I'm just saying that it will be a royal pain in the ass recovering info from such a custom system.
The hardware should be standard though. I expect that with the right screwdriver you could open it up and pull the hard disk in a few minutes, attach it to your PC/Mac. I'd lay money it's running Linux; in any case there's no reason to encrypt the disk (unoless they're paranoid about modders) so some standard driver should be able to read it.
we can buy a bunch of them and do CRAZY anti-DMCA things to it.
The site says it can't burn CDs, and though there are no hardware (or software -- but my money's on Linux, as it touts being able to play "some" games and use "approved" printers, which sounds like Wine to me) specs, there is a floppy disk in one photo, so possibly it has a floppy drive. Also it needs DSL, probably an internal DSL modem with an RJ11 jack -- maybe someone could hack a network connection out of that. Anyway, if it gets boring, throw the box and replace it with a Mini-Mac.
Michael Crichton's new book, "State of Fear". Besides being an excellent fiction story, MC also goes about disproving the notion that 'global warming' and 'abrupt climate change' are destroying the world as we know it. What makes this an especially wonderful about this book is that MC cites a plethora of academic references throughout the book to back the facts he states.
Right. Then read Jurassic Park to learn the facts about resurrecting dinosaurs... The guy is a novellist. He's manufacturing controversy to promote his book. I saw him on some TV "news" show doing this, got him half an hour of free primetime publicity.
I could find you a plethora of references to prove cigarettes had no cancer risk, that sugar was good for you, etc, sponsored in the same way as those studies cited by oil companies to "prove" that global warming is a myth.
OTHERWISE the estate would retain ownership of the emails and could rightly demand them (all this from reading the fine article)
Yes, TFA says that, but it's wrong. Being the owner of the copyright of something DOES NOT give you the right to demand someone who legally has a copy (as Yahoo obviously does) to hand it over to you, even if as here that is the only copy left. Copyright gives the owner the right to prevent someone else publishing; what's being talked about here is almost the opposite, forcing someone to.
Please, please, please, DON'T buy a Mac. Treasure your disdain for all products Apple.
Twat. I have a Mac now. I adminned some at a place I worked. Doesn't mean I've drunk the Kool-Aid. My point was simply that Apple had been bundling hardware for years, and pissing off people and driving away customers in the process; and that after 20 years they've finally come around to giving the customer choices and not just what Steve wants you to want.
Never mind that, now, today, SEVEN YEARS AFTER YOUR TANTRUM, you can build to order on Apple's web site.
Actually, it's taken Apple more like 20 years to let you specify anything at all. The mouse was about the last vestige of the fixed hardware policy. As for tantrum, no, I didn't abuse anyone, or call them childish names in CAPITAL LETTERS, I just went somewhere else that was a bit more customer-centric.
Do you really, really think that the price would have been that much lower if they had NOT put a mouse in the damn box?
Who knows or cares, as you might say. My point was that it was going to be quite a bit more expensive for me to buy a hard disk I would never use.
I don't know why you take this so personally. Go flame on some evangelism site.
The one mouse button.... They also don't force you to comply with that design. Would you please explain to me what's wrong with that?
The problem was, until today, they forced you to buy a one-button mouse along with every Mac. In about 1997 I was contemplating buying a new PC, and came very close to buying a Mac. When I chose a model and asked them to upgrade the drive, as I thought 3GB a bit limiting, the answer was I was welcome to buy a new drive and install it myself (or pay them to do it), and of course pay for the orginal drive I wouldn't be using. So I went to a computer mall and got a Pentium PC built to order. Apple have changed since then, and unbundling the mouse finally marks the end of this rigid policy.
No, in this case WMP asked to go download and install the codec needed to play the video file.
Nothing to do with codecs. From TFA:
When Windows Media Player encounters a file with certain "rights management" features enabled, it opens the web page specified by the file's creator. This page is intended to help a content providers promote its products -- perhaps other music by the same artist or label. However, the specified web page can show deceptive messages, including pop-ups that try to install software on users' PCs.
burg in German is castle, berg in German has exactly the same meaning as in Dutch: Mountain.
According to the American Heritage Dictionary, "iceberg" is derived from the Dutch berg, which is why I made the distinction:
iceberg. Dutch ijsberg, from Middle Dutch ijsbergh: ijs, ice + bergh, mountain. burg a (fortified) town. Middle English burgh, town, from Old English burg. Sense 2, ultimately from Germanic
Sure, but "fair use" fragment or not, there isn't really much reason to publish it.
I was addressing the "copyright violation", whichis what he's being charged with. As for a reason, he's an academic. They like to document the process; the idea being others could apply his methods (hopefully without being jailed) to find other vulnerabilities.
It can be rude to link to a site and let them be slashdotted without asking them if their servers can handle it. We aren't talking about an site designed for high bandwidth
I think it unlikely a link deep in the comments will generate a slashdotting. I've clicked on lots of links in earlier comments and the sites all seemed snappy. Anyway, you can safely link to Distrowatch's Kanotix page.
If the guy had published notes on the vulnerabilities and perhaps withheld the exploits for a month, it's very doubtful that the company could make a copyright violation charge stick. He shot himself in the foot when he published the code, even if that code fragment was completely worthless without the rest of the code.
As you said, it was a "fragment". As a lawyer said in TFA, in Australia at least, publishing such a fragment for this reason would almost certainly be allowed as "fair comment" and not a copyright violation.
Yes, but rather than pointing that mistake out to the company that produced the software, he pointed the mistake out to the world. I'm sure the company would have taken quite a difference stance on it had he let them know about it first before going public with it.
This was buggy anti-virus software. Users were at risk every day they kept using it. Unlike an OS, which people mostly just have to keep using till a patch is released, it's easy to replace this with something that works better, or at least not open files and attachments in the belief they've been checked and are safe.
I'm willing to bet there used to be a ring around the moon, that eventually fell out of orbit, piling up in a neat row around the equator. Then again, IANAKP (Knowledgable Person), so feel free to suggest why this might not be possible.
There is virtually no atmosphere, so no air braking. Orbits do degrade due to tidal friction, but just prior to fragments of a ring hitting the surface they'd still be in an orbit, moving very fast (1500 km/hr by my calculation). So if they did finally touch down to the surface, it would be very violent, fragments would go all over the moon (again, not slowed by air) and not fall in a narrow band to form a mountain ridge. Also, if the ridge was a pile of such fragments, it'd be a sand castle, and subsequent impacts would knock it flat in short order.
They couldn't get a convincing enough Saturn, and decided that by eliminating the ring by depicting Jupiter instead they'd simplify the FX issues.
As I recall, ACC said the Saturn effects were realistic, but so strange they weren't convincing -- fortunately they didn't let that argument sway them from zero g, silence in space, the sparse asteroid belt, and all the other true-to-life but counter-intuitive effects.
The SFX guy however, Douglas Trumball, found a way to use Saturn effects he'd worked out when he made Silent Running, a rather silly space movie, though endearing in places. That didn't concern itself much with scientific veracity.
Obviously, that makes a difference. For me, one immobile desktop. Also, the DSL modems are free (with the initial one-year sign up for braodband) here (Hong Kong) so all I needed to buy was a few feet of phone cable.
As I said, it wasn't called "Usenet" then. Just a command line "news" running on a BSD system, as I dimly recall. About 5 articles a day. As a lowly 2nd year student at Melbourne Uni, an early adopter of Unix. I didn't have much access time or privileges.
I note that both your and my posts have been modded "flamebait". How perverse.
Some AC wrote: This is probably going to come as a shock to you so sit down and brace yourself:Google does not control Usenet.
I said they shouldn't let you post. Through Google. I've been using Usenet since about 1978, I know how it works. (Yes, it wasn't called "Usenet" back then if you want to be a smart arse again.)
wonder if a balance can be achieved between email harvesting and protecting the original documents.
It's moronic to hide them in Google's interface when any spammer interested can harvest them directly from a newsfeed. Google still forces you to use an active address when registering to post, and the spammers do harvest that, regardless that's it's munged in Google's interface. And I rather doubt spammers really want a bunch of 20-year-old addresses -- and if anyone is still at the same address that long they're already on every list.
Google Groups have gone from about 7% of all Google users down to 1% as of a few moments ago.
I used to routinely read and post via Google, but now the interface sucks so much that I've reverted to NNTP. I still use it's search of course, as there's no alternative for old posts. The new Groups interface is really annoying in many ways and many features don't work at all in my browser (Opera, an older version to be sure).
I think the difference is that the old article mentioned that google news has 20 years of data, but this one links to a timeline page. Related, closely, but still different.
But something Google should do is NOT let people reply to threads after a certain period, a few months maybe -- some idiots are posting on these threads three years later.
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The hardware should be standard though. I expect that with the right screwdriver you could open it up and pull the hard disk in a few minutes, attach it to your PC/Mac. I'd lay money it's running Linux; in any case there's no reason to encrypt the disk (unoless they're paranoid about modders) so some standard driver should be able to read it.
The site says it can't burn CDs, and though there are no hardware (or software -- but my money's on Linux, as it touts being able to play "some" games and use "approved" printers, which sounds like Wine to me) specs, there is a floppy disk in one photo, so possibly it has a floppy drive. Also it needs DSL, probably an internal DSL modem with an RJ11 jack -- maybe someone could hack a network connection out of that. Anyway, if it gets boring, throw the box and replace it with a Mini-Mac.
Whihc scientist? Name him.
Right. Then read Jurassic Park to learn the facts about resurrecting dinosaurs... The guy is a novellist. He's manufacturing controversy to promote his book. I saw him on some TV "news" show doing this, got him half an hour of free primetime publicity.
I could find you a plethora of references to prove cigarettes had no cancer risk, that sugar was good for you, etc, sponsored in the same way as those studies cited by oil companies to "prove" that global warming is a myth.
Yes, TFA says that, but it's wrong. Being the owner of the copyright of something DOES NOT give you the right to demand someone who legally has a copy (as Yahoo obviously does) to hand it over to you, even if as here that is the only copy left. Copyright gives the owner the right to prevent someone else publishing; what's being talked about here is almost the opposite, forcing someone to.
Read all your posts tomorrow and tell me who's the "hater". Anyway, that's it from me. Over to you for more ad hominems.
Twat. I have a Mac now. I adminned some at a place I worked. Doesn't mean I've drunk the Kool-Aid. My point was simply that Apple had been bundling hardware for years, and pissing off people and driving away customers in the process; and that after 20 years they've finally come around to giving the customer choices and not just what Steve wants you to want.
Take some valium.
Actually, it's taken Apple more like 20 years to let you specify anything at all. The mouse was about the last vestige of the fixed hardware policy. As for tantrum, no, I didn't abuse anyone, or call them childish names in CAPITAL LETTERS, I just went somewhere else that was a bit more customer-centric.
Do you really, really think that the price would have been that much lower if they had NOT put a mouse in the damn box?
Who knows or cares, as you might say. My point was that it was going to be quite a bit more expensive for me to buy a hard disk I would never use.
I don't know why you take this so personally. Go flame on some evangelism site.
The problem was, until today, they forced you to buy a one-button mouse along with every Mac. In about 1997 I was contemplating buying a new PC, and came very close to buying a Mac. When I chose a model and asked them to upgrade the drive, as I thought 3GB a bit limiting, the answer was I was welcome to buy a new drive and install it myself (or pay them to do it), and of course pay for the orginal drive I wouldn't be using. So I went to a computer mall and got a Pentium PC built to order. Apple have changed since then, and unbundling the mouse finally marks the end of this rigid policy.
Nothing to do with codecs. From TFA:
According to the American Heritage Dictionary, "iceberg" is derived from the Dutch berg, which is why I made the distinction:
iceberg. Dutch ijsberg, from Middle Dutch ijsbergh: ijs, ice + bergh, mountain.
burg a (fortified) town. Middle English burgh, town, from Old English burg. Sense 2, ultimately from Germanic
Or in this case, a Dutch word (berg) like a German (burg).
I was addressing the "copyright violation", whichis what he's being charged with. As for a reason, he's an academic. They like to document the process; the idea being others could apply his methods (hopefully without being jailed) to find other vulnerabilities.
I think it unlikely a link deep in the comments will generate a slashdotting. I've clicked on lots of links in earlier comments and the sites all seemed snappy. Anyway, you can safely link to Distrowatch's Kanotix page.
As you said, it was a "fragment". As a lawyer said in TFA, in Australia at least, publishing such a fragment for this reason would almost certainly be allowed as "fair comment" and not a copyright violation.
This was buggy anti-virus software. Users were at risk every day they kept using it. Unlike an OS, which people mostly just have to keep using till a patch is released, it's easy to replace this with something that works better, or at least not open files and attachments in the belief they've been checked and are safe.
There is virtually no atmosphere, so no air braking. Orbits do degrade due to tidal friction, but just prior to fragments of a ring hitting the surface they'd still be in an orbit, moving very fast (1500 km/hr by my calculation). So if they did finally touch down to the surface, it would be very violent, fragments would go all over the moon (again, not slowed by air) and not fall in a narrow band to form a mountain ridge. Also, if the ridge was a pile of such fragments, it'd be a sand castle, and subsequent impacts would knock it flat in short order.
As I recall, ACC said the Saturn effects were realistic, but so strange they weren't convincing -- fortunately they didn't let that argument sway them from zero g, silence in space, the sparse asteroid belt, and all the other true-to-life but counter-intuitive effects.
The SFX guy however, Douglas Trumball, found a way to use Saturn effects he'd worked out when he made Silent Running, a rather silly space movie, though endearing in places. That didn't concern itself much with scientific veracity.
Obviously, that makes a difference. For me, one immobile desktop. Also, the DSL modems are free (with the initial one-year sign up for braodband) here (Hong Kong) so all I needed to buy was a few feet of phone cable.
As I said, it wasn't called "Usenet" then. Just a command line "news" running on a BSD system, as I dimly recall. About 5 articles a day. As a lowly 2nd year student at Melbourne Uni, an early adopter of Unix. I didn't have much access time or privileges.
I note that both your and my posts have been modded "flamebait". How perverse.
I said they shouldn't let you post. Through Google. I've been using Usenet since about 1978, I know how it works. (Yes, it wasn't called "Usenet" back then if you want to be a smart arse again.)
It's moronic to hide them in Google's interface when any spammer interested can harvest them directly from a newsfeed. Google still forces you to use an active address when registering to post, and the spammers do harvest that, regardless that's it's munged in Google's interface. And I rather doubt spammers really want a bunch of 20-year-old addresses -- and if anyone is still at the same address that long they're already on every list.
I used to routinely read and post via Google, but now the interface sucks so much that I've reverted to NNTP. I still use it's search of course, as there's no alternative for old posts. The new Groups interface is really annoying in many ways and many features don't work at all in my browser (Opera, an older version to be sure).
No, the timeline featured in today's dupe was also linked in the old post. Same page: http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announc e_20.html both times.
But something Google should do is NOT let people reply to threads after a certain period, a few months maybe -- some idiots are posting on these threads three years later.