I pay for and use my bandwidth. If you start stealing it, you would certainly inconvenience me. You're almost certainly paying a fixed rate for that internet and the amount you pay will be the same regardless of whether I plug into it or not. Neither of the analogies work well because they've each got a point. However, if you don't take a few trivial steps to secure your internet from illicit use, it's a very reasonable assumption for me to make that you're okay with me using it.
I suppose that plugging my A/C into my neighbor's outdoor electrical outlet should be criminalized too? After all, he didn't put a lock-box over it. Honestly, I wouldn't mind if my neighbor used my electrical outlet as long as he wasn't using heavily and constantly. If he didn't have an external plug and were to use mine by plugging in his weedwhacker in once a week, or plugging in the bug zapper when he was outside, I honestly wouldn't give a damn. If electricity were a flat cost (as the internet is), I wouldn't even care if he were to use it constantly and heavily as long as I could still use it when I needed to.
It's a property of hydrogen that it's a superconductor as a solid metal, so what they're doing here is "cheating" and making something that's very close to hydrogen a solid.
No, but I suspect that this will still be a huge breakthrough, because we're generally better at keeping things pressurized than at keeping them cold. We have many, many static, high-pressure system with high reliability, but not that many super-cooled ones because cooling requires active energy expenditures.
You're right, the man who's going to cut off your thumbs is going to accept "I accidentally shredded the piece of paper proving that I did what you said. Oops." Why hasn't everyone threatened by the mob thought of that!
Secret ballots are secret for a reason. People shouldn't be allowed to prove who they voted for, or else they could just sell their vote or be coerced into voting for a candidate.
the US internet will look like Communist China's Except for the cable company not being the government, and therefore divorced from a lot of the other power bases. Oh, and that the blocking likely won't get too far because there's another choice. And that Comcast won't be investigating people and then making them "disappear" because they're dissidents.
Other than that, yeah, the internet will be just like China's. I'm glad someone's finally had the balls to stand up and make an erroneous, inflammatory and completely unique critique of the state of freedom in the US.
So if the FCC says they're a common carrier, that'll remove their motivation for blocking in the first place? I doubt that's the main reason for their blocking, and I also think they're shooting themselves in the foot with this defense. "Common Carrier" is a title most internet companies should be striving for.
These are the stupidest comments that I see. The editors and submitters are nerds, and if they consider it news, then by definition it's news for nerds. Let me go point by point:
You've added nothing to this conversation whatsoever.
AV software is like driving a car with the intention of crashing it all the time, but wearing a seatbelt and thinking everything's OK. I have no intention of crashing my car and I still wear a seatbelt. This is because sometimes the security of my car isn't entirely in my hands.
While in theory a lot of what you say is true, look at what's happened in that generation. We've gone from no spell checker to an integrated spell checker you run when you're done to automatic spell checking with auto complete and auto correct all done in real time. The same for the grammer checker and a url/email address parser. Browsers now use not only html, but css and heavy javascript. Firefox now has the ability to use plugins and tabs.
The problem isn't bad coding, it's that features are inherently slow. To implement real time spell checking requires a lot of processing power, especially if you can type over 5 characters a second. Think about that for a minute. Remember how long spell checking used to take as it went through the document? It used to take 5-10 minutes for a medium sized paper when I was in HS. Now it can spell check the word that I'm typing multiple times per second and get through the document in around 5 seconds while still bundling in more real time functionality.
I remember when a medium quality video on a computer doing nothing else would have long pauses and not be able to play smoothly. Now I can play music while watching a youtube video through a program running inside my browser with no pauses whatsoever, and that's while streaming it online (which also takes processor power). I can watch youtube videos while playing an intensive game on year old hardware with two monitors running through the video card; that's something I couldn't even dream about a few years ago.
The reason that programs appear slow is because they add features that are more processor intensive than they appear to the naked eye. Plugins are extremely inefficient. Real-time spell checking requires looking up in a dictionary multiple times per second with a lot of wasted effort. Going from 800x600 to 1260x1024 is nearly doubling the number of pixels. CSS is very processor intensive. Features have been pushed on so many fronts it's mind boggling.
With the company threatening legal action, why even consider going forward with the investigation? Threats usually come from feeling that what you're threatening is dangerous in some way, so it's highly likely there are security problems to be found. Additionally, the state shouldn't even consider using a company that opposes a comprehensive security evaluation.
Anyone, and I mean anyone, who uses phpBB deserves to be shot. The most likely explanation is that it was an sql injection attack, which would explain why phpBB was the most commonly hit software but there were other compromised apps. The security's always been lax with that software, and if people haven't patched since installing it's going to be worse.
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
-- Carl Sagan Video would require many times more storage than all the rest of the instruments put together and it would have less value overall. If they have all the information that the pilot has, then they can pretty well guess at what the pilot's looking at. On the other hand they could have a video that duplicates a lot of information, brings new information that's less valuable than the old information, and introduces increased cost and complexity.
Also, I really like that quote use it whenever I can.
The RIAA seems to be operating without any regard to the actual laws of the country. Doesn't this bother anyone?...So much for the land of the free Nope, not a single person cares. Oh, yeah, except for a few lawyers in new york and most of the forums on the internet, including this one. But other than the thousands and/or millions those represent, nope, it doesn't bother anyone.
As for being the land of the free, this is a complicated legal process. The RIAA literally can't get the identity of the person that they're investigating without filing against them and then forcing the ISP to turn over the records. As despicable as it is, they're not the ones who created that problem (even if they're exploiting it for all they're worth). In addition, they have the right to defend their property from being abused, so the judges can't just throw these cases out without giving the RIAA a chance to prove what they're doing. To use the cliche, they should get their days in court.
Finally, the tide seems to be turning as more and more judges are punishing them for their abusive actions. MediaSentry is getting slammed from nearly every direction, many colleges are standing up, and court cases are being won. Your comment is dumb in the extreme, and maybe even what I would consider a troll.
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I suppose that plugging my A/C into my neighbor's outdoor electrical outlet should be criminalized too? After all, he didn't put a lock-box over it. Honestly, I wouldn't mind if my neighbor used my electrical outlet as long as he wasn't using heavily and constantly. If he didn't have an external plug and were to use mine by plugging in his weedwhacker in once a week, or plugging in the bug zapper when he was outside, I honestly wouldn't give a damn. If electricity were a flat cost (as the internet is), I wouldn't even care if he were to use it constantly and heavily as long as I could still use it when I needed to.
It's a property of hydrogen that it's a superconductor as a solid metal, so what they're doing here is "cheating" and making something that's very close to hydrogen a solid.
Please specify in future headlines that these are HUMAN MADE robots. I was halfway done loading my shotgun before I realized this mistake.
No, but I suspect that this will still be a huge breakthrough, because we're generally better at keeping things pressurized than at keeping them cold. We have many, many static, high-pressure system with high reliability, but not that many super-cooled ones because cooling requires active energy expenditures.
My opinion is that they had to do some fan service for the first movie, and that these next ones should be able to get away from that.
I agree. I wish they would release a dvd of four new episodes instead of a movie. The old series was as close to perfect as a show gets, IMHO.
You're right, the man who's going to cut off your thumbs is going to accept "I accidentally shredded the piece of paper proving that I did what you said. Oops." Why hasn't everyone threatened by the mob thought of that!
Secret ballots are secret for a reason. People shouldn't be allowed to prove who they voted for, or else they could just sell their vote or be coerced into voting for a candidate.
Other than that, yeah, the internet will be just like China's. I'm glad someone's finally had the balls to stand up and make an erroneous, inflammatory and completely unique critique of the state of freedom in the US.
So if the FCC says they're a common carrier, that'll remove their motivation for blocking in the first place? I doubt that's the main reason for their blocking, and I also think they're shooting themselves in the foot with this defense. "Common Carrier" is a title most internet companies should be striving for.
Comcast: "Hey, FCC, I know that you're generally not wanting to regulate us cable companies, so why not just let us go?"
FCC: "Hmm, any chance of backing that up with a law somewhere?"
Comcast: "How about this one? Just say we're being regulated by 'market forces'."
FCC: "But you're a regulated monopoly! That'll never fly!"
Comcast: "Weren't you going to run for office? Here's a 'donation' to your 'exploratory committee'."
FCC: "Sounds good. The free market wins again!"
- You've added nothing to this conversation whatsoever.
- It's already been dealt with
- This is something that could only happen online: an anonymously-run site hosting anonymous content that's important in today's world
- corporate abuses are of intense interest to anyone with a brain
In summation, your comment, sir, is an immense waste of space and time.While in theory a lot of what you say is true, look at what's happened in that generation. We've gone from no spell checker to an integrated spell checker you run when you're done to automatic spell checking with auto complete and auto correct all done in real time. The same for the grammer checker and a url/email address parser. Browsers now use not only html, but css and heavy javascript. Firefox now has the ability to use plugins and tabs.
The problem isn't bad coding, it's that features are inherently slow. To implement real time spell checking requires a lot of processing power, especially if you can type over 5 characters a second. Think about that for a minute. Remember how long spell checking used to take as it went through the document? It used to take 5-10 minutes for a medium sized paper when I was in HS. Now it can spell check the word that I'm typing multiple times per second and get through the document in around 5 seconds while still bundling in more real time functionality.
I remember when a medium quality video on a computer doing nothing else would have long pauses and not be able to play smoothly. Now I can play music while watching a youtube video through a program running inside my browser with no pauses whatsoever, and that's while streaming it online (which also takes processor power). I can watch youtube videos while playing an intensive game on year old hardware with two monitors running through the video card; that's something I couldn't even dream about a few years ago.
The reason that programs appear slow is because they add features that are more processor intensive than they appear to the naked eye. Plugins are extremely inefficient. Real-time spell checking requires looking up in a dictionary multiple times per second with a lot of wasted effort. Going from 800x600 to 1260x1024 is nearly doubling the number of pixels. CSS is very processor intensive. Features have been pushed on so many fronts it's mind boggling.
With the company threatening legal action, why even consider going forward with the investigation? Threats usually come from feeling that what you're threatening is dangerous in some way, so it's highly likely there are security problems to be found. Additionally, the state shouldn't even consider using a company that opposes a comprehensive security evaluation.
Anyone, and I mean anyone, who uses phpBB deserves to be shot. The most likely explanation is that it was an sql injection attack, which would explain why phpBB was the most commonly hit software but there were other compromised apps. The security's always been lax with that software, and if people haven't patched since installing it's going to be worse.
There's no way that's real.
And the court has to pay licensing fees to use that music. But still, it should be awesome.
Also, I really like that quote use it whenever I can.
No, I mean giving it away for free. "Sharing it with rules and no cost" is a form of giving it away for free.
As for being the land of the free, this is a complicated legal process. The RIAA literally can't get the identity of the person that they're investigating without filing against them and then forcing the ISP to turn over the records. As despicable as it is, they're not the ones who created that problem (even if they're exploiting it for all they're worth). In addition, they have the right to defend their property from being abused, so the judges can't just throw these cases out without giving the RIAA a chance to prove what they're doing. To use the cliche, they should get their days in court.
Finally, the tide seems to be turning as more and more judges are punishing them for their abusive actions. MediaSentry is getting slammed from nearly every direction, many colleges are standing up, and court cases are being won. Your comment is dumb in the extreme, and maybe even what I would consider a troll.
The Rick James excuse, "Cocaine's a powerful drug"