"Nearly five to five" is good enough for most purposes."
KDE has a nice fuzzy-clock that does that for your PC, most cool.
I remember someone built a hardware version (a desk clock) as university project, and donated it to a certain Radio-4 presenter who got notoriously confused trying to say "twenty five to ten" when his clock was blinking "09:33" at him
It's about 30 lines of code to write the conversion, b.t.w.. Easy stuff.
"So the university has taken a pro-active to insure that they're hardware isn't used in the commission of a crime - and people don't like it."
You could equally protect the students against slander charges by cutting out their tongues. P2P systems are no more criminal than is your webserver, your email client, your word processor, or your conversations at the pub.
There are a certain class of people who dislike Peer-to-peer networking, and are trying to compare it with everything from copyright infringement to illegal pornography to terrorism to try and get rid of it. These are the people who would like an internet where they speak and you listen. Luckily the internet doesn't work this way, and nearly every device attached to it is peer-to-peer in some way.
If you do the second half of a GPL'd project as work for hire, they'd have to link it to the GPL'd first half to make it run. Which they can't do unless their new work is GPL
"It is ironic that Massachusetts, as the only state remaining in the lawsuit accusing Microsoft of antitrust violations, is creating its own state-imposed monopoly on software."
A monopoly comprising 154 entities?. It looks like their first money-saving idea was to not buy a dictionary.
Hell, dictionaries are free, why not quote one. "Monopoly: Exclusive control by one group..."
"I am surprised that they don't model nuclear blasts on them, because it certainly CAN."
The one in Los Alamos does that, while the Japanese one predicts weather. It's something of a common joke that the japanese are using world's fastest supercomputer to improve the environment, while the americans are using the world's second-fastest supercomputer to design bigger nuclear weapons.
Did you find out how well the Zen runs with Linux synchronisation? The iPod seems to be quite well supported (GNUPod will sync files, and gtkPod as a possible front-end)
"here is only copyright protection if you use their iRiver managner software"
F.F.S., they had the chance to produce a rival product to the iPod, then just killed it with crippled software? What were they thinking.
I'm looking for an iPod at the moment, expencive though they are. It would have been nice to see more choice, but you just can't sell an OGG player with "protection" and expect people to buy it
"Windows does exactly that for its "hibernate" feature. Essentially hardware is returned to a safe state (write operation suspended, etc) and the contents of memory written sequentially to a block of disk space. On boot, a small stub is loaded, which copies the data from disk to memory. Execution resumes at that point."
Yeah, tried using that mode once on Windows98: Restarting after the hibernate didn't go as smoothly as one hoped:
IExplore has caused illegal operation and will be shut down IExplore has caused illegal operation and will be shut down Kernel32.exe has caused illegal operation and will be shut down Kernel32 is not responding, press space to try again or Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot
"A good method for avoiding spam, then, is to always type your e-mail address on the Web this way: Arnie at hotmail.com or ArnieREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com. Humans can look at either and figure out what to do; software -- so far -- is helpless"
Not tried emailing girls have you?
"What's wrong with your email address? It's just come back as undeliverable or something"
"Unfortunately, THEY DO. It's called Free Speech. Bill of Rights, at the top."
Bill of rights
Section 1.1: Freedom of speech
(a) No person shall prevent criminal scum from trespassing on their email servers.
(b) No person shall complain when the entire internet is taken down, three times, by viruses written for the purposes of sending spam.
(c) No person shall abridge a spammer's natural rights to fill the email of each internet user with 85 emails daily.
(d) Illegal or fraudulent schemes, untested drugs, filth and illegal pornography shall be considered constitutionally-protected Free Speech.
(e) No action shall be taken against those who use stolen credit-cards, where such use is primarily intended to purchase internet connectivity for the purposes of sending Free Speech.
(f) No person shall have the right to stop listening to free speech, nor to choose who they wish to listen to. Any attempt to stop listening to certain persons is to be considered a violation of their rights under this bill.
(g) Any person attempting to reveal the identity, network address, or location of a criminal spammer shall be given no access to police resources, and shall consider any attack on their persons to be the due result of trying to list such free-speakers.
"end of the month I would request all the data that London Underground holds on me. By law, under the Data Protection Act they have to give me all the info they hold for a small fee"
OneTel have still not responded to a data-protection request relating to internet accounts, after 2 months. If I hadn't deleted the letter I sent, I'd probably bug them about it.
For additional amusement, you could try filing data-protection requests with people like yahoo and msn, who claim to be subject to california law, but actually work in the UK and thus have to supply any and all data they've collected on you.
Damn, it's gonna cost them a lot to post 2 years' worth of web-access logs if they're keeping anything like the amount of records people think they're keeping. You can request the data in any format, so if you ask for a printout, they shouldn't be able to get away with posting you a CD.
"Simple solution: swap your transit passes with your friends when you get together."
Another link which might interest you is cockeyed.com - where you download a barcode, print it, and stick it over the barcode on your Safeways loyalty card. Suddenly, you become part of the most massive, distributed customer Safeways ever had.
Get the discounts of a spied-upon drone, while not having any personal information stored. Bargain!
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In reference to our current slashdot poll:
A car navigation system with Liv Tyler speaking in Elvish
"Should that not be "Define Irony"?
It was ironic.
Honest.
"Nearly five to five" is good enough for most purposes."
KDE has a nice fuzzy-clock that does that for your PC, most cool.
I remember someone built a hardware version (a desk clock) as university project, and donated it to a certain Radio-4 presenter who got notoriously confused trying to say "twenty five to ten" when his clock was blinking "09:33" at him
It's about 30 lines of code to write the conversion, b.t.w.. Easy stuff.
"Define overboard:"
Bunch of idiots in a plane, singing along to a song made famous by a band who died in a plane crash.
"There's a nifty Mozilla/Firebird extension that makes all text URLs into hyperlinks"
Select the text, right-click, "Search for <selected text>"
That's on a default install of Mozilla1.1, and the browser has improved lots since then if you get the latest version.
"One of the best "Cool Stuff" Blogs out there is Kevin Kelly's Recomendo."
The other is Dan's Data, which conveniently doubles as a drop-in replacement for "Tom's Hardware"
"So the university has taken a pro-active to insure that they're hardware isn't used in the commission of a crime - and people don't like it."
You could equally protect the students against slander charges by cutting out their tongues. P2P systems are no more criminal than is your webserver, your email client, your word processor, or your conversations at the pub.
There are a certain class of people who dislike Peer-to-peer networking, and are trying to compare it with everything from copyright infringement to illegal pornography to terrorism to try and get rid of it. These are the people who would like an internet where they speak and you listen. Luckily the internet doesn't work this way, and nearly every device attached to it is peer-to-peer in some way.
"If you do it as work for hire, they own it."
If you do the second half of a GPL'd project as work for hire, they'd have to link it to the GPL'd first half to make it run. Which they can't do unless their new work is GPL
" Um, I'd like to see the shell script that runs on networking equipment that determines which packets are copyrighted....."
According to the Berne convention, everything is copyrighted, so such a filter should be relatively easy.
Pity the person receiving the alerts by email though... "Downloading 1.43E+7 emails; average size 800KiB"
"It is ironic that Massachusetts, as the only state remaining in the lawsuit accusing Microsoft of antitrust violations, is creating its own state-imposed monopoly on software."
A monopoly comprising 154 entities?. It looks like their first money-saving idea was to not buy a dictionary.
Hell, dictionaries are free, why not quote one. "Monopoly: Exclusive control by one group..."
"I am surprised that they don't model nuclear blasts on them, because it certainly CAN."
The one in Los Alamos does that, while the Japanese one predicts weather. It's something of a common joke that the japanese are using world's fastest supercomputer to improve the environment, while the americans are using the world's second-fastest supercomputer to design bigger nuclear weapons.
"The evening "News" is so corporate owned and supported that I don't really consider it a reliable source for information."
The link you seek is fair.org
"Imagine Darl McBride insisting all Windows users pay $699 to use it."
Imagine the BSA insisting all Windows users pay $399 to use it.
"Or even just buy a hamster. I'm always amazed how fast hamsters and the like can chew through a stack of papers."
When a paper-shredder escapes, it doesn't chew through everything soft in your entire house...
"Maybe Kernel32 is not the REAL kernel? :) Maybe their is a shodowy overlord kernel who's really running the show"
Ask the Master Controller Program
Did you find out how well the Zen runs with Linux synchronisation? The iPod seems to be quite well supported (GNUPod will sync files, and gtkPod as a possible front-end)
"We are shocked that these college kids would code something that steals from kabillionaire struggling artists "
Shouldn't that be a kibibillionaire, or just tibionaire?
"here is only copyright protection if you use their iRiver managner software"
F.F.S., they had the chance to produce a rival product to the iPod, then just killed it with crippled software? What were they thinking.
I'm looking for an iPod at the moment, expencive though they are. It would have been nice to see more choice, but you just can't sell an OGG player with "protection" and expect people to buy it
"Windows does exactly that for its "hibernate" feature. Essentially hardware is returned to a safe state (write operation suspended, etc) and the contents of memory written sequentially to a block of disk space. On boot, a small stub is loaded, which copies the data from disk to memory. Execution resumes at that point."
Yeah, tried using that mode once on Windows98: Restarting after the hibernate didn't go as smoothly as one hoped:
IExplore has caused illegal operation and will be shut down
IExplore has caused illegal operation and will be shut down
Kernel32.exe has caused illegal operation and will be shut down
Kernel32 is not responding, press space to try again or Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot
"A good method for avoiding spam, then, is to always type your e-mail address on the Web this way: Arnie at hotmail.com or ArnieREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com. Humans can look at either and figure out what to do; software -- so far -- is helpless"
Not tried emailing girls have you?
"What's wrong with your email address? It's just come back as undeliverable or something"
"What email address did you send it to?"
"ewhite NOSPAM (at) yahoo.com"
"Unfortunately, THEY DO. It's called Free Speech. Bill of Rights, at the top."
Bill of rights
Section 1.1: Freedom of speech
(a) No person shall prevent criminal scum from trespassing on their email servers.
(b) No person shall complain when the entire internet is taken down, three times, by viruses written for the purposes of sending spam.
(c) No person shall abridge a spammer's natural rights to fill the email of each internet user with 85 emails daily.
(d) Illegal or fraudulent schemes, untested drugs, filth and illegal pornography shall be considered constitutionally-protected Free Speech.
(e) No action shall be taken against those who use stolen credit-cards, where such use is primarily intended to purchase internet connectivity for the purposes of sending Free Speech.
(f) No person shall have the right to stop listening to free speech, nor to choose who they wish to listen to. Any attempt to stop listening to certain persons is to be considered a violation of their rights under this bill.
(g) Any person attempting to reveal the identity, network address, or location of a criminal spammer shall be given no access to police resources, and shall consider any attack on their persons to be the due result of trying to list such free-speakers.
"No, it just means you got tired of writing code that looks like line noise"
You can write stuff in English which reads like crap too, doesn't stop some people from using the language to write poems.
Same with Perl.
"If this creepoid is so smart, why is he living in a dilapidated mobile home in the middle of a Florida trailer park?"
Effects of Isobel?
(*) None
(*) None
(*) Clouds
(*) Wind
(*) Removal of a spammer
"end of the month I would request all the data that London Underground holds on me. By law, under the Data Protection Act they have to give me all the info they hold for a small fee"
OneTel have still not responded to a data-protection request relating to internet accounts, after 2 months. If I hadn't deleted the letter I sent, I'd probably bug them about it.
For additional amusement, you could try filing data-protection requests with people like yahoo and msn, who claim to be subject to california law, but actually work in the UK and thus have to supply any and all data they've collected on you.
Damn, it's gonna cost them a lot to post 2 years' worth of web-access logs if they're keeping anything like the amount of records people think they're keeping. You can request the data in any format, so if you ask for a printout, they shouldn't be able to get away with posting you a CD.
"Simple solution: swap your transit passes with your friends when you get together."
Another link which might interest you is cockeyed.com - where you download a barcode, print it, and stick it over the barcode on your Safeways loyalty card. Suddenly, you become part of the most massive, distributed customer Safeways ever had.
Get the discounts of a spied-upon drone, while not having any personal information stored. Bargain!