So how do they jump from that to blaming it on encryption?
It is MUCH cheaper to just outlaw crypto than to pay for 1000 spies. Also many of those spies will be some pretty evil people that we payoff for info. So they are trying to take the easy way out.
Re:Pray Or Meditate Or Whatever For President Bush
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If "we" attack, we need to surgically extract the guilty, try them, and then if they're guilty, punish them with all force.
I am curiouse. I am assuming you are European (please correct me if I am wrong). The majority of Europe is against the death penalty, even to the extent of advocating that Timothy McVae not be executed. So my question to you and other Europeans:
If we do find the people who are responsible for this act would you support the death penalty in this case? If not what is your idea of punishing them with all force?
Yes, I agree, we should have stayed and pointed out that practically all of those people accusing Israel of racism is VICIOUSLY racist against Jews and Israel.
The racism conference was a joke, it was hijacked by racists whose sole gole in life is to destroy Israel and kill all the Jews. Every Islamic terrorist organization holds zionism as the biggest evil in the world.
Recently (maybe 4-6 months ago) the news was doing a story on the violence in Jerusalem. They were discussing the Temple mount(that Sharon visited to start this current mess), they had an Islamic cleric on to talk about it, he was saying that there never was a Jewish temple there, claiming that there is no proof! Yet when archaeologists were digging there and unearthing Jewish artifacts the Palestinian's immediately ended the excavation.
Did you actually read that site? The latest news section is rife with US/UK references, ie the US and the UK are in agreement on these things. In fact the proposed smart sanctions are UK/US backed and most of the sanctions appear to be US/UK backed from I have read on that site. I think you're anti-US mindset has clouded your vision a bit. This is as much a UK problem as a US problem.
The custom test was designed by eTesting Labs to simulate from 33,320 to 83,300 POP/SMTP users that checked their mail every 60 minutes and sent a single 10K byte message to three recipients every 60 minutes.
Honestly, if you are using your Exchange server as a POP/SMTP server only you are wasting your money. Exchange is groupware, you do not use it as a POP/SMTP server. Save your money and just run sendmail on Linux, BSD or Solaris. Exchange is for calendering, scheduling, messaging, etc. This report is pretty much worthless.
How many Xboxes will have their warantees invalidated as new users buy them for $199 and hack them up?
Well if that is your criteria - none. The XBox is $299, of course you cannot preorder them for $299 now, you can only get them in the bundles for like $499 with a few games.
Gamecube is $199, no idea if you will be able to buy it for $199 initially, they will probably do a bundle deal too. Of course since it has no HD it is a little more trouble to hack.
At any rate I agree that the XBox will be hacked in no time at all. Anybody want to bet that the XBox firmware is probably encrypted, which means that hacking it is a violation of the DMCA...
After a few minutes of searching I think I finally figured out exactly where PCWorld has "reported" that Linux will have USB 2.0 drivers in first half of 2002. It is located in this story .
Here is the information they give:
"But don't count USB 2.0 out. Microsoft has announced that it will offer downloadable USB 2.0 drivers for Windows 2000 and for the upcoming Windows XP operating system. Linux support for USB 2.0 should come in the first half of 2002.
Silicon behemoth Intel currently provides space for a USB 2.0 controller chip on its Pentium 4 motherboards, and Gateway has announced that it will put the chips in some PCs beginning this fall. Intel and Acer Labs plan to put USB 2.0 into at least some chip sets by mid-2002; Via Technologies, on the other hand, will add IEEE 1394 support to its chip sets before turning to USB 2.0. AMD says it will support USB 2.0, but not how or when."
Sounds like speculation to me on the Linux drivers. Do any Linux USB devs have any actual info about this?
I also remember another demonstration in which he blew the lid of a can. I can't remember what he did then though.
Probably blew lycopodium into a can that had a lit candle in it. Classic experiment. Mr Wizard did this one on his show (he did a lot of stuff with lycopodium). You can get details from the site here.
Let the MPAA servers DeCSS for you
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You could write a DeCSS client to find a decryption key by sending the computations out to the MPAA's servers.:)
Disney test marketed Mononoke in Minnesota. Full release with advertising to all the mainstream theater chains. It bombed. They decided not to expand to a full release across the country, I don't blame them.
They really should have chosen a different film to "debut" with. A re-release of Kiki or Laputa would have been a much easier sell. Mononoke is too foreign for American audiences.
Be careful what you wish for. I think it is copletely absurd that chess or bridge are being considered for the Olympics. The Olympics are about physical sports.
The real problem is that there are only so many sports that can be included in the olympics before it becomes impossible to house all of the athletes.
Well here is the information on licensing. License is $10,000 plus royalties on each sale. Looking through the steps they have to certify the product before granting the license so I am not sure how compatible that would be with open source.
It is up to the courts and congress to set a fair price scheme in place for any compulsory licensing. As the article says, if the two sides cannot come to agreement on a fair price then they go to arbitration. The arbitration panel then sets the price.
This is the same thing that happens when the government takes your land for public use. They must compensate you at a fair price. When the two sides cannot agree on a price they go to arbitration.
Wether this works in reality I have no idea, but that is the basic idea.
Hmm, this is kind of silly. So could you publish something in ROT13 then sue all the companies who make newsreader software for distributing a circumvention device? Heck, Microsoft distributes one with every copy of Windows now (Outlook Express).
Probably some existing technology clause in the DMCA...
Perhaps the previous poster was commenting on the fact that WinXP is so bloated that it requires everyone to upgrade their systems. Thus computer manufacturers sell more systems, revitalizing the tech industry.
Sure people hate what they are not familiar with. They don't like change, but some of the end comments by the users does not neccesarily support the argument that a windows like interface is needed. I like P10's comment the most:
"It is like a cross between Windows and a Mac. It looks like it is designed for everybody."
People familiar with Windows are able to just use KDE (debateable, but no studies have been performed on it so I will give it to you), but that doesn't mean that they like it. It is what they are familiar with and what they know. So they can be lazy and not have to learn anything new.
Many users will probably be like that, but there are a lot of users out there that hate the Windows interface but don't even know it because they have never used anything else. I absolutely hated the Mac interface until I used it for several days in a row. Once I became familiar with it it was very nice, I started to dread going back to my windows desktop.
Basically what I am saying is I want BOTH to thrive, I want both to be put through these kinds of tests repeatedly. People should be able to use what they like, one does not have to win over the other.
I think it is great that this study was performed. I would, however like to see the same study performed for KDE. I see no reason for one desktop to have an advantage over the other. Choice is good.
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Yahoo use FreeBSD as the OS and iPlanet (which is another name for Netscape Enterprise Server afaicr) as their web server.
iPlanet doesn't even have a BSD version (at least not according to their download page). Are they running the Linux version on FreeBSD?
Here is a nice articale about filming in Australia from the original Matrix. Gives a number of reasons why they filmed there.
Wow, everyone hates Americans because we like to make jokes in poor taste? Wow, thanks for the tip, I will let all the comedians know right away.
Umm...maybe this will help? OK, I admit I am not the funniest person around, but come on... :)
But that is not a digital copy, I can't listen to that analog crap, digital only! Only digital copies are good! Digital! Digital! DIGITAL!!!!
So how do they jump from that to blaming it on encryption?
It is MUCH cheaper to just outlaw crypto than to pay for 1000 spies. Also many of those spies will be some pretty evil people that we payoff for info. So they are trying to take the easy way out.
If "we" attack, we need to surgically extract the guilty, try them, and then if they're guilty, punish them with all force.
I am curiouse. I am assuming you are European (please correct me if I am wrong). The majority of Europe is against the death penalty, even to the extent of advocating that Timothy McVae not be executed. So my question to you and other Europeans:
If we do find the people who are responsible for this act would you support the death penalty in this case? If not what is your idea of punishing them with all force?
Yes, I agree, we should have stayed and pointed out that practically all of those people accusing Israel of racism is VICIOUSLY racist against Jews and Israel.
The racism conference was a joke, it was hijacked by racists whose sole gole in life is to destroy Israel and kill all the Jews. Every Islamic terrorist organization holds zionism as the biggest evil in the world.
Recently (maybe 4-6 months ago) the news was doing a story on the violence in Jerusalem. They were discussing the Temple mount(that Sharon visited to start this current mess), they had an Islamic cleric on to talk about it, he was saying that there never was a Jewish temple there, claiming that there is no proof! Yet when archaeologists were digging there and unearthing Jewish artifacts the Palestinian's immediately ended the excavation.
Did you actually read that site? The latest news section is rife with US/UK references, ie the US and the UK are in agreement on these things. In fact the proposed smart sanctions are UK/US backed and most of the sanctions appear to be US/UK backed from I have read on that site. I think you're anti-US mindset has clouded your vision a bit. This is as much a UK problem as a US problem.
Um, don't get too excited about this report:
The custom test was designed by eTesting Labs to simulate from 33,320 to 83,300 POP/SMTP users that checked their mail every 60 minutes and sent a single 10K byte message to three recipients every 60 minutes.
Honestly, if you are using your Exchange server as a POP/SMTP server only you are wasting your money. Exchange is groupware, you do not use it as a POP/SMTP server. Save your money and just run sendmail on Linux, BSD or Solaris. Exchange is for calendering, scheduling, messaging, etc. This report is pretty much worthless.
How many Xboxes will have their warantees invalidated as new users buy them for $199 and hack them up?
Well if that is your criteria - none. The XBox is $299, of course you cannot preorder them for $299 now, you can only get them in the bundles for like $499 with a few games.
Gamecube is $199, no idea if you will be able to buy it for $199 initially, they will probably do a bundle deal too. Of course since it has no HD it is a little more trouble to hack.
At any rate I agree that the XBox will be hacked in no time at all. Anybody want to bet that the XBox firmware is probably encrypted, which means that hacking it is a violation of the DMCA...
Oh, you mean like the 70+ netscape.public.mozilla newsgroups available on the publically accessible news.mozilla.org server?
After a few minutes of searching I think I finally figured out exactly where PCWorld has "reported" that Linux will have USB 2.0 drivers in first half of 2002. It is located in this story .
Here is the information they give:
"But don't count USB 2.0 out. Microsoft has announced that it will offer downloadable USB 2.0 drivers for Windows 2000 and for the upcoming Windows XP operating system. Linux support for USB 2.0 should come in the first half of 2002.
Silicon behemoth Intel currently provides space for a USB 2.0 controller chip on its Pentium 4 motherboards, and Gateway has announced that it will put the chips in some PCs beginning this fall. Intel and Acer Labs plan to put USB 2.0 into at least some chip sets by mid-2002; Via Technologies, on the other hand, will add IEEE 1394 support to its chip sets before turning to USB 2.0. AMD says it will support USB 2.0, but not how or when."
Sounds like speculation to me on the Linux drivers. Do any Linux USB devs have any actual info about this?
I also remember another demonstration in which he blew the lid of a can. I can't remember what he did then though.
Probably blew lycopodium into a can that had a lit candle in it. Classic experiment. Mr Wizard did this one on his show (he did a lot of stuff with lycopodium). You can get details from the site here.
You could write a DeCSS client to find a decryption key by sending the computations out to the MPAA's servers. :)
Disney test marketed Mononoke in Minnesota. Full release with advertising to all the mainstream theater chains. It bombed. They decided not to expand to a full release across the country, I don't blame them.
They really should have chosen a different film to "debut" with. A re-release of Kiki or Laputa would have been a much easier sell. Mononoke is too foreign for American audiences.
I have never had an mp3 skip in Linux. I have had an mp3 skip in win98, a LOT of times.
What exactly is your definition of sport if not physical activity governed by a set of rules? Does shooting, archery, etc. not fit this definition?
What does it matter if the sport was derived from military activity?
Be careful what you wish for. I think it is copletely absurd that chess or bridge are being considered for the Olympics. The Olympics are about physical sports.
The real problem is that there are only so many sports that can be included in the olympics before it becomes impossible to house all of the athletes.
Well here is the information on licensing. License is $10,000 plus royalties on each sale. Looking through the steps they have to certify the product before granting the license so I am not sure how compatible that would be with open source.
It is up to the courts and congress to set a fair price scheme in place for any compulsory licensing. As the article says, if the two sides cannot come to agreement on a fair price then they go to arbitration. The arbitration panel then sets the price.
This is the same thing that happens when the government takes your land for public use. They must compensate you at a fair price. When the two sides cannot agree on a price they go to arbitration.
Wether this works in reality I have no idea, but that is the basic idea.
Hmm, this is kind of silly. So could you publish something in ROT13 then sue all the companies who make newsreader software for distributing a circumvention device? Heck, Microsoft distributes one with every copy of Windows now (Outlook Express).
Probably some existing technology clause in the DMCA...
Perhaps the previous poster was commenting on the fact that WinXP is so bloated that it requires everyone to upgrade their systems. Thus computer manufacturers sell more systems, revitalizing the tech industry.
Sure people hate what they are not familiar with. They don't like change, but some of the end comments by the users does not neccesarily support the argument that a windows like interface is needed. I like P10's comment the most:
"It is like a cross between Windows and a Mac. It looks like it is designed for everybody."
People familiar with Windows are able to just use KDE (debateable, but no studies have been performed on it so I will give it to you), but that doesn't mean that they like it. It is what they are familiar with and what they know. So they can be lazy and not have to learn anything new.
Many users will probably be like that, but there are a lot of users out there that hate the Windows interface but don't even know it because they have never used anything else. I absolutely hated the Mac interface until I used it for several days in a row. Once I became familiar with it it was very nice, I started to dread going back to my windows desktop.
Basically what I am saying is I want BOTH to thrive, I want both to be put through these kinds of tests repeatedly. People should be able to use what they like, one does not have to win over the other.
I think it is great that this study was performed. I would, however like to see the same study performed for KDE. I see no reason for one desktop to have an advantage over the other. Choice is good.