everyone advertises "unlimited" access, and the first thing they do is impose limits. I'm aware that cable modems can only generate so much signal, therefore there a technical limit to how fast they can return data. But beyond that limit, my ISP, charter communication, limit my upstream to 20kbps. Also, they limit what I can do with my connection by outlawing "servers" in their aup. They also limit what I can do with my own hardware that I own, by preventing uncapping blah blah. uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Independant film about 4 twenty-somethings in Calgary, Canada who wager that whoever stays indoors the longest get a month's pay from each of the others. Calgary's downtown buildings are almost entirly connected with bridges and tunnels. Of course the real conflict (in my opinion) is the lead vs. the downtown.
personally, I enjoyed the visuals. The directing style is very fresh and smart. The first truly original film I've seen in quite awhile.
This film is currently running on IFC or sundance channel, I'm not not sure, but I've seen it on one of those. Or you can probably find it in the Sundance section of your local video store.
The values in the vorbis format are supposedly better quality, better compression, and lack of goofy liscensing. The quality is debatable I suppose, but I believe that the low to medium grade DACs you'll find in most consumer portable digital music machines supersedes the codec as the primary detriment to sound quality in most cases. Vorbis does use less space to store the same length recording than an mp3. This is primarily because it uses a smaller bitrate for a comparative quality of sound. And again, I'll let you draw your own conclusions about the quality. The mp3 codec's liscensing from the Fraunhoffer Institute will probably have little noticable effect on consumers, but some could argue that it's liscensing has hampered technological advancement in related fields.
By switching to vorbis you could possibly fit more audio in the same space, or alternativly, better quality in the same space. For small 128mb devices, this may not be a noticeable adjustment.
Check out Rockbox for an open source alternative firmware for the Archos Jukebox. One of the long-term goals of the project is the implementation of vorbis decoding (and other formats), which they claim may be possible provided they are given more information on the decoding chip.
I'm currently in the middle of this book, so consider this as a half review.
First note: Kevin Mitnick didn't WRITE it, he contributed.. "co-authored".
Second note: It's a text-book format. And they did a very poor job with it too. The "Mitnick-Messages" and "Lingos" and the rest are frequently positioned in the middle of sentences, which I find illogical and poorly organized. They are also frequently redundant.
Third Note: This book is for people and companies wanting to protect against social engineers. If you're looking to become a social engineer, you'll find little useful information in this book.
The Introduction, Preface, and First Chapter are all the same; pick one and skip the other two. I swear if they said "humans are the weakest factor" one more time I was going to throw the book out the window. These sections were very poorly written and painful to read, but don't worry, it gets better.
The middle chapters are filled with fictional stories meant to illustrate methods and scenarios used by social engineers. Personally I find them to be rather vague on details. Of course, you couldn't expect a book to illustrate every conceivable scenario. The authors then try to analyze the situation, and offer suggestions on how to circumvent the attackers.
If your business deals with sensitive or private information, this book will probably make you lie awake at night in a cold sweat, afraid to turn on your computer. You'll trust noone. You will force your employees to destroy their phones and communicate via telegraph and Western Union telegrams. Your business will inevitably be overcome with social engineers exploiting your every weakness and pilfering your every assest.
I wouldn't recommend this book (so far) for anyone except security professionals, or perhaps business owners who have been burned in the past. Script kiddies, wanna be hax0rs, and other CriMiNalz will get nothing out of this book. You can't learn confidence and assertiveness from a book.
Would Vegetarians welcome this?
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I imagine that PETA will be thrilled,.. but what about vegetarians? Many vegetarians become vegetarian because of their ethics toward the treatment and killing of animals. Many vegetarians stay vegetarian because of the health benefits of having a meatless diet. I'd imagine that the meat that is generated with this new process would be incredibly lean and healthy. So. Would any vegetarians out there consider eating this type of meat? Since this meat is grown in a lab.. could it technically be considered a meat, or would it be a vegetable?
And to expand on this subject a little.. if scienctist in the future were able to "grow" leather, furs, ivory, et al, would vegans then be liberated to wear such articles?
This doesn't neccesarily apply to this exact situation, but it is related. I use SprintPCS. The SMS address that I am given is (for instance) 1234567890@messaging.sprintpcs.com. That's also my phone number. I think to myself, "I don't neccesarily want people who might SMS me to have my phone number, and I don't neccesarily want people who have my phone number to be able to SMS me." So my solution was to use my domain name (hosted by yahoo:O)) to make an email forwarder, Jared.2600@reack.com forwards to the 1234567890@messaging.sprintpcs.com. First, it's easier to remember. Second, I control it. If I start getting spam or unwanted messages, I can forward that email address to oblivion and make a new one. Also, if I do sign up for some sort of notification service, I can create a whole new forwarding address. Yahoo happens to offer unlimited email forwards with their domain name service, so I take advantage of that. I think most other domain hosts will do the same.
I don't disagree entirely. There is "theft" of a commodity involved. A better comparison might be the installation of low-flow shower heads in a large apartment building. The landlord is assuming that noone will tamper with them so people on the upper floors will have as much pressure as those on lower floors. But of course, anyone who has the know-how is going to remove it. What apartment complex should have done is actually designed the plumbing system properly, instead of trying to fix it later.
The cable companies jumped at the chance to offer broadband to consumers, but they didn't foresee the need for bandwidth capping when they designed the system. So when users began to over-tax the company's bandwidth, they decided to implement capping via firmware in the modems. Modems that may or may not belong to them. Suddenly, instead of the brisk refreshing shower you're used to, you're getting a limp trickle.
Maybe it's unfair to the rest of the users on the network. But for me, I was paying, let's say $40/mo for great uncapped bandwidth, and I couldn't be happier. Then one day, the great bandwidth goes away, but the price stays the same. If anything the price goes up. What's fair about that? My cable provider, which has a monopoly in my area, changed the software on the peice of hardware I wholly own, which changed the quality of my service for the worse, and then refuse to lower their price.
Of course the real situation here is the great over-reaction. Why couldn't they simply terminate their service? There are currently thousands of people literally stealing cable, and cable companies offer solutions like "Legalize your stolen cable, no questions asked!". How can they choose to enforce one law while turning a blind eye to another?
I recall from a long time ago, a case where phone companies were sued because if you wanted a 2nd phone, you had to go through them and pay extra. They wouldn't allow you to goto your local department store and buy a splitter for a buck and install it yourself. They eventually lost, and because of that, now you can have as many phones in your house as your want. Once the wire comes into your house, what you do with it is your business.
Similarly, for a long time cable companies would not let you split their signal and have multiple TVs without paying them to do it. Now that has become a major selling point for them against digital satelites. Today when your cable company comes out for whatever reason, they'll happily split your signal for free, replace your low quality splitters with their high quality ones, and leave all your TVs connected no questions asked.
I think this situation SHOULD fall under the same rule. You pay for the cable to come into your house, If you own your cable modem, you should be able to do anything you want to it. If they REALLY want to cap you, they'll have to do it on their end, because you cannot tell me what I can and cannot do with my property. If your renting the modem, then it's a different situation.
However, there was absolutly no reason for a gun drawn storm on these individual's homes. I do tons of illegal things via my cable modem, like downloading mp3z and violating the DMCA on a daily basis. I guess the only way to ensure my safety is to get rid of my cable modem and give my money to a small, privatly owned ISP.
Why is everyone dissin' debian's install process?
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It is not impossible to use. No other installation system I've used gives you as many options for data sources as debian does. The network installation alone, in my opinion, makes it my choice distro. When I use bf2.4, I can install the entire system using nothing more than 2 floppies. Alternativly, there are 11mb netinst CD images with all the drivers included. I would rather have debian's installation method than being forced to download 650mb worth of packages I'm not going to use, plus having to own a CD-Burner (which I don't, and have never needed to thanks to debian). Personally, I'd rather not have a graphical installation. And I'd rather have functionality than play tetris while my distro decides what packages i do and don't want.
it's always bothered me in version numbers when 1.12 is newer than 1.2, for example. For some people that could be misleading. I've always prefered the 'build 132' and 'build 523' method, but in large, complex projects such as the kernel you'd end up with 'build 19283928909823709837216702314987897321023198472310 59'. Perhaps using hexadecimal could eliminate the large numbers, 'build 0xF63B1' for example. Of course the general public doesn't speak hexadecimal, and the version order would be misleading to them. There's always the microsoft method of naming the product 'product name' + the year after the year the product was released, i.e. Windows 98, 95, 2000. I think given all of these choices, the only reasonable solution is to use them all.
Presenting: Linux 2004 build 0x353E07-3489287 3.1.14
I can't honestly presume to know wether the artist's intent was to satire or not. Legality aside, I stand by my statement that the artist's output is a wholly seperate artwork and should be treated as such. This may not be the most valid or noteworthy artwork, but someday, an artist will create something beautiful and intelligent and thought-provoking, that the public may never be able to enjoy because the tools the artist used are copyrighted by a large company. In my opinion, art is not a product, and every effort should be made to make all artworks, regardless of their "quality" as available as possible.
I do agree that an artist's work should not be used to make money, however, I don't beleive that any artwork should be used to make money. There's a difference between selling a song for profit and selling it to fund an artist's survival and future work. An ARTIST does not create to make money. If you get into hip-hop for the $$$ and the booty and the ***BliNg***BlInG***, then what you are outputting is a product, not an artwork, regardless of your talent. And furthermore, you are not an artist, you are an entrepreneur.
That being said, if it is not illegal to use a Campbell's Soup can (a product) in your artwork, it should conversly not be illegal to use some record company's product in your artwork.
What more blatent example of satire can there be than an artist scrambling and re-arranging the works of other artists for the sake of mockery. I myself enjoy warping and "Mashing" otherwise lame recordings. If someone can take one creation, and turn it into another, it should be respected as a seperate work of art. Besides, I haven't seen an original concept in popular music for years. Most modern music is just recycled chords, lyrics, and beats.
The Physics of Christmas by Roger Highfield. It takes a whimsical, and Yule-tied view at several historical and physical characteristics of every Christian's favorite holiday, such as the aerodynamics of reindeer, and the thermaldynamics of turkey.
Although, i did find that it addressed the history and psychology behind Christmas, as much as it did the physics. Still I think it'd be a great "Gateway" book for novices and younguns.
I was always under the impression that if there was an exsisting patent, but you could somehow improve upon that patent, even in the slightest of ways, it became a whole new patent. How is it that these companies can aquire an "all-encompassing" patent on anything?
I've had the archos jukebox (6000) for about 8 months now. and i must say that thought it is not without flaw, it has fulfilled all my expectations.
first of all... 6 gigabytes... of course you can swap out the included hdd and replace it (but not without voiding the warranty).
second of all.. it's a simple USB hard drive. so it'll work on just about any OS you can toss at it. newer models have usb 2.0, and recording features. but I have been very happy with mine. and since it's a simple usb hard drive, you can store anything u want on it, not just audio. keep a copy of your favorite linux distro on it. backup yer system. whatever
the batteries tend to last me about 5 hours on the average, and i've never had to change them.
of course if u wanna go apeshit there's this thing.
Most people don't know this, but Vin Deisel doesn't really exist. He's a 100% computer generated actor conceived by AOL/Time-Warner to replace an aging sylvester stalone.
your 'simple coil magnet' is a transducer which generates an electronic signal from the magnetic field movement when the string vibrates. this signal then travels via a copper WIRE (sound can not travel through wires, but electricity can) to an amplifier of some sort, which takes that electrical signal and amplifies it and then sends it to (the exact oppisite) 'simple coil magnet' which vibrates a cone witch makes pretty music. Personally, I don't see how you can get much more electronic than that. You can make a distinction between digital electronic (sampler, computer) and analog electronic musical instruments (hammond organ, electric guitar, analog synths), but they're all still electronic. Some examples of non-electric musical instruments 4 u:
Accoustic Guitar (no microphone)
Violin
Dulcimer
Snare Drum
Flute
Cowbell
Digeridoo
The Human Voice (but one could argue that since our brains use electrical signals to control our muscles, any instrument we play, including our own voices, are electronic. But we'll just skip that.)
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everyone advertises "unlimited" access, and the first thing they do is impose limits. I'm aware that cable modems can only generate so much signal, therefore there a technical limit to how fast they can return data. But beyond that limit, my ISP, charter communication, limit my upstream to 20kbps. Also, they limit what I can do with my connection by outlawing "servers" in their aup. They also limit what I can do with my own hardware that I own, by preventing uncapping blah blah. uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Independant film about 4 twenty-somethings in Calgary, Canada who wager that whoever stays indoors the longest get a month's pay from each of the others. Calgary's downtown buildings are almost entirly connected with bridges and tunnels. Of course the real conflict (in my opinion) is the lead vs. the downtown.
personally, I enjoyed the visuals. The directing style is very fresh and smart. The first truly original film I've seen in quite awhile.
This film is currently running on IFC or sundance channel, I'm not not sure, but I've seen it on one of those. Or you can probably find it in the Sundance section of your local video store.
The values in the vorbis format are supposedly better quality, better compression, and lack of goofy liscensing. The quality is debatable I suppose, but I believe that the low to medium grade DACs you'll find in most consumer portable digital music machines supersedes the codec as the primary detriment to sound quality in most cases. Vorbis does use less space to store the same length recording than an mp3. This is primarily because it uses a smaller bitrate for a comparative quality of sound. And again, I'll let you draw your own conclusions about the quality. The mp3 codec's liscensing from the Fraunhoffer Institute will probably have little noticable effect on consumers, but some could argue that it's liscensing has hampered technological advancement in related fields.
By switching to vorbis you could possibly fit more audio in the same space, or alternativly, better quality in the same space. For small 128mb devices, this may not be a noticeable adjustment.
Check out Rockbox for an open source alternative firmware for the Archos Jukebox. One of the long-term goals of the project is the implementation of vorbis decoding (and other formats), which they claim may be possible provided they are given more information on the decoding chip.
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Be sure and check out asciipr0n for all you ascii pr0nography needs.
I'm currently in the middle of this book, so consider this as a half review.
First note: Kevin Mitnick didn't WRITE it, he contributed.. "co-authored".
Second note: It's a text-book format. And they did a very poor job with it too. The "Mitnick-Messages" and "Lingos" and the rest are frequently positioned in the middle of sentences, which I find illogical and poorly organized. They are also frequently redundant.
Third Note: This book is for people and companies wanting to protect against social engineers. If you're looking to become a social engineer, you'll find little useful information in this book.
The Introduction, Preface, and First Chapter are all the same; pick one and skip the other two. I swear if they said "humans are the weakest factor" one more time I was going to throw the book out the window. These sections were very poorly written and painful to read, but don't worry, it gets better.
The middle chapters are filled with fictional stories meant to illustrate methods and scenarios used by social engineers. Personally I find them to be rather vague on details. Of course, you couldn't expect a book to illustrate every conceivable scenario. The authors then try to analyze the situation, and offer suggestions on how to circumvent the attackers.
If your business deals with sensitive or private information, this book will probably make you lie awake at night in a cold sweat, afraid to turn on your computer. You'll trust noone. You will force your employees to destroy their phones and communicate via telegraph and Western Union telegrams. Your business will inevitably be overcome with social engineers exploiting your every weakness and pilfering your every assest.
I wouldn't recommend this book (so far) for anyone except security professionals, or perhaps business owners who have been burned in the past. Script kiddies, wanna be hax0rs, and other CriMiNalz will get nothing out of this book. You can't learn confidence and assertiveness from a book.
I imagine that PETA will be thrilled,.. but what about vegetarians? Many vegetarians become vegetarian because of their ethics toward the treatment and killing of animals. Many vegetarians stay vegetarian because of the health benefits of having a meatless diet. I'd imagine that the meat that is generated with this new process would be incredibly lean and healthy. So. Would any vegetarians out there consider eating this type of meat? Since this meat is grown in a lab.. could it technically be considered a meat, or would it be a vegetable?
And to expand on this subject a little.. if scienctist in the future were able to "grow" leather, furs, ivory, et al, would vegans then be liberated to wear such articles?
This doesn't neccesarily apply to this exact situation, but it is related. I use SprintPCS. The SMS address that I am given is (for instance) 1234567890@messaging.sprintpcs.com. That's also my phone number. I think to myself, "I don't neccesarily want people who might SMS me to have my phone number, and I don't neccesarily want people who have my phone number to be able to SMS me." So my solution was to use my domain name (hosted by yahoo :O)) to make an email forwarder, Jared.2600@reack.com forwards to the 1234567890@messaging.sprintpcs.com. First, it's easier to remember. Second, I control it. If I start getting spam or unwanted messages, I can forward that email address to oblivion and make a new one. Also, if I do sign up for some sort of notification service, I can create a whole new forwarding address. Yahoo happens to offer unlimited email forwards with their domain name service, so I take advantage of that. I think most other domain hosts will do the same.
Debian Multimedia Distribution. If you don't run Mandrake.
I don't disagree entirely. There is "theft" of a commodity involved. A better comparison might be the installation of low-flow shower heads in a large apartment building. The landlord is assuming that noone will tamper with them so people on the upper floors will have as much pressure as those on lower floors. But of course, anyone who has the know-how is going to remove it. What apartment complex should have done is actually designed the plumbing system properly, instead of trying to fix it later.
The cable companies jumped at the chance to offer broadband to consumers, but they didn't foresee the need for bandwidth capping when they designed the system. So when users began to over-tax the company's bandwidth, they decided to implement capping via firmware in the modems. Modems that may or may not belong to them. Suddenly, instead of the brisk refreshing shower you're used to, you're getting a limp trickle.
Maybe it's unfair to the rest of the users on the network. But for me, I was paying, let's say $40/mo for great uncapped bandwidth, and I couldn't be happier. Then one day, the great bandwidth goes away, but the price stays the same. If anything the price goes up. What's fair about that? My cable provider, which has a monopoly in my area, changed the software on the peice of hardware I wholly own, which changed the quality of my service for the worse, and then refuse to lower their price.
Of course the real situation here is the great over-reaction. Why couldn't they simply terminate their service? There are currently thousands of people literally stealing cable, and cable companies offer solutions like "Legalize your stolen cable, no questions asked!". How can they choose to enforce one law while turning a blind eye to another?
I recall from a long time ago, a case where phone companies were sued because if you wanted a 2nd phone, you had to go through them and pay extra. They wouldn't allow you to goto your local department store and buy a splitter for a buck and install it yourself. They eventually lost, and because of that, now you can have as many phones in your house as your want. Once the wire comes into your house, what you do with it is your business.
Similarly, for a long time cable companies would not let you split their signal and have multiple TVs without paying them to do it. Now that has become a major selling point for them against digital satelites. Today when your cable company comes out for whatever reason, they'll happily split your signal for free, replace your low quality splitters with their high quality ones, and leave all your TVs connected no questions asked.
I think this situation SHOULD fall under the same rule. You pay for the cable to come into your house, If you own your cable modem, you should be able to do anything you want to it. If they REALLY want to cap you, they'll have to do it on their end, because you cannot tell me what I can and cannot do with my property. If your renting the modem, then it's a different situation.
However, there was absolutly no reason for a gun drawn storm on these individual's homes. I do tons of illegal things via my cable modem, like downloading mp3z and violating the DMCA on a daily basis. I guess the only way to ensure my safety is to get rid of my cable modem and give my money to a small, privatly owned ISP.
typo --> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-M anual/install-guide/ch-guimode.html
I'll try it out. Thanks.
Link please
It is not impossible to use. No other installation system I've used gives you as many options for data sources as debian does. The network installation alone, in my opinion, makes it my choice distro. When I use bf2.4, I can install the entire system using nothing more than 2 floppies. Alternativly, there are 11mb netinst CD images with all the drivers included. I would rather have debian's installation method than being forced to download 650mb worth of packages I'm not going to use, plus having to own a CD-Burner (which I don't, and have never needed to thanks to debian). Personally, I'd rather not have a graphical installation. And I'd rather have functionality than play tetris while my distro decides what packages i do and don't want.
it's always bothered me in version numbers when 1.12 is newer than 1.2, for example. For some people that could be misleading. I've always prefered the 'build 132' and 'build 523' method, but in large, complex projects such as the kernel you'd end up with 'build 19283928909823709837216702314987897321023198472310 59'. Perhaps using hexadecimal could eliminate the large numbers, 'build 0xF63B1' for example. Of course the general public doesn't speak hexadecimal, and the version order would be misleading to them. There's always the microsoft method of naming the product 'product name' + the year after the year the product was released, i.e. Windows 98, 95, 2000. I think given all of these choices, the only reasonable solution is to use them all.
Presenting: Linux 2004 build 0x353E07-3489287 3.1.14
Exactly.. I did not say "most modern music is bad" and I certainly did not say "recycling stuff is bad". You missed the entire point of my comment.
I'm afraid you missed the entire point of my comment, and I agree with you fully.
I can't honestly presume to know wether the artist's intent was to satire or not. Legality aside, I stand by my statement that the artist's output is a wholly seperate artwork and should be treated as such. This may not be the most valid or noteworthy artwork, but someday, an artist will create something beautiful and intelligent and thought-provoking, that the public may never be able to enjoy because the tools the artist used are copyrighted by a large company. In my opinion, art is not a product, and every effort should be made to make all artworks, regardless of their "quality" as available as possible.
I do agree that an artist's work should not be used to make money, however, I don't beleive that any artwork should be used to make money. There's a difference between selling a song for profit and selling it to fund an artist's survival and future work. An ARTIST does not create to make money. If you get into hip-hop for the $$$ and the booty and the ***BliNg***BlInG***, then what you are outputting is a product, not an artwork, regardless of your talent. And furthermore, you are not an artist, you are an entrepreneur.
That being said, if it is not illegal to use a Campbell's Soup can (a product) in your artwork, it should conversly not be illegal to use some record company's product in your artwork.
What more blatent example of satire can there be than an artist scrambling and re-arranging the works of other artists for the sake of mockery. I myself enjoy warping and "Mashing" otherwise lame recordings. If someone can take one creation, and turn it into another, it should be respected as a seperate work of art. Besides, I haven't seen an original concept in popular music for years. Most modern music is just recycled chords, lyrics, and beats.
The Physics of Christmas by Roger Highfield. It takes a whimsical, and Yule-tied view at several historical and physical characteristics of every Christian's favorite holiday, such as the aerodynamics of reindeer, and the thermaldynamics of turkey.
Although, i did find that it addressed the history and psychology behind Christmas, as much as it did the physics. Still I think it'd be a great "Gateway" book for novices and younguns.
I was always under the impression that if there was an exsisting patent, but you could somehow improve upon that patent, even in the slightest of ways, it became a whole new patent. How is it that these companies can aquire an "all-encompassing" patent on anything?
I've had the archos jukebox (6000) for about 8 months now. and i must say that thought it is not without flaw, it has fulfilled all my expectations.
first of all... 6 gigabytes... of course you can swap out the included hdd and replace it (but not without voiding the warranty).
second of all.. it's a simple USB hard drive. so it'll work on just about any OS you can toss at it. newer models have usb 2.0, and recording features. but I have been very happy with mine. and since it's a simple usb hard drive, you can store anything u want on it, not just audio. keep a copy of your favorite linux distro on it. backup yer system. whatever
the batteries tend to last me about 5 hours on the average, and i've never had to change them.
of course if u wanna go apeshit there's this thing.
Most people don't know this, but Vin Deisel doesn't really exist. He's a 100% computer generated actor conceived by AOL/Time-Warner to replace an aging sylvester stalone.
Accoustic Guitar (no microphone)
Violin
Dulcimer
Snare Drum
Flute
Cowbell
Digeridoo
The Human Voice (but one could argue that since our brains use electrical signals to control our muscles, any instrument we play, including our own voices, are electronic. But we'll just skip that.)
Harmonica
Tamborine
Thank you for replying.