download.com doesn't host almost all of the software they offer. Its all just links, with the exception of CNet branded browsers and such. They have multiple links for DeCSS, and the one at capital.net is up as of the time of this post (just tested it).
When I'm creepin on a comeup, and some sucka asks me what OS I be usin, I tell dat foo "LEEEEEEEEEEENAAAAACKZ!" pronounced similarly to Ice Cube saying "BIIAAAAAAAATCH!!!". I then follow it promptly with a "BOOOYA!"
Its easy to bad mouth the PTO when they make decisions such as this, but remember, their existence allows us to live in a world where not all technological marvels are hidden behind trade secrets. Who among us hasn't, at one time or another, benefitted from this invention?
I don't follow you? Given China's historical disregard (its somewhat better now, but still pretty bad) for much more important issues, such as, oh human rights and such, why do you think they will honor the GPL? I'm not saying I think they will go out of their way to stomp on the GPL, I just doubt they will go out of their way to follow it.
It is completely different. If the DeCSS people also had links to, say, The Matrix, in VOB format on their site, they would be clearly infringing copyright as the CMU mp3 people were. However, they didn't, so this situation is quite crappy.
Because right now Java is only useful as a server-side and enterprise middleware language. Ever tried to actually run a desktop app written in Java? Even on my PIII-500 with 256 megs of RAM, swing apps are amazing slow to run. The speed of window refreshes, etc make them unusable for me without getting extremely frustrated.
There are some much-faster-than-Sun's Java implementations (just about every non-Sun implementation of Java is faster than Sun's), but due to Sun's fucked up handling of Java licensing, most of these still don't fully support Java2/Java1.2. Sun only gives us HotSpot...which is great, again, for server apps, but doesn't help much with desktop applications.
So, *thats* why Linux should be first, but won't be, for political/pr reasons.
Already, a few people have posted expressing their misconceptions about what TEMPEST is. In a nutshell, it's the process by which radiation given off by electronic devices can be captured and analyzed in order to gather information about what that device is doing.
To be completely anal about it, TEMPEST is actually the set of standards and practices to stop people from being able to eavesdrop on you using the technique you mentioned. The actual process of doing it is often refered to as "Van Ecking" or "Van Eck Phreaking" after Wim van Eck, who brought the issue in front of the public (read: non-spook circles) in a paper written in 1985.
Trent Reznor, for one, is undeniably popular (The Fragile was #1 for a week), and is known to be a computer geek and a Doom & Quake addict. He also has lots of ties to David Bowie..So this isn't entirely off-topic!!
Actually if you right click that link and pick "Open in New Window" with IE (at least IE 5 which I am currently using) it renders just fine in a new browser window..Doesn't need notepad/wordpad. I think this is more of a feature than a bug. But YMMV.
It never ceases to amaze me how some people will bash Microsoft for *anything*. MS deserved a lot of bashing for a lot of things, but I don't think this is one of them. Almost all of the "special features" that these "IE only" sites are using are actually open web standards that have been published for months if not years (like, a lot of the CSS standard, which Netscape 4.x and below doesn't support, or supports incorrectly).
There are, of course, some sites that also *require* ActiveX and VBScript, and those sites should be properly flamed on an individual basis.
I'm as anti-Microsoft as the next guy...Ok, well maybe not if the next guy is your stereotypical Slashdot AC, but...I thought this was funny:
"The campaign against Navigator has retarded widespread acceptance of Suns Java implementation," Jackson wrote.
Funny, I thought it was the fact that Sun's Java implementation(in terms of speed, memory usage and reliablity for client platforms) is, well, retarded, that has hurt its widespread acceptance.
Its only safer to compile from source if you're willing to audit each and every line of the code of all software you compile and run.... Sounds like fun.
To be anal about it, XORing doesn't really have anything to do with the security of one-time pads. You could use the pad data as wrap-around byte offsets to the real data just as well as using XORs. XORs are just convienient because they are self reversing.
The problem with systems such as this is that there's no exclusivity of the information they provide. People can generally find the same sort of answers to these simplistic questions on Usenet and other forums. If they use remarq or DejaNews, they can often even get the answer RIGHT NOW, since chances are someone somewhere has already asked it. I admit it would be somewhat fun and interesting to spend time answering people's queries for money.. it would be even more fun devising an agent that would look for questions on these sites, then search the web/usenet/etc for answers, reword the answers and post them up for some cash, while the agent author is busy playing Quake. However, I don't see that happening any time soon. I can see a system like this working to some degree, but only if the information bought and sold is much more comprehensive. Just imagine a site where college kids can buy a thesis, term paper, etc from the lowest bidder. Unethical, yes, but more likely to be a money maker for anyone involved than questions such as "How do I set up X software on Y OS.".
This is incorrect, or at best misleading. id software developed Wolfenstein 3D. Apogee published it. Silas Warner of MUSE software, who created the original Castle Wolfenstein (which was a top-down 2D game for the Apple II, ported to a few other platforms later) knew of Wolf3D before it was released and allowed them to use the name.
Since their whole free registration thing (which does bug me) makes it rather easy to create an account, I usually just make a new one each time I follow a NYT link from somewhere such as slashdot. This way I grow their database (though insignificantly) of users, throw off their data collection attempts (as I randomly place myself in some false demographic) and use invalid but well-formed email addresses and ask for all the spam they want to give me.
I think the ranking has to do with timing, and it being before the big Internet commercial goldrush. If something akin to the Morris worm were released today, taking down 1 in 10 internet servers, the person caught for it would be sued for about 10 quadrillion dollars and locked up for about 2000 years.
This is somewhat offtopic to the ORIGINAL post, but...Unless you've got a really old or some type of exotic monitor, you can just go ahead and get rid of the screensaver, if you hate it that much. The likelyhood of image burn-in with any monitor built in the last 5+ years is pretty slim. Screensavers are by and large cosmetic add-ons these days.
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Beowulf cluster. Awww yeah!!!
download.com doesn't host almost all of the software they offer. Its all just links, with the exception of CNet branded browsers and such. They have multiple links for DeCSS, and the one at capital.net is up as of the time of this post (just tested it).
When I'm creepin on a comeup, and some sucka asks me what OS I be usin, I tell dat foo "LEEEEEEEEEEENAAAAACKZ!" pronounced similarly to Ice Cube saying "BIIAAAAAAAATCH!!!". I then follow it promptly with a "BOOOYA!"
Its easy to bad mouth the PTO when they make decisions such as this, but remember, their existence allows us to live in a world where not all technological marvels are hidden behind trade secrets. Who among us hasn't, at one time or another, benefitted from this invention?
I don't follow you? Given China's historical disregard (its somewhat better now, but still pretty bad) for much more important issues, such as, oh human rights and such, why do you think they will honor the GPL? I'm not saying I think they will go out of their way to stomp on the GPL, I just doubt they will go out of their way to follow it.
It is completely different. If the DeCSS people also had links to, say, The Matrix, in VOB format on their site, they would be clearly infringing copyright as the CMU mp3 people were. However, they didn't, so this situation is quite crappy.
There are some much-faster-than-Sun's Java implementations (just about every non-Sun implementation of Java is faster than Sun's), but due to Sun's fucked up handling of Java licensing, most of these still don't fully support Java2/Java1.2. Sun only gives us HotSpot...which is great, again, for server apps, but doesn't help much with desktop applications.
So, *thats* why Linux should be first, but won't be, for political/pr reasons.
To be completely anal about it, TEMPEST is actually the set of standards and practices to stop people from being able to eavesdrop on you using the technique you mentioned. The actual process of doing it is often refered to as "Van Ecking" or "Van Eck Phreaking" after Wim van Eck, who brought the issue in front of the public (read: non-spook circles) in a paper written in 1985.
Trent Reznor, for one, is undeniably popular (The Fragile was #1 for a week), and is known to be a computer geek and a Doom & Quake addict. He also has lots of ties to David Bowie..So this isn't entirely off-topic!!
Actually if you right click that link and pick "Open in New Window" with IE (at least IE 5 which I am currently using) it renders just fine in a new browser window..Doesn't need notepad/wordpad. I think this is more of a feature than a bug. But YMMV.
There are, of course, some sites that also *require* ActiveX and VBScript, and those sites should be properly flamed on an individual basis.
"The campaign against Navigator has retarded widespread acceptance of Suns Java implementation," Jackson wrote.
Funny, I thought it was the fact that Sun's Java implementation(in terms of speed, memory usage and reliablity for client platforms) is, well, retarded, that has hurt its widespread acceptance.
Its only safer to compile from source if you're willing to audit each and every line of the code of all software you compile and run.... Sounds like fun.
To be anal about it, XORing doesn't really have anything to do with the security of one-time pads. You could use the pad data as wrap-around byte offsets to the real data just as well as using XORs. XORs are just convienient because they are self reversing.
The problem with systems such as this is that there's no exclusivity of the information they provide. People can generally find the same sort of answers to these simplistic questions on Usenet and other forums. If they use remarq or DejaNews, they can often even get the answer RIGHT NOW, since chances are someone somewhere has already asked it. I admit it would be somewhat fun and interesting to spend time answering people's queries for money .. it would be even more fun devising an agent that would look for questions on these sites, then search the web/usenet/etc for answers, reword the answers and post them up for some cash, while the agent author is busy playing Quake. However, I don't see that happening any time soon. I can see a system like this working to some degree, but only if the information bought and sold is much more comprehensive. Just imagine a site where college kids can buy a thesis, term paper, etc from the lowest bidder. Unethical, yes, but more likely to be a money maker for anyone involved than questions such as "How do I set up X software on Y OS.".
This is incorrect, or at best misleading. id software developed Wolfenstein 3D. Apogee published it. Silas Warner of MUSE software, who created the original Castle Wolfenstein (which was a top-down 2D game for the Apple II, ported to a few other platforms later) knew of Wolf3D before it was released and allowed them to use the name.
Since their whole free registration thing (which does bug me) makes it rather easy to create an account, I usually just make a new one each time I follow a NYT link from somewhere such as slashdot. This way I grow their database (though insignificantly) of users, throw off their data collection attempts (as I randomly place myself in some false demographic) and use invalid but well-formed email addresses and ask for all the spam they want to give me.
I think the ranking has to do with timing, and it being before the big Internet commercial goldrush. If something akin to the Morris worm were released today, taking down 1 in 10 internet servers, the person caught for it would be sued for about 10 quadrillion dollars and locked up for about 2000 years.
I meant that _my_ post was offtopic to the mouse discussion, as it dealt only with screensavers. Sorry for the confusion.
This is somewhat offtopic to the ORIGINAL post, but...Unless you've got a really old or some type of exotic monitor, you can just go ahead and get rid of the screensaver, if you hate it that much. The likelyhood of image burn-in with any monitor built in the last 5+ years is pretty slim. Screensavers are by and large cosmetic add-ons these days.