I can imagine how crappy the sound coming out of that box is. Any computer claiming to be a music player can't be taken seriously unless the output is digital. Analog computer outputs are good when driving 2-inch low quality computer speakers but start sucking royally when you are driving a real home Hi-Fi system.
This is why you one should never sell MS software. Instead, one must share his copy with as many people as he can. Copy it for friends, copy it for relatives, let them all partake of your copy.
It is untraceable, secure and a sweet feeling to boot.
The point is that music companies view each and every one their customers as a potential thief. Fair use, in their eyes, is theft. They are seeking to block 90% of the "theft" they see.
"What it's meant to do is provide a speed bump to people who don't steal things, and wish to use them in the parameters that are suggested by the artists... Only hackers will attempt to circumvent the technology in order to prove that it can be done. We're not designing the technology for them."
I don't know, from looking at Napster in its heyday it seems NO ONE likes those "parameters" and that there are millions and millions of thieving evil hackers. In fact, their entire customer base...
I think the last question is the key. They are doing the equivalent of ROT-13 to qualify for DMCA protection. From there on, the federal government enforces things. Sad...
He's taking advantage of a horrible terrorist attack in order to hawk his wares. Yes, he will supply the database for free but he was rather mum about the technical support costs...
I have a way for him to help the cause and spend some money instead. He could fund a counter-terrorist terrorist group. For some reason, he seems like the type of person to whom this kind of idea would appeal.
Did anyone stop to think that if our privacy were so absolutely compromised by the government, as many here like to imagine (evil carnivore, etc.), then these terrorist attacks would have been thwarted?
Notice, I'm not saying government surveillance is a good thing. I'm pointing out that people pretend the government to be much more powerful and nefarious than it actually is...
Yes, yes, all these things need encryption. But you seem to be confusing your threat model - none of this would interest the government one iota, not even Nixon.
You don't need strong encryption to send your message. You keep forgetting that no one is listening in the first place. Besides, rot-13 would be enough to foil the efforts of 99% of your threat - script kiddies...
From what one reads here you get the impression all slashdotter's communications are so super secret and important that they need 8192 bit keys. For Pete's sake I want someone to tell me what data is so important that they encrypt it daily for fear of someone snooping.
The inability to surgically attack targets was definitely not the reasons behind the fire bombing of Dresden and many Japanese cities. Cities were bombed intentionally as a tool of terror as envisioned by the likes of Chief Marshal Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris - to destroy Germany's "will to fight".
Why couldn't they drop the bomb over the ocean in plain view of the Japanese main land?
The result of the WTC bombing is exactly as intended. People will fear flying, fear going up elevators in tall buildings, gas prices will go up, etc... These are the intended purposes of terror.
I wonder if these would be the exact words you'd use as you hit the concrete at 100 mph after jumping to avoid being burned alive.
It doesn't make a difference who did it. Terrorism is never justified, under any circumstance, in any situation. The WWII carpet bombing of London and Dresden and the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki under the doctrine of "all out national war" were acts of terrorism and should be a source of shame to all countries involved. But your comparison to recent actions by U.S. pilots is ridiciulous. We must assume U.S. pilots didn't set out to deliberately destroy pharmaceutical plants in Sudan (if you don't trust American motives, then at least trust American thrift - the U.S. would not waste money on a target it knew to be useless). On the other hand, your "noble" hijacking friends deliberately set out to kill civilians for shock value - for kicks, if you will. At any rate, your "impassioned" plea to "understand" these terrorists is disturbing.
It is an interesting coincidence that just recently NPR aired a program about an upcoming Arab cultural festival. Several American Arabs from different backgrounds participated in the discussion and some expressed puzzlement at being stereotyped as you described. The program was meant to be about Arab culture but quickly degenerated into unashamed, malevolent, jingoistic, racist anti-Israel rhetoric. I find it particularly funny that this is all they had to say about Arab culture and the festival they were organizing when I know, first hand, that Arab culture has a lot more to offer. Why do they expect to be met with open arms and smiles while they peddle hate?
This illustrates a wider trend in Muslim-Arab culture. The Muslim-Arab world has ceased being productive. The Muslim-Arab world's two major exports to the world in the past century are hate and terrorism. With all their oil and money, their contributions to the 21st century are X-ray machines and two hour security checks at airports. As a little trivia question (no Google searching) how many non-Arab-Muslim perpetrated terrorist hijackings can you count off the back of your hand? Now count the Arab-Muslim perpetrated hijackings...
I find it peculiar that in the same article you ask for people to not assume Muslim-Arab hands were involved until proof is found (I agree completely) but then go on to explain that failing Durben, "someone" might have no choice but to murder 20,000 people. Who might that "someone", you are hinting at, be? Descendants of black slaves?
The premise that people who hijack planes have no military and are hence invulnerable to formal declarations of war is bogus. Terrorists need a place to live, breath and organize. There are many countries that harbor terrorist organizations and it is trivially easy to "correct" these errant countries. It is a convenient fact that most, if not all, these countries are dictatorships. The targets are well marked, indeed.
Finally, your apparent support for the circus in Durban - where the non-democratic countries of the world pretended to preach freedom to the free world, with violent racist language - suggests you might need to turn on the TV a little bit more in the morning - step out of your cocoon, along with the rest of America.
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That doesn't matter. He hit upon something anyway, direct brain control is the only way you can play Descent properly...
The TV media in the US reminds me of the short SciFi story The Marching Morons by CM Kornbluth. A recommended read.
The problem with the media is the obssession with sex, self-righteousness and self admiration. The only way Skylarov could get any attention would be if he slept with a congresswoman... or man...
Because where there's life there are quite obviously lewd acts of procreation! Multi-celled and sexual or single-celled and unchristianly asexual, our children must be protected!!!
Never mind that our godly children are results of ungodly deeds
"Because hearers of the new noise are virtually unable to resist turning to face the direction from which it is coming..."
and
"The new sound could also rid everyday life of one of its embarrassing moments, when everyone in a room searches for their mobile phone when just one rings.
That's right, now instead of everyone ruffling through their clothes checking their phone they will ALL look at YOU. No, not embarrasing at all...
Aren't the free software folk who are adopting.NET making the same mistake many other MS competitors made before? They are adopting an MS technology and relying on MS not to play dirty with the specifications (DR-DOS and Win3.1 come to mind). What is to guarantee that MS won't change the.NET specification a year or two from now and break older code? ECMA standards are cute but MS wouldn't hesitate dumping them if it felt it could get away with it.
/. dot wouldn't exist if it were not for ADD. Let's see, what does the average/. user do:
1. go over home page and look for unread story
2. read story
3. maybe read the link in the story
4. post a comment
5. close browser
6. repeat steps 1-5 every 15 minutes.
Shared experience is a very important component of mass media. People like to talk about movies, TV programs, music, and commercials. In fact, a lot of American culture (for better or worse) is centered around the shared experience aspect of mass entertainment. It often, seems this is all people talk about - the latest movie, that latest Bud commercial, the Superbowl commercials. Witness the amount of posts on/. about the Superbowl commercials. A personally tailored commercial delivery system would lose this important component and might render the commercials less effective. In general, I think mass entertainment is successful because of the sense of community it provides people - a common interest shared by almost everyone.
Here is a MSIE plugin (with source) that does what you are looking for. It is configurable so you can do anything you want with text. It's a bit rough but it works well.
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The reply above this one couldn't have explained it any better - PC analog output is horrible.
It sucks!
I can imagine how crappy the sound coming out of that box is. Any computer claiming to be a music player can't be taken seriously unless the output is digital. Analog computer outputs are good when driving 2-inch low quality computer speakers but start sucking royally when you are driving a real home Hi-Fi system.
Something tells me firewalls are going to become all the rage among song swappers...
Gotta block those pesky DoS IPs....
I beg to differ - people pirated MS windows because as much as it sucked, it sucked less than the alternatives.
This is why you one should never sell MS software. Instead, one must share his copy with as many people as he can. Copy it for friends, copy it for relatives, let them all partake of your copy.
It is untraceable, secure and a sweet feeling to boot.
The point is that music companies view each and every one their customers as a potential thief. Fair use, in their eyes, is theft. They are seeking to block 90% of the "theft" they see.
"What it's meant to do is provide a speed bump to people who don't steal things, and wish to use them in the parameters that are suggested by the artists... Only hackers will attempt to circumvent the technology in order to prove that it can be done. We're not designing the technology for them."
I don't know, from looking at Napster in its heyday it seems NO ONE likes those "parameters" and that there are millions and millions of thieving evil hackers. In fact, their entire customer base...
I think the last question is the key. They are doing the equivalent of ROT-13 to qualify for DMCA protection. From there on, the federal government enforces things. Sad...
He's taking advantage of a horrible terrorist attack in order to hawk his wares. Yes, he will supply the database for free but he was rather mum about the technical support costs...
I have a way for him to help the cause and spend some money instead. He could fund a counter-terrorist terrorist group. For some reason, he seems like the type of person to whom this kind of idea would appeal.
Did anyone stop to think that if our privacy were so absolutely compromised by the government, as many here like to imagine (evil carnivore, etc.), then these terrorist attacks would have been thwarted?
Notice, I'm not saying government surveillance is a good thing. I'm pointing out that people pretend the government to be much more powerful and nefarious than it actually is...
Yes, yes, all these things need encryption. But you seem to be confusing your threat model - none of this would interest the government one iota, not even Nixon.
You don't need strong encryption to send your message. You keep forgetting that no one is listening in the first place. Besides, rot-13 would be enough to foil the efforts of 99% of your threat - script kiddies...
From what one reads here you get the impression all slashdotter's communications are so super secret and important that they need 8192 bit keys. For Pete's sake I want someone to tell me what data is so important that they encrypt it daily for fear of someone snooping.
The inability to surgically attack targets was definitely not the reasons behind the fire bombing of Dresden and many Japanese cities. Cities were bombed intentionally as a tool of terror as envisioned by the likes of Chief Marshal Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris - to destroy Germany's "will to fight".
Why couldn't they drop the bomb over the ocean in plain view of the Japanese main land?
The result of the WTC bombing is exactly as intended. People will fear flying, fear going up elevators in tall buildings, gas prices will go up, etc... These are the intended purposes of terror.
I wonder if these would be the exact words you'd use as you hit the concrete at 100 mph after jumping to avoid being burned alive.
It doesn't make a difference who did it. Terrorism is never justified, under any circumstance, in any situation. The WWII carpet bombing of London and Dresden and the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki under the doctrine of "all out national war" were acts of terrorism and should be a source of shame to all countries involved. But your comparison to recent actions by U.S. pilots is ridiciulous. We must assume U.S. pilots didn't set out to deliberately destroy pharmaceutical plants in Sudan (if you don't trust American motives, then at least trust American thrift - the U.S. would not waste money on a target it knew to be useless). On the other hand, your "noble" hijacking friends deliberately set out to kill civilians for shock value - for kicks, if you will. At any rate, your "impassioned" plea to "understand" these terrorists is disturbing.
It is an interesting coincidence that just recently NPR aired a program about an upcoming Arab cultural festival. Several American Arabs from different backgrounds participated in the discussion and some expressed puzzlement at being stereotyped as you described. The program was meant to be about Arab culture but quickly degenerated into unashamed, malevolent, jingoistic, racist anti-Israel rhetoric. I find it particularly funny that this is all they had to say about Arab culture and the festival they were organizing when I know, first hand, that Arab culture has a lot more to offer. Why do they expect to be met with open arms and smiles while they peddle hate?
This illustrates a wider trend in Muslim-Arab culture. The Muslim-Arab world has ceased being productive. The Muslim-Arab world's two major exports to the world in the past century are hate and terrorism. With all their oil and money, their contributions to the 21st century are X-ray machines and two hour security checks at airports. As a little trivia question (no Google searching) how many non-Arab-Muslim perpetrated terrorist hijackings can you count off the back of your hand? Now count the Arab-Muslim perpetrated hijackings...
I find it peculiar that in the same article you ask for people to not assume Muslim-Arab hands were involved until proof is found (I agree completely) but then go on to explain that failing Durben, "someone" might have no choice but to murder 20,000 people. Who might that "someone", you are hinting at, be? Descendants of black slaves?
The premise that people who hijack planes have no military and are hence invulnerable to formal declarations of war is bogus. Terrorists need a place to live, breath and organize. There are many countries that harbor terrorist organizations and it is trivially easy to "correct" these errant countries. It is a convenient fact that most, if not all, these countries are dictatorships. The targets are well marked, indeed.
Finally, your apparent support for the circus in Durban - where the non-democratic countries of the world pretended to preach freedom to the free world, with violent racist language - suggests you might need to turn on the TV a little bit more in the morning - step out of your cocoon, along with the rest of America.
That doesn't matter. He hit upon something anyway, direct brain control is the only way you can play Descent properly...
You will be the only former BattleBots viewer on /.
Most slashdotters love their TV shows too much to part with them for longer than a week.
The TV media in the US reminds me of the short SciFi story The Marching Morons by CM Kornbluth. A recommended read.
The problem with the media is the obssession with sex, self-righteousness and self admiration. The only way Skylarov could get any attention would be if he slept with a congresswoman... or man...
Ximian is stupid. Mono is worse. They are quite simply stupid. If they want any kind of wide acceptance they should use less "original" names.
Because where there's life there are quite obviously lewd acts of procreation! Multi-celled and sexual or single-celled and unchristianly asexual, our children must be protected!!!
Never mind that our godly children are results of ungodly deeds
<sig>Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!</sig>"Because hearers of the new noise are virtually unable to resist turning to face the direction from which it is coming..."
and"The new sound could also rid everyday life of one of its embarrassing moments, when everyone in a room searches for their mobile phone when just one rings.
That's right, now instead of everyone ruffling through their clothes checking their phone they will ALL look at YOU. No, not embarrasing at all...Bluetooth is dead. It's too complicated, too obtuse, hopelessly slow and ridiculously expensive...
Aren't the free software folk who are adopting .NET making the same mistake many other MS competitors made before? They are adopting an MS technology and relying on MS not to play dirty with the specifications (DR-DOS and Win3.1 come to mind). What is to guarantee that MS won't change the .NET specification a year or two from now and break older code? ECMA standards are cute but MS wouldn't hesitate dumping them if it felt it could get away with it.
/. dot wouldn't exist if it were not for ADD. Let's see, what does the average /. user do:
1. go over home page and look for unread story
2. read story
3. maybe read the link in the story
4. post a comment
5. close browser
6. repeat steps 1-5 every 15 minutes.
/. is a symptom of what you speak
"Tune in next time to Christdot and hear Rev. Jon explain why it's ok to do the nasty with dirty, cursed, sinful females."
Shared experience is a very important component of mass media. People like to talk about movies, TV programs, music, and commercials. In fact, a lot of American culture (for better or worse) is centered around the shared experience aspect of mass entertainment. It often, seems this is all people talk about - the latest movie, that latest Bud commercial, the Superbowl commercials. Witness the amount of posts on /. about the Superbowl commercials. A personally tailored commercial delivery system would lose this important component and might render the commercials less effective. In general, I think mass entertainment is successful because of the sense of community it provides people - a common interest shared by almost everyone.
Here is a MSIE plugin (with source) that does what you are looking for. It is configurable so you can do anything you want with text. It's a bit rough but it works well.