Well it only took 12 hours to get this news on/.... but the shows looked great, and I really do think this could end up bad for cable companies. I'm keeping it since baseball season is around the corner, but if i wasn't a Red Sox nut i'd be canceling my subscription. these two shows are fantastic, and being able to watch them without commercials is a real win. i'd like to see the price lower, though. 16 episodes/$10 is ok, but still seems a bit much over the long haul. i bought both "multi-passes", but we'll have to see if i continue once the novelty has worn off.
gotta love Colbert. Check out the "Long War" segment:P
Re:Do people actually log-in when searching Google
on
Google Toolbar v.4
·
· Score: 1
And yet you logged into/. instead of posting as an AC... your tin foil hat is slipping.
ok if Bush is going to subpoena/. for my browsing/posting habits, i'm _REALLY_ in trouble. in all seriousness though, the danger is in these far-reaching requests for user data. the tactic has been to cast a wide net and apparently mine all the data they get for whatever they find useful. that data DOJ collects could be kept for years, long enough to map every detail of it and come up with a pretty accurate portrait of the users' browsing habits. Then they could compare tendencies between terrorist's habits and the users whose data they've analyzed. Google data seems a lot more useful for these purposes than Slashdot data.
you don't need to be a terrorist to have a matching profile. false positives are all too common in these type of analyses, and in the government's current zeal to identify possible threats, citizens shouldn't think they're immune to these dangers. mishaps happen all the time, and innocent people go to jail (or worse), sometimes for indefinite periods of time while their innocence is being disputed.
believe me, my tin foil hat is well-secured;)
Re:Do people actually log-in when searching Google
on
Google Toolbar v.4
·
· Score: 1
i don't think i'm being paranoid, just practical. when ppl give governments permission to infringe their rights, those governments ALWAYS abuse the privilege. if you follow a link to an article about the new Palestinian documentary that was nominated for an Academy Award, and that sight happens to be hosted by some group linked to 'terrorism', you could find yourself on a secret list, perhaps unable to fly. This stuff happens to regular people. Between the NSA spying and the regular FBI spying, chances are you aren't too far removed from someone who had been surreptitiously spied on. If your browsing habits make you look like someone who might oppose whatever regime is currently in power, you could find yourself in trouble.
ok. maybe i _AM_ paranoid. but i think it's just good common sense to support technologies that promote greater privacy, rather than those that further impinge upon it.
Do people actually log-in when searching Google?
on
Google Toolbar v.4
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
Given all the coverage of the myriad ways in which governments have begun collecting data on their citizen's internet use habits, does anyone actually use these features and log-in to Google.com? You couldn't pay me to use their value-added features. I'm surprised anyone cares about the bookmark feature, as I'm under the impression it only works when you're logged-in.
It's bad enough they can trace your quasi-anonymous browser. At least they have to work for your identity in that case. I'm not willing to make it any easier for big brother than it already is.
Since when does anyone have a right to criticize someone for what they may or may not give to charity? Or whether or not they've taken on sufficiently important causes? I've personally admired Gates for a long time. I don't like everything his company does, but I sure do like the fact that ppl like him, Bono, and Clinton are making a huge impact on AIDs around the world, much more so than our so-called 'leaders' in Washington. So good for Gates. Why does Steve Jobs need to do the same, however? Jobs is an icon because he's a charismatic leader of a niche tech company. He's a marketing God. He obviously enjoys what he does. What he ISN'T is a hippie. He seems to genuinely believe his own hype: he drinks the Cupertino kool-aid. He's focused on his company, and making the best products he can. Gates is in a different position. His company's best days are behind it. Apple may just be getting started.
None of this has anything to do with anything, however. No one has the right to tell someone what they should do with their money. As long as he's not out hurting people, leave the guy alone. Not that he cares one wit about what some Wired journalist thinks. He's not a hippie-wuss kinda guy. He's a tried and true capitalist, and to expect him to transform into Mother Theresa just because he has a few billion more bucks is stupid. He's in the trenches with his beloved Apple Computer, fighting what he sees as the good fight. Last I checked, Bush hadn't quite succeeded in getting the Constitution into the Oval Office's paper shredder. Jobs is free to be who he wants to be. All Americans are. If ppl don't like it, get your own $10 Billion and give it away. Otherwise, stfuktb.
You all said it wasn't "unix" a couple of weeks ago when the government released the unix/apple security holes, witch by the way were about triple the windows holes.
lets just be clear. there were not triple the security holes in any single *NIX compared to Windows. there was a statistic compiling ALL the holes in DIFFERENT Unix variants and then comparing that number to the holes in just ONE variant of Windows, which would be like adding up ALL the security holes in DOS, Win3.0, Win95, Win98, WinME, Win2000, WinXP and comparing them to the number in OS X Tiger. It's not a fair comparison. Same thing happened in that article. You can't take all the flaws in RedHat/Debian/SuSE/Slackware/BSD/OS X/HP and compare the number meaningfully to the number of flaws in WinXP. they're DIFFERENT OSes.
if you don't like Macs, that's fine. no need to spread FUD.
I just went back to school, and am shocked at what seems to be a wholesale cluelessness when it comes to technology. In one class, a teacher asked, "who here will admit to watching Star Trek?" I was thinking to myself, "Since when isn't it cool to watch Star Trek?" Despite being raised with computers in their homes, it seems programming or even web development knowledge is still strictly for the nerds. I remember going to computer camp learning on RadioShack Tandy computers, and sometimes Apples. I thought that kids today would by now take basic tech-literacy skills for granted. Instead, all they know how to do is surf the web, use email, type in Word, and play games. I don't even think many know how to get pr0n on usenet (and now that the RIAA has every prof mentioning the evils of file-sharing, many don't even do that)! I was thinking that by coming back to school I'd be put to shame by all these young bloods, but it seems geekiness is still dominated by the Jedi, holed-up in their engineering and computer science classrooms. The masses remain blissfully unaware.
I guess lots of people got on this bandwagon a while ago, but I was holding out hope that things could get better for artists if the iTMS was a stepping stone for the majors to wake up and change their business practices. I'm now convinced that the only way to see change for artists is to stop purchasing music sanctioned by the RIAA. Downhill Battle just won me over. Music lovers need to support the people making music, and I think that's best accomplished by supporting the independent labels and artists.
If you need to have a song from the majors, then download it off the net for free. Period. Downhill Battle has some suggestions for staying below the RIAA lawsuit radar when running your P2P client. But better yet, just stop listening to RIAA music and get involved in the indie scene. Make it a change in your mindset, to eschew the marketing hype and think for yourself.
I think it's great that there is someone else able to compete in this market. Competition means that Apple and AMD have to keep on their toes, and that's good for Mac and PC users. The thing I think is cool, though, is that AMD gave their chip 1MB of L2 cache, while the G5 has only 512K. That's got to have something to do with the increased performance. I understand people don't like the apps compared, but that's a testament to the increasing differentiation we're seeing between the platforms (there are increasingly fewer and fewer cross-platform everyday apps available to test). I would have liked to see some scientific apps compared, but those complaining PC World did the testing and therefore it isn't fair need to read the article (haha): MacWorld did the Mac benchmarks.
1MB L2 in the Athlon hopefully means Apple will have to add some more to the G5. The availability of better (256MB) video cards for PCs also needs to be addressed, or Apple's ability to make outrageous marketing claims that get people fired up and creating a buzz for their products will be hampered. Hopefully the next rev will see some of the G5's shortcomings addressed. That, coupled with Panther, should make things interesting when this shootout is repeated in a few months.
Either way, guys, it's all good. These are both great chips and mean cool things for their users. Don't lose the forest for the trees =) err... wait, maybe it's me missing the point: this is/. afterall, so I guess yelling at each other is par the course... forget everything I said, gentlemen. Carry on!
Slashdot Mirror
Well it only took 12 hours to get this news on /.... but the shows looked great, and I really do think this could end up bad for cable companies. I'm keeping it since baseball season is around the corner, but if i wasn't a Red Sox nut i'd be canceling my subscription. these two shows are fantastic, and being able to watch them without commercials is a real win. i'd like to see the price lower, though. 16 episodes/$10 is ok, but still seems a bit much over the long haul. i bought both "multi-passes", but we'll have to see if i continue once the novelty has worn off.
gotta love Colbert. Check out the "Long War" segment :P
ok if Bush is going to subpoena /. for my browsing/posting habits, i'm _REALLY_ in trouble. in all seriousness though, the danger is in these far-reaching requests for user data. the tactic has been to cast a wide net and apparently mine all the data they get for whatever they find useful. that data DOJ collects could be kept for years, long enough to map every detail of it and come up with a pretty accurate portrait of the users' browsing habits. Then they could compare tendencies between terrorist's habits and the users whose data they've analyzed. Google data seems a lot more useful for these purposes than Slashdot data.
you don't need to be a terrorist to have a matching profile. false positives are all too common in these type of analyses, and in the government's current zeal to identify possible threats, citizens shouldn't think they're immune to these dangers. mishaps happen all the time, and innocent people go to jail (or worse), sometimes for indefinite periods of time while their innocence is being disputed.
believe me, my tin foil hat is well-secured ;)
ok. maybe i _AM_ paranoid. but i think it's just good common sense to support technologies that promote greater privacy, rather than those that further impinge upon it.
It's bad enough they can trace your quasi-anonymous browser. At least they have to work for your identity in that case. I'm not willing to make it any easier for big brother than it already is.
None of this has anything to do with anything, however. No one has the right to tell someone what they should do with their money. As long as he's not out hurting people, leave the guy alone. Not that he cares one wit about what some Wired journalist thinks. He's not a hippie-wuss kinda guy. He's a tried and true capitalist, and to expect him to transform into Mother Theresa just because he has a few billion more bucks is stupid. He's in the trenches with his beloved Apple Computer, fighting what he sees as the good fight. Last I checked, Bush hadn't quite succeeded in getting the Constitution into the Oval Office's paper shredder. Jobs is free to be who he wants to be. All Americans are. If ppl don't like it, get your own $10 Billion and give it away. Otherwise, stfuktb.
I just went back to school, and am shocked at what seems to be a wholesale cluelessness when it comes to technology. In one class, a teacher asked, "who here will admit to watching Star Trek?" I was thinking to myself, "Since when isn't it cool to watch Star Trek?" Despite being raised with computers in their homes, it seems programming or even web development knowledge is still strictly for the nerds. I remember going to computer camp learning on RadioShack Tandy computers, and sometimes Apples. I thought that kids today would by now take basic tech-literacy skills for granted. Instead, all they know how to do is surf the web, use email, type in Word, and play games. I don't even think many know how to get pr0n on usenet (and now that the RIAA has every prof mentioning the evils of file-sharing, many don't even do that)! I was thinking that by coming back to school I'd be put to shame by all these young bloods, but it seems geekiness is still dominated by the Jedi, holed-up in their engineering and computer science classrooms. The masses remain blissfully unaware.
If you need to have a song from the majors, then download it off the net for free. Period. Downhill Battle has some suggestions for staying below the RIAA lawsuit radar when running your P2P client. But better yet, just stop listening to RIAA music and get involved in the indie scene. Make it a change in your mindset, to eschew the marketing hype and think for yourself.
1MB L2 in the Athlon hopefully means Apple will have to add some more to the G5. The availability of better (256MB) video cards for PCs also needs to be addressed, or Apple's ability to make outrageous marketing claims that get people fired up and creating a buzz for their products will be hampered. Hopefully the next rev will see some of the G5's shortcomings addressed. That, coupled with Panther, should make things interesting when this shootout is repeated in a few months.
Either way, guys, it's all good. These are both great chips and mean cool things for their users. Don't lose the forest for the trees =) err... wait, maybe it's me missing the point: this is /. afterall, so I guess yelling at each other is par the course... forget everything I said, gentlemen. Carry on!