ghost hacking. I agree.. "Ghost in the Shell" is a damn fine "hacking" movie (perhaps so far the definitive hacking movie? well after the classic "war games"). Can't comment on "real geniuses" never seen it. I confess I liked (for the entertainment value) "the Matrix" and "Johnny Mnemonic" and to a lesser extend "Hackers".
Ins't this tech similar (just larger scale) then the stuff embedded in some of the wired magazine ads ?. (Something beginning with D.. I don't have a wired mag here =)) ? --
Ok, so I might agree to the stupidety that is associated with the email forwarding stupidety or even the call to filter net content. But from the point of view of someone that might occasionally buy a scratchie (scratch lotto ticket) from the local newsagent the gambling angle is a valid concern. Gambling is pretty widespread in Australia and to limit access to those that can board (a free) Bus to the local casino does not sound unreasonable to me.
I do however wish that Mr Alston hire someone with a brain before making statements that lead to unenforcable laws. Sh*t even a Marketing drone could tell you some of these laws sound implausible (ok..maybe not a marketing drone). Australia needs more support for IT companies to whaul themselves out of the crap they have fallen into, not more stupid laws for people to laugh at. --
Probably off-topic but when i read the article's heading I thought about when I started becoming a nerd =), stuff like.Mods , RemoteAccess BBS' , DEMO's , etc etc - kinda like the stuff on www.ojuice.net
ahh the good old days =). --
Yes I had thougfht of the fact that the smaller teh tarsnaction amount the less they can conceivably skim on the top but afaik MC and similar companies offer a nuber of different ways to charge for the transactions.
For the shop owner they have the x amount per transaction fee (most common I guess) but also a fixed amount/month and a lesser amount per transaction. But I do see your point - profitability is the key concern. --
This is becoming more and more popular - quite frankly I really don't mind paying (some) money for a decent product. I'd rather not see the company go out of business.
I'd even pay some money for Mp3's of the bands I like. But with Paypal being more then little unreliable (IMHO) what is left? - I wonder why the bigger financial houses (VISA, MC, AMEX, Citibank...) haven't got their collective butts into gear and developed a micropayment solution? --
Wonder what the next Mir story would be ?
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"Mir, after successfully entering the earth athmosphere and crashing into the ocean has resurfaced and is on a direct collision course with Tokyo (which holds a patent on catastrophic dinosaur distruction)"
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ADC member so they shipped it to me today - Don't think I am allowed to say much about it but it's much more stable then the PB and also faster. Have Netbeans running , OmniWeb (eats IE alive)..sharity.. it's 11pm and all is well =). You could definatly do worse.. and let;s not forget what sort of change in Mac direction this actually is.. Imagine the next windows being Solaris..
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Note - I merely said this was common - and I gave an example of totally away from technology ads to showcase that fact. The point I was trying to make is that everyone shows the best side of the product in an ad - MS, Redhat, whoever - that's advertising.
I do not condone or othwerwise make a value judgement on MS's "false" advertisement (we have laws for that) MS's competitors in this field (of which there are plenty and they have money) can choose to take MS to task for false advertisement if they see a procecutable case. Frankly I don't give a damn what happens to the XBox.. or MS for that matter because I doubt I'll be close enough to the situation to fully understand what is going on.
These days we're drowned in advertisement that I can't see how anyone can take anything in ads as face value. Who is going to ring Colgate and tell them that their teeth models have had a PaintBox whitening ? Or what the f*ck happened to those McD's Burgers..? See my point ?
I used to design ads for PC Powerplay magazines and this sort of stuff is pretty common. Marketing is always out for 'More definition' & 'brighter colours' and such. I remember in one of those "Teenage Girl" magazines that you find at the doctors office they had before and after(photoshop) model shots - the XBox trick is rather small in comparison.
I am sure most of the slashdot readers would know not to buy the bok based on it's cover (unless it has an animal on it =))
MP3-Removal mistake at the Swiss Music Association (sf: basically the Swiss form of the RIAA)
The Swiss International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI)has missed the joke on a web site when it issued a letter formed like a removal request.
According to this letter the website had offered MP3's for download. In the letter sent to the webmaster Matthias Leisi, the IFPI had demanded to have the MP3's removed and a notice ("This Site is closed by IFPI Switzerland...") to be added to each page on the website.
In addition he was asked to pay a penalty of 500 Franken (sf: approx 300 US dollars) plus an additional 200 Franken for the investigation costs.
Alas, it appears the people responsible for the "investigation" did not put in much effort. If they had, they would surely have found out that the offending music files were not in fact real MP3 files but text files containing the word "*aetsch*" (sf: Got'ya, psych).
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This is translated to be accurate to content and "style" not necessarily sentence structure. There are likely to be a few grammatical errors and spellings mistakes in there.
85 isn't a bad innings (ref. cricket score). Sad to see visionairies go but it's not like he had a short life. In that regard I would have felt more affected by Alan Turing's death. --
..from the local council. We once considered a 155 Mbit link between to offices - but tell the local council it's laser and they start thinking Star wars (of the Reagan kind). And then there is the optical issues with heat off roofs and stuff - it get's hot here =)) --
Some people have waaaaay to much time on their hands.. probably explains why I am surfing slashdot and waiting for huge flash files to download.
Some days it pays to be me. --
This really is one of those "All Your Base Are.."
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..Belong To Us!.
I'd like to see the DeCSS code scrolling on one of those stock tickers =). Or perhaps written into hillsides by placing stones or something (DeCSS visible from the ISS =) ?)
I agree with the fact that the patent was filed for in 1998, but it was only granted Feb. 13, 2001. IANAL but I guess this makes is "Patent Pending" for the 3 year period in between, and as such would probably have some "lesser" enforcement rules.
I am curious however where you found info about the patent being transferred. --
Ok ok ok , I conceed the hack-value "because we can" is there - but in order to make python fit on the palm they had to remove floating point number support and a whole lot of other stuff. Wouldn't it be wiser to work of a more capable platform ?
On the other hand I guess this is good news for embedded server market, small footprint python could be useful for those programmers that like to code embedded stuff in the nude (remember *THAT* LJ issue =) ) --
Re:Hmm , it is a commercial company
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I kid you not, I ordered the two fridges on a wednessday and had them on the monday or tuesday next week. I paid a bit for the shipping (expectable) but, heck that was damn fine speed. All things arrived in good nick. A similar thing happened when I ordered a CPU crad for my mac.. it was even faster (or it would have been if it weren't for Aus. Customs, but that only added a day)
In general I have received stuff from teh US faster then if I had orderd it here! (with the exception being everythinglinux.com.au which was fast as well =) Pleased Customer Alert)
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BUT..then I saw that these guys are actually in Australia (in fact they are located close to my ex gf =) ).. *ANY* cool open source thingies are nice to have down under, we get so little cool linux stuff here (but thinkgeek does ship to us..and fast too.. two deskfridges made their way my way in under 5 days.)
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In Australia most local game halls have the games ethernetted to provide a centralized "pay-by-paper-card" system. Basically, you walk into the arcade, drop $10 bucks for a paper "credit card" (or if your more hard-core you can get a plastic one). That card basically stores a number on it's magnetic strip.
Every time you swipe your card at one of those games, the number is checked on the server for avalable funds, the game cost is subtracted and you get to play. During the game the ethernet sits idle. Hence, it would make sense to link a few of these "Acade-LAN's" via Cable and use the pre-existing infrastructure. It's perhaps also a more social form of gaming. Gimme a game arcade full of C&C RedAlert.."It will be a silent spring"...
I think the government's legislative is writing cheques the executive can't cash. (excuse the paraphrasing) If this law is passed in SA, and SA being ONE state in Oz, who is actually going to going to be sacred about this?
From what I can see hosting in another state should protect your data from being "illegal" as it were.
Unless the other state follow suit (which I believe is actually the "worrysome" part of this bill) the actual impact of this has to be pretty insignificant. Oz should effectively be choked already by the censorship laws - except I have not heard of more then a few sites that have been queried. Then again Australia is genally more open minded then a good part of the rest of the world. --
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Then there was techno trash like "Virus".
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Ins't this tech similar (just larger scale) then the stuff embedded in some of the wired magazine ads ?. (Something beginning with D .. I don't have a wired mag here =)) ?
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I do however wish that Mr Alston hire someone with a brain before making statements that lead to unenforcable laws. Sh*t even a Marketing drone could tell you some of these laws sound implausible (ok ..maybe not a marketing drone). Australia needs more support for IT companies to whaul themselves out of the crap they have fallen into, not more stupid laws for people to laugh at.
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stuffed the html link up it's here for those that can't bear using the keyboard =)
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Probably off-topic but when i read the article's heading I thought about when I started becoming a nerd =), stuff like .Mods , RemoteAccess BBS' , DEMO's , etc etc - kinda like the stuff on www.ojuice.net
ahh the good old days =).
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Oh youknow teh rest .. seriously though there appears to be no "critical update" on the Small'n'Squishy site. Have they done away with their fix?
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Yes I had thougfht of the fact that the smaller teh tarsnaction amount the less they can conceivably skim on the top but afaik MC and similar companies offer a nuber of different ways to charge for the transactions. For the shop owner they have the x amount per transaction fee (most common I guess) but also a fixed amount/month and a lesser amount per transaction. But I do see your point - profitability is the key concern.
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I'd even pay some money for Mp3's of the bands I like. But with Paypal being more then little unreliable (IMHO) what is left? - I wonder why the bigger financial houses (VISA, MC, AMEX, Citibank...) haven't got their collective butts into gear and developed a micropayment solution?
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"Mir, after successfully entering the earth athmosphere and crashing into the ocean has resurfaced and is on a direct collision course with Tokyo (which holds a patent on catastrophic dinosaur distruction)"
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ADC member so they shipped it to me today - Don't think I am allowed to say much about it but it's much more stable then the PB and also faster. Have Netbeans running , OmniWeb (eats IE alive) ..sharity .. it's 11pm and all is well =). You could definatly do worse .. and let;s not forget what sort of change in Mac direction this actually is .. Imagine the next windows being Solaris ..
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Note - I merely said this was common - and I gave an example of totally away from technology ads to showcase that fact. The point I was trying to make is that everyone shows the best side of the product in an ad - MS, Redhat, whoever - that's advertising.
.. or MS for that matter because I doubt I'll be close enough to the situation to fully understand what is going on.
..? See my point ?
I do not condone or othwerwise make a value judgement on MS's "false" advertisement (we have laws for that) MS's competitors in this field (of which there are plenty and they have money) can choose to take MS to task for false advertisement if they see a procecutable case. Frankly I don't give a damn what happens to the XBox
These days we're drowned in advertisement that I can't see how anyone can take anything in ads as face value. Who is going to ring Colgate and tell them that their teeth models have had a PaintBox whitening ? Or what the f*ck happened to those McD's Burgers
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I am sure most of the slashdot readers would know not to buy the bok based on it's cover (unless it has an animal on it =))
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Translation:
MP3-Removal mistake at the Swiss Music Association (sf: basically the Swiss form of the RIAA)
The Swiss International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI)has missed the joke on a web site when it issued a letter formed like a removal request.
According to this letter the website had offered MP3's for download. In the letter sent to the webmaster Matthias Leisi, the IFPI had demanded to have the MP3's removed and a notice ("This Site is closed by IFPI Switzerland...") to be added to each page on the website.
In addition he was asked to pay a penalty of 500 Franken (sf: approx 300 US dollars) plus an additional 200 Franken for the investigation costs.
Alas, it appears the people responsible for the "investigation" did not put in much effort. If they had, they would surely have found out that the offending music files were not in fact real MP3 files but text files containing the word "*aetsch*" (sf: Got'ya, psych).
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This is translated to be accurate to content and "style" not necessarily sentence structure. There are likely to be a few grammatical errors and spellings mistakes in there.
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85 isn't a bad innings (ref. cricket score). Sad to see visionairies go but it's not like he had a short life. In that regard I would have felt more affected by Alan Turing's death.
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..from the local council. We once considered a 155 Mbit link between to offices - but tell the local council it's laser and they start thinking Star wars (of the Reagan kind). And then there is the optical issues with heat off roofs and stuff - it get's hot here =))
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Some people have waaaaay to much time on their hands .. probably explains why I am surfing slashdot and waiting for huge flash files to download.
Some days it pays to be me.
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..Belong To Us!.
I'd like to see the DeCSS code scrolling on one of those stock tickers =). Or perhaps written into hillsides by placing stones or something (DeCSS visible from the ISS =) ?)
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I agree with the fact that the patent was filed for in 1998, but it was only granted Feb. 13, 2001. IANAL but I guess this makes is "Patent Pending" for the 3 year period in between, and as such would probably have some "lesser" enforcement rules. I am curious however where you found info about the patent being transferred.
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Hmm - your quite right. But wouldn't it still improve the data rate sent and hence the gameplay(obviously nowhere near broadband)?
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Ok ok ok , I conceed the hack-value "because we can" is there - but in order to make python fit on the palm they had to remove floating point number support and a whole lot of other stuff. Wouldn't it be wiser to work of a more capable platform ?
On the other hand I guess this is good news for embedded server market, small footprint python could be useful for those programmers that like to code embedded stuff in the nude (remember *THAT* LJ issue =) )
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I kid you not, I ordered the two fridges on a wednessday and had them on the monday or tuesday next week. I paid a bit for the shipping (expectable) but, heck that was damn fine speed. All things arrived in good nick. A similar thing happened when I ordered a CPU crad for my mac .. it was even faster (or it would have been if it weren't for Aus. Customs, but that only added a day)
In general I have received stuff from teh US faster then if I had orderd it here! (with the exception being everythinglinux.com.au which was fast as well =) Pleased Customer Alert)
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BUT ..then I saw that these guys are actually in Australia (in fact they are located close to my ex gf =) ) .. *ANY* cool open source thingies are nice to have down under, we get so little cool linux stuff here (but thinkgeek does ship to us ..and fast too.. two deskfridges made their way my way in under 5 days.)
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I am sure I posted part of this somewhere before.
.."It will be a silent spring"...
In Australia most local game halls have the games ethernetted to provide a centralized "pay-by-paper-card" system. Basically, you walk into the arcade, drop $10 bucks for a paper "credit card" (or if your more hard-core you can get a plastic one). That card basically stores a number on it's magnetic strip.
Every time you swipe your card at one of those games, the number is checked on the server for avalable funds, the game cost is subtracted and you get to play. During the game the ethernet sits idle. Hence, it would make sense to link a few of these "Acade-LAN's" via Cable and use the pre-existing infrastructure. It's perhaps also a more social form of gaming. Gimme a game arcade full of C&C RedAlert
It's really a natural progression.
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Unless the other state follow suit (which I believe is actually the "worrysome" part of this bill) the actual impact of this has to be pretty insignificant. Oz should effectively be choked already by the censorship laws - except I have not heard of more then a few sites that have been queried. Then again Australia is genally more open minded then a good part of the rest of the world.
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