I'm not a Spam guru so please excuse me if I'm wrong, but isn't 81% a horrible result? Perhaps not for movie prediction but in Spam filtering?
Perhaps they should use spam filtering for weather reporting. That way, the "dart throwing monkies" will end up with more accurate results than they do now. "There's a 30% chance of rain." I have always wondered if a passing grade in meteorologist college coursework was 30% or better.
It was 1998, remember? Janet Reno was singing its praises, and Bill Clinton signed it into law.
I'm not talking about COPA here. I'm talking about the US Government wanting *all* search records to check to see who is looking at pornography and how.
This has nothing to do w/child porn either. It has to do w/the US Government looking to stop "terrorism", political opposition, etc.
I'm sick and tired of seeing my tax dollars being wasted by over payed gum chewing counter people who have no clue.
Well, even though a good many people are "abusing their positions" as public sector employees, I have to blame it on the unions and the low wages. With paid benefits dropping like everywhere else in the job industry, public-sector employees aren't seeing their wages make up for their losses elsewhere.
When you don't get a COL increase for 4 years and you watch your benefits go from 100% to about 60% it's tough.
But as it's already been said before, this happens everywhere.
Hundreds of blank DVDs, CDs and jacket covers were also found, as was software "commonly used to crack header codes on copyrighted materials such as movies and music to allow duplication," Schafer's memo said.
Plus, software to "crack" DVDs is free anyway. Didn't look like that was hurting their budget!;)
For me, because of how fast google loads on my mobile device, I *prefer* to use it instead of going to a site directly. While this furthers his reason for writing the article it doesn't explain why websites have failed to cater more towards mobile devices. Yeah, writing for WAP is a pain in the ass as well as making sure that the sites load correctly for numerous browsers but that's what the sites SHOULD be doing anyway.
Instead of suggesting that we move to direct e-mail marketing and using some sort of post-update ping to alert customers of site changes, we should be moving to fast loading pages and RSS feeds.
While this guy makes interesting points about how websites are "suffering", I think his suggestions on how to change that are poor. Promoting what is little more than spam isn't the way to attract customers back to your site.
Slashdot readers are 25% more likely to read about Apple than any other news source according to Slashdot's own garcia.
garcia was quoted as saying, "there were four Apple stories out of 16 on the front page so far today! I mean, woot, Apple *must* be important because 25% of the stories were about Apple."
OS makers serious about security would be forced to either patch the problem or offer their own "safe" brand of DRM (as Microsoft seems to be doing). Either way, 3rd party DRM creators probably won't ultimately win this battle.
Yes, we know, I've brought it up many, many, many times before. The only way to completely lock down a system is to make sure that you are in collusion with the BIOS companies (in Microsoft's case it's Phoenix) and to make sure that you have your own "Internet" to work with. If you don't have those two things, DRM is basically useless.
Once the "new, DRM, safe, 'Internet'" appears and everyone is forced to use it because their online banking, music stores, credit cards, bill pays, etc, all require it, the current iteration of the Internet will return to the usefulness of the underground WarezBBS days. Especially when the government outlaws connecting to it due to "National Security Concerns".
If they had just built bluetooth into the damn iPod, this wouldn't be an issue.
So, you're going to add 8 devices to something just so that you can have your media player with your phone and camera? Seems like an awful waste for something that's supposed to eliminate device clutter.
It's a jail. Things only need to escape once. Once they escape they're on the internet in open formats and the game is over.
Until the pro Big Business lawmakers decide to make circumventing DRM restrictions illegal and a criminal act. Oh wait, they already have.
Welcome to the wide world of Big Corporate Government.
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Which would you rather have? An iPod, or a phone with an iPod built in?
personally, I'd prefer they be seperate -- but that's me. It's kind of difficult to use your phone while using your iPod, isn't it?
The iPod was successful because the design and interface was clean and "sexy". Do you think that by adding phone, camera, and whatever other capabilities to the device that they will be able to keep it "clean and sexy"? I don't.
This unit is larger than *any* computer I have ever owned! We were complaining about the size of the media labeled "clunky" HD-DVD players that were "showcased" this year and somehow these are popular?
IMHO, my Mac Mini is still a little too large for my media center. I want something TINY, super tiny, and super slim.
Half the fun in covering Apple is covering the coverage of Apple. The argument has been made that we in the press are a little nuts about Apple. It's a fact.
So basically, you're writing about other people writing about Apple because you couldn't find anything else to write about? Were you moved by subliminal messages due to the NewsAlert?
So now, I'm commenting about another person writing about someone writing about someone else writing about Apple. All for no reason!
I think it's in Apples best interest to allow Windows on their hardware for two reasons. 1st, people who are apprehensive about switching to Mac could do so slowly with a dual boot setup. 2nd, Apple could sell more hardware this way as it would appeal to Windows users.
Personally, I don't agree with your assumption that people could become comfortable over time if they were using both Windows and MacOS on the same machine. I myself have a Linux server, an XP machine, and a Mac Mini in my home. I use the Linux server via SSH (putty + screen) for most everything (mail, IRC, etc) especially when I'm at work. I use the XP machine for almost everything else. The Mac was just sitting there unused because, for me, the UI is so different and uncomfortable that I just don't find much use for it.
The XP machine, being several years old (1998), had a heatsink fan go on one of the two CPUs. I haven't had time to get around to ordering two new ones (and they aren't cheap IMHO) so I have been using the Mac more and more. I still don't like it much but because I have little choice if I'm going to use a GUI (I use console only on the Linux machine) I have to use the Mac.
IMHO, the best way to get used to an OS is to completely imerse yourself in it. Maybe my lazyness is a direct result of an inner Steve Jobs trying to get out;)
Not arguing with you, but I think the idea is that most users will not enable it, and it will be difficult to perform the statistical (as clarified now) data collection and analysis that Apple does.
Wah, someone can't collect stats on something that they have NO RIGHT to collect anyway. My movements, purchase habits, etc that are tracked during visits to the iTunes Music *Store* are one thing. My movements, listening habits, etc that could be tracked by their INDEPENDENT player are something else.
People need to continue to stick up for themselves to the companies. It's the only way we will have any shred of privacy left.
The more you stick up for yourself, the more other people are educated to the issues that revolve around the constant battle for the erosion of your privacy rights. Your comment above that "most users will NOT enable it" is great. That's the way it should be.
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It may infuriate you, but that's just the state of things, I guess.
Amazon is a store accessable via a web browser. iTMS is a music store accessable via software. iTunes is an interface to iTMS *OR* a standalone player. As far as I'm aware Amazon doesn't have its own branded browser.
So, iTMS can track my habits just like Amazon does. iTunes should not.
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But it can also be argued, correctly, that this improves the user experience with iTunes (aside from the broader privacy argument).
Then they can watch my surfing and purchase habits inside the *store* (which I am 110% sure that they already do). They don't need to track my listening habits for music that was not purchased in their store. Just because I am using their software doesn't mean they should be able to receive information about *everything* I listen to on it.
Since when was spying on people just because they utilize your software something that people found acceptable?
Wouldn't iTunes already know all of your music tastes, since presumably you purchased all of your music from them? Granted they would now know that you listen to Britney Spears all day and night, but assuming you got your music through them, what is the big deal here?
I don't use iTMS because it's too expensive, the quality is crap, and I would first need to burn and recovert to another lossy format to play it elsewhere. I use iTunes to play the MP3s I do have though.
So, no, it shouldn't know my music prefences already.
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Edit -> Hide MiniStore (or shift-command-M) No information of any kind is sent when the MiniStore is disabled.
Then it should be disabled by default or you should be asked (in plain English) if you want it enabled when the program starts for the first time after update. If you say no it shouldn't ever ask you again nor should it track your listening preferences.
I realize many people think this represents "going over the line"; but is there ever any instance where datamining to match items you might be interested in to your interests is acceptable? Is there any value to having this be the default state in certain instances where it could be significantly helpful?
No. Absolutely not. Especially when they didn't ask my permission first.
I can only assume that the door not only got you on the ass on the way out but also wrapped up your undies in some kind of freakish Gordian knot that you are unable to extricate yourself from.
Nice troll. Go away. You're obviously part of the problem.
We have some dupe checking code. It works often. Of course it can never be perfect. We post a lot of stories about certain topics, some closely related. It gets messy fast.
No, it can't be perfect and we aren't asking for it to be "perfect". What we don't want to see is a duplicate article posted with only ONE article between it and its sister/cousin. How about reading your own site as part of the "dup checker code"? If the Slashdot users know it's a dup, you should be even more certain that it is. Otherwise, you just don't give a fuck anymore -- whether you do or not, that's how it looks to us.
WHy not change it so two edtiors need to approve a story instead of just one?
I despise the recent downturn Slashdot has taken and it has made me stop being a subscriber and more importantly, it has made me move away from Slashdot because it's just not worth my time. What your proposing is that Slashdot become EVEN WORSE and fall FURTHER behind other sites that offer nearly the same service...
Slashdot *used* to be at the top of "News for Nerds" and it used to be the place to come to if you wanted to know something that was "0-day". Now we see shit that I saw three days ago on Google News in a better and more informative format.
If Slashdot were to require approval by two editors (both of which are in cahoots anyway) it would further slow the process, make them fall further and further behind other sites, and I would want to read it even less than I already do.
Give some suggestions that would HELP Slashdot come back into the realm of relevance, not one that won't do anything positive at all.
Well, for now at least but since it's such a hot topic they just have to make sure they bring it up. Afterall, those terrorists will want every opportunity that they have to blow up the earth from miles above!
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I'm not a Spam guru so please excuse me if I'm wrong, but isn't 81% a horrible result? Perhaps not for movie prediction but in Spam filtering?
Perhaps they should use spam filtering for weather reporting. That way, the "dart throwing monkies" will end up with more accurate results than they do now. "There's a 30% chance of rain." I have always wondered if a passing grade in meteorologist college coursework was 30% or better.
Let me know when there is wireless broadband to the hand. As soon as people can communicate silently I will consider it a step forward.
It was 1998, remember? Janet Reno was singing its praises, and Bill Clinton signed it into law.
I'm not talking about COPA here. I'm talking about the US Government wanting *all* search records to check to see who is looking at pornography and how.
This has nothing to do w/child porn either. It has to do w/the US Government looking to stop "terrorism", political opposition, etc.
I'm sick and tired of seeing my tax dollars being wasted by over payed gum chewing counter people who have no clue.
Well, even though a good many people are "abusing their positions" as public sector employees, I have to blame it on the unions and the low wages. With paid benefits dropping like everywhere else in the job industry, public-sector employees aren't seeing their wages make up for their losses elsewhere.
When you don't get a COL increase for 4 years and you watch your benefits go from 100% to about 60% it's tough.
But as it's already been said before, this happens everywhere.
Hundreds of blank DVDs, CDs and jacket covers were also found, as was software "commonly used to crack header codes on copyrighted materials such as movies and music to allow duplication," Schafer's memo said.
;)
Plus, software to "crack" DVDs is free anyway. Didn't look like that was hurting their budget!
For me, because of how fast google loads on my mobile device, I *prefer* to use it instead of going to a site directly. While this furthers his reason for writing the article it doesn't explain why websites have failed to cater more towards mobile devices. Yeah, writing for WAP is a pain in the ass as well as making sure that the sites load correctly for numerous browsers but that's what the sites SHOULD be doing anyway.
Instead of suggesting that we move to direct e-mail marketing and using some sort of post-update ping to alert customers of site changes, we should be moving to fast loading pages and RSS feeds.
While this guy makes interesting points about how websites are "suffering", I think his suggestions on how to change that are poor. Promoting what is little more than spam isn't the way to attract customers back to your site.
Slashdot readers are 25% more likely to read about Apple than any other news source according to Slashdot's own garcia.
garcia was quoted as saying, "there were four Apple stories out of 16 on the front page so far today! I mean, woot, Apple *must* be important because 25% of the stories were about Apple."
OS makers serious about security would be forced to either patch the problem or offer their own "safe" brand of DRM (as Microsoft seems to be doing). Either way, 3rd party DRM creators probably won't ultimately win this battle.
Yes, we know, I've brought it up many, many, many times before. The only way to completely lock down a system is to make sure that you are in collusion with the BIOS companies (in Microsoft's case it's Phoenix) and to make sure that you have your own "Internet" to work with. If you don't have those two things, DRM is basically useless.
Once the "new, DRM, safe, 'Internet'" appears and everyone is forced to use it because their online banking, music stores, credit cards, bill pays, etc, all require it, the current iteration of the Internet will return to the usefulness of the underground WarezBBS days. Especially when the government outlaws connecting to it due to "National Security Concerns".
If they had just built bluetooth into the damn iPod, this wouldn't be an issue.
So, you're going to add 8 devices to something just so that you can have your media player with your phone and camera? Seems like an awful waste for something that's supposed to eliminate device clutter.
It's a jail. Things only need to escape once. Once they escape they're on the internet in open formats and the game is over.
Until the pro Big Business lawmakers decide to make circumventing DRM restrictions illegal and a criminal act. Oh wait, they already have.
Welcome to the wide world of Big Corporate Government.
Which would you rather have? An iPod, or a phone with an iPod built in?
personally, I'd prefer they be seperate -- but that's me. It's kind of difficult to use your phone while using your iPod, isn't it?
The iPod was successful because the design and interface was clean and "sexy". Do you think that by adding phone, camera, and whatever other capabilities to the device that they will be able to keep it "clean and sexy"? I don't.
This unit is larger than *any* computer I have ever owned! We were complaining about the size of the media labeled "clunky" HD-DVD players that were "showcased" this year and somehow these are popular?
IMHO, my Mac Mini is still a little too large for my media center. I want something TINY, super tiny, and super slim.
Sorry, these behemoths just won't cut it.
Half the fun in covering Apple is covering the coverage of Apple. The argument has been made that we in the press are a little nuts about Apple. It's a fact.
So basically, you're writing about other people writing about Apple because you couldn't find anything else to write about? Were you moved by subliminal messages due to the NewsAlert?
So now, I'm commenting about another person writing about someone writing about someone else writing about Apple. All for no reason!
The Crush is infectious!
I think it's in Apples best interest to allow Windows on their hardware for two reasons. 1st, people who are apprehensive about switching to Mac could do so slowly with a dual boot setup. 2nd, Apple could sell more hardware this way as it would appeal to Windows users.
;)
Personally, I don't agree with your assumption that people could become comfortable over time if they were using both Windows and MacOS on the same machine. I myself have a Linux server, an XP machine, and a Mac Mini in my home. I use the Linux server via SSH (putty + screen) for most everything (mail, IRC, etc) especially when I'm at work. I use the XP machine for almost everything else. The Mac was just sitting there unused because, for me, the UI is so different and uncomfortable that I just don't find much use for it.
The XP machine, being several years old (1998), had a heatsink fan go on one of the two CPUs. I haven't had time to get around to ordering two new ones (and they aren't cheap IMHO) so I have been using the Mac more and more. I still don't like it much but because I have little choice if I'm going to use a GUI (I use console only on the Linux machine) I have to use the Mac.
IMHO, the best way to get used to an OS is to completely imerse yourself in it. Maybe my lazyness is a direct result of an inner Steve Jobs trying to get out
Not arguing with you, but I think the idea is that most users will not enable it, and it will be difficult to perform the statistical (as clarified now) data collection and analysis that Apple does.
Wah, someone can't collect stats on something that they have NO RIGHT to collect anyway. My movements, purchase habits, etc that are tracked during visits to the iTunes Music *Store* are one thing. My movements, listening habits, etc that could be tracked by their INDEPENDENT player are something else.
People need to continue to stick up for themselves to the companies. It's the only way we will have any shred of privacy left.
The more you stick up for yourself, the more other people are educated to the issues that revolve around the constant battle for the erosion of your privacy rights. Your comment above that "most users will NOT enable it" is great. That's the way it should be.
It may infuriate you, but that's just the state of things, I guess.
Giving up is lame. You should be ashamed.
Amazon is a store accessable via a web browser. iTMS is a music store accessable via software. iTunes is an interface to iTMS *OR* a standalone player. As far as I'm aware Amazon doesn't have its own branded browser.
So, iTMS can track my habits just like Amazon does. iTunes should not.
But it can also be argued, correctly, that this improves the user experience with iTunes (aside from the broader privacy argument).
Then they can watch my surfing and purchase habits inside the *store* (which I am 110% sure that they already do). They don't need to track my listening habits for music that was not purchased in their store. Just because I am using their software doesn't mean they should be able to receive information about *everything* I listen to on it.
Since when was spying on people just because they utilize your software something that people found acceptable?
Wouldn't iTunes already know all of your music tastes, since presumably you purchased all of your music from them? Granted they would now know that you listen to Britney Spears all day and night, but assuming you got your music through them, what is the big deal here?
I don't use iTMS because it's too expensive, the quality is crap, and I would first need to burn and recovert to another lossy format to play it elsewhere. I use iTunes to play the MP3s I do have though.
So, no, it shouldn't know my music prefences already.
Edit -> Hide MiniStore (or shift-command-M) No information of any kind is sent when the MiniStore is disabled.
Then it should be disabled by default or you should be asked (in plain English) if you want it enabled when the program starts for the first time after update. If you say no it shouldn't ever ask you again nor should it track your listening preferences.
I realize many people think this represents "going over the line"; but is there ever any instance where datamining to match items you might be interested in to your interests is acceptable? Is there any value to having this be the default state in certain instances where it could be significantly helpful?
No. Absolutely not. Especially when they didn't ask my permission first.
I can only assume that the door not only got you on the ass on the way out but also wrapped up your undies in some kind of freakish Gordian knot that you are unable to extricate yourself from.
Nice troll. Go away. You're obviously part of the problem.
Is relevance defined by how soon they can get on a story?
"News that Matters" is stuff that is relevant. The media is fast moving these days. Everyone needs to keep up w/it or move to the wayside.
In fact, you may HOPE for a few days lag so that the discussion can be more informed.
LOL. Ok. I realize that you're new here but "informed discussion" and Slashdot aren't two things that should go together.
We have some dupe checking code. It works often. Of course it can never be perfect. We post a lot of stories about certain topics, some closely related. It gets messy fast.
No, it can't be perfect and we aren't asking for it to be "perfect". What we don't want to see is a duplicate article posted with only ONE article between it and its sister/cousin. How about reading your own site as part of the "dup checker code"? If the Slashdot users know it's a dup, you should be even more certain that it is. Otherwise, you just don't give a fuck anymore -- whether you do or not, that's how it looks to us.
WHy not change it so two edtiors need to approve a story instead of just one?
I despise the recent downturn Slashdot has taken and it has made me stop being a subscriber and more importantly, it has made me move away from Slashdot because it's just not worth my time. What your proposing is that Slashdot become EVEN WORSE and fall FURTHER behind other sites that offer nearly the same service...
Slashdot *used* to be at the top of "News for Nerds" and it used to be the place to come to if you wanted to know something that was "0-day". Now we see shit that I saw three days ago on Google News in a better and more informative format.
If Slashdot were to require approval by two editors (both of which are in cahoots anyway) it would further slow the process, make them fall further and further behind other sites, and I would want to read it even less than I already do.
Give some suggestions that would HELP Slashdot come back into the realm of relevance, not one that won't do anything positive at all.
Well, for now at least but since it's such a hot topic they just have to make sure they bring it up. Afterall, those terrorists will want every opportunity that they have to blow up the earth from miles above!