I never mod down a first post that's even remotely funny or on topic. Farther down, if somebody is clueless but apears to have read the article the worst they get is overrated. so when I get mod points RTFA or least have a clue!
Your right about anybody being able to use it, but it an American TLD. Getting a.CA domain has pretty draconian requirements and most Canadian Company simply can't qualify, so it easier for them to get an american.COM even if it's geographicaly incorrect. After re-reading the post I'll admit that the logic isn't my sharpest and the tone was a little flamebaitish too. Personaly I think that they should set it up so that example.com and example.com.us resolves to the same IP, then phase out the example.com in a decade or two, it would save a lot of international tooth gnashing
duh www.captainsquartersblog.com; dot COM are american,.CA are Canadian, the actual blogger is American per the Toranto Star, so unless he travels to Canada, the most he's likely to recieve is a visit from a Canadian office relaying the message that Canada is displeased with him and traveling to Canada might be unwise.
After I up-grade the new x.org software found a bunch of usable resolutions and refresh-rate that I was unaware of, and the interesting thing is the faster refresh rate wasn't always the best for the least flicker at a given resolution. I suspect there are a lot of individual and enviromental factors that play into this. You have to find what's best for you, in the conditions you work in.
People have a general tendency to be near-sighted in youth, and develope toward neutral visioned in adulthood and then develope far-sightedness in later middle-age and increasing into senior years. The computer CRT thing is most probably a coincidence.
I've heard of people also publishing the md5sum of the music in the newspaper legal section; no idea of what the courts think of this. This will pretty well prove the files owner and date as its nearly impossible to get the same checksum on two different files on purpose. If the court actualy threw out the md5sum because its not absolute, they'd also have to throw out finger-prints and dna too.
on the mail it to your self method, put the stamp and addresses on the back of the envelope, more difficult to open and reseal without being obviously damaged. all of the above seems ideal to me.
how can I protect them from being stolen and used by another band?
Actualy you can't, just like you really can't even if your a labled artist; the majority of bands out there are barely breaking even, so the fri-sat evening gig at the local bar just flies under the radar of the copyright owners; hell most of the bands that made it big probably don't care about the garage-bands ripping them of because they were there back in the day.
My advice is to right it down, mail it to your self and file it un-opened, so you have a postmark for proof in courrt about creation date; IANAL so if your realy worried, talk to one.
because we do, the asumption is.US not the.COM and that assumption causes problems now. It's not as easy to add new domains now as it should be. Example.com is the american version of the british Example.co.uk, We are doing it wrong mainly because when we developed the internet we never foreseen how big it would grow, and what problems our little short-cut might cause.
If you are doing something that you know is going to be a lightning-rod for whacko's, depending on an Anonymous domain registration is going to get you killed. the minimum would be a registering under a DBA owned by a corpartion, owned by a DBA, owned by a corpartion formed in another state by a DBA owned by a corparation, using a mail-drop as an address, forwarding to a P.O. box, and phones answered by a staffed answering compnay, forwarding calls to an unlisted number.
I Know of a guy who was a Dermatologist, and a freaking Boy Scout Troup Leader, his wife was an OB/Gyn who did an occasional abortion, some whacko walked up behind him and put a bullet in his brain, the whacko appearently never dreamed that Dr. Doe might be a woman, so he wasted her husband instead. I guess I'm just trying to convince you that trivial anonymity is no protection, it's a false sense of security. Unfortunatly because your an Anonymous Coward, you'll probably never get the warning.
The way I understand it a low-level format refers to a surface-scan, which flag unreadable or unreliable sector as unusable, and it is used by the drives rather than the OS. The result would be if you low-level formated a drive after it contained data, any data on the newly flagged sectors would be unreachable, and therefore un-eraseable or un-shredable. There are of course ways to recover that data available to certain intellegence agencies, law-enforcement.
One little linux command is all it takes, insert linux live CD and su -c"shred/dev/hda" and even the NSA would have trouble getting any data off the harddisk, windows license isn't transferable anyways. Fight software piracy, shred used Windows hard disks!
Reminds me of the time our supply office thought he had ordered 24 D cell batteries, and they tried to deliver 240,000 diesel truck batteries; appearently punch-card readers and artillery don't get along very well
Stability wise, and instalation ease, not much difference between a commercial disto for Linux and an NT based Windows. Most Windows problems now-a-days are virus/trojan/spyware related, and for most people it's more cost-effective to just reload than to repair.
The line printers were pretty loud too, they had all of the character on a steel band that rotated, while the 132 hammers would fire as the correct charecter passed over the correct column. Of course the key-punches and card readers were pretty loud, I find I compare every keyboard to the feel of an IBM key-punch, which means the last keyborad I liked was part of my 8 MHz 286 machine
lithium batteries tend to explode when seriously abused, not to mention the electrolyte sitting on the bottom of the hot oil until it boils explosively.
I once had a book on bushcraft and it described how to make a fire by mixing water and grease that was easily capable of welding metal and smelting iron ore! Mixing steam with grease vapors make one seriously hot fire!
No I didn't, I reject that a religious concept of good and evil, as a basis of morality. I fear the results of what happens when these ultra-religious Bible/Torah/Quaran thumpers finaly lose the religion. It's self delusional to rationalize an action to be right or wrong depending on how you view the effects on the victim
the irony of the CherryOS thing is they could have put a little tiny thing in their license at the bottom in really tiny print saying contains GPL'd code, for a copy of the source please call for information; and nobody would have noticed or cared.
Funny I thought that Robin Hood actualy stole from the sherrif, a political appointee who was operating unsupervised, durring a time of war and was assesing and collecting taxes for the purpose of personal gain.
I have no problem stealing from the rich. However I get angry when people steal from the poor.
I guess that implies that you believe that once a person is poor or rich, that they will always stay that way. Other wise you'd have to have the thieves ask about financial status. Another problem is the country thing, who is poor in the US, is probably pretty rich in a place like Bangladesh; who's standard of poor or rich shall we use?
Some countries in east africa, wealth is measured in the head of cattle a person owns, and I don't own any cows, I'm so poor! Some countries in west Africa measure wealth by the number of wives a person has, and I only have 1, I met a person with 13 once!
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I never mod down a first post that's even remotely funny or on topic. Farther down, if somebody is clueless but apears to have read the article the worst they get is overrated. so when I get mod points RTFA or least have a clue!
Your right about anybody being able to use it, but it an American TLD. Getting a .CA domain has pretty draconian requirements and most Canadian Company simply can't qualify, so it easier for them to get an american .COM even if it's geographicaly incorrect. After re-reading the post I'll admit that the logic isn't my sharpest and the tone was a little flamebaitish too.
Personaly I think that they should set it up so that example.com and example.com.us resolves to the same IP, then phase out the example.com in a decade or two, it would save a lot of international tooth gnashing
His hostility toward Liberals is probably why he's going to the extreme to prevent anybody from having grounds for an appeal later
duh .CA are Canadian, the actual blogger is American per the Toranto Star, so unless he travels to Canada, the most he's likely to recieve is a visit from a Canadian office relaying the message that Canada is displeased with him and traveling to Canada might be unwise.
www.captainsquartersblog.com; dot COM are american,
After I up-grade the new x.org software found a bunch of usable resolutions and refresh-rate that I was unaware of, and the interesting thing is the faster refresh rate wasn't always the best for the least flicker at a given resolution. I suspect there are a lot of individual and enviromental factors that play into this. You have to find what's best for you, in the conditions you work in.
I'm a dental technician and would probably die of eyestrain if I didn't have a window to look out.
People have a general tendency to be near-sighted in youth, and develope toward neutral visioned in adulthood and then develope far-sightedness in later middle-age and increasing into senior years. The computer CRT thing is most probably a coincidence.
I've heard of people also publishing the md5sum of the music in the newspaper legal section; no idea of what the courts think of this. This will pretty well prove the files owner and date as its nearly impossible to get the same checksum on two different files on purpose. If the court actualy threw out the md5sum because its not absolute, they'd also have to throw out finger-prints and dna too.
on the mail it to your self method, put the stamp and addresses on the back of the envelope, more difficult to open and reseal without being obviously damaged. all of the above seems ideal to me.
how can I protect them from being stolen and used by another band?
Actualy you can't, just like you really can't even if your a labled artist; the majority of bands out there are barely breaking even, so the fri-sat evening gig at the local bar just flies under the radar of the copyright owners; hell most of the bands that made it big probably don't care about the garage-bands ripping them of because they were there back in the day.
My advice is to right it down, mail it to your self and file it un-opened, so you have a postmark for proof in courrt about creation date; IANAL so if your realy worried, talk to one.
because we do, the asumption is .US not the .COM and that assumption causes problems now. It's not as easy to add new domains now as it should be. Example.com is the american version of the british Example.co.uk, We are doing it wrong mainly because when we developed the internet we never foreseen how big it would grow, and what problems our little short-cut might cause.
It does seem odd that they do this just when a lot of states are considering removing the address from our driver's licenses.
If you are doing something that you know is going to be a lightning-rod for whacko's, depending on an Anonymous domain registration is going to get you killed. the minimum would be a registering under a DBA owned by a corpartion, owned by a DBA, owned by a corpartion formed in another state by a DBA owned by a corparation, using a mail-drop as an address, forwarding to a P.O. box, and phones answered by a staffed answering compnay, forwarding calls to an unlisted number.
I Know of a guy who was a Dermatologist, and a freaking Boy Scout Troup Leader, his wife was an OB/Gyn who did an occasional abortion, some whacko walked up behind him and put a bullet in his brain, the whacko appearently never dreamed that Dr. Doe might be a woman, so he wasted her husband instead. I guess I'm just trying to convince you that trivial anonymity is no protection, it's a false sense of security. Unfortunatly because your an Anonymous Coward, you'll probably never get the warning.
The way I understand it a low-level format refers to a surface-scan, which flag unreadable or unreliable sector as unusable, and it is used by the drives rather than the OS. The result would be if you low-level formated a drive after it contained data, any data on the newly flagged sectors would be unreachable, and therefore un-eraseable or un-shredable. There are of course ways to recover that data available to certain intellegence agencies, law-enforcement.
One little linux command is all it takes, insert linux live CD and su -c"shred /dev/hda" and even the NSA would have trouble getting any data off the harddisk, windows license isn't transferable anyways. Fight software piracy, shred used Windows hard disks!
Reminds me of the time our supply office thought he had ordered 24 D cell batteries, and they tried to deliver 240,000 diesel truck batteries; appearently punch-card readers and artillery don't get along very well
if a forced shutdown is a crash then a windows installation crashes about 5 times before the OS is even installed!
Stability wise, and instalation ease, not much difference between a commercial disto for Linux and an NT based Windows. Most Windows problems now-a-days are virus/trojan/spyware related, and for most people it's more cost-effective to just reload than to repair.
They were damn hard to break too
The line printers were pretty loud too, they had all of the character on a steel band that rotated, while the 132 hammers would fire as the correct charecter passed over the correct column. Of course the key-punches and card readers were pretty loud, I find I compare every keyboard to the feel of an IBM key-punch, which means the last keyborad I liked was part of my 8 MHz 286 machine
Brings back fond memories of my 16 ounce fine tuning wand.
lithium batteries tend to explode when seriously abused, not to mention the electrolyte sitting on the bottom of the hot oil until it boils explosively.
I once had a book on bushcraft and it described how to make a fire by mixing water and grease that was easily capable of welding metal and smelting iron ore! Mixing steam with grease vapors make one seriously hot fire!
No I didn't, I reject that a religious concept of good and evil, as a basis of morality. I fear the results of what happens when these ultra-religious Bible/Torah/Quaran thumpers finaly lose the religion. It's self delusional to rationalize an action to be right or wrong depending on how you view the effects on the victim
the irony of the CherryOS thing is they could have put a little tiny thing in their license at the bottom in really tiny print saying contains GPL'd code, for a copy of the source please call for information; and nobody would have noticed or cared.
Funny I thought that Robin Hood actualy stole from the sherrif, a political appointee who was operating unsupervised, durring a time of war and was assesing and collecting taxes for the purpose of personal gain.
I have no problem stealing from the rich. However I get angry when people steal from the poor.
I guess that implies that you believe that once a person is poor or rich, that they will always stay that way. Other wise you'd have to have the thieves ask about financial status. Another problem is the country thing, who is poor in the US, is probably pretty rich in a place like Bangladesh; who's standard of poor or rich shall we use?
Some countries in east africa, wealth is measured in the head of cattle a person owns, and I don't own any cows, I'm so poor! Some countries in west Africa measure wealth by the number of wives a person has, and I only have 1, I met a person with 13 once!