insightfull, i think. except it's hard to hide under a streetlight while phreaking. though it wouldn't be phreaking i guess. is there a term for wireless "phreaking". well i guesss if it's wireless you wouldn't need to be next/under it, just near it maybe.
Quite right. In fact the track "Come to Daddy" should be the RIAA themesong. "I want you're soul... i will eat your souuullllll." I can't recal the other track names off hand, but this CD is good.
Selected Ambient Works Volume 1 is good. Selected Ambient Works Volume 2 is off the wall insanely good. Compeletely different, stylistically from Volume 1. I think Vol.2 is what the parent was talking about in terms of "Whale Music". I think it was reviewed once as "if the monolith in '2001: A Space Odyssey' could make music, this is what it would be". Download both "CDs" of this album and listen straight through. Great to code or paint to.
Druqs has some crazy stuff. a lot is not that great, but track 10 disc 1 "10 Mt. Saint Michel Mix+St. Michaels Mount" is very fast, very cool, and very loud.
Then you can always download Aphex Twin's Pacman or Tetris remixes... rule.
So when some marketing numbnut decides to write "Our product has 10 Tebibytes" with a hidden footnote in a supersmall font that says "1 Tebibyte = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes" (instead saying the truth of 1 Tebibyte = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes) we'll have to sit on our hands and let them redefine our units once again? Once upon a time didn't a Terabyte really equal 1,099,511,627,776 bytes? At some point someone pulled that out from under our feet. They'll do it again, since we let them once./* end cynicism, i'm going home */
Seriously. Technology is technology's Technology. Technology is not marketing's Technology. You don't see tech people running around redefining what a, christ I don't even know any marketing terminology... We don't steal marketing's words to redefine as we please. They shouldn't steal words that have a real meaning and redefine it to something convoluted and misleading.
I'm just curious -- unless you're, say, a parent reading to their child, how exactly is book reading a social activity?
Book reading as a social event:
Read a book. Tell your friends what you thought of it and if they should or should not read it. Once they read it, or even while they havn't finished it yet, discuss the book. I have a book I read a few months ago. I finished it and passed it along to a friend. Each of her parents read it, and her friend and mother read it as well. We've talked about it a lot of random times.
In the event that you don't have any book reading friends, find a book club or hang out at a bookstore. Books can be catalysts for socializing.
I've been wondering about spam and filtering stuff for a bit, without having read anything about bayesian methods of filtering. maybe i should.
Can encryption (public key is what i've thought about) be used to increase the amount of spam you can filter effectively? If you get spam, just check the message for redundancy of characters (i forget what that's called in technical terms) to see if it is plain text. If it approaches the redundancy of your language then it hasn't been encrypted, and is from someone who doesn't have your public key. I guess the problem is that, being a "public" key, the spammers could potentially get it, but farming correct email=>public keys pairs would be more difficult, unless of course there was a public key data store they had access to. It would also be more expensive, computationally and economically, to encrypt every peice of spam they sent out.
Then, if you get an encrypted message, but your private key fails to decrypt the message then it can also be discarded without worry.
You also would get the added bonus of secure communications. How to keep spammers from getting a real email address/public key pair would be a problem though.
just a thought... from someone who admittedly knows very little about filtering email as well as cryptographic protocols.
We have flying cars. We've always had flying cars. You just don't have system priviledge to come in contact with such technology as you have been flagged RED.
Even though this is comming from "Music publishers and songwriters, who are entitled to payments of a few cents for every copy of a song sold," this is so rediculous I don't even know where to begin.
the whole recording industry is so out of touch, not just the RIAA stormtroopers.
I am not meaning to sound redundant, but isn't AAC an actual standard while WMA is propietary to XP? Why is WMA more popular by Windows users if AAC can do the same drm wise and in a majority of cases sounds better?
because Microsoft is using its monopolistic hold on the desktop operating system sector to push it's other less superior products?
kudos to all the karma whores leaching off interesting comments from groklaw. everything posted here is pretty much -1 redundant and available on groklaw when it comes to SCO news these days.
The company also announced plans to make binary run time licenses for SCO's intellectual property available to end users. The license would apply to all commercial users of Linux based on a 2.4 or later kernel.
Why, dear SCO, is there a difference between a commercial user and a hobbyist all of the sudden? I hereby deem myself a commercial user. Come and get me.
Is it unreasonable to imagine a web community that advocates the use of some relavant DTD? On the nerdly end of things, if slashdot had their own DTD or used some other DTD, I might use it. It could ad value to the site from a usability perspective as well as economic value for the owners.
I think that if it was suffiecntly easy for a person to know what tag to put around "Pink", and know that it would ad something to the usability and understandability (am i making up words?) they might do it.
HTML (1992?) does predate XML (1996?). My point is that they are both SGML based, and a strict HTML 4.01 document is a valid XML document, unless I have something wrong in my understanding of all of this.
Furthur, my point was not a debate on what is or isn't HTML considered to be derived or a subset of, but that personal web pages are not inherantly different from other web pages. To say a company can do something with their data that an individual cannot do, is misleading.
From the article, "But many online information sources are entirely unsuited to the XML model--for example, personal Web pages, e-mails, postings to newsgroups, and conversations in chat rooms."
entirely unsuited? chrissake. email, unsuited. newsgroups, unsuited. chat rooms, unsuited. If personal home pages are unsuited, then so are corporate home pages, as there is nothing inherantly different about the two. All this from an IEEE article... I would have thought them to be more acurate and less misleading. I could put <popularmusic>Pink</popularmusic> in my HTML as easily as Amazon could in theirs.
HTML is based on the XML model. HTML is used to create personal web pages. How on earth then, could personal web pages be "entirely unsuited to the XML model"?
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casinos and gambling can be entertaining and fun. if you sit down at a blackjack table with $40, a few people you know, and spend three hours there chatting with folks and having fun, thats not entirely bad entertainment even if you lose all $40. if you walk away with all your money you've gotten a few hours of free entertainment. if you're a little lucky and a bit smart you can make some pocket change or coffee money for the week. there's always the possibility you walk away with a few hundred dollars, which ads to the entertainment value.
always gamble responsibly though. the worst is people who get addicted and gamble away their family's food or rent money.
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very interesting thought, actually. they've probably used heavier strong-arm tactics in the past if movies like "Casino" are even 2% representative of truth.
however if it's not their chip, they have no right to confiscate it. if they do try to confiscate it, i'd have them call authorities (police, and not the RIAA "police"), file a police report acusing me of some crime and let the police take the chip as evidence of some crime they are acusing me of.
i'm sure the chip would have been conveniently lost by this point though.
It is illegal to "pass chips" at casinos in Missouri (ie, Kansas City "boats" as they are called). Presumably to track how much you bet. They also do macro-monitoring (if you call RFID tags micromonitoring) of chips. They fill a card out with your name and some other info when you first sit down at a table, after you give them your casino card, which is a credit card like card. this card also tracks your spending/winning and keeps track of "compensation" "awards" called "comps" by regulars i think.
RFID tags won't be much different. Who cares really?
remember, it's not just Japanand China. It's also (Soviet) Russia...
"(Soviet)"? WTF kind of assumptions are you trying to make your audience come to? That Russia is still the Soviet Union, the enemy we once thought it to be?
Or are you trying to get a +1 Funny mod point for alluding to the "In Soviet Russia..." line of jokes? "Soviet" was not said once in the article.
Maybe they should have called it Orientux
From Womens Studies class back in college, I'm pretty sure that Oriental is not a desired term by Chinese Americans. We read several stories by Asian American women, who all objected to use of the word. I however am not one such person, so I can't state if it truley has negative conotations. I assume it would be like calling an African American a "colored person". (not to get into the argument that black and white and people with various skin pigmentations have african origins, not only darkly pigmented people, and thus people with light pigmentation could also be called african americans, etc etc...)
alas, "politically correctness" has gotten in the way of my point i think.
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insightfull, i think. except it's hard to hide under a streetlight while phreaking. though it wouldn't be phreaking i guess. is there a term for wireless "phreaking". well i guesss if it's wireless you wouldn't need to be next/under it, just near it maybe.
Quite right. In fact the track "Come to Daddy" should be the RIAA themesong. "I want you're soul... i will eat your souuullllll." I can't recal the other track names off hand, but this CD is good.
Selected Ambient Works Volume 1 is good. Selected Ambient Works Volume 2 is off the wall insanely good. Compeletely different, stylistically from Volume 1. I think Vol.2 is what the parent was talking about in terms of "Whale Music". I think it was reviewed once as "if the monolith in '2001: A Space Odyssey' could make music, this is what it would be". Download both "CDs" of this album and listen straight through. Great to code or paint to.
Druqs has some crazy stuff. a lot is not that great, but track 10 disc 1 "10 Mt. Saint Michel Mix+St. Michaels Mount" is very fast, very cool, and very loud.
Then you can always download Aphex Twin's Pacman or Tetris remixes... rule.
funny how, even if having been "around" since 1999, this never permeated into the culture. i give up.
ignore everything i've ever posted. i was wrong about it all.
So when some marketing numbnut decides to write "Our product has 10 Tebibytes" with a hidden footnote in a supersmall font that says "1 Tebibyte = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes" (instead saying the truth of 1 Tebibyte = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes) we'll have to sit on our hands and let them redefine our units once again? Once upon a time didn't a Terabyte really equal 1,099,511,627,776 bytes? At some point someone pulled that out from under our feet. They'll do it again, since we let them once. /* end cynicism, i'm going home */
Seriously. Technology is technology's Technology. Technology is not marketing's Technology. You don't see tech people running around redefining what a, christ I don't even know any marketing terminology... We don't steal marketing's words to redefine as we please. They shouldn't steal words that have a real meaning and redefine it to something convoluted and misleading.
stupid marketing liars. sorry, thats redundant... stupid liars.
I hear you can redeem 15 SCO liscenses inside Chucky Cheese's near the skiball games for a plastic keychain or 50 SCO liscenses for a yo-yo.
I'm just curious -- unless you're, say, a parent reading to their child, how exactly is book reading a social activity?
Book reading as a social event:
Read a book. Tell your friends what you thought of it and if they should or should not read it. Once they read it, or even while they havn't finished it yet, discuss the book. I have a book I read a few months ago. I finished it and passed it along to a friend. Each of her parents read it, and her friend and mother read it as well. We've talked about it a lot of random times.
In the event that you don't have any book reading friends, find a book club or hang out at a bookstore. Books can be catalysts for socializing.
I bet all those posix libraries contain SCOde, code "copyrighted" by SCO.
Is this why MS obtained a liscense from SCO? If not, SCO should go sue MS.
half jokingly,
happyfrogcow... mrroobit.
I've been wondering about spam and filtering stuff for a bit, without having read anything about bayesian methods of filtering. maybe i should.
Can encryption (public key is what i've thought about) be used to increase the amount of spam you can filter effectively? If you get spam, just check the message for redundancy of characters (i forget what that's called in technical terms) to see if it is plain text. If it approaches the redundancy of your language then it hasn't been encrypted, and is from someone who doesn't have your public key. I guess the problem is that, being a "public" key, the spammers could potentially get it, but farming correct email=>public keys pairs would be more difficult, unless of course there was a public key data store they had access to. It would also be more expensive, computationally and economically, to encrypt every peice of spam they sent out.
Then, if you get an encrypted message, but your private key fails to decrypt the message then it can also be discarded without worry.
You also would get the added bonus of secure communications. How to keep spammers from getting a real email address/public key pair would be a problem though.
just a thought... from someone who admittedly knows very little about filtering email as well as cryptographic protocols.
We have flying cars. We've always had flying cars. You just don't have system priviledge to come in contact with such technology as you have been flagged RED.
Even though this is comming from "Music publishers and songwriters, who are entitled to payments of a few cents for every copy of a song sold," this is so rediculous I don't even know where to begin.
the whole recording industry is so out of touch, not just the RIAA stormtroopers.
I am not meaning to sound redundant, but isn't AAC an actual standard while WMA is propietary to XP? Why is WMA more popular by Windows users if AAC can do the same drm wise and in a majority of cases sounds better?
because Microsoft is using its monopolistic hold on the desktop operating system sector to push it's other less superior products?
*applaud*
kudos to all the karma whores leaching off interesting comments from groklaw. everything posted here is pretty much -1 redundant and available on groklaw when it comes to SCO news these days.
slashdotting someones pocket? too many request to get in their pants? are those some open ports in your pocket or are you just...
The company also announced plans to make binary run time licenses for SCO's intellectual property available to end users. The license would apply to all commercial users of Linux based on a 2.4 or later kernel.
Why, dear SCO, is there a difference between a commercial user and a hobbyist all of the sudden? I hereby deem myself a commercial user. Come and get me.
Is it unreasonable to imagine a web community that advocates the use of some relavant DTD? On the nerdly end of things, if slashdot had their own DTD or used some other DTD, I might use it. It could ad value to the site from a usability perspective as well as economic value for the owners.
I think that if it was suffiecntly easy for a person to know what tag to put around "Pink", and know that it would ad something to the usability and understandability (am i making up words?) they might do it.
details details...
HTML (1992?) does predate XML (1996?). My point is that they are both SGML based, and a strict HTML 4.01 document is a valid XML document, unless I have something wrong in my understanding of all of this.
Furthur, my point was not a debate on what is or isn't HTML considered to be derived or a subset of, but that personal web pages are not inherantly different from other web pages. To say a company can do something with their data that an individual cannot do, is misleading.
Um... No, XML is based on the HTML model.
no, XML is based on the SGML model. HTML too, with exceptions to some SGML features. more info: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/intro/sgmltut.html
From the article, "But many online information sources are entirely unsuited to the XML model--for example, personal Web pages, e-mails, postings to newsgroups, and conversations in chat rooms."
entirely unsuited? chrissake. email, unsuited. newsgroups, unsuited. chat rooms, unsuited. If personal home pages are unsuited, then so are corporate home pages, as there is nothing inherantly different about the two. All this from an IEEE article... I would have thought them to be more acurate and less misleading. I could put <popularmusic>Pink</popularmusic> in my HTML as easily as Amazon could in theirs.
HTML is based on the XML model. HTML is used to create personal web pages. How on earth then, could personal web pages be "entirely unsuited to the XML model"?
casinos and gambling can be entertaining and fun. if you sit down at a blackjack table with $40, a few people you know, and spend three hours there chatting with folks and having fun, thats not entirely bad entertainment even if you lose all $40. if you walk away with all your money you've gotten a few hours of free entertainment. if you're a little lucky and a bit smart you can make some pocket change or coffee money for the week. there's always the possibility you walk away with a few hundred dollars, which ads to the entertainment value.
always gamble responsibly though. the worst is people who get addicted and gamble away their family's food or rent money.
very interesting thought, actually. they've probably used heavier strong-arm tactics in the past if movies like "Casino" are even 2% representative of truth.
however if it's not their chip, they have no right to confiscate it. if they do try to confiscate it, i'd have them call authorities (police, and not the RIAA "police"), file a police report acusing me of some crime and let the police take the chip as evidence of some crime they are acusing me of.
i'm sure the chip would have been conveniently lost by this point though.
It is illegal to "pass chips" at casinos in Missouri (ie, Kansas City "boats" as they are called). Presumably to track how much you bet. They also do macro-monitoring (if you call RFID tags micromonitoring) of chips. They fill a card out with your name and some other info when you first sit down at a table, after you give them your casino card, which is a credit card like card. this card also tracks your spending/winning and keeps track of "compensation" "awards" called "comps" by regulars i think.
RFID tags won't be much different. Who cares really?
...i don't get it.
remember, it's not just Japanand China. It's also (Soviet) Russia...
"(Soviet)"? WTF kind of assumptions are you trying to make your audience come to? That Russia is still the Soviet Union, the enemy we once thought it to be?
Or are you trying to get a +1 Funny mod point for alluding to the "In Soviet Russia..." line of jokes? "Soviet" was not said once in the article.
Maybe they should have called it Orientux
From Womens Studies class back in college, I'm pretty sure that Oriental is not a desired term by Chinese Americans. We read several stories by Asian American women, who all objected to use of the word. I however am not one such person, so I can't state if it truley has negative conotations. I assume it would be like calling an African American a "colored person". (not to get into the argument that black and white and people with various skin pigmentations have african origins, not only darkly pigmented people, and thus people with light pigmentation could also be called african americans, etc etc...)
alas, "politically correctness" has gotten in the way of my point i think.