Finally, I'm beginning to see the fruits of all that "trying to make bits not copyable is like trying to make water not wet" talk.
People are finding ways around the arcane protection that these companies think will protect them.
Soon there will be a day when everyone knows that bits are copyable, and the stream/data they combine to create can and will be twisted for individuals personal use. On that day someone will just give up and do the thing that should have been done from day one: keep information free; charge for extensions to that service, like... well stuff that hasn't been thought up yet.
In the meantime learn to program in your favorite language (or C if you don't have a favorite language) and start taking stuff apart, and adding bits to existing stuff. There's enough creative energy out there to create some really impressive stuff.
Put your computer in the living room, or within eye/earshot of it. That way everyone who is in the living room will be potentially looking over her shoulder, a great incentive to not visit anything that would draw attention to her.
This doesn't have to stop, are you nuts? until every person knows how to secure their boxes (never) things like this will do good, at least the ones that are meant to.
There will always be room for these "goody-2-shoes" worms in my world, because I know how to secure my own boxes against them. Whoever doesn't deserves what they get, good or bad.
A few small solar cells would make the batteries necessary only during twilight and evening. And I think most bike races have limits to the time you can actually ride, so twilight/evening may not even be an issue.
I reckon just 6 or 8 small cells affixed to the bike in strategic locations could power a small PDA and camera -- cell phones typically have great batteries.
And take it with you where you go. Storage space is cheap, cdparanoia and LAME are free. XMMS is free. Winamp is FREE. OpenNAP is free.
my.mp3.com is never going to work and they know it. Of course there will be "individuals" with more money than knowledge who will pay for this, but there won't be enough to really keep it alive, I don't think.
blah. GNUtella would probably work nicely if more people shared files. Leeching is just that - sucking the life out of something and giving nothing in return. write a good gnutella client (so that people would use it) that mandated sharing files, and there would probably be a notable increase in the health of the network.
It has been a few years since I've had to administrate Exchange, thank God, and one of the things that floored me is the per-seat licensing fee of Exchange clients for the Exchange server. I remember nearly pissing myself when I read that for EACH client that connects to the Exchange server, a fee of $19 (at the time) was required. ($19 * 1000) = $19k more than it costs right now for a working solution. you've already spent the money on the Ultra 2's (not cheap) so I would assume that money is not an option to your company.
I've found (as many slashdot readers have) that perfectly working solutions are "improved" and "improved" until they're no longer working, at which point the person who was against the whole thing in the first place is blamed and reprimanded. Knowing that, set yourself in "defense" mode right now.
In a few moments, I'll have an MPEG-1 version ready for all of you that don't have QuickTime.
This is probably illegal, but I really don't care all that much. The money they'll use to sue me would go to much better use in just putting out an MPEG version. Get with the picture, apple. Not everyone wants to pay $100 for your *still* incomplete OS. I mean COME ON, OS9, and you still don't have any dynamically allocated memory?! Crikey!
QuickTime was meant for much more than just movie playing. Sure, this is the core of QuickTime, but you can't have a *perfectly synched* subtitle track that can be turned on and off with MPEG or RealVideo or DiVX. You can't have a custom controller made, and embed it into the movie with MPEG or anything other than QuickTime that I know of.
This trailer is not the best example of good QuickTime, but its not a bad one. Most of the complaints I hear about QuickTime should be directed toward the Sorenson codec, and most are justly deserved. It looks great, but its not as thin as DiVX;-), (which does NOT have DVD quality output, no matter what you say, only DVD resolution) or Real or MPEG.
Anyway... QuickTime has its place, trust me. I'm writing an entire multimedia application (completely in-browser) for children using QuickTime and JavaScript, and if it weren't for QT, this would never have been possible.
Direct your complaints to Sorenson, where they belong.
Perhaps you could run Solaris on this? I know that on Sparc64 hardware, a 64-bit kernel is used, but I'm not sure about Solaris x86. Even if they didn't it wouldn't take long to port the kernel over to x86-64.
Its not that simple. One user on one 56k modem can completely saturate a T3 if he knows what he's doing. 560 machines on higher connectivity boxes can not only fill one T3, but hundreds. Thousands.
If I have a one machine that can access the net, I can ping spoof thousands of boxes, (this is still a problem) who in return all reply the ping to hostX. hostX feels the punch of 100's of boxes pinging it, even though those pings all came from one machine. Now imagine 560 machines doing the same.
If hackerX can find 560 machines to compromize, he can find thousands of hosts who's routers are not configured to block ping spoofs.
Its not the 560 machines that will be the ammunition, its the incorrectly configured subnets that will actually do the pipe choking.
Who cares if its immoral or not, or how much 'gall' someone has, its not illegal. That's that. End of story. Guilt has nothing to do with how much more balls a guy has than you, it has to do with the law. If its not illegal, then any Joe can do it all he wants.
The only reason that the RIAA is doing anything about this is because they're afraid they'll go poor and have to eat from someone else's hand or something. Also, its much easier to sue someone that has a website or a domain with contact information than it is to sue all the people that download something. And last I heard, its not illegal to have a mp3'd copy of a song off of a CD that you own, so they should only be suing the people that download a song and also don't own a copy of it on CD. Its easy to see why they're going after linking. They're lazy.
I, for one, am QUITE tired of the bragging that goes on with the admins of this site. I want to read NEWS, not the simple musings of the admins opinions, or how they get to have a cameo role in a movie I'm not going to see. Big fucking deal, show me the news, or shut up. You're admins, not celebrities. Stick with what you're good at, running SlashDot.
This is a list of the top ten gadgets, not the top ten scientific or engineering breakthroughs. Dams, birth control, the external combustion engine, and the printing press do not qualify.
This is a list for things like telephones, digital watches, and remote controls.
My dad's hermit-y ass sits at home for MONTHS at a time, and as long as he has someone to buy him liquor and a freezer full of frozen fish sticks, he won't leave the house -- ever.
One month is childs play. You don't need the 'net to live in solitary confinement for anything less than two months. Deep freeze with food in it, electricity, and a microwave is all anyone would need, if they could stand staying inside that long. My dad doesn't seem to have any problems whatsoever staying indoors for 8-10 weeks at a time.
What REALLY sucks about it is that he expects me to do the same.
There's a company called Illinois Wireless that serves much of southern illinois with wireless internet. Cable modems won't be available for "5-10 years" according to the cableco (ATT) and DSL will never be offered by the phone company (verizon). So Illinois Wireless (www.ilwllc.com) offers bandwidth down there. geez this sounds like a commercial. ITs not though, because Illinois Wireless gets their bandwidth from Sprintlink, and springlink has about a 25% uptime, in my experience. So FUCK SPRINT -- that's what this post is about.
I've always heard the term "Alpha" be described as "active product development" meaning new features are being added, and "Beta" was post-freeze, meaning no new features unless application security is involved, and bug fixes only.
Are these not the real definitions?
"Dee herr, dee dur hurr, m0rt! m0rt! m0rt!" -The Swedish Shef
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Finally, I'm beginning to see the fruits of all that "trying to make bits not copyable is like trying to make water not wet" talk.
People are finding ways around the arcane protection that these companies think will protect them.
Soon there will be a day when everyone knows that bits are copyable, and the stream/data they combine to create can and will be twisted for individuals personal use. On that day someone will just give up and do the thing that should have been done from day one: keep information free; charge for extensions to that service, like... well stuff that hasn't been thought up yet.
In the meantime learn to program in your favorite language (or C if you don't have a favorite language) and start taking stuff apart, and adding bits to existing stuff. There's enough creative energy out there to create some really impressive stuff.
Put your computer in the living room, or within eye/earshot of it. That way everyone who is in the living room will be potentially looking over her shoulder, a great incentive to not visit anything that would draw attention to her.
just goes to show that all the meetings and corporate backing in the world can't necessarily produce a better product.
This doesn't have to stop, are you nuts? until every person knows how to secure their boxes (never) things like this will do good, at least the ones that are meant to.
There will always be room for these "goody-2-shoes" worms in my world, because I know how to secure my own boxes against them. Whoever doesn't deserves what they get, good or bad.
naikrovek();
Why bother with wires? Just get a wireless card for your laptop and be doen with it.
jeez.
"When I die, I want people to say of me: 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'"
A few small solar cells would make the batteries necessary only during twilight and evening. And I think most bike races have limits to the time you can actually ride, so twilight/evening may not even be an issue.
I reckon just 6 or 8 small cells affixed to the bike in strategic locations could power a small PDA and camera -- cell phones typically have great batteries.
disclaimer: I don't know.
naik
Floridians' votes did not count. The supreme court decided the vote for you. You may as well not have voted.
Republicans have Congress, the Supreme Court, and now, the presidency. May God have mercy on our country, because the Republicans sure won't.
This reminds me of the time I changed the prompt on all the computer lab's machines from:
C:\>
to a much more imposing:
Enter Password:
with "prompt Enter Password:"
I was kicked out of the computer lab for 6 weeks.
And take it with you where you go. Storage space is cheap, cdparanoia and LAME are free. XMMS is free. Winamp is FREE. OpenNAP is free.
my.mp3.com is never going to work and they know it. Of course there will be "individuals" with more money than knowledge who will pay for this, but there won't be enough to really keep it alive, I don't think.
blah. GNUtella would probably work nicely if more people shared files. Leeching is just that - sucking the life out of something and giving nothing in return. write a good gnutella client (so that people would use it) that mandated sharing files, and there would probably be a notable increase in the health of the network.
I dunno.
It has been a few years since I've had to administrate Exchange, thank God, and one of the things that floored me is the per-seat licensing fee of Exchange clients for the Exchange server. I remember nearly pissing myself when I read that for EACH client that connects to the Exchange server, a fee of $19 (at the time) was required. ($19 * 1000) = $19k more than it costs right now for a working solution. you've already spent the money on the Ultra 2's (not cheap) so I would assume that money is not an option to your company.
I've found (as many slashdot readers have) that perfectly working solutions are "improved" and "improved" until they're no longer working, at which point the person who was against the whole thing in the first place is blamed and reprimanded. Knowing that, set yourself in "defense" mode right now.
In a few moments, I'll have an MPEG-1 version ready for all of you that don't have QuickTime.
This is probably illegal, but I really don't care all that much. The money they'll use to sue me would go to much better use in just putting out an MPEG version. Get with the picture, apple. Not everyone wants to pay $100 for your *still* incomplete OS. I mean COME ON, OS9, and you still don't have any dynamically allocated memory?! Crikey!
Here ya go.
If its not all there when you download it, its because Its not done uploading yet. Have fun.
QuickTime was meant for much more than just movie playing. Sure, this is the core of QuickTime, but you can't have a *perfectly synched* subtitle track that can be turned on and off with MPEG or RealVideo or DiVX. You can't have a custom controller made, and embed it into the movie with MPEG or anything other than QuickTime that I know of.
;-), (which does NOT have DVD quality output, no matter what you say, only DVD resolution) or Real or MPEG.
This trailer is not the best example of good QuickTime, but its not a bad one. Most of the complaints I hear about QuickTime should be directed toward the Sorenson codec, and most are justly deserved. It looks great, but its not as thin as DiVX
Anyway... QuickTime has its place, trust me. I'm writing an entire multimedia application (completely in-browser) for children using QuickTime and JavaScript, and if it weren't for QT, this would never have been possible.
Direct your complaints to Sorenson, where they belong.
Perhaps you could run Solaris on this? I know that on Sparc64 hardware, a 64-bit kernel is used, but I'm not sure about Solaris x86. Even if they didn't it wouldn't take long to port the kernel over to x86-64.
Just a thought.
Its not that simple. One user on one 56k modem can completely saturate a T3 if he knows what he's doing. 560 machines on higher connectivity boxes can not only fill one T3, but hundreds. Thousands.
If I have a one machine that can access the net, I can ping spoof thousands of boxes, (this is still a problem) who in return all reply the ping to hostX. hostX feels the punch of 100's of boxes pinging it, even though those pings all came from one machine. Now imagine 560 machines doing the same.
If hackerX can find 560 machines to compromize, he can find thousands of hosts who's routers are not configured to block ping spoofs.
Its not the 560 machines that will be the ammunition, its the incorrectly configured subnets that will actually do the pipe choking.
There are good doctors, and there are bad doctors.
There are good cops, and there are bad cops.
There are good lawyers, and there are bad lawyers.
There are good activists, and there are bad ones.
There are good hackers, and there are bad ones. There are no crackers. They do not need their own title.
Who cares if its immoral or not, or how much 'gall' someone has, its not illegal. That's that. End of story. Guilt has nothing to do with how much more balls a guy has than you, it has to do with the law. If its not illegal, then any Joe can do it all he wants.
The only reason that the RIAA is doing anything about this is because they're afraid they'll go poor and have to eat from someone else's hand or something. Also, its much easier to sue someone that has a website or a domain with contact information than it is to sue all the people that download something. And last I heard, its not illegal to have a mp3'd copy of a song off of a CD that you own, so they should only be suing the people that download a song and also don't own a copy of it on CD. Its easy to see why they're going after linking. They're lazy.
"A poke in the eye with a sharp stick would have been better."
"Getting a sharp stick put in my eye would have been better."
For Pete's sake, this is not an X-Files site.
Grow the fuck up, and post this shit on an X-Files site, 'he who thinks his shit doesn't stink.'
I, for one, am QUITE tired of the bragging that goes on with the admins of this site. I want to read NEWS, not the simple musings of the admins opinions, or how they get to have a cameo role in a movie I'm not going to see. Big fucking deal, show me the news, or shut up. You're admins, not celebrities. Stick with what you're good at, running SlashDot.
external combustion engine = steam engine
This is a list of the top ten gadgets, not the top ten scientific or engineering breakthroughs. Dams, birth control, the external combustion engine, and the printing press do not qualify.
This is a list for things like telephones, digital watches, and remote controls.
Keep that in mind.
My dad's hermit-y ass sits at home for MONTHS at a time, and as long as he has someone to buy him liquor and a freezer full of frozen fish sticks, he won't leave the house -- ever.
One month is childs play. You don't need the 'net to live in solitary confinement for anything less than two months. Deep freeze with food in it, electricity, and a microwave is all anyone would need, if they could stand staying inside that long. My dad doesn't seem to have any problems whatsoever staying indoors for 8-10 weeks at a time.
What REALLY sucks about it is that he expects me to do the same.
Fuck you, dad.
Naikrovek.
There's a company called Illinois Wireless that serves much of southern illinois with wireless internet. Cable modems won't be available for "5-10 years" according to the cableco (ATT) and DSL will never be offered by the phone company (verizon). So Illinois Wireless (www.ilwllc.com) offers bandwidth down there. geez this sounds like a commercial. ITs not though, because Illinois Wireless gets their bandwidth from Sprintlink, and springlink has about a 25% uptime, in my experience. So FUCK SPRINT -- that's what this post is about.
I've always heard the term "Alpha" be described as "active product development" meaning new features are being added, and "Beta" was post-freeze, meaning no new features unless application security is involved, and bug fixes only.
Are these not the real definitions?
"Dee herr, dee dur hurr, m0rt! m0rt! m0rt!"
-The Swedish Shef