It's interesting to me that you've never heard of a duplex.

try touching a nickel with a magnet some time. Magnetism isn't limited to iron.

I deal with this stuff at work every day, and the way it's ACTUALLY done isn't as fancy or as fun as people seem to think. We use a high-ish speed hydraulic press to deform the platters to the point where they're not able to spin/turn/anything any more. that step is basically securing the drives for transport to an industrial shredding facility. They dump the drives into a giant shredder that spits chunky dust out the other side.

I admit I didnt' watch the video, because...well, I don't watch videos that I could have read a transcript from in 1/10th the time.

Regardless though, I just don't see any way for the ISP to filter/detect copyrighted content without actually intercepting and analyzing the traffic on the wire.

Something seems to be wrong here. We would all be shitting our respective pants if the phone company stated they would be listening to our phone calls, or if the post office said they would be reading our mail...but we're not worried that our ISP is analyzing our private data packets, we're only worried what they do with the info?

It only took them two hours to figure out how to open the car with a laptop? And that's more frightening than the old fashioned way that takes 2 seconds with a brick?

I think you are grossly out of touch with reality. A smartphone lets me do my business without having to carry the laptop around, like you are apparently doing everywhere you go. I suppose you'd also like the children to stay off your lawn?

I'd say it's not fair to pick apart a soundbite pedantically, but when said soundbite is THIS inane and begging for it, I say go right ahead.

I can't remember the last time I carried cash in my wallet, and only carry one credit card. So you could eliminate the entire CONCEPT of currency and I'd still carry a wallet. Unless Paypal is also planning on eliminating the concepts of drivers license, work ID, key cards, notes to myself, receipts, medical ID cards, and concealed carry permits, my wallet is going to remain very useful to me.

The very question is retarded, as it has been asked over and over and over about just about every audio, video, and computer technology to ever come along...and purpose use devices are still going along nicely.

Sure, find me a TV that is infinitely upgradeable for all future as yet unimagined technologies, and that will put a nail in the set top box coffin...but since that's fantasy land, it's not gonna happen. It's NICE when you buy a device to do one thing, and it also does other useful things as well, but when you want a media source that isn't supported...you're right back to a new set top box. That's the REAL WORLD.

Intel "built" thunderbolt, and partnered with Apple to put it into the market on Macbooks first. a non-trivial difference.

yes, about two years ago. Thunderbolt is EXACTLY like LightPeak, as they are the same thing. LightPeak was the project codename, Thunderbolt is the formal product name.

+1

I'll never understand people who choose assholes, douchebags and/or criminals to be their martyrs. The last 3 years have been 100% the result of his own stubborn, whaddayagonnadoaboutit attitude. I have no sympathy for him, and would hold him up as an example of "don't let this be you".

Anyone who worked in a tech company during the dotcom implosion got to deal with plenty of people like this. Changing admin passwords on friday in case they were laid off on monday. Refusing to document anything so they would be indispensable (so they think). Refusing to answer any questions during their exit interview. Screw him and his entire ilk. If he put half that effort into being a better employee he'd probably still have a job, instead of a cellmate.

Uh...I think you missed the point of that post. He's not engaging in brilliant and cutting satire...he's nutjob, tinfoil hat serious. Check out his post history, it's all the same paranoid conspiracy, anti-big pharma, anti vax nonsense.

The fact that it's indistinguishable from hilarious satire tells us something about the value of context...yikes.

this is less a "music service" and more a "music catalog app/player". it seems as controversial as chilled milk.

I can envision the amount of mental jackassery that could have resulted in someone actually making and promoting this...thing. What I don't get is why Slashdot thinks it's worthy of any mention, notice, republication, or even ridicule.

Are you kidding? That movie was my first sight of full frontal nudity...it deserved an Oscar for that alone.