Re:DeCSS as a part of my Master Thesis
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Have you considered releasing your master's thesis at e-thesis, an electronic collection of doctoral dissertations and master's and licenciate's theses from the University of Helsinki?
Of course they're not going to publish anything you throw at them, check out their rules (in Finnish) before you proceed.
This is the logical conclusion of Xerox's long-standing trend of fumbling PARC-created technologies and letting someone else build multi-billion dollar companies from them.
So in your opinion it would have been better if only Xerox could have been able to market Ethernet devices, laser printers and mice? Yeah, financially they could have done better but their efforts helped us all quite a bit. A sad moment, but nothing lasts forever..
If you don't like spam, you can reduce the amount of ICQ spam you receive by selecting the option "Accept messages only from users on my contact list" from the Security and Privacy menu. Of course, this won't help if the persons on your contact list are pr0n webmasters:-P
Hmm.. So if a TRUSTe sealed site www.company.com has a second server for serving out the images used on the main web site, the second server can freely be used to collect my personal information.. This is certainly interesting.
For the record, you can make "all your sides" inoperable by recompiling the kernel and running LILO, in case you're booting the other operating systems from LILO. If you've screwed something up in LILO configuration, chances are that you'll get some LILO error codes on your screen instead of that nice boot prompt.. I've seen this happen quite many times..
..wouldn't be nearly as costly in human lives and wasted dollars.
However, consider that cyber-warfare might have larger effects than "regular" warfare. You seem to think that it's only the U.S. folks who could cause some serious trouble by means of hacking.
Not so. If someone "from the other side" hacked into NYSE or some other important business site, it might have catastrophic effects to your economy. And it'd affect everyone's life, not just those poor troops that were sent some 10000 miles away from home..
I'd suggest viewing that page with Netscape. MSIE5 did the same thing for me (with WinNT4), but Netscape 4.7 displayed that page correctly. Seems like the HTML was too complex for MSIE to display properly.. oh well, what else could I expect..
That "picture" was very impressive, congratulations to the one who converted the original picture to HTML.
Those popup windows are good for training your mouse hand.. Imagine a situation when a site decides that it'd be a good time to open some 15 new windows on your desktop -- how quickly can you close them? Kind of like playing some shoot'em up game:) And the funniest part is, some of those windows have code in them to spawn yet another window when they're closed, so the fun (or pain, rather) never stops..
But seriously, how much do those porn sites pay for placing an ad on your page? I guess it's easy money for the site owners -- you can get free webspace for MP3s and all you have to do is to check the links once in a while. Say, a site gets 500 hits a day, giving some $0.05 each => $25 a day, some $750 a month. Most people wouldn't do that for a living, but people with small income might consider that as an option.. I can understand why some people do that.
I wonder if this "Porn - MP3" article has something to do with the news item I found today at ZDNet, Music execs threaten to kill MP3 sites. This time they're trying to organize a global campaign for shutting down MP3 sites -- no word about the methods they're going to use, though..
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Of course they're not going to publish anything you throw at them, check out their rules (in Finnish) before you proceed.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
while(`/bin/date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'` ne "2001-03-19 02:45:00\n") {
orbit();
}
crash_into_ocean("47S","140W");
Benefon (another Finnish maker of cellular phones) has implemented GPS features in their Benefon Esc! Personal Navigation Phone.
So in your opinion it would have been better if only Xerox could have been able to market Ethernet devices, laser printers and mice? Yeah, financially they could have done better but their efforts helped us all quite a bit. A sad moment, but nothing lasts forever..
Ah, peace and quiet..
sirppi% wget http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/TarDist/Grokking-the-GI MP-v1.0.tar.gze -GIMP-v1.0.tar.gz
--22:02:11-- http://gimp-savvy.com:80/BOOK/TarDist/Grokking-th
=> `Grokking-the-GIMP-v1.0.tar.gz'
Connecting to gimp-savvy.com:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 28,182,939 [application/x-tar]
The file I downloaded from your site is 27,893,760 bytes. Well, I'm downloading it myself at the moment (whee, at 150k already :)
For the record, you can make "all your sides" inoperable by recompiling the kernel and running LILO, in case you're booting the other operating systems from LILO. If you've screwed something up in LILO configuration, chances are that you'll get some LILO error codes on your screen instead of that nice boot prompt.. I've seen this happen quite many times..
Having a bootdisk is a Good Thing(tm).
However, consider that cyber-warfare might have larger effects than "regular" warfare. You seem to think that it's only the U.S. folks who could cause some serious trouble by means of hacking.
Not so. If someone "from the other side" hacked into NYSE or some other important business site, it might have catastrophic effects to your economy. And it'd affect everyone's life, not just those poor troops that were sent some 10000 miles away from home..
That "picture" was very impressive, congratulations to the one who converted the original picture to HTML.
But seriously, how much do those porn sites pay for placing an ad on your page? I guess it's easy money for the site owners -- you can get free webspace for MP3s and all you have to do is to check the links once in a while. Say, a site gets 500 hits a day, giving some $0.05 each => $25 a day, some $750 a month. Most people wouldn't do that for a living, but people with small income might consider that as an option.. I can understand why some people do that.
I wonder if this "Porn - MP3" article has something to do with the news item I found today at ZDNet, Music execs threaten to kill MP3 sites. This time they're trying to organize a global campaign for shutting down MP3 sites -- no word about the methods they're going to use, though..