Frankly, I don't mind having my picture taken for the card, but a fingerprint or a retinal scan? Yer effing kidding right?
What state are you living in right now? My state (California) already requires an electronic thumb print as part of the process of getting a license. ISTR that the data is actually encoded onto the card so they can check that you're actually the valid holder of the card.
It figures that the People's Republic of California would've done something like this...
My PDA has more ram than my first computer had in hard drive space.
That's easy to say if your first computer didn't have a hard drive at all. Hell, my first one didn't even have a floppy drive...it was a TI-99/4A with 16K RAM, a Radio Shack tape recorder for program storage, and an ancient Sears 19" color TV as a monitor (19" display back in '83...w00t!:-) ). Still, I suspose the 2 megs in my Palm III is more than would fit on a 90-minute tape...
Slight blurring at super high resolutions? Does that mean you are pushing it beyond its recommended resolution?
Another possibility is a crummy video cable. I run a KDS VS-195 at only 1152x864 @ 85 Hz, but I was able to tell the difference between a straight VGA cable and a VGA-to-5BNC cable. The shielding of the latter cable is better, so text is a little bit sharper.
Some people I know have a hard time clicking 'accept' on the license agreement. Those folks won't go to the trouble to d/l and compile a OSS program.
That's a red herring. Just because a program is open source, that doesn't mean the end user has to compile it.
...not that compiling a program is that big a deal anyway. Back when I knew bugger-all about C (I was pretty decent with BASIC and 6502 assembly, though, and I was picking up Pascal in the entry-level CS courses...does this date me?:-) ), I was downloading stuff like sox and pbmplus and building these programs for my own use because the admins hadn't seen fit to provide them. The instructions with most source code had enough info to do a basic install, and I figured out enough about makefiles that I was configuring stuff to run out of my home directory without much trouble.
Now skip forward from the early 90s to today. With most programs set up to use autoconf, most of what's out there often requires little more than./configure --prefix=whatever && make && make install to build. If you're just slightly clever, you throw in the optimization flags (-march=whatever) that will tailor the program for your hardware. It's barely more involved than tweaking an autoexec.bat or config.sys used to be.
Does any file sharing program available today encrypt the actual files transmitted? Just wondering.
While it's not the first program that comes to mind for acquiring mp3z, doesn't Freenet encrypt everything? IIRC, it's also designed to enable anonymous/pseudonymous publication in that a file you put up on Freenet isn't traceable back to you.
Its true that Morpheus doesn't have the click till you win garbage, but it has quite a problem with its ads. I get an error popup about 20 times a day saying it couldn't connect to some goddamn ad site that it was trying to popup on me.
That's nothing that Squid can't handle. Morpheus runs just fine through it and doesn't complain about anything.
I wouldn't know...all I've ever used in the pages I've done are SSI and CGI (with most CGIs being shell scripts that call sed, awk, the MySQL client, etc.). Someone who's more of an Apache guru might know.
When someone from Las Vegas goes to their site, they advertise hookers and casinos, (since they are legal in vegas, lets entise the natives to go boost the economy!).
Gambling is legal here, but hookers aren't. Pahrump is only about an hour away, though, and on the other side of the county line...
The darn thing got my location right within a 15 kilometers range
No distances were given (latitude and longitude, but they're in a weird format...longitude was given as "-115.17" when something like 1156'48" W would be the usual method), but it nailed both IPs I fed it as being in Las Vegas. (When you consider that reverse-mapping one address gets you lasvegas.net and the other gets you lvcm.com, that probably shouldn't be too surprising.)
Given how easy it would be to fool a geolocation system (especially given nearly everybody else in this thread), I don't see how this is really supposed to be effective...or is it really supposed to be more like CSS, which only thwarts fair use and small-scale copying while doing nothing to stop mass production of "counterfeit" DVDs? There's no reason (other than the bandwidth on my cable-modem connection) why I couldn't open my Squid proxy up to the world. In addition to getting almost no ads, you would appear to be browsing from Vegas instead of wherever you are really located. (How's that for MLP?:-) ) What's to stop someone from doing this elsewhere, either as a free service or for profit, and enable people to bypass whatever geographic restrictions are placed on a website?
Impossible? I've been paying about that much for nearly a decade.
maybe you live in a dorm or with your parents but you should scope the bill sometime.
There's no need to be insulting or condescending about it. I'm very much aware of what's in there. Since you asked, though, I haven't lived in a dorm since 1990. I haven't lived with my parents since 1992. Thanks for playing, though.
The local/federal taxes will cost you >$15 alone.
Maybe if you live in some bastion of tax-and-spend liberalism like New York or Los Angeles. We have our share of left-wing kooks here in Las Vegas, but the prevailing opinion is that people know better what to do with their money than government. Taxes account for maybe a dollar or two of my phone bill.
Ow...where the hell do you live that you get ripped off like that? A single POTS line ought to run closer to $15/month or so (excluding long distance). Analog cable should be closer to $25 (excluding pay-TV channels). $50 for high-speed access sounds about the going rate, as long as you're getting a static IP with it. (Some.ca posters would probably disagree with that last assessment, though.) $110 for the fiber-to-the-home service described earlier ends up a little more expensive...if they can really deliver anywhere near 10 Mbps both ways to the Internet (not just among their customers), it might still be worth a look. They'd need to have a fat-enough pipe to the 'net to make it worthwhile, though (the 1.5 Mbps downstream I get from my cable modem is fairly consistent).
MS didn't give IE away they just made it part of the windows tax.
Explain, then, the existence of IE for MacOS. I can download and install IE on my Mac (tracked down v4.01 for my Quadra 610 a while back...that was the last release for 68K Macs) and not pay a cent for it. It's obviously not running Windows (that doesn't run too well on non-x86 systems), but IE works (slowly, but it works). If that's not a giveaway, then what is?
A year ago 40GB drives weren't considered small and 40GB for a DNS server?! You don't need anywhere near that amount of disk space. A DNS server could get by with just a Compact Flash card!.
My web/mail server at home has a pair of 4.3GB drives in RAID 0 for root and an 80MB (!) drive for boot. It still has a fair amount of free space on it...enough for what it does (and the 4.3GB drives are Seagate Barracuda fast-wide SCSI drives, so they're not exactly slouches). The firewall at work doesn't have a hard drive at all...it boots Coyote Linux from a floppy and runs from a RAMdisk.
My home workstation's equipped with a total of 145GB of storage (100 of it connected via FireWire for transportability), but it gets used for video editing. For most purposes, you don't need anywhere near that amount of storage...40GB, as you noted, is still a respectable amount of space for most people's use.
I nicer alternative, is to backup the drive from one of these units prior to usage, so that the data on the drives are in their most compressible state.
I did this with my TiVo before even firing it up (was able to pull off the "warranty void if seal broken" sticker in one piece), but that produced a ~2.5GB backup that spanned five CD-Rs. Utilities are now available that can get your TiVo backup down to 150-200MB...they zero out any video data on the drives. Using one of these utilities would be better from a standpoint of making a small backup than doing a "virgin backup."
I strongly suspect something other than the usual theory of CD-ripping protection is going on here (inserting checksum-foiling bits or some such). These guys switched from Wintels (a lot of Dell-wintels to be even more generic) with CD players to DVD players, controlled by different automatic Windows procedures. No mention is really made of the difference in how DVD players *under windows* play regular CDs differently anyhow.
It seems to me this is just one of those CDAutoStart things that Windows responds to in particular.
Hmm...anybody want to try sticking this CD in while holding down Shift (to disable autorun) and see what happens? If it turns out that CDS is just some sort of autorun nastiness, will this mean that my left pinky will be outlawed as a "circumvention device" under the DMCA?
Because I'm trying to avoid CSS line the bubonic plague.
Why?
There are still a LOT of web browsers who don't render CSS properly -- my goal is to have the page look good in IE, Netscape, OmniWeb, Mozilla, iCab, Lynx, etc.
The only browsers I've run across that have problems with the CSS I've used are iCab (the versions I've tried are betas, so some problems are expected) and Nutscrape 4.x. IE, Mozilla, and Opera work OK, and Lynx simply ignores it (make sure your HTML is put together in an order that will make sense when Lynx renders it; CSS will determine placement in browsers that grok it). There's no excuse for continuing to use Nutscrape 4 when alternatives have been available for months/years already.
I installed Morpheus and without asking it installed some software from Brilliant Digital.
That must be something new, as I've never even heard of it. If it's shoveling more ads at you, odds are those ads come with third-party cookies that are left behind on your computer (unless you've taken other measures to block them)...so much for their claim of "no spyware."
One point in their favor is that they haven't nagged me to upgrade their client software. FreeAmp and Windows Media Player work well enough for me (the former for MP3s and the latter for everything else); I don't need an ad vehicle that pretends to be a media player.
That, and I wonder what happens to TV reception in the area once they plug that sucker in? I only have 2 strands on my tree and the cable guy told me today that that's what's been screwing up the picture.
You've gotta have pretty crappy cable wiring if a couple strings of Christmas lights give your TV problems. What did they use for the installation, speaker cord?
did they also ignore the court order to remove the spyware? What? There was no such order... well.. there damn well should've been... I want to use KaZaa!
Get Morpheus...it accesses the same network, but doesn't include any shovelware/spyware.
Keep in mind that English is a very hard language to learn for fornigners for two reasons:
English has nearly 200 phonetic sounds, which can not be learned unless one learns the sounds as a little kid.
English has horrible spelling
I won't debate that English can be tough to learn (I've heard it plenty of times before, and my own attempts at learning German and Spanish gave me the impression that it's fairly tough to pick up a foreign language and use it well), but 200 sounds? The speech-synthesizer chips from a couple of decades ago typically supported no more than 64 phonemes, which were supposed to be sufficient for generating any word in the English language.
As for spelling...well, there are more rules and exceptions-to-the-rules than in most languages, but there is still a certain amount of logic to them. I don't have any problems with spelling, though I'll admit there are more than a few alleged English-speakers who have spelling issues...
Claiming that Minesweeper is NP-complete would only help to support the claim that you would never have to guess
Bzzt...NP means that it's nondeterministically solvable in polynomial time. This assumes that the nondeterminism is solved ideally, or that the correct guess is made every time it pops up. Each nondeterminism requires a guess to resolve. (At least that's more or less how I remember it was explained in automata.)
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It figures that the People's Republic of California would've done something like this...
Now all you need is a way to play your mp3z directly from those 9-track tapes...it would look most impressive when running.
Another possibility is a crummy video cable. I run a KDS VS-195 at only 1152x864 @ 85 Hz, but I was able to tell the difference between a straight VGA cable and a VGA-to-5BNC cable. The shielding of the latter cable is better, so text is a little bit sharper.
The static zap would very quickly educate them on that matter, not to mention the dust that collects on the screen...eww.
Now skip forward from the early 90s to today. With most programs set up to use autoconf, most of what's out there often requires little more than ./configure --prefix=whatever && make && make install to build. If you're just slightly clever, you throw in the optimization flags (-march=whatever ) that will tailor the program for your hardware. It's barely more involved than tweaking an autoexec.bat or config.sys used to be.
I wouldn't know...all I've ever used in the pages I've done are SSI and CGI (with most CGIs being shell scripts that call sed, awk, the MySQL client, etc.). Someone who's more of an Apache guru might know.
People who put a system with IIS on the 'net ought to have their connections yanked. Permanently.
There is a Win32 port of Apache that they could use, though...
Gambling is legal here, but hookers aren't. Pahrump is only about an hour away, though, and on the other side of the county line...
No distances were given (latitude and longitude, but they're in a weird format...longitude was given as "-115.17" when something like 1156'48" W would be the usual method), but it nailed both IPs I fed it as being in Las Vegas. (When you consider that reverse-mapping one address gets you lasvegas.net and the other gets you lvcm.com, that probably shouldn't be too surprising.)
Given how easy it would be to fool a geolocation system (especially given nearly everybody else in this thread), I don't see how this is really supposed to be effective...or is it really supposed to be more like CSS, which only thwarts fair use and small-scale copying while doing nothing to stop mass production of "counterfeit" DVDs? There's no reason (other than the bandwidth on my cable-modem connection) why I couldn't open my Squid proxy up to the world. In addition to getting almost no ads, you would appear to be browsing from Vegas instead of wherever you are really located. (How's that for MLP? :-) ) What's to stop someone from doing this elsewhere, either as a free service or for profit, and enable people to bypass whatever geographic restrictions are placed on a website?
Impossible? I've been paying about that much for nearly a decade.
There's no need to be insulting or condescending about it. I'm very much aware of what's in there. Since you asked, though, I haven't lived in a dorm since 1990. I haven't lived with my parents since 1992. Thanks for playing, though.
Maybe if you live in some bastion of tax-and-spend liberalism like New York or Los Angeles. We have our share of left-wing kooks here in Las Vegas, but the prevailing opinion is that people know better what to do with their money than government. Taxes account for maybe a dollar or two of my phone bill.
Ow...where the hell do you live that you get ripped off like that? A single POTS line ought to run closer to $15/month or so (excluding long distance). Analog cable should be closer to $25 (excluding pay-TV channels). $50 for high-speed access sounds about the going rate, as long as you're getting a static IP with it. (Some .ca posters would probably disagree with that last assessment, though.) $110 for the fiber-to-the-home service described earlier ends up a little more expensive...if they can really deliver anywhere near 10 Mbps both ways to the Internet (not just among their customers), it might still be worth a look. They'd need to have a fat-enough pipe to the 'net to make it worthwhile, though (the 1.5 Mbps downstream I get from my cable modem is fairly consistent).
Explain, then, the existence of IE for MacOS. I can download and install IE on my Mac (tracked down v4.01 for my Quadra 610 a while back...that was the last release for 68K Macs) and not pay a cent for it. It's obviously not running Windows (that doesn't run too well on non-x86 systems), but IE works (slowly, but it works). If that's not a giveaway, then what is?
My web/mail server at home has a pair of 4.3GB drives in RAID 0 for root and an 80MB (!) drive for boot. It still has a fair amount of free space on it...enough for what it does (and the 4.3GB drives are Seagate Barracuda fast-wide SCSI drives, so they're not exactly slouches). The firewall at work doesn't have a hard drive at all...it boots Coyote Linux from a floppy and runs from a RAMdisk.
My home workstation's equipped with a total of 145GB of storage (100 of it connected via FireWire for transportability), but it gets used for video editing. For most purposes, you don't need anywhere near that amount of storage...40GB, as you noted, is still a respectable amount of space for most people's use.
I did this with my TiVo before even firing it up (was able to pull off the "warranty void if seal broken" sticker in one piece), but that produced a ~2.5GB backup that spanned five CD-Rs. Utilities are now available that can get your TiVo backup down to 150-200MB...they zero out any video data on the drives. Using one of these utilities would be better from a standpoint of making a small backup than doing a "virgin backup."
Didn't someone have an Atari 800 hooked up through a terminal server and running a simple webserver written in BASIC? That would be older than this.
(It got /.'d all to hell, too.)
Hmm...anybody want to try sticking this CD in while holding down Shift (to disable autorun) and see what happens? If it turns out that CDS is just some sort of autorun nastiness, will this mean that my left pinky will be outlawed as a "circumvention device" under the DMCA?
Why?
The only browsers I've run across that have problems with the CSS I've used are iCab (the versions I've tried are betas, so some problems are expected) and Nutscrape 4.x. IE, Mozilla, and Opera work OK, and Lynx simply ignores it (make sure your HTML is put together in an order that will make sense when Lynx renders it; CSS will determine placement in browsers that grok it). There's no excuse for continuing to use Nutscrape 4 when alternatives have been available for months/years already.
One point in their favor is that they haven't nagged me to upgrade their client software. FreeAmp and Windows Media Player work well enough for me (the former for MP3s and the latter for everything else); I don't need an ad vehicle that pretends to be a media player.
You've gotta have pretty crappy cable wiring if a couple strings of Christmas lights give your TV problems. What did they use for the installation, speaker cord?
Get Morpheus...it accesses the same network, but doesn't include any shovelware/spyware.
I won't debate that English can be tough to learn (I've heard it plenty of times before, and my own attempts at learning German and Spanish gave me the impression that it's fairly tough to pick up a foreign language and use it well), but 200 sounds? The speech-synthesizer chips from a couple of decades ago typically supported no more than 64 phonemes, which were supposed to be sufficient for generating any word in the English language.
As for spelling...well, there are more rules and exceptions-to-the-rules than in most languages, but there is still a certain amount of logic to them. I don't have any problems with spelling, though I'll admit there are more than a few alleged English-speakers who have spelling issues...
Bzzt...NP means that it's nondeterministically solvable in polynomial time. This assumes that the nondeterminism is solved ideally, or that the correct guess is made every time it pops up. Each nondeterminism requires a guess to resolve. (At least that's more or less how I remember it was explained in automata.)