I'm sort of disappointed this didn't get posted on the main page... But whatever.
From what I understand, the new DTV standard, as it currently exists, has piss-poor captioning support. With the magical expansion of OTA bandwith and computers running all of our TVs, I see no reason that some decent client-side text formatting, fonts etc couldn't have been included in the spec--Instead (CC) will barely evolve.
There exists a government venue for complaints of exactly this nature: Your State Attorney General
Be sure to file a complaint immediately with your state attorney general if this breach of consumer trust concerns you (as it should).
The AG must act on the behalf of consumer complaints, and with sufficient volume, a full investigation will take place. With far more influence and power than any class-action lawsuit, attorney generals will provide us with satisfaction. They exist to protect us from exactly these abuses. This is particularly crucial in those states considering censorware in their public internet terminals.
There are a few entries in the CyberNOT list that are blocked under all non-reserved categories. For instance, the anti-censorware site of Peacefire is listed as containing "Violence / Profanity, Partial Nudity, Full Nudity, Sexual Acts / Text, Gross Depictions / Text, Intolerance, Satanic or Cult, Drugs / Drug Culture, Militant / Extremist, Sex Education, Questionable / Illegal & Gambling, Alcohol & Tobacco". That's not such a surprise; blocking Peacefire has become traditional among censorware manufacturers.
In plain english: even when using CyberPatrol to block only sexually explicit and violent sites, allowing all others, you will still not be allowed to load the Peacefire site.
This seems like the most egregious violation of consumer trust a censorware distributor can commit; and until Peacefire decrpyted their lists, nobody would have been the wiser.
The logic behind abandoning billions etc...
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The above message contains no insight, just accusations.
Insight requires, by definition, a revelation or some expository function. The above post merely states an opinion as fact with no supporting evidence. It barely makes sense.
I got a nice, roomy black case from Directron.com.
It is manufactured by a company called Charisma in Taiwan, and I am pleased as punch with it. Sliding Mobo tray, removeable sides and 3.5" drive cage, fan cage...
And the piece of resistance: a door that glides open with the touch of a button that conceals the drives when closed.
Directron has a category entirely for black components. See www.charisma.com.tw for pics of their cases. I didn't get a stock power supply, so I'm afraid I can't vouch for that part.
Take a look if your interested in form *and function.
Unfortunately Microsoft can't reciprocate. Open source doesn't speak their language.
Maybe Microsoft would consider donating something worthwhile in-kind for the gesture, like some code.
I think Microsoft could be able to share in some of the positive relations to stem from this if they reacted with a code donation, rather than just looking like fools, reimbursing the programmer and looking sheepish and humbled.
Let's stick to reporting things that haven't happened yet. Just reprint those press releases-- that way you're bound to remain on the cutting edge of things to come.
This reporting and investigating things that have already occurred really doesn't suit the information age. What possible benefit is there to bringing up current abuses and malfeasence? There is far too much malfeasence yet to come that we need to hastily and fretfully anticipate!
I don't know if the moderator was just being a sourpuss or just didn't know that this was a quote from the South Park movie.
I would have given it a +1 funny.
Just for that, I recommend that everyone see the movie. Enlighten yourselves. Particulary if you actually thought this person meant we should actually blame Canada.
...but under fair use you are free to use their name as long as there is no chance that your service could be construed as offered by Purdue, thus endangering their reputation, or that you are using their name to compete with them in the same market (as a college, for example).
Sounds like you're on firm ground. Fight the good fight.
At the risk of sounding my own horn, this sounds very familiar. Glad to see that Slashdot has finally noticed this so I can get some reasoned analyses of the situation.
I remember reading just once that Judge Jackson has the authority to accelerate any appeals process directly to the Supreme Court, short circuiting any delay tactics.
Does anyone have an insight to the probability of this, and what the practice might mean judicially?
Call me crazy, but don't they measure TVs diagonally because it is the best expression of their surface area?
Sounds like FUD to me to say that the area of a 30" diagonal 3:4 TV is bigger than a 30" diagonal 16:9 TV.
And while I'm at it, talking about your television in terms of "screen real estate" is petty and worthless. A TV is only worth what you display on it. My 19" TV that I use to show 16:9 anamorphic DVDs (with the vertical scan compressed) is more valuable to me than a 35" 3:4-restricted TV that I might use to watch ghosty OTA "must-see TV."
Of all the related issues in this story, I am just fascinated and impressed that it has resulted in high school students gaining proficiency in reading barcode.
Human development marches on, even in the face of oppression...
I think for now I'd stick with handspring.com... They say they're not even shipping until next month some time. I doubt you can get it from anywhere else.
According to the site, "Palm owners can seamlessly transfer all their existing data to the Visor."
I imagine that means they've eliminated any glaring difficulties to share information between the two products (if there were any... they've got the same OS).
I'm not sure that they'd use the same physical cradle, though. The Visor's got USB.
This Microsoft web page houses the highly useful and precise 1m resolution photos from the USGS and SPIN-2.
The images are out of date, but publicly available. I'm not sure why a private satellite would me more troubling than these photos (and the updated ones as they are added to the collection).
What interests me most about this story on ZDNN is that it uses Slashdot as a source of news information.
While Slashdot is basically Press Releases for Nerds and their reaction to those press releases, ZDNN (I would imagine one or two beat reporters) considers it a viable source of opinion for a "community."
While it is neat to be able to so directly influence a respected news organization, it is kind of unsettling that the collective opinions of people overreacting to press releases are considered gospel opinion for the open source, geek, or digerati community.
Personally, I would prefer that ZDNN find another way, probably more time-consuming, I admit, to gauge the opinion of what they consider Slashdot to represent. At least for a while.
Or maybe the Slashdot user community should spell out exactly who they are in some sort of declaration. Are we nerds? Are we IT professionals? Are we the technocracy? Do we speak for the open source community? Like it or not each of those has different implications, but I'd rather pin ZDNN down to one of them than to just gauge unscientifically the reaction to a given news event based on a handful of fanatical ACs that managed to have an opinion stuck somewhere in their "first post."
Who are we? None of the above, I expect. So why should ZDNN feel so confident in using Slashdot as a reliable source?
Slashdot Mirror
I'm sort of disappointed this didn't get posted on the main page... But whatever.
From what I understand, the new DTV standard, as it currently exists, has piss-poor captioning support. With the magical expansion of OTA bandwith and computers running all of our TVs, I see no reason that some decent client-side text formatting, fonts etc couldn't have been included in the spec--Instead (CC) will barely evolve.
Unfortunately my knowledge of this is third-hand.
Thanks for your responses.
I'm no gamer, but I know prophetic comedy when I read it.
Be sure to file a complaint immediately with your state attorney general if this breach of consumer trust concerns you (as it should).
The AG must act on the behalf of consumer complaints, and with sufficient volume, a full investigation will take place. With far more influence and power than any class-action lawsuit, attorney generals will provide us with satisfaction. They exist to protect us from exactly these abuses. This is particularly crucial in those states considering censorware in their public internet terminals.
Call your AG today!
This is borrowed from the linked report:
There are a few entries in the CyberNOT list that are blocked under all non-reserved categories. For instance, the anti-censorware site of Peacefire is listed as containing "Violence / Profanity, Partial Nudity, Full Nudity, Sexual Acts / Text, Gross Depictions / Text, Intolerance, Satanic or Cult, Drugs / Drug Culture, Militant / Extremist, Sex Education, Questionable / Illegal & Gambling, Alcohol & Tobacco". That's not such a surprise; blocking Peacefire has become traditional among censorware manufacturers.
In plain english: even when using CyberPatrol to block only sexually explicit and violent sites, allowing all others, you will still not be allowed to load the Peacefire site.
This seems like the most egregious violation of consumer trust a censorware distributor can commit; and until Peacefire decrpyted their lists, nobody would have been the wiser.
Tax writeoff.
The above message contains no insight, just accusations.
Insight requires, by definition, a revelation or some expository function. The above post merely states an opinion as fact with no supporting evidence. It barely makes sense.
Don't be fooled.
I got a nice, roomy black case from Directron.com.
It is manufactured by a company called Charisma in Taiwan, and I am pleased as punch with it. Sliding Mobo tray, removeable sides and 3.5" drive cage, fan cage...
And the piece of resistance: a door that glides open with the touch of a button that conceals the drives when closed.
Directron has a category entirely for black components. See www.charisma.com.tw for pics of their cases. I didn't get a stock power supply, so I'm afraid I can't vouch for that part.
Take a look if your interested in form *and function.
Unfortunately Microsoft can't reciprocate. Open source doesn't speak their language.
Maybe Microsoft would consider donating something worthwhile in-kind for the gesture, like some code.
I think Microsoft could be able to share in some of the positive relations to stem from this if they reacted with a code donation, rather than just looking like fools, reimbursing the programmer and looking sheepish and humbled.
"Luckily" the sewage will probably be warm enough to open holes in the ice and settle right along the bottom.
Yeah, but if you reduce 120% by 20%, you get 96%!
Ut-oh!
Let's stick to reporting things that haven't happened yet. Just reprint those press releases-- that way you're bound to remain on the cutting edge of things to come.
This reporting and investigating things that have already occurred really doesn't suit the information age. What possible benefit is there to bringing up current abuses and malfeasence? There is far too much malfeasence yet to come that we need to hastily and fretfully anticipate!
I don't know if the moderator was just being a sourpuss or just didn't know that this was a quote from the South Park movie.
I would have given it a +1 funny.
Just for that, I recommend that everyone see the movie. Enlighten yourselves. Particulary if you actually thought this person meant we should actually blame Canada.
...but under fair use you are free to use their name as long as there is no chance that your service could be construed as offered by Purdue, thus endangering their reputation, or that you are using their name to compete with them in the same market (as a college, for example).
Sounds like you're on firm ground. Fight the good fight.
At the risk of sounding my own horn, this sounds very familiar. Glad to see that Slashdot has finally noticed this so I can get some reasoned analyses of the situation.
I remember reading just once that Judge Jackson has the authority to accelerate any appeals process directly to the Supreme Court, short circuiting any delay tactics.
Does anyone have an insight to the probability of this, and what the practice might mean judicially?
Call me crazy, but don't they measure TVs diagonally because it is the best expression of their surface area?
Sounds like FUD to me to say that the area of a 30" diagonal 3:4 TV is bigger than a 30" diagonal 16:9 TV.
And while I'm at it, talking about your television in terms of "screen real estate" is petty and worthless. A TV is only worth what you display on it. My 19" TV that I use to show 16:9 anamorphic DVDs (with the vertical scan compressed) is more valuable to me than a 35" 3:4-restricted TV that I might use to watch ghosty OTA "must-see TV."
Did you ever notice that you get an extra mililiter in Pepsi products? That's value!
Of all the related issues in this story, I am just fascinated and impressed that it has resulted in high school students gaining proficiency in reading barcode.
Human development marches on, even in the face of oppression...
But they are resourceful enough to get their hands on one anyway.
I think for now I'd stick with handspring.com... They say they're not even shipping until next month some time. I doubt you can get it from anywhere else.
According to the site, "Palm owners can seamlessly transfer all their existing data to the Visor."
I imagine that means they've eliminated any glaring difficulties to share information between the two products (if there were any... they've got the same OS).
I'm not sure that they'd use the same physical cradle, though. The Visor's got USB.
This Microsoft web page houses the highly useful and precise 1m resolution photos from the USGS and SPIN-2.
The images are out of date, but publicly available. I'm not sure why a private satellite would me more troubling than these photos (and the updated ones as they are added to the collection).
Check it out.
Conversely, anonymity is a crutch for those too lazy/insecure/paranoid to defend their ideas when debated.
Which isn't to say there's never a case where paranoia is justified... and add "too lazy to login" for slashdot.
What interests me most about this story on ZDNN is that it uses Slashdot as a source of news information.
While Slashdot is basically Press Releases for Nerds and their reaction to those press releases, ZDNN (I would imagine one or two beat reporters) considers it a viable source of opinion for a "community."
While it is neat to be able to so directly influence a respected news organization, it is kind of unsettling that the collective opinions of people overreacting to press releases are considered gospel opinion for the open source, geek, or digerati community.
Personally, I would prefer that ZDNN find another way, probably more time-consuming, I admit, to gauge the opinion of what they consider Slashdot to represent. At least for a while.
Or maybe the Slashdot user community should spell out exactly who they are in some sort of declaration. Are we nerds? Are we IT professionals? Are we the technocracy? Do we speak for the open source community? Like it or not each of those has different implications, but I'd rather pin ZDNN down to one of them than to just gauge unscientifically the reaction to a given news event based on a handful of fanatical ACs that managed to have an opinion stuck somewhere in their "first post."
Who are we? None of the above, I expect. So why should ZDNN feel so confident in using Slashdot as a reliable source?
I've been hoping for a digioptical range finder. Just a little readout that identifies what I'm focusing on and tells me its distance, maybe velocity.