Yes, the "video lockout" chip was the same deal as Nintendo and their custom chips in old NES cartridges. It was a response to crap flooding the market - from Chinese knockoffs these days - and such knockoffs even caused damage to the iPods. It's to control their licensing, yes, but how does that really affect you moving forward, other than what hooks up to your iPod is guaranteed to work and be of decent quality? I haven't seen a single example of Apple denying the chip to a company who has requested it, so I don't see the big deal.
That's bullshit. Just look at the prices of Apple accessories and tell me that $30 for a cable is because of its superior quality. Apple can protect their brand name and offer official licensing, but I should be able to choose. I'd rather take a risk and buy a cable that's 10 times cheaper.
I like the idea of a social network. However:
a) I don't like their interface
b) I hate the idea that, on the open Internet, I am so disabled as to have my social network enabled by some corporation's single product
c) Their spying has gone over the top and I strongly dislike giving personal data to be used for advertising.
Inform yourselves before commenting, lest you look like fools. The machine is wonderful - it can be restored from ROM, there are servers in schools which back up when they are in range, mesh networking is great. And don't get me started about energy efficiency - there is more innovation in the OLPC machine than the entire IT industry has shown in the last half decade. It's a computer that's tied into the real world and into the education in a very smart way. And I firmly believe that it'll change all our lives.
So, his love of open source is such that he tries installing the damn thing once every two years? But it disappoints him every time, since Exchange integration sucks and Evolution is not ready yet? No matter the author's motivation, the article has no substance. It's whiny, crap with a sensationalist title, which evokes incompetence of an almost John C. Dvorak caliber.
No, that's FUD. They are very explicit about never deleting your Flickr account, whether you are paying or not, whether you are using your Yahoo account or not.
First, this is not a big deal - Yahoo account is completely separate from Flickr account (which is not deleted if not used, for instance) and you can even name another account as your primary account for information e-mail. "Old school" members can keep their Flickr sign-in names and everything. And they even promised to enable users to move their Flickr accounts to different Yahoo accounts later on. So, really, get over it.
But I wanted to say something for a long time - I get spam because of del.icio.us since Yahoo bought it. And I'm sure it's because of them. How do I know? Because I started learning Japanese and for a time the ONLY place I've used kanji was in del.icio.us tags (photographs and interesting - and ). And I immediately started getting spam in japanese on the e-mail which del.icio.us is supposed to keep hidden. It MIGHT be a coincidence, but seems fishy.
Yes. The story is spun as if it's the hardware (iPhone) that shackles you, when in fact it's the iTunes store. The iPhone will play regular formats (MP3, AACS - even though it does not support Ogg). Someone can happily use the iPhone with any media in any way he likes (and in fact I could bet that it'll eventually even run Linux); as long as the owner does not buy from iTunes, she/he can not come into any contact with any DRM. I'm disappointed in BoingBoing for not realizing this. Also, Slashdot's editors might editorialize now and then when things are this obviously incorrect.
This is definitely going to hurt small sites as all of the medium and large sites will eventually sign up.
I predict differently: it's eventually not going to matter at all. Since only a small percentage of online destination will make the bar turn green, it'll never be viewed as a necessity - merely as a shiny luxury item that certifies a site is big and expensive. But (IMO) it will not decrease the volume of business for small sites and it will never become standard expectation. Not at those prices for certification.
"In addition to the $8,000 award for the flaw, iDefense will pay between $2,000 and $4,000 for working exploit code that exploits the submitted vulnerability."
The company spokesman also added they'll double the bounty if the submitter already used the exploit to build a botnet and triple it if promises to use it to send a metric assload of e-mails with the subject "ha-ha" to everyone@microsoft.com.
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You can also view it as a tenet nosce-type thing, you know.
Snail mail is the ONLY private form of communications we have left.
Many people replied to say how stupid that is, so I'll skip that part. If you want private communication, exchange private keys with your correspondents and encrypt your electronic mail. That's the only private form of communications you have and it's not "left", it's a fairly recent one.
I own an iPod and I'm not terribly content with it. I bought the iPod since I had the opportunity to have the 30 GB photo brought from America when it was outrageously expensive here in Croatia. And I'm not happy with how its software does not play files simply put in directories, only imported into its database. Which was a terrible drag before I could use Amarok to sync it and had to compile new GTKPod versions to fix obscure bugs. And I'm not against iPod using whatever database format and whatnot, but why not also allow people to simply play the simple files in simple directories which they transferred onto its filesystem?
I agee with you on what the real reason is, but there IS a rationale other than the System being scared of kids' empowerment. I suggest you visit 4chan and see how empowering, liberating and educational ideas can be.
Of course, it's still small minded and wrong to deny access to technology instead of educate and take interest in the child's activities. But it's so much easier to delegate the responsibility to "officials".
Or if you've got time, Linux from Scratch. Just don't confuse the latter with Gentoo, which is a cookbook.
Gentoo a cookbook? I've used the same Gentoo installation for two years now with a lot of "unstable" packages and it seems to me to be a really nice distro with a brilliant package manager which offers more control and flexibility than any other distro which also attempts to automatize the installation process.
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So now IE 9 can make my GPU drivers crash. Instead of simply locking up and making me kill the process.
Exactly! It's not normal. But on Windows it is.
Yes, the "video lockout" chip was the same deal as Nintendo and their custom chips in old NES cartridges. It was a response to crap flooding the market - from Chinese knockoffs these days - and such knockoffs even caused damage to the iPods. It's to control their licensing, yes, but how does that really affect you moving forward, other than what hooks up to your iPod is guaranteed to work and be of decent quality? I haven't seen a single example of Apple denying the chip to a company who has requested it, so I don't see the big deal.
That's bullshit. Just look at the prices of Apple accessories and tell me that $30 for a cable is because of its superior quality. Apple can protect their brand name and offer official licensing, but I should be able to choose. I'd rather take a risk and buy a cable that's 10 times cheaper.
I like the idea of a social network. However:
a) I don't like their interface
b) I hate the idea that, on the open Internet, I am so disabled as to have my social network enabled by some corporation's single product
c) Their spying has gone over the top and I strongly dislike giving personal data to be used for advertising.
First, that's a lot of work. Secondly, most printers come with cartridges half or third full OOTB.
If they were normal in size, I'd agree. But mobile phone keys are crying to be put to death for quite some time.
Link to the jello licking girl, plz?
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For the "it's better spent on food" argument, please ee this:
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Inform yourselves before commenting, lest you look like fools. The machine is wonderful - it can be restored from ROM, there are servers in schools which back up when they are in range, mesh networking is great. And don't get me started about energy efficiency - there is more innovation in the OLPC machine than the entire IT industry has shown in the last half decade. It's a computer that's tied into the real world and into the education in a very smart way. And I firmly believe that it'll change all our lives.
I'm using linux on my notebook with an ATI card and everything works excellent with the open x.org radeon driver.
So, his love of open source is such that he tries installing the damn thing once every two years? But it disappoints him every time, since Exchange integration sucks and Evolution is not ready yet? No matter the author's motivation, the article has no substance. It's whiny, crap with a sensationalist title, which evokes incompetence of an almost John C. Dvorak caliber.
No, that's FUD. They are very explicit about never deleting your Flickr account, whether you are paying or not, whether you are using your Yahoo account or not.
First, this is not a big deal - Yahoo account is completely separate from Flickr account (which is not deleted if not used, for instance) and you can even name another account as your primary account for information e-mail. "Old school" members can keep their Flickr sign-in names and everything. And they even promised to enable users to move their Flickr accounts to different Yahoo accounts later on. So, really, get over it.
But I wanted to say something for a long time - I get spam because of del.icio.us since Yahoo bought it. And I'm sure it's because of them. How do I know? Because I started learning Japanese and for a time the ONLY place I've used kanji was in del.icio.us tags (photographs and interesting - and ). And I immediately started getting spam in japanese on the e-mail which del.icio.us is supposed to keep hidden. It MIGHT be a coincidence, but seems fishy.
Yes. The story is spun as if it's the hardware (iPhone) that shackles you, when in fact it's the iTunes store. The iPhone will play regular formats (MP3, AACS - even though it does not support Ogg). Someone can happily use the iPhone with any media in any way he likes (and in fact I could bet that it'll eventually even run Linux); as long as the owner does not buy from iTunes, she/he can not come into any contact with any DRM. I'm disappointed in BoingBoing for not realizing this. Also, Slashdot's editors might editorialize now and then when things are this obviously incorrect.
USE="-kde" emerge amarok saves you from having to have kdebase. If you have Gentoo, of course.
This is definitely going to hurt small sites as all of the medium and large sites will eventually sign up.
I predict differently: it's eventually not going to matter at all. Since only a small percentage of online destination will make the bar turn green, it'll never be viewed as a necessity - merely as a shiny luxury item that certifies a site is big and expensive. But (IMO) it will not decrease the volume of business for small sites and it will never become standard expectation. Not at those prices for certification.
I think we're better off with the training.
Certainly, just as soon as our fifty million trainers finish eradicating AIDS through instructing people to practice safe sex.
That's what I was thinking. If I had points, I'd mod you up.
"In addition to the $8,000 award for the flaw, iDefense will pay between $2,000 and $4,000 for working exploit code that exploits the submitted vulnerability."
The company spokesman also added they'll double the bounty if the submitter already used the exploit to build a botnet and triple it if promises to use it to send a metric assload of e-mails with the subject "ha-ha" to everyone@microsoft.com.
You can also view it as a tenet nosce-type thing, you know.
Meh. You guys go on and fight, I'll have to wait for it to boot Linux anyway.
If you want private communication, exchange private keys
Or, you could do it with public and avoid looking like a moron.
Snail mail is the ONLY private form of communications we have left.
Many people replied to say how stupid that is, so I'll skip that part. If you want private communication, exchange private keys with your correspondents and encrypt your electronic mail. That's the only private form of communications you have and it's not "left", it's a fairly recent one.
I own an iPod and I'm not terribly content with it. I bought the iPod since I had the opportunity to have the 30 GB photo brought from America when it was outrageously expensive here in Croatia. And I'm not happy with how its software does not play files simply put in directories, only imported into its database. Which was a terrible drag before I could use Amarok to sync it and had to compile new GTKPod versions to fix obscure bugs. And I'm not against iPod using whatever database format and whatnot, but why not also allow people to simply play the simple files in simple directories which they transferred onto its filesystem?
Since in Soviet Russia, astronauts become people.
I agee with you on what the real reason is, but there IS a rationale other than the System being scared of kids' empowerment. I suggest you visit 4chan and see how empowering, liberating and educational ideas can be.
Of course, it's still small minded and wrong to deny access to technology instead of educate and take interest in the child's activities. But it's so much easier to delegate the responsibility to "officials".
Or if you've got time, Linux from Scratch. Just don't confuse the latter with Gentoo, which is a cookbook.
Gentoo a cookbook? I've used the same Gentoo installation for two years now with a lot of "unstable" packages and it seems to me to be a really nice distro with a brilliant package manager which offers more control and flexibility than any other distro which also attempts to automatize the installation process.