When I first read this I thought they meant the ID embedded into each Cat. That would be a little better...plug your cat in, scan ANYTHING and it knows what cat to login as. Weak, but still better than what they are proposing.
Okay...so I have a barcode to scan. Wow-they encrypted it so I don't know what the numbers are. So I take the barcode, pass it under another scanner, find out what the bar code numbers are and print up my own with any number of custom programs.
Assuming that it was even worth the trouble and there wasn't a photocopier.
"Yeah...we're cool at Digital Convergance. We're elite....give us warez."
So, when the blokes from Proxima Centari make it here to our part of the galaxy, they are going to see that olive branch and think "Hmmm...that's the UNIVERSAL sign of peace - turn the warships around - this is a kind planet."
Or they are gonna dissenegrate the earth because not it not only obscures their view of Venus, but because they dared make a mock idol of the precious holy olive leaf.
And like the matress tag says..."blah blah blah, fire and brimstone to ye who removeth the tag, unless that person is the end consumer, who bought it and can do whatever the hell they want to it."
Though DC's not even that lucky...this is no different than me pulling something out of the trash and taking it apart.
If our college decided to ban napster, I'd be in my router the next day doing my job, banning Napster...to everyone except my machine!
I don't download (much) copyrighted music. Most everything I pull down are bootlegs. (Or things that I own on cassette, and don't think I should have to rebuy.)
Now, I'm not saying I'm not impressed by gymnastics, however it still comes down to a panel of judges going by what they see and how they feel it matches up with the criteria. Which means it is still up to a person to decide that this vault was better than that vault - that one landing looked more like it stuck than the other.
The aggressive enforcement effort, he said, is meant to ensure that "the association between the athlete, the sport, the values and the symbol that represents all this is clear."
A pretty dangerous quote for an IOC official - or at least one with quite a big opening for ridicule. I think that pretty much everyone believes what the symbol represents - greed and corruption.
I am surprised that the atheletes signed such a contract. I'm even more surprised that they had to sign such a contract. "Yes, come represent your country. However, any thing you experience during the games is our property." I wonder if the atheletes that have the video cameras during the opening ceremony have to sign something special to carry them in. Perhaps they have to pay the IOC before showing them to their family.
The IOC paints themself as so holy and so committed to the spirit of the games. However, if you go to an event, you can not wear an outfit that has a visible logo on it for fear that someone who hasn't paid a shitload of money may accidently get free advertising if that shirt shows up in a photo. No problem with the atheletes all wearing their Nike logo uniforms.
Or perhaps I'm pissed of the lack of soccer and fencing coverage, and the majority of coverage going to "non-sports" (gymnastics, synchroized this and that. Basically anything that you can not use a length, height, time, etc... to judge a winner.) So part of my beef is with how pathetic NBC is.
You all remember how dark the first movie was, and me as a kid I remember just being absolutely enthralled with the retro-modern look that Tim Burton created.
As a kid? Man...thank you very much - that statement there just made me feel VERY old.
Same problem I had. When I got it I scanned this and that to see how well it worked. While it was okay on normal bar codes, I could not get it to read a cuecat barcode at all.
I never could stand that magazine - I always thought it was shit. For some reason, even though it was out before the movie "Hackers" came out, I always think of it as being as corny as that movie.
Just a curiousity thing - I'm not activly looking. I'm just curious where root kits come from and how they get around. I have one or two that a few years old that I removed from another departments hacked machine.
So what - how is that news for nerds? How is it something new and cool?
I wish/. would report more on inventions and advances than this bullshit. All the articles lately seem to be "circle the wagons" over this and that. So what?
Hell...Microsoft could come out with the coolest thing and the article would be about how evil it is. Or NewTek could release LightWave for Linux, and the slant would be "it's not open source".
It reminds me very much of every city's evening news - murder, death, rape, arson...and once in a blue moon there is news about how someone helped someone out.
Yes, some of these issues are important, but it is not News for Nerds. Perhaps there should be a different/., legal battles for Nerds or something like that?
It really is getting out of hand how much of/.'s stuff lately is about legal battles and licensing.
But it's not the end then, as when it goes nova, while it'll fry the earth worse than a first day fry jock at McDonalds, the outer planets will not be destroyed - damn cold, but not destroyed.
The funny thing is that when putzing around with my cuecat (which is crap compared to the laser scanners), their special format is the only barcode that I could NOT get the thing to read!
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How come when MS misses a date it's vaporware, fud, etc... and Linux gets moved back and it's all "That's okay".
I don't know who actually publishes/distributes Wired, but that is probably who the deal is with.
Queensryche - kick ass.
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More apropos:
Seven years of power, the corporation claw, the rich control the government, the media the law.
Fits right in with a bunch of
When I first read this I thought they meant the ID embedded into each Cat. That would be a little better...plug your cat in, scan ANYTHING and it knows what cat to login as. Weak, but still better than what they are proposing.
Okay...so I have a barcode to scan. Wow-they encrypted it so I don't know what the numbers are. So I take the barcode, pass it under another scanner, find out what the bar code numbers are and print up my own with any number of custom programs.
Assuming that it was even worth the trouble and there wasn't a photocopier.
"Yeah...we're cool at Digital Convergance. We're elite....give us warez."
Same problem here.
Perhaps a write-in is needed.
I vote to remove ICANN
I was thinking that it could be mandatory office wear for sexual harrassment suits.
Hmmm...secratary walks in and a movement is registered - you're sued.
So, when the blokes from Proxima Centari make it here to our part of the galaxy, they are going to see that olive branch and think "Hmmm...that's the UNIVERSAL sign of peace - turn the warships around - this is a kind planet."
Or they are gonna dissenegrate the earth because not it not only obscures their view of Venus, but because they dared make a mock idol of the precious holy olive leaf.
Universal my ass.
And like the matress tag says..."blah blah blah, fire and brimstone to ye who removeth the tag, unless that person is the end consumer, who bought it and can do whatever the hell they want to it."
Though DC's not even that lucky...this is no different than me pulling something out of the trash and taking it apart.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
If our college decided to ban napster, I'd be in my router the next day doing my job, banning Napster...to everyone except my machine!
I don't download (much) copyrighted music. Most everything I pull down are bootlegs. (Or things that I own on cassette, and don't think I should have to rebuy.)
Okay...silly subject aside, I'd love to see a pic of this motherboard (or boards) without it's case on...just too see what the bugger looks like.
Okay...so the guy from VA gets paid off by mp3.
Anyone wanna guess how many people the RIAA are going to pay off to make sure it doesn't get into the books?
Gonna be some even richer congressmen before long.
Each congress person should be paid the average income of their state (or the country) to force them to better the state of the nation.
Perhaps 1% of the /. population could.
I'm sure a higher percentage could probably apply a patch and recompile, but that's not too much different than applying a MS hotfix - except
a) the patch comes quicker
b) the hotfix is usually "delete this dll unless you really need this functionality"
Now, I'm not saying I'm not impressed by gymnastics, however it still comes down to a panel of judges going by what they see and how they feel it matches up with the criteria. Which means it is still up to a person to decide that this vault was better than that vault - that one landing looked more like it stuck than the other.
The aggressive enforcement effort, he said, is meant to ensure that "the association between the athlete, the sport, the values and the symbol that represents all this is clear."
A pretty dangerous quote for an IOC official - or at least one with quite a big opening for ridicule. I think that pretty much everyone believes what the symbol represents - greed and corruption.
I am surprised that the atheletes signed such a contract. I'm even more surprised that they had to sign such a contract. "Yes, come represent your country. However, any thing you experience during the games is our property." I wonder if the atheletes that have the video cameras during the opening ceremony have to sign something special to carry them in. Perhaps they have to pay the IOC before showing them to their family.
The IOC paints themself as so holy and so committed to the spirit of the games. However, if you go to an event, you can not wear an outfit that has a visible logo on it for fear that someone who hasn't paid a shitload of money may accidently get free advertising if that shirt shows up in a photo. No problem with the atheletes all wearing their Nike logo uniforms.
Or perhaps I'm pissed of the lack of soccer and fencing coverage, and the majority of coverage going to "non-sports" (gymnastics, synchroized this and that. Basically anything that you can not use a length, height, time, etc... to judge a winner.) So part of my beef is with how pathetic NBC is.
You all remember how dark the first movie was, and me as a kid I remember just being absolutely enthralled with the retro-modern look that Tim Burton created.
As a kid? Man...thank you very much - that statement there just made me feel VERY old.
Same problem I had. When I got it I scanned this and that to see how well it worked. While it was okay on normal bar codes, I could not get it to read a cuecat barcode at all.
I never could stand that magazine - I always thought it was shit. For some reason, even though it was out before the movie "Hackers" came out, I always think of it as being as corny as that movie.
Fuck off and take your crap to someone who cares.
What has this to do with H1B? About as much as every other thread you posted this to.
Pedophile, Black, White, Homosexual, Hetrosexual, whatever...people like you are still annoying assholes.
Just a curiousity thing - I'm not activly looking. I'm just curious where root kits come from and how they get around. I have one or two that a few years old that I removed from another departments hacked machine.
Do they make their rounds via IRC? Usenet?
So what - how is that news for nerds? How is it something new and cool?
/. would report more on inventions and advances than this bullshit. All the articles lately seem to be "circle the wagons" over this and that. So what?
/., legal battles for Nerds or something like that?
/.'s stuff lately is about legal battles and licensing.
I wish
Hell...Microsoft could come out with the coolest thing and the article would be about how evil it is. Or NewTek could release LightWave for Linux, and the slant would be "it's not open source".
It reminds me very much of every city's evening news - murder, death, rape, arson...and once in a blue moon there is news about how someone helped someone out.
Yes, some of these issues are important, but it is not News for Nerds. Perhaps there should be a different
It really is getting out of hand how much of
I was really looking forward to trying and making the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake, UT, as it's not too far.
:(
:)
Given the way the IOC is acting, I do not even want to come close to giving them any money whatsoever. Too bad too
Well...hmmm...maybe if I could get some DNA from skier Donna Weinbrecht (or give some - he he he)!
I find this a helluva lot more interesting than any of the "Richard Stallman whines about someone not worshiping him" stories.
This is nerds coming up with innovative solutions to problems of technology-have-nots.
The other is just whining babies.
But it's not the end then, as when it goes nova, while it'll fry the earth worse than a first day fry jock at McDonalds, the outer planets will not be destroyed - damn cold, but not destroyed.
The funny thing is that when putzing around with my cuecat (which is crap compared to the laser scanners), their special format is the only barcode that I could NOT get the thing to read!