Re:I'm sure this is an excellent article...
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Browser Wars Mark II
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In Opera, you can kill all stylesheets and formatting on any page with a single keypress, and bring them back again just as quickly. Makes it simple to read the text on pages that use ugly colors, backgrounds, and whatnot.
If you're going to be investing large amounts of money into a good CD/DVD duplicator, why not consider building a RAID 5+0 terabyte server instead? For $1600, it makes for an excellent backup solution; the array is fault-tolerant so even in the unlikely event that a hard drive fails, you lose nothing. Throw in a gigabit ethernet card, and you'll be able to quickly & easily copy things on and off the server.
IMHO, it beats the pants off re-burning a huge stack of CD's every year, while praying that none of them turned out to have a lifetime of 364 days.
I've read beta testers' weblogs and seen all the cool screenshots, but there's one thing I still can't figure out: how did Google pick the beta testers? Were they just friends of certain Google employees, or was there some place that you could apply to be a considered for beta testing?
Simpler, perhaps, but not a particularly good idea. What gives my college the right to decide what kind of music I'm going to listen to, and whom I'm going to buy it from? Despite common belief, not all music is owned by the RIAA, and I certainly wouldn't want a part of my tuition going into the pockets of these monopolists.
This could be abused to death, by major employers who could "strongly encourage" their employees to vote for the pro-big-business candidate. So far, we've been safe from such abuse because there has been no way to verify whether any particular person voted for the "right" candidate; as soon as that changes, expect problems.
Opera 7's M2 mail client has been doing exactly that for ages. Instead of folders, it has "filters" -- the difference being that the same email message can be stored in multiple filters. Emails can be put into the filters through logical rules, or by dragging them in (or out) manually. It's quite amazing, really.
Ethereal! It's a very high-end multi-platform sniffer with numerous features, as well as excellent GUI and command-line interfaces that are a joy to use. It has all the features you'd expect in high-end commercial network sniffers, and it's free!
I keep waiting for a law firm somewhere to offer "RIAA insurance": pay $5/month and they offer to defend you if you ever get sued by them.
Excellent idea. Maybe broadband companies could offer that as part of a 2500/768 "music lovers' heaven" broadband deal? Now that would be worth paying good money for.
I understand your objection, but here's something for you to consider: I've seen murder in movies, but it doesn't mean that actual people died in their filming. All of the things you refer to (particularly the rape porn) could have been staged by the porn company to get customers who want, well, rape porn. Sick, I know - but hardly *bad* if the whole thing was staged and the filmee was willing.
If Apple and the RIAA has its way, using a tool like this will be just as illegal as getting the music with Kazaa. If I'm going to be breaking the law anyways, I might as well save my $0.99.
Logging onto SCO's website only to have one of these Java windows pop up, with a salesperson asking "So, how many Linux licenses will you be purchasing today?"
Why aren't there any lawmakers backing the public on DVD encryption?
The lawmakers are actually being very consistant -- in both cases, they are protecting old business models from new threats. General car repair is a fairly old type of business; when it becomes threatened by secret computer codes, Congress steps in to protect it. In the same way, when the old RIAA/MPAA-type businesses are threatened by new distribution technologies, Congress once again steps in to protect the old guys.
Why is it that these people are spending their time writing horror stories, rather than taking steps to get their money back? If PayPal robbed you for something to the tune of $1000, I'd say it's more than worth the time to sue for it in small claims court; it's not that hard, either.
Could someone explain to me why these people are whining online rather that suing?
I know this is beside your point, but I feel like nitpicking today.. Those of us who have tried this command, know that it wouldn't do as much damage as people believe. That's because it works recursively, alphabetically deleting all files. This means it'll start with/bin/, and will come to a stop when it gets to/bin/rm, leaving everything that comes after it (including everything in the other root-level directories) untouched. If you want to do the most damage, you should recursively list the files, filter out/bin/rm, and pipe that list to the rm command.
Sorry, but you're living in a dream world. I have family members who have been PhD scientists for over 30 years, and still earn much less than the numbers you're throwing around.
Fact is, university pay just sucks and positions above the post-doctoral level are near-impossible to obtain regardless of your experience. That's why you see people, like the fellow in this article, working in post-doc positions despite 13 years' experience. That much experience qualifies you for the "senior scientist" level, but the positions simply aren't available.
FeedDemon is probably the most powerful Win32 RSS reader available. It supports tons of unique features like merging of feeds into a single "newspaper" of today's events.
Step 1. Round up 50 of the friendliest, most trustworthy ISP/registrar-type companies you can find. Step 2. Create 50 TLDs, give one to each company. Step 3. Forbid them from selling or renting their TLDs away, to ensure that one of them doesn't wind up with all 50. Step 4. Watch as competition drives registration prices down, and keeps the companies in check.
Been there, done that..
A BIND 8 patch has been released to do exactly what you're describing. This was done back when ICANN pulled its nasty tricks the first time around.
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At my high school, iPods are all over the place.. In some cases I can look around, while standing in one place, and see as many as 4-5 of these things. Quite amazing, really.
I really don't have anything top secret enough to say to my friends that I would find value in encrypted mail.
It's that mindset that keeps encrypted email from becoming a standard, and there is a major flaw in it. The real reason for encrypting everything is not so much to protect your photo collection or personal emails, but to completely cripple anyone (NSA, perhaps?) who would want to intercept everyone's email.
Currently, there are very few people using encryption for email, so if the NSA notices that Joe Geek is, they might suspect that he has something to hide and start throwing massive computing resources at cracking his private key. However, if absolutely everyone was encrypting their email, no privacy-invading government org would know whose email to even begin decrypting. Thus, we'd all be safe.
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In Opera, you can kill all stylesheets and formatting on any page with a single keypress, and bring them back again just as quickly. Makes it simple to read the text on pages that use ugly colors, backgrounds, and whatnot.
..and can I bring my baseball bat?
IMHO, it beats the pants off re-burning a huge stack of CD's every year, while praying that none of them turned out to have a lifetime of 364 days.
Clearly, you've never seen Proxomitron or Privoxy.
I've read beta testers' weblogs and seen all the cool screenshots, but there's one thing I still can't figure out: how did Google pick the beta testers? Were they just friends of certain Google employees, or was there some place that you could apply to be a considered for beta testing?
Simpler, perhaps, but not a particularly good idea. What gives my college the right to decide what kind of music I'm going to listen to, and whom I'm going to buy it from? Despite common belief, not all music is owned by the RIAA, and I certainly wouldn't want a part of my tuition going into the pockets of these monopolists.
This could be abused to death, by major employers who could "strongly encourage" their employees to vote for the pro-big-business candidate. So far, we've been safe from such abuse because there has been no way to verify whether any particular person voted for the "right" candidate; as soon as that changes, expect problems.
Opera 7's M2 mail client has been doing exactly that for ages. Instead of folders, it has "filters" -- the difference being that the same email message can be stored in multiple filters. Emails can be put into the filters through logical rules, or by dragging them in (or out) manually. It's quite amazing, really.
Ethereal! It's a very high-end multi-platform sniffer with numerous features, as well as excellent GUI and command-line interfaces that are a joy to use. It has all the features you'd expect in high-end commercial network sniffers, and it's free!
Excellent idea. Maybe broadband companies could offer that as part of a 2500/768 "music lovers' heaven" broadband deal? Now that would be worth paying good money for.
I understand your objection, but here's something for you to consider: I've seen murder in movies, but it doesn't mean that actual people died in their filming. All of the things you refer to (particularly the rape porn) could have been staged by the porn company to get customers who want, well, rape porn. Sick, I know - but hardly *bad* if the whole thing was staged and the filmee was willing.
If Apple and the RIAA has its way, using a tool like this will be just as illegal as getting the music with Kazaa. If I'm going to be breaking the law anyways, I might as well save my $0.99.
Logging onto SCO's website only to have one of these Java windows pop up, with a salesperson asking "So, how many Linux licenses will you be purchasing today?"
Read this story without registering, thanks to Google.
The lawmakers are actually being very consistant -- in both cases, they are protecting old business models from new threats. General car repair is a fairly old type of business; when it becomes threatened by secret computer codes, Congress steps in to protect it. In the same way, when the old RIAA/MPAA-type businesses are threatened by new distribution technologies, Congress once again steps in to protect the old guys.
Could someone explain to me why these people are whining online rather that suing?
I know this is beside your point, but I feel like nitpicking today.. Those of us who have tried this command, know that it wouldn't do as much damage as people believe. That's because it works recursively, alphabetically deleting all files. This means it'll start with /bin/, and will come to a stop when it gets to /bin/rm, leaving everything that comes after it (including everything in the other root-level directories) untouched. If you want to do the most damage, you should recursively list the files, filter out /bin/rm, and pipe that list to the rm command.
Sorry, but you're living in a dream world. I have family members who have been PhD scientists for over 30 years, and still earn much less than the numbers you're throwing around.
Fact is, university pay just sucks and positions above the post-doctoral level are near-impossible to obtain regardless of your experience. That's why you see people, like the fellow in this article, working in post-doc positions despite 13 years' experience. That much experience qualifies you for the "senior scientist" level, but the positions simply aren't available.
FeedDemon is probably the most powerful Win32 RSS reader available. It supports tons of unique features like merging of feeds into a single "newspaper" of today's events.
Step 1. Round up 50 of the friendliest, most trustworthy ISP/registrar-type companies you can find.
Step 2. Create 50 TLDs, give one to each company.
Step 3. Forbid them from selling or renting their TLDs away, to ensure that one of them doesn't wind up with all 50.
Step 4. Watch as competition drives registration prices down, and keeps the companies in check.
Been there, done that..
A BIND 8 patch has been released to do exactly what you're describing. This was done back when ICANN pulled its nasty tricks the first time around.
It runs Windows, of course.
At my high school, iPods are all over the place.. In some cases I can look around, while standing in one place, and see as many as 4-5 of these things. Quite amazing, really.
Time for a googlefight! Male gamers (106000) vs. Female gamers (144000)! FEMALE GAMERS WIN - just as I always suspected.
It's that mindset that keeps encrypted email from becoming a standard, and there is a major flaw in it. The real reason for encrypting everything is not so much to protect your photo collection or personal emails, but to completely cripple anyone (NSA, perhaps?) who would want to intercept everyone's email.
Currently, there are very few people using encryption for email, so if the NSA notices that Joe Geek is, they might suspect that he has something to hide and start throwing massive computing resources at cracking his private key. However, if absolutely everyone was encrypting their email, no privacy-invading government org would know whose email to even begin decrypting. Thus, we'd all be safe.