First off, your house has to be networked - this does seriously reduce its saleability!:-)
It has HPNA networking built in, which uses regular home phone lines to network. Yeah, your computer needs a card that can speak HPNA, but that's better than requiring people to run Cat5 everywhere (not that I don't do that already).
Secondly, if it can only be controlled effectively through the web interface then you need a computer next to you to select the track, regardless. And if you've got that, why have a separate piece of kit?
There's a nice remote control pictured in the link at the top of the article.
One reason it is still an issue is because smart people like Bruce Schneier say that it won't work.
As for abusing these systems, the police can and will do it. Cops all over Michigan have been busted for using their databases to stalk women. And don't think this is limited to Michigan, there are good cops and bad cops in every state.
Not many people know this but if you get Xfree86 installed on an OS X system, you can compile and run your standard GTK/QT apps. One of the nice things about having Aqua themes for GTK et all is that your applications running under OS X will all look the same. Now I guess all those OS X users will be walking advertisements for Enlightenment instead of Apple.
You obviously haven't talked to any teenagers in a while. My sister is about to turn 16 and nearly all her friends do things on computers that would have caused them to be labeled "geeks" 10 years ago.
I recently lent her my laptop while we were on vacation and was disturbed and a little awed to see her carry on 7 concurrent IM conversations while checking her friends' webpages. She burns mix CDs, rips mp3s and all everything else that "copy protected" CDs are supposed to stop, but she's pretty indicitive of teenagers today.
The largest chunk of the consumer base will really give a rat's ass if they can't send their friend an mp3 from their latest CD. Hell hath no fury like a Backstreet Boys fan scorned.
Please, it's much easier than that. Bring up a PPP link through SSH and set up a VPN between your laptop in class and your desktop computer in your dorm.
Then just route all non-school addresses to your PPP link and you're done.
Mozilla, while usable (I'm posting this from 0.9.4) isn't at 1.0 yet and so I wouldn't consider it shipping (and I hope people would agree with me). Also, note the difference between having n thousand bugs open when shipping a product (such as Windows) and having 100,000 bugs in the database, most of which are closed.
I thought/. was harping on Microsoft for shipping a product with thousands of STILL OPEN bugs. Oh, and the quote is "Foolish consistancy is the hobgoblin of little minds."
Heh, Hollywood Video isn't any better than Blockbuster. I rented exactly 1 DVD from them, (Requiem for a Dream) found out that they gave me the edited version, (big label on the menu thankfully) asked for an unedited version, and cancelled my membership when they didn't have one.
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If you want to know how far the government is willing to go to "protect" us from these cyber-criminals, check out the Kevin Mitnick case. He was held in pre-trial detention for four years without a bail hearing.
I know it's l4m3 to talk about Kevin Mitnick and I'll get modded down for it, but even if you're with the "He stole millions of dollars by copying source code" camp you still have to agree that being held without a bail hearing for four years is a bit fishy.
Now it's starting to happen to a legitimate software developer. Who's next... --
Um, that's what they're thinking about changing...
'In fact, if anything, the I[nternational]A[nti]C[ounterfeiting] C[oalition] believes that registrants should be required to improve their performance in insuring that domain name registrants provide correct and updated information. Because a person (legal or individual) voluntarily chooses to be present on the Internet, the identity and contact information of domain name registrants are entitled to no more privacy protection than are a business or home addresses in the physical world.' -- Timothy P. Trainer, President, International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition (IACC) --
I'm surprised no one has mentioned that Slashdot has their own battle bot in the works. I'm also surprised that I came across this on sourceforge instead of reading it on Slashdot. --
Another trend I think you'll see is home media servers. Essentially network-attached storage on which TiVo's, MP3 players and all the other new and wonderful toys of the near future are going to deposit their trash.
Remember that the masses are made up of individuals. Detroit used to have an excellent all-classical station, but doesn't anymore. To get your 24/7 classical fix, you have to go online. We also don't have any all-polka, all-Atom-and-His-Package or all-cheesy-pop-music-that-only-15-year-old-girls-l isten-to stations. Oh wait, I think we have about 3 of that last one.
Online radio allows for more formats than the local market will support. --
I've always like the idea of making bumper stickers that say "SUVs waste more energy than leaving your refrigerator open for 6 years"[1] and going to the mall parking lot and applying them to SUVs.
It's not naive to think that they should do it, it'd be naive to think that they will. Mental note - find a spammer and punch him or her in the gut to commemorate Jim Ellis. --
Just double the size of the hash you want to compute every 18 months. Call it "Back's Law" and send a beer to Moore every 18 months while you're at it.
If we got rid of the small time spammers we'd get rid of 90% of the spam out there. Do you think it's companies like Yahoo and IBM that are sending you messages about the latest Britney Spears video? --
Slashdot Mirror
There's a nice remote control pictured in the link at the top of the article.
One reason it is still an issue is because smart people like Bruce Schneier say that it won't work.
As for abusing these systems, the police can and will do it. Cops all over Michigan have been busted for using their databases to stalk women. And don't think this is limited to Michigan, there are good cops and bad cops in every state.
Maybe its just me, but that Intel i86 sure looks like it includes AMD processors.
Not many people know this but if you get Xfree86 installed on an OS X system, you can compile and run your standard GTK/QT apps. One of the nice things about having Aqua themes for GTK et all is that your applications running under OS X will all look the same. Now I guess all those OS X users will be walking advertisements for Enlightenment instead of Apple.
You obviously haven't talked to any teenagers in a while. My sister is about to turn 16 and nearly all her friends do things on computers that would have caused them to be labeled "geeks" 10 years ago.
I recently lent her my laptop while we were on vacation and was disturbed and a little awed to see her carry on 7 concurrent IM conversations while checking her friends' webpages. She burns mix CDs, rips mp3s and all everything else that "copy protected" CDs are supposed to stop, but she's pretty indicitive of teenagers today.
The largest chunk of the consumer base will really give a rat's ass if they can't send their friend an mp3 from their latest CD. Hell hath no fury like a Backstreet Boys fan scorned.
Please, it's much easier than that. Bring up a PPP link through SSH and set up a VPN between your laptop in class and your desktop computer in your dorm.
Then just route all non-school addresses to your PPP link and you're done.
Um, when exactly wasn't /. a pro-linux site? this article from a while ago mentions that /. is up front about its biases.
Mozilla, while usable (I'm posting this from 0.9.4) isn't at 1.0 yet and so I wouldn't consider it shipping (and I hope people would agree with me). Also, note the difference between having n thousand bugs open when shipping a product (such as Windows) and having 100,000 bugs in the database, most of which are closed.
I said it before and I'll say it again. Win2k shipped with n thousand bugs. Mozilla has 100,000 bugs fixed. Can you see the difference?
I thought /. was harping on Microsoft for shipping a product with thousands of STILL OPEN bugs. Oh, and the quote is "Foolish consistancy is the hobgoblin of little minds."
There was an interesting post about this on the Politech list, which includes a response from Elias Levy (the guy who runs BUGTRAQ).
Got you covered, check this out:
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~epa98/work/apps/xmltv/
Next problem?
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Apple's address is One Infinate Loop.
Feel free to draw your own conclusions.
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ActiveState takes care of the Windows side of the pond.
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Heh, Hollywood Video isn't any better than Blockbuster. I rented exactly 1 DVD from them, (Requiem for a Dream) found out that they gave me the edited version, (big label on the menu thankfully) asked for an unedited version, and cancelled my membership when they didn't have one.
I judge a video store by how many Troma films they carry.
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If you want to know how far the government is willing to go to "protect" us from these cyber-criminals, check out the Kevin Mitnick case. He was held in pre-trial detention for four years without a bail hearing.
I know it's l4m3 to talk about Kevin Mitnick and I'll get modded down for it, but even if you're with the "He stole millions of dollars by copying source code" camp you still have to agree that being held without a bail hearing for four years is a bit fishy.
Now it's starting to happen to a legitimate software developer. Who's next...
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Be sure to check out the discussion in this article for more info. Can anyone tell me how that article is different from the current one?
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Um, that's what they're thinking about changing...
'In fact, if anything, the I[nternational]A[nti]C[ounterfeiting] C[oalition] believes that registrants should be required to improve their performance in insuring that domain name registrants provide correct and updated information. Because a person (legal or individual) voluntarily chooses to be present on the Internet, the identity and contact information of domain name registrants are entitled to no more privacy protection than are a business or home addresses in the physical world.' -- Timothy P. Trainer, President, International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition (IACC)
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned that Slashdot has their own battle bot in the works. I'm also surprised that I came across this on sourceforge instead of reading it on Slashdot.
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Now I just need to find a black box that lets me watch the stuff I find on alt.binaries.tv.simpsons
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Remember that the masses are made up of individuals. Detroit used to have an excellent all-classical station, but doesn't anymore. To get your 24/7 classical fix, you have to go online. We also don't have any all-polka, all-Atom-and-His-Package or all-cheesy-pop-music-that-only-15-year-old-girls-l isten-to stations. Oh wait, I think we have about 3 of that last one.
Online radio allows for more formats than the local market will support.
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Even then you can find plenty of horror stories about companies ignoring their own privacy policy. RealPlayer comes to mind.
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I've always like the idea of making bumper stickers that say "SUVs waste more energy than leaving your refrigerator open for 6 years"[1] and going to the mall parking lot and applying them to SUVs.
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[1]:http://www.sierraclub.org/globalwarming/suv
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It's not naive to think that they should do it, it'd be naive to think that they will. Mental note - find a spammer and punch him or her in the gut to commemorate Jim Ellis.
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Just double the size of the hash you want to compute every 18 months. Call it "Back's Law" and send a beer to Moore every 18 months while you're at it.
If we got rid of the small time spammers we'd get rid of 90% of the spam out there. Do you think it's companies like Yahoo and IBM that are sending you messages about the latest Britney Spears video?
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