You know what you are getting when you buy songs from iTunes, DRM encryption that ties the song to you.
And, every release or two of iTunes, Apple changes some of the rules and makes you download new software even if the old stuff is working perfectly fine for you.
In other words, no, you don't know what you're getting.
Mod me down if you must , but scientolgy is a scam and from storys i have read it is also a dangerous organisation
The number of people who'd mod you down for saying that and that are eligible for/. moderator privs... You've got a better chance of being modded down because of gamma rays hitting the server.
I don't think you looked too hard, unless you're using an obscenely unpopular platform.
Latest release of the Flickr::Upload module on CPAN includes a perl-Tk uploader. And a command-line uploader. There's a bunch of other (probably more complete) uploaders listed here.
Not official Flickr services, but one of the advantages of opening up the API is that other people can work out the support for the less mainstream users.
I do agree that the Flash thing is annoying. But you don't have to have Flash enabled to use the site. In fact, browsing Flickr is noticeably faster without a Flash plugin.
But that doesn't mean that we can't be against crackhouses, or that we can't demand that landlords take precautions to safeguard against their property being used as crackhouses.
So you're in favor, then, of holding home builders responsible for building structures that can be used as crack houses?
Because that, in essence, is what this case is about. It's not about the people running the networks, it's about the liability of those creating the technology.
If the passport held a unique ID number and nothing else, then sensitive data could be stored somewhere safe off-site, rather than in the back pocket of a potential terrorist.
Opens up an attack where the "terrorists" cut off access to the central server(s). The response is to either shut down access to an entire area (i.e. stop all outgoing flights) or just let people through by relying on other ID.
I would also suspect that requiring communications back to a central server dramatically increases the amount of infrastructure required to make this whole thing work. It probably also provides a target for all those pesky left-wingers who can claim that the government is tracking their every move (even though the readers would probably be, at least, doing batch uploads periodically). Those central server(s) are also good targets for any kind of privacy legislation that someone might want to put through... And, realistically, you'd probably have to have a large number of data caches, each containing information on every passport holder.
I'd guess they'll still have centralized data repositories, but they won't be made explicitly part of the system so they can avoid all kinds of political issues.
I know some marketing folks fall into the "as long as people are talking about you" school, but I don't think " are a bunch of morons" looks anything like "free" advertising to the rest of us. Even if "" is a link to a website.
Is there any 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi LAN card (either PCI or PCMCIA, not something built into a motherboard) out there that is truely Open?
Prism I think is the best you're going to get. The firmware isn't open source, but the drivers are. Best PCMCIA card with the chip (IMHO) is the Netgear WG511 (notWG511T).
Heh. When I think of office environments, I think of jet fuel soot turning computer equipment black within a couple years of purchase.
Then Dell started selling black systems...
Actually, sawdust isn't the only thing you have to worry about in a workshop. Nasty solvents and other chemicals abound. My fingers, for example, are currently covered by a combination of polyurethane glue, exterior paint primer, sawdust, and blood. None of which are good for electronics.
...keep your PC off the floor, that's where the dust is.
Uh, no.
In the typical woodworking shop the kind of sawdust that will kill electronics is produced at high velocity approximately 36 inches off the ground. Chips go down, dust goes up. There's absolutely no place that isn't going to be covered with dust unless you've got an obscenely good dust control setup. Quite frankly, if you've got the cash to build a dust free shop you might as well splurge on a milspec laptop.
If you don't have that kind of cash... no fans, no openings, no expensive moving parts, and nothing that you care about getting scratched up (like screens).
I've had decent luck with PPP over SSH. It's not the fastest (although I haven't done any tuning of my PPP config), but all the components needed are pre-installed on most modern 'nix boxes.
I dunno, marriage isn't really compatible with the whole geek persona...
Hmmm... Honey, do you think we should buy your mom the RAM upgrade or the flannel sheet set? Well, yes, she does _need_ more RAM, but the flannel looks nicer under the tree...
If there's a potential safety issue (beyond just using electricity), I definitely read the instructions. You don't assemble and use something involving exposed chunks of metal spinning at thousands of RPMs without reading unless you've got a deathwish. That means power tools, small engines, etc. Ignore the safety sections of the manuals, though. That's always generic boilerplate drivel like turn off the engine and let it cool before filling with gas and don't touch the blade when saw is operating. The important stuff is in the assembly, operation and maintenance sections.
I might read the instructions for expensive/irreplacable items, as well. Unless I don't own them.
Isn't it strange how Canada seems to have such a different attitude to copyright enforcement to America, when Europe seems to want to follow in the footsteps of American law?
It's not that there's a particularly different attitude, it's just that media interests have less power in government. The Canadian recording/movie industry just can't go out and buy new laws like they can in the USA.
But give them time. The government is currently working towards ratifying WIPO and doing a bit of "cleaning up" of existing copyright laws... If things go the way they look like they might go, we're going to end up with something that makes the DMCA look like RMS ghost wrote it.
He would set up his most devastating hacking scripts and make them activatable by a modem listening on a dedicated phone line. And all you need to launch the attack is a phone call to a specific number.
Right. He's been caught for hacking (or whatever), so now he'll add fuel to the fire by launching a devastating attack from a police station phone. Assuming he can actually reach the number (some places restrict calls to local numbers only).
In order to have maximum deniability and guarantee the launch, the smart hacker would set up a deadman switch where the attack would launch if he didn't phone a number and punch a certain set of digits every day or so.
And, being an unethical SOB, it's not like he'll care if he goes offline for a week-long drinking binge and accidentally takes out the international banking community. That'd be a great joke to tell the grandputers...
"Is" is a memory location comparison commonly used to see if two variables point to the same object,It does not compare the values of the variables, only that they are pointers to the same object.
Sounds just like == and != with perl references:
my $obj = new Object();
my $r1 = $obj;
sub Is { $_[0] == $_[1] }
sub IsNot { $_[0] != $_[1] }
print Is($obj,$r1),"\n";
print IsNot($obj,$r1),"\n";
Of course, I'm sure there'd be exceptions thrown if it's not objects being compared:
sub IsNot {
die "not an object" unless ref $_[0] and ref $_[1];
return $_[0] != $_[1];
}
Ah, but that patent says BASIC. So it's not the same thing.
c.
> I am pretty sure you will be able to purchase an "illegal" card from > Europe or Asia after the broadcast flag law steps in force
Agreed... Specifically, I wouldn't be too surprised to see card manufacturers implementing broadcast flag support in USA-only drivers... Drivers will be available to the rest of the world which might just happen to accidentally work in the USA.
True enough. But I'd never bothered looking at the file type of.war's before. Had to run 'file' on it, and then, well, 'tar -[xt]zvf' is burned into my hindbrain.
The main point is really that there's no way you can come up with some HTML hackery that will fool the browser. It knows what it downloaded. Scanning the DOM tree or browser cache is overkill... a page view is just a collection of files... breaking the "DRM" is just a matter of listing those files.
Now if google were to publish a page as an image mosaic (say, 64x64 pixel subimages)... we'll, stitching that together would be a bit beyond the average user.
Weather radar loops. Rather than have the client dl multiple jpegs and sequence them with javascript (eww, javascript), the client need only download a single apng.
The downside of using a single animated image (gif or otherwise) for weather (and I'm guilty of this myself) is that when a few frame arrives every 5 to 10 minutes you need to pull down the entire image rather than just grabbing the latest frame. A typical 6-8 frame radar during active weather can clock in at 150-200k or so (depending on background and size, obviously) which kinda sucks for dial-up users.
A "better" approach would be to have the animated gif approach as a non-scripting fallback and using a Javascript multi-image download where possible. Assuming any technique involving Javascript can ever be described as "better".
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And, every release or two of iTunes, Apple changes some of the rules and makes you download new software even if the old stuff is working perfectly fine for you.
In other words, no, you don't know what you're getting.
c.
The number of people who'd mod you down for saying that and that are eligible for /. moderator privs... You've got a better chance of being modded down because of gamma rays hitting the server.
c.
As far as cross-platform, again not for me.
I don't think you looked too hard, unless you're using an obscenely unpopular platform.
Latest release of the Flickr::Upload module on CPAN includes a perl-Tk uploader. And a command-line uploader. There's a bunch of other (probably more complete) uploaders listed here.
Not official Flickr services, but one of the advantages of opening up the API is that other people can work out the support for the less mainstream users.
I do agree that the Flash thing is annoying. But you don't have to have Flash enabled to use the site. In fact, browsing Flickr is noticeably faster without a Flash plugin.
c.
So you're in favor, then, of holding home builders responsible for building structures that can be used as crack houses?
Because that, in essence, is what this case is about. It's not about the people running the networks, it's about the liability of those creating the technology.
c.
Opens up an attack where the "terrorists" cut off access to the central server(s). The response is to either shut down access to an entire area (i.e. stop all outgoing flights) or just let people through by relying on other ID.
I would also suspect that requiring communications back to a central server dramatically increases the amount of infrastructure required to make this whole thing work. It probably also provides a target for all those pesky left-wingers who can claim that the government is tracking their every move (even though the readers would probably be, at least, doing batch uploads periodically). Those central server(s) are also good targets for any kind of privacy legislation that someone might want to put through... And, realistically, you'd probably have to have a large number of data caches, each containing information on every passport holder.
I'd guess they'll still have centralized data repositories, but they won't be made explicitly part of the system so they can avoid all kinds of political issues.
c.
I know some marketing folks fall into the "as long as people are talking about you" school, but I don't think " are a bunch of morons" looks anything like "free" advertising to the rest of us. Even if "" is a link to a website.
c.
Might have been written by computer, but it reads like it was translated through The Fish a few times...
c.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I wouldn't return zero results, though. I'd have it return a copy of the ruling...
c.
Prism I think is the best you're going to get. The firmware isn't open source, but the drivers are. Best PCMCIA card with the chip (IMHO) is the Netgear WG511 (notWG511T).
c.
Heh. When I think of office environments, I think of jet fuel soot turning computer equipment black within a couple years of purchase.
Then Dell started selling black systems...
Actually, sawdust isn't the only thing you have to worry about in a workshop. Nasty solvents and other chemicals abound. My fingers, for example, are currently covered by a combination of polyurethane glue, exterior paint primer, sawdust, and blood. None of which are good for electronics.
c.
Uh, no.
In the typical woodworking shop the kind of sawdust that will kill electronics is produced at high velocity approximately 36 inches off the ground. Chips go down, dust goes up. There's absolutely no place that isn't going to be covered with dust unless you've got an obscenely good dust control setup. Quite frankly, if you've got the cash to build a dust free shop you might as well splurge on a milspec laptop.
If you don't have that kind of cash... no fans, no openings, no expensive moving parts, and nothing that you care about getting scratched up (like screens).
c.
There is, it just hasn't caught on.
c.
If you're selling cardboard, maybe, rather than computers.
c.
I've had decent luck with PPP over SSH. It's not the fastest (although I haven't done any tuning of my PPP config), but all the components needed are pre-installed on most modern 'nix boxes.
See http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/ppp-ssh.html
c.
Hmmm... Honey, do you think we should buy your mom the RAM upgrade or the flannel sheet set? Well, yes, she does _need_ more RAM, but the flannel looks nicer under the tree...
c.
And in the meantime, the rich people can work out the really nasty bugs.
c.
I might read the instructions for expensive/irreplacable items, as well. Unless I don't own them.
c.
It's not that there's a particularly different attitude, it's just that media interests have less power in government. The Canadian recording/movie industry just can't go out and buy new laws like they can in the USA.
But give them time. The government is currently working towards ratifying WIPO and doing a bit of "cleaning up" of existing copyright laws... If things go the way they look like they might go, we're going to end up with something that makes the DMCA look like RMS ghost wrote it.
c.
Right. He's been caught for hacking (or whatever), so now he'll add fuel to the fire by launching a devastating attack from a police station phone. Assuming he can actually reach the number (some places restrict calls to local numbers only).
In order to have maximum deniability and guarantee the launch, the smart hacker would set up a deadman switch where the attack would launch if he didn't phone a number and punch a certain set of digits every day or so.
And, being an unethical SOB, it's not like he'll care if he goes offline for a week-long drinking binge and accidentally takes out the international banking community. That'd be a great joke to tell the grandputers...
c.
"Is" is a memory location comparison commonly used to see if two variables point to the same object, It does not compare the values of the variables, only that they are pointers to the same object. Sounds just like == and != with perl references: my $obj = new Object(); my $r1 = $obj; sub Is { $_[0] == $_[1] } sub IsNot { $_[0] != $_[1] } print Is($obj,$r1),"\n"; print IsNot($obj,$r1),"\n"; Of course, I'm sure there'd be exceptions thrown if it's not objects being compared: sub IsNot { die "not an object" unless ref $_[0] and ref $_[1]; return $_[0] != $_[1]; } Ah, but that patent says BASIC. So it's not the same thing. c.
> I installed it on a fresh xeon 2.6ghz and I was abhorred at the slowdown.
> FC2 was a LOT faster than this is.
Odd. On my Athlon 2200, FC3 seems about 50% faster. I'm fairly light on memory though, so it could just something like that.
c.
> I am pretty sure you will be able to purchase an "illegal" card from
> Europe or Asia after the broadcast flag law steps in force
Agreed... Specifically, I wouldn't be too surprised to see card manufacturers implementing broadcast flag support in USA-only drivers... Drivers will be available to the rest of the world which might just happen to accidentally work in the USA.
c.
> Don't even need to break out a shell to play in
.war's before. Had to run 'file' on it, and then, well, 'tar -[xt]zvf' is burned into my hindbrain.
True enough. But I'd never bothered looking at the file type of
The main point is really that there's no way you can come up with some HTML hackery that will fool the browser. It knows what it downloaded. Scanning the DOM tree or browser cache is overkill... a page view is just a collection of files... breaking the "DRM" is just a matter of listing those files.
Now if google were to publish a page as an image mosaic (say, 64x64 pixel subimages)... we'll, stitching that together would be a bit beyond the average user.
c.
Using Konqueror, I get a .war file (which is just .tar.gz),
tar -xzvf blah.war 2print
Hey, look, a JPEG.
Takes all of 10 seconds at my typing speed. No dicking around with browser settings, DOM trees, right clicking, etc.
c.
Weather radar loops. Rather than have the client dl multiple jpegs and sequence them with javascript (eww, javascript), the client need only download a single apng.
The downside of using a single animated image (gif or otherwise) for weather (and I'm guilty of this myself) is that when a few frame arrives every 5 to 10 minutes you need to pull down the entire image rather than just grabbing the latest frame. A typical 6-8 frame radar during active weather can clock in at 150-200k or so (depending on background and size, obviously) which kinda sucks for dial-up users.
A "better" approach would be to have the animated gif approach as a non-scripting fallback and using a Javascript multi-image download where possible. Assuming any technique involving Javascript can ever be described as "better".
c.