According to another insider with access to the data, the man responsible for stealing this info had to scale a 3 foot wall, distract a cocker spaniel with ADD, open a squeaky door, and play Whack-a-Mole until he got the high score to get access to where the data was stored.
He then had to play tic-tac-toe against a chicken, and decide if 'Eliza' passed the Turing test to actually acces the data.
Once it was fully printed on tractor feed paper, he then had to bribe a small child with Pokemon cards, and juggle three rolls of tape and sing 'You Are the Wind Beneath My Wings' in front of Ryan Seacrest in order to abscond with the wheelbarrel full of printouts.
... the "new" thing being reported is the microbends fail by going opaque when higher optical powers are being transmitted in the fibers
The funny thing to me is that this may become a self-regulating condition.
When carriers first started moving from SONET->CWDM->DWDM, everyone was concerned that packing so much data into a fiber would cause a huge glut of unlit (dark) fiber.
Now, as more and more power gets shoved down the line, they toast the fibers that used to be functional, forcing them to move over to some of that dark fiber.
Poof, there goes the glut!
Next time someone says "The Matrix has you", they probably won't be lying. Of course, you'll know all too well, when the CIA goons come crashing through the front door.
So, do you kill the first six, then run from rooftop to rooftop in a mad dash to the payphone, or do you do what nobody else has ever done -- stay and fight?
I didn't run the Installer, I just unpacked from the zip file. For what it's worth, I don't get Family Ky Logger when I use PestPatrol's on-line scanner.
Since there's not an installer, I ran the scan while Truck Dismount was running.
If you went to an all you can eat buffet (to use your analogy) and after you got there they told you that after the first plate full you could only have one bite every five minutes (i.e. you were rate capped), they would be commiting fraud since this is not "all you can eat."
Flip Wilson, circa 1970:
I went to a place with a sign "All you can eat for a dollar." The man gave me a plate a food, but when I asked for more he said no. I said "But the sign said 'All you can eat for a dollar'" and the man said "And that's all you can eat, for a dollar!"
They have just opend a can of worms
Cool, now I can just poke a hole in that Worm Can about 1-1/4" from the bottom, and sit across the street from the FCC using my WormCanTenna! Bwwwwaaahahahahaha!
Oddly enough, I used to work with the team that did U S WEST's web hosting for businesses (bonus points if you can name the year) called !nterprise. Yes, we all pronounced it bang-ter-prize.
They had a bunch of Compaq rack mount boxes, and someone (g. Wells?) configured NT/IIS on one rack, then Linux/Apache on the other. Even after much fine-tuning, the Linux box was SO much faster, that's what got deployed. In the mid 90s.
In a Fortune-100 company.
Don't care how I get modded, it's just fun to ramble on like the old man I am.
It's not stealing. They're selling a $10.99 camera. They're also telling you that the only way to get your prints is to bring that camera back to them.
But if you OWN the camera, why don't they give it back to you once the pictures are extracted?
They do. They charge you $11 for the camera, then $11 for each "picture extraction." You keep the camera -- it's yours. If you back your car over it, it's trash and you don't owe them anything.
Doesn't sound like a rental to me, sounds like selling a product below cost with plans to sell exclusive service on that product above cost. Nothing immoral with that business plan, and some folks are making really good cash with it. I expect these guys will too, just not from me.
But don't say that I'm stealing anything from them by opting out of their business plan.
Granted the article is light on details (no pun intended) but why does the power source need to be the Sun? Why not use the same combining/collimating/focus method but draw the power from one or more conventional incandescent lamps?
Yes, I realize that Sun == free, and electicity != free. Howsabout the Solar version for subsaharan Africa where reliable power is rare but sunlight is not, and we'll take the 1/10th-the-price-of-a-laser incandescent one here in North America where the opposite is true.
it's sad that this is the first thing that some folks think of when a product like this comes out. "how can we steal this thing?".
It's hard to tell if you're trolling or just missing the point. If IHBT, then IHL.
It's not stealing. They're selling a $10.99 camera. They're also telling you that the only way to get your prints is to bring that camera back to them. I'm buying a $10.99 camera, but I don't like someone telling me "The only way you can.... " about anything, so I'm gonna make good use of my $10.99 camera, thankyouverymuch.
And yes, I do have a CueCat. No, I didn't ever install the software, so I never agreed to the EULA that was on the software CD. No, I didn't steal my CueCat.
From the NYT text: Ritz Camera has begun to sell (and in Wisconsin, Walgreens is test-marketing) a single-use digital camera...
And I was just in Milwaukee earlier this week! In a Walgreens, even!!
Oh well, just have to have someone there mail me one I guess.
BTW: As others have surmised, this puppy will be reverse engineered in no time at all. I've got my $5 on September 24th.
Yes, but at least it's not astroturfing. The story was submitted by Michael Pierce, and the email addy for his story submission is michael@gir.seattlewireless.net
Of course he sounds like he's advertizing Seattle Wireless -- he is -- but he's honest and forthright about it.
But before you decide what to do with the lab, you've got to know why the computer shop wants to open one. If it's to drive up sales by pushing the shop's good directly, then tailor classes towards Making The Most Of The SB-Live! Audigy Card. If it's to be an uber-cyber-cafe and hope that business picks up based on your civic contribution, then teach Using The Internet For Research and Homework Help, or maybe How To Install Filtering Software To Keep The Kids From Porn.
Whatever it is, it's got to jive with your employer's reason for doin' it!
A good friend had cancer in his tongue a few years back. Rather than transplant in a donor, they just pulled up some of his pectoral and rebuilt it into a tongue for him. He could eat and drink, but lacked all sense of taste (as does the transplant patient, btw)
He had a helluva time with Tic Tacs, since he also couldn't feel tiny things.
Do me a favor, don't mod this posting. If you must, at least do a "+1 - Funny" as he would have wanted it that way.
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The funny thing to me is that this may become a self-regulating condition.
When carriers first started moving from SONET->CWDM->DWDM, everyone was concerned that packing so much data into a fiber would cause a huge glut of unlit (dark) fiber.
Now, as more and more power gets shoved down the line, they toast the fibers that used to be functional, forcing them to move over to some of that dark fiber.
Poof, there goes the glut!
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Did anyone else immediately think of the scene from Mr. Hollands Opus where the deaf/mute kid signs "Asshole" to his (asshole-of-a-) Dad?
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Next time someone says "The Matrix has you", they probably won't be lying. Of course, you'll know all too well, when the CIA goons come crashing through the front door.
So, do you kill the first six, then run from rooftop to rooftop in a mad dash to the payphone, or do you do what nobody else has ever done -- stay and fight?
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I didn't run the Installer, I just unpacked from the zip file. For what it's worth, I don't get Family Ky Logger when I use PestPatrol's on-line scanner. Since there's not an installer, I ran the scan while Truck Dismount was running.
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If you went to an all you can eat buffet (to use your analogy) and after you got there they told you that after the first plate full you could only have one bite every five minutes (i.e. you were rate capped), they would be commiting fraud since this is not "all you can eat."
Flip Wilson, circa 1970:
I went to a place with a sign "All you can eat for a dollar." The man gave me a plate a food, but when I asked for more he said no.
I said "But the sign said 'All you can eat for a dollar'" and the man said "And that's all you can eat, for a dollar!"
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H2O is harmful by inhalation and is found in all known cancers!
No, it's that really nasty stuff: 2H3O that you're thinking of.
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They have just opend a can of worms
Cool, now I can just poke a hole in that Worm Can about 1-1/4" from the bottom, and sit across the street from the FCC using my WormCanTenna!
Bwwwwaaahahahahaha!
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85 replies, even the trolls, and not one "Imagine a beowulf cluster of these" post.
Can't a guy count on slashdot for anything anymore?
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It's synergrrific!
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Oddly enough, I used to work with the team that did U S WEST's web hosting for businesses (bonus points if you can name the year) called !nterprise. Yes, we all pronounced it bang-ter-prize.
They had a bunch of Compaq rack mount boxes, and someone (g. Wells?) configured NT/IIS on one rack, then Linux/Apache on the other. Even after much fine-tuning, the Linux box was SO much faster, that's what got deployed.
In the mid 90s.
In a Fortune-100 company.
Don't care how I get modded, it's just fun to ramble on like the old man I am.
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They charge you $11 for the camera, then $11 for each "picture extraction." You keep the camera -- it's yours. If you back your car over it, it's trash and you don't owe them anything.
Doesn't sound like a rental to me, sounds like selling a product below cost with plans to sell exclusive service on that product above cost. Nothing immoral with that business plan, and some folks are making really good cash with it. I expect these guys will too, just not from me.
But don't say that I'm stealing anything from them by opting out of their business plan.
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Granted the article is light on details (no pun intended) but why does the power source need to be the Sun? Why not use the same combining/collimating /focus method but draw the power from one or more conventional incandescent lamps?
Yes, I realize that Sun == free, and electicity != free. Howsabout the Solar version for subsaharan Africa where reliable power is rare but sunlight is not, and we'll take the 1/10th-the-price-of-a-laser incandescent one here in North America where the opposite is true.
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it's sad that this is the first thing that some folks think of when a product like this comes out. "how can we steal this thing?". .... " about anything, so I'm gonna make good use of my $10.99 camera, thankyouverymuch.
It's hard to tell if you're trolling or just missing the point. If IHBT, then IHL.
It's not stealing. They're selling a $10.99 camera. They're also telling you that the only way to get your prints is to bring that camera back to them.
I'm buying a $10.99 camera, but I don't like someone telling me "The only way you can
And yes, I do have a CueCat. No, I didn't ever install the software, so I never agreed to the EULA that was on the software CD. No, I didn't steal my CueCat.
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From the NYT text:
Ritz Camera has begun to sell (and in Wisconsin, Walgreens is test-marketing) a single-use digital camera...
And I was just in Milwaukee earlier this week! In a Walgreens, even!!
Oh well, just have to have someone there mail me one I guess.
BTW: As others have surmised, this puppy will be reverse engineered in no time at all. I've got my $5 on September 24th.
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doesn't this article seem like an advert?
Yes, but at least it's not astroturfing.
The story was submitted by Michael Pierce, and the email addy for his story submission is michael@gir.seattlewireless.net
Of course he sounds like he's advertizing Seattle Wireless -- he is -- but he's honest and forthright about it.
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And I couldn't bring myself to type that.
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You're new here, aren't you?
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But before you decide what to do with the lab, you've got to know why the computer shop wants to open one. If it's to drive up sales by pushing the shop's good directly, then tailor classes towards Making The Most Of The SB-Live! Audigy Card.
If it's to be an uber-cyber-cafe and hope that business picks up based on your civic contribution, then teach Using The Internet For Research and Homework Help, or maybe How To Install Filtering Software To Keep The Kids From Porn.
Whatever it is, it's got to jive with your employer's reason for doin' it!
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I'm waiting for "Chicken Soup for Dummies" to come out.
How about When Chicken Soup Books Go Bad
Sex for dummies?
Too late
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I heard this on NPR (about 2 weeks ago, sheesh!) and all I could think was "I wonder how long until someone posts the google cache link."
No, my sig isn't that link.
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1. Retired Racing Greyhounds For Dummies
2. Beekeeping For Dummies
3. U.S. Citizenship For Dummies
4. AOL For Dummies
5. Business Plans For Dummies
So, 6. None of the above
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A good friend had cancer in his tongue a few years back. Rather than transplant in a donor, they just pulled up some of his pectoral and rebuilt it into a tongue for him. He could eat and drink, but lacked all sense of taste (as does the transplant patient, btw)
He had a helluva time with Tic Tacs, since he also couldn't feel tiny things.
Do me a favor, don't mod this posting. If you must, at least do a "+1 - Funny" as he would have wanted it that way.
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Just don't pirate movies from the starving artists -- Stick to pirating movies from the filthy rich ones.
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