The internet is not just for porn, shopping, and creeping on people's facebook profiles...
Inform yourself, inform others, and be active in you democracy so you too can start reaping the rewards of the information revolution.
So I'm assuming it's a coincidence this story about releasing "abandoned" products was posted by timothy right after the "Nokia Outsources Symbian OS Work" story right?
Wishful thinking?;)
Will.I.Am, at his first public Intel press event since being hired, was quoted saying "The problem with the Sandy Bridge Chipset seems to be the dirty bit. BZZZZT BOOM BOOM.... BZZZZT BZZZT BZZZT BOOM BOOOM...."
The rest of his comments weren't heard by anyone at the event due to the sudden loud and obnoxious music blaring from all corners...
See the article Facebook's 'Like This' Button Is Tracking You for details about how facebook (and now google) use the http image requests and your cookies to basically get a full history on your web browsing.
After having read the article and thought of how many sites I visit with a "like button" and therefore how much data facebook/google has about my browsing I felt disturbed to say the least.
Even wikileaks has one of these on their site. Wonder how meany people realize that facebook knows when/how-often they visit wikileaks...
In other news, Microsoft was questioned by several media outlets on Monday morning about a recently discovered build of MS Office labeled 'MSOffice.trojanhorse' which was given for free to several so-called 'Oppressed Nonprofit' organizations. The software giant did not release a formal statement, but did advise one reporter that "all 'MSOffice.trojanhorse' users should keep their internet connection up while using their free copy of the office suite.";)
Finally! Someone with a brain (or just common sense) was put in charge of the new shuffle's design.
I've been holding off on getting a new jogging ipod for a while because the 3rd gen shuffle no-button design was ridiculous. Steve-o thought he could sell a whole bunch of button-less shuffles and lock the consumers (not customers) into buying expensive replacement headphones over the next few years.
Turns out the "consumers" saw right though the ploy and didn't buy the poorly designed ipods in the first place. All hail common sense and voting with our wallets!
Not sure what MS is announcing tonight, but I got a free Acer Aspire 1420P Convertible Tablet PC when I attended the MS PDC in November and the thing is freaking amazing.
If anyone has ever looked at the network usage of a "smart" you will have seen INCREDIBLE waste. For example, I've looked at youtube access on the iphone; the app makes *multiple* requests for the same video (using HTTP byte ranges) at startup. We're talking thousands of bytes wasted on each view of a video. So basically we're paying for the application engineer's terrible network programming. Not cool.
Everyone take a deep breath. 8M is the number of web requests to their server in en entire year, not the number of phones that were "of interest."
From a comment in TFA:
...the 8 million automated requests or pings were generated by thousands (NOT millions) of instances in which law enforcement or public safety agencies sought customer location information. Several thousand instances over the course of a year should not be shocking given that we have 47 million customers and requests from law enforcement and public safety agencies are due to a variety of circumstances: exigent or emergency situations, criminal investigations, or cases where a Sprint customer consents to sharing location information.
It's also important to note that we complied with applicable state and federal laws in all of the instances where we fulfilled a law enforcement or public safety request for location information.
Matt Sullivan Sprint Nextel Matthew.sullivan@sprint.com
I was at the talk, and yes Don Box said "I will fight you if you try to take away my text editor" but it was after having being asked a leading question by Eric Meijer. Something along the lines of "will we ever write software entirely without writting text?"
However, what was Don doing for the rest of the PDC? He was hawking Entity Framework and M, both of which allow users to model data access using rich graphical tools!
Incredibly how many posts I've read with sweeping statements such as "every BMW driver is an arrogant prick" etc.
It's mildly depressing (although not too surprising) how many of us make generalizations about so many different people based on a few experiences. Aren't many of the readers here supposed to be educated? In the fields of science and or math? Jeez...
I happen to own (and love) a BMW, but that's not why I'm posting. People should learn the world is not just black and white.
From TFA, SproutCore is basically a rich set of JavaScript libraries. Flame/mod away, but it's true.
Flash/Silverlight don't only contain the same app struts for you to build upon, but they are also incredibly powerful application hosting frameworks with rich graphics and multimedia libraries to go beyond what HTML can render.
Comparing SproutCore to Flash and especially Silverlight is nonsense. Saying it's a Flash/Silverlight killer is delusional.
When I was in China last April and went to slashdot I got redirected to some site all pink and pretty. If I remember correctly it was about ponies. I thought at the time it was strange but now I know it was the gvt.
That means suddenly, everyone who buys an iPod ends up using Safari as their default browser instead of IE.
Riiiight... Safari will be the default browser for those users until the next windows update. If you haven't noticed already, almost every windows update resets IE as the default browser.
And to think I used to use Wireshark/libpcap which is open source, available on almost every platform, is not buggy, and supports hundreds of protocols. It even has a graphical user interface.
But I think these guys are really on to something...
In his book "Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security", James Bamford claims that in 2001 the NSA had tape technology that could store 10 GB per square inch.
Now that they're sucking all the IP data out of AT&T's switches, and keeping records of every call placed in the US, I bet their backup needs have increased a tad... Wonder what their current storage capacity is.
with the technology infrastructure in place, what happens if congress decides to relax court order requirements in the future 'in their fight against criminals, terrorists and spies?'
Ummmm... what's to stop congress from passing a law that says all gays should be stoned to death in a public ceremony?
Answer: You! It amazes me that people are complaining about the way congress and the Bush Admin are "slowly" taking away their rights, selling out to corporations bla de bla bla...
Hey American Joe... you voted them into power!!! Twice!!! There's a reason everyone has the right to vote. Unfortunately that includes the uninformed and the easily mislead.
Slashdot Mirror
The internet is not just for porn, shopping, and creeping on people's facebook profiles... Inform yourself, inform others, and be active in you democracy so you too can start reaping the rewards of the information revolution.
So I'm assuming it's a coincidence this story about releasing "abandoned" products was posted by timothy right after the "Nokia Outsources Symbian OS Work" story right? Wishful thinking? ;)
Will.I.Am, at his first public Intel press event since being hired, was quoted saying "The problem with the Sandy Bridge Chipset seems to be the dirty bit. BZZZZT BOOM BOOM.... BZZZZT BZZZT BZZZT BOOM BOOOM...." The rest of his comments weren't heard by anyone at the event due to the sudden loud and obnoxious music blaring from all corners...
+1!
See the article Facebook's 'Like This' Button Is Tracking You for details about how facebook (and now google) use the http image requests and your cookies to basically get a full history on your web browsing.
After having read the article and thought of how many sites I visit with a "like button" and therefore how much data facebook/google has about my browsing I felt disturbed to say the least.
Even wikileaks has one of these on their site. Wonder how meany people realize that facebook knows when/how-often they visit wikileaks...
In other news, Microsoft was questioned by several media outlets on Monday morning about a recently discovered build of MS Office labeled 'MSOffice.trojanhorse' which was given for free to several so-called 'Oppressed Nonprofit' organizations. The software giant did not release a formal statement, but did advise one reporter that "all 'MSOffice.trojanhorse' users should keep their internet connection up while using their free copy of the office suite." ;)
Finally! Someone with a brain (or just common sense) was put in charge of the new shuffle's design.
I've been holding off on getting a new jogging ipod for a while because the 3rd gen shuffle no-button design was ridiculous. Steve-o thought he could sell a whole bunch of button-less shuffles and lock the consumers (not customers) into buying expensive replacement headphones over the next few years.
Turns out the "consumers" saw right though the ploy and didn't buy the poorly designed ipods in the first place. All hail common sense and voting with our wallets!
And now to hand over another $49 to Apple :S
Horatio: Looks like this server...(takes off his sunglasses)...has been shut down.
I bet 80% of .gov sites also don't have properly setup DNS, let alone DNSSEC.
eg. Try going to http://fbi.gov
Without the proper CNAME record you need to type "www" before the hostname. Silly.
Not sure what MS is announcing tonight, but I got a free Acer Aspire 1420P Convertible Tablet PC when I attended the MS PDC in November and the thing is freaking amazing.
Some highlights:
Complete spec here.
If anyone has ever looked at the network usage of a "smart" you will have seen INCREDIBLE waste. For example, I've looked at youtube access on the iphone; the app makes *multiple* requests for the same video (using HTTP byte ranges) at startup. We're talking thousands of bytes wasted on each view of a video. So basically we're paying for the application engineer's terrible network programming. Not cool.
ttp:cryptomeorgtsa-screeningzip
The cryptome URL has been redacted. Nothing to see here, move along.
Sincerely,
TSA
Everyone take a deep breath. 8M is the number of web requests to their server in en entire year, not the number of phones that were "of interest."
From a comment in TFA:
I was at the talk, and yes Don Box said "I will fight you if you try to take away my text editor" but it was after having being asked a leading question by Eric Meijer. Something along the lines of "will we ever write software entirely without writting text?"
However, what was Don doing for the rest of the PDC? He was hawking Entity Framework and M, both of which allow users to model data access using rich graphical tools!
The talk is here: http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT52.
As long as their money is green, they can call me "ZIT guy" for all I care (which is fairly accurate some days ;)
So the RIAA typically goes after $750 per song for a COPYRIGHT violation (but has asked for much more if I remember correctly).
For violating the PRIVACY of CHILDREN, Sony is charged $33 per child...
Isn't it amazing what society values more? Oops...scary is the word I was looking for, not amazing.
Incredibly how many posts I've read with sweeping statements such as "every BMW driver is an arrogant prick" etc.
It's mildly depressing (although not too surprising) how many of us make generalizations about so many different people based on a few experiences. Aren't many of the readers here supposed to be educated? In the fields of science and or math? Jeez...
I happen to own (and love) a BMW, but that's not why I'm posting. People should learn the world is not just black and white.
From TFA, SproutCore is basically a rich set of JavaScript libraries. Flame/mod away, but it's true.
Flash/Silverlight don't only contain the same app struts for you to build upon, but they are also incredibly powerful application hosting frameworks with rich graphics and multimedia libraries to go beyond what HTML can render.
Comparing SproutCore to Flash and especially Silverlight is nonsense. Saying it's a Flash/Silverlight killer is delusional.
Communicating through plain text on the internet no longer considered private.
More at eleven.
When I was in China last April and went to slashdot I got redirected to some site all pink and pretty. If I remember correctly it was about ponies. I thought at the time it was strange but now I know it was the gvt.
When I tried to get the album the first day inrainbows.com offered the download, the site was slow as hell and throwing errors all over the place...
So I ended up getting it elsewhere because I'm impatient and wanted to listen to it that night.
However, I returned the next night to buy it and was pleasantly surprised at the speed and ease of the transaction. Well done Radiohead.
Riiiight... Safari will be the default browser for those users until the next windows update. If you haven't noticed already, almost every windows update resets IE as the default browser.
Incredible... they support 25 protocols!!!
And to think I used to use Wireshark/libpcap which is open source, available on almost every platform, is not buggy, and supports hundreds of protocols. It even has a graphical user interface.
But I think these guys are really on to something...
Canada's chronic failure to modernize its copyright regime...
Modernize? Is that American for "destroy", or "bend over and spread 'em for big business"?
In his book "Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security", James Bamford claims that in 2001 the NSA had tape technology that could store 10 GB per square inch.
Now that they're sucking all the IP data out of AT&T's switches, and keeping records of every call placed in the US, I bet their backup needs have increased a tad... Wonder what their current storage capacity is.
with the technology infrastructure in place, what happens if congress decides to relax court order requirements in the future 'in their fight against criminals, terrorists and spies?'
Ummmm... what's to stop congress from passing a law that says all gays should be stoned to death in a public ceremony?
Answer: You! It amazes me that people are complaining about the way congress and the Bush Admin are "slowly" taking away their rights, selling out to corporations bla de bla bla...
Hey American Joe... you voted them into power!!! Twice!!! There's a reason everyone has the right to vote. Unfortunately that includes the uninformed and the easily mislead.
/Rant