...in the same way that entering through the window is lockpicking. (i.e. not).
The relevant quote from the article:
The cracking file intercepts the audio data stream as the file is being sent to an output device -- such as a speaker -- according to Kevin Unangst, lead product manager in the streaming media division at Microsoft.
This is exactly what has always been pointed out here on slashdot as the obvious reason why restricted playback isn't going to work. --
There's no need to remember all the submissions - just the ones that made it to the front page.
I don't mind the occasional repost that much. I did think it was pretty funny when Rob and Hemos both posted the same story in the same hour that one time:-) --
I couldn't for the life of me understand why Descent wasn't as popular as DOOM (yes, D1 was competing against DOOM, not Quake! -- talk about technological superiority). It must have been the complexity of the controls. Getting good at Descent is hard and takes time, but that's part of the appeal. Can you tell I'm a flightsim fan?
Anyway, I recently bought D3 but haven't played it as much as I'd like to because of the hassle of rebooting, so this is great news! (less great if it's not going to be a complete, fully supported port)
It seems I'll be playing Quake 2, Quake 3 and Descent 3 in linux soon. To complete my collection I just need Falcon 4 and Shogo.
Regarding Shogo: If you're like me, and think that in a certains sense, ID games have been going downhill since Wolf3D (you're not on edge as you peak through the doors with 20% health, you don't jump in your seat when you're shot in the back) then Shogo's out-of-vehicle parts may appeal to you. --
Why? To me, decimating 40% of the group would mean splitting off 40% of it and decimating that 40%, killing 4% of the total group. However, this is surely not the intended meaning in this case. --
The BIOS on my (ATX) motherboard allows me to use F12 or lmb+rmb (on a PS/2 mouse) to power on. It also has a wakeup on modem ring function that scared the shit out of me the first time I saw it in action:-) --
Reiserfs doesn't have journalling *now*, but Chris Mason is working on it. Remember that reiserfs hasn't been released. Its feature set isn't set in stone.
By the way, Reiser has bigger ambitions than just producing a faster fileystem. He aims to change the way people use filesystems. See here for some insights.
PS. Hmm, interesting. The slashdot code seems to have removed the spaces in the anchor part of the url. Just jump to "Why Aggregate Small Objects at the File System Level?". --
Few (less than half?) functions can be reached with hotkeys.
Perhaps you're talking about an older version, but anything using a recent gtk version has on-the-fly shortcut assignment. You don't have to make do with the defaults. Just press a key combination while the menu item you're after is highlighted, and the key combo becomes the shortcut for that item. --
Distributed computing is a cool idea, but (there's always a but) you still need to write your programs to be distributed
Yes and no. You don't need to think specifically about where your code will run if you use certain languages/frameworks like Erlang or this thing. Ponder this: If functional programming had always been the norm, might we consider the jumps from single threading to multithreading, from UP to SMP, from local computing to distributed computing to be simply neat compiler/interpreter optimizations that in no way command a change in the way we design and implement applications? --
distributed.net etc. MAY be a good idea if the computer is already in use, but running them solely to participate in such a venture is silly. Remember the amount of fossil fuel wasted on powering the redundant Seti@Home computations? Well, it wasn't really wasted because the machines would have been powered on anyway, but what you're talking about is a true waste. --
Hacker: One who gains unauthorised access to remote systems by exploiting design flaws or bugs in their security systems.
Cracker: One who circumvents software copy protection.
This is what those terms meant where I live (Iceland), when I heard them first (in the BBS days) so, I'm not saying my understanding of them is the one universally true one and everybody else is an ignorant fuck. Sadly, some people are saying exactly that about their definitions.
I first heard "legit" programmers calling themselves hackers when I started using the Internet around '93, which put me in touch with more Americans. After that, I understood hacking to be a certain style of programming frowned upon by professors and manager but loved by competent programmers who don't need no steenking Venn diagrams. --
Read his post again. He's not suggesting that hydrogen burns in anything but the usual way. He's merely pointing out that you can't split water into hydrogen and oxygen and then combine them again and expect to make an energy profit. --
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"reflexive pronoun"
Anyway, why not just say "they"? That's allowed, even though it may feel awkward to use a plural form to refer to one person. --
Regarding the GIMP's interface: It's different. It feels strange to PS users. That doesn't mean it's worse. In fact, there are a couple of things that I've wanted to do in PhotoShop that are done in such unintuitive ways that I've ended up calling for help and then shaking my head in bewilderment afterwards. These are things that seemed perfectly natural in the Gimp. Then again, I use these products once a month at most (I'm definitely not an artist) so I don't know how each grows on as you gain experience. --
Biotech is the worst thing occured to us this century. We must do all to stop genetic foods (I never hear/. about that one), and stop cloning/ experimenting of all animals/ humans.
Why? --
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You can remap the keyboard to your heart's content, both in X and the console.
Unless, of course, you're thinking there might be no key at all left of the a key. Xmodmap won't help you in that case:-) --
I think I get what they're driving at. Concentrate on the "...permanently, doing away with the need to erase files" part. They seem to be talking about append-only storage. Using such storage you can presumably design a safer system, one where a virus can't insert itself into a preexisting binary because it's read-only, where hackers and absent-minded sysadmins can't erase or alter the system (think logs, specifically), where a crash can't corrupt the filesystem. Any vast storage device makes this practical, regardless of what technology is used to implement the vast storage.
The tricky part would be to safely manage overrides. You'd want to alter files by writing a new one that overrides the old one, but then you've got some of your old problems again.
Has this kind of thing been studied at all? It looks interesting. --
Lynx uses environment variables like HTTP_PROXY. Not knowing a thing about it, Id guess this is a convention and viewer follows it. If not, one can always add that feature. --
Slashdot Mirror
The relevant quote from the article:
This is exactly what has always been pointed out here on slashdot as the obvious reason why restricted playback isn't going to work.
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I don't mind the occasional repost that much. I did think it was pretty funny when Rob and Hemos both posted the same story in the same hour that one time :-)
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Anyway, I recently bought D3 but haven't played it as much as I'd like to because of the hassle of rebooting, so this is great news! (less great if it's not going to be a complete, fully supported port)
It seems I'll be playing Quake 2, Quake 3 and Descent 3 in linux soon. To complete my collection I just need Falcon 4 and Shogo.
Regarding Shogo: If you're like me, and think that in a certains sense, ID games have been going downhill since Wolf3D (you're not on edge as you peak through the doors with 20% health, you don't jump in your seat when you're shot in the back) then Shogo's out-of-vehicle parts may appeal to you.
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I enjoyed the article, all the way up to the word "synergy".
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Why? To me, decimating 40% of the group would mean splitting off 40% of it and decimating that 40%, killing 4% of the total group. However, this is surely not the intended meaning in this case.
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The BIOS on my (ATX) motherboard allows me to use F12 or lmb+rmb (on a PS/2 mouse) to power on. It also has a wakeup on modem ring function that scared the shit out of me the first time I saw it in action :-)
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Reiserfs doesn't have journalling *now*, but Chris Mason is working on it. Remember that reiserfs hasn't been released. Its feature set isn't set in stone.
By the way, Reiser has bigger ambitions than just producing a faster fileystem. He aims to change the way people use filesystems. See here for some insights.
PS. Hmm, interesting. The slashdot code seems to have removed the spaces in the anchor part of the url. Just jump to "Why Aggregate Small Objects at the File System Level?".
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Perhaps you're talking about an older version, but anything using a recent gtk version has on-the-fly shortcut assignment. You don't have to make do with the defaults. Just press a key combination while the menu item you're after is highlighted, and the key combo becomes the shortcut for that item.
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distributed.net etc. MAY be a good idea if the computer is already in use, but running them solely to participate in such a venture is silly. Remember the amount of fossil fuel wasted on powering the redundant Seti@Home computations? Well, it wasn't really wasted because the machines would have been powered on anyway, but what you're talking about is a true waste.
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You're saying that if people think their country's justice system is fucked up, the proper way for them to deal with it to leave?
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This is what those terms meant where I live (Iceland), when I heard them first (in the BBS days) so, I'm not saying my understanding of them is the one universally true one and everybody else is an ignorant fuck. Sadly, some people are saying exactly that about their definitions.
I first heard "legit" programmers calling themselves hackers when I started using the Internet around '93, which put me in touch with more Americans. After that, I understood hacking to be a certain style of programming frowned upon by professors and manager but loved by competent programmers who don't need no steenking Venn diagrams.
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Read his post again. He's not suggesting that hydrogen burns in anything but the usual way. He's merely pointing out that you can't split water into hydrogen and oxygen and then combine them again and expect to make an energy profit.
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Anyway, why not just say "they"? That's allowed, even though it may feel awkward to use a plural form to refer to one person.
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Has anyone but me heard of e-gold? Has anyone used the service or is everyone doing what I'm doing... waiting until everyone else is using it?
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This post is back up from -1. Why was it scored down?
Random words and phrases running around my head:
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Regarding the GIMP's interface: It's different. It feels strange to PS users. That doesn't mean it's worse. In fact, there are a couple of things that I've wanted to do in PhotoShop that are done in such unintuitive ways that I've ended up calling for help and then shaking my head in bewilderment afterwards. These are things that seemed perfectly natural in the Gimp. Then again, I use these products once a month at most (I'm definitely not an artist) so I don't know how each grows on as you gain experience.
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Unless, of course, you're thinking there might be no key at all left of the a key. Xmodmap won't help you in that case :-)
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I'm a bit disappointed that people's vision of the future includes printers.
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The tricky part would be to safely manage overrides. You'd want to alter files by writing a new one that overrides the old one, but then you've got some of your old problems again.
Has this kind of thing been studied at all? It looks interesting.
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Lynx uses environment variables like HTTP_PROXY. Not knowing a thing about it, Id guess this is a convention and viewer follows it. If not, one can always add that feature.
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everything you encoded with l3enc would belong to Fraunhofer IIS. Now wouldn't that be fucked up? (Ok, that's a slightly different issue)
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Read your /usr/src/linux/COPYING.
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