Have you been to IRC channel bookz at Undernet Europe?
I'm sticking with pirate channels of distributions until publishers offer at least a comparable service, in volume and in quality (the latter is easy, as most texts in pirate libraries are bad OCRs). Hey, I gladly paid to allofmp3 while it lasted: it was in some ways a better service than peer-to-peer networks, and offered a selection of music that was not available in any other e-store.
I'm not sure how it's done. A few movies I've downloaded are in the.ts files, which means MPEG-2 transport stream (used with unreliable connections, as opposed to program stream used with local media). This means it's a broadcast rip?
It's very amazing I could watch such gems as BBC Planet Earth now in true HDTV quality without ever buying the player (which my employer won't buy for my computer, anyway). You can get Planet Earth and some movies here.
I've used email addresses listed in WHOIS in two cases:
Contacting the domain owner whose website is in disrepair, who forgets to put his working email on the site, or doesn't want to, as is the case with well-known people who get more personal email that they can handle. This is typically the last resort for me, but it has often worked.
Contacting the domain name owner or organization who should remove my photos published on their website without permission. The email address listed in WHOIS more often than not leads to the right person to handle this stuff (admittedly, a cc: to the abuse email of their webhosting company has also proven to be very useful in these removal request).
I publish my correct contact info in WHOIS, and has not been abused once. What sort of abuse, precisely, are you talking about? Spam I do get anyway and filter it, this is the reality of email. I could list fake contact info in WHOIS if I wanted to. I've seen WHOIS records that hide it behind a third-party proxy. So this is possible for those few who need it. But why make this a policy for everyone?
As a side note, I observe that most requests to ICANN are fueled not by needs of domain owners but by desire of those in the registrar business to make more money (in expense of everyone else). I wonder is this request is one of these.
Thank you. However, the context of the question is not just: they assume that they get to choose the country where they get born. If that were the case, I too would choose UK or Norway for example.
I think, a fair question would be: If you had a choice to be born in your current country of birth or be born in a random family anywhere in the world, what would you choose? Not in the hell would I pick the second option. Russia is just behind the end of the golden million (and so is Korea), I have education, freedom, and a realistic possibility to move to any country of my choice if I really wished so while keeping a qualified job. On the other hand, being respawned in a random family, I likely were born in Africa, South America, China or India. Or in a Muslim country. Which all would likely be much worse than my current condition.
When I discovered a similar bug in Windows NT eight years ago (incomplete copying a large directory tree, silent), I installed FAR and haven't bothered with using Windows Explorer for any important stuff ever since. It makes me glad skills learned years ago are still useful: I'm using FAR in Vista.
You are correct. However the paper has studied exactly the same device implementation that is currently being used to secure the Swiss elections. It doesn't say so in the abstract, but in the body of the paper the lab version of the id Quantique cryptosystem is listed. It is likely their full-link version uses exactly the same quantum hardware as in the lab version, plus the classical VPN equipment.
In fact, I would love to see a statement from id Quantique that this security issue discovered in their equipment has been addressed. There hasn't been such a statement, to my knowledge.
Incredibly easy to get if you're a computer geek who knows how to pirate software. Not if you're a graphic designer and a casual pirate.
Have you seen any decent graphic designer who is computer illiterate to the point of not being able to go to thepiratebay.org, search for the name of the program, read comments and follow a few step-by-step instructions (not really much more complex than a typical activation of a licensed software)?
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The only thing that will get more users for GIMP is strict enforcement of software licensing (specifically, that of Adobe Photoshop). Which ain't happening.
If in 1,500 years what becomes|remains of the humankind on Earth is not able to deal with the issue (if there is any issue ever, that is) using 0.000000000000001 of the annual GDP or whatever equivalent there is, well, they probably won't care anyway. Such long term projections judged in reference to today's level of our technological ability are meaningless. Have you ever heard of those dreadful stinky heaps of waste that cities of the year 500 A.D. produced, ruining the environment around them forever?
With nuclear energy, we can have a plan for the whooping 200 years in advance, and get all the benefits we can have now. This is all what's EVER needed. Things will be vastly different in less than 200 years.
OLPC reminds me of the Russian BK series home computers of the 1980s, one of the most mass produced home computer series in the world. It was sold with virtually no software. A very lively software community sprang up, with many users basically developing their own applications and making them available for free, because there were no commercial ones available and this computer for many years was the only one the general population could afford. It's worth mentioning that BK had less than a hundredth of the computing power and memory of the OLPC, so practically all programs for it had to be written in assembler. Admittedly, software development is more complex these days, but...
To make a similar community appear around the OLPC, its developers don't have to take any special steps, but only make it possible for the user to reinstall the operating system and run a standard software developer environment on the OLPC. Most childs won't do it, but those who do may, over several years, add substantially to the software tailored to be run on the OLPC and its successors.
After reading the entire thread, can someone please explain me if there is any point of filing this lawsuit besides continuing getting publicity to RIAA's case?
One is a government with oil and some legacy nukes
It might not be a popular item on the U.S. news, but we dohave up-to-the-date nukes. Besides, spending on strategic rocket forces is the first priority, protected item in our military budget. You can kiss the shiny metal engine cone.
Have they counted DVD-ROM computer drives? (And, for that matter, PCs hooked up to plasma screens?) I guess no. Why I'd be getting a TV set just to play a movie? No thanks, the computer does this just fine, and with better image quality.
Just by looking around the media stores, I gather DVDs have trumped VHS years ago.
Whay ISP is that? I'd like to avoid doing business with you...
From the number, it sounds like the ISP might be pair.com. They are certainly doing their job well and do handle mail properly (I must mention that I've had a few gripes with them, but nothing that wasn't eventually resolved).
You spend too much time on Slashdot when you start recognising ordinary people you know from elsewhere. Or at least think so...
Get to listen to full-orchestra music (either classical, or some modern band with many instruments playing simultaneously plus voice). If you still don't hear that 128 kbps squashes finer sounds and/or adds audible artefacts, you are either indiscriminate (this can be a bliss!) or your headphones are crap.
Whether lib.ru will continue to operate or not, ultimately does not matter. Once a book is OCRed and put online, it is impossible to eradicate. If publishers sue, resources will just go a bit deeper where prosecution is harder to do (just like it has happened with p2p music). For example, there is an IRC cnannel for English language literature far richer than any open web library.
Anyway, I think lib.ru is to remain. It is well accepted by the whole Russian-speaking internet community, and it is a non-commercial resource. Also it has a lot of stuff published with an explicit permission. It won't be gone.
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Have you been to IRC channel bookz at Undernet Europe?
I'm sticking with pirate channels of distributions until publishers offer at least a comparable service, in volume and in quality (the latter is easy, as most texts in pirate libraries are bad OCRs). Hey, I gladly paid to allofmp3 while it lasted: it was in some ways a better service than peer-to-peer networks, and offered a selection of music that was not available in any other e-store.
I'm not sure how it's done. A few movies I've downloaded are in the .ts files, which means MPEG-2 transport stream (used with unreliable connections, as opposed to program stream used with local media). This means it's a broadcast rip?
It's very amazing I could watch such gems as BBC Planet Earth now in true HDTV quality without ever buying the player (which my employer won't buy for my computer, anyway). You can get Planet Earth and some movies here.
- Contacting the domain owner whose website is in disrepair, who forgets to put his working email on the site, or doesn't want to, as is the case with well-known people who get more personal email that they can handle. This is typically the last resort for me, but it has often worked.
- Contacting the domain name owner or organization who should remove my photos published on their website without permission. The email address listed in WHOIS more often than not leads to the right person to handle this stuff (admittedly, a cc: to the abuse email of their webhosting company has also proven to be very useful in these removal request).
I publish my correct contact info in WHOIS, and has not been abused once. What sort of abuse, precisely, are you talking about? Spam I do get anyway and filter it, this is the reality of email. I could list fake contact info in WHOIS if I wanted to. I've seen WHOIS records that hide it behind a third-party proxy. So this is possible for those few who need it. But why make this a policy for everyone?As a side note, I observe that most requests to ICANN are fueled not by needs of domain owners but by desire of those in the registrar business to make more money (in expense of everyone else). I wonder is this request is one of these.
Thank you. However, the context of the question is not just: they assume that they get to choose the country where they get born. If that were the case, I too would choose UK or Norway for example.
I think, a fair question would be: If you had a choice to be born in your current country of birth or be born in a random family anywhere in the world, what would you choose? Not in the hell would I pick the second option. Russia is just behind the end of the golden million (and so is Korea), I have education, freedom, and a realistic possibility to move to any country of my choice if I really wished so while keeping a qualified job. On the other hand, being respawned in a random family, I likely were born in Africa, South America, China or India. Or in a Muslim country. Which all would likely be much worse than my current condition.
So what did South Koreans answer? (I am an European currently working in South Korea.)
When I discovered a similar bug in Windows NT eight years ago (incomplete copying a large directory tree, silent), I installed FAR and haven't bothered with using Windows Explorer for any important stuff ever since. It makes me glad skills learned years ago are still useful: I'm using FAR in Vista.
This is a real joke from Soviet Russia. Colonel is lecturing recruits at military academy: "In wartime, the value of pi can reach four and even five."
It's the only response in the entire discussion from someone who has a clue :)
You are correct. However the paper has studied exactly the same device implementation that is currently being used to secure the Swiss elections. It doesn't say so in the abstract, but in the body of the paper the lab version of the id Quantique cryptosystem is listed. It is likely their full-link version uses exactly the same quantum hardware as in the lab version, plus the classical VPN equipment.
it is exactly the same quantum cryptosystem that has recently been broken (by an attack exploiting a component imperfection)?
In fact, I would love to see a statement from id Quantique that this security issue discovered in their equipment has been addressed. There hasn't been such a statement, to my knowledge.
Incredibly easy to get if you're a computer geek who knows how to pirate software. Not if you're a graphic designer and a casual pirate.
Have you seen any decent graphic designer who is computer illiterate to the point of not being able to go to thepiratebay.org, search for the name of the program, read comments and follow a few step-by-step instructions (not really much more complex than a typical activation of a licensed software)?
The only thing that will get more users for GIMP is strict enforcement of software licensing (specifically, that of Adobe Photoshop). Which ain't happening.
There is a fulltext of Rainbows End on Vinge's site.
Two new photos a day you'd rather not see again.
If in 1,500 years what becomes|remains of the humankind on Earth is not able to deal with the issue (if there is any issue ever, that is) using 0.000000000000001 of the annual GDP or whatever equivalent there is, well, they probably won't care anyway. Such long term projections judged in reference to today's level of our technological ability are meaningless. Have you ever heard of those dreadful stinky heaps of waste that cities of the year 500 A.D. produced, ruining the environment around them forever?
With nuclear energy, we can have a plan for the whooping 200 years in advance, and get all the benefits we can have now. This is all what's EVER needed. Things will be vastly different in less than 200 years.
I want an universal storage media. If one format forcibly restricts certain types of content and the other does not, the war is over.
Seriously, how does Sony expect to win if they cut off a section of the market that will exist regardless of their wishes?
OLPC reminds me of the Russian BK series home computers of the 1980s, one of the most mass produced home computer series in the world. It was sold with virtually no software. A very lively software community sprang up, with many users basically developing their own applications and making them available for free, because there were no commercial ones available and this computer for many years was the only one the general population could afford. It's worth mentioning that BK had less than a hundredth of the computing power and memory of the OLPC, so practically all programs for it had to be written in assembler. Admittedly, software development is more complex these days, but...
To make a similar community appear around the OLPC, its developers don't have to take any special steps, but only make it possible for the user to reinstall the operating system and run a standard software developer environment on the OLPC. Most childs won't do it, but those who do may, over several years, add substantially to the software tailored to be run on the OLPC and its successors.
It should come as no surprise, then, that actual encyclopedias such as Britannica and Columbia
Should have read "It should come as no surprise, then, that {other|traditional|old|smaller} encyclopedias such as Britannica and Columbia"
After reading the entire thread, can someone please explain me if there is any point of filing this lawsuit besides continuing getting publicity to RIAA's case?
One is a government with oil and some legacy nukes
It might not be a popular item on the U.S. news, but we do have up-to-the-date nukes. Besides, spending on strategic rocket forces is the first priority, protected item in our military budget. You can kiss the shiny metal engine cone.
Have they counted DVD-ROM computer drives? (And, for that matter, PCs hooked up to plasma screens?) I guess no. Why I'd be getting a TV set just to play a movie? No thanks, the computer does this just fine, and with better image quality.
Just by looking around the media stores, I gather DVDs have trumped VHS years ago.
Whay ISP is that? I'd like to avoid doing business with you...
From the number, it sounds like the ISP might be pair.com. They are certainly doing their job well and do handle mail properly (I must mention that I've had a few gripes with them, but nothing that wasn't eventually resolved).
You spend too much time on Slashdot when you start recognising ordinary people you know from elsewhere. Or at least think so...
Get to listen to full-orchestra music (either classical, or some modern band with many instruments playing simultaneously plus voice). If you still don't hear that 128 kbps squashes finer sounds and/or adds audible artefacts, you are either indiscriminate (this can be a bliss!) or your headphones are crap.
Did you complain? Have they given you a refund for that album?
Whether lib.ru will continue to operate or not, ultimately does not matter. Once a book is OCRed and put online, it is impossible to eradicate. If publishers sue, resources will just go a bit deeper where prosecution is harder to do (just like it has happened with p2p music). For example, there is an IRC cnannel for English language literature far richer than any open web library.
Anyway, I think lib.ru is to remain. It is well accepted by the whole Russian-speaking internet community, and it is a non-commercial resource. Also it has a lot of stuff published with an explicit permission. It won't be gone.