You would think that the FSF would have at least given Apple credit for using the open, non-DRMed ePub format. Getting major book and periodical publishers to sign up for an Open standard is a big plus. Yes, Apple didn't eliminate all DRM and release a GNU/Herd based platform yesterday, but with the iPad Apple continues to move (slightly) in the direction of more open media, which is good for everyone.
In short, the FSF should give Apple credit for what they did right and encourage them to do more instead of haranguing them for not doing everything you want at once.
The maps are accurate but Verizon originally referred to the areas without 3G coverage as 'Out of Touch' That sounds a lot worse than 'falling back to 2G EDGE' Verizon has agreed to remove the 'Out of Touch' phrasing though. AT&T wants Verizon to show their full data coverage map without distinction between EDGE and 3G. And on such trivialities, lawyers get rich.
I'm surprised Duke is actually doing the right thing here. Based on their track record, I expected the students to be expelled, their sports team disbanded, the coach fired and have full page ads run in local papers signed by their professors denouncing them. I mean, that's what happened the last time Duke students were accused of something based on flimsy evidence.
I guess Duke learned the expensive way that their students don't check all their rights at the door when the are admitted to Duke.
They are nowhere using it up, so thankfully they have no plans to migrate to IPv6. (Which is a good thing because if I tried this joke with an IPv6 address, it would probably trigger the lameness filter.)
Instead of asking a bunch of Slashdotters what they think the government might say, why not ask the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency themselves. ICE and the Department of State have joint jurisdiction over ITAR. I've never been able to figure out who handles what, but I'd recommend starting with ICE. You can call them at 1-866-DHS-2-ICE. (Yes, this may be the first time in Slashdot history that someone has recommended calling DHS not as a joke.)
ICE has a program called Project Shield America that is designed for exactly this type of thing. Their goal is to try to educate industry about what can and can't be exported. http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/factsheets/shield071204 .htm
Lastly, IANAIA (I am not an ICE agent) but I suspect their answer is probably going to be that exporting UAV technology to Iran is a no-no. I'm sure it depends on exactly what you are doing, but from a quick googling, it looks like a lot of UAV related technology is restricted.
Why is it that I feel like I'm about to get modded back into the Stone Age?
Actually, Compaq's name isn't a play on the word "compatible", it's a play on the word "compact" since their first computers were portables. Portables in the day meant barely luggable machines not much smaller than a desktop but with an integrated 5-9" CRT. And don't forget your power cord. Portable PCs didn't run on batteries yet.
Vonage has until 4/12/07 before the new injunction takes effect. (The new injunction barring new customers which replaced the old injunction that would have shut Vonage down today if it had been implemented.)
Not exactly. The way the process is supposed to work is that when a user flags a video as inappropriate, it is reviewed by a YouTube employee before being permanently flagged. So someone from YouTube did flag the video as being inappropriate.
The only possible (albeit very weak) explanation for an inappropriate tag is that there is a brief seen in the video in which the underwear of "Madeline Albright" can be seen when she splits a seam in her skirt.
I know there's more than enough cynicism to go around, but Dr. Hawking's question was only asking how the human race can survive the next 100 years. Not 1000 or 10,000.
Does anyone really think that there is even the slightest chance of the human race becoming extinct in the next 100 years? (Excepting act of God events like a large asteroid strike or supervolcano) Even the most dire global warming alarmists don't predict the extinction of mankind in the next century.
I expect that in 100 years civilization will look a lot like it does today. India and China will be richer, the US and Europe will be a little poorer and the geeks of the future will have some toys that would make us green with envy.
The real question is, how can any of us reading this survive another 100 years?
The author ignores the real result of a minimum wage hike: the employer raises prices to maintain the same profit margin as they had before. The cost of living goes up for everybody and the minimum wage earners now can't afford the higher prices for everything. Is the solution to raise the minimum wage again?
Even if you ignore this problem, and pretend that companies are just going to accept lower profits because they are nice guys, the author ignores the fact that the lower corporate profits will lead to lower tax revenues from those corporations.
But I must give the author credit for one thing: I've never heard somebody who creates a job for another person called a parasite before.
Regardless of what you think of Moore's film, his statment will almost certainly boost the claim that there are legitimate non-infringing uses for peer-to-peer file sharing networks.
after all it was Catholicism that created the basic idea that Blacks were cursed therefore it was ok to do anything to them.
I think you may want to read up on how the various Christian denominations in the US reacted to slavery. The Catholic Church has never advanced the theory that blacks were cursed or that any other race was inferior. Rather the reverse, the Catholic Church grew so large in part because it was willing to send missionaries anywhere.
Far from being supporters of slavery, Catholics were almost as likely to be its victims. Read up on the history of the KKK. While they were predominantly anti-black, they also targeted Jews and Catholics. (There are old racist jokes about the initials KKK standing for derogatory phrases for blacks, Jews, and Catholics.)
As an aside, did you know that Catholicism is growing fastest in Africa, and that a Catholic convert is widely considered to be one of the leading contenders to be the next Pope?
Actually, I am familiar with Supersize me and am surprised you would haul it out as a reference since it helps to prove my point. Spurlock uses the appeal to the absurd to try to make his point. Here are some examples:
1) He would always supersize his meal anytime it was offered to him. Apparently he believes that McDonald's customers have no free will at all and are forced to take every option offered to him. (By the way, I would love to have Spurlock as a customer of my business!)
2) Because Spurlock maintains that McDonald's "promotes a sedentary lifestyle" he avoided all exercise during the filming of the movie. Yet, no one can show where McDonald's encourages people not to exercise.
3) Spurlock's "typical" McDonald's breakfasts consists of two full breakfast meals (sandwich, hash browns and coffee) Ordering two full meals seems like an odd way to complain about a restaurant's portions.
Since you brought up SuperSize Me, are you aware of Soso Whaley's response to SuperSize Me, where she eat's nothing but McDonald's food for a month and looses weight and lowers her cholesterol? The difference, she make sensible choices and exercised some amount of responsibility in choosing what she ate.
By the way, since you claim the fast food industry goes out of their way to obscure heallth facts, could you site an example? Here's a counter example: Nutrition info from McDonald's
Why are people so worked up about McDonald's food these days? It's never been a big secret that fast food isn't healthy. After all, it's called Junk Food for a reason. Heck, McDonald's has had nutritional information posted in their restaurants for twenty years. (And it's on their website too.) Anybody who cares the slightest about what they eat has all the information they need to make an informed decision. McDonald's doesn't hold a gun to your head and make you buy/eat their food. It's not addictive. If they want to gorge and eat an UltraMegaSized Triple Big Mac with extra mayo, why should you care?
If you don't like the food at McDonald's, buy your food somewhere else. Is it too much to ask people to accept some personal responsibility for their lifestyle choices?
Sooner or later, the American fetish for cheap oil will be its downfall
Or consumers could rationally start switching to smaller, more fuel efficient cars as the price of oil increases. You know, like what happened in the 1970s when the Japanese car makers make their big gains in the US market. I know this is heresy say on Slashdot, but market forces will fix this problem. (In fact the only real danger is that politicians will muck with the market to preserve those sacrosanct manufacturing jobs.)
Somehow I think that the nation that survived the Civil War, helped win World War II and almost single-handedly won the Cold War will survive the switch to smaller cars.
This is yet another example of Bush and Ashcroft trying to enslave us all for the benefit of the rich CEOs who just want to outsource our jobs so we can flip burgers at minimum wage.
What, a Democrat proposed this?
This is very confusing. Does this mean that no one political party has a monopoly on dumb ideas? But everyone on Slashdot says Bush is evil and stupid. Therefore, he has to be responsible for anything that is evil or stupid. Right? But Bush had nothing to do with this. Does this mean that I'm going to have to form my own opinion?
NO BLOOD FOR OIL!
(Whew, that was a close one, I almost had an independent thought.)
Before condemning iTMS as being the ill-begotten spawn of the RIAA, Satan and Bill Gates, maybe the ex-pat should have tried calling Apple and talking to a real live person.
Apple is very upfront that the service isn't available outside the US (at least not yet) and they have apparently put in technical measures to enforce that. The key is if you can talk to a person on the phone or via email and get them to override a false positive. If you can, then this is a minor annoyance. If you can't, then Apple needs to rethink their system
Also, note that you can continue to play music you already purchased outside the US. It is only new purchases or reauthorizing music that you can't do outside the US
Does this patent cover the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation's Happy Vertical People Transporter with the newest, the expanded, and the vastly improved... Genuine People Personality?
If so, I'm staying away from elevators for the next 17 years.
The article doesn't address the most important question on every/.'ers mind:
Will copying a 200 MB file be faster or slower than on an old Mac 8600/300?
(For those who don't read Apple related articles often, this is a reference to a famous troll, not an attempt to start a "which OS is better" war.)
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You would think that the FSF would have at least given Apple credit for using the open, non-DRMed ePub format. Getting major book and periodical publishers to sign up for an Open standard is a big plus. Yes, Apple didn't eliminate all DRM and release a GNU/Herd based platform yesterday, but with the iPad Apple continues to move (slightly) in the direction of more open media, which is good for everyone.
In short, the FSF should give Apple credit for what they did right and encourage them to do more instead of haranguing them for not doing everything you want at once.
The maps are accurate but Verizon originally referred to the areas without 3G coverage as 'Out of Touch' That sounds a lot worse than 'falling back to 2G EDGE' Verizon has agreed to remove the 'Out of Touch' phrasing though. AT&T wants Verizon to show their full data coverage map without distinction between EDGE and 3G. And on such trivialities, lawyers get rich.
I'm surprised Duke is actually doing the right thing here. Based on their track record, I expected the students to be expelled, their sports team disbanded, the coach fired and have full page ads run in local papers signed by their professors denouncing them. I mean, that's what happened the last time Duke students were accused of something based on flimsy evidence.
I guess Duke learned the expensive way that their students don't check all their rights at the door when the are admitted to Duke.
Here's their assigned IPv4 network range:
many.many.many.many/small
They are nowhere using it up, so thankfully they have no plans to migrate to IPv6. (Which is a good thing because if I tried this joke with an IPv6 address, it would probably trigger the lameness filter.)
Instead of asking a bunch of Slashdotters what they think the government might say, why not ask the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency themselves. ICE and the Department of State have joint jurisdiction over ITAR. I've never been able to figure out who handles what, but I'd recommend starting with ICE. You can call them at 1-866-DHS-2-ICE. (Yes, this may be the first time in Slashdot history that someone has recommended calling DHS not as a joke.)
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ICE has a program called Project Shield America that is designed for exactly this type of thing. Their goal is to try to educate industry about what can and can't be exported.
http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/factsheets/shield07120
Lastly, IANAIA (I am not an ICE agent) but I suspect their answer is probably going to be that exporting UAV technology to Iran is a no-no. I'm sure it depends on exactly what you are doing, but from a quick googling, it looks like a lot of UAV related technology is restricted.
Why is it that I feel like I'm about to get modded back into the Stone Age?
Actually, Compaq's name isn't a play on the word "compatible", it's a play on the word "compact" since their first computers were portables. Portables in the day meant barely luggable machines not much smaller than a desktop but with an integrated 5-9" CRT. And don't forget your power cord. Portable PCs didn't run on batteries yet.
I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there Doctor.
(I hope most people realize the parent is quoting Dr. Strangelove.)
Vonage has until 4/12/07 before the new injunction takes effect. (The new injunction barring new customers which replaced the old injunction that would have shut Vonage down today if it had been implemented.)
Not exactly. The way the process is supposed to work is that when a user flags a video as inappropriate, it is reviewed by a YouTube employee before being permanently flagged. So someone from YouTube did flag the video as being inappropriate.
The only possible (albeit very weak) explanation for an inappropriate tag is that there is a brief seen in the video in which the underwear of "Madeline Albright" can be seen when she splits a seam in her skirt.
Either that, or someone just screwed up.
I know there's more than enough cynicism to go around, but Dr. Hawking's question was only asking how the human race can survive the next 100 years. Not 1000 or 10,000.
Does anyone really think that there is even the slightest chance of the human race becoming extinct in the next 100 years? (Excepting act of God events like a large asteroid strike or supervolcano) Even the most dire global warming alarmists don't predict the extinction of mankind in the next century.
I expect that in 100 years civilization will look a lot like it does today. India and China will be richer, the US and Europe will be a little poorer and the geeks of the future will have some toys that would make us green with envy.
The real question is, how can any of us reading this survive another 100 years?
No, Microsoft bought PowerPoint from a Mac developer called ForeThought back in 1987. ForeThought only had one other product...FileMaker.
Just think, if Microsoft had bought FileMaker as well, we could have been spared the horror that is Microsoft Access.
Why reverse polarity?
Just generate a counterbalancing gravitational force that opposes the natural gravitational force. Instant anti-gravity!
It may not be able to do everything you want (like lift something into space) but it would sure make doing low-G or zero-G work a whole lot cheaper.
Yahoo upping online storage is a good thing for all of us.
Especially if you own NTAP!
The author ignores the real result of a minimum wage hike: the employer raises prices to maintain the same profit margin as they had before. The cost of living goes up for everybody and the minimum wage earners now can't afford the higher prices for everything. Is the solution to raise the minimum wage again?
Even if you ignore this problem, and pretend that companies are just going to accept lower profits because they are nice guys, the author ignores the fact that the lower corporate profits will lead to lower tax revenues from those corporations.
But I must give the author credit for one thing: I've never heard somebody who creates a job for another person called a parasite before.
Regardless of what you think of Moore's film, his statment will almost certainly boost the claim that there are legitimate non-infringing uses for peer-to-peer file sharing networks.
I think you may want to read up on how the various Christian denominations in the US reacted to slavery. The Catholic Church has never advanced the theory that blacks were cursed or that any other race was inferior. Rather the reverse, the Catholic Church grew so large in part because it was willing to send missionaries anywhere.
Far from being supporters of slavery, Catholics were almost as likely to be its victims. Read up on the history of the KKK. While they were predominantly anti-black, they also targeted Jews and Catholics. (There are old racist jokes about the initials KKK standing for derogatory phrases for blacks, Jews, and Catholics.)
As an aside, did you know that Catholicism is growing fastest in Africa, and that a Catholic convert is widely considered to be one of the leading contenders to be the next Pope?
Actually, I am familiar with Supersize me and am surprised you would haul it out as a reference since it helps to prove my point. Spurlock uses the appeal to the absurd to try to make his point. Here are some examples:
1) He would always supersize his meal anytime it was offered to him. Apparently he believes that McDonald's customers have no free will at all and are forced to take every option offered to him. (By the way, I would love to have Spurlock as a customer of my business!)
2) Because Spurlock maintains that McDonald's "promotes a sedentary lifestyle" he avoided all exercise during the filming of the movie. Yet, no one can show where McDonald's encourages people not to exercise.
3) Spurlock's "typical" McDonald's breakfasts consists of two full breakfast meals (sandwich, hash browns and coffee) Ordering two full meals seems like an odd way to complain about a restaurant's portions.
Since you brought up SuperSize Me, are you aware of Soso Whaley's response to SuperSize Me, where she eat's nothing but McDonald's food for a month and looses weight and lowers her cholesterol? The difference, she make sensible choices and exercised some amount of responsibility in choosing what she ate.
By the way, since you claim the fast food industry goes out of their way to obscure heallth facts, could you site an example? Here's a counter example:
Nutrition info from McDonald's
Why are people so worked up about McDonald's food these days? It's never been a big secret that fast food isn't healthy. After all, it's called Junk Food for a reason. Heck, McDonald's has had nutritional information posted in their restaurants for twenty years. (And it's on their website too.) Anybody who cares the slightest about what they eat has all the information they need to make an informed decision. McDonald's doesn't hold a gun to your head and make you buy/eat their food. It's not addictive. If they want to gorge and eat an UltraMegaSized Triple Big Mac with extra mayo, why should you care?
If you don't like the food at McDonald's, buy your food somewhere else. Is it too much to ask people to accept some personal responsibility for their lifestyle choices?
Sooner or later, the American fetish for cheap oil will be its downfall
Or consumers could rationally start switching to smaller, more fuel efficient cars as the price of oil increases. You know, like what happened in the 1970s when the Japanese car makers make their big gains in the US market. I know this is heresy say on Slashdot, but market forces will fix this problem. (In fact the only real danger is that politicians will muck with the market to preserve those sacrosanct manufacturing jobs.)
Somehow I think that the nation that survived the Civil War, helped win World War II and almost single-handedly won the Cold War will survive the switch to smaller cars.
Hello there, I'm an electric car.
I can't go very fast, or very far.
And if you drive me, people will think you're gay
ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
This is yet another example of Bush and Ashcroft trying to enslave us all for the benefit of the rich CEOs who just want to outsource our jobs so we can flip burgers at minimum wage.
What, a Democrat proposed this?
This is very confusing. Does this mean that no one political party has a monopoly on dumb ideas? But everyone on Slashdot says Bush is evil and stupid. Therefore, he has to be responsible for anything that is evil or stupid. Right? But Bush had nothing to do with this. Does this mean that I'm going to have to form my own opinion?
NO BLOOD FOR OIL!
(Whew, that was a close one, I almost had an independent thought.)
It was necessary to destroy your privacy in order to save it?
I can't help but imagine what the reaction among the YRO crowd would be if this had been the Bush campaign.
Before condemning iTMS as being the ill-begotten spawn of the RIAA, Satan and Bill Gates, maybe the ex-pat should have tried calling Apple and talking to a real live person.
Apple is very upfront that the service isn't available outside the US (at least not yet) and they have apparently put in technical measures to enforce that. The key is if you can talk to a person on the phone or via email and get them to override a false positive. If you can, then this is a minor annoyance. If you can't, then Apple needs to rethink their system
Also, note that you can continue to play music you already purchased outside the US. It is only new purchases or reauthorizing music that you can't do outside the US
Does this patent cover the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation's Happy Vertical People Transporter with the newest, the expanded, and the vastly improved ... Genuine People Personality?
If so, I'm staying away from elevators for the next 17 years.
The article doesn't address the most important question on every /.'ers mind:
Will copying a 200 MB file be faster or slower than on an old Mac 8600/300?
(For those who don't read Apple related articles often, this is a reference to a famous troll, not an attempt to start a "which OS is better" war.)