I'm sure that somewhere, a lawyer is looking for the descendants of Hierocles and Philagrius to bring a copyright suit against the Pythons. And you just know that the Media companies are going to start lobbying Congress to extend copyright to at least 1600 years:
"See, just look at this blatant example of intellectual piracy. This cannot be allowed to happen to American artists..."
"and was designed for increased speed and system capacity"
and see - it went down far faster and more completely than the previous system would have been able to. So that's progress. It's all in how you present it.
by an evil mainframe to enslave humans by hooking them on the irresistible construction toys, thus destroying productivity and creating an insatiable demand for new bricks.
Time Warner is going to block Usenet completely, but NOT web sites. Why? Because it's a lot harder to monetize newsgroup traffic (spam-filled groups notwithstanding). From their point of view, all that NNTP traffic uses bandwidth that they can't sell advertising over. So this is just a good excuse to dump the whole thing, and anyone complaining will be labeled a pervert.
Anyway, who cares if a bunch of geeks can't hold discussions about their favorite TV shows? The Internet is not about common people communicating amongst themselves - it's a delivery system for fully-monetized product. One way, period.
Either Usenet will adapt some of the stealth mechanisms that P2P has had to, or the predictions will come true.
And that's one of the reasons the various governments and commercial interests are going to do everything they can to push this through. No more SSL, Tor, Freenet, GnuNet, PGP, etc. etc. etc. And they'll probably ban ad blockers for good measure...
You'll need a license to use ssh, limited to registered IP addresses, and with your RSA keys escrowed.
SSL servers will require a license to operate (and those will be limited to banks and other commercial entities with a proven need).
There are so many people with financial and authoritarian interests in these sorts of restrictions, that they can't help but get established somewhere. All it really needs in the West is a proper P.R. campaign demonizing the opponents.
And exactly how is this different from the wavelet-compressed MrSid format? LizardTech was doing this sort of "download-what-your're-focused-on" multi-resolution zoom *years* ago. Six years ago I could zoom in smoothly and deeply to an area of a multi-GB image, and the plugin would grab only those pixels needed to show that area at that resolution.
So what exactly is new here, except for the use of Silverblight?
Hey! My uucp node is still in the pathalias map files from rutgers!uucpmap. Of course, it hasn't been updated in 17 years, and the machine listed has long since gone to the recycler, but it's still listed.
Who knows? The way things are going with the major ISPs, we may have to fall back on it someday...
On the other hand, I *love* reading books on my 770. It's small enough to slip in my pocket, and I can easily hold and operate it with one hand while standing on the bus. And it has some great games, IM and email, and VOIP support. And since it *does* run Linux, it's not that hard to port the apps I need to it (especially those written in Python or tcl).
Practice. Field experience for the junior officers in a relatively safe operation. And a certain amount of fear in their neighbors, which might be used in diplomatic negotiations."
*If* they went after NK first, then Taiwan would definitely be the next target. It would be a much tougher nut to crack, so they might want some practice first. That's assuming that they don't take effective control of Taiwan through economic or political means first.
The fetching of the link triggers a raid and seizure of equipment and records. So what if the subsequent search reveals nothing - do you honestly think that the innocent party is going to get their stuff back anytime in this century? That's not the track record of law enforcement to date - they'll hang on to everything for years.
And that doesn't even *begin* to address the damage to their reputation that's bound to occur. Accusations are front-page news - retractions are buried in the back.
How hard would it be for some botnet manager to monitor the appropriate IRC channels, record the links posted, and command the zombies to fetch those URLs? Doesn't have to do anything with the data - just a simple GET.
One of 2 things could happen:
- Instantly, the honeypot server gets/.'d, and the FBI gets a million IP addresses to sift through.
- A bunch of innocent people are scared to death by dawn raids, and lose all of their electronic equipment and records. Even if they aren't convicted, they'll never get their stuff or lives back.
Remember the recent post about the NFL claiming all intellectual property related to the game? Including trademarking every related name? Kind of like the ridiculously-overreaching IP grabs you see in the tech space all the time.
(If you missed the post the other day, I'm sure the editors will repeat it soon with a slightly-different title...:-)
On a brighter note, I hear that the trademark "19-0"(tm) is going for next to nothing these days:-)
("19-0" is a trademark of the New England Patriots Football Team, and should only be used when referring to their official hubris).
And see - you have flat-rate unlimited TV service, so you live with the ads. Now how about the world where you have to pay per minute for your TV shows, AND you pay for the time taken up by the ads. Kind of like getting telemarketing calls on your time-billed cell phone.
You can see where people might be a bit miffed....
Yeah, that particular machine was an 11/45 running RSTS/E. That was a sweet machine and O/S learning programming and systems fundamentals. Oh, it had FORTRAN, COBOL, and assembly too, for the masochistic Comp Sci students.
The real reason they didn't put Unix on it was because that machine was the *only* minicomputer on campus, and ran the school database (written by Larry) and cafeteria card readers. It was locked in to running those critical functions, and V7 Unix certainly wasn't going to run on the occasional Trash-80 that was hanging around.
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African, European, or Alien swallows?
(assuming that the airspeed velocity is irrelevant here...)
I'm sure that somewhere, a lawyer is looking for the descendants of Hierocles and Philagrius to bring a copyright suit against the Pythons. And you just know that the Media companies are going to start lobbying Congress to extend copyright to at least 1600 years:
"See, just look at this blatant example of intellectual piracy. This cannot be allowed to happen to American artists..."
"and was designed for increased speed and system capacity"
and see - it went down far faster and more completely than the previous system would have been able to. So that's progress. It's all in how you present it.
How about:
1 - the owner was distraught, and didn't have a clue about what really happened (if such a staement was actually made at all).
2 - prove this actually happened (the BBC timing). I think that's just an urban-crackpot legend.
It's simple.
If they get thrown in jail, then can dig the implants out of their arms, and use them to make a primitive laser to cut open the lock.
Of course, it takes 2 implants, and a piece of an old bedframe....
by an evil mainframe to enslave humans by hooking them on the irresistible construction toys, thus destroying productivity and creating an insatiable demand for new bricks.
So far, it's working pretty well....
Um, that particular question was settled about 42 years ago...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_About_Time_%28TV_series%29
Cavemen definitely come out ahaed.
>That or you could just learn Russian... I don't think they *have* any simple-syllable words in Russian :-)
Da!
The next step is to block connection attempts to port 119/tcp, and report the offenders the the FBI.
If they don't find anything after seizing your computers, then you'll be free to go.
Time Warner is going to block Usenet completely, but NOT web sites. Why? Because it's a lot harder to monetize newsgroup traffic (spam-filled groups notwithstanding). From their point of view, all that NNTP traffic uses bandwidth that they can't sell advertising over. So this is just a good excuse to dump the whole thing, and anyone complaining will be labeled a pervert.
Anyway, who cares if a bunch of geeks can't hold discussions about their favorite TV shows? The Internet is not about common people communicating amongst themselves - it's a delivery system for fully-monetized product. One way, period.
Either Usenet will adapt some of the stealth mechanisms that P2P has had to, or the predictions will come true.
"and restrict the use of online privacy tools. "
And that's one of the reasons the various governments and commercial interests are going to do everything they can to push this through. No more SSL, Tor, Freenet, GnuNet, PGP, etc. etc. etc. And they'll probably ban ad blockers for good measure...
You'll need a license to use ssh, limited to registered IP addresses, and with your RSA keys escrowed.
SSL servers will require a license to operate (and those will be limited to banks and other commercial entities with a proven need).
There are so many people with financial and authoritarian interests in these sorts of restrictions, that they can't help but get established somewhere. All it really needs in the West is a proper P.R. campaign demonizing the opponents.
And exactly how is this different from the wavelet-compressed MrSid format? LizardTech was doing this sort of "download-what-your're-focused-on" multi-resolution zoom *years* ago. Six years ago I could zoom in smoothly and deeply to an area of a multi-GB image, and the plugin would grab only those pixels needed to show that area at that resolution.
So what exactly is new here, except for the use of Silverblight?
Hey! My uucp node is still in the pathalias map files from rutgers!uucpmap. Of course, it hasn't been updated in 17 years, and the machine listed has long since gone to the recycler, but it's still listed.
Who knows? The way things are going with the major ISPs, we may have to fall back on it someday...
Microsoft reaching out to the Blender guys is like Darth Vader reaching out to a subordinate who displeases him...
ultimately with the same result.
On the other hand, I *love* reading books on my 770. It's small enough to slip in my pocket, and I can easily hold and operate it with one hand while standing on the bus. And it has some great games, IM and email, and VOIP support. And since it *does* run Linux, it's not that hard to port the apps I need to it (especially those written in Python or tcl).
FBreader is a wonderful little book reader.
>WTF would they get from North Korea?
Practice. Field experience for the junior officers in a relatively safe operation. And a certain amount of fear in their neighbors, which might be used in diplomatic negotiations."
*If* they went after NK first, then Taiwan would definitely be the next target. It would be a much tougher nut to crack, so they might want some practice first. That's assuming that they don't take effective control of Taiwan through economic or political means first.
Likewise - I was coding in BASIC on PDP's *years* before the Apple II came out. Or the Apple I even...
Dialup via a 110-baud acoustic coupler on an ASR-33 teletype - now *that's* "old school"!
The fetching of the link triggers a raid and seizure of equipment and records. So what if the subsequent search reveals nothing - do you honestly think that the innocent party is going to get their stuff back anytime in this century? That's not the track record of law enforcement to date - they'll hang on to everything for years.
And that doesn't even *begin* to address the damage to their reputation that's bound to occur. Accusations are front-page news - retractions are buried in the back.
Consider it the newest version of "swatting"...
/.'d, and the FBI gets a million IP addresses to sift through.
How hard would it be for some botnet manager to monitor the appropriate IRC channels, record the links posted, and command the zombies to fetch those URLs? Doesn't have to do anything with the data - just a simple GET.
One of 2 things could happen:
- Instantly, the honeypot server gets
- A bunch of innocent people are scared to death by dawn raids, and lose all of their electronic equipment and records. Even if they aren't convicted, they'll never get their stuff or lives back.
It's only a matter of time....
It should probably down a couple of gas giants, or maybe a cool nebula.
Remember the recent post about the NFL claiming all intellectual property related to the game? Including trademarking every related name? Kind of like the ridiculously-overreaching IP grabs you see in the tech space all the time.
:-)
:-)
(If you missed the post the other day, I'm sure the editors will repeat it soon with a slightly-different title...
On a brighter note, I hear that the trademark "19-0"(tm) is going for next to nothing these days
("19-0" is a trademark of the New England Patriots Football Team, and should only be used when referring to their official hubris).
And see - you have flat-rate unlimited TV service, so you live with the ads. Now how about the world where you have to pay per minute for your TV shows, AND you pay for the time taken up by the ads. Kind of like getting telemarketing calls on your time-billed cell phone.
You can see where people might be a bit miffed....
First gaming experience - checkers with my Grandfather (he cheated routinely)
:-)
First *computer* game - a number-guessing one on a Monroe 1880 programmable calculator (no display - numeric paper roll output only)
Followed by "Hunt the Wumpus" on a RSTS PDP-11
Uless you count toggling the RIM-loader on the PDP-8 front panel - that could be quite challenging to win
You kids and your fancy video displays - bleh.
Yeah, that particular machine was an 11/45 running RSTS/E. That was a sweet machine and O/S learning programming and systems fundamentals. Oh, it had FORTRAN, COBOL, and assembly too, for the masochistic Comp Sci students.
The real reason they didn't put Unix on it was because that machine was the *only* minicomputer on campus, and ran the school database (written by Larry) and cafeteria card readers. It was locked in to running those critical functions, and V7 Unix certainly wasn't going to run on the occasional Trash-80 that was hanging around.
Do you have any idea how *long* it takes to do a full kernel build on some low-end boxes? There's more than enough time for other activities... :-)