Indeed, or well-working firewalls/security against spyware and the like. I don't see what DRM has to do with protecting information that is stored on your own computer, for your own use. It shouldn't be easily available to people from anything other than your account anyway.
Or, to put it in another way, I've implemented DRM on a linux box! just run "chmod go-r./some_musicfile.mp3"
is... "Only one remote hole in the default install, in more than 8 years!"
Notice the word "default". You can be sure that when you install BSD on your pc, and connect it to the net, it will be running without problems for a long long time. Try that with a windows install. Instead, he just uses the infamous 'count vulnerabilities' argument, which just doesn't hold because you cannot compare a vulnerability that requires already an account on the system with one that gives root permissions from just any externel connection.
Furthermore my last OpenBSD install supported all my media hardware, and I could use xmms, mplayer, my tv card etc etc without problems. I would actually say that OpenBSD could be a very good candidate for people that just want to use their pc for multimedia without going through much pain.
Actually I looked at quite a few pages with lynx and w3m, and I really don't think the img alt attribute is a helpful thing per se. Especially when you end up with a page saying "image" "image" "image" "image" "click here".
With image names that are at least descriptive I can come a lot further.
Or to put it in another way, how to install your linux wireless device:
0. Ask around your linux friends how you could install a wifi device, they tell you to search the web and read lots of man pages
1. Buy cheapest device you can find, don't spend ANY time looking at websites mentioning supported wifi chipsets for linux (*)
2. Complain on slashdot that it doesn't work on linux, and the wireless support must be crap.
3. Everyone in linux-guru land givea you step-by-step explanations on what to do.
4. Profit!!!!
(*) really, you would have found that the prism54 is one of the more expected ones to be supported, I did the same some time ago, BEFORE going to the store
I have one request. Can the sections that you choose to be in 'Full' format also be added to the 'older stuff' slashbox? Since the topics end up in the 'older stuff' box now faster than before, I'd like to see if I've missed something.
if I'm not completely incorrect the original intent of the internet was to have a highly branched network that would be stable enough to do military communications:
I agree, my vacuum cleaner never had any problems since I started living on my own! Even didn't have to change the dust bag, and that's already three years ago!
So you are implying yourself that you never heard of mobile computing? You should try it, it's pretty fancy, you can do the same thing as on this big box you have in your room, but then without any cords! Amazing!
I am just amazed by the way politics seem to be such a 'dangerous' issue in the US academia. I cannot imagine either professors formulating a distinct political view towards their student, or the extreme reaction that the student at UCLA had on this.
The rest of my post is because I have the impression that what's happening there is not at all good for science, and I'm just wondering where this all will lead to.
I can not imagine something like this happening in europe. Why not? Even here, politics and science are connected, and always will be, but why should it be such an issue?
The problems probably arise when not only science tries to gets itself involved into politics, but when politics tries to get itself involved into science. In the end, politics will determine where part of the funding goes to, more or less, but it should never determine what is spoken in the academia. The fact that it's happening out there at the other side of the ocean is sad in one way, but on the other hand the bright people that want to avoid this mess are of course always welcome at this side.
All things combined (e.g. foreign scientists hardly being able to get visa due to 'anti-terrorist' measures) it will just be a matter of time before the US politicized its way out of the forefront of science. Or it might already be happening, and there are a lot of places that would be happy to take over this position.
and even if she did the content was keyed to the serial number of the individual device and I couldn't have loaned it to her anyway
This is the one thing I don't get about DRM, and I will avoid buying DRM'ed stuff for as long as there is no reasonable solution to it.
Let's make an example: I have bought quite some cd's and I like to listen to them at home, in my car, at work, with a friend and her/his place. I am, for practical reasons, not carrying my cd player with me to all those places. Would it be device-keyed cd's, I'd have to either buy lots and lots of copies, or just find some way to copy them. Furthermore, most cd players tend to have a working life of about max. 5 years. Often the lens gets out of focus and you end up with lots of hiccups (I presume they are made of not-too-durable material). Should I rebuy my whole music collection when this happens to my device I've content-keyed all my music to? Furthermore, I might just want to buy a cd player that is newer and has more functions, better sound, etcetera. Same problem.
the thought of the current media corporations just wanting my money no matter my inconvenience in enjoying a piece of art that they more or less stole anyway (by contractually not only forcing right to produce, but also the actual intellectual property from the artist) just makes me sick! I know they are no philantropic institutions, but their actions to make you owning a piece of media into a felony are absurd and criminal. Having to pay for something you won't own afterwards is just plain fraud. Or, if you would pay for the experience of listening to a song on a limited basis (like enjoying rides in a theme park), then the price would have to be more in the cent-region than the current dollar-region.
I just sprewed some of the bread I was eating onto my keyboard while laughing over your comment. Probably the unplanned side effect is the bread remains will help me build more resistance for the following months. Thnx!;)
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Maybe I shouldn't have used "complex", but more "tedious". In perl or other scripting languages you can more intuitively write nested loops, sub programs and the like. You could probably do it in awk, but (depending on you awk skills of course), it might be painful;)
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Thnx, very clear! I figured that the hash form didn't make sense, but couldn't found an intuitive way to do the array (which was my first plan of course). I already figured out the sort thingy (the hard way, trust me;)), just forgot to copy it to the text.
Only one question remaining:
How do I print one-per-time the complete array that is stored in $points[1]?
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In bio- and chemical informatics there are a lot of things depending on names and numbers at the same time. Here is where perl fits in really well, since strings are a pain for a c, but the operations become too complex for awk. I'm not into bioinformatics myself, but you can see for example on http://bio.perl.org/ that it makes sense to use perl here:)
not to feed any flame wars here: there's also http://www.biopython.org/ and http://www.bioruby.org/;)
But I'm just trying to make a point here for the position of these kind of languages in sciences.
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Since I was struggling with this as well yesterday, I have a question for you. I am filling a 2D array by looping 2 times, currently, after searching for a way to do it on the web, it works like this (being a list of hashes, or the other way around:) )
my $points = ();
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for my $x (sort keys %$points) { for my $y (sort keys %{$points->{$x}) { do_something($x,$y,$points->{$x}{$y}) } } }
(tabbing didn't work in ecode)
Now this works, but it doesn't seem to be the most efficient way to me. Your example just prints everything in one go, but how do you fill structures like that from 2d input data that has to be read in. And how do you print it out if you want to print a line for each separate value of the first dimension, not in one go.
Of course silly to post this in slashdot, but seeing GP's post, it's not only me who has to suffer with this in perl:)
Well, you seem to be forgetting that there are a lot of "John Does" still using a hotmail account. To look at the people you know will be pretty biased (as a slashdot user / academic and all).
I found another site on that page, for european costumers, with a nicer picture, probably the smallest barebone around. I really like the looks of that, wouldn't mind to have one of those as a home/multimedia pc. Be prepared to pay good money, though.
Well, if you follow the mini-box.com link mentioned in this topic, you see they also have a Car PSU, and even a ready-built Car x86 PC. Unfortunately the links they mention don't seem to leed to the corresponding product, I don't see the nice car PC case between their specs, for example.
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Did they ride on the back of an african or a european swallow?
Or, to put it in another way, I've implemented DRM on a linux box! just run "chmod go-r ./some_musicfile.mp3"
Notice the word "default". You can be sure that when you install BSD on your pc, and connect it to the net, it will be running without problems for a long long time. Try that with a windows install. Instead, he just uses the infamous 'count vulnerabilities' argument, which just doesn't hold because you cannot compare a vulnerability that requires already an account on the system with one that gives root permissions from just any externel connection.
Furthermore my last OpenBSD install supported all my media hardware, and I could use xmms, mplayer, my tv card etc etc without problems. I would actually say that OpenBSD could be a very good candidate for people that just want to use their pc for multimedia without going through much pain.
With image names that are at least descriptive I can come a lot further.
"menu.jpg" "links.jpg" etc...
Well, in real life, loosing your flash drive may not be so funny, for example if it's a memorystick with secret Defense information that has been lost (link in dutch). Happened in the Netherlands a few weeks ago.
Or to put it in another way, how to install your linux wireless device:
0. Ask around your linux friends how you could install a wifi device, they tell you to search the web and read lots of man pages
1. Buy cheapest device you can find, don't spend ANY time looking at websites mentioning supported wifi chipsets for linux (*)
2. Complain on slashdot that it doesn't work on linux, and the wireless support must be crap.
3. Everyone in linux-guru land givea you step-by-step explanations on what to do.
4. Profit!!!!
(*) really, you would have found that the prism54 is one of the more expected ones to be supported, I did the same some time ago, BEFORE going to the store
I have one request. Can the sections that you choose to be in 'Full' format also be added to the 'older stuff' slashbox? Since the topics end up in the 'older stuff' box now faster than before, I'd like to see if I've missed something.
http://www.internetvalley.com/archives/mirrors/cer f-how-inet.txt
I agree, my vacuum cleaner never had any problems since I started living on my own! Even didn't have to change the dust bag, and that's already three years ago!
So you are implying yourself that you never heard of mobile computing? You should try it, it's pretty fancy, you can do the same thing as on this big box you have in your room, but then without any cords! Amazing!
The rest of my post is because I have the impression that what's happening there is not at all good for science, and I'm just wondering where this all will lead to.
The problems probably arise when not only science tries to gets itself involved into politics, but when politics tries to get itself involved into science. In the end, politics will determine where part of the funding goes to, more or less, but it should never determine what is spoken in the academia. The fact that it's happening out there at the other side of the ocean is sad in one way, but on the other hand the bright people that want to avoid this mess are of course always welcome at this side.
All things combined (e.g. foreign scientists hardly being able to get visa due to 'anti-terrorist' measures) it will just be a matter of time before the US politicized its way out of the forefront of science. Or it might already be happening, and there are a lot of places that would be happy to take over this position.
This is the one thing I don't get about DRM, and I will avoid buying DRM'ed stuff for as long as there is no reasonable solution to it.
Let's make an example: I have bought quite some cd's and I like to listen to them at home, in my car, at work, with a friend and her/his place. I am, for practical reasons, not carrying my cd player with me to all those places. Would it be device-keyed cd's, I'd have to either buy lots and lots of copies, or just find some way to copy them. Furthermore, most cd players tend to have a working life of about max. 5 years. Often the lens gets out of focus and you end up with lots of hiccups (I presume they are made of not-too-durable material). Should I rebuy my whole music collection when this happens to my device I've content-keyed all my music to? Furthermore, I might just want to buy a cd player that is newer and has more functions, better sound, etcetera. Same problem.
the thought of the current media corporations just wanting my money no matter my inconvenience in enjoying a piece of art that they more or less stole anyway (by contractually not only forcing right to produce, but also the actual intellectual property from the artist) just makes me sick! I know they are no philantropic institutions, but their actions to make you owning a piece of media into a felony are absurd and criminal. Having to pay for something you won't own afterwards is just plain fraud. Or, if you would pay for the experience of listening to a song on a limited basis (like enjoying rides in a theme park), then the price would have to be more in the cent-region than the current dollar-region.
I just sprewed some of the bread I was eating onto my keyboard while laughing over your comment. Probably the unplanned side effect is the bread remains will help me build more resistance for the following months. Thnx! ;)
Maybe I shouldn't have used "complex", but more "tedious". In perl or other scripting languages you can more intuitively write nested loops, sub programs and the like. You could probably do it in awk, but (depending on you awk skills of course), it might be painful ;)
Only one question remaining:
How do I print one-per-time the complete array that is stored in $points[1]?
http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/771 .html
not to feed any flame wars here: there's also http://www.biopython.org/ and http://www.bioruby.org/ ;)
But I'm just trying to make a point here for the position of these kind of languages in sciences.
Well, here's your answer: just scroll down a bit!
Nevermind, found it here: http://mactree.sannet.ne.jp/~kodawarisan/imac_inte l/01141082.jpg
I've been staring at the cached pics a bit, could find the chip,m but couldn't find the socket. Anyone else of you found it?
Well, you seem to be forgetting that there are a lot of "John Does" still using a hotmail account. To look at the people you know will be pretty biased (as a slashdot user / academic and all).
I found another site on that page, for european costumers, with a nicer picture, probably the smallest barebone around. I really like the looks of that, wouldn't mind to have one of those as a home/multimedia pc. Be prepared to pay good money, though.
Well, if you follow the mini-box.com link mentioned in this topic, you see they also have a Car PSU, and even a ready-built Car x86 PC. Unfortunately the links they mention don't seem to leed to the corresponding product, I don't see the nice car PC case between their specs, for example.