But you should be able to do that. You're simply examining a public interface. It's like walking downtown on a Sunday past various shops and things, and pulling on the doors to see if they're open. If they're open, you can assume that you can walk in and do business there. Of course, you still can't go into rooms that say "Staff Only.
Without portscanning, how do you find out what services a host provides to the public? A website is not the answer, because there's no obligation for a host to set up an HTTP server just because they want to offer IRC. See purple.com for an example of this.
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Let's say you're shopping around for a web hosting provider. A lot of them will say "secure and reliable", but you know that doesn't really mean anything. So, you decide to run a few trivial security checks on their servers, including running a port scan.
Should you be deprived of the right to examine the quality of a service before buying it, especially when it wouldn't fall under "theft of services"? I think not. ------
Please NO! The last thing the world needs is another C++ programmer that doesn't know C (and doesn't understand pointers, for instance). Some people may argue otherwise, but I strongly suggest learning C before proceeding to C++. ------
If you don't want your school invading, uh, your "privacy", then don't use your equipment on their network. Do transfers
with floppies and Zip disks. It's not your network, and you have no "rights" with regard to it.
If you don't want your ISP invading, uh, your "privacy", then don't use your equipment on their network. Do transfers with floppies and Zip disks. It's not your network, and you have no "rights" with regard to it.
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Ogg Tarkin is a barely-started video codec. The only thing available is a mailing list, but I encourage anyone with the time and knowledge to join the list ------
I tried Gnutella a little while ago, and it's absolutely brutal for sucking up my cable modem bandwidth, simply communicating with other hosts. Hell, I didn't even download any songs!
Gnutella is just barely practical, and I would say impossible for the dialup user. ------
That's like the MPAA saying "we think software is never speech." Paying a patent lawyer to look into it would be more reliable than Thompson's biased opinion. ------
Yeah, but you can't do Copper palette shifting while XOR blitting 2-bit noise to the screen if you want it do be cross-platform.
Consoles may have "operating systems" (I'd call them runtime libraries more than anything), but they are completely optimised for the console design. With cross-platform programming, you have to be too general, which is fine for applications and fun games, but when you're developing for a console because it's bleeding-edge tech, you'll be disappointed if other cruft is getting in your way.
Of course, the Amiga SDK might change that. (For those of you who don't know what that is, it's somewhat like Java but designed one hell of a lot better.) ------
Do it differently (isn't what you just proposed illegal?). Take some of IBM's GPLled code (like JFS) and put it into a source-available-but-restricted old minix-style license. Now IBM will take you to court, and you can actually try to defend yourself (who's going to beat IBM in a lawsuit?) ------
What's needed is good point-and-click PGP/MIME (RFC 2015) support in mail clients. Have you ever tried to get PGP/MIME working on a Windows machine? Can you say pain-in-the-neck?
What's good is the popular mail clients are finally starting to support it (I know the latest version Eudora supports it.) ------
One of the best things about programming a console game is that you can use neat little hacks to push the hardware to its limit. Anyone who's ever programmed an Amiga or a C-64 (or pretty much any uniform system) knows this. That's also the same reason why console games don't have operating systems. I think the new trend of cross-platform, OS-sporting consoles will kill the industry, because what's the difference between that and a computer? ------
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Without portscanning, how do you find out what services a host provides to the public? A website is not the answer, because there's no obligation for a host to set up an HTTP server just because they want to offer IRC. See purple.com for an example of this.
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Should you be deprived of the right to examine the quality of a service before buying it, especially when it wouldn't fall under "theft of services"? I think not.
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Please NO! The last thing the world needs is another C++ programmer that doesn't know C (and doesn't understand pointers, for instance). Some people may argue otherwise, but I strongly suggest learning C before proceeding to C++.
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I'd suggest getting the new Amiga SDK. It's sort of like Java, but it's designed one hell of a lot better and it's more efficient.
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Stop using the "Code" formatting method. Use "Plain Old Text".
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If you don't want your ISP invading, uh, your "privacy", then don't use your equipment on their network. Do transfers with floppies and Zip disks. It's not your network, and you have no "rights" with regard to it.
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You can only write to the disk byte-by-byte with dd, not bit-by-bit.
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Can't you just fire a couple of EMPs at the disk first? Or would that damage the hardware?
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Whaat?
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Ogg Tarkin is a barely-started video codec. The only thing available is a mailing list, but I encourage anyone with the time and knowledge to join the list
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Vorbis will succeed, because it's already supported in tons of apps. AFAIK, even WinAmp supports it, or will soon.
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Gnutella is just barely practical, and I would say impossible for the dialup user.
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That's like the MPAA saying "we think software is never speech." Paying a patent lawyer to look into it would be more reliable than Thompson's biased opinion.
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YES!!
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The man who invented copyright didn't expect it to last for 150 years. It was just so publishers couldn't rip off authors.
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Vorbis is already in WinAmp, AFAIK.
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OTOH, it *is* a bitstream format, and one of the bitstreams it can contain is the Vorbis format, which is a music format.
Ogg != Vorbis.
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What kind of specs are available for the TiVo hardware, anyway?
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You can see it coming, can you? "cdrecord forks without the ()..."
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The last time I checked, you couldn't copyright facts. (Though you can patent them in the U.S.A.)
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Consoles may have "operating systems" (I'd call them runtime libraries more than anything), but they are completely optimised for the console design. With cross-platform programming, you have to be too general, which is fine for applications and fun games, but when you're developing for a console because it's bleeding-edge tech, you'll be disappointed if other cruft is getting in your way.
Of course, the Amiga SDK might change that. (For those of you who don't know what that is, it's somewhat like Java but designed one hell of a lot better.)
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Do it differently (isn't what you just proposed illegal?). Take some of IBM's GPLled code (like JFS) and put it into a source-available-but-restricted old minix-style license. Now IBM will take you to court, and you can actually try to defend yourself (who's going to beat IBM in a lawsuit?)
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What's good is the popular mail clients are finally starting to support it (I know the latest version Eudora supports it.)
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One of the best things about programming a console game is that you can use neat little hacks to push the hardware to its limit. Anyone who's ever programmed an Amiga or a C-64 (or pretty much any uniform system) knows this. That's also the same reason why console games don't have operating systems. I think the new trend of cross-platform, OS-sporting consoles will kill the industry, because what's the difference between that and a computer?
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One correction: s/ciphertext/plaintext/
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