Shocking - they don't seem to support DOS based Windows (9x and ME) even though there are arguably millions of infected consumper PC's. WinME boxes aren't THAT old.
Windows 9x/ME should die a horrible death. I don't blame MS for not supporting a 5 year old product. Do people complain when Redhat doesn't support Redhat 6.2 (released April 2000)? Supporting Legacy crap like 9x/ME is expensive and only makes the product less maintainable. I'm actually glad MS isn't supporting these products anymore.
ThinkSecret may be free to express anything they like (and are), but their source is not.
Then why sue ThinkSecret? Oh, for the skeevy legal maneurvering of discovery. ThinkSecret isn't guilty of anything, but sue them to get information.
Furthermore, ThinkSecret is profiting from this secret information, so it's not as if they are some altruistic, pro-consumer reporter. If Apple can demonstrate that ThinkSecret profits from information that ultimately causes damage to Apple's business, then they may have a case against them as well.
Utter bullshit. The first amendment protects ThinkSecret from any "you hurt our business" crap. There's no NDA on ThinkSecret, therefor Apple has no case. The whole thing is just Apple doing sleazy legal maneuvering to obtain information on who leaked the information. Similar lawsuits have been brought against sites advertising what was on sale the day after thanksgiving.
No. A blog is where one person makes journal entries, and other people read it. Slashdot is a news discussion site. That's a lot different in content and format than a blog. Blogs are all about one person, Slashdot is about a the geek world around us.
Actually I have T-mobile here, but I don't have a tri-band phone. If I were going to Europe I'd probbably buy one (or make T-mobile upgrade me) and then do the SIM switch. I'm also not certain all SIMs are compatible with all GSM phones. I tried putting a housemate from Italy's SIM in my phone and it said the SIM wasn't recognized.
I was referring to outgoing firewalls, like I said in my post. If you're only allowed access to port 80 and 443, Vonage isn't going to work. Also if the firewall only allows HTTP requests out, it obviously wouldn't work.
I don't think so. I'm pretty sure that isn't supported under SIP (which is what I believe Vonage uses for its VoIP protocol). Even if it was there wouldn't be many fully covered areas with WiFi (or at least areas where you're allowed free usage).
I see the use of using it in a Starbucks, or whatever, but it would hardly make a practical mobile phone. And I doubt people would bother carrying two phones around.
Oh I don't think it's intended to be for anyone that already has a cell phone. More likely it's for anyone travelling that doesn't have a cell phone (or travelling where they don't have service, like say Europe).
The phone (or telephone adaptor as the case may be) registers with Vonage when it's turned on. Vonage then knows the IP address the phone is located at. There's even ways of working through a NAT, though obviously an outgoing firewall would be a problem.
I dunno.. maybe because winning at Jeopardy isn't this wonderfull intellectual achievment people make it out to be? There use to be a time when knowing trivia was considered trivial. Now it's as if Ken Jennings won the Nobel prize.
As far as celebrity, well you've got me there. But then that's not really such a high post these days, considering the company
I'd assume the value in looking at the heat shield is to determine how well it performed. I'd guess that's one thing you can never adequately test and maybe getting pictures of the shield can determine if it performed better, worse,or as expected. Obviously this could make future missions more reliable, cheaper, etc.
Ever heard of something called the Pacific Ocean? It's plum full of that substance we call water. I hear there's even more oceans than just the Pacific.
I really do hope you're joking. Any amount of water we can "create" (that wasn't water to begin with) would be completely insignificant to the amount of water we already redistribute throughout the environment by just being alive.
2) This not regular old porno. The girl involved in this did not give her conest to the release of the video - nor did she know she was being filmed
How the hell do you not know you're being filmed when the guy you're blowing is holding a cell-phone camera right up to you?
As far as distribution consent, technically that's true. However after Pamela Anderson and Paris Hilton tapes leaked out to everyone on the planet that wanted them should you really shouldn't be that surprised when it leaks.. especially if it's some 16 year old kid filming you. This girl needs to take some of the responsibility for this. It's not like this is the first time it's happened.
It wasn't an argument at all. I was simply making fun of your obvious lack of concern for his wellbeing accompanied by demands that he show consideration for you.
And another strawman. Please stick to the facts rather than playing the emotion card.
Wow with that kind of concern for his wellbeing being shown, he must be pretty heartless to refrain from keeping his "fans" updated?
Nice strawman argument. The issue is not one of fandom. If you expose yourself to public scrutiny don't be too surprised when people actually scrutinize you.
How many years has he been producing Slackware? How many times has he asked for help? Yeah, he's really starting to be a burden.
That's really immaterial. What is relevent is credibility. The lack of information about the central issue he was asking help for (what's wrong with him) only leads to a further degradation in his credibility.
He asked for help because he felt desperate, now he is back working on Slack. Thats enough information isnt it?
No, not really. There's been some legitimate concern if this guy is really sick, or just a hypochondriac. I don't know either way, but the fact that he's suddenly real quite about what the mystery illness was (that he also asked people for help trying to identify) doesn't really help the case against hypochondria. "Publics business" my arse, you dont own the guy just because he asked for help. Go watch the tv if you want to see bodies being pulled from auto wrecks.
No one ever claimed to "own the guy", but a kindly word about what's wrong with him is hardly expecting a lot. It is the business of the public at large if you're asking for help, make public statements like you're near death, act vaguely like a hypochondriac (but also vaguely like somoene frustrated with the medical system) then mysteriously clam up about the whole thing once you're "cured". Well which one is it, hypochondira or a real illness? But if you just want to satisfy purient curiosity then thats just pointless bad manners. Rephrase the question or consider it withdrawn.
The interest is one of trust. If the guy does the same thing in 6 months, are we to believe him?
While I'm hightly curious and even more concerned, it's None Of Our Damn Business. I can think of nothing more private.
If he had remained private about the whole matter it would be None Of Our Damn Business. He did however post cries for help (twice!) about his illness to the Open Source community, speculate about what his problem is, etc. At the point you make the matter public, it DOES become the publics business. Obviously he can release as much information about it as he wants, but he already pulled the trigger on making it other peoples business.
Yah, that's probbably pretty accurate. His sentence seems to be within the federal sentencing guidelines for criminal trespass. Check it out here The sentence seems a bit much considering the intent of the crime (stupid attempt at finding DL/UL site), but not really unduly harsh.
Uh, I hate to break it to you, but science is based upon publication of data, peer review, and yes credibility. A third party report of a kids science project has none of that. Even after all that we get a lot of junk that's published but eventually cleaned up after repeated experiments. Is this experiment a usefull learning tool to the kid? Of course. Is it information worth basing any opionions on? Absolutely not.
Why didn't he setup a non-root account for his wife on the windows box? Why didn't he install THE browser, Firefox, on his wife computer?
Because it's his wife and not just some user? Jesus man, just because you're "a sysadmin" doesn't mean you're god. Many people don't like Mozilla/Firefox and don't want to put up with the minor incompatibilities (I know they're there, I run into them once a month or so). Windows is also a major pain to use if you're gimped down to not be able to install programs, add printers, etc. Being a sysadmin doesn't always mean locking everything down tighter than Toby.
The evidence you present for prediction innacuracy is "a kid at your son's school" and his "science project"? Have I fallen into the twilight zone where this is considered even remotely credible evidence?
On display at the Multnomah County Main Library here in downtown Portland is a water cooler from around 1915 that is lined with Uranium. Instructions just above the spigot say to enjoy 6-8 glasses a day to help improve your health through the benefits of radiation.
Except that's not science, that's...consumerism. I have no doubt whatsoever that people will laugh at the foolish things people actually believe today.. like say the new age nutjobs who believe in crystals. But then we already laugh at these nutjobs today. I little less crazy is all the 60hz radiation from power lines causes cancer nonsense. Again, that's a belief brought on by media hysteria, not something actually backed up by science.
The church teaches that a soul can only be created by god, not humans. So, the successful cloning of a human, resulting in a living, thinking person, created by people by human ingenuity instead of the usual way - fscking - means that either people don't need a soul to live and think (which completely undermines the basis for positing a soul in the first place), or the lab techs whipped up a soul in the closet and didn't put it in the report (in which case a soul has been created by other than god, which opens up a whole other can of worms for the church to explain away... eg, whence consciousness, and whence animus)
I don't believe in the concept of a soul either, but this experiment has nothing to do with proving or disproving the existence of a soul. Is there that much of a difference as far as the "soul creation" between fucking and cloning? (Or for that matter in-vitro fertilization and cloning).
If you believe in this soul business then you believe that Yahweh (the Judeo-Christian-Muslim god) somehow inserts the soul at the moment of conception. Can't 'ol Yahweh do the same voodoo when you clone someone? Given that we know nothing about this soul thing, the possibilites for its insertion into a human are endless.
Religion has already worked out any problems that lack of proof of mystical things like souls, praying, afterlife, etc pose. It's the tangible things like evolution, flat vs round earth, world wide floods, and heliocentric theory that produce the big problems.
People behind nazi-like firewalls shouldn't consider themselves on the internet. It's not the job of the rest of us to bend over backwards to service people that don't actually have internet access, but have restricted web-server access.
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Shocking - they don't seem to support DOS based Windows (9x and ME) even though there are arguably millions of infected consumper PC's. WinME boxes aren't THAT old.
Windows 9x/ME should die a horrible death. I don't blame MS for not supporting a 5 year old product. Do people complain when Redhat doesn't support Redhat 6.2 (released April 2000)? Supporting Legacy crap like 9x/ME is expensive and only makes the product less maintainable. I'm actually glad MS isn't supporting these products anymore.
ThinkSecret may be free to express anything they like (and are), but their source is not.
Then why sue ThinkSecret? Oh, for the skeevy legal maneurvering of discovery. ThinkSecret isn't guilty of anything, but sue them to get information.
Furthermore, ThinkSecret is profiting from this secret information, so it's not as if they are some altruistic, pro-consumer reporter. If Apple can demonstrate that ThinkSecret profits from information that ultimately causes damage to Apple's business, then they may have a case against them as well.
Utter bullshit. The first amendment protects ThinkSecret from any "you hurt our business" crap. There's no NDA on ThinkSecret, therefor Apple has no case. The whole thing is just Apple doing sleazy legal maneuvering to obtain information on who leaked the information. Similar lawsuits have been brought against sites advertising what was on sale the day after thanksgiving.
isn't Slashdot kindof a blog? Maybe?
No. A blog is where one person makes journal entries, and other people read it. Slashdot is a news discussion site. That's a lot different in content and format than a blog. Blogs are all about one person, Slashdot is about a the geek world around us.
Actually I have T-mobile here, but I don't have a tri-band phone. If I were going to Europe I'd probbably buy one (or make T-mobile upgrade me) and then do the SIM switch. I'm also not certain all SIMs are compatible with all GSM phones. I tried putting a housemate from Italy's SIM in my phone and it said the SIM wasn't recognized.
I was referring to outgoing firewalls, like I said in my post. If you're only allowed access to port 80 and 443, Vonage isn't going to work. Also if the firewall only allows HTTP requests out, it obviously wouldn't work.
I don't think so. I'm pretty sure that isn't supported under SIP (which is what I believe Vonage uses for its VoIP protocol). Even if it was there wouldn't be many fully covered areas with WiFi (or at least areas where you're allowed free usage).
I see the use of using it in a Starbucks, or whatever, but it would hardly make a practical mobile phone. And I doubt people would bother carrying two phones around.
Oh I don't think it's intended to be for anyone that already has a cell phone. More likely it's for anyone travelling that doesn't have a cell phone (or travelling where they don't have service, like say Europe).
The phone (or telephone adaptor as the case may be) registers with Vonage when it's turned on. Vonage then knows the IP address the phone is located at. There's even ways of working through a NAT, though obviously an outgoing firewall would be a problem.
I dunno.. maybe because winning at Jeopardy isn't this wonderfull intellectual achievment people make it out to be? There use to be a time when knowing trivia was considered trivial. Now it's as if Ken Jennings won the Nobel prize.
As far as celebrity, well you've got me there. But then that's not really such a high post these days, considering the company
I'd assume the value in looking at the heat shield is to determine how well it performed. I'd guess that's one thing you can never adequately test and maybe getting pictures of the shield can determine if it performed better, worse,or as expected. Obviously this could make future missions more reliable, cheaper, etc.
Ever heard of something called the Pacific Ocean? It's plum full of that substance we call water. I hear there's even more oceans than just the Pacific.
I really do hope you're joking. Any amount of water we can "create" (that wasn't water to begin with) would be completely insignificant to the amount of water we already redistribute throughout the environment by just being alive.
2) This not regular old porno. The girl involved in this did not give her conest to the release of the video - nor did she know she was being filmed
How the hell do you not know you're being filmed when the guy you're blowing is holding a cell-phone camera right up to you?
As far as distribution consent, technically that's true. However after Pamela Anderson and Paris Hilton tapes leaked out to everyone on the planet that wanted them should you really shouldn't be that surprised when it leaks.. especially if it's some 16 year old kid filming you. This girl needs to take some of the responsibility for this. It's not like this is the first time it's happened.
Boy this is all getting pretty humorless.
Only because you've blown this waaay out of proportion. Hitler? War on terror? What's wrong with you?
It wasn't an argument at all. I was simply making fun of your obvious lack of concern for his wellbeing accompanied by demands that he show consideration for you.
And another strawman. Please stick to the facts rather than playing the emotion card.
It also says the evidence for it is scant, and infrequent. I've had problems with the top layer flaking off, but never problems from the sharpie.
Given the HUGE amount of people that use sharpies to label disks and the scant evidence, I'd tend to ignore this as just FUD.
Wow with that kind of concern for his wellbeing being shown, he must be pretty heartless to refrain from keeping his "fans" updated?
Nice strawman argument. The issue is not one of fandom. If you expose yourself to public scrutiny don't be too surprised when people actually scrutinize you.
How many years has he been producing Slackware? How many times has he asked for help? Yeah, he's really starting to be a burden.
That's really immaterial. What is relevent is credibility. The lack of information about the central issue he was asking help for (what's wrong with him) only leads to a further degradation in his credibility.
He asked for help because he felt desperate, now he is back working on Slack. Thats enough information isnt it?
No, not really. There's been some legitimate concern if this guy is really sick, or just a hypochondriac. I don't know either way, but the fact that he's suddenly real quite about what the mystery illness was (that he also asked people for help trying to identify) doesn't really help the case against hypochondria.
"Publics business" my arse, you dont own the guy just because he asked for help. Go watch the tv if you want to see bodies being pulled from auto wrecks.
No one ever claimed to "own the guy", but a kindly word about what's wrong with him is hardly expecting a lot. It is the business of the public at large if you're asking for help, make public statements like you're near death, act vaguely like a hypochondriac (but also vaguely like somoene frustrated with the medical system) then mysteriously clam up about the whole thing once you're "cured". Well which one is it, hypochondira or a real illness?
But if you just want to satisfy purient curiosity then thats just pointless bad manners. Rephrase the question or consider it withdrawn.
The interest is one of trust. If the guy does the same thing in 6 months, are we to believe him?
While I'm hightly curious and even more concerned, it's None Of Our Damn Business. I can think of nothing more private.
If he had remained private about the whole matter it would be None Of Our Damn Business. He did however post cries for help (twice!) about his illness to the Open Source community, speculate about what his problem is, etc. At the point you make the matter public, it DOES become the publics business. Obviously he can release as much information about it as he wants, but he already pulled the trigger on making it other peoples business.
Yah, that's probbably pretty accurate. His sentence seems to be within the federal sentencing guidelines for criminal trespass. Check it out here
The sentence seems a bit much considering the intent of the crime (stupid attempt at finding DL/UL site), but not really unduly harsh.
Uh, I hate to break it to you, but science is based upon publication of data, peer review, and yes credibility. A third party report of a kids science project has none of that. Even after all that we get a lot of junk that's published but eventually cleaned up after repeated experiments. Is this experiment a usefull learning tool to the kid? Of course. Is it information worth basing any opionions on? Absolutely not.
Why didn't he setup a non-root account for his wife on the windows box? Why didn't he install THE browser, Firefox, on his wife computer?
Because it's his wife and not just some user? Jesus man, just because you're "a sysadmin" doesn't mean you're god. Many people don't like Mozilla/Firefox and don't want to put up with the minor incompatibilities (I know they're there, I run into them once a month or so). Windows is also a major pain to use if you're gimped down to not be able to install programs, add printers, etc. Being a sysadmin doesn't always mean locking everything down tighter than Toby.
The evidence you present for prediction innacuracy is "a kid at your son's school" and his "science project"? Have I fallen into the twilight zone where this is considered even remotely credible evidence?
On display at the Multnomah County Main Library here in downtown Portland is a water cooler from around 1915 that is lined with Uranium. Instructions just above the spigot say to enjoy 6-8 glasses a day to help improve your health through the benefits of radiation.
Except that's not science, that's...consumerism. I have no doubt whatsoever that people will laugh at the foolish things people actually believe today.. like say the new age nutjobs who believe in crystals. But then we already laugh at these nutjobs today. I little less crazy is all the 60hz radiation from power lines causes cancer nonsense. Again, that's a belief brought on by media hysteria, not something actually backed up by science.
The church teaches that a soul can only be created by god, not humans. So, the successful cloning of a human, resulting in a living, thinking person, created by people by human ingenuity instead of the usual way - fscking - means that either people don't need a soul to live and think (which completely undermines the basis for positing a soul in the first place), or the lab techs whipped up a soul in the closet and didn't put it in the report (in which case a soul has been created by other than god, which opens up a whole other can of worms for the church to explain away... eg, whence consciousness, and whence animus)
I don't believe in the concept of a soul either, but this experiment has nothing to do with proving or disproving the existence of a soul. Is there that much of a difference as far as the "soul creation" between fucking and cloning? (Or for that matter in-vitro fertilization and cloning).
If you believe in this soul business then you believe that Yahweh (the Judeo-Christian-Muslim god) somehow inserts the soul at the moment of conception. Can't 'ol Yahweh do the same voodoo when you clone someone? Given that we know nothing about this soul thing, the possibilites for its insertion into a human are endless.
Religion has already worked out any problems that lack of proof of mystical things like souls, praying, afterlife, etc pose. It's the tangible things like evolution, flat vs round earth, world wide floods, and heliocentric theory that produce the big problems.
People behind nazi-like firewalls shouldn't consider themselves on the internet. It's not the job of the rest of us to bend over backwards to service people that don't actually have internet access, but have restricted web-server access.