In other news, the US has descided to air-strike the EU headquarters in Brussels, due to claims of being involved in terrorism.
Aparrently, the EU has failed to pass security laws (such as the SSSCA) on the behalf of international treaties. In addition, they seem to be harboring thousands of known terrorists which seem to have violated the American Anti-Terrorist Act (ATA) by participating in copyright violations and trafficing in circumvention devices.
Due to these grusome violations on behalf of the EU, the US government has no choice but attack the EU headquarters until they comply with US anti-terrorist legistlation.
All this means is that you must compile using a "secure" compiler. If you want to work with regulated media (like sound or video), you will need to use approved pre-compiled libraries that do not allow siphoning of content. The OS won't let you monkey with any content that has been tagged as copyright. .... and there goes the option of having an open-source OS. Also, what OS do you think will they make the "approved" libraries for?
You are talking about the USA. If you have money, you win the trial. Preiod. If you want to break the law so wildly that you can't win with oyour $$$, just lobby congress and change the law.
There is also an IOCCC-like contest for esoteric languages. It's homepage is here.
Take a look especially at Sorted!, which is a real cute language...:)
you need to blow air into for it to play sounds...
Flute, anyone?
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As an Israeli, I can tell you that they are called "Arik" and "Bentz" and are actually the same Earnie and Bert.
However, Israel is very technologically advanced compared to other mideast countries. Therefore, it's not that sure that there's Seseame Street in Afghanistan et al.
In win2k it does, but in home-based OSs (Win9x) it does not show the "Open with..." option unless you hold SHIFT while you right-click.
Now, how many simple users are smart enough to do that?
My dishwasher (TELSA) has a documented 'test mode' that lets you operate each feature by itself (by pressing some key 5 times repeatedly). I tried pressing other keys 5 times repeatedly and got to a strange unknown mode that maybe for special tuning/demo.
My VCR has a store-demo mode that is actually documented in the manual in a page titled "for salespersons only" or something like that.
How do "Clusters" help the 6000+ people that died as a result of being burnt to death, ripped to shreds, smashed, blown to bits, jumping from 80 stories to their death to avoid being burnt alive or being pinned between thousands of tons of steel and concrete for a week? And how does repeatedly mentioning this tradegy help them. There comes a time when we need to move on. Nothing will help those poor people, so me might as well talk about clusters and thank God we weren't there.
Unless you are going to discuss something worthwhile to humanity, such as ridding the world of disease, then shut the fuck up and stop discussing this useless shit, please.
Ahem, actually clusters can be used for genetic research will will help rid the world of disease. It's quite likely that some/.ers will be able to assist in building the machines nessecary to save lives.
What have you done to save lives today?
You should all be glad that you are alive and well and able to masturbate as frequently as you like while looking at goatse.cx, and not stuck under 100 stories of a collapsed building with your penis sliced off from shrapnel.
Most people on this site are disgusted by goatse.cx. I guess you aren't. Nevermind.
By the way, we all know that Linux is a fucking piece of shit operating system thats only used by so-called "elitists" because it looks "complex" and childish technical messages scroll accross the screen when something goes wrong. The fact is, they should be running the superior operating system, Windows, on this cluster. It could be much more efficient.
It's below my level to respond to this junk. Linux is not "complex". It's beauty is it's simplicity. It's not childish-- quite the contrary. It doesn't try to hide everything from the user, treating him like an idiot, but rather lets the user decide what she wants.
I guess you are not smart enough to realise that. Good for you. Have fun with your overpriced buggy OS with great marketing.
'm not so sure I like the idea: what if some cell phone junkie figures out a way to display all of the messages coming into his phone (a friend of mine can do similar things) and he gets to read everyone's text messages... not a good thought Easy answer for that: End-to-End Encyption. Just like SSL works. Ofcourse if you're in the USA you'll have to include a backdoor... Oh, nevermind.
What's there to stop Joe customer to buy the one with the protection mechanism he can bypass. And in any case, MP3s will always be avialable for download anyway.
Statistics show that Napster increased CD sales when it was open. When Napster closed, CD sales dropped.
It seems they're more interested in domination than in making money.
Actually, the "first letter" encoding is easily detected by statistical analasys of the first letters of words compared to the words themselves. There is a different distribution of the two. One can check the distribution of first letters and see it's not what is should be. Hence, a message is encoded here.
Most legitimate users will violate the EULA, by connecting to more than 10 computers (somebody said Internet?), or by installing VNC (which is explictly prohibited - but works great nonetheless) or by doing of the many things M$ says you cannot do.
In short, you're better of pirating it.
[Disclaimer: This message is for humor only and does not encourage piracy in any way nor does imply any resemblance to real facts.]
But in this case we're talking about a single! Nobody goes on copying a single CD. It's about the same bother to download the MP3 of the single track as it is to copy the CD.
There seems no sense in doing this.
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In other news, the US has descided to air-strike the EU headquarters in Brussels, due to claims of being involved in terrorism.
Aparrently, the EU has failed to pass security laws (such as the SSSCA) on the behalf of international treaties. In addition, they seem to be harboring thousands of known terrorists which seem to have violated the American Anti-Terrorist Act (ATA) by participating in copyright violations and trafficing in circumvention devices.
Due to these grusome violations on behalf of the EU, the US government has no choice but attack the EU headquarters until they comply with US anti-terrorist legistlation.
All this means is that you must compile using a "secure" compiler. If you want to work with regulated media (like sound or video), you will need to use approved pre-compiled libraries that do not allow siphoning of content. The OS won't let you monkey with any content that has been tagged as copyright.
.... and there goes the option of having an open-source OS. Also, what OS do you think will they make the "approved" libraries for?
You are talking about the USA. If you have money, you win the trial. Preiod. If you want to break the law so wildly that you can't win with oyour $$$, just lobby congress and change the law.
You can get the Pine usage stats on the official webpage.
There is also an IOCCC-like contest for esoteric languages. It's homepage is here. :)
Take a look especially at Sorted!, which is a real cute language...
Another list of esoteric languages is also available.
And there are non-mp3.com tracks that are a MUST, such as "CSS-Descramble" :)
you need to blow air into for it to play sounds...
Flute, anyone?
As an Israeli, I can tell you that they are called "Arik" and "Bentz" and are actually the same Earnie and Bert.
However, Israel is very technologically advanced compared to other mideast countries. Therefore, it's not that sure that there's Seseame Street in Afghanistan et al.
... And you forgot:
Like wc -w ?
I use linux realplayer... no problems there.
I guess real understand which users are more intelligent....
In win2k it does, but in home-based OSs (Win9x) it does not show the "Open with..." option unless you hold SHIFT while you right-click.
Now, how many simple users are smart enough to do that?
I haven't seen the news yet, but from what platform are they attacking?
Right... Are they attacking from Linux? From Solaris? Or, God forbid, from Windows?
My dishwasher (TELSA) has a documented 'test mode' that lets you operate each feature by itself (by pressing some key 5 times repeatedly). I tried pressing other keys 5 times repeatedly and got to a strange unknown mode that maybe for special tuning/demo.
My VCR has a store-demo mode that is actually documented in the manual in a page titled "for salespersons only" or something like that.
Mod this down please...
/.ers will be able to assist in building the machines nessecary to save lives.
How do "Clusters" help the 6000+ people that died as a result of being burnt to death, ripped to shreds, smashed, blown to bits, jumping from 80 stories to their death to avoid being burnt alive or being pinned between thousands of tons of steel and concrete for a week?
And how does repeatedly mentioning this tradegy help them. There comes a time when we need to move on. Nothing will help those poor people, so me might as well talk about clusters and thank God we weren't there.
Unless you are going to discuss something worthwhile to humanity, such as ridding the world of disease, then shut the fuck up and stop discussing this useless shit, please.
Ahem, actually clusters can be used for genetic research will will help rid the world of disease. It's quite likely that some
What have you done to save lives today?
You should all be glad that you are alive and well and able to masturbate as frequently as you like while looking at goatse.cx, and not stuck under 100 stories of a collapsed building with your penis sliced off from shrapnel.
Most people on this site are disgusted by goatse.cx. I guess you aren't. Nevermind.
By the way, we all know that Linux is a fucking piece of shit operating system thats only used by so-called "elitists" because it looks "complex" and childish technical messages scroll accross the screen when something goes wrong. The fact is, they should be running the superior operating system, Windows, on this cluster. It could be much more efficient.
It's below my level to respond to this junk. Linux is not "complex". It's beauty is it's simplicity. It's not childish-- quite the contrary. It doesn't try to hide everything from the user, treating him like an idiot, but rather lets the user decide what she wants.
I guess you are not smart enough to realise that. Good for you. Have fun with your overpriced buggy OS with great marketing.
'm not so sure I like the idea: what if some cell phone junkie figures out a way to display all of the messages coming into his phone (a friend of mine can do similar things) and he gets to read everyone's text messages... not a good thought
Easy answer for that: End-to-End Encyption.
Just like SSL works. Ofcourse if you're in the USA you'll have to include a backdoor... Oh, nevermind.
What's there to stop Joe customer to buy the one with the protection mechanism he can bypass. And in any case, MP3s will always be avialable for download anyway.
Statistics show that Napster increased CD sales when it was open. When Napster closed, CD sales dropped.
It seems they're more interested in domination than in making money.
Actually, the "first letter" encoding is easily detected by statistical analasys of the first letters of words compared to the words themselves. There is a different distribution of the two. One can check the distribution of first letters and see it's not what is should be. Hence, a message is encoded here.
Three words: DMCA, UTICA, SSSCA!
Next step: Cancellation of the first amendment
Next next step: Death penalty for copyright violations.
Most legitimate users will violate the EULA, by connecting to more than 10 computers (somebody said Internet?), or by installing VNC (which is explictly prohibited - but works great nonetheless) or by doing of the many things M$ says you cannot do.
In short, you're better of pirating it.
[Disclaimer: This message is for humor only and does not encourage piracy in any way nor does imply any resemblance to real facts.]
How long till the customer opens the box, reads the EULA, and returns it.
What would they say then?
They're trafficing in a circumvention device. Under the DMCA they are facing criminal punishment.
But in this case we're talking about a single! Nobody goes on copying a single CD. It's about the same bother to download the MP3 of the single track as it is to copy the CD.
There seems no sense in doing this.
The song is already on AudioGalaxy and available for download. They just can't win. Copy protection doesn't work!