Every country's people think they are better than every other country's people. Except a handful of self-hating Americans.
I don't hate myself, I don't hate my country, I hate my image, an image given to me by people who I strongly disagree with (and this doesn't mean everyone from my country or a party or a lifestyle or belief).
People who have wrapped my true identity underneath their ideals, beliefs, achievements and laziness. (These are different people, but their grouped image gives me my image to outsiders, the proverbial "they")
I have also been imaged by people from the outside, while I can't blame them too much, because I can't honestly say that they have done my image worse than my own country has. If Sex and the City, was not a popular show and let's say Nova was more popular than S&tC, then my external image would be at least, smarter or more inquisitive and I'd personally like that, but it is not so, WE did that. Countries used to hate us, but they hated us because we were almost all around better, now they actually have some basis for knocking our faults that used to be our strengths (Graduation Rates, Science Advances, The ability to justify, plan, WIN and end a war, etc.) and I hate that, because that isn't me, but I'm American, so by default, it is me.
So again, I am not Self-Hating, I am not Country hating, I am stereotyped and I should have the right to refuse to succumb to something I am not and to be able to tell someone what I actually believe shouldn't be a demarcation, especially in this country. If that sounds like whining, then fine, let that be part of my image, because at least I had a hand in it. But here's the thing, THAT is my right from God, as interpreted by some dead dudes who wrote this crazy old paper a couple hundred years ago.
I don't believe these particular journalists are getting up on any crosses as they won't fit into the cells these journalists are currently confined to.
Technically yes, they are using our bandwidth to share their movies, but as I see it, it's the cost of legitimizing the product. Up until this point they would just say "Bittorrent is only used by pirates". But now this gives us ammunition to say that it is legitimate and we finally have something to point to, to show how it is a viable technology, usable in a legal manner. I may or may not use the service, but for that reason, I wouldn't mind giving up a little unused bandwidth.
doesn't the developing world need clean water and food more than laptops?
Sure, but they also need education so that they can learn to sustain themselves and perhaps prepare themselves for their adults lives (you know, teach a man to fish...). Good education can be scarce so this project is out to help them by giving them laptops that will be their schoolbooks and surrogate teachers. So hopefully when they grow up the cycle that has gone on to keep them underdeveloped may have a chance to be broken. This project is a good thing.
I don't trust this "agreement" at all, I think it only lasts until they think they have the dominant format so if they feel enough people have already moved to the new format by 2008 then they'll pull the plug on the pact at that time. It's just a manipulative tool to get consumers to be comfortable before they can pull the rug out from under them and implement their DRM. I swear I don't "steal" music or movies online but the way they treat me as if I'm a criminal, I might as well. At least then there'd be some justification for the way I get treated as a consumer.
The real news is that this procedure can't even be done in the U.S. America is supposed to be the land of the free and they can't even do an operation that gives a woman some sight back. What does that say about our progressiveness (is that a word?). The same goes for stem cells but I won't even get into that. I just wish we would get our head out of our asses when it comes to doing cutting edge surgery. You always hear it's coming out of Switzerland or Sweden (or Portugal in this case), why couldn't this be done here.
It's very easy to say sorry once the units have left the shelves and the extra money has been pocketed. If they really wanted to say sorry they'd accept returns on the accessories in the bundles for a full refund and just let the customers keep the Xboxes...that is if they aren't defective.:)
Did they take into account the information that is being created as they are indexing? Do they plan on live indexing everything that's being made. Information doesn't stop getting created just because they've stored everything that's already been done.
FTA: People might wonder whether performing a deflection test, such as that planned for Don Quijote, represents any risk to our planet. What if things go wrong? Could we create a problem, rather than learn how to avoid one?
Experts world-wide say the answer is no. Even a very dramatic impact of a heavy spacecraft on a small asteroid would only result in a minuscule modification of the object's orbit.
Target objects can also be selected so that all possible concerns are avoided altogether, by looking into the way the distance between the asteroid's and the Earth's orbits changes with time. If the target asteroid is not an 'Earth crosser', as is the case with NEOs in the 'Amor' class (which have orbits with perihelion distance well in excess of 1 AU), testing a deflection manoeuvre represents no risk to the Earth.
So in other words, no need to worry. Go along with your daily routine as usual.
Well from simply reading the summary it sounds like all the protection is being held in the OS, therefore couldn't an Open Source OS circumvent this protection. Just load it up in Linux and none of us nerds have anything to worry about. In fact, we could put it in Linux rip off the DRM and burn it to whatever media we need, then we're home free for whatever format we need, DVD, CD, Blu-Ray, even playable back in Windows and Mac.
I can't imagine this being a good idea, Sony would be giving Microsoft a chance to keep moving next gen units and Nintendo a chance to leapfrog them with the Revolution while they sit idle just so they can have a larger library on launch? Every moment they sit without units on the shelves gives MS the chance to release the next Halo, plus they'll have next gen titles that would've been ported to both systems. Madden '06 may not be the difference maker, but '07 just might, EA will have had time to tweak to the system more, and make the games better on the 360, but Sony fanboys will be stuck with the weaker PS2 game. My suggestion is kill this idea immediately and get that PS3 out as soon as it's ready for production. Even if the 360 doesn't have a good launch, doesn't mean it wont be successful throughout it's lifetime, something they should think about with reference to their own PSP.
You may want to think twice about that, the last guy that tried breaking into military computers to look for UFO info is facing an extradition and 70 years in federal prison.
From what I remember from previous stories, there's contracts with the tv show producers that wont let it comeback on tv for something like 10 years. But there is a 3 picture deal, so the question is "How much money does it have to make to get a sequel?"
I'm not so jaded as to think that Sony and the rest of the Blu-Ray consortium isn't holding that up their sleeve, but they haven't announced it yet, so maybe there will be some backlash that builds up with the HD-DVD decision that could make them think twice, also Blu-Ray wants to get in as many homes as possible, so maybe they'll see that leaving out the HDMI requirement will give them a bit of an edge in a head to head war. Remember, there's a battle brewing, and both sides need to do whatever they can to build up sales, and maybe, not screwing the customer by requiring HDMI is one of the bits of ammo in their arsenal.
Not only do the retailers wish for a single format but so do the consumers. No one wants to be stuck with an obsolete piece of equipment a year or so after they've purchased it. Let's avoid another VHS/Beta fiasco, and actually think about the consumers for once. I personally like the Blu-ray option, it's got more room and just seems like it's the better option to me, plus it doesn't look out all the consumers without HDMI. I'd like these companies to think about the customers just once, but that's probably asking too much.
Even better, you don't get to stand on that big rock. You get to orbit it, but you might get close enough to smell the cheese, I hear it's quite pungent.
He broke in, tried to get the info. He didn't tell anybody about their security holes
Actually in the interview, he says he left notes on people's desktops of the machines he broke into to tell them that he'd been there, and they still didn't change the password. This is not me saying what he did was right or even wrong, just replying to that part of your post.
I believe the damages are the fact that they have to add new security measures to their systems. While, yes, they should've had better security over their networks, they're going to have to upgrade and his hacking is the reason why. So while he is probably being scapegoated, there is a direct correlation between him breaking into the networks, and the costs that will be incurred.
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Every country's people think they are better than every other country's people. Except a handful of self-hating Americans.
I don't hate myself, I don't hate my country, I hate my image, an image given to me by people who I strongly disagree with (and this doesn't mean everyone from my country or a party or a lifestyle or belief). People who have wrapped my true identity underneath their ideals, beliefs, achievements and laziness. (These are different people, but their grouped image gives me my image to outsiders, the proverbial "they") I have also been imaged by people from the outside, while I can't blame them too much, because I can't honestly say that they have done my image worse than my own country has. If Sex and the City, was not a popular show and let's say Nova was more popular than S&tC, then my external image would be at least, smarter or more inquisitive and I'd personally like that, but it is not so, WE did that. Countries used to hate us, but they hated us because we were almost all around better, now they actually have some basis for knocking our faults that used to be our strengths (Graduation Rates, Science Advances, The ability to justify, plan, WIN and end a war, etc.) and I hate that, because that isn't me, but I'm American, so by default, it is me. So again, I am not Self-Hating, I am not Country hating, I am stereotyped and I should have the right to refuse to succumb to something I am not and to be able to tell someone what I actually believe shouldn't be a demarcation, especially in this country. If that sounds like whining, then fine, let that be part of my image, because at least I had a hand in it. But here's the thing, THAT is my right from God, as interpreted by some dead dudes who wrote this crazy old paper a couple hundred years ago.
I don't believe these particular journalists are getting up on any crosses as they won't fit into the cells these journalists are currently confined to.
Yeah, spacesuit on spacesuit action, that's hot. How do we get the grits in there?
Technically yes, they are using our bandwidth to share their movies, but as I see it, it's the cost of legitimizing the product. Up until this point they would just say "Bittorrent is only used by pirates". But now this gives us ammunition to say that it is legitimate and we finally have something to point to, to show how it is a viable technology, usable in a legal manner. I may or may not use the service, but for that reason, I wouldn't mind giving up a little unused bandwidth.
doesn't the developing world need clean water and food more than laptops?
Sure, but they also need education so that they can learn to sustain themselves and perhaps prepare themselves for their adults lives (you know, teach a man to fish...). Good education can be scarce so this project is out to help them by giving them laptops that will be their schoolbooks and surrogate teachers. So hopefully when they grow up the cycle that has gone on to keep them underdeveloped may have a chance to be broken. This project is a good thing.
Wow, I can actually feel the breeze from the joke flying over your head.
I don't trust this "agreement" at all, I think it only lasts until they think they have the dominant format so if they feel enough people have already moved to the new format by 2008 then they'll pull the plug on the pact at that time. It's just a manipulative tool to get consumers to be comfortable before they can pull the rug out from under them and implement their DRM. I swear I don't "steal" music or movies online but the way they treat me as if I'm a criminal, I might as well. At least then there'd be some justification for the way I get treated as a consumer.
The real news is that this procedure can't even be done in the U.S. America is supposed to be the land of the free and they can't even do an operation that gives a woman some sight back. What does that say about our progressiveness (is that a word?). The same goes for stem cells but I won't even get into that. I just wish we would get our head out of our asses when it comes to doing cutting edge surgery. You always hear it's coming out of Switzerland or Sweden (or Portugal in this case), why couldn't this be done here.
Just wait until the X-ray version surfaces. Every pervert will have one.
It's very easy to say sorry once the units have left the shelves and the extra money has been pocketed. If they really wanted to say sorry they'd accept returns on the accessories in the bundles for a full refund and just let the customers keep the Xboxes...that is if they aren't defective. :)
Did they take into account the information that is being created as they are indexing? Do they plan on live indexing everything that's being made. Information doesn't stop getting created just because they've stored everything that's already been done.
FTA: People might wonder whether performing a deflection test, such as that planned for Don Quijote, represents any risk to our planet. What if things go wrong? Could we create a problem, rather than learn how to avoid one?
Experts world-wide say the answer is no. Even a very dramatic impact of a heavy spacecraft on a small asteroid would only result in a minuscule modification of the object's orbit.
Target objects can also be selected so that all possible concerns are avoided altogether, by looking into the way the distance between the asteroid's and the Earth's orbits changes with time. If the target asteroid is not an 'Earth crosser', as is the case with NEOs in the 'Amor' class (which have orbits with perihelion distance well in excess of 1 AU), testing a deflection manoeuvre represents no risk to the Earth. So in other words, no need to worry. Go along with your daily routine as usual.
Well from simply reading the summary it sounds like all the protection is being held in the OS, therefore couldn't an Open Source OS circumvent this protection. Just load it up in Linux and none of us nerds have anything to worry about. In fact, we could put it in Linux rip off the DRM and burn it to whatever media we need, then we're home free for whatever format we need, DVD, CD, Blu-Ray, even playable back in Windows and Mac.
As a friend said "...that guy was a legend.
Robots, Computers and Satan would have nothing to dance to if it weren't for him."
Am I the only one who finds it ironic that this grand invention for Texas Instruments was done in India.
I can't imagine this being a good idea, Sony would be giving Microsoft a chance to keep moving next gen units and Nintendo a chance to leapfrog them with the Revolution while they sit idle just so they can have a larger library on launch? Every moment they sit without units on the shelves gives MS the chance to release the next Halo, plus they'll have next gen titles that would've been ported to both systems. Madden '06 may not be the difference maker, but '07 just might, EA will have had time to tweak to the system more, and make the games better on the 360, but Sony fanboys will be stuck with the weaker PS2 game. My suggestion is kill this idea immediately and get that PS3 out as soon as it's ready for production. Even if the 360 doesn't have a good launch, doesn't mean it wont be successful throughout it's lifetime, something they should think about with reference to their own PSP.
You may want to think twice about that, the last guy that tried breaking into military computers to look for UFO info is facing an extradition and 70 years in federal prison.
or maybe they believe in the motto of 'Serenity', "Can't Stop the Signal".
From what I remember from previous stories, there's contracts with the tv show producers that wont let it comeback on tv for something like 10 years. But there is a 3 picture deal, so the question is "How much money does it have to make to get a sequel?"
we can slashdot the S.A.D. website to show how much we care.
I'm not so jaded as to think that Sony and the rest of the Blu-Ray consortium isn't holding that up their sleeve, but they haven't announced it yet, so maybe there will be some backlash that builds up with the HD-DVD decision that could make them think twice, also Blu-Ray wants to get in as many homes as possible, so maybe they'll see that leaving out the HDMI requirement will give them a bit of an edge in a head to head war. Remember, there's a battle brewing, and both sides need to do whatever they can to build up sales, and maybe, not screwing the customer by requiring HDMI is one of the bits of ammo in their arsenal.
Not only do the retailers wish for a single format but so do the consumers. No one wants to be stuck with an obsolete piece of equipment a year or so after they've purchased it. Let's avoid another VHS/Beta fiasco, and actually think about the consumers for once. I personally like the Blu-ray option, it's got more room and just seems like it's the better option to me, plus it doesn't look out all the consumers without HDMI. I'd like these companies to think about the customers just once, but that's probably asking too much.
Even better, you don't get to stand on that big rock. You get to orbit it, but you might get close enough to smell the cheese, I hear it's quite pungent.
He broke in, tried to get the info. He didn't tell anybody about their security holes
Actually in the interview, he says he left notes on people's desktops of the machines he broke into to tell them that he'd been there, and they still didn't change the password. This is not me saying what he did was right or even wrong, just replying to that part of your post.
I believe the damages are the fact that they have to add new security measures to their systems. While, yes, they should've had better security over their networks, they're going to have to upgrade and his hacking is the reason why. So while he is probably being scapegoated, there is a direct correlation between him breaking into the networks, and the costs that will be incurred.