---This is not a case of someone purchasing something and downloading it and then it stops working.
Yes, it is.
---This was a streaming video site, people never downloaded anything. If they paid for this, they had to watch the video streamed from Google.
If they didn't download the movies, how did they watch it? Psionically?
---There was no DRM because there was nothing to DRM, it was all streamed. It certainly sucks that people paid for a supposedly infinite right to stream these shows and now won't be able to, but that is not DRM at all. IF I paid for a lifetime movie ticket to my local theatre and they closed, I would be in the same boat as these people.
Buy Google isnt closed. They just took money and now refuse to render service.
The Chinese government is working on their corruption problems by the best way they know: Murder politicians and policy-keepers that take bribes.
I don't know if I'd accept that kind of punishment, but it does seem to work. Their FDA has went through 3 heads in that last few years. Literally.
And why do they careif corruption is fixed or not? Many countries (EU-based countries, South American countries, the USA) have threatened heavy tariffs or outright bans of Chinese merchandise and food products if they can't fix it.
And don't think US companies are on their high-horse. Bayer, last year, released into the wild a new GM hybrid that was NOT approved by the FDA for any purpose. When the EU caught the new strain in our rice exports, they banned our rice. Along with that, Bayer ran to the FDA asking "mother may I?"
This globalization just makes me sick.. sometimes literally.
I had the same questions too about cut and pasting.
Simply enough, hilight/middle-click works on every X-Windows application. If it's a gnome app, works. If it's a kde app, it works. If it's a motif (egads), it works.
If they merge uTorrent (non-free, closed) with the older "BitTorrent 5.0" (open source, free), hell's going to break lose if there's any GPLed patches in the open source that Bram didn't make.
GPL applies to even "lowly" patchers and debuggers code, as it does to the 10klines per day guys.. (joke)
These people really don't understand. They think that hacking is some techno-porn orgy one sees on the "haqr" shows. It sadly is not.
Good luck trying to find evil-ware when it's custom and yet munged with packers. It'd be better yet if the export was a gpg encrypted to a public key that was packed within. Do you think techies working in IT at a big company have the expertise to properly unpack and dead-list it correctly (assuming that the reverse assembly removes impossible loops)? I think not. Some of the stuff I've seen, Spaf would have a hell of a time with it.
You know, a colo servers are rather cheap and can store a nice load of data. And one can use TOR or another anonymizer to contact the colo.
A correlation is just that. It is not proof, or a pure indication of a happening. However, I do somewhat agree with you, as you cannot prove your correlation true either.
---If you struggle with the dog analogy, how about an ant? Would you agree that a single ant is less intelligent than a human? If so, then is it because of its genes?
I maintain what I said, as the material that you clipped out. Intelligence is a function of connectivity in said brain. Communication depends on innate biologies that propagate it. I dare not claim to make a statement about a simple ant, as a hill of them could, in theory, create a consciousness.
---Anyhow, even if you don't think an ant is "dumber", it certainly has a different kind of intelligence, no? That difference would be innate. Which is what my original point was.
You have no point because you take that humans are the best species. You want us to somehow rank every critter on the world, with us at the top. Frankly, we do not know enough to do such an activity, and those that do are ignorant.
True that, but is does take a great deal of restraint and expertise to go black hat and not leave a trace.
Black hats go by a different name: corporate espionage. In that, they are in a profession of spy with computers and data, and not of personal communications.
---Studies have shown a correlation between education level and IQ.
So if I show you one intelligent person who has no degree, or if I show you a stupid person with a Bachelors degree, that would be false....
---Intelligence not innate? What capacity for intelligence does a dog have?
They, as most living creatures, can learn. Dogs are very capable of learning rather quickly. What you speak of is genetic knowledge, which is probably false.
---Is this difference between humans and dogs not innate? Why, then, can there not be innate differences in intelligence among humans? Do you think there are innate differences in athletic ability among humans? Or is it just a matter of "effort" or "culture"?
The problem with non-human creatures is that their communication is severely reduced when dealing outside their biologies. For example, dolphins seem rather intelligent and very curious. Try watching documentaries about dolphin happenings when they proceed to record/playback their sounds. They communicate and add different syllables on it, as if asking questions or making statements.
Considering that we know relative brain masses and ideas about neural connectivity, I'd say many upper mammals are probably almost as smart as we are.
I just got done with one of my most toughest anthropology classes today (Anth 457 @ IU).
Just looking back on what cultures and societies we've delved in and discussed at length, and how many millions were killed for the greed of a few makes me sad.
However, to know that before our cultures, were egalitarian cultures that were fair and gave many spiritual good and plentiful time to their people, that our cultures of specialization and discrimination did create poverty. Your sig, by Darwin, says more about this article and anthropology in general than most can ever say about poverty.
As a note, I'm going for BS in Chemistry and a minor in Anthropology. I've thought about a minor in math. I took anthro as a way to unground me from simple answers to simple questions as experienced in all of the hard sciences. I maintain that to critically think about and examine a problem or old happenings is more important than remembering formulas and plugging and chugging.
If we could design a shunt in the heart to add in oxygenated blood, and bypass the lungs, do you think we could survive the pressure/low temperature issues?
I guess the issues would then go towards radiation and high speed physical objects..000005c dust could be a problem... Ouch.
And guess what: Quake 3 Arena could be played with:
1. NO cd key. Just click "ok" with it blank 2. From the CD directly. It just doesnt save player name and settings 3. No onerous anti-user technology, no cd-lockout programs 4. CAN run a lan server with NO cdkey AND from directly CD
The only other game to actually beat that was Total Annihilation. That game had NO cdkey, and 1 legit player could host 3 real players. Kickass for legit lan playing.
Q3 was soo good, we bought 2 Win versions and 1 Lin version.
A: Make up a number. Bad idea B: Its free under GPL.
Ok, you take B. Did they do it willingly? If so, they be naughty. If not, mens rea and all that. And they DID make it good.
At most, you have 0$ of DAMAGE. Whoop-te-shit.
Simply, this software, by definition, is worthless. Now, if there was a dual license that was made for commercial entities... thats a different question.
---Only if you are an idiot. Mandate means they won't support it. I have several NT4 machines still running as servers. Actually, I migrated 3 of these to a single server using virtual servers. A lot more secure than XP. I can lock out almost anything that is a problem. The only thing even exposed is Port 80 and 441 (?I forget...its the HTTPS port). The only thing exposed on the server is a port to SSH and command line. The machines are SERIOUSLY fast in this configuration.
Good thing I'm not an idiot. I stopped working for the uni after seeing how even the sys-ad was an imbecile (the new one is just as bad... but not a communist).
I use virtual servers for some testing purposes at home for older games.. of all things;) All of them run nicely under Xen. Did I mention that it's free;D
---I believe a good deal of those 350s came from my office though...sorry about that. IUPUC generally gets our hand me downs.
Yeah, they were beige boxes with 6 gig drives in them. Digital was the computer manufacturer. The machines were pretty much junk, but I did like the thumb-screw cases. They were nice to strip and fix.
---As for Messaging -- if you were a tech, you should have just done a group policy.
I worked on the purdue side. We had NO rights on the network, aside our user/pass. Couldnt even reset fucking passwords. And then we had the "weird-ass password jumble mandate". So much for my old 30 digit long numeric password.
---I hated IT though. I hated working with UITS. I hated working with Bloomington. IU is almost always happy with my suggestions and quick to enact them until they find out my main office is at IUPUI...and then it is stalling and blocking. I should use my @Indiana account as opposed to @IUPUI.
Obviously. IUB is full of elitist idiots. The uits mandatory disk for new students screwed up my gf's laptop in that she had to take it to their main hq. They reformatted it without backing up or even letting her know.
---Of all the regional campuses, Bloomington is the only one that I have problems with, and this isn't relegated to IT. I stopped being IT in 2003 (I manage a completely different area of my department after it was shown the staff who were in charge were incompetent...my suggestion firing them, the administrations suggestion was that I manage them and let attrition handle the dirty work...in 30 years). But the problems with BL go far beyond just the tech. I have legal agreements in place at almost all the state universities for information sharing and regional IUs, but not BL.
Its just sad. Im just a student and the way they treat everybody here at IUPUC is just horrible. I know most of the staff and profs, and they maintain that working for that administration just plainly sucks. Even the janitors are fed up with their crap (like theft of "mandatory parking" out of their paychecks).
---And regardless of what the others below say, the former president was fired and you are entirely correct. The last president was a honest man and he wanted to fix the problems with BL vs. EVERYONE ELSE. BL Faculty and Staff didn't like this and ganged up against him.
---BTW there are also quite a few of us kicking ass each and every day to make it a better place for students.
Im glad there is. I see them whenever I go to school. Good luck.
Try this link for a few engines to search with. And that is only the main search engines. You also have regional, compound, local and live to go through.
will work fairly well, as Google still indexes it. Just use the "advanced features", or hop on to searchlores.org and learn how to search properly.
20 hrs of searchlores from Fravia and company will teach you 99.9% more about information theory than any class at IU will ever teach. Hell, I was teaching the librarians at the Learning Center how to properly search. Yes... IU grads from the information theory school (or whatever they call it).
As speaking from Columbus next door, IUPUC has its head stuck up their asses when it comes to IU mandate.
Back in 2001, we had 350 MHz machines with 128 and 256 MB. They mandated us with a switch from NT4 (which worked great and kept games and crap off) to 2000. Slow-city. A year and a half later, we were mandated for XP. For the same FARKING machines.
They also had serious problems with Windows Messenger spam coming from within the IU network. Of course, the drop-dead easy solution of turning off Windows Messenger service was too above their comprehension to do.
Next, the uni uses ADS and Kerberos for auth. IUPUC auths with ads.iupui.edu over a T-1. Guess what happens when you flood the T-1? Nobody logs in. I tried to tell them, but they learned the hard way when a bunch of techies from the IU side kazaa-ed the T-1 down. Heads rolled, and they finally took my suggestion: dont disable local guest or admin. Just password them heavily in that authorized people could still use the doorstops... computers.
Pretty much, you end up with "If you cant do, teach. If you cant teach, work in IT."
Coming from a CompSci dropout. Chem is better by far.
And a side note: No wonder they fired the old IU president. Guess the old one wouldnt take kickbacks.
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---Except that isn't what is happening at all.
Really. you dont say.
---This is not a case of someone purchasing something and downloading it and then it stops working.
Yes, it is.
---This was a streaming video site, people never downloaded anything. If they paid for this, they had to watch the video streamed from Google.
If they didn't download the movies, how did they watch it? Psionically?
---There was no DRM because there was nothing to DRM, it was all streamed. It certainly sucks that people paid for a supposedly infinite right to stream these shows and now won't be able to, but that is not DRM at all. IF I paid for a lifetime movie ticket to my local theatre and they closed, I would be in the same boat as these people.
Buy Google isnt closed. They just took money and now refuse to render service.
OGL calls are forced through DirectX, therefore, never being faster than DX.
If we're dealing with fusion, what are the effects of mass amounts of neutrinos going through living tissue?
You know, 1/d^2 is sort of a problem when you are d close to me. (When d is is 1/500 AU).
And yes, I do know about the super-pure H2O and Cl- deep-mine tanks that monitor for neutrinos.
What part of Indiana?
;(
Im in them dere hills of brown co. I used to be in Columbus, with DSL...
You aren't funny.
The Chinese government is working on their corruption problems by the best way they know: Murder politicians and policy-keepers that take bribes.
I don't know if I'd accept that kind of punishment, but it does seem to work. Their FDA has went through 3 heads in that last few years. Literally.
And why do they careif corruption is fixed or not? Many countries (EU-based countries, South American countries, the USA) have threatened heavy tariffs or outright bans of Chinese merchandise and food products if they can't fix it.
And don't think US companies are on their high-horse. Bayer, last year, released into the wild a new GM hybrid that was NOT approved by the FDA for any purpose. When the EU caught the new strain in our rice exports, they banned our rice. Along with that, Bayer ran to the FDA asking "mother may I?"
This globalization just makes me sick.. sometimes literally.
I had the same questions too about cut and pasting.
Simply enough, hilight/middle-click works on every X-Windows application. If it's a gnome app, works. If it's a kde app, it works. If it's a motif (egads), it works.
It just works.
Whats wrong with a "Series of tubes"?
Have you ever sent mail via !path? I'd sure as hell call them tubes if I was describing to a newbie how to email (back in the 80's).
Really, what's wrong with calling a connection like DSL a "tube"?
There's a trap waiting to happen.
If they merge uTorrent (non-free, closed) with the older "BitTorrent 5.0" (open source, free), hell's going to break lose if there's any GPLed patches in the open source that Bram didn't make.
GPL applies to even "lowly" patchers and debuggers code, as it does to the 10klines per day guys.. (joke)
Im ready for a torrent of gpl-violations
I know how I get information back from a bug.
Only have a bug report when traffic to internet is high. Then post a few hundred bytes to a popular blog (slashdot) and have it xored to a known key.
Retrieval is easy. Hit target dump-site (the blog) on a wifi network, probably with proxies to even mask that.
Congrats. You just smuggled data out.
I confirm I was trolling him. I troll people that seem ignorant, along with groups of people that seem high-and-mighty.
Try Here.
Just do a
site:slashdot.org Creepy Crawler
On google. Better yet, put quotes around my name along with troll.
These people really don't understand. They think that hacking is some techno-porn orgy one sees on the "haqr" shows. It sadly is not.
Good luck trying to find evil-ware when it's custom and yet munged with packers. It'd be better yet if the export was a gpg encrypted to a public key that was packed within. Do you think techies working in IT at a big company have the expertise to properly unpack and dead-list it correctly (assuming that the reverse assembly removes impossible loops)? I think not. Some of the stuff I've seen, Spaf would have a hell of a time with it.
You know, a colo servers are rather cheap and can store a nice load of data. And one can use TOR or another anonymizer to contact the colo.
---No. It would not prove the correlation false.
A correlation is just that. It is not proof, or a pure indication of a happening. However, I do somewhat agree with you, as you cannot prove your correlation true either.
---If you struggle with the dog analogy, how about an ant? Would you agree that a single ant is less intelligent than a human? If so, then is it because of its genes?
I maintain what I said, as the material that you clipped out. Intelligence is a function of connectivity in said brain. Communication depends on innate biologies that propagate it. I dare not claim to make a statement about a simple ant, as a hill of them could, in theory, create a consciousness.
---Anyhow, even if you don't think an ant is "dumber", it certainly has a different kind of intelligence, no? That difference would be innate. Which is what my original point was.
You have no point because you take that humans are the best species. You want us to somehow rank every critter on the world, with us at the top. Frankly, we do not know enough to do such an activity, and those that do are ignorant.
True that, but is does take a great deal of restraint and expertise to go black hat and not leave a trace.
Black hats go by a different name: corporate espionage. In that, they are in a profession of spy with computers and data, and not of personal communications.
---Studies have shown a correlation between education level and IQ.
So if I show you one intelligent person who has no degree, or if I show you a stupid person with a Bachelors degree, that would be false....
---Intelligence not innate? What capacity for intelligence does a dog have?
They, as most living creatures, can learn. Dogs are very capable of learning rather quickly. What you speak of is genetic knowledge, which is probably false.
---Is this difference between humans and dogs not innate? Why, then, can there not be innate differences in intelligence among humans? Do you think there are innate differences in athletic ability among humans? Or is it just a matter of "effort" or "culture"?
The problem with non-human creatures is that their communication is severely reduced when dealing outside their biologies. For example, dolphins seem rather intelligent and very curious. Try watching documentaries about dolphin happenings when they proceed to record/playback their sounds. They communicate and add different syllables on it, as if asking questions or making statements.
Considering that we know relative brain masses and ideas about neural connectivity, I'd say many upper mammals are probably almost as smart as we are.
I just got done with one of my most toughest anthropology classes today (Anth 457 @ IU).
Just looking back on what cultures and societies we've delved in and discussed at length, and how many millions were killed for the greed of a few makes me sad.
However, to know that before our cultures, were egalitarian cultures that were fair and gave many spiritual good and plentiful time to their people, that our cultures of specialization and discrimination did create poverty. Your sig, by Darwin, says more about this article and anthropology in general than most can ever say about poverty.
As a note, I'm going for BS in Chemistry and a minor in Anthropology. I've thought about a minor in math. I took anthro as a way to unground me from simple answers to simple questions as experienced in all of the hard sciences. I maintain that to critically think about and examine a problem or old happenings is more important than remembering formulas and plugging and chugging.
Then follow me on this..
.000005c dust could be a problem... Ouch.
If we could design a shunt in the heart to add in oxygenated blood, and bypass the lungs, do you think we could survive the pressure/low temperature issues?
I guess the issues would then go towards radiation and high speed physical objects.
Boy. You sure sound like an elitist prick.
So, you work in IU administration?
Bullshit.
If you can show a judge that you honestly messed up and tried to fix it the best one can, the judge will probably NOT do treble damages.
And guess what: Quake 3 Arena could be played with:
1. NO cd key. Just click "ok" with it blank
2. From the CD directly. It just doesnt save player name and settings
3. No onerous anti-user technology, no cd-lockout programs
4. CAN run a lan server with NO cdkey AND from directly CD
The only other game to actually beat that was Total Annihilation. That game had NO cdkey, and 1 legit player could host 3 real players. Kickass for legit lan playing.
Q3 was soo good, we bought 2 Win versions and 1 Lin version.
Judge asks: Whats the damages?
What do you answer?
A: Make up a number. Bad idea
B: Its free under GPL.
Ok, you take B. Did they do it willingly? If so, they be naughty. If not, mens rea and all that. And they DID make it good.
At most, you have 0$ of DAMAGE. Whoop-te-shit.
Simply, this software, by definition, is worthless. Now, if there was a dual license that was made for commercial entities... thats a different question.
---Only if you are an idiot. Mandate means they won't support it. I have several NT4 machines still running as servers. Actually, I migrated 3 of these to a single server using virtual servers. A lot more secure than XP. I can lock out almost anything that is a problem. The only thing even exposed is Port 80 and 441 (?I forget...its the HTTPS port). The only thing exposed on the server is a port to SSH and command line. The machines are SERIOUSLY fast in this configuration.
;) All of them run nicely under Xen. Did I mention that it's free ;D
Good thing I'm not an idiot. I stopped working for the uni after seeing how even the sys-ad was an imbecile (the new one is just as bad... but not a communist).
I use virtual servers for some testing purposes at home for older games.. of all things
---I believe a good deal of those 350s came from my office though...sorry about that. IUPUC generally gets our hand me downs.
Yeah, they were beige boxes with 6 gig drives in them. Digital was the computer manufacturer. The machines were pretty much junk, but I did like the thumb-screw cases. They were nice to strip and fix.
---As for Messaging -- if you were a tech, you should have just done a group policy.
I worked on the purdue side. We had NO rights on the network, aside our user/pass. Couldnt even reset fucking passwords. And then we had the "weird-ass password jumble mandate". So much for my old 30 digit long numeric password.
---I hated IT though. I hated working with UITS. I hated working with Bloomington. IU is almost always happy with my suggestions and quick to enact them until they find out my main office is at IUPUI...and then it is stalling and blocking. I should use my @Indiana account as opposed to @IUPUI.
Obviously. IUB is full of elitist idiots. The uits mandatory disk for new students screwed up my gf's laptop in that she had to take it to their main hq. They reformatted it without backing up or even letting her know.
---Of all the regional campuses, Bloomington is the only one that I have problems with, and this isn't relegated to IT. I stopped being IT in 2003 (I manage a completely different area of my department after it was shown the staff who were in charge were incompetent...my suggestion firing them, the administrations suggestion was that I manage them and let attrition handle the dirty work...in 30 years). But the problems with BL go far beyond just the tech. I have legal agreements in place at almost all the state universities for information sharing and regional IUs, but not BL.
Its just sad. Im just a student and the way they treat everybody here at IUPUC is just horrible. I know most of the staff and profs, and they maintain that working for that administration just plainly sucks. Even the janitors are fed up with their crap (like theft of "mandatory parking" out of their paychecks).
---And regardless of what the others below say, the former president was fired and you are entirely correct. The last president was a honest man and he wanted to fix the problems with BL vs. EVERYONE ELSE. BL Faculty and Staff didn't like this and ganged up against him.
---BTW there are also quite a few of us kicking ass each and every day to make it a better place for students.
Im glad there is. I see them whenever I go to school. Good luck.
Heh heh heh.
He WAS fired. You should know that very public officals never get "fired", in that they are encouraged for retirement.
Trust me. According to many people in the know at IUPUC and IUB campuses, he was fired.
Why bother? There's hundreds of search engines.
Try this link for a few engines to search with. And that is only the main search engines. You also have regional, compound, local and live to go through.
You know, something like a google search of:
site=uits.iu.edu searchterm
will work fairly well, as Google still indexes it. Just use the "advanced features", or hop on to searchlores.org and learn how to search properly.
20 hrs of searchlores from Fravia and company will teach you 99.9% more about information theory than any class at IU will ever teach. Hell, I was teaching the librarians at the Learning Center how to properly search. Yes... IU grads from the information theory school (or whatever they call it).
As speaking from Columbus next door, IUPUC has its head stuck up their asses when it comes to IU mandate.
Back in 2001, we had 350 MHz machines with 128 and 256 MB. They mandated us with a switch from NT4 (which worked great and kept games and crap off) to 2000. Slow-city. A year and a half later, we were mandated for XP. For the same FARKING machines.
They also had serious problems with Windows Messenger spam coming from within the IU network. Of course, the drop-dead easy solution of turning off Windows Messenger service was too above their comprehension to do.
Next, the uni uses ADS and Kerberos for auth. IUPUC auths with ads.iupui.edu over a T-1. Guess what happens when you flood the T-1? Nobody logs in. I tried to tell them, but they learned the hard way when a bunch of techies from the IU side kazaa-ed the T-1 down. Heads rolled, and they finally took my suggestion: dont disable local guest or admin. Just password them heavily in that authorized people could still use the doorstops... computers.
Pretty much, you end up with "If you cant do, teach. If you cant teach, work in IT."
Coming from a CompSci dropout. Chem is better by far.
And a side note: No wonder they fired the old IU president. Guess the old one wouldnt take kickbacks.