What bugs me about the whole hype of Java on cellphones is that 95% of the benefit of Java is being lost.. Sun has wonderful SDKs for doing fun things like writing games that'll run on your cellphone and so on, but all the major phone vendors then proceed, at the last stage, to lock down the platform by requiring signed apps, and making the phone-to-PC cables as hard to find as hen's teeth. (This is based on hearing complaints from a friend of mine, I haven't ever tried myself as I don't own a cell). I guess if you could write and load your own apps easily, the phone cos. couldn't nickel and dime you to death for trivial things.
I won't buy a cellphone that doesn't let me easily load my own apps. I pay for the damn thing, let me write my own cool utilities, and fix the myriad bugs the vendor left in. Oh, and it's ludicrous that I should be expected to pay for trivial things like new ringtones.
Or we could, ya know, spend 1% of that and colonize Mars, fund pollution free energy sources, control human over population, and, ya know.. STOP SCREWING UP THE EARTH. Yeah, let's build impossibly-large space structures with money that *could* go to solving the root causes (our bad ecological practices) instead of just behaving ourselves and taking care of the Earth, that's MUCH easier. What utter stupidity.
.. and furthermore, the proper response to that statement is "WTF?!"
I'm just learning about RSS myself, but I already see that RSS has tag. So there's already at least one way to organize RSS data.
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... and while I know it's bad form to reply to my own message, in light of my above post I hereby nominate that Ewok who got killed while tripping a big Imperial walker to be the CHOSEN ONE. Sheesh.
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I wonder why no one's yet mentioned that, even if Luke had totally failed at the end, the Emperor frying him to a nice cinder, grinning all the while as he was while doing it, *all three were about to be incinerated anyways*, as the Rebels had already successfully lowered the shield generator and were about to blow up the whole damn station?
Whether Luke lived or died, he'd already distracted and delayed long enough to ensure that Vader and Palpatine would remain on the station while it exploded. I don't remember Vader or Palpatine showing any signs that they knew the station had been compromised! They would have both gone up in a puff no matter what.
Rename all your.MP3 or.WAV files to.REC before transferring them to the iRiver unit. Then it won't prevent you from taking them back off to another PC.
It's this stupid limitation (to appease the RIAA) that ensures I'll never buy another iRiver unit again. I love my iFP-595 in every other respect, but now that other vendors are offering similar features (MP3 encoding at > 96Kbps, FM tuner, etc.) *and* using the standard UMS system, there's no reason to buy iRiver. Vote with your dollars and avoid any gear that tries to enforce the RIAA's regime.
The parent is serious, and I think he/she may have a point. Perhaps MJ's screwed up because a bunch of old predatory pervs did something to him, when he was a child star in the music biz. Think about it. Things like molestation and abuse tend to be cyclical... passing from one generation to the next.
I'm sure there are a lot of sickos in the music biz that take advantage of every little star that comes through their studios... outing them would be sweet justice indeed.
Have you ever considered blowing the whistle on their lax security? Really -- contact some media outlets, try to contact large stockholders etc. It's the best thing you could do for the people whose data is held there. You'd be doing a service to society at large.
By the same argument, employers and headhunters should be honest, and admit they're not willing to even discuss paying for the expertise they demand on their job postings. Or, admit they are posting hard-to-satisfy offers to justify what they *really* want, in some cases: to justify an H1B or outsourcing after "no one qualified applied for our offer".
Someone really SHOULD mod this up. The people who are sheep-like enough to equate diamonds with love are also sheep-like enough to fall for "it's more expensive, therefore it MUST be better" argument.
Haven't you heard? It's *three* months now, so sayeth the diamond merchants. (No link available; heard it on talk radio a week ago). What a bunch of greedy robber-barons. Then again, the people who fall for it are too stupid to keep their money I guess.
Chile, Vietnam, CIA-funded terrorism training in Afghanistan, among others; all these predate your dad getting blown up. That doesn't make it any better, and it doesn't exuse it in any way, I know, but don't try to pretend that the US hasn't conducted multiple illegal wars prior to "9-11".
There are definite reasons why the US is so hated by some peoples around the world. Some of those people are extremists, unfortunately, and will do crazy things as a result.
Perhaps if the US would stop f*cking around in other sovereign nations' affairs, extremists would have less ideological ammunition (and thus less real ammunition, eventually).
But that's not the way email was designed and it predates TCP/IP.... and snail mail predates email. So what?
You defeat your own argument by citing the 'net of trust' as a new thing with email. The postal service has no net of trust (did it ever?) yet it hasn't ground to a halt. Someone scribbles a return address in the top-left corner of their envelope, and the postal service dutifully delivers it. The Unabomber had a field day with that.
The ultimate solution is to attach some kind of cost to sending email. If a home account's monthly fee included say, 250 outgoing emails per month (generous I think), with a.10 charge per extra above that, spammers would think twice. I would (somewhat) happily settle for that. Hashcash CPU-time stamps would be even better.
I think parent poster meant 'secure their data' in the sense that the camera footage is signed, encrypted etc. somehow so that the cop cannot edit that footage themselves.
Have a separate department, not answerable to the cops at all, hold the decryption/verification keys to all cop-recorded footage. So it can't be doctored in the cops' interest... unless of course, someone gets to the guys in the video-decryption dept.
I like iRiver too, except their flash-based players require you to use their stupid manager program if you want decent (> 96kbps) encoding via the unit's line-in. That is: The non-manager firmware is intentionally crippled to limit direct encoding to 96kbps. The 'manager' firmware allows encoding up to 256kbps.
They keep lying on their forums about some 'USB problem' with having USB-mass-storage firmware and high bitrate MP3 encoding at the same time.
Other than this, their units are great. But I found another brand, www.teravalue.com (Nexgen 5) that acts as a USB mass-storage device (no DRM getting MP3s on and off) *and* allows line-in encoding up to 224Kbps, 48KHz. Expandable via SD cards up to 1GB too unlike the iRiver iFP series.
Downsides: no OGG support, and the line-in is a non-standard 1/10" (cell-phone?) jack which needs an adaptor to standard 1/8" stereo in.
There *are* options out there without DRM crap, if you are willing to shop around a bit.
I just bought one over the weekend... acts as a USB mass storage drive (that is, it just shows up and you can copy whatever files, be they MP3 or otherwise, to and from it), no stupid management software that tries to impose DRM.
Direct encoding from 32kbps to 224 kbps, 32KHz to 48KHz (!!) via the line input. FM tuner, voice mic, which can also both be recorded. Expands to 1GB via SD/MMC cards.
Sony, iRiver and Apple all need a kick in the ass. Go buy an MP3 player that doesn't limit our freedom and email these guys why you DIDN'T buy their unit.
I have an iRiver IFP-595T which is good too, but you either have to use their manager software to get files on and off -- and rename your.MP3 files to.REC if you ever want to get them off again, or install the alternate firmware -- which limits MP3 encoding to 96Kbps to make the RIAA happy. This NewGen has all the features of the iRiver, but no DRM bullshit.
Recording contracts are often for around 7 albums, which might as well be a lifetime -- it's longer than most music careers. The record companies know most artists won't every reach popularity, and stay there, for more an an album or two. U2 etc. being the exceptions to the rule.
Why is an IP address not just an IP address? Stop being so elitist. IP didn't have a NOBLEMAN/SERF bit in every header last time I checked.
It's lazy ISPs' faults that spammers aren't shut down quickly, thus these blacklists have to take out whole blocks, causing collatoral damage like the original article describes.
The internet was designed to allow PEERS to talk to ther PEERS. It's an equal-opportunity protocol stack, by design. Too bad some people no longer believe in this principle.
I'm not usually one to complain loudly, having gotten used to having to use all the latest tools to avoid the commercialisation of the internet. But seriously. What the F*ck! I saw the following link in slashdot's Freshmeat sidebar, titled 'ADV: Gimme Shelter':
And that is why I wish every emailer would support hashcash. Make the sender's computer perform an expensive computation to send a valid email. If it took 30 seconds to a minute for the fastest consumer PC to create a valid stamp, mass spamming would be nearly eliminated. If spammers got faster machines, just increase the strength of the hashcash stamp required to accept their mail. This, in combination with whitelists, would nearly solve spam.
Mod parent up. Canada has almost ALWAYS won in rulings -- since the U.S. is easily shown to be using anti-NAFTA, protectionist tactics in the areas of softwood lumber for example.
But the U.S., in regular form, ignores any international laws that don't benefit directly its own long-term interests. I wish our leaders would push for the NAFTA agreement to be invalidated, due to non-compliance by the U.S. It's a contract, isn't it? Doesn't it become null and void if the U.S. keeps flagrantly violating it?
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Except he offered it to them, *and they refused it*. So it's still his.
What bugs me about the whole hype of Java on cellphones is that 95% of the benefit of Java is being lost.. Sun has wonderful SDKs for doing fun things like writing games that'll run on your cellphone and so on, but all the major phone vendors then proceed, at the last stage, to lock down the platform by requiring signed apps, and making the phone-to-PC cables as hard to find as hen's teeth. (This is based on hearing complaints from a friend of mine, I haven't ever tried myself as I don't own a cell). I guess if you could write and load your own apps easily, the phone cos. couldn't nickel and dime you to death for trivial things.
I won't buy a cellphone that doesn't let me easily load my own apps. I pay for the damn thing, let me write my own cool utilities, and fix the myriad bugs the vendor left in. Oh, and it's ludicrous that I should be expected to pay for trivial things like new ringtones.
Or we could, ya know, spend 1% of that and colonize Mars, fund pollution free energy sources, control human over population, and, ya know.. STOP SCREWING UP THE EARTH. Yeah, let's build impossibly-large space structures with money that *could* go to solving the root causes (our bad ecological practices) instead of just behaving ourselves and taking care of the Earth, that's MUCH easier. What utter stupidity.
.. and furthermore, the proper response to that statement is "WTF?!"
I'm just learning about RSS myself, but I already see that RSS has tag. So there's already at least one way to organize RSS data.
... and while I know it's bad form to reply to my own message, in light of my above post I hereby nominate that Ewok who got killed while tripping a big Imperial walker to be the CHOSEN ONE. Sheesh.
I wonder why no one's yet mentioned that, even if Luke had totally failed at the end, the Emperor frying him to a nice cinder, grinning all the while as he was while doing it, *all three were about to be incinerated anyways*, as the Rebels had already successfully lowered the shield generator and were about to blow up the whole damn station?
Whether Luke lived or died, he'd already distracted and delayed long enough to ensure that Vader and Palpatine would remain on the station while it exploded. I don't remember Vader or Palpatine showing any signs that they knew the station had been compromised! They would have both gone up in a puff no matter what.
Rename all your .MP3 or .WAV files to .REC before transferring them to the iRiver unit. Then it won't prevent you from taking them back off to another PC.
It's this stupid limitation (to appease the RIAA) that ensures I'll never buy another iRiver unit again. I love my iFP-595 in every other respect, but now that other vendors are offering similar features (MP3 encoding at > 96Kbps, FM tuner, etc.) *and* using the standard UMS system, there's no reason to buy iRiver. Vote with your dollars and avoid any gear that tries to enforce the RIAA's regime.
The parent is serious, and I think he/she may have a point. Perhaps MJ's screwed up because a bunch of old predatory pervs did something to him, when he was a child star in the music biz. Think about it. Things like molestation and abuse tend to be cyclical... passing from one generation to the next.
I'm sure there are a lot of sickos in the music biz that take advantage of every little star that comes through their studios... outing them would be sweet justice indeed.
Have you ever considered blowing the whistle on their lax security? Really -- contact some media outlets, try to contact large stockholders etc. It's the best thing you could do for the people whose data is held there. You'd be doing a service to society at large.
By the same argument, employers and headhunters should be honest, and admit they're not willing to even discuss paying for the expertise they demand on their job postings. Or, admit they are posting hard-to-satisfy offers to justify what they *really* want, in some cases: to justify an H1B or outsourcing after "no one qualified applied for our offer".
Actually, yes (though I wouldn't call it a conspiracy). Blade refills are the money-maker -- the razor itself is a loss-leader.
Someone really SHOULD mod this up. The people who are sheep-like enough to equate diamonds with love are also sheep-like enough to fall for "it's more expensive, therefore it MUST be better" argument.
You, sir/madam, should be in marketing.
Haven't you heard? It's *three* months now, so sayeth the diamond merchants. (No link available; heard it on talk radio a week ago). What a bunch of greedy robber-barons. Then again, the people who fall for it are too stupid to keep their money I guess.
Chile, Vietnam, CIA-funded terrorism training in Afghanistan, among others; all these predate your dad getting blown up. That doesn't make it any better, and it doesn't exuse it in any way, I know, but don't try to pretend that the US hasn't conducted multiple illegal wars prior to "9-11".
There are definite reasons why the US is so hated by some peoples around the world. Some of those people are extremists, unfortunately, and will do crazy things as a result.
Perhaps if the US would stop f*cking around in other sovereign nations' affairs, extremists would have less ideological ammunition (and thus less real ammunition, eventually).
The quote-of-the-day at the bottom of this story just issued forth:
If a man had a child who'd gone anti-social, killed perhaps, he'd still tend to protect that child. -- McCoy, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3
Celine Dion, Ann Murray and Bryan Adams. [shudder]. Oh, and the SOCAN board of directors.
But that's not the way email was designed and it predates TCP/IP. ... and snail mail predates email. So what?
.10 charge per extra above that, spammers would think twice. I would (somewhat) happily settle for that. Hashcash CPU-time stamps would be even better.
You defeat your own argument by citing the 'net of trust' as a new thing with email. The postal service has no net of trust (did it ever?) yet it hasn't ground to a halt. Someone scribbles a return address in the top-left corner of their envelope, and the postal service dutifully delivers it. The Unabomber had a field day with that.
The ultimate solution is to attach some kind of cost to sending email. If a home account's monthly fee included say, 250 outgoing emails per month (generous I think), with a
I think parent poster meant 'secure their data' in the sense that the camera footage is signed, encrypted etc. somehow so that the cop cannot edit that footage themselves.
Have a separate department, not answerable to the cops at all, hold the decryption/verification keys to all cop-recorded footage. So it can't be doctored in the cops' interest... unless of course, someone gets to the guys in the video-decryption dept.
I like iRiver too, except their flash-based players require you to use their stupid manager program if you want decent (> 96kbps) encoding via the unit's line-in. That is: The non-manager firmware is intentionally crippled to limit direct encoding to 96kbps. The 'manager' firmware allows encoding up to 256kbps.
They keep lying on their forums about some 'USB problem' with having USB-mass-storage firmware and high bitrate MP3 encoding at the same time.
Other than this, their units are great. But I found another brand, www.teravalue.com (Nexgen 5) that acts as a USB mass-storage device (no DRM getting MP3s on and off) *and* allows line-in encoding up to 224Kbps, 48KHz. Expandable via SD cards up to 1GB too unlike the iRiver iFP series.
Downsides: no OGG support, and the line-in is a non-standard 1/10" (cell-phone?) jack which needs an adaptor to standard 1/8" stereo in.
There *are* options out there without DRM crap, if you are willing to shop around a bit.
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.MP3 files to .REC if you ever want to get them off again, or install the alternate firmware -- which limits MP3 encoding to 96Kbps to make the RIAA happy. This NewGen has all the features of the iRiver, but no DRM bullshit.
I just bought one over the weekend... acts as a USB mass storage drive (that is, it just shows up and you can copy whatever files, be they MP3 or otherwise, to and from it), no stupid management software that tries to impose DRM.
Direct encoding from 32kbps to 224 kbps, 32KHz to 48KHz (!!) via the line input. FM tuner, voice mic, which can also both be recorded. Expands to 1GB via SD/MMC cards.
Sony, iRiver and Apple all need a kick in the ass. Go buy an MP3 player that doesn't limit our freedom and email these guys why you DIDN'T buy their unit.
I have an iRiver IFP-595T which is good too, but you either have to use their manager software to get files on and off -- and rename your
Recording contracts are often for around 7 albums, which might as well be a lifetime -- it's longer than most music careers. The record companies know most artists won't every reach popularity, and stay there, for more an an album or two. U2 etc. being the exceptions to the rule.
But true, recording contracts aren't 'for life'.
Why is an IP address not just an IP address? Stop being so elitist. IP didn't have a NOBLEMAN/SERF bit in every header last time I checked.
It's lazy ISPs' faults that spammers aren't shut down quickly, thus these blacklists have to take out whole blocks, causing collatoral damage like the original article describes.
The internet was designed to allow PEERS to talk to ther PEERS. It's an equal-opportunity protocol stack, by design. Too bad some people no longer believe in this principle.
WHAT ARE ADS DOING IN THE FRESHMEAT LINKS!!?!?!
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/. editors panel explain this, pronto. What sleazy new low is this?
I'm not usually one to complain loudly, having gotten used to having to use all the latest tools to avoid the commercialisation of the internet. But seriously. What the F*ck! I saw the following link in slashdot's Freshmeat sidebar, titled 'ADV: Gimme Shelter':
[http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;11713776;1046930
This is disgusting. I expect sidebars titled with a well-known domain to be -actually pointing to links on that domain-, not TROJANED with ads.
Someone on the
And that is why I wish every emailer would support hashcash. Make the sender's computer perform an expensive computation to send a valid email. If it took 30 seconds to a minute for the fastest consumer PC to create a valid stamp, mass spamming would be nearly eliminated. If spammers got faster machines, just increase the strength of the hashcash stamp required to accept their mail. This, in combination with whitelists, would nearly solve spam.
Mod parent up. Canada has almost ALWAYS won in rulings -- since the U.S. is easily shown to be using anti-NAFTA, protectionist tactics in the areas of softwood lumber for example.
But the U.S., in regular form, ignores any international laws that don't benefit directly its own long-term interests. I wish our leaders would push for the NAFTA agreement to be invalidated, due to non-compliance by the U.S. It's a contract, isn't it? Doesn't it become null and void if the U.S. keeps flagrantly violating it?