Re:This could be very popular in the UK!
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It would, but at least in the US, there are lots of regulations regarding tethered balloons. If you can make an extremely lightweight access point, then you might be able to pull it off.
Re:email as we know it is the problem
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as long as you require people to go through an ISP's mail servers
Why the hell would you consider this an ideal solution? If I want to connect to a computer on port 25, I better damn well be able to, otherwise you are no longer really an ISP, you are more of a "web provider".
As far as future expansion, two options, get SATA 12 port 3ware cards and the 3ware Parallel to Serial converter that 3ware sells for $30, or go with something like external ATA-SCSI from acnc that can be chained up to infinity.
Re:If you liked this book
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Why the fuck is that book so expensive? $103 for a 125 page paperback about Santa Clause written for 4-8 year olds???
If these two articles, along with the promised third one came along a few months ago, I could have skipped even more architecture classes and still passed.
Ahh, you're trying to go to college to actually learn stuff, rather than to stroke the ego of professors and get contacts for job leads into cushy jobs where skills don't matter.
Big mistake. I tried to do that, but got too frustrated by the professors that based your grade on attendance rather than what you actually learned. Might as well drop out now. You will learn a lot more on your own anyway.
Even with a "secure" digital camera, there will be wiggle-room to screw with pixels.
Under your argument, digital evidence would never be admissible in court. I follow the forensics list on SF, and there are definitely well defined ways that digital evidence can make it into a trial.
Without going into too much detail, it basically involves massive amounts of documentation about each little step you did when handling the data or media containing the data, and making sure that you can prove that nothing you did to the data altered it. In other words, an audit trail, like the article proposes. The DRM thing was stupid sensationalism, this has nothing to do with DRM.
Investigators use things like special ATA/SCSI controllers that can be set in hardware to be read-only, and things like that, to insure data integrity. There are already established practices in the forensics industry for handling data, and most investigators try not to stray from those so they don't open themselves up to getting asked a question during cross-examination they can't answer satisfactorily.
Digression: Why is this important to the average sysadmin? Well, if your company is ever hacked in an extremely damaging way, something they may want to press charges or sue for later, you need to know how to handle it, and most people don't.
If your company is one where a little lost uptime costs a lot of money, you would do well to read a book or two on forensics and help your company draft guidelines to preserve the ability to sue or press charges in the event of a malicious and catestrophic loss. This is a relatively new field, but not so new that there aren't standards out there.
u don't know nothing bout teh intarweb. teh intarweb is the place where we r talking. i dont know what this fpt u r talking about is, u mean like aimster?
If you really want to burn something in to a monitor, follow these instruction.
NOTE: These instructions should not be done by anyone with an IQ under 100. This will damage your monitor! That's the whole point! Permanantly! In fact, no one should ever do this. Except maybe cats. Cats are weird like that.
1. Boot into a console (or DOS on a differently-abled system) I think you Mac users are out of luck (yet again), seeing as you can't exit your GUI.
2. Write a batch file or script or something that clears the screen and puts out ANSI codes for high intensity white, and your message wherever you want it on the screen.
3. Open up your monitor*. Find the flyback transformer. It has a big red wire coming out of the top of it most likely. That red wire has 20,000 or so volts running through it, be careful, it bites.
4. That transformer likely has two adjustment knobs on the side of it, which probably have screwheads for phillips head screwdriver. They are called focus and screen adjustments, they are variable resistors.
5. Use whiteout to carefully mark the original position of the focus and screen. If you don't know which is which, it's OK, you will find out as soon as you turn one of them.
6. Slowly and carefully turn one of them while the monitor is running*, and make sure you can see the screen. If it goes out of focus, you have the wrong one. Slowly turn it back to your white-out marked position. If it gets brighter or darker, that's the one you want.
7. Turn up the front panel brightness all the way. Then turn the screen knob up slowly until the black part is pretty light too. The white text should be extremely bright right now, and may bloom some. Don't turn the knob up so much that the X-ray protection kicks in*. If the CRT turns off, you went too far, dipshit. Try rebooting the monitor if you didn't fry anything.
8. Once you have the black level so it is pretty bright, and the text is nice and bright but not blurred out completely, let that thing sit for a few hours. Keep an eye on it, but don't hang out in front of it, X-rays, remember?:)
9. Try turning the monitor off and see if the phosphers are cooked yet. If you can see the text with the monitor off, then you have succeeded.
10. Undo all the changes you made to the settings. Put the cover back on. Any leftover screws are a bonus from the Gods. Sell the monitor to your enemy, etc.
*In case you havn't noticed, if you screw up, you might die. This whole thing is dangerous for someone who doesn't know their way around electricity. Don't be a dipshit, and don't do this on a monitor you don't want to destroy. In fact, just don't do this... ever!
Oh BTW... to the original poster, you can't reverse burn in by displaying a reverse image. All you will do is burn the rest of the phosphers to the same darkness as the burned ones, and your monitor will get too dark to use sooner.
I almost did that last night trying to get envelopes to print from openoffice to an HP4V
The 4V has the paper that feeds sideways, so portrait/landscape stuff and the interaction of what is printed vs. what the printer does with it and various tray settings is very confusing.
I gave up and used a pen instead. Luckily I only needed one envelope, but I kinda wanted to get the thing working.
Openoffice sucks, BTW.:)
Re:Please listen up to my noteworthy advice
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Well, it's a little safer, because you can selectively extract only GET POST SESSION, or whatnot.
Now if only computer manufacturers could make equipment even remotely this sturdy."
They can, you just don't want to pay for it.
Re:How Slashdot goes against open source philosoph
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That whole "talking to yourself" form of dialog is often used in religious tracts that the fundies hand out. One wonders where the poster gets his inspiration.
I don't know about that. They could definitely make the argument, and I doubt the court would grant summary judgement in favor of the defendant just because the case is a hard one to prove.
And that's really all they need to be able to do. Some little shop can't afford to settle or see a trial through, except maybe to the point of asking for summary judgement, so that's enough to force them to stop.
OTOH, if the shop could get the support of various organizations like the ACLU or the EFF, then it might be an interesting precedent case. Most people would rather just earn an honest living than become a martyr though.
The RIAA calls that vicarious liability. I'm sure lawyers (I am not one) came up with the term first.:)
http://www.riaa.org/Copyright-Laws-2.cfm
Vicarious liability may be imposed where an entity or person has the right and ability to control the activities of the direct infringer and also receives a financial benefit from the infringing activities. Vicarious liability may be imposed even if the entity is unaware of the infringing activities. In the case of a site retransmitting infringing programs, providing direct access to infringing works may show a right and ability to control the activities of the direct infringer, and receiving revenue from banner ads or e-commerce on the site may be evidence of a financial benefit.
Re:Please listen up to my noteworthy advice
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For the lazy/migrating people:
extract($_GET, EXTR_SKIP);
This will assign all the GET vars to local vars, unless the local var is already defined, in which case it will skip over it. A little safer than register_globals on, but not as safe as explicitely assigning only the variables you are expecting to come from GET or POST.
BTW: You can do the same command with POST instead.
there is no interest in the free software community to develop a driver for the various Winmodems out there.
I wouldn't say that. There is interest, it's just a very difficult project to reverse engineer such things, and most winmodem companies have been less than helpful.
You can get a new winmodem though, one that has modern and compatible Linux drivers for the chipset. There are some out there, see the Linmodems site.
Yeah, I don't know what that guy was thinking. Even sending my son to Christian day care, which generally charges less than others (there were no non-christian day cares in my town), it cost me about $3600 a year. And that's day care, not school! They don't even have to worry about teaching them much of anything big.
It just might prevent arguments like "But HAM radios aren't on the list
Actually, Ham radios (transmit and recieve) are allowed by the FAA to be operated from flying commercial aircraft, so long as you have the pilot's permission. That doesn't prevent the airlines from making their own policies against them though.
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It would, but at least in the US, there are lots of regulations regarding tethered balloons. If you can make an extremely lightweight access point, then you might be able to pull it off.
as long as you require people to go through an ISP's mail servers
Why the hell would you consider this an ideal solution? If I want to connect to a computer on port 25, I better damn well be able to, otherwise you are no longer really an ISP, you are more of a "web provider".
We did the same thing. Another data point.
As far as future expansion, two options, get SATA 12 port 3ware cards and the 3ware Parallel to Serial converter that 3ware sells for $30, or go with something like external ATA-SCSI from acnc that can be chained up to infinity.
Why the fuck is that book so expensive? $103 for a 125 page paperback about Santa Clause written for 4-8 year olds???
If these two articles, along with the promised third one came along a few months ago, I could have skipped even more architecture classes and still passed.
Ahh, you're trying to go to college to actually learn stuff, rather than to stroke the ego of professors and get contacts for job leads into cushy jobs where skills don't matter.
Big mistake. I tried to do that, but got too frustrated by the professors that based your grade on attendance rather than what you actually learned. Might as well drop out now. You will learn a lot more on your own anyway.
Even with a "secure" digital camera, there will be wiggle-room to screw with pixels.
Under your argument, digital evidence would never be admissible in court. I follow the forensics list on SF, and there are definitely well defined ways that digital evidence can make it into a trial.
Without going into too much detail, it basically involves massive amounts of documentation about each little step you did when handling the data or media containing the data, and making sure that you can prove that nothing you did to the data altered it. In other words, an audit trail, like the article proposes. The DRM thing was stupid sensationalism, this has nothing to do with DRM.
Investigators use things like special ATA/SCSI controllers that can be set in hardware to be read-only, and things like that, to insure data integrity. There are already established practices in the forensics industry for handling data, and most investigators try not to stray from those so they don't open themselves up to getting asked a question during cross-examination they can't answer satisfactorily.
Digression:
Why is this important to the average sysadmin? Well, if your company is ever hacked in an extremely damaging way, something they may want to press charges or sue for later, you need to know how to handle it, and most people don't.
If your company is one where a little lost uptime costs a lot of money, you would do well to read a book or two on forensics and help your company draft guidelines to preserve the ability to sue or press charges in the event of a malicious and catestrophic loss. This is a relatively new field, but not so new that there aren't standards out there.
u don't know nothing bout teh intarweb. teh intarweb is the place where we r talking. i dont know what this fpt u r talking about is, u mean like aimster?
Couldn't you tell I was kidding?
Well, considering the GUI is in the BIOS, I'd think it would be pretty difficult to completely get rid of it.
If you really want to burn something in to a monitor, follow these instruction.
:)
NOTE: These instructions should not be done by anyone with an IQ under 100. This will damage your monitor! That's the whole point! Permanantly! In fact, no one should ever do this. Except maybe cats. Cats are weird like that.
1. Boot into a console (or DOS on a differently-abled system) I think you Mac users are out of luck (yet again), seeing as you can't exit your GUI.
2. Write a batch file or script or something that clears the screen and puts out ANSI codes for high intensity white, and your message wherever you want it on the screen.
3. Open up your monitor*. Find the flyback transformer. It has a big red wire coming out of the top of it most likely. That red wire has 20,000 or so volts running through it, be careful, it bites.
4. That transformer likely has two adjustment knobs on the side of it, which probably have screwheads for phillips head screwdriver. They are called focus and screen adjustments, they are variable resistors.
5. Use whiteout to carefully mark the original position of the focus and screen. If you don't know which is which, it's OK, you will find out as soon as you turn one of them.
6. Slowly and carefully turn one of them while the monitor is running*, and make sure you can see the screen. If it goes out of focus, you have the wrong one. Slowly turn it back to your white-out marked position. If it gets brighter or darker, that's the one you want.
7. Turn up the front panel brightness all the way. Then turn the screen knob up slowly until the black part is pretty light too. The white text should be extremely bright right now, and may bloom some. Don't turn the knob up so much that the X-ray protection kicks in*. If the CRT turns off, you went too far, dipshit. Try rebooting the monitor if you didn't fry anything.
8. Once you have the black level so it is pretty bright, and the text is nice and bright but not blurred out completely, let that thing sit for a few hours. Keep an eye on it, but don't hang out in front of it, X-rays, remember?
9. Try turning the monitor off and see if the phosphers are cooked yet. If you can see the text with the monitor off, then you have succeeded.
10. Undo all the changes you made to the settings. Put the cover back on. Any leftover screws are a bonus from the Gods. Sell the monitor to your enemy, etc.
*In case you havn't noticed, if you screw up, you might die. This whole thing is dangerous for someone who doesn't know their way around electricity. Don't be a dipshit, and don't do this on a monitor you don't want to destroy. In fact, just don't do this... ever!
Oh BTW... to the original poster, you can't reverse burn in by displaying a reverse image. All you will do is burn the rest of the phosphers to the same darkness as the burned ones, and your monitor will get too dark to use sooner.
I almost did that last night trying to get envelopes to print from openoffice to an HP4V
:)
The 4V has the paper that feeds sideways, so portrait/landscape stuff and the interaction of what is printed vs. what the printer does with it and various tray settings is very confusing.
I gave up and used a pen instead. Luckily I only needed one envelope, but I kinda wanted to get the thing working.
Openoffice sucks, BTW.
Well, it's a little safer, because you can selectively extract only GET POST SESSION, or whatnot.
Check the older stories man.
Better, but not too great. Havn't you heard about all the cheap electrolytic capacitors that have been failing lately?
Now if only computer manufacturers could make equipment even remotely this sturdy."
They can, you just don't want to pay for it.
That whole "talking to yourself" form of dialog is often used in religious tracts that the fundies hand out. One wonders where the poster gets his inspiration.
Yeah, but to have this survey mean anything, we would need to know how much you got paid, and where you live, (at least general area).
I don't know about that. They could definitely make the argument, and I doubt the court would grant summary judgement in favor of the defendant just because the case is a hard one to prove.
And that's really all they need to be able to do. Some little shop can't afford to settle or see a trial through, except maybe to the point of asking for summary judgement, so that's enough to force them to stop.
OTOH, if the shop could get the support of various organizations like the ACLU or the EFF, then it might be an interesting precedent case. Most people would rather just earn an honest living than become a martyr though.
The RIAA calls that vicarious liability. I'm sure lawyers (I am not one) came up with the term first. :)
http://www.riaa.org/Copyright-Laws-2.cfm
Vicarious liability may be imposed where an entity or person has the right and ability to control the activities of the direct infringer and also receives a financial benefit from the infringing activities. Vicarious liability may be imposed even if the entity is unaware of the infringing activities. In the case of a site retransmitting infringing programs, providing direct access to infringing works may show a right and ability to control the activities of the direct infringer, and receiving revenue from banner ads or e-commerce on the site may be evidence of a financial benefit.
For the lazy/migrating people:
extract($_GET, EXTR_SKIP);
This will assign all the GET vars to local vars, unless the local var is already defined, in which case it will skip over it. A little safer than register_globals on, but not as safe as explicitely assigning only the variables you are expecting to come from GET or POST.
BTW: You can do the same command with POST instead.
there is no interest in the free software community to develop a driver for the various Winmodems out there.
I wouldn't say that. There is interest, it's just a very difficult project to reverse engineer such things, and most winmodem companies have been less than helpful.
You can get a new winmodem though, one that has modern and compatible Linux drivers for the chipset. There are some out there, see the Linmodems site.
Yeah, I don't know what that guy was thinking. Even sending my son to Christian day care, which generally charges less than others (there were no non-christian day cares in my town), it cost me about $3600 a year. And that's day care, not school! They don't even have to worry about teaching them much of anything big.
It just might prevent arguments like "But HAM radios aren't on the list
Actually, Ham radios (transmit and recieve) are allowed by the FAA to be operated from flying commercial aircraft, so long as you have the pilot's permission. That doesn't prevent the airlines from making their own policies against them though.
The thing about paranoia is one only needs to be correct a single time to be justified.
We get $25 gift certificates for the local grocery store.
Seriously.
I guess that's what I get for working in manufacturing.