No karma for you, at least from me, but thanks for the links. I'm a sucker for the creative misuse of technology; combine it with a good MUD or FPS (or even a lame proof of concept:) and I'm on it like a corn dog on a stick.
Spamming Usenet is bad enough. Spamming individuals by email is arguably worse. But if you must, there's plenty of autospamming software available for Windows. (Why none for Linux? Probably since anyone with half a brain can cobble standard tools together. The big bottleneck, as always, is bandwidth.)
But see, to the proles, "proper safeguards" consist of what even the most larval of script kiddies knows is completely laughable. As for those who actually have a clue, we've seen how often they're truly in charge of decision making. So they go and Do the Right Thing, like a right and proper BOFH, and usually end up being yelled at or sacked for making things "difficult", or for just BEING "difficult".
Even sillier/more ironic/more disgusting, given that the whole free software movement and the cooperative, voluntary growth of the Internet itself. Younger people growing up with free software who have little sense of history end up being just as elitist and asinine as "THA MAN" they rail against.
Don't remember where I ran across them, but Overclockers sells very NON-secretly OC'd systems. Typical entry, Duron 600 or better, unlocked, set to 850, tested stable at that speed on Asus and Gigabit boards, and of course they add "requires good cooling." Anyone have any dealings with them?
Cerf, who recently traveled to the FBI's Quantico, Va., campus
to review Carnivore, said that scenario would not only raise even more
personal privacy issues but also might end up corrupting the evidence.
"I have a feeling," he said, "that the ISP geeks would be less
familiar with restraints than the FBI gentlemen."
Fuck me with a chainsaw if that ain't a denouncement of the BOFH and everything it stands for.
A responsible admin is always less of a BOFH with equipment in the workplace than equipment which they wholly own themselves...but not that much more so. No, Vinton is dismayed at the uncouth, ungentlemanly behavior of system administrators who are accustomed to steamrolling over everything in their path. All well and good, but BOFHness can be used for ill as well as good, we all know that. No, I side with the bastards because it is the proper attitude; it is right and proper to defend oneself from attack. The police have no obligation to protect anyone, and I trust a BOFH future more than any police state.
I'd venture to say that Jon Postel was quite likely the most widely respected "father of the Internet". Unfortunately, the more time goes by, the more it is true that the Internet, like the Constitution, was invented by a bunch of dead white guys.
To MPAA, RIAA, lawyers and politicians everywhere: Someday you're gonna die and stink just like everyone else. What will your legacy be?
Where's the link? Where's the beef? I didn't see anything in the linked article about "mere Internet users need not see code". Without corroboration, this has incredible potential for being misleading and inflammatory.
Try to look on the bright side; at least it isn't streaming only, so you don't have to use ASF Recorder. Dunno if they've put any self-destructs or other "encryption" in it, but a quick run through UnFuck should take care of that.
And it certainly costs them money for servers, bandwidth, etc., when people play a video on their own computer and never send or receive any network traffic?
Streambox VCR (which the company had to yank when Real threw a hissy fit) is still floating around the net; use Google to track it down. Along similar lines, the anonymously produced
ASF Recorder is still available from a few of its mirror sites; it's a very nice, source-included, ready to run on Linux and Windows app that saves ASF streams. With these tools, we can once again DOWNLOAD FILES THE WAY GOD AND SPAF INTENDED!
(I don't think I'd hate streaming so much if people had offered it as an alternative, instead of a replacement, and not tried to pass it off as the wave of the future that would replace all that "complicated, time-consuming downloading".
I wish that Signal 11 would die, just so you people would shut your whiney little yaps. The biggest reason to get rid of Karma would be the cessation of your endless bitching.
Well, not like it required as much effort as voting in meatspace, but I actually did activate my membership and endorse a candidate. It remains to be seen how well ICANN will work, but I'm giving it a fair shake (as well as
not putting all my eggs in one basket and getting involved with projects like
OpenNIC.
The fact that it's in Real format doesn't bother me -- I've got
trplayer:) What DOES tick me off is the genius
that made the hyperlinks with Javascript instead of a good old A HREF. Bad web monkey -- no cookie for you!
I was running Galeon 0.2 just fine, but when I tried 0.6 it spawned a never-ending series of processes that sent my CPU usage higher than I've ever seen it before (load average hit 39 and my motherboard's temperature monitor started whining, before I finally was able to keep up on killing them all; little buggers respawned faster than lawyers or gremlins). 0.7 is the latest one I see, but now I get the error
>And guess what, people can call your telephone number too, without your authorisation.
Yeah, and I consider that a bug. Every time a telespammer hits me, I call the phone company and ask to order a phone that only allows authorized numbers to call it -- i.e., an "opt-in" phone line. They tell me there's no such thing. I tell them to make one, and while they're at it, start charging to LIST your number in the phone book instead of charging you to NOT list it.
For raw Gecko access under Linux, put the Mozilla working directory in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and run the TestGtkEmbed executable contained therein. For slightly less raw Gecko access, see the up and coming Galeon, a very bare bones Gnome/GTK+ browser which "wraps around" an existing Mozilla; point it to your working directory and away you go. Between these and w3m, you should be farting through silk.
My immediate thought is to have a "new blue" apple, with a daemon: sitting inside poking his head out, sitting on the ground by the apple roasting an "old apple" on his pitchfork over a fire, superimposed over the apple, take your pick or come up with a new one. Mascots and icons are the make or break of an OS, eh?
"Of course" corporations are a greater threat than government?
Governments have the "authority" to jail you and kill you. There are precious few companies that try such tactics. Anything else is smoke and mirrors, and the smoke comes from crack. Don't want to do business with a business? No problem, most of the time. Think your government's a threat? Most of the time, you've got a problem...and it's only going to get worse.
How coincidental is it that Sam Lowry bears a striking resemblance to many photos and drawings I've seen of Eric Blair, more commonly known as George Orwell?
Tom Stoppard is also the author of the theatrical (and film) masterpiece, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and I credit him along with Gilliam for a good deal of the "flavor" of Brazil.
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No karma for you, at least from me, but thanks for the links. I'm a sucker for the creative misuse of technology; combine it with a good MUD or FPS (or even a lame proof of concept :) and I'm on it like a corn dog on a stick.
- Ololiuhqui
redheaded giant
Spamming Usenet is bad enough. Spamming individuals by email is arguably worse. But if you must, there's plenty of autospamming software available for Windows. (Why none for Linux? Probably since anyone with half a brain can cobble standard tools together. The big bottleneck, as always, is bandwidth.)
But see, to the proles, "proper safeguards" consist of what even the most larval of script kiddies knows is completely laughable. As for those who actually have a clue, we've seen how often they're truly in charge of decision making. So they go and Do the Right Thing, like a right and proper BOFH, and usually end up being yelled at or sacked for making things "difficult", or for just BEING "difficult".
Even sillier/more ironic/more disgusting, given that the whole free software movement and the cooperative, voluntary growth of the Internet itself. Younger people growing up with free software who have little sense of history end up being just as elitist and asinine as "THA MAN" they rail against.
OFFTOPIC? The crack must be especially strong today.
"Knowing is half the battle."
- G.I. Joe
Cerf, who recently traveled to the FBI's Quantico, Va., campus to review Carnivore, said that scenario would not only raise even more personal privacy issues but also might end up corrupting the evidence. "I have a feeling," he said, "that the ISP geeks would be less familiar with restraints than the FBI gentlemen."
Fuck me with a chainsaw if that ain't a denouncement of the BOFH and everything it stands for.
A responsible admin is always less of a BOFH with equipment in the workplace than equipment which they wholly own themselves...but not that much more so. No, Vinton is dismayed at the uncouth, ungentlemanly behavior of system administrators who are accustomed to steamrolling over everything in their path. All well and good, but BOFHness can be used for ill as well as good, we all know that. No, I side with the bastards because it is the proper attitude; it is right and proper to defend oneself from attack. The police have no obligation to protect anyone, and I trust a BOFH future more than any police state.
To MPAA, RIAA, lawyers and politicians everywhere: Someday you're gonna die and stink just like everyone else. What will your legacy be?
Of course, it isn't that far removed from the co creator of the Web saying everyone should have a license to surf the Web (yeah, apparently this is not a new opinion for him).
Try to look on the bright side; at least it isn't streaming only, so you don't have to use ASF Recorder. Dunno if they've put any self-destructs or other "encryption" in it, but a quick run through UnFuck should take care of that.
And it certainly costs them money for servers, bandwidth, etc., when people play a video on their own computer and never send or receive any network traffic?
(I don't think I'd hate streaming so much if people had offered it as an alternative, instead of a replacement, and not tried to pass it off as the wave of the future that would replace all that "complicated, time-consuming downloading".
-dj
screaming in digital
I wish that Signal 11 would die, just so you people would shut your whiney little yaps. The biggest reason to get rid of Karma would be the cessation of your endless bitching.
On a tangential note, End Women's Suffrage Now! tells a dihydrogen monoxide-like tale worked into a rant of "don't vote, it only encourages them."
Well, not like it required as much effort as voting in meatspace, but I actually did activate my membership and endorse a candidate. It remains to be seen how well ICANN will work, but I'm giving it a fair shake (as well as not putting all my eggs in one basket and getting involved with projects like OpenNIC.
The fact that it's in Real format doesn't bother me -- I've got trplayer :) What DOES tick me off is the genius
that made the hyperlinks with Javascript instead of a good old A HREF. Bad web monkey -- no cookie for you!
** CRITICAL **: file gtkmozembed.cpp: line 298 (void gtk_moz_embed_init(struct GtkMozEmbed *)): assertion `retval == TRUE' failed.
Guess I'll go back to 0.2, which was pretty darn functional.
Yeah, and I consider that a bug. Every time a telespammer hits me, I call the phone company and ask to order a phone that only allows authorized numbers to call it -- i.e., an "opt-in" phone line. They tell me there's no such thing. I tell them to make one, and while they're at it, start charging to LIST your number in the phone book instead of charging you to NOT list it.
For raw Gecko access under Linux, put the Mozilla working directory in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and run the TestGtkEmbed executable contained therein. For slightly less raw Gecko access, see the up and coming Galeon, a very bare bones Gnome/GTK+ browser which "wraps around" an existing Mozilla; point it to your working directory and away you go. Between these and w3m, you should be farting through silk.
My immediate thought is to have a "new blue" apple, with a daemon: sitting inside poking his head out, sitting on the ground by the apple roasting an "old apple" on his pitchfork over a fire, superimposed over the apple, take your pick or come up with a new one. Mascots and icons are the make or break of an OS, eh?
The legislators are just stupid. The lawyers are both stupid and proactively, malignantly evil.
-dj
hunting lawyers without a license
Governments have the "authority" to jail you and kill you. There are precious few companies that try such tactics. Anything else is smoke and mirrors, and the smoke comes from crack. Don't want to do business with a business? No problem, most of the time. Think your government's a threat? Most of the time, you've got a problem...and it's only going to get worse.
How coincidental is it that Sam Lowry bears a striking resemblance to many photos and drawings I've seen of Eric Blair, more commonly known as George Orwell?
Tom Stoppard is also the author of the theatrical (and film) masterpiece, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and I credit him along with Gilliam for a good deal of the "flavor" of Brazil.