the point is that if encrypted data is indistinguishable from white noise then *they* could build a case against you on the grounds that the white noise on your hard drive which *looks* like empty space does infact contain encrypted data to which you hold the key and of course you're going to act like there's no data there in the first place m'lord/tinfoilhat
i.e. something that compiles with gcc (though isnt particularly bothered about the version so long as it's newish) and even throw in project files for Visual Studio and Visual MingW and include a simple SDL powered "hello world", perhaps playing a sound and showing a couple of sprites and a 3d (opengl?) based ball bouncing about.
then all you'd have to do to write a portable SDL app is delete those things (all very clearly declared and laid out) and begin writing, safe in the knowledge that any porting problems are because you-the-code made assumptions about the size of int.
and if you can just "cd sdl_appbase" and "make" without having to run configure and install bash,python,gawk,cygwin and god knows what else then that'd be nice too.
unfortunatley this is NOT about terrorism, ID cards have been floating about for over a decade, post 9/11 the "terrorism" tag was conviniently added as the defacto reason for introducing them, prior to that it was for tackling illegal immigrant workers and benefit fraud.
prior to THAT it was environmental/anti-capitalist/hippy protestors who cant be arrested or charged becasue they refuse to talk or carry id and are generally a pain in the ass to economic advancement (see: "newbury bypass" and "manchester airport" circa mid-late 90's).
before THAT it was drugs and raves for similar reason, how do you arrest and charge a warehouse full of people if you dont know who they are? make them carry id, and make it compulsory, then if they dont have said id you have a "legitimate" reason to lock them up anyway.
webforms 2.0 is an evolutionary step, not a revolutionary step, hence it's sister spec is often referred to as "HTML 5". it is intended as an upgrade to the every day html/xhtml web forms you use day in day out, not a totally new new new "internet applications" spec.
the desktop is already 3d, windows go behind other windows, objects can be in front of other objects. the reason it doesnt "look" 3d is because there's no perspective.
it's also worth bearing in mind that the desktop is *already* 3d... you have windows on top of other windows, objects in front and behind of each other, it simply lacks perspective.
have to second this instead of using my mod points, it was during my starving-poor-student years that i learnt to cook, once i realised that a weeks worth of veg at the market cost less than just one pub lunch i was hooked. i also learnt that a gigantic pot of stew lasts a few days and is great for snack purposes during those all night coding sessions.
and while we're at it, beer, it costs a lot, a box of breakfast cerial and a supply of milk not only feeds you for a couple of weeks but costs less than two pints of beer.
when styling a page developers exploit bugs in the IE5,IE5.5 and IE6 codebase to con each browser version into rendering something along the lines of what the rest of the (standards-compliant) CSS describes. if IE7 fixes the CSS support AND these bugs then this issue wont be, well, an issue. note, i said "IF".
indeed, it'd probably be easier to fit a modded pc into a knackered xbox 360's case than to hack the thing, so, like, why are people moaning about it?
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ahhh, buletin boards, them were the days, i remember scrounging a 9600 modem and giving it a go with the atari st, hunting down some shareware games, probably, in fact it's so long ago i'm not actually that sure about the details.
>Then again, I never use the remote, since it is always either lost or >broken. Even when in a household that takes a little more care of their >remote, I automatically reach for the TV itself.
yeah our little monster sucked on the remote and now the coating of dried on dribble minerals inside it are acting like some kind of funky dielectric meaning it no longer works... fortunatley our telly has volume and channel buttons on the front
i turn everything off at the wall that doesnt have a real power switch when i'ts not being used, including devices with external power supplies, many of which still get warm just by being plugged in! heck my entire "computer corner" with it's myriad of devices actually gets unplugged too some days, usually when the other half is using her hair dryer.
all it takes is a little thinking about where you place your devices, e.g. the wall switches for the tv corner are behind the bottom shelf of dvds, so all you have to do is reach through the gap betwix dvds and shelf-above, muscle memory takes care of the actual aiming.
there's a lot you can do to degrade gracefully, such as posting a form back to the user with missing fields highlighted using html+css. unfortunatley all the AJAX example code i've seen use try()catch blocks, which will break pre javascript 1.5 browsers, which may be rare (IE4), but if you want to use SOME javascript and not just have it go bang in said circumstances you need a little sideways thinking... i.e. use if()else instead
the second time i saw this as the top story the second story was something DRM related (i think) and i thought, that's odd, slashdot hasnt been updated for a couple of days... now i'm wandering if i'm stuck in some kind of causality loop
>I would recommend Firefox be distributed with this option disabled
and i suppose web servers should also ask your permission to write your requests to their log files too? it's just a tracking tool, i can immediatley think of a few handy uses for this, not all developers work for evil corporations bent on tracking your every move, you know. some of us are actually just interested in where the traffic is going
unfortunatley the day will probably come when polititians bribed^Wpressured by big media companies see fit to pass (or to enforce new spins on exisiting) laws that make removing DRM software synonymous with "circumventing copyright protection"
[ Another idea is to package the music/software/game with something that is above and beyond what you would normally get from just a plain disc. Add something to the packaging that makes people want to buy the product and not just download it. You could add writing, pictures or objects that people could enjoy that can't be easily reproduced with a copy program. ]
my thoughts exactly, offer your latest albumn for free download on your website, but put up for purchase:
1. it on vynil
or in the case for guitar bands (as opposed to stomping dance bands)
2. CD + official guitar music songbook
or in the case of bands that might be feeling a bit artistic
3. CD + full color book of photos, thoughts, sketches and general strangeness
or maybe if a band get's about a bit
4. CD + full color book of photos, stories and goings on from latest tour/recording effort
etc.
personally there are bands/artists who's music i "collect" and others that i simply "listen to". those that fall into the former camp would quite likely find me as a customer to the above things
e.g. when you are on a laptop you may be connecting from more than one location = different ISPs = different SMTP permissions
i've never used thunderbird but how hard can it be to have a drop down box on the "compose email" pane that lists a choice of outgoing smtps (or even) accounts instead of locking it down in some obscure setting somewhere?
i used to get around this on (shudder) outlook express by setting up a sh*t load of similar email accounts, all but one of which were set to not fetch email as i had a few email addresses all sending to the same pop3 account. that way i could also change the name on my email too, so i could send as "ric" with email address "a@b.c" via "smtp.x.y" or "cycloid" from same email addy at same smtp, or cycloid with a different email address via a different SMTP. etc. etc. etc.
right, ok, so the patents cover the storage of the long filename and the connection to the short filename:
1. realfi~1.exe = real file with real data 2. realfilename.exe = a hidden file that contains a pointer to realfi~1.exe
when reading a FAT mounted disk you could just show the short filenames. and ignore the hidden long-filename entries.
and because you know that it's windows you know that 99.9% of the time c:/progra~1 = "program files", very kludgy, but the reverse case is simple, someone requests "longfilename.exe", you notice its > 11 chars so why not hunt the fat for "longfi~1.exe", oh look there it is.
2001 the film, and 2001 the book were produced in parallel, with collaboration between kubrick and clarke, some of the changes were down to a difference of opinion (e.g. clarke wanted HAL to be younger, kubrick's guys couldn't manage the special effects neccesary to reproduce saturns rings, so jupiter was used)
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the point is that if encrypted data is indistinguishable from white noise then *they* could build a case against you on the grounds that the white noise on your hard drive which *looks* like empty space does infact contain encrypted data to which you hold the key and of course you're going to act like there's no data there in the first place m'lord /tinfoilhat
i.e. something that compiles with gcc (though isnt particularly bothered about the version so long as it's newish) and even throw in project files for Visual Studio and Visual MingW and include a simple SDL powered "hello world", perhaps playing a sound and showing a couple of sprites and a 3d (opengl?) based ball bouncing about.
then all you'd have to do to write a portable SDL app is delete those things (all very clearly declared and laid out) and begin writing, safe in the knowledge that any porting problems are because you-the-code made assumptions about the size of int.
and if you can just "cd sdl_appbase" and "make" without having to run configure and install bash,python,gawk,cygwin and god knows what else then that'd be nice too.
unfortunatley this is NOT about terrorism, ID cards have been floating about for over a decade, post 9/11 the "terrorism" tag was conviniently added as the defacto reason for introducing them, prior to that it was for tackling illegal immigrant workers and benefit fraud.
prior to THAT it was environmental/anti-capitalist/hippy protestors who cant be arrested or charged becasue they refuse to talk or carry id and are generally a pain in the ass to economic advancement (see: "newbury bypass" and "manchester airport" circa mid-late 90's).
before THAT it was drugs and raves for similar reason, how do you arrest and charge a warehouse full of people if you dont know who they are? make them carry id, and make it compulsory, then if they dont have said id you have a "legitimate" reason to lock them up anyway.
some of us have been using GUIs for at over 20 years you know
webforms 2.0 is an evolutionary step, not a revolutionary step, hence it's sister spec is often referred to as "HTML 5". it is intended as an upgrade to the every day html/xhtml web forms you use day in day out, not a totally new new new "internet applications" spec.
length in time, you could probably break that with a helium baloon
the desktop is already 3d, windows go behind other windows, objects can be in front of other objects. the reason it doesnt "look" 3d is because there's no perspective.
it's also worth bearing in mind that the desktop is *already* 3d... you have windows on top of other windows, objects in front and behind of each other, it simply lacks perspective.
have to second this instead of using my mod points, it was during my starving-poor-student years that i learnt to cook, once i realised that a weeks worth of veg at the market cost less than just one pub lunch i was hooked. i also learnt that a gigantic pot of stew lasts a few days and is great for snack purposes during those all night coding sessions.
and while we're at it, beer, it costs a lot, a box of breakfast cerial and a supply of milk not only feeds you for a couple of weeks but costs less than two pints of beer.
>Between custom buttons, panels, and widgets
yay! more bloat! any web browsers left out there that are still actually just web browsers and that dont need 100mb of ram to run?
when styling a page developers exploit bugs in the IE5,IE5.5 and IE6 codebase to con each browser version into rendering something along the lines of what the rest of the (standards-compliant) CSS describes. if IE7 fixes the CSS support AND these bugs then this issue wont be, well, an issue. note, i said "IF".
indeed, it'd probably be easier to fit a modded pc into a knackered xbox 360's case than to hack the thing, so, like, why are people moaning about it?
ahhh, buletin boards, them were the days, i remember scrounging a 9600 modem and giving it a go with the atari st, hunting down some shareware games, probably, in fact it's so long ago i'm not actually that sure about the details.
>Then again, I never use the remote, since it is always either lost or
>broken. Even when in a household that takes a little more care of their
>remote, I automatically reach for the TV itself.
yeah our little monster sucked on the remote and now the coating of dried on dribble minerals inside it are acting like some kind of funky dielectric meaning it no longer works... fortunatley our telly has volume and channel buttons on the front
i turn everything off at the wall that doesnt have a real power switch when i'ts not being used, including devices with external power supplies, many of which still get warm just by being plugged in! heck my entire "computer corner" with it's myriad of devices actually gets unplugged too some days, usually when the other half is using her hair dryer.
all it takes is a little thinking about where you place your devices, e.g. the wall switches for the tv corner are behind the bottom shelf of dvds, so all you have to do is reach through the gap betwix dvds and shelf-above, muscle memory takes care of the actual aiming.
there's a lot you can do to degrade gracefully, such as posting a form back to the user with missing fields highlighted using html+css. unfortunatley all the AJAX example code i've seen use try()catch blocks, which will break pre javascript 1.5 browsers, which may be rare (IE4), but if you want to use SOME javascript and not just have it go bang in said circumstances you need a little sideways thinking ... i.e. use if()else instead
here's my attempt:
http://www.cyclomedia.co.uk/ajax_degrade.asp
the second time i saw this as the top story the second story was something DRM related (i think) and i thought, that's odd, slashdot hasnt been updated for a couple of days... now i'm wandering if i'm stuck in some kind of causality loop
>And in the process, telling them what you're listening to.
umm, dont they already know that, what with you having bought it through itunes in the first place?
how about re-sitting the motor so it rotates the whole device? you could grab full 360 degree panoramas that wouldnt need stitching
>I would recommend Firefox be distributed with this option disabled
and i suppose web servers should also ask your permission to write your requests to their log files too? it's just a tracking tool, i can immediatley think of a few handy uses for this, not all developers work for evil corporations bent on tracking your every move, you know. some of us are actually just interested in where the traffic is going
unfortunatley the day will probably come when polititians bribed^Wpressured by big media companies see fit to pass (or to enforce new spins on exisiting) laws that make removing DRM software synonymous with "circumventing copyright protection"
[
Another idea is to package the music/software/game with something that is above and beyond what you would normally get from just a plain disc. Add something to the packaging that makes people want to buy the product and not just download it. You could add writing, pictures or objects that people could enjoy that can't be easily reproduced with a copy program.
]
my thoughts exactly, offer your latest albumn for free download on your website, but put up for purchase:
1. it on vynil
or in the case for guitar bands (as opposed to stomping dance bands)
2. CD + official guitar music songbook
or in the case of bands that might be feeling a bit artistic
3. CD + full color book of photos, thoughts, sketches and general strangeness
or maybe if a band get's about a bit
4. CD + full color book of photos, stories and goings on from latest tour/recording effort
etc.
personally there are bands/artists who's music i "collect" and others that i simply "listen to". those that fall into the former camp would quite likely find me as a customer to the above things
e.g. when you are on a laptop you may be connecting from more than one location = different ISPs = different SMTP permissions
i've never used thunderbird but how hard can it be to have a drop down box on the "compose email" pane that lists a choice of outgoing smtps (or even) accounts instead of locking it down in some obscure setting somewhere?
i used to get around this on (shudder) outlook express by setting up a sh*t load of similar email accounts, all but one of which were set to not fetch email as i had a few email addresses all sending to the same pop3 account. that way i could also change the name on my email too, so i could send as "ric" with email address "a@b.c" via "smtp.x.y" or "cycloid" from same email addy at same smtp, or cycloid with a different email address via a different SMTP. etc. etc. etc.
right, ok, so the patents cover the storage of the long filename and the connection to the short filename:
1. realfi~1.exe = real file with real data
2. realfilename.exe = a hidden file that contains a pointer to realfi~1.exe
when reading a FAT mounted disk you could just show the short filenames. and ignore the hidden long-filename entries.
and because you know that it's windows you know that 99.9% of the time c:/progra~1 = "program files", very kludgy, but the reverse case is simple, someone requests "longfilename.exe", you notice its > 11 chars so why not hunt the fat for "longfi~1.exe", oh look there it is.
oversimplistic
2001 the film, and 2001 the book were produced in parallel, with collaboration between kubrick and clarke, some of the changes were down to a difference of opinion (e.g. clarke wanted HAL to be younger, kubrick's guys couldn't manage the special effects neccesary to reproduce saturns rings, so jupiter was used)