Do you think that the SS#s might have been the student ID #s? I remember a few years ago that a law was passed in NY requiring schools to NOT use SS#s as their student ID#s. Because of this RPI switched to another 9-digit number.
I'd initially blame the professor who posted the page because there are places to post them electronically that can only be accessed through a password/login. Then I'd blame the IT staff because posting names matched to ID#s is a violation of RPI's privacy policy.
RPI's network is fairly open because there are a lot of students there who try writing experimental programs (remember the Phynd controversy a few years ago? That was only one of 3 search engines at the time) on the network, and disallowing packets to/from certain ports would hinder a lot of these programs. I've gone to friends' campuses and found their networks to be much more restrictive, but also much slower than RPI's. RPI had 10 Mbps to ALL campus buildings and 100Mbps to a select few in 1999, not a bad accomplishment!
As an RPI student (3 running PC's and a few not-currently-running in my room right now), I can honestly say that every single student there has a computer. It's a requirement for being an undergrad to have a laptop, and I'd venture a guess that around 25% have a desktop in their rooms as well. Hell, I'm building one for my car even!
I wasn't trying to be offtopic or inflammitory at all, I was trying to be funny and point out that I thought all the "no" options would fit this article well if it were a poll.... Sorry if people misunderstood:-P
Thank you for the elegant solution. I don't see what the big deal is, since you can "foil" the evil government's plot just by picking up a static bag and putting your RFID money, passport, license, etc in it.
I'm an only child, but I would visit my extended family fairly often. All my cousins from about 7 on up are able to play poker, 45's, 31 (we call it Scat), Blackjack, Golf, Royal Solitaire, Egyptian, and of course things like Go Fish.
I remember hearing a story about when my uncles were playing with their job money once (back in the 60's) and one of them lost everything in a poker game. The kid (my uncle) was pretty upset, and grammy wanted to refund the money, but grandpa wouldn't hear it. He let it be a lesson to him, and you know what? Right now that uncle is one of the best money managers and card players that I know. He learned a hard lesson in losing a week's paycheck, but he LEARNED.
Similar things have happened from time to time with the rest of the family, but it's a life lesson. And while there's been other kinds of problems with various family members, I've never heard of ANY them having a gambling problem because they've all been there and/or seen it.
Hahaha, I thought this was a dupe too until i realized that I read it yesterday on mp3car.com, not on slashdot! Man, I should really get away from a computer more often...:-P
I was hoping that someone would come up with a comparison like this! That way someone could take the unmangled scened in this DVD (all nicely cleaned up restored) and the unmangled scenes in an original copy (laserdisk anyone?) and splice them together... maybe have some volunteer labor (or even just CPU time) clean the scenes in a similar fashion to what was done to these. Then when dual layer DVD's hit the market we can make a fan's unmangled version that will play in normal DVD players!
I'd certainly be willing to learn some editing skills and volunteer some (or a lot) of my time to this project.
There's no such thing as a dumb question, only dumb people.
The reason is because they only went gold last week, and it takes time to actually produce the xx million copies that people preordered. Going gold means that they made the gold master that they can stamp all your precious copies from, and they can't suddenly increase the speed that the lines are moving at. They send out the very first copies to people who write reviews, and sometimes these people copy them and put them on bittorrent.
Check out this site. They sell converters so that you can plug just about anything through their converters and then right into the head unit without FM transmitters / modulators: you get dual RCA jacks.
I found this site yesterday because I'm in this market. I want to build a small ITX carputer and hopefully mount it in my new '04 Civic HX so that the car still looks stock. It'll have 802.11x and a removable HD, and I'd LIKE to tie it into the stock head unit so that I can change songs using the regular track forward/backward controls: maybe use the cd increment/decrement button to skip to the next/previous letter in the alphabet. Ideallly it would display the track information right on the stock LCD, but I'll probably just go with a small monochrome LCD and/or a 5" screen that can fold out. To do any of this though, the LogJam converter will need to do the conversion for me, or I'll need to figure out the pinouts on the head unit and I'm sure the whole thing will void my warranty, but that's life.
...try explaining to your average Walmart shopper the difference between 480p, 720i, and 1080p and watch their eyes glaze over...
That reminds me of last night, when I went to the local WalMart and looked for a laser pointer. None of the 3 of the employees that I talked to even knew what it was. I used the word "laser pointer" and they repeated those same words back to me... but they had never heard of them. I'll just have to take a drive to Circuit City or Radio Shack or something.:-)
When I worked at Time Warner in summer of 2001 (Albany, NY), we had a few calls for people who wanted to get the new HDTV digital converters. Since we only had about 4 of those installations the whole summer, each one was a half-day event for one or even two of the most skilled technicians we had. They would make sure everything ran perfectly before they'd leave.
I was in a position in the company to hear a lot of what the actual problems were, and the most common complaint was just a weak signal to the converter. Even coaxial cable loses signal strength over distance, and as anyone who's tried hooking 6 TV's up to an unamplified signal can attest, the quality sucks when you split it too much with bad equipment or have a 500' coil of cable behind your TV. So with the highly-compressed HDTV signals when you lose a small amount of data, it makes a big impact on the picture.
Each of the HDTV installations that summer (except one) required the techs to install a new drop (the wire between the pole and the house). They all required new splitters, new wire to the HDTV converteres, and sometimes an amplifier right at the input to the house. There were always bad feelings toward "the Radio Shack s**t" that people install themselves, and as a result every tech always carried replacements with them, and many times this fixed the problems with regular TV and RoadRunner (internet service).
So back to HDTV: I'm convinced that the graininess and the pausing of this guy's picture can be traced back to a weak signal. He lives in Manhatten so the wires in his building are probably old and failing, and even if they aren't there are many other potential problems that could be causing his poor picture quality. Because he obviously doesn't know about signal degredation, he may have simply hooked up too many TV's to the same signal. Also, Sony WEGAs are very good TVs. They take a regular picture and make the most out of it, so quite frankly I'm not surprised at all with his results. Like I said at first: Garbage In, Garbage Out.
My advice to him is to call Time Warner and have them send a technician out to test the signal and inspect the set-up. That, and to not jump to conclusions about the infrastructure not being prepared. He may be right about the entire area being unready for the HDTV invasion, but no amount of work on Time Warner's part will ever be able to fix the problems inside the end user's apartment if they split the signal 32 different ways.
Heh, whatever. Ooo, I'm a subcitizen because I choose not to have my karma ruined due to my merely having an unpopular opinion... Expecting me to is like complaining about someone not wanting to step out in front of a bus.
I'm not worried about my karma because most of my posts are modded up (or not touched at all) and you know what, it's not even in the same league as "stepping out in front of a bus," it's just slashdot karma. If it's really the case that you make enough OT posts to worry about it "ruining" your karma, then I suggest you find another hobby.
Face it, moderation is heavily slanted in one direction.
That's because this is a tech-oriented site. When the topic gets to religion, most of the time it's offtopic and doesn't belong here. If you want to discuss philosophy then go find a site/chatroom/smoke-filled-room where it's welcome.
It's enough that I present said unpopular opinion here in the first place.
I'll dispute this with an exaggerated example: "OMGWTF HANSEN IS TEH SUCX0RZZ! GNAA pWNZ j00!!!!!!!11" This is why I typically don't pay attention to AC's. It's certainly not enough to simply present your unpopular opinion: you need to be articulate and follow some common courtesy. The fact that I'm even bothering to respond should tell you that I think you fall into this category.
You/. sheep bleat on and on about 'privacy' and all that, but treat your ACs like slaves. Hypocrite.
When did I ever say it was a privacy issue? If I was unclear, what I meant to say was this: Grow some balls.
Just the fact that he's right out in the open stating his beliefs rather than hiding behind an AC title. He's being braver than you (if you're even the same AC).
But/. is not a religious debate forum, so if you want to continue arguing, e-mail me at LeftToRigth@gmail.com thanks.
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Try finding a small independent radio station, or a college radio station. They tend to have good programming and the Top40 music is occasional rather than the rule. One of my favorite radio stations is 102.7FM WEQX (Manchester VT, but I can hear them in the Albany NY area just fine) simply because they don't pump out the same crap over and over.
91.5 WRPI plays a lot of eclectic and oftentimes strange music, and they aren't corporate slaves.
88.3 WVCR "The Saint" plays mostly hit music during peak hours, but other than that, you can hear just about anything: classical, folk, rock and rap sometimes within a few hours, especially if you're up for some sleepless night.
The bottom line is that there are a handful of radio stations that are actually doing very well without ClearChannel's meddling. Try finding one of these because they're actually enjoyable to listen to, and you might find that it's better than listening to your music collection over and over. Or try finding a local NPR station. Or listen to any given AM station, they can be pretty damn funny sometimes, especially when they're trying to be serious.
Easy, easy, easy to address that problem... it probably wouldn't even require a major change in most states' DWI policies.
Do I have to spell it out? Make it illegal to drive while high. People will still do it, but then again people still do it even now. A more relevant rebuttal would have been: 'if marijuana were legalized it is very likely that people would feel more comfortable smoking in public, and doing stupid things like driving while high. This would increase the number of THC-related car accidents and cost innocent people their lives'.
Basically I do think that yes, more people would be stupid about their smoking habits if marijuana were legalized, but I also think that if current DWI laws were expanded to include it (if they don't already) then the problem would be much mitigtated, to the point of being no worse than it is now.
I also think that there are far too many nonviolent drug users locked up and costing me my tax money that would be so much better spent on treatment. The gun-toting dealers who'd shoot a cop or anyone else without thinking twice, and the idiotic people who take a drive to White Castle when they can hardly walk straight thereby running down a line of schoolchildren can rot in federal-pound-me-in-the-ass prison for all eternity for all I care, but the harmless offenders (both dealing & buying) with otherwise clean records, with no weapons, not driving, doing nothing more harmful than watching TV and giving themselves lung cancer certainly shouldn't face the same jail terms. These people can be given treatment for much more effective results.
PS: Where did you get the 1/3 number? It looks suspicious to me.
I'm sure a cat wondering the lawn of the whitehouse is a security threat just because *gasp* somebody may have injected it to carry some kind of biological agent.
My first thought to that was "well I suppose if you use a catapult. .."
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Do you think that the SS#s might have been the student ID #s? I remember a few years ago that a law was passed in NY requiring schools to NOT use SS#s as their student ID#s. Because of this RPI switched to another 9-digit number.
I'd initially blame the professor who posted the page because there are places to post them electronically that can only be accessed through a password/login. Then I'd blame the IT staff because posting names matched to ID#s is a violation of RPI's privacy policy.
RPI's network is fairly open because there are a lot of students there who try writing experimental programs (remember the Phynd controversy a few years ago? That was only one of 3 search engines at the time) on the network, and disallowing packets to/from certain ports would hinder a lot of these programs. I've gone to friends' campuses and found their networks to be much more restrictive, but also much slower than RPI's. RPI had 10 Mbps to ALL campus buildings and 100Mbps to a select few in 1999, not a bad accomplishment!
As an RPI student (3 running PC's and a few not-currently-running in my room right now), I can honestly say that every single student there has a computer. It's a requirement for being an undergrad to have a laptop, and I'd venture a guess that around 25% have a desktop in their rooms as well. Hell, I'm building one for my car even!
I wasn't trying to be offtopic or inflammitory at all, I was trying to be funny and point out that I thought all the "no" options would fit this article well if it were a poll.... Sorry if people misunderstood :-P
Thanks a lot, I really needed to think of bloody diarrhea just before lunch... :-/
My cat does that too...
... when I read this writeup, my eyes skimmed over to the "Will the Red Sox Win the World Series" poll and I saw all those "no" options.
Thank you for the elegant solution. I don't see what the big deal is, since you can "foil" the evil government's plot just by picking up a static bag and putting your RFID money, passport, license, etc in it.
*yawn* RTFA: At the end of the article there's a few pages dedicated to the bang-for-your-buck of each chip.
I'm an only child, but I would visit my extended family fairly often. All my cousins from about 7 on up are able to play poker, 45's, 31 (we call it Scat), Blackjack, Golf, Royal Solitaire, Egyptian, and of course things like Go Fish.
I remember hearing a story about when my uncles were playing with their job money once (back in the 60's) and one of them lost everything in a poker game. The kid (my uncle) was pretty upset, and grammy wanted to refund the money, but grandpa wouldn't hear it. He let it be a lesson to him, and you know what? Right now that uncle is one of the best money managers and card players that I know. He learned a hard lesson in losing a week's paycheck, but he LEARNED.
Similar things have happened from time to time with the rest of the family, but it's a life lesson. And while there's been other kinds of problems with various family members, I've never heard of ANY them having a gambling problem because they've all been there and/or seen it.
Hahaha, I thought this was a dupe too until i realized that I read it yesterday on mp3car.com, not on slashdot! Man, I should really get away from a computer more often... :-P
I was hoping that someone would come up with a comparison like this! That way someone could take the unmangled scened in this DVD (all nicely cleaned up restored) and the unmangled scenes in an original copy (laserdisk anyone?) and splice them together... maybe have some volunteer labor (or even just CPU time) clean the scenes in a similar fashion to what was done to these. Then when dual layer DVD's hit the market we can make a fan's unmangled version that will play in normal DVD players!
I'd certainly be willing to learn some editing skills and volunteer some (or a lot) of my time to this project.
There's no such thing as a dumb question, only dumb people.
The reason is because they only went gold last week, and it takes time to actually produce the xx million copies that people preordered. Going gold means that they made the gold master that they can stamp all your precious copies from, and they can't suddenly increase the speed that the lines are moving at. They send out the very first copies to people who write reviews, and sometimes these people copy them and put them on bittorrent.
Anything still unclear?
Check out this site. They sell converters so that you can plug just about anything through their converters and then right into the head unit without FM transmitters / modulators: you get dual RCA jacks.
I found this site yesterday because I'm in this market. I want to build a small ITX carputer and hopefully mount it in my new '04 Civic HX so that the car still looks stock. It'll have 802.11x and a removable HD, and I'd LIKE to tie it into the stock head unit so that I can change songs using the regular track forward/backward controls: maybe use the cd increment/decrement button to skip to the next/previous letter in the alphabet. Ideallly it would display the track information right on the stock LCD, but I'll probably just go with a small monochrome LCD and/or a 5" screen that can fold out. To do any of this though, the LogJam converter will need to do the conversion for me, or I'll need to figure out the pinouts on the head unit and I'm sure the whole thing will void my warranty, but that's life.
...try explaining to your average Walmart shopper the difference between 480p, 720i, and 1080p and watch their eyes glaze over...
:-)
That reminds me of last night, when I went to the local WalMart and looked for a laser pointer. None of the 3 of the employees that I talked to even knew what it was. I used the word "laser pointer" and they repeated those same words back to me... but they had never heard of them. I'll just have to take a drive to Circuit City or Radio Shack or something.
The answer is "Garbage In, Garbage Out."
When I worked at Time Warner in summer of 2001 (Albany, NY), we had a few calls for people who wanted to get the new HDTV digital converters. Since we only had about 4 of those installations the whole summer, each one was a half-day event for one or even two of the most skilled technicians we had. They would make sure everything ran perfectly before they'd leave.
I was in a position in the company to hear a lot of what the actual problems were, and the most common complaint was just a weak signal to the converter. Even coaxial cable loses signal strength over distance, and as anyone who's tried hooking 6 TV's up to an unamplified signal can attest, the quality sucks when you split it too much with bad equipment or have a 500' coil of cable behind your TV. So with the highly-compressed HDTV signals when you lose a small amount of data, it makes a big impact on the picture.
Each of the HDTV installations that summer (except one) required the techs to install a new drop (the wire between the pole and the house). They all required new splitters, new wire to the HDTV converteres, and sometimes an amplifier right at the input to the house. There were always bad feelings toward "the Radio Shack s**t" that people install themselves, and as a result every tech always carried replacements with them, and many times this fixed the problems with regular TV and RoadRunner (internet service).
So back to HDTV: I'm convinced that the graininess and the pausing of this guy's picture can be traced back to a weak signal. He lives in Manhatten so the wires in his building are probably old and failing, and even if they aren't there are many other potential problems that could be causing his poor picture quality. Because he obviously doesn't know about signal degredation, he may have simply hooked up too many TV's to the same signal. Also, Sony WEGAs are very good TVs. They take a regular picture and make the most out of it, so quite frankly I'm not surprised at all with his results. Like I said at first: Garbage In, Garbage Out.
My advice to him is to call Time Warner and have them send a technician out to test the signal and inspect the set-up. That, and to not jump to conclusions about the infrastructure not being prepared. He may be right about the entire area being unready for the HDTV invasion, but no amount of work on Time Warner's part will ever be able to fix the problems inside the end user's apartment if they split the signal 32 different ways.
Heh, whatever. Ooo, I'm a subcitizen because I choose not to have my karma ruined due to my merely having an unpopular opinion... Expecting me to is like complaining about someone not wanting to step out in front of a bus.
/. sheep bleat on and on about 'privacy' and all that, but treat your ACs like slaves.
I'm not worried about my karma because most of my posts are modded up (or not touched at all) and you know what, it's not even in the same league as "stepping out in front of a bus," it's just slashdot karma. If it's really the case that you make enough OT posts to worry about it "ruining" your karma, then I suggest you find another hobby.
Face it, moderation is heavily slanted in one direction.
That's because this is a tech-oriented site. When the topic gets to religion, most of the time it's offtopic and doesn't belong here. If you want to discuss philosophy then go find a site/chatroom/smoke-filled-room where it's welcome.
It's enough that I present said unpopular opinion here in the first place.
I'll dispute this with an exaggerated example: "OMGWTF HANSEN IS TEH SUCX0RZZ! GNAA pWNZ j00!!!!!!!11"
This is why I typically don't pay attention to AC's. It's certainly not enough to simply present your unpopular opinion: you need to be articulate and follow some common courtesy. The fact that I'm even bothering to respond should tell you that I think you fall into this category.
You
Hypocrite.
When did I ever say it was a privacy issue? If I was unclear, what I meant to say was this: Grow some balls.
Just the fact that he's right out in the open stating his beliefs rather than hiding behind an AC title. He's being braver than you (if you're even the same AC).
/. is not a religious debate forum, so if you want to continue arguing, e-mail me at LeftToRigth@gmail.com thanks.
But
At least he's not posting as AC (says the pot calling the kettle black).
There's a pet room in the house, check it out, assuming you'd realy call Dogbert a pet. Also in the pictures there IS a dogbert.
Have we positively ruled out terrorism as a cause of this seismic activity at this point?
Yes, but I'm not so sure that they've fully addressed the possibility it all being this guy's work.
Google news summary: /. beat ABC news to the story. Take that!
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News results for mount st. helens - View today's top stories
Mount St. Helens Alert Status Increased - Slashdot - 9 minutes ago
Experts Predict Mount St. Helens Eruption - ABC News - 10 minutes ago
Yes, that's right.
Good to know that other
Try finding a small independent radio station, or a college radio station. They tend to have good programming and the Top40 music is occasional rather than the rule. One of my favorite radio stations is 102.7FM WEQX (Manchester VT, but I can hear them in the Albany NY area just fine) simply because they don't pump out the same crap over and over.
91.5 WRPI plays a lot of eclectic and oftentimes strange music, and they aren't corporate slaves.
88.3 WVCR "The Saint" plays mostly hit music during peak hours, but other than that, you can hear just about anything: classical, folk, rock and rap sometimes within a few hours, especially if you're up for some sleepless night.
The bottom line is that there are a handful of radio stations that are actually doing very well without ClearChannel's meddling. Try finding one of these because they're actually enjoyable to listen to, and you might find that it's better than listening to your music collection over and over. Or try finding a local NPR station. Or listen to any given AM station, they can be pretty damn funny sometimes, especially when they're trying to be serious.
Easy, easy, easy to address that problem... it probably wouldn't even require a major change in most states' DWI policies.
Do I have to spell it out? Make it illegal to drive while high. People will still do it, but then again people still do it even now. A more relevant rebuttal would have been: 'if marijuana were legalized it is very likely that people would feel more comfortable smoking in public, and doing stupid things like driving while high. This would increase the number of THC-related car accidents and cost innocent people their lives'.
Basically I do think that yes, more people would be stupid about their smoking habits if marijuana were legalized, but I also think that if current DWI laws were expanded to include it (if they don't already) then the problem would be much mitigtated, to the point of being no worse than it is now.
I also think that there are far too many nonviolent drug users locked up and costing me my tax money that would be so much better spent on treatment. The gun-toting dealers who'd shoot a cop or anyone else without thinking twice, and the idiotic people who take a drive to White Castle when they can hardly walk straight thereby running down a line of schoolchildren can rot in federal-pound-me-in-the-ass prison for all eternity for all I care, but the harmless offenders (both dealing & buying) with otherwise clean records, with no weapons, not driving, doing nothing more harmful than watching TV and giving themselves lung cancer certainly shouldn't face the same jail terms. These people can be given treatment for much more effective results.
PS: Where did you get the 1/3 number? It looks suspicious to me.
Which members of nsync and backsteet boys are going to be on it?
Personally, I'd prefer them to be under it.
I'm sure a cat wondering the lawn of the whitehouse is a security threat just because *gasp* somebody may have injected it to carry some kind of biological agent.
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:)
My first thought to that was "well I suppose if you use a catapult. .
Sorry, bad joke