george w. bush the winner eh? Considering theres nearly 3 dozen lawsuits to still be settled, I dont think anyone can be clearly called the winner yet. A freshman in high school writing for his school paper would get flogged for such a statement.
This is not a news site. This is the "I get alot of hits so i'll post my misinformed and ignorant opinion" site. Did anyone see the episode of the simpson's where homer became Mr. X, creating his own website and posting "news" on it? Hey slashdot, its a spoof of you!
Recounting and what not is going to yield a different count each time, depending on many things from the way the wind blows to the phase of the moon.
These 2 jackasses should do the right thing - compromise. They're pretty much the same in policies so whichever becomes "president" doesnt really matter. One should be prez, and make the other a cabinet member. Instead these two children will whine and bicker with each other and attempt to use the legal system in a way it wasnt designed to be used. There is a reason we have seperate branches..to keep the judicial system and legislative systems separate but equal. The judicial system cant decide the legislative system which in turn will have a hand in the next judicial system.
It's a pity these 2 puppets won't see beyond their own ass enough to do the right and honorable thing. Its a shame to see honor and compromise have decayed to what they have. More proof that our current political system and parties are due for a complete overhaul.
one must give credit to microsoft. Their interfaces are easy to use and make quite a bit of sense. They dont spend millions of dollars in research for nothing. Every car has a steering wheel. They all look basically the same. Why? Because it's a good idea. Just because MS put it in doesnt mean its immediately evil..geez some zealots on here cant see beyond their own ass...
I agree. I face this kind of problem oftentimes here at the university. Being a CS freshman, i get quite alot of people saying "you're just a freshman, what do you know"..despite the fact ive been writing software since i was 9 years old. I get alot of hostility from CS seniors who've done nothing important with their skills, while i've written highly successful server back-end software. *shrugs* its a common ruse by ignorant people to discount others merely based on that sheet of paper.
my pager has the same thing on the side of it. I wouldnt be surprised if its there to
a. diagnostic purposes..you can probably do an entire dump of the memory on the thing through that.
b. programming the id/frequency.
c. durability. an ir port is more durable (and aesthetically pleasing) than a pin-port
try asking someone in a pager shop, and see if you can procure whatever diagnostic tool motorola has for this. Undoubtedly you could call motorola and claim to be a pager shop needing an IR pager programmer...
well, in one example that i use nearly everyday, I can use the request.getParameter method to retrieve information from an HTML form. It automatically retrieves it from either the URL or the POST headers. One line of code. Also DB connections are pretty simple as well... i've got a standard try/catch block i use and in about 15 lines or so i've got a complete database connection request and data retrieval. Something like that doesnt get much simpler, outside of using visual basic...which naturally doesnt work for what i want to do.
thats plainly odd, surely there is a way to disable that "feature"? I only use a simple text editor and sun's compiling tools..easiest way plus i can dictate how my code looks.
one must remember the OOPness of java. Unlike c++, *everything* is class oriented in java. While stdin may be weird to use, i can just as easily write code to read input from a network connection, or from a html POST form. I suppose some of the more basic things get lost in the abstractions, but it greatly simplifies more complicated concepts.
uhm..yes..they do work.. java's language structure is identical to c's, albeit java was designed to be oop in the first place. Though I know the public static final int blahblah can be kind of annoying, it *is* a good idea in terms of making your variables truly final. C++ was an add-on to C with OOP and contains some funny vaugeness in many ways. Java was built with OOP in mind. As for naming your methods in specific ways, thats just to make it easier on programmers. You dont *have* to. I suppose the only people bitching about this would be the types who name their variables cryptically so they make sense to nobody but themselves.
I do run my own website using software I wrote. The Machine, community. Anyways, posting misleading things underneath supposed "news" headlines makes slashdot the national enquirer of technews websites at best and shows the sheer irresponsibility of its makers. Slashdot puts up a facade of journalism, but I dont think any respectable journalist would touch/. with a 20 foot pole. Slashdot could be a great phenonmenon, just like linux, but inevitibly the childish zealot people running the show screw it all up.
You should stop posting opinions under headlines. Makes you sound like a childish zealot.
Anyways, judging from the article i dont see any reason why this particular company would *have* to be the sole royalty collector. The article states that 208 companies have signed on with it, thus making it EFFECTIVELY the sole collector (which from a business perspective, that makes sense). Also, this division of the company only covers webcasting of music, not transmitting mp3's as some mislead by this headline might think. This includes services such as radio.sonicnet.com that serve streaming audio I would imagine. Just like the RIAA has a sole division for getting royalties from mtv, radio and so on..this is just another logical extension of the system.
but the dmca isnt merely about circumvention though. As some of you may remember @home got angelfire to take down the disgruntled user's postings about their poor service, citing the DMCA. Though i'm not familiar with its details, I know it covers a whole range of things regarding copyrighted works and digital transmission.
suppose a kid wants to learn how to use html..he goes to a website he likes the looks of (most are copyrighted), views the source for the page and copies it onto his own. then changes it around some to suit his tastes. He's learning about html and website design, but since he copied it onto his own site, even though its for educational experience, that would be illegal, and this would be depriving him of an education.
Another example would be a beginning student in programming, copying code from a copyrighted example to learn how it works...
All in all the dmca stifles people interested in educating themselves better, stifles creativity and a whole host of things that makes life worth living.
With the internet becoming more and more of a necessity (like phone service), what rights do we users have? In the past 2 months alone, my ISP has:
A. Disconnected my service because I ran a tiny experimental webserver (transferring ~1 (yes, ONE!) megabyte a day)
B. Blocked all access to napster.com, including the www address.
In both cases, I received no notice of action taken (though in the webserver case a tech guy did call me the next day, i stated my case and they have let me run the server since then). In fact, they even denied they had blocked napster.com for 2 weeks after no one could access it any longer. So I'm wondering, what rights do we as user's have against having our service limited? Is it legal for an ISP to tell me what software I can and cannot run on my computer, granted that it doesnt impede their network in any way? I live in a dorm in case you're wondering, so options are limited on changing service, though I full intend on installing a cable modem once I find the time to make an appointment.
Pardon my ignorance if i'm incorrect here, though i'm sure the many network techs who read this can answer..but isnt carnivore just a severely limited form of a common tool, the Packet Sniffer? I know its a physical box that the isp plugs into their network (mainly because carnivore has a modem in it for remote administration) All it does is scan incoming data for specific court-ordered tags (such as email).. this whole mess reminds me of the much media hyped "SATAN" a few years back which was merely a port scanner, but according to the media could be used to hack into any computer. Just seems like more technoignorant media bullshit...
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an idea i came up with over this summer was each client maintains an IP list of other clients running compatible software. You could connect to another client (or one of a few main IP-servers) and download a long list of IP's running your software. You could then scan through all those IP's looking for the file you wanted. If an IP didnt respond, it would be taken off your list. Everytime you would connect to a client, it would ship you a new list of IP addresses, weed out the ones who you already have and could be added to your database. Every once in awhile your client could scan through and ping all those clients to be sure they were still alive. In the end, you'd have a huge listing of IP's running your software from which to scan through, rather than having your search passed on and on and on like in gnutella, where you don't know where its going or how successful it's been. The beauty is that you can use a "main-server" to locate clients easier but it doesnt HAVE to...
It's not as though I was searching for some rare file..any mp3 by metallica i figured would be common enough. The specs for the protocol themself (yes, i've read it) even say they dont know how well it would work if it got popular. If gnutella is ever going to be considered a real alternative to soon-to-be-subscription services such as napster, it has to be ALOT easier to use. Do I know how many hosts I connected to? not a clue. The docs didnt explain anything and the interface was cluttered. An all around poor design. Here's my bug report: "Complete rewrite with simpler more informative interface". Come to think of it, there were *no* docs other than "type a word here"..
Undoubtedly this will get a reply such as "well those who should use gnutella will know how to use it", thus showing off the elitism of slashdot again.
Gnutella suffers the same development problem that linux suffers - its ran by elitists who havent a clue about how the majority of people in the real world doesnt know (or care) how a computer works, just so long as its easy to use and works correctly, forever relegating it to "that other software".
after having some issues with my isp about napster (basically, they banned it) I decided to give gnutella a try and downloaded a few clients to see what was best. My conclusion: They all suck. Every last one of them looks like it was written by a retarded monkey whose experience in development was reading "Learn VB in 21 days"..bugs galore, and interface that even I found confusing and of course, the fact that It Didnt Work. I did a search for a common MP3 (metallica) to see how many it would return..after 10 minutes and nothing (and no report that it was even still searching) I decided to uninstall the hunk of crap I had downloaded. Some things need to be done: Another protocol other than gnutella needs to be developed..why use that crutch? Make a better one. And write a DECENT CLIENT for the thing. Pity I dont have more time on my hands or I would...
heh, actually manufacturers equipment *is* supposed to be succeptible..have you seen the "FCC part B- this device cannot interfere with others but must accept all interference"..blahblahblah.
i agree with you completely. I first learned to program with good old qbasic..creating nifty graphics with the crude drawing functions taught me how to use loops and function calls. Then I got a copy of VB 3.0, and started learning that. VB is excellent because it's an instant gratification language, easy to use, AND it does have real world use. Perfect for teaching young programmers not entirely too sure about themselves (ever hear that "where will i ever need this?"). From VB i moved on to c, java, lisp..now majoring in CS at UT-austin. And it has all to do with those "toy" microsoft languages.
Since absolutely none of us know gates in real life (what do we all know of him? his company? his software? that shoddy movie "The Pirates of Silicon Valley"?), I have to agree with you. Yes, he's the world's richest man, and it would appear that he actually has some common sense and a conscious (s?).
Too often on here I see the ignoramus posting about the evils of microsoft and Gates. I think its the same thing as penis envy...he's rich, he's got an amazingly successful company..and you dont. I'm no fan of the software quality myself, but I wont go about spouting how the CEO is evil. Thats just immature. I think Gates has proven himself a worthy human with all his donations. At least he's doing more than those other tech people who claim that computers can solve everything. You need to be able to eat decent food and clean water before you need a SystemTech PentiumProThlon 9000 w/ advanced graphics capabilities and altec lansing speakers. You need to solve starvation before planting a laptop in the hands of the poor.
I, like most of my generation, went through DARE at some point (5th grade in my case). I recall learning about how drugs, alcohol and cigarrettes were the most terrible things to use and what not. And naturally, at that tender age, everyone agreed and swore to never use drugs or smoke or drink etc etc. Im now in my freshman year of college. Drugs, drinking and cigarettes (and any combination of the 3) id say are used by 9/10ths of the students. I think DARE helped them along to that, by educating kids to the "strange and dangerous" wonders of drugs, yet telling them to never use them. This is the same as making a big red button that says "DOES INTERESTING THINGS, BUT DO NOT PUSH!"... of course, everyone pushes the button. So DARE is a failure, and probably did the exact opposite of what it was supposed to in my opinion. The government has always been good about telling us and creating legislation based on the worst cases (drugs, the internet etc) without telling the full truth and letting people judge for themselves.
Anyone notice the striking similiarities between this and just before the crash of the 1980s? What with unlicensed games (which resulted in an incredible glut of low quality crap and atari porno games (really!)) and the idea of turning your video console into the home computer. It didnt work then, what makes them think it'll work now? History repeating itself...
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This is not a news site. This is the "I get alot of hits so i'll post my misinformed and ignorant opinion" site. Did anyone see the episode of the simpson's where homer became Mr. X, creating his own website and posting "news" on it? Hey slashdot, its a spoof of you!
These 2 jackasses should do the right thing - compromise. They're pretty much the same in policies so whichever becomes "president" doesnt really matter. One should be prez, and make the other a cabinet member. Instead these two children will whine and bicker with each other and attempt to use the legal system in a way it wasnt designed to be used. There is a reason we have seperate branches..to keep the judicial system and legislative systems separate but equal. The judicial system cant decide the legislative system which in turn will have a hand in the next judicial system.
It's a pity these 2 puppets won't see beyond their own ass enough to do the right and honorable thing. Its a shame to see honor and compromise have decayed to what they have. More proof that our current political system and parties are due for a complete overhaul.
one must give credit to microsoft. Their interfaces are easy to use and make quite a bit of sense. They dont spend millions of dollars in research for nothing. Every car has a steering wheel. They all look basically the same. Why? Because it's a good idea. Just because MS put it in doesnt mean its immediately evil..geez some zealots on here cant see beyond their own ass...
I agree. I face this kind of problem oftentimes here at the university. Being a CS freshman, i get quite alot of people saying "you're just a freshman, what do you know"..despite the fact ive been writing software since i was 9 years old. I get alot of hostility from CS seniors who've done nothing important with their skills, while i've written highly successful server back-end software. *shrugs* its a common ruse by ignorant people to discount others merely based on that sheet of paper.
a. diagnostic purposes..you can probably do an entire dump of the memory on the thing through that.
b. programming the id/frequency.
c. durability. an ir port is more durable (and aesthetically pleasing) than a pin-port
try asking someone in a pager shop, and see if you can procure whatever diagnostic tool motorola has for this. Undoubtedly you could call motorola and claim to be a pager shop needing an IR pager programmer...
well, in one example that i use nearly everyday, I can use the request.getParameter method to retrieve information from an HTML form. It automatically retrieves it from either the URL or the POST headers. One line of code. Also DB connections are pretty simple as well... i've got a standard try/catch block i use and in about 15 lines or so i've got a complete database connection request and data retrieval. Something like that doesnt get much simpler, outside of using visual basic...which naturally doesnt work for what i want to do.
one must remember the OOPness of java. Unlike c++, *everything* is class oriented in java. While stdin may be weird to use, i can just as easily write code to read input from a network connection, or from a html POST form. I suppose some of the more basic things get lost in the abstractions, but it greatly simplifies more complicated concepts.
uhm..yes..they do work.. java's language structure is identical to c's, albeit java was designed to be oop in the first place. Though I know the public static final int blahblah can be kind of annoying, it *is* a good idea in terms of making your variables truly final. C++ was an add-on to C with OOP and contains some funny vaugeness in many ways. Java was built with OOP in mind. As for naming your methods in specific ways, thats just to make it easier on programmers. You dont *have* to. I suppose the only people bitching about this would be the types who name their variables cryptically so they make sense to nobody but themselves.
I do run my own website using software I wrote. The Machine, community. Anyways, posting misleading things underneath supposed "news" headlines makes slashdot the national enquirer of technews websites at best and shows the sheer irresponsibility of its makers. Slashdot puts up a facade of journalism, but I dont think any respectable journalist would touch /. with a 20 foot pole. Slashdot could be a great phenonmenon, just like linux, but inevitibly the childish zealot people running the show screw it all up.
More misleading slashdot headlines....
Anyways, judging from the article i dont see any reason why this particular company would *have* to be the sole royalty collector. The article states that 208 companies have signed on with it, thus making it EFFECTIVELY the sole collector (which from a business perspective, that makes sense). Also, this division of the company only covers webcasting of music, not transmitting mp3's as some mislead by this headline might think. This includes services such as radio.sonicnet.com that serve streaming audio I would imagine. Just like the RIAA has a sole division for getting royalties from mtv, radio and so on..this is just another logical extension of the system.
and just now: "Slashdot requires you to wait 1 minute between each submission of /comments.pl in order to allow everyone to have a fair chance to post.
It's been 1 minute since your last submission!"
but the dmca isnt merely about circumvention though. As some of you may remember @home got angelfire to take down the disgruntled user's postings about their poor service, citing the DMCA. Though i'm not familiar with its details, I know it covers a whole range of things regarding copyrighted works and digital transmission.
Another example would be a beginning student in programming, copying code from a copyrighted example to learn how it works...
All in all the dmca stifles people interested in educating themselves better, stifles creativity and a whole host of things that makes life worth living.
A. Disconnected my service because I ran a tiny experimental webserver (transferring ~1 (yes, ONE!) megabyte a day)
B. Blocked all access to napster.com, including the www address.
In both cases, I received no notice of action taken (though in the webserver case a tech guy did call me the next day, i stated my case and they have let me run the server since then). In fact, they even denied they had blocked napster.com for 2 weeks after no one could access it any longer. So I'm wondering, what rights do we as user's have against having our service limited? Is it legal for an ISP to tell me what software I can and cannot run on my computer, granted that it doesnt impede their network in any way? I live in a dorm in case you're wondering, so options are limited on changing service, though I full intend on installing a cable modem once I find the time to make an appointment.
Pardon my ignorance if i'm incorrect here, though i'm sure the many network techs who read this can answer..but isnt carnivore just a severely limited form of a common tool, the Packet Sniffer? I know its a physical box that the isp plugs into their network (mainly because carnivore has a modem in it for remote administration) All it does is scan incoming data for specific court-ordered tags (such as email).. this whole mess reminds me of the much media hyped "SATAN" a few years back which was merely a port scanner, but according to the media could be used to hack into any computer. Just seems like more technoignorant media bullshit...
an idea i came up with over this summer was each client maintains an IP list of other clients running compatible software. You could connect to another client (or one of a few main IP-servers) and download a long list of IP's running your software. You could then scan through all those IP's looking for the file you wanted. If an IP didnt respond, it would be taken off your list. Everytime you would connect to a client, it would ship you a new list of IP addresses, weed out the ones who you already have and could be added to your database. Every once in awhile your client could scan through and ping all those clients to be sure they were still alive. In the end, you'd have a huge listing of IP's running your software from which to scan through, rather than having your search passed on and on and on like in gnutella, where you don't know where its going or how successful it's been. The beauty is that you can use a "main-server" to locate clients easier but it doesnt HAVE to...
Undoubtedly this will get a reply such as "well those who should use gnutella will know how to use it", thus showing off the elitism of slashdot again.
Gnutella suffers the same development problem that linux suffers - its ran by elitists who havent a clue about how the majority of people in the real world doesnt know (or care) how a computer works, just so long as its easy to use and works correctly, forever relegating it to "that other software".
after having some issues with my isp about napster (basically, they banned it) I decided to give gnutella a try and downloaded a few clients to see what was best. My conclusion: They all suck. Every last one of them looks like it was written by a retarded monkey whose experience in development was reading "Learn VB in 21 days"..bugs galore, and interface that even I found confusing and of course, the fact that It Didnt Work. I did a search for a common MP3 (metallica) to see how many it would return..after 10 minutes and nothing (and no report that it was even still searching) I decided to uninstall the hunk of crap I had downloaded. Some things need to be done: Another protocol other than gnutella needs to be developed..why use that crutch? Make a better one. And write a DECENT CLIENT for the thing. Pity I dont have more time on my hands or I would...
heh, actually manufacturers equipment *is* supposed to be succeptible..have you seen the "FCC part B- this device cannot interfere with others but must accept all interference"..blahblahblah.
i agree with you completely. I first learned to program with good old qbasic..creating nifty graphics with the crude drawing functions taught me how to use loops and function calls. Then I got a copy of VB 3.0, and started learning that. VB is excellent because it's an instant gratification language, easy to use, AND it does have real world use. Perfect for teaching young programmers not entirely too sure about themselves (ever hear that "where will i ever need this?"). From VB i moved on to c, java, lisp..now majoring in CS at UT-austin. And it has all to do with those "toy" microsoft languages.
Too often on here I see the ignoramus posting about the evils of microsoft and Gates. I think its the same thing as penis envy...he's rich, he's got an amazingly successful company..and you dont. I'm no fan of the software quality myself, but I wont go about spouting how the CEO is evil. Thats just immature. I think Gates has proven himself a worthy human with all his donations. At least he's doing more than those other tech people who claim that computers can solve everything. You need to be able to eat decent food and clean water before you need a SystemTech PentiumProThlon 9000 w/ advanced graphics capabilities and altec lansing speakers. You need to solve starvation before planting a laptop in the hands of the poor.
I, like most of my generation, went through DARE at some point (5th grade in my case). I recall learning about how drugs, alcohol and cigarrettes were the most terrible things to use and what not. And naturally, at that tender age, everyone agreed and swore to never use drugs or smoke or drink etc etc. Im now in my freshman year of college. Drugs, drinking and cigarettes (and any combination of the 3) id say are used by 9/10ths of the students. I think DARE helped them along to that, by educating kids to the "strange and dangerous" wonders of drugs, yet telling them to never use them. This is the same as making a big red button that says "DOES INTERESTING THINGS, BUT DO NOT PUSH!"... of course, everyone pushes the button. So DARE is a failure, and probably did the exact opposite of what it was supposed to in my opinion. The government has always been good about telling us and creating legislation based on the worst cases (drugs, the internet etc) without telling the full truth and letting people judge for themselves.
hm, a note on the mpeg thing..mpeg2's quality is a bit higher than mp4 (so are file sizes). Check out this article on tom's hardware. Mpeg4
Anyone notice the striking similiarities between this and just before the crash of the 1980s? What with unlicensed games (which resulted in an incredible glut of low quality crap and atari porno games (really!)) and the idea of turning your video console into the home computer. It didnt work then, what makes them think it'll work now? History repeating itself...