Slightly off topic, but I'm looking to add a turntable to my home stereo system. Any brands or anything I should be looking for? You can't walk into a store and buy these things anymore either, so where are they sold?
I also wanted to mention that this feature can easily be turned on and off by one of the buttons on the radio. This would be helpful in avoiding situations like those mentioned in the article.
I also noticed a bunch of typos in the first message:) Oh well.....
I have a Blaupunkt Nevada reciever in my car, and it has RDS capability. I live in the Boston area, and between that and Providene there's probably about 4-6 stations that use it. Usually they encode their call letters, or popular name of the station. It can also decode the type of broadcaset (talk/rock/country/jazz/news/etc...)
It's not really useful yet, but hopefully as more stations start using it it will be possible to quickly scan the radio stations for a specific type of programming.
Wow, thanks for the impressive and informative reply. Time for me to get a bigger dictionary I guess:)
Interestingly, (and perhaps ironically), It was the preface to Programming Perl that introduced me to the word, and caused me to seek out its definition.
Suddenly I feel like the biggest fool on the planet:)
Ok, I'd really like to get in on this. I haven't gotten a letter yet though, and haven't been subscribed to any development mailing lists in some time.
VA has turned into a great company from what I've seen, and my personal opinion is that it would be a very good investment.
Rich
It's always an odd day when NT doesn't crash!
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According to the mp3.com article here the RIAA is planning to sue the people/company behind Napster.
Even though the files swapped around on Napster could theoretically be 100% legal, the RIAA is suing. This is prety similar to what happened when the Diamond Rio came out. Sadly this time the company they're suing doesn't have deep pockets to fight back with.
The recent tactics of the RIAA are very disturbing, but I'm pretty sure that most people saw it coming. The worst part is that there's no one to stop them either. Yet.
As a franchise... They've covered just about everybase. I wouldn't mind seeing one or two more Next Generation movies. I really hope they don't start up any half-assed syndicated TV show though.
Insufficient proteciton of the password is definately the reason. The user has to run the program that is sent to them, it is not run automatically.
The program then reads the password from the drive (I'm not sure if it's encrypted at all, it may be, but obviously not enough), and sends it to the opermail account.
Didn't Intel a make a major investment in RedHat in the not-so-distant past? (About a year ago IIRC) Now that they've invested in TurboLinux as well, I wonder if they think Linux may eventually be a desktop contender? These investments are what will make it happen.
Anyway, the more the merrier I think. Competition between big Linux distributions can only make the distributions better, which will in turn make Linux better, and more accessable to the masses. Many of the companies also contribute developers full time to Open Source projects as well, which is a really good thing,because most people can't afford to quit their day jobs to write free code, as much as they'd like to.
Those three programs are some of the best known projects in the Open Source community. If you're looking to find out when other projects are updated, I suggest you check out freshmeat. It's a great page that tracks just about every Open Source project out there. If/. started covering all of them, there'd be no space on the page for anything else.
According to today's Studio Briefing over at the IMDB: Chris Carter says that series will continue on the big screen with both Duchovny and Anderson on board.
The original source is today's New York Post. Anyone got a link?
Wireless networking is great, but as Apple has found different countries allocate the frequencies differently. What may be a useable frequency in one country is likely not to be in another.
I wonder if it's time for the FCC to relinquish control of the broadcast spectrum to the UN or some other similar international agency? Or maybe, an ISO standard for frequency allocations.
But perhaps the simplest answer is to have the machines be programmable to use different frequencies which can be assigned and changed via software. The hardware for this would be more expensive however, because it would need to accomdate a much greater range of possible frequencies, and it would bring about a whole host of other issues. The least of which being users changing their frequencies to illegal ones in their country, and causing interference with the communications assigned to that frequency.
Anyone running distrubted.net software on a laptop most likely installed it themselves, and is fully aware that it sends information back over the network.
Choosing to do something it totally different then software that does something you're not even aware of without your consent. THAT is a privacy violation.
The problem is more severe in Windows
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In Linux the cracker would only get the access of the user who ran the trojan.
Sure it's possible that a Linux newbie might log in as root all the time. But what does a linux newbie have to loose anyway? The real threat is in the corporate environment, where the users are not going to be logged in as root ever. And most employees are much less likely to screw around like that on a Unix system at work anyway.
With Linux, while the threat of a trojan is there, the possible damage is much less severe, because of the limited rights of the user.
On the other hand, with NT, as soon as any user runs the trojan, the machine is wide open with full administrator rights for the cracker.
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Slightly off topic, but I'm looking to add a turntable to my home stereo system. Any brands or anything I should be looking for? You can't walk into a store and buy these things anymore either, so where are they sold?
Thanks
I also wanted to mention that this feature can easily be turned on and off by one of the buttons on the radio. This would be helpful in avoiding situations like those mentioned in the article.
:) Oh well.....
I also noticed a bunch of typos in the first message
It's not really useful yet, but hopefully as more stations start using it it will be possible to quickly scan the radio stations for a specific type of programming.
Wow, thanks for the impressive and informative reply. Time for me to get a bigger dictionary I guess :)
:)
Interestingly, (and perhaps ironically), It was the preface to Programming Perl that introduced me to the word, and caused me to seek out its definition.
Suddenly I feel like the biggest fool on the planet
Rich
IANAL, but I don't think these types of legal agreements are binding on minors.
:)
Good incentive for teenage hackers I guess
Hybris isn't a word AFAIK (And my dictionary knows for that matter) I belive the word you're looking for is "hubris."
Rich
Ok, I'd really like to get in on this. I haven't gotten a letter yet though, and haven't been subscribed to any development mailing lists in some time.
VA has turned into a great company from what I've seen, and my personal opinion is that it would be a very good investment.
Rich
:)
According to the mp3.com article here the RIAA is planning to sue the people/company behind Napster.
Even though the files swapped around on Napster could theoretically be 100% legal, the RIAA is suing. This is prety similar to what happened when the Diamond Rio came out. Sadly this time the company they're suing doesn't have deep pockets to fight back with.
The recent tactics of the RIAA are very disturbing, but I'm pretty sure that most people saw it coming. The worst part is that there's no one to stop them either. Yet.
Check the main page
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http://www.starchildproject.com/
Whether they're authentic or not is an entirely different issue
I actually saw a Schindler's List T-shirt once. It may have been a promotional item, or a bootleg, who knows. Definately not a T-shirt movie though.
It's a great movie, and proof that Spielberg can put out a decent picture. I really hope he doesn't destroy W&G.
*sigh* I miss Bones.....
As a franchise... They've covered just about everybase. I wouldn't mind seeing one or two more Next Generation movies. I really hope they don't start up any half-assed syndicated TV show though.
Selected Ambient Works Vol II, and I Care Because You Do to be specific.
Words only clutter the mind, and these instrumental albums are great at keeping my concentration high.
Insufficient proteciton of the password is definately the reason. The user has to run the program that is sent to them, it is not run automatically.
The program then reads the password from the drive (I'm not sure if it's encrypted at all, it may be, but obviously not enough), and sends it to the opermail account.
Didn't Intel a make a major investment in RedHat in the not-so-distant past? (About a year ago IIRC) Now that they've invested in TurboLinux as well, I wonder if they think Linux may eventually be a desktop contender? These investments are what will make it happen.
Anyway, the more the merrier I think. Competition between big Linux distributions can only make the distributions better, which will in turn make Linux better, and more accessable to the masses. Many of the companies also contribute developers full time to Open Source projects as well, which is a really good thing,because most people can't afford to quit their day jobs to write free code, as much as they'd like to.
Those three programs are some of the best known projects in the Open Source community. If you're looking to find out when other projects are updated, I suggest you check out freshmeat. It's a great page that tracks just about every Open Source project out there. If /. started covering all of them, there'd be no space on the page for anything else.
Not much info on what's new & updated though, it's mainly just thanks to various people and organizations.
There is a list of features, but there's no annotation as to what is new.
The original source is today's New York Post. Anyone got a link?
The net seems to be back to normal speed for me at least... This kind of thing happens from time to time.
Wireless networking is great, but as Apple has found different countries allocate the frequencies differently. What may be a useable frequency in one country is likely not to be in another.
I wonder if it's time for the FCC to relinquish control of the broadcast spectrum to the UN or some other similar international agency? Or maybe, an ISO standard for frequency allocations.
But perhaps the simplest answer is to have the machines be programmable to use different frequencies which can be assigned and changed via software. The hardware for this would be more expensive however, because it would need to accomdate a much greater range of possible frequencies, and it would bring about a whole host of other issues. The least of which being users changing their frequencies to illegal ones in their country, and causing interference with the communications assigned to that frequency.
Anyone running distrubted.net software on a laptop most likely installed it themselves, and is fully aware that it sends information back over the network.
Choosing to do something it totally different then software that does something you're not even aware of without your consent. THAT is a privacy violation.
In Linux the cracker would only get the access of the user who ran the trojan.
Sure it's possible that a Linux newbie might log in as root all the time. But what does a linux newbie have to loose anyway? The real threat is in the corporate environment, where the users are not going to be logged in as root ever. And most employees are much less likely to screw around like that on a Unix system at work anyway.
With Linux, while the threat of a trojan is there, the possible damage is much less severe, because of the limited rights of the user.
On the other hand, with NT, as soon as any user runs the trojan, the machine is wide open with full administrator rights for the cracker.
But minimum investment is US$5,000,000!
The win32 version is supposedly going to be released around midnight CST.
What's the SHN format?