"there is no comparison between a server containing 65TB of files and Pirate Bay"
And the "problem" isn't the 65TB server with 16,000 movies, it's the 16,000 desktop computers with 1TB of movies. The fact that movies are something everyone wants and it's as easy to get by clicking a few buttons on any computer with broadband access proves that confiscating a few 65TB servers will do absolutely nothing. This isn't the war on drugs and treating it the same with publicity stunts won't work.
It's gone to the streets too. Few weeks ago I was approached at a gas station by a man offering the latest movies still at theaters for $2 each. I thanked the man and told him I already had them;)
"How has nobody in this thread mentioned the N810's built in GPS?"
probably because it wasn't in the list of requirements?
"...portable device with Wi-Fi connectivity, full-featured Web browsing, and (most importantly) no cellphone-style activation and service fees?"
I also don't understand the 30+ posts arguing over storage space. Don't remember them saying "must have 2+ gb" or "support miniSD". I often search the library's online catalog from my phone while in the library and it doesn't require 2+ gb, just a internet connection.
In my opinion, the Nokia N810 would be best since it has a real keyboard, decent cpu and 802.11g but they're still $200+. If you want something cheap you could look at a few Palms that are less than $100 but most only have 802.11b, and unless the library is small you might have trouble getting wi-fi way in the back. In you want cheap, portability and 802.11g I'd suggest Nokia 770. They're about $100 on ebay, but you'll have to deal with a onscreen keyboard.
"Maybe this is considered just a semi-rugged class of laptop, because personally I would expect a "rugged" laptop to endure a much longer drop than that."
Did you watch the video? I just watched the entire video, and the laptop never died.
Where's the video of the dell failing the drop test?
"The 512 mb sd cards, OTOH, pitch 'em. I can't believe I'm saying this, but half a gig just isn't enough space to do anything with..."
Usually you'd be right, but there's TONS of "old" devices that can't use SDHC, so anything 4gb and larger it can't be read. Some of the devices really aren't that old, like the Motorola Q cellphone, which some US carriers just started carrying late 2007 (original Q, not Q9).
If it was 32 or 64 or 128mb I'd say yeah, toss that, but 512mb SD non-HC would breath new life into older Palms, Qs, mp3s players, digital cameras and many other devices that are not SDHC compatible.
Put it on ebay, you might find a buyer. I recently bought a 2gb SD for a device on ebay and paid over triple what a 4gb SDHC would have cost me. Or heck, message me, I have devices that could use it.
I'm facing the same issue but with hard drives: What do you do with a 6gb or 12gb or 20gb hard drive? Suppose I could get a $20+ enclosure (cheaper enclosures risk bad PSUs) for the 20gb, but for $56 I could get a 160gb external drive locally.
" have always found it highly questionable that something one can give away for free should be illegal to sell"
That's a good point. It's one of the few things that is illegal to sell but legal to give away. Human organs are the same way, can't sell them but you can donate them and someone else can legally sell them. Very stupid if you ask me, a lot of people would be helped if you let just anyone sell their organs.
I see why the sugardaddy websites are rising in popularity because in all reality it's the same as the CL erotic services ads, provide a service and get paid.
"Well, Spain and China are nations with borders, passports, and distinctive languages; relocating to another nation (outside of the E.U. in the case of Spain) is a rather big deal."
And leaving one job to find another is not a big deal? Usually the language is the same, but it could be an entirely different environment and it is a lot of work to find another position equivalent to your last position, especially in this economy.
"I was concerned about the print size too, but I looked at the screenshots included with the description of the software in the App Store and I have to admit it looks pretty readable."
That's not surprising if you've used a e-reader before on a portable device. Most have adjustable font sizes and autoscrolling, so even if you're only fitting a dozen 24 pt font words on a 2" screen you can adjust the scrolling to keep up with your reading speed.
I'd imagine the iPhone, with it's 3.5" screen, would actually be pretty good to read books on.
wait... you predicted that Amazon would someday support iPhones? You're amazing!
What's your next prediction?
mark me as flamebait/troll, i have karma to burn, but come on, that's a pretty dumb thing to say on/., that you predicted that Company XYZ would support iPhones someday.
agreed. Also the conclusion conflicts with the review. In the review he says: "The need to navigate around the long, alpha-sorted list on the Neuros.TV media portal doesn't seem consistent with the sort of "10-foot user experience" needed for comfortable TV-viewing in the family room (my emphasis). In contrast, HTPC-oriented platforms like MythTV, Windows Media Center, the Xbox Media Center (XBMC), and Boxee (an XBMC variant) make it easy to locate and play content with a few buttons on a small, handheld remote. Why not include XMBC or Boxee? (Neuros appears to be edging toward XBMC.)"
So he states that pretty much every other HTPC available is better than this, including sub-$100 XBMC operating on a Xbox, then goes on to say: "...the fact that at $300 -- substantially below the impulse-purchase threshold -- the Link represents an exceptional value..... What self-respecting geek wouldn't want to snag one of these?"
Huh? So it sucks, but I must buy one?
I have a Xbox running XBMC and it's amazing for less than $100. Saying "XBMC is better" then going on to conclude that the $300 Link is "an exceptional value" doesn't make sense. His conclusion does not match his observations.
when i was fired from Network Solutions recently (netsol fired half their support staff, cut their 24/7 hours to 8 to 8 mon-fri) I put in the spark chatroom "im fired".
"What would be really cool would be for OLPC / SugarLabs to align with some of the free education content thats coming out..."
Or even better, help subsidize the OLPC by advertising with educational software. This is a first laptop for nearly all of these kids, I'm sure some companies would like them them to associate their first encyclopedia with World Book or first algebra lesson with... whoever does algebra. Program runs, has a nice splash screen "Encyclopedia brought to you by WORLD BOOK" or "Algebra lesson brought to you by (BLANK)", or even better, if it finds a internet connection let it download new advertising. I'm sure many companies would be very happy to pay to have their splash screen in front of a million children.
"It still blows me away how many people leave these stickers on their laptops. "
Why? I view the stickers on laptops as the same as V8 or engine size ("5.7", for example) emblems on cars. You paid for something with those features, why not show it off? I left all the stickers on my laptop, I think it'd look very empty without them but none of them are gaudy, pointless photos of people smiling, just a large sticker to the right of the touchpad with the specs and various stickers to the right.
"then how about the CCTV's all making a noise when they photograph everyone."
And what about video? So if I take a picture of someone it has to "click", but if I take a video it doesn't? Because it's only a matter of time before our phones are taking HD 1920x1080 videos, and the video frames are equivalent to the 2mp photos most phones take now. Are they going to make a law saying video cameras have to make sounds too?
THIS PHONE IS RECORDING VIDEO... THIS PHONE IS RECORDING VIDEO... THIS PHONE IS RECORDING VIDEO...
Unfortunately not, otherwise they couldn't see the photos.
my gf says she should be in jail and so should her teenage sister. According to her, 90% of teenage girls with cellphones would be in jail if authorities looked at their phones.
Can you imagine the conversation with police being a 15 yr old girl and being "caught" with photos of yourself?
cop: YOU'RE UNDER ARREST FOR KIDDIE PORN!
girl: huh? what porn? oh, yeah that's me, i sent it to my bf
cop: YOU'RE UNDER ARREST
girl: what? for what? that's me, i took that photo, i took a photo of myself
cop: that's right, and you're under arrest
girl: why? I don't think you understand: I took a photo of MYSELF, I am a teenage girl, I took a photo of myself with my phone, how is that "kiddie porn"?
cop: so you admit to talking naked photos teenage girls? I have to remind you anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of law
girl: What?! *shocked*... but... I... nvmd...
This is the most asine thing I've ever heard, but I don't think the laws will change until:
A) the girls become lawmakers and politicians in 10 yrs
b) lawmakers look at their daughter's phone and find the nude photos of their *own* daughters
I can't believe the legal system is taking normal teens and turning them into criminal sex offenders. For the rest of their lives these girls will be considered "sex offenders", won't be able to live near schools, their name, address and police photos will be listed online for all to see, and will not be able to get a job that works with children and will probably be denied many jobs because they are "sex offenders", lumped in the same category as rapists. Even if someday the laws are reversed and they're cleared of all charges it'll still follow them, searches online will probably pick up their names for many years.
Child pornography laws were put in place to prevent dirty old men from offering little children candy in exchange for getting naked for photos. Unfortunately the laws were worded very poorly and now *anyone*, including the children taking photos of themselves, are being treated like dirty old men. They're martyrs. The laws need to be re-written so it only applies to the dirty old men taking the photos, not the child that takes photos of themselves or the men that downloads a photo of a girl and finds out later the girl was 17 and not 18 and goes to jail, similar to marijuana laws in many states, where police won't even enforce laws saying to arrest offenders with less than an ounce of marijuana
And don't even get me started how stupid it is we as Americans teach our children that the nude body is horrible and disgusting and should be hidden but showing people being murdered and chopped into pieces on TV and video games is fine. A teen just got 36 yrs for murder for doing what he saw on mortal kombat, if he was re-enacting nudity videos instead of violent video games he probably wouldn't be in jail.
If I was one of those girls I think I'd move to another country and change my name.
It does? Doesn't look that great to me. First they brag about using "very low end hardware" then throw out a $299 price tag: "(we were aiming for $200, it looks like $299 is more realistic)."
3 years ago $299 for a internet only tablet would be great, but this is 2009. For $299 I can buy a brand new Acer Aspire One netbook. Not a tablet, but it has all the conveniences of modern laptops and it supports all browsers and plug-ins and future updates.
If you absolutely must have a Linux tablet PC get a Nokia N800. Fits in your pocket, runs Maemo, lots of online community support and they can be had for under $200.
"By lowering your exposure, I can absolutely guarantee you're going to lose sales. Genius."
Yep. Seems Warner doesn't "get" the internet. When I google a song, you want videos showing up in the search results. By having videos removed from Youtube you're killing those search results.
And Youtube, by deleting users for stupid reasons without allowing them to at least respond you're killing your advertising stream and getting bad press on/. Very stupid.
I know someone who recently had a popular video removed. It was a video of her lip-syncing to a song. There was no warning, just "your video has been deleted". No way to access the video again either.
When will internet companies treat customers like customers rather than criminals?
"Did you know that in (INSERT ANYWHERE), it's sexual harassment if a man leans over a woman at her desk, but not if a woman leans over a man and hangs her tits in his face?"
wait wait... there's a double standard?! *shocked face*
OMG WTF STFU when did this start?!?
mark me troll or flamebait i don't care, i have karma to burn, but saying there's a double standard in sexual harassment is like saying the pope wears a pointy hat.
"Well enjoying it implies their was probably consent. That being said, no means no."
somehow I don't think "she enjoyed it" is a good defense.
"But your Honor! She was enjoying it, I swear!"
in this crazy world, better safe than sorry... video tape everything. That way she she says she was saying "no no" you have her on tape saying "oh oh".
"Kurzweil has a really good handle on where hardware will be, but not software.
Actually he got very little right. I mean of course he got the obvious right, like "laptops will be smaller, lighter, faster and cheaper" (duh) and "We'll have mp3 players", a very easy prediction considering the success of the Rio 300 in 1998, but specific things like Warfare: "Humans are generally far removed from the scene of battle. Warfare is dominated by unmanned intelligent airborne devices. Many of these flying weapons are the size of small birds, or smaller."
Or "phone sex is a lot more popular now that phones routinely include high-resolution, real-time moving images of the person on the other end." We still don't have video phones, or at least they haven't become popular. Webcam "phone sex" usage has increased in the past 10 years but that's to be expected.
So besides the obvious like "Computers routinely include wireless technology to plug into the ever-present worldwide network" the guy was very wrong on the specifics.
"...other passengers reported hearing a suspicious remark about airplane security... Federal officials ordered the rest of the passengers from the plane and re-screened them before allowing the flight to depart about two hours behind schedule."
So really, who's fault is this? THE PASSENGERS!... well, and the overzealous pilot, but still I'm sure if the passengers said "Pilot, they're looking for the safest seats, they must be terrorist!" he wouldn't have ordered them off.
Of which there are many types, one of which is racial profiling. So yes, it's racism and it's profiling based on race and cultural bias. Either way they were singled out because of their appearance and it should not be tolerated and someone should be fired.
People don't take flights because it's fun, they take them because they have to be a certain place at a certain time and planes are the fastest way to get there. I'd be very upset if I had to be somewhere and I was told to leave the plane and wait at the terminal because some moron had too much to drink New Years Eve and got all racist on some Muslims.
Who's apologizing to all the other passengers and offering them compensation for wasting 2 hours of their life?
"A custom-built box, as many commenters suggested, seemed a tad inappropriate to me as he asked for an NAS device, not a server."
While that might be true in certain circumstances, the article does say "I work at a small business where we need to move around large datasets regularly...network speed is as important as storage size."
This is for a business, not a home fileserver to share pictures and videos of the family vacation. If network speed really is a top priority then nothing will beat a custom-built box to be used as a server.
"Super VHS looks just as "quality" as any DVD.... I will even go so far as to say "better quality" since S-VHS doesn't have annoying compression blur, blocking, or mosquitos."
I see no reason why police or other government agencies should use DVD as a storage media for recording video when less corruptible media providing similar quality is available for far less. Maybe they could upgrade to HD video stored on hard drives when prices drop some more in the future, but then you have issues with needing multiple backups to prevent data loss and potential for hackers to steal evidence and easier video tampering.
Sometimes newer isn't better. For just $1,000 they could buy a half dozen S-VHS camcorders and S-VHS players and never worry about corrupt DVDs again.
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"there is no comparison between a server containing 65TB of files and Pirate Bay"
;)
And the "problem" isn't the 65TB server with 16,000 movies, it's the 16,000 desktop computers with 1TB of movies. The fact that movies are something everyone wants and it's as easy to get by clicking a few buttons on any computer with broadband access proves that confiscating a few 65TB servers will do absolutely nothing. This isn't the war on drugs and treating it the same with publicity stunts won't work.
It's gone to the streets too. Few weeks ago I was approached at a gas station by a man offering the latest movies still at theaters for $2 each. I thanked the man and told him I already had them
"How has nobody in this thread mentioned the N810's built in GPS?"
probably because it wasn't in the list of requirements?
"...portable device with Wi-Fi connectivity, full-featured Web browsing, and (most importantly) no cellphone-style activation and service fees?"
I also don't understand the 30+ posts arguing over storage space. Don't remember them saying "must have 2+ gb" or "support miniSD". I often search the library's online catalog from my phone while in the library and it doesn't require 2+ gb, just a internet connection.
In my opinion, the Nokia N810 would be best since it has a real keyboard, decent cpu and 802.11g but they're still $200+. If you want something cheap you could look at a few Palms that are less than $100 but most only have 802.11b, and unless the library is small you might have trouble getting wi-fi way in the back. In you want cheap, portability and 802.11g I'd suggest Nokia 770. They're about $100 on ebay, but you'll have to deal with a onscreen keyboard.
"Maybe this is considered just a semi-rugged class of laptop, because personally I would expect a "rugged" laptop to endure a much longer drop than that."
Did you watch the video? I just watched the entire video, and the laptop never died.
Where's the video of the dell failing the drop test?
"The 512 mb sd cards, OTOH, pitch 'em. I can't believe I'm saying this, but half a gig just isn't enough space to do anything with..."
Usually you'd be right, but there's TONS of "old" devices that can't use SDHC, so anything 4gb and larger it can't be read. Some of the devices really aren't that old, like the Motorola Q cellphone, which some US carriers just started carrying late 2007 (original Q, not Q9).
If it was 32 or 64 or 128mb I'd say yeah, toss that, but 512mb SD non-HC would breath new life into older Palms, Qs, mp3s players, digital cameras and many other devices that are not SDHC compatible.
Put it on ebay, you might find a buyer. I recently bought a 2gb SD for a device on ebay and paid over triple what a 4gb SDHC would have cost me. Or heck, message me, I have devices that could use it.
I'm facing the same issue but with hard drives: What do you do with a 6gb or 12gb or 20gb hard drive? Suppose I could get a $20+ enclosure (cheaper enclosures risk bad PSUs) for the 20gb, but for $56 I could get a 160gb external drive locally.
" have always found it highly questionable that something one can give away for free should be illegal to sell"
That's a good point. It's one of the few things that is illegal to sell but legal to give away. Human organs are the same way, can't sell them but you can donate them and someone else can legally sell them. Very stupid if you ask me, a lot of people would be helped if you let just anyone sell their organs.
I see why the sugardaddy websites are rising in popularity because in all reality it's the same as the CL erotic services ads, provide a service and get paid.
"Well, Spain and China are nations with borders, passports, and distinctive languages; relocating to another nation (outside of the E.U. in the case of Spain) is a rather big deal."
And leaving one job to find another is not a big deal? Usually the language is the same, but it could be an entirely different environment and it is a lot of work to find another position equivalent to your last position, especially in this economy.
"People "did things in the evening" long before electric lights."
so much for the Prime Directive.
giving them technology they have no means of creating themselves definitely conflicts!
"I was concerned about the print size too, but I looked at the screenshots included with the description of the software in the App Store and I have to admit it looks pretty readable."
That's not surprising if you've used a e-reader before on a portable device. Most have adjustable font sizes and autoscrolling, so even if you're only fitting a dozen 24 pt font words on a 2" screen you can adjust the scrolling to keep up with your reading speed.
I'd imagine the iPhone, with it's 3.5" screen, would actually be pretty good to read books on.
"It's almost like I predicted this"
/., that you predicted that Company XYZ would support iPhones someday.
wait... you predicted that Amazon would someday support iPhones? You're amazing!
What's your next prediction?
mark me as flamebait/troll, i have karma to burn, but come on, that's a pretty dumb thing to say on
"This thing is ugly!"
agreed. Also the conclusion conflicts with the review. In the review he says: "The need to navigate around the long, alpha-sorted list on the Neuros.TV media portal doesn't seem consistent with the sort of "10-foot user experience" needed for comfortable TV-viewing in the family room (my emphasis). In contrast, HTPC-oriented platforms like MythTV, Windows Media Center, the Xbox Media Center (XBMC), and Boxee (an XBMC variant) make it easy to locate and play content with a few buttons on a small, handheld remote. Why not include XMBC or Boxee? (Neuros appears to be edging toward XBMC.)"
So he states that pretty much every other HTPC available is better than this, including sub-$100 XBMC operating on a Xbox, then goes on to say: "...the fact that at $300 -- substantially below the impulse-purchase threshold -- the Link represents an exceptional value..... What self-respecting geek wouldn't want to snag one of these?"
Huh? So it sucks, but I must buy one?
I have a Xbox running XBMC and it's amazing for less than $100. Saying "XBMC is better" then going on to conclude that the $300 Link is "an exceptional value" doesn't make sense. His conclusion does not match his observations.
when i was fired from Network Solutions recently (netsol fired half their support staff, cut their 24/7 hours to 8 to 8 mon-fri) I put in the spark chatroom "im fired".
"What would be really cool would be for OLPC / SugarLabs to align with some of the free education content thats coming out..."
Or even better, help subsidize the OLPC by advertising with educational software. This is a first laptop for nearly all of these kids, I'm sure some companies would like them them to associate their first encyclopedia with World Book or first algebra lesson with... whoever does algebra. Program runs, has a nice splash screen "Encyclopedia brought to you by WORLD BOOK" or "Algebra lesson brought to you by (BLANK)", or even better, if it finds a internet connection let it download new advertising. I'm sure many companies would be very happy to pay to have their splash screen in front of a million children.
A company called Channel One offers free TVs to schools paid for by advertising. In exchange for allowing children to watch 12 minutes of news daily, 2 of which are commercials, they install TVs in every classroom and it costs the schools nothing.
If OLPC had done this they probably could have reached the $100 per laptop goal and become a huge success.
"It still blows me away how many people leave these stickers on their laptops. "
Why? I view the stickers on laptops as the same as V8 or engine size ("5.7", for example) emblems on cars. You paid for something with those features, why not show it off? I left all the stickers on my laptop, I think it'd look very empty without them but none of them are gaudy, pointless photos of people smiling, just a large sticker to the right of the touchpad with the specs and various stickers to the right.
"then how about the CCTV's all making a noise when they photograph everyone."
And what about video? So if I take a picture of someone it has to "click", but if I take a video it doesn't? Because it's only a matter of time before our phones are taking HD 1920x1080 videos, and the video frames are equivalent to the 2mp photos most phones take now. Are they going to make a law saying video cameras have to make sounds too?
THIS PHONE IS RECORDING VIDEO...
THIS PHONE IS RECORDING VIDEO...
THIS PHONE IS RECORDING VIDEO...
"They're already blind."
... but... I... nvmd...
Unfortunately not, otherwise they couldn't see the photos.
my gf says she should be in jail and so should her teenage sister. According to her, 90% of teenage girls with cellphones would be in jail if authorities looked at their phones.
Can you imagine the conversation with police being a 15 yr old girl and being "caught" with photos of yourself?
cop: YOU'RE UNDER ARREST FOR KIDDIE PORN!
girl: huh? what porn? oh, yeah that's me, i sent it to my bf
cop: YOU'RE UNDER ARREST
girl: what? for what? that's me, i took that photo, i took a photo of myself
cop: that's right, and you're under arrest
girl: why? I don't think you understand: I took a photo of MYSELF, I am a teenage girl, I took a photo of myself with my phone, how is that "kiddie porn"?
cop: so you admit to talking naked photos teenage girls? I have to remind you anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of law
girl: What?! *shocked*
This is the most asine thing I've ever heard, but I don't think the laws will change until:
A) the girls become lawmakers and politicians in 10 yrs
b) lawmakers look at their daughter's phone and find the nude photos of their *own* daughters
I can't believe the legal system is taking normal teens and turning them into criminal sex offenders. For the rest of their lives these girls will be considered "sex offenders", won't be able to live near schools, their name, address and police photos will be listed online for all to see, and will not be able to get a job that works with children and will probably be denied many jobs because they are "sex offenders", lumped in the same category as rapists. Even if someday the laws are reversed and they're cleared of all charges it'll still follow them, searches online will probably pick up their names for many years.
Child pornography laws were put in place to prevent dirty old men from offering little children candy in exchange for getting naked for photos. Unfortunately the laws were worded very poorly and now *anyone*, including the children taking photos of themselves, are being treated like dirty old men. They're martyrs. The laws need to be re-written so it only applies to the dirty old men taking the photos, not the child that takes photos of themselves or the men that downloads a photo of a girl and finds out later the girl was 17 and not 18 and goes to jail, similar to marijuana laws in many states, where police won't even enforce laws saying to arrest offenders with less than an ounce of marijuana
And don't even get me started how stupid it is we as Americans teach our children that the nude body is horrible and disgusting and should be hidden but showing people being murdered and chopped into pieces on TV and video games is fine. A teen just got 36 yrs for murder for doing what he saw on mortal kombat, if he was re-enacting nudity videos instead of violent video games he probably wouldn't be in jail.
If I was one of those girls I think I'd move to another country and change my name.
"So its going to look great on paper..."
It does? Doesn't look that great to me. First they brag about using "very low end hardware" then throw out a $299 price tag: "(we were aiming for $200, it looks like $299 is more realistic)."
3 years ago $299 for a internet only tablet would be great, but this is 2009. For $299 I can buy a brand new Acer Aspire One netbook. Not a tablet, but it has all the conveniences of modern laptops and it supports all browsers and plug-ins and future updates.
If you must have a tablet, I can easily pick up a Fujitsu T4010 for $300. 1.6+ ghz, up to 2gb ram, any standard IDE 2.5" hard drive, runs any OS you want. With a fresh XP install it'll boot in less than 30 seconds.
If you absolutely must have a Linux tablet PC get a Nokia N800. Fits in your pocket, runs Maemo, lots of online community support and they can be had for under $200.
"By lowering your exposure, I can absolutely guarantee you're going to lose sales. Genius."
/. Very stupid.
Yep. Seems Warner doesn't "get" the internet. When I google a song, you want videos showing up in the search results. By having videos removed from Youtube you're killing those search results.
And Youtube, by deleting users for stupid reasons without allowing them to at least respond you're killing your advertising stream and getting bad press on
I know someone who recently had a popular video removed. It was a video of her lip-syncing to a song. There was no warning, just "your video has been deleted". No way to access the video again either.
When will internet companies treat customers like customers rather than criminals?
"Did you know that in (INSERT ANYWHERE), it's sexual harassment if a man leans over a woman at her desk, but not if a woman leans over a man and hangs her tits in his face?"
wait wait... there's a double standard ?! *shocked face*
OMG WTF STFU when did this start?!?
mark me troll or flamebait i don't care, i have karma to burn, but saying there's a double standard in sexual harassment is like saying the pope wears a pointy hat.
"Well enjoying it implies their was probably consent. That being said, no means no."
somehow I don't think "she enjoyed it" is a good defense.
"But your Honor! She was enjoying it, I swear!"
in this crazy world, better safe than sorry... video tape everything. That way she she says she was saying "no no" you have her on tape saying "oh oh".
"All the babes work in HR!"
And being in HR, the "babes" know the sexual harassment policy word-for-word
"Kurzweil has a really good handle on where hardware will be, but not software.
Actually he got very little right. I mean of course he got the obvious right, like "laptops will be smaller, lighter, faster and cheaper" (duh) and "We'll have mp3 players", a very easy prediction considering the success of the Rio 300 in 1998, but specific things like Warfare:
"Humans are generally far removed from the scene of battle. Warfare is dominated by unmanned intelligent airborne devices. Many of these flying weapons are the size of small birds, or smaller."
That's way off. Still have tens of thousands of troops in Iraq and the "flying weapons" are the sizes of SUVs rather than birds.
Or "phone sex is a lot more popular now that phones routinely include high-resolution, real-time moving images of the person on the other end." We still don't have video phones, or at least they haven't become popular. Webcam "phone sex" usage has increased in the past 10 years but that's to be expected.
So besides the obvious like "Computers routinely include wireless technology to plug into the ever-present worldwide network" the guy was very wrong on the specifics.
Well there's one thing this story has taught me: if I'm taking a flight and need to be there on time, it doesn't matter WHAT I hear other passengers say I'm going to STFU because if I say "I heard a suspicious remark" the damn flight will be delayed for HOURS.
... well, and the overzealous pilot, but still I'm sure if the passengers said "Pilot, they're looking for the safest seats, they must be terrorist!" he wouldn't have ordered them off.
"...other passengers reported hearing a suspicious remark about airplane security... Federal officials ordered the rest of the passengers from the plane and re-screened them before allowing the flight to depart about two hours behind schedule."
So really, who's fault is this? THE PASSENGERS!
"No, It was profiling."
Of which there are many types, one of which is racial profiling. So yes, it's racism and it's profiling based on race and cultural bias. Either way they were singled out because of their appearance and it should not be tolerated and someone should be fired.
Wasn't just the 9 people that suffered, 95 other passengers had to leave the plane and it was delayed 2 hours on New Years Day:
"Federal officials ordered the rest of the passengers from the plane and re-screened them before allowing the flight to depart about two hours behind schedule."
People don't take flights because it's fun, they take them because they have to be a certain place at a certain time and planes are the fastest way to get there. I'd be very upset if I had to be somewhere and I was told to leave the plane and wait at the terminal because some moron had too much to drink New Years Eve and got all racist on some Muslims.
Who's apologizing to all the other passengers and offering them compensation for wasting 2 hours of their life?
"A custom-built box, as many commenters suggested, seemed a tad inappropriate to me as he asked for an NAS device, not a server."
While that might be true in certain circumstances, the article does say "I work at a small business where we need to move around large datasets regularly...network speed is as important as storage size."
This is for a business, not a home fileserver to share pictures and videos of the family vacation. If network speed really is a top priority then nothing will beat a custom-built box to be used as a server.
"Super VHS looks just as "quality" as any DVD.... I will even go so far as to say "better quality" since S-VHS doesn't have annoying compression blur, blocking, or mosquitos."
I did some research hoping to disprove you, but apparently you're right. S-VHS is up there with LaserDisc and Hi-8, with a 560x480 (420 lines) resolution. DVD provides a 720x480 (520 lines) resolution, not significantly better IMHO, far less than the difference between DVD and 720p HD 1280x720 (720 lines) and 20% of people can't tell the difference between HD and SD anyway. S-VHS camcorders are very cheap used, under $100 on ebay, and the S-VHS players are equally as cheap.
I see no reason why police or other government agencies should use DVD as a storage media for recording video when less corruptible media providing similar quality is available for far less. Maybe they could upgrade to HD video stored on hard drives when prices drop some more in the future, but then you have issues with needing multiple backups to prevent data loss and potential for hackers to steal evidence and easier video tampering.
Sometimes newer isn't better. For just $1,000 they could buy a half dozen S-VHS camcorders and S-VHS players and never worry about corrupt DVDs again.