Yeah, it's kinda like a FBI agent turnign to you and going... "Hang on a second, I have to phone the FBI and tell them you are about to sell me illegal goods. It'll only take a second. Just wait right there."
I think letting people know you are spying on them, will only tick them off, and lead to more protection against being spied on. (Or more linux, or firewalls.) But hey, won't fire walls circumvent this DRM... isn't that illegal by the DMCA? hmm... interesting.
of these rampaging hordes of lawyers from EMI. Thousands of them running around attacking anything that looks like they can attack. At least now they are going to run into another rampaging horde of lawyers from AOL.
They don't all have to attack AOL, but part of the blob will be occupied while they try to find other things to do.
A lawyer with nothing to do is a very dangerous thing indeed.
Why not have the clients block anyone automatically who starts to do instant requeries?
I am not sure exactly how the Gnutella protocol works, but if every valid client had this blocker, then these "super-nodes" would not be able to get any information in or out.
Basically, the idea would be that when one of the malicious nodes starts to send multiple queries to another node with this blocking code. The other node would determine whether or not this is legit. If it is not legit, that node will be blocked. Eventually, a "fence" would be put up around the offending nodes, and the damage they cause would be limited to non-standard clients.
As well, it may be prudent to make the block last for a specific time period. Perhaps even add the ability to pass the offending node addresses to other clients so they block as well.
If the gnutella protocol allows this. It would be the most effective way of preventing malicious clients because as soon as they threaten the infrastructure, they are blocked off.
Almost all policy makers in the goverment, including ones that are not elected by the populous are wooed by corporate "donations".
For example, (From Richard Feymann's book) when Richard Feynmann was a reviewer for new textbooks for an entire state curriculum. He was determined to look them over and give an honest educated decision on which ones were good and which ones were bad.
The stuff he discovered during this infuriated even him:
He discovered that a book that was not even finished (only the covers were sent to the policy makers) had quite a good rating, even though there was _nothing_ to review.
Many of the companies gave him food, flowers, anything he wanted. He rejected it all (or so he claims in his book), but he acknowledged the fact that many of the other reviewers likely didn't object to any of it, and it probably influenced their decisions.
The textbook ratings were (in his words) absurd. People had obviously not even read the textbooks. When he asked other people why they rated this or that textbook that amount, most of them couldn't answer, or would answer stuff like, "Well, the pictures are nice."
He goes on and on... but the biggest thing he noted was the fact that these companies would go to any expense to have him choose their textbooks.
It continues up the entire structure unfortunately. Every level has its price, and these companies are realizing, have realized and will realize that if they scratch someones back just right, they will get anything they want. As long as it is profitable, companies will go to any lengths to achieve their goals.
And there isn't anything you or I can do about it, because even if they can't get to the elected few, they will be able to get to the rest, and that's all that matters. Money matters to people, and when it doesn't matter, then powerful people will stop being nice and start to threaten to keep their power.
A wolf trapped in a corner is more of a threat then a wolf loose in a field. As long as the master feeds it when it's hungry and lets it do as it wishes, the wolf will be a pet, can help with the hunting and will protect those in power who take care of it. Now lets say the wolf starts to eat the masters chickens, rabbits, and dogs because it feels the master isn't feeding it enough. What does the master do. The chickens and rabbits are too unintelligent to realize what is happening, or when they do they cannot do much to stop it. The dogs can try to fight back, but the wolf is far stronger then the dogs, so the dogs leave with their tail between their legs. The only one left to truly fight it is the master... But the master knows that if he corners the wolf, the wolf will bite back. So he has a decision to make. Let the wolf eat as they wish and hope that they won't eat everything, or be injured trying to stop the wolf...
The states is finally catching up with Europe's telecoms... After many years of "waffling" on 2.5G and 2G. Even now, they aren't anywhere near Europe, but they are getting closer. What they really need now is the FCC to give them some more bandwidth to work with (take it away from the media conglomerates).
I say this takes another 3-5 years before it is as enmeshed as Europe's as well, and even then, Europe will still be heads and shoulders ahead.
Actually, you can't really say you "won" the civil war, because if the confederates "won" then you would also be able to say you "won" the civil war, since the US would be run by the confederates.
Vietnam was always a "military action" officially by the states, only the rest of the world acknowledged it for what it really was, a war.
I wouldn't consider the Gulf War really won, more of a delay actually. If it was won, there wouldn't still be problems with Saddam, IMHO.
WWI and WWII were won by most of the western world, and the states entered both wars incredibly late (especially WWI). In a weird twist, WWII sorta evolved into the Cold War though with Russia and the States, so I could see an argument form that it wasn't won until just recently.
Also, the American Revolution has the same effect as the Civil war. If the British won, then what is now the states could still say they won because they would be British loyalists. As well, the States would've likely have eventually seperated smoothly like Canada did.
Personally, I consider the Korean War a loss for the States by just the fact that they didn't accomplish the objective they wanted, while north Korea was able to maintain it's communist regime.
I have studied Modern World History with a mildly Eurocentric perspective (1800-now, Mainly in Europe) so I may be inaccurate on some of the finer details of the american wars, but from what I can see, the Americans have a less successful record in the end, but then again, the Americans have also fought more wars then the Canadians.
Canadian Record
1812 - On the winning side Boer War - On the winning side WWI - On the winning side WWII - On the winning side 1945 - onwards, all UN actions, not wars. Canada tries to avoid fighting in outright wars. But, hey, we got great peacekeepers.:-)
I will admit though that the states has a very powerful military establishment right now, and that is both good in the fact that it can protect the country and bad in the fact that in history large armies led to general unrest and instability when times got bad since they still had to be fed and paid. So, it's a good and a bad thing to have a good establishment.:-) I have an interesting journal entry on Defence Budgets if you look at my journal, you may like it.
I have officially blocked any e-mails coming from crushlink or their servers into my servers because they are basically spam. This happened after two incidents. One day I received 25 e-mails all saying someone had a crush on me... I was a little suspicious, considering I had a girlfriend at the time and none of the e-mails matched with hers.
Another day I received almost 50 e-mails (I have multiple addresses) including one at an address I haven't used since 1995. And yet, amazingly I am still single..:-P Obviously, crushlink was just a spammer. So I blocked them as such. Luckily all of their e-mails usually have valid headers (saying they are from an @crushlink.com address). Just in case though, I also went to the effort of blocking the entire range of servers owned by crushlink.
finally be able to burn off my entire MP3 collection onto one disk.:-)
Actually, these miniturizations reminds me of a quote from a Scott Adams book (creator of Dilbert) (VERY MUCH PARAPHRASED SINCE I DON'T HAVE THE BOOK).
"I see computers getting smaller and smaller until one day someone phones the president and tell him that the entire dept. of defence computer system is gone because someone sneezed and left a window open."
I know of a lot of research and development facilities that still use fortran for mathematical modelling, and mathematical programming. Especially mathematical modelling of physical phenomena (ie. nuclear power plants, etc.)
I didn't find it that hard of a language and I believe it would be worth learning for someone who needs to mathematics on a computer simply and easily without having all of the dongles and doo-dads.:-)
The day I went into a music store and it was cheaper to purchase a DVD Movie by $5 then a CD.
You can purchase DVDs now for approx $14.99CAN (approx $8.00US), while CDs still average approx $19.99CAN (approx $11.00US). (This is an average I calculated by going to Walmarts, HMVs, Music Citys, and a few other shops that sell both, and adding up and working out the average. Just so you are aware, music stores get really suspicious of people with graphical calculators. I had to explain to far too many clerks that I am just a mathematician and sometimes even show them my university ID so they would believe me.)
Now, is it just me, or is this absurd? I can buy a DVD that has sound, video, and usually lasts about twice as long (with all the special features) then a CD for less then the CD costs me...
For some reason I don't think the RIAA is hiring mathematicians or economists, just more lawyers.
I can explain everything easily, but first you must look at the little light at the top of this metal tube thing.
Thank you, what you saw was not a delta flyer, or an alien space craft, it was... umm... the light defracting off of venus through some swamp gas released by a weather balloon... yeah, that's it... So, don't worry about it and go on your way. nothing to see here. And you... find someone you like and get some new clothes...
"I think China is good place to be," Ralsky said. "You don't get the same kind of grief."
Obviously he would prefer to live in a non-democratic country and keep on spamming (read. annoying) people. Rather then try to provide a valuable service to the general populous.
As well, Ralsky is right, you don't get the same kind of grief, you get worse. But, that's the attitude of a con artist, no true intelligence or consideration for anyone else. I say, send the spammers to China. Hell, I'll pay for their plane ticket even.
Since I have never truly heard the 'pure' dialect of the english language. I guess it's hard for me to say that we do or do not speak it more so.
To us, Canadian's, our english sounds better then any other Nation's english. But that doesn't make it a more 'pure' dialect then the english nor the Americans.
On the other hand, if we define English as from England, American as from America, Canadian as from Canada, and so on. Then by definition, the English would have to have the more 'pure' dialect of english, whether wer agree or not.
I do know people who speak Welsh, and they consider the language alive and well. And these people are from Wales in Great Britain.
I think what he meant was people who try to break their own systems to find bugs in them. Not the people who mindlessly hack into other peoples web pages and change them because they have no time.
He means responsible hackers who just find the problems and notify the company. Not hack into banks or your computer.
It is perfectly legal for someone to try to defeat their own home security system. While it is not legal for them to break someone elses (unless requested.)
Not a very slippery slope at all if you look closer. All he wants is for people who discover or uncover problems on their own little systems or labs to be allowed to tell the companies. Or even just let these people find the problems on their own. As well, he wants to legislate it a bit more, so while they can notify the companies, they won't be able to release to the public exact details on how to break in.
Just like, if I discovered that my security system on my car was easily breakable. I could tell the company, and let my friends know there is a problem. But I cannot publish a detailed paper explaining how to unlock doors with a screwdriver and some patience.
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Yeah, it's kinda like a FBI agent turnign to you and going... "Hang on a second, I have to phone the FBI and tell them you are about to sell me illegal goods. It'll only take a second. Just wait right there."
I think letting people know you are spying on them, will only tick them off, and lead to more protection against being spied on. (Or more linux, or firewalls.) But hey, won't fire walls circumvent this DRM... isn't that illegal by the DMCA? hmm... interesting.
of these rampaging hordes of lawyers from EMI. Thousands of them running around attacking anything that looks like they can attack. At least now they are going to run into another rampaging horde of lawyers from AOL.
They don't all have to attack AOL, but part of the blob will be occupied while they try to find other things to do.
A lawyer with nothing to do is a very dangerous thing indeed.
It's like a nightmare.
Why not have the clients block anyone automatically who starts to do instant requeries?
I am not sure exactly how the Gnutella protocol works, but if every valid client had this blocker, then these "super-nodes" would not be able to get any information in or out.
Basically, the idea would be that when one of the malicious nodes starts to send multiple queries to another node with this blocking code. The other node would determine whether or not this is legit. If it is not legit, that node will be blocked. Eventually, a "fence" would be put up around the offending nodes, and the damage they cause would be limited to non-standard clients.
As well, it may be prudent to make the block last for a specific time period. Perhaps even add the ability to pass the offending node addresses to other clients so they block as well.
If the gnutella protocol allows this. It would be the most effective way of preventing malicious clients because as soon as they threaten the infrastructure, they are blocked off.
What about a grading system as well? Have 2 ratios running side by side
Quantity Ratio
and
Quality Ratio (Which is determined by a persons grade of the downloads they have from that server)
Customers Unhappy with PC Support
And this is new... how?
Here's some more good headlines for CNet
Grass is coloured Green
Sky is blue
Microsoft earns another billion dollars
CNet runs out of good stories
(I have been on computers since 1987, customers have always been unhappy with customer support.)
Almost all policy makers in the goverment, including ones that are not elected by the populous are wooed by corporate "donations".
For example, (From Richard Feymann's book) when Richard Feynmann was a reviewer for new textbooks for an entire state curriculum. He was determined to look them over and give an honest educated decision on which ones were good and which ones were bad.
The stuff he discovered during this infuriated even him:
He discovered that a book that was not even finished (only the covers were sent to the policy makers) had quite a good rating, even though there was _nothing_ to review.
Many of the companies gave him food, flowers, anything he wanted. He rejected it all (or so he claims in his book), but he acknowledged the fact that many of the other reviewers likely didn't object to any of it, and it probably influenced their decisions.
The textbook ratings were (in his words) absurd. People had obviously not even read the textbooks. When he asked other people why they rated this or that textbook that amount, most of them couldn't answer, or would answer stuff like, "Well, the pictures are nice."
He goes on and on... but the biggest thing he noted was the fact that these companies would go to any expense to have him choose their textbooks.
It continues up the entire structure unfortunately. Every level has its price, and these companies are realizing, have realized and will realize that if they scratch someones back just right, they will get anything they want. As long as it is profitable, companies will go to any lengths to achieve their goals.
And there isn't anything you or I can do about it, because even if they can't get to the elected few, they will be able to get to the rest, and that's all that matters. Money matters to people, and when it doesn't matter, then powerful people will stop being nice and start to threaten to keep their power.
A wolf trapped in a corner is more of a threat then a wolf loose in a field. As long as the master feeds it when it's hungry and lets it do as it wishes, the wolf will be a pet, can help with the hunting and will protect those in power who take care of it. Now lets say the wolf starts to eat the masters chickens, rabbits, and dogs because it feels the master isn't feeding it enough. What does the master do. The chickens and rabbits are too unintelligent to realize what is happening, or when they do they cannot do much to stop it. The dogs can try to fight back, but the wolf is far stronger then the dogs, so the dogs leave with their tail between their legs. The only one left to truly fight it is the master... But the master knows that if he corners the wolf, the wolf will bite back. So he has a decision to make. Let the wolf eat as they wish and hope that they won't eat everything, or be injured trying to stop the wolf...
Which decision do you think the master took?
Just a thought.
Actually, I am Canadian. But, to be honest I think being European is a pretty decent thing. I like the European side of Canadian culture.
The states is finally catching up with Europe's telecoms... After many years of "waffling" on 2.5G and 2G. Even now, they aren't anywhere near Europe, but they are getting closer. What they really need now is the FCC to give them some more bandwidth to work with (take it away from the media conglomerates).
I say this takes another 3-5 years before it is as enmeshed as Europe's as well, and even then, Europe will still be heads and shoulders ahead.
Actually, you can't really say you "won" the civil war, because if the confederates "won" then you would also be able to say you "won" the civil war, since the US would be run by the confederates.
:-)
:-) I have an interesting journal entry on Defence Budgets if you look at my journal, you may like it.
Vietnam was always a "military action" officially by the states, only the rest of the world acknowledged it for what it really was, a war.
I wouldn't consider the Gulf War really won, more of a delay actually. If it was won, there wouldn't still be problems with Saddam, IMHO.
WWI and WWII were won by most of the western world, and the states entered both wars incredibly late (especially WWI). In a weird twist, WWII sorta evolved into the Cold War though with Russia and the States, so I could see an argument form that it wasn't won until just recently.
Also, the American Revolution has the same effect as the Civil war. If the British won, then what is now the states could still say they won because they would be British loyalists. As well, the States would've likely have eventually seperated smoothly like Canada did.
Personally, I consider the Korean War a loss for the States by just the fact that they didn't accomplish the objective they wanted, while north Korea was able to maintain it's communist regime.
I have studied Modern World History with a mildly Eurocentric perspective (1800-now, Mainly in Europe) so I may be inaccurate on some of the finer details of the american wars, but from what I can see, the Americans have a less successful record in the end, but then again, the Americans have also fought more wars then the Canadians.
Canadian Record
1812 - On the winning side
Boer War - On the winning side
WWI - On the winning side
WWII - On the winning side
1945 - onwards, all UN actions, not wars. Canada tries to avoid fighting in outright wars. But, hey, we got great peacekeepers.
I will admit though that the states has a very powerful military establishment right now, and that is both good in the fact that it can protect the country and bad in the fact that in history large armies led to general unrest and instability when times got bad since they still had to be fed and paid. So, it's a good and a bad thing to have a good establishment.
I have officially blocked any e-mails coming from crushlink or their servers into my servers because they are basically spam. This happened after two incidents. One day I received 25 e-mails all saying someone had a crush on me... I was a little suspicious, considering I had a girlfriend at the time and none of the e-mails matched with hers.
:-P Obviously, crushlink was just a spammer. So I blocked them as such. Luckily all of their e-mails usually have valid headers (saying they are from an @crushlink.com address). Just in case though, I also went to the effort of blocking the entire range of servers owned by crushlink.
Another day I received almost 50 e-mails (I have multiple addresses) including one at an address I haven't used since 1995. And yet, amazingly I am still single..
finally be able to burn off my entire MP3 collection onto one disk. :-)
Actually, these miniturizations reminds me of a quote from a Scott Adams book (creator of Dilbert) (VERY MUCH PARAPHRASED SINCE I DON'T HAVE THE BOOK).
"I see computers getting smaller and smaller until one day someone phones the president and tell him that the entire dept. of defence computer system is gone because someone sneezed and left a window open."
I know of a lot of research and development facilities that still use fortran for mathematical modelling, and mathematical programming. Especially mathematical modelling of physical phenomena (ie. nuclear power plants, etc.)
:-)
I didn't find it that hard of a language and I believe it would be worth learning for someone who needs to mathematics on a computer simply and easily without having all of the dongles and doo-dads.
The money IBM saves by selling their servers without Microsoft code, or having to code their own operating systems totally from scratch?
I think as long as IBM is around Linux (At least on the server) will be alive and fine, doesn't matter how much FUD people throw at it.
well, it's actually
pure mathematics major with minors in CS, Phys, and Psychology. Ironically the CS and Psychology gives me a Cognitive Science Option as well.
I think I might stay on an extra year though and finish a major in either CS or Phys.
I would love to do PoliSci though, but unfortunately it just does not fit my tight schedule at all.
The day I went into a music store and it was cheaper to purchase a DVD Movie by $5 then a CD.
You can purchase DVDs now for approx $14.99CAN (approx $8.00US), while CDs still average approx $19.99CAN (approx $11.00US). (This is an average I calculated by going to Walmarts, HMVs, Music Citys, and a few other shops that sell both, and adding up and working out the average. Just so you are aware, music stores get really suspicious of people with graphical calculators. I had to explain to far too many clerks that I am just a mathematician and sometimes even show them my university ID so they would believe me.)
Now, is it just me, or is this absurd? I can buy a DVD that has sound, video, and usually lasts about twice as long (with all the special features) then a CD for less then the CD costs me...
For some reason I don't think the RIAA is hiring mathematicians or economists, just more lawyers.
I can explain everything easily, but first you must look at the little light at the top of this metal tube thing.
Thank you, what you saw was not a delta flyer, or an alien space craft, it was... umm... the light defracting off of venus through some swamp gas released by a weather balloon... yeah, that's it... So, don't worry about it and go on your way. nothing to see here. And you... find someone you like and get some new clothes...
"I think China is good place to be," Ralsky said. "You don't get the same kind of grief."
Obviously he would prefer to live in a non-democratic country and keep on spamming (read. annoying) people. Rather then try to provide a valuable service to the general populous.
As well, Ralsky is right, you don't get the same kind of grief, you get worse. But, that's the attitude of a con artist, no true intelligence or consideration for anyone else. I say, send the spammers to China. Hell, I'll pay for their plane ticket even.
Not only that. There are a lot of Canadian Connections in the Simpsons.
check this:
http://ccr.ptbcanadian.com/simpsons/
This site goes through all of the episodes and lists all of the Canadian connections in the Simpsons.
You gotta love the fact that the greatest boost to our National identity came from beer commercials done by Molsons.
:-)
I still get a kick out of that. Perhaps, Chretien should begin doing 'I AM' commercials, so Paul Martin doesn't take his job.
Since I have never truly heard the 'pure' dialect of the english language. I guess it's hard for me to say that we do or do not speak it more so.
To us, Canadian's, our english sounds better then any other Nation's english. But that doesn't make it a more 'pure' dialect then the english nor the Americans.
On the other hand, if we define English as from England, American as from America, Canadian as from Canada, and so on. Then by definition, the English would have to have the more 'pure' dialect of english, whether wer agree or not.
I do know people who speak Welsh, and they consider the language alive and well. And these people are from Wales in Great Britain.
You mean better then the American english?
I think the English (From England) by definition speak English better then the Canadians.
They never used Latitude and longitude to judge where the limits were.
It was always
This road, that road and this road are the city limits. Simple and easy enough to judge.
It's the same in Alberta as well. (I am from Alberta originally.)
I think most of the provinces have that rule.
U of Calgary has a great press release @
http://www.fp.ucalgary.ca/unicomm/news/gibson/
with photos of the collection and more. it's really cool, actually.
I think what he meant was people who try to break their own systems to find bugs in them. Not the people who mindlessly hack into other peoples web pages and change them because they have no time.
He means responsible hackers who just find the problems and notify the company. Not hack into banks or your computer.
It is perfectly legal for someone to try to defeat their own home security system. While it is not legal for them to break someone elses (unless requested.)
Not a very slippery slope at all if you look closer. All he wants is for people who discover or uncover problems on their own little systems or labs to be allowed to tell the companies. Or even just let these people find the problems on their own. As well, he wants to legislate it a bit more, so while they can notify the companies, they won't be able to release to the public exact details on how to break in.
Just like, if I discovered that my security system on my car was easily breakable. I could tell the company, and let my friends know there is a problem. But I cannot publish a detailed paper explaining how to unlock doors with a screwdriver and some patience.