Stay with me here:
1) Throw lavish party and get shocked by bill.
2) Post story exaggerating the facts.
3) Hope newspapers to pick up the story and run with it. (Sweet they did!)
$) Sue! Its not a real story!
5) Profit!!!!!
Call me crazy but this is really sad. I hope they dont get away with it. Whichever side is wrong.
Im glad to see them coming out with a.1 release, it says that we are going to develop upon this platform and make it stable. I dont think they have done that since the pre 1.0 days. They called the first one 1.0 then 1.5 jumped to 2.0 and then rocketed to 3.0. So my question is: Why is this "simple".1 upgrade going to take nearly 6 months? This is just getting the features they wanted in place for 3.0 but scrapped do to time, i thought. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Nikola Tesla would be proud. People havent given up on what made him broke. You can get some of the story on what he did over at the Mind Course page. Amazing to think what was "radical" back then is now "the next big thing" today. Sad.
Also does this affect (/directly attack) The Pirate Bay? Ouy. Rule number 43 of posting to slashdot: Read carefully before posting. Rule number 104: thou shalt not post will still half asleep.
Switzerland != Sweden. TPB is in Sweden not Switzerland. So it doesn't affect them at all. But on a related note does the Swiss have a party similar to the Pirate Party?
Strange that both Canada and the Swiss governments have put in DMCAs as we here in america are increasingly calling for it to be repealed. Really is there any reason for this "law"? Or is this just another "WE MUST ACT" legislation that was misunderstood by the governments and poorly written?
I hope that their Pirate Party over there will start rallying for a referendum to get that taken out.
Also does this affect (/directly attack) The Pirate Bay?
Facebook was primarily developed for College students.
It was a college rite of passage. Hey you got a [name]@[college].edu address? You can get on facebook! It allowed us to organize, link, and share information on the latest changes on our friends and where the next House-Party-To-Be-Busted would be. It was like an invasion of privacy and our "Check out me doing beer pong AND IM 19" pictures when employers began snooping around. Myspace for the masses. Facebook for the collegiate elite.
Then they opened it up. HIGH SCHOOLERS! Aw crap. Well there goes the site. But the new freshmen had fun. They could link and get in to their old circles in HS. Life settled in to the "new" site.
Then they opened it to specific "work" networks. Again the college students complained but hey now the alumni could say connected. So we let it go.
Then the worst thing of all. EVERYONE! Are you breathing? You can have a facebook account. And thus the "cool" site became the new predator site. LOCK IT DOWN! Those days of "hey i haven't seen them in over a year since that one class" disappeared. Now you have to be friends to see other profile. Believe me, we now have speakers come in and tell us that employers are trolling and so are the colleges. Facebook died a slow death. Sure we still use it and my campus (KSU) has an average daily use of 2 hours per student (someone has got to be throwing that number) but its not the same. It really is the new stalker net.
BTW. WHY are parents letting their 13 year olds on a site like this?
I hope that MailCo will take Sunbird as well. Both Thunderbird and Sunbird have huge potential married together. The Lightning project is trying to do that but Sunbird is moving slowly and Thunderbird now getting a new team behind it we may finally see the thing that we thought we would see: A new email.
I hope that they can create an open source alternative to Outlook and Exchange. Heck go for the max and replace SMTP and IMAP/POP with some new protocols. Say OMD (Open Mail Delivery) and OMBR (Open MailBox Retrieval) and create new rules around it. Think of it as Email 2.0 (seems like everything is 2.0 these days). This could be used to start from the ground up and make email even harder to spoof and address the exploits that spam use.
I hope that they give away the software and charge for the support like other open source companies. I look forward to seeing what they come up with.
Does anyone know of a good replacement for KisMAC. In my opinion it was the best one out there and now that the project is being discontinued I will have to live with the crapshoot that was the passive Atheros drivers.
Do you have to use their own RSS feeds for the system or can I import in some of my Broadcatching rss feeds from a few TVBitTorrAggrate type sites? If this allows adding your own RSS to the builtin torrent system i would use this in a second. I had seen Democracy earlier and bypassed it but if it work in this way a new user you will have.
With E-paper and eBooks this could be really helpful. I have mild dyslexia and so does my dad. I learned a trick from him is to take a blank 4x6 notecard and run it below the line of text I'm reading. This helps a great deal with eye drift and comprehension.
If there was a way to do this with the new digital formats then waste will not be an issue.
Never underestimate the Japanese. If they set a firm goal that is obtainable then watch out. In the past when they set a goal for themselves they usually achieve it. 20 years is plenty of time to get the technology figured out. The interesting thing will be how they pull it off.
Here is another thing to think about. This opens the door for small startup or research groups that could potentially win a contract if they can create a viable working and safe system. If the little guy can do that then there is some money to be made from the technology both there and around the world. By announcing this the get the people who think they can do it better then the others. Think of the chance and getting your technology in place there like the Xprize for space flight.
I would be more surprised if they didn't pull this one off looking back at history.
I thought that when you began monitoring someone you were to inform them that there was a chance that they could be under monitoring or could at any time be monitored.
Eh. What do I know. I signed up for a monitoring service when I entered my college Dorm and brought my computer to "Operation (screw over you) PC" on move in day.
Another advantage of the higher bitrates is the ability to slip in watermarking. Thanks to perfect digital replication the instant this appeared on P2P they could trace the file back to the person that purchased the media.
Think about it. Apple has not released the details of the tracks other then "256kb aac" w/o DRM. They don't say that it will be delayed downloading (rather then the buy, download, listen now) could be "Thanks for purchasing. Your music will arrive shortly in you library and purchased media areas." Then about 5 minutes later the track downloads. And seeing how apple doesn't allow for a redownloading (i think) they simply add the watermarking into the database and delete the track.
EMI find a DRM free version of the music on the internet (Coldplay-Clocks.m4a) and downloads it from people. They compare the watermark, it comes back to you, you get sued like no other on the planet as an example.
(the old tired method of this but):
1) Announce DRM Free media
2) Release DRM free media w/ Watermarking
3) Download version from internet
4) Link watermarking to individual
5) SUE THE PANTS OFF OF THEM!!!
6) ??? (Repeat?)
7) Profit somehow.
Its a possibility. Don't just celebrate yet. I've got a feeling this wont be with out some strings
Would this not be an amazing MythTV frontend Albeit low in power it could probably with some things added or the optimizations do HD content and would work wonders for SD content with no troubles.
An important addendum applies to all of you wishing to use HDTV with a PCHDTV card. Playback of HDTV is *very* computationally intensive, and requires a Pentium class processor of at least 1.3GHz or equivalent in conjunction with a graphics card with accelerated drivers, according to the documents at http://www.pchdtv.com./ Pretty much any system built in the last two years with an nVidia graphics card will be fine.
{emphasis mine}. All the geeks out there looking for some way to get things working and not have the big silent or loud slimline pc for watching tv.
If this thing could do HD content with MythTV then it beats the pants off of the Hacked Xbox because the XB isnt know for HD ablities. I would think that people would be rejoicing to know that a small silent machine has been potentially identified for MythFrontending.
What I find irritating is when i try to go and visit one of these sites, usually not the phishing sites but "know malware sites", it does not provide you a link. You are given the link in a text form and it is not the most handy of ways to get there.
Dear google, Thanks for keeping me safe now can I go on? No? Why not? Oh because "you are keeping me safe" and you blacklist is perfect and knows what I shouldnt visit.
I want to be able via my google account to add or remove sites (blacklist, whitelist or even better graylist [hey you be careful in there, its got spyware all over it. Just click through])
Would it not be like the community to band together and create a open source addon/plugin to reproduce the functionality of the VBA scripting. How hard would it be to simply reverse engineer the parser from 2004 as a stopgap measure. Then all we need to do is either rise up and call for an addon or to write it ourselves. It saddens me to see such a thing. I think it would be poetic justice if we made an open source VBA clone and it helped bring more people into linux and mac. Apple could contribute some help and then OpenOffice could port it into its self and make it a better competitor. We will have to see how this plays out.
Then, knowing that rate, I used your service in Canada accordingly. I now understand that the rate is actually ".002 dollars per KB" despite the fact that all your reps still claim its ".002 cents per KB." Also, had your company a policy of quoting rates per megabyte, which would result in a much more easily interpretable rate $2.05/MB this whole situation could have been avoided.
HIS math is wrong is wrong here. He did the verizon math thing. His rate per MegaByte is $.0205 dollars. He sent it off as $2.05 and was off by a huge amount. At his math Per megabyte he owes $71.00.
Bub if you are gonna take on a major machine like this dont screw up your own math when you reply.
Ehh. This is nothing new. You should see Woot.com after they throw up a Bag-o-Crap on the site during a "wootoff". Their site at least says "Server is to Busy". Maybe Amazon.com should have thought twice before deciding to do a stunt like that.
Hey wait a second. When was the last time a Microsoft product cause a VOLUNTARY distributed denial of service attack?
Slashdot Mirror
Oh come on. I get that all made then realize that its not 1000s its 42 links. So much for the lawsuit. (Someone might try though)
Cue lawsuit over this in
3.....
2.....
1.....
Ohhhh, settled out of court and everyone gets 1000 free picture and MMS messaging while we fix our system.
(Im calling 3 weeks to the system being fixed)
Wouldnt this be perfect way to make some cash?
Stay with me here:
1) Throw lavish party and get shocked by bill.
2) Post story exaggerating the facts.
3) Hope newspapers to pick up the story and run with it. (Sweet they did!)
$) Sue! Its not a real story!
5) Profit!!!!!
Call me crazy but this is really sad. I hope they dont get away with it. Whichever side is wrong.
Im glad to see them coming out with a .1 release, it says that we are going to develop upon this platform and make it stable. I dont think they have done that since the pre 1.0 days. They called the first one 1.0 then 1.5 jumped to 2.0 and then rocketed to 3.0. So my question is: Why is this "simple" .1 upgrade going to take nearly 6 months? This is just getting the features they wanted in place for 3.0 but scrapped do to time, i thought. Please correct me if I am wrong.
And on Spanish Ubuntu!
The server is bleeding bad. Less then 20 Posts and its already down. Be Kind and use the cache
Nikola Tesla would be proud. People havent given up on what made him broke. You can get some of the story on what he did over at the Mind Course page. Amazing to think what was "radical" back then is now "the next big thing" today. Sad.
Switzerland != Sweden. TPB is in Sweden not Switzerland. So it doesn't affect them at all. But on a related note does the Swiss have a party similar to the Pirate Party?
Strange that both Canada and the Swiss governments have put in DMCAs as we here in america are increasingly calling for it to be repealed. Really is there any reason for this "law"? Or is this just another "WE MUST ACT" legislation that was misunderstood by the governments and poorly written? I hope that their Pirate Party over there will start rallying for a referendum to get that taken out.
Also does this affect (/directly attack) The Pirate Bay?
Mirrored by Coral Content Distribution Network (.nyud.net:8090)
Firefox no extentions
Firefox with extensions
Opera
IE
Facebook was primarily developed for College students.
It was a college rite of passage. Hey you got a [name]@[college].edu address? You can get on facebook! It allowed us to organize, link, and share information on the latest changes on our friends and where the next House-Party-To-Be-Busted would be. It was like an invasion of privacy and our "Check out me doing beer pong AND IM 19" pictures when employers began snooping around. Myspace for the masses. Facebook for the collegiate elite.
Then they opened it up. HIGH SCHOOLERS! Aw crap. Well there goes the site. But the new freshmen had fun. They could link and get in to their old circles in HS. Life settled in to the "new" site.
Then they opened it to specific "work" networks. Again the college students complained but hey now the alumni could say connected. So we let it go.
Then the worst thing of all. EVERYONE! Are you breathing? You can have a facebook account. And thus the "cool" site became the new predator site. LOCK IT DOWN! Those days of "hey i haven't seen them in over a year since that one class" disappeared. Now you have to be friends to see other profile. Believe me, we now have speakers come in and tell us that employers are trolling and so are the colleges. Facebook died a slow death. Sure we still use it and my campus (KSU) has an average daily use of 2 hours per student (someone has got to be throwing that number) but its not the same. It really is the new stalker net.
BTW. WHY are parents letting their 13 year olds on a site like this?
I hope that MailCo will take Sunbird as well. Both Thunderbird and Sunbird have huge potential married together. The Lightning project is trying to do that but Sunbird is moving slowly and Thunderbird now getting a new team behind it we may finally see the thing that we thought we would see: A new email.
I hope that they can create an open source alternative to Outlook and Exchange. Heck go for the max and replace SMTP and IMAP/POP with some new protocols. Say OMD (Open Mail Delivery) and OMBR (Open MailBox Retrieval) and create new rules around it. Think of it as Email 2.0 (seems like everything is 2.0 these days). This could be used to start from the ground up and make email even harder to spoof and address the exploits that spam use.
I hope that they give away the software and charge for the support like other open source companies. I look forward to seeing what they come up with.
Does anyone know of a good replacement for KisMAC. In my opinion it was the best one out there and now that the project is being discontinued I will have to live with the crapshoot that was the passive Atheros drivers.
Can anyone recommend a replacement?
Do you have to use their own RSS feeds for the system or can I import in some of my Broadcatching rss feeds from a few TVBitTorrAggrate type sites? If this allows adding your own RSS to the builtin torrent system i would use this in a second. I had seen Democracy earlier and bypassed it but if it work in this way a new user you will have.
With E-paper and eBooks this could be really helpful. I have mild dyslexia and so does my dad. I learned a trick from him is to take a blank 4x6 notecard and run it below the line of text I'm reading. This helps a great deal with eye drift and comprehension.
If there was a way to do this with the new digital formats then waste will not be an issue.
Never underestimate the Japanese. If they set a firm goal that is obtainable then watch out. In the past when they set a goal for themselves they usually achieve it. 20 years is plenty of time to get the technology figured out. The interesting thing will be how they pull it off.
Here is another thing to think about. This opens the door for small startup or research groups that could potentially win a contract if they can create a viable working and safe system. If the little guy can do that then there is some money to be made from the technology both there and around the world. By announcing this the get the people who think they can do it better then the others. Think of the chance and getting your technology in place there like the Xprize for space flight.
I would be more surprised if they didn't pull this one off looking back at history.
I thought that when you began monitoring someone you were to inform them that there was a chance that they could be under monitoring or could at any time be monitored.
Eh. What do I know. I signed up for a monitoring service when I entered my college Dorm and brought my computer to "Operation (screw over you) PC" on move in day.
Another advantage of the higher bitrates is the ability to slip in watermarking. Thanks to perfect digital replication the instant this appeared on P2P they could trace the file back to the person that purchased the media.
Think about it. Apple has not released the details of the tracks other then "256kb aac" w/o DRM. They don't say that it will be delayed downloading (rather then the buy, download, listen now) could be "Thanks for purchasing. Your music will arrive shortly in you library and purchased media areas." Then about 5 minutes later the track downloads. And seeing how apple doesn't allow for a redownloading (i think) they simply add the watermarking into the database and delete the track.
EMI find a DRM free version of the music on the internet (Coldplay-Clocks.m4a) and downloads it from people. They compare the watermark, it comes back to you, you get sued like no other on the planet as an example.
(the old tired method of this but):
1) Announce DRM Free media
2) Release DRM free media w/ Watermarking
3) Download version from internet
4) Link watermarking to individual
5) SUE THE PANTS OFF OF THEM!!!
6) ??? (Repeat?)
7) Profit somehow.
Its a possibility. Don't just celebrate yet. I've got a feeling this wont be with out some strings
If this thing could do HD content with MythTV then it beats the pants off of the Hacked Xbox because the XB isnt know for HD ablities. I would think that people would be rejoicing to know that a small silent machine has been potentially identified for MythFrontending.
And while the main page Mirrordot page is all there.
How hard would it be for some friends of those in the college to set up some hi gain directional antennae and beam an off campus signal in?
Some cantennas and a repeater and your back on for late nights
Either Google is really paranoid or they have yet to find a site to put on the whitelist that was linked to.
See for yourself what I mean Nothing there.
What I find irritating is when i try to go and visit one of these sites, usually not the phishing sites but "know malware sites", it does not provide you a link. You are given the link in a text form and it is not the most handy of ways to get there.
Dear google, Thanks for keeping me safe now can I go on? No? Why not? Oh because "you are keeping me safe" and you blacklist is perfect and knows what I shouldnt visit.
I want to be able via my google account to add or remove sites (blacklist, whitelist or even better graylist [hey you be careful in there, its got spyware all over it. Just click through])
Let me guess the feature is a "beta"
Would it not be like the community to band together and create a open source addon/plugin to reproduce the functionality of the VBA scripting. How hard would it be to simply reverse engineer the parser from 2004 as a stopgap measure. Then all we need to do is either rise up and call for an addon or to write it ourselves. It saddens me to see such a thing. I think it would be poetic justice if we made an open source VBA clone and it helped bring more people into linux and mac. Apple could contribute some help and then OpenOffice could port it into its self and make it a better competitor. We will have to see how this plays out.
Bub if you are gonna take on a major machine like this dont screw up your own math when you reply.
BTW. Good luck. Your gonna need it.
Ehh. This is nothing new. You should see Woot.com after they throw up a Bag-o-Crap on the site during a "wootoff". Their site at least says "Server is to Busy". Maybe Amazon.com should have thought twice before deciding to do a stunt like that.
Hey wait a second. When was the last time a Microsoft product cause a VOLUNTARY distributed denial of service attack?