Even though I would guess that only a tiny percent of all web servers need SSL
I use SSL for everything, even if it's just streaming my own private collection of mp3 from my web server. E-mail? IMAP over SSL. Remote access? VNC over SSH.
Why would you not want to encrypt everything is beyond me...
cleaning out their inbox is that unpleasant task they do when they get back from vacation
Why bother? Diskspace is cheaper than the time you waste doing it. Just auto-sort it into folders and archive it. Then when you are old and grey you have a lot of memories to look back on...
Same here, I created an numbered account a few months back, not one spam yet.
My other account is based on my real name. Both my surname and firstname are pretty uncommon, yet I get several hundred spams each time I log in. I've had to put the account on "exclusive" filtering, to only allow mail from folk in my address book. Kills the spam, but breaks a large part of the benefit of e-mail...
You really can't blame M$ for it though...hotmail was one of the first and foremost free-mail services on the net. It has a huge amount of users and that makes it an obvious target for the spammers.
The original playstation probably went through a half dozen, and it never had any incompatibilities
It did have incopmatibilities. Each successive model needed an updated mod chip, the old ones would not work. The updated chips were always backwards compatible however. The number of wires needing soldered also changed, as well as their location on the board (obviously!;-)
Given that the source isn't out, I'd rather stick to the official spyware version
Technically the source is out for the cydoor dll hack. It's the only new binary and it is a set of empty function delarations that normally contain the spyware stuff. By replacing the dll with the sanitized version, the spyware is rendered useless with Kazza none the wiser.
The rest is just the installer. If you are really paranoid there is a web page somewhere explaining how to turn a full legit copy of kazza into kazzalite. However, if you have run it even once before doing the hack, you have already lost because the spyware has already done it's spying.
Besides...WinMx is better and has no spyware at all. (according to it's web page and ad-aware). It's slightly harder to use, but in the way that vi is harder to use than notepad. The extra features like adjustable queuing thresholds (AEQ) are really powerful, if you know what you are doing.
by taking up arms against your country, you nullify your citizenship. it's just that simple.
They you had better lock up Washington, because he once did the same thing. How different would the world be now?
Granted, you can't compare the two people, but the whole point of a fair system is that everyone is treated the same. You can't treat someone differentantly just because you don't like them.
I have to wonder: do law enforcement officials honestly view shaking hands as a sign of guilt?
I know that airport customs (not security) look for people who are not nervous. It's normal to be intimidated under those curcumstances, and they look for the out-of-the-ordinary.
The old one about looking someone in the eye for truth detection is false as well. If someone looks you in the eye while telling you something, and they don't usually act like that, chances are they are lying.
Well, get it chipped to disable Macrovision then. Even if your country has a DMCA law, who cares? Are they going to have UN Media Inspectors opening everyones hardware to check? Doubt it.
Even if you were to be procecuted you aren't really breaking any reasonable laws, so I doubt anything would happen. You aren't duplicating media you don't own. You will not be going to hell for it either. Screw them. People generally don't kill others because "it's wrong" not because "it's illegal". If you aren't harming anyone, do what the hell you like. I'm sure you don't live in a police state, so go for it!
And lest we forget the remote controls, those huge, almost electric shaver sized things, that controlled the TV with a loud click (hence the term the older folks use for remote controls, "The clicker", despite not doing such nowadays)...
lol, my gran had one of them. Thinking back, it's probably a spark-gap transmitter, the physical action of pushing the button down generated the power IIRC. It's funny, because it isn't all that different to the wide-band technologies appearing just now!
the content won't be shot for a 3x4 ratio, but a 16x9. Much of the essential action in a scene may be out of the 3x4 ratio viewing area. So you may be able to use your old set, but what good will it do you?
Widescreen is the future, true. However, when viewing it on a traditional 3x4 TV, you should use the letterbox setting, putting black bars on the top and bottom.
In the UK, most home-made content is already 16x9. This doesn't mean that the end-user loses out with an old TV. With the digital cable/satalite systems you can choose to zoom in the picture or have the bars. On screen graphics are designed to not use the end portions at the moment, to give everyone a chance to catch up. I presume over time this will change, but at the moment you can easily see where the "safe zone" is.
Last time I was in a TV store, the vast majority of TVs were 16x9. Most DVDs are in the widescreen formats. I'm confused as to why anyone would want to buy, never mind manufacture a 3x4 HDTV. Did any thought go into futureproofing? You really can't hold technology back because the early adopters made some stupid decissions!
In the UK, Digital Televisions are not available in sizes less than 28", and at approximately double the price of the equivalent analog TV.
What? The only "Digital Televisions" available in the UK were ones with the OnDigital receiver built in. OnDigital was a digital-over-UHF provider that went bust 6 months ago. You'd be hard-pressed to find one anywhere, seeing as they don't offer any additional channels over terestrial TV (the free channels are still broadcast, but no premium content is available).
In the UK, digital TV is not the same as the US DTV. All it is is a transport medium for the signal to reach your set. It's still a PAL format and it plays on a regular TV. There are no plans for HDTV, which isn't all that neccessary as PAL is still pretty good technology, especially if you hook it up over S-Video or component-RGB which most TVs have had for many (8+) years here. God bless SCART, which also carries data lines to allow for auto-channel changing when you press play on your DVD etc.
Digital cable/satalite is pretty big however. It offers interactive content as well as lot's of channels. There is no incompatibility with existing sets, any TV can be hooked up to it. For the technologically chalenged it also offers RF output for it to work with just about anything. Most content is in anamorphic 16/9, with auto-switching for your TV. It's a great system.
TVs with digital signal processing are another kettle of fish altogether. I really don't understand the point of these. The picture never looks better than traditional sets, you get artifacts of a analog->digital->analog conversion that just isn't neccessary. At the most basic level a TV is analog. The signal going into it is analog. Why would you want to convert this to digital and back again within the TV?
Hell, most people don't even see the advantage in DVDs
Again, I don't understand where you are getting this from. DVD is huge here. The only person I know that does not have a DVD player is a friend who doesn't even have a mobile phone and never watches much TV anyway. Anyone can instantly see the advantage in DVD, especially when you factor in on-line ordering from abroad, where you can get cheaper prices. My parents have one and they don't even have a PC or internet!
So ISP's have to keep records of where you surf? Bullshit
You haven't been keeping up with the news then...how do you think they are catching all the existing kiddie porn folks? They install black-boxes in the ISPs to snoop on the wire. Anything interesting gets logged.
Here in the UK a law has just been passed forcing the ISPs to allow for this. The US is the same, the CIA and NSA are into net surveilence in a big way. Ahh, don't you just love the anti-terrorism laws, the only people happy about them are the terrorists!;-)
Someone should remind this guy that the rate of kidnapping has steadily gone down over the last decade (hasn't he been watching the news?)
It's not the impression that the layman gets. Going by the volume of media reporting of child abductions, many people think it is actually going up, especially here in the UK. Why do you think so many parents drive their kids to school?
It worries me. The developed world is becoming safer all the time but thanks to the media's desire to have more sales/viewers and humans morbid facination with these things, it's so in your face that you have to remind yourself that it is extremely rare. The whole facination with this stuff is similar to slowing down to look at a road accident, or watching soap operas. It appears to be human nature to be facinated by this stuff. Perhaps society has become so safe we look for ways to become scared, e.g. rollercoasters, scary movies, extreme sports and so on...
Very insightful. Wireless is anti-Nokia and is not in their interests. A nationwide community wireless network might destroy their investment in 3G. Alteriour motives methinks...
Just wait until VOIP and WEP become big. Mobile phones as we know them could be obselete. It's all converging anyway...
Probably. You'd be amazed at how many of the big hardware companies outsource the manufacturing of hardware and then stick their own badge on it. Often you can see the exact same device with diffent brand names, but that usually only happens with the smaller companies.
Even if they don't do that, it will be off-the-shell components that make it. I don't see MS building a PCB and IC fabrication facility, or designing the PCB track layout.
So in essence, this article is about MS striking a contract to rebadge someone elses products. You do get their support and reseller infrastructure from that (for better or worse). The stuff should be pretty good quality, putting aside all the MS bashing, these companies do live and die based on reputations, so it should be decent.
I wonder if it will ship with an insecure default config? That would be a turnup for MS, if they get that aspect right for once!
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but wouldn't the car turn itself in such a way as to minimize air resistance
The weight of the engine at the front would help this surely...
Tried to return the CD, but as it had been opened, I was kindly refused. I felt cheated
You were cheated. If the box said the card should be there and it wasn't, they'll have violated some sort of trade descriptions act, or whatever the Oz equivalent law is. You were missold a defective product. You just didn't complain loudly enough, a lot of stores try to fob everyone off first time they complain. Jeez, how are you to know that the card isn't there until you open it? It's like selling a DVD player were the box only actually had a couple of bricks in it. Do you think that opening that box voids any consumer rights you have?
Have you still got the receipt? If so, speak to a local consumer rights group. Failing that, get the tracks of a p2p network. Whatever your feelings on file-sharing, you are morally entitled to these.
"I went in with a bachelor's of marijuana and came out with a doctorate in cocaine."
I personally believe that (with a few case-by-case exceptions), non-violent offenders should not be thrown in jail as a rule. What is wrong with giving them community service and the like? Thsis warez guy could have spent his time teaching disadvantaged children how to use a computer.
The question should be; do they pose a threat to other people and need to be removed from society? Pirating software (however your feelings on the subject) doesn't do that.
Or it could just be that prison is more about vengence rather than justice.
You obviously missed the point of that post. As you point out, rape is a horrible crime. So how can it be just that someone who commits rape will spend less time in prison than someone who copied (not stole) some digital bits? That's if the rapist actually gets any prison time to compare his with.
There are other idiotic sentencing issues...you can spend more time in prison for bringing a natural harmless plant over an imaginary line than you would if you held someone at gunpoint and robbed them. In the latter case, the person could be traumatised for rest of their life, looking over their shoulder every time they go out. In the first case, well they might feel the urge to eat some junk food.
It depends who the crime is against really. If it's big business like the RIAA, software companies or the alcohol & tobacco lobbies, you are in trouble. Harm a real person, you'll be out by Friday.
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I use SSL for everything, even if it's just streaming my own private collection of mp3 from my web server. E-mail? IMAP over SSL. Remote access? VNC over SSH.
Why would you not want to encrypt everything is beyond me...
Why bother? Diskspace is cheaper than the time you waste doing it. Just auto-sort it into folders and archive it. Then when you are old and grey you have a lot of memories to look back on...
My other account is based on my real name. Both my surname and firstname are pretty uncommon, yet I get several hundred spams each time I log in. I've had to put the account on "exclusive" filtering, to only allow mail from folk in my address book. Kills the spam, but breaks a large part of the benefit of e-mail...
You really can't blame M$ for it though...hotmail was one of the first and foremost free-mail services on the net. It has a huge amount of users and that makes it an obvious target for the spammers.
Sheesh, most parents get their kids lego and the like to get away from that nonsense. Monkey see, monkey do...
It did have incopmatibilities. Each successive model needed an updated mod chip, the old ones would not work. The updated chips were always backwards compatible however. The number of wires needing soldered also changed, as well as their location on the board (obviously! ;-)
Like steel?
Defeats the purpose, the spyware has already done it's job.
Technically the source is out for the cydoor dll hack. It's the only new binary and it is a set of empty function delarations that normally contain the spyware stuff. By replacing the dll with the sanitized version, the spyware is rendered useless with Kazza none the wiser.
The rest is just the installer. If you are really paranoid there is a web page somewhere explaining how to turn a full legit copy of kazza into kazzalite. However, if you have run it even once before doing the hack, you have already lost because the spyware has already done it's spying.
Besides...WinMx is better and has no spyware at all. (according to it's web page and ad-aware). It's slightly harder to use, but in the way that vi is harder to use than notepad. The extra features like adjustable queuing thresholds (AEQ) are really powerful, if you know what you are doing.
They you had better lock up Washington, because he once did the same thing. How different would the world be now?
Granted, you can't compare the two people, but the whole point of a fair system is that everyone is treated the same. You can't treat someone differentantly just because you don't like them.
I know that airport customs (not security) look for people who are not nervous. It's normal to be intimidated under those curcumstances, and they look for the out-of-the-ordinary.
The old one about looking someone in the eye for truth detection is false as well. If someone looks you in the eye while telling you something, and they don't usually act like that, chances are they are lying.
Well, get it chipped to disable Macrovision then. Even if your country has a DMCA law, who cares? Are they going to have UN Media Inspectors opening everyones hardware to check? Doubt it.
Even if you were to be procecuted you aren't really breaking any reasonable laws, so I doubt anything would happen. You aren't duplicating media you don't own. You will not be going to hell for it either. Screw them. People generally don't kill others because "it's wrong" not because "it's illegal". If you aren't harming anyone, do what the hell you like. I'm sure you don't live in a police state, so go for it!
lol, my gran had one of them. Thinking back, it's probably a spark-gap transmitter, the physical action of pushing the button down generated the power IIRC. It's funny, because it isn't all that different to the wide-band technologies appearing just now!
Widescreen is the future, true. However, when viewing it on a traditional 3x4 TV, you should use the letterbox setting, putting black bars on the top and bottom.
In the UK, most home-made content is already 16x9. This doesn't mean that the end-user loses out with an old TV. With the digital cable/satalite systems you can choose to zoom in the picture or have the bars. On screen graphics are designed to not use the end portions at the moment, to give everyone a chance to catch up. I presume over time this will change, but at the moment you can easily see where the "safe zone" is.
Last time I was in a TV store, the vast majority of TVs were 16x9. Most DVDs are in the widescreen formats. I'm confused as to why anyone would want to buy, never mind manufacture a 3x4 HDTV. Did any thought go into futureproofing? You really can't hold technology back because the early adopters made some stupid decissions!
What? The only "Digital Televisions" available in the UK were ones with the OnDigital receiver built in. OnDigital was a digital-over-UHF provider that went bust 6 months ago. You'd be hard-pressed to find one anywhere, seeing as they don't offer any additional channels over terestrial TV (the free channels are still broadcast, but no premium content is available).
In the UK, digital TV is not the same as the US DTV. All it is is a transport medium for the signal to reach your set. It's still a PAL format and it plays on a regular TV. There are no plans for HDTV, which isn't all that neccessary as PAL is still pretty good technology, especially if you hook it up over S-Video or component-RGB which most TVs have had for many (8+) years here. God bless SCART, which also carries data lines to allow for auto-channel changing when you press play on your DVD etc.
Digital cable/satalite is pretty big however. It offers interactive content as well as lot's of channels. There is no incompatibility with existing sets, any TV can be hooked up to it. For the technologically chalenged it also offers RF output for it to work with just about anything. Most content is in anamorphic 16/9, with auto-switching for your TV. It's a great system.
TVs with digital signal processing are another kettle of fish altogether. I really don't understand the point of these. The picture never looks better than traditional sets, you get artifacts of a analog->digital->analog conversion that just isn't neccessary. At the most basic level a TV is analog. The signal going into it is analog. Why would you want to convert this to digital and back again within the TV?
Hell, most people don't even see the advantage in DVDs
Again, I don't understand where you are getting this from. DVD is huge here. The only person I know that does not have a DVD player is a friend who doesn't even have a mobile phone and never watches much TV anyway. Anyone can instantly see the advantage in DVD, especially when you factor in on-line ordering from abroad, where you can get cheaper prices. My parents have one and they don't even have a PC or internet!
You haven't been keeping up with the news then...how do you think they are catching all the existing kiddie porn folks? They install black-boxes in the ISPs to snoop on the wire. Anything interesting gets logged.
Here in the UK a law has just been passed forcing the ISPs to allow for this. The US is the same, the CIA and NSA are into net surveilence in a big way. Ahh, don't you just love the anti-terrorism laws, the only people happy about them are the terrorists! ;-)
I don't care what they have done, signing them up for AOL is just plain evil!...
It's not the impression that the layman gets. Going by the volume of media reporting of child abductions, many people think it is actually going up, especially here in the UK. Why do you think so many parents drive their kids to school?
It worries me. The developed world is becoming safer all the time but thanks to the media's desire to have more sales/viewers and humans morbid facination with these things, it's so in your face that you have to remind yourself that it is extremely rare. The whole facination with this stuff is similar to slowing down to look at a road accident, or watching soap operas. It appears to be human nature to be facinated by this stuff. Perhaps society has become so safe we look for ways to become scared, e.g. rollercoasters, scary movies, extreme sports and so on...
Because...they are made of wood?!?
Just wait until VOIP and WEP become big. Mobile phones as we know them could be obselete. It's all converging anyway...
Probably. You'd be amazed at how many of the big hardware companies outsource the manufacturing of hardware and then stick their own badge on it. Often you can see the exact same device with diffent brand names, but that usually only happens with the smaller companies.
Even if they don't do that, it will be off-the-shell components that make it. I don't see MS building a PCB and IC fabrication facility, or designing the PCB track layout.
So in essence, this article is about MS striking a contract to rebadge someone elses products. You do get their support and reseller infrastructure from that (for better or worse). The stuff should be pretty good quality, putting aside all the MS bashing, these companies do live and die based on reputations, so it should be decent.
I wonder if it will ship with an insecure default config? That would be a turnup for MS, if they get that aspect right for once!
The weight of the engine at the front would help this surely...
Hmm, I wonder if the p2p networks could get slashdotted? That would only be good for them, more users, more shares...
You were cheated. If the box said the card should be there and it wasn't, they'll have violated some sort of trade descriptions act, or whatever the Oz equivalent law is. You were missold a defective product. You just didn't complain loudly enough, a lot of stores try to fob everyone off first time they complain. Jeez, how are you to know that the card isn't there until you open it? It's like selling a DVD player were the box only actually had a couple of bricks in it. Do you think that opening that box voids any consumer rights you have?
Have you still got the receipt? If so, speak to a local consumer rights group. Failing that, get the tracks of a p2p network. Whatever your feelings on file-sharing, you are morally entitled to these.
From the movie Blow:
"I went in with a bachelor's of marijuana and came out with a doctorate in cocaine."
I personally believe that (with a few case-by-case exceptions), non-violent offenders should not be thrown in jail as a rule. What is wrong with giving them community service and the like? Thsis warez guy could have spent his time teaching disadvantaged children how to use a computer.
The question should be; do they pose a threat to other people and need to be removed from society? Pirating software (however your feelings on the subject) doesn't do that.
Or it could just be that prison is more about vengence rather than justice.
There are other idiotic sentencing issues...you can spend more time in prison for bringing a natural harmless plant over an imaginary line than you would if you held someone at gunpoint and robbed them. In the latter case, the person could be traumatised for rest of their life, looking over their shoulder every time they go out. In the first case, well they might feel the urge to eat some junk food.
It depends who the crime is against really. If it's big business like the RIAA, software companies or the alcohol & tobacco lobbies, you are in trouble. Harm a real person, you'll be out by Friday.