I disagree. Mozilla has cred because people have heard of Netscape.
When it comes to cretaceous-era multinational corporations, cheap becomes more interesting than free. Tenured bosses who get nervous about signing off on a piece of software supported by (gasp) amateurs (yeah, yeah, I know. but that's what Open Source is to them) will be much happier about writing a check to Sun, which is a venerable old player and whose quality of software and support is well-known.
Interesting that the reviewer chose to focus on the OpenOffice flavor rather than the StarOffice flavor, given that large corporations (Sun's sugar daddies) would be much more likely to stampede for corporate support--and corporate name recognition.
I think OpenOffice shows a lot of promise in the windows world, but I wonder how long it'll take for Microsoft Word to obfuscate its file format (it's pretty obfuscated as is, but I get the feeling they have not yet begun to fight). Far too often, it's convenience that rules the day; despite the fact that RTF is still a darn good format, people save in Microsoft Word 2008.324.DOC format and then kvetch when Word 2008.323 can't read it. OpenOffice is trying to beat Word at its own game, but I frankly don't think all of that is sustainable. We will see encrypted document files, and even more draconian EULAs from Microsoft; I only hope that some corporations are willing to take the plunge and become vendor-independent.
Yes, the eardrum would probably vibrate, since your entire skull is vibrating. But that's just gravy. The malleus and stapes would have vibrations directly conducted to them by the skull, and the amplitude of these vibrations would drown out anything coming from the eardrum, even if it weren't damaged.
You've obviously been reading some extra section of the Constitution of which I'm unaware. Exactly where does it say that the government can't pass laws about what companies they purchase from? The federal government already has laws making it favor domestic vendors, for example.
"unfair" != "unconstitutional"
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The reason I'm mentioning this is that I expect one day there'll be a huge 802.11 network built. (Or something like it...) It'll start with an apartment complex sharing an internet connection. Then they'll share their files. Then they'll connect neighboring complexes.... and so on. There won't be any charge for bandwidth other than electricity.
Oh, boy. Accessing servers 40 hops away, and 30 of those hops are not very dependable. Let's hope that by then, IPv7 can read minds.
This isn't copy protection at all. What you're seeing is called a moire effect.
The reason this occurs is that the girlie pic wasn't printed with solid colors. If you look closely, you'll see that it's made up of colored dots of different sizes. Ordinarily, our eyes blur these together, and the picture looks fine. However, a scanner records pixels at very precise intervals, and this causes some groups to be recorded more heavily than other groups.
This technique (known as screening) has been around much longer than scanners. It was never intended as copy protection, and it's fairly easy to get around.
Yes. They can track your ISP, obtain a court order to search the ISP's logs, obtain your information, and arrest you.
is this likely to happen?
Short answer: no.
Long answer: Do you know how many people do this stuff? If the FBI went after every copyright violator in the nation, they woould need an incredible amount of manpower. IF you aren't reproducing and (important) selling bootlegs, nobody cares. You've been taking the "FBI Warning" at the beginning of videos way too seriously.;-)
The latency, while it makes the system less usable, is on balance harmless..... it is always possible to increase the timeout value. The main focus of the paper was on the impact of Gnutella's bandwidth. And those "small" search packets really do add up, once you consider how many times a particular search is propagated.
Yes, of course. Gnutella makes only the most limited attempt to ensure privacy. Case in point: a while back (in fact, it still may be running) a server returned fake matches to requests for kiddie porn, and published the IP addresses that had been caught trying to download the "files" on a webpage. I don't have to tell you how indignant some people got, and for the funniest reasons.
You're correct in saying that Microsoft's monopolistic attitude is not found in the Linux community.
But you're wrong in assuming Linuxers don't have a counterpart. It's called blind paternalism. We love this thing we've created, and we're willing to support it against all but the most insurmountable statistics, just because you "know in your heart"that it's better.
It's cool that existing uses of titanium will continue at a lower cost, but I think that, realistically, it will be a while before we start to see titanium used in cans, cooking foil, etc. The reason is that most metalworking machinery is a very hing capital investment. Although some of titanium's metallurgical properties are similar to those of aluminum (aluminium for you Brits out there), much of this machinery would need to be replaced. If I read this correctly, aluminum would still be cheaper to extract from bauxite, due to the relative simplicity of the electrolytic process.
With that said, I can't wait to see what new, cool things scientists decide to do with the new, cheaper titanium. An uncrushable beer can, anyone?
The fact that they're making it commercially available at all is interesting, but there's one flaw, which has been pointed out by a few people: it requires replacing the keyboard. The fact that they've made different versions available is a step i the right direction, but I have an even better solution: just stick the dang thing in an adapter. a 1x2x2 oyster-grey box on the back of a computer, going between the keyboard jack and plug, could record just as easily. Moreover, it's a heck of a lot easier to conceal under your trenchcoat than an entire Microsoft Natural Keyboard.;-)
A couple of ears back, I actually made something that basically did just that (well, similar). It was basically just some simple circuitry to plug a keyboard into a parallel port. And I'm not exactly an electronics genius.
The only flaw then would be that you'd be hard pressed to get any dirt on hardcore geeks like us; we spend too much time fiddling around with cables to let it go unnoticed.
> To put the size of the die into a more > understandable relationship, consider the > potential computing power in the TM5400, with > that of a push pin.
Not necessarily... New pushpin technologies, including a new ergonomic design for the plastic "pusher", as well as a revolutionary Cork Board Insertion Array (CBIA) design, may give pushpins the "edge" in bulletin board applications for many more years. Intel's rumored 2.3 Gigahertz pushpin is slated for manufacture in spring 2001, and AMD is close behind, with a proposed pin that uses less than 2 milliwatts. Both of these are expected to be ready for inclusion in imbedded devices, such as corkboards attached to whiteboards.
Okay, so cookies are flawed. They're insecure and undiscriminating. But that isn't really the problem here. Online stores, plain and simple, should NOT store your CC info there. Why would they? The rest of your data (full name, address, etc.) is stored on their servers. All they should need is some randomly generated, IP address-tagged session id or customer id. Nevertheless, I am willing to accept the guy's assertion that there is some website that stored his CC num in a world-readable format.
If I ran a conventional store, and you bought something with a credit card, I could xerox 200 pieces of paper with the number on it and post them on telephone poles. This does NOT mean we need to blame telephone poles! Credit cards, not cookies, are the dangerously flawed technology we need to cope with here. You have a 20- or so digit number, which anyone can use to spend your money any number of times, for anything and for any amount of money, without your approval? Suddenly, cookies sound rather benign in comparison.
Remembering a few medium length, random alphanumeric passwords is easy. The trick is corellating 'em to sites. I have 6 passwords which I've memorized. Each begins with a number, from 1 to 6. When I go to a site, I use a stochastic option selector (read: dice) to decide which passord to use. Then, I have a file in my home directory like this:
slashdot 3 somenews 1 crash 6 chromium 1
I also have a printout somewhere, but it gets outdated pretty quickly.
This also simplifies password changing; every two months or so, I'll add one to each number (should make a script to do this, but lazy) and go around to the sites and change 'em.
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I disagree. Mozilla has cred because people have heard of Netscape.
When it comes to cretaceous-era multinational corporations, cheap becomes more interesting than free. Tenured bosses who get nervous about signing off on a piece of software supported by (gasp) amateurs (yeah, yeah, I know. but that's what Open Source is to them) will be much happier about writing a check to Sun, which is a venerable old player and whose quality of software and support is well-known.
Interesting that the reviewer chose to focus on the OpenOffice flavor rather than the StarOffice flavor, given that large corporations (Sun's sugar daddies) would be much more likely to stampede for corporate support--and corporate name recognition.
.DOC format and then kvetch when Word 2008.323 can't read it. OpenOffice is trying to beat Word at its own game, but I frankly don't think all of that is sustainable. We will see encrypted document files, and even more draconian EULAs from Microsoft; I only hope that some corporations are willing to take the plunge and become vendor-independent.
I think OpenOffice shows a lot of promise in the windows world, but I wonder how long it'll take for Microsoft Word to obfuscate its file format (it's pretty obfuscated as is, but I get the feeling they have not yet begun to fight). Far too often, it's convenience that rules the day; despite the fact that RTF is still a darn good format, people save in Microsoft Word 2008.324
Yes, the eardrum would probably vibrate, since your entire skull is vibrating. But that's just gravy. The malleus and stapes would have vibrations directly conducted to them by the skull, and the amplitude of these vibrations would drown out anything coming from the eardrum, even if it weren't damaged.
To sum up: look at a book of anatomy.
Wow..... you mean, like headphones or something? how spooky! Sound from nowhere!
You've obviously been reading some extra section of the Constitution of which I'm unaware. Exactly where does it say that the government can't pass laws about what companies they purchase from? The federal government already has laws making it favor domestic vendors, for example.
"unfair" != "unconstitutional"
The reason I'm mentioning this is that I expect one day there'll be a huge 802.11 network built. (Or something like it...) It'll start with an apartment complex sharing an internet connection. Then they'll share their files. Then they'll connect neighboring complexes.... and so on. There won't be any charge for bandwidth other than electricity.
Oh, boy. Accessing servers 40 hops away, and 30 of those hops are not very dependable. Let's hope that by then, IPv7 can read minds.
Screw that.... I already have a bunch of wrestling games.
Looks like Majestic never got around to taking all those old sites down.
Wow..... I've heard of people not reading an article they reply to, but you seem to not have finished reading a COMMENT you're replying to
This isn't copy protection at all. What you're seeing is called a moire effect.
The reason this occurs is that the girlie pic wasn't printed with solid colors. If you look closely, you'll see that it's made up of colored dots of different sizes. Ordinarily, our eyes blur these together, and the picture looks fine. However, a scanner records pixels at very precise intervals, and this causes some groups to be recorded more heavily than other groups.
This technique (known as screening) has been around much longer than scanners. It was never intended as copy protection, and it's fairly easy to get around.
can I get prosecuted if they have my ip?
;-)
Yes. They can track your ISP, obtain a court order to search the ISP's logs, obtain your information, and arrest you.
is this likely to happen?
Short answer: no.
Long answer: Do you know how many people do this stuff? If the FBI went after every copyright violator in the nation, they woould need an incredible amount of manpower. IF you aren't reproducing and (important) selling bootlegs, nobody cares. You've been taking the "FBI Warning" at the beginning of videos way too seriously.
The latency, while it makes the system less usable, is on balance harmless..... it is always possible to increase the timeout value. The main focus of the paper was on the impact of Gnutella's bandwidth. And those "small" search packets really do add up, once you consider how many times a particular search is propagated.
Yes, of course. Gnutella makes only the most limited attempt to ensure privacy. Case in point: a while back (in fact, it still may be running) a server returned fake matches to requests for kiddie porn, and published the IP addresses that had been caught trying to download the "files" on a webpage. I don't have to tell you how indignant some people got, and for the funniest reasons.
Not to mention that it means a 25-fold reduction in the weight of the cables used to carry electricity for a large chunk of Detroit.
Thank God. And just when it looked like Detroit was going to sink into the ocean under its own weight.
hehehe. TCP/IP seems to have garnered almost as many religious fanatics as Linux.
Ad Hominem, baby!
Yeah! And IIS isn't windows.... so if IIS is full of security holes, that doesn't cast doubts on NT.
Let them attempt the FUD
Yeah, nobody likes FUD.
<i>Linux is more stable, more flexible and more secure!</i>
HAHAHAHAHA! Thanks, man. That irony made my day.
You're correct in saying that Microsoft's monopolistic attitude is not found in the Linux community.
But you're wrong in assuming Linuxers don't have a counterpart. It's called blind paternalism. We love this thing we've created, and we're willing to support it against all but the most insurmountable statistics, just because you "know in your heart"that it's better.
> ...plus a device that converts audio signals into vibrations
Wow. We can call this new device...
a speaker.
It's cool that existing uses of titanium will continue at a lower cost, but I think that, realistically, it will be a while before we start to see titanium used in cans, cooking foil, etc. The reason is that most metalworking machinery is a very hing capital investment. Although some of titanium's metallurgical properties are similar to those of aluminum (aluminium for you Brits out there), much of this machinery would need to be replaced. If I read this correctly, aluminum would still be cheaper to extract from bauxite, due to the relative simplicity of the electrolytic process. With that said, I can't wait to see what new, cool things scientists decide to do with the new, cheaper titanium. An uncrushable beer can, anyone?
The fact that they're making it commercially available at all is interesting, but there's one flaw, which has been pointed out by a few people: it requires replacing the keyboard. The fact that they've made different versions available is a step i the right direction, but I have an even better solution: just stick the dang thing in an adapter. a 1x2x2 oyster-grey box on the back of a computer, going between the keyboard jack and plug, could record just as easily. Moreover, it's a heck of a lot easier to conceal under your trenchcoat than an entire Microsoft Natural Keyboard. ;-)
A couple of ears back, I actually made something that basically did just that (well, similar). It was basically just some simple circuitry to plug a keyboard into a parallel port. And I'm not exactly an electronics genius.
The only flaw then would be that you'd be hard pressed to get any dirt on hardcore geeks like us; we spend too much time fiddling around with cables to let it go unnoticed.
> To put the size of the die into a more
> understandable relationship, consider the
> potential computing power in the TM5400, with
> that of a push pin.
Not necessarily... New pushpin technologies, including a new ergonomic design for the plastic "pusher", as well as a revolutionary Cork Board Insertion Array (CBIA) design, may give pushpins the "edge" in bulletin board applications for many more years. Intel's rumored 2.3 Gigahertz pushpin is slated for manufacture in spring 2001, and AMD is close behind, with a proposed pin that uses less than 2 milliwatts. Both of these are expected to be ready for inclusion in imbedded devices, such as corkboards attached to whiteboards.
Okay, so cookies are flawed. They're insecure and undiscriminating. But that isn't really the problem here. Online stores, plain and simple, should NOT store your CC info there. Why would they? The rest of your data (full name, address, etc.) is stored on their servers. All they should need is some randomly generated, IP address-tagged session id or customer id. Nevertheless, I am willing to accept the guy's assertion that there is some website that stored his CC num in a world-readable format.
If I ran a conventional store, and you bought something with a credit card, I could xerox 200 pieces of paper with the number on it and post them on telephone poles. This does NOT mean we need to blame telephone poles! Credit cards, not cookies, are the dangerously flawed technology we need to cope with here. You have a 20- or so digit number, which anyone can use to spend your money any number of times, for anything and for any amount of money, without your approval? Suddenly, cookies sound rather benign in comparison.
Remembering a few medium length, random alphanumeric passwords is easy. The trick is corellating 'em to sites. I have 6 passwords which I've memorized. Each begins with a number, from 1 to 6. When I go to a site, I use a stochastic option selector (read: dice) to decide which passord to use. Then, I have a file in my home directory like this:
slashdot 3
somenews 1
crash 6
chromium 1
I also have a printout somewhere, but it gets outdated pretty quickly.
This also simplifies password changing; every two months or so, I'll add one to each number (should make a script to do this, but lazy) and go around to the sites and change 'em.
That's correct, but there is a reason to officially register your copyright: It increases the liability of anyone who copies it.