I did read the entire article. If you would have read my post you would have noticed that I am mad about the city government where I live trying to do the same thing.
Think about it guys, how would you feel if microshaft decided that they wanted the front of their office to look pretty, so the took several of the oh-so-scarce downtown parking spots off the market.
Anybody who lives in tempe, arizona knows what I'm talking about. Mill avenue is a hot spot with a few "oh-so-choice" parking spots that are both CHEAP AS HELL, and right in front of the shops. Well lately the city has made a lot of these prized parking spots "Cab Only"...meaning that the cab drivers hang out in front of the bars all night long, and people who are actually trying to PARK in the parking spaces have to venture off into the wilderness that is ParkIT looking for some overpriced spot where you car will most likely have its stereo stolen.
MOral of the story is that Montrealians should not have to suffer a harder time trying to find a parking space because apple wanted their shop to look extra pretty.
A few months ago somebody other than me ordered a few dells from dell.com....they accidentally ordered office 2007 instead of 2003 (which is the standard in our company). The 2007 is absolutely TERRIBLE! The the new inferface is probably great for somebody who has never used a microsoft office suite before, but for people who have been doing things the same way for the last 10+ years the change was too much. The problem was solved by replacing the 2007 office with OpenOffice. The OO interface was close enough to microsofts that OO was an almost drop in replacement for it.
Whats funny is that microsoft releasing this "NOW WITH SHINIER GRAPHICS!" version of Office is actually causing people in my org. to use OO. There was an incident a few days ago where a user needed an XLS 2003 file, the XLS 2003 format that Office 2k7 spits out wouldn't work correctly with the software they were using, the OO version would.
On the last herd of dells that I ordered, i skipped an Office Suite all together. I know that at least in my organization, now that office 2003 is difficult to come by (I know, you can still order it from newgg.com etc.), we will be using OpenOffice exclusively.
that is the operating temperature for the camera, not the actual temperature at the north pole...at least i hope....maybe i need to start riding my bike to work!
On google being top secret about some things; Aren't they required to disclose everything, and I mean EVERYTHING down to how much they spent on every light bulb in the bathroom on the 3rd floor as a part of the SEC filings?
Isn't this exactly the reason that a lot of companies are taking themselves private again lately, disclosing everything is a HUGE hassle.
Hmm. There are no passwords (hashes or otherwise) in my/etc/password file. You fail at funny. The fact that/etc/passwd hasn't contained password data for YEARS is funny because every newbie linux user who downloaded "how to hack.txt" and read that using linux will turn them into a cr4ck1ng GOD finds/etc/passwd and freaks out so hard that they almost knock that two liter of generic Dr. Pepper all over moms carpet every time they find it.
Wow that is a long sentance, am i writing EULAs or is the the 18th century?
Maybe, but I don't think that one person would cause as much of a problem as you are suggesting. Every time I've flown private I have used my phone on the plane and i have never gotten a nastygram from the phone companies. I could see this being a problem if VERY VERY large numbers of people were making calls from high altitudes/speeds, but your post is a bit misleading. The cellphone networks do not crack themselves when you use a phone from the air.
But you don't know. Almost every torrent site is automated. Most of them have take-down procedures, some even offer automated takedowns. Like it or not, that is enough to comply with the law. appearantly not. Unfortunately the law is whatever the judge decides the law is.
has anybody considered that this is just viral marketing? I mean, this feat is pretty darn cool...but it doesn't really accomplish much, now you can use the phone on tmobile as well, but it isn't like the phone now has the capability to be used on every single network out there. If anything, this is good news for apple, not only did they get MORE front page news, but now the kid who did this is being touted as a celebrity; not to mention the fact that they can now sell phones to all of the tmobile customers out there (because they are, after all, just the hardware manufacturer).
Sorry, but I'm pretty sure that the two Russians that this kid collaborated with actually lived in Cupertino.
I just hope that the people buying their computers from best buy understand that with a mac, the VAST majority of software out there is not going to run. Most of us have used linux (I would assume, this being/. and all)...imagine the frustration that you sometimes have looking for a program that does what you need (like a quicken alternative, or a crystal reports alternative). Now imagine that you don't fully understand why the old program you used to use doesn't work, and imagine that the ones that get close to doing what you need all cost money.
What the hell are you talking about? Those of us that want to use encryption do. Reading things like slashdot in encrypted form is overkill (and undue overhead for the servers).
Was this an extreme failure attempt at funny that a bunch of confused./ mods thought was insightful or what?
"Understanding" without the actual experience to back it up isn't understanding, its recitation. The knowledge that A will lead you to B doesn't allow the opportunity to infer anything, it also doesn't allow for improvement. All you will ever know is that A leads to B. What people with your philosophy on teaching are suggesting is that concepts should be layed in stone, what i am suggesting is that they should be layed in clay. Your model doesn't allow students to ask "Why?".
the rest of us slashdotters value truth more than a peaceful death or a happier life, or even safety I'm glad that slashdot has elected you to speak on behalf of us as a whole, but count me as at least one person who wasn't included in the vote. Valuing truth more that a happy life is a contradiction, in the case of a person like you, truth is what gives you the happy life. The fact that you stated you would prefer to live an unhappy life (you said you value truth over happiness, meaning that you don't ACTUALLY find happiness in truth) leads me to believe that you are either a masochist, or have big time emotional problems. Are you seriously depressed or what man?
And in the story that you're referencing with "doublethink" what happened to winston? He ended up exiled from his city, barely survived the ministry of justice, and had to live out the rest of his life in the proles knowing that his society had serious problems, but that there was nothing he could do to change it.
Think about a person sitting on their deathbed; if they truly believe that when they die they will live out eternity in heaven, they will have a MUCH more peaceful death than if they know that they body will become, essentially, worm food. They will decay into what is basically liquid filth, and will become the nourishment for a bunch of bacteria and parasites.
I really think its a problem that kids are growing up today not know that blatant copyright violations really ARE stealing. Somebody really DID have to go through the work to create whatever it is that you're getting online for free. Most of us grew up having to actually purchase our music in a record store. When we download something online, we know that it is something that we would have normally had to pay for. If we understand that the recording industry is screwing the artists, that this CD used to cost us 13 dollars, and that the majority of artists make their living from touring, we are more likely to actually attend one of those shows for the sake of supporting the musicians. Sure we can tell the kids that are growing up around this that music is really something that they should have to pay for, but the internet found the problem and routed around it;-), however without the actual memories of mowing some grass in exchange for an album, or actually handing a clerk some cash, they won't really have a FULL understand of what is going on.
His point isn't to change the mind of the MPAA, it is to prevent the MPAA from indoctrinating his students with their views on the matter (or rather, indoctrinate them with his own). No offense, but I HATE it when people claim to be "helping the children" by "telling them the real story". So often that "real story", is a bunch of bias garbage that ends up hurting them 10 fold when the reach adulthood. They end up having a completely warped view of reality (at least warped relative to the their peers; even if they are right, they are stilling playing with a handicap). For instance, lets say that we took a group of elementary aged kids and taught that that IP was a totally evil concept. To US (adults) that is okay because we have grown up around IP and understand the reason that it needs to be changed; however, if you teach somebody that has no frame of reference that IP is evil, they won't understand why. This will end up actually hurting them in the long run. People need the ability to come to their own conclusions. People who try and let their kids skip that whole "experience" thing, and jump right into the understanding part are doing their children a great injustice.
I think that the reason that SARS only killed a couple of hundred people was that Asia got shut down for 6 months. The point was to keep the number a couple of hundred, instead of having it get to the 100,000 a year that the flu kills.
You're right, but we aren't talking about the price per gallon (or liter) of refined gasoline (which is HEAVILY dependant upon taxes), we are talking about the price per barrel of crude oil. The price of a barrel of crude has gone up SIGNIFICANTLY since the start of the "war for oil". And no, this is not some conspiracy by rand($corporate_entity); the president of OPEC has come out and said that they have intentionally released a limited amount of crude to market to artificially inflate the prices. Look at cities like Dubai and you will understand why.
more like: if your neighbor's irrigation system is spraying across your yard, is it your responsibility to prevent your grass from being watered by it?
I work at wired and right now some of our editors are putting together a story about an Arizona State University student being sued by Random House for covering his OWN PAPER with ink! Appearantly these jerks now think that their copyrights should extend to the very paper in your printer. "All i did was apply a little ink to some of my paper, is that a crime now too?" says some jackass. Clearly the book companies need a lesson on copyright violation./just kidding//you insensative clod.
Just to let you know, I live in phoenix (well, a bit north of phoenix actually), and really do get my full 8mbps. Luckily for me there is a usenet service hosted in town (easynews, which i found by always using their mirrors on sourceforge, so easynews marketing peoples, hosting a sourceforge mirror is working!). I can peg my cable modem on its limiter. I could also peg my cable modem when i lived in des moines iowa, using another usenet service.
use a lin-box to spoof the mac address of the device that you need to "log-in"...then use firefox (or opera or whatever) to do the logging in...
my dorms in college did the same thing (you had to get past cisco's clean access), and i used the same method to get my openwrt box on the network (cause the wireless signal strength in my dorm room was like -84dbm).
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I did read the entire article. If you would have read my post you would have noticed that I am mad about the city government where I live trying to do the same thing.
Cue the "ZOMFG apple can do no wrong!" crowd!
Think about it guys, how would you feel if microshaft decided that they wanted the front of their office to look pretty, so the took several of the oh-so-scarce downtown parking spots off the market.
Anybody who lives in tempe, arizona knows what I'm talking about. Mill avenue is a hot spot with a few "oh-so-choice" parking spots that are both CHEAP AS HELL, and right in front of the shops. Well lately the city has made a lot of these prized parking spots "Cab Only"...meaning that the cab drivers hang out in front of the bars all night long, and people who are actually trying to PARK in the parking spaces have to venture off into the wilderness that is ParkIT looking for some overpriced spot where you car will most likely have its stereo stolen.
MOral of the story is that Montrealians should not have to suffer a harder time trying to find a parking space because apple wanted their shop to look extra pretty.
A few months ago somebody other than me ordered a few dells from dell.com....they accidentally ordered office 2007 instead of 2003 (which is the standard in our company). The 2007 is absolutely TERRIBLE! The the new inferface is probably great for somebody who has never used a microsoft office suite before, but for people who have been doing things the same way for the last 10+ years the change was too much. The problem was solved by replacing the 2007 office with OpenOffice. The OO interface was close enough to microsofts that OO was an almost drop in replacement for it.
Whats funny is that microsoft releasing this "NOW WITH SHINIER GRAPHICS!" version of Office is actually causing people in my org. to use OO. There was an incident a few days ago where a user needed an XLS 2003 file, the XLS 2003 format that Office 2k7 spits out wouldn't work correctly with the software they were using, the OO version would.
On the last herd of dells that I ordered, i skipped an Office Suite all together. I know that at least in my organization, now that office 2003 is difficult to come by (I know, you can still order it from newgg.com etc.), we will be using OpenOffice exclusively.
Why don't the adblock people change the code a little bit so that the ads are still downloaded, they just aren't displayed?
Then they could rule the world.
that is the operating temperature for the camera, not the actual temperature at the north pole...at least i hope....maybe i need to start riding my bike to work!
On google being top secret about some things; Aren't they required to disclose everything, and I mean EVERYTHING down to how much they spent on every light bulb in the bathroom on the 3rd floor as a part of the SEC filings?
Isn't this exactly the reason that a lot of companies are taking themselves private again lately, disclosing everything is a HUGE hassle.
Tell that to
Hmm. There are no passwords (hashes or otherwise) in my
Wow that is a long sentance, am i writing EULAs or is the the 18th century?
Maybe, but I don't think that one person would cause as much of a problem as you are suggesting. Every time I've flown private I have used my phone on the plane and i have never gotten a nastygram from the phone companies. I could see this being a problem if VERY VERY large numbers of people were making calls from high altitudes/speeds, but your post is a bit misleading. The cellphone networks do not crack themselves when you use a phone from the air.
has anybody considered that this is just viral marketing? I mean, this feat is pretty darn cool...but it doesn't really accomplish much, now you can use the phone on tmobile as well, but it isn't like the phone now has the capability to be used on every single network out there. If anything, this is good news for apple, not only did they get MORE front page news, but now the kid who did this is being touted as a celebrity; not to mention the fact that they can now sell phones to all of the tmobile customers out there (because they are, after all, just the hardware manufacturer).
Sorry, but I'm pretty sure that the two Russians that this kid collaborated with actually lived in Cupertino.
I just hope that the people buying their computers from best buy understand that with a mac, the VAST majority of software out there is not going to run. Most of us have used linux (I would assume, this being /. and all)...imagine the frustration that you sometimes have looking for a program that does what you need (like a quicken alternative, or a crystal reports alternative). Now imagine that you don't fully understand why the old program you used to use doesn't work, and imagine that the ones that get close to doing what you need all cost money.
What the hell are you talking about? Those of us that want to use encryption do. Reading things like slashdot in encrypted form is overkill (and undue overhead for the servers).
./ mods thought was insightful or what?
Was this an extreme failure attempt at funny that a bunch of confused
"Understanding" without the actual experience to back it up isn't understanding, its recitation. The knowledge that A will lead you to B doesn't allow the opportunity to infer anything, it also doesn't allow for improvement. All you will ever know is that A leads to B. What people with your philosophy on teaching are suggesting is that concepts should be layed in stone, what i am suggesting is that they should be layed in clay. Your model doesn't allow students to ask "Why?".
Valuing truth more that a happy life is a contradiction, in the case of a person like you, truth is what gives you the happy life. The fact that you stated you would prefer to live an unhappy life (you said you value truth over happiness, meaning that you don't ACTUALLY find happiness in truth) leads me to believe that you are either a masochist, or have big time emotional problems. Are you seriously depressed or what man?
STOP BRINGING THE REST OF US DOWN!
And in the story that you're referencing with "doublethink" what happened to winston? He ended up exiled from his city, barely survived the ministry of justice, and had to live out the rest of his life in the proles knowing that his society had serious problems, but that there was nothing he could do to change it.
Think about a person sitting on their deathbed; if they truly believe that when they die they will live out eternity in heaven, they will have a MUCH more peaceful death than if they know that they body will become, essentially, worm food. They will decay into what is basically liquid filth, and will become the nourishment for a bunch of bacteria and parasites.
Ignorance is not always, but can be, bliss.
so yes, sometimes Doublethink > Truth.
I really think its a problem that kids are growing up today not know that blatant copyright violations really ARE stealing. Somebody really DID have to go through the work to create whatever it is that you're getting online for free. Most of us grew up having to actually purchase our music in a record store. When we download something online, we know that it is something that we would have normally had to pay for. If we understand that the recording industry is screwing the artists, that this CD used to cost us 13 dollars, and that the majority of artists make their living from touring, we are more likely to actually attend one of those shows for the sake of supporting the musicians. Sure we can tell the kids that are growing up around this that music is really something that they should have to pay for, but the internet found the problem and routed around it ;-), however without the actual memories of mowing some grass in exchange for an album, or actually handing a clerk some cash, they won't really have a FULL understand of what is going on.
His point isn't to change the mind of the MPAA, it is to prevent the MPAA from indoctrinating his students with their views on the matter (or rather, indoctrinate them with his own). No offense, but I HATE it when people claim to be "helping the children" by "telling them the real story". So often that "real story", is a bunch of bias garbage that ends up hurting them 10 fold when the reach adulthood. They end up having a completely warped view of reality (at least warped relative to the their peers; even if they are right, they are stilling playing with a handicap). For instance, lets say that we took a group of elementary aged kids and taught that that IP was a totally evil concept. To US (adults) that is okay because we have grown up around IP and understand the reason that it needs to be changed; however, if you teach somebody that has no frame of reference that IP is evil, they won't understand why. This will end up actually hurting them in the long run. People need the ability to come to their own conclusions. People who try and let their kids skip that whole "experience" thing, and jump right into the understanding part are doing their children a great injustice.
I think that the reason that SARS only killed a couple of hundred people was that Asia got shut down for 6 months. The point was to keep the number a couple of hundred, instead of having it get to the 100,000 a year that the flu kills.
You're right, but we aren't talking about the price per gallon (or liter) of refined gasoline (which is HEAVILY dependant upon taxes), we are talking about the price per barrel of crude oil. The price of a barrel of crude has gone up SIGNIFICANTLY since the start of the "war for oil". And no, this is not some conspiracy by rand($corporate_entity); the president of OPEC has come out and said that they have intentionally released a limited amount of crude to market to artificially inflate the prices. Look at cities like Dubai and you will understand why.
more like:
if your neighbor's irrigation system is spraying across your yard, is it your responsibility to prevent your grass from being watered by it?
make sure you bring the interface down first:
/me ducks
ifconfig eth1 down
ifconfig eth1 hw ether SO:ME:MA:CA:DR:ES:SS
ifconfig eth1 up
and kids, make sure that you don't do this on a live VPN server...
gretta # route del 192.168.0.0 dev eth0
------NO CARRIER--------
My boss: Ryan, why can't I VPN in?
Me: I just got an email from qwest saying that the...uhh....t1 was down!
I work at wired and right now some of our editors are putting together a story about an Arizona State University student being sued by Random House for covering his OWN PAPER with ink! Appearantly these jerks now think that their copyrights should extend to the very paper in your printer. /just kidding //you insensative clod.
"All i did was apply a little ink to some of my paper, is that a crime now too?" says some jackass. Clearly the book companies need a lesson on copyright violation.
Okay, did we just pull a big switcheroo with the reddit mods or something? This is one of the most blatant political trolls i have ever seen.
Just to let you know, I live in phoenix (well, a bit north of phoenix actually), and really do get my full 8mbps. Luckily for me there is a usenet service hosted in town (easynews, which i found by always using their mirrors on sourceforge, so easynews marketing peoples, hosting a sourceforge mirror is working!). I can peg my cable modem on its limiter. I could also peg my cable modem when i lived in des moines iowa, using another usenet service.
Just saying, cable doesn't suck everywhere..
use a lin-box to spoof the mac address of the device that you need to "log-in"...then use firefox (or opera or whatever) to do the logging in...
my dorms in college did the same thing (you had to get past cisco's clean access), and i used the same method to get my openwrt box on the network (cause the wireless signal strength in my dorm room was like -84dbm).
hope this helps!