You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building. Around you is a forest. A small stream flows out of the building and down a gully.
Somewhere nearby is Colossal Cave, where others have found fortunes in treasure and gold, though it is rumored that some who enter are never seen again. Magic is said to work in the cave.
I will be your eyes and hands. Direct me with commands of 1 or 2 words.
You have one incoming call. Type PLOVER to teleport to your message center. Type LPT1 to redirect the call to the Well Building for voicemail...
This for sure heralds the end of civilization as we all play Adventure and Zork, not to mention interactive MUDs for hours, nay, days, weeks on end. I wonder if the MUD style games will have voice capability?
I wonder how much this early commenting helped form the Linux programmer community and shape it's atmmosphere early on? Getting the self abasing and also highly informative comments delivered to an audience of peers (...even if you weren't a peer, it made you feel like one to read those comments)
The best thing that Sealand offers is a proof point against the current corp perspective that things can go their way--the MPAA's reach can in fact extend to lyrics.ch, the FBI to germany and the philippines, DVDCCA to germany, and so forth. But will there always be some country unwilling to cooperate with most other govs and corps? Yes, seen here.
As to whether the Royal Family of sealand is smoking crack and selling passports is another story, but fortunately not relevant to the point;)
Sell it as a dead-tree book, then release it as a textfile over the Internet. This'd be an ideal example to show that people will still buy books even when they can get the content for free. Or, you might try selling it online initially, but don't expect any of the 'secure e-books' to be actually secure against piracy. I.e., don't expect to make money off of the digital version, though you might.
A friend once pointed out to me that in 3000BCE or so, we had storage media that was hardened and made even more durable by fire (read:clay tablets), and no such medium since then has regained that ability.Progress?
I was cruising Brunching Shuttlecocks yesterday and they have a massive amount of filters just like the dialectizer. It's not like there's a lack of these things, by respectable sites. Anyone know Brunching's legal and financial info? Could they fight back?
From the article: Domain name holders who registered their names under older contracts become bound to the new conditions automatically when they renew their names with NSI for another one-year term.
And from there on out, all NSI changes in policy are automatic and don't even require notice of the contractees.
Sorry, I posted before coffee. Bad Idea. What I meant to get across was that I wanted the VT100 to serve as a CLI into my linux box; a telnet window (VT100 emulation suck my dust!) etc. etc., y'know, an X-terminal (heh) just without the X window graphics around it.
I actually recently came into ownership of an honest-to-goodness Digital VT 100 terminal. (stop drooling, geek!) and hope to set it up as an X-term for my home linux server (when I get that running, mind you). Anyone gone down that road before?
Various people have taken the idea of the Guide online in various fashions--there was the old version of the Hitchhiker's Guide, the new polished hh2g.net that assumes the rights on all submitted material, and then there's the www.Everything2.com system which is a more open-source, and more serious, approach to the whole idea.
I realize that due to licensing agreements, you might not be able to speak at the question I'd like to ask, so; on a more general note, how do you feel about 'open-source' information and information sharing? Will it be the arena of a huge, intergalactic publishing company or will it be a compilation of individual efforts? or a combination?
One (1) rolodex of BOFH excuses, containing at the least, 365 unique excuses
Two (2) litres of Jolt Cola
One (1) lb of Blue Mountain coffee
Three (3) crossover cables
And a bound edition of the Rainbow series of books.
(j/k, btw. I don't have printed rainbow books. D'ya think I could pull this bid off if I did, tho?)
Ideal solution. And if you run your own freenet node, you can set up the wiretap archives to always remain resident on your local node (I can't imagine them being that large in today's stoarge-capacity. it's just text. Worse comes to worse you could zip it down)
This is a significant part of the kind of stuff is what FreeNet is meant to provide access to. And of course, the popular files will propagate around the freenet quickly.
Though if the ssh/irc combo works for you, that sounds ideal.
Other possibilities: The easiest and fastest implementation I can think of, though a bit klunky, and requiring either a nice web admin or you to be the web admin, would be a HTML script (cgi) chat program and connect via SSL (you can generate your own cert, your interactants will have to trust it. big whoop. Problem is that it's not end-to-end, the chat will be in cleartext on the web server.
real-time manual encryption. IIRC, Syncrypt has a java interface that can encrypt what you highlight on screen, program independent, in Win32, via use of the clipboard. This could perhaps be automated via mIRC in windows environments?
You might investigate using Elliptic Curve crypto of some sort. It's soooo incredibly much faster, and if'n you go full-blown with sending PKI-style public-key crypto, separate messages to each recipient, speed will rapidly become an issue. Moreover, ECC 108 proved something like 50x harder to crack than RSA 512, and 163bit, which would still be lightning fast, would be much, much more secure.
You see, outside of the WinNT server world, you have mainframes capable of huge amounts of processing by themselves... when you have 24 processors in one box, who needs load-balancing?
(and DNS has so many hot backups worldwide, redundancy is, well, taken care of
well, what you say actually could be enforced under the DMCA. I'll wager that the FP EULA doesn't allow users to decompile or strings it.
And really, it wasn't JUST encrypted backwards, it had a full double-ROT13 encryption applied before that, so even after de-backwardsing it, you still would have to take it through two rounds of ROT13 before it was readable.
"-protect technology allowing in-store customers to listen to parts of songs at a kiosk, or to hear the music through a computer, before deciding whether to buy."
Um. So, CD-NOW, CDuniverse, pretty much EVERY online music retailer, and every retail store, not to mention probably MP3.com, emusic and the like...even napster in a stretch, are violating these early-and-mid nineties patents?
I wonder if this patent violates the force-sensitive sound-playing condom patent due to the 1991 patent's ability, depending on the sound chosen to be activated, to 'preview' what is to come (horrid pun intended)
This all just underlines the absurdity of a lot of patents.
The only argument I could see is that your sms data buffer might fill up with spam and your business-critical messages might not get delivered until you clear out the junk Which is what I was saying. But your battery point is well taken, I refuse to own a cell phone so I'm no expert, or even particularly knowledgeable. However, this particular spam made the phones make sounds (similar to the battery-dying chirp), which I could imagine/would/ drain the batteries (not to mention being unimaginably annoying). I presume that if one had the phone muted this wouldn't happen, but really. that's annoying.
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You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building. Around you is a forest. A small stream flows out of the building and down a gully.
Somewhere nearby is Colossal Cave, where others have found fortunes in treasure and gold, though it is rumored that some who enter are never seen again. Magic is said to work in the cave.
I will be your eyes and hands. Direct me with commands of 1 or 2 words.
You have one incoming call. Type PLOVER to teleport to your message center. Type LPT1 to redirect the call to the Well Building for voicemail...
This for sure heralds the end of civilization as we all play Adventure and Zork, not to mention interactive MUDs for hours, nay, days, weeks on end. I wonder if the MUD style games will have voice capability?
I wonder how much this early commenting helped form the Linux programmer community and shape it's atmmosphere early on? Getting the self abasing and also highly informative comments delivered to an audience of peers (...even if you weren't a peer, it made you feel like one to read those comments)
The best thing that Sealand offers is a proof point against the current corp perspective that things can go their way--the MPAA's reach can in fact extend to lyrics.ch, the FBI to germany and the philippines, DVDCCA to germany, and so forth. But will there always be some country unwilling to cooperate with most other govs and corps? Yes, seen here.
;)
As to whether the Royal Family of sealand is smoking crack and selling passports is another story, but fortunately not relevant to the point
Sell it as a dead-tree book, then release it as a textfile over the Internet. This'd be an ideal example to show that people will still buy books even when they can get the content for free. Or, you might try selling it online initially, but don't expect any of the 'secure e-books' to be actually secure against piracy. I.e., don't expect to make money off of the digital version, though you might.
A friend once pointed out to me that in 3000BCE or so, we had storage media that was hardened and made even more durable by fire (read:clay tablets), and no such medium since then has regained that ability.Progress?
I was cruising Brunching Shuttlecocks yesterday and they have a massive amount of filters just like the dialectizer. It's not like there's a lack of these things, by respectable sites. Anyone know Brunching's legal and financial info? Could they fight back?
(of course it's absured, BUT...)
What about opt-in? I already sent permission for the dialectizer to do its evil work upon my website. It's a possible source of hits, good PR...
From the article:
Domain name holders who registered their names under older contracts become bound to
the new conditions automatically when they renew their names with NSI for another one-year term.
And from there on out, all NSI changes in policy are automatic and don't even require notice of the contractees.
I'd ask etoy about that.
I hope the change-in-contract isn't retroactive--in any case, I'll be moving to a new registrar when the time comes.
forget MSN--send it through hotmail.
Sorry, I posted before coffee. Bad Idea. What I meant to get across was that I wanted the VT100 to serve as a CLI into my linux box; a telnet window (VT100 emulation suck my dust!) etc. etc., y'know, an X-terminal (heh) just without the X window graphics around it.
I'll use it to script mp3 playlists and such.
I actually recently came into ownership of an honest-to-goodness Digital VT 100 terminal. (stop drooling, geek!) and hope to set it up as an X-term for my home linux server (when I get that running, mind you). Anyone gone down that road before?
Various people have taken the idea of the Guide online in various fashions--there was the old version of the Hitchhiker's Guide, the new polished hh2g.net that assumes the rights on all submitted material, and then there's the www.Everything2.com system which is a more open-source, and more serious, approach to the whole idea.
I realize that due to licensing agreements, you might not be able to speak at the question I'd like to ask, so; on a more general note, how do you feel about 'open-source' information and information sharing? Will it be the arena of a huge, intergalactic publishing company or will it be a compilation of individual efforts? or a combination?
is "Unix" not a target for an AT&T cybersquatting lawsuit?
One (1) rolodex of BOFH excuses, containing at the least, 365 unique excuses
Two (2) litres of Jolt Cola
One (1) lb of Blue Mountain coffee
Three (3) crossover cables
And a bound edition of the Rainbow series of books.
(j/k, btw. I don't have printed rainbow books. D'ya think I could pull this bid off if I did, tho?)
Ideal solution. And if you run your own freenet node, you can set up the wiretap archives to always remain resident on your local node (I can't imagine them being that large in today's stoarge-capacity. it's just text. Worse comes to worse you could zip it down)
This is a significant part of the kind of stuff is what FreeNet is meant to provide access to. And of course, the popular files will propagate around the freenet quickly.
Though if the ssh/irc combo works for you, that sounds ideal.
Other possibilities: The easiest and fastest implementation I can think of, though a bit klunky, and requiring either a nice web admin or you to be the web admin, would be a HTML script (cgi) chat program and connect via SSL (you can generate your own cert, your interactants will have to trust it. big whoop. Problem is that it's not end-to-end, the chat will be in cleartext on the web server.
real-time manual encryption. IIRC, Syncrypt has a java interface that can encrypt what you highlight on screen, program independent, in Win32, via use of the clipboard. This could perhaps be automated via mIRC in windows environments?
You might investigate using Elliptic Curve crypto of some sort. It's soooo incredibly much faster, and if'n you go full-blown with sending PKI-style public-key crypto, separate messages to each recipient, speed will rapidly become an issue. Moreover, ECC 108 proved something like 50x harder to crack than RSA 512, and 163bit, which would still be lightning fast, would be much, much more secure.
You see, outside of the WinNT server world, you have mainframes capable of huge amounts of processing by themselves... when you have 24 processors in one box, who needs load-balancing?
(and DNS has so many hot backups worldwide, redundancy is, well, taken care of
Not everyone remembers newsgroup "encryption" standards. Alas! alack!
well, what you say actually could be enforced under the DMCA. I'll wager that the FP EULA doesn't allow users to decompile or strings it.
And really, it wasn't JUST encrypted backwards, it had a full double-ROT13 encryption applied before that, so even after de-backwardsing it, you still would have to take it through two rounds of ROT13 before it was readable.
Playing with cats with a laser pointer is patented
"-protect technology allowing in-store customers to listen to parts of songs at a kiosk, or to hear the
music through a computer, before deciding whether to buy."
Um. So, CD-NOW, CDuniverse, pretty much EVERY online music retailer, and every retail store, not to mention probably MP3.com, emusic and the like...even napster in a stretch, are violating these early-and-mid nineties patents?
I wonder if this patent violates the force-sensitive sound-playing condom patent due to the 1991 patent's ability, depending on the sound chosen to be activated, to 'preview' what is to come (horrid pun intended)
This all just underlines the absurdity of a lot of patents.
The only argument I could see is that your sms data buffer might fill up with spam and your /would/ drain the batteries (not to mention being unimaginably annoying). I presume that if one had the phone muted this wouldn't happen, but really. that's annoying.
business-critical messages might not get delivered until you clear out the junk
Which is what I was saying. But your battery point is well taken, I refuse to own a cell phone so I'm no expert, or even particularly knowledgeable. However, this particular spam made the phones make sounds (similar to the battery-dying chirp), which I could imagine
TrustedBSD "provides a set of trusted operating system extensions to the FreeBSD operating system, targeting the Orange Book B1 evaluation criteria"
And they also have a mondo-cool logo.