It has to do with the licensing of radio spectrum. Licensees are expected to act in the public interest in exchange for their local monopoly on a frequency band. Payola creates incentives contrary to the public interest -- e.g.. instead of playing music people want to hear, the station plays music that somebody wants people to hear.
Against certain classes of opponent(internationally notorious mediagenic terrorist figureheads definitely being among them) fair trials are among the most powerful things you can do to them, the more boring, the better.
Yeah, like that one long-forgotten Jewish rabble-rouser the Romans tried, sentenced and executed alongside a couple of common thieves. They really put a quick end to that legend.
My 2004-vintage Toughbook is maxed out at 768 MB / 40 GB. It runs XP, Firefox, and 5-10 year old office and development apps just fine. Newer laptops are cheaper and faster but the screens are nowhere near as good, and anything with the same physical specs (full size screen and keyboard, built-in DVD drive, 1.4 kg total) still costs $2500.
It might be possible to get some version of Vista installed but it will struggle and the OS by itself will eat up over half the HDD. I would love to upgrade to 7, but you know... 768 MB... it's just not going to work.
So once XP goes past EOS my choice is one of: throw away a very nice computer; run unpatched Windows; switch to Linux.
I don't expect Microsoft to provide support forever for free, but do wish they would at least provide some upgrade path for memory-limited computers that otherwise work fine. I mean, they're a software company, right? They shouldn't care what hardware I choose, as long as they can sell me software. There must be a few hundred million sub-gigabyte computers in the world by now. That seems like too big a market to ignore.
Yep, beautifully designed hardware with hit-and-miss QA, poor reliability and lots of weird bugs. I've forcefully shitcanned in frustration way too much Sony hardware to waste any more money on them.
Rootkits, SLAPP lawsuits, and customer data breaches are just icing on the "cake".
I always try to install onto a relatively small system partition (in all operating systems, not just Linux) in order to speed up system boot and application startup. Keeping all the executables, libraries, and config files together in contiguous cylinders comprising less than 25% of the drive can significantly reduce average seek time when many such files are accessed in rapid succession.
Obviously this only applies to high-capacity mechanical HDDs.
Exactly. The danger is not people slamming on their brakes or otherwise slowing down "for no good reason". The danger is people following too closely and not watching what's in front of them! How about we start writing tickets for that instead?
I think the scenario assumes the cops are already on the scene, "unofficially". If you try to defend yourself they will suddenly become very "official".
Last week when I took a trip to Canada, AT&T sent me a nice text message informing me that roaming data rates would be $15.36/megabyte, i.e. $15,360/gigabyte. I have their $30/month unlimited data plan in the USA.
I think GP meant that identifying with what you have is childish, and identifying with what you do is adolescent. Presumably adults are supposed to base their identities on something else. I'm curious what GP thinks that something else might be. Who you know, maybe?
Most important systems backup automatically every day, less important systems once a week; other systems with no local documents about once a month; secure off-site media rotation once a month.
National Backup Day? Yawn, whatever. What's next, National Tie Your Shoes Day?
Time Warner says the contracts they've signed with the channels allow broadcast to any device in the home â" 'I don't know what a TV is anymore,' says one company exec â" but the channel owners fear that this will disrupt current and future revenue streams and that they need to stop it now.
Oh the horror, that technology might actually improve people's lives without first being productized, monetized, marketed, legislated, litigated, and consecrated by all the proper authorities.
Technology has the power to break down so many barriers, to streamline so many stupid little inefficiencies in daily life, but a few big businesses are so invested in wringing profit out of those barriers and inefficiencies that we just can't seem to get rid of them -- instead we go to great lengths to preserve and enhance the barriers instead of just rolling right over them! (e.g. DRM)
The "will happily pay thousands of dollars because they're giving me a free phone now" is possible thanks to a logical fallacy called "hyperbolic discounting"
Hyperbolic discounting is not a fallacy, it's an incorporation of uncertain risk into present value calculations. Naturally this is not a formal calculation most of the time; it appears to be a heuristic approximation instinctive in many animals. See the "Explanations" section of the Wikipedia article linked above.
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It has to do with the licensing of radio spectrum. Licensees are expected to act in the public interest in exchange for their local monopoly on a frequency band. Payola creates incentives contrary to the public interest -- e.g.. instead of playing music people want to hear, the station plays music that somebody wants people to hear.
Yeah, like that one long-forgotten Jewish rabble-rouser the Romans tried, sentenced and executed alongside a couple of common thieves. They really put a quick end to that legend.
Martyrs gonna mart, yo.
Good question. And what does "triggered the payload" mean?
"I'd rather let 100 guilty men go free, than chase after them." --Clancy Wiggum
My 2004-vintage Toughbook is maxed out at 768 MB / 40 GB. It runs XP, Firefox, and 5-10 year old office and development apps just fine. Newer laptops are cheaper and faster but the screens are nowhere near as good, and anything with the same physical specs (full size screen and keyboard, built-in DVD drive, 1.4 kg total) still costs $2500.
It might be possible to get some version of Vista installed but it will struggle and the OS by itself will eat up over half the HDD. I would love to upgrade to 7, but you know ... 768 MB ... it's just not going to work.
So once XP goes past EOS my choice is one of: throw away a very nice computer; run unpatched Windows; switch to Linux.
I don't expect Microsoft to provide support forever for free, but do wish they would at least provide some upgrade path for memory-limited computers that otherwise work fine. I mean, they're a software company, right? They shouldn't care what hardware I choose, as long as they can sell me software. There must be a few hundred million sub-gigabyte computers in the world by now. That seems like too big a market to ignore.
I can only count to 31 on one hand. 58 laptops with bluray drives at Newegg
Yep, beautifully designed hardware with hit-and-miss QA, poor reliability and lots of weird bugs. I've forcefully shitcanned in frustration way too much Sony hardware to waste any more money on them.
Rootkits, SLAPP lawsuits, and customer data breaches are just icing on the "cake".
They have a name cunningly designed to generate exploitable confusion in PHBs.
PHB: Have you heard of SMTP?
Engineer: Yes, of course.
PHB: Should we use it?
Engineer: We already do. Everybody does.
PHB: Ah, I see. Well, I'll get the new sales/support contracts signed and add it to the budget then.
Engineer: ???
I always try to install onto a relatively small system partition (in all operating systems, not just Linux) in order to speed up system boot and application startup. Keeping all the executables, libraries, and config files together in contiguous cylinders comprising less than 25% of the drive can significantly reduce average seek time when many such files are accessed in rapid succession.
Obviously this only applies to high-capacity mechanical HDDs.
The correct link for this story is geohot's blog: http://geohotgotsued.blogspot.com/2011/04/recent-news.html
not some wanker journalist's ad-laden failure to summarize said blog.
Exactly. The danger is not people slamming on their brakes or otherwise slowing down "for no good reason". The danger is people following too closely and not watching what's in front of them! How about we start writing tickets for that instead?
Hmm... Die now or die later? I'll take later, thanks!
I think the scenario assumes the cops are already on the scene, "unofficially". If you try to defend yourself they will suddenly become very "official".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QeKw9uivw8
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Last week when I took a trip to Canada, AT&T sent me a nice text message informing me that roaming data rates would be $15.36/megabyte, i.e. $15,360/gigabyte. I have their $30/month unlimited data plan in the USA.
Fuck AT&T.
Heavenly Creatures? He freakin' made Meet the Feebles!
I think GP meant that identifying with what you have is childish, and identifying with what you do is adolescent. Presumably adults are supposed to base their identities on something else. I'm curious what GP thinks that something else might be. Who you know, maybe?
Do you really need "voice nuance" to get satire that obvious, or are you being ironic?
Most important systems backup automatically every day, less important systems once a week; other systems with no local documents about once a month; secure off-site media rotation once a month.
National Backup Day? Yawn, whatever. What's next, National Tie Your Shoes Day?
Nobody named "Dr. Ludovico" can possibly be anything but a mad scientist. Beams of electricity to fight fires? Madness!
Oh the horror, that technology might actually improve people's lives without first being productized, monetized, marketed, legislated, litigated, and consecrated by all the proper authorities.
Technology has the power to break down so many barriers, to streamline so many stupid little inefficiencies in daily life, but a few big businesses are so invested in wringing profit out of those barriers and inefficiencies that we just can't seem to get rid of them -- instead we go to great lengths to preserve and enhance the barriers instead of just rolling right over them! (e.g. DRM)
Hyperbolic discounting is not a fallacy, it's an incorporation of uncertain risk into present value calculations. Naturally this is not a formal calculation most of the time; it appears to be a heuristic approximation instinctive in many animals. See the "Explanations" section of the Wikipedia article linked above.
Why?
That's exactly what I always say!
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