With the ability to listen to your baby monitor, the GP could easily record one session of your baby crying and then use it over and over again thereafter, mixing in new examples as they actually occur.
A burglar or home invader can broadcast silence at high power on the baby monitor's channel and you won't hear squat.
The GP was correct, if you're going to trust these devices for something important, get one that's properly licensed with frequency hopping, etc. They exist, and they're not expensive.
Actually, listening in on others' baby monitors can be highly entertaining. Its free eavesdropping since they're broadcasting in the clear.
And for those who are a little impaired, these monitors are often left on transmit 24/7 while plugged into a wall socket and the parent simply turns on or off the receiver when appropriate. As such, the transmitter catches most household conversations, arguments, TV shows, etc.
You've got some serious interpretation problems (and should read my comments in the previous stories). They maintained no clearinghouse, they published a list of possibilities and maintained a little black book of IP addresses to whom you could go for those files (which may or may not be available).
If I tell you who I think the local drug dealer is, do I go to jail for selling you drugs?
I plan to pull a standard dictator line if I ever get called up on Copyright violation... "I do not recognize the authority of this court in this matter."
Many convenience stores near me refuse to allow debit card purchases for amounts under $5 because of their banking fees for this kind of reason.
Assuming the law firm isn't able to refuse such small payments, they're in for a lot of banking fees that IMHO amount to financial blackmail/terrorism.
"Instead of proving our case or changing the law, we're going to bankrupt everyone who disagrees with us."
OMG, do you live in a country that only has 1 litre of gasoline left? Why do you care if your car uses 10 or 50 gallons per trip?
Efficiency is often worthwhile just for its own sake. There's no reason to make a fifty line program compile to a megabyte in size because it linked against the C library, just like there's no reason for a car to use 50 gallons of gas to get you to the corner store.
Excellent example. I'm sure a number of the whiners have never dealt with the hell that was shipping the proper version of MFC42.DLL with the application because Microsoft couldn't be bothered to figure out versioning their libraries.
I dare say, the reason I support open source and free software is because developers of all types can be total jerks like this.
There are plenty of closed-source developers who are equally closed-minded (excuse the potential pun) and having no rights to their software prevents helpful forks like this.
Plenty of other very good developers have this attitude problem, and I sympathize -- when you spend your day dealing with people substantially less intelligent than you, it can be difficult to see merit in anyone else's code at all.
Enlightenment, Reiserfs, qmail, etc. are all results of programmers with these types of attitude issues, and are often side-lined as a result despite sometimes superior ideas, programming or algorithms as a result of personality.
I don't understand why anyone would believe uClibc or other micro libc variants are binary compatible, but they certainly are useful and often very powerful.
Its pretty typical of a whole class of self-important programmers around the world, many of whom write very good software most of the time but can't deal with other people.
The last reputable data recovery company I dealt with charged us $1500 to recover a dead laptop drive. They gave us a new drive that was nearly perfectly recovered from the old dead, dropped, damaged drive.
That may seem like real money to some people, but it was worth it to the client in question. Why on earth would they do even more work for one third the money?
First off, blackmail doesn't hit the news, that's the whole point. You tell the company what you've got and threaten to use it against them and get paid off.
Personally I wouldn't blackmail a defence contractor, all things considered but there are those with larger gonads than I though.
Secondly, a lot of criminals go with what they're good at. Just because a new avenue of crime exists doesn't mean it will be taken advantage of immediately.
Just think how long the Internet was a big open place before we started getting inundated with scams and before online database theft started hitting the news.
It seems to me that you give criminals way too much credit, and should also take security more seriously.
Anyone familiar with the PlaysForSure initiative should be extremely wary of purchasing anything for these devices without a way to guarantee that they'll work after Microsoft moves on to greener pastures.
One of the first things I taught my daughter about school is that her teacher is not infallible, that everything she learns at school isn't necessarily true and that doing her homework the way the teacher wants it done anyway is how she'll get good grades.
"Daddy, my teacher said that Google is not a number like you said it is." "That's okay, just tell her its a one with a million zeros after it, and if she doesn't believe you, say okay and feel good about knowing something she doesn't."
Most digital cameras use TIFF as the file format for RAW files at least, but many also do so for their JPEG files (you can store JPEG in TIFF encapsulation).
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With the ability to listen to your baby monitor, the GP could easily record one session of your baby crying and then use it over and over again thereafter, mixing in new examples as they actually occur.
A burglar or home invader can broadcast silence at high power on the baby monitor's channel and you won't hear squat.
The GP was correct, if you're going to trust these devices for something important, get one that's properly licensed with frequency hopping, etc. They exist, and they're not expensive.
Actually, listening in on others' baby monitors can be highly entertaining. Its free eavesdropping since they're broadcasting in the clear.
And for those who are a little impaired, these monitors are often left on transmit 24/7 while plugged into a wall socket and the parent simply turns on or off the receiver when appropriate. As such, the transmitter catches most household conversations, arguments, TV shows, etc.
Civil disobedience is done against the government, not private law firms.
Don't pay the fine. Have supporters sit and block road ways, or better, the entrances to malls containing music stores, etc.
I know a "Didn't RTFA" moderation would be highly redundant on Slashdot, but sometimes I really want one.
Its the same reason coin-operated games can require tokens instead, same for parking lots.
None of the fast food chains near me will accept bills over $20.
You've got some serious interpretation problems (and should read my comments in the previous stories). They maintained no clearinghouse, they published a list of possibilities and maintained a little black book of IP addresses to whom you could go for those files (which may or may not be available).
If I tell you who I think the local drug dealer is, do I go to jail for selling you drugs?
I plan to pull a standard dictator line if I ever get called up on Copyright violation ... "I do not recognize the authority of this court in this matter."
Many convenience stores near me refuse to allow debit card purchases for amounts under $5 because of their banking fees for this kind of reason.
Assuming the law firm isn't able to refuse such small payments, they're in for a lot of banking fees that IMHO amount to financial blackmail/terrorism.
"Instead of proving our case or changing the law, we're going to bankrupt everyone who disagrees with us."
OMG, do you live in a country that only has 1 litre of gasoline left? Why do you care if your car uses 10 or 50 gallons per trip?
Efficiency is often worthwhile just for its own sake. There's no reason to make a fifty line program compile to a megabyte in size because it linked against the C library, just like there's no reason for a car to use 50 gallons of gas to get you to the corner store.
Excellent example. I'm sure a number of the whiners have never dealt with the hell that was shipping the proper version of MFC42.DLL with the application because Microsoft couldn't be bothered to figure out versioning their libraries.
I dare say, the reason I support open source and free software is because developers of all types can be total jerks like this.
There are plenty of closed-source developers who are equally closed-minded (excuse the potential pun) and having no rights to their software prevents helpful forks like this.
Plenty of other very good developers have this attitude problem, and I sympathize -- when you spend your day dealing with people substantially less intelligent than you, it can be difficult to see merit in anyone else's code at all.
Enlightenment, Reiserfs, qmail, etc. are all results of programmers with these types of attitude issues, and are often side-lined as a result despite sometimes superior ideas, programming or algorithms as a result of personality.
You have to love his replacement example:
*((char *) mempcpy (dst, src, n)) = '\0';
I don't understand why anyone would believe uClibc or other micro libc variants are binary compatible, but they certainly are useful and often very powerful.
Its pretty typical of a whole class of self-important programmers around the world, many of whom write very good software most of the time but can't deal with other people.
While funny, when was Theo wrong exactly?
The last reputable data recovery company I dealt with charged us $1500 to recover a dead laptop drive. They gave us a new drive that was nearly perfectly recovered from the old dead, dropped, damaged drive.
That may seem like real money to some people, but it was worth it to the client in question. Why on earth would they do even more work for one third the money?
First off, blackmail doesn't hit the news, that's the whole point. You tell the company what you've got and threaten to use it against them and get paid off.
Personally I wouldn't blackmail a defence contractor, all things considered but there are those with larger gonads than I though.
Secondly, a lot of criminals go with what they're good at. Just because a new avenue of crime exists doesn't mean it will be taken advantage of immediately.
Just think how long the Internet was a big open place before we started getting inundated with scams and before online database theft started hitting the news.
It seems to me that you give criminals way too much credit, and should also take security more seriously.
My wife is steadily encroaching on my top scores in Nethack. She tries at least one session a day these days.
I guess I'm lucky like that.
Rogue/Nethack/etc. have perma-death.
I love perma-death.
WoW gets boring because you level up to a certain point and "then what?"
Perma-death is awesome, and too few games utilize it.
Anyone familiar with the PlaysForSure initiative should be extremely wary of purchasing anything for these devices without a way to guarantee that they'll work after Microsoft moves on to greener pastures.
A bigger problem is the popular belief that teachers are somehow better than the rest of us and know better how to teach our children.
I talk to way too many parents who say things like "well she's the teacher" like that's supposed to mean something to me.
I thought it was hilarious -- and accurate too.
One of the first things I taught my daughter about school is that her teacher is not infallible, that everything she learns at school isn't necessarily true and that doing her homework the way the teacher wants it done anyway is how she'll get good grades.
"Daddy, my teacher said that Google is not a number like you said it is." "That's okay, just tell her its a one with a million zeros after it, and if she doesn't believe you, say okay and feel good about knowing something she doesn't."
Most digital cameras use TIFF as the file format for RAW files at least, but many also do so for their JPEG files (you can store JPEG in TIFF encapsulation).
The ones that don't use TIFF seem to use TarGA.