not surprising since their "focus on security" similarly led them to release a firewall that didn't activate until after the internet connection was established and could be remotely disabled anyway.
you fool! open your eyes YOUR RIGHTS ARE BEING STOLEN!
it all started when those bastards made you tell the school your name.
are you aware that once you let the teachers know who you are, they can use VFID (visible frequency ID) detectors to remotely measure your exact position from well over 20 metres away!? they don't even need badges!
it's a disgrace. parents, unite to defend privacy in our schools! think of the children!
not to mention the US actually failed to live up to the previous agreement:
Korea - we want to develop nuclear power USA - we'll help you with technology for nuclear power so you don't need to develop it yourself...many years later...
Korea - er, hello. where's our help? USA - fuck you Korea - fuck you too then
at least with firefox I have confidence that it won't have total OS access, unlike IE where, for example, it can silently trigger arbitrary hard drive access just by clicking on a scrollbar (even with SP2) [finding the article about this example is left as an exercise for the reader/karma-whores].
I am also confident that the patch will actually come in a reasonable time. yes it may be opinion and not fact, but it's still true that I have infinitely more faith in firefox than microsoft.
still, if you, as an individual, are hated on a similar scale as an idiot drunk-driving war-maker, a practice used by some to justify countless deaths and persecutions, and pure evil itself, it's got to make you think you're doing something wrong. not Bill though, he just resorts to denial - "I have never had textual relations with that search engine"
I have TB hard drive for my simulations. if I want to back up my data, you suggest 200 DVDs?
this is progress. if you're so lacking in imagination that you can't think of a use for this then just remember that you are not psychic and don't know what secondary discoveries pursuing this technology will bring. when the electron was discovered how many people do you think knew how it would change our lives?
isn't that a little bit dangerous as music CD players don't care about errors nearly as much as data CDs? hence one type of copy protection being to intentionally fuck the CD up so a computer can't read it but many CD players will.
people making the point you made totally miss an important point. what if you don't want someone to know the data even exists?
for example, sending a message to someone your government doesn't like:
-you: "ha! it's encrypted really strongly! suck my balls!" -government: "we don't give a flying fuck - even talking to them is a crime. off to jail for you, numbnuts!"
so what? just because it was a used in the past doesn't mean the original poster didn't have a point.
it may have been used for some time, but it isn't so common now. recently there's been more focus on encrypting the data, not hiding where it is.
the original poster was saying (AFAIK) that he thought it would be popular again, not popular for the fist time ever.
I think he's right with regards to encrypting data in static, passively observed things like photos. transmitted data will probably use quantum techniques.
the other reply talks about only 1 hack needed for p2p so I won't repeat that (oops)
I don't agree that only some would hack. sure not all, but the concept of getting rid of DVD zones is very well established in the general (DVD-using) public's mind. I expect this to be similar - people will almost expect broadcast flag hacks as standard.
and what about the flying carts of death issue when you put a little twisting force on the console? fixed, or did they just attach a warning sticker to stay away from PSP players?
exactly, since my iBook already has voice control and a gorgeous interface. if Apple gets Majel Barrat (sp?) to do voice over for Mac OS 11, then Star Trek will be real. 'cept for the spaceships and stuff.
if you're going to be elitist about your show not being a cartoon, with the assumption that cartoons are "for kids", then I hope people continually deny your wishes and piss you off.
before people like YOU started associating cartoons with kids stuff, they had a lot more respect. for example political cartoonists.
you say "cartoon" doesn't do justice to anime. well I say fuck you - most anime doesn't do justice to the cartoons of old.
get SideTrack and you can emulate 6 buttons and 2 scrollbars on your trackpad buy tapping/stroking different areas.
I often use my 5-button mouse with my Mac. it's useful for stuff like having expose functions on the side buttons. but I'm very glad Apple still designs with one button in mind.
it's kinda like bloat - if you give an MS designer a 10GHz CPU, they will find a way to use it up and pretty soon you'll need a 20GHz CPU for reasonable functionality.
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not surprising since their "focus on security" similarly led them to release a firewall that didn't activate until after the internet connection was established and could be remotely disabled anyway.
you fool! open your eyes YOUR RIGHTS ARE BEING STOLEN!
it all started when those bastards made you tell the school your name.
are you aware that once you let the teachers know who you are, they can use VFID (visible frequency ID) detectors to remotely measure your exact position from well over 20 metres away!? they don't even need badges!
it's a disgrace. parents, unite to defend privacy in our schools! think of the children!
are you American?
well, outside of America, everyone knew Saddam DIDN'T have WMDs. the inspectors didn't find a single thing.
if you were surprised that troops didn't find any WMDs then you were watching the wrong news channel before the war.
not to mention the US actually failed to live up to the previous agreement:
...many years later...
Korea - we want to develop nuclear power
USA - we'll help you with technology for nuclear power so you don't need to develop it yourself
Korea - er, hello. where's our help?
USA - fuck you
Korea - fuck you too then
this is different to internet explorer how?
at least with firefox I have confidence that it won't have total OS access, unlike IE where, for example, it can silently trigger arbitrary hard drive access just by clicking on a scrollbar (even with SP2) [finding the article about this example is left as an exercise for the reader/karma-whores].
I am also confident that the patch will actually come in a reasonable time. yes it may be opinion and not fact, but it's still true that I have infinitely more faith in firefox than microsoft.
me too, it took a second read to realise they weren't talking about a new system to detect failures on the space shuttle.
admitttedly I was only skimming the first time, but god damn you slashdot editors, why must you suck SO much?
still, if you, as an individual, are hated on a similar scale as an idiot drunk-driving war-maker, a practice used by some to justify countless deaths and persecutions, and pure evil itself, it's got to make you think you're doing something wrong. not Bill though, he just resorts to denial - "I have never had textual relations with that search engine"
"He does a pretty good job of answering a lot of hard questions."
no, like a small child in an exam or a politician, he answers the question he wants to answer rather than the question he is actually asked.
whether this is because he's a small child (ignorant) or a politian (scared of telling the truth) is left as an exercise for the reader.
jeez dude, what's with all the burning?
I have TB hard drive for my simulations. if I want to back up my data, you suggest 200 DVDs?
this is progress. if you're so lacking in imagination that you can't think of a use for this then just remember that you are not psychic and don't know what secondary discoveries pursuing this technology will bring. when the electron was discovered how many people do you think knew how it would change our lives?
isn't that a little bit dangerous as music CD players don't care about errors nearly as much as data CDs? hence one type of copy protection being to intentionally fuck the CD up so a computer can't read it but many CD players will.
people making the point you made totally miss an important point. what if you don't want someone to know the data even exists?
for example, sending a message to someone your government doesn't like:
-you: "ha! it's encrypted really strongly! suck my balls!"
-government: "we don't give a flying fuck - even talking to them is a crime. off to jail for you, numbnuts!"
so what? just because it was a used in the past doesn't mean the original poster didn't have a point.
it may have been used for some time, but it isn't so common now. recently there's been more focus on encrypting the data, not hiding where it is.
the original poster was saying (AFAIK) that he thought it would be popular again, not popular for the fist time ever.
I think he's right with regards to encrypting data in static, passively observed things like photos. transmitted data will probably use quantum techniques.
count me as one of the people who gets about 1 spam every 10 days or so across 4 accounts.
on a few occasions a message has been passed on marked spam. I can't comment on how much spam has been headed for me but filtered and not passed on.
the other reply talks about only 1 hack needed for p2p so I won't repeat that (oops)
I don't agree that only some would hack. sure not all, but the concept of getting rid of DVD zones is very well established in the general (DVD-using) public's mind. I expect this to be similar - people will almost expect broadcast flag hacks as standard.
they have TV on television sets now!? I thought it was just computers and mobile phones :-)
...or is it still appallingly low?
and what about the flying carts of death issue when you put a little twisting force on the console? fixed, or did they just attach a warning sticker to stay away from PSP players?
exactly, since my iBook already has voice control and a gorgeous interface. if Apple gets Majel Barrat (sp?) to do voice over for Mac OS 11, then Star Trek will be real. 'cept for the spaceships and stuff.
you have no sympathy from me.
if you're going to be elitist about your show not being a cartoon, with the assumption that cartoons are "for kids", then I hope people continually deny your wishes and piss you off.
before people like YOU started associating cartoons with kids stuff, they had a lot more respect. for example political cartoonists.
you say "cartoon" doesn't do justice to anime. well I say fuck you - most anime doesn't do justice to the cartoons of old.
use SideTrack to make it 6 buttons + 2 scrolls - "...ought to be enough"
get SideTrack then and stop bitching.
I, for one HATE multi-button laptops. they are almost always positioned in and excrutiatingly awkward way.
get SideTrack and you can emulate 6 buttons and 2 scrollbars on your trackpad buy tapping/stroking different areas.
I often use my 5-button mouse with my Mac. it's useful for stuff like having expose functions on the side buttons. but I'm very glad Apple still designs with one button in mind.
it's kinda like bloat - if you give an MS designer a 10GHz CPU, they will find a way to use it up and pretty soon you'll need a 20GHz CPU for reasonable functionality.
>If I could control the PC from the living room and have the sound card output to the speakers there, then I wouldn't need the stereo.
if this is what you want, just get a Mac and Airport with Airtunes.
Microsoft: Yesterday's Mac, Tomorrow
the same is true with any online game.
what the fuck are you guys compaining about? do you even know yourself any more?
-IT UPDATES AUTOMATICALLY!
-turn it off then
-I CAN'T PLAY WITHOUT UPDATES!
-turn it on then, or update manually, or play offline
for fuck's sake...
I condemn piracy. I wouldn't use the crack.
but then, I wouldn't bitch about the server going down for a day. or bitch that Valve might decide to screw me over a decade from now.
do what the fuck you want.