One could add that having DeCSS would enable you to rip a DVD and make a un-encrypted copy. In this respect it could be used for circumventing the copy protection.
actually I think that is the very purpose that they are worried about. Bandwidth to trade encrypted vobs is prohibitive still (time money), but those college kiddies love their Divx. I think this is what they're pissed at.
(as a side note, I know a guy that trades vobs because he likes having good copies)
I live in Utah....Utah county as a matter of fact. My neighbor married (I'm not making this up) her husband when she was 14 and he was 18 (same age as her mother when she got married) I would give a name and number, but she's already kind of embarrassed about it. She's a mormon (inactive) by the way
have you even noticed the 'X-Bender: something goes here' field in slashdot http responses? I sometimes make thousands of requests a day just to see how many there are. So maybe CowboyNeal did give good header.
When I was in high school you could take 'computer courses' at the community college nearby during and after school hours. You got high school credit for them as well as college credit. We wrote some bad pascal, and wrote email to the whitehouse from the unix machine. Go look in the counseling office of the school and ask around. There's usually some sort of program for overachievers (not that I ever received good grades).
one time a couple of guys I work with wanted a large live storage device to backup some dvds. They used a hardware raid card and a bunch of scsi drives until one day... the hardware raid card went out. Turns out that they couldn't recover the information off of the disks without a duplicate replacement. They couldn't find one ( of course this little project wasn't mission critical or they could have looked a little harder and purchased one ) but that seems to be a critical single point of failure that is overlooked sometimes
I have a kind of opposite experience. I started with perl, then tried out php and I disliked it. My main complaint is limited libraries. Of course I use perl for all sorts of other things (besides web fluff) as well so maybe that puts a bias on it.
I've used virtual PC , Bochs , and vmware. I liked VMware the best because it was so functional. Virtual PC is buggy with multiple simultaneous machines.
Microsoft owns VMware as well, or at least has invested in it.
No. I don't know where you think you heard this, but it's completely false.
do either of you have some sort of proof...one way or the other??? a link would be nice, but I'll accept rumor too.
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But if you think you're standard of living at $100k is not so great, you may want to go have a look at the third world before you move there. Even the very rich would have trouble matching your standard of living due to the lack of infrastructure. If you have money you'll spend half of it just protecting yourself from those who want it.
actually having lived in the Philippines for 2 yrs, I found that you can usually find equivalent services for half or a third of the US price. Of course you only make a half or third as much, but if it means the difference between being employed or not I would take it.
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actually if you are high enough in a rotary-wing you can convert your altitude into rotar speed and 'flare' your rotars near the ground to slow the aircraft to a relatively safe speed. (disclaimer:IANAPilot)
This was my initial concern as well. I actually dreamed of building an inexpensive army of these (seriously this isn't a 'beowolf' post) and becoming a sort of vigilante. I struggled with my own personal privacy ethics though. That and the cost would be substantial even with s.p.a.d.'s.
I guess if this sort of thing could be done in a way that was less 1984 and more 7-11 security camera I would be more comfortable.
I keep my backups in a Granite vault inside of a nearby mountain. The media de jour is actually redundant scsi drives packed in silica to keep out moisture. This allows for easy access in an emergency, and planned access when said drives are deemed replaceable by the NEWMEDIA.
I think we are progressing well in terms of executing on the principle but the proof will be in the pudding - I don't anybody to expect it until they see it.
What?
Or maybe that's what Ballmer really said who knows?
If they can hit a certain price point this would be extremely usefull for temporary (or even permanent) backbone solutions....forget digging up the road to lay fiber. This would be an exciting technology if mass produced at the right price.
yeah most of it was greek to me...but then I haven't been running mandrake 8 yet (as there is no ppc iso available for download yet) but I like 8.2 does that count?
that kind of money should be spent rolling their own...I'd love to see a US NAVY distro of BSD. They should have a fuller central IT department for support, development, patches and upgrades that is tightly focused on NAVY only needs...I think this project could be SUBSTANTIALLLY cheaper if they would just do it themselves....They could probably even do their own hardware
Maybe this exists and I'm uninformed but I doubt it.
CNN used to use akamai to handle spike loads. I'm not sure what they were using that day, but I'm told that their bill (it's an outsourced thing to them) was very large and that started investigating how to build their own content distrobution network. I don't work for them...I work in the caching industry though.
yes...Utah is *the* place (cough). All joking aside though, there are a few reputable(?) technical organizations here in Utah (mostly yesterday's technology though)...Iomega, Novell, verio...
actually it is even easier to just roll some perl (or other language of choice) to automagically send requests with the proper "referer" tag in the header. over and over.....very simple
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use IO::Socket; use IO::File; $remote_host = shift; $remote_port = "80";
$socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => $remote_host,PeerPort => $remote_port, Proto => "tcp",Type => SOCK_STREAM) or die "Couldn't connect to $remote_host:$remote_port : $@\n"; print $socket "GET http://sniffed.url.here HTTP/1.0\n"; print $socket "Accept: */*\n"; print $socket "Accept-Language: en-us\n"; print $socket "User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)\n"; print $socket "referer: http://slashdot.org/\n\n"; $answer =; print $answer; close($socket);
One pound of sodium that my dad and I threw into
a 5 gallon bucket of water in the back yard.
I wish that I had video of that to show you all.
the bucket blew into hundreds of pieces and the grass was flattened.... then we heard a thud in the garden nearby.
What was left of the bar was sitting there burning
and melting in the wet garden. It was quite an experience.
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wouldn't it be
you're an ass
instead of
your an ass
or if you meant your, it would be your ass not your an ass
One could add that having DeCSS would enable you to rip a DVD and make a un-encrypted copy. In this respect it could be used for circumventing the copy protection.
actually I think that is the very purpose that they are worried about. Bandwidth to trade encrypted vobs is prohibitive still (time money), but those college kiddies love their Divx. I think this is what they're pissed at.
(as a side note, I know a guy that trades vobs because he likes having good copies)
I live in Utah....Utah county as a matter of fact. My neighbor married (I'm not making this up) her husband when she was 14 and he was 18 (same age as her mother when she got married) I would give a name and number, but she's already kind of embarrassed about it. She's a mormon (inactive) by the way
have you even noticed the 'X-Bender: something goes here' field in slashdot http responses? I sometimes make thousands of requests a day just to see how many there are. So maybe CowboyNeal did give good header.
When I was in high school you could take 'computer courses' at the community college nearby during and after school hours. You got high school credit for them as well as college credit. We wrote some bad pascal, and wrote email to the whitehouse from the unix machine. Go look in the counseling office of the school and ask around. There's usually some sort of program for overachievers (not that I ever received good grades).
why are there even talks like this going on? I mean how did crap like this take precedence over things like civil unrest, looting, and general anarchy
one time a couple of guys I work with wanted a large live storage device to backup some dvds. They used a hardware raid card and a bunch of scsi drives until one day... the hardware raid card went out. Turns out that they couldn't recover the information off of the disks without a duplicate replacement. They couldn't find one ( of course this little project wasn't mission critical or they could have looked a little harder and purchased one ) but that seems to be a critical single point of failure that is overlooked sometimes
I have a kind of opposite experience. I started with perl, then tried out php and I disliked it. My main complaint is limited libraries. Of course I use perl for all sorts of other things (besides web fluff) as well so maybe that puts a bias on it.
I've used virtual PC , Bochs , and vmware. I liked VMware the best because it was so functional. Virtual PC is buggy with multiple simultaneous machines.
Microsoft owns VMware as well, or at least has invested in it.
No. I don't know where you think you heard this, but it's completely false.
do either of you have some sort of proof...one way or the other??? a link would be nice, but I'll accept rumor too.
But if you think you're standard of living at $100k is not so great, you may want to go have a look at the third world before you move there. Even the very rich would have trouble matching your standard of living due to the lack of infrastructure. If you have money you'll spend half of it just protecting yourself from those who want it.
actually having lived in the Philippines for 2 yrs, I found that you can usually find equivalent services for half or a third of the US price. Of course you only make a half or third as much, but if it means the difference between being employed or not I would take it.
actually if you are high enough in a rotary-wing you can convert your altitude into rotar speed and 'flare' your rotars near the ground to slow the aircraft to a relatively safe speed. (disclaimer:IANAPilot)
This was my initial concern as well. I actually dreamed of building an inexpensive army of these (seriously this isn't a 'beowolf' post) and becoming a sort of vigilante. I struggled with my own personal privacy ethics though. That and the cost would be substantial even with s.p.a.d.'s.
I guess if this sort of thing could be done in a way that was less 1984 and more 7-11 security camera I would be more comfortable.
interestingly ... I bet the taskbar for the entire project moved along with some jumps and stalls and then stayed on 99% for a couple of months.
I keep my backups in a Granite vault inside of a nearby mountain. The media de jour is actually redundant scsi drives packed in silica to keep out moisture. This allows for easy access in an emergency, and planned access when said drives are deemed replaceable by the NEWMEDIA.
I think we are progressing well in terms of executing on the principle but the proof will be in the pudding - I don't anybody to expect it until they see it.
What?
Or maybe that's what Ballmer really said who knows?
If they can hit a certain price point this would be extremely usefull for temporary (or even permanent) backbone solutions....forget digging up the road to lay fiber. This would be an exciting technology if mass produced at the right price.
yeah most of it was greek to me...but then I haven't been running mandrake 8 yet (as there is no ppc iso available for download yet) but I like 8.2 does that count?
that kind of money should be spent rolling their own...I'd love to see a US NAVY distro of BSD. They should have a fuller central IT department for support, development, patches and upgrades that is tightly focused on NAVY only needs...I think this project could be SUBSTANTIALLLY cheaper if they would just do it themselves....They could probably even do their own hardware
Maybe this exists and I'm uninformed but I doubt it.
CNN used to use akamai to handle spike loads. I'm not sure what they were using that day, but I'm told that their bill (it's an outsourced thing to them) was very large and that started investigating how to build their own content distrobution network. I don't work for them...I work in the caching industry though.
yes...Utah is *the* place (cough). All joking aside though, there are a few reputable(?) technical organizations here in Utah (mostly yesterday's technology though) ...Iomega, Novell, verio ...
actually it is even easier to just roll some perl (or other language of choice) to automagically send requests with the proper "referer" tag in the header. over and over.....very simple
;
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use IO::Socket;
use IO::File;
$remote_host = shift;
$remote_port = "80";
$socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => $remote_host,PeerPort => $remote_port, Proto => "tcp",Type => SOCK_STREAM) or die "Couldn't connect to $remote_host:$remote_port : $@\n";
print $socket "GET http://sniffed.url.here HTTP/1.0\n";
print $socket "Accept: */*\n";
print $socket "Accept-Language: en-us\n";
print $socket "User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)\n";
print $socket "referer: http://slashdot.org/\n\n";
$answer =
print $answer;
close($socket);
"Slashdot is the best site in the world for techies that want to know," said Daniel Hedblom, a reader in Sweden.
O great. That will bring the troll fodder to us.
One pound of sodium that my dad and I threw into
a 5 gallon bucket of water in the back yard.
I wish that I had video of that to show you all.
the bucket blew into hundreds of pieces and the grass was flattened....
then we heard a thud in the garden nearby.
What was left of the bar was sitting there burning
and melting in the wet garden. It was quite an experience.
If you've installed Gentoo, you would know that what he said was funny.