The headline seems to say all file sharing would be outlawed as would all p2p networks. This is simply not the case. If you look at the section of the bill pertaining to the uploading of files it reads:
Section 506(a) of title 17, United States Code, is
amended--
(1) by striking ``, United States Code''; and
(2) by adding at the end the following: ``For
purposes of section 2319(b) of title 18, the placing
of a copyrighted work, without the authorization of
the copyright owner, on a computer network acces-
sible to members of the public who are able to copy
the work through such access shall be considered to
be the distribution, during a 180-day period, of at
least 10 copies of that work with a retail value of
more than $2,500.''.
It really adds nothing new to copyright law other than providing specific civil and criminal penalties for the unauthorized uploading of material to a network.
This isn't ncecessarily a bad thing, it protects the rights of the copyright holders. If you create something, you can distribute the heck out of it. Get permission from the holder and again there is no problem.
Now, it does have a specific form of distribution which is treated unequally from the pnealties of all other forms, that may be bad, but I don't really see how as this form can be far more damaging to a holder (in theory at least) than any other.
So don't succomb to the kneejerk reaction on this. Perhaps it is a bit unfair, but it does not take away the freedoms that most people are going to think it does from reading that headline and blurb about the bill.
I may be off the mark. Believe me, I don't support the RIAA at all in this matter, still it is their property and they can do with it as they please. This bill only enforces that in a slightly different way than say, burning 50 cds of it and handing them out.
They insert 80 lines from unix, then linux starts to hurt them. They then bring up the bomb that they planted.
Look at what they did prior to this. They tried to get the copyright and patents to unix from novell. They were about to launch their contengency plan and found a hole. They decided to proceed anyway and here we are:-)
of course, there is the fact that it doesn't matter one pair of dingos kidneys what happens.
Sure it could stop people from adopting linux as a business solutions. So what? We'll still have it at home and we'll still have it to tinker with.
If there is offending code, that would be fun. Then we get to remove it and rewrite it. That could be a very rewarding end in and of itself.
Perhaps we'll even become one of the HURD. Who knows? I think it would be exciting, but the bottom line is that there is no way to kill OSS, because we'll keep on doing it for free for the shear joy of it.
It's all about the code and making friends for me, the more I have to write, the better:-)
Well I'd have to say that there is a pretty good case for prior art on this one. I mean this is not too dissimilar from what web browsers have been doing for a few years now in the location tab (autocompletion of URLs)
Also, in mozilla you can define macros that can be accessed via the location bar. So I can type google foo to search google for foo. The next time I come along I will probably just have to get as far as google fo and it will complete my search parameter!
So there you go, mozilla has done it for at least a year. It even gives you suggestions, most popular at the top.
Another app that does it is my check tender on my palm pilot. It does this for payees...
Too bad most people will be scared off by court costs to argue the obvious. Oh well.
some of us are awake. I certainly am. I saw it coming before he was even elected. Judging by his attitude toward military and parody I knew he hated liberty and was a war munger (sp?).
The sad part is, most people here didn't vote for him. It was a selection process by a largely republican supreme court that put the Uber Republican in power.
I'm afraid that there will be many far reaching reprecussions for allowing this to happen. We probably have set the ball rolling for the 3rd world war with the US as the axis of evil. It could start tomorrow and I would not be surprised.
By and large it is deserved. Most people here just lie down and take it, so we haven't maintained our end of what it takes to be free. Few of us do pay attention. Those who think are called dissidents and are labeled as dangerous. We aren't dangerous, there are too few of us in this malaise of people that call themselves Americans.
If the price of freedom is eternal vigilance, we haven't paid our bill in the slightest.
I am not a Christian. However, I have read the bible several times and in several different langauges.
I know you have these list of 10 things you shall not do. (10 commandments if you will, but that's a rough translation of the hebrew)
Now, my delimma is this. Looking at any image that is a representation of anything that is in earth or heaven would be forbidden if you took the time to read up on your faith.
Think about it. You can't have artificial images of any kind according to the 10 commandments. You cannot watch telivision (think of it as a graven-image-o-matic, spewing 30 graven images per second)...
Plus there is nothing forbidding the objectizing of women. In fact in the bible it is encouraged. The hebrew notion of adultry is that of the violation of property. In order to commit adultry you have to have sex with someone else's wife. Now, if these women you objectize and use aren't married, it's simply fornication. The only thing the bible has to say about that is that when you knock the woman up, you pay for the child.
I was responding to a poster who asked about hurtles and what this would do to the higher classed rockets. I wouldn't have said anything at all about that had it not come up. So it is on topic for the thread of the discussion.
There are lots of hoops. A great deal depends on how high you will go, proximity to airports and military bases, the size of the missile, a whole lot of stuff.
I used to launch small amateur rockets and I remember having to organize things with the FAA for the window of time I would be in the comercial air space. Basically it's like filing a flight plan with a flight controller. They verify that is a safe window when you are not as likely to shoot down a plane.
Once you go above a certain altitude, however, you enter military air space and you have a whole other animal to deal with. They ask the tough questions like "why do you want to launch this missile?"
All in all, I only built about 3 rockets that went higher than commercial airspace. These flew to about 100-200 thousand feet above sea level. (100,000; 120,000; 180,000 to be exact) It took me more time getting all the permissions I needed to launch the darn things than it did to engineer them.
Other hurdles are the handling of the propellants, the little tasty bit of info about solid rocket propellants is that it is difficult to design a solid fuel motor that doesn't explode on the launch pad. Also, there is the fact that in a lot of counties you have to have a fire marshall present when you are handling the explosives.
It's a tough hobby from a legal sense, and probably rightly so. Even from behind a bunker of sand bags, I have been knocked flat on my back from the concussion of a solid rocket explosion that was 300 yards away from me. In my earliest attempt at making a high performance rocket I actually had one explode and later found pieces of shrapnel ebedded in asphalt farther DOWNRANGE of my position. So it is rought with danger, failures are catastrophic, and if you aren't very very careful you will die if you try to build one of these.
Also, I had built rockets with a useful payload of up to 3 kg, more than enough to load up enough explosives to blow up a building, not that I would of course.
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It would reduce it significantly. Except, it still takes just as much energy and so the electricity is going to be costly.
One other problem though.... Acceleration.
Think of it this way, the shuttle, in 8.5 minutes over a space of about 2000 miles (including vertical and horizontal movement) reaches a velocity right around 17,400 MPH (orbital velocity)
Now, something built into a side of a mountain is going to be only about a mile or so long at most. it would have to attain a greater speed in that period of time because the atmosphere would slow it down considerably on its way to orbit. (in fact it would burn just like a re-entering space craft does coming down only hotter because it's in thicker air so it would need a bunch of shielding too.)
Anyway, that short distance, coupled with the need for such great speed is a lot of acceleration. I haven't run the math on it but I suspect its in the magnitude of 100's maybe even 1000's of Gs.
Building an unmanned probe to withstand that is nearly impossible. There is no way a life form could cope with that though. We'd practically turn inside out!
Well as stated in other posts, it did have a buffer. The thing that gets a lot of people that try to code for this fabulous machine is that you have to synchronize all of your computing work with the electron gun on the TV.
Each scanline takes so many clocks to complete, Each blank phase takes so many more.
If you didn't fit perfectly, or at least be below the scan thresholds and use the waiting features, you would totally blorch your screen.
BTW, I was just a kid when the Atari 2600 came out, as soon as I could get ahold of info on it (1989) I began hacking code for it.
Technically I am too young to have developed anything on the Atari 2600, but I did it anyway:-) I think I'm a better coder for it, I mean how many other coders in my generation can say that they have worked in an environment that was so real time you had to count clock cycles in your head while you coded?
What you say you are doing is "eating up their bandwidth" this is by definition denial of service. Bandwidth is a resource they need to run their business, and by consuming that resource you are denying their customers access to their business.
Your idea would be akin to welding the doors at your local Wal-mart shut. Both will get you in a great deal of trouble.
That being said, I'm not a fan of pop-ups, but I think this would be the wrong way to go about stopping them.
I'm not sure when this happened, but I was told this one in my Software Ethics class.
Montgomery Ward (a catalog company) lost a warehouse for 2 years because of a software bug. The workers at the warehouse came to work each day, and no boxes came in or left the warehouse so they just made the existing stock as orderly as possible.
The bug was discovered and the warehouse went back into operation, but it had merchandise that was 2 years out of date!
Actually if you were inside a space ship you would here it.
There is no sound directly in space as there is no atmosphere to vibrate and tickle our ear drums. However, the explosion would produce a shock wave of kinetic energy which would rattle any matter it came in contact with. So we can only assume that the camera man's space ship is responsible for transforming this into sound for us.
SMTP is only a protocol for the transporting of messages. The format of the message is irrelevant. All that is required in the message is that the server knows who the message is going to. The from address given in SMPT is not the one that you see in your browser. It is simply used for logging purposes, and was originally intended as a way for sites to help debug each other's mail servers.
The real culprit that allows the headers to be faked is the arpanet message formatting standard. (RFC 2822). SMTP messages are defined as a block of 7bit characters. It's the messages themselves that allow the exploits, not the SMTP portion itself.
It's very nice, in fact I'd go as far to say it is my favorite interface of ANY gui out there. Nice and simple, works with your system and not inspite of it.
Now, if you'd like to see some elements of look and feel change, submit it as a description or drawing. If the main guys over there won't listen to you I will, and I'll change code:-)
rox is pretty much a blank slate to work with, it's very young, and the gui it comes with doesn't have all the bells and whistles, instead those are made by applets. I'm developing a lot of applets it needs, so I may be in a position to help you.
one US mirror has mozilla-1.0 on it site and is currently giving me the maximum download my IDSL line's bandwidth will allow.
 
The mirror is:
 
ftp://archive.progeny.com/mozilla/releases/mozilla 1.0/  
This seems to be the only one that has it at the time of this posting.  
It's a time honored tradition. April first is the feast of fools. A day in mid-shift of the seasons, when life is starting to blossom on this hemisphere again. It tends to make people giddy, so at least this lets us save our mischief for one day out of the whole season!:-)
Actually you aren't legally required to give that number to anyone except the social security agency. If any company attempts to deny you service based on refusal to give out your social security number they will have violated the social security act and will be liable for time in a federal prison.
Also, you don't have to pay into it. It's a voluntary program just like over 90% of federal income tax. For more information on the opt in programs the IRS wants you to believe you're required to pay read Title 26 of the United States code. Unless you are a non resident alien, working for a foreign corporation, received a petition from the secretary of the treasurey, or manufacture producst susseptible to excise tax, You aren't required to pay federal income tax.
Request your IMF file from the IRS. Most of the time you'll see yourself classified as 4035, working for a foreign corporation. You don't have to file, you don't have to pay. Any employer that witholds tax is guilty of fraud, and the IRS's notices violate section 9b of RCP US code title 18 so you can refuse them for fraud. The law scares them. Enjoy!
The site on the ball lightning seems to indicate that you need a spherical container. I did it with a drinking glass and it worked just fine, my plasmoids where stable for about 1-2 seconds. Very fun, and definitely away to scare my significant other out of her wits. (She followed me into the kitchen when I took a cork and a match and watched in horror)
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It really adds nothing new to copyright law other than providing specific civil and criminal penalties for the unauthorized uploading of material to a network.
This isn't ncecessarily a bad thing, it protects the rights of the copyright holders. If you create something, you can distribute the heck out of it. Get permission from the holder and again there is no problem.
Now, it does have a specific form of distribution which is treated unequally from the pnealties of all other forms, that may be bad, but I don't really see how as this form can be far more damaging to a holder (in theory at least) than any other.
So don't succomb to the kneejerk reaction on this. Perhaps it is a bit unfair, but it does not take away the freedoms that most people are going to think it does from reading that headline and blurb about the bill.
I may be off the mark. Believe me, I don't support the RIAA at all in this matter, still it is their property and they can do with it as they please. This bill only enforces that in a slightly different way than say, burning 50 cds of it and handing them out.
"But with 2 shits running 24x7 it is possible for sure Atlantis could of be ready in 2 weeks."
--emphasis mine
Hmm... would that be Bill and Tom or Fred and George? Look at those two shits go! They sure can get a shuttle going!
Sorry, couldn't resist. We all have bouts of childishness.
perhaps they did as a sort of "insurance policy."
:-)
They insert 80 lines from unix, then linux starts to hurt them. They then bring up the bomb that they planted.
Look at what they did prior to this. They tried to get the copyright and patents to unix from novell. They were about to launch their contengency plan and found a hole. They decided to proceed anyway and here we are
of course, there is the fact that it doesn't matter one pair of dingos kidneys what happens.
:-)
Sure it could stop people from adopting linux as a business solutions. So what? We'll still have it at home and we'll still have it to tinker with.
If there is offending code, that would be fun. Then we get to remove it and rewrite it. That could be a very rewarding end in and of itself.
Perhaps we'll even become one of the HURD. Who knows? I think it would be exciting, but the bottom line is that there is no way to kill OSS, because we'll keep on doing it for free for the shear joy of it.
It's all about the code and making friends for me, the more I have to write, the better
Well I'd have to say that there is a pretty good case for prior art on this one. I mean this is not too dissimilar from what web browsers have been doing for a few years now in the location tab (autocompletion of URLs)
Also, in mozilla you can define macros that can be accessed via the location bar. So I can type google foo to search google for foo. The next time I come along I will probably just have to get as far as google fo and it will complete my search parameter!
So there you go, mozilla has done it for at least a year. It even gives you suggestions, most popular at the top.
Another app that does it is my check tender on my palm pilot. It does this for payees...
Too bad most people will be scared off by court costs to argue the obvious. Oh well.
some of us are awake. I certainly am. I saw it coming before he was even elected. Judging by his attitude toward military and parody I knew he hated liberty and was a war munger (sp?).
The sad part is, most people here didn't vote for him. It was a selection process by a largely republican supreme court that put the Uber Republican in power.
I'm afraid that there will be many far reaching reprecussions for allowing this to happen. We probably have set the ball rolling for the 3rd world war with the US as the axis of evil. It could start tomorrow and I would not be surprised.
By and large it is deserved. Most people here just lie down and take it, so we haven't maintained our end of what it takes to be free. Few of us do pay attention. Those who think are called dissidents and are labeled as dangerous. We aren't dangerous, there are too few of us in this malaise of people that call themselves Americans.
If the price of freedom is eternal vigilance, we haven't paid our bill in the slightest.
I am not a Christian. However, I have read the bible several times and in several different langauges.
I know you have these list of 10 things you shall not do. (10 commandments if you will, but that's a rough translation of the hebrew)
Now, my delimma is this. Looking at any image that is a representation of anything that is in earth or heaven would be forbidden if you took the time to read up on your faith.
Think about it. You can't have artificial images of any kind according to the 10 commandments. You cannot watch telivision (think of it as a graven-image-o-matic, spewing 30 graven images per second)...
Plus there is nothing forbidding the objectizing of women. In fact in the bible it is encouraged. The hebrew notion of adultry is that of the violation of property. In order to commit adultry you have to have sex with someone else's wife. Now, if these women you objectize and use aren't married, it's simply fornication. The only thing the bible has to say about that is that when you knock the woman up, you pay for the child.
not to mention all those cluster rockets that you can build. If it's under 1kg in propellant weight it's still only a model.
I was responding to a poster who asked about hurtles and what this would do to the higher classed rockets. I wouldn't have said anything at all about that had it not come up. So it is on topic for the thread of the discussion.
There are lots of hoops. A great deal depends on how high you will go, proximity to airports and military bases, the size of the missile, a whole lot of stuff.
I used to launch small amateur rockets and I remember having to organize things with the FAA for the window of time I would be in the comercial air space. Basically it's like filing a flight plan with a flight controller. They verify that is a safe window when you are not as likely to shoot down a plane.
Once you go above a certain altitude, however, you enter military air space and you have a whole other animal to deal with. They ask the tough questions like "why do you want to launch this missile?"
All in all, I only built about 3 rockets that went higher than commercial airspace. These flew to about 100-200 thousand feet above sea level. (100,000; 120,000; 180,000 to be exact) It took me more time getting all the permissions I needed to launch the darn things than it did to engineer them.
Other hurdles are the handling of the propellants, the little tasty bit of info about solid rocket propellants is that it is difficult to design a solid fuel motor that doesn't explode on the launch pad. Also, there is the fact that in a lot of counties you have to have a fire marshall present when you are handling the explosives.
It's a tough hobby from a legal sense, and probably rightly so. Even from behind a bunker of sand bags, I have been knocked flat on my back from the concussion of a solid rocket explosion that was 300 yards away from me. In my earliest attempt at making a high performance rocket I actually had one explode and later found pieces of shrapnel ebedded in asphalt farther DOWNRANGE of my position. So it is rought with danger, failures are catastrophic, and if you aren't very very careful you will die if you try to build one of these.
Also, I had built rockets with a useful payload of up to 3 kg, more than enough to load up enough explosives to blow up a building, not that I would of course.
It would reduce it significantly. Except, it still takes just as much energy and so the electricity is going to be costly.
One other problem though.... Acceleration.
Think of it this way, the shuttle, in 8.5 minutes over a space of about 2000 miles (including vertical and horizontal movement) reaches a velocity right around 17,400 MPH (orbital velocity)
Now, something built into a side of a mountain is going to be only about a mile or so long at most. it would have to attain a greater speed in that period of time because the atmosphere would slow it down considerably on its way to orbit. (in fact it would burn just like a re-entering space craft does coming down only hotter because it's in thicker air so it would need a bunch of shielding too.)
Anyway, that short distance, coupled with the need for such great speed is a lot of acceleration. I haven't run the math on it but I suspect its in the magnitude of 100's maybe even 1000's of Gs.
Building an unmanned probe to withstand that is nearly impossible. There is no way a life form could cope with that though. We'd practically turn inside out!
Well as stated in other posts, it did have a buffer. The thing that gets a lot of people that try to code for this fabulous machine is that you have to synchronize all of your computing work with the electron gun on the TV.
:-) I think I'm a better coder for it, I mean how many other coders in my generation can say that they have worked in an environment that was so real time you had to count clock cycles in your head while you coded?
Each scanline takes so many clocks to complete,
Each blank phase takes so many more.
If you didn't fit perfectly, or at least be below the scan thresholds and use the waiting features, you would totally blorch your screen.
BTW, I was just a kid when the Atari 2600 came out, as soon as I could get ahold of info on it (1989) I began hacking code for it.
Technically I am too young to have developed anything on the Atari 2600, but I did it anyway
What you say you are doing is "eating up their bandwidth" this is by definition denial of service. Bandwidth is a resource they need to run their business, and by consuming that resource you are denying their customers access to their business.
Your idea would be akin to welding the doors at your local Wal-mart shut. Both will get you in a great deal of trouble.
That being said, I'm not a fan of pop-ups, but I think this would be the wrong way to go about stopping them.
I'm not sure when this happened, but I was told this one in my Software Ethics class.
Montgomery Ward (a catalog company) lost a warehouse for 2 years because of a software bug. The workers at the warehouse came to work each day, and no boxes came in or left the warehouse so they just made the existing stock as orderly as possible.
The bug was discovered and the warehouse went back into operation, but it had merchandise that was 2 years out of date!
-Bob
Actually if you were inside a space ship you would here it.
:-)
There is no sound directly in space as there is no atmosphere to vibrate and tickle our ear drums. However, the explosion would produce a shock wave of kinetic energy which would rattle any matter it came in contact with. So we can only assume that the camera man's space ship is responsible for transforming this into sound for us.
Not to mention the fact that it is cool
now, we just need 2 tone floppy disks that look like gel-caps to go with it
This is NOT the fault of SMTP. (RFC 2821)
SMTP is only a protocol for the transporting of messages. The format of the message is irrelevant. All that is required in the message is that the server knows who the message is going to. The from address given in SMPT is not the one that you see in your browser. It is simply used for logging purposes, and was originally intended as a way for sites to help debug each other's mail servers.
The real culprit that allows the headers to be faked is the arpanet message formatting standard. (RFC 2822). SMTP messages are defined as a block of 7bit characters. It's the messages themselves that allow the exploits, not the SMTP portion itself.
you may want to have a look at the rox desktop .
:-)
It's very nice, in fact I'd go as far to say it is my favorite interface of ANY gui out there. Nice and simple, works with your system and not inspite of it.
Now, if you'd like to see some elements of look and feel change, submit it as a description or drawing. If the main guys over there won't listen to you I will, and I'll change code
rox is pretty much a blank slate to work with, it's very young, and the gui it comes with doesn't have all the bells and whistles, instead those are made by applets. I'm developing a lot of applets it needs, so I may be in a position to help you.
At last, we LINUX geeks have an interface that rivals Micro$soft's in crappiness and unwieldyness. Now linux will take off on the desktop.
You can claim anything you want.
:-)
Who'll believe you is a different story intirely
one US mirror has mozilla-1.0 on it site and is currently giving me the maximum download my IDSL line's bandwidth will allow.a 1.0/
 
The mirror is:
 
ftp://archive.progeny.com/mozilla/releases/mozill
 
This seems to be the only one that has it at the time of this posting.
 
It's a time honored tradition. April first is the feast of fools. A day in mid-shift of the seasons, when life is starting to blossom on this hemisphere again. It tends to make people giddy, so at least this lets us save our mischief for one day out of the whole season! :-)
At last big media will help me spread the word of the plight of fluffy!
Actually you aren't legally required to give that number to anyone except the social security agency. If any company attempts to deny you service based on refusal to give out your social security number they will have violated the social security act and will be liable for time in a federal prison.
Also, you don't have to pay into it. It's a voluntary program just like over 90% of federal income tax. For more information on the opt in programs the IRS wants you to believe you're required to pay read Title 26 of the United States code. Unless you are a non resident alien, working for a foreign corporation, received a petition from the secretary of the treasurey, or manufacture producst susseptible to excise tax, You aren't required to pay federal income tax.
Request your IMF file from the IRS. Most of the time you'll see yourself classified as 4035, working for a foreign corporation. You don't have to file, you don't have to pay. Any employer that witholds tax is guilty of fraud, and the IRS's notices violate section 9b of RCP US code title 18 so you can refuse them for fraud. The law scares them. Enjoy!
The site on the ball lightning seems to indicate that you need a spherical container. I did it with a drinking glass and it worked just fine, my plasmoids where stable for about 1-2 seconds. Very fun, and definitely away to scare my significant other out of her wits. (She followed me into the kitchen when I took a cork and a match and watched in horror)
Anyway, happy ball lightning!
-Bob the pngwen