When Steve Jobs first went to the music industry about the iTunes store they had been sold on Microsoft's DRM snake oil and he managed to talk them down to a saner solution, sp maybe two years later Larry and Sergei can talk them into going DRM-free.
DRM free, outside chance. Watermarked, almost certainly. The only way to know if the DRM has been cracked is by watermarking iTunes or gTunes files and seeing if they're appearing online or if the online versions are still just the normal CD rips.
7) Pictures on-line may be hours, days, months or years old and people's appearance will change. Her techsploitation info page has her looking either slightly butch or anime (you gotta have blue hair...).
So, basically, unless looking at her turns you to stone, let the original poster have his humble opinion and, if you want to disagree, that's fine, but let's not turn this into a discussion over whether this woman is hot or not. There's a website for explicitly for made for that discussion if you're into that sort of thing.
For a while, all the front page stories are now tagged as "!gay", perhaps because the number of well-meaning Slashdotters outnumbered the trolls, but having "!gay" is just as effective as "gay" from the trolls' perspective. Slashcode tags need to be updated so that an exclamation point at the beginning of the tag makes it not visible while also performing the expected negation of the incorrect/offensive tag.
It'd be nice to boot into Windows for my day job and OSX for home usage.
That was the original starting point for the prize:
I told my boss that this would replace my IBM desktop and I could boot Windows XP on it. I am still confident it can be done. I am giving $100 of my own money [snip] as a prize for the person / group that can make dual-booting Mac OS X and Windows XP happen on an Intel Mac.
But the real question is how did this win the prize. Based on the video, the computer, upon booting, went directly into XP, while the requirements for the prize clearly stated:
Your method, upon starting the computer, must offer the user to boot either OS X or Windows XP
So gunpowder was around before then (Song Dynasty, 13th century). Are you one of the "if you use an old invention on the internet, it deserves a patent" people?
No, but purifying the gunpowder using potassium nitrate and fashioning missiles and torpedos represent large steps forward from something that flies upwards and makes a big, harmless bang for the amusement of children. Or backwards, depending on your point of view...
Innoculation was also around before 1300. Please don't tell me it "doesn't count" until the West has it!
Never said it doesn't count until the West had it... But the article doesn't give an account of when they found it (only a mention of 50 years of cowpox inoculation before the West started, which would be about the 1724 date in the article. I checked Wiki for a starting date for inoculation, but it states it is not known.
People drank it long before that, just not in significant numbers, or in coffeehouses.
I'm not entirely sure of the history of coffee, but it seems that coffee beans were consumed as early as 600 AD, but that's not really coffee. When brewing the beans to get coffee as a beverage began is more unsure; the article states late in the 15th century and the first accurate historical record I could find was of an attempt to ban it in 1511. I was incorrect in stating the 1645 date (my error), but "long before that" is not necessarily "before 1300", as you previously stated.
Actually, the article mentions military uses of gunpowder (including the making of torpedos and missles in the 15th century), vaccination brought from Istanbul in 1724 (including the use of cowpox to fight smallpox 50 years before the West) and the creation of coffee in 1650.
every single track that you are worried about is available for free whether you want it to be or not
From the industry's standpoint, every single in your rental collection is available for free, because there is no downloading charge. They get the same amount of revenue if the customers download their track or not. If they delay release on your platform and force people to buy the CD instead, they have gained extra money.
It did delete itself like that according to the virus detail sheet, but it can still easily overwhelm a system.
According to the links provided, it would delete itself on Jan 1, 2004. My suggestion was to add another subroutine that would account for multiple worms on the same network, which was not mentioned as far as I can tell.
However, they too can bring down networks in a DDoS style; even while cleansing the system.
That's because the white worms are more or less engineered off of the previous one. I don't want to make the comparison to the topic of this post (since I respect their endeavor), but they're basically behaving like script kiddies.
If it was properly done, the worm would automatically delete itself after x days or after receiving a ping from another white worm (with the newer worm taking over security of that network from the old). That would prevent DDoS and eliminate all problems... Until revision B of the original worm, which mimics the ping, but by then most of the computers that are prone to infection will have been immunized.
While you're right on the "das", it's doubtful that a dictionary crack would fix it. Since "das" is also his U of Wisc NetID (ref. the e-mail address at the bottom of the page), it's more likely that the password is the same as his U of Wisc password.
So... Anyone up for breaking into the U of Wisc password database?
As for unusual financial transactions raising flags, this is not new
For the uninitiated, the law under which this was done is the Bank Secrecy Act in 1970. It was recently rolled up into the USAPATRIOT act, which "updated" it to account for the new ills of society.
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When Steve Jobs first went to the music industry about the iTunes store they had been sold on Microsoft's DRM snake oil and he managed to talk them down to a saner solution, sp maybe two years later Larry and Sergei can talk them into going DRM-free.
DRM free, outside chance. Watermarked, almost certainly. The only way to know if the DRM has been cracked is by watermarking iTunes or gTunes files and seeing if they're appearing online or if the online versions are still just the normal CD rips.
7) Pictures on-line may be hours, days, months or years old and people's appearance will change. Her techsploitation info page has her looking either slightly butch or anime (you gotta have blue hair...).
So, basically, unless looking at her turns you to stone, let the original poster have his humble opinion and, if you want to disagree, that's fine, but let's not turn this into a discussion over whether this woman is hot or not. There's a website for explicitly for made for that discussion if you're into that sort of thing.
For a while, all the front page stories are now tagged as "!gay", perhaps because the number of well-meaning Slashdotters outnumbered the trolls, but having "!gay" is just as effective as "gay" from the trolls' perspective. Slashcode tags need to be updated so that an exclamation point at the beginning of the tag makes it not visible while also performing the expected negation of the incorrect/offensive tag.
A quick, effective non-VR solution is already readily available.
Too much of the character's development in ANH starts with the premise of Luke as an inexperienced farmboy.
There won't be any conflict... The series will just be "Little House on the Tatooine Prairie".
Isn't IE still 90% of the market share? where did this subject line come from?
A Mac user?
That was quick.
It'd be nice to boot into Windows for my day job and OSX for home usage.
That was the original starting point for the prize:
I told my boss that this would replace my IBM desktop and I could boot Windows XP on it. I am still confident it can be done. I am giving $100 of my own money [snip] as a prize for the person / group that can make dual-booting Mac OS X and Windows XP happen on an Intel Mac.
But the real question is how did this win the prize. Based on the video, the computer, upon booting, went directly into XP, while the requirements for the prize clearly stated:
Your method, upon starting the computer, must offer the user to boot either OS X or Windows XP
Where can I get this? I haven't found any details or downloads yet...
There's speculation that it'd be made into shareware for the general public, so the author can become fantastically rich.
I was sceptic as well but if you watch carefully he actually turns on the Mac from sleep mode at one point (see teh white Led on the front).
What happened to the LED on the front? It shut off once Windows was installed; is this normal? Does it do this when you run Linux on a Mac?
So gunpowder was around before then (Song Dynasty, 13th century). Are you one of the "if you use an old invention on the internet, it deserves a patent" people?
No, but purifying the gunpowder using potassium nitrate and fashioning missiles and torpedos represent large steps forward from something that flies upwards and makes a big, harmless bang for the amusement of children. Or backwards, depending on your point of view...
Innoculation was also around before 1300. Please don't tell me it "doesn't count" until the West has it!
Never said it doesn't count until the West had it... But the article doesn't give an account of when they found it (only a mention of 50 years of cowpox inoculation before the West started, which would be about the 1724 date in the article. I checked Wiki for a starting date for inoculation, but it states it is not known.
People drank it long before that, just not in significant numbers, or in coffeehouses.
I'm not entirely sure of the history of coffee, but it seems that coffee beans were consumed as early as 600 AD, but that's not really coffee. When brewing the beans to get coffee as a beverage began is more unsure; the article states late in the 15th century and the first accurate historical record I could find was of an attempt to ban it in 1511. I was incorrect in stating the 1645 date (my error), but "long before that" is not necessarily "before 1300", as you previously stated.
Nothing on the list came from after 1300 CE/AD.
Actually, the article mentions military uses of gunpowder (including the making of torpedos and missles in the 15th century), vaccination brought from Istanbul in 1724 (including the use of cowpox to fight smallpox 50 years before the West) and the creation of coffee in 1650.
Nothing is impossible!
It came to me in a dream... The engines don't move the ship at all. The ship stays where it is and the engines move the universe around it!
Don't tell us that you've already tried this.
Or at least tell us the results.
every single track that you are worried about is available for free whether you want it to be or not
From the industry's standpoint, every single in your rental collection is available for free, because there is no downloading charge. They get the same amount of revenue if the customers download their track or not. If they delay release on your platform and force people to buy the CD instead, they have gained extra money.
It did delete itself like that according to the virus detail sheet, but it can still easily overwhelm a system.
According to the links provided, it would delete itself on Jan 1, 2004. My suggestion was to add another subroutine that would account for multiple worms on the same network, which was not mentioned as far as I can tell.
However, they too can bring down networks in a DDoS style; even while cleansing the system.
That's because the white worms are more or less engineered off of the previous one. I don't want to make the comparison to the topic of this post (since I respect their endeavor), but they're basically behaving like script kiddies.
If it was properly done, the worm would automatically delete itself after x days or after receiving a ping from another white worm (with the newer worm taking over security of that network from the old). That would prevent DDoS and eliminate all problems... Until revision B of the original worm, which mimics the ping, but by then most of the computers that are prone to infection will have been immunized.
As long as they allow the dancing banana.
What's more American than peanut butter and jelly?
While you're right on the "das", it's doubtful that a dictionary crack would fix it. Since "das" is also his U of Wisc NetID (ref. the e-mail address at the bottom of the page), it's more likely that the password is the same as his U of Wisc password.
So... Anyone up for breaking into the U of Wisc password database?
As for unusual financial transactions raising flags, this is not new
For the uninitiated, the law under which this was done is the Bank Secrecy Act in 1970. It was recently rolled up into the USAPATRIOT act, which "updated" it to account for the new ills of society.
The original article came from the Providence Journal via Scripps Howard.
$8 bln CDN /yr wireless market? I live in Canada and there aren't any public wireless providers that I've heard of...
Not surprising, given how small they are. Eight billion Canadian is still like a buck-fifty, right?
I don't think they'd be happy.
Think frog in the boiling pot analogy.
That people will believe anything patently false if it's repeated as truth often enough?
Yes, but one of the better side-effects of such large scale cattle farming would porterhouse at about forty cents a pound (U.S.)
Oh, I don't think it'd be that cheap. Porterhouse is fine cut of beef and, as such, tends to be a little pricier.