It's still a government trying to tell its people what words they should and should not see, which is censorship and something to notice and oppose.
The irish constitution has some dangerous weasel-wording in it around that area. Lately it's been taken that european/international human rights law trumps more problematic aspects of the constitution, and it's important to remember that basically no sane irish person takes mere human law entirely seriously in the first place, but it just isn't particularly wonderful as constitutions go. May still better than still being ruled by the British I guess (I mean just look at Jacqui Smith...)...
6. 1. The State guarantees liberty for the exercise of the following rights, subject to public order and morality.
i. The right of the citizens to express freely their convictions and opinions.
The education of public opinion being, however, a matter of such grave import to the common good, the State shall endeavour to ensure that organs of public opinion, such as the radio, the press, the cinema, while preserving their rightful liberty of expression, including criticism of Government policy, shall not be used to undermine public order or morality or the authority of the State.
The publication or utterance of blasphemous, seditious, or indecent matter is an offence which shall be punishable in accordance with law.
For example, a private citizen can't register a personal domain unless they're a company or publicly known celebrity like a politician
That changed a while ago, though controls are a bit stricter than in other places. You have to register your real name (businesses are supposed to register their registered irish business names) and present some form of vaguely plausible ID. And it's relatively expensive. I have mine registered, much harder to lose to some squatter - even if I miss a payment, no-one else is going to be able to register it very easily (esp. given my real name is rather long) at least while they keep the rules in place. However I use my com/net/org domains day-to-day for business.
Have you tried MilkyTracker? I quite like it, though I'm essentially talentless at present when it comes to composition, I just mess around.
I could have sworn I've seen 8 channel ones somewhere in the same extension.
Amiga OctaMED OctaMED introduced 8-amiga-sound-channel (IIRC it already supported N midi channels) support on the Amiga at least, sometimes with extension.med, sometimes with.mod - the amiga didn't use file extensions for file typing as such, so you saw both around. The amiga had 4 channels in hardware, usually used two on each stereo side, but software multiplexing techniques could yield more software channels, used for standalone mods and some games.
After 8, things just went to N tracks using more and more software-side multiplexing.
Unicomp keyboards are worth every penny, though. You don't have to believe me, but I'm ridiculously happy with mine at the price I paid several years ago (which I don't recall exactly, but which included thousands of miles of international shipping charges seeing as I'm in Ireland...)
I'm not sure what car analogy is appropriate, but it's like a disposable party cup vs. a solid metal beer stein. You can drink beer from both, of course, but...
People nowadays seem to expect and accept their cheap keyboards simply "wearing out". I've even temporarily repaired cheap keyboards with foil where the conductive part of the shitty rubber pad has simply worn away with use. However I expect my unicomp would probably last my remaining lifetime - only problem I anticipate is slowly changing interface standards and keyboard layouts rather than mechanical failure.
AROS is an open source operating system largely source-compatible with AmigaOS 3.x APIs and runs on modern PCs. It's not "finished", and shares AmigaOS weaknesses as well as strengths, but is usable (helped by recompiles of a load of amiga stuff from the Aminet (still around!) I guess) :
I wouldn't really want to use a system lacking full memory protection in the modern era (though some effort at retrofitting memory protection is underway IIRC), but it does work.
I hereby propose a closely related 40-character format, where each base85 value is represented by a pair of letters, consonant-vowel - The "bananafofana" IPv6 address notation...
17 consonants: bdfghjklmnpstvxwz 5 vowels: aeiou => 85 distinct consonant-vowel pairs (dropped c,r because of confusion possibilities with s/k,l. h is tricky for some non-english speakers, but it can typically be learned. I tend to think of x as the ch sound in irish/scottish "loch", but, well, it doesn't matter all that much.)
First, transform to base 85 is performed as per the RFC1924. Then, rather than mapping to 85 different ascii characters, the 0-84 base85 digits are mapped to consonant+vowel pairs in consonants*vowels sequence i.e. ("ba" "be" "bi" "bo" "bu" "da" "de" "di" "do" "du" "fa" "fe" "fi" "fo" "fu" "ga" "ge" "gi" "go" "gu" "ha" "he" "hi" "ho" "hu" "ja" "je" "ji" "jo" "ju" "ka" "ke" "ki" "ko" "ku" "la" "le" "li" "lo" "lu" "ma" "me" "mi" "mo" "mu" "na" "ne" "ni" "no" "nu" "pa" "pe" "pi" "po" "pu" "sa" "se" "si" "so" "su" "ta" "te" "ti" "to" "tu" "va" "ve" "vi" "vo" "vu" "xa" "xe" "xi" "xo" "xu" "wa" "we" "wi" "wo" "wu" "za" "ze" "zi" "zo" "zu")
These pairs are then concatenated to give a 40 character nonsense word string -
So, for example, 1080:0:0:0:8:800:200C:417A => base85 4-68-70-46-66-12-63-31-61-19-4-37-53-75-0-58-57-65-34-51 (from the RFC)
=> [buvoxanevefitoketegubulipowabasosivakupe]
There, much better;-)
Maybe spaces should probably be allowed between every 8 characters, just to make it a bit more legible. Especially out loud:-)
Q. Hey, what's that server's address, again? A. [ buvoxane vefitoke tegubuli powabaso sivakupe ] !!!
Seems rather FUDy... Why introduce a deprecation model if not to encourage people to the more OpenGL ES like nondeprecated bits? Yeah, you still can call glBegin/End, but it'll presumably hiss nastily at you.
I just don't see it as "layered on top", particularly - you do things the new way if you want your code to run in forward-compat mode. It's "beside" rather than "on top".
(certainly unlikely to be "layered on top" at the driver sources level, would be inverted if anything - any old fixed pipeline functionality emulated with programmable hardware.)
Bit of a book-scam though. Whole 'nother round of red/orange book purchases...
Did you read "the deprecation model" (appendix e) of the OpenGL 3.0 spec? OpenGL 3.0 apparently provides for a mode (a "forward compatible context") that helpfully excludes deprecated "legacy crud".
This sounds very handy for people trying to update codebases - they can presumably switch to a forward-compatible context, do a build, see what breaks.
The US pirate party's website is at http://www.pirate-party.us/ (an AC posted an incorrect link, hmm... malice vs. incompetence... it was only missing a hyphen...)
Perhaps it's (gasp) a kernel bug. If it's reproducible, consider reporting it (including all hardware you use, even seemingly irrelevant stuff - in my experience, most usb problems, apart from being hardware-specific, are actually caused by buggy mobos). Mentioning it in/. comment is unlikely to get it fixed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode, probably. How about this? (okay, the.org registry probably doesn't support that, and/.'s [link-warning] thing makes it look less cool, but some DNS might).
Sigh. I shouldn't reply, but I think you may have misrepresented my position there: even entertaining your "deserve to be compensated" idea, that certainly does not lead inevitably/uniquely to copyright monopoly laws in particular - a very wide range of taxation, prize and grant schemes could apply (and are currently seen out in the real world, even) without restriction on copying, and that's apart from the obvious enough point that, hey, the work of writing a book can be the chargeable service,people can be paid for that directly, seeing as that's where the "work" lies anyway: Patronage/commissioned artistic production has worked and works today, producing many great artworks -and remember, the internet makes micropayments for funding by large groups quite feasible. Yes, some such efforts fail (e.g. Stephen King's last attempt IIRC) and some succeed - but that is right and proper and expected in a functioning market.
You're right that we're unlikely to agree, of course, but to say that it's "because" we disagree on whether people "deserve to be compensated" is wrong - I'd say whether or not people "deserve to be compensated", they don't deserve a copyright monopoly in particular.
You might benefit from exposure to some Austrian School literature.
If you're referring to the redistribution of physical copies, then there's nothing wrong with that. No, I'm taking about the making and redistribution of arbitrary further physical copies by third parties. As far as I'm concerned, that's the right of every holder of physical property - to shape it how they see fit (well, actually that's a simplification - I don't necessarily disagree with attribution rights - i.e. I'd consider plagiarism fraudulent, or at the very least tacky. But I disagree with any right to restrict redistribution of properly attributed copies). If it happens to convey information to some interpreter that is "copyrighted", by some mimicry of the shape of another piece of physical property, so be it.
Stephan Kinsella's expressed arguments in this essay are pretty close to my views (though he writes far more eloquently). I'm not going to comment further on the matter in this thread; I suggest you just check that essay out.
What copyright is supposed to prevent, and justly so [sic], is unauthorized copying for a reasonable amount of time, so that the author can profit from their work "Their work" is the physical copies they created, and I don't mind them profitting from the sale of them, charging for the service of creation of them, etc. I do not grant any reality to "their work" in the abstract, even if muddle-brained american lawyers do. (Well, that's a simplification too. There are tantalising hints from the developing field quantum computation that quantum information itself has some sort of physical reality - but if anything quantum information is even less compatible with mere human notions of ownership than classical information and/or the approximations we consider macroscopic physical objects)
As far as I'm concerned, physical property law over the physical substrates of "information" is pretty much all that's necessary for just dealings with [classical] information - if I wanted to obtain undisclosed and properly protected secret information from you, I'd have to violate your physical property rights to obtain it. If authors release their initial copy for too low a price, well, that was their choice and their problem. It was their choice to sink their costs into the creation of the work, and I don't think it's fair for others to bear it. The world doesn't owe me a living doing what I want to do, nor them doing what they might want to do.
except the ability to get stuff against the creator's wishes. You're confused (or more likely just trolling). Only physical copies exist. My copy of some information is not your copy. If I destroy my copy, yours still exists. They Are Different Things. If the creator honestly doesn't wish people to have a copy, there's a simple solution in the complete absence of copyright monopoly law - don't release a copy in the first place. Fuck 'em : I didn't ask 'em to, and I certainly don't expect 'em to when we abolish copyright monopoly law.
It's not an all-or-nothing scenario like you paint. It is being made an all-or-nothing scenario as we speak by attempts at digital restrictions management and internet filtering. Never say you weren't warned.
If an author wishes to not distribute their book any more, then damn it, that's their right. I'd agree, in so far as I don't think people should be required to disclose data they don't want to disclose. So the author can stop supplying copies of the data any time they want. However, copyright monopoly law restricts redistribution by people other than the author of their own copies of already released data that may be authored by or derived from data authored by the author, a different matter altogether.
Well, if the law is wrong, one shouldn't abide by it (and hey, I'm not in the USA anyway, and have no intention of going until there's a bit of "regime change" there). But building a wireless mesh network is a rather different story to unauthorised access of wireless APs. A mesh network is the sort of thing you can build with a http://locustworld.com/ MeshAP, and sometimes IS the technology used by a commercial ISP to provide "wireless broadband" (but if so, maybe best you participate in more than one mesh...).
I think you'll find I understand that. I wasn't suggesting that people couldn't do something about it. Mesh networking offers a cheap way to *get* multiple routes.
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Wow, I would've expected better from a low 6-digit UID.
Yeah, I don't think it works that way. Plenty of people with low UIDs are complete assholes.
It's still a government trying to tell its people what words they should and should not see, which is censorship and something to notice and oppose.
The irish constitution has some dangerous weasel-wording in it around that area. Lately it's been taken that european/international human rights law trumps more problematic aspects of the constitution, and it's important to remember that basically no sane irish person takes mere human law entirely seriously in the first place, but it just isn't particularly wonderful as constitutions go. May still better than still being ruled by the British I guess (I mean just look at Jacqui Smith...)...
6. 1. The State guarantees liberty for the exercise of the following rights, subject to public order and morality.
i. The right of the citizens to express freely their convictions and opinions.
The education of public opinion being, however, a matter of such grave import to the common good, the State shall endeavour to ensure that organs of public opinion, such as the radio, the press, the cinema, while preserving their rightful liberty of expression, including criticism of Government policy, shall not be used to undermine public order or morality or the authority of the State.
The publication or utterance of blasphemous, seditious, or indecent matter is an offence which shall be punishable in accordance with law.
For example, a private citizen can't register a personal domain unless they're a company or publicly known celebrity like a politician
That changed a while ago, though controls are a bit stricter than in other places. You have to register your real name (businesses are supposed to register their registered irish business names) and present some form of vaguely plausible ID. And it's relatively expensive. I have mine registered, much harder to lose to some squatter - even if I miss a payment, no-one else is going to be able to register it very easily (esp. given my real name is rather long) at least while they keep the rules in place. However I use my com/net/org domains day-to-day for business.
Have you tried MilkyTracker? I quite like it, though I'm essentially talentless at present when it comes to composition, I just mess around.
I could have sworn I've seen 8 channel ones somewhere in the same extension.
Amiga OctaMED OctaMED introduced 8-amiga-sound-channel (IIRC it already supported N midi channels) support on the Amiga at least, sometimes with extension .med, sometimes with .mod - the amiga didn't use file extensions for file typing as such, so you saw both around. The amiga had 4 channels in hardware, usually used two on each stereo side, but software multiplexing techniques could yield more software channels, used for standalone mods and some games.
After 8, things just went to N tracks using more and more software-side multiplexing.
Unicomp keyboards are worth every penny, though. You don't have to believe me, but I'm ridiculously happy with mine at the price I paid several years ago (which I don't recall exactly, but which included thousands of miles of international shipping charges seeing as I'm in Ireland...)
I'm not sure what car analogy is appropriate, but it's like a disposable party cup vs. a solid metal beer stein. You can drink beer from both, of course, but...
People nowadays seem to expect and accept their cheap keyboards simply "wearing out". I've even temporarily repaired cheap keyboards with foil where the conductive part of the shitty rubber pad has simply worn away with use. However I expect my unicomp would probably last my remaining lifetime - only problem I anticipate is slowly changing interface standards and keyboard layouts rather than mechanical failure.
AROS is an open source operating system largely source-compatible with AmigaOS 3.x APIs and runs on modern PCs. It's not "finished", and shares AmigaOS weaknesses as well as strengths, but is usable (helped by recompiles of a load of amiga stuff from the Aminet (still around!) I guess) :
http://aros.sourceforge.net/
Grab a liveCD from Icaros desktop and give it a go.
http://vmwaros.blogspot.com/
I wouldn't really want to use a system lacking full memory protection in the modern era (though some effort at retrofitting memory protection is underway IIRC), but it does work.
Silly python implementation of a revised variant here
Uh. Hey. Why did I reverse w and x? That was dumb. Oh well. Note to implementors: w should be before x.
Hmmm. Base 85, eh?
I hereby propose a closely related 40-character format, where each base85 value is represented by a pair of letters, consonant-vowel -
The "bananafofana" IPv6 address notation...
17 consonants: bdfghjklmnpstvxwz
5 vowels: aeiou
=> 85 distinct consonant-vowel pairs
(dropped c,r because of confusion possibilities with s/k,l. h is tricky for some non-english speakers, but it can typically be learned. I tend to think of x as the ch sound in irish/scottish "loch", but, well, it doesn't matter all that much.)
First, transform to base 85 is performed as per the RFC1924. Then,
rather than mapping to 85 different ascii characters, the 0-84 base85 digits are mapped to consonant+vowel pairs in consonants*vowels sequence i.e.
("ba" "be" "bi" "bo" "bu" "da" "de" "di" "do" "du" "fa" "fe" "fi" "fo" "fu" "ga" "ge" "gi" "go" "gu" "ha" "he" "hi" "ho" "hu" "ja" "je" "ji" "jo" "ju" "ka" "ke" "ki" "ko" "ku" "la" "le" "li" "lo" "lu" "ma" "me" "mi" "mo" "mu" "na" "ne" "ni" "no" "nu" "pa" "pe" "pi" "po" "pu" "sa" "se" "si" "so" "su" "ta" "te" "ti" "to" "tu" "va" "ve" "vi" "vo" "vu" "xa" "xe" "xi" "xo" "xu" "wa" "we" "wi" "wo" "wu" "za" "ze" "zi" "zo" "zu")
These pairs are then concatenated to give a 40 character nonsense word string -
So, for example, 1080:0:0:0:8:800:200C:417A => base85 4-68-70-46-66-12-63-31-61-19-4-37-53-75-0-58-57-65-34-51 (from the RFC)
=> [buvoxanevefitoketegubulipowabasosivakupe]
There, much better ;-)
Maybe spaces should probably be allowed between every 8 characters, just to make it a bit more legible. Especially out loud :-)
Q. Hey, what's that server's address, again?
A. [ buvoxane vefitoke tegubuli powabaso sivakupe ] !!!
Just call Uwe Boll, he'll know what to do!
most likely for a very long time to come as well
Seems rather FUDy... Why introduce a deprecation model if not to encourage people to the more OpenGL ES like nondeprecated bits? Yeah, you still can call glBegin/End, but it'll presumably hiss nastily at you.
I just don't see it as "layered on top", particularly - you do things the new way if you want your code to run in forward-compat mode. It's "beside" rather than "on top".
(certainly unlikely to be "layered on top" at the driver sources level, would be inverted if anything - any old fixed pipeline functionality emulated with programmable hardware.)
Bit of a book-scam though. Whole 'nother round of red/orange book purchases...
The thing OpenGL is typically bad at is removing legacy stuff
One of the innovations of OpenGL 3.0 is a means for deprecating and removing legacy stuff, see appendix E of the spec....
the legacy crud that plagues OpenGL.
Did you read "the deprecation model" (appendix e) of the OpenGL 3.0 spec? OpenGL 3.0 apparently provides for a mode (a "forward compatible context") that helpfully excludes deprecated "legacy crud".
This sounds very handy for people trying to update codebases - they can presumably switch to a forward-compatible context, do a build, see what breaks.
The US pirate party's website is at http://www.pirate-party.us/
(an AC posted an incorrect link, hmm... malice vs. incompetence... it was only missing a hyphen...)
The original swedish pirate party is at http://piratpartiet.se/
Given the amount of power these things apparently need, are they going to be whirring monstrosities too?
I like having a quiet machine (though my current quiet PSU probably wouldn't be enough for more than one of these things, yeesh...).
Can you / do you need to fit third-party quiet fans to these enormous-and-apparently-enclosed-form-factor cards?
At the end of the day hydrogen will always be just a way to store energy, but because it's stable and loses none of it's potential.
It also diffuses through pretty much anything including solid metal. It's a plain awkward energy store.
Perhaps it's (gasp) a kernel bug. If it's reproducible, consider reporting it (including all hardware you use, even seemingly irrelevant stuff - in my experience, most usb problems, apart from being hardware-specific, are actually caused by buggy mobos). Mentioning it in /. comment is unlikely to get it fixed.
Well, Unicomp can sell you new keyboards that are extremely close to the old IBM keyboards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode, probably. How about this? (okay, the .org registry probably doesn't support that, and /.'s [link-warning] thing makes it look less cool, but some DNS might).
Sigh. I shouldn't reply, but I think you may have misrepresented my position there: even entertaining your "deserve to be compensated" idea, that certainly does not lead inevitably/uniquely to copyright monopoly laws in particular - a very wide range of taxation, prize and grant schemes could apply (and are currently seen out in the real world, even) without restriction on copying, and that's apart from the obvious enough point that, hey, the work of writing a book can be the chargeable service,people can be paid for that directly, seeing as that's where the "work" lies anyway: Patronage/commissioned artistic production has worked and works today, producing many great artworks -and remember, the internet makes micropayments for funding by large groups quite feasible. Yes, some such efforts fail (e.g. Stephen King's last attempt IIRC) and some succeed - but that is right and proper and expected in a functioning market.
You're right that we're unlikely to agree, of course, but to say that it's "because" we disagree on whether people "deserve to be compensated" is wrong - I'd say whether or not people "deserve to be compensated", they don't deserve a copyright monopoly in particular.
You might benefit from exposure to some Austrian School literature.
Stephan Kinsella's expressed arguments in this essay are pretty close to my views (though he writes far more eloquently). I'm not going to comment further on the matter in this thread; I suggest you just check that essay out. What copyright is supposed to prevent, and justly so [sic], is unauthorized copying for a reasonable amount of time, so that the author can profit from their work "Their work" is the physical copies they created, and I don't mind them profitting from the sale of them, charging for the service of creation of them, etc. I do not grant any reality to "their work" in the abstract, even if muddle-brained american lawyers do. (Well, that's a simplification too. There are tantalising hints from the developing field quantum computation that quantum information itself has some sort of physical reality - but if anything quantum information is even less compatible with mere human notions of ownership than classical information and/or the approximations we consider macroscopic physical objects)
As far as I'm concerned, physical property law over the physical substrates of "information" is pretty much all that's necessary for just dealings with [classical] information - if I wanted to obtain undisclosed and properly protected secret information from you, I'd have to violate your physical property rights to obtain it. If authors release their initial copy for too low a price, well, that was their choice and their problem. It was their choice to sink their costs into the creation of the work, and I don't think it's fair for others to bear it. The world doesn't owe me a living doing what I want to do, nor them doing what they might want to do.
Well, if the law is wrong, one shouldn't abide by it (and hey, I'm not in the USA anyway, and have no intention of going until there's a bit of "regime change" there). But building a wireless mesh network is a rather different story to unauthorised access of wireless APs. A mesh network is the sort of thing you can build with a http://locustworld.com/ MeshAP, and sometimes IS the technology used by a commercial ISP to provide "wireless broadband" (but if so, maybe best you participate in more than one mesh...).
I think you'll find I understand that. I wasn't suggesting that people couldn't do something about it. Mesh networking offers a cheap way to *get* multiple routes.