One of the articles says the locals don't differentiate between different types of apes; only the tree-beaters and lion-killers, where tree-beaters they could subdue with poison arrows, and the lion-killers too big to subdue quickly with the same arrows. So the distinction is partly based on size, but also on whether they can be turned into food.
Now, if they don't make a distinction about the apes, would they make a distinction about lions? Maybe their word for "lion" means "any big feline" and not just Panthera Leo. Maybe the bondo chimps kill leopards or other solitary but much smaller cats, all of which just happen to be called "lions" by the locals.
To ensure interoperability of devices and to enable any one console to manage any device, there will now be the standard default login "BILL" and password of "MOMONEY" for all devices. Users are not advised to change any passwords otherwise universal control will not be achieved.
Raman spectroscopy, is a branch where one looks at the wavelength shift occurring as light passes through a sample.
Ramen spectroscopy, on the other hand, is applying a single frequency, usually 2.5GHz, to the ramen which is in a water solution, for about 3 minutes. The analysis is rather straightfoward, but you should blow on it otherwise it might scald your measuring equipment.
I hate it when the mass media call it "identify theft." If someone impersonates me, he's not taking away my identity, he's committing fraud.
Stealing someone's identity is indeed fraud, not theft, that's true. However, using that fradulent identity to purchase goods falls under federal "theft by deception", and thus "identity theft" can also mean "using someone's identity to steal".
Whatever happened to "innocent until proven guilty?" Really, I'm appalled when stories like this come up and the great majority of/. posters cry foul.
That's only in a court of law, and/. ain't no stinkin' court o' law.
The reality of the situation is, under the alleged crime(s) he committed, he has yet to be convicted. As such, he is entitled to be treated justly and without contempt, at least WRT the current situation.
In an enlightened world, perhaps. But in that enlightened world, we wouldn't have spammers and scumware writers in the first place. Just because the law presumes his innocence, does not mean that we the public can't have our own opinions.
Wait. NONE of that is true. We have all of those things covering private businesses;
No, we do not. As an investor to a company, you don't have any rights to see ANY confidential corporate memos. You don't have rights to see much more than released financial statements. And if you do, and you act on that information, you get charged with insider trading.
If you want high speed digital service, MOST people in the US do not have a choice, it's the cable company or no one. In cities, you have a choice, but it's between Cable or DSL; and remember the latter forces you to own an otherwise unused and uselss land line. You can choose, but aside from financial statements and hearsay, you don't have rights to access any of their records to see how well they actually provide service, how oversold their service might be, how many complaints their helpdesk gets a month. No, you can get much more information out of the government that from a private company.
If the gov't sets up an ISP offerring free wireless broadband, you MUST participate -- the gov't doesn't ASK you whether you want to pay taxes to support it.
Nobody *has* to use a goverment ISP. Just like nobody has to use Time Warner Cable. If you want to be online, then that may be your only choice to get online, but you are not forced to be online.
As for having to pay for it through taxes, that's a moot point. You have to pay for the post office, pay to have roads built, pay for support of the arts, to provide police protection for KKK marches, to build a new sports stadium. You pay for a lot of things that you don't agree with, or don't derive any beneifts from, the gvmt spends money for everyone, so skip it.
If they later decide to use their rights as an ISP to monitor everything, again we have no right to prevent that -- it's their property, even though they took it from you by force.
The ISP has rights to monitor data traffic, but does not have rights to look into the contents; the email data is not their property. If it were, then the ISP could be held financially responsible for all illegal file sharing, for child porn illegally stored on their servers, for SPAM coming from their systems. They fought hard not to be held responsible.
They, be it a government or private ISP, cannot consider all email stored on their servers as their property, otherwise it would violate the copyright laws. It could also then be ruled that anything that's stored on my systems is my property, which would include software, and any music played through my system. So no, the government can't arbitrarily make that judgement.
It would be so much easier for the government to spy on you under the guise of the law
Yes, of course. You expect that from the government, and luckily we have checks and balances in the government. We have watchdog groups. We have the FOIA. We have none of these covering private businesses; the only way we'd know an ISP was reading mail is if they did something stupid, or a whistleblower speaks out. We have no checks and balances with private businesses.
I personally have no problem with somebody that the ISP has detected has been systematically, egregiously violating state and federal laws with the ISP's resources getting spied on a bit to cover the ISP's ass.
So you'd accept the ISP coming over to your house in the middle of the night with a team of thugs to beat you into confessing? You say it wouldn't happen because you don't do anything illegal... what if your system was zombied, or if your email address was used in to send spam. Instead of following the law and conducting a full investigation, they just kidnap you and hold you in the basement w/o food or water.
You also have to wonder why someone who is sending stuff that is so sensitive that they wouldn't want anyone but the recipient seeing it, wouldn't encrypt the message first.
It doesn't matter if what we send isn't that sensitive enough to encrypt. It doesn't matter if we're just chatting about the weather. What matters is that these conversations should be private, and there's a reasonable expectation that they will be private. We know that from end to end there are points where messages can be spied on, but we have the right to expect that no spying will be done without due process.
Or gmail? Or yahoo mail? You CAN'T send/read encrypted mail. Sure, there's husmail, but they only give 32 megs. Versus 1 gig on gmail.
Sure you can. PGP can encrypt the contents of the clipboard. It's a manual process, selecting the text, encrypting (manually selecting the recipient's key), then pasting the encrypted text into your browser, but it's easy enough to do. You can encrypt anything with this method, including posts to message boards.
Why post a story to Slashdot about your own product or service?
Because it is a technical product that many technically minded people would care about...
If/. were just about fuel cell powered, linux running, beowulf-clustered, fighting room vacs, we couldn't pass off reading it as *work*. Having an article about XAML in one tab, we can flip to that when the PHB walks by and say "yeah, I was just keeping up with tech... cool stuff this XAML..."
"Linux is not ready for the desktop."
Well first of all bullshit. But secondly you noticed that they are also looking at MacOSX
Can OO or StarOffice flawlessly open 100% of word documents? No. Without that 100% compatibility, there is no office suite, and therefore Linux is not ready for the corporate desktop.
Yes, it's fine for small businesses where most of your documents are short letters to clients, and can be fixed easily enough. But when multi-billion dollar contracts rest on absolutely flawless editing and saving of documents, then 99.9% compatibility w/ OO is not an option. It is *not* ready for the corporate desktop if you have to proofread a document every time you open it to ensure that every single special formatted section has been coverted correctly.
It will be ready for the corporate desktop at some point, there's no doubt about it. Microsoft knows it's just a matter of time and are doing all they can to slow it down.
Microsoft would not give concessions if the threat to switch from a MS to a Linux based desktop were't a credible one . Despite how much MS protests about how Linux is not ready for the corporate desktop their actions say something completely different. If Linux truly isn't ready for extensive corporate use then MS would tell AT&T / Corporate America to go take a flying leap when they get asked for price breaks.
Not necessarily.
Linux is not ready for the desktop. The folks at AT&T know that, otherwise they would be doing it, not *considering* it. IBM knows it, Microsoft knows it, EVERYONE knows it.
However... if Microsoft tells AT&T or any other major company with *lots* of money to take a "flying leap", what might AT&T do? They just might take a flying leap and pour money that would have gone into MS licensing towards getting Linux fully functional as a corporate desktop. Maybe they'd invest a few tens of millions into OpenOffice to get it 100% compatible with MS Office documents.
That's why Microsoft is willing to talk. Just one big company willing to make the leap would start the "linux on the corporate desktop" ball rolling. One major company like AT&T, and then Linux has street cred and everyone else will see it's a viable alternative. Just one, and it's all downhill for Microsoft from there.
It couldn't have been that much of a stretch to add a DVD player could it?
Uh, yeah, it would have been a stretch... at least 2 inches since the device is only 3" x 5" to start with. Then you'd have to double the thickness to accomdate the drive, and there goes one of the greatest features, the pocketability.
Well yes obviously the roads, the roads go without saying! But apart from the aqueduct, the sanitation and the roads, irrigation, medicine, education, health, and wine, what *have* the Romans done for us???
The man wrote a scanner for the vulnerability better than the one Microsoft distributes, how much more constructive do you want him to be?
A little button at the bottom of his program that says "FIX!", that copies and registers new versions of the DLL so I can send this to my non-technical friends?
Text messaging? How long does it take to reach a group of 200 if you can only message 5 people at a time? And everyone knows how inaccurate "telephone" can be after a few iterations.
I'd guess that if you're gonna do something like this, then you've signed up your phone's email on a listserv; that way everyone gets the same message at nearly the same time.
professionals don't want to use JPEG because lossless JPEG is inefficient, not because it doesn't exist.
Photoshop and PSP allow you to save files as lossless JPEG, but the only camera I know is the newest Canon digital SLRs. Most other professional digital SLRs and prosumer cameras only store proprietary RAW, then some level of lossy JPEG.
I dont know why they mentioned JPEG because it is not a raw dcamera format.
They mention JPEG because that's usually the options you have on a digital camera; proprietary RAW format, which Adobe is trying to standardize, or standardized JPEG, which professionals don't want to use because it's lossy.
It's a good idea, as long as the standard isn't "owned" by Adobe.
Sorry, that's my keylogger that's causing the lag; it's writing all your keyboard inputs directly to my web server instead of logging and uploading the log, and that's slowing down your system.
Please type "updateme" on your keyboard, and that will tell the keylogger to automatically update itself. Once it's updated, you shouldn't notice any lag at all.
Actually, I'd imagine they use the phrase "The President" or "President Bush" more than just "Bush".
See, that's why there's a conservative bias. Liberal media labels Bush as the "antichrist", "devil", "shrub", "@sshole"... any number of derogatory terms; and each time some term is used is one less time the name is mentioned, and thus you get a very low ranking.
I've seen anti-bush articles where his name is not even mentioned because anyone reading the article *knows* who it's talking about... I'd guess such wouldn't score high enough to appear on Google News.
My point being, if the document I'm looking for is not there, I want to know it's not there. I don't want to read something else, thinking it's what I meant to read.
Exactly. If I put up a web page with links to other sites, I want people to email me saying "hey this link is broken".
Does a computer understand satire? If I've linked to a satirical, subtle, pro-aborition piece, is the algorith smart enough to know that, or will it relink to a anti-abortion site? If I link to a serious anti-war speech made by some actress, is the algorith smart enough to relink to another similar protest speech, or will it pick up only that the person is an actress and link to some of her movies or reviews of movies? If I've put up links endorsing the 2nd amendment, will the program get faked out by some anti-gun advocate websites which can appear to be pro-gun?
Well, what does Google suggest as a replacement? Check it out here.
First the National Football League (NFL), then the National Basketball Association (NBA), and then the National Hockey League (NHL). Followed by the ESPN sports network, and NASCAR racing.
Google worked perfectly, isn't it obvious? MLB is not a sport; it is the corporation that is related to a sport, that controls the major professional players, but it is *not* the sport itself. You wanted to find similar items, and so Google brought up similar websites; NBA, NHL, NFL, NASCAR, ESPN... none of these are sports, but the webpages of busineses EXACTLY LIKE MLB. Google worked as advertised.
If you want a search for baseball, then do a search for baseball, not the MLB.
Uhhh... it flew?
OK, not under its own power. But it had to be flown, right? So that's how.
The US shuttles are piggybacked on a specially outfitted 747. If I had to guess, customizing a 747 to carry the Buran would cost more than it's worth. And it's been 10 years since that thing was rated airworthy... I wouldn't want to pilot the 747 with a big pile of junk on the back which could disintegrate at any time and damage my own plane, or lose the lift of the shuttle's wings.
Since it's never going to fly again, it was probably dismantled and sent by ship. People would have noticed it piggybacked on a 747, but probably wouldn't notice one stuffed in the hold of a cargo ship.
Well when I was 15(in 1996) I was able to get a debit card that could be used for 'adult' verification. Doesn't seem like a very good system to me.
A debit card is not a credit card. The debit card pulls money directly out of the account at the time of purchase. A credit card, on the other hand, signifies a signed contract between the purchaser and the issuer. Because minors cannot consent to a contract, they cannot be issued nor use a credit card.
At least in theory. Minors do get credit cards due to faulty credit checks and overenthusiastic credit card companies who'll give anyone a card if they think they can sucker that person into a life of minimum payments and tons of interest.
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One of the articles says the locals don't differentiate between different types of apes; only the tree-beaters and lion-killers, where tree-beaters they could subdue with poison arrows, and the lion-killers too big to subdue quickly with the same arrows. So the distinction is partly based on size, but also on whether they can be turned into food.
Now, if they don't make a distinction about the apes, would they make a distinction about lions? Maybe their word for "lion" means "any big feline" and not just Panthera Leo. Maybe the bondo chimps kill leopards or other solitary but much smaller cats, all of which just happen to be called "lions" by the locals.
To ensure interoperability of devices and to enable any one console to manage any device, there will now be the standard default login "BILL" and password of "MOMONEY" for all devices. Users are not advised to change any passwords otherwise universal control will not be achieved.
Raman spectroscopy, is a branch where one looks at the wavelength shift occurring as light passes through a sample.
Ramen spectroscopy, on the other hand, is applying a single frequency, usually 2.5GHz, to the ramen which is in a water solution, for about 3 minutes. The analysis is rather straightfoward, but you should blow on it otherwise it might scald your measuring equipment.
20 IE Windows??? Man, this guy has got to get a copy of Firefox and learn the joy of tabbed browsing.
Or just stop going to the porn site that spawned them.
I hate it when the mass media call it "identify theft." If someone impersonates me, he's not taking away my identity, he's committing fraud.
Stealing someone's identity is indeed fraud, not theft, that's true. However, using that fradulent identity to purchase goods falls under federal "theft by deception", and thus "identity theft" can also mean "using someone's identity to steal".
Whatever happened to "innocent until proven guilty?" Really, I'm appalled when stories like this come up and the great majority of /. posters cry foul.
/. ain't no stinkin' court o' law.
That's only in a court of law, and
The reality of the situation is, under the alleged crime(s) he committed, he has yet to be convicted. As such, he is entitled to be treated justly and without contempt, at least WRT the current situation.
In an enlightened world, perhaps. But in that enlightened world, we wouldn't have spammers and scumware writers in the first place. Just because the law presumes his innocence, does not mean that we the public can't have our own opinions.
He's a witch, burn him!
Wait. NONE of that is true. We have all of those things covering private businesses;
No, we do not. As an investor to a company, you don't have any rights to see ANY confidential corporate memos. You don't have rights to see much more than released financial statements. And if you do, and you act on that information, you get charged with insider trading.
If you want high speed digital service, MOST people in the US do not have a choice, it's the cable company or no one. In cities, you have a choice, but it's between Cable or DSL; and remember the latter forces you to own an otherwise unused and uselss land line. You can choose, but aside from financial statements and hearsay, you don't have rights to access any of their records to see how well they actually provide service, how oversold their service might be, how many complaints their helpdesk gets a month. No, you can get much more information out of the government that from a private company.
If the gov't sets up an ISP offerring free wireless broadband, you MUST participate -- the gov't doesn't ASK you whether you want to pay taxes to support it.
Nobody *has* to use a goverment ISP. Just like nobody has to use Time Warner Cable. If you want to be online, then that may be your only choice to get online, but you are not forced to be online.
As for having to pay for it through taxes, that's a moot point. You have to pay for the post office, pay to have roads built, pay for support of the arts, to provide police protection for KKK marches, to build a new sports stadium. You pay for a lot of things that you don't agree with, or don't derive any beneifts from, the gvmt spends money for everyone, so skip it.
If they later decide to use their rights as an ISP to monitor everything, again we have no right to prevent that -- it's their property, even though they took it from you by force.
The ISP has rights to monitor data traffic, but does not have rights to look into the contents; the email data is not their property. If it were, then the ISP could be held financially responsible for all illegal file sharing, for child porn illegally stored on their servers, for SPAM coming from their systems. They fought hard not to be held responsible.
They, be it a government or private ISP, cannot consider all email stored on their servers as their property, otherwise it would violate the copyright laws. It could also then be ruled that anything that's stored on my systems is my property, which would include software, and any music played through my system. So no, the government can't arbitrarily make that judgement.
It would be so much easier for the government to spy on you under the guise of the law
Yes, of course. You expect that from the government, and luckily we have checks and balances in the government. We have watchdog groups. We have the FOIA. We have none of these covering private businesses; the only way we'd know an ISP was reading mail is if they did something stupid, or a whistleblower speaks out. We have no checks and balances with private businesses.
I personally have no problem with somebody that the ISP has detected has been systematically, egregiously violating state and federal laws with the ISP's resources getting spied on a bit to cover the ISP's ass.
So you'd accept the ISP coming over to your house in the middle of the night with a team of thugs to beat you into confessing? You say it wouldn't happen because you don't do anything illegal... what if your system was zombied, or if your email address was used in to send spam. Instead of following the law and conducting a full investigation, they just kidnap you and hold you in the basement w/o food or water.
You also have to wonder why someone who is sending stuff that is so sensitive that they wouldn't want anyone but the recipient seeing it, wouldn't encrypt the message first.
It doesn't matter if what we send isn't that sensitive enough to encrypt. It doesn't matter if we're just chatting about the weather. What matters is that these conversations should be private, and there's a reasonable expectation that they will be private. We know that from end to end there are points where messages can be spied on, but we have the right to expect that no spying will be done without due process.
Or gmail? Or yahoo mail? You CAN'T send/read encrypted mail. Sure, there's husmail, but they only give 32 megs. Versus 1 gig on gmail.
Sure you can. PGP can encrypt the contents of the clipboard. It's a manual process, selecting the text, encrypting (manually selecting the recipient's key), then pasting the encrypted text into your browser, but it's easy enough to do. You can encrypt anything with this method, including posts to message boards.
Why post a story to Slashdot about your own product or service?
/. were just about fuel cell powered, linux running, beowulf-clustered, fighting room vacs, we couldn't pass off reading it as *work*. Having an article about XAML in one tab, we can flip to that when the PHB walks by and say "yeah, I was just keeping up with tech... cool stuff this XAML..."
Because it is a technical product that many technically minded people would care about...
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"Linux is not ready for the desktop." Well first of all bullshit. But secondly you noticed that they are also looking at MacOSX
Can OO or StarOffice flawlessly open 100% of word documents? No. Without that 100% compatibility, there is no office suite, and therefore Linux is not ready for the corporate desktop.
Yes, it's fine for small businesses where most of your documents are short letters to clients, and can be fixed easily enough. But when multi-billion dollar contracts rest on absolutely flawless editing and saving of documents, then 99.9% compatibility w/ OO is not an option. It is *not* ready for the corporate desktop if you have to proofread a document every time you open it to ensure that every single special formatted section has been coverted correctly.
It will be ready for the corporate desktop at some point, there's no doubt about it. Microsoft knows it's just a matter of time and are doing all they can to slow it down.
Microsoft would not give concessions if the threat to switch from a MS to a Linux based desktop were't a credible one . Despite how much MS protests about how Linux is not ready for the corporate desktop their actions say something completely different. If Linux truly isn't ready for extensive corporate use then MS would tell AT&T / Corporate America to go take a flying leap when they get asked for price breaks.
Not necessarily.
Linux is not ready for the desktop. The folks at AT&T know that, otherwise they would be doing it, not *considering* it. IBM knows it, Microsoft knows it, EVERYONE knows it.
However... if Microsoft tells AT&T or any other major company with *lots* of money to take a "flying leap", what might AT&T do? They just might take a flying leap and pour money that would have gone into MS licensing towards getting Linux fully functional as a corporate desktop. Maybe they'd invest a few tens of millions into OpenOffice to get it 100% compatible with MS Office documents.
That's why Microsoft is willing to talk. Just one big company willing to make the leap would start the "linux on the corporate desktop" ball rolling. One major company like AT&T, and then Linux has street cred and everyone else will see it's a viable alternative. Just one, and it's all downhill for Microsoft from there.
It couldn't have been that much of a stretch to add a DVD player could it?
Uh, yeah, it would have been a stretch... at least 2 inches since the device is only 3" x 5" to start with. Then you'd have to double the thickness to accomdate the drive, and there goes one of the greatest features, the pocketability.
At least the romans gave us roads
Well yes obviously the roads, the roads go without saying! But apart from the aqueduct, the sanitation and the roads, irrigation, medicine, education, health, and wine, what *have* the Romans done for us???
That's where my training budget went. Oh well. Guess I'll just keep reading /. and ignore the blinkenlights...
The man wrote a scanner for the vulnerability better than the one Microsoft distributes, how much more constructive do you want him to be?
A little button at the bottom of his program that says "FIX!", that copies and registers new versions of the DLL so I can send this to my non-technical friends?
Text messaging? How long does it take to reach a group of 200 if you can only message 5 people at a time? And everyone knows how inaccurate "telephone" can be after a few iterations.
I'd guess that if you're gonna do something like this, then you've signed up your phone's email on a listserv; that way everyone gets the same message at nearly the same time.
professionals don't want to use JPEG because lossless JPEG is inefficient, not because it doesn't exist.
Photoshop and PSP allow you to save files as lossless JPEG, but the only camera I know is the newest Canon digital SLRs. Most other professional digital SLRs and prosumer cameras only store proprietary RAW, then some level of lossy JPEG.
I dont know why they mentioned JPEG because it is not a raw dcamera format.
They mention JPEG because that's usually the options you have on a digital camera; proprietary RAW format, which Adobe is trying to standardize, or standardized JPEG, which professionals don't want to use because it's lossy.
It's a good idea, as long as the standard isn't "owned" by Adobe.
Sorry, that's my keylogger that's causing the lag; it's writing all your keyboard inputs directly to my web server instead of logging and uploading the log, and that's slowing down your system.
Please type "updateme" on your keyboard, and that will tell the keylogger to automatically update itself. Once it's updated, you shouldn't notice any lag at all.
Actually, I'd imagine they use the phrase "The President" or "President Bush" more than just "Bush".
See, that's why there's a conservative bias. Liberal media labels Bush as the "antichrist", "devil", "shrub", "@sshole"... any number of derogatory terms; and each time some term is used is one less time the name is mentioned, and thus you get a very low ranking.
I've seen anti-bush articles where his name is not even mentioned because anyone reading the article *knows* who it's talking about... I'd guess such wouldn't score high enough to appear on Google News.
My point being, if the document I'm looking for is not there, I want to know it's not there. I don't want to read something else, thinking it's what I meant to read.
Exactly. If I put up a web page with links to other sites, I want people to email me saying "hey this link is broken".
Does a computer understand satire? If I've linked to a satirical, subtle, pro-aborition piece, is the algorith smart enough to know that, or will it relink to a anti-abortion site? If I link to a serious anti-war speech made by some actress, is the algorith smart enough to relink to another similar protest speech, or will it pick up only that the person is an actress and link to some of her movies or reviews of movies? If I've put up links endorsing the 2nd amendment, will the program get faked out by some anti-gun advocate websites which can appear to be pro-gun?
Well, what does Google suggest as a replacement? Check it out here. First the National Football League (NFL), then the National Basketball Association (NBA), and then the National Hockey League (NHL). Followed by the ESPN sports network, and NASCAR racing.
Google worked perfectly, isn't it obvious? MLB is not a sport; it is the corporation that is related to a sport, that controls the major professional players, but it is *not* the sport itself. You wanted to find similar items, and so Google brought up similar websites; NBA, NHL, NFL, NASCAR, ESPN... none of these are sports, but the webpages of busineses EXACTLY LIKE MLB. Google worked as advertised.
If you want a search for baseball, then do a search for baseball, not the MLB.
Uhhh... it flew? OK, not under its own power. But it had to be flown, right? So that's how.
The US shuttles are piggybacked on a specially outfitted 747. If I had to guess, customizing a 747 to carry the Buran would cost more than it's worth. And it's been 10 years since that thing was rated airworthy... I wouldn't want to pilot the 747 with a big pile of junk on the back which could disintegrate at any time and damage my own plane, or lose the lift of the shuttle's wings.
Since it's never going to fly again, it was probably dismantled and sent by ship. People would have noticed it piggybacked on a 747, but probably wouldn't notice one stuffed in the hold of a cargo ship.
Well when I was 15(in 1996) I was able to get a debit card that could be used for 'adult' verification. Doesn't seem like a very good system to me.
A debit card is not a credit card. The debit card pulls money directly out of the account at the time of purchase. A credit card, on the other hand, signifies a signed contract between the purchaser and the issuer. Because minors cannot consent to a contract, they cannot be issued nor use a credit card.
At least in theory. Minors do get credit cards due to faulty credit checks and overenthusiastic credit card companies who'll give anyone a card if they think they can sucker that person into a life of minimum payments and tons of interest.