I earnestly hope this gets taken down ASAP or some innocent people might wind up in prison thanks to pedos renting the botnet to get kiddie porn. I'd think that if they're taking payment via credit card then they damned well should be traceable by some means.
I've seen this guy around. He's supposedly a chiropractor who believes that 3D movies cause subluxations in the spine. I'm not kidding. He's also barfed up some conspiratorial crap about some mystic force only allowing him to post on/. twice a day.
The guy is either a troll or an absolutely certifiable lunatic. I'm betting on the former.
Ah, yet another/.er who sees the world as what he wishes it would be instead of what it is. Apple's marketshare in the mobile market has been holding steady. It's RIM, WinMo, and the carcass of WebOS and Symbian that are becoming bit players in the mobile space right now. Android is growing, but it's not so much at the expense of Apple, who is also making by far and wide more money in the mobile space than any other smartphone or mobile OS vendor. Pull your head out of your ass.
Probably because it seems that every consumer router on the market has godawful garbage for firmware and DD-WRT is a major step up from that. Making it "DD-WRT" compatible costs little (if anything) for them, yet it's a selling point to customers that want a router that is less likely to be buggy and/or crashhappy. DD-WRT has also become easy enough for more people to use it, and that's something that took a while to get into place.
Router companies also don't give a crap if you mess with the router so long as you don't break it and bug their support. They have no interest in control. DD-WRT can actually make their lives easier. Tablets and smartphones are a very, very different story.
Not to mention that hackers are a tiny minority of the market. Honestly, basing the winner on hackability, something only a small fraction of the market even gives a crap about? What a load of utter crap. Hackers are a niche. If some companies want to work that niche, then that's great, but it's doubtful they'll go mainstream with it.
Corporations don't care about the planet or slave labor so long as they can make a profit.
FTFY. This is not unique to Apple in the slightest, and I somehow doubt that these suppliers make goods strictly for Apple and no one else. It's like people bashing Apple over Foxconn and completely ignoring that the entire damned computer industry gets their goods from either Foxconn or other cheap Chinese labor.
Her son isn't even autistic. He has a gluten intolerance. It simply looked like autism when he was younger as he'd probably sit there, moaning and rocking because his guts hurt.
A Macbook Pro has a better CPU and a hard drive over twice as large as this thing. The GPUs are roughly equivalent. Upgrade to 8GB of RAM aftermarket on the Macbook Pro and you actually get a better-specced laptop for less. They ARE off in lala land if they're actually exceeding what Apple charges for a lesser laptop.
And you know what's funny? They're actually charging MORE than Apple for a similarly-specced laptop. 2.8ghz dual i7 vs 2.2ghz quad i7, 320GB drive vs 750GB drive, the video cards are roughly equivalent, although Razer does have the advantage of 2GB of memory. Still, that probably won't give you much advantage over 1GB as the GPUs themselves aren't all that fast to begin with.
When you're actually charging MORE for specs than Apple then maybe it's time to reevaluate your business strategy.
...really? Gee, let's see, Osama's actions resulted in the deaths of thousands. The actions of these two boobs resulted in nothing at all, especially the guy who deleted it after he sobered up and realized that he'd been an idiot the night before. Big difference.
I think they should be punished, but they didn't actually smash in storefronts, burn down buildings, or throw bricks at cops. I think the end result of the actions should definitely have a bearing on the length of the sentence.
The article says they're appealing it and I'll wager they'll see drastically reduced sentences. 4 years is utterly absurd. Put the people who were actually throwing molotovs and smashing storefronts into the joint for four years, but not guys who made Facebook posts, especially when one deleted it after waking up with a hangover.
I'll wager these guys won't do much in the way of hard time. They certainly shouldn't.
And that's probably what it was. I have a friend who named his wifi network something similar. It's not an uncommon joke, and honestly, do you really think the Feds would have a visible wifi network, much less one that is so conspicuously named? Give me a break. What a complete and utter non-story.
RTFA. The cop who registered the complaint wasn't the one who did the beating. That guy was fired. He did, however, stand by and watch it happen. He should've lost his job for it, but he wasn't the guy busting heads.
And the belief that it is a very real threat is an incredibly overactive imagination. People are well aware of the POSSIBLE risks, even as small as they are. Stop reading a bunch of science fiction and start looking at science facts. You may as well bomb the LHC because it could collapse the universe or create time travel possibilities.
I seem to remember one of the patents being specifically for displaying the image from a digital camera on an LCD, not so much a patent on the camera itself. If I recall correctly, it was pointed out that such a system had either been implemented in some way or at least proposed by others prior to the filing of Kodak's patent. I'm not saying that Kodak didn't pioneer the digital camera. I'm saying that some of their patent crapola was just that, much like most other suits clogging up the courts.
Everyone slings patent shit around. Kodak had basically patented putting an LCD on a camera and using that instead of a viewfinder, an idea that had certainly been around prior to Kodak's patent and had possibly been implemented before then, too. I'd have to go back and check. Yes, Apple is slinging stupid patent crap around. So is LG. So are just about all the major players in the industry, and everyone needs to knock it the hell off. Google is about the only one who hasn't gone willy-nilly with patents as they seem more interested in violating them than attacking with them.
You have no damned idea what you're talking about. What we're looking at is an external PCIe bus and it's over twice as fast as USB 3.0, which is hardly "almost as fast". Let that sink in. Anything that can be put on a PCIe bus can be put on Thunderbolt. Now think about Intel's ultrabook push and how we're going to be seeing a lot more ultrathin laptops. These laptops aren't going to have a lot of real estate for ports. Now, what Intel tech is going to be ideal for universal docking stations, hmm? Let that sink in, then please stop posting. TB may not catch on for desktops, but it has a lot of potential for laptops.
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I earnestly hope this gets taken down ASAP or some innocent people might wind up in prison thanks to pedos renting the botnet to get kiddie porn. I'd think that if they're taking payment via credit card then they damned well should be traceable by some means.
I've seen this guy around. He's supposedly a chiropractor who believes that 3D movies cause subluxations in the spine. I'm not kidding. He's also barfed up some conspiratorial crap about some mystic force only allowing him to post on /. twice a day.
The guy is either a troll or an absolutely certifiable lunatic. I'm betting on the former.
Ah, yet another /.er who sees the world as what he wishes it would be instead of what it is. Apple's marketshare in the mobile market has been holding steady. It's RIM, WinMo, and the carcass of WebOS and Symbian that are becoming bit players in the mobile space right now. Android is growing, but it's not so much at the expense of Apple, who is also making by far and wide more money in the mobile space than any other smartphone or mobile OS vendor. Pull your head out of your ass.
Nobody dies when your tablet crashes.
Probably because it seems that every consumer router on the market has godawful garbage for firmware and DD-WRT is a major step up from that. Making it "DD-WRT" compatible costs little (if anything) for them, yet it's a selling point to customers that want a router that is less likely to be buggy and/or crashhappy. DD-WRT has also become easy enough for more people to use it, and that's something that took a while to get into place.
Router companies also don't give a crap if you mess with the router so long as you don't break it and bug their support. They have no interest in control. DD-WRT can actually make their lives easier. Tablets and smartphones are a very, very different story.
Not to mention that hackers are a tiny minority of the market. Honestly, basing the winner on hackability, something only a small fraction of the market even gives a crap about? What a load of utter crap. Hackers are a niche. If some companies want to work that niche, then that's great, but it's doubtful they'll go mainstream with it.
Corporations don't care about the planet or slave labor so long as they can make a profit.
FTFY. This is not unique to Apple in the slightest, and I somehow doubt that these suppliers make goods strictly for Apple and no one else. It's like people bashing Apple over Foxconn and completely ignoring that the entire damned computer industry gets their goods from either Foxconn or other cheap Chinese labor.
Her son isn't even autistic. He has a gluten intolerance. It simply looked like autism when he was younger as he'd probably sit there, moaning and rocking because his guts hurt.
Asperger's Syndrome.
Rewrite it in something other than Java, for God's sake.
Yeah, but serious gamers can get a better laptop for half that price.
A Macbook Pro has a better CPU and a hard drive over twice as large as this thing. The GPUs are roughly equivalent. Upgrade to 8GB of RAM aftermarket on the Macbook Pro and you actually get a better-specced laptop for less. They ARE off in lala land if they're actually exceeding what Apple charges for a lesser laptop.
And you know what's funny? They're actually charging MORE than Apple for a similarly-specced laptop. 2.8ghz dual i7 vs 2.2ghz quad i7, 320GB drive vs 750GB drive, the video cards are roughly equivalent, although Razer does have the advantage of 2GB of memory. Still, that probably won't give you much advantage over 1GB as the GPUs themselves aren't all that fast to begin with.
When you're actually charging MORE for specs than Apple then maybe it's time to reevaluate your business strategy.
...really? Gee, let's see, Osama's actions resulted in the deaths of thousands. The actions of these two boobs resulted in nothing at all, especially the guy who deleted it after he sobered up and realized that he'd been an idiot the night before. Big difference.
Um, no, but if someone winds up dead then you would probably get more time than if the hitman got caught before the job was done.
I think they should be punished, but they didn't actually smash in storefronts, burn down buildings, or throw bricks at cops. I think the end result of the actions should definitely have a bearing on the length of the sentence.
The article says they're appealing it and I'll wager they'll see drastically reduced sentences. 4 years is utterly absurd. Put the people who were actually throwing molotovs and smashing storefronts into the joint for four years, but not guys who made Facebook posts, especially when one deleted it after waking up with a hangover.
I'll wager these guys won't do much in the way of hard time. They certainly shouldn't.
Exactly. If they wanted a honeypot, they could name it "linksys" and leave it wide open.
And that's probably what it was. I have a friend who named his wifi network something similar. It's not an uncommon joke, and honestly, do you really think the Feds would have a visible wifi network, much less one that is so conspicuously named? Give me a break. What a complete and utter non-story.
RTFA. The cop who registered the complaint wasn't the one who did the beating. That guy was fired. He did, however, stand by and watch it happen. He should've lost his job for it, but he wasn't the guy busting heads.
And the belief that it is a very real threat is an incredibly overactive imagination. People are well aware of the POSSIBLE risks, even as small as they are. Stop reading a bunch of science fiction and start looking at science facts. You may as well bomb the LHC because it could collapse the universe or create time travel possibilities.
I seem to remember one of the patents being specifically for displaying the image from a digital camera on an LCD, not so much a patent on the camera itself. If I recall correctly, it was pointed out that such a system had either been implemented in some way or at least proposed by others prior to the filing of Kodak's patent. I'm not saying that Kodak didn't pioneer the digital camera. I'm saying that some of their patent crapola was just that, much like most other suits clogging up the courts.
Everyone slings patent shit around. Kodak had basically patented putting an LCD on a camera and using that instead of a viewfinder, an idea that had certainly been around prior to Kodak's patent and had possibly been implemented before then, too. I'd have to go back and check. Yes, Apple is slinging stupid patent crap around. So is LG. So are just about all the major players in the industry, and everyone needs to knock it the hell off. Google is about the only one who hasn't gone willy-nilly with patents as they seem more interested in violating them than attacking with them.
You have no damned idea what you're talking about. What we're looking at is an external PCIe bus and it's over twice as fast as USB 3.0, which is hardly "almost as fast". Let that sink in. Anything that can be put on a PCIe bus can be put on Thunderbolt. Now think about Intel's ultrabook push and how we're going to be seeing a lot more ultrathin laptops. These laptops aren't going to have a lot of real estate for ports. Now, what Intel tech is going to be ideal for universal docking stations, hmm? Let that sink in, then please stop posting. TB may not catch on for desktops, but it has a lot of potential for laptops.
The video is new, but the demo of the tech certainly isn't. I saw this years ago.