Someone should engrave the contents of css_descramble.c into a brass placard in front of the Jefferson Memorial. We all know he would have supported us in this cause if he were alive.
And I suppose that you would also say that the Hindenburg was sabotaged? That aliens steered the iceberg into the Titanic? That the US Navy Seals had a sting operation to sink the Kursk?
Whatsamatta, you can't stand laughing at articles? Is that curmudgeonly old fart of a boss staring too hard at your cube? If that was the case, I'd understand, but otherwise, LIGHTEN UP!
Some stories are so vague, they desperately need humor.
Think about it: if you saw Tyra Banks or Christy Turlington walking toward you with that new "Out on Sunset Strip" dress with the clear plastic bodice, your thinking process would be more than influenced. As a matter of comparison, consider monitoring the brain this way:
"I find it disturbing that large ISPs are so willing to let external agencies control what runs through their systems."
Case in point, the "free" internet access programs. Netzero, in truth, uses a Java interface which forces the user to view a window slightly larger than a banner ad (which displays banner ads 24/7, fetching a new one each second). This window cannot be closed during connection. Essentially, this taints Netzero's claim of "free internet"; it should be "Free with a 7 second bandwidth cutoff every minute." The only free internet service that I would recommend was Worldspy. It used a Java client to interface with Dial-Up Networking, but could be easily configured to dial directly from a Dial-Up Networking window (and perhaps even with KPPP - no sloth-like Java shell!). This was good until Juno bought Worldspy.
What does this have to do with the story? (Moderators, pay attention.) These ISPs are allowing ad agencies to steal bandwidth from unsuspecting users who hate AOL, but don't want to pay for an analog modem connection. This is probably the first case of legalized e-extortion: letting the ads prevail. Doubleclick.net is one of the more prevalent banner-ad agencies.
There is a way you can shut out these banner ad sites for good! How? By tricking your web browser into mapping the DNS entries to localhost! To do this, find the "hosts" file (stuck in \windows\system or \winnt\system32; I don't know where for Linux). Simply place entries in like this:
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 m.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad-adex3.flycast.com
127.0.0.1 ads20.focalink.com
(use the same spacing as existing entries [there should be one already that says "localhost"])
When you go to pages which acquire banner ads from these sites, they will be replaced by either a "X" icon or a similar "Not Found" message (exactly the size of the banner ad!). This is a true sanity-saver and time-saver, even better than those cookie catcher programs.
What if I want to watch a DVD on a Linux box? That's my choice. What about listening to that new NIN track before I devote to the entire album? That's my choice. Life is full of important choices. Unfortunately, the physical manifestation of greed that is the corporate sector doesn't want us to have such a diverse selection. There should be a "Life is full of important choices" t-shirt with file format extensions; some of them with a big red X on them, with "Blocked by (company name)" written on the X. Would make a nice protest shirt.
There's too many proprietary standards out there. Sure, the purpose of patents is to give credit to the inventor, but come on, we shouldn't have to hand our first-born to Rob Glaser just because he happened to be the one who developed RealNetworks!
I think that media standards should be free. Standardized, but free. That way, we can view/listen to media on whatever we want (or however we can). I'd love to see the first Windows DVD player based on DeCSS (come on, someone take a risk, then print the source code of THAT on t-shirts and make a song of the source code!)
Personally, I think that Sony wants to turn the children of America into this. IMHBNNHO (In my honest but not necessarily humble opinion), Sony is the epitome of why we should perhaps start another war against Japan. This time, we take back the sanity, money and livelihood that have been stolen from us by Sony Comsumer Electronics , Pokémon, and the many animé houses in Japan. To quote from that song by The Vapors, "Turning Japanese I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so!" The only Japanese company I really like is Kawasaki; I thank them for making those double-decker train cars which get us lemmings into Boston every morning!
How'd you do that? Liquid nitrogen? Maybe that means that my Celeron 466 has some potential. However, it'll be running Windows 2000, so maybe I shouldn't.
If the 1.13GHz P3 was overclocked, then what about the 1GHz pre-Thunderbird Athlon? I think that it's just as possible that it was basically the same core as the 750. Personally, I hate companies that never stick to industry standards, and AMD has been added to this list.
The problem was that nasty resellers (like CompUSA) would grind the original markings off the faceplates and mark it up one jump (a 600 would become a 650, etc.)
I work at the Parts counter at CompUSA, and, when we had them, the AMD CPUs never left the factory shrink wrap of their boxes. Those were directly from AMD, not some OEM with 300-grit sandpaper and a white pen.
However, right now Intel and AMD do not distribute to retailers, including CompUSA, BestBuy, and the like. (I don't know about Fry's, there aren't any in Massachusetts). Just to recap, CompUSA never even took the CPUs out of their packaging, let alone participate in fraudulent activities.
You probably meant to say that the median mental age is 12. Between the trolls, the bible thumpers, and the 3L33T H4X0Rs, Slashdot is one big mosh pit of hate, zeal, and bigotry. Don't agree with me? Turn the threshold down to -1 and see what I'm talking about (Personally, I leave the threshold at 0, because sometimes the ACs do have something intelligent to say, and sometimes I need a good laugh at the troll posts).
The VERY first FPS was Wolfenstein 3-d. It was probably the most efficient game engine of its time, but level design was rudimentary. DOOM was the first networkable FPS; 4 computers, an IPX network, and you're ready to go.
I highlighted on one of your points (the inferiority of open-source projects) in one of my other posts, and I'll paraphrase from that one:
Linux Bad.
Okay this premise IS due to the fact that Linux is free. Because of this, the Linux coders have little time to code, and so they do a slapdash job and label it "Beta 1." All they really want is for their creation to work, not necessarily to work well. Hell, they don't care if the program doesn't even do what it was designed for, they only go back to the drawing board if it crashes (Case in point: GNOME and the Linux kernels above 2.4.XX)...
...As for Netscape, they get a buttload of cash from advertising. However, they're more infatuated with Java, hence the reason for Netscape's lag of 25000 milliseconds when accessing a webpage, even on OC3.
I think that the Mozilla project is just making a bad browser worse. Kinda like a chef tenderizing a filet mignon with maggots.
I think that the DMCA should be repealed. The only reason why it exists (and the main reason for its ratification) is to enhance the revenue of the existing media giants like RealNetworks, the big 5 (record companies), and the MPAA. I'm starting to get afraid that there won't be any new free media standards (or free codecs that improve on current standards) simply due to the sole reason of corporate greed.
I think that it's time to start hacking all the formats out there and do the same thing that has been done with DeCSS. Let's start a media revolution and slay this licensing beast! Personally, I think that if you own a DVD disk, you should be free to play it however the hell you can (or want).
I've heard rumors of a new compression format that will house 5-minute CD quality songs in less than 500K, and full movies in 100 MB. Let's hope that it's free.
Only about 17% of African citizens have internet access (most of them being compensated by IBM for being in those stupid commercials with an IBM web server sitting out in the open savannah) and we're complaining about some farmers in Iowa wanting something faster? Come on! There's people out there who don't even know what a computer is.
Would you mind using the BLOCKQUOTE function in your reply next time? It's there for a reason, and I used it in my reply. I'm not so hard-headed then, am I?
This is something that I've been trying to tell the bible thumpers on Slashdot for a long time - ever since I started posting comments on Slashdot. Now my arguments have been proven by a whole story. Netscape is legendary for being a memory hog (in comparison, as I'm typing this, IE5 is using up 8,448K of memory). Furthermore, Netscape will never let you view the source of a webpage with only a few clicks (in the right-click menu in IE, there's an option, "View Source," that opens the HTML/SHTML/PHP3/etc. page in Notepad. Kinda cool, if you ask me, cause you can see what they used to create pages, the javascipt, and so on. Also, sometimes when you want to download something with Netscape, instead of saving the file, it saves the link! That's just not right. I think a total UI rewrite is overdue for Netscape, as well as a total code rewrite.
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I've heard of it; it can only be done on the TI-82 to TI-86 series; too bad, since I have the TI-89 with a 10-MHz 68000.
Someone should engrave the contents of css_descramble.c into a brass placard in front of the Jefferson Memorial. We all know he would have supported us in this cause if he were alive.
I hate people like you who start the rumors.
The title looks more like it would deserve a score of -1, in contrast to its current score of 2. Oh well, never judge a book by its cover.
Some stories are so vague, they desperately need humor.
target acquired: Christy Turlington
investigating outfit... ALERT: outfit transparency over 50% Initializing arousal subroutine... locating twin peaks... WARNING: approaching climax! fluid containment tragedy averted, continuing perusal......that's why I wanted to ask some other Linux users: to make sure. Thanx for the advice, but don't kill the messenger for wanting to be sure.
Grandmothers are exchanging cookie recipes.
Children are being harassed daily by the same type of people who would try to kidnap them.
Rednecks say things like: "Maw, Paw done shot up the America Online again!"
oh, wait a minute, every one of these has happened!
{SARCASM}We're too late! We're DOOMED!{/SARCASM}
Case in point, the "free" internet access programs. Netzero, in truth, uses a Java interface which forces the user to view a window slightly larger than a banner ad (which displays banner ads 24/7, fetching a new one each second). This window cannot be closed during connection. Essentially, this taints Netzero's claim of "free internet"; it should be "Free with a 7 second bandwidth cutoff every minute." The only free internet service that I would recommend was Worldspy. It used a Java client to interface with Dial-Up Networking, but could be easily configured to dial directly from a Dial-Up Networking window (and perhaps even with KPPP - no sloth-like Java shell!). This was good until Juno bought Worldspy.
What does this have to do with the story? (Moderators, pay attention.) These ISPs are allowing ad agencies to steal bandwidth from unsuspecting users who hate AOL, but don't want to pay for an analog modem connection. This is probably the first case of legalized e-extortion: letting the ads prevail. Doubleclick.net is one of the more prevalent banner-ad agencies.
There is a way you can shut out these banner ad sites for good! How? By tricking your web browser into mapping the DNS entries to localhost! To do this, find the "hosts" file (stuck in \windows\system or \winnt\system32; I don't know where for Linux). Simply place entries in like this:
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net 127.0.0.1 m.doubleclick.net 127.0.0.1 ad-adex3.flycast.com 127.0.0.1 ads20.focalink.com (use the same spacing as existing entries [there should be one already that says "localhost"])When you go to pages which acquire banner ads from these sites, they will be replaced by either a "X" icon or a similar "Not Found" message (exactly the size of the banner ad!). This is a true sanity-saver and time-saver, even better than those cookie catcher programs.
What if I want to watch a DVD on a Linux box? That's my choice. What about listening to that new NIN track before I devote to the entire album? That's my choice. Life is full of important choices. Unfortunately, the physical manifestation of greed that is the corporate sector doesn't want us to have such a diverse selection. There should be a "Life is full of important choices" t-shirt with file format extensions; some of them with a big red X on them, with "Blocked by (company name)" written on the X. Would make a nice protest shirt.
Apparently Comedy Central doesn't want me to link to individual files. Just download the target and you'll see what I mean.
I think that media standards should be free. Standardized, but free. That way, we can view/listen to media on whatever we want (or however we can). I'd love to see the first Windows DVD player based on DeCSS (come on, someone take a risk, then print the source code of THAT on t-shirts and make a song of the source code!)
Personally, I think that Sony wants to turn the children of America into this. IMHBNNHO (In my honest but not necessarily humble opinion), Sony is the epitome of why we should perhaps start another war against Japan. This time, we take back the sanity, money and livelihood that have been stolen from us by Sony Comsumer Electronics , Pokémon, and the many animé houses in Japan. To quote from that song by The Vapors, "Turning Japanese I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so!" The only Japanese company I really like is Kawasaki; I thank them for making those double-decker train cars which get us lemmings into Boston every morning!
How'd you do that? Liquid nitrogen? Maybe that means that my Celeron 466 has some potential. However, it'll be running Windows 2000, so maybe I shouldn't.
If the 1.13GHz P3 was overclocked, then what about the 1GHz pre-Thunderbird Athlon? I think that it's just as possible that it was basically the same core as the 750. Personally, I hate companies that never stick to industry standards, and AMD has been added to this list.
I work at the Parts counter at CompUSA, and, when we had them, the AMD CPUs never left the factory shrink wrap of their boxes. Those were directly from AMD, not some OEM with 300-grit sandpaper and a white pen.
However, right now Intel and AMD do not distribute to retailers, including CompUSA, BestBuy, and the like. (I don't know about Fry's, there aren't any in Massachusetts). Just to recap, CompUSA never even took the CPUs out of their packaging, let alone participate in fraudulent activities.
You probably meant to say that the median mental age is 12. Between the trolls, the bible thumpers, and the 3L33T H4X0Rs, Slashdot is one big mosh pit of hate, zeal, and bigotry. Don't agree with me? Turn the threshold down to -1 and see what I'm talking about (Personally, I leave the threshold at 0, because sometimes the ACs do have something intelligent to say, and sometimes I need a good laugh at the troll posts).
Not every hacker hangs a pentagram on their wall in front of their computer.
The VERY first FPS was Wolfenstein 3-d. It was probably the most efficient game engine of its time, but level design was rudimentary. DOOM was the first networkable FPS; 4 computers, an IPX network, and you're ready to go.
...and see what their sniveling CEO says to that!
I think that the Mozilla project is just making a bad browser worse. Kinda like a chef tenderizing a filet mignon with maggots.
I think that it's time to start hacking all the formats out there and do the same thing that has been done with DeCSS. Let's start a media revolution and slay this licensing beast! Personally, I think that if you own a DVD disk, you should be free to play it however the hell you can (or want).
I've heard rumors of a new compression format that will house 5-minute CD quality songs in less than 500K, and full movies in 100 MB. Let's hope that it's free.
Only about 17% of African citizens have internet access (most of them being compensated by IBM for being in those stupid commercials with an IBM web server sitting out in the open savannah) and we're complaining about some farmers in Iowa wanting something faster? Come on! There's people out there who don't even know what a computer is.
Kilobytes per second = K/sec Kilobits per second = kbps
Would you mind using the BLOCKQUOTE function in your reply next time? It's there for a reason, and I used it in my reply. I'm not so hard-headed then, am I?
This is something that I've been trying to tell the bible thumpers on Slashdot for a long time - ever since I started posting comments on Slashdot. Now my arguments have been proven by a whole story. Netscape is legendary for being a memory hog (in comparison, as I'm typing this, IE5 is using up 8,448K of memory). Furthermore, Netscape will never let you view the source of a webpage with only a few clicks (in the right-click menu in IE, there's an option, "View Source," that opens the HTML/SHTML/PHP3/etc. page in Notepad. Kinda cool, if you ask me, cause you can see what they used to create pages, the javascipt, and so on. Also, sometimes when you want to download something with Netscape, instead of saving the file, it saves the link! That's just not right. I think a total UI rewrite is overdue for Netscape, as well as a total code rewrite.