Clarification: Only 3 or 4 devices may transmit at once. That's what I should have said. Obviously, more devices are allowed to exist, as long as they're not all transmitting at the same time. 50 users on one base station browsing the web is probably fine. 50 users on one base station all trying to upload or download massive files is not okay. --
I imagine that the chunk of bandwidth reserved for the AirPort can't be very fat.
Not only is it not very fat, it's astonishingly narrow. IEEE 802.11 devices have a tiny little chunk of the radio spectrum - IIRC, only enough for 3 or 4 802.11 devices to be operating in the same area at the same time. This would be next-to-useless for setting up a neighborhood network, and it would probably bug the hell out of anyone else trying to use an 802.11 device nearby, as you would be effectively jamming them. --
...if you were a) motivated and b) technically inclined enough to do this, would you be using Apple hardware in the first place?
Short answer: Yes.
Longer answer: I don't see why everyone assumes that simply because someone's using Apple hardware, they're not technically capable. Lord knows there are lots of clueless people on both sides of the fence, but there are also lots of intelligent hacker types who just like the way Apple's stuff works. The cases are great for the upgrede-inclined, everything works the first time, every time, and we can run Linux or Virtual PC if there's something we absolutely have to do in another operating system. And that's just the Mac users. Just because you're using an AirPort base doesn't necessarily mean that you use a Mac - AirPort is the cheapest 11 Mbps wireless networking doohickey out there. And it works with all the wireless cards that conform to the spec (which is most of them).
Slashdotters in general don't seem to get the idea that sometimes, once in a while, the best solution to a problem might come from somewhere other than Linus, AMD, or John Carmack. Sometimes Apple hardware is just the best and cheapest way to get a job done.
What in the world are you talking about? IRC is still the best, easiest way to get in touch with people who can help you out with your coding problems (a la #perl), blow your mind (#everything), or just plain entertain you (laugh at all the "hot guys" and "bi chicks" on #teensex). I suppose you think AOL Instant Messenger is better?
This is not to imply that there arent lots of 1337 HaX0Rz and other annoying creatures trolling around on IRC to get their 31337 0-D@y w@R3z. There are. But there's also a lot of golden stuff out there for those who know where to look. Just because you might not have gotten much out of IRC recently doesn't mean the rest of us don't. --
If your issue is "Open source standards" here's a clue, QT is just as closed source.
here's a clue for you: QuickTime is an open standard. Always has been, and I don't see that changing in the immediate future. The Sorenson codec is proprietary, true, but you can always use an open codec with your QuickTime server. --
I think everyone agrees that a license to use the codecs would be an optimal solution. However, there are two stumbling blocks: Apple and Sorensen. Apple has no interest in allowing Sorensen out of their exclusive licensing agreement. Sorensen, for their part, probably has no interest in giving away licenses to their codecs, even if Apple would let them. Why should they give away what other companies would pay big money for?
No, Bruce, the best we can hope for is that Apple and Sorensen will distribute the Sorensen codec in binary form with the next release of QuickTime for Linux. And you know what? I think that's actually reasonably likely. --
If anyone knows of a way to capture the real installation binary (you know, a setup.exe), I'd love to hear about it.
well, i know it can be done on the Mac. It's basically a race condition whereby you duplicate the installation binary before it deletes itself. Check out back issues of Macworld and MacAddict online (I'm not sure what month, but shortly after QT4 came out is a good bet). On the Wintel side, I don't know. The same race condition probably exists; the details of the exploit are almost certainly different. --
wrong. The employees allegedly broke the law by organizing a sick-out (yes, it _is_ illegal). The subpoena existed for the express purpose of finding out whether there was any evidence of an organized sick-out on the employees' computers. If they had owned the computers, the subpoena would still have been granted.
From the article: On Wednesday, Festival announced that Sanity.com.au would have exclusive right to sell and distribute digital copies of songs by its Australian artists for at least three years.
So nobody else can even sell CDs? After all, they are digital... --
You could still see all posts, just drop the filter...
But I agree, a different solution is needed. More mod points, for example. There aren't enough to go around right now.
And I don't see how this would be any different than USENET abuse, in terms of ISPs' AUPs. Most ISPs prohibit spamming, and trolling == spamming. That way, at least the logged in users will be held accountable for their actions. And the AC's can stay at 0, where they don't bother anyone. Good AC posts will be modded up, as always, and bad AC posts can be safely ignored or modded down. I really don't see why the/. crew shouldn't report abuse of/.... --
register.com censors domain names containing certain text strings
I think they all do, man. I'm pretty sure that the words "fuck" "shit" "cock" "ass" and maybe a few others are prohibited from domain names. I also think that's the policy of NSI, not of the registrars. Of course, I could be wrong... --
Hehe.. That's pretty funny. I would assume that there would be some way arround it though.. like promoting intermural women's wrestling and promissing to make it more serious if they ever got the partisipation.
yeah, that would probably be the Right Thing to do. Unfortunately, the ACLU don't care. --
Orginisations like the ACLU have done a realitivly effective job of prohibiting government officials from forcing their beliefs on their citizens.
Organizations like the ACLU have also done a relatively effective job of crippling men's sports programs in college. LEXIS-NEXIS is down right now, so I can't get the citation, but the ACLU managed to turn Title IX into a prohibition on expanding traditionally male sports. E.G. at Dartmouth, there is no varsity wrestling. This is because there was no interest in a women's program, and so the college couldn't just create a men's wrestling program. Same thing with Ultimate, I think.
The ACLU is not the source of all good things. They screw a lot of good people over, too. --
Actually, we already have that - quarks come in red, green, and blue! --
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thats totally inappropriate.
inappropriate, perhaps. But it happens alarmingly often. And the shitty thing is, people listen to the damn teacher. And doctors give ritalin to kids whose parents are convinced the kid has ADD, just like they give antibiotics to people with viral diseases. All of which shouldn't happen, but does. --
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Bullshit.
Whoa there, cowboy. The man is right (for about 90 percent of kids diagnosed with ADD). I would suggest getting your hands on Real Boys. It's part sociology, part parenting manual, but the author has a lot to say about the teachers who call a kid ADD at the drop of a hat, rather than talking to him (they're usually boys) and finding out why he doesn't feel the need to sit still and lower his voice. I should know - I was "diagnosed" with ADD once upon a time by an idiot teacher. Just because I didn't want to sit and do place value practice (523 = 500 + 20 + 3) when I could be productively taking square roots or solving systems of linear equations. 90 percent of the time, all a so-called "ADD" kid needs is more attention, someone to figure out what he needs and isn't getting. --
Xerox has a never-ending battle to avoid having their company name become a generic word
IIRC, FDX (The parent company of Federal Express) had exactly the same problem - people started using "FedEx" to mean overnight delivery ("Hey, could you FedEx that to me, via UPS?"). The thing is, FDX actually _did_ lose their trademark, IIRC. "FedEx" is no longer a trademark of FDX. I think. --
I'm very curious about what part of DMCA makes it illegal to own or create the tools needed to create and distribute a DVD. If you can find any such language that makes it illegal, then I suspect it is going to apply to DVD CCA just as much as it applies to you.
Nope. It's illegal for anyone who didn't buy a CSS license from the CCA to produce a CSS-encrypted disc. The CCA owns CSS, so it doesn't apply to them. --
That, in my mind, was the last legal hurdle-- proving that the Beam-It software took legitimate measures against piracy.
Uh-uh. MP3.com is still redistributing copyrighted material without the consent of the copyright owners. Even if they do have cryptographically strong verification of ownership, they do not have the right to redistribute those songs! I hate it, it sucks, but that's the way copyright law is written. The laws need to get fixed, but until they do, MP3.com is still violating copyright! --
About the only real use for this stuff by the average person is games, and PCs are better for games then macs (TNT2 || GeForce Vs ATI)
Now, I haven't looked specifically, but I bet some enterprising individual has hacked together a Mac driver for the GeForce. And you're forgetting Voodoo3 (which is supposed to be damn good). Now, as for the only real use of AltiVec being games... well, Photoshop, for example, uses vector processing heavily. So do the video-editing tools that ship with the iMac DV. Apple is just trying to bring the sort of power that's traditionally been in the hands of professional video editors to the general public. This is a Good Thing.
Plus, this is maybe going to sound like flamebait, but I, personally, wouldn't be caught dead running Windows, and I'm not yet comfortable running exclusively Linux. Maybe things will change, maybe not. But the point is, some people are willing to pay the premium for an OS that just feels really slick. Count me among them! --
IANAL, but I believe that now software companies can just establish an office in Virginia and claim that their shrinkwrap licenses are covered by Virginia state law. They can do this anywhere in the US. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as long as one state passes UCITA, we're screwed. --
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Clarification: Only 3 or 4 devices may transmit at once. That's what I should have said. Obviously, more devices are allowed to exist, as long as they're not all transmitting at the same time. 50 users on one base station browsing the web is probably fine. 50 users on one base station all trying to upload or download massive files is not okay.
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Not only is it not very fat, it's astonishingly narrow. IEEE 802.11 devices have a tiny little chunk of the radio spectrum - IIRC, only enough for 3 or 4 802.11 devices to be operating in the same area at the same time. This would be next-to-useless for setting up a neighborhood network, and it would probably bug the hell out of anyone else trying to use an 802.11 device nearby, as you would be effectively jamming them.
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Short answer: Yes.
Longer answer: I don't see why everyone assumes that simply because someone's using Apple hardware, they're not technically capable. Lord knows there are lots of clueless people on both sides of the fence, but there are also lots of intelligent hacker types who just like the way Apple's stuff works. The cases are great for the upgrede-inclined, everything works the first time, every time, and we can run Linux or Virtual PC if there's something we absolutely have to do in another operating system. And that's just the Mac users. Just because you're using an AirPort base doesn't necessarily mean that you use a Mac - AirPort is the cheapest 11 Mbps wireless networking doohickey out there. And it works with all the wireless cards that conform to the spec (which is most of them).
Slashdotters in general don't seem to get the idea that sometimes, once in a while, the best solution to a problem might come from somewhere other than Linus, AMD, or John Carmack. Sometimes Apple hardware is just the best and cheapest way to get a job done.
Or did I just get trolled?
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This is not to imply that there arent lots of 1337 HaX0Rz and other annoying creatures trolling around on IRC to get their 31337 0-D@y w@R3z. There are. But there's also a lot of golden stuff out there for those who know where to look. Just because you might not have gotten much out of IRC recently doesn't mean the rest of us don't.
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here's a clue for you: QuickTime is an open standard. Always has been, and I don't see that changing in the immediate future. The Sorenson codec is proprietary, true, but you can always use an open codec with your QuickTime server.
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No, Bruce, the best we can hope for is that Apple and Sorensen will distribute the Sorensen codec in binary form with the next release of QuickTime for Linux. And you know what? I think that's actually reasonably likely.
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well, i know it can be done on the Mac. It's basically a race condition whereby you duplicate the installation binary before it deletes itself. Check out back issues of Macworld and MacAddict online (I'm not sure what month, but shortly after QT4 came out is a good bet). On the Wintel side, I don't know. The same race condition probably exists; the details of the exploit are almost certainly different.
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d00d, the DOD already has their own 1337 global satellite net. they 0wn j00.
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Iridium is a satellite telephone network. Worldwide service, very expensive.
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wrong. The employees allegedly broke the law by organizing a sick-out (yes, it _is_ illegal). The subpoena existed for the express purpose of finding out whether there was any evidence of an organized sick-out on the employees' computers. If they had owned the computers, the subpoena would still have been granted.
did I just get trolled?
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On Wednesday, Festival announced that Sanity.com.au would have exclusive right to sell and distribute digital copies of songs by its Australian artists for at least three years.
So nobody else can even sell CDs? After all, they are digital...
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But I agree, a different solution is needed. More mod points, for example. There aren't enough to go around right now.
And I don't see how this would be any different than USENET abuse, in terms of ISPs' AUPs. Most ISPs prohibit spamming, and trolling == spamming. That way, at least the logged in users will be held accountable for their actions. And the AC's can stay at 0, where they don't bother anyone. Good AC posts will be modded up, as always, and bad AC posts can be safely ignored or modded down. I really don't see why the /. crew shouldn't report abuse of /....
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Yes, that's nice. But people who were using Linux wouldn't have been affected by the ActiveX control anyway. So it's irrelevant.
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I think they all do, man. I'm pretty sure that the words "fuck" "shit" "cock" "ass" and maybe a few others are prohibited from domain names. I also think that's the policy of NSI, not of the registrars. Of course, I could be wrong...
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yeah, that would probably be the Right Thing to do. Unfortunately, the ACLU don't care.
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Organizations like the ACLU have also done a relatively effective job of crippling men's sports programs in college. LEXIS-NEXIS is down right now, so I can't get the citation, but the ACLU managed to turn Title IX into a prohibition on expanding traditionally male sports. E.G. at Dartmouth, there is no varsity wrestling. This is because there was no interest in a women's program, and so the college couldn't just create a men's wrestling program. Same thing with Ultimate, I think.
The ACLU is not the source of all good things. They screw a lot of good people over, too.
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Actually, we already have that - quarks come in red, green, and blue!
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inappropriate, perhaps. But it happens alarmingly often. And the shitty thing is, people listen to the damn teacher. And doctors give ritalin to kids whose parents are convinced the kid has ADD, just like they give antibiotics to people with viral diseases. All of which shouldn't happen, but does.
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Whoa there, cowboy. The man is right (for about 90 percent of kids diagnosed with ADD). I would suggest getting your hands on Real Boys. It's part sociology, part parenting manual, but the author has a lot to say about the teachers who call a kid ADD at the drop of a hat, rather than talking to him (they're usually boys) and finding out why he doesn't feel the need to sit still and lower his voice. I should know - I was "diagnosed" with ADD once upon a time by an idiot teacher. Just because I didn't want to sit and do place value practice (523 = 500 + 20 + 3) when I could be productively taking square roots or solving systems of linear equations. 90 percent of the time, all a so-called "ADD" kid needs is more attention, someone to figure out what he needs and isn't getting.
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No, it's still trade secret until the courts say otherwise. The CCA's lawsuit in California is still pending...
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IIRC, FDX (The parent company of Federal Express) had exactly the same problem - people started using "FedEx" to mean overnight delivery ("Hey, could you FedEx that to me, via UPS?"). The thing is, FDX actually _did_ lose their trademark, IIRC. "FedEx" is no longer a trademark of FDX. I think.
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Nope. It's illegal for anyone who didn't buy a CSS license from the CCA to produce a CSS-encrypted disc. The CCA owns CSS, so it doesn't apply to them.
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Uh-uh. MP3.com is still redistributing copyrighted material without the consent of the copyright owners. Even if they do have cryptographically strong verification of ownership, they do not have the right to redistribute those songs! I hate it, it sucks, but that's the way copyright law is written. The laws need to get fixed, but until they do, MP3.com is still violating copyright!
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Now, I haven't looked specifically, but I bet some enterprising individual has hacked together a Mac driver for the GeForce. And you're forgetting Voodoo3 (which is supposed to be damn good). Now, as for the only real use of AltiVec being games... well, Photoshop, for example, uses vector processing heavily. So do the video-editing tools that ship with the iMac DV. Apple is just trying to bring the sort of power that's traditionally been in the hands of professional video editors to the general public. This is a Good Thing.
Plus, this is maybe going to sound like flamebait, but I, personally, wouldn't be caught dead running Windows, and I'm not yet comfortable running exclusively Linux. Maybe things will change, maybe not. But the point is, some people are willing to pay the premium for an OS that just feels really slick. Count me among them!
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IANAL, but I believe that now software companies can just establish an office in Virginia and claim that their shrinkwrap licenses are covered by Virginia state law. They can do this anywhere in the US. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as long as one state passes UCITA, we're screwed.
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