I'm sure recycling computer parts will help out a LOT.
I'm very concerned about what we bury and how much of it. Landfills are great for organic material but the toxic and non-biodegradable stuff is gonna cause problems for a very long time. Recycling our "stuff" is the right thing to do and it does help a LOT.
Our species thirsts for knowledge, striving for ever greater understanding of all the facets of the organic and the inorganic, as well as thought and form, including music.
We've progressed by sharing information for thousands of years and that included songs and music for worship, history, mythology, and just plain fun. Anyone who would restrinct that geneticly instilled curiosity, regardless of their claims of "protection" actually does far more harm than good.
Simply put, it's unnatural for us to not share information. Musicians understand it, they (borrow) are influenced by other musicians and their music so why can't the people that represent those same artists get with the program?
Honestly, I wish the DRM enthusiasts of the world would get a clue. There is nothing you can try to protect digitally that someone can't break digitally. It's bits of data and there is always a combination of 1 and 0's that will open Pandora's chastity belt.
System and method for generating web sites in an arbitrary object framework
Abstract
A system and method for generating computer applications in an arbitrary object framework. The method separates content, form, and function of the computer application so that each may be accessed or modified separately. The method includes creating arbitrary objects, managing the arbitrary objects throughout their life cycle in an object library, and deploying the arbitrary objects in a design framework for use in complex computer applications.
This patent is from Oct 01 1999. XML was introduced in 1996, OOP has been around since 1965, I've had re-usuable code objects in TurboPascal, Basic, C++... yeah pretty much every decent language released in the last 15 years. So WTF?? How can one company say they own USING pre-existing technologies?
... oh yeah, it's for the interwebs! Funny that their patent is the exact time of the dot-com bubble. This smacks of "Hey, lets take something we already have and patent it for use on the net... we can make bank!".
I thought any patent based on prior art was invalid, regardless of where the "new" one is implemented, am I wrong?
Most coders I know take a lot of pride in their wares. Even if they are not the prettiest programs in the world they are still pieces of art to the developer. As coders we can see (remember that 3D routine posted a while back) beauty in syntax and innovation in approach. It's a shame that end users can't comprehend the sheer amount of work in writing a GOOD program.
With that said however, I think we need, as coders, to take a little more time on design. I usually draw my GUI out in Photoshop Elements, it gives me time to think about positions of sections and controls, how they will interact, etc. This approach does wonders for the design side of my applications and allows me to really get a feel for how it will work before I even write the plumbing.
It also helps to think outside the box, Kai's power tools had the wildest interfaces ever seen when they grazed the Photoshop world. Just because you have a menu bar that can dock anywhere doesn't mean it has to!
True, DeCSS took it's key from another legitimate software player for windows. AACS has sufficient complexity that brute force may be unrealistic. I can't wait to hear how he found the key.
Like most people I'm getting pretty sick and tired of hearing about "yet another lawsuit" by the Nazis... I mean **AA's.
So it got me to thinking, and hopefully there is someone reading this who knows something about international law and can comment, as to how a US organization can file a lawsuit in US court in the hopes of affecting change in Russia???? Shouldn't they have filled it in Russian court? Or are they so sure they'll lose they can only win by using the "local boys"?
In all seriousness, is there a lawyer around who can comment on this?
This kind of crap really disturbs me because I make my living writing software. Kazaa's legality is not the issue, it's the sueing of a software maker because someone misused the program that has me steamed.
I read of people who use software to do exactly what it was written for, then they sue the software makers because they did something illegal with the program and got caught, or because "it (the program) should have known I was doing bad stuff and stopped me."
If I write a program to admin an SQL server and someone uses it to hack/damage SQL Servers how the fuck can I be liable for it? I can put disclaimers in and still get sued so this could be a very bad precedent.
It's a chip that is designed to have little noise while operating at super high frequencies (~ 200GHz) so that the faint noise of the universe can be properly detected. Cool!
The uses for this, shall I say "ultra low noise", technology could be highly valuable in the sensor and biometrics market. Less noise or interference is always better for any pattern recognition... ok, ok, except in chaos theory.
Still, I'd really like to see something on the software they will use to model the universe's noise data.
If indeed this was an ordered hit than it's likely a message to all the former and current operatives... "Don't rock the boat or else!". Given that many critics of the administration have been killed or had "accidents" it's definitely not far fetched.
Hassan has come up with some new training aids and please note that because of these new training aids we have to change our terminology: "Jihad" is now "pwn teh noobs".
I used to code the shit out of the C64. I pretty much learned how to write software by assembler and basic code examples typed from magazines. The ones I bought had a CRC system (usually a purely basic program that you could save to disk and run when entering data). The program would output the hex codes and a checksum. Anyone who can recall those days knows what I'm talking about, if you don't then Wikipedia.
So why can't they send this dudes data through that type of system, print it, and then retype it into a PC port? The checksum takes care of the data integrity so no data loss.
To the Cops: Keep It Simple Stupid? Why go straight to emulators? Use his machine against him!
The Amiga is on the list and I'm glad to see it. The Amiga absolutely blew my mind when I first saw it. I had been stuck in school learning DOS on wimpy 286 machines with 16 colours and a lame pc speaker for audio when I saw an Amiga running Shadow of the Beast and it changed my life.
A couple of years owning an Amiga and a new product comes out called the VideoToaster and that changed broadcasting and desktop video forever.
I was shocked to see the C-64 not on the list however. It took the little crack the Vic-20 had put in Atari's home gaming market and busted it wide open. Most of my friends had one and they almost always used it for gaming.
Anyone else learn programming with a C-64 and a snapshot card?
I had to buy this book for my CS pre-req "Introduction To Computer Technology" course at college. You would be surprised just how invaluable a book like this is for things like POST codes, the base 1MB memory map, peripheral IRQs and addresses, OS boot sequences, etc. If you work (as in tech) with PCs at all you should probably know this stuff.
I honestly can't think of anything that is better than experience, but this book comes very close for PC basics. As for XP specific books, I'd look at the MS Press book Windows XP Inside and Out Deluxe Edition: http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/7109.asp
For example, it wouldn't be too hard to write a DirectX driver for a virtual display device that simply passes every frame it sees into a filter for recording.
Don't need to, there is a component of DirectX (DirectShow in Particular) called the SampleGrabber. It is used for this exact purpose, to grab sample of media from the stream being played. The sample grabber can grab any decoded video stream. Since someone will have to make a software only player that will need to work with XP and DirectX it will be no problem to use the samplegrabber to rip the video. Audio would be another issue but it could also be "gotten" readily and then it is only up to syncing the two streams.
Honestly, when will people realize that copy protection takes years to develop and usually only takes a day (at most) to crack it. Big waste of time and effort.
Also, the sex offender comment in the article is rather strange. Hell, Washington's sex offender database doesn't even include information on level 1 offenders. Level 1 are considered low risk to reoffend. Not that that really matters, considering IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT HE WAS CHARGED WITH.
It certainly does if, at anytime, his actions online while piggybacking involved children.
Slashdot Mirror
... as brane colisions without requiring a singularity, therefore showing time before the actual "bang"?
info:
Burt Ovrut M-Theory
I'm sure recycling computer parts will help out a LOT.
I'm very concerned about what we bury and how much of it. Landfills are great for organic material but the toxic and non-biodegradable stuff is gonna cause problems for a very long time. Recycling our "stuff" is the right thing to do and it does help a LOT.
Kirk: Sulu! Ramming Speed!
Our species thirsts for knowledge, striving for ever greater understanding of all the facets of the organic and the inorganic, as well as thought and form, including music.
We've progressed by sharing information for thousands of years and that included songs and music for worship, history, mythology, and just plain fun. Anyone who would restrinct that geneticly instilled curiosity, regardless of their claims of "protection" actually does far more harm than good.
Simply put, it's unnatural for us to not share information. Musicians understand it, they (borrow) are influenced by other musicians and their music so why can't the people that represent those same artists get with the program?
... he who shouts loudest ftw.
Never to late to pass on the solution to idiocy.
Honestly, I wish the DRM enthusiasts of the world would get a clue. There is nothing you can try to protect digitally that someone can't break digitally. It's bits of data and there is always a combination of 1 and 0's that will open Pandora's chastity belt.
SOL Macrosystems released a statement today about a cascade error in it's Ox2 processing core... more at 11.
System and method for generating web sites in an arbitrary object framework
Abstract
A system and method for generating computer applications in an arbitrary object framework. The method separates content, form, and function of the computer application so that each may be accessed or modified separately. The method includes creating arbitrary objects, managing the arbitrary objects throughout their life cycle in an object library, and deploying the arbitrary objects in a design framework for use in complex computer applications.
This patent is from Oct 01 1999. XML was introduced in 1996, OOP has been around since 1965, I've had re-usuable code objects in TurboPascal, Basic, C++... yeah pretty much every decent language released in the last 15 years. So WTF?? How can one company say they own USING pre-existing technologies?
... oh yeah, it's for the interwebs! Funny that their patent is the exact time of the dot-com bubble. This smacks of "Hey, lets take something we already have and patent it for use on the net... we can make bank!".
I thought any patent based on prior art was invalid, regardless of where the "new" one is implemented, am I wrong?
How hard is this to prove, anyways, to all the quantum physicists in the house?
Very hard, seeing as at anyone time it both does and doesn't work.
Most coders I know take a lot of pride in their wares. Even if they are not the prettiest programs in the world they are still pieces of art to the developer. As coders we can see (remember that 3D routine posted a while back) beauty in syntax and innovation in approach. It's a shame that end users can't comprehend the sheer amount of work in writing a GOOD program.
With that said however, I think we need, as coders, to take a little more time on design. I usually draw my GUI out in Photoshop Elements, it gives me time to think about positions of sections and controls, how they will interact, etc. This approach does wonders for the design side of my applications and allows me to really get a feel for how it will work before I even write the plumbing.
It also helps to think outside the box, Kai's power tools had the wildest interfaces ever seen when they grazed the Photoshop world. Just because you have a menu bar that can dock anywhere doesn't mean it has to!
just my $0.02
True, DeCSS took it's key from another legitimate software player for windows. AACS has sufficient complexity that brute force may be unrealistic. I can't wait to hear how he found the key.
I can pay $50 for a game that I can play for hundreds and even thousands of hours over years. Most of which I will enjoy... except for "teh h4X0rZ".
or...
I can pay $50 to go see a couple movies at the theatre.
or...
Buy 3 or 4 new CD's, most of which will be shite music anyways.
No brainer!
Like most people I'm getting pretty sick and tired of hearing about "yet another lawsuit" by the Nazis... I mean **AA's.
So it got me to thinking, and hopefully there is someone reading this who knows something about international law and can comment, as to how a US organization can file a lawsuit in US court in the hopes of affecting change in Russia???? Shouldn't they have filled it in Russian court? Or are they so sure they'll lose they can only win by using the "local boys"?
In all seriousness, is there a lawyer around who can comment on this?
This kind of crap really disturbs me because I make my living writing software. Kazaa's legality is not the issue, it's the sueing of a software maker because someone misused the program that has me steamed.
I read of people who use software to do exactly what it was written for, then they sue the software makers because they did something illegal with the program and got caught, or because "it (the program) should have known I was doing bad stuff and stopped me."
If I write a program to admin an SQL server and someone uses it to hack/damage SQL Servers how the fuck can I be liable for it? I can put disclaimers in and still get sued so this could be a very bad precedent.
It's a chip that is designed to have little noise while operating at super high frequencies (~ 200GHz) so that the faint noise of the universe can be properly detected. Cool!
The uses for this, shall I say "ultra low noise", technology could be highly valuable in the sensor and biometrics market. Less noise or interference is always better for any pattern recognition... ok, ok, except in chaos theory.
Still, I'd really like to see something on the software they will use to model the universe's noise data.
If indeed this was an ordered hit than it's likely a message to all the former and current operatives... "Don't rock the boat or else!". Given that many critics of the administration have been killed or had "accidents" it's definitely not far fetched.
Found near the terrorist watercooler:
I used to code the shit out of the C64. I pretty much learned how to write software by assembler and basic code examples typed from magazines. The ones I bought had a CRC system (usually a purely basic program that you could save to disk and run when entering data). The program would output the hex codes and a checksum. Anyone who can recall those days knows what I'm talking about, if you don't then Wikipedia.
So why can't they send this dudes data through that type of system, print it, and then retype it into a PC port? The checksum takes care of the data integrity so no data loss.
To the Cops: Keep It Simple Stupid? Why go straight to emulators? Use his machine against him!
...or at Microsoft.
The Amiga is on the list and I'm glad to see it. The Amiga absolutely blew my mind when I first saw it. I had been stuck in school learning DOS on wimpy 286 machines with 16 colours and a lame pc speaker for audio when I saw an Amiga running Shadow of the Beast and it changed my life.
A couple of years owning an Amiga and a new product comes out called the VideoToaster and that changed broadcasting and desktop video forever.
I was shocked to see the C-64 not on the list however. It took the little crack the Vic-20 had put in Atari's home gaming market and busted it wide open. Most of my friends had one and they almost always used it for gaming.
Anyone else learn programming with a C-64 and a snapshot card?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0789734044/ref=pd _sim_b_4/104-7384389-8873557?ie=UTF8 - Upgrading and Repairing PCs (Scott Mueller)
I had to buy this book for my CS pre-req "Introduction To Computer Technology" course at college. You would be surprised just how invaluable a book like this is for things like POST codes, the base 1MB memory map, peripheral IRQs and addresses, OS boot sequences, etc. If you work (as in tech) with PCs at all you should probably know this stuff.
I honestly can't think of anything that is better than experience, but this book comes very close for PC basics. As for XP specific books, I'd look at the MS Press book Windows XP Inside and Out Deluxe Edition: http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/7109.asp
Leave it to the government to try every single way it can to fuck us over.
It's only as secure as the idiot writing it wants it to be... same as most programming languages.
For example, it wouldn't be too hard to write a DirectX driver for a virtual display device that simply passes every frame it sees into a filter for recording.
Don't need to, there is a component of DirectX (DirectShow in Particular) called the SampleGrabber. It is used for this exact purpose, to grab sample of media from the stream being played. The sample grabber can grab any decoded video stream. Since someone will have to make a software only player that will need to work with XP and DirectX it will be no problem to use the samplegrabber to rip the video. Audio would be another issue but it could also be "gotten" readily and then it is only up to syncing the two streams.
Honestly, when will people realize that copy protection takes years to develop and usually only takes a day (at most) to crack it. Big waste of time and effort.
Also, the sex offender comment in the article is rather strange. Hell, Washington's sex offender database doesn't even include information on level 1 offenders. Level 1 are considered low risk to reoffend. Not that that really matters, considering IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT HE WAS CHARGED WITH.
It certainly does if, at anytime, his actions online while piggybacking involved children.