Why does an industry that offers so little in terms of value or innovation hold so much power over everyone? Why do we keep allowing these bullies to push us around?
OSX and Linux are far more secure than Windows. They have BSD and UNIX in the background, not the buggy and insecure kernel that Windows has. This is just mindless astroturfing from Windows users who try to make Apple experience look bad because they are jealous for us. What do you take to a coffee place when you go hang around there, your PC? Apple has iPad. iPhone looks cool. Mac doesn't have the same malware problems like Microsoft Windows. For years Windows has been plagued with viruses, exploits and malware. That is not true for OSX or Linux. Only an idiot would use Microsoft Windows now - I keep to my OSX thank you very much.
You still need to be wise about what you install. You still need to stay up to date with software patches. You still need to make backups of your important files. You still cannot treat your computer like it'll never betray you.
The difference between you and a Windows user is he'll be up and running faster than you if the hard drive goes bad.
Kind of funny that it ran into a timely detour because it hit a spot that WASN'T solid rock.
Amazing that level of optimization fails due to loose dirt.
What's so funny or amazing about it? If you drill a hole through loose dirt, it ceases to be a hole seconds later. This has nothing to do with 'optimization'.
A TrueCrypt volume is secure and reasonably portable.
For me, sure. But one of the things I use DropBox for is to send files to a coworker who isn't as computer saavy. I can get him to enter passwords but my fear is, and maybe you can help me figure out that it's unfounded, that I'll show him how to use TrueCrypt then after 6 months of not using it he'll forget how to do it.
or maybe holier than thou assholes like yourself will simply kill yourselves over the fact that not everyone gives a shit about whatever it is that you do with your time.
.... said the guy who spent his Saturday anonymously flaming people on Slashdot.
Ohh I don't think the attack had anything to do with OtherOS. My statement says nothing of the sort. Apparently, a lot of people believe that this attack was revenge for removing Linux. I believe Nintendo will not want to offer a feature that has such a large backlash if they remove it. Especially a feature their customers are not likely to use.
Nintendo won't want to offer that as a feature because it has nothing to do with gaming.
I am not in favor of the innocent users becoming victims, but if this happened to any company, at least it happened to Sony. There are few companies that deserve this more than Sony.
It's not even really a case of 'deserving' it. They created ill-will with a group of people, and those people retaliated. In the short term, a lot of people are getting burned by the outage. Looking at the big picture, however, Sony will have to think long and hard about whether or not to remove features in the future.
What the 'hackers' did was criminal and not justifiable. They should not have done this. (I bet somebody replies without having read this bit.) But if Sony shows any wisdom at all, they'll learn from it.
Does it annoy anyone else that there are more and more articles here on/. that are submissions of an article/store by the author of the story ?
No.
Most of what we read about on this site are things we want to go out and buy. If the topic is interesting, the topic is interesting. If you want to wipe out everything considered an advertisement this site is going to dry up real quick.
"Retina" just seems to mean "High pixel density." Apple's marketing department coined the term to imply that the display has a resolution equal to your eye. Of course that isn't the case, it is dependent on distance
"The screen is marketed by Apple as the "Retina Display", based on the assertion that a display of approximately 300 ppi at a distance of 12 inches (305 mm) from one's eye is the maximum amount of detail that the human retina can perceive."
Considering all of the boo-hoo'ing this statement caused here a year ago, I'm surprised there were enough people with mod-points to have missed it.
Laws restricting what you can legally say or placing penalties upon certain forms of speech are restrictions upon free speech. It is as simple as that, and I don't really see why the concept is so confusing to some people.
Because it's not as simple as that.
The term 'Freedom of Speech' is not a blank check to use words to cause damage. We've all heard the cliche about shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater.
Ok. So why did Netflix specify those particular phones?
I haven't the slightest clue. What I do know is that every phone I've heard of so far that is running Gingerbread is capable of running this app. My Droid does and it is the slowest of the "second generation" Android phones out there so it can't be for performance or memory reasons. Obviously, they baked their own DRM in as my Droid doesn't have anything that they would likely be using so it can't be that. So, you tell me, why those phones?
I don't know, either. One thing that is pretty clear, though, is that it doesn't make sense from a business perspective for Netflix to only support certain phones, especially when it's clear the rest of phones can run the app. There is something going on there.
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2 Trillion dollars worth is virtually nothing if you look at it from a world-wide perspective. To put it simply, we export virtually nothing.
Have you been trained on how to use Google?
Does the US MAKE anything (real goods) any more?
Nearly 2 trillion dollars worth, yes.
"Unless you sit down and meet a pirate face to face and have a conversation about what it does, I don't think anything will stop them."
... so we'll make the legit version of the game harder to pirate because we all know that annoying customers makes them spend more money!
It is true that it is about our only export. And it is falling fast.
No it's not, and no it's not.
Why does an industry that offers so little in terms of value or innovation hold so much power over everyone? Why do we keep allowing these bullies to push us around?
Supply and demand.
OSX and Linux are far more secure than Windows. They have BSD and UNIX in the background, not the buggy and insecure kernel that Windows has. This is just mindless astroturfing from Windows users who try to make Apple experience look bad because they are jealous for us. What do you take to a coffee place when you go hang around there, your PC? Apple has iPad. iPhone looks cool. Mac doesn't have the same malware problems like Microsoft Windows. For years Windows has been plagued with viruses, exploits and malware. That is not true for OSX or Linux. Only an idiot would use Microsoft Windows now - I keep to my OSX thank you very much.
You still need to be wise about what you install. You still need to stay up to date with software patches. You still need to make backups of your important files. You still cannot treat your computer like it'll never betray you.
The difference between you and a Windows user is he'll be up and running faster than you if the hard drive goes bad.
Think what that percentage would be if they supported Linux, too.
You mean how many zeroes past the decimal point we'd have to use?
Kind of funny that it ran into a timely detour because it hit a spot that WASN'T solid rock.
Amazing that level of optimization fails due to loose dirt.
What's so funny or amazing about it? If you drill a hole through loose dirt, it ceases to be a hole seconds later. This has nothing to do with 'optimization'.
A TrueCrypt volume is secure and reasonably portable.
For me, sure. But one of the things I use DropBox for is to send files to a coworker who isn't as computer saavy. I can get him to enter passwords but my fear is, and maybe you can help me figure out that it's unfounded, that I'll show him how to use TrueCrypt then after 6 months of not using it he'll forget how to do it.
Would using password protected .RAR or .ZIP files be relatively secure?
or maybe holier than thou assholes like yourself will simply kill yourselves over the fact that not everyone gives a shit about whatever it is that you do with your time.
.... said the guy who spent his Saturday anonymously flaming people on Slashdot.
What's windows?
It's what most Linux distros aspire to.
Most computer faults are operating system based, with viruses et al being the cause.
Most computer faults are pilot error, not viruses.
That's what they get for not reading Slashdot...
Well, to be fair, if they were reading Slashdot they'd hate a lot more things undeservedly.
Ohh I don't think the attack had anything to do with OtherOS. My statement says nothing of the sort. Apparently, a lot of people believe that this attack was revenge for removing Linux. I believe Nintendo will not want to offer a feature that has such a large backlash if they remove it. Especially a feature their customers are not likely to use.
Nintendo won't want to offer that as a feature because it has nothing to do with gaming.
...does it run Linux?
Are you a bot?
10 print "Does it run Linux?"
20 goto 10
I am not in favor of the innocent users becoming victims, but if this happened to any company, at least it happened to Sony. There are few companies that deserve this more than Sony.
It's not even really a case of 'deserving' it. They created ill-will with a group of people, and those people retaliated. In the short term, a lot of people are getting burned by the outage. Looking at the big picture, however, Sony will have to think long and hard about whether or not to remove features in the future.
What the 'hackers' did was criminal and not justifiable. They should not have done this. (I bet somebody replies without having read this bit.) But if Sony shows any wisdom at all, they'll learn from it.
I have a completely random password that even I don't even know. The password is saved in my PS3 somewhere.
How is it going to help anything if I change the password? Sony could just re-hash with a different salt the next time I login.
Ah, this sounds like the 1d-10-T problem that's been going around.
Does it annoy anyone else that there are more and more articles here on /. that are submissions of an article/store by the author of the story ?
No.
Most of what we read about on this site are things we want to go out and buy. If the topic is interesting, the topic is interesting. If you want to wipe out everything considered an advertisement this site is going to dry up real quick.
it was SEAL Team Six, not 6, but it was also was called ST6.
The Undiscovered Country.
"Retina" just seems to mean "High pixel density." Apple's marketing department coined the term to imply that the display has a resolution equal to your eye. Of course that isn't the case, it is dependent on distance
"The screen is marketed by Apple as the "Retina Display", based on the assertion that a display of approximately 300 ppi at a distance of 12 inches (305 mm) from one's eye is the maximum amount of detail that the human retina can perceive."
Considering all of the boo-hoo'ing this statement caused here a year ago, I'm surprised there were enough people with mod-points to have missed it.
So am I to understand that "retina" is the new "HD"? I expected something better from Slashdot...
No HD was never a measurement of 'pixels smaller than the eye can see."
Laws restricting what you can legally say or placing penalties upon certain forms of speech are restrictions upon free speech. It is as simple as that, and I don't really see why the concept is so confusing to some people.
Because it's not as simple as that.
The term 'Freedom of Speech' is not a blank check to use words to cause damage. We've all heard the cliche about shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater.
Now, if they'll just make a cell phone with a 47 inch screen I can get rid of my TV.
Well... you are right. People do seem awfully crazy when you don't understand their motivations.
Ok. So why did Netflix specify those particular phones?
I haven't the slightest clue. What I do know is that every phone I've heard of so far that is running Gingerbread is capable of running this app. My Droid does and it is the slowest of the "second generation" Android phones out there so it can't be for performance or memory reasons. Obviously, they baked their own DRM in as my Droid doesn't have anything that they would likely be using so it can't be that. So, you tell me, why those phones?
I don't know, either. One thing that is pretty clear, though, is that it doesn't make sense from a business perspective for Netflix to only support certain phones, especially when it's clear the rest of phones can run the app. There is something going on there.