Melbourne IT were working within the policy of ICANN, whereby it is now acceptable for a domain to be transferred without the explicit approval of the original owner.
Absolute bollocks !
The domain transfer process is exactly the same for end users. It is only the changing of registrars that has changed. It is now the case that if you wish to move your domain to another registrar, then if the old registrar does not answer the request within the 5 days, then the request will be granted anyway. Nothing at all to do with the registration process whatsoever !
Malicious software writers promise to release an updated version of their work on the day after the second Tuesday of each month (which may or may not be the second Wednesday).
Err, as far as I can tell, the day after the 2nd Tuesday of _any_ month is in fact a Wednesday, and yes, yes, I do believe it will be the _second_ Wednesday !
So if Microsoft or various partners want to keep an eye on your pc habits, they can just install some spyware through an automatic update, and their anti-spyware software won't find it.
How cool is that ?
Even if it was spying for the government, its not exactly fair.
Well I'm running F@H on this machine right now, (FC2, AMD Sempron 2500, 512 RAM) and its not slowing this machine down any.
The linux version of the software has changed a few times since you tried it perhaps.
How can you refuse to use something without seeing what the current state of affairs is ?
I was in tokyo a few years ago, and here are a few tips. For anybody wishing to use a credit card to get cash from an ATM, there are very very few ATMs that take or process non-japanese cards. But after some expensive time on the net while staying in the Tokyo station Hotel on night 1 of the trip, I found a handy ATM, that is in English and takes foreign cards. On the Yaesu side of Tokyo station, there is an underground shopping mall. In there, there is, hidden away in a side passage, that elusive ATM. Basically, come out of Tokyo Station on the Yaesu side (not Marunouchi / Imperial Palace side) and immediately turn right. Walk past the bus stops and you will see steps leading down to the mall. Go down the steps and into the mall. Head towards the shops and there will be turnings off on the left hand side. Down the end of one of those turnings is the ATM. Of course it may have moved by now, but it had moved from the location that I found for it on the net when I was there, but persistence pays off (especially when you have no cash, and you're hungry ! ) Second tip : If you want a JR railpass, then you MUST buy it before you go to Japan. They are not available inside the country. Once you arrive in Japan (narita in my case) you have to go to JR's office in the airport to get the pass issued, so take all the relevant documents.
I would post a map of Tokyo, but all that stuff is still packed away somewhere. Check out Ueno Park, and I did some video at the time which you can see here (sorry, its realmedia, but it was all processed on my laptop, and uploaded when possible while travelling).
So the guys who came up with this idea have seen the movie The Day After Tomorrow, and are making sure the route to Mexico is profitable ( just in case )?
I agree totally. I know a little when it comes to *nix systems, and even when I didn't, I never went to a forum/mailing list asking questions without trying to sort my problems first. Then, I could ask for help while showing what I had already done, and that usually showed that I was not trying to sponge off people who had already done the work.
I really hate, and refuse to help people who ask things like " I plugged in my usb mouse, and nothing happened" or "I plugged in my usb mouse, and nothing happened, linux sux !".
Those types of people should go back to an OS that treats you like a kid, and won't let you change things.
now the BBC can force legislation so that we in the UK will have to have a fuckin tv licence just to have internet access.
Whether or not we receive tv over the phone line or not, it will count as possessing the necessary equipment, and so we will have to pay. I for one would like to see the tv licence dropped, not give them new ways to tax us !
Not if the tv tuner uses video overlay.
I have a WINtv usb box on the desktop, and if I use vnc to connect from a remote location, I can see the app but not the video. Same goes for dvd playback (xine, windvd etc)
A) You can't take something that doesn't belong to you, period. Not life, liberty, songs, software or Videos. You can't logically debate for taking something that doesn't belong to you.
Do the artists own the electrons ?
Can I be sued for whistling a copyrighted choon as I walk down the street ?
Ideas are public domain as soon as you make them known, and songs/videos/software are ideas that have been followed up. Excuse me if I can't have the same idea later and act on it.
B) Kazaa is more like the pawn shop who knowingly sells stolen goods. The store owner will get arrested, not the buyer.
If the store is selling legally purchased second hand copies of a cd, are they still breaking copyright ? I thought distribution was part of the crime. Besides which, we haven't established that anythings been stolen yet, as there is nothing missing from anywhere that should have been there. (apart from a potential profit)
C) The Beta-Max decision does not apply to this case. Why? Because in 1984 you couldn't distribute your copy to everyone on the face of the planet. The decision granted you the recorder, permission to time shift. Not the justification to share your recordings with your neighbor. Just because you missed the broadcast, does not give you the right to download and view it for free. You didn't take the extra effort to set your VCR/PVR/Whatever so obviously you don't care.
You could distribute your copy to everyone on the planet, there was nothing stopping you except shipping costs ! The decision granted nothing, what it did was prevent the broadcasters from trying to prevent you making a private copy. I don't know where you live, but I have to pay for the "right" to watch tv, and as such I will get access to it any damn way I please. Just because they prefer me to use the "conventional" device doesn't mean I should have to.
D) We wouldn't be having this discussion if humans were honest by nature. Were not.
So, whos more honest, the RIAA humans or the Kazaa humans ?
E) Nothing in life is free. Especially at the expense of others. Learn it, Live it, Love it.
Learning should be free
The USA is supposedly founded on freedom
Is a mothers love free ?
Having a few financial worries are we ?!
F) Western Governments will soon pass more stringent internet usage laws unless we police ourselfs. Say goodbye to anonymous cowards.
I always thought that the police were there to catch offenders, not prevent crime. Seems to me that more and more people these days are looking forward to a totalitarian state, because they need someone to wipe their ass for them. And being dependent, they mimic whatever bullshit they are fed by the "puppet-masters".
G) If even one pedifile picture is passed on a p2p service, 90 percent of the US population will vote to ban p2p.
ROFLMAO !!
You can't even get 90% of the US population to vote for its own damn government. Why would they vote against a tool for feet ?
Perhaps you were referring to a paedophile ?
Now, if you can explain to me why I should pay a fucking travelling minstrel, hard earned money, time and time again for the same crap then I would appreciate it. If I want to see an artist at work, then I go out and pay money to get into the venue where they are performing. I refuse to support the idea that for a lousy few weeks "work" a year, these so called "artists" get to print money by selling recordings, and spend the rest of the time whining about how hard done by they are. I don't even get the whole "entertainment ind
Er, if thats your idea of "excellent" then oh dear. It looks like the images found in the Haynes book of Lies of car engines. Virtually impossible to make out seperate items from each other.
After a few years working for people who thought that programming was just "cut & paste", I gave up on full time computer employment.
These days I work full time as a delivery driver for a roofing supplies firm.
Yeah the money isn't as good (but only just) but there are several advantages:
Exercise and plenty of it !
I get to start work at 7am (the it jobs I had didn't even open the office until 9am (I used to be found hanging around outside waiting to start)
I get to travel around and see different aspects of everyday life.( I recently spent a year travelling around the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore) Its amazing, all the really beautiful scenery, and friendly people out there.
I get to think while I drive. (So when I get home I can get straight on to coding a new idea)
One recent project has to do with driving standards and so with a cheap spycam addition to my sony dv camcorder, I catch all sorts of real life, stupid stunts on tape.
I actually still enjoy working with the computer, rather than being forced to be fighting with someone elses expectations.
Also, the money I earn can be spent on tech stuff, like wireless set ups, new machines, plus all the "free" OS stuff like linux, *bsd etc. I am the admin on four colo webservers, with a few (not hundreds) of paying customers, and I rent the servers myself. I have a freeBSD webserver running off the adsl line at home, and have set up a FC2 desktop for my sisters kids, so they have no problems with spyware/viruses etc. I do all the updates remotely over ssh (auth via private key). In short, its nice to have a "real life" and still get to work on things I enjoy doing. I have yet to get hacked on any of my colo servers, and checking the logs / tripwire etc daily is not too time consuming.
Unless the money offered is at least twice my current income, then I'm happy being "blue collar" for now.
And this is an example of why "America" is no longer great.
If you (as a country) spent less time watching "info-mercials" and more time actually learning real history, you would know that Henry Ford is responsible for the introduction of the production line. He didn't invent the car, there were French, German and British inventions way before his car was built.
As for inventing the aeroplane, that is not entirely true either. The wright brothers were credited with the first powered flight, but they built on the work of others in Europe, and there is even some doubt as to whether they were the first to achieve powered flight.
As to the Chrysler/Mercedes Benz thing, you do realise that most of the inventions that "America" is famous for were invented by European immigrants. Names such as Einstein and Werner von Braun spring to mind here.
Add all this to the fact that "American" companies have been taking over the rest of the worlds industries with the almighty dollar for over 40 years and you might realise what the fuss over globalisation is about.
fucking goldfish memory !
Telephone - Alexander Graham Bell - Born in Scotland
Wireless transmission - Guglielmo Marconi - Born in Italy
Manhattan Project - J. Robert Oppenheimer - Born In New York to German Immigrants
Electronic Computer - Konrad Zuse - Born in Germany
Helicopter - SIKORSKY, Igor Ivanovich - Born in Russia
Motorcycle - Gottlieb Daimler - Born in Germany
Bicycle - James Starley - Born in England
Jet airplane - Hans von Ohain - Born in Germany
British:
Disc Brakes - Frederick William Lanchester
Tin Can - Peter Durand
Cat Eyes - Percy Shaw
Portland Cement - Joseph Aspdin
Cordite - Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel
Electric Motor - Michael Faraday
Locomotive - Richard Trevithick
Periscope - Sir Howard Grubb
Polyester - John Rex Whinfield and James Tennant Dickson
Viagra - Peter Dunn, Albert Wood, Dr Nicholas Terrett
Waterproof Fabric - Charles Macintosh
World Wide Web - Tim Berners-Lee .....
support for various file system types: EXT2,EXT3,MINIX,REISERFS,JFS,XFS,NTFS,FAT,MSDOS, NFS,SMBFS,NCPFS,UDF,UFS,HFS,HFS+
support for linux software RAID and LVM
support for WLAN adapters
network analysis (e.g. nmap, tcpdump)
disaster recovery (e.g. parted, gpart, partimage, testdisk, recover)
virus scanning (Clam Antivirus)
computer forensics (e.g. chkrootkit, rootkit hunter)
surf the internet (e.g. links-hacked, AxY FTP)
network boot server to boot network boot enabled clients that cannot boot from the CD
based on Linux kernel 2.4.27 and Knoppix 3.6
It is around 50MB so it fits on a credit card sized cd rom.
I have used it and its great. You can also install Firefox from the menu, ala DSL
As a guy working at TV media, I think same as that "troll guy".
No vested interest in advertising then ? Tell me, do the web site creators get payed for clicks or impressions ? I think you'll find its per click, so if I don't click on an ad, they don't get paid !
For the record, I have never clicked on an ad.
So what difference does it make if I never see them either ? If the ad blocker was installed without the end users notice, then that could be considered a breach of some law, as the user wouldn't know what they were missing, but as they are nearly all installed as a matter of preference, then the theft angle does not stand up.
I'm getting sick of hearing people whining about the theft of their intangible, electronic, "property" !
As far as I'm concerned, computer programming, (which is what it all boils down to, ads and all) is a virtual "art", and art is not available for patent. Thank you.
I notice that tabbed browsing ends up using even more desktop real estate.
How can that be possible ?
Several tabs in SAME WINDOW versus lots of windows ?
I suppose the tiny extra bar for the tabs does reduce the screen area for the browser by a little, but that is not the desktop.
I don't know whether you realise this, but that is exactly what a programmer does.
A "problem" is nothing more than something that exists to be solved.
ie.
x + y = z
Programmers convert mathematical "problems" into language that the computer can use, in order to calculate the answers to those problems, faster and more efficiently than a human can.
Solutions are created (or discovered) by the computer, not the programmer. Otherwise, why would we need an Earth Simulator for investigating climate change.
We solve "problems" every day in life, but the modern usage seems to be that a problem is when something goes wrong. Depends on your point of view I guess. A Rubiks cube is a problem, as is the calculation of a trajectory.
Slashdot Mirror
Also, there could be this
I regularly place parts of me in animals
No,.. wait
Carry on, as you were.
Nothing to see here !
The domain transfer process is exactly the same for end users. It is only the changing of registrars that has changed.
It is now the case that if you wish to move your domain to another registrar, then if the old registrar does not answer the request within the 5 days, then the request will be granted anyway.
Nothing at all to do with the registration process whatsoever !
So how come you're modded "insightful" ?
If the "Creationists" want to put forward their point of view, they should refrain from disfiguring other peoples work and write their own book ....
No, wait...
Err, as far as I can tell, the day after the 2nd Tuesday of _any_ month is in fact a Wednesday, and yes, yes, I do believe it will be the _second_ Wednesday !
Also:
Make sure the label is facing up in the cd writer
Make sure you turn the power on before you try to burn the disk
Beware the internet may be watching you
Who the fuck are you talking to ?
So if Microsoft or various partners want to keep an eye on your pc habits, they can just install some spyware through an automatic update, and their anti-spyware software won't find it.
How cool is that ?
Even if it was spying for the government, its not exactly fair.
I'll stick with ad-aware thanks.
The linux version of the software has changed a few times since you tried it perhaps.
How can you refuse to use something without seeing what the current state of affairs is ?
Plus I am dloading white box linux via Azureus BT client.
Hello, 2005 calling
I was in tokyo a few years ago, and here are a few tips.
For anybody wishing to use a credit card to get cash from an ATM, there are very very few ATMs that take or process non-japanese cards.
But after some expensive time on the net while staying in the Tokyo station Hotel on night 1 of the trip, I found a handy ATM, that is in English and takes foreign cards.
On the Yaesu side of Tokyo station, there is an underground shopping mall. In there, there is, hidden away in a side passage, that elusive ATM. Basically, come out of Tokyo Station on the Yaesu side (not Marunouchi / Imperial Palace side) and immediately turn right. Walk past the bus stops and you will see steps leading down to the mall. Go down the steps and into the mall. Head towards the shops and there will be turnings off on the left hand side. Down the end of one of those turnings is the ATM. Of course it may have moved by now, but it had moved from the location that I found for it on the net when I was there, but persistence pays off (especially when you have no cash, and you're hungry ! )
Second tip : If you want a JR railpass, then you MUST buy it before you go to Japan. They are not available inside the country. Once you arrive in Japan (narita in my case) you have to go to JR's office in the airport to get the pass issued, so take all the relevant documents.
I would post a map of Tokyo, but all that stuff is still packed away somewhere. Check out Ueno Park, and I did some video at the time which you can see here (sorry, its realmedia, but it was all processed on my laptop, and uploaded when possible while travelling).
So the guys who came up with this idea have seen the movie The Day After Tomorrow, and are making sure the route to Mexico is profitable ( just in case )?
I agree totally. I know a little when it comes to *nix systems, and even when I didn't, I never went to a forum/mailing list asking questions without trying to sort my problems first.
Then, I could ask for help while showing what I had already done, and that usually showed that I was not trying to sponge off people who had already done the work.
I really hate, and refuse to help people who ask things like " I plugged in my usb mouse, and nothing happened" or "I plugged in my usb mouse, and nothing happened, linux sux !".
Those types of people should go back to an OS that treats you like a kid, and won't let you change things.
A longer section from the 9pm bbc news
approx. 14 minutes divx (~105MB ) here
divx (9.5 MB) here
now the BBC can force legislation so that we in the UK will have to have a fuckin tv licence just to have internet access.
Whether or not we receive tv over the phone line or not, it will count as possessing the necessary equipment, and so we will have to pay.
I for one would like to see the tv licence dropped, not give them new ways to tax us !
wanker !
Not if the tv tuner uses video overlay.
I have a WINtv usb box on the desktop, and if I use vnc to connect from a remote location, I can see the app but not the video. Same goes for dvd playback (xine, windvd etc)
Do the artists own the electrons ?
Can I be sued for whistling a copyrighted choon as I walk down the street ?
Ideas are public domain as soon as you make them known, and songs/videos/software are ideas that have been followed up. Excuse me if I can't have the same idea later and act on it.
If the store is selling legally purchased second hand copies of a cd, are they still breaking copyright ?
I thought distribution was part of the crime.
Besides which, we haven't established that anythings been stolen yet, as there is nothing missing from anywhere that should have been there. (apart from a potential profit)
You could distribute your copy to everyone on the planet, there was nothing stopping you except shipping costs !
The decision granted nothing, what it did was prevent the broadcasters from trying to prevent you making a private copy.
I don't know where you live, but I have to pay for the "right" to watch tv, and as such I will get access to it any damn way I please. Just because they prefer me to use the "conventional" device doesn't mean I should have to.
So, whos more honest, the RIAA humans or the Kazaa humans ?
Learning should be free
The USA is supposedly founded on freedom
Is a mothers love free ?
Having a few financial worries are we ?!
I always thought that the police were there to catch offenders, not prevent crime. Seems to me that more and more people these days are looking forward to a totalitarian state, because they need someone to wipe their ass for them. And being dependent, they mimic whatever bullshit they are fed by the "puppet-masters".
ROFLMAO !!
You can't even get 90% of the US population to vote for its own damn government. Why would they vote against a tool for feet ?
Perhaps you were referring to a paedophile ?
Now, if you can explain to me why I should pay a fucking travelling minstrel, hard earned money, time and time again for the same crap then I would appreciate it.
If I want to see an artist at work, then I go out and pay money to get into the venue where they are performing.
I refuse to support the idea that for a lousy few weeks "work" a year, these so called "artists" get to print money by selling recordings, and spend the rest of the time whining about how hard done by they are.
I don't even get the whole "entertainment ind
Er, if thats your idea of "excellent" then oh dear.
It looks like the images found in the Haynes book of Lies of car engines.
Virtually impossible to make out seperate items from each other.
After a few years working for people who thought that programming was just "cut & paste", I gave up on full time computer employment.
These days I work full time as a delivery driver for a roofing supplies firm.
Yeah the money isn't as good (but only just) but there are several advantages:
Exercise and plenty of it !
I get to start work at 7am (the it jobs I had didn't even open the office until 9am (I used to be found hanging around outside waiting to start)
I get to travel around and see different aspects of everyday life.( I recently spent a year travelling around the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore) Its amazing, all the really beautiful scenery, and friendly people out there.
I get to think while I drive. (So when I get home I can get straight on to coding a new idea)
One recent project has to do with driving standards and so with a cheap spycam addition to my sony dv camcorder, I catch all sorts of real life, stupid stunts on tape.
I actually still enjoy working with the computer, rather than being forced to be fighting with someone elses expectations.
Also, the money I earn can be spent on tech stuff, like wireless set ups, new machines, plus all the "free" OS stuff like linux, *bsd etc. I am the admin on four colo webservers, with a few (not hundreds) of paying customers, and I rent the servers myself.
I have a freeBSD webserver running off the adsl line at home, and have set up a FC2 desktop for my sisters kids, so they have no problems with spyware/viruses etc. I do all the updates remotely over ssh (auth via private key).
In short, its nice to have a "real life" and still get to work on things I enjoy doing.
I have yet to get hacked on any of my colo servers, and checking the logs / tripwire etc daily is not too time consuming.
Unless the money offered is at least twice my current income, then I'm happy being "blue collar" for now.
And this is an example of why "America" is no longer great.
:
.....
If you (as a country) spent less time watching "info-mercials" and more time actually learning real history, you would know that Henry Ford is responsible for the introduction of the production line. He didn't invent the car, there were French, German and British inventions way before his car was built.
As for inventing the aeroplane, that is not entirely true either. The wright brothers were credited with the first powered flight, but they built on the work of others in Europe, and there is even some doubt as to whether they were the first to achieve powered flight.
As to the Chrysler/Mercedes Benz thing, you do realise that most of the inventions that "America" is famous for were invented by European immigrants. Names such as Einstein and Werner von Braun spring to mind here.
Add all this to the fact that "American" companies have been taking over the rest of the worlds industries with the almighty dollar for over 40 years and you might realise what the fuss over globalisation is about.
fucking goldfish memory !
Telephone - Alexander Graham Bell - Born in Scotland
Wireless transmission - Guglielmo Marconi - Born in Italy
Manhattan Project - J. Robert Oppenheimer - Born In New York to German Immigrants
Electronic Computer - Konrad Zuse - Born in Germany
Helicopter - SIKORSKY, Igor Ivanovich - Born in Russia
Motorcycle - Gottlieb Daimler - Born in Germany
Bicycle - James Starley - Born in England
Jet airplane - Hans von Ohain - Born in Germany
British
Disc Brakes - Frederick William Lanchester
Tin Can - Peter Durand
Cat Eyes - Percy Shaw
Portland Cement - Joseph Aspdin
Cordite - Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel
Electric Motor - Michael Faraday
Locomotive - Richard Trevithick
Periscope - Sir Howard Grubb
Polyester - John Rex Whinfield and James Tennant Dickson
Viagra - Peter Dunn, Albert Wood, Dr Nicholas Terrett
Waterproof Fabric - Charles Macintosh
World Wide Web - Tim Berners-Lee
Check out Insert
:
, NFS,SMBFS,NCPFS,UDF,UFS,HFS,HFS+
It includes
support for various file system types:
EXT2,EXT3,MINIX,REISERFS,JFS,XFS,NTFS,FAT,MSDOS
support for linux software RAID and LVM
support for WLAN adapters
network analysis (e.g. nmap, tcpdump)
disaster recovery (e.g. parted, gpart, partimage, testdisk, recover)
virus scanning (Clam Antivirus)
computer forensics (e.g. chkrootkit, rootkit hunter)
surf the internet (e.g. links-hacked, AxY FTP)
network boot server to boot network boot enabled clients that cannot boot from the CD
based on Linux kernel 2.4.27 and Knoppix 3.6
It is around 50MB so it fits on a credit card sized cd rom.
I have used it and its great. You can also install Firefox from the menu, ala DSL
No vested interest in advertising then ?
Tell me, do the web site creators get payed for clicks or impressions ?
I think you'll find its per click, so if I don't click on an ad, they don't get paid !
For the record, I have never clicked on an ad.
So what difference does it make if I never see them either ?
If the ad blocker was installed without the end users notice, then that could be considered a breach of some law, as the user wouldn't know what they were missing, but as they are nearly all installed as a matter of preference, then the theft angle does not stand up.
I'm getting sick of hearing people whining about the theft of their intangible, electronic, "property" !
As far as I'm concerned, computer programming, (which is what it all boils down to, ads and all) is a virtual "art", and art is not available for patent. Thank you.
I notice that tabbed browsing ends up using even more desktop real estate.
How can that be possible ?
Several tabs in SAME WINDOW versus lots of windows ?
I suppose the tiny extra bar for the tabs does reduce the screen area for the browser by a little, but that is not the desktop.
PRICK !
I don't know whether you realise this, but that is exactly what a programmer does.
A "problem" is nothing more than something that exists to be solved.
ie.
x + y = z
Programmers convert mathematical "problems" into language that the computer can use, in order to calculate the answers to those problems, faster and more efficiently than a human can.
Solutions are created (or discovered) by the computer, not the programmer. Otherwise, why would we need an Earth Simulator for investigating climate change.
We solve "problems" every day in life, but the modern usage seems to be that a problem is when something goes wrong. Depends on your point of view I guess. A Rubiks cube is a problem, as is the calculation of a trajectory.