There's more than 3 manufacturers, people. But even with that, was it a shock at all that Plextor won? I mean, come on, it's Plextor for Christ's sake.
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That's what makes the hunt fun... No lame search engine, just go see, if it's there then you win; if not move on to the next sporting hole. For a while I had a shitload of really wacky stuff that many would never even find on KaZaA now...
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No self-respecting culture maven can deny their love affair with Napster. If you weren't spending your spare time in the years 99-00 downloading MP3s like a champ, it's likely you were still in diapers or dancing with wolves. Oh, Napster, we loved ye when.
I saw Napster (and the rest of them) as being for lamers. The fun was the hunt of the file...like a big game hunter in Africa. It was all about anonymous FTP for me. And when Napster was shut down, there were people moaning about not getting their MP3 fixes...whereas I still hunted the anony FTP sitez and found my prey (usually.) As P2P becomes more of a target and RIAA keeps shutting them down (perhaps bittorrent will be next?) the FTP keeps on a chuggin'. Kinda hard to shut down that which isn't as public as the P2P stuff. And IP addresses can change oh so easily.
No matter what the OS, online voting will not be secure. If it's software, it's hackable; if it's hardware, it's too expensive to impliment. What's more, remember those dead people voting in Chicago (and other places?) Yeah, they'll be back again....
Finally, though Microsoft is not mentioned, people might start to understand what a monoculture of poor quality software enables.
Read that as "Although MS isn't implicated at ALL in the article, I as a Slashdot reader must make my daily quota of biased anti-MS attacks despite the evidence to the contrary." Glad to see the status quo is strong on/.
Nobody is arguing the student has a right to study his chosen topic, rather that the results of that topic would better be left in a sector that would not injure others. The problem is, to follow Franklin we have to let the thesis stand on its own merit and let the chips fall where they may; and to follow security we need to prevent certain information from getting into the hands of the "enemy" (whoever the hell that might be.) Security and Liberty, in this case, are diametrically opposed. I prefer the right of the student to research the project to completion, then classify the document and prohibit him from lecturing ont he subject or ever duplicating his research. There is precedent for this, usually military, but precedent none the less. There are reports in Washington that were written by people who aren't cleared to read their own writing. (The flaw there lies with the system rather than anything else). But that's what we're left with. If he's lucky, they wont confiscate his computer equipment once he's done.
..."but police, scientists and privacy experts say the technology could easily be adapted to spy on Americans."
Everything can be used to spy (or gain information on) Americans. We're just that open of a society. That's a no-brainer. But the question is: how do we balance our privacy versus the government's role of protector?
DoD thought of this sort of thing a long time ago when the "Blackbird" was still in development. It was going to be an interceptor, but the value of it being a camera-toting spyplane was greater. I always wondered why they never continued the previous phase of deleopment. Hell, 10 years ago I was thinking, just load a smallish nuke on a SR-71, take it for a ride, drop it at a manageable altitude, then before the bomb detonates push the plane to full go...by the time the flash is seen you're 400 miles away.
Calling the Bugbear virus a "Microsoft virus" is stupid. It's a user virus...especially since there's been a fix for how long now? Users are to blame for idiocy, regardless of the OS.
Just think back to the olden days where all we had was anonymous FTP sites (I mean sitez). RIAA can have loads of fun with that. KaZaA, Morpheus, Napster, Gnutella, Waste, whatever...let them all go the way of the dinosaur and the RIAA won't know anything more about it, but the FTP keeps on serving.
A sling that "falls" each time you use it is kinda wacky to me. Why not just build gigantic railgun instead and magnetically accellerate the spaceship (once in low orbit) instead?
I mean, MS may be friggin' in the riggin', but the way SP3's EULA was writen was a bit vague...so I assumed (privacy and the law bein gon my mind) that this is what they meant in the first place but didn't bother to express it very well. Either way, I'm pleased.
We all remember when France sued Yahoo! to get them to stop allowing material that was not "acceptible" to the French, even though the Yahoo! servers are here in America; so with that in mind could this law be used to force the "right of reply" on blog-servers here in the good ol' USA?
Arwen was being literal. Once she made her choice, it was game over as far as going into the West was concerned. She kept up her immortaility until Aragorn's death then later passed on, succumbing to the Doom of Men (death.) That's somewhere in the appenxices of LOTR, but I'm at work and can't just jump to get it.
We need a department that has the power to review and revoke a patent. If you're not going to produce what you patent, or if your patent is overly broad (or just plain stupid) it should be revoked.
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There's more than 3 manufacturers, people. But even with that, was it a shock at all that Plextor won? I mean, come on, it's Plextor for Christ's sake.
That's what makes the hunt fun... No lame search engine, just go see, if it's there then you win; if not move on to the next sporting hole. For a while I had a shitload of really wacky stuff that many would never even find on KaZaA now...
No self-respecting culture maven can deny their love affair with Napster. If you weren't spending your spare time in the years 99-00 downloading MP3s like a champ, it's likely you were still in diapers or dancing with wolves. Oh, Napster, we loved ye when.
I saw Napster (and the rest of them) as being for lamers. The fun was the hunt of the file...like a big game hunter in Africa. It was all about anonymous FTP for me. And when Napster was shut down, there were people moaning about not getting their MP3 fixes...whereas I still hunted the anony FTP sitez and found my prey (usually.) As P2P becomes more of a target and RIAA keeps shutting them down (perhaps bittorrent will be next?) the FTP keeps on a chuggin'. Kinda hard to shut down that which isn't as public as the P2P stuff. And IP addresses can change oh so easily.
No matter what the OS, online voting will not be secure. If it's software, it's hackable; if it's hardware, it's too expensive to impliment. What's more, remember those dead people voting in Chicago (and other places?) Yeah, they'll be back again....
My genius is dedicated to science..
And my genius is dedicated to my dick! Let's see who has more fun...
Finally, though Microsoft is not mentioned, people might start to understand what a monoculture of poor quality software enables.
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Read that as "Although MS isn't implicated at ALL in the article, I as a Slashdot reader must make my daily quota of biased anti-MS attacks despite the evidence to the contrary." Glad to see the status quo is strong on
Nobody is arguing the student has a right to study his chosen topic, rather that the results of that topic would better be left in a sector that would not injure others. The problem is, to follow Franklin we have to let the thesis stand on its own merit and let the chips fall where they may; and to follow security we need to prevent certain information from getting into the hands of the "enemy" (whoever the hell that might be.) Security and Liberty, in this case, are diametrically opposed. I prefer the right of the student to research the project to completion, then classify the document and prohibit him from lecturing ont he subject or ever duplicating his research. There is precedent for this, usually military, but precedent none the less. There are reports in Washington that were written by people who aren't cleared to read their own writing. (The flaw there lies with the system rather than anything else). But that's what we're left with. If he's lucky, they wont confiscate his computer equipment once he's done.
All the Linux vendors out there pretty much said that they were going to take over about 3 years ago too...is it time for them to move on as well?
..."but police, scientists and privacy experts say the technology could easily be adapted to spy on Americans."
Everything can be used to spy (or gain information on) Americans. We're just that open of a society. That's a no-brainer. But the question is: how do we balance our privacy versus the government's role of protector?
DoD thought of this sort of thing a long time ago when the "Blackbird" was still in development. It was going to be an interceptor, but the value of it being a camera-toting spyplane was greater. I always wondered why they never continued the previous phase of deleopment. Hell, 10 years ago I was thinking, just load a smallish nuke on a SR-71, take it for a ride, drop it at a manageable altitude, then before the bomb detonates push the plane to full go...by the time the flash is seen you're 400 miles away.
I'd flip these guys the finger and have their asses thrown in the pokey. Of all the gall...
hax0rz:"Obey me!"
MS:"Fuck off, clown!" (secretly calling police)
hax0rz:"Shit, did you call the cops?"
MS: "No, but stay on the line, ok?"
[muffled sounds of arrests...]
Calling the Bugbear virus a "Microsoft virus" is stupid. It's a user virus...especially since there's been a fix for how long now? Users are to blame for idiocy, regardless of the OS.
Now I can have an answer to the age old question "Are you happy to see me or is that a computer in your pocket?"
Just think back to the olden days where all we had was anonymous FTP sites (I mean sitez). RIAA can have loads of fun with that. KaZaA, Morpheus, Napster, Gnutella, Waste, whatever...let them all go the way of the dinosaur and the RIAA won't know anything more about it, but the FTP keeps on serving.
All I can say is: you're mom is kewl. LOL
...for the release of the Shadows of Unrentide expansion... Rejoice, dammit!
A sling that "falls" each time you use it is kinda wacky to me. Why not just build gigantic railgun instead and magnetically accellerate the spaceship (once in low orbit) instead?
"You mean you wouldn't complain about us not using a new rope when we hang you..."
No more than Tim McVeigh did when they gave him a flu shot on death row....
It already is HIPAA compliant, that's been addressed. It's ok.
No, really, it is!
I mean, MS may be friggin' in the riggin', but the way SP3's EULA was writen was a bit vague...so I assumed (privacy and the law bein gon my mind) that this is what they meant in the first place but didn't bother to express it very well. Either way, I'm pleased.
We all remember when France sued Yahoo! to get them to stop allowing material that was not "acceptible" to the French, even though the Yahoo! servers are here in America; so with that in mind could this law be used to force the "right of reply" on blog-servers here in the good ol' USA?
This page pretty much explains it all.
Arwen was being literal. Once she made her choice, it was game over as far as going into the West was concerned. She kept up her immortaility until Aragorn's death then later passed on, succumbing to the Doom of Men (death.) That's somewhere in the appenxices of LOTR, but I'm at work and can't just jump to get it.
Such is love: bittersweet.
We need a department that has the power to review and revoke a patent. If you're not going to produce what you patent, or if your patent is overly broad (or just plain stupid) it should be revoked.