nlh: who do you expect to pay for your TV-watching?
My TV watching you ask? Lets see I watch perhaps 5% of the channels I'm paying for and only 15 hours a week. That means I'm paying for Trinity Broadcasting and The 700 Club to give their thinly veiled hate speech and spread religious stupidity. I'm paying for every cheesy cable channel which has nothing to go for it but reruns and the occasional revamped documentary with a new narrator. I'm paying for crap I don't want to pay for and I hate it.
Hows this: bill me for what I watch with a cap/warning at 40 bucks a month. All pay per view all the time. Don't even bother with ads, I'm paying and paying well.
So what would really happen if we went with this system other than people using TV more wisely and demanding a better product by voting with their dollars? Would Trinity fold? Would MTV2 fold? I'd love to see what people will demand when they have a real choice.
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Fucking hypocrites. What do the Slashdot crew care as long as their checks don't bounce? What does Billg care as long as his stock doesn't drop?
The human ear cannot hear low frequency sounds or they come out sounding like clicks. Binaural beats do involved tricking the brain as the auditory system cannot perceive 5hz.
http://web-us.com/thescience.htm
Binaural beats are auditory brainstem responses which originate in the superior olivary nucleus of each hemisphere. They result from the interaction of two different auditory impulses, originating in opposite ears, below 1000 Hz and which differ in frequency between one and 30 Hz (Oster, 1973).For example, if a pure tone of 400 Hz is presented to the right ear and a pure tone of 410 Hz is presented simultaneously to the left ear, an amplitude modulated standing wave of 10 Hz, the difference between the two tones, is experienced as the two wave forms mesh in and out of phase within the superior olivary nuclei.
This binaural beat is not heard in the ordinary sense of the word (the human range of hearing is from 20-20,000 Hz). It is perceived as an auditory beat and theoretically can be used to entrain specific neural rhythms through the frequency-following response (FFR)--the tendency for cortical potentials to entrain to or resonate at the frequency of an external stimulus. Thus, it is theoretically possible to utilize a specific binaural-beat frequency as a consciousness management technique to entrain a specific cortical rhythm.
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Finish the next sentence.
" He first broke in on March 8th then arranged his big expose on the 18th. Ten days of silence. I'm not suggesting he broke in [on] purpose but it is a possibility. "
Funny, how so many people are quick to put on their CSICOP hats and debunk, debunk, debunk, yet when almost the same research said the same thing about achieving an alpha state while watching television in an effort to decry television there weren't so many skeptics.
It looks like the subject matter here is on trial and not the science. Video games must be bad regardless of the facts to some people it seems.
I'm an experieced meditator and have had a lot of time to play with sound/light and feedback machines. I can tell you with a straight face that if you park me in front of the local Galaga machine I will get into an alpha state after the first few levels and do very well until I break my 'silent concentration.'
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>The claim of $5,000 arises entirely from the cost of >taking down the network to secure it, not from any >actual damage caused by Mr. Puffer.
Legal cases in general inflate the damage and/or include all damages associated with the action. I'm sure this will be an issue in court.
>You go, man! You're not afraid to tell it like it >is! Now read the article
No, you read the article. He first broke in on March 8th then arranged his big expose on the 18th. Ten days of silence. I'm not suggesting he broke in purpose but it is a possibility. Did he really expect the government to say 'good job citizen' and pin a medal on him. Imagine the precedent that would set. Kiddies would be pouding networks right and left for the good of the nation and expecting to be written up in the paper as local heroes.
It can't be stressed enough that he did this in the stupidest manner possible. He could have taken this to a City Council meeting, started a class-action suit against the county for violating privacy laws, etc. Instead he supposedly went for the glory that the supposed white hat hacker seeks. Naive and stupid. Hopefully, the court will see his supposed true intentions and not lock him up.
Heaven forbid he goes through proper government channels or sues for various violations of privacy laws if they have open access to private data. What he did was stupid and no one should be that naive today, especially someone in IT.
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Why should I even care? A part of me wants to get all loud and stupid about this but Puffer had no permission to start cracking keys and browsing the microsoft shares (or whatever he did). Let them get burned on their own or if they're government go through the usual channels. No need to be 'Captain Wireless.'
Worst of all, for all we know he did not do this to demonstrate anything. The last time slashdot got up in arms about some supposed 'white hat' hacker it ended up being an excuse. In my experience it usually is an excuse. "Dude, I'm totally looking out for you when I hack your stuff!" No one should be that naive anymore.
Just some advice here, an effective writer just doesn't toss the word rape around. Its like seeing the word 'fuck' in every sentence. Whatever point you were trying to make was drowned out by the little voice in my head telling me that you are an incredibly petulant little fanboy of no consequence.
And keep harping on about your reliable Linux servers, your bulletproof OpenBSD network machines, and how you're testing Linux Terminal Server technology for your desktops and wondering whether it's worthwhile cutting over to it...
Yeah, I'm sure the bottom feeding auditors are going to write a memo and send it straight to Microsoft!
Its one thing to fight the BSA and its another to harass people doing their job. This is like telling the fry cook at McDonalds that you believe they should stop advertising to children in hopes of the message getting passed up to the people in marketing.
Adobe cares about that printshop, or the graphics design place.. and most of these places wouldn't touch a pirated version of Photoshop with a ten-foot pole.
Yeah right. Companies steal software all the time, they all want Microsoft, Adobe, Norton, etc but only want to pay for one license. I see it all the time, especially in small business. Heaven forbid they look into cheaper or even free alternatives.
I don't like the BSA's tactics either, but its silly to assume that everyone would keep an eye on their licenses without the threat of litigation. Ironically, if the the BSA was more effective it would only help broaden competition in the software market and further free software's market share.
Someone is buying, its the people buying the email address lists. That's essentially the market here. Spammers selling to other spammers. Its cheap enough and borders on being illegal enough that a spammer who gets no replies doesn't exactly go out and sue the guy who sold him the list. Instead he sells it off to another sucker. Nice scam, wish I had thought of it.
I don't know whether to laugh at your post or just feel sorry for you. What kind of armed resistance can even a large militia give against even light armor and artillery from the US's military? None.
I have a gun license and am a gun owner, but I'm not stupid enough to buy into this ridiculous "citizens will overthrow a corrupt regime" conspiracy.
I think both sides of the gun control issue would do better if they understood weapons to be tools for self-defense and not tools for revolution or tools for crime.
Actualy, gun control laws do protect. In many countries gun licenses are earned through a process much like getting a driver's license. There are permits and tests which weed out those unable to perform the simplest attempts to use a weapon safely. In the US all you need is a face and you can walk off with a powerful and dangerous tool without the slightest idea of how to use it properly or how you can use it legally.
Also arguably the Brady bill has stopped many domestic disputes from turning into murder.
If the customer was made promises both implied through advertising and outright lies then the company is liable. Microsoft has been calling its products secure and unstoppable for a while now. At a certain point its false advertising. The customer here may be the US government, but they're not magically above marketing and are under the same monopoly the home consumer is.
Re:Wireless Encryption, WEP
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You need a few (4-5?) million packets to crack 128-bit WEP. If you're not planning on receiving and sending that many packets you're probably safe. If not go with IPsec.
That's one of the first things I thought of when reading the article. Why not Macs? The Norwegians seem more interested in competiveness, quality, and price than open standards or free software. This simply leaves them open to mixed environments and the ability to buy and use whatever software they please.
Concievably they could still be 100% MS. Though something tells me MS licensing fees are probably a good reason to ditch MS servers.
Arguably telnet and smtp are terrible protocols. They're so simple they're dangerous. Telnet is open to sniffing and smtp's lack of authentication is the reason why spam rules the net. According to your criteria ssh or secure pop would not be a very good protocols.
As has been stated earlier the price is prohibitive if you think of it as a personal computer. Its a communal computer. For instance this is marketed for a typical small village that has one phone line and one phone.
I really don't know if this can do what its promised to do. For instance by connecting your simputer with the phone you can get daily prices on what your crop is worth and what you grow is selling for at different places. Hypothetically, the poor village could be making smarter selling and buying decisions which can only lead to being less poor. Whether this is practical is beyond me. If some province or other village has cotton cheap is a nice fact to know but delivering the goods is totally a different story. Depending on how much infrastructure you have in place it could work out very well for all concerned.
Then there's education software. Who knows it could connect to a medical diagnostic database.
The real problem I see here is expecting this gamble, which it really is, to work in a non-subsidized market. Not only is the price prohibitive in a few respects (afterall it is an investment, communal or not), its also only effective if everyone has one. This thing will probably not go anywhere without government subsidies.
as a result, people still have to buy a windows/mac PC (or at least borrow someone's internet access) and get online to order, let alone discover, that walmart sells PCs sans OS, or with linux on them. kinda defeats the purpose, hunh?
Not at all. Its up to Walmart and Mandrake to promote these things. There's no real need to put them on a pedastel in the store or make a chessy late night infomercial (though that would be entertaining to say the least). "How much would you pay for all this computer goodness? 100? 200?" "How about FREE!" "Call within the next hour and get a free copy of Apache, the world's most popular web server!'"
Linux buyers will be informed buyers. Perhaps someone is going to buy one for the technophobe in their lives who just wants web and email and wants to spend as little as possible. Businesses can save time and money by buying linux desktop machines which have standardized pre-installed software and hardware. Maybe someone would want to partition the drive and install their old copy of Win98 as a dual boot. They bought the old OS didn't they? No need to throw it out along with the computer, regardless of what MS tells you to do.
If this is true then OpenGL deserves to die a painful death. Its hard to believe that this wouldnt happen eventually from a company on the ropes or with an agenda. If there's no licensing agreements to keep one company from ruining the entire project then they have dug their own graves.
1. Lots of spam, an informal look at my spamcop reports, originate here.
2. Not all are from open relays.
For instance Bob the Spammer may get an AT&T cable modem and spam 10 million people before AT&T notices my complaints. It happens. It happens all the time. Legislation would could make him liable and fine him or even imprison him.
Lets say all the spammers move overseas to some very disruptable ISPs. Great, all the easier to filter them. Not to mention the US is something of a world leader in tech, if there is a strong anti-spam movement here with legislation and enforcement expect other countries with the same problems to follow suit.
How would a spammer know his signal to noise ratio anyway? Considering he's using an open relay (most likely) he's not the one stuck with the bouncebacks. His list gets bigger and probably is worth more to other spammers.
"Hey Joe, I just got 50000 maroons to 'opt-out.'"
"Hahahahahaha"
Email admins just get a bigger headache when the spam list triples. This is why legislation is needed, it worked for the fax problem it can work for the spam problem. I don't care how hot spamassassin or whatever is, there will still be resources wasted.
Imagine if the anti-spam fax people said no to legislation and installed a spamassasssin-like filter in their fax machines. Just more tied up phone lines and busy fax machines. Sure the end user may not have fax spam on his hands but that doesn't mean its not a problem.
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nlh: who do you expect to pay for your TV-watching?
My TV watching you ask? Lets see I watch perhaps 5% of the channels I'm paying for and only 15 hours a week. That means I'm paying for Trinity Broadcasting and The 700 Club to give their thinly veiled hate speech and spread religious stupidity. I'm paying for every cheesy cable channel which has nothing to go for it but reruns and the occasional revamped documentary with a new narrator. I'm paying for crap I don't want to pay for and I hate it.
Hows this: bill me for what I watch with a cap/warning at 40 bucks a month. All pay per view all the time. Don't even bother with ads, I'm paying and paying well.
So what would really happen if we went with this system other than people using TV more wisely and demanding a better product by voting with their dollars? Would Trinity fold? Would MTV2 fold? I'd love to see what people will demand when they have a real choice.
OSDN does not own the above and may not use it outside a slashdot post.
Fucking hypocrites. What do the Slashdot crew care as long as their checks don't bounce? What does Billg care as long as his stock doesn't drop?
http://web-us.com/thescience.htm
Finish the next sentence.
" He first broke in on March 8th then arranged his big expose on the 18th. Ten days of silence. I'm not suggesting he broke in [on] purpose but it is a possibility. "
Funny, how so many people are quick to put on their CSICOP hats and debunk, debunk, debunk, yet when almost the same research said the same thing about achieving an alpha state while watching television in an effort to decry television there weren't so many skeptics.
It looks like the subject matter here is on trial and not the science. Video games must be bad regardless of the facts to some people it seems.
I'm an experieced meditator and have had a lot of time to play with sound/light and feedback machines. I can tell you with a straight face that if you park me in front of the local Galaga machine I will get into an alpha state after the first few levels and do very well until I break my 'silent concentration.'
>The claim of $5,000 arises entirely from the cost of >taking down the network to secure it, not from any >actual damage caused by Mr. Puffer.
Legal cases in general inflate the damage and/or include all damages associated with the action. I'm sure this will be an issue in court.
>You go, man! You're not afraid to tell it like it >is! Now read the article
No, you read the article. He first broke in on March 8th then arranged his big expose on the 18th. Ten days of silence. I'm not suggesting he broke in purpose but it is a possibility. Did he really expect the government to say 'good job citizen' and pin a medal on him. Imagine the precedent that would set. Kiddies would be pouding networks right and left for the good of the nation and expecting to be written up in the paper as local heroes.
It can't be stressed enough that he did this in the stupidest manner possible. He could have taken this to a City Council meeting, started a class-action suit against the county for violating privacy laws, etc. Instead he supposedly went for the glory that the supposed white hat hacker seeks. Naive and stupid. Hopefully, the court will see his supposed true intentions and not lock him up.
Heaven forbid he goes through proper government channels or sues for various violations of privacy laws if they have open access to private data. What he did was stupid and no one should be that naive today, especially someone in IT.
Why should I even care? A part of me wants to get all loud and stupid about this but Puffer had no permission to start cracking keys and browsing the microsoft shares (or whatever he did). Let them get burned on their own or if they're government go through the usual channels. No need to be 'Captain Wireless.'
Worst of all, for all we know he did not do this to demonstrate anything. The last time slashdot got up in arms about some supposed 'white hat' hacker it ended up being an excuse. In my experience it usually is an excuse. "Dude, I'm totally looking out for you when I hack your stuff!" No one should be that naive anymore.
Just some advice here, an effective writer just doesn't toss the word rape around. Its like seeing the word 'fuck' in every sentence. Whatever point you were trying to make was drowned out by the little voice in my head telling me that you are an incredibly petulant little fanboy of no consequence.
And keep harping on about your reliable Linux servers, your bulletproof OpenBSD network machines, and how you're testing Linux Terminal Server technology for your desktops and wondering whether it's worthwhile cutting over to it...
Yeah, I'm sure the bottom feeding auditors are going to write a memo and send it straight to Microsoft!
Its one thing to fight the BSA and its another to harass people doing their job. This is like telling the fry cook at McDonalds that you believe they should stop advertising to children in hopes of the message getting passed up to the people in marketing.
Adobe cares about that printshop, or the graphics design place.. and most of these places wouldn't touch a pirated version of Photoshop with a ten-foot pole.
Yeah right. Companies steal software all the time, they all want Microsoft, Adobe, Norton, etc but only want to pay for one license. I see it all the time, especially in small business. Heaven forbid they look into cheaper or even free alternatives.
I don't like the BSA's tactics either, but its silly to assume that everyone would keep an eye on their licenses without the threat of litigation. Ironically, if the the BSA was more effective it would only help broaden competition in the software market and further free software's market share.
Someone is buying, its the people buying the email address lists. That's essentially the market here. Spammers selling to other spammers. Its cheap enough and borders on being illegal enough that a spammer who gets no replies doesn't exactly go out and sue the guy who sold him the list. Instead he sells it off to another sucker. Nice scam, wish I had thought of it.
I wonder how much extra weight that consumes
Just the other day I was having red wine with weight.
I don't know whether to laugh at your post or just feel sorry for you. What kind of armed resistance can even a large militia give against even light armor and artillery from the US's military? None.
I have a gun license and am a gun owner, but I'm not stupid enough to buy into this ridiculous "citizens will overthrow a corrupt regime" conspiracy.
I think both sides of the gun control issue would do better if they understood weapons to be tools for self-defense and not tools for revolution or tools for crime.
Actualy, gun control laws do protect. In many countries gun licenses are earned through a process much like getting a driver's license. There are permits and tests which weed out those unable to perform the simplest attempts to use a weapon safely. In the US all you need is a face and you can walk off with a powerful and dangerous tool without the slightest idea of how to use it properly or how you can use it legally.
Also arguably the Brady bill has stopped many domestic disputes from turning into murder.
If the customer was made promises both implied through advertising and outright lies then the company is liable. Microsoft has been calling its products secure and unstoppable for a while now. At a certain point its false advertising. The customer here may be the US government, but they're not magically above marketing and are under the same monopoly the home consumer is.
You need a few (4-5?) million packets to crack 128-bit WEP. If you're not planning on receiving and sending that many packets you're probably safe. If not go with IPsec.
That's one of the first things I thought of when reading the article. Why not Macs? The Norwegians seem more interested in competiveness, quality, and price than open standards or free software. This simply leaves them open to mixed environments and the ability to buy and use whatever software they please.
Concievably they could still be 100% MS. Though something tells me MS licensing fees are probably a good reason to ditch MS servers.
Arguably telnet and smtp are terrible protocols. They're so simple they're dangerous. Telnet is open to sniffing and smtp's lack of authentication is the reason why spam rules the net. According to your criteria ssh or secure pop would not be a very good protocols.
As has been stated earlier the price is prohibitive if you think of it as a personal computer. Its a communal computer. For instance this is marketed for a typical small village that has one phone line and one phone.
I really don't know if this can do what its promised to do. For instance by connecting your simputer with the phone you can get daily prices on what your crop is worth and what you grow is selling for at different places. Hypothetically, the poor village could be making smarter selling and buying decisions which can only lead to being less poor. Whether this is practical is beyond me. If some province or other village has cotton cheap is a nice fact to know but delivering the goods is totally a different story. Depending on how much infrastructure you have in place it could work out very well for all concerned.
Then there's education software. Who knows it could connect to a medical diagnostic database.
The real problem I see here is expecting this gamble, which it really is, to work in a non-subsidized market. Not only is the price prohibitive in a few respects (afterall it is an investment, communal or not), its also only effective if everyone has one. This thing will probably not go anywhere without government subsidies.
as a result, people still have to buy a windows/mac PC (or at least borrow someone's internet access) and get online to order, let alone discover, that walmart sells PCs sans OS, or with linux on them. kinda defeats the purpose, hunh?
Not at all. Its up to Walmart and Mandrake to promote these things. There's no real need to put them on a pedastel in the store or make a chessy late night infomercial (though that would be entertaining to say the least). "How much would you pay for all this computer goodness? 100? 200?" "How about FREE!" "Call within the next hour and get a free copy of Apache, the world's most popular web server!'"
Linux buyers will be informed buyers. Perhaps someone is going to buy one for the technophobe in their lives who just wants web and email and wants to spend as little as possible. Businesses can save time and money by buying linux desktop machines which have standardized pre-installed software and hardware. Maybe someone would want to partition the drive and install their old copy of Win98 as a dual boot. They bought the old OS didn't they? No need to throw it out along with the computer, regardless of what MS tells you to do.
If this is true then OpenGL deserves to die a painful death. Its hard to believe that this wouldnt happen eventually from a company on the ropes or with an agenda. If there's no licensing agreements to keep one company from ruining the entire project then they have dug their own graves.
Next week we'll see an article on eleceng geek defense contractor startup.
A couple points:
1. Lots of spam, an informal look at my spamcop reports, originate here.
2. Not all are from open relays.
For instance Bob the Spammer may get an AT&T cable modem and spam 10 million people before AT&T notices my complaints. It happens. It happens all the time. Legislation would could make him liable and fine him or even imprison him.
Lets say all the spammers move overseas to some very disruptable ISPs. Great, all the easier to filter them. Not to mention the US is something of a world leader in tech, if there is a strong anti-spam movement here with legislation and enforcement expect other countries with the same problems to follow suit.
How would a spammer know his signal to noise ratio anyway? Considering he's using an open relay (most likely) he's not the one stuck with the bouncebacks. His list gets bigger and probably is worth more to other spammers.
"Hey Joe, I just got 50000 maroons to 'opt-out.'"
"Hahahahahaha"
Email admins just get a bigger headache when the spam list triples. This is why legislation is needed, it worked for the fax problem it can work for the spam problem. I don't care how hot spamassassin or whatever is, there will still be resources wasted.
Imagine if the anti-spam fax people said no to legislation and installed a spamassasssin-like filter in their fax machines. Just more tied up phone lines and busy fax machines. Sure the end user may not have fax spam on his hands but that doesn't mean its not a problem.
So how much are they paying you per referral?