...that Michelle Madigan would love to get an undercover report of all the big mean hackers making new viruses in Las Vegas. Too bad she was busted last time she tried to spy on Defcon.
It's easy with guitar, but it takes several hundred to several thousand dollars to have recording equipment for a rock band. Drums, for instance, require microphones for most of the drums. You also need a good place to record, as the room you record in will affect the end product's quality.
You probably could not pick up the stuff to record an album of a good quality at a Radio Shack, but it is still much cheaper nowadays. This is one of the many reasons that the current business model of stuff like the RIAA is going to fail within the next generation or so.
Shameless plug: one of my favorite bands is Ascend The Ashes - they're a great metal band, and their singer sounds like a professional death metal singer. The dude's like, 19? It amazes me that there are people that young with talent practically in my own neighborhood, many just as good as the people you would pay $400 to get front row seats to see.
Well for all we know that is a possibilitiy, but it is more likely that they will only initially release new stuff to test the waters.
If it works out for them, I can not see why they would not release their entire catalog online (save for any contractual obligations to their label(s)).
The problem with that is, who runs the independent organization?
Anything in government is susceptable to private interests. Let's say you get a guy who is secretly pro-PETA heading the thing. For all we know, he could be trolling through the backup tapes looking for evidence of animal rights violations in the U.S. government.
The best way is a divided trust scheme. During the Berlin Wall days, the guards were sent in patrols of three - it made it harder for guards to escape or let people escape. (It's easier to convince one person than it is to convince two.) Constant rotations kept the guards off balance and prevented them from formulating long-term plans.
It would really be hard to form an organization that can do something like this, as it is almost impossible to avoid corruption. Whoever appoints them has control over the people who have control over the data. All it takes is one person with access to the tapes to make a problem go away.
Why don't we, through/., set up a site, aggregate information about similiar cases and build up a body of evidence to "[...] show that the RIAA engaged in serial bad-faith lawsuits [...]".
Because that would take away from precious time ogling the latest Star Trek film or signing petitions to stop Uwe Boll from making movies. d:
All jokes aside, if you are serious about such a project, then figure out what you need to do it technologically - is the site going to use PHP? Would you just do it easy and go with Wikimedia? etc.
Once you have a rough plan, you would have to find people with the talents you need who are willing to help on their free time. Projects like this (ones where people don't get paid) often have staff members that abandon ship faster than a rowboat full of Cuban refugees at the Florida coast. Anyone working on it would have to document/comment everything appropriately so their inevitable successor can continue their work.
What can you do? Well, if you wanted to fill the ambiguous position of "Project Lead", you can start by registering a.com and getting some decent hosting for the site. Again, you'll need a plan ahead of time aside from a few paragraphs in a/. comment to get some people to get on board with the project.
Is theriaaareabunchofthievingbastards.com taken? It might be too long, but it makes the point...
PS3 is starting to become worth the money, but the 360 has a much more well-established playerbase and game library IMO.
If you are the kind of person that wants a lot of good stuff available to you NOW, go 360. If you do not mind waiting a while for a console to show its real value, go with the PS3.
I don't know if you can consider something art if talent, skill, and/or hard work doesn't go into it.
I've been to the museum of modern art or whatever the hell it's called in NYC. (This was way back in elementary school.) I remember looking at an entirely black canvas with a red dot in the center and thinking, "Is this guy an artist or a house painter?"
I personally just can't imagine something that took so little effort or talent as art.
And the United States Congress can override a veto with a 2/3 majority. If a Democrat wins the Presidency and Bush tries to veto this in the lame-duck period, they would probably be able to get the numbers they need to do it.
I don't see how a plane getting burned by a microwave beam is any different than a plane running into the tether of an orbital elevator. What, they can *see* the tether? Not in low visibility.
That particular danger is no risk to planes so long as warning beacons are established. That worst that is going to happen is that a flock of geese is going to get sauteed in 3 seconds.
If you think about it, this would actually be better for us anyway. I'm sure some idiot would get it into their head to try and run a plane into an orbital tether and take down the "Great Satan" that is clean solar energy. How are they going to take down an microwave array? I guess they could run a plane into the ground station, but they sure as hell aren't going to take a 747 up to a satellite in orbit.
Yeah, this is the sort of thing you would want to issue to Soldiers to slap over a bullet wound on their thigh while they wait for the Medic to get to them. Every second counts when you're losing blood.
I think they're already carrying a bandage that slows blood loss, but nothing that stops it like this does. This could save a lot of lives in combat. Hell, I'd put some under the seat of my car in case I ever got into a wreck.:3
I dispute the "created a whole genre" stuff. You're saying absolutely no one wrote a book about dragons, elves, and midgets before 1945?
That stuff has been around for over a thousand years as far as popular stories go (The Odyssey, for one). Tolkien just popularized it with the modern public (at the time).
And people could just as easily say Kirk, Uhura, Spock, etc. are shallow and undeveloped. That's how it is when you are one of the major pioneers in any genre or medium.
Did Star Trek start Sci-Fi TV? No, but it certainly brought it to the masses and started a rabid fanbase.
The character development of future sci-fi shows (Star Trek, Andromeda, Babylon 5, Firefly, etc.) owes a lot to Star Trek - not just because of the lessons learned, but because they paved the road that they're all walking over now. The same goes for Tolkien and current fantasy literature.
The books are pretty damn good for something written, when, like in the late 40s-early 50s?
What kind of command could accidentally wipe out a person's hard drive? They're probably changing some communications settings in the Storm software and not messing with the host computer itself so much.
RESEARCHER 1: "So what's the command to mess up a storm zombie?"
RESEARCHER 2: "distree/y c:"
RESEARCHER 1: "I thought you said DELtree/y c:"
RESEARCHER 2: "My god..."
No, moreso that they aimed to prevent companies from charging customers as much as they wanted.
Let's say Verizon completely kills every other company in the landline telephone market in, say, 1995 (when VoIP wasn't as popular as it is now). They could charge $250 a month for a landline, and you couldn't do crap because there's no competition. Any competition that rose up might be local, at best.
If there were more competition, there would be better infrastructure, better service, and less bullshit from the ISPs.
Wouldn't a lot of good keylogger programs also track the contents of the clipboard?
Well, even so... let's say a password is pomegranite32==. You could copy/paste unnecessary letters so it's more like p54o6m3a23e5g6ar432an644i23t5e32== or something (just enough to make a scammer give up) and backspace them in a text window.
I wonder - if copy & paste isn't secure, what about drag and drop? What if I copied out a bogus password like that into, say, the address bar in the window, rearranged the letters, and then dragged and dropped the correct password into the password field?
If the terminal has a keylogger and a screen capper, though, you're proper fucked.
It's electricity, not Greek Fire. It's not some big mystery on how to generate it. Even if we're using microscopic black holes to generate power, it would not be hard to set up a windmill and some copper wire.
The bigger issue would be being able to actually read the data.
Slashdot Mirror
1) Thanks for introducing me to that game and evaporating what little free time I had left today. d:
2) It is interesting to see the responses for someone who does not care. The image? A Mercedes dashboard thermometer. The labels?
Partner's guesses: jacquelyn is the coolest person, jacquelyn, kayla is cool, kayla, ass, butt, butt cheke, butt ox, mom, dad...that Michelle Madigan would love to get an undercover report of all the big mean hackers making new viruses in Las Vegas. Too bad she was busted last time she tried to spy on Defcon.
It's easy with guitar, but it takes several hundred to several thousand dollars to have recording equipment for a rock band. Drums, for instance, require microphones for most of the drums. You also need a good place to record, as the room you record in will affect the end product's quality.
You probably could not pick up the stuff to record an album of a good quality at a Radio Shack, but it is still much cheaper nowadays. This is one of the many reasons that the current business model of stuff like the RIAA is going to fail within the next generation or so.
Shameless plug: one of my favorite bands is Ascend The Ashes - they're a great metal band, and their singer sounds like a professional death metal singer. The dude's like, 19? It amazes me that there are people that young with talent practically in my own neighborhood, many just as good as the people you would pay $400 to get front row seats to see.
Well for all we know that is a possibilitiy, but it is more likely that they will only initially release new stuff to test the waters.
If it works out for them, I can not see why they would not release their entire catalog online (save for any contractual obligations to their label(s)).
The problem with that is, who runs the independent organization?
Anything in government is susceptable to private interests. Let's say you get a guy who is secretly pro-PETA heading the thing. For all we know, he could be trolling through the backup tapes looking for evidence of animal rights violations in the U.S. government.
The best way is a divided trust scheme. During the Berlin Wall days, the guards were sent in patrols of three - it made it harder for guards to escape or let people escape. (It's easier to convince one person than it is to convince two.) Constant rotations kept the guards off balance and prevented them from formulating long-term plans.
It would really be hard to form an organization that can do something like this, as it is almost impossible to avoid corruption. Whoever appoints them has control over the people who have control over the data. All it takes is one person with access to the tapes to make a problem go away.
Why don't we, through /., set up a site, aggregate information about similiar cases and build up a body of evidence to "[...] show that the RIAA engaged in serial bad-faith lawsuits [...]".
Because that would take away from precious time ogling the latest Star Trek film or signing petitions to stop Uwe Boll from making movies. d:
All jokes aside, if you are serious about such a project, then figure out what you need to do it technologically - is the site going to use PHP? Would you just do it easy and go with Wikimedia? etc.
Once you have a rough plan, you would have to find people with the talents you need who are willing to help on their free time. Projects like this (ones where people don't get paid) often have staff members that abandon ship faster than a rowboat full of Cuban refugees at the Florida coast. Anyone working on it would have to document/comment everything appropriately so their inevitable successor can continue their work.
What can you do? Well, if you wanted to fill the ambiguous position of "Project Lead", you can start by registering a .com and getting some decent hosting for the site. Again, you'll need a plan ahead of time aside from a few paragraphs in a /. comment to get some people to get on board with the project.
Is theriaaareabunchofthievingbastards.com taken? It might be too long, but it makes the point...
PS3 is starting to become worth the money, but the 360 has a much more well-established playerbase and game library IMO.
If you are the kind of person that wants a lot of good stuff available to you NOW, go 360. If you do not mind waiting a while for a console to show its real value, go with the PS3.
I don't know if you can consider something art if talent, skill, and/or hard work doesn't go into it.
I've been to the museum of modern art or whatever the hell it's called in NYC. (This was way back in elementary school.) I remember looking at an entirely black canvas with a red dot in the center and thinking, "Is this guy an artist or a house painter?"
I personally just can't imagine something that took so little effort or talent as art.
I'm pretty sure the Supreme Court would (to use a legal term) "call bullshit" on that one.
It stopped being cool to spell things with a K replacing a C in like, 1995. Stop.
You're one of those people who spells Microsoft as Micro$oft too, aren't you?
And the United States Congress can override a veto with a 2/3 majority. If a Democrat wins the Presidency and Bush tries to veto this in the lame-duck period, they would probably be able to get the numbers they need to do it.
Pinballs are a video game that is manifested in physical, moving parts. How is that NOT cool?
I don't see how a plane getting burned by a microwave beam is any different than a plane running into the tether of an orbital elevator. What, they can *see* the tether? Not in low visibility.
That particular danger is no risk to planes so long as warning beacons are established. That worst that is going to happen is that a flock of geese is going to get sauteed in 3 seconds.
If you think about it, this would actually be better for us anyway. I'm sure some idiot would get it into their head to try and run a plane into an orbital tether and take down the "Great Satan" that is clean solar energy. How are they going to take down an microwave array? I guess they could run a plane into the ground station, but they sure as hell aren't going to take a 747 up to a satellite in orbit.
The OP also said that stuff for teens is fine as well.
Yeah, this is the sort of thing you would want to issue to Soldiers to slap over a bullet wound on their thigh while they wait for the Medic to get to them. Every second counts when you're losing blood.
I think they're already carrying a bandage that slows blood loss, but nothing that stops it like this does. This could save a lot of lives in combat. Hell, I'd put some under the seat of my car in case I ever got into a wreck. :3
I dispute the "created a whole genre" stuff. You're saying absolutely no one wrote a book about dragons, elves, and midgets before 1945?
That stuff has been around for over a thousand years as far as popular stories go (The Odyssey, for one). Tolkien just popularized it with the modern public (at the time).
Created a genre, no. Popularized a genre, yes.
And people could just as easily say Kirk, Uhura, Spock, etc. are shallow and undeveloped. That's how it is when you are one of the major pioneers in any genre or medium.
Did Star Trek start Sci-Fi TV? No, but it certainly brought it to the masses and started a rabid fanbase.
The character development of future sci-fi shows (Star Trek, Andromeda, Babylon 5, Firefly, etc.) owes a lot to Star Trek - not just because of the lessons learned, but because they paved the road that they're all walking over now. The same goes for Tolkien and current fantasy literature.
The books are pretty damn good for something written, when, like in the late 40s-early 50s?
No more discrimination against the people who might have leukemia!
And as for the homosexuals... oh well. Go ahead and fire someone for being bisexual in America, it's not illegal everywhere yet!
What kind of command could accidentally wipe out a person's hard drive? They're probably changing some communications settings in the Storm software and not messing with the host computer itself so much.
RESEARCHER 1: "So what's the command to mess up a storm zombie?" /y c:"
/y c:"
RESEARCHER 2: "distree
RESEARCHER 1: "I thought you said DELtree
RESEARCHER 2: "My god..."
GameTap.
No, moreso that they aimed to prevent companies from charging customers as much as they wanted.
Let's say Verizon completely kills every other company in the landline telephone market in, say, 1995 (when VoIP wasn't as popular as it is now). They could charge $250 a month for a landline, and you couldn't do crap because there's no competition. Any competition that rose up might be local, at best.
If there were more competition, there would be better infrastructure, better service, and less bullshit from the ISPs.
Wouldn't a lot of good keylogger programs also track the contents of the clipboard?
Well, even so... let's say a password is pomegranite32==. You could copy/paste unnecessary letters so it's more like p54o6m3a23e5g6ar432an644i23t5e32== or something (just enough to make a scammer give up) and backspace them in a text window.
I wonder - if copy & paste isn't secure, what about drag and drop? What if I copied out a bogus password like that into, say, the address bar in the window, rearranged the letters, and then dragged and dropped the correct password into the password field?
If the terminal has a keylogger and a screen capper, though, you're proper fucked.
It's electricity, not Greek Fire. It's not some big mystery on how to generate it. Even if we're using microscopic black holes to generate power, it would not be hard to set up a windmill and some copper wire.
The bigger issue would be being able to actually read the data.
I guess you've never heard of Ghost In The Shell?
...for some troll edit to end up getting into the book. I hope they edit it really well and carefully read through it all.
"Rammstein is a German band that was formed in kyle is a big fag, Germany. They..."