"I mean, why the hell should people who cost them more money have to pay more? "
Surely you mean "how dare people acutally use whatever they've paid for?" If you sell x bandwidth, that means you need to supply it, else breach of contract. Problem is, most companies have a contract which says only "we might provide the bandwidth, and we might not raise prices, but don't count on either"
No, the worrying thing is that even academics are taking their "this is how a worm works, oooh, pretty!" papers and changing them into "Panic! Panic! This is a terrorist threat to national infrastructure! Give us money to combat it now!" papers.
It's unfortunate but unsurprising that everyone is jumping on the homeland-defense bandwagon trying to get money for their pet schemes, regardless of how nutty they were previously considered.
And it's unfortunate that people with a "Are we scared now? We should be" attitude like AgentZ's are egging them on with "I'm scared, protect me, whatever it takes" type of comments.
If you've ever seen photos of the MASSIVE arrays of parked cars around somewhere like the Pentagon, or around sports events, shopping centres and the like, who needs processing farms in their office anymore? Just take the crypto-key you want to crack, and distribute a list of tasks to your employees' cars.
"I certainly do not mind the idea of my having a record of what my car was doing, but nobody else, including the cops and insurance companies, gets that record until my lawyer and I decide to release or trade it."
You're right, it is a legal quagmire waiting to develop. Will it be like a tachograph where lorry-drivers have to show records to the police when asked? Will it stop the policeman-with-an-attitude from giving speeding tickets to people he just doesn't like, or will he just find another undetectable crime to accuse you of?
Will it be any different from people with video-cameras mounted in their cars (latest LandRovers, and most UK police cars) that you can use as evidence against people? If the information is digital, will your car PGP-sign each 10-minute block of data as it records it?
And more interestingly, what happens when most cars have transponders? It means that you can detect the presence of other cars without needing laser, doppler, or radar/lidar. It can sound alerts of impending crashes, it can tell you if there's a car speeding towards you around that next blind corner, it can automatically brake if the car in front does an emergency stop.
However, it will also tell the speed cameras what speed you're doing, it'll log your name each time you drive down a toll-road (i.e. central london) and it'll cause people to trust it so much they crash into non-transmitting bikes just like you'd crash into unlit ones today.
But most of those things can already be done. The police have already done their R&D, on radar, lidar, and automatic numberplate reading. So why not develop some cool kit which'll give that kind of useful stuff to the drivers too?
Once again, the chilling effect of technology abuse is making us afraid to innovate? Perhaps. But more likely it's something to be excited about.
The internet was always supposed to be a giant distributed thing which nobody can control or take down. One router's broken, you choose another one.
Look at it today. We dial an ISP. We cope with the ISP's connection speeds. If they go down, we're cut off. If they want to monitor us, they can.
I've long wondered how long it will be before the internet becomes distributed again, where everyone's PC has a router, and network cables to their nearest 3 neighbours rather than phone lines to their ISP. Wireless distributed networking seems to be one of the ways to achieve it.
Once something like that is in-place, every PC with a wireless network card and a router, then the net capacity increases with every new PC. Who needs phone lines and cables, when you can bring a new PC home, let it find your neighbours' nodes, and integrate itself into the network just like that?
Putting the same kit in cars is strange, but seems similar. Take a citywide WiFi network, and route it from car to car to cover the highways. No problem there. Park the car at night, and it becomes just another router between the PCs on your street, using other peoples' parked cars to bounce the packets right into the nearest intercity connection.
Combine that with real distributed publishing, along the lines of freenet or of some of the newer P2P networks, and the data gets shifted around to where it's needed without cost of servers, or fear of monitoring. You'll still need servers for dynamic-content sites, but maybe we'll figure out the automated mirroring, caching, and cohosting problems to sort that out too.
Sure you don't trust big business, none of us do. So get a few network cards, get a few old motherboards and your trusty soldering iron, and start playing with it yourself! It's the hacker way!
Yeah. Your missing the advertising. People buy DVRs so they can finally watch TV again now that they can filter out adverts. And now, the DVR specially records adverts and displays them right up there in the list of recorded programs like spam in your inbox.
The only difference is, you're not allowed to delete it. I'm sure glad my video recorder is working for me, and not for someone else.
To anyone who believes "it doesn't take any extra space", where do you think the advertising-supported partition came from in the first place? Surely not out of the hard-disk space you paid for to use for you own programs? Calling it "free space" is like buying a PC pre-installed with a 10Gb Gator-ads partition that you can't get rid of.
More to the point, it's a fundamentally flawed plan.
Only one person needs to convert it to analog
So why waste everybody's money (i.e. not theirs) with stopping most people from videoing their kids wearing Mickey Mouse(C)(TM) T-shirts when it'll not even have a measurable impact on unauthorised copying.
And how the F329 is the D-A converter supposed to know what's authorised and what's not? Bear in mind the BSA's recent press-release asking for UK law to be changed here, bottom of the page to assume that copying is illegal without even having to prove it in court.
Apparently that's worked well for a long time; I believe many French planes have a false cockpit painted on the underside, while ships have bow-waves painted on, or even painted pictures of smaller ships. Although they're easier to see, they're harder to target.
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At the risk of starting an entire thread on browser stats:
- MSIE 73%
- Galeon 6%
- Mozilla 5 5%
And Mozilla3, Googlebot, Mozilla 4.x, OmniWeb and Opera each have less than one percent.
Of course, most visitors to my site come looking for Windows software, so those figures may be a little skewed in favour of windows browsers...
CSS2 is starting to have support for paged-layouts (i.e. page-breaks allowed, etc) and some browsers (notably Amaya) support MathML which lets you do equations and the like.
\paragraph{But LaTeX is better}
Still, it's not really a competitor to LaTeX, which is essentially a marked-up \emph{text file}.
It's simple to learn (Links/Downloads/Typesetting on my website if you want tutorials) and it just compiles into a PDF file that you can print or publish.
"Microsoft, a convicted monopolist, today asked the government to ban purchases of rival software"
"Microsoft, producer of the world's buggiest and most insecure software, today criticized the NSA for developing a secure operating system which the NSA gave away free for others to improve upon"
"Microsoft, having recently declared that publishing its source code would bring to light serious and fundamental security flaws that are a threat to national security, today criticized software vendors who discover and fix security holes by publishing their source code."
"Microsoft, having recently declared that its code is a threat to national security, asked the government to use even more insecure software for their critical infrastructure"
"In my Mozilla, it's on the left side of the personal toolbar"
... and you don't see any problems with having a 5th layer of `stuff` using up the space at the top of your screen, containing only:
- A home button which should be next to reload
- A duplicate bookmark menu
- Some more netscape advertising
I suppose it's the old "5% of screen space vs two clicks instead of one for your second favorite website" argument.
Ironic how the spinner still takes you to netscape, regardless of your actual home page...
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"I mean, why the hell should people who cost them more money have to pay more? "
Surely you mean "how dare people acutally use whatever they've paid for?" If you sell x bandwidth, that means you need to supply it, else breach of contract. Problem is, most companies have a contract which says only "we might provide the bandwidth, and we might not raise prices, but don't count on either"
No, the worrying thing is that even academics are taking their "this is how a worm works, oooh, pretty!" papers and changing them into "Panic! Panic! This is a terrorist threat to national infrastructure! Give us money to combat it now!" papers.
It's unfortunate but unsurprising that everyone is jumping on the homeland-defense bandwagon trying to get money for their pet schemes, regardless of how nutty they were previously considered.
And it's unfortunate that people with a "Are we scared now? We should be" attitude like AgentZ's are egging them on with "I'm scared, protect me, whatever it takes" type of comments.
illustration
Don't like it? Don't run the same operating system as 100 million other people. Monocultures get destroyed by viruses, that's natural.
If you've ever seen photos of the MASSIVE arrays of parked cars around somewhere like the Pentagon, or around sports events, shopping centres and the like, who needs processing farms in their office anymore? Just take the crypto-key you want to crack, and distribute a list of tasks to your employees' cars.
"I certainly do not mind the idea of my having a record of what my car was doing, but nobody else, including the cops and insurance companies, gets that record until my lawyer and I decide to release or trade it."
You're right, it is a legal quagmire waiting to develop. Will it be like a tachograph where lorry-drivers have to show records to the police when asked? Will it stop the policeman-with-an-attitude from giving speeding tickets to people he just doesn't like, or will he just find another undetectable crime to accuse you of?
Will it be any different from people with video-cameras mounted in their cars (latest LandRovers, and most UK police cars) that you can use as evidence against people? If the information is digital, will your car PGP-sign each 10-minute block of data as it records it?
And more interestingly, what happens when most cars have transponders? It means that you can detect the presence of other cars without needing laser, doppler, or radar/lidar. It can sound alerts of impending crashes, it can tell you if there's a car speeding towards you around that next blind corner, it can automatically brake if the car in front does an emergency stop.
However, it will also tell the speed cameras what speed you're doing, it'll log your name each time you drive down a toll-road (i.e. central london) and it'll cause people to trust it so much they crash into non-transmitting bikes just like you'd crash into unlit ones today.
But most of those things can already be done. The police have already done their R&D, on radar, lidar, and automatic numberplate reading. So why not develop some cool kit which'll give that kind of useful stuff to the drivers too?
Sounds interesting.
Once again, the chilling effect of technology abuse is making us afraid to innovate? Perhaps. But more likely it's something to be excited about.
The internet was always supposed to be a giant distributed thing which nobody can control or take down. One router's broken, you choose another one.
Look at it today. We dial an ISP. We cope with the ISP's connection speeds. If they go down, we're cut off. If they want to monitor us, they can.
I've long wondered how long it will be before the internet becomes distributed again, where everyone's PC has a router, and network cables to their nearest 3 neighbours rather than phone lines to their ISP. Wireless distributed networking seems to be one of the ways to achieve it.
Once something like that is in-place, every PC with a wireless network card and a router, then the net capacity increases with every new PC. Who needs phone lines and cables, when you can bring a new PC home, let it find your neighbours' nodes, and integrate itself into the network just like that?
Putting the same kit in cars is strange, but seems similar. Take a citywide WiFi network, and route it from car to car to cover the highways. No problem there. Park the car at night, and it becomes just another router between the PCs on your street, using other peoples' parked cars to bounce the packets right into the nearest intercity connection.
Combine that with real distributed publishing, along the lines of freenet or of some of the newer P2P networks, and the data gets shifted around to where it's needed without cost of servers, or fear of monitoring. You'll still need servers for dynamic-content sites, but maybe we'll figure out the automated mirroring, caching, and cohosting problems to sort that out too.
Sure you don't trust big business, none of us do. So get a few network cards, get a few old motherboards and your trusty soldering iron, and start playing with it yourself! It's the hacker way!
Ah, an advertising-supported troll. Very nice. Let's make this as clear as possible:
YOU PAY £25 PER MONTH FOR CABLE TV
So now explain again what we're "getting for free"?
Yeah. Your missing the advertising. People buy DVRs so they can finally watch TV again now that they can filter out adverts. And now, the DVR specially records adverts and displays them right up there in the list of recorded programs like spam in your inbox.
The only difference is, you're not allowed to delete it. I'm sure glad my video recorder is working for me, and not for someone else.
To anyone who believes "it doesn't take any extra space", where do you think the advertising-supported partition came from in the first place? Surely not out of the hard-disk space you paid for to use for you own programs? Calling it "free space" is like buying a PC pre-installed with a 10Gb Gator-ads partition that you can't get rid of.
Time for a user-programmable DVR, I think....
For example, Oregon: "There is no self-defence. If you're attacked, you take it like a man. If you fight back you go to prison. (mandatory sentance)"
Yup, we need lots of criminals.
Read the article.
More to the point, it's a fundamentally flawed plan.
Only one person needs to convert it to analog
So why waste everybody's money (i.e. not theirs) with stopping most people from videoing their kids wearing Mickey Mouse(C)(TM) T-shirts when it'll not even have a measurable impact on unauthorised copying.
And how the F329 is the D-A converter supposed to know what's authorised and what's not? Bear in mind the BSA's recent press-release asking for UK law to be changed here, bottom of the page to assume that copying is illegal without even having to prove it in court.
Well, they did invent the hyperlink, so I suppose BT are the experts on what's allowed.
Apparently that's worked well for a long time; I believe many French planes have a false cockpit painted on the underside, while ships have bow-waves painted on, or even painted pictures of smaller ships. Although they're easier to see, they're harder to target.
At the risk of starting an entire thread on browser stats:
- MSIE 73%
- Galeon 6%
- Mozilla 5 5%
And Mozilla3, Googlebot, Mozilla 4.x, OmniWeb and Opera each have less than one percent.
Of course, most visitors to my site come looking for Windows software, so those figures may be a little skewed in favour of windows browsers...
The stats themselves
"if the customer expresses annoyance at the wait, try to make friendly small talk about how crappy computers are"
With optional irony at the "we only sell things which run on Windows" PC-World store...
Simple way to address that... just start using "a convicted monopolist" to describe microsoft in everyday conversation. It'll soon catch on!
Any good books to reccommend for people converting from VB to Python / Glade / PerlTK ?
"pick .doc > pick new format > click convert"
Can you do that from the command-line? Is it easy to setup a server which does it automatically and returns the new file?
just wondering...
CSS2 is starting to have support for paged-layouts (i.e. page-breaks allowed, etc) and some browsers (notably Amaya) support MathML which lets you do equations and the like.
\paragraph{But LaTeX is better}
Still, it's not really a competitor to LaTeX, which is essentially a marked-up \emph{text file}.
It's simple to learn (Links/Downloads/Typesetting on my website if you want tutorials) and it just compiles into a PDF file that you can print or publish.
"Linux is neither a living organism nor a corporation, it cannot be hurt."
Surely that can't be true... BillG is still bitchin' about the government subsidising "his commerical competors" by developing Securelinux.
"It is theoretically nice to have a trusted someone that checks all our correspondence, etc"
What're they doing, correcting our spelling?
I guess we'll never know, as the "America's army" site features a single blank page.
Nevermind. I'll stick with Soulblighter for now. I spend more time in C12 battles than C21 ones in real-life anyway.
Or the soundbytes:
"Microsoft, a convicted monopolist, today asked the government to ban purchases of rival software"
"Microsoft, producer of the world's buggiest and most insecure software, today criticized the NSA for developing a secure operating system which the NSA gave away free for others to improve upon"
"Microsoft, having recently declared that publishing its source code would bring to light serious and fundamental security flaws that are a threat to national security, today criticized software vendors who discover and fix security holes by publishing their source code."
"Microsoft, having recently declared that its code is a threat to national security, asked the government to use even more insecure software for their critical infrastructure"
"In my Mozilla, it's on the left side of the personal toolbar"
... and you don't see any problems with having a 5th layer of `stuff` using up the space at the top of your screen, containing only:
- A home button which should be next to reload
- A duplicate bookmark menu
- Some more netscape advertising
I suppose it's the old "5% of screen space vs two clicks instead of one for your second favorite website" argument.
Ironic how the spinner still takes you to netscape, regardless of your actual home page...
Windows' passwords can include Alt-0169 for copyright symbols, and whatever.
Is there an equally simple way to do this in GNOME?
Check out Dmitry's very own Elcomsoft for one of the best password-testing resources on the web.
My password trap with checking against two common password-dictionaries.
p.s. that page doesn't officially exist, so take the dictionaries for your own site rather thank linking to it.