I am, yes. There are 4 windows machines on the net (2x XP, 3x Win7) and Two linux machines (Gentoo and Ubuntu). There is also a Tablet (experiment) with Puppy linux.
The printer is an HP Deskjet 6840 w/ Wireless. I've got a project underway to turn one of the linux boxes into an LDAP + IDS + Router type thing. Maybe it could handle all the printing as well? that would be fantastic.
You didn't even read the memo. It is instructional material for TSA and airline employees to follow. The target audience was secuity personnel, nobody else. The security personnel are to impliment the instructions.. those actions are public and not hidden. The memo doesn't outline secret rules that air-travelers have to somehow figure out.
The point is the information reached the "media" (if blogs qualify.. they probably do) before it could even be implimented by TSA and airlines. That's a pretty bad leak, right?
You're seeing it from the wrong side. They have a leak and they want to find/fix it. Which involves their own agents. In order to find that leak they needed information from the recipient of the leaked info. They would rather not involve other civilians if they could.
Both of those were horrible abominations and failed because of it. That's not my opinion, but every review ever written about them.
Were you saying that iTunes store wasn't the first with DRM? I'm not sure how Pressplay's subscription thing worked? It's more than possible one of those had DRM in place. I apologize for overlooking those two, if that's the case. I honestly only know about the popular ones.. and allofmp3 (pre-death) and legalsounds.
Do you get what you're saying at all? 30 million users! that's not small, especially for the pre-2000 internet. Napster was popular among geeks, not just "college and high school kids". At that time there was almost no other way to trade music. Other than trading data cds filled with MP3s or lan-parties. There was IRC and FTP places as well, but napster was the place to go for the short time it existed.
Most of my music is from that time period, i only need to buy new music that comes out. Even now, i sometimes trade albums with friends at lan-parties.
If you were a geek in 2000, you traded your music digitally and you listened to it digitally. When you bought a CD, you ripped it and put it away in the closet.
I used an MP3 CD-player to listen to my stuff, i couldn't afford a RIO (drooled over the RIO). The MP3 players at the time could only hold a few dozen songs, i prefered MP3-CDs because you could fit several hundred. Mp3 player companies were getting sued like crazy too (which i'm sure hampered development).
There were tones of mp3 players pre-Ipod. Geeks carried them. The IPod was trendy and so trendy people began carrying them and they got popular. If you were a geek in the early 2000's you surely would have owned or coveted a personal mp3 player.
The music industry hated MP3 players pre-itunes. Because they knew that we got the music mostly from trading our CD rips at lan-parties and FTP dropboxes. Seriously, i'm not kidding! There was zero places you could go to buy (big label) music online (within reason.. there was one or two but it was wallet rape).
You are forgetting that apple was the first Online music store that implimented DRM, you should not give them credit for also convincing everyone to give it up. Because it was Amazon that had the first big DRM free music store.
Before Apple and before Amazon we had Napster (the orginal one) and CD ripping. MP3 players mostly played music that was ripped from CDs, not purchased online.
eMusic predates Apple and Amazon and it has always been DRM free. However big music labels never liked them... so eMusic could only sell music from independent labels.
You can argue that iTunes store "was the first time selling music online ever went anywhere" because they had the clout and lawyers to get Big Labels to sign on.
Prior to that, techy people still had harddrives full of MP3s and many had personal music players that could play MP3s natively. Apple just made it trendy and not just a geek thing.
There are some great US Army programs to become a US citizen. Any foreigner can sign up and fight for America and earn their citizenship in the process. One of the programs i know of is MAVNI, mostly for people who know languages other than english and people who know medicine.
I agree with you. But (sorry) that only works if everyone is playing in the same sandbox. If the cost of living and doing business in the US is higher than Mexico (for example) then a company would save a lot of money moving the actual factories to Mexico and continue to sell to the US. The new factory doesn't have to restrict it's byproducts and emmissions as much as in the US and the local population has a lower standard of living. But the price of the product to Americans does not go down, right? So Americans are making less money and still paying for the higher cost of living.
The effect is slowly lowering the quality of life for Americans and slightly raising it for the local factory workers (and the increased profit does not go to the workers, but to the company owners). While this is probably a good thing for the world at large, it is a draining effect on the US.
Nobody should want to equalize the quality of living by decreasing it anywhere.. but to raise up the lower levels. If the company that moved it's factory decreased the cost of it's product to align with the decrease of costs to make it, both Mexico and the US quality of life gets better or remains the same. Not to mention Mexico could actually purchase the product instead of the company selling it at higher than local quality-of-life prices.
That's scary.. and awesome. I can imagine an arduino shield and sketch would accelerate that process. GSM cellphones would be unsecure overnight and a mad rush to build something new would begin.
If you can impliment AES on an arduino (18mhz proc, 2kB ram), i don't see why even older phones couldn't do it. But i'd imagine they would want a seperate hardware solution anyways, a compainion chip that does all the encryption and key storage.
Yeah, or like those road construction workers.. they make all that money standing around and then they get the whole winter season off! Not fair at all.
I would argue that a good teacher uses a lot of "off work" time to grade papers. I would also agrue that a portion of the summer/timeoff is spent updating and reviewing the curriculum. Not to mention personal research in order to teach more recent material. Honestly, i thought teachers weren't supposed to get paid much.. that way you had teachers that worked for the enjoyment, not for the money.
No, if the songs are public domain, anybody (absolutely anyone) can sell them for anything they want.. including for free. Record companies can try to sell the public domain songs (like they do now) but you can always download them for free or get a copy from someone else (not illegal to copy something in the public domain).
Copyrights don't protect the creators from big record companyies, they protect the creator's work from anyone duplicating and selling it.
The blues guitarist isn't SOL. If his songs start making money suddenly after 14 years, he just has to pull out his guitar and make some new ones to cash in. That's the whole point of limited copyright protections i think. To encourage the creation of more works. To allow copyrights to expire and fall into public domain is a good thing! It will make creators the valuable assets to a company, not a portfolio of IP they purchased.
They also import Gas... makes you go WTF. They have so much oil, what do they need nuclear tech for? Yes, yes, i know medical isos.. they can buy those. I will be very surprised if Iran doesn't go for the A-Bomb.
Iran should spend that money on oil refineries, not uranium refineries.. reduce it's need to import gasoline.. use the fuel for electricity. Makes so much sense!
I think it's mostly for astronomy, not really navigation in space. 1 AU = 149.6 Mm
We have the Light Year for measurement too. 1 LY = 9.5 Pm
Maybe it's because Astronomy was around before the metric system existed? Or maybe we need a scientist to sit down and explain it to us... not everything makes sense at first glance. Like, why does the world use the Knot unit? 1 Knot = 1.852 km/h. Yet it is an accepted international unit because "a vessel travelling at 1 knot along a meridian travels one minute of geographic latitude in one hour".
I agree with you about NASA.. it seems more like a research organization interested in space. I do beleive that private organizations won't be successful in space without government research though. It would be neat if NASA could patent and license their creations to recoup the research costs. Once recouped, the licenses could be free or given away to any US citizen or US Company. I would thoroughly enjoy paging through a NASA technology catalog.
Mr Childs gave the password to the Mayor, the only person he felt was authorized to receive it. He's been held for 18 months now and needs $5 million for bail, that's just crazy.
I know it doesn't make sense to you that he refused to give the password up to his manager. Childs was probably being overly protective. But i understand it from a military perspective. General Order #1 "I will guard everything within the limits of my post and quit my post only when properly relieved." Even if a general shows up and says, "ok, you can go home now." You better stand there and refuse. If the OIC/NCOIC relieves you or ends the guard, you may go. But like i said, i can understand what he did.. not that he did the right thing.
It will be interesting to hear the whole story when it's over. His belief that he was saving San Francisco from horrible mis-management could be well founded.
I remember it being different than that. He wasn't supposed to tell anyone other than the mayor what the password was. Some new manager showed up one day and said "Hey, what's the password?" He says "I can't tell you." So the new manager called the police. Then as soon as the mayor showed up and asked for the password, Mr Childs told him.
As far as i remember, there was zero authorized officials at the company to receive the password.
Very cool. At first i was thinking, wow, the new one looks so washed out and gray. But the background on the new one is black.. just with so so many specks in it.. i'm simply amazed. Are those all galaxies? When i lean into the moniter and pick out one of those specks, is that a whole damn galaxy?
I think what he is saying is he owns the license to a product (that is what you buy with windows). So no matter who's copy of windows he downloads he will be using his own license key.
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I am, yes. There are 4 windows machines on the net (2x XP, 3x Win7) and Two linux machines (Gentoo and Ubuntu). There is also a Tablet (experiment) with Puppy linux.
The printer is an HP Deskjet 6840 w/ Wireless. I've got a project underway to turn one of the linux boxes into an LDAP + IDS + Router type thing. Maybe it could handle all the printing as well? that would be fantastic.
The first thing that comes to my mind is huge bloated printer drivers that are constantly updating.
You didn't even read the memo. It is instructional material for TSA and airline employees to follow. The target audience was secuity personnel, nobody else. The security personnel are to impliment the instructions.. those actions are public and not hidden. The memo doesn't outline secret rules that air-travelers have to somehow figure out.
The point is the information reached the "media" (if blogs qualify.. they probably do) before it could even be implimented by TSA and airlines. That's a pretty bad leak, right?
You're seeing it from the wrong side. They have a leak and they want to find/fix it. Which involves their own agents. In order to find that leak they needed information from the recipient of the leaked info. They would rather not involve other civilians if they could.
Both of those were horrible abominations and failed because of it. That's not my opinion, but every review ever written about them.
Were you saying that iTunes store wasn't the first with DRM? I'm not sure how Pressplay's subscription thing worked? It's more than possible one of those had DRM in place. I apologize for overlooking those two, if that's the case. I honestly only know about the popular ones.. and allofmp3 (pre-death) and legalsounds.
Do you get what you're saying at all? 30 million users! that's not small, especially for the pre-2000 internet. Napster was popular among geeks, not just "college and high school kids". At that time there was almost no other way to trade music. Other than trading data cds filled with MP3s or lan-parties. There was IRC and FTP places as well, but napster was the place to go for the short time it existed.
Most of my music is from that time period, i only need to buy new music that comes out. Even now, i sometimes trade albums with friends at lan-parties.
If you were a geek in 2000, you traded your music digitally and you listened to it digitally. When you bought a CD, you ripped it and put it away in the closet.
I used an MP3 CD-player to listen to my stuff, i couldn't afford a RIO (drooled over the RIO). The MP3 players at the time could only hold a few dozen songs, i prefered MP3-CDs because you could fit several hundred. Mp3 player companies were getting sued like crazy too (which i'm sure hampered development).
There were tones of mp3 players pre-Ipod. Geeks carried them. The IPod was trendy and so trendy people began carrying them and they got popular. If you were a geek in the early 2000's you surely would have owned or coveted a personal mp3 player.
The music industry hated MP3 players pre-itunes. Because they knew that we got the music mostly from trading our CD rips at lan-parties and FTP dropboxes. Seriously, i'm not kidding! There was zero places you could go to buy (big label) music online (within reason.. there was one or two but it was wallet rape).
You are forgetting that apple was the first Online music store that implimented DRM, you should not give them credit for also convincing everyone to give it up. Because it was Amazon that had the first big DRM free music store.
Before Apple and before Amazon we had Napster (the orginal one) and CD ripping. MP3 players mostly played music that was ripped from CDs, not purchased online.
eMusic predates Apple and Amazon and it has always been DRM free. However big music labels never liked them... so eMusic could only sell music from independent labels.
You can argue that iTunes store "was the first time selling music online ever went anywhere" because they had the clout and lawyers to get Big Labels to sign on.
Prior to that, techy people still had harddrives full of MP3s and many had personal music players that could play MP3s natively. Apple just made it trendy and not just a geek thing.
There are some great US Army programs to become a US citizen. Any foreigner can sign up and fight for America and earn their citizenship in the process. One of the programs i know of is MAVNI, mostly for people who know languages other than english and people who know medicine.
http://www.army.com/enlist/mavni.html
http://www.goarmy.com/info/mavni
http://www.defense.gov/news/mavni-fact-sheet.pdf
I agree with you. But (sorry) that only works if everyone is playing in the same sandbox. If the cost of living and doing business in the US is higher than Mexico (for example) then a company would save a lot of money moving the actual factories to Mexico and continue to sell to the US. The new factory doesn't have to restrict it's byproducts and emmissions as much as in the US and the local population has a lower standard of living. But the price of the product to Americans does not go down, right? So Americans are making less money and still paying for the higher cost of living.
The effect is slowly lowering the quality of life for Americans and slightly raising it for the local factory workers (and the increased profit does not go to the workers, but to the company owners). While this is probably a good thing for the world at large, it is a draining effect on the US.
Nobody should want to equalize the quality of living by decreasing it anywhere.. but to raise up the lower levels. If the company that moved it's factory decreased the cost of it's product to align with the decrease of costs to make it, both Mexico and the US quality of life gets better or remains the same. Not to mention Mexico could actually purchase the product instead of the company selling it at higher than local quality-of-life prices.
That's scary.. and awesome. I can imagine an arduino shield and sketch would accelerate that process. GSM cellphones would be unsecure overnight and a mad rush to build something new would begin.
If you can impliment AES on an arduino (18mhz proc, 2kB ram), i don't see why even older phones couldn't do it. But i'd imagine they would want a seperate hardware solution anyways, a compainion chip that does all the encryption and key storage.
Yeah, or like those road construction workers.. they make all that money standing around and then they get the whole winter season off! Not fair at all.
I would argue that a good teacher uses a lot of "off work" time to grade papers. I would also agrue that a portion of the summer/timeoff is spent updating and reviewing the curriculum. Not to mention personal research in order to teach more recent material. Honestly, i thought teachers weren't supposed to get paid much.. that way you had teachers that worked for the enjoyment, not for the money.
The cells themselves seem to be really easy to get, just not completed panels.
http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/products.asp?dept=1174
That depends on what your definition of "is" is
No, if the songs are public domain, anybody (absolutely anyone) can sell them for anything they want.. including for free. Record companies can try to sell the public domain songs (like they do now) but you can always download them for free or get a copy from someone else (not illegal to copy something in the public domain).
Copyrights don't protect the creators from big record companyies, they protect the creator's work from anyone duplicating and selling it.
The blues guitarist isn't SOL. If his songs start making money suddenly after 14 years, he just has to pull out his guitar and make some new ones to cash in. That's the whole point of limited copyright protections i think. To encourage the creation of more works. To allow copyrights to expire and fall into public domain is a good thing! It will make creators the valuable assets to a company, not a portfolio of IP they purchased.
They also import Gas... makes you go WTF. They have so much oil, what do they need nuclear tech for? Yes, yes, i know medical isos.. they can buy those. I will be very surprised if Iran doesn't go for the A-Bomb.
Iran should spend that money on oil refineries, not uranium refineries.. reduce it's need to import gasoline.. use the fuel for electricity. Makes so much sense!
I think it's mostly for astronomy, not really navigation in space. 1 AU = 149.6 Mm
We have the Light Year for measurement too. 1 LY = 9.5 Pm
Maybe it's because Astronomy was around before the metric system existed? Or maybe we need a scientist to sit down and explain it to us... not everything makes sense at first glance. Like, why does the world use the Knot unit? 1 Knot = 1.852 km/h. Yet it is an accepted international unit because "a vessel travelling at 1 knot along a meridian travels one minute of geographic latitude in one hour".
I agree with you about NASA.. it seems more like a research organization interested in space. I do beleive that private organizations won't be successful in space without government research though. It would be neat if NASA could patent and license their creations to recoup the research costs. Once recouped, the licenses could be free or given away to any US citizen or US Company. I would thoroughly enjoy paging through a NASA technology catalog.
Mr Childs gave the password to the Mayor, the only person he felt was authorized to receive it. He's been held for 18 months now and needs $5 million for bail, that's just crazy.
I know it doesn't make sense to you that he refused to give the password up to his manager. Childs was probably being overly protective. But i understand it from a military perspective. General Order #1 "I will guard everything within the limits of my post and quit my post only when properly relieved." Even if a general shows up and says, "ok, you can go home now." You better stand there and refuse. If the OIC/NCOIC relieves you or ends the guard, you may go. But like i said, i can understand what he did.. not that he did the right thing.
It will be interesting to hear the whole story when it's over. His belief that he was saving San Francisco from horrible mis-management could be well founded.
I remember it being different than that. He wasn't supposed to tell anyone other than the mayor what the password was. Some new manager showed up one day and said "Hey, what's the password?" He says "I can't tell you." So the new manager called the police. Then as soon as the mayor showed up and asked for the password, Mr Childs told him.
As far as i remember, there was zero authorized officials at the company to receive the password.
Very cool. At first i was thinking, wow, the new one looks so washed out and gray. But the background on the new one is black.. just with so so many specks in it.. i'm simply amazed. Are those all galaxies? When i lean into the moniter and pick out one of those specks, is that a whole damn galaxy?
Could it be possible that there was life on mars... and not any more? Those long dead critters are continuing to decay and release the gas.
I think what he is saying is he owns the license to a product (that is what you buy with windows). So no matter who's copy of windows he downloads he will be using his own license key.