I agree, Yahoo! has been a real pain in the arse since they got a legal department. They used to be the good guys in the nineties. Now they just want to own everything about everyone, and sell it for a profit.
This may be considered good news, if they continue this trend. Why? It's a whole lot better to attack people or businesses that are actually doing something illegal (though the legality of this is in question, the fact remains that they settled before it was taken to court, the law cannot stop that) than to attack KaZaA, Morpheus, Napster, Gnutella, etc. just for being tools that are capable of helping a person do something illegal.
To me, this is like putting drunk drivers in jail for killing a person in an accident, instead of suing the crap out of Ford for making the car that has the potential to kill people if used incorrectly.
Better than that, it is fully compatible with the slashdot effect! Here's the google cache version:
amix writes "After two years of hard work the final 1.0 of VDR (Video Disk Recorder) has been released under the GPL. VDR is Linux based VCR software for digital TV cards (DVB, the Linux driver supports cable, sat and terrestrial cards), the new TV standard in Europe and also in use at several places in the United States. VDR is a fully networkable digital video recorder (implemented as daemon on port 2001) with optional MP3, DVD and 'MPlayer' based video-codec replay plus much more. It features "timeshifting", an incredibly comfortable OSD, functions to make editing/cleaning-up the streams easier and is controllable by LIRC, keyboard, telnet/ssh, WWW (cgi) or dedicated utilities. It can be used natively on a TV, with standard v4l tools or the KVDR KDE frontend.. You have an old PC? Add one (up to four) DVB card and you got a cheap multimedia center. Here are the screenshots. " A very impressive project indeed.
Honestly, I have no idea. I think most of them were from universities, I remember specifically seeing Duke fly by.
I use a wonderful program called Getright by Headlight Software. It does automatic FTP and filemirror searches, gets up the list of all places it can be downloaded from, and breaks the isos up into eight pieces, and downloads each iso from eight places at once. I never get less than 200KB/s combined.
I've heard that the program contains spyware, but I really don't care since I run it in Wine, and just kill it when the downloads are done. I don't have to worry about it sneaking up in a background process (or service if you're using NT-based windows).
would the typical heavy user really need more than 1 gb or so a day?
If it was 30Gb per month, I'd be happy, I don't think I would exceed that in downloading (in uploading, I barely scratch a meg a day, just a couple e-mails and some simple browsing). However, if I was capped at 1Gb per day, It would take more than one day to get the latest Linux distro. I just downloaded the full Redhat Skipjack beta in six hours, 650Mb per disk, two disks for the basic Redhat install, plus three more for powertools, etc = 3,250Mb. That would annoy the crap out of me to have to wait four days to get my isos.
What about the Red Hat Network?... Seems like this also might be an excellent point from which to launch a big DDOS attack, no?
<SARCASM> Actually, what you are proposing is impossible. Everyone knows that all hackers and virus writers prefer to code in Visual Basic. They would have too much trouble trying to get Wine to run their virus so they could take over RHN, and they'd just give up.
Does that make you feel any better? I didn't think so. Hey, it was worth a try. </SARCASM>
The problem with this, of course, is that those robots are only 32" tall. That would really freak the drunks out, having a little robot walk up and pull on their pant leg, asking if they can refill their beer for them. One possible quote: "Whoa, hey little guy. You know, back when I was a teenager, you were a pink elephant."
Don't worry, he's there. As a matter of fact, he just wrote his own operating system. Dubbed "Wheatonix," it will be the future for operating systems, and even has one game available for it already, Duke Nukem Forever (certainly took FOREVER, didn't it?).
but why is it that we despise spam so much more than other mass marketing techniques?
No matter how full your snail-mail box is, it only takes a couple seconds to empty it and sort through it. You don't pay anything for that junk (except for maybe the garbage collection fee, but that's a flat rate no matter how full your dumpster out back is).
E-mail, on the other hand, is something people pay dearly for. If you're on a slower than broadband connection, like a modem or cell phone, you're usually paying by the minute, and with many spam messages reaching 50k or larger, it can take more than ten seconds each to download. How many here get more than twenty a day? That's over three minutes of your money going to waste. And no matter what connection speed you're on, it takes time to go through and delete them all (no more than sorting snail mail, I guess). And what about the people that get e-mail at their pagers? Many pay money per e-mail.
The attachment limit, as I discovered by trial and error (I have the misfortune to know a lot of people using AOL), when in effect, is 20k.
20k? Now you're blowing hot air. I don't know of any mail service that won't accept at least a megabyte. And I know I've sent 12Mb+ attachments via AOL. That's over 600 times the limit you've specified.
I've known about this for a while. My g/f just moved away from AOL because one e-mail she sent me took over a day to reach my e-mail address at work (which was asking me if I wanted to go out to eat that night, pointless by the time I got it).
Also, from what I remember of my AOL days (back when we used the "mm[1-9]" and "server[1-9]" chat rooms for our warez), the attachment limit is 18Mb. Has this changed? Or am I just remembering wrong?
This is a similar idea to Starship Troopers. Unfortunately, they made a serious miscalculation when writing the script for the movie. If the "bug" aliens were truly on the other side of the galaxy, in a completely different arm, it would take billions of years (if not more) for a asteroid to travel from there to Earth at normal speeds. By that time, the galaxy itself would have changed a bit, and with the stars constantly orbiting the galaxy, and the immense amount of distance they would have to travel (through lots of unpredictable gravity fields, as well, caused by nearby stars and dark matter) would make it quite impossible to hit the Earth with a meteor. Especially since it is a moving target! The earth is travelling at approximately 1000 mph around the sun at all times...
But maybe that's just the geek in me that gets all nit-picky at sci-fi. Don't get me wrong, it was a pretty good movie, but there's nothing more relaxing to do on the weekend than grab the latest sci-fi movie from the local Blockbuster and point out
I wonder what would happen if I shaved my head and stuck this thing on my skull?
Well, judging from this quote in the article; "...Passing electricity through the coil causes the piece of Terfonal to slightly expand, resulting in a force of 400 pounds...", it might not be very pleasant.
Slashdot Mirror
I agree, Yahoo! has been a real pain in the arse since they got a legal department. They used to be the good guys in the nineties. Now they just want to own everything about everyone, and sell it for a profit.
This may be considered good news, if they continue this trend. Why? It's a whole lot better to attack people or businesses that are actually doing something illegal (though the legality of this is in question, the fact remains that they settled before it was taken to court, the law cannot stop that) than to attack KaZaA, Morpheus, Napster, Gnutella, etc. just for being tools that are capable of helping a person do something illegal.
To me, this is like putting drunk drivers in jail for killing a person in an accident, instead of suing the crap out of Ford for making the car that has the potential to kill people if used incorrectly.
But does it support BetaMax & LaserDisc?
Better than that, it is fully compatible with the slashdot effect! Here's the google cache version:
amix writes "After two years of hard work the final 1.0 of VDR (Video Disk Recorder) has been released under the GPL. VDR is Linux based VCR software for digital TV cards (DVB, the Linux driver supports cable, sat and terrestrial cards), the new TV standard in Europe and also in use at several places in the United States. VDR is a fully networkable digital video recorder (implemented as daemon on port 2001) with optional MP3, DVD and 'MPlayer' based video-codec replay plus much more. It features "timeshifting", an incredibly comfortable OSD, functions to make editing/cleaning-up the streams easier and is controllable by LIRC, keyboard, telnet/ssh, WWW (cgi) or dedicated utilities. It can be used natively on a TV, with standard v4l tools or the KVDR KDE frontend.. You have an old PC? Add one (up to four) DVB card and you got a cheap multimedia center. Here are the screenshots. " A very impressive project indeed.
what mirrors did you use?
Honestly, I have no idea. I think most of them were from universities, I remember specifically seeing Duke fly by.
I use a wonderful program called Getright by Headlight Software. It does automatic FTP and filemirror searches, gets up the list of all places it can be downloaded from, and breaks the isos up into eight pieces, and downloads each iso from eight places at once. I never get less than 200KB/s combined.
I've heard that the program contains spyware, but I really don't care since I run it in Wine, and just kill it when the downloads are done. I don't have to worry about it sneaking up in a background process (or service if you're using NT-based windows).
You should try it.
would the typical heavy user really need more than 1 gb or so a day?
If it was 30Gb per month, I'd be happy, I don't think I would exceed that in downloading (in uploading, I barely scratch a meg a day, just a couple e-mails and some simple browsing). However, if I was capped at 1Gb per day, It would take more than one day to get the latest Linux distro. I just downloaded the full Redhat Skipjack beta in six hours, 650Mb per disk, two disks for the basic Redhat install, plus three more for powertools, etc = 3,250Mb. That would annoy the crap out of me to have to wait four days to get my isos.
I don't think I'm alone here, either.
What about the Red Hat Network? ... Seems like this also might be an excellent point from which to launch a big DDOS attack, no?
<SARCASM>
Actually, what you are proposing is impossible. Everyone knows that all hackers and virus writers prefer to code in Visual Basic. They would have too much trouble trying to get Wine to run their virus so they could take over RHN, and they'd just give up.
Does that make you feel any better? I didn't think so. Hey, it was worth a try.
</SARCASM>
The problem with this, of course, is that those robots are only 32" tall. That would really freak the drunks out, having a little robot walk up and pull on their pant leg, asking if they can refill their beer for them. One possible quote: "Whoa, hey little guy. You know, back when I was a teenager, you were a pink elephant."
The TV picture in a window looks really clear on the TV...
Huh? Don't tell me you bought this video card so you could watch TV on your TV (in a window, no less!).
Break it up, it's easy.
:o).
The four corners make 6x6 pin "squares," that's 36 each, 144 total.
The four rectangles that connect the corners are 6x14 pins (94 pins), times four make 336.
144 + 336 = 480. Plus, one corner is keyed, and is missing two pins. Voila! 478.
Now try counting the pins on a VAX 7000 CPU slot (the pins are in the system, not on the CPU)
I know the price: too much!
:o)
Actually, I hear the price is approximately equal to eleventy billion dollars.
Note: Please don't mod down if you don't catch the SNL reference
Don't worry, he's there. As a matter of fact, he just wrote his own operating system. Dubbed "Wheatonix," it will be the future for operating systems, and even has one game available for it already, Duke Nukem Forever (certainly took FOREVER, didn't it?).
Go buy your copy today at http://www.thinkgeek.com today!!
but why is it that we despise spam so much more than other mass marketing techniques?
No matter how full your snail-mail box is, it only takes a couple seconds to empty it and sort through it. You don't pay anything for that junk (except for maybe the garbage collection fee, but that's a flat rate no matter how full your dumpster out back is).
E-mail, on the other hand, is something people pay dearly for. If you're on a slower than broadband connection, like a modem or cell phone, you're usually paying by the minute, and with many spam messages reaching 50k or larger, it can take more than ten seconds each to download. How many here get more than twenty a day? That's over three minutes of your money going to waste. And no matter what connection speed you're on, it takes time to go through and delete them all (no more than sorting snail mail, I guess). And what about the people that get e-mail at their pagers? Many pay money per e-mail.
Spam isn't just evil, it's expensive!
I could watch the Simpsons and play Civ3 during commercials, without even having to SPIN THE CHAIR. This is truly beautiful. :,)
You truly are the pinnacle of the information age.
The attachment limit, as I discovered by trial and error (I have the misfortune to know a lot of people using AOL), when in effect, is 20k.
20k? Now you're blowing hot air. I don't know of any mail service that won't accept at least a megabyte. And I know I've sent 12Mb+ attachments via AOL. That's over 600 times the limit you've specified.
I've known about this for a while. My g/f just moved away from AOL because one e-mail she sent me took over a day to reach my e-mail address at work (which was asking me if I wanted to go out to eat that night, pointless by the time I got it).
Also, from what I remember of my AOL days (back when we used the "mm[1-9]" and "server[1-9]" chat rooms for our warez), the attachment limit is 18Mb. Has this changed? Or am I just remembering wrong?
"a Beowulf cluster of those ..." all running Worms Armageddon. Hell yeah!
See here, if you don't believe me: http://www.misinformer.com/archive/01-01/15.html
Oh my god, I'd better call my lawyer... I may already be a millionaire!
I think it's merely "Ha ha! They're so geeky that they memorized the first umpteen digits of pi for fun!"
Nobody 3.14159 really 2653589 does 7932384 that, 62643383 do 27950288 they?
This is a similar idea to Starship Troopers. Unfortunately, they made a serious miscalculation when writing the script for the movie. If the "bug" aliens were truly on the other side of the galaxy, in a completely different arm, it would take billions of years (if not more) for a asteroid to travel from there to Earth at normal speeds. By that time, the galaxy itself would have changed a bit, and with the stars constantly orbiting the galaxy, and the immense amount of distance they would have to travel (through lots of unpredictable gravity fields, as well, caused by nearby stars and dark matter) would make it quite impossible to hit the Earth with a meteor. Especially since it is a moving target! The earth is travelling at approximately 1000 mph around the sun at all times...
But maybe that's just the geek in me that gets all nit-picky at sci-fi. Don't get me wrong, it was a pretty good movie, but there's nothing more relaxing to do on the weekend than grab the latest sci-fi movie from the local Blockbuster and point out
Pulling from the quote above: "...unless the Device has a separate license for the Product."
I assume that by "Device" it is including software. So, would GPL'ed (General Public Licensed) software satisfy the "separate license" requirement?
Only if the female uniforms come complete with a cat tail attached to the back of the pants...
Reminds me of another quote I heard once: "You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be misquoted and used against you..."
I wonder what would happen if I shaved my head and stuck this thing on my skull?
Well, judging from this quote in the article; "...Passing electricity through the coil causes the piece of Terfonal to slightly expand, resulting in a force of 400 pounds...", it might not be very pleasant.
Ooh, can we lobby for the right to bear portscanners?