But people can still use web-based (semi)secure email like hushmail (I think the password is sent over SSL, so it might only be good for one-offs...
But given the level of surveillance that they are reportedly requiring, how does one know that A) the kiosk-Carnivore setup won't allow SSL, and B) even if it does, there won't be some kind of background program running on the kiosk that will copy the passwords and any other information that they feel like intercepting?
Why should the guilty be allowed the same rights as everybody else? They've gone out of their way to invade other people's rights - they deserve everything they get. Protecting criminals only leads to them getting away with it and comitting more crime.
Because one of the basic principles of law (in the USA) is "innocent until proven guilty." Say that the FBI only eavesdrops on people who it believes to be violating the law (I'm not saying that this isn't the case, but then again, I'm not necessarily saying that it is). If it then eavesdrops on someone who turns out not to be guilty at all, then an innocent person's rights have been violated. Not good.
The same thing goes for other such "good faith" laws that are in effect. For example, the Supreme Court has ruled that law enforcement officials may search whatever they feel is necessary to search whenever they feel it is necessary to do so, provided that they have a good faith belief that they are doing it "by the rules." OK, but what happens when someone is subjected to an illegal search, but cannot take any legal action because, oh gee, the police *thought* they were doing it legally? Regardless of whether the party being subjected to the search is guilty or not, allowing law enforcement such power based on "belief" can be a very bad thing. Not only does it create the possibility of innocent citizens being subjected to illegal searches, but it also has a potential for abuse. [Cop searches home/car/whatever based on a hunch, knowing full well that it is an illegal search. Then when it goes to court, said cop states (untruthfully of course) that s/he was doing it in "good faith."]
Don't get me wrong here -- I fully support going after those who break the law. However, the rights of the innocent must be carefully protected as well.
no he wasn't. he was convicted of contempt of court. a big difference.
Perjury and contempt of court aren't really that different. Perjury is of course the act of lying under oath, and contempt of court is doing anything that may be seen as a hostile act towards the court. Lying can be construed as hostile. In fact, depending on the circumstances, they can actually hit you with contempt as well as or i/o perjury.
As the title of this post says, the OpenGL v. D3D battle depends largely on the video card used. For example, 3dfx cards do quite well with OpenGL, but are somewhat lacking in their D3D performance. OTOH, nVidia cards aren't all that great with OpenGL, but shine in the area of D3D.
Of course it's linux's fault, I mean , after all, we all need someone to blames, so lets blame the OS itself since, god forbid, the IT staff has to be infaliable.
Many grocery stores and such carry it. It's called "Dry Ice."
And isn't that a little dangerous to handle?
In its solid form, of course it is. Hence the warnings you'll see at the aforementioned stores on the dry ice bins.
What happens if somehow it malfunctions and you get deadly carbon dioxide released into your room.
In large amounts, CO2 can be harmful, but in the relatively small amounts needed for a CPU-cooling system, it isn't that bad. Remember, every time you exhale, a significant portion of what you exhale is CO2. Just as long as there is breathable air around...
Of course, if they see enough 'referrer' notices coming from/. to that URL, they'll either start crediting Slashdot as a channel participant or start blocking referring links from/.
There is software out there that can spoof the referrer string or block it from being transmitted.
TV stations shouldn't really care due to the presence of commercials (except cable channels - HBO perhaps).
HBO needn't worry either. Ever wonder why channels like HBO cost extra? Not only because they don't have the commercial level that most TV stations do, but also because they pay through the nose for the rights to broadcast whatever movies they are broadcasting.
Linux is a great way to teach basic OS design. Rated in innovative features per share of the OS market, it's the least innovative out there. The userland is not the OS, by the way.
Perhaps. But there is the slight stumbling block that Windows XX isn't open source. (Wouldn't matter if it was anyway because no sane person would want CS students learning how to write OSes the Microsoft way.)
Fiddling around with a hobby Operating System based on a 20 year old architecture is NOT appropriate work for tax funded researchers.
Whether or not Linux is a "hobby" OS is arguable, but even if it is, what's the harm? Do you expect these researchers to spend 24/7 of their lives researching whatever they are researching? Hint: it isn't going to happen; they have lives too. And if it is Linux that they are researching and/or using in the classrom, so what? Being open source, Linux is a great way to teach everything from basic programming concepts to advanced OS design.
Just what I need, someone reprogramming my settings. I come in from dinner, and all of a sudden I'm watching thirty hours of Ron Popeil's Showtime Rotisserie Grill.
It could be worse, you could be watching 30 hours of Barney reruns.
Of Course Federal Laws can be overturned at a state level.
They can be overturned by district federal courts that cover only a few states, but they can NOT be overturned by individual states. For those of you who don't remember your early American history, this was a major problem leading up to the Civil War -- individual states would attempt to "nullify," or declare null and void, federal laws. This of course was outside the boundaries of what they were allowed to do, which increased the interstate tension that led up to (among other things) the Civil War.
Grumble... I was trying to come up with a +1 Funny way of saying this, but it's not happening, so I'll just put it straight:
How about...
We are no longer a democracy, we are a RIAAocracy
It's a sad state when the same people who make movies make laws
Our lawmakers are on strike, so the AFL/CIO took over
and so on and so on...
You can already get a free domain name from namezero.com. They forward to your web-host, and you just have to put up with a small advert frame at the bottom.
Yup. There are a couple of drawbacks, however (in addition to the ad frame). You can't set up your own DNS. In other words, you can't set up blah.mydomain.com to point to 111.222.111.222, etc. This means that you can't set up any kind of server for use with this domain, whether a mail, WWW, IRC,... server. There is an interface through which you can add xxx@mydomain.com, but as with the www.mydomain.com aliases NZ offers, they are only forwarding aliases and nothing more. Not that I'm putting NZ down (I happen to have an NZ domain), I'm just pointing out that NZ domain != 'real' domain.
De-compiling is rather difficult (if not damn-near impossible) and the resultant code might not compile elsewhere, assuming a different platform/compiler.
Not to mention that instead of having A) comments, and B) meaningful variable and function names, you won't have jack. For example, you'll have functions like Function1() instead of DoXXX().
On a related note, anti-trust law also has a small provision that if you abuse your monopoly power by doing something like price fixing, you loose your copyright. Thus the Record Label's Copywrited work (they own not the artist) will enter the public domain.
Does this mean that if Microsoft is shown to have fixed their prices (which, given some of their pricing & licensing practices, wouldn't be a far shot), that all of their software will enter the public domain?
I always thought it would be a great project for kids to program AIs for a game, and have them play each other. It could be something simple like rock-paper-scissor, or even something like checkers
Rock-paper-scissor? All that this would require is a simple call to rand(). IMO, choosing a random number from 1 to 3 doesn't really qualify as being "AI." Now checkers, that would be tricky. Given the time they are alloted/will spend on it, a HS CS student might be able to come up with a make-the-first-legal-move-found type of algorithm, but it would take (a lot of) extra time to make a good AI for checkers.
Back in my HS CS class, I wrote an implementation of Pong, complete with AI. This would be something for HS students to work on; it isn't terribly difficult, but there is more to it than is readily apparent. It would also help sharpen their mathematical skills (for example, by having to determine the angle at which the ball bounces off the paddle based on where it strikes the paddle).
Wouldn't any Slashdotter be pissed if their favorite GPL software was downloaded by Microsoft, "extended", and released as a proprietary product, without the sourcecode or anything?
Because the CEO of Napster is willing to stand up for what he believes in. He doesn't care about the money - he cares about winning the legal battle his company is in. In other words, the RIAA isn't going to buy Napster because Napster isn't willing to sell itself out to the RIAA (let's hope).
There is a 'copyrighted' bit in the header of an MP3 file. So apparently, the creators of the MP3 format had copyright violations in mind, but as anybody can figure out not very many people bother to set this bit when they rip an MP3.
Slashdot Mirror
about as stable as Win 9x in my experience
*snicker*
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No marketing department in the Christian(and maybe elsewhere) world would *EVER* market a processor as 666 Mhz.
True, but since technically it is 666.66666 MHz, they would market such a processor (if they made it) as 667 MHz instead.
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But people can still use web-based (semi)secure email like hushmail (I think the password is sent over SSL, so it might only be good for one-offs...
But given the level of surveillance that they are reportedly requiring, how does one know that A) the kiosk-Carnivore setup won't allow SSL, and B) even if it does, there won't be some kind of background program running on the kiosk that will copy the passwords and any other information that they feel like intercepting?
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Why should the guilty be allowed the same rights as everybody else? They've gone out of their way to invade other people's rights - they deserve everything they get. Protecting criminals only leads to them getting away with it and comitting more crime.
Because one of the basic principles of law (in the USA) is "innocent until proven guilty." Say that the FBI only eavesdrops on people who it believes to be violating the law (I'm not saying that this isn't the case, but then again, I'm not necessarily saying that it is). If it then eavesdrops on someone who turns out not to be guilty at all, then an innocent person's rights have been violated. Not good.
The same thing goes for other such "good faith" laws that are in effect. For example, the Supreme Court has ruled that law enforcement officials may search whatever they feel is necessary to search whenever they feel it is necessary to do so, provided that they have a good faith belief that they are doing it "by the rules." OK, but what happens when someone is subjected to an illegal search, but cannot take any legal action because, oh gee, the police *thought* they were doing it legally? Regardless of whether the party being subjected to the search is guilty or not, allowing law enforcement such power based on "belief" can be a very bad thing. Not only does it create the possibility of innocent citizens being subjected to illegal searches, but it also has a potential for abuse. [Cop searches home/car/whatever based on a hunch, knowing full well that it is an illegal search. Then when it goes to court, said cop states (untruthfully of course) that s/he was doing it in "good faith."]
Don't get me wrong here -- I fully support going after those who break the law. However, the rights of the innocent must be carefully protected as well.
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no he wasn't. he was convicted of contempt of court. a big difference.
Perjury and contempt of court aren't really that different. Perjury is of course the act of lying under oath, and contempt of court is doing anything that may be seen as a hostile act towards the court. Lying can be construed as hostile. In fact, depending on the circumstances, they can actually hit you with contempt as well as or i/o perjury.
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As the title of this post says, the OpenGL v. D3D battle depends largely on the video card used. For example, 3dfx cards do quite well with OpenGL, but are somewhat lacking in their D3D performance. OTOH, nVidia cards aren't all that great with OpenGL, but shine in the area of D3D.
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Of course it's linux's fault, I mean , after all, we all need someone to blames, so lets blame the OS itself since, god forbid, the IT staff has to be infaliable.
Simple solution:
Blame Canada!
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Where do you get frozen Carbon Dioxide?
Many grocery stores and such carry it. It's called "Dry Ice."
And isn't that a little dangerous to handle?
In its solid form, of course it is. Hence the warnings you'll see at the aforementioned stores on the dry ice bins.
What happens if somehow it malfunctions and you get deadly carbon dioxide released into your room.
In large amounts, CO2 can be harmful, but in the relatively small amounts needed for a CPU-cooling system, it isn't that bad. Remember, every time you exhale, a significant portion of what you exhale is CO2. Just as long as there is breathable air around...
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Of course, if they see enough 'referrer' notices coming from /. to that URL, they'll either start crediting Slashdot as a channel participant or start blocking referring links from /.
There is software out there that can spoof the referrer string or block it from being transmitted.
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TV stations shouldn't really care due to the presence of commercials (except cable channels - HBO perhaps).
HBO needn't worry either. Ever wonder why channels like HBO cost extra? Not only because they don't have the commercial level that most TV stations do, but also because they pay through the nose for the rights to broadcast whatever movies they are broadcasting.
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Linux is a great way to teach basic OS design. Rated in innovative features per share of the OS market, it's the least innovative out there. The userland is not the OS, by the way.
Perhaps. But there is the slight stumbling block that Windows XX isn't open source. (Wouldn't matter if it was anyway because no sane person would want CS students learning how to write OSes the Microsoft way.)
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Fiddling around with a hobby Operating System based on a 20 year old architecture is NOT appropriate work for tax funded researchers.
Whether or not Linux is a "hobby" OS is arguable, but even if it is, what's the harm? Do you expect these researchers to spend 24/7 of their lives researching whatever they are researching? Hint: it isn't going to happen; they have lives too. And if it is Linux that they are researching and/or using in the classrom, so what? Being open source, Linux is a great way to teach everything from basic programming concepts to advanced OS design.
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Just what I need, someone reprogramming my settings. I come in from dinner, and all of a sudden I'm watching thirty hours of Ron Popeil's Showtime Rotisserie Grill.
It could be worse, you could be watching 30 hours of Barney reruns.
=================================
Of Course Federal Laws can be overturned at a state level.
They can be overturned by district federal courts that cover only a few states, but they can NOT be overturned by individual states. For those of you who don't remember your early American history, this was a major problem leading up to the Civil War -- individual states would attempt to "nullify," or declare null and void, federal laws. This of course was outside the boundaries of what they were allowed to do, which increased the interstate tension that led up to (among other things) the Civil War.
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Grumble... I was trying to come up with a +1 Funny way of saying this, but it's not happening, so I'll just put it straight:
How about...
We are no longer a democracy, we are a RIAAocracy
It's a sad state when the same people who make movies make laws
Our lawmakers are on strike, so the AFL/CIO took over
and so on and so on...
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anti-porn's gonna be furious!
For a good laugh, check out his web site at http://www.dcmcnamara.com/.
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You can already get a free domain name from namezero.com. They forward to your web-host, and you just have to put up with a small advert frame at the bottom.
... server. There is an interface through which you can add xxx@mydomain.com, but as with the www.mydomain.com aliases NZ offers, they are only forwarding aliases and nothing more. Not that I'm putting NZ down (I happen to have an NZ domain), I'm just pointing out that NZ domain != 'real' domain.
Yup. There are a couple of drawbacks, however (in addition to the ad frame). You can't set up your own DNS. In other words, you can't set up blah.mydomain.com to point to 111.222.111.222, etc. This means that you can't set up any kind of server for use with this domain, whether a mail, WWW, IRC,
=================================
De-compiling is rather difficult (if not damn-near impossible) and the resultant code might not compile elsewhere, assuming a different platform/compiler.
Not to mention that instead of having A) comments, and B) meaningful variable and function names, you won't have jack. For example, you'll have functions like Function1() instead of DoXXX().
=================================
On a related note, anti-trust law also has a small provision that if you abuse your monopoly power by doing something like price fixing, you loose your copyright. Thus the Record Label's Copywrited work (they own not the artist) will enter the public domain.
Does this mean that if Microsoft is shown to have fixed their prices (which, given some of their pricing & licensing practices, wouldn't be a far shot), that all of their software will enter the public domain?
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Pretty soon restaurants will be coming out with "**Didn't wash his hands**" detectors for bathrooms.
FYI this Far Side cartoon can be found here.
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I always thought it would be a great project for kids to program AIs for a game, and have them play each other. It could be something simple like rock-paper-scissor, or even something like checkers
Rock-paper-scissor? All that this would require is a simple call to rand(). IMO, choosing a random number from 1 to 3 doesn't really qualify as being "AI." Now checkers, that would be tricky. Given the time they are alloted/will spend on it, a HS CS student might be able to come up with a make-the-first-legal-move-found type of algorithm, but it would take (a lot of) extra time to make a good AI for checkers.
Back in my HS CS class, I wrote an implementation of Pong, complete with AI. This would be something for HS students to work on; it isn't terribly difficult, but there is more to it than is readily apparent. It would also help sharpen their mathematical skills (for example, by having to determine the angle at which the ball bounces off the paddle based on where it strikes the paddle).
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Wouldn't any Slashdotter be pissed if their favorite GPL software was downloaded by Microsoft, "extended", and released as a proprietary product, without the sourcecode or anything?
Isn't this what they did with Kerberos?
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Why doesn't the RIAA buy napster?
Because the CEO of Napster is willing to stand up for what he believes in. He doesn't care about the money - he cares about winning the legal battle his company is in. In other words, the RIAA isn't going to buy Napster because Napster isn't willing to sell itself out to the RIAA (let's hope).
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There is a 'copyrighted' bit in the header of an MP3 file. So apparently, the creators of the MP3 format had copyright violations in mind, but as anybody can figure out not very many people bother to set this bit when they rip an MP3.
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I need to be able to sustain at least a 23MB/s (That is MEGABYTES per second) transfer rate over the course of about 2 hours.
23 megs a second is a lot of bandwidth, whether we're dealing with a network or not. I'm curious as to what the intended use of this will be.
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