While I agree that Katz got it pretty much right, I honestly want just one continent - Hak Nam. I have been pondering starting something like this for quite a while. If you've read Idoru, you know what I'm talking about. With the advents of VPN encryption, it becomes more possible everyday. A group of servers hosted by people with varying degrees of connections, with their own internal DNS structure and ACL. Distribute the computing power among those servers and there you go. Add on IPv6 when it gets standardized and you don't have to worry about running out of IP addresses when everyone has a dedicated connection. And You get a transport that's meant to handle the kind of information that was passing through the Hak Nam in Idoru. Oh yeah and did I mention really strong encryption?
Jesus dude did you read the article? It WAS their home computer. Now on a more serious note, now more than ever we need encrypted filesystems. The day a company comes to my home demanding my personal computer is the day I file a lawsuit. Let me explain something. I haven't stolen anything from my job. If they have a reason to suspect as such, they are free to search my premises. Admitedly if the company doesn't trust me, I will look for employment elsewhere.
I have been TOTALLY satisfied with joker.com as well. I can make all changes to any domain I have registered with them online via SSL. Is it so hard for NSI to use SSL? They even have a really intense ownership change method in place. I just met with one of my business partners last night to sign a form that had to be snailmailed to them to change ownership of one of my domains. They also charge a 26 dollar proccessing fee to do so. So even if someone somehow got my password for my joker.com forms, they couldn't change ownership fully. I really like these guys and I've already registered 6 domains with them.
YATFASC (Yet another testimony from a satisfied customer;> )
Actually the fact that they are that dumb shows that they have no business being in the type of business they are. At least if, like you said, they are that dumb.
aware now of its history, they're dropping the application.
You cannot tell me that they had no clue what whois was and it's history. That is the biggest crock of monkey shit. I may be glad that they didn't attempt to trademark something like whois but this is just the worst damn excuse ever. If an internet company doesn't know what whois IS they have no damn business trying to be an internet company. Jesus H christ, what is the actual intelligence level of companies these days?
Sorry for the rant. I've had a hectic day and this just struck a nerve.
It's not even a tool...it's source code. Is he saying that since it was distributed in SOURCE form that it is wrong? What if it were distributed in binary only format?
Unless I am reading this wrong the judge has contradicted or at the least invalidated his own opinion:
<i>...requires the use of appropriately configured hardware such as a DVD player or a <b>computer DVD drive</b> to decrypt, unscramble and play back, but not copy, motion pictures on DVDs</i>
From the DMCA: <i>Section 1201(a)(2) of the Copyright Act, part of the DMCA, provides that:
"No person shall . . . offer to the public, provide or otherwise traffic in any technology . . . that---
"(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under [the Copyright Act];</i>
According to this DVD drives violate the DMCS because he states that the drives are what are used to read information from the drives.
It can't be this obvious can it? He makes no mention anywhere of the xing player from which the key was obtained. Is he really this shortsighted? I cannot for the life of me reconsile his argument in my mind. I completely understood why he allowed the initial injunction but this just seems completly ridiculous. Do the drive manufacturers pay for the license or the software? If the drive manufacturers are not responsible for any CSS licensing, then aren't they in of fact considered in violation of the act?
I can't be so dense as to miss the obvious, can I?
I so totally agree. I have made a habit of when refering to opensource software I use opensource/libre. It really helps to clear up what I'm really refering to.
He is refering to explorer shell replacements. If you go to skinz.org I would say a third of the links down the right side are themes for alternate windowmanagers for windows. Litestep was one of the first and probably one of the most popular.
your location may be different for the libs but none the less that will fix it.
This is one example of why I really like to have the source code whenever possible. All I would need to do was recompile against the new libraries. But again, I bought this plugin just because it made things sound SOOO much sweeter.
Has anyone seen any oddities when running the demo under sawmill?
The X server zaps to 800x600 and then the title bar with a solid black window covers the actual game. I can kill sawmill and run without a wm and I dont have this issue. I spose I should report it to loki or maybe the sawmill team? I havent tried wit hany of the other windowmanagers yet because once I got the game in a playable state I am now realizing it's 2 am and I have to be up in 4 hours;)
Needless to say if anyone can point me to who would be a better person to get notice of this tiny problem, I'll document for them straightaway. I know a few of the loki guys peruse slashdot on more than a regular basis.
Actually I don't have to dial in now. Luckily I have a 1.1M sdsl line at home. It's great for vnc to the few nt servers we have but I still would prefere the option of using a command line over a gui. There is no way in hell that a GUI is faster than ascii. I work faster with a keyboard and vi than i can with a mouse and various text entry feilds that don't even have the tab order correct.
Why does everything have to be graphical? Can someone please explain to me the reasoning that because it has pretty icons, it is inherently better? I don't want the overhead of graphics to waste server resources damnit. If companies would wuit being cheap and hire people who KNOW something about being a real administrator and not someone who can point and click thier way around an interface, we would have inherently better admins. This is my only big gripe against microsoft. I'm not a big fan of the product line but my biggest issue is that they have forced a generation of clueless administrators who can ONLY point to a an icon and have no idea how to go beyond that.
I know some MCSE's who can script and manage the hell out of an NT server. My director is one of them but he is an exception among the masses. The windows gui is not condusive for remote management and I sure as hell wouldn't WANT to try and pipe those graphics over a dialin connection to the office just to fix some issue. Linuxconf has a great ascii based version for consoles and it happens to rock. I know that there are web based versions of several of the microsoft admin tools but there is still the overhead of loading the graphics via browser. I want to get the job d0one and get it done fast. To me that means editing a textfile real fast and restarting a service.
Moderators: please don't moderate this up because it's anti microsoft. My points could apply to any OS that forces a graphical administration and lacks in any form of truly remote management.
I noticed that they said linuxconf was unweildly ( my word) for them. I would suggest webmin over linuxconf in most situations anyways. With support for ssl and being accessable by web browser ( i know linuxconf is as well) it makes remote admin a charm.
That leads to my second point. I've never worked with novell but why run a gui on a server? I still can't get past this. The key to *nix in general that I find to be most appealing is true remote admin capabilities. Do it all over ssh and there's the secure connection you need. Is remote MMC encrypted? I ask because I haven't had a chance to play with it. It just seems to me that a gui is a bottleneck in a server.
Actually my biggest point was that he intentionally stated one as fact and the other two as theory when, in fact, all three are theory and not proven. What bugged me even more was the fact that he proclaimed the MLK theme as fact. And if you read my post even MORE you would notice that I happen to agree with the fact that MLK day is pure drivel.
It may indeed be, in his opinion, that there is a government conspiracy about MLK that we don't know about but he stated it as fact and that was what bothered me.
I get just as ill when people say that creationism is a myth and evolution (in the sense of creation) is fact, when evolution is just as much theory as any other idea.
I agree. My point was not to argue the merits of Dr. King himself. Mine was to note the obvious (or maybe subconcious) way we use slight trickery of words to get a point across. I have read that Dr. King had been unfaithful to his wife but I find the communist ties to be a bit of a stretch. Wether or not he did any of those things, his message was still one of great meaning and importance.
For me personally, I consider a troll stuff along the lines of petrified natalie portman with lacey chabert in peanut butter and a small chihuahua type stuff. They're trolling for people to give them a reply. Hence the phrase do not feed the trolls. Flamebait on the otherhand is someone who is stating FUD here and there or saying stuff like Jon Katz is a pedophile. Or attacking someone's person. Make sense?
I love how you were able to cloud your racism as fact. My stepfather is in the clan and the propaganda material they produce wasn't as eloquent as this.
The American public is not allowed to see the criminal files on Martin King because the files contradict the image that the government wants to aclimate us to.
You state this as fact as opposed to the other two cases you cite as possibility.
may call into question the findings of the Warren Commission and embarrass many still living politicians.
Although the documents in question are very likely to tell us if she was innocent or really guilty
I'm sorry but as much as I try to objective about your post as informative, I cannot. It is thinly veiled Oliver Stonish conspiracy thoery wrapped in KKK propaganda. I'm worse off for even responding to it.
Side note..I'm caucasian, don't believe in affirmative action and don't think that MLK day should be a government holiday but I don't go around spreading false truths to influence others.
Hell, I wrote the article and I agree with you. I htink people don't have a clear enough definition of what the difference is between insightful and informative or troll and flamebait. I honestly figured it would get moderated as redundant since most people know this about Intel.
I agree that someone should moderate your post up as well.
Well think about the ability at that time. Golgo 13 was one of my favorite console games and I lvoe the anime. But it certainly does show it's age nowadays. Maybe it's me but alot of games now just seem like rehashes (as mentioned in the article) of older concepts. The only exception of course being fighting games which I absolutly love.
The cool thing about golgo 13 was the mode change. It was a side scroller and a FPS depending on the situation. I still remember when I got to the first sniper scenes. That's one reason I like syphon filter so much. Sniper scenes like that kick so much ass.
While we were listening to the Transmeta press conference here at the office the other day, a collegue of mine made a comment about this. Intel has the ability to cut prices and cut below transmeta prices. Sadly enough this will determine wether or not a new chip company can succeed. Can ANY new company succeed with this type of threat?
Actually an even cheaper method would be to post in the wantads somewhere. From what I've seen the code is fairly small. I dunno if you can even GET a wantad over, say, 10 lines I guess?
Slashdot Mirror
BAh....fsck wrestleline....Scoops is the way to go. I just wish Hyatte would come back.
The three I's of python:
Indentation
Indentation
Indentation
;) I couldn't resist
While I agree that Katz got it pretty much right, I honestly want just one continent - Hak Nam. I have been pondering starting something like this for quite a while. If you've read Idoru, you know what I'm talking about. With the advents of VPN encryption, it becomes more possible everyday. A group of servers hosted by people with varying degrees of connections, with their own internal DNS structure and ACL. Distribute the computing power among those servers and there you go. Add on IPv6 when it gets standardized and you don't have to worry about running out of IP addresses when everyone has a dedicated connection. And You get a transport that's meant to handle the kind of information that was passing through the Hak Nam in Idoru. Oh yeah and did I mention really strong encryption?
Jesus dude did you read the article? It WAS their home computer.
Now on a more serious note, now more than ever we need encrypted filesystems. The day a company comes to my home demanding my personal computer is the day I file a lawsuit. Let me explain something. I haven't stolen anything from my job. If they have a reason to suspect as such, they are free to search my premises. Admitedly if the company doesn't trust me, I will look for employment elsewhere.
I have been TOTALLY satisfied with joker.com as well. I can make all changes to any domain I have registered with them online via SSL. Is it so hard for NSI to use SSL? They even have a really intense ownership change method in place. I just met with one of my business partners last night to sign a form that had to be snailmailed to them to change ownership of one of my domains. They also charge a 26 dollar proccessing fee to do so. So even if someone somehow got my password for my joker.com forms, they couldn't change ownership fully. I really like these guys and I've already registered 6 domains with them.
;> )
YATFASC (Yet another testimony from a satisfied customer
Actually the fact that they are that dumb shows that they have no business being in the type of business they are. At least if, like you said, they are that dumb.
ahhh shit i guess slashdot has html formatting turned off with the CERT advisory. You get the point though.
aware now of its history, they're dropping the application.
You cannot tell me that they had no clue what whois was and it's history. That is the biggest crock of monkey shit. I may be glad that they didn't attempt to trademark something like whois but this is just the worst damn excuse ever. If an internet company doesn't know what whois IS they have no damn business trying to be an internet company. Jesus H christ, what is the actual intelligence level of companies these days?
Sorry for the rant. I've had a hectic day and this just struck a nerve.
It's not even a tool...it's source code. Is he saying that since it was distributed in SOURCE form that it is wrong? What if it were distributed in binary only format?
Unless I am reading this wrong the judge has contradicted or at the least invalidated his own opinion:
<i>...requires the use of appropriately configured hardware such as a DVD player or a <b>computer DVD drive</b> to decrypt, unscramble and play back, but not copy, motion pictures on DVDs</i>
From the DMCA:
<i>Section 1201(a)(2) of the Copyright Act, part of the DMCA, provides that:
"No person shall . . . offer to the public, provide or otherwise traffic in any technology . . . that---
"(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under [the Copyright Act];</i>
According to this DVD drives violate the DMCS because he states that the drives are what are used to read information from the drives.
It can't be this obvious can it? He makes no mention anywhere of the xing player from which the key was obtained. Is he really this shortsighted? I cannot for the life of me reconsile his argument in my mind. I completely understood why he allowed the initial injunction but this just seems completly ridiculous. Do the drive manufacturers pay for the license or the software? If the drive manufacturers are not responsible for any CSS licensing, then aren't they in of fact considered in violation of the act?
I can't be so dense as to miss the obvious, can I?
I so totally agree. I have made a habit of when refering to opensource software I use opensource/libre. It really helps to clear up what I'm really refering to.
He is refering to explorer shell replacements.
If you go to skinz.org I would say a third of the links down the right side are themes for alternate windowmanagers for windows. Litestep was one of the first and probably one of the most popular.
For those of you who bought this killer plugin, the new version breaks it. Of course all you have to do is:
/usr/lib/libxmms.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/libxmms.so.0
ln -s
your location may be different for the libs but none the less that will fix it.
This is one example of why I really like to have the source code whenever possible. All I would need to do was recompile against the new libraries. But again, I bought this plugin just because it made things sound SOOO much sweeter.
Has anyone seen any oddities when running the demo under sawmill?
;)
The X server zaps to 800x600 and then the title bar with a solid black window covers the actual game. I can kill sawmill and run without a wm and I dont have this issue. I spose I should report it to loki or maybe the sawmill team? I havent tried wit hany of the other windowmanagers yet because once I got the game in a playable state I am now realizing it's 2 am and I have to be up in 4 hours
Needless to say if anyone can point me to who would be a better person to get notice of this tiny problem, I'll document for them straightaway. I know a few of the loki guys peruse slashdot on more than a regular basis.
Actually I don't have to dial in now. Luckily I have a 1.1M sdsl line at home. It's great for vnc to the few nt servers we have but I still would prefere the option of using a command line over a gui. There is no way in hell that a GUI is faster than ascii. I work faster with a keyboard and vi than i can with a mouse and various text entry feilds that don't even have the tab order correct.
Why does everything have to be graphical? Can someone please explain to me the reasoning that because it has pretty icons, it is inherently better? I don't want the overhead of graphics to waste server resources damnit. If companies would wuit being cheap and hire people who KNOW something about being a real administrator and not someone who can point and click thier way around an interface, we would have inherently better admins. This is my only big gripe against microsoft. I'm not a big fan of the product line but my biggest issue is that they have forced a generation of clueless administrators who can ONLY point to a an icon and have no idea how to go beyond that.
I know some MCSE's who can script and manage the hell out of an NT server. My director is one of them but he is an exception among the masses. The windows gui is not condusive for remote management and I sure as hell wouldn't WANT to try and pipe those graphics over a dialin connection to the office just to fix some issue. Linuxconf has a great ascii based version for consoles and it happens to rock. I know that there are web based versions of several of the microsoft admin tools but there is still the overhead of loading the graphics via browser. I want to get the job d0one and get it done fast. To me that means editing a textfile real fast and restarting a service.
Moderators: please don't moderate this up because it's anti microsoft. My points could apply to any OS that forces a graphical administration and lacks in any form of truly remote management.
I noticed that they said linuxconf was unweildly ( my word) for them. I would suggest webmin over linuxconf in most situations anyways. With support for ssl and being accessable by web browser ( i know linuxconf is as well) it makes remote admin a charm.
That leads to my second point. I've never worked with novell but why run a gui on a server? I still can't get past this. The key to *nix in general that I find to be most appealing is true remote admin capabilities. Do it all over ssh and there's the secure connection you need. Is remote MMC encrypted? I ask because I haven't had a chance to play with it.
It just seems to me that a gui is a bottleneck in a server.
Actually my biggest point was that he intentionally stated one as fact and the other two as theory when, in fact, all three are theory and not proven. What bugged me even more was the fact that he proclaimed the MLK theme as fact. And if you read my post even MORE you would notice that I happen to agree with the fact that MLK day is pure drivel.
It may indeed be, in his opinion, that there is a government conspiracy about MLK that we don't know about but he stated it as fact and that was what bothered me.
I get just as ill when people say that creationism is a myth and evolution (in the sense of creation) is fact, when evolution is just as much theory as any other idea.
I agree. My point was not to argue the merits of Dr. King himself. Mine was to note the obvious (or maybe subconcious) way we use slight trickery of words to get a point across. I have read that Dr. King had been unfaithful to his wife but I find the communist ties to be a bit of a stretch. Wether or not he did any of those things, his message was still one of great meaning and importance.
For me personally, I consider a troll stuff along the lines of petrified natalie portman with lacey chabert in peanut butter and a small chihuahua type stuff. They're trolling for people to give them a reply. Hence the phrase do not feed the trolls. Flamebait on the otherhand is someone who is stating FUD here and there or saying stuff like Jon Katz is a pedophile. Or attacking someone's person.
Make sense?
I love how you were able to cloud your racism as fact. My stepfather is in the clan and the propaganda material they produce wasn't as eloquent as this.
The American public is not allowed to see the criminal files on Martin King because the files contradict the image that the government wants to aclimate us to.
You state this as fact as opposed to the other two cases you cite as possibility.
may call into question the findings of the Warren Commission and embarrass many still living politicians.
Although the documents in question are very likely to tell us if she was innocent or really guilty
I'm sorry but as much as I try to objective about your post as informative, I cannot. It is thinly veiled Oliver Stonish conspiracy thoery wrapped in KKK propaganda. I'm worse off for even responding to it.
Side note..I'm caucasian, don't believe in affirmative action and don't think that MLK day should be a government holiday but I don't go around spreading false truths to influence others.
Racism bites.
Hell, I wrote the article and I agree with you. I htink people don't have a clear enough definition of what the difference is between insightful and informative or troll and flamebait. I honestly figured it would get moderated as redundant since most people know this about Intel.
I agree that someone should moderate your post up as well.
Well think about the ability at that time. Golgo 13 was one of my favorite console games and I lvoe the anime. But it certainly does show it's age nowadays. Maybe it's me but alot of games now just seem like rehashes (as mentioned in the article) of older concepts. The only exception of course being fighting games which I absolutly love.
The cool thing about golgo 13 was the mode change. It was a side scroller and a FPS depending on the situation. I still remember when I got to the first sniper scenes. That's one reason I like syphon filter so much. Sniper scenes like that kick so much ass.
While we were listening to the Transmeta press conference here at the office the other day, a collegue of mine made a comment about this. Intel has the ability to cut prices and cut below transmeta prices. Sadly enough this will determine wether or not a new chip company can succeed. Can ANY new company succeed with this type of threat?
Actually an even cheaper method would be to post in the wantads somewhere. From what I've seen the code is fairly small. I dunno if you can even GET a wantad over, say, 10 lines I guess?