Well, that's why I didn't turn those blue dots red right away. I don't think that was your intent. But what you said sure sounded scary.
I think he was more foolish than anything else, in listing his exact address instead of just his zip code or city to mapquest, etc. I don't think he was actively extending invitations to visit.
As far as driving by, sure, if it's a public area, drive by all you want. Public displays are intended for the public. But when you start talking about trying to get around security barriers to have access to a private area, and calling someone you don't know late at night because they limited access, that sure gives the appearance of planning stalking and harassing behavior.
(alternative entry: is there a code slashdotters can use to get in, or do they actually not mind being called by strangers during the dinner-to-bedtime hours?)
Dude... you worry me. Where did he say you could call them at all?
No, really?
I just double checked the Halloween light webpage. I must have missed the part where he said, "hey, come see us, and if you can't get in, call us. Anytime."
If you read Sirius and XM's annual reports, they've actually entered into a partnership to develop dual-system receivers. This has the added benefit of letting them stop suing each other over patent infringement, at least for the time being.
We get good government discounts so we paid about 50% more on each 146GB 10K drive
Typical...
Did you read the parent?
The article says that these drives cost 3 times as much per drive ($447 vs $150).
The way I read that, the government price is 1.5 times more than regular drives, not 3 times. That's actually a great deal for them. They're getting the new drives for 1/2 price what others pay.
What's worse? Being overly-proactive in being ready to resist voter fraud or actively engaging in it?
That makes about as much sense as saying "when Clinton lied, nobody died," when Bush defenders point to Clinton scandals for some kind of right-to-lie precedence for the war in Iraq.
about 20 or so 24x7 traffic/weather channels for specific major cities.
I've been thinking about buying into one of the systems before, and I have to admit, this does seem to sway me into finally wanting to buy into one. I live in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, which is XM225 or Sirius156. I could certainly talk myself into paying $10-13 a month if I could get reliable traffic reporting, especially if it's 24/7.
If I do buy into one, though, my next question is what sort of unit would I want to get? In my case, I want something I can plug in at home or carry as well as use in the car. But I also don't want adapters everywhere or some cradle taped to my dash. I have yet to find a comprehensive comparison of feature sets across the different models, including sound quality. If they're not all exactly the same, I want to know that:)
I'm still undecided as to which provider, though. I'm not into shock radio, or talk radio at all, really, nor into sports coverage. I do like NPR, dance, world, techno, classical, and 80s. I'm leaning to Sirius on content. XM is cheaper, but it has fewer channels I'd actually listen to, and I can't buy out the subscription. However, I still don't know which sounds better and has fewest commercials in the non-music channels. Who's compressed the most? Who's got the most total bandwidth, etc.? Are there some industry websites I should read before making up my mind? I'm reading the annual reports for both these companies, but many of these questions remain unanswered, and before I drop an expected $500 for subscription over the life of the unit, I want to be confident the company will still be around:)
You and this guy totally missed the point. Hacking is just making a system do something it wasn't designed to do, or making it do something it WAS designed to do but the functionality was not enabled for one reason or another.
Did you attempt to read my comment at all? The first line includes this:
is a hack, yes, and may even be a good one if there are no native outputs
I'm fully aware that reverse engineering is often a component of a great hack; my argument was over how the article was labelled. If the poster had said the playback restriction for XM had been hacked, or whatever, cool. Instead, it was much more vague.
Getting XM to do something it doesn't normally do is hacking.
I think you mean getting certain XM devices to do something they doesn't normally do.
Someone recording sub-CD-quality music from a device they're required to have a subscription to use is a hack, yes, and may even be a good one if there are no native outputs... but it's not hacking the company.
Saying "XM Radio got hacked" brings to mind ideas like
1) someone's broken the subscription requirement, 2) someone's broken into XM servers, 3) someone's taken over XM's broadcast satellite system,
I like the new politics section, but at least have some semblance of balance about what stories get posted.
Did you submit a story about it?
If not - remember, the editors rarely go out and look for stories. They're almost entirely dependent upon readers. If you perceive a bias, it's at least partly due to this.
If so - post the rejected stories to your journal, and show us what you have. Plenty of us have networks of friends and trade information this way. I'm strongly in the defeat-Bush camp myself, but I know both main parties are guilty of a lot of things, so I'd like to see evidence of dirty tricks by Democrats as well, especially those that are actually illegal.
This week, the PBS TV show "Frontline" included an excerpt of Kerry's speech a couple of days before the vote in question as to his reservations, and why he was going to vote yes. He basically said he would vote yes, but that Bush needed to pursue all avenues before war. This speech should also, therefore, be a matter of congressional record, if you care to look it up.
This sounds like what he's repeatedly said in every debate: he voted yes, with the understanding that war would be the last option. That's not a flip-flop. That's not even a "nuance" - it's pretty black and white. It's what's known as forming a thoughtful stance, and then sticking to your guns, so to speak.
He reply was that to explain Enoch's purpose would be to destroy it.
With a response like that, I want to think that maybe he's an unknowing member of the Lamed Vav Zaddikim, except that they're thought to change every generation. Or maybe Mr. Stephenson was just being coy:)
I have a 20+ year old Texas Instruments LCD watch, that requires holding a button in for a certain period of time to do certain features. It only tells time, but still, it's a limited power computing device, right?
I don't think it's much of a stretch to claim him as a pioneer.
The fact that he drew attention to flaws in security due to his exploit shouldn't garner him any credit - if it did, we should be crediting bin Laden right now, too, for making the FBI and CIA at least pretend to talk to each other more.
I'm not saying he's that bad, he never killed anyone, but face it, he was either doing things he knew were wrong, or he was sociopathic enough not to understand that fact.
Actually... you could make so much money selling coffee you wouldn't need to sell any CDs at all. So here's my business idea: Put a coffee shop in your record store.
Starbucks has already foreseen this - they're putting more CDs in their shops, now. If I remember right, a recent Slashdot article says they'll have burn-on-demand mix cds for sale.
1) I think consumers are just backing off in general from spending on music. There's been a new wave of introspection in general that began when 9/11 and other terrorist attacks started, and I think a lot of people have just decided that large cd habits are now too frivolous.
I have almost a thousand legitimately purchased cds that I never, ever listen to, and that I keep telling myself I will someday dump at the local used cd store. I deleted my 30 gigabyte mp3 collection last year (most of it was saved internet radio, anyway), and haven't downloaded anything since then, but in the meantime have only bought a couple of cds.
2) In the market segments that were responsible for buying most cds in the past, that is, teens through 30-somethings, the price-adjusted relative disposable income has probably gone down noticeably since 2000, as a lot of us lost our good jobs and moved to McJobs or are otherwise underemployed, and many others have not seen wage increases in some time. The first things that rational consumers tend to cut out when things like this happen, of course, are the entertainment expenses. Meanwhile, CDs don't seem to be getting much cheaper, even after the class-action lawsuit, and in fact on average are higher than the days in which Best Buy and others regularly priced their new releases around US$10-12.
3) There are more alternatives competing for that shrinking entertainment budget. The money that I used to spend on CDs every month, for example, now pays for my Netflix and Greencine habits. I didn't used to rent movies at all, mind you, so this is a real shift. A lot more people are starting to have MMORPG expenses and daily "gourmet coffee" habits, too, to give just a couple more examples of where the money now goes.
4) The music business has successully breeded for mediocrity and "face" in the "talent" they push that more of us simply have nothing worthwhile to buy from major publishers. Some of us do turn to indie sales, but I doubt indie sales get reported properly.
I can tell this isn't nearly the easy decision I thought it would be:) You telling me that xbox games are more fun on pcs is great news, because of course I have one of those:)
And, I know, breaking a game system is more expensive than a mere cheap dvd player, but I'm looking for convenience. My tv has a vcr on its front input, a replaytv on its back svideo, and the ps2 takes the back component input. That'd be a mess to swap out often, you know?:)
Can't have everything, though. I'm still trying to get over the fact that Nintendo deliberately crippled the gamecube so it couldn't read dvds. It makes me wonder what other design choices they've made that I don't agree with.
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I had a typo? Or you did?
Awwww, it sounds like it was just lonely.
Well, that's why I didn't turn those blue dots red right away. I don't think that was your intent. But what you said sure sounded scary.
I think he was more foolish than anything else, in listing his exact address instead of just his zip code or city to mapquest, etc. I don't think he was actively extending invitations to visit.
As far as driving by, sure, if it's a public area, drive by all you want. Public displays are intended for the public. But when you start talking about trying to get around security barriers to have access to a private area, and calling someone you don't know late at night because they limited access, that sure gives the appearance of planning stalking and harassing behavior.
Dude... you worry me. Where did he say you could call them at all?
No, really?
I just double checked the Halloween light webpage. I must have missed the part where he said, "hey, come see us, and if you can't get in, call us. Anytime."
If you read Sirius and XM's annual reports, they've actually entered into a partnership to develop dual-system receivers. This has the added benefit of letting them stop suing each other over patent infringement, at least for the time being.
Did you read the parent?
The way I read that, the government price is 1.5 times more than regular drives, not 3 times.
That's actually a great deal for them.
They're getting the new drives for 1/2 price what others pay.
That makes about as much sense as saying "when Clinton lied, nobody died," when Bush defenders point to Clinton scandals for some kind of right-to-lie precedence for the war in Iraq.
In other words... carry on!
I've been thinking about buying into one of the systems before, and I have to admit, this does seem to sway me into finally wanting to buy into one. I live in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, which is XM225 or Sirius156. I could certainly talk myself into paying $10-13 a month if I could get reliable traffic reporting, especially if it's 24/7.
If I do buy into one, though, my next question is what sort of unit would I want to get? In my case, I want something I can plug in at home or carry as well as use in the car. But I also don't want adapters everywhere or some cradle taped to my dash. I have yet to find a comprehensive comparison of feature sets across the different models, including sound quality. If they're not all exactly the same, I want to know that
I'm still undecided as to which provider, though. I'm not into shock radio, or talk radio at all, really, nor into sports coverage. I do like NPR, dance, world, techno, classical, and 80s. I'm leaning to Sirius on content. XM is cheaper, but it has fewer channels I'd actually listen to, and I can't buy out the subscription. However, I still don't know which sounds better and has fewest commercials in the non-music channels. Who's compressed the most? Who's got the most total bandwidth, etc.? Are there some industry websites I should read before making up my mind? I'm reading the annual reports for both these companies, but many of these questions remain unanswered, and before I drop an expected $500 for subscription over the life of the unit, I want to be confident the company will still be around
Did you attempt to read my comment at all? The first line includes this:
I'm fully aware that reverse engineering is often a component of a great hack; my argument was over how the article was labelled. If the poster had said the playback restriction for XM had been hacked, or whatever, cool. Instead, it was much more vague.
I think you mean getting certain XM devices to do something they doesn't normally do.
Someone recording sub-CD-quality music from a device they're required to have a subscription to use is a hack, yes, and may even be a good one if there are no native outputs... but it's not hacking the company.
Saying "XM Radio got hacked" brings to mind ideas like
1) someone's broken the subscription requirement,
2) someone's broken into XM servers,
3) someone's taken over XM's broadcast satellite system,
etc.
Did you submit a story about it?
If not - remember, the editors rarely go out and look for stories. They're almost entirely dependent upon readers. If you perceive a bias, it's at least partly due to this.
If so - post the rejected stories to your journal, and show us what you have. Plenty of us have networks of friends and trade information this way. I'm strongly in the defeat-Bush camp myself, but I know both main parties are guilty of a lot of things, so I'd like to see evidence of dirty tricks by Democrats as well, especially those that are actually illegal.
Or just having little kids.
This week, the PBS TV show "Frontline" included an excerpt of Kerry's speech a couple of days before the vote in question as to his reservations, and why he was going to vote yes. He basically said he would vote yes, but that Bush needed to pursue all avenues before war. This speech should also, therefore, be a matter of congressional record, if you care to look it up.
This sounds like what he's repeatedly said in every debate: he voted yes, with the understanding that war would be the last option. That's not a flip-flop. That's not even a "nuance" - it's pretty black and white. It's what's known as forming a thoughtful stance, and then sticking to your guns, so to speak.
With a response like that, I want to think that maybe he's an unknowing member of the Lamed Vav Zaddikim, except that they're thought to change every generation. Or maybe Mr. Stephenson was just being coy
I have a 20+ year old Texas Instruments LCD watch, that requires holding a button in for a certain period of time to do certain features. It only tells time, but still, it's a limited power computing device, right?
The fact that he drew attention to flaws in security due to his exploit shouldn't garner him any credit - if it did, we should be crediting bin Laden right now, too, for making the FBI and CIA at least pretend to talk to each other more.
I'm not saying he's that bad, he never killed anyone, but face it, he was either doing things he knew were wrong, or he was sociopathic enough not to understand that fact.
Even sadder, I thought it was Google, finally going ahead...
Starbucks has already foreseen this - they're putting more CDs in their shops, now. If I remember right, a recent Slashdot article says they'll have burn-on-demand mix cds for sale.
1) I think consumers are just backing off in general from spending on music. There's been a new wave of introspection in general that began when 9/11 and other terrorist attacks started, and I think a lot of people have just decided that large cd habits are now too frivolous.
I have almost a thousand legitimately purchased cds that I never, ever listen to, and that I keep telling myself I will someday dump at the local used cd store. I deleted my 30 gigabyte mp3 collection last year (most of it was saved internet radio, anyway), and haven't downloaded anything since then, but in the meantime have only bought a couple of cds.
2) In the market segments that were responsible for buying most cds in the past, that is, teens through 30-somethings, the price-adjusted relative disposable income has probably gone down noticeably since 2000, as a lot of us lost our good jobs and moved to McJobs or are otherwise underemployed, and many others have not seen wage increases in some time. The first things that rational consumers tend to cut out when things like this happen, of course, are the entertainment expenses. Meanwhile, CDs don't seem to be getting much cheaper, even after the class-action lawsuit, and in fact on average are higher than the days in which Best Buy and others regularly priced their new releases around US$10-12.
3) There are more alternatives competing for that shrinking entertainment budget. The money that I used to spend on CDs every month, for example, now pays for my Netflix and Greencine habits. I didn't used to rent movies at all, mind you, so this is a real shift. A lot more people are starting to have MMORPG expenses and daily "gourmet coffee" habits, too, to give just a couple more examples of where the money now goes.
4) The music business has successully breeded for mediocrity and "face" in the "talent" they push that more of us simply have nothing worthwhile to buy from major publishers. Some of us do turn to indie sales, but I doubt indie sales get reported properly.
Is the Norton On Demand virus scanner on their website copyrighted? Do they have the right to redistribute it?
This makes me suspect the other material on the site.
Remember that it wasn't always $99.
At the initial price point, it would have made a lot of sense to include the functionality for maybe a couple bucks more in parts.
I can tell this isn't nearly the easy decision I thought it would be :) :)
:)
You telling me that xbox games are more fun on pcs is great news, because of course I have one of those
And, I know, breaking a game system is more expensive than a mere cheap dvd player, but I'm looking for convenience. My tv has a vcr on its front input, a replaytv on its back svideo, and the ps2 takes the back component input. That'd be a mess to swap out often, you know?
Can't have everything, though. I'm still trying to get over the fact that Nintendo deliberately crippled the gamecube so it couldn't read dvds. It makes me wonder what other design choices they've made that I don't agree with.
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