Yeah, what a good idea. I'll just join my computer up to a botnet and let some probably unknown individual give me a list of targets to attack. Perhaps when they run out of 419's they could start bombing the sites of political campaigns they don't approve of, or auction websites or microsoft.com.
If you're going to punch someone, don't let someone else guide your fist. You might end up biting off more than you can chew, if you'll excuse my mixed metaphor.
Of course, there can be substansive collateral damage, vis that lady who embezzled her company to finance her advance fee fraud, and another gentleman who collected money from his circle of friends and acquaintances on the pretext that it was to finance a large shipment of clothing items for his business.
These second tier victims aren't necessarily weak and gullible - nor are they all on the internet. They were often approached by someone they knew and trusted. These cases, if none other, are a reason for us to be vigilant, and do what we can to put the frighteners on people that would purvey such scams.
( Although personally I think the time would be better spent educating people instead of trying to slashdot some website which the proprietors will just take down and put up somewhere else... )
I never found a copy of I for my Dreamcast, but I have II for the X-Box, and it's not bad. Awful voice acting though. Will the franchise be allowed to run to story completion? ( sting music ) I sure hope so.
I suppose the ideas of rational discussion and intelligent discourse escape you, however
The point about rational discussion and intelligent discourse is that the arguments don't rest on the influence or 'credibility' of the person making them. Anonymity has no bearing on true rational discussion. The points should stand or fall on their own merits.
But it's just another course trying to entice non-science students to do science. What's the point?
To answer your question in general:
What's the point? The point is that we need as many people as possible gaining as much exposure to science education as possible. You don't teach people about things like "scientific method" or the notion that we have theories that are constantly revised under scrutiny, or Occams razor, and 20 years down the line you have a five billion dollar a year "magnetic medicine" industry.
Sadly, as it's not legal for me to wait around the corner and thrash the people coming out of, say, the magnet shop with a broom, it looks like the best we can do is try to educate their children to think for themselves. Here's a prescription: scientific education helps treat and prevent anxiety, gullibility and irrational prejudice.
My advice would be to splash out some cash for a PCMCIA Orinoco or PRISM-II card, and jam it into the sideslot. Working this way, and with something like KisMac, you can use the Orinoco to scan in passive mode, and then use the Airport or Airport Extreme card for "active" usage, such as performing a packet reinjection flood to generate more traffic on the network.
I believe Kismac does support the old Airport standard card in monitor mode ( maybe! ), but not the new APX. It can be used in active mode ( which sucks ) however.
Don't you realize that you're not supposed to desire or legally need more than 1000 songs!
Gahaha... I'm already up to 2890 songs on mine, and I'm still working my way down one side of the cd tower. Perhaps they should replace "Rip. Mix. Burn." with "Rip, Swap, Rip, Swap, Rip, Swap, Rip, Swap, Argh, RSI."
Hell no. Somewhat tangentially, I was having this discussion the other day with someone:
A machine I work on had been upgraded to 2.4.21-pre5, and I was a bit pissy because anything < -pre6 has the ptrace priv escalation flaw.
It turned out that he was using some kind of kerazy Debian kernel with the fix backported. Without eventually finding him and asking him this, I had no way to know this, because: I wasn't allowed to test it and see if it worked ( I don't know PPC shellcode anyway ), The upgrader had not left his source tree or a changelog handy, the kernel didn't have any indicitative flags in its name, he hadn't installed it from a package.
Now, of course, you should be able to do anything you like, which includes cherry picking features into old releases, but in my opinion, this can create a lot of confusion. It'd be really embarassing if the software you wrote only worked on your customised kernel if you didn't know it had been customised.
Version numbers allow us to identify the patch level and feature set of a piece of software and we use them to specify minimum requirements for packages. I think at the very least, if you're going to backport stuff, change the version number somehow ( private fork ) - your patched software and the original can no longer be treated as the same entity.
Ok, er, rant off. My point is that people not in favour of backports usually have some kind of reason for it, even if it's a crappy one like mine, and you'd need to convince me that my reasoning is bad before I'd drop the point.
Sure, a brute-force attack at most would take only 1000 attempts, but that's 1000 attempts by hand which would take at least an hour or so.
I wonder if you could build a device that puts tension on the hasp while wardialing the combination using a drill and a set of ratchets or cogs. Might make an interesting weekend project. ( Obviously this wouldn't work on button style or suitcase locks... )
Look, I don't know if I didn't word my original post clearly enough, but this is what I'm trying to say.
I am not an advocate of DMCA like laws, however, I do believe in contract law, because it's what makes sure I get paid. The creation of this Playfair software should not be illegal, or regulated by the government, but it would be nice if end users could exercise self restraint and not use it.
If you enter into an agreement with a music vendor which says you can, e.g. download a song and play it on one player, in exchange for some sum of money, that is the agreement you have entered into! If you find the terms of agreement onerous, the solution is not to enter it. I really can't make it anymore simple than that. The correct solution to this problem of DRM creep is to apply economic pressure to the companies in question - not to renege on agreements.
Macupdate Desktop runs US$30/year. MUMenu, which isn't quite the same, is free. It's sad, these are things you come to take for granted from environments like Debian.
Still, at least some software authors like the Poisoned team are integrating self update functionality into the software itself. ( And yeah, I know that can be a bad thing. )
Would you care to quote some legislation to support that point? Because I don't think 'the right to dub my compact disks to tape' is an inalienable human right, set down in the UN Charter or something.
I know it's hard to understand that there are countries outside of America, but have a look at this - in, say, Australia, "fair use" is called Fair Dealing and in short is soley for use by individuals for the purposes of:
Research and Study
Criticism and Review
News Reporting
Reproduction for Purposes of Judicial Proceedings or Legal Professional Advice
You can't even reproduce the whole copyrighted artifact! I don't see anything on there about listening to your old vinyl in the car.
Ok. I agree that you shouldn't have to buy a new copy of 'Thriller' everytime SAAB upgrade the audio system in their new sets of wheels, but at the same time you have to understand that if you want to be able to buy music online, it is all about compromise.
The only reason Apple ( or any of the other vendors except eMusic [ who have nothing ] ) could wheedle distribution rights out of the record companies was due to their promises about reproduction control. Big Music had no reason to come to the party otherwise, but a compromise was reached - 99c a track, in exchange for limited play rights.
However, the notion of 'compromise' seems to be alien to most geeks - they always get greedy and want to take more than they've paid for. People cracking these schemes are just pissing in the pool for the rest of us, and continuing to give the internet a reputation in the mass media as a den of thieves. I would like to see the great buy-music-online experiment get to my country before it gets killed off by skittish executives.
Edit/etc/ttys. Uncomment the "/usr/libexec/getty" line, comment out the "/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app" one. Hasta la vista, Aqua.
Check the attitude at the door. I worked with Solaris, SCO Unix, FreeBSD and Linux. Just because someone wants a nice environment doesn't make them a wannabee, it's called 'progress'. Same reason we don't sleep in caves anymore.
Now, if you want to talk about what chicks really dig, you should check out the rack of SUN equipment under my bed. *fonz-style-thumbs-up*
Python is case-sensitive, BASIC is not. Not being case-sensitive is a big advantage for newbies.
Heavens above. As someone who has taught beginning programmers, if they can't keep their case straight and consistant, it's going to be the least of their worries.
... the vast majority of Americans don't live in big cities?
Well, in my somewhat lame defence, the topic is "how will we get around near-future earth", not "how will we get around near-future America", but I admit my perception is somewhat tinted by living in the middle density Inner West of Sydney.
I know it's a joke, but I think that foot travel really has potential for the future. As urban density increases, you'd think that the general short-haul travel requirements of individual citizens would diminish until their usual haunts ( the office, the local supermarket, the pub ) were within striking distance of their feet.
When you're on foot, you don't need to:
Park
Buy gas
Divert around minor obstacles
Really pay that much attention to your surroundings
You can watch the local eye candy and it improves fitness levels at the same time. I do most of my regular travel on foot, and I don't understand why more people don't get into it.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe the linefeeds are part of the DRM beta test. If Slashdot doesn't qualify as an "unsafe data channel", I don't know what does.
Yeah, what a good idea. I'll just join my computer up to a botnet and let some probably unknown individual give me a list of targets to attack. Perhaps when they run out of 419's they could start bombing the sites of political campaigns they don't approve of, or auction websites or microsoft.com.
If you're going to punch someone, don't let someone else guide your fist. You might end up biting off more than you can chew, if you'll excuse my mixed metaphor.
Of course, there can be substansive collateral damage, vis that lady who embezzled her company to finance her advance fee fraud, and another gentleman who collected money from his circle of friends and acquaintances on the pretext that it was to finance a large shipment of clothing items for his business.
These second tier victims aren't necessarily weak and gullible - nor are they all on the internet. They were often approached by someone they knew and trusted. These cases, if none other, are a reason for us to be vigilant, and do what we can to put the frighteners on people that would purvey such scams.
( Although personally I think the time would be better spent educating people instead of trying to slashdot some website which the proprietors will just take down and put up somewhere else... )
I never found a copy of I for my Dreamcast, but I have II for the X-Box, and it's not bad. Awful voice acting though. Will the franchise be allowed to run to story completion? ( sting music ) I sure hope so.
C supports GOTO. If you "meant GOTO"[*], why not use it?
YLFI
[*] And crave sadness.The point about rational discussion and intelligent discourse is that the arguments don't rest on the influence or 'credibility' of the person making them. Anonymity has no bearing on true rational discussion. The points should stand or fall on their own merits.
To answer your question in general:
What's the point? The point is that we need as many people as possible gaining as much exposure to science education as possible. You don't teach people about things like "scientific method" or the notion that we have theories that are constantly revised under scrutiny, or Occams razor, and 20 years down the line you have a five billion dollar a year "magnetic medicine" industry.
Sadly, as it's not legal for me to wait around the corner and thrash the people coming out of, say, the magnet shop with a broom, it looks like the best we can do is try to educate their children to think for themselves. Here's a prescription: scientific education helps treat and prevent anxiety, gullibility and irrational prejudice.
My advice would be to splash out some cash for a PCMCIA Orinoco or PRISM-II card, and jam it into the sideslot. Working this way, and with something like KisMac, you can use the Orinoco to scan in passive mode, and then use the Airport or Airport Extreme card for "active" usage, such as performing a packet reinjection flood to generate more traffic on the network.
I believe Kismac does support the old Airport standard card in monitor mode ( maybe! ), but not the new APX. It can be used in active mode ( which sucks ) however.
Gahaha... I'm already up to 2890 songs on mine, and I'm still working my way down one side of the cd tower. Perhaps they should replace "Rip. Mix. Burn." with "Rip, Swap, Rip, Swap, Rip, Swap, Rip, Swap, Argh, RSI."
YLFIHell no. Somewhat tangentially, I was having this discussion the other day with someone:
A machine I work on had been upgraded to 2.4.21-pre5, and I was a bit pissy because anything < -pre6 has the ptrace priv escalation flaw.
It turned out that he was using some kind of kerazy Debian kernel with the fix backported. Without eventually finding him and asking him this, I had no way to know this, because: I wasn't allowed to test it and see if it worked ( I don't know PPC shellcode anyway ), The upgrader had not left his source tree or a changelog handy, the kernel didn't have any indicitative flags in its name, he hadn't installed it from a package.
Now, of course, you should be able to do anything you like, which includes cherry picking features into old releases, but in my opinion, this can create a lot of confusion. It'd be really embarassing if the software you wrote only worked on your customised kernel if you didn't know it had been customised.
Version numbers allow us to identify the patch level and feature set of a piece of software and we use them to specify minimum requirements for packages. I think at the very least, if you're going to backport stuff, change the version number somehow ( private fork ) - your patched software and the original can no longer be treated as the same entity.
Ok, er, rant off. My point is that people not in favour of backports usually have some kind of reason for it, even if it's a crappy one like mine, and you'd need to convince me that my reasoning is bad before I'd drop the point.
This is just a guess, but is it California State, Sacramento, college of Engineering and Computer Science?
YLFII wonder if you could build a device that puts tension on the hasp while wardialing the combination using a drill and a set of ratchets or cogs. Might make an interesting weekend project. ( Obviously this wouldn't work on button style or suitcase locks... )
Look, I don't know if I didn't word my original post clearly enough, but this is what I'm trying to say.
I am not an advocate of DMCA like laws, however, I do believe in contract law, because it's what makes sure I get paid. The creation of this Playfair software should not be illegal, or regulated by the government, but it would be nice if end users could exercise self restraint and not use it.
If you enter into an agreement with a music vendor which says you can, e.g. download a song and play it on one player, in exchange for some sum of money, that is the agreement you have entered into! If you find the terms of agreement onerous, the solution is not to enter it. I really can't make it anymore simple than that. The correct solution to this problem of DRM creep is to apply economic pressure to the companies in question - not to renege on agreements.
Macupdate Desktop runs US$30/year. MUMenu, which isn't quite the same, is free. It's sad, these are things you come to take for granted from environments like Debian.
Still, at least some software authors like the Poisoned team are integrating self update functionality into the software itself. ( And yeah, I know that can be a bad thing. )
Would you care to quote some legislation to support that point? Because I don't think 'the right to dub my compact disks to tape' is an inalienable human right, set down in the UN Charter or something.
I know it's hard to understand that there are countries outside of America, but have a look at this - in, say, Australia, "fair use" is called Fair Dealing and in short is soley for use by individuals for the purposes of:
- Research and Study
- Criticism and Review
- News Reporting
- Reproduction for Purposes of Judicial Proceedings or Legal Professional Advice
You can't even reproduce the whole copyrighted artifact! I don't see anything on there about listening to your old vinyl in the car.Ok. I agree that you shouldn't have to buy a new copy of 'Thriller' everytime SAAB upgrade the audio system in their new sets of wheels, but at the same time you have to understand that if you want to be able to buy music online, it is all about compromise.
The only reason Apple ( or any of the other vendors except eMusic [ who have nothing ] ) could wheedle distribution rights out of the record companies was due to their promises about reproduction control. Big Music had no reason to come to the party otherwise, but a compromise was reached - 99c a track, in exchange for limited play rights.
However, the notion of 'compromise' seems to be alien to most geeks - they always get greedy and want to take more than they've paid for. People cracking these schemes are just pissing in the pool for the rest of us, and continuing to give the internet a reputation in the mass media as a den of thieves. I would like to see the great buy-music-online experiment get to my country before it gets killed off by skittish executives.
Grr.
It's also pre-filtered of all the good music too. The only thing worth downloading on there is Arab On Radars "The Stolen Singles".
Edit /etc/ttys. Uncomment the "/usr/libexec/getty" line, comment out the "/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app" one. Hasta la vista, Aqua.
Check the attitude at the door. I worked with Solaris, SCO Unix, FreeBSD and Linux. Just because someone wants a nice environment doesn't make them a wannabee, it's called 'progress'. Same reason we don't sleep in caves anymore.
Now, if you want to talk about what chicks really dig, you should check out the rack of SUN equipment under my bed. *fonz-style-thumbs-up*
Cripes :-/ Oh well, at least I misspell it consistantly.
Heavens above. As someone who has taught beginning programmers, if they can't keep their case straight and consistant, it's going to be the least of their worries.
Boss: Hey! That's my nickname!
I used to tutor Introduction to Object Oriented Programming at UTS, and this figure of speech made me laugh harder than anything else I've read today.
Well, in my somewhat lame defence, the topic is "how will we get around near-future earth", not "how will we get around near-future America", but I admit my perception is somewhat tinted by living in the middle density Inner West of Sydney.
The big problem to my mind is cat-in-the-middle attacks.
I know it's a joke, but I think that foot travel really has potential for the future. As urban density increases, you'd think that the general short-haul travel requirements of individual citizens would diminish until their usual haunts ( the office, the local supermarket, the pub ) were within striking distance of their feet.
When you're on foot, you don't need to:
- Park
- Buy gas
- Divert around minor obstacles
- Really pay that much attention to your surroundings
You can watch the local eye candy and it improves fitness levels at the same time. I do most of my regular travel on foot, and I don't understand why more people don't get into it.Never has the disparity between original thread subject line and post content been funnier.