Get an X-ROM cart from Easybuy 2000. Get PogoShell. Place X-ROM cart in GBA. Insert reader into GBA. Place NES games in Pogo filesystem. Upload PogoShell to GBA via X-ROM cart.
The software used to do these things varies. On a Windows Machine, you can use LittleWriter, but on a Linux >=2.6 box, I'd suggest using the xrom drivers found on my website (http://www.fordi.org/xrom.html). Pogo is something you'll have to build from source, I'm afraid.
Vigilantism is the act of taking the law into your own hands. It carries an implication of illegal, or more specifically, 'by any means necessary'.
This is 'a community action to produce a market incentive', which is wholly different from 'vigilantism', at least in a literal sense.
Sure, sure, it looks like we're locked in this huge digital superhero battle between the evil spammers and the innocent citizenry, but face it: We're making an attempt to prevent high-volume e-mail to our e-mail addresses from being profitable, and that is all. We are consciously generating market pressure to achieve a goal, and we are doing it in an unorthodox, but morally and legally clean way.
A segment of the population has said, 'High-volume e-mail is annoying enough to be a breach of the peace, as far as I'm concerned. I want none of it, and I will make an effort to prevent my mailbox from recieving them, by filter and by incentive."
Your use of the term 'vigilante tactics' is an obvious attempt to cast a dim light on the activities of the Blue Security community. It brings a baseless accusation to mind - and this being slashdot, I'm inclined to make it - but I think I'll leave the obvious to the outside observer.
http://members.bluesecurity.com is still up; I don't know what they did to www., but it seems to be down.
Meanwhile, stay on, ride it out. Use your spam filter to catch the spams; heuristics will still capture the spams they're sending if they're reported. This guy is desperate - likely going bankrupt - and some of us in the Blue Community would like to see him and his sort become paupers for their asshattery.
Actually, that's not possible; the reply mails are from 'honeypot' accounts, created on your behalf for every e-mail you want protected.
What's more likely: A spammer downloaded the 'e-mail list cleanser', copied his mail list, cleansed the copy and sent spam to the removed mails, thinking he's all kinds of clever.
He's not. A quick spam-block-and-Blue-report, and guess what? No more asshat spam. Consumers one, spammers zero.
"Perhaps some script could be developed that would do nothing but look at a web form, fill in appropriate bogus info, and just hit the site repeatedly with bogus orders"
Actually, there's a very nice client written in C++ that does a damn good job. No CC data or anything, but 'please remove me' forms. If you're confused, read the article again; it's mentioned.
Actually, that's exactly what BlueFrog does. Except it does it automatically, so we don't have to waste our time actually letting these people know they're useless.
Still, the guy who came up with "This could mean that a CSS pixel (px) is rendered as a 2x2 pixelblock" should not be in whatever business he's in.
A pixel is a pixel, and should not refer to a pixel quartet. If you need something to mean 'a small thing', use points (pt), millimeters (0.1cm), or cents (0.01in). Making a pixel artifically bigger is the antithesis of high DPI.
Meanwhile, I wouldn't mind having a new unit, the subpixel (spx), that is 1/3 pixel on the horizontal axis and 1 pixel on the vertical (or otherwise, depending on how your monitor is configured). In this way you could micromanage your text positioning if necessary.
I say detach it from death. A copyright should exist for something like ten years from the publication of the work. Past that, and you're not rewarding the creator for creating; you're rewarding her for sitting on her ass and NOT creating.
Seriously, have you ever wondered why so many 'one-hit wonders' exist? Make a hit, get a million, invest wisely and disappear into obscurity. Get the fortune with just enough fame to enjoy without leaving a bitter taste in your mouth.
Yeah. I think 95 years is out of balance. Make it five and I'll stop calling for the end of the copyright system.
Anyways, the guy's right - copyrights are fundamentally incompatible with the 'information age'. They worked well when copying had a cost, when to be inviolation of copyright, you had to be in business of some sort. But as the costs of copying came down (starting in the 1970s with VHS), the death of copyright became inevitable.
I hate to say it, but Google has the right idea; rather than restrict information, facilitate its use and serve up adverts to pay for that facilitation.
Interesting concept: what would you say if I predicted that within ten years Apple buys a near-bankrupted AOL Time Warner.
Read the HOWTO on using Video for Linux, the portion of the mencoder HOWTO on encoding video for DVDs, and the manual for dvdauthor (how to make a working DVD filesystem).
That doesn't, of course, address lighting, scene setup, etc, however there are a number of good home-movie tutorials on the intarweb.
Lastly, it doesn't address the concept of how to get a girl to have sex with you, but seriously, if you have to ask, you'll never know.
Halliburton's not building any reactors. No one is building them in the US - not since the DoE stopped giving out nuke licences.
Meanwhile, Canada is making pretty nice waste-reclamation reactors (which the DoE IS licensing the designs for - to what end no one is yet sure).
As for 'Billy Bob' - I don't get it. This supposed to be some sort of implication that I'm a hick? For one, I'm more than a little certain that a Mr. Thornton wouldn't appreciate it, and for the other, I live in Philadelphia, PA. I'm about as far from 'hick' as you could get without making me English.
Well, in the years after Chernobyl, Very Smart People have figured out various ways to prevent a meltdown, as well as ways to render the plant harmless in the event of standard containment failure.
Newer plant designs are what is called 'walk-away' safe, ie: you can leave them unattended for the life-span of the fuel, and the reactor will eventually shut itself down.
"How are you going to dispose of the waste?" I'm thinking Canadian-design breeders to further exploit the waste, then toss it in the hot magma between tectonic plates. Seems the most sensible way to do things; spend as much of it as possible and put it back where it came from, preperably in a place where it'll flow and redistribute.
Ok, you're flying _around_ the earth at roughly 20km/sec (producing 1G at the station end). The earth revolves around the sun at roughly 30 km/sec. You can reach sun-normal speed with far less thrust than a space elevator.
At the -1G earth-orbit, what is the resultant linear velocity of a tethered space station?
As escape velocity is 10.95km/s at the earth's surface when earth-rotation neutral. We can assume, then, that -1G can be produced by traveling at 21.9km/s in any direction. We will assume that the direction would be in the same direction as the earth's rotation, at the equator for a space elevator.
The orbital speed of the earth is, on average, 29.783km/sec. By letting our payload off at the right time, when it is moving in counter to the earth's orbit about the sun, we can reduce our payload's speed to approximately 7.9km/sec. We then need rockets to change its speed to sun-normal (thus allowing it to free-fall into the sun.).
Note that somewhat more rocket power would likely need used 1) to counteract the 22.5 degrees off-sun-normal imparted by earth's rotation and 2) ensure we don't fall into the gravvy wells of venus or mercury along the way.
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Get an X-ROM cart from Easybuy 2000. Get PogoShell. Place X-ROM cart in GBA. Insert reader into GBA. Place NES games in Pogo filesystem. Upload PogoShell to GBA via X-ROM cart.
The software used to do these things varies. On a Windows Machine, you can use LittleWriter, but on a Linux >=2.6 box, I'd suggest using the xrom drivers found on my website (http://www.fordi.org/xrom.html). Pogo is something you'll have to build from source, I'm afraid.
Vigilantism is the act of taking the law into your own hands. It carries an implication of illegal, or more specifically, 'by any means necessary'.
This is 'a community action to produce a market incentive', which is wholly different from 'vigilantism', at least in a literal sense.
Sure, sure, it looks like we're locked in this huge digital superhero battle between the evil spammers and the innocent citizenry, but face it: We're making an attempt to prevent high-volume e-mail to our e-mail addresses from being profitable, and that is all. We are consciously generating market pressure to achieve a goal, and we are doing it in an unorthodox, but morally and legally clean way.
A segment of the population has said, 'High-volume e-mail is annoying enough to be a breach of the peace, as far as I'm concerned. I want none of it, and I will make an effort to prevent my mailbox from recieving them, by filter and by incentive."
Your use of the term 'vigilante tactics' is an obvious attempt to cast a dim light on the activities of the Blue Security community. It brings a baseless accusation to mind - and this being slashdot, I'm inclined to make it - but I think I'll leave the obvious to the outside observer.
Frelling trolls.
http://members.bluesecurity.com is still up; I don't know what they did to www., but it seems to be down.
Meanwhile, stay on, ride it out. Use your spam filter to catch the spams; heuristics will still capture the spams they're sending if they're reported. This guy is desperate - likely going bankrupt - and some of us in the Blue Community would like to see him and his sort become paupers for their asshattery.
Actually, that's not possible; the reply mails are from 'honeypot' accounts, created on your behalf for every e-mail you want protected.
What's more likely: A spammer downloaded the 'e-mail list cleanser', copied his mail list, cleansed the copy and sent spam to the removed mails, thinking he's all kinds of clever.
He's not. A quick spam-block-and-Blue-report, and guess what? No more asshat spam. Consumers one, spammers zero.
"Perhaps some script could be developed that would do nothing but look at a web form, fill in appropriate bogus info, and just hit the site repeatedly with bogus orders"
Actually, there's a very nice client written in C++ that does a damn good job. No CC data or anything, but 'please remove me' forms. If you're confused, read the article again; it's mentioned.
Actually, that's exactly what BlueFrog does. Except it does it automatically, so we don't have to waste our time actually letting these people know they're useless.
Blah blah blah.
'Vigilante' would imply something illegal is going on. This is market forces at work - more effective, generally, than government intervention.
Perhaps he, like myself, was an anonymous coward until recently.
For example, I can remember a Coke, a Commodore 64, and 2 1541 drives banging out the music of "Fast Hack'em".
Subtle difference.
I'm glad you asked!
I got an XROM 512Mb cart and adapter for it.
The Linux drivers for it are available at fordi.org in a squashfs archive meant for Slax linux.
Using PogoShell, I created a GBA ROM that contained and could emulate several NES (and Turbo Grafix-16 and Sega Master System and Gameboy B&W) games.
I then used the usbcable (renamed to xrom-flash on my system) utility to flash the ROM to my computer.
The process is actually quite a bit simpler if you have a windows machine, but I don't use windows.
Additionally, I've written a pretty good GBA SRAM patcher (fixes for non-SRAM save chips, as that's all the XROM's got) in ANSI C for any generic CLI.
Hm.
I don't know about you, chico, but my fonts scale based on my screen resolution. My computer's usable even at 320x240.
'Course, I'm using KDE atop X.org in Linux.
Still, the guy who came up with "This could mean that a CSS pixel (px) is rendered as a 2x2 pixelblock" should not be in whatever business he's in.
A pixel is a pixel, and should not refer to a pixel quartet. If you need something to mean 'a small thing', use points (pt), millimeters (0.1cm), or cents (0.01in). Making a pixel artifically bigger is the antithesis of high DPI.
Meanwhile, I wouldn't mind having a new unit, the subpixel (spx), that is 1/3 pixel on the horizontal axis and 1 pixel on the vertical (or otherwise, depending on how your monitor is configured). In this way you could micromanage your text positioning if necessary.
I say detach it from death. A copyright should exist for something like ten years from the publication of the work. Past that, and you're not rewarding the creator for creating; you're rewarding her for sitting on her ass and NOT creating.
Seriously, have you ever wondered why so many 'one-hit wonders' exist? Make a hit, get a million, invest wisely and disappear into obscurity. Get the fortune with just enough fame to enjoy without leaving a bitter taste in your mouth.
*sniff* *sniff*
Smeel that, ARS? That's sarcasm. No, you won't get ANY support outside your tight-knit little community of pompous elitists.
Yeah. Not even the real artists give a shit what google does - unless google starts painting the search page with their actual art.
Out of balance?
Yeah. I think 95 years is out of balance. Make it five and I'll stop calling for the end of the copyright system.
Anyways, the guy's right - copyrights are fundamentally incompatible with the 'information age'. They worked well when copying had a cost, when to be inviolation of copyright, you had to be in business of some sort. But as the costs of copying came down (starting in the 1970s with VHS), the death of copyright became inevitable.
I hate to say it, but Google has the right idea; rather than restrict information, facilitate its use and serve up adverts to pay for that facilitation.
Interesting concept: what would you say if I predicted that within ten years Apple buys a near-bankrupted AOL Time Warner.
I pray this guy's right.
Actually, I would suggest that he was talking about the US (or his home country).
Read the HOWTO on using Video for Linux, the portion of the mencoder HOWTO on encoding video for DVDs, and the manual for dvdauthor (how to make a working DVD filesystem).
That doesn't, of course, address lighting, scene setup, etc, however there are a number of good home-movie tutorials on the intarweb.
Lastly, it doesn't address the concept of how to get a girl to have sex with you, but seriously, if you have to ask, you'll never know.
*poke* read the whole post douchebag.
Halliburton's not building any reactors. No one is building them in the US - not since the DoE stopped giving out nuke licences.
Meanwhile, Canada is making pretty nice waste-reclamation reactors (which the DoE IS licensing the designs for - to what end no one is yet sure).
As for 'Billy Bob' - I don't get it. This supposed to be some sort of implication that I'm a hick? For one, I'm more than a little certain that a Mr. Thornton wouldn't appreciate it, and for the other, I live in Philadelphia, PA. I'm about as far from 'hick' as you could get without making me English.
"How are you going to prevent a meltdown?"
Well, in the years after Chernobyl, Very Smart People have figured out various ways to prevent a meltdown, as well as ways to render the plant harmless in the event of standard containment failure.
Newer plant designs are what is called 'walk-away' safe, ie: you can leave them unattended for the life-span of the fuel, and the reactor will eventually shut itself down.
"How are you going to dispose of the waste?"
I'm thinking Canadian-design breeders to further exploit the waste, then toss it in the hot magma between tectonic plates. Seems the most sensible way to do things; spend as much of it as possible and put it back where it came from, preperably in a place where it'll flow and redistribute.
You're actually going to quote Greenpeace on anything?
Feh. And I thought intelligent humans populated slashdot.
Hm. Sounds like we all must shag chernobyl survivors. The offspring of the world should benefit from these heartier genes.
'If builder built buildings like programmers wrote programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy the whole of civilization'
Ok, you're flying _around_ the earth at roughly 20km/sec (producing 1G at the station end). The earth revolves around the sun at roughly 30 km/sec. You can reach sun-normal speed with far less thrust than a space elevator.
Hm.
At the -1G earth-orbit, what is the resultant linear velocity of a tethered space station?
As escape velocity is 10.95km/s at the earth's surface when earth-rotation neutral. We can assume, then, that -1G can be produced by traveling at 21.9km/s in any direction. We will assume that the direction would be in the same direction as the earth's rotation, at the equator for a space elevator.
The orbital speed of the earth is, on average, 29.783km/sec. By letting our payload off at the right time, when it is moving in counter to the earth's orbit about the sun, we can reduce our payload's speed to approximately 7.9km/sec. We then need rockets to change its speed to sun-normal (thus allowing it to free-fall into the sun.).
Note that somewhat more rocket power would likely need used 1) to counteract the 22.5 degrees off-sun-normal imparted by earth's rotation and 2) ensure we don't fall into the gravvy wells of venus or mercury along the way.