The quality of writable cds in general looks pretty poor to me. Who here has not heard the phrase `anyone got a cd player they want to test this disk with`? Why? Why dont they just work, all the time, like floppies? Shite technology, rushed onto the market?
Jesus, man! What floppies did you buy? I wish I'd gotten the same ones.. I was going through some old disks recently to find something I could write an OpenBSD install disk to, and the ratio of good to bad disks was about 1 to 9. (Don't worry, I was careful only to use the disks I _don't_ have the only known copy of Archimedes writings on). And I've definitely uttered the phrase "Anyone got a disk drive they want to test this disk with" too often..
You can't teach kids programming. If they _really_ want to learn it, they will learn it by themselves. Face it, the reason most of us started programming was that the programs and games on the computers we were lucky enough to be around sucked majorly, or got boring too fast, with a supply of titles too low or too expensive to feed your habit. I started out in Basic on a Sharp MZ-80K several thousand years ago when I was still an embryo.. Because the tapes that came with the computer only contained two games and a lot of calculus demonstration programs in SP-5025 Basic. If you want your kids to learn to program, you should lock them up in a room without internet access and an ancient computer with only a few programs (source included).. And kick their ass if they complain. There's no way the next generation of programmers are going to live up to the quality standard set by the previous two.
Flamebait, maybe, but see if I give a flying fuck..
Hah. This is nothing but a get-rich quick scheme for those clever MIT students. Just look at this question I asked Start:
===> how can I make money fast?
The following information may be related to your question --
The research activities at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory are funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Air Force Office of Sponsored Research, Alphatech, Inc., Army Research Office, Fujitsu, International Business Machines, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute, Loral Systems Company, Mitsubishi, NASA, National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, and Sumitomo Metal Industries.
If I write a virus that destroys half a hard drive and distribute it and some government or company criminally prosecutes me, can I claim my free speech rights or is it still illegal? I sure as hell hope it's the latter, because code is not the same as speech. Words may hurt feelings, but they can't damage physical property or rights (except in the case of libel or slander). Code has the potential to be much more destructive.
There's quite a big difference between breaking an encryption scheme and breaking a hard drive. As for the potential to be destructive, go after the sticks and stones manufacturers. After all, they have the possibility to break your bones.
OK, I'll try this again. Thanks, Slash, for removing the HTML tags after previewing!
Something at a bookstore that your average Joe can pick up and think about. Maybe Joe is an alcoholic who beats his kid, and the book will make him think twice about the consequences. Or maybe Joe is the leader of a local PTA who thinks that her son's school "would be just fine if it weren't for those few creepy kids who dress in black all the time and spend all their time on that Internet-thing."
Do you seriously think that those people would buy the book? Or for that matter, that _any_ people is going to buy or read it for any other reason than patting themselves on the back and saying 'that's what I thought all along'?
"And, for Pete's sake, make sure they don't sell it on Amazon.com!" Sure... God forbid that the book be sold somewhere prominent where people who *aren't* geeks might find out about it. Let's make sure we're only preaching to the choir, here.
Yeah, that makes sense. Advocate a boycott and then use the company for distribution. "When we say boycott, what we really ment was that you shouldn't use it unless it's convenient for some reason. And besides, this is an important matter and Amazon is really big and stuff".
Personally, I don't give a shit if money is being made from this book, or if the comments are being used without credit or whatever. I'm just saying that right now you're all up on your high horse saying that this is good for the./ "community", but the individuals in it who say things you don't like can go fuck themselves. For me, that just doesn't compute.
My middle finger is bigger than yours. Have the decency to shut up if you want to tell me that Andover has turned into the bloody salvation army.
Something at a bookstore that your average Joe can pick up and think about. Maybe Joe is an alcoholic who beats his kid, and the book will make him think twice about the consequences. Or maybe Joe is the leader of a local PTA who thinks that her son's school "would be just fine if it weren't for those few creepy kids who dress in black all the time and spend all their time on that Internet-thing." Do you seriously think that those people would buy the book? Or for that matter, that _any_ people is going to buy or read it for any other reason than patting themselves on the back and saying 'that's what I thought all along'? "And, for Pete's sake, make sure they don't sell it on Amazon.com!" Sure... God forbid that the book be sold somewhere prominent where people who *aren't* geeks might find out about it. Let's make sure we're only preaching to the choir, here. Yeah, that makes sense. Advocate a boycott and then use the company for distribution. "When we say boycott, what we really ment was that you shouldn't use it unless it's convenient for some reason. And besides, this is an important matter and Amazon is really big and stuff". Personally, I don't give a shit if money is being made from this book, or if the comments are being used without credit or whatever. I'm just saying that right now you're all up on your high horse saying that this is good for the./ "community", but the individuals in it who say things you don't like can go fuck themselves. For me, that just doesn't compute. My middle finger is bigger than yours. Have the decency to shut up if you want to tell me that Andover has turned into the bloody salvation army.
The article in question says just about the same as the VG story already translated in the previous/. article. Here's a translation of the poll, asking "Should cracking protection codes be punishable?"
"Ja, det er derfor kodene er der" = "Yes, that's why the codes are there" "Nei, mediegigantene overbeskytter seg" = "No, the media giants are being overly protective" "Bare hvis det utnyttes kommersielt" = "Only if it's used commercially".
Bullshit. Check the little box in your WinAmp preferences saying "save streamed files", and you're all set. Otherwise copy the URL you get into a web browser, or wget, or something, and just grab the file.
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Actually, that's not all that's stopping you. Another thing is the spokenword message saying "Too many open streams. Please close some and continue. You should not share your password." or somesuch that you get instead of the actual.mp3 if you try playing too many songs at the same time.
Could you perhaps mail me some more information, or post a URL here? I just moved to Holland a few months ago, and I've been wondering about getting a license earlier, but I haven't had the time/money/eagerness to learn morse code;)
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The quality of writable cds in general looks pretty poor to me. Who here has not heard the phrase `anyone got a cd player they want to test this disk with`? Why? Why dont they just work, all the time, like floppies? Shite technology, rushed onto the market?
Jesus, man! What floppies did you buy? I wish I'd gotten the same ones.. I was going through some old disks recently to find something I could write an OpenBSD install disk to, and the ratio of good to bad disks was about 1 to 9. (Don't worry, I was careful only to use the disks I _don't_ have the only known copy of Archimedes writings on). And I've definitely uttered the phrase "Anyone got a disk drive they want to test this disk with" too often..
*Suspicious look*
Or were you being sarcastic?
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If I had five moderator points, I'd blow them all on "funny" marks for this one. My thoughts exactly :)
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You can't teach kids programming. If they _really_ want to learn it, they will learn it by themselves. Face it, the reason most of us started programming was that the programs and games on the computers we were lucky enough to be around sucked majorly, or got boring too fast, with a supply of titles too low or too expensive to feed your habit. I started out in Basic on a Sharp MZ-80K several thousand years ago when I was still an embryo.. Because the tapes that came with the computer only contained two games and a lot of calculus demonstration programs in SP-5025 Basic. If you want your kids to learn to program, you should lock them up in a room without internet access and an ancient computer with only a few programs (source included).. And kick their ass if they complain. There's no way the next generation of programmers are going to live up to the quality standard set by the previous two.
Flamebait, maybe, but see if I give a flying fuck..
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Hah. This is nothing but a get-rich quick scheme for those clever MIT students. Just look at this question I asked Start:
===> how can I make money fast?
The following information may be related to your question --
The research activities at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory are funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Air Force Office of Sponsored Research, Alphatech, Inc., Army Research Office, Fujitsu, International Business Machines, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute, Loral Systems Company, Mitsubishi, NASA, National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, and Sumitomo Metal Industries.
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If I write a virus that destroys half a hard drive and distribute it and some government or company criminally prosecutes me, can I claim my free speech rights or is it still illegal? I sure as hell hope it's the latter, because code is not the same as speech. Words may hurt feelings, but they can't damage physical property or rights (except in the case of libel or slander). Code has the potential to be much more destructive.
There's quite a big difference between breaking an encryption scheme and breaking a hard drive. As for the potential to be destructive, go after the sticks and stones manufacturers. After all, they have the possibility to break your bones.
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Probably to save the people searching for it from having to see a result for /. turn up.
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OK, I'll try this again. Thanks, Slash, for removing the HTML tags after previewing!
./ "community", but the individuals in it who say things you don't like can go fuck themselves. For me, that just doesn't compute.
Something at a bookstore that your average Joe can pick up and think about. Maybe Joe is an alcoholic who beats his kid, and the book will make him think twice about the consequences. Or maybe Joe is the leader of a local PTA who thinks that her son's school "would be just fine if it weren't for those few creepy kids who dress in black all the time and spend all their time on that Internet-thing."
Do you seriously think that those people would buy the book? Or for that matter, that _any_ people is going to buy or read it for any other reason than patting themselves on the back and saying 'that's what I thought all along'?
"And, for Pete's sake, make sure they don't sell it on Amazon.com!" Sure... God forbid that the book be sold somewhere prominent where people who *aren't* geeks might find out about it. Let's make sure we're only preaching to the choir, here.
Yeah, that makes sense. Advocate a boycott and then use the company for distribution. "When we say boycott, what we really ment was that you shouldn't use it unless it's convenient for some reason. And besides, this is an important matter and Amazon is really big and stuff".
Personally, I don't give a shit if money is being made from this book, or if the comments are being used without credit or whatever. I'm just saying that right now you're all up on your high horse saying that this is good for the
My middle finger is bigger than yours. Have the decency to shut up if you want to tell me that Andover has turned into the bloody salvation army.
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Something at a bookstore that your average Joe can pick up and think about. Maybe Joe is an alcoholic who beats his kid, and the book will make him think twice about the consequences. Or maybe Joe is the leader of a local PTA who thinks that her son's school "would be just fine if it weren't for those few creepy kids who dress in black all the time and spend all their time on that Internet-thing." Do you seriously think that those people would buy the book? Or for that matter, that _any_ people is going to buy or read it for any other reason than patting themselves on the back and saying 'that's what I thought all along'? "And, for Pete's sake, make sure they don't sell it on Amazon.com!" Sure... God forbid that the book be sold somewhere prominent where people who *aren't* geeks might find out about it. Let's make sure we're only preaching to the choir, here. Yeah, that makes sense. Advocate a boycott and then use the company for distribution. "When we say boycott, what we really ment was that you shouldn't use it unless it's convenient for some reason. And besides, this is an important matter and Amazon is really big and stuff". Personally, I don't give a shit if money is being made from this book, or if the comments are being used without credit or whatever. I'm just saying that right now you're all up on your high horse saying that this is good for the ./ "community", but the individuals in it who say things you don't like can go fuck themselves. For me, that just doesn't compute. My middle finger is bigger than yours. Have the decency to shut up if you want to tell me that Andover has turned into the bloody salvation army.
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>P.S. I don't use any moderating system. I consider it self-censorship.
Wow. You're SO cool.
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The article in question says just about the same as the VG story already translated in the previous /. article. Here's a translation of the poll, asking "Should cracking protection codes be punishable?"
"Ja, det er derfor kodene er der" = "Yes, that's why the codes are there"
"Nei, mediegigantene overbeskytter seg" = "No, the media giants are being overly protective"
"Bare hvis det utnyttes kommersielt" = "Only if it's used commercially".
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Bullshit. Check the little box in your WinAmp preferences saying "save streamed files", and you're all set. Otherwise copy the URL you get into a web browser, or wget, or something, and just grab the file.
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Actually, that's not all that's stopping you. Another thing is the spokenword message saying "Too many open streams. Please close some and continue. You should not share your password." or somesuch that you get instead of the actual .mp3 if you try playing too many songs at the same time.
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Could you perhaps mail me some more information, or post a URL here? I just moved to Holland a few months ago, and I've been wondering about getting a license earlier, but I haven't had the time/money/eagerness to learn morse code ;)
If you're reading this, thanks in advance.
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