An idea just came to me. I'm sure many of the triple-digit-IQ Slashdot readers would have already come up with this, but I'm sure the s'kiddies hould have no idea. So, kids, here's how to steal video games, and oh so much more: A lot of the stores that offer these gift cards also accept them online, by just typing in the number. Do the same thing as noted in the article, but you need NO EQUIPMENT! Just type in the number and get the stuff shipped to a P.O. box! Brilliant! Wow, I've gotta try this (and immediately report the issue to the proper authorities, of course...)
Yeah, but that sort of instant-on capability would require it to be always in suspend, eating up (less, but still significant) battery life. Also, I expect to look at my watch and see the time, not have to press a button first...
I agree that some of what the various LF groups verges on terrorism. However, the main difference is that they have caused no deaths (that I know of). What they do is horrible, but it is not even on the same plane as bin Laden et al. As to "PETA branding people for a choice of calories is no more right than Aryan Nation branding people for a choice of mate or church.", this is simply not true. PETA certainly has a wacko contingent, as does every other movement. In general, they do what needs to be done: education. They show the pictures that the mainstream media won't. Some of what they do goes too far, but comparing them to groups like the Aryan Nation is just insulting.
I'll end this rant with a (long) quote:
BRIAN: Are you the Judean People's Front?
REG: Fuck off!
BRIAN: What?
REG: Judean People's Front. We're the People's Front of Judea! Judean People's Front. Cawk.
FRANCIS: Wankers.
BRIAN: Can I... join your group?
REG: No. Piss off.
BRIAN: I didn't want to sell this stuff. It's only a job. I hate the Romans as much as anybody.
PEOPLE'S FRONT OF JUDEA: Shhhh. Shhhh. Shhh. Shh. Shhhh.
REG: Stumm.
JUDITH: Are you sure?
BRIAN: Oh, dead sure. I hate the Romans already.
REG: Listen. If you really wanted to join the P.F.J., you'd have to really hate the Romans.
BRIAN: I do!
REG: Oh, yeah? How much?
BRIAN: A lot!
REG: Right. You're in. Listen. The only people we hate more than the Romans are the fucking Judean People's Front.
P.F.J.: Yeah...
JUDITH: Splitters.
P.F.J.: Splitters...
FRANCIS: And the Judean Popular People's Front.
P.F.J.: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Splitters. Splitters...
LORETTA: And the People's Front of Judea.
P.F.J.: Yeah. Splitters. Splitters...
REG: What?
LORETTA: The People's Front of Judea. Splitters.
REG: We're the People's Front of Judea!
LORETTA: Oh. I thought we were the Popular Front.
REG: People's Front! C-huh.
FRANCIS: Whatever happened to the Popular Front, Reg?
Yeah, it looks like the 3100 series. It says on the back model # PW3100. Nothing labeled as FCC ID, but there's some long number in hex that might be it (don't know much about this stuff). BTW, I cracked open one of them, and you appear to be right about the serial port ( bunch of serial processor chips.) Where it gets power, however, is still a mystery. Its brain appears to be a Vadem VG230, which is one of those computer-on-a-chip things with an LCD controller and everything built in. (It runs DOS;) I can take some pictures and put up a page if anyone's interested...
I understand your anger. I'm angry. But this is not the right stance to take. When dealing with the blood of innocents, we have to be very careful using force. I endorse military action. I don't endorse using nuclear weapons. With Afghanistan's limited support from some of the hardline Arab countries, this could turn into full-scale nuclear war. Full-scale nuclear war. Be very careful when endorsing something as destructive as a nuke, which is almost guaranteed to kill innocent people. I'm not going to get into the morals of dropping the nuke on the Japanese (I oppose it), but this is a timeto carefully consider every aciotn we take. I don't think you're a bad person, you're just thinking rashly. We're all outraged. Just keep it productive.
This will become a second Pearl Harbor, but not in the way Katz thinks. Remember the way the Japanese were treated after Pearl Harbor. They were gathered up and put into camps. They were gathered up like cattle and put into camps. They lost all their belongings. Now imagine this response times 100, directed towards Arab-Americans. There are an enormous number of extremely evil people in this world, but not all Arabs support this aciton, just as not all Japanese supported their actions. Not to mention that this attack was not endorsed by any government. I apologize for this rambling post, I'm just angry. This is not war with anyone. This is an isolated attack on the United States. However, I feel that the US' response to this attack will effect just as many, if not more, families.
Actually, you can sue them. That doesn't mean you'll win, but knowing MS, they'll settle rather than endure a long court case (especially with current lawsuits against them)
This is the best possible outcome for Adobe. They get him arrested in the first place, then they back down. This way they don't get the bad press, but the guy is still in jail, held by the government. Adobe got a sweet deal out of this whole thing.
Most RAID(-like) striping schemes double the READ speed (two apertures seeking one piece of data) but reduce the write speed (two apertures writing the same piece of data and/or redundancy structures on to two disks) plus there's I/O overhead. Plus you have to get added/expensive goodlier controller(s) for decent performance.
Ummm... I think you're thinking mirroring (same data on two drives). Striping is basically alternate writing between the two disks. No pure striping scheme writes the same data to more than one drive. Of course, this implements no redundancy, but such is the price of performance. On the controller topic, even software-based RAID such as FreeBSD's vinum have usually similar, and sometimes better, performance compared to hardware. Of course, this is only for simple schemes such as RAID 0 and 1. For something like RAID 5 (distributed parity), hardware is always faster.
I don't know the code in-depth, but they should theoretically be completely compatible with each other. In practice, there are a few bugs to work out. For instance, you have to tell PGP several times to import a GPG key before it actually does it (for me at least). There are also a few problems with decrypting, but I've always been able to eventually get around those. I think they're pretty close to compatible, at least as close as these sorts of things can get without some serious revisions.
Shadowrealm is a movie ripping and packaging group- they get screeners of all the modern movies and package them in asfs for the lamers on usenet who actually watch modern movies (sorry, introducing just a bit of bias)
No offense, but your post is completely irrelevant. IPF was never released under the BSD license, it has always been the author's own license. Therefore, he has the right to do as he wishes with it, and not be forced to do exactly as the GPL says.
All these increasingly intrusive ads- 15 second "web commercials", in-game ads, those fscking half-page cnet ads- they're all part of our country's deeply held belief that one brand is better than another because it advertises more. The "cool" look is to wear clothes with enormous brand names on them. An excellent example is Nike. Nike shoes are made in a factory where workers get paid 14 cents per hour and cost at least twice as much as comparable "lesser brands." Yet people still pay hundreds of dollars to get to wear giant swooshes on their feet. This is our culture. There may be a bit of an uproar each time a brand gets closer to invading formerly private spaces, but it never stops them. These brands are celebrities in and of themselves. The product is secondary to the "image". Every bit of ground we give up to the brands is a bit of ground that we can never get back. The only way to fight the brands is (as usual, The Simpsons has an excellent episode about this) to stop paying attention to them. Shop at thrift stores and Payless. Don't buy things with enormous logos on them. True, this may be obvious to some of you geeks out there, but I'm sure at least one person reading slashdot now is wearing a Tommy Hilfiger shirt with a logo more than a foot tall. We must stop this now. Fight the brands!
I was in the coop, and all I caught of the whole experience (other than Jake is God;) is that it's like a part-time job to set up a coop. If somebody wants to do that, be my guest, but on a student schedule, I have no possibility of running anything larger-scale than a coffee maker.
I've always thought that the point of used books was to pass that book to someone else to enjoy. Books are knowledge. They are not licenses, no matter what the fucking Author's Guild says. If you don't like a book, you sell it to someone who does like it. I sell used books, but if they don't sell, I give them to someone who wants them. Pass the knowledge. Used books are a way for poor people to get books, which they otherwise cannot get. And another thing, new books are damned overpriced. All these nice things, and yet the goddamn Author's Guild wants to stop it because it cuts into their profits. Fuck em. I usually buy books from small, independent authors anyway.
P.S. Sorry for this obscene, gramatically incorrect rant. Big groups who think they control an industry just piss me off.
Slashdot Mirror
More info at The Register. This one is better, if only for the reference to Ashcroft and a "lucrative surveillance state."
An idea just came to me. I'm sure many of the triple-digit-IQ Slashdot readers would have already come up with this, but I'm sure the s'kiddies hould have no idea. So, kids, here's how to steal video games, and oh so much more: A lot of the stores that offer these gift cards also accept them online, by just typing in the number. Do the same thing as noted in the article, but you need NO EQUIPMENT! Just type in the number and get the stuff shipped to a P.O. box! Brilliant! Wow, I've gotta try this (and immediately report the issue to the proper authorities, of course...)
Yeah, but that sort of instant-on capability would require it to be always in suspend, eating up (less, but still significant) battery life. Also, I expect to look at my watch and see the time, not have to press a button first...
I agree that some of what the various LF groups verges on terrorism. However, the main difference is that they have caused no deaths (that I know of). What they do is horrible, but it is not even on the same plane as bin Laden et al. As to "PETA branding people for a choice of calories is no more right than Aryan Nation branding people for a choice of mate or church.", this is simply not true. PETA certainly has a wacko contingent, as does every other movement. In general, they do what needs to be done: education. They show the pictures that the mainstream media won't. Some of what they do goes too far, but comparing them to groups like the Aryan Nation is just insulting.
I'll end this rant with a (long) quote:
BRIAN: Are you the Judean People's Front?
REG: Fuck off!
BRIAN: What?
REG: Judean People's Front. We're the People's Front of Judea! Judean People's Front. Cawk.
FRANCIS: Wankers.
BRIAN: Can I... join your group?
REG: No. Piss off.
BRIAN: I didn't want to sell this stuff. It's only a job. I hate the Romans as much as anybody.
PEOPLE'S FRONT OF JUDEA: Shhhh. Shhhh. Shhh. Shh. Shhhh.
REG: Stumm.
JUDITH: Are you sure?
BRIAN: Oh, dead sure. I hate the Romans already.
REG: Listen. If you really wanted to join the P.F.J., you'd have to really hate the Romans.
BRIAN: I do!
REG: Oh, yeah? How much?
BRIAN: A lot!
REG: Right. You're in. Listen. The only people we hate more than the Romans are the fucking Judean People's Front.
P.F.J.: Yeah...
JUDITH: Splitters.
P.F.J.: Splitters...
FRANCIS: And the Judean Popular People's Front.
P.F.J.: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Splitters. Splitters...
LORETTA: And the People's Front of Judea.
P.F.J.: Yeah. Splitters. Splitters...
REG: What?
LORETTA: The People's Front of Judea. Splitters.
REG: We're the People's Front of Judea!
LORETTA: Oh. I thought we were the Popular Front.
REG: People's Front! C-huh.
FRANCIS: Whatever happened to the Popular Front, Reg?
REG: He's over there.
Sorry, it wasn't you that mentioned the serial port, it was the only other poster on this thread :)
Yeah, it looks like the 3100 series. It says on the back model # PW3100. Nothing labeled as FCC ID, but there's some long number in hex that might be it (don't know much about this stuff). BTW, I cracked open one of them, and you appear to be right about the serial port ( bunch of serial processor chips.) Where it gets power, however, is still a mystery. Its brain appears to be a Vadem VG230, which is one of those computer-on-a-chip things with an LCD controller and everything built in. (It runs DOS ;) I can take some pictures and put up a page if anyone's interested...
I understand your anger. I'm angry. But this is not the right stance to take. When dealing with the blood of innocents, we have to be very careful using force. I endorse military action. I don't endorse using nuclear weapons. With Afghanistan's limited support from some of the hardline Arab countries, this could turn into full-scale nuclear war. Full-scale nuclear war. Be very careful when endorsing something as destructive as a nuke, which is almost guaranteed to kill innocent people. I'm not going to get into the morals of dropping the nuke on the Japanese (I oppose it), but this is a timeto carefully consider every aciotn we take. I don't think you're a bad person, you're just thinking rashly. We're all outraged. Just keep it productive.
This will become a second Pearl Harbor, but not in the way Katz thinks. Remember the way the Japanese were treated after Pearl Harbor. They were gathered up and put into camps. They were gathered up like cattle and put into camps. They lost all their belongings. Now imagine this response times 100, directed towards Arab-Americans. There are an enormous number of extremely evil people in this world, but not all Arabs support this aciton, just as not all Japanese supported their actions. Not to mention that this attack was not endorsed by any government. I apologize for this rambling post, I'm just angry. This is not war with anyone. This is an isolated attack on the United States. However, I feel that the US' response to this attack will effect just as many, if not more, families.
Actually, you can sue them. That doesn't mean you'll win, but knowing MS, they'll settle rather than endure a long court case (especially with current lawsuits against them)
This is the best possible outcome for Adobe. They get him arrested in the first place, then they back down. This way they don't get the bad press, but the guy is still in jail, held by the government. Adobe got a sweet deal out of this whole thing.
I wonder if that flash animation would set off censorware... you know, all the thrusting back and forth, in and out...
Urgh... USENIX for a week has fried my brain. Must... close... tags...
Most RAID(-like) striping schemes double the READ speed (two apertures seeking one piece of data) but reduce the write speed (two apertures writing the same piece of data and/or redundancy structures on to two disks) plus there's I/O overhead. Plus you have to get added/expensive goodlier controller(s) for decent performance. Ummm... I think you're thinking mirroring (same data on two drives). Striping is basically alternate writing between the two disks. No pure striping scheme writes the same data to more than one drive. Of course, this implements no redundancy, but such is the price of performance. On the controller topic, even software-based RAID such as FreeBSD's vinum have usually similar, and sometimes better, performance compared to hardware. Of course, this is only for simple schemes such as RAID 0 and 1. For something like RAID 5 (distributed parity), hardware is always faster.
I don't know the code in-depth, but they should theoretically be completely compatible with each other. In practice, there are a few bugs to work out. For instance, you have to tell PGP several times to import a GPG key before it actually does it (for me at least). There are also a few problems with decrypting, but I've always been able to eventually get around those. I think they're pretty close to compatible, at least as close as these sorts of things can get without some serious revisions.
And then alt.flame.spelling :)
Shadowrealm is a movie ripping and packaging group- they get screeners of all the modern movies and package them in asfs for the lamers on usenet who actually watch modern movies (sorry, introducing just a bit of bias)
This would go well with the MUD Shell mentioned on Slashdot a while ago.
No offense, but your post is completely irrelevant. IPF was never released under the BSD license, it has always been the author's own license. Therefore, he has the right to do as he wishes with it, and not be forced to do exactly as the GPL says.
All these increasingly intrusive ads- 15 second "web commercials", in-game ads, those fscking half-page cnet ads- they're all part of our country's deeply held belief that one brand is better than another because it advertises more. The "cool" look is to wear clothes with enormous brand names on them. An excellent example is Nike. Nike shoes are made in a factory where workers get paid 14 cents per hour and cost at least twice as much as comparable "lesser brands." Yet people still pay hundreds of dollars to get to wear giant swooshes on their feet. This is our culture. There may be a bit of an uproar each time a brand gets closer to invading formerly private spaces, but it never stops them. These brands are celebrities in and of themselves. The product is secondary to the "image". Every bit of ground we give up to the brands is a bit of ground that we can never get back. The only way to fight the brands is (as usual, The Simpsons has an excellent episode about this) to stop paying attention to them. Shop at thrift stores and Payless. Don't buy things with enormous logos on them. True, this may be obvious to some of you geeks out there, but I'm sure at least one person reading slashdot now is wearing a Tommy Hilfiger shirt with a logo more than a foot tall. We must stop this now. Fight the brands!
I was in the coop, and all I caught of the whole experience (other than Jake is God ;) is that it's like a part-time job to set up a coop. If somebody wants to do that, be my guest, but on a student schedule, I have no possibility of running anything larger-scale than a coffee maker.
P.S. Sorry for this obscene, gramatically incorrect rant. Big groups who think they control an industry just piss me off.
Damn, why not try lisp :)
I think the idea of that comment was that two people might be waiting for the same domain to expire... that could cause a bit of trouble...
Once again, The Register has a story with not only more info, but a much better title :)
The Register has a good article on this also.