The friendly way about it is not to mess with people's traffic in the first place. Once you have filtering equipment in place it can easily be misused to filter out anything any power with enough money might wish to black out.
[...] and any mistake automatically blacklists you. Sounds ridiculously impractical IMHO. Yup, anything that would potentially that easily deny me access to my own machine won't get installed. It's all fun and games till you've locked yourself out from an only remotely accessible server...
That and I won't have to worry about installing a furnace in my new house. Yeah, because most likely to afford 4 of these babies you'd have to sell your house anyway......and your neighbour's......and your grandmother for some change for the video card to drive it...
I just wondered what will happen to the slashdot MS-icon http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicms.gif now that Billy is gone...will it be replaced by a borgified version of Ballmer?
Am I the only one who read the summary as stating this thing having 6502 CPUs as a brain?
Aside from welcoming our new shiny-metal-ass-and-overpowered-brain-overlords I was rather stunned how you could cram that amount of chips into something less than the size of a small home.../me gets more coffee...
Because reviews do not shine as much as all the heavens a gadget maker will promise onto you.
Or clearer: Showing off your product and claiming it's the best is one thing, proving the stetement by submitting it to review is another and might actually convince fewer people.:)
Everytime I read something like this I cannot help but wonder how they claim to have figured it out. To me it always sounds like they're just making up yet another wild number to keep the funds flowing.
Scientist #1: crap, it's evaluation in a week Scientist #2: so? Scientist #1: well, the people who are giving us all our money will want to know what we made of it and we have nothing to present Scientist #2: ah, well, let's just make up some wild number on how the universe is more or less exactly 4 billion years old...noone can really prove that wrong anyway... Scientist #1: hmm, this might just work... Scientist #2: and just to top it off we'll even admit we're wrong by a few million years...just so noone asks how we can be so sure Scientist #1: My dear Scientist #2, you are a genious!...or something like that...
Hope this goes better than when the Mythbusters tried it...they may have tested it under the cover of film myths but boy did climbing an air duct NOT work.:D
All is good in theory. Yes, you might have an abusive employer...but without having a blackberry and the need to decide what to do about it in your free time forced on you there wouldn't be a problem in the first place.
In other words: you might have an abusive employer but it might not ever show.
I've heard people say "thank god I'm not eligible [meaning high enough in the food chain] to get one of those" over where I work.
So I'd say people definitely fear the intrusion of work into privacy and I understand totally.
There's got to be a time where you have to be able to say "I'm sorry, but I was out and couldn't check company mail".
I thought the year 2000 card was a pretty neat idea. While it may not give too much in terms of artistic value or depth it certainly ranks an 'A' on the "wtf, I wish I had one of these...no more pulling the sled up the hill"-scale.:D
All they're basically proposing is that you write an article as best as you can and they host it, giving you a tiny share of the revenue it generates. So instead of watching edit wars and being able to check out multiple opinions you now have to take the whole article as it is. There might even be small errors in there that would otherwise have been fixed by peers.
I understand that knowing the author could give more weight to the information of an article...I just don't understand how this is anything worth talking about or worth comparing to wikipedia.
It would have been really nice to have a common denominator where if you want to put up a video you can just assume a single format will actually work on all modern browsers of all platforms (one day). But certain corporations are too afraid of their own tactics and therefore refuse to implement OGG Theora. Because, you know, one day someone might pop out of their hole saying "booyah, I have a patent on technology X and you're all infringing" and they would not be able to deny it as OGG is open for everyone to review.
So in fear of a potential lawsuit over something that might not even ever happen we keep up a non-uniform way of displaying video on all platforms and have abandoned hope for a unification for years to come.
My neighbors are a couple lawyers. Albeit they are criminal and Divorce [...] Oh man I would love to see them in court where one cheats on the other with an underaged illegal immigrant or something...should be fun to watch.
Be sure to submit it to slashdot if it ever happens.:D
He complains that commercial content distributors instead of paying for their own bandwidth, are leeching off consumers who are paying for the bandwidth. Last time I checked it was everyone's personal choice how to use their bandwidth and if you don't use P2P then your personal bandwidth won't be wasted for those "leeching commercial content distributors". Also last time I checked I wasn't sharing a DSL line with my neighbor so what he or she does does not concern me in terms of bandwidth.
He "might" be complaining that if he wants something from those "leeching commercial content distributors" he has to bite the bullet and share some of his precious traffic with others...well, tough shit for you I'd say. How about instead of crying about crippling everyone's internet just because you don't like a service you go about complaining with the company that "forces" you to use P2P...or even better just ignore them and get your stuff somewhere else.
Also I find it amusing that this guy complains about other people wasting his paid/for bandwidth and then suggests to upload videos to google video instead...essentially suggesting wasting THEIR bandwidth...
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No, they would start thinking in terms of 'AND', 'OR' and 'NOT'...what you are thinking about is a reason bomb, or even better a 'smart bomb' :)
The friendly way about it is not to mess with people's traffic in the first place. Once you have filtering equipment in place it can easily be misused to filter out anything any power with enough money might wish to black out.
You do not want to open that box...
It's all fun and games till you've locked yourself out from an only remotely accessible server...
You must be measuring your vibes on Mars or something, because anywhere measured on earth it's more like an earthquake. :)
I just wondered what will happen to the slashdot MS-icon http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicms.gif now that Billy is gone...will it be replaced by a borgified version of Ballmer?
/me shudders...
Am I the only one who read the summary as stating this thing having 6502 CPUs as a brain?
/me gets more coffee...
Aside from welcoming our new shiny-metal-ass-and-overpowered-brain-overlords I was rather stunned how you could cram that amount of chips into something less than the size of a small home...
Because reviews do not shine as much as all the heavens a gadget maker will promise onto you.
:)
Or clearer: Showing off your product and claiming it's the best is one thing, proving the stetement by submitting it to review is another and might actually convince fewer people.
Everytime I read something like this I cannot help but wonder how they claim to have figured it out. To me it always sounds like they're just making up yet another wild number to keep the funds flowing.
...or something like that...
Scientist #1: crap, it's evaluation in a week
Scientist #2: so?
Scientist #1: well, the people who are giving us all our money will want to know what we made of it and we have nothing to present
Scientist #2: ah, well, let's just make up some wild number on how the universe is more or less exactly 4 billion years old...noone can really prove that wrong anyway...
Scientist #1: hmm, this might just work...
Scientist #2: and just to top it off we'll even admit we're wrong by a few million years...just so noone asks how we can be so sure
Scientist #1: My dear Scientist #2, you are a genious!
Sounds like this has potentially even more "bang for you buck" than nanowire batteries. Just don't take that bang-part literally...
...you can even get a Wii for the holidays. :P
:) )
(yeah I know you could just get a Wiimote and not have to fight for your Wii-unit.
Hope this goes better than when the Mythbusters tried it...they may have tested it under the cover of film myths but boy did climbing an air duct NOT work. :D
All is good in theory. Yes, you might have an abusive employer...but without having a blackberry and the need to decide what to do about it in your free time forced on you there wouldn't be a problem in the first place.
In other words: you might have an abusive employer but it might not ever show.
I've heard people say "thank god I'm not eligible [meaning high enough in the food chain] to get one of those" over where I work. So I'd say people definitely fear the intrusion of work into privacy and I understand totally. There's got to be a time where you have to be able to say "I'm sorry, but I was out and couldn't check company mail".
let's just hope that this year he doesn't shoot first...
I thought the year 2000 card was a pretty neat idea. While it may not give too much in terms of artistic value or depth it certainly ranks an 'A' on the "wtf, I wish I had one of these...no more pulling the sled up the hill"-scale. :D
All they're basically proposing is that you write an article as best as you can and they host it, giving you a tiny share of the revenue it generates. So instead of watching edit wars and being able to check out multiple opinions you now have to take the whole article as it is. There might even be small errors in there that would otherwise have been fixed by peers.
I understand that knowing the author could give more weight to the information of an article...I just don't understand how this is anything worth talking about or worth comparing to wikipedia.
I'll be coming back 5 hours later and expect the parent to be modded "+5 Funny" :P
It would have been really nice to have a common denominator where if you want to put up a video you can just assume a single format will actually work on all modern browsers of all platforms (one day). But certain corporations are too afraid of their own tactics and therefore refuse to implement OGG Theora. Because, you know, one day someone might pop out of their hole saying "booyah, I have a patent on technology X and you're all infringing" and they would not be able to deny it as OGG is open for everyone to review.
So in fear of a potential lawsuit over something that might not even ever happen we keep up a non-uniform way of displaying video on all platforms and have abandoned hope for a unification for years to come.
What a sad world...
The first rule of Guantanamo Bay is - you do not talk about Guantanamo Bay.
The second rule of Guantanamo Bay is - you DO NOT talk about Guantanamo Bay.
Third rule of Guantanamo Bay, someone yells Stop!, goes limp, taps out, the torture is not over.
Fourth rule, always more than two guys to a torture victim.
Fifth rule, one torture victim at a time, fellas.
Sixth rule, no shirt, no shoes, no clothes whatsoever for the victim.
Seventh rule, the torture will go on as long as it has to...and then just a little more to be on the safe side.
And the eighth and final rule, if this is your first night at Guantanamo Bay, you're in for a wild ride.
Scary...
Be sure to submit it to slashdot if it ever happens.
And a win in the lottery or two...
He complains that commercial content distributors instead of paying for their own bandwidth, are leeching off consumers who are paying for the bandwidth. Last time I checked it was everyone's personal choice how to use their bandwidth and if you don't use P2P then your personal bandwidth won't be wasted for those "leeching commercial content distributors". Also last time I checked I wasn't sharing a DSL line with my neighbor so what he or she does does not concern me in terms of bandwidth.
He "might" be complaining that if he wants something from those "leeching commercial content distributors" he has to bite the bullet and share some of his precious traffic with others...well, tough shit for you I'd say. How about instead of crying about crippling everyone's internet just because you don't like a service you go about complaining with the company that "forces" you to use P2P...or even better just ignore them and get your stuff somewhere else.
Also I find it amusing that this guy complains about other people wasting his paid/for bandwidth and then suggests to upload videos to google video instead...essentially suggesting wasting THEIR bandwidth...
He's high I say...