. . . Then conservatives in the west turn around and try to ban comic books, or dungeons and dragons, or marijuana, or violent video games. . . . It's a real shame we keep falling for it. Only 1 out of the 4 you mentioned are successfully banned in the US. Sounds to me that we're not continually falling for it.
GP post referenced the FCC, who now have to approve the Sirius/XM merger. The DOJ gave the ok but it's only part of the pie. Their merger plans are at least a year and a half in the making... I wonder how long THIS Verizon/Alltel merger was on the drawing board.
[This] article is very weak . . . [it] only points out two things, both of which are already commonly known by almost everyone in IT. Granted, but the study is being reported in the New York Times, not a trade magazine. Now we don't have to stroke our neck beards and demand the ignorant just understand, we can just point with "hey, look, it's in the New York Times," and continue to stroke our neck beards because, frankly, it's quite soothing.
The worst part of it though is how they throw in the whole thing of "we weren't actually downloading or sharing anything". No, they were just connecting to the tracker. And of course, everyone knows "pirates" commonly connect to torrent trackers to do nothing. Here's the detail, though, should connecting to another computer, something as simple as a handshake, immediately trigger a Cease & Desist? If it goes for BitTorrent connections to trackers, why not just web pages that serve.torrents that have instructions for the BT client to connect to a tracker? Why not the search engine that crawls the page? Is it ok that someone gets on some scary BOLO list for the FBI just by pinging Google to see if their connection is up because Google could be used to assist in finding torrents to use in infringing copyright?
MAFIAA tactics like this one only demonstrate that they are systematically exploiting the fact that it is extremely difficult for the courts to make a distinction between connecting to a tracker with intent to violate copyright and, you know, actually swapping packets with someone with the goal of collectively violating copyright.
No matter where you stand on Intellectual Property clearly any method of discovery that could implicate a PRINTER of all things is the wrong way to go.
With the new crop of machines like the EEE PC it seems that we're moving back to small, power-efficient machines as opposed to huge hulkers. People have been predicting the death of the hulker desktop now for what, 10 years? Sure the move to smaller and efficient is what's going to make computing truly ubiquitous by hiding them everywhere (well, that and economics), but full-sized machines will always have more power and reflect the state-of-the-art computing muscle the industry has to offer.
But muscle isn't everything? Lalalala, I can't hear you.;)
Yeah, people are stupid. What else is new? Seems to me it's the people accepting the faxed signatures that are stupid. I'm trying to buy a house now and there's maybe half a dozen documents that I or my realtor had to run around getting originals of because a fax/email version just won't do. It's a hassle, but better than someone lifting my signature and all of a sudden making me stuck with truckload after truckload of wild wacky aim-flailing inflatable tube men.
I'd [overgeneralizingly] say if the company you're dealing with is "fine" with a faxed signature when there's a non-trivial amount of money involved, they're probably a crappy company.
I find it funny how the wikipedia article on Chiquita just mentions the name change but none of the history it was meant to hide Nice thing about that new-fangled Wikipedia is that anyone can edit any article as they see fit.
IANANG (I Am Not A Network Guru) but, what harm could happen if, say, all reset packets were just ignored and dropped by the network stack? All the hubbub about figuring out if your ISP is sabotaging you seems less useful than just blocking the shanangans and moving on with your life.
I sure know I have a highly critical vulnerability to a pretty Brazillian lady doing the Samba, eh gents? I know you can mod something funny, but is there any way to mod something !Funny? Offtopic seems to be the mod of choice in this case. I always thought nerds like me loved puns. Maybe only good puns, though.
Other unused one-liners: "When I do the Samba I'm pretty vulnerable to kicks to the knees" "Samba has always been vulnerable... to arthritis" "This vulnerability is easily fixed by switching the audio back to a simple 2/4 beat."
You did well to post as AC, but not well enough to not remind me of those crackpot sites that are absolutely sure there's a huge conspiracy against the science behind making free energy out of nothing and all the old men are holding it back.
The guard looked at her gun, said nothing and passed them in, then stopped the man behind them because he had beer and snacks in his bag. Park rules prohibit outside food. It's clear what the 'security' check was really about: improving park food vending revenues. Heh heh, the fools. The gun's cartridge was loaded with small pretzels and Tootsie Rolls.
MS will almost give away MSDN subscriptions to you through their Empower program, so I doubt licensing of the tools is an issue, unless lack of knowledge of the ressources available is an alternate problem. You might want to read the EULA on those MSDN-provided apps, there. The tools they provide are for development only and you are expected to buy full versions when you deploy to production.
Which makes more sense? Collecting $30,000 from a customer with $20,000 going to proprietary software licenses or giving your customer a bargain at $15,000 with all of the money going to, well, you? (Not counting karma-obligatory generous contributions to your favorite OSS dev team or advocasy group.)
It'll soon be cheaper to run a call center in the USA than in India or Mexico.
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I think majority of the issues are caused by the language barrier anyway. My guess is that there will be just as many language barrier problems as Steve with his Yankee accent tries to convince the caller his name is "Dhinalit".
As long as we're using it on unmanned craft (or on the bench), a decent rate of failures is alright by me if they're learning something from them. I'd have to say that mindset is the #1 reason why I like science so much. Even in failure there's so much to learn from it.
So I'm glad I got burned think of all the things we learned For the people who are still alive
P.S. Some activities to pass the time would include Watching Grass Grow and/or Watching Paint Dry. I'll admit I was intrigued, but, I wish you'd have added an "embedded sound" warning.:/
Haven't tried actually getting the service, but you can enter any true statement in between the or's for the $0 annual charge (i.e. ' or 1 or ', ' or 2+2=4 or ' etc.). Whoever designed that form made some major goofups. And if they took that much care about that form, you can imagine how much quality and attention to detail the rest of their proprietary credit protection services have to offer.
Oops, I guess I was the 800 lb. elephant in the room.
Let A = cost of beers for able-bodied friends B = cost of equipment (free because you already have it? Power tool rental?) C = cost of submitting a request to the county D = cost of cables, conduits, etc that gets buried.
If A + B + C + D $10,000 that the cable company is quoting, then it's a good deal. If it gets a permit and is all done to code there's nothing the cable company can sue about... especially since he'd just basically extended their infrastructure at no cost to them.
There's always inviting a cell tower to be built on your property. In such a case the cell companies would wind up buring some kind of infrastructure anyway to support it. When that happens, call again and all of a sudden, wouldn't you know it, you've got cabling all up to practically your doorstep.
I applaud their help in stopping crime... Juicy tidbits from TFA:
22-year-old IT professional Rahul Krishnakumar Vaid. His crime was writing in an orkut community named "I hate Sonia Gandhi." Sonia Gandhi is a prominent politician in India . . . he created a profile and then posted content in vulgar language about Sonia Gandhi in the community.
. . . If he's convicted, he can be imprisoned for up to five years and may have to pay a fine up to Rs one lakh. Still applaud that? This isn't Google catching a thief or embezzler or rapist. This is Google turning in someone who said something that someone else who is powerful doesn't like.
Dude, we're talking about the Pentagon; the same group that buys $400 hammers, $600 toilet seats, and $20 ice trays. Gotta tell ya, though, $20 buys a hell of an ice tray. Every cube looks like a miniature swan ice-sculpture in my mug.
Maybe it is because I am getting older or busier, but I just don't have time for text messaging. Funny, because I feel like I don't have the time to make calls. I wind up saying the same thing over and over because at least one person in the call is in a noisy environment, or I use [admittedly] confusing analogies and beating-around-the-bush to speak about inappropriate things with people around me (not that I particularly care about think-of-the-children, but I try not to be rude). Three minutes into the call and one side may think we're meeting at the walk instead of the block, or room D-25 instead of B-25 halfway across campus.
Privacy from nosy cube neighbors, sent-box audit trail (proof of what I sent you), precise text instead of clipped audio quality all sold me my unlimited text add-on.
RAW photos are a standard that are used in some photo contests. Isn't "RAW" really just an umbrella term for a number of competing and very ad-hoc formats? Original post should have referred to "lossless" instead of RAW, but, even following that, how complicated could RAW be? You've got RGB information in some order uniform order and bit-depth in sequence from one corner of a picture to another. Trying it once will instantly reveal each component's bit-depth, order of the colors (maybe BGR like most LCDs?), top-left-to-bottom-right versus bottom-left-to-top-right.
Hell, the fanciest it might get is some header with EXIF information (easily stands out from opening a test picture) or not having separate color layers interlaced together (as in first R for the whole picture, then G, then B).
If anything it's probably a good assignment for high-school level comp-sci: reverse engineering the data structures encoded in an unknown file format.
Canon hacking has hit mainstream, it seems... with extra visibility I'm sure the higher ups in the company will soon know about them (no doubt the engineers already knew about the project). I LOVE my Canon cameras, so, I really hope Canon doesn't pull an Apple or a Creative and start intentionally guarding against firmware hacks because then my future purchases will have to go elsewhere.
Sidenote: I had an old A80 camera that's maybe 6 years old stopped taking pictures. Turns out there was an old technical bulletin about it in their KB and that Canon was offering free repairs to any affected unit regardless of its age. I sent it in and they did what they promised AND the turnaround was around a week.
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Actually, no.
GP post referenced the FCC, who now have to approve the Sirius/XM merger. The DOJ gave the ok but it's only part of the pie. Their merger plans are at least a year and a half in the making... I wonder how long THIS Verizon/Alltel merger was on the drawing board.
MAFIAA tactics like this one only demonstrate that they are systematically exploiting the fact that it is extremely difficult for the courts to make a distinction between connecting to a tracker with intent to violate copyright and, you know, actually swapping packets with someone with the goal of collectively violating copyright.
No matter where you stand on Intellectual Property clearly any method of discovery that could implicate a PRINTER of all things is the wrong way to go.
A 3 lb. weight on your wrist is awesome when you want to work out your... uh, non-dominant hand.
Er, wait, nevermind I said that.
But muscle isn't everything? Lalalala, I can't hear you.
I'd [overgeneralizingly] say if the company you're dealing with is "fine" with a faxed signature when there's a non-trivial amount of money involved, they're probably a crappy company.
IANANG (I Am Not A Network Guru) but, what harm could happen if, say, all reset packets were just ignored and dropped by the network stack? All the hubbub about figuring out if your ISP is sabotaging you seems less useful than just blocking the shanangans and moving on with your life.
Other unused one-liners:
"When I do the Samba I'm pretty vulnerable to kicks to the knees"
"Samba has always been vulnerable... to arthritis"
"This vulnerability is easily fixed by switching the audio back to a simple 2/4 beat."
I sure know I have a highly critical vulnerability to a pretty Brazillian lady doing the Samba, eh gents?
You did well to post as AC, but not well enough to not remind me of those crackpot sites that are absolutely sure there's a huge conspiracy against the science behind making free energy out of nothing and all the old men are holding it back.
Which makes more sense? Collecting $30,000 from a customer with $20,000 going to proprietary software licenses or giving your customer a bargain at $15,000 with all of the money going to, well, you? (Not counting karma-obligatory generous contributions to your favorite OSS dev team or advocasy group.)
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I think majority of the issues are caused by the language barrier anyway. My guess is that there will be just as many language barrier problems as Steve with his Yankee accent tries to convince the caller his name is "Dhinalit".
"Dude, you're getting a fine!"
So I'm glad I got burned think of all the things we learned
For the people who are still alive
Oops, I guess I was the 800 lb. elephant in the room.
Let A = cost of beers for able-bodied friends
B = cost of equipment (free because you already have it? Power tool rental?)
C = cost of submitting a request to the county
D = cost of cables, conduits, etc that gets buried.
If A + B + C + D $10,000 that the cable company is quoting, then it's a good deal. If it gets a permit and is all done to code there's nothing the cable company can sue about... especially since he'd just basically extended their infrastructure at no cost to them.
There's always inviting a cell tower to be built on your property. In such a case the cell companies would wind up buring some kind of infrastructure anyway to support it. When that happens, call again and all of a sudden, wouldn't you know it, you've got cabling all up to practically your doorstep.
. . . If he's convicted, he can be imprisoned for up to five years and may have to pay a fine up to Rs one lakh. Still applaud that? This isn't Google catching a thief or embezzler or rapist. This is Google turning in someone who said something that someone else who is powerful doesn't like.
Privacy from nosy cube neighbors, sent-box audit trail (proof of what I sent you), precise text instead of clipped audio quality all sold me my unlimited text add-on.
Hell, the fanciest it might get is some header with EXIF information (easily stands out from opening a test picture) or not having separate color layers interlaced together (as in first R for the whole picture, then G, then B).
If anything it's probably a good assignment for high-school level comp-sci: reverse engineering the data structures encoded in an unknown file format.
Canon hacking has hit mainstream, it seems... with extra visibility I'm sure the higher ups in the company will soon know about them (no doubt the engineers already knew about the project). I LOVE my Canon cameras, so, I really hope Canon doesn't pull an Apple or a Creative and start intentionally guarding against firmware hacks because then my future purchases will have to go elsewhere.
Sidenote: I had an old A80 camera that's maybe 6 years old stopped taking pictures. Turns out there was an old technical bulletin about it in their KB and that Canon was offering free repairs to any affected unit regardless of its age. I sent it in and they did what they promised AND the turnaround was around a week.