I have, in the past, used a car battery and a pair of jumper cables to random spots on the PCB. They tend to not ask as many questions if the BIOS doesn't even see the disk.
Instant over the Internet for $8/month is pretty decent. What I meant by starting to get decent is they're getting licenses to distribute their back catalog this way in Canada.
http://ca.netflix.com/
XBMC with the Canada on Demand plugin works extremely well for TV in Canada. It's a very effective replacement for Hulu. http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=97262
Netflix exists in Canada and is starting to get decent.
How about c) If the license permitted it?
I've written code for employers under the GPL and the BSD licenses. (My current project is to work on BSD-licensed code). I've even worked under contract where part of the terms were my retaining copyright on the code I wrote.
Of course, I'd re-use any of this code in a heartbeat.
Just yesterday, I got special permission to use code I wrote on contract three years ago. I'll re-use that code too.
This is an extremely poor survey. I can't answer honestly with this survey since there is no option for me to do so.
A friend and I rigged up a gasoline generator, a ton of UPSes, and a power inverter from his car to run two notebooks, a 100W light, and the DSL connection (that was still alive because the phone companies have insane backups). We were chatting on IRC for hours and no-one believed we were in the middle of the blackout until they did a whois on our netblock.
Same from Matrox, whos Linux support seems to be an utter joke.
OK, so not only do they provide drivers, but they provide *source* code under a license that allows much of it to be incorporated directly into XFree86 and you call that an utter joke?
I run OpenBSD on non-i386 hardware. It's support like this that makes Matrox the only real option for me. I mean, try to get the nVidia Linux kernel module and binary XFree86 module running on OpenBSD/alpha.
It's the best ballpoint pen ever!
They don't make them anymore. Recently, I found a place that had a few left. I bought up the entire stock (24 pens)!
If you find any place that still has them, buy whatever you see.
Actually, the Camel book says that it all started with BCPL.
The next language was simply B, and after that, C. No-one knows whether the idea was that C came after B in the alphabet or that it came after B in "BCPL", but C++ dodged the issue with a neat play on the auto-increment operator.
Perl takes up the last two letters and settles the issue. There should be no-more BCPL derivatives!:)
In Sault Ste. Marie, ON (Canada), we (Clean North) run a computer recycling event twice per year. We accept old components from the community (businesses, individuals, government) and charge them $1CDN (about 5 cents US) to take it. We get as much running as we can to give to other charities, or use for ourselves (we have an environmental resource room on the main street in town), as well as sell on the day of the event.
Anything else goes on a truck bound for southern Ontario, where we have an arrangement with a recycler to accept our shipment, and reclaim as much of the metal and plastic as possible.
This is the third story I have read about exporting the problem of dealing with this waste, however, those recyclers that we have dealt with in Southern Ontario have been most accomodating about telling us exactly what happens to the materials. At times, we have even had them pay the shipping.
Our last event was in October, and you can read about it on our web site.
See cleannorth.org if you're interested in these things. We get tons from the school board here at every event. They're still trying to get rid of them.
If you want to try to make arrangements to get some from us, I urge you to (we're in boonie-land Canada, though).
OpenBSD 2.7 was the first to have OpenSSH (or _any_ SSH in the default install, and you said "prior to 2.8" so let's have a look at the errata page to see just how full of s--t you are.
Well, we can force ssh _clients_ to do X11 forwarding... not a root flaw, and not remote... so on to the next.
The non-default UseLogin feature can cause an exploit on other operating systems. Nope... no problem there.
And... the installer fails to set things up so ssh works at all on the m68k installer.
So please, do tell... what the hell are you blabbering about?
Sure. If this wasn't obvious, you just need to think about it a little more.
CFCs, HCFCs, HFCs, PFCs, and SF6s, barely contribute to global warming anywhere. They're not to nice to the ozone layer, but that's another issue. Too many people confuse them, and it's dissapointing to see the EPA doing nothing to help prevent this mass misconception.
Ozone depletion reduces the level of 03 high in the atmosphere allowing more UV light in. This ups the cancer rate, but not much else.
Global warming results from gasses being released into the air which won't allow heat out at the same rate as the rest of our nitrogen-based atmosphere.
Light goes in--hits ground--converts to heat--can't escape--planet warms.
The great culprit chemical for global warming is CO2. The US, and Canada have consistantly ignored their promises to the rest of the world to reduce CO2 emissions. Maybe the oil companies are just too damn powerful.
Being a southern Ontario resident, I'd have to point out that the CANDU (Canadian-Deuterium-Uranium) reactor is anything _but_ intelligent. As part of normal operation, it spits out tons of Tritium. The levels of which are legal nowhere in north America except for Ontario. The levels weren't even legal in Ontario (just quietly ignored) until Bud Wildman (MP, Algoma, and then Minister of the Environment) more than tripled the limit in 1996.
The limit he set (7000 becquerels per litre) results in 350 fatal cancers per million.
There are more than three million people living in Toronto alone. That's 1050 fatal cancers _expected_ because the limit is set that high (and constantly pushed by the often poorly-tuned CANDU reactors).
Good design? No!
Good design would have been spending as much taxpayer money as was spent on nuclear energy research over the past 50 years on other sources of energy such as solar, wind, geothermal, and tidal energy.
Coal power results in deaths, Hydro power destroys valuable habitat, Nuclear power results in deaths (meltdown or no). If all the skyscrapers in a city had to put solar panels on their roofs, and windmills off the side of the buildings (wind tunnel, anyone?), how many deaths do you think would result?
Alright: We've been doing nuclear research for 50 years, funded by the military and big business at _huge_ taxpayer expense. Meanwhile, solar power, wind generation, geothermal energy, and tidal energy (which don't have much if any military value) are getting ignored. How much taxpayer money is going to their research? How much has gone to their research over the past 50 years?
It's amazing that each of these alternative sources of energy work as well as they do without even remotely near the same order of magnitude of funding as nuclear power.
Here's a suggestion: Let's stop funding things based on how easily they allow us to intimidate smaller countries, and start funding them based on public good. If solar, wind, geothermal, or any of the above alternative energy sources had been researched to near the extent nuclear power has, there is no doubt in my mind that we wouldn't be considering nuclear power as a viable technology.
You can't be held in contempt of court for exercising your constitutional rights. Forget it. You can't be punished in any way for exercising your constitutional rights.
(Unless of course you threaten the MPAA's profits, but that's another story).
As it stands, if I was told by a court to decrypt my email and there wasn't
an ADK capability, I would go to jail for contempt until I did, so when it comes down to it, if some one wants to forcably read your
email and a court agrees you're going to lose that battle either by decrypting it or by going to jail and testing your will.
INAL, but in the US at least, one cannot be forced to testify against themselves. That's what this seems like to me. Even if they could prove you had the keys with which to decrypt what they want to see, the courts couldn't force you to use them any more than they could force you to "tell them where you hid the $10M".
It's hardly tyrannical to make a statement against unethical practices.
Consider the following situation: A large corporation is killing babies by giving baby formula to mothers in third-world countries until breastfeeding is no-longer an option, then they start selling it. The mothers can afford it for a little while, but soon, the money is used up and their babies starve.
Is it ethical _not_ to do everything in your power to stop this?
Education can go only so far. There are a lot of people succeptible to this kind of thing, and they see baby formula as a "western thing" and as such somehow superior to breastfeeding even though it's vastly inferior.
If they feel like they can kill babies, I feel justified in doing _everything_ in my power to prevent this. People don't want to be educated. You tell them this is going on and they don't care. They'd rather have their chocolate bar even if it kills a baby or two. That's not within our rights to do! It's not within my rights, and, yes, I will go so far as to say it's not within your rights and I will do everything I can to stop you from doing it.
Yes, call me a heretic, but I believe corporations should be good contributing members of any community. If they're not, we don't need them and we certainly don't want them!
You are correct that MP3 only removes the "inaudible" frequencies from the data. However, this data is not without use.
The reason for this is resonance. When I play a low Bb (233.082Hz) on my Trombone, there are artifacts from the F (339.288) above it and the Bb (466.164) above that... we can keep going for a fair while into inaudible frequencies. Also we can go down to inaudible frequencies again. (the Bb at 116.541 resonates with this grouping as well as others).
Try taking the lid off a well-tuned piano sometime and play the Bb one octave and one tone down from middle-C. You will notice other strings vibrating. If you inspect closely, you will see that they are the ones I listed above.
Likewise, inaudible frequencies cause resonation of other notes and thus add to the music even if you can't hear those sounds themselves.
MP3 stripping out the inaudible sounds does have an effect on your music experience. I find your reply interesting, since you will notice this most with higher-quality speakers.
The US Supreme Court recently upheld a ruling making it illegal to use words such as shit, damn, and fuck in an email. Therefore every effort has been made to avoid the use of words such as shit, damn, and fuck in this email.
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I have, in the past, used a car battery and a pair of jumper cables to random spots on the PCB. They tend to not ask as many questions if the BIOS doesn't even see the disk.
Instant over the Internet for $8/month is pretty decent. What I meant by starting to get decent is they're getting licenses to distribute their back catalog this way in Canada. http://ca.netflix.com/
XBMC with the Canada on Demand plugin works extremely well for TV in Canada. It's a very effective replacement for Hulu. http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=97262 Netflix exists in Canada and is starting to get decent.
Of course. http://www.darwinawards.com.nyud.net:8080/ is your friend.
"Remove baby before folding for storage."
How about c) If the license permitted it? I've written code for employers under the GPL and the BSD licenses. (My current project is to work on BSD-licensed code). I've even worked under contract where part of the terms were my retaining copyright on the code I wrote. Of course, I'd re-use any of this code in a heartbeat. Just yesterday, I got special permission to use code I wrote on contract three years ago. I'll re-use that code too. This is an extremely poor survey. I can't answer honestly with this survey since there is no option for me to do so.
A friend and I rigged up a gasoline generator, a ton of UPSes, and a power inverter from his car to run two notebooks, a 100W light, and the DSL connection (that was still alive because the phone companies have insane backups). We were chatting on IRC for hours and no-one believed we were in the middle of the blackout until they did a whois on our netblock.
Same from Matrox, whos Linux support seems to be an utter joke.
/ mg adrivers-3.0-src.tgz
OK, so not only do they provide drivers, but they provide *source* code under a license that allows much of it to be incorporated directly into XFree86 and you call that an utter joke?
Damn, man, what will you accept?
ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/mga/archive/linux/2003
I run OpenBSD on non-i386 hardware. It's support like this that makes Matrox the only real option for me. I mean, try to get the nVidia Linux kernel module and binary XFree86 module running on OpenBSD/alpha.
There are servers and clients for tons of operating systems, including every one you mentioned.
It's the best ballpoint pen ever! They don't make them anymore. Recently, I found a place that had a few left. I bought up the entire stock (24 pens)! If you find any place that still has them, buy whatever you see.
Actually, the Camel book says that it all started with BCPL.
The next language was simply B, and after that, C. No-one knows whether the idea was that C came after B in the alphabet or that it came after B in "BCPL", but C++ dodged the issue with a neat play on the auto-increment operator.
Perl takes up the last two letters and settles the issue. There should be no-more BCPL derivatives! :)
In Sault Ste. Marie, ON (Canada), we (Clean North) run a computer recycling event twice per year. We accept old components from the community (businesses, individuals, government) and charge them $1CDN (about 5 cents US) to take it. We get as much running as we can to give to other charities, or use for ourselves (we have an environmental resource room on the main street in town), as well as sell on the day of the event.
Anything else goes on a truck bound for southern Ontario, where we have an arrangement with a recycler to accept our shipment, and reclaim as much of the metal and plastic as possible.
This is the third story I have read about exporting the problem of dealing with this waste, however, those recyclers that we have dealt with in Southern Ontario have been most accomodating about telling us exactly what happens to the materials. At times, we have even had them pay the shipping.
Our last event was in October, and you can read about it on our web site.
You mean the "very similar to the Netcraft Web Server Survey" done by the OpenSSH people?
Couldn't find anything at Netcraft, so I assumed this is what you were talking about.
See cleannorth.org if you're interested in these things. We get tons from the school board here at every event. They're still trying to get rid of them.
If you want to try to make arrangements to get some from us, I urge you to (we're in boonie-land Canada, though).
-Dan
umm... wasn't that Von Neumann?
Huh?
OpenBSD 2.7 was the first to have OpenSSH (or _any_ SSH in the default install, and you said "prior to 2.8" so let's have a look at the errata page to see just how full of s--t you are.
Well, we can force ssh _clients_ to do X11 forwarding... not a root flaw, and not remote... so on to the next.
The non-default UseLogin feature can cause an exploit on other operating systems. Nope... no problem there.
And... the installer fails to set things up so ssh works at all on the m68k installer. So please, do tell... what the hell are you blabbering about?
All the jerks on the coast move inland... move next door.
Do you want politicians living next to your kids?
Sure. If this wasn't obvious, you just need to think about it a little more.
CFCs, HCFCs, HFCs, PFCs, and SF6s, barely contribute to global warming anywhere. They're not to nice to the ozone layer, but that's another issue. Too many people confuse them, and it's dissapointing to see the EPA doing nothing to help prevent this mass misconception.
Ozone depletion reduces the level of 03 high in the atmosphere allowing more UV light in. This ups the cancer rate, but not much else.
Global warming results from gasses being released into the air which won't allow heat out at the same rate as the rest of our nitrogen-based atmosphere.
Light goes in--hits ground--converts to heat--can't escape--planet warms.
The great culprit chemical for global warming is CO2. The US, and Canada have consistantly ignored their promises to the rest of the world to reduce CO2 emissions. Maybe the oil companies are just too damn powerful.
> An intelligent reactor design (such as Candu)
Being a southern Ontario resident, I'd have to point out that the CANDU (Canadian-Deuterium-Uranium) reactor is anything _but_ intelligent. As part of normal operation, it spits out tons of Tritium. The levels of which are legal nowhere in north America except for Ontario. The levels weren't even legal in Ontario (just quietly ignored) until Bud Wildman (MP, Algoma, and then Minister of the Environment) more than tripled the limit in 1996.
The limit he set (7000 becquerels per litre) results in 350 fatal cancers per million.
There are more than three million people living in Toronto alone. That's 1050 fatal cancers _expected_ because the limit is set that high (and constantly pushed by the often poorly-tuned CANDU reactors).
Good design? No!
Good design would have been spending as much taxpayer money as was spent on nuclear energy research over the past 50 years on other sources of energy such as solar, wind, geothermal, and tidal energy.
Coal power results in deaths, Hydro power destroys valuable habitat, Nuclear power results in deaths (meltdown or no). If all the skyscrapers in a city had to put solar panels on their roofs, and windmills off the side of the buildings (wind tunnel, anyone?), how many deaths do you think would result?
Not 350 per million, I'll tell you that!
Alright: We've been doing nuclear research for 50 years, funded by the military and big business at _huge_ taxpayer expense. Meanwhile, solar power, wind generation, geothermal energy, and tidal energy (which don't have much if any military value) are getting ignored. How much taxpayer money is going to their research? How much has gone to their research over the past 50 years?
It's amazing that each of these alternative sources of energy work as well as they do without even remotely near the same order of magnitude of funding as nuclear power.
Here's a suggestion: Let's stop funding things based on how easily they allow us to intimidate smaller countries, and start funding them based on public good. If solar, wind, geothermal, or any of the above alternative energy sources had been researched to near the extent nuclear power has, there is no doubt in my mind that we wouldn't be considering nuclear power as a viable technology.
You can't be held in contempt of court for exercising your constitutional rights. Forget it. You can't be punished in any way for exercising your constitutional rights.
(Unless of course you threaten the MPAA's profits, but that's another story).
Blockquoth Mr. T:
INAL, but in the US at least, one cannot be forced to testify against themselves. That's what this seems like to me. Even if they could prove you had the keys with which to decrypt what they want to see, the courts couldn't force you to use them any more than they could force you to "tell them where you hid the $10M".
It's hardly tyrannical to make a statement against unethical practices.
Consider the following situation:
A large corporation is killing babies by giving baby formula to mothers in third-world countries until breastfeeding is no-longer an option, then they start selling it. The mothers can afford it for a little while, but soon, the money is used up and their babies starve.
Is it ethical _not_ to do everything in your power to stop this?
Education can go only so far. There are a lot of people succeptible to this kind of thing, and they see baby formula as a "western thing" and as such somehow superior to breastfeeding even though it's vastly inferior.
(this does not relate to McDonalds, but this _is_ a real-world circumstance taking place _right_now_ see http://www.gentleparenting.com/nestle.ht ml)
If they feel like they can kill babies, I feel justified in doing _everything_ in my power to prevent this. People don't want to be educated. You tell them this is going on and they don't care. They'd rather have their chocolate bar even if it kills a baby or two. That's not within our rights to do! It's not within my rights, and, yes, I will go so far as to say it's not within your rights and I will do everything I can to stop you from doing it.
Yes, call me a heretic, but I believe corporations should be good contributing members of any community. If they're not, we don't need them and we certainly don't want them!
Rants on other topics $0.50
-Dan
You are correct that MP3 only removes the "inaudible" frequencies from the data. However, this data is not without use.
The reason for this is resonance. When I play a low Bb (233.082Hz) on my Trombone, there are artifacts from the F (339.288) above it and the Bb (466.164) above that... we can keep going for a fair while into inaudible frequencies. Also we can go down to inaudible frequencies again. (the Bb at 116.541 resonates with this grouping as well as others).
Try taking the lid off a well-tuned piano sometime and play the Bb one octave and one tone down from middle-C. You will notice other strings vibrating. If you inspect closely, you will see that they are the ones I listed above.
Likewise, inaudible frequencies cause resonation of other notes and thus add to the music even if you can't hear those sounds themselves.
MP3 stripping out the inaudible sounds does have an effect on your music experience. I find your reply interesting, since you will notice this most with higher-quality speakers.
-Dan
The US Supreme Court recently upheld a ruling making it illegal to use words such as shit, damn, and fuck in an email. Therefore every effort has been made to avoid the use of words such as shit, damn, and fuck in this email.