Well, that's some nice work we're seeing from Capitol Hill. But what can the average citizen do without relying on a trustworthy congressman? I think that it is possible for average citizens to have some kind of influence. Supply and demand might drive this. I'm surprised some smart rich guy hasn't put a bounty on the head of Senator Hollings yet. Of course, the rest is up to us...
I remember a comical article from/. a while back about the FBI not wanting to hire geeks because so many geeks aren't physically fit. However, that was not the focus of the actual linked story. That basically said that the FBI wants hackers, but their ethical screening keeps them from hiring people who think like hackers. That only eliminates 100% of the candidates! If you know how to gain unauthorized access to a secure network, the FBI wants you, but they won't be able to hire you!
Well, the technology is not quite advanced enough to simulate the lawsuits. I mean, we'd have to wait for the OptiWARE CD's that hold a terabyte before we could fit all the books and precedents into a realistic scenario
That's interesting, but would that be why OS X 10.2 still doesn't play nice with SMB servers? You'd think they could at least get WINS addresses via DHCP...of course that may be reading into the M$ thing a little too much
That greatly resembles something much older called the ViruStat system, which was basically just a water purifier at the time, which was used to kill 99.9999% of waterborne bacteria to make it safe for drinking and medical purposes and such. That used mainly iodine and electrical charges, and probably some patented method of carbon scrubbing whith purifies the water through some grand lengthy process.
That's not news. What is even cooler is that some less-mainstream chemists and health professionals modified these techniques using certain ions of silver, gold, and vanadium to make some disinfectant agents that are not only cheap and easy to make, but are probably far more effective than older conventional disinfectants. Although aqueous silver and similar products are becoming more popular these days and are being taken more seriously by more respected health professionals, there's still a big 'voodoo' like following, so you'd be likely to find a bunch of snake oil ads if you were to try to find this stuff on the Internet. My best bet if any one is interested is to look for WaterOz or Grise, I'm not even sure now, but ionic solutions of certain transition metals in water are proven to disinfect and are safe to drink, so they make good panaceas in many cases. As it is with any such new products and techniques, buyer beware.
...the '5 word' definition seems a bit simlpistic...
I completely agree with that. I only used that standard as an example to show how much easier it is to noticed plagiarized words than it is to notice doctored images. I saw the MIT dude, and I saw Radix, and had I not been told that MIT copied Radix, I never would have had a clue. Then again, my eye for art is not very discerning. In other words, Radix would not want me on the jury:p
I was told in primary school that an undocumented idea taken from someone else or a previously published document is plagiarism if and only if no less than five words are used consecutively. For example, if you were to quote this comment in your own work and take credit for it, you could legally say previously published document is, but you would have to use quotes and references, i.e. "previously published document is plagiarism" (G0SP0DAR, slashdot.org, 20020901) for you to use my reference without plagiarising (okay, this is just an example, please don't Google me to it!).
At any rate, words can be counted with discrete numbers. How does one evaluate how much of an image is original and how much, and to what extent, is an actual image 'plagiarized'? I would say that before the age of computers, the discernment of such things would be a lost cause. But there are ways to compare layers of images, in terms of pixels, lines, colors, etc. to determine how things match up, sort of like the way biometric security programs measure fingerprints, retinal scans, and the like, to compare how good a match something is. In short, there would have to be a standard by which something could not be 'too good' a match for it to be original. What that standard would be, in terms of percent correspondence in different aspects, would have to be determined by "experts in the field." After that, leave me out of it!
I've heard about fuel cells powering the 21st Century about as long as I've heard that I should have gotten a flying car for my birthday last year. First things first. Fuel cells have a lot of potential, but why waste all that extra energy on an Intel-powered notebook? Seriously, why don't the leading developers of fuel cells team up with Transmeta to make an invincible laptop that would blow Dell and Compaq-HP out of the water? That would mark one giant leap for the little guys, who greatly deserve a boost in success right about now.
". . . PKZIP won't work to compress a PCM audio file, but it works perfectly on AC-3 files and can reach lossless data compression rates of up to 6:1.
. .."
Sounds like a good deal to me.
At this point, where everyone with a computer and a CD burner are considered potential thieves, I don't think it changes the light in which anti-piracy advocates view computer users. It couldn't possibly get any worse!
Not using debugging tools is only stupid when done on someone else's time. Dehumanization may not be an issue for them. This won't even matter when computers can program themselves. However, letting the computer do everything else for you is no way to impress your friends. It's called taking unnecessary risks. If you have nothing to lose, then why the hell not? If you want the same shock value as code proofed with Valgrind, try impressing a 1337 group of web designers using MS Frontpage. Never going to happen. And sometimes, doing things the hard way is the only good way to get things done.
This may be a practical tool in some respects, but I would not have so much respect for someone who depended on that to have any working code. As the old saying goes, "real programmers read core dumps."
This happened to Yahoo! in France with auctions of Third Reich memorabilia, and Yahoo! severely censored itself to a far greater extent to prevent further controversy in France. How could it come as a surprise that the ChiCom's would follow suit?
I wonder what then would happen if you did that to a MS Office 97 CD. I heard there was something that could make one of those unreadible after three installs. I wonder if that CD cyanide pill could be accentuated in a bath of microwave energy.
Slashdot Mirror
with lots of cool pictures of artistically modified Macintosh portables.
http://member.nifty.ne.jp/cristal/apple.html
Well, that's some nice work we're seeing from Capitol Hill. But what can the average citizen do without relying on a trustworthy congressman? I think that it is possible for average citizens to have some kind of influence. Supply and demand might drive this. I'm surprised some smart rich guy hasn't put a bounty on the head of Senator Hollings yet. Of course, the rest is up to us...
I remember a comical article from /. a while back about the FBI not wanting to hire geeks because so many geeks aren't physically fit. However, that was not the focus of the actual linked story. That basically said that the FBI wants hackers, but their ethical screening keeps them from hiring people who think like hackers. That only eliminates 100% of the candidates! If you know how to gain unauthorized access to a secure network, the FBI wants you, but they won't be able to hire you!
Well, the technology is not quite advanced enough to simulate the lawsuits. I mean, we'd have to wait for the OptiWARE CD's that hold a terabyte before we could fit all the books and precedents into a realistic scenario
All right! Now AOL users can find out 50 times quicker how much their ISP sucks!
Sweet! Wasn't Elevator Action also on that platform? Oh, well, it's too bad they don't still have those in stores.
At least these should still work:
http://www.zophar.net/unix/atari2600.html
I don't know exactly who invented manifold connectors, but it was probably someone who got tired of using his fingers as conductors.
Touch, but don't look! That'll be interesting to see how they plan to enforce their policy on anyone who may have downloaded it.
That's interesting, but would that be why OS X 10.2 still doesn't play nice with SMB servers? You'd think they could at least get WINS addresses via DHCP...of course that may be reading into the M$ thing a little too much
That greatly resembles something much older called the ViruStat system, which was basically just a water purifier at the time, which was used to kill 99.9999% of waterborne bacteria to make it safe for drinking and medical purposes and such. That used mainly iodine and electrical charges, and probably some patented method of carbon scrubbing whith purifies the water through some grand lengthy process.
That's not news. What is even cooler is that some less-mainstream chemists and health professionals modified these techniques using certain ions of silver, gold, and vanadium to make some disinfectant agents that are not only cheap and easy to make, but are probably far more effective than older conventional disinfectants. Although aqueous silver and similar products are becoming more popular these days and are being taken more seriously by more respected health professionals, there's still a big 'voodoo' like following, so you'd be likely to find a bunch of snake oil ads if you were to try to find this stuff on the Internet. My best bet if any one is interested is to look for WaterOz or Grise, I'm not even sure now, but ionic solutions of certain transition metals in water are proven to disinfect and are safe to drink, so they make good panaceas in many cases. As it is with any such new products and techniques, buyer beware.
Isn't that what Intel said caused Pentium 4's to underperform? Must have been.
...the '5 word' definition seems a bit simlpistic...
:p
I completely agree with that. I only used that standard as an example to show how much easier it is to noticed plagiarized words than it is to notice doctored images. I saw the MIT dude, and I saw Radix, and had I not been told that MIT copied Radix, I never would have had a clue. Then again, my eye for art is not very discerning. In other words, Radix would not want me on the jury
I was told in primary school that an undocumented idea taken from someone else or a previously published document is plagiarism if and only if no less than five words are used consecutively. For example, if you were to quote this comment in your own work and take credit for it, you could legally say previously published document is, but you would have to use quotes and references, i.e. "previously published document is plagiarism" (G0SP0DAR, slashdot.org, 20020901) for you to use my reference without plagiarising (okay, this is just an example, please don't Google me to it!).
At any rate, words can be counted with discrete numbers. How does one evaluate how much of an image is original and how much, and to what extent, is an actual image 'plagiarized'? I would say that before the age of computers, the discernment of such things would be a lost cause. But there are ways to compare layers of images, in terms of pixels, lines, colors, etc. to determine how things match up, sort of like the way biometric security programs measure fingerprints, retinal scans, and the like, to compare how good a match something is. In short, there would have to be a standard by which something could not be 'too good' a match for it to be original. What that standard would be, in terms of percent correspondence in different aspects, would have to be determined by "experts in the field." After that, leave me out of it!
I've heard about fuel cells powering the 21st Century about as long as I've heard that I should have gotten a flying car for my birthday last year. First things first. Fuel cells have a lot of potential, but why waste all that extra energy on an Intel-powered notebook? Seriously, why don't the leading developers of fuel cells team up with Transmeta to make an invincible laptop that would blow Dell and Compaq-HP out of the water? That would mark one giant leap for the little guys, who greatly deserve a boost in success right about now.
...evolution always cheats, though no doubt there are numerous experiments where that doesn't happen and no one think it's special...
That's because evolution knows no rules. Therefore, evolution does not cheat. It's sole task is to follow the path of least resistance.
Does that unclude a carte blanche to exempt all of my extremely boring required programming classes in school?
". . . PKZIP won't work to compress a PCM audio file, but it works perfectly on AC-3 files and can reach lossless data compression rates of up to 6:1. . . ."
Sounds like a good deal to me.
At this point, where everyone with a computer and a CD burner are considered potential thieves, I don't think it changes the light in which anti-piracy advocates view computer users. It couldn't possibly get any worse!
Will Michael Jackson's nose ever look right again?
Not using debugging tools is only stupid when done on someone else's time. Dehumanization may not be an issue for them. This won't even matter when computers can program themselves. However, letting the computer do everything else for you is no way to impress your friends. It's called taking unnecessary risks. If you have nothing to lose, then why the hell not? If you want the same shock value as code proofed with Valgrind, try impressing a 1337 group of web designers using MS Frontpage. Never going to happen. And sometimes, doing things the hard way is the only good way to get things done.
This may be a practical tool in some respects, but I would not have so much respect for someone who depended on that to have any working code. As the old saying goes, "real programmers read core dumps."
This happened to Yahoo! in France with auctions of Third Reich memorabilia, and Yahoo! severely censored itself to a far greater extent to prevent further controversy in France. How could it come as a surprise that the ChiCom's would follow suit?
I can believe that. I think the self-destruct after three installs was just an urban legend, but I sure was paranoid at the time.
I guess that means that Ogg Tarkin hardware is only 10 years away now!
I wonder what then would happen if you did that to a MS Office 97 CD. I heard there was something that could make one of those unreadible after three installs. I wonder if that CD cyanide pill could be accentuated in a bath of microwave energy.