Actually, a Mac-user friend of mine tells me that the OS the Navis use (can't remember the name,) was one of the great MacOS vaporware versions before OSX. It was supposed to be this mind-blowing cool revolutionary OS, then they dumped it, and incorporated parts into OSX.
If anyone's wondering how this is done in ascii, it isn't.
I've heard the character sets described as double-byte, though that's open to interpretation. I started to teach myself JIS (an older Japanese encoding format) back before I had any word processors for Japanese. I seem to remember it was something like programming ANSI graphics by hand.
The format was something like
[esc]foo[esc][J
This is probably painfully incorrect since the last time I entered it was about 6 years ago, but basically there was a short header, characters represented by double-characters, and a closing command.
(I'd look it up, but these days everyone uses Shift-Jis which is quite undecipherable to me.)
Here's a clip of some from www.yahoo.co.jp:
fRf"fsf...[f^ÆfCf"f^[flfbfg
It says (in English, written in Katakana,) "Computer and Internet"
There are 15 characters to it in Japanese. Don't ask how it came to be 28 characters of code, I don't know.
Riiiight... and I suppose that since you live in [insert country here], the government should be able to sell all of your belongings for extra cash? After all, you bought them all with [insert currency], and your house sits on the land that belongs to [country]...
A number of ISP netadmins use port scanning to detect the presence of publically-offered services--the netadmin can then perform tests of those services to ensure they don't become smurf amplifiers or security holes. @Home looks for servers that operate in defiance of their Terms of Service (perhaps too hard).
Actually, for a while, I got into the habit of portscanning anyone who portscanned me, just to let them know I did it. As it turned out, I got a letter from @Home telling me that if I violate their terms of service again, they'd terminate my account. Since I didn't portscan anyone who didn't already do it to me, this means one thing:
Someone had the audacity to portscan me, then complain to @Home when I returned the favor!
As it turns out, any use of portscanners, valid or not, is against the TOS.
Virgin Interactive was working on a Playstation 4-player fighting game called "Thrill Kill." Like the name suggests, it's gorier than Mortal Kombat even (yep, it gets pretty silly...)
Electronic Arts (I think,) bought Virgin Interactive, decided they didn't want a game like that being released under their name, and canned it... a week before launch.
I have downloaded this game (don't ask how, you can find anything on the net,) and I found that it only has a couple of minor bugs, and obviously a lot of work was put into it.
Now, do you think it was wrong to download, because the original programmers aren't getting royalties for every copy sold, and the company doesn't want the game out?
...or do you think it was acceptable because the game was never released anyway, so there's no loss to the company? Also that the programmers are probably proud of their work, and wouldn't want it wasted?
I'm not looking for justification to download it, I've already made my choice... but what does the/. community at large think of this?
Wow, what kind of awesome virus does that page have?
Even with all features (Java and Javascript included) turned off, it brings Netscape to a slamming halt on my P2-400!
Well, there's SonMay in Taiwan, though much of their older stuff is pirated. They do anime and game soundtracks mostly.
Avex Trax (this link's in English, too!) Is a very large music company in Japan, handling some Japanese stars like Namie Amuro, Hitomi, Every Little Thing, and more recently Ayumi Hamasaki (yay!) They also apparently handle Japanese versions of popular English artists' albums, but I haven't read their website so I'm not sure.
There's just two alternatives. You might also want to look at companies in the UK, but I don't know which ones might have RIAA ties.
This works better for preventing block than removing it, but I find listening to music that you like, preferrably without words, works. When I was taking a course in C++, I'd just put on my headphones, put on some techno music, and let my mind wander if the problem looked too tricky to solve. I'd just sit there for several minutes, not worrying about time, and when I got back to programming, it was almost like a divine inspiration had hit me. I'd usually just crank out the code in one long string, iron out the bugs, and be done with it.
I also find that music with a good constant beat helps to keep my mind on track when I'm programming something large.
AC here raises an interesting point... But surely Katz's books would be posted SOMEWHERE?
It just doesn't make sense to claim that songs/software/ad infinitum should be distributed for free and not do the same with books. Kind of a double-standard if you ask me.
"'Why should software be free?' Edward J. Zander, chief operating officer of Sun Microsystems, asked New York Times reporter Amy Harmon in a story on OSS. 'Why should I give away what I pay millions of dollars to develop? Why doesn't General Motors give its cars away for free? Why don't you give me your newspaper for free?'
Good questions, and exactly the ones the chief operating officer of a giant computer software company should be asking, and the country should be talking about. The values of the rapidly ascending Internet suggest that companies may need a more nuanced response when it comes to existing online - such as perhaps giving some things away free some of the time, or charging less for the things they do sell, or selling them in different ways: giving consumers more power in terms of customization -- choice, design, price and quantity. " -JonKatz, "World without walls"
So, based on this small quote from the article, I think it would make sense if Katz at least had the first chapter or two of his books up on the web. (Are they up anywhere?) If this sounds impossible due to licensing restrictions, just look at "The Hacker Crackdown" by Bruce Sterling. You can download the whole thing as a text file (or 4, in my case).
One last thing: To the AC who posted this, next time, if you have an account, use it. Do not fear the "bitchslap." (Which, while rumored at, I've never seen it happen.)
I couldn't agree with you more on this, and if you hadn't submitted that quote from Phil Zimmerman, I would have, because it was the first thing to come to mind.
I can't believe that my most paranoid friend, a total free-thinker who wouldn't buy into government lines, who often informs me about things like Project MKULTRA, etc... STILL won't use PGP because although he made a public key for himself once, it expired, and he just couldn't be bothered to make a new one!
It's actually almost surreal, because most of the time he's sure that no matter how insignificant his communications are, they're being monitored by something. (Eschelon, Carnivore, some random kid with a packet sniffer, etc...)
that way the storage media is separate from the camera, and multiple cameras could be used to beam to the same storage media.
Very sadly, someone would find a way to spam it. (Even if it means breaking encryption or finding exploits to do it.) I can see it now, you go to dump your pictures and: "What the hell? '6 hours of steamy presidential mp3s'?!" (Bonus points to anyone who can tell where I got that from.)
Does the NSA have any connection whatsoever with the "number stations" on shortwave radio?
If the NSA owns any of these stations, would you be able to give us even a vague idea of what kind of data is carried on them? Even a one-word answer like "names", "words", "images", etc...
That, and it would be a lot easier to counterfeit some other currencies.
For example, bills $20 and over have... not a laser hologram, but a similar type of sticker on them. (No picture, but reacts the same to light.)
The $20 in my pocket is mostly green. The $10 is mostly bluish. $50s are mostly red, and if memory serves me, they have a color picture on the back of RCMP officers. I'd go into details about higher bills, but I seldom even carry cash on me; debit cards are accepted nearly everywhere.
...also, for those who are into detail, there's the matter of reproducing the small blue dots on Canadian bills. Not many know this, but if you're careful, you can peel them off the bill.
Of course there's the microprinting of not only the denomination of the bill, but also in smaller text the repeating "BANKOFCANADABANQUEDUCANADA" that's used for shading.
*CLICK* "It works now." "You are NOT to take the computer apart, open control panels, etc..."
I also got in trouble for OPENING ResEdit in the programming lab. Apparently they have it there for programming students to use, but it's only for looks? (In high school, I did all the high school programming courses, "info processing 30", and a level of college beginner's C++ while I was in programming 20/30. We never even touched ResEdit.)
After a while, I wasn't allowed to use the computers at any time outside programming class on the grounds that I wasn't "doing school work."
Typical lunchtime argument with librarians: "Off the computer, other students need to use it" "I'm doing a report." "You're not using the computer for school work, so get off." "LOOK, a social studies essay. Wonder how that got here?" "off"
Seems to be an almost universal thing at schools from what I read on/.
(Oh yeah, other kids would go "woah, are you, like, a hacker or something?" when they saw me typing at a reasonable speed instead of hunt-and-peck.)
Hey, didn't/. post a story about REAL SETI accelerators a while back? Of course, they can be used for accelerating OTHER things too... like the distributed.net client! =P
Having dealt many times with Canadian customs, (I live in Canada and order stuff over the net,) CDs ordered from the states will probably often just get "lost in the mail" as soon as they reach customs. It seems that they enforce according to opinion and not fact, so they would likely unofficially make it very hard to import CDs.
My friends and I are anime fans, and I could be paranoid, but it's funny how customs treats anime.
I order an $80 CPU, no customs charge.
I order a Laserdisc player, $20 charge.
New hard drive, can't remember but the charge was small.
I ordered $40 of tapes, $20 charge.
A friend ordered some DragonBall Z episodes, and they were confiscated because they were "pornography." (WTF?! It's a Saturday morning cartoon!)
He ordered some more, and they were stopped because the company he ordered from "didn't have distribution rights to DBZ in Canada."
Basically, customs has power to do whatever it likes. If this sounds unbelievable, here are some related links:
This guy has incredible "true" hacking skills. Whether it's cars, arcade boards, even designing a user-friendly gameboy cartridge reader... unfortunately, not all of his site is in English, and I think he only has hacks for cars he owns... He might be able to provide some good starting info though...
By this point, I'm wondering if the RIAA vs MP3 battle is more about saving face than protecting their investments? Perhaps they just don't want to back down from the legal battles that have become so public, and say "oops"
Nice, but my P3 450 is still even fast enough to easily run any games I throw at it... Does anyone need 1.13GHz? What are you going to do to use all that power?
Kinda funny... but how long do you think it'll be before someone cracks his box wide open?
I don't just mean getting access to files either. It would be pretty easy to set up a script to DoS him everytime he shows up, and probably fairly trivial to trace who he is, and mess up every net account he gets elsewhere? (hey, some people are petty, but I've heard of people being shot for less. )
Personally, I'm no '1337 h4x0r; just above average net skills (like most/. readers probably have...) but I've traced some trolls down just as an exercise. I found one's age, sex, home address, aliases, multiple e-mail accounts, ICQ number, religious affiliations, etc...) It's creepy how easy it is to trace someone once you have a shred of factual info on them. It sure made me paranoid since I'm not even that good at doing this.
I wonder if this guy realizes how easy it is to do something like that to him?
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, a Mac-user friend of mine tells me that the OS the Navis use (can't remember the name,) was one of the great MacOS vaporware versions before OSX. It was supposed to be this mind-blowing cool revolutionary OS, then they dumped it, and incorporated parts into OSX.
If anyone's wondering how this is done in ascii, it isn't.
I've heard the character sets described as double-byte, though that's open to interpretation. I started to teach myself JIS (an older Japanese encoding format) back before I had any word processors for Japanese. I seem to remember it was something like programming ANSI graphics by hand.
The format was something like
[esc]foo[esc][J
This is probably painfully incorrect since the last time I entered it was about 6 years ago, but basically there was a short header, characters represented by double-characters, and a closing command.
(I'd look it up, but these days everyone uses Shift-Jis which is quite undecipherable to me.)
Here's a clip of some from www.yahoo.co.jp:
fRf"fsf...[f^ÆfCf"f^[flfbfg
It says (in English, written in Katakana,) "Computer and Internet"
There are 15 characters to it in Japanese. Don't ask how it came to be 28 characters of code, I don't know.
Riiiight... and I suppose that since you live in [insert country here], the government should be able to sell all of your belongings for extra cash? After all, you bought them all with [insert currency], and your house sits on the land that belongs to [country]...
Somehow I can't seem to see that logic.
A number of ISP netadmins use port scanning to detect the presence of publically-offered services--the netadmin can then perform tests of those services to ensure they don't become smurf amplifiers or security holes. @Home looks for servers that operate in defiance of their Terms of Service (perhaps too hard).
Actually, for a while, I got into the habit of portscanning anyone who portscanned me, just to let them know I did it. As it turned out, I got a letter from @Home telling me that if I violate their terms of service again, they'd terminate my account. Since I didn't portscan anyone who didn't already do it to me, this means one thing:
Someone had the audacity to portscan me, then complain to @Home when I returned the favor!
As it turns out, any use of portscanners, valid or not, is against the TOS.
Here is an anecdote for you to think about:
/. community at large think of this?
Virgin Interactive was working on a Playstation 4-player fighting game called "Thrill Kill." Like the name suggests, it's gorier than Mortal Kombat even (yep, it gets pretty silly...)
Electronic Arts (I think,) bought Virgin Interactive, decided they didn't want a game like that being released under their name, and canned it... a week before launch.
I have downloaded this game (don't ask how, you can find anything on the net,) and I found that it only has a couple of minor bugs, and obviously a lot of work was put into it.
Now, do you think it was wrong to download, because the original programmers aren't getting royalties for every copy sold, and the company doesn't want the game out?
...or do you think it was acceptable because the game was never released anyway, so there's no loss to the company? Also that the programmers are probably proud of their work, and wouldn't want it wasted?
I'm not looking for justification to download it, I've already made my choice... but what does the
>;)
/.? That should keep them down for at least a week. ^_^
Why don't we just post a headline with a link to their site every day on
Something like this?_ 2000/1-15-00a.html
http://www.hardocp.com/news_images/2000/january
Wow, what kind of awesome virus does that page have?
Even with all features (Java and Javascript included) turned off, it brings Netscape to a slamming halt on my P2-400!
Netscape users, beware...
heh heh... one pseudo-word:
Kerberos#
Lame, very lame...
Well, there's SonMay in Taiwan, though much of their older stuff is pirated. They do anime and game soundtracks mostly.
Avex Trax (this link's in English, too!) Is a very large music company in Japan, handling some Japanese stars like Namie Amuro, Hitomi, Every Little Thing, and more recently Ayumi Hamasaki (yay!) They also apparently handle Japanese versions of popular English artists' albums, but I haven't read their website so I'm not sure.
There's just two alternatives. You might also want to look at companies in the UK, but I don't know which ones might have RIAA ties.
Cool indeed, but can it convert a website into a Gopher site?
=P
This works better for preventing block than removing it, but I find listening to music that you like, preferrably without words, works. When I was taking a course in C++, I'd just put on my headphones, put on some techno music, and let my mind wander if the problem looked too tricky to solve. I'd just sit there for several minutes, not worrying about time, and when I got back to programming, it was almost like a divine inspiration had hit me. I'd usually just crank out the code in one long string, iron out the bugs, and be done with it.
I also find that music with a good constant beat helps to keep my mind on track when I'm programming something large.
Hope this helps.
AC here raises an interesting point... But surely Katz's books would be posted SOMEWHERE?
It just doesn't make sense to claim that songs/software/ad infinitum should be distributed for free and not do the same with books. Kind of a double-standard if you ask me.
"'Why should software be free?' Edward J. Zander, chief operating officer of Sun Microsystems, asked New York Times reporter Amy Harmon in a story on OSS. 'Why should I give away what I pay millions of dollars to develop? Why doesn't General Motors give its cars away for free? Why don't you give me your newspaper for free?'
Good questions, and exactly the ones the chief operating officer of a giant computer software company should be asking, and the country should be talking about. The values of the rapidly ascending Internet suggest that companies may need a more nuanced response when it comes to existing online - such as perhaps giving some things away free some of the time, or charging less for the things they do sell, or selling them in different ways: giving consumers more power in terms of customization -- choice, design, price and quantity. "
-JonKatz, "World without walls"
So, based on this small quote from the article, I think it would make sense if Katz at least had the first chapter or two of his books up on the web. (Are they up anywhere?) If this sounds impossible due to licensing restrictions, just look at "The Hacker Crackdown" by Bruce Sterling. You can download the whole thing as a text file (or 4, in my case).
One last thing: To the AC who posted this, next time, if you have an account, use it. Do not fear the "bitchslap." (Which, while rumored at, I've never seen it happen.)
I couldn't agree with you more on this, and if you hadn't submitted that quote from Phil Zimmerman, I would have, because it was the first thing to come to mind.
I can't believe that my most paranoid friend, a total free-thinker who wouldn't buy into government lines, who often informs me about things like Project MKULTRA, etc... STILL won't use PGP because although he made a public key for himself once, it expired, and he just couldn't be bothered to make a new one!
It's actually almost surreal, because most of the time he's sure that no matter how insignificant his communications are, they're being monitored by something. (Eschelon, Carnivore, some random kid with a packet sniffer, etc...)
that way the storage media is separate from the camera, and multiple cameras could be used to beam to the same storage media.
Very sadly, someone would find a way to spam it. (Even if it means breaking encryption or finding exploits to do it.)
I can see it now, you go to dump your pictures and:
"What the hell? '6 hours of steamy presidential mp3s'?!"
(Bonus points to anyone who can tell where I got that from.)
Does the NSA have any connection whatsoever with the "number stations" on shortwave radio?
n umbers/index.html
If the NSA owns any of these stations, would you be able to give us even a vague idea of what kind of data is carried on them? Even a one-word answer like "names", "words", "images", etc...
Here's where I first heard of them:
http://www.salon.com/people/feature/1999/09/16/
http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/%7Eirdial/conet.htm
That, and it would be a lot easier to counterfeit some other currencies.
For example, bills $20 and over have... not a laser hologram, but a similar type of sticker on them. (No picture, but reacts the same to light.)
The $20 in my pocket is mostly green. The $10 is mostly bluish. $50s are mostly red, and if memory serves me, they have a color picture on the back of RCMP officers. I'd go into details about higher bills, but I seldom even carry cash on me; debit cards are accepted nearly everywhere.
...also, for those who are into detail, there's the matter of reproducing the small blue dots on Canadian bills. Not many know this, but if you're careful, you can peel them off the bill.
Of course there's the microprinting of not only the denomination of the bill, but also in smaller text the repeating "BANKOFCANADABANQUEDUCANADA" that's used for shading.
...and probably a dozen things I missed.
I pulled a few stunts like that at school.
/.
*CLICK* "It works now."
"You are NOT to take the computer apart, open control panels, etc..."
I also got in trouble for OPENING ResEdit in the programming lab. Apparently they have it there for programming students to use, but it's only for looks? (In high school, I did all the high school programming courses, "info processing 30", and a level of college beginner's C++ while I was in programming 20/30. We never even touched ResEdit.)
After a while, I wasn't allowed to use the computers at any time outside programming class on the grounds that I wasn't "doing school work."
Typical lunchtime argument with librarians:
"Off the computer, other students need to use it"
"I'm doing a report."
"You're not using the computer for school work, so get off."
"LOOK, a social studies essay. Wonder how that got here?"
"off"
Seems to be an almost universal thing at schools from what I read on
(Oh yeah, other kids would go "woah, are you, like, a hacker or something?" when they saw me typing at a reasonable speed instead of hunt-and-peck.)
Hey, didn't /. post a story about REAL SETI accelerators a while back?
Of course, they can be used for accelerating OTHER things too... like the distributed.net client! =P
My friends and I are anime fans, and I could be paranoid, but it's funny how customs treats anime.
I order an $80 CPU, no customs charge.
I order a Laserdisc player, $20 charge.
New hard drive, can't remember but the charge was small.
I ordered $40 of tapes, $20 charge.
A friend ordered some DragonBall Z episodes, and they were confiscated because they were "pornography." (WTF?! It's a Saturday morning cartoon!)
He ordered some more, and they were stopped because the company he ordered from "didn't have distribution rights to DBZ in Canada."
Basically, customs has power to do whatever it likes. If this sounds unbelievable, here are some related links:
CBC#2 History and case study
A history of censorship in Canada
Racial profiling by customs
This guy has incredible "true" hacking skills. Whether it's cars, arcade boards, even designing a user-friendly gameboy cartridge reader... unfortunately, not all of his site is in English, and I think he only has hacks for cars he owns... He might be able to provide some good starting info though...
...wouldn't they get much better performance porting it to BeOS?
I mean, Linux is great for what it does, but for 3d graphics, BeOS in a multi-processor PC is pretty impressive AND stable.
(...unlike Windows, which runs beautifully, easy, and fast... until it crashes and falls like a house of cards.)
By this point, I'm wondering if the RIAA vs MP3 battle is more about saving face than protecting their investments?
Perhaps they just don't want to back down from the legal battles that have become so public, and say "oops"
Nice, but my P3 450 is still even fast enough to easily run any games I throw at it... Does anyone need 1.13GHz? What are you going to do to use all that power?
Kinda funny... but how long do you think it'll be before someone cracks his box wide open?
/. readers probably have...) but I've traced some trolls down just as an exercise. I found one's age, sex, home address, aliases, multiple e-mail accounts, ICQ number, religious affiliations, etc...) It's creepy how easy it is to trace someone once you have a shred of factual info on them. It sure made me paranoid since I'm not even that good at doing this.
I don't just mean getting access to files either. It would be pretty easy to set up a script to DoS him everytime he shows up, and probably fairly trivial to trace who he is, and mess up every net account he gets elsewhere? (hey, some people are petty, but I've heard of people being shot for less. )
Personally, I'm no '1337 h4x0r; just above average net skills (like most
I wonder if this guy realizes how easy it is to do something like that to him?