>If you want to give junior high kids "internet
>access", you know they'll go through trying every
>single porn site until they hit one that beats >your filters:)
Completely true. And they're smart enough to disable Java to avoid pop-ups, too. I've worked at a public access center before.
And let's not forget that the web is not the entirety of the Internet. Don't forget that there's a few orders of magnitude more porn through newsgroups than on the web, and it's far, far easier to find. Web filters don't block any of that.
There's your solution: Do whatever you're bosses want you to do, but feel safe in the fact that Usenet, email, and FTP will remain open to those users willing to take the time to use them.
It's a good idea to put the wheel in a thumb-accessible location, but being a satisfied Trackman Marble+ owner, I'd be pretty annoyed.:) Maybe it could go on the right side of the mouse, so the pinky could use the wheel. No-one uses their pinky for clicking any buttons anyway, unless they've got some seriously weird mouse.
Here's my guess: DeCSS is more of a philosophical kind of issue, in that the code isn't immediately useful to the average Joe User, but only as part of a larger project. Also, the MPAA is willing to make their digital format, DVD, much more widespread. They're not trying to stop the evolution of their industry, just control it. That's understandable, even if they're being utter pricks about it.
Napster, on the other hand, is immediately useful to goddess-only-knows-how-many millions of users daily. Not only that, but the RIAA seems to be trying to stamp out all forms of digital music. Don't bother pointing out SDMI and the others, they're complete jokes. They're just token gestures, an empty claim of being "with it", sort of like Dr. Evil saying he's hip in the first Austin Powers movie. Whenever I think of secure digital music, I think of that. The RIAA seems determined to stop the evolution of their industry, and that's where the two groups differ.
Maybe I'm completely wrong, but it sure seems that way to me...
How would the RIAA know which person made the copy? They would never be able to tell a copy made by person A from a copy made by person B from a copy made by person C. The only way to lessen the chances of copying would be to restrict the sale of the music at all, and that would bite them in their pocketbook, exactly what they are trying to avoid.
Just *one* person needs to make a copy and put it on Gnutella or Napster or Freenet or whatever else comes along, and they are, as they say in the vernacular, completely fucked.
The comments about never using the word "tory" reminded me of something. First of all, this is *not* a troll.
Here in Canada, our two major political parties are the Progressive Conservative Party, also known as the Tories, and the (currently ruling) Liberal Party, also known as the Grits.
Yes, Canada is run by Grits. I'm amazed that no/. trolls have picked up on this fact yet.
Now, there's no denying that his songs from Python are funny as hell, but he doesn't exactly have the most pleasant singing voice, and enthusiasm for the songs only carries it so far.:)
The first 6 episodes of Evangelion are purely to introduce the main characters and to show just how butt-useless armies are against the Angels. Starting at episode 7, you realize that things are Not Quite Right, and by Episode 11 the show's in full-blown conspiracy mode. The X-Files's Cancer Man and the Syndicate are complete wimps compared to Commander Ikari and SEELE. Don't think of Eva as a TV series, think of it as an OVA (with a fixed and pre-planned storyline) that just happened to be shown on TV.
Recommended reading to "get Eva": the old Hebrew myth of Adam and Lilith, Robert Browing's poems, the Oedipus myth, and and all old testament Christian mythology, and keep in mind that in German, "nerv" means nerve, "seele" means soul, and "gehirn" means brain. Trust me on all this.:)
I just know I'm gonna get flamed for asking a Linux question in a BSD article, but is there any way to encrypt a Linux swap partition? Also, are there any ways to encrypt the data in physical RAM, in any OS?
Haven't tried 7.0 or 7.1 yet, but the latests release of WM runs fine on 6.5. Some of the locations it chooses for the files are a little odd, though. If this bugs you, just build it yourself.
>I agree, the chance that it's just a coincidence >is minimal, but without George Lucas' approval, >they have to say it's coincidental.
I don't know if he'll object at all. It's not ripping of any names (unlike a Certain Handheld Device For A Certain Large Military Organization That Shall Remain Nameless), it's a non-commercial project, and it's for peaceful purposes. I have no idea of what Lucas' morals are, but I don't think he'll object to this.
But yeah, the resemblance is pretty close. If you're right, not telling the PR folks anything was a good move. Smart folks in NASA's engineering corps...
Heh. Although the Window Maker/Afterstep clipboard dockapp makes it a little more convenient than the Windows clipboard, as long as you're just talking about xterms and a few other simple apps. For graphics you're dead-on accurate, unfortunately...
I believe you're referring to XCruise. It's pretty useless as a file manager, but fun to play with and show off to non-X friends. You don't even need an expensive graphics card, OpenGL or Mesa to run it.
To be considered all-in-one nowadays it has to be able to play DVDs. Since a stock Dreamcast doesn't do that, is it at all possible to add that capability?
And what did they mean by getting other companies to make chips for the Dreamcast? Is that for add-ons, or upgrades, or did the journalists just screw up?
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Yes, but how would the rocks stop?
Did you realize that this entire article violates Godwin's Law?
You're both wrong. Joe, available here, is the greatest text editor ever.
>If you want to give junior high kids "internet :)
>access", you know they'll go through trying every
>single porn site until they hit one that beats >your filters
Completely true. And they're smart enough to disable Java to avoid pop-ups, too. I've worked at a public access center before.
And let's not forget that the web is not the entirety of the Internet. Don't forget that there's a few orders of magnitude more porn through newsgroups than on the web, and it's far, far easier to find. Web filters don't block any of that.
There's your solution: Do whatever you're bosses want you to do, but feel safe in the fact that Usenet, email, and FTP will remain open to those users willing to take the time to use them.
It's a good idea to put the wheel in a thumb-accessible location, but being a satisfied Trackman Marble+ owner, I'd be pretty annoyed. :) Maybe it could go on the right side of the mouse, so the pinky could use the wheel. No-one uses their pinky for clicking any buttons anyway, unless they've got some seriously weird mouse.
Here's my guess: DeCSS is more of a philosophical kind of issue, in that the code isn't immediately useful to the average Joe User, but only as part of a larger project. Also, the MPAA is willing to make their digital format, DVD, much more widespread. They're not trying to stop the evolution of their industry, just control it. That's understandable, even if they're being utter pricks about it.
:)
Napster, on the other hand, is immediately useful to goddess-only-knows-how-many millions of users daily. Not only that, but the RIAA seems to be trying to stamp out all forms of digital music. Don't bother pointing out SDMI and the others, they're complete jokes. They're just token gestures, an empty claim of being "with it", sort of like Dr. Evil saying he's hip in the first Austin Powers movie. Whenever I think of secure digital music, I think of that. The RIAA seems determined to stop the evolution of their industry, and that's where the two groups differ.
Maybe I'm completely wrong, but it sure seems that way to me...
Of course, this doesn't affect Gnutella.
Seems to work fine on Futurama. :)
Exactly the joke I was making. Sometimes deadpan senses of humour just don't work in text...
I agree. We should all have .sex as soon as possible. It's the only way to truly stimulate large-scale growth on the Internet.
A Gopher server?! Wow. I always loved Gopher, so much faster than the bandwidth-sucking web...
One question for the Gopher-heads out there: Where can I get a good GPLed Gopher daemon?
We keep using the illegal technical solutions, and give a big hearty "fuck you and your immoral laws too" to Congress/Parliament/Knesset/Duma/etc.
You have to wonder what Freud would say about those "stickheads".
How would the RIAA know which person made the copy? They would never be able to tell a copy made by person A from a copy made by person B from a copy made by person C. The only way to lessen the chances of copying would be to restrict the sale of the music at all, and that would bite them in their pocketbook, exactly what they are trying to avoid.
Just *one* person needs to make a copy and put it on Gnutella or Napster or Freenet or whatever else comes along, and they are, as they say in the vernacular, completely fucked.
The comments about never using the word "tory" reminded me of something. First of all, this is *not* a troll.
/. trolls have picked up on this fact yet.
Here in Canada, our two major political parties are the Progressive Conservative Party, also known as the Tories, and the (currently ruling) Liberal Party, also known as the Grits.
Yes, Canada is run by Grits. I'm amazed that no
Now that Beaver College is changing their name to "something else", does that mean that the new national mascot should become "something else" too?
Now, there's no denying that his songs from Python are funny as hell, but he doesn't exactly have the most pleasant singing voice, and enthusiasm for the songs only carries it so far. :)
The first 6 episodes of Evangelion are purely to introduce the main characters and to show just how butt-useless armies are against the Angels. Starting at episode 7, you realize that things are Not Quite Right, and by Episode 11 the show's in full-blown conspiracy mode. The X-Files's Cancer Man and the Syndicate are complete wimps compared to Commander Ikari and SEELE. Don't think of Eva as a TV series, think of it as an OVA (with a fixed and pre-planned storyline) that just happened to be shown on TV.
:)
Recommended reading to "get Eva": the old Hebrew myth of Adam and Lilith, Robert Browing's poems, the Oedipus myth, and and all old testament Christian mythology, and keep in mind that in German, "nerv" means nerve, "seele" means soul, and "gehirn" means brain. Trust me on all this.
I just know I'm gonna get flamed for asking a Linux question in a BSD article, but is there any way to encrypt a Linux swap partition? Also, are there any ways to encrypt the data in physical RAM, in any OS?
Haven't tried 7.0 or 7.1 yet, but the latests release of WM runs fine on 6.5. Some of the locations it chooses for the files are a little odd, though. If this bugs you, just build it yourself.
>I agree, the chance that it's just a coincidence
>is minimal, but without George Lucas' approval,
>they have to say it's coincidental.
I don't know if he'll object at all. It's not ripping of any names (unlike a Certain Handheld Device For A Certain Large Military Organization That Shall Remain Nameless), it's a non-commercial project, and it's for peaceful purposes. I have no idea of what Lucas' morals are, but I don't think he'll object to this.
But yeah, the resemblance is pretty close. If you're right, not telling the PR folks anything was a good move. Smart folks in NASA's engineering corps...
>You can best set up KDE2 as a new window manager
:)
>if you're using [xgk]dm.
Make that [xgkw]dm.
You can get wdm here.
Heh. Although the Window Maker/Afterstep clipboard dockapp makes it a little more convenient than the Windows clipboard, as long as you're just talking about xterms and a few other simple apps. For graphics you're dead-on accurate, unfortunately...
I believe you're referring to XCruise. It's pretty useless as a file manager, but fun to play with and show off to non-X friends. You don't even need an expensive graphics card, OpenGL or Mesa to run it.
To be considered all-in-one nowadays it has to be able to play DVDs. Since a stock Dreamcast doesn't do that, is it at all possible to add that capability?
And what did they mean by getting other companies to make chips for the Dreamcast? Is that for add-ons, or upgrades, or did the journalists just screw up?
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