Yes, but a major point is that the cost of TV plus cable (400 + 30 * 12 = 760) is more expensive than the cost of a lowend computer + internet access (500 + 15 * 12 = 680). But TV has become a cultural status mark. Whereas a computer has less significance culturally among innercity/urban minorities. We didn't arrive at the TV having such significance by giving low income families them, it just eventually happend itself. But I do believe that the TV tends to better represent, and has more to offer minorities (I mean more to offer and in a perceptial way, not as in a educational advancement way). Generally there is very little on the net that would be of interest to a innercity minority youth, whereas there is much on TV for such a group. If we can find a way to provide such things, it could have an effect. How about the government agencies that help out such channels as PBS, maby if we can convince them of the possitive effect the net can have, they might donate money so that someone can provide educational/entertainment sites directed at innercity youth?
Sounds great, but what good would it do, from what I've heard, (could be wrong, but I have asked around) gravity waves travel at approximatly the speed of light, so seriously, I don't see how this would do us any good. Now if gravity waves traveled at infinate speeds, that would be something.
Well duh, any other serious revolutionary CPU's out there (cept the K7 which I do consider revolutionary.. but in a different way). Anyways for years Amiga has been quite serious when it comes to cross platform support. On the Amiga 5 years ago, (about the time I last saw a new amiga) it shipped with a windows and mac emulator, which worked pretty damn well. This amazingly was one of thier main selling points, a powerPC that kicked the ass off the powerPC (and it did) while still running Amiga programs too. From almost the very begining it could read dos fat formated disk. Well anyhow I don't know where I'm going with this anymore, just that I know Amiga considered cross platform support and big deal, and the TransMeta chip will reportably provide this.
I think the author was possibly kidding, I doupt he could possibly be serious when he calls Mach 25 "mere". I mean geez sure, my sports car can go close to that speed, but I still don't consider that slow. (note: I have no sports car unless you call a tercel a car.)
Re:ipv4=4 8 bit values, ipv6 = 6 8 bit values?
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hehe ipv4 means IP version 4 its just a coinsidence that the version numbers and # of bit values happen to be the same.
(Imagine, what is the likelyhood that smacking my computer with a hammer will make it work **better**?)
Accually in fact Microsoft and Intel are setting up a new test lab where they provide and infinate amount of monkeys and infinate amount of hammers and let them hammer out the bugs in computers. Microsoft was quoted as saying "Hey if they wrote Shakespear I bet they can create W2K." While Intel was quoted as saying, "Hey we've already surpassed the laws of physics getting computers to compute a instruction faster than light can travel across your motherboard."
Oh btw.. I thought ball lighting was real and not just a myth?
I don't think he was completly kidding. Any kid that age that had the balls (boy right?) and skills to sneak outta a preschool walk about a mile to that other place (the other story said the toy shop was a mile away approx) find that car pop the hood and go off with it down the highway. That takes serious planning and a certain drive. I bet that kid would make a great hacker, or atleast someone I'd be proud to say I know.
They said increasing numbers of terrorist groups, drug traffickers, child pornographers and financial criminals already are using the scrambling technology to avoid detection and frustrate prosecution.
So who are they targeting with this one? They admit that the criminals are already using such technology and that has them defeated. What possible reason is there to stop the normal people from using such technology. HMM (btw why is it when anyone authority talks about how we need to control the net they bring up porn?)
Oh get a grip, we're talking about e-mail, not http or ftp. Seriously if you send out 200mb of email a day I feel very sorry for your recipients. Though I do think that subscription emails should be except as they generally are providing you with a free service (the ones that add a add to them maby shouldn't be except as they make more than cent a piece). Seriously how many e-mails do you send out a day. This tax would be trivial and could simply be a smtp counter on your ppp account that adds a few pennies to your bill. (note this amount should NOT become public record and should be on a honor system that the dialups/cable services should pay)
Lighten up, the statements of boasting where simply made to be humorius. Didn't you ever sit around with your friends and tell baltent lies that you and everybody else knew where lies. Its just something humans love to do, embellish. Ever since the first human caught a 2 inch fish and told their friends about the whopper they caught the other day, humans have been embellishing. Chill out, and take it all with a grain of salt. It's funny.. and thats all.
Re:Religious bigotry: alive and well in the USA.
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Well I didn't delimit skew of obfuscate those charts in any way. They are if you note, on the DOJ web site. I only put them there because I happed to ran across them the other day and while I was writting the above comment I remembered them and thought others might find them insteresting.
Re:Religious bigotry: alive and well in the USA.
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Personally I believe in the Christian faith (note I didn't call myself a christian because that would make me as much as a hypocrite as the rest of em). But I hate groups like CAP who give a bad name to normal moderate christians, who can often have an open mind and see things for what they truly are. This movie had a message, on that slashdot has been commited (ok.. maby half-assed) to spreading ever since the columbine shootings, and before. That you simply can't go around blaming other people, especially the media for societies problems. Though sites like this would love us to believe that violent movies are to blame. What I find interesting though, is that while violence in movies are at almost an all time high, youth violence is the lowest for the decade. Don't believe me, check out DJJ's statistics yourself.. For a Chart or for a slighly easier to read table
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Think about what you just said.. We are meat, but we can't produce those 8 ameino acids. Other animals are meat, but they can? That doesn't make much sense. I'd be willing to bet that your right about the 8 ameino acids that we can't produce, but I'd also bet that those acids come from plants, of which animals also have simply because they eat plants, or eat animals who have eatten plants. (I'm not expert on the matter just using common sense, as I know vegitarians (who don't eat eggs or drink milk) can survive, they just have to have a good balanced diet.
My question is when is Adaptec going to start supporting RAID for linux. I have yet to see a competent way of using Adaptec's RAID adapter for RH 6.0. Adaptec makes almost the best raid drives out there, but if I can't use them I can't buy them.
"One of the most important aspects of this decision was the court's holding that computer hard drives are not subject to the Audio Home Recording Act," said EFF's Steele. This means that computer manufacturers can continue to design their products without any restrictions from the audio industry, she said.
One veteran copyright lawyer pointed out that if the Audio Home Recording Act does not apply to personal computers, which are important copying devices in the digital age, the law becomes almost meaningless and offers little or no protection to copyright holders, who worry about online music piracy......RIAA will seek to lobby Congress to have the law amended to extend to computers and computer peripherals.
Personally this scares me to death. So far the judges have used some common sense when it comes to issues like this, but I don't expect Congress to use much common sense under lobby pressure. If congress is stupid enough to accually amend the law, I can only imagine how destructive this would be to the computer industry. I see no possible way such a law could be followed without great expense. Such an expense could destroy much of the computer manufacures. Accually if pressured most would simply buckle and be forced to impliment SDMI or something stupid like that. (I appologize if this was posted twice)
UMM I'm pretty sure that they meant endorced as in a proper copy. Like the artist endorces your CD but not that copy you burnt and gave to your friend.
It seems many people have a misconception of what SDMI is.. From what I've figure out SDMI is more of a watermarking technology, meaning all new CD's and online music will be watermarked with SDMI (note there is a difference between this and encrypting of scrambling (spelling?) old CD players will be able to play this SDMI music (though if you play it backwards and really slowly you will hear a voice in the backgroud saying "do noot copy.. or satin will have your soul" accually this is fairly accuarate except its a binary message for the computer to read instead of you). Even if Ripped from CD to MP3 this watermark will most likly still be there. The important difference comes in the players. The players that support watermarking/SDMI will follow the rules and will only play first generation copies or something like that (I kinda forget how these rules work or how they are digitally enforced). Now somehow the RIAA has got to force all players to support the SDMI standard, which they may just do, suppositivly the new RIO'S will use SDMI as will most other players, possibly even winamp. So if we want to fight this initiative we need to start using and supporting players that do not care about SDMI, most of these will oviously be linux/free(not beer nessesarly)/GPL software.
You didn't quite read what the guy said, he said MTV controls what we listen too. I think he mostly meant what is considered mainstream/popular.. which sad to say they really do. Then he went on to imply that he hopes MTV becomes obsolete, I assume by the internet.
Hmm I'm from America (yes flame on.. hehe) And personally I was of the thought that privacy was a concern here long before the web. I may have read it all wrong but it looked like our Constitution was created with this strange radical idea of privacy. The only problem was that our foundered didn't realize it would become possible for individuals or corperations to invade privacy as much as the government. Oh the times when I would love to have had a time machine to show the foundered how their laws are being interpreted today.
Wired News: "Does SDMI similarly allow for "fair use" of music by me, the consumer? "
Leonardo Chiariglione: "I don't think it is right [to apply the same standard] to an environment where you copy once, copy twice, copy a million times, and it is exactly the same as the original. So SDMI gives you the solutions: Content has an associated set of user rules. You are the author, I am the consumer, and we have agreed to these rules. "
This is the Executive Director of SDMI, personally I'm not very interested in using something that comes from a guy who cares so little about fair use and privacy.
What if we started a campaign to encourage independent film makers and regular people making copies of thier own movies, to use a different standard of encoding, while still using the DVD disc size. Of course we would have to use the basic MPEG movie encoding, but the encryption could be something else, something open but secure against piracy. Is there anything like that out there? Would such a campain be possible. I think if we could develop such a system and convense that movie industry that our system is not only cheaper (free???) but just as secure they might move to such a format themselves? And everybody could use them. Is such a thing possible. Any comments suggestions ideas? The MP3 campaign is going strong, but I believe we could take on another, though this one may be even more difficult.
Us techies can only take on so many things in mass. Right now we are still working on tricking the world into hiring us for making sure their pentium III's are Y2K compatible. Once we've gotten all the money we can outta that (sometime in mid January) we'll suddenly announce that by some date in 2001 we will run outta IP numbers, and that the world's computers will suddendly not be able to connect to the internet due to the problems of dynamic IP which are a rare resource like oil. But we can fix their problems with a genius idea called IPv6 which will give them 19^23 (or something like that) possible numbers. Everyone will be stressing up untill everything is declaired cleared, and till the prospeced date even. Then we will find some other "Tragedy" (note: most of this was sarcasm)
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Yes, but a major point is that the cost of TV plus cable (400 + 30 * 12 = 760) is more expensive than the cost of a lowend computer + internet access
(500 + 15 * 12 = 680). But TV has become a cultural status mark. Whereas a computer has less significance culturally among innercity/urban minorities. We didn't arrive at the TV having such significance by giving low income families them, it just eventually happend itself. But I do believe that the TV tends to better represent, and has more to offer minorities (I mean more to offer and in a perceptial way, not as in a educational advancement way). Generally there is very little on the net that would be of interest to a innercity minority youth, whereas there is much on TV for such a group. If we can find a way to provide such things, it could have an effect. How about the government agencies that help out such channels as PBS, maby if we can convince them of the possitive effect the net can have, they might donate money so that someone can provide educational/entertainment sites directed at innercity youth?
Sounds great, but what good would it do, from what I've heard, (could be wrong, but I have asked around) gravity waves travel at approximatly the speed of light, so seriously, I don't see how this would do us any good. Now if gravity waves traveled at infinate speeds, that would be something.
Well duh, any other serious revolutionary CPU's out there (cept the K7 which I do consider revolutionary.. but in a different way).
Anyways for years Amiga has been quite serious when it comes to cross platform support. On the Amiga 5 years ago, (about the time I last saw a new amiga) it shipped with a windows and mac emulator, which worked pretty damn well. This amazingly was one of thier main selling points, a powerPC that kicked the ass off the powerPC (and it did) while still running Amiga programs too. From almost the very begining it could read dos fat formated disk. Well anyhow I don't know where I'm going with this anymore, just that I know Amiga considered cross platform support and big deal, and the TransMeta chip will reportably provide this.
(navigator!=msie)!=(navigator=bad)
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(navigator!=msie)!=(navigator==bad)
I think the author was possibly kidding, I doupt he could possibly be serious when he calls Mach 25 "mere". I mean geez sure, my sports car can go close to that speed, but I still don't consider that slow. (note: I have no sports car unless you call a tercel a car.)
hehe ipv4 means IP version 4 its just a coinsidence that the version numbers and # of bit values happen to be the same.
(Imagine, what is the likelyhood that smacking my computer with a hammer will make it work **better**?)
Accually in fact Microsoft and Intel are setting up a new test lab where they provide and infinate amount of monkeys and infinate amount of hammers and let them hammer out the bugs in computers. Microsoft was quoted as saying "Hey if they wrote Shakespear I bet they can create W2K." While Intel was quoted as saying, "Hey we've already surpassed the laws of physics getting computers to compute a instruction faster than light can travel across your motherboard."
Oh btw.. I thought ball lighting was real and not just a myth?
I don't think he was completly kidding. Any kid that age that had the balls (boy right?) and skills to sneak outta a preschool walk about a mile to that other place (the other story said the toy shop was a mile away approx) find that car pop the hood and go off with it down the highway. That takes serious planning and a certain drive. I bet that kid would make a great hacker, or atleast someone I'd be proud to say I know.
They said increasing numbers of terrorist groups, drug traffickers, child pornographers and financial criminals already are using the scrambling technology to avoid detection and frustrate prosecution.
So who are they targeting with this one? They admit that the criminals are already using such technology and that has them defeated. What possible reason is there to stop the normal people from using such technology. HMM (btw why is it when anyone authority talks about how we need to control the net they bring up porn?)
Oh get a grip, we're talking about e-mail, not http or ftp. Seriously if you send out 200mb of email a day I feel very sorry for your recipients. Though I do think that subscription emails should be except as they generally are providing you with a free service (the ones that add a add to them maby shouldn't be except as they make more than cent a piece). Seriously how many e-mails do you send out a day. This tax would be trivial and could simply be a smtp counter on your ppp account that adds a few pennies to your bill. (note this amount should NOT become public record and should be on a honor system that the dialups/cable services should pay)
Lighten up, the statements of boasting where simply made to be humorius. Didn't you ever sit around with your friends and tell baltent lies that you and everybody else knew where lies. Its just something humans love to do, embellish. Ever since the first human caught a 2 inch fish and told their friends about the whopper they caught the other day, humans have been embellishing. Chill out, and take it all with a grain of salt. It's funny.. and thats all.
Well I didn't delimit skew of obfuscate those charts in any way. They are if you note, on the DOJ web site. I only put them there because I happed to ran across them the other day and while I was writting the above comment I remembered them and thought others might find them insteresting.
Personally I believe in the Christian faith (note I didn't call myself a christian because that would make me as much as a hypocrite as the rest of em). But I hate groups like CAP who give a bad name to normal moderate christians, who can often have an open mind and see things for what they truly are. This movie had a message, on that slashdot has been commited (ok.. maby half-assed) to spreading ever since the columbine shootings, and before. That you simply can't go around blaming other people, especially the media for societies problems. Though sites like this would love us to believe that violent movies are to blame. What I find interesting though, is that while violence in movies are at almost an all time high, youth violence is the lowest for the decade. Don't believe me, check out DJJ's statistics yourself.. For a Chart
or for a slighly easier to read table
Think about what you just said.. We are meat, but we can't produce those 8 ameino acids. Other animals are meat, but they can? That doesn't make much sense. I'd be willing to bet that your right about the 8 ameino acids that we can't produce, but I'd also bet that those acids come from plants, of which animals also have simply because they eat plants, or eat animals who have eatten plants. (I'm not expert on the matter just using common sense, as I know vegitarians (who don't eat eggs or drink milk) can survive, they just have to have a good balanced diet.
My question is when is Adaptec going to start supporting RAID for linux. I have yet to see a competent way of using Adaptec's RAID adapter for RH 6.0. Adaptec makes almost the best raid drives out there, but if I can't use them I can't buy them.
Well yea, but it sounds like they are trying to change thier mind. Or where the people who drafted the DHRA not part of the RIAA?
"One of the most important aspects of this decision was the court's holding that computer hard drives are not subject to the Audio Home Recording Act," said EFF's Steele. This means that computer manufacturers can continue to design their products without any restrictions from the audio industry, she said.
One veteran copyright lawyer pointed out that if the Audio Home Recording Act does not apply to personal computers, which are important copying devices in the digital age, the law becomes almost meaningless and offers little or no protection to copyright holders, who worry about online music piracy......RIAA will seek to lobby Congress to have the law amended to extend to computers and computer peripherals.
Personally this scares me to death. So far the judges have used some common sense when it comes to issues like this, but I don't expect Congress to use much common sense under lobby pressure. If congress is stupid enough to accually amend the law, I can only imagine how destructive this would be to the computer industry. I see no possible way such a law could be followed without great expense. Such an expense could destroy much of the computer manufacures. Accually if pressured most would simply buckle and be forced to impliment SDMI or something stupid like that.
(I appologize if this was posted twice)
UMM I'm pretty sure that they meant endorced as in a proper copy. Like the artist endorces your CD but not that copy you burnt and gave to your friend.
It seems many people have a misconception of what SDMI is.. /SDMI will follow the rules and will only play first generation copies or something like that (I kinda forget how these rules work or how they are digitally enforced). Now somehow the RIAA has got to force all players to support the SDMI standard, which they may just do, suppositivly the new RIO'S will use SDMI as will most other players, possibly even winamp. So if we want to fight this initiative we need to start using and supporting players that do not care about SDMI, most of these will oviously be linux/free(not beer nessesarly)/GPL software.
From what I've figure out SDMI is more of a watermarking technology, meaning all new CD's and online music will be watermarked with SDMI (note there is a difference between this and encrypting of scrambling (spelling?) old CD players will be able to play this SDMI music (though if you play it backwards and really slowly you will hear a voice in the backgroud saying "do noot copy.. or satin will have your soul" accually this is fairly accuarate except its a binary message for the computer to read instead of you). Even if Ripped from CD to MP3 this watermark will most likly still be there. The important difference comes in the players. The players that support watermarking
You didn't quite read what the guy said, he said MTV controls what we listen too. I think he mostly meant what is considered mainstream/popular.. which sad to say they really do. Then he went on to imply that he hopes MTV becomes obsolete, I assume by the internet.
BTW is that walkindude.. as in The Stand?
Hmm I'm from America (yes flame on.. hehe)
And personally I was of the thought that privacy was a concern here long before the web. I may have read it all wrong but it looked like our Constitution was created with this strange radical idea of privacy. The only problem was that our foundered didn't realize it would become possible for individuals or corperations to invade privacy as much as the government. Oh the times when I would love to have had a time machine to show the foundered how their laws are being interpreted today.
Wired News: "Does SDMI similarly allow for "fair use" of music by me, the consumer? "
Leonardo Chiariglione: "I don't think it is right [to apply the same standard] to an environment where you copy once, copy twice, copy a million times, and it is exactly the same as the original. So SDMI gives you the solutions: Content has an associated set of user rules. You are the author, I am the consumer, and we have agreed to these rules. "
This is the Executive Director of SDMI, personally I'm not very interested in using something that comes from a guy who cares so little about fair use and privacy.
What if we started a campaign to encourage independent film makers and regular people making copies of thier own movies, to use a different standard of encoding, while still using the DVD disc size. Of course we would have to use the basic MPEG movie encoding, but the encryption could be something else, something open but secure against piracy. Is there anything like that out there? Would such a campain be possible. I think if we could develop such a system and convense that movie industry that our system is not only cheaper (free???) but just as secure they might move to such a format themselves? And everybody could use them. Is such a thing possible. Any comments suggestions ideas? The MP3 campaign is going strong, but I believe we could take on another, though this one may be even more difficult.
What?? having 2 or more 160bit keyID/fingerprint?
0 0
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possible.
Us techies can only take on so many things in mass. Right now we are still working on tricking the world into hiring us for making sure their pentium III's are Y2K compatible. Once we've gotten all the money we can outta that (sometime in mid January) we'll suddenly announce that by some date in 2001 we will run outta IP numbers, and that the world's computers will suddendly not be able to connect to the internet due to the problems of dynamic IP which are a rare resource like oil. But we can fix their problems with a genius idea called IPv6 which will give them 19^23 (or something like that) possible numbers. Everyone will be stressing up untill everything is declaired cleared, and till the prospeced date even. Then we will find some other "Tragedy"
(note: most of this was sarcasm)