Thanks editors for posting another week old story to the front page. What ever happened to being at the forefront of the news game? I remember when this was the place to get information ahead of everyone else... Now we get links to 4 day old articles that I know I read about even before that.
Are you too busy approving stuff in the submission queue that is really just duplicates of what we have already read?
If you want a story accepted onto slashdot, you have to buy hookers for the editors.
Man, hookers that would fuck them are a lot more time/effort/money than just actually taking the time to verify the story isn't a dup, write up the blurb so that you aren't flamed to hell for not thinking for yourself, and not linking to your own blog for the profit margins.;-)
Get serious. When in Rome. If they want their presence known they will play by the rules. If the Chinese people want to post on censorship free blogs they can tunnel out and use any of the ones located elsewhere.
Microsoft doesn't need to be involved in politics anywhere.
AIDS, unwanted children, other diseases, seeing women as sex objects, lack of morality, etc, etc. There are a lot of chances for harm.
I'd love to see a child left in the dark be properly educated about the evils that are out there. AIDS education is not "pretty". You need to be blunt about how it is contracted. People who are so embarassed and shamed that they have to talk about sex to their children end up raising individuals without any true understanding of how it all works. THAT'S HARM. This goes for other diseases and unwanted children as well.
Seeing women as objects? People who want to claim porn is harmful think that way. Porn is empowerment for the woman and a positive influence for all parties.
Lack of morality? Excuse me. The government doesn't need to be teaching and enforcing morality. Enough of the new-aged GOP right-wing religious morality crap. We don't need to be regressing.
Sometimes I think kids are going to grow up completely messed us with the crazy stuff they can see on the web just by typing "sex" in google.
I know that kids are going to grow up completely messed up with the crazy stuff that they don't see on the web just because their parents wanted to "protect" them from all the "harmful" stuff out there.
Sorry, but sex isn't harmful. Keeping your kids in the dark is.
Let the parents keep the kids "protected" if they really feel that's what's best. Let's keep the government out of the personal affairs of the public.
$1 billion damages? honestly - how do they come up with these figures?
they'd do better hiring this guy to teach their sysadmins a thing or two.
They hire overpaid techs that do shoddy work. They have to come up with these figures in order to make sure the public doesn't mind them wasting taxpayer dollars to track him down all over the world.
This is a great idea, not only for privacy, but for convenience. You get to use the ressource without the hassle, and it doesn't cost you a fortune, you loan them money, they loan you a book, you exchange it back when you are done. Everyone's happy!
Privacy? There is no privacy here. It's a violation of privacy when you have to give up your personal identity for convenience. There is absolutely no excuse for that and you (and people like you) are exactly the reason why identity theives and the government are winning.
A huge map of the U.S., spread across 12 digital screens, gave them a view of their prey, from Arizona to New Jersey.
Yes, they were "prey" and the Secret Service were eagles flying high in the air to protect freedom. Give me a fucking break. But of course this wasn't just a single sentence to get the readers interested, nope, the entire "article" is full of this crap:
The target: the ShadowCrew, a gang whose members were schooled in identity theft, bank account pillage, and the fencing of ill-gotten wares on the Web, police say.
Yes, they have a hackers college where professors teach their students how to be thieves. Oh wait, no they don't...
At 9 p.m., Nagel, the Secret Service's assistant director for investigations, issued the "go" order. Agents armed with Sig-Sauer 229 pistols and MP5 semi-automatic machine guns swooped in, aided by local cops and international police.
Ahh, the freedom eagle reference again... Swooping down on their "prey".
There's a new breed of crime-fighter prowling cyberspace: the hacker hunters.
Yes more predator/prey relationships. No, sorry.
This was not a movie, it should not be written as if it were, and it should not be written to give any ideas to other people who might want to make it into a movie. It was a typical "wait it out and arrest" type operation. There was nothing that was any more exciting about this than any other operation. Of course the media has to make it out to be more than it is to gain the attention of readers.
Stick to the facts and cut out the crap. Thanks for the dupe.
It has nothing to do w/coolness. It has to do with name and reputation recognition. The public (myself included) is weary of strange domain names...
Even more people are weary of sites that don't end in.com. If I see a.biz, or.jobs URL I generally think "spam" or garbage and just ignore it.
While the porno world is generally full of garbage and spam (mind you I surf porn frequently) and they do adopt new technologies quickly, I don't think the.xxx domain will be used for much decent stuff.
From what I can see (walmart.com, amazon.com, and froogle.com) the JuiceBox is about $40 to $50. The only place I can find it quoted for being less is at the blog that this story links to... Perhaps they were on sale, the unit was in an opened package, or the online prices do not reflect the in-store ones. I don't know. YMMV.
It seems that this would have been a more informative link to include in the story as it gives quite a bit of information about the JuiceBox and links to some of the code from Emsoft.
It does seem like an interesting device to putz around with but I'll hold out until you can display pics via wlan to it:)
Gates is widely thought to have Asperger's syndrome
Why? He doesn't seem that antisocial to me. He seems to be able to understand things outside the literal. He seems to be able to excel in more than one specific area (programming *and* business)...
He came from exceptionally intelligent and wealthy stock. Just because he was able to get into computers and ride the first "boom" means that he could only do so because of some syndrome?
Most people with AS are of *normal* intelligence but they have extrememly large vocabularies and excel in specific areas.
While I am certainly not a doctor of any sort I would prefer such comments at least quantified with some shred of evidence.
Mr Chertoff said yesterday that it was vital to seek compatibility, holding up the example of the "video war" of 25 years ago, when VHS and Betamax were in fierce competition to win the status of industry standard for video recording systems.
"I certainly hope we have the same chip... It would be very bad if we all invested huge amounts of money in biometric systems and they didn't work with each other.Hopefully, we are not going to do VHS and Betamax with our chips. I was one of the ones who bought Betamax, and that's now in the garbage," he said.
VHS and Betamax weren't intended to compromise our personal privacy. I just don't see how he would dare to compare these two completely unrelated things. Was it to try and make this sound more benign than it is?
Mr Chertoff also proposed that British citizens wishing to visit the US should consider entering a "Trusted Traveller" scheme.
I propose we stop assuming *everyone* is guilty because of what ~15 other people did. Oh wait, *everyone* hates freedom so we have to do this or we're UnAmerican, sorry, I forgot. Send me for reeducation please... I didn't learn it right the first time.
Mr Chertoff said compatability and the checking system was intended purely to track down "terrorists and criminals" and the main aim was to provide a "fair and reasonable system".
Yet it hinders and inconveniences everyone including citizens of the United States who are having their privacy violated.
"When we screen based on names, we're screening on the most primitive and least technological basis of identification - it's the most susceptible to misspelling, or people changing their identity, or fraud," he said.
I'm 100% certain that whatever method the US Government puts in place will be full of holes large enough to drive a truck through. It's not going to solve any of the problems that we have had in the past.
Apparently, HP is determined to make certain models work 100 percent with Ubuntu.
Is Linux still suffering from incompatible hardware in computers these days? I haven't purchased a laptop since 1996 but it ran Linux (I did have to use AcceleratedX because at the time XFree didn't support the video card chipset) just fine.
Are we still having serious problems with people not being able to use their computers 100% with Linux or are they talking about "out-of-the-box" with no configuration necessary?
I wasn't aware that this "article" had anything to do w/Nintendo. It mostly mentioned both Sony and Microsoft's attempts as hoodwinking the public with their glitzy shows of current vaporware.
History tells me that I shouldn't expect anything exciting from new consoles yet I still am intrigued by the work the marketing teams go through to bring us their latest and greatest... I am even more intrigued that we have people posting this crap (as if we didn't already know it was all bullshit) to their blogs and making themselves sound like they know something we don't.
Since so many people these days are into spouting off basically unsubstantiated rumor and making it appear legit through our "new media outlets" I'll go ahead and state what *I* believe the console makers should do!
Enjoy.
You know what I want from gaming consoles? Something *new*. When I say *new* I don't mean hi-def resolutions, better sound, faster game play, or even high density storage mediums. When I say *new* I mean I want to see something I have never in my life seen before...
Problem is that we are stuck in a loop of the same rehashed cafeteria lunches with gaming. "Green beans" slopped on my tray is the same as "Emerald Pods". HL2 and Doom3 are the same as Wolf3D and various others.
It really disappoints me when I am thrilled with simple games like Ms. Pacman, Tetris, and Bejeweled variants yet I am extremely bored with "amazing and real life AI", "hi-def graphics", etc.
Gran Turismo 1 was the end all of racing games apparently as GT2, GT3, and now GT4 (and various other similar racing variants) have all been abysmal remakes of the original. I remember saying how revolutionary Quake1 was. Everything after has been bleh. I think I have made my point...
Sony and MSFT: You want to make me excited about a console? Give me some really incredible titles that are something new and exciting rather than just renamed and rehashed green beans. I guarantee that if you can impress me with some titles you can impress all the people and even those that believe that people like me are just ignoring the "important subtle differences between similar genres". You don't even have to have fancy pre-fab rendering, lifelike graphics, or tons of CPU horsepower. All you need is a new and revolutionary idea that makes me want to play it again and again and again. You won't even have to spend millions on hardware and software research.
Hopefully this will give you a few ideas of what to do. I'll be waiting...
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Oh come on! You cannot tell me that this photo doesn't make you want to see more?
;-)
Jeez, what kind of geek are you? Porn is porn!
Troll? No, it's not a troll. "Stuff that matters" is stuff that's from the last 24 hours. Stuff that's 4 days old doesn't matter anymore.
Thanks editors for posting another week old story to the front page. What ever happened to being at the forefront of the news game? I remember when this was the place to get information ahead of everyone else... Now we get links to 4 day old articles that I know I read about even before that.
Are you too busy approving stuff in the submission queue that is really just duplicates of what we have already read?
Get with it.
If you want a story accepted onto slashdot, you have to buy hookers for the editors.
;-)
Man, hookers that would fuck them are a lot more time/effort/money than just actually taking the time to verify the story isn't a dup, write up the blurb so that you aren't flamed to hell for not thinking for yourself, and not linking to your own blog for the profit margins.
Get serious. When in Rome. If they want their presence known they will play by the rules. If the Chinese people want to post on censorship free blogs they can tunnel out and use any of the ones located elsewhere.
Microsoft doesn't need to be involved in politics anywhere.
Wow, the mere suggestion that someone wants to allow the government to force censorship on the people is making me foam at the mouth in disgust.
Sounds like you've got a serious understanding of the Constitution problem, pal.
Your kind freaks me out.
This coming right after the story about Utah? Slashdot, are you trying to cause the Utah law to fail?
:(
Sorry for the bad link in the original. I should have previewed first, I know
coming right after the story about Utah? Slashdot, are you trying to cause the Utah law to fail?
Considering that the majority of porn employs drug addicts it is quite sad that one would even hint that porn is empowerment for the women.
Give me the numbers. True numbers. Please also compare those numbers to alcoholism and drug addiction rates for "traditional" wage-earners.
AIDS, unwanted children, other diseases, seeing women as sex objects, lack of morality, etc, etc. There are a lot of chances for harm.
I'd love to see a child left in the dark be properly educated about the evils that are out there. AIDS education is not "pretty". You need to be blunt about how it is contracted. People who are so embarassed and shamed that they have to talk about sex to their children end up raising individuals without any true understanding of how it all works. THAT'S HARM. This goes for other diseases and unwanted children as well.
Seeing women as objects? People who want to claim porn is harmful think that way. Porn is empowerment for the woman and a positive influence for all parties.
Lack of morality? Excuse me. The government doesn't need to be teaching and enforcing morality. Enough of the new-aged GOP right-wing religious morality crap. We don't need to be regressing.
Sometimes I think kids are going to grow up completely messed us with the crazy stuff they can see on the web just by typing "sex" in google.
I know that kids are going to grow up completely messed up with the crazy stuff that they don't see on the web just because their parents wanted to "protect" them from all the "harmful" stuff out there.
Sorry, but sex isn't harmful. Keeping your kids in the dark is.
Let the parents keep the kids "protected" if they really feel that's what's best. Let's keep the government out of the personal affairs of the public.
Revenge of the Nerds:
Louis: Jocks only think about sports, nerds only think about sex.
Well since the rest of us can't read the article I'll just comment on the blurb:
The keyboard does seem to make much more of a mind-meld than the imprecise mouse. Paul Tyma hits it on the head.."
Those poor imprecise mice! Getting whacked on the head for no reason other than preference of input device!
$1 billion damages? honestly - how do they come up with these figures?
they'd do better hiring this guy to teach their sysadmins a thing or two.
They hire overpaid techs that do shoddy work. They have to come up with these figures in order to make sure the public doesn't mind them wasting taxpayer dollars to track him down all over the world.
I was kidding. But I don't expect you to understand that.
This is a great idea, not only for privacy, but for convenience. You get to use the ressource without the hassle, and it doesn't cost you a fortune, you loan them money, they loan you a book, you exchange it back when you are done. Everyone's happy!
Privacy? There is no privacy here. It's a violation of privacy when you have to give up your personal identity for convenience . There is absolutely no excuse for that and you (and people like you) are exactly the reason why identity theives and the government are winning.
Nothing like sensational journalism:
A huge map of the U.S., spread across 12 digital screens, gave them a view of their prey, from Arizona to New Jersey.
Yes, they were "prey" and the Secret Service were eagles flying high in the air to protect freedom. Give me a fucking break. But of course this wasn't just a single sentence to get the readers interested, nope, the entire "article" is full of this crap:
The target: the ShadowCrew, a gang whose members were schooled in identity theft, bank account pillage, and the fencing of ill-gotten wares on the Web, police say.
Yes, they have a hackers college where professors teach their students how to be thieves. Oh wait, no they don't...
At 9 p.m., Nagel, the Secret Service's assistant director for investigations, issued the "go" order. Agents armed with Sig-Sauer 229 pistols and MP5 semi-automatic machine guns swooped in, aided by local cops and international police.
Ahh, the freedom eagle reference again... Swooping down on their "prey".
There's a new breed of crime-fighter prowling cyberspace: the hacker hunters.
Yes more predator/prey relationships. No, sorry.
This was not a movie, it should not be written as if it were, and it should not be written to give any ideas to other people who might want to make it into a movie. It was a typical "wait it out and arrest" type operation. There was nothing that was any more exciting about this than any other operation. Of course the media has to make it out to be more than it is to gain the attention of readers.
Stick to the facts and cut out the crap. Thanks for the dupe.
It has nothing to do w/coolness. It has to do with name and reputation recognition. The public (myself included) is weary of strange domain names...
.com. If I see a .biz, or .jobs URL I generally think "spam" or garbage and just ignore it.
.xxx domain will be used for much decent stuff.
Even more people are weary of sites that don't end in
While the porno world is generally full of garbage and spam (mind you I surf porn frequently) and they do adopt new technologies quickly, I don't think the
From what I can see (walmart.com, amazon.com, and froogle.com) the JuiceBox is about $40 to $50. The only place I can find it quoted for being less is at the blog that this story links to... Perhaps they were on sale, the unit was in an opened package, or the online prices do not reflect the in-store ones. I don't know. YMMV.
:)
It seems that this would have been a more informative link to include in the story as it gives quite a bit of information about the JuiceBox and links to some of the code from Emsoft.
It does seem like an interesting device to putz around with but I'll hold out until you can display pics via wlan to it
Gates is widely thought to have Asperger's syndrome
Why? He doesn't seem that antisocial to me. He seems to be able to understand things outside the literal. He seems to be able to excel in more than one specific area (programming *and* business)...
He came from exceptionally intelligent and wealthy stock. Just because he was able to get into computers and ride the first "boom" means that he could only do so because of some syndrome?
Most people with AS are of *normal* intelligence but they have extrememly large vocabularies and excel in specific areas.
While I am certainly not a doctor of any sort I would prefer such comments at least quantified with some shred of evidence.
Mr Chertoff said yesterday that it was vital to seek compatibility, holding up the example of the "video war" of 25 years ago, when VHS and Betamax were in fierce competition to win the status of industry standard for video recording systems.
"I certainly hope we have the same chip... It would be very bad if we all invested huge amounts of money in biometric systems and they didn't work with each other.Hopefully, we are not going to do VHS and Betamax with our chips. I was one of the ones who bought Betamax, and that's now in the garbage," he said.
VHS and Betamax weren't intended to compromise our personal privacy. I just don't see how he would dare to compare these two completely unrelated things. Was it to try and make this sound more benign than it is?
Mr Chertoff also proposed that British citizens wishing to visit the US should consider entering a "Trusted Traveller" scheme.
I propose we stop assuming *everyone* is guilty because of what ~15 other people did. Oh wait, *everyone* hates freedom so we have to do this or we're UnAmerican, sorry, I forgot. Send me for reeducation please... I didn't learn it right the first time.
Mr Chertoff said compatability and the checking system was intended purely to track down "terrorists and criminals" and the main aim was to provide a "fair and reasonable system".
Yet it hinders and inconveniences everyone including citizens of the United States who are having their privacy violated.
"When we screen based on names, we're screening on the most primitive and least technological basis of identification - it's the most susceptible to misspelling, or people changing their identity, or fraud," he said.
I'm 100% certain that whatever method the US Government puts in place will be full of holes large enough to drive a truck through. It's not going to solve any of the problems that we have had in the past.
Apparently, HP is determined to make certain models work 100 percent with Ubuntu.
Is Linux still suffering from incompatible hardware in computers these days? I haven't purchased a laptop since 1996 but it ran Linux (I did have to use AcceleratedX because at the time XFree didn't support the video card chipset) just fine.
Are we still having serious problems with people not being able to use their computers 100% with Linux or are they talking about "out-of-the-box" with no configuration necessary?
You mean Ms. Pacman with better graphics? Yeah, I own it.
We prefer to refer to it as "Ownage Ball" though.
I wasn't aware that this "article" had anything to do w/Nintendo. It mostly mentioned both Sony and Microsoft's attempts as hoodwinking the public with their glitzy shows of current vaporware.
History tells me that I shouldn't expect anything exciting from new consoles yet I still am intrigued by the work the marketing teams go through to bring us their latest and greatest... I am even more intrigued that we have people posting this crap (as if we didn't already know it was all bullshit) to their blogs and making themselves sound like they know something we don't.
Since so many people these days are into spouting off basically unsubstantiated rumor and making it appear legit through our "new media outlets" I'll go ahead and state what *I* believe the console makers should do!
Enjoy.
You know what I want from gaming consoles? Something *new*. When I say *new* I don't mean hi-def resolutions, better sound, faster game play, or even high density storage mediums. When I say *new* I mean I want to see something I have never in my life seen before...
Problem is that we are stuck in a loop of the same rehashed cafeteria lunches with gaming. "Green beans" slopped on my tray is the same as "Emerald Pods". HL2 and Doom3 are the same as Wolf3D and various others.
It really disappoints me when I am thrilled with simple games like Ms. Pacman, Tetris, and Bejeweled variants yet I am extremely bored with "amazing and real life AI", "hi-def graphics", etc.
Gran Turismo 1 was the end all of racing games apparently as GT2, GT3, and now GT4 (and various other similar racing variants) have all been abysmal remakes of the original. I remember saying how revolutionary Quake1 was. Everything after has been bleh. I think I have made my point...
Sony and MSFT: You want to make me excited about a console? Give me some really incredible titles that are something new and exciting rather than just renamed and rehashed green beans. I guarantee that if you can impress me with some titles you can impress all the people and even those that believe that people like me are just ignoring the "important subtle differences between similar genres". You don't even have to have fancy pre-fab rendering, lifelike graphics, or tons of CPU horsepower. All you need is a new and revolutionary idea that makes me want to play it again and again and again. You won't even have to spend millions on hardware and software research.
Hopefully this will give you a few ideas of what to do. I'll be waiting...