I've had a bit of a time away from Debian (couple of years being a Gentoo user). Have they got any more an automated system of building things from source? If so, you could track "unstable-source" yourself on whatever platform you like, I suppose.
Quite. I'm wondering if the proliferation of blog-style "photography" out there is devaluing the work of those of us who like to take our time devising a good photograph.
(I have a graduation system: http://pig.sty.nu/Pictures/ shows just about everything I've taken, while http://pig.sty.nu/Pictures/gallery/ is a lot more refined, with per-picture captions etc.)
Your quotes around `"secure"' are, of course, well justified: gaim's encryption, being in-band, means an intercepter can still ascertain to whom you were talking, and when.
Two alternative systems where not even this data is sniffable, include Skype (of all things) and Silc.
Well, you could plant a fake site and use their stats to see what people go for.
I find it quite weird to think that people will actually write to me and ask if I "still have a torrent for [movie] lying around". Who in their right mind would advertise the fact they're looking for something which to download would be a violation of copyright?? And yet I've actually seen exactly this happening... (Background: I run a small tarpit to trap illegal seekers, idiots, the MPAA and spammers - with success on all counts.)
Silence sure fulfills the definition of music by 1a, 2a, 2b, 4, 5.;)
Now an interesting analogy: there are those who'd say black is not a colour because it's an absence of colour. However what these people fail to understand is that just because tends to 0 luminosity doesn't stop it still being a phenomenon of light.
If sound waves tend to amplitude of 0, do we suddenly stop talking about sound? Hey look, it could even be encoded as an mp3 and play back in a well-defined form!
Is conventional music only copyrighted for those parts where non-zero amplitude is present? In a digitized sample of a simple 440Hz international A, there are bound to be some samples with A=0, do they not count? Define the granularity at which silence is not counted.
You have a point, but don't forget the usefulness of heterogeneity. I mean: better to have a popular protocol drawing attention away from where the real work lies than to compact everything onto HTTP. Remember, we're dealing with cretinous lawyers to whom "mp3" and "torrent" are synonymous with "evil copyright-violating spawn of satan" or something, here. And observe how it's not just the lawyers: behind this/. article is an implicit acknowledgement that *most* interesting uses of bittorrent have been for copyright-violating purposes, otherwise why would we be reading it, and why does it conflate "bittorrent" with "suprnova"?
For goodness' sake, a good desktop is one that does what you want without getting in the way. I've journeyed around, had my spell of being a windows freak, had a very long GNU/Linux period - using a multitude of desktop environments, and now I'm using OS X out of preference.
A *good* *platform* either a) is set up perfectly to work just out the box b) presents much choice between reliable components, so you can specify things exactly the way you want them to be.
And changing between primary environments is a week's occasional thought, not a major hassle.
Interesting, but: given http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php section 5, can someone tell me how the Plan9 licence might be considered open-source?
Their major problem is a completely clueless inability to identify what's under their noses. I've been accused of "hosting illegal files" or whatever their terminology is, without evidence. If the accusation had come to me directly rather than via my ISP, I would have persued it to demand evidence. The fact that the email went to my ISP betrays how little the MPAA are actually interested in "solving the problem" of illegally-traded files, because they have deliberately ignored the alternative approach: a simple, polite, email to webmaster@whateverdomain, stating "you seem to be hosting these things, do you mind removing them, please?", which might actually get my respect.
The spraying of litigious emails all over the 'Net does nothing for their cause and only serves to dilute the effectiveness of the legal-via-email system (such as it is). People should report these emails to the FCC and demand a full public enquiry that the MPAA are abusive spammers.
> Oh, and I'm sure that the occasional volcanic eruption has no impact whatsoever
I know you're being sarcastic, but just to demonstrate the point: I saw a documentary on the eruption of Krakatoa, which said that the amount (12 cubic miles) of crap spilt out into the atmosphere caused a net increase in global warming of half a Celsius degree. That's back in what, 1870-odd?
How much have we gained in C20? the last 50 years? How much do we have to before everything melts and goes pfui?
> yet they have the audacity to claim that they can accurately predict what'll happen in five, ten, twenty, or a hundred years
Yes, over here the Met Office can't get the predictions right for my town - forever changing it with a day or 12hrs to go. However, your argument is bogus. Nobody can claim to understand what makes a quark tick, but we happily make calculations based on the known properties of protons and neutrons and atoms and the properties of many atoms through emergent statistical behaviour.
> Global warming is more of a political movement,
It may also be a fact, assuming the concept of "average global temperature this year" is reasonably well defined, but notably not a bad one at that.
Naff audio quality from a bunch of spammers (since when I registered my.nu domain, within 30mins I'd got a spam to info@ that domain - from Real). I've boycotted them ever since and will continue to do so for the forseeable future.
In fact, when Radio 4 put on the new series of Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, I went out and bought a DAB radio, ripped it myself over line-in and then used iTunes to encode it to AAC, with the result that friends and colleagues said they preferred the audio quality to the Beeb's own Real crap.
Wasn't there an occasion when some expert chap reviewed some source code, critically with the understanding being that if code was copied and then edited such that it no longer resembled the original, it was no longer a copy?
As such, what good would examining intermediate versions cause? Either copied sources are present in the initial import and release versions, or it's irrelevant.
Of course, it wouldn't be the earth if you didn't scale up this poncy infestation of humans to match. That's one helluva lot of Dubya-voters to worry about...
Sure, linux doesn't have any webservers, or mail and news clients with auto-adaptive-scoring, or world-leading spam-filtering utilities, or web-browsers worth using, or abilties to edit audio and movies and burn them to DVDs, oh no. Nor does it have word-processors or spreadsheets.
Wake the heck up. Since when was it *linux*'s problem what people choose do with it?
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I've had a bit of a time away from Debian (couple of years being a Gentoo user). Have they got any more an automated system of building things from source? If so, you could track "unstable-source" yourself on whatever platform you like, I suppose.
Quite. I'm wondering if the proliferation of blog-style "photography" out there is devaluing the work of those of us who like to take our time devising a good photograph.
(I have a graduation system: http://pig.sty.nu/Pictures/ shows just about everything I've taken, while http://pig.sty.nu/Pictures/gallery/ is a lot more refined, with per-picture captions etc.)
Better abstraction. If you write an API for a gallery, you can integrate it with your favourite blogging tool - post to gallery, sort of thing.
Your quotes around `"secure"' are, of course, well justified: gaim's encryption, being in-band, means an intercepter can still ascertain to whom you were talking, and when. Two alternative systems where not even this data is sniffable, include Skype (of all things) and Silc.
How about reading http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/, as linked in the article, first and second paragraphs?
Sure you can, you open mouth, arrange teeth and tongue to form the syllables and blow wind up from your lungs.
:)
But that's better than *untargeted* advertising, at least
True, I suppose: I just thought of that possibility after posting.
I find it quite weird to think that people will actually write to me and ask if I "still have a torrent for [movie] lying around". Who in their right mind would advertise the fact they're looking for something which to download would be a violation of copyright?? And yet I've actually seen exactly this happening... (Background: I run a small tarpit to trap illegal seekers, idiots, the MPAA and spammers - with success on all counts.)
At a suitably quantum level, what's stopping cheese sandwiches popping straight into existence on my plate, anyway? ;)
Silence sure fulfills the definition of music by 1a, 2a, 2b, 4, 5. ;)
Now an interesting analogy: there are those who'd say black is not a colour because it's an absence of colour. However what these people fail to understand is that just because tends to 0 luminosity doesn't stop it still being a phenomenon of light.
If sound waves tend to amplitude of 0, do we suddenly stop talking about sound? Hey look, it could even be encoded as an mp3 and play back in a well-defined form!
Is conventional music only copyrighted for those parts where non-zero amplitude is present?
In a digitized sample of a simple 440Hz international A, there are bound to be some samples with A=0, do they not count? Define the granularity at which silence is not counted.
$0.02,
You have a point, but don't forget the usefulness of heterogeneity. I mean: better to have a popular protocol drawing attention away from where the real work lies than to compact everything onto HTTP. Remember, we're dealing with cretinous lawyers to whom "mp3" and "torrent" are synonymous with "evil copyright-violating spawn of satan" or something, here. /. article is an implicit acknowledgement that *most* interesting uses of bittorrent have been for copyright-violating purposes, otherwise why would we be reading it, and why does it conflate "bittorrent" with "suprnova"?
And observe how it's not just the lawyers: behind this
How does one install SP2?
Ha! Ha! Ha!
For goodness' sake, a good desktop is one that does what you want without getting in the way. I've journeyed around, had my spell of being a windows freak, had a very long GNU/Linux period - using a multitude of desktop environments, and now I'm using OS X out of preference.
A *good* *platform* either
a) is set up perfectly to work just out the box
b) presents much choice between reliable components, so you can specify things exactly the way you want them to be.
And changing between primary environments is a week's occasional thought, not a major hassle.
Interesting, but: given http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php section 5, can someone tell me how the Plan9 licence might be considered open-source?
[troll] anyone with such a spurious waste of a cat process deserves to go the authorities anyway for unauthorized waste of CPU resources! [/troll]
What, exactly, has that to do with the questions I asked?
zsh/scr1, potato 8:11PM log/ # grep -c 'DPT=3306' kern.log
o g.6.gz:3
32
That's 32 hits *today*. There were 46 packets yesterday:
kern.log.2.gz:16 (2 days ago)
kern.log.3.gz:9 (...)
kern.log.4.gz:10
kern.log.5.gz:18
kern.l
kern.log.7.gz:4
kern.log.8.gz:2
So I guess there must be a random-scanner element to it and it's on the increase. Woopiee....
Their major problem is a completely clueless inability to identify what's under their noses. I've been accused of "hosting illegal files" or whatever their terminology is, without evidence. If the accusation had come to me directly rather than via my ISP, I would have persued it to demand evidence. The fact that the email went to my ISP betrays how little the MPAA are actually interested in "solving the problem" of illegally-traded files, because they have deliberately ignored the alternative approach: a simple, polite, email to webmaster@whateverdomain, stating "you seem to be hosting these things, do you mind removing them, please?", which might actually get my respect.
The spraying of litigious emails all over the 'Net does nothing for their cause and only serves to dilute the effectiveness of the legal-via-email system (such as it is). People should report these emails to the FCC and demand a full public enquiry that the MPAA are abusive spammers.
> Oh, and I'm sure that the occasional volcanic eruption has no impact whatsoever
I know you're being sarcastic, but just to demonstrate the point: I saw a documentary on the eruption of Krakatoa, which said that the amount (12 cubic miles) of crap spilt out into the atmosphere caused a net increase in global warming of half a Celsius degree. That's back in what, 1870-odd?
How much have we gained in C20? the last 50 years? How much do we have to before everything melts and goes pfui?
> yet they have the audacity to claim that they can accurately predict what'll happen in five, ten, twenty, or a hundred years
Yes, over here the Met Office can't get the predictions right for my town - forever changing it with a day or 12hrs to go. However, your argument is bogus. Nobody can claim to understand what makes a quark tick, but we happily make calculations based on the known properties of protons and neutrons and atoms and the properties of many atoms through emergent statistical behaviour.
> Global warming is more of a political movement,
It may also be a fact, assuming the concept of "average global temperature this year" is reasonably well defined, but notably not a bad one at that.
Naff audio quality from a bunch of spammers (since when I registered my .nu domain, within 30mins I'd got a spam to info@ that domain - from Real).
I've boycotted them ever since and will continue to do so for the forseeable future.
In fact, when Radio 4 put on the new series of Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, I went out and bought a DAB radio, ripped it myself over line-in and then used iTunes to encode it to AAC, with the result that friends and colleagues said they preferred the audio quality to the Beeb's own Real crap.
Wasn't there an occasion when some expert chap reviewed some source code, critically with the understanding being that if code was copied and then edited such that it no longer resembled the original, it was no longer a copy?
As such, what good would examining intermediate versions cause? Either copied sources are present in the initial import and release versions, or it's irrelevant.
Roll on ipv6. No NAT, everyone with a public IP#. Fine by me.
Good excuse for ipv6.
Of course, it wouldn't be the earth if you didn't scale up this poncy infestation of humans to match. That's one helluva lot of Dubya-voters to worry about...
You might not have meant to be obtuse, but you sure managed to be obscure.
300% original size is not compression. 30% is, and is quite impressive.
Sure, linux doesn't have any webservers, or mail and news clients with auto-adaptive-scoring, or world-leading spam-filtering utilities, or web-browsers worth using, or abilties to edit audio and movies and burn them to DVDs, oh no. Nor does it have word-processors or spreadsheets.
Wake the heck up. Since when was it *linux*'s problem what people choose do with it?