Shoot, even WITHOUT all the unintended security holes, it's pretty easy to set up a web server with all your mp3's and get a search engine to list them all.
But then you'd have your ISP on your back within a few days. For some reason they don't seem to care about KaZaa and alikes while HTTP sharing of copyrighted material seems to be a major issue. But technically they (KaZaa) are not allowed with most ISP's; their Acceptable Use Policies don't allow copyright infringement. Once ISP's start to care about this, the days of free file sharing may be over soon...
I know that (but thanks anyway). What I was actually more interested in, is information about how many ISP's run transparant proxies; you claim `many' do so. How do you know?
I was thinking about e.g. the discrimination as it is happening with DVD's (the regios) nowadays, not allowing people outside the US to download cryptography, governments that only allow people in their country to see certain information just because the technology is there, not because there's any need. etc. etc. But I agree that the advantages are incredible.
Petitioning for geographical/geo-political http-request tags to be implemented in client browsers.(his sig, for those that have sigs of)
For what? Statistics? You consider statistics more important than discriminition on geographical/geo-political region which will turn be it's main use in the end?
Proxy logs? That must be even more inaccurate than a webpoll:P Who use proxies? The users that have installed the software they got from their ISP. And what did it do? It set up the proxy-settings. Those that install another OS usually don't bother setting up proxy-settings. So proxies are probably mostly used by newbies. And they usually run Linux. So what the survey actually should say "Linux has 0.24% desktop coverage among users of ISPs that use HitBox". This survey is like saying "69% of my friends runs Linux so the world-wide Linux-on-the-desktop-coverage must be about 69%".
Still, that doesn't have to be a guarantee at all. It is very well possible that the sites that use hitbox are for some reason visited more by windows users (newbies?) than other sites. Sites with content that's more interesting to us geeks usually don't use hitbox (slashdot, google, blah). Porno sites for example work much better in windows (movies!). I'm not saying that Porno sites use HitBox more, but it's just one of the many examples. The only way to do such a survey right is by picking a few people randomly and then contact them by telephone. And then it's still possible that users of OS A are more willing to cooperate than users of OS B:)
I know he has been at war with Warner Bros. Records (that's the time he called himself TAFKAP), but what's his fight with the RIAA? I cannot find any link...
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Further question though - what the hell has that guy done to his ass - drive a truck through it???
Anyway. I have an ass myself (although it's not that wide) but I have bones next to it. I don't understand how this guy can possibly stretch his ass that far without removing these bones...Or am I the only one that has them? Please check.
Well... I would be carefull with saying that you do that; I don't know when exactly it happened, but some spammer-moron found out that I did so as well. Now I'm getting spam at a gazillion different random emailadresses@zmooc.net:( And no, I did not enter them in some form myself; I haven't filled out a gazillion forms yet:)
The motorbike-dude is describing the casual home-user, you're describing the situation that exists where real sysadmins are around. They're fundamentally different. So actually you've about solved the problem; oversimplification is good if the user doesn't have to play sysadmin (which is the ideal situation). If they do need to admin their system (like at home), they need to know about harddrives etc.
Since the first option is by far the most userfriendly, I think in the future (when we have really nice uplinks at home), companies will start to over fully functional thin clients which they admin themselves. This would take away a lot of the problems the average home-user has and at the same time will enable us to rent applications which we'd otherwise consider too expensive to buy (and now use illegaly) and offer lots and lots more...
I don't see them disagree there. They're only confirming that they're working on small business features but that it's still a work in progress. Anyway. It sounds really good:)
You forgot about SapDB. It's their database system. It's completely GPL for the server and LGPL for the clients. It works great and is *COMPLETE*. I really don't understand why this product isn't given any more attention in the Open Source press.
Shouldn't that have been Funny=4, Total=4?:) It's NOT meant for small businesses. This was meant funny:) But the moderation of this comment is actually even more funnier than the comment itself:)
Sorry...you're wrong. Read their roadmap. It clearly states that they're aiming at the casual/home user and are not sure yet whether they event want to go the direction of a business accounting system at all. On the other hand, their Project goals page already has estimates on how much time the implementation of certain small business features would take and mentions some possibilities. So to me it is not quite clear in which direction they want to move now.
Anyway: GNUCash is *NOT* a business accounting system; the GNUCash people have said so themselves. It may become one in the future, but it is not right now.
Or maybe...just maybe...the size of the discussions on/. is starting to outgrow a 7-point-moderating system. I really believe that it's about time for 8 or maybe 9 points. Another "problem" is that more and more people (like me) have got enough karma to post on +2 and do so allt the time. Sometimes there are threads which only have +2 posts in them. Since they're usually not overall stupid, they won't be modded down which leaves us with only 4 levels of moderation. And in large discussions this turns out to be not enough.
Another solution to this specific (I mean in interviews) problem, is to give every logged in user 1 positive moderation point in this article so they can mod up only one question. This in combination with more levels of moderation would totally solve the problem.... Maybe:)
True...true...social security and health care cripple evolution in a really bad way. I wonder what its consequences are in a century or so. But maybe by then half of us has been killed or something and evolution can do its job again... Either way: it's not going to be nice.
I don't think *anyone* can distinguish 65,535 levels of amplitude for sound, much less 16.7 million
Well, but I think it's not possible at the moment is to have a range of sound from a falling needle to a rocket flying over you head. In music you'd most probably not have any use for 24 bit since it doesn't have such huge differences in amplitude, but for movies and security-recordings it gets interesting. But maybe 18 bits would be enough for that...I don't know..
I guess I was taking the phrase "logical evolutionairy step" too literally (which is itself symptomatic of Asperger's)
Trying to blame `mistakes' (I don't think it was one) on syndromes which you have decided you happen to have is a bit silly:)
Anyway: that's what I meant. Now that we've finally reached common understanding, maybe we should mate in order to push Evolution in the right direction:P
I didn't say that socially disabled (better term?:)) have a better chance of reproducing themselves. At least that's not what I meant to say:) What I meant to say is that apart from autistic children, there also happen to appear a lot of really bright non-autistic (or at least socially capable) children from parents that have a larger chance of having autistic kids. And that those really bright ones have a larger chance of reproducing themselves than the autistic ones.
And on the same different note: I also have most of the symptons and so does more than 50% of those that study Computer Science at my university. And most of the diagnosed autists I know have at least 1 geeky parent. So I was not surprised at all. I even think this article was a few years late:)
What you say is not exactly true; autists are rather easy to separate from those that just need some more practive for their social skills. The fact that these people are sometimes called `slightly autistic' or whatever doesn't mean they actually are autistic, it only means that the word autistic happens to be used for their behaviour just because it's easy to use the word in that context.
Autists are diagnosed by a lot more than what you list; especially things like manical attraction to symmetrical and repetitive structures (TRAINS!!!) and fear of unknown things (especially in the social context) are very common to autists. It's also not like they `don't talk much'; many of them don't talk at all. It's not just a bit of lack of social capacities, it's a serious disability.
Good advice: read the whole article (it's worth it) or read a bit more about autism:)
You should watch the Southpark-episode which is about exactly that; all Southpark gets diagnosed with ADHD:) But if you've read the _whole_ article, you should by now know that the cause (of autism) is most probably genetic and that it's clearly not a lack of teaching since most babies appear normal and all of the sudden "detoriate" and are diagnosed autistic...
It doesn't say that they necessarily produce a disabled person; only a few are disabled and there also are some extremely bright ones among them. Consider this evolution. Only the bright survive.
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That's not true; they can only go after files you share publicly. There are numerous other ways of sharing files.
But then you'd have your ISP on your back within a few days. For some reason they don't seem to care about KaZaa and alikes while HTTP sharing of copyrighted material seems to be a major issue. But technically they (KaZaa) are not allowed with most ISP's; their Acceptable Use Policies don't allow copyright infringement. Once ISP's start to care about this, the days of free file sharing may be over soon...
I'm not in the US:) .nl! If I'd be in the US I'd probably be in jail now:P Thanks for your answer.
I know that (but thanks anyway). What I was actually more interested in, is information about how many ISP's run transparant proxies; you claim `many' do so. How do you know?
I was thinking about e.g. the discrimination as it is happening with DVD's (the regios) nowadays, not allowing people outside the US to download cryptography, governments that only allow people in their country to see certain information just because the technology is there, not because there's any need. etc. etc. But I agree that the advantages are incredible.
Do you have a link where I can find that information?
For what? Statistics? You consider statistics more important than discriminition on geographical/geo-political region which will turn be it's main use in the end?
Proxy logs? That must be even more inaccurate than a webpoll:P Who use proxies? The users that have installed the software they got from their ISP. And what did it do? It set up the proxy-settings. Those that install another OS usually don't bother setting up proxy-settings. So proxies are probably mostly used by newbies. And they usually run Linux. So what the survey actually should say "Linux has 0.24% desktop coverage among users of ISPs that use HitBox". This survey is like saying "69% of my friends runs Linux so the world-wide Linux-on-the-desktop-coverage must be about 69%".
Still, that doesn't have to be a guarantee at all. It is very well possible that the sites that use hitbox are for some reason visited more by windows users (newbies?) than other sites. Sites with content that's more interesting to us geeks usually don't use hitbox (slashdot, google, blah). Porno sites for example work much better in windows (movies!). I'm not saying that Porno sites use HitBox more, but it's just one of the many examples. The only way to do such a survey right is by picking a few people randomly and then contact them by telephone. And then it's still possible that users of OS A are more willing to cooperate than users of OS B:)
I know he has been at war with Warner Bros. Records (that's the time he called himself TAFKAP), but what's his fight with the RIAA? I cannot find any link...
Watch the rest of the series and practice a lot:P
Anyway. I have an ass myself (although it's not that wide) but I have bones next to it. I don't understand how this guy can possibly stretch his ass that far without removing these bones...Or am I the only one that has them? Please check.
Well... I would be carefull with saying that you do that; I don't know when exactly it happened, but some spammer-moron found out that I did so as well. Now I'm getting spam at a gazillion different random emailadresses@zmooc.net:( And no, I did not enter them in some form myself; I haven't filled out a gazillion forms yet:)
Since the first option is by far the most userfriendly, I think in the future (when we have really nice uplinks at home), companies will start to over fully functional thin clients which they admin themselves. This would take away a lot of the problems the average home-user has and at the same time will enable us to rent applications which we'd otherwise consider too expensive to buy (and now use illegaly) and offer lots and lots more...
I don't see them disagree there. They're only confirming that they're working on small business features but that it's still a work in progress. Anyway. It sounds really good:)
You forgot about SapDB. It's their database system. It's completely GPL for the server and LGPL for the clients. It works great and is *COMPLETE*. I really don't understand why this product isn't given any more attention in the Open Source press.
Shouldn't that have been Funny=4, Total=4?:) It's NOT meant for small businesses. This was meant funny:) But the moderation of this comment is actually even more funnier than the comment itself:)
Anyway: GNUCash is *NOT* a business accounting system; the GNUCash people have said so themselves. It may become one in the future, but it is not right now.
Another solution to this specific (I mean in interviews) problem, is to give every logged in user 1 positive moderation point in this article so they can mod up only one question. This in combination with more levels of moderation would totally solve the problem.... Maybe:)
True...true...social security and health care cripple evolution in a really bad way. I wonder what its consequences are in a century or so. But maybe by then half of us has been killed or something and evolution can do its job again... Either way: it's not going to be nice.
Well, but I think it's not possible at the moment is to have a range of sound from a falling needle to a rocket flying over you head. In music you'd most probably not have any use for 24 bit since it doesn't have such huge differences in amplitude, but for movies and security-recordings it gets interesting. But maybe 18 bits would be enough for that...I don't know..
Trying to blame `mistakes' (I don't think it was one) on syndromes which you have decided you happen to have is a bit silly:)
Anyway: that's what I meant. Now that we've finally reached common understanding, maybe we should mate in order to push Evolution in the right direction:P
And on the same different note: I also have most of the symptons and so does more than 50% of those that study Computer Science at my university. And most of the diagnosed autists I know have at least 1 geeky parent. So I was not surprised at all. I even think this article was a few years late:)
Autists are diagnosed by a lot more than what you list; especially things like manical attraction to symmetrical and repetitive structures (TRAINS!!!) and fear of unknown things (especially in the social context) are very common to autists. It's also not like they `don't talk much'; many of them don't talk at all. It's not just a bit of lack of social capacities, it's a serious disability.
Good advice: read the whole article (it's worth it) or read a bit more about autism:)
You should watch the Southpark-episode which is about exactly that; all Southpark gets diagnosed with ADHD:) But if you've read the _whole_ article, you should by now know that the cause (of autism) is most probably genetic and that it's clearly not a lack of teaching since most babies appear normal and all of the sudden "detoriate" and are diagnosed autistic...
It doesn't say that they necessarily produce a disabled person; only a few are disabled and there also are some extremely bright ones among them. Consider this evolution. Only the bright survive.