What on EARTH were they thinking creating 6 different "Standards"?!
We now have 480i, 480p, 720i, 720p, 1080i, and 1080p.
Most hi-def displays look really good at exactly one of those 3 pairs. And then to add in 2 DRMed disc standards? Whose genius idea was this? I feel sorry for anyone non-technical trying to figure out which TV they want.
(And while I'm ranting -- WHY oh WHY are widescreen LCD monitors 1680X1050 instead of 1080p?!)
I went and voted today. I have many, many reservations about electronic voting and those have been discussed many times on Slashdot.
However, I was THRILLED to see that the Diebold machines I voted on included an auditable paper trail that I was shown and could verify before it was chomped into the machine for keeping. One problem down, 900 to go.:)
I *might* have noticed a calibration issue with the touch screen, but I'm not sure that it wasn't a programming error. Several local elections had only 1 candidate and I hit the "write in" box intending to leave it blank. It promptly checked the box for the candidate. It was simply a matter of wanting to express distaste for a race with no competition so I just ignored it and skipped the rest of the similar races. In retrospect, I should have made a stink about it for the sake of principle.
However, all my votes in races with more then one candidate were recorded properly.
Yeah, I know. I'll eventually register with one of "the two" parties. However, I'm still having trouble deciding which.
Living in Utah, I should probably register Republican because that's the party that's going to win 90% of elections. Just have to make up my mind that I can stand the association.
I'm not currently registered with any party. Too many nutcases for me to go with either one at this time.
However, (for the record) I'm fairly conservative and probably *should* be registered Republican. Except of course that both parties are fairly conservative now anyway.
But that's not my point.:) The problem is that even if this election manages to squeak by without major incident; there is a good chance that next election will be "hacked" unless we start the outcry now. Current security is simply not acceptable.
To believe that there are hacker groups that will be offered large sums of money by interested parties (organized crime, terrorists, foreign governments, etc) is to bury your face in the sand. Our own government has tried to influence who leads other nations (in ways more subtle then invading Iraq). To think that we are the only ones interested in doing so would be.. stupid.
I don't even own a tinfoil beanie, but everyone on Slashdot should know how many people are willing to attempt a hack just for the challenge. Throw a bit of money in the pot and you'd have scores of contenders.
Even if they aren't successful, evidence of a failed attack would cause huge chaos. Do you hold new elections? Try to sort the false votes from the real ones? I can't even imagine the whining on the losing side in any of those scenarios. And it wouldn't be baseless either.
I'm sending a copy of the video to my parents on a DVD they can watch. They don't have cable. They don't have high speed internet. I'm happy when I can get my mom to send an email. But they're voters, and they need to know. I'd suggest everyone here does the same. AND call your Senators / Congressmen.
Wrong words. The correct words are [parent] is going to rape YOU, then kill you while your family watches. Then HE will kill you.
And then when [parent] ends up dead, it's of course not MY fault or YOUR fault. Just because we incite violence doesn't mean we have ANY culpability. Right?
I have no problem requiring Target to spend a couple hundred bucks to put ALT tags on their images.
Creating a whole separate blind-friendly site would be ridiculous, but requiring a reasonable effort on their part doesn't hurt my feelings at all. It's not hard, it doesn't cost lots of money, and it helps integrate persons with vision impairment (of whatever degree) into society.
No 5th amendment in a civil suit. You're not being charged with anything. There's not "Guilty" or "Not Guilty" so you can't testify against yourself.
Of course, you can still be slapped with a large enough financial burden to ruin your life and make you sell everything you own; but you can't be put in jail so it's all good -- right?
You can refuse to give up your encryption key, but then you CAN be found Guilty/Not Guilty of contempt of court or violating laws that require you to give up encryption keys. You might try the "I honestly can't remember it" defense THERE though. (The "I refuse to testify against myself that I wouldn't give up the key" defense probably won't work.)
Sorry, you have to have the correct buzzwords to even get your resume looked at by someone who knows that Open Office Writer and Microsoft Word have transferable skillset.
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When you willingly put yourself into a game that would not normally scare you, your imagination can eventually take over and make the game a whole lot more enjoyable then it otherwise would have been.:)
Just block all traffic to the master ad server. It's not YOUR fault if their server appears to be down. Well, maybe it is, but the game doesn't know that.:)
(That is, if you feel you still MUST buy this game still.)
That more closely describes latency, not bandwidth. I guess "Fast" may be a bit misleading, but we're talking about time to move a certain amount of data so "fast" works well enough.
I think we'll see a lot of network-based applications. However, the data has to reside somewhere central, otherwise you're gonna have to replicate it a lot.
I think that as network availability and bandwidth increase we'll see larger computing centers with smaller (physically) and more ubiquitous clients.
No need for datacenter to go away -- just change a bit.
Seriously, what place does this have as a method of Digital Restrictions Management? Isn't this about restriction what code will run rather then what media will play? Do we just slap a "DRM!" tag on anything related to restictions regardless of whether it has anything to do with enforcing terms of media playback? In that case, you could call all our laws a form of DRM. (And this from a site that so often points out the difference between copyright infringement and stealing.)
I think I have about 300/500 recommendations that are Agatha Christie movies of one sort or another. Sure, recommend 4 or 5, but I'd like to see OTHER recommendations?!
One of the playlist window options is "randomize list". I just hit that a few times, and then listen through the playlist "straight". Even better is that I can go backward through the same list, and can see what "random" song is coming up next.
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What on EARTH were they thinking creating 6 different "Standards"?!
We now have 480i, 480p, 720i, 720p, 1080i, and 1080p.
Most hi-def displays look really good at exactly one of those 3 pairs. And then to add in 2 DRMed disc standards? Whose genius idea was this? I feel sorry for anyone non-technical trying to figure out which TV they want.
(And while I'm ranting -- WHY oh WHY are widescreen LCD monitors 1680X1050 instead of 1080p?!)
Compare us to Japan? How about to Canada. You know, that huge country just to our north with similar... well, almost everything.
An easier comparison? Compare our big cities to theirs. We still lose. By a LOT.
And then remember that WE (the tax payers) gave them $200,000,000,000 for broadband deployment.
Let us examine everything you own. You might have done something wrong!
It's fairly trivial to also hide a comment telling non-CSS-browser-users to leave a field blank.
:P (Well, any more then anyone else.)
Blind people can't see. They aren't stupid.
I went and voted today. I have many, many reservations about electronic voting and those have been discussed many times on Slashdot.
:)
However, I was THRILLED to see that the Diebold machines I voted on included an auditable paper trail that I was shown and could verify before it was chomped into the machine for keeping. One problem down, 900 to go.
I *might* have noticed a calibration issue with the touch screen, but I'm not sure that it wasn't a programming error. Several local elections had only 1 candidate and I hit the "write in" box intending to leave it blank. It promptly checked the box for the candidate. It was simply a matter of wanting to express distaste for a race with no competition so I just ignored it and skipped the rest of the similar races. In retrospect, I should have made a stink about it for the sake of principle.
However, all my votes in races with more then one candidate were recorded properly.
Yeah, I know. I'll eventually register with one of "the two" parties. However, I'm still having trouble deciding which.
Living in Utah, I should probably register Republican because that's the party that's going to win 90% of elections. Just have to make up my mind that I can stand the association.
I'm not currently registered with any party. Too many nutcases for me to go with either one at this time.
:) The problem is that even if this election manages to squeak by without major incident; there is a good chance that next election will be "hacked" unless we start the outcry now. Current security is simply not acceptable.
However, (for the record) I'm fairly conservative and probably *should* be registered Republican. Except of course that both parties are fairly conservative now anyway.
But that's not my point.
To believe that there are hacker groups that will be offered large sums of money by interested parties (organized crime, terrorists, foreign governments, etc) is to bury your face in the sand. Our own government has tried to influence who leads other nations (in ways more subtle then invading Iraq). To think that we are the only ones interested in doing so would be.. stupid.
I don't even own a tinfoil beanie, but everyone on Slashdot should know how many people are willing to attempt a hack just for the challenge. Throw a bit of money in the pot and you'd have scores of contenders.
Even if they aren't successful, evidence of a failed attack would cause huge chaos. Do you hold new elections? Try to sort the false votes from the real ones? I can't even imagine the whining on the losing side in any of those scenarios. And it wouldn't be baseless either.
I'm sending a copy of the video to my parents on a DVD they can watch. They don't have cable. They don't have high speed internet. I'm happy when I can get my mom to send an email. But they're voters, and they need to know. I'd suggest everyone here does the same. AND call your Senators / Congressmen.
Our country has enough election problems already.
Wrong words. The correct words are [parent] is going to rape YOU, then kill you while your family watches. Then HE will kill you.
And then when [parent] ends up dead, it's of course not MY fault or YOUR fault. Just because we incite violence doesn't mean we have ANY culpability. Right?
I have no problem requiring Target to spend a couple hundred bucks to put ALT tags on their images.
Creating a whole separate blind-friendly site would be ridiculous, but requiring a reasonable effort on their part doesn't hurt my feelings at all. It's not hard, it doesn't cost lots of money, and it helps integrate persons with vision impairment (of whatever degree) into society.
>>So you want Uwe Boll instead?
I don't think I've seen a movie about killing him yet... but it would be entertaining. (No, not REALLY killing him. Sicko.)
I'm not just going to record it, I'm gonna make sure my parents and others who HAVEN'T ALREADY heard about Diebold security flaws.
What's my incentive to spend $500 if I'm an average-Joe satisfied with my current television?
Because DirectX is a whole lot more then just a graphics library.
No 5th amendment in a civil suit. You're not being charged with anything. There's not "Guilty" or "Not Guilty" so you can't testify against yourself.
Of course, you can still be slapped with a large enough financial burden to ruin your life and make you sell everything you own; but you can't be put in jail so it's all good -- right?
You can refuse to give up your encryption key, but then you CAN be found Guilty/Not Guilty of contempt of court or violating laws that require you to give up encryption keys. You might try the "I honestly can't remember it" defense THERE though. (The "I refuse to testify against myself that I wouldn't give up the key" defense probably won't work.)
Sorry, you have to have the correct buzzwords to even get your resume looked at by someone who knows that Open Office Writer and Microsoft Word have transferable skillset.
When you willingly put yourself into a game that would not normally scare you, your imagination can eventually take over and make the game a whole lot more enjoyable then it otherwise would have been. :)
Just block all traffic to the master ad server. It's not YOUR fault if their server appears to be down. Well, maybe it is, but the game doesn't know that. :)
(That is, if you feel you still MUST buy this game still.)
The few thousand dollars here and there is hardly a drop in the bucket. It's more of an anti-piracy marketting tool.
That more closely describes latency, not bandwidth. I guess "Fast" may be a bit misleading, but we're talking about time to move a certain amount of data so "fast" works well enough.
I think we'll see a lot of network-based applications. However, the data has to reside somewhere central, otherwise you're gonna have to replicate it a lot.
I think that as network availability and bandwidth increase we'll see larger computing centers with smaller (physically) and more ubiquitous clients.
No need for datacenter to go away -- just change a bit.
Seriously, what place does this have as a method of Digital Restrictions Management? Isn't this about restriction what code will run rather then what media will play? Do we just slap a "DRM!" tag on anything related to restictions regardless of whether it has anything to do with enforcing terms of media playback? In that case, you could call all our laws a form of DRM. (And this from a site that so often points out the difference between copyright infringement and stealing.)
I think I have about 300/500 recommendations that are Agatha Christie movies of one sort or another. Sure, recommend 4 or 5, but I'd like to see OTHER recommendations?!
I do the same thing with winamp.
One of the playlist window options is "randomize list". I just hit that a few times, and then listen through the playlist "straight". Even better is that I can go backward through the same list, and can see what "random" song is coming up next.
http://www.amazon.com/Lucas-Arts-23272325756-Repub lic-Commando/dp/B00020BV1A
:)
Fairly fun game.
typo! (Well, more of a brain-fart really)