I'm not sure how useful this is. The summaries seem to say that if you take two or more channels that have a signal to noise ratio of zero, there's some potential for binding them into a useful channel, but there's no indication of what kind of recovery rate there can be gained from this. Is this just error-correction applied to an extreme?
"Cloud computing" is one of those "next big thing" products here on slashdot, but who's actually using the term in their marketing? Plenty of people are selling "cloud" applications, but nobody's calling it that as most people think of "the cloud" as untrustworthy.
Is there an actual case of somebody like Amzaon's s3 actually calling themselves "cloud computing"?
The first comment to the article links to the USPTO page for the applicatoin where the status shows that the opposition period went by without anybody noticing, so the mark is one step closer to being validated. It appears only the dependable USPTO is left to block this thing on its own.
But what they really should do is offer a unique ID, so that you can listen to it anywhere in the world, anytime you want.
You really should take up one of the unlimited-for-a-monthly-fee plans if you want that. Bandwidth is a constant expense, so they're not going to make money selling you unlimited downloads for one-time payments, but most of the download services allow you to multiple devices signed in on their unlimited plans.
"Company complies with rules to avoid chargebacks" should be the headline.
When you sell a perpetual license that needs to be reauthorized every so often, you have to either keep your license server up forever, or ofter to give customers all their money back.
We saw this happen when Google Video shut down. At first Google thought they could get away with giving out Google Checkout credits, but the credit card industry upheld chargebacks so they had to refund all credit card charges too.
The USA isn't censoring Usenet... it's encuraging ISPs to drop an area that has become too much of trading point for illegal files. The ISPs are complying willingly because it's not been profitable for them to run, and most users won't miss it.
Still, services like Google Groups and EasyNews are still up and running. There's no threat to those as of yet.
Mac OS X Server is a high-priced add-on to MacOS that mostly bundles Unix/Linux/OSS solutions for common server tasks, and adds a Mac-pretty-style GUI for everything. It comes with XServe products, but can be added to as low as a Mac Mini. Anybody reading/. would rather run a Linux box, but for those who are used to dealing with Apple products, it can be part of a one-vendor solution.
We had this problem with the credit card industry before. People were signing up and had no clue what they were agreeing to because the most important terms weren't properly exposed. Then we got a law that made the current interest rate and the formula by which it is computer and how it may be changed in regulated-size type.
Time for a format for privacy policies to match that...
The user the site owner is complaining about is the top non-admin poster... with only five posts.
Sorry. When you open up a fourm, you have to have a thicker skin than wanting to get rid of poster who comes up critical. Next thing you know, we'll be seeing a Your Rights Online post from the user you want to ban.
If there are people you like, grant them mod privledges and let them delete the goofball's posts. If there aren't, and you don't have time to control the forum yourself, then your community isn't viable.
And for the record, Monopoly is expected to be next up from the Pogo.com team under the same Hasbro/EA deal that made them the official supplier of Scrabble.
They seem to need to find a better distribution system. Their product is sold at toy stores, but that'll set off the adult-without-kids alarm if any Slashdot reader were to try to buy them that way.
I'm not sure a law is needed in this case... can't colleges basically require you to do anything they want under threat that they won't admit / will expell you if you don't comply?
Identity-proving trivia questions have been around for a while. Ever try to access your credit report online? It's just a matter of time before other websites that really want to know your identity (and you have a reason to want the site to know it's you) jump on to this technology.
Spy camera? Not quite. They're basically just posing a "Hold up a picture of yourself with today's local newspaper so we know you are where you say you are." type challenge to prove that when you sit down for a high-stakes college exam, you are who you say you are.
It's not like they're requiring your iSight camera be on 24/7. So this sensational headline doesn't match the story. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Just as abusive as "We've noticed a spammer keeps registering with ServerFarm.net, let's block their entire network space!" but human blacklists do that already today. Sounds like this is just automating the process.
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I'm not sure how useful this is. The summaries seem to say that if you take two or more channels that have a signal to noise ratio of zero, there's some potential for binding them into a useful channel, but there's no indication of what kind of recovery rate there can be gained from this. Is this just error-correction applied to an extreme?
I think the buried lead here is that the government is now microblogging. Wonder who they're following?
"Cloud computing" is one of those "next big thing" products here on slashdot, but who's actually using the term in their marketing? Plenty of people are selling "cloud" applications, but nobody's calling it that as most people think of "the cloud" as untrustworthy.
Is there an actual case of somebody like Amzaon's s3 actually calling themselves "cloud computing"?
Attempted humor in an otherwise serious post... not a good idea on /. I guess.
The first comment to the article links to the USPTO page for the applicatoin where the status shows that the opposition period went by without anybody noticing, so the mark is one step closer to being validated. It appears only the dependable USPTO is left to block this thing on its own.
You've got your wish... G4 is promoting PAX as part of their August convention coverage on X-Play.
Did you even read the summary? They're offering refunds to those who have problems with accepting the MP3 downloads.
But what they really should do is offer a unique ID, so that you can listen to it anywhere in the world, anytime you want.
You really should take up one of the unlimited-for-a-monthly-fee plans if you want that. Bandwidth is a constant expense, so they're not going to make money selling you unlimited downloads for one-time payments, but most of the download services allow you to multiple devices signed in on their unlimited plans.
"Company complies with rules to avoid chargebacks" should be the headline.
When you sell a perpetual license that needs to be reauthorized every so often, you have to either keep your license server up forever, or ofter to give customers all their money back.
We saw this happen when Google Video shut down. At first Google thought they could get away with giving out Google Checkout credits, but the credit card industry upheld chargebacks so they had to refund all credit card charges too.
The USA isn't censoring Usenet... it's encuraging ISPs to drop an area that has become too much of trading point for illegal files. The ISPs are complying willingly because it's not been profitable for them to run, and most users won't miss it.
Still, services like Google Groups and EasyNews are still up and running. There's no threat to those as of yet.
Recapping our top story for those just joining us... there's a flaw in most common DNS esolving servers.
So it doesn't matter what desktop software you're running, it's what the machine that answers to the DNS server named in your IP config.
If you're using a Mac and your ISP is fixed, you're most likely fine. If your ISP isn't fixed, well, there's your problem.
I think this article we hate Apple because they missed a release date on a patch that /. considers critical, even if the rest of the world doesn't.
Mac OS X Server is a high-priced add-on to MacOS that mostly bundles Unix/Linux/OSS solutions for common server tasks, and adds a Mac-pretty-style GUI for everything. It comes with XServe products, but can be added to as low as a Mac Mini. Anybody reading /. would rather run a Linux box, but for those who are used to dealing with Apple products, it can be part of a one-vendor solution.
Servers and bandwidth cost money. Sorry, no way OSS can solve this on its own.
We had this problem with the credit card industry before. People were signing up and had no clue what they were agreeing to because the most important terms weren't properly exposed. Then we got a law that made the current interest rate and the formula by which it is computer and how it may be changed in regulated-size type.
Time for a format for privacy policies to match that...
The user the site owner is complaining about is the top non-admin poster... with only five posts.
Sorry. When you open up a fourm, you have to have a thicker skin than wanting to get rid of poster who comes up critical. Next thing you know, we'll be seeing a Your Rights Online post from the user you want to ban.
If there are people you like, grant them mod privledges and let them delete the goofball's posts. If there aren't, and you don't have time to control the forum yourself, then your community isn't viable.
And for the record, Monopoly is expected to be next up from the Pogo.com team under the same Hasbro/EA deal that made them the official supplier of Scrabble.
They seem to need to find a better distribution system. Their product is sold at toy stores, but that'll set off the adult-without-kids alarm if any Slashdot reader were to try to buy them that way.
I'm not sure a law is needed in this case... can't colleges basically require you to do anything they want under threat that they won't admit / will expell you if you don't comply?
Identity-proving trivia questions have been around for a while. Ever try to access your credit report online? It's just a matter of time before other websites that really want to know your identity (and you have a reason to want the site to know it's you) jump on to this technology.
Spy camera? Not quite. They're basically just posing a "Hold up a picture of yourself with today's local newspaper so we know you are where you say you are." type challenge to prove that when you sit down for a high-stakes college exam, you are who you say you are.
It's not like they're requiring your iSight camera be on 24/7. So this sensational headline doesn't match the story. Nothing to see here. Move along.
That's a count of URLs, not domains within each TLD. For example, site:cnn.com accounts for 3,540,000 of your .com results.
It does somewhat. Zombies spoof the From field. If that's not possible, then we know exactly who to shut down without any risk of a false positive.
Just as abusive as "We've noticed a spammer keeps registering with ServerFarm.net, let's block their entire network space!" but human blacklists do that already today. Sounds like this is just automating the process.