Did anybody see the 2600 review in 19:3 ?
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The Art of Deception
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"There was one chapter in particular that reallystood out for me. This was the one where Mitnick told HIS side of the story - of the despair and frustration of being demonized in the media and locked away for five years. He told of his anger towards John Markoff, the New York Times reporter who wrote articles about Mitnick that seemed to demonize him and who later went on to write a book which turned into a movie - all while Mitnick languished in jail. I think in a way it was therapeutic for Mitnick to get his anger out at last and certainly about time that the public got to hear his words.
But these are words you WONT be hearing. Markoff's lawyers send the book publishers a threatening letter that was about as long as the chapter itself and Wiley is no longer printing that part of the book.(They claim to have reached this decision independantly)."
But I wouldnt trust their codec until they spend at least 1 year on it. Their last stint , when Sigma infringed the GPL by not including source, they quit development altogether until some demand was granted.
If you leave out the last sentance of the first paragraph (what you got -1'ed for), it's mostly correct.
---Do you think authors work for free? I think not.
If they do, they probably want to eat. If companies fork up money for editing/printing/advertising, they would probably like money too. There is the other choice is actually enjoying to write. Still, the time it would take to write the book is probably quite long. And of course, you aren't guaranteed diddly for profit, but you are guaranteed copy-limitation (that little thing called copyrights).
Still, after reading comments, I totally agree with the last quip. Reading slash off and on also backs it up.
ANd how did you know the "wife" didnt just buy them today...
Still, I smell a problem, and that's you. You seem to be the kind of person who has to control finances your way, with no leeway. Being on a budget is understandable, but does bean-counter mean anything to you?
I really feel sorry for your wife.. if you have one.
---a.) Probably half of the visitors here use ad blockers (or... subscribe).
That would sort of be me.. STill, the mozilla function "Accept images that come from the originating server only" blocks ads effictvely, if not breaking some sites that pull images from images.server.com and other weird places.
I think we all can agree that the DMCA is a horrid law, and possibly unconstitutional at that. Still, who cares about the DMCA (in this issue)? This issue is about Copyrights, not protections.
If the user copied AND distributed the show without the owner's permission (understanding that copies can be made for backup purposes), it's an offence.
DMCA Bemmsheeaa. This is a simple copyright violation
-----If linux were (pretend for a moment, I know it's hard) more expensive than Windows in terms of operating and management costs, what I'd realli like to know is whether or not it would still hold its own. I'd be willing to bet in favor of Linux, since it obviously has the advantage in security/stability/etc... but there's the real challenge: take away the price factor and you'll see the real winner.
Isn't that the CORE reason Linus wrote the Linux kernel? All the other Unixes cost too much. He hacked up his own for the 386 (which then JUST got 8086 virtualization). He wanted the power of the big boys' software, without the big boy price.
Re:Stability means less work for sysadmins
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Linux Is Cheaper
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YOu may want to consider a cheap motherboard that can startup if shutdown and can autostart if power is lost/regained. I have my house server running on a "junk bin" athlon board. 5$ for an A7Pro (with raid to boot;-). Just one of the tabs on the cpu zif chip was broken. Easy fix. I bought a heatsink/fan that uses all 6 tabs.
Maybe if more teachers like him existed, we'd have LESS fuckups and better teaching at school. I was a high school student a little while back, and all I saw was cowardness and stupidity from "techo-anythings". They wanted to be superior, but didn't know shit. However, if you let them know that you're smarter than they were, you were always "hacking".
And secondly, if he can set up a basic samba file server, I'm sure that he could filter out those requests through that mysterious thing called a firewall. Or just put 2 ethernet cards and bind samba to 1 of them.
Third, if teachers have to teach AND become techs in their spare time, then YOU'RE not doing your job. Why don't you just blow off. You seem to only insult somebody that actually cares (and God knows, there's only a few of those types).
Why dont I care? Linus made Linux as a Unix wannabee. It was "fun". He took and mutlitated Minix till even the Minix engineers said it wasnt theirs. Simply, it was HIS toy.
Times passes....
Lots of people like it and donated time, knowing the newer licensing was GPL. Donaters didnt care. If they did, they didnt donate.
Now...
Now companies use it quite a bit, in one place or another. You have Linux fanboys bitching about binary-only drivers when they should be jumping for joy that they are even recognized that Linux exists. Then there's, of course GPL biching-- BSD vs. GPL. Feh. That's why companies have Layers on demand: they should be able to tell what a license is, how it affects business, and wether to use it, and with what.
Companies should consider ramifications wether to deal with the Linux kernel (GPL) or make their FUCKING OWN KERNEL. That's the cost.
I got a GeForce 4 4200 for Christmas.. Hell if I know what you're talking about. 5 minute start times my ASS.
Since I was using Debian, I had to dump source from my CD's to/usr/src and my NV_kernel and NV_glx to/tmp. All it took was a recompile with all my options set correctly (most everything modules). Other than a few fuckups on MY side which were promptly fixed by reverting to the earlier kernel in Lilo (made ReiserFS a module when I was using Reiser;-), everything works pefectly. I installed the GLX library. And when I make a kernel, I just go in to NV_kernel and "make".
That's all there is folks.
I've yet had a crash due to NV drivers or X for that matter. And so what if NV doesnt give source to their drivers. At least MY STUFF works.
If you wanna believe in that, then teach yourself while you blow shit up (like yourself). Go through all the steps of what happens and try to recreate all the reactions, heat transfers, and other problematic things. Essentially, try to create a Lab experiment before you "do it". If there are any errors, you will catch them. This also trains you for more reactions for the more complicated stuff.
What I'm saying is, if you cant figure what's happening, dont do it.
----My step-brother (more than "computer literate" but not someone who likes to spend *all* his time tweaking his computers) told me at Thanksgiving that he's finally been mostly converted from Windows to Linux by Red Hat 8.0. He's a good example of how good 2002 has been, even with the crunch that some companies are going through.
If anything, Linux teaches you how your computer works.. Sometimes the hard way. Still, I use Win2k for extra-cirruclar stuff (read games). Linux still isn't there and will probably stay that way for a while.
----Red Hat and Mandrake (which I name only because they seem to be the most visible in non-specialist stores) both produce distros which are relatively sane to install, and come with far (*far*) more extra-Operating System software included than the obvious conventional competitors do.
They're not even close to the earlier SuSE boxed kits. They "Only" had 6 cd's of shit. Usually, only 1/4'th of the tools actually worked. They didn't work well. When they finally went to "Pro edition" and "personal edition", I quit using them. However, Personal edition still meant 4 different types or word editing tools, 6 different emailers, 3 video players. None worked even mediocrely.
----Which brings on an optimstic rant:
----The included software with the usual distros varies a lot, by category and in quality. Saying that RH8 has x-jillion packages, though, is nice for exploring, but not helpful when the one thing a potential user would like to use is not among the x-jillion.
Microsoft got this down pat. "There is only one choice and one way. That way is with us".
At least, users wern't confused on how to do something. If they were, they could call over a neighbor and have them show it. There was never 20 million different ways to do something in Windows. Either thaey thought of it and made it a "feature" or "it didnt do that". Lack of choice is nicer for beginners and people who must use a computer.
----Such a beast would have to be simple, reliable, fast, pleasant, and with the ability to save to VCD/SVCD for DVD-player compatibility, and to DiVX;) or other free video format for long play. Wouldn't it be nice to have a complete toolkit for making low-budget video production using all free software?
It seems we already have a good encoding-decoding base. That code base is the MPlayer base. It can do all you said and more. Someone needs to create a gui and basic editor for it. My guess was that Avery Lee would have done it by now (they guy who does VirtualDub)
----(iMovie, though a well-made app and IMO sufficient reason for non Mac users to try out the Mac OS, does not make it easy -- and is it even possible? -- to create VCDs or DiVX;) disks.)
Nothing makes it easy to create correct (insert your color)-book VCD/SVCD standard mpegs. At least not what I've seen. Tsunami did make it easy, but I had quite a bit of crashes and other weird errors from going from.avi to (vcd)mpg
----timothy
I'm very glad to see that a few editors still care about what happens "in the trenches". Good luck, and happy new year;-)
Re:I'd only point out that. . .
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If we're talking about Tyson here, get it right. It's PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH SMACK 1.... MUNCH 2.... MUNCH MUNCH 3.... 4..... YUM 5..... Cauliflower Ear 6.....
Re:can someone explain to me
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Well, I ask the basic question: Why cant matter go faster than light?
People answer that the mass => Infinity as Speed => C
Why? There must be something holding it back from reaching C . It cant be photons cause they go any which way. Somethings gotta be there resisting against everything, albeit very small. I look at that just like speed. You dont notice "time displacement" when driving to relatives, but you could notice it on high speed space voyages.. Perhaps this aether force is similar.
Could the aether force be even smaller than Plank distance?
And I'm gonna piss people off greatly with my statement. Linux is LESS secure than Windows.
It's true that projects can release patches in only days versus months or years for MS stuff.
It's also true that things can be more easily locked down on Linux.
And It's also true that Linux(and freebas) rarely crash with the right kernel and drivers.
However, as a hacker, a windows box is a file server. It cant do shit without a gui, and the remote desktop has to be TURNED ON. If I hack a Linux box, I can then bring in module rootkits that mask everything I want to from the "root" user. It can be a file server, gateway, attack server.. you name it. It can do it.
The worst thing a winnt server can be done to it is filling the disk up. And if you run IIS as administrator, then you might be able to access the cmd shell. Doesnt help much, as most everything is GUI. That equates at worst.. deltree c:/
Whats funny is that xWindows natively supports a clipboard that can store any type of data, as long as the requesting program can determine the type. Essentially, you can have Abiword, xEmacs, and 2 sound programs open. Then cut some text, and then cut some sound samples. Then you can paste them in to the appropiate program. Even if you do 2 cuts in a row of differenty data types, they wont overwrite each other.
Yes. This is IN XWindows. Hell if I know why every fucking gui has to recreate something that's natively in there.
How about instead of running like pussies and letting the BSA beat you in the balls, tell them to "Fuck off" if they come for 'license checks'. If they don't leave, call the cops.
It's not like you get out of anything in any situation... You pay through the nose for site license, you pay through nose for "non-compliance", or you pay "through the nose" going to court. Then again, that might stop their bullying.
Answer this poll question: Since I began downloading audio/video from the internet, My purchaces of same have:
1. increased very much
2. increased some
3. increased very little
4. stayed the same
5. decreased very little
6. decreased some
7. decreased very much
Depends.. Do you mean buying from "Sam Goodys" or other over-expensive places? I do NOT buy from those shops. Insetad, I buy second hand cd's at 1/2 priced book stores, along with my books. I sample stuff from the net to look for in those outfits. Never the less, the record companies still hate me. I'm not the ideal customer.
However, I have bought a few anime series which I downloaded (fansubs). For one, is Aa! Megami-sama. It's a wonderful movie, and a great date one at that. Cause of the internet, my anime "consumption" has went from 0 to about 4 dvd's a year. I have over 200 cd's of avi's and mpegs, but I buy what I love.
Slashdot Mirror
"There was one chapter in particular that reallystood out for me. This was the one where Mitnick told HIS side of the story - of the despair and frustration of being demonized in the media and locked away for five years. He told of his anger towards John Markoff, the New York Times reporter who wrote articles about Mitnick that seemed to demonize him and who later went on to write a book which turned into a movie - all while Mitnick languished in jail. I think in a way it was therapeutic for Mitnick to get his anger out at last and certainly about time that the public got to hear his words.
But these are words you WONT be hearing. Markoff's lawyers send the book publishers a threatening letter that was about as long as the chapter itself and Wiley is no longer printing that part of the book.(They claim to have reached this decision independantly)."
----Review done by Emmanuel Goldstein
But I wouldnt trust their codec until they spend at least 1 year on it. Their last stint , when Sigma infringed the GPL by not including source, they quit development altogether until some demand was granted.
Quite childish in my opinion.
HP-sUX is the name of their OS.
If you leave out the last sentance of the first paragraph (what you got -1'ed for), it's mostly correct.
---Do you think authors work for free? I think not.
If they do, they probably want to eat. If companies fork up money for editing/printing/advertising, they would probably like money too. There is the other choice is actually enjoying to write. Still, the time it would take to write the book is probably quite long. And of course, you aren't guaranteed diddly for profit, but you are guaranteed copy-limitation (that little thing called copyrights).
Still, after reading comments, I totally agree with the last quip. Reading slash off and on also backs it up.
---I should warn you that you will sound like a windows newb if you keep talking like that.
;-)
And I should warn you that you already sound like a stallmanist linux bigot.
---I dont want to flame you and this Is offtopic but here i go.
I really wanna flame you.. And I like trolling
---mIRC is a program to access the IRC network.
Nawww, Yer kiddin me..
---mIRC is also for windows.
No it aint, I'm runnin X and have mirc. No winderz either.
---By saying its on mIRC you are basically shouting to everyone that you use windows and dont know how IRC works.
By spouting this worthless drivel, you're claiming net.ghod status. Go get a life. At least he's chatting with people.
---I am not the type of person who wants to flame for this but you might wanna look into how the system works before some ass does flame you.
If you point your ass in the way, I'll "flame" it for ya.
---Also as you learn more about the many different IRC networks you will find that it is very possible to find the right content with very little BS.
It's called "trade" you dumbshit.
dumbfuck
ANd how did you know the "wife" didnt just buy them today...
Still, I smell a problem, and that's you. You seem to be the kind of person who has to control finances your way, with no leeway. Being on a budget is understandable, but does bean-counter mean anything to you?
I really feel sorry for your wife.. if you have one.
---a.) Probably half of the visitors here use ad blockers (or... subscribe).
;-)
That would sort of be me.. STill, the mozilla function "Accept images that come from the originating server only" blocks ads effictvely, if not breaking some sites that pull images from images.server.com and other weird places.
I really like Mozilla
I think we all can agree that the DMCA is a horrid law, and possibly unconstitutional at that. Still, who cares about the DMCA (in this issue)? This issue is about Copyrights, not protections.
If the user copied AND distributed the show without the owner's permission (understanding that copies can be made for backup purposes), it's an offence.
DMCA Bemmsheeaa. This is a simple copyright violation
---"Porn is delivered for free in generous servings, yet people still whip their credit cards out and buy stuff. Why?"
Well, their credit card isnt all they're whipping out.....
-----If linux were (pretend for a moment, I know it's hard) more expensive than Windows in terms of operating and management costs, what I'd realli like to know is whether or not it would still hold its own. I'd be willing to bet in favor of Linux, since it obviously has the advantage in security/stability/etc... but there's the real challenge: take away the price factor and you'll see the real winner.
Isn't that the CORE reason Linus wrote the Linux kernel? All the other Unixes cost too much. He hacked up his own for the 386 (which then JUST got 8086 virtualization). He wanted the power of the big boys' software, without the big boy price.
YOu may want to consider a cheap motherboard that can startup if shutdown and can autostart if power is lost/regained. I have my house server running on a "junk bin" athlon board. 5$ for an A7Pro (with raid to boot ;-). Just one of the tabs on the cpu zif chip was broken. Easy fix. I bought a heatsink/fan that uses all 6 tabs.
Maybe if more teachers like him existed, we'd have LESS fuckups and better teaching at school. I was a high school student a little while back, and all I saw was cowardness and stupidity from "techo-anythings". They wanted to be superior, but didn't know shit. However, if you let them know that you're smarter than they were, you were always "hacking".
And secondly, if he can set up a basic samba file server, I'm sure that he could filter out those requests through that mysterious thing called a firewall. Or just put 2 ethernet cards and bind samba to 1 of them.
Third, if teachers have to teach AND become techs in their spare time, then YOU'RE not doing your job. Why don't you just blow off. You seem to only insult somebody that actually cares (and God knows, there's only a few of those types).
Why dont I care? Linus made Linux as a Unix wannabee. It was "fun". He took and mutlitated Minix till even the Minix engineers said it wasnt theirs. Simply, it was HIS toy.
Times passes....
Lots of people like it and donated time, knowing the newer licensing was GPL. Donaters didnt care. If they did, they didnt donate.
Now...
Now companies use it quite a bit, in one place or another. You have Linux fanboys bitching about binary-only drivers when they should be jumping for joy that they are even recognized that Linux exists. Then there's, of course GPL biching-- BSD vs. GPL. Feh. That's why companies have Layers on demand: they should be able to tell what a license is, how it affects business, and wether to use it, and with what.
Companies should consider ramifications wether to deal with the Linux kernel (GPL) or make their FUCKING OWN KERNEL. That's the cost.
DEAL WITH IT.
end of rant
I got a GeForce 4 4200 for Christmas.. Hell if I know what you're talking about. 5 minute start times my ASS.
/usr/src and my NV_kernel and NV_glx to /tmp. All it took was a recompile with all my options set correctly (most everything modules). Other than a few fuckups on MY side which were promptly fixed by reverting to the earlier kernel in Lilo (made ReiserFS a module when I was using Reiser ;-), everything works pefectly. I installed the GLX library. And when I make a kernel, I just go in to NV_kernel and "make".
Since I was using Debian, I had to dump source from my CD's to
That's all there is folks.
I've yet had a crash due to NV drivers or X for that matter. And so what if NV doesnt give source to their drivers. At least MY STUFF works.
If you wanna believe in that, then teach yourself while you blow shit up (like yourself). Go through all the steps of what happens and try to recreate all the reactions, heat transfers, and other problematic things. Essentially, try to create a Lab experiment before you "do it". If there are any errors, you will catch them. This also trains you for more reactions for the more complicated stuff.
What I'm saying is, if you cant figure what's happening, dont do it.
----My step-brother (more than "computer literate" but not someone who likes to spend *all* his time tweaking his computers) told me at Thanksgiving that he's finally been mostly converted from Windows to Linux by Red Hat 8.0. He's a good example of how good 2002 has been, even with the crunch that some companies are going through.
.avi to (vcd)mpg
;-)
If anything, Linux teaches you how your computer works.. Sometimes the hard way. Still, I use Win2k for extra-cirruclar stuff (read games). Linux still isn't there and will probably stay that way for a while.
----Red Hat and Mandrake (which I name only because they seem to be the most visible in non-specialist stores) both produce distros which are relatively sane to install, and come with far (*far*) more extra-Operating System software included than the obvious conventional competitors do.
They're not even close to the earlier SuSE boxed kits. They "Only" had 6 cd's of shit. Usually, only 1/4'th of the tools actually worked. They didn't work well. When they finally went to "Pro edition" and "personal edition", I quit using them. However, Personal edition still meant 4 different types or word editing tools, 6 different emailers, 3 video players. None worked even mediocrely.
----Which brings on an optimstic rant:
----The included software with the usual distros varies a lot, by category and in quality. Saying that RH8 has x-jillion packages, though, is nice for exploring, but not helpful when the one thing a potential user would like to use is not among the x-jillion.
Microsoft got this down pat. "There is only one choice and one way. That way is with us".
At least, users wern't confused on how to do something. If they were, they could call over a neighbor and have them show it. There was never 20 million different ways to do something in Windows. Either thaey thought of it and made it a "feature" or "it didnt do that". Lack of choice is nicer for beginners and people who must use a computer.
----Such a beast would have to be simple, reliable, fast, pleasant, and with the ability to save to VCD/SVCD for DVD-player compatibility, and to DiVX;) or other free video format for long play. Wouldn't it be nice to have a complete toolkit for making low-budget video production using all free software?
It seems we already have a good encoding-decoding base. That code base is the MPlayer base. It can do all you said and more. Someone needs to create a gui and basic editor for it. My guess was that Avery Lee would have done it by now (they guy who does VirtualDub)
----(iMovie, though a well-made app and IMO sufficient reason for non Mac users to try out the Mac OS, does not make it easy -- and is it even possible? -- to create VCDs or DiVX;) disks.)
Nothing makes it easy to create correct (insert your color)-book VCD/SVCD standard mpegs. At least not what I've seen. Tsunami did make it easy, but I had quite a bit of crashes and other weird errors from going from
----timothy
I'm very glad to see that a few editors still care about what happens "in the trenches". Good luck, and happy new year
If we're talking about Tyson here, get it right.
It's PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH SMACK 1.... MUNCH 2.... MUNCH MUNCH 3.... 4..... YUM 5..... Cauliflower Ear 6.....
Well, I ask the basic question: Why cant matter go faster than light?
People answer that the mass => Infinity as Speed => C
Why? There must be something holding it back from reaching C . It cant be photons cause they go any which way. Somethings gotta be there resisting against everything, albeit very small. I look at that just like speed. You dont notice "time displacement" when driving to relatives, but you could notice it on high speed space voyages.. Perhaps this aether force is similar.
Could the aether force be even smaller than Plank distance?
And I'm gonna piss people off greatly with my statement. Linux is LESS secure than Windows.
It's true that projects can release patches in only days versus months or years for MS stuff.
It's also true that things can be more easily locked down on Linux.
And It's also true that Linux(and freebas) rarely crash with the right kernel and drivers.
However, as a hacker, a windows box is a file server. It cant do shit without a gui, and the remote desktop has to be TURNED ON. If I hack a Linux box, I can then bring in module rootkits that mask everything I want to from the "root" user. It can be a file server, gateway, attack server.. you name it. It can do it.
The worst thing a winnt server can be done to it is filling the disk up. And if you run IIS as administrator, then you might be able to access the cmd shell. Doesnt help much, as most everything is GUI. That equates at worst.. deltree c:/
Whats funny is that xWindows natively supports a clipboard that can store any type of data, as long as the requesting program can determine the type. Essentially, you can have Abiword, xEmacs, and 2 sound programs open. Then cut some text, and then cut some sound samples. Then you can paste them in to the appropiate program. Even if you do 2 cuts in a row of differenty data types, they wont overwrite each other.
Yes. This is IN XWindows. Hell if I know why every fucking gui has to recreate something that's natively in there.
How about instead of running like pussies and letting the BSA beat you in the balls, tell them to "Fuck off" if they come for 'license checks'. If they don't leave, call the cops.
It's not like you get out of anything in any situation... You pay through the nose for site license, you pay through nose for "non-compliance", or you pay "through the nose" going to court. Then again, that might stop their bullying.
Answer this poll question:
Since I began downloading audio/video from the internet, My purchaces of same have:
1. increased very much
2. increased some
3. increased very little
4. stayed the same
5. decreased very little
6. decreased some
7. decreased very much
Depends.. Do you mean buying from "Sam Goodys" or other over-expensive places? I do NOT buy from those shops. Insetad, I buy second hand cd's at 1/2 priced book stores, along with my books. I sample stuff from the net to look for in those outfits. Never the less, the record companies still hate me. I'm not the ideal customer.
However, I have bought a few anime series which I downloaded (fansubs). For one, is Aa! Megami-sama. It's a wonderful movie, and a great date one at that. Cause of the internet, my anime "consumption" has went from 0 to about 4 dvd's a year. I have over 200 cd's of avi's and mpegs, but I buy what I love.
So I wasn't hallucinating when I saw that similar "idea" in a 1998 computer mag. ;-)
Oh well. The Venture Capitalists'll never learn (well, they might)...
I thought that the .Bomb went out in 2000 or so. Why's this shit being regurgitated when I saw the same stuff in a 1998 computer magazine.
Hint: The company who had the original idea tanked.
And how do the Soviets get you out?
Doritos.