[...]four radio station groups - Chancellor, Clear Channel, Infinity, and Capstar - control access to 63 percent of the format's 41 million listeners nationwide.
The Senator would appear to be out of touch with the state of the industry. That statement is dated Jue 13, 2002. Chancellor was purchased by Clear Channel in 1999. So 63 percent of the listeners are held by only three companies.
Gh0d, I hate commercial music radio (especially in Minneapolis).
Back when VCRs first became popular, and I was time-shifting a lot of programming, I noticed that some commercials seemed to be designed to be "buzzed through". It's illegal, you see, to use subliminal cuts in commercials. But that restriction only applies to the normal-speed reproduction of the ad. I remember seeing many, many commercials that, when seen at fast-forward speeds, had the effect of subliminal cuts. The visual presentation was pretty obviously designed to work in the absence of a soundtrack, as well. (in many cases, this visual bias held even when the ad was viewed at normal speed, which appeared to be a reaction to the mute button)
So what's the problem with the 30-second fast-forward? Ad producers don't want to take advantage anymore?
Dallas Semiconductor ships everything in those 4-foot boxes. That's how they shipped my Blue Dot developer's kit. And a while back, when I was working on a project using their SpeechStik module, they shipped those in 4-foot boxes. (the SpeechStik was a 72-pin SIMM. we got our eval unit, by itself, in a 4-foot box)
When the C&D is predicated on copyright violations, and when it's obvious that simply linking to another site's content does not cause a copy to be made (and therefore is not a copyright violation), then seeking to enjoin from deep linking via legalistic threat looks (at least to me) very much like barratry.
What I said, was that if the linkee doesn't want to be "deep linked" they should absolutely have that perrogative.
If the linkee doesn't want to be "deep linked", the linkee can take proactive steps to prevent it. Having the webserver require and inspect Referrer: headers is not difficult, and would prevent most, if not all, deep links.
Cease and desist letters whining about deep links are barratry, plain and simple.
Hell, for several years, AOL provided my front-line scurity for my Linux box. The boot disk was a Mac AOL floopy. So Mr. Black Bag tries a 'dir' and gets a note from General Failure.
What I hate most is the complete lack of essential information, like pricing. I've passed up many, many packages just because there's no clue as to how much the fscking thing costs. The only way to find out is to let some sales droid pester me to hell and back.
If I'm looking for a solution, give me enough info up front to make the first-pass decision. Pricing and licensing are essential.
Mark Rosenstein, the owner and founder of Active Windows Productions, the company that hosts the list and its archives, says that Novak's responses bounced
only because they contained files with attachments, not because of who they were from or what they said.
(emphasis mine)
I'm on a number of mailing lists that prohibit attachments. And every once in a while, I see a whine from a partially clued subscriber that he can't submit because he wants to use Outlook, which attaches some cruft and causes the list manager software to drop the item. Such whinage is usually met with the exhortation to use a Real MUA.
Read the.pdf linked from the article. Pay attention to the top of page 2. As the paper states, "[a] high correlation is evident." (the example is evidently a TXD or RXD activity LED on a 9600 bps modem) Whether or not a piece of equipment is built to leak information in this manner is a secondary consideration. The fact remains that some equipment does leak info through status LEDs.
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ALSO - he's not talking about removing comments variablenames & whitespace in the gpl'd source, but his company's.
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What the author said was:
Integrate the highly useful GPL code we're eyeing into our only slightly more complex (but much more lucrative) project, thereby saving us at least 30% of the coding involved. The company then go all the way to production with it, but instead of finally compiling the actual project for distribution, they instead compile a bunch of incomprehensible gobbledygook that just happens to compile to the same bytecode. You know the game: globally replace every function name, variable name, and so on from our code with nonsensical names (or random characters), remove all of the comments, and any other form of obfuscation they can introduce.
So, yes, they are intending to munge the GPL source they've incorporated, along with their own source, into a final, monolithically obfuscated product.
I personally get about 30-50 spams a day. All of them say I have 'opted in'. A large percentage of them are get rich quick schemes and porn.
I have a couple of auto-responder addresses that have been out on the net for years. They draw tons of spam. Occasionally, when I'm really bored, I scan some of the stuff. It makes me laugh to see the ones that begin "Dear pubkey:" and end with the usual "you received this email because you registered at our website" nonsense.
Glass table tops can be obtained from a craft store [...] Plexiglass would also work, and has the advantage of being lighter.
I'd probably use polycarbonate (Lexan) instead. Acrylic (Plexiglas) tends to scratch easily, where polycarbonate holds up a lot better under abrasion. That's why machine guards are more often made from PC than acrylic.
Interesting stuff, but how much storage space will we ultimately need to carry with us?
I think it's not so much "how much" as it is "what kind". This is a nicely portable write-once medium that operates like a conventional CF card. I see it as handy for carrying keying materials (like your GPG private keyring) without having to worry about Mallet trojanizing its contents. More portable and sturdier than a CD-R.
Being firmly stuck in one of the focal points of the MLB contraction fiasco (I live in Minneapolis, and the Twins are widely believed to be one of the lucky two), I really see this clearly. The Twins' owner has been crying and threatening over a new stadium for years. Several times, I've been tempted to see if I could get a referrendum going to forbid public money to be used for supporting pro sports teams' facilities. Don't think it would pass, but it might serve to enlighten some of the thick-headed.
My angle is this: pro sports teams are a business, no more and no less. If they can't run at a (sufficient) profit, that's not the public's problem. Anyway, how is contracting 2 teams any different from Best Buy closing 2 unprofitable stores? It's not like baseball will disappear. Hey, the St. Paul Saints (AAA ball) games are way more fun than MLB games.
I'm a confirmed ZoneAlarm user, but there's a problem with its paradigm. Once a program is granted access, it has net access with no further restrictions. Piggyback attacks like Firehole can still get through easily.
What I'd like is something that will log all net access on a Win98 box, and will note the program doing the accessing. I chased a phantom on my box for 3 days last week. Every 8-10 minutes, it woke up the router with a DNS query but I could never catch the offender on netstat. Went away on a reboot, but I'd sure like to be prepared the next time something decides to lurk like that.
98 has to be first, because it will overwrite your boot record and render your other installs unreachable without boot floppies.
In my experience, Win98 will respect an NT bootloader and install itself as a boot choice. I've done that to several machines at work without problem. Never tried it with Win2K. Anything other than ntldr gets blown off in favor of the Win98 MBR.
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Gh0d, I hate commercial music radio (especially in Minneapolis).
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Claiming that advertising is the only method of promotion and publicity is naive at best.
So what's the problem with the 30-second fast-forward? Ad producers don't want to take advantage anymore?
Dallas Semiconductor ships everything in those 4-foot boxes. That's how they shipped my Blue Dot developer's kit. And a while back, when I was working on a project using their SpeechStik module, they shipped those in 4-foot boxes. (the SpeechStik was a 72-pin SIMM. we got our eval unit, by itself, in a 4-foot box)
When the C&D is predicated on copyright violations, and when it's obvious that simply linking to another site's content does not cause a copy to be made (and therefore is not a copyright violation), then seeking to enjoin from deep linking via legalistic threat looks (at least to me) very much like barratry.
Cease and desist letters whining about deep links are barratry, plain and simple.
Tenn-SHUN!
If I'm looking for a solution, give me enough info up front to make the first-pass decision. Pricing and licensing are essential.
I'm on a number of mailing lists that prohibit attachments. And every once in a while, I see a whine from a partially clued subscriber that he can't submit because he wants to use Outlook, which attaches some cruft and causes the list manager software to drop the item. Such whinage is usually met with the exhortation to use a Real MUA.
Try this one.
Read the .pdf linked from the article. Pay attention to the top of page 2. As the paper states, "[a] high correlation is evident." (the example is evidently a TXD or RXD activity LED on a 9600 bps modem) Whether or not a piece of equipment is built to leak information in this manner is a secondary consideration. The fact remains that some equipment does leak info through status LEDs.
What the author said was:
So, yes, they are intending to munge the GPL source they've incorporated, along with their own source, into a final, monolithically obfuscated product.At last! A good transmission medium for IPTP!
My angle is this: pro sports teams are a business, no more and no less. If they can't run at a (sufficient) profit, that's not the public's problem. Anyway, how is contracting 2 teams any different from Best Buy closing 2 unprofitable stores? It's not like baseball will disappear. Hey, the St. Paul Saints (AAA ball) games are way more fun than MLB games.
What I'd like is something that will log all net access on a Win98 box, and will note the program doing the accessing. I chased a phantom on my box for 3 days last week. Every 8-10 minutes, it woke up the router with a DNS query but I could never catch the offender on netstat. Went away on a reboot, but I'd sure like to be prepared the next time something decides to lurk like that.