If making spammers more effective means that I won't get 50 emails a day for stuff I'll never buy, I'm all for it. If it means that I'll get discounts for stuff I do buy, then I won't mind too much.
And if this requires that information about you, including exactly what you purchase, is collected and sold on the open market, you don't mind?
Wouldn't it have been better to release this letter on a Monday morning for maximum news exposure? Who is going to read it on a Saturday? By the time the work week comes around, it could be easily missed.
W
On that note-- it would be cool to set up a fund to get Linux position statements like this in the NYT or other news publications. Does anyone know about a Linux Publicity Fund or something similar?
An alternate headline, given the list's exceptions...
41 Million Sign Up for National Political and Charity Call List
Right now (knock on wood) I don't get enough (well, ANY really) sales calls to make this list worthwhile. Thank goodness for 10 years of having an unlisted #...
"You might not realize this, IBM, but standing on the other side of that door is a team of MIT ninja mathematicians with top-of-the-line pattern-matching supercomputers!"
No one comes in the door. IBM stares blankly.
"Uh...wouldja believe a team of highly-paid CPAs with a beowulf cluster?"
Some people will happily ignore reasonable explanations and cling desperately to their paranoid delusion. These people cannot be convinced otherwise. Rather they need to be brain-washed to get that stupid idea out of their head.
That's why I fully place my trust in governments and corporations to tell me what's healthy and what's not.
For those of you who have trouble finding the info at cryptome...
To experience the Auto-ID Center's security holes firsthand, simply visit the web site at http://www.autoidcenter.org and type "confidential" in the site search box.
This actually works!
Color me convinced-- I sure can trust these masters of technology with embedding "green tags" in my clothing! I'm sure the info will never be abused or fall into the wrong hands...
This patent was filed on December 28, 2001. Version 0.29.a of the fantastic GPL'd instant messenger Fire introduced "Automatic, inline foreign language translation" on December 12, 2001.
I would also imagine that the feature was in CVS and publically downloadable before that.
If you're talking about Apache, then you're not talking about streaming.
Idiot,
Since you are grossly uninformed and exceedingly stupid, let me spell it out for you. "Streaming" is defined as "A technique for transferring data such that it can be processed as a steadyÂand continuous stream." The key feature is that the data is played as it is downloaded.
Apache can very easily streamaudio. It can do this running on platforms aside from Windows.
If I were as stupid as you are, I'd be depressed to.
Uh. What? Why are you posting about Windows programs here on a Mac thread?
Umm. What makes you think that Andromeda and the other streaming applications have anything to do with Windows? They all run w/ Apache (cross-platform, including OS X), PHP (cross-platform, including OS X), and stream to any mp3 player (including iTunes)
The "what Jobs taketh away" crack is nothing more or less than Michael being his normal idiot self. It doesn't actually refer to anything, much less some piece of shit Windows hack that looks so absurd up next to DAAP and Rendezvous that you should be ashamed for even thinking of it.
Again... I was referring to the Wired article that Michael was linking to, and not anything that is a "Windows hack".
The "What Jobs taketh away.." article refers to Andromeda, a $35 web-based file streaming program.
There is a free GPL'd alternative, ZINA (Zina Is Not Andromeda) as well as other solutions. A search of freshmeat.net for "jukebox" will reveal even more...
I fail to see any rocket scientists holding the Presidency in the USA in its entire history. Or any scientists, after B.F., for that matter.
Even assuming that "political science" doesn't count for some reason, you don't have to look too far to find one.
The most recent scientist U.S. president would probably be Jimmy Carter, who "was educated in the Plains public schools, attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and received a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1946. He later did graduate work in nuclear physics at Union College."
The president of the United states being a former nuclear engineer was considered a major asset in resolving the Three Mile Island crisis safely.
P.S. If you're so fscking smart, how come you're not running for - and winning - the Oval Office?
P.S. BTW, ability to speak fluently is in no way related to intelligence.
Clearly being smart and an ability to speak fluently is not a prerequisite to running for- and winning- the Oval Office.
W
PS: Assuming B.F. stands for Ben Franklin, well, he was never president.
pose as an employee of your competitor, and hire a spamming company to promote them.
No wait, even better-- pose as an employee of your competitor and send threatening letters to the white house... or issue fake press releases... or order 5,000 pizzas sent to thier mama's house...
The point is, if you do spam under someone else's name, YOU'RE still the one committing the crime. It'd be no different than framing someone for any other crime, digital or otherwise. In addition to committing the spam crime, you're also committing fraud and opening yourself up to a civil action...
To collect the $500, one would no doubt require proving that the accused is the one who actually sent the spam. W
Judging from the four-integer IP, we finally have confirmation that IPv6 has still not been adopted after 5 generations of Zion...
W
Re:The Orgy Scene...and philosophy of the matrix
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Review: Matrix: Reloaded
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· Score: 3, Interesting
In my opinion, the orgy/dance scene was reminiscient of the opening dance scene from "Blade", only longer and less effective. I wish they had cut this sequence down, as I felt it was unnecessary....
Overall though, a decent sequel with some nice CG treats.
If you've taken a philosophy class, you'd have recognized the Matrix as a new incarnation of Plato's allegory of the cave from The Republic, later expressed as "The Evil Deceiver" by Descartes and later still as the "brain in a vat" scenario by Hilary Putnam.
In the sequel, the filmmakers move on to questions of free will vs. determinism vs. fate. These issues were also nicely articulated in one of the segments of the animated Art Linklater film "The Waking Life", for anyone who's interested.
So it was cool to have a new philosophical issue raised. To "What is the nature of reality... and is it all a sham?" has been added "What is the nature of choice... and is it all a sham?"
My interest is fair use, the ability to record my compositions and performance with studio grade equipment at a reasonable cost.
No, this isn't "fair use"-- fair use is an allowance for you to use someone ELSE'S copyrighted material for a limited purpose-- a review, an excerpt, until recently a sample, etc for certain purposes. What you're talking about is a legitimate use that gives you the SAME powers as the RIAA has for their own copyrighted works. The RIAA can claim that you might use this to infringe on their copyrights. You can argue that they may use the equipment they currently use to infringe on yours.
That's great, but it isn't available yet. Is everybody supposed to stand around and hold their cocks until Avid is good and ready to release the free stuff?
Hey man-- whatever you do while you wait is none of my business.
I never said I had an Avid-- Believe me, I'm no Avid cheerleader. All I said is that Avid's UI is superior, which it is. I'm not saying that it's a better system overall or that it's has a higher cost/performance average than FCP. Avid has done some really stupid things in the past in their attempt to hold their virtual monopoly on the industry, and Jobs has done a lot in a short period of time to pose a real threat to them. I think a lot of it is personal.
Finally Avid's comign to their senses, at least w/respect to proving the worth of their UI with a free program. More choice is always better.
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If making spammers more effective means that I won't get 50 emails a day for stuff I'll never buy, I'm all for it. If it means that I'll get discounts for stuff I do buy, then I won't mind too much.
And if this requires that information about you, including exactly what you purchase, is collected and sold on the open market, you don't mind?
W
Wouldn't it have been better to release this letter on a Monday morning for maximum news exposure? Who is going to read it on a Saturday? By the time the work week comes around, it could be easily missed.
W
On that note-- it would be cool to set up a fund to get Linux position statements like this in the NYT or other news publications. Does anyone know about a Linux Publicity Fund or something similar?
Even as the commotion over QQ47 was dying down
Umm... what commotion exactly? I know it got some coverage on a slow news day, but seriously, was anyone actually worried about this?
W
41 Million Sign Up for National Do-Not-Call List
An alternate headline, given the list's exceptions...
41 Million Sign Up for National Political and Charity Call List
Right now (knock on wood) I don't get enough (well, ANY really) sales calls to make this list worthwhile. Thank goodness for 10 years of having an unlisted #...
W
but it would go like...
"You might not realize this, IBM, but standing on the other side of that door is a team of MIT ninja mathematicians with top-of-the-line pattern-matching supercomputers!"
No one comes in the door. IBM stares blankly.
"Uh...wouldja believe a team of highly-paid CPAs with a beowulf cluster?"
No dice.
"How 'bout an advanced algebra class and 'diff'?"
Nope.
"Two monkeys and an abacus?"
W
Well, don't forget that Nemo has the advantage of being rated G. The Matrix has a limited audience whereas Nemo appeals to all ages.
On the other hand, kids pay less per ticket than adults.
W
you need to quickly find a payphone and call yourself? How will it work?
Easy. Use a second cellphone with a ringtone that sounds like this.
(Of course, you could just call yourself directly with THAT cellphone, but hey, we're trying to be convoluted here, right?)
W
Some people will happily ignore reasonable explanations and cling desperately to their paranoid delusion. These people cannot be convinced otherwise. Rather they need to be brain-washed to get that stupid idea out of their head.
That's why I fully place my trust in governments and corporations to tell me what's healthy and what's not.
After all, everyone knows that smoking is good for you. And there's no danger in mining uranium or genetically modified food or syphillis treatments or the drinking water, etc.
Yep, if a big organization says it's safe, that's good enough for me.
W
For those of you who have trouble finding the info at cryptome...
To experience the Auto-ID Center's security holes firsthand, simply visit the web site at http://www.autoidcenter.org and type "confidential" in the site search box.
This actually works!
Color me convinced-- I sure can trust these masters of technology with embedding "green tags" in my clothing! I'm sure the info will never be abused or fall into the wrong hands...
W
This patent was filed on December 28, 2001. Version 0.29.a of the fantastic GPL'd instant messenger Fire introduced "Automatic, inline foreign language translation" on December 12, 2001.
I would also imagine that the feature was in CVS and publically downloadable before that.
W
YES it was a joke. Although, I am frightened by some of the follow-up posts, which demonstrate I wasn't that far off.
W
Search: [browser ]
"Browser" returns the following link:
Internet Explorer Website.
Search:: [mozilla ]
"Mozilla" returns the following link:
Internet Explorer Website.
Search:: [OpenOffice.Org ]
"OpenOffice.org" returns the following link:
Microsoft Office Website.
Search:: [quicktime]
"quicktime" returns the following link:
Microsoft Windows Website.
Search:: [Apple computer]
"Apple computer" returns the following link:
Microsoft Windows Website.
Etc. You get the idea...
W
Jabber is, well, technically superior. But history is a good teacher (Beta vs. VHS, etc, etc, etc) SIMPLE is simple and standard; a recipe for success
Two cups and a string is simpler still. It's not so infrequent that technically superior actually does win.
W
If you're talking about Apache, then you're not talking about streaming.
Idiot,
Since you are grossly uninformed and exceedingly stupid, let me spell it out for you. "Streaming" is defined as "A technique for transferring data such that it can be processed as a steadyÂand continuous stream." The key feature is that the data is played as it is downloaded.
Apache can very easily stream audio. It can do this running on platforms aside from Windows.
If I were as stupid as you are, I'd be depressed to.
You meant "too", moron.
W
Uh. What? Why are you posting about Windows programs here on a Mac thread?
Umm. What makes you think that Andromeda and the other streaming applications have anything to do with Windows? They all run w/ Apache (cross-platform, including OS X), PHP (cross-platform, including OS X), and stream to any mp3 player (including iTunes)
The "what Jobs taketh away" crack is nothing more or less than Michael being his normal idiot self. It doesn't actually refer to anything, much less some piece of shit Windows hack that looks so absurd up next to DAAP and Rendezvous that you should be ashamed for even thinking of it.
Again... I was referring to the Wired article that Michael was linking to, and not anything that is a "Windows hack".
Sigh.
W
The "What Jobs taketh away.." article refers to Andromeda, a $35 web-based file streaming program.
There is a free GPL'd alternative, ZINA (Zina Is Not Andromeda) as well as other solutions. A search of freshmeat.net for "jukebox" will reveal even more...
W
I fail to see any rocket scientists holding the Presidency in the USA in its entire history. Or any scientists, after B.F., for that matter.
Even assuming that "political science" doesn't count for some reason, you don't have to look too far to find one.
The most recent scientist U.S. president would probably be Jimmy Carter, who "was educated in the Plains public schools, attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and received a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1946. He later did graduate work in nuclear physics at Union College."
The president of the United states being a former nuclear engineer was considered a major asset in resolving the Three Mile Island crisis safely.
P.S. If you're so fscking smart, how come you're not running for - and winning - the Oval Office?
P.S. BTW, ability to speak fluently is in no way related to intelligence.
Clearly being smart and an ability to speak fluently is not a prerequisite to running for- and winning- the Oval Office.
W
PS: Assuming B.F. stands for Ben Franklin, well, he was never president.
pose as an employee of your competitor, and hire a spamming company to promote them.
No wait, even better-- pose as an employee of your competitor and send threatening letters to the white house... or issue fake press releases... or order 5,000 pizzas sent to thier mama's house...
The point is, if you do spam under someone else's name, YOU'RE still the one committing the crime. It'd be no different than framing someone for any other crime, digital or otherwise. In addition to committing the spam crime, you're also committing fraud and opening yourself up to a civil action...
To collect the $500, one would no doubt require proving that the accused is the one who actually sent the spam.
W
I noticed the SSH as well.
Judging from the four-integer IP, we finally have confirmation that IPv6 has still not been adopted after 5 generations of Zion...
W
In my opinion, the orgy/dance scene was reminiscient of the opening dance scene from "Blade", only longer and less effective. I wish they had cut this sequence down, as I felt it was unnecessary....
;)
Overall though, a decent sequel with some nice CG treats.
If you've taken a philosophy class, you'd have recognized the Matrix as a new incarnation of Plato's allegory of the cave from The Republic, later expressed as "The Evil Deceiver" by Descartes and later still as the "brain in a vat" scenario by Hilary Putnam.
In the sequel, the filmmakers move on to questions of free will vs. determinism vs. fate. These issues were also nicely articulated in one of the segments of the animated Art Linklater film "The Waking Life", for anyone who's interested.
So it was cool to have a new philosophical issue raised. To "What is the nature of reality... and is it all a sham?" has been added "What is the nature of choice... and is it all a sham?"
Plus, the freeway chase scene was incredible
W
Linux, openBSD, netBSD, Solaris and OSX are all implementations of that model.
OS X in particular is explicitly advertised as offering "the power of UNIX" and being "The most widely-distributed UNIX-based operating system."
W
My interest is fair use, the ability to record my compositions and performance with studio grade equipment at a reasonable cost.
No, this isn't "fair use"-- fair use is an allowance for you to use someone ELSE'S copyrighted material for a limited purpose-- a review, an excerpt, until recently a sample, etc for certain purposes. What you're talking about is a legitimate use that gives you the SAME powers as the RIAA has for their own copyrighted works. The RIAA can claim that you might use this to infringe on their copyrights. You can argue that they may use the equipment they currently use to infringe on yours.
W
Microsoft's equivalent to OS X...will include a journaling file system, so us mere mortals can enjoy what Linux Geeks have had for years."
And OS X users have had for months...
W
That's great, but it isn't available yet. Is everybody supposed to stand around and hold their cocks until Avid is good and ready to release the free stuff?
Hey man-- whatever you do while you wait is none of my business.
W
I never said I had an Avid-- Believe me, I'm no Avid cheerleader. All I said is that Avid's UI is superior, which it is. I'm not saying that it's a better system overall or that it's has a higher cost/performance average than FCP. Avid has done some really stupid things in the past in their attempt to hold their virtual monopoly on the industry, and Jobs has done a lot in a short period of time to pose a real threat to them. I think a lot of it is personal.
Finally Avid's comign to their senses, at least w/respect to proving the worth of their UI with a free program. More choice is always better.
W