I would like to request that people stop using the phrase "copy protection" and instead use the term "copy prevention"
This has a number of advantages:
- copy protection implies that copying is bad (which it is not)
- copy prevention implies that the music industry is preventing me from making a legitimate copy. (which it is)
- copy prevention (somewhat) signifies that it is futile to prevent people to make copies. They can try and they might stop 90% of the people but it just takes 1 person to get this on MP3 and upload it to the net for the cat to be out of the bag
Hello. I might be considered an "insider" in this field. I work at a semi-large ISP where we provide wireless connectivity using BreezeCom network equiptment. Employing large (from 9-24 inch) antennas, and uni-and omni-directional antennas mounted on prominent structures, we are able to send up to 3Mb/s to hosts.
The security here is terrible. We use no authentication via radius or any other method. Anyone with a 802.11 network card, and a sufficient antenna could steal connectivity, and we could not currently tell.
There exists ways to detect this, by monitering the MAC addresses connecting to the APs on the towers, but this is not employed. Neither is each radio catalogued, and IPs, for the most part, are assigned by the DHCP server with no logging.
I do not know if this is typical of most wireless companies, but if it is, then things should be ripe for the taking. I'm posting anonymously, because my company has a history of firing and suing for less
Despite what everybody here wants to say, or how people want to spin it, the common way that software such as morpheus is used is ethically, and legally wrong. It's not fair use to give near-perfect recordings of copyrighted material to everyone on the planet. This is not the same as making a tape for your friend.
That being said, the software is not at fault. The RIAA may argue that it's an enabling the behaviour, but this bad behaviour can, and does occur through other means. There are entire mailing lists [solorb.com] devoted to the trading of copyrighted materials via the USPS. This does not mean that the USPS should be outlawed.
Everybody should write your governmental representatives now, preferably with checks enclosed, to make sure that morpheus and the alike are not wrongly persecuted and prosecuted for behaviour that's beyond the author's control
Why is AMD making these things so sensitive to heat? I'll bet they're also sensitive to vibration, electricity, and about anything that its competitors handle every day. Most thoroughbred hammers can resist hundreds of degrees before they melt/disentigrate
The FBI and CIA have been known to do turnabouts on hackers. Just ask Max Vision. The gov't fought long and hard to demonize and criminalize even the whitest hats of hacking, and Ashcroft's pushing to get them labeled as terrorist acts on top of that.
The DoD's had it's fair share of smudged histories. Be Alert. Keep your pistol handy.
Yes, you can be useful in combatting terrorism. Just make sure you know where the line is getting drawn and be on the correct side of it.
And realize that some of combatting terrorism may go against projects you've been supporting, like anonymous remailers, strong crypto for everyone, anti-censorship protections, and the elusive set of projects working to enable dissidents in countries such as China to safely communicate with the outside world. These and other tools can also be used by the bad guys, and will no doubt become targets
I love reading about alternatives to horribly invasive forms of energy we use today. This is a meta stop gap solution, a way of reducing peaking by bleeding compressed air to help the generators during peak usage. The crux of the issue remains, our power generation techniques are dirty and deprecated.
Most of quelling of useful technology is done by: the old boys club not wanting to give up on the profits, a lot of it is mis-information, and the remainder of the reason why we use horribly inefficient power sources is lack of attention (by our sheep like media).
I used to live near a nuclear power plant in Minnesota. I don't know why people are so afraid of good clean nuclear power. There used to be a lot of cancer there, and everyone jumped on the power plant, but it was shown that most of the cancers were not related to the power plant at all, there was solvents being dumped into the local water supplies that were causing intestinal cancer. People don't understand radiation cancers always occur in statistical rings, that certain percentage of the people a certain distance get some very specific cancers. Nevertheless, even after the nuclear power plant was vindicated - the media failed to report that the solvents killed the people, not the power plant.
Anyways, here we are burning coal and fossil fuels all day long. Fuel cells, gyroscope technology, ceramic engine and electric cars are getting the kibosh due to the retrofitting costs. And we burn, burn burn.
Today on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, May 1, 2001, Coal and Utility companies are lobbying the ever-environment-hating White House to reduce the clean air rules on power plants. Cheney said the administration energy policy will focus on more output for oil and natural gas.
They can continue to sell us electricity at higher prices, cut the cost, pollute the air, and keep real technology from proliferating.
Some say time is the fire in which we burn. My time is running out
Linux 2.4 Service Pack 14 (!!). I'm running Service Pack 4 just fine and I haven't really seen a reason to apply the latest Service Pack as soon as it comes out, unless the changelog mentioned a significant security fix. Otherwise, if it's not broke, don't fix it
It's a curious phenomenon, suicidal Arabs kamikazi into 2 buildings in NY, and in the end who gets the blame? The Jews. But these stupid people don't realize that the Arabs hate Israel because of the West, not the other way around. Their enemy is the West, symbolized by the USA and its ally Israel in the Middle East.
Anyone who believes in God is not a whacko. Those with some moral values left in us who have a problem with killing baby cells "in the name of science" are the torchbearers of the movement that will assure that no other Dr. Mengele will ever arise. Michael, go worship your idol, but keep your bullshit stigmas to yourself.
The easiest way to teach yourself Hebrew is first a dictionnary for the tough words, then open two browser windows with English and Hebrew and you get the hang of it easily from there on by just comparing the translation and original.
I absolutly loved BeOS, I had no other OS that would give me a functional browser, email, sound, that booted in 9 seconds and looked so incredibly polished.
The problem was application avaliability and hardware support, something that the Linux crowd here should be familiar with. Their failure was in maintaining the OS proprietary and thereby alienating the geek hackers crowd (us). Eventually the made avaliable the free Personal edition, though, a bit too late and still insufficient.
Their management, it seems, saw the writing on the wall and switched to some pursuing vapours of iDevices -- well, from this story, it's clear how that venture ended too.
Nice try, great technology, misguided vision. If they go belly up, I hope at least they will make avaliable for the Open Source community the good parts, because God knows, they've had plenty of it.
That's what I meant, in the States the exploiter was Big Business while in the CCCP it was the Party. This is why neither of them should be implemented to the extreme.
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I would like to request that people stop using the phrase "copy protection" and instead use the term "copy prevention"
This has a number of advantages:
- copy protection implies that copying is bad (which it is not)
- copy prevention implies that the music industry is preventing me from making a legitimate copy. (which it is)
- copy prevention (somewhat) signifies that it is futile to prevent people to make copies. They can try and they might stop 90% of the people but it just takes 1 person to get this on MP3 and upload it to the net for the cat to be out of the bag
.
Hello. I might be considered an "insider" in this field. I work at a semi-large ISP where we provide wireless connectivity using BreezeCom network equiptment. Employing large (from 9-24 inch) antennas, and uni-and omni-directional antennas mounted on prominent structures, we are able to send up to 3Mb/s to hosts.
The security here is terrible. We use no authentication via radius or any other method. Anyone with a 802.11 network card, and a sufficient antenna could steal connectivity, and we could not currently tell.
There exists ways to detect this, by monitering the MAC addresses connecting to the APs on the towers, but this is not employed. Neither is each radio catalogued, and IPs, for the most part, are assigned by the DHCP server with no logging.
I do not know if this is typical of most wireless companies, but if it is, then things should be ripe for the taking. I'm posting anonymously, because my company has a history of firing and suing for less
.
Despite what everybody here wants to say, or how people want to spin it, the common way that software such as morpheus is used is ethically, and legally wrong. It's not fair use to give near-perfect recordings of copyrighted material to everyone on the planet. This is not the same as making a tape for your friend.
That being said, the software is not at fault. The RIAA may argue that it's an enabling the behaviour, but this bad behaviour can, and does occur through other means. There are entire mailing lists [solorb.com] devoted to the trading of copyrighted materials via the USPS. This does not mean that the USPS should be outlawed.
Everybody should write your governmental representatives now, preferably with checks enclosed, to make sure that morpheus and the alike are not wrongly persecuted and prosecuted for behaviour that's beyond the author's control
.
Why is AMD making these things so sensitive to heat? I'll bet they're also sensitive to vibration, electricity, and about anything that its competitors handle every day. Most thoroughbred hammers can resist hundreds of degrees before they melt/disentigrate
.
The FBI and CIA have been known to do turnabouts on hackers. Just ask Max Vision. The gov't fought long and hard to demonize and criminalize even the whitest hats of hacking, and Ashcroft's pushing to get them labeled as terrorist acts on top of that.
The DoD's had it's fair share of smudged histories. Be Alert. Keep your pistol handy.
Yes, you can be useful in combatting terrorism. Just make sure you know where the line is getting drawn and be on the correct side of it.
And realize that some of combatting terrorism may go against projects you've been supporting, like anonymous remailers, strong crypto for everyone, anti-censorship protections, and the elusive set of projects working to enable dissidents in countries such as China to safely communicate with the outside world. These and other tools can also be used by the bad guys, and will no doubt become targets
.
sH!*$&
Their website moved, it's at:
http://nisoft.orbitel.bg/freebuilder/
In case some people don't know it exists, there is a free (as in speech) Java IDE over at www.freebuilder.org
.
If you have to use Access, you can connect to it via PHP or Perl from Linux using ODBC Socket Server, located at http://odbc.sourceforge.net
ODBC Socket Server is an open source database access toolkit that exposes Windows ODBC data sources with an XML-based TCP/IP interface.
It has clients for PHP, Perl, C (in Windows, Mac, and Linux), Java
.
I love reading about alternatives to horribly invasive forms of energy we use today. This is a meta stop gap solution, a way of reducing peaking by bleeding compressed air to help the generators during peak usage. The crux of the issue remains, our power generation techniques are dirty and deprecated.
Most of quelling of useful technology is done by: the old boys club not wanting to give up on the profits, a lot of it is mis-information, and the remainder of the reason why we use horribly inefficient power sources is lack of attention (by our sheep like media).
I used to live near a nuclear power plant in Minnesota. I don't know why people are so afraid of good clean nuclear power. There used to be a lot of cancer there, and everyone jumped on the power plant, but it was shown that most of the cancers were not related to the power plant at all, there was solvents being dumped into the local water supplies that were causing intestinal cancer. People don't understand radiation cancers always occur in statistical rings, that certain percentage of the people a certain distance get some very specific cancers. Nevertheless, even after the nuclear power plant was vindicated - the media failed to report that the solvents killed the people, not the power plant.
Anyways, here we are burning coal and fossil fuels all day long. Fuel cells, gyroscope technology, ceramic engine and electric cars are getting the kibosh due to the retrofitting costs. And we burn, burn burn.
Today on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, May 1, 2001, Coal and Utility companies are lobbying the ever-environment-hating White House to reduce the clean air rules on power plants. Cheney said the administration energy policy will focus on more output for oil and natural gas.
They can continue to sell us electricity at higher prices, cut the cost, pollute the air, and keep real technology from proliferating.
Some say time is the fire in which we burn. My time is running out
.
Linux 2.4 Service Pack 14 (!!). I'm running Service Pack 4 just fine and I haven't really seen a reason to apply the latest Service Pack as soon as it comes out, unless the changelog mentioned a significant security fix. Otherwise, if it's not broke, don't fix it
.
fork ()
GCC error: The Oracle says, there is no fork
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maybe they call themselves Future Tech because whenever you ask about the salary, they talk in the future tense
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It's a curious phenomenon, suicidal Arabs kamikazi into 2 buildings in NY, and in the end who gets the blame? The Jews. But these stupid people don't realize that the Arabs hate Israel because of the West, not the other way around. Their enemy is the West, symbolized by the USA and its ally Israel in the Middle East.
Anyone who believes in God is not a whacko. Those with some moral values left in us who have a problem with killing baby cells "in the name of science" are the torchbearers of the movement that will assure that no other Dr. Mengele will ever arise. Michael, go worship your idol, but keep your bullshit stigmas to yourself.
The poster missed the fact that you can still use Opera for that website, as long as you set it to identify itself as MSIE5.
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One crisis week a year, usually around tax time
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The easiest way to teach yourself Hebrew is first a dictionnary for the tough words, then open two browser windows with English and Hebrew and you get the hang of it easily from there on by just comparing the translation and original.
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I recommend:
http://www.bible.org
http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/hebrew/Bible
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I wish I could lzip my Windows EULA down to zero bytes ;)
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I absolutly loved BeOS, I had no other OS that would give me a functional browser, email, sound, that booted in 9 seconds and looked so incredibly polished.
The problem was application avaliability and hardware support, something that the Linux crowd here should be familiar with. Their failure was in maintaining the OS proprietary and thereby alienating the geek hackers crowd (us). Eventually the made avaliable the free Personal edition, though, a bit too late and still insufficient.
Their management, it seems, saw the writing on the wall and switched to some pursuing vapours of iDevices -- well, from this story, it's clear how that venture ended too.
Nice try, great technology, misguided vision. If they go belly up, I hope at least they will make avaliable for the Open Source community the good parts, because God knows, they've had plenty of it.
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Kiro
uhm, non-free doesn't always mean it's trash. I love Open-Source, but that's just bigotry my man.
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They release Nautilus 1.0, next thing on the list is to pinkslip half the staff. Some show of appreciation -- must be The American Way
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This is the official order of compilation if you want to take the ./configure route, as posted on the gnome-1.4 mailing list:
Development Platform
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xml-i18n-tools
libxml
audiofile
esound
imlib
glib
gtk+
gdk-pixbuf
ORBit
oaf
GConf
control-center
gnome-vfs
gnome-libs
gnome-print
bonobo
ammonite
medusa
libghttp
libglade
libgtop
Language Bindings
---------------
libsigc++
gtkmm
gnomemm
panelmm
rep-gtk
gnome-python
gnome-guile
Core desktop
---------------
bug-buddy
gdm
ggv
ghex
glade
gnome-core
gnome-applets
gnome-games
gnome-media
gnome-pim
gnome-utils
gtop
nautilus
xalf
sawfish
gtk-engines
Non-code
----------------
gnome-audio
gnome-user-docs
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Aethra sounds like Urethra ;)
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That's what I meant, in the States the exploiter was Big Business while in the CCCP it was the Party. This is why neither of them should be implemented to the extreme.
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Kiro
ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/linux-2.4/linux-2 .4.0.tar.gz
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