I have a Smart TV that I had not hooked up to the Internet. We had house guests with kids stay in that room. As they stayed for a while, they got the house WiFi password (for the guest network). Guess what happened next?
I didn't notice for a while, so there was plenty of potential for forced updates, CIA intrusions, or other tomfoolery (not that I think anything happened). I also discovered that the only way to turn WiFi off for this TV (an LG model) was a factory reset.
While I would like a new MacBook Pro, it seems certain that the new ones will continue the trend of only offering SSDs which are hard to replace. My current Pro has 3TB of storage, I'll be lucky to overspend to get 1 TB out of the new one...
I don't have a PSP and wanted to play Valkyria Chronicles 2 on a real screen with a real controller. This sounds like exactly what I was looking for...except for the Japan-only part.
They want Congress to pass a new law to ban that practice by regulating the price of broadband service and the way it's sold.
Technically true -- for the history of the Internet, this was enforced by agency regulation and not Congressional law. Now it's about to change, unless a law requires it to stay the same.
Now, net competition proponents, like me, believe that the best way to guard a free and open Internet is to maintain the free and open competition that exists today, not create a new government-monitored, socialized Internet.
"Maintain" is a falsity. "Socialized", yeah, the Internet had no government support in the past.
First, net neutrality is really a misnomer. It's really just special interest legislation, dressed up to sound less self-serving. Did you know Microsoft, Google and Yahoo are lobbying for net neutrality? If they're successful, they'll get a special, low-government-set price for the bandwidth they use, while everyone else -- consumers, businesses and government -- will have to pay a competitive price for bandwidth. [It] doesn't sound very neutral to me.
This paragraph implies that the above companies would get a special price mandated by the legislation, which is a lie.
Right now, you pay as a consumer to connect your PC to the Internet. You pay as a provider to connect to the Internet. These prices are (generally) based on bandwidth -- regardless of what you are doing with that bandwidth. Of course this works great for Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo -- they are the most popular. If prices suddenly doubled for them, maybe they wouldn't be able to afford the quality that makes them so popular.
Second, net neutrality would be a 180 degree reversal of the government's highly successful policy to promote competition and not regulate the Internet.
False. As stated above, "net neutrality" has been the status quo on the Internet, it just didn't need to be a law because no one was trying to change it.
Finally, net neutrality legislation would be a lousy trade off for consumers. The consumer benefits would be small, but the cost to consumers would be huge. Price regulation would destroy any economic incentive to innovate and invest in the private networks that make up the Internet. Over time, we would end up with a slower Internet and higher broadband prices and taxes for consumers, less broadband choice and slower broadband deployment to all Americans. And it would also mean less privacy for all Americans, as net neutrality would require more government monitoring and surveillance of Internet traffic.
Given that "net neutrality" is the current state of affairs, I'd say the Internet is doing pretty well from a business perspective.
Since virtually every paragraph in this commentary includes a misleading or false statement, I'll go with the other one, thanks. I hope most listeners knew enough to do the same.
The Thief series is one of the best in gaming -- although Thief 3 does have its drawbacks, it lived up to the franchise reputation far better than I expected, and the inclusion of the between-mission city is IMO an interesting innovation.
This interview, however, seems rather sparse and hurried...I kept waiting for more and better information to no avail. Certainly enough has been written about the fate of Looking Glass and Thief that this writing is unlikely to add much to the mix.
Forget the ad campaign, I want Rockbox! I use a Rio Karma (which is very nice, gapless playback, etc.), but since they stopped supporting it I have been wishing for a number of UI and functionality improvements. An open-source OS would make those a lot more likely than the current scenario...hopefully it will get ported, but otherwise when my Karma finally fails I'll be looking for a player that supports an open OS.
I'll believe it when I see it, from the company that said "the binary is the specification". Far too often it seems like these announcements are followed up with "small changes" that add that little proprietary touch to what could be an open format.
The problem I've always had with Windows permissions is that it's damned-near impossible to debug permissions problems. After two or three attempts with completely uphelpful error messages, I don't have the time to figure the exactly proper config, so Full Control it is.
If it were easy to tell what the problem was, it would be easier to have a secure system.
I'd rather see the economic incentives for spam eliminated; as long as they exist, so will spam.
OTOH, knowing that this guy won't be spamming for 9 years is not a terrible thing. I agree that the degree of this crime is lower than many others, but the magnitude seems extremely higher. We should be comparing his sentence to that of a mass murderer or serial rapist.
Obviously, she was attempting to ascertain the accuracy of the manufacturer's mathematics libraries, especially as pertains to well-known irrational and transcendental constants, when subjected to thermodynamic stresses.
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Except it will be considered an Operating eXperience.
I just don't get it. What about this is supposed to be an improvement?
Screen size of the plus model in the form factor of the non-plus model. More screen = good.
I know what you mean about bezel-less though; it looks really pretty (at least the S8 does) but seems like it might be less functional.
...have you ever heard of house guests?
I have a Smart TV that I had not hooked up to the Internet. We had house guests with kids stay in that room. As they stayed for a while, they got the house WiFi password (for the guest network). Guess what happened next?
I didn't notice for a while, so there was plenty of potential for forced updates, CIA intrusions, or other tomfoolery (not that I think anything happened). I also discovered that the only way to turn WiFi off for this TV (an LG model) was a factory reset.
If it's just a pilot program, us passengers won't be allowed to use it anyway!
How about better monitoring of data usage for all phones? It's not just a concern for the low end of the market...
Nothing else matters, right?
While I would like a new MacBook Pro, it seems certain that the new ones will continue the trend of only offering SSDs which are hard to replace. My current Pro has 3TB of storage, I'll be lucky to overspend to get 1 TB out of the new one...
Something happened at the end of your last sentence, there are words there but I can't read them...
Round off the usual suspects...
I don't have a PSP and wanted to play Valkyria Chronicles 2 on a real screen with a real controller. This sounds like exactly what I was looking for...except for the Japan-only part.
How much of Middle Earth would you like to see on film?"
All of it, yeah yeah yea---
Peter Jackson
...never mind...
I've read through the whole article
Who are you and what have you done with the real editors?!?!?!??
Mr. Cleland says...
They want Congress to pass a new law to ban that practice by regulating the price of broadband service and the way it's sold.
Technically true -- for the history of the Internet, this was enforced by agency regulation and not Congressional law. Now it's about to change, unless a law requires it to stay the same.
Now, net competition proponents, like me, believe that the best way to guard a free and open Internet is to maintain the free and open competition that exists today, not create a new government-monitored, socialized Internet.
"Maintain" is a falsity. "Socialized", yeah, the Internet had no government support in the past.
First, net neutrality is really a misnomer. It's really just special interest legislation, dressed up to sound less self-serving. Did you know Microsoft, Google and Yahoo are lobbying for net neutrality? If they're successful, they'll get a special, low-government-set price for the bandwidth they use, while everyone else -- consumers, businesses and government -- will have to pay a competitive price for bandwidth. [It] doesn't sound very neutral to me.
This paragraph implies that the above companies would get a special price mandated by the legislation, which is a lie.
Right now, you pay as a consumer to connect your PC to the Internet. You pay as a provider to connect to the Internet. These prices are (generally) based on bandwidth -- regardless of what you are doing with that bandwidth. Of course this works great for Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo -- they are the most popular. If prices suddenly doubled for them, maybe they wouldn't be able to afford the quality that makes them so popular.
Second, net neutrality would be a 180 degree reversal of the government's highly successful policy to promote competition and not regulate the Internet.
False. As stated above, "net neutrality" has been the status quo on the Internet, it just didn't need to be a law because no one was trying to change it.
Finally, net neutrality legislation would be a lousy trade off for consumers. The consumer benefits would be small, but the cost to consumers would be huge. Price regulation would destroy any economic incentive to innovate and invest in the private networks that make up the Internet. Over time, we would end up with a slower Internet and higher broadband prices and taxes for consumers, less broadband choice and slower broadband deployment to all Americans. And it would also mean less privacy for all Americans, as net neutrality would require more government monitoring and surveillance of Internet traffic.
Given that "net neutrality" is the current state of affairs, I'd say the Internet is doing pretty well from a business perspective.
Since virtually every paragraph in this commentary includes a misleading or false statement, I'll go with the other one, thanks. I hope most listeners knew enough to do the same.
The Thief series is one of the best in gaming -- although Thief 3 does have its drawbacks, it lived up to the franchise reputation far better than I expected, and the inclusion of the between-mission city is IMO an interesting innovation.
This interview, however, seems rather sparse and hurried...I kept waiting for more and better information to no avail. Certainly enough has been written about the fate of Looking Glass and Thief that this writing is unlikely to add much to the mix.
Forget the ad campaign, I want Rockbox! I use a Rio Karma (which is very nice, gapless playback, etc.), but since they stopped supporting it I have been wishing for a number of UI and functionality improvements. An open-source OS would make those a lot more likely than the current scenario...hopefully it will get ported, but otherwise when my Karma finally fails I'll be looking for a player that supports an open OS.
...but hey, the Slashdot text does! Thanks!
I'll believe it when I see it, from the company that said "the binary is the specification". Far too often it seems like these announcements are followed up with "small changes" that add that little proprietary touch to what could be an open format.
The problem I've always had with Windows permissions is that it's damned-near impossible to debug permissions problems. After two or three attempts with completely uphelpful error messages, I don't have the time to figure the exactly proper config, so Full Control it is.
If it were easy to tell what the problem was, it would be easier to have a secure system.
Watermarking = OK, DRR = !OK.
;)
I accept DRM when it is easily bypassed*.
* but even then it's wrong because you are legitimizing the loss of your fair use rights, etc. etc.
Why not just call them and get them to reset the password on YOUR account? Then have some fun with your lovingly-crafted charaters. :)
I'd rather see the economic incentives for spam eliminated; as long as they exist, so will spam.
OTOH, knowing that this guy won't be spamming for 9 years is not a terrible thing. I agree that the degree of this crime is lower than many others, but the magnitude seems extremely higher. We should be comparing his sentence to that of a mass murderer or serial rapist.
I'm sure this is just an overture to...
Step 2: "Hackers" infiltrate SCO and maliciously make off with all of the supporting evidence for their suits against IBM. Sorry judge!
Guh?! Since when is the GPL license the problem
Since Microsoft paid SCO to make it the problem...pretty cool for them if the GPL collapses, hm?
From the article:
Debt-ridden media conglomerates are now considering sales of their music divisions...
Boy, wouldn't that be a fucking tragedy.
Obviously, she was attempting to ascertain the accuracy of the manufacturer's mathematics libraries, especially as pertains to well-known irrational and transcendental constants, when subjected to thermodynamic stresses.
In other words, she was making Apple Pi.