Strangely I thought I was going to read an article about operating systems that run from the web (whatever that means). So I happily click on the article and start reading, wondering what an internet executable operating system is. Ok, history of windows, vast over-simplifications.. read read read.. but yet still no content. Turns out, there really is no content.
Taco, you should be embarrassed for posting the article. There's nothing here but a bad rant about how Windows is a terrible OS, and microsoft sucks. You may agree or disagree with that statement, but rants against Windows aren't news.
I don't think there's much question it was the same file. No one but no one was doing 256 kilobit mp3 rips in 1997. If you wanted to be extra sure, I'd bet there's some kind of header information the mp3 encoding program leaves in the mp3 file.
And the perspective of current society and people in the areas of psychology and medicine define thing in certain terms, so arguing things from a different persective isn't very usefull unless you are being philosophical.
Wow. I guess you've drank the kool-aid huh? And from the looks of it, a double batch. Since when does any profession get to define something as important as who's mentally healthy and who's not without any questioning from the rest of society? Perhaps you don't know this, but diagnosing people with "latent or sluggish schizophrenia" was a means to silence and dispose of dissidents in the former Soviet Union.
(I'm not trolling, she really did hear her recruiter admit to that in front of a whole Northern Virginia radio audience)
Umm.. wow. I guess I'll never be visiting northern Virginia if someone admiting vibrator use is so shocking that you might consider it a "troll". Try to get out more buddy, there's more to life than extreme religious beliefs.
There's varying evidence, but the infection rate in the US is somewhere around 23% according to a report by the cdc. The infection rate also appears to be dropping.
And be legally stuck with the tax bill, no matter how absurd it is.
It's replies like these that I honestly believe there's a large percentage of genuinely retarded people reading slashdot. Did slashdot become popular in group homes recently?
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He could have decompiled the application. But doing so would likely have been in violation of the licensing agreement he agreed to before using said software. You may question the legality of such agreements, but he may not have wanted to take the risk of publishing his findings. Litigation is expensive, after all.
Give me a very large break. Even Apple, sue hungry nutjobs that they are, isn't going to sue someone for finding out a trivial part of iTunes. As for the "you don't find this interesting, but us slashdot people do" You can just shove it. Some things are just esoteric minutia, and this is one of them.
That's interesting? Speculation based on statistical analysis of iTunes code has to be one of the most boring things I've heard in a long time. Sheesh, if he really wanted to know how it worked he should have just gotten out a decompiler and found the section that deals with ratings.
You don't think they are studying the other side of the problem?
Quite frankly, no. Oh I'm sure there's some guy out there that's "studying the problem" but no I don't think bullying is at all something schools, parents of bullies, or people in general take seriously. What's the response after crap like Columbine goes down? No, it's not look into why kids are going nuts and shooting each other.. it's putting in metal detectors, profiling, and "zero tolerance" policies.
My thoughts exactly. I'd pretty worried if the error was for 50%, or even 100% more than my home value because that might be a major pain to correct. You'd have to get someone to re-assess the value, all kinds of dumb paperwork, etc to prove that there's an error. But a ridiculous error of 660,000% is an easy fix.
this could come back to bite blogs right in the ass, because blogs are looking for credibility as news publishers. many contain summaries and links of other blogs
Well, assuming the 1996 law truly does cover online service providers, why would it cover blog authors? A blog clearly IS a publication, and obviously that's it's intent. Why would you think a blog author is an online service provider?
No, you've really missed the analogy here. It's like Chrysler saying all it's new models of cars will all have AC, power windows, CD player, anti-lock brakes, heated seats, in-car navigation, and a leather interior. All models will cost about $3000 more than the equivalent model (minus the above extras) of the competition. That's great if you want all those features, and are willing to pay for them. It's not so great if you just want basic reliable transportation.
No, wait... better: does anybody even expect to buy it as anything else than a gaming rig in the first place ?
Well, the reasoning of the article is that the high price ($350-$400) is justified over the XBox-360 because it won't be just a game console. The article is essentially saying it will be looked at as just a game console, so the high price will have to be justified through that alone. He may be right too. How much is the X-Box 360 going to cost when the PS3 is launched?
My guess is that the PS3 is going to make a good game console, but a poor everything else. No one is going to buy a $400 Blu-Ray player when they don't even have a HD-TV to take advantage of it.
Well, what I think is going to happen is we'll all be fine with storing documents off site, but only when they're encrypted and the storage entity doesn't have the key. Key management will be an issue, but it wouldn't be too hard to have your keys stored by a third party that's not owned by the party who's storing the information. Hell, the key storage entity could be offshore in another country like Switzerland who won't just bend over when the US government wants to data mine everyones documents.
Any entity, including government, who wants to data mine for illegal purposes isn't even going to go to court in the first place...
Absolutely. And the government doesn't even need to go to court, they just say "this is a matter of a terrorism investigation" and they can get whatever the want. Thanks patriot act!
The difference here is that if the data was encrypted to begin with, and Google didn't know the key, then there's really nothing to data mine.
They make it perfectly clear what they are doing and ask you before doing it.. how is that evil?
Do they also tell me that the government could search my files without a warrant? I dunno about you, but I find that idea kind of scary. Everyone seems to think "but I'm no threat, the FBI would never search my files". Well, the current program of massive data searches seems to contradict that. A couple years ago the government seized and searched the records of everyone that was staying in Las Vegas over New Years weekend. Who's to say they won't do the exact same thing with everyones files on Google?
This is the first thing that's started me to worry about Google's motivations.
I'd have just as much issue sending little girls into the woods with a man, as I would sending little boys with a gay man.
If you call "persecution complex" I call paranoia complex. If you seriously believe that an adult you know is going to molest your kid, then you'd bought deeply into the fear culture. People aren't all pedophiles just waiting for the opportunity to screw your kid in the woods. I think this attitude scares me even more that the recent rise of the fundamentalists. It's far more sneaky and pervasive.
They're trying to protect their "trademark" because it's being misrepresented and misused and it could put Red Cross personnel in danger.
This is the most absurd thing I've heard this week (and the Bush administration is still in office.. so I hear a lot of absurd things). How is a video game putting Red Cross personnel in danger?
He said that a gay man and a woman are equivalent as far as liability is concerned.
Yah right. That's just a made up justification for homophobia. The truth is if you know the adult you're sending your kid away with, you don't get all paranoid about it. There's an underlying belief that gay people are all perverts, and want to have sex with kids. This is a homophobic belief. Attempts at covering this up by saying "all people of opposite gender of the kid are suspect" is just transparent self deception.
The boy scouts looked at how much litigation has taken away from really good youth organizations and realized, sending kids camping with a gay guy as their chaparone is just as much a liability as sending them camping with an adult of the opposite sex as their chaparone.
Oh, and I missed your (literally) homophobic comment. Gays are no more likely to be pedophiles than anyone else. If this is your justification for what the boyscouts and girlscouts did, it's just plain bigotry. 100 years ago white parents probbably wouldn't trust sending their kid out in the woods with a black man. Does that justify racism too?
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Strangely I thought I was going to read an article about operating systems that run from the web (whatever that means). So I happily click on the article and start reading, wondering what an internet executable operating system is. Ok, history of windows, vast over-simplifications.. read read read.. but yet still no content. Turns out, there really is no content.
Taco, you should be embarrassed for posting the article. There's nothing here but a bad rant about how Windows is a terrible OS, and microsoft sucks. You may agree or disagree with that statement, but rants against Windows aren't news.
I don't think there's much question it was the same file. No one but no one was doing 256 kilobit mp3 rips in 1997. If you wanted to be extra sure, I'd bet there's some kind of header information the mp3 encoding program leaves in the mp3 file.
I'm not a cat person myself, but I suspect most cat people would feel a little put out that someone with a sig like yours could call them nuts.
You may not be a cat person, but apparently you're someone that has no sense of humor, and takes everything literally.
And the perspective of current society and people in the areas of psychology and medicine define thing in certain terms, so arguing things from a different persective isn't very usefull unless you are being philosophical.
Wow. I guess you've drank the kool-aid huh? And from the looks of it, a double batch. Since when does any profession get to define something as important as who's mentally healthy and who's not without any questioning from the rest of society? Perhaps you don't know this, but diagnosing people with "latent or sluggish schizophrenia" was a means to silence and dispose of dissidents in the former Soviet Union.
(I'm not trolling, she really did hear her recruiter admit to that in front of a whole Northern Virginia radio audience)
Umm.. wow. I guess I'll never be visiting northern Virginia if someone admiting vibrator use is so shocking that you might consider it a "troll". Try to get out more buddy, there's more to life than extreme religious beliefs.
There's varying evidence, but the infection rate in the US is somewhere around 23% according to a report by the cdc. The infection rate also appears to be dropping.
Ahh.. So that explains why cat people tend to be a little bit nuts ;)
And be legally stuck with the tax bill, no matter how absurd it is.
It's replies like these that I honestly believe there's a large percentage of genuinely retarded people reading slashdot. Did slashdot become popular in group homes recently?
He could have decompiled the application. But doing so would likely have been in violation of the licensing agreement he agreed to before using said software. You may question the legality of such agreements, but he may not have wanted to take the risk of publishing his findings. Litigation is expensive, after all.
Give me a very large break. Even Apple, sue hungry nutjobs that they are, isn't going to sue someone for finding out a trivial part of iTunes. As for the "you don't find this interesting, but us slashdot people do" You can just shove it. Some things are just esoteric minutia, and this is one of them.
That's interesting? Speculation based on statistical analysis of iTunes code has to be one of the most boring things I've heard in a long time. Sheesh, if he really wanted to know how it worked he should have just gotten out a decompiler and found the section that deals with ratings.
You don't think they are studying the other side of the problem?
Quite frankly, no. Oh I'm sure there's some guy out there that's "studying the problem" but no I don't think bullying is at all something schools, parents of bullies, or people in general take seriously. What's the response after crap like Columbine goes down? No, it's not look into why kids are going nuts and shooting each other.. it's putting in metal detectors, profiling, and "zero tolerance" policies.
So what you're saying is that social withdrawal is a sign of sickness because social withdrawl is a sign of sickness. Thanks for clearing that up.
It's a slow news day. Apparently some guy wasting his time figuring out that iTunes uses integer math when doing song ratings is "news" today.
My thoughts exactly. I'd pretty worried if the error was for 50%, or even 100% more than my home value because that might be a major pain to correct. You'd have to get someone to re-assess the value, all kinds of dumb paperwork, etc to prove that there's an error. But a ridiculous error of 660,000% is an easy fix.
this could come back to bite blogs right in the ass, because blogs are looking for credibility as news publishers. many contain summaries and links of other blogs
Well, assuming the 1996 law truly does cover online service providers, why would it cover blog authors? A blog clearly IS a publication, and obviously that's it's intent. Why would you think a blog author is an online service provider?
No, you've really missed the analogy here. It's like Chrysler saying all it's new models of cars will all have AC, power windows, CD player, anti-lock brakes, heated seats, in-car navigation, and a leather interior. All models will cost about $3000 more than the equivalent model (minus the above extras) of the competition. That's great if you want all those features, and are willing to pay for them. It's not so great if you just want basic reliable transportation.
No, wait... better: does anybody even expect to buy it as anything else than a gaming rig in the first place ?
Well, the reasoning of the article is that the high price ($350-$400) is justified over the XBox-360 because it won't be just a game console. The article is essentially saying it will be looked at as just a game console, so the high price will have to be justified through that alone. He may be right too. How much is the X-Box 360 going to cost when the PS3 is launched?
My guess is that the PS3 is going to make a good game console, but a poor everything else. No one is going to buy a $400 Blu-Ray player when they don't even have a HD-TV to take advantage of it.
Well, what I think is going to happen is we'll all be fine with storing documents off site, but only when they're encrypted and the storage entity doesn't have the key. Key management will be an issue, but it wouldn't be too hard to have your keys stored by a third party that's not owned by the party who's storing the information. Hell, the key storage entity could be offshore in another country like Switzerland who won't just bend over when the US government wants to data mine everyones documents.
Any entity, including government, who wants to data mine for illegal purposes isn't even going to go to court in the first place...
Absolutely. And the government doesn't even need to go to court, they just say "this is a matter of a terrorism investigation" and they can get whatever the want. Thanks patriot act!
The difference here is that if the data was encrypted to begin with, and Google didn't know the key, then there's really nothing to data mine.
They make it perfectly clear what they are doing and ask you before doing it.. how is that evil?
Do they also tell me that the government could search my files without a warrant? I dunno about you, but I find that idea kind of scary. Everyone seems to think "but I'm no threat, the FBI would never search my files". Well, the current program of massive data searches seems to contradict that. A couple years ago the government seized and searched the records of everyone that was staying in Las Vegas over New Years weekend. Who's to say they won't do the exact same thing with everyones files on Google?
This is the first thing that's started me to worry about Google's motivations.
I'd have just as much issue sending little girls into the woods with a man, as I would sending little boys with a gay man.
If you call "persecution complex" I call paranoia complex. If you seriously believe that an adult you know is going to molest your kid, then you'd bought deeply into the fear culture. People aren't all pedophiles just waiting for the opportunity to screw your kid in the woods. I think this attitude scares me even more that the recent rise of the fundamentalists. It's far more sneaky and pervasive.
They're trying to protect their "trademark" because it's being misrepresented and misused and it could put Red Cross personnel in danger.
This is the most absurd thing I've heard this week (and the Bush administration is still in office.. so I hear a lot of absurd things). How is a video game putting Red Cross personnel in danger?
He said that a gay man and a woman are equivalent as far as liability is concerned.
Yah right. That's just a made up justification for homophobia. The truth is if you know the adult you're sending your kid away with, you don't get all paranoid about it. There's an underlying belief that gay people are all perverts, and want to have sex with kids. This is a homophobic belief. Attempts at covering this up by saying "all people of opposite gender of the kid are suspect" is just transparent self deception.
The boy scouts looked at how much litigation has taken away from really good youth organizations and realized, sending kids camping with a gay guy as their chaparone is just as much a liability as sending them camping with an adult of the opposite sex as their chaparone.
Oh, and I missed your (literally) homophobic comment. Gays are no more likely to be pedophiles than anyone else. If this is your justification for what the boyscouts and girlscouts did, it's just plain bigotry. 100 years ago white parents probbably wouldn't trust sending their kid out in the woods with a black man. Does that justify racism too?
Would you send your 12 year old daughter camping with a 35 year old man, or your 12 year old son camping with a 35 year old woman?
Uhh.. I guess if I knew them and trusted them I would. When did the world become so paranoid that everyone is a suspected pedophile?