In law school, a bunch of us formed "The Learned Hands" and laid down some tracks. I had seen an ad for TuneCore somewhere on the web, so we uploaded our album for distribution. Sadly, having graduated school, the band no longer exists, but it's cool to say that our original music has been heard in Germany and the UK (Someone streamed "Ten Point Buck" and "Sleepy Hollow").
My experience with TuneCore was great! The initial costs were very low - I think it's like a dollar per track, and a dollar per online music store. And what do you know, our music is available on iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, eMusic, all over the world! Depending on the vendor, you get one or two cents every time the song is streamed, and for downloads, it's usually 65% or 70% of the purchase price. Uploaded the tracks in FLAC format too, actually, and everything turned out swell.
This is the type of innovation that is changing the music industry, and I don't think the RIAA knows how to, or even can, keep up.
1. Record your album in your garage/basement
2. Upload your tracks to TuneCore for distribution
3. ???
4. Profit!
The problem for my band has been step three, since we no longer officially exist (Singers are in CO and Philly, bassist in VT, and I'm moving to BFE), but we did sell 3 copies on AmazonMP3 and a few tracks on iTunes, plus about $0.76 worth of streaming on Napster and Rhapsody.
In conclusion, TuneCore allows Joe Sixpack to (sort of) achieve his rockstar dreams, at least in terms of getting the music out there and making it available.
We wouldn't need ridiculous things such as this if everyone would abide by the basic rules of gun safety. My grandfather taught me these when I was 4 years old:
1. Handle every gun as though it were loaded, even if you KNOW it's not.
2. Always keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction - down range, at your target, or down into the ground.
3. Always keep the safety "on" until you are ready to shoot.
4. Don't shoot at anything unless you intend it to die.
5. Don't store guns loaded.
6. Teach your children respect for guns and what they can do.
I really think that rule 6 is the most important. I'm not saying following these rules would cure all accidental discharges, but it sure wouldn't increase the number of tragic accidents that occur.
Penn State Dickinson School of Law doesn't require laptops. When we take finals, we either write 'em by hand, or log on using a special testtaking username and password to Windows desktops that only let us use Word and save the.docs to a special network folder which is backed up in case someone can't print off a hardcopy, which is the actual thing graded by the prof... For those students that do have laptops, the SSID is broadcast as "pennstate" but we have to use a VPN client to authenticate in order to have internet access... As if I'm not far enough off topic already, anyone got a recommendation for Linux VPN clients??? OpenSuSE 10 detected my Ralink RT2500 wifi card, and I can connect to wifi access points, even ones that are WEP encrypted, but I need to use a VPN client to connect at school. What's simple and easy? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
whatever, I'm drunk and offtopic anyway, fuck you, flame me, I'm moving to digg
I too am a huge fan of newegg. I've placed about a dozen orders with them over the last 3 years. Every time I order something, I pick the FedEx Saver shipping because it's cheap. They have now added UPS, which I'm trying on my current order. Anyway, about half of those orders were received at LEAST a day ahead of when they said it'd show up. Awesome awesome service for personal use. However, my most recent order was placed on Jan. 6th, and according to the order status, it hasn't even been packed yet! I checked with my credit card company, the charge went through, so no hangup there. So I called newegg customer support, and the girl said she'd contact the warehouse and get it shipped out today, no clue why it wasn't out yet. Again, it's just a couple things I'm not desperate to have, so no biggie. I will continue to order from them in the future.
That said, all my purchases through newegg have been for personal use. I've noticed, by watching the order status, that typically (say 75% of my orders) do not ship the same day. It may have something to do with the time of day at which my orders are placed. Anyway, in my experience, you place the order today, it gets processed and shipped tomorrow. If you pay for overnight shipping, then you ultimately receive your package two days after placing the order. If that's cool with you, for your business, then rock on.
Otherwise, I'd have to go with other posters and say "why don't you have a back-up?" Whether it's spare parts or another machine, I doubt it'd be prohibitively cost effective to have some redundancy. Especially if the work you do is super mission critical. If you had TWO testing servers from the start, one falls down, the other one's good to go. And when they're BOTH working, that means you can use them both simultaneously for increased productivity.
For as expensive as any of the security implementations are going to be for anything that ANYONE has replied to for this question... If your boss trusts you enough to design, buy, and implement the system, why not just ask for a substantial raise (say twice your current salary to whatever the most expensive of these recommendations would run, whatever suits you) to cover the cost of you personally babysitting the machine while people use it? OK, your company would have to spend a small sum to make sure that the room the machine's in is inaccessible when you're not there. But otherwise, when you're on the clock, you're watching the thing like a hawk. Somebody tries something fishy, you ask them what the hell they're doing right then and there, and there's no risk. Think about it.
I hope that whoever is appointed has the intelligence to realize that the biggest cyber-threat to the government is extremely exploitable evil software. Maybe they'll wise up and move government systems to something a bit more SECURE, for Homeland SECURITY'S sake?
No real issues with OpenOffice as an MS Office substitute here at our small office (5 employees, 4 computers, 2 running MS Office, 2 running OOo). The trickiest thing was the secretaries getting used to the fact that to complete some of the same tasks in OOo as Office, you've got to follow some different steps (printing labels, for example) Essentially, that's just a minor "get the user familiar with the new software" issue, and didn't take too much to overcome. We use MS Office and OOo interchangably, I set up the OOo boxes to save in MS Office native formats (.doc, and.xls). The only real issue I've seen is that OOo has a minor hiccup with Powerpoint presentations that use fancy transitions: instead of a single spacebar tap, sometimes it takes 2 or 3 to advance to the next slide. No biggy. Try it, you'll like it!
well, I may be drunk....
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but yes, yes I did read that URL as something do to wiht crak and chanels
I highly recommend that you check out Ray Kurzweil's The Age of Spiritual Machines published by Penguin Putnam in 2000... I read the book for a paper in a class I took with Dr. Foerst of MIT AI lab fame...
Anyway, as I recall, Kurzweil goes into a lengthy discussion of nanobots that would totally enable a level of virtual-reality interaction with other humans... He discussed a whole new level of cyber-sex encompassing all the tactile sensation without the STD's.
I'm there man! I've got a BS in CS, but have been looking for a year for something to do with it, something BIG. A few weeks ago, I recieved my acceptance letter from Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, NH. Recognized as one of the top Intellectual Propterty law schools in the nation, I'm all about, as you say, "fighting the good fight". I actually wrote about F/OSS software in my personal statement that I submitted along with my application. My girlfriend's dad, a lawyer, agrees with you that whatever IP attorneys exist don't understand law, and most lawyers don't understand computers, software, and the internet. Oh yeah, the bonus is that Franklin Pierce is giving me a merit based scholarship in the amount of $12,000/yr. That means less debt upon getting my degree, which translates into bigger donations to the FSF and EFF, et al.... You love it! Who's with me???
Fellow slashdotter nbCaffeine and I had Kimberly Young as a professor for our "Intro to Business Information Systems" class, which, as CompSci majors, we were taking towards an easy minor in BIS. The course was really more of a 100 level thing, as we discussed the various components of computers, basic network topology, and server-client basics.
Throughout the class, she would constantly venture off on tangents about her work in studying "Internet Addiction", and what a terrible thing it is... She's published a few books and papers on the topic, but in real life, she doesn't seem to be that big a superhero researcher. In fact, she's really quite amusing, whatwith the curly-afro like hairdo and the subtle woman-moustache, not to mention the thick rimmed glasses she wore. She always told stories about how internet addiction leads to marital woes, citing examples of women and men who confessed to her that they had been cheating on their spouse via online relationships. Given that that's what she mostly talked about, I would propose that her professional interest and expertise with regard to "internet addiction" predominantly center around the affects of chatrooms and IM on personal "offline in the real world" relationships. Now, with MMORPGs, one must consider how applicable Kimberly Young's research is. I can see how there would be an argument that there are parallels between say, the interactions you have with other people in a MMORPG and those with people in a chatroom.... However, if you're really into the RP aspect of those games, you might be TOTALLY different in that regard than say the person you'd be in a chatroom... You know what, maybe we could do a Slashdot Interview with Kimberly Young, if somebody tells me to go ahead, I'll send her an e-mail and then submit the idea.
I realize it's bad form to reply to my own post, but I had forgotten to mention that I have purchased all three of those games, so any.wma or.mp3 or.wav files pertaining to them are legit.
This thing found every single.wma file I have paid for from the new Napster, as well as tagging various.mp3 and.wma files from video games, like Sid Meier's Pirates!, Colin McRae Rally 2005, and Medal of Honor. Fucking asshats, I don't want to delete that stuff!
On the plus side, it also turned up some pr0n I had forgotten about...
I'm interested in your experience with installing Linux on the Averatec, as my girlfriend and I are very close to purchasing 2 AV3250HX's, and would really like to run Linux on them. If you don't mind sharing, please e-mail me at kulaid982yahoo.com
Thanks!
Centrino refers to the whole Intel package, whatwith the Pentium M processor, and the integrated wireless, and the extended battery life and all the other goodies and whatnot!
Though I can't specify the denominations I want my cash in, my bank has ATMs that not only do $20, $10, $5, and $1, but also CHANGE! Meaning I can cash my paycheck at the ATM. One slot spits out the bills, and another spot is where the change is dumped, right next to the receipt. FANTASTIC!
It's a shame that the parent posted anonymously, because I believe this is the first time that I've ever seen a first post where the poster has actually read the article!
Note: My hoping that this will be modded "Insightful" will probably only result in this post being modded "Karma Whore"
Linksys routers have no way to stop broadcasting the SSID
Which Linksys WAP? The WRT54G certainly does allow you to turn off SSID broadcast, it's a setting under the "Wireless" tab on the administration page. When I first set up my wireless network, I initially left the SSID on to make it easier for me to verify that all my machines were within range and had good signal. Once satisfied, I turned off the SSID broadcast and took other steps to secure the network.
Changing the default SSID doesn't help. I do agree with you here: the exploit we're discussing has nothing to do with the SSID broadcast, it deals with remote administration from the internet.
No, it'd be about 1 mpg/person. That's (miles/gallons)/persons, not (miles/gallons)*persons. If the 747 DOES in fact, get >20 mpg/person, it is MUCH more efficient than an SUV.
I, for one will not be buying gas...
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I won't be buying gas for at least a week!
...Then again, I just filled up today, but it's the principle right? Am I on the bandwagon?
Gimme a break, the only way a "gas out" would make an impact is if it went on for at least a week, and there's NO way you'd get anyone to participate in that.
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In Soviet Russia, base moons you!
In law school, a bunch of us formed "The Learned Hands" and laid down some tracks. I had seen an ad for TuneCore somewhere on the web, so we uploaded our album for distribution. Sadly, having graduated school, the band no longer exists, but it's cool to say that our original music has been heard in Germany and the UK (Someone streamed "Ten Point Buck" and "Sleepy Hollow").
My experience with TuneCore was great! The initial costs were very low - I think it's like a dollar per track, and a dollar per online music store. And what do you know, our music is available on iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, eMusic, all over the world! Depending on the vendor, you get one or two cents every time the song is streamed, and for downloads, it's usually 65% or 70% of the purchase price. Uploaded the tracks in FLAC format too, actually, and everything turned out swell.
This is the type of innovation that is changing the music industry, and I don't think the RIAA knows how to, or even can, keep up.
1. Record your album in your garage/basement
2. Upload your tracks to TuneCore for distribution
3. ???
4. Profit!
The problem for my band has been step three, since we no longer officially exist (Singers are in CO and Philly, bassist in VT, and I'm moving to BFE), but we did sell 3 copies on AmazonMP3 and a few tracks on iTunes, plus about $0.76 worth of streaming on Napster and Rhapsody.
In conclusion, TuneCore allows Joe Sixpack to (sort of) achieve his rockstar dreams, at least in terms of getting the music out there and making it available.
Why not use some awesome alternate firmware to use a channel (14, anyone?) that nobody else in the area is likely using and thus avoid interference?
We wouldn't need ridiculous things such as this if everyone would abide by the basic rules of gun safety. My grandfather taught me these when I was 4 years old:
1. Handle every gun as though it were loaded, even if you KNOW it's not.
2. Always keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction - down range, at your target, or down into the ground.
3. Always keep the safety "on" until you are ready to shoot.
4. Don't shoot at anything unless you intend it to die.
5. Don't store guns loaded.
6. Teach your children respect for guns and what they can do.
I really think that rule 6 is the most important. I'm not saying following these rules would cure all accidental discharges, but it sure wouldn't increase the number of tragic accidents that occur.
Penn State Dickinson School of Law doesn't require laptops. When we take finals, we either write 'em by hand, or log on using a special testtaking username and password to Windows desktops that only let us use Word and save the .docs to a special network folder which is backed up in case someone can't print off a hardcopy, which is the actual thing graded by the prof... For those students that do have laptops, the SSID is broadcast as "pennstate" but we have to use a VPN client to authenticate in order to have internet access... As if I'm not far enough off topic already, anyone got a recommendation for Linux VPN clients??? OpenSuSE 10 detected my Ralink RT2500 wifi card, and I can connect to wifi access points, even ones that are WEP encrypted, but I need to use a VPN client to connect at school. What's simple and easy? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
whatever, I'm drunk and offtopic anyway, fuck you, flame me, I'm moving to digg
I too am a huge fan of newegg. I've placed about a dozen orders with them over the last 3 years. Every time I order something, I pick the FedEx Saver shipping because it's cheap. They have now added UPS, which I'm trying on my current order. Anyway, about half of those orders were received at LEAST a day ahead of when they said it'd show up. Awesome awesome service for personal use. However, my most recent order was placed on Jan. 6th, and according to the order status, it hasn't even been packed yet! I checked with my credit card company, the charge went through, so no hangup there. So I called newegg customer support, and the girl said she'd contact the warehouse and get it shipped out today, no clue why it wasn't out yet. Again, it's just a couple things I'm not desperate to have, so no biggie. I will continue to order from them in the future.
That said, all my purchases through newegg have been for personal use. I've noticed, by watching the order status, that typically (say 75% of my orders) do not ship the same day. It may have something to do with the time of day at which my orders are placed. Anyway, in my experience, you place the order today, it gets processed and shipped tomorrow. If you pay for overnight shipping, then you ultimately receive your package two days after placing the order. If that's cool with you, for your business, then rock on.
Otherwise, I'd have to go with other posters and say "why don't you have a back-up?" Whether it's spare parts or another machine, I doubt it'd be prohibitively cost effective to have some redundancy. Especially if the work you do is super mission critical. If you had TWO testing servers from the start, one falls down, the other one's good to go. And when they're BOTH working, that means you can use them both simultaneously for increased productivity.
For as expensive as any of the security implementations are going to be for anything that ANYONE has replied to for this question... If your boss trusts you enough to design, buy, and implement the system, why not just ask for a substantial raise (say twice your current salary to whatever the most expensive of these recommendations would run, whatever suits you) to cover the cost of you personally babysitting the machine while people use it? OK, your company would have to spend a small sum to make sure that the room the machine's in is inaccessible when you're not there. But otherwise, when you're on the clock, you're watching the thing like a hawk. Somebody tries something fishy, you ask them what the hell they're doing right then and there, and there's no risk. Think about it.
I hope that whoever is appointed has the intelligence to realize that the biggest cyber-threat to the government is extremely exploitable evil software. Maybe they'll wise up and move government systems to something a bit more SECURE, for Homeland SECURITY'S sake?
No real issues with OpenOffice as an MS Office substitute here at our small office (5 employees, 4 computers, 2 running MS Office, 2 running OOo). The trickiest thing was the secretaries getting used to the fact that to complete some of the same tasks in OOo as Office, you've got to follow some different steps (printing labels, for example) Essentially, that's just a minor "get the user familiar with the new software" issue, and didn't take too much to overcome. We use MS Office and OOo interchangably, I set up the OOo boxes to save in MS Office native formats (.doc, and .xls). The only real issue I've seen is that OOo has a minor hiccup with Powerpoint presentations that use fancy transitions: instead of a single spacebar tap, sometimes it takes 2 or 3 to advance to the next slide. No biggy. Try it, you'll like it!
but yes, yes I did read that URL as something do to wiht crak and chanels
I highly recommend that you check out Ray Kurzweil's The Age of Spiritual Machines published by Penguin Putnam in 2000...
I read the book for a paper in a class I took with Dr. Foerst of MIT AI lab fame...
Anyway, as I recall, Kurzweil goes into a lengthy discussion of nanobots that would totally enable a level of virtual-reality interaction with other humans... He discussed a whole new level of cyber-sex encompassing all the tactile sensation without the STD's.
Seriously, check it out, it will make you think!
I'm there man! I've got a BS in CS, but have been looking for a year for something to do with it, something BIG. A few weeks ago, I recieved my acceptance letter from Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, NH. Recognized as one of the top Intellectual Propterty law schools in the nation, I'm all about, as you say, "fighting the good fight". I actually wrote about F/OSS software in my personal statement that I submitted along with my application. My girlfriend's dad, a lawyer, agrees with you that whatever IP attorneys exist don't understand law, and most lawyers don't understand computers, software, and the internet. Oh yeah, the bonus is that Franklin Pierce is giving me a merit based scholarship in the amount of $12,000/yr. That means less debt upon getting my degree, which translates into bigger donations to the FSF and EFF, et al.... You love it! Who's with me???
Fellow slashdotter nbCaffeine and I had Kimberly Young as a professor for our "Intro to Business Information Systems" class, which, as CompSci majors, we were taking towards an easy minor in BIS. The course was really more of a 100 level thing, as we discussed the various components of computers, basic network topology, and server-client basics.
Throughout the class, she would constantly venture off on tangents about her work in studying "Internet Addiction", and what a terrible thing it is... She's published a few books and papers on the topic, but in real life, she doesn't seem to be that big a superhero researcher. In fact, she's really quite amusing, whatwith the curly-afro like hairdo and the subtle woman-moustache, not to mention the thick rimmed glasses she wore. She always told stories about how internet addiction leads to marital woes, citing examples of women and men who confessed to her that they had been cheating on their spouse via online relationships. Given that that's what she mostly talked about, I would propose that her professional interest and expertise with regard to "internet addiction" predominantly center around the affects of chatrooms and IM on personal "offline in the real world" relationships. Now, with MMORPGs, one must consider how applicable Kimberly Young's research is. I can see how there would be an argument that there are parallels between say, the interactions you have with other people in a MMORPG and those with people in a chatroom.... However, if you're really into the RP aspect of those games, you might be TOTALLY different in that regard than say the person you'd be in a chatroom... You know what, maybe we could do a Slashdot Interview with Kimberly Young, if somebody tells me to go ahead, I'll send her an e-mail and then submit the idea.
I realize it's bad form to reply to my own post, but I had forgotten to mention that I have purchased all three of those games, so any .wma or .mp3 or .wav files pertaining to them are legit.
This thing found every single .wma file I have paid for from the new Napster, as well as tagging various .mp3 and .wma files from video games, like Sid Meier's Pirates!, Colin McRae Rally 2005, and Medal of Honor. Fucking asshats, I don't want to delete that stuff!
On the plus side, it also turned up some pr0n I had forgotten about...
I'm interested in your experience with installing Linux on the Averatec, as my girlfriend and I are very close to purchasing 2 AV3250HX's, and would really like to run Linux on them. If you don't mind sharing, please e-mail me at kulaid982yahoo.com
Thanks!
Centrino refers to the whole Intel package, whatwith the Pentium M processor, and the integrated wireless, and the extended battery life and all the other goodies and whatnot!
Narf, I think so Brain, but where are we going to get enough punchcard ballot machines for all the voters in Florida by midnight November 1st?
Mod parent up! It's the first post that I've ever read to finish a Pinky and the Brain reference with an original Pinky response!!!
Though I can't specify the denominations I want my cash in, my bank has ATMs that not only do $20, $10, $5, and $1, but also CHANGE! Meaning I can cash my paycheck at the ATM. One slot spits out the bills, and another spot is where the change is dumped, right next to the receipt. FANTASTIC!
It's a shame that the parent posted anonymously, because I believe this is the first time that I've ever seen a first post where the poster has actually read the article!
Note: My hoping that this will be modded "Insightful" will probably only result in this post being modded "Karma Whore"
....but what I really wanna know is:
How much will Dell give me for my P-P-P-Powerbook?
Linksys routers have no way to stop broadcasting the SSID
Which Linksys WAP? The WRT54G certainly does allow you to turn off SSID broadcast, it's a setting under the "Wireless" tab on the administration page. When I first set up my wireless network, I initially left the SSID on to make it easier for me to verify that all my machines were within range and had good signal. Once satisfied, I turned off the SSID broadcast and took other steps to secure the network.
Changing the default SSID doesn't help.
I do agree with you here: the exploit we're discussing has nothing to do with the SSID broadcast, it deals with remote administration from the internet.
Our Armed forces are going to be one giant beowulf cluster!
No, it'd be about 1 mpg/person. That's (miles/gallons)/persons, not (miles/gallons)*persons. If the 747 DOES in fact, get >20 mpg/person, it is MUCH more efficient than an SUV.
I won't be buying gas for at least a week!
...Then again, I just filled up today, but it's the principle right? Am I on the bandwagon?
Gimme a break, the only way a "gas out" would make an impact is if it went on for at least a week, and there's NO way you'd get anyone to participate in that.