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Based on the description of the Sync program in the FAQ (aka it runs as a client on the same machine running iTunes), I don't think it's SMB. Also, I think SMB is ultimately a no-go for shared iTunes as discussed in this BoingBoing link:

Mac Mini Media Center Challenge

Some people may have forgotton, but this actually happened.

how to be a two day delay for boing boing.. linky: http://www.boingboing.net/2005/02/23/howto_turn_a_ hard_dr.html

You're a little late, this was all over boing boing yesterday. Way to go with the old news slashdot!

Of course. All of you free software nuts are communists according to Bill.

As long as the monkey doesn't have a nipple fetish I think we'll be fine.

One night, I noticed that some (but not all) of the images on BoingBoing were not loading. Just for kicks, I right-clicked one of the broken images, and saw that the url led here. Sure enough, I tried going there and got "Forbidden Category 'Adult/Mature Content.'"

Today, Infinite Matrix magazine published the latest of these, a story called "I, Robot," which describes the police state that would have to obtain if you were going to have a world where there was only one kind of robot allowed and only one company was allowed to make it.

An unskilled, annoying nerd that works for the FSF and thinks he can (a) have an interesting blog and (b) write.
The only things that keep boingboing just slightly above sea level are the other editor's contributions.

Linking to something illegal is illegal as you are an accesory.
This is how they take down torrent aggregators.
And why you should never direct people to crack houses.
Soon it will be illegal to even have a finger that could point to a crack house as that could induce pointing.
Just as in Manilla it is not permissible to have blank media, 'just in case' it has copyright infringing content.http://www.boingboing.net/2005/02/13/manil a_transit_cops_.html
Or Norway where they are just about to make the file format MP3 illegal.http://www.engadget.com/entry/123400060003 1289/
All this was predicted by Socrates and Plato back in the day when they railed against Sophistry or the practice of charging for information.

BoingBoing recently ran a story about the Eiffel tower. Now, because the Eiffel tower was built in the 19th century, there's an extra twist: Only the tower at night (with its recently added lighting) is supposedly copyrighted.

It's amazing how Slashdotters regularly jump to the conclusion that sites seek or even want a Slashdotting. This guy posted an idea to his blog, and tried the idea out on another. Whole Lotta Nothing blogged the blogger, and then Cory Doctorow noticed the post and mentioned it on boingboing Doug Nelson noticed this someplace and posted the story to Slashdot, where Cowboy Neal thought it was interesting and shared it with the rest of us. Now Buffington will enjoy a surprise visit by hordes of razorbacked monkeys clicking links and eeeeking their outrage at the crass comercialism of people who do not live in their parent's basement.
When Google and the advertisers notice the flood of dry clicks-throughs, Buffington will probably loose his account and get to pay a nice bandwidth charge besides. Where does anyone see the motivation to "pay for the Slashdot link" as one poster implied?

Yeah, but if they simply added the digital audio out, it would be perfect for a client/server-style PVR, where the Mac Mini sits near your TV, and all the HDTV data comes in to it over Ethernet. Please Apple, please add digital audio as a build-to-order option, and I swear I'll buy one. I really don't want to have some other box that's almost the size of the Mac Mini just for digital audio.

Cory's short-story must be prophetic unless slashdot is posting old news which seems unlikely...

When I read the first few posts, my first thought was that TFA must a fictional, deriative work based on the short-story.

BTW Cory is a http://boingboing.net/ poster boy. Read his other shit at http://craphound.com/

No, I've noticed the 2-day lag problem, and it's becoming an issue. Boing Boing publishes a lot of these stories days earlier. In fact, I think most Slashdot readers get their submission ideas from Boing Boing. Glancing at Slashdot's front page, I see a story called "Computer-Edited Photos Lead To Child-Porn Locale", which was already covered by Boing Boing. This is becoming a regular occurence.

• www.boingboing.net/2004/07/14/more_roomba_hacking. html
• www.roombacommunity.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=6&to picdays=0&start=50&sid=4b9bfe3e721838e9d7363430ab6 fed2f
• www.boingboing.net/2003/01/17/hacking_the_vacuumro .html
• www.engadget.com/entry/4967632541028408/
• www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1231080,00.asp

• www.boingboing.net/2004/07/14/more_roomba_hacking. html
• www.roombacommunity.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=6&to picdays=0&start=50&sid=4b9bfe3e721838e9d7363430ab6 fed2f
• www.boingboing.net/2003/01/17/hacking_the_vacuumro .html
• www.engadget.com/entry/4967632541028408/
• www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1231080,00.asp

Boing Boing harvesting /. for material...

When Cory did a search for his own site, boingboing, he was referred first to two others:

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/02/01/msn_search_la unches_.html/

It is in the U.S. government's interest (or any government's, really; this isn't just a U.S. problem) to keep people ignorant about what rights they really have. That way, when those rights are eroded, the people will be too ignorant to complain.

Look at Cory Doctorow's recent experience with American Airlines. He was asked by the airline to write down the addresses of the people with whom he was staying, but when he asked what law required this, he was simply told, "It's for your safety," and "It's a federal law," but no one could tell him what law. Since most people are ignorant of the extent of their rights, many people think taking photos of bridges or burning the flag is illegal, or that they have to tell their airline with whom they are staying on their vacations.

In President Bush's America, the government tells you what your rights are, regardless of what the Constitution and its Amendments say.

This has been on the /. front page for days, for those of us using the Boing Boing slashbox.

Did you actually read the link that was in the article? My guess is no. The editor made that determination on his own. Not to mention they are "sunsetting" from Quicken 98 to 2002 on the same date which is bullshit because there is not a tangible reason to do so outside of upgrades. this is why I don't on-line bill pay, let people "auto-debit" my checking account and fun things like that. You wind up getting screwed in the end.

(Yes it is a large link so you might notice this time and RTFA)

So the police saw "Lynx" and busted him?

No, the article here says:

BT [British Telecom] who run the donation management system misread an access log and saw hmm thats a non standard browser not identifying it's type and it's doing strange things. Trace that IP. Arrest that hacker.

So, it's BT.

This isn't surprising. I've had run-ins with BT tech support plenty of times, and the staff can't even understand a simple SMTP transaction.

For a company that can't explain what its own SMTP server is doing, I can't say that this surprises me.

Obviously the support staff's check-lists only go so far.

Not if you're in the UK.

Using lynx can get you arrested

good timing

suddenly, you may be in troubles...

...you too were once an annoying helpless newbie!

Very true. In my university days I know I made a few online gaffes sorting out USENET, email and ftp. Fortunately, I was just one of the Legions of September who had a few old-timers help me find my footing. I can still go back and look at my early posts on Google Groups (shudder.)

The Ham radio folks call old-timers who "look over the shoulder" of novice radio operators to help them out Elmers. I had a few cyber-Elmers help me with my baby steps. In turn, I've tried to be a bit of an Elmer myself.

The main problem with a sudden and constant growth of new users is that the Elmer-to-newbie ration drops off quite a bit. It's hard to stay calm when you see that 2/3rds of new USENET posts can be solved with a single Google search. Given this recent statistic, I don't think we can expect things to get better.

Well, that and we've gained a significant number of l0s3rs, as well. Can't be helped, I guess.

I'm not even sure blocking AOL users from USENET will even have an impact. Between Google and the other big ISPs, the signal-to-noise ratio is not going to be affected all that much. Certainly USENET spam won't change, and Clueless Newbies are legion everywhere you go. They no longer limit themselves to AOL or small Canadian Universities.

What's with the frivolous link to an ad-riddled page with about two sentences' worth of actual content? Come now /. editors!

Why do I get the feeling as soon as I post any kind of source, neutral (unlikely) or not. It will be declared biased, liberal media (or the British equivalent) and therefor automagically a lie, no investigation necessary...

And I'm still trying to figure out why you act like I'm saying that people aren't being kidnapped and executed. Trying to stick words in my mouth? What, you think I break out the popcorn when I hear someone else got their head sawn off?

And anyway, I was curious about your particular spelling of Fundamentalist Islamists as "Islamunists." So I ran a google search on the term. Ah, freepers and the like. Well, I can comfortably say, you likely yourself are biased to neo-"conservative" media, even ignoring the repeatition of points givin on varius neo-con radio shows in your previous post.

Not exactly a neutral source, but they tie in multiple fragments.

"They sent the dogs toward me. I was scared," Mohammed told investigators. "The first dog bit my leg and injured me there and this was bad luck. The bite from the first dog caused me to have 12 stitches from the doctor of my left leg as a result I lost a lot of blood."

The Shame of Abu Gharib: The 'Good Guys' Who Can Do No Wrong

Evidence for Hersh's claims of child sexual abuse at Abu Ghraib?

Report: 70%-90% held in error in Iraq

I have a pair, and this is the only explanation that makes sense to me. I imagine that the effect would also happen on a whole range of rounded magnets of this type, but with the length of the "buzz" varying - the stretched football shape is probably just one of the more effective ones.

If you try to isolate the system by throwing them up in the air so they pull together and strike each other while airborne, they will generally buzz for quite a long time - generally, it stops because the motion was dampened by your hand (or whatever else they land on) rather than coming to a stop on its own.

The whole effect is made even more fun because if you throw them in the air, they will spin around each other like a cat in zero gravity.

Hello,

Howard Stern actually called into an interview Michael Powell was doing with KGO radio in San Francisco last October. Interesting enough, one of Howard Stern's main complaints was the FCC was preventing Viacom from buying stations.

More information (MP3, transcript) can be found at Boing Boing.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

... shan't miss him.

Check out his on-air confrontation with Howard Stern from a couple of months ago... riveting stuff.

Yeah, good job making friends:
Child appears unhappy

Here, a HP employee response and a business analysis of region coding Cartridges.

Here, a HP employee response and a business analysis of region coding Cartridges.

Here, a HP employee response and a business analysis of region coding Cartridges.

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/18/why_hps_regio n_codin.html

These were most likely found via Boing Boing. You would think the founder of one of the oldest blogs there are would know a little about blog etiquette.

and you would be correct, i think this story was originally from boingboing here and they have corrected their site to say that it has to be from 1984 for the reason you stated (the apple computer in the background was not released til 1984)

Hey .. remember that missle silo that someone was selling as a home on eBay a few years ago? Just the place to brew up some Atlas-F Lager!

The communism quote was from a CNet article . Not this article. It was previously discussed on Slashdot. There was also a discussion on boing-boing

site:slashdot.org could work better if our archives were more easily crawlable.

If you understand how PageRank works, you'll understand why the boingboing archives beat the hell out of Slashdot archives. One is two links deep for every story, the other insanely deep for older stories.

Re-doing that page we would let Google and other search engines do all the heavy lifting, and it would cost a whole lot less than buying a new server.

Still no user-replaceable battery, which is quite lame, my iPod now has about 90 mins battery life these days :( Come on apple, is it really too hard to let people replace batteries on their own?

Are you new to the Internet? Go buy a new battery you fool!

Poor fluffy, his hair stood straight up for a week.

Fly the flag with pride comrades!
boingboing.net/images/copyleftcommie.gif

Yes, enabling HTTP pipelining can dramatically improve networking performance. The downside, and the reason it's not enabled by default, is that it can prevent Web pages from displaying correctly.
The second change, setting the initial paint delay at zero, may get you some content on the screen faster, but it's worth noting that it will dramatically slow down the time it takes the entire page to display.

Yes, there was rape. Do you want to hear about the female prisoners raped or the boys?

tivo doesn't suck (and yes I have/use one).

But they are getting a little to cozy with the content providers and advertisers for my taste, hence why I also use a homebrew PVR so that the "man" can't tell me how long I can keep six feet under "taped" or whether or not I can backup Sopranos to DVD.

=P

with that said, I'm eager to see how well TivoToGo works as it does address one of my major annoyances with TiVo STB (vs homebrew PVR/Myth boxen) -- content portability.

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For example, for the gross majority of users, there is no effective difference between GPL, BSD, or even closed source freeware.

You're conflating the concepts the thread is focusing on. "Freeware" is often proprietary software, software you cannot inspect, share, or modify. With some freeware, you can't even run it at any time for any reason. "Closed source" is a reference to a development methodology that was built to not talk about software freedom. The GNU GPL and the BSD licenses (there are more than one) are free software licenses but they have different effects which make a great deal of difference even to non-programmers. Derivatives from new BSD-licensed programs, for instance, may be licensed under a non-free license and feature improvements the free software user wants. This would adversely impact the free software user and tempt them to switch to the non-free derivative. This would only happen with the GPL-covered program if the copyright holder failed to enforce their license.

Most of them will never even want to download any source code.

Ability and freedom are not the same thing, consider writing, for instance. One may become a very good writer by practicing writing but have little freedom to express the views they really want to express. This frequently happens in repressive countries. US citizens may have freedom of speech but that doesn't make all Americans great speakers. So, understanding why software freedom is important doesn't require one to be a programmer.

On a practical level, even non-programmers can relish software freedom when they learn about what happens when users lack software freedom. In that link, even though Cory Doctorow calls this "buy[ing] open" (a reference to the open source movement), iPod devices would be better if they ran on free software; users would not be subjected to Apple's downgrades (which Doctorow has documented as well). Apple can downgrade iPods without a user's informed consent because Apple ships proprietary software to their users who mostly diligently install whatever they are given. The user has no opportunity to inspect the software to see what it really does, or change it if they don't like what they're being offered. Both of these jobs require source code to be reasonably effective, but delivering a copy of source code is insufficient. One has to have a copy of the source code under a license that allows sharing and modification. And, in a crucial difference between open source and free software, mere "open"ness would not give iPod users the chance to make private undistributed derivative software so that iPod users could keep the improvements they make to themselves.