No, ad revenue is just a (weak) cover. They get their money from DARPA. You see, Google is part of the TIA program, with the main focus on mapping social network. That's right, the search engine, Orkut and GMail are just part of a project to filter out who will be the next McVeigh and Nichols. Or who will vote the Green Party.
The universal remote controls from Philips has an "autosearch" mode that does the same thing. Hold 1 and 3, press the power button, and it will start sending the standby pulses from every code in the remote, one by one. The idea is that when your tv turns off, the remote has sent the correct code, and you have to be fast and hit power again to lock the code to the remote.
Of course, this does not work with the sets that do not use standard RC-signals (E.g. most newer B&Os), and I guess the same goes for this gadget.
My girlfriend had her birthday yesterday, and I bought her a iRiver iFP895. The more I play with it, the more I want to keep it for myself. By default it uses a proprietary file system you need "iRiver Music Manager" to access, but an optional firmware can turn it into a mass storage device. Both works on Linux (The prop. file system can be mounted using this).
When Microsoft merged IE and the desktop, almost ten years ago now, I immediately acted to get IE and Outlook banned at work. Why? Because using the same APIs to operate on trusted (local) and untrusted (email, internet) objects makes every program that uses those APIs responsible for determining, independently, whether an object is trusted or not.
Isn't this the exact same thing KDE is going through now? Konqueror is a file- and webbrowser, and functions within each KDE program can be accessed using DCOP. E.g. Kopete reports an IM contact's online presence to KAdressbook, right-click a file in Konqueror and you can send it to everyone present in Kopete, etc, etc. Do anyone know if the KDE developers has taken special considerations to avoid doing the same mistakes MS did?
Yes, this is pure advertising. Submitter's login: kasperh. If you Google "Kasper" + "Nerdorama", you find the phrase: "Nerdorama was founded as a one person company by Kasper Hartwich". Ouch, that is ugly. And coincidentally I recognized the name, as he used to be (Still is?) in the Amiga scene group I was/is a member of. Hi Bakerman, your tricks are dirty, but I blame the editors rather than you. Luv, allanon.
I tried to set it to Safari, but still the same. Seems like it tries to load an iframe or ilayer, but Konqueror offers me to download the file. If I open it, it just stops with a "Loading.." in the top right corner.
Konqueror 3.3, which I in all other ways are very pleased with.
Overlooked...you betcha. Under-reported...yes, I agree with that. Self-censored? I don't see that any of them were pulled here in the US...but perhaps they were in other countries? Reading through their list (the ones I could get to before it was Slashdotted) I couldn't find where the censorship fell other than just no mainstream media picking up on the stories.
Listen, self censorship is not about anything being "pulled". It is about rather avoiding going into one case because of fear of the consequences. It is not a black and white issue. It can be fear of having your family shot or it could be fear of being called "unpatriotic" and having your boss yell at you. Evil dictatorships does very little censoring by going into radio stations with soldiers and shooting people. The main censorship is letting them know it CAN happen, and by that let them regulate themselves. And of course this happens on different scales, from threats of violence to threats of uncomfy. Just ask the Dixie Chicks. They were smacked down so hard I'm sure other artists were discouraged from pulling a similar stunt.
could this double as a laser pointer? Imagine a cordless laser-driven mouse that also had pointing capabilities for presentations and such. that'd be rad.
No, it can't. The laser under the MX1000 has no visible light.
Seems like no-one takes the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis serious these days, but I always thought it makes sense. The idea of newspeak in 1984 was inspired by this theory: If you can't express it by words, it is harder to think and do too.
Sorry, not trying to troll here, but X for what? I asume accessing the web interface can be done with [e]links/w3m/lynx. No, never tried, but the web pages don't look THAT advanced.
At least I haven't seen it before. Quite nice article, even though he could have backed up his claims a bit with e.g. references (A lot of "this is how it is").
I know I am probibly going to get modded down for this, but there are serious mistakes in this movie
Oh, don't make yourself such a martyr. Of couse there are mistakes. Of course a list of rebuttals to all 56 claims will show up on michaelmoore.com. Of course a rebuttal of the rebuttal will show up on Hardylaw and other places, showing how he dodges some of the questions. In the end, 90% of the points will be boiled down to a discussion of semantics. This is Bowling for Columbine all over again.
The IMDB average of the movie is 7.8. If you limit the votes to US voters (Because who cares about Europeans anyway), the average is 7.6.
1355 Americans gave it a "1". 93 gave it a "2". I'm not sure what to think of those numbers. Of course, any accusation of "voting by principle" can also be applied to the other end of the scale.
I haven't seen it myself, but a few who have seen it both on the big screen and the currently circulating cam versions says the POT version lacks "the whole part about the PATRIOT act". Maybe the guy with the camera ran out of batteries halfway through:)
If all news stations used this flag (After all, it is THEIR intellectual property), it would be soo much easier for - oh, for example - state leaders to smooth over earlier statements that might have been slightly wrong. Not that it is shown that often anyway, but images like those of Mr. Powell in front of the U.N. pointing at satellite photos would be available for replay by a lot less people (The news stations, national archives, etc.). Right now you see some debate about who said what at what point. Using Patriot($nr) to stop stations from sending (and stopping from telling they are not sending) a certain case is not that unthinkable. Those amateur documentary makers on both the right and left side of the fence (Check e.g. suprnova for 9-11 related amateur documentaries) will not have much content to use.
If stopping certain content from surfacing again is just a matter of limiting a few companies and organizations, we might even start doubting things we knew happened. Funny. Reminds me of a book I once read.
And yes, yes, turban of tinfoil and all that, don't give me that bullshit. If I said three years ago that law agencies some time in the future will be able to get lists of who-reads-what from libraries in secrecy, you would laugh and ask me to stay off those late night X-Files reruns.
Agreed:) And if you haven't tried it, I recommend the beautiful trackbar.pl for easier overview over your multiple queries. Harder for me to explain how it works than for you to try it, so please, give it a go:)
If the point is to make people unable to rip the music and you allow a backdoor 'knowingly' then why even bother in the first place?
To draw a line in the sand. Right now, on many systems you can just insert a cd and hit "Rip". Holding shift is an active step ("Circumvention") to avoid it. They are trying to tell us what the consumer can expect to do with the products they buy. Makes it easier for people to accept the next generation DRM.
Sure, there will always be PIRATES out there that can get it. This protection is just to train the general population to know how far their right to use the products goes.
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No, ad revenue is just a (weak) cover. They get their money from DARPA. You see, Google is part of the TIA program, with the main focus on mapping social network. That's right, the search engine, Orkut and GMail are just part of a project to filter out who will be the next McVeigh and Nichols. Or who will vote the Green Party.
Remember, you read it on Slashdot first.
The universal remote controls from Philips has an "autosearch" mode that does the same thing. Hold 1 and 3, press the power button, and it will start sending the standby pulses from every code in the remote, one by one. The idea is that when your tv turns off, the remote has sent the correct code, and you have to be fast and hit power again to lock the code to the remote. Of course, this does not work with the sets that do not use standard RC-signals (E.g. most newer B&Os), and I guess the same goes for this gadget.
My girlfriend had her birthday yesterday, and I bought her a iRiver iFP895. The more I play with it, the more I want to keep it for myself. By default it uses a proprietary file system you need "iRiver Music Manager" to access, but an optional firmware can turn it into a mass storage device. Both works on Linux (The prop. file system can be mounted using this).
And yes, it plays Ogg.
They will be SO dissapointed when they discover that the rest of the world has upgraded from Win95, and winnuke.exe does not work anymore.
Yes, this is pure advertising. Submitter's login: kasperh. If you Google "Kasper" + "Nerdorama", you find the phrase: "Nerdorama was founded as a one person company by Kasper Hartwich". Ouch, that is ugly. And coincidentally I recognized the name, as he used to be (Still is?) in the Amiga scene group I was/is a member of. Hi Bakerman, your tricks are dirty, but I blame the editors rather than you.
Luv, allanon.
Summary of all the "Home Alone" movies in 3... 2... 1...
I tried to set it to Safari, but still the same. Seems like it tries to load an iframe or ilayer, but Konqueror offers me to download the file. If I open it, it just stops with a "Loading.." in the top right corner. Konqueror 3.3, which I in all other ways are very pleased with.
...but still Gmail works with Safari, not Konqueror :\ That is the only reason I keep Firefox around.
Listen, self censorship is not about anything being "pulled". It is about rather avoiding going into one case because of fear of the consequences. It is not a black and white issue. It can be fear of having your family shot or it could be fear of being called "unpatriotic" and having your boss yell at you. Evil dictatorships does very little censoring by going into radio stations with soldiers and shooting people. The main censorship is letting them know it CAN happen, and by that let them regulate themselves.
And of course this happens on different scales, from threats of violence to threats of uncomfy. Just ask the Dixie Chicks. They were smacked down so hard I'm sure other artists were discouraged from pulling a similar stunt.
Seems like no-one takes the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis serious these days, but I always thought it makes sense. The idea of newspeak in 1984 was inspired by this theory: If you can't express it by words, it is harder to think and do too.
Sorry, not trying to troll here, but X for what? I asume accessing the web interface can be done with [e]links/w3m/lynx. No, never tried, but the web pages don't look THAT advanced.
At least I haven't seen it before. Quite nice article, even though he could have backed up his claims a bit with e.g. references (A lot of "this is how it is").
The IMDB average of the movie is 7.8. If you limit the votes to US voters (Because who cares about Europeans anyway), the average is 7.6.
1355 Americans gave it a "1". 93 gave it a "2". I'm not sure what to think of those numbers. Of course, any accusation of "voting by principle" can also be applied to the other end of the scale.
I haven't seen it myself, but a few who have seen it both on the big screen and the currently circulating cam versions says the POT version lacks "the whole part about the PATRIOT act". Maybe the guy with the camera ran out of batteries halfway through :)
If all news stations used this flag (After all, it is THEIR intellectual property), it would be soo much easier for - oh, for example - state leaders to smooth over earlier statements that might have been slightly wrong.
Not that it is shown that often anyway, but images like those of Mr. Powell in front of the U.N. pointing at satellite photos would be available for replay by a lot less people (The news stations, national archives, etc.). Right now you see some debate about who said what at what point. Using Patriot($nr) to stop stations from sending (and stopping from telling they are not sending) a certain case is not that unthinkable. Those amateur documentary makers on both the right and left side of the fence (Check e.g. suprnova for 9-11 related amateur documentaries) will not have much content to use.
If stopping certain content from surfacing again is just a matter of limiting a few companies and organizations, we might even start doubting things we knew happened.
Funny. Reminds me of a book I once read.
And yes, yes, turban of tinfoil and all that, don't give me that bullshit. If I said three years ago that law agencies some time in the future will be able to get lists of who-reads-what from libraries in secrecy, you would laugh and ask me to stay off those late night X-Files reruns.
Ob joke:
What did one deadhead say to the other when they ran out of acid?
- Man, this music sucks!
For P2P, the giFT frontend giFTcurs does the job well. Look, pretty screenshot. All-in-one package for OpenFT, FastTrack, Gnutella and OpenNap.
and saying "Linux is a cancer" is just an objective observation.
Sure, there will always be PIRATES out there that can get it. This protection is just to train the general population to know how far their right to use the products goes.