Well, I am aware that Slashdot has a worldwide audience, but you might consider that this weekend is a major holiday in the United States. Perhaps the American editors were spending time with their families? I don't know whether or not the editors are paid for their time, but if they're not, I certainly don't begrudge them one day to spend with their family. Also, given that today is a US holiday, maybe it's a slow news day. I'm sorry it couldn't accomodate you today, but there is a world beyond Slashdot, you know.
To me, smoking is a way to reduce my expected life-span. I know they will kill me, and that's the point. I have a degenerative disease that isn't so bad now, but will progressively get worse. i have the choice of spending my twilight years in agony in some hospital, or I can smoke like a chimney now and die before that happens. I'll take the heart disease, thanks.
And no, I don't intend to call an ambulance and waste your tax dollars when the heart attack comes.
I don't think it's bunk. A google search found connections to http://www.microsoftgadgets.com/ which has references to the new live.com and, in addition, a search of channel9.msdn.com shows no hits (yet) for "www.live.com", but several referring to the microsoftgadgets page, including some from (apparently) Microsoft employees. WHOIS shows that both microsoftgadgets.com and live.com have the same contact name. That's enough for me to dismiss the idea of it being a hoax.
Plus anything else in the room it sits in. Great solution to the heating oil crunch!
I assume you're making a funny, but I've actually noticed an improvement in my home heating since i expaned my network to four machines with five processors. In the temperate climate I live in, I don't need to use the electric heat at all in the winter, as I had to before when I only had one PC.
Plus my PC has a lot more functionality than my baseboard heaters.;)
With all the nostalgia gaming in the homebrew scene, I'm sure someone will buy this cuz it looks like the cool black Viewmaster we wanted as kids. Those of us who remember the ugly red one may agree.
But all of the better ones do not work with severed fingers, they use various techniques to verify that the finger is alive.
I didn't know that. Thieves probably wouldn't either. Especially ones willing to go for that level of violence. I won't put myself in a position where someone might have a reason to try.
Because the moment my bank requires it, is the moment I find a new bank. If it becomes profitable for thieves to cut off my fingers, you can be sure they will.
So has anyone figured out how to build a TiVo equivelent for $200, untill then I'm sticking with my TiVo.
Sure. I bought a dual Xeon (pentium 3, at 550mHz) machine on eBay for a little over $60 including shipping, then I waited until WinTV-PVR-150's went on sale for $99 at a local store. I installed Gentoo and MythTV, fiddling with it an hour or two a day for a week until it worked the way I wanted it to. The Xeon machine conveniently came with a nice RAID setup, as well as 512MB of RAM, and runs perfectly. All you have to do is research and shop smart.
Oh, and the prices I mentioned were Canadian dollars.
The president could declare that [insert country here] has WMD that 'according to confidential intelligence which will remain classified indefinitely' are an imminent threat to the US. Then he nukes whoever he feels like, and there will be no way to know whether there actually were any WMD, except waiting the 50 years or so for the radioactivity to die down enough. Had this been in place during the recent war in Iraq, Bush could have used this to nuke Iraq, and no one would ever have know for certain that he'd lied about the danger.
If this is what freedom and democracy is like, maybe we ought to reconsider dictatorships.
Without specific technical knowledge on the subject, in ignorance I will accept the probability that this is doable. It's irrelevant, though. Any technical workarounds you can conceive are trumped by the police and guns and torture. Would you trust your life and limb to SSH, given that your traffic doesn't even need to be decrypted to incriminate you (in China, I mean)? I doubt there is any way to encrypt traffic without making it obvious you are hiding something, especially something that would generate as much traffic as VoIP. I doubt they'd swallow it if you claimed you needed to use that much encrypted traffic to do banking. And when they are done torturing you, you'll be begging them to let you decrypt the data for them (if you survived, that is).
The music industry told the court that Sharman Network licensed users to access a network it knew was being used for piracy and hence it was authorising people to infringe copyright.
Ok, so, extending this precedent, Comcast (for example) provides access to a network (the Internet) that it knows is being used for piracy. Ergo, all ISPs are authorising people to infringe copyright. I am amazed a court actually swallowed this.
I would love to see a company/individual exploit the legality of these one-way 'agreements'. Produce some product, and in the box-wrap license, include some ludicrous-but-legal provisions (all pages printed with this cartridge are copyrighted works of the cartridge manufacturer subject to royalties, the user of the software agrees that it can only be used on a computer with 1MB or less of system RAM and will pay an additional $10 fee per megabyte of RAM in the system upon which it is installed, etc.), and proceed to use the existing precedents to vigorously enforce them. Reduction to absurd terms shows how absurd these things are in reality.
Can they seriously not fit all their games' data in a Dual-layered DVD?
What about a double-sided dual layer DVD? Some kind of custom drive that could read the top and bottom simultaneously would put the storage capacity in the 17GB range...should be more than enough for the current game market, and the internal-flipperiness (sorry, couldn't think of a better term) would work as a form of copy protection, if this technology isn't handed down to PC DVD-writers (say, some instruction on side A needs some data from side B to execute, without removing the disc). This could and would eventually be circumvented, but a physical barrier like this could potentially keep the games pirate proof long enough for their expected shelf life, after which it doesn't matter.
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Well, I am aware that Slashdot has a worldwide audience, but you might consider that this weekend is a major holiday in the United States. Perhaps the American editors were spending time with their families? I don't know whether or not the editors are paid for their time, but if they're not, I certainly don't begrudge them one day to spend with their family. Also, given that today is a US holiday, maybe it's a slow news day. I'm sorry it couldn't accomodate you today, but there is a world beyond Slashdot, you know.
has stained the whites of his eyes deep blue
wow. now that's scary. i'll be sure to give that to my kids
I can understand why the clergy avoids Microsoft formats. They obviously don't believe in Intelligent Design.
To me, smoking is a way to reduce my expected life-span. I know they will kill me, and that's the point. I have a degenerative disease that isn't so bad now, but will progressively get worse. i have the choice of spending my twilight years in agony in some hospital, or I can smoke like a chimney now and die before that happens. I'll take the heart disease, thanks.
And no, I don't intend to call an ambulance and waste your tax dollars when the heart attack comes.
Wow. Further analysis of the page at http://www.microsoftgadgets.com/ reveals sock-puppetry at it's finest.
I don't think it's bunk. A google search found connections to http://www.microsoftgadgets.com/ which has references to the new live.com and, in addition, a search of channel9.msdn.com shows no hits (yet) for "www.live.com", but several referring to the microsoftgadgets page, including some from (apparently) Microsoft employees. WHOIS shows that both microsoftgadgets.com and live.com have the same contact name. That's enough for me to dismiss the idea of it being a hoax.
...But if they were 512-bit key executives, then this is barely news
They worked for Microsoft. They were at best 2-bit executives.
you'd have a sort of room you could place windows in and move around in
That sounds like MS Bob.
It was quite useless and used too many resources
Wow, it IS Bob!
Plus anything else in the room it sits in. Great solution to the heating oil crunch!
;)
I assume you're making a funny, but I've actually noticed an improvement in my home heating since i expaned my network to four machines with five processors. In the temperate climate I live in, I don't need to use the electric heat at all in the winter, as I had to before when I only had one PC.
Plus my PC has a lot more functionality than my baseboard heaters.
With all the nostalgia gaming in the homebrew scene, I'm sure someone will buy this cuz it looks like the cool black Viewmaster we wanted as kids. Those of us who remember the ugly red one may agree.
But all of the better ones do not work with severed fingers, they use various techniques to verify that the finger is alive.
I didn't know that. Thieves probably wouldn't either. Especially ones willing to go for that level of violence. I won't put myself in a position where someone might have a reason to try.
Finger Print scanning hasn't taken off?
Because the moment my bank requires it, is the moment I find a new bank. If it becomes profitable for thieves to cut off my fingers, you can be sure they will.
So has anyone figured out how to build a TiVo equivelent for $200, untill then I'm sticking with my TiVo.
Sure. I bought a dual Xeon (pentium 3, at 550mHz) machine on eBay for a little over $60 including shipping, then I waited until WinTV-PVR-150's went on sale for $99 at a local store. I installed Gentoo and MythTV, fiddling with it an hour or two a day for a week until it worked the way I wanted it to. The Xeon machine conveniently came with a nice RAID setup, as well as 512MB of RAM, and runs perfectly. All you have to do is research and shop smart.
Oh, and the prices I mentioned were Canadian dollars.
Don't be evil... except its OK to be evil to Microsoft (who are of course VERY evil)
Some would consider fighting evil a virtuous act.
The president could declare that [insert country here] has WMD that 'according to confidential intelligence which will remain classified indefinitely' are an imminent threat to the US. Then he nukes whoever he feels like, and there will be no way to know whether there actually were any WMD, except waiting the 50 years or so for the radioactivity to die down enough. Had this been in place during the recent war in Iraq, Bush could have used this to nuke Iraq, and no one would ever have know for certain that he'd lied about the danger.
If this is what freedom and democracy is like, maybe we ought to reconsider dictatorships.
What are some of the dumbest security *policies* you've encountered?
My boss told me that the password for the firewall had to be written on it. So anyone could access it if they needed to.
I hate to break it to you, but Google runs Linux.
;)
You can go back to waiting now.
Wow, thanks for the link...I had no idea such an awesome free historical film collection was online.
Without specific technical knowledge on the subject, in ignorance I will accept the probability that this is doable. It's irrelevant, though. Any technical workarounds you can conceive are trumped by the police and guns and torture. Would you trust your life and limb to SSH, given that your traffic doesn't even need to be decrypted to incriminate you (in China, I mean)? I doubt there is any way to encrypt traffic without making it obvious you are hiding something, especially something that would generate as much traffic as VoIP. I doubt they'd swallow it if you claimed you needed to use that much encrypted traffic to do banking. And when they are done torturing you, you'll be begging them to let you decrypt the data for them (if you survived, that is).
Can we call this a 'flare war'?
I'll bet their entire company plan was to make the funny news. Where do I sign up to invest?
From TFA:
The music industry told the court that Sharman Network licensed users to access a network it knew was being used for piracy and hence it was authorising people to infringe copyright.
Ok, so, extending this precedent, Comcast (for example) provides access to a network (the Internet) that it knows is being used for piracy. Ergo, all ISPs are authorising people to infringe copyright. I am amazed a court actually swallowed this.
DreamCast was great technology for it's time - beyond anything the others had then. But it flopped due to lack of titles. I have one if you want it. :)
Cool! Thanks. I've always wanted one.
I would love to see a company/individual exploit the legality of these one-way 'agreements'. Produce some product, and in the box-wrap license, include some ludicrous-but-legal provisions (all pages printed with this cartridge are copyrighted works of the cartridge manufacturer subject to royalties, the user of the software agrees that it can only be used on a computer with 1MB or less of system RAM and will pay an additional $10 fee per megabyte of RAM in the system upon which it is installed, etc.), and proceed to use the existing precedents to vigorously enforce them. Reduction to absurd terms shows how absurd these things are in reality.
Can they seriously not fit all their games' data in a Dual-layered DVD?
What about a double-sided dual layer DVD? Some kind of custom drive that could read the top and bottom simultaneously would put the storage capacity in the 17GB range...should be more than enough for the current game market, and the internal-flipperiness (sorry, couldn't think of a better term) would work as a form of copy protection, if this technology isn't handed down to PC DVD-writers (say, some instruction on side A needs some data from side B to execute, without removing the disc). This could and would eventually be circumvented, but a physical barrier like this could potentially keep the games pirate proof long enough for their expected shelf life, after which it doesn't matter.