I actually went and tested this because that's probably the only feature I tend to miss from iTunes and/or my iPod (Gen 1 touch).In a test with MP3 files the transition was not gapless, in v1.1.1. Since 1.1.1 isn't the latest version I updated to 1.2.1 and tried again but the results were the same.
... is what I went to after ditching iTunes. In addition to getting the podcast(s) I subscribe to, it plays Grooveshark and Digitally Imported in the same playlists as my local files.
This is essentially my stance as well, except I only ended up creating a gmail account in the first place because you're required to have one for (at the time) Android Market. I'm still running a mail server that I originally set up around 2000. I still have some mail from that far back as well. Although I get a moderate amount of spam the vast majority of it that I get either goes to a known "promiscuous" email address (e.g. git@mydomain) and is funneled to a separate mailbox or doesn't get past the spamassassin that I installed from my distro's package manager. YMMV.
I am in the process of switching to a more robust backend/edge system with postfix, mysql, amavis, dovecot, sieve, and some other bits all managed by modoboa. That project is currently in the prototype stage.
In the article, they describe using a directional antenna to scan an entire neighborhood from one location. In other words, this isn't novel in general as much as it is novel in that it scales to dozens or even hundreds of homes.
Been there, done that. I had an old system hooked up to the phone line with an FXO card and running asterisk. It had a default-deny policy -- meaning that if there wasn't an explicitly defined route that matched the incoming caller ID info the caller would get a short, snarky recording telling them to get lost and then get disconnected. If you got past that hump, the next step was "to continue in english, press 1". The next hump is a call queue where you'd hear hold music. At that point the phones inside the house would actually start to ring.
It was fun to look through the CDR list at the end of the month and look at all the calls that got dropped due to no Caller ID info. Since then the hard drive died and I've been too lazy to hash out the replacement system.
FTK Imager from AccessData (download page) is free to download for windows and will carve partitions, files, and even file fragments from disk. It reads NTFS, HFS+, and ext2/3 filesystems. This is the same tool that's used by law enforcement when they image PCs for criminal cases.
I've seen a lot of commentary on the situation, but no real direct answers to the questions posed:
What legal rights, if any, can the school use to ban someone from hosting a website?
Furthermore, what rights does the U.S. Government have to censor such websites?
First off, it is important to understand that for the duration of time that you are compelled to attend government schools, you are essentially a slave to society's whim. Technically, activities outside of school fall outside of that school's "jurisdiction", however, this can be worked around by exploiting "loco parentis" or with cooperation from an individual's parents (or the individual if he is of legal age). Cooperation need not be voluntary.
In other words, depending upon the exact situation, the school may not have a legal right to force any type of action, however, they have many tools at their disposal to coerce cooperation. This is how most "they violated my rights" type of issues come up in a school environment.
Second, I think it is well accepted and understood that for the most part, the government has no place telling or commanding anyone to do or not to do any thing. However, once again, the government has tools at their disposal to coerce whatever they desire from whomever they choose.
As far as I'm concerned, discussions about the merits of any disciplinary action are irrelevant and simply distract from the topic at hand.
I'm claiming that less than 100% of the accused are guilty. Nothing less, nothing more. I don't doubt that some of the 8 year olds and grandma's ARE guilty. I'm saying that not all of them are.
Reminds me of the opening line of "troops":
"All suspects are guilty. PERIOD. Otherwise, they wouldn't be suspects, would they?"
and don't forget the dead people, or the people without computers. Just because you don't own a computer doesn't mean you can't use it to copy music illictly, right?
your argument is a straw man, whether you mean it to be or not.
The best way i see it is; we need license to drive, to practice law, and need to be of legal age to drink, I suppose it is only fair that a certain form of regulation is placed over the usage of the Internet.
So, because some other activities, which can reasonably lead to severe injury, loss of property, or death, are regulated, this should be too, just on the fact that they are regulated? I suppose you could argue that there is the potential for massive property loss due to some worm or other malicious code. However, even in that case, a licensing scheme seems to implicitly blame the user, or worse, impose the burden of securing someone else's property on them.
A friend of mine who is a mechanic said that he was told by his instructors at the Auto Tech school that he attended, that this "feature" will be a standard part and practice of OBD-III Systems. Basically, the car will phone-home when a trouble code is flagged, and if you ignore the "Service Engine Soon" light they will send you letters, up to the point where you might be turned in to the police for operating an unsafe vehicle, or similar charge.
Personally, I'd expect nothing less from a marriage of corporation and government, but I still take this with a grain of salt. These days I find myself less and less inclined to continue driving. Thankfully I haven't needed to drive my car in over a month and a half.
I was told by a Covad reseller that in western fairfax county, there is very little room for DSL. Most of the newer buildouts that Verizon has been doing has been with fiber -- not the kind that they can run their much-hyped FIOS over, at least, not yet anyways -- which eliminates the ability to run DSL.
The local cable providers (Comcast and Cox) both explicitly state in their TOS for both residential AND business circuits that servers are prohibited and that no static IPs will be assigned.
According to the Cox TOS that I was presented with, even with a business line, you were not given a static IP, nor were you permitted to run servers. This is in Fairfax County.
You must be inside the beltway. Outside the beltway in Virginia, there is dialup, and there is cable. DSL is a rarity because of the penetration of Fiber lines. Don't let that lead you to believe that there's fiber-based 'net access though.
As for limitations on service, most dialup providers these days limit to 300 hours or less per month. Cable providers have an arbitrary and invisible limit that should you exceed, they will clip off your access.
With all due respect, your statement that U.S. Providers do not have limits is either naive or an outright lie.
According to his blog, his original intention was to use the boxes for shipping, and continued to be a use for the boxes even after being assembled into furniture. To wit, "Since I frequently ship items, I ordered about 300 boxes of various sizes. I figured this would save me time, instead of walking down to the store whenever I needed to ship something, I could do it comfortably from home. Later that month I saw a picture from a friend of a desk that was made of boxes. My friend, Tom, was in a similar situation in Seattle, and it gave me some inspiration. I decided to build some furniture with some of the boxes I had lying around. I figured, if I needed to ship something, I could pull it off a piece of my furniture and mail it off."
That being said, there are numerous free sources of boxes. Just ask any local retail shop what they do with their shipment boxes. At my old store we got several boxes each week which were recycled, unless I took them.
True, but I'd like to at least have good navigation (as opposed to a quick kludge) before moving on to more complex areas such as that. At one point I had an idea for a bot for "Counter-Strike" (of all things) which would take predictability and repetition into account. Indeed, in that game I took advantage of the bots' pathing predictability to increase my survivial rate.
I did observe some limited success in having bots' combat behavior closely match that of how I'd seen people playing, at least in a LAN match. (That was NNbot or TeamBot).
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I actually went and tested this because that's probably the only feature I tend to miss from iTunes and/or my iPod (Gen 1 touch).In a test with MP3 files the transition was not gapless, in v1.1.1. Since 1.1.1 isn't the latest version I updated to 1.2.1 and tried again but the results were the same.
... is what I went to after ditching iTunes. In addition to getting the podcast(s) I subscribe to, it plays Grooveshark and Digitally Imported in the same playlists as my local files.
This is essentially my stance as well, except I only ended up creating a gmail account in the first place because you're required to have one for (at the time) Android Market. I'm still running a mail server that I originally set up around 2000. I still have some mail from that far back as well. Although I get a moderate amount of spam the vast majority of it that I get either goes to a known "promiscuous" email address (e.g. git@mydomain) and is funneled to a separate mailbox or doesn't get past the spamassassin that I installed from my distro's package manager. YMMV.
I am in the process of switching to a more robust backend/edge system with postfix, mysql, amavis, dovecot, sieve, and some other bits all managed by modoboa. That project is currently in the prototype stage.
In the article, they describe using a directional antenna to scan an entire neighborhood from one location. In other words, this isn't novel in general as much as it is novel in that it scales to dozens or even hundreds of homes.
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Same here. I use mine for secondary DNS and an MX backup. I keep mine upgraded to the latest OpenBSD and also have been very happy.
Been there, done that. I had an old system hooked up to the phone line with an FXO card and running asterisk. It had a default-deny policy -- meaning that if there wasn't an explicitly defined route that matched the incoming caller ID info the caller would get a short, snarky recording telling them to get lost and then get disconnected. If you got past that hump, the next step was "to continue in english, press 1". The next hump is a call queue where you'd hear hold music. At that point the phones inside the house would actually start to ring.
It was fun to look through the CDR list at the end of the month and look at all the calls that got dropped due to no Caller ID info. Since then the hard drive died and I've been too lazy to hash out the replacement system.
I thought it was worth noting that it took a former DOJ prosecutor and investor to "bring this guy down", and even then, it was an uphill battle.
FTK Imager from AccessData (download page) is free to download for windows and will carve partitions, files, and even file fragments from disk. It reads NTFS, HFS+, and ext2/3 filesystems. This is the same tool that's used by law enforcement when they image PCs for criminal cases.
I've seen a lot of commentary on the situation, but no real direct answers to the questions posed:
First off, it is important to understand that for the duration of time that you are compelled to attend government schools, you are essentially a slave to society's whim. Technically, activities outside of school fall outside of that school's "jurisdiction", however, this can be worked around by exploiting "loco parentis" or with cooperation from an individual's parents (or the individual if he is of legal age). Cooperation need not be voluntary.
In other words, depending upon the exact situation, the school may not have a legal right to force any type of action, however, they have many tools at their disposal to coerce cooperation. This is how most "they violated my rights" type of issues come up in a school environment.
Second, I think it is well accepted and understood that for the most part, the government has no place telling or commanding anyone to do or not to do any thing. However, once again, the government has tools at their disposal to coerce whatever they desire from whomever they choose.
As far as I'm concerned, discussions about the merits of any disciplinary action are irrelevant and simply distract from the topic at hand.
I'm claiming that less than 100% of the accused are guilty. Nothing less, nothing more. I don't doubt that some of the 8 year olds and grandma's ARE guilty. I'm saying that not all of them are.
Reminds me of the opening line of "troops":
"All suspects are guilty. PERIOD. Otherwise, they wouldn't be suspects, would they?"
and don't forget the dead people, or the people without computers. Just because you don't own a computer doesn't mean you can't use it to copy music illictly, right?
your argument is a straw man, whether you mean it to be or not.
So, because some other activities, which can reasonably lead to severe injury, loss of property, or death, are regulated, this should be too, just on the fact that they are regulated? I suppose you could argue that there is the potential for massive property loss due to some worm or other malicious code. However, even in that case, a licensing scheme seems to implicitly blame the user, or worse, impose the burden of securing someone else's property on them.
The way it was described to me, is that you will receive a ticket in the mail. I suppose I should have just said that in the first place, though.
A friend of mine who is a mechanic said that he was told by his instructors at the Auto Tech school that he attended, that this "feature" will be a standard part and practice of OBD-III Systems. Basically, the car will phone-home when a trouble code is flagged, and if you ignore the "Service Engine Soon" light they will send you letters, up to the point where you might be turned in to the police for operating an unsafe vehicle, or similar charge.
Personally, I'd expect nothing less from a marriage of corporation and government, but I still take this with a grain of salt. These days I find myself less and less inclined to continue driving. Thankfully I haven't needed to drive my car in over a month and a half.
So, because I can always just take the Taxi, I shouldn't buy my own car?
I was told by a Covad reseller that in western fairfax county, there is very little room for DSL. Most of the newer buildouts that Verizon has been doing has been with fiber -- not the kind that they can run their much-hyped FIOS over, at least, not yet anyways -- which eliminates the ability to run DSL.
The local cable providers (Comcast and Cox) both explicitly state in their TOS for both residential AND business circuits that servers are prohibited and that no static IPs will be assigned.
According to the Cox TOS that I was presented with, even with a business line, you were not given a static IP, nor were you permitted to run servers. This is in Fairfax County.
You must be inside the beltway. Outside the beltway in Virginia, there is dialup, and there is cable. DSL is a rarity because of the penetration of Fiber lines. Don't let that lead you to believe that there's fiber-based 'net access though.
As for limitations on service, most dialup providers these days limit to 300 hours or less per month. Cable providers have an arbitrary and invisible limit that should you exceed, they will clip off your access.
With all due respect, your statement that U.S. Providers do not have limits is either naive or an outright lie.
"freedom" *IS* just a buzzword in the US today.
That being said, there are numerous free sources of boxes. Just ask any local retail shop what they do with their shipment boxes. At my old store we got several boxes each week which were recycled, unless I took them.
and then having completed that, he can make a Beowulf cluster of them.
[homer]mmm... boxes...[/homer]
True, but I'd like to at least have good navigation (as opposed to a quick kludge) before moving on to more complex areas such as that. At one point I had an idea for a bot for "Counter-Strike" (of all things) which would take predictability and repetition into account. Indeed, in that game I took advantage of the bots' pathing predictability to increase my survivial rate.
I did observe some limited success in having bots' combat behavior closely match that of how I'd seen people playing, at least in a LAN match. (That was NNbot or TeamBot).
I'm still waiting for FPS bots that use Maze Theory instead of "waypoints" for navigation. If only I could code worth a damn...
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength