This is an interesting idea, but it sounds like an idea ahead of its time. I'm sure in 50 years, we'll all have these in our living rooms, complete with board games, pictures, and remote contols for our flying cars and household robots, but right now, I think this would be too expensive to appeal to enough people to justify its existance.
Still, you have to start somewhere, and I am glad there are companies developing stuff like this to throw at the wall.
I read this article yesterday, and it's sad, really, that nazipedophilesodomyisgreat@yahoo.com is allowed, but nancycallahan@yahoo.com is not. It's an example of an idea that probably started as a noble concern. (I would imagine that someone tried to sign up for deathtoallah@yahoo.com in order to troll on a forum somewhere.) But in the processm you come up with something that is really unsolvable. The solution here seems to be that you ban the 7 naughty words (as determined by the FCC) throw in a couple obvious ones (administrator, security, etc.) and leave it at that. If you try to ban certain words, there is way too much grey area. Do you ban the word breast? How about the Yahoo ID breastcancerawareness or chickenbreast? There are just a few areas in life where a couple simple rules won't solve the problem. I am well aware that even banning the 7 naughty words isn't enough, (I could sign up for fuuckme@yahoo.com, and people would understand what I'm getting at.) but that's really as far as you can take it.
Those bastards at Microsoft! When are they going to learn not to release code that's... What? It's not Microsoft? That doesn't even make sense! I thought Apple was immune from any security vulnerabilities, because they were error-proof.
Seriously, I'm not a Microsoft fanboy. As the admin for small Microsoft network, I spend hours a day cursing them. However, I'm glad that it's finally been shown that ALL OSes have problems. Windows is definitely a victim of it's own success, because there aren't a whole lot of people out there that want to spend hours and hours discovering a way to compromise BeOS and OS/2. I think Apple has done a superb job in the last year or two really setting themselves up for a major comeback, and kudos to them. My next PC will probably be an Apple.
The dark side, however, is that we're going to see more and more exploits/holes/worms for the Apple OS in the future as they gain market share. The scariest part is that there's probably more low hanging fruit in the way of exploits. Love it or hate it, Windows is pretty battle-hardened at this point.
A bit off topic, but I've also been messing around with Monkey's Audio Codec lately, and it seems to be better in most respects than FLAC. Both are lossless, so I can't really claim quality superiority, but MAC is faster to rip, slightly smaller files and is also now open source. (Did not used to be.) But I agree with other posters here, it's not either/or. I use MAC to archive my old CD's, but I convert them to MP3 befire sending them to my iPod. (iPod supports Apple Lossless, but my 4GB iPod would hold about 10-12 albums in that format, and despite being a trained musician, I don't hear much difference.)
Precisely. I could EASILY get on of these into any data center into which I had physical access. I could nochelantly stick it into a USB port, a little bit of hocus-pocus with an autorun command, and I could easily accomplish the same thing without much effort at all. Hardly rocket surgery.
I was, at one time, a Sony disciple. Every component of my home theater was Sony. I gravitated towards Sony electronics in general. I know it's not much, but I haven't bought or recommended to my clients a single Sony product since the rootkit. I figure I have personally cost them about $10,000 becasue one of my clients was considering purchasing 4 high end Sony laptops. I instead steered him towards another maker. (And yes, I did check to make sure the screen wasn't manufactured by Sony.) It makes me wonder if they've been affected in any significant way by this action.
I have a 50" DLP HDTV (Samsung) as well as a DVD with upconversion (also Samsung) and I have to say that regular, SD DVD's look pretty good with that combo. Not quite HD, but definitely a marked improvement over a standard analog signal. And I consider myself to have pretty good visual acuity. I'm not saying there isn't a market for HD DVD's, but they need to offer a lot more than just 240 lines of resolution if they plan to significantly increase the price.
I used to work for a reasonably large computer retail chain. (Not a mom-and-pop strip mall store, mind you, this is a considerably large, multi-state chain.) Until about 6-7 years ago (jeez... has it been that long?) we used to print the customer's credit card number on EVERY receipt in its entirety, including the expiration date. Then we threw the duplicate receipts away in the dumpster. I don't specifically know if any of our customers ever got ripped off, but it was a pretty boneheaded thing to do. Finally someone in upper management got smart and modified the software to print out xxxx xxxx xxxx 5798 on the receipts.
This definitely strikes me as something that could be used for much evil. Makes me wonder about the FF developers. I know that there are many legitimate reasons for wanting to include such a feature, but there are many legitimate reasons for the NSA to listen in to phone calls without a warrant. We all know they would never allow somthing like that to happen...
Don't mean to be a poop, but if I type teh, it is a typo, not a spelling error. I know that there are people that do it on purpose, but you can't systematically write someone off as stupid because their left hand is slightly faster than their right hand...
It would be far more interesting if TFA was not in Chinese, seeing as how I don't speak it and all. So, to all of you people out there that speak both Chinese and English, what did the guy say that was so controversial?
Of all the technologies from Star Trek to rip off, why warp drive? Seems like a holographic whorehouse would be a much better use of time and energy. Now if they can just make sure to work out all of the evil Lincoln bugs...
Nice idea, but the main reason they went to HDMI over Component is copy protection. The movie studios don't want anything out there in HD that isn't copy protected, and since Component systems are analog, it is impossible (or difficult) to put copy protection on them. Stupid as it sounds, most DVD players out now that do upconversion (at least the ones that I know of) will ONLY upconvert over the HDMI interface. Even though they all have component out jacks, they will not put an HD signal over these, becuase you could "easily" use this signal to copy the original source. So there are already a bunch of players out there that are capable of putting out a HD signal, but won't do it over the component connection because of copy protection. And they call this progress...
OK, I tried to read that article, but it's not happening. All I need to know: I have a site running Mambo 4.5.2. I try to keep the most recent version installed. (Yes, I am one release behind.) Do I need to be at all concerned over any of these developments?
I don't think this is a bad thing at all. Ever since I started using the new line of "fault resistant" Seagate drives (I believe they are called the NL35 series) I have been a big fan of Seagate. So far, I have purchased 66 hard drives, and not a single failure. (Knock on wood.) Of course, I'm using them in a server environment (reliable, high-end, clean power supplies) which surely makes a difference.
I am curious, however, what Seagate intends to do with the WD brand. Whether you're a fan or not, they have built a reputation over the last 15 years or so. I don't think Seagate bought them just to kill off the competition.
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Apparently you don't like freedom. You know, my grandfather went to war at age 9 and died so that you could have your freedom, and I for one don't appreciate your complete hatred for our freedom and liberty. You should wake up every morning and thank the good Lord for blessing us with all this freedom and liberty. The terrorists hate us because of the high amount of liberty that we possess, and all you can do is trash that liberty. You make me sick. You should move to a Europe where they don't have all of the freedom and liberty that we have here, then maybe you would truly appreciate what the great President is doing to make sure that our freedom is protected.
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While I can't see the keyboard because the site is slashdotted, why did they stop at 53 keys? If you wanted to go for a truly minimalist design, why not go with something like the frogpad instead. I've heard from people that it's very efficient and easy to use, although its price prevents me from casually "trying one out." I think the idea of one-handed typing is pretty seductive. If I'm going to completely re-learn how to type, it's going to be with purpose, not just so I can cut down on slightly less than half the keys.
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Two words buddy...
Faraday Cage
I think they need to build one around the whole campus. They they'd all be safe.
This is an interesting idea, but it sounds like an idea ahead of its time. I'm sure in 50 years, we'll all have these in our living rooms, complete with board games, pictures, and remote contols for our flying cars and household robots, but right now, I think this would be too expensive to appeal to enough people to justify its existance.
Still, you have to start somewhere, and I am glad there are companies developing stuff like this to throw at the wall.
Please, please, please don't give them any more ideas...
Sounds like he's right in line with our national leadership. Sadly, I'm not attempting sarcasm here. :(
I read this article yesterday, and it's sad, really, that nazipedophilesodomyisgreat@yahoo.com is allowed, but nancycallahan@yahoo.com is not. It's an example of an idea that probably started as a noble concern. (I would imagine that someone tried to sign up for deathtoallah@yahoo.com in order to troll on a forum somewhere.) But in the processm you come up with something that is really unsolvable. The solution here seems to be that you ban the 7 naughty words (as determined by the FCC) throw in a couple obvious ones (administrator, security, etc.) and leave it at that. If you try to ban certain words, there is way too much grey area. Do you ban the word breast? How about the Yahoo ID breastcancerawareness or chickenbreast? There are just a few areas in life where a couple simple rules won't solve the problem. I am well aware that even banning the 7 naughty words isn't enough, (I could sign up for fuuckme@yahoo.com, and people would understand what I'm getting at.) but that's really as far as you can take it.
Those bastards at Microsoft! When are they going to learn not to release code that's... What? It's not Microsoft? That doesn't even make sense! I thought Apple was immune from any security vulnerabilities, because they were error-proof.
Seriously, I'm not a Microsoft fanboy. As the admin for small Microsoft network, I spend hours a day cursing them. However, I'm glad that it's finally been shown that ALL OSes have problems. Windows is definitely a victim of it's own success, because there aren't a whole lot of people out there that want to spend hours and hours discovering a way to compromise BeOS and OS/2. I think Apple has done a superb job in the last year or two really setting themselves up for a major comeback, and kudos to them. My next PC will probably be an Apple.
The dark side, however, is that we're going to see more and more exploits/holes/worms for the Apple OS in the future as they gain market share. The scariest part is that there's probably more low hanging fruit in the way of exploits. Love it or hate it, Windows is pretty battle-hardened at this point.
A bit off topic, but I've also been messing around with Monkey's Audio Codec lately, and it seems to be better in most respects than FLAC. Both are lossless, so I can't really claim quality superiority, but MAC is faster to rip, slightly smaller files and is also now open source. (Did not used to be.) But I agree with other posters here, it's not either/or. I use MAC to archive my old CD's, but I convert them to MP3 befire sending them to my iPod. (iPod supports Apple Lossless, but my 4GB iPod would hold about 10-12 albums in that format, and despite being a trained musician, I don't hear much difference.)
Precisely. I could EASILY get on of these into any data center into which I had physical access. I could nochelantly stick it into a USB port, a little bit of hocus-pocus with an autorun command, and I could easily accomplish the same thing without much effort at all. Hardly rocket surgery.
I was, at one time, a Sony disciple. Every component of my home theater was Sony. I gravitated towards Sony electronics in general. I know it's not much, but I haven't bought or recommended to my clients a single Sony product since the rootkit. I figure I have personally cost them about $10,000 becasue one of my clients was considering purchasing 4 high end Sony laptops. I instead steered him towards another maker. (And yes, I did check to make sure the screen wasn't manufactured by Sony.) It makes me wonder if they've been affected in any significant way by this action.
I have a 50" DLP HDTV (Samsung) as well as a DVD with upconversion (also Samsung) and I have to say that regular, SD DVD's look pretty good with that combo. Not quite HD, but definitely a marked improvement over a standard analog signal. And I consider myself to have pretty good visual acuity. I'm not saying there isn't a market for HD DVD's, but they need to offer a lot more than just 240 lines of resolution if they plan to significantly increase the price.
More importantly, if your site gets slashdotted in the woods and nobody's around to hear it, does it make a noise?
Slashdot's junk filter won't allow me to post a witty comment in morse code. (Not that I'd have a particularly witty comment anyways.)
Reason: Please use fewer 'junk' characters.
I used to work for a reasonably large computer retail chain. (Not a mom-and-pop strip mall store, mind you, this is a considerably large, multi-state chain.) Until about 6-7 years ago (jeez... has it been that long?) we used to print the customer's credit card number on EVERY receipt in its entirety, including the expiration date. Then we threw the duplicate receipts away in the dumpster. I don't specifically know if any of our customers ever got ripped off, but it was a pretty boneheaded thing to do. Finally someone in upper management got smart and modified the software to print out xxxx xxxx xxxx 5798 on the receipts.
Way to go Feds! 19 down, 19,999,981 to go. You guys rock!
This definitely strikes me as something that could be used for much evil. Makes me wonder about the FF developers. I know that there are many legitimate reasons for wanting to include such a feature, but there are many legitimate reasons for the NSA to listen in to phone calls without a warrant. We all know they would never allow somthing like that to happen...
Don't mean to be a poop, but if I type teh, it is a typo, not a spelling error. I know that there are people that do it on purpose, but you can't systematically write someone off as stupid because their left hand is slightly faster than their right hand...
It would be far more interesting if TFA was not in Chinese, seeing as how I don't speak it and all. So, to all of you people out there that speak both Chinese and English, what did the guy say that was so controversial?
Of all the technologies from Star Trek to rip off, why warp drive? Seems like a holographic whorehouse would be a much better use of time and energy. Now if they can just make sure to work out all of the evil Lincoln bugs...
Nice idea, but the main reason they went to HDMI over Component is copy protection. The movie studios don't want anything out there in HD that isn't copy protected, and since Component systems are analog, it is impossible (or difficult) to put copy protection on them. Stupid as it sounds, most DVD players out now that do upconversion (at least the ones that I know of) will ONLY upconvert over the HDMI interface. Even though they all have component out jacks, they will not put an HD signal over these, becuase you could "easily" use this signal to copy the original source. So there are already a bunch of players out there that are capable of putting out a HD signal, but won't do it over the component connection because of copy protection. And they call this progress...
OK, I tried to read that article, but it's not happening. All I need to know: I have a site running Mambo 4.5.2. I try to keep the most recent version installed. (Yes, I am one release behind.) Do I need to be at all concerned over any of these developments?
OK, my idiocy. Replace "WD" with "Maxtor" in the previous post.
I don't think this is a bad thing at all. Ever since I started using the new line of "fault resistant" Seagate drives (I believe they are called the NL35 series) I have been a big fan of Seagate. So far, I have purchased 66 hard drives, and not a single failure. (Knock on wood.) Of course, I'm using them in a server environment (reliable, high-end, clean power supplies) which surely makes a difference.
I am curious, however, what Seagate intends to do with the WD brand. Whether you're a fan or not, they have built a reputation over the last 15 years or so. I don't think Seagate bought them just to kill off the competition.
There's no DELETE key. How am I supposed to log into Windows? (Engineer: "Damn! I knew I was forgetting something!")
BTW, here is a working link to the image.
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Apparently you don't like freedom. You know, my grandfather went to war at age 9 and died so that you could have your freedom, and I for one don't appreciate your complete hatred for our freedom and liberty. You should wake up every morning and thank the good Lord for blessing us with all this freedom and liberty. The terrorists hate us because of the high amount of liberty that we possess, and all you can do is trash that liberty. You make me sick. You should move to a Europe where they don't have all of the freedom and liberty that we have here, then maybe you would truly appreciate what the great President is doing to make sure that our freedom is protected.
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While I can't see the keyboard because the site is slashdotted, why did they stop at 53 keys? If you wanted to go for a truly minimalist design, why not go with something like the frogpad instead. I've heard from people that it's very efficient and easy to use, although its price prevents me from casually "trying one out." I think the idea of one-handed typing is pretty seductive. If I'm going to completely re-learn how to type, it's going to be with purpose, not just so I can cut down on slightly less than half the keys.