I don't know how I could "prove" it, but I can verify that this has indeed been happening for at least 4+ months*. Any message with youtube.com in it was silently discarded, but outube.com, utube.com, etc. all went through fine. I suppose I could post chat logs from my two machines, but obviously I could have altered them to suit my own purposes...
I just tested it now, and youtube URLs no longer appear to be filtered. However, they were as recently as two weeks ago.
* In fact, I submitted this when I first noticed it, but my story was rejected. C'est la vie.
I sincerely hope that this happens - but it's unlikely that it will. If the RIAA finds itself up against such an adversary, they'll simply drop the suit (they're only doing this in the civil courts, remember). If the student and the rich uncle countersue, it'll probably be thrown out by the judge (see Edward Felten). Such is our he-who-has-the-gold-makes-the-rules legal system.
About a year ago the exact same thing happened to me with the built-in HighPoint HPT-370A controller on my motherboard. I was able to recover all my data by simply recreating the array exactly as before, then running an "FDISK/MBR" (I'm uncertain what the Linux equivalent is). This 'undeleted' the primary partition. I then used a program called "testdisk" (try Google), which runs under DOS, Linux, and several other OSes, to undelete the other partitions.
I once was in an orthopedic office (not as chaotic as a general hospital, but reasonably applicable) that used a system that was similar to the one it sounds like you're trying to set up. Everyone who worked there (or so it seemed) carried a subnotebook around with them (small enough to hold by the side with one hand and enter data with the other), each with a wireless LAN card linked into whatever their central system was.
Then, in each patient room, there was an AC adapter that was always plugged into the wall. Whenever a doctor/nurse/etc would be in the room for anything longer than 'please wait here', they would sit down to talk with the patient and plug the subnotebook into the AC adapter. Something like this, in addition to some of the other suggestions given (like hot-swappable batteries), might work for you.
I agree with you fully - that would be a great idea, and a fitting end. Unfortunately, the ion drive runs on solar power, which is essentially useless much past the asteroid belt. There is also the issue of limited fuel: while the drive is very efficient, it still requires fuel to push out the back, and that is a finite resource which is probably almost gone - especially after so many mission extensions.
The show was about the same, if not even better, out on the CU (Cornell University) golf course. It peaked at around 5 AM, with a spurt of 4 or 5 meteors every 15-30 seconds. Every 5-10 was a very bright one leaving a trail that persisted for at least 2-3 seconds, and I personally saw 4 fireballs.
Unfortunately, many other people had the idea to come out on the golf course, so there was an excess of idiot noise, as well as several pricks playing with their flashlights. Still, the show was very impressive, especially considering that during my entire life I've seen no more than two other meteors before tonight...
You make a really excellent point - one that I had not considered previously. However, IMHO, what most people object to in the current copyright system is not the copyright itself, but the absurd cost in obtaining a license to use (listen to, play, copy, whatever) copyrighted material - and nearly all of that cost goes to the distributors of the bits (which themselves contribute almost nothing in the digital world) instead of the creators of the bits. I would have no problem paying the creator of an artistic work a fair price for their creation, and the distributor slightly more than their costs (so they, too, can make a decent profit), but $18 a CD, where typically no more than $0.50 goes to the artist, and the CD costs only $1.50 to produce, is unacceptable. (Yes, advertising and distribution cost money - but spending millions on advertising music isn't necessary, and downloading an MP3 or other audio file doesn't incur a $5 shipping charge from UPS.)
I have Optimum Online cable access here, and my speeds typically run (on long downloads, like MP3s, videos, and ISO images) from 20K/sec to 250K/sec, and as high as 350K/sec. So far, we've only had one outage (that I've noticed) in over 6 months, and that one was no more than an hour or two long.
Did anyone else notice that out of the four instances of the word 'pornography' in the article, two of them had hyphens? There was "porno- graphy" and then another "porno- graphy". It seems unlikely that this was meant to be an end-of-line wordbreak, because both occurrances are in the middle of lines. Maybe their filter would only let two "pornography"'s get through?
Maybe I completely missed the blaring announcements, but why is it that this is the first time that I'm hearing about this ADK 'feature?' If my version of PGP is automatically including an extra key along with my own, so that the government can snoop on my encrypted mail, it should be made blatantly clear, every time I generate a key. Or maybe I'm missing something obvious?
It seems to me as if the entire world has somehow agreed that 'inappropriate content' can 'damage' young children. Where does this belief come from, anyway? In what tangible (or, for that matter, intangible) way does a photograph of a naked woman (or a naked man) cause phsycological harm to someone in a certain age group?
"Oh my *god*, there's a bare *breast* in this movie! What if the *kids* are watching?!"
What do you think your precious little innocent 'bunny-wabbit' was sucking on for several months of his/her life? What do you think your three-year-old sees when you take him through the women's dressing room at the YMCA? On that note - why is it that from the age of about three, to the age of 17, seeing people other than yourself nude is considered inappropriate? Notwithstanding the fact that nearly every teenager, as well as probably a whole lot of 11- and 12-year olds, have most likely seen at least one or two R-rated movies with nudity. I mean, I understand how some forms of hardcore porn (bondage, torture, beastiality) could give a young kid the wrong idea. But, realistically, how likely is it that anyone, including children, is going to come across something like that by accident. If they're looking for it, then, by definition, they're not going to be 'damaged' by seeing it. So, I ask again, where does this belief that 'inappropriate content' will damage our children come from? Certainly not any form of logic I've ever heard of.
Another successful auction has been completed using UraniumOnLine. This time a buyer bought 56,320 kg U as UF6 for delivery at USEC on 30 Nov at an amazing price of $23.05/kg U as UF6.
So much for needing to "crack the far more secure communications of the power plants and storage facilities."
AFAIK, a JPEG saved at the highest quality setting loses no data, at least not any that can be seen. It does tend to have problems with text and line drawings, though, so if you need *perfect* replication of the original, just go with PNGs. Otherwise, JPGs provide excellent compression with virtually undetectable data loss, up to level 20 or so (in my experience).
How many of you who are so steadfastly against the record industry ("They steal from the artists and don't pay them a dime!") have ever actually sent any money directly to an artist because you appreciated the great material they produced -- that you pirated?
This is a great idea. I wish someone would come up with something like http://www.paylars.com for every artist. If I could easily find a listing of the addresses where I could send money to various artists (not their agents, record companies, or other corporate flunkies), I'd certainly send them money. I honestly wish that there was a way to say to an artist "I love your music, I think it's great!" without paying through the nose to someone who will most likely never give any significant fraction of my money to the actual artist. I (and I'd bet many others) would be willing to pay a reasonable price, probably even more than the record companies pay the artists, for each and every MP3 I download. I would have no problem handing over $0.50+ for a high-quality MP3 (192 kbps+) with no restrictions other than on providing copies to others. (And these restrictions must not be software-enforced. SDMI is one of the worst ideas I've ever seen, and the implementation of that idea is absolutely horrid.) But I refuse to pay $20 for a piece of plastic that costs $0.01 to make and is then marked up 200,000% so that every jackass in the corporate foodchain gets a cut, while the artist is left with almost nothing.
This is what I want to do eventually, when I get my i-Opener (great piece of hardware, by the way) up to full functionality. However, there's a slight problem: no serial port. Has anyone figured out how to hook up the FireCracker module to an i-Opener?
The most recent keyhole satellites can get resolutions in the vicinity of 5 cm, with computer enhancement (and therefore not realtime). If you want an idea of the kind of things the government can turn on you, go see the movie 'Enemy of the State.' They don't get everything right (for instance, the real-time resolution of the keyhole satellites), but in general they do a good job. That's one movie that will send a chill down your spine...
Oh, and Cuckoo's Nest was a great book; I don't remember the part mentioning the keyhole satellite, though...
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I don't know how I could "prove" it, but I can verify that this has indeed been happening for at least 4+ months*. Any message with youtube.com in it was silently discarded, but outube.com, utube.com, etc. all went through fine. I suppose I could post chat logs from my two machines, but obviously I could have altered them to suit my own purposes...
I just tested it now, and youtube URLs no longer appear to be filtered. However, they were as recently as two weeks ago.
* In fact, I submitted this when I first noticed it, but my story was rejected. C'est la vie.
I sincerely hope that this happens - but it's unlikely that it will. If the RIAA finds itself up against such an adversary, they'll simply drop the suit (they're only doing this in the civil courts, remember). If the student and the rich uncle countersue, it'll probably be thrown out by the judge (see Edward Felten). Such is our he-who-has-the-gold-makes-the-rules legal system.
About a year ago the exact same thing happened to me with the built-in HighPoint HPT-370A controller on my motherboard. I was able to recover all my data by simply recreating the array exactly as before, then running an "FDISK /MBR" (I'm uncertain what the Linux equivalent is). This 'undeleted' the primary partition. I then used a program called "testdisk" (try Google), which runs under DOS, Linux, and several other OSes, to undelete the other partitions.
YMMV, but good luck.
I once was in an orthopedic office (not as chaotic as a general hospital, but reasonably applicable) that used a system that was similar to the one it sounds like you're trying to set up. Everyone who worked there (or so it seemed) carried a subnotebook around with them (small enough to hold by the side with one hand and enter data with the other), each with a wireless LAN card linked into whatever their central system was.
Then, in each patient room, there was an AC adapter that was always plugged into the wall. Whenever a doctor/nurse/etc would be in the room for anything longer than 'please wait here', they would sit down to talk with the patient and plug the subnotebook into the AC adapter. Something like this, in addition to some of the other suggestions given (like hot-swappable batteries), might work for you.
I agree with you fully - that would be a great idea, and a fitting end. Unfortunately, the ion drive runs on solar power, which is essentially useless much past the asteroid belt. There is also the issue of limited fuel: while the drive is very efficient, it still requires fuel to push out the back, and that is a finite resource which is probably almost gone - especially after so many mission extensions.
The show was about the same, if not even better, out on the CU (Cornell University) golf course. It peaked at around 5 AM, with a spurt of 4 or 5 meteors every 15-30 seconds. Every 5-10 was a very bright one leaving a trail that persisted for at least 2-3 seconds, and I personally saw 4 fireballs.
Unfortunately, many other people had the idea to come out on the golf course, so there was an excess of idiot noise, as well as several pricks playing with their flashlights. Still, the show was very impressive, especially considering that during my entire life I've seen no more than two other meteors before tonight...
You make a really excellent point - one that I had not considered previously. However, IMHO, what most people object to in the current copyright system is not the copyright itself, but the absurd cost in obtaining a license to use (listen to, play, copy, whatever) copyrighted material - and nearly all of that cost goes to the distributors of the bits (which themselves contribute almost nothing in the digital world) instead of the creators of the bits. I would have no problem paying the creator of an artistic work a fair price for their creation, and the distributor slightly more than their costs (so they, too, can make a decent profit), but $18 a CD, where typically no more than $0.50 goes to the artist, and the CD costs only $1.50 to produce, is unacceptable. (Yes, advertising and distribution cost money - but spending millions on advertising music isn't necessary, and downloading an MP3 or other audio file doesn't incur a $5 shipping charge from UPS.)
I have Optimum Online cable access here, and my speeds typically run (on long downloads, like MP3s, videos, and ISO images) from 20K/sec to 250K/sec, and as high as 350K/sec. So far, we've only had one outage (that I've noticed) in over 6 months, and that one was no more than an hour or two long.
"Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither." --Benjamin Franklin
Did anyone else notice that out of the four instances of the word 'pornography' in the article, two of them had hyphens? There was "porno- graphy" and then another "porno- graphy". It seems unlikely that this was meant to be an end-of-line wordbreak, because both occurrances are in the middle of lines. Maybe their filter would only let two "pornography"'s get through?
Maybe I completely missed the blaring announcements, but why is it that this is the first time that I'm hearing about this ADK 'feature?' If my version of PGP is automatically including an extra key along with my own, so that the government can snoop on my encrypted mail, it should be made blatantly clear, every time I generate a key. Or maybe I'm missing something obvious?
"Oh my *god*, there's a bare *breast* in this movie! What if the *kids* are watching?!"
What do you think your precious little innocent 'bunny-wabbit' was sucking on for several months of his/her life? What do you think your three-year-old sees when you take him through the women's dressing room at the YMCA? On that note - why is it that from the age of about three, to the age of 17, seeing people other than yourself nude is considered inappropriate? Notwithstanding the fact that nearly every teenager, as well as probably a whole lot of 11- and 12-year olds, have most likely seen at least one or two R-rated movies with nudity. I mean, I understand how some forms of hardcore porn (bondage, torture, beastiality) could give a young kid the wrong idea. But, realistically, how likely is it that anyone, including children, is going to come across something like that by accident. If they're looking for it, then, by definition, they're not going to be 'damaged' by seeing it. So, I ask again, where does this belief that 'inappropriate content' will damage our children come from? Certainly not any form of logic I've ever heard of.
According to the site:
Another successful auction has been completed using UraniumOnLine. This time a buyer bought 56,320 kg U as UF6 for delivery at USEC on 30 Nov at an amazing price of $23.05/kg U as UF6.
So much for needing to "crack the far more secure communications of the power plants and storage facilities."
AFAIK, a JPEG saved at the highest quality setting loses no data, at least not any that can be seen. It does tend to have problems with text and line drawings, though, so if you need *perfect* replication of the original, just go with PNGs. Otherwise, JPGs provide excellent compression with virtually undetectable data loss, up to level 20 or so (in my experience).
How many of you who are so steadfastly against the record industry ("They steal from the artists and don't pay them a dime!") have ever actually sent any money directly to an artist because you appreciated the great material they produced -- that you pirated?
This is a great idea. I wish someone would come up with something like http://www.paylars.com for every artist. If I could easily find a listing of the addresses where I could send money to various artists (not their agents, record companies, or other corporate flunkies), I'd certainly send them money. I honestly wish that there was a way to say to an artist "I love your music, I think it's great!" without paying through the nose to someone who will most likely never give any significant fraction of my money to the actual artist. I (and I'd bet many others) would be willing to pay a reasonable price, probably even more than the record companies pay the artists, for each and every MP3 I download. I would have no problem handing over $0.50+ for a high-quality MP3 (192 kbps+) with no restrictions other than on providing copies to others. (And these restrictions must not be software-enforced. SDMI is one of the worst ideas I've ever seen, and the implementation of that idea is absolutely horrid.) But I refuse to pay $20 for a piece of plastic that costs $0.01 to make and is then marked up 200,000% so that every jackass in the corporate foodchain gets a cut, while the artist is left with almost nothing.
This is what I want to do eventually, when I get my i-Opener (great piece of hardware, by the way) up to full functionality. However, there's a slight problem: no serial port. Has anyone figured out how to hook up the FireCracker module to an i-Opener?
The most recent keyhole satellites can get resolutions in the vicinity of 5 cm, with computer enhancement (and therefore not realtime). If you want an idea of the kind of things the government can turn on you, go see the movie 'Enemy of the State.' They don't get everything right (for instance, the real-time resolution of the keyhole satellites), but in general they do a good job. That's one movie that will send a chill down your spine...
Oh, and Cuckoo's Nest was a great book; I don't remember the part mentioning the keyhole satellite, though...