In the instances where schools make money off of selling broadband access, I would only hope a substantial portion of the money goes to the teachers.
That's right, I said TEACHERS, not students. I don't care about the kids, I care about the teachers. With teacher burn-out rate going higher, and parents expecting nothing but A's, and with Bush's stupid ass "No Child Left Behind Policy"**; I hope it's the teachers who could at least get a better apartment/house/car rather than the dippy administrator who did nothing else but say "not the fiber that we eat right?"
After all, without good teachers...
** I stand on neither side of the Rep/Dem platforms when I vote against the "No Child Left Behind" policy. It would require teachers to work harder than they do now because the kids who didn't even pass the last grade are now in a higher one.
Companies should allow some latitude with infringing properties of their works
I whole-heartedly and utterly DISAGREE. This is why we have the stupid ass laws in rural states like "It's illegal to have sex with a dead kitten" or "you may not wash your hand on a Wednesday after sundown."
We don't need MORE laws, we need LESS, but ENFORCEABLE laws. Otherwise, this happens. We have billions of laws and it's up to the whim of the controlling body to decide which one they want to enforce that day.
I'll do it *hides his laptop and external HDs under shirt*.. look man, I'll even throw poop for the "full monkey experience" (that's why you buy dvds right? the experience?)
This seems to be a good start, but it still requires software on the user side. And that software must work with their mail client...
I guess it seems this is where the focus has become. While some spam can be blanketed and deleted, it's really up to the RECIPIENT to judge whether its spam or not.
But then again, do we trust the user? Do we trust Joe and Jane (our loving SixPack couple) to make the right decision? Sure, it might be prudent in a company of 5-50, but what about 500-5000? Deploy and manage copies of these program to see if it's going right or not?
I'm a sysadmin and I prefer the server based solution. Blacklists, SpamAssassin, et. al. Easier to fix one machine than 5000 desktops.
Actually, at one in time (DotCom boom maybe?, remember "Active Desktop", the whole point of "portals") the browser was SUPPOSED to do anything and everything. Your browser was supposed to be your desktop and that's how you'd do stuff.
That was the point of a "home page", you could get your news and start up Word all on the same page.
Duh, so the part-timers who just happened to load the page before me can get the slow-ass version while the appropriately "hidden" mirror sites remain speedy and fast for me.:)
We have now entered a mobius strip of problems when it comes to pushing a new browser. Joe Sixpack wants the page to look exactly like it does with IE.
Your (not you in general, but other/.ers) answer might be "switch banks to one that supports Mozilla" or "don't use [insert_favorite_website] and change to [another_website]".
This in here lies a major problem for the average computer user. They don't want to make -2- (or more) changes to get something to work. They don't even want to make 1! Their software works with the companies websites, and that's the way they like it.
All these arm-chair business-persons on/. suggest the same thing, but they fail to realize that integration needs to be seemless and unintrusive for the USER. That's why Microsoft's IE works. It's seemlessly and unintrusively integrated with their OS.
We need to keep up the good work, and continue our push. We are not ready yet for a take-over.
Choice quote from the analysis: "I have the new critter in a test environment where we conducted a preliminary and rudimentary functionality and threat analysis...I have played with the date, etc, but still no activity directed toward www.sco.com."
I love it! Not only does SCO not get DDOS'd.. but if there is any information for the arrest of the author gets back to SCO, they are out 250K!!! HAHAHA!
Wal-Mart has told us, "don't pass along a price increase. We won't pay it, and we'll stop buying from you."
Funny how when a WalMart STOPS a passing along of a price increase to a customer we get mad and when the RIAA/MPAA CONTINUES to pass along a price increase to a customer we still get mad.
There will be no double standards, one standard shall do just fine, thank you.
Beginning tomorrow, more than a dozen Web sites, including MSN, ESPN, Lycos and iVillage, will run full-motion video commercials from Pepsi, AT&T, Honda, Vonage and Warner Brothers, in a six-week test that some analysts and online executives say could herald the start of a new era of Internet advertising.
The new ad technology, from Unicast, an advertising company based in New York, invisibly loads the commercial while unwitting users read a Web page, then displays the ad across the entire browser area when users click to a new page. The resulting ad is identical to TV, whether the user has a high- or low-speed connection. The company says the technology evades pop-up blockers, but the person can skip the ad by clicking a box.
If it's loading from a server, the server can be blocked...
If it's loading any type of content, the type can be blocked...
If it's loading an object, the object can be blocked...
The problem with blocking it is all those damn IE users who have WeatherBug, PrecisionTime, et. al. Someone please, write an IE plugin (source is out there) like AdBlock for Mozilla that comes with default security settings. It auto-blocks certain KNOWN baddies (should be easy to compile a general list), has auto-update feature (from the web of course), and even considers removing IE plugins that are known baddies (again, easy).
I know I'm asking a lot, especially that you make it free (don't be tempted to use pop-up advertising to pay for it)...
Why don't companies just sell stuff that people really want?
Innovation, research and then development is too expensive for what these companies want. They want a quick dollar, and this IS the way to do it.
Pop-Up(-under, -around, -wtf) Advertising has the same business model that Spam is. They seek out smaller companies and charge them (example) $1000 to "display their product to 1 million people". The ads get dislayed, filtered by eyes, never get clicked, company loses $1000 but the Spam/PUA company is in business.
Multiply this out over time, and the Spam/PUA company got rich quick while the actual innovatative company (using a very liberal definition of innovative, you get my point) whos ad it was goes under.
The Spam/PUA company doesn't give a crap what company you are or what you are selling, they are getting cash for a service. And since every new startup company thinks their product "is just what you need!(tm)" then they will always have companies to prey off of.
I already use it as a desktop OS on my laptop with few problems.
As much I don't feel like burning Karma here with Flamebait, this is exactly the reason it's not ready. It runs on a laptop with "few problems". Few problems is a reason enough not to switch.
Will my USB Camera work? Can 1-touch scanning be setup without the use of a complex script? Joe Dialup doesn't want to go to Sourceforge to find a piece of software called gkehjg2 just to get his device to install and compile (compile? what's that!)
The install for Linux is CLOSE, I believe Fedora(/Redhat) needs to handle their package selection better (why install isdn-tools defaultly??) and file systems scare all but people who use it daily.
Where are you files? "My Documents". How do you move it to another harddrive? "". How do you open it? "Double click it." How do you open that same file in a different program? "You can do that?"
For anyone on Linux, Windows seems like a "toy OS" because everything is hidden. Well, that's what most computer beginners want! They don't have time/don't care about a dependancy, they want it to work, NOW!
I like being the different person on the block, make it just a lil easier so people other than hobbists can use it, but not so secretaries of CEOs can and I'll be happy.
The... transformers hanging on poles havent become targets yet and they have been readily available for quite a few decades.
When's the last time you heard: "Hey Billy-Bob, let's go play with that thing hanging off that tharn big pole with all those wires coming out of it making that buzzing sound! I bet I can hold it longer than you can! WOOO"
The Darwin Awards, exactly. But unless these new wireless networks set off a charge for anyone being obtrusive, expect them to get screwed with.
MPAA: Wonderful, fantastic! How about we strike a little deal?
Carmen: Speak into my good ear?
MPAA: Look, we'll lay it on the line. We spent all this money on this technology breakthrough and haven't seen a return on it. We've pissed off thousands of millions of fans with our red dots and fancy ways and we need you.
Carmen: Where do I come in?
MPAA: Quite frankly, we need a fall man. You've played in the Mob, you should remember.
Carmen: Ah yes, I can act well!
MPAA: Yeah, great. But we need someone to get into trouble so we can show the pirates of America that we mean business! And these dots will annoy future generations!
Carmen: I get to play a pirate? eh?
MPAA: We need you, I mean, you've made 1 movie in the last 5 years. How about it. You are perfect for our part!
Why are there not more savvy people in higer places?
If you mean "tech savvy" (which I assume you are, we are bitching about techology), then it effectively negates your original thought of making it big in business. (Yes, there are the VERY FEW, play along.)
Those that are "tech savvy" are usually not "business savvy" (go ahead, one person, reply and say "but I am both"). Those who are "tech savvy" got that way from tinkering/trying and/or building/destroying. You get business savvy by sitting in meetings and gladhanding your way up the ladder. Two totally different paths.
The "business savvy" Verisign execs apparently jumped in quick and took control before anyone else does, a common business practice. The "tech savvy" masses are strategizing on how to make it better, not how to control it. Sadly, that's why they will lose. Business will litigate, Tech will innovate.
I was personally disappointed with Quake 3, as it's not great as a 1st person... Multiplayer games are fine in geekland where you do have a LAN set up and a bunch of buddies sitting there waiting to do something, but in the real world, single player games do still make more sense for most casual game users.
I've just been reading the past 30+ comments, and no one seems to think that this is a problem!!
Sure, for the teen geeks out there who like a lil privacy (I don't mean like thaT.. well, maybe I guess I do) this is OK for. But for a family to be a family this sure does pose major problems?
A poster a few messages up claimed his wife and him have nothing to talk about when they get home after talking all day. What about for the parent and child who would rather IM while around the house. Doesn't prolonged exposure to this make the child more unwilling to talk to his/her parent face-to-face about sex/drugs/abuse??
I know I tried my damnedest to remain an reclusive troll around my house, but thankfully my parents were active in my life and always asked questions. Hindsight being what it is, I'm glad we came to a good balance between privacy and parenting! That sort of thing requires you to LOOK at your parents and FACE your problems/fears.. not hitting "Block" or "Exit".
I know I have a point here, and I'm trying to find it.
Here's a suggestion for TV networks : instead of trying to sue DVR manufacturers because it lets customers skip your crap, why don't you replace the crap with good ads.
Wait a cotton pick'n minute...
Didn't someone suggest this with the MUSIC industry?? Didn't someone suggest this with the MOVIE industry??
I'm not sure whether to scream because every damn industry is pulling the same old stunt ("We're crap? No, sue someone for trying to bypass/steal our lovely product") or to be afraid because it'll never change?
I believe (and mark this as flamebait as you may), but many/.ers may have forgotten that hacking isn't always about stronger, better, smarter or faster; occasionally it may just be about tinkering or finding out how it works.
Now that we have reached that first step (disconnect and reconnect), we can now move on to trying to see if both work at the same time (maybe he did, I didn't RTFA)!
Not every hack is useful, but every hack is informative in some way to at least some person.
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In the instances where schools make money off of selling broadband access, I would only hope a substantial portion of the money goes to the teachers.
That's right, I said TEACHERS, not students. I don't care about the kids, I care about the teachers. With teacher burn-out rate going higher, and parents expecting nothing but A's, and with Bush's stupid ass "No Child Left Behind Policy"**; I hope it's the teachers who could at least get a better apartment/house/car rather than the dippy administrator who did nothing else but say "not the fiber that we eat right?"
After all, without good teachers...
** I stand on neither side of the Rep/Dem platforms when I vote against the "No Child Left Behind" policy. It would require teachers to work harder than they do now because the kids who didn't even pass the last grade are now in a higher one.
Companies should allow some latitude with infringing properties of their works
I whole-heartedly and utterly DISAGREE. This is why we have the stupid ass laws in rural states like "It's illegal to have sex with a dead kitten" or "you may not wash your hand on a Wednesday after sundown."
We don't need MORE laws, we need LESS, but ENFORCEABLE laws. Otherwise, this happens. We have billions of laws and it's up to the whim of the controlling body to decide which one they want to enforce that day.
Quoth the Poster: Check out FeedReader
Quoth the Article: Cheesy rhyming will help the non techno elite remember it..
I'll do it *hides his laptop and external HDs under shirt*.. look man, I'll even throw poop for the "full monkey experience" (that's why you buy dvds right? the experience?)
Yeah, but the new STDs will actually make you REMEMBER what happened last night after your 5th shot of AbsinthE.. *shudder*
This seems to be a good start, but it still requires software on the user side. And that software must work with their mail client...
I guess it seems this is where the focus has become. While some spam can be blanketed and deleted, it's really up to the RECIPIENT to judge whether its spam or not.
But then again, do we trust the user? Do we trust Joe and Jane (our loving SixPack couple) to make the right decision? Sure, it might be prudent in a company of 5-50, but what about 500-5000? Deploy and manage copies of these program to see if it's going right or not?
I'm a sysadmin and I prefer the server based solution. Blacklists, SpamAssassin, et. al. Easier to fix one machine than 5000 desktops.
Comments?
Actually, at one in time (DotCom boom maybe?, remember "Active Desktop", the whole point of "portals") the browser was SUPPOSED to do anything and everything. Your browser was supposed to be your desktop and that's how you'd do stuff.
That was the point of a "home page", you could get your news and start up Word all on the same page.
Why did you link directly to the full isos?!?!?!
:)
Duh, so the part-timers who just happened to load the page before me can get the slow-ass version while the appropriately "hidden" mirror sites remain speedy and fast for me.
We have now entered a mobius strip of problems when it comes to pushing a new browser. Joe Sixpack wants the page to look exactly like it does with IE.
/.ers) answer might be "switch banks to one that supports Mozilla" or "don't use [insert_favorite_website] and change to [another_website]".
/. suggest the same thing, but they fail to realize that integration needs to be seemless and unintrusive for the USER. That's why Microsoft's IE works. It's seemlessly and unintrusively integrated with their OS.
Your (not you in general, but other
This in here lies a major problem for the average computer user. They don't want to make -2- (or more) changes to get something to work. They don't even want to make 1! Their software works with the companies websites, and that's the way they like it.
All these arm-chair business-persons on
We need to keep up the good work, and continue our push. We are not ready yet for a take-over.
1) Why does this story sound like something that should have started out with "Dear Slashdot".
2) Why does "Dear Slashdot" not NEARLY have the ring that "Dear Penthouse" has?
Dear Slashdot,
Today, one of my friends and I were looking though my dad's drawer and we found...
contrasted with
Dear Penthouse,
Today, one of my friends and I were looking though my dad's drawer and we found...
Choice quote from the analysis: "I have the new critter in a test environment where we conducted a preliminary and rudimentary functionality and threat analysis...I have played with the date, etc, but still no activity directed toward www.sco.com."
I love it! Not only does SCO not get DDOS'd.. but if there is any information for the arrest of the author gets back to SCO, they are out 250K!!! HAHAHA!
Wal-Mart has told us, "don't pass along a price increase. We won't pay it, and we'll stop buying from you."
Funny how when a WalMart STOPS a passing along of a price increase to a customer we get mad and when the RIAA/MPAA CONTINUES to pass along a price increase to a customer we still get mad.
There will be no double standards, one standard shall do just fine, thank you.
The article calls him 'the world's most dangerous geek'
Did someone forget about Jon Johansen??
its gonna get much worse
Beginning tomorrow, more than a dozen Web sites, including MSN, ESPN, Lycos and iVillage, will run full-motion video commercials from Pepsi, AT&T, Honda, Vonage and Warner Brothers, in a six-week test that some analysts and online executives say could herald the start of a new era of Internet advertising.
The new ad technology, from Unicast, an advertising company based in New York, invisibly loads the commercial while unwitting users read a Web page, then displays the ad across the entire browser area when users click to a new page. The resulting ad is identical to TV, whether the user has a high- or low-speed connection. The company says the technology evades pop-up blockers, but the person can skip the ad by clicking a box.
If it's loading from a server, the server can be blocked...
If it's loading any type of content, the type can be blocked...
If it's loading an object, the object can be blocked...
The problem with blocking it is all those damn IE users who have WeatherBug, PrecisionTime, et. al. Someone please, write an IE plugin (source is out there) like AdBlock for Mozilla that comes with default security settings. It auto-blocks certain KNOWN baddies (should be easy to compile a general list), has auto-update feature (from the web of course), and even considers removing IE plugins that are known baddies (again, easy).
I know I'm asking a lot, especially that you make it free (don't be tempted to use pop-up advertising to pay for it)...
Why don't companies just sell stuff that people really want?
Innovation, research and then development is too expensive for what these companies want. They want a quick dollar, and this IS the way to do it.
Pop-Up(-under, -around, -wtf) Advertising has the same business model that Spam is. They seek out smaller companies and charge them (example) $1000 to "display their product to 1 million people". The ads get dislayed, filtered by eyes, never get clicked, company loses $1000 but the Spam/PUA company is in business.
Multiply this out over time, and the Spam/PUA company got rich quick while the actual innovatative company (using a very liberal definition of innovative, you get my point) whos ad it was goes under.
The Spam/PUA company doesn't give a crap what company you are or what you are selling, they are getting cash for a service. And since every new startup company thinks their product "is just what you need!(tm)" then they will always have companies to prey off of.
I already use it as a desktop OS on my laptop with few problems.
As much I don't feel like burning Karma here with Flamebait, this is exactly the reason it's not ready. It runs on a laptop with "few problems". Few problems is a reason enough not to switch.
Will my USB Camera work? Can 1-touch scanning be setup without the use of a complex script? Joe Dialup doesn't want to go to Sourceforge to find a piece of software called gkehjg2 just to get his device to install and compile (compile? what's that!)
The install for Linux is CLOSE, I believe Fedora(/Redhat) needs to handle their package selection better (why install isdn-tools defaultly??) and file systems scare all but people who use it daily.
Where are you files? "My Documents". How do you move it to another harddrive? "". How do you open it? "Double click it." How do you open that same file in a different program? "You can do that?"
For anyone on Linux, Windows seems like a "toy OS" because everything is hidden. Well, that's what most computer beginners want! They don't have time/don't care about a dependancy, they want it to work, NOW!
I like being the different person on the block, make it just a lil easier so people other than hobbists can use it, but not so secretaries of CEOs can and I'll be happy.
The ... transformers hanging on poles havent become targets yet and they have been readily available for quite a few decades.
When's the last time you heard: "Hey Billy-Bob, let's go play with that thing hanging off that tharn big pole with all those wires coming out of it making that buzzing sound! I bet I can hold it longer than you can! WOOO"
The Darwin Awards, exactly. But unless these new wireless networks set off a charge for anyone being obtrusive, expect them to get screwed with.
MPAA: Carmen, buddy, how are you today?
Carmen: Stools a lil loose today. My hip still...
MPAA: Wonderful, fantastic! How about we strike a little deal?
Carmen: Speak into my good ear?
MPAA: Look, we'll lay it on the line. We spent all this money on this technology breakthrough and haven't seen a return on it. We've pissed off thousands of millions of fans with our red dots and fancy ways and we need you.
Carmen: Where do I come in?
MPAA: Quite frankly, we need a fall man. You've played in the Mob, you should remember.
Carmen: Ah yes, I can act well!
MPAA: Yeah, great. But we need someone to get into trouble so we can show the pirates of America that we mean business! And these dots will annoy future generations!
Carmen: I get to play a pirate? eh?
MPAA: We need you, I mean, you've made 1 movie in the last 5 years. How about it. You are perfect for our part!
Carmen: Where do I sign?
somehow I doubt the length of a Martian second is the same as ours
:)
I see what you MEANT to say, but the nit-picker in me is taking over.
A second is our made up period of time, so it's always relative, and will be the same (on Mars, Pluto, Alpha Century).
But if you mean a "second" as 1/86400th of a day (a full rotation of the planet divided into 24 equal hours). Then yes, it's not the same.
1/86400th of the day on Earth would be 1 Earth Second.
1/86400th of the day on Mars would be 1.0274 Earth Seconds.
Why are there not more savvy people in higer places?
If you mean "tech savvy" (which I assume you are, we are bitching about techology), then it effectively negates your original thought of making it big in business. (Yes, there are the VERY FEW, play along.)
Those that are "tech savvy" are usually not "business savvy" (go ahead, one person, reply and say "but I am both"). Those who are "tech savvy" got that way from tinkering/trying and/or building/destroying. You get business savvy by sitting in meetings and gladhanding your way up the ladder. Two totally different paths.
The "business savvy" Verisign execs apparently jumped in quick and took control before anyone else does, a common business practice. The "tech savvy" masses are strategizing on how to make it better, not how to control it. Sadly, that's why they will lose. Business will litigate, Tech will innovate.
I was personally disappointed with Quake 3, as it's not great as a 1st person... Multiplayer games are fine in geekland where you do have a LAN set up and a bunch of buddies sitting there waiting to do something, but in the real world, single player games do still make more sense for most casual game users.
...However, the developer has stated previously that it has focused most of its efforts on Doom 3's single-player game...
I've just been reading the past 30+ comments, and no one seems to think that this is a problem!!
Sure, for the teen geeks out there who like a lil privacy (I don't mean like thaT.. well, maybe I guess I do) this is OK for. But for a family to be a family this sure does pose major problems?
A poster a few messages up claimed his wife and him have nothing to talk about when they get home after talking all day. What about for the parent and child who would rather IM while around the house. Doesn't prolonged exposure to this make the child more unwilling to talk to his/her parent face-to-face about sex/drugs/abuse??
I know I tried my damnedest to remain an reclusive troll around my house, but thankfully my parents were active in my life and always asked questions. Hindsight being what it is, I'm glad we came to a good balance between privacy and parenting! That sort of thing requires you to LOOK at your parents and FACE your problems/fears.. not hitting "Block" or "Exit".
I know I have a point here, and I'm trying to find it.
Although they are fake, we cannot discount the highly suggestive Puma ads. Hubba Hubba!
Here's a suggestion for TV networks : instead of trying to sue DVR manufacturers because it lets customers skip your crap, why don't you replace the crap with good ads.
Wait a cotton pick'n minute...
Didn't someone suggest this with the MUSIC industry?? Didn't someone suggest this with the MOVIE industry??
I'm not sure whether to scream because every damn industry is pulling the same old stunt ("We're crap? No, sue someone for trying to bypass/steal our lovely product") or to be afraid because it'll never change?
Absolutely correct!
/.ers may have forgotten that hacking isn't always about stronger, better, smarter or faster; occasionally it may just be about tinkering or finding out how it works.
I believe (and mark this as flamebait as you may), but many
Now that we have reached that first step (disconnect and reconnect), we can now move on to trying to see if both work at the same time (maybe he did, I didn't RTFA)!
Not every hack is useful, but every hack is informative in some way to at least some person.