Hhttp://mywebpage.netscape.com/aufbau01/members.ht mlmm. Nice link, but I just couldn't bring myself to click on "Members" of the Pornzilla project." Goatse.cx flashbacks or something.
"Hot Sexxxxy Lezbo Pr0n Movie - SELF EXTRACTING.mpg.exe" I don't use Kazaa, but I see a *lot* of titles like that on gnutella, usually with filenames long enough the actual extension would be well hidden. And Windows/Mac users are usually pretty well conditioned to click on the file, rather than run a movie player and go file/open.
Something tells me a lot of tech companies are *drooling* to adopt this crap. "Buy the new Dwell Expiron DRM-PC, and you can watch new movies that will never work on your old PC/DVD player." Gak.
Or Windows, which has a touch of red in its thingy-that's-supposed-to-look-like-a-window. I run Caldera, they use yellow, and it makes my computer FASTER!
> People would still go to live performances, but we could dispense with much of the recorded music industry.
Beg to disagree. A big part of what makes music, recorded or otherwise, compelling is the subtle, and occasionally random, nuances of performance. Or at least that's the case for me... As I type this, I'm listening to an old Bob Dylan record that definitely doesn't use Antares Autotune.
Once, a long long time ago, I used Max Qordlepleen as my bbs handle. Now, I'm not even sure I can spell it right... Time to re-read the Guide, and of course, Don't Panic.
Yeah, that was a cool one. Blacknova Traders is a web based version of the same game.
Anybody remember Empire? Not the game mentioned in the Netrek history, but a conquer-the-world strategy game door that ran on Amigas... Always wanted to have a decent wack at that one, but the only guy I know of who ever ran it took it down and put up a Citadel BBS in its place a coupla weeks after I found it:-(
(Nothing against the Citadel scene, mind you, I just wanted to play the game...)
> I don't want to buy a CD and then find out that only the 1 or 2 tracks I heard on the radio were any good.
Hell, I'm usually unsure about buying a CD that gets radio play because I know I'm gonna be sick of the one or two hit singles on it about a week after I drop my twenty bucks on it...
> Certainly, if Wilco sells a lot of records, people will be cheering filesharing and deriding the RIAA, even though they may well have sold as many or more records without the free distribution.
According to interviews I've seen, Wilco put their album up for download because their label refused to sell it. Ditto with Public Enemy's "Muse Sick In Hour Mess Age" from a coupla years back. So they probably wouldn't have sold *any* without internet distribution.
I don't know of any viruses that attack p2p networks *directly*, but try this experiment:
1. Fire up a gnutella client, or whatever yer p2p of choice is. 2. Search for ".vbs" 3. Count the files named "Britney Spears NAKED SEXY XXX.jpg.vbs" or similar. Gee, what's that do? It's only 24k, let's snag it!
The touch screen version. Always thought one
would make a sweet X terminal, and if it can run win95 with our P.O.S. POS software, it can run something decent...
Unlicenced software
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GPL's Strength
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· Score: 3, Funny
> Almost everyone who uses GPL'd
software from day to day needs no license, and accepts none. The GPL
only obliges you if you distribute software made from GPL'd code, and
only needs to be accepted when redistribution occurs.
Oh no! The BSA is gonna discover all this *unlicensed* GPL-ware! I'd better get a-patchin' and a-redistributin', the Kopyright Kops are komin'...
> LSD was discovered in the 1930's in Switzerland. Unless the Berkeley you are referring to is NOT the University of California.
YM 1941, by Albert Hofmann, a chemist in the employ of Sandoz Pharmaceuticals. Fun fact #1: He was actually looking for obstetric medicines based on the ergot fungus, and accidentally ingested a quarter milligram or so on one of them. When the acid kicked in on his bike ride home, he thought he'd poisoned himself and was going to die soon.
Fun fact #2: Unix
as near as I can tell was spawned at Bell Labs in New Jersey, and not Berkeley at all. Blame this guy.
And was Steve Vai actually from Berkeley, California? I didn't know that, and his official site didn't illuminate much on that. Seems to me he might have gone to the Berklee School of Music, which is actually in Massachusetts somewhere iirc.
Oh yeah, fun fact #3: I nicked my sig from some guy's post on alt.folklore.computers 'cause I thought it was funnier than it was accurate.
The Wired article didn't go into too much detail, but I can see a couple of
potential problems here..
- how exactly does the FBI (or whatever) specify *what* they're looking for? Searching for "all traffic containing the keywords TERROR, BOMB, COCAINE and OSAMA"
sounds like Carnivore as is, and would be pretty easy to defeat anyway.
Anyone remember "The Longest Day", in which the Allies sent messages re: the
date of the D-Day invasion over clear channel radio, using a code based on a
Rimbaud (I think) poem?
- the data vault might hold the FBI/NSA/whoever to their warrant, it does
nothing about intentionally vague/overreaching warrants or the laws that
enable them.
- re: using this system to keep medical/financial/etc. info private: Hardly
a catch all solution, the data vault can't stop companies from spreading/selling
your info after you've given it to them in confidence.
- If these do become commonplace, how long before a bungled police investigation
results in evidence being lost because of one of these things self destructing?
And once that happens, how long until they become outlawed?
Re:"hegemony" = We have an inferiotity complex
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> Anyone with half a brain comes to the US to be a GTA!
Huh? Grand Theft Auto? Gargantuan Tobacco Addict? Grimy, Tiny Anteater? Ghod, these acronyms get too annoying.
Even cooler than that hardware: They're maintaining Broadcast 2000. Now somebody get me a microphone and a fire under my ass so's I can get busy recording some tunes...
Slashdot Mirror
Hhttp://mywebpage.netscape.com/aufbau01/members.ht mlmm. Nice link, but I just couldn't bring myself to click on "Members" of the Pornzilla project." Goatse.cx flashbacks or something.
"Hot Sexxxxy Lezbo Pr0n Movie - SELF EXTRACTING.mpg.exe" I don't use Kazaa, but I see a *lot* of titles like that on gnutella, usually with filenames long enough the actual extension would be well hidden. And Windows/Mac users are usually pretty well conditioned to click on the file, rather than run a movie player and go file/open.
Shouldn't this be in one of the MPAA/RIAA/copyright threads?
"We've taken care of everything
The words you read and the songs you sing
The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes"
Something tells me a lot of tech companies are *drooling* to adopt this crap. "Buy the new Dwell Expiron DRM-PC, and you can watch new movies that will never work on your old PC/DVD player." Gak.
No, I think he meant Red Hat.
Or Windows, which has a touch of red in its thingy-that's-supposed-to-look-like-a-window. I run Caldera, they use yellow, and it makes my computer FASTER!
Sounds like a cool way to send missions to the outer planets. (Hello Pluto!)
Wonder how steerable it is?
> People would still go to live performances, but we could dispense with much of the recorded music industry.
Beg to disagree. A big part of what makes music, recorded or otherwise, compelling is the subtle, and occasionally random, nuances of performance. Or at least that's the case for me... As I type this, I'm listening to an old Bob Dylan record that definitely doesn't use Antares Autotune.
Ok, 7.1 cents per CD sold * 0 CDs sold... hmm, I don't have my calculator hand, somebody else wanna do the math?
Once, a long long time ago, I used Max Qordlepleen as my bbs handle. Now, I'm not even sure I can spell it right... Time to re-read the Guide, and of course, Don't Panic.
Yeah, that was a cool one. Blacknova Traders is a web based version of the same game.
:-(
Anybody remember Empire? Not the game mentioned in the Netrek history, but a conquer-the-world strategy game door that ran on Amigas... Always wanted to have a decent wack at that one, but the only guy I know of who ever ran it took it down and put up a Citadel BBS in its place a coupla weeks after I found it
(Nothing against the Citadel scene, mind you, I just wanted to play the game...)
Either that, or he realised how badly the acting blowed^h^hblew^h^hsucked, and tacked on a Twilight Zone style twist to account for it.
Still, as good an excuse as any to shout "Death to the evil fiend Monica Geller" while watching "Friends."
ASCII Graphic rendition:
403 Forbidden You don't have access to this document on this server.
> I don't want to buy a CD and then find out that only the 1 or 2 tracks I heard on the radio were any good.
Hell, I'm usually unsure about buying a CD that gets radio play because I know I'm gonna be sick of the one or two hit singles on it about a week after I drop my twenty bucks on it...
> Certainly, if Wilco sells a lot of records, people will be cheering filesharing and deriding the RIAA, even though they may well have sold as many or more records without the free distribution.
According to interviews I've seen, Wilco put their album up for download because their label refused to sell it. Ditto with Public Enemy's "Muse Sick In Hour Mess Age" from a coupla years back. So they probably wouldn't have sold *any* without internet distribution.
>I'm sorry, LUNIX doesn't exist. Maybe you were thinking of an OS that sounds similar, such as FreeBSD.
Does too. Exist, that is, not suck.
Look at the gate receipts of the most recent Speilberg, Altman and Kubrick flix. Then tell me which one you'd want to hire if you were Microsoft.
I don't know of any viruses that attack p2p networks *directly*, but try this experiment:
1. Fire up a gnutella client, or whatever yer p2p of choice is.
2. Search for ".vbs"
3. Count the files named "Britney Spears NAKED SEXY XXX.jpg.vbs" or similar. Gee, what's that do? It's only 24k, let's snag it!
The touch screen version. Always thought one would make a sweet X terminal, and if it can run win95 with our P.O.S. POS software, it can run something decent...
> Almost everyone who uses GPL'd software from day to day needs no license, and accepts none. The GPL only obliges you if you distribute software made from GPL'd code, and only needs to be accepted when redistribution occurs.
Oh no! The BSA is gonna discover all this *unlicensed* GPL-ware! I'd better get a-patchin' and a-redistributin', the Kopyright Kops are komin'...
> LSD was discovered in the 1930's in Switzerland. Unless the Berkeley you are referring to is NOT the University of California.
YM 1941, by Albert Hofmann, a chemist in the employ of Sandoz Pharmaceuticals. Fun fact #1: He was actually looking for obstetric medicines based on the ergot fungus, and accidentally ingested a quarter milligram or so on one of them. When the acid kicked in on his bike ride home, he thought he'd poisoned himself and was going to die soon.
Fun fact #2: Unix as near as I can tell was spawned at Bell Labs in New Jersey, and not Berkeley at all. Blame this guy.
And was Steve Vai actually from Berkeley, California? I didn't know that, and his official site didn't illuminate much on that. Seems to me he might have gone to the Berklee School of Music, which is actually in Massachusetts somewhere iirc.
Oh yeah, fun fact #3: I nicked my sig from some guy's post on alt.folklore.computers 'cause I thought it was funnier than it was accurate.
The Wired article didn't go into too much detail, but I can see a couple of potential problems here..
- how exactly does the FBI (or whatever) specify *what* they're looking for? Searching for "all traffic containing the keywords TERROR, BOMB, COCAINE and OSAMA" sounds like Carnivore as is, and would be pretty easy to defeat anyway. Anyone remember "The Longest Day", in which the Allies sent messages re: the date of the D-Day invasion over clear channel radio, using a code based on a Rimbaud (I think) poem?
- the data vault might hold the FBI/NSA/whoever to their warrant, it does nothing about intentionally vague/overreaching warrants or the laws that enable them.
- re: using this system to keep medical/financial/etc. info private: Hardly a catch all solution, the data vault can't stop companies from spreading/selling your info after you've given it to them in confidence.
- If these do become commonplace, how long before a bungled police investigation results in evidence being lost because of one of these things self destructing? And once that happens, how long until they become outlawed?
> Anyone with half a brain comes to the US to be a GTA!
Huh? Grand Theft Auto? Gargantuan Tobacco Addict? Grimy, Tiny Anteater? Ghod, these acronyms get too annoying.
Even cooler than that hardware: They're maintaining Broadcast 2000. Now somebody get me a microphone and a fire under my ass so's I can get busy recording some tunes...
That's it, I'm replacing (or augmenting) my AMD logo with one of those "Intel Outside" stickers.
Finally, an answer for those who bitch about case mod stories under "hardware."
Anybody got a link for that aussie (I think) guy who stuffed a PC into a model car? *That* was cool...