What do you mean by that? The net isn't diminished because of big business. The same silly twinkie experiment pages can still be found, and there are more of them than ever.
Freenet is about censorship, not business. The claim that Freenet is what the web "was" is invalid. Was the net free of censorship before?
As explained in this post, Freenet tends to be a concentrator of filth, which is to its detriment in many ways. Is that what you mean by "what the web was"?
It was a hypothetical. I have no idea if it would work. There is also a lot of distortion from the plastic bottle which you would need to compensate for.
Don't they color the plastic on the Sprite type drinks though?
I actually didn't read the original (/.ed) article so I didn't know that it was the reflection that was being used. That makes this slightly more novel.
Now if only Dr Pepper were giving away free music...
I guess the definition of crack varies from person to person. If you wanted you could simply enter the store and start opening Pepsis until you won, and then only buy that one. I am sure the reaction of the store employees would be a bit more harsh than if they caught you ripping apart six-packs and handling every bottle you could find. In my opinion, the two approaches are about on the same level.
I do think that social engineering is a form of hacking. I don't think that anybody would claim that the social engineering that Mitnick did wasn't hacking. This doesn't seem to rise to that level though.
Perhaps it is because you still buy the Pepsi and Pepsi didn't really take any measures to stop you from doing this. It there were some clever way to read the number without opening the bottle that might qualify as a hack. Say, taking an ultra-violet photo of the bottom of the bottle that allowed you to see through the Pepsi to read the complete number. That would qualify as a hack.
For some reason the approach we are discussing seems too pathetic to qualify as a hack. Perhaps my standards are too high.
This doesn't even qualify as social engineering. Social engineering would involve asking someone for their winning bottle cap. Here is my crack:
Stand outside 7-Eleven and ask people for their bottle caps.
For example, I was in Brazil in 1994 and Coke ran a promo for the World Cup. Each bottle cap had three teams on it in order. If you ended up with the top three teams in the correct order you won a bunch of money. Bartenders became very adept at cracking open your bottle open and pocketing the cap.
Anyhow, this is certainly a simple cheat rather than a clever hack.
Just think, they guys have managed to get a few songs for free and told others how to do the same.
Of course when they get their bandwidth bill after this/.ing, do you think they will have come out ahead? They would have to drink a lot of Pepsi for that to happen.
Good thing they don't have Crystal Pepsi anymore or this would be even easier!
As far as the idea of a generator, I hope that Apple was smart enough to use strong crypto in their generator, such that you would have to know the key to come up with a winning entry.
I don't see how subverting this promotion is good for anyone in the long term. Do you want more promotions like this in the future? Do you want the store to last? I guess the temptation of a free 99 cent song is too much for some.
I think that people tend to view ESR and RMS in a different way than they view Linus. People in the community are aware of the contributions of all three, but also aware that ESR and RMS can come off as a bit nutty. I think this has been recognized from the start, so it isn't as much of a "double standard" as you claim.
I can't remember a time when Linus has been "disowned" as you say. What has he done/said that is offensive?
There seems to be a constant string of "world's largest organism" claims. I have also read that a particular forest of Aspen trees is the world's largest living thing and that a seasonal algae bloom in the Great Salt Lake is.
If you have ever flown over the lake on that approach to the SLC airport you know that there is something odd going on in that lake.
You wouldn't want MS Office from 10 years ago. That would be the Windows 3.1 version. Of course Asteroids and Centipede are closer to 20 years old. It seems to me that it would be good policy to have software copyright holders reapply (for a fee) after 20 years or allow the software to enter the public domain. Of course that will never happen, but it would do more good than harm.
IANAL (and I doubt you are one either) but this is exactly what Caldera did way back when in suing Microsoft. They bought the rights to DR DOS and then sued Microsoft for unfair competion against DR DOS. Given that Caldera walked away from this suit with $250 million it would seem that you are wrong.
Ahhh Campinas. Oddly the only time I have ever gone to a movie in Brasil was in Campinas. Saw the movie where Sean Penn is mentally retarded and is trying to keep custody of his daughter. It was a crap movie. The theater (a multiplex at the mall, not the giant new mall btw) was quite nice, comparable to a multiplex in the USA.
Sadly the old regal downtown theaters that used to be the staple in Brasil are all going out of business because people don't want to get mugged coming out of a movie on a Saturday night. Then end up getting sold to the Igreja Universal, which can make use of them during the day.
The reason that you having the source to Linux available doesn't cause there to be a huge number of viruses is simple: The code has been out there all along. It is "innoculated" against holes because they have been found over the years. Open source by its nature avoids "security through obscurity" solutions. Thus open source is a two edged sword in this regard. Your holes are made public, but that allows the good guys to find them and fix them.
Microsoft may or may not be relying on security through obscurity. I don't know since I haven't looked at the code. It might be that there will be a rash of worms and exploits that will be crafted by programmers who have searched through this source for holes. In this case having the source out in the open (as opposed to open source) will not be a two edged sword. Nobody is going to look at this code to submit fixes back to MS. So it is possible that now that the obscurity is gone, so is the security.
Interestingly, though there will probably be a short-term rash of problems due to this, in the long term this will lead to an "innoculation" effect as MS plugs holes that are found and possibly plugs similar holes that are not found.
If you ask me, I would guess that the next few months are going to be filled with Win2k patches.
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I am sure that you are creative enough to come up with an application in which the faster seek time, lower power requirements, and ability to withstand impacts that CF has would make a RAID of CF cards a better solution than magnetic media.
You think bats are rare? Where do you live? Please name an animal that isn't "innocent". I'm telling you that it was those animals at Enron that did it and they're guilty as hell.
Have you considered the possibility that before Slash and Burn McBride was brought aboard that Caldera/SCO was actually a willfully contributing member of the Linux community? The company willfully contributed this code to improve Linux. Now that those people are most likely gone the idiots that have taken over want to put the cat back in the bag.
All this proves is that companies should be careful about what they release under the GPL and that projects that accept contributions should keep careful track of who they come from.
If nothing else this whole SCO fiasco shows that Linux needs a disciplined approach to keeping track of where things are coming from in order to avoid future problems. I am sure that once this is over things will be run a bit differently.
The new anti-piracy measure on TTT extra features disks render them unreadable in some players. My parents have a player that refuses to play them. They will have to buy a new player to watch them or spend even more to have their old player "fixed".
What country did this happen in? Where did she do her residency? Was this a part time residency? How many hours a week was this?
I have a CS degree and my wife is almost done with her residency. She keeps asking if she should quit because she hates the long hours and being away from our son. I tell her no way. In ten years there will still be a job there for her. For me it will be a crapshoot. My employeer is instituting pay cuts (they won't admit that they are pay cuts) and sending jobs to India. I tell myself that it would be hard to send my particular job to India, but who knows in 10 years.
The normal path isn't required to become a doctor any more than it is to become a software whatever-the-hell this guy wants to be.
I think you must be trolling. I know HUNDREDS of doctors. I don't know any of them that didn't go to mediccal school or DO school full time. Those that did a residency did one that is at least 60 to 80 hours a week every week.
I also know lots of CS people. It is much easier to get into the industry without a fancy degree. I happen to have an undergrad degree from the best (some would say second best) school in the country. There were a few people there that were older and going part time. Nobody was going to Stanford Med School part time.
In summary, what the original poster is asking is possible, but seems like insanity. Good thing she (he?) is going to wait 5 to 10 years to start down the CS path. By then the options will be more clear. In any case, what she is asking about is MUCH more possible than earning a medical degree part time in the USA.
Actually, I have another applet that used to run great on the 300 MHz Celeron system and it no longer does. The applet hasn't changed, but I have installed the most recent JRE.:(
As for the ghost AI, I could tweak the current algorithm and increase the depth of the search and it would make perfect decisions. But that isn't what I want. It is already too good in many situations too add a second ghost.
What I am going to do is tweak it to make sure it won't exhibit any "back and forth" behavior, and will occasionally make a bad decision. Then I am going to play with the relative speeds of the ghost and the player as well as the number of ghosts.
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Freenet is about censorship, not business. The claim that Freenet is what the web "was" is invalid. Was the net free of censorship before?
As explained in this post, Freenet tends to be a concentrator of filth, which is to its detriment in many ways. Is that what you mean by "what the web was"?
It was a hypothetical. I have no idea if it would work. There is also a lot of distortion from the plastic bottle which you would need to compensate for.
I actually didn't read the original (/.ed) article so I didn't know that it was the reflection that was being used. That makes this slightly more novel.
Now if only Dr Pepper were giving away free music...
I do think that social engineering is a form of hacking. I don't think that anybody would claim that the social engineering that Mitnick did wasn't hacking. This doesn't seem to rise to that level though.
Perhaps it is because you still buy the Pepsi and Pepsi didn't really take any measures to stop you from doing this. It there were some clever way to read the number without opening the bottle that might qualify as a hack. Say, taking an ultra-violet photo of the bottom of the bottle that allowed you to see through the Pepsi to read the complete number. That would qualify as a hack.
For some reason the approach we are discussing seems too pathetic to qualify as a hack. Perhaps my standards are too high.
Stand outside 7-Eleven and ask people for their bottle caps.
For example, I was in Brazil in 1994 and Coke ran a promo for the World Cup. Each bottle cap had three teams on it in order. If you ended up with the top three teams in the correct order you won a bunch of money. Bartenders became very adept at cracking open your bottle open and pocketing the cap.
Anyhow, this is certainly a simple cheat rather than a clever hack.
Of course when they get their bandwidth bill after this /.ing, do you think they will have come out ahead? They would have to drink a lot of Pepsi for that to happen.
As far as the idea of a generator, I hope that Apple was smart enough to use strong crypto in their generator, such that you would have to know the key to come up with a winning entry.
I don't see how subverting this promotion is good for anyone in the long term. Do you want more promotions like this in the future? Do you want the store to last? I guess the temptation of a free 99 cent song is too much for some.
I can't remember a time when Linus has been "disowned" as you say. What has he done/said that is offensive?
If you have ever flown over the lake on that approach to the SLC airport you know that there is something odd going on in that lake.
You wouldn't want MS Office from 10 years ago. That would be the Windows 3.1 version. Of course Asteroids and Centipede are closer to 20 years old. It seems to me that it would be good policy to have software copyright holders reapply (for a fee) after 20 years or allow the software to enter the public domain. Of course that will never happen, but it would do more good than harm.
I think that signal 11 tried to sell his SID a few years ago. I remember there being some controversy about it but I don't remember the details.
IANAL (and I doubt you are one either) but this is exactly what Caldera did way back when in suing Microsoft. They bought the rights to DR DOS and then sued Microsoft for unfair competion against DR DOS. Given that Caldera walked away from this suit with $250 million it would seem that you are wrong.
Sadly the old regal downtown theaters that used to be the staple in Brasil are all going out of business because people don't want to get mugged coming out of a movie on a Saturday night. Then end up getting sold to the Igreja Universal, which can make use of them during the day.
Microsoft may or may not be relying on security through obscurity. I don't know since I haven't looked at the code. It might be that there will be a rash of worms and exploits that will be crafted by programmers who have searched through this source for holes. In this case having the source out in the open (as opposed to open source) will not be a two edged sword. Nobody is going to look at this code to submit fixes back to MS. So it is possible that now that the obscurity is gone, so is the security.
Interestingly, though there will probably be a short-term rash of problems due to this, in the long term this will lead to an "innoculation" effect as MS plugs holes that are found and possibly plugs similar holes that are not found.
If you ask me, I would guess that the next few months are going to be filled with Win2k patches.
Adam West doing the Batussey wasn't funny?
I am sure that you are creative enough to come up with an application in which the faster seek time, lower power requirements, and ability to withstand impacts that CF has would make a RAID of CF cards a better solution than magnetic media.
How is something that is internally inconsistent more beginner-friendly? What is the advantage over Java?
A "teaching language" should be constructed a bit more carefully than the way in which VB has grown over the years.
You think bats are rare? Where do you live? Please name an animal that isn't "innocent". I'm telling you that it was those animals at Enron that did it and they're guilty as hell.
All this proves is that companies should be careful about what they release under the GPL and that projects that accept contributions should keep careful track of who they come from.
If nothing else this whole SCO fiasco shows that Linux needs a disciplined approach to keeping track of where things are coming from in order to avoid future problems. I am sure that once this is over things will be run a bit differently.
I have unlocked my own player (different brand) and it plays the extra features disks flawlessly.
The new anti-piracy measure on TTT extra features disks render them unreadable in some players. My parents have a player that refuses to play them. They will have to buy a new player to watch them or spend even more to have their old player "fixed".
I have a CS degree and my wife is almost done with her residency. She keeps asking if she should quit because she hates the long hours and being away from our son. I tell her no way. In ten years there will still be a job there for her. For me it will be a crapshoot. My employeer is instituting pay cuts (they won't admit that they are pay cuts) and sending jobs to India. I tell myself that it would be hard to send my particular job to India, but who knows in 10 years.
The normal path isn't required to become a doctor any more than it is to become a software whatever-the-hell this guy wants to be.
I think you must be trolling. I know HUNDREDS of doctors. I don't know any of them that didn't go to mediccal school or DO school full time. Those that did a residency did one that is at least 60 to 80 hours a week every week.
I also know lots of CS people. It is much easier to get into the industry without a fancy degree. I happen to have an undergrad degree from the best (some would say second best) school in the country. There were a few people there that were older and going part time. Nobody was going to Stanford Med School part time.
In summary, what the original poster is asking is possible, but seems like insanity. Good thing she (he?) is going to wait 5 to 10 years to start down the CS path. By then the options will be more clear. In any case, what she is asking about is MUCH more possible than earning a medical degree part time in the USA.
Obviously the mods didn't read the article either or they wouldn't have modded your post as informative.
As for the ghost AI, I could tweak the current algorithm and increase the depth of the search and it would make perfect decisions. But that isn't what I want. It is already too good in many situations too add a second ghost.
What I am going to do is tweak it to make sure it won't exhibit any "back and forth" behavior, and will occasionally make a bad decision. Then I am going to play with the relative speeds of the ghost and the player as well as the number of ghosts.
Thanks for your help!