The scroll bars were put there by ViaCom in order to coerce DishNetwork customers into pressuring the company into signing a deal. Dishnetwork is the only company that wants to fight for the customer's rights (as in the lowest price TV available) so this is to be expected.
[tin foil hat]
I wouldn't be surprised if DirecTV is in cahoots with Viacom simply for the sake of raising prices. Dishnetwork is much cheaper than anything else and this would be a good way to get rid of that.
Then why not just call you in the first place, and do away with the email?
It would only require *one* call for white-list authentication. We don't get much spam over the fax because of the cost/time of making a phone call. If a spammer wanted to send email to millions of addresses, he'd have to challenge-response on each of those. If I wanted to get on my friend's email white-list, I'd only have to challenge-response once and then email forever.
Adding the cost/time of a phone call would be enough deterrance to stop spam.
Why not have *real* caller-ID for email authentication? Before you can get on my white-list, you have to call a phone number for some sort of challenge-response. Caller-ID could be part of this.
I don't think that you understand. The US Patent office's function is no longer to get into validity. The new function is simply to accept money and issue patents which become legal weapons for businesses.
Microsoft will probably get this patent and go on to sue anyone using the technology out of existence.
Ban parking lots at establishments that serve alcohol. With the new blood-alcohol limits, it doesn't take much to put an average human over the limit. Having a parking lot at a bar is like being an accessory to the crime.
But that would limit government tax income and police revenue. So they certainly couldn't do *that*.
I'd haven't tried firefox because it isn't to version 1.0 implying that it isn't ready yet.
But my whole point is that I can hardly expect someone to adopt a new browser if I can't even break a simple habit myself. Open source could have a large share of the market if the stuff just looked and acted like Microsoft products minus the insecurity.
A large fortune to anyone who creates an anti-spyware/adware package for Windows users who don't know the slightest bit about vulnerabilities like this. I'll pay lots of money for it. Until then, I'm still happy to charge people $50/hr to remove this crap.
Alternatively, create a replacement for IE and Outlook that *look* like IE and Outlook. With this, I'll be able to replace Microsoft products with good (and possibly open-source) products without people bitching that they don't know how to use it.
I still use IE because Mozilla doesn't SHIFT+Click with the same behavior (open in new window) as IE. I don't care if Mozilla is better because old habits are *very* difficult to break. It only takes about a month of screwing up the shift+click thing before I uninstall Mozilla and go back to IE. I won't even talk about that stupid dinosaur splash screen.
Yeah... and we've got HIPAA for medical privacy here in the US yet, when I visited the doc's last, I found that he had installed a RF wireless keyboard that uses one of eight selectable encryption keys.
Privacy is impossible if one is to interface with the digital world.
With this, and digital cameras like Canon's new S1 IS with digital image stabilization and DV-quality movie capture, I'm not sure why anyone would need a camcorder anymore. Err... rather, cameras and camcorders are going to be on-in-the-same very soon...
For those that like to follow this stuff, I have found Google News to be an amazing service. I can only wonder what might come along and top these guys.
And while on the subject of digital camcorders, lets not forget that digital cameras are more than adequate for most people, these days. Just today, Canon announced their Powershot S1 IS which comes equipped with "DV quality" movie recording and digital image stabilization. Add an 8GB Flash Card and you've got 8 hours of DV recording capability.
Who could ask for anything more? While, certainly... the flash can be expensive but if you can afford to lug the laptop along, a cheap 512MB card will provide most with more than adequate storage capability.
It is great to be a geek, these days. This stuff boggles my mind...
This was done on purpose. Lucas knew that he could milk all of his pathetic fans (including myself) into buying both VHS and DVD versions.
I will get the DVD version but I'll get a pirated copy and I'll be sure to distribute to all of my friends and family. I'm gonna take pictures of all these DVDs and send it to him for ransom. If he buys back my VHS copy, then I'll be happy to buy my own DVD copy off the shelf and keep it to myself.
Well, as computers become more and more "trusted", we'll start losing things gradually. Here HP have a patent application on RAM upgrades.
[0015] In one embodiment, non-volatile memory unit 103 has stored upon it firmware for managing the configuration of computer system 100. The firmware comprises instructions for limiting the addressable space of volatile memory unit 102. By limiting the addressable space, the memory density of volatile memory unit 102 can be controlled. For example, volatile memory unit 102 is a 512 MB SDRAM memory module (e.g., has a memory density of 512 MB). The firmware can lower the memory density, for example to 256 MB, by limiting the addressable space of volatile memory unit 102. In the present embodiment, processor 101 is only able to access the addressable space as dictated by the firmware. In one embodiment, volatile memory unit 102 is scalable to provide a plurality of memory densities. The plurality of memory densities comprises a first memory density and a second memory density. In one embodiment, the first memory density is less than the second memory density.
[0016] In one embodiment, a system command is performed to upgrade the memory density of volatile memory unit 102 from the first memory density to the second memory density. In one embodiment, volatile memory unit 102 is a scalable memory unit initially programmed to operate at the first memory density.
I'm going to buy this album and I've never even heard of this band. Sooner or later, the music industry will realize that the old ways are dead. Pretty soon, McDonalds and Taco Bell will be record labels of their own, selling new releases with the purchase of a value meal.
What did you think that those Wifi installations were for anyway? New cell phones will have WiFi and Bluetooth by the end of '05. It will be easy.
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The scroll bars were put there by ViaCom in order to coerce DishNetwork customers into pressuring the company into signing a deal. Dishnetwork is the only company that wants to fight for the customer's rights (as in the lowest price TV available) so this is to be expected.
[tin foil hat]
I wouldn't be surprised if DirecTV is in cahoots with Viacom simply for the sake of raising prices. Dishnetwork is much cheaper than anything else and this would be a good way to get rid of that.
[/tin foil hat]
Do the IBM business model:
Write the software for free and then earn a lifetime's wages in supporting it.
Problem solved.
Then why not just call you in the first place, and do away with the email?
It would only require *one* call for white-list authentication. We don't get much spam over the fax because of the cost/time of making a phone call. If a spammer wanted to send email to millions of addresses, he'd have to challenge-response on each of those. If I wanted to get on my friend's email white-list, I'd only have to challenge-response once and then email forever.
Adding the cost/time of a phone call would be enough deterrance to stop spam.
Why not have *real* caller-ID for email authentication? Before you can get on my white-list, you have to call a phone number for some sort of challenge-response. Caller-ID could be part of this.
I don't think that you understand. The US Patent office's function is no longer to get into validity. The new function is simply to accept money and issue patents which become legal weapons for businesses.
Microsoft will probably get this patent and go on to sue anyone using the technology out of existence.
Embrace and extend.
Well...
This has other uses... I've thought about it before. Like shooting panoramas. Stick the camera in the air... push the button and rotate.
Voila.. panorama!
Here would be a good law for everyone:
Ban parking lots at establishments that serve alcohol. With the new blood-alcohol limits, it doesn't take much to put an average human over the limit. Having a parking lot at a bar is like being an accessory to the crime.
But that would limit government tax income and police revenue. So they certainly couldn't do *that*.
That would be: Dildows
It reads like some sort of Dilbert/Windows hybrid. I like it.
Only on slashdot do I make an attempt at geeky humor and learn something in the process.
It was probably cloudy out (negating some of the efficiency of the solar panels). I hope that it finds water.
Wow, are you trolling or what?
No.. not trolling... just very frustrated...
I'd haven't tried firefox because it isn't to version 1.0 implying that it isn't ready yet.
But my whole point is that I can hardly expect someone to adopt a new browser if I can't even break a simple habit myself. Open source could have a large share of the market if the stuff just looked and acted like Microsoft products minus the insecurity.
A large fortune to anyone who creates an anti-spyware/adware package for Windows users who don't know the slightest bit about vulnerabilities like this. I'll pay lots of money for it. Until then, I'm still happy to charge people $50/hr to remove this crap.
Alternatively, create a replacement for IE and Outlook that *look* like IE and Outlook. With this, I'll be able to replace Microsoft products with good (and possibly open-source) products without people bitching that they don't know how to use it.
I still use IE because Mozilla doesn't SHIFT+Click with the same behavior (open in new window) as IE. I don't care if Mozilla is better because old habits are *very* difficult to break. It only takes about a month of screwing up the shift+click thing before I uninstall Mozilla and go back to IE. I won't even talk about that stupid dinosaur splash screen.
Help!
That's wierd - I read it as "Digital Camera Could Help Save Fish Sticks". I love dyxlesia.
In any event, I have fish sticks in the microwave now. Thank you, slashdot.
Yeah... and we've got HIPAA for medical privacy here in the US yet, when I visited the doc's last, I found that he had installed a RF wireless keyboard that uses one of eight selectable encryption keys.
Privacy is impossible if one is to interface with the digital world.
I can't wait for DirectX on Linux. Or Linux on NTFS.
http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~mortehu/files.txt
The list of files has none other than:
win2k/private/inet/mshtml/tools/include/errno.h
With this, and digital cameras like Canon's new S1 IS with digital image stabilization and DV-quality movie capture, I'm not sure why anyone would need a camcorder anymore. Err... rather, cameras and camcorders are going to be on-in-the-same very soon...
So Comcast offers to buy Disney for $66.6 billion dollars.
[in best StrongBad voice]: no question mark
Don't worry... Because it is a stock-swap deal, Comcast stock is getting hammered and the value is down to about $54 billion now.
For those that like to follow this stuff, I have found Google News to be an amazing service. I can only wonder what might come along and top these guys.
And while on the subject of digital camcorders, lets not forget that digital cameras are more than adequate for most people, these days. Just today, Canon announced their Powershot S1 IS which comes equipped with "DV quality" movie recording and digital image stabilization. Add an 8GB Flash Card and you've got 8 hours of DV recording capability.
Who could ask for anything more? While, certainly... the flash can be expensive but if you can afford to lug the laptop along, a cheap 512MB card will provide most with more than adequate storage capability.
It is great to be a geek, these days. This stuff boggles my mind...
At least I still have the real versions on VHS.
This was done on purpose. Lucas knew that he could milk all of his pathetic fans (including myself) into buying both VHS and DVD versions.
I will get the DVD version but I'll get a pirated copy and I'll be sure to distribute to all of my friends and family. I'm gonna take pictures of all these DVDs and send it to him for ransom. If he buys back my VHS copy, then I'll be happy to buy my own DVD copy off the shelf and keep it to myself.
Why do they have to be underground? Would it be so bad if they could have their own magazine and perhaps some clubs/organizations?
Well, as computers become more and more "trusted", we'll start losing things gradually. Here HP have a patent application on RAM upgrades.
[0015] In one embodiment, non-volatile memory unit 103 has stored upon it firmware for managing the configuration of computer system 100. The firmware comprises instructions for limiting the addressable space of volatile memory unit 102. By limiting the addressable space, the memory density of volatile memory unit 102 can be controlled. For example, volatile memory unit 102 is a 512 MB SDRAM memory module (e.g., has a memory density of 512 MB). The firmware can lower the memory density, for example to 256 MB, by limiting the addressable space of volatile memory unit 102. In the present embodiment, processor 101 is only able to access the addressable space as dictated by the firmware. In one embodiment, volatile memory unit 102 is scalable to provide a plurality of memory densities. The plurality of memory densities comprises a first memory density and a second memory density. In one embodiment, the first memory density is less than the second memory density.
[0016] In one embodiment, a system command is performed to upgrade the memory density of volatile memory unit 102 from the first memory density to the second memory density. In one embodiment, volatile memory unit 102 is a scalable memory unit initially programmed to operate at the first memory density.
Sigh...
Exactly.
The starting salary is proportional to a company's interest in sending this job offshore.
this is just a publicity stunt.
And it worked.
I'm going to buy this album and I've never even heard of this band. Sooner or later, the music industry will realize that the old ways are dead. Pretty soon, McDonalds and Taco Bell will be record labels of their own, selling new releases with the purchase of a value meal.
What did you think that those Wifi installations were for anyway? New cell phones will have WiFi and Bluetooth by the end of '05. It will be easy.