Grandparrent post is a reference to the filming of "Plan 9 From Outer Space". Bela Lugosi, the star, died before they started shooting the movie. So Ed Wood (the famously bad director) used a bit of old footage of Lugosi, and filmed the rest of the movie using his wife's chiropractor as a double. The chirpractor looked nothing like Lugosi, so Wood had him cover his face with a cape. The entire effect is pretty ridiculous.
Some reflection would indicate that 'somestuff' in the URL http://your.mac.com:3689/somestuff/file.mp3 is not meant to be taken literally! I did not spell it out precisely because I don't condone the stealing of music.
Briefly: To just piggyback on iTunes: Use tcpdump to watch for URLs of the form http://the.ip.address:3689/databases/32/233.mp3?se ssion_id=17934 Then use that URL with the web browser or download client of your choice to steal music.
To write your own client: First you login with http://the.ip.address:3689/login You parse the result for the session ID number Then you do some logging in stuff Then you ask for the contents of the iTunes database with http://the.ip.addrses:3689/databases/##/items The n you download (or stream) files to your heart's content.
Except that if you first point your browser to http://[computername]:3689/databases/33/items (along with some other stuff I won't specify), you get a listing of all the songs on the iTunes share, including information needed to build that URL.
It's much easier than that to copy songs from an iTunes library.
For obvious reasons I won't spell it out, but when you've done it right, a simple URL like http://your.mac.com:3689/somestuff/file.mp3 is all it takes. You just type it in your web browser and you've downloaded the file. Then you do it again, and again, and you've downloaded someone's entire music collection.
The fact is, Apple has built in a trivially easy-to-exploit mp3 downloading feature into their flagship music application. It was a stupid, stupid blunder.
Tom Walley, chairman of Warner Bros. Records, said he expected to make the company's entire catalog available on the service, and that any delay would be due more to problems in working out the technology than to business issues.
The article does say that this is the first time that different Office versions will have different capabilities of the same program. Previously, the more expensive versions just got you more programs, like Outlook, Access, etc.
I wonder if Slashdot could automatically post not just the Google cache of a site it links to, but also the Google News cluster based on the story it's about to post? Or does that require wormholes?
Does anyone know whether the HP receiver requires Windows software? Or does it just need an SMB share?
It lists Windows as a system requirement, but doesn't specify whether it *really* needs Windows or not. I think the device looks really neat, but I don't have Windows, and am not about to go buy it just for this.
Reading the swill on 'WhatReallyHappened.com' does not constitute intelligent skepticism.
The fact that the anthrax letters were sent to the media and to left-wing Democrats in the U.S. Government is suggestive of a right-wing anti-Government, anti-media loon, not a pro-Israel conspiracy.
Deciding that every Palestinian that is killed is the fault of Israel, *and* that every Israeli or American that is killed is the result of Israeli trickery is pretty foolish.
By the same logic, you should accuse the Palestinians for every civilian death in the occupied territories, since after all, the P.A. and Hamas stand to gain politically from the tragedy.
This will be my sole reply, unless you take my points seriously.
Because (legally, anyway) Echelon can't be used to intercept purely domestic conversations. And the evidence suggests that the anthrax killer is an American, not an international terrorist.
Also, the anthrax killer is probably just one guy, working alone. He probably isn't making cell phone calls to his network of financiers and associates.
You're probably thinking of something like this. The idea is not a 3D desktop per se, but using the incredibly powerful 3D graphics processors to do some of the work of drawing and/or compositing the graphics.
I'm hoping that with the release of 10.2.4 Server, apple will post the source to their mod_rendezvous_apple Apache module on the Darwin Server page. Nothing there yet, but keep an eye on it... it'd be nice to be able to tweak that module as we see fit. (Especially since Eric Seidel's mod_rendezvous code is still not on Sourceforge)
I agree with the need for the free market to do the price raising -- if the appropriate cost structures were built in.
One could begin by building the cost of the imminent $40-$200 billion war in Iraq into gasoline prices, with taxes or fees. Likewise the enormous future cost of dealing with the consequences of global warming.
Otherwise the pricing is not accurate, and Adam Smith and neoclassical economists would hate that.
However that may be, outlawing them seems to be going a bit too far. A determined terrorist doesn't need a kit to build a bomb or even a crude missile.
I believe the government agrees with you. As you no doubt know from reading the article, no one has banned model rockets.
Rather, the government is implementing more stringent guidelines on the shipping of hazardous material. Some shipping companies might elect to simply refuse to ship rocket motors, rather than ensure that their employees have undergone the safety training and background checks required to handle explosive materials.
In other words, people who play with model rockets might have to use expensive special shipping, or go pick up the rocket themselves.
Slashdot Mirror
Grandparrent post is a reference to the filming of "Plan 9 From Outer Space". Bela Lugosi, the star, died before they started shooting the movie. So Ed Wood (the famously bad director) used a bit of old footage of Lugosi, and filmed the rest of the movie using his wife's chiropractor as a double. The chirpractor looked nothing like Lugosi, so Wood had him cover his face with a cape. The entire effect is pretty ridiculous.
Some reflection would indicate that 'somestuff' in the URL
is not meant to be taken literally! I did not spell it out precisely because I don't condone the stealing of music.
e ssion_id=17934
e n you download (or stream) files to your heart's content.
http://your.mac.com:3689/somestuff/file.mp3
However, if you want to learn more, go to these two places:
pudge's journal
DAAP reverse-engineering project
A DAAP Wiki (collaborative webpage)
Briefly:
To just piggyback on iTunes:
Use tcpdump to watch for URLs of the form http://the.ip.address:3689/databases/32/233.mp3?s
Then use that URL with the web browser or download client of your choice to steal music.
To write your own client:
First you login with http://the.ip.address:3689/login
You parse the result for the session ID number
Then you do some logging in stuff
Then you ask for the contents of the iTunes database with http://the.ip.addrses:3689/databases/##/items
Th
Except that if you first point your browser to http://[computername]:3689/databases/33/items (along with some other stuff I won't specify), you get a listing of all the songs on the iTunes share, including information needed to build that URL.
It's much easier than that to copy songs from an iTunes library.
For obvious reasons I won't spell it out, but when you've done it right, a simple URL like http://your.mac.com:3689/somestuff/file.mp3 is all it takes. You just type it in your web browser and you've downloaded the file. Then you do it again, and again, and you've downloaded someone's entire music collection.
The fact is, Apple has built in a trivially easy-to-exploit mp3 downloading feature into their flagship music application. It was a stupid, stupid blunder.
Video games are always being marketed to boys, but this takes that gender-preference a little far, don't you think?
More songs are coming.
Check out this quote from NYTimes article:
hoping you're kidding? We all agree that this guy sounds like a loser.
Gransparent poster mentions Opera because the Opera team have also been indigant whiners, just like Hubert Figuière.
The article does say that this is the first time that different Office versions will have different capabilities of the same program. Previously, the more expensive versions just got you more programs, like Outlook, Access, etc.
Or the whole Google News cluster, featuring this very Slashdot story on top...
I wonder if Slashdot could automatically post not just the Google cache of a site it links to, but also the Google News cluster based on the story it's about to post? Or does that require wormholes?
They have work to do. They don't waste their time reading Slashdot like the rest of us losers.
Dangerously off-topic here and it may sound silly coming from me, but ease up on the acronyms dude - what the hell does IANAACT mean?
I Am Not An Apple Contract Thug?
Does anyone know whether the HP receiver requires Windows software? Or does it just need an SMB share?
It lists Windows as a system requirement, but doesn't specify whether it *really* needs Windows or not. I think the device looks really neat, but I don't have Windows, and am not about to go buy it just for this.
Since this is a dupe from last week, I had already downloaded the TIFF of the North America image, and converted it to a 1600x1200 JPEG.
You can grab it here.
Reading the swill on 'WhatReallyHappened.com' does not constitute intelligent skepticism.
The fact that the anthrax letters were sent to the media and to left-wing Democrats in the U.S. Government is suggestive of a right-wing anti-Government, anti-media loon, not a pro-Israel conspiracy.
Deciding that every Palestinian that is killed is the fault of Israel, *and* that every Israeli or American that is killed is the result of Israeli trickery is pretty foolish.
By the same logic, you should accuse the Palestinians for every civilian death in the occupied territories, since after all, the P.A. and Hamas stand to gain politically from the tragedy.
This will be my sole reply, unless you take my points seriously.
mithras
Because (legally, anyway) Echelon can't be used to intercept purely domestic conversations. And the evidence suggests that the anthrax killer is an American, not an international terrorist.
Also, the anthrax killer is probably just one guy, working alone. He probably isn't making cell phone calls to his network of financiers and associates.
You're probably thinking of something like this.
The idea is not a 3D desktop per se, but using the incredibly powerful 3D graphics processors to do some of the work of drawing and/or compositing the graphics.
I'm hoping that with the release of 10.2.4 Server, apple will post the source to their mod_rendezvous_apple Apache module on the Darwin Server page.
Nothing there yet, but keep an eye on it... it'd be nice to be able to tweak that module as we see fit.
(Especially since Eric Seidel's mod_rendezvous code is still not on Sourceforge)
I agree with the need for the free market to do the price raising -- if the appropriate cost structures were built in.
One could begin by building the cost of the imminent $40-$200 billion war in Iraq into gasoline prices, with taxes or fees. Likewise the enormous future cost of dealing with the consequences of global warming.
Otherwise the pricing is not accurate, and Adam Smith and neoclassical economists would hate that.
You can buy this PowerPC on a card.
Combine it with Mac-On-Linux, and you can run OS X Jaguar on your PC.
Or so I imagine - I certainly haven't tried it.
Having a single process open a file to write, and multiple processes open that same file to read, is obviously not a problem.
The problem is multiple processes opening a file for write.
I believe the government agrees with you. As you no doubt know from reading the article, no one has banned model rockets.
Rather, the government is implementing more stringent guidelines on the shipping of hazardous material. Some shipping companies might elect to simply refuse to ship rocket motors, rather than ensure that their employees have undergone the safety training and background checks required to handle explosive materials.
In other words, people who play with model rockets might have to use expensive special shipping, or go pick up the rocket themselves.
Really?
Take your meds, Arnór Heiðar Sigurðsson. You're not making sense.