That's why they can keep spamming their own customers at their plesure -- because most people don't like it, but arn't determined to stand up for themselves, and show the company they won't get business this way.
They seem pretty hesitant to talk about it, even in the unofficial nvidia irc channel. That's the _first_ place it'll probably be available though.
irc.openprojects.net, #nvidia /ctcp ice-dcc xdcc list
Be sure to bother ripperda if he's on - he works at nvidia doing coding for their linux drivers, and just loves to be bothered!:)
I find myself on there quite often to see if they've improved VIA chipset support, which currently sends my kernel down in a blazing fire:(
When will NASA learn that the entire *purpose* of putting these images up on the internet is so people can make the pictures into desktop backgrounds? You call these high res? I want my 1280x1024, dammit.
> If the children can do it very easy the adults should have not much more problems.
I'm afraid I'll have to disagree there - children can learn much faster than adults when it comes to such things, and this is because the nerve pathes in their brains are still forming.
Give this to a baby, and I'm willing to bet they'll develop its use just as fast as any other appendage's motor control, and as an adult will use it with as much precision as their other hand. But give this to an adult, and I doubt they'll ever get fully used to it like their other hands, and learning the basics would take much more time.
Small childrens' brains are built to do nothing but learn, and its quite amazing how much they can learn in the time they do. Take the complexities of language, for instance. It doesn't take long at all for a child with no knowledge at all to recognise patterns in speech, mimic those patterns, learn what they mean, and start creating sentences that make sense. A small child will grow up fluent in twelve different languages if all of those are present when the brain is developing at that pace. But an adult has much difficulty learning even one new language, especially if they only grew up with one language spoken in their environment.
well, being an infinatly long number, probability would say that yes, all the universe's secrets are somehow encoded into pi somewhere in the sequence.
So, that would mean DeCSS is hidden in pi as well! Wait till the mpaa sues!
At my school, Homecoming king/queen are nominated by the varsity football players, and the cheerleaders. That's right - the football players and cheerleaders. It's quite a sad thing to see...
I'm in the same situation you are. Unfortunatly, I've looked around and haven't been able to find a mod for my DVD player that will disable it. However, many players have been hacked to bypass macrovision (as well as making them codefree). Perhaps yours can be modified?
I would love to use Memory Sticks for such applications, but unfortunatly, Sony decided to make it proprietary. Have you seen those Sony Memory Stick "MP3 players"? These actually are incapable of playing mp3s, but instead play Sony's format, and the windows software bundled with the player converts your mp3s before sending to the device. This way, they can use the software to allow you to 'check out' the music to the device, and refuse to let you put it anywhere else. The RIAA must be proud.
Anyway, I'd recommend using CompactFlash cards instead. Its basically the same thing, except with more support.
I hate to blatantly advertise, but this seems to be the perfect place. Mod me down if its inappropriate.
I run a hosting provider called stratius.com. The server runs on FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE, on a network with multiple redundant backbone links (3 seperate backbone links). GPG is installed, which works very well with mutt for secure email accessed with ssh. Alternatively, mail can be sent/received via POP3/SMTP, or a web-based system (SSL capable). Since going up, we've had no crashes, but in that event, there are two backup dns/mail servers.
Stratius does mostly web-hosting, but mail-only is definatly something that could be worked out.
If interested, please email (sales at stratius.com), or talk to an admin on irc.stratius.com, #stratius.
by XORing the data with random bytes, and distributing among different servers, you basically not only acheive what you described, but also it is mathematically impossible to prove any of the servers were involved, only that they host random data.
A method by which a customer wishing to order specific products does not have to enter any information whatsoever. This is accomplished by use of a program executed on the user's computer which will gather all needed information (credit card number/s, address, personal information, etc), pick the products the user most likely wants to buy, and complete the transaction automatically.
Congratulations, guys, I always appreciate a good hack, and making an IP tunnel over dns is something I'd never even have thought of. Keep up the good work.
David Madore wrote a paper about using XOR to be able to publish information without the author being trackable. I suggest you read it.
I wrote a program called Pad which implements this scheme, if you're interested. I also have a public pad repository, one of many repositories which have links on David's page.
That's right, the newest drivers seem to be back online, so grab em fast, because an accouncement on freshmeat posted by someone close to the project says 'we may be forced to remove it again". Grab your copy at http://oss.lineo.com/projects.html before they're all gone!
This time, if something happens, there will be people with mirrors ready.
Out of curiosity - how does this work anyway? Is it the _average_ distance between the earth and the sun? There's no way it is always the same distance, unless the earth's orbit was perfectly circular.
Now this is just my own guess, but I've noticed many people here asking "why do they care when they're not making a profit anyway?". Here's my theory:
Their software gives their servers the id of both the barcode you scanned, AND the id of your original cuecat. How hard is it to set the server up to remember all these, track people's scanning habbits, even know roughly where you live based on the id their software sends them? Not hard at all! I bet they're collecting massive demographic information about every one of their users, and this linux software is screwing it up for them.
The linux drivers don't send the server your cuecat id, because I assume the author was in the its-none-of-their-damn-business mindset.
Now the product they spent money to give away to the public is no longer collecting all the information they want, which was the whole purpose of giving it away in the first place.
Just my opinion anyway, but I suggest you don't use their software if at all possible, if you're concerned about privacy. Hell, it probably also gives em a good look at the contents of your drive...who knows:/
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That's why they can keep spamming their own customers at their plesure -- because most people don't like it, but arn't determined to stand up for themselves, and show the company they won't get business this way.
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Not to worry, my mobo is a FIC 503+, and the AGP chipset is a VIA Apollo MVP3. I like the mobo, just hate the MVP3.
Good luck with your KT133!
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They seem pretty hesitant to talk about it, even in the unofficial nvidia irc channel. That's the _first_ place it'll probably be available though.
/ctcp ice-dcc xdcc list
:)
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irc.openprojects.net, #nvidia
Be sure to bother ripperda if he's on - he works at nvidia doing coding for their linux drivers, and just loves to be bothered!
I find myself on there quite often to see if they've improved VIA chipset support, which currently sends my kernel down in a blazing fire
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NSI deserves this after all the shit they've put us through. I hope the suit wins, go for it! :)
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When will NASA learn that the entire *purpose* of putting these images up on the internet is so people can make the pictures into desktop backgrounds? You call these high res? I want my 1280x1024, dammit.
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> If the children can do it very easy the adults should have not much more problems.
I'm afraid I'll have to disagree there - children can learn much faster than adults when it comes to such things, and this is because the nerve pathes in their brains are still forming.
Give this to a baby, and I'm willing to bet they'll develop its use just as fast as any other appendage's motor control, and as an adult will use it with as much precision as their other hand. But give this to an adult, and I doubt they'll ever get fully used to it like their other hands, and learning the basics would take much more time.
Small childrens' brains are built to do nothing but learn, and its quite amazing how much they can learn in the time they do. Take the complexities of language, for instance. It doesn't take long at all for a child with no knowledge at all to recognise patterns in speech, mimic those patterns, learn what they mean, and start creating sentences that make sense. A small child will grow up fluent in twelve different languages if all of those are present when the brain is developing at that pace. But an adult has much difficulty learning even one new language, especially if they only grew up with one language spoken in their environment.
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well, being an infinatly long number, probability would say that yes, all the universe's secrets are somehow encoded into pi somewhere in the sequence.
So, that would mean DeCSS is hidden in pi as well! Wait till the mpaa sues!
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Oh, I beg to differ...
At my school, Homecoming king/queen are nominated by the varsity football players, and the cheerleaders. That's right - the football players and cheerleaders. It's quite a sad thing to see...
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Wow, they must have a hell of a lot of storage space to be able to even save that entire number to some storage medium.
1,000,000,000,000,000 bits
=125,000,000,000,000 bytes
=122,070,312,500 kilobytes
=119,209,289 megabytes
=116415 gigabytes
=113 terabytes
Yes - over 113 terabytes just to save the number itself - I can't even imagine how difficult it would be to -process- it.
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I'm in the same situation you are. Unfortunatly, I've looked around and haven't been able to find a mod for my DVD player that will disable it. However, many players have been hacked to bypass macrovision (as well as making them codefree). Perhaps yours can be modified?
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Sounds great, until you get sued for everything you're worth.
Really- I'd like to see someone set up something like that, but history shows if its made public, there'll likely be some serious legal action.
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I would love to use Memory Sticks for such applications, but unfortunatly, Sony decided to make it proprietary. Have you seen those Sony Memory Stick "MP3 players"? These actually are incapable of playing mp3s, but instead play Sony's format, and the windows software bundled with the player converts your mp3s before sending to the device. This way, they can use the software to allow you to 'check out' the music to the device, and refuse to let you put it anywhere else. The RIAA must be proud.
Anyway, I'd recommend using CompactFlash cards instead. Its basically the same thing, except with more support.
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I hate to blatantly advertise, but this seems to be the perfect place. Mod me down if its inappropriate.
I run a hosting provider called stratius.com. The server runs on FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE, on a network with multiple redundant backbone links (3 seperate backbone links). GPG is installed, which works very well with mutt for secure email accessed with ssh. Alternatively, mail can be sent/received via POP3/SMTP, or a web-based system (SSL capable). Since going up, we've had no crashes, but in that event, there are two backup dns/mail servers.
Stratius does mostly web-hosting, but mail-only is definatly something that could be worked out.
If interested, please email (sales at stratius.com), or talk to an admin on irc.stratius.com, #stratius.
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by XORing the data with random bytes, and distributing among different servers, you basically not only acheive what you described, but also it is mathematically impossible to prove any of the servers were involved, only that they host random data.
;)
I happen to have written a program to do that
http://www.lammah.com/pad/
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A method by which a customer wishing to order specific products does not have to enter any information whatsoever. This is accomplished by use of a program executed on the user's computer which will gather all needed information (credit card number/s, address, personal information, etc), pick the products the user most likely wants to buy, and complete the transaction automatically.
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Ok, its over now, and I missed the whole thing.
:)
Was anyone recording it? Transcribing it at least? Post a link to either of those and I'm sure you'll get +5 Informative
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Score: -1, Redundant
:)
I am going to continue to rip my CD's to use the unrestricted MP3 file format
Please remember MP3 is not an unrestricted format, and there are better (as in quality as well as freedom) alternatives, such as Ogg Vorbis.
Personally, I'm very anxiously awaiting the Vorbis encoder to finish its beta stages and start being heavily optimized for quality and speed.
Sure, MP3 over SDMI, but OGG over both
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Perhaps this can be shot down just like in the betamax case?
Either way, I'm sure smart people will figure out a way around it far before I can afford one of these TVs...
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no no no, you're wasting precious data space!
:P )
A = 00
T = 01
C = 10
G = 11
This way, you can fit two bits into each dna segment.
(what? you were just making a point? Oh
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Congratulations, guys, I always appreciate a good hack, and making an IP tunnel over dns is something I'd never even have thought of. Keep up the good work.
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David Madore wrote a paper about using XOR to be able to publish information without the author being trackable. I suggest you read it.
I wrote a program called Pad which implements this scheme, if you're interested. I also have a public pad repository, one of many repositories which have links on David's page.
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That's right, the newest drivers seem to be back online, so grab em fast, because an accouncement on freshmeat posted by someone close to the project says 'we may be forced to remove it again". Grab your copy at http://oss.lineo.com/projects.html before they're all gone!
This time, if something happens, there will be people with mirrors ready.
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"What I don't want to see is a road map of the source code that could give the bad guys the ability to thwart this," he says
;)
I'm sorry, but doesn't encrypting the message in the first place make it useless to the fbi anyway?
I've never seen the source for this, or heard anything about how it works, but I just figured that out. I must be an evil genius
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Out of curiosity - how does this work anyway? Is it the _average_ distance between the earth and the sun? There's no way it is always the same distance, unless the earth's orbit was perfectly circular.
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Now this is just my own guess, but I've noticed many people here asking "why do they care when they're not making a profit anyway?". Here's my theory:
:/
Their software gives their servers the id of both the barcode you scanned, AND the id of your original cuecat. How hard is it to set the server up to remember all these, track people's scanning habbits, even know roughly where you live based on the id their software sends them? Not hard at all! I bet they're collecting massive demographic information about every one of their users, and this linux software is screwing it up for them.
The linux drivers don't send the server your cuecat id, because I assume the author was in the its-none-of-their-damn-business mindset.
Now the product they spent money to give away to the public is no longer collecting all the information they want, which was the whole purpose of giving it away in the first place.
Just my opinion anyway, but I suggest you don't use their software if at all possible, if you're concerned about privacy. Hell, it probably also gives em a good look at the contents of your drive...who knows
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