I dunno about you, but my connection ALWAYS sucks. American Residential Internet: when it goes down, there is almost never a logical explanation. (i.e. a train crashed in baltimore and melted a fiberoptic cable, bringing down my internet 200 miles away)
So you have a computer program that takes binary (or ascii converted to binary) and makes it into a sound. Get me something that turns a sound into text with more than 90% accuracy and under 5 minutes of training routines, and I'll buy it.
It mentions that fees and royalties would be required for this to work. Which means that the RIAA doesnt get to say no, but it does get to have some of our money out if it. I dunno about the rest of you, but I'm sticking with my local trading groups and free things like audiogalaxy for now.
IIRC, he made a PDF decryptor. Something that anyone that had xpdf sourcecode could probably write. And if IIRC again, it was a crippled version that was released publicly, that could only handle 25% of the document. Imagine what would have happened if he released a full version.
MS is trying to move into the nuclear arms industry. By making some nukes "dissappear", they can squat on the arms dealer business, forcing people like the mob out of business.
Not that I'm opposed to having someone selling.us domains, but has anyone else here heard of this little thing called the "national debt"? Can't Uncle Sam try to count 'ol W's tax-cut with this? At least a little? Why give it away when you can sell it?
Let's face it, ICANN is a business. Even if they don't get money for the control of the domain name, someone is gonna be paying for buying.us hosts, and I would guess ICANN gets a share of the profits. Any business (especially the king of the.com's, which is what ICANN pretty much is) would be trying to get as much money as possible. The only question is how much abuse is going to occur because of this, not whether or not it will happen.
Ever since they blocked all non uptodate clients, I havent been able to connect anyway. I really dont care, I only use opennap and audiogalaxy. (which are staying with mp3 for now)
As he points out, people need to realize that content protection and open source are two different things. Even on linux, some things are closed source. For example, early versions of staroffice, applixware, visualroute, etc. If linux is going to targeted by big software companies, they have to make money off of it. And they know they'll make more money off closed source products. Helping to protect copyrights, even though it will annoy the hell out of us, will probably be better in the long run because it brings more companies to the point where they are no longer afraid/unwilling to develop.
(That and the fact that any protected HDD's will have a hacked up firmware patch available a few months later;)
Since I'm not married, I'm not certain, but would many of the readers here want even a mental image of their mother-in-law's shower, much less a super accurate computer picture?
The P4 has all the 3d optimizations, just like the old p3's. The only thing is, most of the programs (not all, but most) that depend on those optimizations and dont use athlon optimizations are originally designed as wintel programs, like quake 3. Those programs are also available as binary only, not source. While the P4 is apparently a great system for an avid gamer, for developers the AMD line will probably remain cheaper and more useful to *nix developers like myself.
"Legal professional" just means their professional is related to law. I.e., Police officers, lawyers, rent-a-cops (well, kinda), and even the 15 year old who takes your money in exchange for legal advice. It has nothing to do with how much they know about law.
Metallica/Dre have agreed to allow some of their songs to be traded, and the ones that are allowed will be rotated from time to time. Which sounds like a decent compromise to me. But the RIAA (which claims to be representing said artists among others) is claiming that napster is still in violation of copyright laws by doing such a thing. I will say, I have new found respect for Metallica/Dre (even though i hate their music anyway), but this just confirms the RIAA is a bunch of money-grubbing execs who don't care whether or not they hold the copyright for the music they sue for the infringement of.
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm planning to hold off on buying new hardware til the Athlon 4 desktop version hits the market. How many of these new Athlon-MP mobo's are gonna be compatible with it? I've seen way too often a new CPU will come out and nothing will support it for a month after that.
I tend to assume that spam can only be handled on the level of me and my personal friends. Which is why i own and/or control every server that hosts my email, and i can filter what i want/dont want. The "if you want the job done right, do it yourself" attitude may seem a bit cynical, but it works, and doesnt rely on some company thats either a) struggling to stay afloat or b) trying to make more profits of my personal info.
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Think. Places like NASA and the U.S. Navy already using Open Source systems to base their mission critical apps on, with very little likelihood of them switching back to MS stuff. If the entire government switches to non-MS stuff, they have absolutely no reason to stop the antitrust suite against MS.
Mandrake 8 (and possibly earlier releases) comes with a tool called MandrakeUpdate. It's a rather nice GUI tool similar to Ximian Update, for all you gnome users. I haven't tried it much due to my 80 gig hdd croaking, but from what i saw it was pretty nice.
As www.goats.com argued, it's not that micropayments are bad, in fact Jon from goats would argue they are very good (see previous news postings) but the way Scott writes is like he's inventing the idea, and ignores the fact that his "ideas" are already in place...
SETI @home is pretty much just trying to find patterns in random data. Which is pretty much what you do with TCP sequence prediction. Of course it's a security risk, its the worlds biggest connection hijacker!
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I dunno about you, but my connection ALWAYS sucks. American Residential Internet: when it goes down, there is almost never a logical explanation. (i.e. a train crashed in baltimore and melted a fiberoptic cable, bringing down my internet 200 miles away)
So you have a computer program that takes binary (or ascii converted to binary) and makes it into a sound. Get me something that turns a sound into text with more than 90% accuracy and under 5 minutes of training routines, and I'll buy it.
Everyone knows this is only gonna end in court. My bet is the EFF sues it all the way up to the supreme court, where they do one of two things.
1. Declare the DMCA unconstitutional
2. Declare the 1st ammendment unconstitutional
Any bets onto which one?
It mentions that fees and royalties would be required for this to work. Which means that the RIAA doesnt get to say no, but it does get to have some of our money out if it. I dunno about the rest of you, but I'm sticking with my local trading groups and free things like audiogalaxy for now.
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IIRC, he made a PDF decryptor. Something that anyone that had xpdf sourcecode could probably write. And if IIRC again, it was a crippled version that was released publicly, that could only handle 25% of the document. Imagine what would have happened if he released a full version.
MS is trying to move into the nuclear arms industry. By making some nukes "dissappear", they can squat on the arms dealer business, forcing people like the mob out of business.
Not that I'm opposed to having someone selling .us domains, but has anyone else here heard of this little thing called the "national debt"? Can't Uncle Sam try to count 'ol W's tax-cut with this? At least a little? Why give it away when you can sell it?
Let's face it, ICANN is a business. Even if they don't get money for the control of the domain name, someone is gonna be paying for buying .us hosts, and I would guess ICANN gets a share of the profits. Any business (especially the king of the .com's, which is what ICANN pretty much is) would be trying to get as much money as possible. The only question is how much abuse is going to occur because of this, not whether or not it will happen.
Ever since they blocked all non uptodate clients, I havent been able to connect anyway. I really dont care, I only use opennap and audiogalaxy. (which are staying with mp3 for now)
As he points out, people need to realize that content protection and open source are two different things. Even on linux, some things are closed source. For example, early versions of staroffice, applixware, visualroute, etc. If linux is going to targeted by big software companies, they have to make money off of it. And they know they'll make more money off closed source products. Helping to protect copyrights, even though it will annoy the hell out of us, will probably be better in the long run because it brings more companies to the point where they are no longer afraid/unwilling to develop.
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(That and the fact that any protected HDD's will have a hacked up firmware patch available a few months later
Since I'm not married, I'm not certain, but would many of the readers here want even a mental image of their mother-in-law's shower, much less a super accurate computer picture?
The P4 has all the 3d optimizations, just like the old p3's. The only thing is, most of the programs (not all, but most) that depend on those optimizations and dont use athlon optimizations are originally designed as wintel programs, like quake 3. Those programs are also available as binary only, not source. While the P4 is apparently a great system for an avid gamer, for developers the AMD line will probably remain cheaper and more useful to *nix developers like myself.
"Legal professional" just means their professional is related to law. I.e., Police officers, lawyers, rent-a-cops (well, kinda), and even the 15 year old who takes your money in exchange for legal advice. It has nothing to do with how much they know about law.
That means they banned .NET too!
Metallica/Dre have agreed to allow some of their songs to be traded, and the ones that are allowed will be rotated from time to time. Which sounds like a decent compromise to me. But the RIAA (which claims to be representing said artists among others) is claiming that napster is still in violation of copyright laws by doing such a thing. I will say, I have new found respect for Metallica/Dre (even though i hate their music anyway), but this just confirms the RIAA is a bunch of money-grubbing execs who don't care whether or not they hold the copyright for the music they sue for the infringement of.
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm planning to hold off on buying new hardware til the Athlon 4 desktop version hits the market. How many of these new Athlon-MP mobo's are gonna be compatible with it? I've seen way too often a new CPU will come out and nothing will support it for a month after that.
Everywhere you go, there will be people like that. And according to murphy's law, 90% of them will be in control of your job and/or salary.
I'm using an Eterm 99% of the time, and the nice pretty bg on that keeps my eyes occupied enough for a dull old [root@net /root]# to keep me happy.
I tend to assume that spam can only be handled on the level of me and my personal friends. Which is why i own and/or control every server that hosts my email, and i can filter what i want/dont want. The "if you want the job done right, do it yourself" attitude may seem a bit cynical, but it works, and doesnt rely on some company thats either a) struggling to stay afloat or b) trying to make more profits of my personal info.
Why was it the 604?
Think. Places like NASA and the U.S. Navy already using Open Source systems to base their mission critical apps on, with very little likelihood of them switching back to MS stuff. If the entire government switches to non-MS stuff, they have absolutely no reason to stop the antitrust suite against MS.
Mandrake 8 (and possibly earlier releases) comes with a tool called MandrakeUpdate. It's a rather nice GUI tool similar to Ximian Update, for all you gnome users. I haven't tried it much due to my 80 gig hdd croaking, but from what i saw it was pretty nice.
As www.goats.com argued, it's not that micropayments are bad, in fact Jon from goats would argue they are very good (see previous news postings) but the way Scott writes is like he's inventing the idea, and ignores the fact that his "ideas" are already in place...
SETI @home is pretty much just trying to find patterns in random data. Which is pretty much what you do with TCP sequence prediction. Of course it's a security risk, its the worlds biggest connection hijacker!