Perhaps it's nearly time to upgrade my aging Athlon X2 5600+...
One thing that I find interesting about this is that Intel decided to still call it "i7" when it apparently doesn't fit into the Nehalem-based i7 motherboards. As the article correctly pointed out - why not call it "i6" to prevent consumer confusion?
That was a good rant. I wanted to mod it up, but I can't, so I'm just saying it in words instead.
As someone who is strongly against piracy now, this entire discussion has struck a chord (no pun intended) with me.
Although I did enjoy your rant, I honestly think that the record companies aren't the only ones to blame here or to be called greedy. Although record companies, just like any businesses, are built around money and thus greed, no one seems to have made mention of those doing the pirating. Imagine if nobody ever pirated music, if there was no file "sharing", no Bit Torrent and everyone who wanted to listen to an album went to a record store and purchased it with cold, hard cash. Would the fee being discussed here ever have been introduced? Would it have even been considered? I'd say the likely answer is no. The real culprit in this particular scenario is not only the record companies, but the ones who prompted them into action, the music thieves (let's call it what it is and you know who you are.). The legitimate consumers among us are paying for your free entertainment.
This is not intended to be flamebait, it's just something that I have a very strong opinion about.
26 years and still going strong, even if it's not a nice round figure like 25, that's still gotta be worth something. New Super Mario Bros. comes out soon, too, yay! (June 1 here in Australia)
"there are no publicly shared proof-of-concept exploits or other information to suggest an attack is imminent"
Great, so lets just advertise that it's vulnerable instead of fixing it! How many h4x0rz are going to try to 'sploit this now as opposed to before for a quick ego trip?
I actually do have a blog, but regardless, if I didn't have a blog and wanted to get one, I would not use myspace. I don't suppose this article is meant to be a warning, because I think most other slashdotters would agree. Still, considering the amount of young people who use MySpace, and who are stupid enough to post about their pirating ways, I can see why they're doing this. For someone to pirate software and then gloat about it on their myspace blog, I don't have much empathy for them if they do get caught, personally...
I've heard some people saying things about this before, but I've always disregarded it because it was never confirmed. This confirmation is quite sobering, to me. Fortunately I don't use my phone all that much (noone ever rings me:(:P), but many people use their phones a lot, so hopefully this will be advertised before too much more damage is done.
At the same time, though, how many people are actually likely to stop using their mobile phones? Not very many, I would imagine. I mean, thinking about how mainstream they are and how many people rely on them. Still, at least then we can all do the I told you so dance.
remember, when you strike to lightsabers together, they don't slice through each other. So that probably adds to the argument that they're not actually hot, like someone said. Either that or their melting points are 7000+ degrees F.
Or they could be using special develocitator couplings or some such, I don't know:P
All this walking! Wouldn't it be easier to just push off something and let a lack of exterior forces and the Law of Conservation of Momentum do the rest of the work?... Sorry, I had to say it.
The fact is, it doesn't matter how big it is compared to our second-closest star, they're not comparing it to anything, they're saying that they've discovered something new. Noone's ever seen a nebula of this shape before and that's what this story's about. Well, that and the large, strong magnetic field at the centre of the galaxy.
According to the story, the magnetic field has energy equivalent to 1,000 supernovae, although it's overall magnetic field is 1,000 times weaker than the sun. Therefore this magnetic field must cover an immense volume, if the sun was as powerful as a supernovae (which it's not, so think even larger than this figure...), then that would mean that this magnetic field is coming from a volume 1,000,000 times larger than the sun (something like that anyway, it sounds pretty good:P). Sure there's much, much bigger things in the universe, but, as already stated by others, you can't just say "oh, it's so big!" that's all relative. So, yeh, I could say that it's a really big thing and be shot down by someone telling me it's not so big, or I could give you a figure.
A magnetic field in the middle of the galaxy over 1,000,000 times the volume of the sun. That's big:P
I don't really see how they could develop it with no backdoor at all, I mean that would imply that it's completely unh4x0rable, which is, or at least has been in every past instance, impossible. Unless they mean intentional backdoors, which they probably do...
I suppose you have a point, and I agree that anyone can come up with ideas, it's just nice to know that people actually do come up with their own ideas, instead of leeching off other people, like some people I know.
That's really great to see someone actually being creative for no other reason but for the sake of it. I think game developer's in general should take a leaf from Curry's book...
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Perhaps it's nearly time to upgrade my aging Athlon X2 5600+...
One thing that I find interesting about this is that Intel decided to still call it "i7" when it apparently doesn't fit into the Nehalem-based i7 motherboards. As the article correctly pointed out - why not call it "i6" to prevent consumer confusion?
That was a good rant. I wanted to mod it up, but I can't, so I'm just saying it in words instead.
As someone who is strongly against piracy now, this entire discussion has struck a chord (no pun intended) with me.
Although I did enjoy your rant, I honestly think that the record companies aren't the only ones to blame here or to be called greedy. Although record companies, just like any businesses, are built around money and thus greed, no one seems to have made mention of those doing the pirating. Imagine if nobody ever pirated music, if there was no file "sharing", no Bit Torrent and everyone who wanted to listen to an album went to a record store and purchased it with cold, hard cash. Would the fee being discussed here ever have been introduced? Would it have even been considered? I'd say the likely answer is no. The real culprit in this particular scenario is not only the record companies, but the ones who prompted them into action, the music thieves (let's call it what it is and you know who you are.). The legitimate consumers among us are paying for your free entertainment.
This is not intended to be flamebait, it's just something that I have a very strong opinion about.
The Tron Guy Suit I wear when having sex made a whole lot more sense to her after she saw the film.
You wear a suit when having sex? That sounds difficult...
I'm pretty sure that google is my favourite monopoly in the world.
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is it shaped like a cigar?
hahaha learn something new everyday.
talk about karma whoring hahaha
26 years and still going strong, even if it's not a nice round figure like 25, that's still gotta be worth something. New Super Mario Bros. comes out soon, too, yay! (June 1 here in Australia)
Great, so lets just advertise that it's vulnerable instead of fixing it! How many h4x0rz are going to try to 'sploit this now as opposed to before for a quick ego trip?
I actually do have a blog, but regardless, if I didn't have a blog and wanted to get one, I would not use myspace. I don't suppose this article is meant to be a warning, because I think most other slashdotters would agree. Still, considering the amount of young people who use MySpace, and who are stupid enough to post about their pirating ways, I can see why they're doing this. For someone to pirate software and then gloat about it on their myspace blog, I don't have much empathy for them if they do get caught, personally...
And a Victoria's Secret Bra holds more, too...
At the same time, though, how many people are actually likely to stop using their mobile phones? Not very many, I would imagine. I mean, thinking about how mainstream they are and how many people rely on them. Still, at least then we can all do the I told you so dance.
I think that what makes it worse is that people still play the first Starcraft. If it was an MMORPG I think we'd all die.
hahahaha I can see a little girl installing Linux on her hardcore pimped up new PC (which she just built). :P
remember, when you strike to lightsabers together, they don't slice through each other. So that probably adds to the argument that they're not actually hot, like someone said. Either that or their melting points are 7000+ degrees F. Or they could be using special develocitator couplings or some such, I don't know :P
Someone to discover a way to take advantage of duality of light and start transmitting internets wirelessly through light waves...
All this walking! Wouldn't it be easier to just push off something and let a lack of exterior forces and the Law of Conservation of Momentum do the rest of the work?...
Sorry, I had to say it.
According to the story, the magnetic field has energy equivalent to 1,000 supernovae, although it's overall magnetic field is 1,000 times weaker than the sun. Therefore this magnetic field must cover an immense volume, if the sun was as powerful as a supernovae (which it's not, so think even larger than this figure...), then that would mean that this magnetic field is coming from a volume 1,000,000 times larger than the sun (something like that anyway, it sounds pretty good :P). Sure there's much, much bigger things in the universe, but, as already stated by others, you can't just say "oh, it's so big!" that's all relative. So, yeh, I could say that it's a really big thing and be shot down by someone telling me it's not so big, or I could give you a figure.
A magnetic field in the middle of the galaxy over 1,000,000 times the volume of the sun. That's big :P
I don't really see how they could develop it with no backdoor at all, I mean that would imply that it's completely unh4x0rable, which is, or at least has been in every past instance, impossible. Unless they mean intentional backdoors, which they probably do...
That is, until someone knocks...
Or what if it doesn't work like that? What happens when opportunity knocks and the door doesn't open?
I suppose you have a point, and I agree that anyone can come up with ideas, it's just nice to know that people actually do come up with their own ideas, instead of leeching off other people, like some people I know.
That's really great to see someone actually being creative for no other reason but for the sake of it. I think game developer's in general should take a leaf from Curry's book...
Microsoft forced to unbundle Explorer from it's Operating System in compliance with international Trade Laws.
The computer they have the music stored on...