You know I agree wout you on this, the funny thing that I found is that they would only "let" you run it on the system that you bought from them... so you can't run it on existing hardware, go fig.
I have to agree with Anonymous Coward, there is som ignorance going on. I know on the products that I'm working on use SCO, FreeBSD, and Solaris. The atmospher from Telcos is that Windows is not stable enough to run telephony applications. if a machine is down you can't charge mone.
As for building a callcenter and messaging stuff, um thats what I work on. we even have plans for migrating to linux in the next year. Linux is in a lot of telephony applications, so is solaris, but I belive that phone company just like not telling you whats under the hood
Yes you can set up Hogwash to be stackles (no tcp/ip stack) and just read the raw packets over the ethernet. Hogwash is built to be a gatekeper, being placed in the middle of the stream and not just a tap from it.
I think what we will find is that right now many government departments are on a power grab. At first we will not be affected by the new laws but they will slowly increase the strangle hold that they have until they eventually control things. but hopefully by then we will figure out ways to get around there new holds.
Why would it look suspicious if you say put it in your briefcase or backpack. How many companies care what you bring in? they care more about what you take out.
That is a good start, but we need to do more. write your Representive it is a lot easier to stop a bill from becomming law than it is to take a law and change it.
the notion that by producing creative works, authors benefit society, and so were entitled to make a living from a time-limited legal monopoly
There is a court case to the Supreme Court that is worth supporting, Ashcroft vs. Eldred. They are trying to fight the Sonny Bono act. If this act get repealed, Mickey Mouse and other copyrighted materials will become public domain.
The good news is that the Supreme Court announced that it will hear this case.
You can only sue if he uses your exact quote word for word. If you emphasize an idea, and he talks about that idea but not exactly the same way you did you can't. you can copyright words, not ideas:).
His book was good, But I would also suggest Digital Copyright by Jessica Litman. I found them both useful while doing my research paper on copyright laws.
I don't think that they'll regret closing bnetd down, even if their complaints continue. first, unlike a phone/cable company, they don't loose money when there service is down. second, if they can control where people play their games they can start keeping stats. third, how long until they require you to register (Name, Rank, Serial Number, Mothers Maiden Name...) and fourth what's to stop them, if they win, from making Battle.Net a pay per game service ? pretty good if you can get legislation to take care of any potential competitors don't you think.
I remember when I used to run a BBS, one of the taglines floating around was, "It's only a Hobby. It's only a Hobby. It's only a Hobby... " But I knew many people that gaming was (and for some still is) there life. I have to admit some lower grades due to the fact that I was only one level away from winning a game. A while ago there was a storie about some kids that played Nintendo until they blistered there hands. So to answer the question "Are computer game addictive?", Yea but so is TV/Sports/Working out/Shopping/Cowboy Neal(well maybe not).
The problem is not that we only enjoy doing one thing, its when we don't do the other things we need to do. But hey if your paying your bills, Go for it play till 3AM again and get up and go to work at 7 (you can survive on 4 hours sleep, Some how I did:) )
I haven't noticed it on my computer, but my wife's' computer will keep losing connection while checking her e-mail (I've taught her to use ssh and pine) and it will drop connection. (I'm in Phoenix and your in Tucson)
Why? if the satellite intercepts the message it will inadvertently change it. It could block the message but that just means Alice and Bob need to use a new satellite. The only way that the satellite could compromise them is if it decodes the "ok" bits the same way that both Alice and Bob do. To do that, from what I understand, you need to roll three 3-sided dice and all get the same answer. that is a 1/3 chance per correct bit (for Eve) raised to the number of correct bits. so for 10 correct measurements Eve has a 1 / 59049 chance.
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Lewi I think you hit the nail on the head. I've seen the same things your talking about.
Just becase they don't raise thier hand, doen't mean they don't exist.
I've seen SCADA systems that are hooked to the internet, some require a few hops, some are just behind the corprate firewall.
They already built cheap cars, There called Yugo.
This is how I've done it:
/var/zerofile
...
First, zero out all space on partition.
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/zerofile
# rm
Rinse and repeat for each partition.
Now get image
# dd if=/dev/sdb | gzip > hd.img.gz
to recover:
# zcat hd.img.gz | dd of=/dev/sdb
if you tweak wget you can use a small boot disk to do a remote restore from a ftp or a http server.
well lets see it's 5:00 am on the west cost and the site is /.ed allready. we all need to go back to bed.
Don't blame me I voted for Kodos.
does anyone else see the problme with not "Wasting ones vote" here?
You know I agree wout you on this, the funny thing that I found is that they would only "let" you run it on the system that you bought from them... so you can't run it on existing hardware, go fig.
I have to agree with Anonymous Coward, there is som ignorance going on. I know on the products that I'm working on use SCO, FreeBSD, and Solaris. The atmospher from Telcos is that Windows is not stable enough to run telephony applications. if a machine is down you can't charge mone.
As for building a callcenter and messaging stuff, um thats what I work on. we even have plans for migrating to linux in the next year. Linux is in a lot of telephony applications, so is solaris, but I belive that phone company just like not telling you whats under the hood
Yes you can set up Hogwash to be stackles (no tcp/ip stack) and just read the raw packets over the ethernet. Hogwash is built to be a gatekeper, being placed in the middle of the stream and not just a tap from it.
I think what we will find is that right now many government departments are on a power grab. At first we will not be affected by the new laws but they will slowly increase the strangle hold that they have until they eventually control things. but hopefully by then we will figure out ways to get around there new holds.
Why would it look suspicious if you say put it in your briefcase or backpack. How many companies care what you bring in? they care more about what you take out.
That is a good start, but we need to do more. write your Representive it is a lot easier to stop a bill from becomming law than it is to take a law and change it.
There is a court case to the Supreme Court that is worth supporting, Ashcroft vs. Eldred. They are trying to fight the Sonny Bono act. If this act get repealed, Mickey Mouse and other copyrighted materials will become public domain.
The good news is that the Supreme Court announced that it will hear this case.
You can only sue if he uses your exact quote word for word. If you emphasize an idea, and he talks about that idea but not exactly the same way you did you can't. you can copyright words, not ideas :).
His book was good, But I would also suggest Digital Copyright by Jessica Litman. I found them both useful while doing my research paper on copyright laws.
great that would give rise to the troll game (who can go from 50 to -15 the fastest)
I don't think that they'll regret closing bnetd down, even if their complaints continue. first, unlike a phone/cable company, they don't loose money when there service is down. second, if they can control where people play their games they can start keeping stats. third, how long until they require you to register (Name, Rank, Serial Number, Mothers Maiden Name ...) and fourth what's to stop them, if they win, from making Battle.Net a pay per game service ?
pretty good if you can get legislation to take care of any potential competitors don't you think.
I remember when I used to run a BBS, one of the taglines floating around was, "It's only a Hobby. It's only a Hobby. It's only a Hobby... " But I knew many people that gaming was (and for some still is) there life. I have to admit some lower grades due to the fact that I was only one level away from winning a game. A while ago there was a storie about some kids that played Nintendo until they blistered there hands. So to answer the question "Are computer game addictive?", Yea but so is TV/Sports/Working out/Shopping/Cowboy Neal(well maybe not).
:) )
The problem is not that we only enjoy doing one thing, its when we don't do the other things we need to do. But hey if your paying your bills, Go for it play till 3AM again and get up and go to work at 7 (you can survive on 4 hours sleep, Some how I did
I have to say, The reason I use Google is because of the Language options. Finally a search engine in my language. hacker :)
I think he, just like to most of us doesn't like to document his code.
Job security (but I don't want this job any more).
I haven't noticed it on my computer, but my wife's' computer will keep losing connection while checking her e-mail (I've taught her to use ssh and pine) and it will drop connection. (I'm in Phoenix and your in Tucson)
Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. (All the books from the Triligy :) ) from the late Dougles Adams
I don't know about you but if you want to talk to the techs this will come in handy. it probably wouldn't hurt to watch some Monty Python either.
Speaking of O'Reilly:
here is the website you'll want,
http://libraries.oreilly.com/
ok every body stop downloading it. Its my turn I'll let you know when you can slashdot it again :)
:)
Good thing I have wget
There was a dune and a dune 2k made by westwood
but they were a RTS game not a FPS. they played a lot like Command and conquer.
Why? if the satellite intercepts the message it will inadvertently change it. It could block the message but that just means Alice and Bob need to use a new satellite. The only way that the satellite could compromise them is if it decodes the "ok" bits the same way that both Alice and Bob do. To do that, from what I understand, you need to roll three 3-sided dice and all get the same answer. that is a 1/3 chance per correct bit (for Eve) raised to the number of correct bits. so for 10 correct measurements Eve has a 1 / 59049 chance.
As long as everything is truly random.