"Mr Hoglund noted that the text strings in title bars could easily contain credit card details or social security numbers."
are you joking me? sure title bars COULD contain that data, but i think anyone here would be hard pressed to find an actual example of that happening.
if some company website or program is too ignorant to keep a CC or SSN off the title bar, they probably have a lot more problems on their hands.
ALSO, is it just me or is the EFF going a little nuts here? i'm a firm believer in freeing up information for the benefit of the consumer, but i think this is stupid. maybe they should try playing in a world (of warcraft) where there are no cheat protections.
there have been hacks for games as long as i've played them, and they always ruin the game. well, unless i'm the one doing it! [myg0t]tehwebguy pwnz j00!1
first of all, relevant google television ads would completely blow the industry up. don't you hate normal tv ads? they are awful! something personalized by google, while this may not intially replace normal ads, could cause an entire industry to re-examine their strategies.
but don't think the privacy of your tv is more important than your online privacy, the notion is rediculous. the number of pages or emails you associate with are completely limitless. there are only a few broadcast channels in most areas, usually under 200 cable channels in most areas, and around a thousand (or less, there are more pick-what-you-want plans) satellite channels.
more importantly, don't worry -- google won't expose your dirty browsing / viewing habits. they don't allow "adult" oriented (and a slew of other types of) advertisers or publishers.
you are correct, sir.
every time i somehow watch part of a news program i feel like killing myself. the only times i ever DO see it, are:
1) when i'm back home and my 'rents put it on, or
2) when there is something crazy going on (i.e. katrina)
the reasons are simple. why would anyone want to watch idiots talk for a few seconds about things they have no knowledge about (except what's on their cue card) when they can read what specialists all over the internet have to say?
news on tv makes money by scaring the "oprah crowd" -- that's what i call people who do or don't watch oprah, but seem to fall into that completely-sucked-into-their-tv group of people that plagues the states. news on the internet makes money by making real content available to the smaller audiences that care about it.
don't get me wrong, there is loads of crap news online, but i can check/. or digg to get tech news here and i know i'm going to get tech news. i don't want some botox-laden cokehead speaking in perfect florida diction (even rolling her R's for the occasional spanish phrase) about ipods and using the wrong terminology.
the thing that i think is funniest about this, is that i've been using various web services to replace phone calls for years!
i email and instant message my clients, coworkers, and classmates, and i instant message my friends.
do i ever make phone calls? SURE! but i have a cell phone for that. the last phone call i made from a landline was this summer when i was back at my 'rents house. i think every major cell provider in the us has a "family" or "network" plan that lets you call anyone on their network for free. plans as low as $40 give you virutally unlimited calling this way (when combined with something around 600 or 1000 weekday minutes and free nights and weekends).
maybe he should invest in some new cable modems that block cell phone signals in a 100 foot radius to keep cells out of the living room. otherwise, he's doomed anyway.
maybe they should reconsider their TLD first! come on,.mobi ?!!?
first of all, it's 4 letters long, longer than most top levels (except country specific ones, i know).
second of all, it's not simple to type on a telephone keyboard. if someone is using a web enabled phone without a qwerty keyboard they have to type 6, 666 22 444 -- that is a pain in the ass, especially the "6," part. since it starts with MO you must do an M and then wait for the cursor to reappear on most phones
t9 input could make some of this easier, but not much (considering my nokia displays "noah" for the first match for 6624).mobi domains just straight up won't take off. (don't forget it will take longer to take off in america, i'm sure, because most american don't consider their phone a mobile, but a cell)
if you really want something done about it, why don't you link to their webform in the article. i think they may reconsider your case once they get slashdotted..
go stand in the computer section and listen to middle aged men buy computers. they will all go for the one with more "jiggabytes". you will hear some try to act like they know what they talk about, some will admit that they don't. they will all opt for 120 gigs if it's available even if they realistically need 20 or 30.
we're not talking about apple selling ipods to an army of nerds, we're talking about them selling ipods to an army of consumers that don't know what they're talking about or even what they want.
the morning after the video ipod was announced, mary jane, the 60 some odd receptionist the office i work at on campus asked me if i had seen it yet.
this lady wouldn't even know how to use one and certainly wouldn't have the use for one, but THAT'S how well apple has taken the market.
PeoplePC, along with countless other month-long businesses.
this is not a good idea at all imo. i don't know exactly how they want to execute it but phone calls shouldn't be hindered with some sort of advertisement. i pay around $40/month on my cell and it is nearly unlimited. that's not too bad to me..
what a crock of crap, the line about journalists not knowing how to use windows or a windows word processor is rediculous. the only person i have ever known to be older than say 5 or 6 and ONLY know how to use a mac and not windows is my girlfriend, and she picked up windows in a matter of minutes.
(but yeah she never used a wintel machine till she was 19, crazy)
it doesn't seem like something you should always rely on, what about storms?
i know in florida relying on something like this would be a disaster (i mean heck, my landline cable will likely be out after this 'cane hits this weekend!)
finally i can stop incinerating all my documents. when the fbi knocks on the door all i have to do is wave a magnet over my notebook.
(p.s. i have no idea if that would work)
what a stupid and terrible headline. there have been ipod taxes enacted and talked about in other countries, so a headline like this makes it seem like the story will actually be about taxes imposed on ipods and customers who buy them.
maybe they should embrace it and try to get on with abc, rather than try to chastise them for it. every industry that has a strong foothold tris to fight innovation to some extent. after a certain point they either decide to run with it and prosper, or the fight it forever and die.
this guy is a nutcase. ask anyone who has known him personally (like my dad). you guys are just feeding him. he eats this stuff up.
as great as it is to see penny arcade bothering the sad old dirtbag, he would be much more provoked if no one gave a crap what he said. everyone knows he's an idiot, so lets let this old man die lonely and ignored
ok first of all, the ipod your car link looks the same now that it did for the past 6 months (except there is a new ipod shopped into the picture at the top)
there is a load of news that happened regarding apple, and the car shit has nothing to do with any of it.
to me this seems like such a waste. the few features mentioned sound like crap or not new. for instance the article says "imagine four live pictures on the screen at once" -- why would i want to watch 4 at once? anyway, picture in picture (you know, that button that says PIP that nobody uses) has been around since the dark ages. the other features mentioned are already available one way or another or are pointless.
well i have more than one question here: 1. what is their definition of addicted to the internet? 2. who decides if you are addicted and should be placed in one of these clinics?
china's government already doesn't like the internet. could this soon be a humane-LOOKING way to do the dirty human-rights-destroying censoring they're already doing? instead of putting someone in jail for the rest of their life because they said something the gov didn't like, they could have them "voluntarily check into an internet addiction clinic".
perhaps this is the most revealing and disturbing part of the article: "Every day in China, more than 20 million youngsters go online to play games and hit the chat rooms, and that means that internet addiction among young people is becoming a major issue here."
so somehow large numbers of people doing something means that addiction to that something is becoming a major issue?
all we have to do is brainwash oprah to tell all of her viewers to commit mass suicide one day. then our country will be free of these zombies.
until that entire generation of tv culture (the ones that wake up, eat breakfast, eat lunch, eat dinner, work, play, and fall asleep to a tv being on) dies, we can't make a dent.
in 50 years a lot of them will be dead anyway, i don't think the new generations seem as crazy about living on the tube, but we'll see.
the nokia 8890 -- out of production for years, available for around $100 on ebay (i got one for $75 and i love it so much)
let me go through your checklist though:
o) No camera - check
o) No games - hardly any games
o) No Java - check
o) No blue-tooth/wi-fi - check
o) Just a really big phonebook + clock - check
o) Really, really, small - check
o) Really, really tough (titanium alloy? liquid metal?) - check (kind of)
o) Lots of stand-by time, lots of talk-time - check (kind of)
o) Fast (and quiet) power on/off times - check!!!
o) GSM (my current carrier is T-Mobile) - check
as far as games go, it has the standard nokia games (snake, memory, something else), as far as toughness, it is aluminum. it can get banged up if you don't treat it right, but it looks awesome. as far as talk time, mine has an old battery so i don't really know. i charge it every other night probably.
it turns off upon holding the power button for 1.5 - 2 seconds and doesn't make a sound. turning it on is the same, and it is at the menu in under 4 or 5 seconds. the phonebook loads faster than my newer color samsung crap.
it is a world phone and will work on t-mobile. all i did was buy one and pop the sim card in.
if you buy one on ebay, obviously make sure it is unlocked or is locked for t-mobile or voicestream
i could be wrong, but i believe that memory sticks were first introduced when the best (maybe only) available card formats were the compact flash card (which is anything but compact) and smartmedia, which is obsolete according to wikipedia.
while sony has surely made some serious profits off having a proprietary memory card, it seems to have helped them make all of their devices able to share cards, which helps people like me that have owned multiple sony products at a time.
cameras that feature their newest format, the memory stick duo, (or maybe it was new duo sticks) initially came with "adapter sticks". they are shaped and sized like regular memory sticks, and accept the much smaller duo.
while there's still proprietary hardware, it's good hardware and they have take some steps to make it hurt the consumer as little as possible. in the end, i'd say that's a lot better than companies like nikon using standardized memory cards, but drm'ing the software..
Slashdot Mirror
"Mr Hoglund noted that the text strings in title bars could easily contain credit card details or social security numbers."
are you joking me? sure title bars COULD contain that data, but i think anyone here would be hard pressed to find an actual example of that happening.
if some company website or program is too ignorant to keep a CC or SSN off the title bar, they probably have a lot more problems on their hands.
ALSO, is it just me or is the EFF going a little nuts here? i'm a firm believer in freeing up information for the benefit of the consumer, but i think this is stupid. maybe they should try playing in a world (of warcraft) where there are no cheat protections.
there have been hacks for games as long as i've played them, and they always ruin the game. well, unless i'm the one doing it! [myg0t]tehwebguy pwnz j00!1
d'oh, sorry about the lack of line breaks.
i meant to hit "plain text"
first of all, relevant google television ads would completely blow the industry up. don't you hate normal tv ads? they are awful! something personalized by google, while this may not intially replace normal ads, could cause an entire industry to re-examine their strategies.
but don't think the privacy of your tv is more important than your online privacy, the notion is rediculous. the number of pages or emails you associate with are completely limitless. there are only a few broadcast channels in most areas, usually under 200 cable channels in most areas, and around a thousand (or less, there are more pick-what-you-want plans) satellite channels.
more importantly, don't worry -- google won't expose your dirty browsing / viewing habits. they don't allow "adult" oriented (and a slew of other types of) advertisers or publishers.
you are correct, sir. every time i somehow watch part of a news program i feel like killing myself. the only times i ever DO see it, are: 1) when i'm back home and my 'rents put it on, or 2) when there is something crazy going on (i.e. katrina) the reasons are simple. why would anyone want to watch idiots talk for a few seconds about things they have no knowledge about (except what's on their cue card) when they can read what specialists all over the internet have to say? news on tv makes money by scaring the "oprah crowd" -- that's what i call people who do or don't watch oprah, but seem to fall into that completely-sucked-into-their-tv group of people that plagues the states. news on the internet makes money by making real content available to the smaller audiences that care about it. don't get me wrong, there is loads of crap news online, but i can check /. or digg to get tech news here and i know i'm going to get tech news. i don't want some botox-laden cokehead speaking in perfect florida diction (even rolling her R's for the occasional spanish phrase) about ipods and using the wrong terminology.
the thing that i think is funniest about this, is that i've been using various web services to replace phone calls for years!
i email and instant message my clients, coworkers, and classmates, and i instant message my friends.
do i ever make phone calls? SURE! but i have a cell phone for that. the last phone call i made from a landline was this summer when i was back at my 'rents house. i think every major cell provider in the us has a "family" or "network" plan that lets you call anyone on their network for free. plans as low as $40 give you virutally unlimited calling this way (when combined with something around 600 or 1000 weekday minutes and free nights and weekends).
maybe he should invest in some new cable modems that block cell phone signals in a 100 foot radius to keep cells out of the living room. otherwise, he's doomed anyway.
maybe they should reconsider their TLD first! come on, .mobi ?!!?
.mobi domains just straight up won't take off. (don't forget it will take longer to take off in america, i'm sure, because most american don't consider their phone a mobile, but a cell)
first of all, it's 4 letters long, longer than most top levels (except country specific ones, i know).
second of all, it's not simple to type on a telephone keyboard. if someone is using a web enabled phone without a qwerty keyboard they have to type 6, 666 22 444 -- that is a pain in the ass, especially the "6," part. since it starts with MO you must do an M and then wait for the cursor to reappear on most phones
t9 input could make some of this easier, but not much (considering my nokia displays "noah" for the first match for 6624)
if you really want something done about it, why don't you link to their webform in the article. i think they may reconsider your case once they get slashdotted..
not quite, there is no open source alternative to the vaccine.
come on man..
go stand in the computer section and listen to middle aged men buy computers. they will all go for the one with more "jiggabytes". you will hear some try to act like they know what they talk about, some will admit that they don't. they will all opt for 120 gigs if it's available even if they realistically need 20 or 30.
we're not talking about apple selling ipods to an army of nerds, we're talking about them selling ipods to an army of consumers that don't know what they're talking about or even what they want.
the morning after the video ipod was announced, mary jane, the 60 some odd receptionist the office i work at on campus asked me if i had seen it yet.
this lady wouldn't even know how to use one and certainly wouldn't have the use for one, but THAT'S how well apple has taken the market.
PeoplePC, along with countless other month-long businesses.
this is not a good idea at all imo. i don't know exactly how they want to execute it but phone calls shouldn't be hindered with some sort of advertisement. i pay around $40/month on my cell and it is nearly unlimited. that's not too bad to me..
it's too bad we don't have a march like that, because it would likely be more in the range of MANY million people.
what a crock of crap, the line about journalists not knowing how to use windows or a windows word processor is rediculous. the only person i have ever known to be older than say 5 or 6 and ONLY know how to use a mac and not windows is my girlfriend, and she picked up windows in a matter of minutes.
(but yeah she never used a wintel machine till she was 19, crazy)
it doesn't seem like something you should always rely on, what about storms? i know in florida relying on something like this would be a disaster (i mean heck, my landline cable will likely be out after this 'cane hits this weekend!)
finally i can stop incinerating all my documents. when the fbi knocks on the door all i have to do is wave a magnet over my notebook. (p.s. i have no idea if that would work)
what a stupid and terrible headline. there have been ipod taxes enacted and talked about in other countries, so a headline like this makes it seem like the story will actually be about taxes imposed on ipods and customers who buy them.
think.
maybe they should embrace it and try to get on with abc, rather than try to chastise them for it. every industry that has a strong foothold tris to fight innovation to some extent. after a certain point they either decide to run with it and prosper, or the fight it forever and die.
this guy is a nutcase. ask anyone who has known him personally (like my dad). you guys are just feeding him. he eats this stuff up.
as great as it is to see penny arcade bothering the sad old dirtbag, he would be much more provoked if no one gave a crap what he said. everyone knows he's an idiot, so lets let this old man die lonely and ignored
maybe they will merge with phpbb too.. the message board function on webct (at least the version my school, UCF, uses) is worthless and unintuative.
most of the features on webct are excellent.
ok first of all, the ipod your car link looks the same now that it did for the past 6 months (except there is a new ipod shopped into the picture at the top)
there is a load of news that happened regarding apple, and the car shit has nothing to do with any of it.
you sir, are an idiot
to me this seems like such a waste. the few features mentioned sound like crap or not new. for instance the article says "imagine four live pictures on the screen at once" -- why would i want to watch 4 at once? anyway, picture in picture (you know, that button that says PIP that nobody uses) has been around since the dark ages. the other features mentioned are already available one way or another or are pointless.
china's not worried about people dying, just becoming vegetables. they already have an overpopulation problem.
well i have more than one question here:
1. what is their definition of addicted to the internet?
2. who decides if you are addicted and should be placed in one of these clinics?
china's government already doesn't like the internet. could this soon be a humane-LOOKING way to do the dirty human-rights-destroying censoring they're already doing? instead of putting someone in jail for the rest of their life because they said something the gov didn't like, they could have them "voluntarily check into an internet addiction clinic".
perhaps this is the most revealing and disturbing part of the article:
"Every day in China, more than 20 million youngsters go online to play games and hit the chat rooms, and that means that internet addiction among young people is becoming a major issue here."
so somehow large numbers of people doing something means that addiction to that something is becoming a major issue?
all we have to do is brainwash oprah to tell all of her viewers to commit mass suicide one day. then our country will be free of these zombies.
until that entire generation of tv culture (the ones that wake up, eat breakfast, eat lunch, eat dinner, work, play, and fall asleep to a tv being on) dies, we can't make a dent.
in 50 years a lot of them will be dead anyway, i don't think the new generations seem as crazy about living on the tube, but we'll see.
you are just like me!
the nokia 8890 -- out of production for years, available for around $100 on ebay (i got one for $75 and i love it so much)
let me go through your checklist though:
o) No camera - check
o) No games - hardly any games
o) No Java - check
o) No blue-tooth/wi-fi - check
o) Just a really big phonebook + clock - check
o) Really, really, small - check
o) Really, really tough (titanium alloy? liquid metal?) - check (kind of)
o) Lots of stand-by time, lots of talk-time - check (kind of)
o) Fast (and quiet) power on/off times - check!!!
o) GSM (my current carrier is T-Mobile) - check
as far as games go, it has the standard nokia games (snake, memory, something else), as far as toughness, it is aluminum. it can get banged up if you don't treat it right, but it looks awesome. as far as talk time, mine has an old battery so i don't really know. i charge it every other night probably.
it turns off upon holding the power button for 1.5 - 2 seconds and doesn't make a sound. turning it on is the same, and it is at the menu in under 4 or 5 seconds. the phonebook loads faster than my newer color samsung crap.
it is a world phone and will work on t-mobile. all i did was buy one and pop the sim card in.
if you buy one on ebay, obviously make sure it is unlocked or is locked for t-mobile or voicestream
i could be wrong, but i believe that memory sticks were first introduced when the best (maybe only) available card formats were the compact flash card (which is anything but compact) and smartmedia, which is obsolete according to wikipedia.
while sony has surely made some serious profits off having a proprietary memory card, it seems to have helped them make all of their devices able to share cards, which helps people like me that have owned multiple sony products at a time.
cameras that feature their newest format, the memory stick duo, (or maybe it was new duo sticks) initially came with "adapter sticks". they are shaped and sized like regular memory sticks, and accept the much smaller duo.
while there's still proprietary hardware, it's good hardware and they have take some steps to make it hurt the consumer as little as possible. in the end, i'd say that's a lot better than companies like nikon using standardized memory cards, but drm'ing the software..