It bears repeating: CSS does NOT prevent copying of DVD movies. It was never designed to prevent copying of DVD movies. It cannot prevent copying of DVD movies.
For those of you with a DVD-ROM and a DVD burner, try this trick: Use dd to make a bitwise copy of a DVD then burn the copy out to a blank. Throw the burned DVD in your home DVD player. Enjoy your movie.
What CSS DOES prevent, and what it was designed to prevent, is anyone manufacturing a DVD player without a license.
The bloglines user-agent field tells you how many people have subscribed. And I find it patently ridiculous for them to fetch my RSS feeds hourly for...wait, they should hit me any minute now...
This needs to be hacked. This REALLY needs to be hacked. I want to be able to download ANY smell I want, not just the ones they want me to have based on when my birthday is. (oops, I read the article again)
/. will temporarily block you if you pull the feed more than 48 times in a day or something like that. It works out to once a half hour.
And excuse me, but lose HTML? The whole web as RSS feeds? You must be kidding. There's way too much content out there that simply can't be put into an RSS feed. It's static, it represents downloadable files, or documentation, or useless marketing hype, or whatever.
For instance, the GPL blog software Word Press doesnt do ANY cacheing.
Technically true but misleading. WordPress allows user agents to cache the RSS/Atom feeds, and will only serve a newer copy if a post has been made to the blog since the time the user agent says it last downloaded the feed. Otherwise it sends a 304. This is in 1.3-alpha5. I dunno what 1.2.1 does.
Not to mention, a lot of these RSS readers are big sites like bloglines, newgator, etc who should be respecting bandwidth limits, but really have no incentive to do so.
Not coincidentally, these are the egregious worst offenders I mentioned. Bloglines grabs my RSS2 and Atom feeds hourly, and doesn't cache or even pretend to. Firefox Live Bookmarks appears to cache feeds, but your aggregator plugins might not. I can't (yet) tell the difference from the server logs between Firefox and the various aggregator plugins.
The best ones are the syndication sites that only grab my feeds after being pinged. Too bad I can't ping everybody. That could solve the problem if there was some way to do that.
One thing that would help immensely is if RSS readers/aggregators would actually cache the RSS feed and not download a new copy if they already have the most current one. I could go through my server logs and point out the most egregious problem aggregators if anyone's interested.
This also means, of course, that if you want to cancel your AOL "trial" that you're going to have to wait about a week on hold to speak to someone in Bangalore who doesn't know the meaning of the word "cancel."
I use wrapped links to determine what people who visit my site are most interested in (right now it's marijuana, with amazon.com a distant second) outside my site, so I have a better idea of new things to add to the site. That's all. I don't care a bit who's at IP address 1.2.3.4 and I don't even pay much attention to the IP addresses anyway (except when I'm being attacked by an email harvester and need to block it). I don't track cookies, though, and the wrapper script is listed in a Disallow line in robots.txt.
I sat down two hours ago to just check email, and now here I am posting to/. I still haven't gotten around to checking email. I think I just wasted two hours.
Most traditional traffic lights are programmed to remain green for the major thoroughfare at night anyway, unless a vehicle pulls up from one of the side streets.
The city around here got creative and installed radar to determine if someone's approaching a light. On almost every light in town. That shiny radar detector is now completely useless in town...
...not because the movie will be bad, but because the first-person perspective is likely to upset your inner ear balance and cause you to feel queasy. Think Blair Witch Project.
And that's why I used to hate blogs. Now I have one of my very own. And my first rule is, I don't talk about myself on my blog. Nobody really wants to read about me anyway. See below for what I do talk about.
This definitely was not front-page material. In the Science section, maybe. After all I did learn how to make friends with penguins, and that's an important life skill!
It's more expensive to buy a full-grown pear tree on the Internet, because you have to have it shipped to you, rather than getting one locally. Do you know how much it costs to ship a 50 foot tall tree?
Seriously, for those of you who don't RTFA, You could live in one while your permanent house is being built or renovated, for emergency housing, or for short-term accommodation. That's about what it looks like, too. You wouldn't spend the rest of your life in one of these.
But the real question is, how much does this MacGyver house cost? At a purchase price of just $35,000 this is a genuine short-term housing option that could be used in a variety of applications. It is lightweight, transportable, requires no more skill to erect than an Ikea product, and is very affordable. That's about $27,000 US dollars.
This is damn handy when you're trying to patch/clean a spyware riddled machine.
Having never used a USB flash drive on Windows, I have to ask, how do you prevent Windows from writing to the flash drive and corrupting your nice shiny Firefox install? I'd love to carry one of these around, but I want to be sure the OS isn't going to be able to screw with it.
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For those of you with a DVD-ROM and a DVD burner, try this trick: Use dd to make a bitwise copy of a DVD then burn the copy out to a blank. Throw the burned DVD in your home DVD player. Enjoy your movie.
What CSS DOES prevent, and what it was designed to prevent, is anyone manufacturing a DVD player without a license.
One subscriber!
This needs to be hacked. This REALLY needs to be hacked. I want to be able to download ANY smell I want, not just the ones they want me to have based on when my birthday is. (oops, I read the article again)
And excuse me, but lose HTML? The whole web as RSS feeds? You must be kidding. There's way too much content out there that simply can't be put into an RSS feed. It's static, it represents downloadable files, or documentation, or useless marketing hype, or whatever.
Technically true but misleading. WordPress allows user agents to cache the RSS/Atom feeds, and will only serve a newer copy if a post has been made to the blog since the time the user agent says it last downloaded the feed. Otherwise it sends a 304. This is in 1.3-alpha5. I dunno what 1.2.1 does.
Not coincidentally, these are the egregious worst offenders I mentioned. Bloglines grabs my RSS2 and Atom feeds hourly, and doesn't cache or even pretend to. Firefox Live Bookmarks appears to cache feeds, but your aggregator plugins might not. I can't (yet) tell the difference from the server logs between Firefox and the various aggregator plugins.
The best ones are the syndication sites that only grab my feeds after being pinged. Too bad I can't ping everybody. That could solve the problem if there was some way to do that.
One thing that would help immensely is if RSS readers/aggregators would actually cache the RSS feed and not download a new copy if they already have the most current one. I could go through my server logs and point out the most egregious problem aggregators if anyone's interested.
I don't need support for a development box. Besides, what Oracle doesn't know won't hurt me. Oh wait, I didn't post anonymously, did I...
Hey wait a minute. Oracle runs just fine on Gentoo.
This also means, of course, that if you want to cancel your AOL "trial" that you're going to have to wait about a week on hold to speak to someone in Bangalore who doesn't know the meaning of the word "cancel."
Sinister is derived from Latin, and means "left." That's all.
I use wrapped links to determine what people who visit my site are most interested in (right now it's marijuana, with amazon.com a distant second) outside my site, so I have a better idea of new things to add to the site. That's all. I don't care a bit who's at IP address 1.2.3.4 and I don't even pay much attention to the IP addresses anyway (except when I'm being attacked by an email harvester and need to block it). I don't track cookies, though, and the wrapper script is listed in a Disallow line in robots.txt.
You mean New Coke, right?
I sat down two hours ago to just check email, and now here I am posting to /. I still haven't gotten around to checking email. I think I just wasted two hours.
The city around here got creative and installed radar to determine if someone's approaching a light. On almost every light in town. That shiny radar detector is now completely useless in town...
This project has been renamed to ForecastFox and has
moved to forecastfox.mozdev.org.
This is some serious industrial-strength irony.
...not because the movie will be bad, but because the first-person perspective is likely to upset your inner ear balance and cause you to feel queasy. Think Blair Witch Project.
This definitely was not front-page material. In the Science section, maybe. After all I did learn how to make friends with penguins, and that's an important life skill!
It's more expensive to buy a full-grown pear tree on the Internet, because you have to have it shipped to you, rather than getting one locally. Do you know how much it costs to ship a 50 foot tall tree?
Way to go! Make SCO pay for everything. Suck up all their blood money and drive them out of business.
I may regret this later, but...
Argo Robotic Instrument Network Now Covers Most of the Globe (2.6MB, QuickTime) (my mirror)
Material Safety Data Sheet
I always read the forums before I buy a PDA, and every single one of them has problems, so I've never bought a PDA.
Reality check: At some point you have to decide what mix of features and problems you want to live with. Which means I'll probably never buy a PDA.
Seriously, for those of you who don't RTFA, You could live in one while your permanent house is being built or renovated, for emergency housing, or for short-term accommodation. That's about what it looks like, too. You wouldn't spend the rest of your life in one of these.
But the real question is, how much does this MacGyver house cost? At a purchase price of just $35,000 this is a genuine short-term housing option that could be used in a variety of applications. It is lightweight, transportable, requires no more skill to erect than an Ikea product, and is very affordable. That's about $27,000 US dollars.
Nice concept. Wake me when they're mass-produced.
Having never used a USB flash drive on Windows, I have to ask, how do you prevent Windows from writing to the flash drive and corrupting your nice shiny Firefox install? I'd love to carry one of these around, but I want to be sure the OS isn't going to be able to screw with it.