Indeed, and let's not forget that for every University of Nebraska, there's a Penn State with draconian AUPs that require MAC addresses be associated with a particular student before being granted internet access, thus greatly simplifying the process of associating an IP address with a particular student.
So, yeah, while this move by U of N is a good one, it's hard to say how significant it's impact will be in the grand scheme of things.
A true IPA *should* have a higher alcohol content - unfortunately, most American IPAs have the same alcohol content as most other beer due to the fact that a beverage containing more than a certain amount of alcohol cannot legally be called beer.
can you REALLY tell the difference between 256khz and 512khz (hint: if you say 'yes', you are lying) I sure can, 512khz is an octave higher than 256 khz:P (I know, i know, you meant kbps).
Hell - it's a lot easier than flowers - you walk in empty handed and say, "Hey honey, I got you a Valentine's gift." When the inevitable question arises as to the whereabouts of said gift - "Oh, sorry, yeah, it's on its way to Mars."
Actually, the only way to defeat this scheme is to dress from head to toe in nice, shiny tinfoil.....and we thought RFID-enabled credit cards were hard to protect...
Google is using copyrighted material to turn a profit. I'm not sure how they're managing that - a quick look at Google News shows that Google doesn't have a *single* ad on their news page. How, then, are they making any profit whatsoever from these companies, short of hosting ads on the articles themselves (at the news outlet's own site, which would also mean they're generating profits for said news outlet)?
Just out of curiosity, how does someone with a nick like "lonechicken" get a date with a pro cheerleader? No offense intended...but c'mon, this is slashdot...
Apple has held the "Slashdot Most Favored Monopoly Status" for over a decade already A decade!? Where was apple a decade ago? Oh yeah, not doing so terribly well with such hot selling products as the newton, the emate, and the 20th Anniversary Mac. Doesn't seem like much of a monopoly to me.
I should qualify that, there are a handful (as in 4 that I know of in Manhattan) of bars that legally allow smoking post-smoking-ban. I also have taken drinks out of a couple of New York bars (several years ago) in to go cups - suffice it to say, though, that shit was never legal (it's all about being nice to the waiters/bartenders).
I completely agree - what a proprietor chooses to allow in his/her establishment should be up to him or her (within the law, of course, but remember, cigarettes are legal). I've always thought, however, that instead of a smoking ban (which is driving me fucking crazy here in New York with our recent cold snap, btw), establishments that allow smoking should have mandated ventilation requirements (for the sake of the employees) in smoking sections. I imagine the impact of secondhand smoke in a *well-ventilated* room on any present non-smokers health would be next to nothing. Oh yeah, and in New York, you can't even smoke in bars.
I agree that a unique key for each machine would be a logistic nightmare, but a single key that can open every machine used in the US? That's a disaster waiting to happen. A reasonable solution would be a single key for every 10-20k units, or perhaps even more.
That is simply not true. You can have analog buttons. The Dual Shock 2 has them. Very true, but personally, I've found that very precise control with the analog buttons on the Dual Shock 2 to be fairly difficult, particularly for racing games - I much prefer the xbox's triggers for that type of control (haven't yet gotten to play the Wii) since you can get a much better sense for how much gas you're giving the vehicle when the button moves in a 1/2 - 3/4 inch range, rather than the 1-2mm that the dual shock buttons give you, not to mention that maxing out the gas on the dual shocks controllers requires a not insignificant amount of force.
He/she may have made a seriously obscure reference, but it was quite clearly on-topic and well sourced; a scifi reference is very appropriate for a topic like this.
It was offered as a *beta* version, and was not officially supported by Apple. They charge you $30 bucks (only if you are running Tiger, I believe it's free with Leopard) for an officially released, supported product. Seems reasonable to me.
Anonymous purchase? On the web? Any purchase on the web is ultimately traceable - the only truly untraceable purchases are those made with cash, and last time I checked, websites didn't accept cash through their fax machines....
Well - a 500Mhz G3 iMac (if it's got enough ram) will quite happily run tiger, and won't set you back more that $150 on eBay (i'd be surprised if it was more that $100). It's not going to be screaming fast, but then again, neither will your $150 used windows machine.
It seems to me that this is a pipe dream without a fully regulated hardware path (which I find inherently distasteful). Generally speaking, computers aren't smart enough to determine legality without something like Trusted Computing, therefore, unless a brilliant DRM breakthrough is made, yeah, I find DRM inherently distasteful.
Just did a quick search on iPhone trademarks at the USPTO, and there appear to be at least two other live marks (not owned by cisco) for "iPhone" here, and here, IANATML, but perhaps Apple believes the term to be diluted already?
Your Treo has accelerometers and a proximity sensor? It has a Dock Connector? It has a full web browser (not some shrunken down "baby browser")? It has a touchscreen interface? It has a virtual keyboard so you don't have to press 7 four times to get an S? It syncs with iTunes? I've got a Treo 650 (which has a full - albeit small - qwerty keyboard, btw) and no, it doesn't sync with iTunes, doesn't have a full web browser, or a dock connector, or a proximity sensor - what it does have, however, is a publicly available API and the ability to sync contacts, calendars and memos OTA. Don't get me wrong, the iPhones UI for everything that's built in is far and away the *best* of anything I've ever seen, and for that reason I wanted one really, really badly. Once I heard that an Apple VP said that it would _not_ allow user installable apps, though, the wind went right out of my sails. No VNC client? ssh client? word, excel, powerpoint docs? Open source video player that plays craploads of codecs (TCPMP for palm, fyi)?
If this fact remains true, then while the interface is a little clunkier, there are any number of things that my Treo can do that the iPhone will never, ever be able to, and believe me, I sincerely hope that the Apple VP who made that saddening statement is either very stupid, or very misinformed.
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Indeed, and let's not forget that for every University of Nebraska, there's a Penn State with draconian AUPs that require MAC addresses be associated with a particular student before being granted internet access, thus greatly simplifying the process of associating an IP address with a particular student.
So, yeah, while this move by U of N is a good one, it's hard to say how significant it's impact will be in the grand scheme of things.
A true IPA *should* have a higher alcohol content - unfortunately, most American IPAs have the same alcohol content as most other beer due to the fact that a beverage containing more than a certain amount of alcohol cannot legally be called beer.
Private schools and universities have their own libraries, and generally only allow access to them to their affiliates.
Hell - it's a lot easier than flowers - you walk in empty handed and say, "Hey honey, I got you a Valentine's gift." When the inevitable question arises as to the whereabouts of said gift - "Oh, sorry, yeah, it's on its way to Mars."
:-P
She'll have a hard time proving you wrong
Actually, the only way to defeat this scheme is to dress from head to toe in nice, shiny tinfoil.....and we thought RFID-enabled credit cards were hard to protect...
Just out of curiosity, how does someone with a nick like "lonechicken" get a date with a pro cheerleader? No offense intended...but c'mon, this is slashdot...
I should qualify that, there are a handful (as in 4 that I know of in Manhattan) of bars that legally allow smoking post-smoking-ban. I also have taken drinks out of a couple of New York bars (several years ago) in to go cups - suffice it to say, though, that shit was never legal (it's all about being nice to the waiters/bartenders).
I completely agree - what a proprietor chooses to allow in his/her establishment should be up to him or her (within the law, of course, but remember, cigarettes are legal). I've always thought, however, that instead of a smoking ban (which is driving me fucking crazy here in New York with our recent cold snap, btw), establishments that allow smoking should have mandated ventilation requirements (for the sake of the employees) in smoking sections. I imagine the impact of secondhand smoke in a *well-ventilated* room on any present non-smokers health would be next to nothing. Oh yeah, and in New York, you can't even smoke in bars.
I agree that a unique key for each machine would be a logistic nightmare, but a single key that can open every machine used in the US? That's a disaster waiting to happen. A reasonable solution would be a single key for every 10-20k units, or perhaps even more.
He/she may have made a seriously obscure reference, but it was quite clearly on-topic and well sourced; a scifi reference is very appropriate for a topic like this.
It was offered as a *beta* version, and was not officially supported by Apple. They charge you $30 bucks (only if you are running Tiger, I believe it's free with Leopard) for an officially released, supported product. Seems reasonable to me.
Anonymous purchase? On the web? Any purchase on the web is ultimately traceable - the only truly untraceable purchases are those made with cash, and last time I checked, websites didn't accept cash through their fax machines....
...Not to agree to meet with some stranger they met online! No matter how "kewl" he seems. How difficult is that?
Well - a 500Mhz G3 iMac (if it's got enough ram) will quite happily run tiger, and won't set you back more that $150 on eBay (i'd be surprised if it was more that $100). It's not going to be screaming fast, but then again, neither will your $150 used windows machine.
Indeed, I can see it know...MS PlaysForSure 2012, now with ReadsMindsForSure...
It seems to me that this is a pipe dream without a fully regulated hardware path (which I find inherently distasteful). Generally speaking, computers aren't smart enough to determine legality without something like Trusted Computing, therefore, unless a brilliant DRM breakthrough is made, yeah, I find DRM inherently distasteful.
Just did a quick search on iPhone trademarks at the USPTO, and there appear to be at least two other live marks (not owned by cisco) for "iPhone" here, and here, IANATML, but perhaps Apple believes the term to be diluted already?
Not to mention that a million dollar donation to a scholarship fund would be tax-deductible.
Well, at least I take credit (and shame if necessary) for what I say, and can tell when two comments are written by *different people*.
If this fact remains true, then while the interface is a little clunkier, there are any number of things that my Treo can do that the iPhone will never, ever be able to, and believe me, I sincerely hope that the Apple VP who made that saddening statement is either very stupid, or very misinformed.