I think you are simultaneously underestimating the police and far overestimating your average criminal.
Thank you for mentioning this fact. I would like to add to this by also mentioning if this is used in an investigation, the people investigating you will already know whether or not you are in IT. If you are, they will probably use whatever taps they can deploy at the ISP since it would be possible their bug would be found. If the investigators find you are a middle-aged woman who works at the grocery store and have no extended education, then it would be rather likely you would get the spyware tap to save time/money/warrants/etc over getting one at the ISP.
Perhaps you failed to read my post correctly. That is fine, since you seem rather pro-chinese and probably do not speak english fluently to begin with.
Note how the above paragraph was an assumption I pulled out of my ass, much like your entire post.
The fact is, I never mentioned government intervention. By its very mention "grass roots" is typically used to describe a non-government activity. How you missed this and thought I was pro-government intervention is beyond me.
Anyway, I don't post against the "great firewall of china" as you suggest. I really could care less about it since I don't live and china and really could care less what happens to people over there. What? Did you read my name and think "OH PANSEY LIBERAL MUST MAKE A WITTY REPLY"? Give me a break. Grow up. Don't be a nationalist little monkey.
I was speaking out of concern because I have been in Information Security for about 6 years now and about 3/4 of all the larger network scans and exploit attempts I have seen have come from chinese IP space. Unfortunately, I did not know I had to spell it out so morons wouldn't get a brown streak in their underwear thinking I am all anti-chinese.
So right now, you look like the complete Internet retard for trying to make a witty retort without even understanding the parent. You have one chance to redeem yourself by explaining how "Blocking does nothing". That is the very thing a firewall does and I would like for you to explain to all of us who have been running BSD and Linux for the last decade have been wasting our time with filters on routers, firewalls and various other security measures.
Update: 12/14 00:35 GMT by T: Not quite so fast: As forums.minidisc.org Administrator Christopher MacManus writes, it turns out that (as the threads below this review reveal), "The reviewer discovers that the unit he had is defective as someone else employs one and there is no hiss issue. Furthermore, the software woes he experienced are related to him employing JAPANESE software on an English operating system. Sonicstage 2.3, which he needs to use the unit, is now available in English."
Seriously, these big updates show how half-cocked of an author this guy is. The simple fact that he did not simple do a Google search for the problems before writing up a crappy review.
Here is a bit of common sense for you: If you pay big money for an "HD" media center and it has so much static coming out of the audio ports, YOU HAVE A DEFECT.
Please Slashdot, never put another one of this author's articles on the front page. Bumps for support.
Seems like all a competitor has to do is make the ability to name your own players and this is easily sidestepped. I guess it would be a minor pain in the ass but die hard fans would probably even like it.
Right, and allow the game to go online and download "user submitted, custom teams". Since they would be user submitted teams, there would be no real licensing issues.
All the moaning and groaning in this thread could be replaced with ideas. I swear, you could replace EA with M$ and this is a mirror of half the threads on here nowadays. Where did the cool people go?
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Really.. I know it's pretty much a slashdot meme, but I don't get it..
Nah, man. It is funny because it is stupid. There would be nothing funny if it was accurate or would have made sense in real life./joke ain't funny when we have to explain, either.
Thanks for clarifying. It makes plenty of sense, because part of what got me hooked on playing with metals was the random nature of all the parts of a scrap pile. I am sure it is the same primal fulfillment, just a route to get there.
You got me there. I guess I shouldn't expect clunky old slashdot to be quite the well-oiled machine it used to be. There is just so much more news these days.
I am still bitter about the 'how to build a pc' article. GRR
So? Until the masses care, things will remain the same. The more enlightened users will run rogue clients (like gaim) to circumvent the ads and the computer noobies will have to fend for themselves, or pester the crap out of their neighbors, kids, neighbor's kids; whoever they normally bug when they need their computer formatted or be told to power cycle their dsl router for the third time in a week..
I think libertarian/capitalist economic philosiphies (in the raw) apply very well to the world of software distribution. Once the lowest common denominator stops buying your service, then you will have to adjust or step aside while someone else takes your place. Of course, by buying service we mean to "accept the spyware", and everyone hates that stuff as much as spam. There is no way the general public will play along with spyware for very long. Something will give, and it will give fast. My prediction is that Google will jump out there with a instant messenger client and the public's trust will be restored for approx 2.5 years. At that time, Google's investors will start demanding a larger return on the company's dwindling profits due to critical flaws in their advertising methods. A new Google will emerge, bursting at the seams with spyware, questionable deals with offshore spam sites, at least one executive money laundering scandal, and unblockable popup ads like the world has never seen.
The standard? WTF crack rock are you smoking? You have got to be karma whoring or just clueless if you think there is any kind of monopoly on IM.
It is no more standard than going to cnn.com for your news. There are plenty of other choices, namely, Yahoo, MSN, IRC, talk.c, Jabber, cell phone IM networks, etc.
The reason why "more decentralized open standards for IM" aren't useful is because people aren't unhappy with this FREE (well, ad supported) service. If there were a monopoly, people would not be able to change to an alternative, as was the case with cable providers before the days of digital satellite. You can simply install MSN and talk a friend or two into joining you there. Big deal, most people run more than one messenger anyway.
Now, please check in again when you have another totally asinine subject to whine about.
Dunno what happended, but as of last night, all of my screen namers were back up and running. The disconnections seemed to have no relation to the e-mail address they were registered to or when the last time I used them was.
Yeah, this has been going on for over a week. It escapes me as to why AOL having problems with screen names is frontpage material for slashdot. Maybe Timothy will grace us with a few Wired conspiracy articles or another link on how to build a PC in a house with kids (huh).
The protocol is not the problem. Actually, there is no problem. This is a company hosting a free service on THEIR servers. In other words, it is none of your business whether they decide to contribute to the community and give up code or not. They definitely aren't setting a standard with their antiquated IM service compared to other alternatives. Would you really want the code? Just download jabber and be quiet until you get a grasp on reality.
this week to begin to create a photographic system capable of capturing and displaying a gigapixel of visual information in a single image.
This would include systems that "cheat". Nothing says it has to cost $20 and fit in your shirt pocket. I think this has been done with spacecraft for several years by taking multiple pictures and lining them up into one extremely high resolution image, technically this accomplishes what the headline makes it sound like they are looking for.
Though I bet once you get too many in sequence the gears would require more torque than the lego housings can resist.
That is what crossed my mind when I saw the closeup image of the gearing system. There is no way that keeps time accurately or is even remotely reliable. It is a cute creation, but nothing to get excited and spit all over the place when telling your buddies when telling them about it.
I guess I don't understand the lego thing. Mind you, I grew up with an arc welder around and had lots of scrap to build stuff out of. Tinkering with legos, well, seemed silly when I could fabricate a perfectly useful table fireplace log holder which can support 500lbs without as much as a strain.:)
It's bad enough ActiveX exists in the first place, imagine how much worse it can get.. or don't if you want to sleep at night.
If you don't like the product, then don't buy it? It has been quite a while since I have run into a problem using FireFox to view any site.
If your company forces you to use IE for viewing internal pages, I don't want to hear it. You are viewing internal pages and if one of those pwns your browser, then you should take a second look at your IT group. If you dislike it to the point you are losing sleep, then find another place to work. There are plenty of companies, including the guys I work for, who will make fun of you if they see you using Internet Explorer.
This isn't insightful, this is mindless, negative drivel offering no solution. So how? Oh yes, feeding the masses what they want to hear. Otherwise known as karma whoring. Just to help those who aren't experts on the english language:
1. insightful -- (exhibiting insight or clear and deep perception; "an insightful parent"; "the chapter is insightful and suggestive of new perspectives"-R.C.Angell)
Tomorrow, the word of the day will be "Troll". We will define it and use it in an example sentence so everyone will become familiar with its proper use.
Bank of America is actually the people I am bitching about specifically. They bought everybody over the years. I was initially a BancSouth customer before getting swallowed up by nastionsbank, then Bank of America. It really sucks because my accounts are all ~20 years old and have these grandfathered-in numers associated with them, so i have to remember to always start with 4 extra zeros or the teller looks at me like I'm a moron.
Drug dealers are the scum of the earth. Prison is too good for them. MHO of course.
Why are you being a tool and lumping all dealers into the same category? This just shows the arrogant ignorance which keeps the conservative citizens looking through rose colored glasses and in disgust of the things they know nothing about or don't like.
There are many kinds of drugs and an entirely different type of individual may participate in the distribution of hemp than deals with more dangerous, neighborhood destroying chemicals like meth. One is your school teacher, airline pilot, real estate agent, and the guy at the music shop. The other, is a much more dangerous person who deals constantly with people who are hardcore addicted to the things he is distributing. With the hemp dealer, if he is a dick, then nobody will deal with him. Hemp isn't addictive so there is no drive for someone to purchase from a less-than quality individual they trust and like.
Even when you come down hard on the bad meth dealer, he will immediately be replaced by someone else. That is because his clients don't have the option to think "hmm, this guy is a prick and wants me to do bad things, so I am going to wait until I see Tom next week" because addictions like meth can be very powerful and bring on boughts of depression, etc. Yes, toss these types in jail but leave the accountant or soccer mom who sells herb to a few friends with arthritis and HIV alone already, god damn it. They are just doing it to save a few bucks on their own stash by buying in the tinyest of distribution quantities and serving "real crime" time from it.
How about we stop picking on the hemp people, legalize it, tax it, then use the funds for medical research and addiction study. I can't see the long-term being more harmful than what? obesity and laziness? Hell, over half the country has that problem without being introduced to illegal drugs.
As a final word, did you know over half the deaths under age 35 in america has alchohol involved?
I hate to say it, but I suspect the author of the headline's article is a liar. Too many inconsistancies, plus if you actually look at most spam headers it consists of common guessed names and domains with a forged reply address. I would be willing to put money on the fact this does not affect spam at all after a week or two.
I hope someone comes up with a way to block these flash animations on these devices. The last thing I need is a cash register showing cartoons at me.
The ATMs around here all have commercials on them. You know, the places where everyone says "pay attention to your surroundings" while the Bank is saying "stare blankly into our 20 second ad while risking life and limb at an ATM in downtown Atlanta".
While on the subject of ATMs, who else wonders why your prefered language isn't marked on your account so you don't have to make that selection at each ATM stop?
I know I am going to hear from the Chinese karma police on this one, but does anyone have a list of all the Chinese IP space?
Perhaps we could start a grass-roots effort to disallow access from countries whose goverments aren't being responsible when it comes to their citizens respecting the rights of others in the online community?
Yeah, I don't think this is as big of a deal as the headline author would like for you to think. Notice how they failed to mention Microsoft has been distributing movies for over a year using their own HD format.
Mind you, they do it by using WM9 compression on a DVD9 disc and a spattering of DRM. It requires a ~2GHz P4 to run 1920x1080x24bbp, but the results are astounding. Yeah, it takes a lot of CPU, but how long before a DVD+PVR+MediaPC with that much power is available for around a hundred dollars? Not long at all.
The sad thing is that Australians seem to listen; we can't seem to think for ourselves anymore, and everything has to have the approval of the US. It's just about to the point where the US elections were more important to us than our own. It's be nice if our Government had the balls (or brains) to think on its own.
That really sucks man. Don't worry, you have nothing to learn from us except how to gain 40lbs at McDonalds in 30 days.
I would have helped you out, but I am not an electoral voter so what I have to say doesn't count.
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I think you are simultaneously underestimating the police and far overestimating your average criminal.
Thank you for mentioning this fact. I would like to add to this by also mentioning if this is used in an investigation, the people investigating you will already know whether or not you are in IT. If you are, they will probably use whatever taps they can deploy at the ISP since it would be possible their bug would be found. If the investigators find you are a middle-aged woman who works at the grocery store and have no extended education, then it would be rather likely you would get the spyware tap to save time/money/warrants/etc over getting one at the ISP.
Perhaps you failed to read my post correctly. That is fine, since you seem rather pro-chinese and probably do not speak english fluently to begin with.
Note how the above paragraph was an assumption I pulled out of my ass, much like your entire post.
The fact is, I never mentioned government intervention. By its very mention "grass roots" is typically used to describe a non-government activity. How you missed this and thought I was pro-government intervention is beyond me.
Anyway, I don't post against the "great firewall of china" as you suggest. I really could care less about it since I don't live and china and really could care less what happens to people over there. What? Did you read my name and think "OH PANSEY LIBERAL MUST MAKE A WITTY REPLY"? Give me a break. Grow up. Don't be a nationalist little monkey.
I was speaking out of concern because I have been in Information Security for about 6 years now and about 3/4 of all the larger network scans and exploit attempts I have seen have come from chinese IP space. Unfortunately, I did not know I had to spell it out so morons wouldn't get a brown streak in their underwear thinking I am all anti-chinese.
So right now, you look like the complete Internet retard for trying to make a witty retort without even understanding the parent. You have one chance to redeem yourself by explaining how "Blocking does nothing". That is the very thing a firewall does and I would like for you to explain to all of us who have been running BSD and Linux for the last decade have been wasting our time with filters on routers, firewalls and various other security measures.
Update: 12/14 00:35 GMT by T: Not quite so fast: As forums.minidisc.org Administrator Christopher MacManus writes, it turns out that (as the threads below this review reveal), "The reviewer discovers that the unit he had is defective as someone else employs one and there is no hiss issue. Furthermore, the software woes he experienced are related to him employing JAPANESE software on an English operating system. Sonicstage 2.3, which he needs to use the unit, is now available in English."
Seriously, these big updates show how half-cocked of an author this guy is. The simple fact that he did not simple do a Google search for the problems before writing up a crappy review.
Here is a bit of common sense for you: If you pay big money for an "HD" media center and it has so much static coming out of the audio ports, YOU HAVE A DEFECT.
Please Slashdot, never put another one of this author's articles on the front page. Bumps for support.
Seems like all a competitor has to do is make the ability to name your own players and this is easily sidestepped. I guess it would be a minor pain in the ass but die hard fans would probably even like it.
Right, and allow the game to go online and download "user submitted, custom teams". Since they would be user submitted teams, there would be no real licensing issues.
All the moaning and groaning in this thread could be replaced with ideas. I swear, you could replace EA with M$ and this is a mirror of half the threads on here nowadays. Where did the cool people go?
Really.. I know it's pretty much a slashdot meme, but I don't get it..
/joke ain't funny when we have to explain, either.
Nah, man. It is funny because it is stupid. There would be nothing funny if it was accurate or would have made sense in real life.
Thanks for clarifying. It makes plenty of sense, because part of what got me hooked on playing with metals was the random nature of all the parts of a scrap pile. I am sure it is the same primal fulfillment, just a route to get there.
You got me there. I guess I shouldn't expect clunky old slashdot to be quite the well-oiled machine it used to be. There is just so much more news these days.
I am still bitter about the 'how to build a pc' article. GRR
So? Until the masses care, things will remain the same. The more enlightened users will run rogue clients (like gaim) to circumvent the ads and the computer noobies will have to fend for themselves, or pester the crap out of their neighbors, kids, neighbor's kids; whoever they normally bug when they need their computer formatted or be told to power cycle their dsl router for the third time in a week..
I think libertarian/capitalist economic philosiphies (in the raw) apply very well to the world of software distribution. Once the lowest common denominator stops buying your service, then you will have to adjust or step aside while someone else takes your place. Of course, by buying service we mean to "accept the spyware", and everyone hates that stuff as much as spam. There is no way the general public will play along with spyware for very long. Something will give, and it will give fast. My prediction is that Google will jump out there with a instant messenger client and the public's trust will be restored for approx 2.5 years. At that time, Google's investors will start demanding a larger return on the company's dwindling profits due to critical flaws in their advertising methods. A new Google will emerge, bursting at the seams with spyware, questionable deals with offshore spam sites, at least one executive money laundering scandal, and unblockable popup ads like the world has never seen.
Yes people, you heard it here first.
Finally, I'll bet it keeps better time than a clock built with an arc welder
You silly goose.
The standard? WTF crack rock are you smoking? You have got to be karma whoring or just clueless if you think there is any kind of monopoly on IM.
It is no more standard than going to cnn.com for your news. There are plenty of other choices, namely, Yahoo, MSN, IRC, talk.c, Jabber, cell phone IM networks, etc.
The reason why "more decentralized open standards for IM" aren't useful is because people aren't unhappy with this FREE (well, ad supported) service. If there were a monopoly, people would not be able to change to an alternative, as was the case with cable providers before the days of digital satellite. You can simply install MSN and talk a friend or two into joining you there. Big deal, most people run more than one messenger anyway.
Now, please check in again when you have another totally asinine subject to whine about.
Dunno what happended, but as of last night, all of my screen namers were back up and running. The disconnections seemed to have no relation to the e-mail address they were registered to or when the last time I used them was.
Yeah, this has been going on for over a week. It escapes me as to why AOL having problems with screen names is frontpage material for slashdot. Maybe Timothy will grace us with a few Wired conspiracy articles or another link on how to build a PC in a house with kids (huh).
Dude, spell it right. It's "Protocol".
The protocol is not the problem. Actually, there is no problem. This is a company hosting a free service on THEIR servers. In other words, it is none of your business whether they decide to contribute to the community and give up code or not. They definitely aren't setting a standard with their antiquated IM service compared to other alternatives. Would you really want the code? Just download jabber and be quiet until you get a grasp on reality.
Right, but here is what the article says:
this week to begin to create a photographic system capable of capturing and displaying a gigapixel of visual information in a single image.
This would include systems that "cheat". Nothing says it has to cost $20 and fit in your shirt pocket. I think this has been done with spacecraft for several years by taking multiple pictures and lining them up into one extremely high resolution image, technically this accomplishes what the headline makes it sound like they are looking for.
Though I bet once you get too many in sequence the gears would require more torque than the lego housings can resist.
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That is what crossed my mind when I saw the closeup image of the gearing system. There is no way that keeps time accurately or is even remotely reliable. It is a cute creation, but nothing to get excited and spit all over the place when telling your buddies when telling them about it.
I guess I don't understand the lego thing. Mind you, I grew up with an arc welder around and had lots of scrap to build stuff out of. Tinkering with legos, well, seemed silly when I could fabricate a perfectly useful table fireplace log holder which can support 500lbs without as much as a strain.
PSA: Falling off your lofted bed and landing on your head is not fun.
You had best be a cute college girl if you are still sleeping on one of those.
It's bad enough ActiveX exists in the first place, imagine how much worse it can get.. or don't if you want to sleep at night.
If you don't like the product, then don't buy it? It has been quite a while since I have run into a problem using FireFox to view any site.
If your company forces you to use IE for viewing internal pages, I don't want to hear it. You are viewing internal pages and if one of those pwns your browser, then you should take a second look at your IT group. If you dislike it to the point you are losing sleep, then find another place to work. There are plenty of companies, including the guys I work for, who will make fun of you if they see you using Internet Explorer.
This isn't insightful, this is mindless, negative drivel offering no solution. So how? Oh yes, feeding the masses what they want to hear. Otherwise known as karma whoring. Just to help those who aren't experts on the english language:
1. insightful -- (exhibiting insight or clear and deep perception; "an insightful parent"; "the chapter is insightful and suggestive of new perspectives"-R.C.Angell)
Tomorrow, the word of the day will be "Troll". We will define it and use it in an example sentence so everyone will become familiar with its proper use.
Bank of America is actually the people I am bitching about specifically. They bought everybody over the years. I was initially a BancSouth customer before getting swallowed up by nastionsbank, then Bank of America. It really sucks because my accounts are all ~20 years old and have these grandfathered-in numers associated with them, so i have to remember to always start with 4 extra zeros or the teller looks at me like I'm a moron.
Drug dealers are the scum of the earth. Prison is too good for them. MHO of course.
Why are you being a tool and lumping all dealers into the same category? This just shows the arrogant ignorance which keeps the conservative citizens looking through rose colored glasses and in disgust of the things they know nothing about or don't like.
There are many kinds of drugs and an entirely different type of individual may participate in the distribution of hemp than deals with more dangerous, neighborhood destroying chemicals like meth. One is your school teacher, airline pilot, real estate agent, and the guy at the music shop. The other, is a much more dangerous person who deals constantly with people who are hardcore addicted to the things he is distributing. With the hemp dealer, if he is a dick, then nobody will deal with him. Hemp isn't addictive so there is no drive for someone to purchase from a less-than quality individual they trust and like.
Even when you come down hard on the bad meth dealer, he will immediately be replaced by someone else. That is because his clients don't have the option to think "hmm, this guy is a prick and wants me to do bad things, so I am going to wait until I see Tom next week" because addictions like meth can be very powerful and bring on boughts of depression, etc. Yes, toss these types in jail but leave the accountant or soccer mom who sells herb to a few friends with arthritis and HIV alone already, god damn it. They are just doing it to save a few bucks on their own stash by buying in the tinyest of distribution quantities and serving "real crime" time from it.
How about we stop picking on the hemp people, legalize it, tax it, then use the funds for medical research and addiction study. I can't see the long-term being more harmful than what? obesity and laziness? Hell, over half the country has that problem without being introduced to illegal drugs.
As a final word, did you know over half the deaths under age 35 in america has alchohol involved?
I hate to say it, but I suspect the author of the headline's article is a liar. Too many inconsistancies, plus if you actually look at most spam headers it consists of common guessed names and domains with a forged reply address. I would be willing to put money on the fact this does not affect spam at all after a week or two.
His theory seems flawed.
I hope someone comes up with a way to block these flash animations on these devices. The last thing I need is a cash register showing cartoons at me.
The ATMs around here all have commercials on them. You know, the places where everyone says "pay attention to your surroundings" while the Bank is saying "stare blankly into our 20 second ad while risking life and limb at an ATM in downtown Atlanta".
While on the subject of ATMs, who else wonders why your prefered language isn't marked on your account so you don't have to make that selection at each ATM stop?
But my PC talks to me.
Soviet Russia?
I know I am going to hear from the Chinese karma police on this one, but does anyone have a list of all the Chinese IP space?
Perhaps we could start a grass-roots effort to disallow access from countries whose goverments aren't being responsible when it comes to their citizens respecting the rights of others in the online community?
Anyone have a list they could post or link to?
Yeah, I don't think this is as big of a deal as the headline author would like for you to think. Notice how they failed to mention Microsoft has been distributing movies for over a year using their own HD format.
Mind you, they do it by using WM9 compression on a DVD9 disc and a spattering of DRM. It requires a ~2GHz P4 to run 1920x1080x24bbp, but the results are astounding. Yeah, it takes a lot of CPU, but how long before a DVD+PVR+MediaPC with that much power is available for around a hundred dollars? Not long at all.
That is the boat I am in and I have been considering all kinds of solutions to allow me to circumvent my ISP port 25 filter. Quite annoying really.
Yeah, it sucks. But I would rather you be annoyed by a port 25 filter than for the other 99% of lusers to be cluelessy adding to the spam problem.
The sad thing is that Australians seem to listen; we can't seem to think for ourselves anymore, and everything has to have the approval of the US. It's just about to the point where the US elections were more important to us than our own. It's be nice if our Government had the balls (or brains) to think on its own.
That really sucks man. Don't worry, you have nothing to learn from us except how to gain 40lbs at McDonalds in 30 days.
I would have helped you out, but I am not an electoral voter so what I have to say doesn't count.