I honestly don't even like the idea of them sending an email with this information. I can see some unscrupulous thief sending an email with forged headers stating: "Hi from amazon, our credit card database system was stolen by some meddlin' hackers, please click this link and reenter your information to reactivate your Amazon account. We apologize for the inconvienience."
The article has no details on one point, how did Nextel "improperly obtain" the prototypes. Something tells me that they didn't just walk into Verizon's corporate headquarters and ask, and I doubt they pulled off a Mission Impossible stunt.... so likely, someone inside of Verizon had a small grudge and had already tried calling the BSA.
In which case.... Verizon could probably argue that.... ummm, the phones fell off the back of a truck.
The ultimate winner here is Alanis Morrissette. I mean, who would have thought, that 8 years after Jagged Little Pill came out, people would still be complaining about it. Not because it was bad, but because of it's misuse of grammer.
Those are some pretty damn persistant Slashdot Grammer Nazi's.
A new exploit that supposedly works without a modchip
Should have an asterik and a footnote that reads "But you still have to open up the X-Box, and thus, void your warranty, by gobbing some solder on the main board."
Eligible for $100,000 prize, mod is not.
In other news, Bob Exeter has responded to our repeated inquiries by stating that he is, "Not an alien" despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
He claims that his large forehead, glistening white hair, immense interest in nuclear power, and large, saucer shaped dish are all merely figments of our imagination.
The RIAA/MPAA still doesnt get it.
Downloading is the wave of the future. Back in 1999, they should have embraced Napster, and converted it to some sort of pay system. Instead, they chose to sue it out of existance, and a small file trading network became a worldwide phenomenom. Napster may be gone, but dozens of other services immediately took it's place.
iTunes is a start in the right direction, although I don't have a mac, so I couldn't say whether it's that great or not.
Instead of squashing everything that threatens their decades old business model, they should change and adapt, like the rest of the world has.
What artists seem to be forgetting, is that in the 50's and 60's, the industry was driven by singles, and not album sales.
Most people, in that time period, only bought 45's, it was bands such as the Beatles, Pink Floyd, and the Eagles that drove the album oriented rock movement by filling LP's with GOOD songs.
If artists were releasing entire CD's of good material, most people would want all of it. However, I fail to see their point when they say this is undercutting their bottom line. I say, "So what? That guy who only wanted 'Like a Virgin' or 'Jason Andrew Relva' was going to just download it from Kazaa, but now he's actually paying for it."
There are definitely some artists (or there used to be) that produce the album as a whole, rather than as a collection of songs. For example, the Beatle's Sgt. Pepper's as well as Pink Floyd made a point of that.
Agreed, but if I, for some reason, only want a copy of the Beatles "Fixing a Hole", and I want to BUY IT LEGALLY, why should I be required to buy the whole album? These artists are shooting themselves in the foot. People WANT TO BUY their material, maybe not all of it, and they are saying "No, you can only buy it the way I WANT you to."
This will only serve to drive fans away from the legal services and back onto Kazaa.
They usually do, although it is VERY possible to have DSL and no phone line. You don't need an active dial tone for DSL to work, but the phone company would like you to think you do, which is why most often, they will not provide DSL without local phone service.
Being that of all the major league baseball teams, only one team, yes, one, made money last season, I don't think this added expense would be very wise.
On top of that, part of the fun of baseball (and any sport), is disagreeing with the umps call. If there isn't some subjectivity, there's no fun in the game.
IE. How can I argue with my friends about the validity of a call if a robot made it?
All this will serve to do is drive even more people away from major league ballparks.
While I don't disagree that this man was definitely speeding (forensics from the accident dictate that), My front tires often slip (and thus, spin) when going over speedbumps at higher speeds. Also, adverse weather conditions, such as rain can cause less road traction and again, cause the wheels to essentially leave the road and spin freely. Depending upon the slope and conditions of the road (potholes, speedbumps, large inclines followed by large declines), it's fairly easy to have your front tires leave the ground, at least for a brief moment.
But yea, this guy definitely got what was coming to him, EDR or not.
While I can see the benefits of this technology, I also see serious risks in how it can be used.
The accident investigator was able to calculate that he was driving 98 mph using skid marks and the condition of the vehicles, and they didn't have to utilize a black box that could easily be fooled.
The police can piece back together accident scenes with very little eye witness testimony, I only see these new EDR's as an erosion of privacy. How long will it be before the police can scan my vehicle to see if I'm wearing my seatbelt, or ticket me remotely (think red light cameras only for speeding?)
The argument that insurance companies will eventually require these is even more likely.
What is not being pointed out is the pollution levels produced by current vehicles compared to a comparable (estimated) level of hydrogen usage. Something tells me that the fossil fuels still pollute a hella lot more... and have the added benefit of running out eventually.
Personally, I can't stand AIM. I haven't used it in a while, but when I did, It had no automatic logging feature, messages popped up automatically screwing with what I was doing, the Away feature didn't allow you to speak to people and remain in Away mode, the idle detector was an invasion of privacy and personally, I feel the program was bloated.
Automatic logging aside (Which I hate.... I don't need people I know keeping endless logs of what I say to them. I've had more then one friend come back later complaining to me about something I said and they'll pull out their Trillian logs to prove it. My words to them, "Get a life."
The ability to put up an away message and keep talking? Wouldn't that basically say that you are, in fact, not away. If you're avoiding someone... why are they on your buddy list (and hence, can see that you are online.)
You can turn off the idle dectector. For someone who doesn't like invasion of privacy... automatic logging sure seems to be it, for the other person at least. You have to get permission to log telephone calls, why should aim be different?
As for the ads (which you don't complain about, but others are).... the 2 tiny ads don't bother me. They are unobtrusive, and 8 out of 10 times, the bigger one forgets to be an ad and is just an AOL graphic. But, to everyone his own, I guess. AOL has to support the service some way.
This seems like nothing more than a sneaky attempt by SCO to force IBM to settle.... Did SCO not check into IBM's operating profits before this announcement? This isn't a David and Goliath situation, this is a David VS. 4 Goliaths with Lasers.
Beat you, I have already filed a patent for a $5 test for SARS.... actually, my patent is on Test for infection that costs money... but my interpretation is that you are violating my patent just by thinking of a similar idea... However, I would be willing to liscense your idea back to you for an undisclosed sum....
Yes, I've used a Lindows machine a family member bought on a whim; it's no longer running Lindows. You better believe they didn't know it didn't have Windows. Lindows/Windows... it's all the same... right??? He didn't have a clue what he was getting. None. I'll be a good chunk of all the Lindows machine buying folks don't know either.
This is because too many people think computer *means* windows... That is, unless the computer looks like a gumdrop, in which case, it means *kooky macintosh*, but they wouldnt know what to do with that either.
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I honestly don't even like the idea of them sending an email with this information. I can see some unscrupulous thief sending an email with forged headers stating: "Hi from amazon, our credit card database system was stolen by some meddlin' hackers, please click this link and reenter your information to reactivate your Amazon account. We apologize for the inconvienience."
The article has no details on one point, how did Nextel "improperly obtain" the prototypes. Something tells me that they didn't just walk into Verizon's corporate headquarters and ask, and I doubt they pulled off a Mission Impossible stunt.... so likely, someone inside of Verizon had a small grudge and had already tried calling the BSA.
In which case.... Verizon could probably argue that.... ummm, the phones fell off the back of a truck.
The ultimate winner here is Alanis Morrissette. I mean, who would have thought, that 8 years after Jagged Little Pill came out, people would still be complaining about it. Not because it was bad, but because of it's misuse of grammer.
Those are some pretty damn persistant Slashdot Grammer Nazi's.
I made a little tin foil hat for my fast forward button.
Take that ad-execs!
A new exploit that supposedly works without a modchip
Should have an asterik and a footnote that reads "But you still have to open up the X-Box, and thus, void your warranty, by gobbing some solder on the main board."
Eligible for $100,000 prize, mod is not.
Well, there goes my uptime.
While I agree that MS has erred in the past, they shouldn't be forced to carry another company's product within their product.
However, they should not be allowed to continue carrying their own, proprietary version of java. Does the ruling say anything about that?
In other news, Bob Exeter has responded to our repeated inquiries by stating that he is, "Not an alien" despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
He claims that his large forehead, glistening white hair, immense interest in nuclear power, and large, saucer shaped dish are all merely figments of our imagination.
The RIAA/MPAA still doesnt get it.
Downloading is the wave of the future. Back in 1999, they should have embraced Napster, and converted it to some sort of pay system. Instead, they chose to sue it out of existance, and a small file trading network became a worldwide phenomenom. Napster may be gone, but dozens of other services immediately took it's place.
iTunes is a start in the right direction, although I don't have a mac, so I couldn't say whether it's that great or not.
Instead of squashing everything that threatens their decades old business model, they should change and adapt, like the rest of the world has.
In other news, water has been reported to be wet.
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This just in, Fran Drescher is still annoying.
What artists seem to be forgetting, is that in the 50's and 60's, the industry was driven by singles, and not album sales.
Most people, in that time period, only bought 45's, it was bands such as the Beatles, Pink Floyd, and the Eagles that drove the album oriented rock movement by filling LP's with GOOD songs.
If artists were releasing entire CD's of good material, most people would want all of it. However, I fail to see their point when they say this is undercutting their bottom line. I say, "So what? That guy who only wanted 'Like a Virgin' or 'Jason Andrew Relva' was going to just download it from Kazaa, but now he's actually paying for it."
There are definitely some artists (or there used to be) that produce the album as a whole, rather than as a collection of songs. For example, the Beatle's Sgt. Pepper's as well as Pink Floyd made a point of that.
Agreed, but if I, for some reason, only want a copy of the Beatles "Fixing a Hole", and I want to BUY IT LEGALLY, why should I be required to buy the whole album? These artists are shooting themselves in the foot. People WANT TO BUY their material, maybe not all of it, and they are saying "No, you can only buy it the way I WANT you to."
This will only serve to drive fans away from the legal services and back onto Kazaa.
They usually do, although it is VERY possible to have DSL and no phone line. You don't need an active dial tone for DSL to work, but the phone company would like you to think you do, which is why most often, they will not provide DSL without local phone service.
Dennis the Mennis apparently grew up and got a job at NASA!
Being that of all the major league baseball teams, only one team, yes, one, made money last season, I don't think this added expense would be very wise. On top of that, part of the fun of baseball (and any sport), is disagreeing with the umps call. If there isn't some subjectivity, there's no fun in the game. IE. How can I argue with my friends about the validity of a call if a robot made it? All this will serve to do is drive even more people away from major league ballparks.
While I don't disagree that this man was definitely speeding (forensics from the accident dictate that), My front tires often slip (and thus, spin) when going over speedbumps at higher speeds.
Also, adverse weather conditions, such as rain can cause less road traction and again, cause the wheels to essentially leave the road and spin freely.
Depending upon the slope and conditions of the road (potholes, speedbumps, large inclines followed by large declines), it's fairly easy to have your front tires leave the ground, at least for a brief moment.
But yea, this guy definitely got what was coming to him, EDR or not.
While I can see the benefits of this technology, I also see serious risks in how it can be used.
The accident investigator was able to calculate that he was driving 98 mph using skid marks and the condition of the vehicles, and they didn't have to utilize a black box that could easily be fooled.
The police can piece back together accident scenes with very little eye witness testimony, I only see these new EDR's as an erosion of privacy. How long will it be before the police can scan my vehicle to see if I'm wearing my seatbelt, or ticket me remotely (think red light cameras only for speeding?)
The argument that insurance companies will eventually require these is even more likely.
This news is positively shocking!
What is not being pointed out is the pollution levels produced by current vehicles compared to a comparable (estimated) level of hydrogen usage. Something tells me that the fossil fuels still pollute a hella lot more... and have the added benefit of running out eventually.
Hydrogen.
Tastes great.
Less filling.
Personally, I can't stand AIM. I haven't used it in a while, but when I did, It had no automatic logging feature, messages popped up automatically screwing with what I was doing, the Away feature didn't allow you to speak to people and remain in Away mode, the idle detector was an invasion of privacy and personally, I feel the program was bloated.
Automatic logging aside (Which I hate.... I don't need people I know keeping endless logs of what I say to them. I've had more then one friend come back later complaining to me about something I said and they'll pull out their Trillian logs to prove it. My words to them, "Get a life."
The ability to put up an away message and keep talking? Wouldn't that basically say that you are, in fact, not away. If you're avoiding someone... why are they on your buddy list (and hence, can see that you are online.)
You can turn off the idle dectector. For someone who doesn't like invasion of privacy... automatic logging sure seems to be it, for the other person at least. You have to get permission to log telephone calls, why should aim be different?
As for the ads (which you don't complain about, but others are).... the 2 tiny ads don't bother me. They are unobtrusive, and 8 out of 10 times, the bigger one forgets to be an ad and is just an AOL graphic. But, to everyone his own, I guess. AOL has to support the service some way.
My dreams are coming true... Now, if only there were a way to combine a time machine and a DeLorean.
What does this really change though?
This seems like nothing more than a sneaky attempt by SCO to force IBM to settle.... Did SCO not check into IBM's operating profits before this announcement? This isn't a David and Goliath situation, this is a David VS. 4 Goliaths with Lasers.
And I want Goliath to win too.
Stupid SCO.
First they have to create some Linux and Mac virus's to scare everyone into buying it though.
Beat you, I have already filed a patent for a $5 test for SARS.... actually, my patent is on Test for infection that costs money... but my interpretation is that you are violating my patent just by thinking of a similar idea... However, I would be willing to liscense your idea back to you for an undisclosed sum....
Yes, I've used a Lindows machine a family member bought on a whim; it's no longer running Lindows. You better believe they didn't know it didn't have Windows. Lindows/Windows... it's all the same... right??? He didn't have a clue what he was getting. None. I'll be a good chunk of all the Lindows machine buying folks don't know either.
This is because too many people think computer *means* windows... That is, unless the computer looks like a gumdrop, in which case, it means *kooky macintosh*, but they wouldnt know what to do with that either.