It was kind of ironic when they were first trying to regulate encryption since one of the developers of public key encryption is Israeli. I think he might be the 'R' in RSA.
You could almost call such legislation not just cold-war era, but something from the colonial era, as the Western world+Japan tries to keep its technological advantage.
I doubt much of any data is going to be on the blackberry. Hopefully there will be some sort of password required to access the database, as well as ensuring only the government owned blackberry's can use it.
In most business or campus environments there are going to several IT people with the administrator for every computer on campus. Thanks to administrative shares, this creates a one point of failure. And I've never really heard of any widespread problems arising from this.
The issue is the University having so much control over computers that aren't theirs. You won't see this approach used much since it gives the IT dept. a lot more responsibility then it wants. And unlike with machines that IT maintains fully, changes they will have much more unintended consequences.
The right way to do it is to hand out the virus updates, encourage folks to enable Windows Firewall, automatic updates. And then quickly disable ports that recieve virus's. Which might mean disabling hundreds at a time (like with Sasser) but thats what you gotta do. At my school are Internet was out for a few days due to Blaster; Sasser wasn't much of a problem since IT knew how to handle it by disabling port.
There might not have been a contract for DSL, I guess I was just suspicious since they give you a free DSL modem (to keep, I assume) and sometimes even a router for signing up.
From what I understand, DSL is on an entirely different frequency.
I wonder if this deregulation actually means you can have DSL without phone service or if the consumers will just get more choice in companies.
I certainly see why folks in government devote a lot of time in regulating these 'natural' monolopies, they sure are annoying.
A few weeks ago I was looking into getting DSL. But they all require you to have local phone service, which is bogus (I'm cheap and don't need a phone enough to pay for it). I told the lady from SBC I wanted to know the price of local phone coverage if all I wanted was a phone number so that I could use DSL. It's like I was speaking in Greek. She gave me the price for the unlimited local phone, like $21/month after tax. Later I find out they offer metered phone (like 1 cent a minute for local) for $5/month... I wonder if that doesn't work for DSL or if the (soon to be striking, it happened later that week) lady on the phone was lieing to me.
Its the same with Cable internet from Cableone. They effectively charge you an extra $10/month for not getting cable TV. Its supposedly like a package deal, but they always advertise the price/after/ already having Cable TV, so it's more like an extra fee. I ended up going with cable since it appeared to be cheaper and without yearly contracts. I was of course pushed to spend an extra $7/month to get basic cable, but I wasn't about to give those bastards more money.
Its not a question of not finding non-juvenile manga (I guess 'adult manga' has other contentations), its just the ones I read are all pretty slow in their releases. They apparently have high turn over with their translators.
Ok, guess I'm just unlucky and all the scanlations I follow seem unbearably slow most of the time (and not from following the volume releases).:-/
All the ones you listed that I recognize are for a younger audience, I guess the fact that they're up-to-date has to do their accesibility and the fact that American scanlation audience tends to be younger.
well, most people use webmail. You could provide a variety of intenet services via servers that had dual net connections, but that wouldn't really be the point.
I do like the idea of a sort of portal page created by and for students.
As rendezvous moves to other platforms (mainly Linux as that is what I use) and to new applications, I see that as a possible simple turn-key way of creating local BBS like networks. Or at least the possiblity is there.
am I missing the irony? At least with the anime community people commonly groan when a series they've been following is licensed. There is often a year or more between when a series is licensed. If its popular enough some groups will continue to do it, but more under the radar.
For Manga it is quite different. Reading manga on a computer screen sucks. Manga scanlation actually takes more work (Japanese is harder to read then to listen to apparently for a lot of people) then anime fansubbing from what I've read. And there's so much manga, the scanlators hardly ever have a chance to keep up, manga scanlators are often several months to several years behind the Japanese releases. I can think of only one instance where this is the exception (Naruto). So people are genuinely happy when a manga series is licensed.
Well, sometimes they translate manga from Chinese or French. Which is like making a copy of a copy using VHS tapes. But it usually isn't hard to figure this out before you download, I wouldn't blame the scanlator for not knowing Japaense (for French the huge clue is the notice to read from left to right). Sometimes you got to take what you get if its particular series you've been looking for.
You get a feeling of a close community at least partly by excluding just random people on the internet. Obviously that can't be the only thing.
Campuses don't regulate bandwidth on internal traffic, because its not a scarce commodity (at least not at my smallish univeristy). There's nothing to get around, no real benefits from creating your own net unless it had an external hookup (which would be possible I suppose, but this is another topic). And its also usually impossible to get a hookup to a 'real' broadband ISP, an issue some of my gamer friends deal with (since the packetshapper that effects KaZaa also effects gaming lag, even though games don't use much bandwidth and weren't really a target).
As far as video intensive projects... well, I won't touch that. o_o
I think the idea of it being on its own net, seperate from the rest of the Internet is one of exclusion - excluding the rest of the Internet access to the 'BBS'. The point isn't to not allow users access to the Internet. Using the pre-existing network and firewall, its trivial for students to setup servers only available on-campus. There wouldn't be any more campus oversight because the school owns the copper and fiber then if it was on a seperate student run wireless network, meaning no pratically no oversight except in the case of a third party complaining of illegally activity. The unversity 'helps build' internet access to its students, yet they're not responsible for the content on the Internet. They are responsible for the content they provide - but this would be what students provide using their own servers.
For illegal activity, it wouldn't matter in this case whether its the campus network or a student run one, the university can extert control if its wants to, though it could take a 'not our problem' stance with the wireless network. But creating an entire wireless network just to dodge the RIAA and the MPAA is kind of lame and ultimately ineffective if either organization cares to move beyond the 'polite letter' to their other legal options. And in both instances, they probably won't know about things happening in the intranet regardless. (I think I read about them sueing people who had search engines for Windows Sharing before at big universities, but that's it)
Writing this is actually making me thinking about starting a campus-only forum... but at the same time I don't really see the point since if I created a forum with my university as the theme, it would be a local forum with the benefits of BBS whether or not I made it technically impossible to access it off-campus.
I've tried a few times to install a Jabber server, but its a pain to install and setup. I think having a local instant message server would be nice for when the internet goes out, which occasionally happens. I also feel kind of silly using a national IM server to IM someone downstairs.
You do realize that DVDs are already too big for downloading except for the patient.
I think the MPAA is looking forward to maybe getting a format that actually does a half-ass decent job at encryption, unlike DVD. Though ultimately perfect DRM is impossible (you can't expect encryption to work if you'r handing out the method of decryption to everyone at the same time), you can make it a hassle. Currently anyone with Google skills can find the software to easily rip a DVD and re-encode it in a smaller format. They could convicably make it so that ripping the next generation DVD could be a lot more complicated, expensive and/or (though it seems less the likely) lead to some degradtion of quality.
You forget that the concepts of the military industrial concept still apply. The folks who own the hardware companies also have an interest in priopertary software.
I guess a less of a conspiracy theory is that without anyone to lobby the DVD forum, Xvid never had a chance. That and Xvid is at least designed with smaller file sizes in mind, I know it scales up to near-DVD quality well, but its not really intended to be/better/ then DVD quality.
Any college student could implement this, creating a community site restricted to their University network (my U. has a firewall on
Of course, colleges are really something different entirely as far as social networks. There are plenty of online communities in my university, but they revolve around clubs (anime, gaming) and play a subordinate role to the real-world as they're used for logistics and decision making, not so much as an ends in itself. You don't really get to know new people online, which is fine.
I'm just old enough to have been exposed to the tail end of the 'BBS culture'. At my local 'freenet' (not the p2p protocol, but a library-supplied ISP) they had some quite active messages boards. They were fun, since they were well-monitored and everything was local. Then AOL and whatnot came into popularity and it fell into disuse and disappeared.
I think RAM is probably the main factor here. If you don't have enough RAM, your in trouble and are slowed down by disk swap. I used Linux GUI back in the day with 300 mHz and 192 and it was fine as well.
This is Slashdot... its impossible to know you're not an ignorant high school student (I started commenting on Slashdot back in 10th grade *points to user number*). Comedy of that sort doesn't work well written down regardles.
Just about every (3D) game I've seen runs at 100% CPU. Its possible that I'm not patient. But regardless 'clunky' is the word, your certainly right about switching between desktop and game depending on the individual game.
I don't see how game programming could have anything to do with the little "Restore... Close" menu that pops up with a right click. The menu is a function of the windows manager (explorer.exe) I believe.
Yea, I used to think OSNews was cool. But the comments on OSNews are just as lame as on slashdot but there's no moderation system (outside of removing offensive messages). And so many of the editorials are just troll-bait and not really thought out.
It is technically impossible to have two graphical sessions open with Windows, cause thats not how Windows works. That what I was specifically refering to when I said you can't do it. As far as I know, its impossible. You can't even do multiple graphical sessions of windows for remote access without buying some software that costs 4-digits and getting weird licenses from Microsoft.
Its sometime possible with Windows to multitask with games (I play most of my games in windows, the only reason I keep it around). Some games will lock up if you switch to another program. And if it works, it does so in a kind of clunky manner as far as switching back and forth, as opposed to CRTL-F7, CRTL-F8 which is how I do it in Linux. You have to press the Start button or do Alt-Tab, it kind of feels like your doing something you shouldn't. Sometimes the resolution gets messed up. You can't right click on the game's icon in the task list and get a regular menu dialog. Other weird things like that.
Now admittedly with both Linux and Windows I've recently been having problems multitasking with games (and running at 100% CPU generally), but its cause its hot and humid and I have no A/C. So its not really the OSs fault at all. I will say that one of my windows-bashing friends who doesn't have much experience with Linux will blame Mr. Gates for just about any computer problem. One advantage of a multi-boot system is that its easy to see what problems are due to your software and which are hardware related. My computer crashing is closely tied to the season, which seems somewhat ironic (Computers, the symbol of modernity, still having to battle the season like some peasant farmer... of course if I had A/C...)
As far as the article this is linking to, the guy obviously doesn't know what he's talking about. I've used Linux since about 1999 and its never really been more efficient at GUI apps. With Linux you have the option to stick it on an old computer and make a decent low-use server (not an option with Windows and its always-on GUI), which is probably where the confusion arises.
They aren't that inefficient generally. Sounds like you ran into a bug of some sort. I play Neverwinter Nights in one X session (in Windows and Linux both, I suppose, you can use a game as your 'window manager') while multitasking with KDE in another X session (try doing that in windows!). It runs fine and doesn't have really any slow down if I ran NWN just by itself.
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At my .edu they decided that our firewall would protect us from Blaster. Didn't take them long to figure out how wrong they were.
Firewalls assume they're aren't malicious things happening on your side of it.
It was kind of ironic when they were first trying to regulate encryption since one of the developers of public key encryption is Israeli. I think he might be the 'R' in RSA.
You could almost call such legislation not just cold-war era, but something from the colonial era, as the Western world+Japan tries to keep its technological advantage.
I doubt much of any data is going to be on the blackberry. Hopefully there will be some sort of password required to access the database, as well as ensuring only the government owned blackberry's can use it.
In most business or campus environments there are going to several IT people with the administrator for every computer on campus. Thanks to administrative shares, this creates a one point of failure. And I've never really heard of any widespread problems arising from this.
The issue is the University having so much control over computers that aren't theirs. You won't see this approach used much since it gives the IT dept. a lot more responsibility then it wants. And unlike with machines that IT maintains fully, changes they will have much more unintended consequences.
The right way to do it is to hand out the virus updates, encourage folks to enable Windows Firewall, automatic updates. And then quickly disable ports that recieve virus's. Which might mean disabling hundreds at a time (like with Sasser) but thats what you gotta do. At my school are Internet was out for a few days due to Blaster; Sasser wasn't much of a problem since IT knew how to handle it by disabling port.
Well, one more reason to use Linux I guess.
There might not have been a contract for DSL, I guess I was just suspicious since they give you a free DSL modem (to keep, I assume) and sometimes even a router for signing up.
From what I understand, DSL is on an entirely different frequency.
I wonder if this deregulation actually means you can have DSL without phone service or if the consumers will just get more choice in companies.
I certainly see why folks in government devote a lot of time in regulating these 'natural' monolopies, they sure are annoying.
A few weeks ago I was looking into getting DSL. But they all require you to have local phone service, which is bogus (I'm cheap and don't need a phone enough to pay for it). I told the lady from SBC I wanted to know the price of local phone coverage if all I wanted was a phone number so that I could use DSL. It's like I was speaking in Greek. She gave me the price for the unlimited local phone, like $21/month after tax. Later I find out they offer metered phone (like 1 cent a minute for local) for $5/month... I wonder if that doesn't work for DSL or if the (soon to be striking, it happened later that week) lady on the phone was lieing to me.
/after/ already having Cable TV, so it's more like an extra fee. I ended up going with cable since it appeared to be cheaper and without yearly contracts. I was of course pushed to spend an extra $7/month to get basic cable, but I wasn't about to give those bastards more money.
Its the same with Cable internet from Cableone. They effectively charge you an extra $10/month for not getting cable TV. Its supposedly like a package deal, but they always advertise the price
Its not a question of not finding non-juvenile manga (I guess 'adult manga' has other contentations), its just the ones I read are all pretty slow in their releases. They apparently have high turn over with their translators.
But I'll check out Yokohama.
Ok, guess I'm just unlucky and all the scanlations I follow seem unbearably slow most of the time (and not from following the volume releases). :-/
All the ones you listed that I recognize are for a younger audience, I guess the fact that they're up-to-date has to do their accesibility and the fact that American scanlation audience tends to be younger.
well, most people use webmail. You could provide a variety of intenet services via servers that had dual net connections, but that wouldn't really be the point.
I do like the idea of a sort of portal page created by and for students.
As rendezvous moves to other platforms (mainly Linux as that is what I use) and to new applications, I see that as a possible simple turn-key way of creating local BBS like networks. Or at least the possiblity is there.
am I missing the irony? At least with the anime community people commonly groan when a series they've been following is licensed. There is often a year or more between when a series is licensed. If its popular enough some groups will continue to do it, but more under the radar.
For Manga it is quite different. Reading manga on a computer screen sucks. Manga scanlation actually takes more work (Japanese is harder to read then to listen to apparently for a lot of people) then anime fansubbing from what I've read. And there's so much manga, the scanlators hardly ever have a chance to keep up, manga scanlators are often several months to several years behind the Japanese releases. I can think of only one instance where this is the exception (Naruto). So people are genuinely happy when a manga series is licensed.
Well, sometimes they translate manga from Chinese or French. Which is like making a copy of a copy using VHS tapes. But it usually isn't hard to figure this out before you download, I wouldn't blame the scanlator for not knowing Japaense (for French the huge clue is the notice to read from left to right). Sometimes you got to take what you get if its particular series you've been looking for.
You get a feeling of a close community at least partly by excluding just random people on the internet. Obviously that can't be the only thing.
Campuses don't regulate bandwidth on internal traffic, because its not a scarce commodity (at least not at my smallish univeristy). There's nothing to get around, no real benefits from creating your own net unless it had an external hookup (which would be possible I suppose, but this is another topic). And its also usually impossible to get a hookup to a 'real' broadband ISP, an issue some of my gamer friends deal with (since the packetshapper that effects KaZaa also effects gaming lag, even though games don't use much bandwidth and weren't really a target).
As far as video intensive projects... well, I won't touch that. o_o
I think the idea of it being on its own net, seperate from the rest of the Internet is one of exclusion - excluding the rest of the Internet access to the 'BBS'. The point isn't to not allow users access to the Internet. Using the pre-existing network and firewall, its trivial for students to setup servers only available on-campus. There wouldn't be any more campus oversight because the school owns the copper and fiber then if it was on a seperate student run wireless network, meaning no pratically no oversight except in the case of a third party complaining of illegally activity. The unversity 'helps build' internet access to its students, yet they're not responsible for the content on the Internet. They are responsible for the content they provide - but this would be what students provide using their own servers.
For illegal activity, it wouldn't matter in this case whether its the campus network or a student run one, the university can extert control if its wants to, though it could take a 'not our problem' stance with the wireless network. But creating an entire wireless network just to dodge the RIAA and the MPAA is kind of lame and ultimately ineffective if either organization cares to move beyond the 'polite letter' to their other legal options. And in both instances, they probably won't know about things happening in the intranet regardless. (I think I read about them sueing people who had search engines for Windows Sharing before at big universities, but that's it)
Writing this is actually making me thinking about starting a campus-only forum... but at the same time I don't really see the point since if I created a forum with my university as the theme, it would be a local forum with the benefits of BBS whether or not I made it technically impossible to access it off-campus.
I've tried a few times to install a Jabber server, but its a pain to install and setup. I think having a local instant message server would be nice for when the internet goes out, which occasionally happens. I also feel kind of silly using a national IM server to IM someone downstairs.
You do realize that DVDs are already too big for downloading except for the patient.
I think the MPAA is looking forward to maybe getting a format that actually does a half-ass decent job at encryption, unlike DVD. Though ultimately perfect DRM is impossible (you can't expect encryption to work if you'r handing out the method of decryption to everyone at the same time), you can make it a hassle. Currently anyone with Google skills can find the software to easily rip a DVD and re-encode it in a smaller format. They could convicably make it so that ripping the next generation DVD could be a lot more complicated, expensive and/or (though it seems less the likely) lead to some degradtion of quality.
You forget that the concepts of the military industrial concept still apply. The folks who own the hardware companies also have an interest in priopertary software.
/better/ then DVD quality.
I guess a less of a conspiracy theory is that without anyone to lobby the DVD forum, Xvid never had a chance. That and Xvid is at least designed with smaller file sizes in mind, I know it scales up to near-DVD quality well, but its not really intended to be
Why does it have to be wireless?
Any college student could implement this, creating a community site restricted to their University network (my U. has a firewall on
Of course, colleges are really something different entirely as far as social networks. There are plenty of online communities in my university, but they revolve around clubs (anime, gaming) and play a subordinate role to the real-world as they're used for logistics and decision making, not so much as an ends in itself. You don't really get to know new people online, which is fine.
I'm just old enough to have been exposed to the tail end of the 'BBS culture'. At my local 'freenet' (not the p2p protocol, but a library-supplied ISP) they had some quite active messages boards. They were fun, since they were well-monitored and everything was local. Then AOL and whatnot came into popularity and it fell into disuse and disappeared.
I think it could be fun making the DNS point to phony sites for all the famous website (whitehouse.gov, amazon.com etc.).
wooow, 5 digit number. you must be uber-l33t 4w3$0m3.
I think RAM is probably the main factor here. If you don't have enough RAM, your in trouble and are slowed down by disk swap. I used Linux GUI back in the day with 300 mHz and 192 and it was fine as well.
This is Slashdot... its impossible to know you're not an ignorant high school student (I started commenting on Slashdot back in 10th grade *points to user number*). Comedy of that sort doesn't work well written down regardles.
Just about every (3D) game I've seen runs at 100% CPU. Its possible that I'm not patient. But regardless 'clunky' is the word, your certainly right about switching between desktop and game depending on the individual game.
I don't see how game programming could have anything to do with the little "Restore... Close" menu that pops up with a right click. The menu is a function of the windows manager (explorer.exe) I believe.
I've never had trouble understanding any of the English on osnews.com. But other then that, yea I agree.
Yea, I used to think OSNews was cool. But the comments on OSNews are just as lame as on slashdot but there's no moderation system (outside of removing offensive messages). And so many of the editorials are just troll-bait and not really thought out.
It is technically impossible to have two graphical sessions open with Windows, cause thats not how Windows works. That what I was specifically refering to when I said you can't do it. As far as I know, its impossible. You can't even do multiple graphical sessions of windows for remote access without buying some software that costs 4-digits and getting weird licenses from Microsoft.
Its sometime possible with Windows to multitask with games (I play most of my games in windows, the only reason I keep it around). Some games will lock up if you switch to another program. And if it works, it does so in a kind of clunky manner as far as switching back and forth, as opposed to CRTL-F7, CRTL-F8 which is how I do it in Linux. You have to press the Start button or do Alt-Tab, it kind of feels like your doing something you shouldn't. Sometimes the resolution gets messed up. You can't right click on the game's icon in the task list and get a regular menu dialog. Other weird things like that.
Now admittedly with both Linux and Windows I've recently been having problems multitasking with games (and running at 100% CPU generally), but its cause its hot and humid and I have no A/C. So its not really the OSs fault at all. I will say that one of my windows-bashing friends who doesn't have much experience with Linux will blame Mr. Gates for just about any computer problem. One advantage of a multi-boot system is that its easy to see what problems are due to your software and which are hardware related. My computer crashing is closely tied to the season, which seems somewhat ironic (Computers, the symbol of modernity, still having to battle the season like some peasant farmer... of course if I had A/C...)
As far as the article this is linking to, the guy obviously doesn't know what he's talking about. I've used Linux since about 1999 and its never really been more efficient at GUI apps. With Linux you have the option to stick it on an old computer and make a decent low-use server (not an option with Windows and its always-on GUI), which is probably where the confusion arises.
They aren't that inefficient generally. Sounds like you ran into a bug of some sort. I play Neverwinter Nights in one X session (in Windows and Linux both, I suppose, you can use a game as your 'window manager') while multitasking with KDE in another X session (try doing that in windows!). It runs fine and doesn't have really any slow down if I ran NWN just by itself.