See: any of the other dozens of shows that were canceled before storylines were established. SGU got two seasons, which was a season more than i expected, even though I really liked the show from the beginning. I was sick of the formulaic approach SG-1 and Atlantis took. They were great shows, it had just started to get repetitive. I was ecstatic to see a different, more serious take, a more grown up show, but people wanted more of the same drivel.
Networks want flash-in-the-pot, make-a-lot-of-money-with-no-budget shows. Sadly, scripted dramas in general have fallen by the wayside in favor of shit that will sell whatever they're hocking. I'm 2 series away from canceling my cable altogether and focusing on Netflix/DVD/Blu-Ray releases.
There is no hope for SyFy. I was hoping another cable network might recognize the gold mine that is Stargate and other true Sci-Fi franchises and tempt them away from SyFy. When you put shows on a proper schedule, and don't air them randomly with nobody knowing WTF is going on, with huge hiatus breaks so you can sell half a season of DVDs for the price of a full season, you could develop loyal fan bases. Airing 10 episodes of SGU then killing it for 6 months then bringing it back and expecting people to care? Yeah, you can't do that. A month of hiatus for a new show is pushing it. you're trying to hook an audience, don't give them reason to forget you exist. When you get to Season 6 you can start taking huge breaks.
This is about Money, pure and simple; and not even Apple’s money. You stop doing hard core enforcement of the laws of the land, particularly the Trade Secret laws, and particularly in Silicon Valley, those businesses will wage war in retaliation by pulling their shit, doing minimal operations in your neck of the woods, potentially moving everything overseas, where they could potentially have a lot tougher laws, or a lot more leeway in enforcing their own internal rules. If you don’t think Apple would pull all operations out of Silicon Valley, and California, if they no longer had strong, prosecutable trade-secret laws, you’re on effing crack.
You can’t fight a drug war, a war on terror, provide healthcare, roads, schools, police, firemen, etc when you’re broke because you didn’t protect the interests of those creating the products, services, etc., that are generating tax revenue. Occasionally, when Corporations Talk and Governments Listen, its for legitimate purposes and not pocket-lining bullshit.
You're assuming that everybody idles with their mouse on the right. I'm right handed and idle on the left. Why? Because I READ left-to-right. I view controls left-to-right. I read the MenuBar left to right. I look at a table left-to-right, top to bottom. When I look a window on a computer, I look left to right. When I cascade windows, I want them cascaded left to right, so that the upper left corner of every window is visible (and closable).
I have a wheel, a trackpad, and arrow keys to control my position in a window, other than as a visual indicator of my position in the Window, a Scrollbar serves little purpose.
Right-justified stuff pisses me off. If you read in one of the dozens of languages that runs right-to-left, i'm sure you'd feel the same way about left-justified.
If the dude doesn't like it, he can go devote hours upon hours to his own fork of Debian or better yet, he can run his own version of the ubuntu code. What about all the people who WANTED the buttons on the other side? Suddenly ONLY his opinion matters?
Open Source software is has to be a Republic. Ultimately somebody has to make decisions that influence the whole, or they get made by a small committee, not the entire user base at large. You can get "elected" to represent your peers by putting in time, work, and being damned good at it. THEN you can start influencing decisions and shaping the future. Standing on the sidelines bitching about the results just makes you look like a fucking idiot.
It still doesn't change the fact that we dont' indite quentin tarantino for some of the outright freaky shit he comes up with and MAKES MOVIES ABOUT.
FTA: [startribute] "Tatro told police that the posts were "just me venting," she said. "I got dumped, which is never a nice thing. I was bitter and really angry about it. For whatever reason, this professor took it personally."
Police are not filing charges and consider the matter closed, U spokesman Daniel Wolter said by e-mail."
If I had reason to believe I was the person she was wanting to stab, I may take other actions.
I'd also like to point out, that part of her duties, and in fact as part of her embalming therapy lesson, she probably WAS going to ahve to stab somebody (or something) with a trocar. The fact that said person or thing would probably already be dead should have some bearing on that... Maybe she enjoys her work and finds it therapeutic for her psyche (hey, it takes a special breed to work with dead people, you can't expect their needs or thought processes to be the same as anybody else).
How long before we arrive at the Minority Report state where what we THINK is enough to get us incriminated? Somebody said it above, we're either for freedom of speech, or we're not. Talking about something isn't the same as doing it. And all this "for every disaster prevented" stuff is bullshit.
I work in IT. If I got nailed to a wall everytime I said I wanted to injure kill somebody, be it outloud, on twitter, facebook, whatever, I'd be serving dozens if not hundreds of consecutive life sentences. Its part of my vernacular and my charming personality. I say "Fuck You" a lot too, that doesn't mean I actively want to go have intercourse with that person.
Fucking people need to lighten up. We have gotten so scared of our own fucking shadow is despicable. If the chick has a past history of mental illness or a criminal record, then yeah, they should give things a look. Apparently the threat wasn't very credible if they waited until she arrived at class to detain her. Newsflash, the police can find your ass, and its not like she was actively trying to evade them.
The profs in question overreacted, BADLY. The University doubly so, handing down a campus ban like that.
Basically a netbook in a box, for about $170US (each) i built a pair of small linux servers to handle all my chores...1.6Ghz Atom Procs, 2GB of RAM, 500GB 5400RPM drives.
The only downside i've found thus far is no gigabit, but they have a single PCI slot if you really need it, gig-e cards are cheap.
I have 0 complaints thus far, one box has been running since July, another i just brought up last week. The temperature in my office dropped 5 by turning off the box I replaced, and I went from about 120-130W constant draw to about 60W.
Its not as good as a Mini as power consumption, but I have two machines, and still have less than even the low-end mini in them in up-front costs.
Just out of curiousity, did you read the f'ing question? If he's worried about the power going on a regular basis do you really think he's concerned with I/O and hosting something like slashdot? Sheesh, lighten up dude.
Hence the 'eventually you learn' thing. Everybody had a catastrophic failure at some point, eventually you learn to plan for the future (for those like me it took more than one...). Though i do agree, a decent OS would help...I moved to OSX for the time being, mainly to get away from the but-ugly UI in Windows, but also for the (temporary) security OSX affords. I'm not one of those zealots who thinks we'll be safe forever, but Apple has a lot more time to prepare their OS for true mainstream use, plus when you figure they're actively developing and releasing updated versions almost yearly...and MS has been producing Vista for....6 years now? 7 or 8 if you count all the roadmapping they probably had to do before the first piece of code was looked at...
If it makes it so that is not longer a fad or fashion to pirate media, and stops the lusers from bringing down the heat of the RIAA and MPAA (face it, piracy, especially of the digital variety, has been around forever, it only became a problem when it was a household name). If you're dumb enough to be on BearShare or eMule or whatever other P2Ps are still running (i gave up keeping track) you're probably not smart enough to run decent A/V software and keep it updated, with a few exceptions of course. Maybe the RIAA did so it...i don't particularly care. I hate to see people lose their 'stuff' but we've all been there, its part of it. eventually you learn to use alternative OSes as your file servers and do as good of a job backing up as you can:)
Here's a thought, send a note home to the parents and warn them about the dangers of the child posting profile and personal information online.
STOP TAKING PARENTAL RESONSIBILITY FOR KIDS THAT AREN'T YOURS
Doing so contributes to the continuous $^&*-ups of today's society.
I understand teachers take a big interest in the lives of their students, and they could maybe do a program on this in a computer class or something to EDUCATE the kids about this, but if they choose to do it its their choice.
I'm kinda glad to hear something like this. I live within reasonable commuting distance (1 hour, which were i'm from is nothing) of 3 major midwest cities, have fat broadband pipes in my area, and live in a town of less than 500 people, where i can buy property AND build a 2500 sq ft house for far less than what you would pay for a decent apartment in a fair neighborhood for a long span of time in a major city like New York or SF and OWN a house and lots of land at the end of it. I am VERY happy to hear this news, and i hope it holds out just a few more years for me to get my degree and get some access into the job market.:)
use a mail-forwarding service to ship it all to Gmail accounts ?:) If you're not that worried about your users sending out corporate secrets or whatever it would solve a lot of the logistics:)
NOt even government mandated. the current media market is a capitalist market spun out of control. They grew to the point where they are borderline monopolistic, protected only because there are other companies "competing" even though they're doing the exact same thing under a different corporate entity.
If the media system was truly capitalist, as i feel it will be once the RIAA and MPAA are abolished and online music/movies REALLY take off, the artists will sell straight to distribution hubs. Radio play and concerts will determine markets, as well as free music given away on bands' websites. I wish i could expand this thought further but i'm going to have to let it go at that...
Since when is it the governments job to inhibit the free people's right to have entertainment, as well as take over MORE of the parential responsibilities of America's child-rearing citizens? Hell, by the time i get to where i want to have kids all i'll have to do is breed, the government will probably take it from there.
Just because some ill-informed reporter uses the term 'hacked' does not mean there was a forcible entry or any legwork required to access the network. The WAP was probably wide open, and if the guy DID enable encryption, that's not foolproof, because the router at my parents house resets whenever the power goes out. If he was snooping around the guys machines that ones thing. THAT is unauthorized access.
But like i said, if you don't secure your network, and the guy can access it from public property, there really aren't laws that govern that. THere are FCC regulations, but do those come into play? THey say you can monitor but cannot transmit on a frequency you don't own, but the 2.4 ghz spectrum is mostly public domain anyway.
Will there be laws? oh i'm sure it will be illegal, some bunch of jackasses who have never seen a wireless router, who paid to have their house wired for internet, and probaby have to have their kids program their VCR, will make a law governing the further regulation of digital devices. Ain't the US great...
Well, by my defination i don't think its stealing. People use the getting water or electricity, that's one thing. Your billed per unit on that. Internet is a lump fee, number one. number two, its more like the one analogy of somebody sitting in the street and reading a book by your security light. number three, there are security features built into every router, and if you dont' want people using yoru bandwidth you secure it. If you're too ignorant to do it, you find somebody who isn't.
Then there's the arguement that we shouldn't *have* to secure our internet, but by the same token, we shoudln't *have* to lock our doors either.
The United States legal and judicial system is not equipped to handle electronic laws or crimes
And it will be a long, long, loooooonnnnnngggggg time before the US population gets its head out of its ass and elects people who have a freaking clue so that the system can be fixed. That guy's fate is up to the judge who tries him, and thats not fair. The judge can pretty much go either way, and be deemed correct by 3rd parties on either verdict, and he just set a precident for which all cases in the future will be tried by.
Because setting up outlook takes 10 minutes of their time. Mail is the same way, plus it requires reading directions and messing with 'dumb' stuff like SMTP and ports...
I see your point, but the parent's point your replied to didn't imply that it was just for email, he implied that it was the only way that people CHECK their email, hence they need no email client, only a browser.
Slashdot Mirror
See: any of the other dozens of shows that were canceled before storylines were established. SGU got two seasons, which was a season more than i expected, even though I really liked the show from the beginning. I was sick of the formulaic approach SG-1 and Atlantis took. They were great shows, it had just started to get repetitive. I was ecstatic to see a different, more serious take, a more grown up show, but people wanted more of the same drivel.
Networks want flash-in-the-pot, make-a-lot-of-money-with-no-budget shows. Sadly, scripted dramas in general have fallen by the wayside in favor of shit that will sell whatever they're hocking. I'm 2 series away from canceling my cable altogether and focusing on Netflix/DVD/Blu-Ray releases.
There is no hope for SyFy. I was hoping another cable network might recognize the gold mine that is Stargate and other true Sci-Fi franchises and tempt them away from SyFy. When you put shows on a proper schedule, and don't air them randomly with nobody knowing WTF is going on, with huge hiatus breaks so you can sell half a season of DVDs for the price of a full season, you could develop loyal fan bases. Airing 10 episodes of SGU then killing it for 6 months then bringing it back and expecting people to care? Yeah, you can't do that. A month of hiatus for a new show is pushing it. you're trying to hook an audience, don't give them reason to forget you exist. When you get to Season 6 you can start taking huge breaks.
Wow. Way to spread the FUD.
Most customers: t-who?
This is about Money, pure and simple; and not even Apple’s money. You stop doing hard core enforcement of the laws of the land, particularly the Trade Secret laws, and particularly in Silicon Valley, those businesses will wage war in retaliation by pulling their shit, doing minimal operations in your neck of the woods, potentially moving everything overseas, where they could potentially have a lot tougher laws, or a lot more leeway in enforcing their own internal rules. If you don’t think Apple would pull all operations out of Silicon Valley, and California, if they no longer had strong, prosecutable trade-secret laws, you’re on effing crack.
You can’t fight a drug war, a war on terror, provide healthcare, roads, schools, police, firemen, etc when you’re broke because you didn’t protect the interests of those creating the products, services, etc., that are generating tax revenue. Occasionally, when Corporations Talk and Governments Listen, its for legitimate purposes and not pocket-lining bullshit.
You're assuming that everybody idles with their mouse on the right. I'm right handed and idle on the left. Why? Because I READ left-to-right. I view controls left-to-right. I read the MenuBar left to right. I look at a table left-to-right, top to bottom. When I look a window on a computer, I look left to right. When I cascade windows, I want them cascaded left to right, so that the upper left corner of every window is visible (and closable).
I have a wheel, a trackpad, and arrow keys to control my position in a window, other than as a visual indicator of my position in the Window, a Scrollbar serves little purpose.
Right-justified stuff pisses me off. If you read in one of the dozens of languages that runs right-to-left, i'm sure you'd feel the same way about left-justified.
If the dude doesn't like it, he can go devote hours upon hours to his own fork of Debian or better yet, he can run his own version of the ubuntu code. What about all the people who WANTED the buttons on the other side? Suddenly ONLY his opinion matters?
Open Source software is has to be a Republic. Ultimately somebody has to make decisions that influence the whole, or they get made by a small committee, not the entire user base at large. You can get "elected" to represent your peers by putting in time, work, and being damned good at it. THEN you can start influencing decisions and shaping the future. Standing on the sidelines bitching about the results just makes you look like a fucking idiot.
It still doesn't change the fact that we dont' indite quentin tarantino for some of the outright freaky shit he comes up with and MAKES MOVIES ABOUT.
FTA:
[startribute]
"Tatro told police that the posts were "just me venting," she said. "I got dumped, which is never a nice thing. I was bitter and really angry about it. For whatever reason, this professor took it personally."
Police are not filing charges and consider the matter closed, U spokesman Daniel Wolter said by e-mail."
If I had reason to believe I was the person she was wanting to stab, I may take other actions.
I'd also like to point out, that part of her duties, and in fact as part of her embalming therapy lesson, she probably WAS going to ahve to stab somebody (or something) with a trocar. The fact that said person or thing would probably already be dead should have some bearing on that... Maybe she enjoys her work and finds it therapeutic for her psyche (hey, it takes a special breed to work with dead people, you can't expect their needs or thought processes to be the same as anybody else).
How long before we arrive at the Minority Report state where what we THINK is enough to get us incriminated? Somebody said it above, we're either for freedom of speech, or we're not. Talking about something isn't the same as doing it. And all this "for every disaster prevented" stuff is bullshit.
I work in IT. If I got nailed to a wall everytime I said I wanted to injure kill somebody, be it outloud, on twitter, facebook, whatever, I'd be serving dozens if not hundreds of consecutive life sentences. Its part of my vernacular and my charming personality. I say "Fuck You" a lot too, that doesn't mean I actively want to go have intercourse with that person.
Fucking people need to lighten up. We have gotten so scared of our own fucking shadow is despicable. If the chick has a past history of mental illness or a criminal record, then yeah, they should give things a look. Apparently the threat wasn't very credible if they waited until she arrived at class to detain her. Newsflash, the police can find your ass, and its not like she was actively trying to evade them.
The profs in question overreacted, BADLY. The University doubly so, handing down a campus ban like that.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856119011&cm_re=RS-233-_-56-119-011-_-Product
Basically a netbook in a box, for about $170US (each) i built a pair of small linux servers to handle all my chores...1.6Ghz Atom Procs, 2GB of RAM, 500GB 5400RPM drives.
The only downside i've found thus far is no gigabit, but they have a single PCI slot if you really need it, gig-e cards are cheap.
I have 0 complaints thus far, one box has been running since July, another i just brought up last week. The temperature in my office dropped 5 by turning off the box I replaced, and I went from about 120-130W constant draw to about 60W.
Its not as good as a Mini as power consumption, but I have two machines, and still have less than even the low-end mini in them in up-front costs.
I have been working on lowering my power consumption for just over a year now, with a lot of success (reduced my power bill by 20-30%). I did a couple of somewhat lame writeups on my website about my server upgrades and the power consumption changes:
http://www.peelman.us/wordpress/2009/08/01/new-server-pollux/
http://www.peelman.us/wordpress/2008/10/29/file-server-upgrades/
Mine's been dead for 6 months, pried it open (was scared to up until this point, decided 'screw it, why not', and its working like a charm now.
Just out of curiousity, did you read the f'ing question? If he's worried about the power going on a regular basis do you really think he's concerned with I/O and hosting something like slashdot? Sheesh, lighten up dude.
Hence the 'eventually you learn' thing. Everybody had a catastrophic failure at some point, eventually you learn to plan for the future (for those like me it took more than one...). Though i do agree, a decent OS would help...I moved to OSX for the time being, mainly to get away from the but-ugly UI in Windows, but also for the (temporary) security OSX affords. I'm not one of those zealots who thinks we'll be safe forever, but Apple has a lot more time to prepare their OS for true mainstream use, plus when you figure they're actively developing and releasing updated versions almost yearly...and MS has been producing Vista for....6 years now? 7 or 8 if you count all the roadmapping they probably had to do before the first piece of code was looked at...
If it makes it so that is not longer a fad or fashion to pirate media, and stops the lusers from bringing down the heat of the RIAA and MPAA (face it, piracy, especially of the digital variety, has been around forever, it only became a problem when it was a household name). If you're dumb enough to be on BearShare or eMule or whatever other P2Ps are still running (i gave up keeping track) you're probably not smart enough to run decent A/V software and keep it updated, with a few exceptions of course. Maybe the RIAA did so it...i don't particularly care. I hate to see people lose their 'stuff' but we've all been there, its part of it. eventually you learn to use alternative OSes as your file servers and do as good of a job backing up as you can :)
The saddest part is that i agree with him...he has valid points and his suggestions make a whole lot of sense as far as physics goes...
Here's a thought, send a note home to the parents and warn them about the dangers of the child posting profile and personal information online.
STOP TAKING PARENTAL RESONSIBILITY FOR KIDS THAT AREN'T YOURS
Doing so contributes to the continuous $^&*-ups of today's society.
I understand teachers take a big interest in the lives of their students, and they could maybe do a program on this in a computer class or something to EDUCATE the kids about this, but if they choose to do it its their choice.
I'm kinda glad to hear something like this. I live within reasonable commuting distance (1 hour, which were i'm from is nothing) of 3 major midwest cities, have fat broadband pipes in my area, and live in a town of less than 500 people, where i can buy property AND build a 2500 sq ft house for far less than what you would pay for a decent apartment in a fair neighborhood for a long span of time in a major city like New York or SF and OWN a house and lots of land at the end of it. I am VERY happy to hear this news, and i hope it holds out just a few more years for me to get my degree and get some access into the job market. :)
use a mail-forwarding service to ship it all to Gmail accounts ? :) If you're not that worried about your users sending out corporate secrets or whatever it would solve a lot of the logistics :)
NOt even government mandated. the current media market is a capitalist market spun out of control. They grew to the point where they are borderline monopolistic, protected only because there are other companies "competing" even though they're doing the exact same thing under a different corporate entity.
If the media system was truly capitalist, as i feel it will be once the RIAA and MPAA are abolished and online music/movies REALLY take off, the artists will sell straight to distribution hubs. Radio play and concerts will determine markets, as well as free music given away on bands' websites. I wish i could expand this thought further but i'm going to have to let it go at that...
Amen...
Since when is it the governments job to inhibit the free people's right to have entertainment, as well as take over MORE of the parential responsibilities of America's child-rearing citizens? Hell, by the time i get to where i want to have kids all i'll have to do is breed, the government will probably take it from there.
Just because some ill-informed reporter uses the term 'hacked' does not mean there was a forcible entry or any legwork required to access the network. The WAP was probably wide open, and if the guy DID enable encryption, that's not foolproof, because the router at my parents house resets whenever the power goes out. If he was snooping around the guys machines that ones thing. THAT is unauthorized access.
But like i said, if you don't secure your network, and the guy can access it from public property, there really aren't laws that govern that. THere are FCC regulations, but do those come into play? THey say you can monitor but cannot transmit on a frequency you don't own, but the 2.4 ghz spectrum is mostly public domain anyway.
Will there be laws? oh i'm sure it will be illegal, some bunch of jackasses who have never seen a wireless router, who paid to have their house wired for internet, and probaby have to have their kids program their VCR, will make a law governing the further regulation of digital devices. Ain't the US great...
Well, by my defination i don't think its stealing. People use the getting water or electricity, that's one thing. Your billed per unit on that. Internet is a lump fee, number one. number two, its more like the one analogy of somebody sitting in the street and reading a book by your security light. number three, there are security features built into every router, and if you dont' want people using yoru bandwidth you secure it. If you're too ignorant to do it, you find somebody who isn't.
Then there's the arguement that we shouldn't *have* to secure our internet, but by the same token, we shoudln't *have* to lock our doors either.
what i've been saying for 5 years now.
The United States legal and judicial system is not equipped to handle electronic laws or crimes
And it will be a long, long, loooooonnnnnngggggg time before the US population gets its head out of its ass and elects people who have a freaking clue so that the system can be fixed. That guy's fate is up to the judge who tries him, and thats not fair. The judge can pretty much go either way, and be deemed correct by 3rd parties on either verdict, and he just set a precident for which all cases in the future will be tried by.
That is bullshit
Because setting up outlook takes 10 minutes of their time. Mail is the same way, plus it requires reading directions and messing with 'dumb' stuff like SMTP and ports...
I see your point, but the parent's point your replied to didn't imply that it was just for email, he implied that it was the only way that people CHECK their email, hence they need no email client, only a browser.