There's nothing wrong with burning CDs for personal/fair use. However, despite the number of burner discrepancy, this was an actualy piracy operation. It's not only illegal but not right. People like that should get busted.
as the AC replied to your comment (here), what you coined "actualy piracy [sic]" is more appropriately called "counterfeiting."
i found offense in what this slashdot article did; if one were to look at the RIIA story really said, you would see that that statistic was peripheral. more important was the nature of these illicit products: they were fraudulent. according to the RIAA, "officials also seized eight Rimage Imprinters, one high-end color copier valued at $75,000, and other equipment and raw materials used in the manufacturing process."
NOBODY HERE HAS MENTIONED THE REAL PROBLEM HERE!
the problem with this article is twofold:
the RIAA is alleging that CDRs are responsible for loss in revenue, thus using CDRs is morally wrong.
the RIAA is lumping counterfeiters into the same group as the file swappers. the real world is far from this black and white; here we have two shades of gray, one significantly darker than the other.
time magazine: immortality + einstein
on
Einstein Unveiled
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· Score: 2
there was a time magazine article in summer 1999 (i think) that talked about tomorrow's technology. on the topic of immortality, there were a few "methods" mentioned: replace immune system with one more efficient, move brain to new body, and live on as exact replica via memories. as an example of the latter, scientists attempted to replicate albert einstein.
theoretically, at least, based on hist known reactions, the simulation of einstein would be able to answer questions as if he were still alive, even those not of his time period.
according to nist.gov: The meter is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum
during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second.
follow the link for the exact definition of a second
(determined by a number of periods of a cesium-133 atom).
i find it odd that nether this slashdot article nor the cnn piece mention these.
But you do NOT have the right to connect to the server and say, "Give me your page without ads." You might as well be able to connect to a site then and say, "Hey, site, give me just the leftmost frame... uhhh... words 10 through 12... and, could you make it green for me, i think that's pretty."
i never said otherwise. companies have the right to deliver their content with ads as they desire. however, i should have the right to remove them like the pickles from my burger. on the web, i could have a parer that showed me only words 10 through 12 of the leftmost frame, in green, and there shouldn't be anything wrong with that.
you said that i do not "have the right to request a special modified just-for-me version of the product;" i disagree. i should have the right to request nearly anything; this is a free society, after all. similarly, the company can turn down my request. however, i still stand by my filters. this is not something they are doing, it is something i am doing, like choosing my isp, os, browser, and stylesheet (remember that most browsers can override a site's formatting). just as i have the right to change channels when my television program goes to commercial, i should have the right to block ads. it's a free world.
if you ask me about this whole deal, it screams fair use; if i go to a burger joint and get a kids' meal requesting no toy, they should give it to me that way. if i forget to request no toy, and throw it out without looking, there should also be no problem.
are blind people all theives? they don't see ads!
what about stereo systems? they come with graphic equalizers, which let people filter music as they see fit. but hark! this means radio broadcasts and cds can be played without so much treble! the thieves!
this whole thing reeks of 'loss of potential sales' -- the same argument as used by the MPAA and RIAA. sure, it's a bit more far-fetched (and therefore more obvious), but this may help our case against the motion picture and recording industries.
~ Example website ~
This is an example of a website using Anti-Theft.
on mozilla 1.2, js, java, cookies all enabled and identifying itself as ie6/winxp.
i defeated a few of those checks with the prefbar mozilla plugin (can toggle features like js, java, popups, proxies, cookies, images, colors, ua). unfortunately, the Java plugin seems to panic when the ua is set to IE... says something like 'do not use the Netscape Java plugin with Internet Explorer.' the java applet-protected links page doesn't need java support for the popups (but does need body onload(popup) support and will pop up several ads) and the gateway link brings me to a page with a real java applet that just sits there in "Loading Java Applet..." mode (presumably due to the NS/Java on IE problem).
oss only pretends to be in free community; control of projects is far from democratic (or other insert-free-ruling-system-here)... in fact, it's very much despotic.
you are dictator of your project, everything goes through you before finalization. if you so chose, only your updates will see the project page. anything else would be an offshoot and possibly not even recognized in any of your official documents.
mhtml is not compressed afaik. some browsers have web archive capability; konqueror has a format called.war (Web ARchive) which is just a.tar.gz, read like a directory (index.html loads if there).
there is nothing like this for mozilla, here are the requests: MHTML http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18764 Web Archive http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64286
given how there is no standard, any slashcache would have to not be compressed. besides, web servers automate compression to a certain degree on their own....this should not detract from the point that if google can do it, so too can slashdot.
third sunday of every non-winter month at Albany street.
your post says you're in franklin, so get another uhaul and don't drop so many this time! tons of people in your position have offloaded all their shit (working and not) there. only costs $17 (plus $12 for each additional space, you'll probably need ~3 spaces). you set up at 7:15-9am and buyers swarm in at 9am (most sales are done in that hour, the good stuff goes in the first ten minutes). most sellers leave before noon, but (i think) it lasts till about 1:30.
there's lots of cool stuff there, all related to computers, wireless/radio, or 'cool gadgets.' stuff i've bought there include: door sensor, computer remote control, TONS of cables and connectors, cdrs, ropelights, my palm pilot, floppy drives, led's, movies, and tons of stuff the i have forgotten about. it's all dirt cheap too... floppy drives ~$2, rj45 eth cord ~$1, and so on. there are tales of "the one buck guy"... a friend of mine bought two complete computers (120mhz and 90mhz) for two bucks, but he only made one appearance at the flea and was sold out by the time i arrived at 9:30am.
one seller once told me "swapfest! get yesterday's technology today!"... don't go there looking for something released in the past few months. can't find edo ram, pentium pros, a complete (~200MHZ) computer for under $100, or some strange connector? this is the place for you!
i refer you to:
bug 159450
bug 95735
bug 152701 (fixed on trunk)
bug 157646 (fixed on trunk)
bug 164695 (fixed on trunk)
bug 171274 (fixed on trunk)
all of which are 'permission denied' which almost always indicates a security issue. see http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1.2 ( slashdot is a blocked referrer, so no links)
consider a graduate degree first. graduate schools are less picky about your undergrad degrees (just that you have one and score well on tests)....physics is a rather specialized field, though, so it may be different.
with a masters in physics, the physics phd program should be far easier to get into.
i think this kind of thing could really fly; a linux distro made mostly for a specific setup but flexible enough to work for any computer. not neccessarily embedded, either; we all have old machines lying around waiting for tasks... though ideally, a $500 machine w/ tv in/out could easily handle this out of the box (maybe needing hdd and ram upgrades).
h/w would be as described above (with option for mpg2 card for tivo compatibility) distro would be minimal (no need for gnome or kde, or most gui things; something simple like wmaker or openbox is fine to run xine, gstreamer, or whatever).
i like the idea of the box ripping as needed (like tivo) and then crunching it down to more managable divx (or tarkin, vp3, theora, sorenson, etc) during pre-determined idle time....this would up the required hdd total capacity significantly.
minimal distros seem to be a dying breed. anybody know of a up-to-date distro really good for older machines (90-300mhz)?
hey, osdn lawyers: in the all-caps section of the TOS you refer to "VA Software" as "VA Linux Systems"
so even slashdot can't get EULAs right... =D
reminds me of a spam i got a while back
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First Worm with a EULA?
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· Score: 5, Interesting
i got an email a while ago (during the.com bubble) telling me that i got that email because somebody was romantically interested in me (i don't use dating services of any sort, online or not).
basically, here's the scheme: a person likes another, but is too shy to ask him/her. this site allows a way to anonymously email that person. the message essentially says "guess who"...literally.
i was expected to guess the admirer by giving the site every email i could think of that might be the admirer. if there's a match, each party is informed. for all those non-hits, an email identical to the first was sent out; spam.
i happen to use unique email addresses and handed this address to only four people, two of whom were female, so i knew it was one of them or a friend... but the notable thing is that i started getting TONS of spam at that address (>20emails/day)
this type of ponzi-style scheme with unforseen problems seems to be getting popular now; EULAs often take complete advantage: people blindly give permission to have third-party software downloaded and installed, to become the source of spamming and/or propogation, or to allow use of spyware.
rtfa
it explains right there:
DVD-R @ 4x, 5.54MB/s
CD-R @ 16x, 2.46MB/s
(40/16)*2.46=6.15, so CD-R @ 40x is 6.15MB/s
and (5.54/4)/(2.46/16)=9.00813 (so khuber's above statement is right)
...but i'm still waiting for the DVR media standard to match the DVD media standard regarding disk size; #1 reason you can't copy a commercial DVD is that it's twice as big.
and I would LOVE 9GB disks...
no pre 1.2b-branch themes work.
there are only a small number (growing by the day) of compatable themes.
don't get a theme that doesn't specifically list support for 1.2b
so what happens when people start blocking net access to these apps?
programs like Tiny and Zone Alarm can block access per program
(assuming they don't use bundled hooks like IE embedding).
seems better than the software-installation clauses in newer MS and java licenses.
sounds like more than one major
and its name MUST reflect that.
how similar is your degree to:
bioinformatics
dual cs-physics
dual cs-botany
dual physics-botany
tri cs-physics-botany
you probably qualify (or almost qualify) for one of these
and i assume if you do not, then you are specialized
in a specific aspect of the field
(quantum physics, heuristics, astrobiology...)
check similarities with other progams and come up with a hybrid-sounding name. and remember, dual degree programs are compromises, not complete inclusions; a dual cs/physics major has far fewer requirements than a double cs/physics major.
if you spent seven years in classes
(not counting retaken classes as in the poster:
"college, the best seven years of your life!"),
they you are probably also going to pursue
masters' degrees, in which case your major's name will help only in applying for those masters' programs and afterwords won't really matter.
oh, one more that I forgot to mention b/c litestep eliminates my need for it (and winxp integrated the idea):
TraySaver (i can't find the license but the code is on sourceforge).
stash systemtray icons in a second tray available with a click, add an option to the alt+space pulldown that says 'minimize to tray'... VERY handy esp. at low resolution.
the author's StartupCPL (closed source, puts in a control panel section to manage what starts up with windows) and WindowSizer (resize ANY window) are put on every windows machine I touch.
nobody has mentioned LiteStep!
LiteStep is a replacement desktop environment released under the GPL.
I have nine desktops, can drag windows between them, I have cpu and ram meters, quick-launch buttons and shortcuts, and can even drag windows from other destkops anywhere (don't think you can do that in most desktop envs).
with litestep and mozilla, unless I have a windows [file] explorer open, there's no MS except the system (kernel, services) running - which means with the multiple-instances-of-explorer option, I need not worry about [i]explore[r].exe crashing.
other GPL windows projects of interest: FreeCiv Civilization (one and/or two+) clone Gaim AIM/yahooim/msnim/icq/jabber/... client
and the already mentioned cygwin, vim, gimp, mozilla.
if you hunt for it, there's a cygwin version of gvim that allows unix paths, etc. but uses X.
Xfree86 for cygwin is now prime-time (in installer) and works really well with windowmaker and openbox, but lacks integration with ms windows as the wm (the way eXceed, winaXe, XwinPro, and Xthin do). please, please contribute to that somebody!
Slashdot Mirror
as the AC replied to your comment (here), what you coined "actualy piracy [sic]" is more appropriately called "counterfeiting."
i found offense in what this slashdot article did; if one were to look at the RIIA story really said, you would see that that statistic was peripheral. more important was the nature of these illicit products: they were fraudulent. according to the RIAA, "officials also seized eight Rimage Imprinters, one high-end color copier valued at $75,000, and other equipment and raw materials used in the manufacturing process."
NOBODY HERE HAS MENTIONED THE REAL PROBLEM HERE!
the problem with this article is twofold:
there was a time magazine article in summer 1999 (i think) that talked about tomorrow's technology. on the topic of immortality, there were a few "methods" mentioned: replace immune system with one more efficient, move brain to new body, and live on as exact replica via memories. as an example of the latter, scientists attempted to replicate albert einstein.
theoretically, at least, based on hist known reactions, the simulation of einstein would be able to answer questions as if he were still alive, even those not of his time period.
according to nist.gov:
The meter is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum
during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second.
follow the link for the exact definition of a second
(determined by a number of periods of a cesium-133 atom).
i find it odd that nether this slashdot article nor the cnn piece mention these.
But you do NOT have the right to connect to the server and say, "Give me your page without ads." You might as well be able to connect to a site then and say, "Hey, site, give me just the leftmost frame... uhhh... words 10 through 12... and, could you make it green for me, i think that's pretty."
i never said otherwise. companies have the right to deliver their content with ads as they desire. however, i should have the right to remove them like the pickles from my burger. on the web, i could have a parer that showed me only words 10 through 12 of the leftmost frame, in green, and there shouldn't be anything wrong with that.
you said that i do not "have the right to request a special modified just-for-me version of the product;" i disagree. i should have the right to request nearly anything; this is a free society, after all. similarly, the company can turn down my request. however, i still stand by my filters. this is not something they are doing, it is something i am doing, like choosing my isp, os, browser, and stylesheet (remember that most browsers can override a site's formatting). just as i have the right to change channels when my television program goes to commercial, i should have the right to block ads. it's a free world.
just wait a few more seconds, you'll see the refresh. ...i assume it's a META tag, but it could be javascript, which you turned off.
if you ask me about this whole deal, it screams fair use; if i go to a burger joint and get a kids' meal requesting no toy, they should give it to me that way. if i forget to request no toy, and throw it out without looking, there should also be no problem.
are blind people all theives? they don't see ads!
what about stereo systems? they come with graphic equalizers, which let people filter music as they see fit. but hark! this means radio broadcasts and cds can be played without so much treble! the thieves!
this whole thing reeks of 'loss of potential sales' -- the same argument as used by the MPAA and RIAA. sure, it's a bit more far-fetched (and therefore more obvious), but this may help our case against the motion picture and recording industries.
the example website shows me
-
~ Example website ~
on mozilla 1.2, js, java, cookies all enabled and identifying itself as ie6/winxp.This is an example of a website using Anti-Theft.
i defeated a few of those checks with the prefbar mozilla plugin (can toggle features like js, java, popups, proxies, cookies, images, colors, ua). unfortunately, the Java plugin seems to panic when the ua is set to IE
i found mine with google ;-)
oss only pretends to be in free community; control of projects is far from democratic (or other insert-free-ruling-system-here) ... in fact, it's very much despotic.
you are dictator of your project, everything goes through you before finalization. if you so chose, only your updates will see the project page. anything else would be an offshoot and possibly not even recognized in any of your official documents.
mhtml is not compressed afaik. .war (Web ARchive) which is just a .tar.gz, read like a directory (index.html loads if there).
...this should not detract from the point that if google can do it, so too can slashdot.
some browsers have web archive capability; konqueror has a format called
there is nothing like this for mozilla, here are the requests:
MHTML http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18764
Web Archive http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64286
given how there is no standard, any slashcache would have to not be compressed. besides, web servers automate compression to a certain degree on their own.
perfect place to get rid of that stuff
... floppy drives ~$2, rj45 eth cord ~$1, and so on. there are tales of "the one buck guy" ... a friend of mine bought two complete computers (120mhz and 90mhz) for two bucks, but he only made one appearance at the flea and was sold out by the time i arrived at 9:30am.
... don't go there looking for something released in the past few months. can't find edo ram, pentium pros, a complete (~200MHZ) computer for under $100, or some strange connector? this is the place for you!
the mit flea ("Swapfest").
third sunday of every non-winter month at Albany street.
your post says you're in franklin, so get another uhaul and don't drop so many this time! tons of people in your position have offloaded all their shit (working and not) there. only costs $17 (plus $12 for each additional space, you'll probably need ~3 spaces). you set up at 7:15-9am and buyers swarm in at 9am (most sales are done in that hour, the good stuff goes in the first ten minutes). most sellers leave before noon, but (i think) it lasts till about 1:30.
there's lots of cool stuff there, all related to computers, wireless/radio, or 'cool gadgets.' stuff i've bought there include: door sensor, computer remote control, TONS of cables and connectors, cdrs, ropelights, my palm pilot, floppy drives, led's, movies, and tons of stuff the i have forgotten about. it's all dirt cheap too
one seller once told me "swapfest! get yesterday's technology today!"
i refer you to:
( slashdot is a blocked referrer, so no links)
bug 159450
bug 95735
bug 152701 (fixed on trunk)
bug 157646 (fixed on trunk)
bug 164695 (fixed on trunk)
bug 171274 (fixed on trunk)
all of which are 'permission denied'
which almost always indicates a security issue.
see http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1.2
this is what sourceforge is for
just throw it up and somebody else will emerge to help you maintain it.
GPL it, dude!
at least put up a website and release it under some sort of OSS license.
consider a graduate degree first. ...physics is a rather specialized field, though, so it may be different.
graduate schools are less picky about your undergrad degrees (just that you have one and score well on tests).
with a masters in physics, the physics phd program should be far easier to get into.
i think this kind of thing could really fly;
...this would up the required hdd total capacity significantly.
a linux distro made mostly for a specific setup but flexible enough to work for any computer.
not neccessarily embedded, either; we all have old machines lying around waiting for tasks...
though ideally, a $500 machine w/ tv in/out could easily handle this out of the box (maybe needing hdd and ram upgrades).
h/w would be as described above (with option for mpg2 card for tivo compatibility)
distro would be minimal (no need for gnome or kde, or most gui things; something simple like wmaker or openbox is fine to run xine, gstreamer, or whatever).
i like the idea of the box ripping as needed (like tivo) and then crunching it down to more managable divx (or tarkin, vp3, theora, sorenson, etc) during pre-determined idle time.
minimal distros seem to be a dying breed.
anybody know of a up-to-date distro really good for older machines (90-300mhz)?
hey, osdn lawyers:
in the all-caps section of the TOS
you refer to "VA Software" as "VA Linux Systems"
so even slashdot can't get EULAs right...
=D
i got an email a while ago (during the .com bubble) telling me that i got that email because somebody was romantically interested in me (i don't use dating services of any sort, online or not).
...literally.
... but the notable thing is that i started getting TONS of spam at that address (>20emails/day)
basically, here's the scheme:
a person likes another, but is too shy to ask him/her. this site allows a way to anonymously email that person. the message essentially says "guess who"
i was expected to guess the admirer by giving the site every email i could think of that might be the admirer. if there's a match, each party is informed. for all those non-hits, an email identical to the first was sent out; spam.
i happen to use unique email addresses and handed this address to only four people, two of whom were female, so i knew it was one of them or a friend
this type of ponzi-style scheme with unforseen problems seems to be getting popular now; EULAs often take complete advantage: people blindly give permission to have third-party software downloaded and installed, to become the source of spamming and/or propogation, or to allow use of spyware.
so 2.6 will be 3.0 ... i hope there is effort to make it stabler and more efficient than the 2.5 builds i've tried.
kernel.org doesn't have any info on this...
does anybody know of a roadmap (iirc, there is no official one)
or good guess as to when 3.0 (or 2.6) will be released?
how foobar speed DVD relates to foobar speed CD?
...but i'm still waiting for the DVR media standard to match the DVD media standard regarding disk size;
rtfa
it explains right there:
DVD-R @ 4x, 5.54MB/s
CD-R @ 16x, 2.46MB/s
(40/16)*2.46=6.15, so CD-R @ 40x is 6.15MB/s
and (5.54/4)/(2.46/16)=9.00813 (so khuber's above statement is right)
#1 reason you can't copy a commercial DVD is that it's twice as big.
and I would LOVE 9GB disks...
no pre 1.2b-branch themes work.
there are only a small number (growing by the day) of compatable themes.
don't get a theme that doesn't specifically list support for 1.2b
so what happens when people start blocking net access to these apps?
programs like Tiny and Zone Alarm can block access per program
(assuming they don't use bundled hooks like IE embedding).
seems better than the software-installation clauses in newer MS and java licenses.
sounds like more than one major
and its name MUST reflect that.
how similar is your degree to:
bioinformatics
dual cs-physics
dual cs-botany
dual physics-botany
tri cs-physics-botany
you probably qualify (or almost qualify) for one of these
and i assume if you do not, then you are specialized
in a specific aspect of the field
(quantum physics, heuristics, astrobiology...)
check similarities with other progams
and come up with a hybrid-sounding name.
and remember, dual degree programs are compromises, not complete inclusions;
a dual cs/physics major has far fewer requirements than a double cs/physics major.
if you spent seven years in classes
(not counting retaken classes as in the poster:
"college, the best seven years of your life!"),
they you are probably also going to pursue
masters' degrees, in which case your major's name
will help only in applying for those masters' programs
and afterwords won't really matter.
I've been using glass2k (and have switched).
please add its features
specifically the settings:
oh, one more that I forgot to mention b/c litestep eliminates my need for it (and winxp integrated the idea): TraySaver (i can't find the license but the code is on sourceforge). ... VERY handy esp. at low resolution.
stash systemtray icons in a second tray available with a click, add an option to the alt+space pulldown that says 'minimize to tray'
the author's StartupCPL (closed source, puts in a control panel section to manage what starts up with windows) and WindowSizer (resize ANY window) are put on every windows machine I touch.
nobody has mentioned LiteStep!
LiteStep is a replacement desktop environment released under the GPL.
I have nine desktops, can drag windows between them, I have cpu and ram meters, quick-launch buttons and shortcuts, and can even drag windows from other destkops anywhere (don't think you can do that in most desktop envs).
with litestep and mozilla, unless I have a windows [file] explorer open, there's no MS except the system (kernel, services) running - which means with the multiple-instances-of-explorer option, I need not worry about [i]explore[r].exe crashing.
and (obviously) there is theming
other GPL windows projects of interest:
FreeCiv Civilization (one and/or two+) clone
Gaim AIM/yahooim/msnim/icq/jabber/... client
and the already mentioned cygwin, vim, gimp, mozilla.
if you hunt for it, there's a cygwin version of gvim that allows unix paths, etc. but uses X.
Xfree86 for cygwin is now prime-time (in installer) and works really well with windowmaker and openbox, but lacks integration with ms windows as the wm (the way eXceed, winaXe, XwinPro, and Xthin do). please, please contribute to that somebody!