He's referring to Audio Level Compression which is the ACTUAL reason behind the mutilation of today's music quality. (But can also be a great tool if not abused) For example, pull up a Linkin Park song in Audacity. Notice how the waveform pretty much just fills the whole darn spectrum up with blue? That's compression:)
"... particularly alcohol, which is far more damaging statistically than cigarette smoking"
What?!
According to the CDC, 440,000 deaths each year in the US are smoking-associated, and 85,000 are alcohol related. I also read somewhere that if you're a smoker, there is a 1 in 2 chance you'll die from a smoking related illness.
Are you daft??? Do you really expect search engines to not keep tabs on what people are using their service for? EVERY search engine keeps records of searches; they'd be crazy not to. Most use them for good, to improve the results by figuring out how to adapt to the way people use it. Other companies hand sell them to the government and private companies...
I don't think there is any problem with retaining data, as long as they can be trusted to keep it safe and be held accoutable if they don't.
> [Cell phones] also [have] a handy little kidtracker GPS
So that's why my mom insists on continuing to pay for my cell phone despite the fact that I am living on my own and making a six figure salary! Better leave it at home next time I troll a Vampyre club and strip joint...
"For those who don't know, the DES patent is owned by N.S.A. so when you see that Verizon's latest gadget that is triple DES encrypted don't be impressed, Uncle Sammy can get right in. "
This simply is not true. The NSA does not put backdoors in encryption algorithms; that would make it too easy for some smart chinese guy to catch it and steal all our secrets.
In fact, back when DES was being evaluated for 'standard' government use by the NSA, they made a secret change to the algorithm without telling anyone why. A decade later when researchers discovered new forms of cryptanalysis, they found out the changes made to DES by the NSA made it stronger and that they knew things all along that the public didn't.
I think more non-commercial websites should just block IE visitors. For example: http://www.lobstertech.com/explorer.php If your website is just giving away Free software, you have nothing to lose by blocking IE users.
There have always been secret undocumented API calls and other esoteric features with Windows. For example, one secret API call I uesd back in the Windows 9x days allowed me to hide my program from the Control+Alt+Delete program list.
I suppose the problem is that the EU suspects or knows that Microsoft is coding their bundled products to leverage secret preformancing enhancing features of the operating system.
The fact that it's "legit" won't stop my ISP from capping my upstream at 128Kb (down from 2000Kb) for torrenting about 4 gigs in a month. You know, the whole part of the service agreement that says, "this service is for entertainment purposes only"
"What we need is a realistic free market playing field of open competition for anyone who wants to jump into the business"
You know! I've been meaning to jump in to the telco industry because internet access costs too much! It will be easy; we'll get 100 billion dollars in venture capital to run fiber to every residential area of the country so we can offer a competing service. We won't block bittorrent and voip, throttle upstreams, pipe data to the NSA, or record who our customers call... It will be great, the people will love us!
The so-called "terrorists" haven't won anything. Having our freedom stripped away is what the neo-conservatives want, so essentially they're the winners. The terrorists could probably care less about how oppressive our government has become; they just want us to die.
"Bullshit. In the 10 years I've been using the Internet, I've come accross child porn one (1) time, and even that looked more like two kids playing doctor than any pedophilic photo setup. If that's the "darkest side of the Internet", then the Net's brighter than the surface of the Sun."
I think you've been spending too much time on Slashdot.
I've been using the interweb since 1998 when I was 13, and I have been exposed to child pornography since day one. I remember logging in to Microsoft Chat (which was bundled with Windows) and all the rooms were devoted to kid porn... I also remember the channel listings on DALnet just being filled with stuff like, "!!!!!!!!!!!!11LolIta-_OMG-filesrvr" although these channels tended to be pure smoke.
On a more interesting point, a few years ago, I was paid to go through a list of about 10,000 randomly selected international websites and categorize them by hand for a search engine. For every thousand or so, I would see at least a couple child pornography sites.
You can't always throw more hardware at the problem. If your PHP app bloats to the point where it needs to parse thousands of lines of code and perform all sorts of initialization every time request is made, having many CPUs won't make the pages not take half a second load. Clustering usually doesn't improve response time, only the number of responses per minute your setup can handle.
I stopped buying Sony's crap after discovering that a normal memory stick (which was a STUPID, unnecessary format to begin with) wasn't good enough for my sony mp3 player, I needed a more expensive, DRM encumbered 'magic gate' stick. I also had no choice but to use Sony's buggy software to put music on the darn thing.
This isn't FUD, Sony just keeps shafting and screwing customers when it comes to the content market. They've been doing it for years, and will continue to do so.
I recommend Hamachi as a good, EASY to configure way to secure p2p over the internet. It's free as in beer and works on Windows and Linux. If your lawyers know how to install a program and copy a file to a shared folder, they can securely send you data over Hamachi.
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He's referring to Audio Level Compression which is the ACTUAL reason behind the mutilation of today's music quality. (But can also be a great tool if not abused) For example, pull up a Linkin Park song in Audacity. Notice how the waveform pretty much just fills the whole darn spectrum up with blue? That's compression :)
and the future employer googling your name
"... particularly alcohol, which is far more damaging statistically than cigarette smoking"
What?!
According to the CDC, 440,000 deaths each year in the US are smoking-associated, and 85,000 are alcohol related. I also read somewhere that if you're a smoker, there is a 1 in 2 chance you'll die from a smoking related illness.
So... DON'T smoke 'em if you got 'em boys
NoScript eh? That is a very angry looking "S"
And software HAS caused people to die
In America, catch phrases get old!
Are you daft??? Do you really expect search engines to not keep tabs on what people are using their service for? EVERY search engine keeps records of searches; they'd be crazy not to. Most use them for good, to improve the results by figuring out how to adapt to the way people use it. Other companies hand sell them to the government and private companies...
I don't think there is any problem with retaining data, as long as they can be trusted to keep it safe and be held accoutable if they don't.
> [Cell phones] also [have] a handy little kidtracker GPS
So that's why my mom insists on continuing to pay for my cell phone despite the fact that I am living on my own and making a six figure salary! Better leave it at home next time I troll a Vampyre club and strip joint...
> "Source code for Java already is available and has been for 10 years", said James Gosling.
> I guess Open Source means they want free developers.
A trollish comment from Gosling about FLOSS doesn't surprise me; after all, he sold out emacs in the 80's.
You haven't been around here very long, have you?
"As if a criminal would be stupid enough to not use private encryption"
Most so-called 'criminals' I know use Nextels. You've been watching too many James Bond movies.
"For those who don't know, the DES patent is owned by N.S.A. so when you see that Verizon's latest gadget that is triple DES encrypted don't be impressed, Uncle Sammy can get right in. "
This simply is not true. The NSA does not put backdoors in encryption algorithms; that would make it too easy for some smart chinese guy to catch it and steal all our secrets.
In fact, back when DES was being evaluated for 'standard' government use by the NSA, they made a secret change to the algorithm without telling anyone why. A decade later when researchers discovered new forms of cryptanalysis, they found out the changes made to DES by the NSA made it stronger and that they knew things all along that the public didn't.
"Solution: Start telling MSIE users to upgrade when they show up at your website"
Some people actually do this: http://www.lobstertech.com/explorer.php
Why didn't they use Microsoft's fonts?
Uhm, because Microsoft's fonts have a restrictive license that prohibits them from being included in a Free OS.
I think more non-commercial websites should just block IE visitors. For example: http://www.lobstertech.com/explorer.php If your website is just giving away Free software, you have nothing to lose by blocking IE users.
There have always been secret undocumented API calls and other esoteric features with Windows. For example, one secret API call I uesd back in the Windows 9x days allowed me to hide my program from the Control+Alt+Delete program list.
I suppose the problem is that the EU suspects or knows that Microsoft is coding their bundled products to leverage secret preformancing enhancing features of the operating system.
The fact that it's "legit" won't stop my ISP from capping my upstream at 128Kb (down from 2000Kb) for torrenting about 4 gigs in a month. You know, the whole part of the service agreement that says, "this service is for entertainment purposes only"
"What we need is a realistic free market playing field of open competition for anyone who wants to jump into the business"
You know! I've been meaning to jump in to the telco industry because internet access costs too much! It will be easy; we'll get 100 billion dollars in venture capital to run fiber to every residential area of the country so we can offer a competing service. We won't block bittorrent and voip, throttle upstreams, pipe data to the NSA, or record who our customers call... It will be great, the people will love us!
The so-called "terrorists" haven't won anything. Having our freedom stripped away is what the neo-conservatives want, so essentially they're the winners. The terrorists could probably care less about how oppressive our government has become; they just want us to die.
"Bullshit. In the 10 years I've been using the Internet, I've come accross child porn one (1) time, and even that looked more like two kids playing doctor than any pedophilic photo setup. If that's the "darkest side of the Internet", then the Net's brighter than the surface of the Sun."
I think you've been spending too much time on Slashdot.
I've been using the interweb since 1998 when I was 13, and I have been exposed to child pornography since day one. I remember logging in to Microsoft Chat (which was bundled with Windows) and all the rooms were devoted to kid porn... I also remember the channel listings on DALnet just being filled with stuff like, "!!!!!!!!!!!!11LolIta-_OMG-filesrvr" although these channels tended to be pure smoke.
On a more interesting point, a few years ago, I was paid to go through a list of about 10,000 randomly selected international websites and categorize them by hand for a search engine. For every thousand or so, I would see at least a couple child pornography sites.
$ tail /var/log/messages
Jun 22 11:38:53 ipx-svr-lol NovelCEO (): Re-parsing mission statement...
Jun 22 11:38:55 ipx-svr-lol NovelCEO (): [FATAL] Out Of Equity
You can't always throw more hardware at the problem. If your PHP app bloats to the point where it needs to parse thousands of lines of code and perform all sorts of initialization every time request is made, having many CPUs won't make the pages not take half a second load. Clustering usually doesn't improve response time, only the number of responses per minute your setup can handle.
Have you been living under a rock?
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http://fuckbluray.com/
http://www.eff.org/IP/DRM/Sony-BMG/
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,114850,
I stopped buying Sony's crap after discovering that a normal memory stick (which was a STUPID, unnecessary format to begin with) wasn't good enough for my sony mp3 player, I needed a more expensive, DRM encumbered 'magic gate' stick. I also had no choice but to use Sony's buggy software to put music on the darn thing.
This isn't FUD, Sony just keeps shafting and screwing customers when it comes to the content market. They've been doing it for years, and will continue to do so.
I recommend Hamachi as a good, EASY to configure way to secure p2p over the internet. It's free as in beer and works on Windows and Linux. If your lawyers know how to install a program and copy a file to a shared folder, they can securely send you data over Hamachi.
Except for the fact that most people who read Fortune are business men who feel the same way. I wonder if Mr. Widenius is a Demotivator?