Treaties do not supercede the constitution, as it, and only it, is the supreme law of the land.
Article 1, Section. 10,Clause 1: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a
Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
Article 2, Section 2, Clause 2: He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with
the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose
Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in
the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
Article 3, Section 2, Clause 1: The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their
Authority;--to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;--to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;--to Controversies to which the United States shall
be a Party;--to Controversies between two or more States;--between a State and Citizens of another State; (See Note 10)--between Citizens of different States, --between Citizens of the
same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.
And the kicker:
Article 6, Clause 2: This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United
States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
The Council of Europe members are from many countries:
Albania (address)
Mr Paskal Milo, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Andorra (address)
Mr Albert Pintat Santolaria, Minister for External Relations of the Principality of Andorra
Austria (address)
Mrs Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs
Belgium (address)
Mr Louis Michel, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Bulgaria (address)
Mrs Nadezhda Mihailova, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Croatia (address)
Mr. Tonino Picula, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Cyprus (address)
Mr Ioannis Kasoulides, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Czech Republic (address)
Mr Jan Kavan, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Denmark (address)
Mr Niels Helveg Petersen, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Estonia (address)
Mr Toomas Hendrik Ílves, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Finland (address)
Mr Erkki Tuomioja, Minister for Foreign Affairs
France (address)
Mr Hubert Védrine, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Georgia (address)
Mr Irakli Menagarishvili, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Germany (address)
Mr Joschka Fischer, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Greece (address)
Mr Giorgos Papandreou, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Hungary (address)
Mr János Martonyi, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Iceland (address)
Mr Halldor Asgrimsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Ireland (address)
Mr Brian Cowen, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Italy (address)
Mr Lamberto Dini, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Latvia (address)
Mr Indulis Berzins, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Liechtenstein (address)
Mrs Andrea Willi, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Lithuania (address)
Mr Algirdas Saudargas, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Luxembourg (address)
Mrs Lydie Polfer, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs, External trade.
Malta (address)
Mr Joe Borg, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Moldova (address)
Mr Nicolae Tabacaru, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Netherlands (address)
Mr Jozias van Aartsen, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Norway (address)
Mr Thorbjørn Jagland, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Poland (address)
Mr Bronislaw Geremek, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Portugal (address)
Mr Jaime José Matos Gama, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Romania (address)
Mr Petre Roman, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Russian Federation (address)
Mr Igor Ivanov, Minister for Foreign Affairs
San Marino (address)
Mr Gabriele Gatti, Minister for Foreign and Political Affairs
Slovak Republic (address)
Mr Eduard Kukan, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Slovenia (address)
Mr Dimitrij Rupel, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Spain (address)
Mr Josep Pique i Camps, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Sweden (address)
Ms Anna Lindh, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Switzerland (address)
Mr Joseph Deiss, Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
"the former Yugoslav
Republic of
Macedonia" (address)
Mr Aleksandar Dimitrov, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Turkey (address)
Mr Ismail Cem, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Ukraine (address)
Mr Borys Tarasiuk, Minister for Foreign Affairs
United Kingdom (address)
The Rt. Hon. Robin Cook, MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
SysInternals offers NTFS for DOS and Windows 9x. So you can access NTFS drives without NT currently. This also bypasses security -- but as has been noted before, if you have physical access to the machine, you can do anything you want, pretty much, so no biggie.
NTFS and Linux aren't really compatible, due to VFS limitations. As the kernel currently stands, there is no way to access streams, extended attributes, or ACLs. Linus wants to provide a coherent way to access streams in Linux, but Cox, Viro, et al think the HFS kludge is a perfect way of doing it (this involves creating fake ".AppleDouble" directories on the fly). It seem to be their position that if it's not Posix, it's crap. It's Linus' position that lots of filesystems that support streams and/or EAs exist (NTFS, XFS, BeFS, HFS) and are in common use, and Linux therefore needs a standard way to access their features.
So, yeah, good NTFS support would be nice. But don't hold your breath. I doubt the "Core Developers" will allow Linux to fully support NTFS.
"Thanks for the support." Pretty harsh moderation. You'd think people would be helpful and post a working link to informationweek.com rather than bitch about "redundancies" -- amazing choice, considering that it was the first post, btw.
The Best Way To Do
X is, of course, to chuck it out and replace it with something better. Mark this as flamebait if you must, but the X architecture is too complicated, creaky, and old to support the new features everyone wants in an efficient way. The only advantage of X is remote display, and 95% of the time no one uses it. And, surely that can be provided in another, better, graphics system. A new system can take into account the improvements in hardware and user interface design made in the last 20 years. And, X Defenders, don't jump on me to point out that X isn't a user interface. I know it's just a glorified, networkable display driver. But its limitations are imposed on any toolkits that use it. GTK cannot do anything that X cannot -- unless it ignores X (see the Gnome Canvas).
And please don't jump on me pointing to the installed base of applications. So what? Rewrite. IT happens all the time. And any new system can provide an X interface for backwards compatibility.
Do we want to continue to emulate the limited systems of the past, or truly create something new and good? Or will the world have to continue to use the Macintosh if they want a good user interface? Mac OS X does look pretty schweet!
Why? It's just Neilsen ratings on steroids and crack at the same time. People are often concerned about privacy in the wrong ways. Ask yourself if a supposed "privacy breach" diminishes your freedom, or gives someone else undue power over you. If it does either, be pissed off, otherwise, who cares? And if you're really concerned, demand reciprocal loss of privacy. demand that the people collecting that data publish the same data bout themselves. If an insurance company does genetic profiles, demand that the top 100 officers of that company publish the same data about themselves. If the IRs asks a bunch of intrusive questions, demand that IRS officers, auditors, etc. provide the same information. Often, two-way flows of information can remove the damaging effects of one-way flows without reducing the usefulness of the information flow. Preventing information flow is often put forward as The Only Solution when it is in fact neither the only solution or best solution.
The output of the device looks
like this (after processing by the keyboard handler):
.C3nZC3nZC3nXE3b7DxjZCNnX.fHmc.C3DZC3nZC3f6ChjY.
The device sends an ALT-F10 first, which is apparently a signal that a
scan follows. The next field is the serial number. The third is the
barcode type, and the fourth is the barcode data. Fields are separated
by periods.
Here is what the above scan looks like decoded:
000000002838610102 UPA 040000029311
This scan was of a UPC symbol on a bag of M&Ms. The output of the cuecat
is scrambled using a modified base64 encoding. My software simply
applies the inverse of the encoding. The Windows CRQ software does not
itself process the scan data like this. It simply inverts the case of
the scan and builds a URL using it. The basic form of the URL is as
follows:
My software perserves the serial number, but does not transmit an
activation code; it actually substitutes the letters "ACTIVATIONCODE"
where they should go. This is enough to prevent the tracking of scans, I
think. In fact, their servers do not even check for the validity of the activation code.
Their Windows software asks a large number of demographic-defining
questions before it actually installs the software. The answers are
keyed to your "activation code," without which the Windows software will
not work. But because they never do data validation server-side, you can
still use their web servers without sending tracking data.
In a separate issue, their "registration database" was not a database (a
plain text file, actually), and was stored at a publically accessible
URL; they have since disallowed access to it from the internet:
/. post Turns out "W" was the successor to "V". So, the successor to "X" should by "Y", which makes perfect sense on several levels (unfortunately, there's no letter that's pronounced "please god let it die").
The new version of FooCat BarCode (0.1.3) returns author, title, url and image url (cover shot) for books, CDs and DVDs in tab-delimited format. Check the CueCat Project page later today.
Here's an example:
^[[21~.C3nZC3nZC3nXE3b7DxjZCNnX.fHmc.C3PWDxf3Dxn 6ChfX.
DATA 000000002838610102 UPA 093624609322 9362460932
CUE 9362460932 http://t.dcnv.com/CRQ/1..ACTIVATIONCODE.04.c3Nzc3N zc3Nxe3B7dXJzcnNx.FhMC.c3pwdXF3dXN6cHFx. 0 http://www.warnerbros.com/pages/music/index.jsp?fr omtout=home_menu_music_item1 WARNER BROS. RECORDS, INC.
BN 093624609322 http://search.borders.com/fcgi-bin/db2www/search/s earch.d2w/Details?code=093624609322&medi aType=Music&searchType=ISBNUPC&prodID= Return Of The Rentals Rentals (The)/web_images/products/00/15/26/c/15262574_c.gif
I think you managed to completely, totally, miss the point. We're not asking for their support. We're not buying their products or services. We just want to not be harassed when we use hardware that we own for whatever purposes we see fit.
I don't care if they understand my "convictions." I don't care if they give a "flying fuck" about us. We never gave them our "hard earned money." We're not asking for "customer support."
We're not asking for anything except to be left alone, essentially.
InterNet News Radio ran an interview with me this morning about the CueCat. I have it mirrored
here. It runs today, Sept 18, 2000, so you'll have to look for it in their archives starting tomorrow. However, I'll keep the mirror at my site.
Their registration "database" was actually a plain text file published on their webserver! No hacking involved. Just type a URL into netscape, and viola, there's the "database." Digital Convergence isn't staffed by geniuses.
A number of banks use natgas fuel cells because it's much more reliable them grid power. A significant portion of the public power grid is on poles next to trees. All gas lines are underground. It's also better than grid plus deisel backup, because you do not have to depend on trucks to deliver diesel fuel. Typically a generator has a single day of fuel on its tank -- at maximum capacity. Gas comes through pipes continuously. I have gas heat, gas hot water and a gas stove currently. I look forward to supplementing that with gas power. It might even lower my bill. And keep snow off the roof!
The solution to corruption is to decrease power, not increase it. Switching to a socialist economy would greatly increase power, and focus it in the government, not diminish it or spread it around. This would be a bad thing.
This reminds me of all the jockeying over "campaign finance reform" -- the prohibiting of some kinds of speech, particularly political speech, in order to "clean up the system." Never mind that Congress shall make no law abridiging the freedom of speech (most importantly, political speech -- read the federalist papers, etc.), the solution to corruption is still the restriction of speech, according to those currently in power. This makes no sense at all. The solution to corruption is the reduction of government power and control over people, the culture and the economy. A government with less power is less suseptible to bribes. If people and companies cannot use government force against their enemies and/or competitors, then lobbying, bribes, etc. will not be the problem that it is now.
instead of government controlling business, business controls the government.
With power, comes corruption. If the government distorts the market, some people will gain, others lose. And then the jockying begins to make sure the market is distorted in a manner favorable to yourself. The only long-term solution to corruption is to reduce the power wielded.
A free market, i.e., a capitalist economy, doesn't hinder or help participants. Government is a necessary component of a capitalist economy -- in order to have one neutral organization with a monopoly on the use of force. Other people and groups (companies) are then not allowed to coerce or defraud other people and groups. It's not at all the same as "business controlling the government." It's the government not, I repeat, not being controlled by business in order to provide a true free market. Anytime a company uses the government to obtain a subsidy or some other unnatural advantage over a competitor, it's no longer a free market. The idea of a capitalist economy is that the government does not favor, subsidize or punish people and companies except for actual offenses -- killing or hurting people, for instance. It doesn't set "industrial policy" or mandate technological changes (see FCC, USDA, etc).
Mmmmm... every corporation its own little welfare state. No thanks. I want to work at my job, and not be controlled by companies. This does not mean that I want coporations to be "involved in the community." With money comes control. Just pay people and let them live their lives. Don't build parks and provide daycare and adoption services, etc. Just maximize profits, respect human rights, and pay people, and that's it, please. Replacing the Government Welfare State with a privately run version isn't "freedom" -- it's just Corporate Socialism instead of Regular Old Socialism. I'll vote for actual freedom every time, not coddling, no matter who does the coddling.
Mozilla and InterNet Explorer are both built from components. IE is a collection of COM objects, Mozilla is a collection of XPCOM objects. We've all heard about ActiveX troubles on IE. I imagine we'll see this type of bug for a long time, even after Mozilla "saves Netscape."
So, which do you think will happen first?
Microsoft ships a working, complete IE for Linux
Mozilla and/or Netscape ships a working, complete browser for Linux
I really hope I'm not going to be using Netscape in two years.
Slashdot Mirror
Read the whole thing:
...any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
The President could not enter into a treaty to revoke the 1st amendment.
___________________________
Treaties do not supercede the constitution, as it, and only it, is the supreme law of the land.
Article 1, Section. 10,Clause 1: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
Article 2, Section 2, Clause 2: He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
Article 3, Section 2, Clause 1: The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;--to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;--to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;--to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;--to Controversies between two or more States;--between a State and Citizens of another State; (See Note 10)--between Citizens of different States, --between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.
And the kicker:
Article 6, Clause 2: This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
___________________________
The Council of Europe members are from many countries:
Albania (address) Mr Paskal Milo, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Andorra (address) Mr Albert Pintat Santolaria, Minister for External Relations of the Principality of Andorra
Austria (address) Mrs Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs
Belgium (address) Mr Louis Michel, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Bulgaria (address) Mrs Nadezhda Mihailova, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Croatia (address) Mr. Tonino Picula, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Cyprus (address) Mr Ioannis Kasoulides, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Czech Republic (address) Mr Jan Kavan, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Denmark (address) Mr Niels Helveg Petersen, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Estonia (address) Mr Toomas Hendrik Ílves, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Finland (address) Mr Erkki Tuomioja, Minister for Foreign Affairs
France (address) Mr Hubert Védrine, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Georgia (address) Mr Irakli Menagarishvili, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Germany (address) Mr Joschka Fischer, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Greece (address) Mr Giorgos Papandreou, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Hungary (address) Mr János Martonyi, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Iceland (address) Mr Halldor Asgrimsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Ireland (address) Mr Brian Cowen, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Italy (address) Mr Lamberto Dini, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Latvia (address) Mr Indulis Berzins, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Liechtenstein (address) Mrs Andrea Willi, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Lithuania (address) Mr Algirdas Saudargas, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Luxembourg (address) Mrs Lydie Polfer, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs, External trade.
Malta (address) Mr Joe Borg, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Moldova (address) Mr Nicolae Tabacaru, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Netherlands (address) Mr Jozias van Aartsen, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Norway (address) Mr Thorbjørn Jagland, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Poland (address) Mr Bronislaw Geremek, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Portugal (address) Mr Jaime José Matos Gama, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Romania (address) Mr Petre Roman, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Russian Federation (address) Mr Igor Ivanov, Minister for Foreign Affairs
San Marino (address) Mr Gabriele Gatti, Minister for Foreign and Political Affairs
Slovak Republic (address) Mr Eduard Kukan, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Slovenia (address) Mr Dimitrij Rupel, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Spain (address) Mr Josep Pique i Camps, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Sweden (address) Ms Anna Lindh, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Switzerland (address) Mr Joseph Deiss, Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
"the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" (address) Mr Aleksandar Dimitrov, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Turkey (address) Mr Ismail Cem, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Ukraine (address) Mr Borys Tarasiuk, Minister for Foreign Affairs
United Kingdom (address) The Rt. Hon. Robin Cook, MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
___________________________
I can "hack" anything with anything.
I can hack a cuecat with a soldering iron, a screwdriver and a multimeter.
I can hack a computer program with Visual Studio (built in debugger and disassembler).
I can hack a network program with ordinary windows (netmon) or unix (tcpdump/ethereal).
I can hack a lock with a paperclip.
I can hack a mixmaster with a pointed stick.
I can hack congress with a lobbyist.
I can take G. Gordon Liddy's advice for dealing with government agents storming my house.
I can move to a free country. Or maybe I can't.
___________________________
SysInternals offers NTFS for DOS and Windows 9x. So you can access NTFS drives without NT currently. This also bypasses security -- but as has been noted before, if you have physical access to the machine, you can do anything you want, pretty much, so no biggie.
___________________________
NTFS and Linux aren't really compatible, due to VFS limitations. As the kernel currently stands, there is no way to access streams, extended attributes, or ACLs. Linus wants to provide a coherent way to access streams in Linux, but Cox, Viro, et al think the HFS kludge is a perfect way of doing it (this involves creating fake ".AppleDouble" directories on the fly). It seem to be their position that if it's not Posix, it's crap. It's Linus' position that lots of filesystems that support streams and/or EAs exist (NTFS, XFS, BeFS, HFS) and are in common use, and Linux therefore needs a standard way to access their features.
So, yeah, good NTFS support would be nice. But don't hold your breath. I doubt the "Core Developers" will allow Linux to fully support NTFS.
___________________________
"Thanks for the support." Pretty harsh moderation. You'd think people would be helpful and post a working link to informationweek.com rather than bitch about "redundancies" -- amazing choice, considering that it was the first post, btw.
___________________________
... and it's not even fully modular.
The Best Way To Do X is, of course, to chuck it out and replace it with something better. Mark this as flamebait if you must, but the X architecture is too complicated, creaky, and old to support the new features everyone wants in an efficient way. The only advantage of X is remote display, and 95% of the time no one uses it. And, surely that can be provided in another, better, graphics system. A new system can take into account the improvements in hardware and user interface design made in the last 20 years. And, X Defenders, don't jump on me to point out that X isn't a user interface. I know it's just a glorified, networkable display driver. But its limitations are imposed on any toolkits that use it. GTK cannot do anything that X cannot -- unless it ignores X (see the Gnome Canvas). And please don't jump on me pointing to the installed base of applications. So what? Rewrite. IT happens all the time. And any new system can provide an X interface for backwards compatibility.
Do we want to continue to emulate the limited systems of the past, or truly create something new and good? Or will the world have to continue to use the Macintosh if they want a good user interface? Mac OS X does look pretty schweet!
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I'm not off base. It's about accountability. They aren't accountable if there's not reciprocal transparency.
Or are you arguing that there's NO value to reiprocal transparency, and being kept in the dark (one way info flow) is okay?
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http://www.digitaldemographi cs.com/services/index.html
.C3nZC3nZC3nXE3b7DxjZCNnX.fHmc.C3DZC3nZC3f6ChjY.
N zc3Nxe3B7dXJzcnNx.FhMC.c3dzc3Nzc3F6cHJy. 0
r ations.txt
A IL=ppage@txisroads.com&ZIP=38834&GENDER= A&AGE=D&OPTIN=1&UID=Y0ZVY1QCZ7SGx2qHCoSf9g
& EMAIL=fkasica@optonline.net&ZIP=08610-63 02&GENDER=A&AGE=F&OPTIN=1&UID=zRAzCaynOVkBS3XLZDyi NQ
& EMAIL=claude@telapex.com&ZIP=39601&GENDE R=A&AGE=H&OPTIN=1&UID=4Hacci4hfCygvJaWOCA7-A
... the last field ("UID") is presumably the activation code. This means it is trivial to match the weblogs on their servers with your profile data.
The output of the device looks like this (after processing by the keyboard handler):
The device sends an ALT-F10 first, which is apparently a signal that a scan follows. The next field is the serial number. The third is the barcode type, and the fourth is the barcode data. Fields are separated by periods.
Here is what the above scan looks like decoded:
000000002838610102 UPA 040000029311
This scan was of a UPC symbol on a bag of M&Ms. The output of the cuecat is scrambled using a modified base64 encoding. My software simply applies the inverse of the encoding. The Windows CRQ software does not itself process the scan data like this. It simply inverts the case of the scan and builds a URL using it. The basic form of the URL is as follows:
http://[SERVER].dcnv.com/CRQ/1..[ACTIVATION CODE].X.[SCANDATA].0
With the [SCANDATA] field broken out, it looks like this:
http://[SERVER].dcnv.com/CRQ/1..[ACTIVATION CODE].[X].[SERIAL NUMBER].[TYPE].[DATA].0
Here is an example, using the scan data from the M&Ms (try it):
http://t.dcnv.com/CRQ/1..ACTIVATIONCODE.04.c3Nzc3
My software perserves the serial number, but does not transmit an activation code; it actually substitutes the letters "ACTIVATIONCODE" where they should go. This is enough to prevent the tracking of scans, I think. In fact, their servers do not even check for the validity of the activation code.
Their Windows software asks a large number of demographic-defining questions before it actually installs the software. The answers are keyed to your "activation code," without which the Windows software will not work. But because they never do data validation server-side, you can still use their web servers without sending tracking data.
In a separate issue, their "registration database" was not a database (a plain text file, actually), and was stored at a publically accessible URL; they have since disallowed access to it from the internet:
http://net.c-me-register.com/Registrations/regist
This is what the data looked like:
TS=09132000082913&FIRSTNAME=PETE&LASTNAME=PAGE&EM
TS=09132000082926&FIRSTNAME=frank&LASTNAME=kasica
TS=09132000082936&FIRSTNAME=claude&LASTNAME=perry
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- X howto -- mentions W
/. post Turns out "W" was the successor to "V". So, the successor to "X" should by "Y", which makes perfect sense on several levels (unfortunately, there's no letter that's pronounced "please god let it die").- "Kay" has some W links.
- here is an interesting story about IBM, W, X, CMU and AFS.
Anyone have more info on W?---- ----
And he's not kidding. It really was the predecessor to the X Windows System. At least X wasn't named "W++". "W" was originally a black and white 1-bit display, although color was added later. Looks like the Yopy has color. There's also the Vinyl Window System, but it's not available for the Yopy.
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7.0 includes the kawasaki USB-to-ethernet (i.e., netgear dongle) driver a friend of mine wrote. Pretty cool!
</joy>
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The new version of FooCat BarCode (0.1.3) returns author, title, url and image url (cover shot) for books, CDs and DVDs in tab-delimited format. Check the CueCat Project page later today.
n 6ChfX.
N zc3Nxe3B7dXJzcnNx.FhMC.c3pwdXF3dXN6cHFx. 0 http://www.warnerbros.com/pages/music/index.jsp?fr omtout=home_menu_music_item1 WARNER BROS. RECORDS, INC.
s earch.d2w/Details?code=093624609322&medi aType=Music&searchType=ISBNUPC&prodID= Return Of The Rentals Rentals (The) /web_images/products/00/15/26/c/15262574_c.gif
Here's an example:
^[[21~.C3nZC3nZC3nXE3b7DxjZCNnX.fHmc.C3PWDxf3Dx
DATA 000000002838610102 UPA 093624609322 9362460932
CUE 9362460932 http://t.dcnv.com/CRQ/1..ACTIVATIONCODE.04.c3Nzc3
BN 093624609322 http://search.borders.com/fcgi-bin/db2www/search/
tab delimited fields, one record per line.
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I think you managed to completely, totally, miss the point. We're not asking for their support. We're not buying their products or services. We just want to not be harassed when we use hardware that we own for whatever purposes we see fit.
I don't care if they understand my "convictions." I don't care if they give a "flying fuck" about us. We never gave them our "hard earned money." We're not asking for "customer support."
We're not asking for anything except to be left alone, essentially.
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See also http://www.flyingbuttmonkeys.c om/media/newsradio.mp3 for a phone interview with me from this morning.
(I would like to thank slashcode for inserting the space in the url).
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InterNet News Radio ran an interview with me this morning about the CueCat. I have it mirrored
here. It runs today, Sept 18, 2000, so you'll have to look for it in their archives starting tomorrow. However, I'll keep the mirror at my site.
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Their registration "database" was actually a plain text file published on their webserver! No hacking involved. Just type a URL into netscape, and viola, there's the "database." Digital Convergence isn't staffed by geniuses.
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A number of banks use natgas fuel cells because it's much more reliable them grid power. A significant portion of the public power grid is on poles next to trees. All gas lines are underground. It's also better than grid plus deisel backup, because you do not have to depend on trucks to deliver diesel fuel. Typically a generator has a single day of fuel on its tank -- at maximum capacity. Gas comes through pipes continuously. I have gas heat, gas hot water and a gas stove currently. I look forward to supplementing that with gas power. It might even lower my bill. And keep snow off the roof!
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The solution to corruption is to decrease power, not increase it. Switching to a socialist economy would greatly increase power, and focus it in the government, not diminish it or spread it around. This would be a bad thing.
This reminds me of all the jockeying over "campaign finance reform" -- the prohibiting of some kinds of speech, particularly political speech, in order to "clean up the system." Never mind that Congress shall make no law abridiging the freedom of speech (most importantly, political speech -- read the federalist papers, etc.), the solution to corruption is still the restriction of speech, according to those currently in power. This makes no sense at all. The solution to corruption is the reduction of government power and control over people, the culture and the economy. A government with less power is less suseptible to bribes. If people and companies cannot use government force against their enemies and/or competitors, then lobbying, bribes, etc. will not be the problem that it is now.
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instead of government controlling business, business controls the government.
With power, comes corruption. If the government distorts the market, some people will gain, others lose. And then the jockying begins to make sure the market is distorted in a manner favorable to yourself. The only long-term solution to corruption is to reduce the power wielded.
A free market, i.e., a capitalist economy, doesn't hinder or help participants. Government is a necessary component of a capitalist economy -- in order to have one neutral organization with a monopoly on the use of force. Other people and groups (companies) are then not allowed to coerce or defraud other people and groups. It's not at all the same as "business controlling the government." It's the government not, I repeat, not being controlled by business in order to provide a true free market. Anytime a company uses the government to obtain a subsidy or some other unnatural advantage over a competitor, it's no longer a free market. The idea of a capitalist economy is that the government does not favor, subsidize or punish people and companies except for actual offenses -- killing or hurting people, for instance. It doesn't set "industrial policy" or mandate technological changes (see FCC, USDA, etc).
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Mmmmm... every corporation its own little welfare state. No thanks. I want to work at my job, and not be controlled by companies. This does not mean that I want coporations to be "involved in the community." With money comes control. Just pay people and let them live their lives. Don't build parks and provide daycare and adoption services, etc. Just maximize profits, respect human rights, and pay people, and that's it, please. Replacing the Government Welfare State with a privately run version isn't "freedom" -- it's just Corporate Socialism instead of Regular Old Socialism. I'll vote for actual freedom every time, not coddling, no matter who does the coddling.
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Maybe Rob can include this feature in slashcode...
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So, which do you think will happen first?
- Microsoft ships a working, complete IE for Linux
- Mozilla and/or Netscape ships a working, complete browser for Linux
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