So if they rate they see afterwards is also 10% then that says to me nothing is changeing [sic]
No, it just means 10% of these convicted, registered, known offenders are caught at it again after treatment. Remember that these are NOT in the general population - the ones already convicted get watched. A lot. All statistics are somewhat suspect, and it's true that concealed topics like this make it very hard to measure true rates. But perish the thought that a child molester could be rehabilitated and a useful member of society! Hang 'em all just in case!
Please go and RTFA - you may learn something.
I know this is Slashdot. I know people don't RTFA.
I can even realize we're being trolled.
Must... resist.... oh, what the heck....
The recidivism rate is lower than 20% with no treatment, and may be lower than 10% WITH treatment. You could be executing 9 people who would've built new lives for one that wouldn't. Just hope you are never wrongly accused and then judged with your own standards.
It would be very interesting and fairly easy to find out what the software is doing while it's "phoning home". Won't someone that has a Lexmark printer (Canon myself) please install Ethereal (or whatever floats your boat) and just try to capture whatever the software is sending?
While we may not find out what all of the data is, at least it should be fairly easy to establish whether they are collecting your name, or your username, or your IP. If this is installed quietly, it seems unlikely that they would bother with encryption. They don't seem too interested in privacy in the first place.
As an aside, I can see how real usage information from the field could be extremely valuable to a printer company, but it should say in big red letters "this product phones home". If the consumers are acting as their research lab, they better be volunteers...
...and I have to agree with the comments so far. The movie is extraordinary, one of the best I've seen so far this year. It may be an even better superhero movie than Spiderman 2, and that's saying a lot.
The effects are there to help the story along, not to shine by themselves. At lots of times I completely forgot that it was CGI; it's not animation, not live acting, but something in which you can get utterly absorbed. A must-see for any self respecting film geek, Pixar fan, CGI fan, or all of the above.
Both my wife and I got a LASIK done on ourselves. Mine was performed by a former teacher (one of the advantages of Medical School...) who refused to perform the procedure until I studied it throughly.
I went to the medical literature and researched it extensively (keep in mind this was in 1999), and found the evidence and risk acceptable. My wife, also an MD, came to the same conclusion.
I had tried contact lenses and could not tolerate them, and I hated wearing glasses (believe me, I look geeky enough without them). The procedure took a few minutes for each eye, but each eye was done in a separate week. My teacher preferred to do it this way (less dominant eye first) so he could over-compensate just a tiny bit on the dominant eye if he found out the correction in the first one wasn't perfect (it was).
We're both very happy with the results, even though I see with just the slightest hint of a halo around bright lights. I've lived with "LASIKed" eyes for years and I would never go back to wearing glasses.
Standard disclaimers apply: I am not an ophtalmologist, much less an eye surgeon. Even though I researched this some years ago, the procedure and equipment has changed and I have not kept up with the changes. YMMV. I haven't seen you; this isn't professional advice. I am probably not licensed to practice wherever you may live. In summary, I just wanted to share my experience as a satisfied patient...
The Canon EOS 1Ds has a full 35mm frame, 11 Megapixel sensor. The Kodak DSC 14n accepts Nikkor lenses (for Nikon mounts) and has a full 35mm frame, 14 megapixel sensor (both links are reviews)
The Kodak costs approx. $ 4000, and the Canon $ 7500. But at least 35mm, full frame sensors ARE here already. If you win the lottery, you can also buy medium format digital backs.
You just need to take it from here! Your first task is to modify this to become a *nix clone by inserting choice SCO source code...(*rimshot*)
Lighten up, it's a joke.
Sorry to say this, but the parent in NOT "Informative". The only sensors with 3 photosites per pixel are Foveon's. The vast majority of digital cameras has ONE photosite per pixel, and a Bayer mask (RGB filter) layered on top of it. Pixel color in the final image is then interpolated from the measured intensity of the three adjacent photosites. Yes, this means that digital cameras have higher Luma resoultion than Chroma. No, it does not matter much, because the eye is much more attracted to Luminance detail.
Almost all of the manufactured sensors are black and white; only Foveon's are 3-color, and they're expensive for the resoultion and the first generation software had color clipping problems (overexposed areas of images went abruptly to white). This has apparently been fixed.
A monochrome sensor with external filters is much more flexible than the single-duty Foveon, so I guess that's why they chose it. Also, NASA doesn't usually buy space-faring hardware off-the-shelf two weeks before launch, and this full-color sensor simply did not exist a couple of years ago.
I *think* there was a link to the terms of service you could look at before buying the tickets. The terms themselves are pretty restrictive but standard, and boil down to "you agree not to use this ticket for commercial purposes". The meaning is not that unreasonable but what's amazing is the amount and severity of the legalese.
What really caught my eye was the license/physical object dichotomy that's been discussed to death on Slashdot a million times. I hadn't seen it spelled out this eay before.
I bought NBA tickets a while ago via the web (for a team that shall remain nameless). I received an email with the transaction details, and below it says... "This ticket is a revocable license.The holder, on behalf of the holder and any minor accompanying the holder (individually and collectively, the "Holder"), agrees to all of the terms hereof."
Then it goes on in excruciating detail about all of the stuff I can't do with the tickets I just purchased, and how by buying a ticket I grant them permission forever to use my image in whatever manner they see fit without paying a penny, etc, etc. By word count, that email is 19% transaction confirmation and 81% legalese.
The nice thing is that "This ticket cannot be replaced if lost, stolen or destroyed". WTF???? They made it patently clear I had bought a license...
Just thought it was sorta funny, in a sad way, and somewhat ontopic.
I agree completely; in a certain sense, careful and meditated case-by-case analysis (not very amenable to Slashdot) is the way to go. Circumstances and intent are very, very important. Most things can be perverted or looked at with mistrust.
That said, I think intent is key here. If real proof appeared, let's speculate, <tinfoil hat> that Microsoft created Dissident Tracker(TM) software specially to track and crush different ways of thinking in China ("Hi! It appears you're trying to kill people for thinking! Need some help with that?")</tinfoil hat> I would be singing a different tune... but, even though I dislike their business practices, I just interpreted that Microsoft software is being used by repressive state agencies.
I would guess that they also use some kind of graphics manipulation program to alter photos, but I don't see any scandal about The Gimp, or Adobe, or Paint Shop Pro, being accused of violating human rights...
Wow, if this isn't one of the largest trolls I've seen. Most slashdotters, at least most vocal slashdotters, really despise Microsoft and think their software is low-quality, expensive, insecure, and, some argue, just plain evil. Just look at the Gates-as-Borg icon...
If the Chinese violate human rights using MS software, well, it's not MS's fault. The Chinese are said to be heavy proponents of Linux and are developing their own distro. What happens in China is not Linus' fault either! Slashdot folk wisdom is right on this one: blame the person, not the tool. I can barely imagine the next article... "China uses gloves to slap dissidents; glove manufacturers blamed"
I know human rights abuse is a very serious issue and people die over such things. I think it's irresponsible to trivialize it by blaming a software manufacturer, even if it's MS.
OK, rant done. Go ahead, mod me down:-)
Funny... this is more or less my situation, although I've advanced a little further. I hold an MD and have always loved computers and programming. I decided to enter the field, but instead of studying for a CS degree I decided to get a MS in Health Informatics.
Please don't listen to the SlashTrolls. This can be a very interesting field, and the majority of the people working in it are Computer Scientists. I have discovered that my medical background made me very valuable and useful. Clinical experience is VERY welcome.
I've also become a member of The American Medical Informatics Association and am currently a part of the Open Source Working Group, pushing for the embracement of Open Source in all things Medical.
If you want to ask some questions, please feel free to email me.
I feel like *such* a nerd... once I read this I wanted to see it right away. Anyway, for the rest of you, The Pac Man watch. I'm not even sure, I may have played with it sometime in the past.
I played all the way through Halo and I really, really loved it... except for the Library. I got lost so many times inside, and found it so utterly incomprehensible, that I almost gave up on the game. I'm glad I trundled on, but I have to agree with other posts: even though Halo is a great game, the Library is one of the worst levels I've ever played in any game.
Apple also released several new accesories for the iPod. They include such things as turning the iPod into an image tank for CF cards and the much-rumored voice recorder.
At my high school, a LONG time ago, we had a Computer Science teacher who barely knew how to turn the PCs on and came to my geeky friends and me for help all the time.
One day we were especially fed up with him, we took a stock animation from Autodesk Animator for DOS (it was a really old one, and the animation were a couple of lines that morphed into hands), altered it to read "Picasso Virus" in big, red, bold letters, and stuck the player.exe with the animation in AUTOEXEC.BAT. We did this for a couple of computers in the lab
Half an hour later, he stormed into my friends' classroom, interruting the whole class, shouting "PLEASE HELP ME! I've got a virus!". He was that clueless, but when he was fired a couple of years later (after I had graduated) I felt a little sad for him. He was a good person, even if he was a complete luddite.
I'll second this. Right now I am typing on my HP notebook, which has 3 fans running to keep its Pentium 4 cool AS I TYPE, which is not precisely a processor-intensive task. My old iBook is silent, much lighter than this beast, and a joy to use, even though its waaaay slower than this HP. I also had to disassemble the iBook recently to perform a hard disk upgrade and I found the build quality to be amazing compared to Wintel notebooks. This HP feels solid enough, and looks decent, but the care and design that went into the Mac are incredible.
I had to buy a PC notebook because my school required it, but given a choice I'd have bought a Powerbook in a heartbeat (and I'd always been a PC fanboy that scorned at the Macheads before that little white iBook).
Having actually RTFA, I think his take on the problem is quite good. It's not like we haven't read this on Slashdot a thousand times before, but the real deal is that it's a known, mainstream author that's publishing this kind of thing.
"In other words, the people complaining about all the internet "thieves" are, by any reasonable measure, rapacious profiteers who have been parasitically sucking the blood out of copyrights on other people's work.
And I say this with the best will in the world. In fact, these companies have expenses. There are salaries to pay. Some of the salaries are earned. ".
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So if they rate they see afterwards is also 10% then that says to me nothing is changeing [sic]
No, it just means 10% of these convicted, registered, known offenders are caught at it again after treatment. Remember that these are NOT in the general population - the ones already convicted get watched. A lot. All statistics are somewhat suspect, and it's true that concealed topics like this make it very hard to measure true rates. But perish the thought that a child molester could be rehabilitated and a useful member of society! Hang 'em all just in case! Please go and RTFA - you may learn something.
I know this is Slashdot. I know people don't RTFA.
I can even realize we're being trolled.
Must... resist.... oh, what the heck....
The recidivism rate is lower than 20% with no treatment, and may be lower than 10% WITH treatment. You could be executing 9 people who would've built new lives for one that wouldn't. Just hope you are never wrongly accused and then judged with your own standards.
It would be very interesting and fairly easy to find out what the software is doing while it's "phoning home". Won't someone that has a Lexmark printer (Canon myself) please install Ethereal (or whatever floats your boat) and just try to capture whatever the software is sending?
While we may not find out what all of the data is, at least it should be fairly easy to establish whether they are collecting your name, or your username, or your IP. If this is installed quietly, it seems unlikely that they would bother with encryption. They don't seem too interested in privacy in the first place.
As an aside, I can see how real usage information from the field could be extremely valuable to a printer company, but it should say in big red letters "this product phones home". If the consumers are acting as their research lab, they better be volunteers...
...and I have to agree with the comments so far. The movie is extraordinary, one of the best I've seen so far this year. It may be an even better superhero movie than Spiderman 2, and that's saying a lot.
The effects are there to help the story along, not to shine by themselves. At lots of times I completely forgot that it was CGI; it's not animation, not live acting, but something in which you can get utterly absorbed. A must-see for any self respecting film geek, Pixar fan, CGI fan, or all of the above.
Cool! Thank you very much. A non-slashdotted mirror... what is the world coming to?
I think you got my point... sometimes the United Lawsuits of America scare me!
Both my wife and I got a LASIK done on ourselves. Mine was performed by a former teacher (one of the advantages of Medical School...) who refused to perform the procedure until I studied it throughly.
I went to the medical literature and researched it extensively (keep in mind this was in 1999), and found the evidence and risk acceptable. My wife, also an MD, came to the same conclusion.
I had tried contact lenses and could not tolerate them, and I hated wearing glasses (believe me, I look geeky enough without them). The procedure took a few minutes for each eye, but each eye was done in a separate week. My teacher preferred to do it this way (less dominant eye first) so he could over-compensate just a tiny bit on the dominant eye if he found out the correction in the first one wasn't perfect (it was).
We're both very happy with the results, even though I see with just the slightest hint of a halo around bright lights. I've lived with "LASIKed" eyes for years and I would never go back to wearing glasses.
Standard disclaimers apply: I am not an ophtalmologist, much less an eye surgeon. Even though I researched this some years ago, the procedure and equipment has changed and I have not kept up with the changes. YMMV. I haven't seen you; this isn't professional advice. I am probably not licensed to practice wherever you may live. In summary, I just wanted to share my experience as a satisfied patient...
The Canon EOS 1Ds has a full 35mm frame, 11 Megapixel sensor. The Kodak DSC 14n accepts Nikkor lenses (for Nikon mounts) and has a full 35mm frame, 14 megapixel sensor (both links are reviews)
The Kodak costs approx. $ 4000, and the Canon $ 7500. But at least 35mm, full frame sensors ARE here already. If you win the lottery, you can also buy medium format digital backs.
No problem! Ask Slashdot is always glad to help. Repeat after me...
You just need to take it from here! Your first task is to modify this to become a *nix clone by inserting choice SCO source code...(*rimshot*)
Lighten up, it's a joke.
Sorry to say this, but the parent in NOT "Informative". The only sensors with 3 photosites per pixel are Foveon's. The vast majority of digital cameras has ONE photosite per pixel, and a Bayer mask (RGB filter) layered on top of it. Pixel color in the final image is then interpolated from the measured intensity of the three adjacent photosites. Yes, this means that digital cameras have higher Luma resoultion than Chroma. No, it does not matter much, because the eye is much more attracted to Luminance detail.
Almost all of the manufactured sensors are black and white; only Foveon's are 3-color, and they're expensive for the resoultion and the first generation software had color clipping problems (overexposed areas of images went abruptly to white). This has apparently been fixed.
A monochrome sensor with external filters is much more flexible than the single-duty Foveon, so I guess that's why they chose it. Also, NASA doesn't usually buy space-faring hardware off-the-shelf two weeks before launch, and this full-color sensor simply did not exist a couple of years ago.
I *think* there was a link to the terms of service you could look at before buying the tickets. The terms themselves are pretty restrictive but standard, and boil down to "you agree not to use this ticket for commercial purposes". The meaning is not that unreasonable but what's amazing is the amount and severity of the legalese.
What really caught my eye was the license/physical object dichotomy that's been discussed to death on Slashdot a million times. I hadn't seen it spelled out this eay before.
I bought NBA tickets a while ago via the web (for a team that shall remain nameless). I received an email with the transaction details, and below it says...
"This ticket is a revocable license.The holder, on behalf of the holder and any minor accompanying the holder (individually and collectively, the "Holder"), agrees to all of the terms hereof."
Then it goes on in excruciating detail about all of the stuff I can't do with the tickets I just purchased, and how by buying a ticket I grant them permission forever to use my image in whatever manner they see fit without paying a penny, etc, etc. By word count, that email is 19% transaction confirmation and 81% legalese.
The nice thing is that "This ticket cannot be replaced if lost, stolen or destroyed". WTF???? They made it patently clear I had bought a license...
Just thought it was sorta funny, in a sad way, and somewhat ontopic.
I agree completely; in a certain sense, careful and meditated case-by-case analysis (not very amenable to Slashdot) is the way to go. Circumstances and intent are very, very important. Most things can be perverted or looked at with mistrust.
That said, I think intent is key here. If real proof appeared, let's speculate, <tinfoil hat> that Microsoft created Dissident Tracker(TM) software specially to track and crush different ways of thinking in China ("Hi! It appears you're trying to kill people for thinking! Need some help with that?")</tinfoil hat> I would be singing a different tune... but, even though I dislike their business practices, I just interpreted that Microsoft software is being used by repressive state agencies.
I would guess that they also use some kind of graphics manipulation program to alter photos, but I don't see any scandal about The Gimp, or Adobe, or Paint Shop Pro, being accused of violating human rights...
Wow, if this isn't one of the largest trolls I've seen. Most slashdotters, at least most vocal slashdotters, really despise Microsoft and think their software is low-quality, expensive, insecure, and, some argue, just plain evil. Just look at the Gates-as-Borg icon... :-)
If the Chinese violate human rights using MS software, well, it's not MS's fault. The Chinese are said to be heavy proponents of Linux and are developing their own distro. What happens in China is not Linus' fault either! Slashdot folk wisdom is right on this one: blame the person, not the tool. I can barely imagine the next article... "China uses gloves to slap dissidents; glove manufacturers blamed"
I know human rights abuse is a very serious issue and people die over such things. I think it's irresponsible to trivialize it by blaming a software manufacturer, even if it's MS.
OK, rant done. Go ahead, mod me down
Funny... this is more or less my situation, although I've advanced a little further. I hold an MD and have always loved computers and programming. I decided to enter the field, but instead of studying for a CS degree I decided to get a MS in Health Informatics.
Please don't listen to the SlashTrolls. This can be a very interesting field, and the majority of the people working in it are Computer Scientists. I have discovered that my medical background made me very valuable and useful. Clinical experience is VERY welcome.
I've also become a member of The American Medical Informatics Association and am currently a part of the Open Source Working Group, pushing for the embracement of Open Source in all things Medical.
If you want to ask some questions, please feel free to email me.
That is one of the worst things I've ever seen! It kinda puts Mr. Goatse to shame...
I'm going to have nightmares for a really long time.
I feel like *such* a nerd... once I read this I wanted to see it right away. Anyway, for the rest of you, The Pac Man watch. I'm not even sure, I may have played with it sometime in the past.
We celebrate it with...
"...reporting that Saddam Hissein..."
Spelling errors!
I played all the way through Halo and I really, really loved it... except for the Library. I got lost so many times inside, and found it so utterly incomprehensible, that I almost gave up on the game. I'm glad I trundled on, but I have to agree with other posts: even though Halo is a great game, the Library is one of the worst levels I've ever played in any game.
You certainly shouldn't; by the time I clicked the FAQ link, someone had already posted a picture of the goatse guy in his, let see, traditional pose.
Just as I was beginning to heal, too!
Apple also released several new accesories for the iPod. They include such things as turning the iPod into an image tank for CF cards and the much-rumored voice recorder.
" full DVD capacity (4-sided recording..."(Emphasis mine) />
No wonder it's called The Next Generation! <grin
At my high school, a LONG time ago, we had a Computer Science teacher who barely knew how to turn the PCs on and came to my geeky friends and me for help all the time.
One day we were especially fed up with him, we took a stock animation from Autodesk Animator for DOS (it was a really old one, and the animation were a couple of lines that morphed into hands), altered it to read "Picasso Virus" in big, red, bold letters, and stuck the player .exe with the animation in AUTOEXEC.BAT. We did this for a couple of computers in the lab
Half an hour later, he stormed into my friends' classroom, interruting the whole class, shouting "PLEASE HELP ME! I've got a virus!". He was that clueless, but when he was fired a couple of years later (after I had graduated) I felt a little sad for him. He was a good person, even if he was a complete luddite.
I'll second this. Right now I am typing on my HP notebook, which has 3 fans running to keep its Pentium 4 cool AS I TYPE, which is not precisely a processor-intensive task. My old iBook is silent, much lighter than this beast, and a joy to use, even though its waaaay slower than this HP. I also had to disassemble the iBook recently to perform a hard disk upgrade and I found the build quality to be amazing compared to Wintel notebooks. This HP feels solid enough, and looks decent, but the care and design that went into the Mac are incredible.
I had to buy a PC notebook because my school required it, but given a choice I'd have bought a Powerbook in a heartbeat (and I'd always been a PC fanboy that scorned at the Macheads before that little white iBook).
Having actually RTFA, I think his take on the problem is quite good. It's not like we haven't read this on Slashdot a thousand times before, but the real deal is that it's a known, mainstream author that's publishing this kind of thing.
"In other words, the people complaining about all the internet "thieves" are, by any reasonable measure, rapacious profiteers who have been parasitically sucking the blood out of copyrights on other people's work. And I say this with the best will in the world. In fact, these companies have expenses. There are salaries to pay. Some of the salaries are earned. ".
I like the way he puts it <grin>