> Check again, if you ever checked in the first place, which I seriously doubt. Many states, and most large cities, require journalists to carry press photo IDs issued by the State Police/Patrol and/or the local police department.
Gee that's funny, because I am a journalist, having attended one of the country's foremost journalist schools, and no one has ever a. informed me of such or b. harrassed me for a photo ID while doing my job.
Very well said. And as such, the RI/MPAA should keep their steenking fingers out of it, unless they want to do research on how fast their movies and songs get traded on it, in which case they can fund a university to do that for them.
I never said what Apple's doing is illegal. I'm just saying that in my opinion this should be handled outside of the courts, and that ThinkSecret should (again, imo) have no responsibility to Apple to disclose its sources.
> This could of [sic] been over quickly but no somebody had the bright idea that a personal website is now a news Organization.
No, somebody just had the bright idea that what they put on their news Web site qualifies as news. ThinkSecret is not a blog. And last I checked, there was no federal or state government license required to be a journalist.
I never said the leaker should get a free pass. I'm saying that ThinkSecret has not done anything legally culpable here and should be left alone by the courts. What Apple should do to employees who break their contracts is enforce the contracts. Surely the contract itself stipulates what consequences will be wrought for non-compliance.
ThinkSecret, yes, you're right. I don't disagree with anything you've said except possibly for the assertion that what the "leaker" did was a crime. They may have violated a contract, but as far as I know that's not a "crime" technically, but if someone can speak to this (who knows what they're talking about) I'd be interested in hearing it.
That doesn't mean what they did was right, or that they should get away with it by keeping their job. Apple should just fire the putz and get on with the business of making computers and iPods. If they want to sue the leaker for punitive damages as a result of his/her leaking, more power to 'em.
The person who leaked Apple's secrets isn't TradeSecret. TradeSecret is just reporting rumors it gets from its sources.. the SOURCE--i.e. the Apple employee who leaked the secrets--is the one who should be fired/being sued/etc.
What's at issue is whether or not TradeSecret is answerable to Apple as to who their sources are. Like it or not, TradeSecret IS a publication and therefore is protected under the first amendment, and imho have no legal responsibility to divulge its sources to any entity, private or public. Now if lives were being lost or national security were at stake, I'd say otherwise, but this is just trade journalism.
Apple asked TradeSecret who the source was, TS replied, "Not telling." That should have been the end of it. Apple now needs to launch an internal investigation to find the perp on their end. By coming down on TradeSecret they're just admitting publicly that they can't control or trust their own staff.
PG-13 is the new R-rating. R has become the new NC-17. Hollywood knows no limits to its sleaze-factor. They couldn't even resist working insipid sex jokes, that had nothing to do with plot or character, into Miss Congeniality and its sequel.
For Star Wars to get a PG-13 it means there's either a sex scene or intense violence. I certainly hope it would be the latter, but I don't trust Lucas' judgement these days, if the previous two "episodes" are any indication.
I'm sorry, I thought we were talking about pop-ups and pop-unders. I mentioned Drudge's site as an example, not to get into a political pissing match. Certainly not to invite personal attacks against anyone, not him nor anyone who happens to visit his site once in a while.
Drudge Report is another site that still defies Firefox and Safari with pop-unders. Still very irritating, but not even close to being as irritating as those javascript ones that float around on the window that you have to chase down with the mouse, trying to click a tiny, moving close-box.
Freelancer is Privateer on steroids, also developed by Digital Anvil and in the same universe. Awesome game. I've been hooked on it for months. (Try to ignore the Microsoft branding, they bought D.A. out to provide the capital for finishing the game, but I understand it was all Chris Roberts' team that produced Freelancer. If anyone has more/better information on this though, I might be wrong.)
An excellent idea. My G3 "Pismo" Powerbook served me well all last year.. I had to sell it to my sister to help pay for a new G4 PowerBook last month, but it is still happily in service. They also make great bed-lap DVD players too. (hmm, should I post anonymously, having said that?)
Another alternative might be to look at G4 "Titanium" Powerbooks too. They are fast, sleek and the screen is beautiful. They're about $600-800 on eBay I think.
> Don't thank me, thank the web site I found that converted entered text into Swedish Chef talk. I typed in a few pirate words, and pasted the result back to slashdot.
Yeah but you had the idea to go get the translation in the first place. I liked it.
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Hey AtariAmarok, you're a funny guy.. I copied and saved one of your posts the other day about swedish pirates.. "I veell seenk yuoor sheep und ploonder yuoor buuty, hurty flurty schnipp schnipp!".. cracked me up...
I agree with you about the "clickable" touch-pad "feature". I keep this turned off on my Powerbook G4. I have never liked it and am always surprised that other people, using my computer, are so surprised when tapping the pad does not result in a click.. apparently they use it so much on their laptops that they're used to it. I dunno, it's never grown on me.
It's undisputed however that the first touchpad on a laptop was on an Apple Powerbook, and today all laptops have touchpads.
Apple has a history of mobile computing innovation quickly ripped off by other vendors. Its PowerBook 100 - manufactured by Sony - was the world's first notebook with a built-in trackball.
The first trackpad, the first integrated modem, the first integrated 802.11b WLAN, the first 15in widescreen LCD, and the first backlit keyboard (in the 17in PowerBook) are among Apple's other notebook firsts.
The PowerBook 500 wowed the notebook market with a long string of firsts: The first touch pad; the first stereo speakers (with 16-bit sound); the first expansion bay -- and the first PC Card slot; the first "intelligent" nickel metal hydride battery, with a processor that communicated battery status to the operating system; and, last but not least, the first curvaceous case, with gratuitously swooped edges and corners instead of the boxy angles of previous notebooks. Make no mistake, this notebook set the agenda for the following 10 years of portable computer design.
Never mind the Apple versus PC debate: Until Apple unveiled this 5.1-pound machine, most "portable" computers were curiosities for technophiles with superior upper-body strength. But the PowerBook 100's greatest and most lasting innovation was to move the keyboard toward the screen, leaving natural wrist rests up front, as well as providing an obvious place for a trackball. It seems like the natural layout now, but that's because the entire industry aped Apple within months. The first PowerBooks captured an astounding 40 percent of the market, but more important, they turned notebook computers into mainstream products and ushered in the era of mobile computing that we're still living in today.
I stand corrected on the first 17" screen claim, giving the Register article the benefit of the doubt.
Uh huh, that must be why we're all using those eraser-tip mouse controls.
The first touchpad for mouse control debuted on.. wait for it... a Powerbook. Ditto the first active matrix LCD. Ditto the first backlit keyboard on a notebook. Ditto the first 17" screen on a notebook.
IBM had the first... uh... hmmmm... hang on, I'll think of something I'm sure..
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> Check again, if you ever checked in the first place, which I seriously doubt. Many states, and most large cities, require journalists to carry press photo IDs issued by the State Police/Patrol and/or the local police department.
Gee that's funny, because I am a journalist, having attended one of the country's foremost journalist schools, and no one has ever a. informed me of such or b. harrassed me for a photo ID while doing my job.
Very well said. And as such, the RI/MPAA should keep their steenking fingers out of it, unless they want to do research on how fast their movies and songs get traded on it, in which case they can fund a university to do that for them.
Then again, they probably don't like university studies about their product very much.
There's plenty of reason not to like Alcoholics Anonymous. You just can't say publicly that you don't, or you get modded "flamebait".
I never said what Apple's doing is illegal. I'm just saying that in my opinion this should be handled outside of the courts, and that ThinkSecret should (again, imo) have no responsibility to Apple to disclose its sources.
That's not ThinkSecret's problem. Thus, they should ask nicely, and take "sorry, no" for an answer.
> This could of [sic] been over quickly but no somebody had the bright idea that a personal website is now a news Organization.
No, somebody just had the bright idea that what they put on their news Web site qualifies as news. ThinkSecret is not a blog. And last I checked, there was no federal or state government license required to be a journalist.
I never said the leaker should get a free pass. I'm saying that ThinkSecret has not done anything legally culpable here and should be left alone by the courts. What Apple should do to employees who break their contracts is enforce the contracts. Surely the contract itself stipulates what consequences will be wrought for non-compliance.
ThinkSecret, yes, you're right. I don't disagree with anything you've said except possibly for the assertion that what the "leaker" did was a crime. They may have violated a contract, but as far as I know that's not a "crime" technically, but if someone can speak to this (who knows what they're talking about) I'd be interested in hearing it.
That doesn't mean what they did was right, or that they should get away with it by keeping their job. Apple should just fire the putz and get on with the business of making computers and iPods. If they want to sue the leaker for punitive damages as a result of his/her leaking, more power to 'em.
The person who leaked Apple's secrets isn't TradeSecret. TradeSecret is just reporting rumors it gets from its sources .. the SOURCE--i.e. the Apple employee who leaked the secrets--is the one who should be fired/being sued/etc.
What's at issue is whether or not TradeSecret is answerable to Apple as to who their sources are. Like it or not, TradeSecret IS a publication and therefore is protected under the first amendment, and imho have no legal responsibility to divulge its sources to any entity, private or public. Now if lives were being lost or national security were at stake, I'd say otherwise, but this is just trade journalism.
Apple asked TradeSecret who the source was, TS replied, "Not telling." That should have been the end of it. Apple now needs to launch an internal investigation to find the perp on their end. By coming down on TradeSecret they're just admitting publicly that they can't control or trust their own staff.
I can see how the above statement would be "flamebait". Really. Sheesh. The mods are in rare form this morning.
This whole thread has just gone PG-13 ....
PG-13 is the new R-rating. R has become the new NC-17. Hollywood knows no limits to its sleaze-factor. They couldn't even resist working insipid sex jokes, that had nothing to do with plot or character, into Miss Congeniality and its sequel.
For Star Wars to get a PG-13 it means there's either a sex scene or intense violence. I certainly hope it would be the latter, but I don't trust Lucas' judgement these days, if the previous two "episodes" are any indication.
Why yes, it did .. all broadcast channels are advertising channels.
I am intrigued by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
I'm sorry, I thought we were talking about pop-ups and pop-unders. I mentioned Drudge's site as an example, not to get into a political pissing match. Certainly not to invite personal attacks against anyone, not him nor anyone who happens to visit his site once in a while.
Drudge Report is another site that still defies Firefox and Safari with pop-unders. Still very irritating, but not even close to being as irritating as those javascript ones that float around on the window that you have to chase down with the mouse, trying to click a tiny, moving close-box.
"You can be writing a comment if you be sign-in."
Robotics they can do. Engrish is just a bonus, while you're waiting for the robot pictures to download ..
Freelancer is Privateer on steroids, also developed by Digital Anvil and in the same universe. Awesome game. I've been hooked on it for months. (Try to ignore the Microsoft branding, they bought D.A. out to provide the capital for finishing the game, but I understand it was all Chris Roberts' team that produced Freelancer. If anyone has more/better information on this though, I might be wrong.)
An excellent idea. My G3 "Pismo" Powerbook served me well all last year .. I had to sell it to my sister to help pay for a new G4 PowerBook last month, but it is still happily in service. They also make great bed-lap DVD players too. (hmm, should I post anonymously, having said that?)
Another alternative might be to look at G4 "Titanium" Powerbooks too. They are fast, sleek and the screen is beautiful. They're about $600-800 on eBay I think.
> Don't thank me, thank the web site I found that converted entered text into Swedish Chef talk. I typed in a few pirate words, and pasted the result back to slashdot.
Yeah but you had the idea to go get the translation in the first place. I liked it.
Hey AtariAmarok, you're a funny guy .. I copied and saved one of your posts the other day about swedish pirates .. "I veell seenk yuoor sheep und ploonder yuoor buuty, hurty flurty schnipp schnipp!" .. cracked me up ...
I agree with you about the "clickable" touch-pad "feature". I keep this turned off on my Powerbook G4. I have never liked it and am always surprised that other people, using my computer, are so surprised when tapping the pad does not result in a click .. apparently they use it so much on their laptops that they're used to it. I dunno, it's never grown on me.
It's undisputed however that the first touchpad on a laptop was on an Apple Powerbook, and today all laptops have touchpads.
> References, please.
Sure thing.
The Regsiter
Apple has a history of mobile computing innovation quickly ripped off by other vendors. Its PowerBook 100 - manufactured by Sony - was the world's first notebook with a built-in trackball.
The first trackpad, the first integrated modem, the first integrated 802.11b WLAN, the first 15in widescreen LCD, and the first backlit keyboard (in the 17in PowerBook) are among Apple's other notebook firsts.
MobilePC Magazine: "Top 100 Gadgets of All Time"
22. APPLE POWERBOOK 500, 1994
The PowerBook 500 wowed the notebook market with a long string of firsts: The first touch pad; the first stereo speakers (with 16-bit sound); the first expansion bay -- and the first PC Card slot; the first "intelligent" nickel metal hydride battery, with a processor that communicated battery status to the operating system; and, last but not least, the first curvaceous case, with gratuitously swooped edges and corners instead of the boxy angles of previous notebooks. Make no mistake, this notebook set the agenda for the following 10 years of portable computer design.
MobilePC Magazine: "Top 100 Gadgets of All Time"
1. APPLE POWERBOOK 100, 1991
Never mind the Apple versus PC debate: Until Apple unveiled this 5.1-pound machine, most "portable" computers were curiosities for technophiles with superior upper-body strength. But the PowerBook 100's greatest and most lasting innovation was to move the keyboard toward the screen, leaving natural wrist rests up front, as well as providing an obvious place for a trackball. It seems like the natural layout now, but that's because the entire industry aped Apple within months. The first PowerBooks captured an astounding 40 percent of the market, but more important, they turned notebook computers into mainstream products and ushered in the era of mobile computing that we're still living in today.
I stand corrected on the first 17" screen claim, giving the Register article the benefit of the doubt.
Uh huh, that must be why we're all using those eraser-tip mouse controls.
The first touchpad for mouse control debuted on .. wait for it ... a Powerbook. Ditto the first active matrix LCD. Ditto the first backlit keyboard on a notebook. Ditto the first 17" screen on a notebook.
IBM had the first ... uh ... hmmmm ... hang on, I'll think of something I'm sure ..
I agree .. that was one of the funniest posts I read all day. I'd balk at Insightful, but I'd definitely mod it Funny had I the points.
Some people just will never understand satire ..
HEAR HEAR!
I had the hugest crushes on Wonder Woman and Wilma Deering. Ahhhhh ... memories.