How about so he can keep track of what he's loaned out to people, smart guy? Or even see how much he's spent on books or to use Amazon's "see what other people who bought this book bought" and summarize it with weighted averages?
Really, you should upgrade your brain soon or try to get out of the cardboard box you're confined to once in a while. You may not be interested a hack he thinks is cool, but don't go berating him for your lack of interest or imagination.
When I got my 3 cuecats - one for each of my PCs - I cut a small corner off the unmarked bag that it came in. I slid the scanner out of the hole. The software and whatever other agreements/crap are still in the bag. This way, I can prove in court I never even opened the shrinkwrap for the software - it's still in there and can't get out.
And if you can get it so you can focus on the glasses, then you can get rid of your other glasses by connecting a camera to the laptop (stereo, even) and the only thing you have to focus on is the glasses - let the camera do the rest.
Bash (and more) for Win32 is at Cygwin, many thanks to Cygnus. I don't know how I'd live without the GNU tools and Perl on my Win boxen. I tried to show a co-worker how to do something the other day and he asked me to use cmd.exe instead of bash (he didn't have Cygwin). It simply couldn't be done.
FWIW, I'm a software developer for Purdue University (on the business side of the university). Our entire SSINFO system - registrations, class schedules, and more run on Smalltalk (with web-based and desktop-based interfaces). We now have a 9 year project in place to move all student systems (student aid, bursar, god knows what else) to this Smalltalk system. Already the investment we've made in reusable code is paying off.
I'm moving to that team in Jan. as it atttracts, IMO, the best developers in the department. They go on and on about Smalltalk and how great it is. After almost 4 years, it's finally sunk in and I want to see it. I've definitely had enough of Oracle PL/SQL and PowerBuilder. Hold me back!
Jesus H. Christ on a cracker, what part of "shall not abridge" do these fuckwads not understand!
I'm getting sicker and sicker, glory God, of people who think they know what's good for my daughter. Why don't they just come out and say it: "Libraries are for commie pinkos anyway - shut em all down!" This really makes me sick to my stomach.
While I am not quite as eloquent as Don Marti, I do wish to inform you
that I won't be participating in the "hack the sdmi" initiative (it's
*crack*, anyway, not *hack*). As a seasoned computer professional with
considerable experience in cryptography (specifically, a port of PGP to
Apple's now-defunct Newton), I would normally enjoy such a challenge.
I'm afraid, however, that SDMI is a misguided initiative, hostile to me
as a consumer and unacceptable as a means of "protecting" the media I
currently enjoy.
Actually, I probably *will* work on or paricipate in an effort to crack
the SDMI, but you'll need to check Slashdot or 2600 for the results of
my work. Thank you.
"ZDNet is reporting that they've licensed technology from SpeechWorks...
Why would ZDNet license this technology? I thought their primary focus was to keep windbags like John C. Dvorak spewing about on a monthly basis and selling Micros~1 ads. Guess it's their stealth division, eh?
They claim in the FAQ that it's a video driver issue. I'm not enough of a HaX0r to know if it's a driver or it's phUx0rEd, but it sounds plausible to me.
I've just made a T-shirt of the design elements of Linux.com (now available at Copyleft), plus I've made a song about it and have posted it to Napster. Information (about design) wants to be free!
This is false. You can still create a DVD, you just can't use CSS without a license. And yes, it will play in component and other standard players.
My understanding is that there is no good way for private citizens to make DVDs, however, as the media do not exist on the common market yet. There are DVD-RAMs, but I do not believe you can put movies on them and have them play in component players yet. You'd have to get them mastered and pressed at a pressing plant which will cost you more than a couple of Benajamins (where are you when we need you, Ben?). You can, however, create VCDs to send home movies of the baby to HiTekGranny with a DVD player.
So it's illegal to link to "any Internet web site," eh? Anyone still got a gopher server running? How about putting DeCSS in an LDAP server entry somewhere?
What if they had no idea how popular and expensive it would be to run CDDB back when they started it?
Well, it's not quite that simple. They (Escient, Inc.) didn't start it. It was started by a couple of guys working indpendently. Along came Escient, from the highly elite and well capitalized enclave of Carmel, Indiana, and bought these guys out. To quote Calvin of Calvin & Hobbes fame, "I don't know which is worse: that everyone has his price, or that the price is always so low. "
When the data was added by the users, it was added under the guise that the service was and would remain free (of cost, of encumbrances like ads in one's CD software).
I say let the market decide. The market is what will favor free software in the end anyway. I use FreeDB. Why shouldn't we all? It provides the exact same service and has fewer costs. I don't end up having to pay in one way or another for Escient's giant multi-story office complex that I pass on highway 65 now and then. Now, if they want to give me a little office in the corner somewhere with a fat pipe, a reasonable salary and I can read Slashdot all day, the market may sway me somewhat differently...
Anyone got a C# compiler for Linux yet? 'Cause I know it would beat the pants off of any other language available. I read this on a really colorful, shiny page in my trade journal just yesterday.
GPG shouldn't be used on WIN32 for example because there is no suitable source of crypto strength randomness.
What about the Windows 2000 running on a PIII. My understanding is that there is a legitimate RNG built into the PIII (or maybe it's one of the intel chipsets) I would think that this would allow GPG to be sufficiently strong on Win32 if it used the right API call for this (or can access the RNG directly)
For that matter, what make "any version of UNIX" suitably strong? Would that not depend on how/dev/random is implemented? There are a lot of flavors of unix out there. I'd be hard pressed to trust my key generation to Minix on an 8088, for example.
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There's a real need to grow up in some people and get on with improving the code rather than slating the "opposition".
I'll just politely say "No, thanks."
To quote a famous philosopher (who I happened to hear on the radio this morning): "Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying. Ooh, and dying to me don't sound like all that much fun."
Oh, and what everyone else said already, too, about the fact that licenses are important and have to do with critical legal issues.
I've been on Insight @home in Indiana for over a year now and their news servers sucked at first, in terms of the feed, but now they have a huge feed and more speed than I can keep up with (my arm gets tired before my news feed shows any sign of slowing;-)!
I'm not so sure. Take the invention of the television, for example. From what I understand, it was essentially developed simultaneously in several places at once. After inventing the TV, If the guy here in the U.S. had said "Ooh. I better just forget about this TV thing. It's going to be the next opiate of the masses," we still would have had the television that was invented in Europe.
I think invention tends indeed to happen in this sort of distributed way. Stone tools appeared on several continents at more or less the same time in societal development, even when the rates of development were quite different - see Guns, Germs, and Steel.
I really do have to agree that "technology can't be stopped." To stop it would be to have a society, a world really, where every member has a common will or a common set of goals. Due to chaos or evolution or whatever, this has never been the case and never will be. Given that as a basis for action, we have little choice but to attempt to adapt as technology races on.
If we were to "monitor" technology as it is invented, who is going to do the monitoring? The government? I think not. We wouldn't have a government for long. Industry? Which biotech company makes the final decision on whether to release the drug that cures AIDS?
Even if some government/multinational wants to stop freenet, if the will of the people is for it to continue, it simply cannot be stopped. Technology is like a river. You can struggle and fight to swim upstream in order to stay in place or you can use your energy to navigate the rapids and the falls and stay afloat much longer. The Zen of technology navigation.
As you may or may not know, it's a Java app. It not only runs on various flavors of Windows and Linux, I believe some folks have it running on Macs, BeOS, etc.
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How about so he can keep track of what he's loaned out to people, smart guy? Or even see how much he's spent on books or to use Amazon's "see what other people who bought this book bought" and summarize it with weighted averages?
Really, you should upgrade your brain soon or try to get out of the cardboard box you're confined to once in a while. You may not be interested a hack he thinks is cool, but don't go berating him for your lack of interest or imagination.
When I got my 3 cuecats - one for each of my PCs - I cut a small corner off the unmarked bag that it came in. I slid the scanner out of the hole. The software and whatever other agreements/crap are still in the bag. This way, I can prove in court I never even opened the shrinkwrap for the software - it's still in there and can't get out.
And if you can get it so you can focus on the glasses, then you can get rid of your other glasses by connecting a camera to the laptop (stereo, even) and the only thing you have to focus on is the glasses - let the camera do the rest.
Bash (and more) for Win32 is at Cygwin, many thanks to Cygnus. I don't know how I'd live without the GNU tools and Perl on my Win boxen. I tried to show a co-worker how to do something the other day and he asked me to use cmd.exe instead of bash (he didn't have Cygwin). It simply couldn't be done.
FWIW, I'm a software developer for Purdue University (on the business side of the university). Our entire SSINFO system - registrations, class schedules, and more run on Smalltalk (with web-based and desktop-based interfaces). We now have a 9 year project in place to move all student systems (student aid, bursar, god knows what else) to this Smalltalk system. Already the investment we've made in reusable code is paying off.
I'm moving to that team in Jan. as it atttracts, IMO, the best developers in the department. They go on and on about Smalltalk and how great it is. After almost 4 years, it's finally sunk in and I want to see it. I've definitely had enough of Oracle PL/SQL and PowerBuilder. Hold me back!
Man, if all these big orgs don't chill out, I'm going to have a lot of T-shirts: HDTV-crack, censorware crack shirts, SDMI-crack, decss, etc.
In the immortal words of the Beastie Boys, "Something's got to give."
Jesus H. Christ on a cracker, what part of "shall not abridge" do these fuckwads not understand!
I'm getting sicker and sicker, glory God, of people who think they know what's good for my daughter. Why don't they just come out and say it: "Libraries are for commie pinkos anyway - shut em all down!" This really makes me sick to my stomach.
Sent to info@sdmi.org:
Dear Mr. Chiariglione,
While I am not quite as eloquent as Don Marti, I do wish to inform you that I won't be participating in the "hack the sdmi" initiative (it's *crack*, anyway, not *hack*). As a seasoned computer professional with considerable experience in cryptography (specifically, a port of PGP to Apple's now-defunct Newton), I would normally enjoy such a challenge. I'm afraid, however, that SDMI is a misguided initiative, hostile to me as a consumer and unacceptable as a means of "protecting" the media I currently enjoy.
Actually, I probably *will* work on or paricipate in an effort to crack the SDMI, but you'll need to check Slashdot or 2600 for the results of my work. Thank you.
Indeed, today is September 15. Therefore, today is not after September 15 (time zones notwithstanding).
Oh - maybe Boone^ was talking about Palm, Inc.
Don't forget:
3. Higher qualiy pr0n for the (formerly) blind.
They claim in the FAQ that it's a video driver issue. I'm not enough of a HaX0r to know if it's a driver or it's phUx0rEd, but it sounds plausible to me.
I've just made a T-shirt of the design elements of Linux.com (now available at Copyleft), plus I've made a song about it and have posted it to Napster. Information (about design) wants to be free!
This is false. You can still create a DVD, you just can't use CSS without a license. And yes, it will play in component and other standard players.
My understanding is that there is no good way for private citizens to make DVDs, however, as the media do not exist on the common market yet. There are DVD-RAMs, but I do not believe you can put movies on them and have them play in component players yet. You'd have to get them mastered and pressed at a pressing plant which will cost you more than a couple of Benajamins (where are you when we need you, Ben?). You can, however, create VCDs to send home movies of the baby to HiTekGranny with a DVD player.
So it's illegal to link to "any Internet web site," eh? Anyone still got a gopher server running? How about putting DeCSS in an LDAP server entry somewhere?
Talk about a "chilling effect." I'm freezing.
I wonder where he gets the time to tape episodes of Red Dwarf in between his appearances on The People's Court.
Well, it's not quite that simple. They (Escient, Inc.) didn't start it. It was started by a couple of guys working indpendently. Along came Escient, from the highly elite and well capitalized enclave of Carmel, Indiana, and bought these guys out. To quote Calvin of Calvin & Hobbes fame, "I don't know which is worse: that everyone has his price, or that the price is always so low. "
When the data was added by the users, it was added under the guise that the service was and would remain free (of cost, of encumbrances like ads in one's CD software).
I say let the market decide. The market is what will favor free software in the end anyway. I use FreeDB. Why shouldn't we all? It provides the exact same service and has fewer costs. I don't end up having to pay in one way or another for Escient's giant multi-story office complex that I pass on highway 65 now and then. Now, if they want to give me a little office in the corner somewhere with a fat pipe, a reasonable salary and I can read Slashdot all day, the market may sway me somewhat differently...
Anyone got a C# compiler for Linux yet? 'Cause I know it would beat the pants off of any other language available. I read this on a really colorful, shiny page in my trade journal just yesterday.
For that matter, what make "any version of UNIX" suitably strong? Would that not depend on how
To quote a famous philosopher (who I happened to hear on the radio this morning): "Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying. Ooh, and dying to me don't sound like all that much fun."
Oh, and what everyone else said already, too, about the fact that licenses are important and have to do with critical legal issues.
Nader.
Looks like RedHat is going to have to move to Sealand and sell its distro only online!
I've been on Insight @home in Indiana for over a year now and their news servers sucked at first, in terms of the feed, but now they have a huge feed and more speed than I can keep up with (my arm gets tired before my news feed shows any sign of slowing ;-)!
I'm not so sure. Take the invention of the television, for example. From what I understand, it was essentially developed simultaneously in several places at once. After inventing the TV, If the guy here in the U.S. had said "Ooh. I better just forget about this TV thing. It's going to be the next opiate of the masses," we still would have had the television that was invented in Europe.
I think invention tends indeed to happen in this sort of distributed way. Stone tools appeared on several continents at more or less the same time in societal development, even when the rates of development were quite different - see Guns, Germs, and Steel.
I really do have to agree that "technology can't be stopped." To stop it would be to have a society, a world really, where every member has a common will or a common set of goals. Due to chaos or evolution or whatever, this has never been the case and never will be. Given that as a basis for action, we have little choice but to attempt to adapt as technology races on.
If we were to "monitor" technology as it is invented, who is going to do the monitoring? The government? I think not. We wouldn't have a government for long. Industry? Which biotech company makes the final decision on whether to release the drug that cures AIDS?
Even if some government/multinational wants to stop freenet, if the will of the people is for it to continue, it simply cannot be stopped. Technology is like a river. You can struggle and fight to swim upstream in order to stay in place or you can use your energy to navigate the rapids and the falls and stay afloat much longer. The Zen of technology navigation.
As you may or may not know, it's a Java app. It not only runs on various flavors of Windows and Linux, I believe some folks have it running on Macs, BeOS, etc.