Actually, this could be used to shoot down the popular "filename says sandman, but is not metallica" arguments. When Metallica told Napster to ban 300K users, it was because of a filename which does not infringe on copyright. Now a band can say, "Hey, not only does it have a suspicious filename, but it follows the pattern of our hit song exactly.
This is cool technology though...maybe someday we will be able to prove for certain that Vanilla Ice did use David Bowie and Queen's 'Under Pressure' in 'Ice Ice Baby'. Hmmm
Why is it that when I have moderator access there is nothing worth modding up? Then there is today, I do not have mod access and here is this hilarious post that is only +1 funny!!!
High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Project Homepage here This is a controversial project that might be of what you are talking about. There is a book out about it Angels Don't Play this HAARP by Dr. Nick Begich and Jeane Manning. Pretty good read. Basically states that depending on the frequency that they push up into the sky, they can do some really funky stuff. Good references to some work Tesla has worked on too...
Find a solution that when implemented, will be as cost affective as what it replaced. For instance, don't force everyone to buy a new car which costs two and a half times more than a gasoline powered device and then force them to use a fuel that costs several dollars a gallon and have that same device and fuel get the same mileage as their previous gasoline-powered device.
Hmmm perhaps this Honda might be a solution? Insight == 60-70MPG Cost: ~$20,000 Beats the hell out of all of the Excursions\Expeditions\Suburbans I keep seeing roaming about suburbia!
I sometimes cannot tell the difference anymore. I guess if a company that gets a ton of VC money fails, then it is a con. If the company manages to do something with the VC money then it is a entrepreneral success-story, right? Well, that is the name of the game, isn't it?
My question is how legit is this news lead anyway? I ask because the reporting looks suspect.
I doubt that! Anyway, I do agree with you that Microsoft helped the computer industry in ways that nobody else has. I have been reading these posts though and I really do not see too many that are all "Yippee!". Actually, I see some intelligent posts here that are getting appropriately modded up. What is the stick up your ass about anyway? The general picture I have from reading the preceding posts is that many people are glad that this will not be stuck in appeals for 5+ years. Many people are scared of the precedent that this might set, but they are hopeful. I really do not see what you are bitching about...
Hehe...yup, the airlines would be ticked off! And to think that I made that mistake THREE TIMES in only 2 sentences! I guess spell checkers are not foolproof!;)
Sure, it would have been nice if Jack would have dug a hole for the MPAA but is anyone really suprised by his lack of knowledge and selective memory? I am sure that the MPAA lawyers went over in excruciating detail exactly what Jack would remember and what he would forget if in fact he did know of any relevant information. Additionally, this guy is not a techie. This guy probably does not know what reverse-engineering and fair use entail. I am sure that he does not know how valuable this is to development, and I am sure he does not know what the ramifications to the open source community this lawsuit can lead to.
AFAIK, all Jack knows is that DeCSS==decryption==availability==piracy. It is a whole lot harder trying to track down and prosecute pirates, so why not try to illegalize any tools that can be used to commit the crime!? To them this is damage control, to us it is an invasion on our rights to make decisions. If I can decrypt a DVD to watch it on my Linux box then fine, but I can also chose to convert the unencrypted data to VCD format and upload it onto an FTP server. That is like using a hangar to open the door on my car when I lock the keys in it as opposed to using a hangar to open the door on someone else's car to steal it. I am suprised that automotive insurance companys do not lobby to make hangars illegal all together!
I just pray that the defense proves to the judge that there are legit purposes to DeCSS and that it is not practicle to use it for illegal purposes. The DMCA needs to be re-evaluated!
The syntax is: xx/yy where xx is always the distance that subject can see at. This is normally 20. yy is what distance the 'Normal' can see the same thing as the subject can see.
Examples: 20/20 = Subject can see at 20ft what 'Normal' can see at 20ft. (Normal vision) 20/15 = (Me before chemical burns on cornea) Subject can see at 20ft what 'Normal' can see at only 15ft. (Better than normal) 20/400+ = (Me after chemical burns on cornea) Subject can see at 20ft what 'Normal' can see at 400ft. 20/25 = (Me after cornea damage healed with little scar tissue) Subject can see at 20ft what 'Normal' can see at 25ft.
Hasn't anybody thought of the notion of Microsoft OS division coming out with Winux or Lindows? They still can embrace, extend, and screw-over just like before, but now they will do it as two companies! Then all they have to do is make their distro really crappy, hard to use, and unstable. Then they will say, "See, here is your Microsoft Linux and note how it performs next to WinME! Now you know how very bad this Linux thing is and why you should stick with Our products.." It will happen.
I was going to fight it because there was little solid evidence, but I finally got a plea offer from the prosecutor when I got to circuit court. The plea tied to the Holms Youthful Trainee Act (sp?) which IIRC allows for first offenders ages 17 to 20 to take probation without proceeding to an adjudication of guilt and a criminal conviction. If the defendant clears the probation without a hitch (which I did) then the charges are dropped from the defendant's permanent record yet they are still on court record because it was filed as a delayed sentence.
Oh, I did have to take a piss-test every week (passed every one), and pay a ton of money to cover the court fees and the cops' salaries etc..
and will simply need to pay the $25.95 a month in order to keep winning with our great service...
On a serious note, the developers do not have to pay anything at all. Quoted from Netpliance dev website; "There will be no Netpliance ISP service associated with the device and each developer will be able to keep the device after the Pilot 100 program is ended. " I will let you know more details when I get the thing later on this week. AFAIK, it is a pre-March 20 model that can boot off of IDE and has no OS installed.
I guess this depends on what state you are in, but at least in Michigan telling someone where illegal drugs are being sold and a deal results from it is called "Aiding and abetting the sale of a controlled substance". Regardless of your intentions, you can be arrested and charged with a felony.
How do I know? It happened to me thanks to some over-zealous campus cops with a chip on their shoulders.
Please.. if you are a moderator and you feel that you should moderate something up, do so only if you understand what someone is writing. Maybe I am too stupid to understand how a web backend can "break up apps like Real Audio or Napster" or I don't understand the significance of having "a low-lever packet assembly/disassembly at the POP" but if you ask me, this guy just fooled a bunch of you that thought his ramblings were Informative
Think before you moderate!
Now that the post is at +5, I sure hope it is all true and I am the fool in thinking that this is a fake..
I seem to be questioning whether it is up to code or not. Does anyone have a good idea as to what it takes to be up to code for running Cat-5 in a residential home? I would hate to go to sell the house and have to tear out all of the ethernet!
That Quantum 3D thing is a beast! I have to say it, but could you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things??
Girlfriend: Hey Dman33, what is that smell in the computer room? Dman33: Oh, the cat. Grilfriend: No, not that type of smell, this is like burnt toast. Dman33: Yeah, like I said, it is the cat. Girlfiend: ? Dman33: Damn thing crawled between my dual 1600W 32-processor video cards...must have made contact or something, little critter got fragged big-time!
You may have overlooked it, but Buy.com is listing the card as a backordered item. This way you can buy the card now, and it will ship when it is available.
I mean hell, if someone steals a car you don't expect them to show up at the dealership a few days later saying "wow, I just stole this great car, and I liked it so much I want to buy one".
Yeah, I must be pretty stupid for buying the albums after I downloaded them off of Napster.. The question remains, why the hell did I buy the albums afterall? Maybe because the quality of burnt MP3s really sucks compared to a true CD? Maybe because I thought it was the right thing to do? I really don't know...
Now, I am not too good at stats, but it looks like the numbers are on a steady incline. If MP3's are hurting CD sales, then why does it say on the MPAA's 1999 market report say "Despite the maturity of this format, in 1999 full-length CD shipments grew nearly 11% over the previous year"?
Looks to me like everything is ok. I think that the burden of proof is still on the RIAA.
Is your average 13 year old with a cable modem going to download the new xxxxxxxxx cd in 10 minutes or spend $15 and buy it?
Perhaps if some 13 year old has a cablemodem and a CD Burner and a bunch of blank media, then all this spoiled brat has to do is ask mommy and daddy for the damn CD and they will surely buy it for their precious little darling.
Now, I am not too good at stats, but it looks like the numbers are on a steady incline. If MP3's are hurting CD sales, then why does it say on the MPAA's 1999 market report say "Despite the maturity of this format, in 1999 full-length CD shipments grew nearly 11% over the previous year"?
Looks to me like everything is ok. I think that the burden of proof is still on the RIAA.
I had the chance to play with this device but it is only in Beta stage right now. You hook your Palm V into a 'shoe' made by Novatel and boom, you are wireless. I noticed very similar functionality to the Palm VII, and you can use Palm Query Applets from the Palm VII on your Palm V. IIRC this is much cheaper of a solution, but I do not remember the pricing details because it has been about 6-9months since I have played with this thing.
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Also, people failed to note (*cough* *cough* I did, but got rejected) the new M100, which is supposed to be colourful, $149, 8mb...
Call it a guess, but perhaps your were rejected because the M100 ships with 2MB, not 8MB.
Now, I am not one to be picky, but this might be it!
Actually, this could be used to shoot down the popular "filename says sandman, but is not metallica" arguments. When Metallica told Napster to ban 300K users, it was because of a filename which does not infringe on copyright. Now a band can say, "Hey, not only does it have a suspicious filename, but it follows the pattern of our hit song exactly.
This is cool technology though...maybe someday we will be able to prove for certain that Vanilla Ice did use David Bowie and Queen's 'Under Pressure' in 'Ice Ice Baby'. Hmmm
I'm very surprised it took so long for this bug to be discovered!
Yep, the beauty of Closed Source...
Why is it that when I have moderator access there is nothing worth modding up? Then there is today, I do not have mod access and here is this hilarious post that is only +1 funny!!!
This one deserves +5!
High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Project
Homepage here
This is a controversial project that might be of what you are talking about. There is a book out about it Angels Don't Play this HAARP by Dr. Nick Begich and Jeane Manning. Pretty good read. Basically states that depending on the frequency that they push up into the sky, they can do some really funky stuff. Good references to some work Tesla has worked on too...
Find a solution that when implemented, will be as cost affective as what it replaced. For instance, don't force everyone to buy a new car which costs two and a half times more than a gasoline powered device and then force them to use a fuel that costs several dollars a gallon and have that same device and fuel get the same mileage as their previous gasoline-powered device.
Hmmm perhaps this Honda might be a solution?
Insight == 60-70MPG Cost: ~$20,000
Beats the hell out of all of the Excursions\Expeditions\Suburbans I keep seeing roaming about suburbia!
I sometimes cannot tell the difference anymore. I guess if a company that gets a ton of VC money fails, then it is a con. If the company manages to do something with the VC money then it is a entrepreneral success-story, right? Well, that is the name of the game, isn't it?
My question is how legit is this news lead anyway? I ask because the reporting looks suspect.
Anon because it's too much trouble to login
I doubt that!
Anyway, I do agree with you that Microsoft helped the computer industry in ways that nobody else has. I have been reading these posts though and I really do not see too many that are all "Yippee!". Actually, I see some intelligent posts here that are getting appropriately modded up. What is the stick up your ass about anyway?
The general picture I have from reading the preceding posts is that many people are glad that this will not be stuck in appeals for 5+ years. Many people are scared of the precedent that this might set, but they are hopeful. I really do not see what you are bitching about...
Hehe...yup, the airlines would be ticked off! And to think that I made that mistake THREE TIMES in only 2 sentences! I guess spell checkers are not foolproof! ;)
Sure, it would have been nice if Jack would have dug a hole for the MPAA but is anyone really suprised by his lack of knowledge and selective memory? I am sure that the MPAA lawyers went over in excruciating detail exactly what Jack would remember and what he would forget if in fact he did know of any relevant information. Additionally, this guy is not a techie. This guy probably does not know what reverse-engineering and fair use entail. I am sure that he does not know how valuable this is to development, and I am sure he does not know what the ramifications to the open source community this lawsuit can lead to.
AFAIK, all Jack knows is that DeCSS==decryption==availability==piracy. It is a whole lot harder trying to track down and prosecute pirates, so why not try to illegalize any tools that can be used to commit the crime!? To them this is damage control, to us it is an invasion on our rights to make decisions. If I can decrypt a DVD to watch it on my Linux box then fine, but I can also chose to convert the unencrypted data to VCD format and upload it onto an FTP server. That is like using a hangar to open the door on my car when I lock the keys in it as opposed to using a hangar to open the door on someone else's car to steal it. I am suprised that automotive insurance companys do not lobby to make hangars illegal all together!
I just pray that the defense proves to the judge that there are legit purposes to DeCSS and that it is not practicle to use it for illegal purposes. The DMCA needs to be re-evaluated!
Yeah, I have a tough time taking 15-20 pics on my DCS-315 even with the 'long lasting' batteries. What B.S.
I just plug the damn thing into the wall now...
The syntax is: xx/yy where xx is always the distance that subject can see at. This is normally 20. yy is what distance the 'Normal' can see the same thing as the subject can see.
;) - Ok, bad pun.
Examples:
20/20 = Subject can see at 20ft what 'Normal' can see at 20ft. (Normal vision)
20/15 = (Me before chemical burns on cornea) Subject can see at 20ft what 'Normal' can see at only 15ft. (Better than normal)
20/400+ = (Me after chemical burns on cornea) Subject can see at 20ft what 'Normal' can see at 400ft.
20/25 = (Me after cornea damage healed with little scar tissue) Subject can see at 20ft what 'Normal' can see at 25ft.
I hope this is 'clear'.
Hasn't anybody thought of the notion of Microsoft OS division coming out with Winux or Lindows? They still can embrace, extend, and screw-over just like before, but now they will do it as two companies! Then all they have to do is make their distro really crappy, hard to use, and unstable. Then they will say, "See, here is your Microsoft Linux and note how it performs next to WinME! Now you know how very bad this Linux thing is and why you should stick with Our products.."
It will happen.
What happened to you after you were arrested?
I was going to fight it because there was little solid evidence, but I finally got a plea offer from the prosecutor when I got to circuit court. The plea tied to the Holms Youthful Trainee Act (sp?) which IIRC allows for first offenders ages 17 to 20 to take probation without proceeding to an adjudication of guilt and a criminal conviction. If the defendant clears the probation without a hitch (which I did) then the charges are dropped from the defendant's permanent record yet they are still on court record because it was filed as a delayed sentence.
Oh, I did have to take a piss-test every week (passed every one), and pay a ton of money to cover the court fees and the cops' salaries etc..
and will simply need to pay the $25.95 a month in order to keep winning with our great service...
On a serious note, the developers do not have to pay anything at all. Quoted from Netpliance dev website; "There will be no Netpliance ISP service associated with the device and each developer will be able to keep the device after the Pilot 100 program is ended. "
I will let you know more details when I get the thing later on this week. AFAIK, it is a pre-March 20 model that can boot off of IDE and has no OS installed.
I guess this depends on what state you are in, but at least in Michigan telling someone where illegal drugs are being sold and a deal results from it is called "Aiding and abetting the sale of a controlled substance". Regardless of your intentions, you can be arrested and charged with a felony.
How do I know? It happened to me thanks to some over-zealous campus cops with a chip on their shoulders.
Please.. if you are a moderator and you feel that you should moderate something up, do so only if you understand what someone is writing.
Maybe I am too stupid to understand how a web backend can "break up apps like Real Audio or Napster" or I don't understand the significance of having "a low-lever packet assembly/disassembly at the POP" but if you ask me, this guy just fooled a bunch of you that thought his ramblings were Informative
Think before you moderate!
Now that the post is at +5, I sure hope it is all true and I am the fool in thinking that this is a fake..
It is always cheaper and wiser not to install Windows...
I seem to be questioning whether it is up to code or not. Does anyone have a good idea as to what it takes to be up to code for running Cat-5 in a residential home? I would hate to go to sell the house and have to tear out all of the ethernet!
That Quantum 3D thing is a beast! I have to say it, but could you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things??
Girlfriend: Hey Dman33, what is that smell in the computer room?
Dman33: Oh, the cat.
Grilfriend: No, not that type of smell, this is like burnt toast.
Dman33: Yeah, like I said, it is the cat.
Girlfiend: ?
Dman33: Damn thing crawled between my dual 1600W 32-processor video cards...must have made contact or something, little critter got fragged big-time!
You may have overlooked it, but Buy.com is listing the card as a backordered item. This way you can buy the card now, and it will ship when it is available.
I mean hell, if someone steals a car you don't expect them to show up at the dealership a few days later saying "wow, I just stole this great car, and I liked it so much I want to buy one".
Yeah, I must be pretty stupid for buying the albums after I downloaded them off of Napster.. The question remains, why the hell did I buy the albums afterall? Maybe because the quality of burnt MP3s really sucks compared to a true CD? Maybe because I thought it was the right thing to do? I really don't know...
How has the recording industry been doing lately anyway? According to the RIAA, the year end market reports were $12.3 billion USD in 1995, $12.5 billion in 1996, $12.2 billion in 1997, $13.7 billion in 1998, and a healthy $14.6 billion in 1999.
Now, I am not too good at stats, but it looks like the numbers are on a steady incline. If MP3's are hurting CD sales, then why does it say on the MPAA's 1999 market report say "Despite the maturity of this format, in 1999 full-length CD shipments grew nearly 11% over the previous year"?
Looks to me like everything is ok. I think that the burden of proof is still on the RIAA.
Is your average 13 year old with a cable modem going to download the new xxxxxxxxx cd in 10 minutes or spend $15 and buy it?
Perhaps if some 13 year old has a cablemodem and a CD Burner and a bunch of blank media, then all this spoiled brat has to do is ask mommy and daddy for the damn CD and they will surely buy it for their precious little darling.
How has the recording industry been doing lately anyway? According to the RIAA, the year end market reports were $12.3 billion USD in 1995, $12.5 billion in 1996, $12.2 billion in 1997, $13.7 billion in 1998, and a healthy $14.6 billion in 1999.
Now, I am not too good at stats, but it looks like the numbers are on a steady incline. If MP3's are hurting CD sales, then why does it say on the MPAA's 1999 market report say "Despite the maturity of this format, in 1999 full-length CD shipments grew nearly 11% over the previous year"?
Looks to me like everything is ok. I think that the burden of proof is still on the RIAA.
Check out this link to OmniSky
I had the chance to play with this device but it is only in Beta stage right now. You hook your Palm V into a 'shoe' made by Novatel and boom, you are wireless. I noticed very similar functionality to the Palm VII, and you can use Palm Query Applets from the Palm VII on your Palm V. IIRC this is much cheaper of a solution, but I do not remember the pricing details because it has been about 6-9months since I have played with this thing.