True... very good point there. The last thing I would want is for the DMCA to be brought in front of a Supreme Court that would have judges appointed by a big-industry conservative like Dubya.
MPAA: Sir, we really want to get this DMCA upheld and enforced to the letter. Can you do whatever it takes? W: Hmmm... Perhaps if the media were to portray me as a really great, smart guy right before re-election... or if SNL and Jay Leno would lay off a bit... perhaps I can work something out with our friend the Atty. General... MPAA: Good then. I thought we could see eye-to-eye. W: Heh. Eye-To-Eye [chuckle], kinda like a couple of potatos. Or was it potatoes... Darn that Quayle! I could never get that straight!
saying that adult verification services, which cost the user money, represent an acceptable "price to pay for protecting children from the harmful effects of graphic pornographic images".
From what I gather, current AVSs just require that you have a credit card and are stupid enough to use it on shady sites. Some do not actually charge the card, they just validate that it is real and infer that if you have a valid CC then you are old enough to see pr0n.
IMHO, AVS doesn't really work anyway. If pr0n exists and horny pimple-faced 15yr olds exist, then it will be accessed by minors, period.
I am just waiting for the Supreme Court to do real work, like taking a look at the DMCA one of these days...
Every episode the captain and his crew will beam (surrounded by a blue light) to a new time and space where they will encounter strange new intelligence and fight them.
I used to work about 40-45 hours a week. But now that my entire IT department got laid-off with the exception of me, I work 45 - 60. Oh, and now I am Tech Support, Sys Admin, Net Admin, IT Mgr, Webmaster, and Technical Consultant to our development team; all for the same salary that our office administrator gets. I find that although it is only 45-60 hours, it is a very full 45 - 60. People stop by my office to talk and I have to interrupt them or close my door on them just because if I take the time to chat I know that I will end up working a 12 - 14 hour day.
(I only have time to post this because I am waiting on our tape-backup system to get done initializing a fresh set of tapes.)
I guess it could be worse. When I was younger I pulled a 33 hour 'day' with only a 90 min 'lunch'.
Dell is quite familiar with this sort of thing. Last time, it was the Latitude notebooks that were going up in flames. The details from the horse's mouth can found here.
At the risk of sounding ironically redundant; didn't we already read this article? Perhaps here? Slashdot: News for Nerds. Over and Over and Over and Over....
It's similar to what happens when a big employer leaves town.
Although there is some truth to that statement; sometimes the loss of a big employer kills the town too. When the Big 3 and AC Delco closed plants in Flint, MI the city went into a downward spiral of which it has not recovered. Many other factors play a role in the analogy that you are making. I just hope you are right that this will lead to bigger and better things!
Wow, it amazes me that you could be so niave! (Good troll!)
There are two different types of 'hackers' out there: White-Hat and Black-Hat. The Black Hat hacker is the one that costs billions and trillions and gazillions of dollars per year of lost business. The White Hat hacker is the one that publishes security flaws (usually found on thier own test systems) thus allowing GOOD network admins to guard their systems against the Black Hat hackers...
You see, there will always be burglers out there and there will always be malicious hackers out there... this is a fact of nature. Without the properly skilled people out there to find bugs (buffer overflows etc) and security flaws; the network admins would not have the up-to-date knowledge of exploits to secure thier networks effectively!
Applying this to the ill-burgler scenerio that you made: This would be like many skilled burglers out there and you are trying to protect your home with open Windows! (heh... open Windows, get it?!)
My point is that we need the people with the Black-Hat experience to come over to the White-Hat side of things to help keep systems secure and the network administrators ahead of the game. Can you think of a better way of getting this accomplished?
Now, I agree with you that these 'White-Hat' hackers should not be exploiting flaws on other systems. This is illegal and should be dealt with accordingly unless this 'hacker' was invited by the owner of the compromised system for a security audit.
I can relate! The Anarchist Cookbook changed my life though...
I thought that it was going to teach me how to make home-made napalm and exploding lightbulbs out of bubblegum but instead it helped me find God!
Of course I am writing this because after finding God the ER techs got my heart started again....
Back in the 90's (it still feels strange to say that) there was this band called EBN. (Electronic Broadcast Network) They came out with a CD (Titled "Telecommunications Breakdown")
This CD is good, but what was better was the multimedia and the VHS production of the album. They managed to show video clips from that time in sync with the music in a very creative and effective manner. I will reply to this post with info on where you can get the video once I find it.
EBN also helped U2 with the ZooTV production. It turned out to be a great success and any video of ZooTV would help out as well.
Depending on where you live, you could try to see Blue Man Group (as seen on Intel commercials). They also have a CD out now that is really good.
I will post links off of this thread in a little while..
Ahh..I guess if you read it that way it does...
Thanks for clearing things up for me.
Not bad price for the crack you are smoking...
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A very basic laptop will run you $1500 but any mid-range laptop (Dell Latitiude C600 for example) will run you at least $2k. Did you look at this thing? It has features that blow a Latitude away!
Granted, everyone is entitled thier own opinions and you have yours, but compared to the current laptop market this is not bad for a unique versatile laptop like this...
Okay, perhaps this is off-topic, but I wonder if this would allow me to scribble a flow-chart free-hand and it will convert it into a Visio document??? I would be sold on that in a heartbeat. I can imagine sitting in a meetng scribbling the flow for an app and then sending off the chart to other developers without having to go back to my desk to make the chart from my pathetic notes...
I also see a future for this type of thing in the medical field as long as the security is not by M$FT...
OK, now why does this bother me? Because I'm not getting compensated for this! Heck, if these advertising companies wanted my viewing habits (down to my favorite show, PBR), they should compensate me for this.
Actually, you are being compensated in not one, but two ways.
1. $9.95/mo is really cheap for this type of service.. without the data being collected, I could imagine it costing a LOT more.
2. Better advertising and show selections. Some day you will not have to sit through tampon commercials during Battle Bots!
I do not think moderation should look at a poster's past, but the merit of the post itself. If moderators think it is funny then so be it.
Perhaps you should not be so anal as to care who does the post and look at the value of the post. If all posts should be serious then we should take away the +1, Funny option...
Prerecorded cassettes fell to 76 million shipped last year vs. 123 million in 1999, the industry says. "We are in need of a new format," says BMG's Sami Valkonen.
So, really old technology (cassettes) starts falling off so they need a new format??? They make it looks like the industry is not doing well or they are losing sales! My question is how the CD sales are going?!
Answer: Up only ~$400 Million USD for US sales only.
They'd have to target it at some poor suckers who don't know what the open source community/movement is all about.
That would be about 98% of corporate america. Most companies do not use Linux because they are afraid of going the non-M$ route. They ask, "Who else has done this and how effective was it for them?!" and they want to hear only big names... and a lot of them.
If M$ came out with a distro, most companies would go with it before they considered Redhat, Mandrake, Caldera, *BSD, or any other distro...
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True... very good point there. The last thing I would want is for the DMCA to be brought in front of a Supreme Court that would have judges appointed by a big-industry conservative like Dubya.
MPAA: Sir, we really want to get this DMCA upheld and enforced to the letter. Can you do whatever it takes?
W: Hmmm... Perhaps if the media were to portray me as a really great, smart guy right before re-election... or if SNL and Jay Leno would lay off a bit... perhaps I can work something out with our friend the Atty. General...
MPAA: Good then. I thought we could see eye-to-eye.
W: Heh. Eye-To-Eye [chuckle], kinda like a couple of potatos. Or was it potatoes... Darn that Quayle! I could never get that straight!
saying that adult verification services, which cost the user money, represent an acceptable "price to pay for protecting children from the harmful effects of graphic pornographic images".
From what I gather, current AVSs just require that you have a credit card and are stupid enough to use it on shady sites. Some do not actually charge the card, they just validate that it is real and infer that if you have a valid CC then you are old enough to see pr0n.
IMHO, AVS doesn't really work anyway. If pr0n exists and horny pimple-faced 15yr olds exist, then it will be accessed by minors, period.
I am just waiting for the Supreme Court to do real work, like taking a look at the DMCA one of these days...
Ya know, you are on to something...
I sure know that I would by at least two as long as the proceeds went to OSS funding...
Every episode the captain and his crew will beam (surrounded by a blue light) to a new time and space where they will encounter strange new intelligence and fight them.
Yeah, wasn't that called 'Sliders' though?
I used to work about 40-45 hours a week. But now that my entire IT department got laid-off with the exception of me, I work 45 - 60. Oh, and now I am Tech Support, Sys Admin, Net Admin, IT Mgr, Webmaster, and Technical Consultant to our development team; all for the same salary that our office administrator gets. I find that although it is only 45-60 hours, it is a very full 45 - 60. People stop by my office to talk and I have to interrupt them or close my door on them just because if I take the time to chat I know that I will end up working a 12 - 14 hour day.
(I only have time to post this because I am waiting on our tape-backup system to get done initializing a fresh set of tapes.)
I guess it could be worse. When I was younger I pulled a 33 hour 'day' with only a 90 min 'lunch'.
Dell is quite familiar with this sort of thing. Last time, it was the Latitude notebooks that were going up in flames. The details from the horse's mouth can found here.
At the risk of sounding ironically redundant; didn't we already read this article?
Perhaps here?
Slashdot: News for Nerds. Over and Over and Over and Over....
It's similar to what happens when a big employer leaves town.
Although there is some truth to that statement; sometimes the loss of a big employer kills the town too. When the Big 3 and AC Delco closed plants in Flint, MI the city went into a downward spiral of which it has not recovered. Many other factors play a role in the analogy that you are making. I just hope you are right that this will lead to bigger and better things!
Wow, it amazes me that you could be so niave! (Good troll!)
There are two different types of 'hackers' out there: White-Hat and Black-Hat. The Black Hat hacker is the one that costs billions and trillions and gazillions of dollars per year of lost business. The White Hat hacker is the one that publishes security flaws (usually found on thier own test systems) thus allowing GOOD network admins to guard their systems against the Black Hat hackers...
You see, there will always be burglers out there and there will always be malicious hackers out there... this is a fact of nature. Without the properly skilled people out there to find bugs (buffer overflows etc) and security flaws; the network admins would not have the up-to-date knowledge of exploits to secure thier networks effectively!
Applying this to the ill-burgler scenerio that you made: This would be like many skilled burglers out there and you are trying to protect your home with open Windows! (heh... open Windows, get it?!)
My point is that we need the people with the Black-Hat experience to come over to the White-Hat side of things to help keep systems secure and the network administrators ahead of the game. Can you think of a better way of getting this accomplished?
Now, I agree with you that these 'White-Hat' hackers should not be exploiting flaws on other systems. This is illegal and should be dealt with accordingly unless this 'hacker' was invited by the owner of the compromised system for a security audit.
I can relate! The Anarchist Cookbook changed my life though...
I thought that it was going to teach me how to make home-made napalm and exploding lightbulbs out of bubblegum but instead it helped me find God!
Of course I am writing this because after finding God the ER techs got my heart started again....
Forgive me for asking, but being an American and educated in my American public school system, I must ask:
What in the hell is west of Alaska???
Sadly, this thinking is so true to some here in the US...
Wow, it looks like most of this is already redundant!
Brief lowdown on EBN
EBN page on TVT Records site
Blue Man site
Anyone know where I can find the Telecommunications Breakdown VHS tape? I can only find the CD.
Oh, and I almost forgot KIMBLE
Back in the 90's (it still feels strange to say that) there was this band called EBN. (Electronic Broadcast Network) They came out with a CD (Titled "Telecommunications Breakdown")
This CD is good, but what was better was the multimedia and the VHS production of the album. They managed to show video clips from that time in sync with the music in a very creative and effective manner. I will reply to this post with info on where you can get the video once I find it.
EBN also helped U2 with the ZooTV production. It turned out to be a great success and any video of ZooTV would help out as well.
Depending on where you live, you could try to see Blue Man Group (as seen on Intel commercials). They also have a CD out now that is really good.
I will post links off of this thread in a little while..
"You do not have permission to publish this comment on your website."
Hrm, do I have permission to quote your comment in my post?
Ahh..I guess if you read it that way it does...
Thanks for clearing things up for me.
A very basic laptop will run you $1500 but any mid-range laptop (Dell Latitiude C600 for example) will run you at least $2k. Did you look at this thing? It has features that blow a Latitude away!
Granted, everyone is entitled thier own opinions and you have yours, but compared to the current laptop market this is not bad for a unique versatile laptop like this...
Okay, perhaps this is off-topic, but I wonder if this would allow me to scribble a flow-chart free-hand and it will convert it into a Visio document??? I would be sold on that in a heartbeat. I can imagine sitting in a meetng scribbling the flow for an app and then sending off the chart to other developers without having to go back to my desk to make the chart from my pathetic notes...
I also see a future for this type of thing in the medical field as long as the security is not by M$FT...
OK, now why does this bother me? Because I'm not getting compensated for this! Heck, if these advertising companies wanted my viewing habits (down to my favorite show, PBR), they should compensate me for this.
Actually, you are being compensated in not one, but two ways.
1. $9.95/mo is really cheap for this type of service.. without the data being collected, I could imagine it costing a LOT more.
2. Better advertising and show selections. Some day you will not have to sit through tampon commercials during Battle Bots!
They will notice that for every hour of Sopranos and NHL hockey that I watch there is 5 hours of Dawson's Creek, Sex and the City, and ER.
:)
Yup, this anonymous tivo user is remote-whipped.
I do not think moderation should look at a poster's past, but the merit of the post itself. If moderators think it is funny then so be it.
Perhaps you should not be so anal as to care who does the post and look at the value of the post. If all posts should be serious then we should take away the +1, Funny option...
I give you "-1, Needs a Life"
Prerecorded cassettes fell to 76 million shipped last year vs. 123 million in 1999, the industry says. "We are in need of a new format," says BMG's Sami Valkonen.
So, really old technology (cassettes) starts falling off so they need a new format??? They make it looks like the industry is not doing well or they are losing sales! My question is how the CD sales are going?!
Answer: Up only ~$400 Million USD for US sales only.
Okay, I have a hard time figuring out what you mean..
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You could look up the definition of 'hacking' and go from there. A good defination is at:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/hack
They'd have to target it at some poor suckers who don't know what the open source community/movement is all about.
That would be about 98% of corporate america. Most companies do not use Linux because they are afraid of going the non-M$ route. They ask, "Who else has done this and how effective was it for them?!" and they want to hear only big names... and a lot of them.
If M$ came out with a distro, most companies would go with it before they considered Redhat, Mandrake, Caldera, *BSD, or any other distro...
Could somebody please mirror the crack for SafeAudio?? :)
Seeing as the only reason that Khadaffi is alive is because of a GPS mis-calcualtion!