I, my good people, am Nike-Free going on 8 years. They definitely have the largest range of nice sportswear, but their business practices turn my stomach and close my wallet. Just have to decide to do it.
Pfft, I've been Nike-free for 26 years (which is also my age)...I didn't have the money for them when I was a kid. By the time I could afford the shoes, I noticed that they didn't fit my feet well anyway, and I'm not the sort of person that buys a brand just because it's popular.
Unfortunately, nomatter how well deserved, a Sony boycott stands no chance of working. The only successful boycotts have been because of the passion of the groups undertaking the boycott. The Montgomery Bus Boycott comes to mind. There have been a few evangelical boycotts in the past that have been successful at censoring major media outlets in the short-term, but even those have been ridiculously short-lived because they didn't have the support of mainstream Americans.
That said, I won't be terribly surprised if the price-point of the PS3 proves to be a disaster for that division of Sony.
Ignoring the fact that you are quoting a time scale much less intense than the OP
Wow talk about everybody jumping down my throat...I'll respond to you since you're the one person who didn't post as an Anonymous Coward.
Anyway, my mistake...I misread microseconds as milliseconds. It was early on a Sunday, and I wasn't really paying all that much attention. So, yes, you are correct. And you're probably correct that 10ms isn't fast enough to work well for noise cancellation. I'm somewhat doubtful that those relatively inexpensive noise-cancellation headphones are getting latency times of 20 microseconds, since they're widely reported to not really work all that well either, but I haven't measured them, so I don't know that for sure.
Even with headphones, you need a real-time operating system because the response must be generated within a few dozen microseconds. Off the shelf Linux or, -gasps-, MS Windows, cannot deliver this, no matter how fancy the software.
I work in pro audio. My audio interface is set to a latency of 10ms, and can be set even lower. Extremely low latency is necessary for professional work with audio. Given the relatively simple phase-inversion necessary to create a noise-cancellation effect, there's absolutely no reason Windows, OSX, or Linux couldn't do the job just as well as an $80 set of headphones. However, with Windows, the standard-issue Soundblaster or onboard sound chip would probably have to be replaced with something that supports ASIO drivers. You would also need to place the microphone right up next to your head, which could be awkward.
Man, I'm gonna start announcing Duke Nukem products that I have no serious intent or means to bring to market. Duke Nukem airlines, anyone? How about Duke Nukem cola?
Isn't this a breach of privacy and wouldn't this person or MySpace be vulnerable to lawsuits?
Anything you put on a public web site is--by definition--not private. It would be a breach of privacy if MySpace used private, personal information, but if the script just culled information from public pages, there's no breach of privacy.
Just skimmed the article, and it didn't seem all that easy even with the code.
How hard could it be? Supposing you have a list of registered sex offenders (and they *are* registered, so that should be relatively easy to obtain), all you have to do is write a Perl script that crawls through MySpace user pages, checking each page for those particular names. You'd get a lot of false positives off of people with names like "John Smith", but I could see where "Andrew Lubrano" would be caught easily. Most of the hard work in writing something like this has already been done in various modules on CPAN.
So, like a said a small minority of users requires windows for some very specific uses, but most home users, and most business users (think secretaries using wordprocessors) would do just fine on a Linux machine.
Never said that I didn't agree with that. I quite like Linux, use it as a server, and rather wish I could use it more. I just mention the lack of audio support whenever I can in hopes that somebody will eventually do something about it...
Oh,/etc contains all sorts of useful things, like user passwords, profile information, 'etc.'
you can't just list etc. and pretend that there are more reasons.
Here's one that keeps me from being able to switch (on the desktop, anyway): professional-grade audio software, and driver support for a lot pro audio hardware.
Two 19" monitors will give you the same flexibility, at a much lower cost point - AND you can angle each viewing area separately. You can't do that with a single screen.
I agree...I use a 20" and a 17" at work. For the sort of work that I do, it's definitely helpful, and a major productivity boost. I'd have 3 monitors if I didn't have a mixer (audio, not drink) where the third monitor would go.
(you won't benefit, class action suits never actually benefit the consumer)
Hey! That's not true...I got like $12 from that CD price-fixing lawsuit about four years ago to reimburse me for the money I lost paying too much for the 500 or so CD's that I own. That's twelve whole dollars, man!
What I don't understand is how an SQL error message makes you vulnerable to a SQL Injection attack? Even if you are able to find out some of the tables and fields in a web-accessible database, you don't have the password to be able to execute your own queries...Is there just an assumption here that anybody stupid enough to allow a verbose error message like that would also have a database password like '12345'?
And hell, the Little Egypt region (where there seems to be a fair amount of access to riverboat gambling in Illinois) isn't just where the gambling related tourism is, but much of Illinois' tourism period.
Huh, I've lived in Illinois for 27 years, and never heard of Little Egypt. Interesting. Is there really a lot of tourism down there? I would have thought the vast majority of Illinois tourism is centered around Chicago...
Does anyone else question why gambling can only happen out in the middle of nowhere or in places where the a lot of the populace lives below the poverty line? Is there a correlation between these or is it causation?
I live in Illinois, and I wouldn't say that's the case here. While Chicago doesn't have a casino (yet...they've been talking about it for years), most of the towns that do have them also have relatively thriving economies. Many of them are Chicago suburbs, like Elgin and Aurora. There are others in downstate cities, like Peoria. They might not always be the greatest of towns, but they're not generally the poorest either...although we do have a bizarre rule that gambling can only happen on water, so all of our casinos are huge boats. How that helps, I have absolutely no idea.
Im surprised that nobody here mentioned TRON (http://imdb.com/title/tt0084827/) yet.
Now that was really stupid tech-wise.
I don't think so. Where these other movies go wrong is that they're just trying to emulate technology in a film-friendly way, in otherwise realistic settings, often showing completely impossible technology as if it were real...Tron is a whole different beast. The "human as a part of the machine" motif is central to the plot, and is clearly used as a part of the fantasy, much like--for example--the closet leading to Narnia...nobody really believes that a closet can be a portal to another dimension, and the same is true for the laser-scanner thing in Tron. As such, I think Tron was done quite well.
I have to admit, I really wouldn't mind seeing less competition in the game console market...I mean, generally competition is a great thing, but not when you have to spend > $1000 if you want to be able to play the next great game that comes out, regardless of what system it's available for...it just gets annoying if you really only want to buy one system because then you're giving up the opportunity to play certain games.
I never said it should be a rule/law or anything like that. However, I think it's a policy that corporations / gov't agencies / universities should get through their thick skulls, and the only way that's going to happen is if the consumer gets fed up enough to do something about it. Losing customer's private information is not acceptable. Ever. When I was in college, I had to argue with one of my teachers to keep her from posting my SSN on the wall in the hallway with my grades. I could care less if my grade was posted, but having my SSN on the wall was completely unacceptable. I asked her repeatedly to stop doing it, but didn't get any result until I went to the dean.
For many younger viewers, it's the only news program they watch.
Yes, it is the only "news" program I watch, however, I also read the newspaper and listen to National Public Radio daily. The rest of the news programs are generally filled with a bunch of sensationalist bullshit that I don't care about. Just because I don't watch the 5:00 news doesn't mean I'm less informed, and I'd have to say that most of the Daily Show watchers are also fairly well informed, otherwise they wouldn't understand the majority of the jokes.
Hiring more trustworthy employees requires paying more money, and that has to get passed on to the customers, who in turn take their business somewhere cheaper and less trustworthy
For companies and agencies that have to have highly sensitive information like SSN's on file, there should be an exceptionally small number of people who have access to that information. A small enough number that I can count them on one hand. And none of those people should ever be allowed to take any portion of that list out of the system in any way, not on a thumb drive, not on a laptop, nothing. The vast majority of the employees should only be able to access the last 4 numbers of any given person for varification purposes.
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but I think if you did you would be supprised just how much safer you are in Iraq over being an astronaut (percentage wise that is).
but the view is much nicer from space (I imagine, anyway...there's not much chance that I'll ever go to either location...)
What other nation or organization has a spacecraft capable of servicing Hubble within 24-36 months?
FOR SALE: One Space Telescope, under warranty. w/ 3-year service contract. Ask for Tony.
I, my good people, am Nike-Free going on 8 years. They definitely have the largest range of nice sportswear, but their business practices turn my stomach and close my wallet. Just have to decide to do it.
Pfft, I've been Nike-free for 26 years (which is also my age)...I didn't have the money for them when I was a kid. By the time I could afford the shoes, I noticed that they didn't fit my feet well anyway, and I'm not the sort of person that buys a brand just because it's popular.
Unfortunately, nomatter how well deserved, a Sony boycott stands no chance of working. The only successful boycotts have been because of the passion of the groups undertaking the boycott. The Montgomery Bus Boycott comes to mind. There have been a few evangelical boycotts in the past that have been successful at censoring major media outlets in the short-term, but even those have been ridiculously short-lived because they didn't have the support of mainstream Americans.
That said, I won't be terribly surprised if the price-point of the PS3 proves to be a disaster for that division of Sony.
Ignoring the fact that you are quoting a time scale much less intense than the OP
Wow talk about everybody jumping down my throat...I'll respond to you since you're the one person who didn't post as an Anonymous Coward.
Anyway, my mistake...I misread microseconds as milliseconds. It was early on a Sunday, and I wasn't really paying all that much attention. So, yes, you are correct. And you're probably correct that 10ms isn't fast enough to work well for noise cancellation. I'm somewhat doubtful that those relatively inexpensive noise-cancellation headphones are getting latency times of 20 microseconds, since they're widely reported to not really work all that well either, but I haven't measured them, so I don't know that for sure.
Even with headphones, you need a real-time operating system because the response must be generated within a few dozen microseconds. Off the shelf Linux or, -gasps-, MS Windows, cannot deliver this, no matter how fancy the software.
I work in pro audio. My audio interface is set to a latency of 10ms, and can be set even lower. Extremely low latency is necessary for professional work with audio. Given the relatively simple phase-inversion necessary to create a noise-cancellation effect, there's absolutely no reason Windows, OSX, or Linux couldn't do the job just as well as an $80 set of headphones. However, with Windows, the standard-issue Soundblaster or onboard sound chip would probably have to be replaced with something that supports ASIO drivers. You would also need to place the microphone right up next to your head, which could be awkward.
* Duke Nukem: The Movie (TBA)
Ha! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
Man, I'm gonna start announcing Duke Nukem products that I have no serious intent or means to bring to market. Duke Nukem airlines, anyone? How about Duke Nukem cola?
Isn't this a breach of privacy and wouldn't this person or MySpace be vulnerable to lawsuits?
Anything you put on a public web site is--by definition--not private. It would be a breach of privacy if MySpace used private, personal information, but if the script just culled information from public pages, there's no breach of privacy.
Just skimmed the article, and it didn't seem all that easy even with the code.
How hard could it be? Supposing you have a list of registered sex offenders (and they *are* registered, so that should be relatively easy to obtain), all you have to do is write a Perl script that crawls through MySpace user pages, checking each page for those particular names. You'd get a lot of false positives off of people with names like "John Smith", but I could see where "Andrew Lubrano" would be caught easily. Most of the hard work in writing something like this has already been done in various modules on CPAN.
So, like a said a small minority of users requires windows for some very specific uses, but most home users, and most business users (think secretaries using wordprocessors) would do just fine on a Linux machine.
Never said that I didn't agree with that. I quite like Linux, use it as a server, and rather wish I could use it more. I just mention the lack of audio support whenever I can in hopes that somebody will eventually do something about it...
WTF IS ETC??
/etc contains all sorts of useful things, like user passwords, profile information, 'etc.'
Oh,
you can't just list etc. and pretend that there are more reasons.
Here's one that keeps me from being able to switch (on the desktop, anyway): professional-grade audio software, and driver support for a lot pro audio hardware.
Spam (the food) always gets a bad rap, but when cut into patties and fried, I think it's pretty tasty. Haven't had it in a long time, though...
Two 19" monitors will give you the same flexibility, at a much lower cost point - AND you can angle each viewing area separately. You can't do that with a single screen.
I agree...I use a 20" and a 17" at work. For the sort of work that I do, it's definitely helpful, and a major productivity boost. I'd have 3 monitors if I didn't have a mixer (audio, not drink) where the third monitor would go.
(you won't benefit, class action suits never actually benefit the consumer)
Hey! That's not true...I got like $12 from that CD price-fixing lawsuit about four years ago to reimburse me for the money I lost paying too much for the 500 or so CD's that I own. That's twelve whole dollars, man!
I probably spent it on a CD...
The same sort of thing is already being used for ADHD and depression therapy, as well:
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http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20
Pyongyang might be a psychotic dictator leading his country into chaos
Pyongyang is a city, not a dictator...
Interesting, thanks. Using this example, you could also try to append a new query, by entering something like "1; drop database;".
;-)
Hmmm...that reminds me, time to backup the 'ole database...
What I don't understand is how an SQL error message makes you vulnerable to a SQL Injection attack? Even if you are able to find out some of the tables and fields in a web-accessible database, you don't have the password to be able to execute your own queries...Is there just an assumption here that anybody stupid enough to allow a verbose error message like that would also have a database password like '12345'?
And hell, the Little Egypt region (where there seems to be a fair amount of access to riverboat gambling in Illinois) isn't just where the gambling related tourism is, but much of Illinois' tourism period.
Huh, I've lived in Illinois for 27 years, and never heard of Little Egypt. Interesting. Is there really a lot of tourism down there? I would have thought the vast majority of Illinois tourism is centered around Chicago...
Does anyone else question why gambling can only happen out in the middle of nowhere or in places where the a lot of the populace lives below the poverty line? Is there a correlation between these or is it causation?
I live in Illinois, and I wouldn't say that's the case here. While Chicago doesn't have a casino (yet...they've been talking about it for years), most of the towns that do have them also have relatively thriving economies. Many of them are Chicago suburbs, like Elgin and Aurora. There are others in downstate cities, like Peoria. They might not always be the greatest of towns, but they're not generally the poorest either...although we do have a bizarre rule that gambling can only happen on water, so all of our casinos are huge boats. How that helps, I have absolutely no idea.
But it is hard to call for someone in a computer system.
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Im surprised that nobody here mentioned TRON (http://imdb.com/title/tt0084827/) yet. Now that was really stupid tech-wise.
I don't think so. Where these other movies go wrong is that they're just trying to emulate technology in a film-friendly way, in otherwise realistic settings, often showing completely impossible technology as if it were real...Tron is a whole different beast. The "human as a part of the machine" motif is central to the plot, and is clearly used as a part of the fantasy, much like--for example--the closet leading to Narnia...nobody really believes that a closet can be a portal to another dimension, and the same is true for the laser-scanner thing in Tron. As such, I think Tron was done quite well.
I have to admit, I really wouldn't mind seeing less competition in the game console market...I mean, generally competition is a great thing, but not when you have to spend > $1000 if you want to be able to play the next great game that comes out, regardless of what system it's available for...it just gets annoying if you really only want to buy one system because then you're giving up the opportunity to play certain games.
And who's going to enforce this rule ?
I never said it should be a rule/law or anything like that. However, I think it's a policy that corporations / gov't agencies / universities should get through their thick skulls, and the only way that's going to happen is if the consumer gets fed up enough to do something about it. Losing customer's private information is not acceptable. Ever. When I was in college, I had to argue with one of my teachers to keep her from posting my SSN on the wall in the hallway with my grades. I could care less if my grade was posted, but having my SSN on the wall was completely unacceptable. I asked her repeatedly to stop doing it, but didn't get any result until I went to the dean.
For many younger viewers, it's the only news program they watch.
Yes, it is the only "news" program I watch, however, I also read the newspaper and listen to National Public Radio daily. The rest of the news programs are generally filled with a bunch of sensationalist bullshit that I don't care about. Just because I don't watch the 5:00 news doesn't mean I'm less informed, and I'd have to say that most of the Daily Show watchers are also fairly well informed, otherwise they wouldn't understand the majority of the jokes.
Hiring more trustworthy employees requires paying more money, and that has to get passed on to the customers, who in turn take their business somewhere cheaper and less trustworthy
For companies and agencies that have to have highly sensitive information like SSN's on file, there should be an exceptionally small number of people who have access to that information. A small enough number that I can count them on one hand. And none of those people should ever be allowed to take any portion of that list out of the system in any way, not on a thumb drive, not on a laptop, nothing. The vast majority of the employees should only be able to access the last 4 numbers of any given person for varification purposes.