You mention Kevin Mitnick, but don't forget he was arrested because he as a fugitive, he was out on parole and violated that by disappearing and relocating to another state. A first time offender couldn't be held without charging him for long.
The "640K should be enough for everybody" quote was made by an IBM official. The first IBM PC had the CGA or MGA graphics at memory address 0xB0000 or 0xB8000. The EGA card which was introduced with the IBM AT in 1984 had its memory at 0xA0000, limiting system memory to 640K. The quote was made in response to accusations that IBM needlessly limited system memory to 640 K by putting it at 0xA0000 when it could also have used 0xD0000 or higher.
It has nothing to do with Microsoft. MS-DOS would use up to 768 K without problems if you didn't have an EGA or VGA card.
Runescape is a decent game. But nobody wants to play ugly tile-based 2D games that look like 15 year old PC games, when the XT with 640 KB and CGA graphics ruled.
Definitely. Pop-ups and po-unders are annoying, but stoppable.
However, something which is much more annoying are those banner ads that use flash to make the ad creep out of the 400x80 banner and fill the whole browser window with a large animation for 10 seconds.
Doesn't the mainstream OS's of the day identify the CPU
in its system tab ?
Can't we simply read it there ?
Exactly. But what's there is what the BIOS reports. The software mentioned in the article is a hacked BIOS that misrepresents the CPU. When I had an Athlon XP 1700+ (which runs at 1433 MHz) which I overclocked by setting the FSB to 139 MHz. BIOS and Windows then said it was an 1800+
The company sells to PC builders who then sell to consumers. The PC builders know they are buying fakes, and sell them in complete systems that say 'P4 3.4 GHz' in the BIOS boot screen and Windows system properties. That's all they want. No average consumer is going to remove the heatsink to look at the CPU. If they did they'd notice the difference between a socket 478 and socket 775 part easily.
Same thing has happened to me. Ice breakers are free, and they can say yes, no, or blow off. So why after sending literally hundreds of friendly messages to girls, they don't even reply with a free icebreaker?
I asked about this on a women's forum when they were discussing online dating. Most of them said that they felt that saying 'no' was unfriendly and that not replying would send the same message, only in a more friendly way. Guys feel it the opposite way of course, rejection is disappointing, but shows that she's friendly, being ignored totally is more disappointing and considered rude. So men and women just see this differently.
One thing I noticed about online dating that people don't apply their knowledge or intelligence. If a geek is programming/repairing his PC/solving some problem, they try different things, notice that it's not working, change something until it works, and then they analyze what change made it work.
However when dating (and that's also what you write), they just try one thing of which they have determined in advance that it will work, try the same thing hundreds of times, and then give up saying "this sucks/this site sucks/women suck". They convince themselves that the copy/paste message they send everyone is "friendly" while to women it probably comes across as bland/too careful/too weak/uninteresting. If guys applied their skills to dating they'd send all kinds of messages, short, long, rude, friendly, demanding, funny, etc. and then look what gives the best results.
I'm socially inept. I'll admit that. But why do chicks hate it when I get a good gander at the chest when they're the ones wearing the skimpy cloth that barely covers them in the first place. I don't actually stare or follow but when sitting in a public place I make it my duty to check out the scene.
You apply logic to something which is basically illogical, that's where you go wrong. Women test men when meeting and getting to know them, most of the times not as a plan but as part of their instinct. They offer temptation and appreciate a man who shows some selfcontrol. Have you ever dated a woman whom you told that for example you go to the gym or watch your favourite show on a certain evening, say tuesday. Then she asks you to go out on exactly that day, not wednesday but on your day, and acts as like your interests are unimportant. So you're a geek and do what she wants, only to notice she acts disappointed and seems to have lost interest. The thing is, sometimes women ask you something and expect you to refuse and say 'no'. That's just a test that tells them whether you're a strong person, or a weak person who does whatever she wants. Such a man is not a challenge for a woman.
Maybe you should read some David DeAngelo stuff to get a better insight in how applying simple male/female psychology can help you tremendously.
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The solution you need is at hand today. Please just make the free and voluntary choice to follow the steps I lay out here:
1) Don't buy any Disney products. Nobody is forcing you to put money in their pockets. You make a free and voluntary choice everytime you do.
You're forgetting one thing. The way Disney or any movie publisher lets journalists watch preview copies, whether as screener to be watched at home or to invite them to the movie theater for a screening, that is internal company business. It has nothing to do with you or any consumer.
The people that protest the loudest are probably the ones that fear they won't be able to get their free movies off bittorrent and lose their bragging opportunity to tell people they know that they watched a movie at home before it premiered in theaters.
That's why everyone dislikes geeks, because they're such smug arrogant bastards who get a false sense of superiority from technological knowledge in a very small area, eg. pc hardware, php programming or W3C guidelines. A bit of knowledge doesn't give you the right to go around saying 'you need to learn how...'. They are also totally self-centered. Just look at the people here who say 'I don't like to go to the movies because I stepped into gum three years ago when I last went out, so I feel I have the right to download 500 xvid's a year and watch them for free and I demand my free xvids NOW!'
You're right. The law makes a distinction between a published work and an unpublished work. Everyone is assumed to have access to a published work (like a book that's in the bookstore or library), and making an illegal copy for profit is copyright infringement. In this case the damages are the number of copies * the sale prive. Unpublished works are more protected, as obtaining a copy deprives the owner of the exclusive right. Especially source code has a real value, often millions, which would be lost if it were leaked and spread to the public. In this case the damages are the total value of the product, the cost of development.
There was a case long ago where a hacker obtained a document about 911 operating procedures. Initially they charged him with millions of damages, which included a lot of manhours of work, the cost of all computer systems used to write it, etc. When it was discovered a copy of the document could be ordered by anyone for a few dollars, the case was dropped. This is because the crime switched from stealing an unpublished work to copying a published work.
A lot of people here argue that because it's technically possible and difficult to stop, they have a right to download all the warez and dvdrips/tvrips they want.
If you follow this analogy you can also say that if someone decides to send out garbage on purpose, they should also be free to do so. How is it different from the lamers that try to flood IRC channels, spam 'free ipod' ads in weblogs, send mail bombs to people they disagree with. If they think sending someone a few thousand 1 MB emails is perfectly OK, then sending out garbage with a modified client just to annoy people isn't that serious. Those people also believe that if it's in their advantage it should be legal and if it's in their disadvantage it should be made illegal.
You are right. I misunderstood was he was saying so my post is irrelevant.
And I agree with what you and he were saying, a filename that says 'the.island-dvdscr.avi' but contents of just random bits don't infringe on the copyright.
Of course, as the MySQL line has always been to manage transactions in code, I don't see why they didn't just raise an error and let the application deal with the manual rollback. Who would ever want invalid data to be inserted?
Manual rollback ?The idea is that if you do the following:
insert into mytable values (100);
insert into mytable values (200);
insert into mytable values (300);
rollback;
rolls back ALL changes. This is in Oracle, in Sybase or SQLServer you would start with a 'begin transaction'.
Imagine these inserts are in an upgrade script for an application. Now the script has to either errorcheck and commit after each row, or have nested if-then's. If the second statement fails, delete 100, if the third one fails delete 100 and 200. And you have to do all that in SQL ? No thanks. Give me a REAL database.
Why ? It's a common myth that count(*) causes all records to be read and that count(constant) is faster.
In Oracle a count(1) and count(*) are identical and have identical execution paths. It will use a fast full scan of a unique index to count the number of rows, if it can do this it doesn't read the actual rows.
But then again, maybe it's true for MySQL that it will read all data blocks and ignore indexes if you do a count(*).
Downloading a bunch of useless 1s & 0s is not illegal in any way, regardless of how that collection is called. They own the copyright on the meaningful content. Maybe they can sue based on "intent to violate copyright" or so, but you did not violate any copyright downloading that stuff...
Nope, a derivate work still infringes on the copyright of the original. It doesn't have to be a perfect copy. If I take a book, replace all the 'e's with '3's and print and sell those, I'm still infringing on their copyright, even though almost every word is different. Similarly mp3's infringe on real CD's, xvid avi's infringe the copyright of the source DVD material, etc.
By the way, the court dismissed the argument that it's just a bunch of meaningless 0's and 1's somewhere in the 60s I believe.
Torrents for tiny files are usually not appreciated.
If you use a proper client (like Bitcomet) you can select/deselect the individual files and download only what you need. In your case you could start the torrent file, uncheck the cd image and grab just the keygen.
I believe Wired featured Burning Man extensively when I was still buying it, in their first 3 years. Must have been around 1996/1997 or so. Wired always had a fascination for the odd, offbeat and downright strange, and this festival where nothing much happened except the waiting around all day until finally the big guy was lit (and drinking heavily while waiting), certainly was. I guess they were surprised that anyone showed up at all, but this was just after the slacker era and before flat-fee home broadband so back then people did have plenty of time to waste
After that everyone started going and covering it. That this dimwit even dares to mention 'I have been covering it for the last 4 years!' as if it was something to be proud of, instead of admitting he was in on it way too late, way after everyone else knew about it, it's embarassing.
You're only the 10th person to say this. To summarize the other responses, current BSD is open source. The first open source BSD was networking release 1 (NR1) from 1989. Microsoft's BSD code is from 1983, which means they bought a licence before it went open source.
Well that's slashdot fanboyism in full effect. Why bother with just the facts and the story if you can also distort it and abuse any story to serve your cause ?
It really surprises me how someone like Linus who has been working on Linux for 15 years already can act so unprofessionally.
I mean, numerous books have been written about Linux, companies have been founded to provide support for it. Show the lawyer a few books and he knows what you mean.
Instead he half-asses submitted a poorly written wikipedia page and some google searches.
The Slashdot summary is wrong, the reply isn't vitriolic, it's a clear factual refusal. It's a shame Linus is unable to realise what a poor job he has done with this patent, how he has embarrassed himself. He willingly shows the world he's a fool and a buffoon, a moron without any real-world sense.
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You mention Kevin Mitnick, but don't forget he was arrested because he as a fugitive, he was out on parole and violated that by disappearing and relocating to another state. A first time offender couldn't be held without charging him for long.
Sounds good, do you have an url already so I can check when it's available ?
The "640K should be enough for everybody" quote was made by an IBM official. The first IBM PC had the CGA or MGA graphics at memory address 0xB0000 or 0xB8000. The EGA card which was introduced with the IBM AT in 1984 had its memory at 0xA0000, limiting system memory to 640K. The quote was made in response to accusations that IBM needlessly limited system memory to 640 K by putting it at 0xA0000 when it could also have used 0xD0000 or higher.
It has nothing to do with Microsoft. MS-DOS would use up to 768 K without problems if you didn't have an EGA or VGA card.
Runescape is a decent game. But nobody wants to play ugly tile-based 2D games that look like 15 year old PC games, when the XT with 640 KB and CGA graphics ruled.
Definitely. Pop-ups and po-unders are annoying, but stoppable.
However, something which is much more annoying are those banner ads that use flash to make the ad creep out of the 400x80 banner and fill the whole browser window with a large animation for 10 seconds.
You probably didn't follow the developments in the infamous 'look and feel' lawsuit between Apple and Microsoft 10 years ago.
Can't we simply read it there ?
Exactly. But what's there is what the BIOS reports. The software mentioned in the article is a hacked BIOS that misrepresents the CPU. When I had an Athlon XP 1700+ (which runs at 1433 MHz) which I overclocked by setting the FSB to 139 MHz. BIOS and Windows then said it was an 1800+
The company sells to PC builders who then sell to consumers. The PC builders know they are buying fakes, and sell them in complete systems that say 'P4 3.4 GHz' in the BIOS boot screen and Windows system properties. That's all they want. No average consumer is going to remove the heatsink to look at the CPU. If they did they'd notice the difference between a socket 478 and socket 775 part easily.
I asked about this on a women's forum when they were discussing online dating. Most of them said that they felt that saying 'no' was unfriendly and that not replying would send the same message, only in a more friendly way. Guys feel it the opposite way of course, rejection is disappointing, but shows that she's friendly, being ignored totally is more disappointing and considered rude. So men and women just see this differently.
One thing I noticed about online dating that people don't apply their knowledge or intelligence. If a geek is programming/repairing his PC/solving some problem, they try different things, notice that it's not working, change something until it works, and then they analyze what change made it work.
However when dating (and that's also what you write), they just try one thing of which they have determined in advance that it will work, try the same thing hundreds of times, and then give up saying "this sucks/this site sucks/women suck". They convince themselves that the copy/paste message they send everyone is "friendly" while to women it probably comes across as bland/too careful/too weak/uninteresting. If guys applied their skills to dating they'd send all kinds of messages, short, long, rude, friendly, demanding, funny, etc. and then look what gives the best results.
You apply logic to something which is basically illogical, that's where you go wrong. Women test men when meeting and getting to know them, most of the times not as a plan but as part of their instinct. They offer temptation and appreciate a man who shows some selfcontrol. Have you ever dated a woman whom you told that for example you go to the gym or watch your favourite show on a certain evening, say tuesday. Then she asks you to go out on exactly that day, not wednesday but on your day, and acts as like your interests are unimportant. So you're a geek and do what she wants, only to notice she acts disappointed and seems to have lost interest. The thing is, sometimes women ask you something and expect you to refuse and say 'no'. That's just a test that tells them whether you're a strong person, or a weak person who does whatever she wants. Such a man is not a challenge for a woman.
Maybe you should read some David DeAngelo stuff to get a better insight in how applying simple male/female psychology can help you tremendously.
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1) Don't buy any Disney products. Nobody is forcing you to put money in their pockets. You make a free and voluntary choice everytime you do. You're forgetting one thing. The way Disney or any movie publisher lets journalists watch preview copies, whether as screener to be watched at home or to invite them to the movie theater for a screening, that is internal company business. It has nothing to do with you or any consumer. ...'. They are also totally self-centered. Just look at the people here who say 'I don't like to go to the movies because I stepped into gum three years ago when I last went out, so I feel I have the right to download 500 xvid's a year and watch them for free and I demand my free xvids NOW!'
The people that protest the loudest are probably the ones that fear they won't be able to get their free movies off bittorrent and lose their bragging opportunity to tell people they know that they watched a movie at home before it premiered in theaters.
That's why everyone dislikes geeks, because they're such smug arrogant bastards who get a false sense of superiority from technological knowledge in a very small area, eg. pc hardware, php programming or W3C guidelines. A bit of knowledge doesn't give you the right to go around saying 'you need to learn how
Don't forget the recent trick - once in a while a scene is black&white instead of color.
The Civilization start menu has similar choices, although it supported a few cards more.
Unpublished works are more protected, as obtaining a copy deprives the owner of the exclusive right. Especially source code has a real value, often millions, which would be lost if it were leaked and spread to the public. In this case the damages are the total value of the product, the cost of development.
There was a case long ago where a hacker obtained a document about 911 operating procedures. Initially they charged him with millions of damages, which included a lot of manhours of work, the cost of all computer systems used to write it, etc. When it was discovered a copy of the document could be ordered by anyone for a few dollars, the case was dropped. This is because the crime switched from stealing an unpublished work to copying a published work.
A lot of people here argue that because it's technically possible and difficult to stop, they have a right to download all the warez and dvdrips/tvrips they want.
If you follow this analogy you can also say that if someone decides to send out garbage on purpose, they should also be free to do so. How is it different from the lamers that try to flood IRC channels, spam 'free ipod' ads in weblogs, send mail bombs to people they disagree with.
If they think sending someone a few thousand 1 MB emails is perfectly OK, then sending out garbage with a modified client just to annoy people isn't that serious.
Those people also believe that if it's in their advantage it should be legal and if it's in their disadvantage it should be made illegal.
And I agree with what you and he were saying, a filename that says 'the.island-dvdscr.avi' but contents of just random bits don't infringe on the copyright.
Manual rollback ?The idea is that if you do the following:
insert into mytable values (100);
insert into mytable values (200);
insert into mytable values (300);
rollback;
rolls back ALL changes. This is in Oracle, in Sybase or SQLServer you would start with a 'begin transaction'.
Imagine these inserts are in an upgrade script for an application. Now the script has to either errorcheck and commit after each row, or have nested if-then's. If the second statement fails, delete 100, if the third one fails delete 100 and 200. And you have to do all that in SQL ? No thanks. Give me a REAL database.
In Oracle a count(1) and count(*) are identical and have identical execution paths. It will use a fast full scan of a unique index to count the number of rows, if it can do this it doesn't read the actual rows.
But then again, maybe it's true for MySQL that it will read all data blocks and ignore indexes if you do a count(*).
Nope, a derivate work still infringes on the copyright of the original. It doesn't have to be a perfect copy. If I take a book, replace all the 'e's with '3's and print and sell those, I'm still infringing on their copyright, even though almost every word is different. Similarly mp3's infringe on real CD's, xvid avi's infringe the copyright of the source DVD material, etc.
By the way, the court dismissed the argument that it's just a bunch of meaningless 0's and 1's somewhere in the 60s I believe.
If you use a proper client (like Bitcomet) you can select/deselect the individual files and download only what you need. In your case you could start the torrent file, uncheck the cd image and grab just the keygen.
After that everyone started going and covering it. That this dimwit even dares to mention 'I have been covering it for the last 4 years!' as if it was something to be proud of, instead of admitting he was in on it way too late, way after everyone else knew about it, it's embarassing.
You're only the 10th person to say this. To summarize the other responses, current BSD is open source. The first open source BSD was networking release 1 (NR1) from 1989. Microsoft's BSD code is from 1983, which means they bought a licence before it went open source.
Well that's slashdot fanboyism in full effect. Why bother with just the facts and the story if you can also distort it and abuse any story to serve your cause ?
I mean, numerous books have been written about Linux, companies have been founded to provide support for it. Show the lawyer a few books and he knows what you mean.
Instead he half-asses submitted a poorly written wikipedia page and some google searches.
The Slashdot summary is wrong, the reply isn't vitriolic, it's a clear factual refusal. It's a shame Linus is unable to realise what a poor job he has done with this patent, how he has embarrassed himself. He willingly shows the world he's a fool and a buffoon, a moron without any real-world sense.
Partypoker is an exe, but pokerroom is Java. So your assumption isn't completely right.