Agh. Directory and file renaming ALONE is the reason I don't use it for managing small or medium-sized projects.
That, and I wish I had a script for automatically handling commits from a small group of people for whom CVS is overkill, solely so I can track changes and back out of them day-by-day. This script would have to look through files and directories and intelligently handle renames, too. This is possible for text files at least, but I don't have a week to spend writing the script.
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What is astounding to me is that the music execs can stick their heads that far up their asses. The eventual failure of any protection scheme they would like to create is obvious, yet they seem to keep finding a new snake oil salesman to peddle the illusion.
Funny, when I'm in Chinatown, I see no black market CDs that are also available in stores. Most of the "piracy" is movies not on video yet, and a few grey market DVDs (i.e. legally released elsewhere, legal to resell here, even if they don't like it, e.g. Crouching Tiger). To me this is perfect proof that the best defense against "piracy" is value.
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These could be useful for forensics after a major DDoS, since security professionals and law enforcement could look for origin sites in these logs.
The common attacks ARE patched against by clued-in admins, but you don't get an army of DDoS zombie boxes by ignoring the obvious exploits. I get scanned all the time for the most obvious security holes; port 137, port 53, port 111. When I've bothered to look, the source boxes have been (half the time - often the sources are fake!) unpatched-looking RedHat boxes from home internet connections (ISPs,broadband or otherwise). And in the weeks following the recent issues with BIND, I have regularly been scanned for port 53, and these guys are scanning whole networks of addresses for this port only.
In an ideal world, I would report these scans, and the administrators of the source boxen might be notified that their machines have already been hacked and are being used for scans, which could help prevent major DoS attacks, or even be used to observe packet monkeys early enough in the game to trace back to their origin (as opposed to getting to the attack boxes and finding a bunch of erased logs).
I'm not saying it will work, or that this is the best way to acheive that goal, but there are solid reasons (beyond giving wannabes a source of interesting info) to think that this is useful.
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I believe that the American Budweiser licensed the use of the name in America a long time ago. Which means that you won't ever get the original in the U.S. The Czech original is Budvar, after a town, I think. Budweiser is the German equivalent. Pilz is a Czech town where the Pilsner style began (it actually means "from Pilsen", again the German equivalent). "Urquell" is German for "Original source".
So nobody sued anyone.
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I can use some killer Mac apps that I won't have for a long, long time on my un*x machine; ProTools, FinalCut, PhotoShop (I have a hard time with Gimp's interface). This means a machine I can have at home that doesn't scare my wife and doesn't disgust me.
I work with a programmer who does a lot of Java programming under Windows. Finally, I will be able to throw out Samba and just give him NFS mounts, and I won't experience any more skunky permissions errors, user mapping due to his weird NT setup, etc. And, my graphics folks can do the same, so I can throw out netatalk. Two big filesharing apps out the window.
I find it weird that you can't imagine a Java programmer using Photoshop, ProTools, etc. You must hang around some pretty boring, limited people. And I don't think that because I use an xterm, I'm not making use of the graphics subsystem. If I can mouse over and see what's going on in a minimized terminal window, I am. I 've still not figured out how to manage the titles on my xterms properly so I can do this in WindowMaker.
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Regardless of what you run, you should firewall access away from people who don't need to use it. I run a named server - BIND - but I'm not worried b/c my firewall prevents outsiders from using it.
Another reason I'm not worried? I'm running a chrooted bind. The feature is still labelled as "experimental" in the branch I'm running, but it works very well. There are instructions all over the net. Even if BIND is exploited, they won't get far.
The number of port 53 scans I've gotten in recent weeks should frighten the pants off anyone who is running an unpatched BIND. I would not be surprised if we see a major DDoS soon.
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I would if it gave me the way out of a dead end life in an impovershed country. And I'd *really* want to learn it in Swahili if there were a big, rich country that might let me move there and get a well-paying job because I knew how to use the OS in their language.
Seriously, there's lots of point to it; it's not always obvious from America, where most people react to the mere idea of other languages with a face like someone farted.
Comparing, for example, getting web broswers and a simple text editor to work for Chinese, Mac is the easiest, Unix has decent support for some editors and whatnot, but probably the most people are doing it on PC on pirated software.
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Funny, if it's such a hellhole, why do some American crypto companies operate in Finland? Because their government permits honest cryptographers to try to make a buck.
But then again, Slashdot trolls have a history preferring legalistic control by fascistic governmental regulations. They should let the market sort it out. This sort of intervention is what make America such a hell hole these days with rampant regulations and diseased lawyers everywhere.
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Right, but the majority of people out there believe in their heart of hearts that the way to make money is to fuck people over and use force, power, and leverage to wring cash out of their market. Outside of organized crime, they are wrong, of course, in the long run - IBM is more successful as a services company than as a vendorlock racket, and those who survive on Quality get through hard times better.
But there's a funny side effect of open source in these efforts; let'em die, get the code. Reverse vendorlock.
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Right. And I'm not going. But fan sites are part of people's lives, and I don't recall any of them inviting Warner Bros legal assfucks into their lives.
The fact is that on the net, it's easy for those fucking parasites to "do something" to justify their bloated salaries.
What crosses the line between a legitimate fan site and a commercial enterprise treading on the copyrights of others? If you aren't even trying to answer this question, then you are an unmitigated evil as far as the future is concerned.
But the quest to recrate a fake version of the things they are trying to destroy is like murdering Indians to clear the way for filming Dances with Wolves. It would be pathetic if it werent' the mother of all assgas straight from Satan's sphincter. Having been near the stuff, I can honestly say it's not the execs that are the problem so much as the toadies surrounding them and flattering them with grandoise fantasies of their power and wisdom who are wrecking culture for everyone.
And it's $10 in parts of Manhattan now.
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I work every day around people who have used Windows or Mac for years, and couldn't minimize a window without keystrokes if their life depended on it. I only recently learned to manipulate windows completely wiht the keyboard on my own window manager (WindowMaker, BTW). And that highlights the only part of consistency needed; pointing and clicking and using a mouse.
People under 30 and those without ossified brains could give a shit about consistency of user interface. They sit down and point and click and look around and figure out the rest later. The rest whine about their VCR clocks, and they are dinosaurs already.
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Recent court decisions have supported the idea that perpetually extending copyright is not the same as granting a perpetual copyright. If that's the case, how can I keep filing extensions on my tax returns so I never have to pay anything? And why is this kind of corporate welfare - a gift from the government to corporations at the expense of the people - acceptable to people who call themselves conservatives?
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Well, then, let's abandon all astronomy. After all, pictures of stars and galaxy clusters don't show you how they got to be that way. And forget geology, because most stuff happens too slowly to observe.
Seriously, it's called making theories based on observations. If you see a big rock with a big groove in the earth near it, you might conclude the rock was moved, say, by a glacier. On the other hand, if there's a nearby lava flow, maybe it was moved by volcanic processes.
That's a slightly silly example, but the point is that better data is really valuable. If anything, our experience correlating aerial views with ground views on earth provides a powerful reality check against our interpretations of mars photos from space.
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No, he means the *other* one that would have given Gore the presidency; the one where all counties (not just republican ones that slide through quickly because they know that Cruella DeHarris will back them up) recount.
It's not enough that our slavery is a "peculiar institution", that our genocide is "manifest destiny", that our assassinations are "lone nuts", now "our electoral process" would make "the President look bad if he turned out to get less votes". It make it hard to be sympathetic when Cheney has a "heart attack". We need all these euphemisms because we are "special". That's why our president is "special" too.
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Well, at this point you have shown that Mathematics alone is incapable of explaining two cups of sugar plus two of water - getting the answer depends on imposing other mental constructs (ideas; sugar, water, liquids, etc) on the question. So mathematics is really just a disconnected set of observations.
Goedel's work is about showing that when you apply these number games to numbers, you can't ever finishe the project, though if you tear down and start over again with a different set of observations (axioms), you might be able to answer things you couldn't previously (2 kg of water plus 2kg of sugar = 4 kg of sugared water).
Omega is some real weird stuff, though. It takes Godel and Turing to the infinity-and-beyond conclusion, pretty much shredding all math to idea forms imposed by our consciousness on a soup of randomness. I'm not sure I want to think about it, unless it can be used to power interstellar travel with an Incompleteness Difference Engine or unless it pulls the curtain away from the man behind it.
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I have to object to the comments added to this submission. The second article referenced does not refer to email from contituents as spam. It says "It's all the spam that clogs things up." I take this to mean that it's hard to find mail from constituents and other interested parties through the blizzard of spam, and they supposedly have a new system that will make it easier to trash mail that looks like spam. So don't send e-mail to your congressman in all-caps.
Besides, if you think only messages from consituents count, think again; lobbyists and other goons bearing cash get more attention from congressmen than their consituents do.
What is amazing is that the chain letters, stock scams, etc are getting sent straight to congressmen, who are less interested in forwarding the messages to law enforcement than in simply deleting it.
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Trademarks cannot be selectively enforced, but patents and copyrights can. See Unisys/GIF, Fraunhofer/MP3, or the Cult of Scientology. Oh, the last one was bogus, I just love tweaking those lying, evil, stinking, freedom-hating, brainwashing, murdering, sue-happy motherfuckers.
Hey, I heard that the Scientologists teach pederasty will get you into heaven! Didn't you hear that? Oh, well, I can't remember where I heard that, but it sounds true to me.
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There is also a station in New Jersey that is a former college station gone completely independent: WFMU
It's the best radio station I know of, if your tastes don't come from a jar. They are listener supported, and I'm just waiting for their upcoming drive to vote with my wallet.
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Long before the web, I seem to remember such things as the Morris Worm, widespread suspicion of government eavesdropping, unspoken suspicion that your local BOFH could do whatever he damned pleased, including read your mail.
Whatever. I don't think it's wise to counter Katz's romanticization of the future by romanticizing the near past.
It will keep changing. It never was ideal. It's gotten more interesting. Predictions of the death of the Internet are as old as the Internet.
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Actually, fair use could be defined precisely as giving you the right to duplicate whatever you want; it is the use to which you put it that controls whether the use is "fair" or not. This is why the post to which you are replying is correct; it is impossible to make a TECHNICAL distinction between fair use and illegitimate use.
Your example of the cable is ridiculous. Cable is a service. Connecting to a server to play multiuser games online is a service. A copy of a disk sitting in your house is not a service, and requires no additional resources from the original creator.
That being said, there is nothing to stop you from splitting the cable to different televisions. All it takes is a few cheap parts from Radio Shack. It's legal in anyplace in the US I know about. Since newer televisions are cable ready, you wouldn't even need additional cable boxes (which you can rent from your cable company; that's called "paying for it") except that they deliberately scramble most signals to make you rent the box, which amounts to a couple extra bucks a month. This is the same reason they make it hard to tape one show and watch another. The stations which you can get legally without it are those which they are REQUIRED to offer un-fucked.
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Geocities sucked long before Yahoo gobbled it up. Tripod was also good before it sucked. There's just an inevitable slide for free web pages; between abandoned pages, bogus notions of "community", controversial pages being stifled, and ever-more intrusive advertising, there's no way they can ever remain "good."
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The all-caps has nothing to do with HTML. But it does have to do with editing. A writer should know better than to put something out in all caps, or trust anyone who would. It makes a very poor case for his cause if he comes off like a technically ignorant hick.
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This was definitely an MIT prank. The cow was a life-sized plastic cow from the "Hilltop Steakhouse", a Boston area monument of cheese. The owner of said steakhouse, long rumored to have Mafia connections, was sufficiently amused that he not only declined to press charges but donated the cow to the the Prank Museum.
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That, and I wish I had a script for automatically handling commits from a small group of people for whom CVS is overkill, solely so I can track changes and back out of them day-by-day. This script would have to look through files and directories and intelligently handle renames, too. This is possible for text files at least, but I don't have a week to spend writing the script.
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Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
Funny, when I'm in Chinatown, I see no black market CDs that are also available in stores. Most of the "piracy" is movies not on video yet, and a few grey market DVDs (i.e. legally released elsewhere, legal to resell here, even if they don't like it, e.g. Crouching Tiger). To me this is perfect proof that the best defense against "piracy" is value.
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Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
The common attacks ARE patched against by clued-in admins, but you don't get an army of DDoS zombie boxes by ignoring the obvious exploits. I get scanned all the time for the most obvious security holes; port 137, port 53, port 111. When I've bothered to look, the source boxes have been (half the time - often the sources are fake!) unpatched-looking RedHat boxes from home internet connections (ISPs,broadband or otherwise). And in the weeks following the recent issues with BIND, I have regularly been scanned for port 53, and these guys are scanning whole networks of addresses for this port only.
In an ideal world, I would report these scans, and the administrators of the source boxen might be notified that their machines have already been hacked and are being used for scans, which could help prevent major DoS attacks, or even be used to observe packet monkeys early enough in the game to trace back to their origin (as opposed to getting to the attack boxes and finding a bunch of erased logs).
I'm not saying it will work, or that this is the best way to acheive that goal, but there are solid reasons (beyond giving wannabes a source of interesting info) to think that this is useful.
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Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
So nobody sued anyone.
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- I can use some killer Mac apps that I won't have for a long, long time on my un*x machine; ProTools, FinalCut, PhotoShop (I have a hard time with Gimp's interface). This means a machine I can have at home that doesn't scare my wife and doesn't disgust me.
- I work with a programmer who does a lot of Java programming under Windows. Finally, I will be able to throw out Samba and just give him NFS mounts, and I won't experience any more skunky permissions errors, user mapping due to his weird NT setup, etc. And, my graphics folks can do the same, so I can throw out netatalk. Two big filesharing apps out the window.
I find it weird that you can't imagine a Java programmer using Photoshop, ProTools, etc. You must hang around some pretty boring, limited people. And I don't think that because I use an xterm, I'm not making use of the graphics subsystem. If I can mouse over and see what's going on in a minimized terminal window, I am. I 've still not figured out how to manage the titles on my xterms properly so I can do this in WindowMaker.Boss of nothin. Big deal.
Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
Another reason I'm not worried? I'm running a chrooted bind. The feature is still labelled as "experimental" in the branch I'm running, but it works very well. There are instructions all over the net. Even if BIND is exploited, they won't get far.
The number of port 53 scans I've gotten in recent weeks should frighten the pants off anyone who is running an unpatched BIND. I would not be surprised if we see a major DDoS soon.
Boss of nothin. Big deal.
Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
Seriously, there's lots of point to it; it's not always obvious from America, where most people react to the mere idea of other languages with a face like someone farted.
Comparing, for example, getting web broswers and a simple text editor to work for Chinese, Mac is the easiest, Unix has decent support for some editors and whatnot, but probably the most people are doing it on PC on pirated software.
Boss of nothin. Big deal.
Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
But then again, Slashdot trolls have a history preferring legalistic control by fascistic governmental regulations. They should let the market sort it out. This sort of intervention is what make America such a hell hole these days with rampant regulations and diseased lawyers everywhere.
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But there's a funny side effect of open source in these efforts; let'em die, get the code. Reverse vendorlock.
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Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
The fact is that on the net, it's easy for those fucking parasites to "do something" to justify their bloated salaries.
What crosses the line between a legitimate fan site and a commercial enterprise treading on the copyrights of others? If you aren't even trying to answer this question, then you are an unmitigated evil as far as the future is concerned.
But the quest to recrate a fake version of the things they are trying to destroy is like murdering Indians to clear the way for filming Dances with Wolves. It would be pathetic if it werent' the mother of all assgas straight from Satan's sphincter. Having been near the stuff, I can honestly say it's not the execs that are the problem so much as the toadies surrounding them and flattering them with grandoise fantasies of their power and wisdom who are wrecking culture for everyone.
And it's $10 in parts of Manhattan now.
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Funny!
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People under 30 and those without ossified brains could give a shit about consistency of user interface. They sit down and point and click and look around and figure out the rest later. The rest whine about their VCR clocks, and they are dinosaurs already.
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Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
Recent court decisions have supported the idea that perpetually extending copyright is not the same as granting a perpetual copyright. If that's the case, how can I keep filing extensions on my tax returns so I never have to pay anything? And why is this kind of corporate welfare - a gift from the government to corporations at the expense of the people - acceptable to people who call themselves conservatives?
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Seriously, it's called making theories based on observations. If you see a big rock with a big groove in the earth near it, you might conclude the rock was moved, say, by a glacier. On the other hand, if there's a nearby lava flow, maybe it was moved by volcanic processes.
That's a slightly silly example, but the point is that better data is really valuable. If anything, our experience correlating aerial views with ground views on earth provides a powerful reality check against our interpretations of mars photos from space.
Boss of nothin. Big deal.
Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
It's not enough that our slavery is a "peculiar institution", that our genocide is "manifest destiny", that our assassinations are "lone nuts", now "our electoral process" would make "the President look bad if he turned out to get less votes". It make it hard to be sympathetic when Cheney has a "heart attack". We need all these euphemisms because we are "special". That's why our president is "special" too.
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Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
Goedel's work is about showing that when you apply these number games to numbers, you can't ever finishe the project, though if you tear down and start over again with a different set of observations (axioms), you might be able to answer things you couldn't previously (2 kg of water plus 2kg of sugar = 4 kg of sugared water).
Omega is some real weird stuff, though. It takes Godel and Turing to the infinity-and-beyond conclusion, pretty much shredding all math to idea forms imposed by our consciousness on a soup of randomness. I'm not sure I want to think about it, unless it can be used to power interstellar travel with an Incompleteness Difference Engine or unless it pulls the curtain away from the man behind it.
Boss of nothin. Big deal.
Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
Besides, if you think only messages from consituents count, think again; lobbyists and other goons bearing cash get more attention from congressmen than their consituents do.
What is amazing is that the chain letters, stock scams, etc are getting sent straight to congressmen, who are less interested in forwarding the messages to law enforcement than in simply deleting it.
Boss of nothin. Big deal.
Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
Trademarks cannot be selectively enforced, but patents and copyrights can. See Unisys/GIF, Fraunhofer/MP3, or the Cult of Scientology. Oh, the last one was bogus, I just love tweaking those lying, evil, stinking, freedom-hating, brainwashing, murdering, sue-happy motherfuckers.
Hey, I heard that the Scientologists teach pederasty will get you into heaven! Didn't you hear that? Oh, well, I can't remember where I heard that, but it sounds true to me.
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Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
It's not their fault so many are stupid and humorless enough to believe it...
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It's the best radio station I know of, if your tastes don't come from a jar. They are listener supported, and I'm just waiting for their upcoming drive to vote with my wallet.
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Long before the web, I seem to remember such things as the Morris Worm, widespread suspicion of government eavesdropping, unspoken suspicion that your local BOFH could do whatever he damned pleased, including read your mail.
Whatever. I don't think it's wise to counter Katz's romanticization of the future by romanticizing the near past.
It will keep changing. It never was ideal. It's gotten more interesting. Predictions of the death of the Internet are as old as the Internet.
Boss of nothin. Big deal.
Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
Your example of the cable is ridiculous. Cable is a service. Connecting to a server to play multiuser games online is a service. A copy of a disk sitting in your house is not a service, and requires no additional resources from the original creator.
That being said, there is nothing to stop you from splitting the cable to different televisions. All it takes is a few cheap parts from Radio Shack. It's legal in anyplace in the US I know about. Since newer televisions are cable ready, you wouldn't even need additional cable boxes (which you can rent from your cable company; that's called "paying for it") except that they deliberately scramble most signals to make you rent the box, which amounts to a couple extra bucks a month. This is the same reason they make it hard to tape one show and watch another. The stations which you can get legally without it are those which they are REQUIRED to offer un-fucked.
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Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
Geocities sucked long before Yahoo gobbled it up. Tripod was also good before it sucked. There's just an inevitable slide for free web pages; between abandoned pages, bogus notions of "community", controversial pages being stifled, and ever-more intrusive advertising, there's no way they can ever remain "good."
Boss of nothin. Big deal.
Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
The all-caps has nothing to do with HTML. But it does have to do with editing. A writer should know better than to put something out in all caps, or trust anyone who would. It makes a very poor case for his cause if he comes off like a technically ignorant hick.
Boss of nothin. Big deal.
Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
This was definitely an MIT prank. The cow was a life-sized plastic cow from the "Hilltop Steakhouse", a Boston area monument of cheese. The owner of said steakhouse, long rumored to have Mafia connections, was sufficiently amused that he not only declined to press charges but donated the cow to the the Prank Museum.
Boss of nothin. Big deal.
Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.