Speaking of the millions buying Lindows PCs, I ordered one two weeks ago from Walmart, and last night Walmart told me....
"there is a delay in shipping the item(s) listed below from your order due to availability."
For the most part I would never have thought that Lindows from Walmart was going to be a big seller, but this statement from Walmart may indicate that it is a good seller and lend credence to your (wishful?) statement of the millions of people trying Linux by buying Lindows PCs.
I'd really like to find an easy to use set top box.
My mother is basically wheel chair bound, and has visual problems. She watches a lot of TV, and has never used a computer.
She has a WebTV and can surf the web, but her WebTV will not let her watch more than 128K of movies. And I don't believe any WebTV model will. That makes those movies of my kids that much harder to distribute to her.
So I'd like to find a set-top box internet access solution for her. I haven't done a lot of looking, but it seems that the Xbox running Linux with a cordless USB keyboard may be a winning solution.
She could surf the web to see the kids, download and play their movies, print their photographs out, and all from a machine designed to work well with TVs. And when her other grandchildren come over, well they can do the first person shooter thing.
So I have high hopes for this Xbox project. I believe it can really offer a social good to a class of people that don't have a good internet solution.
Then again, if you know of other, better, also inexpensive set top box internet solutions, do let me know.
I don't know what they are doing, but it sounds as though they are sniffing packets at the least. Do they try to connect? Dunno.
I try not to get into metaphor games. I see the value of having an understandable metaphor, but I am jaded from having seen lots of lawyers fight battles of the metaphor in an attempt to sway people away from facts and/or common sense. So now metaphors just confuse me. Similes are even worse. My poor brain.
Having said that I've always felt that as far as wireless signals go (radio, cell, cordless, TV,...) I've always felt that if someone is going to broadcast their signal through my living space, that I should be allowed to do anything I want (i.e. decrypt it and view it/listen to it) to view and anayze that signal. So for instance I have always felt it was lame and counterproductive to make it law that folks cannot listen in or tape cordless/cell phone calls.
I agree that it depends on who is doing the knocking. The image I conjure up from Peterson is that of the old irish cop, late 1880s, walking through the business district late at night, rattling the door knobs. Who would argue with that?
I myself don't like port scanning of my systems unless I have authorized it myself. I don't mind an occasional knock on the door regardless of who it is from. But I'm not willing to criminalize port scans.
I recall several times in the past years many cases of hacking in which nothing more than port scans were literally made into federal offenses. I don't recall any specifically, and I my recollection may be faulty.
I don't mind throwing the book at criminals, but I don't want to see legitimate activities criminalized. I don't want to see reasonable activities made unreasonable through silly prosecutions and precedent.
Occasionally I have used telnet to telnet to a machine infected with CodeRed or Nimda. Not to bring it down, but just to see the HTML stream. That's been argued on/. as both a reasonable and criminal thing to do. And justified with the knock on the door metaphor.
I find it interesting to see that the secret service in this instance uses the knock on the door metaphor to indicate the benign behavior. Now, what if that had been you, port scanning whitehouse.gov?
How many hacking cases in the past few years have just been for just port scanning -- a knock on the door?
Peterson recently drove down a major Washington street and found over 20 wireless networks, many of which had no security at all. Peterson said his probes are part of good police work, like a patrolman driving through a neighborhood.
"I feel it is part of crime prevention to knock on the door," Peterson said.
So that's what port scans are, just knocking on the door, part of crime prevention, and not malicious in and of itself.
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Why do you believe you have only two sources to listen too?
Perhaps because anyone can post to/., I find a very large amount of pro Microsoft information in/.
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Yes, I think you're right about the call letters being reversed.
I'm not sure where I would place Bernie Ward. He's not that much of an alternative and he uses the same tired hatespeech radio techniques to troll listeners and to drag 30 seconds of content into 30 minutes.
KGO (then) also has Pete Wilson -- funny I liked him more when he was just the TV talking head.
Regardless, will either of these Disney affiliates talk about Eldred vs. Ashcroft (and Disney?)
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I don't like bias either. Unfortunately there is no such thing as objectivity. I think that's the post modern lesson.
I would rather listen to someone (anyone) whose bias is upfront and identifiable, then listen to someone that claims to be objective.
Objectivity, is that like where unknown to most listeners, Disney owns SFBay hatespeech radio station KGO and that makes Disney's pretty right wing KSFO seem to be the moderate alternative?
The air bag is subterfuge. NASA is really planning on creating a blamange and letting the Brits eat the damn thing. I saw a documentary on this a long time ago.
I needed four ints per tickmark then or most likely 180 ints all told. Of course you should be able to make these shorts as store not actual points, but vertical and horizontal offsets from the center of the rose.
Sine, cosine? Assuming you have a line draw routine and a raster display, none of that is needed.
About fifteen years ago for a prototype heads up display I had the same exact problem: draw the tick marks for a compass rose with no memory and no time. There was no scaling of the circle, only rotation about a fixed center.
After some though, what I did was to store in a table the tickmark endpoints for 45 degrees of arc (I recall it being 22.5 and not 90 degrees) for all the displayable rotations of that arc. Then at runtime, my compass rose routine would exploit the symmetry of the situation to determine the endpoints of all the other displayable tickmarks.
It used very little memory since at any point in time we only displayed tick marks at 5 degree intervals. Therefore 45 degrees of those would be 9 tick marks, or 18 ints (two ints per tickmark). At 5 degree intervals with a resolution of 1 degree, you only need a table of 5 x those 18 ints, or 90 ints all told.
It's real easy to piss on other's efforts isn't it? If this guy is serious, if his software works, when the RIAA comes after him, how long do you think it will be before he opens it up?
There's been a real trend of late to mod trash talk up as Insightful.
Good moderation here tonight. Yet another monorail quip from the Simpsons gets modded to 4, funny, and my post, a post that referenced the freaking journal of homeland security and how that journal feels about mass transit and terrorism gets modded as a troll.
Hey, even in Japan with the Aum Shinrikyo killing 5 in the subways, I bet they wonder about terrorism and maglev trains.
That's okay moderators, moderate the posts you want to see, not the posts that inform.
I'd love for this train to become reality, but can it be made safe against terrorists?
This article in the The Journal of Homeland Security talks all about mass transit being used as a tool for mass terrorism, including the 1995 derailment of the Sunset Limited in the Arizona desert. That incident killed 1 and injured 65 and it was not traveling at 500kph.
Right now, the idea of maglev trains and all that exposed track scares me.
If the taxpayer has the copyright on it (NASA, Mil, Gov,...) then I think we should dual license the software.
GPL it for those that want a GPL, and sell it with a proprietary license for the highest we can sell it for to those that want to take it and make proprietary things with it.
The GPL'd versions will benefit us in ways we can all count, and more, the GPL'd versions will almost certainly keep the proprietary versions true to the GPL'd versions. And when the proprietary versions stray, the GPL'd versions will catch up in time.
Will this work? It seems to work for GhostScript. Are there any other examples?
Sure, most blogs are diaries, or opinion, or rant, and blogrolling for the most part is an added value link farm.
But one of the real virtues of blogging by the old media, is the introduction of new feedback loop, the increased immediacy of the the actual report, and the removal of layers between the reporter and participants or analysts.
Have you ever been present at an event reported in the old media? You know then how different your perception, as a participant or as an expert was from the perception as reported by the journalists. What is important about blogs are the discussions and the mailto links that let you converse with the reporter and bring in new information or new perspectives.
In the past, the journalist went to his rolodex of so called analysts (Giga) or so called neutral experts. But there was no such thing as a neutral expert. And in the past you might be able to get your letter written to the editor, but did that really affect the reporting?
Journalistic blogs, those with discussions with the authors or editors are wonderful. Immediate. New feedback loops. The story is reported much more accurately, clearly, and timely. Pros and cons can connect with each other in a dialogue in ways they never could before.
It's a community, it's dialogue, it's no longer a monologue, it's a symbiosis of peers, it's a well informed conversation, not just a well-meaning, pc, overview.
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Speaking of the millions buying Lindows PCs, I ordered one two weeks ago from Walmart, and last night Walmart told me....
"there is a delay in shipping the item(s) listed below from your order due to availability."
For the most part I would never have thought that Lindows from Walmart was going to be a big seller, but this statement from Walmart may indicate that it is a good seller and lend credence to your (wishful?) statement of the millions of people trying Linux by buying Lindows PCs.
Thank you!
I'd really like to find an easy to use set top box.
My mother is basically wheel chair bound, and has visual problems. She watches a lot of TV, and has never used a computer.
She has a WebTV and can surf the web, but her WebTV will not let her watch more than 128K of movies. And I don't believe any WebTV model will. That makes those movies of my kids that much harder to distribute to her.
So I'd like to find a set-top box internet access solution for her. I haven't done a lot of looking, but it seems that the Xbox running Linux with a cordless USB keyboard may be a winning solution.
She could surf the web to see the kids, download and play their movies, print their photographs out, and all from a machine designed to work well with TVs. And when her other grandchildren come over, well they can do the first person shooter thing.
So I have high hopes for this Xbox project. I believe it can really offer a social good to a class of people that don't have a good internet solution.
Then again, if you know of other, better, also inexpensive set top box internet solutions, do let me know.
How do you determine the google cache URL?
I don't know what they are doing, but it sounds as though they are sniffing packets at the least. Do they try to connect? Dunno.
...) I've always felt that if someone is going to broadcast their signal through my living space, that I should be allowed to do anything I want (i.e. decrypt it and view it/listen to it) to view and anayze that signal. So for instance I have always felt it was lame and counterproductive to make it law that folks cannot listen in or tape cordless/cell phone calls.
I try not to get into metaphor games. I see the value of having an understandable metaphor, but I am jaded from having seen lots of lawyers fight battles of the metaphor in an attempt to sway people away from facts and/or common sense. So now metaphors just confuse me. Similes are even worse. My poor brain.
Having said that I've always felt that as far as wireless signals go (radio, cell, cordless, TV,
I agree that it depends on who is doing the knocking. The image I conjure up from Peterson is that of the old irish cop, late 1880s, walking through the business district late at night, rattling the door knobs. Who would argue with that?
/. as both a reasonable and criminal thing to do. And justified with the knock on the door metaphor.
I myself don't like port scanning of my systems unless I have authorized it myself. I don't mind an occasional knock on the door regardless of who it is from. But I'm not willing to criminalize port scans.
I recall several times in the past years many cases of hacking in which nothing more than port scans were literally made into federal offenses. I don't recall any specifically, and I my recollection may be faulty.
I don't mind throwing the book at criminals, but I don't want to see legitimate activities criminalized. I don't want to see reasonable activities made unreasonable through silly prosecutions and precedent.
Occasionally I have used telnet to telnet to a machine infected with CodeRed or Nimda. Not to bring it down, but just to see the HTML stream. That's been argued on
I find it interesting to see that the secret service in this instance uses the knock on the door metaphor to indicate the benign behavior. Now, what if that had been you, port scanning whitehouse.gov?
Peterson recently drove down a major Washington street and found over 20 wireless networks, many of which had no security at all. Peterson said his probes are part of good police work, like a patrolman driving through a neighborhood.
"I feel it is part of crime prevention to knock on the door," Peterson said.
So that's what port scans are, just knocking on the door, part of crime prevention, and not malicious in and of itself.
Why do you believe you have only two sources to listen too?
/., I find a very large amount of pro Microsoft information in /.
Perhaps because anyone can post to
Yes, I think you're right about the call letters being reversed.
I'm not sure where I would place Bernie Ward. He's not that much of an alternative and he uses the same tired hatespeech radio techniques to troll listeners and to drag 30 seconds of content into 30 minutes.
KGO (then) also has Pete Wilson -- funny I liked him more when he was just the TV talking head.
Regardless, will either of these Disney affiliates talk about Eldred vs. Ashcroft (and Disney?)
I don't like bias either. Unfortunately there is no such thing as objectivity. I think that's the post modern lesson.
I would rather listen to someone (anyone) whose bias is upfront and identifiable, then listen to someone that claims to be objective.
Objectivity, is that like where unknown to most listeners, Disney owns SFBay hatespeech radio station KGO and that makes Disney's pretty right wing KSFO seem to be the moderate alternative?
Yes, your experience is a common, actually.
I haven't seen southpark recently, where does it come from?
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The air bag is subterfuge. NASA is really planning on creating a blamange and letting the Brits eat the damn thing. I saw a documentary on this a long time ago.
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Both KGO and KSFO are Disney affiliates and sister stations.
It's Disney pandering to the extremists on all sides.
I have no doubt that all these DJs are good friends off mike.
France and New Jersey (at least NJ in the mid-eighties.)
Ah, 3am then, but now I'm all done by midnight.
I needed four ints per tickmark then or most likely 180 ints all told. Of course you should be able to make these shorts as store not actual points, but vertical and horizontal offsets from the center of the rose.
Sine, cosine? Assuming you have a line draw routine and a raster display, none of that is needed.
About fifteen years ago for a prototype heads up display I had the same exact problem: draw the tick marks for a compass rose with no memory and no time. There was no scaling of the circle, only rotation about a fixed center.
After some though, what I did was to store in a table the tickmark endpoints for 45 degrees of arc (I recall it being 22.5 and not 90 degrees) for all the displayable rotations of that arc. Then at runtime, my compass rose routine would exploit the symmetry of the situation to determine the endpoints of all the other displayable tickmarks.
It used very little memory since at any point in time we only displayed tick marks at 5 degree intervals. Therefore 45 degrees of those would be 9 tick marks, or 18 ints (two ints per tickmark). At 5 degree intervals with a resolution of 1 degree, you only need a table of 5 x those 18 ints, or 90 ints all told.
I always loved the 3am epiphany!
It's real easy to piss on other's efforts isn't it? If this guy is serious, if his software works, when the RIAA comes after him, how long do you think it will be before he opens it up?
There's been a real trend of late to mod trash talk up as Insightful.
Good moderation here tonight. Yet another monorail quip from the Simpsons gets modded to 4, funny, and my post, a post that referenced the freaking journal of homeland security and how that journal feels about mass transit and terrorism gets modded as a troll.
Hey, even in Japan with the Aum Shinrikyo killing 5 in the subways, I bet they wonder about terrorism and maglev trains.
That's okay moderators, moderate the posts you want to see, not the posts that inform.
I'd love for this train to become reality, but can it be made safe against terrorists?
This article in the The Journal of Homeland Security talks all about mass transit being used as a tool for mass terrorism, including the 1995 derailment of the Sunset Limited in the Arizona desert. That incident killed 1 and injured 65 and it was not traveling at 500kph.
Right now, the idea of maglev trains and all that exposed track scares me.
If the taxpayer has the copyright on it (NASA, Mil, Gov, ...) then I think we should dual license the software.
GPL it for those that want a GPL, and sell it with a proprietary license for the highest we can sell it for to those that want to take it and make proprietary things with it.
The GPL'd versions will benefit us in ways we can all count, and more, the GPL'd versions will almost certainly keep the proprietary versions true to the GPL'd versions. And when the proprietary versions stray, the GPL'd versions will catch up in time.
Will this work? It seems to work for GhostScript. Are there any other examples?
Which fucked up moderators thought this was funny?
Sure, most blogs are diaries, or opinion, or rant, and blogrolling for the most part is an added value link farm.
But one of the real virtues of blogging by the old media, is the introduction of new feedback loop, the increased immediacy of the the actual report, and the removal of layers between the reporter and participants or analysts.
Have you ever been present at an event reported in the old media? You know then how different your perception, as a participant or as an expert was from the perception as reported by the journalists. What is important about blogs are the discussions and the mailto links that let you converse with the reporter and bring in new information or new perspectives.
In the past, the journalist went to his rolodex of so called analysts (Giga) or so called neutral experts. But there was no such thing as a neutral expert. And in the past you might be able to get your letter written to the editor, but did that really affect the reporting?
Journalistic blogs, those with discussions with the authors or editors are wonderful. Immediate. New feedback loops. The story is reported much more accurately, clearly, and timely. Pros and cons can connect with each other in a dialogue in ways they never could before.
It's a community, it's dialogue, it's no longer a monologue, it's a symbiosis of peers, it's a well informed conversation, not just a well-meaning, pc, overview.