AOLsucks.org recently got in legal trouble with America Online Inc. The webmaster's lawyer told him that "under legal precedent, when a large corporation uses lawsuits (or the threat of them) to try to silence critics, that there are grounds for a harassment suit against that corporation."
Open standard means the specs are available to all comers. It does not mean that everybody has the fully paid-up right to implement the algorithms listed in the specs.
Ogg Vorbis is an unencumbered audio compression format with a reference library under Lesser GPL. The format is frozen; when 1.0 comes out, we can Burn All MP3s (the domain is available) like we burned all GIFs.
At what cost, though? Far more than searching for filenames, that's for sure.
Simply write a client that downloads a bunch of files from Napster (but have the user press the download button so it's not classed as a bot, which is against TOS) and voiceprints random portions of files against the official studio recordings.
The Fourier transform translates a short (512 or so sample) set of sequential datapoints into a same-size set of intensities at several frequencies.
Divide a waveform into 512-sample windows.
Take FFT on each window.
Plot the time (in windows since start) on the X axis, the FFT frequency on the Y axis, and the FFT output (intensity of frequencies) on the brightness/Z axis. This gives you what is called a "voiceprint."
Pattern match voiceprints to known voiceprints of Metallica studio recordings.
MPEG audio layer 3's psychoacoustic quantization will distort the voiceprint somewhat, but pattern matching can work around this.
Stereo games (such as Doom) already generate left- and right-eye data. Non-stereo games (such as Quake 3) could have depth = 1/luminance; dim things are farther away.
Microsoft once released a Basic interpreter for Apple II. It was called Applesoft (aka FPBasic), and all 10 kilobytes of it were burned into the ROM of all Apple II Plus and later Apple II computers. You could do things like
Media Player is audio-only at this time. And there are easier ways to play mp3s on Linux;)
But WiMP (WindowsMedia Player) plays all the Microsoft trade-secret/patented formats (wma, asf, etc.) and XMMS doesn't. Now all we're missing is QuickTime (MPEG 4) audio.
(WindowsMedia is shoved together because WiMP also runs on Mac computers; therefore, WindowsMedia is a separate technology from Windows OS).
But the versions I tried automatically share the download directory no matter what; unless I set up some kind of cron job (or whatever it's called in Windows; was it Scheduled Tasks?), anything I download becomes shared. Setting maximum uploads to 0 prevents any copyrighted MP3 files from leaving your computer through Napster.
If one artist or group, like Meta11ica, doesn't 1ike it's music to be pub1ished, ok, Napster can fi1ter the sharing of such music.
I changed the quote to contain no 1owercase 1etter L's. Did you notice? Users wou1d rename the fi1es to "M3ta11ic4", which contains six 1etters that can be written as 133tspeak or not.
something more structured like C involves having to deal with too many complicated issues of programming theory and structure, and unless you're willing to sit through complicated stuff like X or Windows GUI coding, all you'll get is some boring text program.
There's a very easy library for graphics and sound under C. It's called Allegro, and it has the advantage of being available on most important platforms; it currently works on DOS, Win32, Eunuchs/X11 (even on non-Intel such as linuxppc), and BeOS. You don't have to wade through that WinAPI bullshit; Allegro is a simple layer around GDI or DirectX.
FireWire(TM) is Apple's brand of IEEE 1394 high-speed serial connection. Contracts that I've read (IANAL, but I do read everything I sign, including EULAs) tend not to name a lot of brand names; if they do, they also have heavy generic equivalent language to keep exactly this from happening.
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RMS, in statistics, refers to root mean square: square the signal, take the mean, and take the square root.
MPAA will just forward the email to your ISP, who will shut off your access for "illegal activity."
AOLsucks.org recently got in legal trouble with America Online Inc. The webmaster's lawyer told him that "under legal precedent, when a large corporation uses lawsuits (or the threat of them) to try to silence critics, that there are grounds for a harassment suit against that corporation."
Open standard means the specs are available to all comers. It does not mean that everybody has the fully paid-up right to implement the algorithms listed in the specs.
Ogg Vorbis is an unencumbered audio compression format with a reference library under Lesser GPL. The format is frozen; when 1.0 comes out, we can Burn All MP3s (the domain is available) like we burned all GIFs.
OggVorbis (.ogg) is to MPEG Audio Layer 3 (.mp3) as Deflation (.png) is to LZW (.gif).
There was a protest when Unisys laid the smack-down on free use of LZW compression in GIF. If the League for Programming Freedom wants to get involved, burnallmp3s. org is available.
At what cost, though? Far more than searching for filenames, that's for sure.
Simply write a client that downloads a bunch of files from Napster (but have the user press the download button so it's not classed as a bot, which is against TOS) and voiceprints random portions of files against the official studio recordings.
The Fourier transform translates a short (512 or so sample) set of sequential datapoints into a same-size set of intensities at several frequencies.
- Divide a waveform into 512-sample windows.
- Take FFT on each window.
- Plot the time (in windows since start) on the X axis, the FFT frequency on the Y axis, and the FFT output (intensity of frequencies) on the brightness/Z axis. This gives you what is called a "voiceprint."
- Pattern match voiceprints to known voiceprints of Metallica studio recordings.
MPEG audio layer 3's psychoacoustic quantization will distort the voiceprint somewhat, but pattern matching can work around this.[5]Their wishful thinking
[7]and a dollar will get them
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Stereo games (such as Doom) already generate left- and right-eye data. Non-stereo games (such as Quake 3) could have depth = 1/luminance; dim things are farther away.
You mean like Grey Day, organized by Digital Divas, who recently made the front page of Slashdot?
Microsoft once released a Basic interpreter for Apple II. It was called Applesoft (aka FPBasic), and all 10 kilobytes of it were burned into the ROM of all Apple II Plus and later Apple II computers. You could do things like
and the line editor would translate it intoNo. In Spanish, "Spain" starts with an E.
The fact that 9x makes all users superusers makes admins at organizations too poor to afford NT shudder.
Not all superusers on eunuchs systems are named root either. Here's a good way to set up a boring system (excellent cracker deterrent):
So a cr4x0r claiming to "h4v3 r007 0n 411 j00r b0x0rz" isn't claiming much.
Good name for a script kiddie tool: Roto-RooterLTUASE.
Learn to use a search engine.
I don't miss any vital application that doesn't under Linux already.
But most users at my location won't switch their home machines to GNU/Linux until it can run one or more of these apps:
- Netscape Communicator, connecting to the Internet through software modems (analog or DSL)
- Unreal Tournament
- EverQuest
- Freespace 2
- Ultima Online
- Diablo II (when it's released)
- Hlf-Life
- AutoCAD (we have a site license with permission to take it home)
- Microsoft Visual C++ (or another compiler that can make MotherFuckingCrap apps)
_________________________________________________It's DMCA, not DCMA, idiots!
Media Player is audio-only at this time. And there are easier ways to play mp3s on Linux ;)
But WiMP (WindowsMedia Player) plays all the Microsoft trade-secret/patented formats (wma, asf, etc.) and XMMS doesn't. Now all we're missing is QuickTime (MPEG 4) audio.
(WindowsMedia is shoved together because WiMP also runs on Mac computers; therefore, WindowsMedia is a separate technology from Windows OS).But the versions I tried automatically share the download directory no matter what; unless I set up some kind of cron job (or whatever it's called in Windows; was it Scheduled Tasks?), anything I download becomes shared. Setting maximum uploads to 0 prevents any copyrighted MP3 files from leaving your computer through Napster.
MPEG 4 == QuickTime
If one artist or group, like Meta11ica, doesn't 1ike it's music to be pub1ished, ok, Napster can fi1ter the sharing of such music.
I changed the quote to contain no 1owercase 1etter L's. Did you notice? Users wou1d rename the fi1es to "M3ta11ic4", which contains six 1etters that can be written as 133tspeak or not.
- Set your maximum simultaneous uploads to zero.
That's it. On the remote end, all attempts to download will be "remotely queued".something more structured like C involves having to deal with too many complicated issues of programming theory and structure, and unless you're willing to sit through complicated stuff like X or Windows GUI coding, all you'll get is some boring text program.
There's a very easy library for graphics and sound under C. It's called Allegro, and it has the advantage of being available on most important platforms; it currently works on DOS, Win32, Eunuchs/X11 (even on non-Intel such as linuxppc), and BeOS. You don't have to wade through that WinAPI bullshit; Allegro is a simple layer around GDI or DirectX.
For me the main thing is having enough *reliable* space to store my digi-junk.
For you the solution would probably be a four letter word: cdrw.
And a floppy disk drive is also hardware, but that doesn't make it a hard drive.
FireWire(TM) is Apple's brand of IEEE 1394 high-speed serial connection. Contracts that I've read (IANAL, but I do read everything I sign, including EULAs) tend not to name a lot of brand names; if they do, they also have heavy generic equivalent language to keep exactly this from happening.