The spyware tool is better than what they had before; nothing.
Once it's a regular part of windows update, it can't get anything but better (it's beta for a reason), and the worst that can happen is the volume of spam and bullshit on the 'net will go down a little bit.
As long as it has a CLI/curses version, because I've been doing all my torrent-ing on a little linux "grunt" box that runs btlaunchmanycurses.py under screen, so it just scans for new.torrents I drag into my home folder, and I check up on it by ssh'ing in.
I want to keep this setup because I can drop a.torrent in, or check up on it, from anywhere. I'll find, say, a knoppix torrent at noon at work, ftp it up to my box at home, and by the time I get home, it's there waiting for me.
Wine isn't an option. I was used to running my.torrents on a "gruntwork" box, I'd copy.torrent files I wanted to a public share on that box, which would be running a "screen btlaunchmanycurses.py ~", a console-mode version of bittorrent that continuously scans the folder (my home folder ~) for.torrents, and downloads them.
I'd check up on it by ssh'ing in and doing a "screen -x".
So, what's I to do now? Install all the bloat of X and Wine? Because frankly, Win98 runs better on this old box I use for the task (an old P200/MMX)
It's an outside shot, but any chances of an ncurses based exeem client in the mix?
Or, can I get.torrents from exeem and then export them to oldschool bittorrent?
Ronnie James Dio is credited with inventing the devil horns, and according to this (from Kerrang! mag) he takes it pretty seriously.
Ronnie James Dio, the man widely credited for pioneering the "devil's horns" hand sign, recently spoke to Kerrang! about the "widespread abuse of his creation" amongst pop folk and people who flash the sign without knowing the meaning behind it.
"It's all right as long as it's accepted for what it was," Dio told the magazine. "It was a more serious thing at the time, when I was with [BLACK] SABBATH. That was a band that was very dark, and that's what I wanted it to be. It was symbol of the darkness of that band, and not something to be passed on to BRITNEY SPEARS! An invention is an invention, I guess. It's become so damn polluted now. The people who are doing it don't know what it means and they have no idea that they shouldn't be doing it.
"It's a trend," Dio addded. "It's a popular trend and so it will probably become like the hula hoop. During a show, I sometimes think 'Maybe I won't do that tonight', because it's become so damn ludicrous now. Everyone's doing it and it has no meaning anymore. Now I wait until two or three songs into the show, and until there's a stop in the music and I'm doing something on my own, and then the response is incredible because people are wanting that from me. It's like OZZY and the peace sign, you know? So I never find myself not doing it, but I'm definitely doing it less and less these days.
"The point is that you can't just flash it. You have to a face that goes with it. There has to be some emotion behind it. It can't just be the raising of the arm, trying to get your fingers in the right position. And you'll notice that a lot of people are using the thumb now, too. When the thumb comes out it means 'I love you' either in Hawaiian or in sign language - I'm not sure which! So that's proof, once again, that these celebrities don't really have a clue. As stupid as this might sound, I never once did that on stage unless it was to punctuate something that was a little more dark. So when I did it, it was never about starting a trend. It's a natural thing for me to do. It's important to know that it's not something I did frivolously it was just a spontaneous response to something that I sang. A lot of times, bending of the knees always puts it in a slightly different perspective. It puts you in the Sumo position. Now you're ready to charge!"
Bush, however, was saluting the Texas Longhorns, not "shouting out to the devil". I wish he was, that would be a refreshing break from Christian dogma.
Early in his tenure, Powell embraced broadband development and deployment as a national priority and chose a consistently deregulatory approach. That led to a series of crucial rulings from the FCC, including one in March 2002 that immunized cable modems from the stack of 20th century rules and fees that apply to "telecommunications services," and another in February 2003 that let former Bell companies run fiber to American homes without being required to make the links available to competitors.
Last year, Powell repeatedly shielded VoIP services from intrusive government regulation and taxation. The FCC voted in February that Internet-only VoIP services were not subject to FCC oversight and expanded that view in November to protect VoIP from state regulators. In August, Powell and his colleagues took a major step toward imposing wiretapping rules on VoIP, but stopped short of giving the FBI and other federal police agencies everything they wanted.
Wait until one of our beloved Democrats gets in. They'll put an end to all this affordable broadband and Vonage bullshit.
. My own view is that there are two buttons on a radio or television -- one changes the channel, the other one turns it off. Use them, monitor what your children listen to/watch and don't expect the government to babysit for you.
The Jackson incident is a glaring example of why that doesn't work, when normally I'd agree.
If I don't want my kids listening to or watching Stern, it's easy enough to lock them out of the E! channel when his show comes on.
But, no one expected to see that kind of shit during the Superbowl half-time show. The problem is the Superbowl was rated for all ages.
It pissed a lot of people off, and don't go off on some "well in Europe its ok.." rant. To many, it would be like going to McDonalds, and having them serve your kids vodka in their Happy Meals. People also knew it wasn't an accident, it was dead obvious that it wasn't. It was some washed up old skank trying to be shocking and prop up her failing career.
I'm all for leaving it up to the people, and a ratings system. If a show says they're rated for all ages, and then start cussing and showing nudity, they should be fined because IMO that's fraud.
The TV industry has been hammering the point that we pay by watching commercials lately. Fine, I accept that. Then if you advertise your program as rated all ages, and I pay for it by watching your commercials, and then you cross the line into adult content, well in the marketplace we call behavior like that a bait and switch.
What they did was wrong, and whether or not you personally were offended isn't the point.
Last year, Powell repeatedly shielded VoIP services from intrusive government regulation and taxation. The FCC voted in February that Internet-only VoIP services were not subject to FCC oversight and expanded that view in November to protect VoIP from state regulators....
"He let us go out and build this new thing without knowing all the issues beforehand," said Jeff Citron, chief executive of Vonage, the largest U.S. provider of Internet telephone services. "He helped the telephone industry transition from the old to the new world."
Cellphone number portability, Do Not Call list, he's pushed hard to free up more spectrum for WiFi.
But he's republican so let's focus on the stuff we don't like.
This is not a "tech site". This is just another partisan political blog.
None of the editors, posters or submitters understand anything remotely technical.
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What's stopping someone from writing an entire environment like OS X from the ground up, around and on top of Linux, and creating an OS X like environment that is as complete and modern as either OS X or Windows?
Nothing at all. Get started, I wish you luck on that.
IMO, something as polished as OSX or Windows can only be created in a corporate setting. There are too many egos wanting different things, it'd be impossible to get a team of 100 coders to all agree to work towards the same set of goals. One guy wants X, another wants Y.
There comes a point when you need someone to say "we're going with X, like it or find another job."
There's more than enough talent to get the job done, but not nearly enough leadership, or talented people who are willing to volunteer their time to take orders to create something - even if it's not exactly what they want to create.
Yes, you can send and recieve faxes and dial-out via modem over VOiP.
I dial out over Vonage all the time, since the only access to most of the boxes I support is via dial-up. There are still plenty of computers that aren't on the 'net, especially where privacy/security is key.
On an LCD the framerate really is a measure of motion and your eyes/brain don't need a very high rate to perceive smooth motion -- 60fps is plenty fast enough for motion to look buttery smooth.
Only if you have an all-digital (DVI) hookup, if you have an analog panel or connector (which from my experience is still the most common you'll find in retail turn-key PCs), it refreshes the whole screen 60/85 times a second, just like a CRT.
Flat panels have their uses, but to a lot of people they're pure status. A friend of mine (non-techy) recently spent 3,000 on a plasma TV, which is sourced by regular old analog cable. The 4:3 image is stretched to 16:9 so he's not "wasting" the space he payed for.
It looks like complete crap, he understands nothing of HDTV/EDTV, why he should get a progressive scan DVD player for 40 bucks, etc.. We watched "Day after Tomorrow" on it, and the banding in the scenes with the dark clouds really highlighted just how pathetic the contrast is. But it cost more than the DLP set I have my eye on, so in his mind, it's better.
The same guy bought an HP pavillion that came with a 17" LCD. It's analog, it's slow, I can see mouse trails for gods sake. The panel is of a lesser quality than the screen on my laptop. Of course, he has no idea from computers, and just bought it because it was the most expensive one.
He'll never grok that the 27" flat-tube CRT and 19" monitor that I own display much better pictures. After all, they were about 1/10th the cost - how could they?
There are a lot of people out there like that, they're the ones being marketted to, not me. Hell, he doesn't know (and doesn't care to hear me explain) the difference between LCD, plasma, short-throw DLP, or OLED - he calls anything flat and skinny a "plasma" screen.
I'm waiting for this years DLP chips that will do 1080p, in the Infocus light engine. Plasma is bling for dummies.
Spam - unsolicited advertisement. Not new, people have been jamming flyers under your door since they invented the printing press.
Phishing - tricking someone into divulging financial details/data under a false pretense. See confidence job. People have been getting conned for as long as we've had even the most primitive systems of trade.
Blog - dear diary, JoJo is so hot..
CmdrTaco - the thing you poo out of.
You know what I mean? No more made up new words. The existing words are more than cromulent in any situation.
Your boss can't fire you for voting republican or going to the wrong church. If he did, you could sue him/her. So your freedoms of assembly and religion certainly have everything to do with civil law.
Your constitutional rights are your constitutional rights, and usurp civil and criminal law - you know, "Congress shall make no law..." or are at least supposed to.
I'm of the opinion that the constitution is a vague pile of horseshit (or horfefhit as they said in the olden times) that needs to be rewritten by literate Americans, but hey, what do I know about it.
What about the tobacco companies right to keep their information secret?
I don't buy into far reaching "trade secret" protections. You can arbitrarily decide anything someone says that you don't like is a trade secret, and do an end-run around free speech.
Watergate scandal? Excuse me Mr Woodward, our hotel's security and past break-n record is a trade secret, see you in court.
You want to keep a secret? Only tell one person. Then kill them.
You really cant keep secrets in the information age.
I can't watch Sunday's Simpsons until I get a remote.
There should be a law against selling remote operated products that don't have the equivelant buttons on the device itself. Eg, TiVo, and the downstairs TV in which the only way to put it in rear A/V in mode is via the remote.
Everyone tell us how much we respect IP law, and how much we love Apple for showing the rest of the world that "trade secret" commonlaw usurps the Freedom of Speech guaranteed us by the constitution.
They do, after all, have a neato little touchwheel dealy on the iPod.
a) I don't want to wait 6-12 months for delivery, which I've been told, is about the average turnaround ordering stuff from TiVo. I kind of wanted to watch TV today.
b) That, and I've given TiVo enough of my money directly. 35 bucks for a single-function remote is ridiculous. They don't even give you free shipping. Some people deserve to go bankrupt.
Don't any retailers carry replacements? Or even a third party remote that has the right buttons, in the right places? The philips universals control TiVo, but it makes finding the "TiVo central" and "live tv" buttons a chore.
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The spyware tool is better than what they had before; nothing.
Once it's a regular part of windows update, it can't get anything but better (it's beta for a reason), and the worst that can happen is the volume of spam and bullshit on the 'net will go down a little bit.
So now that they have a model that fixes it, it's finally acceptable for iPod fanboys to admit that THE IPOD SOUNDS LIKE SHIT!
As long as it has a CLI/curses version, because I've been doing all my torrent-ing on a little linux "grunt" box that runs btlaunchmanycurses.py under screen, so it just scans for new .torrents I drag into my home folder, and I check up on it by ssh'ing in.
.torrent in, or check up on it, from anywhere. I'll find, say, a knoppix torrent at noon at work, ftp it up to my box at home, and by the time I get home, it's there waiting for me.
I want to keep this setup because I can drop a
Wine isn't an option. I was used to running my .torrents on a "gruntwork" box, I'd copy .torrent files I wanted to a public share on that box, which would be running a "screen btlaunchmanycurses.py ~", a console-mode version of bittorrent that continuously scans the folder (my home folder ~) for .torrents, and downloads them.
.torrents from exeem and then export them to oldschool bittorrent?
I'd check up on it by ssh'ing in and doing a "screen -x".
So, what's I to do now? Install all the bloat of X and Wine? Because frankly, Win98 runs better on this old box I use for the task (an old P200/MMX)
It's an outside shot, but any chances of an ncurses based exeem client in the mix?
Or, can I get
Anyone? Beuller?
Ronnie James Dio is credited with inventing the devil horns, and according to this (from Kerrang! mag) he takes it pretty seriously.
Ronnie James Dio, the man widely credited for pioneering the "devil's horns" hand sign, recently spoke to Kerrang! about the "widespread abuse of his creation" amongst pop folk and people who flash the sign without knowing the meaning behind it.
"It's all right as long as it's accepted for what it was," Dio told the magazine. "It was a more serious thing at the time, when I was with [BLACK] SABBATH. That was a band that was very dark, and that's what I wanted it to be. It was symbol of the darkness of that band, and not something to be passed on to BRITNEY SPEARS! An invention is an invention, I guess. It's become so damn polluted now. The people who are doing it don't know what it means and they have no idea that they shouldn't be doing it.
"It's a trend," Dio addded. "It's a popular trend and so it will probably become like the hula hoop. During a show, I sometimes think 'Maybe I won't do that tonight', because it's become so damn ludicrous now. Everyone's doing it and it has no meaning anymore. Now I wait until two or three songs into the show, and until there's a stop in the music and I'm doing something on my own, and then the response is incredible because people are wanting that from me. It's like OZZY and the peace sign, you know? So I never
find myself not doing it, but I'm definitely doing it less and less these days.
"The point is that you can't just flash it. You have to a face that goes with it. There has to be some emotion behind it. It can't just be the raising of the arm, trying to get your fingers in the right position. And you'll notice that a lot of people are using the thumb now, too. When the thumb comes out it means 'I love you' either in Hawaiian or in sign language - I'm not sure which! So that's proof, once again, that these celebrities don't really have a clue. As stupid as this might sound, I never once did that on stage unless it was to punctuate something that was a little more dark. So when I did it, it was never about starting a trend. It's a natural thing for me to do. It's important to know that it's not something I did frivolously it was just a spontaneous response to something that I sang. A lot of times, bending of the knees always puts it in a slightly different perspective. It puts you in the Sumo position. Now you're ready to charge!"
Bush, however, was saluting the Texas Longhorns, not "shouting out to the devil". I wish he was, that would be a refreshing break from Christian dogma.
Early in his tenure, Powell embraced broadband development and deployment as a national priority and chose a consistently deregulatory approach. That led to a series of crucial rulings from the FCC, including one in March 2002 that immunized cable modems from the stack of 20th century rules and fees that apply to "telecommunications services," and another in February 2003 that let former Bell companies run fiber to American homes without being required to make the links available to competitors.
Last year, Powell repeatedly shielded VoIP services from intrusive government regulation and taxation. The FCC voted in February that Internet-only VoIP services were not subject to FCC oversight and expanded that view in November to protect VoIP from state regulators. In August, Powell and his colleagues took a major step toward imposing wiretapping rules on VoIP, but stopped short of giving the FBI and other federal police agencies everything they wanted.
Wait until one of our beloved Democrats gets in. They'll put an end to all this affordable broadband and Vonage bullshit.
. My own view is that there are two buttons on a radio or television -- one changes the channel, the other one turns it off. Use them, monitor what your children listen to/watch and don't expect the government to babysit for you.
The Jackson incident is a glaring example of why that doesn't work, when normally I'd agree.
If I don't want my kids listening to or watching Stern, it's easy enough to lock them out of the E! channel when his show comes on.
But, no one expected to see that kind of shit during the Superbowl half-time show. The problem is the Superbowl was rated for all ages.
It pissed a lot of people off, and don't go off on some "well in Europe its ok.." rant. To many, it would be like going to McDonalds, and having them serve your kids vodka in their Happy Meals. People also knew it wasn't an accident, it was dead obvious that it wasn't. It was some washed up old skank trying to be shocking and prop up her failing career.
I'm all for leaving it up to the people, and a ratings system. If a show says they're rated for all ages, and then start cussing and showing nudity, they should be fined because IMO that's fraud.
The TV industry has been hammering the point that we pay by watching commercials lately. Fine, I accept that. Then if you advertise your program as rated all ages, and I pay for it by watching your commercials, and then you cross the line into adult content, well in the marketplace we call behavior like that a bait and switch.
What they did was wrong, and whether or not you personally were offended isn't the point.
Last year, Powell repeatedly shielded VoIP services from intrusive government regulation and taxation. The FCC voted in February that Internet-only VoIP services were not subject to FCC oversight and expanded that view in November to protect VoIP from state regulators. ...
"He let us go out and build this new thing without knowing all the issues beforehand," said Jeff Citron, chief executive of Vonage, the largest U.S. provider of Internet telephone services. "He helped the telephone industry transition from the old to the new world."
Cellphone number portability, Do Not Call list, he's pushed hard to free up more spectrum for WiFi.
But he's republican so let's focus on the stuff we don't like.
This is not a "tech site". This is just another partisan political blog.
None of the editors, posters or submitters understand anything remotely technical.
What's stopping someone from writing an entire environment like OS X from the ground up, around and on top of Linux, and creating an OS X like environment that is as complete and modern as either OS X or Windows?
Nothing at all. Get started, I wish you luck on that.
IMO, something as polished as OSX or Windows can only be created in a corporate setting. There are too many egos wanting different things, it'd be impossible to get a team of 100 coders to all agree to work towards the same set of goals. One guy wants X, another wants Y.
There comes a point when you need someone to say "we're going with X, like it or find another job."
There's more than enough talent to get the job done, but not nearly enough leadership, or talented people who are willing to volunteer their time to take orders to create something - even if it's not exactly what they want to create.
Get working on HURD. Release something, or shut the fuck up.
You haven't done anything relevant in a decade. All you do is shoot your mouth off and drag the entire OSS movement down.
The guys like a lead weight around linux' ankle.
Yes, you can send and recieve faxes and dial-out via modem over VOiP.
I dial out over Vonage all the time, since the only access to most of the boxes I support is via dial-up. There are still plenty of computers that aren't on the 'net, especially where privacy/security is key.
Quit being a jerk.
Of course computer geeks aren't going to associate linux and keyboard with a synthesizer.
And TFA isn't doing so hot right now.
Yeah, but you cant drag all that shit on stage as easily.
Could it be that defamation (lying to hurt or defraud) is somehow different from being sued for telling the truth?
I know they do I just don't care too much for the button layout.
But then again, they control everything I own (XBox, PS2 and TiVo and even that cheap-ass Sears branded TV from 1902)
On an LCD the framerate really is a measure of motion and your eyes/brain don't need a very high rate to perceive smooth motion -- 60fps is plenty fast enough for motion to look buttery smooth.
Only if you have an all-digital (DVI) hookup, if you have an analog panel or connector (which from my experience is still the most common you'll find in retail turn-key PCs), it refreshes the whole screen 60/85 times a second, just like a CRT.
Flat panels have their uses, but to a lot of people they're pure status. A friend of mine (non-techy) recently spent 3,000 on a plasma TV, which is sourced by regular old analog cable. The 4:3 image is stretched to 16:9 so he's not "wasting" the space he payed for.
It looks like complete crap, he understands nothing of HDTV/EDTV, why he should get a progressive scan DVD player for 40 bucks, etc.. We watched "Day after Tomorrow" on it, and the banding in the scenes with the dark clouds really highlighted just how pathetic the contrast is. But it cost more than the DLP set I have my eye on, so in his mind, it's better.
The same guy bought an HP pavillion that came with a 17" LCD. It's analog, it's slow, I can see mouse trails for gods sake. The panel is of a lesser quality than the screen on my laptop. Of course, he has no idea from computers, and just bought it because it was the most expensive one.
He'll never grok that the 27" flat-tube CRT and 19" monitor that I own display much better pictures. After all, they were about 1/10th the cost - how could they?
There are a lot of people out there like that, they're the ones being marketted to, not me. Hell, he doesn't know (and doesn't care to hear me explain) the difference between LCD, plasma, short-throw DLP, or OLED - he calls anything flat and skinny a "plasma" screen.
I'm waiting for this years DLP chips that will do 1080p, in the Infocus light engine. Plasma is bling for dummies.
Spam - unsolicited advertisement. Not new, people have been jamming flyers under your door since they invented the printing press.
Phishing - tricking someone into divulging financial details/data under a false pretense. See confidence job. People have been getting conned for as long as we've had even the most primitive systems of trade.
Blog - dear diary, JoJo is so hot..
CmdrTaco - the thing you poo out of.
You know what I mean? No more made up new words. The existing words are more than cromulent in any situation.
Your boss can't fire you for voting republican or going to the wrong church. If he did, you could sue him/her. So your freedoms of assembly and religion certainly have everything to do with civil law.
Your constitutional rights are your constitutional rights, and usurp civil and criminal law - you know, "Congress shall make no law..." or are at least supposed to.
I'm of the opinion that the constitution is a vague pile of horseshit (or horfefhit as they said in the olden times) that needs to be rewritten by literate Americans, but hey, what do I know about it.
What about the tobacco companies right to keep their information secret?
I don't buy into far reaching "trade secret" protections. You can arbitrarily decide anything someone says that you don't like is a trade secret, and do an end-run around free speech.
Watergate scandal? Excuse me Mr Woodward, our hotel's security and past break-n record is a trade secret, see you in court.
You want to keep a secret? Only tell one person. Then kill them.
You really cant keep secrets in the information age.
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I can't watch Sunday's Simpsons until I get a remote.
There should be a law against selling remote operated products that don't have the equivelant buttons on the device itself. Eg, TiVo, and the downstairs TV in which the only way to put it in rear A/V in mode is via the remote.
Everyone tell us how much we respect IP law, and how much we love Apple for showing the rest of the world that "trade secret" commonlaw usurps the Freedom of Speech guaranteed us by the constitution.
They do, after all, have a neato little touchwheel dealy on the iPod.
a) I don't want to wait 6-12 months for delivery, which I've been told, is about the average turnaround ordering stuff from TiVo. I kind of wanted to watch TV today.
b) That, and I've given TiVo enough of my money directly. 35 bucks for a single-function remote is ridiculous. They don't even give you free shipping. Some people deserve to go bankrupt.
Don't any retailers carry replacements? Or even a third party remote that has the right buttons, in the right places? The philips universals control TiVo, but it makes finding the "TiVo central" and "live tv" buttons a chore.
Ya well, shit happens, and I hardly think they're going to call in the cast of CSI to investigate this.
I mean, for the most part, it's a free service. It's not like those users with free accounts can sue to get their money back.
Are you saying this was Stimpys fault?
You idiot! My god man, do you know what you're saying?