Umm, 180cm^3 !=.018m^3. (10^2 cm/m)^3 = 10^6 cm^3/m^3. Therefore there are 180/10^6 m^3 or 0.00018m^3. So the archive would take up 39,735.36 m^3 and a building of 79,470.27m^3. Or 10m x 100m x 7.9m. That isn't that large of a building.
How can you get credit cards, AIM doesn't use credit cards
The reason everyone is talking about this hole allowing people to get credit cards is not because you can somehow find out the credit card number used to open an AOL account. In fact, if there is an AOL account with the same name as an AIM account, it won't work. People are talking about credit card fraud because with someone's AIM password and buddy list, it is a hell of a lot easier to do some social engineering, and that is exactly what some people are doing.
The way this hole works is by changing a couple variables during runtime in AOL while creating a new screen name. Apparently, there is a variable corresponding to the screen name you want to create, and also a variable that contains two characters which are later prepended to the first variable. The hole is that if you put the first two characters of the name you want to steal in the second variable, and the rest of the name in the first variable, AOLs server will only check the first variable against its user name database.
Not even M$ sued over the Wine logo, or Bill-of-the-Borg! Geez!
Actually, MS (or at least Bill Himself) did sue over the Bill-of-the-Borg T-shirt for using his likeness without permission. That's why the original manufacturer isn't making them anymore. Another manufacturer picked it up after the supreme court ruling that parody is fair use. It's kind of sad isn't it.
First off... Java on the client is a dumb idea. HTML is way better.
Um, yeah. because everything you can do in Java, you can do in HTML, riiight. I'd like to see you implement a web-based telnet client or chat in HTML and JavaScript alone.
Second, Java is a MUCH better langage than C++.
What???!! Are you out of your mind? How can you say that a language that doesn't have explicit pointers or pass-by-reference, makes you use a class instead of a struct, and generally does nothing C++ can't do, while leaving out a hell of a lot that it can do is better than anything but INTERCAL? Java really is C++--.
Third, Java on the server is the best thing since sliced bread.
Let me ask you one question. Why? As in why the hell would you ever use Java server side rather than Perl, or even better, PHP. Both Perl and PHP run perfectly fine on Linux. And as for being open, Perl is under the GPL, how much more open can you be?
In conclusion, Java was designed for doing things like applets, and it does it fairly well. It most certainly could be better, but I really don't see anything else that outpreforms it in that area. Java should NEVER be used server-side. There is absolutely no point in using a language designed run on multiple platforms when it will only be used on one platform.
Its not that you lose the right to use them, its that you lose the right to control them. The trademark becomes public domain. Its kind of a "if you share with person x, you must share with everybody" logic.
Where is the pc ethically superior to a dvd player?
In the part where ROM sites don't sell the ROMs and this company is.
As everyone has been saying - the Master System is a dead console!
If by including the emulated SMS and ROMs with this DVD player, they sell any more DVD players than they would've without it, the SMS is not a dead console. Therefore, I think that they should be paying at least some royalties to Sega.
How's this for a compromise solution concerning dead copyrights? If a company has been sitting on a copyright for 10 or more years and not selling any product related to that copyright, then they can't stop anyone from selling products that violate those copyrights. However, the companies would still have to pay a standard (like 5% or 10%) royalty.
If you're really keen on links, I'll track 'em down, but it was a couple years ago when life revolved around the two MAEs. We're better off now.
Maybe, but not by much. I'm not too up on my advanced routing and network structure, but I seem to recall a story roughly 6 months ago about a new routing center in Southern California that handled 75% of the West Coast's traffic. There still are large centers like that, its just changed from 2 to 5 or 6.
I don't remember many particulars, except that the company creating the routing center went to great lengths to protect against terrorism and the like. Having just a nondescript brick building with armed guards, filing with the SEC to not release their street address, etc. If anyone can find the link, that would be great.
It was never dropped. Microsoft stopped supporting it, but the install folder for PowerPC is still on any NT 4.0 Install CD.
On a related note, does anyone know whether or not this is true: I heard that because the Macintosh Network Server models that apple put out a while ago were based on a chrp motherboard, you could install NT on them. If it is true, does anyone have one of these models they would be willing to sell?
The problem with your hypothesis is that most consumers won't want to hack around with the console. By definition, only the hackers will be hacking up the console.
Therefore, the game developers will be able to sleep at night because most of the user base will have the standard configuration, and the ones who don't will probably be doing optimization of their own. If the hackers fuck up their console enough that some games don't work, then it's their own damn fault and they shouldn't have played with something they couldn't fix.
What do you mean remember? Its still up and going strong. I download stuff from it quite often. Its a great place to find Divxs and music videos. Not to mention just about any other piece of pirated software you can imagine.
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The simple fact is that Peer-to-peer file sharing is a doomed concept, because it relies on the altruism of the average human being.
Oh please. Peer-to-peer file sharing is far from doomed. The grandaddy of all ptp programs has been around for 4 or 5 years now, and is still going strong. I am refering to Hotline of course.
Now I realize that Hotline isn't true peer to peer in the sense of Gnutella, or even Napster. But still, it is set up in essentially the same fashion as the Open Napster networks, with trackers and servers.
You have the right to spend the rest of your life taking it up the ass from murderers and drug kingpins.
What I don't understand is if there are so many people being wrongly accused and convicted, how are the prisons still populated with murderers and drug kingpins? Shouldn't it be "You have the right to spend the rest of your life taking it up the ass from other people just like you?"
I don't know, have you seen some of the MiniDisc players? Some are only 1/4" x 1/4" x 1/8" bigger than the MD itself. Granted MDs are an entirely different technology, but still.
Zoom by Istvan Banyai - No words, just a pespective that zooms out of a micro scale world out to a final view of the Earth. Great art.
That sounds like Powers of Ten. I forget who that was by though. Powers of Ten did the same thing except it starts at like 10^9 meters or something and goes to 10^-9 meters. A very cool book, does anyone know who the author is?
There's a really simple solution. Design the patches so that you can specify a server to report to. The server will them check off all the comps on a list and tell you which ones are not applied.
This will only work for the ones that are on the same network as the report server, but that's all you are really worried about anyway. The major porblem with this idea is if Microsoft decided to implement this whole thing except the part about specifying a server and just made it so it reported to a server at Microsoft.
Just to confuse my fellow Mac heads when it boots Windows
I've been wanting to find an old Network Server model for exactly this purpose. I heard that they were built on a PReP design and will actually run WinNT.
Personally, I though Myst lost its appeal after a couple hours of playing it for the first time. It had its "wow look at this cool world" factor going for it, but they completely fucked it up with puzzles that don't have any connection with the plot.
I loved Cyan's first project, The Manhole. It was a lot like Myst, but it didn't have any puzzles, just a very strangely connected world to explore.
IANATAP (I am not a theoretical astrophysicist) but I believe the currently favored hypothesis is that quantam fluctuations in space immediately after the big bang (like 10^-33 secs after to 10^-10 secs after) created tiny density variations. These density variations gradually got bigger and bigger as the universe rapidly expanded until a couple minutes after the big bang. They became what we now see as galaxies and superclusters. I believe this is known as inflationary theory.
If you believe in Open Source, wouldn't you believe that this world would be a whole lot better if everybody had access to every piece of information about everyone? Full disclosure to everybody would solve poverty, hunger, war, and almost every other major problem plaguing us!
Actually, most of the Open Source/Privacy advocates I've met and talked to want privacy from corporate agents mostly. Essentially its individuals should have the right to all knowledge about corporations and (possibly, depends on who you talk to) individuals, and corporations shouldn't have access to any information about individuals. Kind of a double standard thing.
Personally, I agree with this stance. Corporations shouldn't have as many rights as individuals because of their greater ability and tendency to abuse those rights harming individuals and society in general. Unfortunately, the current trend in law is to give corporations more rights instead of taking away ones that they are abusing.
it dosent matter if its marijuana or tobacco it will still give you lung cancer/emphysema!!!
That is completely and utterly wrong, the main reason that you get lung cancer from tobacco is not because its smoke, but because of what's in the smoke. There are literally hundreds of carcinogens in tobacco smoke, compared to not a single one in marijuana smoke. The only thing left that might even remotely be considered a factor in getting lung cancer is the fact that you have hot smoke in your lungs. This is something that your lungs can get over easily as long as you aren't smoking like every day.
Please, please, please tell me this is sarcasm. If it isn't, well then you are on crack. Your plan would be prohibitively expensive. The war on drugs already costs way more money than we save and hasn't really dropped drug use or traficking significantly. As for your comment about casual use stopping after drugs stop coming into the country, I smoke weed average once or twice a week, and I never get anything that is from out of the country. The only drugs you are going to stop are cocaine and crack. The vast majority of marijuana, GHB, E, and LSD used in the US is grown or manufactured in the US. They are quite a few states that marijuana is their number one cash crop, such as Alabama or Vermont.
The intended model for SDMI, presently, is that all music will have the same kind of watermarks for which all players will be screening. These will be used in a general infrastructure by which the marks will instruct players/recorders to not accept marked music under certain conditions, for instance if it is or has been compressed.
The only way this will work is if the media company owns or makes a deal with the company that owns the format patents, ala MPAA and DVD-CCA. As long as Fraunhofer or Sorenson or whoever controls the future of MP3 doesn't stipulate in your license that your player checks for watermarking, there will be legal players that don't care if there is a watermark or not.
Also, Bricklin did not say this, but I think the software suite approach was largely a Microsoft innnovation to dominate the applications market.
Um, the first software suite akin to Office and the rest of them now was Appleworks for the Apple II series. So, even in this, Microsoft didn't innovate. They just stole a concept already in existence.
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Umm, 180cm^3 != .018m^3. (10^2 cm/m)^3 = 10^6 cm^3/m^3. Therefore there are 180/10^6 m^3 or 0.00018m^3. So the archive would take up 39,735.36 m^3 and a building of 79,470.27m^3. Or 10m x 100m x 7.9m. That isn't that large of a building.
The reason everyone is talking about this hole allowing people to get credit cards is not because you can somehow find out the credit card number used to open an AOL account. In fact, if there is an AOL account with the same name as an AIM account, it won't work. People are talking about credit card fraud because with someone's AIM password and buddy list, it is a hell of a lot easier to do some social engineering, and that is exactly what some people are doing.
The way this hole works is by changing a couple variables during runtime in AOL while creating a new screen name. Apparently, there is a variable corresponding to the screen name you want to create, and also a variable that contains two characters which are later prepended to the first variable. The hole is that if you put the first two characters of the name you want to steal in the second variable, and the rest of the name in the first variable, AOLs server will only check the first variable against its user name database.
A much more detailed explanation here
Actually, MS (or at least Bill Himself) did sue over the Bill-of-the-Borg T-shirt for using his likeness without permission. That's why the original manufacturer isn't making them anymore. Another manufacturer picked it up after the supreme court ruling that parody is fair use. It's kind of sad isn't it.
Second, Java is a MUCH better langage than C++. What???!! Are you out of your mind? How can you say that a language that doesn't have explicit pointers or pass-by-reference, makes you use a class instead of a struct, and generally does nothing C++ can't do, while leaving out a hell of a lot that it can do is better than anything but INTERCAL? Java really is C++--.
Third, Java on the server is the best thing since sliced bread. Let me ask you one question. Why? As in why the hell would you ever use Java server side rather than Perl, or even better, PHP. Both Perl and PHP run perfectly fine on Linux. And as for being open, Perl is under the GPL, how much more open can you be?
In conclusion, Java was designed for doing things like applets, and it does it fairly well. It most certainly could be better, but I really don't see anything else that outpreforms it in that area. Java should NEVER be used server-side. There is absolutely no point in using a language designed run on multiple platforms when it will only be used on one platform.
Its not that you lose the right to use them, its that you lose the right to control them. The trademark becomes public domain. Its kind of a "if you share with person x, you must share with everybody" logic.
As everyone has been saying - the Master System is a dead console! If by including the emulated SMS and ROMs with this DVD player, they sell any more DVD players than they would've without it, the SMS is not a dead console. Therefore, I think that they should be paying at least some royalties to Sega.
How's this for a compromise solution concerning dead copyrights? If a company has been sitting on a copyright for 10 or more years and not selling any product related to that copyright, then they can't stop anyone from selling products that violate those copyrights. However, the companies would still have to pay a standard (like 5% or 10%) royalty.
Your comments please.
Maybe, but not by much. I'm not too up on my advanced routing and network structure, but I seem to recall a story roughly 6 months ago about a new routing center in Southern California that handled 75% of the West Coast's traffic. There still are large centers like that, its just changed from 2 to 5 or 6.
I don't remember many particulars, except that the company creating the routing center went to great lengths to protect against terrorism and the like. Having just a nondescript brick building with armed guards, filing with the SEC to not release their street address, etc. If anyone can find the link, that would be great.
On a related note, does anyone know whether or not this is true: I heard that because the Macintosh Network Server models that apple put out a while ago were based on a chrp motherboard, you could install NT on them. If it is true, does anyone have one of these models they would be willing to sell?
Therefore, the game developers will be able to sleep at night because most of the user base will have the standard configuration, and the ones who don't will probably be doing optimization of their own. If the hackers fuck up their console enough that some games don't work, then it's their own damn fault and they shouldn't have played with something they couldn't fix.
What do you mean remember? Its still up and going strong. I download stuff from it quite often. Its a great place to find Divxs and music videos. Not to mention just about any other piece of pirated software you can imagine.
Oh please. Peer-to-peer file sharing is far from doomed. The grandaddy of all ptp programs has been around for 4 or 5 years now, and is still going strong. I am refering to Hotline of course.
Now I realize that Hotline isn't true peer to peer in the sense of Gnutella, or even Napster. But still, it is set up in essentially the same fashion as the Open Napster networks, with trackers and servers.
What I don't understand is if there are so many people being wrongly accused and convicted, how are the prisons still populated with murderers and drug kingpins? Shouldn't it be "You have the right to spend the rest of your life taking it up the ass from other people just like you?"
I don't know, have you seen some of the MiniDisc players? Some are only 1/4" x 1/4" x 1/8" bigger than the MD itself. Granted MDs are an entirely different technology, but still.
So could you use the dial-up number that the TiVo dials as a dial-up ISp for your regular computer?
That sounds like Powers of Ten. I forget who that was by though. Powers of Ten did the same thing except it starts at like 10^9 meters or something and goes to 10^-9 meters. A very cool book, does anyone know who the author is?
This will only work for the ones that are on the same network as the report server, but that's all you are really worried about anyway. The major porblem with this idea is if Microsoft decided to implement this whole thing except the part about specifying a server and just made it so it reported to a server at Microsoft.
I've been wanting to find an old Network Server model for exactly this purpose. I heard that they were built on a PReP design and will actually run WinNT.
I loved Cyan's first project, The Manhole. It was a lot like Myst, but it didn't have any puzzles, just a very strangely connected world to explore.
IANATAP (I am not a theoretical astrophysicist) but I believe the currently favored hypothesis is that quantam fluctuations in space immediately after the big bang (like 10^-33 secs after to 10^-10 secs after) created tiny density variations. These density variations gradually got bigger and bigger as the universe rapidly expanded until a couple minutes after the big bang. They became what we now see as galaxies and superclusters. I believe this is known as inflationary theory.
Actually, most of the Open Source/Privacy advocates I've met and talked to want privacy from corporate agents mostly. Essentially its individuals should have the right to all knowledge about corporations and (possibly, depends on who you talk to) individuals, and corporations shouldn't have access to any information about individuals. Kind of a double standard thing.
Personally, I agree with this stance. Corporations shouldn't have as many rights as individuals because of their greater ability and tendency to abuse those rights harming individuals and society in general. Unfortunately, the current trend in law is to give corporations more rights instead of taking away ones that they are abusing.
That is completely and utterly wrong, the main reason that you get lung cancer from tobacco is not because its smoke, but because of what's in the smoke. There are literally hundreds of carcinogens in tobacco smoke, compared to not a single one in marijuana smoke. The only thing left that might even remotely be considered a factor in getting lung cancer is the fact that you have hot smoke in your lungs. This is something that your lungs can get over easily as long as you aren't smoking like every day.
Please, please, please tell me this is sarcasm. If it isn't, well then you are on crack. Your plan would be prohibitively expensive. The war on drugs already costs way more money than we save and hasn't really dropped drug use or traficking significantly. As for your comment about casual use stopping after drugs stop coming into the country, I smoke weed average once or twice a week, and I never get anything that is from out of the country. The only drugs you are going to stop are cocaine and crack. The vast majority of marijuana, GHB, E, and LSD used in the US is grown or manufactured in the US. They are quite a few states that marijuana is their number one cash crop, such as Alabama or Vermont.
The only way this will work is if the media company owns or makes a deal with the company that owns the format patents, ala MPAA and DVD-CCA. As long as Fraunhofer or Sorenson or whoever controls the future of MP3 doesn't stipulate in your license that your player checks for watermarking, there will be legal players that don't care if there is a watermark or not.
I would assume that this would be handled in a similiar way to charities. A charity can't sue you if you promise to give them money and then don't.
Also, Bricklin did not say this, but I think the software suite approach was largely a Microsoft innnovation to dominate the applications market. Um, the first software suite akin to Office and the rest of them now was Appleworks for the Apple II series. So, even in this, Microsoft didn't innovate. They just stole a concept already in existence.