So they'd be probably use hash checking or something. I wonder what they'd check the hash against though if it's a new file and you're the only one having it. Which is what they target anyway.
And... it's not like 97% of all files on Kazaa aren't renamed to fake stuff. What's up with that anyway, who benefits if you trick others?
If I take some random file, for instance comprised only of zeros, rename it to "Return of the King.avi" and place it in my Kazaa shared folder now (before the movie is released), the MPAA will throw me in jail? Without downloading and checking that the file is what the name says it is, how can they have any evidence?
Backburner will backup anything you throw at it. It's a collection of Perl scripts, thus very small. It can backup and restore partitions or raw disks, with or without compression. It can write the backup to multiple CDs. You can even send it over the network to a NFS mounted volume. Been using it for over 3 years with no problem whatsoever.
LOL. I have one more sizeable target for McBride to set his sights on. I heard that the Pentagon runs Linux on a lot of computers. Maybe he should sue them.
Oh wait... "What's that, Darl? You don't think a missile up your ass would be good for your health? Well, shoulda' thought of that before!". Bam!
There are many viruses that contribute to the clinical entity known as "common cold". Rhinoviruses are some of them. Reoviruses are others. Myxovirus, adenovirus, echovirus... should I go on?
Actually, I don't think it's that. What I see behind the article is a guy who's been stuck in the past so much that the times have left him behind. It's probably a cry for help "I don't understand! This isn't supposed to happen! It can't happen!" I wouldn't blame him - blame instead the editor who's been short-sighted enough as to allow his nonsensical ramblings to be published.
People die from cancer because we don't die from other things.
It's true - life expectancy used to be much shorter, so people used to die from other things first. And don't forget poverty, lack of hygiene, wars etc.
How many people do you know in their 20s or 30s that have cancer? Now exclude those that are HIV positive. The number is probably awfully close to zero.
This I happen to know is not true. You'd be surprised at the numbers of young people dying of cancer. I had a friend who died of leukemia at 17. The reason those numbers aren't perceived as high by the masses is primarily because there are other causes of death among young people which surpass many times cancer.
In the US, #1 is violent death (including: car accidents, armed robbery/assault, other kinds of accidents, etc); followed closely by heart and lung disease, both of which are diseases of modern age: think fatty foods, lack of physical exercise, smoking etc. Then comes cancer. This is for, as you mentioned, the 20-30 years old age group.
Yes, the reovirus is naturally occuring - in fact it's quite common. It is one of the viruses causing what is generically known as "common cold". Runny nose et caetera.
However, how many cancer patients caught the common cold and were thus cured? Right, none. The virus that they're using in the trials is definitely genetically manipulated, not native. And that's patentable (and rightfully so).
B&W G3s are NewWorld and supported. Beige G3s (like mine) are OldWorld and Panther doesn't run on them. Apple support won't laugh in your face because your system is on the supported list. They will laugh in my face though if I called them.
So how about those of us who *can't* use Panther on our macs? Apple specifically disabled Panther so it won't install on beige G3s. I am running Jaguar, which is the last version supported on my machine. No more bugfixes for me I guess.
guys, this is getting serious. the shift key is really, really dangerous. just to make sure i'm protected, i took a tube of super-glue and dumped it on the offending key to jam it up. whew!
Uh-oh! I just realized there are two of them. And I already used up all of the glue! Now what am I going to do? I'm doomed!
No, it's just because all of the machines with built-in USB are NewWorld, and all the macs without built-in USB are OldWorld (including the beige G3s). Saying that it won't support macs without built-in USB is marketspeak for "we've dropped support for all OldWorld systems".
This time it's different. It's not the USB that's holding back the support - but the absence of New World-type firmware. Beiges are the last of the Old World machines, they have an actual ROM chip instead of ROM-in-RAM. It may also have to do with the OpenFirmware version (beiges use version 2.0f IIRC, which has quite a few bugs as compared to the latest versions used in B&W and following machines).
Basically the architecture changes after the beiges were as profound as the change from NuBus to PCI between the 8100 and the 7200.
Am I pissed? Yes I am, I'm a beige G3 owner. But that's life. OSX 10.2.8 and Gentoo will still run nicely on my machine even after Panther is released.
The other day I got a Linux email virus. It was this perfectly innocent looking message, with the subject line reading "Important!". So I opened it, and inside I found the following:
"This is an email virus for Linux users. It works on the honor system. Upon receipt of this message, you should manually forward it to everyone in your address book, then login as root and randomly delete a bunch of files. Thank you!"
The bit about educating the masses was about spreading the practice of using mail encryption to every Tom, Joe, Mary, Jack and Jane out there. If you are among the 0.1% who use mail encryption now, chances are you'll be singled out and action will be brought against you on the false premise that "since you hide it, it must be important".
Of course, but consider the following. The header and the body aren't really separate, are they? What's to stop a "designated official" to slip an eye over the body of the message too, since they opened your email anyway. Encryption will stop such abuse. I for one wouldn't be comfortable at all knowing that my emails may be read by some policeman who'd getting bored on duty someplace. It'd be pretty much as if they took naked pictures of you and posted them on the internet.
Of course, I'm not familiar with the text of the proposed law, and it may provide for some safeguards, but who'll guarantee you that the safeguards will be put in place and used? The same people who would benefit from not using them in the first place, as far as I can infer. By using encryption, you don't have to rely on such 3rd party safeguards.
Time to wake up and generalize the use of PGP/GPG and toher tools. Right now if you send an encrypted email, chances are the recipient won't even know what it is and delete it as spam or a virus.
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I guess we're still a long way from astronauts eating locally grown food... :)
So they'd be probably use hash checking or something. I wonder what they'd check the hash against though if it's a new file and you're the only one having it. Which is what they target anyway.
And... it's not like 97% of all files on Kazaa aren't renamed to fake stuff. What's up with that anyway, who benefits if you trick others?
Uhh, what fraud? What does a blank file do in terms of damage to them? I'm confused.
If I take some random file, for instance comprised only of zeros, rename it to "Return of the King.avi" and place it in my Kazaa shared folder now (before the movie is released), the MPAA will throw me in jail? Without downloading and checking that the file is what the name says it is, how can they have any evidence?
Backburner will backup anything you throw at it. It's a collection of Perl scripts, thus very small. It can backup and restore partitions or raw disks, with or without compression. It can write the backup to multiple CDs. You can even send it over the network to a NFS mounted volume. Been using it for over 3 years with no problem whatsoever.
Nice try, but there's no /dev/zero under cygwin. Or /dev for that matter. Would work if you mounted the partition from Linux though.
LOL. I have one more sizeable target for McBride to set his sights on. I heard that the Pentagon runs Linux on a lot of computers. Maybe he should sue them.
Oh wait... "What's that, Darl? You don't think a missile up your ass would be good for your health? Well, shoulda' thought of that before!". Bam!
There are many viruses that contribute to the clinical entity known as "common cold". Rhinoviruses are some of them. Reoviruses are others. Myxovirus, adenovirus, echovirus... should I go on?
Hmm. Can anyone else say "payola"?
Actually, I don't think it's that. What I see behind the article is a guy who's been stuck in the past so much that the times have left him behind. It's probably a cry for help "I don't understand! This isn't supposed to happen! It can't happen!" I wouldn't blame him - blame instead the editor who's been short-sighted enough as to allow his nonsensical ramblings to be published.
People die from cancer because we don't die from other things.
It's true - life expectancy used to be much shorter, so people used to die from other things first. And don't forget poverty, lack of hygiene, wars etc.
How many people do you know in their 20s or 30s that have cancer? Now exclude those that are HIV positive. The number is probably awfully close to zero.
This I happen to know is not true. You'd be surprised at the numbers of young people dying of cancer. I had a friend who died of leukemia at 17. The reason those numbers aren't perceived as high by the masses is primarily because there are other causes of death among young people which surpass many times cancer.
In the US, #1 is violent death (including: car accidents, armed robbery/assault, other kinds of accidents, etc); followed closely by heart and lung disease, both of which are diseases of modern age: think fatty foods, lack of physical exercise, smoking etc. Then comes cancer. This is for, as you mentioned, the 20-30 years old age group.
Yes, the reovirus is naturally occuring - in fact it's quite common. It is one of the viruses causing what is generically known as "common cold". Runny nose et caetera.
However, how many cancer patients caught the common cold and were thus cured? Right, none. The virus that they're using in the trials is definitely genetically manipulated, not native. And that's patentable (and rightfully so).
B&W G3s are NewWorld and supported. Beige G3s (like mine) are OldWorld and Panther doesn't run on them. Apple support won't laugh in your face because your system is on the supported list. They will laugh in my face though if I called them.
So how about those of us who *can't* use Panther on our macs? Apple specifically disabled Panther so it won't install on beige G3s. I am running Jaguar, which is the last version supported on my machine. No more bugfixes for me I guess.
Commercial idea for SCO:
"The protection racket. Not just for Mafia anymore!"
I awlways enjoiy a storey submitted by a gud spellar.
guys, this is getting serious. the shift key is really, really dangerous. just to make sure i'm protected, i took a tube of super-glue and dumped it on the offending key to jam it up. whew!
Uh-oh! I just realized there are two of them. And I already used up all of the glue! Now what am I going to do? I'm doomed!
No, it's just because all of the machines with built-in USB are NewWorld, and all the macs without built-in USB are OldWorld (including the beige G3s). Saying that it won't support macs without built-in USB is marketspeak for "we've dropped support for all OldWorld systems".
This time it's different. It's not the USB that's holding back the support - but the absence of New World-type firmware. Beiges are the last of the Old World machines, they have an actual ROM chip instead of ROM-in-RAM. It may also have to do with the OpenFirmware version (beiges use version 2.0f IIRC, which has quite a few bugs as compared to the latest versions used in B&W and following machines).
Basically the architecture changes after the beiges were as profound as the change from NuBus to PCI between the 8100 and the 7200.
Am I pissed? Yes I am, I'm a beige G3 owner. But that's life. OSX 10.2.8 and Gentoo will still run nicely on my machine even after Panther is released.
Cool - does that mean that HP is safe?
The other day I got a Linux email virus. It was this perfectly innocent looking message, with the subject line reading "Important!". So I opened it, and inside I found the following:
"This is an email virus for Linux users. It works on the honor system. Upon receipt of this message, you should manually forward it to everyone in your address book, then login as root and randomly delete a bunch of files. Thank you!"
The bit about educating the masses was about spreading the practice of using mail encryption to every Tom, Joe, Mary, Jack and Jane out there. If you are among the 0.1% who use mail encryption now, chances are you'll be singled out and action will be brought against you on the false premise that "since you hide it, it must be important".
Of course, but consider the following. The header and the body aren't really separate, are they? What's to stop a "designated official" to slip an eye over the body of the message too, since they opened your email anyway. Encryption will stop such abuse. I for one wouldn't be comfortable at all knowing that my emails may be read by some policeman who'd getting bored on duty someplace. It'd be pretty much as if they took naked pictures of you and posted them on the internet.
Of course, I'm not familiar with the text of the proposed law, and it may provide for some safeguards, but who'll guarantee you that the safeguards will be put in place and used? The same people who would benefit from not using them in the first place, as far as I can infer. By using encryption, you don't have to rely on such 3rd party safeguards.
Time to wake up and generalize the use of PGP/GPG and toher tools. Right now if you send an encrypted email, chances are the recipient won't even know what it is and delete it as spam or a virus.
Educate the masses.
Slackware - the boxed set, not the downloadable iso - comes with a live CD as well.
You can probably buy the "new" Lyra, which is SD-based, not CF.