Why are people so surprised that something on the Sci-Fi channel was all messed up and contained inaccuracies? It's the Sci-Fi channel. Their business is the extremes. Nothing less than the boradcast we saw should have been expected.
Next, people are going to be expecting neutral reporting from Fox News.
From the wikipediasucks site: SOLLOG SAYS SLASHDOT.ORG RULES
The man's stupidity is good and true to believe that legions of/.ers are going to his site to discover his truth and not laughing hysterically at him.:p
The very thing that gives me my online identity. Vindication at last. Stop asking why I'm so efficient at hitting WASD. Evolution says I just fragged you.
...sort of. What's happening here is that a group is ensuring that they're heard regardless of the rights of others. According to John Locke, on whose writings many of the points of American government are based, your rights stop when they infringe on someone else's rights. The PTC is messing with my right to enjoy Shakespeareian levels of violence and teenage sex, and thus they need to go take a flying leap.
According to that PDF file, the total comments as a direct referral from slashdot numbered 483. That doesn't count the/.ers that clicked on the nws.noaa.gov/fairweather link first. The response was overwhelming, and I'm smiling very widely knowing that yes, the system does -- sometimes -- work.
Even at Amazon, the CE is out. It seems Vivendi wanted to see their product on eBay, and nothing more. Not only is this bad business, it sounds like a scam, if you ask me.
Thankfully, Penn State uses a nice proprietary system they "creatively" (sarcasm) call eLion. I can point to many, many stupid things PSU has done in reference to technology and the monkeys with typewriters at the Office of Telecommunications, but eLion has always been solid.
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Hah. Same arguments Hitler used in the Holocaust. One to his own people, and one when he wanted to try to convince the world he was doing good (during the Berlin Olympics, etc).
I've used a 256 meg flash drive to back up a website or two and some other files intermittently over the last year, maybe a little more. It's handy because I can carry the backup offsite immediately, so in the instance of absolute mission-critical data even the remote chance of some sort of physical catastrophe (fire, natural disaster) I'm covered. The newest generation of USB flash drives are very fast, handy, and cheap.
My only worry has been actually losing the drive itself. Then again, I'm doing intermittent backups, not daily. From the minor problems I've had over the time I've used the drive, I'd consider replacing your memory every 6 months or so. At current prices, 100 USD/year isn't too bad for superior, fast and easy backup:)
Heh. I emailed the on-duty editor, saying that this was old news. In fact, I mentioned the VU press release that was edited into the article. The press release is from October 18th. Abort the story instead of making a nonsensical edit,/., this is old stuff.
Just get Firefox and use the Adblock extension. Then you can use their service anyway, sans ads (not to mention other sites closer to home, sans subscriber fees. Pay once, get all the plums. Mwahahaha.)
Why even have a lowest price pledge if you aren't going to honor it?
The purpose of a "low price guarantee" like that is ensuring that your prices are competitive. The problem comes in when someone can find a quote at a particularly shady outfit on Pricewatch or Pricegrabber, favorites of companies who deal in subpar and even stolen goods. The linked company was just the first in the list on a quick search for "lowest ratings" on Pricegrabber; there are pages upon pages more.
Anyhow, as I was saying: the problem comes in when I can get a price quote from some guy selling stolen goods out of his room in the basement of his Mom's house, then take that to Best Buy and demand they give me the same price. That's just unfair. Best Buy may be a buy-low-sell-high retailer out to make money, but they're following the letter of the law. Taking advantage of that seems like a devil to me.
Everyone commenting seems to be all hyped up at the technology. Remember, China's one of the poorest, most overpopulated countries on this Earth in per capita terms. The elite, Party members, and other favored citizens may have access to all this wonderful stuff, but with an average GDP per capita below 5000 USD (as compared to about 38000 USD in the US) the vast majority -- if not most -- of the country has no access to any of the "technology" mentioned.
My original point was, there will be an influx at first, but as the first comment says, September will finally end. They'll have to learn the better ways to survive.
Not so true. AOL is the internet for complete morons - they do everything for you from virus protection to including non-standards-compliant hacked web browsers (mostly versions of ie now) so that you get it all in one application. They also have the insufferable "keywords" so that you don't have to use something that takes a little effort. Like Google.
Local cable and telephone companies expect you to do these things yourself because you're a human being that deserves to have choice (and a normal internet access program that doesn't permanently destroy your computer's tcp/ip settings).
As someone who works regularly with people who know little to nothing about computers and technology, I've found that AOL users have absolutely no safe browsing habits to speak of, normally aren't aware that they need a firewall or sometimes even virus protection, and pretty much depend on AOL to do everything for them. I know that's a sweeping generalization, but it's what I've found. On the other hand, even folks who aren't very tech savvy but use a "normal" ISP have at the very least nominal safe browsing habits, and many are quite good at detecting viruses and phishing scams in email and knowing when they shouldn't click on the "yes to install this java package" button.
The precedent, set a few years ago when a recount revealed that a senator (don't remember what state) lost by one vote instead of won by one vote, would be for Bush to resign and then some sort of emergency public election to be held with a temporary acting President in place.
Problem is, I don't think Bush would resign, and I'm not sure this would be a good way to resolve the problem on a national level anyway. It's an interesting dilemma -- one worth keeping an eye on.
Right. OS X appears more secure right now because Macs make up a tiny percentage of the market. If you were a hacker trying to steal credit card info, what are you going to go for, 85%+ of all the computers as possible targets or 5%? I'd take the higher number. Thus, it appears sometimes that Windows is less secure than Mac OS X, Linux, and the others, but the key word is "appear". The others don't face near as much scrutiny and far less of their vulnerabilities are discovered.
Just look at Firefox - it's currently the subject of an enourmous grassroots movement. SFX just signed up over 10,000 people in 8 days for their New York Times ad. FF has been downloaded over 6.8 million times now. People are taking notice; there have been discussions here on/. estimating the "geek" usage at 90%. And I wouldn't doubt it.
As of 7:02 PM EST suicidegirls.com is starting to buckle under slashdot's server load. Here's a copy of the forum post linked in the article, with many of the blank lines removed so the comment script doesn't yell at me:
> From: Stop IP Infringement <StopInfringement@PerkinsCoie.com>
> Date: October 27, 2004 10:12:06 AM PDT
> To: "'spooky@suicidegirls.com'" <spooky@suicidegirls.com>
> Subject: Infringement of Nintendo Intellectual Property Rights
> October 26, 2004
> VIA EMAIL ONLY
> Administrator: spooky@suicidegirls.com
> Re: http:/www/suicidegirls.com/members/RuneLateralus/3 80354/
> Infringement of Nintendo Intellectual Property Rights
> IDENTIFIED PROBLEM: Pornographic Web site uses Nintendo in link,
> text, source code, Zelda and Metroid in text
>
> Greetings:
>
> We represent Nintendo of America Inc. ("Nintendo"), the owner of the
> trademark(s) and/or copyrighted works listed above (the "Nintendo
> trademark(s)/works"). It has come to our client's attention recently
> that you are using the Nintendo trademark(s)/works in the hidden
> text/visible text/meta tags and/or title and/or links of the
> above-referenced sexually explicit Web site. This use is
> unauthorized, and we are writing to demand that you immediately cease
> and desist this infringement of Nintendo's intellectual property
> rights.
>
> Nintendo has acquired substantial rights in the Nintendo
> trademark(s)/works. Nintendo's customers--including many children and
> their parents--have come to identify the Nintendo trademark(s)/works
> with the high quality of Nintendo products. Your unauthorized use of
> the Nintendo trademark(s)/works will tarnish Nintendo's reputation.
>
> This infringement of Nintendo's intellectual property rights can
> subject you to sanctions under applicable federal and state laws.
> Accordingly, you must immediately cease and desist from any and all
> use of (1) the Nintendo trademark(s)/works, (2) any other Nintendo
> trademark(s)/works, and (3) any mark which is confusingly similar to a
> Nintendo trademark. This includes, but is not limited to, your
> infringement of Nintendo's intellectual property as explained above.
>
> I look forward to your immediate confirmation that you have taken the
> necessary steps to resolve this matter. To that end, you may contact
> me at either 2063596742 or StopInfringement@perkinscoie.com.
>
> Sincerely,
> Melissa Morgan Nelson
> Perkins Coie LLP
> 1201 Third Avenue, Suite 4800
> Seattle, WA 98101-3099
> http://www.perkinscoie.com
>
>:ceh
>
> cc: Nintendo of America Inc.
>
> ISP: peter.luttrell@3jane.com
>
> File: 51.13
>
> NOTICE: This communication may contain privileged or other confidential
> information. If you have received it in error, please advise the
> sender by
> reply email and immediately delete the message and any attachments
> without
> copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you.
"Cingular and AT&T customers can see what is/isn't changing for them at newcingular.com"
It looks like for both services, nothing at all will change except a new name on the AT&T bills (the AT&T customers will get a change if they switch their calling plans). As an ardent cell phone geek, I've spent time with both companies - two years with AT&T, and now going on one with Cingular. Both companies were pretty much the same. Same service (great), same wonderfully geek-satisfying equipment (as opposed to Verizon with some really cheap crappy stuff, wholly absent of Nokia and Sony Ericsson), and almost same plans and prices. Very minor differences even there. The newcingular site claims that the end user will literally sense no change. If that's true, I'm staying with Cingular for a long, long, looooooong time. They already rock.
There's just something horribly, horribly wrong when IP "owners" are complaining that people won't respect their property when said people cannot even begin to consider doing so. They're dangling food in front of the faces of the hungry and complaining when some of it gets snatched away. That thought just makes me ill.
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Why are people so surprised that something on the Sci-Fi channel was all messed up and contained inaccuracies? It's the Sci-Fi channel. Their business is the extremes. Nothing less than the boradcast we saw should have been expected.
Next, people are going to be expecting neutral reporting from Fox News.
From the wikipediasucks site: SOLLOG SAYS SLASHDOT.ORG RULES
/.ers are going to his site to discover his truth and not laughing hysterically at him. :p
The man's stupidity is good and true to believe that legions of
The very thing that gives me my online identity. Vindication at last. Stop asking why I'm so efficient at hitting WASD. Evolution says I just fragged you.
...sort of. What's happening here is that a group is ensuring that they're heard regardless of the rights of others. According to John Locke, on whose writings many of the points of American government are based, your rights stop when they infringe on someone else's rights. The PTC is messing with my right to enjoy Shakespeareian levels of violence and teenage sex, and thus they need to go take a flying leap.
According to that PDF file, the total comments as a direct referral from slashdot numbered 483. That doesn't count the /.ers that clicked on the nws.noaa.gov/fairweather link first. The response was overwhelming, and I'm smiling very widely knowing that yes, the system does -- sometimes -- work.
Even at Amazon, the CE is out. It seems Vivendi wanted to see their product on eBay, and nothing more. Not only is this bad business, it sounds like a scam, if you ask me.
Thankfully, Penn State uses a nice proprietary system they "creatively" (sarcasm) call eLion. I can point to many, many stupid things PSU has done in reference to technology and the monkeys with typewriters at the Office of Telecommunications, but eLion has always been solid.
Hah. Same arguments Hitler used in the Holocaust. One to his own people, and one when he wanted to try to convince the world he was doing good (during the Berlin Olympics, etc).
I've used a 256 meg flash drive to back up a website or two and some other files intermittently over the last year, maybe a little more. It's handy because I can carry the backup offsite immediately, so in the instance of absolute mission-critical data even the remote chance of some sort of physical catastrophe (fire, natural disaster) I'm covered. The newest generation of USB flash drives are very fast, handy, and cheap.
:)
My only worry has been actually losing the drive itself. Then again, I'm doing intermittent backups, not daily. From the minor problems I've had over the time I've used the drive, I'd consider replacing your memory every 6 months or so. At current prices, 100 USD/year isn't too bad for superior, fast and easy backup
Heh. I emailed the on-duty editor, saying that this was old news. In fact, I mentioned the VU press release that was edited into the article. The press release is from October 18th. Abort the story instead of making a nonsensical edit, /., this is old stuff.
Just get Firefox and use the Adblock extension. Then you can use their service anyway, sans ads (not to mention other sites closer to home, sans subscriber fees. Pay once, get all the plums. Mwahahaha.)
Why even have a lowest price pledge if you aren't going to honor it?
The purpose of a "low price guarantee" like that is ensuring that your prices are competitive. The problem comes in when someone can find a quote at a particularly shady outfit on Pricewatch or Pricegrabber, favorites of companies who deal in subpar and even stolen goods. The linked company was just the first in the list on a quick search for "lowest ratings" on Pricegrabber; there are pages upon pages more.
Anyhow, as I was saying: the problem comes in when I can get a price quote from some guy selling stolen goods out of his room in the basement of his Mom's house, then take that to Best Buy and demand they give me the same price. That's just unfair. Best Buy may be a buy-low-sell-high retailer out to make money, but they're following the letter of the law. Taking advantage of that seems like a devil to me.
Everyone commenting seems to be all hyped up at the technology. Remember, China's one of the poorest, most overpopulated countries on this Earth in per capita terms. The elite, Party members, and other favored citizens may have access to all this wonderful stuff, but with an average GDP per capita below 5000 USD (as compared to about 38000 USD in the US) the vast majority -- if not most -- of the country has no access to any of the "technology" mentioned.
My original point was, there will be an influx at first, but as the first comment says, September will finally end. They'll have to learn the better ways to survive.
Not so true. AOL is the internet for complete morons - they do everything for you from virus protection to including non-standards-compliant hacked web browsers (mostly versions of ie now) so that you get it all in one application. They also have the insufferable "keywords" so that you don't have to use something that takes a little effort. Like Google.
Local cable and telephone companies expect you to do these things yourself because you're a human being that deserves to have choice (and a normal internet access program that doesn't permanently destroy your computer's tcp/ip settings).
As someone who works regularly with people who know little to nothing about computers and technology, I've found that AOL users have absolutely no safe browsing habits to speak of, normally aren't aware that they need a firewall or sometimes even virus protection, and pretty much depend on AOL to do everything for them. I know that's a sweeping generalization, but it's what I've found. On the other hand, even folks who aren't very tech savvy but use a "normal" ISP have at the very least nominal safe browsing habits, and many are quite good at detecting viruses and phishing scams in email and knowing when they shouldn't click on the "yes to install this java package" button.
The precedent, set a few years ago when a recount revealed that a senator (don't remember what state) lost by one vote instead of won by one vote, would be for Bush to resign and then some sort of emergency public election to be held with a temporary acting President in place.
Problem is, I don't think Bush would resign, and I'm not sure this would be a good way to resolve the problem on a national level anyway. It's an interesting dilemma -- one worth keeping an eye on.
Right. OS X appears more secure right now because Macs make up a tiny percentage of the market. If you were a hacker trying to steal credit card info, what are you going to go for, 85%+ of all the computers as possible targets or 5%? I'd take the higher number. Thus, it appears sometimes that Windows is less secure than Mac OS X, Linux, and the others, but the key word is "appear". The others don't face near as much scrutiny and far less of their vulnerabilities are discovered.
Yes, thank you for outright stating the joke that was only funny when implicit.
It says in the redherring article referenced from SFX that the ad will be just under $50k. The rest will go straight back to Moz. Go Firefox!
Just look at Firefox - it's currently the subject of an enourmous grassroots movement. SFX just signed up over 10,000 people in 8 days for their New York Times ad. FF has been downloaded over 6.8 million times now. People are taking notice; there have been discussions here on /. estimating the "geek" usage at 90%. And I wouldn't doubt it.
The issue has made the Friday Penny Arcade strip. See http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2004-10 -29.
> From: Stop IP Infringement <StopInfringement@PerkinsCoie.com>3 80354/ :ceh
> Date: October 27, 2004 10:12:06 AM PDT
> To: "'spooky@suicidegirls.com'" <spooky@suicidegirls.com>
> Subject: Infringement of Nintendo Intellectual Property Rights
> October 26, 2004
> VIA EMAIL ONLY
> Administrator: spooky@suicidegirls.com
> Re: http:/www/suicidegirls.com/members/RuneLateralus/
> Infringement of Nintendo Intellectual Property Rights
> IDENTIFIED PROBLEM: Pornographic Web site uses Nintendo in link,
> text, source code, Zelda and Metroid in text
>
> Greetings:
>
> We represent Nintendo of America Inc. ("Nintendo"), the owner of the
> trademark(s) and/or copyrighted works listed above (the "Nintendo
> trademark(s)/works"). It has come to our client's attention recently
> that you are using the Nintendo trademark(s)/works in the hidden
> text/visible text/meta tags and/or title and/or links of the
> above-referenced sexually explicit Web site. This use is
> unauthorized, and we are writing to demand that you immediately cease
> and desist this infringement of Nintendo's intellectual property
> rights.
>
> Nintendo has acquired substantial rights in the Nintendo
> trademark(s)/works. Nintendo's customers--including many children and
> their parents--have come to identify the Nintendo trademark(s)/works
> with the high quality of Nintendo products. Your unauthorized use of
> the Nintendo trademark(s)/works will tarnish Nintendo's reputation.
>
> This infringement of Nintendo's intellectual property rights can
> subject you to sanctions under applicable federal and state laws.
> Accordingly, you must immediately cease and desist from any and all
> use of (1) the Nintendo trademark(s)/works, (2) any other Nintendo
> trademark(s)/works, and (3) any mark which is confusingly similar to a
> Nintendo trademark. This includes, but is not limited to, your
> infringement of Nintendo's intellectual property as explained above.
>
> I look forward to your immediate confirmation that you have taken the
> necessary steps to resolve this matter. To that end, you may contact
> me at either 2063596742 or StopInfringement@perkinscoie.com.
>
> Sincerely,
> Melissa Morgan Nelson
> Perkins Coie LLP
> 1201 Third Avenue, Suite 4800
> Seattle, WA 98101-3099
> http://www.perkinscoie.com
>
>
>
> cc: Nintendo of America Inc.
>
> ISP: peter.luttrell@3jane.com
>
> File: 51.13
>
> NOTICE: This communication may contain privileged or other confidential
> information. If you have received it in error, please advise the
> sender by
> reply email and immediately delete the message and any attachments
> without
> copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you.
"Cingular and AT&T customers can see what is/isn't changing for them at newcingular.com" It looks like for both services, nothing at all will change except a new name on the AT&T bills (the AT&T customers will get a change if they switch their calling plans). As an ardent cell phone geek, I've spent time with both companies - two years with AT&T, and now going on one with Cingular. Both companies were pretty much the same. Same service (great), same wonderfully geek-satisfying equipment (as opposed to Verizon with some really cheap crappy stuff, wholly absent of Nokia and Sony Ericsson), and almost same plans and prices. Very minor differences even there. The newcingular site claims that the end user will literally sense no change. If that's true, I'm staying with Cingular for a long, long, looooooong time. They already rock.
But dahling, pooh-poohing is so old fahshioned. You simply must consider updating your vocal repertoire.
There's just something horribly, horribly wrong when IP "owners" are complaining that people won't respect their property when said people cannot even begin to consider doing so. They're dangling food in front of the faces of the hungry and complaining when some of it gets snatched away. That thought just makes me ill.