Here's an idea: have a steamy hot sexy female voice say, to those who aren't allowed X-rated content,
For X-rated content, dial back with your credit card
and continue the call as normally.
On the other hand, I must admit that I do like the idea of gnawing on melons while my new greasemonkey friend works on my gear shift while oiling up before taking a joyride. Nothing like fresh fruit when you're fixing cars with friends.
I must confess, though, that I've always wondered why women are so impressed with my ABS and the size of my drive shaft:-?
3) If activity is "confirmed" then "warning" letter is issued to user.
What if the user contests the evidence? What if a mistake was made identifying the user? Will it entail an expensive legal battle to prove innocence (I thought *guilt* had to be proven)?
The moment they threaten to stop delivering the service your contract entitles you to, sue them for breach of contract.
Yes, it will entail an expensive legal battle, and as I understand law, contract law is a civil matter so you need the evidence to lean in your favor. If there's no admissible evidence at all from the ISP side, and you can show the letter from the ISP, I think you'd win. Standard rules for custody of evidence applies.
Courts have in the past accepted log files as evidence. I tried to petition them to also accept forged signatures, but they wouldn't listen to me.
You could always send them a POST request to their "contact us" page, explaining them about the problem.
They are likely to believe that you are sending them an email when in fact they're sending themselves an email.
They're also likely to not know the difference between a million datagrams and a ton of data.
Of course the contact us page rejects the address you enter into the address field.
Fortunately, they're competent enough to know that clients can always be trusted, so you can just post your complaint with socat (or netcat, or telnet) to get around their checks which they only did in javascript.
Terms are the things around your pluses and minuses.
Conditions (in my interpretation) are expressions of an integral type inside a conditional statement.
I wouldn't want to handle volatile chemicals or long johns or union jacks if I'm about to get struct bylightning. Happened to me once, a long long time ago.
Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who That it's namin'.
For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'.
Everything just works.
If you stay on the path of the brown side of the force, yes.
If you're like me, and you want a "glitzy tricked out ricer box", you may run into hiccups. For instance, the latest xorg respectfully disrespects my Option settings in xorg.conf, including EmulateWheel. Without it, I have no scroll wheels, only two scroll buttons. [That really sucks dingos kidneys through a straw thinner than a carbon nanotube.]
I've managed to run xinput in my ~/bin/xconfig script to compensate, but my configurations don't live past an unplug/replug event, which is something that happens often enough to annoy me.
In mplayer, if I turn down the volume too quickly (since 8.10) it (pseudo)freezes. All I can make it do is die.
There's no software support for bonding a wireless and a wired network together, except the kernel module. Give bond0 as a `bridge' argument to wpa_supplicant, write a shell script that sets the primary interface of bond0 to eth1 whenever it's not associated. Oh, and yeah, don't use network manager. Trust me, if you deal with any networked file system, set up bonding if you like to move your laptop and don't want crawling wireless speeds when you can be bothered to tether up. See my member success story at linuxquestions.org.
Everything that canonical has worked on making easy to do Just Works. The rest mostly Just Works. A few things require some tinkering.
I'm sad to disappoint you, but this SDL thing you hear about on linux (mostly) isn't the Secure DTMF Layer;)
You'd probably want some kind of authenticity check. Probably an authenticated key agreement, and then using the agreed-upon key to generate some xor pad, except you may want to add modulo $NUM_BUTTONS rather than modulo two. I love counter mode [you can easily precompute the pad without the plaintext, and in parallel], but if you find a library to work for you, just use what it says unless it slows you down too much.
Unless you want to assume that only honest people have access to your telephone wire:p
Next you're going to tell me the desktops come with workspaces, focus-under-mouse, alt-drag window movement and the ability to put any window On Top, right?
Geez, before we look around, windows might catch up with Linux as it was ten years ago!;)
Okay, I'm overly demeaning towards windows here, but seriously: when I first tried Red Hat 6.2 [gnome 1, sawfish, those days], one of the first things that struck me as totally awesome was the GUI. In particular, the window management [although the crux theme is a close runner-up and lingers on my compizzed windows these days]. When I'm compelled to use windows, setting up a 'nixy gui is one of the first things I do.
It's amusing to see the modern Windows versions catch up and implement technical features that you've come to expect from any half-way decent operating system.
Note: I'm not saying that Linux is better than Windows in every way. The obvious aspect where windows wins by a huge margin is third-party cooperation.
But I don't think the old staples are true.
Windows more usable/user-friendly than Linux? When I have to help my mom download an 18 meg attachment and delete the email to free up her space via the phone, she calls it "remote healing" [admitted, it's a web interface and not a windows thing, but I don't think the difference matters].
Software installs easier? When someone packages up the software in a.deb or.installshield archive for you, it's trivially easy. Linux (apt-get on ubuntu and debian) asks you fewer questions, which is nice.
When the software isn't packaged, but you just have a load of.exes and.dlls sitting in./build and the exes want some of the dlls in system32 but they're named the same as the dlls from the stable version which you use during your day-to-day work, and the exes want the rest of the.dlls in $dllopen_library_path,... ugh. On linux, you svn co,./autogen.sh,./configure, make, run. Install some libraries if you don't have them all. It takes some learning, but so does windows. And if you say "but all windows software is packaged", then you are right, and my counterpoint is that it falls under third-party cooperation.
Welcome to the international economy. You trade with our cartel the way we want you to, or not at all. Can't live without importing our food/music/windmills? That must really suck for you then, huh?
I don't mean to troll. But, from Joe the slashdotter's POV, it looks like that sometimes. And the USA has been on the dealing end far often than the receiving end.
Don't wage war on the EU, nor any of its constituent bodies or member nations. Instead, wage it, forcefully, against the international media cartel. You will have many more allies this way.
Otherwise, it'll be nations fighting nations over something the citizens didn't decide. A pointless bloodbath, either figurative or real.
Imagine walking down the street being rick-rolled all the time. Or having to listen to 14-year-old girls' favorite boy band all the time. [the two may be identical]
On the other hand, imagine sneaking up on them from behind and tapping their shoulder while playing the imperial march and the hissing mask noise.
Or, better yet, the music from the murder scene from psycho.
Ogg is a container format, meaning you can stick audio and video data inside ogg files much the same way you can files into a zip file. Except that zip has features to enable corruption detection and ogg has features to enable corruption handling (find next magic number, continue from there). Also, Ogg is streaming friendly, zip puts the data first and all the inode-like data last.
The ogg container format is most typically used with Vorbis sound and Theora video. There's also a Speex audio codec optimized for human voices (as opposed to "all sound").
Similarly, AVI is a container format [AVI = Audio Video Interlace], often storing mpeg data I'm told. Other container formats include Matroska (.mkv).
See wikipedia if you lack something to nerd out over:)
so it makes much more sense to distribute DRM-free MP3s that people can share with their friends and let file sharing work for you through viral marketing.
Cool. So everybody gets the mp3s and burns their own CDs, no one buys from you. How do you make money?
I'd love to be able to download all the music I want for free without breaking the law, but I don't know how my money is going to become the musicians' money, and I don't know how I'll get well-written, well-performed, well-produced music in large enough amounts to satisfy me without my money becoming they money.
We were all designing color output, while the poor VIC-20 guys were still monochrome.
VIC-20 gave their users black and white monitors? They were lucky! We only had black, so we had to guess which characters where showing based on electromagnetic radiation.
If you obey the GPL by not distributing the licensed code, that means the public can't oversee the vote counting process because it isn't being told how it's done or where.
That's kinda' bad. It's bad almost to the point of letting Diebold appoint which ever president they want, meaning you're not a democracy any longer.
Okay, so you might want to do the same procedure for three independent vendors and use the average. That's like letting Hitler, Mussolini and Franco appoint a president of the USA as long as they agree on who to appoint.
The public MUST have oversight. The public MUST have access to descriptions of how the voting process works, end to end. Reasonable governmental effort SHOULD be put into making the process easy to understand and well-known to most people. The process MUST be simple enough that most people can understand it.
Otherwise, the public as a whole can in no way know that the vote counts bears resemblance to the votes cast.
That is, whoever gets to count the votes is the dictator for life. You have lost democracy. Do you want your civil liberties identified? [yn] _
I don't think this threat is real, right now. But the need to defend against it is still there. You don't put a bullet-proof vest on after the bullet has been fired.
it seems fairly widely accepted and that people who regularly view pornography are more likely to be involved in sex-related crimes than people who don't (or that sex-offenders are more likely to have porn than non-sex-offenders, whichever way you want to spin it).
I'll keep the citation-needed tag to myself, and go to the heart of the matter: what's the causality relation here?
Is it that viewing porn makes you commit sexual offenses? Or that something (say, an ultra high sex drive and a lack of restraint) makes you commit sexual offenses and also view porn? Or is it that something causes you to commit sexual offenses, which causes you to look at porn [because you have to escape but are not satisfied].
This means that even if the computer is found to have pornographic content on it of people who are "of age", this still raises a red flag (and IMO rightly so).
It raises a red flag indicating what?
There's an urban legend that wanking blinds you. All boys and men who weren't blind as they entered puberty knows this to be false.
Having porn is very common, I would think.
Without knowing what's causing what, and what the conditional probabilities are, seeing porn doesn't say anything at all about whether there's something worth investigating.
Some terrorists play the piano. Look, this guy has a piano. He's probably a terrorist! Stone him!
Hi. I'm Jay from Diebold HR, hiring manager. I'm intrigued by your ideas, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. I would also like to synergistically leverage your on-demand dynamic 2.0.
It has been shown that intelligence (as measured by an IQ test) correlates in the desirable direction with several components of a good life.
Among those factors are: incarcerations, divorces, income, attained education level and life expectancy.
[It most probably also correlates with specific skills; much of the early work was done by Binet who wanted to predict childrens' performance at various academic disciplines].
I don't remember the definition of correlation exactly, but I'd guess that if almost all criminals have an IQ of 100.1 and there's a few really dumb ones, you can still have negative correlation between crime and IQ, even though most criminals are smart in the sense of having above-average IQ.
I don't think that's what's happening. I think people are dumb, fail at school, fail at high school, fail at McBurger but succeed at crime. At first. That probably contributes a large swath.
I could conceivably have proven you wrong, but I failed. Consider that support of your statement.
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Here's an idea: have a steamy hot sexy female voice say, to those who aren't allowed X-rated content,
For X-rated content, dial back with your credit card
and continue the call as normally.
On the other hand, I must admit that I do like the idea of gnawing on melons while my new greasemonkey friend works on my gear shift while oiling up before taking a joyride. Nothing like fresh fruit when you're fixing cars with friends.
I must confess, though, that I've always wondered why women are so impressed with my ABS and the size of my drive shaft :-?
Maybe they're into Redtube Alert?
3) If activity is "confirmed" then "warning" letter is issued to user.
What if the user contests the evidence?
What if a mistake was made identifying the user?
Will it entail an expensive legal battle to prove innocence (I thought *guilt* had to be proven)?
The moment they threaten to stop delivering the service your contract entitles you to, sue them for breach of contract.
Yes, it will entail an expensive legal battle, and as I understand law, contract law is a civil matter so you need the evidence to lean in your favor. If there's no admissible evidence at all from the ISP side, and you can show the letter from the ISP, I think you'd win. Standard rules for custody of evidence applies.
Courts have in the past accepted log files as evidence. I tried to petition them to also accept forged signatures, but they wouldn't listen to me.
IANAL, TINLA.
You could always send them a POST request to their "contact us" page, explaining them about the problem.
They are likely to believe that you are sending them an email when in fact they're sending themselves an email.
They're also likely to not know the difference between a million datagrams and a ton of data.
Of course the contact us page rejects the address you enter into the address field.
Fortunately, they're competent enough to know that clients can always be trusted, so you can just post your complaint with socat (or netcat, or telnet) to get around their checks which they only did in javascript.
Don't you just love incompetent hackjobs? ;)
So are Terms and Conditions.
Terms are the things around your pluses and minuses.
Conditions (in my interpretation) are expressions of an integral type inside a conditional statement.
I wouldn't want to handle volatile chemicals or long johns or union jacks if I'm about to get struct bylightning. Happened to me once, a long long time ago.
Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.
Everything just works.
If you stay on the path of the brown side of the force, yes.
If you're like me, and you want a "glitzy tricked out ricer box", you may run into hiccups. For instance, the latest xorg respectfully disrespects my Option settings in xorg.conf, including EmulateWheel. Without it, I have no scroll wheels, only two scroll buttons. [That really sucks dingos kidneys through a straw thinner than a carbon nanotube.]
I've managed to run xinput in my ~/bin/xconfig script to compensate, but my configurations don't live past an unplug/replug event, which is something that happens often enough to annoy me.
In mplayer, if I turn down the volume too quickly (since 8.10) it (pseudo)freezes. All I can make it do is die.
There's no software support for bonding a wireless and a wired network together, except the kernel module. Give bond0 as a `bridge' argument to wpa_supplicant, write a shell script that sets the primary interface of bond0 to eth1 whenever it's not associated. Oh, and yeah, don't use network manager. Trust me, if you deal with any networked file system, set up bonding if you like to move your laptop and don't want crawling wireless speeds when you can be bothered to tether up. See my member success story at linuxquestions.org.
Everything that canonical has worked on making easy to do Just Works. The rest mostly Just Works. A few things require some tinkering.
Windows is a different case, of course, since Windows doesn't come with any useful software in the first place.
I disagree strongly. Solitaire is INCREDIBLY useful.
It makes the users not come talk to me.
He's one of Santa's elves.
I don't believe in Santa, but I do believe in an external agent: http://cectic.com/083.html ;)
I'm sad to disappoint you, but this SDL thing you hear about on linux (mostly) isn't the Secure DTMF Layer ;)
You'd probably want some kind of authenticity check. Probably an authenticated key agreement, and then using the agreed-upon key to generate some xor pad, except you may want to add modulo $NUM_BUTTONS rather than modulo two. I love counter mode [you can easily precompute the pad without the plaintext, and in parallel], but if you find a library to work for you, just use what it says unless it slows you down too much.
Unless you want to assume that only honest people have access to your telephone wire :p
Next you're going to tell me the desktops come with workspaces, focus-under-mouse, alt-drag window movement and the ability to put any window On Top, right?
Geez, before we look around, windows might catch up with Linux as it was ten years ago! ;)
Okay, I'm overly demeaning towards windows here, but seriously: when I first tried Red Hat 6.2 [gnome 1, sawfish, those days], one of the first things that struck me as totally awesome was the GUI. In particular, the window management [although the crux theme is a close runner-up and lingers on my compizzed windows these days]. When I'm compelled to use windows, setting up a 'nixy gui is one of the first things I do.
It's amusing to see the modern Windows versions catch up and implement technical features that you've come to expect from any half-way decent operating system.
Note: I'm not saying that Linux is better than Windows in every way. The obvious aspect where windows wins by a huge margin is third-party cooperation.
But I don't think the old staples are true.
Windows more usable/user-friendly than Linux? When I have to help my mom download an 18 meg attachment and delete the email to free up her space via the phone, she calls it "remote healing" [admitted, it's a web interface and not a windows thing, but I don't think the difference matters].
Software installs easier? When someone packages up the software in a .deb or .installshield archive for you, it's trivially easy. Linux (apt-get on ubuntu and debian) asks you fewer questions, which is nice.
When the software isn't packaged, but you just have a load of .exes and .dlls sitting in ./build and the exes want some of the dlls in system32 but they're named the same as the dlls from the stable version which you use during your day-to-day work, and the exes want the rest of the .dlls in $dllopen_library_path, ... ugh. On linux, you svn co, ./autogen.sh, ./configure, make, run. Install some libraries if you don't have them all. It takes some learning, but so does windows. And if you say "but all windows software is packaged", then you are right, and my counterpoint is that it falls under third-party cooperation.
Sorry, I got a little ranty. Hope you liked it :)
Welcome to the international economy. You trade with our cartel the way we want you to, or not at all. Can't live without importing our food/music/windmills? That must really suck for you then, huh?
I don't mean to troll. But, from Joe the slashdotter's POV, it looks like that sometimes. And the USA has been on the dealing end far often than the receiving end.
Don't wage war on the EU, nor any of its constituent bodies or member nations. Instead, wage it, forcefully, against the international media cartel. You will have many more allies this way.
Otherwise, it'll be nations fighting nations over something the citizens didn't decide. A pointless bloodbath, either figurative or real.
Imagine walking down the street being rick-rolled all the time. Or having to listen to 14-year-old girls' favorite boy band all the time. [the two may be identical]
On the other hand, imagine sneaking up on them from behind and tapping their shoulder while playing the imperial march and the hissing mask noise.
Or, better yet, the music from the murder scene from psycho.
12 syllables. "MP3 100% Compatible"
Em Pee Three (3) Hun dirt (2) per scent (2) Come pat bull (3).
That's ten. Wear did you lern gra'ma?
Maybe, just maybe, something not completely open is actually...good?
I send katana warrior. He reeducate infidel!
(http://xkcd.com/225/)
I could download a codec for [.ogg] if I cared
Hi. I'm mister pedantic.
Ogg is a container format, meaning you can stick audio and video data inside ogg files much the same way you can files into a zip file. Except that zip has features to enable corruption detection and ogg has features to enable corruption handling (find next magic number, continue from there). Also, Ogg is streaming friendly, zip puts the data first and all the inode-like data last.
The ogg container format is most typically used with Vorbis sound and Theora video. There's also a Speex audio codec optimized for human voices (as opposed to "all sound").
Similarly, AVI is a container format [AVI = Audio Video Interlace], often storing mpeg data I'm told. Other container formats include Matroska (.mkv).
See wikipedia if you lack something to nerd out over :)
so it makes much more sense to distribute DRM-free MP3s that people can share with their friends and let file sharing work for you through viral marketing.
Cool. So everybody gets the mp3s and burns their own CDs, no one buys from you. How do you make money?
I'd love to be able to download all the music I want for free without breaking the law, but I don't know how my money is going to become the musicians' money, and I don't know how I'll get well-written, well-performed, well-produced music in large enough amounts to satisfy me without my money becoming they money.
"Windows never crashed"?
"Leather Goddesses of Phobos"
That games sounds like it's definitely NSFW. Do the leather goddesses offer... "on-site" services, and what are the rates?
You were thinking it too ;)
We were all designing color output, while the poor VIC-20 guys were still monochrome.
VIC-20 gave their users black and white monitors? They were lucky! We only had black, so we had to guess which characters where showing based on electromagnetic radiation.
1 to 3 = "0. Because you're a hacker" ;)
If you obey the GPL by not distributing the licensed code, that means the public can't oversee the vote counting process because it isn't being told how it's done or where.
That's kinda' bad. It's bad almost to the point of letting Diebold appoint which ever president they want, meaning you're not a democracy any longer.
Okay, so you might want to do the same procedure for three independent vendors and use the average. That's like letting Hitler, Mussolini and Franco appoint a president of the USA as long as they agree on who to appoint.
The public MUST have oversight. The public MUST have access to descriptions of how the voting process works, end to end. Reasonable governmental effort SHOULD be put into making the process easy to understand and well-known to most people. The process MUST be simple enough that most people can understand it.
Otherwise, the public as a whole can in no way know that the vote counts bears resemblance to the votes cast.
That is, whoever gets to count the votes is the dictator for life. You have lost democracy. Do you want your civil liberties identified? [yn] _
I don't think this threat is real, right now. But the need to defend against it is still there. You don't put a bullet-proof vest on after the bullet has been fired.
it seems fairly widely accepted and that people who regularly view pornography are more likely to be involved in sex-related crimes than people who don't (or that sex-offenders are more likely to have porn than non-sex-offenders, whichever way you want to spin it).
I'll keep the citation-needed tag to myself, and go to the heart of the matter: what's the causality relation here?
Is it that viewing porn makes you commit sexual offenses? Or that something (say, an ultra high sex drive and a lack of restraint) makes you commit sexual offenses and also view porn? Or is it that something causes you to commit sexual offenses, which causes you to look at porn [because you have to escape but are not satisfied].
This means that even if the computer is found to have pornographic content on it of people who are "of age", this still raises a red flag (and IMO rightly so).
It raises a red flag indicating what?
There's an urban legend that wanking blinds you. All boys and men who weren't blind as they entered puberty knows this to be false.
Having porn is very common, I would think.
Without knowing what's causing what, and what the conditional probabilities are, seeing porn doesn't say anything at all about whether there's something worth investigating.
Some terrorists play the piano. Look, this guy has a piano. He's probably a terrorist! Stone him!
Hi. I'm Jay from Diebold HR, hiring manager. I'm intrigued by your ideas, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. I would also like to synergistically leverage your on-demand dynamic 2.0.
I watch porn movies with worse scripts than that every day.
Wait, what did I just confess to?
Most criminals are dumb.
It has been shown that intelligence (as measured by an IQ test) correlates in the desirable direction with several components of a good life.
Among those factors are: incarcerations, divorces, income, attained education level and life expectancy.
[It most probably also correlates with specific skills; much of the early work was done by Binet who wanted to predict childrens' performance at various academic disciplines].
I don't remember the definition of correlation exactly, but I'd guess that if almost all criminals have an IQ of 100.1 and there's a few really dumb ones, you can still have negative correlation between crime and IQ, even though most criminals are smart in the sense of having above-average IQ.
I don't think that's what's happening. I think people are dumb, fail at school, fail at high school, fail at McBurger but succeed at crime. At first. That probably contributes a large swath.
I could conceivably have proven you wrong, but I failed. Consider that support of your statement.