Unfortunately this isn't really a great fix. What about
1) DVDs already on the shelves. Will they be removed and replaced or are potentially damaged DVDs just going to keep getting sold?
2) What about people who have the DVD and it works, but then they buy a new DVD player and it stops working?
3) Are netflix, blockbuster, etc going to replace all of their discs for these movies?
The statement about how little people apparently are affected by this (which is laughably ridiculous) shows they aren't taking this seriously enough yet.
The beauty is, if you solve any NPC problem you solve them all, by definition. So, Mr. Smarty Pants, if your Sudoku solver is good enough to solve any grid in polynomial time, please show the rest of us, as you've just cracked every encryption scheme invented to date.
I think you're missing the point of the previous poster. I think (hope) he/she meant that a sudoku solver can solve any sudoku puzzle that is a size a human might try relatively fast. I think I wrote a pretty rudamentary one that solved 9x9 in 1 second and 16x16 in a few seconds or something like that. Unfortunately, as the size of the puzzle increases to a level above what a human would ever try the sudoku solver would take a long, long time.
as you've just cracked every encryption scheme invented to date.
You know, no matter what they throw in their ToS I don't think that companies (even those providing free services) should be able to hold peoples data hostage
I'm not sure what exactly the laws are, but I think the data actually belongs to lycos and they can do what they wish with it. Does anyone know what the law is?
Also, I find for something like yahoo, it's faster in firefox just to type in yahoo and hit enter in the address bar and have it do the google i'm feeling lucky result than to type out http://www.yahoo.com/
Assuming I could get it to work, which is very questionable from what I've read when looking into it, why should I even have to jump through all of those hoops?
Please explain to me how I can play the songs I paid good money for on the ITMS on ubuntu. I don't use windows anymore, and yet I'm unable to listen to those songs on my computer. Is that right?
How long does carbon dioxide stay in the atmosphere?
All gases stay in the atmosphere for a certain length of time before they are removed by their sinks. This time is known as the atmospheric lifetime of a gas. Carbon dioxide has an atmospheric lifetime of between 50 - 200 years. This means that carbon dioxide will be present in the atmosphere for at least 50 years before it is absorbed by a sink or becomes part of another chemical reaction. Consequently, carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere today could cause global warming for up to two centuries to come.
Could the multiple sites that say this, as well as the book I just read be wrong or oversimplifying the process? Yes, possible. I don't claim to be an expert; I was just saying what I read in a book.
Tell me, does it make you feel good to be a jerk?
As I just read The Weather Makers from Tim Flannery (very good book btw), I can answer this. No, the earth would not start cooling if we cut fossil fuels. The reason for this is CO2 stay in the atmosphere for upwards of 50 years. So, we really need to start cutting drastically now to avoid huge problems by 2050; there is really nothing we can do to change the course of the next 25 years or so as I understand it. It's pretty much a given that we'll see an increase of 2 to 5 degrees.
I really didn't think much of DRM. I have an ipod (didn't buy it; won it in a drawing), used itunes, bought a little music on there. Life was good. Then I got fed up with windows XP and switched to ubuntu. Then I didn't like DRM too much. If apple would just release itunes for linux I would probably be content again, but it really highlighted the fundamental problem with DRM: I can't listen to my own music on my computer unless I do something illegal or play by someone else's rules (which would mean using macOS or windows).
Unacceptable.
Cisco would love that. Its free money. Someone asks for iphone in bestbuy and are shown an apple phone, thats free money for cisco. Just like if you ask for a coke and are given a pepsi, coke makes money off resteraunts who make that mistake.
How do they possibly make money in a situation like that? I could be wrong, but don't restaurants buy the pepsi from pepsi and then sell it to you? By the time you get the pepsi, pepsi already has the money.
I believe iPhones will only be at apple and cingular stores, but just to humor you... at Best Buy, you say you want an iPhone, they give you an apple phone. You go to the register and the barcode is scanned and you pay for the apple phone. How does cisco get any money?
Keep in mind that,when one has a broken extension,the stability will continue to suffer with newer versions.Thats my personal experience.
I don't understand why they keep getting away with this, punting it to the user "you have bad extensions". This is unacceptable. It's like a bad program bringing down your entire OS.
Pointing out a flaw and developing a tool to exploit it are two different things.
This is a good point. This guy didn't just write a paper about it and publish it, he actually created a tool and put it on the internet! Even if he didn't have malicious intent, he's clearly stupid. I certainly don't think he deserves to go to jail, but let's use some common sense; he's in graduate school, he should be smarter than that.
Finally: have you thought about the ethics of using your student loans in this way? Were the loans given to you in order to help you pay for your expenses as a student? Do you think it's okay to ask someone to loan you money for one thing and then use that money for something else? Isn't that a form of lying?
It's more ethical than downloading music from the internet without paying for it, which most people here on slashdot seem to think is ok.
Whenever any aspect of computer science or telecommunications faces any form of government regulation, there are always those who cry out, "People will find a way around it!" The majority of people, however, want to work within the law or are just too lazy to circumvent it. Remember, many Internet gamblers are not even interested in spending the energy to go to a real casino. Although there are surely many exceptions, Internet gamers are largely casual gamblers and will not want to risk violating the law for a hand of Texas Hold'em.
I don't agree with this at all. Online gambling is already illegal in many states, and yet people in those states are still gambling online quite frequently. To me it seems a lot like going 5 mph over the speed limit; you're probably not going to have anything happen to you, and it really doesn't feel like you're breaking the law.
This really depends. I've downloaded lots of programs and needed to compile them. Not a big deal, but no average user would ever do that.
It also seems like in linux it happens a lot more often that I'm given an option during install that I don't know what to do. Or, something goes wrong and I'm not sure how to proceed. This happens a lot less in windows installing software.
Just my two cents.
If this turns out to be true it would seem to indicate a shift from google innovating to a more microsoft-like strategy of trying to copy a competitor. I'm not sure how well this would work out, however. Most people I know love their ipods and they are happy with itunes. Plus, a lot of people are crazy about apple; they can release any new product and people will flock to buy it.
I am from Minnesota as well, and you forgot to mention the affects on our summers. Sure it's freezing in the winter, but in the summer it's very hot and humid. For a while this past summer we had more 90 degree days than Atlanta with horrible humidity. Sure warmer winters would be nice, but warmer summers would be awful.
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This guy must be drunk to think this would work.
By the way, for anyone who doesn't realize this... I was kidding. Obviously switching workspaces makes something on one workspace go away :-)
Go to openoffice; do a word count. Shift cube left or shift cube right onto new workspace. Where is the wordcount now? Huh? Where? Not there!
1) DVDs already on the shelves. Will they be removed and replaced or are potentially damaged DVDs just going to keep getting sold?
2) What about people who have the DVD and it works, but then they buy a new DVD player and it stops working?
3) Are netflix, blockbuster, etc going to replace all of their discs for these movies?
The statement about how little people apparently are affected by this (which is laughably ridiculous) shows they aren't taking this seriously enough yet.
The beauty is, if you solve any NPC problem you solve them all, by definition. So, Mr. Smarty Pants, if your Sudoku solver is good enough to solve any grid in polynomial time, please show the rest of us, as you've just cracked every encryption scheme invented to date.
;-)
I think you're missing the point of the previous poster. I think (hope) he/she meant that a sudoku solver can solve any sudoku puzzle that is a size a human might try relatively fast. I think I wrote a pretty rudamentary one that solved 9x9 in 1 second and 16x16 in a few seconds or something like that. Unfortunately, as the size of the puzzle increases to a level above what a human would ever try the sudoku solver would take a long, long time.
as you've just cracked every encryption scheme invented to date.
One-time pad as well?
Maybe he tried to install Vista on it ;-)
You know, no matter what they throw in their ToS I don't think that companies (even those providing free services) should be able to hold peoples data hostage
I'm not sure what exactly the laws are, but I think the data actually belongs to lycos and they can do what they wish with it. Does anyone know what the law is?
Also, I find for something like yahoo, it's faster in firefox just to type in yahoo and hit enter in the address bar and have it do the google i'm feeling lucky result than to type out http://www.yahoo.com/
Assuming I could get it to work, which is very questionable from what I've read when looking into it, why should I even have to jump through all of those hoops?
Please explain to me how I can play the songs I paid good money for on the ITMS on ubuntu. I don't use windows anymore, and yet I'm unable to listen to those songs on my computer. Is that right?
from http://www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/Resources/Teaching_Packs/ Key_Stage_4/Climate_Change/02p.html,
How long does carbon dioxide stay in the atmosphere? All gases stay in the atmosphere for a certain length of time before they are removed by their sinks. This time is known as the atmospheric lifetime of a gas. Carbon dioxide has an atmospheric lifetime of between 50 - 200 years. This means that carbon dioxide will be present in the atmosphere for at least 50 years before it is absorbed by a sink or becomes part of another chemical reaction. Consequently, carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere today could cause global warming for up to two centuries to come.
Could the multiple sites that say this, as well as the book I just read be wrong or oversimplifying the process? Yes, possible. I don't claim to be an expert; I was just saying what I read in a book. Tell me, does it make you feel good to be a jerk?
As I just read The Weather Makers from Tim Flannery (very good book btw), I can answer this. No, the earth would not start cooling if we cut fossil fuels. The reason for this is CO2 stay in the atmosphere for upwards of 50 years. So, we really need to start cutting drastically now to avoid huge problems by 2050; there is really nothing we can do to change the course of the next 25 years or so as I understand it. It's pretty much a given that we'll see an increase of 2 to 5 degrees.
I really didn't think much of DRM. I have an ipod (didn't buy it; won it in a drawing), used itunes, bought a little music on there. Life was good. Then I got fed up with windows XP and switched to ubuntu. Then I didn't like DRM too much. If apple would just release itunes for linux I would probably be content again, but it really highlighted the fundamental problem with DRM: I can't listen to my own music on my computer unless I do something illegal or play by someone else's rules (which would mean using macOS or windows). Unacceptable.
Cisco would love that. Its free money. Someone asks for iphone in bestbuy and are shown an apple phone, thats free money for cisco. Just like if you ask for a coke and are given a pepsi, coke makes money off resteraunts who make that mistake.
How do they possibly make money in a situation like that? I could be wrong, but don't restaurants buy the pepsi from pepsi and then sell it to you? By the time you get the pepsi, pepsi already has the money. I believe iPhones will only be at apple and cingular stores, but just to humor you... at Best Buy, you say you want an iPhone, they give you an apple phone. You go to the register and the barcode is scanned and you pay for the apple phone. How does cisco get any money?
But then Craig knows all the websites you are going to.
I don't think they really care that much. This policy won't affect 95% of their customers so it's probably a win for them financially.
Keep in mind that,when one has a broken extension,the stability will continue to suffer with newer versions.Thats my personal experience.
I don't understand why they keep getting away with this, punting it to the user "you have bad extensions". This is unacceptable. It's like a bad program bringing down your entire OS.
Pointing out a flaw and developing a tool to exploit it are two different things.
This is a good point. This guy didn't just write a paper about it and publish it, he actually created a tool and put it on the internet! Even if he didn't have malicious intent, he's clearly stupid. I certainly don't think he deserves to go to jail, but let's use some common sense; he's in graduate school, he should be smarter than that.
Finally: have you thought about the ethics of using your student loans in this way? Were the loans given to you in order to help you pay for your expenses as a student? Do you think it's okay to ask someone to loan you money for one thing and then use that money for something else? Isn't that a form of lying?
It's more ethical than downloading music from the internet without paying for it, which most people here on slashdot seem to think is ok.
Whenever any aspect of computer science or telecommunications faces any form of government regulation, there are always those who cry out, "People will find a way around it!" The majority of people, however, want to work within the law or are just too lazy to circumvent it. Remember, many Internet gamblers are not even interested in spending the energy to go to a real casino. Although there are surely many exceptions, Internet gamers are largely casual gamblers and will not want to risk violating the law for a hand of Texas Hold'em.
I don't agree with this at all. Online gambling is already illegal in many states, and yet people in those states are still gambling online quite frequently. To me it seems a lot like going 5 mph over the speed limit; you're probably not going to have anything happen to you, and it really doesn't feel like you're breaking the law.
I could easily modify their site if they were only using a wiki.
This really depends. I've downloaded lots of programs and needed to compile them. Not a big deal, but no average user would ever do that. It also seems like in linux it happens a lot more often that I'm given an option during install that I don't know what to do. Or, something goes wrong and I'm not sure how to proceed. This happens a lot less in windows installing software. Just my two cents.
If this turns out to be true it would seem to indicate a shift from google innovating to a more microsoft-like strategy of trying to copy a competitor. I'm not sure how well this would work out, however. Most people I know love their ipods and they are happy with itunes. Plus, a lot of people are crazy about apple; they can release any new product and people will flock to buy it.
I think it still might be a better idea to reboot to linux and go from there :-)
I am from Minnesota as well, and you forgot to mention the affects on our summers. Sure it's freezing in the winter, but in the summer it's very hot and humid. For a while this past summer we had more 90 degree days than Atlanta with horrible humidity. Sure warmer winters would be nice, but warmer summers would be awful.