cool, i was missing a few codecs, i didnt bother with mplayer. The mozzy plugin sounds good though, but i hear one is out for xine soon, and im trying not to change my desktop too much these days.
just how the fuck am i supposed to view this under gnu/linux or freebsd without buying a crossover plugin? xine doesnt work, nor does xanim, and i have all the binary proprietory libs for both of them:-/
i have worked in the hell that is tele-marketing to earn some cash before studies, and from what i learnt i can confirm that UK advertisement must be opt-in. You clearly miss the point. It means almost the opposite to intuition, granted; everyone begins in a state of "i want spam" until they ask the right authority (TPS on phones, IPS or somehting for snail-mail) and from that moment on, anyone sending you spam through snailmail or phone calls is doign so illegally. and you really can get them in BIG trouble (minimum fines are quite extensive, mostly as a way to make every spammer buy the latest edition of the 'no-spam allowed' address list, which incidentaly, brings them £).
now, this is certainly not the way that email spam works, as it is impossible to track down and prosecute internationally, but for email spam sent from the UK, it allows for local prosecution (if you could be arsed).
besides, i dont think this will affect email spamming at all, i am more interrested in how the SMS policy will work out. it is currently not under the same laws as snailmail and phone sales and is actually getting quite hectic (mostly from our own providers!)
i think door-to-door sales are considered the same as snail mail in this sense.
i dont think this will effect email or web browsing any... but this is fantastic news none the less as previously it was only phone and mail which was registered, and if anyone sent you any advertisements in the UK (if you are on the TPS telephone preference service, or mail equivalent) you can get them in big shit for it... legally.
this is good becuase now i wont get any SMS's from my own provider who i dont care to listen to as i am sure a similar system will be implemented for SMS.
The advertisement companies will listen to this in the UK. on SMS you must give some form of UK contact details for sales (otherwise the text was wasted), and if you are spamming, you WILL be caught.
obviously with the international nature of the internet, this will not effect email spam, but at least you can complain to someone now if its.uk!
one would expect the prime-factorising of numbers to be somehow related to number theoretical fields such as extensions of the RH, _that_ would really effect the principles behind PGP.
As most people seem to have misunderstood my earlier post, i again must stress that proving the RH will NOT lead to a crack of PGP/GPG. that would be something which may be a by-product of this kind of research. But reading my post, it does seem like i was saying that, doesnt it:-/
After all, if we didnt know how to get the prime numbers in the first place... how could we make our keys?
While i can see the intellectual challange of finding the proof, i don't see how this changes the problem.
It doesn't; the proof will not break any encryption at all, but it is in the same field of study and, you know... 'baby steps' and all that. That is how research works.
People... i never said the RH could be used to crack PGP... read my post again; it was about how info on primes helps break down the strength of encryptiong based on rationalising primes. The topic was started as a "what does this mean to the layman" kinda thing, and i was meerly pointing out the nearest thing to applied which you could get, without going into algebra and eigenvalue problems...
Don't get your math from the Cryptonomicon, get a textbook.
yes, thanks for that... i will now go and get a 'textbook' to help me finish my PhD. Where should i buy such a thing? are they available in English? how come no-one has ever suggested this before?
this is true... if we could rationalise prime numbers, PGP encryption would suddenly become (overnight) about as strong as a password on a zip file, or a world readable/etc/shadow. you could calculate anyones private key from their public one. (you still can, just takes a hell of a lot of time! ie, several million years if _everyones_ machines acted in parallel with each other)
this doesnt, however effect quantum encryption, which is entirely hardware driven and is based more on the fact that you cannot 'sniff' the data due to some quantum effects.
still, i think the proof is bogus... they posted in hep-th, which is for mathematical physicists, not number theorists. its even called 'steps towards a final proof'. i dont even have time to read it...
I agree, anytime i search for anything these days, all gnutella comes up with are about 100 files out there all called exactly what i want, but containing some kind of advertisment in surprise. Yeah, i can block that persons IP and stuff... but, there is so much false stuff floating around out there now that its not even worth the effort.
I hear figures which say P2P and napster kill off the music indutry, but in my own personal experience, i have seen quite the opposite: pushed by hearing new music for the first time in a long while, my father bought the only cds he has bought since they came out last year, and many of his friends also. i have also been on ICQ and asked friends, on the other side of the world "you hear so-and-so yet?" yeah, search on napster... and within days they have ordered the CD (which may or may not be sold locally in their country.).
i dunno where all these figures have come from, nobody prefers to listen to music through crappy computer speakers, they buy CDs to go in decent stereo systems when it is good enough...
you miss the point; what i am sayign is that what you call 'aid' is a very arrogant idea which you have all created. American 'aid' harms the world, not helps it... and until you go out there and prove me wrong, i stick by my original statements... sort yourselves out before you mess with the rest of the planet. Missionaries and aidworkers achieve nothing but make themselves feel somehow more like a jesus figure.
Again, im speaking with experience behind me, i am from Northern Ireland and have lived in South Africa, and believe me... America (and Britain in the past) have really fucked these countries over whilst believing they have somehow helped them. Both countries for different reasons.
I agree with you soccerisgod, but if you are contributing to the GNU project (or use a compatible licence), you can add a clause in the license disallowing use of your software in a military environment. i have seen that done before, and it just needs the wording only a lawyer can provide.
of course, chances are you will never be able to know if they run it or not, and will only really matter when concerning the base programs, but at least you could cause them a little pain if it did ever arise.
Typical damn american! Hitler was around in the 30's as well dont you know, and you blantently forgot to mention the 1st WW as well, which we were fighting our asses of in europe to save 'freedom' as you call it; when in fact, american 'freedom' is really just a bunch of doo-gooders feeling sorry for all the poor little primitive sould in all the other countries of the world...
I speak with experience, i come from northern ireland (i country ravaged with terrorism do far back it becomes common-place to go shppoing and not find the shop due to rubble). American 'peacemakers' just held back our peace process decades by releasing 'freedom makers' (ie terrorists) form jails and guess what... putting them into government. thanks a fuckin bunch america; hope you are dead pleased with yourselves savign us poor primitive types who dont understand freedom.
PS: i realise not americans are like this guy, and most academic types are embarressed by their governments so dont take this as an attack; it just pisses me off when you get louts like this who think they really are helping out the 3rd world and war ravaged peoples... you need to sort out your own country forts before you start being arrogant and obnoxious abroad.
i dont know if i could use these new 'whiteglass' pointers day in and day out; but they are pretty funky and give a really weird 'elevated from your desktop' feeling which you will only understand when you use them for the first time:-)
I haven't had the problems you have, but i must confess to seeing this version hog a few more megabytes than 4.2.1 and giving worse rendering on the quake games, and even crashing some of my xmms 3d plugins (everything all recompiled against the new X libs of course)
Nothing good to report from me on this new release... aaah, the price of staying up to date:-/
hey FBI, there is a really old guy who looks like he might be tasting some wine over here, you want me to alert the authorities and have him thrown in jail? (regards recent 'intelligent' FBI work in South Africa, see link)
> Unfortunately, the more I think about it, the
> more I realize, there's just no way to enforce
> such a law.
there is no way to enforce it in a grand scale; but at least ISP's will be able to do a little more than just cut connections when they find abusers of their networks.
At least this way, if you ever check the senders IP to be from France, you can contact the ISP in charge and log a complaint which may be followed up legally (at least partial evidence in a legal case)... only problem is, we need to speak french; you all know how they can be;-D (and rightly so!)
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thanks for the hints everyone!
has it worked for you? or are you just promoting another media player? (genuinely asking, not bashing you...)
just how the fuck am i supposed to view this under gnu/linux or freebsd without buying a crossover plugin? xine doesnt work, nor does xanim, and i have all the binary proprietory libs for both of them :-/
i have worked in the hell that is tele-marketing to earn some cash before studies, and from what i learnt i can confirm that UK advertisement must be opt-in. You clearly miss the point. It means almost the opposite to intuition, granted; everyone begins in a state of "i want spam" until they ask the right authority (TPS on phones, IPS or somehting for snail-mail) and from that moment on, anyone sending you spam through snailmail or phone calls is doign so illegally. and you really can get them in BIG trouble (minimum fines are quite extensive, mostly as a way to make every spammer buy the latest edition of the 'no-spam allowed' address list, which incidentaly, brings them £).
now, this is certainly not the way that email spam works, as it is impossible to track down and prosecute internationally, but for email spam sent from the UK, it allows for local prosecution (if you could be arsed).
besides, i dont think this will affect email spamming at all, i am more interrested in how the SMS policy will work out. it is currently not under the same laws as snailmail and phone sales and is actually getting quite hectic (mostly from our own providers!)
i think door-to-door sales are considered the same as snail mail in this sense.
this is good becuase now i wont get any SMS's from my own provider who i dont care to listen to as i am sure a similar system will be implemented for SMS.
The advertisement companies will listen to this in the UK. on SMS you must give some form of UK contact details for sales (otherwise the text was wasted), and if you are spamming, you WILL be caught.
obviously with the international nature of the internet, this will not effect email spam, but at least you can complain to someone now if its .uk!
Throw away the flag!! :-D
one would expect the prime-factorising of numbers to be somehow related to number theoretical fields such as extensions of the RH, _that_ would really effect the principles behind PGP.
As most people seem to have misunderstood my earlier post, i again must stress that proving the RH will NOT lead to a crack of PGP/GPG. that would be something which may be a by-product of this kind of research. But reading my post, it does seem like i was saying that, doesnt it :-/
After all, if we didnt know how to get the prime numbers in the first place... how could we make our keys?
It doesn't; the proof will not break any encryption at all, but it is in the same field of study and, you know... 'baby steps' and all that. That is how research works.
Don't get your math from the Cryptonomicon, get a textbook.
yes, thanks for that... i will now go and get a 'textbook' to help me finish my PhD. Where should i buy such a thing? are they available in English? how come no-one has ever suggested this before?
this doesnt, however effect quantum encryption, which is entirely hardware driven and is based more on the fact that you cannot 'sniff' the data due to some quantum effects.
still, i think the proof is bogus... they posted in hep-th, which is for mathematical physicists, not number theorists. its even called 'steps towards a final proof'. i dont even have time to read it...
I agree, anytime i search for anything these days, all gnutella comes up with are about 100 files out there all called exactly what i want, but containing some kind of advertisment in surprise. Yeah, i can block that persons IP and stuff... but, there is so much false stuff floating around out there now that its not even worth the effort.
I hear figures which say P2P and napster kill off the music indutry, but in my own personal experience, i have seen quite the opposite: pushed by hearing new music for the first time in a long while, my father bought the only cds he has bought since they came out last year, and many of his friends also. i have also been on ICQ and asked friends, on the other side of the world "you hear so-and-so yet?" yeah, search on napster... and within days they have ordered the CD (which may or may not be sold locally in their country.).
i dunno where all these figures have come from, nobody prefers to listen to music through crappy computer speakers, they buy CDs to go in decent stereo systems when it is good enough...
Again, im speaking with experience behind me, i am from Northern Ireland and have lived in South Africa, and believe me... America (and Britain in the past) have really fucked these countries over whilst believing they have somehow helped them. Both countries for different reasons.
of course, chances are you will never be able to know if they run it or not, and will only really matter when concerning the base programs, but at least you could cause them a little pain if it did ever arise.
Typical damn american! Hitler was around in the 30's as well dont you know, and you blantently forgot to mention the 1st WW as well, which we were fighting our asses of in europe to save 'freedom' as you call it; when in fact, american 'freedom' is really just a bunch of doo-gooders feeling sorry for all the poor little primitive sould in all the other countries of the world...
I speak with experience, i come from northern ireland (i country ravaged with terrorism do far back it becomes common-place to go shppoing and not find the shop due to rubble). American 'peacemakers' just held back our peace process decades by releasing 'freedom makers' (ie terrorists) form jails and guess what... putting them into government. thanks a fuckin bunch america; hope you are dead pleased with yourselves savign us poor primitive types who dont understand freedom.
PS: i realise not americans are like this guy, and most academic types are embarressed by their governments so dont take this as an attack; it just pisses me off when you get louts like this who think they really are helping out the 3rd world and war ravaged peoples... you need to sort out your own country forts before you start being arrogant and obnoxious abroad.
Begone with the hethan's toy which is the integrated desktop experience!..... uughh, shudder
make sure you get aterm with full transparency, a really cool picture in the background and all green text for that old phospher screen feel; aaaah.
i dont know if i could use these new 'whiteglass' pointers day in and day out; but they are pretty funky and give a really weird 'elevated from your desktop' feeling which you will only understand when you use them for the first time :-)
Nothing good to report from me on this new release... aaah, the price of staying up to date :-/
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> Unfortunately, the more I think about it, the > more I realize, there's just no way to enforce > such a law. there is no way to enforce it in a grand scale; but at least ISP's will be able to do a little more than just cut connections when they find abusers of their networks. At least this way, if you ever check the senders IP to be from France, you can contact the ISP in charge and log a complaint which may be followed up legally (at least partial evidence in a legal case)... only problem is, we need to speak french; you all know how they can be ;-D (and rightly so!)