"Anyone who thinks that they can hide behind the anonymity of the Internet to commit copyright infringement had better know that the law gives them no quarter," continued Kruger.
Surely if you're hidden by the anonymity of the Internet, the law doesn't know who you are, so it gives them lots of quarters.
I guess he meant to say "partial anonymity", but then it's not very hard to have total anonymity if you really tried.
After all, the porn buisnesses are the most profitable on the net, so they can't stop that (even though they've tried), so no-one's making money from pirating stuff, and as someone else said, it looks good in the papers, cos at least they're trying to do something about it, even if there's nothing they can do. Does anyone else remember the article on how Lusacarts lawyers chased pirate copies of TPM across the net and "that time was running out for pirates, cos there was nowhere they could hide"? Now that was a funny/clueless article. iain
try w3m Just like Lynx but it lays out frames and tables too, and it has cool functions like being able to click a link with the mouse, and having a right click menu.
While I think Mozilla has done a great deal, and I'm very impressed by it (whenever I can get it to compile) it reveals a problem with open source. If someone ever complains on/. or elsewhere, they're told "It's opensource, you work on it". The problem is that mozilla is a huge project and it takes many many hours to even understand how a bit of it works. This limits the number of people who can work on it to people who are very skilled, and have the time to figure it out.
Iain PS Sorry for the newspaper headline like topic, but it was to fit it all in. PPS Sorry if this is just stating the obvious.
I can't remember what it was, but I think they were trying to prove that sitting in your car during a lightning storm was the safest thing to do.
They basically got a power cable and dangled it above a road, and got a stunt man to drive the car into it. As he touched 40,000V went through the car, but he got out fine. It was pretty cool.
The car might have had to be moving to be safe, I can't remember.
(Disclaimer: Just because I said he got out safe, I don't want anyone cutting power cables and driving into them, and then sueing me because I said it was okay)
An alright movie does very well, instantly there's talk of sequels, even though the original didn't really leave itself open. Both the Matrix and Blair Witch Project are having sequels, prequels, everything. While the matrix did have an open ending, where can they go that would be better than the original (even though I thought the original was okay, but the ending was rather cheesy)?
And where can they go with BWP? I wish movie moguls would learn that somethings just don't have sequel potential.
iain
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I think a dragonfly's wings all do different things, whereas I took it that the fly's four all did the same thing as each other.
I dunno. I bet they weren't that impressed by Robocop 2 or 3, or the series. They were crap
The 2.2 series is pretty solid. Whats the point in giving someone 2.0.37 when they could do perfectly well with 2.2.10 or so, that is stable, and has all the extra stuff they might need. I'm not advocating giving them 2.3 or anything, but at least they should use the latest stable.
What with the umpteen million motherboards going out with Linux, and now this, there's going to quite a few new users, and more users means more developers, and more developers means more stuff.....and world dominition here we come:)
Has anyone ever noticed that Realplayer G2 always starts at startup... Now I wonder what that little blue speech bubble icon is doing
Slashdot poll perhaps? What is the Realplayer G2 really doing while it's not running? a) Watching what we listen to b) Boosting a Real.com attempt at cracking RSA (or SETI depending on what you want) c) Watching us (only valid if you have a camera) d) Waiting for us to use it, so that it'll "Load" quicker than anything else. e) Rob/Iain/Everyone sucks. f) Dead writeins.
The standard/. login account:) Or is there some reason why no-one meantions this anymore, like for example, the FBI are investigating the users of this login for Kiddie porn scandels?
Cos if there is, I'd better stop using it, hadn't I.
Search altavista for them. There's lots out there, and they're usually very good. All you have to do is cut and paste whatever you want together to make your ultimate filter
GTK applications (and most other ones too) run on a loop. This loop just loops round and round doing things. If one thing (say some calculations for example) take a long time to complete, the loop will not get round to the item that redraws the user interface. There is a solution to this and it is to simply put while (gtk_events_pending ()) gtk_main_iteration (); somewhere in the code that is taking a long time to complete and this will redraw all the UI and process all the events.
The few things I noticed were 1. He's actually very boring to listen to. 2. Paxman was out of his depth, because Bill could just talk about things Paxman didn't have a clue about, and while we all knew Bill was talking shit, Paxman believed every word of it. 3. "All Microsoft did with IE4 was produced an award-winning browser, that they decided to make available for free"....execpt he forgot that to use Windows, you basically have to use IE4/5 and if you don't install it, it'll be installed eventually. Same with Outlook Express. If you don't have Outlook Express installed something will install it at a later date. (Stupid example. Outlook 98 installed Outlook Express as one of the first things it did)
Slashdot Mirror
"Let's start buying small companies up to make ourselves bigger."
Was it not said a few days back that Cygnus was a bigger company than Redhat?
Iain
"Anyone who thinks that they can hide behind the anonymity of the Internet to commit copyright infringement had better know that the law gives them no quarter," continued Kruger.
Surely if you're hidden by the anonymity of the Internet, the law doesn't know who you are, so it gives them lots of quarters.
I guess he meant to say "partial anonymity", but then it's not very hard to have total anonymity if you really tried.
I said a problem with the ethos of "It's opensource, so if you want a feature, you can add it".
After all, the porn buisnesses are the most profitable on the net, so they can't stop that (even though they've tried), so no-one's making money from pirating stuff, and as someone else said, it looks good in the papers, cos at least they're trying to do something about it, even if there's nothing they can do. Does anyone else remember the article on how Lusacarts lawyers chased pirate copies of TPM across the net and "that time was running out for pirates, cos there was nowhere they could hide"? Now that was a funny/clueless article. iain
try w3m
Just like Lynx but it lays out frames and tables too, and it has cool functions like being able to click a link with the mouse, and having a right click menu.
Dunno the URL, check it's on Freshmeat somewhere.
iain
While I think Mozilla has done a great deal, and I'm very impressed by it (whenever I can get it to compile) it reveals a problem with open source. If someone ever complains on /. or elsewhere, they're told "It's opensource, you work on it". The problem is that mozilla is a huge project and it takes many many hours to even understand how a bit of it works. This limits the number of people who can work on it to people who are very skilled, and have the time to figure it out.
Iain
PS Sorry for the newspaper headline like topic, but it was to fit it all in.
PPS Sorry if this is just stating the obvious.
I can't remember what it was, but I think they were trying to prove that sitting in your car during a lightning storm was the safest thing to do.
They basically got a power cable and dangled it above a road, and got a stunt man to drive the car into it. As he touched 40,000V went through the car, but he got out fine. It was pretty cool.
The car might have had to be moving to be safe, I can't remember.
(Disclaimer: Just because I said he got out safe, I don't want anyone cutting power cables and driving into them, and then sueing me because I said it was okay)
I was
Honestly
I'm not able to forsee the future
What I posted earlier this week
An alright movie does very well, instantly there's talk of sequels, even though the original didn't really leave itself open.
Both the Matrix and Blair Witch Project are having sequels, prequels, everything. While the matrix did have an open ending, where can they go that would be better than the original (even though I thought the original was okay, but the ending was rather cheesy)?
And where can they go with BWP?
I wish movie moguls would learn that somethings just don't have sequel potential.
iain
I think a dragonfly's wings all do different things, whereas I took it that the fly's four all did the same thing as each other.
I dunno.
I bet they weren't that impressed by Robocop 2 or 3, or the series. They were crap
The 2.2 series is pretty solid.
Whats the point in giving someone 2.0.37
when they could do perfectly well with 2.2.10 or so, that is stable, and has all the extra stuff they might need.
I'm not advocating giving them 2.3 or anything, but at least they should use the latest stable.
I think there is a mod_asp type thing for Apache, or else it's a asp -> php3 converter.
Dunno if it's real, or if it actually works, but I remember seeing something like it on Freshmeat
Surely they could have got a newer version than RH 5.2. I know it's a Japanese language version, but is 5.2 the only Japanese version there is?
Come on, 5.2 doesn't even have a 2.2 series kernel, and we're nearing 2.4 now, if the rumours are true.
What with the umpteen million motherboards going out with Linux, and now this, there's going to quite a few new users, and more users means more developers, and more developers means more stuff.....and world dominition here we come :)
cyberphunks/cyberphunks works for me...
/. accounts.
Maybe there's many
Has anyone ever noticed that Realplayer G2 always starts at startup...
Now I wonder what that little blue speech bubble icon is doing
Slashdot poll perhaps?
What is the Realplayer G2 really doing while it's not running?
a) Watching what we listen to
b) Boosting a Real.com attempt at cracking RSA (or SETI depending on what you want)
c) Watching us (only valid if you have a camera)
d) Waiting for us to use it, so that it'll "Load" quicker than anything else.
e) Rob/Iain/Everyone sucks.
f) Dead writeins.
login: cyberphunks
/. login account :)
passwd: cyberphunks
The standard
Or is there some reason why no-one meantions this anymore, like for example, the FBI are investigating the users of this login for Kiddie porn scandels?
Cos if there is, I'd better stop using it, hadn't I.
Or my person favourite
Win Doesn't
And there I was thinking it was New Technology.
Maybe that's what it really means
Windows No Text
Because you can't have a text only mode.....
Or then again
Maybe not
Search altavista for them.
There's lots out there, and they're usually very good. All you have to do is cut and paste whatever you want together to make your ultimate filter
GTK applications (and most other ones too) run on a loop. This loop just loops round and round doing things. If one thing (say some calculations for example) take a long time to complete, the loop will not get round to the item that redraws the user interface.
There is a solution to this and it is to simply put
while (gtk_events_pending ())
gtk_main_iteration ();
somewhere in the code that is taking a long time to complete and this will redraw all the UI and process all the events.
iain
The few things I noticed were
1. He's actually very boring to listen to.
2. Paxman was out of his depth, because Bill could just talk about things Paxman didn't have a clue about, and while we all knew Bill was talking shit, Paxman believed every word of it.
3. "All Microsoft did with IE4 was produced an award-winning browser, that they decided to make available for free"....execpt he forgot that to use Windows, you basically have to use IE4/5 and if you don't install it, it'll be installed eventually. Same with Outlook Express. If you don't have Outlook Express installed something will install it at a later date. (Stupid example. Outlook 98 installed Outlook Express as one of the first things it did)
iain
He wasn't best pleased was he?
Wouldn't put it past being bad hardware.
So far in the past 2 weeks
My gfx card has decided to kill itself
and I've lost 32meg somehow.
> Boards of Canada: Music has the Right to > Children
Damn
Thats my perfect coding music.
It just fits in the background perfectly