god i wish i had mod points. This is exactly what I was going to say. Server and desktop OS env do not have the same goals. They need different things and should have different options.
is it even technically legal to record a song from the radio? I know "everybody" does it but how is it different from recording the ball game on tv (which, i believe, is also illegal)
This is sort of the crux of the problem. Nobody had a problem w/ making mix tapes and giving them away. I used to make an audio tape copy of audio tapes/CDs/Albums owned by friends and family all the time. Technically this is illegal, but it was such a common practice (think jaywalking) that nobody paid much attention to it. The network/computers just makes this easier and better quality but it is still the same thing.
I guess what I am saying is, you lost me at audio tapes.
Does anybody have a good, well thought out, argument, or link to an argument, on the idea: "if you have nothing to hide, you shouldn't worry about XXX privacy concern."
The idea really doesn't sit well with me but I find myself having trouble conveying my concerns to people who really don't get it. Most of my arguments seem to be along the line of "Well, you really do have something to hide" and "who defines unacceptable?".
I assume there is a well reasoned argument to this but I haven't been able to google it so I thought I would ask here.
read something interesting in scientific american a month or so ago. I'll paraphrase: They tested 108 or so brands of bottled water. 20 some of them were straight tap water. anything that says from a "public source" or "municiple source" is tap water. 18 of them wouldn't pass standards for tap water (they didn't name names) this isn't that surprising considering that bottled waters have to test their water once a week whereas city waters have to test 100 times / mth. The article goes on...
"if it isn't better for you, it must taste better right?" Well, no. in a blind test 45% chose NYC tap water above other brands. poland springs (24%) and evian water (18&) were next.
I've had an apostrophe!!! B) Maybe they have a website: read it for yourself, i'll leave my synopsis.
Lifting BuyMusic's "restriction" requires deleting several lines of browser detection code.
more likely, it means rewriting large portions of their site to work w/ non-ie browsers or keeping multiple codebases and sending netscape users to one code set, mozilla users to anohter(maybe the same). But then people will still bitch about konquerer or some such.
ie and its competitors are not fully compatible. If something works in IE, it won't always work in other browsers. I know, I know, MS disregarded standards, etc... IE is the predominant browser. They are already limiting themselves to people using WMP. Come to think of it, I imagine the IE restriction is based on its ability to tie in to WMP. If that is the case we are back to multiple code bases. If you are on a machine that doesn't run IE it probably doesn't run WMP.
I really doubt they sat around and said "Hey, this works w/ netscape too, lets change it so it doesn't".
IMHO it is much more likely to be: "OK, we have the IE functionality written, it is going to take XXX more hours to write functionality for netscape, and XXX hours for each after that. Of course 9x% of our potential users are using IE so is teh $$$$ really worth it? Nah"
MC and Visa won't do micropayments unless they have to. They currently make some large amount of money/purchase (.25$ + x% of purchase price - middle man charges). If you are talking micropayments they would need to drastically change that model. Problem is if you make exception for micropayments then why don't merchants use their micro payment acct for all payments. *poof* there goes the profit margins they are seeing.
ack, i don't really have time to elucidate my point but that is the first thing that comes to mind.
"the dampening effect of marriage... are also remarkably similar among geniuses in music, painting and writing, as well as in criminal activity."
so yes, it does include artistic creativity. I know people don't always read teh article but why don't you skip posting about the article if you haven't read it?
dude, seti is listening. They gather data from the aricebo (sp?) telescope and parse it for patterns. It is passive. SETI/aricebo is not broadcasting (everything else we are doing does that).
there are other space projects that we have sent up that advertise our existance and our general broadcast noise (from radio/tv/comms/etc) is probably quite extensive but SETI isn't contributing to that
if you do put in the cup of water, make sure you put a coffee stirrer or something in it. If you nuke water under the right conditions you can super-heat it and it will violently explode when you put something in it.
for those of you that are ready to go try this, don't (ok, now I am not liable for any stupidity) http://www.amasci.com/weird/microexp.h tml#coffee
according to the discovery channel, there is an oversight committee for the cia's secret ops. it is supposed to be a check and balance in that it is (iirc) a congressional committee w/ clearance to all of the cia's operations. They are to review the actions and make sure cia isn't doing anything (too) evil.
Of course, you could argue that they are both part of the same system. It seems this would be to the cia as internal affairs is to the police dept.
I would also say that all acts should become public record after, say, 10 years. I can respect the need for operational security/secrecy but anything that can't be known by the public, even after the fact, probably shouldn't be done.
If you are going to compare apache w/ IIS you need to compare apache+php (or modperl or similar) w/ IIS+ASP. the addition of a server side programming lang adds alot of complexity. how many of the IIS bugs are in the iis server itself vs. its handler dlls. all the ida and indexing service attacks were this type of vuln.
assuming this example is true for a second, this points out just how stupid this whole thing is. They inquire about where the money is coming from. ostensibly to ascertain if the money is from/for an "evil terrorist organisation" (tm). He replies "my personal savings". they say, "ok, have a nice day".
Am I to believe that if they called alqueda op #342 and asked "where is the money from", op #342 would say "saudi gov't terrorism fund". If op #342 is really willing to plot to destroy multiple lives, wouldn't he be willing to lie about where it came from?
they can't/shouldn't/won't verify the claims for all of these so why bother asking?
1.98 for bread... wow rich people are pretty much morons today....
jeez, who's the snide fuck.... maybe you live in bumblefuck nowher where shit is cheap but it sounds like he is talking big city prices to me.
the grocery on my corner has bread anywhere from 1.50$ and up w/ most around 2 bucks. the bakery sells loaves as much as 8$ my weekly shopping bill for 2 people is almost always 150$+
everything is expensive in the city
maybe if i went farther from home i could find a better price. but is it worth my time and effort to carry the groceries X blocks home(no car in the city)? so far i usually say no, it isn't. convience wins.
i just went through some of his past posts and them seem to be pretty insightful, especially concerning video games. He may not be top dog at nintendo as he claims but he has good points.
maybe I am missing something. can somebody point me to some really bad posts?
alot of people are replying that they wouldn't want the phone making the decisions for them, spending their money. Over time, this is exactly what is going to happen. The article says people will have to confirm the choices until the give teh power to the phone. The idea being that they get sick of checking the phone and always saying yes. once it gets to that point you just tell the phone to do it and you can check if you feel like it.
This has already happened to alot of us w/ our spam filters. when i first set up spamassassin I filter everything to a separate folder. I would then check that folder for false positives. There were few enough false postives (i think i have gotten 1, but then agian I have stopped checking B) anyway... there were few enough false positives that I switched everything to go straight to the delete box. If I feel like it I will check but generally it just gets deleted. Because everytime i checked, the computer was making the right decision. People are lazy, giving power over your money seems like a big step but if it keeps making the right choice eventually you will just let it go...
seems the right place for a story my father told me about his hippy days.
they were going into canada in a van. on the way into canada the border check consisted of: Guard: Do you have any money? Father: Yes Guard: Let me see it Father: (shows 200$) Guard: have a nice time in canada.
So they went and tooled around canada for a week or so and came back. The US border was a different story entirely. They sent them into the "little room" questioned them individually about what they had been doing in canada. when their stories all said the same thing the allowed them to go into another little room where all of their bags had been unloaded and searched. They put their stuff back together and continued on their way.
And they were citizens. obviously a dramatically different climate now but a fun story nonetheless.
hey all, i am just getting a wireless setup. I wanted something like the following: 1. Any traffic from/to a short list of machines is encrypted and has the highest priority 2. Anybody that wants to can piggy back on my connection w/ a low priority. (ie my traffic always comes first
One complication is that i have an "always on" vpn to my corp network. I would like to have my laptop able to access that network wirelessly but obviously, I can't let anybody else use it. I have been thinking I would want to give all of my machines IP's from a certain range and deny anybody outside of that range at the vpn firewall (my side). Is this going to be possible w/ the linksys 802.11g gear? Does anybody have any tips for me when I get all my stuff next weekend?
pshaw... back in 96 linux was just moving from kernel 1.2 to 1.4. I was just starting and had just gotten 1.2 up and runnig when something I wanted needed kernel 1.4. OK, come versions 2.0, 2.2, 2.4. Could I even get a copy of gcc running on a 1.2 boxen anymore? how about sendmail? what if I was running an old sendmail on that box, could I install the newer one. not likely. I can't get the current glibc (or anything past v1.09 glibc) on the first few revs of 2.0 from gnu.org: GNU libc works with the Linux kernel, version 2.0.10 or later (to be fair, it is only speaking of the current version of glibc v2.x)
come to think of it, doesn't this point to the idea that old NT is better supported than old linux? I mean, we are just running into issues that aren't being back patched to NT. if glibc2 won't run on linux 1.4, i am severely crippled in what I can compile and run. and i have been since glibc2 came out. what was that 3-4 years?
besides if you haven't patched your box in 7 years either it is in a completely safe environment or you just don't care.
ugh, so sick of blind anti-ms hatred. there are plenty of good arguements but this kneejerk shit has got to stop.
this has not been my experience at all. I have had a yahoo acct since they were offered back in the day. I used it alot for awhile and it was quite good. sometime about 2 years ago it started getting too much spam. I have had the address for so long and given it out to so many people that I am not in day to day (or even year to year) contact w/ that I can't give it up. That being said.... 99% of the crap I get at yahoo is spam. I log on once or twice a month to check but only very rarely is there anything usefull there. my 100 "spam blocking" addresses were full long ago and I am not going to bother going through them again. unfortunately, my hotmail acct that I got at the same time (pre ms) is also useless. Unfortunately, any address that has been around for more than 3 years anymore is full of spam. especially if you have signed up for domains w/ it. B(
ahh woe is spam..... spam gourmet looks cool, i have just started using it. spam assassin also works well if you have your own server (haven't tried the home version)
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god i wish i had mod points. This is exactly what I was going to say. Server and desktop OS env do not have the same goals. They need different things and should have different options.
is it even technically legal to record a song from the radio? I know "everybody" does it but how is it different from recording the ball game on tv (which, i believe, is also illegal)
This is sort of the crux of the problem. Nobody had a problem w/ making mix tapes and giving them away. I used to make an audio tape copy of audio tapes/CDs/Albums owned by friends and family all the time. Technically this is illegal, but it was such a common practice (think jaywalking) that nobody paid much attention to it. The network/computers just makes this easier and better quality but it is still the same thing.
I guess what I am saying is, you lost me at audio tapes.
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That is great. I think I will do that.
While I was searching I ran found this link, thought I would share:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/02/05/29
Does anybody have a good, well thought out, argument, or link to an argument, on the idea:
"if you have nothing to hide, you shouldn't worry about XXX privacy concern."
The idea really doesn't sit well with me but I find myself having trouble conveying my concerns to people who really don't get it. Most of my arguments seem to be along the line of "Well, you really do have something to hide" and "who defines unacceptable?".
I assume there is a well reasoned argument to this but I haven't been able to google it so I thought I would ask here.
ej
read something interesting in scientific american a month or so ago. I'll paraphrase:
They tested 108 or so brands of bottled water. 20 some of them were straight tap water. anything that says from a "public source" or "municiple source" is tap water. 18 of them wouldn't pass standards for tap water (they didn't name names) this isn't that surprising considering that bottled waters have to test their water once a week whereas city waters have to test 100 times / mth. The article goes on...
"if it isn't better for you, it must taste better right?" Well, no. in a blind test 45% chose NYC tap water above other brands. poland springs (24%) and evian water (18&) were next.
I've had an apostrophe!!! B) Maybe they have a website: read it for yourself, i'll leave my synopsis.
Lifting BuyMusic's "restriction" requires deleting several lines of browser detection code.
more likely, it means rewriting large portions of their site to work w/ non-ie browsers or keeping multiple codebases and sending netscape users to one code set, mozilla users to anohter(maybe the same). But then people will still bitch about konquerer or some such.
ie and its competitors are not fully compatible. If something works in IE, it won't always work in other browsers. I know, I know, MS disregarded standards, etc... IE is the predominant browser. They are already limiting themselves to people using WMP. Come to think of it, I imagine the IE restriction is based on its ability to tie in to WMP. If that is the case we are back to multiple code bases. If you are on a machine that doesn't run IE it probably doesn't run WMP.
I really doubt they sat around and said "Hey, this works w/ netscape too, lets change it so it doesn't".
IMHO it is much more likely to be: "OK, we have the IE functionality written, it is going to take XXX more hours to write functionality for netscape, and XXX hours for each after that. Of course 9x% of our potential users are using IE so is teh $$$$ really worth it? Nah"
MC and Visa won't do micropayments unless they have to. They currently make some large amount of money/purchase (.25$ + x% of purchase price - middle man charges). If you are talking micropayments they would need to drastically change that model. Problem is if you make exception for micropayments then why don't merchants use their micro payment acct for all payments. *poof* there goes the profit margins they are seeing.
ack, i don't really have time to elucidate my point but that is the first thing that comes to mind.
"the dampening effect of marriage ... are also remarkably similar among geniuses in music, painting and writing, as well as in criminal activity."
so yes, it does include artistic creativity. I know people don't always read teh article but why don't you skip posting about the article if you haven't read it?
dude, seti is listening. They gather data from the aricebo (sp?) telescope and parse it for patterns. It is passive. SETI/aricebo is not broadcasting (everything else we are doing does that).
there are other space projects that we have sent up that advertise our existance and our general broadcast noise (from radio/tv/comms/etc) is probably quite extensive but SETI isn't contributing to that
I dont believe it is "only" after heating once but that does make it much more likely to occur.
if you do put in the cup of water, make sure you put a coffee stirrer or something in it. If you nuke water under the right conditions you can super-heat it and it will violently explode when you put something in it.
h tml#coffee
for those of you that are ready to go try this, don't (ok, now I am not liable for any stupidity)
http://www.amasci.com/weird/microexp.
according to the discovery channel, there is an oversight committee for the cia's secret ops. it is supposed to be a check and balance in that it is (iirc) a congressional committee w/ clearance to all of the cia's operations. They are to review the actions and make sure cia isn't doing anything (too) evil.
Of course, you could argue that they are both part of the same system. It seems this would be to the cia as internal affairs is to the police dept.
I would also say that all acts should become public record after, say, 10 years. I can respect the need for operational security/secrecy but anything that can't be known by the public, even after the fact, probably shouldn't be done.
If you are going to compare apache w/ IIS you need to compare apache+php (or modperl or similar) w/ IIS+ASP. the addition of a server side programming lang adds alot of complexity. how many of the IIS bugs are in the iis server itself vs. its handler dlls. all the ida and indexing service attacks were this type of vuln.
wd-40 is the only other thing that is nearly as useful as duct tape. I swear, w/ both of them you can fix anything.
you say use used socks not fresh ones. how do you make your new socks into used socks?
not a troll, just a question.
assuming this example is true for a second, this points out just how stupid this whole thing is. They inquire about where the money is coming from. ostensibly to ascertain if the money is from/for an "evil terrorist organisation" (tm). He replies "my personal savings". they say, "ok, have a nice day".
Am I to believe that if they called alqueda op #342 and asked "where is the money from", op #342 would say "saudi gov't terrorism fund". If op #342 is really willing to plot to destroy multiple lives, wouldn't he be willing to lie about where it came from?
they can't/shouldn't/won't verify the claims for all of these so why bother asking?
1.98 for bread... wow rich people are pretty much morons today....
jeez, who's the snide fuck.... maybe you live in bumblefuck nowher where shit is cheap but it sounds like he is talking big city prices to me.
the grocery on my corner has bread anywhere from 1.50$ and up w/ most around 2 bucks. the bakery sells loaves as much as 8$ my weekly shopping bill for 2 people is almost always 150$+
everything is expensive in the city
maybe if i went farther from home i could find a better price. but is it worth my time and effort to carry the groceries X blocks home(no car in the city)? so far i usually say no, it isn't. convience wins.
i just went through some of his past posts and them seem to be pretty insightful, especially concerning video games. He may not be top dog at nintendo as he claims but he has good points.
maybe I am missing something. can somebody point me to some really bad posts?
alot of people are replying that they wouldn't want the phone making the decisions for them, spending their money. Over time, this is exactly what is going to happen. The article says people will have to confirm the choices until the give teh power to the phone. The idea being that they get sick of checking the phone and always saying yes. once it gets to that point you just tell the phone to do it and you can check if you feel like it.
This has already happened to alot of us w/ our spam filters. when i first set up spamassassin I filter everything to a separate folder. I would then check that folder for false positives. There were few enough false postives (i think i have gotten 1, but then agian I have stopped checking B) anyway... there were few enough false positives that I switched everything to go straight to the delete box. If I feel like it I will check but generally it just gets deleted. Because everytime i checked, the computer was making the right decision. People are lazy, giving power over your money seems like a big step but if it keeps making the right choice eventually you will just let it go...
where do you live/who did you kill to get a flat 33/mth electric bill....
mine comes in at 70+ pretty routinely. I know there are places I could cut my usage but 33$ is Cheap!
that isn't the disk checker. it is most likely a dos based app or maybe the installer but definitely not the disk checker or a bsod.
sorry to burst your bubble.
seems the right place for a story my father told me about his hippy days.
they were going into canada in a van. on the way into canada the border check consisted of:
Guard: Do you have any money?
Father: Yes
Guard: Let me see it
Father: (shows 200$)
Guard: have a nice time in canada.
So they went and tooled around canada for a week or so and came back. The US border was a different story entirely. They sent them into the "little room" questioned them individually about what they had been doing in canada. when their stories all said the same thing the allowed them to go into another little room where all of their bags had been unloaded and searched. They put their stuff back together and continued on their way.
And they were citizens. obviously a dramatically different climate now but a fun story nonetheless.
hey all,
i am just getting a wireless setup. I wanted something like the following:
1. Any traffic from/to a short list of machines is encrypted and has the highest priority
2. Anybody that wants to can piggy back on my connection w/ a low priority. (ie my traffic always comes first
One complication is that i have an "always on" vpn to my corp network. I would like to have my laptop able to access that network wirelessly but obviously, I can't let anybody else use it. I have been thinking I would want to give all of my machines IP's from a certain range and deny anybody outside of that range at the vpn firewall (my side). Is this going to be possible w/ the linksys 802.11g gear? Does anybody have any tips for me when I get all my stuff next weekend?
thanx
pshaw...
back in 96 linux was just moving from kernel 1.2 to 1.4. I was just starting and had just gotten 1.2 up and runnig when something I wanted needed kernel 1.4. OK, come versions 2.0, 2.2, 2.4. Could I even get a copy of gcc running on a 1.2 boxen anymore? how about sendmail? what if I was running an old sendmail on that box, could I install the newer one. not likely. I can't get the current glibc (or anything past v1.09 glibc) on the first few revs of 2.0
from gnu.org:
GNU libc works with the Linux kernel, version 2.0.10 or later
(to be fair, it is only speaking of the current version of glibc v2.x)
come to think of it, doesn't this point to the idea that old NT is better supported than old linux? I mean, we are just running into issues that aren't being back patched to NT. if glibc2 won't run on linux 1.4, i am severely crippled in what I can compile and run. and i have been since glibc2 came out. what was that 3-4 years?
besides if you haven't patched your box in 7 years either it is in a completely safe environment or you just don't care.
ugh, so sick of blind anti-ms hatred. there are plenty of good arguements but this kneejerk shit has got to stop.
this has not been my experience at all. I have had a yahoo acct since they were offered back in the day. I used it alot for awhile and it was quite good. sometime about 2 years ago it started getting too much spam. I have had the address for so long and given it out to so many people that I am not in day to day (or even year to year) contact w/ that I can't give it up. That being said.... 99% of the crap I get at yahoo is spam. I log on once or twice a month to check but only very rarely is there anything usefull there. my 100 "spam blocking" addresses were full long ago and I am not going to bother going through them again. unfortunately, my hotmail acct that I got at the same time (pre ms) is also useless. Unfortunately, any address that has been around for more than 3 years anymore is full of spam. especially if you have signed up for domains w/ it. B(
ahh woe is spam..... spam gourmet looks cool, i have just started using it. spam assassin also works well if you have your own server (haven't tried the home version)