we're never going to convince Putin that what he really wants to do is crack down on people who are bringing a lot of money into the economy and who pose no threat at all to him. Trying to fight this through any kind of court just won't work for this reason. The only way we can really hope to stop this kind of thing is to do more lessons in schools about how pretty much every e-mail which isn't from someone you know is a scam. I don't really know what your education was like in IT in American schools but I know that for the first 3 years of secondary school (UK) I had a teacher who couldn't adequately use windows explorer to find files - we always got told to open the "package" (sic) and then go file -> open... not once did they even mention security. In my last 2 years it changed round a bit and there was some information (although a frighteningly inadequate amount) about security best practices and what have you. If we want to keep people from getting spam scammed then education is the best way
KLS: I understand, but let's say your mom or my mom, they're surfing the Internet but maybe they're not surfing with Firefox just yet or they don't really know what Linux is just yet.
This went unchallenged... you would have thought that she would be one of the first people to know about linux (even if she never will understand it and proabably still needs him to install a printer - as all mothers do)
I would really like to see what "evidence" they put up as to how a computer can pose a security risk at all. As far as I know other than software hacks the only real harware threat would be a physical block inside the computer as a key logger which would need to be retrived afterwards (although we know how people like to lose clasified laptops/usb pen drives). I'm convinced that to check random PCs for either of these would take almost no effort They could do a byte for byte comparison against what it was meant to be and look for a little box on the keyboard wire. A random sample of about 500 should do it
What is more pressing I think is; why would IBM want to do this anyway? Why is an American/English/French/whatever computer more trustworthy than an American one with some ownership from the chinese?
It does kind of prove his point though - people have to take out patents and protect them agressively because otherwise someone else can come and demand a slice of their business or threaten to take things away from them. I know this isn't the only reason why amazon has gone after this patent (no doubt getting at their competitor was a bonus) but it does show a fundamently flawed system
they guy is gettiong revenge because a book took too long - he doesn't even have any real interest in this "tech". Still, I really dislike the "one click" idea anyway because you cna end up buying things without realising thinking that you would actaully get to confirm and review the purchase - I think what amazon forced on it's competitor is better than what they use.
Further, this makes me wonder how on earth this actually got made into a patent anyway it is far too general and doesn't have any novelty to it; also, it's not really a "tech" is it, it's a button - and they've existed for ages
...which is running Fedora Core 5 (I've also still got windows on here because my girlfriend wouldn't let me get rid ouf it). You should be aware that Fedora is really bleeding edge - there have been a few problems. When I first installed it there were about 4 new kernels in 3 weeks, the final one couldn't start X and I wonder if they even tested it. After the 2107 nightmare (and me having to re-install due to my over zelous reaction, d'oh!) they seem to have settled down a little with the updates - it's been a few weeks and I'm still happily running the newest one. The Core 5 is still very new though, I think about 1 month, I've been told after about 2 then it will settle down and everything will be cool. For me I'd get on for the ride early; just keep your tin hat on and ride the last few waves.
as for my laptop it's a toshiba satellite pro - fairly new but i don't know the number. I'm using the centrino chipset and although I've heard people get the wireless working it seemed like it might be a hastle so I've left it because I don't really use wireless anyway. Fedora doesn't support proprietry stuff though which means that you'll have to get MP3 support yourself (ogg works out the box!)... I might have convinced you not to go for it; it is really good though.
I'm not sure about that... I converted my external hard drive to FAT32 because Fedora core 5 could read it. It can't read NTFS which is what the problem was with (although I think you can get it sorted if you go to fedorafaq); but FAT 32 worked strait out of the "box"
that's a good point, but even if you did know the region, and even what accent was deffinately in that region at that time (because it's changed so much over the last 400 years) I think an even bigger point is the shape of the tounge; even the slightest change in size would change how your vioce sounded far more than any factor like head size/shape.
I don't really know why you were modded down, it's a good point - the lens is the most important part of a camera (or at least one of the most important). you could stick all the brilliant stuff you want in a camera which costs $200 and because of the really cheap lenses (and other stuff as well as small holes for the light to go down) the pictures will still be really bad
the act is also manifestly stupid. Google will just say "ok, we will take off all reference to your company from our search engine forever". Now you have a small company who no one who uses google will be able to find. It makes no sense. I know they will get a little bit of (bad) publicity because of this, but when this ends no one will ever know about them again.
hell, you think thats bad, you should try paying $1.50 for an incredibly small "horse" charcter which adds such a small amount to the game its real value is about $0.00000001 a la Xbox 360
I'm with you. Although I think my opinion goes a little further; there is no way in hell that I would EVER pay for a game monthly; indeed, doing so encourages them to keep doing it. I hate paying for anything monthly when I know that it will continue forever so far I never have; I hope I never will (although in the end I hope i'll end up with more money than sense and will be able to do crazy things like this).
To say, as they did, that this will stop terrorists is stupid. The thing that terrorists have the liberty of doing is sitting back and saying "no" whilst waiting for the rest of their cell to carry out the act; they were going to die anyway, what does it matter. The sentence has to be for a fixed length of time (well it doesn't have to be - in contept of court you could just be held forever untill you are willing to say your name/stop swearing at them etc.) - you can't have crazily long sentences because someone might just forget the key and not be doing anything wrong - so if you say 6 months then they will be out in 3 - which is not enough to stop someone from being a terrorist (if you could even have a sentence which would) and it is far less than peado's get - so it's still the sensible option. Also when you are in prison you can say "I'm in for telling the government to fuck off"... which will make you infinately more popular than "I like watch little kids getting abused" (which will get you beaten till you bleed out your ears)... so I can see a lot of convictions coming
This is one reason why I like Lithium batteries which we have now in phones now. I really dislike the thought of having to continously buy new batteries and actually make the effort to go get them... when my phone runs out I can just lean over and plug it in; requiring a crazily small amount of effort. Also, I don't pay for my electric usage so I guess it's more cost effective for me too
I really like open office, but there are 2 main problems for me with it; 1) it doesn't have a grammar checker, and knowing how bad I am at this stuff I would really like one; I know it won't be perfect but it might be nice. 2) word count. This is a really big one for me. The word count when i ran through exactly the same document in each was radically different (by about 100 words on 5000). Because the work was assessed I needed the word count to be exactly what they would get if they checked (so I had to use Word) - even if OO's way of counting is better a bit more agreement might be nice.
I thought that the suprime court could only rule on matters of the constitution; this doesn't really seem to be applicable to that. Do they also have the ability to rule on any matter they want to get into?
when I clicked I got the "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."... has it stereotyped me (because I have a girlfriend) as someone who doesn't play WoW?... surely the fact that I am on/. means I really am the core demegraphic
I'm not an expert on these matters but I would have thought that they could have just made a different system which isn't patented and used that. The gamecube/Wii one seems to have been fine; so couldn't Sony have just made one along a different line (maybe using a spinning turbine if they don't already or a system similar to that in phones) or have they done the usual of patenting "rumble feature..er...(but that already exists)... so... rumble feature on a Playstation!!!"
it doesn't really matter if people in the press didn't notice it; players will. The genius of sony's stratergy is maybe people will only notice AFTER they've put up over £450 (I think thats about what it'll be here); and after you've paid that much for something you either become a fanboi or admit that you might have wasted your money - needless to say we'll be hearing a lot of "well my tri-linea filtering is over 2 nanoseconds quicker than yours in rendering an arbitrary image which will never come up in a game" (or something else which makes little sense but people think sounds impressive)
I have to disagree with you here. I do a lot of console gaming and I really couldn't imagine not having a rumble feature... it gives you just that little sense of being in the game. I know that it's not perfect and that most of the time you don't really notice it; but I think you would notice if it wasn't there.
if you want to watch something "live" the you have to see them anyway. I would think this is how most people with tivo use their TVs; with tivo just as a video-recorder if there is 2 things on at the same time which they want to watch or if they are going to be out... it might seem like a lot of people will never see ads but I would bet that they do
your right, what I said wasn't clear enough, so I'll go into what I meant... The quality I had to use to get the file really small (which is what I think would be needed to do this and send it over to a phone which for a point of refernce I was using about the quality of a video message. This would let it be downloaded pretty much in real time (because of how slow GPRS is on phones). At this size the quality wasn't very good which I know isn't really a fault of 3gp but in this instance I was (wrongly - but in my mind justifiably) using the name of the format to also denote the normative assumptions I had made about the requisate size. So, I'm going to consider myself not as wrong as it first appeared... although no one else was to know that... so maybe the bigger question is why did I get modded up? meh, maybe I was just up high enough. With mods all that seems to matter is that somone said something vaguely interesting (or not as the case may be) towards the top and they go strait to +5 insightful; mod whoring... but if you want someone to read what you have to say then I guess you have to
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we're never going to convince Putin that what he really wants to do is crack down on people who are bringing a lot of money into the economy and who pose no threat at all to him. Trying to fight this through any kind of court just won't work for this reason. The only way we can really hope to stop this kind of thing is to do more lessons in schools about how pretty much every e-mail which isn't from someone you know is a scam. I don't really know what your education was like in IT in American schools but I know that for the first 3 years of secondary school (UK) I had a teacher who couldn't adequately use windows explorer to find files - we always got told to open the "package" (sic) and then go file -> open... not once did they even mention security. In my last 2 years it changed round a bit and there was some information (although a frighteningly inadequate amount) about security best practices and what have you.
If we want to keep people from getting spam scammed then education is the best way
KLS: I understand, but let's say your mom or my mom, they're surfing the Internet but maybe they're not surfing with Firefox just yet or they don't really know what Linux is just yet.
This went unchallenged... you would have thought that she would be one of the first people to know about linux (even if she never will understand it and proabably still needs him to install a printer - as all mothers do)
I would really like to see what "evidence" they put up as to how a computer can pose a security risk at all. As far as I know other than software hacks the only real harware threat would be a physical block inside the computer as a key logger which would need to be retrived afterwards (although we know how people like to lose clasified laptops/usb pen drives). I'm convinced that to check random PCs for either of these would take almost no effort They could do a byte for byte comparison against what it was meant to be and look for a little box on the keyboard wire. A random sample of about 500 should do it
What is more pressing I think is; why would IBM want to do this anyway? Why is an American/English/French/whatever computer more trustworthy than an American one with some ownership from the chinese?
It does kind of prove his point though - people have to take out patents and protect them agressively because otherwise someone else can come and demand a slice of their business or threaten to take things away from them. I know this isn't the only reason why amazon has gone after this patent (no doubt getting at their competitor was a bonus) but it does show a fundamently flawed system
prior art: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=186176&cid =15364955
they guy is gettiong revenge because a book took too long - he doesn't even have any real interest in this "tech". Still, I really dislike the "one click" idea anyway because you cna end up buying things without realising thinking that you would actaully get to confirm and review the purchase - I think what amazon forced on it's competitor is better than what they use.
Further, this makes me wonder how on earth this actually got made into a patent anyway it is far too general and doesn't have any novelty to it; also, it's not really a "tech" is it, it's a button - and they've existed for ages
...which is running Fedora Core 5 (I've also still got windows on here because my girlfriend wouldn't let me get rid ouf it). You should be aware that Fedora is really bleeding edge - there have been a few problems. When I first installed it there were about 4 new kernels in 3 weeks, the final one couldn't start X and I wonder if they even tested it. After the 2107 nightmare (and me having to re-install due to my over zelous reaction, d'oh!) they seem to have settled down a little with the updates - it's been a few weeks and I'm still happily running the newest one. The Core 5 is still very new though, I think about 1 month, I've been told after about 2 then it will settle down and everything will be cool. For me I'd get on for the ride early; just keep your tin hat on and ride the last few waves.
Also, there is a really good community (I might just plug http://www.fedoraforum.org/...)
as for my laptop it's a toshiba satellite pro - fairly new but i don't know the number. I'm using the centrino chipset and although I've heard people get the wireless working it seemed like it might be a hastle so I've left it because I don't really use wireless anyway. Fedora doesn't support proprietry stuff though which means that you'll have to get MP3 support yourself (ogg works out the box!)... I might have convinced you not to go for it; it is really good though.
I'm not sure about that... I converted my external hard drive to FAT32 because Fedora core 5 could read it. It can't read NTFS which is what the problem was with (although I think you can get it sorted if you go to fedorafaq); but FAT 32 worked strait out of the "box"
that's a good point, but even if you did know the region, and even what accent was deffinately in that region at that time (because it's changed so much over the last 400 years) I think an even bigger point is the shape of the tounge; even the slightest change in size would change how your vioce sounded far more than any factor like head size/shape.
I don't really know why you were modded down, it's a good point - the lens is the most important part of a camera (or at least one of the most important). you could stick all the brilliant stuff you want in a camera which costs $200 and because of the really cheap lenses (and other stuff as well as small holes for the light to go down) the pictures will still be really bad
the act is also manifestly stupid. Google will just say "ok, we will take off all reference to your company from our search engine forever". Now you have a small company who no one who uses google will be able to find. It makes no sense. I know they will get a little bit of (bad) publicity because of this, but when this ends no one will ever know about them again.
MS would do "gotta buy them all!... just $1 for the 5 and then $5 for each one thereafter, untill you have all 151!"
hell, you think thats bad, you should try paying $1.50 for an incredibly small "horse" charcter which adds such a small amount to the game its real value is about $0.00000001 a la Xbox 360
I'm with you. Although I think my opinion goes a little further; there is no way in hell that I would EVER pay for a game monthly; indeed, doing so encourages them to keep doing it. I hate paying for anything monthly when I know that it will continue forever so far I never have; I hope I never will (although in the end I hope i'll end up with more money than sense and will be able to do crazy things like this).
To say, as they did, that this will stop terrorists is stupid. The thing that terrorists have the liberty of doing is sitting back and saying "no" whilst waiting for the rest of their cell to carry out the act; they were going to die anyway, what does it matter. The sentence has to be for a fixed length of time (well it doesn't have to be - in contept of court you could just be held forever untill you are willing to say your name/stop swearing at them etc.) - you can't have crazily long sentences because someone might just forget the key and not be doing anything wrong - so if you say 6 months then they will be out in 3 - which is not enough to stop someone from being a terrorist (if you could even have a sentence which would) and it is far less than peado's get - so it's still the sensible option. Also when you are in prison you can say "I'm in for telling the government to fuck off"... which will make you infinately more popular than "I like watch little kids getting abused" (which will get you beaten till you bleed out your ears)... so I can see a lot of convictions coming
This is one reason why I like Lithium batteries which we have now in phones now. I really dislike the thought of having to continously buy new batteries and actually make the effort to go get them... when my phone runs out I can just lean over and plug it in; requiring a crazily small amount of effort. Also, I don't pay for my electric usage so I guess it's more cost effective for me too
I really like open office, but there are 2 main problems for me with it; 1) it doesn't have a grammar checker, and knowing how bad I am at this stuff I would really like one; I know it won't be perfect but it might be nice. 2) word count. This is a really big one for me. The word count when i ran through exactly the same document in each was radically different (by about 100 words on 5000). Because the work was assessed I needed the word count to be exactly what they would get if they checked (so I had to use Word) - even if OO's way of counting is better a bit more agreement might be nice.
I thought that the suprime court could only rule on matters of the constitution; this doesn't really seem to be applicable to that. Do they also have the ability to rule on any matter they want to get into?
when I clicked I got the "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."... has it stereotyped me (because I have a girlfriend) as someone who doesn't play WoW?... surely the fact that I am on /. means I really am the core demegraphic
damn I loved that burger king commercial... shame about the little bit of boxing that thay thought they had to put in. sell-outs.
I'm not an expert on these matters but I would have thought that they could have just made a different system which isn't patented and used that. The gamecube/Wii one seems to have been fine; so couldn't Sony have just made one along a different line (maybe using a spinning turbine if they don't already or a system similar to that in phones) or have they done the usual of patenting "rumble feature..er...(but that already exists)... so... rumble feature on a Playstation!!!"
it doesn't really matter if people in the press didn't notice it; players will. The genius of sony's stratergy is maybe people will only notice AFTER they've put up over £450 (I think thats about what it'll be here); and after you've paid that much for something you either become a fanboi or admit that you might have wasted your money - needless to say we'll be hearing a lot of "well my tri-linea filtering is over 2 nanoseconds quicker than yours in rendering an arbitrary image which will never come up in a game" (or something else which makes little sense but people think sounds impressive)
I have to disagree with you here. I do a lot of console gaming and I really couldn't imagine not having a rumble feature... it gives you just that little sense of being in the game. I know that it's not perfect and that most of the time you don't really notice it; but I think you would notice if it wasn't there.
if you want to watch something "live" the you have to see them anyway. I would think this is how most people with tivo use their TVs; with tivo just as a video-recorder if there is 2 things on at the same time which they want to watch or if they are going to be out... it might seem like a lot of people will never see ads but I would bet that they do
your right, what I said wasn't clear enough, so I'll go into what I meant... The quality I had to use to get the file really small (which is what I think would be needed to do this and send it over to a phone which for a point of refernce I was using about the quality of a video message. This would let it be downloaded pretty much in real time (because of how slow GPRS is on phones). At this size the quality wasn't very good which I know isn't really a fault of 3gp but in this instance I was (wrongly - but in my mind justifiably) using the name of the format to also denote the normative assumptions I had made about the requisate size. So, I'm going to consider myself not as wrong as it first appeared... although no one else was to know that... so maybe the bigger question is why did I get modded up? meh, maybe I was just up high enough. With mods all that seems to matter is that somone said something vaguely interesting (or not as the case may be) towards the top and they go strait to +5 insightful; mod whoring... but if you want someone to read what you have to say then I guess you have to