my school's IT department confused my port scanning with that of a virus and subsequently banned me from the network.
Me too. And this was while I was working in the IT department at said school. The guy over in Networking just laughed and put me back on the network.
Then later I got booted again because Google Desktop was being a little too friendly on the network. It only happened that once, so I guess Google updated the program soon after.
On the topic of open source media applications, does an open source video editor exist? Something in the ballpark functionality of Premier, After Affects, or Final Cut? All I know of is Jahshaka, and that hasn't been maintained properly in forever and a day.
Talk to other Universities, and their staff, faculty, students, and email system administrators, and see what they think. Try and find Universities with similar needs to your's, and see what they like and don't like, and how they think it could be done better. Bring up any questionable issues to the representatives, and see what they have to say.
I work at an IT Help Center at a university, and I see this as a method of infection and scam sales all the time. A whole ton of people install the trial ware that these advertisements push, and I've seen a few even buy the fake antivirus software. We offer virus cleanings, and one quick way to see if a machine is infected during an initial assessment is to see if there is fake antivirus trialware installed.
According to TFA at Wired, SoundExchange's originally proposed rates, which were approved by the Copyright Royalty Board in March, would have to be followed until the next time the CRB meets again, even if SoundExchange and Pandora decide to agree on some different rates before then. With this legislation, that's not the case; they get to agree on rates without the CRB's immediate approval.
When I wrote this up, I somehow thought that the House, the Senate, and the President were the three branches of the US government, instead of Judicial, Legislative, and Executive. I'd written saying that the House and Senate were branches, when they're both part of the Legislative branch. I thank the editor for catching that and modifying my submission a bit to fix it, thus saving my face:)
In the last email, about finding that web site, the sender tells us to search for each possible combination of two words out of a list of 20. That's (20*21)/2=210 possible combinations. Yeah, that's definitely not going to be quick.
Maybe I'll write up a quick Perl script to get the 210 first results from one of those major search engines, and scan through to see...
Yeah, I just lost interest. Not worth it. I must be a fake.
Nope, not spyware. I run occasional scans with several antispyware and antivirus programs, and know what an infected system feels like. Plus, it happens on all the computers in the house at the same time, up to 5, Linux computers included.
If I start up a large, fast upload of some sort, bandwidths for other computers in the house don't get very affected for several minutes, when they're doing browsing and light online gaming. But, then like a trigger was pulled, the bandwidth goes down for all the machines at the same time, and a general moan is heard throughout the house.
I'm not at my parent's house a ton, so I haven't really looked into it much further than this. If anyone else gets something like this, it might be worth it to figure out the internal IP of your cable modem, and see if its html page set displays any logs or status things.
I haven't confirmed this, but I think this is what happens at my parent's house. They have Time Warner Cable's regular Road Runner service. Any time we do any uploading that's more than, say, a small photo album, we get cronked for speed for a good 15 or 20 minutes. It affects both upload and download speed. Ping times get a little laggy as well.
Mozilla is actually working on an extension called Weave that essentially does everything it sounds like GBS did. At least, I know it syncs bookmarks, history, and cookies, and other things. Google Browser Sync did: cookies, saved passwords, bookmarks, history, and tabs and windows. You could have it all be encrypted too, using an encryption key that Google would not know (you had to type it yourself at each computer when setting up).
I've been using it for years now, since it first came out. I've gotten quite dependent on it; this is very sad news for me. Best part was I could be browsing on my desktop, then swing to my laptop and pull up a page I'd visited on the desktop from the laptop's history list. Google Browser Sync seemed to update very frequently, making switching between computers very fluidic.
Well, I guess I'll have to try out some of the alternatives listed here and see if I can find something that lives up.
Is anyone else having trouble reading the second article? The image on the left keeps distracting me, with its pretend turning of ultimate attention attainment.
Also, what about the difference between being innocent of the general spirit of the RIAA's claims, and of the letter of their claims?
We are all probably guilty of the spirit of their claims (we handle their licensed music illegally). If the repercussions of that spirit guilt were minor I wouldn't complain. In fact, there are minor repercussions for not proven guiltiness of the spirit of the claim: Cease and desist order sent to my University, getting my personal computer taken offline for a couple days.
But, when the punishment is hugenormus, I want to be proven guilty of the letter of their claims. And if the RIAA bully's their way everywhere, then I won;t be able to properly defend myself without bringing much woe upon myself.
Are you sure that's it? The article says it's 1,500 pages, long: "The administrator, Hisham Yezza, an acquaintance of Sabir, had been asked by the student to print the 1,500-page document because Sabir could not afford the printing fees." But this one you link to is 28+28+22+17=95 pages long. Maybe the reporter got it wrong, and the student actually wanted to print 16 copies of the document.
I get the home page OK. On there is a link to where the video is: http://newswire.rockefeller.edu/?page=engine&id=763 That page loads too, with the following text where I assume the video would be: "Error! Unable to locate the News Relase you specified."
Actually, the math is easy, if you say 27 characters instead: 26 letters and a space.
If you take the string of symbols and group them into groups of 3, each group has 27 possibilities (3^3=27). I count 114 symbols, which gives us exactly 38 groups, or 38 characters:
Yea, this sounds like standard procedure to me. You post content on a service. Someone else (presumably wrongly) throws the DMCA at the service about your content. Service provider takes down content without investigation (expensive and murky water and many other reasons). You file (presumable rightly) a counter DMCA notice and service provider brings content back up. If the original DMCA thrower doesn't like that, you take it from there.
Also, the threat of account removal sounds like normal fine print to me, with Yahoo! trying to cover most of their bases.
I found an EPA document from September 2002 (linked below) saying that during a 5 year span, a lamp running a CFL which is then thrown in the trash will release less mercury overall into the environment than a lamp running incandescent bulbs for the same time span. This is because the power required to run the incandescent bulbs has the coal power plant outputting a lot more mercury.
Does anyone know if the EPA still says this, or if the number are still believed to be true? If so, wouldn't that destroy this entire article? Unless of course you're worried about 5-ish year's worth of mercury being concentrated in one location. But, the article cites the waste stream, ground water, air, and landfills as the problem location, as well as localized breakage.
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This news reminds me of a recent, funny, and relevant strip from the comic Sheldon: http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/081229.html
Turn the 28 stars into planets and take one away, and you may be close to having a Reality Bomb, a la Doctor Who.
my school's IT department confused my port scanning with that of a virus and subsequently banned me from the network.
Me too. And this was while I was working in the IT department at said school. The guy over in Networking just laughed and put me back on the network.
Then later I got booted again because Google Desktop was being a little too friendly on the network. It only happened that once, so I guess Google updated the program soon after.
The rest will starve.
Until the hungry ones realize the others taste good with ketchup.
Mmm, Soylent Green with red ketchup. It's like a Christmas meal with half your family being the meal.
On the topic of open source media applications, does an open source video editor exist? Something in the ballpark functionality of Premier, After Affects, or Final Cut? All I know of is Jahshaka, and that hasn't been maintained properly in forever and a day.
Talk to other Universities, and their staff, faculty, students, and email system administrators, and see what they think. Try and find Universities with similar needs to your's, and see what they like and don't like, and how they think it could be done better. Bring up any questionable issues to the representatives, and see what they have to say.
I work at an IT Help Center at a university, and I see this as a method of infection and scam sales all the time. A whole ton of people install the trial ware that these advertisements push, and I've seen a few even buy the fake antivirus software. We offer virus cleanings, and one quick way to see if a machine is infected during an initial assessment is to see if there is fake antivirus trialware installed.
According to TFA at Wired, SoundExchange's originally proposed rates, which were approved by the Copyright Royalty Board in March, would have to be followed until the next time the CRB meets again, even if SoundExchange and Pandora decide to agree on some different rates before then. With this legislation, that's not the case; they get to agree on rates without the CRB's immediate approval.
When I wrote this up, I somehow thought that the House, the Senate, and the President were the three branches of the US government, instead of Judicial, Legislative, and Executive. I'd written saying that the House and Senate were branches, when they're both part of the Legislative branch. I thank the editor for catching that and modifying my submission a bit to fix it, thus saving my face :)
In the last email, about finding that web site, the sender tells us to search for each possible combination of two words out of a list of 20. That's (20*21)/2=210 possible combinations. Yeah, that's definitely not going to be quick.
Maybe I'll write up a quick Perl script to get the 210 first results from one of those major search engines, and scan through to see...
Yeah, I just lost interest. Not worth it. I must be a fake.
Nope, not spyware. I run occasional scans with several antispyware and antivirus programs, and know what an infected system feels like. Plus, it happens on all the computers in the house at the same time, up to 5, Linux computers included.
If I start up a large, fast upload of some sort, bandwidths for other computers in the house don't get very affected for several minutes, when they're doing browsing and light online gaming. But, then like a trigger was pulled, the bandwidth goes down for all the machines at the same time, and a general moan is heard throughout the house.
I'm not at my parent's house a ton, so I haven't really looked into it much further than this. If anyone else gets something like this, it might be worth it to figure out the internal IP of your cable modem, and see if its html page set displays any logs or status things.
I haven't confirmed this, but I think this is what happens at my parent's house. They have Time Warner Cable's regular Road Runner service. Any time we do any uploading that's more than, say, a small photo album, we get cronked for speed for a good 15 or 20 minutes. It affects both upload and download speed. Ping times get a little laggy as well.
It's Portland, Oregon, and not Portland, Maine, if you're wondering.
Does this mean that 38% of dial-up users can not upgrade to broadband for one reason or another, even though they want to?
I've been using it for years now, since it first came out. I've gotten quite dependent on it; this is very sad news for me. Best part was I could be browsing on my desktop, then swing to my laptop and pull up a page I'd visited on the desktop from the laptop's history list. Google Browser Sync seemed to update very frequently, making switching between computers very fluidic.
Well, I guess I'll have to try out some of the alternatives listed here and see if I can find something that lives up.
Here's a link to the zoomable explorer mentioned in the summary: http://www.alienearths.org/glimpse/
Is anyone else having trouble reading the second article? The image on the left keeps distracting me, with its pretend turning of ultimate attention attainment.
Also, what about the difference between being innocent of the general spirit of the RIAA's claims, and of the letter of their claims?
We are all probably guilty of the spirit of their claims (we handle their licensed music illegally). If the repercussions of that spirit guilt were minor I wouldn't complain. In fact, there are minor repercussions for not proven guiltiness of the spirit of the claim: Cease and desist order sent to my University, getting my personal computer taken offline for a couple days.
But, when the punishment is hugenormus, I want to be proven guilty of the letter of their claims. And if the RIAA bully's their way everywhere, then I won;t be able to properly defend myself without bringing much woe upon myself.
The top of the site linked to says "... downloaded from http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/trainingmanual.htm", which is US Department of Justice, and which results in 404.
Are you sure that's it? The article says it's 1,500 pages, long: "The administrator, Hisham Yezza, an acquaintance of Sabir, had been asked by the student to print the 1,500-page document because Sabir could not afford the printing fees." But this one you link to is 28+28+22+17=95 pages long. Maybe the reporter got it wrong, and the student actually wanted to print 16 copies of the document.
I get the home page OK. On there is a link to where the video is: http://newswire.rockefeller.edu/?page=engine&id=763 That page loads too, with the following text where I assume the video would be: "Error! Unable to locate the News Relase you specified."
Right. I tried sending my result through a CryptoQuip solver, and it got nothing. Tried it with "Y" and "_" switched, and still nothing.
Actually, the math is easy, if you say 27 characters instead: 26 letters and a space.
..., 332=Z, 333=(space), you get
If you take the string of symbols and group them into groups of 3, each group has 27 possibilities (3^3=27). I count 114 symbols, which gives us exactly 38 groups, or 38 characters:
323 233 331 112 132 333 231 322 123 312 111 331 132 312 233 333 212 123 213 113 311 333 313 331 111 211 333 323 232 211 232 313 331 121 221 133 231 312
If you do a direct mapping of 111=A, 112=B,
XRYBH PWFTAYHTR KFLCS UYAJ XQJQUYDMIPT
Well, that's as far as I can get. Anyone else have any ideas?
Yea, this sounds like standard procedure to me. You post content on a service. Someone else (presumably wrongly) throws the DMCA at the service about your content. Service provider takes down content without investigation (expensive and murky water and many other reasons). You file (presumable rightly) a counter DMCA notice and service provider brings content back up. If the original DMCA thrower doesn't like that, you take it from there.
Also, the threat of account removal sounds like normal fine print to me, with Yahoo! trying to cover most of their bases.
I found an EPA document from September 2002 (linked below) saying that during a 5 year span, a lamp running a CFL which is then thrown in the trash will release less mercury overall into the environment than a lamp running incandescent bulbs for the same time span. This is because the power required to run the incandescent bulbs has the coal power plant outputting a lot more mercury.
Does anyone know if the EPA still says this, or if the number are still believed to be true? If so, wouldn't that destroy this entire article? Unless of course you're worried about 5-ish year's worth of mercury being concentrated in one location. But, the article cites the waste stream, ground water, air, and landfills as the problem location, as well as localized breakage.
The fact sheet can be found at http://www.arlingtonva.us/Departments/Topics/Documents/9662MercuryCFL.pdf