Once the API arrives, I can imagine that all they have to do is write an 'enabler' app that does a magic handshake over the cellular interface to pass the phone's WiFi Ethernet interface address to the local hotspot. That would obviate the need to fill out their silly web form and everything.
Of course, if they're silly enough to write the app so that it enables the connection without performing a validation step (assuming that being able to run the app means it's running on an iPhone), then someone will rather quickly decompile it and they'll be in no better shape than they are now.
Illegal MP3s copied from his CDs on his computer? Whatever happened to the whole concept of fair use? Well, nothing, but you have a non-sequitur there. The law that grants you the ability to rip CDs is actually the AHRA - the grandfather of the DMCA. One of the few things it did that were good for consumers was make media-shifting explicitly legal.
m-w.com: 2v. to act as a spokesperson or promoter; 1n a: one who acts as a decoy (as for a pitchman or gambler) b: one who makes a sales pitch or serves as a promoter The word "decoy" indicates deception, which fits my definition better.
wiktionary: 1n: A person paid to endorse a product favourably, while pretending to be impartial. Again, this fellow never pretended to be impartial.
encarta: 2. self-interested promoter: somebody who promotes somebody else or makes a sales pitch for something for reasons of self-interest I, and a majority of the dictionaries that have been quoted in this thread disagree with that definition. To be a shill, you must misrepresent yourself to your audience. Any definition that does not include that element is incorrect.
Well now that he's still saying nice things about Microsoft but no longer works for them, I think he's definitely a shill. But, again, that's not what a shill is. He would be a shill if he
1. Was compensated by Microsoft.
2. Said nice things about Microsoft.
3. Did not tell his readers about point #1.
Since #1 is no longer in effect, he is not a shill. Since #3 was not in effect back when #1 was, he wasn't a shill then either.
Then they're wrong. Every dictionary I have consulted so far has taken the opposite view. I even remember an old Bob 'n Ray sketch where they were talking about interesting occupations and one was a supermarket shill, who - wait for it - posed as a customer to influence the shopping behavior of the other customers. That was broadcast in the 1940s (I heard it on tape many decades later).
I'm sorry, let's call him what he is: Shill Folks, words have meanings.
Specifically, in this case, a shill is "an accomplice of a hawker, gambler, or swindler who acts as an enthusiastic customer to entice or encourage others."
Now.
Can you produce any evidence that while this guy was blogging for Microsoft that he in any way hid his affiliation? If you can't, then he's not a shill. He may be something else, but that being the case, you should have picked the correct word for whatever it is you want to call him.
Did you type this on a Mac clone or a Mac? I actually typed it on a FreeBSD machine, douchebag.
I'll just go load some DRM songs onto my iPod with iTunes I bought from the iTMS You enjoy that. I filled mine with MP3s I bought from Amazon.
even though the underlying procedural problem was quietly fixed. It's worth mentioning that the underlying problem was fixed without any government action at all. In fact, the underlying problem was fixed even before the 9/11 incident ended. As soon as the folks on the UA San Francisco-bound plane knew the ground rules changed, they responded appropriately and the hijackers failed in their goal. The would-be shoe bomber was tackled by his fellow passengers not because of the words or actions of any government agency, but because of the heightened vigilance of his fellow passengers.
In fact, all of the extra TSA security theatre has probably by now resulted in more deaths than the 9/11 incident. How? By increasing the costs of air travel both in money and inconvenience, more people have been diverted to the nation's highways, which have a death toll per passenger mile exponentially higher than air travel.
Nowhere did I suggest that education should not be free. I simply said that it should not be run by the state. Vouchers are a way to make universal education achievable without out-of-pocket expenses for parents. Private schools will always be affordable for the rich. Allowing them to accept vouchers would actually *lower* the bar for attendance to include *more* families, because they would not have to pay for schooling their children *twice* (once for the public system they do not use, and again for the private one they do).
This is yet another reason why public education is just wrong.
If parents were free to pick the school their child attended, then all this could be avoided. The fundies could send their kids to bible school to be taught creationist nonsense and leave the rest of us alone. Let the free market (both for schools and for the marketable skills that they produce in their output) separate the wheat from the chaff.
Slated for 7.1 is support for booting GPT partitioned disks. This will make the whole partitioning thing even easier, since it will make BSD labels and the MBR go away entirely, and partitioning will be done entirely using LBA addressing.
1. Home routers that support IPV6 off the shelf. Done.
2. Cable/DSL modems that support IPV6 off the shelf.
3. (The biggie) ISPs that hand out IPV6 addresses. Don't let that stop you from setting up 6to4. The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.
It's not that the printer is multifunction that has anything to do with it. I used to have a multifunction printer that connected to my computer with USB. I dare say that it offered no particularly interesting attack vector in that configuration.
Here's the issue. I'm all for net neutrality, myself. But a legitimate argument against it is that it would eliminate the ability of ISPs to block port 25 egress, which would lead to a multiplication of the number of spam bots out there. So do we say that ISPs must be net-neutral except for TCP port 25? It's the camel's nose.
You need to rent Around The World In 80 Days - not the fictional movie(s), the A&E documentary with Michael Palin.
While regularly scheduled passenger service is not available, there are places you can go to seek passenger accommodations aboard cargo vessels. It's not The Love Boat, but it didn't look nearly as uncomfortable as steerage^Wcoach on a passenger plane.
Note to/.: How about allowing <s> tags? It would bring the ^W joke somewhat closer to the 21st century.
Linksys: It's called cisco. They'd be happy to offer you 6to4 capabilities, but that's a *business* need, so you'll need to pay for their *business* class hardware. I guess building hardware to keep up with the no-default routing table for IPv4 is too lucrative.
Of course that's the wrong attitude. It's not a business need. Moving to IPv6 is a basic survival strategy for the Internet. If Cisco doesn't want to invest in helping to bring the transition closer, then pressure should be brought to bear to show them the error of their ways.
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Once the API arrives, I can imagine that all they have to do is write an 'enabler' app that does a magic handshake over the cellular interface to pass the phone's WiFi Ethernet interface address to the local hotspot. That would obviate the need to fill out their silly web form and everything.
Of course, if they're silly enough to write the app so that it enables the connection without performing a validation step (assuming that being able to run the app means it's running on an iPhone), then someone will rather quickly decompile it and they'll be in no better shape than they are now.
Oh, you're using Encarta? That explains everything.
How has he hid his former affiliation? How could he, since TFA is about him being the former blogger from Microsoft?
1. Was compensated by Microsoft.
2. Said nice things about Microsoft.
3. Did not tell his readers about point #1.
Since #1 is no longer in effect, he is not a shill. Since #3 was not in effect back when #1 was, he wasn't a shill then either.
For those using Macs, Elgato has the EyeTV Hybrid, which is probably the exact same thing but bundled with their EyeTV software.
The Oxford definition, is, in fact, the one I quoted in my original reply.
Then they're wrong. Every dictionary I have consulted so far has taken the opposite view. I even remember an old Bob 'n Ray sketch where they were talking about interesting occupations and one was a supermarket shill, who - wait for it - posed as a customer to influence the shopping behavior of the other customers. That was broadcast in the 1940s (I heard it on tape many decades later).
Specifically, in this case, a shill is "an accomplice of a hawker, gambler, or swindler who acts as an enthusiastic customer to entice or encourage others."
Now.
Can you produce any evidence that while this guy was blogging for Microsoft that he in any way hid his affiliation? If you can't, then he's not a shill. He may be something else, but that being the case, you should have picked the correct word for whatever it is you want to call him.
More Gates than Jobs, considering the anti-competitive behavior he engaged in.
In fact, all of the extra TSA security theatre has probably by now resulted in more deaths than the 9/11 incident. How? By increasing the costs of air travel both in money and inconvenience, more people have been diverted to the nation's highways, which have a death toll per passenger mile exponentially higher than air travel.
Nowhere did I suggest that education should not be free. I simply said that it should not be run by the state. Vouchers are a way to make universal education achievable without out-of-pocket expenses for parents. Private schools will always be affordable for the rich. Allowing them to accept vouchers would actually *lower* the bar for attendance to include *more* families, because they would not have to pay for schooling their children *twice* (once for the public system they do not use, and again for the private one they do).
This is yet another reason why public education is just wrong.
If parents were free to pick the school their child attended, then all this could be avoided. The fundies could send their kids to bible school to be taught creationist nonsense and leave the rest of us alone. Let the free market (both for schools and for the marketable skills that they produce in their output) separate the wheat from the chaff.
Touché
Slated for 7.1 is support for booting GPT partitioned disks. This will make the whole partitioning thing even easier, since it will make BSD labels and the MBR go away entirely, and partitioning will be done entirely using LBA addressing.
3. (The biggie) ISPs that hand out IPV6 addresses. Don't let that stop you from setting up 6to4. The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.
It's not that the printer is multifunction that has anything to do with it. I used to have a multifunction printer that connected to my computer with USB. I dare say that it offered no particularly interesting attack vector in that configuration.
Here's the issue. I'm all for net neutrality, myself. But a legitimate argument against it is that it would eliminate the ability of ISPs to block port 25 egress, which would lead to a multiplication of the number of spam bots out there. So do we say that ISPs must be net-neutral except for TCP port 25? It's the camel's nose.
The reason that it's "unauthorized" is because beta testers discovered problems with data corruption.
It'd suck to need to restore from your backups only to discover that they were pooched.
You need to rent Around The World In 80 Days - not the fictional movie(s), the A&E documentary with Michael Palin.
/.: How about allowing <s> tags? It would bring the ^W joke somewhat closer to the 21st century.
While regularly scheduled passenger service is not available, there are places you can go to seek passenger accommodations aboard cargo vessels. It's not The Love Boat, but it didn't look nearly as uncomfortable as steerage^Wcoach on a passenger plane.
Note to
I thought they were going to call it Skynet,
I guess it's true if your time has no value.
Of course that's the wrong attitude. It's not a business need. Moving to IPv6 is a basic survival strategy for the Internet. If Cisco doesn't want to invest in helping to bring the transition closer, then pressure should be brought to bear to show them the error of their ways.