Yeah, this is all fine and good if the account is single user access. It would be interesting to see what a "clickprint" analysis of an account shared with bugmenot.com would look like.
The idea of using this sort of technology as a security feature sounds absolutely horrible. I mean, a change in your browsing habits on a site gets you locked out? That's not Orwellian, it's just plain stupid.
"At best computer monitors have a resolution of 1600x1200"...
Ahh you forget my 23" Apple Cinema HD display adds some pixels on the vertical for total of 1920x1200 And if it weren't for the fact that I require multiple monitors, I would have gone for a 30" HD Cinema Display which displays 2560x1600 pixels. A bit better than your quoted best resolution... But you're probably on a Windows or Linux box and don't consider the offerings for Mac much. But we are here:)
That's OGG and while OGG has it's place, we're talking MP3 codec. SanDisk and others in the music player market need MP3 codecs to even consider a media player release. OGG codec is a nice to have.
So I'm not getting your point. Or were you somehow trying to say "we should all ditch MP3 for OGG because OGG is license free"? If that's the case, then stop mumbling and just come out and say it, then we could all have a laugh at your expense and be friends.
"How much are proprietary format licensing fees pushing up the cost of consumer goods?"
You know, it takes money to make money.
I've realised in the last few years I am a conservative. It's a tough pill to swallow seeing how a fascist movement headed by Karl Rove has usurped and taken a steaming squat all over the name of conservatism. But I believe that if a man makes something of value or merit, he should be rewarded for that effort. And a farkin licensing fee or royalty compensation is A-O-Fuggin-K in my book.
So you can rail and wail into the night about how royalties and licenses are raising the prices. And I will be there to bitch slap you down and tell you that that's the price you pay for not being able to make it yourself. You want OSS/GNU et al? Great, it's there and it serves it point, it's needed. But as long as we live in a Capitalist society where it costs money to live day to day, so a man needs to earn his way.
So my little Communist buddy, you want it for free and expect that the market should not be burdend by license or royalty? Then go and make another codec that can compete with the commercial versions that prevail on the open market and give it away for free. Then you will have made a difference, until then, shut your hole and quit yer bitchin'.
If SanDisk can't play by the rules, then they should get their hands slapped and taken out of the cookie jar. If this is a bogus complaint, then SanDisk can get remedy next year via settlement. The parties here are all adults and can afford their respective outcomes.
Ohh but seriously, I am so relieved. I was absolutely horrified at the possibility that we'd have planets Mickey, Minnie and Goofy added to our solar system.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who has dubbed their laptop the "Squatbook Pro" It's my preferred way of reading/. and as a matter of fact yes... I am on my Squatbook at this very moment. bwahahahahahaha!
Todays Musical composers should take note of the efforts of the working man of the Industrial Revolution and form amongst their ranks a great collective to leverage and wield power against the oppression handed to them at the hands of these contract assigners who would take 80% or even 90% of their CD and MP3-single profits.
This organization could provide them solid legal representation and secure them a standard form of contracted rates industry wide. Being that this problem is so wide spread and the ire unto the situation so deep, obtaining the large number of membership in this organization would not be much of a problem.
All this organization needs is a name... I propose the Recording Artists Association of Am^H^HOohh never mind.. you musicians all are fucked, deal with it.
Yeah... 27$ for a few hour flight is so ultra cheap. Considering that most people pay about that much at home for a MONTH of broadband I'd say pricing was a major sticking point and contributed in no small part to the demise of the service pilot.
Yeah, get it on with your bad web hermit self. I'm sure there's a lot of people out there who aspire to be a balding fattie eating delivery pizza every day and jacking it to internet pr0n. I hear guys like that drive the women wild. I consider it natural selection -- self removal from the gene-pool. Go Darwin go!
As an Independent Software Developer whose business is contracting with a corps to develop their application, this would put me out of business.
Essentially, this could mean not only developing for free, but being held liable to PAY BACK the money to the client paid and a good portion of which I paid to my developers.
And over what? Some minor errors? I've never released code with critical errors, but minor ones do spring up and get fixed free of charge.
But to be held liable would mean it's no longer a "just fix it" issue, it's hoping your client doesn't unleash the lawyers on you to get the application for free and put your ass on the streets.
Seriously. An unethical client could engage in a software contract with the sole intention of finding ANY bug at all after delivery in order to try to sue me for the cost of the development in total. And at that point, I've already lost. At that point, the lawyers have one because my money will go to lawyer fees now.
This is the most assinine idea of heard in some time. But a great way for everyone to get their software for free... but then who'd have time to write software, since you'd have to give it away for free to not get sued, but still had rent and bills to pay. And those working in software would lose their jobs since even MS would have to leave software due to no profits in selling code.
Great idea asshole. Question to Wired: Why do you accept and publish articles written by people who have absolutely no FUCKING CLUE as to what the fuck they are talking about?
"You ever think about moving back to Seattle? No? Why?"
Seattle is pretty and green... but man, it's one of the most head-in-the-ass anal-retentive backwaters outside of Utah.
Let's count the ways.... State Controlled Alchohol Sales... no sales of hard alchohol allowed outside of State Owned Liquer Stores, which close very very early and aren't open Sundays of course. Washington State Liquor Control Board
Utterly Insane Anti-Smoking Regulatation... thanks to new legislation, it's now a crime to smoke OUTSIDE if you're within 25 feet/7.62 meters of an open window or door.
No Economy of which to speak. Your choices in Washington are very limited. Techies get their choice or Amazon or Microsoft for big names and a smattering of specialty software or small scale start-ups to choose from.
No individual health Insurance. A few years ago, all the Health Insurance providers stopped issuing single person plans. Nowdays, the minimum health plan is for 5 people or more. This coincidentally is the minimum amount of people a small business must employ to be required to provide mandatory health insurance. So if you want to start your own business, better not get sick or struck by a car.
Ohhh and in '96 or so the People fought for and won a ballot initiative that required the State of Washington to DEREGULATE Liquer Sales and Allow Safeway etc to be able to sell Jack Daniels et al. What happened? The State Legislature declared some sort of emergency and discarded the newly inacted law in court due to this self declared emergency.
Then of course, there's the entire 2006 titty-bar regulation... no full frontal, dancers gotta be a mile away, lights need to be near blinding and patrons must bring a note from mom saying it's ok for said patron to be there, patrons with hard-on will be imprisoned. (... ok, I exagerate a little on this one)
And now, no Internet Gambling. Of course, you can still drive up Aurora Ave and go gambling there and it's A-OK. But Internet Gambling is bad mmm-kay! Why is Internet Gambling bad? Because the State makes no tax dollars! That's why!
Quite clearly WA State wants to be the central figure for gambling and would like to be able to imprison those who would gamble within WA State whose winnings or losses do not line WA State Coffers.
Personally, Washington State should put a big fucking sign on it's borders. "Now Entering Washington State, Having fun is PROHIBITED, VIOLATERS WILL BE PROSECUTED". For those still living in Seattle... my sympathies.
I've always thought of/. as rather BROWN hat myself. And considering the color scheme in this here section, the only way/. could more readily agree is by adding images of corn chunks scattered here and there... all willy nilly in a fashion.
Instead of stating 5-10 years all those Nano-Tech related Press Releases better start saying 15-20 years... well, at least the ones that weren't already saying 10+ years that is.:P
I'm gleefully over-joyed at this news, since we all know the Government will keep us all safe because it knows best.
The article summary actually had some key points that actually seemed to be based in reality.... so I bit, and I'm amazed.
Of course, the article contained not one new concept, just a mash up of gripes posted around the net about MS of late. So maybe today John just couldn't come up with a new troll topic and a pending deadline mandated he come up with *something*. And thus, John posts a non-inflamatory article that can actually be regarded as plausible.
Perhaps a better headline would have been "A sign that Dvorak is dead in the Water"... Or has a case of writers block at the moment at least.
You sir are right on the money, for at the dawn of their 21st Century, Venusian Civilization was at it's peak and they marveled at their technology called AI...
You know you're right and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter!
The truth hurts sometimes... so in those cases, we should just not mention the truth. You know, to make sure no one gets offended, or sniffly about anything.
Perhaps our helpfull Government could do something to protect us from this thing called "truth" and the nefarious rise of factual information dissemination that has been causing everyone so much grief since the adoption of this here intarweb thingy.
Way to go Taiwan! I expect many more Countries to move their Government IT infrastructures over to OSS in the year ahead.
I'm sure I am not the only one snickering at the irony at the comment about potential Fair Trade violation -- against MS, which is an Internationally convicted Monopolist.
Which begs the question, are Taiwanese Lawmakers so stupid to make laws that prevent their Governemnt from having a real choice for purchases, or are MS's lobbyists also very active over at the WTO?
Every iPod has a sticker that says "Don't Steal Music". And we all know iPod users are the least likely to steal. This is obviously because Apple users in general always pay attention to little lables like this. And by touching anything Apple, even their code, by proxy makes you an Apple user, it's like a disease, it's catchy.
I believe anyone hoping to see OS X running on non-Apple hardware is gonna be SOL now.
Everytime someone talks about video internet, God kills a kitten. See?!?! You made me make God kill a kitten just now by talking about video interne... damn!
And you know what? By the time this thread is done with, tens of thousands of kittens will have died. How many at the hands of "In Soviet Russia" jokes alone, I do not know, but I shudder to think.
Frankly, I am saddend at the massive loss of furry lifeforms about to take place, all for the sake of a mental circlejerk about "all porn all the time all online". You're all just sick.
This is clearly a foul-up by the NSA. Malicious? Hardly. I mean, it's just a freakin' cookie, not like it's some Active-X trojan that installs a keylogger. So the damage to those effected is pretty slight if any. Just clear your cookie folder.
But, yes, it is a clear violation of the Feds own Regulations. However, I could see this happening in so many other scenarios.. lots of people use prebuilt software and don't always take the time to ensure they are configured 100% correctly.
This sounds like a case of "Good enough for Government work" if I ever saw one. The software worked as hoped, but no one bothered to see if the cookies were persistent or session only.
If this was on ma and pas webstore, no one would even think to look. But since it's the big bad NSA, it makes headlines world wide. Because the NSA is big and bad and... well they got cooler toys than everyone else so somehow they must be better than everone else and not able to make a mistake.
And at least in this Bush Administration, the person reporting this is still walking around a free man. For now.
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Yeah, this is all fine and good if the account is single user access.
It would be interesting to see what a "clickprint" analysis of an account shared with bugmenot.com would look like.
The idea of using this sort of technology as a security feature sounds absolutely horrible.
I mean, a change in your browsing habits on a site gets you locked out? That's not Orwellian, it's just plain stupid.
"At best computer monitors have a resolution of 1600x1200"...
:)
Ahh you forget my 23" Apple Cinema HD display adds some pixels on the vertical for total of 1920x1200
And if it weren't for the fact that I require multiple monitors, I would have gone for a 30" HD Cinema Display
which displays 2560x1600 pixels. A bit better than your quoted best resolution...
But you're probably on a Windows or Linux box and don't consider the offerings for Mac much. But we are here
So instead of this dangerous page which will try to install malware we'll get a cleaned-up and safe version
I'm sure glad MS is out to make the interweb a better place for everyone.
That's OGG and while OGG has it's place, we're talking MP3 codec.
SanDisk and others in the music player market need MP3 codecs to even consider a media player release.
OGG codec is a nice to have.
So I'm not getting your point. Or were you somehow trying to say "we should all ditch MP3 for OGG because OGG is license free"?
If that's the case, then stop mumbling and just come out and say it, then we could all have a laugh at your expense and be friends.
"How much are proprietary format licensing fees pushing up the cost of consumer goods?"
You know, it takes money to make money.
I've realised in the last few years I am a conservative.
It's a tough pill to swallow seeing how a fascist movement headed by Karl Rove has usurped and taken a steaming squat all over the name of conservatism. But I believe that if a man makes something of value or merit, he should be rewarded for that effort.
And a farkin licensing fee or royalty compensation is A-O-Fuggin-K in my book.
So you can rail and wail into the night about how royalties and licenses are raising the prices.
And I will be there to bitch slap you down and tell you that that's the price you pay for not being able to make it yourself.
You want OSS/GNU et al? Great, it's there and it serves it point, it's needed.
But as long as we live in a Capitalist society where it costs money to live day to day, so a man needs to earn his way.
So my little Communist buddy, you want it for free and expect that the market should not be burdend by license or royalty?
Then go and make another codec that can compete with the commercial versions that prevail on the open market and give it away for free.
Then you will have made a difference, until then, shut your hole and quit yer bitchin'.
If SanDisk can't play by the rules, then they should get their hands slapped and taken out of the cookie jar.
If this is a bogus complaint, then SanDisk can get remedy next year via settlement.
The parties here are all adults and can afford their respective outcomes.
But... YOU'RE FIRED!
Ohh but seriously, I am so relieved.
I was absolutely horrified at the possibility that we'd have planets Mickey, Minnie and Goofy added to our solar system.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who has dubbed their laptop the "Squatbook Pro" /. and as a matter of fact yes... I am on my Squatbook at this very moment.
It's my preferred way of reading
bwahahahahahaha!
Todays Musical composers should take note of the efforts of the working man of the Industrial Revolution and form amongst their ranks a great collective to leverage and wield power against the oppression handed to them at the hands of these contract assigners who would take 80% or even 90% of their CD and MP3-single profits.
This organization could provide them solid legal representation and secure them a standard form of contracted rates industry wide.
Being that this problem is so wide spread and the ire unto the situation so deep, obtaining the large number of membership in this organization would not be much of a problem.
All this organization needs is a name... I propose the Recording Artists Association of Am^H^HOohh never mind.. you musicians all are fucked, deal with it.
Yeah... 27$ for a few hour flight is so ultra cheap.
Considering that most people pay about that much at home for a MONTH of broadband
I'd say pricing was a major sticking point and contributed in no small part to the demise of the service pilot.
Yeah, get it on with your bad web hermit self.
I'm sure there's a lot of people out there who aspire to be a balding fattie eating delivery pizza every day and jacking it to internet pr0n. I hear guys like that drive the women wild.
I consider it natural selection -- self removal from the gene-pool.
Go Darwin go!
"But what to do?"
HA! Providing the answer to that is illegal.
Nice try G-Man!
As an Independent Software Developer whose business is contracting with a corps to develop their application, this would put me out of business.
Essentially, this could mean not only developing for free, but being held liable to PAY BACK the money to the client paid and a good portion of which I paid to my developers.
And over what? Some minor errors? I've never released code with critical errors, but minor ones do spring up and get fixed free of charge.
But to be held liable would mean it's no longer a "just fix it" issue, it's hoping your client doesn't unleash the lawyers on you to get the application for free and put your ass on the streets.
Seriously. An unethical client could engage in a software contract with the sole intention of finding ANY bug at all after delivery in order to try to sue me for the cost of the development in total. And at that point, I've already lost.
At that point, the lawyers have one because my money will go to lawyer fees now.
This is the most assinine idea of heard in some time.
But a great way for everyone to get their software for free... but then who'd have time to write software, since you'd have to give it away for free to not get sued, but still had rent and bills to pay. And those working in software would lose their jobs since even MS would have to leave software due to no profits in selling code.
Great idea asshole.
Question to Wired: Why do you accept and publish articles written by people who have absolutely no FUCKING CLUE as to what the fuck they are talking about?
What the fuck are you talking about????
can you even read?
I'd reply indepth, but since you can't read, I'd be wasting my time.
You're either a troll or a total fucking moron.
Either way, you're a total tool.
"You ever think about moving back to Seattle? No? Why?"
... ok, I exagerate a little on this one)
Seattle is pretty and green... but man, it's one of the most head-in-the-ass anal-retentive backwaters outside of Utah.
Let's count the ways....
State Controlled Alchohol Sales... no sales of hard alchohol allowed outside of State Owned Liquer Stores, which close very very early and aren't open Sundays of course. Washington State Liquor Control Board
Utterly Insane Anti-Smoking Regulatation... thanks to new legislation, it's now a crime to smoke OUTSIDE if you're within 25 feet/7.62 meters of an open window or door.
No Economy of which to speak. Your choices in Washington are very limited.
Techies get their choice or Amazon or Microsoft for big names and a smattering of specialty software or small scale start-ups to choose from.
No individual health Insurance. A few years ago, all the Health Insurance providers stopped issuing single person plans. Nowdays, the minimum health plan is for 5 people or more. This coincidentally is the minimum amount of people a small business must employ to be required to provide mandatory health insurance. So if you want to start your own business, better not get sick or struck by a car.
Ohhh and in '96 or so the People fought for and won a ballot initiative that required the State of Washington to DEREGULATE Liquer Sales and Allow Safeway etc to be able to sell Jack Daniels et al. What happened? The State Legislature declared some sort of emergency and discarded the newly inacted law in court due to this self declared emergency.
Then of course, there's the entire 2006 titty-bar regulation...
no full frontal, dancers gotta be a mile away, lights need to be near blinding and patrons must bring a note from mom saying it's ok for said patron to be there, patrons with hard-on will be imprisoned.
(
And now, no Internet Gambling.
Of course, you can still drive up Aurora Ave and go gambling there and it's A-OK.
But Internet Gambling is bad mmm-kay! Why is Internet Gambling bad?
Because the State makes no tax dollars! That's why!
Quite clearly WA State wants to be the central figure for gambling and would like to be able to imprison those who would gamble within WA State whose winnings or losses do not line WA State Coffers.
Personally, Washington State should put a big fucking sign on it's borders.
"Now Entering Washington State, Having fun is PROHIBITED, VIOLATERS WILL BE PROSECUTED".
For those still living in Seattle... my sympathies.
I've always thought of /. as rather BROWN hat myself. /. could more readily agree is by adding images of corn chunks scattered here and there... all willy nilly in a fashion.
And considering the color scheme in this here section, the only way
*ahem*
Instead of stating 5-10 years all those Nano-Tech related Press Releases better start saying 15-20 years... :P
well, at least the ones that weren't already saying 10+ years that is.
I'm gleefully over-joyed at this news, since we all know the Government will keep us all safe because it knows best.
*feh*
The article summary actually had some key points that actually seemed to be based in reality.... so I bit, and I'm amazed.
Of course, the article contained not one new concept, just a mash up of gripes posted around the net about MS of late.
So maybe today John just couldn't come up with a new troll topic and a pending deadline mandated he come up with *something*. And thus, John posts a non-inflamatory article that can actually be regarded as plausible.
Perhaps a better headline would have been "A sign that Dvorak is dead in the Water"...
Or has a case of writers block at the moment at least.
Same here, thus I decided to read the replies to see if anyone else got it.
Glad to know I'm not the only one.
You sir are right on the money, for at the dawn of their 21st Century, Venusian Civilization was at it's peak and they marveled at their technology called AI...
Or PHI....
Fee
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The devine proportion
or
just a pretty spiral thingy?
You know you're right and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter!
The truth hurts sometimes... so in those cases, we should just not mention the truth.
You know, to make sure no one gets offended, or sniffly about anything.
Perhaps our helpfull Government could do something to protect us from this thing called "truth" and the nefarious rise of factual information dissemination that has been causing everyone so much grief since the adoption of this here intarweb thingy.
Way to go Taiwan! I expect many more Countries to move their Government IT infrastructures over to OSS in the year ahead.
I'm sure I am not the only one snickering at the irony at the comment about potential Fair Trade violation -- against MS, which is an Internationally convicted Monopolist.
Which begs the question, are Taiwanese Lawmakers so stupid to make laws that prevent their Governemnt from having a real choice for purchases, or are MS's lobbyists also very active over at the WTO?
Every iPod has a sticker that says "Don't Steal Music". And we all know iPod users are the least likely to steal. This is obviously because Apple users in general always pay attention to little lables like this. And by touching anything Apple, even their code, by proxy makes you an Apple user, it's like a disease, it's catchy.
I believe anyone hoping to see OS X running on non-Apple hardware is gonna be SOL now.
Everytime someone talks about video internet, God kills a kitten.
See?!?! You made me make God kill a kitten just now by talking about video interne... damn!
And you know what? By the time this thread is done with, tens of thousands of kittens will have died. How many at the hands of "In Soviet Russia" jokes alone, I do not know, but I shudder to think.
Frankly, I am saddend at the massive loss of furry lifeforms about to take place, all for the sake of a mental circlejerk about "all porn all the time all online". You're all just sick.
This is clearly a foul-up by the NSA. Malicious? Hardly.
I mean, it's just a freakin' cookie, not like it's some Active-X trojan that installs a keylogger. So the damage to those effected is pretty slight if any.
Just clear your cookie folder.
But, yes, it is a clear violation of the Feds own Regulations.
However, I could see this happening in so many other scenarios.. lots of people use prebuilt software and don't always take the time to ensure they are configured 100% correctly.
This sounds like a case of "Good enough for Government work" if I ever saw one.
The software worked as hoped, but no one bothered to see if the cookies were persistent or session only.
If this was on ma and pas webstore, no one would even think to look.
But since it's the big bad NSA, it makes headlines world wide.
Because the NSA is big and bad and... well they got cooler toys than everyone else so somehow they must be better than everone else and not able to make a mistake.
And at least in this Bush Administration, the person reporting this is still walking around a free man. For now.