I see no ethical problems here. More, since both teams are willing to reuse, true meaning of "opposite direction" is only lack of perception of wholeness. Both projects will merge in the future, taking rich of features from both sides.
Ummm... No shift key this time? Maybe player comes with free spyware too, freshly reinstalled on every song. K00l!
BTW, any "copy protection" scheme for information which shall be reproduced is impossible from the pure mathematical reason. If you can't understand this, read some Shannon, Wiener or Von Neumann book about classic cybernetics/information theory.
Well, at least impossible until whole CD became entangled quantum pair with your CD player box, and both will cease to exist in response of copy attempt.
Soon, you will have a good excuse excuse for playing Enigma, Sokoban, or other box shuffling clones: "I am just excercising a failure recovery procedure for the cube in the middle, sir."
You can even play a breakout with a baseball in the real world with that technology.
Is this taxation without representation? And where would this trend stop?
It will never stop. Observing trends, taxation is increasing for long as past 4000 years. Next phase is Slashdot charging all Cowards $.03/year for keeping them Anonymous...
Checking for updates on my new favorite spyware removal company
I am afraid there is something wrong with the mindset of ack154. He is so often checking for spyware removal tools, so he has a favourite one??? If I had a spyware problem for the second time, I would seek immediately an option to drop such a platform completely.
Nicola Tesla already invented power over wireless in 1908. His invention was scratched, because having wires mean to control energy distribution and money.
However, with an array of properly tuned antennas, you can already draw significant amount of power (somtimes in order of watts) from near cell phone towers, radio stations, radars, until you get caught by team equipped with proper field gradient measuring equipment.
Anyway, using modulated signals as a source of power somewhat reminds me of burning books just for heating.
In the process of platform migration in large corporate/government scale, there is necessity to run both old and new technology at the same time for certain period. Dual booting is not an option, immediate switching to Linux having a lot of legacy apps may become jump into darkness, risky. Both government byrocracies and large bussinesses are conservative in general, avoiding unnecessary risk.
Having a whole KDE desktop operational on windows, both technology switch and staff training steps of migration process may be done in advance, without risk of losing something critical on the way.
Is there a way to slow or stop the sharing of music and video that would appease the those companies and yet not bring down the P2P system?
No, it is not. The behavioral patterns of media sharing underground very resemble the behavioral pattern of political dissent in former deep communist totalitarian states. This includes following patterns:
- Basically, the idea of voluntarily serving to others is the motive behind movement. On the contrary, establishment has modus operandi of exploiting others.
- Underground has not militant tendencies. No guns, no bombs, no riots, no killings.
- No matter how many people are jailed, information stil continues to flow. Self motivation of activists is increasing under pressure.
- Activists are better in using a new technology paradigm more creatively than establishment (( Under late communism, it were modems and dot matrix printers. Today, it's P2P. Tomorrow, it will be the encryption and WPAN. )) This gives them tactical superiority against information denial.
- Excercising state power against children and teenagers rather creates tension in public masses, slowly building up resistance in middle class. The reason is, spreading information is hardly publicly percieved as a crime in society, because it does no real harm to individuals.
- Further accumulation of pressure will eventually lead to degradation of establishment's influence to whole society. Establishment increases propaganda and oppression proportionally to this loss.
- This escalation countinues until establishment is clearly percepted as inadequate by whole society. Propaganda has no more effect on public no matter of the volume.
- Without power to control, establishment quickly loses economic influence, is melted and underground becomes a new establishment.
Maybe some journalists could bring lights on lobby activities of Jan Muhlfeit, CEO of Microsoft Czech and Microsoft Vice President for Europe. Mr. Muhlfeit currently does a "free advisor" to Czech Prime Minister Stanislav Gross. Guess the motives about it: Gross's party wasted billions of CZK for "Internet To Schools" program, now installed a *big* number of defunct Windows zombies computers ready for use by spammers over the world.
I play Drakthrone as an undead race character. Once, an elf who surpassed me greatly in level advancement, so I could not reached him with attack anymore, messaged me literally "Do not address me as an equal anymore". Should I sue him for racism?
...I worked at mainframe datacenter (running cute Sperry+Univac U90/30 and big U90/60). Using a four digit employee number in place of password for terminal login was a duty written in employee contract.
When we got some first IBM XT Personal Computer, our boss was very concerned about not having a proper employee number login. So I wrote my first DOS application, 5 lines of basic code, sticked it at end of autoexec.bat and got some xmass premium for solving "serious security issue".
Still running some ancient mozilla beta build, but the "Block images from this server" right click option is what keeps me preferring mozilla over konqueror for more than a year. My internet surfing experience since then is mostly advertising-less.
Because of load balancing, many high traffic sites use specialised ads servers, so it is easy to block advertising traffic without disturbing actual content page.
Guess what, in the long lists of blocked advertising servers, the very first one is "ads.osdn.com". Makes Slashdot more friendly to me.
Some tips from my blocklist. Be creative to find other balancers in your local area, but THESE have huge global coverage:
penguin on iPAQ is a daily bread for me
on
Embedded Gentoo?
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Native compiling, eh... considering it's Gentoo, how long would X take to compile on an iPAQ?:-)"
Although I am using Familiar Linux on iPAQ (for years;-) not Gentoo, native compiling is a great curiosity but simply works for many GNU projects. Great to make impressions on WinCE users, whose usability of the PDA is rather limited in sortiment of apps in comparision with full abilities of linux on the same hardware. I have already converted several coders from windows to linux just by demonstration of my iPAQ running at the same time a web server, python curses app in terminal, Quake1 in dynamic desktop icon and C compilation on background.
Of course, for serious development or building whole system from the bottom I would rather suggest crosscompilation. iPAQ memory is too small to use templates in C++. And, by the time the build of X11 will be finished, certainly X22 will be the standard....
Why did you try so called "every possible" crypto key? If you are not a complete moron, you should already know the correct coordinates. And everything other (keys, software) must be on the disk already.
SCO Linux licenses on genuine paper may become a collector's rarity, just like some early 20th century printed shares are now. Because of very limited number, it is a perfect investment for your grandchildren to buy some now!
Slashdot Mirror
TFA says: 66.250.450.10
Maybe mirror is located at 666.666.666.666...
I see no ethical problems here. More, since both teams are willing to reuse, true meaning of "opposite direction" is only lack of perception of wholeness. Both projects will merge in the future, taking rich of features from both sides.
That's easy, just spill a lot of oil all over the oceans..
What are your reasons for running the old standby suite over the Firefox/Thunderbird combo?
Weak processor and small memory. I have only 3.5GHz CPU and 2 GiGs of RAM so I am stuck with KDE K* suite only...
Ummm... No shift key this time? Maybe player comes with free spyware too, freshly reinstalled on every song. K00l!
BTW, any "copy protection" scheme for information which shall be reproduced is impossible from the pure mathematical reason. If you can't understand this, read some Shannon, Wiener or Von Neumann book about classic cybernetics/information theory.
Well, at least impossible until whole CD became entangled quantum pair with your CD player box, and both will cease to exist in response of copy attempt.
Soon, you will have a good excuse excuse for playing Enigma, Sokoban, or other box shuffling clones: "I am just excercising a failure recovery procedure for the cube in the middle, sir."
You can even play a breakout with a baseball in the real world with that technology.
Is this taxation without representation? And where would this trend stop?
It will never stop. Observing trends, taxation is increasing for long as past 4000 years. Next phase is Slashdot charging all Cowards $.03/year for keeping them Anonymous...
Checking for updates on my new favorite spyware removal company
I am afraid there is something wrong with the mindset of ack154. He is so often checking for spyware removal tools, so he has a favourite one??? If I had a spyware problem for the second time, I would seek immediately an option to drop such a platform completely.
Nicola Tesla already invented power over wireless in 1908. His invention was scratched, because having wires mean to control energy distribution and money.
However, with an array of properly tuned antennas, you can already draw significant amount of power (somtimes in order of watts) from near cell phone towers, radio stations, radars, until you get caught by team equipped with proper field gradient measuring equipment.
Anyway, using modulated signals as a source of power somewhat reminds me of burning books just for heating.
In the process of platform migration in large corporate/government scale, there is necessity to run both old and new technology at the same time for certain period. Dual booting is not an option, immediate switching to Linux having a lot of legacy apps may become jump into darkness, risky. Both government byrocracies and large bussinesses are conservative in general, avoiding unnecessary risk.
Having a whole KDE desktop operational on windows, both technology switch and staff training steps of migration process may be done in advance, without risk of losing something critical on the way.
..so everybody should have some!
Is there a way to slow or stop the sharing of music and video that would appease the those companies and yet not bring down the P2P system?
No, it is not. The behavioral patterns of media sharing underground very resemble the behavioral pattern of political dissent in former deep communist totalitarian states. This includes following patterns:
- Basically, the idea of voluntarily serving to others is the motive behind movement. On the contrary, establishment has modus operandi of exploiting others.
- Underground has not militant tendencies. No guns, no bombs, no riots, no killings.
- No matter how many people are jailed, information stil continues to flow. Self motivation of activists is increasing under pressure.
- Activists are better in using a new technology paradigm more creatively than establishment (( Under late communism, it were modems and dot matrix printers. Today, it's P2P. Tomorrow, it will be the encryption and WPAN. )) This gives them tactical superiority against information denial.
- Excercising state power against children and teenagers rather creates tension in public masses, slowly building up resistance in middle class. The reason is, spreading information is hardly publicly percieved as a crime in society, because it does no real harm to individuals.
- Further accumulation of pressure will eventually lead to degradation of establishment's influence to whole society. Establishment increases propaganda and oppression proportionally to this loss.
- This escalation countinues until establishment is clearly percepted as inadequate by whole society. Propaganda has no more effect on public no matter of the volume.
- Without power to control, establishment quickly loses economic influence, is melted and underground becomes a new establishment.
Maybe some journalists could bring lights on lobby activities of Jan Muhlfeit, CEO of Microsoft Czech and Microsoft Vice President for Europe. Mr. Muhlfeit currently does a "free advisor" to Czech Prime Minister Stanislav Gross. Guess the motives about it: Gross's party wasted billions of CZK for "Internet To Schools" program, now installed a *big* number of defunct Windows zombies computers ready for use by spammers over the world.
I play Drakthrone as an undead race character. Once, an elf who surpassed me greatly in level advancement, so I could not reached him with attack anymore, messaged me literally "Do not address me as an equal anymore". Should I sue him for racism?
...I worked at mainframe datacenter (running cute Sperry+Univac U90/30 and big U90/60). Using a four digit employee number in place of password for terminal login was a duty written in employee contract.
When we got some first IBM XT Personal Computer, our boss was very concerned about not having a proper employee number login. So I wrote my first DOS application, 5 lines of basic code, sticked it at end of autoexec.bat and got some xmass premium for solving "serious security issue".
oexeo's slashdot password is... 12321?
security data such as date of birth
Apparently my personal secure date of birth has been stolen. I am almost certain it was reused by someone else. How can I obtain another one instead?
I think I'll model, simulate and then optimize the amount of shut-down time required for spam levels to drop to zero!
Until spammers will send you a ping email to verify if your box awakes next week. Without any unnecessary top theoretical models...
to control people's brains with computers.
But that's already been implemented before. See:
www.slashdot.org
Still running some ancient mozilla beta build, but the "Block images from this server" right click option is what keeps me preferring mozilla over konqueror for more than a year. My internet surfing experience since then is mostly advertising-less.
k lick.nett e click.comb y.advertising.com
Because of load balancing, many high traffic sites use specialised ads servers, so it is easy to block advertising traffic without disturbing actual content page.
Guess what, in the long lists of blocked advertising servers, the very first one is "ads.osdn.com". Makes Slashdot more friendly to me.
Some tips from my blocklist. Be creative to find other balancers in your local area, but THESE have huge global coverage:
ads.osdn.com
ad.doubleclick.net
ad.uk.doublec
m2.doublecklick.net
m3.doublecklick.ne
a.as-us.falkag.net
falk.speedera.net
cdn.valu
z1.adserver.com
ar.atwola.com
served
Native compiling, eh... considering it's Gentoo, how long would X take to compile on an iPAQ? :-)"
;-) not Gentoo, native compiling is a great curiosity but simply works for many GNU projects. Great to make impressions on WinCE users, whose usability of the PDA is rather limited in sortiment of apps in comparision with full abilities of linux on the same hardware. I have already converted several coders from windows to linux just by demonstration of my iPAQ running at the same time a web server, python curses app in terminal, Quake1 in dynamic desktop icon and C compilation on background.
Although I am using Familiar Linux on iPAQ (for years
Of course, for serious development or building whole system from the bottom I would rather suggest crosscompilation. iPAQ memory is too small to use templates in C++. And, by the time the build of X11 will be finished, certainly X22 will be the standard....
Why did you try so called "every possible" crypto key? If you are not a complete moron, you should already know the correct coordinates. And everything other (keys, software) must be on the disk already.
Cut and break 'top to pieces. Pick the hard drive from the rubble.
SCO Linux licenses on genuine paper may become a collector's rarity, just like some early 20th century printed shares are now. Because of very limited number, it is a perfect investment for your grandchildren to buy some now!
Sir,
I, for one, welcome You as an Overlord Creator of our new Slashdot folklore!