I know that public prosecutors can be brought up on charges of malicious prosecution. Is there a civil equivilant? Maybe hitting back would get them to stop.
Did you notice the part that said "most importantly, be within the reach of students?"
While I think it's cool that someone like Galileo had ideas that couldn't be proven for so long after he first thunk them up (heh, thunk), it's not really within the reach of most students to travel to the moon in order to conduct an experiment. Currently, it's not really within the reach of anyone seeing as how we're not going to the moon anymore.
If PVR use really is theft, as Turner Broadcasting would have us believe, it's interesting that AOL Time Warner would take measures like to to encourage it.
Doesn't anyone else see this as odd? Let's see if I can summarize.
AOL/Time Warner owns a stake in Tivo, and also in Turner Broadcasting.
AOL/Time Warner is therefore promoting Tivo use, by owning a portion of the company, and integrating Tivo with their AOL services.
Turner Broadcasting, a subsidiary of AOL/Time Warner, is meanwhile making statements calling PVR (including Tivo) users theives.
Turner (and therefore AOL Time Warner) is thereby calling their own customers theives!
The whole thing seems really strange to me. I'm sure it's just an issue of the whole AOL Time Warner corporation being so big that the units function somewhat independently, but this is ridiculous! They're essientially saying that users of a product produced by another branch of their super-uber-megalocorporation are criminals!
Get your message straight AOL Time Warner/Turn/Tivo! At least present a consistent message.
Does anyone know how 64bit processors might play into IPv6 conversion?
My thinking here is that with a 64bit data path, the processor would be able to examine IPv6 addresses in one cycle, thus improving performance.. is it reasonable to think that 64 bit processing could make IPv6 faster?
''This is a sociological problem and we have got to work it out,'' adds Galuten. ''I find it incredibly ironic that some people will spend an extra $1,000 on their hard drives just so they can store more music, but they won't pay for the music.''
Wow. I can't believe someone who is supposed to be an 'authority' on this subject could be so misinformed on the cost of hard drives. Outside of SAN and huge storage farms (which I doubt are widely used as MP3 libraries) I haven't paid $1,000 for a hard drive since I bought a 1GB back around '93 or so. Is ANYONE really paying $1,000 for bigger hard drives to avoid buying music? I highly doubt it. In fact, I challenge Mr. Galuten to present even one anecdotal example of this.
Still, don't you think there's something to be said for rising above it? Especially as the underdog, the linux communities word isn't exactly taken as gospel, even less so when using childish tactics like this to get our point across. Saying something is bad for business and calling their product 'Window$' are two different things entirely. The first attempts to make a business case, while the latter does nothing but discredit it's authors other points. I've never seen MS use the phrase 'linsux' or 'gnjew' or anything like that in formal announcements.
Does this strike anyone else as unprofessional? For a company like Mandrake to be referring to competitors in such a light really doesn't seem very mature to me. Imagine an IT executive contemplating a move to Linux, and seeing that. I'd rather see them simply call it 'Windows' and devote another page to the Windows vs. Linux debate. Bad mouthing competition at every opprotunity reeks of poor sportsmanship.
I do recall seeing a clear apple mouse in the store once that didn't seem to make any clicking noise, maybe it just wasn't audible over the noise of the store.
Thanks to this thread, I'm now much more aware every time my mouse clicks. Argghhh!
I'm not sure exactly how it works, but Apple makes a mouse that has no clicking noise. You merely tap the top of the mouse and there's no moving parts whatsoever. It's USB, but I can't say for sure whether or not it works with PCs.
I used it briefly at a store, and found it difficult to click with, and there's only one button obviously, but it might be something you could use as a model for a two button mouse if you decide to try building one on your own.
Great, so now instead of people running old software, we're left with people running machines with the wrong date/time in order to fool the software into thinking it's still within it's life. Is that really progress?
Actually, that's kind of the idea behind triple des.. your source data is run through three seperate DES keys. While it doesn't incorporate multiple personal keys, it's a similar idea. The only problem I see when using multiple keys which are associated with users is that if one of them were to leave the company their key would typically be revoked, and thus the whole document is no longer decryptable. It's an idea though..
It's certainly true that data has a useful life, and that encryption can be considered secure if it takes longer than the useful life to decrypt that information. The thing is, that's dependant on the technology I use to break it. In your safe example, I probably couldn't discover the combination through brute force within the time it takes for the milk to sour, but what if I could try all possible combinations twice as fast? four times as fast? At some point I reach the point where it's useful. Of course, by the time that point comes you might've moved on to a newer model safe. Still, it's a game of cat and mouse. It's no impossible to do, but you raise a valid point that it may be impossible given current technology to break it in a timeframe which makes the end result useful.
Anything which can be decrypted is going to be breakable. It may take a good deal of effort, but I don't believe there's any such thing as 'unbreakable' encryption. After all, the data has to be decryptable at some point or it's useless.
Part of this is probably due to sites switching to pay content. I know I visit salon.com, fool.com, etc. a lot less than I used to when they were free. I still spend a significant amount of time online, but mostly I go over the same dozen sites repeatedly, and don't wander aimlessly for new stuff quite so much anymore.
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While I'm not sure if their was a lawsuit, they changed the name of xplay, it used to be called xpod. Mediafour's FAQ mentions this.
This article raises a number of interesting points. Not the least of which, is what are these things? Are they games, of other worlds of existence? A place for enjoyment, or a metaverse of sorts?
In my mind, they need to evolve beyond games and give users a reason to take part rather than stat building and killing progressively larger monsters. As a beta tester for Ultima Online, and short term user of several other systems I can tell you that gets boring real quick.
The problem, as I see it, is how to deal with that small percent of the population who want to just cause trouble for everyone else. Pkilling, newbie killing, etc will always be something people want to do. The key is to protect people from it while not breaking the suspension of disbelief that gets us so caught up in the world, and still allowing these sorts of things for those who want to take part.
Can you imagine how boring the metaverse would be if Hiro Protaganist just slashed through all the black and white avatars, simply because he could? That wouldn't go far to lure new users.
To continue the metaverse analogy, allowing users to carve out their own niche is a real bonus. MUDs, MUSHs, etc. have almost all had some capacity to allow the players to build the world. The metaverse allows people to create homes, buildings, hell even the Black Sun.. but in MMORPGs so far that feature has been poorly implemented. UO allows for building houses and hiring shopkeepers, but the former just cluttered the landscape, while the latter became pack animals for most players.
In short, this article asks some good questions. I can't think of any easy answers to any of them, but it's good to see people discussing this in an open forum.
I'm not sure if it'd be an 'algorithm' per se, but I've always found the concept of recursion/mathematic induction to be extremely useful. I don't know how much use it is to true programmers, but for writing useful shell scripts and administrative tools it's something I rely on quite a bit.
You know, this brings up some interesting points. I'm not quite sure anymore whether or not this'd work. I was thinking a serial line, but is/dev mounted at runlevel 0? I might just have to set this up and try it out. If I get a chance to do so soon, I'll reply here and let you all know.
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I know that public prosecutors can be brought up on charges of malicious prosecution. Is there a civil equivilant? Maybe hitting back would get them to stop.
Wow, now that's really something, seeing as how Microsoft doesn't even have the concept of Root.
Did you notice the part that said "most importantly, be within the reach of students?"
While I think it's cool that someone like Galileo had ideas that couldn't be proven for so long after he first thunk them up (heh, thunk), it's not really within the reach of most students to travel to the moon in order to conduct an experiment. Currently, it's not really within the reach of anyone seeing as how we're not going to the moon anymore.
Doesn't this mean that AOL is promoting
If PVR use really is theft, as Turner Broadcasting would have us believe, it's interesting that AOL Time Warner would take measures like to to encourage it.
Doesn't anyone else see this as odd? Let's see if I can summarize.
AOL/Time Warner owns a stake in Tivo, and also in Turner Broadcasting.
AOL/Time Warner is therefore promoting Tivo use, by owning a portion of the company, and integrating Tivo with their AOL services.
Turner Broadcasting, a subsidiary of AOL/Time Warner, is meanwhile making statements calling PVR (including Tivo) users theives.
Turner (and therefore AOL Time Warner) is thereby calling their own customers theives!
The whole thing seems really strange to me. I'm sure it's just an issue of the whole AOL Time Warner corporation being so big that the units function somewhat independently, but this is ridiculous! They're essientially saying that users of a product produced by another branch of their super-uber-megalocorporation are criminals!
Get your message straight AOL Time Warner/Turn/Tivo! At least present a consistent message.
Does anyone know how 64bit processors might play into IPv6 conversion?
My thinking here is that with a 64bit data path, the processor would be able to examine IPv6 addresses in one cycle, thus improving performance.. is it reasonable to think that 64 bit processing could make IPv6 faster?
''This is a sociological problem and we have got to work it out,'' adds Galuten. ''I find it incredibly ironic that some people will spend an extra $1,000 on their hard drives just so they can store more music, but they won't pay for the music.''
Wow. I can't believe someone who is supposed to be an 'authority' on this subject could be so misinformed on the cost of hard drives. Outside of SAN and huge storage farms (which I doubt are widely used as MP3 libraries) I haven't paid $1,000 for a hard drive since I bought a 1GB back around '93 or so. Is ANYONE really paying $1,000 for bigger hard drives to avoid buying music? I highly doubt it. In fact, I challenge Mr. Galuten to present even one anecdotal example of this.
Still, don't you think there's something to be said for rising above it? Especially as the underdog, the linux communities word isn't exactly taken as gospel, even less so when using childish tactics like this to get our point across. Saying something is bad for business and calling their product 'Window$' are two different things entirely. The first attempts to make a business case, while the latter does nothing but discredit it's authors other points. I've never seen MS use the phrase 'linsux' or 'gnjew' or anything like that in formal announcements.
Does this strike anyone else as unprofessional? For a company like Mandrake to be referring to competitors in such a light really doesn't seem very mature to me. Imagine an IT executive contemplating a move to Linux, and seeing that. I'd rather see them simply call it 'Windows' and devote another page to the Windows vs. Linux debate. Bad mouthing competition at every opprotunity reeks of poor sportsmanship.
Well, I stand corrected.
I do recall seeing a clear apple mouse in the store once that didn't seem to make any clicking noise, maybe it just wasn't audible over the noise of the store.
Thanks to this thread, I'm now much more aware every time my mouse clicks. Argghhh!
I'm not sure exactly how it works, but Apple makes a mouse that has no clicking noise. You merely tap the top of the mouse and there's no moving parts whatsoever. It's USB, but I can't say for sure whether or not it works with PCs.
I used it briefly at a store, and found it difficult to click with, and there's only one button obviously, but it might be something you could use as a model for a two button mouse if you decide to try building one on your own.
Great, so now instead of people running old software, we're left with people running machines with the wrong date/time in order to fool the software into thinking it's still within it's life. Is that really progress?
Actually, that's kind of the idea behind triple des.. your source data is run through three seperate DES keys. While it doesn't incorporate multiple personal keys, it's a similar idea. The only problem I see when using multiple keys which are associated with users is that if one of them were to leave the company their key would typically be revoked, and thus the whole document is no longer decryptable. It's an idea though..
It's certainly true that data has a useful life, and that encryption can be considered secure if it takes longer than the useful life to decrypt that information. The thing is, that's dependant on the technology I use to break it. In your safe example, I probably couldn't discover the combination through brute force within the time it takes for the milk to sour, but what if I could try all possible combinations twice as fast? four times as fast? At some point I reach the point where it's useful. Of course, by the time that point comes you might've moved on to a newer model safe. Still, it's a game of cat and mouse. It's no impossible to do, but you raise a valid point that it may be impossible given current technology to break it in a timeframe which makes the end result useful.
Anything which can be decrypted is going to be breakable. It may take a good deal of effort, but I don't believe there's any such thing as 'unbreakable' encryption. After all, the data has to be decryptable at some point or it's useless.
Part of this is probably due to sites switching to pay content. I know I visit salon.com, fool.com, etc. a lot less than I used to when they were free. I still spend a significant amount of time online, but mostly I go over the same dozen sites repeatedly, and don't wander aimlessly for new stuff quite so much anymore.
While I'm not sure if their was a lawsuit, they changed the name of xplay, it used to be called xpod. Mediafour's FAQ mentions this.
The sound blaster audigy has a built in IEEE 1394 port.
This article raises a number of interesting points. Not the least of which, is what are these things? Are they games, of other worlds of existence? A place for enjoyment, or a metaverse of sorts?
In my mind, they need to evolve beyond games and give users a reason to take part rather than stat building and killing progressively larger monsters. As a beta tester for Ultima Online, and short term user of several other systems I can tell you that gets boring real quick.
The problem, as I see it, is how to deal with that small percent of the population who want to just cause trouble for everyone else. Pkilling, newbie killing, etc will always be something people want to do. The key is to protect people from it while not breaking the suspension of disbelief that gets us so caught up in the world, and still allowing these sorts of things for those who want to take part.
Can you imagine how boring the metaverse would be if Hiro Protaganist just slashed through all the black and white avatars, simply because he could? That wouldn't go far to lure new users.
To continue the metaverse analogy, allowing users to carve out their own niche is a real bonus. MUDs, MUSHs, etc. have almost all had some capacity to allow the players to build the world. The metaverse allows people to create homes, buildings, hell even the Black Sun.. but in MMORPGs so far that feature has been poorly implemented. UO allows for building houses and hiring shopkeepers, but the former just cluttered the landscape, while the latter became pack animals for most players.
In short, this article asks some good questions. I can't think of any easy answers to any of them, but it's good to see people discussing this in an open forum.
I'm not sure if it'd be an 'algorithm' per se, but I've always found the concept of recursion/mathematic induction to be extremely useful. I don't know how much use it is to true programmers, but for writing useful shell scripts and administrative tools it's something I rely on quite a bit.
>> BTW, slaughtering might sound bad, but doesnt stop you from eating at McDonalds
Actually, for quite a few of us it does. Scroll down to the part about vegetarians and vegans.
The north pole heads north? I don't think that's possible. Seems to me the north pole can only head south, no matter what direction it's going in.
Again, slightly OT in response to the parent...
I dunno, maybe someone at the New York Times saw a few hundred (thousand?) connections coming from different IPs logging in as 'aaaaa?'
You know, this brings up some interesting points. I'm not quite sure anymore whether or not this'd work. I was thinking a serial line, but is /dev mounted at runlevel 0? I might just have to set this up and try it out. If I get a chance to do so soon, I'll reply here and let you all know.
All those of you saying that you wouldn't be able to log in this way.. why not log via syslog to a remote PC? Don't most people do this anyhow?
With logs on a seperate machine, you're much less likely to have the logs altered if the firewall is compromised too.