This isn't about freespeech. This is about slagging off a place under their own name.
And that is different from free speech how?
If I go and register Slashdot.org the second it comes up to be re-registered and turn it into "OMG IT SUCKS TACO IS A GIMP AND COWBOYNEAL IS A FAG!" then I deserve to have the URL taken off me for false advertising in the URL.
Clearly, you don't understand how domain registration works. The owner will get many emails asking him for money to reregister it, for many months prior to its being expired. In fact, slashdot.org is more than likely registered for a much longer period of time than usual - probably for 10 years or more.
In other words, it is the domain owner's responsibility to make sure the domain doesn't get stolen from under him. If slashdot's owner manages to forget to renew it, he definitely deserves to have it ripped from his loins.
If the URL says something then it damn well better be that thing.
It's sad that Nintendo has made the DS such a hard system to hack, because it really would be a far better system to browse the web on, thanks mainly to the touch screen.
People don't really browse the internet with handheld devices (phones, PDAs, etc) actually attempting to REPLACE their computer.
You have cause and effect reversed. Pages aren't designed for huge screens BECAUSE no one needs to look at them on small ones - no one looks at them on small screens BECAUSE it's such a horrible user experience.
If you want to browse a page that is designed for 1600x1200 resolutions, chances are that the page ISN'T something you need to check right away, and can wait until you get to your computer.
Wanna bet? Webmasters - including those for sites you may need to visit right now - have a tendency to blatantly ignore small-screen devices.
You gain a lot by adding a second button. You gain contextual menus. By adding a 3rd button, you only gain half-assed alternative click actions in maybe 2/3rds of the applications out there.
IMHO, this is....misguided. You don't "gain" context menus, they're just slightly easier to access than they used to be (control-click). And OS X supports several GLOBAL functions for up to 5 buttons (maybe more, I'm not sure), including a really damn useful Expose ability.
Though here's hoping Apple ultimately wows us with something truly neat, like pressing down on the entire mouse engaging a grab-'n-pull functionality or something.
Most people seem to be against this, but I, for one, welcome our lack-of-copyright-on-words enforcing overlords.
What I like about this is that there is no longer any doubt of whether or not you should encrypt anything sensitive - the answer is not "Maybe" but a resounding "Yes!"
If we're really lucky, it will also cause a unification of encryption standards across third-party (possibly even first-party) AIM clients.
Or... you know.... download Mozilla, and not pay $30 for what is free everywhere else in the world. (The ability to browse pages on a less crappy browser)
If Apple can figure out who the real leakers are, then it's their perogrative to take the necessary actions. However, I suspect that the ThinkSecret admin would have taken every precaution to remove all traces of the submitter's identity, in which case they could be barking up a tree with no leaves.
However, ThinkSecret, having never agreed to the NDA, has every right to print (well, redistribute) what it has heard. It's the ones who broke the NDA in the first place who are legally responsible - and the reality of the Internet is that it may or may not be possible to trace that information back to its original source.
The first two seasons of TNG were pretty bad as well. IMO, the third season of Enterprise is among the best seasons ever produced in scifi (I'm not particularly attached to the rigidity of my star trek universe, which probably explains that.) and the fourth is very good as well. In other words, as far as I'm concerned, it's on equal footing with TNG at this time, and I'm enthusiastic about the possibility of new episodes.
You're only reinforcing the reason i'm not watching it...I'll just stick to my slow acquisition of the DS9 box sets instead.
Wait... you're using DS9 as the example in this case? Until midway through the fourth season, DS9 was awful.
Maybe you've been extremely lucky but that normally leads to a 60HZ hum from a ground loop. It is very annoying and very noticable.
Evidently I have been lucky. On my headphone-cable-based small speakers, even when cranked up all the way, I've never heard any hum. *shrug* or maybe these little speakers just kick ass:)
Well, that part was going to be covered by the Bluetooth. Why stick to the aged, outdated IR standard when you could use BT?
As for the "decent sound" thing.... could anyone explain what exactly is wrong with headphone output? Is it much like the difference between lossless and 192-256kbps MP3? (which is usually "I like to pretend I can hear the difference, because it makes me sound more hardcore." Almost no one can actually tell.)
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'to survive'. Finally we come to the heart of the matter...the reason that should have been number one,
You know, if you look at those little numbers before the reasons, it was number one.
....biometrics were supposed to keep doors CLOSED? :)
Then again, can someone remind me why the UNIX under OSX is not good enough?
Because it wasn't compiled and installed from scratch, obviously.
Also, it's too easy to set up and use, and there's not enough hacking to get apps installed.
Perhaps this year will be the Year of Harware Support on the Linux Mini Desktop.
Paramount never ended a 10-year-old Voyager program. Voyager was 7 when it was ended. Yes, it's 10 now, but that's not what you said.
Unsure whether this is dumbassedness or just poorly thought out grammar, but I thought I'd point it out anyway.
Ahem.
This isn't about freespeech. This is about slagging off a place under their own name.
And that is different from free speech how?
If I go and register Slashdot.org the second it comes up to be re-registered and turn it into "OMG IT SUCKS TACO IS A GIMP AND COWBOYNEAL IS A FAG!" then I deserve to have the URL taken off me for false advertising in the URL.
Clearly, you don't understand how domain registration works. The owner will get many emails asking him for money to reregister it, for many months prior to its being expired. In fact, slashdot.org is more than likely registered for a much longer period of time than usual - probably for 10 years or more.
In other words, it is the domain owner's responsibility to make sure the domain doesn't get stolen from under him. If slashdot's owner manages to forget to renew it, he definitely deserves to have it ripped from his loins.
If the URL says something then it damn well better be that thing.
As another reply mentioned, what is a "slashdot"?
I expect that Google is smart enough not to include this tag on pages that would be blocked by SafeSearch, which would eliminate most porn sites.
No. Only the top result is linked, and even then, only if Google is confident you will click it.
Plural JOBS.
Yes, but then MS would be asking for there to be more than one Jobs. One Jobs at Apple is doing enough damage as it is.
It's sad that Nintendo has made the DS such a hard system to hack, because it really would be a far better system to browse the web on, thanks mainly to the touch screen.
People don't really browse the internet with handheld devices (phones, PDAs, etc) actually attempting to REPLACE their computer.
You have cause and effect reversed. Pages aren't designed for huge screens BECAUSE no one needs to look at them on small ones - no one looks at them on small screens BECAUSE it's such a horrible user experience.
If you want to browse a page that is designed for 1600x1200 resolutions, chances are that the page ISN'T something you need to check right away, and can wait until you get to your computer.
Wanna bet? Webmasters - including those for sites you may need to visit right now - have a tendency to blatantly ignore small-screen devices.
Can you point to any important research publications by Apple researchers in the last few years? I haven't seen any.
Sure, they're all located here
This is in the best school distrect in the state!
Clearly.
You gain a lot by adding a second button. You gain contextual menus. By adding a 3rd button, you only gain half-assed alternative click actions in maybe 2/3rds of the applications out there.
IMHO, this is....misguided. You don't "gain" context menus, they're just slightly easier to access than they used to be (control-click). And OS X supports several GLOBAL functions for up to 5 buttons (maybe more, I'm not sure), including a really damn useful Expose ability.
Though here's hoping Apple ultimately wows us with something truly neat, like pressing down on the entire mouse engaging a grab-'n-pull functionality or something.
Oooh, I like that...
Most people seem to be against this, but I, for one, welcome our lack-of-copyright-on-words enforcing overlords.
What I like about this is that there is no longer any doubt of whether or not you should encrypt anything sensitive - the answer is not "Maybe" but a resounding "Yes!"
If we're really lucky, it will also cause a unification of encryption standards across third-party (possibly even first-party) AIM clients.
I meant to say that Mozilla was "less crappy" than IE, not so much Opera. Sorry about the misunderstanding
Or... you know.... download Mozilla, and not pay $30 for what is free everywhere else in the world. (The ability to browse pages on a less crappy browser)
If Apple can figure out who the real leakers are, then it's their perogrative to take the necessary actions. However, I suspect that the ThinkSecret admin would have taken every precaution to remove all traces of the submitter's identity, in which case they could be barking up a tree with no leaves.
However, ThinkSecret, having never agreed to the NDA, has every right to print (well, redistribute) what it has heard. It's the ones who broke the NDA in the first place who are legally responsible - and the reality of the Internet is that it may or may not be possible to trace that information back to its original source.
I hope you never have to make a phone call in the dark.
The first two seasons of TNG were pretty bad as well. IMO, the third season of Enterprise is among the best seasons ever produced in scifi (I'm not particularly attached to the rigidity of my star trek universe, which probably explains that.) and the fourth is very good as well. In other words, as far as I'm concerned, it's on equal footing with TNG at this time, and I'm enthusiastic about the possibility of new episodes.
You're only reinforcing the reason i'm not watching it...I'll just stick to my slow acquisition of the DS9 box sets instead.
Wait... you're using DS9 as the example in this case? Until midway through the fourth season, DS9 was awful.
Maybe you've been extremely lucky but that normally leads to a 60HZ hum from a ground loop. It is very annoying and very noticable.
:)
Evidently I have been lucky. On my headphone-cable-based small speakers, even when cranked up all the way, I've never heard any hum. *shrug* or maybe these little speakers just kick ass
And an IR reciever and remote control.
Well, that part was going to be covered by the Bluetooth. Why stick to the aged, outdated IR standard when you could use BT?
As for the "decent sound" thing.... could anyone explain what exactly is wrong with headphone output? Is it much like the difference between lossless and 192-256kbps MP3? (which is usually "I like to pretend I can hear the difference, because it makes me sound more hardcore." Almost no one can actually tell.)
2.2 pounds, of course. :)
How about a six inch, $500 box then?
(All the mini needs to be the entertainment center is the $20 S-video adapter, and software.)
Admittedly, to make it really useful, you'd need to add a few things. Bump up the RAM, add BT, the SVid adapter. Still well under $700.