I know I'm just complaining without offering a solution, but no matter how crappy we think the state of music is just not buying it is not the solution.
I think the parent poster was referring to finding Indie bands available on Kazaa.
BTW - use Kazaa Lite or something elses. There's plenty of choices out there.
If you buy from X10, you are supporting email spammers.
While I can agree with this the discussion was about potentially usable technology for the task at hand.
If I get it off of E-Bay I don't feel that I'm supporting spammers but helping some poor but hopefully wiser person recoup their losses from being spammed to death.
I gotta ask - isn't this the sort of thing those damn X10 cameras would be good for? A kite can't be too far out of range of the wireless camera and a good laptop.
What's the resolution on those things anyway. I was so annoyed by their advertising schemes that I forgot that they might possibly be useful in some way.
You don't think that they had that idea by themselves if they though it made sense for them ? "Ohhhhhhhh ! User JohnDoe on Slashdot suggests we sue just all producers of third-party clients ! Why didn't we think of this ourselves ?"
The whole point behind this is that one posted idea actually represents multiple people. Some also post, some don't, some tell somebody else about the idea instead of posting.
By posting these ideas you're increasing, by some small amount in truth, the chances that that idea will get to someone able to use it and screw us. You included.
We need to stop giving these people ideas and ammunition and start giving them the end of a long cattle-prod off of a tall cliff!
My question though, is that if they hate third party IM clients for cutting into their rev. stream, why don't they take the law out of their own hands and use the law to their advantage? Is there nothing that could be done, by drafting some clever EULA or something, that would make it illegal or something like that to use 3rd party clients? That might actually dampen the efforts with libyahoo and other projects that try to develop an open protocol lib. Sourceforge might even cease to host such projects, being that they are in the realm of piracy or accorting to the DMCA.
I'm going to ask you to forget you ever thought about this. You have a point - even if it is a bit trollish - but the more you put these ideas out there the more suits will use them. Think a suit doesn't have somebody watching the "new" or "the web" for him to spot technology and legal changes?
Don't give them an inch - even in jest. They'll take that inch, your house, your car, your family if possible, and your self respect if they can. Don't trust them!
rather than a stereotypically clean and "sterilized-for-your-protection" Federation Starship?
I'm in agreement here. It was great that they got there and DS9 was an utter piece of crap that had to be repaired from spare parts.
The closest we saw before that was the TNG episode where Riker commands a decomissioned ship during simulations. I still grin when I happen to see that episode and Worf rips fiber out of the ceiling panels when the tech asks if they have any spares.
To all those teachers that are dying to get computer equipment: Go to the local recycling center and check to see what they have.
I've been going there and while they don't always have something they often have Pentium II or better machines. About the only things you need to buy for them are monitors and keyboards. Most already have memory or drives. I haven't paid for any PCs for quite some time.
Load the free OS of your choice on them and run with it.
They won't be the fastest things in the world but they will be able to be used without too much trouble.
Need help setting them up? Give extra credit to students able to help with the setup and loading. Not a lot obviously but I'm sure you can find something they'll think is worthwhile. Maybe negotiate some after-hours tutoring with them to help them through tought subject. I'm sure if you went to the other teachers they wouldn't mind if it meant them getting set up with a system.
Just make sure you get all the root passwords though and change them after it's all done.;-)
Oh, and stay away from Windows like the plague. It'll cost you money to keep it if you get it. Treat it like a disease.
That's funny because I have SSH v1 disabled on my boxes and it still connects. So either I didn't really disable v1 or TTPro has some v2 functionality in it.
Still, the code can't be all that complex - I'm wondering if somebody couldn't write an SSH v2 module for it.
They've addresses this in one of their episodes - several in fact. Including one where they killed a new-naziish person using it.
Basically they have said that since the iris is so close to the surface of the wormhole - the event horizon - it does not allow matter to re-form and the energy of such is dispersed. Basically they cease to exist.
Are you running one Windows machine hooked up to a network of other Windows machines behind a router?
If you're running firewalls on several machines I suggest getting or making a standalone firewall to go in-between those machines and the internet. Then you won't have to worry too much about internal security and can remove the standalone firewalls or leave them with the existing holes. Network security is next to impossible to do properly with Windows anyway in my opinion.
OpenBSD gets a lot of flame because of Theo but it's damn secure software. I suggest you take a look at it.
Why does it have to be do-not-spam registry. Why not please-spam-me-registry. Just make spamming illegal to all addresses, but those that are in the registry.
Wouldn't it be a lot easier to make a law that would condemn spamming, period. I bet about 90% of voters don't like to receive spam. Why we have to make the effort to block spammers, when lawmakers should be on our side?
I'm going to argue this only because I can see another side ot it.
1) I'm betting that it's much cheaper overall to maintain and feed an airship than a cargo freighter once you take out the original manufacturing costs due to quantity.
2) Due to the low velocity of these vehicles unless there is a severe catastrophic failure you've got a good chance of either an in-air repair, doubtful but possible, or an emergency landing not damaging to cargo and crew. Whereas a freighter failure almost always causes at least a loss of cargo.
3) Weather in the air is possibly better avoided than weather on the ocean. This one's a little weak due to all the nav tech on freighters but I think it would be easier to fly around a storm in three dimensions rather than just two.
As somebody else pointed out there is the issue of water pressure to deal with.
I did come up with another simple system that would work but I don't know how it could be implemented.
You could have a sandwich of three sliding panels of steel inside the double hull. The outer two slide across the hole horizontally while the third one is split in two and slides vertically up and down. This would make the hole much smaller and much easier to patch with standard methods. Unfortunately you'd have to deal with making the hole a clean hole with no jagged turns inward or outward so the panels would slide across it.
In light of the thread it sounds odd but you might be able to use a directed explosive charge to ram the horizontal panels into place through the damaged section.
Again, I'm just pondering ideas. All ideas have flaws - it's how we deal with them that makes all the difference.
welding isn't just melting metal. Yes, that is involved, and that is pretty much what appears to be happening in total. But welding is really using a liquid phase to create a solid solution of two metals. And like oil and water, not all metals mix. Like Aluminum and steel. Hard to weld together. But it can be done. With powerful explosions to force them to mix into each other. But at sea, it'd be even worse. There are likely corrosion products and salt to account for. Much simpler to patch it with something more temporary which lends itself to the inevitable proper repair.
I'm not talking about welding. I'm talking about a liquid-metal patch. Something that becomes molten enough to be extruded into the hole and hopefully seal it.
Even if it reduces the size of the hole but doesn't seal it that at least makes it slightly easier to seal with conventional methods.
I'm talking about breaches not necessarily combat damage here. Although in the context of the article I probably should have been more clear about that.
Besides, if the missile is big enough it won't matter. Either the hole will be too big to "flow into" to seal or it will have hit something vital.
Could a similar method be used to weld a breach in a ship's hull while at sea?
Suppose you made a ship with an insulated two-layer outer hull. The two layers are both insulated from the ship. In between the layers put something like coated metal pellets with a low melting point.
Something breaches the hull and you apply a massize but _localized_ charge around the area to melt the metal and seal the breach.
I think the biggest problem, duh, is how much of the charge gets leached into the water or the internals of the ship when sealing is taking place.
Then there's that whole frying the occupants things...
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I know I'm just complaining without offering a solution, but no matter how crappy we think the state of music is just not buying it is not the solution.
I think the parent poster was referring to finding Indie bands available on Kazaa.
BTW - use Kazaa Lite or something elses. There's plenty of choices out there.
If you buy from X10, you are supporting email spammers.
While I can agree with this the discussion was about potentially usable technology for the task at hand.
If I get it off of E-Bay I don't feel that I'm supporting spammers but helping some poor but hopefully wiser person recoup their losses from being spammed to death.
I realy gotta stop feeding the trolls...
My mistake. I didn't know how heavy those thing actually were.
;-)
The ads make them look so small! One more person suckered by advertising...
I gotta ask - isn't this the sort of thing those damn X10 cameras would be good for? A kite can't be too far out of range of the wireless camera and a good laptop.
What's the resolution on those things anyway. I was so annoyed by their advertising schemes that I forgot that they might possibly be useful in some way.
While I understand your point and agree in part I still say that posting something that's a very good way of screwing us is a Bad Idea(tm).
I for one want fewer fronts to fight on not more.
Now, that said, this also brings up the old quote of The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. - Abraham Lincoln
Though if we can get it repealed without ruining everything so much the better.
You don't think that they had that idea by themselves if they though it made sense for them ? "Ohhhhhhhh ! User JohnDoe on Slashdot suggests we sue just all producers of third-party clients ! Why didn't we think of this ourselves ?"
The whole point behind this is that one posted idea actually represents multiple people. Some also post, some don't, some tell somebody else about the idea instead of posting.
By posting these ideas you're increasing, by some small amount in truth, the chances that that idea will get to someone able to use it and screw us. You included.
We need to stop giving these people ideas and ammunition and start giving them the end of a long cattle-prod off of a tall cliff!
My question though, is that if they hate third party IM clients for cutting into their rev. stream, why don't they take the law out of their own hands and use the law to their advantage? Is there nothing that could be done, by drafting some clever EULA or something, that would make it illegal or something like that to use 3rd party clients? That might actually dampen the efforts with libyahoo and other projects that try to develop an open protocol lib. Sourceforge might even cease to host such projects, being that they are in the realm of piracy or accorting to the DMCA.
I'm going to ask you to forget you ever thought about this. You have a point - even if it is a bit trollish - but the more you put these ideas out there the more suits will use them. Think a suit doesn't have somebody watching the "new" or "the web" for him to spot technology and legal changes?
Don't give them an inch - even in jest. They'll take that inch, your house, your car, your family if possible, and your self respect if they can.
Don't trust them!
rather than a stereotypically clean and "sterilized-for-your-protection" Federation Starship?
I'm in agreement here. It was great that they got there and DS9 was an utter piece of crap that had to be repaired from spare parts.
The closest we saw before that was the TNG episode where Riker commands a decomissioned ship during simulations. I still grin when I happen to see that episode and Worf rips fiber out of the ceiling panels when the tech asks if they have any spares.
To all those teachers that are dying to get computer equipment: Go to the local recycling center and check to see what they have.
;-)
I've been going there and while they don't always have something they often have Pentium II or better machines. About the only things you need to buy for them are monitors and keyboards. Most already have memory or drives. I haven't paid for any PCs for quite some time.
Load the free OS of your choice on them and run with it.
They won't be the fastest things in the world but they will be able to be used without too much trouble.
Need help setting them up? Give extra credit to students able to help with the setup and loading. Not a lot obviously but I'm sure you can find something they'll think is worthwhile. Maybe negotiate some after-hours tutoring with them to help them through tought subject. I'm sure if you went to the other teachers they wouldn't mind if it meant them getting set up with a system.
Just make sure you get all the root passwords though and change them after it's all done.
Oh, and stay away from Windows like the plague. It'll cost you money to keep it if you get it. Treat it like a disease.
That's funny because I have SSH v1 disabled on my boxes and it still connects. So either I didn't really disable v1 or TTPro has some v2 functionality in it.
Still, the code can't be all that complex - I'm wondering if somebody couldn't write an SSH v2 module for it.
There's also another one I use that is simple and has an SSH extension. It's called TeraTermPro
It's older but seems to work like gangbusters.
that this sort of thing would go well with that overpriced glowing monitor globe you can buy.
Infoglobe
Or at least a homemade version of it.
They've addresses this in one of their episodes - several in fact. Including one where they killed a new-naziish person using it.
Basically they have said that since the iris is so close to the surface of the wormhole - the event horizon - it does not allow matter to re-form and the energy of such is dispersed. Basically they cease to exist.
Are you running one Windows machine hooked up to a network of other Windows machines behind a router?
If you're running firewalls on several machines I suggest getting or making a standalone firewall to go in-between those machines and the internet. Then you won't have to worry too much about internal security and can remove the standalone firewalls or leave them with the existing holes. Network security is next to impossible to do properly with Windows anyway in my opinion.
OpenBSD gets a lot of flame because of Theo but it's damn secure software. I suggest you take a look at it.
Crappy slashdot anti-trollware.
Here's the right thing:
Peep - the network analyzer.
Can't read the article due to 'slashing but it's already been done by peep - the network analyzer:
e edings/lisa2000/gilfix/gilfix_html/
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proc
Why does it have to be do-not-spam registry. Why not please-spam-me-registry. Just make spamming illegal to all addresses, but those that are in the registry.
Wouldn't it be a lot easier to make a law that would condemn spamming, period. I bet about 90% of voters don't like to receive spam. Why we have to make the effort to block spammers, when lawmakers should be on our side?
Two words: Big Business.
Never mind - misread the line. 100MB is the buffer size for that drive.
Sheesh. My first original drive was smaller than the buffer on these new drives.
Really makes me think about where things have gone...
2.5" portable external hard drive with 100 MB
Wouldn't that 100GB?
I'm going to argue this only because I can see another side ot it.
1) I'm betting that it's much cheaper overall to maintain and feed an airship than a cargo freighter once you take out the original manufacturing costs due to quantity.
2) Due to the low velocity of these vehicles unless there is a severe catastrophic failure you've got a good chance of either an in-air repair, doubtful but possible, or an emergency landing not damaging to cargo and crew. Whereas a freighter failure almost always causes at least a loss of cargo.
3) Weather in the air is possibly better avoided than weather on the ocean. This one's a little weak due to all the nav tech on freighters but I think it would be easier to fly around a storm in three dimensions rather than just two.
As somebody else pointed out there is the issue of water pressure to deal with.
I did come up with another simple system that would work but I don't know how it could be implemented.
You could have a sandwich of three sliding panels of steel inside the double hull. The outer two slide across the hole horizontally while the third one is split in two and slides vertically up and down. This would make the hole much smaller and much easier to patch with standard methods. Unfortunately you'd have to deal with making the hole a clean hole with no jagged turns inward or outward so the panels would slide across it.
In light of the thread it sounds odd but you might be able to use a directed explosive charge to ram the horizontal panels into place through the damaged section.
Again, I'm just pondering ideas. All ideas have flaws - it's how we deal with them that makes all the difference.
*shrug*
Seeing as I do very little gaming on my PC that's not a big loss.
Just out of curiosity the refrence was for Battletech or something right? At least that's the only LAM reference I can come up with offhand.
welding isn't just melting metal. Yes, that is involved, and that is pretty much what appears to be happening in total. But welding is really using a liquid phase to create a solid solution of two metals. And like oil and water, not all metals mix. Like Aluminum and steel. Hard to weld together. But it can be done. With powerful explosions to force them to mix into each other. But at sea, it'd be even worse. There are likely corrosion products and salt to account for. Much simpler to patch it with something more temporary which lends itself to the inevitable proper repair.
I'm not talking about welding. I'm talking about a liquid-metal patch. Something that becomes molten enough to be extruded into the hole and hopefully seal it.
Even if it reduces the size of the hole but doesn't seal it that at least makes it slightly easier to seal with conventional methods.
I'm talking about breaches not necessarily combat damage here. Although in the context of the article I probably should have been more clear about that.
Besides, if the missile is big enough it won't matter. Either the hole will be too big to "flow into" to seal or it will have hit something vital.
Could a similar method be used to weld a breach in a ship's hull while at sea?
;-)
Suppose you made a ship with an insulated two-layer outer hull. The two layers are both insulated from the ship. In between the layers put something like coated metal pellets with a low melting point.
Something breaches the hull and you apply a massize but _localized_ charge around the area to melt the metal and seal the breach.
I think the biggest problem, duh, is how much of the charge gets leached into the water or the internals of the ship when sealing is taking place.
Then there's that whole frying the occupants things...
I never said it was foolproof!