If it's a simple text file, its creator will be ttxt, i.e. SimpleText. You only have to worry about it if its creator is McPL (I think, I'm at school so I can't check what the code for MacPerl actually is:)
Remember, in MacOS (classic anyway), extensions are irrelevant. The only things that matters are creator and filetype.
Meanwhile, for all their ranting and wailing, profits keep going up.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Look at this chart [warning: Acrobat file produced by the Evil Empire] and check the numbers.
2000 was the first year that overall sales went down. They lost 2.6% of the total retail value of products shipped.
Meanwhile, in 1999, they gained 7.3% on total retail value. That's a lot of dollars, nearly all of it coming in the form of full-length CD sales. (For CD singles, the peak year was 1997. For full-length cassettes and cassingles, the peak year was 1992.)
Napster operated for a lot of 2000, but it was interfered with greatly. I expect music sales to decline further this year, which has been generally napsterless.
So how should artists afford to prosecute multi-million dolar [sic] VC funded companies like Napster or companies that are outside the United?
Artists have copyright collectives.
ASCAP, BMI and SOCAN are three that I know of. These are large, well-funded organizations, that actually include more artists than the RIAA - plenty of independent artists belong to them. Also, they represent artists' interests directly.
They are set up mainly to collect licensing fees from radio.
None of them have gotten involved.
If you are an artist with the choice of getting a major label deal and maybe making a profit if you sell over a million copies (or being in debt otherwise) or making no money from the spread of your music while being popular among the fans that don't pay for your music, what would you choose?
How about: Burn your own CDs, sell them at shows for $10 Canadian. Maybe spend $2 or so per CD on media and the insert. Make $8 per CD. Compare this to the RIAA system, where you make about $.12 US ($.18 Canadian) per CD. By my math, you'll make about the same amount of money by selling 22 thousand CDs this way as you would be selling a million CDs with the RIAA.
And this way, you get to record what you like, and you don't have to go in debt.
Plenty of bands do it. They Might Be Giants are an excellent example of a band that's made much more money than they could have in the RIAA world.
Eventually, when CD burners, Minidiscs and car MP3 players become cheap and popular enough, how do you propose artists make a living in this new world order?
By burning their own CDs for fifty cents a pop.:)
Car MP3 players seem to be disappearing gradually. I'm not sure if MD really has much of a future either. CD-R, on the other hand...
CD-R is the biggest threat to the RIAA that has ever happened, because it takes the power of recording out of their hands. Now, all you need them for is distribution. Internet distribution is insufficient thus yet to replace in-store distribution (mainly due to lack of available bandwidth), but stores are opening up to selling more independent artists.
I can't wait to see what DVD-R is going to do for independent filmmaking.
Here in Canada, it's all over. Just like First Wave.
I'll miss them both, kinda. Although First Wave's ending was a bit... lacking. Final Conflict went out in a much more interesting way. However, First Wave made up for it for being a much better show through the years.
Current shows I'm watching now:
Buffy - yeah. I can't believe it. This show used to suck so amazingly much, it made me physically ill to watch it. However, I started watching Angel, and consequently, discovered that the writing has improved, the acting has improved, and well... it's now a really good show. TV horror is usually awful: but this is different.
Beastmaster - Why this is my favourite show, I'm not sure. It's just really well-written fantasy, and dammit, they kill characters. It can be rather cheesy, though. (Well, it was my fave show last season, anyway.)
Wolf Lake - Speaking of TV horror... only two eps so far, but really good: better than expected actually. Which probably means it's doomed. Whenever I like a show this much, and it's funded by Americans... sigh. (Another example: All Souls. Gone after, what, 6 episodes? Brimstone... Fantasy Island (with McDowell)... Empire (4 eps in 1984)... Earth 2 (which actually got a whole season)... but on the other hand, Max Headroom only got one season too.)
X-Files - I really like Robert Patrick. Even if this is still a Carter show. Sigh. Carter comes so close to making excellent television.
Angel - Well, of course I'm still watching this, given that it's what got me watching Buffy. Tonight's episode was really good, I thought.
Outer Limits - Best SF show in a long, long while. Certainly the best Canadian SF show ever.
Immortal & Andromeda - Fun shows.
Anyway, that's mostly it. There are other shows I watch sometimes, when I'm in the mood, and shows I watch in reruns. I'm pretty loyal to Open Mike now, too.
I was mildly surprised to like the initial episode of Pasadena. We'll have to see if Delany can continue to hold the show together: although actually there are some pretty talented people in the rest of the cast, too.
But I don't get Farscape. Maybe it's the best show on TV. Oh well.:)
IE5 on OS9 (what I'm using:) automagically extracts.hqx and.bin files.
This is a cool feature. It avoids the annoying StuffIt! wait when the expander process is spawned.
Of course, I have Virex enabled, so I get that wait imposed on me.
Incidentally, Fetch (an FTP client) does too. (It also automagically extracts.gz and.tar files. This is really irritating when I'm just transferring my gzips to the iMac for burning. but oh well.:)
The fact that OS X is based on FreeBSD may very well keep this hole from becoming as damaging as it is on Windows.
OS X is not based on FreeBSD.
OS X has a Mach kernel. FreeBSD's kernel is based on the Mach kernel.
Apple has hired FreeBSD developers, yes. However, OS X is merely a part of the BSD family of operating systems, which includes plenty other proprietary Unices.
As for how damaging this could be... Suppose somebody wrote a little OS X program which sent/etc/master.passwd as a file attachment to an anonymous maildrop, and then proceeded to run crack on all resulting password files.
How irritating.
However, it's not really that big a hole. People have to download the binaries in the first place: if they don't, then there's no binary to execute. If they do, then they were probably going to run it anyway. The only place I can see where this might be a Big Problem would be if a JavaScript triggered the download.
I reply to this because I feel I should; however, manyoso has given a perfectly valid and clear statement of the facts, which will probably never get modded up because/. moderators are mostly kinda slow.
stick with it, manyoso. eventually, they get it, and all your postings become rated 2.:)
an aside - I wish sometimes that I could filter out everything but posts rated 2. most of the 5's I get stuck with are, well, karma whoring. most of the intelligent posts are in the 1-3 range. this even applies to my posts. I usually don't get 5s, but I have, and it's never on my best stuff. so I read at 1/2. but I digress.
however, I reply to this because, apart from hopefully encouraging manyoso, you obviously haven't checked my history.
I don't use Linux.
I never have had a Linux box.
My primary desktop machine is an iMac. It doesn't even has OS X installed.
My gateway runs FreeBSD, and a relatively old (3.4) version at that.
I also own a Win95B machine, a WFW 3.11 (no kidding) system, a couple Amigas (running the packaged OS), a C64, and a ton of spare parts.
At one point my email address somehow got on a Hong Kong spammer's list.
I started to receive spams from the Far East, mostly Hong Kong (going by headers anyway).
This was perplexing to me. You see, I'm a Canadian: all my email addresses are.ca,.com or.org. I think it was a.com that got hit. Can't remember now:)
Anyway, the perplexing part about this is that I'm monolingual, English. All of these spams were in some form of Chinese. (Or perhaps Japanese. Well, one of those languages anyway.:)
I haven't gotten any Chinaspam in a month or two. Maybe they finally took pity on the anglo. Or maybe my filters have moved up to where they're killing it off. (I edit my filters; also, the mailservers I use are administered by Other People, many of whom actively monitor filters.)
dumbass. here's a little lecture in net.talk. perhaps you should read GLS' jargon file, but I digress.
troll: a posting or a poster designed to aggravate and irritate. trolls are universally annoying. [lame] example: "Your mother is a reptile."
flamebait: a posting that will tend to attract flames. this is not something that is inherently offensive, but merely dangerous in the current medium.
what is flamebait varies.
flamebait is also not a conscious attack. it tends to be more on the order of being insensitive to local norms.
the above posting was flamebait because it suggested that Linux was doomed. and this is/. - the exact same posting to a windows-programming newsgroup, for example, would not have been flamebait. but here it is.
Judaism is the ancestor religion of both Christianity and Islam.
Judaism specifically forbids masturbation, at least by men: read your old testament sometime, check for the comments about spilling your seed.
In the Koran, the Prophet says that you should only have more than one wife if you can treat them all equally, and also suggests that most men can't do this. The allowance for multiple wives had more to do with the nature of Arab society at the time (there was often a significant ratio of women to men).
Solomon did have a large number of wives, but read your old testament again. this was considered a Bad Thing for him to do.
You may have a point about the other religions, though. But: the three Judaic religions do all agree on masturbation, polygamy and so on. The only difference is one of degree: Islam is a bit more permissive of polygamy.
Still, the vast majority of modern Muslims follow the Prophet's recommendation, and live monogamous lives.
I knew a girl in highschool (age 14) who had a $9000 limit credit card on her father's account. Dayam.
But you can always add in a age verification thingy with the credit card check, that wouldn't be difficult.
It's true, and it would stop the 14-year-old from using the card her Daddy gave her: that is registered to her, with her age stored.
However, it doesn't stop her from opening her parent's wallet and using the card there. This is not rocket science.:)
Campus stations don't do this because we're trying to sell records and concert tickets. We play music that we really, really like: we think the artists should be supported.
We also back-announce. Actually, I normally always back-announce. I hate to let people know what's coming.:)
Commercial stations, on the other hand, are trying to keep listeners. Therefore, they ideally want nothing but Happy Sounds. Information is not a Happy Sound.
I can't imagine living in a town without a campus station. Commercial radio sucks.
Great Britain isn't entirely a common law country.
Scotland uses a civil legal system, similar to that of France and Germany (and Louisiana, so I guess that counts the U.S. out too - and wait, there's a civil system in Quebec... oh well:)
No other country determines case outcomes based on precedent as strongly as the U.S.
Precedent is the basis of the English common law system, in use in many countries around the world: for example, England, Australia, Singapore, Canada... need I go on?
The idea is, if you have a precedent-based system, people don't need to go to court so much: they already know what will happen there.
Argue with the idea if you like, there are problems with it. But the English did it first, and IMO are bigger sticklers for precedent than the U.S. ever was.
the gov does not want an army of kiddies who don't know shit about computers and infiltration other than running other people's code.
This seems intuitively obvious. However, I'm not sure it's true.
Just how many script kiddies are there out there? I suspect the ratio of them to serious security professionals is probably pretty severe.
While I wouldn't want to hand off responsibilities for securing systems to script kiddies, I can think that they could well be useful on the other side of infowar: taking down the enemies' systems. After all, script kiddies tend to be quite adept at acquiring tools... the possibility of using a large number of them as a kind of electronic human wave does have a kind of appeal.
then again, what would boot camp be like? I can just see it now...:)
Um, I'm a Canadian, never had a 401k. But isn't that, well, basically your money, just administered by your employer?
If that's right, then what your former employer did was criminal: it's called theft, and it's against the law. In fact, it's probably pretty serious theft, maybe up in the millions. You should seriously be talking to law enforcement. Those involved in the conspiracy could be looking at some extended jail time.
...according to the law, the secured creditors get everything. If there's anything left over, then the unsecured creditors. Employees and stockholders fall into the latter category.
So close, and yet so far.
Stockholders are not creditors. They are owners. They get paid last. They get what remains of the company when all the creditors have been paid, if anything.
it's more complicated than that, from what I remember from bankruptcy. (taking it in school, not experiencing it personally.:)
although I do remember that secured comes first. but yeah, employees are pretty high. kinda. you have to remember that there's a bankruptcy trustee, and the employees are owed $3 million, and some bank has an unsecured loan for $10 million, guess who has more sway with the trustee.
Also: I thought that in the U.S. there was a separate bankruptcy regime in each state? in canada, it's federal...
one rule though: shareholders are always last. there's a reason they're called entrepreneurs.
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If it's a simple text file, its creator will be ttxt, i.e. SimpleText. You only have to worry about it if its creator is McPL (I think, I'm at school so I can't check what the code for MacPerl actually is :)
Remember, in MacOS (classic anyway), extensions are irrelevant. The only things that matters are creator and filetype.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Look at this chart [warning: Acrobat file produced by the Evil Empire] and check the numbers.
2000 was the first year that overall sales went down. They lost 2.6% of the total retail value of products shipped.
Meanwhile, in 1999, they gained 7.3% on total retail value. That's a lot of dollars, nearly all of it coming in the form of full-length CD sales. (For CD singles, the peak year was 1997. For full-length cassettes and cassingles, the peak year was 1992.)
Napster operated for a lot of 2000, but it was interfered with greatly. I expect music sales to decline further this year, which has been generally napsterless.
Artists have copyright collectives.
ASCAP, BMI and SOCAN are three that I know of. These are large, well-funded organizations, that actually include more artists than the RIAA - plenty of independent artists belong to them. Also, they represent artists' interests directly.
They are set up mainly to collect licensing fees from radio.
None of them have gotten involved.
How about: Burn your own CDs, sell them at shows for $10 Canadian. Maybe spend $2 or so per CD on media and the insert. Make $8 per CD. Compare this to the RIAA system, where you make about $.12 US ($.18 Canadian) per CD. By my math, you'll make about the same amount of money by selling 22 thousand CDs this way as you would be selling a million CDs with the RIAA.
And this way, you get to record what you like, and you don't have to go in debt.
Plenty of bands do it. They Might Be Giants are an excellent example of a band that's made much more money than they could have in the RIAA world.
By burning their own CDs for fifty cents a pop. :)
Car MP3 players seem to be disappearing gradually. I'm not sure if MD really has much of a future either. CD-R, on the other hand...
CD-R is the biggest threat to the RIAA that has ever happened, because it takes the power of recording out of their hands. Now, all you need them for is distribution. Internet distribution is insufficient thus yet to replace in-store distribution (mainly due to lack of available bandwidth), but stores are opening up to selling more independent artists.
I can't wait to see what DVD-R is going to do for independent filmmaking.
That's true.
However, there is at least one non-.sit filetype I can think of that I'd want to do a .hqx on:
AppleScript source.
There are probably others, too. But Script Editor files have significant use of both forks.
Maybe where you are.
Here in Canada, it's all over. Just like First Wave.
I'll miss them both, kinda. Although First Wave's ending was a bit ... lacking. Final Conflict went out in a much more interesting way. However, First Wave made up for it for being a much better show through the years.
Current shows I'm watching now:
Anyway, that's mostly it. There are other shows I watch sometimes, when I'm in the mood, and shows I watch in reruns. I'm pretty loyal to Open Mike now, too.
I was mildly surprised to like the initial episode of Pasadena. We'll have to see if Delany can continue to hold the show together: although actually there are some pretty talented people in the rest of the cast, too.
But I don't get Farscape. Maybe it's the best show on TV. Oh well. :)
That actually makes sense.
Solution: Check to see what the .hqx decoded to. If its filetype is APPL, do not launch it.
Time for a patch... :)
IE5 on OS9 (what I'm using :) automagically extracts .hqx and .bin files.
This is a cool feature. It avoids the annoying StuffIt! wait when the expander process is spawned.
Of course, I have Virex enabled, so I get that wait imposed on me.
Incidentally, Fetch (an FTP client) does too. (It also automagically extracts .gz and .tar files. This is really irritating when I'm just transferring my gzips to the iMac for burning. but oh well. :)
OS X is not based on FreeBSD.
OS X has a Mach kernel. FreeBSD's kernel is based on the Mach kernel.
Apple has hired FreeBSD developers, yes. However, OS X is merely a part of the BSD family of operating systems, which includes plenty other proprietary Unices.
As for how damaging this could be... Suppose somebody wrote a little OS X program which sent /etc/master.passwd as a file attachment to an anonymous maildrop, and then proceeded to run crack on all resulting password files.
How irritating.
However, it's not really that big a hole. People have to download the binaries in the first place: if they don't, then there's no binary to execute. If they do, then they were probably going to run it anyway. The only place I can see where this might be a Big Problem would be if a JavaScript triggered the download.
I'm guessing you're running Windows IE.
remember, IE is a part of Windows?
thus, when IE dies, so does Windows. :)
I reply to this because I feel I should; however, manyoso has given a perfectly valid and clear statement of the facts, which will probably never get modded up because /. moderators are mostly kinda slow.
stick with it, manyoso. eventually, they get it, and all your postings become rated 2. :)
an aside - I wish sometimes that I could filter out everything but posts rated 2. most of the 5's I get stuck with are, well, karma whoring. most of the intelligent posts are in the 1-3 range. this even applies to my posts. I usually don't get 5s, but I have, and it's never on my best stuff. so I read at 1/2. but I digress.
however, I reply to this because, apart from hopefully encouraging manyoso, you obviously haven't checked my history.
I don't use Linux.
I never have had a Linux box.
My primary desktop machine is an iMac. It doesn't even has OS X installed.
My gateway runs FreeBSD, and a relatively old (3.4) version at that.
I also own a Win95B machine, a WFW 3.11 (no kidding) system, a couple Amigas (running the packaged OS), a C64, and a ton of spare parts.
Wrong!
At one point my email address somehow got on a Hong Kong spammer's list.
I started to receive spams from the Far East, mostly Hong Kong (going by headers anyway).
This was perplexing to me. You see, I'm a Canadian: all my email addresses are .ca, .com or .org. I think it was a .com that got hit. Can't remember now :)
Anyway, the perplexing part about this is that I'm monolingual, English. All of these spams were in some form of Chinese. (Or perhaps Japanese. Well, one of those languages anyway. :)
I haven't gotten any Chinaspam in a month or two. Maybe they finally took pity on the anglo. Or maybe my filters have moved up to where they're killing it off. (I edit my filters; also, the mailservers I use are administered by Other People, many of whom actively monitor filters.)
dumbass. here's a little lecture in net.talk. perhaps you should read GLS' jargon file, but I digress.
troll: a posting or a poster designed to aggravate and irritate. trolls are universally annoying. [lame] example: "Your mother is a reptile."
flamebait: a posting that will tend to attract flames. this is not something that is inherently offensive, but merely dangerous in the current medium.
what is flamebait varies.
flamebait is also not a conscious attack. it tends to be more on the order of being insensitive to local norms.
the above posting was flamebait because it suggested that Linux was doomed. and this is /. - the exact same posting to a windows-programming newsgroup, for example, would not have been flamebait. but here it is.
Judaism is the ancestor religion of both Christianity and Islam.
Judaism specifically forbids masturbation, at least by men: read your old testament sometime, check for the comments about spilling your seed.
In the Koran, the Prophet says that you should only have more than one wife if you can treat them all equally, and also suggests that most men can't do this. The allowance for multiple wives had more to do with the nature of Arab society at the time (there was often a significant ratio of women to men).
Solomon did have a large number of wives, but read your old testament again. this was considered a Bad Thing for him to do.
You may have a point about the other religions, though. But: the three Judaic religions do all agree on masturbation, polygamy and so on. The only difference is one of degree: Islam is a bit more permissive of polygamy.
Still, the vast majority of modern Muslims follow the Prophet's recommendation, and live monogamous lives.
Perhaps it is used against teen mothers.
You never know: Hey, it's Virginia. :)
It's true, and it would stop the 14-year-old from using the card her Daddy gave her: that is registered to her, with her age stored.
However, it doesn't stop her from opening her parent's wallet and using the card there. This is not rocket science. :)
Well, I've been on and off a campus radio dj.
Campus stations don't do this because we're trying to sell records and concert tickets. We play music that we really, really like: we think the artists should be supported.
We also back-announce. Actually, I normally always back-announce. I hate to let people know what's coming. :)
Commercial stations, on the other hand, are trying to keep listeners. Therefore, they ideally want nothing but Happy Sounds. Information is not a Happy Sound.
I can't imagine living in a town without a campus station. Commercial radio sucks.
They're not requiring cookies... unless you turn JS on.
Disable javascript, access the page. it has a script in it that autoforwards you if you don't set a cookie. works fine without JS :)
Not yet.
Wait until they see what Adobe does at trial. If Adobe plays nice, cut a deal.
If Adobe flip-flops --- again --- then it's time to get the dogs going.
Nope.
Great Britain isn't entirely a common law country.
Scotland uses a civil legal system, similar to that of France and Germany (and Louisiana, so I guess that counts the U.S. out too - and wait, there's a civil system in Quebec... oh well :)
Precedent is the basis of the English common law system, in use in many countries around the world: for example, England, Australia, Singapore, Canada... need I go on?
The idea is, if you have a precedent-based system, people don't need to go to court so much: they already know what will happen there.
Argue with the idea if you like, there are problems with it. But the English did it first, and IMO are bigger sticklers for precedent than the U.S. ever was.
This seems intuitively obvious. However, I'm not sure it's true.
Just how many script kiddies are there out there? I suspect the ratio of them to serious security professionals is probably pretty severe.
While I wouldn't want to hand off responsibilities for securing systems to script kiddies, I can think that they could well be useful on the other side of infowar: taking down the enemies' systems. After all, script kiddies tend to be quite adept at acquiring tools... the possibility of using a large number of them as a kind of electronic human wave does have a kind of appeal.
then again, what would boot camp be like? I can just see it now... :)
Um, I'm a Canadian, never had a 401k. But isn't that, well, basically your money, just administered by your employer?
If that's right, then what your former employer did was criminal: it's called theft, and it's against the law. In fact, it's probably pretty serious theft, maybe up in the millions. You should seriously be talking to law enforcement. Those involved in the conspiracy could be looking at some extended jail time.
So close, and yet so far.
Stockholders are not creditors. They are owners. They get paid last. They get what remains of the company when all the creditors have been paid, if anything.
The impression I'm getting is that for most people, the answer is no; they do not have decent jobs. ;)
Just because you're getting paid doesn't make it a good job. 80 hours is undesirable.
it's more complicated than that, from what I remember from bankruptcy. (taking it in school, not experiencing it personally. :)
although I do remember that secured comes first. but yeah, employees are pretty high. kinda. you have to remember that there's a bankruptcy trustee, and the employees are owed $3 million, and some bank has an unsecured loan for $10 million, guess who has more sway with the trustee.
Also: I thought that in the U.S. there was a separate bankruptcy regime in each state? in canada, it's federal...
one rule though: shareholders are always last. there's a reason they're called entrepreneurs.