I wonder if they'll get the hint when the whole world starts using PGP. Filter *that*. They'd have to crack the encryption pretty fast to keep tabs on that much info...
But, if evey ISP has this, then they can see the connection at both ends. They can still find out who you're talking to, if not what you're saying.
Maybe if the EFF built a really really really big server in some country without a net-paranoid/ignorant government, anyone who wanted to could have an e-mail account with them.
Then, all mail sent is sent to that server, and all mail can only be traced as far as there. Even knowing the destination of your packets won't help your ISP... it's all the same place.
Can't governments go and harass some other group of people... please? Us internet users have had our share of this stuff. Move on. Find something else topical to pretend to know how to regulate fairly.
How do I download that.ASX? Has anyone figured out how to mimic a player so that they can transfer it? I do not want to have to download it again tomorrow... maybe Squid will cache it?
Could someone explain to me the motivation that modern games have for copying so much stuff to the hard drive? Whatever happened to having an *option*?! Are those el cheapo 420x max drives so slow that we can't run *anything* off them? Or are they being paid by the hard drive manufacturers?
If every game had an option to run all but the 1mb or so of stuff that actually changes off of the CD, I think they'd be able to see a lot more of those fast multiple read head drives... maybe Kenwood should bribe the developers into giving that kind of option...
Intel chips. Bah. I lost all respect for Intel when they placed an arbitrary restriction on the clock multiplier for their CPUs.
When I buy a CPU, it's like any other physical object that I purchase -- I own it.
When I own something, I should be able to do whatever I want with it, so long as I'm willing to void the warranty. It is irritating that Intel tries to control how its products are used.
All those 300As that can't run at 450 can likely do 400 or so, but you can't set them to that speed because of some silly restriction on multipliers.
The official excuse for this was the fact that people were re-marking CPUs to a higher clock speed which people then ran it at. However, if they can imbed a readable serial number into the CPU, they can certainly imbed a string describing what the chip was sold as.
I'll just stick to AMD chips. They have no such policy. I'm sure the slowest of the.18 micron K7s will overclock nicely because of the reduction in heat output from the smaller die.
Hopefully Intel is less silly with the Merced. I rather like the concept of being able to upgrade my computer by running two of last year's chips instead of needing to purchase new stuff.
What do we need all this CPU power for anyhow? Games. Rendering 3D images. Big servers running lots of scripts. What else? It would appear that Intel is running out of reasons to give people that would convince them to purchase a faster chip. I suppose that means that all commercial software will have to find a way to be even less efficient?
Grr.
Silly industry.
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I don't think that people enjoying a fun piece of fiction is going to hurt such causes. If we want to hype it a bit, it's because it happens to have little bearing on reality, which you mentioned isn't necessarily always good. So what if many people relish a break from that?
No matter what I do with my life, it is almost certain that I will not be able to change the nature of humanity. We don't really learn all that much from history. So, the point of life is obviously not to train future generations by example, since that's best done by bad example anyhow.
Thus, it's really not all that important to care much about these things. Some people have been killing each other for a long time, when we recognise those people, we try to prevent them. We can't predict them all, but we can't do much better. Not that we shouldn't try, but we shouldn't stop enjoying life because more serious problems exist. Why worry about something you cannot affect?
You raise a good point. However, good design can be and is done with text. For example, Freshmeat was likely designed with a text editor of some variety because the HTML of the pages is the output of PHP scripts. It is a nice looking, well designed page. There are others, many others. I'm not saying that text is a better way to go, that is purely a matter of personal taste. However I disagree with your suggestion that most pages designed with a text editor are particularly bad looking.
I'm sure some enterprising person who knows more than I do will remove pop-up "functionality" to make a nicer browser. I don't think I've ever seen a window pop-up with any useful content, so that's a "feature" that can be removed without adversely affecting anything.
Free speech is all well and good. I have no qualms with it as people only listen to what they want to anyhow. If I don't like what someone says I walk away, hit the back button, turn off the radio, etc. and hope others do the same.
However, invasion of privacy is an entirely different matter. My name and address are mine to control. I am the *only* person who should be legally able to publish them. Anyone else should be able to do so only if I have consented to it.
They seem to like passing laws, what about making it illegal to distribute other people's personal information? (With appropriate consideration for phone books and stuff... or maybe phone books shouldn't have white pages? Who needs to know that except people you would have given your number to anyhow?)
Why would you want it that fast? Most MP3s are 128K/s... so something around 200K/s is just fine. It's cheap (CD media is still something like $2 CDN) and you can fit around 10 hours of music on one CD. I've never understood all these hard drive and flash based things, sure they're shock resistant and stuff, but it'd be much nicer if the OSS hardware building community would settle on a standard for MP3 CDs or somesuch.
You could use less and cheaper non-static ram to buffer the songs a decent amount to make it somewhat skip tolerant... give those old 16Mb simms a home?
What are all these comments about sufficiently able *acker types being able to do things like shut down power grids, defensive systems, toasters, anything with a processor, etc?
If a device is not on a network (computer, phone, whatever), it cannot be damaged or compromised in any way unless you physically go there (or send a missile or whatever..). (Satellites may be slightly more vulnerable, since by their nature control of them is remote.)
Since any important system is not on any network that can be accessed remotely, the worst that can come of 'cyberterrorism' or whatever is a few media stunts like this.
(Ack. I dislike the prefix 'cyber'... is there a replacement? Doesn't it just exist because someone stole it from 'cybernetic' and didn't want to give it back its original meaning?)
I thought everyone here would be building theirs from parts.. it's not as it that's difficult anymore, and it allows you to know exactly what you're getting..
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I wonder if they'll get the hint when the whole world starts using PGP. Filter *that*. They'd have to crack the encryption pretty fast to keep tabs on that much info...
... it's all the same place.
... please? Us internet users have had our share of this stuff. Move on. Find something else topical to pretend to know how to regulate fairly.
But, if evey ISP has this, then they can see the connection at both ends. They can still find out who you're talking to, if not what you're saying.
Maybe if the EFF built a really really really big server in some country without a net-paranoid/ignorant government, anyone who wanted to could have an e-mail account with them.
Then, all mail sent is sent to that server, and all mail can only be traced as far as there. Even knowing the destination of your packets won't help your ISP
Can't governments go and harass some other group of people
Bah.
MPEG4 .. MPEG is an open standard .. right?
.ASX? Has anyone figured out how to mimic a player so that they can transfer it? I do not want to have to download it again tomorrow ... maybe Squid will cache it?
So how do I play it in Linux?
How do I download that
Heh, I wonder what the RIAA would think of that? ..."
"I didn't steal the music! It's just such a catchy song that I can't forget it
Problem #2: 400Mb?! Yick!
... maybe Kenwood should bribe the developers into giving that kind of option ...
Could someone explain to me the motivation that modern games have for copying so much stuff to the hard drive? Whatever happened to having an *option*?! Are those el cheapo 420x max drives so slow that we can't run *anything* off them? Or are they being paid by the hard drive manufacturers?
If every game had an option to run all but the 1mb or so of stuff that actually changes off of the CD, I think they'd be able to see a lot more of those fast multiple read head drives
Intel chips. Bah. I lost all respect for Intel when they placed an arbitrary restriction on the clock multiplier for their CPUs.
.18 micron K7s will overclock nicely because of the reduction in heat output from the smaller die.
When I buy a CPU, it's like any other physical object that I purchase -- I own it.
When I own something, I should be able to do whatever I want with it, so long as I'm willing to void the warranty. It is irritating that Intel tries to control how its products are used.
All those 300As that can't run at 450 can likely do 400 or so, but you can't set them to that speed because of some silly restriction on multipliers.
The official excuse for this was the fact that people were re-marking CPUs to a higher clock speed which people then ran it at. However, if they can imbed a readable serial number into the CPU, they can certainly imbed a string describing what the chip was sold as.
I'll just stick to AMD chips. They have no such policy. I'm sure the slowest of the
Hopefully Intel is less silly with the Merced. I rather like the concept of being able to upgrade my computer by running two of last year's chips instead of needing to purchase new stuff.
What do we need all this CPU power for anyhow? Games. Rendering 3D images. Big servers running lots of scripts. What else? It would appear that Intel is running out of reasons to give people that would convince them to purchase a faster chip. I suppose that means that all commercial software will have to find a way to be even less efficient?
Grr.
Silly industry.
I don't think that people enjoying a fun piece of fiction is going to hurt such causes. If we want to hype it a bit, it's because it happens to have little bearing on reality, which you mentioned isn't necessarily always good. So what if many people relish a break from that?
No matter what I do with my life, it is almost certain that I will not be able to change the nature of humanity. We don't really learn all that much from history. So, the point of life is obviously not to train future generations by example, since that's best done by bad example anyhow.
Thus, it's really not all that important to care much about these things. Some people have been killing each other for a long time, when we recognise those people, we try to prevent them. We can't predict them all, but we can't do much better. Not that we shouldn't try, but we shouldn't stop enjoying life because more serious problems exist. Why worry about something you cannot affect?
You raise a good point. However, good design can be and is done with text. For example, Freshmeat was likely designed with a text editor of some variety because the HTML of the pages is the output of PHP scripts. It is a nice looking, well designed page. There are others, many others. I'm not saying that text is a better way to go, that is purely a matter of personal taste. However I disagree with your suggestion that most pages designed with a text editor are particularly bad looking.
I'm sure some enterprising person who knows more than I do will remove pop-up "functionality" to make a nicer browser. I don't think I've ever seen a window pop-up with any useful content, so that's a "feature" that can be removed without adversely affecting anything.
Could someone please post some mirrors here? I'd mirror it, but the site is loaded down for some reason or another ;-)
Could someone please post some mirrors here? I'd mirror it, but the site is loaded down for some reason or another ;-)
Could someone please post some mirrors here? I'd mirror it, but the site is down for some reason or another ;-)
Free speech is all well and good. I have no qualms with it as people only listen to what they want to anyhow. If I don't like what someone says I walk away, hit the back button, turn off the radio, etc. and hope others do the same.
... or maybe phone books shouldn't have white pages? Who needs to know that except people you would have given your number to anyhow?)
However, invasion of privacy is an entirely different matter. My name and address are mine to control. I am the *only* person who should be legally able to publish them. Anyone else should be able to do so only if I have consented to it.
They seem to like passing laws, what about making it illegal to distribute other people's personal information? (With appropriate consideration for phone books and stuff
Why would you want it that fast? Most MP3s are 128K/s ... so something around 200K/s is just fine. It's cheap (CD media is still something like $2 CDN) and you can fit around 10 hours of music on one CD. I've never understood all these hard drive and flash based things, sure they're shock resistant and stuff, but it'd be much nicer if the OSS hardware building community would settle on a standard for MP3 CDs or somesuch.
... give those old 16Mb simms a home?
You could use less and cheaper non-static ram to buffer the songs a decent amount to make it somewhat skip tolerant
Would such a thing be feasable?
What are all these comments about sufficiently able *acker types being able to do things like shut down power grids, defensive systems, toasters, anything with a processor, etc?
..). (Satellites may be slightly more vulnerable, since by their nature control of them is remote.)
... is there a replacement? Doesn't it just exist because someone stole it from 'cybernetic' and didn't want to give it back its original meaning?)
If a device is not on a network (computer, phone, whatever), it cannot be damaged or compromised in any way unless you physically go there (or send a missile or whatever
Since any important system is not on any network that can be accessed remotely, the worst that can come of 'cyberterrorism' or whatever is a few media stunts like this.
(Ack. I dislike the prefix 'cyber'
I thought everyone here would be building theirs from parts .. it's not as it that's difficult anymore, and it allows you to know exactly what you're getting ..
Who here buys pre-built systems? Why!?
First computer I ever used ... A Coleco Adam ... It even had CP/M!