"...tabbed browsing. it is the ultimate addition to web browsing."
Sshhhh! Shut up or M$ will steal our ideas.:)
Re:The Real Problem With Cheap Laptops
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While the prices seem accurate enough, I find one thing very puzzling. "Girlfriend"??? Surely you don't think that anyone geeky enough to use a soldering iron has a girlfriend?
Maybe we should
s/girlfriend/fantasy
s/have sex/masturbate ... ahh. Much more realistic.:/
Your comment: "How about this: roll the license up in a ball and stuff it up your ass." Your.sig: "All extremists should be shot."
Telling someone to take the license and shove it seems pretty extreme to me... considering they're ASKING for input. I'm not supporting M$, but at least give them a chance before turning away the software/license.
Umm, isn't AOL's motto "So easy to use, no wonder it's number one?":)
I agree with you, though... Even if half of the people who mistakenly "bought" something take action (refute the charge on their credit card, sue in court, whatever), that's still half of the users that will just sit by and accept it... resulting in a net profit for AOL.
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I must agree... the Canadian IMP kicks serious ass.... never tried a U.S. MRE, but I've had a number of IMPs throughout my cadet career... There's one, some kind of Lemon Chicken (I forget the name that's marked on the IMP), that is absolutely fantastic.
I'd like to find a place where I can buy a few cases of them.... they'd be great for camping, hunting, whatever.
"The RIAA will never be able to shut them down because of this, and while they might be able to buy over politicians, they will never be able to sway the public. The public will never want to give up the exhilirating freedom of file sharing information, and this will never happen."
No, the public may never want to give up that freedom. But the key word here is WANT. They could always be forced. What happens if RIAA, MPAA, whomever, starts gobbling up the ISPs? They would control all the routers, backbones, etc of the 'net (at least in the U.S.), and it would be trivial for them to implement filtering. You think anyone would stop them? Hah! Look how long it took before M$ was sued for abuse of monopoly... what are we going to do then? Go back to local BBSes and FidoNet?
Or they could "persuade" a few politicians to table legislation which makes it illegal for an ISP to run an unfiltered network. (Under the "contributory copyright infringement" facade)
Don't think it can't happen... at the rate the U.S. is going, they're going to be reduced to a 1984-style society *real* soon...
As much as most societies harp on "personal freedom", you are more "consumer" than "citizen". Remember that.
They even have matchmaking for planets now (one would presume that planets with similar Love Numbers would be "compatible"), but I don't see them doing any research to find ME a girlfriend...*sigh*
Actually, I recently serviced an HP system; the customer wanted a good NIC (as opposed to the integrated POS) installed. I had to remove the freakin' power supply, literally unscrew it, disconnect it from the motherboard, disonnect power from all the drives, etc just to access the PCI slots... I agree: Insane.
How would this work, realistically? What about programs like Go!Zilla that download a file from several sources at once? Will you be charged the tax on each stream, or just on the whole file? How will they know?
What about interrupted downloads -- a transfer breaks, and you resume the next day... will you be charged twice for the same file?
Let's sit back for a minute and think about what would happen if NAI wins this one... suddenly most every vendor out there will have these types of terms in their EULAs, right?
Well, think about some of the recent "Ask Slashdot" questions:
are two of the more recent ones... now think about what people generally post in response to these questions: discounting trolls and flamebait, many people post with a recommendation for a specific product or advice about which products to stay away from, and they usually then state their reasons (aka "review")...
If someone posts a negative personal experience with a company/product, said company could demand that it be removed due to the clause in their EULA... worse, they could demand the identity of the poster and proceed to sue their ass off.
It's good to finally see some positive action on the technological front from the government (I live in Canada, but all governments are generally the same when it comes to technology...;( ). I which NY all the best, and definitely hope that that clause in the EULA is found to be unconstitutional.
I get about 2Mbps downstream / 400Kbps upstream for $40 CDN$ (about $25 US$) per month, unlimited bandwidth usage. It's quite a sweet deal.:)
My provider is a subsidiary of Bell Canada (my DSL service is technically Sympatico High-Speed, but IMO is much better than what they have "down south" (by Toronto et al.)).
I picked up a book a while ago titled "Image Analysis and Processing", and it's part of the "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" series... it contains tons of information on image segmentation and has a few sections dealing specifically with object recognition and motion prediction. You could probably adapt many of the processes in there to suit your needs.
I picked up this book (and many other computer and math books) at my local Coles bookstore for $2-$5 CDN$ each... I guess they were trying to get rid of them. I don't know if you'll be able to find a copy, but here's the info anyways:
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1310
Image Analysis and Processing
Alberto Del Bimbo (Editor)
Published by Springer
ISSN: 0302-9743
ISBN: 3-540-63507-6
The editor's email address is listed in the cover page: delbimbo@aguirre.ing.unifi.it, so you might be able to contact him to see where you could find a copy... Good luck!
Well, there's two ways, each with their disadvantages: You can either use a modified 'nbtstat' (from Samba), or you can have a 'finger'-style daemon running on all the machines.
The 'nbtstat' method has a few disadvantages, including the fact that if a user logs onto two stations at once, only the most recently logged-on station will return a user name, and also that the returned ID codes (0x03) are the same for machine name and username...;(
The daemon method is more-or-less foolproof, but you need to deploy all the daemons... easy if you have login scripts set up from a centralized server, but a pain in the ass if you don't. Plus, you'd need to write the daemon software. Shouldn't be more than 100 lines or so (at most).
In either case, you have to queue packets to userspace by using the appropriate kernel module (ip_queue, IIRC), and a QUEUE target in your iptables rules.
Took me a while to figure out, too, and you have to decide which model is best for your network.
Either way, you basically need to write at least SOME code, so this is not for the faint of heart!
Heh... by coincidence, I just finished a project for the local hospital... I was coding a full-featured firewall based on Linux, and it had to integrate seamlessly with a WinNT network, including limiting 'net access by user name, and it had to work totally transparently for the users. Since a number of people in the hospital use Remotely Anywhere to connect from home, port forwarding became an issue for us.
Apparently a reduction in learning ability is also a symptom of electrical sensitivity... you'd think you'd learn to avoid putting the fork in a socket after the first time...;/
Just a note on Half-Life and Counter-Strike at LAN parties: Get a hold of a Half-Life key generator and it'll work fine. LAN games don't authenticate to WON, so keygens will work for LAN parties. It won't work online, though.
Actually, if everyone at the LAN party wants to play online, it's still possible. I believe if you set up a dedicated *Internet* server on a machine that has both LAN and Internet access, the clients with the generated keys can still join via LAN (no authentication!), but people with valid CD keys can still join from the 'net.
I recall doing this at my first LAN party. Now we don't have that problem because everyone ran out and bought a legal copy after the first LAN party.:)
Haha... It would be nice, just to see some of the masterful pieces of software engineering that virus writers create.
But can you imagine the shitstorm that M$ (and its bed-buddies) would raise? Hell... they don't even want to disclose that a vulnerability *exists*, let alone alone a code fragment which demonstrates an exploit. Can you imagine what they'd do if the FULL source for a worm like Code Red was released?
"...you can play on good audio hardware, not just old Sound Blaster speakers."
That's easy... go to Radio Shack and buy a 1/8" to RCA audio cable, plug the 1/8" plug into the output of your sound card, and hook up the RCA jacks into the auxiliary input of your stereo (assuming it supports it). Switch the stereo to use the aux. input (as opposed to CD, AM/FM, etc), and you're good to go.
This is the setup I have and it works awesome.... just make sure you keep your speakers far enough away from the monitor.;)
Well, what if we put dual (or quad?) T-Bird 1.5GHz CPUs and about a gig of RAM or so into this puppy? Do compression of the video on the fly. True, your camcorder would sound like a jet engine, with all the cooling gear, but it would seriously kick ass.:)
Of course, one could always imagine a Beow.... oh, never mind.
Not only that, but how exactly does encryption stop the pirating of copyrighted works? One of two things can still happen:
1) Somebody makes a 1:1 copy of a CD/whatever and plays it as normal, because the key would be, presumably, be on the media.
-or-
2) Somebody records the decrypted sound (by monitoring data being passed to the output (ie. soundcard) or some similar mechanism), and releases an MP3/Ogg/whatever that's not encrypted at all.
Man, I love committees and politicians.
"Hey guys, I heard about this cool thing called encryption... let's start using it!"
"How's it work?"
"I dunno.. it just sounds cool, and we get to seem like we know a lot about technology."
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"...tabbed browsing. it is the ultimate addition to web browsing."
:)
Sshhhh! Shut up or M$ will steal our ideas.
While the prices seem accurate enough, I find one thing very puzzling. "Girlfriend"??? Surely you don't think that anyone geeky enough to use a soldering iron has a girlfriend?
:/
Maybe we should
s/girlfriend/fantasy
s/have sex/masturbate
... ahh. Much more realistic.
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot:
.sig: "All extremists should be shot."
Your comment: "How about this: roll the license up in a ball and stuff it up your ass."
Your
Telling someone to take the license and shove it seems pretty extreme to me... considering they're ASKING for input. I'm not supporting M$, but at least give them a chance before turning away the software/license.
So, should I arrange the shooting?
- Jester
"...it would be hard to order something..."
:)
Umm, isn't AOL's motto "So easy to use, no wonder it's number one?"
I agree with you, though... Even if half of the people who mistakenly "bought" something take action (refute the charge on their credit card, sue in court, whatever), that's still half of the users that will just sit by and accept it... resulting in a net profit for AOL.
I must agree... the Canadian IMP kicks serious ass.... never tried a U.S. MRE, but I've had a number of IMPs throughout my cadet career... There's one, some kind of Lemon Chicken (I forget the name that's marked on the IMP), that is absolutely fantastic.
I'd like to find a place where I can buy a few cases of them.... they'd be great for camping, hunting, whatever.
- Jester
"The RIAA will never be able to shut them down because of this, and while they might be able to buy over politicians, they will never be able to sway the public. The public will never want to give up the exhilirating freedom of file sharing information, and this will never happen."
No, the public may never want to give up that freedom. But the key word here is WANT. They could always be forced. What happens if RIAA, MPAA, whomever, starts gobbling up the ISPs? They would control all the routers, backbones, etc of the 'net (at least in the U.S.), and it would be trivial for them to implement filtering. You think anyone would stop them? Hah! Look how long it took before M$ was sued for abuse of monopoly... what are we going to do then? Go back to local BBSes and FidoNet?
Or they could "persuade" a few politicians to table legislation which makes it illegal for an ISP to run an unfiltered network. (Under the "contributory copyright infringement" facade)
Don't think it can't happen... at the rate the U.S. is going, they're going to be reduced to a 1984-style society *real* soon...
As much as most societies harp on "personal freedom", you are more "consumer" than "citizen". Remember that.
- Jester
They even have matchmaking for planets now (one would presume that planets with similar Love Numbers would be "compatible"), but I don't see them doing any research to find ME a girlfriend...*sigh*
Actually, I recently serviced an HP system; the customer wanted a good NIC (as opposed to the integrated POS) installed. I had to remove the freakin' power supply, literally unscrew it, disconnect it from the motherboard, disonnect power from all the drives, etc just to access the PCI slots... I agree: Insane.
How would this work, realistically? What about programs like Go!Zilla that download a file from several sources at once? Will you be charged the tax on each stream, or just on the whole file? How will they know?
What about interrupted downloads -- a transfer breaks, and you resume the next day... will you be charged twice for the same file?
I really don't see how this can work very well...
"1^2=1; (-1)^2=1; 1^2=(-1)^2; 1=-1; 1=0"
:)
:)
There's a very major arithmetic flaw in there, aside from the fact that you're ignoring half of the roots.
Looking specifically at the line
1=-1
it should be intuitively obvious that
2=0, or
0=-2
*sigh* You've worked at NASA, haven't you?
- Jester
Hmm... I'm guessing that this isn't a stateful firewall, then? :)
Let's sit back for a minute and think about what would happen if NAI wins this one... suddenly most every vendor out there will have these types of terms in their EULAs, right?
;( ). I which NY all the best, and definitely hope that that clause in the EULA is found to be unconstitutional.
Well, think about some of the recent "Ask Slashdot" questions:
"Inexpensive Network Servers" (here)
"Time Tracking Software" (here)
are two of the more recent ones... now think about what people generally post in response to these questions: discounting trolls and flamebait, many people post with a recommendation for a specific product or advice about which products to stay away from, and they usually then state their reasons (aka "review")...
If someone posts a negative personal experience with a company/product, said company could demand that it be removed due to the clause in their EULA... worse, they could demand the identity of the poster and proceed to sue their ass off.
It's good to finally see some positive action on the technological front from the government (I live in Canada, but all governments are generally the same when it comes to technology...
I get about 2Mbps downstream / 400Kbps upstream for $40 CDN$ (about $25 US$) per month, unlimited bandwidth usage. It's quite a sweet deal. :)
My provider is a subsidiary of Bell Canada (my DSL service is technically Sympatico High-Speed, but IMO is much better than what they have "down south" (by Toronto et al.)).
I picked up a book a while ago titled "Image Analysis and Processing", and it's part of the "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" series... it contains tons of information on image segmentation and has a few sections dealing specifically with object recognition and motion prediction. You could probably adapt many of the processes in there to suit your needs.
I picked up this book (and many other computer and math books) at my local Coles bookstore for $2-$5 CDN$ each... I guess they were trying to get rid of them. I don't know if you'll be able to find a copy, but here's the info anyways:
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1310
Image Analysis and Processing
Alberto Del Bimbo (Editor)
Published by Springer
ISSN: 0302-9743
ISBN: 3-540-63507-6
The editor's email address is listed in the cover page: delbimbo@aguirre.ing.unifi.it, so you might be able to contact him to see where you could find a copy... Good luck!
Well, there's two ways, each with their disadvantages: You can either use a modified 'nbtstat' (from Samba), or you can have a 'finger'-style daemon running on all the machines.
;(
The 'nbtstat' method has a few disadvantages, including the fact that if a user logs onto two stations at once, only the most recently logged-on station will return a user name, and also that the returned ID codes (0x03) are the same for machine name and username...
The daemon method is more-or-less foolproof, but you need to deploy all the daemons... easy if you have login scripts set up from a centralized server, but a pain in the ass if you don't. Plus, you'd need to write the daemon software. Shouldn't be more than 100 lines or so (at most).
In either case, you have to queue packets to userspace by using the appropriate kernel module (ip_queue, IIRC), and a QUEUE target in your iptables rules.
Took me a while to figure out, too, and you have to decide which model is best for your network.
Either way, you basically need to write at least SOME code, so this is not for the faint of heart!
Good luck!
Yes, that method works, too, but the *ID matches only processes/users/groups on the local machine, IIRC.
Yes, I did actually do the port forwarding by IP, since anyone who has Remotely Anywhere access has a static IP on their station.
But the outgoing connections are limited by NT username.
"a sine wave, and it shifts it 90 degrees out of phase"
Uh, wouldn't it be easier to express this as a cosine curve, then?
Heh... by coincidence, I just finished a project for the local hospital... I was coding a full-featured firewall based on Linux, and it had to integrate seamlessly with a WinNT network, including limiting 'net access by user name, and it had to work totally transparently for the users. Since a number of people in the hospital use Remotely Anywhere to connect from home, port forwarding became an issue for us.
The syntax for port forwarding is:
iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p <protocol> --dport <destination port> -j DNAT --to-destination <destination IP>:<destination port>
Note that you can remap port numbers, too, if need be (ie. traffic coming in on port 80 is redirected internally to port 5000).
Make sure you have the destination NAT target compiled in (I think it might be, by default), and make sure you enable all the NAT stuff you need.
Apparently a reduction in learning ability is also a symptom of electrical sensitivity... you'd think you'd learn to avoid putting the fork in a socket after the first time... ;/
"Next thought would be Sex Tax."
/. crowd (myself included) would pay approximately, umm, $0.00 (give or take $0.00) for this tax. ;)
Hrmm... well, I could see a lot of people going into red ink because of this one.
Fortunately, the majority of the
- Jester
Just a note on Half-Life and Counter-Strike at LAN parties: Get a hold of a Half-Life key generator and it'll work fine. LAN games don't authenticate to WON, so keygens will work for LAN parties. It won't work online, though.
:)
Actually, if everyone at the LAN party wants to play online, it's still possible. I believe if you set up a dedicated *Internet* server on a machine that has both LAN and Internet access, the clients with the generated keys can still join via LAN (no authentication!), but people with valid CD keys can still join from the 'net.
I recall doing this at my first LAN party. Now we don't have that problem because everyone ran out and bought a legal copy after the first LAN party.
Just a thought for next time 'round.
"Maybe we need some open source worms..."
Haha... It would be nice, just to see some of the masterful pieces of software engineering that virus writers create.
But can you imagine the shitstorm that M$ (and its bed-buddies) would raise? Hell... they don't even want to disclose that a vulnerability *exists*, let alone alone a code fragment which demonstrates an exploit. Can you imagine what they'd do if the FULL source for a worm like Code Red was released?
"...you can play on good audio hardware, not just old Sound Blaster speakers."
;)
That's easy... go to Radio Shack and buy a 1/8" to RCA audio cable, plug the 1/8" plug into the output of your sound card, and hook up the RCA jacks into the auxiliary input of your stereo (assuming it supports it). Switch the stereo to use the aux. input (as opposed to CD, AM/FM, etc), and you're good to go.
This is the setup I have and it works awesome.... just make sure you keep your speakers far enough away from the monitor.
- Jester
Well, what if we put dual (or quad?) T-Bird 1.5GHz CPUs and about a gig of RAM or so into this puppy? Do compression of the video on the fly. True, your camcorder would sound like a jet engine, with all the cooling gear, but it would seriously kick ass. :)
Of course, one could always imagine a Beow.... oh, never mind.
Not only that, but how exactly does encryption stop the pirating of copyrighted works? One of two things can still happen:
1) Somebody makes a 1:1 copy of a CD/whatever and plays it as normal, because the key would be, presumably, be on the media.
-or-
2) Somebody records the decrypted sound (by monitoring data being passed to the output (ie. soundcard) or some similar mechanism), and releases an MP3/Ogg/whatever that's not encrypted at all.
Man, I love committees and politicians.
"Hey guys, I heard about this cool thing called encryption... let's start using it!"
"How's it work?"
"I dunno.. it just sounds cool, and we get to seem like we know a lot about technology."
"Wow... you're right. Let's go ahead with that."