozilla 1.4 on OS X and I get... A BLANK PAGE for the infiniumlabs.com splash page. Gotta love silly FrontPage 5.0 IE proprietary "features". With interoperability like that I don't even want to think about their crap product.
And fyi for super gamer geeks, never heard of the company before. I doubt the WHOLE WORLD has heard of it considering seemingly only your niche (and not even half at best of your niche) has heard of it. So give it a rest.
when you fuck an RFC in the ass. *baseball bat on car headlight*
This is the point where people spew out "If you don't like it, leave!" in a standing tall, patriotic stance.
I do believe this is the final straw for myself. I will be permanently leaving the country as soon as financially possible.
It would incredibly interesting if the emmigration rate soared in the next few years from the US. I guess we'll wait and see.
Don't worry, somebody will come up with a method to read what's in your RAM from those little puppies!
Or that other weird reverse blacklist method... "Whitelisting" works pretty well too. So I hear.
Standard copper cabling I can't imagine will get much faster. The maximum feasible speed over 8 wires is pretty much 1 Gigabit/s and thats with Cat6. Wiring your new house with Cat5e would be silly if you're really serious about "keeping up with the times" although I highly doubt the consumer will be using GigE any time remotely soon.
If you want to really future proof your house, go multi-mode fiber. I will cost more than alot of your appliances but the geek factor would be sky-high.
haha, Rock on Charles. :)
I'll stop trolling here after I get this out: stop thinking this has anything to do with your top-of-the-line, supergeekin' Athlon.
:(
This technology is namely meant for backbones, be it on a campus level or as a longer haul backbone. Obviously, your desktop will not need to transfer anywhere near that much data within the next, say, 25 years. If you were using your head while you were reading the (albiet poorly written) article, I wouldn't have to troll.
FoxNews! The most factually solid news organization ever... anyway, I'm inclined to believe he was bullied into this plea deal.
"Just say you're guilty and we'll be easier on you"
Of course, I don't have any proof of this. But I just get that feeling. There is absolutely _NO_ reason to hold a person without charging them for five weeks. That's absurd. But then again, drumming up some charges does take a while.