I don't quite get why everyone is so up in arms over this. The solution is just so damned simple. Do not do anything that involves other people. You don't want your time to be wasted? Don't submit links to any search engine, usenet post, cddb, etc. Then there is nothing from the sweat of your brow for them to make money off of.
Sure, I eventually look up there. But doesn't it just make more sense to include it right on the line everywhere else. It's probably some function, as it appears the same on stories, posts, etc. Is it too much to ask?
Never, ever underestimate the power lawyers think they have. If foreign countries host sites with copywritten material, we'll just have lawyers suing ISPs for routing traffic from them. After all, if people knew the words to songs, they might just go sing them themselves. Then where would this world be? It cannot happen, except from licensed karaoke dealers.
I have no problem getting to the site, it's IP resolves to 195.7.186.68, but this lyrics site is a virtual host, so it's pointless unless you want to telnet to port 80 and give a Host: command in the HTTP request.
Yes, but it is the complacency that Slashdot exhibits which will cause everyone to forget the lessons we learned with that episode. There hasn't been a single Katz or emmett article on this subject. I take this to mean that Slashdot condones such acts by the government. We must fight the tieranny!
Can we truely blame poor timmy? He's new 'round these parts. It's just sad that we can recall from memory stories which posters cannot even do a search for. There's what, about 43 official posters now? Sure they have to do a lot of "Update Submissions set flag=declined where now()-date (60*60*24)" queries several times a day. But it is a lot of work to come up with six or seven articles every day. You have quotas to meet, deadlines on deeply philosophical tirades on Columbine and how the government spies on ya and the latest boycott that no one observes. The people 'round here have been taking themselves much to seriously when a "monkies for a nickel" or Natalie Portman post is the highlight of all the messages.
Yeah, they need better articles like the decline in popularity of Pokemon and the impact on our nation's next generation of geeks and how the government used the Pokemon toys/cartoons to subliminally brainwash everyone.
What's fun is to submit some really useful stuff and watch it get declined. For instance, I've been trying to get a dual-headed display working in Linux. I search the archives (something most submitters neglect to do) and found a story on this very topic. The thing is, it's about two years old, by my estimate. (Speaking of which, why don't they put a year on all this stuff? Slashdot's been around for many years, it would be useful.) This is easily something that would interest many with the advances since then, XFree86 4, xinerama, G400 dual cards, etc. What happens? It's declined in favor of "How do I make a web page?" "What language should I speak on the Internet?" or other similarly useful questions which come up every three months.
It used to be that I could spend hours from my workday pouring over interesting news and participating in discussions. Now it's all Furby and Protest redundants. It's denegrated to the point where this is a check-in-once-in-a-while sorta site, just like everything else. I blame it on Columbine. It's like a TV sitcom. It's all well and good until they attempt that "very special" show about awareness for {drugs, teen drinking, cancer, homosexuality, three-toed sloths, etc}. The fame gets to ya and you start to think you're terribly insightful and can make a difference, or something.:)
Soldering is not difficult once you've a few hours practice and someone to teach you.
It's not even that complicated. I taught myself basically. With the modchips, I just sort of tapped the solder points on the board until they were softened up, then touch the wire and voila, it hardens up. I accomplished it with merely being gentle on a handful of playstations. The trickier part is prying the cables out of their sockets without breaking...
All this hullabaloo over MP3s makes me glad I don't give a hoot about music. Go ahead, ask me to name the people or any song from the Back Street Boys or Limp Bizkit. I don't have any idea. But considering how people 'round here are so quick to throw the boycott threat around for patents, domain bullying, etc, why has no one called for a boycott of all these mainstream music groups that align with RIAA? If Alan Cox went and joined Microsoft, would we still love him?
Those who join evil entities like this become just as evil. So if Brittney or Metalica wish to have the "protection" of the RIAA, then they can sign away the entire MP3 community. I gather there are quite a lot of MP3 lovers, so a good boycott could register in their pocketbooks over time. Then maybe you can have more independent musicians getting popular from all this.
Want to see something funny on eBay? Do a search for "Elian". Now, I can understand eBay yanking the couple of entries for Elian himself. But what I don't quite understand is the removal of all the ones mentioning Clinton, Reno, etc also. Last night I did find one cute thing, someone has pasted Clinton/Reno's head onto some of the famous pictures and put them into a button. Clinton with the gun pointed at the kid, and Reno carrying him into the van. Those seem like just cute political pins. Now why would eBay be in such a rush to kill those auctions?
Yes. To the general population, rebooting has become a "natural" process for using a computer. It cleans out the memory and stuff. It's sad, but not uncommon for people to just spontaneously reboot their PC at work prior to going on a smoke/coffee/lunch break. They know that if they don't, it is bound to crap out a couple times a day. One software company has convinced the populous that they are innovative and the source of inspiration, while at the same time teaching them that PCs are horribly fallible.
What PDAs do have SDK's available in Linux? I saw something like a port of Palm's SDK to allow one to use it with GNU tools on Windows. That's a step in the right direction, I just don't want to use Windows, GNU tools or not.:)
So they give you no guarantee of privacy. My cable company (MediaOne) has a little tv guide thing in the cable box. It downloads when I turn my box off via the coax. I get no guarantee with them either.
On the other hand, Tivo does give such a guarantee. Go figure...
Yeah. The minute Tivo puts out a How-to-do-it-yourself HOWTO, some yocal will attempt it, fry his hard drives (and his entire house) and blame Tivo. Face it, consumer electronics are not meant to be opened. You can't replace the CD or DVD in one of them. You can't add extra tuners to your TV. Well, the manufacturers for any such device won't tell you how to at least for this very reason. Morons are lawsuit happy nowadays.
Now if someone manages to figure it all out, fine. But it's left in this hacker community. Morons can try to sue Joe Hacker for making a web page about it, but chances are he doesn't have much money. Big companies like Phillips on the other hand, have lots of money, so people are perfectly content extorting them. It just will never be sanctioned by the manufacturers. And Tivo only makes the software, it's Phillips' and Sony's job to put together the hardware.
Now, just sit back and watch all the nice recordings...
Preach on Brother Attarac. You mean Slashdot authors aren't deities of all things geekish??
This place is a hotbed for this sort of stuff. Sure no one reads that Tivo (I presume ReplayTV has a similar one, I just don't care enough to look for it right now) has a privacy statement and all. But as long as a conspiracy can exist, it will here. I just find it odd that in the Area51 article, most people say basically aliens don't exist anyway. But here, everything is "They could track you" and "When there's a phone line they are tracking you." One I liked was that doubleclick broke their privacy statement, therefore all statements are crap. Heck, if that's the rules, all domains should cost $100,000 because that.TV TLD charges that much. Heck, there's more testimonials and camcorder tape of suspect alien activity than there are of halfway-valid report on Tivo breaking their privacy statement.
Anyway, Slashdotters as a whole will always be knee-jerk reactionists. Hell, does anyone look at the articles anymore? I mean, the ones that live long enough to be viewed. It's all "such-and-such could happen theoretically, so to hell with this company."
The software on the 30hr unit is different from the 14hr one. The closest I have read of someone doing a home upgrade was on avsforum.com's tivo forum. Someone managed to use another disk copy program (ghost failed for him) to copy the two drives in the 30hr unit to his 14hr first drive and an ordinary IDE second drive. The catch in all this is that the space is still just 30 hours, if you use a larger drive, it only writes up to the size of the original. So, since you must have an existing 30hr unit to copy from and until someone breaks open the filesystem code (I read it wasn't in the kernel mods, and handled by a userland program so they could use patented algorithms and such), it's pointless.
Btw, this mounth both Philips and Sony have been releasing 30 hours units for the price of the old 14hr ones ($399ish).
The small size is nice, but am I the only one having trouble with it? Dialog boxes pop up with nothing inside them. Other ones come up looking odd, no scoll bars or something. I have to move them around a bit to get them to repaint. I open an image (after figuring out it only dose jpeg), and the image is only painted half of the height. Another move and repaint required. I go to another desktop where I'm typing this, type the above. When I go back, the toolbar and option bars are blank. Move, repaint. I play with the effects on the toolbar, it seems to work nicely. I close the image, a blank dialog comes up. Move, repaint. Oh, it's a "are you sure you want to quit" thing. Click ok. I go to the File menu to quit the program. What's this? The menu items highlight one below where the mouse is. Ok, I select About with the mouse so it highlights Quit, click the mouse. Again a blank dialog. I take a wild guess that it's the same quit dialog, click the area the OK button was in, it quits.
It's nice that it's small and only uses the standard X libraries. But I'm not fully convinced I'd want to buy the real thing if this is how it behaves... The Gimp UI is strange, but I can see all the little widgets.:)
LinuxToday has a little piece by ESR where he acknowledges that it's not really a backdoor as ZD and the experts who found it said. But the point of his original article still stands, security through obscurity doesn't work.
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Back when people first started mixing up paper, they didn't expect what you see today. Let's take a look at what paper books have done for society.
1 - Burnings. From the libraries of Alexandria to other places, books have led to fire. Pure and simple, books destroy, even kill.
2 - Murderers read books. Lee Harvey Oswald, John Wayne Gacy, the Columbine boys. What do they have in common? You guessed it, they read paper books. I don't need to comment further, the evidence is clear.
3 - They weigh a lot. You ever have to lift a box of those things when moving? Let me tell you, it's not pretty and leads to back damage.
4 - They're hurting our children. Our children are forced to read such things as "Go, Dick, go." What do they do after this? That's right, they go. They go right out to the street and get hit by a car. Youths are very impressionable, they should not be subjected to these sick bastards' writings.
The only way to clean up this mess is to take a page from MPAA's book. First, only authorized companies that give me plenty of money can be allowed to display words. Only when word displaying mechanisms are policed can this violence cease. Second, only designated regions may view the words I decide. We can't have people pirating works all over the universe. Region codes are a necessity. Any word displaying mechanisms which implement secret backdoors to get around this shall be burned at the stake. Copyrights are a valuable thing, perhaps the most important thing we as a society have. We cannot have people reading things that they were not meant to read.
This abuses that the printing press has brought upon this society are numerous. We should hunt down any remaining descendants of the press and ensure they do no further harm to our way of life. Only after we have these provisions in place can author's works be truely realized. When people go around "sharing" their books they only hurt the authors. The word industry lost $500 trillion dollars last year alone due to unauthorized viewing of their works. If things keep up at the existing rates, there will be no authors in six months. I am only suggesting this for the good of all mankind.
Thank you, and read carefully. You are being watched.
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Day trading is a tough business. With $8-10 fees per transaction, someone doing modest trading, say ten per day, 300 days a year (easier math:)), that's $24-30,000 in fees alone. It's not impossible, but certainly very tough just to break even. If you have a few hundred thousand to gamble like this, just go buy yourself a nice car and go pick up chics, rather than taking your losses out with a gun on the day trading outfits (that Atlanta nutcase). Is the exhiliration of one good enough worth the depression of all the bad days?
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I don't quite get why everyone is so up in arms over this. The solution is just so damned simple. Do not do anything that involves other people. You don't want your time to be wasted? Don't submit links to any search engine, usenet post, cddb, etc. Then there is nothing from the sweat of your brow for them to make money off of.
To get to a virtual host though, you have to do this it like this:
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
Host: virtualhost.com
Or GET, etc, etc.
Sure, I eventually look up there. But doesn't it just make more sense to include it right on the line everywhere else. It's probably some function, as it appears the same on stories, posts, etc. Is it too much to ask?
Never, ever underestimate the power lawyers think they have. If foreign countries host sites with copywritten material, we'll just have lawyers suing ISPs for routing traffic from them. After all, if people knew the words to songs, they might just go sing them themselves. Then where would this world be? It cannot happen, except from licensed karaoke dealers.
I have no problem getting to the site, it's IP resolves to 195.7.186.68, but this lyrics site is a virtual host, so it's pointless unless you want to telnet to port 80 and give a Host: command in the HTTP request.
Yes, but it is the complacency that Slashdot exhibits which will cause everyone to forget the lessons we learned with that episode. There hasn't been a single Katz or emmett article on this subject. I take this to mean that Slashdot condones such acts by the government. We must fight the tieranny!
Yeah, why can't the repeat a useful story, like the Furby prostitutes.
Can we truely blame poor timmy? He's new 'round these parts. It's just sad that we can recall from memory stories which posters cannot even do a search for. There's what, about 43 official posters now? Sure they have to do a lot of "Update Submissions set flag=declined where now()-date (60*60*24)" queries several times a day. But it is a lot of work to come up with six or seven articles every day. You have quotas to meet, deadlines on deeply philosophical tirades on Columbine and how the government spies on ya and the latest boycott that no one observes. The people 'round here have been taking themselves much to seriously when a "monkies for a nickel" or Natalie Portman post is the highlight of all the messages.
Yeah, they need better articles like the decline in popularity of Pokemon and the impact on our nation's next generation of geeks and how the government used the Pokemon toys/cartoons to subliminally brainwash everyone.
What's fun is to submit some really useful stuff and watch it get declined. For instance, I've been trying to get a dual-headed display working in Linux. I search the archives (something most submitters neglect to do) and found a story on this very topic. The thing is, it's about two years old, by my estimate. (Speaking of which, why don't they put a year on all this stuff? Slashdot's been around for many years, it would be useful.) This is easily something that would interest many with the advances since then, XFree86 4, xinerama, G400 dual cards, etc. What happens? It's declined in favor of "How do I make a web page?" "What language should I speak on the Internet?" or other similarly useful questions which come up every three months.
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It used to be that I could spend hours from my workday pouring over interesting news and participating in discussions. Now it's all Furby and Protest redundants. It's denegrated to the point where this is a check-in-once-in-a-while sorta site, just like everything else. I blame it on Columbine. It's like a TV sitcom. It's all well and good until they attempt that "very special" show about awareness for {drugs, teen drinking, cancer, homosexuality, three-toed sloths, etc}. The fame gets to ya and you start to think you're terribly insightful and can make a difference, or something.
Soldering is not difficult once you've a few hours practice and someone to teach you.
It's not even that complicated. I taught myself basically. With the modchips, I just sort of tapped the solder points on the board until they were softened up, then touch the wire and voila, it hardens up. I accomplished it with merely being gentle on a handful of playstations. The trickier part is prying the cables out of their sockets without breaking...
All this hullabaloo over MP3s makes me glad I don't give a hoot about music. Go ahead, ask me to name the people or any song from the Back Street Boys or Limp Bizkit. I don't have any idea. But considering how people 'round here are so quick to throw the boycott threat around for patents, domain bullying, etc, why has no one called for a boycott of all these mainstream music groups that align with RIAA? If Alan Cox went and joined Microsoft, would we still love him?
Those who join evil entities like this become just as evil. So if Brittney or Metalica wish to have the "protection" of the RIAA, then they can sign away the entire MP3 community. I gather there are quite a lot of MP3 lovers, so a good boycott could register in their pocketbooks over time. Then maybe you can have more independent musicians getting popular from all this.
Want to see something funny on eBay? Do a search for "Elian". Now, I can understand eBay yanking the couple of entries for Elian himself. But what I don't quite understand is the removal of all the ones mentioning Clinton, Reno, etc also. Last night I did find one cute thing, someone has pasted Clinton/Reno's head onto some of the famous pictures and put them into a button. Clinton with the gun pointed at the kid, and Reno carrying him into the van. Those seem like just cute political pins. Now why would eBay be in such a rush to kill those auctions?
Yes. To the general population, rebooting has become a "natural" process for using a computer. It cleans out the memory and stuff. It's sad, but not uncommon for people to just spontaneously reboot their PC at work prior to going on a smoke/coffee/lunch break. They know that if they don't, it is bound to crap out a couple times a day. One software company has convinced the populous that they are innovative and the source of inspiration, while at the same time teaching them that PCs are horribly fallible.
What PDAs do have SDK's available in Linux? I saw something like a port of Palm's SDK to allow one to use it with GNU tools on Windows. That's a step in the right direction, I just don't want to use Windows, GNU tools or not. :)
Me: Jeeves, can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of yourself?
Jeeves: 10 matches by About.com, Why bother with beowulf? - Medieval History.
There you have it. Why bother?
There is no "Big Brother" in your ReplayTV.
... but there could be. What more does one need to go on rants about privacy here?
So they give you no guarantee of privacy. My cable company (MediaOne) has a little tv guide thing in the cable box. It downloads when I turn my box off via the coax. I get no guarantee with them either.
On the other hand, Tivo does give such a guarantee. Go figure...
Ah, but you forget, it could be done secretly behind your back. That is what drives people here, the possbilities... Could, does, same thing.
Yeah. The minute Tivo puts out a How-to-do-it-yourself HOWTO, some yocal will attempt it, fry his hard drives (and his entire house) and blame Tivo. Face it, consumer electronics are not meant to be opened. You can't replace the CD or DVD in one of them. You can't add extra tuners to your TV. Well, the manufacturers for any such device won't tell you how to at least for this very reason. Morons are lawsuit happy nowadays.
Now if someone manages to figure it all out, fine. But it's left in this hacker community. Morons can try to sue Joe Hacker for making a web page about it, but chances are he doesn't have much money. Big companies like Phillips on the other hand, have lots of money, so people are perfectly content extorting them. It just will never be sanctioned by the manufacturers. And Tivo only makes the software, it's Phillips' and Sony's job to put together the hardware.
Now, just sit back and watch all the nice recordings...
Preach on Brother Attarac. You mean Slashdot authors aren't deities of all things geekish??
.TV TLD charges that much. Heck, there's more testimonials and camcorder tape of suspect alien activity than there are of halfway-valid report on Tivo breaking their privacy statement.
This place is a hotbed for this sort of stuff. Sure no one reads that Tivo (I presume ReplayTV has a similar one, I just don't care enough to look for it right now) has a privacy statement and all. But as long as a conspiracy can exist, it will here. I just find it odd that in the Area51 article, most people say basically aliens don't exist anyway. But here, everything is "They could track you" and "When there's a phone line they are tracking you." One I liked was that doubleclick broke their privacy statement, therefore all statements are crap. Heck, if that's the rules, all domains should cost $100,000 because that
Anyway, Slashdotters as a whole will always be knee-jerk reactionists. Hell, does anyone look at the articles anymore? I mean, the ones that live long enough to be viewed. It's all "such-and-such could happen theoretically, so to hell with this company."
The software on the 30hr unit is different from the 14hr one. The closest I have read of someone doing a home upgrade was on avsforum.com's tivo forum. Someone managed to use another disk copy program (ghost failed for him) to copy the two drives in the 30hr unit to his 14hr first drive and an ordinary IDE second drive. The catch in all this is that the space is still just 30 hours, if you use a larger drive, it only writes up to the size of the original. So, since you must have an existing 30hr unit to copy from and until someone breaks open the filesystem code (I read it wasn't in the kernel mods, and handled by a userland program so they could use patented algorithms and such), it's pointless.
Btw, this mounth both Philips and Sony have been releasing 30 hours units for the price of the old 14hr ones ($399ish).
The small size is nice, but am I the only one having trouble with it? Dialog boxes pop up with nothing inside them. Other ones come up looking odd, no scoll bars or something. I have to move them around a bit to get them to repaint. I open an image (after figuring out it only dose jpeg), and the image is only painted half of the height. Another move and repaint required. I go to another desktop where I'm typing this, type the above. When I go back, the toolbar and option bars are blank. Move, repaint. I play with the effects on the toolbar, it seems to work nicely. I close the image, a blank dialog comes up. Move, repaint. Oh, it's a "are you sure you want to quit" thing. Click ok. I go to the File menu to quit the program. What's this? The menu items highlight one below where the mouse is. Ok, I select About with the mouse so it highlights Quit, click the mouse. Again a blank dialog. I take a wild guess that it's the same quit dialog, click the area the OK button was in, it quits.
:)
It's nice that it's small and only uses the standard X libraries. But I'm not fully convinced I'd want to buy the real thing if this is how it behaves... The Gimp UI is strange, but I can see all the little widgets.
LinuxToday has a little piece by ESR where he acknowledges that it's not really a backdoor as ZD and the experts who found it said. But the point of his original article still stands, security through obscurity doesn't work.
Back when people first started mixing up paper, they didn't expect what you see today. Let's take a look at what paper books have done for society.
1 - Burnings. From the libraries of Alexandria to other places, books have led to fire. Pure and simple, books destroy, even kill.
2 - Murderers read books. Lee Harvey Oswald, John Wayne Gacy, the Columbine boys. What do they have in common? You guessed it, they read paper books. I don't need to comment further, the evidence is clear.
3 - They weigh a lot. You ever have to lift a box of those things when moving? Let me tell you, it's not pretty and leads to back damage.
4 - They're hurting our children. Our children are forced to read such things as "Go, Dick, go." What do they do after this? That's right, they go. They go right out to the street and get hit by a car. Youths are very impressionable, they should not be subjected to these sick bastards' writings.
The only way to clean up this mess is to take a page from MPAA's book. First, only authorized companies that give me plenty of money can be allowed to display words. Only when word displaying mechanisms are policed can this violence cease. Second, only designated regions may view the words I decide. We can't have people pirating works all over the universe. Region codes are a necessity. Any word displaying mechanisms which implement secret backdoors to get around this shall be burned at the stake. Copyrights are a valuable thing, perhaps the most important thing we as a society have. We cannot have people reading things that they were not meant to read.
This abuses that the printing press has brought upon this society are numerous. We should hunt down any remaining descendants of the press and ensure they do no further harm to our way of life. Only after we have these provisions in place can author's works be truely realized. When people go around "sharing" their books they only hurt the authors. The word industry lost $500 trillion dollars last year alone due to unauthorized viewing of their works. If things keep up at the existing rates, there will be no authors in six months. I am only suggesting this for the good of all mankind.
Thank you, and read carefully. You are being watched.
Day trading is a tough business. With $8-10 fees per transaction, someone doing modest trading, say ten per day, 300 days a year (easier math :)), that's $24-30,000 in fees alone. It's not impossible, but certainly very tough just to break even. If you have a few hundred thousand to gamble like this, just go buy yourself a nice car and go pick up chics, rather than taking your losses out with a gun on the day trading outfits (that Atlanta nutcase). Is the exhiliration of one good enough worth the depression of all the bad days?