We could make this into an excellent geeky sporting event...
They'll be selling seats at the door for $7.50 apiece, a mascot of a giant padlock covered in binary will roll around the sidelines, and a bunch of cheerleaders will be dancing around cheering... safely behind plexiglass from the geekiest ones.
Next, to sell this to ESPN...
According to the linked article, people are speculating that the "hint" image on the "Upcoming Products" page is just indicating an upcoming "About Psychonauts" page.
(Of course, the tinfoil hat part of it all is that it could be there to gauge interest in a new game)
Jonas begins training under the present Receiver of Memory, an older man whom Jonas calls The Giver. The Giver lives alone in private rooms that are lined with shelves full of books. Jonas' training involves receiving, from The Giver, all of the emotions and memories of experiences that the people in the community chose to give up to attain Sameness and the illusion of social order. The first memory that Jonas receives from The Giver is a sled ride down a snow-covered hill. Jonas has never before experienced going downhill, cold weather, or snow. Eventually, through memories, The Giver teaches Jonas about color, love, war, and pain. Jonas begins to understand the hypocrisy that exists in his community--that is, the illusion that everything in the community is good when in fact it isn't. The people appear to love each other, but they don't really know what love feels like because their lives are a charade; their reactions have been trained. Jonas realizes that people have given up their freedoms to feel and think as individuals, choosing instead to be controlled by others. [cliffsnotes.com]
How hard would it be to adapt speech/voice recognition software to this purpose? Everyone talks about how far along that kind of stuff has come... I know the background noise would present the biggest problem, but I think that there's got to be some software company out there that can tackle it.
For the most part, I'm along with everyone else in the "screw the RIAA" arguments, I'm not sure this case will be such an easy win. I feel that the RIAA will argue that the person is a distributor because when installing 99.9% of P2P programs, there's an option talking about allowing others to download from you, etc etc. Please don't flame, though -- I do support the case and frankly, I'm all for the RIAA getting blown away on this issue.
I also hope that if they try to reword the law to make the word 'distribution' more clear, that someone challenges them if it could even POSSIBLY be retroactive.
"This seems like a Xeros machine kind of case. Technically you have never installed nor accepted VS Express EULA so I'm not sure how you could be violating something you never agreed to" [weblogs.asp.net - "Microsoft vs TestDriven.NET - 31 May 2007"]
This is a very true point -- unless he explicitly installed every Express application and agreed to their specific EULAs, he really isn't breaking any sort of law. I feel like, as with the recent Linux patent fiasco, Microsoft is seriously reaching here to try to prove that any F/OSS, or even non-MS developer is working against them for whatever reason. Also, the fact that MS is making sure they hold all the cards by not disclosing what clause is being violated until several months after their initial claim seems fishy to me. I feel as if them threatening legal action without disclosing something like that could be considered barratery of some sort.
In addition, the fact that all those EULAs include clauses about it being illegal to work around the technical limitations of software is total bull. At that point, we're talking about a very real and terrifying situation... having Secunia and CERN be made illegal simply because they publish vulnerabilities. If this clause held, it means that Microsoft can essentially pull a lawsuit against even people who are trying to help them fix whatever bug is present in their software.
This seems very much like the beginning of the end for MS-- they stoop lower and lower each day, IMHO.
There is an organization, ShadowServer (www.shadowserver.org if I recall right) that specializes in mucking about with Botnets. They'd probably have the right contacts and such to deal with that.
I hope you actually read my full post in which I conclude (and cleanly state): "That's STILL 461MB per person, per day, of assumed legitimate traffic." followed by a multiplication of 30 (that's the number of days in a month) to equal out to 13.5GB per month per person.
In a brief overview of the logs that are kept by a gateway at the local university, it shows that, on a daily basis, 32 members of my dormitory floor download at roughly 700KBps average during the day (that's total for all users). That's about 60,480,000 KB per day. Fifty NINE gigabytes per day.
Divide that by 32.
1,845MB per person, per day. This is a reasonable number for college students.
Let's assume that up to 75% of that is bittorrent, other peer to peer traffic, or what have you. That's STILL 461MB per person, per day, of assumed legitimate traffic. This is AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Web browsing, and other legal Internet services.
461MB * 30 days = 13,837MB or 13.5GB. I rest my case.
Forget putting your own rear end on the line with deploying botnets to DDoS public sites, simply post a link to a large downloadable on a slashdot article and you get a very similar, yet much more legal effect:D
Another great way to hide Pirate Bay... pull the iron curtain over it.
And after that poorly crafted joke,
I'm waiting for the next article to be something along the lines of "RIAA Chairman caught with 65,000 downloaded music albums -- music community in uproar"
I recall some previous stories about better batteries than this that could be about the same amount of eco-friendliness. What's up with all the batteries lately? Automobiles could probably be the most worthwhile reason to invent all of these batteries, but that means that it's incredibly likely that the portable power market will become the next oil market.
This seems a bit reminiscent of AdventNet's OpManager system. I would like to point out right now, though, that OpManager is about 700$ for a decent license that even compares to the kind of coverage you get from Zenoss. I wouldn't compare this app to Webmin so much; webmin controls only local system programs and some minimal enterprise software. This dives into the devices end of things as well, providing a decent number of MIBs. I'm very impressed by how the management console includes inventory on devices. Documentation seems decent, but then again I've been working with enterprise networking and systems management for several years. Even at that, this tool isn't demeaning to those who have prior experience. All and all a great OSS project and I look forward to seeing it continue to improve with time.
If you've got the PC equipment to spare, Skype may not be a bad option.
I recently had to set up a kind of 2-way PA system in a public-use computer lab at the University of Rochester, where I attend school. We had several problems with people doing illicit (I'll leave it at that) things in the lab when the lab staff wasn't around (hey, 'lab staff' consists of 5 students who have lives outside the lab)... I ended up using Skype that was set up to automatically accept connections and start video.
Now things are much better with security, as well. Thank you, sign that says "24/7 Video Surveillance"
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The joke is on it, the cake is a lie.
We could make this into an excellent geeky sporting event... They'll be selling seats at the door for $7.50 apiece, a mascot of a giant padlock covered in binary will roll around the sidelines, and a bunch of cheerleaders will be dancing around cheering... safely behind plexiglass from the geekiest ones. Next, to sell this to ESPN...
According to the linked article, people are speculating that the "hint" image on the "Upcoming Products" page is just indicating an upcoming "About Psychonauts" page.
:(
(Of course, the tinfoil hat part of it all is that it could be there to gauge interest in a new game)
Too bad if not, though
How hard would it be to adapt speech/voice recognition software to this purpose? Everyone talks about how far along that kind of stuff has come... I know the background noise would present the biggest problem, but I think that there's got to be some software company out there that can tackle it.
For the most part, I'm along with everyone else in the "screw the RIAA" arguments, I'm not sure this case will be such an easy win. I feel that the RIAA will argue that the person is a distributor because when installing 99.9% of P2P programs, there's an option talking about allowing others to download from you, etc etc. Please don't flame, though -- I do support the case and frankly, I'm all for the RIAA getting blown away on this issue.
I also hope that if they try to reword the law to make the word 'distribution' more clear, that someone challenges them if it could even POSSIBLY be retroactive.
"This seems like a Xeros machine kind of case. Technically you have never installed nor accepted VS Express EULA so I'm not sure how you could be violating something you never agreed to" [weblogs.asp.net - "Microsoft vs TestDriven.NET - 31 May 2007"]
This is a very true point -- unless he explicitly installed every Express application and agreed to their specific EULAs, he really isn't breaking any sort of law. I feel like, as with the recent Linux patent fiasco, Microsoft is seriously reaching here to try to prove that any F/OSS, or even non-MS developer is working against them for whatever reason. Also, the fact that MS is making sure they hold all the cards by not disclosing what clause is being violated until several months after their initial claim seems fishy to me. I feel as if them threatening legal action without disclosing something like that could be considered barratery of some sort.
In addition, the fact that all those EULAs include clauses about it being illegal to work around the technical limitations of software is total bull. At that point, we're talking about a very real and terrifying situation... having Secunia and CERN be made illegal simply because they publish vulnerabilities. If this clause held, it means that Microsoft can essentially pull a lawsuit against even people who are trying to help them fix whatever bug is present in their software.
This seems very much like the beginning of the end for MS-- they stoop lower and lower each day, IMHO.
"City Morgue: You Kill 'Em, We Chill 'Em!"
Point A: (sends a picture of a ladybug)
Point B: 'Okay... is it an animal, vegetable, or mineral?'
Coder: 'It's an animal'
Point B: 'Is it... red?'
Sounds efficient!
There is an organization, ShadowServer (www.shadowserver.org if I recall right) that specializes in mucking about with Botnets. They'd probably have the right contacts and such to deal with that.
Lern2doMath. 700 is not what I was taking a percentage of, rather the total monthly transfer.
I hope you actually read my full post in which I conclude (and cleanly state): "That's STILL 461MB per person, per day, of assumed legitimate traffic." followed by a multiplication of 30 (that's the number of days in a month) to equal out to 13.5GB per month per person.
In a brief overview of the logs that are kept by a gateway at the local university, it shows that, on a daily basis, 32 members of my dormitory floor download at roughly 700KBps average during the day (that's total for all users). That's about 60,480,000 KB per day. Fifty NINE gigabytes per day. Divide that by 32. 1,845MB per person, per day. This is a reasonable number for college students. Let's assume that up to 75% of that is bittorrent, other peer to peer traffic, or what have you. That's STILL 461MB per person, per day, of assumed legitimate traffic. This is AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Web browsing, and other legal Internet services. 461MB * 30 days = 13,837MB or 13.5GB. I rest my case.
Forget putting your own rear end on the line with deploying botnets to DDoS public sites, simply post a link to a large downloadable on a slashdot article and you get a very similar, yet much more legal effect :D
Another great way to hide Pirate Bay... pull the iron curtain over it. And after that poorly crafted joke, I'm waiting for the next article to be something along the lines of "RIAA Chairman caught with 65,000 downloaded music albums -- music community in uproar"
I recall some previous stories about better batteries than this that could be about the same amount of eco-friendliness. What's up with all the batteries lately? Automobiles could probably be the most worthwhile reason to invent all of these batteries, but that means that it's incredibly likely that the portable power market will become the next oil market.
This seems a bit reminiscent of AdventNet's OpManager system. I would like to point out right now, though, that OpManager is about 700$ for a decent license that even compares to the kind of coverage you get from Zenoss. I wouldn't compare this app to Webmin so much; webmin controls only local system programs and some minimal enterprise software. This dives into the devices end of things as well, providing a decent number of MIBs. I'm very impressed by how the management console includes inventory on devices. Documentation seems decent, but then again I've been working with enterprise networking and systems management for several years. Even at that, this tool isn't demeaning to those who have prior experience. All and all a great OSS project and I look forward to seeing it continue to improve with time.
Move over, Dasani, Poland Spring, and Evian... Here comes Lunar Liquid!
If you've got the PC equipment to spare, Skype may not be a bad option.
... I ended up using Skype that was set up to automatically accept connections and start video.
I recently had to set up a kind of 2-way PA system in a public-use computer lab at the University of Rochester, where I attend school. We had several problems with people doing illicit (I'll leave it at that) things in the lab when the lab staff wasn't around (hey, 'lab staff' consists of 5 students who have lives outside the lab)
Now things are much better with security, as well. Thank you, sign that says "24/7 Video Surveillance"