I second the recommendation for Buffalo. A couple years ago I was looking around for a NAS, and at first I picked up a NetGear one. It was horrible, since the client machines could only talk to it by installing a proprietary driver on them, and the driver was only available for Windows 2000 and 32-bit XP. I returned it and got a Buffalo Terastation which by contrast uses standard Samba and FTP protocols for file transfer and HTTP for administration. I've been very happy with it.
Political positions are a relative thing. Within American politics, the Democrats are the ones who most embrace socialist ideas, even though to a European neither major American party would seem very socialist at all. Or, consider an Islamic country where politician "A" wants to grudgingly tolerate non-Muslims as second-class citizens, but politician "B" wants them to convert or die. "A" might be regarded as a promoter of tolerance, even though in another country he would be seen as a religious fanatic.
Just curious...how are they going to know you own a gun?...
I bought all my guns used...cash.
And that is why you see pushes every now and then to eliminate private transfer ("close the gun show loophole"), implement registration requirements, and so on. While "they" might not be able to know who has a gun in cases like yours, will a gun buyer have that same level of privacy after 8 years of President Hillary?
Wouldn't such beings be in more or less the same situation as angels? They have free will to choose to sin (see Lucifer and fallen angels) but others are able to abide in heaven with no God/man separation, which implies that sin is not universal among them like it is with humans.
While we're on the subject of repairing gadgets, hopefully someone will know the answer to this. I have a Mac G4 Powerbook that has gotten into the habit of displaying vertical stripes of color on the screen. For instance, one whole column of cyan pixels might light up, or pink... It's in the same general part of the screen, but not always the same pixels, they might flicker and be fine for a while, or I might have two color stripes instead of one.
Anyone know if this could be something as simple as a loose connector to the display that I could potentially fix, or is the LCD going bad, or maybe the video adapter getting flaky?
Ha ha ha, not only can I view their precious HTML code, I'm posting it to Slashdot for all the world to see!
<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=http://goatse.cx/"> <title>Attorneys at Law</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#FF66FF"> <!-- If you can read this, we're going to sue you! --/> <h1>The Law Offices of Moron, Idiot, and Dumbass</h1> <img src="OMG_Ponies.gif"/> <blink>Need an incompetent ambulance chaser with no understanding of the law to represent you? You've come to the right place!</blink> </body> </html>
I'm one of those people still on analog cable, and don't see any reason to switch in the foreseeable future. The cable company charges more for digital, and paying more money to have the same shows broadcast to me via protocol X instead of Y just doesn't appeal to me. Then there are the complications digital brings to using a DVR. CableCard brings more fees and DRM, or you can record the output from a cable box and have to use an IR blaster and all that.
As someone whose TV is non-HD, digital seems to have all downside and no benefit.
While his hack could turn out to be something that simple, my understanding is that emergency response systems use the ANI identification information (Automatic Number Identification, the actual identification information that phone companies use for billing) rather than the Caller ID (easy to spoof, block, etc. and in general much less accurate than people give it credit for).
The updates are part of the Slashdot tenth anniversary auction. In addition to the @slashdot.org address and low user id, CmdrTaco has also gotten the operators of the Storm Worm Botnet to auction its use off as part of the charity action.
Some potential uses for the winning bidder:
No longer will you have to only imagine having a Beowulf cluster of those.
Create your own Slashdot effect at the push of a button.
Thousands of Slashdot sock puppet accounts at your beck and call, ready to mod you up, karma-assassinate your foes, or post supportive replies to all the drivel you post.
Bring the parallel power of distributed computing to bear on problems like cracking DRM, modelling global warming, or ray tracing pictures of Natalie Portman with hot grits.
DDOS the RIAA / SCO / Diebold / whoever and become an instant Slashdot hero.
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Oh sure, now they stand up to a request from the government and refuse to fulfill it on the grounds that it would be "illegal". Maybe they should have given that response to the NSA instead of saving it for Congress.
Why does it cost me so much for a point release is what I want to know and why aren't people lambasting Apple for such?
It's not like charging for a "point release" is unique to Apple. Microsoft did so for the upgrades from Windows 3.0 to 3.1, and from Windows NT 5.0 (Windows 2000) to 5.1 (Windows XP). The thing that determines whether it is worth it to users is what new functionality they get for their money, not which digit of an arbitrary numbering scheme some guy in the marketing department decided to increment.
This is off-topic to the gambling part of this thread, but it's a free-trade question I've been wondering about and maybe someone who knows more about the WTO than I do can answer it.
The gist of the complaint Antigua and these other countries have is that if a country allows domestic goods and services of some category, they have to not discriminate against foreign goods and services of the same type.
How does this reconcile with U.S. laws regarding importing "non-sporting" firearms? There are situations where you could have a U.S. made rifle and it's perfectly legal, but if you have an imported version of the exact same rifle, or even built it in the U.S. but used too many foreign-made components, it would be a felony. Is this legit under America's WTO obligations, or another case of only following them when it suits the U.S.?
Ballmer: "You bring up some interesting points about Vista. Why don't you put together a committee to document this constructive feedback. I'll even be happy to {ominous chuckle} chair it."
But always indexing "the" would cause problems as well. For instance, some of the Eagles albums say "The Eagles", and some are just "Eagles". Would you want them to show up as two separate bands in your database and have to remember which one to look under to find Hotel California?
Well..I'm just gunna go out on a limb here and guess that the consequences of the hole getting bigger are many orders of magnitude worse than the consequences of the hole getting smaller. But hey, that's just my guess.
Unless, of course, all the commits were "GPLv2 or later", in which case the project was effectively already under the GPLv3 from the moment it was released.
Wrong. The "or later" does not mean that whatever the most recent version of the GPL has been published is the one that applies. It means someone wanting to copy / distribute / whatever the software is free to do so under the terms of the GPLv2, or any later version that they might prefer the terms of. If the GPLv4 came out next week and said "to distribute software under this license, you have to send RMS a case of beer", you could distribute "GPLv2 or later" software by either providing its source (the GPLv2/v3 option) or by sending RMS a case of beer. New versions of the GPL give you more choices in licensing "or later" code, they don't retroactively change the terms of the deal like some shady EULA.
Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program
specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any
later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions
either of that version or of any later version published by the Free
Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of
this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software
Foundation.
Even in the UK it isn't as clear as some people like to think it is, because the phone technically isn't subsidized, meaning that it may not have to be unlocked after the subsidy is repaid - because there is no subsidy.
Maybe Apple's brilliant line of reasoning will catch on in other industries.
You: I want to buy this house! *hands realtor a check for the full price of the property*
Realtor: Thanks.
You: Can I have the deed to my new property?
Realtor: Nope. See, we have to give you the title to the land after you pay off the mortgage.
You: Um, but I didn't take out a mortgage?
Realtor: Right, so I get to keep your money and never have to give you the deed! Ha ha ha you sure are a moron! *walks off, sticking the check in his pocket*
Officially they may only have a trademark on "Microsoft Windows" but that didn't stop them from forcing "Lindows" to change its name, strong-arming the "Windows Defender" name away from its original owner, and plenty of similar actions. They have effectively managed to get a get a trademark on the generic computer term "Windows".
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I second the recommendation for Buffalo. A couple years ago I was looking around for a NAS, and at first I picked up a NetGear one. It was horrible, since the client machines could only talk to it by installing a proprietary driver on them, and the driver was only available for Windows 2000 and 32-bit XP. I returned it and got a Buffalo Terastation which by contrast uses standard Samba and FTP protocols for file transfer and HTTP for administration. I've been very happy with it.
Political positions are a relative thing. Within American politics, the Democrats are the ones who most embrace socialist ideas, even though to a European neither major American party would seem very socialist at all. Or, consider an Islamic country where politician "A" wants to grudgingly tolerate non-Muslims as second-class citizens, but politician "B" wants them to convert or die. "A" might be regarded as a promoter of tolerance, even though in another country he would be seen as a religious fanatic.
And that is why you see pushes every now and then to eliminate private transfer ("close the gun show loophole"), implement registration requirements, and so on. While "they" might not be able to know who has a gun in cases like yours, will a gun buyer have that same level of privacy after 8 years of President Hillary?
Wouldn't such beings be in more or less the same situation as angels? They have free will to choose to sin (see Lucifer and fallen angels) but others are able to abide in heaven with no God/man separation, which implies that sin is not universal among them like it is with humans.
While we're on the subject of repairing gadgets, hopefully someone will know the answer to this. I have a Mac G4 Powerbook that has gotten into the habit of displaying vertical stripes of color on the screen. For instance, one whole column of cyan pixels might light up, or pink... It's in the same general part of the screen, but not always the same pixels, they might flicker and be fine for a while, or I might have two color stripes instead of one.
Anyone know if this could be something as simple as a loose connector to the display that I could potentially fix, or is the LCD going bad, or maybe the video adapter getting flaky?
Cue the "beg the question" trolls who insist the phrase can only be used in the logical fallacy sense and not in the raising the question one.
In Southern California, 911 calls YOU! I wonder if this lifesaving technology was pioneered in Soviet Russia...
Ha ha ha, not only can I view their precious HTML code, I'm posting it to Slashdot for all the world to see!
Slashdot researcher CowboyNeal has used the same 240 megapixel camera and advanced imaging techniques to reveal the history of the goatsecx picture.
I'm one of those people still on analog cable, and don't see any reason to switch in the foreseeable future. The cable company charges more for digital, and paying more money to have the same shows broadcast to me via protocol X instead of Y just doesn't appeal to me. Then there are the complications digital brings to using a DVR. CableCard brings more fees and DRM, or you can record the output from a cable box and have to use an IR blaster and all that.
As someone whose TV is non-HD, digital seems to have all downside and no benefit.
Or maybe if drugs were legal, the guy would have just made up a different crime instead to get the SWAT team to go to the house.
While his hack could turn out to be something that simple, my understanding is that emergency response systems use the ANI identification information (Automatic Number Identification, the actual identification information that phone companies use for billing) rather than the Caller ID (easy to spoof, block, etc. and in general much less accurate than people give it credit for).
The updates are part of the Slashdot tenth anniversary auction. In addition to the @slashdot.org address and low user id, CmdrTaco has also gotten the operators of the Storm Worm Botnet to auction its use off as part of the charity action.
Some potential uses for the winning bidder:
Oh sure, now they stand up to a request from the government and refuse to fulfill it on the grounds that it would be "illegal". Maybe they should have given that response to the NSA instead of saving it for Congress.
It's not like charging for a "point release" is unique to Apple. Microsoft did so for the upgrades from Windows 3.0 to 3.1, and from Windows NT 5.0 (Windows 2000) to 5.1 (Windows XP). The thing that determines whether it is worth it to users is what new functionality they get for their money, not which digit of an arbitrary numbering scheme some guy in the marketing department decided to increment.
I have some bad news for you. I'd elaborate further, but I'm still getting used to the interface of Slashdot's Braille version.
This is off-topic to the gambling part of this thread, but it's a free-trade question I've been wondering about and maybe someone who knows more about the WTO than I do can answer it.
The gist of the complaint Antigua and these other countries have is that if a country allows domestic goods and services of some category, they have to not discriminate against foreign goods and services of the same type.
How does this reconcile with U.S. laws regarding importing "non-sporting" firearms? There are situations where you could have a U.S. made rifle and it's perfectly legal, but if you have an imported version of the exact same rifle, or even built it in the U.S. but used too many foreign-made components, it would be a felony. Is this legit under America's WTO obligations, or another case of only following them when it suits the U.S.?
Ballmer: "You bring up some interesting points about Vista. Why don't you put together a committee to document this constructive feedback. I'll even be happy to {ominous chuckle} chair it."
But always indexing "the" would cause problems as well. For instance, some of the Eagles albums say "The Eagles", and some are just "Eagles". Would you want them to show up as two separate bands in your database and have to remember which one to look under to find Hotel California?
In Soviet Borg Cube, cybernetic implants control YOU!
goatse.cx would tend to support your hypothesis.
Of course... Betas from 10 years before a product launches always have a few problems.
Wrong. The "or later" does not mean that whatever the most recent version of the GPL has been published is the one that applies. It means someone wanting to copy / distribute / whatever the software is free to do so under the terms of the GPLv2, or any later version that they might prefer the terms of. If the GPLv4 came out next week and said "to distribute software under this license, you have to send RMS a case of beer", you could distribute "GPLv2 or later" software by either providing its source (the GPLv2/v3 option) or by sending RMS a case of beer. New versions of the GPL give you more choices in licensing "or later" code, they don't retroactively change the terms of the deal like some shady EULA.
Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that version or of any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation.Maybe Apple's brilliant line of reasoning will catch on in other industries.
You: I want to buy this house! *hands realtor a check for the full price of the property*
Realtor: Thanks.
You: Can I have the deed to my new property?
Realtor: Nope. See, we have to give you the title to the land after you pay off the mortgage.
You: Um, but I didn't take out a mortgage?
Realtor: Right, so I get to keep your money and never have to give you the deed! Ha ha ha you sure are a moron! *walks off, sticking the check in his pocket*
Officially they may only have a trademark on "Microsoft Windows" but that didn't stop them from forcing "Lindows" to change its name, strong-arming the "Windows Defender" name away from its original owner, and plenty of similar actions. They have effectively managed to get a get a trademark on the generic computer term "Windows".