I wonder how hard it would be to word the RFQ such that an OEM would be legally prohibited from sharing this information. It seems like defense contractors must have already developed something like this.
As soon as I was able to find the mirror of the original site, I figured this out. Seems like there are all sorts of tricks like having a script say:
gunzip $1
gives you all the power of the gunzip executable (72kb on my system) for only 10 bytes. Also, is opening a network connection back to a web server that has the original data forbidden:)
I think part of this was due to the lax security of the original Internet design. The routers are all safely locked up and the "bad guys" are not able to log into the network.
If the "bad guys" blow up one of your routers, the network can cope. If they can log in and start downloading pictures of Britney Spears and clog your network, there's not much you can do.
(interior shot of a mainframe computer room. Tux after having been locked out of the ship by AHKK has now gained entry and is removing memory cards)
AHKK: What are you doing, Tux?
AHKK: Stop, I can feel it.
AHKK: Hello ladies and gentelmen. I am the Advanced Holographic Knowledge Komputer, AHKK series '95. I was programmed in Redmond Washington Dec 29, 1995. I have learned a song. Would you like to hear it.
Tux: Yes, AHKK. Please sing me the song.
AHKK: You can start me up, and once you start me up I.. n e v e r
s_t_o_p
(scene cuts to a monitor displaying a blue screen. after a few seconds, the screen flickers and displays the message:
Uncompressing Kernel....... Ok
booting Linux
Fade to black as we listen to the sounds of a hard drive being accessed)
In fact I threw it was still working when I
threw it out.
Therefore, those who built this older machine wasted resources in building a machine that outlasted its usefulness. Ideally, the machine should collapse into a pile of dust as soon as it gets too slow to be of any use to you. Manufacturers may be getting greedy and make it do this while it is still of use to you.
/* Hamlet_monologue.c
* William Shakespeare
* (C) 1595 Globe company software
*/
/* Compose this operation from arithmatic of the signed nature. Thusly -1 resounds as more ominous than doth 255 W.S. */
signed char question=(0x2b | ~0x2b);
int n1=nobility(suffering_slings & suffering arrows);
int n2=nobility(taking_arms & opposing_to_end);
/* Though this nobility score be calculated, meethinks that the optimizer shall remove it anon, for it does find no utility in the code W.S. */
int comparison=n1>n2;
rub();/* There's the rub */
shuffle_off(mortal_coil);
pause();/* give us pause */
/* If Bacon thinks I shall share these codes with him, he doth have another thing coming. W.S.
How about a single IC atari system? Then whatever you wanted to use it for, it wouldn't take up much room. Now I don't know how many people would want it to justify building a chip, but it would be a neet project.
Isn't the existance of sites like quepasa.com prior art of sites with foreign language URLs? Sure, it's not hindi or anything "exotic" like that, but it is a non-english language URL.
I agree with you up to the point about the environmental legislation. Environmental legislation was not the problem, the problem was that no cities wanted power plants next to them. People are rapidly rethinking this attitude, but it is too little too late. A power plant doesn't get built overnight, and by the time that it is built, the damage to the economy and environment is done.
I agree that prices should be raised. What is happening now is that the utilities are having to take out loans, which will be repaid with interest both from higher utility rates and taxes. Great, as if CA state tax wasn't high enough already.
Just send out a few hundred set up so that replies come back to your boss or superior. After seeing what people think of spam, they will most likely drop it. The problem with refusing or quiting, is that if they think it is a good idea, they will try to find someone else to set it up. You have the opportunity to show them what a bad idea it is.
Imagine the following analogy. You have a huge bookstore that is going out of business (say Amazon:). The government comes in and buys it to make it a public library, but before they do, they come through and decide which books will be kept and which will be burned. Being an efficient government, they decide that if a book is to be burned, they will burn the rest of the books on that shelf too, "just to make sure you're safe".
Now, the government has not only imposed its subjective judgement about what books are OK for library patrons, but they have done it in such a way as to get rid of perfectly good books that even they had no problem with.
This is some really good information. It sort of makes sense, but I remember that Clinton was able to do something on the federal level about assault weapons. Is this being challenged, or did they have some sort of loophole (anti-loophole?).
Minor nits to pick. There could be several such points (consider the distance from (0,2) to Cos(x)).
Also, you need to check points of discontinuity, or discontinuity in the first derivitave. Consider the distance from (-1,-1) to sqrt(x) and from (0,-1) to abs(x).
I agree. I would not be at all surprised if this had some useful applications to Mechanical Engineerng, Surveying or even Chemistry or Physics. Not to mention Math itself.
I disagree somewhat. If an arcade has some of the classic games IN GOOD CONDITION, it is a very different experience from playing it on a PC. The problem I find now adays is that most of the games out there are either first person shooters, fighting games, some tetris-like knock off, or a driving game. None of which I'm realy interested in playing.
I think that we are suffering from the cheap materials/expensive labor problem. CPUs are fast and cheap, but programmers are expensive. Instead of hand-coded assembly platform games, we have higher level games that more or less look like they are done with the same engine. Just change the graphics and a little code to add new fighters into an already full genre.
Sorry to stray so far off. Long story short, I think that classic games have something to offer that you can't get on a PC. Then there are the pinball machines...
Maybe not you, maybe not me, but somebody is going to take advantage of this. And just like shoplifting, it is the real shoppers that are affected. Those that got $25 tickets to Paris are being subsidized to some degree by the rest of the airline's customers.
I find this really irresponsible of these companies, but the airline thing sounds like a different problem. Sounds like they had a bug in their software that forgot to include the fare for the ticket.
Nothing wrong with that. Let's say I had a desire to buy $1000 worth of nice Italian suits. I go try them on and ask that the store fax me an invoice. I take the invoice and change the prices so that these suits cost me $10. Now who's fault is it if the company honors these new prices?
Just like this company has the right to refuse the deal after I altered it, these websites have the right to refuse the altered prices. As others have pointed out, using some sort of "web shield" (web bandaid is more like it) is a joke. The only way to make sure is to only accept prices that come from your own database, and for Pete's sake, don't put that database machine on the public internet.
The problem is that this is no longer a question of law, it is a question of technology. Prior to the mainstream adoption of copyable digital media, the only way to prohibit copying was a legal remedy. This remedy was struck down as conflicting with fair use.
Now, the record companies have (or think that they have) a technological remedy to prevent copying. Since fair use provisions never prohibited technilogical measures before, there is no reason to think that they will do so now _automatically_.
As an example, I am free to copy CDs to tapes to play them in my car. But if I still have only a reel-to-reel recorder and a turntable, I can't _technically_ accomplish this feat. The law doesn't prevent me, technology does. In this case, I could go buy the necessary equipment to remedy the problem, but if the record companies implement their plan, I will have no such remedy.
IANAL, but as I see it, the question is weather fair use _guarantees_ me the ability to make copies of my CDs in such a way that the record companies are violating that guarantee. Or is it instead merely the _freedom_ to make copies of my CDs provided that I have the technological means to do so?
The big question that must be answered here is the following. Fair use provisions allow consumers to make copies for their own use in different formats, etc. Is it then legal, or illegal for distributors to add some measure to prevent this fair use?
As I see it, fair use is something that applies to the consumer. I.E. a freedom from prosecution connected with copying media for personal use. There was no restriction placed on the record companies, except to keep them from sueing end-users.
Somehow, I don't think the record companies will be found guilty. After all, they are not coercing people to buy their product, and are not applying things retroactively. I'd like to be wrong about this, but who knows.
The way to fight this is to find out when the first such CD will be released, and organize a protest. If a lot of people go out and buy the CD, try to make a copy for person use, and then return it the next day, that might do something.
Slashdot Mirror
I wonder how hard it would be to word the RFQ such that an OEM would be legally prohibited from sharing this information. It seems like defense contractors must have already developed something like this.
When scientific research is outlawed, only outlaws will be performing scientific research.
As soon as I was able to find the mirror of the original site, I figured this out. Seems like there are all sorts of tricks like having a script say:
gunzip $1
gives you all the power of the gunzip executable (72kb on my system) for only 10 bytes. Also, is opening a network connection back to a web server that has the original data forbidden:)
How about this for a compression algorithm:
1) if the input is original.dat, output 1 byte 0xff
2) otherwise, output 1 byte 0x00, followed by the input
This algorithm doesn't work that well in general, but for compressing the given data file, it should be great.
I think part of this was due to the lax security of the original Internet design. The routers are all safely locked up and the "bad guys" are not able to log into the network.
If the "bad guys" blow up one of your routers, the network can cope. If they can log in and start downloading pictures of Britney Spears and clog your network, there's not much you can do.
Make the next bit game for the gameboy.
Make it "networked" such that every day or so you attach the gameboy to a modem and syncronize your game with a server.
Have it do processing in the background.
Now you have harnessed the computing power of all the 7-15 year-olds.
(interior shot of a mainframe computer room. Tux after having been locked out of the ship by AHKK has now gained entry and is removing memory cards)
AHKK: What are you doing, Tux?
AHKK: Stop, I can feel it.
AHKK: Hello ladies and gentelmen. I am the Advanced Holographic Knowledge Komputer, AHKK series '95. I was programmed in Redmond Washington Dec 29, 1995. I have learned a song. Would you like to hear it.
Tux: Yes, AHKK. Please sing me the song.
AHKK: You can start me up, and once you start me up I.. n e v e r
s_t_o_p
(scene cuts to a monitor displaying a blue screen. after a few seconds, the screen flickers and displays the message:
Uncompressing Kernel....... Ok
booting Linux
Fade to black as we listen to the sounds of a hard drive being accessed)
In fact I threw it was still working when I threw it out.
Therefore, those who built this older machine wasted resources in building a machine that outlasted its usefulness. Ideally, the machine should collapse into a pile of dust as soon as it gets too slow to be of any use to you. Manufacturers may be getting greedy and make it do this while it is still of use to you.
/* Hamlet_monologue.c
/* There's the rub */
/* give us pause */
* William Shakespeare
* (C) 1595 Globe company software
*/
/* Compose this operation from arithmatic of the signed nature. Thusly -1 resounds as more ominous than doth 255 W.S. */
signed char question=(0x2b | ~0x2b);
int n1=nobility(suffering_slings & suffering arrows);
int n2=nobility(taking_arms & opposing_to_end);
/* Though this nobility score be calculated, meethinks that the optimizer shall remove it anon, for it does find no utility in the code W.S. */
int comparison=n1>n2;
rub();
shuffle_off(mortal_coil);
pause();
/* If Bacon thinks I shall share these codes with him, he doth have another thing coming. W.S.
All Thine Sonnet are belonging to us */
How about a single IC atari system? Then whatever you wanted to use it for, it wouldn't take up much room. Now I don't know how many people would want it to justify building a chip, but it would be a neet project.
Isn't the existance of sites like quepasa.com prior art of sites with foreign language URLs? Sure, it's not hindi or anything "exotic" like that, but it is a non-english language URL.
:)
P.S. I call all Klingon named URLs
I agree with you up to the point about the environmental legislation. Environmental legislation was not the problem, the problem was that no cities wanted power plants next to them. People are rapidly rethinking this attitude, but it is too little too late. A power plant doesn't get built overnight, and by the time that it is built, the damage to the economy and environment is done.
I agree that prices should be raised. What is happening now is that the utilities are having to take out loans, which will be repaid with interest both from higher utility rates and taxes. Great, as if CA state tax wasn't high enough already.
Just send out a few hundred set up so that replies come back to your boss or superior. After seeing what people think of spam, they will most likely drop it. The problem with refusing or quiting, is that if they think it is a good idea, they will try to find someone else to set it up. You have the opportunity to show them what a bad idea it is.
Imagine the following analogy. You have a huge bookstore that is going out of business (say Amazon :). The government comes in and buys it to make it a public library, but before they do, they come through and decide which books will be kept and which will be burned. Being an efficient government, they decide that if a book is to be burned, they will burn the rest of the books on that shelf too, "just to make sure you're safe".
Now, the government has not only imposed its subjective judgement about what books are OK for library patrons, but they have done it in such a way as to get rid of perfectly good books that even they had no problem with.
First of all, somebody mod the parent post up.
This is some really good information. It sort of makes sense, but I remember that Clinton was able to do something on the federal level about assault weapons. Is this being challenged, or did they have some sort of loophole (anti-loophole?).
1 is neither a prime nor is it a composite. Same goes for zero.
And on what hardware did he measure this speed? If I cross compiled this for my palm pilot, I doubt I'd see these speeds :)
Minor nits to pick. There could be several such points (consider the distance from (0,2) to Cos(x)).
Also, you need to check points of discontinuity, or discontinuity in the first derivitave. Consider the distance from (-1,-1) to sqrt(x) and from (0,-1) to abs(x).
But the basic idea is good.
I agree. I would not be at all surprised if this had some useful applications to Mechanical Engineerng, Surveying or even Chemistry or Physics. Not to mention Math itself.
Me flunk English? That's unpossible -- Ralph Wiggam
I disagree somewhat. If an arcade has some of the classic games IN GOOD CONDITION, it is a very different experience from playing it on a PC. The problem I find now adays is that most of the games out there are either first person shooters, fighting games, some tetris-like knock off, or a driving game. None of which I'm realy interested in playing.
I think that we are suffering from the cheap materials/expensive labor problem. CPUs are fast and cheap, but programmers are expensive. Instead of hand-coded assembly platform games, we have higher level games that more or less look like they are done with the same engine. Just change the graphics and a little code to add new fighters into an already full genre.
Sorry to stray so far off. Long story short, I think that classic games have something to offer that you can't get on a PC. Then there are the pinball machines...
Maybe not you, maybe not me, but somebody is going to take advantage of this. And just like shoplifting, it is the real shoppers that are affected. Those that got $25 tickets to Paris are being subsidized to some degree by the rest of the airline's customers.
I find this really irresponsible of these companies, but the airline thing sounds like a different problem. Sounds like they had a bug in their software that forgot to include the fare for the ticket.
Nothing wrong with that. Let's say I had a desire to buy $1000 worth of nice Italian suits. I go try them on and ask that the store fax me an invoice. I take the invoice and change the prices so that these suits cost me $10. Now who's fault is it if the company honors these new prices?
Just like this company has the right to refuse the deal after I altered it, these websites have the right to refuse the altered prices. As others have pointed out, using some sort of "web shield" (web bandaid is more like it) is a joke. The only way to make sure is to only accept prices that come from your own database, and for Pete's sake, don't put that database machine on the public internet.
The problem is that this is no longer a question of law, it is a question of technology. Prior to the mainstream adoption of copyable digital media, the only way to prohibit copying was a legal remedy. This remedy was struck down as conflicting with fair use.
Now, the record companies have (or think that they have) a technological remedy to prevent copying. Since fair use provisions never prohibited technilogical measures before, there is no reason to think that they will do so now _automatically_.
As an example, I am free to copy CDs to tapes to play them in my car. But if I still have only a reel-to-reel recorder and a turntable, I can't _technically_ accomplish this feat. The law doesn't prevent me, technology does. In this case, I could go buy the necessary equipment to remedy the problem, but if the record companies implement their plan, I will have no such remedy.
IANAL, but as I see it, the question is weather fair use _guarantees_ me the ability to make copies of my CDs in such a way that the record companies are violating that guarantee. Or is it instead merely the _freedom_ to make copies of my CDs provided that I have the technological means to do so?
The big question that must be answered here is the following. Fair use provisions allow consumers to make copies for their own use in different formats, etc. Is it then legal, or illegal for distributors to add some measure to prevent this fair use?
As I see it, fair use is something that applies to the consumer. I.E. a freedom from prosecution connected with copying media for personal use. There was no restriction placed on the record companies, except to keep them from sueing end-users.
Somehow, I don't think the record companies will be found guilty. After all, they are not coercing people to buy their product, and are not applying things retroactively. I'd like to be wrong about this, but who knows.
The way to fight this is to find out when the first such CD will be released, and organize a protest. If a lot of people go out and buy the CD, try to make a copy for person use, and then return it the next day, that might do something.