I'll second that... I'm putting together a myth box now, and a bit of good hardware planning goes a long way.
A mid-low end processor, decent disk, dvd-rom, and a Hauppage WinTV PVR 350 is the way to go, and the easiest to set up.
I actually started downloading KnopMyth a few hours ago, before this article showed up, to try it out.
I'm using a Wintv-GO and a GF4 tv-out.... one problm I'm having with mythtv is that when I go to watch live tv, I get buzz on the peakers, and blank video (but video works fine in xawtv.. and yes, the capture card settings are correct, it is NOt set to do hardware empeg...)
Responsilibity? what, someone to sue? HOW does that help?
If things go down, it doesn't matter if we have someone to point a finger at, or someone to take responsibility...it is an engineering problem, as long as we can find cause we can take steps to ensure the problem does not repeat.
Having someone be responsible for a mess doesn't make anything okay... putting enron execs in prison does not get back taxpayer money, or in any way solve the energy problems of california.
Sanctions against a root server operator will not make his root server more stable.
- Who issues the certificates? This is a HUGE issue, and would create an instant nasty market. Think verisign.
- PKI infrastructres don't scale to millions of users very well.
- The esign legislation does not mean anything electronically signed is binding.... it just means that a signature cannot be discounted simply becuase it is electronic. That is a subtle, but important distinction.
Except the email system is not the USPS, and isn't one organisation to beheld accountable, and you didn't pay me to let my mail server handle your mail. The only people you have a rigth to expect anything from are tho you are paying, like your ISP.
It's my mail server, and if I choose to let it only accept email with signatures from 8 companies, including my own, and even then the mails must be written in strict haiku, and the signature must praise me as your great leader, that's my choice.
The idea is to detect the likely presence of stego.. not to decode it, tha's an entirely different thing.
Analyzing a jpg or png to staistically determine if it's "clean" or has a message in it is not all that difficult. Decoding that message is a totally unrelated feat.. more likely reserved for cryptographers.
All of those towns are "close" to the american border when compared with Canada.
By close, we mean that they aren't, say, anywher near the NWT border, or anywher near the Yukon.
This has nothing to do with alaska.. the point is, if you are going to compare population density, you can't just take the area of canada / population, it's meaningless. as most of our population IS in a 100km strip across the country.
True enough. When I was thinking "neighbor" I was specifically thinking of my neighbors, who are even entrusted with keys to the house, and who have lived next to me since I was a wee lad.
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Lexis-Nexis costs money. NYT has to pay for that access. Administrator time costs money.
I wouldn't be in his shoes; I would be smart enough not to cross the line between checking out their security and racking up bills with other online services in their name. I also wouldn't be adding stuff to the corporate databases.
So if you catch some kids in your house, just snooping around, but not stealing anything (they ate a few of your cookies though, and watched one or two Pay-per-view movies), and they came in through a window while you were on vacation.. it's okay because they are "Just kids, just exploring?"
The neighbor who checks your front door, finds it unlocked, knows you are on vactaion, so he locks it for you and slides a note under the door, he's being nice. That's a totally different story than a stranger wandering around your shit.
All the conspiracy theorists are free to go grab the actual software that nasa scientists use to browse mission data... and get the full resolution un-corrected raw image data to boot, including some very nifty positional tracking stuff (tag a rock in one image, have it indicated on others) etc. 3d views, etc.
Notice the images are not all color corrected and pretty, and don't really make you think "wow mars!"
Most people have heard of "card counting" with regards to blackjack but have never looked into it... they have vague notions that those who do it are human calculators or supercomputers. Now.. certainly there is some room for that.. and I'm sure such people exist, however...
The most common card counting techniques are extremely easy to use, all the require is a bit of practice so you can keep up to speed. Nevermind a pitboss, a good dealer will keep a count, and watch the bets being played.
The problem with team play such as this is that you still have to have big swings... it doesn't really matter who is doing the actual counting. Spread it around a few players who play standard strategy, and spread out the swings, sure.. but now you are into a lot of manhours, for a small return.
I'm not saying they didn't colorize the images for good public perception... however.
How do you think they should do it? Without a fair bit of calibaration by a home user, the colors involved will be wrong anyway... why not pick something that gets the point across?
Anyone who wants can get the actual RAW data from the project anyway, and work on it themselves, if they are concerned with accuracy.
I think that may be the most cleverly planted troll ever.. or just coincidence.
Virii is not the plural of virus.... as has been discussed to death already.
However, if there WERE a word, (there isn't) in latin that pluraized to "virii", it would be "virius"... so in a strange sense, your spelling is technically correct.
Fair enough, if you don't have the budget, it's not for you.
A mac is like a top of the line luxury sports car.. it just works, it's convenient, and it costs a lot of money. Many think it's not worth the money, or that they would spend their money better on something else, but nobody doubts it's wonderful egineering, beauty, and speed.
A good linux or windows box is like something off Fast & Furious... it's Rice. Yes, it's fast, Yes, it works, on pure numbers and performance, it's there, even surpassing the luxury sports car... It's not, however, a luxury sports car, and requires more effort and work to use.
Now, that effort and work may be something you enjoy doing. Great.
I think of my mac as my luxury computer. It's not he fastest computer I own, nor the smallest, nor the most expensive...but if I have to pick one to sit down in front of and do work... that's where I'll go.
But if you calculte the schwartzchild (sp?) radius of the known observable universe, you get... the radius of the known observable universe. At least, I read that somewhere.
So to some observers, the universe IS a black hole already.
Right, and he could also be laundering money for colombian drug lords.... or the russian mob, or running a prostitution ring out of Salt Lake City....
But unless you have some way to actually back up what you are saying.. it's all just absolute fantasy.
If he were doing that, especially in something this public, he would be risking personal financial ruin and prison time... despite what you all may think, do you think Darl is a stupid retard who doesn't know how things work?
Like SCO.... to come now and say code was stolen and put in... look...
It's out in the open. Everyone can see what's there, and figure out where it came from. You don't need to subpoena Linus to get at the code and see for yourself.
If some unscrupulous developer put code he should not have in the linux kernel, well, how can you hold the kernel to blame? point out what it is, and the situation will be remedied, and put the blame where it belongs, on the person who did the deed.
The situation with closed-source is the same: As a development company, you have no way of knowing if one of your staff stole code from somewhere else and put it in a produt. If it turns out he did, you work with the copyright holder to make it right... depending on what it was, how valuable it was, and how the action affected the original holder's business.
In this case, SCO is trying to say that becuase their "unix secrets" were released, their business was irreprably harmed, and cannot be fixed, so linux owes them everything.
As anyone who has ever dealt with SCO knows, it was always garbage, is still garbage, and everything they bought the rights to is available publicly in the library or university bookstore, so it's far from secret.
Furthermore, the things they are sort of claiming to have the rights over, though somewhat important, would not be enough to make or break linux... so regardless, even if we lived in a parallel dimension and SCO actually had a valid claim, the remedy would be little more than removing the offending code, especially if no willful intent was proven.
No. Again, you are not violating it's terms. You can only violate something you agreed to in the first place.
Maybe this will clear it up.
Say I write some software, from scratch. I distribute said source, and in the archive are five licenses to choose from. GPL, and five others, all with varying terms. None are USE licenses.
Now, you use my product in your own product, without my permission, and don't appear to be following the conditions I set out in any of my licenses...
Now tell me, which license did you violate?
None, you violated copyright law, by doing something without a license to do so.
I'm not sure how else to explain it. You are violating copyright law, not "violating the GPL". You cannot violate something you did not necessarily agree to.
I mean, of course it's a marketing ploy. It's also a direction to go for the future. At some point we want 64 bit chips, right? and some day, we will want 128 bit chips, right? and so on.. gotta change some time.
Second.. if you look at the benchmarks on amd-64 chips, you'll find that 1.8Ghz amd64 chips are equalling 3Ghz P4 chips, and that's on standard 32 bit code. Of course, that has nothing to do with being 64 bit, but with being re-architected.
The focus on 64 bit is markting one, for sure... but if you simply look at it as a more capable, better architected chip.... it makes sense.
If those artists aren't making money off the label, by all means, they can give up the nice cars, big houses, first-class plane rides, and expensive booze, and live a normal life.
Yes, we all know record companies make insane profits.... do you think Courtney Love would have been as popular as she did if she was just independenat from the start? Nope.. she was made by a record label.
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I'll second that... I'm putting together a myth box now, and a bit of good hardware planning goes a long way.
A mid-low end processor, decent disk, dvd-rom, and a Hauppage WinTV PVR 350 is the way to go, and the easiest to set up.
I actually started downloading KnopMyth a few hours ago, before this article showed up, to try it out.
I'm using a Wintv-GO and a GF4 tv-out.... one problm I'm having with mythtv is that when I go to watch live tv, I get buzz on the peakers, and blank video (but video works fine in xawtv.. and yes, the capture card settings are correct, it is NOt set to do hardware empeg...)
Responsilibity? what, someone to sue? HOW does that help?
If things go down, it doesn't matter if we have someone to point a finger at, or someone to take responsibility...it is an engineering problem, as long as we can find cause we can take steps to ensure the problem does not repeat.
Having someone be responsible for a mess doesn't make anything okay... putting enron execs in prison does not get back taxpayer money, or in any way solve the energy problems of california.
Sanctions against a root server operator will not make his root server more stable.
Not really.. it must be primarily a circumvention device, something a software DVD player can hardly be considered.
In other words, it does the exact same thing any OTHER DVD player does... the same way, so if it's circumvention device, so is any other dvd player.
The original issue was the publishing of the DeCSS code.
I still thik if the original publishing of the code had been in the form of a fully working player, there would have been no case in the first place.
- Who issues the certificates? This is a HUGE issue, and would create an instant nasty market. Think verisign.
- PKI infrastructres don't scale to millions of users very well.
- The esign legislation does not mean anything electronically signed is binding.... it just means that a signature cannot be discounted simply becuase it is electronic. That is a subtle, but important distinction.
Except the email system is not the USPS, and isn't one organisation to beheld accountable, and you didn't pay me to let my mail server handle your mail. The only people you have a rigth to expect anything from are tho you are paying, like your ISP.
It's my mail server, and if I choose to let it only accept email with signatures from 8 companies, including my own, and even then the mails must be written in strict haiku, and the signature must praise me as your great leader, that's my choice.
You mean, the same things in different countries have different prices?
What a stunning observation.
Canada is not the US. You will find a great many things where prices are not the same, some higher, some lower, sometimes by a lot either way.
The idea is to detect the likely presence of stego.. not to decode it, tha's an entirely different thing.
Analyzing a jpg or png to staistically determine if it's "clean" or has a message in it is not all that difficult. Decoding that message is a totally unrelated feat.. more likely reserved for cryptographers.
All of those towns are "close" to the american border when compared with Canada.
By close, we mean that they aren't, say, anywher near the NWT border, or anywher near the Yukon.
This has nothing to do with alaska.. the point is, if you are going to compare population density, you can't just take the area of canada / population, it's meaningless. as most of our population IS in a 100km strip across the country.
True enough. When I was thinking "neighbor" I was specifically thinking of my neighbors, who are even entrusted with keys to the house, and who have lived next to me since I was a wee lad.
Lexis-Nexis costs money. NYT has to pay for that access. Administrator time costs money.
I wouldn't be in his shoes; I would be smart enough not to cross the line between checking out their security and racking up bills with other online services in their name. I also wouldn't be adding stuff to the corporate databases.
So if you catch some kids in your house, just snooping around, but not stealing anything (they ate a few of your cookies though, and watched one or two Pay-per-view movies), and they came in through a window while you were on vacation.. it's okay because they are "Just kids, just exploring?"
The neighbor who checks your front door, finds it unlocked, knows you are on vactaion, so he locks it for you and slides a note under the door, he's being nice. That's a totally different story than a stranger wandering around your shit.
All the conspiracy theorists are free to go grab the actual software that nasa scientists use to browse mission data... and get the full resolution un-corrected raw image data to boot, including some very nifty positional tracking stuff (tag a rock in one image, have it indicated on others) etc. 3d views, etc. Notice the images are not all color corrected and pretty, and don't really make you think "wow mars!"
Most people think card counting is difficult.
Most people have heard of "card counting" with regards to blackjack but have never looked into it... they have vague notions that those who do it are human calculators or supercomputers. Now.. certainly there is some room for that.. and I'm sure such people exist, however...
The most common card counting techniques are extremely easy to use, all the require is a bit of practice so you can keep up to speed. Nevermind a pitboss, a good dealer will keep a count, and watch the bets being played.
The problem with team play such as this is that you still have to have big swings... it doesn't really matter who is doing the actual counting. Spread it around a few players who play standard strategy, and spread out the swings, sure.. but now you are into a lot of manhours, for a small return.
On the nature of color and all that.
I'm not saying they didn't colorize the images for good public perception... however.
How do you think they should do it? Without a fair bit of calibaration by a home user, the colors involved will be wrong anyway... why not pick something that gets the point across?
Anyone who wants can get the actual RAW data from the project anyway, and work on it themselves, if they are concerned with accuracy.
I think that may be the most cleverly planted troll ever.. or just coincidence.
Virii is not the plural of virus.... as has been discussed to death already.
However, if there WERE a word, (there isn't) in latin that pluraized to "virii", it would be "virius"... so in a strange sense, your spelling is technically correct.
Because it's dead easy to do your own? Because I don't want or need email services from my ISP? I just want an internet connection?
Because ISP mail servers often impose limits I'd rather not deal with?
Or they could have called it a web bug.
Embed IMG tag in email.
Server serving the image reports when and where it was fetched from.
Carnivore at work? More like one of the oldest tricks in the book.
If the sender is smart enough to use foreign proxies, or disables html mail, they are just fine.
Fair enough, if you don't have the budget, it's not for you.
.but if I have to pick one to sit down in front of and do work... that's where I'll go.
A mac is like a top of the line luxury sports car.. it just works, it's convenient, and it costs a lot of money. Many think it's not worth the money, or that they would spend their money better on something else, but nobody doubts it's wonderful egineering, beauty, and speed.
A good linux or windows box is like something off Fast & Furious... it's Rice. Yes, it's fast, Yes, it works, on pure numbers and performance, it's there, even surpassing the luxury sports car... It's not, however, a luxury sports car, and requires more effort and work to use.
Now, that effort and work may be something you enjoy doing. Great.
I think of my mac as my luxury computer. It's not he fastest computer I own, nor the smallest, nor the most expensive..
But if you calculte the schwartzchild (sp?) radius of the known observable universe, you get... the radius of the known observable universe. At least, I read that somewhere.
So to some observers, the universe IS a black hole already.
Knee jerk? You mean like what the US is doing?
Illegal immigrants? What does that have to do with terrorism, because that's the excuse used to justify all this shit.
Right, and he could also be laundering money for colombian drug lords.... or the russian mob, or running a prostitution ring out of Salt Lake City....
But unless you have some way to actually back up what you are saying.. it's all just absolute fantasy.
If he were doing that, especially in something this public, he would be risking personal financial ruin and prison time... despite what you all may think, do you think Darl is a stupid retard who doesn't know how things work?
True.
But the openness works in our favor.
Like SCO.... to come now and say code was stolen and put in... look...
It's out in the open. Everyone can see what's there, and figure out where it came from. You don't need to subpoena Linus to get at the code and see for yourself.
If some unscrupulous developer put code he should not have in the linux kernel, well, how can you hold the kernel to blame? point out what it is, and the situation will be remedied, and put the blame where it belongs, on the person who did the deed.
The situation with closed-source is the same: As a development company, you have no way of knowing if one of your staff stole code from somewhere else and put it in a produt. If it turns out he did, you work with the copyright holder to make it right... depending on what it was, how valuable it was, and how the action affected the original holder's business.
In this case, SCO is trying to say that becuase their "unix secrets" were released, their business was irreprably harmed, and cannot be fixed, so linux owes them everything.
As anyone who has ever dealt with SCO knows, it was always garbage, is still garbage, and everything they bought the rights to is available publicly in the library or university bookstore, so it's far from secret.
Furthermore, the things they are sort of claiming to have the rights over, though somewhat important, would not be enough to make or break linux... so regardless, even if we lived in a parallel dimension and SCO actually had a valid claim, the remedy would be little more than removing the offending code, especially if no willful intent was proven.
No. Again, you are not violating it's terms. You can only violate something you agreed to in the first place.
Maybe this will clear it up.
Say I write some software, from scratch. I distribute said source, and in the archive are five licenses to choose from. GPL, and five others, all with varying terms. None are USE licenses.
Now, you use my product in your own product, without my permission, and don't appear to be following the conditions I set out in any of my licenses...
Now tell me, which license did you violate?
None, you violated copyright law, by doing something without a license to do so.
I'm not sure how else to explain it. You are violating copyright law, not "violating the GPL". You cannot violate something you did not necessarily agree to.
Sure.. and 640K will be enough for everyone... right?
Just becuase it was tried before it had a useful value doesn't mean it won't be useful in the future.. I'd think that is obvious.
Parallel computing is advancing, sure.. but what's that got to do with bit widths? Nothing, at all. They are totally separate things.
I mean, of course it's a marketing ploy. It's also a direction to go for the future. At some point we want 64 bit chips, right? and some day, we will want 128 bit chips, right? and so on.. gotta change some time.
Second.. if you look at the benchmarks on amd-64 chips, you'll find that 1.8Ghz amd64 chips are equalling 3Ghz P4 chips, and that's on standard 32 bit code. Of course, that has nothing to do with being 64 bit, but with being re-architected.
The focus on 64 bit is markting one, for sure... but if you simply look at it as a more capable, better architected chip.... it makes sense.
If those artists aren't making money off the label, by all means, they can give up the nice cars, big houses, first-class plane rides, and expensive booze, and live a normal life.
Yes, we all know record companies make insane profits.... do you think Courtney Love would have been as popular as she did if she was just independenat from the start? Nope.. she was made by a record label.