Bundeled phones/provider are normal, but over here (NL) the phone regulations thingy has ruled that phones must be unlocked on a customer's request (after one year of purchase). YMMV
Well that depends on what country you are in, if people visit one coffee house after an other over here (NL) they are either addicted or they are a dealer.
"Check out OS X! They have the best installation system ever - just copy that shiny vector-graphics based icon to your Applications folder, ENTER your password once and DONE!"
How is this different from the windows situation depicted in the GP?
You correctly state that ignorance is the problem, the users ignorance that is.
Ahhhh now I know why I see slashdot without ads even though adblock doesn't report any blocked items. I installed the NoScript extension a couple of weeks ago.
Maybe you should consider something else than Debian then (yellowdog?), since your main problem will be Debians policy considering to non-free java. It used to be a lot of work even on i386 (creating a deb from eg Suns JVM). Nowadays eclipse-sdk depends on eclipse-javac which depends on either java2-runtime or kaffee. That last one should be be available for ppc i guess.
Well a torrent app should use atleast a bunch of cpu wil doing checksums. And Azureus does checksum a lot compared to the reference bittorrent client.
It also is the biggest resource hog on my "file server", about half the memory (+- 300Mb) and 15-35% cpu (on a 500Mhz P3 (going 100% when doing a full checksum on completion)). All this with about 25 torrents running which amount to something like 5Mbps of traffic. And having a somewhat decent UI.
To bad there apprears to be a memory leak somewhere, leaving a JVM running with Azureus for 40+ days got the machine in trouble with 1.5.0_02 (swapping), 1.5.0_04 _seems_ to do a better job.
Why do you think that? Just because something is published doesn't mean the owner the owner has put in in public domain.
Without copyright law you would have no rights, just take a look at any copyrighted works, all I can find here (dvd, cd, games, books) have printed on them in nice friendly letters: All rights reserved.
Leaving me without any right to the work. Now along comes the copyright law giving me the right to "fair use".
Could you please explain what rights to eg "Happy Birthday" you would have if there were no copyright laws? IMHO that would be something that amounts to exactly: NONE.
But while copyright applicable to you might suck big time from your POV, copyright laws applicable to me actually grant me some rights, one of them is the right to make copies for my own personal use. So that still prohibits me from performing eg "Happy Birthday" for an audience, but enables me to download it from somewhere (since the right to make copies doesn't make any assumption on the legality from the source that is being copied).
He could be for real, the "problem" with Prism wireless cards is that there are (atleast) 3 drivers that may work: -orinocco -wlan-ng -hostap
While the oriniocco dirver is included with the kernel I have never seen in working on any of my cards but for some silly reason the pcmcia tools set it as default for both my Asus wl-110 and Edimax ew-7102pc.
I can't remember ever have used wlan-ng after finding out that the hostap driver existed. Unless the GP's card is non standard he should do a search for hostap.
Maybe, but who knows what the author was thinking off?
IMHO Bell and the telephone would have been a better example than Edison and the phonogram (which according to wikipedia is a real non unique invention). Bell is credited for the telephone even though there is a clear history of others with the same idea. Maybe those predecessors just had less practical implementations or lacked the required business spirit.
The end result is that people get the idea that the succesful implementor was also the inventor simply because it is the first implemention they saw/used/heared of.
If bittorrent worked this way, IMHO it doesn't since clients don't report bad sources to the tracker from which clients can choose to get their peer list, this would be a much more efficient way to effectively shutdown the torrent. HBO could set up some fake clients to report all others as blacklisted.
Todays hispeed communication kinda makes it harder to be completely unaware of other developments in your field of science, but I seem to remember there have been recent Nobel Prize awards to non unique innovations (to lame to do a search).
You have to put those numbers relative to the total population.
You can add up the numbers of death by conflict in the 20th century and might surpass the total number in the previous history of mankind. Yet it didn't have much of an impact on the total population which in the year 2000 was about 6 times the number in 1900.
Killing a few thousand in the centuries before had just the same or bigger impact I guess.
"This isn't really a (significant) security hole. It doesn't do anything that I couldn't do by telnetting to port 80, which could easily be done with Java."
The secunia advisory mentions the possibility of arbitrary http requests, that is not something you can do with Java running in the context of a browser (aka applet). The java security manager will only allow httprequests to the host where the applet was downloaded from (unless it's a signed applet, which has the same access rights as the context the browsers itself is running in (but that requires at least a one time user interaction))
I've been copying IP and sharing little pieces with others since I installed a bittorrent client. The owners seem to agree since I never got an optout request.
Your trash man analogy is false: they are not making money by disposing of your trash.
Now if it was suddenly possible to make money by eg converting garbage to energy I surely would like to be compensated for the energy I had to put into the garbage in the first place.
It may all depend on the browser, for some reason firefox is extremly slow in starting a JVM, also the whole browsers is unusable during the startup. On the other hand mozilla is much faster even though they both use the exact same plugin!
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Lets see, according to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo was on June 18, 1815 in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo%2C_Belgium . Now the fun stuf: in 1815 there was no http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium
Bundeled phones/provider are normal, but over here (NL) the phone regulations thingy has ruled that phones must be unlocked on a customer's request (after one year of purchase). YMMV
Well that depends on what country you are in, if people visit one coffee house after an other over here (NL) they are either addicted or they are a dealer.
"Check out OS X! They have the best installation system ever - just copy that shiny vector-graphics based icon to your Applications folder, ENTER your password once and DONE!"
How is this different from the windows situation depicted in the GP?
You correctly state that ignorance is the problem, the users ignorance that is.
Not in the metric system.
Why would you boycot this? Your usage doesn't seem to be affected by this flag.
Ahhhh now I know why I see slashdot without ads even though adblock doesn't report any blocked items. I installed the NoScript extension a couple of weeks ago.
What ads?
Maybe you should consider something else than Debian then (yellowdog?), since your main problem will be Debians policy considering to non-free java. It used to be a lot of work even on i386 (creating a deb from eg Suns JVM). Nowadays eclipse-sdk depends on eclipse-javac which depends on either java2-runtime or kaffee. That last one should be be available for ppc i guess.
Well a torrent app should use atleast a bunch of cpu wil doing checksums. And Azureus does checksum a lot compared to the reference bittorrent client.
It also is the biggest resource hog on my "file server", about half the memory (+- 300Mb) and 15-35% cpu (on a 500Mhz P3 (going 100% when doing a full checksum on completion)). All this with about 25 torrents running which amount to something like 5Mbps of traffic. And having a somewhat decent UI.
To bad there apprears to be a memory leak somewhere, leaving a JVM running with Azureus for 40+ days got the machine in trouble with 1.5.0_02 (swapping), 1.5.0_04 _seems_ to do a better job.
I totally agree, someone should really rewrite Firefox. I have no idea what it is written in now but it really sounds like that java you mention.
Why do you think that? Just because something is published doesn't mean the owner the owner has put in in public domain.
Without copyright law you would have no rights, just take a look at any copyrighted works, all I can find here (dvd, cd, games, books) have printed on them in nice friendly letters:
All rights reserved.
Leaving me without any right to the work. Now along comes the copyright law giving me the right to "fair use".
Could you please explain what rights to eg "Happy Birthday" you would have if there were no copyright laws? IMHO that would be something that amounts to exactly: NONE.
But while copyright applicable to you might suck big time from your POV, copyright laws applicable to me actually grant me some rights, one of them is the right to make copies for my own personal use. So that still prohibits me from performing eg "Happy Birthday" for an audience, but enables me to download it from somewhere (since the right to make copies doesn't make any assumption on the legality from the source that is being copied).
He could be for real, the "problem" with Prism wireless cards is that there are (atleast) 3 drivers that may work:
-orinocco
-wlan-ng
-hostap
While the oriniocco dirver is included with the kernel I have never seen in working on any of my cards but for some silly reason the pcmcia tools set it as default for both my Asus wl-110 and Edimax ew-7102pc.
I can't remember ever have used wlan-ng after finding out that the hostap driver existed. Unless the GP's card is non standard he should do a search for hostap.
Maybe, but who knows what the author was thinking off?
IMHO Bell and the telephone would have been a better example than Edison and the phonogram (which according to wikipedia is a real non unique invention). Bell is credited for the telephone even though there is a clear history of others with the same idea. Maybe those predecessors just had less practical implementations or lacked the required business spirit.
The end result is that people get the idea that the succesful implementor was also the inventor simply because it is the first implemention they saw/used/heared of.
If bittorrent worked this way, IMHO it doesn't since clients don't report bad sources to the tracker from which clients can choose to get their peer list, this would be a much more efficient way to effectively shutdown the torrent. HBO could set up some fake clients to report all others as blacklisted.
Azureus does by default.
:)
Bittorent/Bittornado:
--check_hashes 0 | 1
whether to check hashes on disk (defaults to 1)
Bittornado even has the options --double_check (on by default) and --triple_check (off by default).
Depending on the client YMMV, get one that does
1 bad checksum might be a bit to early to ban. IIRC Azureus' will ban it something like 4 bad chunks are received.
History if full of non-unique innovations, take http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press or a little more recent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_the_tele phone
Todays hispeed communication kinda makes it harder to be completely unaware of other developments in your field of science, but I seem to remember there have been recent Nobel Prize awards to non unique innovations (to lame to do a search).
You have to put those numbers relative to the total population.
You can add up the numbers of death by conflict in the 20th century and might surpass the total number in the previous history of mankind. Yet it didn't have much of an impact on the total population which in the year 2000 was about 6 times the number in 1900.
Killing a few thousand in the centuries before had just the same or bigger impact I guess.
"This isn't really a (significant) security hole. It doesn't do anything that I couldn't do by telnetting to port 80, which could easily be done with Java."
The secunia advisory mentions the possibility of arbitrary http requests, that is not something you can do with Java running in the context of a browser (aka applet). The java security manager will only allow httprequests to the host where the applet was downloaded from (unless it's a signed applet, which has the same access rights as the context the browsers itself is running in (but that requires at least a one time user interaction))
"me singing the song?"
The song Yesterday as is _THE_ song Yesterday by the Beatles?
If it is the one by the Beatles you did get permission to distribute your version of Yesterday from mr. Jackson, didn't you?
"Authors can opt-out if they want to."
I've been copying IP and sharing little pieces with others since I installed a bittorrent client. The owners seem to agree since I never got an optout request.
Your trash man analogy is false: they are not making money by disposing of your trash.
Now if it was suddenly possible to make money by eg converting garbage to energy I surely would like to be compensated for the energy I had to put into the garbage in the first place.
It may all depend on the browser, for some reason firefox is extremly slow in starting a JVM, also the whole browsers is unusable during the startup. On the other hand mozilla is much faster even though they both use the exact same plugin!