Then you can read/. troll posts about how CmdrTaco's mom is Arbys and we can change "Ask Slashdot" to "Axe Slashdot". Envision stories about the RIAA going to get all fly gangster shit on P2P networks because users ganked their music.
I think at this point you are getting the picture of why we should not roll every single piece of slang into the language.
Perhaps they should invest in having it fixed then? Certainly if it is not secure, someone should be working on a way to make it secure.
I am not saying that the people doing this are justified, but it is like leaving your car windows down and doors unlocked in a bad area of town. You are just asking for people to take your stereo.
As for 802.11, from what I understand, you can at least limit who can casually connect. The insecurity becomes a problem when you have dedicated crackers trying to break in, and that is why they should be actively pushing for fixes to the security flaws in the standard.
Why they don't just secure their fucking networks instead of bitching to Nokia and the FBI about it.
If I left my car unlocked and with the windows down and my stereo gets stolen, the cops would tell me it was my own fault for leaving the car unsecured and probably not bother looking for the thief. So I think it should be the same with these companies. The FBI should tell them to secure their network and only come to them if someone forces their way in.
Well, first thing, they should have this little thing called SECURITY in place to prevent the average Joe from accessing their network in the first place!
If these companies would secure their wireless network they would not have this problem.
We've already seen how badly congress works with spaceships (i.e., the X33)
If you want REAL results from congress, tell them that they are Music Pirates and they will find a way to make a law to destroy them instead, or at least drive them screaming from our quadrant of space when the ensuing crush of lawyers hits them.
Namely because so far we don't have the technology to BUILD those propulsion systems and we aren't likely to pull it out of our asses in the next 50 years. So we might as well spend time looking for places to go now so that in 100 years or so, when and IF we find a way to travel vast distances within out lifetimes, then we will have a nice set of targets to explore.
Only if they find a way to keep it from endangering the crew. Spilling pop is bad enough on the ground. Imagine spilling your Dew while in a microgravity situation.
I suppose they could photoshop it in later though.
Seriously, anyone who does go into space has to be in VERY good shape. Few Americans, myself included fit into that definition at all.
At the very least, most people, again myself included I am ashamed to admit, would have to lose weight and do some hard core working out to prepare themselves for the effects of blast off, weightlessness for several days, and the sudden return to Earth. Many astronauts far fitter than most of us need carried off the shuttles after spending only a week or two in space.
Now for the real irony. To get the contestant physically fit for their trip, they would likely have to STOP drinking pop for the duration of the training and trip, meaning you likely wouldn't see someone chugging a dew upside down on the space station or a Russian rocket.
No, but there are a few things we could consider to try to make things a little better. Lately I've had this idea of making ALL lawyers government employees (albeit well paid ones). The government would pay them all by the same wage scale and that way, no matter how big or small a case, now matter how rich or poor a client, they would all get the same amount of money.
You could still hire lawyers for consultation, wills, etc but for actual court cases, the law would be that all lawyers in those cases were public lawyers, assigned randomly to procecution or defense (likely you would have 2 pools, those who prosecute and those who defend depending on which area they wanted to work in). That way if a company wanted to press charges, they would not be able to buy a high priced sleazy lawyer, but be stuck with whatever the state gave them. This lawyer might be more inclined to be impartial and work within the law instead of busting his ass to find a way to end run around it or abuse it. After all, no incentive if you are paid the same no matter how hard you pursue the case.
Now this was just an idea I had out of the blue and I'm sure there are problems with it, but it is also possible that this system could work with careful thought and trial and error trying to implement it in real life.
Now the reviewers only need to sing the song into their mic as they listen to it and release that as a mp3 on P2P. Instant crack!
Of course I'm sure it won't do too much for the record companies sales when people download and wonder what the hell happened to their favorite artists voice.
You can actually get the full telephone test/wiretap kits from Home Depot in the Electrical section. Don't know how well it would work on this system as I imagine it has lower voltages.
I'll have to get some alligator clips and try it out on a standard pair of headphones some weekend when I'm bored.
They are losing buisiness because they are treating their customers like shit. You dont' treat your customers like shit and stay in buisiness for long. Eventually they must learn the painful lesson that laws can never overpower market forces and customer satisfaction.
Just curious, but have you? I was at the mall this weekend so I stopped in several stores which have a music section or are purely music stores. The music sections were absolutely dead and of the 2 record stores I saw in the mall, one had 2 people in it. The other was totally empty except for employees standing around looking extremely bored.
Next I went to a second hand music store not far from the mall and it was packed. So even people who are not downloading are buying their music second hand at the least because of CD prices. If the RIAA would lower their prices to reasonable levels people might bome back. Instead they are wasting money on lawsuits and getting everyone so mad at them that they are actively searching out other means of getting the music and even finding legal ways to do so (second hand stores).
So the RIAA's death will be multipronged. First, they are losing money like crazy now. Second, they are pissing off their customers, something you do not do in buisiness which is making the first reason worse for them. Third, artists themselves are starting to see the light and using the internet to cut out the middle man. (See non RIAA label Metropolis Records and their support for internet radio station DigitalGunfire.com). Lastly, they are losing stream with congress as tech companies and ISP's realize that they have a hell of a lot more clout as long as they start using their money the way the RIAA has. I simply don't see the RIAA making it another 3 years, maybe 5 at the most.
Quite amusing, though from the page I gather it is a joke. I hope Scientology took the mention of Hubbard seriously and tried to quickly copyright his hair in case it contained any OT stuff they didn't know about yet. The thought of them wasting time and money on a joke like this amuses me to no end.
Don't worry about a few down mods for this. There are some people who simply can't mod worth shit and mod people down because they disagree with them or because they were too thick to get a joke.
When I get points I no longer mod down anymore. If someone posts sick stories, links or ascii art swastikas, I let the editors take care of it. Instead I save my points to mod up worthy posts or thing that are particularly funny. I only wish more people held to that philosophy when modding.
I will say though that this topic is still interesting, as it means RAM chips the size of late 90's hard disks. Will make me wish Apple would bring back the RAM disk feature in the next release of OS X.
Well, granted the hardware is more closed due to Apple, but I've yet to hear of any Palladium type tech going into the PowerPC as of yet. I am unsure where Apple stands on this, but despite the fact I sometimes think his turtleneck is on a bit too tight, Jobs should be smart enough to see this as a golden opportunity to woo the geeks who want their computer to be more than a glorified set top box. Apple has done some surprising things to foster open source development and is in fact benefiting from such software being ported from UNIX to the Mac.
To join the Palladium dark side would be to truely and finally cut their own throats for good, and I think Apple knows that.
That said, if this starts to happen, keep an eye on Apple and Mac OS X and the PowerPC and see if they remain a free alternative.
Oh and if you don't like OS X for some reason, you can always run Linux on the Mac, several variants are available.
People sticking with OS 9 need to stop their foot dragging and join the rest of us in the 21st Century with Mac OS X. If you have critical software that needs 9, run it on an older Mac until it is ported. If the company is being slow, either petition them to make an OS X version, or switch to a competitor who is clueful enough to have ported to OS X by now.
After a few months of using Mac OS X, you will never want to go back to OS 9 (Jaguar fixes all but a few speed complaints) again. I am still on 10.1.5 till I get my new Dual 1.25 GHZ box but once (no point upgrading my 5 year old Beige to 10.2) yet even with 10.1.5, I still find it more productive than 9 even though 9 runs 10 times faster in a single app on this old box. On a new box, the speed difference will be negligable. However what keeps me on X is the pre-emptive multitasking and power of UNIX underneath it all. I can do stuff in OS X I only dreamed about with OS 9. So those who have not yet, make the switch either now or with a new machine when you get it. Don't keep the rest of us back by being stubborn and demanding Apple waste resources helping you to use an outdated OS.
If the company is this short sighted, then he is better off working elsewhere. I am sure someone will hire him now having seen the publicity around this. Maybe he can get a job as a/. editor;)
If anything, now he can go break the DMCA publically like he wanted to before HP put a stop to it.
Despite the fact that companies regularly take money and "donate" it to politicians and lobbyists to get their way in Congress over that of the people's.
Can't the fact that the idea has been around for a long time, in both sci-fi books, movie and games mean this has "prior art". I know no one has built such a device yet, unless the military has them secreted away. I do remember seeing a Discovery channel documentary about using this on tanks and police to deal with hostage situations once the technology was worked out. That was quite some time ago as well!
So can this or should this be patentable?
What about thermoptic camo, like in Deus Ex, which blocks other forms of radiation as well? I imagine with this one that this guy is trying to patent you would still show up on infrared and radar/millimeter/microwave scanning devices. Same deal with X-Rays too I would imagine.
If he can get this, maybe I should patent on which can block other forms of radiation.
Hey, it gets better gas milage than my '95 Grand AM even after the conversion. So that's not too bad at all.
As for emission standards, if the engine is in ok shape, no reason why it would not pass, no matter how it looks. I would be funny driving this into Ohio E-Check though and seeing their reactions:P
If we could make an energy shield today, the military would have them now most likely. Hey, maybe they do but only in those secret bases like you find in Fallout.
But seriously, they ARE working on them. They just haven't figured it out yet as far was we, the public, know.
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Perhaps we should roll ebonics into it then?
/. troll posts about how CmdrTaco's mom is Arbys and we can change "Ask Slashdot" to "Axe Slashdot". Envision stories about the RIAA going to get all fly gangster shit on P2P networks because users ganked their music.
Then you can read
I think at this point you are getting the picture of why we should not roll every single piece of slang into the language.
Perhaps they should invest in having it fixed then? Certainly if it is not secure, someone should be working on a way to make it secure.
I am not saying that the people doing this are justified, but it is like leaving your car windows down and doors unlocked in a bad area of town. You are just asking for people to take your stereo.
As for 802.11, from what I understand, you can at least limit who can casually connect. The insecurity becomes a problem when you have dedicated crackers trying to break in, and that is why they should be actively pushing for fixes to the security flaws in the standard.
Why they don't just secure their fucking networks instead of bitching to Nokia and the FBI about it.
If I left my car unlocked and with the windows down and my stereo gets stolen, the cops would tell me it was my own fault for leaving the car unsecured and probably not bother looking for the thief. So I think it should be the same with these companies. The FBI should tell them to secure their network and only come to them if someone forces their way in.
Well, first thing, they should have this little thing called SECURITY in place to prevent the average Joe from accessing their network in the first place!
If these companies would secure their wireless network they would not have this problem.
We've already seen how badly congress works with spaceships (i.e., the X33)
If you want REAL results from congress, tell them that they are Music Pirates and they will find a way to make a law to destroy them instead, or at least drive them screaming from our quadrant of space when the ensuing crush of lawyers hits them.
Namely because so far we don't have the technology to BUILD those propulsion systems and we aren't likely to pull it out of our asses in the next 50 years. So we might as well spend time looking for places to go now so that in 100 years or so, when and IF we find a way to travel vast distances within out lifetimes, then we will have a nice set of targets to explore.
Hmm well you do point out a big problem with it, which is under the table payola.
As I said, it was just an off the top of my head idea and I never claimed it was flawless or even practical.
I'll have to get a copy of Atlas Shrugged and check it out sometime.
Maybe you would like to explain how or why this is bad instead of simply calling it stupid?
Only if they find a way to keep it from endangering the crew. Spilling pop is bad enough on the ground. Imagine spilling your Dew while in a microgravity situation.
I suppose they could photoshop it in later though.
Seriously, anyone who does go into space has to be in VERY good shape. Few Americans, myself included fit into that definition at all.
At the very least, most people, again myself included I am ashamed to admit, would have to lose weight and do some hard core working out to prepare themselves for the effects of blast off, weightlessness for several days, and the sudden return to Earth. Many astronauts far fitter than most of us need carried off the shuttles after spending only a week or two in space.
Now for the real irony. To get the contestant physically fit for their trip, they would likely have to STOP drinking pop for the duration of the training and trip, meaning you likely wouldn't see someone chugging a dew upside down on the space station or a Russian rocket.
No, but there are a few things we could consider to try to make things a little better. Lately I've had this idea of making ALL lawyers government employees (albeit well paid ones). The government would pay them all by the same wage scale and that way, no matter how big or small a case, now matter how rich or poor a client, they would all get the same amount of money.
You could still hire lawyers for consultation, wills, etc but for actual court cases, the law would be that all lawyers in those cases were public lawyers, assigned randomly to procecution or defense (likely you would have 2 pools, those who prosecute and those who defend depending on which area they wanted to work in). That way if a company wanted to press charges, they would not be able to buy a high priced sleazy lawyer, but be stuck with whatever the state gave them. This lawyer might be more inclined to be impartial and work within the law instead of busting his ass to find a way to end run around it or abuse it. After all, no incentive if you are paid the same no matter how hard you pursue the case.
Now this was just an idea I had out of the blue and I'm sure there are problems with it, but it is also possible that this system could work with careful thought and trial and error trying to implement it in real life.
Now the reviewers only need to sing the song into their mic as they listen to it and release that as a mp3 on P2P. Instant crack!
Of course I'm sure it won't do too much for the record companies sales when people download and wonder what the hell happened to their favorite artists voice.
You can actually get the full telephone test/wiretap kits from Home Depot in the Electrical section. Don't know how well it would work on this system as I imagine it has lower voltages.
I'll have to get some alligator clips and try it out on a standard pair of headphones some weekend when I'm bored.
They are losing buisiness because they are treating their customers like shit. You dont' treat your customers like shit and stay in buisiness for long. Eventually they must learn the painful lesson that laws can never overpower market forces and customer satisfaction.
Thank you for pointing that out, I just learned about this the other day in fact.
_ After_the_Attacks/200110Chile.htm
Here is a link:http://www.americas.org/News/Features/200110
Just curious, but have you? I was at the mall this weekend so I stopped in several stores which have a music section or are purely music stores. The music sections were absolutely dead and of the 2 record stores I saw in the mall, one had 2 people in it. The other was totally empty except for employees standing around looking extremely bored.
Next I went to a second hand music store not far from the mall and it was packed. So even people who are not downloading are buying their music second hand at the least because of CD prices. If the RIAA would lower their prices to reasonable levels people might bome back. Instead they are wasting money on lawsuits and getting everyone so mad at them that they are actively searching out other means of getting the music and even finding legal ways to do so (second hand stores).
So the RIAA's death will be multipronged. First, they are losing money like crazy now. Second, they are pissing off their customers, something you do not do in buisiness which is making the first reason worse for them. Third, artists themselves are starting to see the light and using the internet to cut out the middle man. (See non RIAA label Metropolis Records and their support for internet radio station DigitalGunfire.com). Lastly, they are losing stream with congress as tech companies and ISP's realize that they have a hell of a lot more clout as long as they start using their money the way the RIAA has. I simply don't see the RIAA making it another 3 years, maybe 5 at the most.
Quite amusing, though from the page I gather it is a joke. I hope Scientology took the mention of Hubbard seriously and tried to quickly copyright his hair in case it contained any OT stuff they didn't know about yet. The thought of them wasting time and money on a joke like this amuses me to no end.
Don't worry about a few down mods for this. There are some people who simply can't mod worth shit and mod people down because they disagree with them or because they were too thick to get a joke.
When I get points I no longer mod down anymore. If someone posts sick stories, links or ascii art swastikas, I let the editors take care of it. Instead I save my points to mod up worthy posts or thing that are particularly funny. I only wish more people held to that philosophy when modding.
I will say though that this topic is still interesting, as it means RAM chips the size of late 90's hard disks. Will make me wish Apple would bring back the RAM disk feature in the next release of OS X.
Well, granted the hardware is more closed due to Apple, but I've yet to hear of any Palladium type tech going into the PowerPC as of yet. I am unsure where Apple stands on this, but despite the fact I sometimes think his turtleneck is on a bit too tight, Jobs should be smart enough to see this as a golden opportunity to woo the geeks who want their computer to be more than a glorified set top box. Apple has done some surprising things to foster open source development and is in fact benefiting from such software being ported from UNIX to the Mac.
To join the Palladium dark side would be to truely and finally cut their own throats for good, and I think Apple knows that.
That said, if this starts to happen, keep an eye on Apple and Mac OS X and the PowerPC and see if they remain a free alternative.
Oh and if you don't like OS X for some reason, you can always run Linux on the Mac, several variants are available.
People sticking with OS 9 need to stop their foot dragging and join the rest of us in the 21st Century with Mac OS X. If you have critical software that needs 9, run it on an older Mac until it is ported. If the company is being slow, either petition them to make an OS X version, or switch to a competitor who is clueful enough to have ported to OS X by now.
After a few months of using Mac OS X, you will never want to go back to OS 9 (Jaguar fixes all but a few speed complaints) again. I am still on 10.1.5 till I get my new Dual 1.25 GHZ box but once (no point upgrading my 5 year old Beige to 10.2) yet even with 10.1.5, I still find it more productive than 9 even though 9 runs 10 times faster in a single app on this old box. On a new box, the speed difference will be negligable. However what keeps me on X is the pre-emptive multitasking and power of UNIX underneath it all. I can do stuff in OS X I only dreamed about with OS 9. So those who have not yet, make the switch either now or with a new machine when you get it. Don't keep the rest of us back by being stubborn and demanding Apple waste resources helping you to use an outdated OS.
If the company is this short sighted, then he is better off working elsewhere. I am sure someone will hire him now having seen the publicity around this. Maybe he can get a job as a /. editor ;)
If anything, now he can go break the DMCA publically like he wanted to before HP put a stop to it.
Despite the fact that companies regularly take money and "donate" it to politicians and lobbyists to get their way in Congress over that of the people's.
Theys should make them of the style worn by Agent Smith of the Matrix. I'd love working with a company with everyone wearing those!
Can't the fact that the idea has been around for a long time, in both sci-fi books, movie and games mean this has "prior art". I know no one has built such a device yet, unless the military has them secreted away. I do remember seeing a Discovery channel documentary about using this on tanks and police to deal with hostage situations once the technology was worked out. That was quite some time ago as well!
So can this or should this be patentable?
What about thermoptic camo, like in Deus Ex, which blocks other forms of radiation as well? I imagine with this one that this guy is trying to patent you would still show up on infrared and radar/millimeter/microwave scanning devices. Same deal with X-Rays too I would imagine.
If he can get this, maybe I should patent on which can block other forms of radiation.
Hey, it gets better gas milage than my '95 Grand AM even after the conversion. So that's not too bad at all.
:P
As for emission standards, if the engine is in ok shape, no reason why it would not pass, no matter how it looks. I would be funny driving this into Ohio E-Check though and seeing their reactions
If we could make an energy shield today, the military would have them now most likely. Hey, maybe they do but only in those secret bases like you find in Fallout.
But seriously, they ARE working on them. They just haven't figured it out yet as far was we, the public, know.