...if there are any movements underway to end this bullshit? There are always loads of stories on slashdot about patents gone awry, but I never hear of any groups working to destroy the current setup.
Oh, and I highly encourage any/. readers w/ enough of a spine to run a Freenet note to check out the commentary by 'Caveat Lector.' It's quite the good read, and brings up plenty of fabulous points which the/. crowd neglected to bring into considaration.
Anyways, Personally I said screw the/. crowd, it's a bandwaggon site. One person said "Oh freenet bad!" the rest just assume, and dont look at the facts.
Keep up the good work.
Makes you wonder who is really fighting for the future of privacy, freedom, and the Internet as a whole.
...when the NSA is having companies bid for a given project, how do they think companies are offering rediculously low prices compared to others?
This has been a trend for a long time, and not just in the IT industry, so one would expect the NSA to apply the same logic to purchases such as this too.
Of course they are. But it`s not like they posted this home address and cell phone number for lawyers to reach him. It`s hosted at HostWay, some lil 5$/yr shit hosting company, and the domain obviously has fake reg info:
Administrative Contact:
of, Day (35473296P) sotaa@wongfaye.com
11 Albert Rd
AMITYVILLE, NY 11701
US
(631) 842-5471
Writing viruses is also illegal...the key is not getting caught.
``An early warning network for the technology industry, operating with Homeland Security, notified companies that it received "credible information" about the planned attacks and already has detected surveillance probes by hackers looking for weaknesses in corporate and government networks.``
Oh, I must have forgot that hacker kiddies only use XScan when preparing to participate in little overblown competitions! And hot damn am I glad that all these bad ass hackers will quit scaning once this competition is over, because I feel vulnerable now.
Does anyone not remember that GUI stands for Graphical User Interface? Not Graphical unless your blind in which case everyone that makes products must make a suitable alternative that deviates from the pure meaning User Interface...I realize this may be politically incorrect, but you don`t see cars telling blind people ``TURN NOW!`` - Get real.
regardless if you know where it came from or not, the high end spammers don't relay from the same host/domain they are harvesting from, that would be stupid, you guys talk about throw away domains to harvest them, but they have tons of throw away domains to harvest you.
Posted by: the cult leader at June 21, 2003 03:13 PM
Re:Please be respectful on this topic
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Working with ADHD?
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This non-stimulant based drug you speak of is called Straterra and is produced by Eli Lilly.
My doctor suggested it to me for focus issues and it make me feel like a corporate drone...must...work. I hated it decided coffee in high doses was a much better solution for avoiding my work.
This is by and far one of the best examples of online education I have heard of.
Part of my financial aid package includes Federal Work Study, which landed my a (quite fun) job in my schools Virtual Learning Center. My school actually takes a very different approach to distance education, and I get to play with all the nifty gadgets:D
Using a collaboration platform called Centra, three robotic video cameras, and pressure sensative chalk boards (amongst other things), we are able to have students sitting in front of their computers attending a "traditional" style classroom. Each student has their own camera and microphone, and must have a line capable of supporting such transfer rates.
The prof is in a regular classroom, with no students, and writes on the chalkboard if need be, shows powerpoint slides...does anything and everything you would expect a normal professor to do. Any pressure detected on the chalkboard is drawn on the distance learners screen, and erased with a special eraser. The projectors all have video out ports which is also relayed to the students at home.
The best part comes with student interaction. One of my tasks was to build a series of LED displays, each one displaying the name of a student currently attending the class through their room. If they have a question, the remote student clicks a button on their computer causing the LED display to invert itself, and the prof calls on them as if they were actually in the class. When a remote student is "granted" speaking privileges (via an operator that sits in the classroom) one of two plasma displays shows a video stream of them to the professor, which is also relayed to other online students. A traditional projector screen, located in the front of the classroom, also drops down incase their are students physically located in the classroom; thus allowing both online and "traditional" methods simultaneously.
There are all kinds of other fun toys we have, such as the ability to have two remote students discuss a point, which causes both of the plasma displays or both of the projector screens to drop down. It's really a trip to see everything happening.
However, if things wern't setup so that teachers DIDN'T have to change, I can't imagine it being anywhere near as effective. Infact, if I'm sick and can't go to a class, I just tune in from my dorm.
It's a new deminsion in learning...a weird one at that. Despite the fact that I only get paid 8$/hr, and turn around to fork out 36k/yr for my school, I ever have a damn good time working there!
Thanks for clearing this up for me! So the drug companies cut Canada a deal because...they feel bad for them and don't think they should foot the cost of research? I was confused for a minute, but now I understand why drugs are cheaper there.
Theres plenty of lowlifes who would love to make money off of other people's financial turmoil and personal downfall. It's stupid to believe there isn't someone out there looking to profit, reguardless of the cost incured on humanity or society.
Are you serious? So people are supposed to use the network only for homework, research, and the likes? Let's say a student wants to actually use their brain in the IT realm (no, googleing your homework isn't a mind boggeling task) and grab a copy of a linux distro, learn some php, and build an rss database. That's not entertainment, that is a very useful, legitamite use of resources.
...from the article: Onchip 512 KB L2 Cache Altivec (TM) Vector/SIMD unit 6,4 GB/s I/O system bus throughput
I'm not sure about this. IBM is stating that this chip is targeted towards their PPC eServers. I'm not going to get my hopes up that this will be the next gen chip for the Mac.
Am I the only person that's noticed all you have to do is slap ?partner=GOOGLE on the end of a NewYork Times URL and it won't force you to register? Point in case for this article:
If you look at how it works, there is no other way to pull this off besides using a browser plugin. Of course, this could be integrated into the browser, but that hasn't happened yet.
If your being sarcastic with the distro comment: You may note that the article says nothing of getting the latest distros, but making redundant mirrors on a P2P network of sites that get overloaded or/.'d.
The other thing is I don't understand how they can prevent people from using this for illegal files. Anyone can enable their website to support this type of downloading and there is no central moderation. People were screaming "READ THE ARTICLE" at one guy who posed the question of illegal files, but as you can see, it's really quite simple to slap that JavaScript code on any page reguardless of if it has an OSI-approved license. OCN isn't meant for divx or warez, but it wouldn't be hard to make it that way; I see no way of preventing this.
[sarcasm]Oh, and by "gay" you mean this plug-in is happy? Because using that as a derogatory term really makes your case stronger with another dumb reply.[/sarcasm]
But they are never going to sell lots of digital media until something like this comes into play. Its too risky. One file slips out and bamo - no one is paying for it anymore.
Please tell me you realize that not everyone will pirate it? Some people still believe in the value of intellectual property.
Slashdot Mirror
...if there are any movements underway to end this bullshit? There are always loads of stories on slashdot about patents gone awry, but I never hear of any groups working to destroy the current setup.
Suggestions?
...codecs take this into consideration when they do the first-run analysis of the video stream?
;-)
You'd think Microsoft was sitting on the MPAA Anti-piracy Board -- movie activation anyone?
my answer is yes.
the company's website
Hmm...looks like SiteFinder is already one of the most visited sites on the Internet!
2,268th most visit site on the web according to Alexa -- gotta love CPM advertising.
Oh, and I highly encourage any /. readers w/ enough of a spine to run a Freenet note to check out the commentary by 'Caveat Lector.' It's quite the good read, and brings up plenty of fabulous points which the /. crowd neglected to bring into considaration.
Makes you wonder who is really fighting for the future of privacy, freedom, and the Internet as a whole.
Well hey, maybe some people really are gullable enough to confuse BuyMusic.com's blatent theft of Apple-style commercials.
;D
Oops, guess not!
...when the NSA is having companies bid for a given project, how do they think companies are offering rediculously low prices compared to others?
This has been a trend for a long time, and not just in the IT industry, so one would expect the NSA to apply the same logic to purchases such as this too.
Writing viruses is also illegal...the key is not getting caught.
Oh, I must have forgot that hacker kiddies only use XScan when preparing to participate in little overblown competitions! And hot damn am I glad that all these bad ass hackers will quit scaning once this competition is over, because I feel vulnerable now.
Wahahah...homeland security...it`s an oxymoron!
I`m filing a law suit against Picasso`s dissendents because I`m blind and I can`t enjoy his artwork...could someone make me an audio version?
Graphical User Interface.
Does anyone not remember that GUI stands for Graphical User Interface? Not Graphical unless your blind in which case everyone that makes products must make a suitable alternative that deviates from the pure meaning User Interface...I realize this may be politically incorrect, but you don`t see cars telling blind people ``TURN NOW!`` - Get real.
...why is this news? Nobody ever thought they were using secured, well-administered machines in the first place for all their UCE needs.
This non-stimulant based drug you speak of is called Straterra and is produced by Eli Lilly.
My doctor suggested it to me for focus issues and it make me feel like a corporate drone...must...work. I hated it decided coffee in high doses was a much better solution for avoiding my work.
This is by and far one of the best examples of online education I have heard of. Part of my financial aid package includes Federal Work Study, which landed my a (quite fun) job in my schools Virtual Learning Center. My school actually takes a very different approach to distance education, and I get to play with all the nifty gadgets :D
Using a collaboration platform called Centra, three robotic video cameras, and pressure sensative chalk boards (amongst other things), we are able to have students sitting in front of their computers attending a "traditional" style classroom. Each student has their own camera and microphone, and must have a line capable of supporting such transfer rates.
The prof is in a regular classroom, with no students, and writes on the chalkboard if need be, shows powerpoint slides...does anything and everything you would expect a normal professor to do. Any pressure detected on the chalkboard is drawn on the distance learners screen, and erased with a special eraser. The projectors all have video out ports which is also relayed to the students at home.
The best part comes with student interaction. One of my tasks was to build a series of LED displays, each one displaying the name of a student currently attending the class through their room. If they have a question, the remote student clicks a button on their computer causing the LED display to invert itself, and the prof calls on them as if they were actually in the class. When a remote student is "granted" speaking privileges (via an operator that sits in the classroom) one of two plasma displays shows a video stream of them to the professor, which is also relayed to other online students. A traditional projector screen, located in the front of the classroom, also drops down incase their are students physically located in the classroom; thus allowing both online and "traditional" methods simultaneously.
There are all kinds of other fun toys we have, such as the ability to have two remote students discuss a point, which causes both of the plasma displays or both of the projector screens to drop down. It's really a trip to see everything happening.
However, if things wern't setup so that teachers DIDN'T have to change, I can't imagine it being anywhere near as effective. Infact, if I'm sick and can't go to a class, I just tune in from my dorm.
It's a new deminsion in learning...a weird one at that. Despite the fact that I only get paid 8$/hr, and turn around to fork out 36k/yr for my school, I ever have a damn good time working there!
Thanks for clearing this up for me! So the drug companies cut Canada a deal because...they feel bad for them and don't think they should foot the cost of research? I was confused for a minute, but now I understand why drugs are cheaper there.
Get real.
Theres plenty of lowlifes who would love to make money off of other people's financial turmoil and personal downfall. It's stupid to believe there isn't someone out there looking to profit, reguardless of the cost incured on humanity or society.
Ralsky?
368 KB/s 379 KB/s 380 KB/s hmm...i think the slashdot effect is loosing it's power! so sad ;)
Are you serious? So people are supposed to use the network only for homework, research, and the likes? Let's say a student wants to actually use their brain in the IT realm (no, googleing your homework isn't a mind boggeling task) and grab a copy of a linux distro, learn some php, and build an rss database. That's not entertainment, that is a very useful, legitamite use of resources.
Your perception of things is quite interesting.
...from the article:
Onchip 512 KB L2 Cache
Altivec (TM) Vector/SIMD unit
6,4 GB/s I/O system bus throughput
I'm not sure about this. IBM is stating that this chip is targeted towards their PPC eServers. I'm not going to get my hopes up that this will be the next gen chip for the Mac.
Am I the only person that's noticed all you have to do is slap ?partner=GOOGLE on the end of a NewYork Times URL and it won't force you to register? Point in case for this article:
8 TRAF.html?...&partner=GOOGLE
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/18/science/space/1
If you look at how it works, there is no other way to pull this off besides using a browser plugin. Of course, this could be integrated into the browser, but that hasn't happened yet.
/.'d.
If your being sarcastic with the distro comment: You may note that the article says nothing of getting the latest distros, but making redundant mirrors on a P2P network of sites that get overloaded or
The other thing is I don't understand how they can prevent people from using this for illegal files. Anyone can enable their website to support this type of downloading and there is no central moderation. People were screaming "READ THE ARTICLE" at one guy who posed the question of illegal files, but as you can see, it's really quite simple to slap that JavaScript code on any page reguardless of if it has an OSI-approved license. OCN isn't meant for divx or warez, but it wouldn't be hard to make it that way; I see no way of preventing this.
[sarcasm]Oh, and by "gay" you mean this plug-in is happy? Because using that as a derogatory term really makes your case stronger with another dumb reply.[/sarcasm]
Please tell me you realize that not everyone will pirate it? Some people still believe in the value of intellectual property.