And then at the end of it all, there's the biggest CYA: You may not: S. Engage in any other conduct that is, or that American Airlines deems to be, in conflict with this Agreement.
I'm imagining an onUnload handler that checks if the site you're going to is some other airline and pops up a warning saying you're in violation of the EULA.
American Airlines will not treat as confidential any communications you send to us by electronic mail or otherwise. American Airlines has no obligation to refrain from publishing, reproducing, or otherwise using your communications in any way and for any purpose.
They probably outsource their email and crm services. This is the problem with panaceas like P3P: the limitations are overly-broad so you either have to be completely paranoid and not be able to do anything online, or relax the standards and allow for the possibility of someone abusing your trust. The only way to prevent people from using your personal data without your permission is to make it outright illegal. Too bad the people who want to do such things have a lot of friends in congress.
You agree that Texas law governs this Agreement's interpretation and/or any dispute arising from your access to, dealings with, or use of the Site, without regard to conflicts of law principles.
There's UCITA at work. Wasn't there a big fuss about a hundred and fifty years ago about one state's laws being enforced in another? That and something about those who forget the lessons of history...
Another auto-configuring live CD is Cool Linux CD. It's based on Red Hat 7.3 with XFS support, uses IceWM, and contains OpenOffice, Mozilla, Opera, Sylpheed, Pan, Xchat, Licq, mplayer, xmms, and VMWare.
I wouldn't just hand it to a Windows user and say "try this". The hardware auto-detection works well enough, but you still have to login and start X manually. Since it uses RH's configurator, it will initially display the standard RH desktop while setting up then it restarts into IceWM. But once you've got it running and explain that there is no "Explorer" or "Start" button, it's dead simple.
Outside of IBM and Macintosh clones, the only use of the PPC for PCs was Amiga upgrades. I'm guessing the RS6000 was the only machine anyone ever bothered to run WinNT on.
the Windows codebase cannot simply be recompiled for a new target but has to be ported function by function
The problem with this statement is that WinNT was originally intended to be cross-platform. 3.51 was released for x86, PPC, Alpha, MIPS, and I think one other.
I'm sure plenty of x86-ities have crept in since they realised no one was asking for cross-platform support, of course.
And I believe you can get motherboards for other CPUs with AGP and sATA. You're just going to have to pay four times as much. x86 systems are cheap because millions of people buy them to run Windows. Windows isn't available for other CPUs because no one buys them. People buy x86 systems because they're cheaper than others. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
On the contrary, I wouldn't mind seeing more military war simulations being done on supercomputers; so long as they are carried out as an alternative to actual military war.
Think about it: Instead of wasting all the money, resources, and lives of actually invading another country, we just get a few supercomputers into a network, and duke it out online.
First thing, of course, would be to allow the export of supercomputers to blacklisted countries. (Is Afghanistan still on the list, I wonder?) Then get a UN resolution that all member countries will abide by the outcome of any virtual war.
And hey, the US has already got a head-start in training soldiers for it: "America's Army"!
The source code is licensed under the GPL, which isn't mentioned anywhere on the page.
Also from the README...
All DVDSynth components should build with VC++ 6.0. Most components also
build with MinGW, except for dvdproxy.mpd, dvdproxy.sys, and
MirrorDrive95.kll (and those only because I haven't ported them yet). Be
careful about this last, because if you build MirrorDrive95.dll without
MirrorDrive95.kll and try to run the result, you will probably get a nasty
crash. The MinGW Makefile is kinda broken; in particular it doesn't know
anything about the header files.
You will also need NASM (a free assembler) to build the one ASM file
that's currently in the distribution. You should not need the Windows DDK
or any Windows header files beyond what come with VC++ and MinGW.
Which is kinda nice for those of us who don't have $600+ to blow on visual studio. (Or are a student at a uni with the $5 per license deal.)
My peeve with cell phones is that in the push to make them smaller, they have created a device with which it is impossible to have the earpiece close enough to your ear to hear it, while at the same time keeping the mouthpiece close enough to your mouth for it to pick up what you're saying. As a result, the user is forced to turn up the volume of the phone, so that everyone in the vicinity hears the buzz of the person on the other end, and he has to speak quite loudly to be heard.
It occurs to me that this may also contribute to the inability to multi-task while speaking on a cell phone. Most people don't have significant problems carrying on a conversation with another person while performing some other task: eating, walking, driving a car. But it's well-known that talking on a cell phone distracts from other tasks. This may be because the poor clarity requires the speaker to concentrate more on comprehending what is being said, and having to speak more deliberately to be understood.
If someone is operating a web proxy to bypass the Great Firewall, that's great.
But a web proxy isn't the same thing as an open SMTP relay. Anyone with one of those should be shot, burned, dragged through the streets naked, and then really punished.
So, wouldn't they have had to use DeCSS or similar technology to decrypt and edit the movie? And, AFAIK, there's no ReCSS, so the movie would have to be written as region-free, right? And what about formats like SuperBits?
As to the DGA, I think the problem is that the directors shouldn't have signed over their rights to the studios. It's the copyright owner who has to say yea or nay on whether someone is not doing the right thing with his work. But it's the studios that own the copyright to these movies, not the directors or the DGA. And I don't believe that CheapFlicks should be allowed to sell edited movies without the permission of the copyright owner. But they should be allowed to operate, so long as they are up-front about it. (Which they seem to be.)
P2P is a fad and I predict that sometime after the beta they'll have things set up in a more traditional client/server fashion... though they likely won't call it that.
But what I found much more interesting was this quote:
"Absolutely, but Linux version basically means an NVIDIA version - that's the only safe bet for working video under Linux in Doom 3."
Gah!!! I hope ATI and Matrox see that and consider it a challenge. It's really discouraging that the only quasi-respected video drivers for Linux are proprietary.
Is that so? Ohwell, silly me believed it was about the density of transistors on silicon.... that's what I get for actually reading history, instead of making it up to suit my own prejudices. (As seems to be the status quo.)
It is somewhat daring, but I wouldn't call it a gamble. If something doesn't end up scaling in time they'll just have to deal with a bottleneck in the system for a few years. Necessity being the mother that it is, they'll still manage to make the SKA (it's not just a musical genre anymore!) useful. Remember how much grief Hubble got when it first went up?
Is this really the same/. I was reading yesterday?
Not a single mention of burying the old New York and building New New York directly on top of it. (Leaving access to the old city through the sewers so the mutants have a place to live.)
Okay, so they'll only be able to bite with ~80-100 lbs/sq.in. That's still a lot. And the only advantage humans have ever had over crocs is endurance. You give this stuff to a croc and it's.... well, you know what that wacky Aussie would say.
aside: hrmm... there's now "what's this" links on the submission form. Since when did/. start pandering to lusers?
Piracy is being used as a smoke-screen. For starters, since day one the **AA has complained that Napster/MP3/DivX/etc. are new and horrible type of piracy because they make perfect copies that are indistinguishable from originals.
Except they're not. MP3 and DivX are lossless, lo-fidelity media. The quality of the copies is closer to cassette tapes than CDs, and the videos are only marginally if not worse than the VHS tapes you can buy from some street vender. Nevertheless they continue to use this argument. The media companies don't like piracy, but they've adjusted their business plan to account for it.
The reason they continue to argue against piracy is to deflect the argument away from the real issue. What they are afraid of and what they are fighting so hard to prevent is not that the people who will make unauthorized copies of content that they own. But that people will be making content that the media companies DON'T own.
And that is what is so insiduous about the legislation being considered and passed. And that is why the public is being lied to by the media companies, using congress as their mouthpiece. And when the public does find out that they've been bamboozled, the fall-guys will be the congressmen while the Valenti and Rosen, who are accountable to nobody, walk off with the whole world in their pockets.
All loops can be implemented using if/else/goto. Adding while, for, switch, try, etc. help promote structured programming for complicated tasks. But I think it's good to promote KISS here. So include goto because even though it's been vilified it is still a staple; HLLs just try to discourage using it directly. But anything more is just needless bloat.
Pointers? Obviously, buffer overruns just aren't doing enough damage in protected memory and we have to start corrupting our framebuffers as well.
Are there any integer-based 3D cards anyway? If there are, they can write their own integer language.
But I believe that if NVidia were really interested in making shader programming easier and doing it in an open way, they'd write an extension to GCC that lets it compile to their machine code. NVidia's policy of open sourcing "certain components" while keeping critical portions proprietary reminds me so much of Marie Antoinette's "Let them eat cake."
But I second your point. NATO and the US are not idiots and certainly know how to do digital transmission. I suspect this isn't a mere "oops" or lack of bandwidth problem. (They've known since before November. They won't admit to the press but Locker says they confirmed to him.) More likely the people in charge of operations in the Balkans have dropped down a few rungs on the political ladder. So when someone asks to use some of the secure bandwidth (because the US doesn't run it's communications like Pixelon and actually cares about image quality, unlike Real.) the powers that be say, "Oh, sorry. You can't have it. We need it all for Afghanistan et. al." They could share, of course, but they won't. This was the old administration's war. And second because it's not considered part of "the war on terror." Yes, I know, this is all utter bullshit; that's why they call it "politics." Which is too bad when one of these at-large "war criminals" realises that no one is breathing down his back anymore, and recruits a few mercenaries (who, ironically, could likely have been trained by al quaeda) and start causing trouble again.
The answer to that has been given to us by Breke Breathed.
Steve Dallas's Law Tips (November 29) "Who should I sue?"
"On April 17th, the plaintiff, me, was brutally attacked by actor Sean Penn after I accidentally and not on purpose snapped a picture of him. The question: Who should I sue?...
"... Sean? No. Juries love famous people. Plus, he'd probably return to beat up the plaintiff again. Never sue psychopathic celebrities.
"... Sean's wife? No. True, living with Madonna might make most anyone irritable, but proving liability would be difficult. Plus, she too might return to beat up the plaintiff.
"... Opus? No. Although he got the plaintiff into this mess, he's also dead broke. Never, never, never sue poor people.
"... The Nikolta Camera Co.? Yes! A major corporation with gobs of liquid cash, it was criminally negligent in not putting stickers on their cameras which read, 'Warning: Physical injury may result from photographing psychopathic Hollywood hotheads.'
"... I plan to ask for $10 million."
----- And, of course, he's right. The artists don't have any money. Apple's got money but they didn't create the problem; they're really just as much a "victim", and yes this is a CYA technote. But Sony's got money too, more than Apple even. And they're the ones that have created the "defective" discs. But the discs do say, "Will not play on PC", so Sony can deflect the blame anyway. Now if you were to discover a defective disc without any appropriate labelling, you'd have a case.
Great, they're cleaning up an industrial waste site by dumping a (pardon the pun) shitload of agricultural waste.
Turkeys are mostly fed cheap corn and soy. But they're also pumped full of hormones and antibiotics. Because we demand more white meat and less outbreaks of disease (such as Avian Flu which has struck a number of farms here in Virginia recently).
Now, the farmers will swear left and right that this is safe and it doesn't show up in the food we eat, and they may be right. But the one place it certainly does show up is in the waste from the turkeys. No studies have been done on the environmental impact of most of these chemicals, though I expect we'll be finding out soon. (http://sierraactivist.org/article.php?sid=7491)
But common sense should tell you that hormones and antibiotics can't be harmless.
Web mail is great as an alternative. I won't use it as the only option, but it's nice when I'm on the road to be able to quickly check my messages without mucking about in someone else's client configuration.
But is it too much to ask for email providers -- not just web-based but POP3 and IMAP as well -- to use secure connections? All those passwords being sent in the clear are a packet sniffers dream.
It's a fairly simple concept: You can't solve social problems using technological solutions.
You mentioned that anti-copying software must be closed-source. Yet S.2048 (CBDTPA) specifically requires any anti-copying software be open source. (3)(d)(2) Of course, I'm still opposed to the bill (mostly because a simple hard drive could be considered a "digital media device" under the bill. But the closed-source argument won't help in this case.
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To be fair, he was operating an FServ. (with complete series of Chobits, Maharomatic, NukuNuku, etc.)
I'm imagining an onUnload handler that checks if the site you're going to is some other airline and pops up a warning saying you're in violation of the EULA.
They probably outsource their email and crm services. This is the problem with panaceas like P3P: the limitations are overly-broad so you either have to be completely paranoid and not be able to do anything online, or relax the standards and allow for the possibility of someone abusing your trust. The only way to prevent people from using your personal data without your permission is to make it outright illegal. Too bad the people who want to do such things have a lot of friends in congress.
There's UCITA at work. Wasn't there a big fuss about a hundred and fifty years ago about one state's laws being enforced in another? That and something about those who forget the lessons of history...
Another auto-configuring live CD is Cool Linux CD. It's based on Red Hat 7.3 with XFS support, uses IceWM, and contains OpenOffice, Mozilla, Opera, Sylpheed, Pan, Xchat, Licq, mplayer, xmms, and VMWare.
I wouldn't just hand it to a Windows user and say "try this". The hardware auto-detection works well enough, but you still have to login and start X manually. Since it uses RH's configurator, it will initially display the standard RH desktop while setting up then it restarts into IceWM. But once you've got it running and explain that there is no "Explorer" or "Start" button, it's dead simple.
Outside of IBM and Macintosh clones, the only use of the PPC for PCs was Amiga upgrades. I'm guessing the RS6000 was the only machine anyone ever bothered to run WinNT on.
The problem with this statement is that WinNT was originally intended to be cross-platform. 3.51 was released for x86, PPC, Alpha, MIPS, and I think one other.
I'm sure plenty of x86-ities have crept in since they realised no one was asking for cross-platform support, of course.
And I believe you can get motherboards for other CPUs with AGP and sATA. You're just going to have to pay four times as much. x86 systems are cheap because millions of people buy them to run Windows. Windows isn't available for other CPUs because no one buys them. People buy x86 systems because they're cheaper than others. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
On the contrary, I wouldn't mind seeing more military war simulations being done on supercomputers; so long as they are carried out as an alternative to actual military war.
Think about it: Instead of wasting all the money, resources, and lives of actually invading another country, we just get a few supercomputers into a network, and duke it out online.
First thing, of course, would be to allow the export of supercomputers to blacklisted countries. (Is Afghanistan still on the list, I wonder?) Then get a UN resolution that all member countries will abide by the outcome of any virtual war.
And hey, the US has already got a head-start in training soldiers for it: "America's Army"!
The source code is licensed under the GPL, which isn't mentioned anywhere on the page.
Also from the README...
Which is kinda nice for those of us who don't have $600+ to blow on visual studio. (Or are a student at a uni with the $5 per license deal.)
(sorry, I didn't bother to grab any other files)
My peeve with cell phones is that in the push to make them smaller, they have created a device with which it is impossible to have the earpiece close enough to your ear to hear it, while at the same time keeping the mouthpiece close enough to your mouth for it to pick up what you're saying. As a result, the user is forced to turn up the volume of the phone, so that everyone in the vicinity hears the buzz of the person on the other end, and he has to speak quite loudly to be heard.
It occurs to me that this may also contribute to the inability to multi-task while speaking on a cell phone. Most people don't have significant problems carrying on a conversation with another person while performing some other task: eating, walking, driving a car. But it's well-known that talking on a cell phone distracts from other tasks. This may be because the poor clarity requires the speaker to concentrate more on comprehending what is being said, and having to speak more deliberately to be understood.
If someone is operating a web proxy to bypass the Great Firewall, that's great.
But a web proxy isn't the same thing as an open SMTP relay. Anyone with one of those should be shot, burned, dragged through the streets naked, and then really punished.
So, wouldn't they have had to use DeCSS or similar technology to decrypt and edit the movie? And, AFAIK, there's no ReCSS, so the movie would have to be written as region-free, right? And what about formats like SuperBits?
As to the DGA, I think the problem is that the directors shouldn't have signed over their rights to the studios. It's the copyright owner who has to say yea or nay on whether someone is not doing the right thing with his work. But it's the studios that own the copyright to these movies, not the directors or the DGA. And I don't believe that CheapFlicks should be allowed to sell edited movies without the permission of the copyright owner. But they should be allowed to operate, so long as they are up-front about it. (Which they seem to be.)
P2P is a fad and I predict that sometime after the beta they'll have things set up in a more traditional client/server fashion... though they likely won't call it that.
But what I found much more interesting was this quote:
"Absolutely, but Linux version basically means an NVIDIA version - that's the only safe bet for working video under Linux in Doom 3."
Gah!!! I hope ATI and Matrox see that and consider it a challenge. It's really discouraging that the only quasi-respected video drivers for Linux are proprietary.
Is that so? Ohwell, silly me believed it was about the density of transistors on silicon. ... that's what I get for actually reading history, instead of making it up to suit my own prejudices. (As seems to be the status quo.)
It is somewhat daring, but I wouldn't call it a gamble. If something doesn't end up scaling in time they'll just have to deal with a bottleneck in the system for a few years. Necessity being the mother that it is, they'll still manage to make the SKA (it's not just a musical genre anymore!) useful. Remember how much grief Hubble got when it first went up?
If God doesn't want to be found, then she won't be. I mean... that's why she's God!
Is this really the same /. I was reading yesterday?
Not a single mention of burying the old New York and building New New York directly on top of it. (Leaving access to the old city through the sewers so the mutants have a place to live.)
So, can we do this to crocodiles too?
/. start pandering to lusers?
Okay, so they'll only be able to bite with ~80-100 lbs/sq.in. That's still a lot. And the only advantage humans have ever had over crocs is endurance. You give this stuff to a croc and it's.... well, you know what that wacky Aussie would say.
aside: hrmm... there's now "what's this" links on the submission form. Since when did
No, no, no, no, no.
Piracy is being used as a smoke-screen. For starters, since day one the **AA has complained that Napster/MP3/DivX/etc. are new and horrible type of piracy because they make perfect copies that are indistinguishable from originals.
Except they're not. MP3 and DivX are lossless, lo-fidelity media. The quality of the copies is closer to cassette tapes than CDs, and the videos are only marginally if not worse than the VHS tapes you can buy from some street vender. Nevertheless they continue to use this argument. The media companies don't like piracy, but they've adjusted their business plan to account for it.
The reason they continue to argue against piracy is to deflect the argument away from the real issue. What they are afraid of and what they are fighting so hard to prevent is not that the people who will make unauthorized copies of content that they own. But that people will be making content that the media companies DON'T own.
And that is what is so insiduous about the legislation being considered and passed. And that is why the public is being lied to by the media companies, using congress as their mouthpiece. And when the public does find out that they've been bamboozled, the fall-guys will be the congressmen while the Valenti and Rosen, who are accountable to nobody, walk off with the whole world in their pockets.
Why so? They advertise on Sesame Street all the time.
All loops can be implemented using if/else/goto. Adding while, for, switch, try, etc. help promote structured programming for complicated tasks. But I think it's good to promote KISS here. So include goto because even though it's been vilified it is still a staple; HLLs just try to discourage using it directly. But anything more is just needless bloat.
Pointers? Obviously, buffer overruns just aren't doing enough damage in protected memory and we have to start corrupting our framebuffers as well.
Are there any integer-based 3D cards anyway? If there are, they can write their own integer language.
But I believe that if NVidia were really interested in making shader programming easier and doing it in an open way, they'd write an extension to GCC that lets it compile to their machine code. NVidia's policy of open sourcing "certain components" while keeping critical portions proprietary reminds me so much of Marie Antoinette's "Let them eat cake."
err... Why are you piping to a device file?
But I second your point. NATO and the US are not idiots and certainly know how to do digital transmission. I suspect this isn't a mere "oops" or lack of bandwidth problem. (They've known since before November. They won't admit to the press but Locker says they confirmed to him.) More likely the people in charge of operations in the Balkans have dropped down a few rungs on the political ladder. So when someone asks to use some of the secure bandwidth (because the US doesn't run it's communications like Pixelon and actually cares about image quality, unlike Real.) the powers that be say, "Oh, sorry. You can't have it. We need it all for Afghanistan et. al." They could share, of course, but they won't. This was the old administration's war. And second because it's not considered part of "the war on terror." Yes, I know, this is all utter bullshit; that's why they call it "politics." Which is too bad when one of these at-large "war criminals" realises that no one is breathing down his back anymore, and recruits a few mercenaries (who, ironically, could likely have been trained by al quaeda) and start causing trouble again.
Industrial Colloidal Electrolyte
No, you're thinking of the Edsel.
The answer to that has been given to us by Breke Breathed.
...
Steve Dallas's Law Tips (November 29) "Who should I sue?"
"On April 17th, the plaintiff, me, was brutally attacked by actor Sean Penn after I accidentally and not on purpose snapped a picture of him. The question: Who should I sue?
"... Sean? No. Juries love famous people. Plus, he'd probably return to beat up the plaintiff again. Never sue psychopathic celebrities.
"... Sean's wife? No. True, living with Madonna might make most anyone irritable, but proving liability would be difficult. Plus, she too might return to beat up the plaintiff.
"... Opus? No. Although he got the plaintiff into this mess, he's also dead broke. Never, never, never sue poor people.
"... The Nikolta Camera Co.? Yes! A major corporation with gobs of liquid cash, it was criminally negligent in not putting stickers on their cameras which read, 'Warning: Physical injury may result from photographing psychopathic Hollywood hotheads.'
"... I plan to ask for $10 million."
-----
And, of course, he's right. The artists don't have any money. Apple's got money but they didn't create the problem; they're really just as much a "victim", and yes this is a CYA technote. But Sony's got money too, more than Apple even. And they're the ones that have created the "defective" discs. But the discs do say, "Will not play on PC", so Sony can deflect the blame anyway. Now if you were to discover a defective disc without any appropriate labelling, you'd have a case.
Turkeys are mostly fed cheap corn and soy. But they're also pumped full of hormones and antibiotics. Because we demand more white meat and less outbreaks of disease (such as Avian Flu which has struck a number of farms here in Virginia recently).
Now, the farmers will swear left and right that this is safe and it doesn't show up in the food we eat, and they may be right. But the one place it certainly does show up is in the waste from the turkeys. No studies have been done on the environmental impact of most of these chemicals, though I expect we'll be finding out soon. (http://sierraactivist.org/article.php?sid=7491) But common sense should tell you that hormones and antibiotics can't be harmless.
Web mail is great as an alternative. I won't use it as the only option, but it's nice when I'm on the road to be able to quickly check my messages without mucking about in someone else's client configuration.
But is it too much to ask for email providers -- not just web-based but POP3 and IMAP as well -- to use secure connections? All those passwords being sent in the clear are a packet sniffers dream.
It's a fairly simple concept:
You can't solve social problems using technological solutions.
You mentioned that anti-copying software must be closed-source. Yet S.2048 (CBDTPA) specifically requires any anti-copying software be open source. (3)(d)(2) Of course, I'm still opposed to the bill (mostly because a simple hard drive could be considered a "digital media device" under the bill. But the closed-source argument won't help in this case.