For real, my wife was trying to get me to buy her a PS3 to complement her Wii and Xbox360, and I told her that when she can give me a list of 5 games that she wanted for it that aren't on the 360, THEN I'd buy it for her.
Just one example, just one, showing how installing cameras in public places would be a bad idea.
There are so many examples of why they are good, yet noone can site an example of how they are bad.
If they were going to pass a law saying it is illegal for citizens to film each other in public, people would be screaming about how horrible it would be, but installing CCTV in public places where it could be used not only for preventing crime, but also as evidence, or for reviewing past security mistakes, is somehow not right?
All I want is just one example...
This pisses me off to no amount. I actually had been planning to convert an old diesel VW to a "grease car", which actually runs off of unmodified vegetable oil, not bio diesel.
So which makes me think, using the states logic, if all electric vehicle owners will be fined in the future? What about bicycle riders who use the roads? Maybe we should have a tiered tax based on mileage. High mileage cars pay higher rates...
Ain't it the truth. I live on an Army base in Afghanistan and all of the private internet goes through one single router. We have terabytes of shared hard drives with thousands of movies, music and games. I personally don't know anyone who doesn't have a portable hard drive.
Where I live in North Carolina, people flew like droves to DSL due to it being cheaper than Time Warner's cable offering, but after a few months, the service kept dropping, sometimes for days. Every time anyone called in to complain, they would be told that if they had to come into your house (which they almost always tried to do) you would be charged $45 unless you agreed to pay for DSL Insurance.
Whether it was true or not, all my neighbors started thinking scam and switched to Time Warner's cable internet.
I only have so many hours in a day, and I like to be fairly informed, so I subscribe to quite a few sites. In the course of a normal day, several hundred articles will come out. I usee RSS so that I can quickly browse through and pick out which stories to read.
How many times do I have to say this, US Troops are only censored from using Myspace on government computers. It has been this way in my Division for over three years now. Our internet at the office is slow enough without streaming video bandwidth hogs.
I happen to use Myspace and Youtube from my personal notebook in my room just about everyday. jeez
Let's not forget a BIG reason people are buying Mac's: iLife. I'm sorry, but that software suite has no match for the price I have seen. Please correct me if I'm wrong, I am kind of jealous of my wife's MacBook with GarageBand.
If they market Ubuntu as something completely different than Windows instead of a cheap replacement, they might be able to make it "cool". As a "community" we also need to be a little more accepting of commercial software on the platform. After all their ARE people like myself you run Ubuntu because it runs better on my agining CeleronM notebook than WindowsXP does, not because of some underlying philosophy.
I hear you on this. My method for using the french press is like this:
1) Ground Kona beans for a few seconds with an untimed coffee grinder until it looks ground, but I still hear the course chunks clinking around.
2) Heat water using a quick hand held electric waater heater until the water hits around 100 celsius (just at boiling)
3) Mix 1400 grams of coffee with 500ml of boiling water in the press. 350g/125ml ratio of coffee/water
4) Stir once with a stirring stick until the mix looks like mud.
5) Let sit for 4 minutes.
6) Press the plunger down slowly.
7) Pour whole mix into a large coffee cup.
8) Enjoy a RICH, highly caffeinated coffee.
Seriously one cup of that stuff cures my coffee fix in the morning which typically takes a whole pot of the cheap stuff drip brewed or 4-6 cups of Senseo.
French Press definately the way to go!
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The above coffee recipe is copyrighted and IP of Jeffrey Kirk LTD. The process has been "encrypted" into 1's, and 0's and to decrypt it or view it is in violation of the DMCA.
A big problem with MS now a days is what I call the "disposable PC". Price competition has brought computers, especially notebooks, down to record low prices. This has enabled many people to completely replace their computers every 1-2 years. Each one of these ubercheap computers had a Windows license attached to it, allowing MS to make profits on bulk.
I'll use myself as an example: over the last 7 years I have bought 7 computers. All bargain basement priced except two. All but the two expensive ones came with a version of Windows. Now that Dell is going to start selling Ubuntu computers, hopefully other big names will follow suit. Why would I want to buy a $4-500 phone running Windows, when I can buy a new notebook for $350 (which I have done in the past)? Now it looks I can get a cheap notebook without Windows with driver support under Ubuntu, I'll never have to buy another MS based tech (except maybe a new xbox version in a couple of years).
Oh and btw the two expensive computers I have bought were Macs, including a recent acquisition of a new MacBook, all for my wife and to use her words "It's the most beautiful piece of technology I have ever seen." Has anyone ever said that about a MS based product?
Only two things concern me about "human enhancements":
1) Will my boss be able to tell if I'm spending the afternoon with my wife instead of at work?
2) Will my wife be able to tell if I'm spending the evening at the bar instead of at home?
George Bush needs to do everything within his power to keep this technology from Iran! They will leak this tech to terrorists and next thing you know we'll have suicide bombing monkeys swinging through New York! I say preemptive strike! We are in imminent danger from the terrorists monkeys!
Dude, wtf are you talking about? I'm one of the biggest anti-piracy advocates I know. I even made my wife sanitize her mp3 collection. Just because I love posting on slashdot doesn't automatically mean I support illegal activities. Get a life.
There is no "North American" government, though there are the three independent governments of Canada, the U.S., and Mexico (and a few others in Central America which are part of North America).
That's what YOU think.
This is akin to those "hack me" competitions. It's an open invite for all of the hackers/crackers around the world to concentrate all of their efforts on a single system! Think of the amount of knowledge we will gain about network security!
Many of you have already started thinking of the feasibility of implementing a solution to pull this off, I for one am already thinking of how to hack it.
When things like this happen, people are always saying how horrible it is that the poor guy got in trouble. After all he wasn't doing anything wrong, just trying to help their security get better. Using the same logic, I guess I shouldn't have a problem with someone picking the lock to my house and walking around, even if they say they were going to write the lock company about how they did it. I know not related to the article's situation, but I'm tired of people jumping immediately to the side of the hacker/cracker.
As far as the University "owning" your computer for use of their network, if you AGREED to the contract, I can understand why they'd be mad if you broke your end. AND do you really want students in your institution who don't have the integrity to honor contracts that THEY signed into?
It would be one thing to do this in a controlled laboratory type setting, but this man obviously did not. I honestly have no sympathy for him.
Oh and for the poster who says we want to raise our children to be corporate drones when it pays for Jobs to be somewhat anti-authority: We only want those who are smart enugh to NOT GET CAUGHT.
Jeez, it's only a homepage, how freakin important can it be? You can claim lost productivity hours setting it back up, but aren't you wasting time just opening it in the first place?
And I think overall google is freakin awesome. I love gmail, BUT I have a local email client that downloads all of my email to my computer when I'm at work during the day just for backup purposes.
I guess you just don't know my wife. She just about creamed when I bought her a 360. I guess I'm just lucky enough to have a hot wife who likes video games and computers;) No really she has EVERY system released in the last ten years, save for the PS3 which will have to change once the Final Fantasy titles start to roll out. She likes the Wii, but she REALLY likes her 360.
Wow, I thought I had enough with four for home and three for work. I guess I have a lot of nerd cred still yet to earn, and I thought it meant something when I bought my four year old her own computer.
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For real, my wife was trying to get me to buy her a PS3 to complement her Wii and Xbox360, and I told her that when she can give me a list of 5 games that she wanted for it that aren't on the 360, THEN I'd buy it for her.
That was 6 months ago...
Just one example, just one, showing how installing cameras in public places would be a bad idea.
There are so many examples of why they are good, yet noone can site an example of how they are bad.
If they were going to pass a law saying it is illegal for citizens to film each other in public, people would be screaming about how horrible it would be, but installing CCTV in public places where it could be used not only for preventing crime, but also as evidence, or for reviewing past security mistakes, is somehow not right?All I want is just one example...
but can it run linux?
This pisses me off to no amount. I actually had been planning to convert an old diesel VW to a "grease car", which actually runs off of unmodified vegetable oil, not bio diesel. So which makes me think, using the states logic, if all electric vehicle owners will be fined in the future? What about bicycle riders who use the roads? Maybe we should have a tiered tax based on mileage. High mileage cars pay higher rates...
of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Simple answer: Satan.
Yes but it makes it look bigger!
Ain't it the truth. I live on an Army base in Afghanistan and all of the private internet goes through one single router. We have terabytes of shared hard drives with thousands of movies, music and games. I personally don't know anyone who doesn't have a portable hard drive.
Where I live in North Carolina, people flew like droves to DSL due to it being cheaper than Time Warner's cable offering, but after a few months, the service kept dropping, sometimes for days. Every time anyone called in to complain, they would be told that if they had to come into your house (which they almost always tried to do) you would be charged $45 unless you agreed to pay for DSL Insurance.
Whether it was true or not, all my neighbors started thinking scam and switched to Time Warner's cable internet.
It would crash.
I only have so many hours in a day, and I like to be fairly informed, so I subscribe to quite a few sites. In the course of a normal day, several hundred articles will come out. I usee RSS so that I can quickly browse through and pick out which stories to read.
How many times do I have to say this, US Troops are only censored from using Myspace on government computers. It has been this way in my Division for over three years now. Our internet at the office is slow enough without streaming video bandwidth hogs.
I happen to use Myspace and Youtube from my personal notebook in my room just about everyday. jeez
Let's not forget a BIG reason people are buying Mac's: iLife. I'm sorry, but that software suite has no match for the price I have seen. Please correct me if I'm wrong, I am kind of jealous of my wife's MacBook with GarageBand. If they market Ubuntu as something completely different than Windows instead of a cheap replacement, they might be able to make it "cool". As a "community" we also need to be a little more accepting of commercial software on the platform. After all their ARE people like myself you run Ubuntu because it runs better on my agining CeleronM notebook than WindowsXP does, not because of some underlying philosophy.
What's Linux?
I hear you on this. My method for using the french press is like this: 1) Ground Kona beans for a few seconds with an untimed coffee grinder until it looks ground, but I still hear the course chunks clinking around. 2) Heat water using a quick hand held electric waater heater until the water hits around 100 celsius (just at boiling) 3) Mix 1400 grams of coffee with 500ml of boiling water in the press. 350g/125ml ratio of coffee/water 4) Stir once with a stirring stick until the mix looks like mud. 5) Let sit for 4 minutes. 6) Press the plunger down slowly. 7) Pour whole mix into a large coffee cup. 8) Enjoy a RICH, highly caffeinated coffee. Seriously one cup of that stuff cures my coffee fix in the morning which typically takes a whole pot of the cheap stuff drip brewed or 4-6 cups of Senseo. French Press definately the way to go! -- The above coffee recipe is copyrighted and IP of Jeffrey Kirk LTD. The process has been "encrypted" into 1's, and 0's and to decrypt it or view it is in violation of the DMCA.
A big problem with MS now a days is what I call the "disposable PC". Price competition has brought computers, especially notebooks, down to record low prices. This has enabled many people to completely replace their computers every 1-2 years. Each one of these ubercheap computers had a Windows license attached to it, allowing MS to make profits on bulk. I'll use myself as an example: over the last 7 years I have bought 7 computers. All bargain basement priced except two. All but the two expensive ones came with a version of Windows. Now that Dell is going to start selling Ubuntu computers, hopefully other big names will follow suit. Why would I want to buy a $4-500 phone running Windows, when I can buy a new notebook for $350 (which I have done in the past)? Now it looks I can get a cheap notebook without Windows with driver support under Ubuntu, I'll never have to buy another MS based tech (except maybe a new xbox version in a couple of years). Oh and btw the two expensive computers I have bought were Macs, including a recent acquisition of a new MacBook, all for my wife and to use her words "It's the most beautiful piece of technology I have ever seen." Has anyone ever said that about a MS based product?
Only two things concern me about "human enhancements": 1) Will my boss be able to tell if I'm spending the afternoon with my wife instead of at work? 2) Will my wife be able to tell if I'm spending the evening at the bar instead of at home?
George Bush needs to do everything within his power to keep this technology from Iran! They will leak this tech to terrorists and next thing you know we'll have suicide bombing monkeys swinging through New York! I say preemptive strike! We are in imminent danger from the terrorists monkeys!
Dude, wtf are you talking about? I'm one of the biggest anti-piracy advocates I know. I even made my wife sanitize her mp3 collection. Just because I love posting on slashdot doesn't automatically mean I support illegal activities. Get a life.
There is no "North American" government, though there are the three independent governments of Canada, the U.S., and Mexico (and a few others in Central America which are part of North America). That's what YOU think.
This is akin to those "hack me" competitions. It's an open invite for all of the hackers/crackers around the world to concentrate all of their efforts on a single system! Think of the amount of knowledge we will gain about network security! Many of you have already started thinking of the feasibility of implementing a solution to pull this off, I for one am already thinking of how to hack it.
When things like this happen, people are always saying how horrible it is that the poor guy got in trouble. After all he wasn't doing anything wrong, just trying to help their security get better. Using the same logic, I guess I shouldn't have a problem with someone picking the lock to my house and walking around, even if they say they were going to write the lock company about how they did it. I know not related to the article's situation, but I'm tired of people jumping immediately to the side of the hacker/cracker. As far as the University "owning" your computer for use of their network, if you AGREED to the contract, I can understand why they'd be mad if you broke your end. AND do you really want students in your institution who don't have the integrity to honor contracts that THEY signed into? It would be one thing to do this in a controlled laboratory type setting, but this man obviously did not. I honestly have no sympathy for him. Oh and for the poster who says we want to raise our children to be corporate drones when it pays for Jobs to be somewhat anti-authority: We only want those who are smart enugh to NOT GET CAUGHT.
Jeez, it's only a homepage, how freakin important can it be? You can claim lost productivity hours setting it back up, but aren't you wasting time just opening it in the first place? And I think overall google is freakin awesome. I love gmail, BUT I have a local email client that downloads all of my email to my computer when I'm at work during the day just for backup purposes.
I guess you just don't know my wife. She just about creamed when I bought her a 360. I guess I'm just lucky enough to have a hot wife who likes video games and computers ;) No really she has EVERY system released in the last ten years, save for the PS3 which will have to change once the Final Fantasy titles start to roll out. She likes the Wii, but she REALLY likes her 360.
Wow, I thought I had enough with four for home and three for work. I guess I have a lot of nerd cred still yet to earn, and I thought it meant something when I bought my four year old her own computer.