And thanks to the USTASI, you will be caught more redily. Everyone should study the original STASI of East Germany, to see its effects on that society, the way that people interacted with each other under it, and how brother could not trust brother in that aweful informant system.
Of course, it will be even worse when someone is reporting what they think is a malicious hacker, because computer illiteracy is as widespread as reading and writing illiteracy was in the Medireview days.
"Besides playing MPEG-4 and MP3 content, QuickTime supports timecode tracks as well as MIDI standards such as the Roland Sound Canvas and GS format extensions. QuickTime also supports key standards for web streaming, including HTTP, RTP and RTSP. Plus, QuickTime supports every major file format for images, including JPEG, BMP, PICT, PNG and GIF. QuickTime also features built-in support for digital video, including the DV camcorder formats, as well as support for AVI, AVR, MPEG-1, H.263 and OpenDML."
But if you drop twenty MP3 files on a quicktime window, it opens twentty instances of the player, instead of queueing them up to be played.
That is insane.
Has no one said to Apple that they have to have a PLAYLIST EDITOR with Quicktime?
Amazingly, you can use a playlist made by another application with Quicktime, but it cannot make and organize them itself. And that pathetic "favorites" thing is just that; a pathetic thing.
When you open the file dialog, you cannot select more than one file at a time to be played. And when you do open one, it opens in another instance by default.
And for all of that boasting about being able to open 200 file formats, saying file> presents you with "new player" or "open movie". When you open a file, movie or not, it opens in a new player (by default), so the "open new player" is.
For all this, Quicktime sounds better than Freeamp and Winamp to my ears; I would use it all the time if it had a sensible playlist. Yes yes I know "Go get OSX / Itunes". It's on my list.
Why not just have a licence plage made entirely of LCD? Every day you get in your car, you can select your vanity number of choice simply by keying it in on the keyboard glued to the door of the gloove compartment!
There would also have to be a panic button on the steering wheel so that when you get pulled over you can revert the plate number to the same one that is in your registration docs.
I used to play Tetris like that, until one day, in an arcade, a man who had been watching me wait for a certain piece said to me, "Tetris is not about making pretty patterns. It's about filling in the holes"
In a word, yes. Why should we deliberately store millions of CC records in plain text on IIS barn door machines when they can be encrypted with freely available tools?
Only a fool would not take that precaution.
In any case, this is also about allowing one unrustworthy company, that has been found guilty of antitrust violations, to extend its dirty hands into another area of commerce where it will, if its past behavior is anything to go by (and we know that it is), dominate, unfairly destroy superior and competing technologies and companies (Netscape), mishandle the implimentation of mission critical services (Passport), and deliberately use its own inferior products over proven ones simply to save face (Hotmail).
We really dont need this particular company to join Passport and credit cards at the hip.
From their point of view, the momentum they could generate by joining these two services would be enormous...an irresistable temptataion.
Many companies have their own branded credit cards. I wonder how many people here carry VISA / Mastercard / Amex?
If anyone doesnt like what these companies are doing, there is always an alternative.
People use credit cards because the massive lapses in security are never properly publicised and also, whenever someone steals from their card, they get the money refunded.
Basically, they have nothing to loose, and like I said, if they want privacy, there are many ways to achieve this, PrivateBuy being just one.
Besides the fact that this would be spam, the reason companies are using free (as in beer) solutions like Perl is that these companies simply don't have the spare cash to spend on software. To use your example, airlines are simply bleeding red ink [businessweek.com] these days.
"RYANAIR DELIVERS RECORD Q.3 PROFITS DESPITE EFFECTS OF 11TH SEPTEMBER TRAFFIC GROWS BY 30%, PROFI TS RISE BY 35%"
And contacting Ryanair would not be spam. I am talking about making a phonecall to the people who maintain and who wrote the ticketing application. Only ten to fifteen calls like this would do the trick, and solve the current problem for the foundation.
It's like saying that everyone who drives by a beautiful piece of public art must now pay for that privledge or the art will be taken down.
Rubbish.
Ryan Air have benefitted enormously thanks to Perl, and it would be good of them(reg) to simply say "thank you" to the developers by paying a small amount to aid in the further development of Perl.
Perhaps, the proceeds from one fully booked flight between Paris and London?
If they do not do this, Perl isnt going to be withdrawn as in your example, and because the source is available, someone else can always pick up the task.
Companies give billions away each year to charity. Why not give what is comparitivley an extremely small amount to developers so that the world can run free software?
Free software is as worthy a cause as any to support.
Runs its industrial strength ticketing system on Perl.
How hard can it be to call the people who maintain it and ask them for the Perl Foundation to email Ryan Air and the other huge companies that rely on Perl for a relatively small donation?
Even if you ignore Frontpage's effects, a lot of the more recent authoring programs don't put out the cleanest code. Not necessarily as bad as tag soup of the past, but still putting out code that works with no problem in IE, but not good in Netscape/etc.
Anyone that really wants to solve this problem needs to take some time and write an extension for Macromedia Dreamweaver that prevents it from creating non compliant HTML.
Dreamweaver is used by around one million people, who would gladly boast that their code is 100% W3C compliant; after all, it makes them look competent.
In this way, pages would by default be viewable on any browser.
Its pointless trying to get WYSIWYG people to run two browsers and test against them both. This needs to be solved at the code creation stage, and thankfully, since Dreamweaver allows you to greatly change the way it works, this can be done.
All it takes is one person to step up to the plate, create this extension, and post it at the macromedia extensions page
No. Lets say someone from England broke a German law. The German police will issue an arrest warant in Berlin, and the English person will be arrested in London and transported to Germany, no questions asked.
There is nothing that a UK judge can do to stop this, there is no extradition review; this is the problem.
In France, you have to prove that you are innocent when you are accused of something; there is no notion of "innocent until proven guilty" under the French legal system.
The new pan European arrest warrant, and the EEC in general is eroding the notion of jurisdiction. This is terrible because Europeans have completely different notions of justice to each other.
All laws in the EEC are now a sickening hodge podge of the worst legislation of each country. The Lowest Common Denominator if you like.
And thanks to the European arrest warrant, anyone anywhere can be arrested in Europe for remotely breaking the laws of one European state from another jurisdiction. Your local courts will have no power to stop you being transported and incarcerated in another country by foreign police.
This is not entirely new. Before this (1996) the Germans were able to raid an address in the Netherlands over the magazine Radikal. Read about it here.
The fact is that anywhere in Europe that absurd laws are passed, the practical effect now is that the law is simultaneously passed everywhere , for all people. This is A Bad Thing.
For years the Japanese have been keeping some of the best Video games to themselvs; mostly the puzzle games, war sims and RPGs, and indeed, even great consoles in their many variations like the PCEngine.
Importers made (make) a fortune out of these "Japan Only" games, and when you get them, learning how they work is a puzzle on top of the game itself.
Very rarely, there is a software switch to turn English on in a game; Klax for example on Hu Card had this feature, but that was written in the USA.
You can forget titles like "Strip Mah Jong" having english switches.
I am not overly concerned about the upstream downstream issue. We have already seen tools that combine small amounts of bandwidth from many different users to make an "on demand fat upstream pipe", as long as all the upstreaming users have identical files on thier system.
People collaborating to share their upstream bandwidth with the inevitable second genration swarming tools that will follow the like of Open Cola and its brethren will completely solve this "problem".
I say inevitable, because whenever a situation like this is artificially created, wether it be censorship (Freenet) or email privacy (PGP), the small group of creative software writers that fix these problems always come up with a tool to redress the balance, and sometimes, change everyones thinking permanently (gnutella).
If I consulted for these media companies, I would advise them to let everyone have the bandwidth that they want, because trafic shaping, contention and other evils will force the creation and evolution of tools that will make it easier to share content, which is precisely what they are trying to restrict.
you should have seen. In 2001, HAL and the situation that "he" and the crew are in is contained. Because of this, he (and the threat to the planet) gets switched off.
A better example of "AI on the loose" is "Demon Seed" with Julie Christie, or "The Forbin Project" with Eric Braeden.
These two films present what probably will happen; AI having its own agenda, unexpected, relentlessly persued and in each case, completely triumphant.
First of all, who cares? America isnt the only place where great companies exist and where there are opportunities to change the world through writing software and contributing to GPL projects. Linux itself is not an American Invention®.
Secondly, the statute of limitations means that after seven years, if someone who violated the DCMA wants to sunbathe in Florida, they can do that.
America is only one country. The whole world benefits from software that is released under the GPL. In reality, there are more opportunities outside of the US, moreso now thanks to the DCMA, which is systematically locking out some of the smartest people in the world and their work.
The code that Elcomsoft wrote was created inside Russia, does not violate any Russian laws, and so its authors are completely safe as long as they stay inside Russia.
Anyone outside of America who is scared of the DCMA isnst thinking straight. They certainly should not stop writing code that is legal in their jurisdiction because of this law.
Before anyone pulls valuable code in a senseless fit of panic, they should take a free consultation from a local lawyer.
When the best development is being done outside of the USA and they begin to see the damage that these insane laws are creating, they will be repealed, just like the restrictions on "exporting" crypto were repealed.
There should be a KYRO at Slashdot: Know Your Rights Online.
Then when you get a nock on the door, you will know exactly what to do.
The confusion over all of this needs to be swept away. This means getting a Real Lawyer® to spell it out for everyone in plain english.
Laws do not travel along with corporations. When a US company has a branch in another country, the laws of the US are not suddenly transferred along with it. Companies are not Embassies; thier operations are not extraterritorial.
The fear of the DCMA is more powerful than the law itself and the people who enforce it.
If this Hidenori Takeshima is resident in Japan (I dont know where he lives) then the DCMA has no effect on him. Period.
The DCMA is relevant to and has force only for United States Persons. If someone in the USA downloads your source from outside of the USA, and that source violates the DCMA, the downloader is liable, not the author if the source in question is subsequently implimented in a project.
Everyone really should understand this by now. The same principle applied to the export of the printed source code of PGP. Once code leaves US borders, it is no longer the business of US courts. Thats why PGPi exists.
If the DCMA continues to break software like this, the only alternative people will have is to move software development into the free world.
"My words are for all; for all, I repeat for all. No one is excluded. Free to all who pay. Free to all who pain pay for all to see for all to see; in Picadilly, in Times Square, Place de la Concorde; in all the streets and plazas of the world! Pay, pay, pay. Play it all, play it all , play it all back. Pay it all, pay it all, pay it all back." "The Last Words of Hassan Sabbah" William S. Burroughs
is unworthy of repetiton. It is poor journalism of the most illiterate kind, engineered to whip up hysteria over something as old as the hills.
The author"With more than 23 years of journalism experience to draw from, Renay San Miguel is a technology anchor and correspondent for CNN Headline News based in CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta....From 1997-2000 he was with CNBC, where he served as a correspondent specializing in technology and the Internet. "
really needs to have 23 years of experience in how to research a story. And anyway, how on EARTH can someone from 1997, "..specializing in technology and the Internet.." not have ever used or seenIRC???
If he knows what IRC is, and STILL wrote that, then he really is just a sh1t stirrer, first class.
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And thanks to the USTASI, you will be caught more redily. Everyone should study the original STASI of East Germany, to see its effects on that society, the way that people interacted with each other under it, and how brother could not trust brother in that aweful informant system.
Of course, it will be even worse when someone is reporting what they think is a malicious hacker, because computer illiteracy is as widespread as reading and writing illiteracy was in the Medireview days.
"Besides playing MPEG-4 and MP3 content, QuickTime supports timecode tracks as well as MIDI standards such as the Roland Sound Canvas and GS format extensions. QuickTime also supports key standards for web streaming, including HTTP, RTP and RTSP. Plus, QuickTime supports every major file format for images, including JPEG, BMP, PICT, PNG and GIF. QuickTime also features built-in support for digital video, including the DV camcorder formats, as well as support for AVI, AVR, MPEG-1, H.263 and OpenDML."
But if you drop twenty MP3 files on a quicktime window, it opens twentty instances of the player, instead of queueing them up to be played.
That is insane.
Has no one said to Apple that they have to have a PLAYLIST EDITOR with Quicktime?
Amazingly, you can use a playlist made by another application with Quicktime, but it cannot make and organize them itself. And that pathetic "favorites" thing is just that; a pathetic thing.
When you open the file dialog, you cannot select more than one file at a time to be played. And when you do open one, it opens in another instance by default.
And for all of that boasting about being able to open 200 file formats, saying file> presents you with "new player" or "open movie". When you open a file, movie or not, it opens in a new player (by default), so the "open new player" is.
For all this, Quicktime sounds better than Freeamp and Winamp to my ears; I would use it all the time if it had a sensible playlist. Yes yes I know "Go get OSX / Itunes". It's on my list.
Why not just have a licence plage made entirely of LCD? Every day you get in your car, you can select your vanity number of choice simply by keying it in on the keyboard glued to the door of the gloove compartment!
There would also have to be a panic button on the steering wheel so that when you get pulled over you can revert the plate number to the same one that is in your registration docs.
Will someone PLEASE DO THIS!
I used to play Tetris like that, until one day, in an arcade, a man who had been watching me wait for a certain piece said to me, "Tetris is not about making pretty patterns. It's about filling in the holes"
After that, my scores went through the roof.
But is it really necessary?
In a word, yes. Why should we deliberately store millions of CC records in plain text on IIS barn door machines when they can be encrypted with freely available tools?
Only a fool would not take that precaution.
In any case, this is also about allowing one unrustworthy company, that has been found guilty of antitrust violations, to extend its dirty hands into another area of commerce where it will, if its past behavior is anything to go by (and we know that it is), dominate, unfairly destroy superior and competing technologies and companies (Netscape), mishandle the implimentation of mission critical services (Passport), and deliberately use its own inferior products over proven ones simply to save face (Hotmail).
We really dont need this particular company to join Passport and credit cards at the hip.
From their point of view, the momentum they could generate by joining these two services would be enormous...an irresistable temptataion.
Many companies have their own branded credit cards. I wonder how many people here carry VISA / Mastercard / Amex?
If anyone doesnt like what these companies are doing, there is always an alternative.
People use credit cards because the massive lapses in security are never properly publicised and also, whenever someone steals from their card, they get the money refunded.
Basically, they have nothing to loose, and like I said, if they want privacy, there are many ways to achieve this, PrivateBuy being just one.
Besides the fact that this would be spam, the reason companies are using free (as in beer) solutions like Perl is that these companies simply don't have the spare cash to spend on software. To use your example, airlines are simply bleeding red ink [businessweek.com] these days.
Utter nonsense.
From the Ryanair website investor relations link: Ryanair are thriving
"RYANAIR DELIVERS RECORD Q.3 PROFITS DESPITE EFFECTS OF 11TH SEPTEMBER TRAFFIC GROWS BY 30%, PROFI TS RISE BY 35%"
And contacting Ryanair would not be spam. I am talking about making a phonecall to the people who maintain and who wrote the ticketing application. Only ten to fifteen calls like this would do the trick, and solve the current problem for the foundation.
It's like saying that everyone who drives by a beautiful piece of public art must now pay for that privledge or the art will be taken down.
Rubbish.
Ryan Air have benefitted enormously thanks to Perl, and it would be good of them(reg) to simply say "thank you" to the developers by paying a small amount to aid in the further development of Perl.
Perhaps, the proceeds from one fully booked flight between Paris and London?
If they do not do this, Perl isnt going to be withdrawn as in your example, and because the source is available, someone else can always pick up the task.
Companies give billions away each year to charity. Why not give what is comparitivley an extremely small amount to developers so that the world can run free software?
Free software is as worthy a cause as any to support.
Runs its industrial strength ticketing system on Perl.
How hard can it be to call the people who maintain it and ask them for the Perl Foundation to email Ryan Air and the other huge companies that rely on Perl for a relatively small donation?
Have they made these contacts already?
Even if you ignore Frontpage's effects, a lot of the more recent authoring programs don't put out the cleanest code. Not necessarily as bad as tag soup of the past, but still putting out code that works with no problem in IE, but not good in Netscape/etc.
Anyone that really wants to solve this problem needs to take some time and write an extension for Macromedia Dreamweaver that prevents it from creating non compliant HTML.
Dreamweaver is used by around one million people, who would gladly boast that their code is 100% W3C compliant; after all, it makes them look competent.
In this way, pages would by default be viewable on any browser.
Its pointless trying to get WYSIWYG people to run two browsers and test against them both. This needs to be solved at the code creation stage, and thankfully, since Dreamweaver allows you to greatly change the way it works, this can be done.
All it takes is one person to step up to the plate, create this extension, and post it at the macromedia extensions page
No. Lets say someone from England broke a German law. The German police will issue an arrest warant in Berlin, and the English person will be arrested in London and transported to Germany, no questions asked.
There is nothing that a UK judge can do to stop this, there is no extradition review; this is the problem.
In France, you have to prove that you are innocent when you are accused of something; there is no notion of "innocent until proven guilty" under the French legal system.
The new pan European arrest warrant, and the EEC in general is eroding the notion of jurisdiction. This is terrible because Europeans have completely different notions of justice to each other.
All laws in the EEC are now a sickening hodge podge of the worst legislation of each country. The Lowest Common Denominator if you like.
And thanks to the European arrest warrant, anyone anywhere can be arrested in Europe for remotely breaking the laws of one European state from another jurisdiction. Your local courts will have no power to stop you being transported and incarcerated in another country by foreign police.
This is not entirely new. Before this (1996) the Germans were able to raid an address in the Netherlands over the magazine Radikal. Read about it here.
The fact is that anywhere in Europe that absurd laws are passed, the practical effect now is that the law is simultaneously passed everywhere , for all people. This is A Bad Thing.
Turbo Grafx was nothing like the real PC Engine, and then there were many variants, line the PC Engine Duo, which never came to america.
The Turbo Grafx was an insluting (yes, insluting) piece of crap, that couldnt even play Japanese HU cards without an illegal adapter from Hong Kong.
That machine actualy exemplifies how badly those companies treat gamers outside of the home market.
For years the Japanese have been keeping some of the best Video games to themselvs; mostly the puzzle games, war sims and RPGs, and indeed, even great consoles in their many variations like the PCEngine.
Importers made (make) a fortune out of these "Japan Only" games, and when you get them, learning how they work is a puzzle on top of the game itself.
Very rarely, there is a software switch to turn English on in a game; Klax for example on Hu Card had this feature, but that was written in the USA.
You can forget titles like "Strip Mah Jong" having english switches.
I am not overly concerned about the upstream downstream issue. We have already seen tools that combine small amounts of bandwidth from many different users to make an "on demand fat upstream pipe", as long as all the upstreaming users have identical files on thier system.
People collaborating to share their upstream bandwidth with the inevitable second genration swarming tools that will follow the like of Open Cola and its brethren will completely solve this "problem".
I say inevitable, because whenever a situation like this is artificially created, wether it be censorship (Freenet) or email privacy (PGP), the small group of creative software writers that fix these problems always come up with a tool to redress the balance, and sometimes, change everyones thinking permanently (gnutella).
If I consulted for these media companies, I would advise them to let everyone have the bandwidth that they want, because trafic shaping, contention and other evils will force the creation and evolution of tools that will make it easier to share content, which is precisely what they are trying to restrict.
you should have seen. In 2001, HAL and the situation that "he" and the crew are in is contained. Because of this, he (and the threat to the planet) gets switched off.
A better example of "AI on the loose" is "Demon Seed" with Julie Christie, or "The Forbin Project" with Eric Braeden.
These two films present what probably will happen; AI having its own agenda, unexpected, relentlessly persued and in each case, completely triumphant.
First of all, who cares? America isnt the only place where great companies exist and where there are opportunities to change the world through writing software and contributing to GPL projects. Linux itself is not an American Invention®.
Secondly, the statute of limitations means that after seven years, if someone who violated the DCMA wants to sunbathe in Florida, they can do that.
America is only one country. The whole world benefits from software that is released under the GPL. In reality, there are more opportunities outside of the US, moreso now thanks to the DCMA, which is systematically locking out some of the smartest people in the world and their work.
If this is the case, then they will be able to extradite the authors from Russia to the USA to face charges.
This will never happen; no Russian Prosecutor will extradite a Russian citizen to the USA because of the DCMA. Read this:
"Russia has no formal court procedure for extraditions and it is the Prosecutor General who decides on extradition applications at his own discretion"
article from "The Russian Issues"
The code that Elcomsoft wrote was created inside Russia, does not violate any Russian laws, and so its authors are completely safe as long as they stay inside Russia.
Anyone outside of America who is scared of the DCMA isnst thinking straight. They certainly should not stop writing code that is legal in their jurisdiction because of this law.
Before anyone pulls valuable code in a senseless fit of panic, they should take a free consultation from a local lawyer.
When the best development is being done outside of the USA and they begin to see the damage that these insane laws are creating, they will be repealed, just like the restrictions on "exporting" crypto were repealed.
There should be a KYRO at Slashdot: Know Your Rights Online.
Then when you get a nock on the door, you will know exactly what to do.
The confusion over all of this needs to be swept away. This means getting a Real Lawyer® to spell it out for everyone in plain english.
Laws do not travel along with corporations. When a US company has a branch in another country, the laws of the US are not suddenly transferred along with it. Companies are not Embassies; thier operations are not extraterritorial.
The fear of the DCMA is more powerful than the law itself and the people who enforce it.
If this Hidenori Takeshima is resident in Japan (I dont know where he lives) then the DCMA has no effect on him. Period.
The DCMA is relevant to and has force only for United States Persons. If someone in the USA downloads your source from outside of the USA, and that source violates the DCMA, the downloader is liable, not the author if the source in question is subsequently implimented in a project.
Everyone really should understand this by now. The same principle applied to the export of the printed source code of PGP. Once code leaves US borders, it is no longer the business of US courts. Thats why PGPi exists.
If the DCMA continues to break software like this, the only alternative people will have is to move software development into the free world.
Yes, the Free world.
You can imagine a call to Windows tech support from someone using Windows that has had the Start button removed.
Actually, what they would do is refuse to help you if you are running a version of windows that is in any way modified.
This could create a huge secondary market for telephone technical support.
Ummm you dont know whats happening in watchmaking obiously:
The Erotic Hour Striker Jaquemart for a fine example of modern watchmaking.
Nothing has been lost at all.
"My words are for all; for all, I repeat for all. No one is excluded. Free to all who pay. Free to all who pain pay for all to see for all to see; in Picadilly, in Times Square, Place de la Concorde; in all the streets and plazas of the world! Pay, pay, pay. Play it all, play it all , play it all back. Pay it all, pay it all, pay it all back."
"The Last Words of Hassan Sabbah"
William S. Burroughs
is unworthy of repetiton. It is poor journalism of the most illiterate kind, engineered to whip up hysteria over something as old as the hills.
The author "With more than 23 years of journalism experience to draw from, Renay San Miguel is a technology anchor and correspondent for CNN Headline News based in CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta....From 1997-2000 he was with CNBC, where he served as a correspondent specializing in technology and the Internet. "
really needs to have 23 years of experience in how to research a story. And anyway, how on EARTH can someone from 1997, "..specializing in technology and the Internet.." not have ever used or seenIRC???
If he knows what IRC is, and STILL wrote that, then he really is just a sh1t stirrer, first class.
Nothing to see here: move along!