I recommend all people stop driving until we can do something about the thousands of innocent animals and millions of innocents insects killed by motor vehicles each day.
If a program decides not to run anymore once it has been "cracked" (read "altered"), then the first thing the cracker HAS to do is to bypass that checking system. Then he is free to crack as usual.
Granted, there are ways to make this idea more difficult to crack. (Adding a time delay, etc.) However, implementing an alerting scheme would prove much more successful, and it provides the company with some statistics.
I don't agree with data mining, however the sending my computer's host name and IP address I would hardly deem "spyware". You can unwittingly give more away by visiting a malicious website. (Especially if you are using IE.)
He is suggesting that the developers be allowed to run stand-alone boxes running *gasp* Windows. If the boxes aren't on the network, then they might not need be locked down, eh?
He hasn't at all suggested that they switch to Linux.
Second, "scale that up to a beam of light"?!? I am left wondering what the hell did you shine through your first magnifying glass? Or did your parents think the combination of lenses and light were too dangerous?
Third, something in space that is acre in size is relatively tiny to a human observer on earth.
True, but if you have a good relatioship with your kids, and have taught them well, you dont need to worry about them sneaking behind your back. You do, but not to that great of an extent as kids will do as kids have always done. Here is the thing. I think 18 is too arbitrary when considering adult hood. I think that some people who are 13 are capable of making reasonable descisions and understand a lot more than people give them credit for. There are also 19 year old kids who have not matured enough to be considered an adult. The point is that it is up to the parents to make sure and pay attention to when they think their kids are ready for certain things. Going by the magic number 18 is not right.
I have to agree with you there. It's a shame there can be no perfect system.
>We shouldnt conform to the lowest common denominator. There are channels on TV and on the Radio that are geared to the conservative folks that might be offended by some music, commentary etc. There are also TV stations that do the same. I say if you are offended by MTV, DONT watch it.
Many children are not capable of making that judgement. Also, being offended by something controversial is different than witnessing something indecent. Regardless, MTV is NOT a broadcast station. It doesn't play by the same rules. My point is that in *broadcast*, there have to be limits. To add to my arguemnt, there have been many incidents where MTV has cencored parts of or even refused to play certain videos because their content is indecent.
> Your comment about the 8 year old girl is out of context. We are talking about media to person broadcasting. You are talking about person to person. There is nothing to prevent anyone from going up to a child and saying that. With the media we have to power to selectivley block what we watch.
First of all, radio is prone to be out of context since people change stations by the minute. Consider a person who hearing the joke in question: (which is listed as indecent in the FCC document as indecent) "What's the best part of screwing an eight-year-old? Hearing the pelvis crack." First, if you are any where near the age of eight, I don't know what you'd think. Second, if I were the parent of a young child, I'd be outraged. Third, if you're some messed up teenager you might actually wonder about it.
But really the reactions are irrelevant, but I think that most people would consider that joke disgusting and indecent. (I know that indecency is arbitrary, but it is ultimately the public who decides it.)
Would you agree that it would be inappropriate for anyone to tell this joke to a young child? How big the difference between telling it in person and telling it on the air.
The purpose of "broadcast" is that is available to everyone, not only to those who are able to stomach the crap that someone may dish out.
And don't give me any crap about "parents need to monitor" their kids, etc, etc. Any kid can walk into WalMart and buy a portable FM radio for $5-10.
"The 'news announcer's use of single expletive' does not 'warrant further Commision consideration in light of the isolated and accidental nature of the broadcast.'"
This makes sense, and to DISALLOW most of the other things listed is completely accetpable.
Why? Because anyone can turn on a radio. Broadcasters have to cater to the lowest common denominator (perhaps not the lowest, but reasonably low).
To cry "cencorship" in this situation is the same as crying "cencorship" when a movie is given an R-rating. How many would feel that it is acceptable to walk up to an eight-year-old girl and say, "You know, the best part about screwing you would be hearing your pelvis crack." (this is an example from the document put into perspective)
Since the listener base of radio is unrestricted, the content must be.
I do agree that society lacks a medium comperable to radio that can broadcast adult-intended content. Society might see this soon with the increasing popularity of internet radio (when our cars get hooked up, I am guessing it will explode). For now, deal with it.
The increase of free-access communication creates "virtual communities" in which a special interest group (say, Open Source Supporters) can congregate. However, since representation is distributed by district, this group has difficulty being represented since it may lie in the minority in many voting districts.
Do you think the possibility of the creation of region-less senators or represenatives exists?
Except in the case of local or state govenments, it seems unnecessarilty arbitrary to elect representatives by state.
AFAIK, it'd be easier to get region-free DVD players than representatives.;)
From a common sense stand point, can you blame AOL more than the US Postal Service (or whatever means was used to ship the VHS tape)? I think it is unreasonable to expect any ISP to monitor communication between any of its members.
Does yelling the word "pedophile" give an ISP the right to intercept the accused person's communications? Only a law enforcement agency has the right to do this, an ISP does not (unless you have specifically agreed to let them do this, and few would knowingly join an ISP that did).
Personally, I value my privacy more than the "protection" that would be provided by forcing AOL (or another ISP) to monitor an individual's activities...
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How about Lotus? I have people send me Lotus formatted documents that MSOffice can't read. MANY companies use Lotus Notes and the like.
If companies like Lotus and Corel are able to compete for the business market, why not KDE?
Retraining? Have you used KOffice? The differences between most office applications are negligible, including KOffice. Any one with a bit of sense can make the switch.
The fact that KDE's functionality behaves like Windows exists so that a switch would be fairly painless for who ever does it. (Business or Personal)
And there's always the cost issue. Software costs for deploying 10,000 workstations with KDE... nil. For Windows 9x/2000 AND MSOffice, well, you get the picture.
With all these tech companies cutting costs, I would not be surprised if the switch happens more often.
The decision can be quantified, but the factors that are weighed (or that SHOULD be weight, anyway) are qualitative (i.e. character, diligence, motivation, etc).
SAT = Scholatic Aptitude Test
College-bound US students take this test and submit the scores along with their high-school transcript to the colleges of their choice in order to be evaluated for acceptance.
Since admission to an educational institution is a qualitative decision, the use of a quantitative comparison (i.e. SAT scores OR grades) doesn't make all that much sense.
However, judging a person on a qualitative basis is extraordinarily difficult to do, if it can be done at all. Also qualitative comparisons are equally, if not more difficult.
SAT and ACT are necessary, in that they provide a common ground to base a decision. GPAs certainly do not provide this common ground, as I have visited many that are more "GPA friendly" than my former high-school.
However, if a fair, more qualitative means of judging should come to be, I'd certainly be in favor of it. But for now, standardized tests are still important.
Recently, I have been considering getting a DSL connection from a non-telco provider. This article raises some issues for me. If I get a 1.5mb/sec DSL connection, I don't have any guarantee of getting 1.5mb/sec of useable bandwidth. Likewise, if I get a 512k DSL, will I even be guranteed that much?
I should just cave a get a T1 from UUNet... I mean it's $2000/mo vs $200/mo but I bet I could pull way more off of UUNet... Someone should do
some tests and comparisons on this stuff.
I am forced to wonder how legal proceedings work on a general basis. My legal experience is lacking. If anyone with greater knowledge of this can tell me if it is common for one side of a suit to be "calling the shots", I'd greatly appreaciate it...
It seems like Microsoft is always suggests the "best way" to carry things out in their legal proceedings...
Although it takes away the whole "marching" concept. It'd be cool to see a million web sites that we pro-MP3. Even if it were just a standard form HTML that everyone tack up on their personal web space.
Sort of a more passive resistance.:) Yoda would be proud.
The problem is quite obvious and has been around as long as peer-to-peer and server based networks have both existed. Peer-to-peer networks work wonderfully when they're small. Server based networks are much more effiecent and thereby are nearly always used for large networks.
Can Gnutella still work? Yes, but it will have be divided into smaller networks... For example:
You have separate networks for:
Pop MP3s
Rock MP3s
Country MP3s
Rap MP3s
Jazz MP3s
Movies
Warez..err..Shareware
Of course, each network should have a critical
mass and then divide in half when it reaches that
point.
Wow, maybe I should get programming...
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What does this have to do with the price of tea in China?!
Oh... umm... Nevermind.
Micrsoft DRM *won't* be cracked?
If *anything* is crack fodder after this...
But seriously, the first thing to crack is what people actually use. So, good job crackers.
Anyway, how is unlocking something you've paid for being a vandal?
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One word, hyphenated.
I recommend all people stop driving until we can do something about the thousands of innocent animals and millions of innocents insects killed by motor vehicles each day.
:)
Thank you.
If a program decides not to run anymore once it has been "cracked" (read "altered"), then the first thing the cracker HAS to do is to bypass that checking system. Then he is free to crack as usual.
Granted, there are ways to make this idea more difficult to crack. (Adding a time delay, etc.) However, implementing an alerting scheme would prove much more successful, and it provides the company with some statistics.
I don't agree with data mining, however the sending my computer's host name and IP address I would hardly deem "spyware". You can unwittingly give more away by visiting a malicious website. (Especially if you are using IE.)
Can you read?
He is suggesting that the developers be allowed to run stand-alone boxes running *gasp* Windows. If the boxes aren't on the network, then they might not need be locked down, eh?
He hasn't at all suggested that they switch to Linux.
Are you on crack or someting?
First of all, mirror != magnifying glass.
Second, "scale that up to a beam of light"?!? I am left wondering what the hell did you shine through your first magnifying glass? Or did your parents think the combination of lenses and light were too dangerous?
Third, something in space that is acre in size is relatively tiny to a human observer on earth.
Cripes, man, you should write for Star Trek.
I have to agree with you there. It's a shame there can be no perfect system.
>We shouldnt conform to the lowest common denominator. There are channels on TV and on the Radio that are geared to the conservative folks that might be offended by some music, commentary etc. There are also TV stations that do the same. I say if you are offended by MTV, DONT watch it.
Many children are not capable of making that judgement. Also, being offended by something controversial is different than witnessing something indecent. Regardless, MTV is NOT a broadcast station. It doesn't play by the same rules. My point is that in *broadcast*, there have to be limits. To add to my arguemnt, there have been many incidents where MTV has cencored parts of or even refused to play certain videos because their content is indecent.
> Your comment about the 8 year old girl is out of context. We are talking about media to person broadcasting. You are talking about person to person. There is nothing to prevent anyone from going up to a child and saying that. With the media we have to power to selectivley block what we watch.
First of all, radio is prone to be out of context since people change stations by the minute. Consider a person who hearing the joke in question: (which is listed as indecent in the FCC document as indecent) "What's the best part of screwing an eight-year-old? Hearing the pelvis crack." First, if you are any where near the age of eight, I don't know what you'd think. Second, if I were the parent of a young child, I'd be outraged. Third, if you're some messed up teenager you might actually wonder about it.
But really the reactions are irrelevant, but I think that most people would consider that joke disgusting and indecent. (I know that indecency is arbitrary, but it is ultimately the public who decides it.)
Would you agree that it would be inappropriate for anyone to tell this joke to a young child? How big the difference between telling it in person and telling it on the air.
The purpose of "broadcast" is that is available to everyone, not only to those who are able to stomach the crap that someone may dish out.
And don't give me any crap about "parents need to monitor" their kids, etc, etc. Any kid can walk into WalMart and buy a portable FM radio for $5-10.
"The 'news announcer's use of single expletive' does not 'warrant further Commision consideration in light of the isolated and accidental nature of the broadcast.'"
This makes sense, and to DISALLOW most of the other things listed is completely accetpable.
Why? Because anyone can turn on a radio. Broadcasters have to cater to the lowest common denominator (perhaps not the lowest, but reasonably low).
To cry "cencorship" in this situation is the same as crying "cencorship" when a movie is given an R-rating. How many would feel that it is acceptable to walk up to an eight-year-old girl and say, "You know, the best part about screwing you would be hearing your pelvis crack." (this is an example from the document put into perspective)
Since the listener base of radio is unrestricted, the content must be.
I do agree that society lacks a medium comperable to radio that can broadcast adult-intended content. Society might see this soon with the increasing popularity of internet radio (when our cars get hooked up, I am guessing it will explode). For now, deal with it.
Although find a way to implement this in an already living creature... And... Of course, that's 1000x more difficult, but still...
The increase of free-access communication creates "virtual communities" in which a special interest group (say, Open Source Supporters) can congregate. However, since representation is distributed by district, this group has difficulty being represented since it may lie in the minority in many voting districts.
;)
Do you think the possibility of the creation of region-less senators or represenatives exists?
Except in the case of local or state govenments, it seems unnecessarilty arbitrary to elect representatives by state.
AFAIK, it'd be easier to get region-free DVD players than representatives.
From a common sense stand point, can you blame AOL more than the US Postal Service (or whatever means was used to ship the VHS tape)? I think it is unreasonable to expect any ISP to monitor communication between any of its members.
Does yelling the word "pedophile" give an ISP the right to intercept the accused person's communications? Only a law enforcement agency has the right to do this, an ISP does not (unless you have specifically agreed to let them do this, and few would knowingly join an ISP that did).
Personally, I value my privacy more than the "protection" that would be provided by forcing AOL (or another ISP) to monitor an individual's activities...
How about Lotus? I have people send me Lotus formatted documents that MSOffice can't read. MANY companies use Lotus Notes and the like.
If companies like Lotus and Corel are able to compete for the business market, why not KDE?
Retraining? Have you used KOffice? The differences between most office applications are negligible, including KOffice. Any one with a bit of sense can make the switch.
The fact that KDE's functionality behaves like Windows exists so that a switch would be fairly painless for who ever does it. (Business or Personal)
And there's always the cost issue. Software costs for deploying 10,000 workstations with KDE... nil. For Windows 9x/2000 AND MSOffice, well, you get the picture.
With all these tech companies cutting costs, I would not be surprised if the switch happens more often.
until advertisers start restricting CONTENT to 250x250 pixel blocks on the screen.
We wouldn't want the content to distract us from the advertising now, would we?
..the average impact crater size was under one square kilometer.
The decision can be quantified, but the factors that are weighed (or that SHOULD be weight, anyway) are qualitative (i.e. character, diligence, motivation, etc).
SAT = Scholatic Aptitude Test College-bound US students take this test and submit the scores along with their high-school transcript to the colleges of their choice in order to be evaluated for acceptance.
Since admission to an educational institution is a qualitative decision, the use of a quantitative comparison (i.e. SAT scores OR grades) doesn't make all that much sense.
However, judging a person on a qualitative basis is extraordinarily difficult to do, if it can be done at all. Also qualitative comparisons are equally, if not more difficult.
SAT and ACT are necessary, in that they provide a common ground to base a decision. GPAs certainly do not provide this common ground, as I have visited many that are more "GPA friendly" than my former high-school.
However, if a fair, more qualitative means of judging should come to be, I'd certainly be in favor of it. But for now, standardized tests are still important.
Cool show, it needs way less commentary
and more action...
Or it needs more technical commentary and less drivel.
All I can think right now is that I'm glad that I don't own stock in Intel.
What is Intel going to come out with to top an Athlon at 1.5ghz (and that's with AMD's current core)...
A P4 with a whopping one pound heatsink and that requires a new power supply?
You know, I won't buy one, if I can buy an Athlon that I may even be able to keep my A7V for. (And for a few hundred dollars less, as well.)
Recently, I have been considering getting a DSL connection from a non-telco provider. This article raises some issues for me. If I get a 1.5mb/sec DSL connection, I don't have any guarantee of getting 1.5mb/sec of useable bandwidth. Likewise, if I get a 512k DSL, will I even be guranteed that much?
I should just cave a get a T1 from UUNet... I mean it's $2000/mo vs $200/mo but I bet I could pull way more off of UUNet... Someone should do
some tests and comparisons on this stuff.
I am forced to wonder how legal proceedings work on a general basis. My legal experience is lacking. If anyone with greater knowledge of this can tell me if it is common for one side of a suit to be "calling the shots", I'd greatly appreaciate it...
It seems like Microsoft is always suggests the "best way" to carry things out in their legal proceedings...
Although it takes away the whole "marching" concept. It'd be cool to see a million web sites that we pro-MP3. Even if it were just a standard form HTML that everyone tack up on their personal web space.
:) Yoda would be proud.
Sort of a more passive resistance.
The problem is quite obvious and has been around as long as peer-to-peer and server based networks have both existed. Peer-to-peer networks work wonderfully when they're small. Server based networks are much more effiecent and thereby are nearly always used for large networks. Can Gnutella still work? Yes, but it will have be divided into smaller networks... For example: You have separate networks for: Pop MP3s Rock MP3s Country MP3s Rap MP3s Jazz MP3s Movies Warez..err..Shareware Of course, each network should have a critical mass and then divide in half when it reaches that point. Wow, maybe I should get programming...