There's been a fair number of stories recently of people getting in trouble for "stealing" bandwidth from unsecured wireless routers, and not just when using it for illegal purposes. I don't agree with this. I think it should be the owners responsibility to secure their network, but the possibility for legal ramifications exists.
Not saying it's right, but "Afifi said he often travels for business and has two teenage brothers in Egypt whom he supports financially." Frequent traveling along with sending (presumably) large amounts of cash to the middle-east has to raise some red flags.
My wife and I were talking about something similar yesterday: How the only people who can afford hybrids and electrics that save a ton of money on gas are the people who have enough money that the price of gas isn't really hurting them.
That said, correlation definitely does not imply causation here. The price is high because the technology being new. As they find ways to make it more efficient and more easily mass produced, the benefits will get to the point where more middle class people can afford it. We're already seeing that with PV solar to some extent. The fact that it benefits the rich who can afford it more in the short term is a result of that cost of developing new technology, not some kind of monetary caste system in effect to keep the poor down. In fact, the rich people buying the technology now will help pay for the development that gets the price down to where other people can afford it more quickly. So you could actually argue the opposite, that the rich are subsidizing the development of these technologies.
Well, if you do take into account the electric 66 miles is enough to get me to work and back. So my gas mileage would be infinity MPG with that car excepting longer trips. You can't really do an apples to apples comparison.
People use shortened URLs. Why? A big reason is twitter's character limit, and because of stupidly long URLs (the latter of which is easy to get around)
So, twitter has a character limit. Why? Because they designed the system with the same limit as cell phone SMS to make integration with cell phones easier
So, cell phones have an SMS limit... well not so much anymore. A lot of phones have browsers and just use web services like twitter directly, so the limit isn't a problem with them. And out of those that do use SMS, the limit may not be an issue because of the way they can chain multiple SMSs together for ones too large.
Once you get down to the root, it looks like the limit could be removed with minimal disruption to their end users. Which would remove the handcuffs from their users in terms of message length. Which would remove the need for URL shortening services. Which would eliminate a rather large security/annoyance issue.
I don't use twitter (and as I mentioned earlier refuse to click on shortened URLs because I easily get songs stuck in my head...) so I don't care, but the why is always important if you want things to change.
Yes, and Twitter limits the length of the message you can send because of a now mostly defunct cell phone limit on SMS messages. Which I mentioned. So apparently I needed to put two and two together for you.
So people send a URL to a shortening service and receive a shortened URL they can post/send to me, and I can use a GreaseMonkey script that contacts the service and caches results to decode that shortened URL into the original URL they shortened... I understand we're not in the days of memory being measured in KB or 9600 baud modems, but this is retarded. Most phones aren't even bound by a character limit in SMS anymore. If a URL is stupidly long due to variables being sent, it's not hard to shorten a link without a stupid 3rd party service. Is it?
You have to use twitter and be the type of person who clicks on questionable links without regard. This worm sounds like watching Darwinism in action in the digital age.
Headline: "Malware Running On Graphics Cards"
TFS/TFA: "Here's a paper showing that malware on graphics cards is theoretically possible and could possibly evade detection."
If you were trying to sensationalize the headline, you might as well have thrown "won't anyone think of the children!?!?" in there as well.
So now the terrorists will be going for chemical weapons. "Ahmed, if you complete this task you will be rewarded with 72 virgins. And a bunch of pretty infidel women removing their undergarments as a bonus."
Hmmm... yeah that's probably as close an analogy as you're going to get. People paying for CDs but using them for data and people who buy CDs and use them for music they already own are subsidizing downloading music for people who want to do that.
Actually yes. The wording is a little vague, but downloading music to put on an "audio recording medium" is perfectly legal in Canada. We pay levies on blank media, so your definition of free may or may not apply.
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There's been a fair number of stories recently of people getting in trouble for "stealing" bandwidth from unsecured wireless routers, and not just when using it for illegal purposes. I don't agree with this. I think it should be the owners responsibility to secure their network, but the possibility for legal ramifications exists.
Erm... I live in Belleville, about an hour and a half from Toronto.
Not saying it's right, but "Afifi said he often travels for business and has two teenage brothers in Egypt whom he supports financially." Frequent traveling along with sending (presumably) large amounts of cash to the middle-east has to raise some red flags.
I live in Canada. There's apparently a relationship between burrito quality and average yearly temperature.
Uh... ByOhTek was being sarcastic, not ironic. He was saying most of Negropontes predictions ARE vaporous in a sarcastic manner.
You must eat a different kind of large beany burrito than I do, because the end result is usually much more liquid than vapor.
My wife and I were talking about something similar yesterday: How the only people who can afford hybrids and electrics that save a ton of money on gas are the people who have enough money that the price of gas isn't really hurting them.
That said, correlation definitely does not imply causation here. The price is high because the technology being new. As they find ways to make it more efficient and more easily mass produced, the benefits will get to the point where more middle class people can afford it. We're already seeing that with PV solar to some extent. The fact that it benefits the rich who can afford it more in the short term is a result of that cost of developing new technology, not some kind of monetary caste system in effect to keep the poor down. In fact, the rich people buying the technology now will help pay for the development that gets the price down to where other people can afford it more quickly. So you could actually argue the opposite, that the rich are subsidizing the development of these technologies.
I'm sure there were people who said the same thing about investing with big banks rather than smaller credit unions a couple years ago...
Well, if you do take into account the electric 66 miles is enough to get me to work and back. So my gas mileage would be infinity MPG with that car excepting longer trips. You can't really do an apples to apples comparison.
It's a perfectly cromulent word comprising of:
Pre, from the Latin prae meaning before, in front
evasive, meaning tending or seeking to evade
This submission was accepted prevasively to editing it.
s/their/they're
Must... proofread... before... posting...
Farting isn't a good way to get a RIM job?
Dear Aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all
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Once you get down to the root, it looks like the limit could be removed with minimal disruption to their end users. Which would remove the handcuffs from their users in terms of message length. Which would remove the need for URL shortening services. Which would eliminate a rather large security/annoyance issue.
I don't use twitter (and as I mentioned earlier refuse to click on shortened URLs because I easily get songs stuck in my head...) so I don't care, but the why is always important if you want things to change.
Yes, and Twitter limits the length of the message you can send because of a now mostly defunct cell phone limit on SMS messages. Which I mentioned. So apparently I needed to put two and two together for you.
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So people send a URL to a shortening service and receive a shortened URL they can post/send to me, and I can use a GreaseMonkey script that contacts the service and caches results to decode that shortened URL into the original URL they shortened... I understand we're not in the days of memory being measured in KB or 9600 baud modems, but this is retarded. Most phones aren't even bound by a character limit in SMS anymore. If a URL is stupidly long due to variables being sent, it's not hard to shorten a link without a stupid 3rd party service. Is it?
All of them. I don't click on shortened URLs. Nor should anyone who isn't a Rick Astley or Goatse fan.
You have to use twitter and be the type of person who clicks on questionable links without regard. This worm sounds like watching Darwinism in action in the digital age.
Headline: "Malware Running On Graphics Cards"
TFS/TFA: "Here's a paper showing that malware on graphics cards is theoretically possible and could possibly evade detection."
If you were trying to sensationalize the headline, you might as well have thrown "won't anyone think of the children!?!?" in there as well.
Yeah, a BSOD while working on your term paper due to wonky 64-bit drivers really sucks.
Now imagine your machine was controlling part of a launch sequence for the shuttle.
So now the terrorists will be going for chemical weapons. "Ahmed, if you complete this task you will be rewarded with 72 virgins. And a bunch of pretty infidel women removing their undergarments as a bonus."
Hmmm... yeah that's probably as close an analogy as you're going to get. People paying for CDs but using them for data and people who buy CDs and use them for music they already own are subsidizing downloading music for people who want to do that.
Actually yes. The wording is a little vague, but downloading music to put on an "audio recording medium" is perfectly legal in Canada. We pay levies on blank media, so your definition of free may or may not apply.