You request evidence from me, while at the same time making a bunch of ludicrous statements like we're somehow going to recreate the worlds food chain to power your iPad. People aren't walking around all day powered by the damned sun. Think about it for a second. When your iPad uses the same amount of power as a tomato plant, we can talk.
Provided we do not destroy ourselves before it arrives, a space elevator is inevitable. We have all of the technology to build it now with the exception of the material for Ribbon/tether. You dream of a future of terrestrial solar power... yet solar power is our past. We've been working on it for decades and gained no ground. If we truly are trapped in our own gravity well, we are doomed. There is no antigravity, it will never happen. So it's space elevator or bust. With the worlds natural resources dwindling as fast as they are it might be in our best interest to get into space in a real, non-chemical rocket way, as soon as possible.
For solar power to work and be economically viable, it needs to be in orbit. Period. No solar cell, no matter how efficient is going to be viable under an atmosphere. We should have a new space race to build a space elevator... once its complete we can have all the orbital arrays we want for cheap. Near limitless power.
They are not "helping" the copyright holder, no information is returned to the copyright holder. In every case that I'm aware of they did not even acknowledge receipt of the emails.
OCILLA (part of the DMCA) gives ISPs safe harbor against litigation for copyright infringement if they take "some action" to prevent the copyright violations. What that "action" is, isn't really defined by the act. In most cases, ISPs send a letter to the customer informing them of the complaint, request that they desist and threaten to disconnect them if they do not. I think disconnections are ebcoming increasingly rare. Most companies do not want to lose customers over this. The entire process is a waste of resources and money to them... and they certainly don't want to be disconnecting paying customers when they really have very little proof that the customer had done anything that would put the ISP in legal jeopardy. Add to that the fact that no lawsuit has been filed against an ISP much less won... and you have a situation in which ISPs are doing the very bare minimum to comply with the law. I've seen this at 2 major ISPs and have a friend working at a 3rd that confirms the same things happen there. Yes, if you're using some antiquated service like limewire, are hosting 50 of the most popular movies in release atm, have a 20mb connection and are uploading gigs and gigs of data a night... Your ISP is probobly going to get a FLOOD of complaints about you and will likely have to do something. But that's your own dumb fault.
Having worked for several large ISPs in their "Copyright infringement" department (ironic I know) I can tell you that no, tracing an IP address back to its original user is not likely and shouldn't be admissible in court.
The way the system works is this: The ISP gets an email claiming copyright infringement on a certain date and time by a paticular IP. It's important to note, the ISP has no way of verifying any of the following:
The email came from the person it's claiming to come from
That person is the copyright holder
There is even a copyright on the file in question
The person sending the email did anything to confirm what they were downloading was a copyrighted file (is batman.zip the new or fan fiction?)
The ISP can not even confirm that anything at all was downloaded. The ISP then takes the IP address provided and the time claimed and compares this to their DHCP server and looks for lease statements before and after the time the file was claimed to be downloaded. So if the complaint was at 10pm and we had that IP time stamps at 9:30pm and 11:00pm for Jim, then Jim gets a letter.
As you can imagine there are all kinds of holes in this. There are a zillion and one ways that could be inaccurate inside the ISP alone. This doesn't even include all the failures on the part of the copyright holders. We had one that was so inaccurate they were sending us multiple complaints on a daily basis against IPs we hadn't had leased out to anyone for days surrounding the times of their complaints. We made repeated inquiries with the "Company" to try and clarify their problem. But in the end just blacklisted their email accounts. We had other incidents in which the complaint was that the user downloaded a dozen or so movies... but a quick check of their usage logs showed they were using less than a couple hundred meg a month.
It was clear that the copyright holders were using automated scripting software to flood us with complaints with no real checks and balance on their part and then expected the ISP to do the heavy lifting when it came to investigation.
The media needs to report on how many people have been injured or killed during this accident. They have 2 works that have been missing from the beginning, presumably swept away by the tidal wave or killed in the initial hydrogen explosion. Then they have another <50 that have been exposed to low, but still unacceptable amounts of radiation.
Now lets imagine what would happen if the same disaster had hit a Coal power plant... or Natural Gas... Now the big one, how about the Hoover Damn? The first 2 would lead to hundreds of deaths immediately, and it's even including all the deaths we have every year due to mining. A Major eathquake at a large hydro-electric damn like the Hover? It would likely be the largest disaster in American history. Tens of thousands dead within minutes.
This will not end well and is entirely the gaming industries fault. They should have never allowed real money for virtual items in their games, but they were too damned greedy. Eventually I expect them to consider the entire RMT world as nothing more than online gambling (which is what it actually is) and to either outlaw it completely or levy exorbitant taxes on the industry.
Woh, everyone slow down. I think he was trying to suggest that people that only code in.Net are less desirable than people that are coding in other languages. Where I work we ONLY use.Net. Period. There are those there that know other languages as well as those contained in.Net, they are the good ones... then there are the ones that went to the local community college and took all the visual studio classes, they are the bad ones. I think the latter are the ones he's trying to weed out.
They can turn the phone on remotely without your knowledge. The FBI does it routinely... so it's not tinfoil hat stuff, it's real world, documented proof type stuff.
I know about a dozen people with androids that stream from services like Pandora etc... They hook their phone up in their car via bluetooth and away they go.
'If we allow this without litigation, everyone will do it tomorrow,' says an anonymous source.
Everyone's already doing it today you moron. Illegally. And you're making no money off it. STOP FORCING THE PUBLIC TO PIRATE YOUR CONTENT SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU'RE STUPID.
Lets not forget their real goal here... They want to install GPS units to record millage in every ones car. To make sure the revenue goes to the county whos roads are getting used, they'll log your location. While they're at it they can track your speed and eliminate the need for police to monitor for speeders.
Raising taxes is easy, you just RAISE TAXES. Tricking the public into giving up their civil liberties, well, that's just a tad bit harder. But not much.
I'm all for this law. I think the move to open source software would be dramatic and almost immediate. Who'd want to risk having their product built somewhere that was using copyright encumbered software, that could be challenged at any time? This law combined with patent trolls would make copyrighted software as terrifying as the plague.
A quick google search and/or a read of the Wikipedia article on the Chernobyl disaster would have shown just how full of shit this guy is. Yes, there were significant and devastating design flaws in the reactor. But also, every single person at the plant failed in just about every way possible. When the accident happened they had all but 3 of the control rods removed from the reactor. Every safety device on the reactor had been turned off and the people operating the reactor were not nuclear engineers. He's basically arguing that Chernobyl should have been designed in such a way that the morons operating it couldn't have been able to do the amazingly stupid things they did that lead to the disaster. He's probably right, but at the same time, those people should never have been allowed near a nuclear power plant.
The best way to stop this nonsense is to make it a huge story. Twitter it, facebook it, whatever... post it everywhere. The media doesn't care unless they think the people do. So make it go viral so the worthless people we call "the press" cover it... then all the companies involved will look like idiots and may fix it.
They've been "wary" about measuring against wow? I don't know where they're getting their information but there's been a steady stream of Games over the past few years that have claimed they were the wow killer and have failed miserably. If I remember correctly even Guildwars1 claimed they may take down wow... about 10min into the game and realizing it was all instancing, I knew better.
No, it wont. When you have people that are willing to sink 12hrs+ a day into a game it is impossible to develop enough content to make it non-grindy unless you wanted to sink billions into development.
If you have an Ipod, throw it out. The cheapest MP3 player they sell at Walmart will be superior in every way, I guarantee it. Stop drinking the coolaid, get away from apple... you'll be much happier.
The POINT of the internet is free, unhindered access to communication or information. If your business prior to the internet was selling information, you had better figure out a way to make money by giving the same information away for free or you will fail. There are thousands of companies already making staggering amounts of money this way... stop trying to do things your old stupid way, and start doing them the new smarter way. News agrigators pissing you off? Start agrigating the news your self. Team up with other papers, get smart.
As someone that's been an electronics hobbies for several decades (I've built radios, guitar amplifiers, clocks, you name it) I have been electrocuted numerous times. As such I can attest to the fact that getting hit with your standard outlets 120 volt AC is not that big of a deal. It hurts... somewhat like someone grabbing you in a not-very-nice way with a pair of pliers. But getting hit with DC... that's an emergency room vist level of pain. When you get hit with AC, you yell "OUCH!" and yank your hand away. When you get hit with DC, you can't yell because your mouth is clenched shut and when you yank your hand away the circuit board comes with it. Thank God for buddies near the off switch.
And before any of you get all preachy about safety, when you've been doing it for 25 years, shit happens. It's amazing how much pain a cat jumping off a shelf into your lap for petting and just the wrong time can cause.
I went to Ethiopia about a year and a half ago and was staggered by the poverty. There were people everywhere begging for food or money. Yet the ground was fertile... I come from Wisconsin and I know good farmland when I see it. What were they growing? Coffee... huge swaths of land dedicated to Coffee grown for export. Next to that, the largest greenhouses I've ever seen. I was told by our guide that they were owned by the dutch who grew flowers and exported them. Lastly Teff, which is a grain that they use to make a local bread. 1 out of 3 isn't bad. Or is it?
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Solar costs 400% more than coal and nuclear. How is that economically viable? You think the average home can afford a $400/month electric bill?
You request evidence from me, while at the same time making a bunch of ludicrous statements like we're somehow going to recreate the worlds food chain to power your iPad. People aren't walking around all day powered by the damned sun. Think about it for a second. When your iPad uses the same amount of power as a tomato plant, we can talk.
Provided we do not destroy ourselves before it arrives, a space elevator is inevitable. We have all of the technology to build it now with the exception of the material for Ribbon/tether. You dream of a future of terrestrial solar power... yet solar power is our past. We've been working on it for decades and gained no ground. If we truly are trapped in our own gravity well, we are doomed. There is no antigravity, it will never happen. So it's space elevator or bust. With the worlds natural resources dwindling as fast as they are it might be in our best interest to get into space in a real, non-chemical rocket way, as soon as possible.
For solar power to work and be economically viable, it needs to be in orbit. Period. No solar cell, no matter how efficient is going to be viable under an atmosphere. We should have a new space race to build a space elevator... once its complete we can have all the orbital arrays we want for cheap. Near limitless power.
They are not "helping" the copyright holder, no information is returned to the copyright holder. In every case that I'm aware of they did not even acknowledge receipt of the emails.
OCILLA (part of the DMCA) gives ISPs safe harbor against litigation for copyright infringement if they take "some action" to prevent the copyright violations. What that "action" is, isn't really defined by the act. In most cases, ISPs send a letter to the customer informing them of the complaint, request that they desist and threaten to disconnect them if they do not. I think disconnections are ebcoming increasingly rare. Most companies do not want to lose customers over this. The entire process is a waste of resources and money to them... and they certainly don't want to be disconnecting paying customers when they really have very little proof that the customer had done anything that would put the ISP in legal jeopardy. Add to that the fact that no lawsuit has been filed against an ISP much less won... and you have a situation in which ISPs are doing the very bare minimum to comply with the law. I've seen this at 2 major ISPs and have a friend working at a 3rd that confirms the same things happen there. Yes, if you're using some antiquated service like limewire, are hosting 50 of the most popular movies in release atm, have a 20mb connection and are uploading gigs and gigs of data a night... Your ISP is probobly going to get a FLOOD of complaints about you and will likely have to do something. But that's your own dumb fault.
Having worked for several large ISPs in their "Copyright infringement" department (ironic I know) I can tell you that no, tracing an IP address back to its original user is not likely and shouldn't be admissible in court.
The way the system works is this:
The ISP gets an email claiming copyright infringement on a certain date and time by a paticular IP.
It's important to note, the ISP has no way of verifying any of the following:
The email came from the person it's claiming to come from
That person is the copyright holder
There is even a copyright on the file in question
The person sending the email did anything to confirm what they were downloading was a copyrighted file (is batman.zip the new or fan fiction?)
The ISP can not even confirm that anything at all was downloaded.
The ISP then takes the IP address provided and the time claimed and compares this to their DHCP server and looks for lease statements before and after the time the file was claimed to be downloaded. So if the complaint was at 10pm and we had that IP time stamps at 9:30pm and 11:00pm for Jim, then Jim gets a letter.
As you can imagine there are all kinds of holes in this. There are a zillion and one ways that could be inaccurate inside the ISP alone. This doesn't even include all the failures on the part of the copyright holders. We had one that was so inaccurate they were sending us multiple complaints on a daily basis against IPs we hadn't had leased out to anyone for days surrounding the times of their complaints. We made repeated inquiries with the "Company" to try and clarify their problem. But in the end just blacklisted their email accounts. We had other incidents in which the complaint was that the user downloaded a dozen or so movies... but a quick check of their usage logs showed they were using less than a couple hundred meg a month.
It was clear that the copyright holders were using automated scripting software to flood us with complaints with no real checks and balance on their part and then expected the ISP to do the heavy lifting when it came to investigation.
The media needs to report on how many people have been injured or killed during this accident. They have 2 works that have been missing from the beginning, presumably swept away by the tidal wave or killed in the initial hydrogen explosion. Then they have another <50 that have been exposed to low, but still unacceptable amounts of radiation.
Now lets imagine what would happen if the same disaster had hit a Coal power plant... or Natural Gas... Now the big one, how about the Hoover Damn? The first 2 would lead to hundreds of deaths immediately, and it's even including all the deaths we have every year due to mining. A Major eathquake at a large hydro-electric damn like the Hover? It would likely be the largest disaster in American history. Tens of thousands dead within minutes.
This will not end well and is entirely the gaming industries fault. They should have never allowed real money for virtual items in their games, but they were too damned greedy. Eventually I expect them to consider the entire RMT world as nothing more than online gambling (which is what it actually is) and to either outlaw it completely or levy exorbitant taxes on the industry.
Woh, everyone slow down. I think he was trying to suggest that people that only code in .Net are less desirable than people that are coding in other languages. Where I work we ONLY use .Net. Period. There are those there that know other languages as well as those contained in .Net, they are the good ones... then there are the ones that went to the local community college and took all the visual studio classes, they are the bad ones. I think the latter are the ones he's trying to weed out.
They can turn the phone on remotely without your knowledge. The FBI does it routinely... so it's not tinfoil hat stuff, it's real world, documented proof type stuff.
I know about a dozen people with androids that stream from services like Pandora etc... They hook their phone up in their car via bluetooth and away they go.
'If we allow this without litigation, everyone will do it tomorrow,' says an anonymous source.
Everyone's already doing it today you moron. Illegally. And you're making no money off it. STOP FORCING THE PUBLIC TO PIRATE YOUR CONTENT SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU'RE STUPID.
Lets not forget their real goal here... They want to install GPS units to record millage in every ones car. To make sure the revenue goes to the county whos roads are getting used, they'll log your location. While they're at it they can track your speed and eliminate the need for police to monitor for speeders.
Raising taxes is easy, you just RAISE TAXES. Tricking the public into giving up their civil liberties, well, that's just a tad bit harder. But not much.
I'm all for this law. I think the move to open source software would be dramatic and almost immediate. Who'd want to risk having their product built somewhere that was using copyright encumbered software, that could be challenged at any time? This law combined with patent trolls would make copyrighted software as terrifying as the plague.
A quick google search and/or a read of the Wikipedia article on the Chernobyl disaster would have shown just how full of shit this guy is. Yes, there were significant and devastating design flaws in the reactor. But also, every single person at the plant failed in just about every way possible. When the accident happened they had all but 3 of the control rods removed from the reactor. Every safety device on the reactor had been turned off and the people operating the reactor were not nuclear engineers. He's basically arguing that Chernobyl should have been designed in such a way that the morons operating it couldn't have been able to do the amazingly stupid things they did that lead to the disaster. He's probably right, but at the same time, those people should never have been allowed near a nuclear power plant.
The best way to stop this nonsense is to make it a huge story. Twitter it, facebook it, whatever... post it everywhere. The media doesn't care unless they think the people do. So make it go viral so the worthless people we call "the press" cover it... then all the companies involved will look like idiots and may fix it.
The fact that they think Limewire represents 50% of all file sharing should be telling as to just how out of touch they are.
I believe it was saved by the rush of apple users that threw themselves on the ground to cushion its fall.
They've been "wary" about measuring against wow? I don't know where they're getting their information but there's been a steady stream of Games over the past few years that have claimed they were the wow killer and have failed miserably. If I remember correctly even Guildwars1 claimed they may take down wow... about 10min into the game and realizing it was all instancing, I knew better.
No, it wont. When you have people that are willing to sink 12hrs+ a day into a game it is impossible to develop enough content to make it non-grindy unless you wanted to sink billions into development.
If you have an Ipod, throw it out. The cheapest MP3 player they sell at Walmart will be superior in every way, I guarantee it. Stop drinking the coolaid, get away from apple... you'll be much happier.
How dare they hack our computers!!! This isn't right! Someone should do something!! (I'm intentionally not going to reveal which country I'm from)
The POINT of the internet is free, unhindered access to communication or information. If your business prior to the internet was selling information, you had better figure out a way to make money by giving the same information away for free or you will fail. There are thousands of companies already making staggering amounts of money this way... stop trying to do things your old stupid way, and start doing them the new smarter way. News agrigators pissing you off? Start agrigating the news your self. Team up with other papers, get smart.
Since the government seems to want to do the exact opposite... way to go google.
As someone that's been an electronics hobbies for several decades (I've built radios, guitar amplifiers, clocks, you name it) I have been electrocuted numerous times. As such I can attest to the fact that getting hit with your standard outlets 120 volt AC is not that big of a deal. It hurts... somewhat like someone grabbing you in a not-very-nice way with a pair of pliers. But getting hit with DC... that's an emergency room vist level of pain. When you get hit with AC, you yell "OUCH!" and yank your hand away. When you get hit with DC, you can't yell because your mouth is clenched shut and when you yank your hand away the circuit board comes with it. Thank God for buddies near the off switch.
And before any of you get all preachy about safety, when you've been doing it for 25 years, shit happens. It's amazing how much pain a cat jumping off a shelf into your lap for petting and just the wrong time can cause.
I went to Ethiopia about a year and a half ago and was staggered by the poverty. There were people everywhere begging for food or money. Yet the ground was fertile... I come from Wisconsin and I know good farmland when I see it. What were they growing? Coffee... huge swaths of land dedicated to Coffee grown for export. Next to that, the largest greenhouses I've ever seen. I was told by our guide that they were owned by the dutch who grew flowers and exported them. Lastly Teff, which is a grain that they use to make a local bread. 1 out of 3 isn't bad. Or is it?