If this was a Supreme Court decision, we might have a hope of overturning library filtering-for-funding and indecency laws. I'm of the opinion that children should have access to whatever they're actually searching for.
Have you tried using any of the "user friendly" distributions? You certainly don't have to use a shell with, say, RedHat. Yes, I know that's ultra-lame, but that's the way it's designed -- to give you everything you need, without having to "resort" to a shell.
This is just wrong. There are two components to latency. The first is the latency involved in going from your first hop to the destination and back. This doesn't change whether you're using a cable modem, DSL, or plain old modem.
The second is the latency added in sending the message to the first hop, and getting it back over that hop. These are not 0-byte packets. That latency is a few milliseconds for broadband, but tend to push 100ms for a 28.8k modem. This makes a real difference.
Another real tension is between NAT/masquerading and UDP. UDP is good for modem players, because they tend to have addressable IPs from their ISP. UDP doesn't have the same setup cost as TCP -- it's not reliable, but in real-time games, if it's late, you're dead anyway. On the other hand, TCP is a smidgeon slower, and works over NAT. I think it's good that UDP is effectively dead, outside of Microsoft Games.
It's tough to see what his real beef is, anyway. Is anyone actually making a game that's unplayable over a modem? I haven't seen any. Does he want LPB's to receive server-generated lag to equalize the players? Modem players will be lagged to death in 32-player counterstrike games. The answer is both simple and obvious. If you're not going to upgrade, stick to smaller games. Technology has always been about understanding and working within its limitations.
Having user-controlled copy control is as bad as having mandatory control.
Why? Because choices like this are seldom left to the user.
Take cookies, for example. The technology exists to disable them. Suddenly, you can't use many sites, because they require that cookies be enabled. Similarly, if the OS allows you to disable CPRM copy control, a small loader can just say "hey, this program is on a CPRM-protected media! you're fucked! here's how to enable CPRM..."
It's infuriating, really. This "optional" gambit is just another attempt to force us to pay for technology that adds no value.
Nike made a tactical error by refusing this guy's request. When they said no, he gets a juicy e-mail exchange where he gets to needle them over this issue, and everyone's reading it.
Now, if Nike had made the shoes, he'd have some shoes that said "sweatshop". Big Fucking Deal. He could show them to his friends. Ooh. Or he could put pictures on a webpage, which would leave us saying "photoshop". Instead, they played right into his hands.
By Just Doing It (tm), Nike would win on several fronts. They'd deprive this guy of ammo. They'd appear hip and postmodern. Their personalization scheme would feel more "free". All while selling sweatshop-produced shoes for $100+/pair.
I just hope their marketing idiots don't figure this out.
Jesus H-Bomb Fucking Christ, this man is a hero, and lamerz who are either too young or too inbred to figure it out are treating him like a devil.
Before ssh, there was nothing but telnet, an insecure nightmare. If the explosive growth of the Internet had occurred while administrators were still telnetting into their servers, we'd have many more owned servers, an exponental creep into darkness.
So we have this fantastic tool, thanks to the work of one man, Tatu Ylonen. Now he's gone and turned this work into a product, and a company. You may not respect that, but you should respect this: without his work, we'd all be owned.
So Tatu discovered fire, and he shared the fire, and then he asked people to bring him stuff to eat, in return for the fire. You may not like the last part, but you'd be eating raw whatever-the-fuck-it-is-you-just-caught in the dark without him.
Whether you agree with the letter or not, you can tell he understood the issues and the community. He's trying to break this as lightly as he can, but he does need to break it, if he hopes to keep ssh (a name he created) for his product.
As far as I'm concerned, this man was and continues to be a hero, so please just stop the ignorant criticism.
If you want to make sure kids aren't seeing dirty pictures, make them use
lynx. Ditch the GUI entirely. People may whine that now the web is hard to use, but this is, after all, just an extreme version of what filters are already doing. Removing content from the web.
The Register, in their series of articles, suggests copy control, which, I agree, is direct, and to the point. This is exactly about control over copying. Right now, the user mostly has it, modulo SecuRom and a few other copy protection tricks, but the companies want it. Badly.
My vote goes for the microswitch keyboard. Sure, it's noisy and a little more expensive, but it provides satisfying tactile feedback and a good level of resistance.
Bush Sr. was head of the CIA in 1976 and 1977, for less than a year. I always laughed when I heard the press talking about the Russian president who was previously head of the KGB. I mean, Jesus Fuck, we had our own version of the KGB president in George Herbert Walker Bush.
There's a long history of Really Dirty Shit coming out about the United States. The real problem is that the event horizon for this sort of thing is 10 to 30 years. At that point, news about the heinousness may or may not come out. The media gets to make a big stink about it, while keeping an implicit attitude that says "That sort of thing couldn't happen these days". For example, Operation Shamrock, the secret bombing of Cambodia, heinous shit in all of Central and South America, UKUSA, Nixon's dirty tricks, Crypto AG, and the list goes on.
The real problem is that nothing is done to fix
the system. The people involved are not taken outside and shot, they're still where they were before. What's the current set of semi-atrocities? If you read a lot of the foreign or independent press, you might find out sooner.
It's like the Parental Advisory stickers on music. Sure, it sounds like a good idea. Then you get a gang of monkeys deciding what's "explicit", and companies like Wal-Mart deciding not to carry stickered items. I don't want content producers to be forced to decide ".xxx or not?" and I don't want courts or even private bodies telling people whether or not a site belongs there.
In order to get kiddie porn you have to do something to a kiddie
That's exactly how it used to be. It's no longer true. The real battleground here is simulated child pornography, images are created using compositing and do not involve Actual Suffering. I think this has to be allowed, if only because it opens a huge subjective can of worms. Is that drawing of an underdeveloped 18-year-old, or a 15-year-old? Do you want a judge deciding, after the fact, when prison is the alternative? Talk about a prior restraint on free speech...
I'm as interested in the "technie" (bleh) points of view on breeding. Bad thing? Good thing? Good for me and bad for everyone else? (yuck, I hate this proto-eugenic and occasionally quasi-racist point of view)
I personally consider myself to be childfree, so this just gets lumped into the big list of benefits I can't use.
Selfish? I think it's important to remember that you can walk away from anything. Well, except prison, maybe. Sometimes people feel trapped in bad situations when all that's required is the strength to walk away.
Is the punishment fitting? Maybe.
I would like to think I'd have done the same thing, though.
I've noticed that Bush's answers seem to come from an arsenal of pat responses. While I don't want someone sucking my virtual dick to get elected, I would at least like the candidates to answer the goddamned questions already. I'm sure that if Gore answered them he'd be as guilty as bush...
Is the war on drugs a failure?
I will do much more to fight the war on drugs!
Will you protect religious rights?
I will protect all the non-threatening mainstream religions! The question is about Santaria and Wiccagoddamn it!
Why a tax cut?
It's not as bad as what Gore's doing! We have a budget surplus! Budget surplus != lack of debt, goddamnit
Aren't these vote-diluting things bad?
It's in the constitution, and hey, don't be
discouraged because your vote is nigh-worthless. Vote!
Is our system of IP a good one?
I will enforce it. AUGH! The Question!
He also took a solid stab at Question 9, but... I really wish our candidates were more interactive, and could have their noses rubbed in tough questions until they answered them.
If you wget, it blocked based on your User-Agent. If you change your User-Agent, it worked. Then, if you started collecting pages, even Really.... Slowly... it would eventually give you a page saying that your host IP was blocked and explaining why. I think it was using some kind of link poisoning to fight mirroring. Personally, I was disappointed. Information that can't be mirrored can't be used, as Mathworld has so readily demonstrated.
I've been a long-time fan (and occasional would-be mirrorer) of Eric's treasure trove, and I must say he's brought some on himself. First by selling the rights away and then by agressively fighting mirrorers (detecting them and banning them by IP). Eric gave us a wondering and complete Single Point of Failure, and now it has failed.
That said, the Treasure Trove project was a Herculean effort, and I really loved his work. I don't blame him for "selling out", I'm just saddened that things worked out the way they did.
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If this was a Supreme Court decision, we might have a hope of overturning library filtering-for-funding and indecency laws. I'm of the opinion that children should have access to whatever they're actually searching for.
Hey, I've got a great idea.
Let's implement a peer-to-peer service that does nothing but trade really big number! Yeah!
And the numbers will be in hexidecimal format! Yeah!
And, wow, you can pack exactly two hexidecimal digits into a byte! Wow!
So all we need is a name for this new number-swapping service.
I'm leaning towards gnutella, after nutella, which is pretty tasty. Keen, eh?
I know a lot of people will be naysaying, but I say let's give a big hand to our new
Star Wars character, Darth Shiny!!!
Have you tried using any of the "user friendly" distributions? You certainly don't have to use a shell with, say, RedHat. Yes, I know that's ultra-lame, but that's the way it's designed -- to give you everything you need, without having to "resort" to a shell.
There ought to be no correlation between the two.
This is just wrong. There are two components to latency. The first is the latency involved in going from your first hop to the destination and back. This doesn't change whether you're using a cable modem, DSL, or plain old modem.
The second is the latency added in sending the message to the first hop, and getting it back over that hop. These are not 0-byte packets. That latency is a few milliseconds for broadband, but tend to push 100ms for a 28.8k modem. This makes a real difference.
Another real tension is between NAT/masquerading and UDP. UDP is good for modem players, because they tend to have addressable IPs from their ISP. UDP doesn't have the same setup cost as TCP -- it's not reliable, but in real-time games, if it's late, you're dead anyway. On the other hand, TCP is a smidgeon slower, and works over NAT. I think it's good that UDP is effectively dead, outside of Microsoft Games.
It's tough to see what his real beef is, anyway. Is anyone actually making a game that's unplayable over a modem? I haven't seen any. Does he want LPB's to receive server-generated lag to equalize the players? Modem players will be lagged to death in 32-player counterstrike games. The answer is both simple and obvious. If you're not going to upgrade, stick to smaller games. Technology has always been about understanding and working within its limitations.
Having user-controlled copy control is as bad as having mandatory control.
Why? Because choices like this are seldom left to the user.
Take cookies, for example. The technology exists to disable them. Suddenly, you can't use many sites, because they require that cookies be enabled. Similarly, if the OS allows you to disable CPRM copy control, a small loader can just say "hey, this program is on a CPRM-protected media! you're fucked! here's how to enable CPRM..."
It's infuriating, really. This "optional" gambit is just another attempt to force us to pay for technology that adds no value.
Nike made a tactical error by refusing this guy's request. When they said no, he gets a juicy e-mail exchange where he gets to needle them over this issue, and everyone's reading it.
Now, if Nike had made the shoes, he'd have some shoes that said "sweatshop". Big Fucking Deal. He could show them to his friends. Ooh. Or he could put pictures on a webpage, which would leave us saying "photoshop". Instead, they played right into his hands.
By Just Doing It (tm), Nike would win on several fronts. They'd deprive this guy of ammo. They'd appear hip and postmodern. Their personalization scheme would feel more "free". All while selling sweatshop-produced shoes for $100+/pair.
I just hope their marketing idiots don't figure this out.
Jesus H-Bomb Fucking Christ, this man is a hero, and lamerz who are either too young or too inbred to figure it out are treating him like a devil.
Before ssh, there was nothing but telnet, an insecure nightmare. If the explosive growth of the Internet had occurred while administrators were still telnetting into their servers, we'd have many more owned servers, an exponental creep into darkness.
So we have this fantastic tool, thanks to the work of one man, Tatu Ylonen. Now he's gone and turned this work into a product, and a company. You may not respect that, but you should respect this: without his work, we'd all be owned.
So Tatu discovered fire, and he shared the fire, and then he asked people to bring him stuff to eat, in return for the fire. You may not like the last part, but you'd be eating raw whatever-the-fuck-it-is-you-just-caught in the dark without him.
Whether you agree with the letter or not, you can tell he understood the issues and the community. He's trying to break this as lightly as he can, but he does need to break it, if he hopes to keep ssh (a name he created) for his product.
As far as I'm concerned, this man was and continues to be a hero, so please just stop the ignorant criticism.
If you want to make sure kids aren't seeing dirty pictures, make them use lynx. Ditch the GUI entirely. People may whine that now the web is hard to use, but this is, after all, just an extreme version of what filters are already doing. Removing content from the web.
Yeah, but software plagiarism doesn't have the same ring.
The Register, in their series of articles, suggests copy control, which, I agree, is direct, and to the point. This is exactly about control over copying. Right now, the user mostly has it, modulo SecuRom and a few other copy protection tricks, but the companies want it. Badly.
"Secure Linux"? It's called BSD.
My vote goes for the microswitch keyboard. Sure, it's noisy and a little more expensive, but it provides satisfying tactile feedback and a good level of resistance.
- Itanium
- Ron
- Anganese
- Latinum
- Opper
- Ickle
- Admium
- Ilver
- Ercury
- Luminum
- Agnesium
- ...and finally... Old
I really like this naming scheme, and I'm looking forward to using these Innvoative Processors.Bush Sr. was head of the CIA in 1976 and 1977, for less than a year. I always laughed when I heard the press talking about the Russian president who was previously head of the KGB. I mean, Jesus Fuck, we had our own version of the KGB president in George Herbert Walker Bush.
There's a long history of Really Dirty Shit coming out about the United States. The real problem is that the event horizon for this sort of thing is 10 to 30 years. At that point, news about the heinousness may or may not come out. The media gets to make a big stink about it, while keeping an implicit attitude that says "That sort of thing couldn't happen these days". For example, Operation Shamrock, the secret bombing of Cambodia, heinous shit in all of Central and South America, UKUSA, Nixon's dirty tricks, Crypto AG, and the list goes on.
The real problem is that nothing is done to fix the system. The people involved are not taken outside and shot, they're still where they were before. What's the current set of semi-atrocities? If you read a lot of the foreign or independent press, you might find out sooner.
"Why not offer to add porn sites to .xxx?"
It's like the Parental Advisory stickers on music. Sure, it sounds like a good idea. Then you get a gang of monkeys deciding what's "explicit", and companies like Wal-Mart deciding not to carry stickered items. I don't want content producers to be forced to decide ".xxx or not?" and I don't want courts or even private bodies telling people whether or not a site belongs there.
In order to get kiddie porn you have to do something to a kiddie
That's exactly how it used to be. It's no longer true. The real battleground here is simulated child pornography, images are created using compositing and do not involve Actual Suffering. I think this has to be allowed, if only because it opens a huge subjective can of worms. Is that drawing of an underdeveloped 18-year-old, or a 15-year-old? Do you want a judge deciding, after the fact, when prison is the alternative? Talk about a prior restraint on free speech...
I'm as interested in the "technie" (bleh) points of view on breeding. Bad thing? Good thing? Good for me and bad for everyone else? (yuck, I hate this proto-eugenic and occasionally quasi-racist point of view)
I personally consider myself to be childfree, so this just gets lumped into the big list of benefits I can't use.
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Selfish? I think it's important to remember that you can walk away from anything. Well, except prison, maybe. Sometimes people feel trapped in bad situations when all that's required is the strength to walk away.
Is the punishment fitting? Maybe.
I would like to think I'd have done the same thing, though.
- Is the war on drugs a failure?
- Will you protect religious rights?
- Why a tax cut?
- Aren't these vote-diluting things bad?
- Is our system of IP a good one?
- Encryption good?
He also took a solid stab at Question 9, but... I really wish our candidates were more interactive, and could have their noses rubbed in tough questions until they answered them.I will do much more to fight the war on drugs!
I will protect all the non-threatening mainstream religions!
The question is about Santaria and Wiccagoddamn it!
It's not as bad as what Gore's doing! We have a budget surplus!
Budget surplus != lack of debt, goddamnit
It's in the constitution, and hey, don't be discouraged because your vote is nigh-worthless. Vote!
I will enforce it.
AUGH! The Question!
Encryption good, Privacy good.
Holy cow! Question answered!
- 1) No.
- 2) Stupid.
If you wget, it blocked based on your User-Agent. If you change your User-Agent, it worked. Then, if you started collecting pages, even Really.... Slowly... it would eventually give you a page saying that your host IP was blocked and explaining why. I think it was using some kind of link poisoning to fight mirroring. Personally, I was disappointed. Information that can't be mirrored can't be used, as Mathworld has so readily demonstrated.I've been a long-time fan (and occasional would-be mirrorer) of Eric's treasure trove, and I must say he's brought some on himself. First by selling the rights away and then by agressively fighting mirrorers (detecting them and banning them by IP). Eric gave us a wondering and complete Single Point of Failure, and now it has failed.
That said, the Treasure Trove project was a Herculean effort, and I really loved his work. I don't blame him for "selling out", I'm just saddened that things worked out the way they did.
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