We should be able to link that program in to mail readers, web browsers, databases, all kinds of things, but none of that is possible to do easily because it needs to run as a separate program.
What's wrong with creating a library that interacts with gnupg through a pipe or other method of IPC? That's what (e.g.) X11 does: apps talk to xlib, which marshals calls to the X server.
Nothing to prevent you from putting it into your mini system, playing the cd and recording on tape
Unless the Hollings bill passes, in which case all digital media devices will be required to recognize watermarks placed by content providers to prevent copyright infringement that includes a D->A->D step. Also watch blank cassettes disappear from store shelves under the pressure of the labels ("you pull your blank tapes or we pull our albums"), watch CD players stop offering an analog line-out, and watch owning a high-quality microphone without a license become a Federal crime.
If you don't want the sky to fall, write to your legislators. Now.
No, instead, you're junking all of the film by compressing its vertical resolution
Not with anamorphic widescreen, which is stored at the horizontal resolution of letterbox but the vertical resolution of pan-and-scan. The DVD player will let you watch an anamorphic disc in letterbox, pan-and-scan, or (if you have a 16:9 TV) true widescreen, scaling the image to match your display. Most of the recent players have good filters, so the scaling artifacts won't show up as much as you'd think.
Import of Excel said to be hindered by different naming conventions in the two programs, which sounds like something that should be addressed in the import mechanism.
These "naming conventions" are probably collisions in the function namespace. What if a user defines a function in one program that turns out to be a built-in function in the other? Even worse, imagine if one spreadsheet allowed Python programs in cells and another allowed Scheme programs.
I've heard interviews with comedy writers who talk about trying to work out which number sounds 'funniest'. How could 37 be funnier than 36? Who knows
Perhaps primes are funnier because they can't be broken down into tiny prime factors (2*2*3*3). Is it somehow related to the geometric mean of the prime factors?
Flat out wrong, at least as far as the Senators will see it. The bill in question specifically addresses fair use rights.
No it doesn't. It provides a maximum penalty of $2,500 per work for prohibiting fair use. As I wrote in my letter, that's pocket change to Hollywood, and a more appropriate solution would be to put any work whose encoding prohibits fair use into the public domain.
The industry knows that they don't have to defeat "foreign pirates", they only have to stop the average consumer.
I fixed that, noting that the industry likes to brand fair users as "casual pirates."
The point of this bill is not to provide broadband content, it's to stop piracy.
I think I ought to post my version of the letter. Just wait 2 minutes.
The site's featured track is for the movie Groundhog Day, which repeatedly plays a song by Sonny and Cher (stage name of Salvatore Bono and Cherilyn LaPierre), both of whom have voiced support for perpetualcopyright.
If you want to watch the movies dubbed on the site without the revenue from your DVD purchases supporting the political agenda of Hollywood, then for every dollar you spend on entertainment, make a matching contribution to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. (I'm a card-carrying member myself.)
Each console, (X-box, ps2, game cube) USE A DIFFERENT FORMAT AND MEDIA TYPES
PS2, Xbox, GCN, and PC all use formats based on DVD tech modulo minor differences, but they look in different places for the boot sector. Put the VM where each console will look for it, and then put the game itself in a standard 8cm DVD-based format. None of the current consoles are slotloading, and even then, it's easy to come by an 8cm to 12cm adapter for play on a future slotloading console.
I should Like to build one of these adapters. any good links you could give me?
Try this journal article of mine. For SNES pad to NES console, just look up the schematics for the NES pad (from nesdev) to see which wires are clock, strobe, power, and data, and then bastardize a couple Super Extendo cables.
About the icon: Seems every time I make reference to one of Slashdot's topic icons, they change it. For example, games was originally a Nintendo 64 controller, but they had to go and make it an Atari 2600 controller instead. Spam was originally a can of SPAM® brand canned pork until I started making a fuss about Hormel's product image; then they changed it to a sculpture of a pig made out of said luncheon meat.
You make it impossible to play on a computer, all you have to do is have a "legitimate" player convert the signal to analog for viewing, and put the analog output in to a computer input, and voila, any protection scheme has just been cracked.
Fast forward three years into the future. CBDTPA-compliant hardware says: "Watermark detected. Recording denied." And your pre-CBDTPA hardware has worn out after years of use. Now what do you do?
Many children living near train tracks have been observed exhibiting a lack of lower apendages! The advance of mechanical transportation having rendered the function of legs as a primary locomotive means useless, the legs of some people are falling off in an incredible example of physical mutations!
So in other words, are you saying we'll soon be seeing Lame Boy Advance?
Back in the NES days I would use my index and middle fingers for the b and a buttons, the genesis controller was designed so I could do the same. But once shoulder buttons started to be on all controllers, from the SNES onwards, I couldnt pull that off.
Some Super NES games didn't use the shoulder buttons (Super Mario World). Some GBA games are the same (Super Mario Advance 1 and 2, Pinobee, Sonic). To this day, when playing SMB1, SMB2, SMB3, SMW, or SMW2 on original hardware (as opposed to plugging an N64 pad into Adaptoid and using NESten), I place my right index, middle, and ring fingers on Y, B, and A respectively. (Yes, Super NES pads are compatible with NES consoles through a trivial-to-construct adapter.)
Other games made L the same as R (Super Mario Kart (Super NES) and Tetris Worlds (GBA)), letting you wrap your left hand around the pad and use the right index fingers for the buttons, but for some reason I play those with my thumbs. The only games I use left thumb and right fingers on are platform games, especially those that require holding B and pressing A with precise timing.
Actually, the Genesis's 6-button pad had a right shoulder button labeled Mode, but few games used it. It was normally used for games that weren't 100% to spec in their pad reading code, as holding Mode while powering on the system would force the pad into 3-button mode.
Xenix... is now trapped somewhere and will return some day.
Some day is now. Xenix became SCO UnixWare became Open UNIX 8.
Funny quote on that page from Unisys: "Through it, our customers can jointly run Open UNIX 8 and Windows applications, giving them the flexibility of multiple platforms handling diverse responsibilities." Guess they left out the part about "such as using tools that support GIF for all your bitmap image processing needs."
SpamCop doesn't even check anything. They just leech off of ORBZ and the like.
Wrong answer. SpamCop maintains its own RBL based on reported spam pasted into its web form. It also allows users to check or un-check popular RBLs such as ORDB.
-- Damian Yerrick, tepples@spamcop.net, a satisfied customer
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We should be able to link that program in to mail readers, web browsers, databases, all kinds of things, but none of that is possible to do easily because it needs to run as a separate program.
What's wrong with creating a library that interacts with gnupg through a pipe or other method of IPC? That's what (e.g.) X11 does: apps talk to xlib, which marshals calls to the X server.
Nothing to prevent you from putting it into your mini system, playing the cd and recording on tape
Unless the Hollings bill passes, in which case all digital media devices will be required to recognize watermarks placed by content providers to prevent copyright infringement that includes a D->A->D step. Also watch blank cassettes disappear from store shelves under the pressure of the labels ("you pull your blank tapes or we pull our albums"), watch CD players stop offering an analog line-out, and watch owning a high-quality microphone without a license become a Federal crime.
If you don't want the sky to fall, write to your legislators. Now.
You have a right to make a copy of the CD, that doesn't mean the record label has to give you the ability do so.
But should the record label have the right to take away any "ability do so" that you can in theory create?
No, instead, you're junking all of the film by compressing its vertical resolution
Not with anamorphic widescreen, which is stored at the horizontal resolution of letterbox but the vertical resolution of pan-and-scan. The DVD player will let you watch an anamorphic disc in letterbox, pan-and-scan, or (if you have a 16:9 TV) true widescreen, scaling the image to match your display. Most of the recent players have good filters, so the scaling artifacts won't show up as much as you'd think.
Import of Excel said to be hindered by different naming conventions in the two programs, which sounds like something that should be addressed in the import mechanism.
These "naming conventions" are probably collisions in the function namespace. What if a user defines a function in one program that turns out to be a built-in function in the other? Even worse, imagine if one spreadsheet allowed Python programs in cells and another allowed Scheme programs.
Saying "Hey, can you guys change the name" and them saying "sure" doesn't sound much like calling out the dogs to me...
So Apple called out the puppies, pona?
NASA's recent failure to convert between metric and Imperial units
Toki Pona speakers had it right all along: the word 'nasa' means crazy.
I've heard interviews with comedy writers who talk about trying to work out which number sounds 'funniest'. How could 37 be funnier than 36? Who knows
Perhaps primes are funnier because they can't be broken down into tiny prime factors (2*2*3*3). Is it somehow related to the geometric mean of the prime factors?
Because d.net uses a 100% non-random criterion to select a winner (namely, whether they found The Key), it's not a contest, it's a competition.
What's so "100% non-random" about how RSA Labs selected the key?
Since it's a "contest" with cash prizes, why not charge people to enter.
d.net can't do that because under the regulations of many U.S. states, that would be considered "gambling."
Oops, Mr. Smarty Pants! I can factor 1024-bit primes for $0!
But can you prove that they are prime?
Flat out wrong, at least as far as the Senators will see it. The bill in question specifically addresses fair use rights.
No it doesn't. It provides a maximum penalty of $2,500 per work for prohibiting fair use. As I wrote in my letter, that's pocket change to Hollywood, and a more appropriate solution would be to put any work whose encoding prohibits fair use into the public domain.
The industry knows that they don't have to defeat "foreign pirates", they only have to stop the average consumer.
I fixed that, noting that the industry likes to brand fair users as "casual pirates."
The point of this bill is not to provide broadband content, it's to stop piracy.
I think I ought to post my version of the letter. Just wait 2 minutes.
The site's featured track is for the movie Groundhog Day, which repeatedly plays a song by Sonny and Cher (stage name of Salvatore Bono and Cherilyn LaPierre), both of whom have voiced support for perpetual copyright.
If you want to watch the movies dubbed on the site without the revenue from your DVD purchases supporting the political agenda of Hollywood, then for every dollar you spend on entertainment, make a matching contribution to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. (I'm a card-carrying member myself.)
[Alternatives to Slashdot:] Everything2.com
Everything 2 is more like Wikipedia than it is like Slashdot.
Read more: Is E2 just like Slashdot?
Juro5hin.com
You mean Kuro5hin.org. If you really want a first post, take your time; you have 20 seconds, after all.
By the way, if you cross K5 with a bit of E2, you get .5e.
The more advanced the "on-the-fly" technology, the more unpredictable delays you introduce, the longer your startup times become
Not if you recompile Java bytecode in one thread and load your game media in another. It's called overlapping CPU-bound and IO-bound processes.
and the more memory you use.
Memory is cheap.
Each console, (X-box, ps2, game cube) USE A DIFFERENT FORMAT AND MEDIA TYPES
PS2, Xbox, GCN, and PC all use formats based on DVD tech modulo minor differences, but they look in different places for the boot sector. Put the VM where each console will look for it, and then put the game itself in a standard 8cm DVD-based format. None of the current consoles are slotloading, and even then, it's easy to come by an 8cm to 12cm adapter for play on a future slotloading console.
I should Like to build one of these adapters. any good links you could give me?
Try this journal article of mine. For SNES pad to NES console, just look up the schematics for the NES pad (from nesdev) to see which wires are clock, strobe, power, and data, and then bastardize a couple Super Extendo cables.
About the icon: Seems every time I make reference to one of Slashdot's topic icons, they change it. For example, games was originally a Nintendo 64 controller, but they had to go and make it an Atari 2600 controller instead. Spam was originally a can of SPAM® brand canned pork until I started making a fuss about Hormel's product image; then they changed it to a sculpture of a pig made out of said luncheon meat.
You make it impossible to play on a computer, all you have to do is have a "legitimate" player convert the signal to analog for viewing, and put the analog output in to a computer input, and voila, any protection scheme has just been cracked.
Fast forward three years into the future. CBDTPA-compliant hardware says: "Watermark detected. Recording denied." And your pre-CBDTPA hardware has worn out after years of use. Now what do you do?
Many children living near train tracks have been observed exhibiting a lack of lower apendages! The advance of mechanical transportation having rendered the function of legs as a primary locomotive means useless, the legs of some people are falling off in an incredible example of physical mutations!
So in other words, are you saying we'll soon be seeing Lame Boy Advance?
Back in the NES days I would use my index and middle fingers for the b and a buttons, the genesis controller was designed so I could do the same. But once shoulder buttons started to be on all controllers, from the SNES onwards, I couldnt pull that off.
Some Super NES games didn't use the shoulder buttons (Super Mario World). Some GBA games are the same (Super Mario Advance 1 and 2, Pinobee, Sonic). To this day, when playing SMB1, SMB2, SMB3, SMW, or SMW2 on original hardware (as opposed to plugging an N64 pad into Adaptoid and using NESten), I place my right index, middle, and ring fingers on Y, B, and A respectively. (Yes, Super NES pads are compatible with NES consoles through a trivial-to-construct adapter.)
Other games made L the same as R (Super Mario Kart (Super NES) and Tetris Worlds (GBA)), letting you wrap your left hand around the pad and use the right index fingers for the buttons, but for some reason I play those with my thumbs. The only games I use left thumb and right fingers on are platform games, especially those that require holding B and pressing A with precise timing.
Actually, the Genesis's 6-button pad had a right shoulder button labeled Mode, but few games used it. It was normally used for games that weren't 100% to spec in their pad reading code, as holding Mode while powering on the system would force the pad into 3-button mode.
Xenix ... is now trapped somewhere and will return some day.
Some day is now. Xenix became SCO UnixWare became Open UNIX 8.
Funny quote on that page from Unisys: "Through it, our customers can jointly run Open UNIX 8 and Windows applications, giving them the flexibility of multiple platforms handling diverse responsibilities." Guess they left out the part about "such as using tools that support GIF for all your bitmap image processing needs."
If Google can be held liable under the DMCA for it's content, then so can AOL.
Operation Clambake didn't file a counter-notification letter because it didn't want to subject itself to a rent-a-court of Co$'s choosing.
The claims of this patent seem to be limited to the situation where there is an application client
Take GNU Emacs for example.
and a backend "Document Management System" (DMS)
Any file system.
in which there is a crypto module
File system encryption module.
intervenes when a file-save command or the like is issued from the client
fopen() in glibc.
which then encrypts the data with an appropriate key
Encrypted block driver.
hands off control to the DMS.
return from the block driver to the filesystem to libc to the app.
SpamCop doesn't even check anything. They just leech off of ORBZ and the like.
Wrong answer. SpamCop maintains its own RBL based on reported spam pasted into its web form. It also allows users to check or un-check popular RBLs such as ORDB.
-- Damian Yerrick, tepples@spamcop.net, a satisfied customerNo, the fact that they used the word "duplicate" shows that they do not, in fact, "get it".
The definition of "spam" in the Jargon File lists duplication as the primary criterion under senses 3 and 4. Junk E-mail (UBE) enters the picture only in sense 5.
Funny: The first listed sense of "spam" refers to a buffer overflow.