Yeah it is pretty steep. According to US Code, Title 17, Chapter 5, Section 504, subsection c 1-2 the minimum fine is $750 per item + legal costs of plantiffs with the option of up to 1 year in jail. So the absolute minimum if found guilty would be $21000 + whatever the RIAA's legal expenses cost. With two trials now I suspect it would be tens of thousands in legal fees. Incidentally the maximum penalty is 30k per item which would be 720k + legal + 1 year, so she already got a deal. The law might be unfair but I think society should hold you to the penalties that were in place at the time of the crime. The legislation should be changed, but as ignorance is no excuse, one can say that she ran the risk of a enormous settlement when she chose to infringe (assuming she's guilty). Its like the guy that speeds to work everyday because the fine is only $100 and the chances of getting caught are slim. You takes your chances and you takes your bumps.
Things people tell me to. Boss says oh this show is funny, this guy is in it or whatever. I ask him who that is and he tells me to google it. Blam goatsy'd.
My understanding though if you aren't logged in the settings go away with time (cookie expires?). I have this problem occasionally too, once a month or so I start getting redirected to google.de (I'm in Germany) until I switch it back to google.com and then it goes away. The safe search settings don't stick either.
Along with that my computer is a dual-use system, it is the laptop I use at work and home. I don't want filtered content at home but I do at work. It is a pain to remember to switch the settings back and forth.
Not the same thing. One is a user level setting, the other exposes the type of content in an easy to block with the corporate firewall manner. I might not have control over the setting you use for google, but if I know that bad crap is coming from explicit.bing.com then I just need to add that site to my filter list.
Really? Type in pretty much any celebrity and you'll end up with pages of look a likes photoshop or leaked sextapes. I get that crap occasionally at work because people will be telling me about a show I've never heard of and say you know that girl from... is in it. Mhh, I get that even more because it is a new continent for me (so everything seems to be different oddly enough).
I get a similar problem with the "br" code, some times I get a space between the new paragraph and sometimes I don't. It's not a big deal except for the 20% or so of the time that the last sentence is close to the end of the line and it is really hard to tell it is a new paragraph or just word wrap. Damn you formatting gods. I vote for WYSIWYG on/. its about freaking time we leave the 90's.
Interesting. I didn't know they hosted the content. When you maximize a video it seems to be a plugin from youtube or whatever. Is this only for the thumbnail view then?
Or for example, they really want to do business in China so they label anything "free Tibet" explicit, etc etc.ÂIt is a good idea in the sense that it can give better control of what goes over your network. But it is very open to abuse.
I hate it when I type pretty much anything in for an image search in google and I end up with porn. Okay when I'm at home but when I'm at work... not so cool.
In Dresden, Germany a lot of the streets are cobble stone. This was done on purpose as far as I know to keep the "historical feel". So if you drive faster than 30kmh you get shaken all to hell. I also twisted my ankle pretty bad a couple times because there is big gaps between the stones so if you hit the stone the wrong way you get your foot stuck in a crack. Some areas of the city can't get highspeed internet because they have really old phone wiring, where as other areas which can be literally across the street have 30Mbps for ~$55. The US government has been skimping on infrastructure for 40+ years. Here's a thought, rather than throwing 100B at GM, why didn't they use that money for rebuilding the streets? Bail out a company that makes cars no one wants when you don't have roads that anyone wants, crazy:-)
Yeah a lot of self diagnoses probably revolved around: "It hurts when I pee... that bitch/bastard":-)
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Hehe. I don't think it is more useful but more of an expansion on an existing idea. From what I've heard from the founders twitter was meant to be like a subscribable SMS service. The idea of using facebook for this stuff doesn't work too well. 1. The popular person has to friend the other person to get them the updates. 2. There was at one point a friend limit, though I think that has been removed. 3. CNN/Fox News anchors would be unable to say tweet/twitter so often which would eliminate half of their content.
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Well I think that is part of the idea. You don't need to know the people receiving your tweets, you broadcast and people subscribe if they are interested. I'm not particularly interested in the concept, I prefer to rant without a character limit:), but some people like it.
Well you can just use UFS:-) An oldie but still works. ZFS would be nice but it is a little bit obscure for mainstream use. I can just imagine a whole bunch of Mac users or Linux users deciding to use the other platform and wondering how to share a filesystem. "Dude make that array ZFS", "What's ZFS?". FAT32, NTFS and UFS are pretty much universally supported because of the fact that they are historically the dominant filesystems. Going out of your way to get a new filesystem compatible with everything else is less likely than sharing things on a service level (a la, samba, NFS). One chooses the filesystem that everything uses (with the requirement of rebuilding on the new filesystem if you didn't choose the right one back in the day), the other just requires installing and setting up a program on the system. Philosophically I prefer to chose the filesystem, RAID level, stripe size etc, based on the data that is going to be stored without worrying too much about how to get the data on and off disk from a remote client. For personal use I think FAT32/NTFS is going to be the standard for a long time. You might not like Windows, you might not use Windows, but chances are somebody is going to want to borrow your external drive/get data off of it that is a Windows user and the easiest way to make that happen is if the drive is something that windows can understand. Lowest common denominator.
Something Kindle like certainly makes the most sense to me. Heck if the kids happen to be interested in reading for fun they can even by their books in e-book form (though being sure the kid is studying in class might be a little hard:)). Idea: Amazon gets the seller fee for all the textbooks in exchange for supplying the kids with a new Kindle every 3-5 years.
but lets remember not everyone has or can afford Internet access and the things to go with it (like a computer)
Not only that, but if you already have a computer at home you'll probably need a second one. After all, if your kid is tied to the computer for hours a day doing their homework, you no longer have a computer your kid does. So to save the government the cost of providing course materials to the kids, at least part of the cost is being passed off to the parents via the need for computer, internet connectivity etc. Also, teachers like to have kids read out of the book in class, does this mean that every class will need enough computers for everyone? Or are they going to supply the kids with Kindles or something?
I know I for one am like that. I'll download an album from a band because a friend said they were good, but I wouldn't buy it. I'll download a ton of T.V. shows, but I'd just watch them on cable when they were on, or heaven forbid use a VCR to record the shows so I can watch them when I want. How about the porn industry too? How many people download a 4GB movie only to find out they don't like it and download something else? They probably would be much much less likely to buy because they would have to either have the order on their credit card if they got it delivered to their house or face the stigma of going to the adult shop.
Also, another thought: if everyone was spending 25 pounds, or 125 depending on the version of the story a week on content there would be a lot of legal content floating around too. Wouldn't people quickly start borrowing stuff from someone that already has it rather than buy it themselves? When my friends have the complete set of Star Trek TNG I can borrow it from them not buy a copy myself. So the number of downloaders includes: people that would buy, people that would borrow, people that are trying because a friend recommended but wouldn't buy it to try it etc.
Really complicated I think. The shape will change as stuff burns off, presumably making the thing more aerodynamic, the force of the air resistance will change both as the air density changes and as the velocity changes. In my second year classical dynamics course the model we used was that the force is proportional to the square of the velocity, I'd imagine it would be linearly related to air density (essentially how much stuff you hit in unit distance of travel, the rock will pass through a region of space in a unit of time which will define the volume it could have hit stuff in, amount of stuff that would be in their is linearly related to density, so so would the impacts). That said all sorts of wierdness would happen as the thing goes from super to subsonic, has superheated gases around it etc. Would be a nice project to calculate.
I looked it up in wikipedia. Atmospheric pressure is 1/3 at 8,376m. So it is even less at 10k (~33k ft I don't think there are many ski resorts that high).
3000 meteors with sufficient mass to hit the earth. But they are forgetting that planes fly at 10km or so high. Many more meteors would be able to reach that far into the atmosphere.
Hehe. We have a large Sun/Storage Tek tape library at my work. The SL300000 http://www.sun.com/storagetek/tape_storage/tape_libraries/sl3000/ . It runs Win2k. The question is what is a new $120k device (~70k but then that is before you get the drives for the library:-)) from an old school UNIX vendor doing running an out of support version of Windows:-) . We also have microscopes that are controlled by windows but the GUI is in Linux (they come with both computers in one case). It all comes down to what the developers were comfortable with at the time, and whether device drivers are available I guess.
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Yeah it is pretty steep. According to US Code, Title 17, Chapter 5, Section 504, subsection c 1-2 the minimum fine is $750 per item + legal costs of plantiffs with the option of up to 1 year in jail. So the absolute minimum if found guilty would be $21000 + whatever the RIAA's legal expenses cost. With two trials now I suspect it would be tens of thousands in legal fees. Incidentally the maximum penalty is 30k per item which would be 720k + legal + 1 year, so she already got a deal. The law might be unfair but I think society should hold you to the penalties that were in place at the time of the crime. The legislation should be changed, but as ignorance is no excuse, one can say that she ran the risk of a enormous settlement when she chose to infringe (assuming she's guilty). Its like the guy that speeds to work everyday because the fine is only $100 and the chances of getting caught are slim. You takes your chances and you takes your bumps.
Things people tell me to. Boss says oh this show is funny, this guy is in it or whatever. I ask him who that is and he tells me to google it. Blam goatsy'd.
Along with that my computer is a dual-use system, it is the laptop I use at work and home. I don't want filtered content at home but I do at work. It is a pain to remember to switch the settings back and forth.
Not the same thing. One is a user level setting, the other exposes the type of content in an easy to block with the corporate firewall manner. I might not have control over the setting you use for google, but if I know that bad crap is coming from explicit.bing.com then I just need to add that site to my filter list.
Really? Type in pretty much any celebrity and you'll end up with pages of look a likes photoshop or leaked sextapes. I get that crap occasionally at work because people will be telling me about a show I've never heard of and say you know that girl from ... is in it. Mhh, I get that even more because it is a new continent for me (so everything seems to be different oddly enough).
I get a similar problem with the "br" code, some times I get a space between the new paragraph and sometimes I don't. It's not a big deal except for the 20% or so of the time that the last sentence is close to the end of the line and it is really hard to tell it is a new paragraph or just word wrap. Damn you formatting gods. I vote for WYSIWYG on /. its about freaking time we leave the 90's.
Interesting. I didn't know they hosted the content. When you maximize a video it seems to be a plugin from youtube or whatever. Is this only for the thumbnail view then?
Or for example, they really want to do business in China so they label anything "free Tibet" explicit, etc etc.ÂIt is a good idea in the sense that it can give better control of what goes over your network. But it is very open to abuse.
I hate it when I type pretty much anything in for an image search in google and I end up with porn. Okay when I'm at home but when I'm at work ... not so cool.
Well for example a slashdot post explaining in explicit detail why a MS product is crap will be automatically filtered as explicit content.
In Dresden, Germany a lot of the streets are cobble stone. This was done on purpose as far as I know to keep the "historical feel". So if you drive faster than 30kmh you get shaken all to hell. I also twisted my ankle pretty bad a couple times because there is big gaps between the stones so if you hit the stone the wrong way you get your foot stuck in a crack. Some areas of the city can't get highspeed internet because they have really old phone wiring, where as other areas which can be literally across the street have 30Mbps for ~$55. The US government has been skimping on infrastructure for 40+ years. Here's a thought, rather than throwing 100B at GM, why didn't they use that money for rebuilding the streets? Bail out a company that makes cars no one wants when you don't have roads that anyone wants, crazy :-)
Yeah a lot of self diagnoses probably revolved around: "It hurts when I pee ... that bitch/bastard" :-)
Hehe. I don't think it is more useful but more of an expansion on an existing idea. From what I've heard from the founders twitter was meant to be like a subscribable SMS service. The idea of using facebook for this stuff doesn't work too well. 1. The popular person has to friend the other person to get them the updates. 2. There was at one point a friend limit, though I think that has been removed. 3. CNN/Fox News anchors would be unable to say tweet/twitter so often which would eliminate half of their content.
Well I think that is part of the idea. You don't need to know the people receiving your tweets, you broadcast and people subscribe if they are interested. I'm not particularly interested in the concept, I prefer to rant without a character limit :), but some people like it.
one twit wonders?
It might be buggy still, I'm not sure, but according to http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubuntu-help/115396-edit-kernel-support-ufs-read-write.html among others you can install/enable a kernel mod to support ufs in read/write mode.
Well you can just use UFS :-) An oldie but still works. ZFS would be nice but it is a little bit obscure for mainstream use. I can just imagine a whole bunch of Mac users or Linux users deciding to use the other platform and wondering how to share a filesystem. "Dude make that array ZFS", "What's ZFS?". FAT32, NTFS and UFS are pretty much universally supported because of the fact that they are historically the dominant filesystems. Going out of your way to get a new filesystem compatible with everything else is less likely than sharing things on a service level (a la, samba, NFS). One chooses the filesystem that everything uses (with the requirement of rebuilding on the new filesystem if you didn't choose the right one back in the day), the other just requires installing and setting up a program on the system. Philosophically I prefer to chose the filesystem, RAID level, stripe size etc, based on the data that is going to be stored without worrying too much about how to get the data on and off disk from a remote client. For personal use I think FAT32/NTFS is going to be the standard for a long time. You might not like Windows, you might not use Windows, but chances are somebody is going to want to borrow your external drive/get data off of it that is a Windows user and the easiest way to make that happen is if the drive is something that windows can understand. Lowest common denominator.
Something Kindle like certainly makes the most sense to me. Heck if the kids happen to be interested in reading for fun they can even by their books in e-book form (though being sure the kid is studying in class might be a little hard :)). Idea: Amazon gets the seller fee for all the textbooks in exchange for supplying the kids with a new Kindle every 3-5 years.
but lets remember not everyone has or can afford Internet access and the things to go with it (like a computer)
Not only that, but if you already have a computer at home you'll probably need a second one. After all, if your kid is tied to the computer for hours a day doing their homework, you no longer have a computer your kid does. So to save the government the cost of providing course materials to the kids, at least part of the cost is being passed off to the parents via the need for computer, internet connectivity etc. Also, teachers like to have kids read out of the book in class, does this mean that every class will need enough computers for everyone? Or are they going to supply the kids with Kindles or something?
Also, another thought: if everyone was spending 25 pounds, or 125 depending on the version of the story a week on content there would be a lot of legal content floating around too. Wouldn't people quickly start borrowing stuff from someone that already has it rather than buy it themselves? When my friends have the complete set of Star Trek TNG I can borrow it from them not buy a copy myself. So the number of downloaders includes: people that would buy, people that would borrow, people that are trying because a friend recommended but wouldn't buy it to try it etc.
Really complicated I think. The shape will change as stuff burns off, presumably making the thing more aerodynamic, the force of the air resistance will change both as the air density changes and as the velocity changes. In my second year classical dynamics course the model we used was that the force is proportional to the square of the velocity, I'd imagine it would be linearly related to air density (essentially how much stuff you hit in unit distance of travel, the rock will pass through a region of space in a unit of time which will define the volume it could have hit stuff in, amount of stuff that would be in their is linearly related to density, so so would the impacts). That said all sorts of wierdness would happen as the thing goes from super to subsonic, has superheated gases around it etc. Would be a nice project to calculate.
It does: http://www.regentsprep.org/Regents/math/algtrig/ATP8b/exponentialResource.htm . It falls off as e to the negative one seventh times height in kilometers. I couldn't find a plot though, argh. According to: http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/JaredGoldberger.shtml, at the top of everest atmopheric pressure is 30kPa, 101 or so is normal at sea level, so it is a bit less than a third there.
I looked it up in wikipedia. Atmospheric pressure is 1/3 at 8,376m. So it is even less at 10k (~33k ft I don't think there are many ski resorts that high).
3000 meteors with sufficient mass to hit the earth. But they are forgetting that planes fly at 10km or so high. Many more meteors would be able to reach that far into the atmosphere.
Hehe. We have a large Sun/Storage Tek tape library at my work. The SL300000 http://www.sun.com/storagetek/tape_storage/tape_libraries/sl3000/ . It runs Win2k. The question is what is a new $120k device (~70k but then that is before you get the drives for the library :-)) from an old school UNIX vendor doing running an out of support version of Windows :-) . We also have microscopes that are controlled by windows but the GUI is in Linux (they come with both computers in one case). It all comes down to what the developers were comfortable with at the time, and whether device drivers are available I guess.