Hey, if you want to see bloated, statically link LS to glibc. 314kb for a directory lister? Give me a frickken break.
How big is the statically liked dir command? Oops, I forgot, dir is part of cmd.exe. How big was the statically linked cmd.exe that you ran on your Tivo? You are comparing apples to apples, aren't you?
I believe criminal penalties only apply if you sell the circumvention device
Yes, but the original post was "if you marketed a felt tip pen".
I think we're probably both right about the musicians-owning-copyright thing. I'm right if one counts the $ of music sold, and you're right if one counts the # of musicians. Or perhaps my judgment of the popularity major label music is incorrect.
Controlling a drone with a small joystick and a few flight controls in front of a B&W television is just annoying.
I hear you. Every time I have to launch the space shuttle from a command line, I'm also very annoyed:-)
Seriously, though, from the article:
Its pilot -- who may fly several planes at once -- would remain on the ground, out of harm's way.
I don't know how they plan to control several planes at once (KVM switch?), even though they're semi-autonomous. Whatever setup they use, it can't be a full cockpit; a pilot can't move from cockpit to cockpit in the time required for battle situations. Just unstrapping the seatbelt would take a lot of time:-)
Drones (and this really is an enhancement of a drone, though a big enhancement) have been flying for a while, so I imagine the Air Force has got this worked out.
It can't afford to put one aboard each ship that leaves port.
No, and the Navy wouldn't have to. They have these newfangled devices called radios that can transmit data over long distances. They fix the code on land (the Navy could afford a few uberhackers, couldn't they?) and radio them in. Of course, they'd have to have data-capable radios on hand, and the ability to stick in a floppy or something to upload the patches. I don't remember the specifics of the Yorktown's situation, but I imagine their radios weren't dead.
But, if you marketed a felt tip pen with the name CD Rip (TM) brand felt tip pens and included instructions for how to circumvent CD protection than you should expect a C&D letter.
No, you should expect to get arrested (if you're a Russian national). The DMCA is a criminal statue, not a civil one.
There are a lot of musicians. The rest can be inferred by the reader.:-)
OK, I follow you here, but note that musicians usually do not usually own the copyright to "their" works. Although I suppose it's possible that an independent musician could make an arrangement with the CD fair-use prevention technology folks, etc. Somehow, I doubt that this would help; the **AA would still complain, and the Justice Department would pull their agents off of counter-terrorism in order to investigate. Then it becomes a question of, "How much justice can this indepedent musician afford?"
WTF does the government have to do with creating domain names???
<SARCASM>Yeah, it's as if they think that they funded the creation of the Internet and might have a say in its operations! What has gotten into them?? </SARCASM>
It must be nice to think that the Internet spontaneously self-assembled and that the gummint has no business gettting involved in it. Preposterously wrong, but nice.
Exit Exchange is taking advantage of a recent change to patent law that enables it to seek royalties from companies for using its technology even before its patent is granted.
I can attempt to extort companies for royalty payments for patents that may not be granted? Sign me up! Do I have to refund the payments if the patent is not granted? What a scam!
I didn't state the point clearly enough. The point is to make a political statement about the DMCA. It would make a nice edition to the DeCSS gallery. If people see that the US flag can be used as a copyright circumvention device (code + flag = cracked DVD), then perhaps they will realize the unfairness and unworkability of the DMCA.
Theoretically, it might allow one to distribute a modified DeCSS and say, "This is not a copyright circumvention device. It does nothing useful by itself. If it's used with an image of the United States flag, then one might use it to view DVDs on an unapproved device, but without the flag, it's harmless." Now, how would this be prosecuted in court? I imagine it would be tough for a prosecutor to stand up in court and argue against distributing the code, which does nothing useful. And no sane (or politcially ambitious) prosecutor will stand up and argue against distributing a copy of the flag. So how would the prosecutor prosecute this case?
IANAL, but I am sure that this is not an ironclad defense. I wouldn't try encrypting a detailed plan to Do Something Really Bad with an image of the flag and say, "Nothing illegal here unless you have the flag!" It's more of a political statement that says, "The DMCA is so bad that it can make an image of the flag illegal."
It wouldn't be really effective unless you could outrage a large corporation enough to arrest you ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H have you arrested, then you make a spectacle of the trial, get the media on your side, etc. I'm not Russian, though, so I probably couldn't get arrested for this. Even if I were Russian, I'm not willing to do this, and I don't know anybody else who is.
Maybe someone can find a way to use the US flag to defeat a copy protection system
That's an awfully good idea. Maybe use DeCSS, but modify the key so that it has to be combined with a JPEG of the US flag in order to work. I'd like to do this myself, but sadly I lack the ability to do so and the desire to risk jail time. Pretty sad.
those poor cats who have to drive around in those cancer-boxes they're driving around
It's not like they're driving around with 50 kW transmitters. Since they're using normal cell phones to make the test calls, they must be limited to 0.5W, unless they're using external antennas, in which case they'd be limited to about 3W (or maybe it's 5W; it's been a while). In any case, not a big cancer risk there, unless you're an ambulance-chaser.
A more interesting part of the article was this:
Cingular also uses third-party tester Telephia, a 4-year-old wireless market analysis firm that says it observes 1 billion wireless calls a day on average.
"Observes" 1 billion calls? How the hell do they do that? And what is "observing"? Is that like recording? OK, they're probably just recording the signal strength, but still. This is a paranoid's dream come true!
All this crap probably started when Business schools starting using military strategy and Machiavellian philosopy as the ultimate way to win a war with business competition.
No, all this crap probably started around the dawn of time. Deceptive people have been doing shady business practices for thousands of years before there were business schools. Does the phrase let the cat out of the bag ring any bells? These practices are not more prevalent now, but they are better publicized.
I surmise that you have never been to business school. I am currently getting my MBA. We don't learn many Machiavellian techniques. We learn mostly accounting, finance, some law, and some basic computer information. Pretty standard stuff so that you don't drive a company into the ground. We don't talk about how to get ahead by being the most slimy. Should we? By the time you've reached about 30 (the average age at my school), you're either an ethical person or you're not. I doubt a one-semester course is going to change you much. An ethics class in high school, or perhaps a religious upbringing, would likely have a much greater effect.
I agree with your third paragraph, but your first two are mindless ranting.
What really costs money is when tours include crazy pyrotechnics, excessive stage props, backup dancers and singers, etc. Most all of that doesn't matter if you're a real musician
<SARCASM>Thanks for your valuable insights on what constitues real music. You have shown me a better way. I'll never attend another Britney Spears concert in my life. In fact, I'll go even better than that and print this out and make copies to hand out at the next Britney Spears concert in my area. Would you kindly share your insights on what constitutes "real" literature or art as well? </SARCASM>
A Google search turns up a few ways to put a UI on it. My favorite way is use a.REG file as described (and google-cached) here. The article also mentions putting a shortcut to regsvr32.exe on the desktop, then dragging and dropping DLLs and OCXs onto it.
Is there a way to uninstall ActiveX controls?!?
Can I get a list of the ActiveX controls installed on my machine??!?
I believe that c:\winnt\Downloaded Program Files is a fairly comprehensive list of the ActiveX controls downloaded to your machine. You can delete them from the same folder. However, ActiveX controls can also be installed by Setup programs, etc. You have to run the uninstall program and hope for the best, or do some Registry fiddling.
The last time I checked, Oracle was licensed on a per server basis, not on who uses it...
If you had bothered to check recently, you would have noticed that Oracle is licensed by server or by named user. Plus, it's not uncommon on large contracts to have custom terms.
[employees] cannot change jobs for better conditions or higher pay
This is incorrect. H-1B visa holders have been able to change jobs with only minor paperwork for at least a year. I had one H1-B holder resign on me over a year ago. He was unconcerned about the paperwork.
The woes you list are certainly possible, but at my company, though, H1-B holders are treated the same as everyone else. Do H1-B visa holders help reduce salary costs? Of course. The law of supply and demand has not been repealed. But that doesn't make it an evil program.
One annoying part about H1-B is that the person may get deported if he loses his job. That makes it a little more disconcerting for the manager who has to let one go during layoffs. Fortunately, it hasn't happened to me.
Find a theater showing Spider-man and an Indie flick at about the same time. Buy a ticket for the Indie and sit down in the Spider-man theater "by mistake."
A good idea (deserving of +5), but good luck finding a movie theater that is showing both Spider-Man and an independent flick at about the same time. You might have better luck finding a theater playing S-M with an Indiana Jones movie, though.
try typing each shell command with your eyes closed until you hit enter, and only open them after you see the output
I tried this, but my monitor (in fact, the whole room) becomes very dark when I close my eyes. I can't even see the light switch to turn on more lights! Any ideas? (Sorry, I just had to - but your comment really was helpful)
IIRC, IE always looks for a "favicon.ico" file. If the browser has a User-Agent corresponding to IE, but doesn't request favicon.ico, it's a spambot.
This is easy for the spambot to defeat, but it's one more step.
Slashdot Mirror
If you don't know that LSB stands for Linux Standard Base, you could do a Google search for it in 1/10 the time it takes to post to slashdot.
I think we're probably both right about the musicians-owning-copyright thing. I'm right if one counts the $ of music sold, and you're right if one counts the # of musicians. Or perhaps my judgment of the popularity major label music is incorrect.
Drones (and this really is an enhancement of a drone, though a big enhancement) have been flying for a while, so I imagine the Air Force has got this worked out.
It must be nice to think that the Internet spontaneously self-assembled and that the gummint has no business gettting involved in it. Preposterously wrong, but nice.
Theoretically, it might allow one to distribute a modified DeCSS and say, "This is not a copyright circumvention device. It does nothing useful by itself. If it's used with an image of the United States flag, then one might use it to view DVDs on an unapproved device, but without the flag, it's harmless." Now, how would this be prosecuted in court? I imagine it would be tough for a prosecutor to stand up in court and argue against distributing the code, which does nothing useful. And no sane (or politcially ambitious) prosecutor will stand up and argue against distributing a copy of the flag. So how would the prosecutor prosecute this case?
IANAL, but I am sure that this is not an ironclad defense. I wouldn't try encrypting a detailed plan to Do Something Really Bad with an image of the flag and say, "Nothing illegal here unless you have the flag!" It's more of a political statement that says, "The DMCA is so bad that it can make an image of the flag illegal."
It wouldn't be really effective unless you could outrage a large corporation enough to arrest you ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H have you arrested, then you make a spectacle of the trial, get the media on your side, etc. I'm not Russian, though, so I probably couldn't get arrested for this. Even if I were Russian, I'm not willing to do this, and I don't know anybody else who is.
A more interesting part of the article was this:
"Observes" 1 billion calls? How the hell do they do that? And what is "observing"? Is that like recording? OK, they're probably just recording the signal strength, but still. This is a paranoid's dream come true!I surmise that you have never been to business school. I am currently getting my MBA. We don't learn many Machiavellian techniques. We learn mostly accounting, finance, some law, and some basic computer information. Pretty standard stuff so that you don't drive a company into the ground. We don't talk about how to get ahead by being the most slimy. Should we? By the time you've reached about 30 (the average age at my school), you're either an ethical person or you're not. I doubt a one-semester course is going to change you much. An ethics class in high school, or perhaps a religious upbringing, would likely have a much greater effect.
I agree with your third paragraph, but your first two are mindless ranting.
A Google search turns up a few ways to put a UI on it. My favorite way is use a .REG file as described (and google-cached) here. The article also mentions putting a shortcut to regsvr32.exe on the desktop, then dragging and dropping DLLs and OCXs onto it.
on Newspeak. Plus maybe some nice two-way televisions, and we're all set.
The woes you list are certainly possible, but at my company, though, H1-B holders are treated the same as everyone else. Do H1-B visa holders help reduce salary costs? Of course. The law of supply and demand has not been repealed. But that doesn't make it an evil program.
One annoying part about H1-B is that the person may get deported if he loses his job. That makes it a little more disconcerting for the manager who has to let one go during layoffs. Fortunately, it hasn't happened to me.
This is a very good idea, but when I click the link, it doesn't fill in the URL field correctly. Also, I get JavaScript errors. Oh well.
If it were a word, it would be under-hyphenated, not underhyphened! I think underhyphened is similar to underlined.</anal-retentiveness>
Kirsten Dunst site (not the official site, but first in Google)
IIRC, IE always looks for a "favicon.ico" file. If the browser has a User-Agent corresponding to IE, but doesn't request favicon.ico, it's a spambot. This is easy for the spambot to defeat, but it's one more step.