Playing tones into telephones does absolutely nothing whatsoever, other then relaying the sound to the other end. The telephone networks eventually switched from 'inband' signaling, that let you send your own control codes into the flow to something else, that put the control signals on a separate line.
what the 2600hz tone did was cause the system to think that you had hung up the phone, you could call an 1800 number 'hang up', and then connect to another number. The phone system of the day would still think you were hooked up to the '800 number and not charge you.
a few months ago, someone called me using Dialpad.com. If anyone's uses the service, you'll notice that it cuts off the connection when there's no signal above some white noise. Well, a lot of what I was saying wasn't getting through, so I decided that playing a sinewave in the background would keep me from being cut off. I tried a 400hz tone, but I had to have it pretty loud in order for it to work. Another tone I tried worked really well though. What was it? 2600hz:P
a 2600hz tone used to be able to be used to let you do all kinds of things to the phone system when you pumped it into a phone line, and let you 'hack' the telephone network (called phreaking). You can't do this anymore, AFAIK, but there used to be a lot of connection between the hacking and phreaking movements in the 1980s.
Id owns the wolf 3d code, and data, not Apogee. I know there was some kind of relationship between the two, but I belive it was just distrobution. Otherwise, why would the software be up for download on idsoftware.com, and not apogee's site?
I believe the that the material for the linked story was derived from the Question/Answer session, with statements like "when asked if..." etc. Actually, the slashdot blurb was even more inflammatory then the article itself, and really tries to explain his position rather then bashing it. I don't agree with him, but from the story, it does sound like he's thought this through.
I personally just think that they don't want to take the time to scan/OCR/correct all the stuff...
Until really fast internet access is avaible for every house with a telephone jack don't expect this to work.
A 56k, or even 26k connection to the internet is pretty fast, when your talking about written words. This is plain text here. Most books would be between 500k and 2000k
The proportion is extremely small (most.005 percent).
WTF??? There are over 90 million americans online, for some reason I think more then 450 of them have good conections. Just beacuse you were a cheapass and baught a $14 winmodem, dosn't mean that people can't download large files over a modem. I've been online at home since '96, and I used to download 24 megabyte files off my 14.4 baud modem without a problem. There are literaly Tens of Millions of people in this contry would be able to benifit from putting these books online. And they could put OCR'd text up along with the PDF files. I'd say that, in the US, only a small majority of people have the problems connecting that you do, not the other way around.
Let's hope the fairest decisions prevail, and that all involved are gracious.
No! I hope that the new results are terrible, and that everyone is pissed of. and that the resulting chaos destroys the ACM and everything it stands for!
Let me give you a reality check, Mr. Limo. You are an editor at a Linux/Perl/Free Software advocacy site. Like him or not, your accomplishments so far pale in comparison to Mr. Stallman's.
One thing I'm always amazed by is the incredibly low reading comprehension displayed by some of the slashdotiratii. Roblimo did say what his opinion of RMS was at all, he only stated the fact that some people don't like him. Even ESR has made negative comments about him (saying at one point "shut up and show me the code", the logic in ESR saying this to Richard Stallman is completely lost on me, however)
I like RMS, and it bugs me when people bash him, and still use his code. But there are people like that, and there are people in the 'Open Source movement' who wish he would go away. Whether Roblimo is one of these people was never stated.
BTW, a 'rant' is usually more then one line of text.
Someone touched on this already, but I thought I'd ask anyway.
Something I've been wondering about is the use of Open Source on web-based applications. A good example would be slashdot; witch is GPL'd as far as I know. Right now, that means that there's nothing stopping me from making my own site, making tons of modifications, and lots of money off it, without contributing my code back, since it's still 'private use'.
As bandwidth gets better, and our network interfaces more seamless, what's to stop someone from 'hijacking' open source projects with proprietary web interfaces?
I guess what I'm trying to ask is 'what is the user that gets the rights to this source?' The person using the software for day-to-day tasks, or the admin who actually starts the program on their box? And what rights should those people have?
Do you think this is something that needs to be addressed by the GNU organization as network computing becomes more prevalent?
Socialists do the same thing. Punitive taxes are "progressive", while fair taxes are "regressive". Etc, etc. I'm sure many other groups do the same, but I don't dislike them enough to have references handy;)
Really, I don't know what your talking about, there are clearnly defined terms for 'progressive' and 'regressive' taxes. A progressive tax takes a higher persentage of higher income people, such as income tax, and a regressive tax takes more from people with less income, such as a sales tax.
a flat tax is nither progressive or regressive.
And as far as china goes, there is no 'People's democratic republic'. What we call China calles itself the Peoples Republic of China, and what we call Taiwan calls itself the Democratic Republic of China. Both are acurite terms to define the contries.
gah, not spellcheckd, don't care:P
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Anyway when i got to the end I was surprised to find out that the author of the piece was none other then Michael Crichton himself. Conflict of interest perhaps?
As an aside, what the f*ck is social justice? Similarly, what the f*ck is economic justice? AFAICT, the answer to these questions are always defined by the user's (usually self-serving) point of view.
Uh... the user? what exactly would they be using:P
Which corporations have you seen impose taxes on us?
Ever hear of the Microsoft Tax? even members of the company have refered to like that. It isn't a 'true' tax, but millions of people pay it anyway.
Which corporations can tell us which drugs we're allowed to consume?
Ever hear of an HMO?
Which corporation throws us in jail if we violate one of their nitpicky rules
You've got me there, the MPAA is a collection of corporation.
Yes, the companys were working through the governments, but it dosn't really matter. They did it. The government on the other hand has to at least pretend to care about us...
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Playing tones into telephones does absolutely nothing whatsoever, other then relaying the sound to the other end. The telephone networks eventually switched from 'inband' signaling, that let you send your own control codes into the flow to something else, that put the control signals on a separate line.
:P
what the 2600hz tone did was cause the system to think that you had hung up the phone, you could call an 1800 number 'hang up', and then connect to another number. The phone system of the day would still think you were hooked up to the '800 number and not charge you.
a few months ago, someone called me using Dialpad.com. If anyone's uses the service, you'll notice that it cuts off the connection when there's no signal above some white noise. Well, a lot of what I was saying wasn't getting through, so I decided that playing a sinewave in the background would keep me from being cut off. I tried a 400hz tone, but I had to have it pretty loud in order for it to work. Another tone I tried worked really well though. What was it? 2600hz
a 2600hz tone used to be able to be used to let you do all kinds of things to the phone system when you pumped it into a phone line, and let you 'hack' the telephone network (called phreaking). You can't do this anymore, AFAIK, but there used to be a lot of connection between the hacking and phreaking movements in the 1980s.
Id owns the wolf 3d code, and data, not Apogee. I know there was some kind of relationship between the two, but I belive it was just distrobution. Otherwise, why would the software be up for download on idsoftware.com, and not apogee's site?
I fail to see any subject matter ignorance displayed in the root post. Could you illustrate some, or are you just a dumbass?
I believe the that the material for the linked story was derived from the Question/Answer session, with statements like "when asked if..." etc. Actually, the slashdot blurb was even more inflammatory then the article itself, and really tries to explain his position rather then bashing it. I don't agree with him, but from the story, it does sound like he's thought this through.
I personally just think that they don't want to take the time to scan/OCR/correct all the stuff...
What is wrong with all you people? I've never had a problem reading online, and if you do, why not just increase the font size??
Until really fast internet access is avaible for every house with a telephone jack don't expect this to work.
A 56k, or even 26k connection to the internet is pretty fast, when your talking about written words. This is plain text here. Most books would be between 500k and 2000k
Anyone that matters is...
Uh... can you exsplain why the library of the United States Congress should care about access by people from other contries?
The proportion is extremely small (most .005 percent).
WTF??? There are over 90 million americans online, for some reason I think more then 450 of them have good conections. Just beacuse you were a cheapass and baught a $14 winmodem, dosn't mean that people can't download large files over a modem. I've been online at home since '96, and I used to download 24 megabyte files off my 14.4 baud modem without a problem. There are literaly Tens of Millions of people in this contry would be able to benifit from putting these books online. And they could put OCR'd text up along with the PDF files. I'd say that, in the US, only a small majority of people have the problems connecting that you do, not the other way around.
What it actually means is that it's completely unnecessary and caters to a small elite few.
Yes, those elite 90 million americans with internet access! curse them!
Do you think someone who can't afford a modem can afford to fly to DC to read a book from the library of congress?
You do not need a god damn cable modem to read a book online!
Let's hope the fairest decisions prevail, and that all involved are gracious.
No! I hope that the new results are terrible, and that everyone is pissed of. and that the resulting chaos destroys the ACM and everything it stands for!
I am a moron, People should really be able to delete there posts if they make a mistake before anyone posts a reply...
Wo xue ci zhong wen duo tien. wo zhen xi huan. Ni bu xi huan zong wen? ching si, geng men!!
Let me give you a reality check, Mr. Limo. You are an editor at a Linux/Perl/Free Software advocacy site. Like him or not, your accomplishments so far pale in comparison to Mr. Stallman's.
One thing I'm always amazed by is the incredibly low reading comprehension displayed by some of the slashdotiratii. Roblimo did say what his opinion of RMS was at all, he only stated the fact that some people don't like him. Even ESR has made negative comments about him (saying at one point "shut up and show me the code", the logic in ESR saying this to Richard Stallman is completely lost on me, however)
I like RMS, and it bugs me when people bash him, and still use his code. But there are people like that, and there are people in the 'Open Source movement' who wish he would go away. Whether Roblimo is one of these people was never stated.
BTW, a 'rant' is usually more then one line of text.
Someone touched on this already, but I thought I'd ask anyway.
Something I've been wondering about is the use of Open Source on web-based applications. A good example would be slashdot; witch is GPL'd as far as I know. Right now, that means that there's nothing stopping me from making my own site, making tons of modifications, and lots of money off it, without contributing my code back, since it's still 'private use'.
As bandwidth gets better, and our network interfaces more seamless, what's to stop someone from 'hijacking' open source projects with proprietary web interfaces?
I guess what I'm trying to ask is 'what is the user that gets the rights to this source?' The person using the software for day-to-day tasks, or the admin who actually starts the program on their box? And what rights should those people have?
Do you think this is something that needs to be addressed by the GNU organization as network computing becomes more prevalent?
Her sever is up, but she is definetly getting down...
http://www.jennicam.org/gallery/funk27.jpg
makes much more sense now :P
Anyway, I don't know of any good SF book that made a great movie in the last 20 years...(except the Matrix ;-)
The Matrix was an origional peice, it was never a book.
duan ying review zai zher. Click here
It's written by an anti-scientology person, but its pretty entertaining.
Ever read Ayn Rand? it sounds like you do:
;)
:P
Socialists do the same thing. Punitive taxes are "progressive", while fair taxes are "regressive". Etc, etc. I'm sure many other groups do the same, but I don't dislike them enough to have references handy
Really, I don't know what your talking about, there are clearnly defined terms for 'progressive' and 'regressive' taxes. A progressive tax takes a higher persentage of higher income people, such as income tax, and a regressive tax takes more from people with less income, such as a sales tax.
a flat tax is nither progressive or regressive.
And as far as china goes, there is no 'People's democratic republic'. What we call China calles itself the Peoples Republic of China, and what we call Taiwan calls itself the Democratic Republic of China. Both are acurite terms to define the contries.
gah, not spellcheckd, don't care
Anyway when i got to the end I was surprised to find out that the author of the piece was none other then Michael Crichton himself. Conflict of interest perhaps?
I don't see how... could you explain?
As an aside, what the f*ck is social justice? Similarly, what the f*ck is economic justice? AFAICT, the answer to these questions are always defined by the user's (usually self-serving) point of view.
:P
Uh... the user? what exactly would they be using
Which corporations have you seen impose taxes on us?
Ever hear of the Microsoft Tax? even members of the company have refered to like that. It isn't a 'true' tax, but millions of people pay it anyway.
Which corporations can tell us which drugs we're allowed to consume?
Ever hear of an HMO?
Which corporation throws us in jail if we violate one of their nitpicky rules
You've got me there, the MPAA is a collection of corporation.
Yes, the companys were working through the governments, but it dosn't really matter. They did it. The government on the other hand has to at least pretend to care about us...
Remove the quotation mark from the URL, and it should work. At least it did for me
p age-killers.html
corrected link: http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/040900ram