PSP plays a major role in my weight loss plan. Every day I copy an avi from my media library to my mac book pro. I convert it to PSP format with ffmpeg (which has a preset PSP format! Thanks!) which takes about 5 mins for 40 mins of video (a 1 hour show with the commercials stripped). I then copy the convert file to my psp from my mbp via usb which takes
I'm tired of sites like Domania or any of a gazillion foreclosure sites make money by selling you information that is of public record. Why do I have to pay to find out if a used car I want to buy has been in an accident, when that information is available in public records? Google is not talking about publishing stuff that isn't already public record -- they're publishing stuff that HAS ALREADY HAD THE MERITS OF BEING PUBLIC DEBATED -- that's how these things became public records in the first place. So, there shouldn't be any more debate about whether or not public records should be public. Or, if there is, the issue is one for your local governing body -- not Google
It's an interesting play because the Dems do have enough votes to impeach Cheney -- but the Senate would never find him guilty by a 2/3rd majority. This is of course the same brilliant strategy that the dems have been using for the last 12 years in elections -- fighting and winning the meaningless battles, and losing the important ones -- which is why I despair for the 2008 election.
In addition, once this road is crossed -- impeaching for , and every time the president/vp is in office, and a different party has a majority in the senate and house, you'll see an impeachment. It's the same thing that happened once the line was crossed with judicial appointments. Partisian politics has made almost every parties' political victory a Pyrrhic one for the American people. We get the shaft, while the politicians get rich fighting each other. We need a 3rd party...
Finally, does Kucinich this this will help him get elected President?
That would be very sweet indeed, because they'd have to have a public key for masses of emails, that people would have to get -- once that key is flagged as being malicious, the spam doesn't get read.
I agree, and in fact for me the article lost credibility for recommending against Enigmail -- Enigmail is a must have.
If we're ever going to have digital signatures become the norm (something I'd like to see) then the advanced users are going to have to model it for the neophytes. Digitally sign every email you send, and when people ask why you do it, spoof an "I'm joining a cult" email from them to their friends. I'm pretty confident that eventually only signed emails will be delivered -- be ahead of the curve!
Firstly, if you're trying to say that food should not be dangerous, why are you assigning death into food? I made a coding funny! You wrote Food = DEATH instead of food == DEATH. HA! Ho... hum... Probably shoulda kept that myself...
But more seriously, you have to be SO rich to say FOOD==DEATH. It's ridiculous. Please watch the episode of Penn and Teller's Bullshit entitled "Eat This."
...The quality of food and drink in the US has been going steadily down since, well since forever. There are more chemicals (MSG, Aspertame, Preservatives), cheap semi-toxic fillers (Any partially hydrogenated oil), and re-used byproducts in our food than there has ever been. The FDA is basically a rubber stamp for a few corporations who prey on the masses inability to find food sources that are anything but super convenient...
And yet lifespan keeps going up! Which seems so contrary to us eating more and more POISON Your anti-government chanting might play well here on/. but your anti-science stance will not. If it weren't for agricultural science, GM crops and preservatives, the earth would not be supporting
6.5 Billion.
Do I approve of standards in food control? Of course. Do I think that there is a potential threat in the food supply? Surely. Do I think your hyperbole HURTS the cause? yes. When you say food == DEATH, you come across as a well fed jerk who doesn't care. In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty", and every year 15 million children die of hunger..
Where this gets sad is when anti-science, anti-progress nuts have convinced countries which have FAMINES that the GM food that Americans eat EVERY DAY will poison their people and ruin their crops. When you convince starving people to refuse food that causes the starvation death of MILLIONS -- how evil is that?
You say FOOD = DEATH?
Just the opposite is true my rich friend. No food == DEATH. Food == life
The problem is that the raw data is unintelligible to a conventional read -- without the ability to understand/organize the data you cannot play the dvd. Assuredly there are program out there that will let you do that, but your vanilla DVD playing software wont understand the data at all.
You're actually much more traceable with a giant corporation PC because Dell/HP etc. definitely can track a PC from MAC address to serial number, to sale.
I've done the opposite of what you're saying is impossible. We buy pcs in bulk -> over 1000 at a pop. User calls me from a remote site because he/she can't access our wireless network -- because we use mac filtering and some other stuff for security. User doesn't actually know where his laptop is though, so he can't check the mac address for me. (*sigh* I can't explain that either). Fortunately I have a record of what PC we gave to that user.
I look up the serial number, called the support people from the manufacturer with the SN, and they told me it's mac address.
So wise up 00 0B F3 95 42 22 -- we know who you are.
Au contraire mon frere. Microsoft is on example of a company who LEGITIMATELY and ILLEGITIMATELY collects information. The nature of privacy is that you are in control of who knows what about you -- and even if you're doing "illegal" things, you should be free from "unreasonable searches."
Now, even though Microsoft is not taking your information for malicious purposes (I'll concede that), they are violating your privacy by accumulating data on you. The question is, should what they do be considered illegal. Currently it is not. I believe the OP's point was that what MSFT is doing IS currently legal, but if you put a law on the book stating "Software which transmit information off of your computer without the operators knowledge will be illegal" you are getting onto a very slippery slope. Where will AJAX come into this? What about advertising cookies? What about that damn doubleclick gif? The latter 2 are spyware in my book, because they enable people to spy on me. If there were a law on the book against spyware, it would have to be incredibly well crafted to not make most of todays web advertisers liable.
The point of course is, that just because someone mentions MSFT, doesn't mean that the OP is not on topic. Very Theoish of you to suggest otherwise. =)
Theo complains for Michael taking their spat public, and then Theo blows it up into such a flame war that every nerd on./ (and I mean all of you except me) knows that Marcus Glocker claims credit for code he didn't write, and Theo de Raadt is a completely irrational jerk.
Theo wanted to keep it quiet? Well, sir, I applaud you! I bet you've also been working for peace in the Middle East! You're only real fault was having this appear on the front page on the weekend.
Geeks have long memories. Marcus, Michael and Theo, your roles in all of this will not be long forgotten, especially since this thread on/. and will show up very highly in Google searches on your names for years to come. I'm sure one of you isn't worried about that.
You forget the fact that people who drive near the GW are obligated by law to ignore all the signs. I hope you're not the wiseass who has actually been trying to get to his exit lane with some forethought instead of that the last minute!
The above points are all well taken -- I guess I was just concerned about corporations throwing their weight around and rushing to litigate in the knowledge that most people will not or cannot afford to fight them. I was working at Palm when Palm sued the owner of www.mypalm.com, in a move that was internally regarded as completely unjustified by everyone who didn't wear a suit to work. Palm eventually dropped the suit and settled with the guy when the developers revolted against corporate on this issue (if only we'd known that was the tip if the iceberg).
I'm afraid that this precedent could lead to many other cases of companies trying to seize domains they want through legal methods. I'd rather see people get their DNS from someone they trust, than a judge decide that Delta Airlines owns the trademark to the word Delta.
I once owned microsofd.com thinking I'd make a fortune off or people with colds once voice recognition software was the input of choice for browsing. *sigh* Back to the drawing board.
But seriously, isn't this already addressed well through OpenDNS?
I'm not an eco guy by any stretch of the imagination, e.g. I still have an open mind about the cause of global warming. But I definitely believe what they said in Who killed The Electric Car: With at least $1 Trillion worth of oil in the ground, the oil industry will do ANYTHING to prevent people from finding an alternative source of energy.
Ugh, why get the UN involved at all? Because they've done such a great job in solving terrestrial problems? What could the United Nations possibly do? There are probably 5 nations in the world that have the ability to do something about this. So let's not ask Venezuela or Bhutan what they think we should do.
Play Dungeon Siege: What ever skills you practice, you become proficient in. Armor, etc is limited by your strength. Primarily spell casting characters usually don't wear plate mail because they don't have the strength to be wearing 80 pounds of plate mail while swinging a 30 pound sword. But if you were one of those behemouths, nothing would prevent you from focusing on becoming a mage, learning spells, etc.
I avoided DS for a long time for no good reason, but I've found it to be one of the best single player role playing games around.
I placed this client on a number of torrent files that I suspected were monitored by BayTSP (For my own protection I don't want to identify the torrents used for this research. I used the fact that NBC is a client of BayTSP to find trackers.
So it's like going up to an illegal drug dealer (because the torrent is not of a legally shared file) and asking him/her "Can I buy some crack from you." (because the client sent a request to the tracker). Even though no illegal goods changed hands, we're are definitely NOT talking about the companies disconnecting people because thry are downloading FC6 or Ctrl-Alt-Chicken via bittorrent.
I'm not agreeing with the media companies here, but it's not as draconian as you are making it out to be.
I've seen these scam networks on trains and subways in the Boston. And I'm sure it's happening elsewhere. Think of all the good stuff you could get if you were to compromise every computer on the Long Island Railroad going home from NYC. I'd imagine you'll see this exploit on express buses on routes to/from financial centers, and the potential for industrial espionage is quite high as well.
The Treo does more than you'd think, and at least for me, syncing with itunes is not an advantage at all, because I find itunes as a music player cumbersome. But I agree that the Treo is no Iphone. For one thing, the Treo's lack of an accessible OS is crippling. When the linux based Treo's come out, then there will be a Palm device worth comparing. The Windows based Palms are such crap that you wouldn't want to wipe your ass with one.
The Cingular 8525 is the phone the Iphone should be compared to because:
3G is awesome
The ability to act as a modem via USB cable is AWESOME. I currently use my treo as a bluetooth modem, and it SUCKS -- bluetooth isn't that fast of a protocol.
windows media player. decidedly NOT awesome, but at least better than Itunes
Slashdot Mirror
Step 1: Patent commenting
Step 2: ???????????
Step 3: Profit!!!!
The problem is there will be no profit because no one comments. On the other hand, at least there is no prior art to rule against your patent.
The scammers will go where the money is, leaving the local games pure again.
PSP plays a major role in my weight loss plan. Every day I copy an avi from my media library to my mac book pro. I convert it to PSP format with ffmpeg (which has a preset PSP format! Thanks!) which takes about 5 mins for 40 mins of video (a 1 hour show with the commercials stripped). I then copy the convert file to my psp from my mbp via usb which takes
You're refering to the UMD disks, which are indeed very proprietary, but about to go away to be replaced by downloadable movies
I'm tired of sites like Domania or any of a gazillion foreclosure sites make money by selling you information that is of public record. Why do I have to pay to find out if a used car I want to buy has been in an accident, when that information is available in public records? Google is not talking about publishing stuff that isn't already public record -- they're publishing stuff that HAS ALREADY HAD THE MERITS OF BEING PUBLIC DEBATED -- that's how these things became public records in the first place. So, there shouldn't be any more debate about whether or not public records should be public. Or, if there is, the issue is one for your local governing body -- not Google
In addition, once this road is crossed -- impeaching for , and every time the president/vp is in office, and a different party has a majority in the senate and house, you'll see an impeachment. It's the same thing that happened once the line was crossed with judicial appointments. Partisian politics has made almost every parties' political victory a Pyrrhic one for the American people. We get the shaft, while the politicians get rich fighting each other. We need a 3rd party...
Finally, does Kucinich this this will help him get elected President?
That would be very sweet indeed, because they'd have to have a public key for masses of emails, that people would have to get -- once that key is flagged as being malicious, the spam doesn't get read.
I agree, and in fact for me the article lost credibility for recommending against Enigmail -- Enigmail is a must have. If we're ever going to have digital signatures become the norm (something I'd like to see) then the advanced users are going to have to model it for the neophytes. Digitally sign every email you send, and when people ask why you do it, spoof an "I'm joining a cult" email from them to their friends. I'm pretty confident that eventually only signed emails will be delivered -- be ahead of the curve!
Firstly, if you're trying to say that food should not be dangerous, why are you assigning death into food? I made a coding funny! You wrote Food = DEATH instead of food == DEATH. HA! Ho... hum... Probably shoulda kept that myself...
But more seriously, you have to be SO rich to say FOOD==DEATH. It's ridiculous. Please watch the episode of Penn and Teller's Bullshit entitled "Eat This."
And yet lifespan keeps going up! Which seems so contrary to us eating more and more POISON Your anti-government chanting might play well here on /. but your anti-science stance will not. If it weren't for agricultural science, GM crops and preservatives, the earth would not be supporting
6.5 Billion.
Do I approve of standards in food control? Of course. Do I think that there is a potential threat in the food supply? Surely. Do I think your hyperbole HURTS the cause? yes. When you say food == DEATH, you come across as a well fed jerk who doesn't care. In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty", and every year 15 million children die of hunger..
Where this gets sad is when anti-science, anti-progress nuts have convinced countries which have FAMINES that the GM food that Americans eat EVERY DAY will poison their people and ruin their crops. When you convince starving people to refuse food that causes the starvation death of MILLIONS -- how evil is that?
You say FOOD = DEATH?
Just the opposite is true my rich friend. No food == DEATH. Food == life
The problem is that the raw data is unintelligible to a conventional read -- without the ability to understand/organize the data you cannot play the dvd. Assuredly there are program out there that will let you do that, but your vanilla DVD playing software wont understand the data at all.
You're actually much more traceable with a giant corporation PC because Dell/HP etc. definitely can track a PC from MAC address to serial number, to sale.
I've done the opposite of what you're saying is impossible. We buy pcs in bulk -> over 1000 at a pop. User calls me from a remote site because he/she can't access our wireless network -- because we use mac filtering and some other stuff for security. User doesn't actually know where his laptop is though, so he can't check the mac address for me. (*sigh* I can't explain that either). Fortunately I have a record of what PC we gave to that user.
I look up the serial number, called the support people from the manufacturer with the SN, and they told me it's mac address.
So wise up 00 0B F3 95 42 22 -- we know who you are.
Au contraire mon frere. Microsoft is on example of a company who LEGITIMATELY and ILLEGITIMATELY collects information. The nature of privacy is that you are in control of who knows what about you -- and even if you're doing "illegal" things, you should be free from "unreasonable searches."
Now, even though Microsoft is not taking your information for malicious purposes (I'll concede that), they are violating your privacy by accumulating data on you. The question is, should what they do be considered illegal. Currently it is not. I believe the OP's point was that what MSFT is doing IS currently legal, but if you put a law on the book stating "Software which transmit information off of your computer without the operators knowledge will be illegal" you are getting onto a very slippery slope. Where will AJAX come into this? What about advertising cookies? What about that damn doubleclick gif? The latter 2 are spyware in my book, because they enable people to spy on me. If there were a law on the book against spyware, it would have to be incredibly well crafted to not make most of todays web advertisers liable.
The point of course is, that just because someone mentions MSFT, doesn't mean that the OP is not on topic. Very Theoish of you to suggest otherwise. =)
Theo complains for Michael taking their spat public, and then Theo blows it up into such a flame war that every nerd on ./ (and I mean all of you except me) knows that Marcus Glocker claims credit for code he didn't write, and Theo de Raadt is a completely irrational jerk.
/. and will show up very highly in Google searches on your names for years to come. I'm sure one of you isn't worried about that.
Theo wanted to keep it quiet? Well, sir, I applaud you! I bet you've also been working for peace in the Middle East! You're only real fault was having this appear on the front page on the weekend.
Geeks have long memories. Marcus, Michael and Theo, your roles in all of this will not be long forgotten, especially since this thread on
You forget the fact that people who drive near the GW are obligated by law to ignore all the signs. I hope you're not the wiseass who has actually been trying to get to his exit lane with some forethought instead of that the last minute!
The above points are all well taken -- I guess I was just concerned about corporations throwing their weight around and rushing to litigate in the knowledge that most people will not or cannot afford to fight them. I was working at Palm when Palm sued the owner of www.mypalm.com, in a move that was internally regarded as completely unjustified by everyone who didn't wear a suit to work. Palm eventually dropped the suit and settled with the guy when the developers revolted against corporate on this issue (if only we'd known that was the tip if the iceberg).
I'm afraid that this precedent could lead to many other cases of companies trying to seize domains they want through legal methods. I'd rather see people get their DNS from someone they trust, than a judge decide that Delta Airlines owns the trademark to the word Delta.
But seriously, isn't this already addressed well through OpenDNS?
Even promoting more efficient cars.
They kill Youtube through red tape, and then Google Video rises like the Phoenix?
Ugh, why get the UN involved at all? Because they've done such a great job in solving terrestrial problems? What could the United Nations possibly do? There are probably 5 nations in the world that have the ability to do something about this. So let's not ask Venezuela or Bhutan what they think we should do.
Play Dungeon Siege: What ever skills you practice, you become proficient in. Armor, etc is limited by your strength. Primarily spell casting characters usually don't wear plate mail because they don't have the strength to be wearing 80 pounds of plate mail while swinging a 30 pound sword. But if you were one of those behemouths, nothing would prevent you from focusing on becoming a mage, learning spells, etc. I avoided DS for a long time for no good reason, but I've found it to be one of the best single player role playing games around.
From the article:
So it's like going up to an illegal drug dealer (because the torrent is not of a legally shared file) and asking him/her "Can I buy some crack from you." (because the client sent a request to the tracker). Even though no illegal goods changed hands, we're are definitely NOT talking about the companies disconnecting people because thry are downloading FC6 or Ctrl-Alt-Chicken via bittorrent.I'm not agreeing with the media companies here, but it's not as draconian as you are making it out to be.
I've seen these scam networks on trains and subways in the Boston. And I'm sure it's happening elsewhere. Think of all the good stuff you could get if you were to compromise every computer on the Long Island Railroad going home from NYC. I'd imagine you'll see this exploit on express buses on routes to/from financial centers, and the potential for industrial espionage is quite high as well.
But seriously folks -- I wrote about this happening right here on /. 2 years ago
Oh, wait....
The Treo does more than you'd think, and at least for me, syncing with itunes is not an advantage at all, because I find itunes as a music player cumbersome. But I agree that the Treo is no Iphone. For one thing, the Treo's lack of an accessible OS is crippling. When the linux based Treo's come out, then there will be a Palm device worth comparing. The Windows based Palms are such crap that you wouldn't want to wipe your ass with one.
The Cingular 8525 is the phone the Iphone should be compared to because:
Otherwise, companies will be able to get away with anything they want as long as they have a bigger legal war chest than their competitors
Yup, you're right. No way that could happen.