True, however I was referring to a snoopy mom trying to pull up my document history or web history. In Windows, everybody shares the same history. In Linux, history is not shared. Great, so mom is a little savey and can local boot as root, will she still know what web sites I visisted? It takes a lot more savy than to boot up as anybody, open your favorite browser and view history. It is true a root exploit will allow viewing of logs, but can a non-technical (non-admin type) user find them?
Local Root = 2 I like it! Any version of WIN 3.x, 9.X, CE etc. all fail local root. Ever hit cancel on the Windows login screen? Ever reboot to get past a locked Windows screenscaver? Ever reboot somebodys Linux box to get past a locked screensaver? Ever hit cancel on a login screen on somebody's Linux box? Simple "my mother can get in" issues with Windows are non-issues on Linux. Mom can't just reboot my personal machine to check where I have visisted recently on the internet! It takes lots more skill to look into somebody's nix box.
It sounds just like an automated changeover the movie theatres used to handle 20 minute reels. When one reel was nearing the end, the second projector would pre-roll to come up to speed, then a changeover would take place and the first projector would shut down. The reel would be rewound and the third reel would be mounted for the next changeover. Original Nitrate (Flamable) film was limited to 20 minute reels and they were placed in enclosed reels on the projector. To save the amount of film handling after safety film came out, most moviehouses used 40 minute reels, holding 2 20 minute reels spliced end to end and placed on one larger reel. Now multiplex theatres use the platter system where all 6 to 8 20 minute reels are spliced together onto a platter. (Make-up) On a platter system, the film pays out from the center of the reel so there is no need to rewind between showings. After the week or two of showings, the film is taken apart and put back onto 20 minute reels for shipping. (Break-down) If you go to an older movie house, look for the 3 or 4 small windows. They were for the 2 projectors and a place for the projectionist to check the focus. The windows were small as part of the fire protection. Newer places use larger windows as nitrate film is no longer used. Sometimes you can see the single projector and the platters in the window. This window is noise protection only, not fire protection.
It's quite simple to legaly bypass this. Have a text only e-mail client. You don't run the software protected by the DMCA and you don't read any of the spam incoded in it. That will not prevent you from receiving the rest of your text mail and reading it. Whoever decided that a mail client should run executable code from any untrusted source made a big mistake. None of my books burn my house down, why should an e-mail be given the privialge to burn my OS down?
It does work like a charm. Just remember to trashcan unable to deliver replies. Most spam can not be replied to. It almost always bounces as undeliverable because user is unknown. I know because I am a Washington State resident. I reply to inform the sender of the law that lets me collect $$ if they spam me after I informed them I am a Washington State resident. You don't want to make a rejected mail loop with your mail server.
Friction equates to loss or attenuation. The signal gets weaker with distance. Attenuation does not affect speed. Propagation factor is another mater. It does affect the velocity of the signal, but does not change the amplitude. In cable both items are present. Attenuation is due to both resitance of the copper conductor and dielectric losses in the insulation. Delay is caused by the dialectric, not the conductor. The delay in cables is well known. Anyone who uses a TDR regularly is aware of the velocity factor of the type of cable they are measuring. It must be known to get an accurate length measurement. Air dielectric has a constant of 1. Coax with solid dielectric is near 2/3rd that speed. I wonder if the university study took into account the velocity factor for the cable. If not, I expect they will find light is about 20% slow.
The best experiment I saw for measuring the speed of light was done using the mirror (8 sided) out of a laser printer. At rest a laser was reflected off a face of the mirror and went to a target reflector. Oposite the laser, a detector was used to see the same target off another face of the mirror. When the mirror was spun, the laser scanned the reflector. The reflected light pulse would not reach the detector because the travel delay kept the return pulse from hitting the mirror at the right angle to reach the detector. At a certan speed the pulse reached the mirror in the right postion (1/8th rotation) to send the reflected pulse on to the detector. Light only reached the detector with the mirror at rest and at a speed where the mirror turned 1/8th of a revolution in the time the light took to travel from the mirror to the reflector and back to the mirror. It was a good class. We started with a known distance to measure the speed of light, then used an unknown reflector (stop sign down the block) much further away and used our speed results to measure the distance.
Macrovision took out any resemblence of NTSC broadcast quality. Macrovision deliberately violates much of the standard to screw up AGC in VCR's downstream. It exceeds 100 IRE at times to cause AGC to compress video throwing the SYNC, Blanking, Color Subcarrier, and Pedistal way out of spec in the process. Without it, it may have a chance of getting close to the standard.
However the people doing the publishing don't want this, even though it's the logical consequence of selling a licence to use. It's also why I back up (cheap insurance) expensive media against warpage in the car, scratches, theft, etc. It's too expensive to replace and the record store will not replace any 5 year old warped recording you may wish to exchange.
The complaint is when I bought the medium, there was a lack of resources able to back them up. (Hi-Fi stereo record cutters and blanks / quality 8 track recorders and blank media, etc.) Now that the medium has degraded, the content is in poor shape and unrecoverable back to new condition. The provider of the content has absolutely no intrest in replacing worn out medium so the content can be enjoyed in it's original form. I get no discount turning in a 12 inch LP of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon towards a replacement LP or a compact disk. To restore the content requires buying a second royalty payment. I can not get a replacement copy without paying for the second copy of the royalty. That is my beef! I don't want to pay the second royalty, promotion, cover art, etc. I just want a replacement stamping for the cost of the stamping. Home CD backups are great. I can do my own high quality stamping (burning) just for the cost of a 20 cent blank, not the 16 dollar replacement product.
I know the feeling. I've got this box of 8 track tapes from the 70's that won't play properly any more. The pressure pads have fallen off and the tape splices keep breaking. None of the music shops will trade them for replacements. I still have the license to play these if only I could. My box of LP's are not in too good of shape either, but they still play. It is getting hard to find a replacement stylus.
In the stock news on Yahoo, about 1/8th of the news articles had a vague headline to a subscription finance news service. Now checking stock news, these news links no longer exist. If the lack of these headlines means anything (dead) then Yahoo may have to look at the path taken by others in the field to not repeat the same mistakes.
Windows 95 upgrade... They are getting hard to find as it isn't a current model, but Windows 95 was sold without a browser. I still have a running copy.
Nothing has changed. It's the new CB radio of the 1970's. If they didn't like what their neighbor said, and he couldn't identify him, he got a 1KW linear amplifier (not leagal) and ran that on the 5 watt band to deny him the ability to carry on a conversation with anybody. We used to refer to these abusers as being 10 feet tall behind the microphone. Their mission was to dissrupt someone elses conversation in an airwaves ownership battle. Radio direction finding equipment was rare and expensive. Most people couldn't find one and take the time to track someone down. Many times by the time you got close to finding an antagonist, they would finish the flame war and go silent. I had a RDF (homebuilt) and used it against the worst nearby offenders that were overly perseitant at being a pain to somebody. The element of supprise announcing the address of the offender on the air was worth the hunt. Most people were so used to being un-trackable, they got quite bold at being abusive. A positive ID came as a major blow to them. Suddenly they had to worry about angry neighbors attacking and destroying their car, windows, etc. (this happened to an abuser trolling for flame wars on air, his car was totaly destroyed by parties unknown) They were no longer able to hide when the source of the attacks were revealed. With distributed DOS attacks, it is harder to track the offender. Unfortunately this ability to hide the true identity allows abuse to reach further and disrupt more communications than it used to while being harder to track.
That would be so cool, running one off of the "waste" of the other Trying to invent a perpetual motion engine again? Fuel cell tech is just a variation of the motor driving a generator to power the motor. The net losses bring these to a halt fairly quickly. It will never have a net gain of power. All conversions have some loss to them. None are more than 100% effecient.
Actualy I can give a shot at answering this one. You are correct in assuming hydrogen is difficult to store. The lighter a gas is, the faster it can seep through a fault in a container or a gas permiable material. A container that can contain CO2 for years, may lose all it's hydrogen in a very short time. Heilum is much heavier than hydrogen and much safer (I know it's not a fuel. It's used for leak detection because it's inhert) even though heavier than Hydrogen. Heilum is used for rapid "leak detection" in high vac systems because it can quickly find it's way in the smallest and slowest of leaks. Presence of the gas is sensed at the vac pump and almost gives a leak indication in real time when some heilum is blowen onto a faulty joint or seal. Many materials pass hydrogen readly like many plastic bottles pass water and many household chemicals. You can tell these older bottles on the shelf in the store as they start to collapse due to the product passing out through the plastic container. Seals and gaskets for hydrogen use are special. This is why soda pop and bottled water is put in Poly Ethylene Terephthalate PET plastic containers instead of regular Poly Ethelene PE, High Density Poly Ethylene HDPE, or Poly Propolene PPE plastic containers. The other plastics will not hold the CO2 very long. The PET container is designed to not pass CO2 so your favorite soft drink does not go flat on the shelf. This is why your heilum balloons will go flat much sooner than the same ones filled with air or CO2. Mylar is even better.
This would be great. I wonder what effect this will have on automobile power as well?
$100 per fillup...for the generator...the gas equivelant of about 3 gallons of gasoline... Not much effect.
Give this one many years before the plant is cheap enough, the fuel affordable etc. The fuel will not be affordable until gasoline becomes less affordable. In a free market society, green choices are often rejected due to the large increase in operating expense. You can be green if money is no object. (Getes may use one to recharge his pocket PC) For the rest of us, it needs to be price competetive.
I agree. Boycott these CDs. The consumer is always right and has a vote. ($$$) I simply hope I don't get out-voted. My vote has been very small lately because I have been priced out of the market. (outvoted by rich kids) Last year I spent less than $50 on music. I found Christmas music 5 CD's for $15. I still don't understand why most CD's are more expensive than tapes. They are cheaper to manufacture. Many movies on DVD are cheaper than CD's. They certanly cost more to make. (These are the big reasons for my price resistance) An $10 and up CD no matter how much I like the artist gets left on the shelf. This covers 98% of the material. Ever notice collections of patriotic songs are only $3.95?
3.Can I listen to the songs from this CD on my MP3 player?
As with all computer software there may be incompatibilities with some computer systems. The CD is designed to play on PCs. The current version of the copy-protection technology does not allow you to copy files from the CD into MP3 format. UMG is currently making every effort possible to upgrade our available technology to add new features and increase playability. Empasis is mine. Do not read MAKES MP3's into this! It does not say that. Think other protected media such as Data-Play or WMA using a GUID. Your ripped files will only play on your device and not your friends. Shared protected files are unplayable on units it was not ripped specificaly for. 5 friends = 5 seprate rips. Posting a single rip that everyone can copy and play is what they are stopping.
I don't think it will ever be rippable to MP3. Think WMA and the GUID. It will rip in the future to work on your device (PC or WMA enabled player), but not your buddy's device. To do curcumvent this and convert to MP3's will expose you to the Lawyer Employment Fund imposed by the DMCA. The files are not sharable. This of course will still be incompatible with some devices that do not support protected media. You did get the latest and greatest MP3/WMA player, didn't you?
This is the same risk as an addressable cable TV box or Dish TV box. It has the same use. If you have a subscription, you get content coded to your box and nobody else. If you take your unmodified cable box and dropped it on someone elses system, it will send it's number (2way system) and be denied service. On a one way system (DISH) the number has to be phoned in. Then they have personal inoformation. The billing department requires it. Remember to not connect your Microsoft Cable box (computer) to any service you don't want to see your ID number (internet).
with no security holes? The first thing that comes to mind is any embeded controller without any outside connections. Nobody has hacked into my bread machine or microwave oven lately. It has user input, but the user input junk filter seems to work pretty good. I've never gotten the microwave to accept 2 hours and 93 minutes as valid input no matter how hard I try.
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It means when you agree to "industry standard boilerplate", you gave the BSA full promission to invade a do an audit without a court order! As soon as I can get rid of the last of the MS software, I can put a sign on the front door stating "No software permited inside with licenses providing the BSA permission to audit". Most everyone has heard of the BSA.
The fact you can avoid giving permission to an audit without a warrant needs promoted.
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True, however I was referring to a snoopy mom trying to pull up my document history or web history. In Windows, everybody shares the same history. In Linux, history is not shared. Great, so mom is a little savey and can local boot as root, will she still know what web sites I visisted? It takes a lot more savy than to boot up as anybody, open your favorite browser and view history. It is true a root exploit will allow viewing of logs, but can a non-technical (non-admin type) user find them?
Local Root = 2
I like it! Any version of WIN 3.x, 9.X, CE etc. all fail local root. Ever hit cancel on the Windows login screen? Ever reboot to get past a locked Windows screenscaver? Ever reboot somebodys Linux box to get past a locked screensaver? Ever hit cancel on a login screen on somebody's Linux box? Simple "my mother can get in" issues with Windows are non-issues on Linux. Mom can't just reboot my personal machine to check where I have visisted recently on the internet! It takes lots more skill to look into somebody's nix box.
It sounds just like an automated changeover the movie theatres used to handle 20 minute reels. When one reel was nearing the end, the second projector would pre-roll to come up to speed, then a changeover would take place and the first projector would shut down. The reel would be rewound and the third reel would be mounted for the next changeover. Original Nitrate (Flamable) film was limited to 20 minute reels and they were placed in enclosed reels on the projector. To save the amount of film handling after safety film came out, most moviehouses used 40 minute reels, holding 2 20 minute reels spliced end to end and placed on one larger reel. Now multiplex theatres use the platter system where all 6 to 8 20 minute reels are spliced together onto a platter. (Make-up) On a platter system, the film pays out from the center of the reel so there is no need to rewind between showings. After the week or two of showings, the film is taken apart and put back onto 20 minute reels for shipping. (Break-down) If you go to an older movie house, look for the 3 or 4 small windows. They were for the 2 projectors and a place for the projectionist to check the focus. The windows were small as part of the fire protection. Newer places use larger windows as nitrate film is no longer used. Sometimes you can see the single projector and the platters in the window. This window is noise protection only, not fire protection.
It's quite simple to legaly bypass this. Have a text only e-mail client. You don't run the software protected by the DMCA and you don't read any of the spam incoded in it. That will not prevent you from receiving the rest of your text mail and reading it. Whoever decided that a mail client should run executable code from any untrusted source made a big mistake. None of my books burn my house down, why should an e-mail be given the privialge to burn my OS down?
It does work like a charm. Just remember to trashcan unable to deliver replies. Most spam can not be replied to. It almost always bounces as undeliverable because user is unknown. I know because I am a Washington State resident. I reply to inform the sender of the law that lets me collect $$ if they spam me after I informed them I am a Washington State resident. You don't want to make a rejected mail loop with your mail server.
It's best to lock the barn before the horse gets stolen, not after.
The best experiment I saw for measuring the speed of light was done using the mirror (8 sided) out of a laser printer. At rest a laser was reflected off a face of the mirror and went to a target reflector. Oposite the laser, a detector was used to see the same target off another face of the mirror. When the mirror was spun, the laser scanned the reflector. The reflected light pulse would not reach the detector because the travel delay kept the return pulse from hitting the mirror at the right angle to reach the detector. At a certan speed the pulse reached the mirror in the right postion (1/8th rotation) to send the reflected pulse on to the detector. Light only reached the detector with the mirror at rest and at a speed where the mirror turned 1/8th of a revolution in the time the light took to travel from the mirror to the reflector and back to the mirror. It was a good class. We started with a known distance to measure the speed of light, then used an unknown reflector (stop sign down the block) much further away and used our speed results to measure the distance.
Macrovision took out any resemblence of NTSC broadcast quality. Macrovision deliberately violates much of the standard to screw up AGC in VCR's downstream. It exceeds 100 IRE at times to cause AGC to compress video throwing the SYNC, Blanking, Color Subcarrier, and Pedistal way out of spec in the process. Without it, it may have a chance of getting close to the standard.
However the people doing the publishing don't want this, even though it's the logical consequence of selling a licence to use.
It's also why I back up (cheap insurance) expensive media against warpage in the car, scratches, theft, etc. It's too expensive to replace and the record store will not replace any 5 year old warped recording you may wish to exchange.
The complaint is when I bought the medium, there was a lack of resources able to back them up. (Hi-Fi stereo record cutters and blanks / quality 8 track recorders and blank media, etc.) Now that the medium has degraded, the content is in poor shape and unrecoverable back to new condition. The provider of the content has absolutely no intrest in replacing worn out medium so the content can be enjoyed in it's original form. I get no discount turning in a 12 inch LP of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon towards a replacement LP or a compact disk. To restore the content requires buying a second royalty payment. I can not get a replacement copy without paying for the second copy of the royalty. That is my beef! I don't want to pay the second royalty, promotion, cover art, etc. I just want a replacement stamping for the cost of the stamping. Home CD backups are great. I can do my own high quality stamping (burning) just for the cost of a 20 cent blank, not the 16 dollar replacement product.
I know the feeling. I've got this box of 8 track tapes from the 70's that won't play properly any more. The pressure pads have fallen off and the tape splices keep breaking. None of the music shops will trade them for replacements. I still have the license to play these if only I could. My box of LP's are not in too good of shape either, but they still play. It is getting hard to find a replacement stylus.
In the stock news on Yahoo, about 1/8th of the news articles had a vague headline to a subscription finance news service. Now checking stock news, these news links no longer exist. If the lack of these headlines means anything (dead) then Yahoo may have to look at the path taken by others in the field to not repeat the same mistakes.
Windows 95 upgrade... They are getting hard to find as it isn't a current model, but Windows 95 was sold without a browser. I still have a running copy.
I don't want the browser to be part of the OS. I don't want the spouse hitting start-documents and seeing where I have been ;-)
Nothing has changed. It's the new CB radio of the 1970's. If they didn't like what their neighbor said, and he couldn't identify him, he got a 1KW linear amplifier (not leagal) and ran that on the 5 watt band to deny him the ability to carry on a conversation with anybody. We used to refer to these abusers as being 10 feet tall behind the microphone. Their mission was to dissrupt someone elses conversation in an airwaves ownership battle. Radio direction finding equipment was rare and expensive. Most people couldn't find one and take the time to track someone down. Many times by the time you got close to finding an antagonist, they would finish the flame war and go silent. I had a RDF (homebuilt) and used it against the worst nearby offenders that were overly perseitant at being a pain to somebody. The element of supprise announcing the address of the offender on the air was worth the hunt. Most people were so used to being un-trackable, they got quite bold at being abusive. A positive ID came as a major blow to them. Suddenly they had to worry about angry neighbors attacking and destroying their car, windows, etc. (this happened to an abuser trolling for flame wars on air, his car was totaly destroyed by parties unknown) They were no longer able to hide when the source of the attacks were revealed. With distributed DOS attacks, it is harder to track the offender. Unfortunately this ability to hide the true identity allows abuse to reach further and disrupt more communications than it used to while being harder to track.
Apple started in a private home... Some businesses make it. It was a valid question.
That would be so cool, running one off of the "waste" of the other
Trying to invent a perpetual motion engine again? Fuel cell tech is just a variation of the motor driving a generator to power the motor. The net losses bring these to a halt fairly quickly. It will never have a net gain of power. All conversions have some loss to them. None are more than 100% effecient.
Actualy I can give a shot at answering this one. You are correct in assuming hydrogen is difficult to store. The lighter a gas is, the faster it can seep through a fault in a container or a gas permiable material. A container that can contain CO2 for years, may lose all it's hydrogen in a very short time. Heilum is much heavier than hydrogen and much safer (I know it's not a fuel. It's used for leak detection because it's inhert) even though heavier than Hydrogen. Heilum is used for rapid "leak detection" in high vac systems because it can quickly find it's way in the smallest and slowest of leaks. Presence of the gas is sensed at the vac pump and almost gives a leak indication in real time when some heilum is blowen onto a faulty joint or seal. Many materials pass hydrogen readly like many plastic bottles pass water and many household chemicals. You can tell these older bottles on the shelf in the store as they start to collapse due to the product passing out through the plastic container. Seals and gaskets for hydrogen use are special. This is why soda pop and bottled water is put in Poly Ethylene Terephthalate PET plastic containers instead of regular Poly Ethelene PE, High Density Poly Ethylene HDPE, or Poly Propolene PPE plastic containers. The other plastics will not hold the CO2 very long. The PET container is designed to not pass CO2 so your favorite soft drink does not go flat on the shelf. This is why your heilum balloons will go flat much sooner than the same ones filled with air or CO2. Mylar is even better.
This would be great. I wonder what effect this will have on automobile power as well?
$100 per fillup...for the generator...the gas equivelant of about 3 gallons of gasoline... Not much effect.
Give this one many years before the plant is cheap enough, the fuel affordable etc. The fuel will not be affordable until gasoline becomes less affordable. In a free market society, green choices are often rejected due to the large increase in operating expense. You can be green if money is no object. (Getes may use one to recharge his pocket PC) For the rest of us, it needs to be price competetive.
I agree. Boycott these CDs. The consumer is always right and has a vote. ($$$) I simply hope I don't get out-voted. My vote has been very small lately because I have been priced out of the market. (outvoted by rich kids) Last year I spent less than $50 on music. I found Christmas music 5 CD's for $15. I still don't understand why most CD's are more expensive than tapes. They are cheaper to manufacture. Many movies on DVD are cheaper than CD's. They certanly cost more to make. (These are the big reasons for my price resistance) An $10 and up CD no matter how much I like the artist gets left on the shelf. This covers 98% of the material. Ever notice collections of patriotic songs are only $3.95?
3.Can I listen to the songs from this CD on my MP3 player?
As with all computer software there may be incompatibilities with some computer systems. The CD is designed to play on PCs. The current version of the copy-protection technology does not allow you to copy files from the CD into MP3 format. UMG is currently making every effort possible to upgrade our available technology to add new features and increase playability.
Empasis is mine. Do not read MAKES MP3's into this! It does not say that. Think other protected media such as Data-Play or WMA using a GUID. Your ripped files will only play on your device and not your friends. Shared protected files are unplayable on units it was not ripped specificaly for. 5 friends = 5 seprate rips. Posting a single rip that everyone can copy and play is what they are stopping.
I don't think it will ever be rippable to MP3. Think WMA and the GUID. It will rip in the future to work on your device (PC or WMA enabled player), but not your buddy's device. To do curcumvent this and convert to MP3's will expose you to the Lawyer Employment Fund imposed by the DMCA. The files are not sharable. This of course will still be incompatible with some devices that do not support protected media. You did get the latest and greatest MP3/WMA player, didn't you?
This is the same risk as an addressable cable TV box or Dish TV box. It has the same use. If you have a subscription, you get content coded to your box and nobody else. If you take your unmodified cable box and dropped it on someone elses system, it will send it's number (2way system) and be denied service. On a one way system (DISH) the number has to be phoned in. Then they have personal inoformation. The billing department requires it. Remember to not connect your Microsoft Cable box (computer) to any service you don't want to see your ID number (internet).
with no security holes?
The first thing that comes to mind is any embeded controller without any outside connections. Nobody has hacked into my bread machine or microwave oven lately. It has user input, but the user input junk filter seems to work pretty good. I've never gotten the microwave to accept 2 hours and 93 minutes as valid input no matter how hard I try.
It means when you agree to "industry standard boilerplate", you gave the BSA full promission to invade a do an audit without a court order! As soon as I can get rid of the last of the MS software, I can put a sign on the front door stating "No software permited inside with licenses providing the BSA permission to audit". Most everyone has heard of the BSA.
The fact you can avoid giving permission to an audit without a warrant needs promoted.