So many people here are saying that the inventors of mp3 should be allowed to charge royalties if they want to. But the problem is, MPEG-1 is on open format, and mp3 stands for MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3! Fruaenhofer donated their mp3 to be part of an open format, so they shouldn't be able to charge for it!
This reminds me of something I have thought about a lot in the past. If we are ever to travel FAR away from earth, we would need some way to communicate, and it is clear that radio and light are far too slow to do this. For communication to work, something someone does in one location has to change something in another location, and that change is interpreted as information (whether it is by vibrating an ear drum or converting radio to audio). So my question is
What is the speed of gravity?
Perhaps someone with more background in physics could answer this one for me. If all mass is always exerting a force on all other mass, if mass is destroyed (via nuclear reactions or whatever) how long does it take for the change in force that was once being exerted by the object that was destroyed to stop acting on other masses? Is this instant?
These scientists used ultra-sensative gravity measurement tools to discover these planets, could something similar not eventually be used for instantaneous communication accross the universe?
the first distro with this will be the one i install on my shiny new laptop. yes i know i could do it myself but this is easier and i would like to try something else (even though every time i install a new distro, i go back to slackware in less than a month) but at least it will hold me over until the next slackwre release!
Dude, when a chick is complaining to you about how there are no good guys out there, we call this 'hitting' on you, for some reason. It means she wants you!
Serously, you should try and tap that. I am not kidding.
It is really simple. Just press F11 to go to full screen mode. Then the adds are all gone. Full screen mode looks a lot better than IE's version (no bar at the top or side).
If you can memorize the keys to controll it without the buttons, this is the way to go.
This download is only 2 megs! And it is so fast!
Seriously check this thing out. If the ads bother you, just turn them off with F11.
Well, if one-click shopping is patentable, I am sure this is, too. I am sure someone will try to patent it. That would be proof of just how much the patent system in the US helps citizens.
Look, what you are saying is pretty much right. Right now,.com,.net, and.org are not verified to ensure they are commercial, organizations, or whatever. And your webpage doesn't really fit into any of those categories. But if you would have read the article, you would see that.coop is going to solve this problem.
They are going to charge much higher registrations fees for.coop, and with this money they will do research and reviews to ensure that.coop's are actually relavent. This really is a great idea. When I go to a.coop, I will know I will not end up at something totally offtopic. Now if the whole net were done this way, that would be a problem. The.net.org.com chaos will still be intact. Anybody can have still have one. This is just more options for but website creators and for web surfers.
Seriously, in my school, the engineering people need like 200 hours to graduate. And some of those phys ed majors only need like 40 hours. It is horribl. But at least I know I will be making 4 times as much money as them so it is worth the extra work.
Go boil your bottom, you stupid son of a silly person! I fart in your general direction! I empty my nostrils on your aunties! Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries! Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second tim'e!
Residents of Poland,
Download the ISOs of any free software you want.
Have the man try and tax that!
If you need ISOs, I will make them for you and put them to you.
'netstat' to get their IP address. Then teardrop/syndrop/+++ATH0 ping/whatever exploit works on winodws to make sure they learn their lesson. Very effective.
You want a device that does 802.11? That is old news! 802.11 is an old standard that only does 2mbps. Any new wireless device uses 802.11b, which does 11mbps at 2.4ghz. Just letting you know. Don't get 802.11.
Well to me this sounds like you put your hands on two domes and wiggle the domes around. Now all the need to do is put nipples on these domes and I will love typing on this device.
Oh, and it will be great when they come out with the force feedback version, like those new logitech mice.
And since they don't have keys, they can't call it a keyboard. I therefore suggest they call it a breast board, since that is what it most closely resembles.
The government should not do anthing to anyone for tracerouting or pinging. There is nothing wrong with that. I use these tools often, just for curiosity.
If a computer has a web server running that allows anyone to download a webpage, it should be considered authorized use. If a computer returns my pings, that should be authorized use. These people should be allowed to ping/traceroute whoever they want, and so should I. If people don't want me to ping them, they should set up their computers not to return my pings.
I long for the old days of the internet when you weren't considered a threat if you used a ping. Now we must play dumb or be considred "hackers".
I have seen RedHat 6.2 at Wal-Mart. That was quite a while ago. This guy must never go to the software section of Wal-Mart if he thinks Linux being there is something new.
Who was the moron who modded this down? Linux kernel modules are not done well at all. You can't use a binary module from linux 2.2 in linux 2.4. Or use a 2.4 module with 2.2. QNX solves this problem, which I feel is the greatest problem with linux today. Kernel driver modularity.
Look, just because they have something called 'modules' in the kernel does not mean the 'modularity' is nearly as useful as that of QNX.
Hold on a second there, before you flame me. I love linux and I run slackware. I also love FreeBSD. And I run OpenBSD on my laptop. But there is one thing I really don't like about Linux--the design of the kernel. I dont like the idea of recompiling the kernel for new drivers. QNX is truely modular. Companies can release binary-only drivers for QNX and they work. This does not work well with linux, because the kernel changes every second.
You see, Linux started as a project to run on one computer. QNX RtP is designed by engineers who had a clear view of what they want it to be when it is done. It is well engineered. With linux, you have to change the kernel to add drivers! That is NOT the way it shold be done! This is not a problem with QNX.
All this being said I still love OpenSource, and I like linux but hate the way drivers are implemented in it. I would trade a poorly designed opensource kernel for a smaller, more modular commercial one, as long as the rest of the OS is open source. With QNX, you dont need to hack the kernel itself, because it is very small.
When I was in high school they had BESS. They claim that it only blocks sites that have been reviewed by humans. However, they had freshmeat.net blocked! After bitching them out on email, they unblocked it. What is funny is that BESS blocks a big linux site, and ironically, BESS runs on linux!
But I got around it. I wrote a perl GGI script which I kept on a server bess didn't block and would fetch the URL I submit to it and print it to the screen. Since BESS works via blocking by DNS/IP, I easily got around it. It was sweet, I put password protection into the script and sold accounts to people in school for $5 each! Oh and I later found out about another program that works much like my besspass.cgi perl script, only it is more evolved. It is called GGIProxy. You can get it here.
"Criminalize the production, sale, distribution or otherwise making available of devices or computer programs who's primary use is to access computer systems or communications."
The thing is they say "access, intercept, or interfere with".
They would be making all network programs illegal. Dumbasses.
They changed the layout of the gimp with the latest beta. His screen shots are all wrong. Oh well, this is why documenting software is not such a popular activity.
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What is the speed of gravity?
Perhaps someone with more background in physics could answer this one for me. If all mass is always exerting a force on all other mass, if mass is destroyed (via nuclear reactions or whatever) how long does it take for the change in force that was once being exerted by the object that was destroyed to stop acting on other masses? Is this instant?
These scientists used ultra-sensative gravity measurement tools to discover these planets, could something similar not eventually be used for instantaneous communication accross the universe?
the first distro with this will be the one i install on my shiny new laptop. yes i know i could do it myself but this is easier and i would like to try something else (even though every time i install a new distro, i go back to slackware in less than a month) but at least it will hold me over until the next slackwre release!
"Hacking, spreading viruses are much bigger criminal offenses in cyber terrorism than pornography," Mehta said.
So in India, pornography is an offense in cyber terrorism? Thank god I don't live there! Damn!
You must not have much experience in this area.
Dude, when a chick is complaining to you about how there are no good guys out there, we call this 'hitting' on you, for some reason. It means she wants you!
Serously, you should try and tap that. I am not kidding.
you are both wrong! it is:
"what is the average airspeed velocity of an unlaiden swallow?"
"what do you mean? african, or european?"
"why, i dont know that-AAAAAAAHHHHH!"
sorry, it just really bugs me when people misquote scripture like that.
It is really simple. Just press F11 to go to full screen mode. Then the adds are all gone. Full screen mode looks a lot better than IE's version (no bar at the top or side).
If you can memorize the keys to controll it without the buttons, this is the way to go.
This download is only 2 megs! And it is so fast!
Seriously check this thing out. If the ads bother you, just turn them off with F11.
Well, if one-click shopping is patentable, I am sure this is, too. I am sure someone will try to patent it. That would be proof of just how much the patent system in the US helps citizens.
Look, what you are saying is pretty much right. Right now, .com, .net, and .org are not verified to ensure they are commercial, organizations, or whatever. And your webpage doesn't really fit into any of those categories. But if you would have read the article, you would see that .coop is going to solve this problem.
.coop, and with this money they will do research and reviews to ensure that .coop's are actually relavent. This really is a great idea. When I go to a .coop, I will know I will not end up at something totally offtopic. Now if the whole net were done this way, that would be a problem. The .net .org .com chaos will still be intact. Anybody can have still have one. This is just more options for but website creators and for web surfers.
They are going to charge much higher registrations fees for
Seriously, in my school, the engineering people need like 200 hours to graduate. And some of those phys ed majors only need like 40 hours. It is horribl. But at least I know I will be making 4 times as much money as them so it is worth the extra work.
That is some funny shit! Ha! Thanks!
Go boil your bottom, you stupid son of a silly person! I fart in your general direction! I empty my nostrils on your aunties! Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries! Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second tim'e!
Residents of Poland,
Download the ISOs of any free software you want.
Have the man try and tax that!
If you need ISOs, I will make them for you and put them to you.
Why hasn't someone modded this as funny yet? Aliens helped the egyptions. Yeah...
'netstat' to get their IP address. Then teardrop/syndrop/+++ATH0 ping/whatever exploit works on winodws to make sure they learn their lesson. Very effective.
You want a device that does 802.11? That is old news! 802.11 is an old standard that only does 2mbps. Any new wireless device uses 802.11b, which does 11mbps at 2.4ghz. Just letting you know. Don't get 802.11.
Oh, and it will be great when they come out with the force feedback version, like those new logitech mice.
And since they don't have keys, they can't call it a keyboard. I therefore suggest they call it a breast board, since that is what it most closely resembles.
The government should not do anthing to anyone for tracerouting or pinging. There is nothing wrong with that. I use these tools often, just for curiosity.
If a computer has a web server running that allows anyone to download a webpage, it should be considered authorized use. If a computer returns my pings, that should be authorized use. These people should be allowed to ping/traceroute whoever they want, and so should I. If people don't want me to ping them, they should set up their computers not to return my pings.
I long for the old days of the internet when you weren't considered a threat if you used a ping. Now we must play dumb or be considred "hackers".
I have seen RedHat 6.2 at Wal-Mart. That was quite a while ago. This guy must never go to the software section of Wal-Mart if he thinks Linux being there is something new.
Geeze.
Who was the moron who modded this down? Linux kernel modules are not done well at all. You can't use a binary module from linux 2.2 in linux 2.4. Or use a 2.4 module with 2.2. QNX solves this problem, which I feel is the greatest problem with linux today. Kernel driver modularity.
Look, just because they have something called 'modules' in the kernel does not mean the 'modularity' is nearly as useful as that of QNX.
Hold on a second there, before you flame me. I love linux and I run slackware. I also love FreeBSD. And I run OpenBSD on my laptop. But there is one thing I really don't like about Linux--the design of the kernel. I dont like the idea of recompiling the kernel for new drivers. QNX is truely modular. Companies can release binary-only drivers for QNX and they work. This does not work well with linux, because the kernel changes every second.
You see, Linux started as a project to run on one computer. QNX RtP is designed by engineers who had a clear view of what they want it to be when it is done. It is well engineered. With linux, you have to change the kernel to add drivers! That is NOT the way it shold be done! This is not a problem with QNX.
All this being said I still love OpenSource, and I like linux but hate the way drivers are implemented in it. I would trade a poorly designed opensource kernel for a smaller, more modular commercial one, as long as the rest of the OS is open source. With QNX, you dont need to hack the kernel itself, because it is very small.
Modularity.
Modularity.
But I got around it. I wrote a perl GGI script which I kept on a server bess didn't block and would fetch the URL I submit to it and print it to the screen. Since BESS works via blocking by DNS/IP, I easily got around it. It was sweet, I put password protection into the script and sold accounts to people in school for $5 each! Oh and I later found out about another program that works much like my besspass.cgi perl script, only it is more evolved. It is called GGIProxy. You can get it here.
"Criminalize the production, sale, distribution or otherwise making available of devices or computer programs who's primary use is to access computer systems or communications."
The thing is they say "access, intercept, or interfere with".
They would be making all network programs illegal. Dumbasses.
They changed the layout of the gimp with the latest beta. His screen shots are all wrong. Oh well, this is why documenting software is not such a popular activity.
Python will always be Free and Open Source. No matter what it says there, that is absolutely no reason to not use the language. Don't try to create problems where there aren't any.