One reason I go for BT mice over generic USB radio is the fact that BT traffic is encrypted once the devices are paired.
Don't assume that is always so.
The traffic is encrypted if one device requests it and both support it. In the HID spec, keyboards are mandated to support encryption but mice are not. You can generally enforce encryption for all connections but thats not always useful as you must then always pair (allowing remote device authenticated access to your machine:)
Also, for a long time (I think its fixed now, not sure of exact versions), the BlueZ/Linux stack only supported requesting such options on _incoming_ connections so if your computer made the initial connection and the remote device did not request it, the link would not have been encrypted.
Does anybody who dual-boots have a solution for the shared Bluetooth adapter MAC address pairing problem?
Some bluetooth controllers will support storing a set of link keys directly in NVRAM on the device, so you could pair with Vista (ie configure vista to know about the device) and then pair with Linux (configure linux to know about the device) then write the linux key to NVRAM and whenever a connection is made, The OS won't be asked for the key as the device will provide it directly.
I think the hciconfig(8) command can do this if you are using BlueZ/Linux. (For NetBSD/OpenBSD/DragonflyBSD use btkey(1), for FreeBSD use hccontrol(8) - I know nothing about Windows or Mac)
I've used several (CSR, 3com) devices that support this, but the BCM2045B in my current laptop does not
The squeeze for 4th mouse button is neat though. Beats all other 4th mouse button options I've used
I've never configured that, as it seems that as you squeeze the mouse the pointer would move.. is it an issue in practice? (what do you have the squeeze configured to provide?)
I found a guide to disassembling the mouse on the web (you need to prise off the outer ring the first time but the rest of it is fairly easy - I stuck it back on with a dab of silicone and its easy to remove now) and I open it up and clean out the ball compartment. I appreciate that I'm a dirty soap dodger but the amount of gunge needed to clog up the delicate moving parts is not great. The above posters suggestion of alcohol is probably better than Apples suggestion of using a damp cloth which I couldnt get to make any difference.
Its a 10 minute job once you understand the mechanism.
I thought the whole point of the machine is that everything is effectively a one off - the cost per page of printing any book in the database is the same.
Exactly, and what is the difference between 'out of print' and 'in print'? Its only that the publisher chooses to invest some money in printing a bunch of copies and still had them in stock. If they can keep all their books in PDF format and have hardcopies produced as required (either from a distributor or at the bookshop directly), what is the advantage of keeping anything 'in print'? The only advantage is for massively popular titles which are cheaper to print using traditional mass printing techniques..
The IWF block more than "potential child porn" - they've been caught blocking sites critical of the IWF for example. Being an unelected and unaccountable body they refuse to release the contents of the lists though, even to ISPs.
How does the block work then, must all traffic be routed through the IWF server?
Any heroin addict? I bet there are lots that if you showed them two doors, one with $1,000 cash behind it and one with a little bit of heroin behind it, they would take the money and go talk to their everyday dealer.
I don't think that even severe addiction is going to remove the tendency to price shop.
I think you miss the point. This might work that way in a free market, but when you have sicced the cops on the other dealers or plain outright killed them, that heroin addict has nowhere else to go.
Although other options have recently become viable again (MacOS), Microsoft has for years successfully schemed (from their market leader position) to kill off any competition by any means fair or foul. This is part of the rebound, too many people are sick of their shit.
I wonder if a patent system that was locked to development cost (say, you get to recover up to 50 times your development cost and then the patent expires) would be more sane.
I don't think any such scheme would ever work, because companies would end up subcontracting the work out to a wholly owned subsiduary at massive rates and claiming to make a continual loss.
Nice way to play the race card. Something tells me that you won't get modded down though, whereas somebody who used a six letter word starting with 'N' to make the same point already would have been.
Sigh, I confess that my use of "Thats mighty white of you" was sarcastic as it was reflecting the superiority affected by those who might utter the phrase in a heartfelt manner. Equating that with calling somebody a nigger is, I think, rather extreme.
Killing all the dolphins to save a single human life would be ridiculously stupid. There are billions of humans and although its hard to define an exact limit, losing a billion humans in order to retain the genetic diversity (including dolphins) we have on the planet today would not be a bad trade for the future.
Becasue a species must watch out for themselves first.
I'd personally kill every Dolphin myself if it would save a human life.
Thats mighty white of you, though genetic diversity is valuable too. I wonder if you would do anything to help dolphins if they
saved
any
human lives
?
So, I have a fridge I need to get rid of. I know, I could just take it to the town dump (recycling centre now:) and leave it there for free but somebody might see me. I could leave a message on freecycle but I don't want some cheapo fucker having my old fridge for free. I can't be bothered to put an ad in the paper because I'd have to put my number in there and have weirdo's call me up while I'm trying to relax in the bath. Wait, I'll just check out www.flytipping.org.uk they have google maps and everything and I see there is a secluded picnic spot 30 miles away from my house. I can leave it there in the middle of the night nobody will ever know..
No really, thats how these idiots really think:
1. We can get police to arrest them!
2. Take them to court!!
3. Fine them £25!!!
4. ????
5. Profit!!!!
And as I mentioned in a previous post, RAW files have the camera's serial number embedded. Show up with the RAW and your camera bearing the same serial number, and wham bam thank you ma'am, there you go. No doubt about it at all.
Computer data is not fixed though. It would surely be possible to take a high quality jpeg file and construct a realistic RAW file with a given serial number such that, when converted to a jpeg would be bit for bit identical with the original. I'm not aware of any such software and perhaps it would be difficult but thats not always a barrier.. computers are hellish good at data processing, after all.
It might help to keep in mind that while the Russians were more organized and had more power, they were sane. We're not facing mutually assured destruction, but North Korea would be more likely to nuke SOMEONE than the USSR.
You know, back in the cold war days there was a lot of rhetoric about what the russians could do, were likely to do and wanted to do. But it turned out that much of it was fear mongering by the military industrial complex in our own countries that stood to make massive gains selling us weapons to counter that stuff.
As for the license part of RMS' request, that could be solved with GreaseMonkey as well: just get W3C to add a "license=" attribute for the X/HTML script tag, and then get all the web developers to add it. (Oh yeah, and good luck with that!;))
Also, as the scripting runs on my computer they already sent me the source code.
On the gripping hand, I don't have a licence to redistribute that code, using it in my own web pages.. does that matter? I could see that RMS might not like it..
I'm just your average user, not a developer. Intuitively, when something is saved, especially something like a game save, I EXPECT it to be written to the game's fucking application directory.
All the average users (and I'm talking mode rather than mean) I've ever met would be perfectly happy with having game save files cluttering up their desktop just like all the other files they ever saved. Sure, they don't know what those files are and don't even know that 'icons' are representations of 'files' but thats not an issue because when they load the game it finds the saves anyway.
Alas, the bad guys will always want to pay more for the exploit as its more valuable to them. Get this: $10,000 is nothing, they can make millions in profit!
..are invariably ripped off when their work is used, particularly after their death.
I'm not sure how you can rip somebody off when they are dead?
Besides, art has always been evolutionary. An artist will see something and get some ideas then create their own art from that inspiration. Nothing is created from a vacuum.
Why not be a staff writer who gets paid a salary and their work is writing (like most people), rather than how they apparently want to work which is write what they think people want hawk it around the studios earning no money until it is taken up, then doing nothing while the money rolls in....
That works for me, because if you are a staff writer working for a successful show with a limited contract (or as-is), you can of course re-negotiate your contract for higher wages or go work for somebody else with a better deal when your name is well known and you are a rising star.
Also no screenwriters will EVER SHOW ANYBODY THEIR WORK. Why would you shop around a screenplay if the first person who likes it and has 100 million dollars just goes ahead and makes it?
I think you underestimate the ego massaging that people want to get by publishing their work. There are millions of artists who would starve to death if they relied on income from their art but they keep on producing it anyway.
And you can build great sentences, with the same word six times in a row:
"Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fleigen, Fliegen fliegen Fliegen nach." (When flies fly behind flies, flies fly after flies)
Sure, and you can do that in english too:
Wouldn't the sentence "I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and and and and and Chips in my 'Fish and Chips' sign" have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and and, and and and and, and and and and, and and and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?
One pun I've heard bandied about occasionally in the US is "delay no more." It has a passing resemblance to "fuck your mother" in the Toisan dialect of Cantonese. Since the majority of the immigrants to the US were from Toisan or from the Seiyap area, and very few of them spoke English, most of them would automatically assume the Chinese meaning upon hearing the phrase. The pun doesn't work as well with Hong Kong Cantonese though.
I grew up in Hong Kong (aged 7-14, left 1980) and variants of "delay no more" were extremely common. I don't know that I've heard of "Cou Nay Ma" at all..
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Don't assume that is always so.
The traffic is encrypted if one device requests it and both support it. In the HID spec, keyboards are mandated to support encryption but mice are not. You can generally enforce encryption for all connections but thats not always useful as you must then always pair (allowing remote device authenticated access to your machine :)
Also, for a long time (I think its fixed now, not sure of exact versions), the BlueZ/Linux stack only supported requesting such options on _incoming_ connections so if your computer made the initial connection and the remote device did not request it, the link would not have been encrypted.
Some bluetooth controllers will support storing a set of link keys directly in NVRAM on the device, so you could pair with Vista (ie configure vista to know about the device) and then pair with Linux (configure linux to know about the device) then write the linux key to NVRAM and whenever a connection is made, The OS won't be asked for the key as the device will provide it directly.
I think the hciconfig(8) command can do this if you are using BlueZ/Linux. (For NetBSD/OpenBSD/DragonflyBSD use btkey(1), for FreeBSD use hccontrol(8) - I know nothing about Windows or Mac)
I've used several (CSR, 3com) devices that support this, but the BCM2045B in my current laptop does not
I've never configured that, as it seems that as you squeeze the mouse the pointer would move.. is it an issue in practice? (what do you have the squeeze configured to provide?)
I found a guide to disassembling the mouse on the web (you need to prise off the outer ring the first time but the rest of it is fairly easy - I stuck it back on with a dab of silicone and its easy to remove now) and I open it up and clean out the ball compartment. I appreciate that I'm a dirty soap dodger but the amount of gunge needed to clog up the delicate moving parts is not great. The above posters suggestion of alcohol is probably better than Apples suggestion of using a damp cloth which I couldnt get to make any difference.
Its a 10 minute job once you understand the mechanism.
Exactly, and what is the difference between 'out of print' and 'in print'? Its only that the publisher chooses to invest some money in printing a bunch of copies and still had them in stock. If they can keep all their books in PDF format and have hardcopies produced as required (either from a distributor or at the bookshop directly), what is the advantage of keeping anything 'in print'? The only advantage is for massively popular titles which are cheaper to print using traditional mass printing techniques..
How does the block work then, must all traffic be routed through the IWF server?
I think you miss the point. This might work that way in a free market, but when you have sicced the cops on the other dealers or plain outright killed them, that heroin addict has nowhere else to go.
Although other options have recently become viable again (MacOS), Microsoft has for years successfully schemed (from their market leader position) to kill off any competition by any means fair or foul. This is part of the rebound, too many people are sick of their shit.
Sorry, but is that for or against?
I don't think any such scheme would ever work, because companies would end up subcontracting the work out to a wholly owned subsiduary at massive rates and claiming to make a continual loss.
Sigh, I confess that my use of "Thats mighty white of you" was sarcastic as it was reflecting the superiority affected by those who might utter the phrase in a heartfelt manner. Equating that with calling somebody a nigger is, I think, rather extreme.
Killing all the dolphins to save a single human life would be ridiculously stupid. There are billions of humans and although its hard to define an exact limit, losing a billion humans in order to retain the genetic diversity (including dolphins) we have on the planet today would not be a bad trade for the future.
Thats mighty white of you, though genetic diversity is valuable too. I wonder if you would do anything to help dolphins if they saved any human lives ?
thats interesting, but can you point me to the origin of this? my limited google-fu did not find it..
So, I have a fridge I need to get rid of. I know, I could just take it to the town dump (recycling centre now :) and leave it there for free but somebody might see me. I could leave a message on freecycle but I don't want some cheapo fucker having my old fridge for free. I can't be bothered to put an ad in the paper because I'd have to put my number in there and have weirdo's call me up while I'm trying to relax in the bath. Wait, I'll just check out www.flytipping.org.uk they have google maps and everything and I see there is a secluded picnic spot 30 miles away from my house. I can leave it there in the middle of the night nobody will ever know..
No really, thats how these idiots really think:
1. We can get police to arrest them!
2. Take them to court!!
3. Fine them £25!!!
4. ????
5. Profit!!!!
Computer data is not fixed though. It would surely be possible to take a high quality jpeg file and construct a realistic RAW file with a given serial number such that, when converted to a jpeg would be bit for bit identical with the original. I'm not aware of any such software and perhaps it would be difficult but thats not always a barrier.. computers are hellish good at data processing, after all.
You know, back in the cold war days there was a lot of rhetoric about what the russians could do, were likely to do and wanted to do. But it turned out that much of it was fear mongering by the military industrial complex in our own countries that stood to make massive gains selling us weapons to counter that stuff.
Welcome to the new enemy, same as the old one
David Hahn, is that you?
You've heard of a peck of pickled peppers, right? Well, a back of dicks is the same as a bunch of pecks..
Also, as the scripting runs on my computer they already sent me the source code.
On the gripping hand, I don't have a licence to redistribute that code, using it in my own web pages.. does that matter? I could see that RMS might not like it..
All the average users (and I'm talking mode rather than mean) I've ever met would be perfectly happy with having game save files cluttering up their desktop just like all the other files they ever saved. Sure, they don't know what those files are and don't even know that 'icons' are representations of 'files' but thats not an issue because when they load the game it finds the saves anyway.
Alas, the bad guys will always want to pay more for the exploit as its more valuable to them. Get this: $10,000 is nothing, they can make millions in profit!
I'm not sure how you can rip somebody off when they are dead?
Besides, art has always been evolutionary. An artist will see something and get some ideas then create their own art from that inspiration. Nothing is created from a vacuum.
That works for me, because if you are a staff writer working for a successful show with a limited contract (or as-is), you can of course re-negotiate your contract for higher wages or go work for somebody else with a better deal when your name is well known and you are a rising star.
I think you underestimate the ego massaging that people want to get by publishing their work. There are millions of artists who would starve to death if they relied on income from their art but they keep on producing it anyway.
Sure, and you can do that in english too:
Wouldn't the sentence "I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and and and and and Chips in my 'Fish and Chips' sign" have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and and, and and and and, and and and and, and and and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?
I grew up in Hong Kong (aged 7-14, left 1980) and variants of "delay no more" were extremely common. I don't know that I've heard of "Cou Nay Ma" at all..