I'm sorry, but all of the software I've ever had from Real has been utter shit. It's bloated, it's non-intuitive, it has all the worst attributes of MS' software and it's unstable as hell. I won't even mention G2 and how it's probably one of the most unstable programs I've ever used. RP7 RESETS my Win2K machine if I watch more than two movies without closing it! It's INSANE!
As much as I don't like supporting MS, I chose ASF as my streaming format. It's it's only available in RM, I don't even bother...
I'm not sure about tsx.org but cjb.net 'domains' are usually just forwarders (either using a Redirect header or by making a 100% size frameset). This is a real-deal domain! Hi-Ho!
MTV Europe used to have a show with Ray Cokes... I forget the name - but it was along the lines of a talk show... argh... I can't remember the name right now. Anyway, they had a IRC/Ray Cokes split screen. I think it was unmoderated... anyway I recall a LOT of flooding with large, multiline letters (so it was visible on a normal tv). I also recall that one time the channel got taken over and the MTV session got ban/kicked... hehe...
Lemme pull up a quote I found from the esteemed Bob Metaclfe:
So, in 1996, CD-ROMs through Federal Express will emerge as the information superhighway. Instead of an Internet brimming with Web pages under construction, too few of us will haunt ghost pages.
Does he have a clue about technology? I guess co-inventing Ethernet is pretty important in our current computing world. Does he have a clue about trends and how people and technology interact? Your call.
Look, this is crazy. You could probably hire an OK 4 quartet for one year for the cost a listening room like that... But then they're probably bitch that the instruments are mistuned.
Someone is always liable. Now, whether this is actually the company who's implementing the GPL system, the decission maker or the company who develops the system, someone is responsible. Responsibility usually doesn't seem to be binding until money changes hands.
On the other hand, knowing the maerican legal system all hell could very well break loose.
There's no reason in the world a geek can't be dished out in Armani when going out for the evening. =)
Seriously though, the jean and t-shirt thing is a bit played out. I own only one pair of jeans (for painting) and the only t-shirts I wear are undershirts. Usally it's slacks and polos, maybe a sweater... sometimes a sweatshirt, for when it's nippy out. It's not hard to look good and feel good in your clothes and not look like a uber-geek at the same time.
Especially since everybody's rich from their IPOs =).
While I'm sure that GM's power in North America cannot be overstressed their reach in Europe (which is actually a slightly larger market) is small (sub 10%). With the exception of Opel, it's European, Japanese and Korean car companies that run the show here. Opel has aprox. 5-25% of the market, depending on the country and I seriously doubt that GM imports have more than 2% of the market in any european country.
Imagine knowing that you'll only have one DVD play. So what's the first thing you do when you bring it home? Burn yourself a copy. Imagine how gleefull the DVD-R producers are, everyone scared that their DVD will deteriorate, making copies.
In legal terms, if you kill someone and didn't mean to, its called 'involuntary manslaughter' and you still go to jail.
IANAMANHIEPOOTV (I am not an American lawyer, nor have i ever played one on TV) but I think that this is covered, in this case, by law under 'negligence'. The person who was to secure the cards didn't do their job. IMO it's the credit card companies that should be seriously pissed. They're covering for everything over $50 or whatnot.
The issue at hand is not that CSS is "simple" to break. The issue is, should a CSS case be brought up in court by the Big Bad Lawyers, what would happen?
Actually, I think the main issue is that by breaking CSS this way we can redistribute DeCSS with all the keys without facing a reverse engineering charge.
I think Yahoo! has a case here. Pretty much the only thing that differs between Yahoo's site and the parody (other than the content itself) is the added Qubec logo. I'm sure that Yahoo feels threatened, as it has invested serious money into starting up a whole chain of international sites and, if you look at Yahoo Asia, for example, the similarity is quite clear.
The question for me is: Did Yahoo go overboard? A cease and dissist order seems a bit strong for an inital contact (if this it what it was)... Maybe they should've contacted the site first via more civilized channels.
The true problem with 'kiddie porn' or porn with (often VERY) underaged children is that, unless we're talking 16-17 year old here, children are not mentaly or physicaly ready for sex. A lot of underaged porn is created for the european pedofile market and much of the time it involves kidnapping and coercing (often raping) children to have sex. Drugs are also quite often used to.
The truth is that underaged pornography destroys the very real lives of very real people. If your looking at under 14s most of them didn't have a choice in the matter. When you're checking out Hustler, Playboy, one of the many European hardcore porn mags, you're seeing people who were payed to be photographed. When you look at child pornography, you're usually looking at someone who didn't know better or who was threatened and beaten to do what they're doing.
If this thing is possible with RDS I'm surprised it hasn't happened sooner but I thought it was only the RDS signals from the station you were listening to that could change the frequency.
If this is true (and I don't know if it is, IANARSNDIPOOTOR [i am not a radio specialist, nor do i play one on tv or radio]) all you would need to do is transmit just the station chaning data on the same freq. as the beeb or sky radio or something.
But from what I understood from the article, RDS includes an option to change to the station transmiting a traffic report.
Anyway... time to get that old transmiter out of the basement. =)
As a Pole who grew up in America and returned just for the '89 elections I can certianly testify to this. The internet and digital communication (mostly modems) had no effect on the fall of communisim if only because they DID NOT EXIST in those countries. Poland had a handful of internet access points before '89, the onlything digital comming out of here was Donosy, an underground 'newspaper' for Poles in America.
Underground nformation was passed on during those times by small printing presses, articles were carbon copied on typewriters, there was no information age to speak of, no modems to send files! Maybe one in fifty people had a phone line, not to mention that most of those phone lines couldn't hold a 150baud connection.
The information age hit Poland hard. Tens of thousands of companies had to be computerized, the state telephony put millions of dollars into the telecomm infrastructure (which is still underinvested). At this moment there is an information boom in Poland similar to that of the boom in the US at the begining of the nineties, but back in '89 there was nothing.
This can be hairy-to-impossible to measure; all you can really go on are substrings in URIs, and there's no way to tell if something called "foo.pl" is a Perl CGI or a mod_perl module.
Not exactly.
slashdot.org is running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_perl/1.21 on Linux
mod_perl identifies itself quite well in the reponse string. I think that the main reason that mod_php stats are available is that Ramus or someone on the php team contacted netcraft.com and asked for them.
how much is it a federally approved corporate monopoly?
Hmm... how can the USPS be a monopoly when you have UPS, FedEx, TNT and dozens of other carriers transporting mail and packages around the country?
Re:How to beat one digital watermark and problems.
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Simple. Use a utility (gimp?) that doesn't use Digimark and you're set.
How to beat one digital watermark and problems..
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If anyone has ever encountered a digital watermark of the Digimarc kind, (Photoshop users know what I'm talking about) there's an easy way to remove it. Resize your image to 95% of the size then resize back to 100% - minimal loss of quality (especially at high resolutions) and no watermark.
This is just an example but Digimarc underlines two serious problems with watermarks:
a) No watermark is invisible. No matter what anyone tells you adding watermark is a lossy process. The harder the watermark is to remove the more visible it is.
b) Watermarks will always be removable. If you have physical access to the machine creating the watermark (scanner, printer, whatever) you'll be able to edit/disable the watermark. Unless you embed the watermark in the paper fiber or something (but then you're tracking the media, not the data) it'll probably be enough to cut off part of the image or something similar to disable the watermark.
Umm... Here's another slant. If she was gambling in a state where it's not allowed wasn't she breaking the law? If I break into a computer in a state where it is allowed from a state where cracking isn't allowed then aren't I open to persecution in my home state?
I think that Webjump's choice to use a hybrid system had absolutely nothing to do with their 'company politics'. Webjump analyzed their options and decided that the hybrid solution is their best answer.
Now, does this mean Apache is not the optimal choice for everyone who uses it? Of course not, but it does show that Apache's serving of static pages needs to be improved.
Just finish doing that and it's world domination time.
I doubt that the mass media will pick up on this but this is what hacking is. Breaking or bending the rules - without hurting anyone - to get you want/need. Solving problems in an untypical way. (Look ma, no scripts!)
Now, what the hell was this guy doing with an iMac to start with? Better get one of those new G4s.
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On the one hand, as society starts having more and more of its business online, it will be more and more important for people who commit online crimes to be held accountable.
Just the way it's important for all people who rob real stores and commits act of theft and vandalism to be caught and punished IRL. This whole "licensing" scheme is akin to tagging people with permanent identifiers and tracking their movement as they move about the real world. And that's a little scary.
Why should anyone be privy to the fact that every second Sunday I buy a newspaper? Or that I go to the library three times a month? In the same way that no country in the world requires ID checks at every point of service, the internet should never get to the point that using every service requires identification. For any reason!
The reason that enforcement of internet related crimes is so poor is that the people on the front lines are usually not of the highest caliber. Many ISPs provide substandard security, save money on log-keeping, etc. And too many victims 'forget' about break-ins. Just reinstall the OS, fix the page, change the passwords... Hey! Out of sight out of mind.
Slashdot Mirror
Well...
Take 1118. Shift it right one spot in base 10 and we get 111.8. Multiply that by 6(?) and we get... 670.4.
I don't get it.
Jay
-- polish ccs mirror
Eventually I'll have to learn Perl. But I might wait for release 6.6.666, so that it runs on Windows properly. ;)
I don't know about you but I use the windows version (activestate) of perl everyday and am VERY happy with it.
Anyone know how it fares up in a production (WWW server) enviroment?
Jay
-- polish ccs mirror
I'm sorry, but all of the software I've ever had from Real has been utter shit. It's bloated, it's non-intuitive, it has all the worst attributes of MS' software and it's unstable as hell. I won't even mention G2 and how it's probably one of the most unstable programs I've ever used. RP7 RESETS my Win2K machine if I watch more than two movies without closing it! It's INSANE!
As much as I don't like supporting MS, I chose ASF as my streaming format. It's it's only available in RM, I don't even bother...
Jay
-- polish ccs mirror
A LOT!
I'm not sure about tsx.org but cjb.net 'domains' are usually just forwarders (either using a Redirect header or by making a 100% size frameset). This is a real-deal domain! Hi-Ho!
Jay
-- polish ccs mirror
MTV Europe used to have a show with Ray Cokes... I forget the name - but it was along the lines of a talk show... argh... I can't remember the name right now. Anyway, they had a IRC/Ray Cokes split screen. I think it was unmoderated... anyway I recall a LOT of flooding with large, multiline letters (so it was visible on a normal tv). I also recall that one time the channel got taken over and the MTV session got ban/kicked... hehe...
Jay
-- polish ccs mirror
Lemme pull up a quote I found from the esteemed Bob Metaclfe:
So, in 1996, CD-ROMs through Federal Express will emerge as the information superhighway. Instead of an Internet brimming with Web pages under construction, too few of us will haunt ghost pages.
Does he have a clue about technology? I guess co-inventing Ethernet is pretty important in our current computing world. Does he have a clue about trends and how people and technology interact? Your call.
Jay
-- polish ccs mirror
Look, this is crazy. You could probably hire an OK 4 quartet for one year for the cost a listening room like that... But then they're probably bitch that the instruments are mistuned.
It takes all kinds...
-- polish ccs mirror
Someone is always liable. Now, whether this is actually the company who's implementing the GPL system, the decission maker or the company who develops the system, someone is responsible. Responsibility usually doesn't seem to be binding until money changes hands.
On the other hand, knowing the maerican legal system all hell could very well break loose.
Jay
Damn straight!
There's no reason in the world a geek can't be dished out in Armani when going out for the evening. =)
Seriously though, the jean and t-shirt thing is a bit played out. I own only one pair of jeans (for painting) and the only t-shirts I wear are undershirts. Usally it's slacks and polos, maybe a sweater... sometimes a sweatshirt, for when it's nippy out. It's not hard to look good and feel good in your clothes and not look like a uber-geek at the same time.
Especially since everybody's rich from their IPOs =).
Jay
While I'm sure that GM's power in North America cannot be overstressed their reach in Europe (which is actually a slightly larger market) is small (sub 10%). With the exception of Opel, it's European, Japanese and Korean car companies that run the show here. Opel has aprox. 5-25% of the market, depending on the country and I seriously doubt that GM imports have more than 2% of the market in any european country.
Jay
Imagine knowing that you'll only have one DVD play. So what's the first thing you do when you bring it home? Burn yourself a copy. Imagine how gleefull the DVD-R producers are, everyone scared that their DVD will deteriorate, making copies.
Maybe it'll even finally push the price down.
In legal terms, if you kill someone and didn't mean to, its called 'involuntary manslaughter' and you still go to jail.
IANAMANHIEPOOTV (I am not an American lawyer, nor have i ever played one on TV) but I think that this is covered, in this case, by law under 'negligence'. The person who was to secure the cards didn't do their job. IMO it's the credit card companies that should be seriously pissed. They're covering for everything over $50 or whatnot.
jay
The issue at hand is not that CSS is "simple" to break. The issue is, should a CSS case be brought up in court by the Big Bad Lawyers, what would happen?
Actually, I think the main issue is that by breaking CSS this way we can redistribute DeCSS with all the keys without facing a reverse engineering charge.
Jay
I think Yahoo! has a case here. Pretty much the only thing that differs between Yahoo's site and the parody (other than the content itself) is the added Qubec logo. I'm sure that Yahoo feels threatened, as it has invested serious money into starting up a whole chain of international sites and, if you look at Yahoo Asia, for example, the similarity is quite clear.
The question for me is: Did Yahoo go overboard? A cease and dissist order seems a bit strong for an inital contact (if this it what it was)... Maybe they should've contacted the site first via more civilized channels.
Jay
The true problem with 'kiddie porn' or porn with (often VERY) underaged children is that, unless we're talking 16-17 year old here, children are not mentaly or physicaly ready for sex. A lot of underaged porn is created for the european pedofile market and much of the time it involves kidnapping and coercing (often raping) children to have sex. Drugs are also quite often used to.
The truth is that underaged pornography destroys the very real lives of very real people. If your looking at under 14s most of them didn't have a choice in the matter. When you're checking out Hustler, Playboy, one of the many European hardcore porn mags, you're seeing people who were payed to be photographed. When you look at child pornography, you're usually looking at someone who didn't know better or who was threatened and beaten to do what they're doing.
Jay
If this thing is possible with RDS I'm surprised it hasn't happened sooner but I thought it was only the RDS signals from the station you were listening to that could change the frequency.
If this is true (and I don't know if it is, IANARSNDIPOOTOR [i am not a radio specialist, nor do i play one on tv or radio]) all you would need to do is transmit just the station chaning data on the same freq. as the beeb or sky radio or something.
But from what I understood from the article, RDS includes an option to change to the station transmiting a traffic report.
Anyway... time to get that old transmiter out of the basement. =)
As a Pole who grew up in America and returned just for the '89 elections I can certianly testify to this. The internet and digital communication (mostly modems) had no effect on the fall of communisim if only because they DID NOT EXIST in those countries. Poland had a handful of internet access points before '89, the onlything digital comming out of here was Donosy, an underground 'newspaper' for Poles in America.
Underground nformation was passed on during those times by small printing presses, articles were carbon copied on typewriters, there was no information age to speak of, no modems to send files! Maybe one in fifty people had a phone line, not to mention that most of those phone lines couldn't hold a 150baud connection.
The information age hit Poland hard. Tens of thousands of companies had to be computerized, the state telephony put millions of dollars into the telecomm infrastructure (which is still underinvested). At this moment there is an information boom in Poland similar to that of the boom in the US at the begining of the nineties, but back in '89 there was nothing.
jay
This can be hairy-to-impossible to measure; all you can really go on are substrings in URIs, and there's no way to tell if something called "foo.pl" is a Perl CGI or a mod_perl module.
Not exactly.
slashdot.org is running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_perl/1.21 on Linux
mod_perl identifies itself quite well in the reponse string. I think that the main reason that mod_php stats are available is that Ramus or someone on the php team contacted netcraft.com and asked for them.
jay
how much is it a federally approved corporate monopoly?
Hmm... how can the USPS be a monopoly when you have UPS, FedEx, TNT and dozens of other carriers transporting mail and packages around the country?
Simple. Use a utility (gimp?) that doesn't use Digimark and you're set.
If anyone has ever encountered a digital watermark of the Digimarc kind, (Photoshop users know what I'm talking about) there's an easy way to remove it. Resize your image to 95% of the size then resize back to 100% - minimal loss of quality (especially at high resolutions) and no watermark.
This is just an example but Digimarc underlines two serious problems with watermarks:
a) No watermark is invisible. No matter what anyone tells you adding watermark is a lossy process. The harder the watermark is to remove the more visible it is.
b) Watermarks will always be removable. If you have physical access to the machine creating the watermark (scanner, printer, whatever) you'll be able to edit/disable the watermark. Unless you embed the watermark in the paper fiber or something (but then you're tracking the media, not the data) it'll probably be enough to cut off part of the image or something similar to disable the watermark.
jay
Umm... Here's another slant. If she was gambling in a state where it's not allowed wasn't she breaking the law? If I break into a computer in a state where it is allowed from a state where cracking isn't allowed then aren't I open to persecution in my home state?
I think that Webjump's choice to use a hybrid system had absolutely nothing to do with their 'company politics'. Webjump analyzed their options and decided that the hybrid solution is their best answer.
Now, does this mean Apache is not the optimal choice for everyone who uses it? Of course not, but it does show that Apache's serving of static pages needs to be improved.
Just finish doing that and it's world domination time.
I doubt that the mass media will pick up on this but this is what hacking is. Breaking or bending the rules - without hurting anyone - to get you want/need. Solving problems in an untypical way. (Look ma, no scripts!)
Now, what the hell was this guy doing with an iMac to start with? Better get one of those new G4s.
On the one hand, as society starts having more and more of its business online, it will be more and more important for people who commit online crimes to be held accountable.
Just the way it's important for all people who rob real stores and commits act of theft and vandalism to be caught and punished IRL. This whole "licensing" scheme is akin to tagging people with permanent identifiers and tracking their movement as they move about the real world. And that's a little scary.
Why should anyone be privy to the fact that every second Sunday I buy a newspaper? Or that I go to the library three times a month? In the same way that no country in the world requires ID checks at every point of service, the internet should never get to the point that using every service requires identification. For any reason!
The reason that enforcement of internet related crimes is so poor is that the people on the front lines are usually not of the highest caliber. Many ISPs provide substandard security, save money on log-keeping, etc. And too many victims 'forget' about break-ins. Just reinstall the OS, fix the page, change the passwords... Hey! Out of sight out of mind.