No, you can't actually. You CAN encode (without ripping) in that time, though, by directly reading the audio tracks as.wav files through BeOS's filesystem plugin for audio CD's. Just to clear up some terminology:)
If you're looking for good tools, you might check out personalStudio, a video editing program for BeOS. It's ridiculously cheap - you can get a bundle with the software, BeOS Pro edition, AND a 1394 video capture card (which has drivers for BeOS of course) & cable for like $129 US. I think you can even run BeOS on that laptop, though laptops aren't officially supported....
If one has a program that examines the text of an HTML document, it should be relatively easy to figure out if a particular document is a porn site page or simply using certain words in a more 'acceptable' manner.
possibly offensive words following
Looking at a random sample of porn pages, you'd find that the majority of them have many words or phrases such as 'xxx', 'tit', 'f*ck', 'cum', 'barely legal', 'dick', etc. They don't say 'breast', 'penis', 'intercourse', etc. (except perhaps in the meta-tags, which can be filtered out).
Would it be so hard to have some sort of filter that just doesn't display pages containing a large proportion of these "hardcore" words & phrases? How many 'legitimate' sites would this block? Not many, I'd wager.
BeNews also has FAR less traffic than Slashdot, and (I might add) a whole lot less "derivative posting"/"meta-posting" - people writing about posting, the site, moderation, etc., everything besides the articles. Not to mention no piles of useless crap like hot grits et al.
I'm not sure it would work for Slashdot. Of course we won't find out until they try it:)
Attempt to embrace and extend C++? If that's the case, they're a few miles behind "everyone's" favorite c++ compiler, gcc, which has quite a few extensions to the language which are of course completely non-portable.
No, rather, I would see this more as the initiation of an attempt by Microsoft to discourage the development of Windows software that's easily portable to other platforms.
It will take a couple hours, if you have to download over a 56k modem (12MB or so for the.bz2 tarball of the kernel sources) and then compile on an older machine (depending on how many modules are enabled - the default settings enable a LOT of modules you don't really need and it takes a while) And that's if you know where to find everything on the net, have ever rebuilt a kernel, and everything works. Good luck if something goes wrong - like, oops, make clean doesn't clean up the modules, find & read docs, aka track down the local linux guru, better do make mrproper... another couple of hours if you didn't do that the first time around (which, following your directions, would happen, at least with the last kernel I tried to compile (2.2.15?)).
I'd rather use Lynx on the 2 linux boxes I regularly use because:
One is a P100 that I use for my firewall & NAT box at home, and doesn't have X installed (what would be the point?)
The other is a Powermac that I use at work, and the version of Xpmac installed with it "sucks wet farts from dead pigeons" and the text console on a powermac is SO much nicer than an x86 text console for some reason:), so I don't use X on it.
Besides, Lynx isn't colorless - it uses colored text:)
Seems to me that censorship is the suppression of free speech... copying someone else's speech verbatim is not free speech - and in fact, in this case, it's copyright infringement.
It seems the concept of ownership is simply a classification of a set of rights to an object. Here's a (very) simple example: If I own, for example, a thingmabob, I can carry it on my person (possession). However, if you own it, then unless you extend the right of possession to me, I'm not 'allowed' to possess it. Ownership is not based on physical control of an object - so why should it matter that intellectual properly has no physical substance and is not scarce?
It seems people confuse the classification of a group of rights known as 'ownership' and that known as 'authorship'.
Whereas "classic" FUD tries to sneak a few lies in among a bunch of truths or mostly-truths, this guy is associating his first point (a valid one) with several ridiculous statements in order to discredit the valid point.
> Oh, you mean that red metalic sphere on your desk is your new Athlon?
If I could get a case like that that was also easy to work inside of, I'd love it. I personally don't really go for the comic-strip style of the iMac (though I like the BeOS interface, go figure:), but I WOULD like to see much more interesting case designs! Why does the darn thing have to be a box? Someone above mentioned a silvery pyramid case style, that would be cool too (though I think a metallic red sphere is cooler:)
A number of people have been railing about the fact possession of objects used in a crime should not be illegal. But consider that these objects can be considered EVIDENCE, and as such possessing (hiding?) them certainly might be considered in the same light as obstruction of justice....
Person A shoots Victim Z with a gun, and gives the gun to his buddy Person B. Does this mean Person B can be charged with possession? Or only if he KNOWS that the weapon was used to commit a crime?
Considering that both AvantGo and Puma are listed as supporters (along with such companies as Symbian and Paragon Software and many more), I'd place my money on SyncML.:)
disclaimer: I work for CS&T. My opinions are my own, not necessarily my employer's.
Just as you said, it would be common sense to follow one's own train of thought and remember to hit the "preview" button when trying to write literal html tags into text that accepts embedded html.:P
Fact is, while it may be common sense, if a web developer is thinking more about how insanely great (tm) their web site will be than about security, it might never occur to them, whereas if you asked them "what should I watch out for when I'm re-serving user input" they'll say "obviously, you have to strip out undesired html tags".
The CERT advisory is a nice heads-up reminder for all those web developers whose heads are buried a little too deeply in their website features to have noticed this problem.
I believe you've missed the whole point of the article, which is to contrast peoples' behaviour in offline communities and their behaviour in online communities.
When I walk down the street, or go to work, or go shopping, I typically don't have to deal with people insulting me (or other passersby) because of the shirt I wear, the way I walk, or whatever. But venture online, and all of a sudden I'm forced to devote a portion of my valuable thinking to filtering out this crud.
The point is not that it's possible to do so - obviously Katz is capable of dealing with flames, or he would have retired from writing for Slashdot long ago;) Rather, the point is, WHY should we have to do this when in offline communities this problem not nearly as prevalent? Why do some people discard all pretense of polite conversation when they are writing on a web page, but these same people will hold the door for me and say "have a nice day" when my hands are full of groceries?
It's an interesting question, and that's why Katz wrote about it.
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No, you can't actually. You CAN encode (without ripping) in that time, though, by directly reading the audio tracks as .wav files through BeOS's filesystem plugin for audio CD's. Just to clear up some terminology :)
Nice going, now they'll have to shut down Slashdot too since it has links to sites containing DeCSS code. :P
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Spoken like a true anonymous coward. ;)
If you're looking for good tools, you might check out personalStudio, a video editing program for BeOS. It's ridiculously cheap - you can get a bundle with the software, BeOS Pro edition, AND a 1394 video capture card (which has drivers for BeOS of course) & cable for like $129 US. I think you can even run BeOS on that laptop, though laptops aren't officially supported....
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If one has a program that examines the text of an HTML document, it should be relatively easy to figure out if a particular document is a porn site page or simply using certain words in a more 'acceptable' manner.
possibly offensive words following
Looking at a random sample of porn pages, you'd find that the majority of them have many words or phrases such as 'xxx', 'tit', 'f*ck', 'cum', 'barely legal', 'dick', etc. They don't say 'breast', 'penis', 'intercourse', etc. (except perhaps in the meta-tags, which can be filtered out).
Would it be so hard to have some sort of filter that just doesn't display pages containing a large proportion of these "hardcore" words & phrases? How many 'legitimate' sites would this block? Not many, I'd wager.
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BeNews also has FAR less traffic than Slashdot, and (I might add) a whole lot less "derivative posting"/"meta-posting" - people writing about posting, the site, moderation, etc., everything besides the articles. Not to mention no piles of useless crap like hot grits et al.
:)
I'm not sure it would work for Slashdot. Of course we won't find out until they try it
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Attempt to embrace and extend C++? If that's the case, they're a few miles behind "everyone's" favorite c++ compiler, gcc, which has quite a few extensions to the language which are of course completely non-portable.
No, rather, I would see this more as the initiation of an attempt by Microsoft to discourage the development of Windows software that's easily portable to other platforms.
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> that'd clearly take many hours
.bz2 tarball of the kernel sources) and then compile on an older machine (depending on how many modules are enabled - the default settings enable a LOT of modules you don't really need and it takes a while) And that's if you know where to find everything on the net, have ever rebuilt a kernel, and everything works. Good luck if something goes wrong - like, oops, make clean doesn't clean up the modules, find & read docs, aka track down the local linux guru, better do make mrproper... another couple of hours if you didn't do that the first time around (which, following your directions, would happen, at least with the last kernel I tried to compile (2.2.15?)).
:)
It will take a couple hours, if you have to download over a 56k modem (12MB or so for the
Sorry for the run-on sentence.
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Ah, but you can sell information. Thus, it directly has value.
I'd rather use Lynx on the 2 linux boxes I regularly use because:
:), so I don't use X on it.
:)
One is a P100 that I use for my firewall & NAT box at home, and doesn't have X installed (what would be the point?)
The other is a Powermac that I use at work, and the version of Xpmac installed with it "sucks wet farts from dead pigeons" and the text console on a powermac is SO much nicer than an x86 text console for some reason
Besides, Lynx isn't colorless - it uses colored text
Since when does the typical slashdot flamer only flame invalid points? :)
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Seems to me that censorship is the suppression of free speech... copying someone else's speech verbatim is not free speech - and in fact, in this case, it's copyright infringement.
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Yeah... :P
"What kind of music do you have here?"
"Oh, we have BOTH kinds! Country AND Western!"
It seems the concept of ownership is simply a classification of a set of rights to an object. Here's a (very) simple example: If I own, for example, a thingmabob, I can carry it on my person (possession). However, if you own it, then unless you extend the right of possession to me, I'm not 'allowed' to possess it. Ownership is not based on physical control of an object - so why should it matter that intellectual properly has no physical substance and is not scarce?
It seems people confuse the classification of a group of rights known as 'ownership' and that known as 'authorship'.
Wouldn't the list fall under copyright protection though?
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>you forgot:
>
>and one for playing games
>
>Read: http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/
2 prominent (in the community) BeOS game houses:
http://www.wcdesign.com
http://www.ngent.com
(though the wcdesign site seems dead right now...)
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I didn't know you could give a topic to the web-based sociology paper generator... :)
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Whereas "classic" FUD tries to sneak a few lies in among a bunch of truths or mostly-truths, this guy is associating his first point (a valid one) with several ridiculous statements in order to discredit the valid point.
:P
Bravo!
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> Oh, you mean that red metalic sphere on your desk is your new Athlon?
:), but I WOULD like to see much more interesting case designs! Why does the darn thing have to be a box? Someone above mentioned a silvery pyramid case style, that would be cool too (though I think a metallic red sphere is cooler :)
If I could get a case like that that was also easy to work inside of, I'd love it. I personally don't really go for the comic-strip style of the iMac (though I like the BeOS interface, go figure
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Disclaimer: IANAL
A number of people have been railing about the fact possession of objects used in a crime should not be illegal. But consider that these objects can be considered EVIDENCE, and as such possessing (hiding?) them certainly might be considered in the same light as obstruction of justice....
Person A shoots Victim Z with a gun, and gives the gun to his buddy Person B. Does this mean Person B can be charged with possession? Or only if he KNOWS that the weapon was used to commit a crime?
What I'd like to know is, how are these full-bearded people DRINKING their beer such that they lose twice as much as a simple mustachio'ed drinker....
Considering that both AvantGo and Puma are listed as supporters (along with such companies as Symbian and Paragon Software and many more), I'd place my money on SyncML. :)
disclaimer: I work for CS&T.
My opinions are my own, not necessarily my employer's.
The Doonesbury comic strip did this long before the Simpsons. :)
Just as you said, it would be common sense to follow one's own train of thought and remember to hit the "preview" button when trying to write literal html tags into text that accepts embedded html. :P
Fact is, while it may be common sense, if a web developer is thinking more about how insanely great (tm) their web site will be than about security, it might never occur to them, whereas if you asked them "what should I watch out for when I'm re-serving user input" they'll say "obviously, you have to strip out undesired html tags".
The CERT advisory is a nice heads-up reminder for all those web developers whose heads are buried a little too deeply in their website features to have noticed this problem.
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I believe you've missed the whole point of the article, which is to contrast peoples' behaviour in offline communities and their behaviour in online communities.
;) Rather, the point is, WHY should we have to do this when in offline communities this problem not nearly as prevalent? Why do some people discard all pretense of polite conversation when they are writing on a web page, but these same people will hold the door for me and say "have a nice day" when my hands are full of groceries?
When I walk down the street, or go to work, or go shopping, I typically don't have to deal with people insulting me (or other passersby) because of the shirt I wear, the way I walk, or whatever. But venture online, and all of a sudden I'm forced to devote a portion of my valuable thinking to filtering out this crud.
The point is not that it's possible to do so - obviously Katz is capable of dealing with flames, or he would have retired from writing for Slashdot long ago
It's an interesting question, and that's why Katz wrote about it.
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