Also, let's not forget that after being liberated by the germans many of these frenchmen became terrorists!! omfg! detonating IEDs, derailing trains... Damned illegal combatants
Here's some wild speculation for your amusement. (i have not even rtfa) It has been suggested that the U.S. pressured them to do this right? They seized all the servers in the secure hosting area of this ISP... Perhaps TPB was not the most important target. It could be a cover for an intelligence gathering raid.
How is this a 0-day exploit? we've known ms-word was a security hole for somehting like a decade. Were there some people out there who thought that it was safe to open a word doc before today?
I'm mean heck, you can hardly blame MS, it must be really hard to come up with a secure way of storing formatted text... i mean, what with it's inherent ability to carry viruses and all.... (head asplodes)
They can wiretap everyone else in the world but I don't want our government wiretapping us
Ya, foreigners aren't real people and shouldn't be treated like they were real people.
Can you beleive some hippies even think we should keep track of how many of them we kill each year!?!
Even keeping estimates rounded to the nearest ten thousand would be the first step down a slippery slope. Before you know it americans will start thinking foreigners have souls!
And we all know america couldn't survive militarity or economically if it had to respect the basic human rights of non-americans.... right?
I suppose this solution is a little bigger/more cumbersome than the solutions you mentioned but... I've built a mini-itx system (fanless) with firewire and a 250gig hdd. I then had my roomate build me a little device to connect a button and a set of LEDs to the internal rs232 port. I can control the LEDs and read the button presses from a python script running on the system.
With this setup I have a small/quiet machine (hold in one hand) that is very easy to use. There's a power button and a record button, the LEDs show you when it's recording and how much drive space is left. 250gigs divided by 12.5GB/hour for DV gives me 20 hours of continuous/lossless DV capture (no more glitches from tape read/write problems) When I get back to the office I just plug the machine into the lan and load the AVIs across the network directly into Premiere.
For those of you who seem to be missing the "rights" point of this article I'll point it out for you.
A man who was being criminally negligent and recklessly endagering other people's lives has been charged using your new anti-terror laws.
Do we need to recap what it means to be considered a terrorist in the USA these days? Briefly: indefinite detention without charges, roaming wiretaps without cause beyond suspicion...secret searches...etc
Your "anti-terror" laws are now openly being used to prosecute regular criminals as well as "terrorists".
Sure, 700megs is ok for most movies. I can accept that. But not for a long movie like saving private ryan or the lord of the rings. My point is that bitrates should be chosen based on the desired quality, not on the desired file size irregardless of movie length.
I know it's common but that doesn't make it right. VCD/SVCD/??VCD all suck and should be consigned to history along with VHS and audio cassette tapes.
Here is a public service announcement: Attention warez scene d00dz! Here are the correct encoding setting for movies and TV shows. XVid at 900-1300Kbps 720x480 (do not scale it down! for god's sake. why?)(actually, the height depends on the specific widescreen format used...it's often 330-340 pixels) Audio should be 5 channel AC3 or vbr stereo mp3.
p.s. Do not under any circumstances trade-off encode quality to fit a file on a CD! If your hdd is too small, buy a freaking DVD burner for christ sake. they're only $100 CDN.
And we don't fully understand quantum physics, thus we can't be sure there isn't a way to generate something as funny sounding as an Anti-Heisenberg (insert star trek technical sounding blubbering) field.:)
FYI they're called Heisenberg compensators and they can be found in the transporter systems.
btw, darwin isn't free. It is only free for home users and educational institutions. If you want to use it for commercial purposes you have to "contact their licencing department"... they don't post prices so it is probably expensive.
Every night before i go to bed I pray for ogg to finish their video codec, and for people to write a complete live streaming solution with cross-platform/free(beer)/free(speech) players/encoder/servers.
If that dream comes true I will throw a party and everyone is invited! (byob, i'm not made of money!)
Actually, it isn't free for anything but home users and educational institutions.
I would like to get my employer to provide quicktime streaming in addition to the Real and Windows. The problem is that it is quite expensive.
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Let me begin by saying that I don't run windows so I'm not all upset about the windows realOne player shenanigans. I run Linux. The realplayer on linux runs fine, it plays live real audio and video streams for me. (mplayer does everything else)
Windows users may want to go try one of the new players. (there's one written in python you know... it is very simple, no bloat.) that's up to you though, it doesn't affect me much.
Real network's server software is pretty good though. Better than windows media server. - It runs on linux. - It has an excellent system for live stream redundancy. Every step of the way from the camera to the player you can have multiple redundant systems so that no matter what; your live event does not die. I cannot over-state the importance of this when you are running a live event for a paying customer! - It is extremely modular. Especially now with the mostly open source helix software you can write/modify most capabilities.
I am admin for several Real and windows media servers. Windows servers are an all around pain in the ass. Maybe that biases me towards Real. The windows media server is a black box, when it does something odd like suddenly stop logging or something all I can do is apply the standard MS remedy: restart the service. With the helix servers running on linux I can see what's going on. maybe I've just been spoiled by using OSS all the time.
Oh, and have you ever encountered a bug is MS software, emailed a developer and had the problem resolved? helixcommunity.org actually has developers you can talk to.
good post, except for "...wanting to destroy democracy...". I just wanted to point out that you are repeating propaganda. Generally speaking, the people attacking the USA are not doing so because they are A) jealous of your power, B) Hate democracy, or C) jealous of your freedom. Those are just things the Bush administration and certain media companies say to boost support for the "war on terror". Don't be fooled, if you want to find out the real reasons I could recommend a book or two.
i trimmed the output a bit. slashdot's stupid lameness filter kept telling me I was using too many "bizaar characters" or something like that. there were also a few lines that matched but didnt' actually contain the naughty words.
hehe, some days people on IRC can be so nice and helpfull. here's another grep i was given.
grep -ir " shit" windows_2000_source_code/*
private/inet/wininet/urlcache/conman.cxx:// BUGBUG - DON'T DO THIS SHIT. private/shell/ext/netplwiz/mnddlg.cpp:// this shit's read only private/shell/win16/commctrl/ctl3d.c:// Some ugly shit goin' on here! private/windows/media/avi/avicap/capdib.c:// Holy shit, couldn't change formats, time to punt! private/windows/media/avi/avicap.16/capdib. c:// Holy shit, couldn't change formats, time to punt! private/windows/media/avi/avicap.io/capdib. c:// Holy shit, couldn't change formats, time to punt! private/windows/media/avi/msrle/rle.c:// lets do some majic shit so the compiler generates "good" code.
private/shell/applets/welcome/html/webapp.cpp:// HighContrast mode is turned on. This totally fucks our style sheet as most of it will private/shell/shell32/copy.c:// want to fuck with. private/shell/shell32/util.cpp:// the fucking alpha cpp compiler seems to fuck up the goddam type "LPITEMIDLIST", so to work private/shell/shell32/util.cpp:// around the fucking peice of shit compiler we pass the last param as an void *instead of a LPITEMIDLIST private/shell/shell32/util.h:// the fucking alpha cpp compiler seems to fuck up the goddam type "LPITEMIDLIST", so to work private/shell/shell32/util.h:// around the fucking peice of shit compiler we pass the last param as an LPVOID instead of a LPITEMIDLIST private/windbg64/debugger/tl/remote/ shell/windbgrm.c:// The user fucked up private/windows/media/avi/verinfo.16/verinfo.h : * !!!!!!!!!!!!!!DOING SO FUCKS THE BUILD PROCESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! private/windows/shell/con trol/midi/map.c:// !!!this is fucked if a map goes to multiple physical devices
Yes, embargo, that's it. It isn't a boycott as voivod or whatever his name is suggested.
Now, that being said I would suggest that an embargo does in fact constitute collective punishment. (except perhaps in the case of a genuine democracy where it could be argued that the government really does represent the citizens) I suppose you're right that is perfectly legal. I still don't think it is ethical.
You call this violence and a crime against humanity?
No, only the meat-space version is a crime.
This is just very bad behaviour.
How is a simple boycott so difficult to understand?
It's not a normal boycott.
If Ford's workers strike they could ask the community to not buy ford trucks. That is a boycott.
It would be quite another thing to ask all the gas stations to stop selling fuel to people driving ford trucks. That's the equivalent of what SPEWS does by blocking whole ranges of IPs.
SPEWS blows chunks. here's an inflammatory analogy for you that illustrates the problem with their methods.
spews finds a spammer on a certain IP and blocks (for example) 128 IPs around it. The point of this is not to block the spammer directly but to punish the spammer's neighbours so that they will act to stop the spamming from their neighbourhood.
This is called collective punishment and in meat-space it's considered a crime against humanity. The fact that the stakes are lower in the spam scenario doesn't change the fact that the method is morally wrong.
it is about using violence (or the internet equivalent) to force innocent bystanders to fight for your cause.
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Also, let's not forget that after being liberated by the germans many of these frenchmen became terrorists!! omfg!
detonating IEDs, derailing trains...
Damned illegal combatants
Here's some wild speculation for your amusement. (i have not even rtfa)
It has been suggested that the U.S. pressured them to do this right?
They seized all the servers in the secure hosting area of this ISP...
Perhaps TPB was not the most important target. It could be a cover for an intelligence gathering raid.
How is this a 0-day exploit? we've known ms-word was a security hole for somehting like a decade.
Were there some people out there who thought that it was safe to open a word doc before today?
I'm mean heck, you can hardly blame MS, it must be really hard to come up with a secure way of storing formatted text... i mean, what with it's inherent ability to carry viruses and all.... (head asplodes)
Ya, foreigners aren't real people and shouldn't be treated like they were real people.
Can you beleive some hippies even think we should keep track of how many of them we kill each year!?!
Even keeping estimates rounded to the nearest ten thousand would be the first step down a slippery slope. Before you know it americans will start thinking foreigners have souls!
And we all know america couldn't survive militarity or economically if it had to respect the basic human rights of non-americans.... right?
One of my local universities recently started posting lectures online formatted for ipod video.
check it out:
http://www.carleton.ca/cutv/vod/vodcast.htm
[disclosure: my company helps them with hosting and other related stuff]
I suppose this solution is a little bigger/more cumbersome than the solutions you mentioned but...
I've built a mini-itx system (fanless) with firewire and a 250gig hdd.
I then had my roomate build me a little device to connect a button and a set of LEDs to the internal rs232 port. I can control the LEDs and read the button presses from a python script running on the system.
With this setup I have a small/quiet machine (hold in one hand) that is very easy to use.
There's a power button and a record button, the LEDs show you when it's recording and how much drive space is left.
250gigs divided by 12.5GB/hour for DV gives me 20 hours of continuous/lossless DV capture (no more glitches from tape read/write problems)
When I get back to the office I just plug the machine into the lan and load the AVIs across the network directly into Premiere.
For those of you who seem to be missing the "rights" point of this article I'll point it out for you.
A man who was being criminally negligent and recklessly endagering other people's lives has been charged using your new anti-terror laws.
Do we need to recap what it means to be considered a terrorist in the USA these days?
Briefly: indefinite detention without charges, roaming wiretaps without cause beyond suspicion...secret searches...etc
Your "anti-terror" laws are now openly being used to prosecute regular criminals as well as "terrorists".
Sure, 700megs is ok for most movies. I can accept that. But not for a long movie like saving private ryan or the lord of the rings.
My point is that bitrates should be chosen based on the desired quality, not on the desired file size irregardless of movie length.
I know it's common but that doesn't make it right.
VCD/SVCD/??VCD all suck and should be consigned to history along with VHS and audio cassette tapes.
Here is a public service announcement:
Attention warez scene d00dz! Here are the correct encoding setting for movies and TV shows.
XVid at 900-1300Kbps 720x480 (do not scale it down! for god's sake. why?)(actually, the height depends on the specific widescreen format used...it's often 330-340 pixels) Audio should be 5 channel AC3 or vbr stereo mp3.
p.s. Do not under any circumstances trade-off encode quality to fit a file on a CD! If your hdd is too small, buy a freaking DVD burner for christ sake. they're only $100 CDN.
thank you. that is all.
for god's sake, ditch that outlook crap.
it isn't an email virus, it is an outlook virus.
you may be right.
still.. i have some faint hope.
btw, darwin isn't free.
It is only free for home users and educational institutions. If you want to use it for commercial purposes you have to "contact their licencing department"... they don't post prices so it is probably expensive.
Every night before i go to bed I pray for ogg to finish their video codec, and for people to write a complete live streaming solution with cross-platform/free(beer)/free(speech) players/encoder/servers.
If that dream comes true I will throw a party and everyone is invited! (byob, i'm not made of money!)
Debian users would 'cause all we have to do is type "apt-get install mplayer-686" ...bring on the distro flame war!
Actually, it isn't free for anything but home users and educational institutions.
I would like to get my employer to provide quicktime streaming in addition to the Real and Windows. The problem is that it is quite expensive.
Let me begin by saying that I don't run windows so I'm not all upset about the windows realOne player shenanigans.
I run Linux. The realplayer on linux runs fine, it plays live real audio and video streams for me. (mplayer does everything else)
Windows users may want to go try one of the new players. (there's one written in python you know... it is very simple, no bloat.)
that's up to you though, it doesn't affect me much.
Real network's server software is pretty good though. Better than windows media server.
- It runs on linux.
- It has an excellent system for live stream redundancy. Every step of the way from the camera to the player you can have multiple redundant systems so that no matter what; your live event does not die. I cannot over-state the importance of this when you are running a live event for a paying customer!
- It is extremely modular. Especially now with the mostly open source helix software you can write/modify most capabilities.
I am admin for several Real and windows media servers.
Windows servers are an all around pain in the ass. Maybe that biases me towards Real.
The windows media server is a black box, when it does something odd like suddenly stop logging or something all I can do is apply the standard MS remedy: restart the service.
With the helix servers running on linux I can see what's going on. maybe I've just been spoiled by using OSS all the time.
Oh, and have you ever encountered a bug is MS software, emailed a developer and had the problem resolved?
helixcommunity.org actually has developers you can talk to.
good post, except for "...wanting to destroy democracy...". I just wanted to point out that you are repeating propaganda.
Generally speaking, the people attacking the USA are not doing so because they are A) jealous of your power, B) Hate democracy, or C) jealous of your freedom.
Those are just things the Bush administration and certain media companies say to boost support for the "war on terror". Don't be fooled, if you want to find out the real reasons I could recommend a book or two.
If G.W. is a star trek fan he sure isn't a fan of the federation.... the Romulan Empire maybe.
i trimmed the output a bit.
slashdot's stupid lameness filter kept telling me I was using too many "bizaar characters" or something like that.
there were also a few lines that matched but didnt' actually contain the naughty words.
hehe, some days people on IRC can be so nice and helpfull. here's another grep i was given.
// this shit's read only // Some ugly shit goin' on here! // Holy shit, couldn't change formats, time to punt!. c: // Holy shit, couldn't change formats, time to punt!. c: // Holy shit, couldn't change formats, time to punt! // lets do some majic shit so the compiler generates "good" code.
grep -ir " shit" windows_2000_source_code/*
private/inet/wininet/urlcache/conman.cxx:// BUGBUG - DON'T DO THIS SHIT.
private/shell/ext/netplwiz/mnddlg.cpp:
private/shell/win16/commctrl/ctl3d.c:
private/windows/media/avi/avicap/capdib.c:
private/windows/media/avi/avicap.16/capdib
private/windows/media/avi/avicap.io/capdib
private/windows/media/avi/msrle/rle.c:
grep -ir fuck windows_2000_source_code/*
// HighContrast mode is turned on. This totally fucks our style sheet as most of it will/ shell/windbgrm .c: // The user fucked uph : * !!!!!!!!!!!!!!DOING SO FUCKS THE BUILD PROCESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!n trol/midi/map.c: // !!!this is fucked if a map goes to multiple physical devices
private/shell/applets/welcome/html/webapp.cpp:
private/shell/shell32/copy.c:// want to fuck with.
private/shell/shell32/util.cpp:// the fucking alpha cpp compiler seems to fuck up the goddam type "LPITEMIDLIST", so to work
private/shell/shell32/util.cpp:// around the fucking peice of shit compiler we pass the last param as an void *instead of a LPITEMIDLIST
private/shell/shell32/util.h:// the fucking alpha cpp compiler seems to fuck up the goddam type "LPITEMIDLIST", so to work
private/shell/shell32/util.h:// around the fucking peice of shit compiler we pass the last param as an LPVOID instead of a LPITEMIDLIST
private/windbg64/debugger/tl/remote
private/windows/media/avi/verinfo.16/verinfo.
private/windows/shell/co
Yes, embargo, that's it.
It isn't a boycott as voivod or whatever his name is suggested.
Now, that being said I would suggest that an embargo does in fact constitute collective punishment. (except perhaps in the case of a genuine democracy where it could be argued that the government really does represent the citizens)
I suppose you're right that is perfectly legal. I still don't think it is ethical.
No, only the meat-space version is a crime.
This is just very bad behaviour.
How is a simple boycott so difficult to understand?
It's not a normal boycott.
If Ford's workers strike they could ask the community to not buy ford trucks. That is a boycott.
It would be quite another thing to ask all the gas stations to stop selling fuel to people driving ford trucks. That's the equivalent of what SPEWS does by blocking whole ranges of IPs.
SPEWS blows chunks.
here's an inflammatory analogy for you that illustrates the problem with their methods.
spews finds a spammer on a certain IP and blocks (for example) 128 IPs around it. The point of this is not to block the spammer directly but to punish the spammer's neighbours so that they will act to stop the spamming from their neighbourhood.
This is called collective punishment and in meat-space it's considered a crime against humanity. The fact that the stakes are lower in the spam scenario doesn't change the fact that the method is morally wrong.
it is about using violence (or the internet equivalent) to force innocent bystanders to fight for your cause.
i couldn't agree more.
i'd like to add that they should have to demonstrate an understanding of stopping distances.
i think i should be allowed to plead self defense if I shoot someone who follows 3 meters behind me at 120k/h