I use nearlyfreespeech. They source domain name purchases through someone else, I forgot the company name already but it's not a GD reseller afaik. Hosting price is really cheap if your site is static or rarely used, since you pay as you go. I run a blog for about $30 a year, but the traffic is pretty light.
So you would have the firewall prevent your browser from connecting to pages that aren't in your whitelist? Because that's how the exploit works, by using the built in browser to contact a webpage and then execute local instructions.
I've been using symbols in my wachovia password since I started using their online banking stuff. And they bought out my local bank nearly a decade ago. Either way, they allow symbols now, but it's wells fargo; so that's working against any security.
The same applies to men on the internet. And every blurred gender in-between. If we were single, attractive, and perfectly sane*, why would we be tech obsessed geeks and nerds. Besides, sanity is over-rated; attractiveness is individually rated, and single . . . well, some couples aren't single but are still available.
Sanity as defined by statistical norms. Since that is, unfortunately, how it is mostly defined.
The difference is what's being advertised. NAD has long said, iirc, that if you are advertising a product than the product must appear unaltered if it appears in the advertisement. So cereal ads, notorious for splashing in a bowl of milk, had to be the same cereal out of a box that would be sold in stores. The milk, bowl, spoons, and everything else could be fake, because those weren't what the advert was for. So, milk got replaced by glue and water, because it has that better shine and texture.
Burger joints claim their ads aren't for the specific burger, but for their store. As long as that's the case, the burger can be fake. Once it's an ad for a specific burger, then it has to be real. But take the best line cook at any of those chains, and give them the instruction to make the burger look nice, and remove the 'have it done in 20 seconds or your fired' alarm, and they can construct a nice burger. But, yeah, the cheese isn't being advertised, so expect plastic.
For make-up, this should have been an open/shut case. They were advertising a product, and faking the results. Advertising law doesn't allow for that, their own regulations don't allow for that. No amount of disclaiming the results should let them get away with that.
Haven't escaped the southern appalacia yet. But I meant lost the accent completely; gone save for when I'm really drunk/stoned. Now I have a very neutral one, sounds British to Americans, and Canadian to British folks. Don't know why it worked, or who I learned a neutral accent from. Probably can blame TV.
I've been speaking in the lowest register I can for years. It started after a bad day in the school choir followed by laryngitis, and I found that speaking with a 'fry' allowed me to speak when every other range was still sore and painful. It also got rid of my horrid Appalachia accent.
Oh well, can't be seen to imitate pop stars, guess I have to speak in my normal range for a while til this fad passes. That should surprise/scare a few people.
Other than a printer that doesn't use ink or ribbon cartridges? That should be the real lead to this story "Dead camera company brings ink-less printer to market, attaches overpriced camera to it to make sure they keep their name."
It could be that/dev/random ran out of entropy, and/dev/urandom just didn't sound good. Since the article is about audio, maybe it just sounds better with certain (not true random) tonal noise. Perhaps it just appears more realistic with Brownian or pinked noise.
Citizens United did not suddenly give corporations the right to run political ads. They had the right to do that before the ruling. All CU challenged was a law that said corporations could not run ads sponsoring a specific candidate withing X days of an election. The courts found that the law acknowledged corporations had a right to free speech every time except withing X days of an election, and told Congress that you can't have it both ways. The law was found to be unconstitutional. Congress could go back and right another law similar to the one CU challenged, and simply deny corporations free speech at all times, or make them subject to the same financial election laws that normal people are. But blame Congress for screwing that one up, not the courts.
Well, the pattern of "highs" and "lows," divorced from interval, is, in fact one of the salient things we hear in music. There was even a dictionary of music themes once in which you looked up (and could find) themes from symphonies, etc. simply by looking up the pattern of ascending and descending notes. I forget how it was encoded, but you could look up, say START-DOWN-DOWN-UP-UP-UP-UP-DOWN-DOWN-DOWN-UP-UP and it would tell you "The Star-Spangled Banner."
If you recall what that dictionary was called, I'd like to know. Also sounds like it could be a fun way to compose, just using a pattern that has been established before and some random number to determine how many steps on the scale to shift each time.
Spectrograph is a word that will help, as that's a picture of the sound made by running the raw audio (usually WAV) through a n-band FFT and representing the data as an image. I remember using some software back in the late 90s that was designed to do the opposite, and creating a few short samples from interesting parts of the Mandelbrot set. I don't remember what software I used, and while the computer I used still works the hard drive has been formatted so many times I doubt any trace of it still exists. But google turns up asperes, which looks to do what you want. AudioPaint looks very similar to what I once used, as it uses the color of the pixels to tweek the left/right panning, allowing for more than just a 2D sound.
What I learned back then was that pretty pictures tended to make very horrible sounds if allowed to play for any long amount of time (more than a second) but that they made really interesting drum samples and sound effects. Uninteresting pictures could sound very beautiful in both the short and longer time ranges.
Outside contributors do not have to have agreed to assign copyright for this to happen. All the outside contributor had to do was assign the company distributing the code a license to distribute in any form they chose. This way, the author of each code snippet still retains copyright and the company doesn't need to worry about the 'fair exchange' side of contract law; but they also can close the source up and stop releasing the Open Source version. The author of each code snippet could, in this specific example, release that bit they wrote under another license, or to another project; assuming that the license to it was not exclusive.
If you submitted code to this project, read the license you agreed to. If you aren't happy that they closed the source code, and have the option to revoke the license (some countries this is implied in all licenses, others it needs to be in the license, find a lawyer to explain), then just send them a letter stating that you are revoking the license for them to use your code under anything other than a FOSS license. Then demand proof that it was removed.
That gets you a polynomial number of flips, but that isn't the difficulty of the algorithm. Between each flip, you need to find the next biggest pancake, which involves comparing the size of pancakes left to each other. Those operations have to be counted when considering the O() notation for the algorithm.
It's not just the OS, I believe. It's the whole kit that takes that long to build. Remember, there are all the debugging tools, the emulator, the virtual machine, the OS, and all the user interface goodies. In the OS you then have drivers for every different HDMI graphics chip that Android supports natively, drivers for the different radios, bluetooth, usb, drivers for the touch screens, sound chip drivers.
How long does it take you to compile the whole linux kernel, not just the few parts you use?
As for your problem with redial, I haven't seen it. I have accidentally redialed several people because the primary bluetooth headset button redials when you tap it twice. Had to learn to turn off the headset, because cats will find blinking blue lights and swat at them, calling all sorts of people in the middle of the night.
I got a rather workable gaming/development laptop (HP) from an office supply store just 3 years ago. It supports a max of 8gigs of ram. Granted, it was the cheapest laptop with a nvidia 9600GTM with a gig of dedicated ram(really, a better mobile graphics chip than most of the 100 and 200 series), which is to say not the cheapest thing on the shelf.
True, I didn't buy it for Android development, and making the trade off for a few extra minutes of wall time versus a whole new computer is worth it in my short run. But I wouldn't presume that it takes a decade old computer to not support more than 8 gigs of ram. Plenty of cheap/lazy motherboard suppliers out there.
At what point is a public knowledge fact, like Mike B0lton went to Slashdot High a piece of information that needs to be kept private? You probably didn't object to being listed in the year book. Or the phone book, for that matter.
Now, a person might reasonably suggest that a privacy law be enacted that would protect them from having a third party, like Facebook, link any information about them without their permission. An "opt-in" law, of sorts. But, that means a few changes to the database structure of something like Facebook, instead of linking all of the known facts to Mr B0lton, just link the name B0lton to a school, workplace, phone company of choice, and possibly address grid reference. I can see the phone call now "Mr Facebook tech, I would like you to remove all information about me, Mike B0lton." "We're sorry, we have no information about an individual with that name. Would you like to provide some other details so we can delete any information others have entered, like a work place, phone number, mother and father's names, where you live, or other details like that?" *click*
Face it, even before the digital age, most of the details they can collect this way are no more than I could collect with a name and home town. Searching yearbooks in your home town (they are at the library), I could find the year you graduated. Graduation gives me age, age lets me narrow the search of public birth records. For those old enough, time of birth and area is enough to get a guess on a social security number (first digits by state and area). Ask around town to find people from your graduating class, and see what rumors they are willing to share, maybe some of them remember you mentioning where you work at the last school reunion. From there, find your current town, and look through public records for land sales to find any property you own (renting makes that harder, but I know your name and some of your social, what about a credit check to see what you've bought lately). Paid taxes? Some of that data is publicly available, so I look around to see what vehicle or property you own. All of this with public information and, save for lying to your former classmates to get them to talk more, without any fraud.
You've never had privacy. I don't like the fact any more than I like these shadow profiles. But face it, some information is just easily available. If a bunch of people who were in the same high school and now have different locations start talking about 'hey, remember Mike B0lton' then it's a good bet they were in school together. Why not add that to an information web?
Of course not! No card carrying libertarian needs some goverment-like HOA to organize their protection. The home owners should be doing this themselves, not being forced into doing it by a clause tied to the deed of their land. I mean, can the home owner choose not to pay protection money, and get different service? If they can't, it's not rabid libertarianism.
I can prove that P and Q are both part of set K. I can prove that Q has some property. I then make a proof that all parts of set K have this property because of something to do with how I proved Q has it. Therefore, I can prove that P has this same property.
Proof by similarity. Not a proper name, really. And not exactly the same as analogies, since analogies don't really work the same as set theory. So I guess we can say, by this proof, we've proven that "analogies set theory" is only approximately true.
If the app accepts you clicking a button as agreeing to their contract, which still has not been thoroughly tested in the courts, then why should they not accept that the party that enforces this 'click to agree' system is agreeing to modifications if they, too, are clicking the correct buttons. Just because it is automated on their end should mean as much as it being automated on the users end. An automated accept of a contract, these EULAs have been trying to convince us, is just as valid as if you had read and understood everything and signed your name to the contract. That detail should work both ways.
Have you read the forms that are required to be signed, by freshmen, at major universities in the USA? Most of those state that anything you do during a class or using university funds can be used by the university. Some go further (mine did) and made sure that the university was assigned copyright to every piece of code I wrote as an undergraduate. For me, they used that copyright as justification to pool all of the projects I turned in and scan next years work for plagiarism. Something they probably could not have done if I held copyright exclusively and did not give permission for them to do so.
As for why they would want or could get copyright, who pays for the grants? Sure, in some technology fields, most of the work is done by the masters or doctorate student. I've seen that in computer science. But in something like biology, where the lab, safety procedures, chemicals, and large equipment are provided by the school, where the undergrads are hired by the school to act as research assistants; it's those projects that I figure the school really does have some work invested into the thesis, probably way more than the doctoral student has paid in tuition.
SETI has been wondering why we don't hear from any other life forms that exist out there, but if there exists some means to send information faster than the speed of light, why would any aliens limit themselves to the EM spectrum? If this proves to be accurate and available as a means to send information FTL, then we may have been looking in the wrong place all this time.
A part of me hopes to throw out all of my physics books, just on the off chance that the universe may not be as quiet as it looks
AOL put local phone numbers in just about every exchange, and went to flat X$ a month fees. Prodigy and Compuserve sure didn't. I know, I lived in backwater middle-of-nowheresville, and an account on CompuServe would have cost me long distance charges along with their per minute or hour charge. Hell, the local phone company didn't have a dial-up ISP until years after AOL had been running a local number. You could lease access on an ISDN, but the cost was way above what most families in a dead coal and rail town could afford. Strangely, Netflix has also provided full DVD and streaming services for a flat rate, to everyone in the USA. I can see the similarity. And the threatening similarity in how AOL imploded.
I'll hazard a guess at why this is. The "content providors", the movie and tv networks, want Netflix to pay per subscriber. Some subscribers never use streaming, so the separation was an attempt at moving some people off of streaming, so that Netflix could point at the streaming subscribers and say "See, this is how many there actually are."
Now, with the STARZ negotiations falling flat, I'd hazard another guess that STARZ insisted that Netflix pay for all subscribers, not just the streaming ones but the dvd only included. Why? Because that would mean Netflix would have to pay more, and the MAFIAA likes money. This step of separating them into separate businesses is pretty much the only step available to Netflix. Once they can say "See, these are the only customers we can negotiate for" then the content providers will have to either agree or raise their price.
I'm actually surprised that it took Netflix this long to separate the businesses. And the process of doing so may mean I keep my account open after the first month at the newer price.
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I use nearlyfreespeech. They source domain name purchases through someone else, I forgot the company name already but it's not a GD reseller afaik. Hosting price is really cheap if your site is static or rarely used, since you pay as you go. I run a blog for about $30 a year, but the traffic is pretty light.
So you would have the firewall prevent your browser from connecting to pages that aren't in your whitelist? Because that's how the exploit works, by using the built in browser to contact a webpage and then execute local instructions.
I've been using symbols in my wachovia password since I started using their online banking stuff. And they bought out my local bank nearly a decade ago. Either way, they allow symbols now, but it's wells fargo; so that's working against any security.
The same applies to men on the internet. And every blurred gender in-between. If we were single, attractive, and perfectly sane*, why would we be tech obsessed geeks and nerds.
Besides, sanity is over-rated; attractiveness is individually rated, and single . . . well, some couples aren't single but are still available.
Sanity as defined by statistical norms. Since that is, unfortunately, how it is mostly defined.
The difference is what's being advertised. NAD has long said, iirc, that if you are advertising a product than the product must appear unaltered if it appears in the advertisement. So cereal ads, notorious for splashing in a bowl of milk, had to be the same cereal out of a box that would be sold in stores. The milk, bowl, spoons, and everything else could be fake, because those weren't what the advert was for. So, milk got replaced by glue and water, because it has that better shine and texture.
Burger joints claim their ads aren't for the specific burger, but for their store. As long as that's the case, the burger can be fake. Once it's an ad for a specific burger, then it has to be real. But take the best line cook at any of those chains, and give them the instruction to make the burger look nice, and remove the 'have it done in 20 seconds or your fired' alarm, and they can construct a nice burger. But, yeah, the cheese isn't being advertised, so expect plastic.
For make-up, this should have been an open/shut case. They were advertising a product, and faking the results. Advertising law doesn't allow for that, their own regulations don't allow for that. No amount of disclaiming the results should let them get away with that.
Haven't escaped the southern appalacia yet. But I meant lost the accent completely; gone save for when I'm really drunk/stoned. Now I have a very neutral one, sounds British to Americans, and Canadian to British folks. Don't know why it worked, or who I learned a neutral accent from. Probably can blame TV.
I've been speaking in the lowest register I can for years. It started after a bad day in the school choir followed by laryngitis, and I found that speaking with a 'fry' allowed me to speak when every other range was still sore and painful. It also got rid of my horrid Appalachia accent.
Oh well, can't be seen to imitate pop stars, guess I have to speak in my normal range for a while til this fad passes. That should surprise/scare a few people.
Other than a printer that doesn't use ink or ribbon cartridges? That should be the real lead to this story "Dead camera company brings ink-less printer to market, attaches overpriced camera to it to make sure they keep their name."
It could be that /dev/random ran out of entropy, and /dev/urandom just didn't sound good. Since the article is about audio, maybe it just sounds better with certain (not true random) tonal noise. Perhaps it just appears more realistic with Brownian or pinked noise.
Citizens United did not suddenly give corporations the right to run political ads. They had the right to do that before the ruling. All CU challenged was a law that said corporations could not run ads sponsoring a specific candidate withing X days of an election. The courts found that the law acknowledged corporations had a right to free speech every time except withing X days of an election, and told Congress that you can't have it both ways. The law was found to be unconstitutional. Congress could go back and right another law similar to the one CU challenged, and simply deny corporations free speech at all times, or make them subject to the same financial election laws that normal people are. But blame Congress for screwing that one up, not the courts.
Well, the pattern of "highs" and "lows," divorced from interval, is, in fact one of the salient things we hear in music. There was even a dictionary of music themes once in which you looked up (and could find) themes from symphonies, etc. simply by looking up the pattern of ascending and descending notes. I forget how it was encoded, but you could look up, say START-DOWN-DOWN-UP-UP-UP-UP-DOWN-DOWN-DOWN-UP-UP and it would tell you "The Star-Spangled Banner."
If you recall what that dictionary was called, I'd like to know. Also sounds like it could be a fun way to compose, just using a pattern that has been established before and some random number to determine how many steps on the scale to shift each time.
Spectrograph is a word that will help, as that's a picture of the sound made by running the raw audio (usually WAV) through a n-band FFT and representing the data as an image. I remember using some software back in the late 90s that was designed to do the opposite, and creating a few short samples from interesting parts of the Mandelbrot set. I don't remember what software I used, and while the computer I used still works the hard drive has been formatted so many times I doubt any trace of it still exists. But google turns up asperes, which looks to do what you want. AudioPaint looks very similar to what I once used, as it uses the color of the pixels to tweek the left/right panning, allowing for more than just a 2D sound.
What I learned back then was that pretty pictures tended to make very horrible sounds if allowed to play for any long amount of time (more than a second) but that they made really interesting drum samples and sound effects. Uninteresting pictures could sound very beautiful in both the short and longer time ranges.
Outside contributors do not have to have agreed to assign copyright for this to happen. All the outside contributor had to do was assign the company distributing the code a license to distribute in any form they chose. This way, the author of each code snippet still retains copyright and the company doesn't need to worry about the 'fair exchange' side of contract law; but they also can close the source up and stop releasing the Open Source version. The author of each code snippet could, in this specific example, release that bit they wrote under another license, or to another project; assuming that the license to it was not exclusive.
If you submitted code to this project, read the license you agreed to. If you aren't happy that they closed the source code, and have the option to revoke the license (some countries this is implied in all licenses, others it needs to be in the license, find a lawyer to explain), then just send them a letter stating that you are revoking the license for them to use your code under anything other than a FOSS license. Then demand proof that it was removed.
That gets you a polynomial number of flips, but that isn't the difficulty of the algorithm. Between each flip, you need to find the next biggest pancake, which involves comparing the size of pancakes left to each other. Those operations have to be counted when considering the O() notation for the algorithm.
It's not just the OS, I believe. It's the whole kit that takes that long to build. Remember, there are all the debugging tools, the emulator, the virtual machine, the OS, and all the user interface goodies. In the OS you then have drivers for every different HDMI graphics chip that Android supports natively, drivers for the different radios, bluetooth, usb, drivers for the touch screens, sound chip drivers.
How long does it take you to compile the whole linux kernel, not just the few parts you use?
As for your problem with redial, I haven't seen it. I have accidentally redialed several people because the primary bluetooth headset button redials when you tap it twice. Had to learn to turn off the headset, because cats will find blinking blue lights and swat at them, calling all sorts of people in the middle of the night.
I got a rather workable gaming/development laptop (HP) from an office supply store just 3 years ago. It supports a max of 8gigs of ram. Granted, it was the cheapest laptop with a nvidia 9600GTM with a gig of dedicated ram(really, a better mobile graphics chip than most of the 100 and 200 series), which is to say not the cheapest thing on the shelf.
True, I didn't buy it for Android development, and making the trade off for a few extra minutes of wall time versus a whole new computer is worth it in my short run. But I wouldn't presume that it takes a decade old computer to not support more than 8 gigs of ram. Plenty of cheap/lazy motherboard suppliers out there.
so you beat up your phone company for providing your name and phone number to the white pages?
At what point is a public knowledge fact, like Mike B0lton went to Slashdot High a piece of information that needs to be kept private? You probably didn't object to being listed in the year book. Or the phone book, for that matter.
Now, a person might reasonably suggest that a privacy law be enacted that would protect them from having a third party, like Facebook, link any information about them without their permission. An "opt-in" law, of sorts. But, that means a few changes to the database structure of something like Facebook, instead of linking all of the known facts to Mr B0lton, just link the name B0lton to a school, workplace, phone company of choice, and possibly address grid reference. I can see the phone call now "Mr Facebook tech, I would like you to remove all information about me, Mike B0lton." "We're sorry, we have no information about an individual with that name. Would you like to provide some other details so we can delete any information others have entered, like a work place, phone number, mother and father's names, where you live, or other details like that?" *click*
Face it, even before the digital age, most of the details they can collect this way are no more than I could collect with a name and home town. Searching yearbooks in your home town (they are at the library), I could find the year you graduated. Graduation gives me age, age lets me narrow the search of public birth records. For those old enough, time of birth and area is enough to get a guess on a social security number (first digits by state and area). Ask around town to find people from your graduating class, and see what rumors they are willing to share, maybe some of them remember you mentioning where you work at the last school reunion. From there, find your current town, and look through public records for land sales to find any property you own (renting makes that harder, but I know your name and some of your social, what about a credit check to see what you've bought lately). Paid taxes? Some of that data is publicly available, so I look around to see what vehicle or property you own. All of this with public information and, save for lying to your former classmates to get them to talk more, without any fraud.
You've never had privacy. I don't like the fact any more than I like these shadow profiles. But face it, some information is just easily available. If a bunch of people who were in the same high school and now have different locations start talking about 'hey, remember Mike B0lton' then it's a good bet they were in school together. Why not add that to an information web?
Of course not! No card carrying libertarian needs some goverment-like HOA to organize their protection. The home owners should be doing this themselves, not being forced into doing it by a clause tied to the deed of their land. I mean, can the home owner choose not to pay protection money, and get different service? If they can't, it's not rabid libertarianism.
I can prove that P and Q are both part of set K. I can prove that Q has some property. I then make a proof that all parts of set K have this property because of something to do with how I proved Q has it. Therefore, I can prove that P has this same property.
Proof by similarity. Not a proper name, really. And not exactly the same as analogies, since analogies don't really work the same as set theory. So I guess we can say, by this proof, we've proven that "analogies set theory" is only approximately true.
If the app accepts you clicking a button as agreeing to their contract, which still has not been thoroughly tested in the courts, then why should they not accept that the party that enforces this 'click to agree' system is agreeing to modifications if they, too, are clicking the correct buttons. Just because it is automated on their end should mean as much as it being automated on the users end. An automated accept of a contract, these EULAs have been trying to convince us, is just as valid as if you had read and understood everything and signed your name to the contract. That detail should work both ways.
Have you read the forms that are required to be signed, by freshmen, at major universities in the USA? Most of those state that anything you do during a class or using university funds can be used by the university. Some go further (mine did) and made sure that the university was assigned copyright to every piece of code I wrote as an undergraduate. For me, they used that copyright as justification to pool all of the projects I turned in and scan next years work for plagiarism. Something they probably could not have done if I held copyright exclusively and did not give permission for them to do so.
As for why they would want or could get copyright, who pays for the grants? Sure, in some technology fields, most of the work is done by the masters or doctorate student. I've seen that in computer science. But in something like biology, where the lab, safety procedures, chemicals, and large equipment are provided by the school, where the undergrads are hired by the school to act as research assistants; it's those projects that I figure the school really does have some work invested into the thesis, probably way more than the doctoral student has paid in tuition.
SETI has been wondering why we don't hear from any other life forms that exist out there, but if there exists some means to send information faster than the speed of light, why would any aliens limit themselves to the EM spectrum? If this proves to be accurate and available as a means to send information FTL, then we may have been looking in the wrong place all this time.
A part of me hopes to throw out all of my physics books, just on the off chance that the universe may not be as quiet as it looks
AOL put local phone numbers in just about every exchange, and went to flat X$ a month fees. Prodigy and Compuserve sure didn't. I know, I lived in backwater middle-of-nowheresville, and an account on CompuServe would have cost me long distance charges along with their per minute or hour charge. Hell, the local phone company didn't have a dial-up ISP until years after AOL had been running a local number. You could lease access on an ISDN, but the cost was way above what most families in a dead coal and rail town could afford. Strangely, Netflix has also provided full DVD and streaming services for a flat rate, to everyone in the USA. I can see the similarity. And the threatening similarity in how AOL imploded.
I'll hazard a guess at why this is. The "content providors", the movie and tv networks, want Netflix to pay per subscriber. Some subscribers never use streaming, so the separation was an attempt at moving some people off of streaming, so that Netflix could point at the streaming subscribers and say "See, this is how many there actually are."
Now, with the STARZ negotiations falling flat, I'd hazard another guess that STARZ insisted that Netflix pay for all subscribers, not just the streaming ones but the dvd only included. Why? Because that would mean Netflix would have to pay more, and the MAFIAA likes money. This step of separating them into separate businesses is pretty much the only step available to Netflix. Once they can say "See, these are the only customers we can negotiate for" then the content providers will have to either agree or raise their price.
I'm actually surprised that it took Netflix this long to separate the businesses. And the process of doing so may mean I keep my account open after the first month at the newer price.