As of right now, the stream is "Working" and not overloaded. Connected and playing at 341kbps. Looking for the stream on the NBC site? Seems that their secret is to hide it as deeply as possible so not too many people watch. Hop over to http://www.nbcolympics.com/streaming/index.html?ib _oll=Headline to get a link to the video.
Of course, the playlist comes from Doubleclick.net, and yes, the stream itself is coming from Akamai, in my case, a906.v193758.c19375.g.vm.akamaistream.net.
As a note, this post is time-sensitive, as obviously the live stream won't be around once the game is over.
like "now this piece of shit tells me that I am not allowed to watch my damn video again just because I got my Windows reinstalled!"
Don't act like it's news. Microsoft already changed it's license agreement. Now, for all you folks who like to upgrade your computers, a new motherboard means you need to buy a new copy of windows for a new license. Yep! Windows MAY NOT be transferred between different PC's and changing out the motherboard constitutes a new PC according to Microsoft now. In fact, according to a Technet Community Chat, replacing a DEFECTIVE Motherboard still requires a new license! As they said:
"Q: k guys, my question is.i have a system i sold, mainboard is to handle a 3.2 processor but originally sold it with 2.4 with promise of upgradeability to 3.2, though main board works fine with 2.4 it does not with 3.2, is this considered a failed mainboard
A: This is still considered an upgrade if the motherboard is changed. You might want to try using the latest BIOS for the motherboard. If it still doesn't support the 3.2 GHz CPU and you replace the motherboard then you'll have to sell them a new OS." - Microsoft Technet Community Chat
But if you run a business, and made the choice to use WordPerfect, or even a freeware Linux application, would you want to be FORCED to purchase MS Word to read a document that another company sends you? Not only that, but they intend to lock out the capabilityt o export (No Copy/Paste, etc), so you need to buy Word for EVERYBODY who needs to read the document.
Now comes interesting Tidbit Number two...
The article mentions "My fingerprint results in Access Denied, but the person who wrote it gets into the [document]." Right... So what if they want ME to be able to get in, but not my coworker? How do they acquire MY credentials to allow me in? How secure is this acquisition? Already things like PK Encryption require chains of custody and KNOWN Public Keys to have the proper security. When you get into the extremely-high levels of security, it gets somewhat complex. But now there is a certificate associated with my fingerprint?
Overall, while they claim "Makes it easier", from a security standpoint, I actually see a lot of room for complication, error, and massive breaches of security. And as the article points out: Do you REALLY trust Microsoft to not have security holes? One "Oops" and suddenly the document that you need -ME- to be able to read is not at all accessible by me, but who knows who instead.
And what kind of "Oops" does it take? Gee... Spoofed email of a Public Key maybe? Social Engineering of a phone call to claim to be me, and give them a false cert fingerprint? And of course if I use Linux, I'm {censored} out of luck. If Linux will even RUN on the systems anymore, since Microsoft doesn't sign it to be trusted.
Sounds to me as though he's talking about cameras which wouldn't be able to see anything that a police officer on the scene, in a public area, wouldn't be able to see.
Quite honestly, I have to halfway agree here... Everybody's jumping up in fits but the article has no details whatsoever. There is no information on -where- the cameras would be, what precise instances would warrant installation, etc. While many possibilities would be horrendously bad, at the same time, perhaps some could be good.
That being said, the main issue is that if you set a precedent and don't have somebody watching the watchers, who is to keep it from being abused?
Quite honestly, though, some -reasonable- surveilance (Even just recorded off-site) could be a good thing if precautions were made to avoid abuse. As an example, if my car had been broken into 5 times in the past month, I'd have no objection to the police setting up a camera watching my driveway and recording the information, so perhaps they could catch the nit who does it next. However if they start setting up cameras in my living room and dining room and bedroom and bathroom just because I call the police about noisy neighbors three times in one month, then I'd object.
So, simply put: Without further detail, and a LOT more information, I can't make a judgement call ont he idea other than to say that the person who suggested it came out with a HORRIBLY bad line.
If he wants to go around accepting bigotry in the world, more power to him. I think he's a fucking coward.
Ahh, I see... So the best way for him to fight bigotry is to bring his real life sexual preference information into a fantasy game where it doesn't matter at all and be kicked out of the guild. Then have absolutely no recourse legally or even within the AUP with a GM in the game. I'm certain that those bigots will get what's coming to them for it. Well, no, they won't. They will go on in their guild without him, and he'll lose his guild membership and all the work he put into the guild.
Choose your battles wisely, as some just make no sense.
OR maybe you're exaggerating so that you can use statistics to "prove" that you're not a hater, but that they "deserve" to be chastised because "they" just aren't as considerate.
Or perhaps I'm stating my experiences from what I have seen and done, assuming that folks know that individual experiences and statistics may differ based on any number of aspects. I chastise all tonsil-taggers equally, regardless of orientation. I'm simply stating the common responses from different pairings. Please note I did not use absolutes, but rather the word "usually". There have been plenty of gay couples who kindly took their actions out of public, and plenty of straight couples who got nasty about it.
Again, this is because very rarely is being straight going to be a problem, but being gay often is because of so-called "tolerant" people like you.
I think the point that you missed is that I would not hire anybody who came in and said "And I'm straight" either. Or anybody who came in and said "And my mother has hemorrhoids". Or anything else that is not related to the job interview. The point I was trying to make is that your sexual preference, along with a lot of other things, should be your own business, not anybody else's. Regardless of majority, minority, or whatever, certain things just shouldn't be pressed in other peoples' faces.
The person I did hire was qualified for the job, and I knew for a fact that he was gay before I hired him (Confirmed afterwards with no problems arising from it, I just didn't want to hear it at the interview). He got a phone call during the interview (Which I generally frown on, but it was somewhat of a minor emergency for him), the voice on the other side of the overly-loud cell phone was distinctly male and was responded to with a male name by the interviewee. When asked about the urgency of the call, he advised me that it was his significant other.
But hey, I guess I'm only "so-called" tolerant, even though I currently work as the system admin for a gay bondage porn site and both my wife and I are good friends with the gay owner/webmaster and gay models. But hey, I'm a hater, eh?
Except that from what I've read, there are several blatantly Christian guilds who recruit on the general board based on that, and they haven't been told "you can't do that."
Have you complained about them? Have you gotten multiple people to complain about them? Blizzard doesn't uber-moderate its boards. If you don't complain, nothing will get done.
Quite honestly, I'll be simple and straightforward about this:
Somebody's sexual preference is NONE OF OTHER PEOPLES' BUSINESS.
I'm straight. I'm also married. And of all things, my Wife plays WoW too. But I don't go saying "I'm straight." in WoW. I have no ruddy REASON to...
We have an ex-roommate who is gay. I mean, we're talking twink-boy gay. No problem, we don't have an issue with this. He plays WoW too. He doesn't go around looking for "Gay-friendly guilds". It honestly doesn't make a difference to him. And in fact, he is part of guilds that have officers and members who are very gay-UNfriendly. But it doesn't matter. Because he doesn't go saying "I'm Gay."
Whether a guild is GLBT-friendly or not should not even come into account! Guilds shouldn't have to advertise it, because people shouldn't have to go around proclaiming it. You see people wearing "Gay Pride" items, rainbow necklaces, and all sorts of other things. But how often do you see "Straight pride" necklaces and wristbands? How often do you see "I'm straight and I vote" bumper stickers?
And please don't bring up the tonsil-tagging issues. I don't think ANYBODY, straight, gay, or whatever, should be doing that. So regardless of whether it's two guys making out, or two girls making out, or a straight couple making out, or even a trio, I'm going to ask them to take it to a room. The difference is that the straight couple will usually get embarrassed and take it to a room, while the gay couple will get indignant and accuse me of being a gay-hater.
But seriously, the main issue is that it's not anyboy's business. As one comedian once said, should we start having "My mother has hemorrhoids" be something to be spouted about? It's not anybody's business either. I used to interview people, and I actually found that I got SICK of people coming in and saying "Oh, and I'm gay. Is that a problem?". I don't CARE if you're gay, straight people don't come in and say "Oh, and I'm straight. Is that a problem?". I didn't hire them based on the fact that they brought PRIVATE information that has no relation to the job into an interview. Then three of them tried to sue because they thought I was discriminating against gay people (Not a protected thing anyway). Unfortunately for them, the guy who DID get hired was ALSO gay. He just didn't wear it around his neck, on his shirt, and mention it at the interview. Nobody who worked with him had any poblem with him being gay, because talking about stuff, straight OR gay, would be sexual harassment policy violations.
So be gay, no problem there. But don't go spouting off about it any more than people spout off about being straight. And learn to complain about things when they need to be complained about. That includes religious advertising on WoW.
This is different because people who do it are technically risking offbalancing their CD... and in todays CD devices on computers that seem to almost exceed the RPM of a jet engine, that can be catastrophic. And as another poster pointed out, the tape can also potentially come off and gum up your internals. I recommend the Marker Method over tape, definitely.
Did it ever occur to anybody that the ink used to print US paper currency has a very high iron content... In fact, you can get the iron out of it, and therefore the concentration of iron around that area may have resulted in the same sort of effect you get when you put a CD in the microwave? Bear in mind that anything smaller than the actual wavelength of a microwave will not be affected (This is why a microwaved CD will end up with crackling, but after a while, all the spots are too small to catch the energy and conduct, so the sparks will die off).
Bear in mind, in the page you linked, they mentioned "three seconds"... Well, yeah... Ever paid close attention to a microwave? You push start, and after about three seconds or so, you hear this crackling hiss kind of like static inside the thing. This is because the microwave emission unit is not started the instant you press the button, it gets revved up a moment later, thus making that static-like hiss. The frying of any electronic item of sufficient size to get fried occurs almost immeidtaely thereafter.
Regardless, with a $20 bill, it is entirely possible that the quantity and concentration of iron-impregnated ink across the face of the portrait creates sufficient size and conductivity to catch microwaves and convert them into electricity. This arcs (Just like on a CD) and thus burns. And Poof! Burnt bill, with or without RFID.
Now, please bear in mind that I am not looking at a bill when I write this, so there may be other factors involved. But somebody might want to look into this with this new information under consideration.
Why would life on mars necessarily be DNA-based, and why would protiens and lipids nessarily evolve if life evolves? Certainly, other methods of reproduction may have evolved.
I actually have to agree with this observation completely. If we consider that our definition of life seems to include specific chemicals and processes and results, and that we really have no other definitions of life, then I suppose that we have no other choice but to see in tunnel vision.
The issue I think is that perhaps we have too strict a definition of "what is necesary for life". Consider: With the recent article on self-replicating rapid prototypers, how far are we away from the possibility of machines that can consume raw materials, process them to create power and more complex materials, and possibly reproduce new copies of themselves? That fits the most basic definition of 'life' already. But there's no DNA, or protiens, or any other such things involved.
Maybe we need to start revising our views on what constitutes "signs of life" if we want to have accurate findings. Either that or realize that we can only search for "Life as we know it" specifically.
These DRM-cracking P2P-downloading "freedom fighters" are forgetting that they were the origins of this problem to begin with. It's like an all-you-can-eat buffet at the local restaurant. It charges $10 per person to eat, but you and 10 of your friends come in every day, pay for one plate, and use it to feed everyone. But not only do you expect the restaurant to continue to do business with you, you expect them to lower their restrictions because of your exploits!
In my case, I'd liken it more to going into an all-you-can-eat restaurant by myself, ordering their buffet for $10, and then being told "Oh, and you have to eat it while supported upside down by this special chair, and you can only use these straneg corkscrew-shaped spring-loaded chopstick-like things to eat it. And don't try to get around this because the chair can detect if you're really upside down in it." Well, I think for the sake of my sanity, I'd probably go and bypass the detection on the chair and chopstick-like-things and eat it sitting upright with my own fork knife and spoon thank you.
I think one of the best analogies I have ever seen on this, in fact, is the following (paraphrased):
It would be like going to McDonalds, and buying food, and discovering that the food is packaged in special "Food Rights Management" containers. These containers are set up so that you cannot get the food out of them without a special unlock key. These keys are built into three specific models of one brand of car, and can also be purchased as a special table at your house. The key device must be in place for the duration of the consumption of the food, otherwise the FRM packaging will close back up again. And yes, when unlocked with the key, you can choose to extract the food to another packaging, however the FRM will pre-puree it for you if you do so, so you still have the food, and it is still edible and technically tasty, but just not QUITE as good.
Now, you can't have any other kind of car, and you can't eat it in the park, and you if you go to your neighbor's house to eat it, you can eat it at their table after you log in with their table, but they can't eat at the same time.
So, somebody manages to find a way to get the food out of this FRM packaging without it being turned into a tube of goop, and suddenly you can eat it in any car, or at the park, or at the same time with your neighbor.
"But this makes it easier for criminals to steal it and put it on P2P!"
Yeah, but so do CD's. So why are you treating everybody as a criminal just because they COULD be? Should we now treat everybody who has a gun as a criminal because the guns make it easier for them to rob a store if they chose to? Should everbody with fingers be a criminal because a fist makes it easier to perform criminal assualt and battery?
People really go to the easiest thing to do for their money. If it's easier to spend $0.99 and get the track and use it the way you want, then they will do that. If it's EASIER to do what they want to do with it if they spend hours trying to figure out a P2P network and find the right song that hasn't been screwed up and sounds halfway okay and such, then people will do that instead.
It's not about the money completely, it's also about ease of use. As an example, it is entirely possible to drive in a nail with a free rock, and it will get the job done. But if you want to drive in 20 nails, it's much EASIER to spend $9.99 on a hammer and use that instead, and more efficient. Then at the same time, if the hammers cost $99.99 instead, people probably would opt to use the free rock to drive them in, because the cost now overshadows the benefit.
How to get it right: Make it easier to do it the right way than to do it the wrong way. If there were less restrictions on the music that we could buy, then it would just be a heck of a lot easier to spend the 99 cents and get the music than to go throught he hassle on P2P and such. As long as it is EASIER to go on P2P and do what you want,
That is very accurate. The end results won't be accurate. When you KNOW that you have an out, your psyche isn't affected nearly the same.
It can also happen the opposite of what you indicate. You say that they may not try hard enough to survive, and thus will succumb to the stress more easily. It may also REDUCE the stress, knowing that if you ever decide that you want out, you can get out, so you take things more with a grain of salt. No panic of knowing that if something goes wrong, you're utterly doomed.
The downside is that doing a true test would involve putting peoples' lives in danger. Or at the VERY least, having a single blind test, in which the people going into it are absolutely convinced that reality says that if something goes wrong, nobody can save them. (You can still go in and save them, but they must have NO way of knowing that you can or will.)
If you consider that effectively all human input into a computer is brain-controlled. It's just a matter of what transmission method is being used. In normal cases, such as most of us here, the transmission medium is (simplified): Brain to fingers to keyboard to computer.
The big thing about this is that now they are working to take out the fingers and keyboard part, and make it "Brain to Computer."
Honestly, I see a few frightening issues, though. For example, I can walk up to my computer on a dry day, sit down, grab the mouse, and send a static shock through the USB port, effectively freezing the USB capability. Now, what happens if somebody is using this wonderful new technology, and gets a static shock straight to the brain? Or, for even more fun, if there is no isolation circuit in the input system, what happens if the power supply to the computer blows and applies a comfortable DC voltage directly to your brain?
The entire "In" part is what bugs me. "In his skull", "In his brain"... It makes it seem more exciting, but honestly, IMHO it opens up so many more possible problems. Just the fact that you need to get brain surgery to just START to use this thing is enough as it is. If it were non-invasive, I'd be a lot more impressed.
While we appreciate your interest in tinfoil hats to combat our new technology, we advise you not to try it. As indicated, this is hard-wired directly into your brain. Tinfoil hats have proven to be a problem for our mind control rays, since they are wireless, however the tinfoil has proven to be no match for a Makita to the frontal lobe.
In closing, we recommend that you drop these silly ideas that tin or even aluminum foil will be any match for our hard-wired technology. Thank you.
Now we're that much closer to having the Agent Smith virus be real!!!
For the Serious Factor...
It currently only deals with taking information out of the brain and using it as input. The information back into the barin is received by other senses (Visual, auditory, etc), ie, looking at the computer screen and seeing that you did, indeed, manage to open the email. We're not talking about pumping information directly through wires INTO your brain. Just getting information out.
Hopefully, prior art will begin to be more important. But honestly, I can't see the wonderful folks at the USPTO trying to figure out whether a certain smell is "McDonald's French Fries" or "Wendy's French Fries". This worries me on so many levels, as it just sems to open up the door for more rediculous litigation.
And of course, the patents will go through regardless of prior art, because, honestly, how are those patent stampers supposed to know that the patent description in technical terms just happens to cover every sweet smell there is?
. o O {OMG... How long until people get sued for patent infringement for farting?}... Is it insightful or funny? Or neither? Dunno. It's too late at night to tell.
what the hell did you learn at marketing school, if they didn't teach you that making an announcement NOW and starting accepting orders FOUR DAYS from now will make the whole announcement useless. Who will remember that he wanted to order something a week ago...
Dear Mr. Coward,
While we appreciate your concern for our marketing strategies, we do observe a number of factors. The first being that there are seven days in a week, not four. The second being that we knew that upon making this announcement, the Slashdot crew would have an article up within a matter of moments. Had we been accepting orders at this time, our order system would have been tremendously overwhelmed by what is fondly known as the Slashdot Effect, and the vast majority of our other customers would be unable to wade through the tide of Slashdot readers attempting to order our merchandise. The losses due to negative word of mouth publicity would have been substantial.
By creating a four-day buffer, we are able to encertain that the initial flood of Slahsdot readers will have ALMOST forgotten, but still have a three day period within which to remember to order this horrendously long movie. Thus, the orders stemming from them will be spread over a larger time period as neurons begin to fire and they remember.
Overall, we appreciate your input, and have we will be sending you a free coffee maker in a show of our gratitude. (We recommend that you alternate between the pause button on the remote and the pause button on the DVD player itself while watching the movie when needing to use the restroom. It will help to prevent premature failure of your remote.)
Thank you for asking whether this edition comes with a coffee machine. We considered adding this feature for a while, however in testing, we discovered that the caffeine levels consumed combined with over four hours of feature film resulted in too many trips to the restroom. This not only had the downside of random interruptions for everybody when multiple people were viewing the movie at the same time, but it also caused the premature failure of numerous 'Pause' buttons on DVD player remotes.
When technology allows for remote control buttons with higher life expectancies, we will reconsider this feature. This will likely be around the time we release the Uber Mega Ultra Extended Beyond All Possible Belief And Sanity Edition. We highly recommend that you begin accruing a year's worth of vacation time so you may fully enjoy this upcoming release in one sitting.
What I am wondering is whether this is a two-way link. It's not specifically stated in the article that it is, however some things in the article inmply such a situation. Specifically the fact that it makes claims about "each link catering for up to 200 classrooms". If it were just a broadcast bird, I'd expect that anybody in the signal range could nab the signal off the air and use it. But if classrooms have uplinks, then the channels would be limited in bandwidth.
If the classrooms have return uplinks, then this project makes much more sense than the current "Education alongside other functions", because two-way communications for students can be very important, and the multipurpose satellites would not be well-suited to the uplink needs of the classrooms themselves.
This wouldn't be a family thing, from what I gather. This would be a "The school for the local community, which is funded by the government and by aid institutions, will have the uplink equipment to be able to get proper teaching materials and courses without worrying about the espense of porting live instructors out." Ie, instead of having a living person, being paid and eating food, and limited to what knowledge they themselves have and can get ahold of, suddenly you can set up an insta-classroom with any number of instructors, subjects, etc, for $65 plus ongoing power consumption costs.
Electricity may be the bigger problem, but the government and private organizations will likely be funding the equipment for classrooms. We're not talking about "Home education" here, we're talking about classrooms set up with the video equipment, a generator, and a satellite dish, serving the whole local community.
Whatta ruddy silly argument. Kiryat, I have to say I agree with you wholeheartedly here as well. Downgrading my filter to -1 to read the other person's arguments, it seems that his primary disgruntlement is "/.'ers always say 'Why not a tablet for artists!' and in reality, tablets suck for artists, because they suck for me, and everybody I know." Now, admittedly, I only skimmed over his posts, but that is the gist I caught.
Definitely an issue of making opinion into fact here. Seen that a lot lately, seems to be on the rise.
ANYWAY, rather than just complaining about his complaint, I'll look at the actual factors here. Firstly, I am a CG Artist. I haven't done anything in ages, but I have a tablet and it is a godsend for accurate and decent work. My wife is an artist (OMG!!! A Slashdotter who is MARRIED!?!). She will happily draw on any paper size, from a drink coaster to posterboard, and her art does not suffer from paper size changes.
I know several artists who are absolutely THRILLED with tablets, whether they be standard ones, or even Cinteqs. The ones I know who can afford a Cinteq like it because it gives them direct visualisation of "Pen is here, mark is here" on the screen. To them, it makes a great way to zoom in and work on some disgustingly fine details with a very natural motion and mindset.
Primarily the reason behind the idea of combining Cinteq + Mac is due to the premium on space in many situations. A Cinteq tablet simply adds another device to an already-existing computer, thus taking up "Yet More Space". The combination of a Cinteq like tablet situation with the Mac would mean that the space consumption has been reduced substantially. The thing is that it would be EXCEPTIONALLY expensive, and appeal only to a small population. And those who it doesn't appeal to, like our friendly AC there, just have no way of understanding the mindset or needs of people who would ue it. In the event of something such as a production work graphics design department, space savings and digital art tablet capability together can make a big difference.
So, really, AC, just because you wouldn't like it, don't assume that nobody else would. And DEFINITELY don't assume that the 'annoying people who comment about how cool it would be' are just know-nothings who have no ties to art other than that they THINK it would be cool for artists. Because the person who posted the original post just might be an artist who would love that. (Wow, look, he is! Weird world we live in, isn't it?)
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This "you open the case, you have no warranty" belief is an urban myth.
If you have a warranty contract that states that intrusion into the system voids the warranty, then what is the situation then? Where precisely is it REQUIRED for them to warrant their equipment? It's not here. If they said "you are buying this 'As Is'", then there would be no warranty anyway, with the exceptions of implied warrantee (Such as in product specifications, claims, etc.) Because a lot of places do not legally require warranties. (These are usually noted in the Warranty text as "Warranty void if... except in or other places where prohibited by law.")
It seems that you also come from AU, or are possibly thinking of that country, which likely has differnet laws in effect than other places. In the US, they can and do legally say "We will warrant this as long as you don't open it." So overall, it has a huge dependancy on where you buy it.
It's right up there with the popular belief that stores have the right to search your bags just by sticking up a sign "a condition of entry is that we can search your bags". Nope. They still can't search your bags. They can't negate your right to privacy with a sign.
Again, you seem to have forgotten difference in laws. It depends on whether 'search of personal property' requires implicit or explicit permission. In many places, it requires only implicit permission. As such, by entering a store with a PROMINENTLY placed sign stating "By entering this property, you give us the right to search your bags" or anything of the sort, then you have effectively given them permission to search your bags.
In all cases, the permission issue is the key. If asked for permission to search your bags, and you give this permission, then you have just given up the right to privacy within your bags. You cannot then watch them search it, and say "How dare you search my bags!?" and sue them, since you directly gave permission. heck, this is even apparent with police officers, who, without due cause, cannot search your person. That is why they ask "Do you mind if I pat you down?" or somesuch, with the understanding that MOST people will just agree, which then means you have relinquished your right to privacy in that specific case. You -DO- technically have the right to say "I do not want you to search me." (Though of course this will make them suspicious of you, and could make matters worse in the future.)
The other consideration is that if they require you to allow a bag search upon ENTRY, then they have another thing to go by. You cannot just walk in, refuse a bag search, and then expect to still be allowed in the store. They are private property, and they have the right to require you to waive any waivable rights (Right to privacy is a waivable right) you have in order to gain access to their private property. Failure to comply can and WILL result in denial of access to the property. And if you insist, then the owner or any agent thereof can have you arrested for trespass.
I used to work at Fry's Electronics in California. Believe me, we were seen as the Gustapo just because we had signs like you mention, and because we looked through all outgoing bags. Now the funny thing is that the PRIMARY meaning of "By entering this premises, you agree that we have the right to search all bags" was for the shopping bags that were leaving the store. But we occasionally had to search backpacks too. When somebody objected (99% of the time they had stolen something if they did), we would simply place them under citizen's arrest and call the police. By entering the store, and staying in it with no intent to actually allow search after giving implicit permission advised by the prominent sign, they were trespassing. With the police present, they were given a choice. May we search your bags, or do you want to go to jail on charges of trespassing? The 1% that ddid not steal anything would generally allow a bag search at that point and be released, albeit g
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Of course, the playlist comes from Doubleclick.net, and yes, the stream itself is coming from Akamai, in my case, a906.v193758.c19375.g.vm.akamaistream.net.
As a note, this post is time-sensitive, as obviously the live stream won't be around once the game is over.
Don't act like it's news. Microsoft already changed it's license agreement. Now, for all you folks who like to upgrade your computers, a new motherboard means you need to buy a new copy of windows for a new license. Yep! Windows MAY NOT be transferred between different PC's and changing out the motherboard constitutes a new PC according to Microsoft now. In fact, according to a Technet Community Chat, replacing a DEFECTIVE Motherboard still requires a new license! As they said: .i have a system i sold, mainboard is to handle a 3.2 processor but originally sold it with 2.4 with promise of upgradeability to 3.2, though main board works fine with 2.4 it does not with 3.2, is this considered a failed mainboard
"Q: k guys, my question is
A: This is still considered an upgrade if the motherboard is changed. You might want to try using the latest BIOS for the motherboard. If it still doesn't support the 3.2 GHz CPU and you replace the motherboard then you'll have to sell them a new OS." - Microsoft Technet Community Chat
Quite a bit of fun, no?
Now comes interesting Tidbit Number two...
The article mentions "My fingerprint results in Access Denied, but the person who wrote it gets into the [document]." Right... So what if they want ME to be able to get in, but not my coworker? How do they acquire MY credentials to allow me in? How secure is this acquisition? Already things like PK Encryption require chains of custody and KNOWN Public Keys to have the proper security. When you get into the extremely-high levels of security, it gets somewhat complex. But now there is a certificate associated with my fingerprint?
Overall, while they claim "Makes it easier", from a security standpoint, I actually see a lot of room for complication, error, and massive breaches of security. And as the article points out: Do you REALLY trust Microsoft to not have security holes? One "Oops" and suddenly the document that you need -ME- to be able to read is not at all accessible by me, but who knows who instead.
And what kind of "Oops" does it take? Gee... Spoofed email of a Public Key maybe? Social Engineering of a phone call to claim to be me, and give them a false cert fingerprint? And of course if I use Linux, I'm {censored} out of luck. If Linux will even RUN on the systems anymore, since Microsoft doesn't sign it to be trusted.
Quite honestly, I have to halfway agree here... Everybody's jumping up in fits but the article has no details whatsoever. There is no information on -where- the cameras would be, what precise instances would warrant installation, etc. While many possibilities would be horrendously bad, at the same time, perhaps some could be good.
That being said, the main issue is that if you set a precedent and don't have somebody watching the watchers, who is to keep it from being abused?
Quite honestly, though, some -reasonable- surveilance (Even just recorded off-site) could be a good thing if precautions were made to avoid abuse. As an example, if my car had been broken into 5 times in the past month, I'd have no objection to the police setting up a camera watching my driveway and recording the information, so perhaps they could catch the nit who does it next. However if they start setting up cameras in my living room and dining room and bedroom and bathroom just because I call the police about noisy neighbors three times in one month, then I'd object.
So, simply put: Without further detail, and a LOT more information, I can't make a judgement call ont he idea other than to say that the person who suggested it came out with a HORRIBLY bad line.
Ahh, I see... So the best way for him to fight bigotry is to bring his real life sexual preference information into a fantasy game where it doesn't matter at all and be kicked out of the guild. Then have absolutely no recourse legally or even within the AUP with a GM in the game. I'm certain that those bigots will get what's coming to them for it. Well, no, they won't. They will go on in their guild without him, and he'll lose his guild membership and all the work he put into the guild.
Choose your battles wisely, as some just make no sense.
OR maybe you're exaggerating so that you can use statistics to "prove" that you're not a hater, but that they "deserve" to be chastised because "they" just aren't as considerate.
Or perhaps I'm stating my experiences from what I have seen and done, assuming that folks know that individual experiences and statistics may differ based on any number of aspects. I chastise all tonsil-taggers equally, regardless of orientation. I'm simply stating the common responses from different pairings. Please note I did not use absolutes, but rather the word "usually". There have been plenty of gay couples who kindly took their actions out of public, and plenty of straight couples who got nasty about it.
Again, this is because very rarely is being straight going to be a problem, but being gay often is because of so-called "tolerant" people like you.
I think the point that you missed is that I would not hire anybody who came in and said "And I'm straight" either. Or anybody who came in and said "And my mother has hemorrhoids". Or anything else that is not related to the job interview. The point I was trying to make is that your sexual preference, along with a lot of other things, should be your own business, not anybody else's. Regardless of majority, minority, or whatever, certain things just shouldn't be pressed in other peoples' faces.
The person I did hire was qualified for the job, and I knew for a fact that he was gay before I hired him (Confirmed afterwards with no problems arising from it, I just didn't want to hear it at the interview). He got a phone call during the interview (Which I generally frown on, but it was somewhat of a minor emergency for him), the voice on the other side of the overly-loud cell phone was distinctly male and was responded to with a male name by the interviewee. When asked about the urgency of the call, he advised me that it was his significant other.
But hey, I guess I'm only "so-called" tolerant, even though I currently work as the system admin for a gay bondage porn site and both my wife and I are good friends with the gay owner/webmaster and gay models. But hey, I'm a hater, eh?
Have you complained about them? Have you gotten multiple people to complain about them? Blizzard doesn't uber-moderate its boards. If you don't complain, nothing will get done.
Quite honestly, I'll be simple and straightforward about this:
Somebody's sexual preference is NONE OF OTHER PEOPLES' BUSINESS.
I'm straight. I'm also married. And of all things, my Wife plays WoW too. But I don't go saying "I'm straight." in WoW. I have no ruddy REASON to...
We have an ex-roommate who is gay. I mean, we're talking twink-boy gay. No problem, we don't have an issue with this. He plays WoW too. He doesn't go around looking for "Gay-friendly guilds". It honestly doesn't make a difference to him. And in fact, he is part of guilds that have officers and members who are very gay-UNfriendly. But it doesn't matter. Because he doesn't go saying "I'm Gay."
Whether a guild is GLBT-friendly or not should not even come into account! Guilds shouldn't have to advertise it, because people shouldn't have to go around proclaiming it. You see people wearing "Gay Pride" items, rainbow necklaces, and all sorts of other things. But how often do you see "Straight pride" necklaces and wristbands? How often do you see "I'm straight and I vote" bumper stickers?
And please don't bring up the tonsil-tagging issues. I don't think ANYBODY, straight, gay, or whatever, should be doing that. So regardless of whether it's two guys making out, or two girls making out, or a straight couple making out, or even a trio, I'm going to ask them to take it to a room. The difference is that the straight couple will usually get embarrassed and take it to a room, while the gay couple will get indignant and accuse me of being a gay-hater.
But seriously, the main issue is that it's not anyboy's business. As one comedian once said, should we start having "My mother has hemorrhoids" be something to be spouted about? It's not anybody's business either. I used to interview people, and I actually found that I got SICK of people coming in and saying "Oh, and I'm gay. Is that a problem?". I don't CARE if you're gay, straight people don't come in and say "Oh, and I'm straight. Is that a problem?". I didn't hire them based on the fact that they brought PRIVATE information that has no relation to the job into an interview. Then three of them tried to sue because they thought I was discriminating against gay people (Not a protected thing anyway). Unfortunately for them, the guy who DID get hired was ALSO gay. He just didn't wear it around his neck, on his shirt, and mention it at the interview. Nobody who worked with him had any poblem with him being gay, because talking about stuff, straight OR gay, would be sexual harassment policy violations.
So be gay, no problem there. But don't go spouting off about it any more than people spout off about being straight. And learn to complain about things when they need to be complained about. That includes religious advertising on WoW.
This is different because people who do it are technically risking offbalancing their CD... and in todays CD devices on computers that seem to almost exceed the RPM of a jet engine, that can be catastrophic. And as another poster pointed out, the tape can also potentially come off and gum up your internals. I recommend the Marker Method over tape, definitely.
Bear in mind, in the page you linked, they mentioned "three seconds"... Well, yeah... Ever paid close attention to a microwave? You push start, and after about three seconds or so, you hear this crackling hiss kind of like static inside the thing. This is because the microwave emission unit is not started the instant you press the button, it gets revved up a moment later, thus making that static-like hiss. The frying of any electronic item of sufficient size to get fried occurs almost immeidtaely thereafter.
Regardless, with a $20 bill, it is entirely possible that the quantity and concentration of iron-impregnated ink across the face of the portrait creates sufficient size and conductivity to catch microwaves and convert them into electricity. This arcs (Just like on a CD) and thus burns. And Poof! Burnt bill, with or without RFID.
Now, please bear in mind that I am not looking at a bill when I write this, so there may be other factors involved. But somebody might want to look into this with this new information under consideration.
They haven't studied cats or dolphins enough yet to figure it out. ;)
I actually have to agree with this observation completely. If we consider that our definition of life seems to include specific chemicals and processes and results, and that we really have no other definitions of life, then I suppose that we have no other choice but to see in tunnel vision.
The issue I think is that perhaps we have too strict a definition of "what is necesary for life". Consider: With the recent article on self-replicating rapid prototypers, how far are we away from the possibility of machines that can consume raw materials, process them to create power and more complex materials, and possibly reproduce new copies of themselves? That fits the most basic definition of 'life' already. But there's no DNA, or protiens, or any other such things involved.
Maybe we need to start revising our views on what constitutes "signs of life" if we want to have accurate findings. Either that or realize that we can only search for "Life as we know it" specifically.
In my case, I'd liken it more to going into an all-you-can-eat restaurant by myself, ordering their buffet for $10, and then being told "Oh, and you have to eat it while supported upside down by this special chair, and you can only use these straneg corkscrew-shaped spring-loaded chopstick-like things to eat it. And don't try to get around this because the chair can detect if you're really upside down in it." Well, I think for the sake of my sanity, I'd probably go and bypass the detection on the chair and chopstick-like-things and eat it sitting upright with my own fork knife and spoon thank you.
I think one of the best analogies I have ever seen on this, in fact, is the following (paraphrased):
It would be like going to McDonalds, and buying food, and discovering that the food is packaged in special "Food Rights Management" containers. These containers are set up so that you cannot get the food out of them without a special unlock key. These keys are built into three specific models of one brand of car, and can also be purchased as a special table at your house. The key device must be in place for the duration of the consumption of the food, otherwise the FRM packaging will close back up again. And yes, when unlocked with the key, you can choose to extract the food to another packaging, however the FRM will pre-puree it for you if you do so, so you still have the food, and it is still edible and technically tasty, but just not QUITE as good.
Now, you can't have any other kind of car, and you can't eat it in the park, and you if you go to your neighbor's house to eat it, you can eat it at their table after you log in with their table, but they can't eat at the same time.
So, somebody manages to find a way to get the food out of this FRM packaging without it being turned into a tube of goop, and suddenly you can eat it in any car, or at the park, or at the same time with your neighbor.
"But this makes it easier for criminals to steal it and put it on P2P!"
Yeah, but so do CD's. So why are you treating everybody as a criminal just because they COULD be? Should we now treat everybody who has a gun as a criminal because the guns make it easier for them to rob a store if they chose to? Should everbody with fingers be a criminal because a fist makes it easier to perform criminal assualt and battery?
People really go to the easiest thing to do for their money. If it's easier to spend $0.99 and get the track and use it the way you want, then they will do that. If it's EASIER to do what they want to do with it if they spend hours trying to figure out a P2P network and find the right song that hasn't been screwed up and sounds halfway okay and such, then people will do that instead.
It's not about the money completely, it's also about ease of use. As an example, it is entirely possible to drive in a nail with a free rock, and it will get the job done. But if you want to drive in 20 nails, it's much EASIER to spend $9.99 on a hammer and use that instead, and more efficient. Then at the same time, if the hammers cost $99.99 instead, people probably would opt to use the free rock to drive them in, because the cost now overshadows the benefit.
How to get it right: Make it easier to do it the right way than to do it the wrong way. If there were less restrictions on the music that we could buy, then it would just be a heck of a lot easier to spend the 99 cents and get the music than to go throught he hassle on P2P and such. As long as it is EASIER to go on P2P and do what you want,
It can also happen the opposite of what you indicate. You say that they may not try hard enough to survive, and thus will succumb to the stress more easily. It may also REDUCE the stress, knowing that if you ever decide that you want out, you can get out, so you take things more with a grain of salt. No panic of knowing that if something goes wrong, you're utterly doomed.
The downside is that doing a true test would involve putting peoples' lives in danger. Or at the VERY least, having a single blind test, in which the people going into it are absolutely convinced that reality says that if something goes wrong, nobody can save them. (You can still go in and save them, but they must have NO way of knowing that you can or will.)
The big thing about this is that now they are working to take out the fingers and keyboard part, and make it "Brain to Computer."
Honestly, I see a few frightening issues, though. For example, I can walk up to my computer on a dry day, sit down, grab the mouse, and send a static shock through the USB port, effectively freezing the USB capability. Now, what happens if somebody is using this wonderful new technology, and gets a static shock straight to the brain? Or, for even more fun, if there is no isolation circuit in the input system, what happens if the power supply to the computer blows and applies a comfortable DC voltage directly to your brain?
The entire "In" part is what bugs me. "In his skull", "In his brain"... It makes it seem more exciting, but honestly, IMHO it opens up so many more possible problems. Just the fact that you need to get brain surgery to just START to use this thing is enough as it is. If it were non-invasive, I'd be a lot more impressed.
While we appreciate your interest in tinfoil hats to combat our new technology, we advise you not to try it. As indicated, this is hard-wired directly into your brain. Tinfoil hats have proven to be a problem for our mind control rays, since they are wireless, however the tinfoil has proven to be no match for a Makita to the frontal lobe.
In closing, we recommend that you drop these silly ideas that tin or even aluminum foil will be any match for our hard-wired technology. Thank you.
Your Future Thought Control Overlords
Now we're that much closer to having the Agent Smith virus be real!!!
For the Serious Factor...
It currently only deals with taking information out of the brain and using it as input. The information back into the barin is received by other senses (Visual, auditory, etc), ie, looking at the computer screen and seeing that you did, indeed, manage to open the email. We're not talking about pumping information directly through wires INTO your brain. Just getting information out.
And of course, the patents will go through regardless of prior art, because, honestly, how are those patent stampers supposed to know that the patent description in technical terms just happens to cover every sweet smell there is?
. o O {OMG... How long until people get sued for patent infringement for farting?}... Is it insightful or funny? Or neither? Dunno. It's too late at night to tell.
what the hell did you learn at marketing school, if they didn't teach you that making an announcement NOW and starting accepting orders FOUR DAYS from now will make the whole announcement useless. Who will remember that he wanted to order something a week ago...
Dear Mr. Coward,
While we appreciate your concern for our marketing strategies, we do observe a number of factors. The first being that there are seven days in a week, not four. The second being that we knew that upon making this announcement, the Slashdot crew would have an article up within a matter of moments. Had we been accepting orders at this time, our order system would have been tremendously overwhelmed by what is fondly known as the Slashdot Effect, and the vast majority of our other customers would be unable to wade through the tide of Slashdot readers attempting to order our merchandise. The losses due to negative word of mouth publicity would have been substantial.
By creating a four-day buffer, we are able to encertain that the initial flood of Slahsdot readers will have ALMOST forgotten, but still have a three day period within which to remember to order this horrendously long movie. Thus, the orders stemming from them will be spread over a larger time period as neurons begin to fire and they remember.
Overall, we appreciate your input, and have we will be sending you a free coffee maker in a show of our gratitude. (We recommend that you alternate between the pause button on the remote and the pause button on the DVD player itself while watching the movie when needing to use the restroom. It will help to prevent premature failure of your remote.)
Sincerely, Middle Earth Marketing Department
Umm... X-Drinx?
12 DVDs is a frightening prospect, honestly. And when they have Yet More Footage, maybe it'll be closer to 24.
Thank you for asking whether this edition comes with a coffee machine. We considered adding this feature for a while, however in testing, we discovered that the caffeine levels consumed combined with over four hours of feature film resulted in too many trips to the restroom. This not only had the downside of random interruptions for everybody when multiple people were viewing the movie at the same time, but it also caused the premature failure of numerous 'Pause' buttons on DVD player remotes.
When technology allows for remote control buttons with higher life expectancies, we will reconsider this feature. This will likely be around the time we release the Uber Mega Ultra Extended Beyond All Possible Belief And Sanity Edition. We highly recommend that you begin accruing a year's worth of vacation time so you may fully enjoy this upcoming release in one sitting.
Sincerely, Middle Earth Marketing Department
If the classrooms have return uplinks, then this project makes much more sense than the current "Education alongside other functions", because two-way communications for students can be very important, and the multipurpose satellites would not be well-suited to the uplink needs of the classrooms themselves.
This wouldn't be a family thing, from what I gather. This would be a "The school for the local community, which is funded by the government and by aid institutions, will have the uplink equipment to be able to get proper teaching materials and courses without worrying about the espense of porting live instructors out." Ie, instead of having a living person, being paid and eating food, and limited to what knowledge they themselves have and can get ahold of, suddenly you can set up an insta-classroom with any number of instructors, subjects, etc, for $65 plus ongoing power consumption costs.
Electricity may be the bigger problem, but the government and private organizations will likely be funding the equipment for classrooms. We're not talking about "Home education" here, we're talking about classrooms set up with the video equipment, a generator, and a satellite dish, serving the whole local community.
Definitely an issue of making opinion into fact here. Seen that a lot lately, seems to be on the rise.
ANYWAY, rather than just complaining about his complaint, I'll look at the actual factors here. Firstly, I am a CG Artist. I haven't done anything in ages, but I have a tablet and it is a godsend for accurate and decent work. My wife is an artist (OMG!!! A Slashdotter who is MARRIED!?!). She will happily draw on any paper size, from a drink coaster to posterboard, and her art does not suffer from paper size changes.
I know several artists who are absolutely THRILLED with tablets, whether they be standard ones, or even Cinteqs. The ones I know who can afford a Cinteq like it because it gives them direct visualisation of "Pen is here, mark is here" on the screen. To them, it makes a great way to zoom in and work on some disgustingly fine details with a very natural motion and mindset.
Primarily the reason behind the idea of combining Cinteq + Mac is due to the premium on space in many situations. A Cinteq tablet simply adds another device to an already-existing computer, thus taking up "Yet More Space". The combination of a Cinteq like tablet situation with the Mac would mean that the space consumption has been reduced substantially. The thing is that it would be EXCEPTIONALLY expensive, and appeal only to a small population. And those who it doesn't appeal to, like our friendly AC there, just have no way of understanding the mindset or needs of people who would ue it. In the event of something such as a production work graphics design department, space savings and digital art tablet capability together can make a big difference.
So, really, AC, just because you wouldn't like it, don't assume that nobody else would. And DEFINITELY don't assume that the 'annoying people who comment about how cool it would be' are just know-nothings who have no ties to art other than that they THINK it would be cool for artists. Because the person who posted the original post just might be an artist who would love that. (Wow, look, he is! Weird world we live in, isn't it?)
If you have a warranty contract that states that intrusion into the system voids the warranty, then what is the situation then? Where precisely is it REQUIRED for them to warrant their equipment? It's not here. If they said "you are buying this 'As Is'", then there would be no warranty anyway, with the exceptions of implied warrantee (Such as in product specifications, claims, etc.) Because a lot of places do not legally require warranties. (These are usually noted in the Warranty text as "Warranty void if ... except in or other places where prohibited by law.")
It seems that you also come from AU, or are possibly thinking of that country, which likely has differnet laws in effect than other places. In the US, they can and do legally say "We will warrant this as long as you don't open it." So overall, it has a huge dependancy on where you buy it.
It's right up there with the popular belief that stores have the right to search your bags just by sticking up a sign "a condition of entry is that we can search your bags". Nope. They still can't search your bags. They can't negate your right to privacy with a sign.
Again, you seem to have forgotten difference in laws. It depends on whether 'search of personal property' requires implicit or explicit permission. In many places, it requires only implicit permission. As such, by entering a store with a PROMINENTLY placed sign stating "By entering this property, you give us the right to search your bags" or anything of the sort, then you have effectively given them permission to search your bags.
In all cases, the permission issue is the key. If asked for permission to search your bags, and you give this permission, then you have just given up the right to privacy within your bags. You cannot then watch them search it, and say "How dare you search my bags!?" and sue them, since you directly gave permission. heck, this is even apparent with police officers, who, without due cause, cannot search your person. That is why they ask "Do you mind if I pat you down?" or somesuch, with the understanding that MOST people will just agree, which then means you have relinquished your right to privacy in that specific case. You -DO- technically have the right to say "I do not want you to search me." (Though of course this will make them suspicious of you, and could make matters worse in the future.)
The other consideration is that if they require you to allow a bag search upon ENTRY, then they have another thing to go by. You cannot just walk in, refuse a bag search, and then expect to still be allowed in the store. They are private property, and they have the right to require you to waive any waivable rights (Right to privacy is a waivable right) you have in order to gain access to their private property. Failure to comply can and WILL result in denial of access to the property. And if you insist, then the owner or any agent thereof can have you arrested for trespass.
I used to work at Fry's Electronics in California. Believe me, we were seen as the Gustapo just because we had signs like you mention, and because we looked through all outgoing bags. Now the funny thing is that the PRIMARY meaning of "By entering this premises, you agree that we have the right to search all bags" was for the shopping bags that were leaving the store. But we occasionally had to search backpacks too. When somebody objected (99% of the time they had stolen something if they did), we would simply place them under citizen's arrest and call the police. By entering the store, and staying in it with no intent to actually allow search after giving implicit permission advised by the prominent sign, they were trespassing. With the police present, they were given a choice. May we search your bags, or do you want to go to jail on charges of trespassing? The 1% that ddid not steal anything would generally allow a bag search at that point and be released, albeit g