Not only will this affect people travelling to the US, but also people transiting through the US to go to other countries. I will definitely stop going to or through the US and start using a non-US airline. I think I'll write to AA to let them know. Maybe if enough people do that...
It's the size of a zippo lighter, just the perfect crappy camera to carry around in your shirt pocket just in case. It's cheap too: I got mine for 7000 Yen, about US$70. Holds 26 640x480 or 106 320x200. Can also take short movies. Connects via USB and works for PC and Macs (also OS X). Bad point: refuses to take pictures if the light is too low. Otherwise, quality is quite impressive, considering. I love it. http://che-ez.com/english/spyz/
Have you read the paper? What you say is clearly obvious, but that's not what the paper is about. They are not proving that you can't run a copy of a software, they talk about retrieving an encryption key hidden inside a program.
There is a feature of VirtualPC on Macs that does this. If you try to exit the emulator before shutting down the emulated machine, VirtualPC asks if you want to save the memory. If you say yes, the whole memory of the emulated PC is saved in a file, and you can continue using the PC later, exactly where you left it last time.
The other nice thing about this is that restauring the memory is much faster than rebooting.
You can also save several sessions and start again with the one you want.
Of course it would be nice to do all that for just one process, or maybe even for all of them on a UNIX machine...
I have all my emails in mbox format right now. What is the best way to migrate to the Maildir format? At the same time, I would like to start using procmail. Where could I find info about Maildir with Procmail?
Come on !!! Do you really think student visas are there to help students from foreign countries have a better (=American???) education? Let me clarify a few things for you, and show you why your assertion makes very little sense:
First thing, the price of higher education in the US. For the price of any US degree, any foreign student could probably afford 10 such degrees in a foreign country, so your poor foreign student better be wealthy if he wants to finance his US studies on his own.
Quality then? Well, having done my undergrad studies in Europe, and being a grad student/teacher in the US, I have had the opportunity to compare the quality of the education of my (foreign) collegues with the one offered to my (american) students. The difference is striking. Because most US universities are run like businesses, they almost guarantee a degree to anyone doing a minimum of work, which means almost no selection in the courses, and a very low level. I think it is also commomly accepted that high school education in the US is of very low level compared to many other countries, and that might be a factor as well.
Anyway, so, according to my observations, and people I have met, I would say that the best undergraduate education (for sciences at least) comes from India and Europe (Eastern and Western).
So why would the US want to give out student visas? According to me, to keep the level of their schools up. Americans don't want to go to Graduate School, so it is not unusual to see graduate departments be filled with foreign students. Just look at how many of your science TAs are americans, that will give you a hint. Simply said, graduate students are very low paid high quality teachers, and when selected carefully, increase the quality of the research at the school.
And why would I come study in the US if the quality of education is so much better in my home country? Well, I said UNDERGRADUATE education. Graduate education in the US is of very good quality, because US universities have a lot more money to put into it, and the best students from all over the world come to the US to get a graduate degree.
And after you've been living here for 4 years, working on some degree, isn't it normal you might consider staying?
I can't believe no one sees the big picture here.
Why would they be giving away bar code readers?
To make you look at their catalog? Of course not!
So they start by giving away the bar code readers. If the stuff becomes popular, they will stop giving them away, and people will buy them. But that's not where the big bucks are. It's just good for the scanner factories. And I'm sure they will be happy to let other companies sell Cue:cats
Think about it: whenever you scan your can of cola or your favourite magazine, your computer connects to Cue:cat, sends the code you scanned (and probably your ID as well, I don't know -- can someone check that?). Then, their server sends back the URL of some webpage.
Now, here is where they win: if their software becomes popular, their server will be the main gateway of all bar code readers. So if you scan a book, where is it going to go? To Amazon or barnes and nobles? If you scan a DVD, the logical URL would be the corresponding record of www.imdb.com. But do you really think it will ever send you there? They have no reason to set it up that way. So here is their first advantage: they control where you go on the net. And how long before it sends you to a "Pepsi is better" page whenever you scan a can of coke.
And then, if I am right to suppose that they send your ID with every scan, they can also collect a huge amount of info about you.
I think the idea of being able to scan a barcode and get a relevant URL is cool. But the interpretation of the code should not be left to one organization only. LET'S REACT!!! We should quickly release a concurrent software for Linux, Windows and Mac, and create an open search engine. The software should be open source so you can check it doesn't invade your privacy. The gateway you use should be configurable so that if you don't like the practices of one, you can switch to another. Ideally, I would imagine a gateway in which users could vote on the best URL for a bar code.
Let's create this OPEN:Cat FAST, before Radio Shack takes over the world! http://uscan.sourceforge.net is a step in the right direction, now we need to set up the server.
The only reason I could imagine someone to publish an article like this one would be to generate traffic on their website. I will not give credit to that article by posting a comment on the website that publishes it. It is way too much under the level I would expect from a professional news website. If I can find the author's email address, I will directly send him my comments, but I will not use that talkback system that the author can simply ignore.
I am instructing a cs course in some college. I don't care much about my intellectual property, but there are a few important problems with having copies of notes being distributed.
Last year, I was grading a student's homework, and he was just acing all questions. Even better, not only he was giving the right answer, but he was presenting the answer like I would have done it myself. I was very happy of this, until I realized that his answers were a perfect copy of the solutions to homeworks I distributed a few semesters before! I met with the student, and he argued that he merely used my answers to "understand better the questions" and that he would - of course - never cheat for a homework.
This kind of situation is very annoying. Some may say that I shouldn't ask the same homework questions twice, but good questions which are not too hard are difficult to come up with. So yes, if I could control the distributions of my solutions by claiming intellectual property on them, that might help limit the damage.
Except for that, it is true that I don't like the idea of having a company making money of my work. I wouldn't mind for class notes, because those might be useful for the students, but I do mind for homework solutions, because I believe those are harmful to the student's learning experience. If a student doesn't struggle to find a solution, he doesn't learn.
Is there any website that lists and cable and ADSL providers per state or county? If not, it should really be done. It would be nice if users could send real statistics about the speed of their connection, or, why not, distribute some kind of soft that monitors speed from time to time and sends the info to the website. Anyone interested in building something like that?
Does anyone distribute a cheap version of LinuxPPC on CD? I wrote to a few guys, asking if they were planning to release one, and got the following answers:
LinuxMall - No, we do not have a single-CD version of it and I do not know of any plans to have one in the near future.
LinuxCentral - Probably not:(
CheapBytes - If you are referring to a low cost version, we have been planning on doing that for awhile. We have a power mac sitting here just for the task. No definite date of availability at this time.
I have a question: ok, they can licence the LZW algorithm for producing the file, but suppose I write another algorithm that produces a compressed image that is readable by gif readers, would that be legal? In the end, the gif compressed format is just a function of the image, and there must be more than one way of computing that function right? What am I missing?
Someone (I would, but I can't) should launch a big web campain to fight intolerance in high schools, and promote cultural diversity (I am of course talking of alternative cultures: goths, nerds, etc.). Like a nice big website, little icons ans banners for supporters to put on their webpages, maybe a list of high schools that promote cultural differences (and maybe a black list as well... could be pretty big). The purpose of all this would be to make the dumb media realize this is an issue, and eventually to get the schools and the parents to react.
Would you like to see code of slashdot released often?
- Only when it's nice and clean - Release early, release often - No, fine, 0.2 is good enough - Keep it secret Rob, don't let'em steel ya! - Slef sux/first post!
Slashdot Mirror
Not only will this affect people travelling to the US, but also people transiting through the US to go to other countries.
I will definitely stop going to or through the US and start using a non-US airline. I think I'll write to AA to let them know. Maybe if enough people do that...
It's the size of a zippo lighter, just the perfect crappy camera to carry around in your shirt pocket just in case. It's cheap too: I got mine for 7000 Yen, about US$70. Holds 26 640x480 or 106 320x200. Can also take short movies. Connects via USB and works for PC and Macs (also OS X).
Bad point: refuses to take pictures if the light is too low. Otherwise, quality is quite impressive, considering. I love it.
http://che-ez.com/english/spyz/
Have you read the paper? What you say is clearly obvious, but that's not what the paper is about. They are not proving that you can't run a copy of a software, they talk about retrieving an encryption key hidden inside a program.
There is a feature of VirtualPC on Macs that does this. If you try to exit the emulator before shutting down the emulated machine, VirtualPC asks if you want to save the memory. If you say yes, the whole memory of the emulated PC is saved in a file, and you can continue using the PC later, exactly where you left it last time.
The other nice thing about this is that restauring the memory is much faster than rebooting.
You can also save several sessions and start again with the one you want.
Of course it would be nice to do all that for just one process, or maybe even for all of them on a UNIX machine...
Actually, aluminium is the only proper spelling in Belgium: in French, in Flemish, and even in German. For once we all agree on something!
Just check out this guy and his story.
I have all my emails in mbox format right now. What is the best way to migrate to the Maildir format? At the same time, I would like to start using procmail. Where could I find info about Maildir with Procmail?
Click:R eference/Foundation/ObjC_classic/Classes/NSUserDef aults.html
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/
Now that was a great OS, artificially killed for commercial reasons. (but there's always gnuton).
You could always use virtual memory....
...on a standard cassette tape!
Come on !!! Do you really think student visas are there to help students from foreign countries have a better (=American???) education? Let me clarify a few things for you, and show you why your assertion makes very little sense:
First thing, the price of higher education in the US. For the price of any US degree, any foreign student could probably afford 10 such degrees in a foreign country, so your poor foreign student better be wealthy if he wants to finance his US studies on his own.
Quality then? Well, having done my undergrad studies in Europe, and being a grad student/teacher in the US, I have had the opportunity to compare the quality of the education of my (foreign) collegues with the one offered to my (american) students. The difference is striking. Because most US universities are run like businesses, they almost guarantee a degree to anyone doing a minimum of work, which means almost no selection in the courses, and a very low level. I think it is also commomly accepted that high school education in the US is of very low level compared to many other countries, and that might be a factor as well.
Anyway, so, according to my observations, and people I have met, I would say that the best undergraduate education (for sciences at least) comes from India and Europe (Eastern and Western).
So why would the US want to give out student visas? According to me, to keep the level of their schools up. Americans don't want to go to Graduate School, so it is not unusual to see graduate departments be filled with foreign students. Just look at how many of your science TAs are americans, that will give you a hint. Simply said, graduate students are very low paid high quality teachers, and when selected carefully, increase the quality of the research at the school.
And why would I come study in the US if the quality of education is so much better in my home country? Well, I said UNDERGRADUATE education. Graduate education in the US is of very good quality, because US universities have a lot more money to put into it, and the best students from all over the world come to the US to get a graduate degree.
And after you've been living here for 4 years, working on some degree, isn't it normal you might consider staying?
Well, for example those guys have found a way to use RS's scanner with a simple script. The rest is cosmetics...
try http://sourceforge.net/projects/uscan/.
I can't believe no one sees the big picture here.
Why would they be giving away bar code readers?
To make you look at their catalog? Of course not!
So they start by giving away the bar code readers. If the stuff becomes popular, they will stop giving them away, and people will buy them. But that's not where the big bucks are. It's just good for the scanner factories. And I'm sure they will be happy to let other companies sell Cue:cats
Think about it: whenever you scan your can of cola or your favourite magazine, your computer connects to Cue:cat, sends the code you scanned (and probably your ID as well, I don't know -- can someone check that?). Then, their server sends back the URL of some webpage.
Now, here is where they win: if their software becomes popular, their server will be the main gateway of all bar code readers. So if you scan a book, where is it going to go? To Amazon or barnes and nobles? If you scan a DVD, the logical URL would be the corresponding record of www.imdb.com. But do you really think it will ever send you there? They have no reason to set it up that way. So here is their first advantage: they control where you go on the net. And how long before it sends you to a "Pepsi is better" page whenever you scan a can of coke.
And then, if I am right to suppose that they send your ID with every scan, they can also collect a huge amount of info about you.
I think the idea of being able to scan a barcode and get a relevant URL is cool. But the interpretation of the code should not be left to one organization only. LET'S REACT!!! We should quickly release a concurrent software for Linux, Windows and Mac, and create an open search engine. The software should be open source so you can check it doesn't invade your privacy. The gateway you use should be configurable so that if you don't like the practices of one, you can switch to another. Ideally, I would imagine a gateway in which users could vote on the best URL for a bar code.
Let's create this OPEN:Cat FAST, before Radio Shack takes over the world! http://uscan.sourceforge.net is a step in the right direction, now we need to set up the server.
The only reason I could imagine someone to publish an article like this one would be to generate traffic on their website. I will not give credit to that article by posting a comment on the website that publishes it. It is way too much under the level I would expect from a professional news website. If I can find the author's email address, I will directly send him my comments, but I will not use that talkback system that the author can simply ignore.
go to
http://www.i-opener-linux.net and look around.
There are lots of new hacks with or w/o opening the
box.
Harel, [...], may have written one of the first books in recent memory that focuses on the limits of computers.
...
Search on Amazon.com (or others) for books on "Complexity Theory" or "Theory of Computation". I get 277 hits.
We now know that not all algorithmic problems are solvable by computers,
Now? This has been known for 50 years (The halting problem, etc). The book might be very good, but please don't make it sound like this is news.
I am instructing a cs course in some college. I don't care much about my intellectual property, but there are a few important problems with having copies of notes being distributed.
Last year, I was grading a student's homework, and he was just acing all questions. Even better, not only he was giving the right answer, but he was presenting the answer like I would have done it myself. I was very happy of this, until I realized that his answers were a perfect copy of the solutions to homeworks I distributed a few semesters before! I met with the student, and he argued that he merely used my answers to "understand better the questions" and that he would - of course - never cheat for a homework.
This kind of situation is very annoying. Some may say that I shouldn't ask the same homework questions twice, but good questions which are not too hard are difficult to come up with. So yes, if I could control the distributions of my solutions by claiming intellectual property on them, that might help limit the damage.
Except for that, it is true that I don't like the idea of having a company making money of my work. I wouldn't mind for class notes, because those might be useful for the students, but I do mind for homework solutions, because I believe those are harmful to the student's learning experience. If a student doesn't struggle to find a solution, he doesn't learn.
-- Slef.
Is there any website that lists and cable and
ADSL providers per state or county?
If not, it should really be done. It would be
nice if users could send real statistics about the
speed of their connection, or, why not, distribute
some kind of soft that monitors speed from time
to time and sends the info to the website.
Anyone interested in building something like that?
If you think everyone should be identifiable, why are you posting anonymously?
Does anyone distribute a cheap version of
:(
LinuxPPC on CD? I wrote to a few guys, asking if
they were planning to release one, and got
the following answers:
LinuxMall - No, we do not have a single-CD
version of it and I do not know of
any plans to have one in the near future.
LinuxCentral - Probably not
CheapBytes - If you are referring to a low cost
version, we have been planning on doing
that for awhile. We have a power mac
sitting here just for the task. No
definite date of availability at this
time.
Any ideas? anyone wants to start a business?
I have a question: ok, they can licence the LZW algorithm for producing the file, but suppose I write another algorithm that produces a compressed image that is readable by gif readers, would that be legal?
In the end, the gif compressed format is just a function of the image, and there must be more than one way of computing that function right? What am I missing?
Someone (I would, but I can't) should launch a big web campain to fight intolerance in high schools, and promote cultural diversity (I am of course talking of alternative cultures: goths, nerds, etc.). Like a nice big website, little icons ans banners for supporters to put on their webpages, maybe a list of high schools that promote cultural differences (and maybe a black list as well... could be pretty big). The purpose of all this would be to make the dumb media realize this is an issue, and eventually to get the schools and the parents to react.
What do you think? Any volunteers?
Would you like to see code of slashdot released often?
- Only when it's nice and clean
- Release early, release often
- No, fine, 0.2 is good enough
- Keep it secret Rob, don't let'em steel ya!
- Slef sux/first post!
read:
.lt. f, add f-d to global ranking.
if d
I hope I got it right this time!