What's everyone freaking out aboot anyway? I'm sure they are all on YouTube anyway, right?;-)
Just how many complete copies are there of famous events? You'd figure important historical and public domain videos would be flooding all over free video networks like on Google and Archive.org too.
"You still don't know who that person is, so why does it matter."
Because sending the data to the business she works for, it could ruin her life. It's not very hard to link the data with the employee, or let someone who might want to link it, do that.
A friend of mine downloaded this dataset. A teacher's credit union employee was searching for sexy underwear, how best to conduct a relationship with a co-worker, and have sex in a pickup. Just before that, she was searching for cars. And appears to have cancer as well, or lives with someone with cancer. Maybe it's her sick husband.
I wonder if that demonstrates why someone wouldn't want their Google searches or AOL info to make it into the public realm. AOL is obviously a bastion of consumer rights.
The computer industry has changed. A 5 year old computer now can still do most things the aging population of computer users wants to do - email, printing, downloading music. In 2000, a 5 year old computer was much less worthy of keeping around, but I'd use a 400MHz Celeron in a pinch these days, and so would hundreds of thousands of people who have nothing close to even that.
Imagine being told that Quick Cam needs to be thrown away since Windows Vista won't authorize its use because it isn't PVP compliant and might be used to circumvent DRM.
I think DDR will be more productive in th course of humanity than the invention and use of DD. Just think, in the future, two DDR pads will be set up facing each other, and you'll have to mimic what the person of the opposite gender dancing in front of you, is doing. It could lead to a revolution in geek reproductivity.
Yesterday's Journal entry on my journal about Backslash contained no posts, but I'm rehashing it now in the Backslash spirit of redundancy. http://slashdot.org/~saskboy/journal/140669
I was going to say, Yellow characters written on standing water (snow) has been a time honoured Canadian tradition for the males anyway, for as long as I can remember. Good to see the rest of the world is catching up and building on the innovation.
I thought maybe they recreated the television channel Deja View, where they replay old TV shows, at first. Then I rememberd that never happened before, and my feeling of unease went away.
You do realize that the 3rd parties don't have anyone in office because they aren't allowed in the televised debates, right? In Canada, the Reform party [now Conservative Party of Canada] is essentially in power because they were allowed in the 1993 televised debate with only one seat of 308.
"We'd much rather have our engineers building better personalization, recommendations, playlisting applications, community apps, etc, instead of complex provisioning systems which at the end of the day allow you to burn a CD and take the DRM back off, anyway!'"
I want to give Yahoo! a big sloppy kiss now. That's exactly the kind of thinking that might make them some money in the music business.
"If the government wants to put me in prison or kill me, having a handgun will not change that. "
Exactly. We've developed past the point where we can let everyone run around with guns. There wasn't the variety of guns available we have today, when the 2nd Ammendment was enacted.
"People on non-Windows platforms hardly have to fear WMF exploits."
You're technically right, but philosophically wrong. There were PNG and JPG exploits for Linux too remember? They didn't get in on the WMF goodness of course, but who knows what other bad code is just lurking? It's safer to assume that if you're connected to a network or introducing new code, you're introducing new bugs along with any new functionality.
To find the older harder to find titles, I think most people use eBay or Amazon right? And I doubt most of the older movies cost more than $10 that way including shipping.
Would you really expect a corporation to have anything other than "tastefully" bland artwork for holidays or events? I just don't see Google ever featuring a pair of boobs for the 'O's in the name, to celebrate breast cancer awareness day. Also because they'd be ripping off Booble's logo.
When I won an iPod Shuffle I hit the web to find ways to use it. One of the "Best 50 accessories" list, had mention of using an Altoids mints tin as a carrying case. I had a tin sitting around, and it fits perfectly with the headphones coiled beside it and the carrying strap even. If you drill a hole in the end of the tin, you can listen to music in the can, while people think something is "curiously wrong with you". [It's a joke based on the marketing slogan, Curiously Strong mints.] I tried it with an iPod Nano, and it didn't seem to fit, it's just a bit too long.
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"Seriously, what is it with the grouch crowd on Slashdot that lvoes to hate on any game newer than 1980s? "
Quake is from 1996, hence the 10 years designation today. You youngins' and your new games, and bad math:-)
"Why should I have to sign up?" Don't sign up then.
Make a difference and Digg the story. When enough Diggers see this too, there will be Voice Mail hell to pay for the RIAA. I tried finding a Digg story with more diggs, but that was all that came up in a search for Defective By Design.
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I used to run Quake I on a 486DX 80MHz with 8MB of RAM. It was fantastic when I upgraded to 12MB then 20MB. It was THE reason to get a Pentium computer.
In recent years Unreal has replaced it as my favourite. I got my screenname [used on Slashdot now too] from playing Quake on dialup, and P2P with another local kid.
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What's everyone freaking out aboot anyway? I'm sure they are all on YouTube anyway, right? ;-)
Just how many complete copies are there of famous events? You'd figure important historical and public domain videos would be flooding all over free video networks like on Google and Archive.org too.
Have you heard of "funny strange, not funny haha"?
"You still don't know who that person is, so why does it matter."
Because sending the data to the business she works for, it could ruin her life. It's not very hard to link the data with the employee, or let someone who might want to link it, do that.
A friend of mine downloaded this dataset.
A teacher's credit union employee was searching for sexy underwear, how best to conduct a relationship with a co-worker, and have sex in a pickup.
Just before that, she was searching for cars. And appears to have cancer as well, or lives with someone with cancer. Maybe it's her sick husband.
I wonder if that demonstrates why someone wouldn't want their Google searches or AOL info to make it into the public realm. AOL is obviously a bastion of consumer rights.
The computer industry has changed. A 5 year old computer now can still do most things the aging population of computer users wants to do - email, printing, downloading music.
In 2000, a 5 year old computer was much less worthy of keeping around, but I'd use a 400MHz Celeron in a pinch these days, and so would hundreds of thousands of people who have nothing close to even that.
Imagine being told that Quick Cam needs to be thrown away since Windows Vista won't authorize its use because it isn't PVP compliant and might be used to circumvent DRM.
"Being compared to third world contries and such."
As a Canadian, I have to take exception to being called a 3rd World country.
But taken in the likely spirit of Colbert-jest, I salute your joke.
McCain/Stewart was announced the other day on The Daily Show. Odds are they were kidding, but we just can't know yet ;-)
"Question is: How many Girlfriends can One Geek Man (TM) handle with his Linux expertise?"
I just imagined a Beowulf cluster of girls running Linux, and almost had a kernel leak.
I think DDR will be more productive in th course of humanity than the invention and use of DD.
Just think, in the future, two DDR pads will be set up facing each other, and you'll have to mimic what the person of the opposite gender dancing in front of you, is doing. It could lead to a revolution in geek reproductivity.
Yesterday's Journal entry on my journal about Backslash contained no posts, but I'm rehashing it now in the Backslash spirit of redundancy.
http://slashdot.org/~saskboy/journal/140669
I was going to say, Yellow characters written on standing water (snow) has been a time honoured Canadian tradition for the males anyway, for as long as I can remember. Good to see the rest of the world is catching up and building on the innovation.
"Like what? Electromagnetic fields? Those have pretty much been proven okay in the last 100 years."
I guess you didn't know that male pattern baldness, and impotence didn't exist before wireless telegraphy came along, didn't you?
I thought maybe they recreated the television channel Deja View, where they replay old TV shows, at first. Then I rememberd that never happened before, and my feeling of unease went away.
Speaking of things that don't produce anything, Slashdot has a long tradition of doing that. Why aren't they more popular on the stock market ;-)
Advertising is such a scam when everything else is boiled away.
You do realize that the 3rd parties don't have anyone in office because they aren't allowed in the televised debates, right? In Canada, the Reform party [now Conservative Party of Canada] is essentially in power because they were allowed in the 1993 televised debate with only one seat of 308.
I was raised on Mars. Did you play Doom too?
"We'd much rather have our engineers building better personalization, recommendations, playlisting applications, community apps, etc, instead of complex provisioning systems which at the end of the day allow you to burn a CD and take the DRM back off, anyway!'"
I want to give Yahoo! a big sloppy kiss now. That's exactly the kind of thinking that might make them some money in the music business.
"If the government wants to put me in prison or kill me, having a handgun will not change that. "
Exactly. We've developed past the point where we can let everyone run around with guns. There wasn't the variety of guns available we have today, when the 2nd Ammendment was enacted.
"People on non-Windows platforms hardly have to fear WMF exploits."
You're technically right, but philosophically wrong. There were PNG and JPG exploits for Linux too remember? They didn't get in on the WMF goodness of course, but who knows what other bad code is just lurking? It's safer to assume that if you're connected to a network or introducing new code, you're introducing new bugs along with any new functionality.
To find the older harder to find titles, I think most people use eBay or Amazon right? And I doubt most of the older movies cost more than $10 that way including shipping.
Would you really expect a corporation to have anything other than "tastefully" bland artwork for holidays or events? I just don't see Google ever featuring a pair of boobs for the 'O's in the name, to celebrate breast cancer awareness day. Also because they'd be ripping off Booble's logo.
When I won an iPod Shuffle I hit the web to find ways to use it. One of the "Best 50 accessories" list, had mention of using an Altoids mints tin as a carrying case. I had a tin sitting around, and it fits perfectly with the headphones coiled beside it and the carrying strap even. If you drill a hole in the end of the tin, you can listen to music in the can, while people think something is "curiously wrong with you". [It's a joke based on the marketing slogan, Curiously Strong mints.] I tried it with an iPod Nano, and it didn't seem to fit, it's just a bit too long.
"Seriously, what is it with the grouch crowd on Slashdot that lvoes to hate on any game newer than 1980s? "
:-)
Quake is from 1996, hence the 10 years designation today. You youngins' and your new games, and bad math
"Why should I have to sign up?"
Don't sign up then.
Make a difference and Digg the story. When enough Diggers see this too, there will be Voice Mail hell to pay for the RIAA.
I tried finding a Digg story with more diggs, but that was all that came up in a search for Defective By Design.
I used to run Quake I on a 486DX 80MHz with 8MB of RAM. It was fantastic when I upgraded to 12MB then 20MB. It was THE reason to get a Pentium computer.
In recent years Unreal has replaced it as my favourite. I got my screenname [used on Slashdot now too] from playing Quake on dialup, and P2P with another local kid.