When they implemented the firewall, it blocked all incoming connections. They later relaxed it so port 80 was unblocked for HTTP - all other ports and applications were still blocked. Has this changed?
The CIO page claims currently that TCP/IP other than port 80 (HTTP) and port 113 (identd) are blocked, though others can be opened under "special circumstances." I've not gotten a chance to see if SSH and IRC on a regularly maintained Gentoo box are legitimate circumstances, though I suspect not (and they do explicitly state that games are not a legitimate reason =P). I can also see why they wouldn't want such things as FTP (there's only so much bandwidth that can go around after all...)
UDP however, is supposedly (mostly) unfiltered, barring a few that for all intents and purposes SHOULD be blocked (e.g. NetBIOS).
Yeah... Me and a friend were going about and debating how best to get a hold of a SAMBA server for Stars! games, so I ended up doing a little research... Go figure. Needless to say, we've got a partial solution that ended up with us discovering an old XT as a side-effect. You never know what you're going to find, but we decided that you know you're at RPI when you see students walking around with computers that are older than they are.
The OSCE was actually invited by the State Department (unlike the attempted invitation of the United Nations by Democrats in the House) and has observed elections in the US before, such as during the 2002 mid-terms and the California gubernatorial race. Indeed, the former Bush, in 1990, signed the Copenhagen Document which stated that signers (such as the US) may "invite observers from any other [OSCE] participating States... to observe the course of their national election proceedings."
I don't mean to flame you necessarily, but it has always been my opinion that anyone taking so aggressive a stance has clearly missed something, and needs to be hit in the face with an opposing viewpoint.
Doesn't sound to me like you're much better on the aggression issue. Think before you speak.
I had unfortunately not actually gotten a response the time I attempted to send an e-mail on these questions other than that you had been too busy to consider them, but perhaps you will have a chance to answer them now.
I am rather well read and acquainted with politics, unlike many people my age, and I strongly side with Libertarian ideology. However, as a soon-to-be younger member of the voting block, and planning on continuing education in the field of computer science, I hold certain issues in higher regards perhaps than most of the rest of the public, some of which you do not seem to discuss at length on your website.
In particular, I am curious as to your position on the state of intellectual property (IP) law in the United States. While owners of copyright certainly deserve to earn money from their creations for a limited time (as stated in the Constitution) Of late, we have seen much action by the holders of intellectual property to try to restrict the rights of consumers.
In particular, we have seen owners
- continually extend copyright terms to prevent anything from falling into the public domain, essentially attempting to hold copyrights lasting "forever minus a day" in order to avoid perpetual copyrights not expressly allowed in the constitution (e.g. The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, and the supreme court case Eldred v. Ashcroft) - restrict the rights of users to time and space-shift their media by establishing draconic copy protection systems (that are easily removed, save for threats under their pet legislation, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, see http://www.anti-dmca.org/) - try to generally restrict innovation in computer technology by allowing method and algorithm patents that last for 20 years (e.g. the LZW compression patent), rendering them worthless when they can finally be used.
As president, what would you do regarding IP law? Would you support the Eric Eldred Act (http://www.eldred.cc/) which would require minimal payments to maintain copyright past 50 years and create a central repository of held copyrights? Would you support limiting the ever-growing "rights" of corporations to hold copyrights and patents for these extended periods of time (by only allowing individuals and not corporations to hold copyrights and patents?)?
While I understand that as a libertarian, you are probably for a somewhat more lassez faire economy in terms of the rights of corporations to do more, and be restricted by the government less, but I believe that IP law is a critical flash point between traditional libertarian ideals of business without restrictions and people retaining their rights, so I would like to see which way you would lean on the issue of IP law.
Regardless of your opinion on the issue, I wish you the best of luck in your campaign for the nomination of the Libertarian Party.
I was constantly watching the Venezuelan affair for personal reasons, and you must understand that the Carter Center and the OAS merely endorsed the initial count, and did not actually stay around to certify the actual paper count which was to take place later that Monday (the IHT article alludes to this). Furthermore, the opposition had not been allowed to be present at the official receipt counting, making it somewhat suspicious as well.
Lastly, the most suspicious activity was the refusal of the electoral council's refusal to allow any exit polls as well as refusing to do ANY on-the-spot monitored recounts even in select precincts (that would have double-checked that the machines were indeed recording the correct votes)
Here are some recent news articles claiming fraud, including a short English summary of a claim filed on possible fraud by El Universal.
More (admittedly anti-Chavez) links include Venezuela News and Views and vcrisis.com. Judge, based on this, and the news you can read elsewhere and make up your own mind.
I've heard both sides say both opinions, that he did meet his requirements honorably and that he did not. But without seeing the records and requirements first-hand, how the hell are we supposed to believe either side's "analysis"?
As far as I'm concerned, both sides smell of rot on this issue, until I can decide for myself instead of having the decision made for me by the media.
The other thing to note is that any changes to copyright law are NOT going to be applied retroactively.
I find that odd, as they certainly passed the extensions retroactively. I always thought that the way to go about fixing (parts of) the copyright problem was to attack the 1976 and Bono laws as ex post facto laws, which are expressly forbidden by the Constitution.
I was referring to the cultural difference between the original visionary inventors and the anything-for-profit mentality of many Japanese firms.
Which more or less defines Nintendo under Hiroshi Yamauchi.
On the other hand, while the systems themselves are not necessarily of extremely historical value, there are (of course) certain games from those systems that DO justify their historical value. For example: The original Zelda (arguably) pioneered (and in many ways remains) a completely different type of adventure game. Some games have come close, but no games (until recently) seriously compared with the graphical based "slasher" adventure of Zelda. Likewise with Metroid, which might be considered the first third-person "shooter" game. Not to mention Tetris, which pretty much single-handedly revived the idea of puzzle games. I don't mean to necessarily justify Nintendo as the be-all-and-end-all of video game history... Merely that they do have some claim to fame, if only thanks primarily to Miyamoto's early days, and one Alexei Pajitnov. (On the other hand, while I am familiar with the more popular arcade and Atari games, I probably would not doubt that there are a few that fit the bill replacing the innovation of these few...)
Perhaps the only Nintendo system to outright deserve historical fame (if perhaps begrudgingly) might be the NES, if only for the fact that it revived the otherwise dying American video game industry (That doesn't mean Super Mario Brothers is at all historically innovative, except perhaps in passing). I do agree however, that the SNES was probably less innovative than might otherwise be expected. The NES and the games that it brought to the table were arguably more innovative (if not necessarily more polished and refined) then Nintendo's more recent offerings.
Feel free to disagree with my post, however, as I'm quite open to a discussion...
Yes yes, we know the 75gxp drives were defective. But I've known about 60gxp drives dying too (And I've had one happen to me. Not a pleasant sight.) Yet noone seems to care about that. What's MY recourse?
I'm just going to drop another link regarding serious play of Pokemon... There are a few Japanese sites out there that I'm not going to get into, but one of the more serious American sites would be Pokemon Forever (other than Azure Heights), if you haven't seen it.
On a more personal note, I am a little bit more of one of the "younger" old fans (17 here, picked it up right as it hit the states, and right after my brother got a Game Boy for the first time. I picked up much of the Japanese games (including the Gold and Silver a good while before they came out here). And while I have not nearly spent as much time on it of late, I must admit that it still is a good game. I've always said that Pokemon the GAME isn't bad. It's Pokemon the commercialization that is.
MPAA advocates adoption of the ATSC flag system and characterizes it as an effective and unobtrusive content protection mechanism that will serve as a "speed bump" to ensure that DTV broadcast content is not indiscriminately redistributed. MPAA stresses that an ATSC flag system would only limit redistribution of content and not prevent consumer copying. (III.A.14)
We do not believe, however, that individual acts of circumvention necessarily undermine the value or integrity of an entire content protection system. The DVD example has been instructive in this regard. Although the CSS copy protection system for DVDs has been "hacked"... DVDs remain a viable distribution system for content owners. The CSS content protection system serves as an adequate "speed bump" for most consumers... (III.A.20)
So not only do they admit that CSS cracking wasn't all that terrible for them... But they imply that CSS is meant only to prevent unauthorized distribution, and not copying? Then how come they've gone after every DVD copying software they can, and gone after DeCSS?
Eh, it was hidden, but I meant for the interpretation to be that IE is too easy for such crooks, social deviants, malcontents, and crackers to abuse for their own gain.
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When they implemented the firewall, it blocked all incoming connections. They later relaxed it so port 80 was unblocked for HTTP - all other ports and applications were still blocked. Has this changed?
The CIO page claims currently that TCP/IP other than port 80 (HTTP) and port 113 (identd) are blocked, though others can be opened under "special circumstances." I've not gotten a chance to see if SSH and IRC on a regularly maintained Gentoo box are legitimate circumstances, though I suspect not (and they do explicitly state that games are not a legitimate reason =P). I can also see why they wouldn't want such things as FTP (there's only so much bandwidth that can go around after all...)
UDP however, is supposedly (mostly) unfiltered, barring a few that for all intents and purposes SHOULD be blocked (e.g. NetBIOS).
Yeah... Me and a friend were going about and debating how best to get a hold of a SAMBA server for Stars! games, so I ended up doing a little research... Go figure. Needless to say, we've got a partial solution that ended up with us discovering an old XT as a side-effect. You never know what you're going to find, but we decided that you know you're at RPI when you see students walking around with computers that are older than they are.
It's now 25 MB, I think.
Actually, they recently bumped it to 250MB from what I read on the CIO site (the bump was for students only though)
As in the Columbia Spectator...
... to observe the course of their national election proceedings."
The OSCE was actually invited by the State Department (unlike the attempted invitation of the United Nations by Democrats in the House) and has observed elections in the US before, such as during the 2002 mid-terms and the California gubernatorial race. Indeed, the former Bush, in 1990, signed the Copenhagen Document which stated that signers (such as the US) may "invite observers from any other [OSCE] participating States
I don't mean to flame you necessarily, but it has always been my opinion that anyone taking so aggressive a stance has clearly missed something, and needs to be hit in the face with an opposing viewpoint.
Doesn't sound to me like you're much better on the aggression issue. Think before you speak.
Don't make me take out the poking stick!
Actually, Radium is 200 times as radiotoxic as Plutonium, and much less deadly than Botulin toxin
Another important question I believe is:
Would you support the Eldred Act? (http://www.eldred.cc/)
I had unfortunately not actually gotten a response the time I attempted to send an e-mail on these questions other than that you had been too busy to consider them, but perhaps you will have a chance to answer them now.
I am rather well read and acquainted with politics, unlike many people my age, and I strongly side with Libertarian ideology. However, as a soon-to-be younger member of the voting block, and planning on continuing education in the field of computer science, I hold certain issues in higher regards perhaps than most of the rest of the public, some of which you do not seem to discuss at length on your website.
In particular, I am curious as to your position on the state of intellectual property (IP) law in the United States. While owners of copyright certainly deserve to earn money from their creations for a limited time (as stated in the Constitution) Of late, we have seen much action by the holders of intellectual property to try to restrict the rights of consumers.
In particular, we have seen owners
- continually extend copyright terms to prevent anything from falling into the public domain, essentially attempting to hold copyrights lasting "forever minus a day" in order to avoid perpetual copyrights not expressly allowed in the constitution (e.g. The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, and the supreme court case Eldred v. Ashcroft)
- restrict the rights of users to time and space-shift their media by establishing draconic copy protection systems (that are easily removed, save for threats under their pet legislation, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, see http://www.anti-dmca.org/)
- try to generally restrict innovation in computer technology by allowing method and algorithm patents that last for 20 years (e.g. the LZW compression patent), rendering them worthless when they can finally be used.
As president, what would you do regarding IP law? Would you support the Eric Eldred Act (http://www.eldred.cc/) which would require minimal payments to maintain copyright past 50 years and create a central repository of held copyrights? Would you support limiting the ever-growing "rights" of corporations to hold copyrights and patents for these extended periods of time (by only allowing individuals and not corporations to hold copyrights and patents?)?
While I understand that as a libertarian, you are probably for a somewhat more lassez faire economy in terms of the rights of corporations to do more, and be restricted by the government less, but I believe that IP law is a critical flash point between traditional libertarian ideals of business without restrictions and people retaining their rights, so I would like to see which way you would lean on the issue of IP law.
Regardless of your opinion on the issue, I wish you the best of luck in your campaign for the nomination of the Libertarian Party.
I was constantly watching the Venezuelan affair for personal reasons, and you must understand that the Carter Center and the OAS merely endorsed the initial count, and did not actually stay around to certify the actual paper count which was to take place later that Monday (the IHT article alludes to this). Furthermore, the opposition had not been allowed to be present at the official receipt counting, making it somewhat suspicious as well.
Lastly, the most suspicious activity was the refusal of the electoral council's refusal to allow any exit polls as well as refusing to do ANY on-the-spot monitored recounts even in select precincts (that would have double-checked that the machines were indeed recording the correct votes)
Here are some recent news articles claiming fraud, including a short English summary of a claim filed on possible fraud by El Universal.
More (admittedly anti-Chavez) links include Venezuela News and Views and vcrisis.com. Judge, based on this, and the news you can read elsewhere and make up your own mind.
I've heard both sides say both opinions, that he did meet his requirements honorably and that he did not. But without seeing the records and requirements first-hand, how the hell are we supposed to believe either side's "analysis"?
As far as I'm concerned, both sides smell of rot on this issue, until I can decide for myself instead of having the decision made for me by the media.
During the hiatus, the Daleks did a little-known movie called "Mr. Dalek Goes to Washington."
Here is a still from the movie.
"Expatiate!"
The other thing to note is that any changes to copyright law are NOT going to be applied retroactively.
I find that odd, as they certainly passed the extensions retroactively. I always thought that the way to go about fixing (parts of) the copyright problem was to attack the 1976 and Bono laws as ex post facto laws, which are expressly forbidden by the Constitution.
Their stock is down 10%... Though admittedly part of that is due to widened losses...
Seems to me it was Soyuz 21?
Which more or less defines Nintendo under Hiroshi Yamauchi.
On the other hand, while the systems themselves are not necessarily of extremely historical value, there are (of course) certain games from those systems that DO justify their historical value. For example: The original Zelda (arguably) pioneered (and in many ways remains) a completely different type of adventure game. Some games have come close, but no games (until recently) seriously compared with the graphical based "slasher" adventure of Zelda. Likewise with Metroid, which might be considered the first third-person "shooter" game. Not to mention Tetris, which pretty much single-handedly revived the idea of puzzle games. I don't mean to necessarily justify Nintendo as the be-all-and-end-all of video game history... Merely that they do have some claim to fame, if only thanks primarily to Miyamoto's early days, and one Alexei Pajitnov. (On the other hand, while I am familiar with the more popular arcade and Atari games, I probably would not doubt that there are a few that fit the bill replacing the innovation of these few...)
Perhaps the only Nintendo system to outright deserve historical fame (if perhaps begrudgingly) might be the NES, if only for the fact that it revived the otherwise dying American video game industry (That doesn't mean Super Mario Brothers is at all historically innovative, except perhaps in passing). I do agree however, that the SNES was probably less innovative than might otherwise be expected. The NES and the games that it brought to the table were arguably more innovative (if not necessarily more polished and refined) then Nintendo's more recent offerings.
Feel free to disagree with my post, however, as I'm quite open to a discussion...
Yes yes, we know the 75gxp drives were defective. But I've known about 60gxp drives dying too (And I've had one happen to me. Not a pleasant sight.) Yet noone seems to care about that. What's MY recourse?
AT LAST! The secret to beating Solitaire... This could perhaps be the most significant event of our times!
From the screenshots... The GameCube only runs 484.96 BogoMIPS? Sounds pretty reasonable considering the speed of the chip...
If Apple is so pro-open source, when are they going to add Ogg Vorbis to the iPod?
So Apple decided to use the same binaries for Panther on G5 than G4?
Actually, it's 2% of their workforce.
I'm just going to drop another link regarding serious play of Pokemon... There are a few Japanese sites out there that I'm not going to get into, but one of the more serious American sites would be Pokemon Forever (other than Azure Heights), if you haven't seen it.
On a more personal note, I am a little bit more of one of the "younger" old fans (17 here, picked it up right as it hit the states, and right after my brother got a Game Boy for the first time. I picked up much of the Japanese games (including the Gold and Silver a good while before they came out here). And while I have not nearly spent as much time on it of late, I must admit that it still is a good game. I've always said that Pokemon the GAME isn't bad. It's Pokemon the commercialization that is.
In the past few weeks, that the amount of "spim" on AIM has practically gone from 0 to 5 or 6 a day? Or did they only just find my AIM name?
From the PDF:
MPAA advocates adoption of the ATSC flag system and characterizes it as an effective and unobtrusive content protection mechanism that will serve as a "speed bump" to ensure that DTV broadcast content is not indiscriminately redistributed. MPAA stresses that an ATSC flag system would only limit redistribution of content and not prevent consumer copying. (III.A.14)
We do not believe, however, that individual acts of circumvention necessarily undermine the value or integrity of an entire content protection system. The DVD example has been instructive in this regard. Although the CSS copy protection system for DVDs has been "hacked"... DVDs remain a viable distribution system for content owners. The CSS content protection system serves as an adequate "speed bump" for most consumers... (III.A.20)
So not only do they admit that CSS cracking wasn't all that terrible for them... But they imply that CSS is meant only to prevent unauthorized distribution, and not copying? Then how come they've gone after every DVD copying software they can, and gone after DeCSS?
Eh, it was hidden, but I meant for the interpretation to be that IE is too easy for such crooks, social deviants, malcontents, and crackers to abuse for their own gain.