Thank you for providing in a short pair of sentances a powerful example of exactly WHY the Bill of Rights was such a bad idea.
The fear was that anything not included wouldn't be considered a right, despite the best efforts to the contrary. Has there EVER been a case decided on Ammendment 9 or 10 grounds?
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Sounds to me like this is yet another abuse of the commerce clause. You could make a case that restrictions on what someone can do with a VCR could be passed by the states, but it's NOT a federal power. And while some form of copyright and patent protection is required by the constitution, it's NOT spelled out that it has to be the current form.
Since you've pirated your desktop software, you have to pay for it somehow. So you pay for it on the server.
Yes, I know. Don't even point out the horrid illogic in that concept. I also like how w2k AS would leak CALs forever if the client was reformatted, so you had to buy licences over and over. The only fix was to delete the stuck licences and forcing a re-activation of them with *ahem* third party software
I also loved how their fix for it in SPwhatever didn't actually fix the broken licences, it only prevented further problems. I also love how you have to buy both Citrix per-client licences _AND_ M$ per-client licences. In fact, I'm full of love for the whole awesome business model of finding ways to pick up an extra few hundred dollars per node that doesn't have to show up on the ofiginal price tag. Brilliant!
so when the C++ ABI was ratified, it was a BAD thing for GCC to support it? Because they had picked their own before then? Even though GCC is now compatable with all other standards-based compilers?
Those terrible developers.
Freescale's MC9S12NE64 is what you're looking for, if you can build from scratch. That can do a LOT more then simple ping, and it's
a $10 part. Of course, you need to be able to layout a board, get it prototyped and solder a 112QFP part, but for the slashdot crowd that should be something you do before breakfast.
For those who don't get what the big deal is, it's an ethernet MAC AND PHY attached to a 16bit Microcontroller WITH 8kb ram and 64kb flash. I.E. hook up power and an RJ45 connector.
GAIM filetransfers have improved quite a bit, but if you're running your own linux-based nat, you can help it along quite a bit by running the reaim transparent proxy.
Also, looks like HEAD has support for uPNP for multiple protocols, so it should help.
AIM filetransfers work either direction, as long as you can get a direct connection estabilshed. The problem lies when both ends are behind NAT, things tend to break down. reaim or uPnP makes your end viable, so even
if the remote end has a broken firewall you can have them connect to you and Voila, it all Just Works(tm)
My complaint is the lack of VoIP support, but it looks like that's nearly finished.
... But as a private ISP, L3 and Cogent are allowed to not accept packets from someone they're having a business dispute with. L3 feels cogent is misrepresenting their status to qualify for peering, Cogent doesn't want to pay someone for transit when they can dump the packets for free. Exacerbated by the fact that Cogent is completely undercutting L3's prices, and to L3 it feels like they're doing it by cost-shifting unto other carriers using free peering rather then paid transit.
Fun!
As was pointed out numerous times, both of them have many other peers in common that could correct this with a few quick router commands. It would be expensive (multi-thousands per day), but in a disaster situation it would be done. We're talking about 7.5% of L3's customer base and 11% of Cogent's base having partial internet unreachability. This isn't a widespread OMG SKY IS FALLING event. Hell, we're all still posting this on slashdot VIA THE INTERNET WHICH IS OPERATING AS DESIGNED.
On a completely unrelated note, this is my 1000th post to Slashdot. It's a dubious accomplishment: I'm rather proud of some of the things I've written here, but the effort to create 1000 Slashdot posts is probably greater than the effort to write a textbook or a novel.
Don't be too proud of this one, you're 100% wrong. Only the administrator can change the username for a given UID. Even changing a password requires administrator privs. (Which is why/bin/passwd is suid root)
The site couldn't even crack 'god', one of the most common passwords. And for good reason, too.
The unix standard has been random salted DES for years. Switching to MD5 kept that cleartext salt in the format, but upgraded it from 2 bytes to 8 (2^12 -> 2^48). That's pretty much beyond the ability of any database to store. (256 trillian permutations per password)
He's going to have to change his email because of SLASHDOT? Children that have the attention span of a fast-cut hip-hop video? Get over yourself. He'll get some rude mail, another story will come out, everyone will be OUTRAEGDE!!!111eleven! and his life will return to normal.
Hey tard-tastic, please read the article.
They're not hosting with the ISP, the ISP is filtering out their webpages to all the ISP customers. Since that includes nearly everyone who wants to unionize, it's a pretty big blow to the effort. This is known as "abusing monopoly powers" and is the kind of shit that you shouldn't let them get away with.
I'm not a citizen there, so not much I can do.
I do object to making people immune to the law, particularly when it's very likely that many of their actions are in fact illegal.
Sweet. So anonymity is a tool that can kill people, rape children, blackmail, extort, vandalise and park in handicapped spaces? And by using it I'm above the law?
Anonymity is actually a GOOD thing for law enforcement. Pedophiles trade with each other, murderers brag, etc. The alternative is that they never communicate at all. Anything they say is a clue as to who they are and what they did. Especially the pedophiles. I know of one that was caught based on anonymously traded photographs. Even with faces blacked out, they placed where the pictures were taken (A disney hotel room) and the timeframe (based on the decor).
So yes please, let's shut down all the anonymous networks.
Even if by some miracle, the black man in the United States was never discriminated against, that would not change their situation recoving from generations of oppression.
Watch it, you just fell into the trap of saying "dem niggers are gee-netikally inferior" and believing it.
Equality comes when people quit spouting racist bullshit like that, in either direction. When there are no niggers/black people/african americans, but just people, doing jobs, living their lives. When there's no quotas, no special status, no affimative action. No seperate but equal crap.
But we're not likely to see that in our lifetime. Too bad. Caucasions are likely to be a minority in parts of the US very shortly and it'll really suck to be on the recieving end.
But I guess that'd be "justice for the sins of our ancestors", right? There's a religeous concept for you. Guilty by bloodline. Hah!
Suns first, then solid ground. In fact, supernovas first. Thats where most (all?) of the elements aside from hydrogen come from. The sun didn't coalesce out of iron, it coalesced out of a hydrogen gas which it is slowly transmuting into helium.
Wow, lots of factual mistakes.
PCI-X != PCI Express. PCI is a bus, PCI-X is a faster version of that bus. PCI-Express is next-gen AGP. I don't know of many PCI-X video cards.
As for input, seperate devices are marked seprately in the kernel, if you just use/dev/input it conglomerates all the inputs. You still need a decent Xserver/servers to handle all the seperate sessions, though.
And since X is monolithic, you'll need to run seperate X threads per display, or one idiot going to a website with a thousand animated.gifs will stop everyone.
In short: Bad Idea.
The article doesn't give details, but I believe this is the crackdown on those shitty "9999 videogames for $9.95!" booths at every mall. Yup, those pieces of crap. Not only is it just blatant copyright infringment, it's some massive trademark dilution too. They make "9999" videogames because they just rename the NES games over and over. So you've got "Ice climbers" "Glacier Climbers" "Slippery Climbers"... bah.
Oh, and 75 copies of "Duck Hunt" that you can't use because they don't actually have a proper controller, etc, etc.
Good riddance to bad garbage. See, _THIS_ is software piracy. It's the same as selling copied DVDs/CDs for massive profits. This is the crap they should be spending effort on, not p2p networks.
I'll bite on the florida decision.
The florida supreme court was making up laws. There _WAS_ a law on the books for how to handle a recount. The only right of the court to handle it would be to declare the two laws in conflict (Federal equal protection to voters vs State voting regulations) and force an emergency session of state legislature to bring the law into compliance. Making up new recount rules is creating law. Judges do NOT create law. Judges do NOT enforce law. We have three seperate branches for a reason.
P.S. Miami-Dade county went on recounting anyway, despite the supreme court order. Know why you didn't hear about it? It kept going farther towards Bush the more they counted. They quietly buried it. Gotta love it. Not only were they willing to go against the supreme court, they were only willing to do it to get a specific result.
Also, I've cited as many references as you have.
The main "iTunes raising prices" is a dupe from yesterday, and "iTunes under investigation in the UK" is _ALSO_ a dupe from a recent article.
Jesus christ, Taco, if this were a free-site and you were not getting PAID for it, I could see slacking off. But damnit, you have advertisers and subscribers. That implies a certain level of responsibility. Live up to it.
Wow, well, as 30 million people pointed out, it should be |, not &.
However, I tested something entertaining: Putting a static inline roll(a, b) in a header, making it switch on b and using 32 case: statements.
GCC knows exactly what to do.
wherever I used it, it replaced the entire inline construct with a roll() call. Hell, if I used it with constants, GCC eliminated the entire roll instruction and simply pre-computed the constant value.
I'd give this a big vote of "Write legible code, profile when you're done IFF it's slow."
The compiler is a shitload smarter then you are.
You're thinking raid4. Raid4 is parity, and given
a "dumb" disk, it would fail if bad bits were returned. Again, disks return good data, or none at all.
Raid-5 is more complex, using ECC, and you can't say "this disk is dedicated to ECC" because it's rotated through all the disks for performance reasons.
(Reposted for legibility, I noticed "HTML Formatted" about the time I clicked Submit)
I'll bite.
They have the right to share because they have the information. Communicating is a natural right. You're talking about an artifical "right", the construct of copyright.
At the same time, they're not taking away your right to sell copies. No police are going to raid you for trying to sell a book you wrote if someone else copied it.
The way this was handled in the past is that art was performed in limited circumstances. A storyteller would tell a story for a fee. A wealthy patron would buy art to keep in his private collection. Nobody else had it, because they never shared.
The use of force to enforce an artificial right is justified ONLY to change that situation. By using force, the government "buys" the ability of everyone to see the art, or hear the story. It gives sharing a value. And I agree with it 100%.
The bargain was that they would only use force for a limited time. That's the part that got perverted. The reaction is pretty obvious, too. Since it will never fufill it's part of the bargain, why not just ignore the government now and copy it? If Shrek 2 by law will never EVER become public domain, then it becomes de-facto public domain by the will of the people.
Why do filetraders garner such sympathy? Because the faceless corperations are seen as greedy and often evil. Change the balance, and filetraders would look like impatient twats that need to grow up and learn a lesson.
Oh, and destroying archives before they hit PD? That's really fucking evil, and should be fined by 100% of all revenues garnered by the use of government force to profit.
I'll bite.
They have the right to share because they have the information. Communicating is a natural right. You're talking about an artifical "right", the construct of copyright.
At the same time, they're not taking away your right to sell copies. No police are going to raid you for trying to sell a book you wrote if someone else copied it.
The way this was handled in the past is that art was performed in limited circumstances. A storyteller would tell a story for a fee. A wealthy patron would buy art to keep in his private collection. Nobody else had it, because they never shared.
The use of force to enforce an artificial right is justified ONLY to change that situation. By using force, the government "buys" the ability of everyone to see the art, or hear the story. It gives sharing a value. And I agree with it 100%.
The bargain was that they would only use force for a limited time. That's the part that got perverted. The reaction is pretty obvious, too. Since it will never fufill it's part of the bargain, why not just ignore the government now and copy it? If Shrek 2 by law will never EVER become public domain, then it becomes de-facto public domain by the will of the people.
Why do filetraders garner such sympathy? Because the faceless corperations are seen as greedy and often evil. Change the balance, and filetraders would look like impatient twats that need to grow up and learn a lesson.
Oh, and destroying archives before they hit PD? That's really fucking evil, and should be fined by 100% of all revenues garnered by the use of government force to profit.
Let's propagate a few less urban legends. Hindenburg was NOT a hydrogen fire. It was a fire of the highly HIGHLY flammable coating on the baloon itself. The hydrogen was gone pretty quickly, and would have simply burned out of wherever it was escaping from.
"It was skinned in cotton, doped with iron oxide and cellulose acetate butyrate impregnated with aluminium powder."
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The fear was that anything not included wouldn't be considered a right, despite the best efforts to the contrary. Has there EVER been a case decided on Ammendment 9 or 10 grounds?
Sounds to me like this is yet another abuse of the commerce clause. You could make a case that restrictions on what someone can do with a VCR could be passed by the states, but it's NOT a federal power. And while some form of copyright and patent protection is required by the constitution, it's NOT spelled out that it has to be the current form.Since you've pirated your desktop software, you have to pay for it somehow. So you pay for it on the server.
Yes, I know. Don't even point out the horrid illogic in that concept. I also like how w2k AS would leak CALs forever if the client was reformatted, so you had to buy licences over and over. The only fix was to delete the stuck licences and forcing a re-activation of them with *ahem* third party software
I also loved how their fix for it in SPwhatever didn't actually fix the broken licences, it only prevented further problems. I also love how you have to buy both Citrix per-client licences _AND_ M$ per-client licences. In fact, I'm full of love for the whole awesome business model of finding ways to pick up an extra few hundred dollars per node that doesn't have to show up on the ofiginal price tag. Brilliant!
so when the C++ ABI was ratified, it was a BAD thing for GCC to support it? Because they had picked their own before then? Even though GCC is now compatable with all other standards-based compilers? Those terrible developers.
For those who don't get what the big deal is, it's an ethernet MAC AND PHY attached to a 16bit Microcontroller WITH 8kb ram and 64kb flash. I.E. hook up power and an RJ45 connector.
Also, looks like HEAD has support for uPNP for multiple protocols, so it should help.
AIM filetransfers work either direction, as long as you can get a direct connection estabilshed. The problem lies when both ends are behind NAT, things tend to break down. reaim or uPnP makes your end viable, so even if the remote end has a broken firewall you can have them connect to you and Voila, it all Just Works(tm)
My complaint is the lack of VoIP support, but it looks like that's nearly finished.
Gimp improvements are a waste of time until they fix the pathetic 8 bit limitation. Jesus. This isn't even worth a point release.
Fun!
As was pointed out numerous times, both of them have many other peers in common that could correct this with a few quick router commands. It would be expensive (multi-thousands per day), but in a disaster situation it would be done. We're talking about 7.5% of L3's customer base and 11% of Cogent's base having partial internet unreachability. This isn't a widespread OMG SKY IS FALLING event. Hell, we're all still posting this on slashdot VIA THE INTERNET WHICH IS OPERATING AS DESIGNED.
In soviet russia, hot grits, WHAT ABOUT THE FIRST AMMENDMENT!!1ELEVEN! and of course first post.
Don't be too proud of this one, you're 100% wrong. Only the administrator can change the username for a given UID. Even changing a password requires administrator privs. (Which is why /bin/passwd is suid root)
The site couldn't even crack 'god', one of the most common passwords. And for good reason, too.
The unix standard has been random salted DES for years. Switching to MD5 kept that cleartext salt in the format, but upgraded it from 2 bytes to 8 (2^12 -> 2^48). That's pretty much beyond the ability of any database to store. (256 trillian permutations per password)
NT, however, is hosed.
And next week nobody will know or care.
Hey tard-tastic, please read the article. They're not hosting with the ISP, the ISP is filtering out their webpages to all the ISP customers. Since that includes nearly everyone who wants to unionize, it's a pretty big blow to the effort. This is known as "abusing monopoly powers" and is the kind of shit that you shouldn't let them get away with. I'm not a citizen there, so not much I can do.
Anonymity is actually a GOOD thing for law enforcement. Pedophiles trade with each other, murderers brag, etc. The alternative is that they never communicate at all. Anything they say is a clue as to who they are and what they did. Especially the pedophiles. I know of one that was caught based on anonymously traded photographs. Even with faces blacked out, they placed where the pictures were taken (A disney hotel room) and the timeframe (based on the decor).
So yes please, let's shut down all the anonymous networks.
Watch it, you just fell into the trap of saying "dem niggers are gee-netikally inferior" and believing it.
Equality comes when people quit spouting racist bullshit like that, in either direction. When there are no niggers/black people/african americans, but just people, doing jobs, living their lives. When there's no quotas, no special status, no affimative action. No seperate but equal crap.
But we're not likely to see that in our lifetime. Too bad. Caucasions are likely to be a minority in parts of the US very shortly and it'll really suck to be on the recieving end.
But I guess that'd be "justice for the sins of our ancestors", right? There's a religeous concept for you. Guilty by bloodline. Hah!
Suns first, then solid ground. In fact, supernovas first. Thats where most (all?) of the elements aside from hydrogen come from. The sun didn't coalesce out of iron, it coalesced out of a hydrogen gas which it is slowly transmuting into helium.
Wow, lots of factual mistakes. PCI-X != PCI Express. PCI is a bus, PCI-X is a faster version of that bus. PCI-Express is next-gen AGP. I don't know of many PCI-X video cards. As for input, seperate devices are marked seprately in the kernel, if you just use /dev/input it conglomerates all the inputs. You still need a decent Xserver/servers to handle all the seperate sessions, though.
And since X is monolithic, you'll need to run seperate X threads per display, or one idiot going to a website with a thousand animated .gifs will stop everyone.
In short: Bad Idea.
The article doesn't give details, but I believe this is the crackdown on those shitty "9999 videogames for $9.95!" booths at every mall. Yup, those pieces of crap. Not only is it just blatant copyright infringment, it's some massive trademark dilution too. They make "9999" videogames because they just rename the NES games over and over. So you've got "Ice climbers" "Glacier Climbers" "Slippery Climbers"... bah. Oh, and 75 copies of "Duck Hunt" that you can't use because they don't actually have a proper controller, etc, etc. Good riddance to bad garbage. See, _THIS_ is software piracy. It's the same as selling copied DVDs/CDs for massive profits. This is the crap they should be spending effort on, not p2p networks.
Except last I checked, LSI's "Megamgr" utility is binary-only. Is there an open-source managment interface to LSI yet?
I'll bite on the florida decision. The florida supreme court was making up laws. There _WAS_ a law on the books for how to handle a recount. The only right of the court to handle it would be to declare the two laws in conflict (Federal equal protection to voters vs State voting regulations) and force an emergency session of state legislature to bring the law into compliance. Making up new recount rules is creating law. Judges do NOT create law. Judges do NOT enforce law. We have three seperate branches for a reason. P.S. Miami-Dade county went on recounting anyway, despite the supreme court order. Know why you didn't hear about it? It kept going farther towards Bush the more they counted. They quietly buried it. Gotta love it. Not only were they willing to go against the supreme court, they were only willing to do it to get a specific result. Also, I've cited as many references as you have.
The main "iTunes raising prices" is a dupe from yesterday, and "iTunes under investigation in the UK" is _ALSO_ a dupe from a recent article. Jesus christ, Taco, if this were a free-site and you were not getting PAID for it, I could see slacking off. But damnit, you have advertisers and subscribers. That implies a certain level of responsibility. Live up to it.
Wow, well, as 30 million people pointed out, it should be |, not &. However, I tested something entertaining: Putting a static inline roll(a, b) in a header, making it switch on b and using 32 case: statements. GCC knows exactly what to do. wherever I used it, it replaced the entire inline construct with a roll() call. Hell, if I used it with constants, GCC eliminated the entire roll instruction and simply pre-computed the constant value. I'd give this a big vote of "Write legible code, profile when you're done IFF it's slow." The compiler is a shitload smarter then you are.
You're thinking raid4. Raid4 is parity, and given a "dumb" disk, it would fail if bad bits were returned. Again, disks return good data, or none at all. Raid-5 is more complex, using ECC, and you can't say "this disk is dedicated to ECC" because it's rotated through all the disks for performance reasons.
(Reposted for legibility, I noticed "HTML Formatted" about the time I clicked Submit)
I'll bite.
They have the right to share because they have the information. Communicating is a natural right. You're talking about an artifical "right", the construct of copyright.
At the same time, they're not taking away your right to sell copies. No police are going to raid you for trying to sell a book you wrote if someone else copied it.
The way this was handled in the past is that art was performed in limited circumstances. A storyteller would tell a story for a fee. A wealthy patron would buy art to keep in his private collection. Nobody else had it, because they never shared.
The use of force to enforce an artificial right is justified ONLY to change that situation. By using force, the government "buys" the ability of everyone to see the art, or hear the story. It gives sharing a value. And I agree with it 100%.
The bargain was that they would only use force for a limited time. That's the part that got perverted. The reaction is pretty obvious, too. Since it will never fufill it's part of the bargain, why not just ignore the government now and copy it? If Shrek 2 by law will never EVER become public domain, then it becomes de-facto public domain by the will of the people.
Why do filetraders garner such sympathy? Because the faceless corperations are seen as greedy and often evil. Change the balance, and filetraders would look like impatient twats that need to grow up and learn a lesson.
Oh, and destroying archives before they hit PD? That's really fucking evil, and should be fined by 100% of all revenues garnered by the use of government force to profit.
I'll bite. They have the right to share because they have the information. Communicating is a natural right. You're talking about an artifical "right", the construct of copyright. At the same time, they're not taking away your right to sell copies. No police are going to raid you for trying to sell a book you wrote if someone else copied it. The way this was handled in the past is that art was performed in limited circumstances. A storyteller would tell a story for a fee. A wealthy patron would buy art to keep in his private collection. Nobody else had it, because they never shared. The use of force to enforce an artificial right is justified ONLY to change that situation. By using force, the government "buys" the ability of everyone to see the art, or hear the story. It gives sharing a value. And I agree with it 100%. The bargain was that they would only use force for a limited time. That's the part that got perverted. The reaction is pretty obvious, too. Since it will never fufill it's part of the bargain, why not just ignore the government now and copy it? If Shrek 2 by law will never EVER become public domain, then it becomes de-facto public domain by the will of the people. Why do filetraders garner such sympathy? Because the faceless corperations are seen as greedy and often evil. Change the balance, and filetraders would look like impatient twats that need to grow up and learn a lesson. Oh, and destroying archives before they hit PD? That's really fucking evil, and should be fined by 100% of all revenues garnered by the use of government force to profit.
"It was skinned in cotton, doped with iron oxide and cellulose acetate butyrate impregnated with aluminium powder."
Yes kids, the hindenburg was coated in THERMITE.
Don't you mean TFTP?