Getting the little stuff right between browsers takes time.
Depends what youre trying to accomplish. For example the quote above my message here took seconds and will likely work in any browser. Yes doing it preaty and neato and spiffy keen can take time. We are talking about copyright though and an object to be submitted or reviewed online should either be an image of some sort or text data of some sort. So who needs the latest and greatest garbage. Make it compliant to the lowest common denominator so that everyone can use the information. That is why they are doing this isnt it?
Silly q but would it have worked if it had a decent resoloution camera that could photograph the board for you without a flash? A few quick captures during the leacture?
Uhhh ffs if you cant stop staring at your tablemates porn surfing I think youre the one with the issue. A distraction is only as distracting as you let it be. A silent running laptop which is not directly in the 'strike zone' between your seat and the teacher shouldnt matter. If its off in your field of view somewhere ignore it.
sheesh farking cry babies...
I'l give you an amen on that, if someone wants to see shuttle info go to cnn, if you want to hear about something more technologically relevant than that 486 that runs the shuttle come here.
The thing is, the person who is spamming you is not the same person as the one who is tryint to sell you "h_erbal V1AGRA."
Some guy has some crap to sell.
Exactly. So the jerk who hired the spammer should be who we are going after.
If I tried to hire a hit man to off someone, the hitman would be the only one charged if we got caught.
If I work for IBM and I pay some kid go graffiti my Logo all over Dell's building, do you think just the advertisment distributor would be in trouble, or would we both be? FFS its time to start holding the revenue stream responsible.
A thousand monkeys, typing on a thousand typewriters will eventually type the entire works of William Shakespeare. As such most of us arent frugal with our flash memory, we take tons of pictures and as such we are occasionally going to produce an Ansel Adams quality pic. This copyright crap has got to end soon.
.com may be dead. IT people walking into a building and writing their own ticket may be too. But if you stand out in ability (not all them pretty letters on paper) and you have the skill set an employer wants they will overlook most appearance items. If your just average IT dude with a devry degree, then no you will no be accepted with the 32 bit color image tattoed over your adams apple.
Wow such anger. While I am not a hard drive engineer either I am willing to admit the conecpt has merrit and also the limitations you propose. Perhaps an idea that can be built on though. What about on dual head drives spliting the data across platters? Not quite the same as a fixed head but as long as the r/w controller could do all the low lever spanning and concationation then it may be a performance improvement.
Something like this would be interesting to toy with in optical discs, playing with an array of mirrors that were stationary over the disc you could possibly cut seek times? Who knows...
I expect that would cross the line of States Rights.
Good luck! In some places, like here in GA you have to change your D/L every time you move to a different county! What fun!
I recently had to call MS to activate Office 2003 (too many installs). It took me nearly 25 minutes to get through to the nice (english is my second language) woman I spoke with. While she was quite helpful and only asked once (why so many installs) I still felt like I had been dragged down town and put under birght lights to be interrogated.
This will be a wonderful experience for everyone, why, once we all know what criminals feel like, then none of us will be tempted will we?
I like a lot of your suggestions but how about one more. It's all good and dandy that the credit companies can get the info they want from you. Unfortuantely they are able to get (and companies like Choicepoint keep) information that contains all thats needed to apply for credit in your name and/or effectivly steal your identity. I say what we need is this (ok everyon pull off the foil hats this wont hurt a bit). We need an additional key of some type to apply for credit, lets call it the IDKEY. Something long, seraially issued like a SSN, but with a couple key differences.
1. Possesion/storage of anothers IDKEY is a felony. 5-10 year Jail sentence. 2. Once you have had this number issued to you, its your for life. Whats this # do? Confirms you are you. Nothing else, unlike SSN it would be illegal to bastardize it into a form of ID. 3. When you apply for credit you provide the traditional information to the creditor, once they have checked your credit and granted you a offer(locked in, no changing the terms and conditions after this point because they already know all the dirt about you) then you provide them with your IDKEY, they will then verify it electronically and destroy it.
What would this do? It would keep existing infrastructure in place that we are all so familiar with. Credit reporting would go on as it has independant of this. It would allow you to apply for credit and a creditor to exmaine your credit and give you the best offer possible, with no obligation on your part to accept it. However someone possesing all your credit history would be powerless to GET new credit in yoru name without the IDKEY. Since the IDKEY would be legally forbidden from being stored there would(should) be no worries of someone being able to hack a computer system and get credit in your name.
How do we keep the IDKEY secure? DNA? Sub Dermal RFID? Barcode tattoo? Who knows but I think this is a good idea.
In this article about archive.org they have an interesting counterpoint to your presumption.
"In the same vein, the robot exclusion file that some sites use to declare parts of the site out-of-bounds to normal spiders can be ignored by the Archive if they are doing a crawl on behalf of an authority such as the Library of Congress. In that case, the webmaster will receive a notification, suitable for framing, explaining that they should be suitably honored that the exclusion files are going to be ignored so that this site can be added to the Library of Congress Web Archive."
So if you exclude all crawlers and the robots file is copy protection under the DMCA does the Library of Congress have a right to circumvent your protection?
Beneficial or not those products allow non itunes purchased items to be played. Apple has its own license agreements with the record companies and probably the RIAA. If they dont defend their closerd platform its very likely that the record companies and the RIAA will lean on them by threatening those agreements...
Hate to argue with you but I cant tell you how many times when I was learning to deal with linux that someone said RTFM. Having been in the field for years I generaly RTFM, approach the problem, if I still cant master it again I RTFM again and then ask for help. Then I get met with RTFM from some meglomaniac who could easily explain the soloution and instead he says rtfm. Best example of this, sendmail, ask a question about it and you either get ignore or told to read the FAQ. If you explain you dont quit understand it then you seriously get ignored. Think its deserved? Try setting up sendmail auth for the first time.
You are right about people not giving a rats ass. But in defense of the idiots out there, part of the problem is the closed loop thats is computer knowledge and those who have it.
When you have none you share none, when you have a little you share that, when you have a good amount you start to keep it to yourself, when you have enough knowledge to say setup a linux box from source, you keep you knowledge closely guarded and dont share shit with the average user.
Why? Because like most things in life when you work hard for somethign you are loathe to just give it away to Dewy Dumbshit who just crashed his system trying to install a video driver for a Nvidia card when his is an ATI. Part of the reason people are ignorant is there is no way for them to learn from experienced users. Thats why we have HR people hiring idiots from places like DeVry and expecting them to be a real system administrator.
So We have 3 groups of users, the haves (have knowledge and know how to use it), the have nots (but may actually want it) and the care nots (folks who want to read their email and dont give a flip about malicious attacks). Everyone was a n00b at one time or another, when was the last time any of you/.'ers sat down and calmly thoroughly explained cyber security to another n00b and gave them true insight?
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Getting the little stuff right between browsers takes time.
Depends what youre trying to accomplish. For example the quote above my message here took seconds and will likely work in any browser. Yes doing it preaty and neato and spiffy keen can take time. We are talking about copyright though and an object to be submitted or reviewed online should either be an image of some sort or text data of some sort. So who needs the latest and greatest garbage. Make it compliant to the lowest common denominator so that everyone can use the information. That is why they are doing this isnt it?
Hmm and I just thought 60GHz was the frequency that passes through tinfoil...
Silly q but would it have worked if it had a decent resoloution camera that could photograph the board for you without a flash? A few quick captures during the leacture?
Uhhh ffs if you cant stop staring at your tablemates porn surfing I think youre the one with the issue. A distraction is only as distracting as you let it be. A silent running laptop which is not directly in the 'strike zone' between your seat and the teacher shouldnt matter. If its off in your field of view somewhere ignore it. sheesh farking cry babies...
I'l give you an amen on that, if someone wants to see shuttle info go to cnn, if you want to hear about something more technologically relevant than that 486 that runs the shuttle come here.
That sounds great but then why hasnt anyone else been successful at it yet? Like WalMart?
The thing is, the person who is spamming you is not the same person as the one who is tryint to sell you "h_erbal V1AGRA." Some guy has some crap to sell.
Exactly. So the jerk who hired the spammer should be who we are going after.
If I tried to hire a hit man to off someone, the hitman would be the only one charged if we got caught.
If I work for IBM and I pay some kid go graffiti my Logo all over Dell's building, do you think just the advertisment distributor would be in trouble, or would we both be? FFS its time to start holding the revenue stream responsible.
....is doing at http://twit.tv
Dink is right folks its just a research paper at this point. Igonre the patent applications on Gates desk!
A thousand monkeys, typing on a thousand typewriters will eventually type the entire works of William Shakespeare. As such most of us arent frugal with our flash memory, we take tons of pictures and as such we are occasionally going to produce an Ansel Adams quality pic. This copyright crap has got to end soon.
.com may be dead. IT people walking into a building and writing their own ticket may be too. But if you stand out in ability (not all them pretty letters on paper) and you have the skill set an employer wants they will overlook most appearance items. If your just average IT dude with a devry degree, then no you will no be accepted with the 32 bit color image tattoed over your adams apple.
They have to do something to justify their employment.
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool....
Wow such anger. While I am not a hard drive engineer either I am willing to admit the conecpt has merrit and also the limitations you propose. Perhaps an idea that can be built on though. What about on dual head drives spliting the data across platters? Not quite the same as a fixed head but as long as the r/w controller could do all the low lever spanning and concationation then it may be a performance improvement. Something like this would be interesting to toy with in optical discs, playing with an array of mirrors that were stationary over the disc you could possibly cut seek times? Who knows...
No shit, think of all the asshats in foriegn countries who have had their hands removed for theft who will now be able to get a new one!!!
I expect that would cross the line of States Rights. Good luck! In some places, like here in GA you have to change your D/L every time you move to a different county! What fun!
I recently had to call MS to activate Office 2003 (too many installs). It took me nearly 25 minutes to get through to the nice (english is my second language) woman I spoke with. While she was quite helpful and only asked once (why so many installs) I still felt like I had been dragged down town and put under birght lights to be interrogated. This will be a wonderful experience for everyone, why, once we all know what criminals feel like, then none of us will be tempted will we?
I like a lot of your suggestions but how about one more. It's all good and dandy that the credit companies can get the info they want from you. Unfortuantely they are able to get (and companies like Choicepoint keep) information that contains all thats needed to apply for credit in your name and/or effectivly steal your identity. I say what we need is this (ok everyon pull off the foil hats this wont hurt a bit). We need an additional key of some type to apply for credit, lets call it the IDKEY. Something long, seraially issued like a SSN, but with a couple key differences.
1. Possesion/storage of anothers IDKEY is a felony. 5-10 year Jail sentence.
2. Once you have had this number issued to you, its your for life. Whats this # do? Confirms you are you. Nothing else, unlike SSN it would be illegal to bastardize it into a form of ID.
3. When you apply for credit you provide the traditional information to the creditor, once they have checked your credit and granted you a offer(locked in, no changing the terms and conditions after this point because they already know all the dirt about you) then you provide them with your IDKEY, they will then verify it electronically and destroy it.
What would this do? It would keep existing infrastructure in place that we are all so familiar with. Credit reporting would go on as it has independant of this. It would allow you to apply for credit and a creditor to exmaine your credit and give you the best offer possible, with no obligation on your part to accept it. However someone possesing all your credit history would be powerless to GET new credit in yoru name without the IDKEY. Since the IDKEY would be legally forbidden from being stored there would(should) be no worries of someone being able to hack a computer system and get credit in your name.
How do we keep the IDKEY secure? DNA? Sub Dermal RFID? Barcode tattoo? Who knows but I think this is a good idea.
"In the same vein, the robot exclusion file that some sites use to declare parts of the site out-of-bounds to normal spiders can be ignored by the Archive if they are doing a crawl on behalf of an authority such as the Library of Congress. In that case, the webmaster will receive a notification, suitable for framing, explaining that they should be suitably honored that the exclusion files are going to be ignored so that this site can be added to the Library of Congress Web Archive."
So if you exclude all crawlers and the robots file is copy protection under the DMCA does the Library of Congress have a right to circumvent your protection?
IANAL but that would be a cool fight to see.
I doubt AOL forgot to include a noncompete agreement during the purchase of NullSoft.
Quite a few things!
Rampant government spending.
Illegal campaign contributions.
Corrupt goverment officials.
The totally hosed up patent system.
Beneficial or not those products allow non itunes purchased items to be played. Apple has its own license agreements with the record companies and probably the RIAA. If they dont defend their closerd platform its very likely that the record companies and the RIAA will lean on them by threatening those agreements...
Hate to argue with you but I cant tell you how many times when I was learning to deal with linux that someone said RTFM. Having been in the field for years I generaly RTFM, approach the problem, if I still cant master it again I RTFM again and then ask for help. Then I get met with RTFM from some meglomaniac who could easily explain the soloution and instead he says rtfm. Best example of this, sendmail, ask a question about it and you either get ignore or told to read the FAQ. If you explain you dont quit understand it then you seriously get ignored. Think its deserved? Try setting up sendmail auth for the first time.
You are right about people not giving a rats ass. But in defense of the idiots out there, part of the problem is the closed loop thats is computer knowledge and those who have it.
/.'ers sat down and calmly thoroughly explained cyber security to another n00b and gave them true insight?
When you have none you share none, when you have a little you share that, when you have a good amount you start to keep it to yourself, when you have enough knowledge to say setup a linux box from source, you keep you knowledge closely guarded and dont share shit with the average user.
Why? Because like most things in life when you work hard for somethign you are loathe to just give it away to Dewy Dumbshit who just crashed his system trying to install a video driver for a Nvidia card when his is an ATI. Part of the reason people are ignorant is there is no way for them to learn from experienced users. Thats why we have HR people hiring idiots from places like DeVry and expecting them to be a real system administrator.
So We have 3 groups of users, the haves (have knowledge and know how to use it), the have nots (but may actually want it) and the care nots (folks who want to read their email and dont give a flip about malicious attacks). Everyone was a n00b at one time or another, when was the last time any of you