I can't tell if you are kidding or not, but if you think programming is easy, feel free to try it on your lunch break.
FYI - programmers don't require usability testing. I think you have programmers confused with your CUSTOMERS (or your Program Manager). They DO require pesky documentation. Most programmers have the urge to dive in and code without planning.
+1, a DMCA slapdown would seem to be the only purpose.
If they don't already, Hulu will start locking out requests using the HTTP User-Agent.
Again, this is not supposed to be a practical deterrant... just enough so that when Hulu goes to a judge, they can claim that these "hackers" were "impersonating" real browsers, in addition to the "stealing". To an illiterate judge, the User-Agent spoofing would be further damning "evidence"...
You do realize your idea would break MANY installations right?
Let's assume an environment where you are allowed to use a USB drive, but you don't have admin rights to install drivers. Many corporate PCs are like this.
Or at home, suddenly you need to install a driver to read a memory stick? Wasn't this the problem memory sticks were trying to SOLVE? They all just work, now.
Vendors who lead the charge against Microsoft, get squashed. In the early days of 3D on the PC, I recall nVidia giving Microsoft the finger and developing their own 3D API, instead of using Microsoft functions.... they almost did not survive Microsoft retribution. (This folks, is pre-Direct-X days).
The first vendor trying to do this might as well call it a suicide pact... and they're going first.
Microsoft's not interested in royalties for FAT, so once someone has their arm twisted and they capitulate, the issue is over. If you are targeted by MS, you can't solicit support from the last company MS targeted, because they don't care anymore (no stockholder value in that).
The argument the grandparent is making could be (or has been applied to) technologies such as the mp3 format, gnutella, bittorrent, HTML search engines (remember Lycos MP3?).
What if someone made a file-sharing program that instead of Bittorrent as the engine, it used common "free email services" or "free dynamic DNS"? Would these components be responsible for what ultimately is done by the Uploader or Downloader? I hope not.
The way to go after violations is to go after either the PROVIDER or the CONSUMER of the transaction.
The classic Western method is to go after the provider (dealers, hookers, etc.) and not the consumers (who typically get off, especially if they apologize and profess renewed faith in Jesus.
Pirate Bay is neither provider nor the consumer.
In order to MAKE Pirate Bay the criminal party, you would have to set precedent that lets authorities decide what technology is legitimate or not, so they can target "unauthorized VPN use". From there we'll have that law some have wanted, where only authorities can use encrypted email, or however they decide to arbitrarily apply their new powers.
You don't burn down the forest just to catch some bandits.
I still have mine, boxed up (long after I got rid of the 8-bit).
I'd actually unbox it if I could get it on the LAN, but all I could find for Ethernet was old discontinued hardware, or specifications written in German.
(Not looking to browse with it necessarily, just get it on the LAN w/o using SLIP or PLIP off a Linux box).
You miss the even better benefit... not having TWO damn sets of sockets. Mine are not liked up like yours... they all roll about the draw.
I'm convinced the only way the US will ever switch to Metric, is during a third Obama term, or if Canada flexes it's muscles and annexes the US Northeast, and left coast. Whichever comes first.
Seriously... do this many Americans NOT want to export product? What parts does Ford Europe use?
Is it nerdy to add wifi-to a consumer camera? Is it nerdy to adapt this to Linux, where zero support existed before?
Yes.
Is this a case of stealth marketing/publicity abuse? Could be, but I doubt it. I have one of these devices (purchased for my wife), and I loathed that it had to run Windows because I don't.
Now I can look at this script, and look at customization.. rather than copying my photos off her PC, I could setup a second upload point on my laptop which only gets enabled when her MAC address is offline. That'd be a lot easier than re-configuring the card for a new PC (it supports only 1 PC I understand).
I don't see a lot of marketing abuse here. I do see editor abuse sometimes (publishing a story from a buddy when someone else submitted it first). But that's another story.
>Maybe it's time to start over. Flash and Java applets seem like a good place to start.
Yes. Because Microsoft has bastardized open standards like HTML and CSS, let's move a vendor-controlled standards.
After all, it's not like Microsoft went out of their way to bastardize Java RIGHT?
Never mind how locking up valuable data in ANY proprietary format, has NEVER turned around and bit mankind in the ass time and time again.
Our intranet has been standards-only for 5 years, and our public website is XHTML strict, with a few (validating) hacks to support IE 6 and 7.
The momentum for standards compliant browsing is pretty strong. The biggest obstacle are the people who make webpages in FrontPage or Office... they're getting calls from customers who can't read white text on a white background, because the MS tools still go out of their way to (deliberately) suck.
Big comment FAIL. Hope you weren't serious and not a troll
Why was this modded funny? I'm pretty sure I -am- blacklisted from moderation. Not that U can't laugh aHeh. =:-O
(If there's an actual admin who sees this: after 13 years using slashdot.org and karma="50", I don't think I've been picked for moderation since before XP came out. Mostly I'm curious... either there's bias in the selection, or I offended someone..)
It's good to remind America not to get on it's high horse about this (*ahem* Mountain removal, and the blind eye the US media turns to it...).
On the other hand, we didn't sink all our oldest culture under 3 Gorges Dam, and we don't deliberately put melamine poison onto food, toys, and baby formula. Weak as our FDA is, they check on these things...
>>Brent Spiner was tired of Trek, which is why he had data killed off in Nemesis.
>He's also getting too old and wrinkly to convincingly play an android that's not supposed to age.
Not sure what I even think of the premise of bringing back data, but both your points can be easily answered.
1) Data was a machine. All they have to do is "rediscover" the Positron technology, and stumble into an archive of data's memory, then you have the being and the experiences both.
2) Makeup. This is especially easy if he just needs to look like a robot. Then there's always the alternative of an "aging" module (however stupid that idea might be).
If this is true, I'm genuinely impressed. I'll wait and see:-)
I can only imagine how stressful it is to work on any of the HTML rendering engines. With standards supported in IE, it might be possible again for ONE PERSON to completely understand a HTML rendering library. Right now it must take loads of people and far too many automated tests.
Searching data is Google's core business, nothing more.
I agree Google could do better on their homepage, but that's NOT the same as saying they're not getting this right.
In addition to working well with COMMON browsers, Google works pretty darn well with anything else you throw at it, from phone browsers to lynx to SMS messages.
Gmail -does- have a lot of effort put in it to be portable. Works great on my Nokia N8xx tablet. I'm happy.
On the other hand, many Microsoft.com pages render in Firefox with menu links being the SAME color as the background.:-/
>Running Chrome or Firefox won't stop idiots from opening strange attachments.
False. An idiot user will not know how to chmod +x a strange file, so your logic falls flat.
And there's plenty of Linux users happy to run with whatever is available in the Ubuntu repository, that they don't mind being "locked out" of desktop changes.
Contrast this with the Windows desktop user who will bitterly complain about not being able to open the Windows Clock on the taskbar, just to check dates on a calendar [a step which requires admin privs.], and that user will be instructed to just run as Administrator.
Those of you out there who get designated "family tech support"... you know EXACTLY what I mean. Those people will call you because they installed malware, OR they will call you because (after last time...) you gave them a "rights limited" account, and now they can't install some shitty piece of shareware (even though you typed notes on how they could 'Switch User' over to Admin just to install apps).
>Executive branch representation should be based on the wants of the majority of citizens.
Not just the executive branch.
The Electoral College is the PRIMARY REASON the USA can not grow a viable 3 party to challenge the ways of the 2 major parties.
People everywhere have two (conflicting) opinions: 1) both parties are becoming the "same" 2) both parties are pandering to the extremes of their bases, ignoring the middle class.
To me, election reform is the #1 issue. Every other challenge this country faces is due to paralysis and gridlock.
>> you can't even argue that giving 100% of our states votes to party Y makes the least bit of sense.
>Yes you can -- if you understand why it was designed to do what it does.
Yes, the Electoral Collage STILL does today what it is designed to do originally.
THEN:
The Electoral College used the census to create blocks of votes. The census calculated "3 votes" for every 5 slaves. This way, the southern and rural states could artificially gain advantage over the northern states.
NOW:
The Electoral College gives advantage to RURAL states over "URBAN" states.
Conclusion: The Electoral College still works, and has only changed in that what used to be explicit goals, are now implicit.
>The popular vote counts on a State by State basis, not on a national one.
Thank you Captain Obvious for rescuing everyone who did not know "Electoral College" means.:-)
>The electoral college makes sense when you consider that the States are supposed to be semi-independant.
a) The reality is states are not semi-independent anymore.. even less so at deciding FEDERAL matters b) The basis for the Electoral College was in part a concession to SLAVERY STATES. A 10-year census would count each non-slave as one person, and each 5 slaves as 3 people. Electoral college became a vestige law once slaves were freed (or more practically, once they could vote).
Let's be frank.. the reason some are against abolishing the electoral college is because the law serves to dilutes votes from mostly URBAN states... which tend to vote liberal.
>Anybody have any ideas of how a local ip could be used to attack something?
Well, if you want to make ad money you would change the "DNS server" field on the gateweay router. Most clueless router installs use default admin passwords. Then all your LAN PC's would be using the alternate DNS servers...
You could also troll the inside RFC1918 netspace, and scp random documents found on a fileserver that grants "guest" logins.
I'd say education is at the root of the other problems of which you speak.
The USA has sent TENS OF BILLIONS of US tax dollars to the Pakistani government, and nearly 100% of it went to their military.
We now have a better armed, more nuclear capable Pakistan (which probably an item for good debate another time).
Pakistan failed to spend good money on public education, ceding the task to Islamic madrassas. As a result, 'democracy' is near impossible in that country (impossible meaning there's no way the military will turn over the nukes to a civilian government, as the population is becoming more and more radical).
You can't win a war with textbooks, but you can eliminate some or many of the conditions than make opportunists WANT war. An army without public support is reduced to banditry, and covering their face in public.
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I can't tell if you are kidding or not, but if you think programming is easy, feel free to try it on your lunch break.
FYI - programmers don't require usability testing. I think you have programmers confused with your CUSTOMERS (or your Program Manager). They DO require pesky documentation. Most programmers have the urge to dive in and code without planning.
+1, a DMCA slapdown would seem to be the only purpose.
If they don't already, Hulu will start locking out requests using the HTTP User-Agent.
Again, this is not supposed to be a practical deterrant... just enough so that when Hulu goes to a judge, they can claim that these "hackers" were "impersonating" real browsers, in addition to the "stealing". To an illiterate judge, the User-Agent spoofing would be further damning "evidence"...
You do realize your idea would break MANY installations right?
Let's assume an environment where you are allowed to use a USB drive, but you don't have admin rights to install drivers. Many corporate PCs are like this.
Or at home, suddenly you need to install a driver to read a memory stick? Wasn't this the problem memory sticks were trying to SOLVE? They all just work, now.
Vendors who lead the charge against Microsoft, get squashed. In the early days of 3D on the PC, I recall nVidia giving Microsoft the finger and developing their own 3D API, instead of using Microsoft functions.... they almost did not survive Microsoft retribution. (This folks, is pre-Direct-X days).
The first vendor trying to do this might as well call it a suicide pact... and they're going first.
Microsoft's not interested in royalties for FAT, so once someone has their arm twisted and they capitulate, the issue is over. If you are targeted by MS, you can't solicit support from the last company MS targeted, because they don't care anymore (no stockholder value in that).
Bingo.
The argument the grandparent is making could be (or has been applied to) technologies such as the mp3 format, gnutella, bittorrent, HTML search engines (remember Lycos MP3?).
What if someone made a file-sharing program that instead of Bittorrent as the engine, it used common "free email services" or "free dynamic DNS"? Would these components be responsible for what ultimately is done by the Uploader or Downloader? I hope not.
The way to go after violations is to go after either the PROVIDER or the CONSUMER of the transaction.
The classic Western method is to go after the provider (dealers, hookers, etc.) and not the consumers (who typically get off, especially if they apologize and profess renewed faith in Jesus.
Pirate Bay is neither provider nor the consumer.
In order to MAKE Pirate Bay the criminal party, you would have to set precedent that lets authorities decide what technology is legitimate or not, so they can target "unauthorized VPN use". From there we'll have that law some have wanted, where only authorities can use encrypted email, or however they decide to arbitrarily apply their new powers.
You don't burn down the forest just to catch some bandits.
+1
I still have mine, boxed up (long after I got rid of the 8-bit).
I'd actually unbox it if I could get it on the LAN, but all I could find for Ethernet was old discontinued hardware, or specifications written in German.
(Not looking to browse with it necessarily, just get it on the LAN w/o using SLIP or PLIP off a Linux box).
+1
You miss the even better benefit... not having TWO damn sets of sockets. Mine are not liked up like yours... they all roll about the draw.
I'm convinced the only way the US will ever switch to Metric, is during a third Obama term, or if Canada flexes it's muscles and annexes the US Northeast, and left coast. Whichever comes first.
Seriously... do this many Americans NOT want to export product? What parts does Ford Europe use?
Why the hell was this helpful and insightful comment moderated "Troll"? This is CLEAR moderation abuse.
Please, someone at Slashdot: revoke moderation rights on whoever applied the Troll modifier here. This isn't Digg.
Slashdot is News For Nerds.
Is it nerdy to add wifi-to a consumer camera?
Is it nerdy to adapt this to Linux, where zero support existed before?
Yes.
Is this a case of stealth marketing/publicity abuse? Could be, but I doubt it. I have one of these devices (purchased for my wife), and I loathed that it had to run Windows because I don't.
Now I can look at this script, and look at customization.. rather than copying my photos off her PC, I could setup a second upload point on my laptop which only gets enabled when her MAC address is offline. That'd be a lot easier than re-configuring the card for a new PC (it supports only 1 PC I understand).
I don't see a lot of marketing abuse here. I do see editor abuse sometimes (publishing a story from a buddy when someone else submitted it first). But that's another story.
I must say sir, that your herring is a lovely shade of rouge.
>Maybe it's time to start over. Flash and Java applets seem like a good place to start.
Yes. Because Microsoft has bastardized open standards like HTML and CSS, let's move a vendor-controlled standards.
After all, it's not like Microsoft went out of their way to bastardize Java RIGHT?
Never mind how locking up valuable data in ANY proprietary format, has NEVER turned around and bit mankind in the ass time and time again.
Our intranet has been standards-only for 5 years, and our public website is XHTML strict, with a few (validating) hacks to support IE 6 and 7.
The momentum for standards compliant browsing is pretty strong. The biggest obstacle are the people who make webpages in FrontPage or Office... they're getting calls from customers who can't read white text on a white background, because the MS tools still go out of their way to (deliberately) suck.
Big comment FAIL. Hope you weren't serious and not a troll
Why was this modded funny? I'm pretty sure I -am- blacklisted from moderation. Not that U can't laugh aHeh. =:-O
(If there's an actual admin who sees this: after 13 years using slashdot.org and karma="50", I don't think I've been picked for moderation since before XP came out. Mostly I'm curious... either there's bias in the selection, or I offended someone..)
It's good to remind America not to get on it's high horse about this (*ahem* Mountain removal, and the blind eye the US media turns to it...).
On the other hand, we didn't sink all our oldest culture under 3 Gorges Dam, and we don't deliberately put melamine poison onto food, toys, and baby formula. Weak as our FDA is, they check on these things...
How about just opening the shuttle windows, and firing on the debris with a BB gun?
Works against those pesky kids on my lawn...
... There goes your ability to EVER moderate posts again... ;-)
>>Brent Spiner was tired of Trek, which is why he had data killed off in Nemesis.
>He's also getting too old and wrinkly to convincingly play an android that's not supposed to age.
Not sure what I even think of the premise of bringing back data, but both your points can be easily answered.
1) Data was a machine. All they have to do is "rediscover" the Positron technology, and stumble into an archive of data's memory, then you have the being and the experiences both.
2) Makeup. This is especially easy if he just needs to look like a robot. Then there's always the alternative of an "aging" module (however stupid that idea might be).
>How's that any different than when the government overpays you?
Considering that Microsoft ejected these people, and the government hasn't... lots.
If this is true, I'm genuinely impressed. I'll wait and see :-)
I can only imagine how stressful it is to work on any of the HTML rendering engines. With standards supported in IE, it might be possible again for ONE PERSON to completely understand a HTML rendering library. Right now it must take loads of people and far too many automated tests.
As I said, we'll see when it's released. :-)
Searching data is Google's core business, nothing more.
I agree Google could do better on their homepage, but that's NOT the same as saying they're not getting this right.
In addition to working well with COMMON browsers, Google works pretty darn well with anything else you throw at it, from phone browsers to lynx to SMS messages.
Gmail -does- have a lot of effort put in it to be portable. Works great on my Nokia N8xx tablet. I'm happy.
On the other hand, many Microsoft.com pages render in Firefox with menu links being the SAME color as the background. :-/
>Running Chrome or Firefox won't stop idiots from opening strange attachments.
False.
An idiot user will not know how to chmod +x a strange file, so your logic falls flat.
And there's plenty of Linux users happy to run with whatever is available in the Ubuntu repository, that they don't mind being "locked out" of desktop changes.
Contrast this with the Windows desktop user who will bitterly complain about not being able to open the Windows Clock on the taskbar, just to check dates on a calendar [a step which requires admin privs.], and that user will be instructed to just run as Administrator.
Those of you out there who get designated "family tech support"... you know EXACTLY what I mean. Those people will call you because they installed malware, OR they will call you because (after last time...) you gave them a "rights limited" account, and now they can't install some shitty piece of shareware (even though you typed notes on how they could 'Switch User' over to Admin just to install apps).
>Executive branch representation should be based on the wants of the majority of citizens.
Not just the executive branch.
The Electoral College is the PRIMARY REASON the USA can not grow a viable 3 party to challenge the ways of the 2 major parties.
People everywhere have two (conflicting) opinions:
1) both parties are becoming the "same"
2) both parties are pandering to the extremes of their bases, ignoring the middle class.
To me, election reform is the #1 issue. Every other challenge this country faces is due to paralysis and gridlock.
>> you can't even argue that giving 100% of our states votes to party Y makes the least bit of sense.
>Yes you can -- if you understand why it was designed to do what it does.
Yes, the Electoral Collage STILL does today what it is designed to do originally.
THEN:
The Electoral College used the census to create blocks of votes. The census calculated "3 votes" for every 5 slaves. This way, the southern and rural states could artificially gain advantage over the northern states.
NOW:
The Electoral College gives advantage to RURAL states over "URBAN" states.
Conclusion: The Electoral College still works, and has only changed in that what used to be explicit goals, are now implicit.
>The popular vote counts on a State by State basis, not on a national one.
Thank you Captain Obvious for rescuing everyone who did not know "Electoral College" means. :-)
>The electoral college makes sense when you consider that the States are supposed to be semi-independant.
a) The reality is states are not semi-independent anymore.. even less so at deciding FEDERAL matters
b) The basis for the Electoral College was in part a concession to SLAVERY STATES. A 10-year census would count each non-slave as one person, and each 5 slaves as 3 people. Electoral college became a vestige law once slaves were freed (or more practically, once they could vote).
Let's be frank.. the reason some are against abolishing the electoral college is because the law serves to dilutes votes from mostly URBAN states... which tend to vote liberal.
>Anybody have any ideas of how a local ip could be used to attack something?
Well, if you want to make ad money you would change the "DNS server" field on the gateweay router. Most clueless router installs use default admin passwords. Then all your LAN PC's would be using the alternate DNS servers...
You could also troll the inside RFC1918 netspace, and scp random documents found on a fileserver that grants "guest" logins.
So really you think it's better to have one massive earthquake and get it out of the way, vs. many smaller ones?
I'd say education is at the root of the other problems of which you speak.
The USA has sent TENS OF BILLIONS of US tax dollars to the Pakistani government, and nearly 100% of it went to their military.
We now have a better armed, more nuclear capable Pakistan (which probably an item for good debate another time).
Pakistan failed to spend good money on public education, ceding the task to Islamic madrassas. As a result, 'democracy' is near impossible in that country (impossible meaning there's no way the military will turn over the nukes to a civilian government, as the population is becoming more and more radical).
You can't win a war with textbooks, but you can eliminate some or many of the conditions than make opportunists WANT war. An army without public support is reduced to banditry, and covering their face in public.