Unfortunately, our congress has been known to pass bills that sound strong but are actually crippled. I am wondering how this bill will be crippled in conference comittee if passed. Hopefully the EFF's lobby can at least moderate the MPAA/RIAA lobbying machine.
I applaud the congressman for taking such a bold step. I guess it is time for the all of us to get out a pen and write some letters of support. Can everyone please write in support of this? We all know that email is mostly ignored, while they actually have to carry the weight of our letters.
So politics again get in the way of technology. Are there are there any firmware options that will allow the higher throughput? Or are we stuck with only a minor improvement?
This sort of political wrangling has gotten in the way of so much decent technology. Wankel, hybrid and fuel cell engines come to mind.
I understand the need for standardization, but it shouldn't limit the technology.
You are doing surgery, approach it as such. Get some thin nylon cloth and use a hole punch or something similar to make a small hole large enough to fit the screw head.
Put the cloth on the motherboard, with the hole centered on the screw. Press it down so that the cloth is below the level of the screw. Drill away, using increasingly larger bits. When removing the cloth, put your finger on the hole. With the other hand, pick up the edges of the cloth, using your finger to seal the hole.
Speaking of emarketersamerica.org and its apparent owners...The WHOIS databases seem to lack information about the owner and registar of the domain name. Anyone know why the whois databases (even interNIC) don't have any info on the domain?
Beyond Wiki, I would also suggest everything2.com. The engine for that site is at everydevel.com. everything2 is a project of Nate and Hemos, among others, who developed most of this site. The engine seems flexable in my use of it, and provides a mechanism through which similar pages are linked based on user search patterns. Adding a little for source authentication should be minor. Best of luck.
They sell A/B audio switchers and A/B/C/D audio switchers... use the A/B to select which one of the two ABCD switch to use, then select one of those. Total cost: about 70 dollars max. I think they come in RCA only, so YMMV. Good luck.
Research into the common cold has skyrocketed due to SARS. How is this related? Is it at all?
If researchers are finding benefits to viral infections, is there a benefit to SARS? how about Polio, Smallpox, or any of the other diseases we have wiped out? Does AIDS have an intrinsic benefit?
I am not advocating research into the above points, but am merely interested in benefits to supposedly harmfull viruses.
I would reccomend first that you hire a good security consultant. Second, use a secure card/biometric/PIN system. Third, if you can afford it, hire a real live (TM) guard. They work best.
Fourth: Do not. DO NOT neglect other methods of entry. Look in the plenum spaces above the cieling tiles. Are there conduit holes a person could fit through? Are windows secure? Vents? Check the hings on the door.
Fifth: Keep people allowed in to a bare minimium, and if possible, make sure they all know and trust eachother. That way, it is easy to detect unauthorized visitors.
Sixth: Hire a real consultant. Slashdot is no place for security consulting. We here be the DES, DMCA, DRM, and Windows crackers.
First: there probably isn't a firm statistic, because of privacy. If you really needed to find out, are you looking at totals, p2p, HTTP, or what? Also, one could roughly model it based on total usedbandwith (known), user surfing habit surveys, and bandwidth sales.
Second: what percentage of bandwidth is being used by grandmothers addicted to games.yahoo.com?
Third: while you are you looking, can you tell me how much is wasted on spam?
I agree. Look around your school, find some bands to play stuff.
As for royalty free libraries, the CDs can cost anywhere from 5-50 dollars per. Its still cheaper then licensing. If there is some audio whiz floating around, have him write and use a good MIDI sampler. I did this and came up with some pseudo James Bond like themes that couldn't get tagged for copyright innfringment.
I would have to agree, especially with the upcoming release of Vol. four. This series tends to be quite dense in some parts, but it is a great reference.
Also, one might want to look at some of Knuth's TeX stuff. It is a good example of how successful an open standard can be.
The afore mentioned O'Reilly books are almost priceless, but to balence them, some introduction to computers books, like the TimeLife should be included. Not everybody checking out computers is going to know why C++ is to be prefered over C#. People might want to know what goes on inside, explained simply.
Uhm...no. I am a high school student. I have no rights. There is no statute of limitations for violations of school rules. That means the keyboard I inverted the number pad on freshman year is grounds for suspension my senior year. I know they monitor student's habits. I have gotten booted after a look at Snopes of all things. Why? It isn't a crime, we are students, we are using computers other then our own, but I do wonder about students who are 18 though.
Brevity is good. No Shit, thats what I do. If I like a person's songs that I downloaded, I go buy the CD so I can enjoy the 44.1 CD fidelity.
OK, so now that we all agree the RIAA is flawed, what are we going to do about it? OK, the slashdot crowd more or less agrees. What about the other 300 million people who listen to pop music? We can bitch in our sheltered world of/. but that wont help in the long run. I pose a question: What will we do to change the RIAA and the public that unwittingly supports them?
I am a glider pilot. I must digress. I prefer numbers. Since I have enough hours in an SGS 2-33, I know what the guages are measuring without seeing the numbers. I only need needle position. BUT, the numbers are there when I need them. Seeing the needle at about 7000 feet is good, but I NEED to see 1,500 feet exactly when I start my pattern, or 3,500 to enter the start gate.
As for glass cockpits/ fly by wire, these are no different from normal analog cockpits, except the info happens to be on a screen. The guages, buttons, and controls are all in the same place, and they all look the same. They just happen to be on a screen. Next time you fly Southwest, you will probably fly on both the 737-700(glass) and the -300 (analog). They are the same. The instruments in use now ARE symbolic. The altimeter forms one shape for about 4000 feet, and another for about 14000. But the important numbers are there when I need them. I prefer what I have now.
Those mom and pop stores are merely selling plastic and aluminium disks...They are not selling/ the rights to play those disks in a CD player.
Now, if I remember correctly, 90% of record companies belong to the RIAA. What about the 10%? what gives the RIAA the right to pretend to represent that last 10%?
I think video games, especially online games, are addictive not only for their stimulation, but also their communication. What better way to communicate with someone then to use primeval instincts like killing?
On another note, knowledge can also be addictive, take the everything2.com phenominon. 50,000 people addicted to knowledge
I would recomend Neil Stephonson's book Diamond Age. It is a fictionalized story about a world with nanotechnology. The ideas and social concepts it presents are very relevent to todays discusion. Perticularly the fact that Nanotech could very easly be used to create weapons and defensive shields to small to see. The idea of abstinance (for lack of a better word) from nanotech is also presented. One should take into consideration the implications that Nanotechnology, like many other industrial processes is done without human hands. This doesn't mean that it is bad though.
When I looked into doing this, I decided NOt to because I would have to have apple ROM chips. They do use ROM, and always have. My grandmother's performa 650, if you took the hard disk out, or deleted the system folder would boot from OS 6.0.1, stored in ROM. the apple archives describe this clearly. I am no as knowledgeable in the area of the G4 chipset, so I am not sure, but all the "build your own"/"repair macs" books mention that you need ROM
There are these two NASA engineers that live near me. They take their two adjacent houses and make one huge halloween scene outside. It was the first time in my <sniff> 17 years that I have ever seen VAX at work. THey had computer screens set up with wierd fonts, dry ice, cool lighting, and a hell of a lot of various 'shock' items. Occasionally, spaghetti would come shooting out over the roof, it was awsome.
In the 'off' season, they have an A scale train that spans their two houses.
Use this, make a haunted house if you have time, and dress up too.
So, a beowulf cluster could flood a city block if it was OCed and burned out....
Now the guy can do basic logic, but this must be very slow. It is wonderfull seeing someone trying to educate people about computers. Most people have no idea what an XOR gate is, or a transistor for that matter. Well I wish him good luck.
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Unfortunately, our congress has been known to pass bills that sound strong but are actually crippled. I am wondering how this bill will be crippled in conference comittee if passed. Hopefully the EFF's lobby can at least moderate the MPAA/RIAA lobbying machine.
I applaud the congressman for taking such a bold step. I guess it is time for the all of us to get out a pen and write some letters of support. Can everyone please write in support of this? We all know that email is mostly ignored, while they actually have to carry the weight of our letters.
So politics again get in the way of technology. Are there are there any firmware options that will allow the higher throughput? Or are we stuck with only a minor improvement?
This sort of political wrangling has gotten in the way of so much decent technology. Wankel, hybrid and fuel cell engines come to mind.
I understand the need for standardization, but it shouldn't limit the technology.
You are doing surgery, approach it as such. Get some thin nylon cloth and use a hole punch or something similar to make a small hole large enough to fit the screw head.
Put the cloth on the motherboard, with the hole centered on the screw. Press it down so that the cloth is below the level of the screw. Drill away, using increasingly larger bits. When removing the cloth, put your finger on the hole. With the other hand, pick up the edges of the cloth, using your finger to seal the hole.
Good Luck
Speaking of emarketersamerica.org and its apparent owners...The WHOIS databases seem to lack information about the owner and registar of the domain name. Anyone know why the whois databases (even interNIC) don't have any info on the domain?
Beyond Wiki, I would also suggest everything2.com. The engine for that site is at everydevel.com. everything2 is a project of Nate and Hemos, among others, who developed most of this site. The engine seems flexable in my use of it, and provides a mechanism through which similar pages are linked based on user search patterns. Adding a little for source authentication should be minor. Best of luck.
They sell A/B audio switchers and A/B/C/D audio switchers... use the A/B to select which one of the two ABCD switch to use, then select one of those. Total cost: about 70 dollars max. I think they come in RCA only, so YMMV. Good luck.
Research into the common cold has skyrocketed due to SARS. How is this related? Is it at all?
If researchers are finding benefits to viral infections, is there a benefit to SARS? how about Polio, Smallpox, or any of the other diseases we have wiped out? Does AIDS have an intrinsic benefit?
I am not advocating research into the above points, but am merely interested in benefits to supposedly harmfull viruses.
Is there a nonprofit set up to do this sort of thing?
Would the eff or ACLU be willing to do this?
What other patents have been filed with the same effect?
I would reccomend first that you hire a good security consultant. Second, use a secure card/biometric/PIN system. Third, if you can afford it, hire a real live (TM) guard. They work best.
Fourth: Do not. DO NOT neglect other methods of entry. Look in the plenum spaces above the cieling tiles. Are there conduit holes a person could fit through? Are windows secure? Vents? Check the hings on the door.
Fifth: Keep people allowed in to a bare minimium, and if possible, make sure they all know and trust eachother. That way, it is easy to detect unauthorized visitors.
Sixth: Hire a real consultant. Slashdot is no place for security consulting. We here be the DES, DMCA, DRM, and Windows crackers.
First: there probably isn't a firm statistic, because of privacy. If you really needed to find out, are you looking at totals, p2p, HTTP, or what? Also, one could roughly model it based on total usedbandwith (known), user surfing habit surveys, and bandwidth sales.
Second: what percentage of bandwidth is being used by grandmothers addicted to games.yahoo.com?
Third: while you are you looking, can you tell me how much is wasted on spam?
I agree. Look around your school, find some bands to play stuff.
As for royalty free libraries, the CDs can cost anywhere from 5-50 dollars per. Its still cheaper then licensing. If there is some audio whiz floating around, have him write and use a good MIDI sampler. I did this and came up with some pseudo James Bond like themes that couldn't get tagged for copyright innfringment.
those guys at the EFF might be willing to lend a hand and a bit of server room...If you truly are an advocacy and information clearinghouse site.
I would have to agree, especially with the upcoming release of Vol. four. This series tends to be quite dense in some parts, but it is a great reference.
Also, one might want to look at some of Knuth's TeX stuff. It is a good example of how successful an open standard can be.
The afore mentioned O'Reilly books are almost priceless, but to balence them, some introduction to computers books, like the TimeLife should be included. Not everybody checking out computers is going to know why C++ is to be prefered over C#. People might want to know what goes on inside, explained simply.
Uhm...no. I am a high school student. I have no rights. There is no statute of limitations for violations of school rules. That means the keyboard I inverted the number pad on freshman year is grounds for suspension my senior year. I know they monitor student's habits. I have gotten booted after a look at Snopes of all things. Why? It isn't a crime, we are students, we are using computers other then our own, but I do wonder about students who are 18 though.
I wish I did have rights though...
Brevity is good. No Shit, thats what I do. If I like a person's songs that I downloaded, I go buy the CD so I can enjoy the 44.1 CD fidelity.
/. but that wont help in the long run. I pose a question: What will we do to change the RIAA and the public that unwittingly supports them?
OK, so now that we all agree the RIAA is flawed, what are we going to do about it? OK, the slashdot crowd more or less agrees. What about the other 300 million people who listen to pop music? We can bitch in our sheltered world of
I am a glider pilot. I must digress. I prefer numbers. Since I have enough hours in an SGS 2-33, I know what the guages are measuring without seeing the numbers. I only need needle position. BUT, the numbers are there when I need them. Seeing the needle at about 7000 feet is good, but I NEED to see 1,500 feet exactly when I start my pattern, or 3,500 to enter the start gate.
As for glass cockpits/ fly by wire, these are no different from normal analog cockpits, except the info happens to be on a screen. The guages, buttons, and controls are all in the same place, and they all look the same. They just happen to be on a screen. Next time you fly Southwest, you will probably fly on both the 737-700(glass) and the -300 (analog). They are the same. The instruments in use now ARE symbolic. The altimeter forms one shape for about 4000 feet, and another for about 14000. But the important numbers are there when I need them. I prefer what I have now.
Those mom and pop stores are merely selling plastic and aluminium disks...They are not selling/ the rights to play those disks in a CD player.
Now, if I remember correctly, 90% of record companies belong to the RIAA. What about the 10%? what gives the RIAA the right to pretend to represent that last 10%?
I think video games, especially online games, are addictive not only for their stimulation, but also their communication. What better way to communicate with someone then to use primeval instincts like killing?
On another note, knowledge can also be addictive, take the everything2.com phenominon. 50,000 people addicted to knowledge
I would recomend Neil Stephonson's book Diamond Age. It is a fictionalized story about a world with nanotechnology. The ideas and social concepts it presents are very relevent to todays discusion. Perticularly the fact that Nanotech could very easly be used to create weapons and defensive shields to small to see. The idea of abstinance (for lack of a better word) from nanotech is also presented. One should take into consideration the implications that Nanotechnology, like many other industrial processes is done without human hands. This doesn't mean that it is bad though.
When I looked into doing this, I decided NOt to because I would have to have apple ROM chips. They do use ROM, and always have. My grandmother's performa 650, if you took the hard disk out, or deleted the system folder would boot from OS 6.0.1, stored in ROM. the apple archives describe this clearly. I am no as knowledgeable in the area of the G4 chipset, so I am not sure, but all the "build your own"/"repair macs" books mention that you need ROM
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You could always have a friend dress up as a peingiun, to kill the butterfly.
excuse my speling
There are these two NASA engineers that live near me. They take their two adjacent houses and make one huge halloween scene outside. It was the first time in my <sniff> 17 years that I have ever seen VAX at work. THey had computer screens set up with wierd fonts, dry ice, cool lighting, and a hell of a lot of various 'shock' items. Occasionally, spaghetti would come shooting out over the roof, it was awsome.
In the 'off' season, they have an A scale train that spans their two houses.
Use this, make a haunted house if you have time, and dress up too.
So, a beowulf cluster could flood a city block if it was OCed and burned out....
Now the guy can do basic logic, but this must be very slow. It is wonderfull seeing someone trying to educate people about computers. Most people have no idea what an XOR gate is, or a transistor for that matter. Well I wish him good luck.
Please ignore above troll
Dude was lucky. My dad was stuck on an ammunition supply ship during the gulf war. You know the fire fighting procedures?
Well, I will tell you anyways: If you can't put it out with a couple of fire extinguishers, everyone hop in the lifeboats...