This is also one great thing about OSS, it doesn't have to appease to money for the most part. I'm sorry. Anyone looking at my post history, personal link, etc., will notice that I'm an open source author in particular and a big advocate of Free/Libre/Open Source Software in general. But this statement just doesn't make much sense.
When companies invest money, features get added -- features that benefit the company investing the money. For example, there's Google's Summer of Code. And the money that Google invests in the Mozilla Foundation. What's the default search engine in Firefox? Oh, right, Google. What page does Firefox go to by default? A special Google/Firefox start page. What searches are in the default bookmarks? Google's.
And then there's the fact the open source software authors sometimes work for companies that demand certain things get added...like Andrew Tridgell of Samba who works for IBM's storage division. There's lots of stuff in Samba for IBM's NAS solutions.
Yes, open source authors definitely listen to their users...but they also know which side of their bread gets buttered.
Specifically, this seems geared towards sites like Google News that aggregate stories and then publish snippets of them on their home page.
Personally, I don't really see the problem. You either want your site spidered or you don't. You don't get to control the presentation of the data that is spidered, only the search engines get to do that.
SO the thing is here is that Google takes its ordinary web spider, applies a little magic to it, and then displays the results as a news page. Big deal.
You either want your site spidered or you don't. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
And despite availability in the Tampa Bay area for quite sometime, FiOS is still not available where I live in Pasco County. But even in Tampa Bay, the primary concern people actually care about is download speed, not upload speed. Unless you're planning on running a server FiOS doesn't have much of an advantage of Bright House Networks, which is the local cable provider for most of the Tampa Bay area. They offer 15 Mbps down, with 512 Kbps up. And, of course, for those of you who are planning on running a server, Verizon isn't going to support you anyway.
Not only is it hard, but it is inherently dangerous. And guess what? The men and women that don the spacesuits? They were all told that when they signed up. Canning the space program because it's dangerous is like canning the Armed Forces because it's dangerous. Soldiers get killed everyday in Iraq. I don't hear anyone calling for an end to the Marines.
It would be nice if the it is found that the RIAA was involved in some serious legal wrong doing and it opened up the door to counter suits - especially by the folks who were bullied into settling. Do you smell that? *sniff* *sniff* Yup, definitely lawyers. Definitely smells like lawyers preparing class-action suit paperwork. Definitely.
Oregon a redstate? Not a chance. A bunch of granola eating, tree hugging, hairy legged druids. Well, not literally, but the spirit is definitely there. Hey! I resemble that remark, you insensitive clod!
Wow, hopefully this isn't shot down in the court system, and honestly if there's any common sense left in the courts (which there seems to be a slowly increasing amount of) it won't be. There have been far too many cases of snooping going unchecked, be it RIAA, NSA, FBI, etc.
One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just...doesn't belong! NSA. Sorry, doing unchecked snooping is their business.
Using that method, you have to know something about the encrypted traffic in order to determine if you've found the plaintext or not. In any regard, you'll have to apply some analysis to figure that out and that means you'll need more processing power than what was mentioned.
Of course, any security can be cracked... I personally use a shared key that is significantly longer than that. adding 1 extra character over 8 makes it 96^9, but adding, say 3 extra characters makes it 6382393305518410039296 possible password combinations, which would take that same botnet like 90,000 years to crack.
Oh, yeah, and bear in mind: those 50,000,000 would all have to be in range of the access point and would have to not overwhelm the access point. Even the best Cisco Aironet equipment isn't going to handle that kind of load.
I don't know about that. I use WPA-PSK security on my WLAN, and I regularly monitor my network using ordinary means (logs, IDS, etc.) and I haven't seen any evidence of intruders, invisible or otherwise. I suppose this is one more thing I could add to my arsenal, but how many with security turned on really have trouble with this?
This guy hasn't been silenced, he's been kicked off particular services. He is free to use other services, isn't he? While I would normally tend to agree with you, it doesn't sound like that's the case this time. YouTube hosts plenty of content like this one, including police brutality videos from the United States and other foreign countries. They've hosted some very graphic content, including the hanging of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. These videos have an 'adult content' flag on them, and won't be shone to visitors that have Google's SafeSearch turned on (this is the default, I believe).
I like to get paid by leading whitespace -- syou know, paces and tabs (with tabs counting as at least 4 spaces). But then again, I'm a Python programmer.
Geist's list of 30 things you can do, linked to in TFS, is pretty good, actually, no matter where you live. Even if your country already has a DMCA-like law, you can still fight for it or certain provisions of it to be repealed. Just replace the Canadian-sepcific info with the equivalents in your country.
Furthermore, some of it just plain good advice -- only buy DRM-free music and videos, release stuff under the Creative Commons licenses. And so forth.
Most of you are gonna be like, yeah, yeah, but no one cares. That's not true anymore. Now that the MAFIAA have become a nuisance and even public enemy #1 as far as some are concerned, the public will push for change. Like it or not, most politicians eventually cave to public opinion. After all, they need the public's support in order to get elected.
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Man. That keyboard goes a long wat towards explaining Emacs ("Escape-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift"), doesn't it?
Well, they have cake printers for doing 2D images on cakes, so I imagine that 3D printers for doing chocolate or other candy is possible. A little Google search revealed some instructions for making your own 3D chocolate printer. Merry Christmas, Dada!
Oh, wow! Gee, thanks Linus! My very own copy of Linux Kernel v2.6.24! Just what I've always wanted! How did you know?
Easy. It's dig dug. As in, I got dig dugged. Err...wait...that doesn't sound right.
It's open source, right? You have the source to the MP3 player, you have the source for the Ogg/Vorbis, make your own firmware that supports Ogg.
When companies invest money, features get added -- features that benefit the company investing the money. For example, there's Google's Summer of Code. And the money that Google invests in the Mozilla Foundation. What's the default search engine in Firefox? Oh, right, Google. What page does Firefox go to by default? A special Google/Firefox start page. What searches are in the default bookmarks? Google's.
And then there's the fact the open source software authors sometimes work for companies that demand certain things get added...like Andrew Tridgell of Samba who works for IBM's storage division. There's lots of stuff in Samba for IBM's NAS solutions.
Yes, open source authors definitely listen to their users...but they also know which side of their bread gets buttered.
Specifically, this seems geared towards sites like Google News that aggregate stories and then publish snippets of them on their home page.
Personally, I don't really see the problem. You either want your site spidered or you don't. You don't get to control the presentation of the data that is spidered, only the search engines get to do that.
SO the thing is here is that Google takes its ordinary web spider, applies a little magic to it, and then displays the results as a news page. Big deal.
You either want your site spidered or you don't. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
And despite availability in the Tampa Bay area for quite sometime, FiOS is still not available where I live in Pasco County. But even in Tampa Bay, the primary concern people actually care about is download speed, not upload speed. Unless you're planning on running a server FiOS doesn't have much of an advantage of Bright House Networks, which is the local cable provider for most of the Tampa Bay area. They offer 15 Mbps down, with 512 Kbps up. And, of course, for those of you who are planning on running a server, Verizon isn't going to support you anyway.
Not only is it hard, but it is inherently dangerous. And guess what? The men and women that don the spacesuits? They were all told that when they signed up. Canning the space program because it's dangerous is like canning the Armed Forces because it's dangerous. Soldiers get killed everyday in Iraq. I don't hear anyone calling for an end to the Marines.
IIRC, Slashdot received a c&d to remove the can of spam a while back, but I can't seem to find a link to the story anywhere. Hmph.
Using that method, you have to know something about the encrypted traffic in order to determine if you've found the plaintext or not. In any regard, you'll have to apply some analysis to figure that out and that means you'll need more processing power than what was mentioned.
Of course, any security can be cracked... I personally use a shared key that is significantly longer than that. adding 1 extra character over 8 makes it 96^9, but adding, say 3 extra characters makes it 6382393305518410039296 possible password combinations, which would take that same botnet like 90,000 years to crack.
Oh, yeah, and bear in mind: those 50,000,000 would all have to be in range of the access point and would have to not overwhelm the access point. Even the best Cisco Aironet equipment isn't going to handle that kind of load.
Um, how is this offtopic?
I don't know about that. I use WPA-PSK security on my WLAN, and I regularly monitor my network using ordinary means (logs, IDS, etc.) and I haven't seen any evidence of intruders, invisible or otherwise. I suppose this is one more thing I could add to my arsenal, but how many with security turned on really have trouble with this?
I like to get paid by leading whitespace -- syou know, paces and tabs (with tabs counting as at least 4 spaces). But then again, I'm a Python programmer.
Candygram!
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Wireshark!
Geist's list of 30 things you can do, linked to in TFS, is pretty good, actually, no matter where you live. Even if your country already has a DMCA-like law, you can still fight for it or certain provisions of it to be repealed. Just replace the Canadian-sepcific info with the equivalents in your country.
Furthermore, some of it just plain good advice -- only buy DRM-free music and videos, release stuff under the Creative Commons licenses. And so forth.
Most of you are gonna be like, yeah, yeah, but no one cares. That's not true anymore. Now that the MAFIAA have become a nuisance and even public enemy #1 as far as some are concerned, the public will push for change. Like it or not, most politicians eventually cave to public opinion. After all, they need the public's support in order to get elected.
Yeah. I expected to see sharks! With friggin' laser beams attached to their heads!