I'll have to disagree with you there -- Rosen comes off as knowing that the law applies to specifics, not just generalities, and that many of the Slashdot questions given were about related but not directly court-considered issues. If the court didn't mention X, Y or Z then those aren't going to actually be affected by the ruling, in legal terms. You can't ask Rosen to speculate on the possible outcomes since that will be the responsibility of a future judge in a future lawsuit.
Presumably you can record as much as you like, but it needs 30 seconds worth to form the digital signature used to identify the song (that's what the section you quoted was about, after all).
"Beth" gave that away for me, but, didn't you know? Everyone on Slashdot _must_ be a guy...:-P
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Download the tools from cr.yp.to for doing DNS queries (if you're running a *nix variant) and do a
dnstrace a www.slashdot.org a.root-servers.net | dnstracesort | less
and watch the results.
The results are available on my website as a text file; take a look if you don't have the tools above.
dnstrace is a great program for seeing how DNS resolvers resolve names to IP addresses. To see a visual diagram try dnsbajaj. It gives a graph of how it got to a domain from a root server, and which nameservers are qualified to answer for those queries.
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The root servers only have to serve relatively small UDP results for the most part; you can compare the size of the UDP results to a DNS query with the size of the roots file and determine if there's a load difference or not...
Could you please consider getting your GPG key signed by as many people as possible? Please? Perhaps anyone else on NANOG who knows you? Perhaps even by Verisign's Key?
I'm running the latest official patches, FWIW and not the quest patches (although I've downloaded a few), and I'm not getting stuck in stuff as often as I used to. However, I've found that there's relatively bad checking while jumping specifically; especially once you're able to jump higher than the ceiling...:)
The sheer size of some modern games is part of the problem; I've been playing Morrowind since it was released and its an amazing game, but its _huge_, and I can't imagine that they managed to play-test the entire game (given that its an open-ended, self-directed game). As a result there are a few plot bugs or glitches here and there (most of which are either fixed now in patches or are patched by community add-ons) and it seems that the area you start the game in is much more well refined than those you meet later on (since you're already hooked by then).
However, its major redeeming features include _having a story_, _being self-directed_ (the player can do whatever the player likes, even if its detrimental to the game / plot, althoug the game notifies you of this) and comes with the tools used to create the game in terms of placing objects and scripting the NPCs so the user can easily tweak / change / edit / make new features for the game.
With single point of failure in open source software, you also have single point of bugfix.
Think of all the statically linked programs that used zlib and had to be recompiled against 1.4 when the patches were released... that's multiple points of failure even with one piece of base code.
With a dynamically linked program, you update your libraries and voìla, your security problem is gone.
If everything _does_ use the CryptoAPI, all we'll have to watch is the one copy of it, not every little program that links against its own API (although openssl is almost at that position now anyway).
You have no idea how many programs I've reconfigured to use openssl dynamically linked so I can do updates faster (requires compatibility between subversions of course, which some authors aren't very good at...)
In fact, my 9-5 job is being the C.T.O. of an Internet hosting company and I spend a lot of time on the phone with cable companies getting high-speed Internet access for my customers.
Having to spend your day dealing with cable tech support is probably worse than being a cable installer; I used to have a 9-5 job installing dial-up Internet access on Windows 3.1 machines, so I have a fairly good handle on the frustrations involved.
I use Cogeco cable service in Ontario, Canada and they'll let you go without the software install or anything although they won't guarantee it'll work (standard disclaimer). Rogers, OTOH, also in the area, installs software that uses a modified Internet Explorer for Windows (glad I don't use Windows) which can't have the auto-proxy config removed easily.
I hate to point this out to you back, but I'm sick of calling cable installers and telling them to give me the modem, wait for the sync and leave; I can do my _own_ wiring and I can do my _own_ computer configuration. The only part I want from them is the service to be functional at all -- they can take their software _and_ their attitude and shove it.
The attitude should be "you're the customer", not "leave me alone".
On which note, serial scsi would be a great invention:)
Oh wait, that's firewire... well, maybe we should put some push on the development of 800, 1600 and 3200Mbps speeds on firewire busses then; no SCSI IDs and no IDE channels either.
This is one of those "slippery slope" issues like gun control (which we also have in Canada). It seems however, that the issue should be allowing the court to define what indeed is the spreading of hate. In Canada, that has been a very tight definition in the past. Saying "I am anti-semetic", for example, is not illegal. Telling someone the holocaust didn't happen and the Jewish people made it up to make themselves look cool because they're a bunch of mind-controlling megalomaniacs (that's almost a quote... I won't link to the website though; I'm sure you can find them if you want to) is pretty close. Telling people to go out and beat up (or kill) *put group here* because they're lesser people, _is_ (and should be) a hate crime, however.
I don't think many americans would even dispute that last one; its held up in International law at least these days (I hope it continues to be) and should be held up at a national level too -- making it a crime to incite violence against a group.
There is a difference, however, with literature to some degree; and that involves descriptions of past events; describing what the Nazi camps did to people it imprisonned is good for our collective historical knowledge; making editorial comments about it being a good thing would be a bad thing:)
Lets put it this way -- I wouldn't do it, but I could just as easily say "If you spend real life monies to buy a hint book, you're a loser" since I've never done that either.
That said, there are lots of people who aren't like me, and that doesn't make them ilegitimate players; perhaps poor players, but as long as they don't break the game's rules, players nonetheless.
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I'll have to disagree with you there -- Rosen comes off as knowing that the law applies to specifics, not just generalities, and that many of the Slashdot questions given were about related but not directly court-considered issues. If the court didn't mention X, Y or Z then those aren't going to actually be affected by the ruling, in legal terms. You can't ask Rosen to speculate on the possible outcomes since that will be the responsibility of a future judge in a future lawsuit.
Presumably you can record as much as you like, but it needs 30 seconds worth to form the digital signature used to identify the song (that's what the section you quoted was about, after all).
... anyone got an open proxy in the US that allows links to this site so the rest of us in places like Canada can see it?
"Beth" gave that away for me, but, didn't you know? Everyone on Slashdot _must_ be a guy ... :-P
Download the tools from cr.yp.to for doing DNS queries (if you're running a *nix variant) and do a
and watch the results.The results are available on my website as a text file; take a look if you don't have the tools above.
dnstrace is a great program for seeing how DNS resolvers resolve names to IP addresses. To see a visual diagram try dnsbajaj. It gives a graph of how it got to a domain from a root server, and which nameservers are qualified to answer for those queries.
The root servers only have to serve relatively small UDP results for the most part; you can compare the size of the UDP results to a DNS query with the size of the roots file and determine if there's a load difference or not ...
We use 172.x.y.0/24 here ... :)
/etc/dnsroots.global is also valuable.
Could you please consider getting your GPG key signed by as many people as possible? Please? Perhaps anyone else on NANOG who knows you? Perhaps even by Verisign's Key?
...)
(GPG/PGP Activism
There's a fairly terse intro to how DNS actually works at http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/intro-dns.html.
The documentation uses examples in tinydns data format, as it is the software the author has written to handle DNS queries.
I'm running the latest official patches, FWIW and not the quest patches (although I've downloaded a few), and I'm not getting stuck in stuff as often as I used to. However, I've found that there's relatively bad checking while jumping specifically; especially once you're able to jump higher than the ceiling ... :)
You can do it even easier ... (one less step):
... that should work if you're running recent tools.
dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile.dat bs=1k count=x
mkswap swapfile.dat
swapon swapfile.dat
The sheer size of some modern games is part of the problem; I've been playing Morrowind since it was released and its an amazing game, but its _huge_, and I can't imagine that they managed to play-test the entire game (given that its an open-ended, self-directed game). As a result there are a few plot bugs or glitches here and there (most of which are either fixed now in patches or are patched by community add-ons) and it seems that the area you start the game in is much more well refined than those you meet later on (since you're already hooked by then).
However, its major redeeming features include _having a story_, _being self-directed_ (the player can do whatever the player likes, even if its detrimental to the game / plot, althoug the game notifies you of this) and comes with the tools used to create the game in terms of placing objects and scripting the NPCs so the user can easily tweak / change / edit / make new features for the game.
How do the FCC and CRTC deal with this now in Canada-US border areas?
... probably the ability to delay Intel's release of an already 2-year behind schedule CPU that the 'whole world' is waiting for (ack).
Remember that AMD (who I've always prefered to some degree) is the one branding their CPU's with the XP name to cobrand flyers with Windows XP ...
"Athlon XP runs Windows XP better..."
Distributing source is now legal, I believe (but IANAL!) partly because of the DJB lawsuit ...
With single point of failure in open source software, you also have single point of bugfix.
... that's multiple points of failure even with one piece of base code.
...)
Think of all the statically linked programs that used zlib and had to be recompiled against 1.4 when the patches were released
With a dynamically linked program, you update your libraries and voìla, your security problem is gone.
If everything _does_ use the CryptoAPI, all we'll have to watch is the one copy of it, not every little program that links against its own API (although openssl is almost at that position now anyway).
You have no idea how many programs I've reconfigured to use openssl dynamically linked so I can do updates faster (requires compatibility between subversions of course, which some authors aren't very good at
In fact, my 9-5 job is being the C.T.O. of an Internet hosting company and I spend a lot of time on the phone with cable companies getting high-speed Internet access for my customers.
Having to spend your day dealing with cable tech support is probably worse than being a cable installer; I used to have a 9-5 job installing dial-up Internet access on Windows 3.1 machines, so I have a fairly good handle on the frustrations involved.
I use Cogeco cable service in Ontario, Canada and they'll let you go without the software install or anything although they won't guarantee it'll work (standard disclaimer). Rogers, OTOH, also in the area, installs software that uses a modified Internet Explorer for Windows (glad I don't use Windows) which can't have the auto-proxy config removed easily.
I hate to point this out to you back, but I'm sick of calling cable installers and telling them to give me the modem, wait for the sync and leave; I can do my _own_ wiring and I can do my _own_ computer configuration. The only part I want from them is the service to be functional at all -- they can take their software _and_ their attitude and shove it.
The attitude should be "you're the customer", not "leave me alone".
On which note, serial scsi would be a great invention :)
... well, maybe we should put some push on the development of 800, 1600 and 3200Mbps speeds on firewire busses then; no SCSI IDs and no IDE channels either.
Oh wait, that's firewire
This is one of those "slippery slope" issues like gun control (which we also have in Canada). It seems however, that the issue should be allowing the court to define what indeed is the spreading of hate. In Canada, that has been a very tight definition in the past. Saying "I am anti-semetic", for example, is not illegal. Telling someone the holocaust didn't happen and the Jewish people made it up to make themselves look cool because they're a bunch of mind-controlling megalomaniacs (that's almost a quote ... I won't link to the website though; I'm sure you can find them if you want to) is pretty close. Telling people to go out and beat up (or kill) *put group here* because they're lesser people, _is_ (and should be) a hate crime, however.
:)
I don't think many americans would even dispute that last one; its held up in International law at least these days (I hope it continues to be) and should be held up at a national level too -- making it a crime to incite violence against a group.
There is a difference, however, with literature to some degree; and that involves descriptions of past events; describing what the Nazi camps did to people it imprisonned is good for our collective historical knowledge; making editorial comments about it being a good thing would be a bad thing
Lets put it this way -- I wouldn't do it, but I could just as easily say "If you spend real life monies to buy a hint book, you're a loser" since I've never done that either.
That said, there are lots of people who aren't like me, and that doesn't make them ilegitimate players; perhaps poor players, but as long as they don't break the game's rules, players nonetheless.
Sounds quite impressive; any screenshots of the interface for doing these things, especially the custom effects?