I would attribute any real decrease in piracy to the fact that many Free software projects "matured" very recently. I walked into a meeting for the NDP riding executive in my area and heard half the room raving about how amazing OpenOffice.org is, and these people are not geeks. The other day AbiWord was raved about in Toronto Computes, a paper that usually focuses on proprietary software (and gives only a nod to Apple).
Microsoft has just started letting people use Office at home if their employer owns a copy. Free software is ready for business, and MS knows it.
And flip-flops. Bring flip-flops, or your feet will regret it.
"When I take a shower, I always wear-flip flops. The Dougler!"
In terms of paper vs PDA, I'd say it depends on the class. If you're just pounding out words, go with a B&W Palm (cheap, long battery life) and fold-up keyboard. If you need to draw diagrams or write equations, go with paper - you'll never keep up if you have to whip out the stylus, switch to Palm's notepad screen, draw, then switch back to Memo and return your hands to the fold-up keyboard.
Nobody will give a researcher money to develop a means of turning human waste into fuel for the benefit of humanity or the environment. BUT, that same researcher will be given money to develop a means of turning human waste into fuel so that a human can be sent to Mars and back.
It seems that P2P is quickly becoming a "killer app" on the Internet, and BitTorrent certainly brings it into the mainstream.
However, NAT gateways render P2P useless, especially in large organizations where port forwarding is rarely an option. How do you see BitTorrent dealing with this problem until IPv6 is fully deployed and we can all have a private IP address?
They didn't touch credit cards or the actual accounts, but this is counted as illegal because it happened to a big, rich company.
Webservers get r00ted every day, but very rarely does the FBI go after the cracker responsible.
I bet if you loaded up fsf.org tomorrow morning and saw, "windows is TEH R00LZ!!!", the government's response would be: "too bad, so sad... guess that Linux thing isn't so great after all!"
It's not about players being inconvenienced, it's about someone with a lot of money losing face.
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1. Google's immortal cookie: Google was the first search engine to use a cookie that expires in 2038. This was at a time when federal websites were prohibited from using persistent cookies altogether. Now it's years later, and immortal cookies are commonplace among search engines; Google set the standard because no one bothered to challenge them. This cookie places a unique ID number on your hard disk. Anytime you land on a Google page, you get a Google cookie if you don't already have one. If you have one, they read and record your unique ID number.
2. Google records everything they can: For all searches they record the cookie ID, your Internet IP address, the time and date, your search terms, and your browser configuration. Increasingly, Google is customizing results based on your IP number. This is referred to in the industry as "IP delivery based on geolocation."
3. Google retains all data indefinitely: Google has no data retention policies. There is evidence that they are able to easily access all the user information they collect and save.
4. Google won't say why they need this data: Inquiries to Google about their privacy policies are ignored. When the New York Times (2002-11-28) asked Sergey Brin about whether Google ever gets subpoenaed for this information, he had no comment.
5. Google hires spooks: Matt Cutts, a key Google engineer, used to work for the National Security Agency. Google wants to hire more people with security clearances, so that they can peddle their corporate assets to the spooks in Washington.
6. Google's toolbar is spyware: With the advanced features enabled, Google's free toolbar for Explorer phones home with every page you surf. Yes, it reads your cookie too, and sends along the last search terms you used in the toolbar. Their privacy policy confesses this, but that's only because Alexa lost a class-action lawsuit when their toolbar did the same thing, and their privacy policy failed to explain this. Worse yet, Google's toolbar updates to new versions quietly, and without asking. This means that if you have the toolbar installed, Google essentially has complete access to your hard disk every time you phone home. Most software vendors, and even Microsoft, ask if you'd like an updated version. But not Google.
7. Google's cache copy is illegal: Judging from Ninth Circuit precedent on the application of U.S. copyright laws to the Internet, Google's cache copy appears to be illegal. The only way a webmaster can avoid having his site cached on Google is to put a "noarchive" meta in the header of every page on his site. Surfers like the cache, but webmasters don't. Many webmasters have deleted questionable material from their sites, only to discover later that the problem pages live merrily on in Google's cache. The cache copy should be "opt-in" for webmasters, not "opt-out."
8. Google is not your friend: Young, stupid script kiddies and many bloggers still think Google is "way kool," so by now Google enjoys a 75 percent monopoly for all external referrals to most websites. No webmaster can avoid seeking Google's approval these days, assuming he wants to increase traffic to his site. If he tries to take advantage of some of the known weaknesses in Google's semi-secret algorithms, he may find himself penalized by Google, and his traffic disappears. There are no detailed, published standards issued by Google, and there is no appeal process for penalized sites. Google is completely unaccountable. Most of the time they don't even answer email from webmasters.
9. Google is a privacy time bomb: With 150 million searches per day, most from outside the U.S., Google amounts to a privacy disaster waiting to happen. Those newly-commissioned data-mining bureaucrats in Washington can only dream about the sort of slick efficiency that Google has already achieved.
But if you could just take the magazines, stick 'em in this robot, then share 'em, it could hurt the publishing industry the way it's hurt the recording industry.
The music industry hasn't be hurt by filesharing, it has been helped. People want the CD case, the inside jacket filled with graphics and lyrics.
Similarly, most people hate reading off of a computer monitor. Lots of magazines give away some (or all) of their articles on their webpage already. If anything this'll inspire more subscriptions.
Of course, all of this assumes that some magazine geek is going to shell out the cash for an OCR robot.
you basically have the same API to deal with. As long as you don't go nuts with assembly (and you shouldn't have to use it at all) your Mac port could probably just recompile for GNU/Linux with minimal tweaking.
Or, write the game using SDL and have it run on all three platforms.
Or, release the source (but not the graphics, sounds, music and levels) under the GPL and have the community do all the work of porting, tracking down bugs, adding new features &c.
The project hasn't been updated in a couple of months, and it breaks Ethernet bridging, but the idea of running Linux on a sleek little gadget from Apple is still geeky enough to be interesting.
The Airport is great, but to configure it you need to be running OS 9 or X - horrid news for a high school that I was working at a few months ago. Every machine was running OS 8.6, including the one teacher-owned laptop. Every student-owned laptop was Windows-based. I brought in my laptop (which runs Debian) and gave the Airport Base Station Configurator a try, but to no avail.
So - cool device, but it needs to be easier to configure or modify.
Please, everyone keep in mind that the naming situation wouldn't have been nearly as bad if Phoenix hadn't made such a big deal in the first place.
The big, bloated, everything-including-the-kitchen-sink Mozilla that you download from mozilla.org is called Seamonkey. However, nobody ever refers to it as Seamonkey - it's just Mozilla. Phoenix/Firebird was just being referred to directly as Phoenix/Firebird until Seamonkey could be retired and the rest of the developers could move over to the new codebase. At that point it would've been "Mozilla Browser" and "Mozilla Mail & News" again (as far as we end-users are concerned).
If Phoenix hadn't flipped out and had just waited a few months the "Phoenix Browser" would probably have been forgotten.
It's not like Mozilla ever got sued by Exploratoy.
I'm running KDE 3.1.1 without DRI on a Pentium 2 running at 233MHz with 128MB of RAM. Overall, I have to say that the speed is okay. It's not as fast as, say, Windows 98, but it's still useable and sure looks a hell of a lot better.
I was showing off my machine to a Windows-using friend. I hit the power button and he sat there, watching the text fly across the screen. "Does it always take this long to boot up?", he asked. After KDM appeared and I typed in my password we had to endure another long wait as KDE started ITS services. So, X is fine, but how about better startup times?
Sadly, the Progressive Conservatives have won the last two elections in Ontario and continue to gut health care and education.
I decided 4 year ago that I wanted to do computer science in university. At the time tuition for that program was $4000 a year. Now it's $12,000 (plus incidental fees) and it's going to keep rising.
The current leader of the party (Ernie Eves) says "Ontario supports the war on Iraq" despite polls to the contrary. This province is a disaster! Stay away!
I know that ibiblio exists to serve up stuff like this, but is there someone out there with a compressed copy of April's CD that could post a.torrent? Slashdotters have been good lately about using BitTorrent to shoulder some of the bandwidth load (for example, when the Matrix Reloaded trailer was released.)
Download a whole album worth of songs from your favourite P2P network. When you're done, send a money order (it should be anonymous.. are money orders anonymous?) of, say, $2 US to the artist/band that created said album. They end up getting around 2x-4x as much money as they would've gotten if you'd bought the CD, and you save yourself from spending $15. Everybody wins! Oh, except the greedy record company.
But you've just made their point: if so, why isn't CANADA funding them instead of a USA organization?
Because Canada has better things to worry about than Total Information Awareness. The closest thing that we have is universal identification cards on the way, but it's possible that we're going to end up with a centrist/leftist coalition next term and it'll be put to the side for a while.
Use UPX to compress phoenix.exe. I'm running one of the nightlies and I got it to go from 6.6MB to 2.7MB. It's not a lot of space, but it helps, and there's no decrease in speed.
I've been discussing this with another/. user. Perhaps if wget fired up and did a recursive web-suck on all articles that are linked to in the abstract, tar'd and gzip'd each one, and then mirrored them with BitTorrent? That way the OSDN doesn't have to pay for the bandwidth.
The other solution I've heard is posting the articles to FreeNet and linking to the key. More convenient (you don't have to de-tar the articles) but much slower.
Gnutella2 is a great and very active network, I find. So far only Shareaza uses it, but considering that it's competing with KaZaA it's doing incredibly well. I gave up KaZaA the day I discovered Shareaza, and now that the G2 specs are out hopefully I'll soon be able to get onto the G2 network from my GNU/Linux box.
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I would attribute any real decrease in piracy to the fact that many Free software projects "matured" very recently. I walked into a meeting for the NDP riding executive in my area and heard half the room raving about how amazing OpenOffice.org is, and these people are not geeks. The other day AbiWord was raved about in Toronto Computes, a paper that usually focuses on proprietary software (and gives only a nod to Apple).
Microsoft has just started letting people use Office at home if their employer owns a copy. Free software is ready for business, and MS knows it.
And flip-flops. Bring flip-flops, or your feet will regret it.
"When I take a shower, I always wear-flip flops. The Dougler!"
In terms of paper vs PDA, I'd say it depends on the class. If you're just pounding out words, go with a B&W Palm (cheap, long battery life) and fold-up keyboard. If you need to draw diagrams or write equations, go with paper - you'll never keep up if you have to whip out the stylus, switch to Palm's notepad screen, draw, then switch back to Memo and return your hands to the fold-up keyboard.
Nobody will give a researcher money to develop a means of turning human waste into fuel for the benefit of humanity or the environment.
BUT, that same researcher will be given money to develop a means of turning human waste into fuel so that a human can be sent to Mars and back.
It seems that P2P is quickly becoming a "killer app" on the Internet, and BitTorrent certainly brings it into the mainstream.
However, NAT gateways render P2P useless, especially in large organizations where port forwarding is rarely an option. How do you see BitTorrent dealing with this problem until IPv6 is fully deployed and we can all have a private IP address?
They didn't touch credit cards or the actual accounts, but this is counted as illegal because it happened to a big, rich company.
Webservers get r00ted every day, but very rarely does the FBI go after the cracker responsible.
I bet if you loaded up fsf.org tomorrow morning and saw, "windows is TEH R00LZ!!!", the government's response would be:
"too bad, so sad... guess that Linux thing isn't so great after all!"
It's not about players being inconvenienced, it's about someone with a lot of money losing face.
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1. Google's immortal cookie:
Google was the first search engine to use a cookie that expires in 2038. This was at a time when federal websites were prohibited from using persistent cookies altogether. Now it's years later, and immortal cookies are commonplace among search engines; Google set the standard because no one bothered to challenge them. This cookie places a unique ID number on your hard disk. Anytime you land on a Google page, you get a Google cookie if you don't already have one. If you have one, they read and record your unique ID number.
2. Google records everything they can:
For all searches they record the cookie ID, your Internet IP address, the time and date, your search terms, and your browser configuration. Increasingly, Google is customizing results based on your IP number. This is referred to in the industry as "IP delivery based on geolocation."
3. Google retains all data indefinitely:
Google has no data retention policies. There is evidence that they are able to easily access all the user information they collect and save.
4. Google won't say why they need this data:
Inquiries to Google about their privacy policies are ignored. When the New York Times (2002-11-28) asked Sergey Brin about whether Google ever gets subpoenaed for this information, he had no comment.
5. Google hires spooks:
Matt Cutts, a key Google engineer, used to work for the National Security Agency. Google wants to hire more people with security clearances, so that they can peddle their corporate assets to the spooks in Washington.
6. Google's toolbar is spyware:
With the advanced features enabled, Google's free toolbar for Explorer phones home with every page you surf. Yes, it reads your cookie too, and sends along the last search terms you used in the toolbar. Their privacy policy confesses this, but that's only because Alexa lost a class-action lawsuit when their toolbar did the same thing, and their privacy policy failed to explain this. Worse yet, Google's toolbar updates to new versions quietly, and without asking. This means that if you have the toolbar installed, Google essentially has complete access to your hard disk every time you phone home. Most software vendors, and even Microsoft, ask if you'd like an updated version. But not Google.
7. Google's cache copy is illegal:
Judging from Ninth Circuit precedent on the application of U.S. copyright laws to the Internet, Google's cache copy appears to be illegal. The only way a webmaster can avoid having his site cached on Google is to put a "noarchive" meta in the header of every page on his site. Surfers like the cache, but webmasters don't. Many webmasters have deleted questionable material from their sites, only to discover later that the problem pages live merrily on in Google's cache. The cache copy should be "opt-in" for webmasters, not "opt-out."
8. Google is not your friend:
Young, stupid script kiddies and many bloggers still think Google is "way kool," so by now Google enjoys a 75 percent monopoly for all external referrals to most websites. No webmaster can avoid seeking Google's approval these days, assuming he wants to increase traffic to his site. If he tries to take advantage of some of the known weaknesses in Google's semi-secret algorithms, he may find himself penalized by Google, and his traffic disappears. There are no detailed, published standards issued by Google, and there is no appeal process for penalized sites. Google is completely unaccountable. Most of the time they don't even answer email from webmasters.
9. Google is a privacy time bomb:
With 150 million searches per day, most from outside the U.S., Google amounts to a privacy disaster waiting to happen. Those newly-commissioned data-mining bureaucrats in Washington can only dream about the sort of slick efficiency that Google has already achieved.
But if you could just take the magazines, stick 'em in this robot, then share 'em, it could hurt the publishing industry the way it's hurt the recording industry.
The music industry hasn't be hurt by filesharing, it has been helped.
People want the CD case, the inside jacket filled with graphics and lyrics.
Similarly, most people hate reading off of a computer monitor. Lots of magazines give away some (or all) of their articles on their webpage already. If anything this'll inspire more subscriptions.
Of course, all of this assumes that some magazine geek is going to shell out the cash for an OCR robot.
If you were using Mozilla you could have picked from one of three stylesheets that he provides. Try orange - it looks really nice.
Firebird is built with XUL, the Mozilla project's cross-platform widget set, while Camino is built with Cocoa, Apple's "application environment".
Camino is Mac OS X's answer to K-Meleon for Windows and Galeon for GNOME.
Native UI versus write once, compile anywhere.
Server administrators who are afraid of becoming infected again by another, similar worm should install this patch immediately.
Seriously, though - just how many of these things have to happen before people start considering that Windows is less-than perfect?
you basically have the same API to deal with. As long as you don't go nuts with assembly (and you shouldn't have to use it at all) your Mac port could probably just recompile for GNU/Linux with minimal tweaking.
Or, write the game using SDL and have it run on all three platforms.
Or, release the source (but not the graphics, sounds, music and levels) under the GPL and have the community do all the work of porting, tracking down bugs, adding new features &c.
Well, kinda.
The project hasn't been updated in a couple of months, and it breaks Ethernet bridging, but the idea of running Linux on a sleek little gadget from Apple is still geeky enough to be interesting.
The Airport is great, but to configure it you need to be running OS 9 or X - horrid news for a high school that I was working at a few months ago. Every machine was running OS 8.6, including the one teacher-owned laptop. Every student-owned laptop was Windows-based.
I brought in my laptop (which runs Debian) and gave the Airport Base Station Configurator a try, but to no avail.
So - cool device, but it needs to be easier to configure or modify.
Please, everyone keep in mind that the naming situation wouldn't have been nearly as bad if Phoenix hadn't made such a big deal in the first place.
The big, bloated, everything-including-the-kitchen-sink Mozilla that you download from mozilla.org is called Seamonkey.
However, nobody ever refers to it as Seamonkey - it's just Mozilla. Phoenix/Firebird was just being referred to directly as Phoenix/Firebird until Seamonkey could be retired and the rest of the developers could move over to the new codebase. At that point it would've been "Mozilla Browser" and "Mozilla Mail & News" again (as far as we end-users are concerned).
If Phoenix hadn't flipped out and had just waited a few months the "Phoenix Browser" would probably have been forgotten.
It's not like Mozilla ever got sued by Exploratoy.
I'm running KDE 3.1.1 without DRI on a Pentium 2 running at 233MHz with 128MB of RAM.
Overall, I have to say that the speed is okay.
It's not as fast as, say, Windows 98, but it's still useable and sure looks a hell of a lot better.
I was showing off my machine to a Windows-using friend. I hit the power button and he sat there, watching the text fly across the screen. "Does it always take this long to boot up?", he asked. After KDM appeared and I typed in my password we had to endure another long wait as KDE started ITS services.
So, X is fine, but how about better startup times?
Sadly, the Progressive Conservatives have won the last two elections in Ontario and continue to gut health care and education.
I decided 4 year ago that I wanted to do computer science in university. At the time tuition for that program was $4000 a year. Now it's $12,000 (plus incidental fees) and it's going to keep rising.
The current leader of the party (Ernie Eves) says "Ontario supports the war on Iraq" despite polls to the contrary. This province is a disaster! Stay away!
I know that ibiblio exists to serve up stuff like this, but is there someone out there with a compressed copy of April's CD that could post a .torrent?
Slashdotters have been good lately about using BitTorrent to shoulder some of the bandwidth load (for example, when the Matrix Reloaded trailer was released.)
There's an apt repository for SuSE 8.2.
Just set up a procmail filter to block any mail that isn't signed or encrypted with PGP.
Of course, you'd miss out on a lot of legitimate mail.
Download a whole album worth of songs from your favourite P2P network. When you're done, send a money order (it should be anonymous.. are money orders anonymous?) of, say, $2 US to the artist/band that created said album. They end up getting around 2x-4x as much money as they would've gotten if you'd bought the CD, and you save yourself from spending $15.
Everybody wins! Oh, except the greedy record company.
But you've just made their point: if so, why isn't CANADA funding them instead of a USA organization?
Because Canada has better things to worry about than Total Information Awareness. The closest thing that we have is universal identification cards on the way, but it's possible that we're going to end up with a centrist/leftist coalition next term and it'll be put to the side for a while.
Use UPX to compress phoenix.exe. I'm running one of the nightlies and I got it to go from 6.6MB to 2.7MB. It's not a lot of space, but it helps, and there's no decrease in speed.
I've been discussing this with another /. user. Perhaps if wget fired up and did a recursive web-suck on all articles that are linked to in the abstract, tar'd and gzip'd each one, and then mirrored them with BitTorrent? That way the OSDN doesn't have to pay for the bandwidth.
The other solution I've heard is posting the articles to FreeNet and linking to the key. More convenient (you don't have to de-tar the articles) but much slower.
You know, the ancient Italian art of pizza folding.
touting an impressive "BSD is dying!" campaign?
/. baddie)...
Set in Soviet Luskan, where DRAGON slay YOU!
You must rescue Natalie Portman* from the clutches of the evil (Bill Gates/RIAA/MPAA/other
*Actually, I prefer Natasha Stillwell as far as geek girls go.
Gnutella2 is a great and very active network, I find. So far only Shareaza uses it, but considering that it's competing with KaZaA it's doing incredibly well. I gave up KaZaA the day I discovered Shareaza, and now that the G2 specs are out hopefully I'll soon be able to get onto the G2 network from my GNU/Linux box.