They simply assume that you call support to ask why your connection has been cut. Support will provide the information necessary to clean away any trojans etc.
I think it would be a better idea to restrict all connections to a page with cleaning instructions instead.
But I don't want a tv in my phone, heck I'm not sure I want a tiny camera in my phone. If something isn't really needed it means that space/weight could have been used for something better.
Is there no phone that just meets the average nerds requirements? All the manufacturers just seem to push unecessary technology to feed a non-existing hype.
-If my phone must have a huge color screen, it's gotta be able to browse the web in some way
-If it's got a web browser it needs at least a couple of ways of connecting to the web (gprs/802.11/bluetooth, depending on range)
-If it has a processor that all but beats my desktop, then I don't want it to just play tunes. I want java for example. And by java I mean api:s to all hardware, not a game api for the screen. (like the T610 where the java-bluetooth is not included)
Further, it should be small, relatively cheap, have long battery time...and let's see what else...yeah, occasionally I want to call people.
Has anyone seen such a phone?
Sure, it's cool to see some new dialogs organizing my common media tasks, and a huge analog clock also really floats my boat.
This makes most people say Longhorn is "XP with a huge clock". Sure.
The 2 biggest promises for Longhorn is the new file system abstraction, and the new hardware rendered ui.
None of these are afaik included in the current builds, so the current builds are...XP with a huge clock! Compared to this, the 64 bit XP release is a lot more interesting as it has some real useful stuff included. Meanwhile, let's just stop reviewing huge-clock-XP-leaks until some of the goodies show up, shall we?
I don't agree, Ford has no chance of knowing exactly what sold car is being used in criminal activity. All they know is their marketshare and statistics of car models used in crimes etc. The "know" in the Ford case is "know" by the laws statistics, not "know" by actually seeing the crime, and being able to stop it, but not doing so.
If they knew before a sale the car was going to be used in a bankrobbery it would be different.
Not stopping a crime (or not trying) if you have the possibility is equal to accessory where I come from. Seeing it that way, the ISP is responsible once they can be shown to know about the site's activities. This of course leads to a whole new debate on "not knowing and not wanting to know" which of course would lead down the usual "willfully blind" alley.
What is all the ranting about "suing an ISP is like suing car manufacturers for making cars which are used for bank robbing" etc.?
I agree that supplying tools or infrastructure cannot be considered a crime, but what if the supplier knows about the illegal activities? I don't think ISP:s could be held financially responsible directly for the losses of, say, a record company, but I do think that knowingly providing infrastructure for illegal activities should be criminal. Since australia has those strange copyright laws that make all copies of copyrighted material illegal, the page is obviously illegal.
What I don't understand is this: If the contents of a website is illegal, isn't an ISP in almost any country obliged to shut the site down, or face charges? No need for a lawsuit then? If they shut it down when prompted, they can't be asked to pay any damages, right?
If the site isn't illegal, then noone would have any grounds for a lawsuit, and there is no problem?
I think there would be a thin line between "stupid enough" and "willfully blind". The same is probably the big question for FreeNet etc. If I know there may be illegal stuff going on, but I don't really want to find out what, to be able to deny it, can I then be called innocent?
Heck, when stupidity and ignorance is criminal, the whole U.S. gov't would have to be rebuilt from the ground...
...What kept the morbidly obese alive in the land of the morbidly obese was probably the workout of picking up the phone for ordering food. Enter the segway and the food-ordering sofa, and there will be trouble.
One question, do I actually have to walk from my bed to the sofa?
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T1, T2, TX... why not just dig optofibers to everyones front porch and then charge $40 for this (about 50-100Mbit) no-download-cap service? Say $300 for installation.
This is what is happening where I live, and population density is probably far smaller than most US suburbs.
If your options are capped dsl, crappy cable or perversely expensve T? lines you are being cheated by a monopoly.
In my own experience (and I work for a web development house) you can cut down time of development by factor 5-10 using a weakly typed scripting language such as PHP.
True, but then you have the cost of maintaining too. Strong typing or not is quite irrelevant for the guy developing, but the guy who has to maintain on the other hand...
Once a web project reaches 100 lines of code mixed with style & content, you should trash it and start over.
What kind of information do they really have that they could abuse? I'm thinking all they know is my name and adress, my travel history, cc number and any special diet I may have?
So if I have a record of flying to "rouge" states every now and then, plus I don't eat pork I'm guessing I get the "red" or whatever color means I'll get a plastic fork whereas John next to me gets the tiny metal fork (both which are still inferior to a shoelace for hijacking a plane).
But this kind of information is already used when you shop with creditcards, everytime you get a directed ad because you ordered something in the past etc etc.
In my opinion, using some real data (e.g. travel history) in the security is better than the system of harassing people for looking foreign or whatever. Just don't supply more personal information than you need when flying and your privacy should be ok.
Also, if you are a terrorist, wouldn't you fly with a brand spanking new identity every time?
Perhaps the color code to start with should be the most dangerous, and frequent flyers should earn their green code with their frequent flyer miles? Only after a couple of flights could you expect anything less than a full cavity search? =)
Anyone care to take a guess what these figures would be like if you only count "real" broadband users?
The definition is a bit vague of course, but for simplicity let's say 5 mbit symmetric connections with no traffic volume cap/charges and no connection time charges.
My guess is the list would be completely different as most of the users said to have "broadband" in this ranking probably uses some dsl connection with a download cap and crappy upload transfer rate. The difference is important because the number of future services available to develop for users on a 128/512k line are a lot fewer than those connected for example to a normal "real" building broadband connection(fiber, then 100Mbit switched in-house). For example high quality video on demand and things like that. DSL just means a better www/p2p browsing, but no fancy future broadband services.
Yes. big difference between TV-fps and computer screen fps. The slow action of TV-CRT:s give some interpolation.
Further for a netgame with double buffering, the small delays between frames quickly become noticable. 30fps is 1000ms/30 ~ 33 milliseconds of delay between each frame (worst case). If your original ping(ok, latency) was 20ms, then I guess the effective latency could be as high as 50ms?
(Professor Farnsworth has just invented the Smelloscope.)
Farnsworth: You'll find that every heavenly body has its own particular scent. Fry: As long as you don't make me smell 'Uranus'! Ha! Ha! Farnsworth: I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed 'Uranus' in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all. Fry: Oh. What's it called now? Farnsworth: Urectum.
For casinos where the casino doesn't really need any excuse to throw you out, the question of wether you cheat at a particular game or not is irrelevant.
If you start winning, someone at the casino could start pointing out that your shoes aren't good enough for the place. Or ask for ID to look for another excuse to throw you out if you are a minor. As a last resort they'll probably just tell you that you are not wanted at their casino, and tell you that you are tresspassing if staying at the BJ table. Losers of course can wear what they want, and be minors.
In small stakes BJ at bars where I usually play, I'll get thrown out for cheating (like adding chips after cards were dealt and such stupid tricks), but I can stack chips when I count cards, or even chat with the dealer about the current count. I figure it's not considered a cheat here.
The card counting rule is so silly it's almost ridiculous. If the casino wants to be sure of their 50% all the time, what they could do is shuffle after each hand. I know this has been tested. In effect this means playing with an infinite deck, and counting will be all but useless.
I'd never place a bet at a table with infinite number of cards in the shoe. I might as well play roulette, or give my money straight to the casino then? It becomes a game of luck. Like playing chess without looking at the chessboard.
Actually, if your code is properly modularized there's not problem removing a browser a media player a GUI or any other component.
Yes, but who says an operating system should be a fair playground for anyone to write applications? An OS these days should out of the box perform most of the stuff I want it to. Look at cars, they come with custom format stereo systems built into the dashboard. Couple of years ago they always came with a neat standard sized rectangular hole. Of course, you can buy the hole as an option in some cars today (you'll probably pay about as much as for the stereo), but it wont do the job any better!
Microsoft has a monopoly on operating systems. This is what they could abuse. When browsers and media players integrate, of course makers of media players will die. What one must answer though: Is a media player integrated as a feature, or to kill competing media players? Is it becoming integrated in other, non dominating os:es as well? If so, then microsoft must be allowed to integrate it too. If not, one could say it's unfair play.
The thing is, making a media player (which needs to be an integrated part of the os these days, not an application) is just as dead a business as making standard format buy-your-own car stereos! And no, I don't think m$ has an obligation to let anyone else write os components. If the OS becomes closed and static, users will switch sooner or later.
Not saying ms is fair in this matter, but the real abuse issue is their strange license givaways to ensure govt. use, and slowing down open standards like openGL by strange driver signing and so on...
Just getting Mozilla requires a broadband connection, and knowledge you are unlikely to have in the Windoze world.
Cant really blame m$ for the limited availability (or download size) of Mozilla. The fact that users of windoze are ignorant/nongeeks is just proof of the success of microsoft. 2% of us know enough about computers to argue over things like this. M$ managed to sell an OS to the remaining 98%. Well done.
Right...
But Isn't that a good grade to their product that you don't really need another product?
We wont see microsoft promoting Mozilla any time soon. Of course if the os didn't come with a browser, then 50% would perhaps use mozilla.
But more likely those 50% would be calling microsoft support saying that the internet doesn't exist.
They make a desktop os and include a media player, and a web browser. Surely, you can't uninstall the media player or browser easily, but what is the problem with that?
I can use mozilla as my (default) browser if I want to, or play mpgs per default with quicktime. If red hat had a monopoly-like market share, then shipping a free media player (the KmovieKplayer 9) would be monopoly abuse because it would limit sales of 3rd party media players?
And if microsoft would have media player on a separate download/cd people would buy Real's player? Even if microsoft would give it away? Or can't they give it away because that too is monopoly abuse? Is the "abuse" from microsoft really caused to any major extent by "features" in their products? Don't think so...
Did that sound pro m$? I better put the flameproof suit on.
Since the meaning of "pissed" is determined by the context (nationanlity for example), you would need more information than the sentence itself to make an educated guess. A little context is given by the "installed OSX", but probably not enough to decide between angry and drunk...
Does anyone know if for example babel is context/locale sensitive in this sense:
If I write "theatre" or some other word with british spelling, does it then understand that any other words with different meanings in en-US and en-GB english should use the meaning from en-GB? The test sentance "At the theatre getting pissed" won't work since no slang seems to work with babel.
Interesting CNN article, but the "exclusive networks" have the problem of course of never being as powerful as Kazaa or napster (notice how direct connect hubs of 1000 users never seem to have what you are looking for?)
What if the "socializing" bit of obtaining access to an exclusive network meant finding the network, then before you are able to see any of the shared material on the trusted p2p network you must first push (say) 10Gb of (illegal) material to the network.
Once a member of the trusted network has verified the material the key to the network will (maybe) be handed out.
Now if a user that normally would not have gained access (such as a record company or similar) had tried to gain this access, have helped the sharing of 10Gb of copyrighted material (their own if they aren't afraid of massive lawsuits), and they can still not be sure that they gain access to this network.
If they do gain access, and notice illegal material on the network: could a "clean-hands"-thing make it difficult for them to sue anyone on this network where they contributed themselves to the data?
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They simply assume that you call support to ask why your connection has been cut. Support will provide the information necessary to clean away any trojans etc. I think it would be a better idea to restrict all connections to a page with cleaning instructions instead.
They realized that OS stability doesn't really matter once the user has crashed...
But I don't want a tv in my phone, heck I'm not sure I want a tiny camera in my phone. If something isn't really needed it means that space/weight could have been used for something better. Is there no phone that just meets the average nerds requirements? All the manufacturers just seem to push unecessary technology to feed a non-existing hype. -If my phone must have a huge color screen, it's gotta be able to browse the web in some way -If it's got a web browser it needs at least a couple of ways of connecting to the web (gprs/802.11/bluetooth, depending on range) -If it has a processor that all but beats my desktop, then I don't want it to just play tunes. I want java for example. And by java I mean api:s to all hardware, not a game api for the screen. (like the T610 where the java-bluetooth is not included) Further, it should be small, relatively cheap, have long battery time...and let's see what else...yeah, occasionally I want to call people. Has anyone seen such a phone?
Sure, it's cool to see some new dialogs organizing my common media tasks, and a huge analog clock also really floats my boat. This makes most people say Longhorn is "XP with a huge clock". Sure. The 2 biggest promises for Longhorn is the new file system abstraction, and the new hardware rendered ui. None of these are afaik included in the current builds, so the current builds are...XP with a huge clock! Compared to this, the 64 bit XP release is a lot more interesting as it has some real useful stuff included. Meanwhile, let's just stop reviewing huge-clock-XP-leaks until some of the goodies show up, shall we?
No, race cars power The Sun!
If they knew before a sale the car was going to be used in a bankrobbery it would be different.
Not stopping a crime (or not trying) if you have the possibility is equal to accessory where I come from. Seeing it that way, the ISP is responsible once they can be shown to know about the site's activities. This of course leads to a whole new debate on "not knowing and not wanting to know" which of course would lead down the usual "willfully blind" alley.
What is all the ranting about "suing an ISP is like suing car manufacturers for making cars which are used for bank robbing" etc.?
I agree that supplying tools or infrastructure cannot be considered a crime, but what if the supplier knows about the illegal activities? I don't think ISP:s could be held financially responsible directly for the losses of, say, a record company, but I do think that knowingly providing infrastructure for illegal activities should be criminal. Since australia has those strange copyright laws that make all copies of copyrighted material illegal, the page is obviously illegal.
What I don't understand is this: If the contents of a website is illegal, isn't an ISP in almost any country obliged to shut the site down, or face charges? No need for a lawsuit then? If they shut it down when prompted, they can't be asked to pay any damages, right?
If the site isn't illegal, then noone would have any grounds for a lawsuit, and there is no problem?
Heck, when stupidity and ignorance is criminal, the whole U.S. gov't would have to be rebuilt from the ground...
One question, do I actually have to walk from my bed to the sofa?
x^n+y^n=z^n, n>2, No solutions. I have found a truly remarkable proof but this sig is too short.
This is what is happening where I live, and population density is probably far smaller than most US suburbs.
If your options are capped dsl, crappy cable or perversely expensve T? lines you are being cheated by a monopoly.
Fiber to the door at $40/month. And the bonus question: where is this?
True, but then you have the cost of maintaining too. Strong typing or not is quite irrelevant for the guy developing, but the guy who has to maintain on the other hand...
Once a web project reaches 100 lines of code mixed with style & content, you should trash it and start over.
So if I have a record of flying to "rouge" states every now and then, plus I don't eat pork I'm guessing I get the "red" or whatever color means I'll get a plastic fork whereas John next to me gets the tiny metal fork (both which are still inferior to a shoelace for hijacking a plane).
But this kind of information is already used when you shop with creditcards, everytime you get a directed ad because you ordered something in the past etc etc. In my opinion, using some real data (e.g. travel history) in the security is better than the system of harassing people for looking foreign or whatever. Just don't supply more personal information than you need when flying and your privacy should be ok.
Also, if you are a terrorist, wouldn't you fly with a brand spanking new identity every time? Perhaps the color code to start with should be the most dangerous, and frequent flyers should earn their green code with their frequent flyer miles? Only after a couple of flights could you expect anything less than a full cavity search? =)
The definition is a bit vague of course, but for simplicity let's say 5 mbit symmetric connections with no traffic volume cap/charges and no connection time charges.
My guess is the list would be completely different as most of the users said to have "broadband" in this ranking probably uses some dsl connection with a download cap and crappy upload transfer rate. The difference is important because the number of future services available to develop for users on a 128/512k line are a lot fewer than those connected for example to a normal "real" building broadband connection(fiber, then 100Mbit switched in-house). For example high quality video on demand and things like that. DSL just means a better www/p2p browsing, but no fancy future broadband services.
Further for a netgame with double buffering, the small delays between frames quickly become noticable. 30fps is 1000ms/30 ~ 33 milliseconds of delay between each frame (worst case). If your original ping(ok, latency) was 20ms, then I guess the effective latency could be as high as 50ms?
In most other countries you can find places at a zoo that operate with more sanity.
(Professor Farnsworth has just invented the Smelloscope.)
Farnsworth: You'll find that every heavenly body has its own particular scent.
Fry: As long as you don't make me smell 'Uranus'! Ha! Ha!
Farnsworth: I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed 'Uranus' in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.
Fry: Oh. What's it called now?
Farnsworth: Urectum.
If you start winning, someone at the casino could start pointing out that your shoes aren't good enough for the place. Or ask for ID to look for another excuse to throw you out if you are a minor. As a last resort they'll probably just tell you that you are not wanted at their casino, and tell you that you are tresspassing if staying at the BJ table. Losers of course can wear what they want, and be minors.
In small stakes BJ at bars where I usually play, I'll get thrown out for cheating (like adding chips after cards were dealt and such stupid tricks), but I can stack chips when I count cards, or even chat with the dealer about the current count. I figure it's not considered a cheat here.
The card counting rule is so silly it's almost ridiculous. If the casino wants to be sure of their 50% all the time, what they could do is shuffle after each hand. I know this has been tested. In effect this means playing with an infinite deck, and counting will be all but useless.
I'd never place a bet at a table with infinite number of cards in the shoe. I might as well play roulette, or give my money straight to the casino then? It becomes a game of luck. Like playing chess without looking at the chessboard.
Yes, but who says an operating system should be a fair playground for anyone to write applications? An OS these days should out of the box perform most of the stuff I want it to. Look at cars, they come with custom format stereo systems built into the dashboard. Couple of years ago they always came with a neat standard sized rectangular hole. Of course, you can buy the hole as an option in some cars today (you'll probably pay about as much as for the stereo), but it wont do the job any better!
Microsoft has a monopoly on operating systems. This is what they could abuse. When browsers and media players integrate, of course makers of media players will die. What one must answer though: Is a media player integrated as a feature, or to kill competing media players? Is it becoming integrated in other, non dominating os:es as well? If so, then microsoft must be allowed to integrate it too. If not, one could say it's unfair play.
The thing is, making a media player (which needs to be an integrated part of the os these days, not an application) is just as dead a business as making standard format buy-your-own car stereos! And no, I don't think m$ has an obligation to let anyone else write os components. If the OS becomes closed and static, users will switch sooner or later.
Not saying ms is fair in this matter, but the real abuse issue is their strange license givaways to ensure govt. use, and slowing down open standards like openGL by strange driver signing and so on...
Just getting Mozilla requires a broadband connection, and knowledge you are unlikely to have in the Windoze world.
Cant really blame m$ for the limited availability (or download size) of Mozilla. The fact that users of windoze are ignorant/nongeeks is just proof of the success of microsoft. 2% of us know enough about computers to argue over things like this. M$ managed to sell an OS to the remaining 98%. Well done.
But Isn't that a good grade to their product that you don't really need another product? We wont see microsoft promoting Mozilla any time soon. Of course if the os didn't come with a browser, then 50% would perhaps use mozilla.
But more likely those 50% would be calling microsoft support saying that the internet doesn't exist.
I can use mozilla as my (default) browser if I want to, or play mpgs per default with quicktime. If red hat had a monopoly-like market share, then shipping a free media player (the KmovieKplayer 9) would be monopoly abuse because it would limit sales of 3rd party media players?
And if microsoft would have media player on a separate download/cd people would buy Real's player? Even if microsoft would give it away? Or can't they give it away because that too is monopoly abuse? Is the "abuse" from microsoft really caused to any major extent by "features" in their products? Don't think so...
Did that sound pro m$? I better put the flameproof suit on.
Does anyone know if for example babel is context/locale sensitive in this sense:
If I write "theatre" or some other word with british spelling, does it then understand that any other words with different meanings in en-US and en-GB english should use the meaning from en-GB? The test sentance "At the theatre getting pissed" won't work since no slang seems to work with babel.
What if the "socializing" bit of obtaining access to an exclusive network meant finding the network, then before you are able to see any of the shared material on the trusted p2p network you must first push (say) 10Gb of (illegal) material to the network.
Once a member of the trusted network has verified the material the key to the network will (maybe) be handed out.
Now if a user that normally would not have gained access (such as a record company or similar) had tried to gain this access, have helped the sharing of 10Gb of copyrighted material (their own if they aren't afraid of massive lawsuits), and they can still not be sure that they gain access to this network.
If they do gain access, and notice illegal material on the network: could a "clean-hands"-thing make it difficult for them to sue anyone on this network where they contributed themselves to the data?
Am I totally off my noodle here?