On the plus side, there wll be twice as many real stories posted tomorrow.
You have to wonder, what happens if a big news story breaks today (SCO drops suit, says "Nevermind"). Do the editors post it, or wait until tomorrow so it isn't just dismissed out of hand as an AF joke?
"If you work/commute 45 hours per week, your "free time" is, if you do nothing else, about 9 1/2 hours per day, of which, on average, you watch TV 4 1/2 hours."
Thankfully, with TiVo, we can now watch 50% more television in the same amount of time. Ahhh.... technology.
Incidentally you cannot use TiVo to watch the same amount of television in less time. This is due to Tivo's law which states: "All available free time will be fully consumed by the amount of programs stored on your TiVo"
Guess that means we won't be seeing gems like this anymore....
KYLE: Shut-up, fatboy! CARTMAN: Hey! Don't call me fat, you fuckin' Jew! MR. GARRISON: Eric! Did you just say the F-word? CARTMAN: "Jew"? KYLE: No, he's talkin' about "fuck." You can't say "fuck" in school, you fuckin' fatass. MR. GARRISON: Kyle! CARTMAN: Why the fuck not? MR. GARRISON: Eric! STAN: Dude, you just said "fuck" again! MR. GARRISON: Stanley! KENNY: Fuck. MR. GARRISON: Kenny! CARTMAN: What's the big deal? It doesn't hurt anybody. Fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck. MR. GARRISON: How would you like to go see the school counselor? CARTMAN: How would you like to suck my balls? KIDS: [gasping] MR. GARRISON: What did you say? CARTMAN: Oh, I-I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Actually, what I said was: [speaking through bullhorn] "How would you like, to suck my balls, Mr. Garrison?" KYLE: Holy shit, dude.
"So, when did it become fashionable to predict the deaths of everything from consumer eletronics to companies?"
Probably about the same time it became fashionable to highlight all the death & destruction in the world on the TV news, rather than point out all the positive happenings.
Personally I think the article is complete BS. The standalone Tivo will be around as long as cable companies deliver the "digital" cable as 1/2 analog 1/2 digital. And Tivo will be around in other forms as well, esp. DirectV Tivo. Those boxes are practically (and in many cases, actually) given away with a 1 yr commitment, and they only cost $5/month for the service.
Regarding Moore's law, the author misses the point of Tivo entirely. Sure, anyone can shove a hard drive and mpeg encoder into a box. The value is in the software and Tivo service, which is an obvious point if you've ever used a Dishplayer.
HDTV: "With the world moving to HD, here comes TiVo -a year late- with its own HD PVR"
So what? In the next sentence he say "Motorola and Scientific Atlanta are readying their own HD set-top boxes". *Readying*??? So how does being late but shipping get trumped by systems that aren't not even yet shipping.
Sure the HDTV DTivos are pricey at $1000. They also can record 2 HDTV channels or 2 OTA HDTV channels at the same time. And that price will come down too, just like it does for every other new device shortly after it's introduced.
As far as Murdoch giving away DVRs, that in all likelihood will happen, and that's good for DirecTV, since DVR owners have the lowest churn rate among satellite subscribers. But there is no way that the nearly 700,000 current DTivo owners subscribers going to give up their existing DTivo boxes, just becuase there is a free one available. This will most likely be a limited functionality DVR, just to hook people in (and that's good for Tivo too). Existing (and many new) subscribers will gladly pay $5/mo for the full functionality they enjoy now (of which Tivo gets a cut - $2 I think).
Anyway, yeah, Death to Tivo, blah blah blah. The guy's probably short 1000 share of Tivo.
"The parent was concerned about trojans shutting down firewalls (and opening ports, etc). The router won't allow these types of things to happen. I'm not saying that an infection couldn't happen, but the activities and damage caused by the trojan will be curtailed"
Right, because the uber-secure Linksys router won't allow a trojan to connect to its web based admin screen (using the unchanged default cryptic password "admin") and set it to forward all ports, or to add the PC's IP to the DMZ. Nor could a trojan just upload some hacked linksys.bin firmware with TFTP so that it pretends to block ports but forwards them all anyways (and adds a hidden SMTP spam engine too). Nope, that could never happen.
OK, maybe not now, but it's only a matter of time.
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But, unlike the $3300 sword, the Mighty Titan Titanium Knives were probably not made in Scotland. And as most people know, "if it's not Scottish, IT'S CRAP!!!!!!"
"I can say authoritatively that swapping boards on newer drives does NOT work"
Not to challenge your "authority" but... swapping boards on newer drives does indeed work (maybe not always so YMMV).
I did this not too long ago with a Maxtor 6L040J2 40 Gig drive. Windows 2000 suddenly quit with a BSOD. Tried rebooting but the drive was toast - wasn't even recognized by the BIOS and in fact when the drive was plugged in the BIOS couldn't even recognize the CDROM (which seemed to indicate a board rather than a head/platter problem). Maxtor diags couldn't see it either. Googling showed others had encountered similar failures that were corrected by a board swap. There were even a few sites in China selling logic boards, but I decided to go the ebay route. Bought another drive with the exact same model, and the closest match to the firmware I could find. Swapped the boards and presto... back to life. I of course copied all the data immediately to a new drive, and sent the formerly dead one back for replacement.
Bottom line.... got the data back for $50 vs $1500 for a data recovery service. Sure, the data was important but not $1500 important.
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Would you really trust someone named "Diebold" to hack your car?
"This is the what?!? Are marketing and management people posting to Slashdot now?"
I take it you've never heard of Slashdot's editors?
"Pinging 134847.homeless.us [216.116.96.206] with 32 bytes of Soylent Green"
Shouldn't that be:
Pinging 134847.homeless.us [216.116.96.206] with 32 Bites of Soylent Green
On the plus side, there wll be twice as many real stories posted tomorrow.
You have to wonder, what happens if a big news story breaks today (SCO drops suit, says "Nevermind"). Do the editors post it, or wait until tomorrow so it isn't just dismissed out of hand as an AF joke?
+1 Funny. LMFAO
This isn't news. The only Olson news anyone is really intested in is this
No, they already did that.
*cricket* *cricket* *cricket*
Don't think the mods got it. Let me try...
"Maybe I should get my dimwitted roomates to start reading Slashdot"
Looks like they beat you to the punch.
"If you work/commute 45 hours per week, your "free time" is, if you do nothing else, about 9 1/2 hours per day, of which, on average, you watch TV 4 1/2 hours."
Thankfully, with TiVo, we can now watch 50% more television in the same amount of time. Ahhh.... technology.
Incidentally you cannot use TiVo to watch the same amount of television in less time. This is due to Tivo's law which states:
"All available free time will be fully consumed by the amount of programs stored on your TiVo"
Guess that means we won't be seeing gems like this anymore....
KYLE: Shut-up, fatboy!
CARTMAN: Hey! Don't call me fat, you fuckin' Jew!
MR. GARRISON: Eric! Did you just say the F-word?
CARTMAN: "Jew"?
KYLE: No, he's talkin' about "fuck." You can't say "fuck" in school, you fuckin' fatass.
MR. GARRISON: Kyle!
CARTMAN: Why the fuck not?
MR. GARRISON: Eric!
STAN: Dude, you just said "fuck" again!
MR. GARRISON: Stanley!
KENNY: Fuck.
MR. GARRISON: Kenny!
CARTMAN: What's the big deal? It doesn't hurt anybody. Fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck.
MR. GARRISON: How would you like to go see the school counselor?
CARTMAN: How would you like to suck my balls?
KIDS: [gasping]
MR. GARRISON: What did you say?
CARTMAN: Oh, I-I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Actually, what I said was: [speaking through bullhorn] "How would you like, to suck my balls, Mr. Garrison?"
KYLE: Holy shit, dude.
"So, when did it become fashionable to predict the deaths of everything from consumer eletronics to companies?"
Probably about the same time it became fashionable to highlight all the death & destruction in the world on the TV news, rather than point out all the positive happenings.
Personally I think the article is complete BS. The standalone Tivo will be around as long as cable companies deliver the "digital" cable as 1/2 analog 1/2 digital. And Tivo will be around in other forms as well, esp. DirectV Tivo. Those boxes are practically (and in many cases, actually) given away with a 1 yr commitment, and they only cost $5/month for the service.
Regarding Moore's law, the author misses the point of Tivo entirely. Sure, anyone can shove a hard drive and mpeg encoder into a box. The value is in the software and Tivo service, which is an obvious point if you've ever used a Dishplayer.
HDTV: "With the world moving to HD, here comes TiVo -a year late- with its own HD PVR"
So what? In the next sentence he say "Motorola and Scientific Atlanta are readying their own HD set-top boxes". *Readying*??? So how does being late but shipping get trumped by systems that aren't not even yet shipping.
Sure the HDTV DTivos are pricey at $1000. They also can record 2 HDTV channels or 2 OTA HDTV channels at the same time. And that price will come down too, just like it does for every other new device shortly after it's introduced.
As far as Murdoch giving away DVRs, that in all likelihood will happen, and that's good for DirecTV, since DVR owners have the lowest churn rate among satellite subscribers. But there is no way that the nearly 700,000 current DTivo owners subscribers going to give up their existing DTivo boxes, just becuase there is a free one available. This will most likely be a limited functionality DVR, just to hook people in (and that's good for Tivo too). Existing (and many new) subscribers will gladly pay $5/mo for the full functionality they enjoy now (of which Tivo gets a cut - $2 I think).
Anyway, yeah, Death to Tivo, blah blah blah. The guy's probably short 1000 share of Tivo.
And BFD. This isn't some revolutionary new technology. Any halfwit could write a program to perform "Format c:" and name it "UT2004 keygen.exe"
While I don't necessarily agree with what these guys have done, don't pretend their work is some kind of helping hand for the "real hackers"
"The parent was concerned about trojans shutting down firewalls (and opening ports, etc). The router won't allow these types of things to happen. I'm not saying that an infection couldn't happen, but the activities and damage caused by the trojan will be curtailed"
Right, because the uber-secure Linksys router won't allow a trojan to connect to its web based admin screen (using the unchanged default cryptic password "admin") and set it to forward all ports, or to add the PC's IP to the DMZ. Nor could a trojan just upload some hacked linksys.bin firmware with TFTP so that it pretends to block ports but forwards them all anyways (and adds a hidden SMTP spam engine too). Nope, that could never happen.
OK, maybe not now, but it's only a matter of time.
Before allowing troll articles, please modify slashcode so we can mod them accordingly.
SCO is the illness. AutoZone and DaimlerChrysler are the unfortunate patients with the preexisting condition.
"No indemnication for you! NEXT!!!"
Special powers? Perhaps.
But, unlike the $3300 sword, the Mighty Titan Titanium Knives were probably not made in Scotland.
And as most people know, "if it's not Scottish, IT'S CRAP!!!!!!"
Furthermore, the Justice4Pat site states:
"Pat spent over $300,000 of his own time and money for the site"
Perhaps he spent $1000 (for example) of his own money and is trying to bill $299,000 for his time. If that's the case, sounds like extortion to me.
Boies: Quick... to the Cease-and-Desist generator!
Cold Pet Rat a-la-Simpson?
Quick! To the Hatmobile.
Always wear you seat belt. Professional driver on closed course. YMMV. Void where prohibited. Not valid in Utah
"I can say authoritatively that swapping boards on newer drives does NOT work"
Not to challenge your "authority" but... swapping boards on newer drives does indeed work (maybe not always so YMMV).
I did this not too long ago with a Maxtor 6L040J2 40 Gig drive. Windows 2000 suddenly quit with a BSOD. Tried rebooting but the drive was toast - wasn't even recognized by the BIOS and in fact when the drive was plugged in the BIOS couldn't even recognize the CDROM (which seemed to indicate a board rather than a head/platter problem). Maxtor diags couldn't see it either. Googling showed others had encountered similar failures that were corrected by a board swap. There were even a few sites in China selling logic boards, but I decided to go the ebay route. Bought another drive with the exact same model, and the closest match to the firmware I could find. Swapped the boards and presto... back to life. I of course copied all the data immediately to a new drive, and sent the formerly dead one back for replacement.
Bottom line.... got the data back for $50 vs $1500 for a data recovery service. Sure, the data was important but not $1500 important.
"Try phantom.net instead of infiniumlabs.com. Of course, it'll probably be /.'d too..."
With a 1.1 MB flash front page, it won't be long now.
MoFo: The Phantom Menace
"...don't read the damn articles."
Preaching to the choir. This is Slashdot, remember?