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What Happens When a Linux Geek Takes Over a Canadian Football Team ?

* Bob Young, founder of Red Hat and Lulu.com buys Canadian football team the Hamilton Ticats.
* Ticats playbook submitted to SourceForge for development. Fans of the Canadian Football League are invited to submit revisions.
* Initially puzzled by open source strategy, other CFL teams begin using the plays.
* Ticats adopt open-channel Wi-Fi for communications between coaches and quarterbacks using new helmet developed under the GPL, known as the GNU-Helmet. Xs and Os on playbook diagrams are replaced with 1s and 0s. Fans begin to show up at games with laptops to IM the assistant coaches.
* Ticats playbook becomes bestseller .
* First season is devoted to eliminating bugs. Bob Young called an eccentric, fringe player. Headline screams "Playbook Bazaar -- Bizarre!"
* Innovation in CFL play explodes. Stadiums host record crowds. US newspapers run stories, but most assume that the sport in question is actually soccer.
* Bill Gates surprises press by purchasing Seattle Seahawks.
* In the third season, CFL continues to gain momentum. Young brokers a revolutionary agreement with the Australian Football League incorporating new rules and tactics. Games become more interesting. Cable channel TechTV signs contract to air every CFL game. US viewers begin to abandon NFL games in droves.
* NFL sues, claiming a process patent on option plays
* Clear-Channel takes over 90% of US stadiums and inks 10-year contract with NFL. Fans are routinely strip-searched for illicit food and drink items as they enter stadiums.
* Gates responds to decrease in attendance at games by inking broadcast deal with all four networks to air games simultaneously.
* Canada announces increase in immigration. MIT Beavers win Division Championship.
* Electronic Arts announces that "Madden NFL 2007" will be open source. Furor erupts. New version quickly surfaces in which characters can be forced to play soccer.
* NYT article notes that enrollment in youth football programs across North America are up, as are demands for reinforced padding and elastic straps for eyeglasses. 'Football is all about brains!" bellow coaches.
* 2010 - Ticats win Grey Cup for the first time in decades. Average size of defensive lineman is 5'7", 155 lbs.

What Happens When a Linux Geek Takes Over a Canadian Football Team ?

* Bob Young, founder of Red Hat and Lulu.com buys Canadian football team the Hamilton Ticats.
* Ticats playbook submitted to SourceForge for development. Fans of the Canadian Football League are invited to submit revisions.
* Initially puzzled by open source strategy, other CFL teams begin using the plays.
* Ticats adopt open-channel Wi-Fi for communications between coaches and quarterbacks using new helmet developed under the GPL, known as the GNU-Helmet. Xs and Os on playbook diagrams are replaced with 1s and 0s. Fans begin to show up at games with laptops to IM the assistant coaches.
* Ticats playbook becomes bestseller .
* First season is devoted to eliminating bugs. Bob Young called an eccentric, fringe player. Headline screams "Playbook Bazaar -- Bizarre!"
* Innovation in CFL play explodes. Stadiums host record crowds. US newspapers run stories, but most assume that the sport in question is actually soccer.
* Bill Gates surprises press by purchasing Seattle Seahawks.
* In the third season, CFL continues to gain momentum. Young brokers a revolutionary agreement with the Australian Football League incorporating new rules and tactics. Games become more interesting. Cable channel TechTV signs contract to air every CFL game. US viewers begin to abandon NFL games in droves.
* NFL sues, claiming a process patent on option plays
* Clear-Channel takes over 90% of US stadiums and inks 10-year contract with NFL. Fans are routinely strip-searched for illicit food and drink items as they enter stadiums.
* Gates responds to decrease in attendance at games by inking broadcast deal with all four networks to air games simultaneously.
* Canada announces increase in immigration. MIT Beavers win Division Championship.
* Electronic Arts announces that "Madden NFL 2007" will be open source. Furor erupts. New version quickly surfaces in which characters can be forced to play soccer.
* NYT article notes that enrollment in youth football programs across North America are up, as are demands for reinforced padding and elastic straps for eyeglasses. 'Football is all about brains!" bellow coaches.
* 2010 - Ticats win Grey Cup for the first time in decades. Average size of defensive lineman is 5'7", 155 lbs.

Non-storage devices include Pioneer VSX-49TXi Multi-Channel A/V Receiver. Personally, I'd like to see more stereo and TV components have Firewire onboard.

Disclaimer: This being /. the above is more with regard to cameras external HDDs, and other hardware which would benefit from the higher speed.

Blipverts - here we come!

The main downside i can see in this is advertising. There was a flap a few years ago with Rush Limbaugh and something called the "Cash" machine. What his radio station did was to squeeze his normal hour long show down by shortening pauses so that they could add in more radio ads.

All in all, it sounds a lot like This slashdot article which has a link to which is essentially the same thing, but for T.V. I don't have anything against using stepped up speech to learn faster, but dear God... must we listen to 'more' ads in the same amount of time?

Network 23 has announced new high speed commercials, aka "blipverts," applying similar technology, albeit with the occasional side effect.

Sorry, didn't notice that. A pretty bad miss.

(tin foil hat on)
Just because they suggest it doesn't mean it'll be free. In fact, this draft could be seen as a way to generate revenue when relatively few people use the DDS on the internet now (AFAIK - for example, most bookstores use the ISBN).

Anther company tried to get their patents into an international standard, and then extract license fees from people who followed the standard.
(tin foil hat off)

But I hope OCLC and all future owners of the DDS have good ethics.

Strange because the burning engine in WindowsXP is licensed from Roxio

By the way, it's closer to:

Bradley: "Now I have to share the credit. I may have invented it, but I think that Bill Gates is the one who made it famous."

Roaring laughter, shot of Bill Gates looking a bit miffed.

"When you used it for NT logon! That's what I meant."

Shot of Bill Gates shrugging and acting as if maybe he believes Bradley.

All the other TTV casemods pale in comparison to the ammo box mod (the eventual winner of the contest). The guy rewired all the peripherals so that they could use the military-grade connections and the oscilloscope on the front is just wicked cool.

sigh... Please enclose links in appropriate HTML glue (not that it matters, given that the techtv sitemay be already slashdotted)

For the impatient:
Front view with the "hood" shut
Side view
Under the hood
Back end

The story: Ultimate Hot-Rod Mod

Now that's a case mod. IMO the guy who built this is pretty creative.

For the impatient:
Front view with the "hood" shut
Side view
Under the hood
Back end

The story: Ultimate Hot-Rod Mod

Now that's a case mod. IMO the guy who built this is pretty creative.

For the impatient:
Front view with the "hood" shut
Side view
Under the hood
Back end

The story: Ultimate Hot-Rod Mod

Now that's a case mod. IMO the guy who built this is pretty creative.

For the impatient:
Front view with the "hood" shut
Side view
Under the hood
Back end

The story: Ultimate Hot-Rod Mod

Now that's a case mod. IMO the guy who built this is pretty creative.

For the impatient:
Front view with the "hood" shut
Side view
Under the hood
Back end

The story: Ultimate Hot-Rod Mod

Now that's a case mod. IMO the guy who built this is pretty creative.

It doesn't need electrcity. Just put it near an Ant Farm case mod with ants roaming loose and the spider case mod will be happy.:

Techtv Just had a case mod contest. This article is about a mod that was too heavy to qualify for the contest, at the bottom of the page under "related stories" are links to the 4 contest finalists. Some pretty unbelievable cases IMHO.

Linux basd PVR? Oh, you must be reffering to the TiVo.

I saw this Portable Playstation on TechTV the other day. It has the polish the GBA mod lacks.
mr.

Here's a link to The Screen Savers (on Tech TV) that has some information about what Adrian had to say when he called in live to speak with Leo.

RMS Interview in Wired

Here is a link to RMS when he appeared on The ScreenSavers

Where your send email purporting to be from someone else, or in this case when spammers send spam purporting to be from the anti-spam orgs. SMTP servers don't validate the From: field, you can put anything in there. Most lusers and a shocking number of clueless sysadmins don't realise this.

To be honest, I hope it just trashes boot sectors before writing random crap all over the hard drive. That might actually get the message through. All these soft viruses just make people think of it as an inconvenience. When something bad happens, people might just start sitting up and taking notice.

You're thinking software, not biology.

A virus like Ebola is bad news for its host. It spreads pretty easily and quickly causes violent, bloody death. But it kills its host so quickly that the host doesn't have time to infect anyone outside his immediate contacts, and the severe nature brings all Man's medical defenses to track the contagion to its source and eradicate it.

The common cold is a virus, too. It causes relatively minor discomfort to its host, only killing a small number of previously weakened hosts. This gives the cold time to spread widely before it is detected, and by that time the infection can no longer be contained -- or even traced back to its original host.

Early viruses were more Ebola-like, wiping out boot sectors, killing the host. But when was the last time you heard of a new infection by the Michelangelo virus?

Evolution, of a sort, has led to new viruses being more like the common cold -- annoying, but not deadly, and therefore common as a sneeze.

Wow, that was something else! He apparently unveiled it on Screen Savers last week. Here are pictures of the completed mod.

BSD trolls are rendered obsolete.

Take this! *KAPOW*

And that! *BOFF*

Holy schnikes, Batman! The Penguin is getting away!

Oh, no he's not, Robin! *BLAM*

[FreeBSD runs quite nicely on my laptop, thanks. ;)]

Watch the Music Wars special on TechTV Friday. It's supposed to be an open talk between major players in this whole ordeal. Unfortunately, as of yesterday, no one from the RIAA has yet to give them a yes or no.

TechTV has video of Lamo before his arrest

http://www.techtv.com/chkpt/240hp091003/http://www .techtv.com/screensavers/story/0,24330,3520394,00. html

He did an interview in the hotel room beforehand and talks about his attitude towards the charges and what he did. Then there's some video of him with the fed at Starbuck's that doesn't have any inofrmational value but is interesting from a documentary standpoint.

Seems like Lamo's willig to pay for his crime as long as he agrees that he's being accused of something he consciously did.

Here's a few extra (useful) links: free lamo - adrian support site [run by kevin mitnick's girlfriend], the screen savers - shot video of adrian moments before his surrender, trigger street - running a documentary on hackers, currently they're following adrian's story..

Here's a few extra (useful) links: free lamo - adrian support site [run by kevin mitnick's girlfriend], the screen savers - shot video of adrian moments before his surrender, trigger street - running a documentary on hackers, currently they're following adrian's story..

1. Twisted List: Five Computer Bugs That Changed the World
2. Famous Bugs: The First Computer Bug
3. Famous Bugs: The Funniest Computer Bug
4. Famous Bugs: The Most Tragic Computer Bug
5. Famous Bugs: The Most Embarrassing Computer Bug
6. Famous Bugs: The Most Famous Computer Bug

Sorry Mr. Asscroft those porn hounds have been everywhere... as some of us will recall Napster was used by warez d00ds and pervs alike. A simple renaming of the extension of a file to ".mp3" allowed you to share any kind of file you wanted. I downloaded and shared tons of music files of various formats, (vqf, shn), and occasionaly stumbled across an "mp3" that turned out to be a jpeg, movie, or an executable. Often times these files were named authentically, "photoshop-v5.0.mp3", "hotteen.mp3", "lezbobitch.jpeg.mp3". Other times it was a given a song name as camo. While I personally never saw any child porn on Napster I'm certain that it was there, and this link from TechTV seems to back that up. Napster and Child Pornography

Yoshi of TechTV's The Screen Savers also built a PC in an ammo box..

http://www.techtv.com/unscrewed/episodeguides/stor y/0,24682,3489655,00.html

he wasn't a phd, he was bill o'neill, the ugy that runs toynbee.net

TechTV did a thing on it about a month ago...

Toynbee Mystery
Mysterious plaques with a prophetic message have been appearing all along the Eastern seaboard. Tonight, Bill O'Neill, the foremost expert in this phenomenon, joins us via netcam from Atlanta to talk about who or what is leaving these plaques and shed some light on their meaning. The plaques read:

"Toynbee Ideas
In Kubrick's 2001
Ressurect Dead
On Planet Jupiter"

Here's a link to The Screen Savers (on Tech TV) that has some information about what Adrian had to say when he called in live to speak with Leo.

Because we pay the levy wether, like myself, you backup the software and programs I write for a living, or copy your friends' CDs, it would make it your duty as a Canadian to copy CDs because you're paying for that right.

Tech TV

I assume it applies in Canada, so if you want to avoid the levy, even on music CDs, just buy the ones with the "Data" label.

Cheers.

In the the very nice anime series "Serial Experiments Lain" there is a designer drug like nano-machine based "Accela" substance.
Accela causes a change of consciousness and seems to connect people to the "Wired", a huge omnipresent network, without additional tech.

A few years ago when Microsoft suggested the open protocol and the fights with AOL heated up, Yahoo Messenger was already toying with adding support for the new protocol to their client. Yahoo Messenger almost fully supported what they called the "IMUnified" protocol back in 2000 and 2001. My registry was full of keys and such related to IMUnified, all filed neatly under the Yahoo Messenger section, so it's likely that some code was written before a standard was completed. After tearing apart the Windows executable with IDA Pro on these early releases of the Yahoo client, you can actually see the procedures to enable IMUnified traffic. You couldn't flip a 0 to a 1 in your registry though to turn on the new protocol, because the client lacked the code necessary to extract those values from the IMUnified registry keys.

I haven't looked at any newer releases of the Yahoo Messenger client, but they might contain the same "functionality". IMUnified was mainly Microsoft's idea, and now they're backpedaling because their poor network is bogged down with Passport users sending messages to each other with open clients that don't show advertising. Here's the truth: Microsoft, your shoddy Windows client has been stripped of advertisements for some time now. On Windows XP (and possibly any other Windows version) the rotating ads can be disabled just be following the directions originally shown on TechTV's website this March (click here). For other versions of Messenger and Windows, you can always visit this site and download patches to your heart's content which'll destroy those ads right where they stand.

The point of all this? Only complete morons (or those living under a Mac) haven't patched their official MSN client in some way to kill the banner ads. Microsoft, you're not making any money from them, because no one is looking at them! You may have forced Trillian and Odigo to buy licenses for your protocol and network usage, but don't think that this money will compensate you from lost ad revenues due to patches and simple workarounds. Trillian will kick your ass if you jerk them around and no one on Odigo speaks English, so they don't need your North American-centric network to keep in touch with friends. There are plenty of alternatives to Hotmail, many of them don't require Internet Explorer to work properly.. and while we're talking about IE, why not tell us why when Messenger is installed and a user visits hotmail.com in IE to check their mail, that Messenger loads in the background (look at your tray)? What's the point of that? Oh, wait, you don't need to tell us, we already *cough* *monopoly* know :).

Oh...and it should also be noted that since ABC News is carrying a copy of the story and is currently getting hammered by Slashdot, the original story is up on the TechTV website.

A "mirror", if you will.

It was feared by technical consultant Mike Okuda that any such attempt would look foolish in just a few years

Like this?

This guy put an ant farm in his case.

In Tokyo, meanwhile, Japanese singles can punch up profiles of prospective mates strolling the same stretch of sidewalk.

Japan's cities teem with people -- and social opportunities. The Japanese dating tool of choice: the cellphone. Unlike Internet portals such as Match.com, which are generally accessed via computer, the Japanese access dating sites Asoboo.com and ImaHima using their cellphones. If a young woman finds herself in Roppongi Hills with no one to buy her a drink, she can access the service to look for a suitable companion. If someone in the vicinity responds positively, global positioning systems, using ringtones, direct the two to each other for an "offkai" (Japanese slang for a meeting off-line).

Google Cache of the original page, text only.

A similar page at Homelinux, describing the modification made at metku.net.

Yoshi DeHerrera's version from screensavers. Once again, the same idea, but from March 2002.

A real modder's version complete with unnecessary blue LEDs.

Google Cache of the original page, text only.

A similar page at Homelinux, describing the modification made at metku.net.

Yoshi DeHerrera's version from screensavers. Once again, the same idea, but from March 2002.

A real modder's version complete with unnecessary blue LEDs.

Surely they would never do a thing like that!

somebody else already did. it's more efficient not to have to look through all of them though.

Ok, in reply to you and the other replies to my comment, i have this quote:

"The following user names were culled from subpoenas filed with the US District Court in Washington, DC." (taken from here which was reference in this slashdot story)

As you can see, the subpoenas were files WITH A COURT. Therefor the RIAA was asking the court to enforce the subpaenos, as happens whenever someone wants to issue a subpoena!

So, lets see, in this case the RIAA hasnt done anything extra legal, non legal, or unlegal. They went through the courts. Hence, they ARE USING THE LEGAL SYSTEM AS ITS MEANT TO BE USED.