Maybe in italy, it's OK to torture your own citizen until they give up a password. They didn't use jack the ripper to break in, the offender probably gave it up in liu of a shorter sentance (note without torture)
Ever heard of electrical tape? So many of my atari cartridge "Backups" had black tape over the glass window to prevent just such a thing from happening.
Blue Gravity's chief executive, Tom Krwawecz, said the company was never informed. And he believes U.S. laws -- not Italy's -- ought to apply.
I don't think so...
We do not have the right to interfere with the laws of other countries (unless it is flat out human rights violatations and the enslaved are being used to build a war machine against us) Being that the USA is a melting pot, we have been taught to respect the belief's and values of other cultures.
The content was created in italy, by an italian. Being Italian myself, the story sort of took a special note with me.
Let's say someone in the US was creating kiddie porn sites and hosting them offshore. Most states in the US make it illeagle to have nudes of anyone under 18. The laws in other countries differ, you can marry as young as 14 and still be legal. Should we exempt someone dealing in kiddie porn just because their site is offshore? No! Of course not.
So if that is the logic applied here, then why in gods name would we want to impose a double standard to our allied nations laws? It doesn't bode well with "keeping the peace"
Well what about storing a site on some eproms? That would work for high volume site. It could work something like this...
A. Create website. B. Attatch big box of eproms to burning device and burn website.(parrelel port, whatever) Unplug when done. C. Attatch big box of eproms to webserver via ide/scsi interface D. Very fast, and probably going to be fairly cheap to do soon.
Are you reffering to SCSI or IDE? Which line is it exactly?
Looking at the IDE pinout, Pin23 is the write line. Can you really just cut the thing? I've never tried this, sounds interesting. Maybe a dip switch would be better than cutting though.
I think you just hit on something. Too bad you posted as AC... If someone REALLY didn't want to use a CDR (slow access, slow raid, ect) That would be a cheap way of doing it. No need for yet another dumb product.
I don't fill my hard drive up with that frivolous crap. I consider data like any other peice of data, just another bit to babysit. My hard drive is filled up with some games, tons of applications that I use, and tons of stuff that I work on for other people, backups of their postnuke sites, graphics, renderings from truespace, ect.
I do have cat5 strung up throughout the block(and my house of course). Click on my user, look back a a few of my posts, sorry i'm a little lazy to do that right now.
Back to my point, there's a few house frau's that i've taught how to turn their CD collection into mp3's. Over the 4th we pirated the FUCK outta their collection by piping the MP3's through a D/A convertor, then through an amplified coil attatched to some paperish material inside of this big wooden box.
OkOK I lied, I do have a huge collection of stuff I grabbed when napster was still around. I don't swap songs with people though. My upstream is capped at 128.
OKOK I lied again, everytime I have a lan party, I add new songs, but they're not on MY hard drive they're on my other FILESERVERS hard drive. I don't wanna put that kind of junk on my 10kRPM Ultra 160 drive! Yeah I'll just shove it on that crap 80 dollar IDE on the fileserver.
Fuck it, it's too hot and i'm too cranky to write anything usefull. Go ahead and use those mod points to mod me down.
I've been running BBIagent http://www.bbiagent.net for about the last year or so. I share my DSL with a few neighbors via some cat5 we strung up over the last year, and my counterstrikin was startin to hurt real bad whenever one of the teenager kids was downloading from kazza
Before I was using a linksys router. My current BBIagent setup is a packard bell p60 with 32 megs of ram, and 2 old 16 bit isa 3com nics. The performance increase is stunning.
You can specify what kind of traffic to create priority for, forward, block ports. There are a few options for hack detection blocking. The nicest features of bbiagent is.
1. Single floppy distro which is configured on the fly via the bbiagent website 2. Java app for admining the sucker, very well laid out. 3. Realtime control over your network connection without losing it. On my linkstink whenever I would change a rule or a forward the whole thing would reboot itself, bbiagent doesnt do that. 4. Open source! 5. Linux Based!
I can go on and on about it, but if you're really looking to control what and how packets are handled, I would really recomend giving bbiagent a try.
I read this story and was wondering, does anyone know a good PHP solution for hosting musician content? I'm looking for something that can allow musicians to upload their music, and automagically add their upload to the library.
Either that or something custom written. We could probably afford $200 bucks to anyone that could write such an app as well as some free adspace in the print rag. Any takers just reply to
Ok but when you're talking about shareholders, how many people are you referring too? 300-500 at the most? So you mean to tell me that those 300-500 people are entitled to more bandwidth than the other 4 billion people in our country?
Look at what commercial overfishing did to the average joe fisherman. It totally wiped fishing out to the point where you have to get on a boat and go 30 miles offshore to get good fishing. Why should I have to go 30 miles offshore to use my 802.11? Time warner isn't joe average, and their 300 shareholders are not joe average either. Both are wealthy, probably drive lexus's, and to them joe average is a back for doing meanial tasks.
It's just an issue of not letting any single entity gain complete control over what is supposed to be a public spectrum. If they want to do mass spamming on a network spectrum, let them pay the FCC the license rights to do it. Give them some other spectrum to use.
I made this comment just today, the cable companies have a plan that I think could effectively drown out all individual owned 802.11 equipment.
According to this article published just today, the cable companies are investing in set top boxes with 802.11 built in. Their ability to mass produce and distribute these machines is probably more than I could imagine. What I forsee is the equivelent of 802.11 spam from a private corporation that could ruin the fair and public use of the 2.4ghz spectrum.
Quote from the article Many people don't realize that if current policies continue, a handful of big monopolies will gain power over information flowing through the Internet,
I think the ACLU should go investigate this because it is an infringement on my rights to use public spectrum. Public spectrum is like public land, I don't want to see it littered with pay per view movies, or QVC. I don't wan't some corporation to run a big freeway through it, or pass through it all the time.
Cable companies already have broadband wires stretched everywhere and even before the article was written they had the monopoly on that. (A monopoly that grew because it went unchecked in it's early stage) It's a huge multiheaded monster now that has it's hands in the pockets of politicians and legislators everywhere.
Well, that's enough ranting for now. I think the ACLU should nip the 802.11 boxes in the bud before it's too late.
hey it's got nothing to do with weed, we've had a heat wave last 3 days and no air conditioning in san jose. Now that it's 1:30am and cooled off i can think.
--toq
Isn't the 802.11 spectrum supposed to be public?
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I see some huge hairy problems with this.
Let's say grandma down the street who doesn't use the internet has one of these boxes acting as a network repeater. That steals away from the availiable spectrum I can use right?
My english feels a little off today, scuse me. What i'm trying to say is let's say I have 802.11 equipment that I want to use, but I can't because AOL time warner has sucked up the spectrum with thier gabillions of cable boxes. I.E. a corporation is eating up public property. Something just seems wrong.
Let me put it another way. If this goes through without some kind of goverment intervention it would be like you couldn't go camping at Yosemite because AOL has all the campsite.
Man my engrish is bad today... Anyone else in San Jose gettin dizzy from this heat?
I used terminatorX http://www.terminatorx.cx and mounted my optical mouse to a cheap 10 dollar turntable I got at the flea market. Instead of connecting it to the gearing like the terminatorx site shows, I rely on the actual vinyl underneath which makes it much more like spinning vinyl.
I have a few issues with it, maybe some/.'ers would want to take a stab at.
1. I would really like to raise the mouse to be about an inch above the vinyl. How would I change the camera's focus?
2. It seems "laggy" (sorry best word I could think of) Would it really be worth it for me to go out and spend another $40 dollars to see if the 2.0 versions are less laggy?
Anyways, I hope you found my comment to be both insightful, interesting, and informative, please mod accordingly:)
--Toq
Does anyone know any solutions with keyboard?
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It really sucks using the remote to set up what you want. It would be nice if I had a keyboard and could use it to type up searches on programs.
Sega did everything WRONG with the DC. Free included modem(But you had to shell out an arm and a leg for a POS NIC), great price(isn't the reason it's $50 now because it's discontinued?Wasn't it $250@release?), great games(PS2,XboX,N64 have em). Its thier fault (for not doing what) Sony (did),blitzes the minds of the average MTV watcher with ads every 2 seconds. The DC was discontinued due to bad sales(and horrible marketing), not bad technology or games(If you actually READ my post, you would see I was crapping on their marketing the whole time).
Hope you get modded DOWN. They need a new mod type of "Replier didn't read parent comment"
I can't believe all these "Poor sega, poor Dreamcasts" Post i'm seeing. Now i'm not going into a flame here, I just want to point out some facts.
Fact #1 Sega has no consumer loyaltee because they discontinued every system they ever released in the past as soon as a competetor released a better system. We saw sega drop the master system when 8bit Nintendo came out. We saw them drop the Genesis, and 32x when the Super nintendo and XF chip(starfox) came out. We saw them really run away with their Saturn when Sony made the Playstation. Their last coup de gra was the dreamcast, which after just the announcement of the N64, Xbox, and PS2 was dropped. I don't support companies that drop support of their systems at a drop of a hat.
Fact #2 The DC mame emulation is SEVERELY limited. I know the author of mamedc (Christophe Thibult of kaillera fame http://www.kaillera.com) hasn't got a lot of time to work on it because of his work constraints (-C if your reading this, kick ass on WA3!!) Anyways your point is moot because the mamedc only supports 11 games. 11 GAMES! While mamex supports the entire mame romset!
You sound to me like many of my other friends that went out and bought a DC and fell victum to sega's chicken shit tactics. No DC is not that great IMHO and running 11 mame games isn't enough reason for me to spend 50 bucks. Check your facts before you post this bleeding heart (towards sega) bullshit.
There was some stupid movie I saw on HBO once called kidco, kidcon. Anyways
The story is about some kid that starts a fertilizer business collecting the poop from the different farms around town. Big fertilizer business takes the kids to court and tries to get them shut down on all sorts of technicalities.
They come to the issue of sales tax on the poop. The kid calls up the local alfalfa farmer and asks him if he pays taxes on the hay, to which he replies yes. The kid then makes the argument, "If the hay was taxed on the way into the horse, then taxing it when it comes out is double taxation!"
Manuer, Used CD's, its all the same really, isn't it double taxation when royaltee's are collected twice on a CD?
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How was it unauthorized?
Maybe in italy, it's OK to torture your own citizen until they give up a password. They didn't use jack the ripper to break in, the offender probably gave it up in liu of a shorter sentance (note without torture)
Ever heard of electrical tape? So many of my atari cartridge "Backups" had black tape over the glass window to prevent just such a thing from happening.
Blue Gravity's chief executive, Tom Krwawecz, said the company was never informed. And he believes U.S. laws -- not Italy's -- ought to apply.
.02 cents anyways.
I don't think so...
We do not have the right to interfere with the laws of other countries (unless it is flat out human rights violatations and the enslaved are being used to build a war machine against us) Being that the USA is a melting pot, we have been taught to respect the belief's and values of other cultures.
The content was created in italy, by an italian. Being Italian myself, the story sort of took a special note with me.
Let's say someone in the US was creating kiddie porn sites and hosting them offshore. Most states in the US make it illeagle to have nudes of anyone under 18. The laws in other countries differ, you can marry as young as 14 and still be legal. Should we exempt someone dealing in kiddie porn just because their site is offshore? No! Of course not.
So if that is the logic applied here, then why in gods name would we want to impose a double standard to our allied nations laws? It doesn't bode well with "keeping the peace"
my
Well what about storing a site on some eproms? That would work for high volume site. It could work something like this...
A. Create website.
B. Attatch big box of eproms to burning device and burn website.(parrelel port, whatever) Unplug when done.
C. Attatch big box of eproms to webserver via ide/scsi interface
D. Very fast, and probably going to be fairly cheap to do soon.
Just outta curiosity..
Are you reffering to SCSI or IDE? Which line is it exactly?
Looking at the IDE pinout, Pin23 is the write line. Can you really just cut the thing? I've never tried this, sounds interesting. Maybe a dip switch would be better than cutting though.
I think you just hit on something. Too bad you posted as AC... If someone REALLY didn't want to use a CDR (slow access, slow raid, ect) That would be a cheap way of doing it. No need for yet another dumb product.
Good point!
--toq
Remember you can do the SAME thing with the hard drive you currently own and a CD drive. Here are some simple instructions...
/mnt/cdrom
A create your website
B burn it to CD
C modify httpd.conf, document root, set to
Voila! and I didn't need to hire a team of japanese researchers to figure it out either.
Discovery channel has been running a special lately, The Hunt for the Giant Squid. Actually it's been in reruns since last year, hardly a new species.
Your freesco looks great, but where's the built in PPPOE support? I RTFM'd and didnt find a mention of it once!
I don't fill my hard drive up with that frivolous crap. I consider data like any other peice of data, just another bit to babysit. My hard drive is filled up with some games, tons of applications that I use, and tons of stuff that I work on for other people, backups of their postnuke sites, graphics, renderings from truespace, ect.
I do have cat5 strung up throughout the block(and my house of course). Click on my user, look back a a few of my posts, sorry i'm a little lazy to do that right now.
Back to my point, there's a few house frau's that i've taught how to turn their CD collection into mp3's. Over the 4th we pirated the FUCK outta their collection by piping the MP3's through a D/A convertor, then through an amplified coil attatched to some paperish material inside of this big wooden box.
OkOK I lied, I do have a huge collection of stuff I grabbed when napster was still around. I don't swap songs with people though. My upstream is capped at 128.
OKOK I lied again, everytime I have a lan party, I add new songs, but they're not on MY hard drive they're on my other FILESERVERS hard drive. I don't wanna put that kind of junk on my 10kRPM Ultra 160 drive! Yeah I'll just shove it on that crap 80 dollar IDE on the fileserver.
Fuck it, it's too hot and i'm too cranky to write anything usefull. Go ahead and use those mod points to mod me down.
--toq
I've been running BBIagent
http://www.bbiagent.net
for about the last year or so. I share my DSL with a few neighbors via some cat5 we strung up over the last year, and my counterstrikin was startin to hurt real bad whenever one of the teenager kids was downloading from kazza
Before I was using a linksys router. My current BBIagent setup is a packard bell p60 with 32 megs of ram, and 2 old 16 bit isa 3com nics. The performance increase is stunning.
You can specify what kind of traffic to create priority for, forward, block ports. There are a few options for hack detection blocking. The nicest features of bbiagent is.
1. Single floppy distro which is configured on the fly via the bbiagent website
2. Java app for admining the sucker, very well laid out.
3. Realtime control over your network connection without losing it. On my linkstink whenever I would change a rule or a forward the whole thing would reboot itself, bbiagent doesnt do that.
4. Open source!
5. Linux Based!
I can go on and on about it, but if you're really looking to control what and how packets are handled, I would really recomend giving bbiagent a try.
--toq
I read this story and was wondering, does anyone know a good PHP solution for hosting musician content? I'm looking for something that can allow musicians to upload their music, and automagically add their upload to the
library.
Either that or something custom written. We could probably afford $200 bucks to anyone that could write such an app as well as some free adspace in the print rag. Any takers just reply to
toqer @ pacbell dot net
Thanks!
Ok but when you're talking about shareholders, how many people are you referring too? 300-500 at the most? So you mean to tell me that those 300-500 people are entitled to more bandwidth than the other 4 billion people in our country?
Look at what commercial overfishing did to the average joe fisherman. It totally wiped fishing out to the point where you have to get on a boat and go 30 miles offshore to get good fishing. Why should I have to go 30 miles offshore to use my 802.11? Time warner isn't joe average, and their 300 shareholders are not joe average either. Both are wealthy, probably drive lexus's, and to them joe average is a back for doing meanial tasks.
It's just an issue of not letting any single entity gain complete control over what is supposed to be a public spectrum. If they want to do mass spamming on a network spectrum, let them pay the FCC the license rights to do it. Give them some other spectrum to use.
Here here man! Look at my comment above yours! I pretty much said the same thing (with a link back to another similiar comment I made)
--toq
I made this comment just today, the cable companies have a plan that I think could effectively drown out all individual owned 802.11 equipment.
According to this article published just today, the cable companies are investing in set top boxes with 802.11 built in. Their ability to mass
produce and distribute these machines is probably more than I could imagine. What I forsee is the equivelent of 802.11 spam from a private corporation that could ruin the fair and public use of the 2.4ghz spectrum.
Quote from the article
Many people don't realize that if current policies continue, a handful of big monopolies will gain power over information flowing through the Internet,
I think the ACLU should go investigate this because it is an infringement on my rights to use public spectrum. Public spectrum is like public land, I don't want to see it littered with pay per view movies, or QVC. I
don't wan't some corporation to run a big freeway through it, or pass through it all the time.
Cable companies already have broadband wires stretched everywhere and even before the article was written they had the monopoly on that. (A monopoly that grew because it went unchecked in it's early stage) It's a huge
multiheaded monster now that has it's hands in the pockets of politicians and legislators everywhere.
Well, that's enough ranting for now. I think the ACLU should nip the 802.11 boxes in the bud before it's too late.
hey it's got nothing to do with weed, we've had a heat wave last 3 days and no air conditioning in san jose. Now that it's 1:30am and cooled off i can think.
--toq
I see some huge hairy problems with this.
Let's say grandma down the street who doesn't use the internet has one of these boxes acting as a network repeater. That steals away from the availiable spectrum I can use right?
My english feels a little off today, scuse me. What i'm trying to say is let's say I have 802.11 equipment that I want to use, but I can't because AOL time warner has sucked up the spectrum with thier gabillions of cable boxes. I.E. a corporation is eating up public property. Something just seems wrong.
Let me put it another way. If this goes through without some kind of goverment intervention it would be like you couldn't go camping at Yosemite because AOL has all the campsite.
Man my engrish is bad today... Anyone else in San Jose gettin dizzy from this heat?
A link to pictures of my neighborhood network complete with cat5 stapled to the fence.
before you ask, yes I posted this before
http://home.pacbell.net/toqer/P1010007.JPG
:)
/.'ers would want to take a stab at.
:)
Sorry about the small pic
I used terminatorX
http://www.terminatorx.cx
and mounted my optical mouse to a cheap 10 dollar turntable I got at the flea market. Instead of connecting it to the gearing like the terminatorx site shows, I rely on the actual vinyl underneath which makes it much more like spinning vinyl.
I have a few issues with it, maybe some
1. I would really like to raise the mouse to be about an inch above the vinyl. How would I change the camera's focus?
2. It seems "laggy" (sorry best word I could think of) Would it really be worth it for me to go out and spend another $40 dollars to see if the 2.0 versions are less laggy?
Anyways, I hope you found my comment to be both insightful, interesting, and informative, please mod accordingly
--Toq
It really sucks using the remote to set up what you want. It would be nice if I had a keyboard and could use it to type up searches on programs.
How about I throw that kind of logic back at you?
Sega did everything WRONG with the DC. Free included modem(But you had to shell out an arm and a leg for a POS NIC), great price(isn't the reason it's $50 now because it's discontinued?Wasn't it $250@release?), great games(PS2,XboX,N64 have em). Its thier fault (for not doing what) Sony (did),blitzes the minds of the average MTV watcher with ads every 2 seconds. The DC was discontinued due to bad sales(and horrible marketing), not bad technology or games(If you actually READ my post, you would see I was crapping on their marketing the whole time).
Hope you get modded DOWN. They need a new mod type of "Replier didn't read parent comment"
I can't believe all these "Poor sega, poor Dreamcasts" Post i'm seeing. Now i'm not going into a flame here, I just want to point out some facts.
Fact #1
Sega has no consumer loyaltee because they discontinued every system they ever released in the past as soon as a competetor released a better system. We saw sega drop the master system when 8bit Nintendo came out. We saw them drop the Genesis, and 32x when the Super nintendo and XF chip(starfox) came out. We saw them really run away with their Saturn when Sony made the Playstation. Their last coup de gra was the dreamcast, which after just the announcement of the N64, Xbox, and PS2 was dropped. I don't support companies that drop support of their systems at a drop of a hat.
Fact #2
The DC mame emulation is SEVERELY limited. I know the author of mamedc (Christophe Thibult of kaillera fame http://www.kaillera.com) hasn't got a lot of time to work on it because of his work constraints (-C if your reading this, kick ass on WA3!!) Anyways your point is moot because the mamedc only supports 11 games. 11 GAMES! While mamex supports the entire mame romset!
You sound to me like many of my other friends that went out and bought a DC and fell victum to sega's chicken shit tactics. No DC is not that great IMHO and running 11 mame games isn't enough reason for me to spend 50 bucks. Check your facts before you post this bleeding heart (towards sega) bullshit.
--toq
Except for the price of DVD, DVD 0wnz3s VHS. Personally i'm happy VHS is going the way of the dinosaur.
You catch more flies with honey than vinager.
Now my favorite pr0n star's cup size is REALLY gonna matter!
Sorta adds a new dimension that TV will poke your eye out, or was that the red rider bb gun?
There was some stupid movie I saw on HBO once called kidco, kidcon. Anyways
The story is about some kid that starts a fertilizer business collecting the poop from the different farms around town. Big fertilizer business takes the kids to court and tries to get them shut down on all sorts of technicalities.
They come to the issue of sales tax on the poop. The kid calls up the local alfalfa farmer and asks him if he pays taxes on the hay, to which he replies yes. The kid then makes the argument, "If the hay was taxed on the way into the horse, then taxing it when it comes out is double taxation!"
Manuer, Used CD's, its all the same really, isn't it double taxation when royaltee's are collected twice on a CD?