Hmmm... collecting private information to identify people without their knoweldge. I do believe MPAA would be breaking the law here in Canada. Let me talk to my security dude - I'm wondering if I could get the entire MPAA board executive but on Canada's TERRORIST watch list? Seeing how they're spying on Canadians violating privacy laws for 'yet-undetermined activities' - wouldn't that be funny...?
It's against the law? Oh right - the Miller Test. As a Canuck, guess I'll have to blot out my anti-bush stickers on my suitcase. Not that I don't like bush - err.. the right kind of bush...not that there's anything wrong with it... or liking it...the right bush... never mind.:)
SOLID STATE HARD DRIVES BABY! I think the era of 'disks' for storing data is about to be smacked hard with solid date hard drives. The speed alone is one reason to go this way.
So, you want people to host a 'hurray we're 10 years old' Slashdot party, put our names in for some free t-shirts as an incentive. Who's paying for this party? Who benefits from the free advertising? I think you'll get some response... but not much.
Why didn't you guys just have a/. convention?!? Have guest speakers, charge fees, book it in Vegas, have presentations and awards for the best news stories, best comments, funniest comments, top member, you could really work it and at the end, have enough money left over to pay for hardware upgrades and bandwidth costs for a long long time. GEEKS LOVE CONVENTIONS -> it's why Star Trek conventions work dummies! Specially if they fall just before Porn-Ex in Vegas.
Canada's privacy law is pretty strict against the unauthorized sending in of personally identifiable information, especially one that sends it to an American server. There, the Patriot act allows the government to capture Matt's database. And the kicker, he is not allowed to tell you.
Up here, we (being the government) can't buy any software package that stores the data in the USA. I can only imagine the tens of millions of lost dollars in contracts because of the Patriot Act. I would of hate to have added Matt's awesome editor to that list. Rock on Matt!
Hey! If I add Gates and the rest of the MS staff, I can start using my Star Wars Jedi plugin and start using the force on them! Maybe even recruit some of them to the Jedi Linux side! I think Darth Gates might be a tough opponent though his minions will be very easy to manipulate..
"These are not the code bugs in Vista you are looking for" could have a whole new meaning...:)
Why not simulate the impact of Paris Hilton going naked down the street with the words "Google RULES" painted onto her butt cheeks? I'm sure that will have a definate impact on their stock.
I'm sure Peter Drucker rolled in his grave when Yahoo handed over that information. It's nothing short of criminal activity - people got hurt because Yahoo made a business/money decision. Obviously, they did things right by following Chinese law which they are sidelining with. The RIGHT THING TO DO was to say "frack you - if I give you this you'll hunt them down - now bugger off!" - which would show true leadership and courage. It is now clear that the senior executives at Yahoo lack a moral conscious.
They're more worried about their dollars than the lives of people. How capitalistic of them. SHAME Yahoo. SHAME.
It seems that in order to garner attention for their media articles, if you put in words like "Checkered Launch" or "BioShock's Little Sister killing gets mainstream attention", it's designed to catch the eyes of readers.
Was there really anything wrong with the launch of their product? Not really.
Was there really anything wrong in this game that we haven't seen before in games like the GTA series? No.
Having used a lot of other software and games that couldn't even install, crashed to desktop faster than a Microsoft Minute, I'm surprised that websites use words that try to stir the pot to make issues out of nothing. Really, Bioshock has set the bar for games. It's intriguing, well designed and written, and its plays really well. Could it be that the media websites need money for their click through ads by making mountains out of mole hills? It does come at the price of the developers integrity. That is in my opion, the bigger issue.
Alright, but maybe not. I'm a Canuck and I enjoy the fact that my country has a different view on this issue. I don't understand why the MPAA spends so much money and efforts against downloaders where they loose a majority of their money due to pirate bootleg copies being sold inside the USA and around the world? I wonder if the MPAA polled movie goers and found out how many that do download movies still go to movies in the Theatre? Has it increased their interest since movies became easy to download? Do they watch more movies they normally would of skipped otherwise because they're watching so much more on the Internet via their computer?
Also, isn't this kind of action biting the hand that feeds them? Didn't Napster actually increase sales because it stimulated interested in music? Could MPAA be suffering the same short-sighted vision because their top executives are disenfranchised from the general public?
But, let me ask you guys this: Isn't it just possible that the cold spot *is* related to the void, and that the Big Bang is a paradigm in its death throws?
Depends. Which side of the universe theory do you stand on? Is the universe expanding at an accelerating logarithmic rate and what we're seeing is the result of it? Either case, this unexplainable void is another of many questions astronomers continually grapple with now on a daily basis. As new technologies allow us to see further into older space, we're always coming across sheit in the sky we can explain. I'm sure this new object will/could be explained in a while, but perhaps its something we'll never be able to fully understand.
Besides, even if the BB is in it's death throws, how much time does that leave us? A few billion years to sort it out?:)
I hate be a bit of a troll on this but Economists are already warning about food-based sources for fuel. Using grains to create ethanol could have a negative impact on the food market by driving up prices - especially for poor countries. Now Sony, in their infinate capatilsitic wisdom, have created a way to power a device, using suger. Nice. So in 15 years down the road, families around the world start starving so I can power my power-hungry laptop with a few pounds of suger, and dump a tonne of ehtanol into my gas guzzling HUMMER to get 10MPG. It's nice to know that my own personal power needs can determine whether or not the worlds poor can feed themselves. It's time to move away from this as an alternative power source because it's the 'right thing to do.'
Now she's turned that lawsuit into a class action. The amended complaint seeking class action status (PDF) sues for negligence, fraud, negligent misrepresentation, federal and state RICO, abuse of process, malicious prosecution, intentional infliction of emotional distress, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, trespass, invasion of privacy, libel and slander, deceptive business practices, misuse of copyright law, and civil conspiracy.
What is interesting that each and every individual amendment will need to be addressed to be thrown out. The legal proceedings will not be able to 'carte-blanche' throw out the case on a single motion, it needs to address 'malicious prosecution' and 'trespass' and every other complaint, similar to someone convicted of multiple felons. It's quite an all-encompassing CAS - RIAA will have a very very hard time trying to survive it because I'm sure she's not willing to settle out of court. She's pretty PO'ed and will want the whole gambit in court. But I'm making that assumption...
"Two more criminal trials are scheduled to take place: one against Vladimir Mamotin, the media director of MediaServices, the parent company of allofmp3.com, and another against the company itself. It's Russia we're talking about here. More corrupt than a NBA Basketball game. The last line of the article should also say "two more criminal trial dismissals are scheduled..."
OK, correct me if I'm wrong... I have read tonnes of info (even here on slashdot) about idiots, and I put that politely, trying to find links between media viewed/played violence and children/adults. What research is finding that your own upbringing/life experiences/brain injuries has more to do with altered behaviour than playing a fracking computer game. I've personally played tonnes of 'violent' video games, I mean, gruesome violent blow-off-limbs games, spray walls with blood, or nuke a city. But I'm a normal, average guy who knows the difference between right and wrong - which has to do with 99.99% of our life interactions.
Anyways, suffer a brain injury, life altering actions (post-stress injuries), horrible childhoods, and your ability to judge what is morally right and wrong can/will be altered. But this is all CDF and has been rebuffed time and time and time again. Didn't the TV industry go through some fear-mongering years ago from simliar non-fact-based groups? Seems like another 'attention sponge' needs a little squeeze.
Didn't Chief and his wife (Cally?) have to go into hyperbaric chambers? I think that is the most accurate portrayal of recovery from space exposure. Didn't Outlander as well with Sean O'Connery deal with this too? I think the guy exploded from the inside out from rapid decompression - but I think that could of been a little Hollywoodish.
I think that the injuries the dude form Event Horizon also were pretty real too - his eyes were damaged, frost, and the bubbling of gas from his blood "the bends".
Pigeon, you state (and I quote) "I work for a large toner company, and we do tests on machines in enclosed areas with experimental toners. Areas we work in are monitored for dust particles, and we are well below safe limits. If our areas are safe, then an office environment certainly should be."
That is an accurate statement, but a few questions. Who's safe limits are you referring to? The ones set by your office's WH&SC policy committee? Federal limits? Own offices policy? Do you vent to the outside? Are you using 100% recycled air? A separate air conditioned room? What if the room you work in had no air conditioning (like most industrial offices) and you had a dozen or so of these workplace printers that are perhaps 3-4 years old, well used, and worn?
Since the study admitted there are no regulations on UFP's of this type, how can you say what exactly the safety limits are?
In my opinion, your offering advice on a topic like most car magazines do on domestic cars "They're great! Reliable. Safe." Give them a few years, and you'll get a different tone.
I'm a new Health and Safety office inspection officer for my company. I have to be honest, when I saw this, it made me go "hmmmm", not run out and say "the sky is falling." I'm more concerned over mould than printers, but as part of my job I am curious.
Another fact, the article is to make us curious. You're speaking in absolutes - are you sure you're not working for the Sith or some dark lord?:)
Being the youngest in my family - this makes total sense. having the higer IQ, not EQ, explains why my sister is a total bitch. More brains, less personality.
Ok, I'm a canuck but our current conservative idiots are forgetting one very important piece of legislation that helps protects the privacy of their citizens. PIPEDA protects the privacy of its citizens ~ ISP's can not divulge personally identifying information, especially to the government. so I decide to download 30 movies, there is little they can do about it. What irritates me is that this kind of 1960's thinking is what got RIAA and the Movie Industry into its current mess. Fight the technology, not embrace it. I hope the law gets thrown out like the last one did.
I agree with the main premise with this. My friend sounds like a school girl, yet she's a brilliant, smart, and sexy 30 year old. Does it mean that it dimishes our perception on what we can hear versus what we see in action on line? YOU BECHA! If she's playing a MMOG with me, and she's kicking but, then quirps up with a 'tee hee' 1-900-hot-sexx voice sounding giggle, maybe... maybe... a little distracting, but dam she's sexy. All the pimply faced 12 year olds with their hard-on's asking for her phone #, 'do you have a boyfriend.' She replies, "frak-off kid, I'm old enough to be your mom."
Back to the 12 year old pimply faced kid, I've been playing a MMOG that has been using the built-in voice comms for 5 years now. Some of the more 'commanding' sounding players do get a lot of respect sounding like a 300lb gorilla. I have a pretty decent online voice too, but sounding husky/rustic does give you a Clint Eastwood impression - all is missing are the background Spaghetti Western music.
Remember when everyone at work was running NT4 and we went to Windows 2000? Or when home PC's went from Win95/98/ME to XP? Remember all the hype and hysteria about the requirements back then?
We've been here before and I remember a couple of distinctive impacts of upgrading:
1. My desktop was a lot more stable. 2. The computer OS and games actually ran a little faster. 3. Need I remind everyone who's feeding us this info on Vista? The MEDIA. Nuff said.
We've all been there, (many times now MS-DOS,win3.1/NT4-Win95/2000/XP), done that. Bring on VISTA baby!
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Hmmm... collecting private information to identify people without their knoweldge. I do believe MPAA would be breaking the law here in Canada. Let me talk to my security dude - I'm wondering if I could get the entire MPAA board executive but on Canada's TERRORIST watch list? Seeing how they're spying on Canadians violating privacy laws for 'yet-undetermined activities' - wouldn't that be funny...?
It's against the law? Oh right - the Miller Test. As a Canuck, guess I'll have to blot out my anti-bush stickers on my suitcase. Not that I don't like bush - err.. the right kind of bush...not that there's anything wrong with it... or liking it...the right bush... never mind. :)
SOLID STATE HARD DRIVES BABY! I think the era of 'disks' for storing data is about to be smacked hard with solid date hard drives. The speed alone is one reason to go this way.
So, you want people to host a 'hurray we're 10 years old' Slashdot party, put our names in for some free t-shirts as an incentive. Who's paying for this party? Who benefits from the free advertising? I think you'll get some response... but not much.
/. convention?!? Have guest speakers, charge fees, book it in Vegas, have presentations and awards for the best news stories, best comments, funniest comments, top member, you could really work it and at the end, have enough money left over to pay for hardware upgrades and bandwidth costs for a long long time. GEEKS LOVE CONVENTIONS -> it's why Star Trek conventions work dummies! Specially if they fall just before Porn-Ex in Vegas.
Why didn't you guys just have a
Canada's privacy law is pretty strict against the unauthorized sending in of personally identifiable information, especially one that sends it to an American server. There, the Patriot act allows the government to capture Matt's database. And the kicker, he is not allowed to tell you.
Up here, we (being the government) can't buy any software package that stores the data in the USA. I can only imagine the tens of millions of lost dollars in contracts because of the Patriot Act. I would of hate to have added Matt's awesome editor to that list. Rock on Matt!
Hey! If I add Gates and the rest of the MS staff, I can start using my Star Wars Jedi plugin and start using the force on them! Maybe even recruit some of them to the Jedi Linux side! I think Darth Gates might be a tough opponent though his minions will be very easy to manipulate..
:)
"These are not the code bugs in Vista you are looking for" could have a whole new meaning...
Why not simulate the impact of Paris Hilton going naked down the street with the words "Google RULES" painted onto her butt cheeks? I'm sure that will have a definate impact on their stock.
I'm sure Peter Drucker rolled in his grave when Yahoo handed over that information. It's nothing short of criminal activity - people got hurt because Yahoo made a business/money decision. Obviously, they did things right by following Chinese law which they are sidelining with. The RIGHT THING TO DO was to say "frack you - if I give you this you'll hunt them down - now bugger off!" - which would show true leadership and courage. It is now clear that the senior executives at Yahoo lack a moral conscious.
They're more worried about their dollars than the lives of people. How capitalistic of them. SHAME Yahoo. SHAME.
It seems that in order to garner attention for their media articles, if you put in words like "Checkered Launch" or "BioShock's Little Sister killing gets mainstream attention", it's designed to catch the eyes of readers.
Was there really anything wrong with the launch of their product? Not really.
Was there really anything wrong in this game that we haven't seen before in games like the GTA series? No.
Having used a lot of other software and games that couldn't even install, crashed to desktop faster than a Microsoft Minute, I'm surprised that websites use words that try to stir the pot to make issues out of nothing. Really, Bioshock has set the bar for games. It's intriguing, well designed and written, and its plays really well. Could it be that the media websites need money for their click through ads by making mountains out of mole hills? It does come at the price of the developers integrity. That is in my opion, the bigger issue.
agreed. No goatee - no evil... even Evil Spock would agree... unless you're Dr. Evil!
Alright, but maybe not. I'm a Canuck and I enjoy the fact that my country has a different view on this issue. I don't understand why the MPAA spends so much money and efforts against downloaders where they loose a majority of their money due to pirate bootleg copies being sold inside the USA and around the world? I wonder if the MPAA polled movie goers and found out how many that do download movies still go to movies in the Theatre? Has it increased their interest since movies became easy to download? Do they watch more movies they normally would of skipped otherwise because they're watching so much more on the Internet via their computer?
Also, isn't this kind of action biting the hand that feeds them? Didn't Napster actually increase sales because it stimulated interested in music? Could MPAA be suffering the same short-sighted vision because their top executives are disenfranchised from the general public?
But, let me ask you guys this: Isn't it just possible that the cold spot *is* related to the void, and that the Big Bang is a paradigm in its death throws?
:)
Depends. Which side of the universe theory do you stand on? Is the universe expanding at an accelerating logarithmic rate and what we're seeing is the result of it? Either case, this unexplainable void is another of many questions astronomers continually grapple with now on a daily basis. As new technologies allow us to see further into older space, we're always coming across sheit in the sky we can explain. I'm sure this new object will/could be explained in a while, but perhaps its something we'll never be able to fully understand.
Besides, even if the BB is in it's death throws, how much time does that leave us? A few billion years to sort it out?
I hate be a bit of a troll on this but Economists are already warning about food-based sources for fuel. Using grains to create ethanol could have a negative impact on the food market by driving up prices - especially for poor countries. Now Sony, in their infinate capatilsitic wisdom, have created a way to power a device, using suger. Nice. So in 15 years down the road, families around the world start starving so I can power my power-hungry laptop with a few pounds of suger, and dump a tonne of ehtanol into my gas guzzling HUMMER to get 10MPG. It's nice to know that my own personal power needs can determine whether or not the worlds poor can feed themselves. It's time to move away from this as an alternative power source because it's the 'right thing to do.'
Now she's turned that lawsuit into a class action. The amended complaint seeking class action status (PDF) sues for negligence, fraud, negligent misrepresentation, federal and state RICO, abuse of process, malicious prosecution, intentional infliction of emotional distress, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, trespass, invasion of privacy, libel and slander, deceptive business practices, misuse of copyright law, and civil conspiracy.
What is interesting that each and every individual amendment will need to be addressed to be thrown out. The legal proceedings will not be able to 'carte-blanche' throw out the case on a single motion, it needs to address 'malicious prosecution' and 'trespass' and every other complaint, similar to someone convicted of multiple felons. It's quite an all-encompassing CAS - RIAA will have a very very hard time trying to survive it because I'm sure she's not willing to settle out of court. She's pretty PO'ed and will want the whole gambit in court. But I'm making that assumption...
"Two more criminal trials are scheduled to take place: one against Vladimir Mamotin, the media director of MediaServices, the parent company of allofmp3.com, and another against the company itself.
It's Russia we're talking about here. More corrupt than a NBA Basketball game. The last line of the article should also say "two more criminal trial dismissals are scheduled..."
OK, correct me if I'm wrong... I have read tonnes of info (even here on slashdot) about idiots, and I put that politely, trying to find links between media viewed/played violence and children/adults. What research is finding that your own upbringing/life experiences/brain injuries has more to do with altered behaviour than playing a fracking computer game. I've personally played tonnes of 'violent' video games, I mean, gruesome violent blow-off-limbs games, spray walls with blood, or nuke a city. But I'm a normal, average guy who knows the difference between right and wrong - which has to do with 99.99% of our life interactions.
Anyways, suffer a brain injury, life altering actions (post-stress injuries), horrible childhoods, and your ability to judge what is morally right and wrong can/will be altered. But this is all CDF and has been rebuffed time and time and time again. Didn't the TV industry go through some fear-mongering years ago from simliar non-fact-based groups? Seems like another 'attention sponge' needs a little squeeze.
Didn't Chief and his wife (Cally?) have to go into hyperbaric chambers? I think that is the most accurate portrayal of recovery from space exposure. Didn't Outlander as well with Sean O'Connery deal with this too? I think the guy exploded from the inside out from rapid decompression - but I think that could of been a little Hollywoodish.
I think that the injuries the dude form Event Horizon also were pretty real too - his eyes were damaged, frost, and the bubbling of gas from his blood "the bends".
Pigeon, you state (and I quote) "I work for a large toner company, and we do tests on machines in enclosed areas with experimental toners. Areas we work in are monitored for dust particles, and we are well below safe limits. If our areas are safe, then an office environment certainly should be."
:)
That is an accurate statement, but a few questions. Who's safe limits are you referring to? The ones set by your office's WH&SC policy committee? Federal limits? Own offices policy? Do you vent to the outside? Are you using 100% recycled air? A separate air conditioned room? What if the room you work in had no air conditioning (like most industrial offices) and you had a dozen or so of these workplace printers that are perhaps 3-4 years old, well used, and worn?
Since the study admitted there are no regulations on UFP's of this type, how can you say what exactly the safety limits are?
In my opinion, your offering advice on a topic like most car magazines do on domestic cars "They're great! Reliable. Safe." Give them a few years, and you'll get a different tone.
I'm a new Health and Safety office inspection officer for my company. I have to be honest, when I saw this, it made me go "hmmmm", not run out and say "the sky is falling." I'm more concerned over mould than printers, but as part of my job I am curious.
Another fact, the article is to make us curious. You're speaking in absolutes - are you sure you're not working for the Sith or some dark lord?
Great, here comes another dance/song stage performance by Robin Williams sining "BLAME CANADA" for our gas! For crips sakes, just eat less beans!
Being the youngest in my family - this makes total sense. having the higer IQ, not EQ, explains why my sister is a total bitch. More brains, less personality.
Ok, I'm a canuck but our current conservative idiots are forgetting one very important piece of legislation that helps protects the privacy of their citizens. PIPEDA protects the privacy of its citizens ~ ISP's can not divulge personally identifying information, especially to the government. so I decide to download 30 movies, there is little they can do about it. What irritates me is that this kind of 1960's thinking is what got RIAA and the Movie Industry into its current mess. Fight the technology, not embrace it. I hope the law gets thrown out like the last one did.
I agree with the main premise with this. My friend sounds like a school girl, yet she's a brilliant, smart, and sexy 30 year old. Does it mean that it dimishes our perception on what we can hear versus what we see in action on line? YOU BECHA! If she's playing a MMOG with me, and she's kicking but, then quirps up with a 'tee hee' 1-900-hot-sexx voice sounding giggle, maybe... maybe... a little distracting, but dam she's sexy. All the pimply faced 12 year olds with their hard-on's asking for her phone #, 'do you have a boyfriend.' She replies, "frak-off kid, I'm old enough to be your mom."
Back to the 12 year old pimply faced kid, I've been playing a MMOG that has been using the built-in voice comms for 5 years now. Some of the more 'commanding' sounding players do get a lot of respect sounding like a 300lb gorilla. I have a pretty decent online voice too, but sounding husky/rustic does give you a Clint Eastwood impression - all is missing are the background Spaghetti Western music.
Which is why its called B E T A software.
Remember when everyone at work was running NT4 and we went to Windows 2000? Or when home PC's went from Win95/98/ME to XP? Remember all the hype and hysteria about the requirements back then?
We've been here before and I remember a couple of distinctive impacts of upgrading:
1. My desktop was a lot more stable.
2. The computer OS and games actually ran a little faster.
3. Need I remind everyone who's feeding us this info on Vista? The MEDIA. Nuff said.
We've all been there, (many times now MS-DOS,win3.1/NT4-Win95/2000/XP), done that. Bring on VISTA baby!
But how about a nanofilter for SPAM!!!