No no. Encryption is like a pair of socks. Just like socks over time encryption wears out and develops holes. The holes can be fixed by darning er patching but they aren't ever as comfy as before.
It's not so much the knowledge that would be outlawed so much as telling people. It's not much of a stretch of the imagination to see how the DMCA could cover this type of work. IANAL so maybe I am missing somthing that would prevent it's application in this case - I don't think so though..
While I am not paranoid (IMHO) about cookies I do block obvious tracking cookies. To use your analogy of the Internet being a public space a tracking cookie is the equivalent of someone following you around taking notes about what you do. While you might not mind that I think the vast majority of people would which is why there are anti-stalking laws.
It's not really a privacy thing I just don't want to be followed everywhere I go.
Here you go I put together a page about it CSS layout. I'm no CSS expert but I investigated this in quite some depth. All the ways that I could find to do it stank of a hack so I just used a table (which also stinks of a hack but it felt like the least worst option).
While it would be interesting to know how many pages the big search engines index this isn't a way to measure the size of them. I am ready to be proved wrong but as far as I can tell this is totally flawed.
The number of results given isn't a measure of the size of the search set unless you also know the algorithum being used. If both search engines use an algorithum is designed to just find pages with the given word and return all pages then this will work. However that isn't necessarily the case I imagine both google and yahoo will return a smaller set of pages at times of heavy load or possibly it you screw about and do 10000 queries from the same IP address in 5 minutes. To prove the fact this experiment doesn't work why don't they come and test my super wizzy search engine. It will give them 999 results for every query.
What has happend to/.. We can't even cause a slow down on a little site like wikipedia any more and worse they they are rubbing our noses in it with the little post at the bottom of the article. We must fight back. Hordes, click those links. Leave those servers a smoking pile of twisted metal.
As well as the freezer trick for bearings I have found a _light_ tap with the handle of a screw driver directly over the bearings can help. If you do freeze it make sure you put it in a plastic bag first.
As for Maxtor drives being reliable I almost only use Maxtor now (DiamondMax). I have had a couple of really olg drives die on me (sub 1GB so they were pretty old) but the only one that has died that didn't last as long as I hoped was an IBM DeathStar erm DeskStar. Absolute pile of... well you get my drift.
A story to brighten your day though. One of the Maxtor drives I have is, I believe, nearly indistructable. It's a 20GB IIRC drive that I got about 5 years ago. One day while swaping it to another machine I dropped it. Doh. The problem was as it fell the underside clipped the case and took of a surface mount. The mount looked like it was toast as it had sheared off so that there was no leg to re-attach it (it was one of the larger surface mounts). I carefully filed down the edge of the mount to expose some of the leg that is inside the case and soldered it back on. The drive still works.
While it is a shame the they felt the need to revert (well 5% of them did) I can fully understand why they have. I have only briefly used SO but I use use OO all the time and AFIAK they are all but identical - it they aren't just ignore me.
OO is great. It's amazing that they have put together sure a comprehensive set of tools in such a short period of time but, and here's the rub, it's not as good as MSO. I'm sure it will be in a couple more years but that's a long time to wait with tools that aren't quite as good especially when the TCO of better tools is probably only slightly higher. Don't get me wrong I love OO (my company uses only open source) but you need to be someone that will put up with cutting edge and the problems that causes.
The biggest problem though has got to be the fact that MSO can't open OO files. What a pain in the neck that must be. OO can work some fine magic exporting to MSO file formats but any non-trivial document is always just slightly out compared to what would have been produced in MSO. Some people don't care about formatting but enough want their document to look right that they will abandon OO for MSO simply because they see it as less work.
AFAIK there is no long any county in the UK that doesn't have speed cameras although, IIRC, West Glamorgan has only one or two and about a dozen mobile cameras - I seem to remember they also saw one of the largest drops in road fatalities. I forget where I read this - probably the BBC if you are interested.
As for seat belts occasionally causing death last I heard was that since their introduction there had only been one death directly attributed to the wearing of a seat belt. I admit that there have been plenty of others where the seat belt has been a contributing factor. In high speed crashes it is not uncommon for the seat belt to do substantial damage. But, and this is a big but, what would the injuries have been like if the occupant hadn't been wearing a seat belt. My guess is they would have been much worse. I would like to see seat belts made optional though with a strong campain to wear them. At the end of the day it should be one own personal choice.
I would like to see motorways speed limits increased to 80 or maybe 85 as no one sticks to 70 any more. Well actually what I would like is to have the inside lane at 60 and the out lanes at 85. You might think this sound dangerous and perhaps it is but in reality it is what we have now anyway. Trucks are limited to 60 (or is it 65) and live in the inside lane for the most part. The outside lane is always doing a minimum of 80 and normally more like 90. I think setting the limit to 100 is a little excessive though. While my car will do 100 quite easily the fuel consumption is terrible and it is certainly not as responsive as it is at 80 or even 90. Current cars might be able to travel at 100 but the areodynamics were designed for lower speeds.
I wanted to do something like this a few weeks back and ran in to similar problems. The difference was I was starting from Open Office sxw files. I thought, and it would seem that I was wrong, that OOo could run the file against a custom xslt style sheet to create output. If it can I couldn't get it working and no one replied to my request for more information on it. The solution I decided upon (but haven't got round to implementing) is to simply write a little code to unzip the sxw file and run the relevent file against a style sheet. Not as nice as getting Writer to do it but it should work. You would need to add another step in front of that but opening the word document and saving it as a sxw but that is easy enough and could probably be scripted.
Since when has common sense ever dictated what our paranoid protectors do?
The people this guy is trying to stop make a living out of being paranoid and seeing a bad guy round every corner (how does that work in space because it has no corners). No amount of common sense reasoning is going to stop them.
Even if we could cure them of their paranoia they have a vested interest in making the non-problem seem as bad as it possibly can be.
While a weapon free space would be nice I doubt very much if we will ever see it. In fact I am sure there are weapons up there already. The only reason I don't think we will see a huge number up there is because a) it's hard (impossible) to maintain them b) it's very expensive to put them up there in the first place and c) they are very prone to attack because they are on display 24/7.
I just don't get it. The Linspire marketing droids must have a pact with the devil of something. They always seem to be pushing 1000 units here 10000 there. Ok they never seem to make any money but...
I just can't help feeling that there are better (and probably better maintained) Linux distributions to choose from. Surely if you are going to drop in 300k copies you would do you home work and come up with Debian or Fedora but not Linspire.
I suspect the reason they seem to be doing so well is because they market to the masses and no other Linux distribution does. I would like to see other Linux distributions spend some cash on marketing - try and loose some of the geekiness.
The problem though is that if you tilt your head, even slightly, the 3D effect is lost and the image looks awful. I would prefer it if they used the "double the frame rate and block light to alternating eyes" technique. The glasses aren't much heavier just a bit more expensive. It would also mean that anyone without glasses would be able to enjoy the film in 2D as well.
By making the rockets from bits we have left over, the new plan would draw on the shuttle's existing network of thousands of blood sucking leeches and out dated technology, in theory slowing its completion and increasing its price.
but the advance bulls^H^H^H^H^H content filter "fixed" it.
Wow I wish I had mod points now +1 informative. Saying that though while I was aware of some studies showing negative effects the ones I had seen all used rats or humans that used large amounts of the substance. I certainly remember seeing people at university that could hardly talk due to smoking pot all day. Since cleaning themselves up they have pretty much returned to normal although in some cases that took many years. While the evidence might be quite compelling I would ask what the risks are when compared to alcohol and tabbaco both of which are legal and widely accepted. Many it's worse maybe it's not I don't know but the evidence I have seen so far doesn't make me think that it is as bad as it is made out to be by the popluar press. I will have a read of a few of those links and attempt to make a more scientific judgement. Just skimming the titles though makes me nervous. Lucky I didn't inhale:o)
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I'm running out of ideas for fake names to sign up with.
I moved from BitTorrent to writting the ones and zeros down on bits of paper and posting them to people. That really is progress.
Well I would like to say "You must be new here" but it seems your not. Starting with a +5 post, most impressive.
Your wish fulfilled:
Google: Approx 47,100
Yahoo: Approx 258,000
Both searches we for "my weevil collection" without quotes. With quotes the results are:
Google: 3
Yahoo: 4
Yahoo is champ.
No no. Encryption is like a pair of socks. Just like socks over time encryption wears out and develops holes. The holes can be fixed by darning er patching but they aren't ever as comfy as before.
How did this get moderated interesting. Are the moderators all smoking crack? This is one of the funniest posts I have seen on /. in ages.
I think I'll just pose as a good guy. No one would ever expect something that simple.
Man that's deep.
It's not so much the knowledge that would be outlawed so much as telling people. It's not much of a stretch of the imagination to see how the DMCA could cover this type of work. IANAL so maybe I am missing somthing that would prevent it's application in this case - I don't think so though..
...how long it will be beofre someone tries to ban books like this?
While I am not paranoid (IMHO) about cookies I do block obvious tracking cookies. To use your analogy of the Internet being a public space a tracking cookie is the equivalent of someone following you around taking notes about what you do. While you might not mind that I think the vast majority of people would which is why there are anti-stalking laws.
It's not really a privacy thing I just don't want to be followed everywhere I go.
Here you go I put together a page about it CSS layout. I'm no CSS expert but I investigated this in quite some depth. All the ways that I could find to do it stank of a hack so I just used a table (which also stinks of a hack but it felt like the least worst option).
I love Google. Search for squoozer: Google: 197 (estimated and a suggestion I change my name to squeezer.) Yahoo: 37
I didn't realize that I had posted that much on /.. I must get out more.
While it would be interesting to know how many pages the big search engines index this isn't a way to measure the size of them. I am ready to be proved wrong but as far as I can tell this is totally flawed.
The number of results given isn't a measure of the size of the search set unless you also know the algorithum being used. If both search engines use an algorithum is designed to just find pages with the given word and return all pages then this will work. However that isn't necessarily the case I imagine both google and yahoo will return a smaller set of pages at times of heavy load or possibly it you screw about and do 10000 queries from the same IP address in 5 minutes. To prove the fact this experiment doesn't work why don't they come and test my super wizzy search engine. It will give them 999 results for every query.
What has happend to /.. We can't even cause a slow down on a little site like wikipedia any more and worse they they are rubbing our noses in it with the little post at the bottom of the article. We must fight back. Hordes, click those links. Leave those servers a smoking pile of twisted metal.
Interesting idea. If it's all the same I will let you do it with your mission critical servers. I think I will just suffer a few minutes down time.
As well as the freezer trick for bearings I have found a _light_ tap with the handle of a screw driver directly over the bearings can help. If you do freeze it make sure you put it in a plastic bag first.
As for Maxtor drives being reliable I almost only use Maxtor now (DiamondMax). I have had a couple of really olg drives die on me (sub 1GB so they were pretty old) but the only one that has died that didn't last as long as I hoped was an IBM DeathStar erm DeskStar. Absolute pile of... well you get my drift.
A story to brighten your day though. One of the Maxtor drives I have is, I believe, nearly indistructable. It's a 20GB IIRC drive that I got about 5 years ago. One day while swaping it to another machine I dropped it. Doh. The problem was as it fell the underside clipped the case and took of a surface mount. The mount looked like it was toast as it had sheared off so that there was no leg to re-attach it (it was one of the larger surface mounts). I carefully filed down the edge of the mount to expose some of the leg that is inside the case and soldered it back on. The drive still works.
While it is a shame the they felt the need to revert (well 5% of them did) I can fully understand why they have. I have only briefly used SO but I use use OO all the time and AFIAK they are all but identical - it they aren't just ignore me.
OO is great. It's amazing that they have put together sure a comprehensive set of tools in such a short period of time but, and here's the rub, it's not as good as MSO. I'm sure it will be in a couple more years but that's a long time to wait with tools that aren't quite as good especially when the TCO of better tools is probably only slightly higher. Don't get me wrong I love OO (my company uses only open source) but you need to be someone that will put up with cutting edge and the problems that causes.
The biggest problem though has got to be the fact that MSO can't open OO files. What a pain in the neck that must be. OO can work some fine magic exporting to MSO file formats but any non-trivial document is always just slightly out compared to what would have been produced in MSO. Some people don't care about formatting but enough want their document to look right that they will abandon OO for MSO simply because they see it as less work.
AFAIK there is no long any county in the UK that doesn't have speed cameras although, IIRC, West Glamorgan has only one or two and about a dozen mobile cameras - I seem to remember they also saw one of the largest drops in road fatalities. I forget where I read this - probably the BBC if you are interested.
As for seat belts occasionally causing death last I heard was that since their introduction there had only been one death directly attributed to the wearing of a seat belt. I admit that there have been plenty of others where the seat belt has been a contributing factor. In high speed crashes it is not uncommon for the seat belt to do substantial damage. But, and this is a big but, what would the injuries have been like if the occupant hadn't been wearing a seat belt. My guess is they would have been much worse. I would like to see seat belts made optional though with a strong campain to wear them. At the end of the day it should be one own personal choice.
I would like to see motorways speed limits increased to 80 or maybe 85 as no one sticks to 70 any more. Well actually what I would like is to have the inside lane at 60 and the out lanes at 85. You might think this sound dangerous and perhaps it is but in reality it is what we have now anyway. Trucks are limited to 60 (or is it 65) and live in the inside lane for the most part. The outside lane is always doing a minimum of 80 and normally more like 90. I think setting the limit to 100 is a little excessive though. While my car will do 100 quite easily the fuel consumption is terrible and it is certainly not as responsive as it is at 80 or even 90. Current cars might be able to travel at 100 but the areodynamics were designed for lower speeds.
I wanted to do something like this a few weeks back and ran in to similar problems. The difference was I was starting from Open Office sxw files. I thought, and it would seem that I was wrong, that OOo could run the file against a custom xslt style sheet to create output. If it can I couldn't get it working and no one replied to my request for more information on it. The solution I decided upon (but haven't got round to implementing) is to simply write a little code to unzip the sxw file and run the relevent file against a style sheet. Not as nice as getting Writer to do it but it should work. You would need to add another step in front of that but opening the word document and saving it as a sxw but that is easy enough and could probably be scripted.
we welcome our nano-wire producing overlords.
Wait a minute something is wrong there. Damn bugs in the system again.
Since when has common sense ever dictated what our paranoid protectors do?
The people this guy is trying to stop make a living out of being paranoid and seeing a bad guy round every corner (how does that work in space because it has no corners). No amount of common sense reasoning is going to stop them.
Even if we could cure them of their paranoia they have a vested interest in making the non-problem seem as bad as it possibly can be.
While a weapon free space would be nice I doubt very much if we will ever see it. In fact I am sure there are weapons up there already. The only reason I don't think we will see a huge number up there is because a) it's hard (impossible) to maintain them b) it's very expensive to put them up there in the first place and c) they are very prone to attack because they are on display 24/7.
I just don't get it. The Linspire marketing droids must have a pact with the devil of something. They always seem to be pushing 1000 units here 10000 there. Ok they never seem to make any money but...
I just can't help feeling that there are better (and probably better maintained) Linux distributions to choose from. Surely if you are going to drop in 300k copies you would do you home work and come up with Debian or Fedora but not Linspire.
I suspect the reason they seem to be doing so well is because they market to the masses and no other Linux distribution does. I would like to see other Linux distributions spend some cash on marketing - try and loose some of the geekiness.
The problem though is that if you tilt your head, even slightly, the 3D effect is lost and the image looks awful. I would prefer it if they used the "double the frame rate and block light to alternating eyes" technique. The glasses aren't much heavier just a bit more expensive. It would also mean that anyone without glasses would be able to enjoy the film in 2D as well.
What they meant to say was:
By making the rockets from bits we have left over, the new plan would draw on the shuttle's existing network of thousands of blood sucking leeches and out dated technology, in theory slowing its completion and increasing its price.
but the advance bulls^H^H^H^H^H content filter "fixed" it.
Wow I wish I had mod points now +1 informative. Saying that though while I was aware of some studies showing negative effects the ones I had seen all used rats or humans that used large amounts of the substance. I certainly remember seeing people at university that could hardly talk due to smoking pot all day. Since cleaning themselves up they have pretty much returned to normal although in some cases that took many years. While the evidence might be quite compelling I would ask what the risks are when compared to alcohol and tabbaco both of which are legal and widely accepted. Many it's worse maybe it's not I don't know but the evidence I have seen so far doesn't make me think that it is as bad as it is made out to be by the popluar press. I will have a read of a few of those links and attempt to make a more scientific judgement. Just skimming the titles though makes me nervous. Lucky I didn't inhale :o)