It seems the goal of the new law was to discourage using the name or persona of another person to create a Web page.
Aren't there already laws in place that discourage one from claiming to be someone they are not? Why not use the existing law instead of wasting time and effort creating a new law because a web page is involved?
I'm not so sure laws needed to be made for something that amounts to name calling. If the name calling extends to harassment we already have laws in place.
The only fix to this problem is proper parrenting and teaching kids how to respect and really communicate with one another. Even removing anonymity doesn't fix this problem (and I am completely against any attempt to remove it). I am aware that Anecdotes aren't evidence but I've been "bullied" online (if you want to call it that) by girls who went to the same school as I, they were well aware I knew who they were and they knew who I was. How did I respond? I walked up to them the next day and kindly asked them to continue calling me names now that we are face to face. They just slithered away muttering half apologies and never messaged me again.
My roommate said to me the other day he thought that broadband should be provided by the government in the US. This made my blood boil as he is completely against any kind of governmental health care.
Before moving in with him I was under the impression he was also into home security as he owned a few handguns, taken many defensive courses, goes out to the obstacle course 6-12 times a year, etc. The first weekend he lets in a door to door security system sales person and procedes to show them around the place to point out all entrances to the home, what times we are at work, etc...
I surely hope other republicans aren't this stupid.
You just don't notice that most consumer electronic devices would last for quite a long time on regular AA/AAA batteries now because they have also switched over to a rechargeable that will fail in 1.5 years so that you HAVE to replace it sooner rather than later.
Nice conspiracy theory, but the real reason so many consumer electronic devices have moved to rechargeable batteries is not planned obsolescence, but because modern rechargeable technologies are considerably smaller and/or lighter than standard-format AA/AAA batteries. Portability is pretty high on the list of consumer demands; yet at 10.5mm in diameter, AAA batteries will not fit inside the form factor of an iPod Classic, Apple's largest current model.
You're right its nothing but a conspiracy theory on my part. In reality I just wish this generation of electronic device manufactures had the same respect for the battery form factors the rest of the industry had after all these years.
I can still pick up my tiger handheld put fresh AA's in it and play till they die. Will you be able to take any device made today with one of these built in rechargeable non-standard batteries and use it after 20 years?
Would it really hurt apple, sony, microsoft, etc get together with energizer, duracell, etc to come up with a new standard similar to when Kodak's new internal flash design could make use of a smaller battery and had the AAA standard created?
Note: according to a seller on ebay the skeet shoot game is from 1987, I'd be willing to give up 5 years and rephrase the above question to after 15 years.
By the time one needs to worry about changing the battery in the iPhone one could have just upgraded to the latest one for $99 when they renew their contract.
I bet you paid a lot more for that iPhone than $99 if it can run for months on end without being drained on power.
The key to being able to replace the batteries is that they can be replaced instead of recharged. A lot of electronic devices have become very power efficient. You just don't notice that most consumer electronic devices would last for quite a long time on regular AA/AAA batteries now because they have also switched over to a rechargeable that will fail in 1.5 years so that you HAVE to replace it sooner rather than later. And only the most evil bastards lock it inside a device so that you have to replace the item. (ps3 controller, ipod, zune I'm looking at you)
One of the main reasons I disliked Oblivion was the scaling.
In an RPG I expect to be able to go back to a starting areas and completely decimate any enemies. But in oblivion the enemies levels scale right along with yours so you can never go back and take on dozens at a time or even just ignore the one hitting you until he gives up.
I think the gizmdo article actually meant Enhanced CDs
Enhanced CD, also known as CD Extra and CD Plus, is a certification mark of the Recording Industry Association of America for various technologies that combine audio and computer data for use in both compact disc and CD-ROM players.[snip].
I find these devices to work great for the purposes of fail over and load balancing two or more internet connections.
If you have the time and ability to setup something on your own by all means do it, but these are pretty nice if you want something supported/warrenty/etc
Don't you think just redirecting all traffic to one of their web servers to display a page would be much easier then attempting to inject things into the data? Similar to how they redirect to their modem registration page when you have a modem with an unrecognized MAC.
I've had a Comcast account for several years in multiple locations. I know several dozens of people/business in the same boat. The only people from Comcast I've met face to face is the installer, same for every one of those people and businesses I spoke of.
Are you really that guy that insists on going into their building to pay the bill forcing them to keep facilities open, staff to pay, and otherwise increasing operating costs for no good reason other then that sense of accomplishment from getting one of your monthly goals completed?
Does this mean the fanboys will no longer be able to use their only reason to argue the ps3 is better then the xbox? Its not quite the same thing as the RROD problem but at least MS provided free, prompt, replacement (including shipping) and even extended warranties to cover the units they were expecting to fail at some point in the future.
Whoops. Gotta call microsoft and beg them to let you use the software you own.
I don't believe you've ever called Microsoft to get software activated. Unless by begging you mean answering "no" or "one" to the "is this installed on any other computers" or "how many computers is this installed on" questions. In that case your and my definition of the word are completely different.
I agree with you in that you shouldn't have to in either case but the phone activation is far from difficult and have never been denied an activation key despite actually calling them in various capacities activating hundreds of softwares over the phone for anything from XP to TS.
Does this file get updates on the amount of times you played a song and push it back into the real iTunes database, does it send back which songs you decided you wanted to delete from your device, or does it really just keep track of the list of songs you have and where they are located?
From what I've read they do not actually let any device sync with iTunes, they let another application read an xml file that lists the catalog with various flags. That third party still has to waste the time developing an application to read through the file, determine which bits need to be moved and then move them. (Please correct me if I'm incorrect.)
Not sure why anyone would actually want to use iTunes but to each their own...
Because there are limited sales opportunities to support the employee base required to develop and maintain the product.
Quite frankly, this is not my problem. This is an issue of Supply and Demand. If second hand sells are taking away so much of your business than the demand for your product simply isn't what you thought it would be and your business processes and/or pricing need to be examined.
Continuing the used DVD analogy; the markets for "The Hunt for Red October" far out weigh the market for a DVD on how to build a deck. Should it not be OK to resell the deck building DVD because the market is smaller?
If only there were some kind of device to hold a camera. Maybe something with three legs that retract for easy storage and some hinges for holding the camera at different angles....
Slashdot Mirror
.... for an explanation from the apple fan boys why this is so awesome!
Yeah, but really what good is a post on slashdot without some childish dig at Microsoft?
flat text files which are far easier to parse by an installation script than the Windows Registry
If you're doing it right reading a ini or the registry should be pretty close to the same.
1) include one of your many saved up sections of code
2) call the function that gives you the value of the key you want
3) ????
4) profit!
When I started the post there were no other posts.
Immediately after posting there was one from a user who was posting around the same time I was.
I suspect there are many more now that you have gotten here.
Wheres the outrage from the users who always have a huge bitch when other "more evil" companies disable something on your system automaticall?
Lets simplify this a little bit,
Law 1: Harassment will not be tolerated.
Law 2: Harassment will not be tolerated online.
How is anything better now that Law 2 has been created? How does this make parents care about raising their kids?
There is nothing in your post that explains how we are now better off for spending the time and resources of dozens of people to create Law 2.
It seems the goal of the new law was to discourage using the name or persona of another person to create a Web page.
Aren't there already laws in place that discourage one from claiming to be someone they are not? Why not use the existing law instead of wasting time and effort creating a new law because a web page is involved?
There are already laws in place. We DO NOT need to create a duplicate laws just because the internet is involved.
I'm not so sure laws needed to be made for something that amounts to name calling. If the name calling extends to harassment we already have laws in place.
The only fix to this problem is proper parrenting and teaching kids how to respect and really communicate with one another. Even removing anonymity doesn't fix this problem (and I am completely against any attempt to remove it). I am aware that Anecdotes aren't evidence but I've been "bullied" online (if you want to call it that) by girls who went to the same school as I, they were well aware I knew who they were and they knew who I was. How did I respond? I walked up to them the next day and kindly asked them to continue calling me names now that we are face to face. They just slithered away muttering half apologies and never messaged me again.
My roommate said to me the other day he thought that broadband should be provided by the government in the US. This made my blood boil as he is completely against any kind of governmental health care.
Before moving in with him I was under the impression he was also into home security as he owned a few handguns, taken many defensive courses, goes out to the obstacle course 6-12 times a year, etc. The first weekend he lets in a door to door security system sales person and procedes to show them around the place to point out all entrances to the home, what times we are at work, etc...
I surely hope other republicans aren't this stupid.
I've never seen * referred to as a bang. I was taught that a bang was an exclamation point. (!)
Along the topic of naming punctuation, the last shop I worked at had a few guys who left MS and referred to \\ as a "whack whack"
They would say things like:
"Oh, that file is located at whack whack servername slash sharename."
It always threw me off...
You just don't notice that most consumer electronic devices would last for quite a long time on regular AA/AAA batteries now because they have also switched over to a rechargeable that will fail in 1.5 years so that you HAVE to replace it sooner rather than later.
Nice conspiracy theory, but the real reason so many consumer electronic devices have moved to rechargeable batteries is not planned obsolescence, but because modern rechargeable technologies are considerably smaller and/or lighter than standard-format AA/AAA batteries. Portability is pretty high on the list of consumer demands; yet at 10.5mm in diameter, AAA batteries will not fit inside the form factor of an iPod Classic, Apple's largest current model.
You're right its nothing but a conspiracy theory on my part. In reality I just wish this generation of electronic device manufactures had the same respect for the battery form factors the rest of the industry had after all these years.
I can still pick up my tiger handheld put fresh AA's in it and play till they die. Will you be able to take any device made today with one of these built in rechargeable non-standard batteries and use it after 20 years?
Would it really hurt apple, sony, microsoft, etc get together with energizer, duracell, etc to come up with a new standard similar to when Kodak's new internal flash design could make use of a smaller battery and had the AAA standard created?
Note: according to a seller on ebay the skeet shoot game is from 1987, I'd be willing to give up 5 years and rephrase the above question to after 15 years.
By the time one needs to worry about changing the battery in the iPhone one could have just upgraded to the latest one for $99 when they renew their contract.
I bet you paid a lot more for that iPhone than $99 if it can run for months on end without being drained on power.
The key to being able to replace the batteries is that they can be replaced instead of recharged. A lot of electronic devices have become very power efficient. You just don't notice that most consumer electronic devices would last for quite a long time on regular AA/AAA batteries now because they have also switched over to a rechargeable that will fail in 1.5 years so that you HAVE to replace it sooner rather than later. And only the most evil bastards lock it inside a device so that you have to replace the item. (ps3 controller, ipod, zune I'm looking at you)
One of the main reasons I disliked Oblivion was the scaling.
In an RPG I expect to be able to go back to a starting areas and completely decimate any enemies. But in oblivion the enemies levels scale right along with yours so you can never go back and take on dozens at a time or even just ignore the one hitting you until he gives up.
I think the gizmdo article actually meant Enhanced CDs
Enhanced CD, also known as CD Extra and CD Plus, is a certification mark of the Recording Industry Association of America for various technologies that combine audio and computer data for use in both compact disc and CD-ROM players.[snip].
I find these devices to work great for the purposes of fail over and load balancing two or more internet connections.
If you have the time and ability to setup something on your own by all means do it, but these are pretty nice if you want something supported/warrenty/etc
Don't you think just redirecting all traffic to one of their web servers to display a page would be much easier then attempting to inject things into the data? Similar to how they redirect to their modem registration page when you have a modem with an unrecognized MAC.
I've had a Comcast account for several years in multiple locations. I know several dozens of people/business in the same boat. The only people from Comcast I've met face to face is the installer, same for every one of those people and businesses I spoke of.
Are you really that guy that insists on going into their building to pay the bill forcing them to keep facilities open, staff to pay, and otherwise increasing operating costs for no good reason other then that sense of accomplishment from getting one of your monthly goals completed?
Does this mean the fanboys will no longer be able to use their only reason to argue the ps3 is better then the xbox? Its not quite the same thing as the RROD problem but at least MS provided free, prompt, replacement (including shipping) and even extended warranties to cover the units they were expecting to fail at some point in the future.
Whoops. Gotta call microsoft and beg them to let you use the software you own.
I don't believe you've ever called Microsoft to get software activated. Unless by begging you mean answering "no" or "one" to the "is this installed on any other computers" or "how many computers is this installed on" questions. In that case your and my definition of the word are completely different.
I agree with you in that you shouldn't have to in either case but the phone activation is far from difficult and have never been denied an activation key despite actually calling them in various capacities activating hundreds of softwares over the phone for anything from XP to TS.
Microsoft needs to drop windows mobile and focus on turning the Zune into a mobile device that includes a phone.
Does this file get updates on the amount of times you played a song and push it back into the real iTunes database, does it send back which songs you decided you wanted to delete from your device, or does it really just keep track of the list of songs you have and where they are located?
From what I've read they do not actually let any device sync with iTunes, they let another application read an xml file that lists the catalog with various flags. That third party still has to waste the time developing an application to read through the file, determine which bits need to be moved and then move them. (Please correct me if I'm incorrect.)
Not sure why anyone would actually want to use iTunes but to each their own...
Because there are limited sales opportunities to support the employee base required to develop and maintain the product.
Quite frankly, this is not my problem. This is an issue of Supply and Demand. If second hand sells are taking away so much of your business than the demand for your product simply isn't what you thought it would be and your business processes and/or pricing need to be examined.
Continuing the used DVD analogy; the markets for "The Hunt for Red October" far out weigh the market for a DVD on how to build a deck. Should it not be OK to resell the deck building DVD because the market is smaller?
If only there were some kind of device to hold a camera. Maybe something with three legs that retract for easy storage and some hinges for holding the camera at different angles....