Exactly. I'm doing this as well. I configured a second wifi interface, wl1, and once you have second interface in dd-wrt, you can apply bandwidth throttling. It works like a champ. I connect my systems to the primary wifi interface, and any guest can connect to the open secondary interface. To test the throttling, I fired up a bandwith test on the open guest interface, and then another on the primary network and confirmed that the primary network takes priority over any of the guest traffic.
"now a push for stronger controls and monitoring for technology exports 'that would provide a national strategy to prevent the use of American technology from being used by human rights abusers.'"
Where is the grilling of our own country's use of this technology to spy on our citizens? Yeah, I thought so, not a single word. That'd be looking in the past and we never do that. Nope never...
Honestly, this is consistent with what the US has been saying for the past 10 years on any human rights abuse. We've continued to rack up our own abuses and as long as the targets are "terrorists" or "Muslims" or whatever the current boogeyman, it's OK if the US does these things. Meanwhile, out of the other side of our mouth, while we continue these abusive and repressive tactics, we have the gall to point the finger at other countries, ones who we even have supported and ASKED to do our repression because it gives the US some value, we point our finger and tsk tsk tsk, spying, invasion of privacy, these are the things of tyrants and dictators... let the sound of freedom ring...
Because we live in a democracy, and the public cannot make an informed decision about their elected leaders unless they know what those leaders are really doing.
The leaks are primarily -- and perhaps exclusively -- from the writings of career civil servants, not elected officials.
It doesn't matter who *wrote* the cable so much as for whom the cable was written. Specially, these cables were for the state department as a whole. That's clearly government and it reasonable falls into an area (diplomacy) that US Citizens have an interest in understanding what their state department is doing on their behalf.
But he doesn't seem to be exercising a lot of descretion in these releases. I wonder if he might not always be completely truthful.
How can you claim that there isn't a lot of discretion with the leaked documents?
Assange has requested support from the US Govt on redactions; he was rebuffed[1]. He's provided the cables to newspapers and has only released a small portion of documents that they've felt were important. To date, were talking ~1% of the total documents.
None of this sounds like someone who just dumped the whole lot without a care in the world besides total transparency.
So far, Wikileaks has published approximately nothing that is shocking or surprising or that reveals unlawful activity -- and I include the misleadingly edited "Collateral Murder" video in my consideration
Maybe it wasn't shocking to you, but I consider things like lying about military action (Yemen, Pakistan), coercion to prevent prosecution (Spain, Germany) pretty big deals. I can't say that I'm shocked, but you can't say there aren't huge huge stories included in just the first 2000 (1% of the total volume) documents that have been released. A small list of those here:
Don't disagree that good character, to the best of your ability to judge is a good idea, but the whole point of elected officials and transparency is that those in power have demonstrated time and time again that we just can't trust them. The US constitution was written to enshrine this idea. We don't have to trust officials because we're in control and demand accountability through elections.
So folks get up-in-arms about a 100k email addresses leaked by AT&T api but never mind the *millions* of emails, email contents, phone conversations, irc chats, *everything* that we've sent over the intertubes that AT&T, for the last 8 years, shuffled to the NSA? Really?
Awesome, have the government archive my internet content just don't send me SPAM?
That's a very fair point on stability. Boxee certainly could use something that can restart it when it crashes; mythtv frontend makes a nice place to do that.
Not sure why it fails for you, but I have a fully populated Movie and TV browsing in Boxee -- I never use Browse because everything is in either Movie or TV. You may want to look at the boxee forums on media naming conventions to ensure it can classify your local media correctly.
Other than the livetv part, there isn't much to love in mythtv. Mythvideo is *horrible*. It doesn't have much in the way of automatically finding and acquiring metadata around your local media. The navigation menu assumes one big flat folder with everything in it. While it does work with directory trees, you end up having to click through that to get the video. Boxee really shines here -- it separates TV series from movies, and for tv shows, groups them according to season. This was exactly what I wanted. When you add new media, in myth you have to go an select scan from the setup screen while boxee is always watching for new media and it just shows up under the recently added section.
While the alpha does crash every now and then (the 0.12 has improved a lot for me) what I'm struggling with is the need for the fglrx -- the LTS fglrx support on my ati 9500 pro was horrible (freeze the screen, took 5 reboots to get stable from power on) -- I'm currently on 9.04 with xorg from 8.10 and that's been working out quite well now.
I tend to agree that the "social" aspect of boxee is a bit in the way in the main interface, but what the reviewer didn't mention is whether zinc or hulu do anything with local media. From the zinc website it seems like it too can scan local media like boxee, what I would have liked in the review is some coverage over how well each one worked. In my experience, boxee does a really good job at this and includes a built-in interface for correcting the mistakes (aka Wrong Video link). I do agree that boxee could use a global search, however, I'm quite happy with boxee having just converted away from a mythtv setup.
KVM has the same gui that opensource Xen does, namely virt-manager. Virt-manager provide a gui for creating guests as well as managing them. KVM does require hardware support, but I don't think that's a huge deal. VT/SVM has been around since ~2005, and I'd say that in many cases, folks have access to newer processors or will so very soon. And as you mention, for those folks that haven't upgraded to a new processor since 2005, they certainly can use other solutions.
You've got to be kidding, right? You can install kvm without having to reboot and be installing a guest OS (given that you have the cd) in mere minutes.
Maybe a little more description of your experience with 'one of-if not the- hardest to use productively' claim might persuade folks that the above is not trivially simple.
>First of all, it's not FACTS that are being copyrighted. It's databases. Yes, a database is a collection of facts -- but it's the concept of collection that's being protected here, not the concept of facts.
Well, if it is just the collection, then you can just give me the facts from your collection, in any order you like. I dont think that is what is being requested... companies dont want to have to give out the facts that they have in their collection...
>The creative act of assembling a database -- and if you don't think it's creative, you've never done it, it
So are all databases creative works? Not all, but all of yours? Is it possible to create a database that isnt creative?
>takes a TREMENDOUS effort to assemble and maintain a useful data relation even if you're using publically accessible information -- is something that should be protected.
So if I spend "TREMENDOUS" effort, I should be guaranteed a government granted monopoly? Where does the constitution mention anything about effort in the copyright clause ? I see stuff about progress of arts and science, but progress is not measured by just how much work it takes to achieve something.
>It gives data warehousers the same assurance that other content creators receive, so that they can offer access to their systems without worrying about losing the value...something which in my experience has plagued content creators greatly.
Some discussion on alternatives to absolute control by default are here:
http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/00220 4. html
the point being that there are many existing tools for restricting access to databases and those should be reviewed before insisting on a control mechanism that treats any accessing of information in a database as a violation.
>If I wrote an editorial, and you wanted to quote a few lines on your own site, you'd be allowed to. But copy all the text and you're in violation of copyright.
Agreed. Your editorial may contain facts, opinions or both. I am free to quote from your work, independent of the contents of the quote to the extent that the law allows under the Fair Use provision.
>It'd be the same with databases. Want to quote a sport score or two? No problem, that's fair. Want to present all of yesterday's results? You'd better ask permission or start compiling them yourself.
No, it is not the same. The "score" is a fact. How can including a fact in a database suddenly make it copyrightable? Your editorial as a whole is copyrighted no matter if it is on paper, in an email, or in a database. If a fact cannot be copyrighted then including a fact in a database cant make the fact copyrightable.
Imagine the world where you could be able to do so... pay someone to access numbers ? 2+2=4 ? you need to pay someone to get that fact ? No, instead we have other ways by which owners of massive databases can create revenue... many database include contracts and licensing that dictates how the information may be used, etc.
>The only potential problems I see is battery life, a small game library, and Nintendo's virtual monopoly on portable video games.
Wow, the two very things that make Nintendo the king of handheld...
The GBA chose longer battery life over backlit, though using a rechargable battery ala mobile phones in the SP is a good move. The GB Color ran GB games, and the GBA runs GB, GB Color making the library of games enormous. The only handheld device that comes close to the circulation numbers that Nintendo has with GB/GB Color/GBA is a mobile phone.
I dont want to spend time re-encoding my [insert favorite digital file type 1] files to [insert favorite digital file type 2].
Modern software-based digital music players (xmms, winamp, freeamp, etc.) use pluggable codecs to support a large range of music files. Where is the hardware-based digital player that follows suit ? Obviously its not easy/cheap to do, but thats where my money will go. I should be able to add support for new codecs as they arrive. How about codecs on a flash/SD card ?
So maybe someone should start a central resource for independent games, where small developers can advertise their cool stuff, and then everyone concentrate on marketting that resource?
I worked at a Software Etc. way back before B&N bought them all and put em in as Super Software stores. We had Rise of the Robots on 3DO. That particular version must have travelled in and out of our store 20 times. Each time we would warn the buyer, "No, really, you DONT want that game..." and they would buy it in any case. Later that day they would be back to return it; usually with some choice words like, "Why the hell didnt you tell me that game sucked so much ass!"
There was so much wrong with the game. It, as most sucky games of the time, lured its prey with FMV. Yeah, thats right, the gaming wave of the future; Full-Motion-Video... a cheap trick used when the game itself was a worthless POS. This game came out around time time when Fighters, mainly Street Fighter 2, were king. Each console had its fighters, so, it was logical that someone would try to make a fighter to beat SF2... hehe, unlike SF2 which had 6 buttons to use, ROR had two. Punch and Kick.... and the funniest part about it was the animation... None at all, the leg of the robot would suddenly rotate 90 degrees and then back to vertical.... you were more worried that your robot might have fallen over than if he hit his opponent... the music ? yeah, we wont talk about it... The only time the game looked good was in screenshots, the framerate was probably 2 FPS...
Actually, this game is so bad that you just need to check it out.
Im still using galeon. Mainly because I like my smart-bookmarks. I have a lot of aliases for customized searching (gg - google, ebay, fm - freshmeat, rpm - rpmfind... etc. I use 'j' and 'k' from vi to move the page up and down which in phoenix is now interpreted in their type-ahead search feature. In galeon I have a close-tab X on each tab, not at the end. On new tab creation it can insert right next to my current tab instead of at the end.
I dont know that Phoenix does anything 'so much better' more like as-good-as... at least for what I need when I browse.
If you quit using galeon, what was missing/broken ?
Games games games. There is a little bit of a start with Epic and Bioware, but until the game developers a) start using open standards like OpenGL 2.0 (once it catches up to the faster evolving DirectX from the Nvidia-MS alliance) and b) decouple their game code from their display code so they can move over to OpenGL 2.0 with out a major rewrite.
Games will always come out for DirectX first as thats the biggest target for PC Games. Some of this may come around since Linux is being used as a high-end graphic workstation, but thats a long shot.
WineX is nice, but that means that games on linux are game price + winex subscription.
"LeDuc said it is fairer to charge researchers for the articles they use than to charge taxpayers for the cost of running a Web site that makes them available for free. "
If its taxpayers money paying for the site, then we should be the ones to complain and say dont use our money any more. By shutting down a site that benefited more than just the scientific community the Software and Information Industry Association appearently speaks for ALL taxpayers.
Slashdot Mirror
Looks like I have to type more than that so the code knows I really mean:
sed -e 's,jujo/juju,g'
This Operation Sundevil from the 1990s ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Exactly. I'm doing this as well. I configured a second wifi interface, wl1, and once you have second interface in dd-wrt, you can apply bandwidth throttling. It works like a champ. I connect my systems to the primary wifi interface, and any guest can connect to the open secondary interface. To test the throttling, I fired up a bandwith test on the open guest interface, and then another on the primary network and confirmed that the primary network takes priority over any of the guest traffic.
I used this wiki to help configure my setup:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Multiple_WLANs
Sew you are saying they have a hole in the garment called used games? Maybe they should stitch that up... =)
"now a push for stronger controls and monitoring for technology exports 'that would provide a national strategy to prevent the use of American technology from being used by human rights abusers.'"
Where is the grilling of our own country's use of this technology to spy on our citizens? Yeah, I thought so, not a single word. That'd be looking in the past and we never do that. Nope never...
Honestly, this is consistent with what the US has been saying for the past 10 years on any human rights abuse. We've continued to rack up our own abuses and as long as the targets are "terrorists" or "Muslims" or whatever the current boogeyman, it's OK if the US does these things. Meanwhile, out of the other side of our mouth, while we continue these abusive and repressive tactics, we have the gall to point the finger at other countries, ones who we even have supported and ASKED to do our repression because it gives the US some value, we point our finger and tsk tsk tsk, spying, invasion of privacy, these are the things of tyrants and dictators... let the sound of freedom ring...
Nope, not even a hint of irony there...
Because we live in a democracy, and the public cannot make an informed decision about their elected leaders unless they know what those leaders are really doing.
The leaks are primarily -- and perhaps exclusively -- from the writings of career civil servants, not elected officials.
It doesn't matter who *wrote* the cable so much as for whom the cable was written. Specially, these cables were for the state department as a whole. That's clearly government and it reasonable falls into an area (diplomacy) that US Citizens have an interest in understanding what their state department is doing on their behalf.
But he doesn't seem to be exercising a lot of descretion in these releases. I wonder if he might not always be completely truthful.
How can you claim that there isn't a lot of discretion with the leaked documents?
Assange has requested support from the US Govt on redactions; he was rebuffed[1]. He's provided the cables to newspapers and has only released a small portion of documents that they've felt were important. To date, were talking ~1% of the total documents.
None of this sounds like someone who just dumped the whole lot without a care in the world besides total transparency.
1. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2033771,00.html
So far, Wikileaks has published approximately nothing that is shocking or surprising or that reveals unlawful activity -- and I include the misleadingly edited "Collateral Murder" video in my consideration
Maybe it wasn't shocking to you, but I consider things like lying about military action (Yemen, Pakistan), coercion to prevent prosecution (Spain, Germany) pretty big deals. I can't say that I'm shocked, but you can't say there aren't huge huge stories included in just the first 2000 (1% of the total volume) documents that have been released. A small list of those here:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/24/wikileaks
and more exhaustive list here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contents_of_the_United_States_diplomatic_cables_leak
Just take 5 minutes and read through those lists and come back and tell me nothing shocking, surprising, or unlawful behavior is included.
Don't disagree that good character, to the best of your ability to judge is a good idea, but the whole point of elected officials and transparency is that those in power have demonstrated time and time again that we just can't trust them. The US constitution was written to enshrine this idea. We don't have to trust officials because we're in control and demand accountability through elections.
So folks get up-in-arms about a 100k email addresses leaked by AT&T api but never mind the *millions* of emails, email contents, phone conversations, irc chats, *everything* that we've sent over the intertubes that AT&T, for the last 8 years, shuffled to the NSA? Really?
Awesome, have the government archive my internet content just don't send me SPAM?
That's a very fair point on stability. Boxee certainly could use something that can restart it when it crashes; mythtv frontend makes a nice place to do that.
Not sure why it fails for you, but I have a fully populated Movie and TV browsing in Boxee -- I never use Browse because everything is in either Movie or TV. You may want to look at the boxee forums on media naming conventions to ensure it can classify your local media correctly.
Other than the livetv part, there isn't much to love in mythtv. Mythvideo is *horrible*. It doesn't have much in the way of automatically finding and acquiring metadata around your local media. The navigation menu assumes one big flat folder with everything in it. While it does work with directory trees, you end up having to click through that to get the video. Boxee really shines here -- it separates TV series from movies, and for tv shows, groups them according to season. This was exactly what I wanted. When you add new media, in myth you have to go an select scan from the setup screen while boxee is always watching for new media and it just shows up under the recently added section.
While the alpha does crash every now and then (the 0.12 has improved a lot for me) what I'm struggling with is the need for the fglrx -- the LTS fglrx support on my ati 9500 pro was horrible (freeze the screen, took 5 reboots to get stable from power on) -- I'm currently on 9.04 with xorg from 8.10 and that's been working out quite well now.
I tend to agree that the "social" aspect of boxee is a bit in the way in the main interface, but what the reviewer didn't mention is whether zinc or hulu do anything with local media. From the zinc website it seems like it too can scan local media like boxee, what I would have liked in the review is some coverage over how well each one worked. In my experience, boxee does a really good job at this and includes a built-in interface for correcting the mistakes (aka Wrong Video link). I do agree that boxee could use a global search, however, I'm quite happy with boxee having just converted away from a mythtv setup.
KVM has the same gui that opensource Xen does, namely virt-manager. Virt-manager provide a gui for creating guests as well as managing them. KVM does require hardware support, but I don't think that's a huge deal. VT/SVM has been around since ~2005, and I'd say that in many cases, folks have access to newer processors or will so very soon. And as you mention, for those folks that haven't upgraded to a new processor since 2005, they certainly can use other solutions.
You've got to be kidding, right? You can install kvm without having to reboot and be installing a guest OS (given that you have the cd) in mere minutes.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM
All of two commands after you've installed kvm:
1. create disk image
2. launch installer
Maybe a little more description of your experience with 'one of-if not the- hardest to use productively' claim might persuade folks that the above is not trivially simple.
>First of all, it's not FACTS that are being copyrighted. It's databases. Yes, a database is a collection of facts -- but it's the concept of collection that's being protected here, not the concept of facts.
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Well, if it is just the collection, then you can just give me the facts from your collection, in any order you like. I dont think that is what is being requested... companies dont want to have to give out the facts that they have in their collection...
>The creative act of assembling a database -- and if you don't think it's creative, you've never done it, it
So are all databases creative works? Not all, but all of yours? Is it possible to create a database that isnt creative?
>takes a TREMENDOUS effort to assemble and maintain a useful data relation even if you're using publically accessible information -- is something that should be protected.
So if I spend "TREMENDOUS" effort, I should be guaranteed a government granted monopoly? Where does the constitution mention anything about effort in the copyright clause ? I see stuff about progress of arts and science, but progress is not measured by just how much work it takes to achieve something.
>It gives data warehousers the same assurance that other content creators receive, so that they can offer access to their systems without worrying about losing the value...something which in my experience has plagued content creators greatly.
Some discussion on alternatives to absolute control by default are here:
http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/0022
the point being that there are many existing tools for restricting access to databases and those should be reviewed before insisting on a control mechanism that treats any accessing of information in a database as a violation.
>If I wrote an editorial, and you wanted to quote a few lines on your own site, you'd be allowed to. But copy all the text and you're in violation of copyright.
Agreed. Your editorial may contain facts, opinions or both. I am free to quote from your work, independent of the contents of the quote to the extent that the law allows under the Fair Use provision.
>It'd be the same with databases. Want to quote a sport score or two? No problem, that's fair. Want to present all of yesterday's results? You'd better ask permission or start compiling them yourself.
No, it is not the same. The "score" is a fact. How can including a fact in a database suddenly make it copyrightable? Your editorial as a whole is copyrighted no matter if it is on paper, in an email, or in a database. If a fact cannot be copyrighted then including a fact in a database cant make the fact copyrightable.
Imagine the world where you could be able to do so... pay someone to access numbers ? 2+2=4 ? you need to pay someone to get that fact ? No, instead we have other ways by which owners of massive databases can create revenue... many database include contracts and licensing that dictates how the information may be used, etc.
>The only potential problems I see is battery life, a small game library, and Nintendo's virtual monopoly on portable video games.
Wow, the two very things that make Nintendo the king of handheld...
The GBA chose longer battery life over backlit, though using a rechargable battery ala mobile phones in the SP is a good move. The GB Color ran GB games, and the GBA runs GB, GB Color making the library of games enormous. The only handheld device that comes close to the circulation numbers that Nintendo has with GB/GB Color/GBA is a mobile phone.
I dont want to spend time re-encoding my [insert favorite digital file type 1] files to [insert favorite digital file type 2].
Modern software-based digital music players (xmms, winamp, freeamp, etc.) use pluggable codecs to support a large range of music files. Where is the hardware-based digital player that follows suit ? Obviously its not easy/cheap to do, but thats where my money will go. I should be able to add support for new codecs as they arrive. How about codecs on a flash/SD card ?
http://www.gamasutra.org/
http://www.indiegames.com/
http://www.garagegames.com/
http://www.igda.org/
I worked at a Software Etc. way back before B&N bought them all and put em in as Super Software stores. We had Rise of the Robots on 3DO. That particular version must have travelled in and out of our store 20 times. Each time we would warn the buyer, "No, really, you DONT want that game..." and they would buy it in any case. Later that day they would be back to return it; usually with some choice words like, "Why the hell didnt you tell me that game sucked so much ass!"
There was so much wrong with the game. It, as most sucky games of the time, lured its prey with FMV. Yeah, thats right, the gaming wave of the future; Full-Motion-Video... a cheap trick used when the game itself was a worthless POS. This game came out around time time when Fighters, mainly Street Fighter 2, were king. Each console had its fighters, so, it was logical that someone would try to make a fighter to beat SF2... hehe, unlike SF2 which had 6 buttons to use, ROR had two. Punch and Kick.... and the funniest part about it was the animation... None at all, the leg of the robot would suddenly rotate 90 degrees and then back to vertical.... you were more worried that your robot might have fallen over than if he hit his opponent... the music ? yeah, we wont talk about it... The only time the game looked good was in screenshots, the framerate was probably 2 FPS...
Actually, this game is so bad that you just need to check it out.
Im still using galeon. Mainly because I like my smart-bookmarks. I have a lot of aliases for customized searching (gg - google, ebay, fm - freshmeat, rpm - rpmfind ... etc. I use 'j' and 'k' from vi to move the page up and down which in phoenix is now interpreted in their type-ahead search feature. In galeon I have a close-tab X on each tab, not at the end. On new tab creation it can insert right next to my current tab instead of at the end.
I dont know that Phoenix does anything 'so much better' more like as-good-as... at least for what I need when I browse.
If you quit using galeon, what was missing/broken ?
while the geek factor may be high, what sort of 12-bit software is it going to run ? linux?
Games games games. There is a little bit of a start with Epic and Bioware, but until the game developers a) start using open standards like OpenGL 2.0 (once it catches up to the faster evolving DirectX from the Nvidia-MS alliance) and b) decouple their game code from their display code so they can move over to OpenGL 2.0 with out a major rewrite.
Games will always come out for DirectX first as thats the biggest target for PC Games. Some of this may come around since Linux is being used as a high-end graphic workstation, but thats a long shot.
WineX is nice, but that means that games on linux are game price + winex subscription.
Quote from the article:
"LeDuc said it is fairer to charge researchers for the articles they use than to charge taxpayers for the cost of running a Web site that makes them available for free. "
If its taxpayers money paying for the site, then we should be the ones to complain and say dont use our money any more. By shutting down a site that benefited more than just the scientific community the Software and Information Industry Association appearently speaks for ALL taxpayers.