Universal access is *NOT* a good thing
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I have to differ with the majority of the opinions expressed here.
While I have no objection to allowing people regardless of [fill in criteria here], I do have other objections to universal access.
First, I disagree with access for elementary/middle schools. We've all heard stories about school districts running fibre thrrough the school and then connecting it to the upstream provider with a cable. The sheer waste of money for such endeavors is appalling. Second, test scores for children in the US are consistently among the lowest. Do kids really need to be learning "Web Design 101" when they can't read/write/do arithmatic? What about the teachers who are struggling to get by on low wages in the face of this technology? And this doesn't even address stories of schools calling on tech support to help them set up the computers. Tech support arrives to find that the computers in question are across the room from the nearest power outlet (true story).
Second, universal access for John and Jane Doe is not necessarily a good idea, either. John and Jane use AOL. They conform to much of the AOL stereotype. They use their AOL account to send chain mail along to their other AOL/prodigy/compuserve/... friends. They put up pictures of their beer parties and family outings on the web. While this is all well and good, it is an awful waste of disk space and bandwidth. If you're just going to share your pictures and send mail, use the USPS.
Access has its uses, which I don't even need to list here. However, there are plenty of people for whom access means yet another bill for a service they don't use for much. Is this really a good thing (unless you're an ISP who likes to sell to infrequent subscribers)? I don't think so. Besides, the proliferation of purple-and-lime colored web pages with John and Jane on it has clogged the net (not to mention turning it into an eyesore example of what *not* to do when making a web page).
While the net has its uses, especially for those among us who are power users, I don't think that this is sufficient justification for allowing anyone with a phone line and a power outlet on the net. Indeed, it is even less of a reason for a company to go out and give its employees computers and internet access. Those employees who wanted access already have it, and those who don't add to the clog of lemmings swelling the net.
...for one of the big companies making money to put some back for something like legal defense. Now what about VA? Andover? Penguin? etc.?
I contributed to the DeCSS cause by buying a T-Shirt with the decss_descramble code on it. It's nice to see someone with deeper pockets helping out too.
I wasn't at the overall contest, and didn't see the problems given, but...
I was webmaster and technical assistance for the 1999 Southeast Regional Contest. Bill Poucher came to the contest and was quite available. From my interaction with him (albeit on the side of the people administering the competition), he seemed quite reasonable and quite nice.
This is not to say that the contest ran smoothly. A more detailed account of what the tech staff went through is available.
There were some complaints, but they were handled politely, and by the end of the contest, everyone was tired but happy.
Now, back to the international contest. I don't know what happened. I can guess that the judges got hit with a salvo of complaints and joined forces to repel the assualt:) Look at it from their point of view: Some of the teams got the problem the same way you did...this validates (in your mind) your solution. Other teams struggled but didn't. They then bring accusations that the problem was unfair. There are official channels for complaints as per the rules as listed on the official site.
I said it before, and I'll repeat it. From my experience, Mr. Poucher is a decent and courteous individual. Managing a contest like this frays your nerves, and when people start bombarding you with challenges and accusations, it is easy to lose patience with them. There are also established procedures for dealing with appeals, and circumventing them by directly approaching the judges isn't likely to influence them positively.
The author of the article referenced indicates that for this very reason he put the honeypot on a dedicated firewall which allowed access ONLY to the honeypot. He also set it up so that it would allow almost all incoming and limited outgoing traffic (he said basically the reverse of what a firewall is designed for). This means that all traffic on the firewall is suspicious (pull out your camera, Bob, we got a snooper).
He also points out that he wants to make the honeypot irresistable so he names it something tantalizing like ns1.domain.com or mail.domain.com. Finally, he uses reboot (WALL "routine Maintenance") to kick the cracker off so he can examine the logs and fix the holes and modifications.
As one earlier poster said, the author tosses this off like its all in a days' work, while it leaves me shaking my head in impressed amazement. You really should read the article....its quite informative.
Administrators and teachers don't need incompetent professional spies to botch things. You're absolutely right on that score, although for a different reason. You believe that the teachers and administrators have sufficient reason and fairness to sort out problems.
From my personal experience, I know differently. Teachers and administrators have no trouble being as incompetent as a professional spying agency, and are likely worse.
First, nearly all of the teachers and administrators I dealt with growing up had a simple rule for determining fault in an altercation: the side with the most witnesses wins. This makes sense if people all tell the truth, but when a gang of bullies is on one side and the kid being bullied is on the other, it's fairly obvious what the outcome will be. Many times I found myself beaten and abused by the kids around me, only to find out that I was being punished more severely than them because they convinced the teacher or administrator that I started it.
If you think it bad that the bullies covered for each other, then what do you think of the administrators? When we would appeal the case to the school board, the answer would come back, "Vice Principal John Doe just can't be wrong. He's a fair, reasonable man who would never consider anything other than the facts. Obviously he made the right decision." Bigger bullies covering for each other and for the little bullies is truly sickening.
I have the stories and the experiences. I have a very serious distrust and disrespect for school administration in K-12. I have no intention of branding all administrators, but I can assure you that based on my experience, the truly impartial ones are far and few between.
You say "If they don't know them, who does?" I can't answer the second part of that question, but I can help with the first part: they don't know these kids; they only think they do. This is why the kids in Columbine/Jonesboro/etc. acted so unexpectedly.
If parents, church leaders, friends' parents, or teachers had truly known or looked after these kids, they wouldn't be dead/in jail. Instead, they would still be suffering through bully's attacks with a sense that such things will pass away in time. Yes it hurts painfully. I know. However, if someone who really cares takes the kid in question aside and explains with empathy that they truly understand, that violence is not an acceptable response, and that things will eventually get better, the kid will have a much better outlook on life. I know from personal experience.
I've known people who were self-taught from books who have very good design skills. Granted, if you take Laura Lemay or Lynda Weimann as the web design gospel, you'll get in trouble. On the other hand, I started out with the NCSA tutorial, picked up some of the better things in some of the books available, and adjusted my style such that my site were easier to view and use.
I admit to being a format freak, but that's self-taught. I know other people who are the same way. Bottom line--just because someone learned HTML from a book doesn't mean that their sites will suck. My web design philosophy can be found on my "Please hire a graduating college student" page at my thoughts page on the site.
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*SEEN* the destroyer droid?
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I *OWN* it man. It's pretty cool....except that it doesn't *QUITE* roll up. Oh well. It's at least a foot tall and supposedly you can put some kind of automation into it. Don't get the battle droid though....it develops this drunken forward lean after a month;)
First, you can buy X10 products from the X10 web site. Should you do so, be aware of two things: 1. They've taken marketing to a whole new low. They offer "specials" on everything, all the time. For instance, they recently put out an offer of $17 off in honor of March 17. (gag) 2. If you buy through them, use a junk email address: you WILL get spammed by them offering these "deals." Remember, it isn't a deal if you don't need it, no matter how "attractive" the price.
That said, X10 gadgets are quite useful. They have home security devices including motion sensors, and you can control an ungodly number of devices from one control pad. They provide (Windows-based) software for controling the devices, and you can find Linux software for X10 devices.
I would reccomend gx10. gx10 uses the bottlerocket software, and provides a link to it.
I would reccomend putting your serial device on COM2 if you use an external modem, since apparently the bottlerocket software can cause problems with an active modem signal. If you do this, make sure to alias gx10 to/where_your_binaries_are/gx10 -x/dev/ttyS1.
I can't think of much else that would be useful. E-mail me if you have further questions.
As one example, go read the dinner scene in book 1. You get to see all sorts of humorous exchanges, including Paul really roasting one of the dinner guests.
The following comes from Frank Herbert's forward to Heretics of Dune (book 5). I am including the entire forward to give his complete perspective.
When I was writing Dune
...there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure.I was only concerned with the writing. Six years of research had preceded the day I sat down to put the story together, and the interweaving of the many plot layers I had planned required a degree of concentration I have never before experienced. It was to be a story exploring the myth of a Messiah. It was to produce another view of a human-occupied planet as an energy machine. It was to penetrate the interlocking workings of politics and economics. It was to be an examination of absolute prediction and its pitfalls. It was to have an awareness drug in it and tell what could happen through dependence on such a substance. Potable water was to be an analog for oil and for water itself, a substance whose supply diminishes every day. It was to be an ecological novel, then, with many overtones, as well as a story about people and their human concerns with human values, and I had to monitor each of these level at every stage in the book. There wasn't room in my head to think about much else. Following the first publication, reports from the publishers were slow and, as it turned out, innacurate. The critics had panned it. More than twelve publishers had turned it down before publication. There was no advertising. Something was happening out there, though. For two years, I was swamped with bookstore and reader complaints that they could not get the book. The Whole Earth Catalog praised it. I kept getting these telephone calls from people asking if I was starting a cult. The answer: "God no!" What I'm describing is the slow realization of success. By the time the first three Dune books were completed, there was little doubt this was a popular work--one of the most popular in history, I am told, with some ten million copies sold worldwide. Now, the most common question people ask is: "What does this success mean to you?" It surprises me. I didn't expect failure, either. It was a work and I did it. Parts of Dune Messiah and Children of Dune were written before Dune was completed. They fleshed out more in the writing, but the essential story remained intact. I was a writer, and I was writing. The success meant I could spend more time writing. Looking back on it, I realize I did the right thing instinctively. You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing. There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for your book, you owe that person some entertainment and as much more as you can give. That was really my intention all along.
The Auburn University Computer Science and Software Engineering Department uses linux in it's cse 405 intro to operating systems course as the basis for the lab. It's been a while since I took the class, but topics included making a device driver, scheduling, and memory and process management. It works well, and the students learn everything from installation to recompiling the kernel.
....FrontPage? FrontPage extensions on a *NIX? Do these guys want to get defaced or something?
My code in't perfect, but it's all hand-made, and I try really hard to stick to the guidelines. These guys (and their site developers) don't have a clue.
On the other hand, I have to concede that we've come to expect that our politicians will all be incompetent, so it's no surprise that they hire incompetent staff....
slashnet has a NickServ. undernet doesn't. frankly, I get annoyed by NickServ;) (and I even registered my own name). OTOH, times like this, you need to have the bot look at people's names and ban anyone who logs in with a restricted name. In this instance, CNN_bot should have been given the ability to check and see if someone was logging in as President_Clinton, and then use a variety of authentication procedures including ip addressing and password authentication to verify the identity of the individual in question.
(Which isn't to say that this wasn't funny. It's funny as hell. Live, learn, move on. I think CNN is doing that. Too bad Fox still thinks CNN was just cracked by the 3|337 dd0$ h4x0rz:) ).
I dual booted until September on the following hardware:
epox kp6-bx (dual PII) board
two celeron 400 cpu's
128 meg RAM,/li>
adaptec u2w scsi card
voodoo III 2000 agp
sblive value!
linksys 10/100/fast nic
lvd scsi cd-rom
scsi hard disk
ide hard disk
With Windows 98 I had no end of problems that I couldn't explain. If I tried changing cd's, I had to reboot because the machine would lock (despite disabling autorun). After I installed 3dfx's upgrade drivers, the system refused to wake on mouse or wake on lan when it went to sleep. When the power went out (which, for a 4-month period, seemed to be every couple days), Windows would be completely jacked. It did things like make the opening sound clip "stutter." I reinstalled it twice during that period because it was convinced that certain hardware/software wasn't there/didn't work (especially the nic (of which, the first really was fubar (thanks Alabama Power), and the replacement was ok)).
Linux, by contrast performs wonderfully. When it went down during the 4-month period, it made me sit through the standard "you didn't shut down properly--checking disks" routine, but after that, everything worked like a charm. I have no problems with the scsi cd, either. I recently managed a 24-day uptime, (my longest ever;) )and then got home from school to discover that Netscape had eaten the system resources (oh well).
Of course, there are tradeoffs. My sound card works a lot better under Windows (I still haven't figured out how to get emu101k to compile for smp), and I've had problems with Palm and Rio utilities. On the whole, though, I'm much happier now that I'm running one OS (Linux), and not fighting Windows every time I want to accomplish something.
1. Can you strip the copied disc or does it still have the copy protect on it (as in, is the copy protect inherently in the setup and gets duped too, or is it disc-specific, prompting a question as to whether or not the disc can be read by a proper player w/o the copy-protect....ad nauseum)?
2. If the duplicate CD is also copy-protected, is there a way to modify blindread to act as a pre-stripper for an mp3 program?
4 years. I still don't know every acronym. Of course, I am slow. It took me a day or two to figure out BRB, a few months on IANAL, IIRC, and IMHO. It took me a year to figure out FUD (and only after I saw it in print). Of course, there's always the acronym FAQ, but I don't like to go look things up, y'know? Maybe it's faser to ask on one that's obscure (like HTH, which I didn't know and had never seen til today). OTOH (hmm...another nice acronym), maybe it's just better to flame the ignorant SOB who has the audacity to ask WTF HTH stands for....
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I have to differ with the majority of the opinions expressed here.
While I have no objection to allowing people regardless of [fill in criteria here], I do have other objections to universal access.
First, I disagree with access for elementary/middle schools. We've all heard stories about school districts running fibre thrrough the school and then connecting it to the upstream provider with a cable. The sheer waste of money for such endeavors is appalling. Second, test scores for children in the US are consistently among the lowest. Do kids really need to be learning "Web Design 101" when they can't read/write/do arithmatic? What about the teachers who are struggling to get by on low wages in the face of this technology? And this doesn't even address stories of schools calling on tech support to help them set up the computers. Tech support arrives to find that the computers in question are across the room from the nearest power outlet (true story).
Second, universal access for John and Jane Doe is not necessarily a good idea, either. John and Jane use AOL. They conform to much of the AOL stereotype. They use their AOL account to send chain mail along to their other AOL/prodigy/compuserve/... friends. They put up pictures of their beer parties and family outings on the web. While this is all well and good, it is an awful waste of disk space and bandwidth. If you're just going to share your pictures and send mail, use the USPS.
Access has its uses, which I don't even need to list here. However, there are plenty of people for whom access means yet another bill for a service they don't use for much. Is this really a good thing (unless you're an ISP who likes to sell to infrequent subscribers)? I don't think so. Besides, the proliferation of purple-and-lime colored web pages with John and Jane on it has clogged the net (not to mention turning it into an eyesore example of what *not* to do when making a web page).
While the net has its uses, especially for those among us who are power users, I don't think that this is sufficient justification for allowing anyone with a phone line and a power outlet on the net. Indeed, it is even less of a reason for a company to go out and give its employees computers and internet access. Those employees who wanted access already have it, and those who don't add to the clog of lemmings swelling the net.
Who am I?
Why am here?
Where is the chocolate?
...for one of the big companies making money to put some back for something like legal defense. Now what about VA? Andover? Penguin? etc.?
I contributed to the DeCSS cause by buying a T-Shirt with the decss_descramble code on it. It's nice to see someone with deeper pockets helping out too.
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Why am here?
Where is the chocolate?
If not, their lawyers need to read this :)
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This makes passing a whole bunch of flags easier too....almost like setting flags into a register in assembler....
Now that you point it out, I'm surprised I didn't think of that.
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OK...the binary looks....interesting.....but what would you want perl handling binary for?
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I wasn't at the overall contest, and didn't see the problems given, but...
:) Look at it from their point of view: Some of the teams got the problem the same way you did...this validates (in your mind) your solution. Other teams struggled but didn't. They then bring accusations that the problem was unfair. There are official channels for complaints as per the rules as listed on the official site.
:)
I was webmaster and technical assistance for the 1999 Southeast Regional Contest. Bill Poucher came to the contest and was quite available. From my interaction with him (albeit on the side of the people administering the competition), he seemed quite reasonable and quite nice.
This is not to say that the contest ran smoothly. A more detailed account of what the tech staff went through is available.
There were some complaints, but they were handled politely, and by the end of the contest, everyone was tired but happy.
Now, back to the international contest. I don't know what happened. I can guess that the judges got hit with a salvo of complaints and joined forces to repel the assualt
I said it before, and I'll repeat it. From my experience, Mr. Poucher is a decent and courteous individual. Managing a contest like this frays your nerves, and when people start bombarding you with challenges and accusations, it is easy to lose patience with them. There are also established procedures for dealing with appeals, and circumventing them by directly approaching the judges isn't likely to influence them positively.
Who am I?
Why am here?
Where is the chocolate?
The author of the article referenced indicates that for this very reason he put the honeypot on a dedicated firewall which allowed access ONLY to the honeypot. He also set it up so that it would allow almost all incoming and limited outgoing traffic (he said basically the reverse of what a firewall is designed for). This means that all traffic on the firewall is suspicious (pull out your camera, Bob, we got a snooper).
He also points out that he wants to make the honeypot irresistable so he names it something tantalizing like ns1.domain.com or mail.domain.com. Finally, he uses reboot (WALL "routine Maintenance") to kick the cracker off so he can examine the logs and fix the holes and modifications.
As one earlier poster said, the author tosses this off like its all in a days' work, while it leaves me shaking my head in impressed amazement. You really should read the article....its quite informative.
Who am I?
Why am here?
Where is the chocolate?
Administrators and teachers don't need incompetent professional spies to botch things. You're absolutely right on that score, although for a different reason. You believe that the teachers and administrators have sufficient reason and fairness to sort out problems.
From my personal experience, I know differently. Teachers and administrators have no trouble being as incompetent as a professional spying agency, and are likely worse.
First, nearly all of the teachers and administrators I dealt with growing up had a simple rule for determining fault in an altercation: the side with the most witnesses wins. This makes sense if people all tell the truth, but when a gang of bullies is on one side and the kid being bullied is on the other, it's fairly obvious what the outcome will be. Many times I found myself beaten and abused by the kids around me, only to find out that I was being punished more severely than them because they convinced the teacher or administrator that I started it.
If you think it bad that the bullies covered for each other, then what do you think of the administrators? When we would appeal the case to the school board, the answer would come back, "Vice Principal John Doe just can't be wrong. He's a fair, reasonable man who would never consider anything other than the facts. Obviously he made the right decision." Bigger bullies covering for each other and for the little bullies is truly sickening.
I have the stories and the experiences. I have a very serious distrust and disrespect for school administration in K-12. I have no intention of branding all administrators, but I can assure you that based on my experience, the truly impartial ones are far and few between.
You say "If they don't know them, who does?" I can't answer the second part of that question, but I can help with the first part: they don't know these kids; they only think they do. This is why the kids in Columbine/Jonesboro/etc. acted so unexpectedly.
If parents, church leaders, friends' parents, or teachers had truly known or looked after these kids, they wouldn't be dead/in jail. Instead, they would still be suffering through bully's attacks with a sense that such things will pass away in time. Yes it hurts painfully. I know. However, if someone who really cares takes the kid in question aside and explains with empathy that they truly understand, that violence is not an acceptable response, and that things will eventually get better, the kid will have a much better outlook on life. I know from personal experience.
Who am I?
Why am here?
Where is the chocolate?
'nuff said
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I've known people who were self-taught from books who have very good design skills. Granted, if you take Laura Lemay or Lynda Weimann as the web design gospel, you'll get in trouble. On the other hand, I started out with the NCSA tutorial, picked up some of the better things in some of the books available, and adjusted my style such that my site were easier to view and use.
I admit to being a format freak, but that's self-taught. I know other people who are the same way. Bottom line--just because someone learned HTML from a book doesn't mean that their sites will suck. My web design philosophy can be found on my "Please hire a graduating college student" page at my thoughts page on the site.
Who am I?
Why am here?
Where is the chocolate?
I *OWN* it man. It's pretty cool....except that it doesn't *QUITE* roll up. Oh well. It's at least a foot tall and supposedly you can put some kind of automation into it. Don't get the battle droid though....it develops this drunken forward lean after a month ;)
Who am I?
Why am here?
Where is the chocolate?
First, you can buy X10 products from the X10 web site. Should you do so, be aware of two things:
/where_your_binaries_are/gx10 -x /dev/ttyS1.
1. They've taken marketing to a whole new low. They offer "specials" on everything, all the time. For instance, they recently put out an offer of $17 off in honor of March 17. (gag)
2. If you buy through them, use a junk email address: you WILL get spammed by them offering these "deals." Remember, it isn't a deal if you don't need it, no matter how "attractive" the price.
That said, X10 gadgets are quite useful. They have home security devices including motion sensors, and you can control an ungodly number of devices from one control pad. They provide (Windows-based) software for controling the devices, and you can find Linux software for X10 devices.
I would reccomend gx10. gx10 uses the bottlerocket software, and provides a link to it.
I would reccomend putting your serial device on COM2 if you use an external modem, since apparently the bottlerocket software can cause problems with an active modem signal. If you do this, make sure to alias gx10 to
I can't think of much else that would be useful. E-mail me if you have further questions.
PS--you can check freshmeat for more X10 utils.
Who am I?
Why am here?
Where is the chocolate?
As one example, go read the dinner scene in book 1. You get to see all sorts of humorous exchanges, including Paul really roasting one of the dinner guests.
Who am I?
Why am here?
Where is the chocolate?
The following comes from Frank Herbert's forward to Heretics of Dune (book 5). I am including the entire forward to give his complete perspective.
...there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure.I was only concerned with the writing. Six years of research had preceded the day I sat down to put the story together, and the interweaving of the many plot layers I had planned required a degree of concentration I have never before experienced.
When I was writing Dune
It was to be a story exploring the myth of a Messiah.
It was to produce another view of a human-occupied planet as an energy machine.
It was to penetrate the interlocking workings of politics and economics.
It was to be an examination of absolute prediction and its pitfalls.
It was to have an awareness drug in it and tell what could happen through dependence on such a substance.
Potable water was to be an analog for oil and for water itself, a substance whose supply diminishes every day.
It was to be an ecological novel, then, with many overtones, as well as a story about people and their human concerns with human values, and I had to monitor each of these level at every stage in the book.
There wasn't room in my head to think about much else.
Following the first publication, reports from the publishers were slow and, as it turned out, innacurate. The critics had panned it. More than twelve publishers had turned it down before publication. There was no advertising. Something was happening out there, though.
For two years, I was swamped with bookstore and reader complaints that they could not get the book. The Whole Earth Catalog praised it. I kept getting these telephone calls from people asking if I was starting a cult.
The answer: "God no!"
What I'm describing is the slow realization of success. By the time the first three Dune books were completed, there was little doubt this was a popular work--one of the most popular in history, I am told, with some ten million copies sold worldwide. Now, the most common question people ask is: "What does this success mean to you?"
It surprises me. I didn't expect failure, either. It was a work and I did it. Parts of Dune Messiah and Children of Dune were written before Dune was completed. They fleshed out more in the writing, but the essential story remained intact. I was a writer, and I was writing. The success meant I could spend more time writing.
Looking back on it, I realize I did the right thing instinctively. You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.
There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for your book, you owe that person some entertainment and as much more as you can give.
That was really my intention all along.
Frank Herbert
Who am I?
Why am here?
Where is the chocolate?
The Auburn University Computer Science and Software Engineering Department uses linux in it's cse 405 intro to operating systems course as the basis for the lab. It's been a while since I took the class, but topics included making a device driver, scheduling, and memory and process management. It works well, and the students learn everything from installation to recompiling the kernel.
Who am I?
Why am here?
Where is the chocolate?
Are they going to make movies that are better than the last one that came out? The last one had potential but went off on a tangent somewhere....
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Why am here?
Where is the chocolate?
....FrontPage? FrontPage extensions on a *NIX ? Do these guys want to get defaced or something?
My code in't perfect, but it's all hand-made, and I try really hard to stick to the guidelines. These guys (and their site developers) don't have a clue.
On the other hand, I have to concede that we've come to expect that our politicians will all be incompetent, so it's no surprise that they hire incompetent staff....
Who am I?
Why am here?
Where is the chocolate?
slashnet has a NickServ. undernet doesn't. frankly, I get annoyed by NickServ ;) (and I even registered my own name). OTOH, times like this, you need to have the bot look at people's names and ban anyone who logs in with a restricted name. In this instance, CNN_bot should have been given the ability to check and see if someone was logging in as President_Clinton, and then use a variety of authentication procedures including ip addressing and password authentication to verify the identity of the individual in question.
:) ).
(Which isn't to say that this wasn't funny. It's funny as hell. Live, learn, move on. I think CNN is doing that. Too bad Fox still thinks CNN was just cracked by the 3|337 dd0$ h4x0rz
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Why am here?
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- epox kp6-bx (dual PII) board
- two celeron 400 cpu's
- 128 meg RAM,/li>
- adaptec u2w scsi card
- voodoo III 2000 agp
- sblive value!
- linksys 10/100/fast nic
- lvd scsi cd-rom
- scsi hard disk
- ide hard disk
With Windows 98 I had no end of problems that I couldn't explain. If I tried changing cd's, I had to reboot because the machine would lock (despite disabling autorun). After I installed 3dfx's upgrade drivers, the system refused to wake on mouse or wake on lan when it went to sleep. When the power went out (which, for a 4-month period, seemed to be every couple days), Windows would be completely jacked. It did things like make the opening sound clip "stutter." I reinstalled it twice during that period because it was convinced that certain hardware/software wasn't there/didn't work (especially the nic (of which, the first really was fubar (thanks Alabama Power), and the replacement was ok)).Linux, by contrast performs wonderfully. When it went down during the 4-month period, it made me sit through the standard "you didn't shut down properly--checking disks" routine, but after that, everything worked like a charm. I have no problems with the scsi cd, either. I recently managed a 24-day uptime, (my longest ever
Of course, there are tradeoffs. My sound card works a lot better under Windows (I still haven't figured out how to get emu101k to compile for smp), and I've had problems with Palm and Rio utilities. On the whole, though, I'm much happier now that I'm running one OS (Linux), and not fighting Windows every time I want to accomplish something.
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If you pay cash, nothing can be traced, but can they trace product (UPC and SKU) codes to your checking account/credit card?
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1. Can you strip the copied disc or does it still have the copy protect on it (as in, is the copy protect inherently in the setup and gets duped too, or is it disc-specific, prompting a question as to whether or not the disc can be read by a proper player w/o the copy-protect....ad nauseum)?
2. If the duplicate CD is also copy-protected, is there a way to modify blindread to act as a pre-stripper for an mp3 program?
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4 years. I still don't know every acronym. Of course, I am slow. It took me a day or two to figure out BRB, a few months on IANAL, IIRC, and IMHO. It took me a year to figure out FUD (and only after I saw it in print). Of course, there's always the acronym FAQ, but I don't like to go look things up, y'know? Maybe it's faser to ask on one that's obscure (like HTH, which I didn't know and had never seen til today). OTOH (hmm...another nice acronym), maybe it's just better to flame the ignorant SOB who has the audacity to ask WTF HTH stands for....
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I thought the agreement was that he would be immune from prosecution as long as he stopped developing DeCSS? Did I miss something?
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Since Mickeysoft already owned the domain with an established "service" *cough, cough*, doesn't this amount to squatting?
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