Just watch out for QT 6 updates. For whatever stupid reason, a dialog will come up asking for your serial number. (Lifelong Apple fanatic, but this one still boggles me). The update will pause until you kill the process. It's called QT6Register or something.
Yes you can, and many people do file John Doe lawsuits. If the suit goes forward, then a subpoena can be issued to determine the identity of the John or Jane Doe named in the suit. Of course, this does provide a bit of a Catch-22. How do you fight a subpoena to reveal your identity if you don't know that it's your identity that's going to be revealed?
And how do you fight it while remaining anonymous?
Almost, but not quite. While most country-code domains are generally tied to a certain point in 3-dimensional space (the country),.co.uk localizes all the way to the 4th dimension, that being the time when the space that is now Ukraine was under.COmmunist (.commie pun not intended) rule.
Say I run some legitimate site that a lot of people like, but which, for whatever reason, also has a few enemies. Now, I host my site with some provider who has a gigantic pipe and the servers to match. The site is financially sound with the current crowd.
One of these "enemies" decides to go and attack me with a little client he built for himself. This program essentially keeps the bandwidth load on my server at around 90%. The server and network can still keep up with this and the legitimate load, but because i'm paying for, say, an extra 80% (thinking 10 megabit connection) of my load (10% is legit), it's costing me so much in bandwidth costs I have to drop the site.
Now, if they've taken me out because I can't pony up the bw costs, how is that not DoS. It is also a "increased operating cost" attack, but soon enough he's shut down the site for the people who were using it and enjoying it. Denying them Service.
Isn't the whole point of this scheme to raise operating costs so far that they have to take these sites down? Isn't that what I just described above? Put yourself in those shoes. Is it not a DoS to you? And what do you mean "CHANCE of EVENTUALLY" causing them to be removed from the internet? That's the whole point, to deliberately remove those sites from operation.
No, you don't remember correctly. Games are organized via XBL, but the actual in-game data is hosted "peer-to-peer" (i quote that because it's not strictly p2p. One xbox is in host mode and the others talk to it).
Have you ever noticed, playing on XBL, every once in a while you'll get a blue screen (i tend to die during these, so fitting) with a message that says "Connecting to Session", then "Setting Up Game"? This is when the host box drops out (or perhaps is voted to quit hosting because of lag) and all the boxes get together, decide on a new host, and sync up game data.
There's no reason XBL couldn't act like a firewall broker (ie. ultrapeer mode), but trust me, XBL does not host the Halo 2 games.
Let's take a look at that: Keyboard, mouse. A keyboard is a keyboard. If you want to use a one-button mouse, fine. If you want to use a two button mouse, that will work natively as well. Even a scroll-wheel will work out of the box, with no drivers.
Menu bars. Nope, Macs have menus, too. In fact, as I write this on IE (at work) 50% of the menus are the same ones that are there on my PowerBook at home (File, Edit, Help). Outlook has the same similarity. And Microsoft Office, I'm sure, has even bigger similarities.
Windows. Macs have these too. ('nuff said)
Quick launch and task bar. In the same spot on a Mac.
System tray. Also on a Mac, but in the menu bar instead.
Folders, files, extensions, icons. Yep, also there.
So... I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "re-learn everything about the GUI metaphor."
I agree; however, it looks like the Progressive one only takes into account going faster than 75mph. The fastest freeways in MN are 70, so I don't think that's unreasonable. The device won't be able to call you for speeding down a residential road, for instance.
The UK device does appear to have much more severe big-brother implications, but Progressive's is quite reasonable. It would be even more so if the actual data never left the device, only the fact that i went over 75mph.03% of the time, and spent 2 hours driving between 12am and 4am.
Just to clarify, all the authors can go and place the work under another license, and stop distributing the GPL-licensed package. However, once I have a copy of the GPL package, nothing outside of a GPL violation can stop me from distributing it.
Be sure that users you restrict to certain commands and arguments (ie, bob gets passwd with sudo, but only for users != root, superadmin, etc) can not also run 'su'.
Doing
sudo su
will dump you into a root shell bypassing sudo command restrictions, and also bypassing sudo logging (though it will still log that you executed su)
I'm not sure that it's a complete ripoff, but there are certainly similarities. This wouldn't be a first for Lindows/Linspire (it seems they're behind PhoneGaim), either. See LPhoto (iPhoto) and LSongs (iTunes) for enlightenment. I won't complain: they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
As far as Voicemail in iChat, I post this from the Tiger developer preview, and I don't see anything related to voicemail yet. It could, of course, come later.
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Interface builder on Mac OS X makes GUI programs painless. Hello World with zero lines of code. You could even have a button that displays hello world with zero loc.
First of all, I can see you de-sensing their receiver (but 2m isn't all that close, 6m is only ~40mhz away), but how/why would a broadcast-band radio be tuned to amateur frequencies?
Second, 1kw rf amps consume no small amount of power. You want to drive around with one in your car?
There was an article a long while back on slashdot about Apple refusing to pay a French tax on music storage in the iPods. Never heard anything more about how it turned out...
There's a sourceforge project (too lazy to link) called ohphoneX or something like that that will do H.323 with NetMeeting fine, and you can even use your FireWire webcam with it (ie iSight).
That's not what I'm complaining about. I'm saying that entities in the US are using the UN to do an end-run around the constitution. I'm very much for internationalization and think very lowly of G.W. Bush's ignorance of it. I think this, however, is the US using the UN to circumvent its own constitution.
This is how copyright holders are shoving the First Ammendment up our collective asses. Many of the articles in this treaty are patently unconstitutional. However, international treaty is held to supersede the constitution, thus conveniently bypassing any constitutional protections in place.
I'm sure New York public service would disagree with you. Hundreds of hams congregated on the New York city area to provide professional communications while nothing else was available. Just because a ham has a ticket doesn't make him professional, but many of us train with local, state, and federal disaster agencies. Many hams with are able to provide power long term or indefinitely when there is no other available source.
You're right, trained professionals can do anything we can with our equipment, but, without hams, who is going to pay for the training? How are you going to amass a group as large and trained as the pool of emergency-ready amateur radio operators?
BPL will not just destroy amateur spectrum, it will destroy most all HF spectrum, from on top of the AM radio bands to 80mhz. Emergency communicators, hams or not, will not be able to get through it, either.
I agree. If the wireless spectrum were purely commercial, perhaps such a economics-based solution would work. But, who will steward public service spectrum? Who will ensure that potentially-sensitive devices (such as TVs and Telephones) remain reasonable interference-free? Further, what if my small wireless internet company suddenly starts getting interfered upon by some giant such as Microsoft? Can I really go to a court and get a restraining order, or will Microsoft stall and delay for 3 years, meanwhile my wireless spectrum is useless and my company goes broke because no one can use the service?
Another thought to consider:
Certain parts of the spectrum have no propagation outside of ground-wave and line of sight. Thus, it is a huge waste to purchase 1mhz of spectrum at 900Mhz and have it be unavailable to the rest of the country. Someone in each city could purchase the same bit of spectrum, without any likely bit of interference. But, who decides what the legal separation must be, and what to do if said separation is violated?
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Just watch out for QT 6 updates. For whatever stupid reason, a dialog will come up asking for your serial number. (Lifelong Apple fanatic, but this one still boggles me). The update will pause until you kill the process. It's called QT6Register or something.
I was really hoping it'd have PCI so I can drop in a TV tuner or two, and make it my set top PVR box.
Newspapers aren't trying to sue the smitherines out of Craigslist.
Ukraine?
.co.uk localizes all the way to the 4th dimension, that being the time when the space that is now Ukraine was under .COmmunist (.commie pun not intended) rule.
Almost, but not quite. While most country-code domains are generally tied to a certain point in 3-dimensional space (the country),
Tell me now...
Say I run some legitimate site that a lot of people like, but which, for whatever reason, also has a few enemies. Now, I host my site with some provider who has a gigantic pipe and the servers to match. The site is financially sound with the current crowd.
One of these "enemies" decides to go and attack me with a little client he built for himself. This program essentially keeps the bandwidth load on my server at around 90%. The server and network can still keep up with this and the legitimate load, but because i'm paying for, say, an extra 80% (thinking 10 megabit connection) of my load (10% is legit), it's costing me so much in bandwidth costs I have to drop the site.
Now, if they've taken me out because I can't pony up the bw costs, how is that not DoS. It is also a "increased operating cost" attack, but soon enough he's shut down the site for the people who were using it and enjoying it. Denying them Service.
Isn't the whole point of this scheme to raise operating costs so far that they have to take these sites down? Isn't that what I just described above? Put yourself in those shoes. Is it not a DoS to you? And what do you mean "CHANCE of EVENTUALLY" causing them to be removed from the internet? That's the whole point, to deliberately remove those sites from operation.
No, you don't remember correctly. Games are organized via XBL, but the actual in-game data is hosted "peer-to-peer" (i quote that because it's not strictly p2p. One xbox is in host mode and the others talk to it).
Have you ever noticed, playing on XBL, every once in a while you'll get a blue screen (i tend to die during these, so fitting) with a message that says "Connecting to Session", then "Setting Up Game"? This is when the host box drops out (or perhaps is voted to quit hosting because of lag) and all the boxes get together, decide on a new host, and sync up game data.
There's no reason XBL couldn't act like a firewall broker (ie. ultrapeer mode), but trust me, XBL does not host the Halo 2 games.
Have to relearn _Everything_?
Let's take a look at that:
Keyboard, mouse. A keyboard is a keyboard. If you want to use a one-button mouse, fine. If you want to use a two button mouse, that will work natively as well. Even a scroll-wheel will work out of the box, with no drivers.
Menu bars. Nope, Macs have menus, too. In fact, as I write this on IE (at work) 50% of the menus are the same ones that are there on my PowerBook at home (File, Edit, Help). Outlook has the same similarity. And Microsoft Office, I'm sure, has even bigger similarities.
Windows. Macs have these too. ('nuff said)
Quick launch and task bar. In the same spot on a Mac.
System tray. Also on a Mac, but in the menu bar instead.
Folders, files, extensions, icons. Yep, also there.
So... I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "re-learn everything about the GUI metaphor."
I agree; however, it looks like the Progressive one only takes into account going faster than 75mph. The fastest freeways in MN are 70, so I don't think that's unreasonable. The device won't be able to call you for speeding down a residential road, for instance.
.03% of the time, and spent 2 hours driving between 12am and 4am.
The UK device does appear to have much more severe big-brother implications, but Progressive's is quite reasonable. It would be even more so if the actual data never left the device, only the fact that i went over 75mph
Just to clarify, all the authors can go and place the work under another license, and stop distributing the GPL-licensed package. However, once I have a copy of the GPL package, nothing outside of a GPL violation can stop me from distributing it.
I wonder if a Segway could get by on one wheel...
It has been done. (This from the same guy who built a regular two-wheel scooter, too)
Doing will dump you into a root shell bypassing sudo command restrictions, and also bypassing sudo logging (though it will still log that you executed su)
I'm not sure that it's a complete ripoff, but there are certainly similarities. This wouldn't be a first for Lindows/Linspire (it seems they're behind PhoneGaim), either. See LPhoto (iPhoto) and LSongs (iTunes) for enlightenment. I won't complain: they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
As far as Voicemail in iChat, I post this from the Tiger developer preview, and I don't see anything related to voicemail yet. It could, of course, come later.
Interface builder on Mac OS X makes GUI programs painless. Hello World with zero lines of code. You could even have a button that displays hello world with zero loc.
Two things...
First of all, I can see you de-sensing their receiver (but 2m isn't all that close, 6m is only ~40mhz away), but how/why would a broadcast-band radio be tuned to amateur frequencies?
Second, 1kw rf amps consume no small amount of power. You want to drive around with one in your car?
You know, with touch-screen voting, that's not as +1, Funny as it was intended to be.
Out of curiosity, in what manner does the keyboard work with the cellphone. IE, what exactly does it do?
I don't have a link, but I believe it's AGP 8x
How is it copyright infringement? Unless apple copied/stole the code from Konfabulator, it's perfectly legal.
There was an article a long while back on slashdot about Apple refusing to pay a French tax on music storage in the iPods. Never heard anything more about how it turned out...
There's a sourceforge project (too lazy to link) called ohphoneX or something like that that will do H.323 with NetMeeting fine, and you can even use your FireWire webcam with it (ie iSight).
That's not what I'm complaining about. I'm saying that entities in the US are using the UN to do an end-run around the constitution. I'm very much for internationalization and think very lowly of G.W. Bush's ignorance of it. I think this, however, is the US using the UN to circumvent its own constitution.
This is how copyright holders are shoving the First Ammendment up our collective asses. Many of the articles in this treaty are patently unconstitutional. However, international treaty is held to supersede the constitution, thus conveniently bypassing any constitutional protections in place.
I'm sure New York public service would disagree with you. Hundreds of hams congregated on the New York city area to provide professional communications while nothing else was available. Just because a ham has a ticket doesn't make him professional, but many of us train with local, state, and federal disaster agencies. Many hams with are able to provide power long term or indefinitely when there is no other available source.
You're right, trained professionals can do anything we can with our equipment, but, without hams, who is going to pay for the training? How are you going to amass a group as large and trained as the pool of emergency-ready amateur radio operators?
BPL will not just destroy amateur spectrum, it will destroy most all HF spectrum, from on top of the AM radio bands to 80mhz. Emergency communicators, hams or not, will not be able to get through it, either.
I agree. If the wireless spectrum were purely commercial, perhaps such a economics-based solution would work. But, who will steward public service spectrum? Who will ensure that potentially-sensitive devices (such as TVs and Telephones) remain reasonable interference-free? Further, what if my small wireless internet company suddenly starts getting interfered upon by some giant such as Microsoft? Can I really go to a court and get a restraining order, or will Microsoft stall and delay for 3 years, meanwhile my wireless spectrum is useless and my company goes broke because no one can use the service? Another thought to consider: Certain parts of the spectrum have no propagation outside of ground-wave and line of sight. Thus, it is a huge waste to purchase 1mhz of spectrum at 900Mhz and have it be unavailable to the rest of the country. Someone in each city could purchase the same bit of spectrum, without any likely bit of interference. But, who decides what the legal separation must be, and what to do if said separation is violated?