I'm not saying its morally right, I am saying it shouldn't be legally wrong. Now today, we find out Florida has made war driving illegal. Does that mean I can go inside a Panera to get free wireless, but I can't do so from outside in my car?
radio waves are broadcast ad hoc for hundreds of feet. there IS no comparison to an "open door".
they are going after the wrong person.
If my chordless phone picks up a neighbor's phone conversation, it is not my fault if I am able to hear it or even use their handset to connect to someone else's base and make phone calls. Wireless is inherently insecure and we all run a risk when using it.
The bottom line is that when you sign up for any internet connectivity, you are agreeing to abide by a ULA. If their ULA didn't account for hosting an unsecured AP, then that is their bad. If the home user left it unsecured, that is their bad.
It is not illegal to recieve unencrypted wireless signals. There is a history of the military broadcasting communications unencrypted and we can all buy scanners and listen in, even hopping onto their channel if you have a two way device.
Tell the ISP to not let the signal leak out of their customer's house.
There is no open door senerio. and yes you are a troll for bringing up the word rape in a reply to a post that has nothing to do with rape.
he can claim ignorance like the lady who burned herself on McDonald's coffee and got a million in settlement. Microsoft only tells you that you need to click OK to join an unsecured wireless network, not that you might be breaking laws by joining said unsecured network.
Who they should really sue is the person who left the network unsecured as it is they who agreed to some ULA saying they couldn't share the connection.
The suit will go nowhere unless they berate him into a settlement...
I just bought a dual G5 with 4 gigs of ram and it seems to run half as slow as a single processor Dell I have right next to it with half the ram. Starting Firefox on both will result in my PC with XP opening a browser window much quicker than one of Apple's fastest machines.
My macs burn out twice as fast as my lab's pcs, so Apple is faster in that regard.
I have broadcast playout systems for our two Comcast channels and they run for months before I decide to reboot for software patches. They run Windows. In fat, you will be hard presed to find mission critical computer based equiptment that runs on Apple Hardware in the broadcast industry...
I manage an educational tv station and all of its equiptment. I enjoy our macs as OS X is less suceptable to viruses and spyware both through obscurity and design.
One thing that no one ever thinks of is that (from my experience) Macs are more likely to fail from adverse tempuratures (warm rooms) than PCs. This isn't a MAC flame, just my personal experience. Our PCs last about twice as long as our Macs. So regardless of initial investment costs, Apple hardware will cost us at least double over the long run.
Also, while Apple support folks are always friendly, they are not only at least as jackass-ish as your average Dell phone monkey, but their RMA policies are rediculous. When I spend at least 100K a year on Apple stuff, don't ask me for a credit card when you need to send me a new motherboard or drive. I paid for your extra two years of substandard support. Never mind when Apple support guys wont give me the same answer for the same issue.
That said, Macs are easy to use. I just set my father up with an dual g4 I had laying around and I know I wont have to go removing spyware from it in two weeks. Of course, he might not be able to enjoy some sites in the same way as he could with a PC (like ESPN with their live motion video stuff - they don't develop for the mac like they do the pc).
So yes, there are a number of reasons to use or move to OS X. But there is a flip side to every situation and Apple isn't all roses...
can a subscriber cancel their account and keep the email address as a free one? Likely not as the email address is what is keeping 75% of all subscribers. Why else would you pay for dialup when you can spend $10 more and get broadband???
I readd an article penned by Ted Turner, the guy who started TNT. He eventually had to sell his media company becuase he was slowly getting driven out by competitors.
The single most important thing he said was that if you don't own the industry chain from start to finish, you're done. You need to own all parts of the chain and then you have total control.
Unfortunately for all, this really is the case. Its like hen everyone thought the internet would change the way that the record indutry worked. It didn't. Now everyone would like to think that they can have their own TV studio. Well you can, but it doesn't mean that anyone will watch it no matter how much you want them to. It doesn't mean you can be profitable with it.
While I understand a high caliber school can demand the best of breed which includes morals, did Harvard ever say that no student should ever check to see if they had been admited before they receive official notification?
I mean, all schools have ULAs that tell you what they expect of you - not to cheat, not to fight, whatever...
But did Harvard tell anyone not to find out even if they could? I mean, you decide you are going to save a bundle and streamline your admissions process and end up making a porr "business" decision and go with a company that obviously could not meet stringent security. But let's destroy over 100 prospective student's academic career aspirations because we are embarrased.
The students did not "cheat". They did not "steal". They found out information before you thought they would. They didn't have to pay to get it otherwise. They didn't have to take a test to receive their acceptance letter.
Harvard should be ashamed of themselves, for not wiping the pie of their face with grace. Frankly, maybe the 100+ students who were active, caring and astute enough to find out what Harvard posted but wasn't ready to share yet can be better served by a school who will appreciate their moxy by teaching them instead of judging them for something they did with no knowledge that Harvard would really care about.
Next time my 3 year old does something bad that I never taught him was wrong, I shall spank him doubly! Thanks Harvard for teaching me that lesson!
But I can't because there apparently is no list for me to read. Anyone know where I can find info on how all agencies/companies that were involved in the "test" fared?
its not even so much the single button per say, because if you hold control when you click, you get your "right-click" menu in OS X, its really more that the whole mouse is a button and it seems very easy for the mouse to not let the buttin depress, namely when the mouse abbuts the mouse chord and deosn't let the user click the button.
I have had more students slamming the mouse "becuase it wont work" than any other problem in our mac lab.
i even tried to deselect my willingness to metamoderate for a while in hopes that it would reset some status i am stuck in. From postings I have read, slashdot staff have been known to remove modding privledges from users at their whim...
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because a war driver isn't taking someone's bandwidth, they are receiving bandwidth that someone is throwing out to everyone without discretion.
You keep making analogies that don't really apply.
I'm not saying its morally right, I am saying it shouldn't be legally wrong. Now today, we find out Florida has made war driving illegal. Does that mean I can go inside a Panera to get free wireless, but I can't do so from outside in my car?
radio waves are broadcast ad hoc for hundreds of feet. there IS no comparison to an "open door".
they are going after the wrong person.
If my chordless phone picks up a neighbor's phone conversation, it is not my fault if I am able to hear it or even use their handset to connect to someone else's base and make phone calls. Wireless is inherently insecure and we all run a risk when using it.
The bottom line is that when you sign up for any internet connectivity, you are agreeing to abide by a ULA. If their ULA didn't account for hosting an unsecured AP, then that is their bad. If the home user left it unsecured, that is their bad.
It is not illegal to recieve unencrypted wireless signals. There is a history of the military broadcasting communications unencrypted and we can all buy scanners and listen in, even hopping onto their channel if you have a two way device.
Tell the ISP to not let the signal leak out of their customer's house.
There is no open door senerio. and yes you are a troll for bringing up the word rape in a reply to a post that has nothing to do with rape.
he can claim ignorance like the lady who burned herself on McDonald's coffee and got a million in settlement. Microsoft only tells you that you need to click OK to join an unsecured wireless network, not that you might be breaking laws by joining said unsecured network.
Who they should really sue is the person who left the network unsecured as it is they who agreed to some ULA saying they couldn't share the connection.
The suit will go nowhere unless they berate him into a settlement...
That's funny cause that's where I put most of my dead computers. D'Angelos takes all of my oversized junk nicely...
my sig says it all
Its not a real review when the story submitter says, "so we will shortly know if it can stand up to its claims".
Why not submit the story until you know how it actually performs. Definitely seems like more of an ad than anything else...
I just bought a dual G5 with 4 gigs of ram and it seems to run half as slow as a single processor Dell I have right next to it with half the ram. Starting Firefox on both will result in my PC with XP opening a browser window much quicker than one of Apple's fastest machines.
My macs burn out twice as fast as my lab's pcs, so Apple is faster in that regard.
I have broadcast playout systems for our two Comcast channels and they run for months before I decide to reboot for software patches. They run Windows. In fat, you will be hard presed to find mission critical computer based equiptment that runs on Apple Hardware in the broadcast industry...
I manage an educational tv station and all of its equiptment. I enjoy our macs as OS X is less suceptable to viruses and spyware both through obscurity and design.
One thing that no one ever thinks of is that (from my experience) Macs are more likely to fail from adverse tempuratures (warm rooms) than PCs. This isn't a MAC flame, just my personal experience. Our PCs last about twice as long as our Macs. So regardless of initial investment costs, Apple hardware will cost us at least double over the long run.
Also, while Apple support folks are always friendly, they are not only at least as jackass-ish as your average Dell phone monkey, but their RMA policies are rediculous. When I spend at least 100K a year on Apple stuff, don't ask me for a credit card when you need to send me a new motherboard or drive. I paid for your extra two years of substandard support. Never mind when Apple support guys wont give me the same answer for the same issue.
That said, Macs are easy to use. I just set my father up with an dual g4 I had laying around and I know I wont have to go removing spyware from it in two weeks. Of course, he might not be able to enjoy some sites in the same way as he could with a PC (like ESPN with their live motion video stuff - they don't develop for the mac like they do the pc).
So yes, there are a number of reasons to use or move to OS X. But there is a flip side to every situation and Apple isn't all roses...
can a subscriber cancel their account and keep the email address as a free one? Likely not as the email address is what is keeping 75% of all subscribers. Why else would you pay for dialup when you can spend $10 more and get broadband???
they also get filthy looking within 10 minutes of use
we bought 10 20" imacs 3 months ago that came with gig ethernet
I readd an article penned by Ted Turner, the guy who started TNT. He eventually had to sell his media company becuase he was slowly getting driven out by competitors.
The single most important thing he said was that if you don't own the industry chain from start to finish, you're done. You need to own all parts of the chain and then you have total control.
Unfortunately for all, this really is the case. Its like hen everyone thought the internet would change the way that the record indutry worked. It didn't. Now everyone would like to think that they can have their own TV studio. Well you can, but it doesn't mean that anyone will watch it no matter how much you want them to. It doesn't mean you can be profitable with it.
I just did it and it worked. My understanding was that there was a 20 mb size limit.
Weird.
I know I have been able to send at least 25 mb size files with gmail....
just make use of the included powdered water...
While I understand a high caliber school can demand the best of breed which includes morals, did Harvard ever say that no student should ever check to see if they had been admited before they receive official notification?
I mean, all schools have ULAs that tell you what they expect of you - not to cheat, not to fight, whatever...
But did Harvard tell anyone not to find out even if they could? I mean, you decide you are going to save a bundle and streamline your admissions process and end up making a porr "business" decision and go with a company that obviously could not meet stringent security. But let's destroy over 100 prospective student's academic career aspirations because we are embarrased.
The students did not "cheat". They did not "steal". They found out information before you thought they would. They didn't have to pay to get it otherwise. They didn't have to take a test to receive their acceptance letter.
Harvard should be ashamed of themselves, for not wiping the pie of their face with grace. Frankly, maybe the 100+ students who were active, caring and astute enough to find out what Harvard posted but wasn't ready to share yet can be better served by a school who will appreciate their moxy by teaching them instead of judging them for something they did with no knowledge that Harvard would really care about.
Next time my 3 year old does something bad that I never taught him was wrong, I shall spank him doubly! Thanks Harvard for teaching me that lesson!
I'm sure you pick up towels with great speed.
Can you give me a summary of his post? I'm too lazy to read it too.
But I can't because there apparently is no list for me to read. Anyone know where I can find info on how all agencies/companies that were involved in the "test" fared?
You know, you mean to be funny, but you have a point.
Doing well in stressful situations is due to training, preparation and self control, not because you are too stupid to get nervous about success.
The more you practice being in stressful situations, the easier it is to handle them.
we have run 200 foot s-video cables for a live multi camera, toaster driven production with no problems...
its not even so much the single button per say, because if you hold control when you click, you get your "right-click" menu in OS X, its really more that the whole mouse is a button and it seems very easy for the mouse to not let the buttin depress, namely when the mouse abbuts the mouse chord and deosn't let the user click the button.
I have had more students slamming the mouse "becuase it wont work" than any other problem in our mac lab.
i even tried to deselect my willingness to metamoderate for a while in hopes that it would reset some status i am stuck in. From postings I have read, slashdot staff have been known to remove modding privledges from users at their whim...
Quicktime files are huge compared to similar quality and size encoded files in different formats.