It wouldn't have anything to do with the 16 MB of RAM and tired old IDE interface in the P/100, would it? See also: only so much bandwidth to use.
I can play NetHack skip-free but using the web or anything more CPU-(or disk-)intensive means skips ahoy. Buffer's maxed, block sizes and polling I've tried and no change.
By the way, Frau AC, it's "incompetent". Or perhaps "incontinent" in your case?
...it should be putting forth free, open standards for the obvious reason: once it starts adopting patented "standards" that cost people money to use, individuals or groups will run an end route and create a free, open standard that effectively replaces the W3C's version of it, rendering the W3C's version worthless.
They're inching closer to obsoletion, anyhow. XML, XSLT and SOAP all really do feel like they were designed by a comittee of comittees who weren't exactly sure what the other guy was up to.
Fine inasmuch as MP3s do under WinAmp, which is to say running on an idle box, both play back just fine, but if I try to do anything else, they'll skip uncontrollably.
Of course I'll be modded down for going against what you want to hear...
The article doesn't name names.
I need to know who's going on my shitlist for future purchases. As an aside plea, please see to it that nothing that Bjork releases is ever encumbered by such inane roadblocks to me enjoying music that I purchase on my stereo just because I use a DVD player and someone else might want to make themself a copy of music that they actually own for their personal use, and someone else might want to take a copy of this music and distribute it to the world. The US has long since outlawed cruel and unusual punishment, and that would certainly fit it.
Find and punish criminals, not legitimate paying consumers.
And the stability?
Or: is it based off of the Via chipset? That bleeping chipset seems to be in eternal beta.
The stability of the motherboards is, IMHO, the biggest thing keeping AMDs out of the server room. Admins don't give a damn about overclocking the CPUs, they want rock-solid performance and to not have to futz around with 8000 BIOS settings.
Not that I've got any remorse for a record company feeling the sting of licensing agreements, but publishers tried to drop the hammer on OLGA (the On-Line Guitar (tab) Archives), too.
Friends of mine submitted music to FarmClub.com, and, never having actually been to the site, I was under the impression that it was all unsigned bands trying to make their music more visible. I wonder if they can look forward to a piece of the pie.
If it simply doesn't work, I'll be demanding a full refund (from the place of sale) and writing the label a nastygram letting them know they've lost my business over it, much the same as I write my representatives nastygrams. If it damages my equipment (as some of these "protection" (read: strongarm) methods are purported to have the ability to do), you'd better believe I'll be in touch with a lawyer.
The Gza admonished us to check the labels, and I do. When I buy new, I consciously look for indielabels' releases before I look to majors.
If copy protection is the myopic way of the future, it'll be exclusively indies and the majors that don't employ copy protection that receive my spending dollars.
...the FBI doesn't need to prove probable cause. Just say "it should advance our investigation" and you're golden.
And when it comes to the impact on personal privacy, EPIC says it better than I can. Increased powers of wiretapping - judicial oversight != a good thing in my book.
Yeah. Seeing as how I play CDs through my DVD player which has a digital coax out into my receiver, I'll be in touch with my lawyer with a quickness if I run into a CD that restricts my ability to listen to music that I've bought on my home system.
Someone needs to reverse-engineer these systems and release their findings in an encrypted format. You'll have violated the DMCA, but they'll have violated the DMCA proving it.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. ...to rationalizing that it's OK to broaden the powers of an already Constitutionally dubious law? You like backdoors in encryption? Bugs surreptitiously planted on all of your friends and families' phones because you might use them? Taps on your keyboards? Centralized sniffers so they can find out what you're looking at and who you're talking to, then centralized sniffers on their networks just in case you don't e-mail from your usual account?
Nothing that they're asking for sounds reasonable to me.
BBA=broadband adapter=$120 (plus shipping) from Lik Sang, and at least that much off of ebay.
That's $220 right there... leave it to a slashdotter to ignore all the humor in a given comment, eh?
...or check out Audio Review. Just be aware that "real" audiophiles tend to turn their noses up at Bose speakers, citing the same tired lines ("more spent on marketing than on research and design") but I've got a pair of Bose 201s that sound nice enough on my computer.
As nice as the Wharfedales hanging off my Marantz? Not hardly, but still listenable enough.
To wit: Q.A. Confidential. Because while this "news" article demonstrates that people are actually doing it, I don't think it gets down into the nitty-gritty and gives people the real how-to on stealing gear that we both know they're after. And that's where Leisuretown comes in.
I'd always been told that employees had priority over all other owed parties for their unpaid wages and PTO. Nice that they put a cap on that because people being out of money obviously isn't as important as entities out of money, right?
That's basically saying "yeah, we know this law sucks but, uh. too bad. it's not like it applies to us, so what does it matter?"
You'd think that sort of thing would be illegal, wouldn't you?
...under the bill, it was going to be illegal to be in posession of any encrypted material for which you were not willing to provide the decryption key.
Where does this fall apart? I encrypt a message using my private key and send it to you. You have no idea what the key is (obviously) and yet have committed a crime.
Easy enough to quickly turn any politician who votes for such a stinker into a criminal.
I didn't vote for him then, and I've already written him to remind him what our state's motto is and to suggest that if this bill designed to impinge on our freedoms does manage to pass that he might want to look into alternative employment when election day rolls around.
...what do you assume the shelf life of a vanilla Linux/FreeBSD install will be?
Much as I enjoy the painful auto-fellation, put aside the inane OS chest thumping. A savvy user who stays on top of their patches and is security-minded will always be safer than a relatively clueless home user.
...what mailing lists would you recommend?
There aren't exactly any corporate-agnostic mailing lists out there with quite the distribution of Bugtraq. From my posts to Bugtraq (granted, nothing to do with any "powerful, monied" companies' software), there was a minimal lag-time.
I see it looking for the exploit Code Red used, trying out MSADC and a directory traversal exploit.
My money's on the Code Red worm being retrofit yet again to try and execute a few more tired old exploits. Which is to say hopefully Hotmail and Windows Update won't get rooted again.
Haven't heard anything about it on Bugtraq yet; haven't checked Incidents (securityfocus.com isn't chugging along so speedily).
It'll be interesting to see how many boxes this roots out in the light of increased press coverage of Code Red and MS's spate of security-minded tools out there. Or: how good do people feel about that leaky dam now that they've stuck their thumb in the hole labelled "Code Red"?
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It wouldn't have anything to do with the 16 MB of RAM and tired old IDE interface in the P/100, would it? See also: only so much bandwidth to use.
I can play NetHack skip-free but using the web or anything more CPU-(or disk-)intensive means skips ahoy. Buffer's maxed, block sizes and polling I've tried and no change.
By the way, Frau AC, it's "incompetent". Or perhaps "incontinent" in your case?
...it should be putting forth free, open standards for the obvious reason: once it starts adopting patented "standards" that cost people money to use, individuals or groups will run an end route and create a free, open standard that effectively replaces the W3C's version of it, rendering the W3C's version worthless.
They're inching closer to obsoletion, anyhow. XML, XSLT and SOAP all really do feel like they were designed by a comittee of comittees who weren't exactly sure what the other guy was up to.
Fine inasmuch as MP3s do under WinAmp, which is to say running on an idle box, both play back just fine, but if I try to do anything else, they'll skip uncontrollably.
Of course I'll be modded down for going against what you want to hear...
The article doesn't name names.
I need to know who's going on my shitlist for future purchases. As an aside plea, please see to it that nothing that Bjork releases is ever encumbered by such inane roadblocks to me enjoying music that I purchase on my stereo just because I use a DVD player and someone else might want to make themself a copy of music that they actually own for their personal use, and someone else might want to take a copy of this music and distribute it to the world. The US has long since outlawed cruel and unusual punishment, and that would certainly fit it.
Find and punish criminals, not legitimate paying consumers.
And the stability?
Or: is it based off of the Via chipset? That bleeping chipset seems to be in eternal beta.
The stability of the motherboards is, IMHO, the biggest thing keeping AMDs out of the server room. Admins don't give a damn about overclocking the CPUs, they want rock-solid performance and to not have to futz around with 8000 BIOS settings.
Not that I've got any remorse for a record company feeling the sting of licensing agreements, but publishers tried to drop the hammer on OLGA (the On-Line Guitar (tab) Archives), too.
Friends of mine submitted music to FarmClub.com, and, never having actually been to the site, I was under the impression that it was all unsigned bands trying to make their music more visible. I wonder if they can look forward to a piece of the pie.
If it simply doesn't work, I'll be demanding a full refund (from the place of sale) and writing the label a nastygram letting them know they've lost my business over it, much the same as I write my representatives nastygrams. If it damages my equipment (as some of these "protection" (read: strongarm) methods are purported to have the ability to do), you'd better believe I'll be in touch with a lawyer.
The Gza admonished us to check the labels, and I do. When I buy new, I consciously look for indie labels' releases before I look to majors.
If copy protection is the myopic way of the future, it'll be exclusively indies and the majors that don't employ copy protection that receive my spending dollars.
...the FBI doesn't need to prove probable cause. Just say "it should advance our investigation" and you're golden.
And when it comes to the impact on personal privacy, EPIC says it better than I can. Increased powers of wiretapping - judicial oversight != a good thing in my book.
Yeah. Seeing as how I play CDs through my DVD player which has a digital coax out into my receiver, I'll be in touch with my lawyer with a quickness if I run into a CD that restricts my ability to listen to music that I've bought on my home system.
Someone needs to reverse-engineer these systems and release their findings in an encrypted format. You'll have violated the DMCA, but they'll have violated the DMCA proving it.
Take a refresher course on the fourth and fifth amendments to the Constitution.
How do you get from...
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
...to rationalizing that it's OK to broaden the powers of an already Constitutionally dubious law? You like backdoors in encryption? Bugs surreptitiously planted on all of your friends and families' phones because you might use them? Taps on your keyboards? Centralized sniffers so they can find out what you're looking at and who you're talking to, then centralized sniffers on their networks just in case you don't e-mail from your usual account?
Nothing that they're asking for sounds reasonable to me.
Biotech posters, you've got your work cut out for you.
BBA=broadband adapter=$120 (plus shipping) from Lik Sang, and at least that much off of ebay.
That's $220 right there... leave it to a slashdotter to ignore all the humor in a given comment, eh?
...or check out Audio Review. Just be aware that "real" audiophiles tend to turn their noses up at Bose speakers, citing the same tired lines ("more spent on marketing than on research and design") but I've got a pair of Bose 201s that sound nice enough on my computer.
As nice as the Wharfedales hanging off my Marantz? Not hardly, but still listenable enough.
To wit: Q.A. Confidential. Because while this "news" article demonstrates that people are actually doing it, I don't think it gets down into the nitty-gritty and gives people the real how-to on stealing gear that we both know they're after. And that's where Leisuretown comes in.
I'd always been told that employees had priority over all other owed parties for their unpaid wages and PTO. Nice that they put a cap on that because people being out of money obviously isn't as important as entities out of money, right?
That's basically saying "yeah, we know this law sucks but, uh. too bad. it's not like it applies to us, so what does it matter?"
You'd think that sort of thing would be illegal, wouldn't you?
...under the bill, it was going to be illegal to be in posession of any encrypted material for which you were not willing to provide the decryption key.
Where does this fall apart? I encrypt a message using my private key and send it to you. You have no idea what the key is (obviously) and yet have committed a crime.
Easy enough to quickly turn any politician who votes for such a stinker into a criminal.
Is this the new irony? Is this post-irony? I can't tell anymore.
I didn't vote for him then, and I've already written him to remind him what our state's motto is and to suggest that if this bill designed to impinge on our freedoms does manage to pass that he might want to look into alternative employment when election day rolls around.
...what do you assume the shelf life of a vanilla Linux/FreeBSD install will be?
Much as I enjoy the painful auto-fellation, put aside the inane OS chest thumping. A savvy user who stays on top of their patches and is security-minded will always be safer than a relatively clueless home user.
1) encrypt your original message
2) run it through Spam Mimic or something of the sort
3) send the encrypted, spamified message along
Bloats the message up? No question; it's also undetectably encrypted in plain sight.
...what mailing lists would you recommend?
There aren't exactly any corporate-agnostic mailing lists out there with quite the distribution of Bugtraq. From my posts to Bugtraq (granted, nothing to do with any "powerful, monied" companies' software), there was a minimal lag-time.
As seen here, off of a quick link. /.'s strong hand.
I guess pomo art isn't
Or weren't you aware that CNN and NPR both had (ex?) members of the PsyOps team working for them? Sort of interesting.
I see it looking for the exploit Code Red used, trying out MSADC and a directory traversal exploit.
My money's on the Code Red worm being retrofit yet again to try and execute a few more tired old exploits. Which is to say hopefully Hotmail and Windows Update won't get rooted again.
Haven't heard anything about it on Bugtraq yet; haven't checked Incidents (securityfocus.com isn't chugging along so speedily).
It'll be interesting to see how many boxes this roots out in the light of increased press coverage of Code Red and MS's spate of security-minded tools out there. Or: how good do people feel about that leaky dam now that they've stuck their thumb in the hole labelled "Code Red"?