Cute and even true, but almost always wrong. Come on, you know better than that. Yes, we all have our favorite band who has legal mp3's out. Yes, we all know about the legal files on mp3.com. But honestly, isn't almost all of what you (if you like mass-produced junk) and your cookie-cutter friends (like 90% of the world) like pirated?
If not, I'm sorry, and pleased to meet you. If so... take a number.
(First, does anyone wonder if this "anonymous reader" really exists, or if it's just michael making something up again?)
Anyway, here are the facts we have (from the summary).
1. A continuing rise in the number of Americans downloading music from the Net.
2. 31% of those who do download claim they have paid for at least some of the music they got online.
Let's review those for a minute. First: Piracy (or, to those zealots who says there's no guy with an eyepatch here), the illegal downloading of copywrited music without proper (in the legal, not moral sense) compensation is up. Second, thirty-one percent says they paid for some of the music they downloaded! So... how much did they pay for? 1%? 5%? 10%? 50%? Who knows? I'd guess no more than a third. If that's true, we have less than a third of the pirates paying for less than a third of their music... which, if downloading is uniformly distributed, means less than 11% of all music being pirated is being paid for.
And based on this he claims "a sizeable audience are willing to give these record industry endorsed services a shot even though they can get it all free on KaZaa."?
If you want tabbed browsing, and don't dislike IE for it's security holes, use crazybrowser. It's got better (IMHO) tabs than mozilla, and it under 1/2 a meg download (it's just a wrapper to IE).
I don't know about the hardware itself, but there is a software reason for XScale not to run as fast as it can on Pocket PCs: Microsoft was too lazy to recompile the OS to optimize it for the new chips.
Well, ok, let's back up a minute. First, the XScale processors can run in ARM emulation mode, and a 400MHz can match, but not really beat, a 206MHz StrongARM chip. Before you bash MS for not "recompiling," let's just remember what things were like when PocketPC's ran either SH3, SH4, MIPS, or ARM processors, and what a pain that was. If you want to go back... everything today is "IBM PC or 100% compatible." Remember 95% compatibility? (I didn't think so). Standardizing on a processor architecture is a GOOD thing... how well would AMD's do if they weren't Intel compatible?
I love arguments like this. The only problem, of course, is that it's wrong. Why should I bother with the complexities of installing openssl and openssh from source (not everyone runs a package-enabled OS) and suffer through the slowdowns of SSH's encryption (yes, it does become noticable over high-speed, low-latency links, and I don't mean your cable modem. Look up myrinet one day) if I'm working on a subnet that's not connected to the outside world? In fact, if it's a compute cluster that no one can reach except through a master, why shouldn't I use the simpler rsh?
Furthermore, ssh is a drop in replacement for rsh. So hmph.
Well, sure, the Frinkiac-7 looks impressive [to student] Don't touch it! [back to class] But I predict that within 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings in Europe will own them. --Prof. Frink
Well, the bug should be filed with the person with whom the responsibility lies. Examples: Redhat configuration utility: Redhat
Gaim: Gaim Gaim packaging by Redhat: Redhat Gaim packaging by gaim: gaim (I don't know (or care) who makes the RPMs)
The only problem is a conflict.. say... gaim doesn't compile with, say, GCC. Then, the task would be to determine if gaim is non-compliant, or if gcc is non-compliant (or both). In that case, if I don't want (or don't know enough) to track it down, I'd file both.
First, the Plow King was Barney (Homer was Mr. Plow). Second, we know Homer founded compuglobalhypermeganet, as well as the infamous Mr. X website. Third, get a life (self referencial)
Yeah, there's a little company named Akaima [akamai.com]
Not to nitpick or anything, but I think Akaima doesn't really exist;). The website at akamai.com is named, interestingly enough, Akamai.;)
As an Akamai aside, one of the founders, Daniel Lewin, was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 11, and was trained in anti-terrorist tactics by the IDF. Was he shot by the terrorists, as an apparent FAA memo indicates?
Akamai had their work cut out for them that day, I can tell you.
As an often unnoticed aside, one of the co-founders of Akamai, Daniel Lewin (aka Daniel Levin) was a passenger in one of the airplanes-- seat 9B, to be precise. He was the only passenger who appears to have been murdered prior to impact-- it has been surmised that he attempted to resist at least one of the highjackers, and paid with his life. Don't believe it? Lewin was a member of sayeret matkal, the elite Israeli anti-terrorist squad-- it stands to reason that he would have done his best.
...to Globo (the major TV network in Brazil). No, I'm not Brazillian, but they got my name from some contacts-- long story, I don't have time to go through that.
Basically, I got a call from a Producer (David Something-I-Can't-Pronounce) wondering if I'd be interested in coming down to their studio (I was in college in NYC at the time, and they're on 9th and 50-somethingth) and trying my hand at their system. I tried to borrow a friend of mines laptop so I could bring a sniffer, but I couldn't find him in time.
Instead, I went down there, "borrowed" a laptop from them, and quickly installed linux. Explaining that this is what I'd use myself, I plugged into a convenient network jack and started working.
Long story short, I chose as my victim the reporter (not the producer) who would be interviewing me later), her name was Anna Padrao Something-Begining-With-A-P. Well, her password was app426, where 4/26 was her b-day. *yawn* The only major problem was that once I was in to their BBS-like system, it was in Portugese, which I don't speak! Of course, that also let me into her email account, and she even had a shell account on their email server-- though I know she didn't even know it.
I was going to go after root next, but we had to film, so we stopped there. We filmed the whole segment, but then some higher-up though it'd embarass the network too much, so it was pulled. I still have a copy-- kinda cool to see your own voice subtitled in Portugese:)
First, if you read the message, you'll see it says "CTRL-ALT-DEL helps protect your login" or something like that.
The reason is simple-- it's the only key sequence that can't be trojaned away. Remember people "hacking" hotmail by emailing a link to a webpage that looks just like the hotmail login? Or replacing login on a *nix box with a spoofed version. CTRL-ALT-DEL is trapped by the OS, so it can always give you a "secure" (and I use the term loosely) login prompt.
In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.
People have been saying that we have to go all-out against the DMCA... since if we say it's only somewhat evil, that means we don't take it seriously. In other words, do anything we can.
Well, isn't that how the DMCA got passed? Some people said something was pure evil, and did everything they could to try and stop it... except they did too much.
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Q: How many teamsters does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Twelve. You got a problem with that?
For those who don't like Mozilla, but want tabbed browsing in Windows, try crazybrowser.
Isn't that exactly how the mafia got started?
Cute and even true, but almost always wrong. Come on, you know better than that. Yes, we all have our favorite band who has legal mp3's out. Yes, we all know about the legal files on mp3.com. But honestly, isn't almost all of what you (if you like mass-produced junk) and your cookie-cutter friends (like 90% of the world) like pirated?
If not, I'm sorry, and pleased to meet you. If so... take a number.
Hmm... this one was interesting.
(First, does anyone wonder if this "anonymous reader" really exists, or if it's just michael making something up again?)
Anyway, here are the facts we have (from the summary).
1. A continuing rise in the number of Americans downloading music from the Net.
2. 31% of those who do download claim they have paid for at least some of the music they got online.
Let's review those for a minute. First: Piracy (or, to those zealots who says there's no guy with an eyepatch here), the illegal downloading of copywrited music without proper (in the legal, not moral sense) compensation is up. Second, thirty-one percent says they paid for some of the music they downloaded! So... how much did they pay for? 1%? 5%? 10%? 50%? Who knows? I'd guess no more than a third. If that's true, we have less than a third of the pirates paying for less than a third of their music... which, if downloading is uniformly distributed, means less than 11% of all music being pirated is being paid for.
And based on this he claims "a sizeable audience are willing to give these record industry endorsed services a shot even though they can get it all free on KaZaa."?
Yeah, right.
If you want tabbed browsing, and don't dislike IE for it's security holes, use crazybrowser. It's got better (IMHO) tabs than mozilla, and it under 1/2 a meg download (it's just a wrapper to IE).
Yes, but as fragile as nukes are, I'd imagine they're still more durable than a human body.
I don't know about the hardware itself, but there is a software reason for XScale not to run as fast as it can on Pocket PCs: Microsoft was too lazy to recompile the OS to optimize it for the new chips.
Well, ok, let's back up a minute. First, the XScale processors can run in ARM emulation mode, and a 400MHz can match, but not really beat, a 206MHz StrongARM chip. Before you bash MS for not "recompiling," let's just remember what things were like when PocketPC's ran either SH3, SH4, MIPS, or ARM processors, and what a pain that was. If you want to go back... everything today is "IBM PC or 100% compatible." Remember 95% compatibility? (I didn't think so). Standardizing on a processor architecture is a GOOD thing... how well would AMD's do if they weren't Intel compatible?
I love arguments like this. The only problem, of course, is that it's wrong. Why should I bother with the complexities of installing openssl and openssh from source (not everyone runs a package-enabled OS) and suffer through the slowdowns of SSH's encryption (yes, it does become noticable over high-speed, low-latency links, and I don't mean your cable modem. Look up myrinet one day) if I'm working on a subnet that's not connected to the outside world? In fact, if it's a compute cluster that no one can reach except through a master, why shouldn't I use the simpler rsh?
Furthermore, ssh is a drop in replacement for rsh. So hmph.
Well, sure, the Frinkiac-7 looks impressive [to student] Don't touch it! [back to class] But I predict that within 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings in Europe will own them.
--Prof. Frink
This was posted under HP.
Well, the bug should be filed with the person with whom the responsibility lies. Examples:
Redhat configuration utility: Redhat
Gaim: Gaim
Gaim packaging by Redhat: Redhat
Gaim packaging by gaim: gaim
(I don't know (or care) who makes the RPMs)
The only problem is a conflict.. say... gaim doesn't compile with, say, GCC. Then, the task would be to determine if gaim is non-compliant, or if gcc is non-compliant (or both). In that case, if I don't want (or don't know enough) to track it down, I'd file both.
You cannot outlaw a license. It is an agreement
between two parties.
Well, duh. However, you can forbid (outlaw) the use of a license by certain people whom you happen to employee while engaged in work on your behalf.
Sheesh. Idiots. All of 'em.
First, the Plow King was Barney (Homer was Mr. Plow). Second, we know Homer founded compuglobalhypermeganet, as well as the infamous Mr. X website. Third, get a life (self referencial)
Yeah, there's a little company named Akaima [akamai.com]
;). The website at akamai.com is named, interestingly enough, Akamai. ;)
Not to nitpick or anything, but I think Akaima doesn't really exist
As an Akamai aside, one of the founders, Daniel Lewin, was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 11, and was trained in anti-terrorist tactics by the IDF. Was he shot by the terrorists, as an apparent FAA memo indicates?
Akamai had their work cut out for them that day, I can tell you.
As an often unnoticed aside, one of the co-founders of Akamai, Daniel Lewin (aka Daniel Levin) was a passenger in one of the airplanes-- seat 9B, to be precise. He was the only passenger who appears to have been murdered prior to impact-- it has been surmised that he attempted to resist at least one of the highjackers, and paid with his life. Don't believe it? Lewin was a member of sayeret matkal, the elite Israeli anti-terrorist squad-- it stands to reason that he would have done his best.
If anyone is wondering what the lawyer line is about, check out http://www.spectacle.org/797/finkel.html
...internet connect appliances were all washed up?
*groan*
...to Globo (the major TV network in Brazil). No, I'm not Brazillian, but they got my name from some contacts-- long story, I don't have time to go through that.
:)
Basically, I got a call from a Producer (David Something-I-Can't-Pronounce) wondering if I'd be interested in coming down to their studio (I was in college in NYC at the time, and they're on 9th and 50-somethingth) and trying my hand at their system. I tried to borrow a friend of mines laptop so I could bring a sniffer, but I couldn't find him in time.
Instead, I went down there, "borrowed" a laptop from them, and quickly installed linux. Explaining that this is what I'd use myself, I plugged into a convenient network jack and started working.
Long story short, I chose as my victim the reporter (not the producer) who would be interviewing me later), her name was Anna Padrao Something-Begining-With-A-P. Well, her password was app426, where 4/26 was her b-day. *yawn* The only major problem was that once I was in to their BBS-like system, it was in Portugese, which I don't speak! Of course, that also let me into her email account, and she even had a shell account on their email server-- though I know she didn't even know it.
I was going to go after root next, but we had to film, so we stopped there. We filmed the whole segment, but then some higher-up though it'd embarass the network too much, so it was pulled. I still have a copy-- kinda cool to see your own voice subtitled in Portugese
Soldiers are worth a helluva lot more. One mark of morality is spending money to save lives, not spending lives to save money...
First, if you read the message, you'll see it says "CTRL-ALT-DEL helps protect your login" or something like that.
The reason is simple-- it's the only key sequence that can't be trojaned away. Remember people "hacking" hotmail by emailing a link to a webpage that looks just like the hotmail login? Or replacing login on a *nix box with a spoofed version. CTRL-ALT-DEL is trapped by the OS, so it can always give you a "secure" (and I use the term loosely) login prompt.
In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.
Opera runs games now? ;) cool....
A problem... with a patch? And they announced it? No way... must be one of those infamous typo's. Or maybe just another repeat story...
People have been saying that we have to go all-out against the DMCA... since if we say it's only somewhat evil, that means we don't take it seriously. In other words, do anything we can.
Well, isn't that how the DMCA got passed? Some people said something was pure evil, and did everything they could to try and stop it... except they did too much.
Hmmm....
We haven't been keeping up with the 2.5.x series, but a slow Sunday is a good excuse to catch up.
And we've been happy! Please, this isn't a spider to check for every time a changelog is updated...