(I know you're playing devil's advocate) You really think what in question is going on is novel to society? I don't know who said it, but it's along the lines of 'imagine the most foul and revolting thing you can think of, and there's some group of people out there who get off on it.' The distribution argument doesn't really seem valid to me since there are already laws restricting the distribution to minors. So what would be the point in making it illegal to possess an image of a legal act? If this were in the US it would either not pass, or pass and be struck down because it is an imbecilic concept.
I always buy 3rd party inkjet supplies, mainly for the price, but also since what I do isn't in need of amazing quality so I may not notice any decrease in clarity/color. I've never had a problem with ink that is 10% of the price of what I would pay for epson ink. If I do really need something of high quality I use the laserjet at work.
I don't know about the cost thing since Bender said there would be needed hardware (just going off of what he said), but the reason for going with Sugar was its simplicity and intuitiveness for children who have never even seen a computer, much less used one. I've grown up with dos, and been acclimated to gui operating systems from mac to win3.1 - XP and later fedora c3-8(gnome) so we don't know what it's like to see XP for the first time without having any gui experience. I agree with jedidiah about the updates too. How does anyone know they won't start charging, at least the vendors, for future upgrades? At least with open source you practically don't have to bat an eye about keeping the software up to date.
Negroponte is getting off track of the goal of the OLPC. Instead of the $100 goal it's now around $177 I think. Take away that open source and involve microsoft and the price will increase again with the new necessary hardware, and maybe whatever they want for the software. I said it before and got berated, but I don't like the sound of this. It's not even that I want linux on them, but having some closed source doesn't seem to fit with affordability for the masses that the OLPC's goal was.
You used an exclamatory sentence in the no punctuation zone, you have to hop on one foot while I peg you with this waterballon. Now, hold still dammit. Hey, where's your mask?
I don't think getting the govt in on it would be a good idea. You'd then have people pandering to politicians and we'd end up with Diebold offering SSLs. Competition is still operating since I've seen multiple SSL providers on different sites, but Verisign is without question the top dog, whether that's due to it's solid performance or the hold it has, or both, but at least there's multiple alternatives if you aren't satisfied with who you have currently. Somehow I can't see that existing to such an extent with govt regulation.
I was under the impression that SSL providers had a hold on the "market" and didn't really need to provide that good support, but that is coming from someone who has never had to deal with that side of it. Here is an aggregation of a bunch of providers though, beware it's an ugly page.
Gator was a piece of shit too. I can recall stumbling upon that wondering how it got there and why and then taking the time to find out how to remove it completely. Awful. In terms of facebook, which I'm contemplating removing all my pictures/info from and "deleting" my account, I remember going to kongregate, a flash game site, and discovering that it had some sneaky little trick of noticing I had a cookie from facebook and it sent some shit to my account. I quickly rectified that by changing all my privacy settings, since I rarely ever use it I hadn't noticed the updates to it.
Ok,/.ers don't RTFA anyway but I'll sum up the 5 pages. History of malware...gator....trojans et al....there will always be malware that avoids detection...in the future mobile devices are going to be targeted more than they are now. Constantly updating browsers are good...yadda yadda...don't be stupid and be skeptical. Tada!
They don't mention it at all, but I'd be interested to know on what format and quality they think they can manage to release these episodes and movies. No way in hell will any movies be blu-ray quality, 8+gig 780p, or even good DVD quality. Possibly for tv episodes that might be compressed down to ~300Mb, but I'd guess movies will be in the range of 600-800Mb, but questionable on the format. Maybe if Sony hears of complaints from end-users about network tampering, they'll support some sort of net neutrality since it will affect them with this effort.
The difference between the that and Live mesh is that LM isn't solely designed to store things on their servers. It does have that capability, Live Desktop, but someone would have to be crazy to store all your personal, financial, and sensitive information on a data retention server, owned by MS no less. I would have no use for LM, but would be very skeptical of using it if I did. Set up a VPN if you are that intent of viewing something at home from work, or vice-versa. MS may be heading in a direction, but I don't think it's in the right way.
So I'm guessing activesync is going to be abandoned in the future for Live Mesh in terms of mobile devices? I never personally used activesync but I wonder if LM will absorb its responsibilities, and compatibilities. As long as there is no phoning home, I can see this having some good applications, but skepticism is always healthy.
EMI believes that consumers aren't allowed to store their music files online, and that MP3tunes is violating copyright law by providing a backup service.
There is a limit to the length of the title, he probably couldn't fit MP3s or music files.
Being a graduate of Virginia Tech, which received a letter for 36 John Does earlier this year, which also refused to give names, I'm glad more universities are actually pushing back against this strong-arming. I don't think VT did anything in return to the RIAA, can't find anything else on it, but at least they didn't give in to their tactics. Where's NewYorkCountyLawyer? FTFA
But, "Is he in for a surprise," says Recording Industry vs The People's Ray Beckerman.
Not that, it just sounds like now MS has its hand in it somehow. And I'm wondering how long that non-profit label lasts. Like I said, something just doesn't seem right about it now.
It has been the law, but this new one applies to electronic data on a laptop. Thinkofthechildren and terrorist! come to mind with the motivation of passing this ruling. If anyone honestly believes that anyone coming into the country would attempt to bring some sort of sensitive or malicious information into the country on a laptop is obviously severely naÃve. I still would like to know how this applies to single disk drives and desktop computers since all of the previousarticles don't explicitly mention those besides laptops. Simple confiscation?
like Bender was kind of forced to resign since all of his responsibilities were absorbed into the other 4 restructured areas. Since January the OLPC has lost three top execs, one of whom was asked to stop collaborating with Bender. Something seems a little fishy with this operation now.
In an interview with BusinessWeek in early March, OLPC Chairman Negroponte said OLPC was "doing almost impossible things," and that the organization needed to be managed "more like Microsoft." He said OLPC was reorganizing into four departments and looking for a CEO to lead the nonprofit.
...originating from China, and sold by Gold/Silver partners to numerous US government, military, and intelligence agencies
Are our government agencies seriously buying anything from ebay? I'm not even sure how legal, much less smart, it is to buy equipment that will be used in a federal agency from joe blow, or even kim lee (equivalent of jow blow) in china. An average user probably wouldn't have to worry, if in fact the stuff worked, but the Pentagon may have a problem. To any federal agency monitoring this (NSA), please stop buying your network and computing gear from yard sales and ebay.
The ISPs didn't pay a bunch of scabs to block off the event from "real" people. Instead they just gave a proverbial middle finger to the FCC and the public.
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(I know you're playing devil's advocate) You really think what in question is going on is novel to society? I don't know who said it, but it's along the lines of 'imagine the most foul and revolting thing you can think of, and there's some group of people out there who get off on it.' The distribution argument doesn't really seem valid to me since there are already laws restricting the distribution to minors. So what would be the point in making it illegal to possess an image of a legal act? If this were in the US it would either not pass, or pass and be struck down because it is an imbecilic concept.
I always buy 3rd party inkjet supplies, mainly for the price, but also since what I do isn't in need of amazing quality so I may not notice any decrease in clarity/color. I've never had a problem with ink that is 10% of the price of what I would pay for epson ink. If I do really need something of high quality I use the laserjet at work.
I don't know about the cost thing since Bender said there would be needed hardware (just going off of what he said), but the reason for going with Sugar was its simplicity and intuitiveness for children who have never even seen a computer, much less used one. I've grown up with dos, and been acclimated to gui operating systems from mac to win3.1 - XP and later fedora c3-8(gnome) so we don't know what it's like to see XP for the first time without having any gui experience.
I agree with jedidiah about the updates too. How does anyone know they won't start charging, at least the vendors, for future upgrades? At least with open source you practically don't have to bat an eye about keeping the software up to date.
Negroponte is getting off track of the goal of the OLPC. Instead of the $100 goal it's now around $177 I think. Take away that open source and involve microsoft and the price will increase again with the new necessary hardware, and maybe whatever they want for the software. I said it before and got berated, but I don't like the sound of this. It's not even that I want linux on them, but having some closed source doesn't seem to fit with affordability for the masses that the OLPC's goal was.
You used an exclamatory sentence in the no punctuation zone, you have to hop on one foot while I peg you with this waterballon. Now, hold still dammit. Hey, where's your mask?
Come on, do I have to tag this myself?
I don't think getting the govt in on it would be a good idea. You'd then have people pandering to politicians and we'd end up with Diebold offering SSLs. Competition is still operating since I've seen multiple SSL providers on different sites, but Verisign is without question the top dog, whether that's due to it's solid performance or the hold it has, or both, but at least there's multiple alternatives if you aren't satisfied with who you have currently. Somehow I can't see that existing to such an extent with govt regulation.
I was under the impression that SSL providers had a hold on the "market" and didn't really need to provide that good support, but that is coming from someone who has never had to deal with that side of it. Here is an aggregation of a bunch of providers though, beware it's an ugly page.
Gator was a piece of shit too. I can recall stumbling upon that wondering how it got there and why and then taking the time to find out how to remove it completely. Awful.
In terms of facebook, which I'm contemplating removing all my pictures/info from and "deleting" my account, I remember going to kongregate, a flash game site, and discovering that it had some sneaky little trick of noticing I had a cookie from facebook and it sent some shit to my account. I quickly rectified that by changing all my privacy settings, since I rarely ever use it I hadn't noticed the updates to it.
Ok, /.ers don't RTFA anyway but I'll sum up the 5 pages. History of malware...gator....trojans et al....there will always be malware that avoids detection...in the future mobile devices are going to be targeted more than they are now. Constantly updating browsers are good...yadda yadda...don't be stupid and be skeptical.
Tada!
If you say so.
Shit, now I can't use my last mod point on you. Damn my spiteful nature.
They don't mention it at all, but I'd be interested to know on what format and quality they think they can manage to release these episodes and movies. No way in hell will any movies be blu-ray quality, 8+gig 780p, or even good DVD quality. Possibly for tv episodes that might be compressed down to ~300Mb, but I'd guess movies will be in the range of 600-800Mb, but questionable on the format. Maybe if Sony hears of complaints from end-users about network tampering, they'll support some sort of net neutrality since it will affect them with this effort.
How about two words? Traffic shaping?
The difference between the that and Live mesh is that LM isn't solely designed to store things on their servers. It does have that capability, Live Desktop, but someone would have to be crazy to store all your personal, financial, and sensitive information on a data retention server, owned by MS no less. I would have no use for LM, but would be very skeptical of using it if I did. Set up a VPN if you are that intent of viewing something at home from work, or vice-versa. MS may be heading in a direction, but I don't think it's in the right way.
So I'm guessing activesync is going to be abandoned in the future for Live Mesh in terms of mobile devices? I never personally used activesync but I wonder if LM will absorb its responsibilities, and compatibilities. As long as there is no phoning home, I can see this having some good applications, but skepticism is always healthy.
I can name that tune in three notes!
Where's NewYorkCountyLawyer? FTFANice touch man.
Not that, it just sounds like now MS has its hand in it somehow. And I'm wondering how long that non-profit label lasts. Like I said, something just doesn't seem right about it now.
somehow the formatting changed my naive to naÃve. doesn't like the dieresis?
It has been the law, but this new one applies to electronic data on a laptop. Thinkofthechildren and terrorist! come to mind with the motivation of passing this ruling. If anyone honestly believes that anyone coming into the country would attempt to bring some sort of sensitive or malicious information into the country on a laptop is obviously severely naÃve. I still would like to know how this applies to single disk drives and desktop computers since all of the previous articles don't explicitly mention those besides laptops. Simple confiscation?
To any federal agency monitoring this (NSA), please stop buying your network and computing gear from yard sales and ebay.
The ISPs didn't pay a bunch of scabs to block off the event from "real" people. Instead they just gave a proverbial middle finger to the FCC and the public.