Someone should mod the parent up. How can an original parody be redundant? I checked with google, and it seems the above lyrics are original. They're good too.
I noticed this a long time ago, when I first started my business. According to economics, there is more demand if you lower your price. But in reality, this is not always the case. In fact, I would go so far as to say that almost as often as it does, price does not affect demand at all.
I've been saying for a long time that someone should package a Linux distro in a box, and sell it for $100. People will buy it. Anybody could do it, developer or not. It is perfectly legal, as long as you follow the license for all of the programs, which can usually be done by including a source CD along with the package. I haven't done it myself because I'm not familiar with retail setup, and would probably just end up spending my money on a business venture that I can't complete.
Red Hat does something similar. They sell their package for $15. They should increase the price.
It's impossible to workaround the Comcast (or should I say Sandvine ) technique by only fixing something on your end . Those forged reset packets are going to both participants in the conversation.
You can't go around modifying everybody else's PCs. Unless you're Microsoft, and you are creating friendly worms. You can only work around the problem on your end. The person on the other end needs to work around the problem too, in a similar way.
The example I linked to provides a workaround for the server side. For the client side, you would have to drop RST packets from all established connections. Keep in mind that with P2P, everybody is both a client and a server. You also have to keep in mind NAT routers. If you are behind a NAT, it will forward the RST packets, but may also take them as a hint that the connection is now closed.
You should be able to work around it by adding something to your iptables. I found this page: http://www.tweak3d.net/forums/tech/possible-fix-comcast-torrent-blocking-28264 which has a simple fix. I haven't tested it myself. It looks like it should work. Their solution is to drop ALL RST packets to your bit torrent port. If the RST was legit, the connection will time out eventually anyway.
Your solution is technically better, but much harder to do. I think it would require patching and compiling a kernel.
1) The padawan referred to in the summary is a padawan from before Anakin became a Sith. This means that the entire cartoon takes place during Episode III, in between the time Anakin became a "full Jedi", and the time he and Palpatine killed all the Jedis.
2) The padawan referred to in the summary is a Sith padawan, from the time Anakin himself was under Palpatine.
3) This cartoon is just not canon to the prequel universe.
I agree that Trend Micro's behavior is bad. However, the only people that will know about this boycott, and the only people who will understand the problem are technical people, and technical people already don't use Trend Micro's products.
Linux suffers from the same vulnerability. You can copy it as many times as you want and it works just as well as the copy from the original developers.
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So, is this unlimited, or "Comcast Unlimited (TM)"?
Yahoo's service has been going downhill for years, and now Microsoft is going to be running things. I can imagine some arbitrary restrictions, or "random" failures, that makes this service not so great. Unlimited bandwidth is nice, but if your pages take 20 seconds to render because the download speed is 128K/s, or if it takes 1 week to upload 100 Gigs, it stops looking so good.
Don't get me wrong, I haven't tried this service, and it sounds great. I just wouldn't give my hopes up.
The previous contract said "I automatically agree to all future contracts." One might ask, "Who would sign such a thing?" The answer is, "Anyone in the U.S.A. who wants broadband, ask well as those who would want various other services."
They still want the income from the people who use P2P. Kicking them means they won't pay any more. Sabotaging their connections means most of them will continue to pay, especially if there is no competition.
It's not quite a dumb form. You have to give them your email address, and I think there is a limit to the number of numbers that can be connected to one email address. However, you could probably manage to script the process. Keep in mind that there are 10 ^ 10 (10 billion) possible 10-digit phone number combinations in the U.S, and probably about a billion or so are active.
When the number is de-activated or moved by the phone company, your name and number and come off the list. I guess the phone company notifies the FTC, or something like that.
See http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt107.shtm for more info. Note that the fucktards at the FTC refer to people as "consumers," despite the fact that a person is probably registering on the Do Not Call list because they aren't consumers.
Everybody knows that pi = 3. It's in the Bible, after all.
Please stop perpetuating this myth. The verse in question:
And he [Hiram on behalf of King Solomon] made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
Whoever wrote this was describing the approximate dimensions of a barrel. It's not a math lesson. If you really want to bash the Bible, try mentioning how it starts with a Beast Tale.
"Let's be very clear," Jean Paoli, Microsoft's senior director of XML technology, told ZDNet. "It has been fostered by a single company--IBM. If it was not for IBM, it would have been business as usual for this standard."
Translation: "We would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for that pesky megacorp!"
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Churn butter is on the list. I guess it just comes that way out of the cow now. Science is amazing.
Someone should mod the parent up. How can an original parody be redundant? I checked with google, and it seems the above lyrics are original. They're good too.
Thanks for the profound knowledge, Einstein.
I noticed this a long time ago, when I first started my business. According to economics, there is more demand if you lower your price. But in reality, this is not always the case. In fact, I would go so far as to say that almost as often as it does, price does not affect demand at all.
I've been saying for a long time that someone should package a Linux distro in a box, and sell it for $100. People will buy it. Anybody could do it, developer or not. It is perfectly legal, as long as you follow the license for all of the programs, which can usually be done by including a source CD along with the package. I haven't done it myself because I'm not familiar with retail setup, and would probably just end up spending my money on a business venture that I can't complete.
Red Hat does something similar. They sell their package for $15. They should increase the price.
Why must we scream at each other? Why can't we all just get along? Let's all go to the YMCA!!
Clearly, this isn't true. It's on slashdot. Everything leaves traces.
You can't go around modifying everybody else's PCs. Unless you're Microsoft, and you are creating friendly worms. You can only work around the problem on your end. The person on the other end needs to work around the problem too, in a similar way.
The example I linked to provides a workaround for the server side. For the client side, you would have to drop RST packets from all established connections. Keep in mind that with P2P, everybody is both a client and a server. You also have to keep in mind NAT routers. If you are behind a NAT, it will forward the RST packets, but may also take them as a hint that the connection is now closed.
You should be able to work around it by adding something to your iptables. I found this page: http://www.tweak3d.net/forums/tech/possible-fix-comcast-torrent-blocking-28264 which has a simple fix. I haven't tested it myself. It looks like it should work. Their solution is to drop ALL RST packets to your bit torrent port. If the RST was legit, the connection will time out eventually anyway.
Your solution is technically better, but much harder to do. I think it would require patching and compiling a kernel.
True. "Cancel or Allow" is certainly a new level of security.
Safety? Probably not from Microsoft. Peace of mind? Depends how gullible the person is.
Could be fiction. Define "complete".
Thanks for the questions. I wanted to take the quiz, but I got an error when I tried to run the file. "bash: cannote execute binary file"
You make that sound like a good thing.
Wow. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. It's like finding out that The Easter Bunny is real. I did not see this one coming.
There are 3 possibilities:
1) The padawan referred to in the summary is a padawan from before Anakin became a Sith. This means that the entire cartoon takes place during Episode III, in between the time Anakin became a "full Jedi", and the time he and Palpatine killed all the Jedis.
2) The padawan referred to in the summary is a Sith padawan, from the time Anakin himself was under Palpatine.
3) This cartoon is just not canon to the prequel universe.
I think he meant to say, "easier."
Wow. Apparently you didn't get the memo. Vaporware is always "going to be released soon." It is the second requirement of vaporware.
I agree that Trend Micro's behavior is bad. However, the only people that will know about this boycott, and the only people who will understand the problem are technical people, and technical people already don't use Trend Micro's products.
I read that article, and it convinced me of nothing. All it says is that meta-data is not perfect, and will not create a utopia. Duh.
Linux suffers from the same vulnerability. You can copy it as many times as you want and it works just as well as the copy from the original developers.
If you are like me, and have absolutely positively no dang fucking clue what the summary is talking about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
According to the Wikipedia history, this concept has been around since at least 2001.
So, is this unlimited, or "Comcast Unlimited (TM)"?
Yahoo's service has been going downhill for years, and now Microsoft is going to be running things. I can imagine some arbitrary restrictions, or "random" failures, that makes this service not so great. Unlimited bandwidth is nice, but if your pages take 20 seconds to render because the download speed is 128K/s, or if it takes 1 week to upload 100 Gigs, it stops looking so good.
Don't get me wrong, I haven't tried this service, and it sounds great. I just wouldn't give my hopes up.
The previous contract said "I automatically agree to all future contracts." One might ask, "Who would sign such a thing?" The answer is, "Anyone in the U.S.A. who wants broadband, ask well as those who would want various other services."
They still want the income from the people who use P2P. Kicking them means they won't pay any more. Sabotaging their connections means most of them will continue to pay, especially if there is no competition.
It's not quite a dumb form. You have to give them your email address, and I think there is a limit to the number of numbers that can be connected to one email address. However, you could probably manage to script the process. Keep in mind that there are 10 ^ 10 (10 billion) possible 10-digit phone number combinations in the U.S, and probably about a billion or so are active.
When the number is de-activated or moved by the phone company, your name and number and come off the list. I guess the phone company notifies the FTC, or something like that.
See http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt107.shtm for more info. Note that the fucktards at the FTC refer to people as "consumers," despite the fact that a person is probably registering on the Do Not Call list because they aren't consumers.
Please stop perpetuating this myth. The verse in question:
And he [Hiram on behalf of King Solomon] made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.Whoever wrote this was describing the approximate dimensions of a barrel. It's not a math lesson. If you really want to bash the Bible, try mentioning how it starts with a Beast Tale.
Translation: "We would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for that pesky megacorp!"
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