WHAT? China's greatest minds put together a launch and re-entry vehicle, and "officials" load it with almost 500 pounds of seeds so that they will magically become superplants?
This coming from the people led by a government that believes that they can block freedom of speech and information while stimulating science sharing via their "new" Internet.
I can't say I'm at all surprised.
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the Administrator for Elections for the state of Maryland (where Rubin lives and works) publicly stated that 'computer scientists (a direct reference to Rubin and his team) who question the security of electronic voting machines are undermining our democracy.'
Our democracy has existed for 230 years. Electronic voting do little to nothing to expand democracy. What they do expand is the possibilities for hard to detect fraud -- something which *does* undermine our democracy.
Traffic from my blog [utah.edu] primarily from the US shows about 19% of traffic is from the Macintosh (200-900 unique visitors/day). Of all the traffic that hit my blog from the recent Boing Boing posting, it appears that of those that clicked through, over 23% of the clicks were from Macintosh systems and from the traffic I get from Slashdot, about 15% is from Macintosh systems. This limited sampling shows a steady increase in the percentage of Macintosh users that have visited over the past few years.
I really hate when people post their statistics coming from their blogs. It is just as statistically insignificant as saying that there are a large number of Linux based Firefox users visiting Slashdot.
My website currently has 117953 hits this month of which 2997 are MacOS users (2.54%). Not only that, but I know that several *regular* readers use OS X as their main OS (myself included). Just so you know, less than 0.57% were from Slashdot referrers, 27% were direct and 45% were from Google.
Obviously my site doesn't cater to Mac users specifically nor nerds specifically and that's why 92% of the traffic I receive is Windows based.
And, my wife and I chose to purchase a fuel-efficient Mazda 3, because her new job had a very long commute.
Excuse me? "fuel-efficient" Mazda 3? What in the fuck are you talking about? My Mazda 3 is *far* from fuel-efficient. In fact, it's by far the most fuel-inefficient car I have owned in my *entire* life.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and maybe you're reading into the EPA estimated mpg for the Mazda3 instead of actual numbers from 18,500 miles of driving:
Fuel economy EPA highway (mpg): 35 and EPA city (mpg): 28
My Saturns were in the 35 to 40mpg range, consistently over the life of the car even with the AC running and my average speeds in the 75 to 80mph range. The Mazda3 shocked the living fuck out of me when I was getting less than 25 mpg on average highway driving and less than 22 mpg in the city.
Perhaps you drove a Yukon or some other obnoxiously pointless automobile before your Mazda3, but please don't be confused into thinking that ~23 mpg is good gas mileage.
but we have people who literally believe something will cause a suspension of the 2008 elections, allowing Bush to remain in power.
I believe it's certainly possible but it has absolutely nothing to do with the Internet, other people's opinions, or the media. It has to do with the simple fact that we are "at war" and Bush wants to continue that war going at any and all costs (financial, lives lost (on both sides), and the good name of the Republican Party (to which he does not belong IMHO)).
I am not saying that I believe, without a doubt, that Bush is going to stand in front of the United States and say, "We need to have me in office because I'm the most honest liar ever in office and I have committed atrocities against citizens of the United States like no one before me." I just expect him to say, "we cannot permit the terrorists to win and I am the only one who can do that! The New Aged GOP must live on to protect the 'Homeland'!"
All I'm saying that it certainly wouldn't surprise me. He's really that fucking sure of his poor decision making and the fact that a good number of people (especially those racist and religious morons that have suddenly appeared more in recent times than they have since the 1960s) support him and everything else does, scares the living shit out of me and it should certainly scare the living shit out of everyone else too.
Long live the Homeland and down with the Constitution!
I'm too lazy to search for ot, but there were plans and code available for a flash drive via the TI-85 sync cable port (headphone jack) way back in the ZShell days.
You couldn't use the data live, it was more of a swap in and swap out type thing, but it worked.
I was far more intrigued with the simplicity of the HeadOn commercial (no, the YouTube segment is not skipping -- the commercial is really like that).
I have absolutely no idea what HeadOn is for or why they are advertising it but it was enough to make sure we stopped the Tivo to watch it. Then we watched it again and again to make sure that we were laughing for good reason;)
I don't know what you're talking about. The litigation wave is worldwide. The RIAA isn't American. 3 of the 4 members of the cartel are "offshore corporations". There are different versions of the RIAA everywhere. In France, and certain other places, they bring CRIMINAL cases, not civil ones.
I know what the parent post was referring to (allofmp3.com's "legality") but I'm a Slashdotter and previous user of allofmp3.com.
The question that wasn't answered was whether allofmp3.com is safe to use as an alternative to the more expensive stores like iTS (formally known as iTMS!), Napster, and whatever MSFT calls their store.
You are even making it seem more exciting than this was. It wasn't security by anything. It was a public webserver without *any* standard protections enabled.
I wonder how soon there will be a draft of a bill to make any "unwanted intrusions" into a webserver illegal in CA.
Obviously you haven't read my site that's linked to my profile but if you had you would have realized that I don't make my writings and gallery posts "vanilla".
I'm just reminding people that they shouldn't be surprised if they get spit out of a job interview because they talk about their weeknight drinking habbits, fuck buddies, and allude to "inappropriate" behavior.
True, but the thing about Facebook is the information is not public in the sense of viewable by all - so if it turns out that they then retain the right to publish the information to all, then that is something to be worried about.
It's the Internet. Anyone and everyone can get the information that is out there regardless of the easily circumvented restrictions put in place by the website.
This goes for anything that you post publically including your blog, your gallery, your Slashdot posts, your old usenet posts, your random Dodgeball history, etc.
Be aware of what you are posting out there and that it is likely that it will be archived *forever* in some way for others to look at.
We're not all going to get off as scott free as Arnold, Bill, and George when we're looking for a job and someone has evidence of our past history in hand.
(2) In a case where the copyright owner sustains the burden of proving, and the court finds, that infringement was committed willfully, the court in its discretion may increase the award of statutory damages to a sum of not more than $150,000.
So basically the RIAA is *asking* the court for 150k to make the numbers look ridiculously high in order to get people to fold. Or in other words they are pointing the barrel of a tank cannon at you and hoping you will pee in your pants.
Now, this looks like chump change compared to the $150,000 per violation and 1,000 songs shared means $150,000,000 lawsuit. Is this smart or stupid? I mean, don't you, the lawyers that these people consult, tell them to fold and pay the little amount of money?
I'm more interesting in knowing how they can justify calculating that they have lost $150,000 per song "shared" and why they don't have to show any proof that this amount damage actually occured per song.
I know most printers can't handle the paper if it's not in 100% perfect condition.. I can just imagine the kind of paper jams this thing could produce when someone thwoes in 6 pages stuck together with bubble gum, corners torn off and grease from their lunch calzone smeared all over it.
It would be like anything. People would begin to realize that you can't do that to it. That or it'll never become viable and it'll die.
Mind you, "expected" is relative given how many users regard their frequent crashes as normal operation for a PC.
I'm just as confused with that statement. I don't know the numbers but I'm assuming the people that would be testing RC1 weren't running Win9x and as such wouldn't be thinking that "frequent crashes" were normal.
Not the ones I downloaded. I couldn't get DirectX installed the other day (I bought and paid for XP from a retail store but MSFT doesn't believe it's a "genuine" key so I couldn't give a fuck less) but it worked with this little round-a-bout.
*All* lawyers rejoice. Regardless of the outcome for the males, they still get paid. Fighting this kind of shit is just another thing to add to their Yellow Pages ad.
This is so unconstitutional... isn't it? It had better be.
So is wiretapping w/o a warrant. But remember, as long as we are fighting terrorists, squashing sex offenders, or expanding the powers of government we're doing something great for this country.
Keep up the great work Ohio. I'm very disappointed that I moved to a different state.
These new HD formats are just about trying to get people to buy more stuff. They need sales and if everyone already has thier product then nobody buys. So they had to relese a new product and try to convince consumers of why they needed to buy more stuff. They have failed pretty miserably to date on convincing people to give them more money.
I liken these two formats to LaserDiscs. They were out there, they were superior to tapes, but they were large, clunky, and no one really adopted them except those that were techno-freaks. HD-DVD/Blu-Ray is just another holdover technology until someone comes up with something that appeals more to the masses and comes at a time when people are finally ready to re-up their collections.
It's not like this should suprise *anyone*. It's the Feds, they have your information that you freely sold to them for low interest rates, and they have the capability to do what they want w/it.
If you don't want to have the Feds know anything about you while you attend college, my suggestions are:
1. Don't apply for *any* financial aid or work study positions. Don't even look at the Financial Aid Office.
2. Don't include your SSN on your application or any other documentation ever submitted to the college. SSNs aren't required.
3. Don't include your ethnicity, gender, or other background information to the college (if you have college transcripts from another institution that include your SSN, don't transfer credits).
4. Don't offer your phone number, your home address (use a PO Box), and request that a DNR (do not release) is placed on your record (while the DNR makes it a royal pain in the ass for even *you* to request your information, it makes it even harder for everyone else).
5. Remember that the Federal Government can request information from schools with even the most minimal federal funding for the military (and likely anything else they want).
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WHAT? China's greatest minds put together a launch and re-entry vehicle, and "officials" load it with almost 500 pounds of seeds so that they will magically become superplants?
This coming from the people led by a government that believes that they can block freedom of speech and information while stimulating science sharing via their "new" Internet.
I can't say I'm at all surprised.
the Administrator for Elections for the state of Maryland (where Rubin lives and works) publicly stated that 'computer scientists (a direct reference to Rubin and his team) who question the security of electronic voting machines are undermining our democracy.'
Our democracy has existed for 230 years. Electronic voting do little to nothing to expand democracy. What they do expand is the possibilities for hard to detect fraud -- something which *does* undermine our democracy.
There's no DRM on vinyl?
Traffic from my blog [utah.edu] primarily from the US shows about 19% of traffic is from the Macintosh (200-900 unique visitors/day). Of all the traffic that hit my blog from the recent Boing Boing posting, it appears that of those that clicked through, over 23% of the clicks were from Macintosh systems and from the traffic I get from Slashdot, about 15% is from Macintosh systems. This limited sampling shows a steady increase in the percentage of Macintosh users that have visited over the past few years.
I really hate when people post their statistics coming from their blogs. It is just as statistically insignificant as saying that there are a large number of Linux based Firefox users visiting Slashdot.
My website currently has 117953 hits this month of which 2997 are MacOS users (2.54%). Not only that, but I know that several *regular* readers use OS X as their main OS (myself included). Just so you know, less than 0.57% were from Slashdot referrers, 27% were direct and 45% were from Google.
Obviously my site doesn't cater to Mac users specifically nor nerds specifically and that's why 92% of the traffic I receive is Windows based.
They might as well hand them out like candy.
And that's exactly what the politicians are looking for.
And, my wife and I chose to purchase a fuel-efficient Mazda 3, because her new job had a very long commute.
Excuse me? "fuel-efficient" Mazda 3? What in the fuck are you talking about? My Mazda 3 is *far* from fuel-efficient. In fact, it's by far the most fuel-inefficient car I have owned in my *entire* life.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and maybe you're reading into the EPA estimated mpg for the Mazda3 instead of actual numbers from 18,500 miles of driving:
Fuel economy EPA highway (mpg): 35 and EPA city (mpg): 28
My Saturns were in the 35 to 40mpg range, consistently over the life of the car even with the AC running and my average speeds in the 75 to 80mph range. The Mazda3 shocked the living fuck out of me when I was getting less than 25 mpg on average highway driving and less than 22 mpg in the city.
Perhaps you drove a Yukon or some other obnoxiously pointless automobile before your Mazda3, but please don't be confused into thinking that ~23 mpg is good gas mileage.
but we have people who literally believe something will cause a suspension of the 2008 elections, allowing Bush to remain in power.
I believe it's certainly possible but it has absolutely nothing to do with the Internet, other people's opinions, or the media. It has to do with the simple fact that we are "at war" and Bush wants to continue that war going at any and all costs (financial, lives lost (on both sides), and the good name of the Republican Party (to which he does not belong IMHO)).
I am not saying that I believe, without a doubt, that Bush is going to stand in front of the United States and say, "We need to have me in office because I'm the most honest liar ever in office and I have committed atrocities against citizens of the United States like no one before me." I just expect him to say, "we cannot permit the terrorists to win and I am the only one who can do that! The New Aged GOP must live on to protect the 'Homeland'!"
All I'm saying that it certainly wouldn't surprise me. He's really that fucking sure of his poor decision making and the fact that a good number of people (especially those racist and religious morons that have suddenly appeared more in recent times than they have since the 1960s) support him and everything else does, scares the living shit out of me and it should certainly scare the living shit out of everyone else too.
Long live the Homeland and down with the Constitution!
Get off my lawn! My TI-82 and TI-85 pwn you.
I'm too lazy to search for ot, but there were plans and code available for a flash drive via the TI-85 sync cable port (headphone jack) way back in the ZShell days.
You couldn't use the data live, it was more of a swap in and swap out type thing, but it worked.
I was far more intrigued with the simplicity of the HeadOn commercial (no, the YouTube segment is not skipping -- the commercial is really like that).
;)
I have absolutely no idea what HeadOn is for or why they are advertising it but it was enough to make sure we stopped the Tivo to watch it. Then we watched it again and again to make sure that we were laughing for good reason
I don't know what you're talking about. The litigation wave is worldwide. The RIAA isn't American. 3 of the 4 members of the cartel are "offshore corporations". There are different versions of the RIAA everywhere. In France, and certain other places, they bring CRIMINAL cases, not civil ones.
I know what the parent post was referring to (allofmp3.com's "legality") but I'm a Slashdotter and previous user of allofmp3.com.
The question that wasn't answered was whether allofmp3.com is safe to use as an alternative to the more expensive stores like iTS (formally known as iTMS!), Napster, and whatever MSFT calls their store.
Lobster Quadrille (965591) says: "I'm starting to lose faith in slashdot..."
Wow, and you've only been here like two weeks!
Security through obscurity isn't.
You are even making it seem more exciting than this was. It wasn't security by anything. It was a public webserver without *any* standard protections enabled.
I wonder how soon there will be a draft of a bill to make any "unwanted intrusions" into a webserver illegal in CA.
Obviously you haven't read my site that's linked to my profile but if you had you would have realized that I don't make my writings and gallery posts "vanilla".
I'm just reminding people that they shouldn't be surprised if they get spit out of a job interview because they talk about their weeknight drinking habbits, fuck buddies, and allude to "inappropriate" behavior.
True, but the thing about Facebook is the information is not public in the sense of viewable by all - so if it turns out that they then retain the right to publish the information to all, then that is something to be worried about.
It's the Internet. Anyone and everyone can get the information that is out there regardless of the easily circumvented restrictions put in place by the website.
This goes for anything that you post publically including your blog, your gallery, your Slashdot posts, your old usenet posts, your random Dodgeball history, etc.
Be aware of what you are posting out there and that it is likely that it will be archived *forever* in some way for others to look at.
We're not all going to get off as scott free as Arnold, Bill, and George when we're looking for a job and someone has evidence of our past history in hand.
(2) In a case where the copyright owner sustains the burden of proving, and the court finds, that infringement was committed willfully, the court in its discretion may increase the award of statutory damages to a sum of not more than $150,000.
So basically the RIAA is *asking* the court for 150k to make the numbers look ridiculously high in order to get people to fold. Or in other words they are pointing the barrel of a tank cannon at you and hoping you will pee in your pants.
Awesome.
Now, this looks like chump change compared to the $150,000 per violation and 1,000 songs shared means $150,000,000 lawsuit. Is this smart or stupid? I mean, don't you, the lawyers that these people consult, tell them to fold and pay the little amount of money?
I'm more interesting in knowing how they can justify calculating that they have lost $150,000 per song "shared" and why they don't have to show any proof that this amount damage actually occured per song.
I know most printers can't handle the paper if it's not in 100% perfect condition.. I can just imagine the kind of paper jams this thing could produce when someone thwoes in 6 pages stuck together with bubble gum, corners torn off and grease from their lunch calzone smeared all over it.
It would be like anything. People would begin to realize that you can't do that to it. That or it'll never become viable and it'll die.
Mind you, "expected" is relative given how many users regard their frequent crashes as normal operation for a PC.
I'm just as confused with that statement. I don't know the numbers but I'm assuming the people that would be testing RC1 weren't running Win9x and as such wouldn't be thinking that "frequent crashes" were normal.
Hell, I haven't had XP or 2000 crash in years.
Not the ones I downloaded. I couldn't get DirectX installed the other day (I bought and paid for XP from a retail store but MSFT doesn't believe it's a "genuine" key so I couldn't give a fuck less) but it worked with this little round-a-bout.
Oh come on, someone at MSFT just wanted to get a new chair.
Divorce lawyers rejoice.
*All* lawyers rejoice. Regardless of the outcome for the males, they still get paid. Fighting this kind of shit is just another thing to add to their Yellow Pages ad.
This is so unconstitutional... isn't it? It had better be.
So is wiretapping w/o a warrant. But remember, as long as we are fighting terrorists, squashing sex offenders, or expanding the powers of government we're doing something great for this country.
Keep up the great work Ohio. I'm very disappointed that I moved to a different state.
These new HD formats are just about trying to get people to buy more stuff. They need sales and if everyone already has thier product then nobody buys. So they had to relese a new product and try to convince consumers of why they needed to buy more stuff. They have failed pretty miserably to date on convincing people to give them more money.
I liken these two formats to LaserDiscs. They were out there, they were superior to tapes, but they were large, clunky, and no one really adopted them except those that were techno-freaks. HD-DVD/Blu-Ray is just another holdover technology until someone comes up with something that appeals more to the masses and comes at a time when people are finally ready to re-up their collections.
It's not like this should suprise *anyone*. It's the Feds, they have your information that you freely sold to them for low interest rates, and they have the capability to do what they want w/it.
If you don't want to have the Feds know anything about you while you attend college, my suggestions are:
1. Don't apply for *any* financial aid or work study positions. Don't even look at the Financial Aid Office.
2. Don't include your SSN on your application or any other documentation ever submitted to the college. SSNs aren't required.
3. Don't include your ethnicity, gender, or other background information to the college (if you have college transcripts from another institution that include your SSN, don't transfer credits).
4. Don't offer your phone number, your home address (use a PO Box), and request that a DNR (do not release) is placed on your record (while the DNR makes it a royal pain in the ass for even *you* to request your information, it makes it even harder for everyone else).
5. Remember that the Federal Government can request information from schools with even the most minimal federal funding for the military (and likely anything else they want).