Is there a way to create a program with a trivial encryption scheme so that all users would need to break that encryption scheme in order to obtain access to shared files? This would mean that all users would be in violation of the DMCA which wouldn't be a problem as regular users wouldn't be sued for that but it would also mean that in order for the the RIAA to investigate these cases, they too would be breaking the encryption unlawfully, violating the DMCA and thus opening themselves up to prosecution.
Is such an idea possible/has it already been done?
Well done RIAA! You've successfully embedded the "evil recording industry" image into the hearts and minds of the youth of today, your primary consumers. You may prevent some people sharing your music but you've turned millions more from ever buying a RIAA artist's CD ever again. Previously, people might have felt bad about depriving the artist of income but now, they'll just think "screw them". Well done.
This looks like an awesome mod! So good that it'll probably get shut down by George Lucas. After all, Lucasarts is probably planning their own multiplayer game.
here's what i did (might not be possible on a linksys):
-change your ssid from the default "Linksys" to something unique -disable access to clients with ssid "any" -don't broadcast your ssid -limit the number of ip addresses given out to however many computers you have -enable wep 128 bit -limit access by mac address
that's all i can think of at the moment. it's not 100% secure by any means but these simple steps should stop the casual snooper.
I've been downloading Moz builds for years now. Never thought they were even usable until 1.0. Still not quite where it should be. I love tabbed browsing but when I use Windows, I still prefer the IE rendering engine, which is why I use Crazy Browser
However, I have found that Mozilla currently has the best e-mail client out there. I've used a plain old text only e-mail client for years but with more and more people sending HTML e-mails and the need to send e-mails in different character sets, I've had to finally switch. Been using Moz mail for about a month now and am very happy with it so far. There's still bugs here and there and loading is a little slow but it's the only one that does everything that I need it to.
here's my overall solution for a really quiet (not quite silent yet) pc:
1. buy components which make less or no noise. the less noise you have to start with, the less you have to get rid off. eg. get a video card that doesn't require a fan rather than one that has one or choose a hard disk based on its quietness. seagate barracudas are a good choice.
2. replace noisy case fans with quiet ones. this makes a huge difference. the most popular quiet fans are Panaflo L1As. even quiet fans can be made even quieter by running them at lower voltages. do a search for "5 volt trick" or "7 volt trick".
3. use less fans. monitor your motherboard, processor, power supply and chip temperature. run a system intensive program like 3dmark. use the minimum no of fans that keeps the temperature within acceptable limits even at 100% CPU usage.
The number one concern when doing this is overheating. slower fans + less fans = less airflow so you gotta keep a close eye on that.
some other things i did which helped:
replaced the intel fan on my P4 with a quiet one. didn't get an expensive heatsink. just replaced the fan.
replaced the fan in the power supply with a quiet one. a quiet, slower fan = more heat. to reduce the chance of overheating, i removed the case on the power supply (not the computer case). DO NOT open the power supply and do any of this unless you are technically competent. you might get a nasty electrical shock! you've been warned.
as always, be sure to ground yourself and unplug everything before making any changes.
This is by far the most disgusting mod I've ever seen. The blood red keyboard gives me a headache. Nevertheless, a very impressive job technically and creatively.
"we found that it had been ended in error" "we understand your frustration in this matter, and apologize for any inconvenience this matter has caused you."
he then proceeds to list some fake auctions selling "nothing". perhaps embarassed by the fact that more people bid on "nothing" than his cds, he pulls these auctions and eventually relists his original auctions.
after some time, the stupid bot rejects his auctions again. he writes and complains as he should and a person replies sincerely that
"i'm very sorry you've had such a frustrating experience"
and directs where he should send further comments. frustrated that he only received an auto-response and not willing to wait for a human response, he proceeds to mail bomb ebay and sends them 1800 e-mails over a 4 hour period and threatens to file a lawsuit.
so, he had a legitimate and frustrating complaint. ebay's bot is stupid and they need a human to review the flagged auction items but the guy's response is totally inappropriate and his subsequent actions show he is more interested in self promotion than resolution of this matter.
This is a story not about ebay trying to shut down independent musicians but rather what happens when you let a computer decide by keyword which auctions are and aren't acceptable.
His frustrations really are because the ebay "auction filter" apparently automatically stops any auction containing the words "cdr" or "cd-r".
So, this guy writes and complains as he has a right to, and yet continues to whine even when they apologize and admit that yes, they made an error. ebay tells him he can relist but he decides to be a brat and lists a couple of auctions selling "nothing" which incidentally received more bids than his band's cds did.
finally he reposts the ads which eventually get flagged by the same brainless auction filter. yes, this is frustrating and ebay should now have a human review flagged items before cancelling them but his response is totally off the wall. he complains, a person responds and apologizes but he wants to file a suit against ebay and states that:
"Ideally, I would like to file an injunction to force eBay to stop the sales of all CD media pending the resolution of this issue. I am going to pursue this through every possible avenue."
he no longer really is interested in getting the problem resolved. he then decides that the best thing to do is to mail bomb their system.
"I was going to send the message incessantly until someone called me or they shut down the comment section to force me to stop"
he did this for four hours and apparently sent 1800 e-mails.
According to the intro to his site, he spammed a bunch of people he didn't know in order to publicize himself and this issue. Well done Mr. Ziemann, your unknown band whose cds apparently received zero bids has now obtained a million dollars of free publicity.
For your next video card, how about considering getting one without fans that is built to function with the heatsink only. Unless you plan to overclock it, you won't need a fan which reduces the overall noise level of your box and eliminates a potential point of failure. There are definitely some Geforce 2 MXs and Geforce 4s(not sure if they are MX) out there that come fanless.
Users of the service can have email sent to the address in the Whois forwarded to them, and can even have DBP act as a snail-mail proxy, for an additional fee. Parsons said the company has patents pending on the technology behind the service.
What technology would that be? The e-mail forwarding? The snail mail forwarding? E-mail forwarding of course is already done and any smart person would know not to put their everyday e-mail in the whois database. As for snail mail forwarding, places like Mailboxes etc have done that for years.
Another thing about this is the question of ownership. By not entering your own information into the database, they are legally the owners which means that you are at their mercy. Yes, of course they say they are just acting as your proxy but what happens if they go under? What happens if one day they decide that they'd like to keep your high traffic domain name for themselves?
very very cool. after looking over the photos and reading about some of the battles, my first question was "What happens to the sunken ships?" Of course, this is answered in their faq:
How do you recover a sunken vessel ?
Each vessel carries a float which is attached to the vessel's hull by a long line. When the vessel sinks, the float will (normally) pop to the surface, bringing one end of the line with it. As the other end is securely attached to the hull, pulling in the line will retrieve the vessel from the depths. Sometimes the float does not fully deploy or the line is too short and the vessel has to be dragged for. No vessel in the AusBG has ever been permanently lost and vessels have sunk in water more than 20 feet deep.
This information is about Google but may well apply also to Altavista in the future.
It seems it's not just blocking access to the sites but re-routing requests to Google to search engines of the government's choice. See Reuters article
Some relevant bits: Some users in Beijing and Shanghai were redirected to Peking University's no-frills search site Tianwang, the little known cj888.com and the American-invested Baidu.com, among others. Users in Guangzhou were rerouted to the local portal 21cn.com.
So, perhaps the real goal here is to divert traffic to local search engines and increase their market share?
Hey, how about doing a google search instead of positng a Ask Slashdot?
Plenty of answers right there on the first page of results. To save you time, I'll even tell you that most of them are Windows CE (the horror!) handhelds.
Slashdot Mirror
There's a difference. Adam Curry tried to do it anonymously while Jimmy Wales did it openly under his own username.
News flash! Microsoft executive claims Microsoft product has best launch ever!
For Windows XP, Sharpreader is a good free aggregator. It can get slow if you have hundreds of feeds.
don't forget
nospam@nospam.com - 5,230 results
Having said that, I have moved from Crazy Browser to Firefox. Extensions make Firefox the best browser out there.
finally a videophone i would actually buy! the gba will play games and i bet it's not as expensive as one of those dedicated videophones too.
Is there a way to create a program with a trivial encryption scheme so that all users would need to break that encryption scheme in order to obtain access to shared files? This would mean that all users would be in violation of the DMCA which wouldn't be a problem as regular users wouldn't be sued for that but it would also mean that in order for the the RIAA to investigate these cases, they too would be breaking the encryption unlawfully, violating the DMCA and thus opening themselves up to prosecution.
Is such an idea possible/has it already been done?
Well done RIAA! You've successfully embedded the "evil recording industry" image into the hearts and minds of the youth of today, your primary consumers. You may prevent some people sharing your music but you've turned millions more from ever buying a RIAA artist's CD ever again. Previously, people might have felt bad about depriving the artist of income but now, they'll just think "screw them". Well done.
This looks like an awesome mod! So good that it'll probably get shut down by George Lucas. After all, Lucasarts is probably planning their own multiplayer game.
here's what i did (might not be possible on a linksys):
-change your ssid from the default "Linksys" to something unique
-disable access to clients with ssid "any"
-don't broadcast your ssid
-limit the number of ip addresses given out to however many computers you have
-enable wep 128 bit
-limit access by mac address
that's all i can think of at the moment. it's not 100% secure by any means but these simple steps should stop the casual snooper.
However, I have found that Mozilla currently has the best e-mail client out there. I've used a plain old text only e-mail client for years but with more and more people sending HTML e-mails and the need to send e-mails in different character sets, I've had to finally switch. Been using Moz mail for about a month now and am very happy with it so far. There's still bugs here and there and loading is a little slow but it's the only one that does everything that I need it to.
1. buy components which make less or no noise. the less noise you have to start with, the less you have to get rid off. eg. get a video card that doesn't require a fan rather than one that has one or choose a hard disk based on its quietness. seagate barracudas are a good choice.
2. replace noisy case fans with quiet ones. this makes a huge difference. the most popular quiet fans are Panaflo L1As. even quiet fans can be made even quieter by running them at lower voltages. do a search for "5 volt trick" or "7 volt trick".
3. use less fans. monitor your motherboard, processor, power supply and chip temperature. run a system intensive program like 3dmark. use the minimum no of fans that keeps the temperature within acceptable limits even at 100% CPU usage.
The number one concern when doing this is overheating. slower fans + less fans = less airflow so you gotta keep a close eye on that.
some other things i did which helped:
replaced the intel fan on my P4 with a quiet one. didn't get an expensive heatsink. just replaced the fan.
replaced the fan in the power supply with a quiet one. a quiet, slower fan = more heat. to reduce the chance of overheating, i removed the case on the power supply (not the computer case). DO NOT open the power supply and do any of this unless you are technically competent. you might get a nasty electrical shock! you've been warned.
as always, be sure to ground yourself and unplug everything before making any changes.
some sites which are useful:
Silent PC Review
Yahoo Groups- Silent PC
This is by far the most disgusting mod I've ever seen. The blood red keyboard gives me a headache. Nevertheless, a very impressive job technically and creatively.
If you're going to flame someone, at least have the guts to do it under your own name.
Not quite. he complains, ebay apologizes.
"we found that it had been ended in error"
"we understand your frustration in this matter, and apologize for any inconvenience this matter has caused you."
he then proceeds to list some fake auctions selling "nothing". perhaps embarassed by the fact that more people bid on "nothing" than his cds, he pulls these auctions and eventually relists his original auctions.
after some time, the stupid bot rejects his auctions again. he writes and complains as he should and a person replies sincerely that
"i'm very sorry you've had such a frustrating experience"
and directs where he should send further comments. frustrated that he only received an auto-response and not willing to wait for a human response, he proceeds to mail bomb ebay and sends them 1800 e-mails over a 4 hour period and threatens to file a lawsuit.
so, he had a legitimate and frustrating complaint. ebay's bot is stupid and they need a human to review the flagged auction items but the guy's response is totally inappropriate and his subsequent actions show he is more interested in self promotion than resolution of this matter.
This is a story not about ebay trying to shut down independent musicians but rather what happens when you let a computer decide by keyword which auctions are and aren't acceptable.
His frustrations really are because the ebay "auction filter" apparently automatically stops any auction containing the words "cdr" or "cd-r".
So, this guy writes and complains as he has a right to, and yet continues to whine even when they apologize and admit that yes, they made an error. ebay tells him he can relist but he decides to be a brat and lists a couple of auctions selling "nothing" which incidentally received more bids than his band's cds did.
finally he reposts the ads which eventually get flagged by the same brainless auction filter. yes, this is frustrating and ebay should now have a human review flagged items before cancelling them but his response is totally off the wall. he complains, a person responds and apologizes but he wants to file a suit against ebay and states that:
"Ideally, I would like to file an injunction to force eBay to stop the sales of all CD media pending the resolution of this issue. I am going to pursue this through every possible avenue."
he no longer really is interested in getting the problem resolved. he then decides that the best thing to do is to mail bomb their system.
"I was going to send the message incessantly until someone called me or they shut down the comment section to force me to stop"
he did this for four hours and apparently sent 1800 e-mails.
According to the intro to his site, he spammed a bunch of people he didn't know in order to publicize himself and this issue. Well done Mr. Ziemann, your unknown band whose cds apparently received zero bids has now obtained a million dollars of free publicity.
don't support this publicity hound.
You can connect your devices using these universal cables.
For your next video card, how about considering getting one without fans that is built to function with the heatsink only. Unless you plan to overclock it, you won't need a fan which reduces the overall noise level of your box and eliminates a potential point of failure. There are definitely some Geforce 2 MXs and Geforce 4s(not sure if they are MX) out there that come fanless.
Users of the service can have email sent to the address in the Whois forwarded to them, and can even have DBP act as a snail-mail proxy, for an additional fee. Parsons said the company has patents pending on the technology behind the service.
What technology would that be? The e-mail forwarding? The snail mail forwarding? E-mail forwarding of course is already done and any smart person would know not to put their everyday e-mail in the whois database. As for snail mail forwarding, places like Mailboxes etc have done that for years.
Another thing about this is the question of ownership. By not entering your own information into the database, they are legally the owners which means that you are at their mercy. Yes, of course they say they are just acting as your proxy but what happens if they go under? What happens if one day they decide that they'd like to keep your high traffic domain name for themselves?
How do you recover a sunken vessel ?
Each vessel carries a float which is attached to the vessel's hull by a long line. When the vessel sinks, the float will (normally) pop to the surface, bringing one end of the line with it. As the other end is securely attached to the hull, pulling in the line will retrieve the vessel from the depths. Sometimes the float does not fully deploy or the line is too short and the vessel has to be dragged for. No vessel in the AusBG has ever been permanently lost and vessels have sunk in water more than 20 feet deep.
I don't think it supports Jabber.
One of the cool things is if both people use Trillian, they can communicate using SecureIM which encrypts their conversations.
It seems it's not just blocking access to the sites but re-routing requests to Google to search engines of the government's choice. See Reuters article
Some relevant bits:
Some users in Beijing and Shanghai were redirected to Peking University's no-frills search site Tianwang, the little known cj888.com and the American-invested Baidu.com, among others. Users in Guangzhou were rerouted to the local portal 21cn.com.
So, perhaps the real goal here is to divert traffic to local search engines and increase their market share?
For those who are interested in usability, check out stuff from Jakob Nielsen and Bruce Tognazzini
Plenty of answers right there on the first page of results. To save you time, I'll even tell you that most of them are Windows CE (the horror!) handhelds.
+1 Righteous flame