From the point of view of the police dogs - it's very similar to a cop pulling over a car and then realising that the whole inside of the car smells like dope. Then searching the car. Sounds reasonable to me. But then, I believe it's not OK for cops to search a house if they come to the door and smell dope unless they've been invited in and see it in the course of being inside - correct me if I'm wrong, but these are fairly similar situations.
I don't see this being in any way comparable to a packet sniffer. No more than I like the thought of the police readng all my mail, which this amounts to. The police would only want to do this because it's easy (they might change their minds when an alarming number of false positives appear) whereas opening every piece of regular mail isn't. If it could be automated reasonably then that'd be the issue we were discussing.
I am confused.
Does your sig mean you think we need to transition to an economy based no longer on magic fish?
Or does it mean you think we need to transition to an economy based on fish with no inherently magical qualities?
Thank you in advance for your clarification.
PS OT I know.
I'm a doctor and make just under $34 Australian (about $18 US, I think). I could factor in my anti-social hours and overtime, but they are antisocial hours and overtime. My basic rate is that. Admittedly I get holidays and sick leave, but no other benefits like medical (ironically) or dental. There is a scheme here in Australia where I get a bit more due to salary packaging (in lieu of benefits) but not that much.
That's five years out of medical school - so not senior, but certainly not junior any more.
I have to be honest, it really shits me that plumbers get paid so much more than me. I don't want to belittle their profession, but considering the debt I accrued going to medical school, and the expenses since then to sit postgraduate exams (which are pretty much essential for progress), I think I get a pretty raw deal.
I don't think I'm particularly badly paid, until I look at other jobs and realise that I get shafted in comparative terms. And I do realise that I don't have to worry about idle hours and all as I am salaried.
I note you pointing out that $20 an hour is exceptionally low. So next time you go to your doctor, just remember - you get what you pay for.
I've heard it said before that the best security is a guy in a blue suit at the door who knows everyone by sight and greets them.
Difficult with remote access, but videoconferencing is now practical to a large percentage of users.
A 24h system security guard that you have to dial in to and say hello to (dynamic conversation being a good preventer of recordings) is a realistic choice.
Won't work for big sites (like Slashdot) with too many users but for smaller companies it might be an option, or they could even all outsource their security.
Any password will get you face-to-face (to weed out a significant proportion of security attacks), then you have to say hello.
There must be some way to lock down a connection (VPN or whatever) so that the network will only talk to that IP for the duration of the session.
Depends. I have DSL through the phone line, both in the UK (where I have an apartment) and Australia (where I am living and working for at least a year).
In Oz, I have a wireless laptop. There are two phone points I can plug DSL into - bedroom and kitchen. I would need at least 15 yards of CAT5 to put it through to the study, and in a rented place I can't punch holes in the walls, however small, so there's no argument - wireless is the only way to go, regardless of desktop/laptop.
Back home, I have my own place, so I can drill if I want. I have two bedrooms, with telephone in one and the other in the hall. Running wires into the spare bedroom is a hassle as I'd also need to drill a hole in the door/doorframe, plus both rooms are rented while I'm away. Same if I want to put computer in lounge.
Best solution, by far, is wireless router in the bedroom, wireless card in computer. Room can be re-arranged, computer can be moved, no drilling, and no wires.
If you have your own house, you have some leeway. But even then a lot of places involve wires all over the place, a fixed access point, and total impracticality.
Wireless routers with modem are about £60 now. Not much more than a modem without. Network card - £5 (usually built-in), wireless card - £20
You save about £15-25 on the cards by going wired, and you have to buy cable and put it up.
Saying that, if I'm playing CS I usually dragged CAT5 through to the modem for a bit lower ping (reduced it by about 15-25ms with 802.11b), but only occasionally.
Of course, my routers are password changed but open if you fancy a wardrive...
Free content is subsidised by ads.
If you don't like it, don't go there.
All the web's content could be put on a few pages (or one) by your reckoning. Instead it is divided up into bite-sized chunks of various bite-sizes.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but as an e.g. - put two CMOS in the same housing with this software and you suddenly doubled the fps on your low-end camera. With the right engineering you wouldn't notice the two adjacent POV.
These things are cheap as hell, it's much easier to double them up than produce one of twice the quality.
But you could cheaply get intermediate quality video. The multiple CMOS give a rolling image (look at the guys' shoulders and you'll notice the rotation from the multiple POV) and gives slow-mo without (as another poster points out) having a quick enough shutter time for high-speed analysis. But these 30fps things that make up webcams are usually pretty low quality.
With these you can get more detail than the shitty webcams without shelling out on high end equipment. This has remarkably few uses, but with this theory working in practice opens up other avenues - like using higher quality CMOS sensors, which are improving all the time (think digital cameras), so that rather than 50 CMOS giving a crappy picture you either use 20 higher fps/quality ones for the same/better output with less roll, or 50 for more fps/higher quality.
Still, there are only a few applications, but the software to run it should be pretty easy to manage - then all you need to do is plug in X number of cameras depending on your needs.
As I understand it, being a hitman is illegal and generally considered to be immoral. Writing software on the other hand is not.
Mailing lists are useful to:
-clubs
-websites with subscriptions
-charities
-schools
-businesses
-newsletters
-friends
and all of these are legitimate uses. I am not denying that spammers use these tools as well, but far more legitimate users use bulk mailing programs (think of the tens of thousands of clubs, websites, charities etc who use them) than spammers. Spammers may generate more email, I agree. But there are more legitimate mailing lists than spammers.
P2P, as I understand it, uses over 50% of the traffic on the internet (random source from google search), so I think it could be said it does a lot more damage to the internet through being a bandwidth hog.
Don't get me wrong, spam is a royal pain in the arse. But the guy has done nothing wrong. And the fact that his software is a useful tool for a few spammers doesn't change the fact that most users are likely to be using it for legitimate purposes.
Most spam is sent from Windows computers. Most windows computers are not used for spam. The developers of windows are not at fault for the other uses their software is used for (like running 3rd party spam apps).
What you are saying is that Microsoft should stop complaining about pirated software because they are responsible for most spam, so the sell software to exactly the sort of people who pirate their software.
Not all GIs are rednecks itching for a fight. but some are. And a war on TV exposes the ones who are as that's the ones reporters show. I am sure that most are just trying to do their job and not get killed, but there are a lot of idiots out there, and they just can't be allowed to do what they do. Like put prisoners on dog leads and pile them up, naked. Stuff like that.
And you say 'fuck them' to the ones who don't give a shit? Really? These people are just trying to survive. Saddam didn't kill any of their family. But the US/UK did. No wonder they're pissed. If apathy is such a problem - what about abroad? What percentage of americans voted? Have you ever heard of the eugenics program a few decades back? No american I've ever met personally has, but these sorts of atrocities were committed with government backing until 1963 . They are just as wrong. Or how about Guantanamo Bay? Or the fact that the only two countries who chose to censor the torture of POWs at Abu Ghraib (until everyone else had printed them, then the cat was out of the bag) were the US and Iraq , whose media was at the time under the control of... the US?
Of course I am assuming that you are american. If not, let me know and I will tailor the response to your own country. I am from the UK and I know our history is just as bad over the last 100 years, and worse over the last 1000 years.
So, it's ok for KaZaA/BitTorrent/P2P as they have legitimate uses, even if they are used mostly for copyright violation, but it's not ok for this guy as it could be used for spam?
Give us a break. Can't have it both ways. The guy is just trying to make a living. If someone uses it to send spam, it's THEM that are at fault, not the writer of the software.
It's the same as guns don't kill people, people kill people.
If someone came into my country, guns blazing, and ousted the goverment, then I'd be pretty unhappy about it, especially if they continued to occupy the country for months/years afterwards.
Don't get me wrong, Saddam was a bad bastard. I am sure there were a lot of people in Iraq glad to see him go. But there were also a lot of people, who quite frankly didn't give a shit. They got on with their lives and weren't too affected by what went on elsewhere.
There were also a lot of people who will have had friends or relatives killed by these invaders who previously couldn't care less about the despot in control.
The difference between 'Freedom fighters' and 'Terrorists' depends entirely on whose side you are on. Some of these FFs/Ts are religous extremists or frankly bad people, but others are just upset that their country has been invaded.
They don't need to come up with a better solution. They are just pissed that dad got killed by a redneck GI with an itchy trigger-finger (going by some of the documentaries I've seen, a very favourable desciption) and uncle has no job because some US contractor was given the job to rebuild the town they'd just blown the shit out of.
You sum it all up perfectly in your second paragraph - this was an illegal war, it was poorly planned (easy enough in retrospect to say, but a lot of people called it beforehand too). The Geneva concention has been thoroughly violated. The natives are restless, and it's no surprise.
GWB is a war criminal. As is Tony Blair. One nation (Poland?) had their leader state that they were led in under false pretences by the US. Bush also turns out to be Time's person of the year. I cannot get over how fucked up the entire situation is, other than the fact that the powers in charge have made such a montrous cock-up of the whole situation that I cannot understand how they have any remaining support.
We have created a whole new generation (probably at least two) of 'Freedom Fighters' who we will call Terrorists when they bomb us.
I see your point, but so far all I'm hearing is damage to property.
Don't get me wrong, the guy's clearly a nutjob. But unless there was a real threat then I still don't think the killin is justified - if they could point a gun into the top they could also chuck in a tear gas canister.
In America it's legal to shoot someone who's stolen a vehicle and got stuck in it?
Did he kill anyone, was there any immediate threat of him killing anyone? I don't think being in a tank in itself really justifies murder. Could he even operate the gun?
I don't know the circumstances - if it was justified then fair enough but looking at the facts here it suggests the easiest way to stop him was to shoot him, rather than there being any real need for it.
In America it's legal to shoot someone who's stolen a vehicle and got stuck in it?
Did he kill anyone, was there any immediate threat of him killing anyone? I don't think being in a tank in itself really justifies murder. Could he even operate the gun?
I don't know the circumstances - if it was justified then fair enough but looking at the facts here it suggests the easiest way to stop him was to shoot him, rather than there being any real need for it.
If I reproduce bit-for-bit, I am reproducing, e.g. 1010110 -> 1010110 If I was to make this 1010110 -> 0101001 (reversed) Then surely I could argue that it's not reproducing? Maybe it would be a derived work or something though (though not in the sense it was originally intended). If it's not derived, then any form of encoding would bypass copyright.
I'm sure it doesn't work, but anyone know why this would be illegal if it's not an actual reproduction? An encoded file would sound like shit if not unencoded before (or during) playback, so it's obviously not the copyrighted version.
But at least in a lot of Western countries, if the government or whatever agency crashed something into your house, you might get it insured through them. I'm sure NASA would front up some cash for a rebuild, seeing as they are responsible ultimately. Not much cash in the total budget of a satellite anyway, a few tens of thousand for a new roof and a wall or two.
I'm not so sure that the People's Republic would be so forthcoming with a rebuild. Then again, if everyone's equal in a communist society, maybe they all want their house destroyed by a satellite for luck and equality?
He was involved in an armed robbery with a fatality (article doesn't mention if he committed the murder). He hijacked a plane.
Damn right he should go to jail. If society jailed people dependent on their contribution to society, then the socially deprived would spend all their time in jail and the rich would get away with anything.
Online baking is a bitch for this. I still need IE for mine (www.rbsdigital.co.uk) and a few others, unless they've recently changed their policies, will expicitly say they need IE.
Dumping your bank can be a little harder than your browser, especially when there are no alternatives. And you are mortgaged all the way up your ass, like me.
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From the point of view of the police dogs - it's very similar to a cop pulling over a car and then realising that the whole inside of the car smells like dope. Then searching the car. Sounds reasonable to me. But then, I believe it's not OK for cops to search a house if they come to the door and smell dope unless they've been invited in and see it in the course of being inside - correct me if I'm wrong, but these are fairly similar situations.
I don't see this being in any way comparable to a packet sniffer. No more than I like the thought of the police readng all my mail, which this amounts to. The police would only want to do this because it's easy (they might change their minds when an alarming number of false positives appear) whereas opening every piece of regular mail isn't. If it could be automated reasonably then that'd be the issue we were discussing.
I think the terrorists have won.
I am confused. Does your sig mean you think we need to transition to an economy based no longer on magic fish? Or does it mean you think we need to transition to an economy based on fish with no inherently magical qualities? Thank you in advance for your clarification. PS OT I know.
I'm a doctor and make just under $34 Australian (about $18 US, I think). I could factor in my anti-social hours and overtime, but they are antisocial hours and overtime. My basic rate is that. Admittedly I get holidays and sick leave, but no other benefits like medical (ironically) or dental. There is a scheme here in Australia where I get a bit more due to salary packaging (in lieu of benefits) but not that much.
That's five years out of medical school - so not senior, but certainly not junior any more.
I have to be honest, it really shits me that plumbers get paid so much more than me. I don't want to belittle their profession, but considering the debt I accrued going to medical school, and the expenses since then to sit postgraduate exams (which are pretty much essential for progress), I think I get a pretty raw deal.
I don't think I'm particularly badly paid, until I look at other jobs and realise that I get shafted in comparative terms. And I do realise that I don't have to worry about idle hours and all as I am salaried.
I note you pointing out that $20 an hour is exceptionally low. So next time you go to your doctor, just remember - you get what you pay for.
I've heard it said before that the best security is a guy in a blue suit at the door who knows everyone by sight and greets them.
Difficult with remote access, but videoconferencing is now practical to a large percentage of users.
A 24h system security guard that you have to dial in to and say hello to (dynamic conversation being a good preventer of recordings) is a realistic choice.
Won't work for big sites (like Slashdot) with too many users but for smaller companies it might be an option, or they could even all outsource their security.
Any password will get you face-to-face (to weed out a significant proportion of security attacks), then you have to say hello.
There must be some way to lock down a connection (VPN or whatever) so that the network will only talk to that IP for the duration of the session.
No. Buy pork bellies.
Depends. I have DSL through the phone line, both in the UK (where I have an apartment) and Australia (where I am living and working for at least a year).
In Oz, I have a wireless laptop. There are two phone points I can plug DSL into - bedroom and kitchen. I would need at least 15 yards of CAT5 to put it through to the study, and in a rented place I can't punch holes in the walls, however small, so there's no argument - wireless is the only way to go, regardless of desktop/laptop.
Back home, I have my own place, so I can drill if I want. I have two bedrooms, with telephone in one and the other in the hall. Running wires into the spare bedroom is a hassle as I'd also need to drill a hole in the door/doorframe, plus both rooms are rented while I'm away. Same if I want to put computer in lounge.
Best solution, by far, is wireless router in the bedroom, wireless card in computer. Room can be re-arranged, computer can be moved, no drilling, and no wires.
If you have your own house, you have some leeway. But even then a lot of places involve wires all over the place, a fixed access point, and total impracticality.
Wireless routers with modem are about £60 now. Not much more than a modem without. Network card - £5 (usually built-in), wireless card - £20
You save about £15-25 on the cards by going wired, and you have to buy cable and put it up.
Saying that, if I'm playing CS I usually dragged CAT5 through to the modem for a bit lower ping (reduced it by about 15-25ms with 802.11b), but only occasionally.
Of course, my routers are password changed but open if you fancy a wardrive...
1. It was originally two moons, of the same size. They collided, leaving a ridge at the join.
2. It will become two moons, of the same size. It is in the process of mitosis.
3. It is a giant cricket ball.
4. This is the seam the mould left.
5. There is no spoon. I mean, moon.
6. Aliens did it as a display of power.
7. We did it, millions of years ago, before nuking ourselves and starting again. As a warning to ourselves in the future, which we are now ignoring.
8. Aliens did it for a joke.
9. This is what the Beagle has been up to since we lost it.
I have run out of ideas and can't think of any proper suggestions.
Free content is subsidised by ads. If you don't like it, don't go there. All the web's content could be put on a few pages (or one) by your reckoning. Instead it is divided up into bite-sized chunks of various bite-sizes.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but as an e.g. - put two CMOS in the same housing with this software and you suddenly doubled the fps on your low-end camera. With the right engineering you wouldn't notice the two adjacent POV.
These things are cheap as hell, it's much easier to double them up than produce one of twice the quality.
But you could cheaply get intermediate quality video. The multiple CMOS give a rolling image (look at the guys' shoulders and you'll notice the rotation from the multiple POV) and gives slow-mo without (as another poster points out) having a quick enough shutter time for high-speed analysis. But these 30fps things that make up webcams are usually pretty low quality.
With these you can get more detail than the shitty webcams without shelling out on high end equipment. This has remarkably few uses, but with this theory working in practice opens up other avenues - like using higher quality CMOS sensors, which are improving all the time (think digital cameras), so that rather than 50 CMOS giving a crappy picture you either use 20 higher fps/quality ones for the same/better output with less roll, or 50 for more fps/higher quality.
Still, there are only a few applications, but the software to run it should be pretty easy to manage - then all you need to do is plug in X number of cameras depending on your needs.
I think.
Mailing lists are useful to:
-clubs
-websites with subscriptions
-charities
-schools
-businesses
-newsletters
-friends
and all of these are legitimate uses. I am not denying that spammers use these tools as well, but far more legitimate users use bulk mailing programs (think of the tens of thousands of clubs, websites, charities etc who use them) than spammers. Spammers may generate more email, I agree. But there are more legitimate mailing lists than spammers.
P2P, as I understand it, uses over 50% of the traffic on the internet (random source from google search), so I think it could be said it does a lot more damage to the internet through being a bandwidth hog.
Don't get me wrong, spam is a royal pain in the arse. But the guy has done nothing wrong. And the fact that his software is a useful tool for a few spammers doesn't change the fact that most users are likely to be using it for legitimate purposes. Most spam is sent from Windows computers. Most windows computers are not used for spam. The developers of windows are not at fault for the other uses their software is used for (like running 3rd party spam apps).
What you are saying is that Microsoft should stop complaining about pirated software because they are responsible for most spam, so the sell software to exactly the sort of people who pirate their software.
And you say 'fuck them' to the ones who don't give a shit? Really? These people are just trying to survive. Saddam didn't kill any of their family. But the US/UK did. No wonder they're pissed. If apathy is such a problem - what about abroad? What percentage of americans voted? Have you ever heard of the eugenics program a few decades back? No american I've ever met personally has, but these sorts of atrocities were committed with government backing until 1963 . They are just as wrong. Or how about Guantanamo Bay? Or the fact that the only two countries who chose to censor the torture of POWs at Abu Ghraib (until everyone else had printed them, then the cat was out of the bag) were the US and Iraq , whose media was at the time under the control of... the US?
Of course I am assuming that you are american. If not, let me know and I will tailor the response to your own country. I am from the UK and I know our history is just as bad over the last 100 years, and worse over the last 1000 years.
So, it's ok for KaZaA/BitTorrent/P2P as they have legitimate uses, even if they are used mostly for copyright violation, but it's not ok for this guy as it could be used for spam?
Give us a break. Can't have it both ways. The guy is just trying to make a living. If someone uses it to send spam, it's THEM that are at fault, not the writer of the software.
It's the same as guns don't kill people, people kill people.
If someone came into my country, guns blazing, and ousted the goverment, then I'd be pretty unhappy about it, especially if they continued to occupy the country for months/years afterwards.
Don't get me wrong, Saddam was a bad bastard. I am sure there were a lot of people in Iraq glad to see him go. But there were also a lot of people, who quite frankly didn't give a shit. They got on with their lives and weren't too affected by what went on elsewhere.
There were also a lot of people who will have had friends or relatives killed by these invaders who previously couldn't care less about the despot in control.
The difference between 'Freedom fighters' and 'Terrorists' depends entirely on whose side you are on. Some of these FFs/Ts are religous extremists or frankly bad people, but others are just upset that their country has been invaded.
They don't need to come up with a better solution. They are just pissed that dad got killed by a redneck GI with an itchy trigger-finger (going by some of the documentaries I've seen, a very favourable desciption) and uncle has no job because some US contractor was given the job to rebuild the town they'd just blown the shit out of.
You sum it all up perfectly in your second paragraph - this was an illegal war, it was poorly planned (easy enough in retrospect to say, but a lot of people called it beforehand too). The Geneva concention has been thoroughly violated. The natives are restless, and it's no surprise.
GWB is a war criminal. As is Tony Blair. One nation (Poland?) had their leader state that they were led in under false pretences by the US. Bush also turns out to be Time's person of the year. I cannot get over how fucked up the entire situation is, other than the fact that the powers in charge have made such a montrous cock-up of the whole situation that I cannot understand how they have any remaining support.
We have created a whole new generation (probably at least two) of 'Freedom Fighters' who we will call Terrorists when they bomb us.
Sorry for the rant.
Of course you can. You breathe out as you speak. You breathe in during the natural breaks in your words.
This is why people can give speeches, sing, and play wind instruments without turning blue and collapsing.
Though now I re-read your post and wonder if it's sarcasm...
They're not bugs, they're features.
I see your point, but so far all I'm hearing is damage to property.
Don't get me wrong, the guy's clearly a nutjob. But unless there was a real threat then I still don't think the killin is justified - if they could point a gun into the top they could also chuck in a tear gas canister.
In America it's legal to shoot someone who's stolen a vehicle and got stuck in it?
Did he kill anyone, was there any immediate threat of him killing anyone? I don't think being in a tank in itself really justifies murder. Could he even operate the gun?
I don't know the circumstances - if it was justified then fair enough but looking at the facts here it suggests the easiest way to stop him was to shoot him, rather than there being any real need for it.
In America it's legal to shoot someone who's stolen a vehicle and got stuck in it? Did he kill anyone, was there any immediate threat of him killing anyone? I don't think being in a tank in itself really justifies murder. Could he even operate the gun? I don't know the circumstances - if it was justified then fair enough but looking at the facts here it suggests the easiest way to stop him was to shoot him, rather than there being any real need for it.
Can this be loopholed?
If I reproduce bit-for-bit, I am reproducing, e.g.
1010110 -> 1010110
If I was to make this
1010110 -> 0101001 (reversed)
Then surely I could argue that it's not reproducing? Maybe it would be a derived work or something though (though not in the sense it was originally intended). If it's not derived, then any form of encoding would bypass copyright.
I'm sure it doesn't work, but anyone know why this would be illegal if it's not an actual reproduction? An encoded file would sound like shit if not unencoded before (or during) playback, so it's obviously not the copyrighted version.
But at least in a lot of Western countries, if the government or whatever agency crashed something into your house, you might get it insured through them. I'm sure NASA would front up some cash for a rebuild, seeing as they are responsible ultimately. Not much cash in the total budget of a satellite anyway, a few tens of thousand for a new roof and a wall or two.
I'm not so sure that the People's Republic would be so forthcoming with a rebuild. Then again, if everyone's equal in a communist society, maybe they all want their house destroyed by a satellite for luck and equality?
He was involved in an armed robbery with a fatality (article doesn't mention if he committed the murder). He hijacked a plane.
Damn right he should go to jail. If society jailed people dependent on their contribution to society, then the socially deprived would spend all their time in jail and the rich would get away with anything.
Oh wait...
Online baking? Surely I meant banking.
Online baking is a bitch for this. I still need IE for mine (www.rbsdigital.co.uk) and a few others, unless they've recently changed their policies, will expicitly say they need IE.
Dumping your bank can be a little harder than your browser, especially when there are no alternatives. And you are mortgaged all the way up your ass, like me.
Why does 'mother' need an asterisk? I think 'mother-f***ing piece of crap' would work fine. Although so would 'mother-fucking'.