I wonder if there's a way to pollute their blacklist with so many bogus entries that they have to give up.
Ingenious. All anybody who wanted to do that would need to do is write some sort of script/program, that increments serial and mac and logs in. Gets kicked. Increment, log in, get kicked.
I would imagine you could do it with a shell script if you had linux installed on it.
This isn't so much a problem. They still cannot get online with the mod chip plugged in. However, this allows for a chance to escape blacklisting if someone were to have accidentally logged in before disabling the chip. Still, an active chip will get you kicked.
More and more I am unable to shop! First I chose to stop buying CDs to keep my cash out of the RIAA's hands. Then I decided to no longer see movies in the theaters as part of my protest to the actions of the mpaa. Now I can't shop at Wal-Mart, Staples, Target, or Best Buy. I shop fairly regularly at all of those stores but Target! Wow, if the world were populated with people like me, companies would think twice before fucking their customers.
That is GOOD. I come from a town that sounds like it is about the same size. In my town I would be lucky if I said Linux and anyone (aside from father) knew what I was talking about.
Perhaps it will indeed save them money when deploying their new infrastructure, but god forbid this guy move out of the area!
If he leaves, someone local techie will get hired his position. The network is small enough that it won't require hard core networking ability.
I have already argued this, and I'll argue it again. MS Office is not, by any stretch of the imagination, difficult to use. Only one person (my girlfriend) have I ever witnessed having troubles with it. Furthermore, at my university (and most others I would assume) to get a non-computing related major, you have to take low-level computer science courses based on MS products. Students WILL learn MS Office eventually. This just broadens what they learn. More is always better I would think.
I think this is about half right. The truth is though that children should be exposed to both. I think once a child has learned the basics of computing on a linux machine MS Office would be a breeze. I hardly use the thing, but have never had trouble busting out a graph, paper, or database when I needed one. The question is, how many people can figure out linux quickly on thier own (assuming they are even exposed to it). We know kids will be exposed to Windows, so why not try and expose them to something else as well.
My high school (not a big or fancy one) had a C++ course, a typing course, and a course over basic computer applications. There were also computers in the art lab and the journalism studio. I would say that there are plenty of legitimate uses for computers in schools. Basic typing itself being enough to justify at least one computer lab.
It is all fine and well that you say Deep Blue is not AI, but nowhere in the article is it even suggested that it is! In fact, the creators say that it isn't AI. Your entire comment is a complete waste of space.
"Man, if I only had a bunch of virtual desktops so I could have an uncluttered screen."
"Wow, what I wouldn't give for grep right now."
"Hell, why is it that the registry is so incomprehensible? I wish I had a manpage or a README describing this crap."
"Stupid spam. I'd love to have procmail running here. Ah well, I guess I'll wait until I reboot to Linux to read my non-web email."
"It's so great that I've got tabs in Mozilla. Why can't I have them on my windows too like I do in Linux?"
Some of those are terrible arguments.
1: You can have them in XP. Install powertoys, and turn them on. 2: Use one of the many spam filters for Windows (mozilla has a new Bayesian one). 3: Install mozilla for windows, or better yet Phoenix. You'll have the SAME FUCKING TABS as in Linux.
The original poster is right frozen. Your comments don't address the underlying issues.
I am computer engineering major (junior) and I too often am in Linux and have to boot over to windows for something. Never do I HAVE to boot to linux to do something. Don't get me wrong, I love Linux, but I can be productive without it. Not have windows, would cause me problems right now (which is why I still have it).
To argue your comments: 1) You do not HAVE to use.net when coding in windows. I right all of my code in windows and I use gcc. I this is a non-issue.
2) I play games. Most of them can't be played under Linux, or are considerably more trouble to set up. (see answer 4 for more info)
3) This is hard to argue, the interfaces are good, just not as good.
4) My sound card does not work in Linux (at least not well). I have a soundblaster audigy platinum. It is a PAIN to get working, and even when I get it working (I usually don't take the time to) it most of the features don't work. I can't record with it, the remote is non-functional, etc. I WANT THOSE UNDER LINUX TOO!
If linux had such a whole the BEST POSSIBLE THING would be for it to be posted to bugtraq. As soon as it hit the page there would be 20-30 people trying to recreate and patch the bug. We don't have the option to write our own patch for IE.
I'll try and hook you up here. Seeing as most of the replies to this I have checked were ridiculous. Basically what these guys are looking at is new ways to use the lower parts of the OSI model.
The networking model is divided into seven layers. These guys are looking at mainly levels 2-4. These layers are: 2) Data Link, 3) Network, 4) Transport. It looks like most of this focuses on the Network and Transport Layer, where TCP/IP live (reverse respectively). There are basic things you can do with tcp/ip values and protocols, such as trace route, ping, etc. They are finding new things. An example of the typical tcp/ip function is the traceroute. You send a packet with TTL(Time to Live) set to 1. Whoever it hits tells you it died. Then you do 2. Slowly you find your way to the destination, tracing each hop along the way. They are finding new, similar uses for tcp/ip.
My girlfriend has also taken a love my Suse 8.1 installation. Hell, I'll have windows up and running for multimedia (I am sorry, but the Linux support for the Sounblaster Audigy Platinum is atrocious) and she will boot over to Linux! Very impressive considering until she started using my computer she had never even heard of linux (or really any other operating system besides windows).
He is talking about a lag in software as compared to hardware (although yes, he the DX8 comparisons are wrong for Doom 3). What he means is, I build a GPU, and release it. Now software companies, can start taking advantage of all of the cool things my GPU can do. So, two years after I release it, there will be games that use it to its full potential.
Basically, don't buy any piece of hardware right when it comes out. It will be cheaper, and more useful, in another 6 months.
I can imagine that this technology could be great for young people as well. Especially the nerdy type slashdot crowd.
I know I for one love to play sports and whatnot, but there is this problem of me sucking atrociously. I can run really fast, but coordination is so poor that bad things happen to me at these breakneck speeds. In fact, I can hardly even watch sports with my poor balance (4 or 5 times fallen on the bleachers this season). Shoes like this could add a lot of enjoyment to my fraternities pick up football games. Hey, we could even try intermurals next year! And us engineers would be the only frat nerdy enough to know about it!
Your inner ear helps you keep track of where up and down are which way you are moving. However, as far as where your feet need to be moved to keep you upright, that is determined by what the nerves in your feet send to your brain.
Broadcast stations play copyrighted music all of the time and pay no royalties. It is well understood that radio stations provide a service to the music industry that would otherwise have to advertise music. You have seen music advertisements on TV I assure you, and know what? They suck.
Radio is the lifeblood of the music industry. That is why record companies pay of radio bigwigs to get their pet projects played. The only reason the RIAA is targetting webcasters is because it internet related and that scares them.
I don't don't know about the rest of you, but personally, I am done buying CD's. Honestly. I have put off making this decision for a long time, but honestly, it's long overdue. For me, this is the straw that broke the camel's back. I can only hope a lot of other people feel the same way.
The sad thing for the RIAA is, that I really used to buy quite a lot of cds. By the time graduated high school I had nearly 100, and this mostly bought out of my own cash. Even as a poor colloege student I always buy my favorite bands cd's, but not anymore. Sad really, looks like I'll never own that new Pearl Jam. Oh well, I'll support the band by continuing to go see concerts and buying t-shirts and posters. The RIAA will never see another dime of my hard earned money.
I do not believe that art will quit being created as soon as the artist loses the "incentive" to create. Creation is its own incentive, as any artist out there will tell you. Will the Britney Spears and N'Syncs of the world disappear... maybe, but I bet we still even have quite a few pop stars left. They just won't be controlled by record companies anymore.
How many artists died destitute only to be posthumously considered some of the greatest of all time? Edgar Allen Poe comes to mind, as does Emily Dickinson. Real artists with a passion to create will create, and those that are good will get played by radio and develop cult followings and sell concert tickets. How much airplay does Phish get, and how do their concerts sell? On basically no airplay they sell out huge shows. Pearl Jam has had little radio attention for years, but they have a following because their talent shows. This is the future of music. Record companies are only delaying the inevitable.
Your average signed musician will make far more money off of merchandise (posters, t-shirts, tab-books), licensing of music, and concert ticket sales than through record distribution. The truth, distribution (the way it is done today) is wasteful, and costs everyone). The record company spends a lot of money in bidding wars of artists, paying legal fees, and lobbying, but this money does not come from thin air. This money is tacked on to the prices of cd's, and ends up costing both the artist and the consumers. Artists have to sell so many cds to break even, that most artists don't. Even a lot of famous artists have trouble keeping up.
Furthermore, the record company is paying so many people in the process of recording that these cd prices are driven up even higher. They must pay a producer and engineer for the tracking. Then a mixer comes in (often a big name who requires a lot of money to put the same mix on any record passed to him). After the mixer is done with this record it is passed to a master engineer who uses brick wall algorithms to make the sound even more generic. Then it is passed on to us. All of these people cost money, and just make the system bloated. Overall, we are better off without record companies. Good bands will get better recognition when record companies aren't paying off radio stations to play the stuff they want to hype.
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Are you saying that the reason to use open source is because you hate Microsoft? If so that is a fine enough reason I suppose; however, isn't BETTER for people to use oss because it has actual, tangible advantages to the status quo? I would much rather hear, "The Gimp is just better for what I do than photoshop." than "I hate Adobe, so I'm not using their software!"
Sure, boycotting a company due to their practices is fantastic as far as your own standards go, but most people don't care that MS is an evil empire. However, they do care if they can get more customizable, better software at a lower price.
The problem of isn't that they want to stop children from accessing pornography. That is fine with me. The problem is when it steps on other toes and wastes good money. First of all, these programs are by their very nature inneffective. Either they block based on keywords, which becomes overrestrictive. Any program blocking sites with the words porn, sex, or anal, would block slashdot today, any site about identifieng an animals gender (sexing it), and sites relating to proctology. None of these sites are harmful to children (well, they might not like to now about the very probably prostate exams they'll be facing in the next 60 years). However, the other programs underprotect, they block by blacklisting sites. This also doesn't work because the web changes too fast to blocklist all sites. In fact, the legitimate, credit-card requiring sites will be the easiest ones to block. It is "Joe Bob's kewl BOOBS!" that will be hard to catch because the site is only open for an hour and half every morning before his bandwidth runs out.
All in all, you look at a lot of library money being drained for programs that do nothing but deny adults their rights as well as block children from porn, or just plain don't work.
The U.S. is right (and yes I'm American, that isn't what this about). Canada has no claim to waters or ice (which is, of course, water) outside of its 200 mile limit. That is an international passage according to the rest of the world. Unless Canada convince everyone else (it can't) that there is some reason Canada can claim those waters... they can't.
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I wonder if there's a way to pollute their blacklist with so many bogus entries that they have to give up.
Ingenious. All anybody who wanted to do that would need to do is write some sort of script/program, that increments serial and mac and logs in. Gets kicked. Increment, log in, get kicked.
I would imagine you could do it with a shell script if you had linux installed on it.
This isn't so much a problem. They still cannot get online with the mod chip plugged in. However, this allows for a chance to escape blacklisting if someone were to have accidentally logged in before disabling the chip. Still, an active chip will get you kicked.
Somebody set us up the penguin.
More and more I am unable to shop! First I chose to stop buying CDs to keep my cash out of the RIAA's hands. Then I decided to no longer see movies in the theaters as part of my protest to the actions of the mpaa. Now I can't shop at Wal-Mart, Staples, Target, or Best Buy. I shop fairly regularly at all of those stores but Target! Wow, if the world were populated with people like me, companies would think twice before fucking their customers.
That is GOOD. I come from a town that sounds like it is about the same size. In my town I would be lucky if I said Linux and anyone (aside from father) knew what I was talking about.
Perhaps it will indeed save them money when deploying their new infrastructure, but god forbid this guy move out of the area!
If he leaves, someone local techie will get hired his position. The network is small enough that it won't require hard core networking ability.
I have already argued this, and I'll argue it again. MS Office is not, by any stretch of the imagination, difficult to use. Only one person (my girlfriend) have I ever witnessed having troubles with it. Furthermore, at my university (and most others I would assume) to get a non-computing related major, you have to take low-level computer science courses based on MS products. Students WILL learn MS Office eventually. This just broadens what they learn. More is always better I would think.
I think this is about half right. The truth is though that children should be exposed to both. I think once a child has learned the basics of computing on a linux machine MS Office would be a breeze. I hardly use the thing, but have never had trouble busting out a graph, paper, or database when I needed one. The question is, how many people can figure out linux quickly on thier own (assuming they are even exposed to it). We know kids will be exposed to Windows, so why not try and expose them to something else as well.
My high school (not a big or fancy one) had a C++ course, a typing course, and a course over basic computer applications. There were also computers in the art lab and the journalism studio. I would say that there are plenty of legitimate uses for computers in schools. Basic typing itself being enough to justify at least one computer lab.
Please, Deep Blue is not AI
It is all fine and well that you say Deep Blue is not AI, but nowhere in the article is it even suggested that it is! In fact, the creators say that it isn't AI. Your entire comment is a complete waste of space.
"Man, if I only had a bunch of virtual desktops so I could have an uncluttered screen." "Wow, what I wouldn't give for grep right now." "Hell, why is it that the registry is so incomprehensible? I wish I had a manpage or a README describing this crap." "Stupid spam. I'd love to have procmail running here. Ah well, I guess I'll wait until I reboot to Linux to read my non-web email." "It's so great that I've got tabs in Mozilla. Why can't I have them on my windows too like I do in Linux?"
Some of those are terrible arguments.
1: You can have them in XP. Install powertoys, and turn them on.
2: Use one of the many spam filters for Windows (mozilla has a new Bayesian one).
3: Install mozilla for windows, or better yet Phoenix. You'll have the SAME FUCKING TABS as in Linux.
The original poster is right frozen. Your comments don't address the underlying issues.
.net when coding in windows. I right all of my code in windows and I use gcc. I this is a non-issue.
I am computer engineering major (junior) and I too often am in Linux and have to boot over to windows for something. Never do I HAVE to boot to linux to do something. Don't get me wrong, I love Linux, but I can be productive without it. Not have windows, would cause me problems right now (which is why I still have it).
To argue your comments:
1) You do not HAVE to use
2) I play games. Most of them can't be played under Linux, or are considerably more trouble to set up. (see answer 4 for more info)
3) This is hard to argue, the interfaces are good, just not as good.
4) My sound card does not work in Linux (at least not well). I have a soundblaster audigy platinum. It is a PAIN to get working, and even when I get it working (I usually don't take the time to) it most of the features don't work. I can't record with it, the remote is non-functional, etc. I WANT THOSE UNDER LINUX TOO!
If linux had such a whole the BEST POSSIBLE THING would be for it to be posted to bugtraq. As soon as it hit the page there would be 20-30 people trying to recreate and patch the bug. We don't have the option to write our own patch for IE.
I'll try and hook you up here. Seeing as most of the replies to this I have checked were ridiculous. Basically what these guys are looking at is new ways to use the lower parts of the OSI model.
The networking model is divided into seven layers. These guys are looking at mainly levels 2-4. These layers are: 2) Data Link, 3) Network, 4) Transport. It looks like most of this focuses on the Network and Transport Layer, where TCP/IP live (reverse respectively). There are basic things you can do with tcp/ip values and protocols, such as trace route, ping, etc. They are finding new things. An example of the typical tcp/ip function is the traceroute. You send a packet with TTL(Time to Live) set to 1. Whoever it hits tells you it died. Then you do 2. Slowly you find your way to the destination, tracing each hop along the way. They are finding new, similar uses for tcp/ip.
My girlfriend has also taken a love my Suse 8.1 installation. Hell, I'll have windows up and running for multimedia (I am sorry, but the Linux support for the Sounblaster Audigy Platinum is atrocious) and she will boot over to Linux! Very impressive considering until she started using my computer she had never even heard of linux (or really any other operating system besides windows).
He is talking about a lag in software as compared to hardware (although yes, he the DX8 comparisons are wrong for Doom 3). What he means is, I build a GPU, and release it. Now software companies, can start taking advantage of all of the cool things my GPU can do. So, two years after I release it, there will be games that use it to its full potential. Basically, don't buy any piece of hardware right when it comes out. It will be cheaper, and more useful, in another 6 months.
I can imagine that this technology could be great for young people as well. Especially the nerdy type slashdot crowd.
I know I for one love to play sports and whatnot, but there is this problem of me sucking atrociously. I can run really fast, but coordination is so poor that bad things happen to me at these breakneck speeds. In fact, I can hardly even watch sports with my poor balance (4 or 5 times fallen on the bleachers this season). Shoes like this could add a lot of enjoyment to my fraternities pick up football games. Hey, we could even try intermurals next year! And us engineers would be the only frat nerdy enough to know about it!
Your inner ear helps you keep track of where up and down are which way you are moving. However, as far as where your feet need to be moved to keep you upright, that is determined by what the nerves in your feet send to your brain.
"You could go give the band a fiver, they could probably hang on to that."
Hmm, I guess maybe that's what I'll have to do.
Broadcast stations play copyrighted music all of the time and pay no royalties. It is well understood that radio stations provide a service to the music industry that would otherwise have to advertise music. You have seen music advertisements on TV I assure you, and know what? They suck. Radio is the lifeblood of the music industry. That is why record companies pay of radio bigwigs to get their pet projects played. The only reason the RIAA is targetting webcasters is because it internet related and that scares them.
I don't don't know about the rest of you, but personally, I am done buying CD's. Honestly. I have put off making this decision for a long time, but honestly, it's long overdue. For me, this is the straw that broke the camel's back. I can only hope a lot of other people feel the same way.
The sad thing for the RIAA is, that I really used to buy quite a lot of cds. By the time graduated high school I had nearly 100, and this mostly bought out of my own cash. Even as a poor colloege student I always buy my favorite bands cd's, but not anymore. Sad really, looks like I'll never own that new Pearl Jam. Oh well, I'll support the band by continuing to go see concerts and buying t-shirts and posters. The RIAA will never see another dime of my hard earned money.
I do not believe that art will quit being created as soon as the artist loses the "incentive" to create. Creation is its own incentive, as any artist out there will tell you. Will the Britney Spears and N'Syncs of the world disappear... maybe, but I bet we still even have quite a few pop stars left. They just won't be controlled by record companies anymore.
How many artists died destitute only to be posthumously considered some of the greatest of all time? Edgar Allen Poe comes to mind, as does Emily Dickinson. Real artists with a passion to create will create, and those that are good will get played by radio and develop cult followings and sell concert tickets. How much airplay does Phish get, and how do their concerts sell? On basically no airplay they sell out huge shows. Pearl Jam has had little radio attention for years, but they have a following because their talent shows. This is the future of music. Record companies are only delaying the inevitable.
Your average signed musician will make far more money off of merchandise (posters, t-shirts, tab-books), licensing of music, and concert ticket sales than through record distribution. The truth, distribution (the way it is done today) is wasteful, and costs everyone). The record company spends a lot of money in bidding wars of artists, paying legal fees, and lobbying, but this money does not come from thin air. This money is tacked on to the prices of cd's, and ends up costing both the artist and the consumers. Artists have to sell so many cds to break even, that most artists don't. Even a lot of famous artists have trouble keeping up. Furthermore, the record company is paying so many people in the process of recording that these cd prices are driven up even higher. They must pay a producer and engineer for the tracking. Then a mixer comes in (often a big name who requires a lot of money to put the same mix on any record passed to him). After the mixer is done with this record it is passed to a master engineer who uses brick wall algorithms to make the sound even more generic. Then it is passed on to us. All of these people cost money, and just make the system bloated. Overall, we are better off without record companies. Good bands will get better recognition when record companies aren't paying off radio stations to play the stuff they want to hype.
Are you saying that the reason to use open source is because you hate Microsoft? If so that is a fine enough reason I suppose; however, isn't BETTER for people to use oss because it has actual, tangible advantages to the status quo? I would much rather hear, "The Gimp is just better for what I do than photoshop." than "I hate Adobe, so I'm not using their software!" Sure, boycotting a company due to their practices is fantastic as far as your own standards go, but most people don't care that MS is an evil empire. However, they do care if they can get more customizable, better software at a lower price.
The problem of isn't that they want to stop children from accessing pornography. That is fine with me. The problem is when it steps on other toes and wastes good money. First of all, these programs are by their very nature inneffective. Either they block based on keywords, which becomes overrestrictive. Any program blocking sites with the words porn, sex, or anal, would block slashdot today, any site about identifieng an animals gender (sexing it), and sites relating to proctology. None of these sites are harmful to children (well, they might not like to now about the very probably prostate exams they'll be facing in the next 60 years). However, the other programs underprotect, they block by blacklisting sites. This also doesn't work because the web changes too fast to blocklist all sites. In fact, the legitimate, credit-card requiring sites will be the easiest ones to block. It is "Joe Bob's kewl BOOBS!" that will be hard to catch because the site is only open for an hour and half every morning before his bandwidth runs out. All in all, you look at a lot of library money being drained for programs that do nothing but deny adults their rights as well as block children from porn, or just plain don't work.
The U.S. is right (and yes I'm American, that isn't what this about). Canada has no claim to waters or ice (which is, of course, water) outside of its 200 mile limit. That is an international passage according to the rest of the world. Unless Canada convince everyone else (it can't) that there is some reason Canada can claim those waters... they can't.