Strange. I've had no trouble using two SonyEricssons (T68mc and Z600) overseas. In both the Czech Republic and Austria I was able to both roam on my home (U.S. T-Mobile) account, and put in SIMs from local companies with no trouble.
However, you completely failed to miss the point. He was talking about listening on the go, not in some audiophile's clean room.
Most people listen to iPods and similar devices while on the move, which is why they're portable devices. And traveling usually involves creating a bit of noise.
I listen to OGGs on my Clie on the way to work. They're encoded at a pretty crappy rate because I ride the subway. Since I'm in a noisy environment anyway I might as well lower the encoding so I can fit more on a memory stick.
Someone listening to an iPod on an airplane or on a subway or a bus or even windsurfind isn't going to notice the subtle things you will with a "decent pair of headphones."
Get off your high horse and join the rest of us in the real world.
It would be nice to have a desktop with no wires except for power.
That's essentially what my wife does. She has an iBook that only leaves her desk when she goes to the couch. At the desk she uses a bluetooth mouse and keyboard.
With our computers, accessories, cell phones, and Palm Pilots (well, a Clie) we have seven Bluetooth devices in the house. My wife hates messy wires. She wishes more things were Bluetooth.
You don't have to if you dont want to, but if I do and I find that useful than I believe I have every right to.
There's that word right that people keep abusing. "I have the right to this... I have the right to that." Bottom line is -- no, you don't have the right to a lot of things. The rights you have are very clearly spelled out by the laws of your country. In the case of the United States, the Bill of Rights. I don't remember the constitution being ammended to include people having the right to leach off of other people's work.
Like many people before you, you confuse a "right" with "I really really wanna. Waaah!"
They're upset because it automatically cuts up the recording by song, tags it with all the correct artist info from XM's broadcast, and encodes it into an MP3 ready for sharing
Ah, well, that's a whole other kettle of fish. Color me informed.
I imagine with the proper shell script and enough radios you could share XM's entire music library on the P2P network of your choice. I'd be a little peeved, myself.
This is precisely the sort of situation that the EFF typically looks into
They do? I don't think the EFF is as effective or active as we all would like to believe.
I had a similar situation -- a company sent me a C&D letter. In my case it was because of a photograph on my web site. It was a picture of me on vacation. This company claimed to own the copyright to my vacation photos and threatened to sue me into oblivion if I didn't take down the picture.
I told EFF. Filled out all the proper forms and guess what happened -- exactly nothing. So, the picture came down and the bad guys won.
I support the EFF and its mission. But don't count on them to be there for you when it's your turn.
I don't see why anyone is so upset about this. I already do this with Sirius Satellite Radio.
All Sirius subscribers have a login and password so they can stream Sirius channels over the internet when they're away from their satellite tuners (at work, in a different room of the house, etc...) I just start the stream and set a timer on one of the many OS X programs that does timed recordings of whatever's playing through the audio channel. I wake up and in a few minutes convert it (depending on the program I use) and move it to my iPod for listening on the train on the way to work.
I don't have XM, so I don't know if this method is also possible with it. If so, then the lawyers simply can't stop this.
...it would be cheapened if they played a video parodying it constantly on MTV.
MTV plays videos? It must be nice to live in your country.
In the U.S. of A., MTV (Music Television) doesn't play music. Just crappy pre-scripted "reality" shows. VH1 used to be the only place you could see music videos (the slogan was even "Music First"). Now they're all full of game shows, and bogus "documentaries." Then all that was left was MTV2. But even recently I've noticed they're picking up the MTV show leftovers.
So, where to get videos? Several years ago I had a cable system that carried MuchMusic, and that had videos. But my current setup doesn't offer it. Guess I'll have to download them off some P2P server.
The iPod is excellent for its size, speed, and storage. But instead of shelling out for a new one, try finding an older iPod with a dead battery that someone is trying to unload. Maybe for $50 on eBay, or something.
It may not be able to hold a charge on its own, but it still works great as a tiny bus-powered firewire hard drive. An external firewire drive doesn't hold a charge, either, so what's the difference?
And if down the road your needs change, you can always replace the battery for $50 and you've got yourself a music player!
"Sorry sir, but to improve the customer experience, our Fun-gineering department now requires that no cameras or recording devices may be allowed in the park. If you like, you can buy one of our disposable cameras on Main Street USA".
Ringling Brothers circus already does this. I was at their show in Houston when they turned away dozens and dozens of parents with crying children because they brought their still and video cameras. But there on the inside -- you could by Ringling cameras.
Even worse, they wouldn't let the lady ahead of me in because her kid had a half-eaten candy bar. No outside food allowed.
I'll never go to another one of their circuses again.
So, when I'm on the road in a hotel I can plug this into my USB port, then plug an Ethernet cable into it and surf wirelessly? Oh... except for the Ethernet cable plugged into my USB port.
Required "by law" to include Macrovision? Care to point out a reference to this law? Is it state, federal, or U.N.? I always assumed the people who make DVD players put it in by choice so the people who buy the DVD players can play DVDs both with Macrovision and those that lack Macrovision.
Joe and Jane Slopbucket aren't going to buy your Dee Vee Dee player at the local Mega-lo-mart if little Bobby Sue's favorite Disney titles won't play on it because they have Macrovision.
There's already a device for this. It's called an Ambient Orb. I had one on loan for about six months. It was seriously cool. it would change colors with the weather, pulse when a storm was approaching, and could change color based on the status of your e-mail. I've been meaning to buy one of my own. Thanks for reminding me.
If scanning people's ports is completely OK with you, then how about the GOVERNMENT scanning your ports? The TLAs in Washington could put together a list of people with vulnerable machines to... um... warn them if there's a problem. Or just keep a database of what services everyone is running. After all, as you said, "a port scan by itself is a completely legitimate activity."
3... 2... 1... Kablooey!
::All the tinfoil hat Slashdot Haxxors just exploded::
But what about lesser known mainframes such as the Prime.
How sad for me to find out that not only am I obsolete, I'm also obscure. I remember PrimeOS fondly if for no other reason than it was where I cut my teeth as a young hacker.
Would have been about 1984, dialing in to a univeristy's Prime in another state. Me on my Commodore 64 with my Microbits 300 baud modem (I was the fastest kid on the block. Everyone else had 110 or baudots). It was like NetHack, but in real life. Learned to get in. Learned to navigate. Learned about these great things called directories (unavailable on my Commodore 1541 disks). When I couldn't affort to buy new floppy disks, I started storing all of my programs and files on their mainframe. They seemed to have plenty of space. I was in there for more than a year before I got caught. Ah... those were the days.
... you are telling me that one system crash can knock out half of the major airlines?
That's not what it says at all. American and U.S. Airways certainly don't count as half the major airlines in the United States. There are hundreds of airlines in the U.S. of A., and maybe a dozen qualify as "major." And by some measures, U.S. Airways doesn't count as a "major." So, no, you're completely wrong. Don't read things into the article that aren't there (assuming you RTFAs.)
I'm still using my little 5gig original iPod with no problems. Actually, it was my wife's. Last Christmas I got her the 40gig model, so I got hers as a hand-me-down. 5gigs is plenty for me, as I only have about a dozen CDs. She has more than a thousand (took me three months to rip all those CDs), and is rapidly filling up the remaining space with songs purchased from iTunes. I hope a 60GB model comes out before she fills hers up.
I think this has happened before (someone living without a pulse). There was some old man in Kentucky in the last year or so who was hooked up to an external blood pumping device. He was on the news because he lived for a few months, setting a record for the person who lived the longest without a heart. He was asked by a television reporter what it was like to not have a heart, and the guy said not having a pulse was the strangest thing he'd ever experienced. He said it was really really eerily quiet. Gross.
Possibly. They're supposed to be filming the helicopter scenes at night. Unfortunately, I work nights, but I might get lucky and they'll still be filming when I get home and I can take some snaps from my parking garage across the street.
When they arrest the guy who did it we should put together a paypal donation to take care of his legal costs.
--Begin Sarcasm--
Doesn't matter. I'm a sad arrogant person who thinks everything on the web should be handed to me for free, so I block Paypal links, too.
--End Sarcasm--
You people block the ads that support the internet economy and then wonder why your jobs are being sent to India!
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If you can point me to a phone that would work in both the U.S. and Japan, I'd be eternally grateful.
Strange. I've had no trouble using two SonyEricssons (T68mc and Z600) overseas. In both the Czech Republic and Austria I was able to both roam on my home (U.S. T-Mobile) account, and put in SIMs from local companies with no trouble.
I've done it three times.
One with Cincinnati Bell.
Twice with T-Mobile.
However, you completely failed to miss the point. He was talking about listening on the go, not in some audiophile's clean room.
Most people listen to iPods and similar devices while on the move, which is why they're portable devices. And traveling usually involves creating a bit of noise.
I listen to OGGs on my Clie on the way to work. They're encoded at a pretty crappy rate because I ride the subway. Since I'm in a noisy environment anyway I might as well lower the encoding so I can fit more on a memory stick.
Someone listening to an iPod on an airplane or on a subway or a bus or even windsurfind isn't going to notice the subtle things you will with a "decent pair of headphones."
Get off your high horse and join the rest of us in the real world.
It would be nice to have a desktop with no wires except for power.
That's essentially what my wife does. She has an iBook that only leaves her desk when she goes to the couch. At the desk she uses a bluetooth mouse and keyboard.
With our computers, accessories, cell phones, and Palm Pilots (well, a Clie) we have seven Bluetooth devices in the house. My wife hates messy wires. She wishes more things were Bluetooth.
You don't have to if you dont want to, but if I do and I find that useful than I believe I have every right to.
There's that word right that people keep abusing. "I have the right to this... I have the right to that." Bottom line is -- no, you don't have the right to a lot of things. The rights you have are very clearly spelled out by the laws of your country. In the case of the United States, the Bill of Rights. I don't remember the constitution being ammended to include people having the right to leach off of other people's work.
Like many people before you, you confuse a "right" with "I really really wanna. Waaah!"
They're upset because it automatically cuts up the recording by song, tags it with all the correct artist info from XM's broadcast, and encodes it into an MP3 ready for sharing
Ah, well, that's a whole other kettle of fish. Color me informed.
I imagine with the proper shell script and enough radios you could share XM's entire music library on the P2P network of your choice. I'd be a little peeved, myself.
This is precisely the sort of situation that the EFF typically looks into
They do? I don't think the EFF is as effective or active as we all would like to believe.
I had a similar situation -- a company sent me a C&D letter. In my case it was because of a photograph on my web site. It was a picture of me on vacation. This company claimed to own the copyright to my vacation photos and threatened to sue me into oblivion if I didn't take down the picture.
I told EFF. Filled out all the proper forms and guess what happened -- exactly nothing. So, the picture came down and the bad guys won.
I support the EFF and its mission. But don't count on them to be there for you when it's your turn.
I don't see why anyone is so upset about this. I already do this with Sirius Satellite Radio.
All Sirius subscribers have a login and password so they can stream Sirius channels over the internet when they're away from their satellite tuners (at work, in a different room of the house, etc...) I just start the stream and set a timer on one of the many OS X programs that does timed recordings of whatever's playing through the audio channel. I wake up and in a few minutes convert it (depending on the program I use) and move it to my iPod for listening on the train on the way to work.
I don't have XM, so I don't know if this method is also possible with it. If so, then the lawyers simply can't stop this.
Maybe people who realize it can also play non-DRMed MP3's, other formats? But apparently not anti-Pod trolls like yourself.
...it would be cheapened if they played a video parodying it constantly on MTV.
MTV plays videos? It must be nice to live in your country.
In the U.S. of A., MTV (Music Television) doesn't play music. Just crappy pre-scripted "reality" shows. VH1 used to be the only place you could see music videos (the slogan was even "Music First"). Now they're all full of game shows, and bogus "documentaries." Then all that was left was MTV2. But even recently I've noticed they're picking up the MTV show leftovers.
So, where to get videos? Several years ago I had a cable system that carried MuchMusic, and that had videos. But my current setup doesn't offer it. Guess I'll have to download them off some P2P server.
MTV made me a criminal.
The iPod is excellent for its size, speed, and storage. But instead of shelling out for a new one, try finding an older iPod with a dead battery that someone is trying to unload. Maybe for $50 on eBay, or something.
It may not be able to hold a charge on its own, but it still works great as a tiny bus-powered firewire hard drive. An external firewire drive doesn't hold a charge, either, so what's the difference?
And if down the road your needs change, you can always replace the battery for $50 and you've got yourself a music player!
Why not just buy a used phone on eBay? They have lots of antiques for people who like to live int he past.
"Sorry sir, but to improve the customer experience, our Fun-gineering department now requires that no cameras or recording devices may be allowed in the park. If you like, you can buy one of our disposable cameras on Main Street USA".
Ringling Brothers circus already does this. I was at their show in Houston when they turned away dozens and dozens of parents with crying children because they brought their still and video cameras. But there on the inside -- you could by Ringling cameras.
Even worse, they wouldn't let the lady ahead of me in because her kid had a half-eaten candy bar. No outside food allowed.
I'll never go to another one of their circuses again.
So, when I'm on the road in a hotel I can plug this into my USB port, then plug an Ethernet cable into it and surf wirelessly? Oh... except for the Ethernet cable plugged into my USB port.
Required "by law" to include Macrovision? Care to point out a reference to this law? Is it state, federal, or U.N.? I always assumed the people who make DVD players put it in by choice so the people who buy the DVD players can play DVDs both with Macrovision and those that lack Macrovision.
Joe and Jane Slopbucket aren't going to buy your Dee Vee Dee player at the local Mega-lo-mart if little Bobby Sue's favorite Disney titles won't play on it because they have Macrovision.
There's already a device for this. It's called an Ambient Orb. I had one on loan for about six months. It was seriously cool. it would change colors with the weather, pulse when a storm was approaching, and could change color based on the status of your e-mail. I've been meaning to buy one of my own. Thanks for reminding me.
If scanning people's ports is completely OK with you, then how about the GOVERNMENT scanning your ports? The TLAs in Washington could put together a list of people with vulnerable machines to... um... warn them if there's a problem. Or just keep a database of what services everyone is running. After all, as you said, "a port scan by itself is a completely legitimate activity."
::All the tinfoil hat Slashdot Haxxors just exploded::
3... 2... 1... Kablooey!
But what about lesser known mainframes such as the Prime.
How sad for me to find out that not only am I obsolete, I'm also obscure. I remember PrimeOS fondly if for no other reason than it was where I cut my teeth as a young hacker.
Would have been about 1984, dialing in to a univeristy's Prime in another state. Me on my Commodore 64 with my Microbits 300 baud modem (I was the fastest kid on the block. Everyone else had 110 or baudots). It was like NetHack, but in real life. Learned to get in. Learned to navigate. Learned about these great things called directories (unavailable on my Commodore 1541 disks). When I couldn't affort to buy new floppy disks, I started storing all of my programs and files on their mainframe. They seemed to have plenty of space. I was in there for more than a year before I got caught. Ah... those were the days.
Thank for you for the trip down memory lane.
... you are telling me that one system crash can knock out half of the major airlines?
That's not what it says at all. American and U.S. Airways certainly don't count as half the major airlines in the United States. There are hundreds of airlines in the U.S. of A., and maybe a dozen qualify as "major." And by some measures, U.S. Airways doesn't count as a "major." So, no, you're completely wrong. Don't read things into the article that aren't there (assuming you RTFAs.)
I'm actually suprised the Karma hasn't gotten more press on slashdot.
You must be new here.
I'm still using my little 5gig original iPod with no problems. Actually, it was my wife's. Last Christmas I got her the 40gig model, so I got hers as a hand-me-down. 5gigs is plenty for me, as I only have about a dozen CDs. She has more than a thousand (took me three months to rip all those CDs), and is rapidly filling up the remaining space with songs purchased from iTunes. I hope a 60GB model comes out before she fills hers up.
I think this has happened before (someone living without a pulse). There was some old man in Kentucky in the last year or so who was hooked up to an external blood pumping device. He was on the news because he lived for a few months, setting a record for the person who lived the longest without a heart. He was asked by a television reporter what it was like to not have a heart, and the guy said not having a pulse was the strangest thing he'd ever experienced. He said it was really really eerily quiet. Gross.
Possibly. They're supposed to be filming the helicopter scenes at night. Unfortunately, I work nights, but I might get lucky and they'll still be filming when I get home and I can take some snaps from my parking garage across the street.
When they arrest the guy who did it we should put together a paypal donation to take care of his legal costs.
--Begin Sarcasm--
Doesn't matter. I'm a sad arrogant person who thinks everything on the web should be handed to me for free, so I block Paypal links, too.
--End Sarcasm--
You people block the ads that support the internet economy and then wonder why your jobs are being sent to India!