Don't say it's already done, you can never document your source code enough if you really want to reach the budding developers of tomorrow the way microsoft is trying to.
Maybe write some unit tests, and gather and read through a few use cases.
No, it's not.. You buy it for PC, you get encrypted bullshit you cant use until you go online.
You buy it for xbox, you can stick it in the drive and play - no network needed.
Of course, if you order your xbox copy from japan, it won't play - but this is something already known with physical game media.
The "big consumer advantage" of steam was supposed to be that you could log in anywhere, and take your games with you. I guess (always knew) that was just bullshit the whole time.
It's about getting gabe newells slimey fingers inside your PC so he can make sure you're paying him as much as you possibly can.
remember when you could buy a game and just go home and play it?
you'd either plug in a cartridge, or if it was a home computer game, it would more than likely come with instructions for making a backup copy to play from.
those were the good old days
fuck steam, i have not been a fan of the concept - the concept of what?
the ability bend people over is the only new feature steam really offers over the 'old guard'. no patches to download, no copy protection schemes to hack around, just a game in a box - and if the game didn't work, more often than not, the company that produced it would tank.
fuck valve.. this news is what, a day after zonks glowing slashvertisementbationfest?
The statement is more than valid by saying 'economy', since it is simply true. An enormous part of "da intarweb bubbel" was porn.
It drives the technology too, in so much as any popular websites have. No, they didn't invent it - but they were streaming video YEARS before it became hip. They'll be the first, most visible of any new media technology. They were beyond web 2.0, way back when.
If nothing else, the porn sites "smoke tested" all this streaming media web 2.0 bullshit we're stuck with now.
You can see my SSL traffic on a wired network too, or at any point across the internet.
It doesn't matter one whit who can see it at the data link layer.
ITS ENCRYPTED.
And to the other repsonder, there are indeed Application, Presentation and Session layers, but they're commonly grouped into, and thought of as one since they all live on top of TCP.
Think about it. Now there's just one big corp with deep pockets to sue when things go wrong.
This kind of shit is sitting around in excel files in those clerks flash drives right now.
I also like the idea that I can directly access my info, although I'm going to guess the system is going to be more about benefits enrollments and 834 transfers than anything else.
The reason they don't give you a simple cutoff limit measured in bytes is, there is none.
It's a moving target, and at some point in the process, it's subjective. I'm sure there's some traffic analysis done, and I'm sure when it's time to free up resources by booting the hogs they make some calls along the lines of "24/7 torrent server vs VPN client"
I'm sure, and this is something I've never seen mentioned in any slashdot threads, they include your credit history with the company in the decisions, as well. If I have to choose between two customers, one who's consistently late, who wastes my collections teams time every month, and one who pays promptly every time - guess who I'm choosing?
Just saying, I pay my bill on time every month, I use all the bandwidth I possibly can, and I have never had an issue. If you want to "push the envelope", it's the least you can do to keep on the cable co's good side.
Leave the PC alone, block it at the firewall/router level. She can walk into best buy and buy a router with net nanny type shit pre-installed.
And, btw, keeping questionable materials out of the hands of minors IS NOT CENSORSHIP. They do not have any right whatsoever to browse porn - and in fact, the right is freedom of speech - not freedom to listen. The producers of the porn have the right to do so, but you do not have an innate right to purchase, read or view it.
If I refuse to buy my kid beer, is that some sort of affront to his rights as well?
It's easier to mug elderly people than it is to hold down a job. Then, it's easier to just spend the money on drugs, than it is to deal with the guilt of the old lady you killed.
It's easier to rape women walking down dark alleys at night, than it is to meet "that someone special".
It's easier to shoplift at Best Buy than it is to RSS your bittorrent web shows, too, for that matter.
Assholes. Since when is laziness a justification for breaking the law? Even if it is easier to cut across my lawn and trample my bushes, I'll kick the next kids ass that does it.
It's worth noting you can use other email clients with Verizon. I don't like WirelessSync, nor the idea of "push" email, because I like to read my email on my own time. They still ship VersaMail with Palm devices like my Treo, and outlook or whatever passes for an email client on Windows.
First thing you need to realize is, mr hobbyist isn't filing patents for something he's giving away for free - that's utter nonsense. The point of a patent is to secure profit for yourself, and it can be a fairly pricey process to go through. You, like most of slashdot, confuse patent, copyright and trademark. So substitute "mr small businessman motivated by profit" for "mr hobbyist".
If big co. uses your product, say for 1/4 of the function of their system, and sell it for 100 monetary units per widget, rather than you suing them and claiming the full 100 per widget sold, they can try and argue you only deserve 25 bucks. The judge or arbiter will decide, in the end - that's what those court things are for.
It works both ways, so it could prevent the utter destruction of some really innovative start ups, as we've seen recently, by "big co" demanding 100% of all their profits + 1, and represents a *good* shift towards sanity in the growing patent cold war. It could save someone like Vonage from being smacked out of existence by the established players.
A fake or stolen canadian passport will cause the great white north to "drop da hammer", so i hope they didn't decide to be that witty.
My canadian passport can get me into ANY nation on earth.. And Canada does what it can to make sure they aren't forged, stolen, etc, and they're more of a pain to get than, say, a practically useless American passport - and last 5 years instead of 10.
They'd fight for extradition and they'd prosecute, and have them sit in an icy Canadian jail for, I believe, it's 5-10 years.
It's not your language. You did naught but half-assed attempts to standardize it before the colonies broke off.
So, you can keep your lifts and loos and lorries and, you know what, keep those snaggly toothed mouths shut, or stuff them full with the flavorless, greasy dog chow you call "british cuisine".
Inspections don't change that. Nobody maintains their car, and I blame that in large part on automakers who don't want you to maintain your car. Whens the last time a service manual contained any basic teardown instructions, etc? They even copyright engine diagnostic codes so you can't access them legally. So, I'm not surprised so many forego the ford's $100 tire rotations, and $300 "fuel injector service" (ie; spray some carb cleaner in the TB, dump a bottle of gumout in the tank).
Back on track, all you have to do is pass emissions in my state is not throw a diagnostic code. So clear your codes before you pull in, they wont rethrow in most cases before a driving cycle or two.
I passed with a hole in my headers you could shove your fist in, and hear from the moon, even through the vaccuum of space. Actually, twice, two years apart - the car is basically only used to take my dog to the vet, and it's bluebook is worth less than a set of headers for it would cost in parts.
It's a joke, it's just another tax. I wish they'd be honest and just say "we want money" and let me send them 20 bucks in the mail.
It's a DS title like Hunters was.. They're just saying they're stepping away from new titles. Expect Dread do launch soon, and have some DS-Wii interaction..
The salespeople at the box stores don't work on commission, and they really couldn't give a fuck. It's their job to ask, they get fired if they don't.
When I was much, much younger, I worked at burger king, and they came out with some new pie and it was my job to ask "would you like to try one of our new apple pies?". Every once in a while some stupid clown would throw a little tantrum about it. One guy got all uppity over the drive thru, then pulled up into the window to launch into a tirade.
I told him to go fuck himself, or better yet fuck ronald mcdonald in the dumpster out back. He loudly proclaimed he'd never be back, blah blah blah, and my manager and I laughed all night, like people are going to stop eating whoppers.
My point is, nobody at Best Buy or Circuit City got all worked up about your stupid "prank". At most, some low-level kid had to walk your "purchase" back to the shelf and restock it. Maybe even ban you from the store, just for being a waste of their time and space.
I hate assholes who pride themselves in their ability to fuck with people who are just trying to get through the day doing a shitty job. If you want to fuck with Best Buy, head to Richfield, Minnesota, and give the CEO a hotfoot or something.
You can bash and insult christians all you want, though. It's apples and oranges.
Look at south park - they can animate jesus and GW Bush involved in a fecal orgy, and that airs. A two second (purposely nonsensical) clip of "mohammed handing the family guy a salmon helmet", of course, was censored. This was during the same episode, if you'll remember.
The aura of fear surrounding the media these days is palpable. I'm sure if you scour the papers in question, you'll find some sort of anti-christian diatribe "editorial" somewhere.
But, we can't publish anything remotely offensive to that GREAT RELIGION OF PEACE, Islam - they'll kill us all.
You have muslim cabs refusing to pick blind customers with their dogs - something that completely violates federal law (the ADA), and would be a multi-million dollar lawsuit for anyone else. But it's ok, better not offend them. You have muslims WHO WERE FUCKING HIRED IN A BUTCHER SHOP, who refuse to handle meat. Nope, can't fire them, wouldn't want to offend somebody.
America needs to fucking grow a set, or bone up on sharia law. And I'm not talking about "bomb iraq and iran" style military grow-a-set, I'm talking about everyday people standing up for their way of life.
This is not the middle east. This country, despite its seperation of church and state in the constitution, was founded on judeo-christian laws and rules.
Everything we've struggled for, racial equality, sexual equality - is all threatened now.
When the muslims take to the streets, demanding we remove womens right to vote, where will you stand? Where are your loyalties? (PS, this is already happening)
Be muslim, be christian, be a jew, be a witch, be a fucking scientologist. But when you're outside of your home, be a fucking MEMBER OF SOCIETY.
I'd say I'd move back to Canada, but they're even bigger pussies up there. "Promoting multiculturalism" does not have to mean "villainizing white christians".
Bah, look where I'm posting this. You/. humps think anything that bashes christianity, indirectly bashes republicans (because you're morons), and then indirectly bashes Bush, so it's all a big case of the "the enemy of my enemy", right? Stupid high school kids with their black/white world views.
When will you get it though your thick skulls that it is illegal to use someones internet connection without permission.
I once had one of those cheap old 900mhz wireless phones. If I were close enough to my neighbours, it would sync with his base unit, and make and recieve calls on his line.
If I were to do so, it would be illegal, and I would expect to be charged. Regardless of any piddly nerd arguments about crypto this and insecure that.
Get over it. Yes, it's possible to do. No, you aren't supposed to do it. It's a douchebag thing to do at the very best.
Why is it so hard for you folks to live life as something other than a dickhead?
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I'm really not going to be convinced until I see apple using these in their product lines.
I've already put up with enough loss of freedom from the Bu$h administration and fucking windows always blue screens!
(is that good for enough karma to post twice a day again?)
Linux!
Don't say it's already done, you can never document your source code enough if you really want to reach the budding developers of tomorrow the way microsoft is trying to.
Maybe write some unit tests, and gather and read through a few use cases.
No, it's not.. You buy it for PC, you get encrypted bullshit you cant use until you go online.
You buy it for xbox, you can stick it in the drive and play - no network needed.
Of course, if you order your xbox copy from japan, it won't play - but this is something already known with physical game media.
The "big consumer advantage" of steam was supposed to be that you could log in anywhere, and take your games with you. I guess (always knew) that was just bullshit the whole time.
It's about getting gabe newells slimey fingers inside your PC so he can make sure you're paying him as much as you possibly can.
remember when you could buy a game and just go home and play it?
you'd either plug in a cartridge, or if it was a home computer game, it would more than likely come with instructions for making a backup copy to play from.
those were the good old days
fuck steam, i have not been a fan of the concept - the concept of what?
the ability bend people over is the only new feature steam really offers over the 'old guard'. no patches to download, no copy protection schemes to hack around, just a game in a box - and if the game didn't work, more often than not, the company that produced it would tank.
fuck valve.. this news is what, a day after zonks glowing slashvertisementbationfest?
The statement is more than valid by saying 'economy', since it is simply true. An enormous part of "da intarweb bubbel" was porn.
It drives the technology too, in so much as any popular websites have. No, they didn't invent it - but they were streaming video YEARS before it became hip. They'll be the first, most visible of any new media technology. They were beyond web 2.0, way back when.
If nothing else, the porn sites "smoke tested" all this streaming media web 2.0 bullshit we're stuck with now.
WILL YOU GET WITH IT AND START HATING AMERICA
i mean duh, this isnt a tech site.. this is just a "hate america" blog
ARR america how dare you
america invented teh comptuers bad guys use! fuckin america mass produced the first getaway cars and also somehow fucked up the moon by landing on it
fuckin ass hole america arr!
You can see my SSL traffic on a wired network too, or at any point across the internet.
It doesn't matter one whit who can see it at the data link layer.
ITS ENCRYPTED.
And to the other repsonder, there are indeed Application, Presentation and Session layers, but they're commonly grouped into, and thought of as one since they all live on top of TCP.
You really dont know the difference between the session and data link layers in the tcp/ip model, or that there even are layers, do you?
Well, now you have something to google.
Think about it. Now there's just one big corp with deep pockets to sue when things go wrong.
This kind of shit is sitting around in excel files in those clerks flash drives right now.
I also like the idea that I can directly access my info, although I'm going to guess the system is going to be more about benefits enrollments and 834 transfers than anything else.
Why would they even want to kill Mono? The deal with Novell, and the open support of Moonlight tells me they want the opposite.
.Net mindshare, and the worst that could happen is Microsoft gets itself a little deeper into the *nix world.
Mono just increases
The reason they don't give you a simple cutoff limit measured in bytes is, there is none.
It's a moving target, and at some point in the process, it's subjective. I'm sure there's some traffic analysis done, and I'm sure when it's time to free up resources by booting the hogs they make some calls along the lines of "24/7 torrent server vs VPN client"
I'm sure, and this is something I've never seen mentioned in any slashdot threads, they include your credit history with the company in the decisions, as well. If I have to choose between two customers, one who's consistently late, who wastes my collections teams time every month, and one who pays promptly every time - guess who I'm choosing?
Just saying, I pay my bill on time every month, I use all the bandwidth I possibly can, and I have never had an issue. If you want to "push the envelope", it's the least you can do to keep on the cable co's good side.
dude,
can i have a toke?
Leave the PC alone, block it at the firewall/router level. She can walk into best buy and buy a router with net nanny type shit pre-installed.
And, btw, keeping questionable materials out of the hands of minors IS NOT CENSORSHIP. They do not have any right whatsoever to browse porn - and in fact, the right is freedom of speech - not freedom to listen. The producers of the porn have the right to do so, but you do not have an innate right to purchase, read or view it.
If I refuse to buy my kid beer, is that some sort of affront to his rights as well?
It's easier to mug elderly people than it is to hold down a job. Then, it's easier to just spend the money on drugs, than it is to deal with the guilt of the old lady you killed.
It's easier to rape women walking down dark alleys at night, than it is to meet "that someone special".
It's easier to shoplift at Best Buy than it is to RSS your bittorrent web shows, too, for that matter.
Assholes. Since when is laziness a justification for breaking the law? Even if it is easier to cut across my lawn and trample my bushes, I'll kick the next kids ass that does it.
It's worth noting you can use other email clients with Verizon. I don't like WirelessSync, nor the idea of "push" email, because I like to read my email on my own time. They still ship VersaMail with Palm devices like my Treo, and outlook or whatever passes for an email client on Windows.
GI = Government Issue, not General Infantry
The Hollywood left hates America, I'm not shocked.
I can't wait for the next Hollywood WWII epic, the one that shows that brave hero Hitler, and his righteous defiance of "the west".
BTW, if you haven't heard, we should "embrace Islam" so Usama will stop trying to kill us.
First thing you need to realize is, mr hobbyist isn't filing patents for something he's giving away for free - that's utter nonsense. The point of a patent is to secure profit for yourself, and it can be a fairly pricey process to go through. You, like most of slashdot, confuse patent, copyright and trademark. So substitute "mr small businessman motivated by profit" for "mr hobbyist".
If big co. uses your product, say for 1/4 of the function of their system, and sell it for 100 monetary units per widget, rather than you suing them and claiming the full 100 per widget sold, they can try and argue you only deserve 25 bucks. The judge or arbiter will decide, in the end - that's what those court things are for.
It works both ways, so it could prevent the utter destruction of some really innovative start ups, as we've seen recently, by "big co" demanding 100% of all their profits + 1, and represents a *good* shift towards sanity in the growing patent cold war. It could save someone like Vonage from being smacked out of existence by the established players.
A fake or stolen canadian passport will cause the great white north to "drop da hammer", so i hope they didn't decide to be that witty.
My canadian passport can get me into ANY nation on earth.. And Canada does what it can to make sure they aren't forged, stolen, etc, and they're more of a pain to get than, say, a practically useless American passport - and last 5 years instead of 10.
They'd fight for extradition and they'd prosecute, and have them sit in an icy Canadian jail for, I believe, it's 5-10 years.
And what does the story have to do with tech, the tech industry, or techies at all?
Did they use some cool computer program they wrote to get through security? Invent some sort of cloaking device? Build a water based CPU out of lego?
It's a lame story about a lame prank.
It's not your language. You did naught but half-assed attempts to standardize it before the colonies broke off.
So, you can keep your lifts and loos and lorries and, you know what, keep those snaggly toothed mouths shut, or stuff them full with the flavorless, greasy dog chow you call "british cuisine".
Inspections don't change that. Nobody maintains their car, and I blame that in large part on automakers who don't want you to maintain your car. Whens the last time a service manual contained any basic teardown instructions, etc? They even copyright engine diagnostic codes so you can't access them legally. So, I'm not surprised so many forego the ford's $100 tire rotations, and $300 "fuel injector service" (ie; spray some carb cleaner in the TB, dump a bottle of gumout in the tank).
Back on track, all you have to do is pass emissions in my state is not throw a diagnostic code. So clear your codes before you pull in, they wont rethrow in most cases before a driving cycle or two.
I passed with a hole in my headers you could shove your fist in, and hear from the moon, even through the vaccuum of space. Actually, twice, two years apart - the car is basically only used to take my dog to the vet, and it's bluebook is worth less than a set of headers for it would cost in parts.
It's a joke, it's just another tax. I wish they'd be honest and just say "we want money" and let me send them 20 bucks in the mail.
It's a DS title like Hunters was.. They're just saying they're stepping away from new titles. Expect Dread do launch soon, and have some DS-Wii interaction..
The salespeople at the box stores don't work on commission, and they really couldn't give a fuck. It's their job to ask, they get fired if they don't.
When I was much, much younger, I worked at burger king, and they came out with some new pie and it was my job to ask "would you like to try one of our new apple pies?". Every once in a while some stupid clown would throw a little tantrum about it. One guy got all uppity over the drive thru, then pulled up into the window to launch into a tirade.
I told him to go fuck himself, or better yet fuck ronald mcdonald in the dumpster out back. He loudly proclaimed he'd never be back, blah blah blah, and my manager and I laughed all night, like people are going to stop eating whoppers.
My point is, nobody at Best Buy or Circuit City got all worked up about your stupid "prank". At most, some low-level kid had to walk your "purchase" back to the shelf and restock it. Maybe even ban you from the store, just for being a waste of their time and space.
I hate assholes who pride themselves in their ability to fuck with people who are just trying to get through the day doing a shitty job. If you want to fuck with Best Buy, head to Richfield, Minnesota, and give the CEO a hotfoot or something.
You can bash and insult christians all you want, though. It's apples and oranges.
/. humps think anything that bashes christianity, indirectly bashes republicans (because you're morons), and then indirectly bashes Bush, so it's all a big case of the "the enemy of my enemy", right? Stupid high school kids with their black/white world views.
Look at south park - they can animate jesus and GW Bush involved in a fecal orgy, and that airs. A two second (purposely nonsensical) clip of "mohammed handing the family guy a salmon helmet", of course, was censored. This was during the same episode, if you'll remember.
The aura of fear surrounding the media these days is palpable. I'm sure if you scour the papers in question, you'll find some sort of anti-christian diatribe "editorial" somewhere.
But, we can't publish anything remotely offensive to that GREAT RELIGION OF PEACE, Islam - they'll kill us all.
You have muslim cabs refusing to pick blind customers with their dogs - something that completely violates federal law (the ADA), and would be a multi-million dollar lawsuit for anyone else. But it's ok, better not offend them. You have muslims WHO WERE FUCKING HIRED IN A BUTCHER SHOP, who refuse to handle meat. Nope, can't fire them, wouldn't want to offend somebody.
America needs to fucking grow a set, or bone up on sharia law. And I'm not talking about "bomb iraq and iran" style military grow-a-set, I'm talking about everyday people standing up for their way of life.
This is not the middle east. This country, despite its seperation of church and state in the constitution, was founded on judeo-christian laws and rules.
Everything we've struggled for, racial equality, sexual equality - is all threatened now.
When the muslims take to the streets, demanding we remove womens right to vote, where will you stand? Where are your loyalties? (PS, this is already happening)
Be muslim, be christian, be a jew, be a witch, be a fucking scientologist. But when you're outside of your home, be a fucking MEMBER OF SOCIETY.
I'd say I'd move back to Canada, but they're even bigger pussies up there. "Promoting multiculturalism" does not have to mean "villainizing white christians".
Bah, look where I'm posting this. You
When will you get it though your thick skulls that it is illegal to use someones internet connection without permission.
I once had one of those cheap old 900mhz wireless phones. If I were close enough to my neighbours, it would sync with his base unit, and make and recieve calls on his line.
If I were to do so, it would be illegal, and I would expect to be charged. Regardless of any piddly nerd arguments about crypto this and insecure that.
Get over it. Yes, it's possible to do. No, you aren't supposed to do it. It's a douchebag thing to do at the very best.
Why is it so hard for you folks to live life as something other than a dickhead?