We're not destroying the planet by producing CO2. Heavy metals in drinking water is a problem, as are many other types of polution, but CO2 is simply not any more of a problem than Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO).
Get a clue and stop buying into all of this alarmist crap. Work to stop real forms of pollution. Scientists need funding to continue research. To get funding, you have to prove that you are working on something valuable. What could be more valuable than "I'm trying to find out if we're destroying the planet!" Don't think that these people are not in this for the money any less than any corporation out there.
This is where Peer to Peer would finally attain legitimacy. One person puts it on the P2P network and soon it propogates itself a zillion times over (assuming people want to see it). Then no one has to control the means of distribution, it just becomes "out there."
This has been one of the main (if not few) legitimate uses of P2P systems. If things like this don't start happening soon, some malinformed judges may begin ruling against P2P systems.
From the Article: "Our interview was reported on at www.slashdot.org, a lively location on the web dedicated to expounding the joys of Open Source programming, Linux, UNIX, and anarchy (among other things)."
Open Source, Linux and Anarchy? Oh come on! I think we should "kill -9" anyone who believes that. Please share this post with all of your friends.
From what I understand, Man produces about 1% of all of the planets cloro-floro carbons (greenhouse gases). If we cut production completely, we would end up with a negligible effect.
In addition to that, we produce carbon dioxide thru processes like, say, breathing. Carbon dioxide is what plants breathe with. More C02 means more plants! Oh no!!!
Finally, who caused the last Ice Age? But more to the point, who raised the global temperature enough to get us out of the Ice Age? Actually, nobody knows for sure, but I highly doubt it was because the cave-men had too many campfires.
Perhaps we can change the global temperature to some small degree (no pun intended), but the natural processes that take place on the earth (volcanoes, most notably) do much more to raise the global temperature than Man could ever hope to achieve.
Yup, it sucks, but we're pretty much at the mercy of our planet. Not the other way around.
"NDS spent huge sums cracking the code on Canal Plus smart cards, and handed the code to a website used by fraudsters, documents filed in a California court allege."
IF... they cracked any sort of code, that should be enough to subject them to the DMCA, unless there is some sort of jurisdictional issue at play. Nevertheless, if they do business in the U.S., then the DMCA would apply to them (ask Elcomsoft).
But seriously. What are we supposed to do with an MP3 player? Almost no one is releasing their music in MP3 format, and in a short time, we'll no longer be able to put CD tracks directly into MP3 format. Yes, Morpheus and others are still out there, but truthfully, that's an illegal way to get MP3's. The only legal way was to copy them from your CD.
Yes, we have LOTS of older stuff that we can convert to MP3, but it sounds like all lawful means of converting to MP3 format are being taken from us.
So, is the message, "If you have unlawfully obtained MP3's that you want to play, we provide a nice player for you!"? Or at some point is the music industry going to embrace MP3 format (cough, cough).
This seemed like a good idea to me, too, until I started to think about the idea that in the end, they just up the price of CD's, and we end up paying for it.
CD's are extremely costly, in my opinion. And why are they still more expensive than cassettes, when cassettes are apparently more difficult to manufacture?
I'm thinking that contacting my state's attorney general and complaining MAY get a response, if enough people do it. Hey, the states went after Microsoft, after all! When you see commercials (Philips, I believe) where the guy is mixing his own CD's, at that point it should be considered a general expectation of purchasing a CD. If you purchase a CD, you have a reasonable expectation that you'll be able to mix the songs with other songs of your choosing, and put them onto a newly mixed CD. They are taking that away. Something about harming the consumer comes to my mind, and believe it or not, state attorney generals like to get involved in that sort of a thing.
I'm banking my money on two Satellite-modem up-and-comers.
www.wildblue.com should have hopefully reasonably priced satellite modem access, even though the ping-times will be high (300ms+). Download speeds of 3Mbps. It's supposed to be available in mid 2002. But if it's like DirecPC, it will suck, big time, and everyone will get FAP'd all over the place. Nevertheless, it's my only real hope at this point.
www.teledesic.com is supposed to be available in 2005. Low ping times (comparable to T1), super-fast throughput (64 Mbps), but whether or not it will fly (pun intended) is questionable, IMHO.
Ummm... It's a lot sunnier in Australia. Even on a clear day in Pennsylvania, you still have A LOT of moisture in the atmosphere, which blocks a lot of the radiation.
Perhaps you should be comparing Arizona with Australia.
From reading through the DMCA, there were countless places where they purposely made a distinction between digital content and software. Basically, they can do things with content (like keep you from making a backup) that they cannot do with software.
How many times has your CMOS been wiped out? Sure it happens once in awhile, but that doesn't really have any safeguards. Keeping juice flowing into RAM shouldn't really take too much, but you wouldn't want to let it sit on a shelf for very long.
I've been saying this for years. Eventually, we need to scrap the spinning platters. Unless I have a butt-load of MP3's and other things I don't really need, I can easily fit most of my stuff into 4GB or less.
Very clever. If I understand this clever use of steganography correctly, you plan to meet your cohorts in a bar. "Tomorrow's turds" probably refers children. I'm not sure what the score 0 diarrhea reference means, but I have several coworkers working on it right now. "I also had pasta for dinner" means that you were in Italy last night. "Solid turds" is most probably a reference to "No complete ideas have yet been formed."
You stinking terrorist!
MS missing a release date? Say it ain't so!
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I don't ever recall MS missing a release date for other products. Wait, maybe it was the fact that they never met a release date...
Very good point. Have them point their guns in Osama's face. Then finally, we can get him to give up his crypto. Until then, there is simply no way to do it. Period. Not enforceable. End of story.
This would be like having gun control in a situation where anyone could easily make their own gun. If you already can't find the guy, then how are you going to stop him from making guns?!
Ok, so then the easy way around it is to make sure that the final destination is not outside the US. Just make sure that the SMTP server is, which would make for a very easy interception.
Oh, wait. Just make sure that their SMTP site is still in the U.S. I guess if you can explain how to do that, then be my guest.
The point is that this is unenforceable to begin with. If encryption contains backdoors, they won't use it. How would you prevent encrypted messages from going to some SMTP/POP3 server in some other country? All I need to send an email message is a message and a server. The receiving server could be the same as the sending server.
And all of this predicates on the idea that they are using this type of encryption at all! So far, I haven't heard anything that says that they are using it. There are plenty of types of encryption that aren't electronic and could be virtually unbreakable. e.g. A picture of a blonde naked chick followed by 3 redheads and one brunette could have a hidden meaning.
Furthermore, I don't like the idea of having a key to my bank account out there and not under very good control. At some point, one or more of the backdoors will surface in the wrong hands, sort of like what Xing did with their DVD player software. They had the encryption keys unencrypted. That was the main reason DeCSS happened. Oops.
I've been growing purple potatoes for several years now. They are actually called "All Blue". They are blue/purple inside and out. There are also red varieties which are red/pink inside and out.
Potatoes originated in Peru, where they come in a variety of colors: purple, red, white, yellow, sometimes all mixed together.
I haven't had much problem with disease, but the Colorado Potato Beetles are a real nuisance.
Check out www.irish-eyes.com and look at all of the different potato varieties they carry.
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Pubiq Hacker?
Or maybe they should get some new name that includes morphs of "paradigm", and "synergy", that make abosolutely no sense yet are trademarkable.
I bet "Synerdigm" and "Parasys" and "Digmergy" are all already taken, though.
Ok, so more CO2 goes into the atomosphere = more plants. Oh no, more plants!
We're not destroying the planet by producing CO2. Heavy metals in drinking water is a problem, as are many other types of polution, but CO2 is simply not any more of a problem than Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO).
Get a clue and stop buying into all of this alarmist crap. Work to stop real forms of pollution. Scientists need funding to continue research. To get funding, you have to prove that you are working on something valuable. What could be more valuable than "I'm trying to find out if we're destroying the planet!" Don't think that these people are not in this for the money any less than any corporation out there.
This is where Peer to Peer would finally attain legitimacy. One person puts it on the P2P network and soon it propogates itself a zillion times over (assuming people want to see it). Then no one has to control the means of distribution, it just becomes "out there."
This has been one of the main (if not few) legitimate uses of P2P systems. If things like this don't start happening soon, some malinformed judges may begin ruling against P2P systems.
It seems obvious to me, anyway.
-Slashdolt
From the Article:
"Our interview was reported on at www.slashdot.org, a lively location on the web dedicated to expounding the joys of Open Source programming, Linux, UNIX, and anarchy (among other things)."
Open Source, Linux and Anarchy? Oh come on! I think we should "kill -9" anyone who believes that. Please share this post with all of your friends.
From what I understand, Man produces about 1% of all of the planets cloro-floro carbons (greenhouse gases). If we cut production completely, we would end up with a negligible effect.
In addition to that, we produce carbon dioxide thru processes like, say, breathing. Carbon dioxide is what plants breathe with. More C02 means more plants! Oh no!!!
Finally, who caused the last Ice Age? But more to the point, who raised the global temperature enough to get us out of the Ice Age? Actually, nobody knows for sure, but I highly doubt it was because the cave-men had too many campfires.
Perhaps we can change the global temperature to some small degree (no pun intended), but the natural processes that take place on the earth (volcanoes, most notably) do much more to raise the global temperature than Man could ever hope to achieve.
Yup, it sucks, but we're pretty much at the mercy of our planet. Not the other way around.
"NDS spent huge sums cracking the code on Canal Plus smart cards, and handed the code to a website used by fraudsters, documents filed in a California court allege."
IF... they cracked any sort of code, that should be enough to subject them to the DMCA, unless there is some sort of jurisdictional issue at play. Nevertheless, if they do business in the U.S., then the DMCA would apply to them (ask Elcomsoft).
Or Yams, as the case may be.
But seriously. What are we supposed to do with an MP3 player? Almost no one is releasing their music in MP3 format, and in a short time, we'll no longer be able to put CD tracks directly into MP3 format. Yes, Morpheus and others are still out there, but truthfully, that's an illegal way to get MP3's. The only legal way was to copy them from your CD.
Yes, we have LOTS of older stuff that we can convert to MP3, but it sounds like all lawful means of converting to MP3 format are being taken from us.
So, is the message, "If you have unlawfully obtained MP3's that you want to play, we provide a nice player for you!"? Or at some point is the music industry going to embrace MP3 format (cough, cough).
This seemed like a good idea to me, too, until I started to think about the idea that in the end, they just up the price of CD's, and we end up paying for it.
CD's are extremely costly, in my opinion. And why are they still more expensive than cassettes, when cassettes are apparently more difficult to manufacture?
I'm thinking that contacting my state's attorney general and complaining MAY get a response, if enough people do it. Hey, the states went after Microsoft, after all! When you see commercials (Philips, I believe) where the guy is mixing his own CD's, at that point it should be considered a general expectation of purchasing a CD. If you purchase a CD, you have a reasonable expectation that you'll be able to mix the songs with other songs of your choosing, and put them onto a newly mixed CD. They are taking that away. Something about harming the consumer comes to my mind, and believe it or not, state attorney generals like to get involved in that sort of a thing.
-Slashdolt
We can already do boobs, ya boob.
I'm banking my money on two Satellite-modem up-and-comers.
www.wildblue.com should have hopefully reasonably priced satellite modem access, even though the ping-times will be high (300ms+). Download speeds of 3Mbps. It's supposed to be available in mid 2002. But if it's like DirecPC, it will suck, big time, and everyone will get FAP'd all over the place. Nevertheless, it's my only real hope at this point.
www.teledesic.com is supposed to be available in 2005. Low ping times (comparable to T1), super-fast throughput (64 Mbps), but whether or not it will fly (pun intended) is questionable, IMHO.
-Slashdolt
Ummm... It's a lot sunnier in Australia. Even on a clear day in Pennsylvania, you still have A LOT of moisture in the atmosphere, which blocks a lot of the radiation.
Perhaps you should be comparing Arizona with Australia.
From reading through the DMCA, there were countless places where they purposely made a distinction between digital content and software. Basically, they can do things with content (like keep you from making a backup) that they cannot do with software.
Anyone want to correct me?
How many times has your CMOS been wiped out? Sure it happens once in awhile, but that doesn't really have any safeguards. Keeping juice flowing into RAM shouldn't really take too much, but you wouldn't want to let it sit on a shelf for very long.
I've been saying this for years. Eventually, we need to scrap the spinning platters. Unless I have a butt-load of MP3's and other things I don't really need, I can easily fit most of my stuff into 4GB or less.
Very clever. If I understand this clever use of steganography correctly, you plan to meet your cohorts in a bar. "Tomorrow's turds" probably refers children. I'm not sure what the score 0 diarrhea reference means, but I have several coworkers working on it right now. "I also had pasta for dinner" means that you were in Italy last night. "Solid turds" is most probably a reference to "No complete ideas have yet been formed."
You stinking terrorist!
I don't ever recall MS missing a release date for other products. Wait, maybe it was the fact that they never met a release date...
It should cost an arm, but not necessarily a leg.
Please please.
This says it all very plainly.
Thank you for trying to dispell the FUD.
Very good point. Have them point their guns in Osama's face. Then finally, we can get him to give up his crypto. Until then, there is simply no way to do it. Period. Not enforceable. End of story.
This would be like having gun control in a situation where anyone could easily make their own gun. If you already can't find the guy, then how are you going to stop him from making guns?!
Wake up!
Ok, so then the easy way around it is to make sure that the final destination is not outside the US. Just make sure that the SMTP server is, which would make for a very easy interception.
Oh, wait. Just make sure that their SMTP site is still in the U.S. I guess if you can explain how to do that, then be my guest.
The point is that this is unenforceable to begin with. If encryption contains backdoors, they won't use it. How would you prevent encrypted messages from going to some SMTP/POP3 server in some other country? All I need to send an email message is a message and a server. The receiving server could be the same as the sending server.
And all of this predicates on the idea that they are using this type of encryption at all! So far, I haven't heard anything that says that they are using it. There are plenty of types of encryption that aren't electronic and could be virtually unbreakable. e.g. A picture of a blonde naked chick followed by 3 redheads and one brunette could have a hidden meaning.
Furthermore, I don't like the idea of having a key to my bank account out there and not under very good control. At some point, one or more of the backdoors will surface in the wrong hands, sort of like what Xing did with their DVD player software. They had the encryption keys unencrypted. That was the main reason DeCSS happened. Oops.
It's not genetically modified. Purple potatoes have been around for as long as, well, the potato.
Strangely enough, I actually made red, white, and blue potato salad last July 4th. It was a real hit.
I've been growing purple potatoes for several years now. They are actually called "All Blue". They are blue/purple inside and out. There are also red varieties which are red/pink inside and out.
Potatoes originated in Peru, where they come in a variety of colors: purple, red, white, yellow, sometimes all mixed together.
I haven't had much problem with disease, but the Colorado Potato Beetles are a real nuisance.
Check out www.irish-eyes.com and look at all of the different potato varieties they carry.