You can't really do cheaper than a Slimserver -- it's free! The Squeezebox hardware is what costs money, and it's worth the money from what I've heard.
I have a P2-233 running Winamp, listening to an mp3 stream from Slimserver running on another PC. It's setup in my family room, with a wireless card and no peripherals. It works flawlessly.
Slimserver can stream to many different computers, different music or the same music, but I don't know how in sync it would be. I haven't been using it long, but I'm very impressed. The only downside is the ~5 second delay for buffering -- when you switch songs on the fly, there is a 5 second delay. This may be configurable. The fact that it's open source, free, and can use plug-in's makes it pretty unbeatable, IMHO.
now, my personal view is that *nothing* should be blocked, but people should be educated instead.
In an ideal world this would be the case.
But... People know child porn is wrong, and they look anyways. Educating them won't change their habits. Imposing very long term jail sentences won't change them. Pedophiles do not get rehabilitated, and surfing for child porn is something they can do in the safety of their own home (or so they think).
"On April 27, 2001, the California Attorney General announced that MemberWorks and its affiliates had settled charges of misleading telemarketing practices. The sale of a 30-day free trail membership with a "negative option" cancellation resulted in complaints from consumers who were upset to find charges of $49 and $89 on their credit card accounts. Without admitting liability, MemberWorks agreed to pay $1.5 million in civil penalties and costs. The firm also agreed to change its' business practices and improve notice to purchasers."
MWI paid out 1.5 mil without admitting guilt -- hopefully they'll be hit hard enough to sink them this time.
For those abuse their computers by kicking them or smashing their keyboards (you know who you are), cheap replaceable plastic parts might be best. I hate to think of the splinters that could result with these wooden items.
Can you rip dynamic content, like php code?
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If the site is dynamic, is it possible to copy the site, including all directories and scripts without actually running the scripts? Or rip raw code like php?
You are correct, thanks for the clarification. You can legally copy mp3's and copies of a copy, however you must make the copy yourself. Someone cannot give you a copy.
Linky: http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/news/c19992000fs-e.html
The amendment to the Act legalized copying of sound recordings of musical works onto audio recording media for the private use of the person who makes the copy (referred to as "private copying").
Actually, you *can* download music (in Canada). The other party may, of course, be in violation, but *that* party has to suffer the consequences.
No, you can't legally download mp3's. In Canada, you can ONLY make a copy of an original, not of a copy. mp3's are copies of the original and therefore its illegal to download them.
Of course its very unlikely you'll get caught, however, it is still illegal.
In Canada, I can borrow a CD (from a friend or the library), copy it and return the CD, and keep the copy for myself. This is legal and is what we pay levy fees for. However, you cannot have someone else copy it for you, and you cannot copy a copy. You must make the copy yourself from an original.
Other countries have a similar law in place, you should check it out.
Although there may be subtle differences the gameplay is the same. Who cares if the colours are slightly off? Those old crappy displays the arcades used back then were all burnt in and you couldn't find two machines that had the same colours anyways. However its a different story with modern machines now.
I agree with you on those MAME cabs though, I want a cabinet to look and feel like a real arcade machine and take quarters. Most of the designs out there are horrible (X-Arcade included).
$1000 is steep for a cabinet that doesn't even look like a real arcade machine. You have to add a PC and a TV to make it work.
You can buy a scrapped cabinet for less than $100, or free if you know where to look. They typically include a coin door which is a real eye catcher, and just need a washing up. Attach a pre-made control panel ($100?) or make your own, drop in a TV + PC and Bob's your uncle.
Digital joysticks for the PC are very easy to make. The hard part is getting foreign joysticks/pads to work with the PC (like the NES, PSX, Atari, etc). Although the Atari joystick and paddles are a very simple design, the adapter circuit required is rather complex. You could always hack up your original joystick, or you can make an adapter.
PC Atari (last updated 2000?) allows joysticks *and* paddles connected via the parallel port using a special circuit. The schematics are in their documentation. I've never tried it. http://www.classicgaming.com/pcae/
If she does crash, its not like she can phone home to have someone pick her up. Theres no mobile phone network, and it looks like she rides alone sometimes. She'd be done for.
I hope she never runs out of gas or has engine troubles...
In Ontario teachers get probably once of the best retirement packages there is, rivaling those of police officers. Thats a huge perk, however, I would not want to be a high school teacher. There is absolutely no respect there unless you teach at a private school.
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A spoiler 'spoils' the air flow over a car, reducing lift and pushing the car down. This a good regardless of FWD or RWD, and allows you to maintain traction while going around a corner as fast as possible.
A spoiler is ideal for racers but useless for Working Joe during city/highway driving.
To the front page? Its just two punks bickering back and forth about how good/bad Doom3 will be compared to other games, and doesn't give any insight into the game.
I was a fan of the original Doom series, but hadn't played many FPS games since then (except a bit of Quake). I'm eagerly awaiting Doom3, which will finally force me into upgrading my 1999 Rage Pro video card!
If this is becoming easier to do at deep submicron level, I suppose processes for making deep submicron feature-sized Gallium-Arsenide MESFET's also got easier? Now wouldn't we just love to have such GaAs chips on our desktops... (I do know I'm forgetting another difficulty in working with GaAs, anyone care to remind me why GaAs is not as common as silicon today?)
Its been awhile since I've worked with semiconductors, but GaAs has a direct bandgap and Silicon has an indirect bandgap. I think GaAs is more suitable to lasers and other opto-electronic devices, as indirect bandgap materials are inefficient at emitting light.
However, electronic devices can be made with both direct and indirect bandgap materials. GaAs is a costly material with high processing costs compared to Silicon, and hence not suitable for mass production (at this time).
I used the "3 month AOL free trial" 3 times while I was in school, signing up with a different credit card each time. I canceled on time and I never had a charge on any of them, and in fact, they sent me gifts like a free CD wallet.
I imagine there are hundreds of thousands of people that have used this free offer, and with only 250 complaints over the past two years (probably many more that haven't filed complaints), I'd say thats in the 'whoops, we screwed up' category. I doubt it was intentional, and some are probably because of the person's fault (like a friend of mine who got charged for the month because she canceled late).
It seems to me that the valid reason for making steroid use illegal for competition is that it has dangerous side effects -- i.e., if it was allowed, then everyone would have to use it to stay competitve, and you'd have all these athletes with serious medical problems and roid rages and all that because of it.
Performance enhancing drugs are rampant in all professional and amateur sports (yes the Olympics too). Since they are illegal, they use other drugs and methods to cover up any sort of detection. This increases the deadly side effects.
The article doesn't mention whether gene therapy is dangerous, but cheating athletes are known to take things to the extremes. Steroids are commonly used to treat some diseases, in safe small doses -- athletes take MANY times the prescribed dose to achieve the results they want, but with drastic side effects. I'm not sure how you can similarly 'increase' the dose with gene therapy but they'll find a way.
If there was a performance-enhancing chemical that was completely safe, I say it is fair, because its use does not involve serious risk. That said, I think the IOC doesn't see it that way.
There are safe performance enhancing drugs. Caffeine is a performance-enhancing drug (short-term stimulant as we all know) that was recently dropped from the banned list by the World Anti-Doping Agency. Any drug that gives one person an advantage over another is performance enhancing, there just has to be a line drawn somewhere.
Quote from the article:
"... Katz refutes such charges and says that any recipient who wishes not to receive fax advertisements need only call the toll free number that appears on every fax distributed by Fax.com in accordance with California law"
Yeah right! If it was only that easy to remove yourself from their lists.
You've attempted to contact the senders unsucessfully (its not stated whether you were successful in contacting them or not, and they just didn't bother to remove you from your list). Send them a letter stating that for each fax you will seek damages allowed under US law ($500/fax). This should scare some away, and you might be able to nail a couple in small claims court. Also, join the class action lawsuit against fax.com, they might be behind many of the faxes. Of course IANAL...
First there is a problem with Mozilla and the site, if you read the front page it suggests a way of fixing it. Apparently some style sheets don't work properly with Mozilla and I haven't had time to figure out why, its a known bug. I should have figured most Slashdot users would be using Mozilla:p
And yes, the query failed because of the search limit being reached. My counter was a little behind in automatically tripping the script to say 'limit reached' instead of 'query failed'. This is because I'm not entirely sure when Google resets the query limit to 0 again.
Usage has been steadily increasing so I should ask Google for an increase in my daily limit, in their FAQ they said they may do this for certain situations. The limiter is getting hit more often, especially when the link is posted to a popular website. You can always get your own Google key, it will work then!
What possesses someone to try such weird random words in google. Thats the real trick...google wrote an engine to amuse the crazy users.
... and the crazy users wrote scripts to use the Google engine!
(shameless self plug) Its surprising what sites can appear when querying Google. Try my site that queries Google with random words to find random webpages. Its quite powerful and a good timewaster.
I wrote a script that would use random words to query Google for finding random webpages before they released the web API. Once they released the web API, I used it and rewrote the script so that I wasn't breaking their T&S. It can query Google as fast as you could hit the submit button, but now its regulated to 1000 searches per day, which it occasionally goes over.
There are a number of websites out there that use the method described above without the API, and Google hasn't done anything about it. My site lists a number of these sites on the links page. Perhaps these sites just don't generate enough traffic to alarm Google, but then again Google has always been very friendly towards its users. I bet they are more concerned about bots used for malicious purposes.
chrisd notes that his company is making SCO employees unhireable.
Any resumes which include the Santa Cruz Operation after May of 2003 will be immediately deleted as well.
Fine. Then I am deleting chrisd's company from my list of potential employers. nyah nyah
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I have a P2-233 running Winamp, listening to an mp3 stream from Slimserver running on another PC. It's setup in my family room, with a wireless card and no peripherals. It works flawlessly.
Slimserver can stream to many different computers, different music or the same music, but I don't know how in sync it would be. I haven't been using it long, but I'm very impressed. The only downside is the ~5 second delay for buffering -- when you switch songs on the fly, there is a 5 second delay. This may be configurable. The fact that it's open source, free, and can use plug-in's makes it pretty unbeatable, IMHO.
In an ideal world this would be the case.
But ... People know child porn is wrong, and they look anyways. Educating them won't change their habits. Imposing very long term jail sentences won't change them. Pedophiles do not get rehabilitated, and surfing for child porn is something they can do in the safety of their own home (or so they think).
"On April 27, 2001, the California Attorney General announced that MemberWorks and its affiliates had settled charges of misleading telemarketing practices. The sale of a 30-day free trail membership with a "negative option" cancellation resulted in complaints from consumers who were upset to find charges of $49 and $89 on their credit card accounts. Without admitting liability, MemberWorks agreed to pay $1.5 million in civil penalties and costs. The firm also agreed to change its' business practices and improve notice to purchasers."
MWI paid out 1.5 mil without admitting guilt -- hopefully they'll be hit hard enough to sink them this time.
New site: www.kiddofspeed.com
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For those abuse their computers by kicking them or smashing their keyboards (you know who you are), cheap replaceable plastic parts might be best. I hate to think of the splinters that could result with these wooden items.
If the site is dynamic, is it possible to copy the site, including all directories and scripts without actually running the scripts? Or rip raw code like php?
Linky: http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/news/c19992000fs-e.html
The amendment to the Act legalized copying of sound recordings of musical works onto audio recording media for the private use of the person who makes the copy (referred to as "private copying").
No, you can't legally download mp3's. In Canada, you can ONLY make a copy of an original, not of a copy. mp3's are copies of the original and therefore its illegal to download them.
Of course its very unlikely you'll get caught, however, it is still illegal.
Other countries have a similar law in place, you should check it out.
I agree with you on those MAME cabs though, I want a cabinet to look and feel like a real arcade machine and take quarters. Most of the designs out there are horrible (X-Arcade included).
You can buy a scrapped cabinet for less than $100, or free if you know where to look. They typically include a coin door which is a real eye catcher, and just need a washing up. Attach a pre-made control panel ($100?) or make your own, drop in a TV + PC and Bob's your uncle.
PC Atari (last updated 2000?) allows joysticks *and* paddles connected via the parallel port using a special circuit. The schematics are in their documentation. I've never tried it. http://www.classicgaming.com/pcae/
I hope she never runs out of gas or has engine troubles ...
In Ontario teachers get probably once of the best retirement packages there is, rivaling those of police officers. Thats a huge perk, however, I would not want to be a high school teacher. There is absolutely no respect there unless you teach at a private school.
A spoiler is ideal for racers but useless for Working Joe during city/highway driving.
I was a fan of the original Doom series, but hadn't played many FPS games since then (except a bit of Quake). I'm eagerly awaiting Doom3, which will finally force me into upgrading my 1999 Rage Pro video card!
Its been awhile since I've worked with semiconductors, but GaAs has a direct bandgap and Silicon has an indirect bandgap. I think GaAs is more suitable to lasers and other opto-electronic devices, as indirect bandgap materials are inefficient at emitting light.
However, electronic devices can be made with both direct and indirect bandgap materials. GaAs is a costly material with high processing costs compared to Silicon, and hence not suitable for mass production (at this time).
I imagine there are hundreds of thousands of people that have used this free offer, and with only 250 complaints over the past two years (probably many more that haven't filed complaints), I'd say thats in the 'whoops, we screwed up' category. I doubt it was intentional, and some are probably because of the person's fault (like a friend of mine who got charged for the month because she canceled late).
Performance enhancing drugs are rampant in all professional and amateur sports (yes the Olympics too). Since they are illegal, they use other drugs and methods to cover up any sort of detection. This increases the deadly side effects.
The article doesn't mention whether gene therapy is dangerous, but cheating athletes are known to take things to the extremes. Steroids are commonly used to treat some diseases, in safe small doses -- athletes take MANY times the prescribed dose to achieve the results they want, but with drastic side effects. I'm not sure how you can similarly 'increase' the dose with gene therapy but they'll find a way.
If there was a performance-enhancing chemical that was completely safe, I say it is fair, because its use does not involve serious risk. That said, I think the IOC doesn't see it that way.
There are safe performance enhancing drugs. Caffeine is a performance-enhancing drug (short-term stimulant as we all know) that was recently dropped from the banned list by the World Anti-Doping Agency. Any drug that gives one person an advantage over another is performance enhancing, there just has to be a line drawn somewhere.
Fax.com response to lawsuit
Quote from the article:
"... Katz refutes such charges and says that any recipient who wishes not to receive fax advertisements need only call the toll free number that appears on every fax distributed by Fax.com in accordance with California law"
Yeah right! If it was only that easy to remove yourself from their lists.
Fax-Spammers fax.com Sued For 2.2 Trillion
You've attempted to contact the senders unsucessfully (its not stated whether you were successful in contacting them or not, and they just didn't bother to remove you from your list). Send them a letter stating that for each fax you will seek damages allowed under US law ($500/fax). This should scare some away, and you might be able to nail a couple in small claims court. Also, join the class action lawsuit against fax.com, they might be behind many of the faxes. Of course IANAL ...
And yes, the query failed because of the search limit being reached. My counter was a little behind in automatically tripping the script to say 'limit reached' instead of 'query failed'. This is because I'm not entirely sure when Google resets the query limit to 0 again.
Usage has been steadily increasing so I should ask Google for an increase in my daily limit, in their FAQ they said they may do this for certain situations. The limiter is getting hit more often, especially when the link is posted to a popular website. You can always get your own Google key, it will work then!
... and the crazy users wrote scripts to use the Google engine!
(shameless self plug) Its surprising what sites can appear when querying Google. Try my site that queries Google with random words to find random webpages. Its quite powerful and a good timewaster.
There are a number of websites out there that use the method described above without the API, and Google hasn't done anything about it. My site lists a number of these sites on the links page. Perhaps these sites just don't generate enough traffic to alarm Google, but then again Google has always been very friendly towards its users. I bet they are more concerned about bots used for malicious purposes.
Any resumes which include the Santa Cruz Operation after May of 2003 will be immediately deleted as well.
Fine. Then I am deleting chrisd's company from my list of potential employers. nyah nyah