The lesson is clear: stay out of movie theaters and you won't get arrested.
How about stay out a movie theatre with recording equipment, night vision goggles, and/or the intention of stealing stuff... Perhaps then you won't get arrested.
To paraphrase myself. Fuck you. We should NOT stand idly by watching this shit happen. I may not feel that I have the clout to push this on a national level but I do want to express my voice to anyone and everyone who will listen locally.
Perhaps that will at least get SOME people to think along the lines I do.
I am very impressed with the code size, the screenshots, and the possibility that this might actually be real. My problem is that when I try to open it I get, pno0001.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error log is being created.
Reminds me of that fake emulator that was released, and hyped here, a couple years back.
I am pretty certain that this window would be about 96k of code;)
We do? We want more government controls? Wow. Not from where I am standing...
We are so worried about spam that we are going to through everything out the window to stop it. The more and more you let the government take over the more and more YOU will also lose in the future.
This law is, again, very narrow. They will get around it. Our laws do not protect what they can do from overseas, with spam relay bots (hijacked, for hire, or otherwise), and with ficticious names (which, BTW, laws concerning the DNS records are worthless).
So, let's follow 9/11's lead everywhere and stamp out these criminals at the cost of our own liberties.
"I can tell you with 100 per cent certainty that when managers are deciding what features to put inside products, they are not considering antitrust issues unless it is in a very narrow area covered by the DOJ settlement," said Matt Rosoff, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft, a research firm that closely covers the company.
Unfortunately, because of how these types of things have been handled (including laws), they have been either way too specific or way too broad. On one hand we have the DCMA that has sweeping implications for tons of different situations. It has done little but allow for more lawsuits from bigger fish against the minnows. I believe its intention was to protect but it ended up making everything so vunerable. On the other hand, we have MS' settlement. They are basically allowed to do what they want based on what they think is best. What the fuck kind of punishment is that? As long as they stay within the narrow constraints placed on them they are good to go. Asked whether the "rule of reason" test would have prevented Microsoft from bundling the browser, the issue at the heart of the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit, Mr. Ballmer was adamant: "I would still integrate a browser. We would still integrate the Media Player.... Nobody ever said the browser did not meet the rule-of-reason test. It absolutely met the rule-of-reason test to go in." You just HAVE to love that. Ballmer getting to decide what's ok and what's not.
While I have reservations about both the browser and the media player being "integrated" (for obvious tin-foil-hat reasons), I am more concerned w/the simple fact that THEY get to decide for themselves what is all right. After all the fucking money that was wasted coming to this fucking "punishment" why don't we have a team of REAL FUCKERS telling MS what to do? Hmm, looks like it is the other way around eh? And to think, I always believed that the laws were to protect those that could not easily protect themselves.
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All this is an indication that relay blacklisting IS effective.
All it has been effective in doing to me is causing me email headaches. I block SHIT TONS of IP ranges for SPAM. I also get block a SHIT TON for being on a residential IP block.
I have a valid connection to the Internet. I am not spamming, and I am certainly not sending any large volumes of email. My IP should not be blocked.
I now have to send email through my ISP's SMTP server (which I have found to routinely timeout, give me fucking connection errors, and even has been blocked on some blacklists for short periods of time).
It's a pain in the ass, it's a hassle, and it's all because of a handfull of people being assholes.
I have a Kodak DX4350. It records video with sound in quicktime. It gets about 35 mins on a 512MB SD card. The quality on those videos is ok, nothing great. If they are getting 20min on 128 it's bad.
We are allowing for bad precedents to be set. The more we allow to slip out the more we will lose. Are we going to allow shrink-wrap EULAs on CDs when we open them now? "This CD is the only medium you can listen to this music on. You may not encode, rip, record via analog, etc"?
So what? You fucking people complain when the software is insecure and they don't release fixes and now you are fucking complaining when they do release them?
ARE YOU EVER FUCKING HAPPY?
I upgrade Debian frequently. Not necessarily every day but pretty much. I have seen upwards of 133MB needing to be installed at a single clip.
New kernel updates are out frequently. Sometimes for serious issues which could lead to a compromise of the system. Those patches are not small, are time consuming to get going, and require a restart.
So. Linux apparently isn't what you are looking for. Let's try OSX. Hmm. You have to pay for OS upgrades w/that one (and they seem to come frequently).
What do you suggest that those people that aren't at "expert level" use for an OS to eliminate the need for security updates?
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This is not Interesting. This is a troll but I'll bite.
No platform, especially one deployed at such great lengths, will be 100% secure... There are just too many things that could possibly cause problems.
Would it be economically viable for MS to develop this? I doubt it.
Why not just make all versions of Windows "Secure" then?
Public airwaves. What part of public is so hard to understand? You have no more right to shut off someone else's phone for bothering you than you do duct tape someone who's talking too loud at the mall. This is incredibily self centered, and blatantly disregards other people who also have a right to free speech.
I wasn't aware that "free speech" meant interfering with those around you. I seriously suggest you rethink what you said about being "self-centered".
Letting your cell phone ring when I am eating a $100 dinner or watching a $10 movie is inexcusable. You know it's rude and you know how to disable it.
Spinella said automakers have studied systems that use cameras to scan drivers' eyes or sense when they're loosening their grip on the steering wheel beyond normal.
What's normal? I routinely drive w/o my hands on the wheel. I also tend to take "half-naps" by closing one eye. If it doesn't learn my behavior how is it going to work for me?
It will be offered this fall on 2005 models of Infiniti's FX sport utility vehicle, then again next spring on the 2006 M45 luxury sedan.
Apparently only those wealthy enough can afford to be saved while the rest of the 1500 people a year that croak because of drowsy driving have to suffer.
Bah!
mapping GPS while running/biking/hiking.
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Basically on topic in regards to XML files from GPSs.
You can map (easily) your GPS tracks via GPS Visualizer. Just upload the XML from your GPS and set the maps up the way you want. It's pretty good for small areas (and can be for even large ones if you fool w/it correctly.
I routinely use the site for mapping out geocaches that I am planning on doing. It does require SVG so you might want to nab that if your browser doesn't already support it.
Yeah, when I was two and a half I could read the newspaper, that doesn't mean that kids who can't read the newspaper at that age are stupid. I was using Apple 2s in the same capacity as you were using your vic 20 when I was four or so (I didn't have access to a computer prior) but that doesn't mean everyone can.
So? I wasn't aware that I was touting my own computer skills at young ages. I was stating that it isn't uncommon and it certainly isn't a BFD. Especially not a big enough deal to a) get any sort of article written about it and b) to get posted on the front page of/. (where 99% of the people here were probably just as (if not more) proficient than this particular child).
Wow, I'm not impressed.
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A pre-schooler using a computer, I can't fathom that! Come on, seriously, why is this such a big deal? When I was two I could use a Commodore Vic20. That included plugging in cartridges, using the tape drive, and loading programs... Just like Dad and without a login.
Almost a year ago my (at the time) 4 year old cousin was visiting my parent's house while I was in town. She asked for the laptop and fired up IE. She was on her favorite website (I don't remember what it was, Blues Clues?) in seconds. She knew the URL, she knew exactly where she wanted to navigate to, and she didn't need my help... I was utterly confused by the flashing, moving, and colorful icons. I couldn't discern what was clickable and what wasn't. She knew and that's all that mattered.
Now... If I sat her down in front of a Linux machine w/KDE installed and told her "this is the IE icon" (or however she understood it) you don't think she would be able to do the same thing?
This article reeked of parental excitement. Their child was interested in using the computer!!!
Kids know computers... I realize that they are saying that KDE is easy enough for a child to use... Anything in X was that easy. It's the rest of Linux that isn't so easy.
She was shoving the system tools off, "out of sight out of mind"... It's not so easy for a regular user of a system to do that. You might actually have to deal w/something on the computer if you aren't 2 years old.
Linux is getting there but it certainly isn't as easy as they seem to be making it out to be. I wish it were but it's not and while I believe in advocating its use to everyone that might benefit from it, I don't think insulting people by saying "My two year old can use it, so can you" is the best way to go.
What we need is a fourth axis of development - a systematic improvement of overall system efficiency, from the individual silicon gate, through motherboards and displays, all the way up to the Internet itself. How do we do it? Exhaustively.
Exactly. When processor speeds and memory was low the industry did their best to fit what they could in the limited space. Now that we have more room we are being lazy and only concentrating on making things "larger than life" instead of faster and smaller.
We should really start to concentrate on making the software run best under what we currently have. I know that Intel and Kingston wouldn't exactly be happy but our pockets and our grid would.
BFD. I routinely get the coordinates for addresses (usually geocaches but sometimes business addressses and residences) and make both standard Mapquest maps and aerial/topo maps of the location. Terraserver is quick and easy to use if you don't have access to some of the scripts out there for this...
How does this have far reaching implications? The information is freely and easily accessible. As databases grow? The information is out there now... It's not exactly as if magazines selling your name/address to others is a new/novel idea. It's been going on for ages.
Perhaps if they had your name and your CURRENT, exact, location on file I would be more concerned...
yes. it's called cash. Buying a domain is not buying property. It's buying a service to point to an IP. I shouldn't be required to tell someone my physical address for that.
Ya yew betcha! I wonder if that basket on the bike is to hold the hot dish? Only in Minnesota would we spend the time determining if square wheels would work... Perhaps from the potholes on 494?
I reside in Minnesota so I am permitted to make these important scientific observations:)
Do you feel that one should have to make their (human) name and street public information to receive a domain name?
Godwin:
I'm not a big supporter of mandatory self-identification, whether it comes to domain names or anything else. Our culture, including our legal system, has established a pretty high tolerance for anonymous speech, and I'd hate so see that tradition abandoned, whether in the course of fighting spam, or preventing terrorism, or whatever the evil of the day is.
Exactly! I have mentioned this particular tidbit before and have been roasted because your domain name shouldn't be considered something that is private.
The more and more we find these little pieces acceptable the more ground we will lose in the future.
Yes, it will make it difficult to prosecute spammers. It will also make it difficult for people to harass people minding their own business.
Should we eliminate the privacy of 99% of the population for what the other 1% does? I don't think it should fly in this particular instance.
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The lesson is clear: stay out of movie theaters and you won't get arrested.
How about stay out a movie theatre with recording equipment, night vision goggles, and/or the intention of stealing stuff... Perhaps then you won't get arrested.
To paraphrase myself. Fuck you. We should NOT stand idly by watching this shit happen. I may not feel that I have the clout to push this on a national level but I do want to express my voice to anyone and everyone who will listen locally.
Perhaps that will at least get SOME people to think along the lines I do.
I am very impressed with the code size, the screenshots, and the possibility that this might actually be real. My problem is that when I try to open it I get, pno0001.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error log is being created.
;)
Reminds me of that fake emulator that was released, and hyped here, a couple years back.
I am pretty certain that this window would be about 96k of code
We do? We want more government controls? Wow. Not from where I am standing...
We are so worried about spam that we are going to through everything out the window to stop it. The more and more you let the government take over the more and more YOU will also lose in the future.
This law is, again, very narrow. They will get around it. Our laws do not protect what they can do from overseas, with spam relay bots (hijacked, for hire, or otherwise), and with ficticious names (which, BTW, laws concerning the DNS records are worthless).
So, let's follow 9/11's lead everywhere and stamp out these criminals at the cost of our own liberties.
Nice.
"I can tell you with 100 per cent certainty that when managers are deciding what features to put inside products, they are not considering antitrust issues unless it is in a very narrow area covered by the DOJ settlement," said Matt Rosoff, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft, a research firm that closely covers the company.
... Nobody ever said the browser did not meet the rule-of-reason test. It absolutely met the rule-of-reason test to go in." You just HAVE to love that. Ballmer getting to decide what's ok and what's not.
Unfortunately, because of how these types of things have been handled (including laws), they have been either way too specific or way too broad. On one hand we have the DCMA that has sweeping implications for tons of different situations. It has done little but allow for more lawsuits from bigger fish against the minnows. I believe its intention was to protect but it ended up making everything so vunerable. On the other hand, we have MS' settlement. They are basically allowed to do what they want based on what they think is best. What the fuck kind of punishment is that? As long as they stay within the narrow constraints placed on them they are good to go. Asked whether the "rule of reason" test would have prevented Microsoft from bundling the browser, the issue at the heart of the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit, Mr. Ballmer was adamant: "I would still integrate a browser. We would still integrate the Media Player.
While I have reservations about both the browser and the media player being "integrated" (for obvious tin-foil-hat reasons), I am more concerned w/the simple fact that THEY get to decide for themselves what is all right. After all the fucking money that was wasted coming to this fucking "punishment" why don't we have a team of REAL FUCKERS telling MS what to do? Hmm, looks like it is the other way around eh?
And to think, I always believed that the laws were to protect those that could not easily protect themselves.
All this is an indication that relay blacklisting IS effective.
All it has been effective in doing to me is causing me email headaches. I block SHIT TONS of IP ranges for SPAM. I also get block a SHIT TON for being on a residential IP block.
I have a valid connection to the Internet. I am not spamming, and I am certainly not sending any large volumes of email. My IP should not be blocked.
I now have to send email through my ISP's SMTP server (which I have found to routinely timeout, give me fucking connection errors, and even has been blocked on some blacklists for short periods of time).
It's a pain in the ass, it's a hassle, and it's all because of a handfull of people being assholes.
Sounds like 9/11.
unfortunately power corrupts all men. Geeks would not be any different.
Matrix, comics, and computer, sheesh! It's Revenge of the Nerds that brought geekdom to its pinnacle!
Everyone now realizes the difference between nerds and geeks. Geeks are the cool nerds!
Now, if we could only get the hot women...
I have a Kodak DX4350. It records video with sound in quicktime. It gets about 35 mins on a 512MB SD card. The quality on those videos is ok, nothing great. If they are getting 20min on 128 it's bad.
We are allowing for bad precedents to be set. The more we allow to slip out the more we will lose. Are we going to allow shrink-wrap EULAs on CDs when we open them now? "This CD is the only medium you can listen to this music on. You may not encode, rip, record via analog, etc"?
Apple created a piece of software that doesn't allow people to play the music their paid for on the devices of their choice.
What this program is is not circumvention... It's fair use.
So what? You fucking people complain when the software is insecure and they don't release fixes and now you are fucking complaining when they do release them?
ARE YOU EVER FUCKING HAPPY?
I upgrade Debian frequently. Not necessarily every day but pretty much. I have seen upwards of 133MB needing to be installed at a single clip.
New kernel updates are out frequently. Sometimes for serious issues which could lead to a compromise of the system. Those patches are not small, are time consuming to get going, and require a restart.
So. Linux apparently isn't what you are looking for. Let's try OSX. Hmm. You have to pay for OS upgrades w/that one (and they seem to come frequently).
What do you suggest that those people that aren't at "expert level" use for an OS to eliminate the need for security updates?
This is not Interesting. This is a troll but I'll bite.
No platform, especially one deployed at such great lengths, will be 100% secure... There are just too many things that could possibly cause problems.
Would it be economically viable for MS to develop this? I doubt it.
Why not just make all versions of Windows "Secure" then?
Public airwaves. What part of public is so hard to understand? You have no more right to shut off someone else's phone for bothering you than you do duct tape someone who's talking too loud at the mall. This is incredibily self centered, and blatantly disregards other people who also have a right to free speech.
I wasn't aware that "free speech" meant interfering with those around you. I seriously suggest you rethink what you said about being "self-centered".
Letting your cell phone ring when I am eating a $100 dinner or watching a $10 movie is inexcusable. You know it's rude and you know how to disable it.
could you let me know when you get a sense of humor?
Spinella said automakers have studied systems that use cameras to scan drivers' eyes or sense when they're loosening their grip on the steering wheel beyond normal.
What's normal? I routinely drive w/o my hands on the wheel. I also tend to take "half-naps" by closing one eye. If it doesn't learn my behavior how is it going to work for me?
It will be offered this fall on 2005 models of Infiniti's FX sport utility vehicle, then again next spring on the 2006 M45 luxury sedan.
Apparently only those wealthy enough can afford to be saved while the rest of the 1500 people a year that croak because of drowsy driving have to suffer.
Bah!
Basically on topic in regards to XML files from GPSs.
You can map (easily) your GPS tracks via GPS Visualizer. Just upload the XML from your GPS and set the maps up the way you want. It's pretty good for small areas (and can be for even large ones if you fool w/it correctly.
I routinely use the site for mapping out geocaches that I am planning on doing. It does require SVG so you might want to nab that if your browser doesn't already support it.
Yeah, when I was two and a half I could read the newspaper, that doesn't mean that kids who can't read the newspaper at that age are stupid. I was using Apple 2s in the same capacity as you were using your vic 20 when I was four or so (I didn't have access to a computer prior) but that doesn't mean everyone can.
/. (where 99% of the people here were probably just as (if not more) proficient than this particular child).
So? I wasn't aware that I was touting my own computer skills at young ages. I was stating that it isn't uncommon and it certainly isn't a BFD. Especially not a big enough deal to a) get any sort of article written about it and b) to get posted on the front page of
A pre-schooler using a computer, I can't fathom that! Come on, seriously, why is this such a big deal? When I was two I could use a Commodore Vic20. That included plugging in cartridges, using the tape drive, and loading programs... Just like Dad and without a login.
Almost a year ago my (at the time) 4 year old cousin was visiting my parent's house while I was in town. She asked for the laptop and fired up IE. She was on her favorite website (I don't remember what it was, Blues Clues?) in seconds. She knew the URL, she knew exactly where she wanted to navigate to, and she didn't need my help... I was utterly confused by the flashing, moving, and colorful icons. I couldn't discern what was clickable and what wasn't. She knew and that's all that mattered.
Now... If I sat her down in front of a Linux machine w/KDE installed and told her "this is the IE icon" (or however she understood it) you don't think she would be able to do the same thing?
This article reeked of parental excitement. Their child was interested in using the computer!!!
Kids know computers... I realize that they are saying that KDE is easy enough for a child to use... Anything in X was that easy. It's the rest of Linux that isn't so easy.
She was shoving the system tools off, "out of sight out of mind"... It's not so easy for a regular user of a system to do that. You might actually have to deal w/something on the computer if you aren't 2 years old.
Linux is getting there but it certainly isn't as easy as they seem to be making it out to be. I wish it were but it's not and while I believe in advocating its use to everyone that might benefit from it, I don't think insulting people by saying "My two year old can use it, so can you" is the best way to go.
What we need is a fourth axis of development - a systematic improvement of overall system efficiency, from the individual silicon gate, through motherboards and displays, all the way up to the Internet itself. How do we do it? Exhaustively.
Exactly. When processor speeds and memory was low the industry did their best to fit what they could in the limited space. Now that we have more room we are being lazy and only concentrating on making things "larger than life" instead of faster and smaller.
We should really start to concentrate on making the software run best under what we currently have. I know that Intel and Kingston wouldn't exactly be happy but our pockets and our grid would.
BFD. I routinely get the coordinates for addresses (usually geocaches but sometimes business addressses and residences) and make both standard Mapquest maps and aerial/topo maps of the location. Terraserver is quick and easy to use if you don't have access to some of the scripts out there for this...
How does this have far reaching implications? The information is freely and easily accessible. As databases grow? The information is out there now... It's not exactly as if magazines selling your name/address to others is a new/novel idea. It's been going on for ages.
Perhaps if they had your name and your CURRENT, exact, location on file I would be more concerned...
1. Can you buy property anonymously?
yes. it's called cash. Buying a domain is not buying property. It's buying a service to point to an IP. I shouldn't be required to tell someone my physical address for that.
As long as I paid for it that's all that matters.
See picture here
:)
Ya yew betcha! I wonder if that basket on the bike is to hold the hot dish? Only in Minnesota would we spend the time determining if square wheels would work... Perhaps from the potholes on 494?
I reside in Minnesota so I am permitted to make these important scientific observations
and you have to pay for that... I should be allowed to protect myself w/o having to pay someone else.
We are doing this because of 1% of the population that would find another way around it anyway.
Privacy and domain names - by Tablizer
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Do you feel that one should have to make their (human) name and street public information to receive a domain name?
Godwin:
I'm not a big supporter of mandatory self-identification, whether it comes to domain names or anything else. Our culture, including our legal system, has established a pretty high tolerance for anonymous speech, and I'd hate so see that tradition abandoned, whether in the course of fighting spam, or preventing terrorism, or whatever the evil of the day is.
Exactly! I have mentioned this particular tidbit before and have been roasted because your domain name shouldn't be considered something that is private.
The more and more we find these little pieces acceptable the more ground we will lose in the future.
Yes, it will make it difficult to prosecute spammers. It will also make it difficult for people to harass people minding their own business.
Should we eliminate the privacy of 99% of the population for what the other 1% does? I don't think it should fly in this particular instance.
Just my