23 years Ago
Some see it as an opportunity
Published on in Public Policy & Politics
The FBI has already started to push its Carnivore strategy again. Now that the nation is properly ‘terrified’, they figure we’re a much easier target for intruding on our rights of privacy. For most ISPs, the FBI was right.
New page settings
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Added customization options. Change color scheme, font and size and use it throughout the site. (See Settings on the right.)
FBI search methods matter of national security
Published on in Public Policy & Politics
The FBI has been granted protection under the Classified Information Procedures Act. They don’t have to explain how a key-logging program was placed onto a private machine.
Check the Register for more information.
Jean Louis Gassèe
Published on in Public Policy & Politics
“I once preached peaceful coexistence with Windows. You may laugh at my expense — I deserve it.”
See also an article on Byte on boot loaders.
Pudding Guy
Published on in Miscellaneous
Think you’re taking advantage of frequent flyer miles? Check this guy out.
DMCA strikes again.
Published on in Technology
The well-known Dutch cryptographer claims to have broken Intel’s DVI (Digital Video Interface) encryption, but won’t publish for fear of being prosecuted under the DMCA as soon as he sets foot on American soil.
Beware constants in ASP (scripting bug)
Published on in Programming
There is a bug in scope resolution in IIS 5.0. When resolving a variable within a member function, precedence is given to a global constant instead of to a member variable of the same name. The problem does not occur with global variables. Paste the following code into a page:
Sample Code
<%
const name = 1
class A
public name
public function get_name
get_name = name
end function
end class
dim a1
set a1 = new A
a1.name = "test"
%>
<%=name%><br>
<%=a1.name%><br>
<%=a1.get_name%><br>
... [More]Urban Terror battle
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New (old) quake battle. malloc and dur in Urban Terror.
Styles available on home page
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Added a style-chooser on the home page. Check out which styles you like. More coming soon…
Fact-checking at CNN
Published on in Public Policy & Politics
From their article titled “AMD allies with Transmeta”
http://cnnfn.cnn.com/2001/05/25/technology/amd_transmeta/
“Most of today’s microprocessors are “32-bit,” which means they process data 32 bits at a time. It also refers to the size of the “pointer,” which determines how much data the processor can address directly. Current 32-bit processors can address 4 gigabytes of data.“
“The industry has been gradually moving toward a 64-bit architecture, which multiplies the amount of data the... [More]
New Quake Battle
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Polling system complete.
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Finished the first version of the polling system.
Peakabooty from the Cult of the Dead Cow
Published on in Technology
More hacktivism from the Cult. This time their software aims to provide private, closed networks untouchable by prying eyes.
The last section ‘Some Truth about Peekabooty’ is the most interesting, I think.
Windows 98 vs. Windows 2000
Published on in Technology
This is a comparison of Windows 98 and Windows 2000 with the GeForce2 GTS (slowest one) and Radeon (both 64MB cards). They tested 8 different games with different engines, including Unreal Tournament, Quake 3 and Serious Sam. Surprise, surprise, Quake and Serious Sam showed 0% change between platforms.
Looks like you can move safely over if you like….
Here’s the main chart:
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1422&p=12
and the whole review:
DMCA takes over the world
Published on in Technology
A (biased) description of a recent meeting of the Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and
Foreign Judgments, discussing globalizing copyright laws.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/15/2138208&mode=nocomment
Christmas 2000 Photo Album
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Added Christmas 2000 pictures to the photo album.
Suck takes on the music industry
Published on in Public Policy & Politics
A look at what ‘big media’ is trying to get away with these days…
http://www.suck.com/daily/2001/05/11/
SDMI − copyrighted music
Published on in Technology
SDMI is the secure digital music initiative. They issued a challenge last year to any comers to crack their protection. Anyone who agreed to enter the contest was bound to secrecy, though and not allowed to reveal any details of how they cracked it, if indeed they could. Once group from Princeton declined because of this proviso and cracked it anyway. Turns out they can now be prosecuted under the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) which purports to disallow reverse-engineering of software... [More]