Probably Xerox, one of the leading makers of xerox machines. I've had xerox machines from both Canon and Xerox:). They've done pretty good for a company that sounds like the name of Zaphod's brother.
I think you meant photocopier.
Are you the kind of person that calls tissue Kleenex or video game consoles Nintendo? The brand name penetration in American consumerism really deserves a good study one of these days.
For the record I also love how Kraft Mac 'n Cheese is somehow the cheesiest even though it really does not contain cheese. Maybe someone should sue them for false advertising. Sad thing is, my girlfriend actually likes the stuff.
This has got to be the easiest suggestion someone has said. Not only are you avoiding potential NTP exploits in the network, you are also not going head to head with your boss. The solution is likely extremely cost effective, easy to implement, and relatively pain free. It solves all of his problems and very elegantly too. Sir, you deserve to be modded up, but for some reason, I have not seen modpoints for months now. What's going on with that? I tried metamoderating 20 times in a row and still no modpoints. Oh well.
Can you buy HD-DVDs in the stores right now? No? What's the fuss about. Right now there isn't even much beyond a few proposed standards that hollywood has not even begun to think about supporting yet. DVDs are so common now, why would it make sense to move beyond the format and gamble on something that may or may not be the next betamax? Hopefully a DVD drive will lower the 360 costs and also allow M$ to make a preemptive strike. I honesty don't think that many games need more than a DVD of data and in the odd event that they do, they can always include multiple or dual layer disks. I mean really, why is this such a big deal? The developers will support whatever hardware is launched and addons and peripherals will always get the shaft in terms of development asides from essentials, such as networking, voice, etc. I doubt you will see many HD-DVD only disks. You guys are all starting to sound like XBox fanboys too, which is kind of sad in a lot of ways. Though, I gotta admit, it would be pretty damned sweet to see an american company finally win the race for a brief moment in their own country for once.
(Secretly, I still hope that nintendo one day gets back on top, but I guess the golden days are long gone)
Nice shameless plug for your slashdot ripoff site. I bet it is even running slashcode. Max comments on one story is only 36 and most page views is 433. Yeah, aparantly a lot of people are moving over. Give me a fucking break. That's not even enough of a community to even merit a mention on slashdot. Wake me up when you hit K5 levels. Why don't you go back over to digg and STFU. Nobody is forcing you to be here and quite honestly nothing is really all that new about *gasp* a misleading headline on the front page. Seriously. This is slashdot. I guess you must be new here. If you thought the "editors" here actually bothered to read the articles, well then, you must be kind of slow. Honestly, do you really think we come here for the stories?
As for slashdot being for-profit. Just ask the guys running this site. They will tell you that it pretty much pays the bills. These guys aren't making money in any serious way and aparantly neither are you. I mean come on, how much did you pay to use this site? Aparantly without the *, not a damned thing. If you don't want to them to earn money off of your ad views then well, go away and whine somewhere else.
I think you may have fallen for a troll. I've never had a copy of Office 2003 that you could not use after a reboot. I think it may say that a reboot is probably needed or something (can't remember), but Word and the like still seem to load fine. Sometimes for some reason, Word complains on startup that the default template is corrupt or some garbage but trying again always seems to eliminate the problem. Kind of strange really.
Personally, I've been using Open Office's 2.0 beta and I find that for my Word needs it works fairly well and for the most part almost looks like a word clone these days. I also really liked Word 5.1 for the Macintosh. Remember that one? It is almost worth using an emulator for. So simple, unubtrusive and yet so powerful. The macs were great desktop publishing tools back in early to mid 90s. Pagemaker got used for a whole lot of things. When M$ started talking about adding clippy and words that were highlighted because of spelling errors. I knew it was the end of a quality office product. I guess 97 wasn't all that bad, but come on, honestly folks, has office changed really all that much for the general office worker bee in the past, what, 8 years?
I'll be on topic as well by saying that quite honestly I think Microsoft really needs some better competition. I hate to say it, but an OS X port to generic x86 clones would probably be a good step foward into at least giving people some reliable, easy to use options. Telling someone they have to compile a kernel driver to use their video card is like trying to tell your grandma she needs to rebuild her car's transmission. (My apologies to grannies who can do this. I know mine surely cannot)
If all Vista offers is better icons and more eye-candy, what, exactly, is the point? Better search options? Hardly revolutionary, and for what its worth, available now for free from the likes of Google and a few others. Is there any reason that we are not supposed to upgrade asides from the fact that Microsoft will just eventually cut off the security lifeline, ala Windows 2000, which I would probably imagine a great deal of you (including myself) still use because there really hasn't been much point in upgrading to WindowsXP. In Windows 2000 I enjoy support for aging computer hardware with its relatively modest requirements as well as having the same desktop I've been forced to use for the last 10 years. Now I am forced to eventually move all my running Windows machines to XP for security issues alone.
I know that it does not make sense for a company to patch a 5 year old operating system, but honestly I think that M$ is starting to seriously lag in the development department. Where do they spend all that money? Why do they dump billions into R&D and only come up with better looking icons and alpha blending, none of which are original ideas. I know that Windows hasn't ever been at the forefront of design. Witness the brilliant, if not somewhat flawed OS/2 and many others whose ashes are now burning. GeOS? BSD? (I'm kidding) What I'm saying is that Billy Gates seems to be far better at just buying or, preferrably, stealing, other companies' technology than he does at developing inhouse. How many promises did we hear that longhorn would bring that ended up becoming vaporware after, oh, 4 years of development at a cost likely in the billions of dollars?
WinFS? Check. Built completely on.NET platform? Check. Revolutionary search capabilities based upon meta-data? Check.
Hey Billy! How about you work on making Windows do something really cool like seamlessly distributing certain processes across the network? Why not beef up default security procedures too and just pour about a billion into Firefox? Seriously. Why not do it? A billion to Firefox would be philanthropy at best and you know that they would build the better browser, if history has any indications as to the future.
Windows needs real competition with real developers supporting it. The stagnation in innovation has become relatively
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I was just in Monterey (on vacation) and we drove by the Defense Language Institute. Interesting looking place. Hope you had a chance to go up to Carmel by the Sea, as it had one of the most beautiful beaches I have ever seen. The sunset there was quite lovely too and hell, where do I even begin on Big Sur? Truly one of the most beautiful places in this nation and very likely the whole damn planet. Every american should at least once go to California and drive the 1 down from Crescent City. I cannot think of many places that I would rather go to now that I have seen that area of this fine country. If you would like some fine pictures of the area for nostalgia, I'd be happy to send you a few. Other than a lot of strip mall development, a lot of the place probably looks just about the same as it did 20 years ago.
To be somewhat on topic, I have a friend that went through the language school a few times. I don't think he was there for 47 weeks however, but maybe they spend more time with eastern languages because they are so much harder to learn than Roman based languages, at least when you are coming from a purely english-centric perspective.
Oh and yes indeed, I am serious. More people need to be killed and they sure as hell aren't in Iraq these days. I could think of a small handful in Washington alone. Think about the immediate changes in policy and vision that getting rid of all the senators who have spent the last 10-20 years taking soft money from corporations. These guys are scumbags to the extreme, and it should be every American's duty to exterminate these vile pests. I'm sure good ole George and Tom would be plotting their demise right now.
It sure worked for that russian spammer. No more spam and the pleasure of knowing that you personally rid the world of someone who wasn't doing us any favors. Consider it evolution if you will.
Also, I might add that psychological help is needed for anyone that produces Xtian music. Xtian rappers? Pshaw! How blasphemous! Are the bitches and hoes not sacred anymore?
Goddamnit! I was all psyched to hear the sounds of slashdot but the only available download I could find was on the site you linked to and of course the link from the message board has long since been dead.
Anyone want to make an ISO and a torrent? I'm sure more than a few geeks have copies of this considering that they were giving it out at linuxworld or wherever the one poster said.
Yeah. I did say it was bad didn't I? I didn't know about the injection exploits. I haven't done much with wireless in a while and since I don't use it around the house, wireless security hasn't been something I've kept on.
From what I've read, the average internet connection (DSL, cable, etc) will only produce small amounts of network traffic for the average user. To crack WEP, you need the weakly encrypted packets. These packets aren't nearly as plentiful as strongly encrypted packets. For someone to collect enough weak keys to crack WEP, they would have to essentially sit and collect keys for at least a period of days. It is not like you can just roll up to a WEP enabled access point and be inside with a few mouseclicks. It takes a fair bit more determination than that. I believe that even bruteforcing the key would likely take longer than just collecting weak keys. So for what it is worth, WEP is still infinately better than nothing at all, and secondly anyone worth a grain of salt in the security world knows to never allow APs to have direct access to the private network as it is far, far better to place the AP in some sort of partial DMZ and use VPN or whatnot to tunnel into the private network, which also adds another layer to your security risks, but, like WEP, is still far better than nothing at all.
Don't know much about the newer encryption in wireless (WPA I think?), but I hear it is far more secure, is a few orders of magnitude greater to crack and would take a very determined attacker to gather enough information to crack the key. The key is the DMZ though. When the attacker finally succeeds on getting a connection on your AP, they will have a lovely firewall to get through if they want something other than basic internet connectivity and would like to see the inside if your private network.
IPCop does this as well as a bunch of other nice firewall packages.
You guys need to calm down a bit and get rid of the immediate kneejerk reactions, though I do admit that the summary is a bit misleading.
I agree that a felony is a bit stiff for such a victimless crime, but for what it is worth, this guy was asking to be arrested. He sat out in front of the house in his SUV for nearly a whole morning before the police were called. If you are going to use someone's wireless AP, at least be a bit more covert about it. There are so many unsecured APs out there that you could easily exploit and never really be noticed. Go downtown, go to a park with business nearby. Sit somewhere where nobody would think twice about your presence there. I'm sorry, but sitting in front of someone's house for 5 hours and then even more stupidly admitting what you were doing is just asking to be thrown in jail.
This guy deserves everything that he gets. This isn't just a case of someone sitting somewhere and flipping open their notebook and noticing a connection. I do not have wireless at my house for a lot of reasons (asides from the fact that wired ethernet is an awful lot faster), but when I am sitting on my porch, I do admit that I sometimes use the neighbors AP. For my lightweight web browsing, I don't really think that I am interfering with their network or in any way damaging their equipment, thus creating a totally victimless crime. I never even bothered to look to see if they have open shares, but I digress. Also, unless you specifically know of a public access point any network you connect to is technically illegal trespass.
What I find amusing is that I can trespass on someone's property and I get a misdemeanor and when I do the same thing virtually, I'm looking at years in pound-me-in-the-ass federal buttlovin prison. I'm a good looking, somewhat effeminate male as well, so I doubt I would do very well with my future cellmate Bubba. The laws definately need to be rewritten quite a bit, and unfortunately with all the identity and data theft these days, I just see them potentially becoming worse and more draconian.
I will say that this guy is a total douche bag. Anyone that thinks it is ok to just sit in front of someone's house for hours without having a specific purpose is just asking to be stopped and harassed by the cops. If someone sat in front of my house for more than an hour, I'd be calling the cops too, regardless of why they were there. I don't agree with the statements that people have made that wireless access points should be required by law to be secure. Do we really need to waste tax payer money on attempting to enforce more unenforceable laws?
If anyone should get upset, it should be the broadband provider, but I honestly don't think that even they could consider putting forth theft of service charges against people who run these networks, good samaritan or stupid joe blow. Maybe when cable services start becoming wireless or more broadband oriented, but that is a whole different story and a wholly different topic for right now.
Moral of the story is this: It is not against the law until you get caught and when you do, don't openly admit that you broke the law and get yourself a decent lawyer when the felonies start to roll over your head.
I hope they just give this guy community service or something, but that is me.
Yeah, as the AC pointed out the original is also under the Your Rights Online selection. Perhaps you don't have all stories enabled for the front page (not all stories show up by default IIRC). I remember reading this exact same story the day before this dupe was put out.
Slashdot does need to get rid of the dupes. Hell at least check links against links in older stories or something. That would at the very least ferret out the worst, most obvious dupes.
Give me a Korg Tri* or one of the more beefy Roland keyboards and I can play along all day.
These are newer keyboards. VAST was designed in the early 90s. Of course they are going to sound better than some 10+ year old technology. That being said, the K2000 is still one of my favorite keyboards of all time. Truly amazing for its time!
A Thunderbird 1.4Ghz will have a model number of 1400. See above.
From the goddamned wikipedia:
With the demise of the Cyrix MII (a renamed 6x86MX) from the market in 1999, the PR rating appeared to be dead, but AMD revived it in 2001 with the introduction of its Athlon XP line of processors. The use of the convention with these processors (which are rated against AMD's earlier Athlon Thunderbird cpu core) is less criticized, as the Athlon XP is a capable performer in both integer and FPU operations, and manages to out-perform an Intel Pentium 4 at a PR rating equalling the P4's mhz. The Athlon XP (as well as the Athlon 64) PR rating scheme is not intended to be anything more than a comparison to the same family of processors, and not a direct comparison to Intel or any other company's processor speeds (in raw MHz) which most skeptics say isn't true.
Don't believe me now?
You sir are a troll in the worst way. I've already explained how their PR system works, but I think at this point you are just looking to create an argument. You are totally goddamned right there is a correlation. In an awful lot of cases, the AMD chip outperforms the P4 with a similar PR number. These two numbers have little to do with each other in reality though other than for strict marketing purposes.
Clock for the clock AMD has the P4 beaten hands down. Also, clock for clock, the Pentium III/M will beat the pants off of anything out there.
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Probably Xerox, one of the leading makers of xerox machines. I've had xerox machines from both Canon and Xerox :). They've done pretty good for a company that sounds like the name of Zaphod's brother.
I think you meant photocopier.
Are you the kind of person that calls tissue Kleenex or video game consoles Nintendo? The brand name penetration in American consumerism really deserves a good study one of these days.
For the record I also love how Kraft Mac 'n Cheese is somehow the cheesiest even though it really does not contain cheese. Maybe someone should sue them for false advertising. Sad thing is, my girlfriend actually likes the stuff.
Oh well.
This has got to be the easiest suggestion someone has said. Not only are you avoiding potential NTP exploits in the network, you are also not going head to head with your boss. The solution is likely extremely cost effective, easy to implement, and relatively pain free. It solves all of his problems and very elegantly too. Sir, you deserve to be modded up, but for some reason, I have not seen modpoints for months now. What's going on with that? I tried metamoderating 20 times in a row and still no modpoints. Oh well.
Can you buy HD-DVDs in the stores right now? No? What's the fuss about. Right now there isn't even much beyond a few proposed standards that hollywood has not even begun to think about supporting yet. DVDs are so common now, why would it make sense to move beyond the format and gamble on something that may or may not be the next betamax? Hopefully a DVD drive will lower the 360 costs and also allow M$ to make a preemptive strike. I honesty don't think that many games need more than a DVD of data and in the odd event that they do, they can always include multiple or dual layer disks. I mean really, why is this such a big deal? The developers will support whatever hardware is launched and addons and peripherals will always get the shaft in terms of development asides from essentials, such as networking, voice, etc. I doubt you will see many HD-DVD only disks. You guys are all starting to sound like XBox fanboys too, which is kind of sad in a lot of ways. Though, I gotta admit, it would be pretty damned sweet to see an american company finally win the race for a brief moment in their own country for once.
(Secretly, I still hope that nintendo one day gets back on top, but I guess the golden days are long gone)
The term should be "Extend and Embrace." How do you embrace something without reaching out to it first?
Hey, this is what happens when you got karma to burn. :)
I was only kidding. Very cool project though. It would be very interesting to get dynamic linking working in windows.
I checked out your website. Ironically, there are no screenshots there.
I want to bask in the glory of 640x480x16 all over again!
Nice shameless plug for your slashdot ripoff site. I bet it is even running slashcode. Max comments on one story is only 36 and most page views is 433. Yeah, aparantly a lot of people are moving over. Give me a fucking break. That's not even enough of a community to even merit a mention on slashdot. Wake me up when you hit K5 levels. Why don't you go back over to digg and STFU. Nobody is forcing you to be here and quite honestly nothing is really all that new about *gasp* a misleading headline on the front page. Seriously. This is slashdot. I guess you must be new here. If you thought the "editors" here actually bothered to read the articles, well then, you must be kind of slow. Honestly, do you really think we come here for the stories?
As for slashdot being for-profit. Just ask the guys running this site. They will tell you that it pretty much pays the bills. These guys aren't making money in any serious way and aparantly neither are you. I mean come on, how much did you pay to use this site? Aparantly without the *, not a damned thing. If you don't want to them to earn money off of your ad views then well, go away and whine somewhere else.
I think you may have fallen for a troll. I've never had a copy of Office 2003 that you could not use after a reboot. I think it may say that a reboot is probably needed or something (can't remember), but Word and the like still seem to load fine. Sometimes for some reason, Word complains on startup that the default template is corrupt or some garbage but trying again always seems to eliminate the problem. Kind of strange really.
.NET platform? Check. Revolutionary search capabilities based upon meta-data? Check.
Personally, I've been using Open Office's 2.0 beta and I find that for my Word needs it works fairly well and for the most part almost looks like a word clone these days. I also really liked Word 5.1 for the Macintosh. Remember that one? It is almost worth using an emulator for. So simple, unubtrusive and yet so powerful. The macs were great desktop publishing tools back in early to mid 90s. Pagemaker got used for a whole lot of things. When M$ started talking about adding clippy and words that were highlighted because of spelling errors. I knew it was the end of a quality office product. I guess 97 wasn't all that bad, but come on, honestly folks, has office changed really all that much for the general office worker bee in the past, what, 8 years?
I'll be on topic as well by saying that quite honestly I think Microsoft really needs some better competition. I hate to say it, but an OS X port to generic x86 clones would probably be a good step foward into at least giving people some reliable, easy to use options. Telling someone they have to compile a kernel driver to use their video card is like trying to tell your grandma she needs to rebuild her car's transmission. (My apologies to grannies who can do this. I know mine surely cannot)
If all Vista offers is better icons and more eye-candy, what, exactly, is the point? Better search options? Hardly revolutionary, and for what its worth, available now for free from the likes of Google and a few others. Is there any reason that we are not supposed to upgrade asides from the fact that Microsoft will just eventually cut off the security lifeline, ala Windows 2000, which I would probably imagine a great deal of you (including myself) still use because there really hasn't been much point in upgrading to WindowsXP. In Windows 2000 I enjoy support for aging computer hardware with its relatively modest requirements as well as having the same desktop I've been forced to use for the last 10 years. Now I am forced to eventually move all my running Windows machines to XP for security issues alone.
I know that it does not make sense for a company to patch a 5 year old operating system, but honestly I think that M$ is starting to seriously lag in the development department. Where do they spend all that money? Why do they dump billions into R&D and only come up with better looking icons and alpha blending, none of which are original ideas. I know that Windows hasn't ever been at the forefront of design. Witness the brilliant, if not somewhat flawed OS/2 and many others whose ashes are now burning. GeOS? BSD? (I'm kidding) What I'm saying is that Billy Gates seems to be far better at just buying or, preferrably, stealing, other companies' technology than he does at developing inhouse. How many promises did we hear that longhorn would bring that ended up becoming vaporware after, oh, 4 years of development at a cost likely in the billions of dollars?
WinFS? Check. Built completely on
Hey Billy! How about you work on making Windows do something really cool like seamlessly distributing certain processes across the network? Why not beef up default security procedures too and just pour about a billion into Firefox? Seriously. Why not do it? A billion to Firefox would be philanthropy at best and you know that they would build the better browser, if history has any indications as to the future.
Windows needs real competition with real developers supporting it. The stagnation in innovation has become relatively
I was just in Monterey (on vacation) and we drove by the Defense Language Institute. Interesting looking place. Hope you had a chance to go up to Carmel by the Sea, as it had one of the most beautiful beaches I have ever seen. The sunset there was quite lovely too and hell, where do I even begin on Big Sur? Truly one of the most beautiful places in this nation and very likely the whole damn planet. Every american should at least once go to California and drive the 1 down from Crescent City. I cannot think of many places that I would rather go to now that I have seen that area of this fine country. If you would like some fine pictures of the area for nostalgia, I'd be happy to send you a few. Other than a lot of strip mall development, a lot of the place probably looks just about the same as it did 20 years ago.
To be somewhat on topic, I have a friend that went through the language school a few times. I don't think he was there for 47 weeks however, but maybe they spend more time with eastern languages because they are so much harder to learn than Roman based languages, at least when you are coming from a purely english-centric perspective.
Oh and yes indeed, I am serious. More people need to be killed and they sure as hell aren't in Iraq these days. I could think of a small handful in Washington alone. Think about the immediate changes in policy and vision that getting rid of all the senators who have spent the last 10-20 years taking soft money from corporations. These guys are scumbags to the extreme, and it should be every American's duty to exterminate these vile pests. I'm sure good ole George and Tom would be plotting their demise right now.
It sure worked for that russian spammer. No more spam and the pleasure of knowing that you personally rid the world of someone who wasn't doing us any favors. Consider it evolution if you will.
Also, I might add that psychological help is needed for anyone that produces Xtian music. Xtian rappers? Pshaw! How blasphemous! Are the bitches and hoes not sacred anymore?
Goddamnit! I was all psyched to hear the sounds of slashdot but the only available download I could find was on the site you linked to and of course the link from the message board has long since been dead. Anyone want to make an ISO and a torrent? I'm sure more than a few geeks have copies of this considering that they were giving it out at linuxworld or wherever the one poster said.
For those that have never seen polgygon man here is a forum discussion that has a scan of the ad. Too lazy to do proper html:
http://www.ga-forum.com/printthread.php?t=13430
I don't know if this was supposed to be a joke, but why on earth would anyone use a bittorrent client embedded in their browser when their is Azureus?
I think that it just has to be in time with the beats but that it doesn't really matter what you hit button wise.
Yeah. I did say it was bad didn't I? I didn't know about the injection exploits. I haven't done much with wireless in a while and since I don't use it around the house, wireless security hasn't been something I've kept on.
Thanks a lot for the info though.
From what I've read, the average internet connection (DSL, cable, etc) will only produce small amounts of network traffic for the average user. To crack WEP, you need the weakly encrypted packets. These packets aren't nearly as plentiful as strongly encrypted packets. For someone to collect enough weak keys to crack WEP, they would have to essentially sit and collect keys for at least a period of days. It is not like you can just roll up to a WEP enabled access point and be inside with a few mouseclicks. It takes a fair bit more determination than that. I believe that even bruteforcing the key would likely take longer than just collecting weak keys. So for what it is worth, WEP is still infinately better than nothing at all, and secondly anyone worth a grain of salt in the security world knows to never allow APs to have direct access to the private network as it is far, far better to place the AP in some sort of partial DMZ and use VPN or whatnot to tunnel into the private network, which also adds another layer to your security risks, but, like WEP, is still far better than nothing at all.
Don't know much about the newer encryption in wireless (WPA I think?), but I hear it is far more secure, is a few orders of magnitude greater to crack and would take a very determined attacker to gather enough information to crack the key. The key is the DMZ though. When the attacker finally succeeds on getting a connection on your AP, they will have a lovely firewall to get through if they want something other than basic internet connectivity and would like to see the inside if your private network.
IPCop does this as well as a bunch of other nice firewall packages.
Knowing is half the battle.
You guys need to calm down a bit and get rid of the immediate kneejerk reactions, though I do admit that the summary is a bit misleading.
I agree that a felony is a bit stiff for such a victimless crime, but for what it is worth, this guy was asking to be arrested. He sat out in front of the house in his SUV for nearly a whole morning before the police were called. If you are going to use someone's wireless AP, at least be a bit more covert about it. There are so many unsecured APs out there that you could easily exploit and never really be noticed. Go downtown, go to a park with business nearby. Sit somewhere where nobody would think twice about your presence there. I'm sorry, but sitting in front of someone's house for 5 hours and then even more stupidly admitting what you were doing is just asking to be thrown in jail.
This guy deserves everything that he gets. This isn't just a case of someone sitting somewhere and flipping open their notebook and noticing a connection. I do not have wireless at my house for a lot of reasons (asides from the fact that wired ethernet is an awful lot faster), but when I am sitting on my porch, I do admit that I sometimes use the neighbors AP. For my lightweight web browsing, I don't really think that I am interfering with their network or in any way damaging their equipment, thus creating a totally victimless crime. I never even bothered to look to see if they have open shares, but I digress. Also, unless you specifically know of a public access point any network you connect to is technically illegal trespass.
What I find amusing is that I can trespass on someone's property and I get a misdemeanor and when I do the same thing virtually, I'm looking at years in pound-me-in-the-ass federal buttlovin prison. I'm a good looking, somewhat effeminate male as well, so I doubt I would do very well with my future cellmate Bubba. The laws definately need to be rewritten quite a bit, and unfortunately with all the identity and data theft these days, I just see them potentially becoming worse and more draconian.
I will say that this guy is a total douche bag. Anyone that thinks it is ok to just sit in front of someone's house for hours without having a specific purpose is just asking to be stopped and harassed by the cops. If someone sat in front of my house for more than an hour, I'd be calling the cops too, regardless of why they were there. I don't agree with the statements that people have made that wireless access points should be required by law to be secure. Do we really need to waste tax payer money on attempting to enforce more unenforceable laws?
If anyone should get upset, it should be the broadband provider, but I honestly don't think that even they could consider putting forth theft of service charges against people who run these networks, good samaritan or stupid joe blow. Maybe when cable services start becoming wireless or more broadband oriented, but that is a whole different story and a wholly different topic for right now.
Moral of the story is this: It is not against the law until you get caught and when you do, don't openly admit that you broke the law and get yourself a decent lawyer when the felonies start to roll over your head.
I hope they just give this guy community service or something, but that is me.
Yeah, as the AC pointed out the original is also under the Your Rights Online selection. Perhaps you don't have all stories enabled for the front page (not all stories show up by default IIRC). I remember reading this exact same story the day before this dupe was put out.
Slashdot does need to get rid of the dupes. Hell at least check links against links in older stories or something. That would at the very least ferret out the worst, most obvious dupes.
You forgot the "truly an american icon" part.
Give me a Korg Tri* or one of the more beefy Roland keyboards and I can play along all day.
These are newer keyboards. VAST was designed in the early 90s. Of course they are going to sound better than some 10+ year old technology. That being said, the K2000 is still one of my favorite keyboards of all time. Truly amazing for its time!
A Thunderbird 1.4Ghz will have a model number of 1400. See above.
From the goddamned wikipedia:
With the demise of the Cyrix MII (a renamed 6x86MX) from the market in 1999, the PR rating appeared to be dead, but AMD revived it in 2001 with the introduction of its Athlon XP line of processors. The use of the convention with these processors (which are rated against AMD's earlier Athlon Thunderbird cpu core) is less criticized, as the Athlon XP is a capable performer in both integer and FPU operations, and manages to out-perform an Intel Pentium 4 at a PR rating equalling the P4's mhz. The Athlon XP (as well as the Athlon 64) PR rating scheme is not intended to be anything more than a comparison to the same family of processors, and not a direct comparison to Intel or any other company's processor speeds (in raw MHz) which most skeptics say isn't true.
Don't believe me now?
You sir are a troll in the worst way. I've already explained how their PR system works, but I think at this point you are just looking to create an argument. You are totally goddamned right there is a correlation. In an awful lot of cases, the AMD chip outperforms the P4 with a similar PR number. These two numbers have little to do with each other in reality though other than for strict marketing purposes.
Clock for the clock AMD has the P4 beaten hands down. Also, clock for clock, the Pentium III/M will beat the pants off of anything out there.