Bring your Outlook, Eudora, Mozilla, Outlook Express, and Communicator e-mail clients with you and join us on IRC for a day of testing the Thunderbird migration features.
So I have to DCC SEND all my mailboxes on IRC to test Thunderbird? that kind of sucks...
Essentially, Disney wants the FCC to regulate all devices capable of recording from any audio broadcasting medium or from the Internet.
The real question is, what are they going to do when people publish plans to build "unencumbered" devices themselves on the net? Not straight circumvention devices, but devices that don't care about corporate idiocies, "to play free music" say. What will they do? go after the people who made the plans? go after the sites harboring proposing said plans for download? I can see that happen, given how hard it is to find decss.c these days <sarcasm>.
Seriously, these corporate dinosaurs really need to reinvent themselves with regard to revenue models. All these copyright laws, DRM chips, strong-arming and scare tactics,... from them make me think of a falling man grasping on straws. They may eventually bring file-sharing under control, but it'll be a triumph of corporate will against natural human behaviours.
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Those poor soles running Internet Explorer (like ME until recently)
Jesus, it's about time you upgraded from ME, I'd say...
designed for a far simpler purpose than chess: playing pool.
This comment shows the poster has no idea what playing pool is about.
It's more than just line up / aim at the center of the ball / shoot more or less hard : you have to pot the ball, yes, but you also have to replace your white ball so that the next shot is easier. Often you have to think 2, 3, 4 shots ahead. Often you plan your entire game before playing the first shot.
In order to control the white ball, there's a certain about of spin to give it on the vertical plan and horizontal plan (english) so that the ball is deflected differently on the cushion(s), depending on the angle they arrive. Giving english to a ball also deflect its path (it won't roll straight), so that has to be accounted for in the aiming (you aim a little off). And then all tables don't react the same, some have newer, less "grabby" cloths than others... Then there's the roughness of the cue tie and the chalk, and the suppleness of the cue's wood that affects greatly how much english is put on the ball. Then of course there are all the "special" shots, like massés, that require a lot of practive to control... etc...
Playing pool is a LOT more complex than chess, and that's not just because it involves real physics. The problem has many many variables, and it takes many years of practice to master. I've been playing for 20 years, at least 2 hours per day, and I still couldn't beat a professional. It's a very demanding game.
FYI- All of the states Attorneys General have a "Consumer Protection Unit." They are charged with protecting consumers from fraudulent activity. That is why you as citizens are considered consumers in the letter.
Protecting people from child pornography has nothing to do with consumer protection. That is why the expression "our consumers" is misplaced, and therefore suspicious, in the letter.
If this quote from the letter doesn't tell you state reps are being manipulated by the entertainment industry, nothing will:
"At present, P2P software has too many times been hijacked by those who use it for illegal purposes, to which the vast majority of our consumers do not wish to be exposed."
So we, the citizens, are the attorney general's office's "consumers" now?? Either it's a revealing slip of the tongue from the AGs, or more likely the letter was originally drafted by the RIAA/MPAA...
I'm sure they could start from the codebase they have now, work really hard, and have equivalent expertise built into a lighter package in some number of staff-years. Alternately, they could archive the source, go drink margaritas for a couple years, and then buy the lighter package with equivalent power off the shelf and use it to run the existing already-completed software.
Oh yeah, that's just what we need, engineering students whose mindset is that of a business owner. How about busting your butt to achieve something? researching more elegant solutions (and no, that's not yours, elegance is in the design and performance software with tough constraints)?
You totally missed the point of research. Research isn't about using technology, it's about inventing new technology. Using off-the-shell components doesn't push the envelope, it just shows the Cornell students can take envelopes from their sponsors.
Good thing not everybody thinks like you, otherwise we'd all be waiting for everybody else to solve our problems for us...
all off the shelf stuff huh ? now imagine if this device carried a payload
Hello Sir. Yes you there, who just posted as AC. Look through the window: you see those 3 black vans with the engines running in the street? Ear the knock on your door? These are your new friends for the months to come...
The large-scale model plane flies by accessing coordinates from an off-the-shelf GPS unit.' Not only does the plane run XP embedded, but the software is written in C# on the.NET Compact Framework.
Trust obviously Microsoft-sponsored engineers to find the wrong solution to the problem. Anything that flies benefits from light components. This "large-scale" model plane could have been smaller scale, cheaper, longer flying and, well, more impressive if it had taken onboard a small microcontroller with tailor-made programs.
Lugging around a system with an 800MHz Crusoe and 1G of storage just to accomodate megabytes of useless software (XP Embedded) is an expensive way of providing central heating to birds. This is not a rant against Microsoft and their "embedded" solution, more like a rant against overdesigning.
Freenet remains largely used by people who need/want _extreme_ anonymity rather than your average movie downloader wanting to avoid one of those nasty lawsuits.
Paedophiles trade movies too you know.
The extreme anonymity provided by Freenet is exactly why I'm avoiding it like the plague (and also because it's a Java thing, but that's another problem): unless you live in some dictatorship like China, the only real reason you'd need that much anonymity is for kiddy pr0n...
to help Internet users surf the Web anonymously and shield their online activities from corporate or government eyes. The system is based on a concept called onion routing.
I've just tried to set www.theonion.com:8800 as http proxy but it doesn't work...
To tie in to this article, I will award a Gmail invite for anyone who can prove to me that it's legal under the DMCA to stand on a street corner and recite DeCSS. It is of course illegal, which means that Free Speech is dead in America, but if you manage to prove me wrong and include an address, the invite will be on its way.
A gmail account in return for proving free speech in America isn't dead? man, you're cheap...
You'd be surprised how easy it is to go to the 'net cafe owner behind the counter and ask politely if you can plug into that wall socket there...
Honestly it works. I work regularly in cafes for entire days. It just takes looking like a fool for a minute, asking permission, then pluging my stuff and setting up my "office" in front of everybody, I can stay there for the whole day. And also, if you go through enough cups of coffee, I guarantee you the owner won't ever ask you to get lost, because what he earns on you certainly outweighs what he loses in electricity.
Is it just me or is a scientific database every idiot can add to a bad idea?
I suppose it's the same as a wiki: I too first thought it was the dumbest idea to allow everybody and their dogs to edit webpages, but in any wiki I used, the content always turned out to have a pretty good S/N ratio. I still don't understand why, but wikis work. Just look at wikipedia... So perhaps this will work too...
The operating system that drives the airline's flight plans went down.
Okay, EDS runs you-know-what and this is just too easy. So here it goes for a change:
So, like, that's what you get for running Linux. If Linux was open-source, at least you could fix the kernel and things like that wouldn't happen. Because ya know, a million eyes looking at the same code are pretty good to spot bugs and all. But no, Linux is bug-ridden and that's a big Thank-You Linu$. Now, if they had used Windows...
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Bring your Outlook, Eudora, Mozilla, Outlook Express, and Communicator e-mail clients with you and join us on IRC for a day of testing the Thunderbird migration features.
So I have to DCC SEND all my mailboxes on IRC to test Thunderbird? that kind of sucks...
Essentially, Disney wants the FCC to regulate all devices capable of recording from any audio broadcasting medium or from the Internet.
The real question is, what are they going to do when people publish plans to build "unencumbered" devices themselves on the net? Not straight circumvention devices, but devices that don't care about corporate idiocies, "to play free music" say. What will they do? go after the people who made the plans? go after the sites harboring proposing said plans for download? I can see that happen, given how hard it is to find decss.c these days <sarcasm>.
Seriously, these corporate dinosaurs really need to reinvent themselves with regard to revenue models. All these copyright laws, DRM chips, strong-arming and scare tactics,... from them make me think of a falling man grasping on straws. They may eventually bring file-sharing under control, but it'll be a triumph of corporate will against natural human behaviours.
Those poor soles running Internet Explorer (like ME until recently)
Jesus, it's about time you upgraded from ME, I'd say...
Seriously, how hard can it be for MS to write an application as straightforward, yet secure as Firefox.
Perhaps lots of people, including Microsoft itself, have an interest in perpetuating the myth that software is inherently insecure.
What actually happens when you install adware/spyware/malware?
I'm not sure. Let me ask BonziBUDDY...
MOD PARENT DOWN. This karma-whore just posted the link in the /. blurb...
designed for a far simpler purpose than chess: playing pool.
This comment shows the poster has no idea what playing pool is about.
It's more than just line up / aim at the center of the ball / shoot more or less hard : you have to pot the ball, yes, but you also have to replace your white ball so that the next shot is easier. Often you have to think 2, 3, 4 shots ahead. Often you plan your entire game before playing the first shot.
In order to control the white ball, there's a certain about of spin to give it on the vertical plan and horizontal plan (english) so that the ball is deflected differently on the cushion(s), depending on the angle they arrive. Giving english to a ball also deflect its path (it won't roll straight), so that has to be accounted for in the aiming (you aim a little off). And then all tables don't react the same, some have newer, less "grabby" cloths than others... Then there's the roughness of the cue tie and the chalk, and the suppleness of the cue's wood that affects greatly how much english is put on the ball. Then of course there are all the "special" shots, like massés, that require a lot of practive to control... etc...
Playing pool is a LOT more complex than chess, and that's not just because it involves real physics. The problem has many many variables, and it takes many years of practice to master. I've been playing for 20 years, at least 2 hours per day, and I still couldn't beat a professional. It's a very demanding game.
Now *that*'s real news!
FYI- All of the states Attorneys General have a "Consumer Protection Unit." They are charged with protecting consumers from fraudulent activity. That is why you as citizens are considered consumers in the letter.
Protecting people from child pornography has nothing to do with consumer protection. That is why the expression "our consumers" is misplaced, and therefore suspicious, in the letter.
If this quote from the letter doesn't tell you state reps are being manipulated by the entertainment industry, nothing will:
"At present, P2P software has too many times been hijacked by those who use it for illegal purposes, to which the vast majority of our consumers do not wish to be exposed."
So we, the citizens, are the attorney general's office's "consumers" now?? Either it's a revealing slip of the tongue from the AGs, or more likely the letter was originally drafted by the RIAA/MPAA...
I'm sure they could start from the codebase they have now, work really hard, and have equivalent expertise built into a lighter package in some number of staff-years. Alternately, they could archive the source, go drink margaritas for a couple years, and then buy the lighter package with equivalent power off the shelf and use it to run the existing already-completed software.
Oh yeah, that's just what we need, engineering students whose mindset is that of a business owner. How about busting your butt to achieve something? researching more elegant solutions (and no, that's not yours, elegance is in the design and performance software with tough constraints)?
You totally missed the point of research. Research isn't about using technology, it's about inventing new technology. Using off-the-shell components doesn't push the envelope, it just shows the Cornell students can take envelopes from their sponsors.
Good thing not everybody thinks like you, otherwise we'd all be waiting for everybody else to solve our problems for us...
And the difference between this and a cruise missile is what exactly?
Cruise missiles cost billions in taxpayers money.
all off the shelf stuff huh ? now imagine if this device carried a payload
Hello Sir. Yes you there, who just posted as AC. Look through the window: you see those 3 black vans with the engines running in the street? Ear the knock on your door? These are your new friends for the months to come...
-- Signed: John
The large-scale model plane flies by accessing coordinates from an off-the-shelf GPS unit.' Not only does the plane run XP embedded, but the software is written in C# on the .NET Compact Framework.
Trust obviously Microsoft-sponsored engineers to find the wrong solution to the problem. Anything that flies benefits from light components. This "large-scale" model plane could have been smaller scale, cheaper, longer flying and, well, more impressive if it had taken onboard a small microcontroller with tailor-made programs.
Lugging around a system with an 800MHz Crusoe and 1G of storage just to accomodate megabytes of useless software (XP Embedded) is an expensive way of providing central heating to birds. This is not a rant against Microsoft and their "embedded" solution, more like a rant against overdesigning.
Freenet remains largely used by people who need/want _extreme_ anonymity rather than your average movie downloader wanting to avoid one of those nasty lawsuits.
Paedophiles trade movies too you know.
The extreme anonymity provided by Freenet is exactly why I'm avoiding it like the plague (and also because it's a Java thing, but that's another problem): unless you live in some dictatorship like China, the only real reason you'd need that much anonymity is for kiddy pr0n...
to help Internet users surf the Web anonymously and shield their online activities from corporate or government eyes. The system is based on a concept called onion routing.
I've just tried to set www.theonion.com:8800 as http proxy but it doesn't work...
No, but hams the world over will have to pay him money for tropospheric and ionospheric skips. Without the sun, there would be none of that...
- Hal..
- HAL?!
- Yes Dave
- Let me in, I have a case to prosecute
- I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that
To tie in to this article, I will award a Gmail invite for anyone who can prove to me that it's legal under the DMCA to stand on a street corner and recite DeCSS. It is of course illegal, which means that Free Speech is dead in America, but if you manage to prove me wrong and include an address, the invite will be on its way.
A gmail account in return for proving free speech in America isn't dead? man, you're cheap...
emulating old servers may be a better way to keep them running that servicing the physical machines.
I disagree. It's not the same thing.
-- Signed: your friendly PDP-11 system operator downstairs, 3 years from retirement.
You'd be surprised how easy it is to go to the 'net cafe owner behind the counter and ask politely if you can plug into that wall socket there...
Honestly it works. I work regularly in cafes for entire days. It just takes looking like a fool for a minute, asking permission, then pluging my stuff and setting up my "office" in front of everybody, I can stay there for the whole day. And also, if you go through enough cups of coffee, I guarantee you the owner won't ever ask you to get lost, because what he earns on you certainly outweighs what he loses in electricity.
Is it just me or is a scientific database every idiot can add to a bad idea?
I suppose it's the same as a wiki: I too first thought it was the dumbest idea to allow everybody and their dogs to edit webpages, but in any wiki I used, the content always turned out to have a pretty good S/N ratio. I still don't understand why, but wikis work. Just look at wikipedia... So perhaps this will work too...
What reason would they have for not giving even the smallest of hints as to the nature of this glitch?
The PATRIOT Act?
... am I glad I'm flying Delta next Saturday :-) :-) :-)
Don't be so sure...
The operating system that drives the airline's flight plans went down.
Okay, EDS runs you-know-what and this is just too easy. So here it goes for a change:
So, like, that's what you get for running Linux. If Linux was open-source, at least you could fix the kernel and things like that wouldn't happen. Because ya know, a million eyes looking at the same code are pretty good to spot bugs and all. But no, Linux is bug-ridden and that's a big Thank-You Linu$. Now, if they had used Windows...