Nuclear batteries?! Do you realize what would happen if one of these melted down??!???? They'd contaminate your bedroom for the next two billion years!
Now you've got me curious... No offense to the submitter, but this is obviously an isolated problem. Asking the average wage slave techie down at Best Buy could have confirmed this. Infact, nearly everybody on Slashdot has confirmed it to one degree or another. Soooo... Why is this frontpage news again? Will Slashdot start answering my unique one-shot hard drive problems now too? Hi, my name is Ed and my HDD is making an odd 'kerchunk' sound when it starts up. Have any other Slashdot users noticed this with their HDDs????? Why not? Let's convert the front page to miscellaneous hardware bug reports... Or not?
I'd submit to you that this question should have been handed off to any number of the flatscreen FAQ sites out there, especially given how unique the problem is. We're not exactly talking about ipod batteries here.
25% more? How many times will this movie end now?? I was only fooled into getting out of my seat, what, three times in the normal version before the movie really ended...
I'm citing the fact that they're using a hacked one minute clip as "evidence", dumbass. It's not evidence, it's piecemeal BS. To even include that sloppy piece of film as a serious exhibit is sad. And I didn't say anything about the other claims you mention, braniac, so shove it.
"Hopefully the engineering community will take an interest, and add brakes to the blueprints..."
Brakes? Ah, we'll just leave that function to the clouds:D But seriously, who designs a scooter without brakes? i know we might be dealing with regenerative braking stuff, but why do we need an engineering community to go "Oh shit! Brakes!"
Their "evidence" of a chimp hacking diebold is a series of poorly cut images of a chimp and a computer????? Come the fuck on now... First, half of the minute video is useless filler text and a picture of smiling chimp, which immedietly jumps to a sequence that could have only been cut by an editor with suffering from ADD syndrome. Seriously, where's that foot icon, because there's no way you could possibly take this story seriously.
But for the inveitable slashdotting it'll receive, I'll summerize: Makers say Diebold works, opponents say it doesn't, que poorly edited movie of monkey sitting by computer hitting stuff, analogous to the new "Baby hitting mouse" AOL 9.0 commercial. The End.
Thank me, beecause I just saved you 5-10 minutes of your life. Use it to get a free ipod or something.
It may be over the internet, but at least vocal spam already has precedents in 'do not call lists' and such. I figure the more popular VoIP becomes, the faster this crap will get squshed. It won't take the decades phone spam legistlation took to enact. Everybody is taking a good, hard look at how to crush unwanted solicitations in every form these days.
Um, the epidemic thing ain't an original thought, let alone new news. Infact, I seem to remember an that article said it was good that the internet have all these pesky bugs here and there. Like the human body, countermeasures will be inacted to not simply limit the current infection, but help future minor and potential major outbreaks as well. The tactics of the small cases help devise strategies to deal with larger cases and so forth. I mean, naming the damn thing a virus oughta lead you strait to this line of logic that is now amazingly being considered breaking news here...
"As I write this, there's no mention of this on Sun's website -- neither confirmation nor denial. What's going on?"
Makin' money is what's going on... And the need to position themselves to do just that. Open source doesn't guarantee freedom from making a profit.
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"Most of us are running on a newer Pentium 4/Athlon 64 box with lots of RAM and a 7200 RPM drive and a uber-sweet graphics card that pushes 100 FPS in Doom 3. Our parents are probably running an old Athlon 700 with half the RAM and a Rage128 videocard, and some think that's overkill while the parents think its not enough. Why debate this?"
Wait wait wait... First we need to learn how to construct a sentance before pulling something like this as a front page story. I mean, 'Our parents are probably running an old Athlon 700 with half the RAM and a Rage128 videocard, and some think that's overkill while the parents think its not enough'???????????
WTF are you trying to say? The parents are running inferior hardware and don't think it's enough? Some other people don't think it's enough? The parent AND these mystery people are in league with the demonic hardware from a 5th dimention paralell to ours? WTF are you trying to say????? And when did all of us stumble across these great uber-machines? I musta missed that boat, sadly enough.
Cripes, I know journalism isn't Slashdots forte, but how this one even made frontpage in shambled state is an amazing feat in itself.
Off topic???????? Do I REALLY need to spell it out to the idiot mod with an IQ of two??? Translation: This "level" scale is totally defunct for the very fact that the top end of this scale is in a continuous evolution. Your Level 10 computer is always a moving target depending on time and technology, so a fixed scale is ultimately meaningless. KINDA LIKE how Star Trek revised their warp scales as a rationalisation that warp is faster in the future from TOS to ST:TNG.
I swear, who gives these retards mod points anyway?
"He provided a hypothetical example that a PC with a "level 5" designation might have a medium processor speed, amount of RAM, and mid-range video card, while a "level 7" PC might have a faster processor, more RAM, and a higher-end video card."
I know! Since this is the future, we can call these names these levels "warp", Warp 10 being the fastest computer known to man. So fast, it may be potentially unachievable! of course, once we've achieved that speed in 5 years, we'll have to overhaul the Warp system of measurment and conjure up the excuse that Warp 10 computing back then really wasn't really the warp 10 computing we know today...
"And explain exactly how the Recording Industry Association of AMERICA has any jurisdiction in GERMANY. Kazaa is based on Holland and the RIAA tried and failed there too."
I dunno, you tell me, but they obviously have had an impact on the users. How many times has Kazaa had to move out and set up shop elsewhere? The lawsuits targeted specifically at their users? Napster, Bear Share, Audio Galaxy, Kazaa... And eventially eMule.
"Aiding the industry that helped him gain worldwide fame, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation Tuesday aimed at discouraging online piracy by requiring anyone disseminating movies or music on the Internet to disclose their e-mail address.' Also he signed a bill to limit the sale of video games."
Sooooo... Let me get this strait: He's passing a law requiring people already engaged in a quasi-illegle activity to display an e-mail address? Who's fertile mind did this spring from!? Really now, I know bogus email addresses are a bit hard to come by these days, but... No, the submitter of this story has it all wrong. Arnold isn't aiding ANYBODY with this legistlation, let alone the music industry, because anybody with an OUNCE of common sense is going to realize it will be as effective as the proverbial submarine with a screen door. I mean, technically the email address is mine...Not that it has accurate registration information, let alone the fact that I signed up and access it through an anonymous proxy server. OR the fact that I'm in Utah distributing movies. I mean, how weak is that?
About as weak as limiting the sale of videogames. Now WTF is THAT all about? At least he managed to strike down a motion that would ban the word "Redskins" from school sports teams and such. It's the small victories, y'know?
"The U.S. House of Representatives will vote as soon as next week on a measure to crack down on deceptive "spyware" that hides in users' computers and secretly monitors their activities."
This one is a slam dunk. I mean, what government offical wants their computer to secretly monitored??? ^_^
"Top honors now belong to edonkey, a network of German origins.
And it too will eventially become the focus of the RIAA, whereupon it will lose users and be knocked off of its top spot in favor of the new P2P network of the moment. maybe the KazPlat network. Who knows, but it's inevitable.
Probably because they realized that technology and software can be too easily circumvented for any media to remain safe from unsanctioned sharing of music. Since they are not strictly an electronics company anymore, it's probably a can of worms they didn't even want to come close to opening, especially given how easy it is for MP3 to be copied and transfered.
Of course, they could have easily looked at it from the other angle and locked in their customer base (and whatever DRM they wanted) from the ground floor if they had tackled the issue aggressively from the beginning. It is rather ironic that everybody else is now doing the the very thing they did with the CD player. They went from an agrressive cutting edge technology seeker (and still are in some areas) to an overly cautious monolithic company who thinks they have too much to protect when it comes to radical technology. In this case, they were the latter and it cost them. Sony could have easily been the iPod with their reputation for innovation and design.
So, how long is it before Google becomes the Microsoft of the web? You know, absorbing 3rd party services and utilities into its core service...? Google already integrated Email services, word definition services, advertisement services, toolbars and whole lot more, not to mention the mention of their own online store hub and now a browser. In short, Google is looking quite a bit like Microsoft and their 'you will be assimilated' mentality.
Just an observation. You know, Google being the 'good' company and all...
"If it is the bomb that Duke has found, the question now is what, if anything, should be done with it?"
I say you wire it to a life monitor and mount it on your motorcycle, thereby becoming your own sovereign superpower. Well, sovereign until some katana wielding hacker comes after you... But until then, let the good times roll!
The funny man he may be, but he's absolutely right and the reason i can't take the "overly optomistic founding fathers" comment too seriously. In case that guy hadn't noticed, media has exploded in size over the last decade, from 3 major networks to dozens AND the internet. Choice is not only out there, it's out there in abundance . We're hardly talking about media monopoly by Fox or anybody else for that matter.
And I think the parent was overly optomistic concerning his assumptions on the founding fathers. These are the guys who led a country to war against the biggest media conglomerate of the day, one that held the leverage of life and death in it's hands while nogotiating alliances with others. these are also the men who pieced together a postwar patchwork of 13 states under a unified banner. They are also the people who specifically specfied the freedoms of speech, the right to bear arms three branches of governemnt in order to limit/prevent abuses by said governemnt.
No, I suspect they had a DEEP understanding of human nature and any large power prone to abuse it.
"Are Journalism and Politics Inextricably Joined?"
Don't lessen the importance of what the man was trying to say by substituting your words for his-- "the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined." Perhapse it's just me, but that entire story (or novel) was more than just concern for something as pale as 'politics'. His article tried to go several levels higher than a concern on mere political saber rattling. We're talking about democracy, the will and freedom of the people and their lives, not simply who will be elected in 2004 or the party platform. Nor was his article merely covering the topic of 'politics'. Most of it had to do with the welfare of the people and how the quality of journalism was a direct representative of that.
I may disagree with his 'half-empty' focus on the state of affairs, and even some of his conclusions; But don't dilute his thoughts and exact words with such an inadequate replacement just to fit into an easily noticed Slashdot shoebox topic when he obviously meant so much more.
"America Online said Thursday that it will not support the Microsoft-backed antispam technology called Sender-ID. The online giant cited (huge) 'lackluster' industry support (profits) and compatibility issues with the anti-spam (by spamming) technology SPF that AOL supports (their own customers)."
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Nuclear batteries?! Do you realize what would happen if one of these melted down??!???? They'd contaminate your bedroom for the next two billion years!
Now you've got me curious... No offense to the submitter, but this is obviously an isolated problem. Asking the average wage slave techie down at Best Buy could have confirmed this. Infact, nearly everybody on Slashdot has confirmed it to one degree or another. Soooo... Why is this frontpage news again? Will Slashdot start answering my unique one-shot hard drive problems now too? Hi, my name is Ed and my HDD is making an odd 'kerchunk' sound when it starts up. Have any other Slashdot users noticed this with their HDDs????? Why not? Let's convert the front page to miscellaneous hardware bug reports... Or not?
I'd submit to you that this question should have been handed off to any number of the flatscreen FAQ sites out there, especially given how unique the problem is. We're not exactly talking about ipod batteries here.
25% more? How many times will this movie end now?? I was only fooled into getting out of my seat, what, three times in the normal version before the movie really ended...
"We keep reading about cities dishing out free wireless; Philadelphia, San Francisco, Austin, TX, and many, many others."
AHhaagg! Wrong answer! Nothing is free when it comes to the government. THANK YOU for helping increase our taxes.
"Those bugs that could hide the best (until they show up to bite you in the ass) will do so."
Kinda correlates with Murphies Law, huh?
I'm citing the fact that they're using a hacked one minute clip as "evidence", dumbass. It's not evidence, it's piecemeal BS. To even include that sloppy piece of film as a serious exhibit is sad. And I didn't say anything about the other claims you mention, braniac, so shove it.
"Hopefully the engineering community will take an interest, and add brakes to the blueprints..."
:D But seriously, who designs a scooter without brakes? i know we might be dealing with regenerative braking stuff, but why do we need an engineering community to go "Oh shit! Brakes!"
Brakes? Ah, we'll just leave that function to the clouds
Braniac.
Their "evidence" of a chimp hacking diebold is a series of poorly cut images of a chimp and a computer????? Come the fuck on now... First, half of the minute video is useless filler text and a picture of smiling chimp, which immedietly jumps to a sequence that could have only been cut by an editor with suffering from ADD syndrome. Seriously, where's that foot icon, because there's no way you could possibly take this story seriously.
But for the inveitable slashdotting it'll receive, I'll summerize: Makers say Diebold works, opponents say it doesn't, que poorly edited movie of monkey sitting by computer hitting stuff, analogous to the new "Baby hitting mouse" AOL 9.0 commercial. The End.
Thank me, beecause I just saved you 5-10 minutes of your life. Use it to get a free ipod or something.
It may be over the internet, but at least vocal spam already has precedents in 'do not call lists' and such. I figure the more popular VoIP becomes, the faster this crap will get squshed. It won't take the decades phone spam legistlation took to enact. Everybody is taking a good, hard look at how to crush unwanted solicitations in every form these days.
Um, the epidemic thing ain't an original thought, let alone new news. Infact, I seem to remember an that article said it was good that the internet have all these pesky bugs here and there. Like the human body, countermeasures will be inacted to not simply limit the current infection, but help future minor and potential major outbreaks as well. The tactics of the small cases help devise strategies to deal with larger cases and so forth. I mean, naming the damn thing a virus oughta lead you strait to this line of logic that is now amazingly being considered breaking news here...
Next story, please.
"As I write this, there's no mention of this on Sun's website -- neither confirmation nor denial. What's going on?"
Makin' money is what's going on... And the need to position themselves to do just that. Open source doesn't guarantee freedom from making a profit.
"Most of us are running on a newer Pentium 4/Athlon 64 box with lots of RAM and a 7200 RPM drive and a uber-sweet graphics card that pushes 100 FPS in Doom 3. Our parents are probably running an old Athlon 700 with half the RAM and a Rage128 videocard, and some think that's overkill while the parents think its not enough. Why debate this?"
Wait wait wait... First we need to learn how to construct a sentance before pulling something like this as a front page story. I mean, 'Our parents are probably running an old Athlon 700 with half the RAM and a Rage128 videocard, and some think that's overkill while the parents think its not enough'???????????
WTF are you trying to say? The parents are running inferior hardware and don't think it's enough? Some other people don't think it's enough? The parent AND these mystery people are in league with the demonic hardware from a 5th dimention paralell to ours? WTF are you trying to say????? And when did all of us stumble across these great uber-machines? I musta missed that boat, sadly enough.
Cripes, I know journalism isn't Slashdots forte, but how this one even made frontpage in shambled state is an amazing feat in itself.
Off topic???????? Do I REALLY need to spell it out to the idiot mod with an IQ of two??? Translation: This "level" scale is totally defunct for the very fact that the top end of this scale is in a continuous evolution. Your Level 10 computer is always a moving target depending on time and technology, so a fixed scale is ultimately meaningless. KINDA LIKE how Star Trek revised their warp scales as a rationalisation that warp is faster in the future from TOS to ST:TNG.
I swear, who gives these retards mod points anyway?
"He provided a hypothetical example that a PC with a "level 5" designation might have a medium processor speed, amount of RAM, and mid-range video card, while a "level 7" PC might have a faster processor, more RAM, and a higher-end video card."
I know! Since this is the future, we can call these names these levels "warp", Warp 10 being the fastest computer known to man. So fast, it may be potentially unachievable! of course, once we've achieved that speed in 5 years, we'll have to overhaul the Warp system of measurment and conjure up the excuse that Warp 10 computing back then really wasn't really the warp 10 computing we know today...
"And explain exactly how the Recording Industry Association of AMERICA has any jurisdiction in GERMANY. Kazaa is based on Holland and the RIAA tried and failed there too."
I dunno, you tell me, but they obviously have had an impact on the users. How many times has Kazaa had to move out and set up shop elsewhere? The lawsuits targeted specifically at their users? Napster, Bear Share, Audio Galaxy, Kazaa... And eventially eMule.
"Aiding the industry that helped him gain worldwide fame, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation Tuesday aimed at discouraging online piracy by requiring anyone disseminating movies or music on the Internet to disclose their e-mail address.' Also he signed a bill to limit the sale of video games."
...Not that it has accurate registration information, let alone the fact that I signed up and access it through an anonymous proxy server. OR the fact that I'm in Utah distributing movies. I mean, how weak is that?
Sooooo... Let me get this strait: He's passing a law requiring people already engaged in a quasi-illegle activity to display an e-mail address? Who's fertile mind did this spring from!? Really now, I know bogus email addresses are a bit hard to come by these days, but... No, the submitter of this story has it all wrong. Arnold isn't aiding ANYBODY with this legistlation, let alone the music industry, because anybody with an OUNCE of common sense is going to realize it will be as effective as the proverbial submarine with a screen door. I mean, technically the email address is mine
About as weak as limiting the sale of videogames. Now WTF is THAT all about? At least he managed to strike down a motion that would ban the word "Redskins" from school sports teams and such. It's the small victories, y'know?
"The U.S. House of Representatives will vote as soon as next week on a measure to crack down on deceptive "spyware" that hides in users' computers and secretly monitors their activities."
This one is a slam dunk. I mean, what government offical wants their computer to secretly monitored??? ^_^
"Top honors now belong to edonkey, a network of German origins.
And it too will eventially become the focus of the RIAA, whereupon it will lose users and be knocked off of its top spot in favor of the new P2P network of the moment. maybe the KazPlat network. Who knows, but it's inevitable.
Probably because they realized that technology and software can be too easily circumvented for any media to remain safe from unsanctioned sharing of music. Since they are not strictly an electronics company anymore, it's probably a can of worms they didn't even want to come close to opening, especially given how easy it is for MP3 to be copied and transfered.
Of course, they could have easily looked at it from the other angle and locked in their customer base (and whatever DRM they wanted) from the ground floor if they had tackled the issue aggressively from the beginning. It is rather ironic that everybody else is now doing the the very thing they did with the CD player. They went from an agrressive cutting edge technology seeker (and still are in some areas) to an overly cautious monolithic company who thinks they have too much to protect when it comes to radical technology. In this case, they were the latter and it cost them. Sony could have easily been the iPod with their reputation for innovation and design.
Speaking of digital MP3 players, feel free to bid on my 256mb Flash MP3 Player w/FM tuner and voice recorder! ^_^
So, how long is it before Google becomes the Microsoft of the web? You know, absorbing 3rd party services and utilities into its core service...? Google already integrated Email services, word definition services, advertisement services, toolbars and whole lot more, not to mention the mention of their own online store hub and now a browser. In short, Google is looking quite a bit like Microsoft and their 'you will be assimilated' mentality.
Just an observation. You know, Google being the 'good' company and all...
"If it is the bomb that Duke has found, the question now is what, if anything, should be done with it?"
I say you wire it to a life monitor and mount it on your motorcycle, thereby becoming your own sovereign superpower. Well, sovereign until some katana wielding hacker comes after you... But until then, let the good times roll!
The funny man he may be, but he's absolutely right and the reason i can't take the "overly optomistic founding fathers" comment too seriously. In case that guy hadn't noticed, media has exploded in size over the last decade, from 3 major networks to dozens AND the internet. Choice is not only out there, it's out there in abundance . We're hardly talking about media monopoly by Fox or anybody else for that matter.
And I think the parent was overly optomistic concerning his assumptions on the founding fathers. These are the guys who led a country to war against the biggest media conglomerate of the day, one that held the leverage of life and death in it's hands while nogotiating alliances with others. these are also the men who pieced together a postwar patchwork of 13 states under a unified banner. They are also the people who specifically specfied the freedoms of speech, the right to bear arms three branches of governemnt in order to limit/prevent abuses by said governemnt.
No, I suspect they had a DEEP understanding of human nature and any large power prone to abuse it.
"Are Journalism and Politics Inextricably Joined?"
Don't lessen the importance of what the man was trying to say by substituting your words for his-- "the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined." Perhapse it's just me, but that entire story (or novel) was more than just concern for something as pale as 'politics'. His article tried to go several levels higher than a concern on mere political saber rattling. We're talking about democracy, the will and freedom of the people and their lives, not simply who will be elected in 2004 or the party platform. Nor was his article merely covering the topic of 'politics'. Most of it had to do with the welfare of the people and how the quality of journalism was a direct representative of that.
I may disagree with his 'half-empty' focus on the state of affairs, and even some of his conclusions; But don't dilute his thoughts and exact words with such an inadequate replacement just to fit into an easily noticed Slashdot shoebox topic when he obviously meant so much more.
Dear Submitter: Thank you for having the intelligence to not use the word "hack" in your lock-picking story, unlike some people.
"America Online said Thursday that it will not support the Microsoft-backed antispam technology called Sender-ID. The online giant cited (huge) 'lackluster' industry support (profits) and compatibility issues with the anti-spam (by spamming) technology SPF that AOL supports (their own customers)."