This has been coming for months. Soon, AOL, Microsoft and Oracle will own the domain name business and we'll all be screwed.
Want a personal website? Think again. If it's not in the best interests of a commercial Internet, it ain't going to happen.
And we can throw any sustainable hope of p2p file sharing out of the window too. When the corporations take over the Internet entirely, there won't be a damn thing we can do about it.
It's different in UK. If your parents aren't rich you become eligible for a low-interest loan from these people, to be paid back when you earn over a certain amount. Also your tuition fees then get paid by the government. As for books, I got most of them out of the library. The student loan covered accomodation and food nicely and left me with a bit left over. Also, I worked during the holidays to earn a bit more.
So, you're right, I didn't have to pay much because I live in a country where the government actually gives you benefits if you're not so well-off.
We also have a national health system. See, our taxes actually go towards something more useful than lining the pockets of our rulers.
Record Labels and distributors get something like 90% of CD revenue
Propagating that myth doesn't make it any less immoral, you know.
To look at it another way, if the artist doesn't sell enough CDs then the label may well drop them. In which case, they get no further income from them at all.
AG was always very efficient with its money; most of the people working there were college students, and we weren't paid as much as we might have been at another dotcom, but I was making way more then I would have been delivering pizzas, and I got to work on something I really believed in.
Quite a good ruse, roping college students in to write piracy software for peanuts. Of course it's something they really believe in, I remember when I was at college and wanted to get everything for free.
The moral thing to do, of course, is to actually buy the CDs and put money towards the artist, to reimburse them for providing you with nice music. But the vast majority of college students are just too selfish to realise that.
You assume incorrectly, I'm from and I live in the UK. And it was hyped over here too.
Note also that "problems much worse than automatic web pages printing '19100'" did not equate to "nukes automatically launching.. pacemakers shutting down.."
Although I didn't mention it in my comment, I was primarily thinking of financial institutions when writing that.
It doesn't do much, it was reserved for an experimental protocol. Also, the guy's email address it is listed as being registered to, in the assigned numbers RFC, is no longer valid.
This really is fascinating stuff. Note that most of the entrants used the disassembler known as IDA, available here. There was also much discussion of this contest recently on various security-related mailing lists.
Hopefully they will be doing a similar contest again next year. In the meantime, I guess we'll just have the Scan of the Month to analyse.
You have a good point, but unfortunately in these cases copyright law isn't enough. If one were to argue that if the "www." and ".com" were removed, and the resultant name were compared to Mr Falwell's, then they would be correct that it is similar.
However, there are many Jerry Falwells in the world and to accuse all of them of libellous actions would take an enormous amount of time and effort.
If you research further, you will find that the HIV virus causing AIDS has very tenuous links, and in fact might not even true. Most of the so-called research into it was heavily biased so as to award further funding. Details available here.
On the other hand, you could look at it like this: if they hadn't done the research and made such predictions from it, it may very well have happened like that as we would have taken no steps to prevent it.
Similarly, the Y2K bug was hyped for a reason - to get people doing something about it so it actually went smoothly in the end. Without the hype, we probably would have problems much worse than automatic web pages printing '19100'.
Analyzing the future, and publishing the results, generally changes the described outcome as people do something about it.
Hey captain shitbarge...do you think you could do any better? all that disk space and you have to take some of with a gay comment like that. go back to reading your grizzly magizine and come up with a comment that someone gives a fuck about.kthx
That is a little different. The data you received clearly had a common structure as it was just retrieved from a database and placed into a template.
Actually analysing language is a much more difficult task. Just look at the very imperfect quality of language translation tools on Google and Altavista to see just how hard it is.
You should be glad that AI has come this far. For an intelligent agent to be able to harvest addresses by clicking through web pages, and then mailing out postcards is truly an advancement of the technology.
Remember, there are good points to everything, even things like this which under normal circumstances could be described as "alienating our rights."
So? Apple can do what it likes. It runs the expo, and decides who gets the media passes.
It makes sense for them to not give special access passes out to those who they know are going to publish only the negative aspects of the expo. Obviously, they don't like bad press.
Really, they are just trying to get the media they allow special access to print more balanced reports. You can't say fairer than that!
I see what you're saying, but I really do think you overestimate the practical applications of such a device. Reading webpages from the DVD drive would be slow under moderate usage (because of large seek times) and read-only.
Either that or you are limited to a very small website, of say only 16 Mb (the other 16M being used for Linux, Apache, etc.)
And it is still a huge waste of such a device. You could build a webserver that does the same thing (read-only small website) for much less than the price of a PS2. Like the LART project, for example.
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This has been coming for months. Soon, AOL, Microsoft and Oracle will own the domain name business and we'll all be screwed.
Want a personal website? Think again. If it's not in the best interests of a commercial Internet, it ain't going to happen.
And we can throw any sustainable hope of p2p file sharing out of the window too. When the corporations take over the Internet entirely, there won't be a damn thing we can do about it.
Exactly, so don't buy the CD.
It's different in UK. If your parents aren't rich you become eligible for a low-interest loan from these people, to be paid back when you earn over a certain amount. Also your tuition fees then get paid by the government. As for books, I got most of them out of the library. The student loan covered accomodation and food nicely and left me with a bit left over. Also, I worked during the holidays to earn a bit more.
So, you're right, I didn't have to pay much because I live in a country where the government actually gives you benefits if you're not so well-off.
We also have a national health system. See, our taxes actually go towards something more useful than lining the pockets of our rulers.
- Record Labels and distributors get something like 90% of CD revenue
Propagating that myth doesn't make it any less immoral, you know.To look at it another way, if the artist doesn't sell enough CDs then the label may well drop them. In which case, they get no further income from them at all.
The moral thing to do, of course, is to actually buy the CDs and put money towards the artist, to reimburse them for providing you with nice music. But the vast majority of college students are just too selfish to realise that.
April 1st was months back. What nonsense is this?
The whole point of using silicon is it's semiconducting capabilities. You just don't get that from 'chicken feathers'.
You assume incorrectly, I'm from and I live in the UK. And it was hyped over here too.
.. pacemakers shutting down .."
Note also that "problems much worse than automatic web pages printing '19100'" did not equate to "nukes automatically launching
Although I didn't mention it in my comment, I was primarily thinking of financial institutions when writing that.
Some links to it:
RFC 741 - Specifications of Network Voice Protocol (from November 1977!)
Protocol Number Assignments
It doesn't do much, it was reserved for an experimental protocol. Also, the guy's email address it is listed as being registered to, in the assigned numbers RFC, is no longer valid.
I think you can safely block it.
This really is fascinating stuff. Note that most of the entrants used the disassembler known as IDA, available here. There was also much discussion of this contest recently on various security-related mailing lists.
Hopefully they will be doing a similar contest again next year. In the meantime, I guess we'll just have the Scan of the Month to analyse.
You have a good point, but unfortunately in these cases copyright law isn't enough. If one were to argue that if the "www." and ".com" were removed, and the resultant name were compared to Mr Falwell's, then they would be correct that it is similar.
However, there are many Jerry Falwells in the world and to accuse all of them of libellous actions would take an enormous amount of time and effort.
In short, he hasn't got a clue.
If you research further, you will find that the HIV virus causing AIDS has very tenuous links, and in fact might not even true. Most of the so-called research into it was heavily biased so as to award further funding. Details available here.
On the other hand, you could look at it like this: if they hadn't done the research and made such predictions from it, it may very well have happened like that as we would have taken no steps to prevent it.
Similarly, the Y2K bug was hyped for a reason - to get people doing something about it so it actually went smoothly in the end. Without the hype, we probably would have problems much worse than automatic web pages printing '19100'.
Analyzing the future, and publishing the results, generally changes the described outcome as people do something about it.
- Hey captain shitbarge...do you think you could do any better? all that disk space and you have to take some of with a gay comment like that. go back to reading your grizzly magizine and come up with a comment that someone gives a fuck about.kthx
Please fellate a cat, you bitter old man. Thanks.All that computing power just to make the characters in LoTR look like old-style puppets!
That is a little different. The data you received clearly had a common structure as it was just retrieved from a database and placed into a template.
Actually analysing language is a much more difficult task. Just look at the very imperfect quality of language translation tools on Google and Altavista to see just how hard it is.
I'd like to see you try it. AI researchers have been working on this sort of Natural Language parsing for years to little avail.
This is why steps such as these are so important.
You should be glad that AI has come this far. For an intelligent agent to be able to harvest addresses by clicking through web pages, and then mailing out postcards is truly an advancement of the technology.
Remember, there are good points to everything, even things like this which under normal circumstances could be described as "alienating our rights."
So? Apple can do what it likes. It runs the expo, and decides who gets the media passes.
It makes sense for them to not give special access passes out to those who they know are going to publish only the negative aspects of the expo. Obviously, they don't like bad press.
Really, they are just trying to get the media they allow special access to print more balanced reports. You can't say fairer than that!
Do I have the honour of obtaining last post?
Maybe if you get in contact with these people, you could help them with their research and get a free headset out of it? Just a thought.
I see what you're saying, but I really do think you overestimate the practical applications of such a device. Reading webpages from the DVD drive would be slow under moderate usage (because of large seek times) and read-only.
Either that or you are limited to a very small website, of say only 16 Mb (the other 16M being used for Linux, Apache, etc.)
And it is still a huge waste of such a device. You could build a webserver that does the same thing (read-only small website) for much less than the price of a PS2. Like the LART project, for example.
Nah, it's only 'cool' because it's Linux and Apache.
Anyone want to try Windows XP and IIS on a PS2? Didn't think so.
Thanks for reminding me. They taste vaguely of mint.
So what? You might as well get a decent webserver box than waste your PS2s superior graphics capabilities on just dishing out webpages.
Another bizarre, ridiculous and completely useless application of the technology.