It's not just "below the melting point"- the Ring does not seem to absorb heat at all. It's at or below room temperature after being in a fire for several seconds. Maybe the scrollwork is made of the same stuff as those "magic" coffee mugs?:P
He doesn't make you hunt around for the story; the story of LOTR is very simple and directly told. What you get for hunting around is the backstory- the reasons things are the way they are when the characters encounter them, a better understanding of character motivations and histories, explanations of offhand references made in dialogue, and so on, but all of this is optional. You don't need to read the appendices and Silmarillion to enjoy LOTR any more than you need to read the dozens of Expanded Universe novels and comics that later appeared to enjoy Star Wars.
I believe you mean, "only if you've been doing it for years". Ever tried to teach someone how to do that from first principles?
Incidentally, the iPod defaults to requiring absolutely zero effort to remain synched- When you plug it into the computer, iTunes automatically copies across any new music and synchronizes the playlists. It will even launch iTunes if the iPod is plugged in while it is not running. (Yes, it's possible to make this all automated with other tools, but not without some work on your part.)
The REASON Apple put all those resources into it was because they would be able to control it and include with the Power Macs they sold, thus recouping their investment. If he had told the managers that he was planning to take the results of his work and release it to the world for free, the project and his access to Apple facilities would have been instantly killed.
That ruling is unfortunately the current state of the law, as it set the precedent. If you don't like it, get a new law passed or a new court decision to overturn it.
As someone explained in another thread, it is possible to be liable for providing information you are aware will be used for illegal purposes.
It would be relevant except for the fact that the Prisoner is (apparently) an expert in intelligence and counterintelligence, and the population of Slashdot is not.
It wouldn't be the first time a common-sense conclusion (Data is a sentient being worthy of being a lt. commander) would be overridden by more detailed and in-depth study. Has the story of how Data first appeared and enlisted in Starfleet ever been told?
This isn't a weakness in BT. If you want to use BT for a legitimate purpose, you don't need Suprnova to do that, just your own tracker and torrents, which are immune to this attack since it's not violating a copyright. If you want to do small-scale copyright infringement by exercising your personal right to not be under constant surveillance, you can do that too by keeping it private and among a small, trusted group (and having a negligible effect overall). If you try to do massive, widespread, easy, free-for-all-comers copyright infringement, you get busted and shut down, and you deserve it.
That the poster clearly had an unbalanced view of the issues involved, and that more directly related experience might shift his viewpoint to something more realistic.
You're misreading Apple's strategy. The store is not "used to drive the iPod"- it's a feature of the iPod. (The fact that it's accessed through a program on a computer the iPod is plugged into is secondary.) That's why Apple feels that having people buy through the ITMS and only the ITMS is such an important part of the iPod strategy. The closed experience is part of what they are selling.
DOWNLOADING STUFF FROM THE INTERNET IS NOT CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE. Civil disobedience involves suffering the consequences of your action, to bring the public's attention to those consequences. Hiding in your parents' basement loading up DVD-Rs with ripped movies accomplishes nothing towards the goal of changing copyright law; if anything it strengthens the **AA's claim that copyright infringement is too easy and widespread and must be legally and programmatically curtailed.
As the grandparent suggested, you have almost certainly never been involved in the creation of anything that can be pirated. But I bet you're utterly outraged at GPL violations, too. Those damn copyright infringers and license breakers... oh wait.
How does this sleep mode work exactly? Does the PSP have static RAM? Does it have an emergency backup battery? Does it secretly underestimate its battery's capacity so it has a reserve to sleep on until it gets charged- and does this mean it will "die" if left asleep for too long, and permanently reduce the battery capacity as LiIons are wont to do?
Nobody in their right mind uses IE for Mac because it's a horrible, horrible program. Safari comes as the default browser for all new Macs (I don't know why Apple even bothers to bundle IE any more, it must be a contract thing) and there is a Firefox build for them too.
they even have an OSX version, thats basically a *nix version.
This is by far the biggest misconception about OS X on Slashdot. Yes, the inner core of the OS is BSD, but the high-level APIs that every program that's not a command-line tool must use - especially Carbon - are COMPLETELY different from those found on other unixes. Porting to or from OS X is no easier (or harder) than porting to or from any other platform, and having an OS X version of a program available has no effect on the difficulty and effort involved in further porting.
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It's not just "below the melting point"- the Ring does not seem to absorb heat at all. It's at or below room temperature after being in a fire for several seconds. Maybe the scrollwork is made of the same stuff as those "magic" coffee mugs? :P
He doesn't make you hunt around for the story; the story of LOTR is very simple and directly told. What you get for hunting around is the backstory- the reasons things are the way they are when the characters encounter them, a better understanding of character motivations and histories, explanations of offhand references made in dialogue, and so on, but all of this is optional. You don't need to read the appendices and Silmarillion to enjoy LOTR any more than you need to read the dozens of Expanded Universe novels and comics that later appeared to enjoy Star Wars.
Try "www" and despair.
I believe you mean, "only if you've been doing it for years". Ever tried to teach someone how to do that from first principles?
Incidentally, the iPod defaults to requiring absolutely zero effort to remain synched- When you plug it into the computer, iTunes automatically copies across any new music and synchronizes the playlists. It will even launch iTunes if the iPod is plugged in while it is not running. (Yes, it's possible to make this all automated with other tools, but not without some work on your part.)
The REASON Apple put all those resources into it was because they would be able to control it and include with the Power Macs they sold, thus recouping their investment. If he had told the managers that he was planning to take the results of his work and release it to the world for free, the project and his access to Apple facilities would have been instantly killed.
The first rule of graphic calculator club...
That ruling is unfortunately the current state of the law, as it set the precedent. If you don't like it, get a new law passed or a new court decision to overturn it.
As someone explained in another thread, it is possible to be liable for providing information you are aware will be used for illegal purposes.
You forgot to include "based on current knowledge of algorithms, mathematics, and computation methods and technology".
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And encryption in general is still vulnerable to the rubber-hose attack
It would be relevant except for the fact that the Prisoner is (apparently) an expert in intelligence and counterintelligence, and the population of Slashdot is not.
How is this different from the DirectTV service that JetBlue planes receive?
It wouldn't be the first time a common-sense conclusion (Data is a sentient being worthy of being a lt. commander) would be overridden by more detailed and in-depth study. Has the story of how Data first appeared and enlisted in Starfleet ever been told?
The author gains nothing by keeping his work from others
The author gains the right to control the copying of his work. That's why they call it that.
This isn't a weakness in BT. If you want to use BT for a legitimate purpose, you don't need Suprnova to do that, just your own tracker and torrents, which are immune to this attack since it's not violating a copyright. If you want to do small-scale copyright infringement by exercising your personal right to not be under constant surveillance, you can do that too by keeping it private and among a small, trusted group (and having a negligible effect overall). If you try to do massive, widespread, easy, free-for-all-comers copyright infringement, you get busted and shut down, and you deserve it.
I'd guess at least 90% of Internet traffic is created by something derived from the BSD TCP stack :P
Yes :P
Aliens Cause Global Warming, by Michael Crichton. It's a great explanation of why claims like this are meaningless and bad science.
That the poster clearly had an unbalanced view of the issues involved, and that more directly related experience might shift his viewpoint to something more realistic.
You're misreading Apple's strategy. The store is not "used to drive the iPod"- it's a feature of the iPod. (The fact that it's accessed through a program on a computer the iPod is plugged into is secondary.) That's why Apple feels that having people buy through the ITMS and only the ITMS is such an important part of the iPod strategy. The closed experience is part of what they are selling.
The Marathon quote is referring to Halo 1. Halo 2 is nothing like this, as the article explains.
DOWNLOADING STUFF FROM THE INTERNET IS NOT CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE. Civil disobedience involves suffering the consequences of your action, to bring the public's attention to those consequences. Hiding in your parents' basement loading up DVD-Rs with ripped movies accomplishes nothing towards the goal of changing copyright law; if anything it strengthens the **AA's claim that copyright infringement is too easy and widespread and must be legally and programmatically curtailed.
As the grandparent suggested, you have almost certainly never been involved in the creation of anything that can be pirated. But I bet you're utterly outraged at GPL violations, too. Those damn copyright infringers and license breakers... oh wait.
Wikipedia could [...] become a sort of collection of the intelligence and expertise of the masses on the internet.
Unfortunately, this is exactly what happened.
How does this sleep mode work exactly? Does the PSP have static RAM? Does it have an emergency backup battery? Does it secretly underestimate its battery's capacity so it has a reserve to sleep on until it gets charged- and does this mean it will "die" if left asleep for too long, and permanently reduce the battery capacity as LiIons are wont to do?
Nobody in their right mind uses IE for Mac because it's a horrible, horrible program. Safari comes as the default browser for all new Macs (I don't know why Apple even bothers to bundle IE any more, it must be a contract thing) and there is a Firefox build for them too.
they even have an OSX version, thats basically a *nix version.
This is by far the biggest misconception about OS X on Slashdot. Yes, the inner core of the OS is BSD, but the high-level APIs that every program that's not a command-line tool must use - especially Carbon - are COMPLETELY different from those found on other unixes. Porting to or from OS X is no easier (or harder) than porting to or from any other platform, and having an OS X version of a program available has no effect on the difficulty and effort involved in further porting.
Or better, "can be found on the Internet in text form". The image search is nowhere near as comprehensive or accurate, and not even Google is attempting sound or video search yet.