What does this have to do with CP? Your fake doctored image could have shown them doing any number of societally stigmatic things - murdering someone, burning down a church, having kinky sex, committing adultery, parading around in a Nazi uniform... all these things could damage a person reputation. Are we then to make any depiction of murder, sex, racism, bigotry illegal?
A group of users have decided to try to implement Paranoid Linux as described in the book. It's a Linux distribution meant for use under oppressive regimes. It assumes you are under surveillance and actively attempts to veil your communications by hiding it among automatically generated random activity. Reminds me of the scheme Randy uses in Cryptonomicon to avoid eavesdropping on his laptop while trapped in his cell.
They appear to be in the very early stages only, but an interesting and potentially very worthy project. paranoidlinux.org
I've never heard of a provider locking out ringtones or blocking picture transfers (which since half of those go via bluetooth would be rather difficult). Verizon disables OBEX transfers on all their mobile phones, which means that the only data you can transfer via Bluetooth are contacts.
Been there, Done that. And haven't been back in almost 50 years. And if you'd bothered to RTFA, you'd see they talk about Kittinger's jump; in fact, Fournier has been in regular contact with him and he supports Fournier's jump.
More to the point, this almost 25% higher than that one, about 3.7 miles more.
The funny thing about the old computer game box art was that it seemed that the worse the game's graphics the more vivid, detailed, and colorful the box art. And misleading. My brother and I wasted so much time trying to put on an unobtainable suit of armor in the original King's Quest simply because the cover art showed a character wearing it!
I like them both. But to get back to the subject of browser plugins, while the mplayer plugin is miles ahead of VLC on UI friendliness, I have to give VLC top marks on performance.
mplayer seems very conservative about pre-buffering before starting playback and doesn't seem to change anything when I try to adjust the buffer size in preferences. It doesn't always respond directly to commands (like play, or seeking in a stream), which often sets it to more buffering (even when it already seemed to have loaded). Whereas VLC tends to start playback pretty quickly (without running into buffer underruns).
It is a shame, though, that there is literally no UI to speak of for the VLC plugin. Either the video is playing or you're looking at black window reading "(no video)".
Let me know if they actually decide to get some DECENT music... Subjective judgements aside, that's a good point; Harmonix did an excellent job of licensing a-list music for Rock Band. It may be hard for Guitar Hero to compete, as I imagine Harmonix has exclusive rights deals for most of it.
My wife instantly disliked Mario Kart (while watching the preview on Nintendo Channel on our Wii) because of the wheel. Offtopic, but you don't really need to use the wheel; in fact you don't even have to use tilt controls at all. You can use the nunchuck, the classic controller or a gamecube controller and use the joystick, or just tilt the normal wii controller without putting it in the wheel.
Text-only email client? Seriously? Email is practically the original low-bandwidth application. You're not going to be saving any bytes by displaying it on a terminal instead of downloading it locally.
Moreover, I imagine your parents are not technically inclined and would be more comfortable with a GUI application than with learning the ins and out of putty and pine.
They generally won't even notice the speed, as they can leave it on and have the messages already downloaded and ready for them. Whereas they will notice the pokey ping times that modems tend to have (especially on old phone lines) when using a text client over ssh.
I've nothing against text email clients - I use mutt quite frequently - but it just doesn't make sense to recommend it over a normal client in this situation.
My ISP has recently joined the ranks of retards who return an incorrect result when a domain is not found. I've been annoyed to find this happening more and more. What really irks me is that this breaks Mozilla's handy location bar search for one-word queries. Is there any workaround for this? Perhaps an addon could be made to ignores hostname lookup results that match common catch-all servers.
As for the music files, they were in SID or MOD format. Some were WAVs. Are you sure those weren't VOC files? WAV didn't become popular until Windows caught on.
I have a lot of friends who use BT, who are not as attuned to the whole concept of not being a dick and seeding. In fact I am the *only* person I know personally that actually regularly seeds. Why? Because ISPs have bandwidth caps, and people are too cheap to put some of their caps towards contributing back. I've always believed that seeding is the "rule of the game" when it comes to BitTorrent, it's the thing that makes the wheel keep spinning, but the vast majority of people on public trackers do not seem to agree.
To be fair, it's hard for many people to get a good upload ratio since home broadband connections tend to be hugely asymmetrical. A typical DSL connection will let you download an episode of Lost in 15 minutes but it over 1.5 hours to upload (assuming max throughput). So even in the ideal case, a user may have to leave the torrent going for hours to reach a 1.0 ratio, which many are not likely to do, simply because they are used to closing a program when it's finished downloading.
What's more, other clients are receiving pieces faster than you can upload them, meaning that you can't supply your in-demand rare pieces to many peers before they become very common in the swarm. Meanwhile, the minority peers with high upload rates are dishing out their rare pieces to dozens of peers as once (thus drinking your milkshake). By the time you hit 100% complete, dozens (if not hundreds) of others are as well. Which means none of your pieces are particularly rare, so you can only expect to upload a few percent (1/seeds) to each new downloader. Since a large portion of the downloads happen when a torrent is first posted, this often means leaving a torrent running for days or even weeks before reaching 1.0.
There's a more useful map in the article itself, and the text gives the capacities of the lines:
Farice is running at 20 Gb/sec capacity with an ultimate transmission capacity of 720 Gigabit/second and CANTAT 3, which has 5 Gb/sec capacity both ways with an extra 2.5 Gb/sec to spare.
The easiest way of removing the burden of the existing Co$ upon it's believers is to help those believers create a New Church that frees them from the financial burden and exploitation of the existing corporation. Such a thing exists. It's called Free Zone.
wonder if anyone has actually tried making such a fingerprint copy, and then using it on a fingerprint reader like the ones on laptops etc.
Do you really get a good enough copy? How hard is it? (After all, any security can be broken somehow. So an essential aspect is the "cost" of breaking the security) Already been done. here's a video demonstration, again courtesy of our friends at CCC. Just takes a digital camera, a bit of wood glue, a bottlecap, a transparency and a bit of skin-friendly glue to apply the fake to your finger.
FWIW - I liked the USB port because I was able to recharge my iPod while listening. Jetstar (Qantas low-cost subsidery) also uses linux-based personal video devices, the digEplayer XT. They aren't built into the seats, but rather passed out (to those who shell out an extra $10 for it) at the beginning of the flight. I also found the USB port quite handy, as the devices are basically big batteries with screens the front. They've also got ethernet ports, but I didn't find a way to hack those...
There are about 50 Del.icio.us extensions for Firefox as it is that do exactly this. No need for an entirely new browser to get this kind of funtionality. Great, but that's only bookmarks. There's a lot more stuff I would like to have synchronized, like about:config settings and history. And especially extension settings. Addons like greasemonkey, stylish, noscript, adblock are quite nice, but configuring them and keeping them up-to-date on multiple computers gets tiresome real quick.
This is where weave would really shine. I am really looking forward to it.
I often hear this explanation - that it's the firefox plugins causing the crashes, the memory bloat, the slowness, etc. Accepting that this might be true, what's a user to do about it? Is there a good way to determine what plugin(s) are causing memory leaks or are using up too much CPU? In short, how can you distinguish between the good and bad plugins?
1. Find the pin-out on disks when mounted, which meant unscrewing. If I recall correctly, pin 1 was normally on the side closest to the molex power connector.
How is this "new tool" any different than the "site:" command that google has always had to search within a particular domain? Because only savvy techies know how to use the "site:" operator; a very small minority of internet users. "Search within search" works automatically, for everyone.
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What does this have to do with CP? Your fake doctored image could have shown them doing any number of societally stigmatic things - murdering someone, burning down a church, having kinky sex, committing adultery, parading around in a Nazi uniform... all these things could damage a person reputation. Are we then to make any depiction of murder, sex, racism, bigotry illegal?
A group of users have decided to try to implement Paranoid Linux as described in the book. It's a Linux distribution meant for use under oppressive regimes. It assumes you are under surveillance and actively attempts to veil your communications by hiding it among automatically generated random activity. Reminds me of the scheme Randy uses in Cryptonomicon to avoid eavesdropping on his laptop while trapped in his cell.
They appear to be in the very early stages only, but an interesting and potentially very worthy project.
paranoidlinux.org
More to the point, this almost 25% higher than that one, about 3.7 miles more.
Besides, given how incredible the footage from the first jump turned out, I'd love to see this one in full HD.
I like them both. But to get back to the subject of browser plugins, while the mplayer plugin is miles ahead of VLC on UI friendliness, I have to give VLC top marks on performance.
mplayer seems very conservative about pre-buffering before starting playback and doesn't seem to change anything when I try to adjust the buffer size in preferences. It doesn't always respond directly to commands (like play, or seeking in a stream), which often sets it to more buffering (even when it already seemed to have loaded). Whereas VLC tends to start playback pretty quickly (without running into buffer underruns).
It is a shame, though, that there is literally no UI to speak of for the VLC plugin. Either the video is playing or you're looking at black window reading "(no video)".
Text-only email client? Seriously? Email is practically the original low-bandwidth application. You're not going to be saving any bytes by displaying it on a terminal instead of downloading it locally.
Moreover, I imagine your parents are not technically inclined and would be more comfortable with a GUI application than with learning the ins and out of putty and pine.
They generally won't even notice the speed, as they can leave it on and have the messages already downloaded and ready for them. Whereas they will notice the pokey ping times that modems tend to have (especially on old phone lines) when using a text client over ssh.
I've nothing against text email clients - I use mutt quite frequently - but it just doesn't make sense to recommend it over a normal client in this situation.
Electronic artist Matthew Dear had an external HD stolen in the middle of a set!
I have a lot of friends who use BT, who are not as attuned to the whole concept of not being a dick and seeding. In fact I am the *only* person I know personally that actually regularly seeds. Why? Because ISPs have bandwidth caps, and people are too cheap to put some of their caps towards contributing back. I've always believed that seeding is the "rule of the game" when it comes to BitTorrent, it's the thing that makes the wheel keep spinning, but the vast majority of people on public trackers do not seem to agree.
To be fair, it's hard for many people to get a good upload ratio since home broadband connections tend to be hugely asymmetrical. A typical DSL connection will let you download an episode of Lost in 15 minutes but it over 1.5 hours to upload (assuming max throughput). So even in the ideal case, a user may have to leave the torrent going for hours to reach a 1.0 ratio, which many are not likely to do, simply because they are used to closing a program when it's finished downloading.What's more, other clients are receiving pieces faster than you can upload them, meaning that you can't supply your in-demand rare pieces to many peers before they become very common in the swarm. Meanwhile, the minority peers with high upload rates are dishing out their rare pieces to dozens of peers as once (thus drinking your milkshake). By the time you hit 100% complete, dozens (if not hundreds) of others are as well. Which means none of your pieces are particularly rare, so you can only expect to upload a few percent (1/seeds) to each new downloader. Since a large portion of the downloads happen when a torrent is first posted, this often means leaving a torrent running for days or even weeks before reaching 1.0.
How does "Assemble TCP stream" differ from the "Follow TCP stream" function that's been there for ages?
You seem to mention it with some disdain, but my numerical methods (in ~2002) class was in Fortran and the language is well suited for it.
Do you really get a good enough copy? How hard is it? (After all, any security can be broken somehow. So an essential aspect is the "cost" of breaking the security) Already been done. here's a video demonstration, again courtesy of our friends at CCC. Just takes a digital camera, a bit of wood glue, a bottlecap, a transparency and a bit of skin-friendly glue to apply the fake to your finger.
This is where weave would really shine. I am really looking forward to it.
I often hear this explanation - that it's the firefox plugins causing the crashes, the memory bloat, the slowness, etc. Accepting that this might be true, what's a user to do about it? Is there a good way to determine what plugin(s) are causing memory leaks or are using up too much CPU? In short, how can you distinguish between the good and bad plugins?
This article is not yet public for non-subscribers. The link given is supposed to be for a subscriber to forward to a friend; putting it up on Slashdot goes against the intended spirit and does not help support Linux Weekly News, which deserves the community's support.