After years and years and years of doing the WRONG thing - bribing through horrible laws, shutting down good companies, stifling innovation and wasting billions on lawsuits - suddenly doing one right thing as well (they certainly haven't stopped doing bad things in the meantime) doesn't make you a Slashdot folk hero. I'm disinclined to be happy and congradulatory about anything the MAFIAA does short of apologize profusely and/or dissolve.
-nod- In fact, the last couple scenes in Reloaded make it seem like The Matrix is based upon just this kind of layered VM model... the world where Zion exists is a simulation running on bare metal (or is it ?), inside of which there is a virtual machine running The Matrix... and everytime The One owns it, they just roll it back and start over.
I like CUPS's mechanism for this kind of thing even more. You basically have two components, a filter and a backend. The filter takes in one a few forms of input (mostly postscript, but plain text and some image formats also) and dumps out the native data format of the selected printer model (or just echos the input if you set it as a raw queue). The backend is then responsible for somehow getting it to the printer, either queueing it on the parallel port or sending it out on the network somehow, or anything else.
Some fun things I've done with backends:
Network printing over SSH Text-to-speech queueing (print your source code to hear it read aloud by festival) Dumping into a jpeg as a way of snapshotting any document you might want to save Dumping into a PDF with ps2pdf to make your Windows friends feel stupid for buying Distiller =)
She's got sense enough to use a sploit, but she chooses a feeble password like Z1ON0101. Come ON, Trin, only 2 character classes, only 8 characters ? -sigh-
> OpenBSD, from what I can tell, more than pays the price for its security in lack of features.
I wouldn't necessarily say that. If anything, OpenBSD shows you can be secure without a great deal of sacrifice, it just requires applying talent and effort (which the OpenBSD team has). Just look at PrivSep XFree86. You don't really lose anything by doing it that way, afaik. It just wasn't being done before, somebody needed to code it.
> That we're not all pacifist diversity-lovers is a consequence of > evolution's inability to keep up with societal standards.
And the fact that there's no socially imposed evolutionary pressure against racism. If we could all collectively agree not to have sex with racists, eventuall, several hundred generations or more down the road, they'd die off.
> 99.999999% of the posts on the forums are of the nature of "how do u copy renterd gamez?"
While this has been unfortunately true of such efforts in the past... perhaps I'm naive, but I really feel like this number is significantly lower in the X-Box, just due to some of the incredible Free software out there for it. I got this working last night, but not because I have the least bit of interest in copied games. I want to use the x-box media player.
Since this thread has set the tone, seems as good a place as any to ask, although it is offtopic:
Is there a way to glue mplayer to mozilla so that I can watch streamed video? Realplayer, quicktime, and microsoft media all have some cracktastic protocol for streaming that seem to only work if you use the (slow) plugins, but once you suck down the file they play brilliantly...
> As far as I can tell, You The People don't tend to use firearms to > overthrow the government but instead use them to attack each other.
You are unfortunately correct. To be fair though, we tend to use our freedom of expression to make asinine television programs and hate-soaked talk radio, but I wouldn't want to give that right up.
Like I said, I'm deeply conflicted on the firearms issue.
> in order to cling on to an outdated, un-needed and useless section of the constitution
While I am of two minds on the gun-control debate, this snippet of text caught my eye. It's important to realize that our founders considered this one of the MOST BASIC rights that must be guaranteed.
Specifically, they wanted to ensure that the public had the means necessary to overthrow the government established by the Constitution, in the event that it didn't work out as they had hoped. If, for instance, the democratic process was subverted in some way, We The People were expected to take up our arms and restore proper government.
The fact that such a provision is essentially meaningless in an era of billion dollar war machines is a topic for another debate. If only Ben Franklin were still around to help us out with thorny issues like this... *sigh*
Most code is horrible, period. That's why you spend extra time and effort on the fundamental stuff like the kernel. If your kernel's working, and you're non-root, then the worst you can do is trash every file and process that you own.;)
Everything you mentioned can be managed by ulimits, with the exception of filling up filesystems. I don't know about jffs2, which is what I believe the Zaurus uses, but the 'traditional' filesystems used by Linux (ext2/3) provide for a certain percentage of each volume to be reserved for root only; once again, running as non-root saves the day.
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>> They are doing the _right_ thing.
After years and years and years of doing the WRONG thing - bribing through horrible laws, shutting down good companies, stifling innovation and wasting billions on lawsuits - suddenly doing one right thing as well (they certainly haven't stopped doing bad things in the meantime) doesn't make you a Slashdot folk hero. I'm disinclined to be happy and congradulatory about anything the MAFIAA does short of apologize profusely and/or dissolve.
>> The media as a whole seem to be eating out of the *AA's hands
To quote the Borg queen, you imply a disparity where none exists. The *AA (I prefer the term 'MAFIAA') is the media.
All generalizations are false.
>> grapefruit spoon
That would be a good name for a band.
>> I'm sure as a comedian he would've loved you stealing his joke from "Relentless."
;)
I get all my material from Bartcop.com. Maybe he's stealing from Bill Hicks
> Yea and Bush has evidence of WMD in Iraq.
Like the receipts.
-nod- In fact, the last couple scenes in Reloaded make it seem like The Matrix is based upon just this kind of layered VM model... the world where Zion exists is a simulation running on bare metal (or is it ?), inside of which there is a virtual machine running The Matrix... and everytime The One owns it, they just roll it back and start over.
>> What's to stop people from cheating on-line if
>> the XBOX can read games with modified binaries?
What's to stop people from remote rooting boxes if their PCs can run modified ssh binaries? Robust servers.
The magic part is this:
pstopnm -stdout file.ps | pnmtojpeg > file.jpeg
Both of those filters are in the netpbm package:
http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/
I like CUPS's mechanism for this kind of thing even more. You basically have two components, a filter and a backend. The filter takes in one a few forms of input (mostly postscript, but plain text and some image formats also) and dumps out the native data format of the selected printer model (or just echos the input if you set it as a raw queue). The backend is then responsible for somehow getting it to the printer, either queueing it on the parallel port or sending it out on the network somehow, or anything else.
Some fun things I've done with backends:
Network printing over SSH
Text-to-speech queueing (print your source code to hear it read aloud by festival)
Dumping into a jpeg as a way of snapshotting any document you might want to save
Dumping into a PDF with ps2pdf to make your Windows friends feel stupid for buying Distiller =)
She's got sense enough to use a sploit, but she chooses a feeble password like Z1ON0101. Come ON, Trin, only 2 character classes, only 8 characters ? -sigh-
I think I speak for everyone here when I ask... What's your last name ?!
> Internet Explorer is free as well.
Only in the same sense that the Sports Illustrated football phone is free.
> Man, do I wish someone would tell the Mozilla team that...
I'm sure they'd be happy to give you your money back.
> OpenBSD, from what I can tell, more than pays the price for its security in lack of features.
I wouldn't necessarily say that. If anything, OpenBSD shows you can be secure without a great deal of sacrifice, it just requires applying talent and effort (which the OpenBSD team has). Just look at PrivSep XFree86. You don't really lose anything by doing it that way, afaik. It just wasn't being done before, somebody needed to code it.
> That we're not all pacifist diversity-lovers is a consequence of
> evolution's inability to keep up with societal standards.
And the fact that there's no socially imposed evolutionary pressure against racism. If we could all collectively agree not to have sex with racists, eventuall, several hundred generations or more down the road, they'd die off.
> 99.999999% of the posts on the forums are of the nature of "how do u copy renterd gamez?"
While this has been unfortunately true of such efforts in the past... perhaps I'm naive, but I really feel like this number is significantly lower in the X-Box, just due to some of the incredible Free software out there for it. I got this working last night, but not because I have the least bit of interest in copied games. I want to use the x-box media player.
Since this thread has set the tone, seems as good a place as any to ask, although it is offtopic:
Is there a way to glue mplayer to mozilla so that I can watch streamed video? Realplayer, quicktime, and microsoft media all have some cracktastic protocol for streaming that seem to only work if you use the (slow) plugins, but once you suck down the file they play brilliantly...
Is there a proper way to handle this ?
>> In an open source product, they would, presumably, not need to foist
>> key-codes, activation and other sorts of crud to try and control piracy.
Open source != free (as in beer). The fact that open source software tends also to be free is merely a quirk in the way the movement evolved.
> As far as I can tell, You The People don't tend to use firearms to
> overthrow the government but instead use them to attack each other.
You are unfortunately correct. To be fair though, we tend to use our freedom of expression to make asinine television programs and hate-soaked talk radio, but I wouldn't want to give that right up.
Like I said, I'm deeply conflicted on the firearms issue.
While I am of two minds on the gun-control debate, this snippet of text caught my eye. It's important to realize that our founders considered this one of the MOST BASIC rights that must be guaranteed.
Specifically, they wanted to ensure that the public had the means necessary to overthrow the government established by the Constitution, in the event that it didn't work out as they had hoped. If, for instance, the democratic process was subverted in some way, We The People were expected to take up our arms and restore proper government.
The fact that such a provision is essentially meaningless in an era of billion dollar war machines is a topic for another debate. If only Ben Franklin were still around to help us out with thorny issues like this... *sigh*
>> ....and someone would have fixed this hole 6 years ago.
And if they hadn't, I could do it myself or pay someone else to do it for me, and release it to the world for free, legally.
Woo! I'm going to print out your post on my HP FreedomJet 4M!
Toner cartridges are patriotic.
>> My god, some of the work is horrible!
;)
Most code is horrible, period. That's why you spend extra time and effort on the fundamental stuff like the kernel. If your kernel's working, and you're non-root, then the worst you can do is trash every file and process that you own.
Everything you mentioned can be managed by ulimits, with the exception of filling up filesystems. I don't know about jffs2, which is what I believe the Zaurus uses, but the 'traditional' filesystems used by Linux (ext2/3) provide for a certain percentage of each volume to be reserved for root only; once again, running as non-root saves the day.