Most of the time electronics in the UK are MUCH more expensive than the US, not just on par. My floormate here at UCSC is a transfer student from University of York, England and he waited to buy tons of electronics here, like a new digital camera and a new monitor, because the prices were undercut by half, sometimes three times.
<OT> I used to work for Radio Shack and I can vouch that at $60 for that remote RS is likly making over $20 profit. Also remember that Radio Shack sales associates are under commision and spiffs, so never trust them on opinions and note that the price is probably lower somewhere else with some exceptions. Second hint: always ask about discontinued merchandise for expensive items. Most of the time the older model is just as good and sold under cost. Once a former coworker got a $270 scanner for $30. </OT>
While I do agree that defining what one can do instead of defining of what one should not do, I support this bill full heartily. The DMCA is a set of rules which are out of bounds and the first step to remedy this is to remove the vague and just plain wrong parts of the law. And, as other posters have pointed out, some things should be explicitly defined, like basic human rights.
Plus, after passing the DMCRA we should ??? and then profit!:-)
That's an insider joke by the MPlayer developers. One time a developer messed up the CVS and the punishment was to drink ten liters of coke:-). You'll see this all over the mailing lists and the CVS logs as 10l coke or sometimes 1000l coke.
The model of most cell phones can be determined by removing the battery and looking inside the battery compartment. There should be a white sticker with various information like ESN, serial, Maker, Model, ect.
I run something similar over here at UCSC but the main fault is that many of todays PCs are shipped with Windows XP and some sort of wirewall software. And as such, many shared resources are denied by these firewalls. Plus, SMB sharing is buggy and hard to secure on Windows machines. Instead we run FTP servers restricted to the UCSC domain and my indexer scours these servers. Same concept, better protocol;-).
Over here at UCSC they have adopted another technique. As long as you don't upload more than 1Gig in 24 hours they are happy. Of course our connection is MUCH fatter (OC-12) than UCI's. The downside is that when people ask "How do I keep from uploading 1G a day?" they answer "Don't share."
This is preaty amazing because, if my memory serves me right, this is the first recorded meteor that has landed on a human before, beyond space dust that is;-). There was a case where a meteor broke through a roof, bounced around, and hit someone but it wasn't a direct smash right on the foot. What a lucky girl.
While a bootable Linux/*BSD CDRom is feasable as an semi-anonymous browsing device, a anonymous checkout system would not. The problem with checking out a book or any other material that a library might offer is how they track and recover a forgotten book. How many times have you missed a due date? Almost everyone has missed a due date once. Compared to this, theft is a minor problem.
Lets roleplay for a moment. We are a librarian and John Dole has forgotten a book. Lets look up his record and remind him that his book is late. What information do we need? A contact. That means an adress or an phone number. Email? Forget it as an unreliable medium which a majority change addresses often and don't check often enough to be effective. Plus, email from the masses can be traced with little effort.
The only way to make library checkouts anonymous is to make communication completly anonymous, and as of right now that seems to be quite some time into the future.
There is even more to macrovision than just increasing and decreasing the video sync signal. Macrovision also adds extra lines between the even and odd fields, phase modulates the colorburst, and inserts quick sync pulses where they shouldn't be. A device to sample and hold the blacklevel, remove affending lines, and normalizes the video is simple to build but the hard part is the colorbust modulation. This is the information you don't learn online but have to find out yourself with a trusty oscilloscope;-).
It's a little easier for a pipe system to be cleaned out if properly designed. At the Montery Bay Aquarium they have huge and small (2 inches or so) pipes which run fresh seawater all the time to their thousands of tanks. Every few months they use a device called a Pig to clean out the pipes. The Pig is simply a big foam ball wrapped with rubber. To use it they drain the pipes, let it rot out for a few days, insert the properly sized pig, and turn on the water. Out on the other end of the pipe comes the rush of sea-crud as the Pig breaks off the now dead critters.
Check out the MPlayer development mailing list. It shows how a opensource project should be handled, with things like a strict patch submission policy to the lead developer's wrath (Arpi).
I wouldn't care if anonymous data was collected much. I wouldn't mind too much if a random number was to be assigned to my actions. I will mind being called "Mr. 34F78AC1426B" in the court room when charges of piracy and stealing are brought forth.
My deepest sympathy is out there to the owners of ReplayTV owners.
An interesting point and one to take note of. However, I believe that an Office filter would do Linux some good. It's like the whole P2P thing. People wont switch over to FunnyName P2P if it had no or little content. It's that initial little hurdle to get over.
A solution to address your point would be to focus on a good input filter and give only a little time for a basic output filter so the user would be encuraged to save the file as an open source friendly (and hence a open standard) format.
Remember, one key to success is communication. Without it everyone would be lost.
Edison might not have been a great inventor to you but he probably has had more impact on more people than Marconi, Tesla, and Turning. He was the one who brought in records, so you have to give him credit to mass produced music. He brought in movies by advancing the technology. Every time you watch a movie you are witnessing two of Edison's inventions in a newer form. I bet you couldn't even get to the theater if it wasn't for the headlights on your car. Thanks to Edison we can go watch a 7pm movie at a theater 10 miles away.
Sure, technology has advanced quite a bit and much of Edison's orginal technology is no longer with us. Same goes with the other inventions of the time. We don't use Marconi's orginal radio and we sure as heck don't use Turning machines anymore. I am not saying that any of these inventors are small and insignificant but to say that Edison's inventions are outdated, worthless, and insignificant is like saying that the original wheel stinks because is nothing like our rubber-based wheels of today.
I'm just a student at high school and I decided to try my luck working at Radio Shack. To my surprise when I was signing forms and of the such there was that clause that all my work, even in my free time, was thiers. I was quite shocked that even Radio Shack had such a clause, esp. since I code GPL stuff in my free time.
I signed it anyways because it included the California law stating that the stuff I write completly on my own time is mine. Oh well.
Many posts were stating that the patents are going to expire too soon to have the courts involved.
What I thought is this: they still have time on their side. Phillips can sue presses, recoding companies, whatever because they are not only infringing on trademark but on patents at the time the CDs were released. Thus Phillips can be paid money on "damages" for the breach of contract. While this won't stop the RIAA industry from producing copyprotected CDs, it can put a dent in their pocketbook.
Not only that but on talk shows on the radio there are segments where the host seems to be on the phone talking to a person about a product. It might go something like:
Host: "Does XYZ really remove all Trolls from/.?"
Salesman: "YES it does! And for no money down...."
Not only am I able to participate in FIRST as I'm a highschool student in the program but I get to program the sucker. Working with some wierd assembler parsed language on very limited is going to be fun. Plus, I get to learn a little bit more on the hardware side. Yes, the electronics are given to the team as a kit like structure but the actuall workings are not. Such elements as a zero degree turning radius feature are fun to make and watch. Not to mention moving the cool arms and hydrolics. I'm just hoping that we go to the finals in Florida again like we did the previous two years.
Unfortunately, all the paper in the world is marked. The manufacturer has inserted a unique watermark, and they have extensive records of who buys each sheet of paper.
This already has happened, but in a different way. Xerox puts a unique code in all color copies one of their machines makes. Check it out at the original follow up.
I understand your reasoning the VPN ban. However, I believe that this is a very unfair treatment to some people, including people like myself. Right now I am on a VPN connecting 3 machines: a NT box, my Linux box, and a Win98 box. The reasoning is simple, my parents on the NT box just want to check email and vistit a few sites and my brother likes to play internet games. I myself like to do all of the above. Without VPN these activites could not take place beacuse 90% of the time we all want to do it at the same time. Not to mention there is no way a ADSL modem can be hooked up in my bedroom. Without VPN networking my way of life would not be what it is today.
What I propose is instead allow VPNs if they do not suck up way too much bandwidth. If they do ask for an additional fee. That would be fair and just.
"The Code Book", at least the british version, does describe that this unbreakable quantum encryption actually had several sucessful attempts befor this special LED appeared. I believe it was sucessfully done though the air at up to one mile. I would quote but since I'm moving the book is packed up. If you don't own the book, go buy it. It's a very good read.
Frequency is a great game. The objective is to move around inside a 8-sided tunnel. Each side is a track and in single-player mode, every two sets played (you tap the correct button on the controller when a note passes) it auto-plays the rest of the track for that section. Ultimatly the entire song gets played. It's much harder than it seems so don't think that this is easy. In multiplayer you battle eachother on hitting as many notes while getting as many points and trying to steal or disable your opponent. Don't even get me started on remixing the songs. This is a sure buy for PS2 owners who love music.
My physics teacher did something similar, but it was in a slightly different method.
Take a piece of glass, like a (cheap) slide for a microscope, and spray black spraypaint on one side. Instead of bolting two blades together, just hold them together; it usually is stable enough. The types of blades where there is no lump of metal on the top are preferable so it doesn't spread apart the grating.
I took a look at it and realized what the email is taking advantage of. It was a well known exploit which I actually used against a friend who challenged me to "hack" his computer. Lets put it this way, it was too easy. What the real thing does is create a invisable iframe which references the attachment, automatically opening it and running it.
... we have a computer science course and a AP computer science course. In the regular computer science course they teach C. Then the next year one can continue on to AP CS with C++. This way the early programmers drop it if they don't like it and they learn some of niches of the computer and are primed for a AP course. This way the language of the AP course can change and the students still know how the computer works with other stuff (dynamic memory in the C->Java case). I believe that this can be a solution for a highschool CS department.
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Most of the time electronics in the UK are MUCH more expensive than the US, not just on par. My floormate here at UCSC is a transfer student from University of York, England and he waited to buy tons of electronics here, like a new digital camera and a new monitor, because the prices were undercut by half, sometimes three times.
<OT> I used to work for Radio Shack and I can vouch that at $60 for that remote RS is likly making over $20 profit. Also remember that Radio Shack sales associates are under commision and spiffs, so never trust them on opinions and note that the price is probably lower somewhere else with some exceptions. Second hint: always ask about discontinued merchandise for expensive items. Most of the time the older model is just as good and sold under cost. Once a former coworker got a $270 scanner for $30. </OT>
While I do agree that defining what one can do instead of defining of what one should not do, I support this bill full heartily. The DMCA is a set of rules which are out of bounds and the first step to remedy this is to remove the vague and just plain wrong parts of the law. And, as other posters have pointed out, some things should be explicitly defined, like basic human rights.
:-)
Plus, after passing the DMCRA we should ??? and then profit!
That's an insider joke by the MPlayer developers. One time a developer messed up the CVS and the punishment was to drink ten liters of coke :-). You'll see this all over the mailing lists and the CVS logs as 10l coke or sometimes 1000l coke.
The model of most cell phones can be determined by removing the battery and looking inside the battery compartment. There should be a white sticker with various information like ESN, serial, Maker, Model, ect.
I run something similar over here at UCSC but the main fault is that many of todays PCs are shipped with Windows XP and some sort of wirewall software. And as such, many shared resources are denied by these firewalls. Plus, SMB sharing is buggy and hard to secure on Windows machines. Instead we run FTP servers restricted to the UCSC domain and my indexer scours these servers. Same concept, better protocol ;-).
Over here at UCSC they have adopted another technique. As long as you don't upload more than 1Gig in 24 hours they are happy. Of course our connection is MUCH fatter (OC-12) than UCI's. The downside is that when people ask "How do I keep from uploading 1G a day?" they answer "Don't share."
Oh well, there goes the P2P neighborhood.
This is preaty amazing because, if my memory serves me right, this is the first recorded meteor that has landed on a human before, beyond space dust that is ;-). There was a case where a meteor broke through a roof, bounced around, and hit someone but it wasn't a direct smash right on the foot. What a lucky girl.
While a bootable Linux/*BSD CDRom is feasable as an semi-anonymous browsing device, a anonymous checkout system would not. The problem with checking out a book or any other material that a library might offer is how they track and recover a forgotten book. How many times have you missed a due date? Almost everyone has missed a due date once. Compared to this, theft is a minor problem.
Lets roleplay for a moment. We are a librarian and John Dole has forgotten a book. Lets look up his record and remind him that his book is late. What information do we need? A contact. That means an adress or an phone number. Email? Forget it as an unreliable medium which a majority change addresses often and don't check often enough to be effective. Plus, email from the masses can be traced with little effort.
The only way to make library checkouts anonymous is to make communication completly anonymous, and as of right now that seems to be quite some time into the future.
There is even more to macrovision than just increasing and decreasing the video sync signal. Macrovision also adds extra lines between the even and odd fields, phase modulates the colorburst, and inserts quick sync pulses where they shouldn't be. A device to sample and hold the blacklevel, remove affending lines, and normalizes the video is simple to build but the hard part is the colorbust modulation. This is the information you don't learn online but have to find out yourself with a trusty ;-).
oscilloscope
It's a little easier for a pipe system to be cleaned out if properly designed. At the Montery Bay Aquarium they have huge and small (2 inches or so) pipes which run fresh seawater all the time to their thousands of tanks. Every few months they use a device called a Pig to clean out the pipes. The Pig is simply a big foam ball wrapped with rubber. To use it they drain the pipes, let it rot out for a few days, insert the properly sized pig, and turn on the water. Out on the other end of the pipe comes the rush of sea-crud as the Pig breaks off the now dead critters.
Check out the MPlayer development mailing list. It shows how a opensource project should be handled, with things like a strict patch submission policy to the lead developer's wrath (Arpi).
I wouldn't care if anonymous data was collected much. I wouldn't mind too much if a random number was to be assigned to my actions. I will mind being called "Mr. 34F78AC1426B" in the court room when charges of piracy and stealing are brought forth.
My deepest sympathy is out there to the owners of ReplayTV owners.
An interesting point and one to take note of. However, I believe that an Office filter would do Linux some good. It's like the whole P2P thing. People wont switch over to FunnyName P2P if it had no or little content. It's that initial little hurdle to get over.
A solution to address your point would be to focus on a good input filter and give only a little time for a basic output filter so the user would be encuraged to save the file as an open source friendly (and hence a open standard) format.
Remember, one key to success is communication. Without it everyone would be lost.
Edison might not have been a great inventor to you but he probably has had more impact on more people than Marconi, Tesla, and Turning. He was the one who brought in records, so you have to give him credit to mass produced music. He brought in movies by advancing the technology. Every time you watch a movie you are witnessing two of Edison's inventions in a newer form. I bet you couldn't even get to the theater if it wasn't for the headlights on your car. Thanks to Edison we can go watch a 7pm movie at a theater 10 miles away.
Sure, technology has advanced quite a bit and much of Edison's orginal technology is no longer with us. Same goes with the other inventions of the time. We don't use Marconi's orginal radio and we sure as heck don't use Turning machines anymore. I am not saying that any of these inventors are small and insignificant but to say that Edison's inventions are outdated, worthless, and insignificant is like saying that the original wheel stinks because is nothing like our rubber-based wheels of today.
I'm just a student at high school and I decided to try my luck working at Radio Shack. To my surprise when I was signing forms and of the such there was that clause that all my work, even in my free time, was thiers. I was quite shocked that even Radio Shack had such a clause, esp. since I code GPL stuff in my free time.
I signed it anyways because it included the California law stating that the stuff I write completly on my own time is mine. Oh well.
Many posts were stating that the patents are going to expire too soon to have the courts involved.
What I thought is this: they still have time on their side. Phillips can sue presses, recoding companies, whatever because they are not only infringing on trademark but on patents at the time the CDs were released. Thus Phillips can be paid money on "damages" for the breach of contract. While this won't stop the RIAA industry from producing copyprotected CDs, it can put a dent in their pocketbook.
Not only that but on talk shows on the radio there are segments where the host seems to be on the phone talking to a person about a product. It might go something like:
/.?"
Host: "Does XYZ really remove all Trolls from
Salesman: "YES it does! And for no money down...."
It makes me cringe.
Not only am I able to participate in FIRST as I'm a highschool student in the program but I get to program the sucker. Working with some wierd assembler parsed language on very limited is going to be fun. Plus, I get to learn a little bit more on the hardware side. Yes, the electronics are given to the team as a kit like structure but the actuall workings are not. Such elements as a zero degree turning radius feature are fun to make and watch. Not to mention moving the cool arms and hydrolics. I'm just hoping that we go to the finals in Florida again like we did the previous two years.
Unfortunately, all the paper in the world is marked. The manufacturer has inserted a unique watermark, and they have extensive records of who buys each sheet of paper.
This already has happened, but in a different way. Xerox puts a unique code in all color copies one of their machines makes. Check it out at the original follow up.
I understand your reasoning the VPN ban. However, I believe that this is a very unfair treatment to some people, including people like myself. Right now I am on a VPN connecting 3 machines: a NT box, my Linux box, and a Win98 box. The reasoning is simple, my parents on the NT box just want to check email and vistit a few sites and my brother likes to play internet games. I myself like to do all of the above. Without VPN these activites could not take place beacuse 90% of the time we all want to do it at the same time. Not to mention there is no way a ADSL modem can be hooked up in my bedroom. Without VPN networking my way of life would not be what it is today.
What I propose is instead allow VPNs if they do not suck up way too much bandwidth. If they do ask for an additional fee. That would be fair and just.
"The Code Book", at least the british version, does describe that this unbreakable quantum encryption actually had several sucessful attempts befor this special LED appeared. I believe it was sucessfully done though the air at up to one mile. I would quote but since I'm moving the book is packed up. If you don't own the book, go buy it. It's a very good read.
Frequency is a great game. The objective is to move around inside a 8-sided tunnel. Each side is a track and in single-player mode, every two sets played (you tap the correct button on the controller when a note passes) it auto-plays the rest of the track for that section. Ultimatly the entire song gets played. It's much harder than it seems so don't think that this is easy. In multiplayer you battle eachother on hitting as many notes while getting as many points and trying to steal or disable your opponent. Don't even get me started on remixing the songs. This is a sure buy for PS2 owners who love music.
Ratings: GameSpot gives it a 8.7 and IGN gives it a 9.
My physics teacher did something similar, but it was in a slightly different method.
Take a piece of glass, like a (cheap) slide for a microscope, and spray black spraypaint on one side. Instead of bolting two blades together, just hold them together; it usually is stable enough. The types of blades where there is no lump of metal on the top are preferable so it doesn't spread apart the grating.
I took a look at it and realized what the email is taking advantage of. It was a well known exploit which I actually used against a friend who challenged me to "hack" his computer. Lets put it this way, it was too easy. What the real thing does is create a invisable iframe which references the attachment, automatically opening it and running it.
<iframe src=3Dcid:THE-CID height=3D0 width=3D0></iframe>
Is where it does this attack That one was the example used in a post somewhere (I lost it link, it was a few months ago). The real one uses is this:
<iframe src=3Dcid:EA4DMGBP9p height=3D0 width=3D0></iframe>
See how it is used? Ingenious I must say.
... we have a computer science course and a AP computer science course. In the regular computer science course they teach C. Then the next year one can continue on to AP CS with C++. This way the early programmers drop it if they don't like it and they learn some of niches of the computer and are primed for a AP course. This way the language of the AP course can change and the students still know how the computer works with other stuff (dynamic memory in the C->Java case). I believe that this can be a solution for a highschool CS department.