of course the one thing that is simple as that rule you stated is the other rule that people who aren't habitual computer or internet users treat them as if they are the devils magic, and do not approach them in any rational way. Look for instance at the number of chain emails that are constantly sent by people; Do you yourself recieve them from your friends? I do.
As long as there are people out there who are not very tech-rational or tech savvy as say for instance people who read/. then there will always be targets for phishing. I dare say that some of the/. readership itself might have even been conned.
hah you wait till there is kung grade ice on the black market, then you'll see the dawn of a new cyber crim the likes of which you've never seen before
even the less tech savvy internet users these days may have heard the word beta, associated with new products that are coming out. It is a very calculated ploy on the part of large companies these days to release products to beta first, in marketing campaigns that have if anything, become more complicated and expensive to develop. Truly Advertising is the premier product of the 21st century.
there is one thing I would like to say about this isn't necessarily important in the larger context of this story but is very true, and that is that - not just BBC but UK journalists (which in essence what the inteviewers are) - are very, very tough cookies. My friend who is American came over to the UK 5 years ago and was shocked to see the way that people who were interviewed were treated, and it's true, our journalists are exceptionally harsh, taxing and dogmatic. Here is an example that shows the essence of tough uk journalism. This particular interview is notorious for Jeremy Paxman asking Michael Howard the same question 12 times. That is the actual interview quoted in the article called 'Chinese Whispers', and the interview was not called Jonathon. But I believe that is a mistake on the part of the chinese blogger quoted (what, a blogger making a mistake!!).
whats the difference? If he was that compelled to explore particle physics or write renowned literature would you be such a harsh critic. I certainly don't think that looking back on my life, I could be proud of having spent that amount of time gaming, but on the other hand I wouldn't judge someone else who did.
I currently use sage for my feeds, as I don't see the necessity of using an extra program when I can do everything in firefox. Is there any substantial reason I would toss sage and use this?
i disagree. To be honest the chances are that it will end up some poor excuse for a starship troopers clone, but there's always the possibility that it could do something fantastic. I can see it now, a niven-esque ringworld hoving into view, with the more interesting ideas in halo used as plot elements there is always a chance this could be a worthy film.
sony does think the same way. It's a current tactic in the console business when launching a new box to sell it at a loss and make it back on the games, this has been going on for years.
you're completely right, but on the other hand that's not going to stop mac users who have been using stuffit for over ten years from holding on until you prize it from their cold dead fingers;P
i agree stuffit's uneeded but on the other hand macintosh users are the kind of users who find it very hard to let go of something. I first remember using stuffit back in system 7 or perhaps even earlier than that. I'm not sure, my rhuemy old memory has misted over. nad as for.dmg's I think they are fantastic but yes, very frustrating for a PC user to come up against. However there is very little reason on the whole a pc user to encounter them, although perhaps these wild encounter will become more frequent now some people can actually run OS X on their pc's!
while winrar is not standard (i use it myself and am very happy with it btw) I certainly don't feel that zip files are standard as well. ask a mac user whether he can uncompress a compressed file and he ain't gonna go and hug a zip file, he's going to go and pat his stuffit on the head and then complain about pc users not using.sit files.
there's nothing sad about using windows, slashdot is not a linux advocacy site, though many of it's users seems to think so. Slashdot is a news site for technology orientated geeks, windows is a piece of technology and so very much worthy of coverage on slashdot.
The parent article though is not news, it's a piece of press pr for a product, dressed up as information on a yesterday piece of tech that no-one really cares about anymore.
most people i know now use rar files. I actively encourage people to not use zip files, warning them it's prone to corruption (perhaps a little over empahsis on my part, as this is only from personal experience and not necessarily always the truth).
Also if I send my mum an word doc i wouldn't bother zipping it. We both have broadband and I'm probably going to email it to her, we can both recieve large attachments and neith of us use a web based email service (which make it hard to attach files to emails because they frequently use HTTP GET which likes to bug out on large files) nor do we have data cap limits.
I also notice a lot of websites that offer archived files for whatever purpose (well ok, the sites that i use) now frequently use rar files other zip ones. Maybe winzip is still the most well known windows compression program, but I don't think it's the most well thought of. It seems to me that winrar has at least as much support and praise while offering a great deal more that I find personally useful.
there is a very good reason why this happens and it's not about compression at all. You should realise that the movies are already in a compressed format and so it *is* pointless to try and compress them further, the savings are minimal, what is not minimal however is the time spent redownloading a 700mb file because at some point in the download it got corrupted or perhaps was in the first place. Now with a system like bittorrent or edonkey it's possible to prevent corrupt files through hash checking etc, but one thing you need to be aware of is that your copy of Harry Potter doesn't usually start out on some bittorrent website, but on some 0-day FTP that only a few very priviledged people have access to.
Now if that movie comes in 45 x 15mb files if one of these files happens to be corrupted in transfer, or was corrupt in the first place it's a simple process to download just that file again or for the person hosting it to fix it. However if i have just downloaded a 700mb file to find that it's corrupted I'll have to download said whole file again.
This harkens back to the days in the 'scene' when releases were usually released onto newsgroups first, where you have no choice but to segment files.
is this news? not to belittle the importance of CSS but I'm sure everyone here is already quite aware of what it is, how to use it and where the web resources are; I first visited Zen-garden a long time ago for instance. If you're not then you probably are not a web developer. This is not news.
i tried to use ipodder before iTunes added podcasting to it's latest iteration and i have to agree with grand-father post, it's butt ugly and at the time i was using it not as intuitive as it could have been, however that was a couple of months ago, maybe it's changed since then.
I find the iTunes interface pretty straightforward and easy to use. I don't use the iTunes store to search for podcasts, rather favouring podcast-alley and the like, with a little c/p I have all the streams I want. The only thing I would like to be able to do which I can't yet is bookmark certain points in a show, that would be tremendously useful!
for iTunes. I'm sorry but the iTunes top 20 is hardly representative of the current health of indie podcasts. The most recent version of iTunes with podcast support has only been around a short while; I've been using it and it is functionally quite satisfying but I certainly wouldn't trust it's charts as a reasonable way to measure any kind of health in the indie movement.
grave of the fireflies did come to my mind. Perhaps anecdotes are unbalanced but then again perhaps not. It's suppose to be a personal account, not a reasoned story. I think any account from people who survived the war, not just the bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki is worth reading simply because the generation who lived through that time won't be around for ever, so the more we hear of their personal accounts of what they lived through the better.
To emphasize the point I read a piece via boingboing about joi ito being asked to do a op-ed for the new york times for tomorrows edition. Ito said that at first the piece was hard to write as:
"I was supposed to write about impressions from my generation and from a Japanese perspective. I first went on IM and interviewed a bunch of my Japanese friends to confirm my suspicion. No one was really thinking about the bombing of Hiroshima and didn't really have much of an impression."
it's something we are forgetting and that's a terrible shame.
via the guardian newspaper
A bright green flash
No one should again suffer as we did 60 years ago in Hiroshima
Keiko Lane
Saturday August 6, 2005
The Guardian
On the morning of August 6 1945 I was sitting in my garden beside an ornamental pond and singing as I cleaned my brother's shoes. I was seven. My mother was in the kitchen and my 14-year-old brother had already left for work.
Suddenly there was a bright green flash on the other side of the house, and with a mighty roar the house collapsed, leaving me buried deep under smashed wood and panelling. My mother was thrown the length of the house and also buried. Luckily she freed herself and searched desperately for me.
Article continues
She was very slender and less than 5ft tall, yet she found a superhuman strength to move heavy timbers, already starting to burn, and other debris until she found me. I was pulled from the wreckage and my injuries were roughly dressed with bandages torn from her clothes.
Next door a young woman was trapped. My mother found it impossible to move the burning wood and, finding no one alive or uninjured nearby to help, she picked me up and ran up the street, leaving the woman still trapped.
All that day my mother carried me through the destroyed and burning city, stepping over or around the dead and dying as she made her way to the outskirts of Hiroshima, where she hoped medical help could be found. As I was being carried I saw many charred bodies lying in the streets, including several mothers who had instinctively tried to shelter their children with their bodies but had died, leaving their children still alive, many with terrible burns. In the evening we found an emergency dressing station set up at a still-smouldering elementary school. My mother had carried me more than six miles.
I was examined by a doctor, who suspected that I was dying from internal injuries and told my mother to give me nothing to drink in spite of my desperate need for water. Finally, a nearby injured old lady reasoned that if I was dying then a drink of water would do me no harm.
Next day a large pit was dug in the playground by some old soldiers and they began to incinerate the dead, of which there were many stacked up against the walls. All day the playground filled with the injured, and as some of them died they were thrown on the fire. In particular I remember a boy of about 12 who was terribly burnt and blind. He kept asking for his mother and as he became more delirious he asked repeatedly for her to cook him some tempura, which apparently was his favourite food. Finally, he also died and was put on the fire.
No one knows exactly how many died in Hiroshima, but it is estimated at more than 200,000, of which many were refugee women and children. Those near ground zero were instantly vaporised, leaving behind only a shadow on the ground or wall. Maybe they were the lucky ones, because many of the survivors died in agony from terrible burns. Some took a long time to die.
My mother suffered the effects of radiation for many years. I was in and out of hospitals with leukaemia until my mid-20s, and because of the possibility of having deformed babies I decided not to marry until much later in life. My brother had been affected by radiation and was unable to have children. My aunt, who had a silk dressing gown welded to her body and her fingers joined together like ducks' feet, took three years to die.
Recently I retraced my journey through Hiroshima with my husband and revisited the school where I received treatment on that dreadful day. It was a moment of mixed emotions, but I did feel strongly that this horror must never be allowed to happen again. The only certain way to ensure this is to destroy all nuclear weapons and ban the making of any more.
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of course the one thing that is simple as that rule you stated is the other rule that people who aren't habitual computer or internet users treat them as if they are the devils magic, and do not approach them in any rational way. Look for instance at the number of chain emails that are constantly sent by people; Do you yourself recieve them from your friends? I do. As long as there are people out there who are not very tech-rational or tech savvy as say for instance people who read /. then there will always be targets for phishing. I dare say that some of the /. readership itself might have even been conned.
hah you wait till there is kung grade ice on the black market, then you'll see the dawn of a new cyber crim the likes of which you've never seen before
even the less tech savvy internet users these days may have heard the word beta, associated with new products that are coming out. It is a very calculated ploy on the part of large companies these days to release products to beta first, in marketing campaigns that have if anything, become more complicated and expensive to develop. Truly Advertising is the premier product of the 21st century.
erm its not rumoured at all. http://www.google.com/help/faq_clicktocall.html
there is one thing I would like to say about this isn't necessarily important in the larger context of this story but is very true, and that is that - not just BBC but UK journalists (which in essence what the inteviewers are) - are very, very tough cookies. My friend who is American came over to the UK 5 years ago and was shocked to see the way that people who were interviewed were treated, and it's true, our journalists are exceptionally harsh, taxing and dogmatic. Here is an example that shows the essence of tough uk journalism. This particular interview is notorious for Jeremy Paxman asking Michael Howard the same question 12 times. That is the actual interview quoted in the article called 'Chinese Whispers', and the interview was not called Jonathon. But I believe that is a mistake on the part of the chinese blogger quoted (what, a blogger making a mistake!!).
whats the difference? If he was that compelled to explore particle physics or write renowned literature would you be such a harsh critic. I certainly don't think that looking back on my life, I could be proud of having spent that amount of time gaming, but on the other hand I wouldn't judge someone else who did.
I currently use sage for my feeds, as I don't see the necessity of using an extra program when I can do everything in firefox. Is there any substantial reason I would toss sage and use this?
i'm sure it's already been said but i will reiterate on my own behalf, not everyone hates flash.
haha, we're in international waters, coasties can't get us! Now, let the monkey knife fights begin!!!
i disagree. To be honest the chances are that it will end up some poor excuse for a starship troopers clone, but there's always the possibility that it could do something fantastic. I can see it now, a niven-esque ringworld hoving into view, with the more interesting ideas in halo used as plot elements there is always a chance this could be a worthy film.
mod parent up! especially as it's really boring having to listen to all the whiners who are just dying to take a dig at google.
sony does think the same way. It's a current tactic in the console business when launching a new box to sell it at a loss and make it back on the games, this has been going on for years.
you're completely right, but on the other hand that's not going to stop mac users who have been using stuffit for over ten years from holding on until you prize it from their cold dead fingers ;P
i agree stuffit's uneeded but on the other hand macintosh users are the kind of users who find it very hard to let go of something. I first remember using stuffit back in system 7 or perhaps even earlier than that. I'm not sure, my rhuemy old memory has misted over. nad as for .dmg's I think they are fantastic but yes, very frustrating for a PC user to come up against. However there is very little reason on the whole a pc user to encounter them, although perhaps these wild encounter will become more frequent now some people can actually run OS X on their pc's!
while winrar is not standard (i use it myself and am very happy with it btw) I certainly don't feel that zip files are standard as well. ask a mac user whether he can uncompress a compressed file and he ain't gonna go and hug a zip file, he's going to go and pat his stuffit on the head and then complain about pc users not using .sit files.
there's nothing sad about using windows, slashdot is not a linux advocacy site, though many of it's users seems to think so. Slashdot is a news site for technology orientated geeks, windows is a piece of technology and so very much worthy of coverage on slashdot. The parent article though is not news, it's a piece of press pr for a product, dressed up as information on a yesterday piece of tech that no-one really cares about anymore.
most people i know now use rar files. I actively encourage people to not use zip files, warning them it's prone to corruption (perhaps a little over empahsis on my part, as this is only from personal experience and not necessarily always the truth). Also if I send my mum an word doc i wouldn't bother zipping it. We both have broadband and I'm probably going to email it to her, we can both recieve large attachments and neith of us use a web based email service (which make it hard to attach files to emails because they frequently use HTTP GET which likes to bug out on large files) nor do we have data cap limits. I also notice a lot of websites that offer archived files for whatever purpose (well ok, the sites that i use) now frequently use rar files other zip ones. Maybe winzip is still the most well known windows compression program, but I don't think it's the most well thought of. It seems to me that winrar has at least as much support and praise while offering a great deal more that I find personally useful.
there is a very good reason why this happens and it's not about compression at all. You should realise that the movies are already in a compressed format and so it *is* pointless to try and compress them further, the savings are minimal, what is not minimal however is the time spent redownloading a 700mb file because at some point in the download it got corrupted or perhaps was in the first place. Now with a system like bittorrent or edonkey it's possible to prevent corrupt files through hash checking etc, but one thing you need to be aware of is that your copy of Harry Potter doesn't usually start out on some bittorrent website, but on some 0-day FTP that only a few very priviledged people have access to. Now if that movie comes in 45 x 15mb files if one of these files happens to be corrupted in transfer, or was corrupt in the first place it's a simple process to download just that file again or for the person hosting it to fix it. However if i have just downloaded a 700mb file to find that it's corrupted I'll have to download said whole file again. This harkens back to the days in the 'scene' when releases were usually released onto newsgroups first, where you have no choice but to segment files.
I stopped using easily corruptable zip files a long time ago, in favour of much more internet friendly rars.
is this news? not to belittle the importance of CSS but I'm sure everyone here is already quite aware of what it is, how to use it and where the web resources are; I first visited Zen-garden a long time ago for instance. If you're not then you probably are not a web developer. This is not news.
i tried to use ipodder before iTunes added podcasting to it's latest iteration and i have to agree with grand-father post, it's butt ugly and at the time i was using it not as intuitive as it could have been, however that was a couple of months ago, maybe it's changed since then. I find the iTunes interface pretty straightforward and easy to use. I don't use the iTunes store to search for podcasts, rather favouring podcast-alley and the like, with a little c/p I have all the streams I want. The only thing I would like to be able to do which I can't yet is bookmark certain points in a show, that would be tremendously useful!
for iTunes. I'm sorry but the iTunes top 20 is hardly representative of the current health of indie podcasts. The most recent version of iTunes with podcast support has only been around a short while; I've been using it and it is functionally quite satisfying but I certainly wouldn't trust it's charts as a reasonable way to measure any kind of health in the indie movement.
grave of the fireflies did come to my mind. Perhaps anecdotes are unbalanced but then again perhaps not. It's suppose to be a personal account, not a reasoned story. I think any account from people who survived the war, not just the bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki is worth reading simply because the generation who lived through that time won't be around for ever, so the more we hear of their personal accounts of what they lived through the better.
To emphasize the point I read a piece via boingboing about joi ito being asked to do a op-ed for the new york times for tomorrows edition. Ito said that at first the piece was hard to write as:
"I was supposed to write about impressions from my generation and from a Japanese perspective. I first went on IM and interviewed a bunch of my Japanese friends to confirm my suspicion. No one was really thinking about the bombing of Hiroshima and didn't really have much of an impression."
it's something we are forgetting and that's a terrible shame.
via the guardian newspaper A bright green flash No one should again suffer as we did 60 years ago in Hiroshima Keiko Lane Saturday August 6, 2005 The Guardian On the morning of August 6 1945 I was sitting in my garden beside an ornamental pond and singing as I cleaned my brother's shoes. I was seven. My mother was in the kitchen and my 14-year-old brother had already left for work. Suddenly there was a bright green flash on the other side of the house, and with a mighty roar the house collapsed, leaving me buried deep under smashed wood and panelling. My mother was thrown the length of the house and also buried. Luckily she freed herself and searched desperately for me. Article continues She was very slender and less than 5ft tall, yet she found a superhuman strength to move heavy timbers, already starting to burn, and other debris until she found me. I was pulled from the wreckage and my injuries were roughly dressed with bandages torn from her clothes. Next door a young woman was trapped. My mother found it impossible to move the burning wood and, finding no one alive or uninjured nearby to help, she picked me up and ran up the street, leaving the woman still trapped. All that day my mother carried me through the destroyed and burning city, stepping over or around the dead and dying as she made her way to the outskirts of Hiroshima, where she hoped medical help could be found. As I was being carried I saw many charred bodies lying in the streets, including several mothers who had instinctively tried to shelter their children with their bodies but had died, leaving their children still alive, many with terrible burns. In the evening we found an emergency dressing station set up at a still-smouldering elementary school. My mother had carried me more than six miles. I was examined by a doctor, who suspected that I was dying from internal injuries and told my mother to give me nothing to drink in spite of my desperate need for water. Finally, a nearby injured old lady reasoned that if I was dying then a drink of water would do me no harm. Next day a large pit was dug in the playground by some old soldiers and they began to incinerate the dead, of which there were many stacked up against the walls. All day the playground filled with the injured, and as some of them died they were thrown on the fire. In particular I remember a boy of about 12 who was terribly burnt and blind. He kept asking for his mother and as he became more delirious he asked repeatedly for her to cook him some tempura, which apparently was his favourite food. Finally, he also died and was put on the fire. No one knows exactly how many died in Hiroshima, but it is estimated at more than 200,000, of which many were refugee women and children. Those near ground zero were instantly vaporised, leaving behind only a shadow on the ground or wall. Maybe they were the lucky ones, because many of the survivors died in agony from terrible burns. Some took a long time to die. My mother suffered the effects of radiation for many years. I was in and out of hospitals with leukaemia until my mid-20s, and because of the possibility of having deformed babies I decided not to marry until much later in life. My brother had been affected by radiation and was unable to have children. My aunt, who had a silk dressing gown welded to her body and her fingers joined together like ducks' feet, took three years to die. Recently I retraced my journey through Hiroshima with my husband and revisited the school where I received treatment on that dreadful day. It was a moment of mixed emotions, but I did feel strongly that this horror must never be allowed to happen again. The only certain way to ensure this is to destroy all nuclear weapons and ban the making of any more.
ah that makes sense. perhaps his baby could be the first astronaut to go up in an armadillo spaceship. he'd save tons of weight!