I live in Sweden. We have several Public Service TV and Radio stations. The biggest radio station is Programme 3, P3.
P3 play a lot of top-20 stuff, but fortunately smaller interests are seen to. One favourite is P3 Live, which airs four days a week -- a new band/artist every day. Very good and broad selection of music, and excellent live quality
Look around the playlists. There's everthing from Slitknot, Bob Hund, In Flames and lot's of lot's of bands you've never heard of and would never ever hear on a commercial station.
Tonight is Kittie, and Entombed is coming up soon. Very nice.
The track Brothers in arms by Dire Straits is seven minutes long and 70.7Mbyte. Using Monkey's Audio (for instance, there are others) it compress to 32.31Mbyte.
A typical "radio edit" track of about 3-4 minutes will compress to around 20Mbyte.
If I'm to buy music online it would have to be a more flexible scheme, ranging from a lossless encode to lossy of my choice (I use Ogg Vorbis 'quality 6' for all my encoding at home).
A 128Kbit/s encode using some unknown codec using unknown settings? You've gotta be kidding me.
Okay, any Swedes out there? I've been trying to get SR to move away from RA and embrace Ogg Vorbis. It would be great if we could get together, write up something official'ish and all sign it.
If that is not your thing, consider simply emailing SR and let them know that you would prefer Ogg Vorbis.
When I did this a year ago they argued that a) RA is available for 'all' platforms and that b) HTTP is not suitable for streaming. I think those are pretty weak arguments, and so in about two months (making it a year since last time) I will again make my voice heard.
Also, that was before BBC did their tests, so that is new ammunition, especially if they start using it for "real".
Email me if you want to join up.
We're _paying_ SR via taxes, remember that. They should listen to us.
The reason he mentioned this flaw is because MS know of - or figure that there will now come to be - an exploit for said bug.
At which time they (MS) can turn around and start crying about how talking about security problems only make things worse, and "see what we mean? We only mentioned it existed, and see what happend! Surely you can picture the horrors of opening the APIs?"
Umm.. I don't think the issue is so much with poor documentation where documentation exists, I think the issue is more with non-existing documentation.
If you are looking at the whole system from the point of documentation, of course everything looks great? That's like looking at the world though a great big filter.
Instead you will have to go the other way; check all DLL/EXEs for exports, and then see if those exports are documented. Some exports aren't even done by name, but only by ordinal, making them even harder to use.
I'm not a win32 guy either, so I can't give any concrete examples off hand, but I'm pretty sure this is partly where the issues lie.
You really cannot say the APIs are highly documented unless you have disassembled the code to see what it can really do, can you? Sure, there might be a hundred documented functions, but that is only impressive if there are only a hundred exports, and those exports are limited to the paramaters defined by the documentation.
I don't see how it can deserve the designation worm if it takes user intervention to spread, both a) to download it and then b) to execute it, which is the impression I got from the Kaspersky bulletin.
Wouldn't simply trojan be a better fit?
Indeed, the bulletin calls it a "worm". Let's continue doing that so as to not confuse matters even more than they already are regarding the designation of all these malware.
I'm going to have to ask for evidence for this assertion.
With the ratio of invalid to valid documents being what it is, I seriously doubt MOST of the problems are created by any lack of DOM-support. I suggest that development time is best spent elsewhere until such time that compliant documents are widespread.
Now you're the one making factual mistakes. The email and news clients (maybe messaging too, haven't bothered looking) are just DLLs (in the win32 build), whose inclusion is easy to avoid by a couple of clicks in preferences or simply removing the files (worked a while back at least -- I got Opera 5 onto a single 1.4Mb floppy with space to spare)
I have not used this "composer" program, but I seriously question that it works anything like what you have put forth.
I've been a Opera user since 3.x, and I love it. It's not perfect, far from it. I have a whole list of things I'd like to see, like better popup management and more developer features like logging of all HTTP I/O (requests and answers) and the like. I just feel that calling it bloated is plain wrong. I does use a great deal of memory if you allow memory-caching, but that's sort of the point of that feature.
Did the pages validate? If not, don't blame the browser, blame the incompetent chmucks who wrote the markup.
This is not trolling. This is my gawd damned honest to truth opinon on crap webpages resulting in blame being cast on browsers which actually tries to play by the book, as written by the W3C and the IETF.
I won't cry for HP the company, but I almost did cry when I discovered that my trusty HP48SX had slipped out of my pocket, to be lost to me forever.
I can only hope that it somehow found its way into the hands of some other geek, to be loved and cherished always, maybe even to this very day, and that it did not end up crushed, broken, abondoned, littering nature.
<sniff> I. miss. you.
Re:Sony == DMCA. Bad people. M'kay?
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I'm somewhat biased sure, but I can assure you all that I was not trolling (trolling for what?!)
Supporting these corporations is simply the Wrong Thing To Do, which needs to be pointed out, repeatedly, for the "DMCA baaad. Ohh.. shiny things"-crowd.
Sony == DMCA. Bad people. M'kay?
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Of course, MS could always fuck it up, but let us pretend for a moment that they are serious about their security initiative (Ha, ha).
Both unsigned and code signed by unknown entities should be treated the same, that is to say, it should under no circumstance be allowed to run. You want it to run, you better install the certificate or establish trust by signing the senders public key; all things which should be handled by a side-channel, so none of that click-yes-just-do-it stuff.
Of course, all this scripting nonsense should be disabled by default so that institutions stupid enough to think they need it will have to activate it in their installs by choice, making it largely their own fault if they fuck it up.
Personally I thought the news that Ogg Vorbis is now shipped with Winamp 2.80 was the news of they day. Any guess as to how many times over this will double the installed base of computers capable of playing Vorbis-files?
I've just begun using the gpg-plugin for Miranda. In the future I hope to be able to get all my friends to set up gpg and create an "IM" identity. Trade keys, and set the IM client to ignore messages unless they contain a known signature.
Hello quantum. You don't know me, but I read and reread all the VLAD zines back when they were current. Thank you very much for all the good times they gave me. I was a big fan of your work back then. You showed good technical skills and a mature way of thinking, unlike lesser groups like IR which I saw as purely juvenile.
I would very much like to be able to do this, but I want it to be fair. If it is a group it can be hard to get the money to everyone. Sending $x to one member asking him/her to distribute it to the rest of the band takes faith. Should I pay extra to the songwriter? Should I pay the production crew (technicians)?
For the next stage, it would be nice if there were some scheme by which I could remain anonymous, but -- say like if the RIAA storms my house -- provide proof of purchase if need be (cryptographically solved, but we "need" one standard way to do it).
Damned it, I just want to pay the artist(s). I do not want to pay for advertising I don't see/hear and/or do not wish to see/hear, and A&Rs and lawyers whatever else crap there is.
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I live in Sweden. We have several Public Service TV and Radio stations. The biggest radio station is Programme 3, P3.
P3 play a lot of top-20 stuff, but fortunately smaller interests are seen to. One favourite is P3 Live, which airs four days a week -- a new band/artist every day. Very good and broad selection of music, and excellent live quality
Look around the playlists. There's everthing from Slitknot, Bob Hund, In Flames and lot's of lot's of bands you've never heard of and would never ever hear on a commercial station.
Tonight is Kittie, and Entombed is coming up soon. Very nice.
Of course, you wouldn't download it uncompressed.
The track Brothers in arms by Dire Straits is seven minutes long and 70.7Mbyte. Using Monkey's Audio (for instance, there are others) it compress to 32.31Mbyte.
A typical "radio edit" track of about 3-4 minutes will compress to around 20Mbyte.
If I'm to buy music online it would have to be a more flexible scheme, ranging from a lossless encode to lossy of my choice (I use Ogg Vorbis 'quality 6' for all my encoding at home).
A 128Kbit/s encode using some unknown codec using unknown settings? You've gotta be kidding me.
Okay, any Swedes out there? I've been trying to get SR to move away from RA and embrace Ogg Vorbis. It would be great if we could get together, write up something official'ish and all sign it.
If that is not your thing, consider simply emailing SR and let them know that you would prefer Ogg Vorbis.
When I did this a year ago they argued that a) RA is available for 'all' platforms and that b) HTTP is not suitable for streaming. I think those are pretty weak arguments, and so in about two months (making it a year since last time) I will again make my voice heard.
Also, that was before BBC did their tests, so that is new ammunition, especially if they start using it for "real".
Email me if you want to join up.
We're _paying_ SR via taxes, remember that. They should listen to us.
"Stenbit" means "small piece of rock" or maybe "pebble" in Swedish.
Isn't dumb as a rock a saying of yours?
.. and this is for the paranoid out there:
The reason he mentioned this flaw is because MS know of - or figure that there will now come to be - an exploit for said bug.
At which time they (MS) can turn around and start crying about how talking about security problems only make things worse, and "see what we mean? We only mentioned it existed, and see what happend! Surely you can picture the horrors of opening the APIs?"
We'll see.
Umm.. I don't think the issue is so much with poor documentation where documentation exists, I think the issue is more with non-existing documentation.
If you are looking at the whole system from the point of documentation, of course everything looks great? That's like looking at the world though a great big filter.
Instead you will have to go the other way; check all DLL/EXEs for exports, and then see if those exports are documented. Some exports aren't even done by name, but only by ordinal, making them even harder to use.
I'm not a win32 guy either, so I can't give any concrete examples off hand, but I'm pretty sure this is partly where the issues lie.
You really cannot say the APIs are highly documented unless you have disassembled the code to see what it can really do, can you? Sure, there might be a hundred documented functions, but that is only impressive if there are only a hundred exports, and those exports are limited to the paramaters defined by the documentation.
I don't see how it can deserve the designation worm if it takes user intervention to spread, both a) to download it and then b) to execute it, which is the impression I got from the Kaspersky bulletin.
Wouldn't simply trojan be a better fit?
Indeed, the bulletin calls it a "worm". Let's continue doing that so as to not confuse matters even more than they already are regarding the designation of all these malware.
2. an audio recording of you actually saying what it is that they want you to say.
Synthesis of voice from some minimal sample (lexicon of syllables? Small enough to be compiled from public figures I'm sure) will be a reality.
I'm sure the RIAA are modifying their contracts as we speak as to lay claim to all their artists vocal patterns, original or not.
You thought Best Of albums were bad? Just wait till we have Frank Sinatra singing la'hits of Britney Spears.
I'm going to have to ask for evidence for this assertion.
With the ratio of invalid to valid documents being what it is, I seriously doubt MOST of the problems are created by any lack of DOM-support. I suggest that development time is best spent elsewhere until such time that compliant documents are widespread.
Now you're the one making factual mistakes. The email and news clients (maybe messaging too, haven't bothered looking) are just DLLs (in the win32 build), whose inclusion is easy to avoid by a couple of clicks in preferences or simply removing the files (worked a while back at least -- I got Opera 5 onto a single 1.4Mb floppy with space to spare)
I have not used this "composer" program, but I seriously question that it works anything like what you have put forth.
I've been a Opera user since 3.x, and I love it. It's not perfect, far from it. I have a whole list of things I'd like to see, like better popup management and more developer features like logging of all HTTP I/O (requests and answers) and the like. I just feel that calling it bloated is plain wrong. I does use a great deal of memory if you allow memory-caching, but that's sort of the point of that feature.
Numerous pages that load correctly and look
Did the pages validate? If not, don't blame the browser, blame the incompetent chmucks who wrote the markup.
This is not trolling. This is my gawd damned honest to truth opinon on crap webpages resulting in blame being cast on browsers which actually tries to play by the book, as written by the W3C and the IETF.
I won't cry for HP the company, but I almost did cry when I discovered that my trusty HP48SX had slipped out of my pocket, to be lost to me forever.
I can only hope that it somehow found its way into the hands of some other geek, to be loved and cherished always, maybe even to this very day, and that it did not end up crushed, broken, abondoned, littering nature.
<sniff> I. miss. you.
I'm somewhat biased sure, but I can assure you all that I was not trolling (trolling for what?!)
Supporting these corporations is simply the Wrong Thing To Do, which needs to be pointed out, repeatedly, for the "DMCA baaad. Ohh.. shiny things"-crowd.
Sony == DMCA. Bad people. M'kay?
Of course, MS could always fuck it up, but let us pretend for a moment that they are serious about their security initiative (Ha, ha).
Both unsigned and code signed by unknown entities should be treated the same, that is to say, it should under no circumstance be allowed to run. You want it to run, you better install the certificate or establish trust by signing the senders public key; all things which should be handled by a side-channel, so none of that click-yes-just-do-it stuff.
Of course, all this scripting nonsense should be disabled by default so that institutions stupid enough to think they need it will have to activate it in their installs by choice, making it largely their own fault if they fuck it up.
You don't have to remove the functionality; just make it REQUIRE the script to be CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY SIGNED by a known entity, like the sysadmin.
Fucking simple solution, unless you wanna argue that clients should execute code from UNKNOWN and UNTRUSTED sources for some reason?
Beyond IF, this title alone should be able to shoot down insane rulings like this one.
What if I rewrite it to strip the bit and remove the signature and certificate chunks?
Would that piss them off?
:-)
Maybe old, but I found this yesterday. Though it was funny.
Recording Artists Safety Guide to the Beach
Personally I thought the news that Ogg Vorbis is now shipped with Winamp 2.80 was the news of they day. Any guess as to how many times over this will double the installed base of computers capable of playing Vorbis-files?
I've just begun using the gpg-plugin for Miranda. In the future I hope to be able to get all my friends to set up gpg and create an "IM" identity. Trade keys, and set the IM client to ignore messages unless they contain a known signature.
No more spam. No more idiots. Ah...
Hello quantum. You don't know me, but I read and reread all the VLAD zines back when they were current. Thank you very much for all the good times they gave me. I was a big fan of your work back then. You showed good technical skills and a mature way of thinking, unlike lesser groups like IR which I saw as purely juvenile.
Wow. What a blast from the past.
hej på dig. jag undrar om någon läser detta. det vore isåfall ett väldans slöseri med tid.
The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS). It is on-line. It is free. It is great.
I would very much like to be able to do this, but I want it to be fair. If it is a group it can be hard to get the money to everyone. Sending $x to one member asking him/her to distribute it to the rest of the band takes faith. Should I pay extra to the songwriter? Should I pay the production crew (technicians)?
For the next stage, it would be nice if there were some scheme by which I could remain anonymous, but -- say like if the RIAA storms my house -- provide proof of purchase if need be (cryptographically solved, but we "need" one standard way to do it).
Damned it, I just want to pay the artist(s). I do not want to pay for advertising I don't see/hear and/or do not wish to see/hear, and A&Rs and lawyers whatever else crap there is.