If the music industry tries to say I can't run a server, I'm gonna say that they better distribute my music projects FOR me since they won't let me distribute my independent music on my own.
My mom was an A student. One professor refused to agree with my mom and gave her an A- even though my mother did well in that class, too. Differing opinions out to be REWARDED--they show students who have formed their own opinions (generally).
AFAIK, JavaScript could do something with this information, such as load an image that has ?randominfo appended, and this could be extracted from the server logs, or it could fill in a hidden item on a POST form that you're about to submit to be less obvious about it.
Ecstasy does. It's decently cheap, too. Just pump up the whole nation on it, and we won't have any problems with violence. We will have problems with STDs, though.
Reverse engineering? Pff. Their website doesn't give you a finished product (except for flash)---it gives you source code (HTML, CSS, javascript), and it's up to you to do something with it.
As for flash, running 'strings' on the.swf file doesn't seem to count as reverse-engineering for me. You wouldn't be able to re-create their flash interface by just knowing the media file URL; you don't get the source code to their flash program, but just a fragment of the data used by the source code to do what it does.
The reason companies do these stupid things is to stick on advertisements and stop so-called "hotlinking" to the media files (but can't people hotlink to the flash files, and can't people block the ads via proxies, browser plugins, browsers with adblocking, firewalls,/etc/hosts, etc.? if i don't want to be exposed to something, aren't i allowed to protect myself from it?)
Blah. I know I'm not being very coherent at the moment, please ignore me. \
By continuing to read this comment, you give the poster permission to neuter your cat, stalk your father, and dismember your best friend at any time, for any reason, without prior warning.
Just because I say it, even if you explicitly agree (or worse, implicitly, as in the above "By continuing to read this..."*), does that make it an enforceable contract? Does it make it ethical, or even legal? Contracts get struck down in court all the time. You can tell someone what to do all you want, but there are times when what you may tell someone is completely unfair, and if they challenge you in court, you will lose and look foolish. I wish Universities and software vendors would trim down their policies, codes of conduct, EULAs, &c.
* = I realize that this is slightly distinct from the "By browsing the web from this terminal..." and "By using a University system..." (something I have no choice but to do at my school, since students are held responsible for checking their student e-mail accounts on a regular basis) type of agreements; however, either way you are not signing anything, and there are very few things that can legally be enforced with so-called Verbal, Informal, and Other Non-Written Contracts.
Agreed. If he made a sleek, sexy headpiece where the iPod shuffle was mounted to a small headset, I'd be in love. (I mean, if I liked it, and owned an iPod shuffle, I guess I'd be in love, to the extent that a man can love a machine that does not know the difference between Circle Jerks and Backstreet Boys.)
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I'm curious about this question: Am I the only person who always strips wires with my teeth?
No, Mr. Younkin, I can assure you that you are not.
On a side note, your answering machine was full, so we could not leave a reminder. Your next dental checkup is Wednesday at 10:30 A.M.
Hell yes I'd like to know. It'd be the perfect time to write memoirs; to recount over my life, make sure I've told the stories I want to tell, and get ready to just have fun for the rest of my life.
Even if I lose the memories inside my head, I'll have them recorded, so they won't be gone.
It's like knowing when you're going to die, except, it's knowing when a certain part of you is going to die.
I'm told that the 911 operators have a vague idea of your location with a cell phone. Whether this is done through some tiny low-precision GPS, differential GPS, or simple tower telemetry, I don't know, but I would *love* to know if there'd be any way to capture the signal and do something with it.
Here's the easiest thing to do. Use ecasound as a filter for your audio ouput. How? ecasound -i:file.mp3 -eca -o:/dev/dsp If you want to adjust the compressor, see the manpage. The default settings for the Advanced-Comp Effect are to kill most (but not all) of the dynamics, but you can adjust that.
You can probably come up with some clever hack for trapping all audio data and piping it through ecasound if you want.. *shrug*
In actuality, the dimensional universe we experience is the GUI that sits on top of what's happening. The relativistic aspects come in to make the GUI consistent; otherwise, it would have never passed Quality Assurance.
If you want the API underneath everything, you have to code raw wave-equations. They will manifest in the GUI, of course, as spacetime entities.
Also, it's not that the speed of light is constant; it's just a kernel parameter. You need to access/proc to change it.
Yes---they're very durable. I have a multi-plier that I got secondhand. Pretty easy to use, nice little belt-loop carrying case, does a zillion things, and the metal hasn't worn down at all.
That's because a 20Gig drive usually has something like 22-24Gigs of space; the extra space is used to relocate bad blocks.
If you completely overwrite a bad block, the drive's firmware is usually smart enough to move it to a new place. Reading from a bad block until you manage to get (most of) the data, and then re-writing it, will sometimes work (due to the same mechanism).
I'm told some drives are smart enough to try to "fix" bad blocks without being forced to like this, but I don't know of any (mostly likely because there would be no way to tell, since it would be user-transparent).
Occasionally, a drive will have some sort of mechanical shock which will damage a portion of the disk; often, the disk is not "failing," but has simply become partly damaged. A true "failing" disk would mean that the disk material was corroding, or that a poorly designed drive was losing its own low-level formatting from the motor's magnetic fields (I doubt that would ever happen, though), or something pretty ugly like that.
(I don't know if what I've said is completely true; please correct me if I'm talking out of my ass. It's been a long time since I've looked this up.)
Exactly. I was on "Unlimited" access with DelaNET. After being online for a bit, I started getting e-mails, something to the effect of:
"By unlimited, we do not mean unlimited. You are using your connection without limit, which is not the meaning of unlimited. You can't possibly use your connection 24/7. What you're doing falls under the category of business connectivity, and if you keep staying online, your rates will shoot up into the hundreds of dollars per month." (from joybenz@delanet.com)
I'm not kidding.
I wrote a script to stop pppd at 2AM and restart it at 6AM. No more annoying emails!
Of course, some program could always modify a file, and then fiddle around with bits until the MD5 was the same. Techniques to do this have been published ("MD5 cracked!")...
The proper way to do this is: int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { Game *theGame = new Game; theGame->setup(argc, argv); int retval = theGame->run(); delete theGame; return retval; }
Then, theGame can have private variables that are effectively global variables;)
Anyway, best name schemes are, of course, memorable, themed, and extendable.
Of course, those aren't the most fun. ledge,aetus,enthalpy,glitch,jenna,kalamazoo, burr ito,fingertips,anatine,pyromancer, erinaceous,ter se,sprinkles,sandradee,trixie, jenna,leningrad,au tumn.
Although my friends have shell accounts on many of these machines, I don't have to worry about them sucking CPU time away from dnetc, because they can't usually remember what the machine they want is called. Resource management by obscurity, woohoo!
And, most of them run NetBSD... because that's actually the ONLY unix derivative (or free operating system, etc) that supports them, although modern VAXen sometimes seem to be better supported on OpenBSD and Linux, curiously enough...
Does this mean it will be illegal to have passengers and/or radios now, so people will be forced not to talk to anybody or listen to the radio / sing along?
It sounds like drunk drivers are better drivers than the people who are involved in conversations.
"35% of accidents are caused by pixellated... the other 65% aren't alcohol-related! What does this tell us about drunk drivers? They seem to have a better record than the sober team!" -nofx
Slashdot Mirror
Seriously.
If the music industry tries to say I can't run a server, I'm gonna say that they better distribute my music projects FOR me since they won't let me distribute my independent music on my own.
Not like they'll care.
My mom was an A student. One professor refused to agree with my mom and gave her an A- even though my mother did well in that class, too. Differing opinions out to be REWARDED--they show students who have formed their own opinions (generally).
It's getting used more than it used to---that's a big part of it.
AFAIK, JavaScript could do something with this information, such as load an image that has ?randominfo appended, and this could be extracted from the server logs, or it could fill in a hidden item on a POST form that you're about to submit to be less obvious about it.
Xenon cluster: OMG I'm that fat?! Noooo.... Now I need to lose weight...
Scientist Bill: Crap, how can we prove our results are reliable if the number keeps going down?
Ecstasy does. It's decently cheap, too. Just pump up the whole nation on it, and we won't have any problems with violence. We will have problems with STDs, though.
Where's SGI? 4dwm always had some neat icons and other GUI elements.
Reverse engineering? Pff.
.swf file doesn't seem to count as reverse-engineering for me. You wouldn't be able to re-create their flash interface by just knowing the media file URL; you don't get the source code to their flash program, but just a fragment of the data used by the source code to do what it does.
/etc/hosts, etc.? if i don't want to be exposed to something, aren't i allowed to protect myself from it?)
Their website doesn't give you a finished product (except for flash)---it gives you source code (HTML, CSS, javascript), and it's up to you to do something with it.
As for flash, running 'strings' on the
The reason companies do these stupid things is to stick on advertisements and stop so-called "hotlinking" to the media files (but can't people hotlink to the flash files, and can't people block the ads via proxies, browser plugins, browsers with adblocking, firewalls,
Blah. I know I'm not being very coherent at the moment, please ignore me.
\
By continuing to read this comment, you give the poster permission to neuter your cat, stalk your father, and dismember your best friend at any time, for any reason, without prior warning.
Just because I say it, even if you explicitly agree (or worse, implicitly, as in the above "By continuing to read this..."*), does that make it an enforceable contract? Does it make it ethical, or even legal? Contracts get struck down in court all the time. You can tell someone what to do all you want, but there are times when what you may tell someone is completely unfair, and if they challenge you in court, you will lose and look foolish. I wish Universities and software vendors would trim down their policies, codes of conduct, EULAs, &c.
* = I realize that this is slightly distinct from the "By browsing the web from this terminal..." and "By using a University system..." (something I have no choice but to do at my school, since students are held responsible for checking their student e-mail accounts on a regular basis) type of agreements; however, either way you are not signing anything, and there are very few things that can legally be enforced with so-called Verbal, Informal, and Other Non-Written Contracts.
Agreed. If he made a sleek, sexy headpiece where the iPod shuffle was mounted to a small headset, I'd be in love. (I mean, if I liked it, and owned an iPod shuffle, I guess I'd be in love, to the extent that a man can love a machine that does not know the difference between Circle Jerks and Backstreet Boys.)
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I'm curious about this question:
Am I the only person who always strips wires with my teeth?
No, Mr. Younkin, I can assure you that you are not.
On a side note, your answering machine was full, so we could not leave a reminder. Your next dental checkup is Wednesday at 10:30 A.M.
Hell yes I'd like to know. It'd be the perfect time to write memoirs; to recount over my life, make sure I've told the stories I want to tell, and get ready to just have fun for the rest of my life.
Even if I lose the memories inside my head, I'll have them recorded, so they won't be gone.
It's like knowing when you're going to die, except, it's knowing when a certain part of you is going to die.
I'm told that the 911 operators have a vague idea of your location with a cell phone. Whether this is done through some tiny low-precision GPS, differential GPS, or simple tower telemetry, I don't know, but I would *love* to know if there'd be any way to capture the signal and do something with it.
Haha.
You know, I wonder what retirement is like for someone who's job is what most consider recreation?
"Hey Garry, you up for a game or two?"
"No, sorry.. I'm retired. If you'd like, though, we could go put in some ten-hour days working retail."
Here's the easiest thing to do. Use ecasound as a filter for your audio ouput. How? ecasound -i:file.mp3 -eca -o:/dev/dsp
If you want to adjust the compressor, see the manpage. The default settings for the Advanced-Comp Effect are to kill most (but not all) of the dynamics, but you can adjust that.
You can probably come up with some clever hack for trapping all audio data and piping it through ecasound if you want.. *shrug*
In actuality, the dimensional universe we experience is the GUI that sits on top of what's happening. The relativistic aspects come in to make the GUI consistent; otherwise, it would have never passed Quality Assurance.
/proc to change it.
If you want the API underneath everything, you have to code raw wave-equations. They will manifest in the GUI, of course, as spacetime entities.
Also, it's not that the speed of light is constant; it's just a kernel parameter. You need to access
Yes---they're very durable. I have a multi-plier that I got secondhand. Pretty easy to use, nice little belt-loop carrying case, does a zillion things, and the metal hasn't worn down at all.
That's because a 20Gig drive usually has something like 22-24Gigs of space; the extra space is used to relocate bad blocks.
If you completely overwrite a bad block, the drive's firmware is usually smart enough to move it to a new place. Reading from a bad block until you manage to get (most of) the data, and then re-writing it, will sometimes work (due to the same mechanism).
I'm told some drives are smart enough to try to "fix" bad blocks without being forced to like this, but I don't know of any (mostly likely because there would be no way to tell, since it would be user-transparent).
Occasionally, a drive will have some sort of mechanical shock which will damage a portion of the disk; often, the disk is not "failing," but has simply become partly damaged. A true "failing" disk would mean that the disk material was corroding, or that a poorly designed drive was losing its own low-level formatting from the motor's magnetic fields (I doubt that would ever happen, though), or something pretty ugly like that.
(I don't know if what I've said is completely true; please correct me if I'm talking out of my ass. It's been a long time since I've looked this up.)
Exactly. I was on "Unlimited" access with DelaNET. After being online for a bit, I started getting e-mails, something to the effect of:
"By unlimited, we do not mean unlimited. You are using your connection without limit, which is not the meaning of unlimited. You can't possibly use your connection 24/7. What you're doing falls under the category of business connectivity, and if you keep staying online, your rates will shoot up into the hundreds of dollars per month." (from joybenz@delanet.com)
I'm not kidding.
I wrote a script to stop pppd at 2AM and restart it at 6AM. No more annoying emails!
Of course, some program could always modify a file, and then fiddle around with bits until the MD5 was the same. Techniques to do this have been published ("MD5 cracked!")...
Wait, does this mean I can turn off my [[ while :; do wget ... -O /dev/null ; done ]] script now?
The proper way to do this is:
;)
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
Game *theGame = new Game;
theGame->setup(argc, argv);
int retval = theGame->run();
delete theGame;
return retval;
}
Then, theGame can have private variables that are effectively global variables
I've *never* gotten one of these to work. I've tried different drivers, different kernels, different software... nothing.
What are you using, exactly?
I have two dozen of these lying around. I'd love to use them.
Ooh, slashdot is slightly more colorful now!
r ito,fingertips,anatine,pyromancer,r se,sprinkles,sandradee,trixie,u tumn.
Anyway, best name schemes are, of course, memorable, themed, and extendable.
Of course, those aren't the most fun. ledge,aetus,enthalpy,glitch,jenna,kalamazoo,
bur
erinaceous,te
jenna,leningrad,a
Although my friends have shell accounts on many of these machines, I don't have to worry about them sucking CPU time away from dnetc, because they can't usually remember what the machine they want is called. Resource management by obscurity, woohoo!
And, most of them run NetBSD... because that's actually the ONLY unix derivative (or free operating system, etc) that supports them, although modern VAXen sometimes seem to be better supported on OpenBSD and Linux, curiously enough...
Does this mean it will be illegal to have passengers and/or radios now, so people will be forced not to talk to anybody or listen to the radio / sing along?
It sounds like drunk drivers are better drivers than the people who are involved in conversations.
"35% of accidents are caused by pixellated... the other 65% aren't alcohol-related! What does this tell us about drunk drivers? They seem to have a better record than the sober team!" -nofx
Thanks for the correction. Do let me know, though, if you come across anything that would be of use.