Steganography could be used in this legal case to hide the decss code in the testimony of one of the witnesses or a statement by the defense. Since it is legal to publish the court transcripts they'll be everywhere after a while and then the EFF can release the key to decode them. The statement needed would be long and stilted; but, can probably be passed throught the court case. Once done, decss is legally everywhere, in a way:)
What is the file size of the DeCSS code without any comments? How many words would be necessary to hide it in a statement using steganography?
Too true, why we are still willingly voting for someone to rule over us is beyond me. I never wake up in the morning and say gee, I'd like someone else to make all my decisions for me today.
Switzerland has used direct voting on issues for centuries now, some states have had referendums on some issues for several decades. It is pretty sad that we ask for a commander of bullies every four years.
Someone is writing open source sci fi novels: Mike Combs, mikecombs@aol.com who has his sci fi stories at: http://members.aol.com/howiecombs/hard_s-f.htm of which I really liked the novel 'A Bridge to Space': http://members.aol.com/howiecombs/bridge.htm
Here are links to free online book sites: http://www.stanford.edu/~sothy/books.html http://samizdat.mines.edu/ http://www.icemall.com/free/free_books.html http://www.ipl.org/ http://www.itlibrary.com/ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html including Project Gutenberg: http://promo.net/pg/list.html
Could someone put up a mirror of their CVS files and web pages? Maybe put it all in a zip file so it's easy to pass around to many people. Are there any public open source CVS places that you can just leave a source code folder?
Eventually, they'll be able to get their web site back up; but, hopefully we can help them continue the work no matter how many sites are shut down.
Set the show at the end of time, when all is known and everything can be set to exactly as you wish.
What do people do when anything is possible? What would they really want? Would they want to be in a world completely at peace? Would they instead want to live in a fantasy of conflict, strife the unknown. All the people in the federation say they want to live in peace above all things; but, why then do they seek situations where violence and risk are guaranteed?
Follow a group of people as they enter their own creations. See if they choose a peaceful universe or do they get bored and opt instead for a world of adventure with its collory of injustice and pain? See the all the consequences of their actions laid out before them. See if they choose some ignorance of the future in order to have excitement. See if they choose to come into their worlds believing it to be an end in itself, with no remembrance of how they used to live. How much foreknowledge will they really want? Do they end up wanting to live in a world similar to our own even though they could have everything.
I'd like to see a knowledge singularity and what others would want in their wildest imaginings.
I agree that low earth orbit is the goal we should aim for now; but, tethers are not the way to do it. If you have a material that is strong enough per unit mass to serve as a practical space elevator, it is also strong enough to store compressed gases for a rocket in a lightweight package. Either storing compressed hydrogen and compressed oxygen to make a very high performance rocket with an enormous chamber pressure and a specific impulse of 540 seconds. Or to make a very cheap ship by storing compressed steam with a specific impulse of 280 seconds. This is similar to the ( extremely ) compressed air rockets in Lary Niven's tales of known space.
It's a great article: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_8/moglen/in dex.html up there with the Cathedral and the Bazaar. After reading it I finally understand the that AOL vs. M$ war is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Macbeth, Act 5 Scene 5 http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/Tragedy/macb eth/macbeth.5.5.html
The sooner you can buy PowerPC computers from someone other than Apple the better. The PowerPC is a great chip and once many people can use it, its price will go down even further and its speed should go up. This means more competition for Intel and yet another blow to Apple, a company even more proprietary than microsoft.
In Canada they're phasing in laws to regulate boat use, within 10 years you'll need a license to have a rowboat. I can see that they will demand licenses to use the internet within that timeframe, which you'll have to pay a fee each year to keep and is revocable at will.
Welcome to the Brave New World, never thought I'd live to see it.
Re:Provoking a revolution?
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I see two choices, either start a revolution or leave the system. The first will be probably be as you described;
'I hope we can get rid of these fuckwads peacefully. I'd hate to have the streets run red with blood, but that sort of thing may be necessary. I'm not optimistic though. This one saying keeps coming back to me... "It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."'
The second could be here: http://www.freedomship.com/
The main reason that poorer countries like Canada allow encryption is because they can't afford not to. The US can lose 10 billion in software sales each year and still have a thriving software business, Canada and all other countries don't have that option. If Canada was rich, we would clamp down on encryption too.
The best way to make the US loosen up its encrytion laws is to stop giving it tax money that is used against you. Dodge taxes for the good of your country, the less cash the bureaucrats have, the less they'll push you around.
My mom wants a new computer and she isn't going to use it heavily. She's planning on browsing and word processing. This would be perfect for her, a cheap computer that handles the few tasks she wants.
I won't use a software modem on mine yet; but, I might in a year. I'm glad that this manufacturer is taking a chance on linux and giving us more choice, even though few will use this particular option.
Re:First four chapters...
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I guess it's because books are generally cheaper than music or videos, they're often available for free in libraries or really cheap in second hand book stores. Authors tend to get a bigger cut of sales than musicians and publishers tend to be less rabid about protecting their copyrights than the organized crime which calls itself the music industry.
However, the price of books is going up, libraries are underfunded and buy fewer books lately so I think we'll be seeing more net available copyrighted works. I look forward to having a hard drive filled with sci fi.
Re:This only affects the *US*
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If you want a floating island in the equatorial pacific, this is a place to start: http://popularmechanics.com/popmech/sci/9802STRS AM.html I'm with you! I want out of here!
Geez, so that's why I got my first programming job at 25 in Montreal, Canada:) Age discrimination is a fact of life, there's just different discrimination in different places.
I agree with laxative. You're best defense against all of this, whatever your age, is to Save, save, sAvE. You'll make more through investing and sheltering your earnings than you will at work. That's why I was able to happily retire at age 29.
I agree with you completely. I would like to add that the time of the highly paid programmer is coming to an end. Right now programmers over age 35 are having trouble getting hired. After the year 2000, every programmer working on the Y2K problem will be fired or transfered creating a small glut of programmers. It seems unlikely now; but, in Canada today, engineers who are not in electrical or computer science start at 10$ US / hour if they can get a job at all.
I suggest that programmers save all the money they can now, learn about investing and tax shelters to ride out the coming drought. It won't be pretty, it won't be fair; but it will happen.
I tried that, bought a 26' boat in LA and was going to motor it to SV. Didn't work because there are mooring fees, insurance fees, registration fees, etc... which ended costing almost as much as an apartment. I was willing to live on the bay only displacing water; but, you have to pay as much for that as to live on land. The only reason housing costs a lot in SV is because of zoning, mooring fees, taxes, etc... Skyscrapers are cheap, houseboats are cheap, there are plenty of ways of developing that simply aren't allowed or are taxed out of sight.
I have a web page with links to free book sites: http://www2.cybercities.com/~freeknowledge/freeb ooks.html please be patient since the server is slow, so even though it's 1K it usually takes about a minute to download. A free book site specializing in IT is: http://www.itlibrary.com/
The economist is known for its wit and sarcasm. Its articles, whatever the content, are usually funny. I didn't read this article because I didn't feel like registering; but, I'm pretty sure the author was being sarcastic.
It's always hard to believe at the bottom of the hill that the snowball's gonna take down the whole mountain. In five years computers will cost as much as telephones do today, will have built in always on internet access and a roll up screen. Only illiterattes won't use them and only some people will still be using proprietary OS'. This is probably as hard to believe as believing in 1994 that most businesses would have web pages and that M$ network would be free of charge.
It's ok, I must admit the system is now treating me about as well as it does anyone. I'm 29, retired from the stock market, haven't payed income taxes in a year probably won't ever, living on the good side of town and my biggest question in the morning is what games or sports I should play today.
I just want more freedom for myself and everyone else who wants it.
I agree that geeks should use our power to shut down the system as much as we can. A good start is to stop paying taxes, they're just going to be used against us in every way known. A long term plan would be for a group somewhere to start their own country, probably by using a large cruise ship. We should recognize that even though high school is over, the system is still there, we're just in a bigger prison now.
If anyone wants to escape the system, please email me at: perez_enrique@yahoo.com
Compulsary public education
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Why is it so rare that people point out that school itself is the biggest cause of these massacres? You imprison innocent children for 10 years between the ages of 6 and 16 and force them to take abuse and guilt the whole time they're there. Is it any wonder that they go nuts? The only difference between these two and many other children is that they killed others just before commiting suicide.
Is there any place in the world where primary / secondary school is publicly available and voluntary?
Slashdot #28 web property? Worth $92,000,000?
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By looking at the property number and public trading values:
Assuming a relationship between these values for pure internet media properties, slashdot should be worth about $92,000,000. The calculation is as follows: Lycos ( #6 ) / Yahoo ( #2 ) = 3.0 is roughly equal to Slashdot ( #28 ) / Xoom ( #9 ) = 3.1. Therefore Lycos ( $4,383,988,000 ) / Yahoo ( $41,505,777,000 ) should roughly equal Slashdot ( $ ) / Xoom ( $969,898,875 ); Slashdot capitalization = $102,000,000, then minus a bit because 3.0 is a bit less than 3.1, Slashdot market capitalization works out to about $92,000,000. Nice work Rob.
Slashdot Mirror
Steganography could be used in this legal case to hide the decss code in the testimony of one of the witnesses or a statement by the defense. Since it is legal to publish the court transcripts they'll be everywhere after a while and then the EFF can release the key to decode them. The statement needed would be long and stilted; but, can probably be passed throught the court case. Once done, decss is legally everywhere, in a way :)
What is the file size of the DeCSS code without any comments? How many words would be necessary to hide it in a statement using steganography?
Too true, why we are still willingly voting for someone to rule over us is beyond me. I never wake up in the morning and say gee, I'd like someone else to make all my decisions for me today.
Switzerland has used direct voting on issues for centuries now, some states have had referendums on some issues for several decades. It is pretty sad that we ask for a commander of bullies every four years.
Someone is writing open source sci fi novels:
Mike Combs, mikecombs@aol.com
who has his sci fi stories at:
http://members.aol.com/howiecombs/hard_s-f.htm
of which I really liked the novel 'A Bridge to Space':
http://members.aol.com/howiecombs/bridge.htm
Here are links to free online book sites:
http://www.stanford.edu/~sothy/books.html
http://samizdat.mines.edu/
http://www.icemall.com/free/free_books.html
http://www.ipl.org/
http://www.itlibrary.com/
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html
including Project Gutenberg:
http://promo.net/pg/list.html
Could someone put up a mirror of their CVS files and web pages? Maybe put it all in a zip file so it's easy to pass around to many people. Are there any public open source CVS places that you can just leave a source code folder?
Eventually, they'll be able to get their web site back up; but, hopefully we can help them continue the work no matter how many sites are shut down.
Set the show at the end of time, when all is known and everything
can be set to exactly as you wish.
What do people do when anything is possible? What would they really want?
Would they want to be in a world completely at peace? Would they instead want
to live in a fantasy of conflict, strife the unknown. All the people in the
federation say they want to live in peace above all things; but, why then do
they seek situations where violence and risk are guaranteed?
Follow a group of people as they enter their own creations. See if
they choose a peaceful universe or do they get bored and opt instead for a
world of adventure with its collory of injustice and pain? See the all the
consequences of their actions laid out before them. See if they choose some
ignorance of the future in order to have excitement. See if they choose to
come into their worlds believing it to be an end in itself, with no
remembrance of how they used to live. How much foreknowledge will they really
want? Do they end up wanting to live in a world similar to our own even though
they could have everything.
I'd like to see a knowledge singularity and what others would want in
their wildest imaginings.
I agree that low earth orbit is the goal we should aim for now; but, tethers are not the way to do it. If you have a material that is strong enough per unit mass to serve as a practical space elevator, it is also strong enough to store compressed gases for a rocket in a lightweight package. Either storing compressed hydrogen and compressed oxygen to make a very high performance rocket with an enormous chamber pressure and a specific impulse of 540 seconds. Or to make a very cheap ship by storing compressed steam with a specific impulse of 280 seconds. This is similar to the ( extremely ) compressed air rockets in Lary Niven's tales of known space.
It's a great article:n dex.html
b eth/macbeth.5.5.html
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_8/moglen/i
up there with the Cathedral and the Bazaar. After reading it I finally understand the that AOL vs. M$ war is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Macbeth, Act 5 Scene 5
http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/Tragedy/mac
The sooner you can buy PowerPC computers from someone other than Apple the better. The PowerPC is a great chip and once many people can use it, its price will go down even further and its speed should go up. This means more competition for Intel and yet another blow to Apple, a company even more proprietary than microsoft.
In Canada they're phasing in laws to regulate boat use, within 10 years you'll need a license to have a rowboat. I can see that they will demand licenses to use the internet within that timeframe, which you'll have to pay a fee each year to keep and is revocable at will.
Welcome to the Brave New World, never thought I'd live to see it.
I see two choices, either start a revolution or leave the system. The first will be probably be as you described;
'I hope we can get rid of these fuckwads peacefully. I'd hate to have the streets run red with blood, but that sort of thing may be necessary. I'm not optimistic though. This one saying keeps coming back to me... "It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."'
The second could be here:
http://www.freedomship.com/
The main reason that poorer countries like Canada allow encryption is because they can't afford not to. The US can lose 10 billion in software sales each year and still have a thriving software business, Canada and all other countries don't have that option. If Canada was rich, we would clamp down on encryption too.
The best way to make the US loosen up its encrytion laws is to stop giving it tax money that is used against you. Dodge taxes for the good of your country, the less cash the bureaucrats have, the less they'll push you around.
If someone builds cybertopia anywhere in the world, I'm packing my computer and leaving Vancouver, Canada.
http://www.freedomship.com
is planning something like this, I just hope someone builds it soon.
My mom wants a new computer and she isn't going to use it heavily. She's planning on browsing and word processing. This would be perfect for her, a cheap computer that handles the few tasks she wants.
I won't use a software modem on mine yet; but, I might in a year. I'm glad that this manufacturer is taking a chance on linux and giving us more choice, even though few will use this particular option.
I guess it's because books are generally cheaper than music or videos, they're often available for free in libraries or really cheap in second hand book stores. Authors tend to get a bigger cut of sales than musicians and publishers tend to be less rabid about protecting their copyrights than the organized crime which calls itself the music industry.
However, the price of books is going up, libraries are underfunded and buy fewer books lately so I think we'll be seeing more net available copyrighted works. I look forward to having a hard drive filled with sci fi.
If you want a floating island in the equatorial pacific, this is a place to start:S AM.html
http://popularmechanics.com/popmech/sci/9802STR
I'm with you! I want out of here!
Geez, so that's why I got my first programming job at 25 in Montreal, Canada:) Age discrimination is a fact of life, there's just different discrimination in different places.
I agree with laxative. You're best defense against all of this, whatever your age, is to Save, save, sAvE. You'll make more through investing and sheltering your earnings than you will at work. That's why I was able to happily retire at age 29.
Cheers,
Enrique
I agree with you completely. I would like to add that the time of the highly paid programmer is coming to an end. Right now programmers over age 35 are having trouble getting hired. After the year 2000, every programmer working on the Y2K problem will be fired or transfered creating a small glut of programmers. It seems unlikely now; but, in Canada today, engineers who are not in electrical or computer science start at 10$ US / hour if they can get a job at all.
I suggest that programmers save all the money they can now, learn about investing and tax shelters to ride out the coming drought. It won't be pretty, it won't be fair; but it will happen.
Cheers,
Enrique
I tried that, bought a 26' boat in LA and was going to motor it to SV. Didn't work because there are mooring fees, insurance fees, registration fees, etc... which ended costing almost as much as an apartment. I was willing to live on the bay only displacing water; but, you have to pay as much for that as to live on land. The only reason housing costs a lot in SV is because of zoning, mooring fees, taxes, etc... Skyscrapers are cheap, houseboats are cheap, there are plenty of ways of developing that simply aren't allowed or are taxed out of sight.
I have a web page with links to free book sites:b ooks.html
http://www2.cybercities.com/~freeknowledge/free
please be patient since the server is slow, so even though it's 1K it usually takes about a minute to download. A free book site specializing in IT is:
http://www.itlibrary.com/
The economist is known for its wit and sarcasm. Its articles, whatever the content, are usually funny. I didn't read this article because I didn't feel like registering; but, I'm pretty sure the author was being sarcastic.
It's always hard to believe at the bottom of the hill that the snowball's gonna take down the whole mountain. In five years computers will cost as much as telephones do today, will have built in always on internet access and a roll up screen. Only illiterattes won't use them and only some people will still be using proprietary OS'. This is probably as hard to believe as believing in 1994 that most businesses would have web pages and that M$ network would be free of charge.
It's ok, I must admit the system is now treating me about as well as it does anyone. I'm 29, retired from the stock market, haven't payed income taxes in a year probably won't ever, living on the good side of town and my biggest question in the morning is what games or sports I should play today.
I just want more freedom for myself and everyone else who wants it.
Cheers,
perez_enrique@yahoo.com
I agree that geeks should use our power to shut down the system as much as we can. A good start is to stop paying taxes, they're just going to be used against us in every way known. A long term plan would be for a group somewhere to start their own country, probably by using a large cruise ship. We should recognize that even though high school is over, the system is still there, we're just in a bigger prison now.
If anyone wants to escape the system, please email me at:
perez_enrique@yahoo.com
Why is it so rare that people point out that school itself is the biggest cause of these massacres? You imprison innocent children for 10 years between the ages of 6 and 16 and force them to take abuse and guilt the whole time they're there. Is it any wonder that they go nuts? The only difference between these two and many other children is that they killed others just before commiting suicide.
Is there any place in the world where primary / secondary school is publicly available and voluntary?
By looking at the property number and public trading values:
AOL ______1_ 149,376,187,125
Yahoo_____2__ 41,505,777,000
Lycos_____6___ 4,383,988,000
Xoom _____9_____969,898,875
Slashdot _28______ 92,000,000?
Assuming a relationship between these values for pure internet media properties, slashdot should be worth about $92,000,000. The calculation is as follows: Lycos ( #6 ) / Yahoo ( #2 ) = 3.0 is roughly equal to Slashdot ( #28 ) / Xoom ( #9 ) = 3.1. Therefore Lycos ( $4,383,988,000 ) / Yahoo ( $41,505,777,000 ) should roughly equal Slashdot ( $ ) / Xoom ( $969,898,875 ); Slashdot capitalization = $102,000,000, then minus a bit because 3.0 is a bit less than 3.1, Slashdot market capitalization works out to about $92,000,000. Nice work Rob.
Cheers,