Dude, I really admire your pro-active stance (I marked you "friend" and am posting sans +1 bonus), but from your website, you say that you would return this CD because, to paraphrase, "The CD has a "CD" label, and the CD player has a "CD" label, so they should work together"
However, the audio tracks on the CD comply FULLY with the red-book standard for CDs. The "CD" label DOES NOT mean ISO-9660 compatibility. It means Red-Book compatibility, which this CD has, so I'm afraid your argument doesn't really hold water. However, I doubt that the store clerk would know that!
It's rather easy for a "combination of bits" to crash your computer, especially from a trusted, local source (CD-Drive). It's not their computer you're crashing, it's their OS.
Do you remember the infamous screensaver override program? The one that hacked Windows 9x screensaver passwords by exploiting the autorun capability? That is just one example.
It seems to me like this stuff is just dangerous. I mean, if it "crashes" your Operating System, by definition, your OS has malfunctioned and is not working correctly. When that happens, bad stuff, REALLY bad stuff (a la Firmware overwrite) COULD happen.
It has been often said that, in order to stop pirates, the recording industry could employ teams of virus programmers (they could afford them), to create uber-virii, which they could then distribute through file-sharing programs.
That approach, as illegal and horrifying as it may seem, is probably actually more "legal" (common-sense legal, not this crazy "copyright" legal) than Sony's plan. I mean, you've bought the Damn CD, and you should have rights to play it in a CD player. Any CD player. Whereas if someone got their computer crashed due to the uber-virus, they wouldn't really have a recourse (They didn't own the files, after all).
I can't agree! I knew this one was fake before I got to the first line!
What the hell is Java-"SCRIPT"? and "D"-HTML? It's disturbingly clear that the moderators have just gone off their rockers!
I mean, first off, what idiot would name a web browser "Konqueror"? And "Free" (as in cocaine) software doesn't come in a "box", it comes in delicious tarballs that are good eatin'!
Look at all the idiots taking this seriously... lol freakin n00bs.
(I would've posted this anonymously, but it had to be said) In other news, Microsoft has decided to begin an archive of all their software as part of their new.NYET program. Users will pay a regular fee for the service. Called CMAN-The Comprehensive Microsoft Archive Network, the service is expected to be quite a boon to the recently downtrodden company.
Buisnesses reacted happily to the news. "We're ecstatic" an anonymous buiness person said, "Microsoft kept giving us shit, but now we've got CMAN!".
The Linux community seemed confused at the news. Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda declared "CMAN? I've been enjoying CMAN for years! Microsoft can't just go and copyright it! This offends my nerdish sensibilities! I want my CMAN!" Malda later said that if the CMAN network was as good as the hype, he would switch to an all-Microsoft platform. "If this CMAN is really high-grade, enterprise level stuff, then I think I'll switch to a Microsoft platform."
Microsoft stock was up sharply on the news. An anonymous trader said "It was like the NASDAQ floor was covered in CMAN! Microsoft rocks my world!".
Check out thinkgeek... They always have the best products for sale today! I'm planning on getting at least 4 six-packs of caffinated beer! How can you go wrong with caffinated beer?!?
Gee...I don't think you'd need much content... I mean, look at this guy with ONE (!!!) track? Hope he's paying by the Mb to show how much the/. community cares...I really wish the admins would take a better look at these sites before they post them, I mean, a site posted to/. must either not care about the increased traffic (Cnet or nytimes, for example), or be really interesting, like the World programming championship results. They really shouldn't be fledgling sites looking to desperately hook a readership. I mean, link to the article if you want and ask a question about it, but don't post a site that has virtually NO content.
The idea doesn't really sound too good, either. I don't play CS with the voice feature enabled for the same reason I will never listen to one of these DVDs...I don't wanna hear some loser talking about whatever, when I could hear and see quality audio and video. I mean, after a while you'll either get people with well-reasoned opinions (small percentage of community), and the great deal of the community that bashes everything and yells expletives into their microphones. Actually, that kinda sounds like/.
Not sure you know what the hell a shim is, dude. A shim refers to a piece of metal that is sandwiched between the heatsink and the proc to prevent crushing the proc core.
Not sure why the hell you'd use this stuff for a shim. As documented here and here, shims are generally useless and can cause more damage to processors because of heat/electrical distribution. Thus, shims are generally used to insure that shipping of the core by an over-zealous heatsink install will not occur. There are problems, however, being that if the shim is not exactly perfect, it will be either useless will create a gap between the heatsink and the proc, causing fryage.
Thus, most shims are made of light, nonconducting, cheap, oxidized aluminum. I could see abolutely no reason to make a shim out of this stuff.
Unless you meant to talk about the cap on the Pentium 4 procs. In which case, the purpose of the cap is just to spread heat around, and it serves its purpose fine. Intel isn't gonna make their procs a hundred bucks more expensive to help overclockers, whom they don't support anyway.
This is a flagrant abuse of free speech rights. While we can all agree that child pornography should be stopped, this seems absolutely unreasonable. I mean, some effort should be made to minimize the intrusions of personal liberty while maximizing the effectiveness of stopping child porn (or at least significantly cutting it back).
This proposal, however, does neither. 1. An unnacceptable amount of government intrusion into people's affairs. I mean, the government could deem Arab web sites as harboring threats against the US and ban all the Arab servers they wanted. The government will always "err" on the side of deprivation of liberties.
2. Not stopping the problem. There are plenty of other ways to do this. Password-protected ftp sites, AIM/chat clients, Gnutella network to just name a few.
In conclusion, this law is probably the least effective way to do this: It threatens personal liberties much more than providing for the public good.
"The fact that this information was gathered through a search on Google.com, which is hardly considered by most people to be a hacker's tool, is especially interesting."
It should be noted that cmdrtaco is in this, talking about free software while lounging on an inflatable sofa at linuxworld. Clearly you'll want to go buy a big screen TV to watch this.
Wow...Rob Malda and Open Source Software and an inflatable sofa?
Where's my wallet?...I'm gonna go get me a big screen TV and a TiVo!
I agree, file extensions are a pain, but Microsoft will probably build in all sorts of copy protection crap into this OS. Don't believe me? Look at.wma!
OFS might organize your mp3s', but it might also send a list of them and you IP and your address and your Windows license information the the RIAA.
102 Posts saying the link is dead 101 Posts reposting the original link 57 Posts discussing/. effect 4 Posts that rip-off yoda there be only 13 Posts that post a new link, also dead 12 Posts that declare that link dead 41 Posts declaring that the trailer sucked, but that they'll see the movie anyway 17 Posts declaring that the trailer sucked, but that they'll rent it 2 Posts declaring that Star Wars is dead 31 Posts declaring the dark side (Walmart?) alive
Okay, a couple of points on this...
The RIAA, and perhaps soon the MPAA, are looking at a generation of people who have NEVER paid for their products (I've never bought a CD, for instance, but my music needs are met just fine). The RIAA is trying, desperately, to stop the problem as soon as possible, so the next generation of potential clients won't think their products are free (as in beer). The SSSCA is a findamental part of their plan, because the only way to shut down a P2P network is to kill off all the peers.
Secondly and most importantly, I don't think people realize just how big the SSSCA is. If it passes, all of these wonderful OSS initiatives will die off. This is the real deal people, so stop whining about Slashdot subscription services and start writing to your Representatives (Don't e-mail them, write them a real letter). A few well-reasoned and insightful letters will enlighten our elected officials, hopefully. This is a direct and fundamental threat to a good deal of the/. community, and this is the time to fight it.
I'm not trolling here, but I really don't see why this is relevant at all to most anybody. This is the kind of programming structure question that is best resolved by carefully working through the problem with a good friend and a front-end to gdb.
I am sure there are countless people just like this person who have programming troubles (hell, I'd like someone to do my CompSci homework for me), but I don't see why the slashdot audience needs to see this.
If/. is really fulfilling its purpose "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.", this isn't news, and it really doesn't matter to anyone outside of this person's non-profit organization.
Big Kudos to the moderator (timothy) who was willing to take a chance on an anonymous bugtraq tip. I just got off the phone with Comcast tech support, and they said, essentially, that if this information had never leaked out, they would still be monitoring my internet usage.
Just looking at the original article right here, I was very suprised by all the "This is not news posts" that got modded +5.
Quite simply, this is news, and this is not a simple proxy server either, according to Comcast tech support. Slashdot took a big risk in posting this story, and I think everyone that hollered about the original story being a bust owes a big apology to timothy.
Anyways,
It's good Comcast has finally seen the light (or have had it thrust in their faces), but I am still looking for a new ISP. I think this image really explains why:
Curious jumps everywhere
High ping times
I'm afraid Comcast just isn't cutting it any more. Since my area is a Comcast monopoly, I tihnk its time that we pressured our public officials to break up this monopoly.
As I told the rep: "I hope you realize that if a competitor, ANY competitor, breaks up your cable monopoly here, you will lose all your market share."
And he said:
"Yeah, I know"
According to overclockers.com, THG tested these water coolers incorrectly. Apparently, THG tested the Swiftech unit w/o fans, relying on a "passive heat exchange", while on swiftech's website, the Swiftech Barebone Kit is CLEARLY shown with 2 120mm fans. Given that, it is amazing that the Swiftech finished so close to the Innovatek! It seems evident then, that Tom's conclusion is flawed. Swiftech makes great products (really the best high-end HSF maker, better than Alpha, but pricier), and I was dissappointed to see such a poor performance until I read about this testing anomaly at overclockers.com
I use Java to play Pogo games and "Shock the Monkey". I haven't seen Visual Basic in a while; It is not robust at all.
L2 cache is very important, and Intel's new chip will have increased cache. In the classic (slot)Athlons, the L2 ran at a third the speed of the chip, but nowadays, with these newfangled modern procs, L2 has gained in importance, running at full speed...But, then again, the Celerons and Durons have hacked, smaller, L2s...
Interesting Point, but the price of DDR RAM is still to expensive to replace SDRAM right now. However, once the Northwood gets released in a few months, OEMs may move to DDR because of the sheer volume of DDR that is being used. DDR RAM, however is still more expensive; Crucial sells 256 Megs for 50 bucks, compared w/ 30 for some PC133...But I think thats artificial Christmas Price Inflation (TM).
In terms of high end Intel systems, DDR just isn't that way to go. A couple of months ago, when Intel got to 2GHz, they were beasting on similar Athlon systems. But now, AMD has gone on a tear, heavily ramping up their Palomino core. A 1.9 XP w/ DDR beats a 2GHz P4 w/ PC800 RDRAM in every category except for memory bandwith...If the Intel was using DDR as well, the Xp's margin of victory will be even greater. The P4 relies on fast, fast memory. Give a P4 slow memory, and it will freeze (P4 and SDRAM is a horrid combo). Since RAMBUS will soon be releasing pumped 133 MHz bus memory, I think this is the memory that will help Intel more than DDR. Intel is losing, and has ALWAYS lost, the price battle. I think that if Intel cuts memory performance to reduce price, they are losing their ONLY advantage over AMD systems.
If MS is slimy, MS lawyers are even slimier. This particular quote caught my eye:
"Nobody pays over $1 billion to the weak link."
Unless the strongest link costs almost ten billion dollars of real money.
Microsoft also denies picking out the weakest plantiffs to settle...Sure, just like they never muscled the weakest software companies in their buisness practices.
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Domain name registration: 30 dollars
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Adobe PageMill Mac Edition: 40 dollars
Cost of Product they're trying to sell you: 78 Million dollars
Getting
And in some techie circles, it has caused great excitement because it runs on Linux, the renegade operating system that many techies worship.
The giant penguin image that stares right at me wants me to vindicate Linux by hacking into Walter Mossberg's email...
Dude, I really admire your pro-active stance (I marked you "friend" and am posting sans +1 bonus), but from your website, you say that you would return this CD because, to paraphrase, "The CD has a "CD" label, and the CD player has a "CD" label, so they should work together"
However, the audio tracks on the CD comply FULLY with the red-book standard for CDs. The "CD" label DOES NOT mean ISO-9660 compatibility. It means Red-Book compatibility, which this CD has, so I'm afraid your argument doesn't really hold water. However, I doubt that the store clerk would know that!
What? Excuse me?
It's rather easy for a "combination of bits" to crash your computer, especially from a trusted, local source (CD-Drive). It's not their computer you're crashing, it's their OS.
Do you remember the infamous screensaver override program? The one that hacked Windows 9x screensaver passwords by exploiting the autorun capability? That is just one example.
It seems to me like this stuff is just dangerous. I mean, if it "crashes" your Operating System, by definition, your OS has malfunctioned and is not working correctly. When that happens, bad stuff, REALLY bad stuff (a la Firmware overwrite) COULD happen.
It has been often said that, in order to stop pirates, the recording industry could employ teams of virus programmers (they could afford them), to create uber-virii, which they could then distribute through file-sharing programs.
That approach, as illegal and horrifying as it may seem, is probably actually more "legal" (common-sense legal, not this crazy "copyright" legal) than Sony's plan. I mean, you've bought the Damn CD, and you should have rights to play it in a CD player. Any CD player. Whereas if someone got their computer crashed due to the uber-virus, they wouldn't really have a recourse (They didn't own the files, after all).
Just my 2 cents.
I can't agree! I knew this one was fake before I got to the first line!
What the hell is Java-"SCRIPT"? and "D"-HTML? It's disturbingly clear that the moderators have just gone off their rockers!
I mean, first off, what idiot would name a web browser "Konqueror"? And "Free" (as in cocaine) software doesn't come in a "box", it comes in delicious tarballs that are good eatin'!
Look at all the idiots taking this seriously... lol freakin n00bs.
No No No! You can't be serious!
Linus retires, AMD merges with nVidia, Java crackheads take over CPAN, and now NO ORCS!?!?!
God save us all!
(I would've posted this anonymously, but it had to be said) .NYET program. Users will pay a regular fee for the service. Called CMAN-The Comprehensive Microsoft Archive Network, the service is expected to be quite a boon to the recently downtrodden company.
In other news, Microsoft has decided to begin an archive of all their software as part of their new
Buisnesses reacted happily to the news. "We're ecstatic" an anonymous buiness person said, "Microsoft kept giving us shit, but now we've got CMAN!".
The Linux community seemed confused at the news. Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda declared "CMAN? I've been enjoying CMAN for years! Microsoft can't just go and copyright it! This offends my nerdish sensibilities! I want my CMAN!" Malda later said that if the CMAN network was as good as the hype, he would switch to an all-Microsoft platform. "If this CMAN is really high-grade, enterprise level stuff, then I think I'll switch to a Microsoft platform."
Microsoft stock was up sharply on the news. An anonymous trader said "It was like the NASDAQ floor was covered in CMAN! Microsoft rocks my world!".
Yup :)
... They always have the best products for sale today! I'm planning on getting at least 4 six-packs of caffinated beer! How can you go wrong with caffinated beer?!?
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Gee...I don't think you'd need much content ... I mean, look at this guy with ONE (!!!) track? Hope he's paying by the Mb to show how much the /. community cares...I really wish the admins would take a better look at these sites before they post them, I mean, a site posted to /. must either not care about the increased traffic (Cnet or nytimes, for example), or be really interesting, like the World programming championship results. They really shouldn't be fledgling sites looking to desperately hook a readership. I mean, link to the article if you want and ask a question about it, but don't post a site that has virtually NO content.
/.
The idea doesn't really sound too good, either. I don't play CS with the voice feature enabled for the same reason I will never listen to one of these DVDs...I don't wanna hear some loser talking about whatever, when I could hear and see quality audio and video. I mean, after a while you'll either get people with well-reasoned opinions (small percentage of community), and the great deal of the community that bashes everything and yells expletives into their microphones. Actually, that kinda sounds like
Not sure you know what the hell a shim is, dude.
A shim refers to a piece of metal that is sandwiched between the heatsink and the proc to prevent crushing the proc core.
Not sure why the hell you'd use this stuff for a shim. As documented here and here, shims are generally useless and can cause more damage to processors because of heat/electrical distribution. Thus, shims are generally used to insure that shipping of the core by an over-zealous heatsink install will not occur. There are problems, however, being that if the shim is not exactly perfect, it will be either useless will create a gap between the heatsink and the proc, causing fryage.
Thus, most shims are made of light, nonconducting, cheap, oxidized aluminum. I could see abolutely no reason to make a shim out of this stuff.
Unless you meant to talk about the cap on the Pentium 4 procs. In which case, the purpose of the cap is just to spread heat around, and it serves its purpose fine. Intel isn't gonna make their procs a hundred bucks more expensive to help overclockers, whom they don't support anyway.
This is a flagrant abuse of free speech rights. While we can all agree that child pornography should be stopped, this seems absolutely unreasonable. I mean, some effort should be made to minimize the intrusions of personal liberty while maximizing the effectiveness of stopping child porn (or at least significantly cutting it back).
This proposal, however, does neither.
1. An unnacceptable amount of government intrusion into people's affairs. I mean, the government could deem Arab web sites as harboring threats against the US and ban all the Arab servers they wanted. The government will always "err" on the side of deprivation of liberties.
2. Not stopping the problem. There are plenty of other ways to do this. Password-protected ftp sites, AIM/chat clients, Gnutella network to just name a few.
In conclusion, this law is probably the least effective way to do this: It threatens personal liberties much more than providing for the public good.
"The fact that this information was gathered through a search on Google.com, which is hardly considered by most people to be a hacker's tool, is especially interesting."
How much ass does google kick?
The CIA's, apparently.
It should be noted that cmdrtaco is in this, talking about free software while lounging on an inflatable sofa at linuxworld. Clearly you'll want to go buy a big screen TV to watch this.
Wow...Rob Malda and Open Source Software and an inflatable sofa?
Where's my wallet?...I'm gonna go get me a big screen TV and a TiVo!
I agree, file extensions are a pain, but Microsoft will probably build in all sorts of copy protection crap into this OS. Don't believe me? Look at .wma!
OFS might organize your mp3s', but it might also send a list of them and you IP and your address and your Windows license information the the RIAA.
Hope it's worth saving you a couple minutes.
102 Posts saying the link is dead /. effect
101 Posts reposting the original link
57 Posts discussing
4 Posts that rip-off yoda there be only
13 Posts that post a new link, also dead
12 Posts that declare that link dead
41 Posts declaring that the trailer sucked, but that they'll see the movie anyway
17 Posts declaring that the trailer sucked, but that they'll rent it
2 Posts declaring that Star Wars is dead
31 Posts declaring the dark side (Walmart?) alive
Okay, a couple of points on this... The RIAA, and perhaps soon the MPAA, are looking at a generation of people who have NEVER paid for their products (I've never bought a CD, for instance, but my music needs are met just fine). The RIAA is trying, desperately, to stop the problem as soon as possible, so the next generation of potential clients won't think their products are free (as in beer). The SSSCA is a findamental part of their plan, because the only way to shut down a P2P network is to kill off all the peers.
/. community, and this is the time to fight it.
Secondly and most importantly, I don't think people realize just how big the SSSCA is. If it passes, all of these wonderful OSS initiatives will die off. This is the real deal people, so stop whining about Slashdot subscription services and start writing to your Representatives (Don't e-mail them, write them a real letter). A few well-reasoned and insightful letters will enlighten our elected officials, hopefully. This is a direct and fundamental threat to a good deal of the
I'm not trolling here, but I really don't see why this is relevant at all to most anybody. This is the kind of programming structure question that is best resolved by carefully working through the problem with a good friend and a front-end to gdb.
/. is really fulfilling its purpose "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.", this isn't news, and it really doesn't matter to anyone outside of this person's non-profit organization.
I am sure there are countless people just like this person who have programming troubles (hell, I'd like someone to do my CompSci homework for me), but I don't see why the slashdot audience needs to see this.
If
So why is this on Slashdot?
Big Kudos to the moderator (timothy) who was willing to take a chance on an anonymous bugtraq tip. I just got off the phone with Comcast tech support, and they said, essentially, that if this information had never leaked out, they would still be monitoring my internet usage.
Just looking at the original article right here, I was very suprised by all the "This is not news posts" that got modded +5.
Quite simply, this is news, and this is not a simple proxy server either, according to Comcast tech support. Slashdot took a big risk in posting this story, and I think everyone that hollered about the original story being a bust owes a big apology to timothy.
Anyways,
It's good Comcast has finally seen the light (or have had it thrust in their faces), but I am still looking for a new ISP. I think this image really explains why:
Curious jumps everywhere
High ping times
I'm afraid Comcast just isn't cutting it any more. Since my area is a Comcast monopoly, I tihnk its time that we pressured our public officials to break up this monopoly.
As I told the rep: "I hope you realize that if a competitor, ANY competitor, breaks up your cable monopoly here, you will lose all your market share."
And he said:
"Yeah, I know"
According to overclockers.com, THG tested these water coolers incorrectly. Apparently, THG tested the Swiftech unit w/o fans, relying on a "passive heat exchange", while on swiftech's website, the Swiftech Barebone Kit is CLEARLY shown with 2 120mm fans. Given that, it is amazing that the Swiftech finished so close to the Innovatek! It seems evident then, that Tom's conclusion is flawed. Swiftech makes great products (really the best high-end HSF maker, better than Alpha, but pricier), and I was dissappointed to see such a poor performance until I read about this testing anomaly at overclockers.com
People write Visual Basic and Java? What?
I use Java to play Pogo games and "Shock the Monkey". I haven't seen Visual Basic in a while; It is not robust at all.
L2 cache is very important, and Intel's new chip will have increased cache. In the classic (slot)Athlons, the L2 ran at a third the speed of the chip, but nowadays, with these newfangled modern procs, L2 has gained in importance, running at full speed...But, then again, the Celerons and Durons have hacked, smaller, L2s...
Interesting Point, but the price of DDR RAM is still to expensive to replace SDRAM right now. However, once the Northwood gets released in a few months, OEMs may move to DDR because of the sheer volume of DDR that is being used. DDR RAM, however is still more expensive; Crucial sells 256 Megs for 50 bucks, compared w/ 30 for some PC133...But I think thats artificial Christmas Price Inflation (TM).
In terms of high end Intel systems, DDR just isn't that way to go. A couple of months ago, when Intel got to 2GHz, they were beasting on similar Athlon systems. But now, AMD has gone on a tear, heavily ramping up their Palomino core. A 1.9 XP w/ DDR beats a 2GHz P4 w/ PC800 RDRAM in every category except for memory bandwith...If the Intel was using DDR as well, the Xp's margin of victory will be even greater. The P4 relies on fast, fast memory. Give a P4 slow memory, and it will freeze (P4 and SDRAM is a horrid combo). Since RAMBUS will soon be releasing pumped 133 MHz bus memory, I think this is the memory that will help Intel more than DDR. Intel is losing, and has ALWAYS lost, the price battle. I think that if Intel cuts memory performance to reduce price, they are losing their ONLY advantage over AMD systems.
If MS is slimy, MS lawyers are even slimier. This particular quote caught my eye:
"Nobody pays over $1 billion to the weak link."
Unless the strongest link costs almost ten billion dollars of real money.
Microsoft also denies picking out the weakest plantiffs to settle...Sure, just like they never muscled the weakest software companies in their buisness practices.