Lot of people seem to forget that the mother is most likely to blame for her daughter committing suicide:
The next day, after telling her mother, Christina "Tina" Meier, about the increasing number of hurtful messages, the two got into an argument over the vulgar language Meier used in response to the messages and she did not log off when her mother told her to.[3] After the argument, Meier ran upstairs to her room. She was found twenty minutes later, hanging by the neck in a closet.
Now, do you think it was the messages, or the fact that her mother punished her child who was a victim and clearly already distraught? Who is the uncaring party here? The other woman was certainly guilty of harassment, but the child's own mother failed to support her.
Seems pretty clear to me that her daughter's thought process was "this boy that I loved is hurting me, now my mom hates me and thinks it's my fault." When your own parents don't support you, help you, or comfort you- it's crushing.
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Gabriel's servers are hosted by Rednet Ltd, although that appears to be a defunct brand of a UK company called Opal Telecom, which in turn is a wholly owned subsidiary of Carphone Warehouse.
So his hosting company was the side-project of a prepaid cellphone company? He got what he deserved.
I wish I had a penny for every idiot that hosts with Joe and Bob's Basement Hosting Company and then bitches when the power goes out all the time, stuff disappears, etc.
is that ZFS, despite all its goodness, lacks some incredibly basic features compared to 99% of the hardware and software RAID and LVM systems out there. You can't grow (please pay attention here) a ZFS pool except by adding similarly-redundant vdevs, and there is no way to remove a vdev from a pool, unlike LVM2.
So. Got a 4-drive RAID-Z2 array, and you want to add more space by buying another drive to add in to your 5-bay hot-swap cage? You're shit outta luck. If you have a zpool with a vdev that consists of a pair of mirrored drives, you CAN add another vdev of two drives, then another, etc. You also CAN replace the drives in a vdev with larger drives. That's kind of half-okay, but still not on par with RAID cards of a DECADE ago. Even Linux's MD can grow RAID5/6 across more devices!
Someone suggested the ability to grow redundant pools by single devices, and the reaction amongst solaris ZFS developers (!!!) was "now why would you want to do that?", and then when THAT was explained, "well shucks, I wonder how they do that" (they = almost every hardware and software RAID solution on the planet.)
Absolutely astounding that a Solaris filesystem developer would not be able to at least guess as to how a RAID5 array would be re-striped to add a new drive.
Far as I know, they've been working on the grow capability for more than a year and we have yet to see it.
...is almost universally eye-roll-inducing or rant inducing by most MIT grads. I met one Media Lab student whose thesis was about a stuffed animal that would move/make noises when someone you knew entered their office, and if you entered yours, it'd make other people's stuffed animals move and make noises. So instead of seeing your coworker's buddy icon go from idle to active, you have to remember that your monkey going "eeeeep" means Bob is back, and "ack" means Jane is back. Annoying, distracting, hard to associate, and not able to scale very well.
Yeah. Fucking stuffed monkeys got her a masters degree. From MIT. Hear that sound? Its the sound of people wiping their asses with MIT diplomas and flushing them down the toilet.
The quality of the photographs from the moon always grabs me, and the duct-taped fender here is no exception.
Medium-format sized negatives. Shitloads of light (large depth of field and high shutter speeds.) No atmosphere to bend light between subject and camera.
Also, you've got really hard shadows because the light isn't diffused at all by an atmosphere.
Correlation is not causation. Among other things, the hormone they're claiming is involved is also linked to about a dozen other things- the wikipedia article linked to is a veritable laundry list of basic body functions.
Side memo to the press: Stop. Dumbing. Down. Science.
Especially since the wireless market has actual, fierce competition
Competition is actually extremely weak- everyone offers pretty much the same "minutes" and $ for said "minutes". Carriers then make their money on hidden fees and varying out-of-plan airtime charges and such. Among other things, if you go over your minutes, it costs you FORTY FIVE CENTS A MINUTE with AT&T, and that's JUST for AIRTIME!
I think the issue is that while "Mainstream Media" (in particularly NPR/PRI) has embraced it whole-heartedly with the iPod-using masses on the bandwagon as listeners...nobody's watching/listening to the crap put out by the "technorati" and average joes. It's embarrassing to be "pioneers" and get completely steamrollered by traditional media, and ignored by the general public. Or, they think that because it's failing for them, it's "dead" for everyone else; there's this insipid belief amongst the technology-using loud-mouths that the world revolves around them. If everyone's blogging about how great jam-and-sausage sandwiches are (or more amusingly, blogging about how everyone is blogging about it), it MUST be true, right?
I can't stand video/pod casts (or worse, "video blogs") by Joe Shmoes, or even the "big" "bloggers". Usually they take about 5 minutes to express an opinion or convey a bit of news that could have been written in one short paragraph I could have read in about 20 seconds.
The whole thing reminds me about the comparison between Walmart and online companies; a single Walmart pulls in more profits in one DAY than most silicon valley companies do in a YEAR. That's how completely insignificant most "Web 2.0" crap truly is.
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So, increasing the distance isn't as trivial as you seem to imply. getting it to a few feet is probably doable without attracting a lot of attention
Which was my whole fucking point, douchebag. But hey, it got you modded up, right?
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NXP downplays the significance of the hack, saying that that model of RFID card uses old technology and they do a much better job these days.
...except that more than half of the world's largest transit systems use MiFare Classic- they're all truly fucked, and it wouldn't surprise me if the mafia are already cloning/selling counterfeit cards, especially in Asia. Also, apparently in some countries MiFare Classic cards are as prevalent as HID Proxcards are in the US for building access.
Also, for those of you claiming read distance is enough protection- sure, the reader on the bus can only read your card at an inch or two. Well, see- there are commercial solutions that can do much more. HID, for example, makes a one-foot-square reader capable of reading proximity cards at a distance of over a foot, sometimes almost two feet. Antenna size (for receiving the card response) and power levels (for energizing the card) are all that matter here, really.
Now, think about how close you get to people as you board a bus and grab a seat at the back- how many pocketbooks and wallets you can easily come within a foot (or less.) Now think about how big an antenna you could put in a bookbag or briefcase...
Tricking the editors into posting really crappy april-fools stories each year on the 1st. I've been doing it for almost 10 years straight and they still haven't caught on.
. And Adobe Elements (that's their "lightweight" photo product) takes the better part of a minute to start up on my dual core, 2GB box (non-RAIDed SATA drive). I guess it shouldn't surprise me that they have security problems as well.
Given that it takes about 10 seconds to launch Adobe Photoshop CS3 (that's their heavyweight" photo product) on my dual-core laptop with "non-RAIDed SATA" laptop drive), and PDFs don't bring my system to its knees...
...I'd say there's something wrong with your laptop (or the configurations/state of its operating system.)
Many people are suddenly deciding to spurn Google's services and applications because it opens up potential avenues of surveillance.
Um, how about corporate espionage? Nothing, absolutely nothing, stops Google from harvesting everything they can get their hands on- and they have the storage systems and human expertise to do it.
Case and point: I emailed a link to a wiki I had just set up to 3 people, two of whom had Gmail accounts. A spider from Google hit the page hours before anyone else did, hitting the wiki just after I emailed the link out. There were no public links to the site, and no referral URL.
So, let's see: processing your email to show you relevant ads? Check. Processing email to feed URLs to their spider? Check. What else does Google do with your email? Wouldn't it be the greatest tool in their quivver- the "God Google"? Sit down with HipWebShit.com, then an hour after the meeting and see a)How many people search/click on links for HipWebShit b)Who from HipWebShit.com has sent gmail users email (and what it says...), c)Who is talking about HipWebShit from/to a Gmail account period (ie general "valley buz"?
Hint: why do you think Google has so many PhDs? It starts getting creepy when you realize that Google seems to work very hard to keep their employees inside the google campus as much as possible, how secretive their operations are (seriously, nobody can compete with them anymore- it's not like they're guarding the henhouse for competition reasons) and how cult-like the atmosphere is...
There is a legitimate concern for cops that do go undercover (they tend to do so off and on throughout a career), in that once they do, there's a big, fat online database that folks can check against before even asking "are you a cop?". This can present a legitimate danger if there's pictures or other personally identifiable information right there on the site.
Where in the US Constitution is the right to conduct undercover investigations, or to do so free from risk? Or to conveniently use the same officers for beat duty and undercover duty, instead of having separate officers/departments?
it would be easier to put a colony on Mars than to organize that gaggle into any sort of overlord-type Big Brother organization...
I've often rolled my eyes when people have suggested varying data-collection-from-various-agencies kind of conspiracies; here in Massachusetts, they can't even handle informing the Registry of Motor Vehicles when you've paid a parking ticket that was overdue.
However, competence and thoroughness are not necessary to suppress and control. You can have a third world dictator whose goons are lazy slobs and sleep all day and never manage to come to the right conclusions on investigations when they're not taking naps. What makes them feared is whether they run around shooting people.
Want a great example? The TSA. They're feared and hated, and it has nothing to do with them being thorough or competent. Tests have repeatedly shown that they miss more than half the stuff secret testers try to sneak by. Rather, it is their complete ineptitude and nearly limitless power- you never know if you're going to get pulled out for additional screening, or told your car key is a 'switchblade' key and thus can't be allowed on, or told to drink your own breast milk because agents think it's liquid explosives instead of milk for your baby, or, or, or...and there's always the thought that you could end up in Gitmo with a black bag over your head 18 hours a day.
In fact, incompetence and power are more likely to suppress the population, because now they can't even count on living by keeping their noses squeaky clean.
That's just ridiculous, when you think about the number of "X milligram of ingredient Y" pills people must be taking for detectable amounts to be showing up in drinking water after being diluted and filtered that many times.
Women on birth control. Men on aspirin regimens. Antidepressants. Allergy medications. Over the counter painkillers like tylenol and ibuprofin.
A huge amount of this stuff passes right through our bodies and into the septic system. What about all those bottles of medication that don't get used fully, or sit in your cabinet for those just-in-cases, and then expire? Most people flush the stuff or chuck it in the wastebasket.
If you don't see the problem there, please go read Silent Spring, right now. Or go read about how PCBs made their way from Springfield, MA to the other side of the planet. Now think about how we tell pregnant women not to eat too much tuna, lest they get a dangerous dosage of mercury that could harm their child. Wake up, man.
...because in Boston, which just so happens to be the silicon valley of the east coast (and has been for decades), I can't get FiOS.
Why? Verizon is holding the entire city hostage and refusing to do a fucking thing until they get a state-wide cable TV franchise license so they don't have to play on the same field as the cable operators (who have always had to negotiate per-town.) Look at the verizon deployment maps; it's a sea of blue and green, except for a giant void near Boston.
They've fed all sorts of bullshit to people; at one point, they were claiming that they were not doing "metropolitan areas." Funny: I guess New York City and DC aren't metropolitan areas? Everyone in the burbs and even the boondocks in eastern MA gets FiOS, but no, not Boston...
The first generation Mighty Mouse behaved radically differently under Windows than it did on MacOS; the secondary click function didn't work nearly as well. It was either that different firmware was uploaded, or sensitivities were adjusted.
The scroll ball doesn't have any bumps- the sensation comes from a piezoelectric transducer that makes a slight vibration and click noise. Same thing with the squeezable sides: the click isn't part of a mechanical switch.
Another party trick for the Mighty Mouse: the squeezeable sides are "harder" to squeeze when the mouse isn't on a surface. Try it now...squeeze it, then pick it up off the table and squeeze again.
Did Apple ever get around to making Windows drivers? Without drivers, the sensitivities on the capacitive buttons are all fucked up. Which largely explains why most windows users found it impossible to use reliably...
YouTube has never really been known for streaming videos at a high resolution,
The problem isn't necessarily resolution- it's the unbelievably low bitrates, and the fact that they insist on re-encoding everything that's uploaded to them. It's apparently possible to upload FLV in a very precise way such that they don't re-encode, but they could make it a lot easier (and it's to their advantage- every video given to them ready-to-go is a video they don't have to waste incoming bandwidth, temporary disk storage, and bandwidth on.)
What youtube *should* be doing is offering paid accounts which allow for higher bitrate videos; say, a low-end for the camwhores who want better pixels for their whining, a mid-level for guys like Will It Blend, and a top-end account for big companies that want to push their ads out on Youtube. Will It Blend, for example, would probably plunk down $20/month to get better videos.
Sadly, though- companies like blip.tv have already filled the niche of high-quality videos, and they're getting attacked left and right by other sites like metafilter which already does revenue sharing...and there are a billion and one embedded FLV hosting sites...
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The next day, after telling her mother, Christina "Tina" Meier, about the increasing number of hurtful messages, the two got into an argument over the vulgar language Meier used in response to the messages and she did not log off when her mother told her to.[3] After the argument, Meier ran upstairs to her room. She was found twenty minutes later, hanging by the neck in a closet.
Now, do you think it was the messages, or the fact that her mother punished her child who was a victim and clearly already distraught? Who is the uncaring party here? The other woman was certainly guilty of harassment, but the child's own mother failed to support her.
Seems pretty clear to me that her daughter's thought process was "this boy that I loved is hurting me, now my mom hates me and thinks it's my fault." When your own parents don't support you, help you, or comfort you- it's crushing.
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hopes to have its first full-scale proof-of-concept vehicle ready to show off at July's AirVenture aviation festival in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
From the "endeavors best left unrushed" department...
Seriously, rushing to meet unrealistic deadlines is what causes spectacular failure- and this is really something best left to perfect.
You don't want to hear "AAAAAAAH!" from the crowd, you want to hear "oooooooo"...
Gabriel's servers are hosted by Rednet Ltd, although that appears to be a defunct brand of a UK company called Opal Telecom, which in turn is a wholly owned subsidiary of Carphone Warehouse.
So his hosting company was the side-project of a prepaid cellphone company? He got what he deserved.
I wish I had a penny for every idiot that hosts with Joe and Bob's Basement Hosting Company and then bitches when the power goes out all the time, stuff disappears, etc.
is that ZFS, despite all its goodness, lacks some incredibly basic features compared to 99% of the hardware and software RAID and LVM systems out there. You can't grow (please pay attention here) a ZFS pool except by adding similarly-redundant vdevs, and there is no way to remove a vdev from a pool, unlike LVM2.
So. Got a 4-drive RAID-Z2 array, and you want to add more space by buying another drive to add in to your 5-bay hot-swap cage? You're shit outta luck. If you have a zpool with a vdev that consists of a pair of mirrored drives, you CAN add another vdev of two drives, then another, etc. You also CAN replace the drives in a vdev with larger drives. That's kind of half-okay, but still not on par with RAID cards of a DECADE ago. Even Linux's MD can grow RAID5/6 across more devices!
Someone suggested the ability to grow redundant pools by single devices, and the reaction amongst solaris ZFS developers (!!!) was "now why would you want to do that?", and then when THAT was explained, "well shucks, I wonder how they do that" (they = almost every hardware and software RAID solution on the planet.)
Absolutely astounding that a Solaris filesystem developer would not be able to at least guess as to how a RAID5 array would be re-striped to add a new drive.
Far as I know, they've been working on the grow capability for more than a year and we have yet to see it.
...is almost universally eye-roll-inducing or rant inducing by most MIT grads. I met one Media Lab student whose thesis was about a stuffed animal that would move/make noises when someone you knew entered their office, and if you entered yours, it'd make other people's stuffed animals move and make noises. So instead of seeing your coworker's buddy icon go from idle to active, you have to remember that your monkey going "eeeeep" means Bob is back, and "ack" means Jane is back. Annoying, distracting, hard to associate, and not able to scale very well.
Yeah. Fucking stuffed monkeys got her a masters degree. From MIT. Hear that sound? Its the sound of people wiping their asses with MIT diplomas and flushing them down the toilet.
The quality of the photographs from the moon always grabs me, and the duct-taped fender here is no exception.
Medium-format sized negatives. Shitloads of light (large depth of field and high shutter speeds.) No atmosphere to bend light between subject and camera.
Also, you've got really hard shadows because the light isn't diffused at all by an atmosphere.
I hope they add a talking donkey.
I hope they add lesbians! Or rather, add them back (the manga spent a little time on the Major's "preferences".)
Correlation is not causation. Among other things, the hormone they're claiming is involved is also linked to about a dozen other things- the wikipedia article linked to is a veritable laundry list of basic body functions.
Side memo to the press: Stop. Dumbing. Down. Science.
Especially since the wireless market has actual, fierce competition
Competition is actually extremely weak- everyone offers pretty much the same "minutes" and $ for said "minutes". Carriers then make their money on hidden fees and varying out-of-plan airtime charges and such. Among other things, if you go over your minutes, it costs you FORTY FIVE CENTS A MINUTE with AT&T, and that's JUST for AIRTIME!
I think the issue is that while "Mainstream Media" (in particularly NPR/PRI) has embraced it whole-heartedly
Bleh! That should have said, "I think the issue is that while "Mainstream Media" (okay, mostly NPR/PRI)" etc etc.
I think the issue is that while "Mainstream Media" (in particularly NPR/PRI) has embraced it whole-heartedly with the iPod-using masses on the bandwagon as listeners...nobody's watching/listening to the crap put out by the "technorati" and average joes. It's embarrassing to be "pioneers" and get completely steamrollered by traditional media, and ignored by the general public. Or, they think that because it's failing for them, it's "dead" for everyone else; there's this insipid belief amongst the technology-using loud-mouths that the world revolves around them. If everyone's blogging about how great jam-and-sausage sandwiches are (or more amusingly, blogging about how everyone is blogging about it), it MUST be true, right?
I can't stand video/pod casts (or worse, "video blogs") by Joe Shmoes, or even the "big" "bloggers". Usually they take about 5 minutes to express an opinion or convey a bit of news that could have been written in one short paragraph I could have read in about 20 seconds.
The whole thing reminds me about the comparison between Walmart and online companies; a single Walmart pulls in more profits in one DAY than most silicon valley companies do in a YEAR. That's how completely insignificant most "Web 2.0" crap truly is.
So, increasing the distance isn't as trivial as you seem to imply. getting it to a few feet is probably doable without attracting a lot of attention
Which was my whole fucking point, douchebag. But hey, it got you modded up, right?
NXP downplays the significance of the hack, saying that that model of RFID card uses old technology and they do a much better job these days.
...except that more than half of the world's largest transit systems use MiFare Classic- they're all truly fucked, and it wouldn't surprise me if the mafia are already cloning/selling counterfeit cards, especially in Asia. Also, apparently in some countries MiFare Classic cards are as prevalent as HID Proxcards are in the US for building access.
Also, for those of you claiming read distance is enough protection- sure, the reader on the bus can only read your card at an inch or two. Well, see- there are commercial solutions that can do much more. HID, for example, makes a one-foot-square reader capable of reading proximity cards at a distance of over a foot, sometimes almost two feet. Antenna size (for receiving the card response) and power levels (for energizing the card) are all that matter here, really.
Now, think about how close you get to people as you board a bus and grab a seat at the back- how many pocketbooks and wallets you can easily come within a foot (or less.) Now think about how big an antenna you could put in a bookbag or briefcase...
What's your best prank?
Tricking the editors into posting really crappy april-fools stories each year on the 1st. I've been doing it for almost 10 years straight and they still haven't caught on.
. And Adobe Elements (that's their "lightweight" photo product) takes the better part of a minute to start up on my dual core, 2GB box (non-RAIDed SATA drive). I guess it shouldn't surprise me that they have security problems as well .
Given that it takes about 10 seconds to launch Adobe Photoshop CS3 (that's their heavyweight" photo product) on my dual-core laptop with "non-RAIDed SATA" laptop drive), and PDFs don't bring my system to its knees...
...I'd say there's something wrong with your laptop (or the configurations/state of its operating system.)
Many people are suddenly deciding to spurn Google's services and applications because it opens up potential avenues of surveillance.
Um, how about corporate espionage? Nothing, absolutely nothing, stops Google from harvesting everything they can get their hands on- and they have the storage systems and human expertise to do it.
Case and point: I emailed a link to a wiki I had just set up to 3 people, two of whom had Gmail accounts. A spider from Google hit the page hours before anyone else did, hitting the wiki just after I emailed the link out. There were no public links to the site, and no referral URL.
So, let's see: processing your email to show you relevant ads? Check. Processing email to feed URLs to their spider? Check. What else does Google do with your email? Wouldn't it be the greatest tool in their quivver- the "God Google"? Sit down with HipWebShit.com, then an hour after the meeting and see a)How many people search/click on links for HipWebShit b)Who from HipWebShit.com has sent gmail users email (and what it says...), c)Who is talking about HipWebShit from/to a Gmail account period (ie general "valley buz"?
Hint: why do you think Google has so many PhDs? It starts getting creepy when you realize that Google seems to work very hard to keep their employees inside the google campus as much as possible, how secretive their operations are (seriously, nobody can compete with them anymore- it's not like they're guarding the henhouse for competition reasons) and how cult-like the atmosphere is...
There is a legitimate concern for cops that do go undercover (they tend to do so off and on throughout a career), in that once they do, there's a big, fat online database that folks can check against before even asking "are you a cop?". This can present a legitimate danger if there's pictures or other personally identifiable information right there on the site.
Where in the US Constitution is the right to conduct undercover investigations, or to do so free from risk? Or to conveniently use the same officers for beat duty and undercover duty, instead of having separate officers/departments?
it would be easier to put a colony on Mars than to organize that gaggle into any sort of overlord-type Big Brother organization...
I've often rolled my eyes when people have suggested varying data-collection-from-various-agencies kind of conspiracies; here in Massachusetts, they can't even handle informing the Registry of Motor Vehicles when you've paid a parking ticket that was overdue.
However, competence and thoroughness are not necessary to suppress and control. You can have a third world dictator whose goons are lazy slobs and sleep all day and never manage to come to the right conclusions on investigations when they're not taking naps. What makes them feared is whether they run around shooting people.
Want a great example? The TSA. They're feared and hated, and it has nothing to do with them being thorough or competent. Tests have repeatedly shown that they miss more than half the stuff secret testers try to sneak by. Rather, it is their complete ineptitude and nearly limitless power- you never know if you're going to get pulled out for additional screening, or told your car key is a 'switchblade' key and thus can't be allowed on, or told to drink your own breast milk because agents think it's liquid explosives instead of milk for your baby, or, or, or...and there's always the thought that you could end up in Gitmo with a black bag over your head 18 hours a day.
In fact, incompetence and power are more likely to suppress the population, because now they can't even count on living by keeping their noses squeaky clean.
That's just ridiculous, when you think about the number of "X milligram of ingredient Y" pills people must be taking for detectable amounts to be showing up in drinking water after being diluted and filtered that many times.
Women on birth control. Men on aspirin regimens. Antidepressants. Allergy medications. Over the counter painkillers like tylenol and ibuprofin.
A huge amount of this stuff passes right through our bodies and into the septic system. What about all those bottles of medication that don't get used fully, or sit in your cabinet for those just-in-cases, and then expire? Most people flush the stuff or chuck it in the wastebasket.
If you don't see the problem there, please go read Silent Spring, right now. Or go read about how PCBs made their way from Springfield, MA to the other side of the planet. Now think about how we tell pregnant women not to eat too much tuna, lest they get a dangerous dosage of mercury that could harm their child. Wake up, man.
...because in Boston, which just so happens to be the silicon valley of the east coast (and has been for decades), I can't get FiOS.
Why? Verizon is holding the entire city hostage and refusing to do a fucking thing until they get a state-wide cable TV franchise license so they don't have to play on the same field as the cable operators (who have always had to negotiate per-town.) Look at the verizon deployment maps; it's a sea of blue and green, except for a giant void near Boston.
They've fed all sorts of bullshit to people; at one point, they were claiming that they were not doing "metropolitan areas." Funny: I guess New York City and DC aren't metropolitan areas? Everyone in the burbs and even the boondocks in eastern MA gets FiOS, but no, not Boston...
The first generation Mighty Mouse behaved radically differently under Windows than it did on MacOS; the secondary click function didn't work nearly as well. It was either that different firmware was uploaded, or sensitivities were adjusted.
Would probably be the Apple "Mighty Mouse."
The scroll ball doesn't have any bumps- the sensation comes from a piezoelectric transducer that makes a slight vibration and click noise. Same thing with the squeezable sides: the click isn't part of a mechanical switch.
Another party trick for the Mighty Mouse: the squeezeable sides are "harder" to squeeze when the mouse isn't on a surface. Try it now...squeeze it, then pick it up off the table and squeeze again.
Did Apple ever get around to making Windows drivers? Without drivers, the sensitivities on the capacitive buttons are all fucked up. Which largely explains why most windows users found it impossible to use reliably...
YouTube has never really been known for streaming videos at a high resolution,
The problem isn't necessarily resolution- it's the unbelievably low bitrates, and the fact that they insist on re-encoding everything that's uploaded to them. It's apparently possible to upload FLV in a very precise way such that they don't re-encode, but they could make it a lot easier (and it's to their advantage- every video given to them ready-to-go is a video they don't have to waste incoming bandwidth, temporary disk storage, and bandwidth on.)
What youtube *should* be doing is offering paid accounts which allow for higher bitrate videos; say, a low-end for the camwhores who want better pixels for their whining, a mid-level for guys like Will It Blend, and a top-end account for big companies that want to push their ads out on Youtube. Will It Blend, for example, would probably plunk down $20/month to get better videos.
Sadly, though- companies like blip.tv have already filled the niche of high-quality videos, and they're getting attacked left and right by other sites like metafilter which already does revenue sharing...and there are a billion and one embedded FLV hosting sites...