You may not use the software in a connection with any site that disparages Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia or their products or services, infrince any intellectual property or other rights of these parties, violate any state federal or international law, or promote racism, hatred, or pornography...
I like what one poster made fun of -- what is Microsoft thinking? Can't make pr0n sites with frontpage? No links that promote racism or hatred?
This seems a bit much... I dont condone hate groups, nor do I condone racists... but I respect the right they have to have their views. Microsoft is seeming to be letting idealogies determine what a person can do with their product... to ask yourself if this can be done -- think: do you think its ok and legal to sell a product to make web pages with the EULA that "You can not use this to make any page that does not have only the words 'Microsoft is Cool' on it" and advertise it otherwise? Someone buys this product (for example) for the sole purpose to let other people know what a complete and total idiotic racist that they are, and then they find that the EULA that they did not see until after they installed the product prohibited it. They can't return it -- (open box software), and they cant use...
I explained this to someone else today when asked why I am staunchly against a backdoor/etc in a crypto program.
A good crypto program is based on a function f[x] such that f[x1] = k, and you cannot find x1 if you know the function f[x] and the encrypted k. This, folks, is hardcore advanced mathematics!
To add in a regulation that there be some "backdoor" (eg: some function that will always take g[k] = x1 for an encrypted value k). Once that function g[x] is known by anyone (f[x] would have to be made in a way such that g[x] must exist btw.. it doesnt just happen) then the communications of everyone that uses that encryption algorithm is compromised.
Think of the problems -- no secure transactions (haulting "e-business"), no secure transmissions of trade secrets (look at france -- the companies just moved to a different country), and generally no information is secure.
Now.. to find a way to convince/explain this all in everyday words...
ideas?
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While it might cause programmers to get a little more lazy, I think it would be a very good thing.
Everyone knows that hand optimized code runs faster than generated C... Linux was sped up 40% by optimizing 15%. When you have a good algorithm, however, we know that even a GREAT algorithm will not be as fast as hand optimized code. Having a faster processor allows you to work with higher and higher level algorithms -- it may not run as fast but when you get to speed levels that are exceptionally high, you should notice little difference.
So programmers may get lazy.. who cares -- their code will follow established algorithms and be easier to modify.
"B'nai Brith Canada is stepping up its efforts to get legislation passed to ban such Web activity."
We had a horrible thing happen recently.. WTC will not be forgotten -- especially since this day is bringing forth issues of civil rights. This is, of course, in Canada but we know it could happen here just as well.
The sentence quoted above is one of the most troublesome ones... to say that you ban some activity is to say that it is illegal -- which is to say that someone will be monitoring data for illegal violations.
Why did everyone push for Carnivore, crypto key escrow (or backdoors), etc? To "save the children!" We are going to see a lot more of this very quickly.. only this time its going to be for "saving America from Terrorism!"
... the bad thing is, of course, that these measures (at least if done quickly) will pass with support. The world is still in Hysteria mode and willing to do almost anything to make sure it doesnt happen again -- even remove the rights/privacy of every person.
If the tv exec's thought that watching something happen could actually cause someone to follow it, then I imagine we would see quite a different lineup for normal tv shows...
Its the same way that it would be in bad taste for them to start showing a movie about terrorism and blowing up buildings -- since it just happened so soon... I mean, maybe they feel that they should at least bury the bodies before they get back to "normal" broadcasts..
Of course, tv execs arn't known for their great morals.. it could also be that they dont want to cause media coverage to single in on their "in bad tastes" tv shows therefor showing negitave publicity.. so one way or the other, they arnt showing them b/c someone (or quite a few people) will be upset...
... and even though I love bebop and am anime Otaku I can't really blame them that much.
Sunday driving mode is cool.. but what about Saturday Morning driving mode?
You start the game in this mode, and all of a sudden all the games sounds get WAY to loud. Then you notice that your view of the road starts going blurry. Then you notice that all the colors seem to be REALLY bright...
The icing on this mode, of course, is the fact that when you "turn" left, your car doesnt start turning until a few secs later...
With this mode, everyone will be able to experience the joy of hangovers and having a bit to much alcohol STILL in their system after a nice night of lan partying...
I explained this to someone else today when asked why I am staunchly against a backdoor/etc in a crypto program.
A good crypto program is based on a function f[x] such that f[x1] = k, and you cannot find x1 if you know the function f[x] and the encrypted k. This, folks, is hardcore advanced mathematics!
To add in a regulation that there be some "backdoor" (eg: some function that will always take g[k] = x1 for an encrypted value k). Once that function g[x] is known by anyone (f[x] would have to be made in a way such that g[x] must exist btw.. it doesnt just happen) then the communications of everyone that uses that encryption algorithm is compromised.
Think of the problems -- no secure transactions (haulting "e-business"), no secure transmissions of trade secrets (look at france -- the companies just moved to a different country), and generally no information is secure.
Now.. to find a way to convince/explain this all in everyday words...
Just looking over the the table of response times -- for some of these companies, they seem to be missing the big CLUE.
Yes, if something goes wrong at a company they will need support.. in fact that is the only way they would actually use linux as their workstation/network/etc -- but support should probably be replaced with "immediate support." If a network goes down at a Fortune 500 Company JoeBlowDrinksSoda Inc., they arnt going to take the chance of missing productivity for 2,3, even days (as some of the response times are.
For the companies that have immediate response to linux issues --> now these are what we need. Maybe they are more expensive, but if the figurative "bomb" hits your network and you have deadlines, missing a deadline is going to cost more in money and in respect for your company than having to shell out a few extra clams...
Re:Something eery I found on Newsgroups
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Ok.. this guy has now bothered me extremely.
Read down the page to what he wrote: He wrote (on 9/4) "Wait 7 days, and then maybe I'll answer this post. You see, I am going away
in seven days, and you will not hear from me again."
I understand completely what you said about getting chills...
Thanks for the link... I have a habit of grabbing anything that seems like I might like it in the future (or something forced out of development by legal probs)... just another thing to add to my archive..
When I first saw this I thought, "Hey.. now THIS is something cool!" Being able to take seawater that has diluted gold and make it into solid gold.
When I thought a bit further, though, I found this to be actually a VERY bad thing. The wealth/borrowing power of a nation is measured by its wealth (where gold is one of the primary methods of determining wealth). If this is an easy way to obtain new gold (where cost to get the gold is >= the gold gained), this could literally cripple the economies of the countries of the world. Heck, someone with a lot of money to blow and a "beef with the world" could drop some money into this in the hopes that this could happen.
For those uninterested in reading a large (but very cute) blurb on Linus, this might help:
Linus also got some other stuff via mail. For example, a pair of 40 megabyte hard disks. That was really nice, since it meant that Linus was finally able to keep some backups. Not that he did, of course. One of his well-known quotes is: "Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." He said that even after dialling his hard disk.
Everyone knows that you can drive through a tunnel and get to the other side. If you drive around a neighbood and see a tunnel, and decide to go through it -- and around a blind corner spikes are protuding... well.. I am sure you can get the rest
... knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally affects or impairs without authorization a computer of an elementary school or secondary school or institution of higher education
Some random person who has a website has a blind redirection to/con/con. The ONLY reason someone would do that is to affect the persons computer who clicked it. A student just happens to go to that website (without knowing what would happen) and it locks up the computer/server/etc.
Random person who owns said website is brought up on charges...
This is NOT good. Heck, using up bandwidth might be considered a use of a computer that could affect a network. With a little cajoling someone might see fit to bring up owners of pr0n websites up on charges for deliberatly wasting the schools bandwidth, thus impairing the network.
I understand that there is a need to protect school computers... but (as stated in the article) -- this is not the way to do it.
That isn't the way the garbled cd's would work. When you play an audio cd, two values side by side on a cd should be very close together (Noone goes from low to high in 1 data value)... an audio cd player will notice the HUGE misvalue there, take the value in the next part and interpolate between the two so it sounds continuous without any static or freak sounds. This is because when playing an AUDIO cd on the computer it goes straight to the sound card from the cdplayer that will handle it like this.
Ripping audio tracks, however, are a different matter. While ripping, tracks are taken off in DATA mode and does not do this interpolation! (How would you like the values of your spread sheet interpolated? (reference to an example in the cdrfaq (http://www.cdrfaq.org/)). It should rip them as data straight as they are, so the static/freak sounds are ripped with them.
Check out http://www.cdrfaq.org/ for this info (I took a weekend and read the thing a few times.. VERY informative!)
Call this a smart car if you will, but truthfully I dont see a difference from listening to a radio commentary and turning it up loud if you are falling asleep.
I wonder if this is like the "E-"Whatever that could gain media attention for having an E in the front of their name.
Company takes GPL'ed code and puts it into their product and sells said product.
People notice their use of GPL'ed code and alert the FSF.
Company then (for its next release) makes it into 2 products instead of releasing the source code of the product that is already out.
Whats to stop any other company from making a "Woops! We didnt know that... here, next release we will split it into 2 different programs, k?"
Why did this editorial bother me so much...
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Quote: "Is it right to destroy property in an effort to prevent this sort of gambling with our quality of life? Is that the most productive way to deal with bio-engineering risks? "
Is it right to ask a group of people if it is right to perform acts of terrorism?
I have this conversation with people all the time... it usually starts with some comment like "Why dont they just kill and get it over with" -- referring to how they STILL have not finished with his trial. While these things are not the same, their concept is -- we can not just go around breaking the law.
Regardless of what you feel about SUV's, if your aunt/father/mother/etc came to your house in one, how would you feel if your house was torched in an effort to discourage SUV ownership... if these people want to get a message across -- do it legally... or (barring that) lobby the oil cartels to raise gas price.. when it gets to 5 buxors a gallon lets see people CHOOSE suv's.
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Some things that were mentioned in the article are permanent/semi-permanent. While it is laudable to "improve your fighting capabilities," does anything think that these things are going to be implanted through volunteering only?
I sure as one dont think so. In the armed forces mentality, these enhancements would probably be an "all-or-nuttin" bid -- every soldier under their command will have it done. How could this actually be forced on them? Instead of talking to their buddies in 50 years about this shot they took in their arm, they can talk about the permanent "brain enhancement" they experienced...
I always enjoyed going to the attrition defacement mirror... back a few years ago I would go to it once a week and see a few new defacements... very nice.. now we had 100's of defacements added each day.
Anyways, I am sorry that they have left but I am thankful that the attrition staff kept around the mirror for as long as they have.
*RANT*2001-05-21 22:30:37 Attrition.org gives up its defacement mirror (articles,news) (rejected) *ENDRANT*
This deals directly with what is at the heart of Microsofts Monopoly, doesn't it?
Microsoft entered an agreement that prohibited deployment of this game on any console other than MS's XBOX for at least 6 months. Yes, they had to pay a pretty penny for it but they have (in a way) stopped other consoles from ever getting good with this game. 6 months is a long time in an industry that is as fast paced as the gaming industry.
While one game doesnt really matter, MS could (conceivably) make the same offer to all of the other upcoming "BIG" titles--so the XBOX gets all the goodies b/c they have the most money.
While this is partially at the heart of capitalism, doesn't it bother anyone that MS could (and probably will) shut down all console competition? Doesn't matter how good a console is if it has no games . . .
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You may not use the software in a connection with any site that disparages Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia or their products or services, infrince any intellectual property or other rights of these parties, violate any state federal or international law, or promote racism, hatred, or pornography...
I like what one poster made fun of -- what is Microsoft thinking? Can't make pr0n sites with frontpage? No links that promote racism or hatred?
This seems a bit much... I dont condone hate groups, nor do I condone racists... but I respect the right they have to have their views. Microsoft is seeming to be letting idealogies determine what a person can do with their product... to ask yourself if this can be done -- think: do you think its ok and legal to sell a product to make web pages with the EULA that "You can not use this to make any page that does not have only the words 'Microsoft is Cool' on it" and advertise it otherwise? Someone buys this product (for example) for the sole purpose to let other people know what a complete and total idiotic racist that they are, and then they find that the EULA that they did not see until after they installed the product prohibited it. They can't return it -- (open box software), and they cant use...
What can we do?
I explained this to someone else today when asked why I am staunchly against a backdoor/etc in a crypto program.
A good crypto program is based on a function f[x] such that f[x1] = k, and you cannot find x1 if you know the function f[x] and the encrypted k. This, folks, is hardcore advanced mathematics!
To add in a regulation that there be some "backdoor" (eg: some function that will always take g[k] = x1 for an encrypted value k). Once that function g[x] is known by anyone (f[x] would have to be made in a way such that g[x] must exist btw.. it doesnt just happen) then the communications of everyone that uses that encryption algorithm is compromised.
Think of the problems -- no secure transactions (haulting "e-business"), no secure transmissions of trade secrets (look at france -- the companies just moved to a different country), and generally no information is secure.
Now.. to find a way to convince/explain this all in everyday words...
ideas?
While it might cause programmers to get a little more lazy, I think it would be a very good thing.
Everyone knows that hand optimized code runs faster than generated C... Linux was sped up 40% by optimizing 15%. When you have a good algorithm, however, we know that even a GREAT algorithm will not be as fast as hand optimized code. Having a faster processor allows you to work with higher and higher level algorithms -- it may not run as fast but when you get to speed levels that are exceptionally high, you should notice little difference.
So programmers may get lazy.. who cares -- their code will follow established algorithms and be easier to modify.
"B'nai Brith Canada is stepping up its efforts to get legislation passed to ban such Web activity."
... the bad thing is, of course, that these measures (at least if done quickly) will pass with support. The world is still in Hysteria mode and willing to do almost anything to make sure it doesnt happen again -- even remove the rights/privacy of every person.
We had a horrible thing happen recently.. WTC will not be forgotten -- especially since this day is bringing forth issues of civil rights. This is, of course, in Canada but we know it could happen here just as well.
The sentence quoted above is one of the most troublesome ones... to say that you ban some activity is to say that it is illegal -- which is to say that someone will be monitoring data for illegal violations.
Why did everyone push for Carnivore, crypto key escrow (or backdoors), etc? To "save the children!" We are going to see a lot more of this very quickly.. only this time its going to be for "saving America from Terrorism!"
Most definately.
If the tv exec's thought that watching something happen could actually cause someone to follow it, then I imagine we would see quite a different lineup for normal tv shows...
Its the same way that it would be in bad taste for them to start showing a movie about terrorism and blowing up buildings -- since it just happened so soon... I mean, maybe they feel that they should at least bury the bodies before they get back to "normal" broadcasts..
Of course, tv execs arn't known for their great morals.. it could also be that they dont want to cause media coverage to single in on their "in bad tastes" tv shows therefor showing negitave publicity.. so one way or the other, they arnt showing them b/c someone (or quite a few people) will be upset...
... and even though I love bebop and am anime Otaku I can't really blame them that much.
Like I said.. completely understood...
I would be surprised if people wernt a bit more upset at things lately..
Sunday driving mode is cool.. but what about Saturday Morning driving mode?
You start the game in this mode, and all of a sudden all the games sounds get WAY to loud. Then you notice that your view of the road starts going blurry. Then you notice that all the colors seem to be REALLY bright...
The icing on this mode, of course, is the fact that when you "turn" left, your car doesnt start turning until a few secs later...
With this mode, everyone will be able to experience the joy of hangovers and having a bit to much alcohol STILL in their system after a nice night of lan partying...
I explained this to someone else today when asked why I am staunchly against a backdoor/etc in a crypto program.
A good crypto program is based on a function f[x] such that f[x1] = k, and you cannot find x1 if you know the function f[x] and the encrypted k. This, folks, is hardcore advanced mathematics!
To add in a regulation that there be some "backdoor" (eg: some function that will always take g[k] = x1 for an encrypted value k). Once that function g[x] is known by anyone (f[x] would have to be made in a way such that g[x] must exist btw.. it doesnt just happen) then the communications of everyone that uses that encryption algorithm is compromised.
Think of the problems -- no secure transactions (haulting "e-business"), no secure transmissions of trade secrets (look at france -- the companies just moved to a different country), and generally no information is secure.
Now.. to find a way to convince/explain this all in everyday words...
ideas?
Just looking over the the table of response times -- for some of these companies, they seem to be missing the big CLUE.
Yes, if something goes wrong at a company they will need support.. in fact that is the only way they would actually use linux as their workstation/network/etc -- but support should probably be replaced with "immediate support." If a network goes down at a Fortune 500 Company JoeBlowDrinksSoda Inc., they arnt going to take the chance of missing productivity for 2,3, even days (as some of the response times are.
For the companies that have immediate response to linux issues --> now these are what we need. Maybe they are more expensive, but if the figurative "bomb" hits your network and you have deadlines, missing a deadline is going to cost more in money and in respect for your company than having to shell out a few extra clams...
Ok.. this guy has now bothered me extremely.
Read down the page to what he wrote: He wrote (on 9/4) "Wait 7 days, and then maybe I'll answer this post. You see, I am going away
in seven days, and you will not hear from me again."
I understand completely what you said about getting chills...
Thanks for the link... I have a habit of grabbing anything that seems like I might like it in the future (or something forced out of development by legal probs)... just another thing to add to my archive..
Thanks again...
When I first saw this I thought, "Hey.. now THIS is something cool!" Being able to take seawater that has diluted gold and make it into solid gold.
When I thought a bit further, though, I found this to be actually a VERY bad thing. The wealth/borrowing power of a nation is measured by its wealth (where gold is one of the primary methods of determining wealth). If this is an easy way to obtain new gold (where cost to get the gold is >= the gold gained), this could literally cripple the economies of the countries of the world. Heck, someone with a lot of money to blow and a "beef with the world" could drop some money into this in the hopes that this could happen.
What you are saying may be true.
But when you look that Sony sells cdrw's saying how they can be made to make custom audio cd's, it kinda goes up in flames, ne?
Sony sells cdrws that make custom cds.
Sony sells a cdrom that WILL damage equipment if played from ripped/burned copy.
Customer buys a cdrw drive from them and a cd from them. Tries out this feature and winds up with their crap blown up.
Fair use, ne?
Maybe an analogy might help...
Everyone knows that you can drive through a tunnel and get to the other side. If you drive around a neighbood and see a tunnel, and decide to go through it -- and around a blind corner spikes are protuding... well.. I am sure you can get the rest
... knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally affects or impairs without authorization a computer of an elementary school or secondary school or institution of higher education
/con/con. The ONLY reason someone would do that is to affect the persons computer who clicked it. A student just happens to go to that website (without knowing what would happen) and it locks up the computer/server/etc.
Some random person who has a website has a blind redirection to
Random person who owns said website is brought up on charges...
This is NOT good. Heck, using up bandwidth might be considered a use of a computer that could affect a network. With a little cajoling someone might see fit to bring up owners of pr0n websites up on charges for deliberatly wasting the schools bandwidth, thus impairing the network.
I understand that there is a need to protect school computers... but (as stated in the article) -- this is not the way to do it.
That isn't the way the garbled cd's would work. When you play an audio cd, two values side by side on a cd should be very close together (Noone goes from low to high in 1 data value)... an audio cd player will notice the HUGE misvalue there, take the value in the next part and interpolate between the two so it sounds continuous without any static or freak sounds. This is because when playing an AUDIO cd on the computer it goes straight to the sound card from the cdplayer that will handle it like this.
Ripping audio tracks, however, are a different matter. While ripping, tracks are taken off in DATA mode and does not do this interpolation! (How would you like the values of your spread sheet interpolated? (reference to an example in the cdrfaq (http://www.cdrfaq.org/)). It should rip them as data straight as they are, so the static/freak sounds are ripped with them.
Check out http://www.cdrfaq.org/ for this info (I took a weekend and read the thing a few times.. VERY informative!)
Whats so special about this device? WHATS so special about THIS DEVICE??
:P
My God man.. haven't you ever wished that the vibrating Football player game actually worked?
"Put a paperclip in the QB to make him run" my ass..
As long as your thoughts of Civilization were cohesent and not crack-headed there will be no problem... that was not the case with my obsession.
Got Black and White... played game for about 3 days straight, then only 12 hours a day...
Whenever I wasnt playing black and white and I was speaking to my girl friend about things I started thinking in black and white terms...
One might be surprised what I was thinking when it came to deciding how to "Train" our dog... =)
Call this a smart car if you will, but truthfully I dont see a difference from listening to a radio commentary and turning it up loud if you are falling asleep.
I wonder if this is like the "E-"Whatever that could gain media attention for having an E in the front of their name.
Lemme get this straight:
Company takes GPL'ed code and puts it into their product and sells said product.
People notice their use of GPL'ed code and alert the FSF.
Company then (for its next release) makes it into 2 products instead of releasing the source code of the product that is already out.
Whats to stop any other company from making a "Woops! We didnt know that... here, next release we will split it into 2 different programs, k?"
Quote: "Is it right to destroy property in an effort to prevent this sort of gambling with our quality of life? Is that the most productive way to deal with bio-engineering risks? "
Is it right to ask a group of people if it is right to perform acts of terrorism?
I have this conversation with people all the time... it usually starts with some comment like "Why dont they just kill and get it over with" -- referring to how they STILL have not finished with his trial. While these things are not the same, their concept is -- we can not just go around breaking the law.
Regardless of what you feel about SUV's, if your aunt/father/mother/etc came to your house in one, how would you feel if your house was torched in an effort to discourage SUV ownership... if these people want to get a message across -- do it legally... or (barring that) lobby the oil cartels to raise gas price.. when it gets to 5 buxors a gallon lets see people CHOOSE suv's.
Some things that were mentioned in the article are permanent/semi-permanent. While it is laudable to "improve your fighting capabilities," does anything think that these things are going to be implanted through volunteering only?
I sure as one dont think so. In the armed forces mentality, these enhancements would probably be an "all-or-nuttin" bid -- every soldier under their command will have it done. How could this actually be forced on them? Instead of talking to their buddies in 50 years about this shot they took in their arm, they can talk about the permanent "brain enhancement" they experienced...
I always enjoyed going to the attrition defacement mirror... back a few years ago I would go to it once a week and see a few new defacements... very nice.. now we had 100's of defacements added each day.
Anyways, I am sorry that they have left but I am thankful that the attrition staff kept around the mirror for as long as they have.
*RANT*2001-05-21 22:30:37 Attrition.org gives up its defacement mirror (articles,news) (rejected) *ENDRANT*
This deals directly with what is at the heart of Microsofts Monopoly, doesn't it?
Microsoft entered an agreement that prohibited deployment of this game on any console other than MS's XBOX for at least 6 months. Yes, they had to pay a pretty penny for it but they have (in a way) stopped other consoles from ever getting good with this game. 6 months is a long time in an industry that is as fast paced as the gaming industry.
While one game doesnt really matter, MS could (conceivably) make the same offer to all of the other upcoming "BIG" titles--so the XBOX gets all the goodies b/c they have the most money.
While this is partially at the heart of capitalism, doesn't it bother anyone that MS could (and probably will) shut down all console competition? Doesn't matter how good a console is if it has no games . . .