If Tivo *is* tracking your individual viewing data, I can see several possibilities:
1. You're female, in which case you can expect several middle-aged government agents to ask you for a date. 2. You're male, in which case, you probably don't want this becoming public. 3. You're female and did this at your boyfriend's, in which case *he* can expect several middle-aged government agents to ask him for a date. 4. You're female and did this at your EX-boyfriend's, in which case you're a baaaaaad girl!:) 5. You're bi-sexual, in which case your viewing habits have *completely* confused the spies anyway, so I wouldn't worry.
WTF, I've been wondering where those guys have been hiding all this time. I've got this mental image of guys in hooded robes fighting a bunch wearing Buck Rogers rocket packs.
In all seriousness, if this were implemented in a US city, this would be a real-life Death Race 2000. I mean, it's not far from that anyway, even *with* the traffic lights and signs. It's taken Philadelphia and its New Jersey suburbs decades to eliminate the area's traffic circles. Those circles were responsible for countless accidents. In addition, half the drivers treat a yellow traffic light as the signal to "floor it". The other half slam on the brakes. Does anyone actually believe this sort of behavior would improve by eliminating the lights and the signs? Sorry, no. What this hare-brained idea does is say "let's pretend people are really nice if given the chance" instead of the real-life behavior of "every man for himself". People are SOB's. Deal with it.
Implement this idea, and you'll end up with a lot of people ending up as road pizza. Besides, if you eliminate traffic citations (no stop signs or red lights to run), imagine how much income municipalities will loose! To hell with human life, think of the *money* that will be lost! Priorities, people, priorities.
My favorite bit wasn't the Amiga easter egg mentioned in the review (which generally required two people, and a long series of events like ejecting the floppy with several keys held down, each event done in a specific sequence to trigger), but a comment in the source code of the original Commodore 128 ROMS:
"This kludge made necessary by the engineers at Commodore, makers of the finest semi-functional devices in the world"
For the curious. I believe the comment in the Amiga's ROM was from a hardware engineer claiming that it was the software programmers that...ah...f'ed up the works. Something like that. I'm not about to drag my Amiga out of the attic to check the exact wording, sorry. Anyway, it would appear that the kiddies in West Chester didn't play nice with one another. Perhaps one more reason Commodore failed.
Why else do you think our software's always riddled with holes and vulnerabilities? What, you think we actually have functional and technical specifications for this stuff? Are you nuts?
At last we have the perfect/. article, since the vast majority of posters never RTFA anyway: an article that's completely summed up in the title of the/. post.
Think of it, guys. Not only don't you have to read the article, but you don't need the/. post, either! I'd call that real progress. Congrats, BoingBoing on a job well done!
If you want to avoid the problems with Vista, just run something like Windows 2000 in VMWare Server on Ubuntu. I've set my router not to permit the Window's IP address any access to the web. All email and web browsing is done in Ubuntu.
No trojans, no viruses, no Windows updates, and no Windows Disadvantage issues. You can run just about any Windows software you need (excluding games, of course). I even do all my development work in that virtual machine, with no problems.
If I want the pretty Aero Glass pictures, I'll just install Stardock.
Problem solved.
Let me see, taking a perfectly awful song like Shock the Monkey, and combining it with Crap or Hip-Shot "music" will "Save The World For File Sharers Everywhere" (TM).
This is the same artist who wanted to name all of his albums "Peter Gabriel", and got really pissed when the record company wanted a different title for each one, so people could tell them apart.
As someone with Type 2 diabetes, I'm sick and tired of depending on the chemical nightmare of artificial sweetners, and the unknown (and in some cases known) risks that consuming them entails.
This development might enable scientists to easily and cheaply reverse the sugar molecule. Since our bodies are made to use right-handed sugar molecules, a left-handed one would be dumped as waste, with absolutely no difference in taste (the only down side would be diarrhea if you consume too much)!
This is a really bad idea! Hasn't anyone there been watching Doctor Who? Sheesh, talk about putting us all at risk from giant reptilian pr0n collectors.
Will be the guys working in the rendering labs in Industrial Light and Magic, since they'll be the only ones with access to the required hardware. This is gonna require more oomph than Vista, and boy is that saying something!
I don't see that this whole global warming thing is anything to worry about, particularly since the nuclear war with/over North Korea, Iran, and the whole Middle East will wipe out everything anyway.
In the words of the alien cop directing Galactic traffic past the Earth's radioactive remains: "Nothing to see here, move along."
We have a perfect example of why the UK has this kind of law in the Karr/Ramsey case here in the US. The press had wall-to-wall coverage of the man's trip back to Colorado, including what he ate for dinner on the airplane. If the DNA evidence hadn't proven his innocense, he would have already been tried and convicted in the press. I don't care who it is or what they're accused of, that sort of thing is neither fair nor just!
This is *not* off topic, it is an example why the NYT was correct to following a very fair law. The First Amendment doesn't give us a license to destroy someone's right to a fair trial, and publishing too many facts prior to a trial threatens to do just that. It's a pity that there aren't laws in the US to give similar protections as the UK does to those who haven't yet had their day in court.
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If Tivo *is* tracking your individual viewing data, I can see several possibilities:
:)
1. You're female, in which case you can expect several middle-aged government agents to ask you for a date.
2. You're male, in which case, you probably don't want this becoming public.
3. You're female and did this at your boyfriend's, in which case *he* can expect several middle-aged government agents to ask him for a date.
4. You're female and did this at your EX-boyfriend's, in which case you're a baaaaaad girl!
5. You're bi-sexual, in which case your viewing habits have *completely* confused the spies anyway, so I wouldn't worry.
To change a lightbulb?
None, They just patent "Darkness" and call it the new standard!
WTF, I've been wondering where those guys have been hiding all this time. I've got this mental image of guys in hooded robes fighting a bunch wearing Buck Rogers rocket packs.
How many Microsoft Engineers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: None, they just patent "Darkness", and call it the new standard.
How many Novell Engineers does it take?
A: None, they just bought a patent licence to "Darkness" from Microsoft.
In all seriousness, if this were implemented in a US city, this would be a real-life Death Race 2000. I mean, it's not far from that anyway, even *with* the traffic lights and signs. It's taken Philadelphia and its New Jersey suburbs decades to eliminate the area's traffic circles. Those circles were responsible for countless accidents. In addition, half the drivers treat a yellow traffic light as the signal to "floor it". The other half slam on the brakes. Does anyone actually believe this sort of behavior would improve by eliminating the lights and the signs? Sorry, no. What this hare-brained idea does is say "let's pretend people are really nice if given the chance" instead of the real-life behavior of "every man for himself". People are SOB's. Deal with it.
Implement this idea, and you'll end up with a lot of people ending up as road pizza. Besides, if you eliminate traffic citations (no stop signs or red lights to run), imagine how much income municipalities will loose! To hell with human life, think of the *money* that will be lost! Priorities, people, priorities.
Then it would be perfectly secure, because nobody would bother to read the chip, just pontificate endlessly on what they *believed* was on it.
My favorite bit wasn't the Amiga easter egg mentioned in the review (which generally required two people, and a long series of events like ejecting the floppy with several keys held down, each event done in a specific sequence to trigger), but a comment in the source code of the original Commodore 128 ROMS:
...ah...f'ed up the works. Something like that. I'm not about to drag my Amiga out of the attic to check the exact wording, sorry. Anyway, it would appear that the kiddies in West Chester didn't play nice with one another. Perhaps one more reason Commodore failed.
"This kludge made necessary by the engineers at Commodore, makers of the finest semi-functional devices in the world"
For the curious. I believe the comment in the Amiga's ROM was from a hardware engineer claiming that it was the software programmers that
Why else do you think our software's always riddled with holes and vulnerabilities? What, you think we actually have functional and technical specifications for this stuff? Are you nuts?
...Same as the old boss.
"Who" says we won't get fooled again?
The real question is whether they can turn SCO into a company that doesn't act so sh***y
At last we have the perfect /. article, since the vast majority of posters never RTFA anyway: an article that's completely summed up in the title of the /. post.
/. post, either! I'd call that real progress. Congrats, BoingBoing on a job well done!
Think of it, guys. Not only don't you have to read the article, but you don't need the
I thought that was a brand of peanut butter. So what's this, a file format that sticks to the roof of your hard drive?
If you want to avoid the problems with Vista, just run something like Windows 2000 in VMWare Server on Ubuntu. I've set my router not to permit the Window's IP address any access to the web. All email and web browsing is done in Ubuntu. No trojans, no viruses, no Windows updates, and no Windows Disadvantage issues. You can run just about any Windows software you need (excluding games, of course). I even do all my development work in that virtual machine, with no problems. If I want the pretty Aero Glass pictures, I'll just install Stardock. Problem solved.
Either that, or the main site for Windows Genuine Disadvantage.
When an Open prison releases an inmate, do they have to do so under the GPL?
Let me see, taking a perfectly awful song like Shock the Monkey, and combining it with Crap or Hip-Shot "music" will "Save The World For File Sharers Everywhere" (TM).
This is the same artist who wanted to name all of his albums "Peter Gabriel", and got really pissed when the record company wanted a different title for each one, so people could tell them apart.
(sigh)
>>>crawling back under my bridge.
Anyone else see the irony here?
As someone with Type 2 diabetes, I'm sick and tired of depending on the chemical nightmare of artificial sweetners, and the unknown (and in some cases known) risks that consuming them entails.
This development might enable scientists to easily and cheaply reverse the sugar molecule. Since our bodies are made to use right-handed sugar molecules, a left-handed one would be dumped as waste, with absolutely no difference in taste (the only down side would be diarrhea if you consume too much)!
Oh, to be able to eat chocolate cake again!
This is a really bad idea! Hasn't anyone there been watching Doctor Who? Sheesh, talk about putting us all at risk from giant reptilian pr0n collectors.
n/t
Sorry, couldn't resist.
But wait until they start recalling colored lasers.
Will be the guys working in the rendering labs in Industrial Light and Magic, since they'll be the only ones with access to the required hardware. This is gonna require more oomph than Vista, and boy is that saying something!
Jeez, I gave up my Commodore 64 for this?
I don't see that this whole global warming thing is anything to worry about, particularly since the nuclear war with/over North Korea, Iran, and the whole Middle East will wipe out everything anyway. In the words of the alien cop directing Galactic traffic past the Earth's radioactive remains: "Nothing to see here, move along."
...using punchcards or paper tape, of course.
We have a perfect example of why the UK has this kind of law in the Karr/Ramsey case here in the US. The press had wall-to-wall coverage of the man's trip back to Colorado, including what he ate for dinner on the airplane. If the DNA evidence hadn't proven his innocense, he would have already been tried and convicted in the press. I don't care who it is or what they're accused of, that sort of thing is neither fair nor just!
This is *not* off topic, it is an example why the NYT was correct to following a very fair law. The First Amendment doesn't give us a license to destroy someone's right to a fair trial, and publishing too many facts prior to a trial threatens to do just that. It's a pity that there aren't laws in the US to give similar protections as the UK does to those who haven't yet had their day in court.