This reminds me of the Asimov story "The Feeling of Power". It's set in the future, with the assumption that all mathematics is done by computers, and the methods to do it by hand have been forgotten. Some little nobody works out how to do arithemetic by hand again in his free time. Somebody "discovers" him and he's supprised that anyone would care. Then he considers the good that might come of it. Shortly thereafter it is used to help fight the current long-raging war (don't all sci-fi books have long raging-wars?). He kills himself. The problem is that almost any invention can be used for evil.
I thought Woody Gutherie's guitar had "This Machine kills grasshopers" I know Pete Seegar's bango says "This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender" Or maybe I'm wrong.
This is the reason that a web server filtering for this sort of thing should always disallow everything not explicitly allosed. As new html tags should still follow the current form (if for no other reason than that this allows old browsers to deal with them properly - i.e. ignore them), simply disallowing all html, and then allowing particular tags (such as bold and italic) would solve this problem. This does mean trusting that the owner of the web server knows what their doing. But, in the case that they do this shouldn't be a problem.
Yes, CMU has the right to take away anyone's network connect that they like. However, they still don't have the right to break into student computers. They may be able to claim that what the students were doing was illegal, but iirc accessing any computer which you are not supposed to have access to is illegal. Even if the security is hopelessly weak. Even if the password is "password". That would make CMU's actions illegal. They may be entitled to punish students for the stuff they were posting, but they still may be liable for how they went about finding those files.
1)I ran into this at UM. "Project NEThics" is in charge of dealing with such things. My computer was broken into (my third day w/ a linux box on the network, had been using linux for 3 weeks maybe, utter newbie), and whoever broke in used it to port scan other universities networks. NEThics got 2 complaints (only one of the people who complained to NEThics bothered contacting me), and called me, to explain how I had violated all sorts of policies. I had fits convincing the guy that not only had my machine been broken into, I was also taking active steps to assure it wouldn't happen again. The guy clearly didn't understand the technical details - he kept repeating that "we have had 2 complaints about network activity originating from your data jack". While that neatly sums things up from a legal standpoint, it certainly didn't help me figure out what had happened or what to do. Personally I'd like to see NEThics funded less, and a group like CERT started with the extra money - it would do a lot more good.
2)NOC looks for student machines taking up significant bandwidth. This happened to a friend, and he had to get a new ip, and domain name, but they didn't try to punish him as far as I know. NEThics on the other hand responds to complaints. They would probably deal with something like a mass complaint from RIAA, and they're likely to act more like CMU just did.
IIRC the gimp uses LZW (I don't think it's possible to create a gif without it). It's just that since the gimp isn't licensed by Unisys you may or may not be able to use gif's it creates, according to Unisys's current mood.
IIRC Unisys has a patent on LZW. Meaning that information can be distributed about how to do it, but only Unisys, and others that have licenses from Unisys, can use it.
OK, I get your point, I was confused how often your address changed. It sounded almost like they were sending out a different random number as part of each packet - that would make it awfully difficult to route responses.
This business of sticking key words in email seems awfully ineffective. First of all sticking them in your sig makes them really easy to filter for. Second of all it only prevents email scanning on a massive scale. If say your empolyer wanted to scan through your email they could without too much effort. And would probably be looking for different words than you're sticking in your sig. Why not just use crypto, and be certain that no one is reading your email. Widespread use of crypto would make scanning email completely impossible, since the computer power required to crack it all would be unattainable.
Cloning is not perfected by any means. And it's already been determined that Dolly wasn't an exact clone. The mitocondrial DNA (I think this is it) was from the cell that Dolly's DNA was moved into. While the technique used to clone Dolly is supposed to be quite easy, it isn't terribly reliable. And this is with nice fresh DNA. Who knows about stuff from an animal that's been dead for a long time, and not intentionally preserved.
No one intended to suggest that this isn't a problem for people other than linux users. The point was it's a pain when/. links to content which cannot be viewed except on particular platforms. The people who commented about it seem to be linux users, so they refered to linux, as they have no way to know if this is a problem on any other particular platform.
I know it's in bad taste to reply to myself, but I just tried it an xanim in fact can not handle it. It complains about the header being compressed in a proprietary way.
As far as I can tell from Apple's page there isn't any and they don't care.
It's really frustrating when/. links to stuff that can't be viewed under linux. Is there any easy way to convert a Quicktime movie to something like RealPlayer that we at least kind of sort of support? If so I can post the converted version.
I thought this idea got a bunch of coverage a couple months back under the name "smurf attacks". Was that something different, or was ZD just looking for filler today?
All they're saying is that they plan to make a 1GHz chip at some point. Great. I bet they plan to make a 2 GHz chip at some point too. They like to make these announcements to give the impression of "any day now" but they're talking next year, maybe.
I think cost is more of a concern than battery life. The new palms are getting to be very expensive - I can put together an ok computer for less than the suggested price of a Palm VII. If they want a color screen without losing battery life it's going to cost money.
OK, my second point was that I don't find windows easier to learn. To me the contrived attempts at user-friendlyness make it rather illogical. Some commands in linux may be esoteric, but they generally make sense. This may just be me, but personally I find troubleshooting windows machines extremely difficult.
It takes an awful lot more time to make sure a users can't easily damage a windows computer than a linux one. By default the linux one is virtually indestructable from the user perspective - last I checked I had something like 20 programs running suid on my computer, and those were things like login. As for exploring, I think I learned more in 6 months without trying, using linux, then I had in years of using windows. Most stuff in linux makes sense. Personally I just find it easier to understand. I fully agree that linux is not for all situations. But as I have mentioned elsewhere, if there is a user who is nervous about using a computer, and there is someone else who can handle the system administration, linux can be ideal.
But for differnt reasons than most people are listing.
First of all people perform music because they enjoy it. This program may be able to do a better job of creating music than I can, but creating music is something I enjoy. It has no monetary benefit for me, I just like it. Likewise, even if computers learn to perform better than humans can, groups like the Backstreet Boys may disappear, but many musicians will keep playing for their own pleasure.
Second of all a great deal of the music industry has nothing to do with music. It has to do with gossip. People want to de able to gossip about what such and such a musician is doing. Nobody does this with computers. Many groups right now have no musical talent, have been created completely by the music industry, but survive because they are "cool".
Basically this assumes that they're going to do their own sysadmin'ing. In a case like this, where someone else is willing to handle the setup and configuration stuff in many ways linux is easier. What makes linux harder for the average user is that unix was designed with the intention that the average user would not be maintaining their own machine. If this is in fact true, than linux can be quite simple to use, particularly with any of the straightforward setups mentioned below. If the users doess need to maintain everything themselves, then it becomes harder. In that case macOS or beOS is probably a good idea.
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This reminds me of the Asimov story "The Feeling of Power". It's set in the future, with the assumption that all mathematics is done by computers, and the methods to do it by hand have been forgotten. Some little nobody works out how to do arithemetic by hand again in his free time. Somebody "discovers" him and he's supprised that anyone would care. Then he considers the good that might come of it. Shortly thereafter it is used to help fight the current long-raging war (don't all sci-fi books have long raging-wars?). He kills himself.
The problem is that almost any invention can be used for evil.
I thought Woody Gutherie's guitar had "This Machine kills grasshopers" I know Pete Seegar's bango says "This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender"
Or maybe I'm wrong.
This is the reason that a web server filtering for this sort of thing should always disallow everything not explicitly allosed. As new html tags should still follow the current form (if for no other reason than that this allows old browsers to deal with them properly - i.e. ignore them), simply disallowing all html, and then allowing particular tags (such as bold and italic) would solve this problem.
This does mean trusting that the owner of the web server knows what their doing. But, in the case that they do this shouldn't be a problem.
Yes, CMU has the right to take away anyone's network connect that they like. However, they still don't have the right to break into student computers. They may be able to claim that what the students were doing was illegal, but iirc accessing any computer which you are not supposed to have access to is illegal. Even if the security is hopelessly weak. Even if the password is "password". That would make CMU's actions illegal. They may be entitled to punish students for the stuff they were posting, but they still may be liable for how they went about finding those files.
1)I ran into this at UM. "Project NEThics" is in charge of dealing with such things. My computer was broken into (my third day w/ a linux box on the network, had been using linux for 3 weeks maybe, utter newbie), and whoever broke in used it to port scan other universities networks. NEThics got 2 complaints (only one of the people who complained to NEThics bothered contacting me), and called me, to explain how I had violated all sorts of policies. I had fits convincing the guy that not only had my machine been broken into, I was also taking active steps to assure it wouldn't happen again. The guy clearly didn't understand the technical details - he kept repeating that "we have had 2 complaints about network activity originating from your data jack". While that neatly sums things up from a legal standpoint, it certainly didn't help me figure out what had happened or what to do. Personally I'd like to see NEThics funded less, and a group like CERT started with the extra money - it would do a lot more good.
2)NOC looks for student machines taking up significant bandwidth. This happened to a friend, and he had to get a new ip, and domain name, but they didn't try to punish him as far as I know. NEThics on the other hand responds to complaints. They would probably deal with something like a mass complaint from RIAA, and they're likely to act more like CMU just did.
IIRC the gimp uses LZW (I don't think it's possible to create a gif without it). It's just that since the gimp isn't licensed by Unisys you may or may not be able to use gif's it creates, according to Unisys's current mood.
IIRC Unisys has a patent on LZW. Meaning that information can be distributed about how to do it, but only Unisys, and others that have licenses from Unisys, can use it.
Right now it doesn't - BeOS promised that it an OEM would preinstall BeOS they'd give it to them for free.
OK, I get your point, I was confused how often your address changed. It sounded almost like they were sending out a different random number as part of each packet - that would make it awfully difficult to route responses.
I'm obviously missing something here - if a random number is used as part of the address, how do other computers locate the computer at that adrress?
This business of sticking key words in email seems awfully ineffective. First of all sticking them in your sig makes them really easy to filter for. Second of all it only prevents email scanning on a massive scale. If say your empolyer wanted to scan through your email they could without too much effort. And would probably be looking for different words than you're sticking in your sig.
Why not just use crypto, and be certain that no one is reading your email. Widespread use of crypto would make scanning email completely impossible, since the computer power required to crack it all would be unattainable.
Didn't this happen a while back? I think scientists at some special event were served Wooly Mammoth Steak from a preserved one.
Cloning is not perfected by any means. And it's already been determined that Dolly wasn't an exact clone. The mitocondrial DNA (I think this is it) was from the cell that Dolly's DNA was moved into. While the technique used to clone Dolly is supposed to be quite easy, it isn't terribly reliable. And this is with nice fresh DNA. Who knows about stuff from an animal that's been dead for a long time, and not intentionally preserved.
No one intended to suggest that this isn't a problem for people other than linux users. The point was it's a pain when /. links to content which cannot be viewed except on particular platforms. The people who commented about it seem to be linux users, so they refered to linux, as they have no way to know if this is a problem on any other particular platform.
I've also mirrored it here. I don't know how much bandwidth you have, but another mirror never hurts.
I know it's in bad taste to reply to myself, but I just tried it an xanim in fact can not handle it. It complains about the header being compressed in a proprietary way.
It looks like xanim can't handle this version of Quicktime.
As far as I can tell from Apple's page there isn't any and they don't care.
/. links to stuff that can't be viewed under linux. Is there any easy way to convert a Quicktime movie to something like RealPlayer that we at least kind of sort of support? If so I can post the converted version.
It's really frustrating when
I thought this idea got a bunch of coverage a couple months back under the name "smurf attacks". Was that something different, or was ZD just looking for filler today?
All they're saying is that they plan to make a 1GHz chip at some point. Great. I bet they plan to make a 2 GHz chip at some point too. They like to make these announcements to give the impression of "any day now" but they're talking next year, maybe.
I think cost is more of a concern than battery life. The new palms are getting to be very expensive - I can put together an ok computer for less than the suggested price of a Palm VII. If they want a color screen without losing battery life it's going to cost money.
OK, my second point was that I don't find windows easier to learn. To me the contrived attempts at user-friendlyness make it rather illogical. Some commands in linux may be esoteric, but they generally make sense. This may just be me, but personally I find troubleshooting windows machines extremely difficult.
It takes an awful lot more time to make sure a users can't easily damage a windows computer than a linux one. By default the linux one is virtually indestructable from the user perspective - last I checked I had something like 20 programs running suid on my computer, and those were things like login. As for exploring, I think I learned more in 6 months without trying, using linux, then I had in years of using windows. Most stuff in linux makes sense. Personally I just find it easier to understand.
I fully agree that linux is not for all situations. But as I have mentioned elsewhere, if there is a user who is nervous about using a computer, and there is someone else who can handle the system administration, linux can be ideal.
But for differnt reasons than most people are listing.
First of all people perform music because they enjoy it. This program may be able to do a better job of creating music than I can, but creating music is something I enjoy. It has no monetary benefit for me, I just like it. Likewise, even if computers learn to perform better than humans can, groups like the Backstreet Boys may disappear, but many musicians will keep playing for their own pleasure.
Second of all a great deal of the music industry has nothing to do with music. It has to do with gossip. People want to de able to gossip about what such and such a musician is doing. Nobody does this with computers. Many groups right now have no musical talent, have been created completely by the music industry, but survive because they are "cool".
Basically this assumes that they're going to do their own sysadmin'ing. In a case like this, where someone else is willing to handle the setup and configuration stuff in many ways linux is easier. What makes linux harder for the average user is that unix was designed with the intention that the average user would not be maintaining their own machine. If this is in fact true, than linux can be quite simple to use, particularly with any of the straightforward setups mentioned below. If the users doess need to maintain everything themselves, then it becomes harder. In that case macOS or beOS is probably a good idea.