It is my understanding that the ISDA it out there to fight censorship, among other things. They have been touted as a fighter for the video game industry and the myths behind violent videogames that have become "facts" to people in congress. In the article there was a thing about chains like wal*mart having influence, since they are huge, and if a violent videogame doesnt get carried in wal*mart, then it wont sell. It seems that the issue is more of a self censorship thing, kind of like the movie industry (cutting back a movie from nc-17 to R), but then again, i could be wrong, i just skimmed the article.
The best I could find was an article on news.com reversing a california judge's 1999 order barring posting of the code on the internet, because it violated the defendants first ammendment rights. Check it out http://news.com.com/2100-1026_3-5166887.html?tag=n efd_top
What puzzles me is how plain text (the source code) that COULD encourage someone to do something "illegal" is not allowed, yet things like the anarchist's cookbook are allowed to be published online (I dont think access to either should be restricted, I just think that decss is just a good way to show how weak encryption can be easily defeated)
I still wear my DeCSS shirt from, i think it was copyleft.net, occationally. Made the mistake of doing so at a family reunion, and got lots of strange looks from my law enforcement parts of the family.
Hm, maybe the jokes about the/. editor's bad grammar and writing shouldn't be made, when they use something as complicated as alliteration in the title.
Funny how the games listed there are all microsoft games. You'd think that MS would know how to get a game to run without Admin access... Well, I'd like to think anyhow:)
the problem is people consume music and movies in different ways: for a lot of people, music is in the background all the time, driving to work, etc. Movies are only watched ocationally. Thats why netflix can work, but im very wary (however interested) in this scheme and the planned service.
I would say i get more entertainment out of a CD then i would a dvd over the course of a year. I might use the dvd once or twice, but id listen to the album dozens of times. Good thing the prices are going down (well, still free... heh heh)
Zaurus 5500/5600. I got mine last summer, and a buddy of mine picked his up for about 150 on ebay, with wifi and some memory cards. Mine is great for what i use it for, and thus gets used all the time (worth every penny, etc...)
course, mine was given to me, but i was about to buy one anyway.
plus, linux on the handheld (much better than i anticipated it would be... i LOVE my Z)
At least, thats whats available by default. All the other distros ive used do the same. Koffice is there, but not as 'visible' to your average user, so to speak. If they want choice, they can dig, and use gnome, or icewm, or whatever, or konqueror or opera. The choice is there, its not that you HAVE to make the choice
What would this cost? Do they charge something like cpu/hours or the like? Will the average person have the ability to rent some clock cycles? I just want something that will be able to run doom3 when it comes out.
i got a preview edition through the msdnaa, and had this happen too. so, i was trying it " 'for the last time'' and got distracted. came back to my pc, 2.5 hours later, just as it was finishing. guess they have a bit of work to do on hardware detecrion...
Ive ran direcway for 2+ years, and my expirences are mixed. We have the older modem, so my router is (ick) a windoze machine. From there, wifi serves our house with access. Basically, its better than dialup. Doing any kind of remote terminal access is awful (type a character, appears several seconds later). Also, which is probably mentioned in the comments, the issue with FAP. Luckily, i convinced my parents to upgrade to a buisness class service. Getting a full ISO of a linux distro takes over night, but doesnt get my connection killed like it did with the basic service. Once you pay off the hardware, its not a whole lot more than cable, but for us geeks in the sticks, its about the only option. I say go for it taco, but beware of its many caveats.
oh, and i would love to get my hands on the new modem with the rj45 connectors. Would make running my home network MUCH easier than "relying" on windowsXP.
i had an ATI once a few years back... Biggest piece of crap i ever used. Unfortunately, it was my Dads pc, and he wouldnt let me buy a different card. Lame drivers, terrible game support. And it was an all in wonder card, the tv tuning barely worked. Ugh, ive been Nvidia ever since, and have had like an eigth of the problems over three successive cards.
And you'll be glad theres nothing but fantasy out there. Not me, however. The more virtual people i can kill, the less real people ill off. I mean, ive got quotas. Rockstar and company help me out in that sense.
haha, good point. But not every worker in the states is fat and overpaid. I make 8 bux an hour and live in a room the size of most peoples bathrooms. Of course, im still in college... heh.
Our Uni does this. It kinda sucks for bittorrent linux iso downloads, but the upshot is that http/ftp are basically untouched. So every l337 kid who is downloading mp3s on kazaa gets dicked, and the rest of us with legit purposes, like windows updates and linux downloads, can get it in a resonable amount of time. I just hope that bittorrent doesnt become the defacto standard for all distribution, coz then the internet will totally suck. For me, at least.
Now you know why i download all my stuff at our university before i go home for breaks, like i just grabbed Gentoo before i left school. Granted, my dads buisness pays for the service, and the service is the corp, not the residential. It still sucks. And boy, does he get pissed if i accidentally leave Bittorrent open all night and he goes to send some emails in the morning...
what are you going to do when the robots come for you. and they will.
An insurance policy with robot coverage? Surely, im too old for that.
and when they grab you with those claws you cant break free, coz they are made of metal, and robots are strong
http://www.robotcombat.com/video_oldglory_hi.html
The company I interned for this summer had some of this going on: we had tags we would place on residents for certain purposes (ones that would detect urine in an adult diaper, would alert nurse if a resident pissed themself, and wouldn't sit in thier own piss till a nurse came to check, cut down on urinary tract infections, as well as ones that would detect if a person with alzimers wandered too far from their room, that sort of thing). While not in an ad hoc network style, these would at least alert the nearest CNA that something was ary. And if the alert went unchecked, it would go up the chain of command, possibly to the point where the head nurse or director of the home would be notified, and someones ass would be in trouble. Was an interesting application, though i wasnt lucky enough to have worked on them. I got to work on the CRM software. woo and stuff.
well, working 2 jobs while in college helps with the beer money situation... heh.
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Which is exactly the route the startup i interned for followed. While the Funds were low, it was enough to cover my 40 hour pay check, so i was happy not to tell anyone what i was doing. It wasnt really that interesting anyway...
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It is my understanding that the ISDA it out there to fight censorship, among other things. They have been touted as a fighter for the video game industry and the myths behind violent videogames that have become "facts" to people in congress. In the article there was a thing about chains like wal*mart having influence, since they are huge, and if a violent videogame doesnt get carried in wal*mart, then it wont sell. It seems that the issue is more of a self censorship thing, kind of like the movie industry (cutting back a movie from nc-17 to R), but then again, i could be wrong, i just skimmed the article.
The best I could find was an article on news.com reversing a california judge's 1999 order barring posting of the code on the internet, because it violated the defendants first ammendment rights. Check it out http://news.com.com/2100-1026_3-5166887.html?tag=n efd_top
What puzzles me is how plain text (the source code) that COULD encourage someone to do something "illegal" is not allowed, yet things like the anarchist's cookbook are allowed to be published online (I dont think access to either should be restricted, I just think that decss is just a good way to show how weak encryption can be easily defeated)
I still wear my DeCSS shirt from, i think it was copyleft.net, occationally. Made the mistake of doing so at a family reunion, and got lots of strange looks from my law enforcement parts of the family.
Hm, maybe the jokes about the /. editor's bad grammar and writing shouldn't be made, when they use something as complicated as alliteration in the title.
Funny how the games listed there are all microsoft games. You'd think that MS would know how to get a game to run without Admin access... Well, I'd like to think anyhow :)
the problem is people consume music and movies in different ways: for a lot of people, music is in the background all the time, driving to work, etc. Movies are only watched ocationally. Thats why netflix can work, but im very wary (however interested) in this scheme and the planned service.
I would say i get more entertainment out of a CD then i would a dvd over the course of a year. I might use the dvd once or twice, but id listen to the album dozens of times. Good thing the prices are going down (well, still free... heh heh)
Zaurus 5500/5600. I got mine last summer, and a buddy of mine picked his up for about 150 on ebay, with wifi and some memory cards. Mine is great for what i use it for, and thus gets used all the time (worth every penny, etc...)
course, mine was given to me, but i was about to buy one anyway.
plus, linux on the handheld (much better than i anticipated it would be... i LOVE my Z)
Debian:
Desktop: KDE
Browser: Mozilla
Office: OpenOffice
At least, thats whats available by default. All the other distros ive used do the same. Koffice is there, but not as 'visible' to your average user, so to speak. If they want choice, they can dig, and use gnome, or icewm, or whatever, or konqueror or opera. The choice is there, its not that you HAVE to make the choice
Im sure it looked cool on the server though...
ugh. enough already. shouldnt it be:
1: 640k
2: ???
3: PROFIT!
or
imagine a beowulf cluster of 640k!
or
litigous 640k
or
goat640k.cx
or
in soviet russia, 640k needs no more than you!
maybe i read slashdot too much, but i just see the same crap moderated "funny" all the time...
What would this cost? Do they charge something like cpu/hours or the like? Will the average person have the ability to rent some clock cycles? I just want something that will be able to run doom3 when it comes out.
i got a preview edition through the msdnaa, and had this happen too. so, i was trying it "
'for the last time'' and got distracted. came back to my pc, 2.5 hours later, just as it was finishing. guess they have a bit of work to do on hardware detecrion...
Ive ran direcway for 2+ years, and my expirences are mixed. We have the older modem, so my router is (ick) a windoze machine. From there, wifi serves our house with access. Basically, its better than dialup. Doing any kind of remote terminal access is awful (type a character, appears several seconds later). Also, which is probably mentioned in the comments, the issue with FAP. Luckily, i convinced my parents to upgrade to a buisness class service. Getting a full ISO of a linux distro takes over night, but doesnt get my connection killed like it did with the basic service. Once you pay off the hardware, its not a whole lot more than cable, but for us geeks in the sticks, its about the only option. I say go for it taco, but beware of its many caveats. oh, and i would love to get my hands on the new modem with the rj45 connectors. Would make running my home network MUCH easier than "relying" on windowsXP.
i had an ATI once a few years back... Biggest piece of crap i ever used. Unfortunately, it was my Dads pc, and he wouldnt let me buy a different card. Lame drivers, terrible game support. And it was an all in wonder card, the tv tuning barely worked. Ugh, ive been Nvidia ever since, and have had like an eigth of the problems over three successive cards.
And you'll be glad theres nothing but fantasy out there. Not me, however. The more virtual people i can kill, the less real people ill off. I mean, ive got quotas. Rockstar and company help me out in that sense.
That, and ssx3. What a sweet game.
Its not the size of the list thats scary. Its the size of the companies that is. Ha, and dont forget linux isnt all american either. heh.
haha, good point. But not every worker in the states is fat and overpaid. I make 8 bux an hour and live in a room the size of most peoples bathrooms. Of course, im still in college... heh.
This I did not know. Is there a comprehensive list of companies that do this? I want to know who to support and who to tell to piss off.
Good thing i cant afford any of these anyway.
Yeah, its somewhat OT. Shutupp.
Our Uni does this. It kinda sucks for bittorrent linux iso downloads, but the upshot is that http/ftp are basically untouched. So every l337 kid who is downloading mp3s on kazaa gets dicked, and the rest of us with legit purposes, like windows updates and linux downloads, can get it in a resonable amount of time. I just hope that bittorrent doesnt become the defacto standard for all distribution, coz then the internet will totally suck. For me, at least.
Now you know why i download all my stuff at our university before i go home for breaks, like i just grabbed Gentoo before i left school. Granted, my dads buisness pays for the service, and the service is the corp, not the residential. It still sucks. And boy, does he get pissed if i accidentally leave Bittorrent open all night and he goes to send some emails in the morning...
what are you going to do when the robots come for you. and they will. An insurance policy with robot coverage? Surely, im too old for that. and when they grab you with those claws you cant break free, coz they are made of metal, and robots are strong http://www.robotcombat.com/video_oldglory_hi.html
The company I interned for this summer had some of this going on: we had tags we would place on residents for certain purposes (ones that would detect urine in an adult diaper, would alert nurse if a resident pissed themself, and wouldn't sit in thier own piss till a nurse came to check, cut down on urinary tract infections, as well as ones that would detect if a person with alzimers wandered too far from their room, that sort of thing). While not in an ad hoc network style, these would at least alert the nearest CNA that something was ary. And if the alert went unchecked, it would go up the chain of command, possibly to the point where the head nurse or director of the home would be notified, and someones ass would be in trouble. Was an interesting application, though i wasnt lucky enough to have worked on them. I got to work on the CRM software. woo and stuff.
This sentence no verb.
will allow this to stay under the radar of spammers. What better way to keep it secret than inform thousands of people
well, working 2 jobs while in college helps with the beer money situation... heh.
Which is exactly the route the startup i interned for followed. While the Funds were low, it was enough to cover my 40 hour pay check, so i was happy not to tell anyone what i was doing. It wasnt really that interesting anyway...