Re:Highly redundant distributed filesystem.
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I could see a lot of people interested in a very high capacity distributed filesystem which could make use of hundreds of trojan'd PCs out on the internet to store information which you didn't want found on your own computer. Make it highly redundant, self healing, replicating data as the "servers" go offline to make sure the information remains available. Hell, I could use something like that here at work.
Why don't they post comparative benchmark results with a 16mhz 386 (with a microscope to see them), so we can see how much we moved ahead in the last 10 years?
Oh, great. Let's all switch to CMTP... Voilà, problem solved!
Re:I wonder if they really can make this 'invisibl
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A veteran railroad engineer will have significant hearing loss anyway due to the constant mechanical noise.
You'd be surprised. Nowadays, many roads issue foam ear-plugs that will simply drown-out the sound of the engine, whilst letting you hear a normal conversation.
Heck, with those earplugs, I even slept like a baby in a Pullman that was spotted next to a hump-yard retarder (and those babies scream at 120-140 dB!!!)...
Re:I wonder if they really can make this 'invisibl
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If you are someone who has blasted his music at high volume, you *have* damaged your hearing and that does explain why an MP3 sounds "just as good" as a CD to you. It's as if you were color blind and trying to critique monitors for their suitability in color correction work.
No kidding. The French National Railroads are having a lot of trouble recruiting railroaders. They demand perfect hearing and it turns-out that too many kids blasted their ears with loud music.
It's so bad that whenever a recruit shows up for his medical with a walkman, he's flunked on the spot...
A good way to avoid that would be to FORCE people to have naughty words combinations for passwords, say like FUCK+ASS, PISS+BALLS, SHIT+TITS and whatnot... That way, no one would DARE reveal their passwords...
After reading the article, I guess that the japanese are far more trustworthy than the americans... Exactly 2 years ago, I bought a (japanese) digital camera that offerred a $100 rebate.
In less than 5 weeks, I had a cheque in my mailbox.
Nothing really new, there. Some 40-50 years ago, phone numbers were identified by two or three letters, the first of the name of the exchange (hence the letters besides the digits on phone dials/keypads).
25 years ago, you still saw business signs with phone numbers like "CRescent 3-1712", "GUlliver 2-1687", "LAkeside 7-3882", "OPera 3-2332" or WEllington 2-1428".
And you think that marketers having numbers like "1-800-dev-null" are new, think again: the local transit operator have had for at least 45 years 288-6287 as it's main information phone number. It also nicely transcribes neatly into the easily-remembered "AUTOBUS"...
The beauty of living under a régime of napoleonic civil code instead of the common law is that such a stunt could never be pulled, as every kind of transaction is rigidly codified in law...
You must be one of those scumbags who moderated my original comment as "overrated". I just hope you are erroneously sued by a greedy croporation, just like the filthy sockpuppet you are deserves.
Now, how can some organization can conceivably fuck-up the life of some student? Faced by being unable to lead a normal life, either the student will not have any incentive to work, so he'll be forced upon welfare or criminality, or will have to relocate outside of the US.
Doesn't the US constitution says something about cruel and unusual punishment???
What's the judge's e-mail address??? So we can subscribe him to lots of spam so he can start the trial with a properly unbiased mindset about spammers...
The number of sites on that list is actually less than 423. At least for the ISP I work for, they have to supply the URL and the IP address...and we block by IP.
Why don't you e-mail me the list they gave you, and I'll post it on a website far from the reach of Pennsylvania law???
I don't get it... If I am going to such extremes to AVOID spam, why should the spamemr WANT to go to lenghts to get around it? I obviously am someone who DOES NOT and WILL NOT patronize their products... So why waste the effort?
Couldn't you get around this by transferring some of your own copyrighted livejournal angsty poetry on the same network? If they crack the code to their own music, they're also cracking the code to your bad poetry, and therefore violating the DMCA?
You obviously don't know what the penalty is for snooping on a vogon network...
This is something I have often wondered myself. The MPAA fights DeCSS so aggressively that they succeed in getting people shut down for putting the code on T-Shirts, yet nice and user friendly programs like DVD Decrypter just seem to be left alone.
Can anyone explain this logic to me?
That's because, my friend, DVD Decrypter are based in the UK, well beyond the reach of the MPAA and DMCA.
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Why don't they post comparative benchmark results with a 16mhz 386 (with a microscope to see them), so we can see how much we moved ahead in the last 10 years?
Heck, with those earplugs, I even slept like a baby in a Pullman that was spotted next to a hump-yard retarder (and those babies scream at 120-140 dB!!!)...
Nerdy beyond redemption...
A good way to avoid that would be to FORCE people to have naughty words combinations for passwords, say like FUCK+ASS, PISS+BALLS, SHIT+TITS and whatnot... That way, no one would DARE reveal their passwords...
In less than 5 weeks, I had a cheque in my mailbox.
I thought that Novell didn't exist any more... At least, we don't hear much about them...
25 years ago, you still saw business signs with phone numbers like "CRescent 3-1712", "GUlliver 2-1687", "LAkeside 7-3882", "OPera 3-2332" or WEllington 2-1428".
And you think that marketers having numbers like "1-800-dev-null" are new, think again: the local transit operator have had for at least 45 years 288-6287 as it's main information phone number. It also nicely transcribes neatly into the easily-remembered " AUTOBUS "...
The beauty of living under a régime of napoleonic civil code instead of the common law is that such a stunt could never be pulled, as every kind of transaction is rigidly codified in law...
You must be one of those scumbags who moderated my original comment as "overrated". I just hope you are erroneously sued by a greedy croporation, just like the filthy sockpuppet you are deserves.
Now, how can some organization can conceivably fuck-up the life of some student? Faced by being unable to lead a normal life, either the student will not have any incentive to work, so he'll be forced upon welfare or criminality, or will have to relocate outside of the US.
Doesn't the US constitution says something about cruel and unusual punishment???
What's the judge's e-mail address??? So we can subscribe him to lots of spam so he can start the trial with a properly unbiased mindset about spammers...
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