... its possible to imagine people in a hurry booting up their Windows PC and accessing the Net using cME without touching Windows.
So Windows crashes, and you can't get it to come back up. No problem! You just boot up into your BIOS, send the built-in web-browser to support.microsoft.com, and then your set. Except one problem: Microsoft decides (accidentally) to send your BIOS browser really unusable HTML. The end result is you can't diagnose your Microsoft problem because you aren't using a certified Microsoft product.
It is hard for some to ignore the irony that as Smithsonian Folkways uses CD-R's to further its business, much of the industry hopes to limit the technology's use.
I hope that it is clearly labeled on the CD that it is a CD-R. I wouldn't want people to buy the CD-R, bring it home, and then find that it doesn't work on all of their CD-players. Before you know it, some numbskull is going to try to sue someone because they can't get their folk music working on their 1989 CD-player.
Another thing, how long will these CD-R's last?
It seems ironic that the Smithsonian Institution is selling media that will likely not last very long.
Says the president of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties:
"I don't think there is any benefit to the community in prosecuting individuals who do this as a one-off. I mean, we'd have half the students in Australia in jail."
I totally agree. As long as these students are not making money by trading this music, this seems like a real cheap shot. Before you know it, they are going to prosecute college kids for putting a quarter on a string and getting their laundry done for free.
On the other hand, SHAME ON YOU TODAY'S COLLEGE STUDENTS! If you're going to be engaged in these illicit activities, at least make a minor effort to hide your tracks. That's what college is all about;-).
Both card companies have zero-liability policies, which protect cardholders from being held responsible for unauthorized or fraudulent charges.
With that in mind, both Mastercard and Visa are going to do everything in their power to make sure there are no fraudulent charges made. At this point, I doubt if there'll be any fraudulent charges made. It would have been more likely that a ton of charges would have been made immediately after the numbers were stolen.
Agreed. I really doubt that Amazon or Priceline have been stricken with no Web presence or e-mail. Are there any companies that use a.uk.co domain for something besides misspellings?
What went wrong we may find out tomorrow as a Colombian judge decides whether Net Registrar has the continued right to the domain. Until then, Robert Fox tells us, he considers the matter sub judice and so does not want to comment further.
For those that don't know, "sub judice" means that Mr. Fox doesn't want the media to do something that would influence the judge.
The three stages of a chess game are "opening", "middle game", and "end game". In summary, computers will always be far superior in the opening and end-game, because they can play those parts of the game perfectly. The middle game is where humans will always have the advantage.
The political maneuvering is somewhat of a pre-emptive strike.
I agree that a pre-emptive strike is probably necessary in this instance. Until the Baby Bells can prove without a reasonable doubt that they've destroyed all of their WOMD (women of mass dialing - the telemarkers), we should bomb (phreak) them repeatedly.
On slashdot, no matter how insightful, interesting, or funny your posts are, you can't decrease your userid number (unless you buy it). But what you can do, is accumulate a lot of fans. Yes, the number of fans you have on slashdot seems way more important than the number of your userid.
That program became the singly most modified program in computing
history due to the many hardware environments in which it had to
operate (no standards - no "IBM" to say where serial ports should
be addressed, etc).
Too bad there isn't a CVS history of all those changes;-)
Before you know it, terrorists will be making rubber rafts out of raincoats. It says how in Life Magazine;-). (Note to moderator's: This post is a reference to the real-life escape of prisoners from Alcatraz... they used info that was not hidden from them to help them escape. You can get more info by watching Escape from Alcatraz).
It involved one component of power management software used in Linux and several other operating systems.
I'm glad they came up with an acceptable agreement. The end result is that more people will have superior power management abilities... and those people probably won't care how they got them. Still though, they wouldn't have the ability so quickly and as well if Intel and Redhat didn't come together.
And most of all, all keyboards need an analog volume changer. With IBooks, you can change the volume using some function keys... but there needs a little spinny thing to change the audio (like what is in most refrigerator's to change the temp).
And lastly, I can't seem to find that double-S thing on my IBook?
(sorry about repeating this, I accidentally replied in the wrong place last time, which made so sense).
Wow! I read about this 70 year-old prank this morning before it was added to/., and I was actually going to
post it to my/. journal instead of the usual carefully selected geek porn.
That is a fascinating prank. What I liked the best is the psychology of what happened. The guy's friends were going to tell him what they'd done, but they opted to let the public down rather than let their friend be humiliated.
Wow! I read about this 70 year-old prank this morning before it was added to/., and I was actually going to
post it to my/. journal instead of the usual carefully selected geek porn.
That is a fascinating prank. What I liked the best is the psychology of what happened. The guys friends were going to tell him what they'd done, but they opted to let the public down rather than let their friend be humiliated.
The Penny Black project is investigating several techniques to reduce spam by making the sender pay. We're considering several currencies for payment: CPU cycles, memory cycles, Turing tests (proof that a human was involved), and plain old cash.
This just looks like a group (of smart people) that are investigating ways to reduce spam.
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Here's something similar, but not at all safe to look at if you are at work. This is great for you really really lazy folks.
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So Windows crashes, and you can't get it to come back up. No problem! You just boot up into your BIOS, send the built-in web-browser to support.microsoft.com, and then your set. Except one problem: Microsoft decides (accidentally) to send your BIOS browser really unusable HTML. The end result is you can't diagnose your Microsoft problem because you aren't using a certified Microsoft product.
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I hope that it is clearly labeled on the CD that it is a CD-R. I wouldn't want people to buy the CD-R, bring it home, and then find that it doesn't work on all of their CD-players. Before you know it, some numbskull is going to try to sue someone because they can't get their folk music working on their 1989 CD-player.
Another thing, how long will these CD-R's last? It seems ironic that the Smithsonian Institution is selling media that will likely not last very long.
--sex
Says the president of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties:
"I don't think there is any benefit to the community in prosecuting individuals who do this as a one-off. I mean, we'd have half the students in Australia in jail."
I totally agree. As long as these students are not making money by trading this music, this seems like a real cheap shot. Before you know it, they are going to prosecute college kids for putting a quarter on a string and getting their laundry done for free.
On the other hand, SHAME ON YOU TODAY'S COLLEGE STUDENTS! If you're going to be engaged in these illicit activities, at least make a minor effort to hide your tracks. That's what college is all about ;-).
--sex
With that in mind, both Mastercard and Visa are going to do everything in their power to make sure there are no fraudulent charges made. At this point, I doubt if there'll be any fraudulent charges made. It would have been more likely that a ton of charges would have been made immediately after the numbers were stolen.
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For those that don't know, "sub judice" means that Mr. Fox doesn't want the media to do something that would influence the judge.
--sex
The three stages of a chess game are "opening", "middle game", and "end game". In summary, computers will always be far superior in the opening and end-game, because they can play those parts of the game perfectly. The middle game is where humans will always have the advantage.
--sex
From the article (the first one linked):
The political maneuvering is somewhat of a pre-emptive strike.
I agree that a pre-emptive strike is probably necessary in this instance. Until the Baby Bells can prove without a reasonable doubt that they've destroyed all of their WOMD (women of mass dialing - the telemarkers), we should bomb (phreak) them repeatedly.
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The SJ33 uses standard memory sticks although the device doesn't come with one.
The Sony audio player can play MP3 files and ATRAC files from a Memory Stick.
So the parent post sounds wrong about the 4MB stick.
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And that's a process that they won't need to bother patenting...
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That program became the singly most modified program in computing history due to the many hardware environments in which it had to operate (no standards - no "IBM" to say where serial ports should be addressed, etc).
Too bad there isn't a CVS history of all those changes ;-)
--sex
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I'm glad they came up with an acceptable agreement. The end result is that more people will have superior power management abilities... and those people probably won't care how they got them. Still though, they wouldn't have the ability so quickly and as well if Intel and Redhat didn't come together.
--sex
And most of all, all keyboards need an analog volume changer. With IBooks, you can change the volume using some function keys... but there needs a little spinny thing to change the audio (like what is in most refrigerator's to change the temp).
And lastly, I can't seem to find that double-S thing on my IBook?
--sex
--sex
(sorry about repeating this, I accidentally replied in the wrong place last time, which made so sense).
Wow! I read about this 70 year-old prank this morning before it was added to /., and I was actually going to
post it to my /. journal instead of the usual carefully selected geek porn.
That is a fascinating prank. What I liked the best is the psychology of what happened. The guy's friends were going to tell him what they'd done, but they opted to let the public down rather than let their friend be humiliated.
I wonder how common this is?
--sex
Wow! I read about this 70 year-old prank this morning before it was added to /., and I was actually going to
post it to my /. journal instead of the usual carefully selected geek porn.
That is a fascinating prank. What I liked the best is the psychology of what happened. The guys friends were going to tell him what they'd done, but they opted to let the public down rather than let their friend be humiliated.
I wonder how common this is?
--sex
The Penny Black project is investigating several techniques to reduce spam by making the sender pay. We're considering several currencies for payment: CPU cycles, memory cycles, Turing tests (proof that a human was involved), and plain old cash.
This just looks like a group (of smart people) that are investigating ways to reduce spam.
--sex