I came to Slashdot specifically to read about it because I wanted to among friends that would pay their respect to Jobs from the point of view of geeks/nerds. So, yea I think this is exactly what Slashdot is here for and I would have felt an emptiness had it not been here. I am all broken up about his passing. No, I didn't know him personally, but I do want pay may respect to his obvious contributions to our lives and our community.
Wouldn't it make sense for Firefox to be search engine agnostic and implement a random choice for the default. They would still collect their royalties, but they would prevent putting all their eggs into one basket and building up either Bing or Google too much. It benefits them to ensure that both Bing and Google and any other decent search engine does well so that there is competition, because once there is not competition they can more easily target by either Google or Microsoft and lose market share.
I read practically every response here on Slashdot as well as the ones posted by everyone on the article itself. Everyone knows the article is crap, and shoots so many holes in that its not even worthy to be listed here on Slashdot. I'm not one to make direct personal attacks and like to give people the benefit of the doubt but whoever posted this article should have known this article is without technical merit, or they were just asleep at the helm. Either way they should apologize and remove the article from rotation.
In this case, it seems that eBay has issued extra stock I think you meant to say "Craigslist" has issued extra stock not eBay, but everyone can probably deduce that anyhow.
Thanks to MS and Apple as well. In fact I think Apple goes once step further and associates the entire term "PC" as being the OS in their latest on going commercial campaign.
I hope this serves to further put an end to this ridicules state the patent have become. I've been wanting to actually patent the idea of patenting things that were so obvious that I could then sue everyone that infringed upon my patent...that way I could sue all these patent holding companies.
Sometimes I wish Slashdot user interaction was more democratic like digg so that request like this could rise to the top and slashot staffer would be more likely to hear the responses that the majority of the readers thought was important. This isn't the first story which begs for sometime of editorial review or retraction just to ensure the integrity of slashdot.
But instead we just shout into the obvilion with little hope for action because comments like these get buried in the noise.
I agree, and further more I wish/. would develop some policy of printing retractions to stories that turn out to be bogus. I plan on tuning back in tomorrow to see how things develop but I don't want to have to sift through all the esoteric and inaccurate discussions that arise for any given story, interesting as they may be, to find out "truth".
Here's my suggestion for if a article ends up being fabricated: Post a retraction at the top of the article, or even remove the original article and create a new entry/article about how you discovered the original one was a fake.
Is the iphone only becoming a brick if the hack was the unlocking to use on another network, or does it also effect those that hacked it to use 3rd party apps on it?
Don't know if this has been asked and answered there are so many responses its hard to read them all, but I was wondering if those that have unlocked iphones had some option to disable the update. Seems to me if I had one I would be looking for a way to just not get the update and stick with what I had til the smoke cleared and everyone figures out way around this.
If you go to redhat you have to make that decision anyhow. You can either get what appears to be the desktop version or the enterprise "server" version
Check out www.opendns.org. All you have to do is configure your router to their DNS servers and then you can set the filters accordingly and all your devices will be protected. Best of all its free!!
I was recently working for a startup (www.clearaccess.com) that actually is running custom software in the router that allows user's to set content policies per computer. This also allowed users to set timer controls, and few other features but you'd have to buy one of their routers to use this.
Its a good thing I my filter set to read all comments otherwise I wouldn't even see your guys funny and insightful comments regarding the bias of the article that will no doubt remain at a score less than 2.
Remember folks that something can be bias even its "true". What most of us want from journalistic publications are the facts. Leave the pop shots to forms were people can debate their opinions.
I have two questions:
1) Which country was the software designed for?
2) If I went to the country that the software was designed and put U.S Currency into the slot machine would it give me 10 credits?
Thats like saying well they have the legal patent so that makes it right.
Seems like your splitting hairs and going out of your way to bash Microsoft for doing what you admit Apple does.
I have been watching all my tv on my link theater from Buffalo for over a year now. It plays everything I download flawlessly. I don't have to use windows media center or anything. Sure their interface is a little rough and the music and photo stuff is a little buggy but for wireless streaming its awesome.
There was originally some plans for plugins but that has since got dropped. Unfortantely it doesn't appear that linktheater has caught on but why all the hype with this inferior Apple product that took about 2 years to come out after them. I guess that is why Apple can maintain its proprietary way of doing everything -- they have a loyal fan base. Don't get me wrong for the most part Apple products are superior, but they are still proprietary in nature.
The way to solve this is to have parental controls at the gateway. The company I work for, www.clearaccess.com, sells wireless gateways that provide parental controls to the home user. I know some other products like linksys and others have the ability but you have to manually say what sites to block etc... Our solution hooks up with an existing content filtering service that allows you to set different levels per device. So the WII could get the kidz only level while your latpop could get the Parent level. Anti-Phishing is included.
The solution is control the choke point which is generally is wireless gateway in most homes.
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Sometimes is not the cost but the change in cost that is the problem and this is one of them.
I came to Slashdot specifically to read about it because I wanted to among friends that would pay their respect to Jobs from the point of view of geeks/nerds. So, yea I think this is exactly what Slashdot is here for and I would have felt an emptiness had it not been here. I am all broken up about his passing. No, I didn't know him personally, but I do want pay may respect to his obvious contributions to our lives and our community.
Wouldn't it make sense for Firefox to be search engine agnostic and implement a random choice for the default. They would still collect their royalties, but they would prevent putting all their eggs into one basket and building up either Bing or Google too much. It benefits them to ensure that both Bing and Google and any other decent search engine does well so that there is competition, because once there is not competition they can more easily target by either Google or Microsoft and lose market share.
I totally agree with you --- how can I mod up your score?
Iridium now offers SMS actually that uses a cost less than using the actual data connection.
I read practically every response here on Slashdot as well as the ones posted by everyone on the article itself. Everyone knows the article is crap, and shoots so many holes in that its not even worthy to be listed here on Slashdot. I'm not one to make direct personal attacks and like to give people the benefit of the doubt but whoever posted this article should have known this article is without technical merit, or they were just asleep at the helm. Either way they should apologize and remove the article from rotation.
Thanks to MS and Apple as well. In fact I think Apple goes once step further and associates the entire term "PC" as being the OS in their latest on going commercial campaign.
I hope this serves to further put an end to this ridicules state the patent have become. I've been wanting to actually patent the idea of patenting things that were so obvious that I could then sue everyone that infringed upon my patent...that way I could sue all these patent holding companies.
I agree...the person that is most a fault is the defense lawyer, and if represented himself well then he has no one to blame but himself.
Sometimes I wish Slashdot user interaction was more democratic like digg so that request like this could rise to the top and slashot staffer would be more likely to hear the responses that the majority of the readers thought was important. This isn't the first story which begs for sometime of editorial review or retraction just to ensure the integrity of slashdot. But instead we just shout into the obvilion with little hope for action because comments like these get buried in the noise.
You just offended the poster "kdawson" because obviously he posted it as serious piece of news.
I agree, and further more I wish /. would develop some policy of printing retractions to stories that turn out to be bogus. I plan on tuning back in tomorrow to see how things develop but I don't want to have to sift through all the esoteric and inaccurate discussions that arise for any given story, interesting as they may be, to find out "truth".
Here's my suggestion for if a article ends up being fabricated: Post a retraction at the top of the article, or even remove the original article and create a new entry/article about how you discovered the original one was a fake.
Which is what led Oscar Wilde to say, "Even things that are true can be proven".
Is the iphone only becoming a brick if the hack was the unlocking to use on another network, or does it also effect those that hacked it to use 3rd party apps on it?
Don't know if this has been asked and answered there are so many responses its hard to read them all, but I was wondering if those that have unlocked iphones had some option to disable the update. Seems to me if I had one I would be looking for a way to just not get the update and stick with what I had til the smoke cleared and everyone figures out way around this.
If you go to redhat you have to make that decision anyhow. You can either get what appears to be the desktop version or the enterprise "server" version
Check out www.opendns.org. All you have to do is configure your router to their DNS servers and then you can set the filters accordingly and all your devices will be protected. Best of all its free!! I was recently working for a startup (www.clearaccess.com) that actually is running custom software in the router that allows user's to set content policies per computer. This also allowed users to set timer controls, and few other features but you'd have to buy one of their routers to use this.
Its a good thing I my filter set to read all comments otherwise I wouldn't even see your guys funny and insightful comments regarding the bias of the article that will no doubt remain at a score less than 2. Remember folks that something can be bias even its "true". What most of us want from journalistic publications are the facts. Leave the pop shots to forms were people can debate their opinions.
I have two questions: 1) Which country was the software designed for? 2) If I went to the country that the software was designed and put U.S Currency into the slot machine would it give me 10 credits?
Thats like saying well they have the legal patent so that makes it right. Seems like your splitting hairs and going out of your way to bash Microsoft for doing what you admit Apple does.
Very well reasoned!!!
I have been watching all my tv on my link theater from Buffalo for over a year now. It plays everything I download flawlessly. I don't have to use windows media center or anything. Sure their interface is a little rough and the music and photo stuff is a little buggy but for wireless streaming its awesome. There was originally some plans for plugins but that has since got dropped. Unfortantely it doesn't appear that linktheater has caught on but why all the hype with this inferior Apple product that took about 2 years to come out after them. I guess that is why Apple can maintain its proprietary way of doing everything -- they have a loyal fan base. Don't get me wrong for the most part Apple products are superior, but they are still proprietary in nature.
The way to solve this is to have parental controls at the gateway. The company I work for, www.clearaccess.com, sells wireless gateways that provide parental controls to the home user. I know some other products like linksys and others have the ability but you have to manually say what sites to block etc... Our solution hooks up with an existing content filtering service that allows you to set different levels per device. So the WII could get the kidz only level while your latpop could get the Parent level. Anti-Phishing is included.
The solution is control the choke point which is generally is wireless gateway in most homes.
Definitely the patent being eliminated on this one since MS actually purchased a license for their mp3 encoding.