As with nanotechnology, I'll believe in quantum computing when they produce some real results, like say factoring RSA 2048. Hell, let's see them factor the number 339. If practical quantum computing is decades away, can't they at least show us something impractical, just to prove that quantum computing isn't just hand-waving bullshit?
Fuck his supervisors. If they were too chummy to act on a legitimate complaint they should be fired as well. We're talking about tax money here; the citizens of Alabama deserve better.
Imagine buying a future with nearly every computer running some kind of clustering software, forming a worldwide supercomputer with their spare resources. Imagine what you could do with such a thing.
It's been imagined. The movies all seem to have the same answer: take over the world and destroy it.
Nope, it could have been just one guy who had the technology and he had the good sense to keep it to himself. Bill Gates for instance. Or the tech could be limited such that it requires too much energy to go backward more than a few seconds/minutes/hours. A few hours would be enough to go back and win the lottery, assuming the universe doesn't conspire with itself to kill those who attempt such things.
Seems like they'd be better off using this energy to make sure their site works on all browsers instead of coming down on someone who is doing a legitimate service...
Lawyers do what lawyers can do. PHB's do what PHB's can do. The blame for this web site should be laid at the feet of the web design shop who built it, IT people just like the ones who read slashdot. The enemy is us.
You can do it, but using a TiVo without the service really sucks. It's barely better than a VCR. I hardly remember what time particular TV shows air anymore. I just tell the TiVo to record them and I watch them whenever. Without the service you have to set up all recordings by time and duration. No program titles, no program descriptions. And woe unto you if your favorite program airs in a different time slot one week because NBC just has to fuck around with their schedule.
3) With products churning this fast, your chance of reading a decent product review before making your purchase is close to zero. If stores like Best Buy are pissed off by customers returning products so often, look no further than practices like this. You never really know what you're buying because salespeople and manufacturers routinely lie or tell half-truths and you're left to find out the awful truth after you've made a purchase.
A person with two eyes would probably be willing to give up one eye for enough money to never have to work again. For the billions of people living on $2 a day, $10,000 is enough. But in that case you have to wonder if that eye has been getting enough vitamins over the years to keep it healthy. As with most things, you get what you pay for.
Why do I get the feeling that these are the same sad sacks who can't retrieve data out of a database without crashing the systems and irretrievably losing data?
I cry bullshit. The only problem here is that no one wants to pay to have this work done. They can't figure out a way to farm it out to India, or make it someone else's problem so now the suits are fretting. The tinny sound you hear is the smallest set of bagpipes in the world playing a dirge for the lost souls in insurance and law enforcement who are learning that hey, maybe we need to keep some IT people stateside after all.
He always struck me as a pretty fair, stand-up kind of guy, so it wouldn't surprise me if well-reasoned, non-hostile Linux advocacy were presented to him, a major victory could be won.
Yeah, yeah. Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
You're overthinking this. Go with the simplest explanation--- the cover story is just a fucking lie. It doesn't even sound remotely plausible.
If anyone other than Someone In Authority gave you this crazy cock-and-bull story about not being able to retrieve data, you would laugh in their face.
I prefer the poetry of the KJV, which reads as if the distraught husband gets to lay a beating on the perpetrator.
If men strive, and hurt a women with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him;
Saying something is copy protected is not the same as saying I'm going to run a program on your computer if you put this disc in it. Because the two operations of (1) playing media and (2) running a program were made indistinguishable by the cretins at Microsoft, users ended up launching all those fucking viruses that have plagued the net for the last five years. And now we have a so-called legitimate industry taking advantage of the same sort of thing to install crippleware.
I think we ought to take every opportunity to screw these guys with their pants on, because there is nothing they won't stoop to. And every copy of that quisling Windows operating system ought to be chopped into razor-sharp flechettes and fired into Gates' and Ballmer's writhing bodies.
They will never be able to stop P2P. Look at the drug trade. Look at the forces arrayed against them. Not just lawyers with subpoenas but men with guns. Look at the propaganda! Look at the prison time. And yet see how much weed, H and blow are being enjoyed by the masses. "Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another." The only people the lawsuits will scare off are the chickenshits.
Absolutely. The "Mike Melvill obituary" post was done by an AC and it was probably the funniest thing I ever read on slashdot. You probably never saw it because, while it was modded up to +5 Funny for a while, enough people thought it was a sick joke that it was modded back down to -1. It was sick, but it was also goddamned shoot-beer-out-your-nose funny.
Screw that. Why should convicts get to go to space?
There are plenty of desert islands and rocky atolls in the Pacific we can let the convicts "terraform". We begin by airdropping the first several hundred thousand of them and letting them starve to death out there to produce topsoil for the plants that will follow. Air drop bugs, earthworms and a few other things and then just keep those nutrient rich prisoners comin'. Pretty soon we'll have a tropical paradise and we can start over on a new island.
I think once you purchase your song you should be able to listen to it at any time anywhere.
That's how I feel about it. But I'm beyond that sort of reasoning at this point. The record companies have shown they have no intention of dealing in good faith with anyone, artists OR music fans. They do whatever they can get away with, so I'm going to do the same. They've got stacks of money to lobby and to litigate and to bribe. I've got a computer, a good brain and a bad attitude. Let the games begin.
I do have a problem with the DRM and it's that the terms of use are not fixed. Apple can change their minds (or have their minds changed for them by the record companies) and place onerous conditions on the use of the music after I've given them my money. And there is nothing I can do about it.
With the DRM in place it's like Apple has a hand loosely gripping my nuts. That hand might give me great pleasure or it might suddenly squeeze so long and so hard that I beg for the surcease from pain that only death can bring. Anyone sane would get out this situation if they could. H-Y-M-N spells freedom for my nuts.
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As with nanotechnology, I'll believe in quantum computing when they produce some real results, like say factoring RSA 2048. Hell, let's see them factor the number 339. If practical quantum computing is decades away, can't they at least show us something impractical, just to prove that quantum computing isn't just hand-waving bullshit?
Obviously my sense of humor is waaaaaay off today. :-P
??? I thought BSA was Bovine Spongiform Angioplasty.
Fuck his supervisors. If they were too chummy to act on a legitimate complaint they should be fired as well. We're talking about tax money here; the citizens of Alabama deserve better.
It's been imagined. The movies all seem to have the same answer: take over the world and destroy it.
... the merger reduces the number of executives we have to feed the mind control drugs.
Nope, it could have been just one guy who had the technology and he had the good sense to keep it to himself. Bill Gates for instance. Or the tech could be limited such that it requires too much energy to go backward more than a few seconds/minutes/hours. A few hours would be enough to go back and win the lottery, assuming the universe doesn't conspire with itself to kill those who attempt such things.
Lawyers do what lawyers can do. PHB's do what PHB's can do. The blame for this web site should be laid at the feet of the web design shop who built it, IT people just like the ones who read slashdot. The enemy is us.
The place would go up in a huge methane explosion long before then.
I want a device that runs on AA's, and supports Compact Flash II. I finally found one: NEX ia Plus [advancedmp3players.co.uk]
CO.UK... yeah right. That website gives the term "Queen's English" a whole new meaning. Don't forget to try their "price beat" policy.
You can do it, but using a TiVo without the service really sucks. It's barely better than a VCR. I hardly remember what time particular TV shows air anymore. I just tell the TiVo to record them and I watch them whenever. Without the service you have to set up all recordings by time and duration. No program titles, no program descriptions. And woe unto you if your favorite program airs in a different time slot one week because NBC just has to fuck around with their schedule.
3) With products churning this fast, your chance of reading a decent product review before making your purchase is close to zero. If stores like Best Buy are pissed off by customers returning products so often, look no further than practices like this. You never really know what you're buying because salespeople and manufacturers routinely lie or tell half-truths and you're left to find out the awful truth after you've made a purchase.
A person with two eyes would probably be willing to give up one eye for enough money to never have to work again. For the billions of people living on $2 a day, $10,000 is enough. But in that case you have to wonder if that eye has been getting enough vitamins over the years to keep it healthy. As with most things, you get what you pay for.
It could have happened while some poor schmuck was fucking her. Imagine the headlines then.
I cry bullshit. The only problem here is that no one wants to pay to have this work done. They can't figure out a way to farm it out to India, or make it someone else's problem so now the suits are fretting. The tinny sound you hear is the smallest set of bagpipes in the world playing a dirge for the lost souls in insurance and law enforcement who are learning that hey, maybe we need to keep some IT people stateside after all.
Yeah, yeah. Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
Your lovers need to be much more creative.
You're overthinking this. Go with the simplest explanation--- the cover story is just a fucking lie. It doesn't even sound remotely plausible. If anyone other than Someone In Authority gave you this crazy cock-and-bull story about not being able to retrieve data, you would laugh in their face.
I think we ought to take every opportunity to screw these guys with their pants on, because there is nothing they won't stoop to. And every copy of that quisling Windows operating system ought to be chopped into razor-sharp flechettes and fired into Gates' and Ballmer's writhing bodies.
They will never be able to stop P2P. Look at the drug trade. Look at the forces arrayed against them. Not just lawyers with subpoenas but men with guns. Look at the propaganda! Look at the prison time. And yet see how much weed, H and blow are being enjoyed by the masses. "Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another." The only people the lawsuits will scare off are the chickenshits.
Absolutely. The "Mike Melvill obituary" post was done by an AC and it was probably the funniest thing I ever read on slashdot. You probably never saw it because, while it was modded up to +5 Funny for a while, enough people thought it was a sick joke that it was modded back down to -1. It was sick, but it was also goddamned shoot-beer-out-your-nose funny.
There are plenty of desert islands and rocky atolls in the Pacific we can let the convicts "terraform". We begin by airdropping the first several hundred thousand of them and letting them starve to death out there to produce topsoil for the plants that will follow. Air drop bugs, earthworms and a few other things and then just keep those nutrient rich prisoners comin'. Pretty soon we'll have a tropical paradise and we can start over on a new island.
That's how I feel about it. But I'm beyond that sort of reasoning at this point. The record companies have shown they have no intention of dealing in good faith with anyone, artists OR music fans. They do whatever they can get away with, so I'm going to do the same. They've got stacks of money to lobby and to litigate and to bribe. I've got a computer, a good brain and a bad attitude. Let the games begin.
With the DRM in place it's like Apple has a hand loosely gripping my nuts. That hand might give me great pleasure or it might suddenly squeeze so long and so hard that I beg for the surcease from pain that only death can bring. Anyone sane would get out this situation if they could. H-Y-M-N spells freedom for my nuts.