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  1. Re:Wrong way around on Linux Applications And "glibc Hell"? · · Score: 1

    Its just common logic. It wouldn't be perfect, but it would avoid source code distribution for source protected software.

  2. Re:And we usher in... on Is Computer Sex Adultery? · · Score: 1

    Yes they did, but the businesses which run the servers they talked to were located in Calipornia. The companies which pimp out the girls online are perfectly legal, because no body is doing anything illegal (selling sex) in thier building. In fact, you can bet that many of the pron sites you go to have cyber-prostitution involved in them in some way.

  3. Re:Wrong way around on Linux Applications And "glibc Hell"? · · Score: 1

    Can oracle not distribute object files and then link them on install? This doesn't involve any source code distribution, but allows for the object files to be linked against any C library.

  4. Re:What I would like to see... on Are Unix GUIs All Wrong? · · Score: 1

    mpg123 is a good example of a program like this. As is cdrecord, and mkisofs. I'm playing around with the xcdroast source code to make it so I can burn from mp3s to cdda right on the fly. It took me a little research, but I was thinking if I should compile the mp3 support into xcdroast or keep it in mpg123 and use pipes. I like the pipe solution, I don't need to fix anything anyone else wrote, I just need to add functionality into xcdroast.

  5. interesting ideas on Are Unix GUIs All Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Interesting ideas, but couldn't a new branch of standard unix tools, sh (you choose your fav) for one, be an answer? Maybe a good answer would be versions of several tools to behave similar to emacs, with a console-only version and an X enabled version? It would be easy to implement the changes which he mentioned, but the tools should never be made to be X only, unless they are specificly gui tools. I have no idea how many times I have been modifying my XF86Config and fscked it up, if I couldn't edit from the console I would be fscked. It'd be just like windoze...

  6. what about my users? on Michigan May Outlaw Anonymity Online · · Score: 1

    So, then because I have fifteen or so friends using email addresses which reside on my box, I will need to register every one of them with the police? Including my SPAM email address?

  7. Re:Reading way too much into it... on Crackdown on M-Rated Videogames? · · Score: 1

    I would argue likewise, but with porno magazines. I know as many 16 year olds that read porno as people my own age (23).

  8. Re:India Spending money on India To Become Aerospace Powerhouse? · · Score: 1

    From a business point of view, this seems like a profitable way for india to spend thier money. First, they have enough people, second, the revenue generated by launching satelites into space for private companies will result in a high gnp, which would benifit everyone in india, in the long run. Remember the trickle down economics of the early 80's? We had all given up on it until it just started to work.

  9. 4 years ago on Cross The Atlantic Ocean In 3 Days - By Ship · · Score: 1

    I read about these about 4 years ago in popular mechanics or popular science. I don't remember which for sure. The ships themselves were designed by an engineering class at MIT. IIRC, they were able to achieve its efficiency in waves by making the hull slightly flexible, out of the same type of material airplane wings are made out of.

  10. Re:the oldest profession.... on Ethics In Computer Consulting · · Score: 1

    I'm still a techie hooker. Of course, I am still in college, but I've been pimped out to do jobs without pay, even. Just to advance the position of the pimp. Pretty sad, really. I'll get even

  11. aol viruses funny on NSA + VMware = Crackproof Computing? · · Score: 1

    AOL users are so fucked. AOL has become a distributed virus network, kinda like gnutella.

    Anyhow, theoretically, instead of using a buffer overflow to gain root access, I could use it to modify memory on other virtual machines on the same network? So, if I were an authorized user on one machine, I could spawn a shell for myself, with or without root privlidge, on one of the other VM's. Bind that to a port, say 10000, and I have access to another vm, without having to login.

    Dangerous. Dangerous.

  12. whoh! Stop the train! on BIND Security Info For "Members Only"? · · Score: 1

    This is going to cause problems. Bind security details will become details known by two groups of people, the people who need to know or the world will fall apart, and the people who they people who need to know want to not know. that make sense?

  13. Re:One word... Indrema on Build Your Own Set Top Box · · Score: 1

    There is a pretty good book at Barnes and Noble which outlines creating your own USB devices. Its pretty detailed and contains a few basic projects. I don't recall the title, but it is, like I said, a good place to start.

  14. Re:Its not as hard as you might think. on Build Your Own Set Top Box · · Score: 2

    The infared stuff for the remote control is reasonably easy. Many tv-tuner cards come with a remote control, for the software to use. There was at one point support for the infared in linux, but no software I could find used the infared. We've all seen infared parallel ports, too. You could use one as the infared reciever. You'd have to figure out a way to translate the remote signals into actions by software, but that shouldn't be too bad. Even better, get a remote multimedia keyboard, and use it for everything. You could re-program the buttons to take the action which you want them to take.

  15. Re:Death of Copyright: What is the Middle Ground? on Lawrence Lessig On Hollywood's Attack On Fair Use · · Score: 1

    So, you would argue that because I never actually paid for a phish CD, but I did go to a few if thier concerts, that they as a group didn't make enough money off of me?

  16. the point of .NET on Does .NET Sound Like Java? · · Score: 2
    From what I understand, the goal behind .NET is so that people can have dummy machines which only know how to use the internet, as it starting to be the trend with all of these damn Netpliances I keep seeing. It will require a lot of bandwidth to the users home, but as it will only download portions of applications at a time, using an application would be downloaded from the network "just in time" for it to be intrepreted and executed by the local machine. Because of that the local machine can be used for pretty much everything except for high action games. Probally even them if implemented carefully.

    We as penguin fans have long known the joy of having one X server in front of us and applications running on it from different (faster) hosts. This seems pretty much the same to me. When I had two machines that actually worked I devoted the faster one to being a server and booted the otherone diskless from the faster machine. It doesn't work well if I play Q3A, but I don't play games anymore. Did I mention that this worked out very well for me? Now, think if I reversed the situation. The server machine would be the slower of the two. Now, I want to run some or most of the code on the faster machine, so I need to devise something somewhat like .NET

    It was obvious to me that this would find its way to market, webdesign software is already this way using combinations of javascript and creative CSS. Is anyone suprised that the internet would come to a time when applications are served from servers and run on clients?

    There is nothing to stop other companies from developing a competing product. I can surely find a compiler which understands multiple languages (gcc werks for me). So, I could:
    rcp helloworld.c\
    ; gcc -o helloword helloworld.c \
    ; rm helloworld.c \
    ; helloworld \
    ; rm helloworld
    There, we've run a .NET application. So, what's so revolutionary about it? What's a new idea? Nothing! The fact that it understands multiple languages does not impress me. I can make gcc compile several languages within the same source code. I can even call scheme and lisp procedures. So, just because they are serving byte compiled programs doesn't mean it is different.

    So, then will the important part of .NET be a .NET client? One that understands the code it recieves and does all the gui and data crunching?

  17. its not the kernel on Is Linus Killing Linux? · · Score: 1

    Its not the kernel that is lacking for industry. At least, not very much of the kernel is lacking for industry use. Sure, they would like mega-cpu features for gazilions of cpu's. They can hire people to submit code snippets. Hello? That's why I started using linux 7 years ago, if something was lacking, I could add it in. Very powerful.

  18. Re:Well, that's nice, but let's not forget... on Antarctic Ice Cap Breaking Up? · · Score: 1

    Netherlands 300 years ago used and developed this technology. They called it a dyke. No, you perverts, not a lesbian.

  19. who the hell on Antarctic Ice Cap Breaking Up? · · Score: 1

    Who the hell thought they were all smart when they wrote that article? They are right that the oceans are warming, but claiming the changes in the ross ice shelf is evidence for thier case is crazy. Their dates are between december and march, crossing over 10 years. We know that the ice formation in antartica changes from one year to the next, there might be a visible change between two seperate years, but the third year it could match or exceed both prior. According to a poster I have the antartic ice was its largest in recorded history in 1988. Or at least as long as it has been monitored. So, what's the big deal.

  20. languages irrelevant? on Microsoft And Sun Settle · · Score: 1

    I don't believe that languages are becoming irrelevant. The best way to write a fast app is in C, but our machines are becoming faster, so the slow enviroments are not so painfull to wait for. All the intrepreters for them are written (largely) in C, not C++, not Java, C. As the intrepreters get faster, we see a difference, but they still cannot be as fast as real machine code.

  21. Re:2.4 Linux Kernal too big for LRP! on Why iptables (Linux 2.4 Firewalling) Rocks · · Score: 1

    You could easily run it out of a ramdisk, and if you booted it off of a cdrom you would never have to touch the hardware. As long as the computer worked it would be fine, maybe down for a few hours to replace a cdrom once every three years.

  22. Re:I dunno... on Free Books Online · · Score: 1

    Don't forget, as we learned on sunday, the best material for creating paper out of is hemp.

  23. napster et all on Free Books Online · · Score: 1
    I did the same as many others, I downloaded music off of the internet and found myself falling in love with bands I have never heard of, and will probally never hear on the radio. Should they be complaining? Probally not, I bought more CD's in the past year than I had the 7 previous because I was so sick of getting a CD for only one good song. Sure, it was only 20 or 25 CD's, but that is about how many CD's I owned prior to finding other musicians which I would have not heard of.

    Music had never operated the same way books do, and will continue to do. It is unfortunate, as it seems to me that authors and publishing companies have been around for years while thier work was being litterally given away at the library. Maybe its experience talking to them, but it seems that the instant bottom line vs future sales argument might mean something to record companies.

    $15 today for the music I "stole" off of napster doesn't do much, but if I like the band I might buy 5 or 6 of thier future CD's that I would have otherwise not purchased. Lets see, $15 today or $90 in a year, which is more money.

    It is a relief to see someone take the proverbial head out of the ass and do something worth while for consumer rights and privlidges.

  24. dood asm, man on The Object Oriented Hype · · Score: 1

    Try programming in ASM sometime, you might realize the usefulness of abstraction... Actually, why don't you read The Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks, it'll probally be educational to anyone trying to say OOP is not a good thing in most cases. For a small program, it isn't very practical, but as the code base grows, the time required to maintain a list of a thousand functions grows, and it gets increasingly difficult to actually improve the software, too much time is spend debugging and causing more bugs. OOP may not be the most efficient thing in the world, but c++ compilers are improving greatly which results in better machine code, which means better speed. Don't get down on Objectifying software projects just because OLD compilers do not handle it well. People need readable code, and OOP concepts help keep the human side of programming managable.

  25. Re:Die, pop-up windows, die! on Non-banner Ads Coming to the Web · · Score: 4

    And if they want me to look at thier damn ads, I better be getting extra bandwidth provided by them for which to download these useless adds to my computer. Right now I push the hell outta my bandwidth. I turn off images in my browser to save bandwidth, why should an ad be there, I already pay to use the internet.