I'm reminded of another SN site that is rather popular in the Netherlands. Recently they began an admittedly quite clever campaign telling people to be careful with their information and not open everything up to everyone.
The silly bit? I've got my account set to only allow friends (well, people I've connected with) to see my profile. A side effect is that I don't get to see profiles of people I haven't connected with - apparently because that's not fair. Riiight.
"A system for enabling touch and feel over the internet provides a three-dimensional representation of a good being sold, that three-dimensional representation being viewable from a number of different directions."
I can't see how this is interesting when dealing with books, but it's simple enough to set up a service as discussed in the article without going fancy 3D. Why the hell would you? Also, wtf do they even mean by "touch and feel"? I'm pretty sure I don't get a haptic interface when reading through Kindle.
.. is that of all the versions I've heard so far I like Cohen's the least. Buckley gave it a very creative spin, Rufus Wainwright did a slightly boring but rather pretty makeover - but Cohen's is just terrible.
Does that mean it glorifies them? Just as all the jailhouses and criminal puppets glorify crime, right? Let's just shut down LEGO and ban imagination - that'll teach 'em.
After a bit of snickering I can only say that this reminds me of HP's habit of driver bloat. Seriously, guys, I only want to print stuff. That requires about two files, if you try real hard amounting to 2MB. Why the bloody hell do you folks need to include 400MB of random crap that I'll never use?
25% isn't a lot. Mind you, 25% *more* people had this gene. Annoyingly I can't find the paper on PNAS yet so I don't even know how many people actually have that gene. 1% vs 1.25% isn't really interesting, you see. Also, there isn't necessarily a direct relation - assuming addicts are 25% more likely to be male one could've marked the whole bloody Y-chromosome as "linked to addiction". Please, try and write a slightly less stupid headline.
Note: the submission form didn't think "25%?" was a title, for some reason.
Comparing accidental misconnects to walking into someone's house? In my head El Reg isn't anything like Slashdot - one of the reasons I like El Reg. Please keep it that way :)
As for the car: My car drives itself, and accidentally gets on the wrong lane. I'd much prefer if people tried to tell me something's not right before the police pulled me over and yelled at me to hold my hands above my head.
This is assuming he did in fact accidentally connect to the wrong network (plenty of setups just look for the strongest open connection) - of course you're responsible for the actions of your system, but $neighbour could've been less of an ass and more human about it by trying to ask nicely. A complex feat, but it's been known to help.
1) Sola Scriptura or the relatively wide adherence to it is a fairly new development.
2) Evolution isn't science, it's reading from a book. Whatever the trustworthiness of that book, it is not and will not be science. A biology class teaches what biologists have found through something at least resembling scientific method (okay, observe-hypothesis-test-correct doesn't apply very well). If a school wants to have a religion class, fine, but don't bitch about other classes contradicting it.
One would hope that these, especially the latter, would be obvious points to anyone involved. Alas. With some luck I'll be teaching physics in a few years, damn happy I don't have to put up with this mess in .nl.
>> So Google reserve the right to change the license retroactively? So when we
>> 'agree' to an EULA we don't even know what it might, one day, consist of?
I see your point, though in this case they are only saying "we said you gave us this right but that's not cool so you can have it back". A retroactive license makes no sense unless the possibility therefor is defined in a previous license - which does in fact happen, I'm fairly sure.
"3,400" makes no sense. Strictly speaking that should have been 3.5*10^3, but I'll settle for 3500. Rounding is not difficult, and it's definitely not done with a rusty knife.
1) This is a standard part of the EULA for Google services such as Picasa. WTF it's doing in Chrome I'm not entirely sure, since a browser isn't really a service until it's safely hidden in the "cloud".
2) How is this even enforceable when the project is open-sourced? It'll be a matter of time until someone takes the project and releases it without the EULA which should be perfectly possible. It just.. doesn't make sense to have it in there.
"Suspected" to be used by neonazis? Excuse me, but I've never seen anyone from B&H trying to conceal anything.
As for the "no one believes in Nazism anymore" - it's not entirely true. Quite a lot of people do, if not all openly or quite conciously. The whole of Europe seems to be making a bit of a "rechtsruck" as I've heard it called, and I don't like it. Yes, I'm fairly leftish. Yes, I have friends in the antifascist movement. No, I'm not some lazy kid trying to get myself some more social security - the only reason I'm posting here is that I've got a nasty cold and as such can't fill up all of the 50+ hours I spend each week for university.
I read people saying "they're just as bad, nothing better". I disagree very much. You see, the difference between far-right and far-left is that far-right claim that certain people are worth less because of the colour of their skin, while far-left claims that the far-righters are worth less because they are silly. Makes sense, no? Well, except for the fact that "left" and "right" mean next to nothing in this context - a lot of the antifascist movement are more anarchist than socialist.
Mine's the one with the AFA pin on it, worn proudly even though I might not entirely agree with some of their actions.
If you have to write an essay or whatever it's only fair to have access to a maximum of information, since that information isn't the goal of the class. In the exact sciences, though, pupils should have most information remembered simply because looking it up every time you use it takes too much time. Of course, this is best achieved by using said information. If I hadn't used Pythagoras' theorem as much as I have I likely wouldn't know it right now.
Usually I dislike any swearing and insults people use to make a point, since normal words that have *meaning* should be able to do the job. You're excused though, since you make excellent points along the way. A lot of open source is horrible, I can't deny - although that does not mean it has no value.
Perhaps the issue with "common" open source is that most projects are not created in tight(ly coordinated) cooperation between a few skilled individuals, but by, uh, often lesser men - partly hobbyists - in a more loose effort.
For the record - I'm litte more than a hobbyist coder myself.
This is definitely not a new thing. The EPC-700 (not eeepc, mind you) in its many guises has been in stores for a while now, actually. My mother bought one - against my recommendation - from a toy store a few weeks back, and I had the pleasure of trying to fix it when WLAN didn't work right. In the end I "fixed" it by restarting our router, even though my own laptop had no issues at all. Still don't understand why it didn't work, but meh.
Either way, I strongly suggest not getting near this thing. The CPU (as Io McKinnon noticed) is a Chinese MIPS copy which means that it's a pain to do anything with it that doesn't come shipped. The software is a mess, the localization on my mother's machine is plain horrible (excellent case of sloppy/lacking Chinese->English), it doesn't have a non-root account, the software it does have is painfully outdated and the updating tool something that comes with it doesn't work until you download a fix.
The "Minibook" version (if it's any different at all) might have slightly fewer issues, but I rather doubt it. Would not buy again, so to say.
What I don't get about this though is the "low-probability high-impact" bit. With my limited understanding of meteorology I'd expect that high-impact weather is pretty much always plain as daylight. "And the weather forecast: There's a five percent chance that a hurricane will pop up above the Isle of Man tonight, so you'd better brace yourselves."
Rather unrelatedly, I think this explained to me where the Salmon of Doubt has its roots. Lovely article. And, er, @Jerome: Google *lists* results. I like that, because it's readable. Functional, you see.
Paris 'cause she's not as alienated from this world as the Cuil folks seem to be.
We've all heard that you can be "forced" to give up passwords and the like, regardless of whether you actually know them.
I'm fairly sure something to this effect exists (hell, it's a piece of cake with any assymmetric key encryption), so why haven't we thought (or rather, why haven't I seen the suggestion yet) of putting the decryption key on a stick and _leave it at home_ or whatever? Mailing it forward would work as well, I suppose.
Gah, the fact that circumventions like this have to be made disgusts me. Papers please, indeed.
Icon because I'm not sure what it even represents but it looks like a helicopter.
Because Le Registre is still some sort of clean. Thank you. That is probably what I like about this website most, together with the oftentimes excellent articles - no gibberish, none of that profile stuff a news site really doesn't need, just news and comments.
Hokay, back to topic - While this looks like yet another Google purchase, the regular internet user in me is fairly happy with this since it's probably a rather nice addition.
Back to the real world - Google should be ashamed. The law is very plain in this respect (I hope), and claiming they are somehow above that is rather disgusting.
it is, when a stolen bike has to be news of national importance. Here in the barbarous lands of Dutchland it rarely gets past the regional bulletins. Cheers to the fellow who felt exposing this major fraud, though.
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Meanwhile...
I'm reminded of another SN site that is rather popular in the Netherlands. Recently they began an admittedly quite clever campaign telling people to be careful with their information and not open everything up to everyone.
The silly bit? I've got my account set to only allow friends (well, people I've connected with) to see my profile. A side effect is that I don't get to see profiles of people I haven't connected with - apparently because that's not fair. Riiight.
To quote from the patent..
"A system for enabling touch and feel over the internet provides a three-dimensional representation of a good being sold, that three-dimensional representation being viewable from a number of different directions."
I can't see how this is interesting when dealing with books, but it's simple enough to set up a service as discussed in the article without going fancy 3D. Why the hell would you? Also, wtf do they even mean by "touch and feel"? I'm pretty sure I don't get a haptic interface when reading through Kindle.
What amuses me about this song...
.. is that of all the versions I've heard so far I like Cohen's the least. Buckley gave it a very creative spin, Rufus Wainwright did a slightly boring but rather pretty makeover - but Cohen's is just terrible.
Good job!
@ jake: then don't, fool. You're still master over and responsible for your own fingers.
@ Cade: very enjoyable article. Perhaps not entirely balanced or whatnot, but hey - I'm reading El Reg.
So, it *looks* like one
Does that mean it glorifies them? Just as all the jailhouses and criminal puppets glorify crime, right? Let's just shut down LEGO and ban imagination - that'll teach 'em.
One bag of air would be...
Cloud. Though I'm not sure it qualifies as a neologism it's probably the most overused and hyped buzzword of the past year.
HP & Bloat
After a bit of snickering I can only say that this reminds me of HP's habit of driver bloat. Seriously, guys, I only want to print stuff. That requires about two files, if you try real hard amounting to 2MB. Why the bloody hell do you folks need to include 400MB of random crap that I'll never use?
Good luck with that
It's roaming wild through torrents, and there are quite a few copies on file sharing sites. It'll be near impossible to entirely remove it.
25%? Oh please.
25% isn't a lot. Mind you, 25% *more* people had this gene. Annoyingly I can't find the paper on PNAS yet so I don't even know how many people actually have that gene. 1% vs 1.25% isn't really interesting, you see. Also, there isn't necessarily a direct relation - assuming addicts are 25% more likely to be male one could've marked the whole bloody Y-chromosome as "linked to addiction". Please, try and write a slightly less stupid headline.
Note: the submission form didn't think "25%?" was a title, for some reason.
Oh come on
Comparing accidental misconnects to walking into someone's house? In my head El Reg isn't anything like Slashdot - one of the reasons I like El Reg. Please keep it that way :)
Annoying, but not entirely silly
As for the car: My car drives itself, and accidentally gets on the wrong lane. I'd much prefer if people tried to tell me something's not right before the police pulled me over and yelled at me to hold my hands above my head.
This is assuming he did in fact accidentally connect to the wrong network (plenty of setups just look for the strongest open connection) - of course you're responsible for the actions of your system, but $neighbour could've been less of an ass and more human about it by trying to ask nicely. A complex feat, but it's been known to help.
Awesome.
Living in the Netherlands, about 15km from this particular border, I sincerely hope this will happen and that it'll be .vla.
Way to get funding, man
1) Extrapolating some data
2) getting people totally scared
3) ???
4) FUNDING
Of course, if they manage to pull this off -kudos. I've got my doubts, though.
Maybe it's just me, but..
"Windows is X and Y, but Google is more flexible" doesn't seem to explain how Windows CE complements Android.
Will they ever learn..
1) Sola Scriptura or the relatively wide adherence to it is a fairly new development.
2) Evolution isn't science, it's reading from a book. Whatever the trustworthiness of that book, it is not and will not be science. A biology class teaches what biologists have found through something at least resembling scientific method (okay, observe-hypothesis-test-correct doesn't apply very well). If a school wants to have a religion class, fine, but don't bitch about other classes contradicting it.
One would hope that these, especially the latter, would be obvious points to anyone involved. Alas. With some luck I'll be teaching physics in a few years, damn happy I don't have to put up with this mess in .nl.
Greeks, eh?
Sounds like the Cypriots are having a party.
@ Retrospective
>> So Google reserve the right to change the license retroactively? So when we
>> 'agree' to an EULA we don't even know what it might, one day, consist of?
I see your point, though in this case they are only saying "we said you gave us this right but that's not cool so you can have it back". A retroactive license makes no sense unless the possibility therefor is defined in a previous license - which does in fact happen, I'm fairly sure.
Pedant alert
"3,400" makes no sense. Strictly speaking that should have been 3.5*10^3, but I'll settle for 3500. Rounding is not difficult, and it's definitely not done with a rusty knife.
Paris, 'cause she's... round?
Odd, but does it even work?
1) This is a standard part of the EULA for Google services such as Picasa. WTF it's doing in Chrome I'm not entirely sure, since a browser isn't really a service until it's safely hidden in the "cloud".
2) How is this even enforceable when the project is open-sourced? It'll be a matter of time until someone takes the project and releases it without the EULA which should be perfectly possible. It just.. doesn't make sense to have it in there.
*cough*
"Suspected" to be used by neonazis? Excuse me, but I've never seen anyone from B&H trying to conceal anything.
As for the "no one believes in Nazism anymore" - it's not entirely true. Quite a lot of people do, if not all openly or quite conciously. The whole of Europe seems to be making a bit of a "rechtsruck" as I've heard it called, and I don't like it. Yes, I'm fairly leftish. Yes, I have friends in the antifascist movement. No, I'm not some lazy kid trying to get myself some more social security - the only reason I'm posting here is that I've got a nasty cold and as such can't fill up all of the 50+ hours I spend each week for university.
I read people saying "they're just as bad, nothing better". I disagree very much. You see, the difference between far-right and far-left is that far-right claim that certain people are worth less because of the colour of their skin, while far-left claims that the far-righters are worth less because they are silly. Makes sense, no? Well, except for the fact that "left" and "right" mean next to nothing in this context - a lot of the antifascist movement are more anarchist than socialist.
Mine's the one with the AFA pin on it, worn proudly even though I might not entirely agree with some of their actions.
Makes sense, sorta.
If you have to write an essay or whatever it's only fair to have access to a maximum of information, since that information isn't the goal of the class. In the exact sciences, though, pupils should have most information remembered simply because looking it up every time you use it takes too much time. Of course, this is best achieved by using said information. If I hadn't used Pythagoras' theorem as much as I have I likely wouldn't know it right now.
_usually_
Usually I dislike any swearing and insults people use to make a point, since normal words that have *meaning* should be able to do the job. You're excused though, since you make excellent points along the way. A lot of open source is horrible, I can't deny - although that does not mean it has no value.
Perhaps the issue with "common" open source is that most projects are not created in tight(ly coordinated) cooperation between a few skilled individuals, but by, uh, often lesser men - partly hobbyists - in a more loose effort.
For the record - I'm litte more than a hobbyist coder myself.
Not new.
This is definitely not a new thing. The EPC-700 (not eeepc, mind you) in its many guises has been in stores for a while now, actually. My mother bought one - against my recommendation - from a toy store a few weeks back, and I had the pleasure of trying to fix it when WLAN didn't work right. In the end I "fixed" it by restarting our router, even though my own laptop had no issues at all. Still don't understand why it didn't work, but meh.
Either way, I strongly suggest not getting near this thing. The CPU (as Io McKinnon noticed) is a Chinese MIPS copy which means that it's a pain to do anything with it that doesn't come shipped. The software is a mess, the localization on my mother's machine is plain horrible (excellent case of sloppy/lacking Chinese->English), it doesn't have a non-root account, the software it does have is painfully outdated and the updating tool something that comes with it doesn't work until you download a fix.
The "Minibook" version (if it's any different at all) might have slightly fewer issues, but I rather doubt it. Would not buy again, so to say.
Hooray for inaccurate titles!
What I don't get about this though is the "low-probability high-impact" bit. With my limited understanding of meteorology I'd expect that high-impact weather is pretty much always plain as daylight. "And the weather forecast: There's a five percent chance that a hurricane will pop up above the Isle of Man tonight, so you'd better brace yourselves."
Well I'll be damned
Rather unrelatedly, I think this explained to me where the Salmon of Doubt has its roots. Lovely article. And, er, @Jerome: Google *lists* results. I like that, because it's readable. Functional, you see.
Paris 'cause she's not as alienated from this world as the Cuil folks seem to be.
Encryption idea
We've all heard that you can be "forced" to give up passwords and the like, regardless of whether you actually know them.
I'm fairly sure something to this effect exists (hell, it's a piece of cake with any assymmetric key encryption), so why haven't we thought (or rather, why haven't I seen the suggestion yet) of putting the decryption key on a stick and _leave it at home_ or whatever? Mailing it forward would work as well, I suppose.
Gah, the fact that circumventions like this have to be made disgusts me. Papers please, indeed.
Icon because I'm not sure what it even represents but it looks like a helicopter.
@Fathomsdown
Because Le Registre is still some sort of clean. Thank you. That is probably what I like about this website most, together with the oftentimes excellent articles - no gibberish, none of that profile stuff a news site really doesn't need, just news and comments.
Hokay, back to topic - While this looks like yet another Google purchase, the regular internet user in me is fairly happy with this since it's probably a rather nice addition.
You so sure?
Richard Branson is doing a fine job, I'd say.
Back to the real world - Google should be ashamed. The law is very plain in this respect (I hope), and claiming they are somehow above that is rather disgusting.
What a beautiful world...
it is, when a stolen bike has to be news of national importance. Here in the barbarous lands of Dutchland it rarely gets past the regional bulletins. Cheers to the fellow who felt exposing this major fraud, though.
Mine's the one with the concealed bolt-cutter <.<
Bets on...
whether google will buy them out within two years?