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Gibson is an idiot with a talent for self-promotion.
Big time. He's the guy who came up with broken SYNcookies and blathered on and on about how they were "Beautiful and Perfect". Gibson is a quack and no serious attention should be paid to his ramblings.
A slight technical nitpick: BitTorrent is not a centralized network onto which songs are put (in the manner of eDonkey, et al). Rather, it is a file transfer protocol. One doesn't put songs "on BitTorrent" any more than one would put songs "on FTP" or "on HTTP". Rather, one _makes songs available_ via FTP, HTTP, BitTorrent, etc.:-)
This may seem like a technicality, but the distinction between a protocol and a singular centralized implementation thereof is huge. The RIAA can go after centralized networks until they're blue in the face, but those bastards will never be able to kill an actual network protocol (thankfully!).
Perhaps you should consider un-subscribing from the Input devices and portables category under Preferences. Or perhaps un-subscribe from hardware altogether.
Perhaps you should get a clue.
Your blocking "solution" will produce many false positives (interesting hardware stories that get blocked unnecessarily) and many false negatives (slashvertisements that slip through because they're in other categories).
I'm 100% with you regarding the absurdity of having to file flight plans (it's nobody else's business), but I'm not so quick to dismiss ATC and mechanical/structural inspections.
There are a heck of a lot of GA craft out there, and I'd really prefer that none of them crash into my house because (1) a lack of ATC, perhaps exacerbated by someone flying VFR when he shouldn't, led to a collision, or (2) some private pilot decided he didn't need an inspection and his damn wing fell off...
Because he's probably a clicky-widget M$ admin who doesn't understand the power of a straightforward, low-level *programmatic* interface to everything on the system. Nothing to see, move along.
The internet is the next generation of printing press, turning everyone into a publisher. YET...the only way to get your name out there is to revert back to a huge, political beaurocracy to register your domain name. There must be a better way...
Who says you need a domain name to publish stuff on the Web? Just about any ISP or hosting company can set you up with space under their domain name. Or, run your own server and publish the IP address instead of using DNS...
Verislime does many evil things, but I'm not convinced that censorship is one of them.
sony just lost them court cases we've been hearing about
Sony is a BIG company, huge enough to be considered a part of The Man. Therefore, there's no way that (1) they will lose any suits, or (2) they will be hit with damages that will have any practical impact whatsoever.
I would love to have to eat these words... here's hoping.
If they decided to try to operate at a loss in order to drive Google out of business, I doubt their shareholders and the FCC would let them do so for very long.
Which PVR do you use? I setup a mythtv system back in February of this year and it has changed they way I watch TV. I rarely watch live TV anymore.
Like you, I run MythTV and the effects on my viewing habits have also been nothing short of revolutionary.
I noticed another great example of WDIV's incompetence just hours after I posted. I sat down to watch Surface and discovered that WDIV had preempted it to show a mayoral debate (between two idiots). Argh.
If there is a tornado, blizzard, flash flood warning or a few other things headed my way I want to know NOW. TV via the Emergency Broadcasting Service and Emergency Interuptions helps people find out what they need to know quickly. Additionaly, the Amber Alert notifications use this kind of system as well. Those kinds of emergencies work well for TV and Radio broadcasts.
Maybe you do, but I don't. As the sibling post pointed out, this sort of notification is rather pointless -- you would know by looking out the window if the conditions were right for these sorts of events.
The vast majority of the television that I watch is timeshifted. It's ridiculously annoying to have a quarter of the video image area gobbled up by some snazzy-tastic fancy flashing colorized county-by-county map of where it happens to be lightly drizzling, especially when I'm playing back the recording three days later when it's bright and sunny outside. Ditto for screen crawls, "weather alert" interruptions, local advertisements that cut into network programming, and even wholesale program preemption.
(The NBC affiliate in Detroit is horrendously bad at this -- in recent memory, they have completely overridden hours of network programming to cover a factory fire downtown and a Pistons game, neither of which I give a rat's ass about.)
The point of this rant? Say you're a TV affiliate station. Rule 1: You do not screw with the signal. Rule 2: YOU DO NOT SCREW WITH THE SIGNAL.
Satellite TV ads crack me up: you get your local channels, blah blah, wank wank! Rather, what *I* would love to see is a television provider who gave subscribers raw access to the network feeds unmolested by local stations.
MythTV is great if all you want to do is CAPTURE video. I also want to playback the captured video __ON MY TV___. TiVo can do this. If you read the MythTV HOWTO and even go down the path of trying to deploy one of these, you will quickly find that TV output has pretty much been ignored. What cards really actually work? What driver building hell do I have to go through to get s-video or composite out to actually work? at a normal NTSC scan rate?
If you have a PVR-350, you just tell Myth to use that card's MPEG2 decoder output. Otherwise, you either convert your video card's VGA output to NTSC composite video using a sub-$100 converter box, or you get a video card whose composite &/or S-Video output(s) "just works". I use a GeForce2 something-or-other and there was exactly zero software work installed -- the POST, kernel boot, and X display all go out over the S-Video connector automagically.
A classic example of why you don't sign up for direct debit with any of your creditors or providers.
It's just as easy to set up recurring payments from your bank account, initiated by your bank. Then it all it takes is a password and two clicks to shut them down.
And how exactly is my bank supposed to know the amount of each month's electric bill, gas bill, cell phone bill, or anything else that varies?
I ended up at work 20 hours on Monday this week patching [...] about 500 servers
I'm honestly, not-trolling-ly curious what the procedure is for rolling out a patch to 'n' Windows machines, where 'n' is a large number like 500.
In the UNIX world, patching 5, 50, 500, or 5000 machines would be a piece of cake due to all the infrastructure tools useful for automation (bash, perl, ssh, rpm, patch, tar, etc.). Are there useful equivalents in the Windows world, or are you manually click-click-clicking on 500 machines (whether physically, or via KVM/RDP/VNC)?
How about encrypting your important files... before you hand over your computer and login to a complete stranger?
How many people competent enough to use encryption actually take their computers somewhere for service as opposed to just fixing the problem themselves?
For me, a major inkjet selection criterion is a printer's ability to be adapted to use continuous inking (without major hacking/drilling/etc.). Screw the printer manufacturers and their stupid ink-based business model.
unless there's some contract guarenteeing the integrety of the data, storing stuff with a third party is just as stupid as not doing any kind of backup.
Bzzt, wrong. Dunno why I'm responding to some A.C...
Zip or tar/gzip/bzip2 your files. Encrypt with GPG. Take MD5 checksum. Upload to backup company.
If your disk crashes, there is a nonzero and generally pretty decent chance that you will get your data back. You can use your MD5 checksum to verify bit-for-bit integrity.
Contrast that with the 0% chance you have of recovering your data from a nonexistent backup target. "Just as stupid"? As if.
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Gibson is an idiot with a talent for self-promotion.
Big time. He's the guy who came up with broken SYNcookies and blathered on and on about how they were "Beautiful and Perfect". Gibson is a quack and no serious attention should be paid to his ramblings.
put up a bunch of your catchy tunes on BitTorrent
:-)
A slight technical nitpick: BitTorrent is not a centralized network onto which songs are put (in the manner of eDonkey, et al). Rather, it is a file transfer protocol. One doesn't put songs "on BitTorrent" any more than one would put songs "on FTP" or "on HTTP". Rather, one _makes songs available_ via FTP, HTTP, BitTorrent, etc.
This may seem like a technicality, but the distinction between a protocol and a singular centralized implementation thereof is huge. The RIAA can go after centralized networks until they're blue in the face, but those bastards will never be able to kill an actual network protocol (thankfully!).
Perhaps you should consider un-subscribing from the Input devices and portables category under Preferences. Or perhaps un-subscribe from hardware altogether.
Perhaps you should get a clue.
Your blocking "solution" will produce many false positives (interesting hardware stories that get blocked unnecessarily) and many false negatives (slashvertisements that slip through because they're in other categories).
I'm 100% with you regarding the absurdity of having to file flight plans (it's nobody else's business), but I'm not so quick to dismiss ATC and mechanical/structural inspections.
There are a heck of a lot of GA craft out there, and I'd really prefer that none of them crash into my house because (1) a lack of ATC, perhaps exacerbated by someone flying VFR when he shouldn't, led to a collision, or (2) some private pilot decided he didn't need an inspection and his damn wing fell off...
why did you consider the CLI to be 'a cult'?
Because he's probably a clicky-widget M$ admin who doesn't understand the power of a straightforward, low-level *programmatic* interface to everything on the system. Nothing to see, move along.
The internet is the next generation of printing press, turning everyone into a publisher. YET...the only way to get your name out there is to revert back to a huge, political beaurocracy to register your domain name. There must be a better way...
Who says you need a domain name to publish stuff on the Web? Just about any ISP or hosting company can set you up with space under their domain name. Or, run your own server and publish the IP address instead of using DNS...
Verislime does many evil things, but I'm not convinced that censorship is one of them.
sony just lost them court cases we've been hearing about
Sony is a BIG company, huge enough to be considered a part of The Man. Therefore, there's no way that (1) they will lose any suits, or (2) they will be hit with damages that will have any practical impact whatsoever.
I would love to have to eat these words... here's hoping.
Amen. I wish I had modpoints today. OpenVPN rules. IPSEC is nasty.
If they decided to try to operate at a loss in order to drive Google out of business, I doubt their shareholders and the FCC would let them do so for very long.
What now? Perhaps you meant the SEC?
Which PVR do you use? I setup a mythtv system back in February of this year and it has changed they way I watch TV. I rarely watch live TV anymore.
Like you, I run MythTV and the effects on my viewing habits have also been nothing short of revolutionary.
I noticed another great example of WDIV's incompetence just hours after I posted. I sat down to watch Surface and discovered that WDIV had preempted it to show a mayoral debate (between two idiots). Argh.
If there is a tornado, blizzard, flash flood warning or a few other things headed my way I want to know NOW. TV via the Emergency Broadcasting Service and Emergency Interuptions helps people find out what they need to know quickly. Additionaly, the Amber Alert notifications use this kind of system as well. Those kinds of emergencies work well for TV and Radio broadcasts.
Maybe you do, but I don't. As the sibling post pointed out, this sort of notification is rather pointless -- you would know by looking out the window if the conditions were right for these sorts of events.
The vast majority of the television that I watch is timeshifted. It's ridiculously annoying to have a quarter of the video image area gobbled up by some snazzy-tastic fancy flashing colorized county-by-county map of where it happens to be lightly drizzling, especially when I'm playing back the recording three days later when it's bright and sunny outside. Ditto for screen crawls, "weather alert" interruptions, local advertisements that cut into network programming, and even wholesale program preemption.
(The NBC affiliate in Detroit is horrendously bad at this -- in recent memory, they have completely overridden hours of network programming to cover a factory fire downtown and a Pistons game, neither of which I give a rat's ass about.)
The point of this rant? Say you're a TV affiliate station. Rule 1: You do not screw with the signal. Rule 2: YOU DO NOT SCREW WITH THE SIGNAL.
Satellite TV ads crack me up: you get your local channels, blah blah, wank wank! Rather, what *I* would love to see is a television provider who gave subscribers raw access to the network feeds unmolested by local stations.
MythTV is great if all you want to do is CAPTURE video. I also want to playback the captured
video __ON MY TV___. TiVo can do this. If you read the MythTV HOWTO and even go down the
path of trying to deploy one of these, you will quickly find that TV output has pretty much
been ignored. What cards really actually work? What driver building hell do I have to go
through to get s-video or composite out to actually work? at a normal NTSC scan rate?
If you have a PVR-350, you just tell Myth to use that card's MPEG2 decoder output. Otherwise, you either convert your video card's VGA output to NTSC composite video using a sub-$100 converter box, or you get a video card whose composite &/or S-Video output(s) "just works". I use a GeForce2 something-or-other and there was exactly zero software work installed -- the POST, kernel boot, and X display all go out over the S-Video connector automagically.
Nice troll, though.
What if I swallow one? Is it non-toxic?
Make 'em as toxic as possible and let natural selection do its thing. It'll clean up the gene pool for the rest of us.
Not exactly.
Cat 3 - 10 Mbps
Cat 5 - 100 Mbps
Cat 5e - 1,000 Mbps (1 Gbps)
Cat 6 - 10,000 (10 Gbps)
Umm, because this is Slashdot?
A classic example of why you don't sign up for direct debit with any of your creditors or providers.
It's just as easy to set up recurring payments from your bank account, initiated by your bank. Then it all it takes is a password and two clicks to shut them down.
And how exactly is my bank supposed to know the amount of each month's electric bill, gas bill, cell phone bill, or anything else that varies?
I ended up at work 20 hours on Monday this week patching [...] about 500 servers
I'm honestly, not-trolling-ly curious what the procedure is for rolling out a patch to 'n' Windows machines, where 'n' is a large number like 500.
In the UNIX world, patching 5, 50, 500, or 5000 machines would be a piece of cake due to all the infrastructure tools useful for automation (bash, perl, ssh, rpm, patch, tar, etc.). Are there useful equivalents in the Windows world, or are you manually click-click-clicking on 500 machines (whether physically, or via KVM/RDP/VNC)?
Uhm, no, I didn't realize that there was a super-important user named "garcia" and that he (she?) had a troll following.
I just saw a comment and replied with a funny thought that happened to cross my mind.
What the hell is CPR? :-)
see the EFF, ACLU, NCAA and other organizations [...] as "communist hippies" at best and "terrorists/sympathizers" at worst
While college basketball is pointless and boring, I don't think I've ever heard anyone refer to the NCAA as a terrorist group before...
How about encrypting your important files... before you hand over your computer and login to a complete stranger?
How many people competent enough to use encryption actually take their computers somewhere for service as opposed to just fixing the problem themselves?
I am not against video cameras in a private space (i.e. dressing rooms of a store)
Well, now we know who works as a department store security guard...
For me, a major inkjet selection criterion is a printer's ability to be adapted to use continuous inking (without major hacking/drilling/etc.). Screw the printer manufacturers and their stupid ink-based business model.
- ink-system-review.html
Linky linky:
http://www.nomorecarts.com/
http://www.brandonstaggs.com/epson-r200-continous
http://www.atlascopy.com/cfs/
unless there's some contract guarenteeing the integrety of the data, storing stuff with a third party is just as stupid as not doing any kind of backup.
Bzzt, wrong. Dunno why I'm responding to some A.C...
Zip or tar/gzip/bzip2 your files. Encrypt with GPG. Take MD5 checksum. Upload to backup company.
If your disk crashes, there is a nonzero and generally pretty decent chance that you will get your data back. You can use your MD5 checksum to verify bit-for-bit integrity.
Contrast that with the 0% chance you have of recovering your data from a nonexistent backup target. "Just as stupid"? As if.
If you want to get up in memory's face and smack some bits around, use C. If you want to get things done, don't.
...oh, wait.
Right, because as we all know, OS kernels, device drivers, microcontroller apps, embedded systems programs, etc. are all written in Java these days...