Shanep, thanks for replying to that. I wasn't going to take the energy to deconstruct his argument, but you did nicely - thank you.
I sincerely doubt the poster believes what he was saying.. there's quite a few people (trolls?) on slashdot who seem to enjoy finding well-known people on slashdot and ripping on them - browse at -5 on any of Bruce Peren's, technos, or slashdot-terminal's posts for a few examples. It's not about whether I'm right or wrong, it's about a few juvenile pranksters trying to ruin slashdot by overwhelming the signal with noise. Unfortunately, it is in large part succeeding - people just get tired of putting up with juvenile behavior after awhile and move on. This is the main reason I haven't been responding to acinide stuff like this - there's just so much of it.:(
Yes, and I'm not saying AMD or Intel should go door to door telling customers every detail of their CPU, nor should they be forced to! What I would like to see, however, is an information repository for detecting such trickery in a format that an average computer user could make use of. The USPO (post office) has an online repository for so-called "pyramid" scams and other stuff, they even have an e-mail address and a hotline. Why should the computer industry be less diligent? Worse, why are these companies treating their customers as the enemy????
It's ironic that manufacturers wishing to prevent overclocking and reselling of their chips take such drastic measures - PLL, multiplier-locking, etc, which only denies their customers access to the technology and enables criminals to use that ignorance to their advantage.
I think the public needs to be educated about what overclocking is, how it works, and how to detect it. The industry needs to stop trying to prevent the dissemination of information if it wants to prevent widespread abuse. First, allow enthusiasts to change the clock settings. If they blow their chip up, fine - make it blow an EEPROM if you're worried about warranties should they wish to change the clock setting. Second, make it happen in software - like with the Asus "softmenu" boards.
Education is the only defense against exploitation. The law is insufficient.
Next week Katz is gonna write an article: Snake Sex Bots, a paradigm shift in the postmodern sex revolution where he will describe all the benefits of sex without explaining what sex is. He'll quote random sources nobody ever heard of, plagarize a few p0rn sites, and get flamed by 238 posters. Of the remaining 37 posts, 31 of them will indicate mild dissatisfaction with the article, and 6 will note they used a higher grade of toilet paper after reading the article to show Mr. Katz they cared.
In the meantime, NASA will contact the NSA about hundreds of prank calls to Mission Control - apparently hundreds of people are calling in and breathing heavily or asking for phone sex. Oh, and like many other slashdot articles, it'll be filed in triplicate on the front page, and then the other copy (or two) will spontaniously disappear without a word said..
(note for the humor-impaired: the above post was intended to be funny, not a troll).
That made me cringe. I just had this thought of some redneck administering all the boxes where I work. "Hey y'all, we're gonna go fa up this RAID awry so de e-mail is gone down tewday!"
If the manufacturer doesn't trust it's product enough, why should you?
That being said - shame on software manufacturers. I wish somebody could sue for advertising the use of that software in "mission critical" environments (or any other buzzword of your choice) if they had such a disclaimer. Where is Ralph Nader when you need him?
I dunno.. I felt they compressed the timeline so much it wasn't even funny.:( Like how it started raining *right* after they busted down the doors? In the book, that doesn't happen for a long, long time after that.
I don't know about you, but I think muadeeb(sp?) was a geek. Think about it - he gets somewhere he's never been before (Dune) and knows everything about living there. Geeks can go anywhere and not suffer jet lag or become disoriented. Then he pissed off The Man who came after him and everyone he knew. Metallica, RIAA. Need I say more?:) Finally, he struck up a deal with the locals and brought the entire universe to it's knees. Only a Real Geek could do that!
Bleh, 'tis likely worse! I don't buy things that call themselves "State of the art".. it rarely applies to more than the art on the 4 color glossies they put out.
Buy stuff on the specs / reviews, and then tweak the crap out of it. My desktop is so wierd I doubt anyone but me could get much past login!:)
$1.50 is alittle steep for what you get... considering most games are less than $40, that means if you play the game for more than 26 days, you're losing money. I don't know about you, but I kinda like being able to pop in a game from time to time.. certainly more than a mere 26 times!
It would be *much* more attractive if it was, say, $0.50 per day.
That would be the iiyama visionmaster 450? Yup, I got one.. veeery spiffy. Heafty price tag though, but suburb quality. I'm using a Guillemot GeForce right now, and I'm hoping to get my Matrox Millenium II slotted in with another iiyama soon. Excellent, excellent monitors.
That's not funny. I know.. but it's still +4 funny. If you don't like the joke, look at it this way - the really amusing thing is that the moderators thought it was funny.
I don't understand... what does this "500 internal server error" mean. Is it some kind of code? I hit reload and now it says "Connection timed out." Time? Maybe you need to keep reloading it because the code changes each time you reload it. And what the hell is a "slashdot effect"? If you ask me, this "slashdot" thing is the real enigma.. Commander Taco? Why would you want to command a legion of tacos? Tacos, Time, 500.. it's all starting to make sense... the area 51 pictures.. they must be XOR'd encryption.. I can use this thinkgeek thing to decode the secret to area 51 and free the legions of tacos for my commander! YES! I SOLVED IT!
Roman plumbers were the reason they died of lead poisoning.. that's what they used to seal the joints of the aquaducts that fed the city. The Romans slowly went mad - an entire society killed by lead poisoning, effectively.
Jon, this article has several passages almost identical to this article, including:
The announcement sent shock waves through the online music community. - Jon
The massive number of individual names to be unloaded on Napster's front door could send shock waves through the online music community. - C|Net
"Yesterday, the band's attorney said his firm will deliver close to 60,000 pages of documents to Napster today, asking that the site block all the indidividuals named from its service." - Jon
"The band's attorneys will deliver close to 60,000 pages of documents to the small software company Wednesday afternoon, asking that Napster block all of those individuals from the service." - C|Net
There's also several references to the "chilling effect", paraphrasing the C|Net article. Jon, are you trying to get yourself and slashdot sued?
What's worse, why is slashdot interviewing Metallica? I mean, it would be like Linus asking Bill Gates to take a look at his kernel. Do you really want to stir up a hornet's nest? I see no productive conversation emerging from the interview and it will likely duplicate the answers given on last night's Metallica chat from Artist Direct.
Well, I'm not nearly as upset about sponsorship/copyright notes like this as I am about certain BIOS manufacturers embedding advertisement during the *real* bootup/POST sequence.
If slashdot should be reporting anything, it's these people. For example, some (many?) of the Gigabyte boards pop up advertisements when you start your system. How quaint - no way to remove them unless you're a BIOS developer.
It may be a legal "dare" by Microsoft to test the DMCA. Remember, you can't "bypass copy protection measures".. and this is such a trivial one you really have to wonder. Especially since they labelled it a "trade secret". Why?
Legally, trade secrets enjoy very little protection... but it sounds like it would make an excellent soundbite for the media if it were "leaked" by a bunch of "hackers".
Actually, I did read the book - all three infact. This question was never directly addressed in the book. If you had actually read the book recently (as I have - about a month ago), you might have something useful to ask as well.. instead of making personal slams.
I have only one question... what ever happened to Zaphoid? He lasered away parts of his brain so he could become president and steal the heart of gold.. but the loose ends were never tied up on that subplot - why did Zaphoid need to steal the heart of gold? Perhaps the answer is in the book and I missed it.. if so, kindly pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated as well!
Metallica's action is the latest development in what appears to be a campaign aimed at dissuading people from using Napster by adding an element of risk.
Slashdot Mirror
I sincerely doubt the poster believes what he was saying.. there's quite a few people (trolls?) on slashdot who seem to enjoy finding well-known people on slashdot and ripping on them - browse at -5 on any of Bruce Peren's, technos, or slashdot-terminal's posts for a few examples. It's not about whether I'm right or wrong, it's about a few juvenile pranksters trying to ruin slashdot by overwhelming the signal with noise. Unfortunately, it is in large part succeeding - people just get tired of putting up with juvenile behavior after awhile and move on. This is the main reason I haven't been responding to acinide stuff like this - there's just so much of it. :(
Yes, and I'm not saying AMD or Intel should go door to door telling customers every detail of their CPU, nor should they be forced to! What I would like to see, however, is an information repository for detecting such trickery in a format that an average computer user could make use of. The USPO (post office) has an online repository for so-called "pyramid" scams and other stuff, they even have an e-mail address and a hotline. Why should the computer industry be less diligent? Worse, why are these companies treating their customers as the enemy????
I think the public needs to be educated about what overclocking is, how it works, and how to detect it. The industry needs to stop trying to prevent the dissemination of information if it wants to prevent widespread abuse. First, allow enthusiasts to change the clock settings. If they blow their chip up, fine - make it blow an EEPROM if you're worried about warranties should they wish to change the clock setting. Second, make it happen in software - like with the Asus "softmenu" boards.
Education is the only defense against exploitation. The law is insufficient.
In the meantime, NASA will contact the NSA about hundreds of prank calls to Mission Control - apparently hundreds of people are calling in and breathing heavily or asking for phone sex. Oh, and like many other slashdot articles, it'll be filed in triplicate on the front page, and then the other copy (or two) will spontaniously disappear without a word said..
(note for the humor-impaired: the above post was intended to be funny, not a troll).
That made me cringe. I just had this thought of some redneck administering all the boxes where I work. "Hey y'all, we're gonna go fa up this RAID awry so de e-mail is gone down tewday!"
That being said - shame on software manufacturers. I wish somebody could sue for advertising the use of that software in "mission critical" environments (or any other buzzword of your choice) if they had such a disclaimer. Where is Ralph Nader when you need him?
Also, Rob.. where's my quickies?
Hey! You don't need to be insulting...
I dunno.. I felt they compressed the timeline so much it wasn't even funny. :( Like how it started raining *right* after they busted down the doors? In the book, that doesn't happen for a long, long time after that.
I don't know about you, but I think muadeeb(sp?) was a geek. Think about it - he gets somewhere he's never been before (Dune) and knows everything about living there. Geeks can go anywhere and not suffer jet lag or become disoriented. Then he pissed off The Man who came after him and everyone he knew. Metallica, RIAA. Need I say more? :) Finally, he struck up a deal with the locals and brought the entire universe to it's knees. Only a Real Geek could do that!
Buy stuff on the specs / reviews, and then tweak the crap out of it. My desktop is so wierd I doubt anyone but me could get much past login! :)
It would be *much* more attractive if it was, say, $0.50 per day.
That would be the iiyama visionmaster 450? Yup, I got one.. veeery spiffy. Heafty price tag though, but suburb quality. I'm using a Guillemot GeForce right now, and I'm hoping to get my Matrox Millenium II slotted in with another iiyama soon. Excellent, excellent monitors.
Are there any plans right now to release, or make available, additional online music? If not, why?
What's to prevent a tech firm from just outsourcing it's production to a country/state/area that doesn't require that law?
That's not funny. I know.. but it's still +4 funny. If you don't like the joke, look at it this way - the really amusing thing is that the moderators thought it was funny.
I don't understand... what does this "500 internal server error" mean. Is it some kind of code? I hit reload and now it says "Connection timed out." Time? Maybe you need to keep reloading it because the code changes each time you reload it. And what the hell is a "slashdot effect"? If you ask me, this "slashdot" thing is the real enigma.. Commander Taco? Why would you want to command a legion of tacos? Tacos, Time, 500.. it's all starting to make sense... the area 51 pictures.. they must be XOR'd encryption.. I can use this thinkgeek thing to decode the secret to area 51 and free the legions of tacos for my commander! YES! I SOLVED IT!
Perhaps not the example you were looking for..
The announcement sent shock waves through the online music community. - Jon
The massive number of individual names to be unloaded on Napster's front door could send shock waves through the online music community. - C|Net
"Yesterday, the band's attorney said his firm will deliver close to 60,000 pages of documents to Napster today, asking that the site block all the indidividuals named from its service." - Jon
"The band's attorneys will deliver close to 60,000 pages of documents to the small software company Wednesday afternoon, asking that Napster block all of those individuals from the service." - C|Net
There's also several references to the "chilling effect", paraphrasing the C|Net article. Jon, are you trying to get yourself and slashdot sued?
What's worse, why is slashdot interviewing Metallica? I mean, it would be like Linus asking Bill Gates to take a look at his kernel. Do you really want to stir up a hornet's nest? I see no productive conversation emerging from the interview and it will likely duplicate the answers given on last night's Metallica chat from Artist Direct.
If slashdot should be reporting anything, it's these people. For example, some (many?) of the Gigabyte boards pop up advertisements when you start your system. How quaint - no way to remove them unless you're a BIOS developer.
Legally, trade secrets enjoy very little protection... but it sounds like it would make an excellent soundbite for the media if it were "leaked" by a bunch of "hackers".
Actually, I did read the book - all three infact. This question was never directly addressed in the book. If you had actually read the book recently (as I have - about a month ago), you might have something useful to ask as well.. instead of making personal slams.
I have only one question... what ever happened to Zaphoid? He lasered away parts of his brain so he could become president and steal the heart of gold.. but the loose ends were never tied up on that subplot - why did Zaphoid need to steal the heart of gold? Perhaps the answer is in the book and I missed it.. if so, kindly pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated as well!
Two words: Forbidden Apple.
Great news, but it reminds me of something about accuracy..
If 99.9% Were Good Enough
From InSight, Syncrude Canada Ltd, Communications Division
If 99.9% Were Good Enough, then...
Two million documents will be lost by the IRS this year.
811,000 faulty rolls of 35mm film will be loaded this year.
22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next 60 minutes
1,314 phone calls will be misplaced by telecommunication services every minute.
12 babies will be given to the wrong parents each day.
268,500 defective tires will be shipped this year.
14,208 defective PCs will be shipped this year.
103,260 income tax returns will be processed incorrectly this year.
2,488,200 books will be shipped in the next 12 months with the wrong cover.
5,517,200 cases of soft drinks produced in the next 12 months will be flatter than a bad tire.
Two plane landings daily at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago will be unsafe.
3,065 copies of tomorrow's Wall Street Journal will be missing one of the three sections.
18,322 pieces of mail will be mishandled in the next hour.
291 pacemaker operations will be performed incorrectly this year.
880,000 credit cards in circulation will turn out to have incorrect card holder information on their magnetic strips.
$9,690 will be spent today, tomorrow, next Thursday, and every day in the future on defective, often unsafe sporting equipment.
55 malfunctioning automatic teller machines will be installed in the next 12 months.
20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions will be written in the next 12 months.
114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes will be shipped this year.
$761,900 will be spent in the next 12 months on tapes and CDs that won't play.
107 incorrect medical procedures will be performed by the end of the day today.
315 entries in Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language will turn out to be misspelled.
I wish I had mod points. All I can say is.. "amen".