I think Mr. McBride is going down for extortion. This guy acts like some high-tech mafia kingpin. Not like Tony Soprano, but more like Guy Caballero (from SCTV for you young uns).
How did so many post before me? It took a long time to pretend to read.
Anyway, nice conglomeration of "stuff" about broadband. The post office being broadband is bunk. My postman does not show up at my door once/second. Whereas my broadband can deliver at least 200kb/s at any given second.
I don't see this guys point. Broadband is a simple demand/supply problem. Very well understood problem. What broadband needs is better applications if it wants to be taken up. RIAA is the single biggest enemy of broadband because most demand for broadband (that I know of, though not me) is for file sharing/stealing.
Sheesh. Two completely misleading stories in a row on this topic.
The "new" format is not the default. You must specifically say "I want to encrypt this document." Nobody is going to use this crap, just like nobody uses it with the Media Player format.
Stop getting yourselves all worked up over absolutely nothing. People are actually starting to believe this pseudo-journalistic crap about Office being spewed on slashdot.
What's the matter? Can't fight MS on the merits? Do you really have to stoop this low to win over a few OOo converts? Pathetic.
Wow. So this is how it all ends. I don't think that the roaches are gonna survive this one. Let's hope that in the next evolutionary cycle that the birds finally get a chance to rule the planet. Or maybe the insects. Anything but the reptiles again.
So who won? Gates? Figures.
Where does the looting begin? Can I do an Ask Slashdot about whether to loot a projection TV or an LCD?
No, I think I just formed a poorly worded sentence. My point is that it's like driving a BMW in Hazard County. The roads are barely finished and half the bridges are out.
Once I can get a cell phone call (caller calling me from their cell) who isn't always breaking up and gets cut off 10% of the time, then you can talk bells and whistles.
Well, one of the problems I have is trying to get data connections during peak times. My two carriers say that is the fault of "teen twits sending pictures of their cats to their friends." The quote is a direct quote from a service rep.
OK. So spend an extra $150 on a phone and an extra $10/month ($120/year conservatively) on your cell plan. I'm sure picture of your cat and quilt are worth $300.
In the next 6-12 months, both sticker shock and cell plans going up in price will put this technology to sleep for good. Then, they'll be selling the same twits a GPS enabled phone or something. "Big whoop. I know where I am. Getting lost 4 times a day has always been such a big problem..."
The whole camera on a cell phone thing always reminds me of the geneticist in South Park. "This monkey is useless to me, it only has one ass."
Cameras on phones are totally worthless for the general public. Yes, there are a few applications, but they pretty much are not even fun toys. I mean, cell phones in general have enough problems with the networks. It's like they're trying to mask that by deploying this crap.
"We just created one of the great nanotech ideas of the year. How can we incorporate this into cell phones?"
I completely disagree. If my wife can click the "Install Patch" button when Windows XP pops it up, anyone can.
How hard is that?
Do your user's have problems finding the "On" button? How do they possibly get any usefulness out of a computer if they are such complete dolts?
The patch thing is not hard.
If they are that idiotic, just turn on the switch for them so the patches automatically install. You are just being difficult and somehow want to change your completely unrealistic experience into some jihad to destroy MS.
Any user who does not patch daily and harms another due to not being patched should be punished. Here is how I think it should work....
A few big ISPs should simply start cutting service to those who have been backdoored and are zombies, have opened virus laden e-mails, or are otherwise infected and causing others problems. For example, no firewall on an open, always-on connection. Especially cable modem ISPs and DSL providers should do this. It should be VERY heavily marketed... "If you don't patch and change your behavior, we cut you off without warning."
My feeling is that by doing this, people will finally start learning how to patch and how to not open e-mail attachments. People will get firewalls and AV software ASAP.
I have seen the threat of this work on a small scale. ISPs are dimwitted morons for not requiring this in the first place. How stupid to give a bunch of newbies loaded guns and then deny responsibility. Buy stock in firewall and AV companies!
I'm pretty certain that my firewall would flag the bursts. If not, seems a simple rule or two would suffice to flag them. I'd like to see this in action. I suspect that it is pretty lame and easily detected.
My guess is that by Friday night, the kiddies will have thousands of these going. So, I guess I can do see for myself tomorrow.
Chill, dude. Hmmm. Let's see. I was pulled over at 11:00pm one night on an empty road while going 4 mph (alledgedly) over the posted 30 speed limit. No cars in sight. (to be honest, I was doing everything I could to not go over the speed limit. It turns out that our speedometer was not calibrated correctly.)
My wife was sitting next to me. And in labor to deliver our first child.
The police woman USED HER JUDGEMENT and escorted us to the hospital. And your cute little computer would have done what? And exactly how would have that helped society and my relationship with society? Did everyone win in my outcome due to the use of human judgement?
These sort of things happen every day and all the time. I mean ALL THE TIME. We trust the police to use their judgement. When you take that away, you lose an aweful lot. Zero tolerance is for nazis and people with no capacity for compassion, instinct, or intelligence. Real human judgement kicks ass and makes life so much more fun. Learn it. Use it. Love it. Peace!
Where is the judgement here? What if I swerve to miss a deer? What if I have an emergency? Is the maintenance of this thing and calibration my responsibility or the governments?
Looks like you're guilty until proven innocent again.
Great use of tax money... NOT! Are the societal costs of these problems so freakin' high that this is the best answer? Are there not other more pressing issues? Are the police too busy chasing online file traders that they can't police the roads any more?
I can think of hundreds of possible abuses. How about J-walking? Everyone does it. Should the police pick out a few people from cameras to start sending tickets to? Maybe they target politicians who J-walk to embarass them? Or target someone who spoke up at the last town board meeting about police union issues?
Or maybe they simply start automatically sending tickets to everyone's home who J-walks for $50 when municiple revenues are falling short? Just like the tollway systems now do to toll cheats.
I can think of so many possible ways to abuse this system. And if it can be abused, it will. Almost every arrest a police officer makes and almost every ticket they write is a matter of judgement. What happens when we take that judgement away? Are there consequences?
Or not. It didn't work. No duh. Did anyone really think it would? I always got the idea of the guy selling these was like the monorail salesman in the Simpsons.
I'm completely amazed that the general public has become conditioned to tolerate this crap from law enforcement. Yes, it's nice that it's gone now, but we all know it will be back. And furthermore, the cameras themselves are still there!!! I mean, come on!! We should be outraged enough that the cameras are there, let alone the facial recognition.
Is civil disobedience dead or has civil disobedience become outlawed? What sort of legal/semi-legal countermeasures can be taken against surveillence cameras set up in public places? I'd love to have some sort of laser pointer that I can point at cameras in public areas to break them.
How do they know that I'm not viewing the ads? I don't think they do.
Anyway, in terms of ads, Internet ads suck. They are never informative, often misleading, sometimes have technical problems, and sometimes link to places you don't expect. I'd say that most Internet ads are out to create name/brand awareness. IQ-of-37 types of ads... I think my kids get "better" ads on Nick.
I find some ads to be fine. I'll listen to the occasional radio ad or watch a TV ad every now and then. However, I typically avoid brands that are too heavy into brand awareness. Something fishy about all that, me thinks.
I don't watch TV either. At least, very little. Most days I watch none.
I like getting news in real time on the Internet and from various sources. I feel much more informed than my in-laws, who religiously sit in front of Dan Rather every night and think that he some how makes them more informed than I.
I do read local newspapers for more local flavor, though.
For entertainment, let's just say that the Internet offers, um, more provative content...
I even listen to radio over the Internet. I think my lifestyle will eventually demand a Tablet PC or something. But, I'll wait until they beef them up a bit on battery life and applications.
That said, I'm not sure how long all of this free content will last. Given my choice of browser, I don't view any ads. How long can the "system" support this leeching of content?
The final aspect to my online life is the social one. Email and IM makes life much easier as opposed to the unconnected world.
So, from an information, entertainment, and social point of view, the content of the online world has finally reached critical mass for me. It may take another 5 years for this to make some drastic change in TV, newspaper, etc. But, I think we have finally passed the inflection point.
I'm not advocating anything. I'm just bringing up some points that I rarely, if ever, hear discussed. When I was in Catholic school 25 years ago, I heard some of these discussed in some rather open minded discussions. Imagine that. At least they/we had the guts to discuss the issues.
Just because we may disagree does not mean I'm a troll. So, your blood pressure went up a few points when you read it. And this is bad because...
Slashdot Mirror
Has either been censored or slashdotted. Can someone explain the difference?
Thank you. You are oh so correct.
Step 1 Post liberal-agenda-ish items in every 3rd story with heavy use of "code words"
Step 2 ?
Step 3 Profit
What if we had a Beowulf cluster of these obtusely liberal stories?
I, for one, welcome our new bleeding heart, anti-military, dope smoking overlords.
In Soviet Russia, far left agenda pays YOU for necessary military work.
Now can you mod me up? TIA!
At what point does slashdot just go ahead and directly link each story to the Democratic Party's home page? I think it's long over due.
Liberal hippy punks!
He'll end up at Microsoft.
.NET is better than J2EE. Right?
I mean, we all learned today that
If it's on Slashdot, then it must be true!
I think Mr. McBride is going down for extortion. This guy acts like some high-tech mafia kingpin. Not like Tony Soprano, but more like Guy Caballero (from SCTV for you young uns).
How did so many post before me? It took a long time to pretend to read.
Anyway, nice conglomeration of "stuff" about broadband. The post office being broadband is bunk. My postman does not show up at my door once/second. Whereas my broadband can deliver at least 200kb/s at any given second.
I don't see this guys point. Broadband is a simple demand/supply problem. Very well understood problem. What broadband needs is better applications if it wants to be taken up. RIAA is the single biggest enemy of broadband because most demand for broadband (that I know of, though not me) is for file sharing/stealing.
Sheesh. Two completely misleading stories in a row on this topic.
The "new" format is not the default. You must specifically say "I want to encrypt this document." Nobody is going to use this crap, just like nobody uses it with the Media Player format.
Stop getting yourselves all worked up over absolutely nothing. People are actually starting to believe this pseudo-journalistic crap about Office being spewed on slashdot.
What's the matter? Can't fight MS on the merits? Do you really have to stoop this low to win over a few OOo converts? Pathetic.
Why do we lack the energy? Did we stay up too late last night partying? Or, are we just depressed that the summer is almost over?
Wow. So this is how it all ends. I don't think that the roaches are gonna survive this one. Let's hope that in the next evolutionary cycle that the birds finally get a chance to rule the planet. Or maybe the insects. Anything but the reptiles again.
So who won? Gates? Figures.
Where does the looting begin? Can I do an Ask Slashdot about whether to loot a projection TV or an LCD?
Will your insurance company pick it up if you (I mean it) damages another car?
In the US, these have to pass some rigorous gov't inspection and testing before they are allowed on the road. I don't think I want the liability.
Is parking really that hard? Are people really that stupid and lazy? Don't answer that. Can I get a robot to feed me my cereal in the morning?
No, I think I just formed a poorly worded sentence. My point is that it's like driving a BMW in Hazard County. The roads are barely finished and half the bridges are out.
Once I can get a cell phone call (caller calling me from their cell) who isn't always breaking up and gets cut off 10% of the time, then you can talk bells and whistles.
Well, one of the problems I have is trying to get data connections during peak times. My two carriers say that is the fault of "teen twits sending pictures of their cats to their friends." The quote is a direct quote from a service rep.
OK. So spend an extra $150 on a phone and an extra $10/month ($120/year conservatively) on your cell plan. I'm sure picture of your cat and quilt are worth $300.
In the next 6-12 months, both sticker shock and cell plans going up in price will put this technology to sleep for good. Then, they'll be selling the same twits a GPS enabled phone or something. "Big whoop. I know where I am. Getting lost 4 times a day has always been such a big problem..."
The whole camera on a cell phone thing always reminds me of the geneticist in South Park. "This monkey is useless to me, it only has one ass."
Cameras on phones are totally worthless for the general public. Yes, there are a few applications, but they pretty much are not even fun toys. I mean, cell phones in general have enough problems with the networks. It's like they're trying to mask that by deploying this crap.
"We just created one of the great nanotech ideas of the year. How can we incorporate this into cell phones?"
I completely disagree. If my wife can click the "Install Patch" button when Windows XP pops it up, anyone can.
How hard is that?
Do your user's have problems finding the "On" button? How do they possibly get any usefulness out of a computer if they are such complete dolts?
The patch thing is not hard.
If they are that idiotic, just turn on the switch for them so the patches automatically install. You are just being difficult and somehow want to change your completely unrealistic experience into some jihad to destroy MS.
Any user who does not patch daily and harms another due to not being patched should be punished. Here is how I think it should work....
... "If you don't patch and change your behavior, we cut you off without warning."
A few big ISPs should simply start cutting service to those who have been backdoored and are zombies, have opened virus laden e-mails, or are otherwise infected and causing others problems. For example, no firewall on an open, always-on connection. Especially cable modem ISPs and DSL providers should do this. It should be VERY heavily marketed
My feeling is that by doing this, people will finally start learning how to patch and how to not open e-mail attachments. People will get firewalls and AV software ASAP.
I have seen the threat of this work on a small scale. ISPs are dimwitted morons for not requiring this in the first place. How stupid to give a bunch of newbies loaded guns and then deny responsibility. Buy stock in firewall and AV companies!
I'm pretty certain that my firewall would flag the bursts. If not, seems a simple rule or two would suffice to flag them. I'd like to see this in action. I suspect that it is pretty lame and easily detected.
My guess is that by Friday night, the kiddies will have thousands of these going. So, I guess I can do see for myself tomorrow.
What if I own the CD but got files off the Internet because I was too lazy to rip them? Would I still be expecting to be sent to the prison camp?
In other news, all songs produced by RIAA artists in the last 10 years all have the same MD5 hash anyway, because they're all the same.
The rest are slashdotters.
Except me, of course.
Chill, dude. Hmmm. Let's see. I was pulled over at 11:00pm one night on an empty road while going 4 mph (alledgedly) over the posted 30 speed limit. No cars in sight. (to be honest, I was doing everything I could to not go over the speed limit. It turns out that our speedometer was not calibrated correctly.)
My wife was sitting next to me. And in labor to deliver our first child.
The police woman USED HER JUDGEMENT and escorted us to the hospital. And your cute little computer would have done what? And exactly how would have that helped society and my relationship with society? Did everyone win in my outcome due to the use of human judgement?
These sort of things happen every day and all the time. I mean ALL THE TIME. We trust the police to use their judgement. When you take that away, you lose an aweful lot. Zero tolerance is for nazis and people with no capacity for compassion, instinct, or intelligence. Real human judgement kicks ass and makes life so much more fun. Learn it. Use it. Love it. Peace!
How stupid. Period.
Where is the judgement here? What if I swerve to miss a deer? What if I have an emergency? Is the maintenance of this thing and calibration my responsibility or the governments?
Looks like you're guilty until proven innocent again.
Great use of tax money... NOT! Are the societal costs of these problems so freakin' high that this is the best answer? Are there not other more pressing issues? Are the police too busy chasing online file traders that they can't police the roads any more?
I can think of hundreds of possible abuses. How about J-walking? Everyone does it. Should the police pick out a few people from cameras to start sending tickets to? Maybe they target politicians who J-walk to embarass them? Or target someone who spoke up at the last town board meeting about police union issues?
Or maybe they simply start automatically sending tickets to everyone's home who J-walks for $50 when municiple revenues are falling short? Just like the tollway systems now do to toll cheats.
I can think of so many possible ways to abuse this system. And if it can be abused, it will. Almost every arrest a police officer makes and almost every ticket they write is a matter of judgement. What happens when we take that judgement away? Are there consequences?
Or not. It didn't work. No duh. Did anyone really think it would? I always got the idea of the guy selling these was like the monorail salesman in the Simpsons.
I'm completely amazed that the general public has become conditioned to tolerate this crap from law enforcement. Yes, it's nice that it's gone now, but we all know it will be back. And furthermore, the cameras themselves are still there!!! I mean, come on!! We should be outraged enough that the cameras are there, let alone the facial recognition.
Is civil disobedience dead or has civil disobedience become outlawed? What sort of legal/semi-legal countermeasures can be taken against surveillence cameras set up in public places? I'd love to have some sort of laser pointer that I can point at cameras in public areas to break them.
How do they know that I'm not viewing the ads? I don't think they do.
Anyway, in terms of ads, Internet ads suck. They are never informative, often misleading, sometimes have technical problems, and sometimes link to places you don't expect. I'd say that most Internet ads are out to create name/brand awareness. IQ-of-37 types of ads... I think my kids get "better" ads on Nick.
I find some ads to be fine. I'll listen to the occasional radio ad or watch a TV ad every now and then. However, I typically avoid brands that are too heavy into brand awareness. Something fishy about all that, me thinks.
The Internet is a vaster wasteland.
OK. Yes, it does matter.
I don't watch TV either. At least, very little. Most days I watch none.
I like getting news in real time on the Internet and from various sources. I feel much more informed than my in-laws, who religiously sit in front of Dan Rather every night and think that he some how makes them more informed than I.
I do read local newspapers for more local flavor, though.
For entertainment, let's just say that the Internet offers, um, more provative content...
I even listen to radio over the Internet. I think my lifestyle will eventually demand a Tablet PC or something. But, I'll wait until they beef them up a bit on battery life and applications.
That said, I'm not sure how long all of this free content will last. Given my choice of browser, I don't view any ads. How long can the "system" support this leeching of content?
The final aspect to my online life is the social one. Email and IM makes life much easier as opposed to the unconnected world.
So, from an information, entertainment, and social point of view, the content of the online world has finally reached critical mass for me. It may take another 5 years for this to make some drastic change in TV, newspaper, etc. But, I think we have finally passed the inflection point.
I'm not advocating anything. I'm just bringing up some points that I rarely, if ever, hear discussed. When I was in Catholic school 25 years ago, I heard some of these discussed in some rather open minded discussions. Imagine that. At least they/we had the guts to discuss the issues.
Just because we may disagree does not mean I'm a troll. So, your blood pressure went up a few points when you read it. And this is bad because...