I'm with scorp1us here. Being an idiot, I have sent my flash drives through not only the washer but also the dryer multiple times, and have never had an issue (thank god).
Then feel free to create your own tech blog and moderate it to the level of usage of Slashdot, then you can run it however you want. April 1st has been observed on this site since long before you had an account.
I'm not suggesting that/. not observe the apparently sacred holiday of April Fools Day. I simply wish that it was still a reliable source for news on this day. As another commenter said, it would be great to get some actual Conficker news today, and not fake joke news. I see you've indeed been around a long time, so I'm sorry that my comment offended you enough to prompt your reply. I'm still a/. fan!
There's a difference between a funny april fools joke (see StackOverflow's new Cornify feature) and just being annoying by reporting fake news.
I hate to be the downer, but I'd still like to be able to watch/. for good info today. Too bad I guess.
I wouldn't even mind paying more. The real problem with this, at least for me, is that they're basically lying to me as a customer. If I got a notice in my email that said "Hey, look, we're either going to have to charge you $3 more a month for this feature, or get rid of it because we're not making enough money." I'd be way cooler with it. Telling me they're improving my experience by ruining it is just plain treating me like an idiot, and I can get that kind of treatment just by driving down to blockbuster, which is where I'll be going September 1st if they seriously do this.
Christina Agurilla was going to put a gold-plated shark-tank bar next to her swimming pool this month, but now thanks to people like this scum bag who pirate music, she's going to have to wait two months before she has enough money to afford the addition. And Jay-Z? He was going to buy three new H2's, but thanks you criminals like yourself, he can't afford to build another garage right now, and he's going to have to sell his old H2's just to have a place to park his new cars.
Five years... It's scumbags like you who've sent this country down hill, sir, and I thumb my teeth at you.
If (and it's a huge 'if') these people really are allergic to wi-fi, then they're allergic to it in the same way I'm allergic to being stabbed. I find it extremely hard to take these people's scientific claims seriously when they don't even understand the basic terminology they're using.
Valid point, but our guys(and ladies!) in Iraq have a hard enough time getting normal equipment. What makes you think a soldier's life is worth what these exoskeletons are going to cost? I don't see that as a reasonable application of the technology.
On a side note, I'd hate to be wearing one of those things and carrying around 400 pounds when it breaks down:)
If you can't tell the difference between a laptop, and a bomb, you are not security.
What the TSA actually appears to be aiming for is people who can identify a gun/knife/conventionally designed incendiary device, so that nobody has to stand in front of the cameras after an incident and explain how we missed the conventional threat during screening.
There is a difference between people doing their best with limited resources, and airport security, which continually employs the most inadequate individuals I have ever seen in the workforce. I get better service at McDonalds than I do airport security.
I'm not trying to be insulting, but I'm not sure you understand the reality of what you're trying to argue.
If there comes a time when the US government starts acting like China (having people tortured and killed because of their political views), we can take care of it with something called an "election".
Read the above quote. If the US ever starts killing people for expressing political views, you're going to fix that by... expressing your political views? Or are you assuming that even though the government is willing to kill people for their political views, they're going to keep the voting system fair and unbiased, so that people who don't like getting killed can vote and change the system?
I'm not trying to be a dooms-day preacher, saying that we're going to start killing our own citizens for exercising their freedom of speech, but the fact of the matter is, as seen in your circular logic (someone correct me if that's not what it is) in the quote above, that by the time it is a problem, you're not going to be able to fix it by voting.
I feel like I understand your argument; I'm not doing anything wrong in my house, so why do I care if the government puts cameras up and watches everything I do? Honestly, I don't care one bit. Until someone decides to pass a law that makes copying a CD illegal, or being gay (just an example... I'm not) illegal, or decides they don't want to count my vote in the next election because I'm a Democrat (again, just an example), or decides that I should be put in jail where my anti-government ideas can't influence other people. And by then, voting isn't going to do me much good.
You may have a point though. I'd like to see a comparison of all of the materials/chemicals/energy that go into making a sheet of this, versus an equivalent amount of carbon fiber, or aluminum. I doubt it's as environmentally cool as I'm imagining it is.
Agreed, and I think it's a very poor way to handle the situation, from Opera's side. If I were Mozilla, and got this kind of junk after reporting the bug to them, next time around I wouldn't even bother. Someone at Opera owes someone at Mozilla an apology.
Microsoft are no more 'treating their customers like thieves' than a store that has security tags on the clothes and a scanner by each exit. Amazingly, only the shoplifters get bent out of shape about those.
Once I purchase the shirt and leave the store, their security measures do not affect my shirt wearing experience, nor the performance of my shirt.
For Joe user, I think Vista and all its quirks are fine. For those of us who have higher demands, technical or otherwise, these 'quirks' are significant issues. To each his/her own.
Remember when it was impossible for the human body to sit in anything that accelerated as fast as 60mph.
mph is a quantity of length divided by a quantity of time, which is speed, not acceleration. Acceleration is a quantity of length divided by a quantity of time to the second power.
BD+ (as I understand it) is a substantial system, parts of which we can now bypass. I believe it is SlySoft, makers of AnyDVD who have cracked certain components of it.
More on-topic, I agree with the original post, and I think it's a valid analogy. You have 40 billion being pushed into a defense system which could potentially be 'cracked' by terrorists with much less than 40 billion. At the same time, you have these media companies pouring untold amounts into DRM, which us joes are more than eager to go around. That said, I think it's easier to just pick a different target. Maybe one that doesn't move, and isn't in the air... like a building...
Considering how many times my commercial flights get hit with rockets, I hope to see my tax dollars put into this system immediately... cough...
Apple might be good for a grandma or for a graphic designer, but for a programmer it's an annoyance.
Just my two cents, my experience has been completely the opposite. As someone who is a programmer, but not a system admin, OS X(10.4, can't comment on earlier versions) gave me everything I wanted from Ubuntu, and none of the hassles.
I'm a reasonably intelligent computer user, and it took me a full two weeks and two different cards just to get wireless setup in 7.04. Additionally, I have never been able to successfully rip DVD's using my setup, and nobody on the support forums can figure out why. Apparently it 'just doesn't work'.
A lot of other programmers I know have had the same experience. I think Apple and OS X is an annoyance for people who would consider themselves linux gurus and are used to the methods and nuances. As a C/Java developer, I have had zero problems with OS X. Only way I'd ever switch to a Linux laptop is if I had someone like you to support it.
Thank you. I can't believe that as many comments as this article has, there are so few discussing the Internet-Tube analogy so obvious in the pdf, as well as the massive joint on page 3 of the pdf. I seriously don't believe Microsoft came up with this pdf. Looks like something Fox News might bake up to try and explain something.
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I'm with scorp1us here. Being an idiot, I have sent my flash drives through not only the washer but also the dryer multiple times, and have never had an issue (thank god).
Then feel free to create your own tech blog and moderate it to the level of usage of Slashdot, then you can run it however you want. April 1st has been observed on this site since long before you had an account.
I'm not suggesting that /. not observe the apparently sacred holiday of April Fools Day. I simply wish that it was still a reliable source for news on this day. As another commenter said, it would be great to get some actual Conficker news today, and not fake joke news. /. fan!
I see you've indeed been around a long time, so I'm sorry that my comment offended you enough to prompt your reply. I'm still a
There's a difference between a funny april fools joke (see StackOverflow's new Cornify feature) and just being annoying by reporting fake news. I hate to be the downer, but I'd still like to be able to watch /. for good info today. Too bad I guess.
I wouldn't even mind paying more. The real problem with this, at least for me, is that they're basically lying to me as a customer. If I got a notice in my email that said "Hey, look, we're either going to have to charge you $3 more a month for this feature, or get rid of it because we're not making enough money." I'd be way cooler with it. Telling me they're improving my experience by ruining it is just plain treating me like an idiot, and I can get that kind of treatment just by driving down to blockbuster, which is where I'll be going September 1st if they seriously do this.
I realize it's a small sample, but 100% of the 6 people I know who have netflix accounts use this feature, for a total of 13 profiles.
I know that once Netflix drops profiles, I'll be dropping netflix in favor of Blockbuster.
5 years is too much? You make me sick.
Christina Agurilla was going to put a gold-plated shark-tank bar next to her swimming pool this month, but now thanks to people like this scum bag who pirate music, she's going to have to wait two months before she has enough money to afford the addition. And Jay-Z? He was going to buy three new H2's, but thanks you criminals like yourself, he can't afford to build another garage right now, and he's going to have to sell his old H2's just to have a place to park his new cars.
Five years... It's scumbags like you who've sent this country down hill, sir, and I thumb my teeth at you.
If (and it's a huge 'if') these people really are allergic to wi-fi, then they're allergic to it in the same way I'm allergic to being stabbed. I find it extremely hard to take these people's scientific claims seriously when they don't even understand the basic terminology they're using.
All 10 of them use the same email account? The problem is far from solved... This is strait out of WTF.
Valid point, but our guys(and ladies!) in Iraq have a hard enough time getting normal equipment. What makes you think a soldier's life is worth what these exoskeletons are going to cost? I don't see that as a reasonable application of the technology.
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On a side note, I'd hate to be wearing one of those things and carrying around 400 pounds when it breaks down
I'm betting you still have to put batteries in each new copy, or plug them in, which makes the entire thing take way too much effort for me...
Normally I would agree, I've looked at the picture in the article, and I can tell this is a very bad idea.
NASA: Lets just make a bunch of giant robots with giant wrench arms and a giant Canadian phallus and put them in space. What could possibly go wrong?
I also like that Japan's donation to the space station is a closet.
I'm not trying to be a dooms-day preacher, saying that we're going to start killing our own citizens for exercising their freedom of speech, but the fact of the matter is, as seen in your circular logic (someone correct me if that's not what it is) in the quote above, that by the time it is a problem, you're not going to be able to fix it by voting.
I feel like I understand your argument; I'm not doing anything wrong in my house, so why do I care if the government puts cameras up and watches everything I do? Honestly, I don't care one bit. Until someone decides to pass a law that makes copying a CD illegal, or being gay (just an example... I'm not) illegal, or decides they don't want to count my vote in the next election because I'm a Democrat (again, just an example), or decides that I should be put in jail where my anti-government ideas can't influence other people. And by then, voting isn't going to do me much good.
It's times like this I wish I could mod things 'wrong'
You think all those people in Chinese prisons who were arrested for speaking out against the government 'did evil shit'?
Not that we live in China, but thinking that this can't turn against you...
If we ever run out of carbon...
You may have a point though. I'd like to see a comparison of all of the materials/chemicals/energy that go into making a sheet of this, versus an equivalent amount of carbon fiber, or aluminum. I doubt it's as environmentally cool as I'm imagining it is.
Agreed, and I think it's a very poor way to handle the situation, from Opera's side. If I were Mozilla, and got this kind of junk after reporting the bug to them, next time around I wouldn't even bother. Someone at Opera owes someone at Mozilla an apology.
You say that like it's a bad thing, but I bet the Chinese are stoked about it!
For Joe user, I think Vista and all its quirks are fine. For those of us who have higher demands, technical or otherwise, these 'quirks' are significant issues. To each his/her own.
Just saying
BD+ (as I understand it) is a substantial system, parts of which we can now bypass. I believe it is SlySoft, makers of AnyDVD who have cracked certain components of it.
More on-topic, I agree with the original post, and I think it's a valid analogy. You have 40 billion being pushed into a defense system which could potentially be 'cracked' by terrorists with much less than 40 billion. At the same time, you have these media companies pouring untold amounts into DRM, which us joes are more than eager to go around. That said, I think it's easier to just pick a different target. Maybe one that doesn't move, and isn't in the air... like a building...
Considering how many times my commercial flights get hit with rockets, I hope to see my tax dollars put into this system immediately... cough...
A month early. Analog cell doesn't shut down until February 18th.