Yep, right up until the next Apache/Sendmail/Bind exploit comes out.
Which probably will be reported, patched and resolved before any blackhats even notice there is an exploit. Really, this security through obscurity doesn't work. The only things obscure here seems to be the patches microsoft put out to prevent these exploits. The exploits themselves are certainly not the least obscure, despite the closed source evangelion.
Why would this even have to go to a lawsuit? This behaviour of sending out threatening letters left and right based solely on pattern matching a file name should be flat out illegal. Anyone sending these letters should be forced to verify and double verify what the file contains before doing anything else. In Sweden we have authorities which I'm sure would be more than happy to sink their teeth in companies behaving like this, aren't there similar possibilities in USA, besides dragging someone to court (which is expensive and time-consuming)?
My isp's (Spray ADSL in Sweden) DNS is down now. All I can browse at the moment is whatever addresses my router cached before the dns disappeared. Anyone else using Spray having problems, or know if this worm's causing them?
I doubt you have anything above 256 Kb/s, since vorbis AFAIK doesn't use higher bitrates. Your parent post is quite right in that anyone who hears quality degradation at 256Kb/s Vorbis (Which would require a very good set of ears and speakers) probably should be using FLAC or other lossless formats
You talk much about your campaign being a grassroots movement, do you think that there are too few grassroots movements and too much corporate sponsorship? Is this a problem for democracy, and in that case what can be done about it?
Would there be more grassroots movements in American politics if there were a larger number of large political parties?
Lastly, Arnold may win; are you afraid that he may win due to his Hollywood fame rather than his political ability, and is that threatening to further turn political elections into glittering galashows rather than debates of political issues?
A cynical guess would be that they will stick with CD until:
a) Filesharing is killed
b) People get sick with the inflated prices (CD:s are still sold now, despite increased prices)
c) Everyones CD-collection is beginning to get worn out and scratchy
After these points are met, the time would be right for them to roll out SACD (or DVDA) at full power. This way, they can charge people for music they have already bought, while smacking on a "Introducing new technology" tax. Much like the CD. the now even higher prices will be justified by talk of expensive manufacturing processes, but the higher prices will never drop below the introductory price. There's capitalism for you.
Perhaps they Matrix would bring up reactions along the lines of "Matrix was that cool movie, with that cool guy fighting for enlightenment and... uhm... blowing stuff up! Surely this must be a cool law!" Sadly I don't think, among the general poulace, that this is too far fetched, although geeks see through it. It's among the same lines of a Skynet killer drone running for guvenor in California, and actually having quite good chances of winning.
Not quite, but getting closer every day. Not really sure it's a good thing though. The EU government might very well someday go off against citizens in a way that makes the US government pale in comparison.
I'd have to agree, but add that there also is a fair amount of anti-gentoo trolling in connection with every gentoo related story on/.
Gentoo has strong and weak points, just as every other distro, and just as every other distro it isn't for everyone. This gentoo/anti-gentoo trolling is counterproductive as well as ashaming to every serious linux user, and I would like to see the discussion hitched up just a few notches above the sandbox level it's currently at. If we could do that, a balanced discussion might help users find the distribution best suited to their needs. After all, having choices will only benefit linux.
Oh well, end rant...
What are you talking about?
1. Pick circular selection tool.
2. Select a circle
3. Pick your colour
4. Pick the pen tool or brush tool
5. Select a brush of your choice
6. Context menu, Edit, Stroke
7. Profit!
You are very correct, but may I add that it's often recommended to go with higher wattage PSUs, the reason being that they are often better at providing the necessary current on all rails. 200W supplies are more than enough to handle the effect of a modern CPU, a couple of drives and some PCI-cards, but the 200W PSU might not always be able to deliver the current needed.
You're missing one of the main points with open source software: choice. While I sometimes feel standards would be needed, I also see the risk of linux desktops becoming like OSX and XP: boring monoliths that limit the freedom of choice of its users. And FYI, my fvwm desktop is way more usable than XP or OSX. While this is true for me, it may not be for others, but then they can choose one of the many other usable windowmanagers out there.
KDE comes with virtual desktops by default. Joe Average surely won't go searching for virtual desktops for windows, whereas using KDE he'd probably discover them sooner or later, and after a week be unable to live without them.
Sloppy focus perhaps? That's one of the things about fvwm I'd find it hard to live without these days, especially when coupled with the autoraise module. Come to think of it, I think the most useful feature of linux desktops would be the total control over every single behaviour of the desktop. In that area, the OSS desktops are lightyears ahead both Microsoft and Apple.
In broadcasting they use multiband compressors to crank it up to the extreme. The material is splite into like 4 frequency bands, which are then individually compressed. The effect of multiband vs singleband is that rather than just maximizing overall perceived loudness, every part of the spectrumwill be maximized. Some mastering engineers use it on CDs as well , mainly the pop genre.
Yes, especially since the music, if it hits the radio or tv music channels will definitely be heavily processed. If it's lightly compressed, it will turn out somewhat acceptable on radio, but if heavily compressed, the fm processors will turn the music into a pumping mess. I fell all this loudness maximizing has gone way to far. It's a major annoyance laying out a playlist of newer and older songs, being forced to run laps between the chair and the volume controller
Especially now in summer, when 80% of the content on commercial channels are reruns everyone has seen 5 times already. Thank god for public service. You'd have to pry SVT from my cold dead hands
I have tried to get rid of the mousepad, but I've grown to accustomed to it. I got it when I bought my Amiga 1200, and it has since then been transfered to whatever my main desktop is at the moment, even after I started useing optical. Dunno, it just has the right feel and resistance, altough it is somewhat limited in size.
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Yep, right up until the next Apache/Sendmail/Bind exploit comes out.
Which probably will be reported, patched and resolved before any blackhats even notice there is an exploit. Really, this security through obscurity doesn't work. The only things obscure here seems to be the patches microsoft put out to prevent these exploits. The exploits themselves are certainly not the least obscure, despite the closed source evangelion.
Why would this even have to go to a lawsuit? This behaviour of sending out threatening letters left and right based solely on pattern matching a file name should be flat out illegal. Anyone sending these letters should be forced to verify and double verify what the file contains before doing anything else. In Sweden we have authorities which I'm sure would be more than happy to sink their teeth in companies behaving like this, aren't there similar possibilities in USA, besides dragging someone to court (which is expensive and time-consuming)?
Isn't SDL more of a toolkit for multimedia/games applications than a widgetset/graphical toolkit?
My isp's (Spray ADSL in Sweden) DNS is down now. All I can browse at the moment is whatever addresses my router cached before the dns disappeared. Anyone else using Spray having problems, or know if this worm's causing them?
I doubt you have anything above 256 Kb/s, since vorbis AFAIK doesn't use higher bitrates. Your parent post is quite right in that anyone who hears quality degradation at 256Kb/s Vorbis (Which would require a very good set of ears and speakers) probably should be using FLAC or other lossless formats
You talk much about your campaign being a grassroots movement, do you think that there are too few grassroots movements and too much corporate sponsorship? Is this a problem for democracy, and in that case what can be done about it?
Would there be more grassroots movements in American politics if there were a larger number of large political parties?
Lastly, Arnold may win; are you afraid that he may win due to his Hollywood fame rather than his political ability, and is that threatening to further turn political elections into glittering galashows rather than debates of political issues?
Not to nitpick or anything, but if I remember my Python that would be Michael Ellis
So actually we have not only the three dimensions of room to move in, we also have mice that let's us travel beyond the barriers of time!
A cynical guess would be that they will stick with CD until:
a) Filesharing is killed
b) People get sick with the inflated prices (CD:s are still sold now, despite increased prices)
c) Everyones CD-collection is beginning to get worn out and scratchy
After these points are met, the time would be right for them to roll out SACD (or DVDA) at full power. This way, they can charge people for music they have already bought, while smacking on a "Introducing new technology" tax. Much like the CD. the now even higher prices will be justified by talk of expensive manufacturing processes, but the higher prices will never drop below the introductory price. There's capitalism for you.
Maybe they should have read the /.faq, and realized that +5 funny won't improve their karma, neither on /. or anywhere else
Perhaps they Matrix would bring up reactions along the lines of "Matrix was that cool movie, with that cool guy fighting for enlightenment and ... uhm... blowing stuff up! Surely this must be a cool law!" Sadly I don't think, among the general poulace, that this is too far fetched, although geeks see through it. It's among the same lines of a Skynet killer drone running for guvenor in California, and actually having quite good chances of winning.
Not quite, but getting closer every day. Not really sure it's a good thing though. The EU government might very well someday go off against citizens in a way that makes the US government pale in comparison.
I'd have to agree, but add that there also is a fair amount of anti-gentoo trolling in connection with every gentoo related story on /.
Gentoo has strong and weak points, just as every other distro, and just as every other distro it isn't for everyone. This gentoo/anti-gentoo trolling is counterproductive as well as ashaming to every serious linux user, and I would like to see the discussion hitched up just a few notches above the sandbox level it's currently at. If we could do that, a balanced discussion might help users find the distribution best suited to their needs. After all, having choices will only benefit linux.
Oh well, end rant...
What are you talking about?
1. Pick circular selection tool.
2. Select a circle
3. Pick your colour
4. Pick the pen tool or brush tool
5. Select a brush of your choice
6. Context menu, Edit, Stroke
7. Profit!
You are very correct, but may I add that it's often recommended to go with higher wattage PSUs, the reason being that they are often better at providing the necessary current on all rails. 200W supplies are more than enough to handle the effect of a modern CPU, a couple of drives and some PCI-cards, but the 200W PSU might not always be able to deliver the current needed.
I suppose SuSE, RedHat or whoever sold linux to said government would be responsible for things working
You're missing one of the main points with open source software: choice. While I sometimes feel standards would be needed, I also see the risk of linux desktops becoming like OSX and XP: boring monoliths that limit the freedom of choice of its users. And FYI, my fvwm desktop is way more usable than XP or OSX. While this is true for me, it may not be for others, but then they can choose one of the many other usable windowmanagers out there.
KDE comes with virtual desktops by default. Joe Average surely won't go searching for virtual desktops for windows, whereas using KDE he'd probably discover them sooner or later, and after a week be unable to live without them.
Sloppy focus perhaps? That's one of the things about fvwm I'd find it hard to live without these days, especially when coupled with the autoraise module. Come to think of it, I think the most useful feature of linux desktops would be the total control over every single behaviour of the desktop. In that area, the OSS desktops are lightyears ahead both Microsoft and Apple.
In broadcasting they use multiband compressors to crank it up to the extreme. The material is splite into like 4 frequency bands, which are then individually compressed. The effect of multiband vs singleband is that rather than just maximizing overall perceived loudness, every part of the spectrumwill be maximized. Some mastering engineers use it on CDs as well , mainly the pop genre.
In Soviet Russia, you get high on today's Tom Sawyer
Yes, especially since the music, if it hits the radio or tv music channels will definitely be heavily processed. If it's lightly compressed, it will turn out somewhat acceptable on radio, but if heavily compressed, the fm processors will turn the music into a pumping mess. I fell all this loudness maximizing has gone way to far. It's a major annoyance laying out a playlist of newer and older songs, being forced to run laps between the chair and the volume controller
Especially now in summer, when 80% of the content on commercial channels are reruns everyone has seen 5 times already. Thank god for public service. You'd have to pry SVT from my cold dead hands
The bottom of the page has a "send feedback to Ian Clarke" mailto link, would that be the Ian Clarke that's behind freenet?
I have tried to get rid of the mousepad, but I've grown to accustomed to it. I got it when I bought my Amiga 1200, and it has since then been transfered to whatever my main desktop is at the moment, even after I started useing optical. Dunno, it just has the right feel and resistance, altough it is somewhat limited in size.