I've often thought of something like that... no idea how to do it though (even most p2p systems have a failure point eg. trackers, catalogue servers, etc.). You'd ideally want something that would be able to be completely decentralised.
It wouldn't be any use as a commercial system - if a peer decided to start advertising microsoft.com as his there's nothing to stop him.. so the standard roots would still be needed for authoritative stuff.
Trademarks in which country? For what use? - remember even within countries trademarks are limited to specific fields of endevour.
If some chinese company wanted to register the microsoft TLD you really think the chinese gov. give a shit about the US trademark registries?
If a scottish shoemaker wants to call themselves McDonalds they can. They can also register mcdonalds as their domain name without breaking trademark... OK ICANN will steal the domain off them and give to the other one as they can pay more bribe money to the ICANN committee, but legally there's no problem.
They tried that with.ltd.uk.. I remember trying to register a company I was at. It was a 3 year old company, registered at companies house, etc.
The.ltd.uk registrars refused registration, because we had used a hyphen in the name and the registration at companies house had a space (you couldn't make it up really!).
To compound the issue they then offered to register us under several *unrelated company names* that they'd pulled out of their ass for a fee. I smelled scam, and backed out.
I presume they pulled that one with everyone, because I've never seen a.ltd.uk domain in actual use (not even spammers bother with it).
If there are *any* then they have to contact the authors and get permission or remove the code.
Even if it's a single line if it's contributed under GPL it remains GPL unless the original author decides to relicense it (although it'd be difficult to prove a single line GPL violation in court, and most wouldn't bother).
Changing OSS project licenses is a difficult job, and for some projects may not even be possible short of a complete rewrite.
If your application links with *any* gpl code it cannot be distributed without making the whole application GPL. That's the reason for corporate policies against using GPL software - the risk is too great.
'complying with the license afterwards' == 'release your software as GPL'. Not acceptable - and most companies would *prefer* to pay $150,000 per incident than do that.
Firstly there *are* no 'local' stores any more - they're all part of big national chains.
Secondly, they all charge 25%-50% more than online charges, have fewer items available, and don't get me started on customer support - those idiots wouldn't know support if it hit them on the head.
I've had *far* better support from online retailers than I have ever had from 'local' stores.
Report a fraudulent transaction on the other card - you'll get your money back, since Amazon claim to have no record of the transaction... there's no papertrail, which is amazon's problem, not yours.
Me too. The wireless router is switched off at the moment... no need for it.
It's just too damned unreliable. 2.4ghz isn't just wireless (not much of that conflicting around here) but microwaves, taxis, the local trains, and half a dozen other things probably.
I've upped the power to quite frankly illegal levels, put a high gain aerial on top of that, and still can't cut through the interference. Eveventually I gave up and went back to wired.
Microwaves heat water.. it can *appear* they are doing this if the food has a dry outside, as there's nothing to heat, however in the normal case they'll heat in the same way as a conventional oven (albeit faster).
If you've ever used a microwave you'll have had times when food was frozen in the middle after cooking (lots of times in my case... my MW is old and not as efficient as it used to be).
There's a huge difference between bullying and demanding a straight answer.
In the famous paxman interview, the politician *repeatedly* refuest to give a straight answer to a simple question. He was lying, and it was becoming more apparent as the questioning went on that (a) he wasn't going to admit publicly what he had done, and (b) it was painfully obvious that he had done it.
A good interviewer will try any means possible to get a straight answer out of the interviewee. Someone who is fudging will have a *really* bad time (unless they resort to barefaced lies, which tends to get them thrown out of office), and someone telling the truth will have a relatively easy time.
Politicians are easy meat, because they *never* give a straight answer to anything. If you asked one what time it was they'd talk crap for 10 minutes and still not tell you the time...
Note that that's transmitting the *whole* dvd for download.
VOD doesn't do that - it streams it in realtime, so you're talking about being able to server many tens of thousands of customers simultaneously.
Take into account multicast and align each 'broadcast' to a minute granularity (so you only need 90 simultaneous streams of the most popular movies to serve everyone) and there's more than enough bandwidth to scale to even the largest city.
Even if you were wanting to download the whole DVD to a hard disk (assuming for the moment you could build a hard disk that could store a DVD in half a second), you wouldn't transmit the same movie multiple times... same economies of scale - the popular stuff actually ends up taking less bandwidth proportionately to the obscure stuff (which might only be transmitted per-customer).
Download BIONC. Install. Sign up with whatever @Home project you're interested in using. Go back to BOINC, attach to project using account key that was e-mailed to you (or e-mail address.)... deal with the totally unnecessary configuration screens. Walk away. Come back 24 hours later to find that the software has done *nothing* and now refuses to even attempt to connect to the server, because it failed too many packets (for no reason at all other than it felt like it). Uninstall crap software. Get on with life.
I've tried (and given up on) BOINC before. I got it to connect but every single packet came back as failed. No explanation was given, and the stats steadfastly remained at zero.
Same behaviour on multiple machines, all with plenty of disk space/memory. I uninstalled the thing as it was clearly broken.
Lots of ways... it stops moving about, for example. Also the cat itself knows whether it's dead or not.
I always had a problem with that experiment - it implies that human intellegence has some link with the state of the universe. I don't buy that for one minute. What happens if an ant crawls into the box for example? Because it's not 'really' an observer the cat is still half alive?? Plus since it's by definition unobservable it's also unprovable - so the whole experiment relies on philosophy rather than science.
Birds get sucked in all the time... it's a known hazard. It's not much of a stretch to imagine a person getting sucked in (provided they were in the air at the right point... parahcuting???).
Yes the show would be *so* much better if they did this.
I can't believe there aren't engineers working behind the scenes on some of the myths anyway.. eg. the large catapult where you were trying to throw buster as far as possible (forget why..) - that's 100% solvable mathematically, and presumably was off-camera, but you never showed even a laymans summary of this.
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Dude, if you think racism is 'calling people names' then you need to *seriously* get an education.
Bullshit. Proving a negative is just as easy as proving a positive.
I can prove that I did not have hot sex with 32 virgins 10 minutes ago.
I can prove that 1+1!=2,4392
Oh the old sugar in a tank myth... that was debunked over 10 years ago that I heard of.. it's probably been known to be bullshit longer than that.
I've often thought of something like that... no idea how to do it though (even most p2p systems have a failure point eg. trackers, catalogue servers, etc.). You'd ideally want something that would be able to be completely decentralised.
It wouldn't be any use as a commercial system - if a peer decided to start advertising microsoft.com as his there's nothing to stop him.. so the standard roots would still be needed for authoritative stuff.
Wierd... yahoo are .com.org?
Either that or FF did the google lookup *first* which is severely broken behaviour IMO.
I get the x.org homepage.... all FF has done is append '.org' onto the domain name.. big whoop.
Trademarks in which country? For what use? - remember even within countries trademarks are limited to specific fields of endevour.
If some chinese company wanted to register the microsoft TLD you really think the chinese gov. give a shit about the US trademark registries?
If a scottish shoemaker wants to call themselves McDonalds they can. They can also register mcdonalds as their domain name without breaking trademark... OK ICANN will steal the domain off them and give to the other one as they can pay more bribe money to the ICANN committee, but legally there's no problem.
They tried that with .ltd.uk.. I remember trying to register a company I was at. It was a 3 year old company, registered at companies house, etc.
.ltd.uk registrars refused registration, because we had used a hyphen in the name and the registration at companies house had a space (you couldn't make it up really!).
.ltd.uk domain in actual use (not even spammers bother with it).
The
To compound the issue they then offered to register us under several *unrelated company names* that they'd pulled out of their ass for a fee. I smelled scam, and backed out.
I presume they pulled that one with everyone, because I've never seen a
If there are *any* then they have to contact the authors and get permission or remove the code.
Even if it's a single line if it's contributed under GPL it remains GPL unless the original author decides to relicense it (although it'd be difficult to prove a single line GPL violation in court, and most wouldn't bother).
Changing OSS project licenses is a difficult job, and for some projects may not even be possible short of a complete rewrite.
Not really, what he said *is* true.
If your application links with *any* gpl code it cannot be distributed without making the whole application GPL. That's the reason for corporate policies against using GPL software - the risk is too great.
'complying with the license afterwards' == 'release your software as GPL'. Not acceptable - and most companies would *prefer* to pay $150,000 per incident than do that.
Firstly there *are* no 'local' stores any more - they're all part of big national chains.
Secondly, they all charge 25%-50% more than online charges, have fewer items available, and don't get me started on customer support - those idiots wouldn't know support if it hit them on the head.
I've had *far* better support from online retailers than I have ever had from 'local' stores.
Report a fraudulent transaction on the other card - you'll get your money back, since Amazon claim to have no record of the transaction... there's no papertrail, which is amazon's problem, not yours.
Me too. The wireless router is switched off at the moment... no need for it.
It's just too damned unreliable. 2.4ghz isn't just wireless (not much of that conflicting around here) but microwaves, taxis, the local trains, and half a dozen other things probably.
I've upped the power to quite frankly illegal levels, put a high gain aerial on top of that, and still can't cut through the interference. Eveventually I gave up and went back to wired.
I would have thought archie fits the bill there.
That's an old myth.
Microwaves heat water.. it can *appear* they are doing this if the food has a dry outside, as there's nothing to heat, however in the normal case they'll heat in the same way as a conventional oven (albeit faster).
If you've ever used a microwave you'll have had times when food was frozen in the middle after cooking (lots of times in my case... my MW is old and not as efficient as it used to be).
There's a huge difference between bullying and demanding a straight answer.
In the famous paxman interview, the politician *repeatedly* refuest to give a straight answer to a simple question. He was lying, and it was becoming more apparent as the questioning went on that (a) he wasn't going to admit publicly what he had done, and (b) it was painfully obvious that he had done it.
A good interviewer will try any means possible to get a straight answer out of the interviewee. Someone who is fudging will have a *really* bad time (unless they resort to barefaced lies, which tends to get them thrown out of office), and someone telling the truth will have a relatively easy time.
Politicians are easy meat, because they *never* give a straight answer to anything. If you asked one what time it was they'd talk crap for 10 minutes and still not tell you the time...
It's more than that.
Got onto base.google.porn
Type 'porn'.
Oggle.
I an *not* logged into google, so safe search is presumably on.
Note that that's transmitting the *whole* dvd for download.
VOD doesn't do that - it streams it in realtime, so you're talking about being able to server many tens of thousands of customers simultaneously.
Take into account multicast and align each 'broadcast' to a minute granularity (so you only need 90 simultaneous streams of the most popular movies to serve everyone) and there's more than enough bandwidth to scale to even the largest city.
Even if you were wanting to download the whole DVD to a hard disk (assuming for the moment you could build a hard disk that could store a DVD in half a second), you wouldn't transmit the same movie multiple times... same economies of scale - the popular stuff actually ends up taking less bandwidth proportionately to the obscure stuff (which might only be transmitted per-customer).
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Download BIONC. Install. Sign up with whatever @Home project you're interested in using. Go back to BOINC, attach to project using account key that was e-mailed to you (or e-mail address.). .. deal with the totally unnecessary configuration screens. Walk away. Come back 24 hours later to find that the software has done *nothing* and now refuses to even attempt to connect to the server, because it failed too many packets (for no reason at all other than it felt like it). Uninstall crap software. Get on with life.
I've tried (and given up on) BOINC before. I got it to connect but every single packet came back as failed. No explanation was given, and the stats steadfastly remained at zero.
Same behaviour on multiple machines, all with plenty of disk space/memory. I uninstalled the thing as it was clearly broken.
#1 has to be the cardboard box the toys came in.
Lots of ways... it stops moving about, for example. Also the cat itself knows whether it's dead or not.
I always had a problem with that experiment - it implies that human intellegence has some link with the state of the universe. I don't buy that for one minute. What happens if an ant crawls into the box for example? Because it's not 'really' an observer the cat is still half alive?? Plus since it's by definition unobservable it's also unprovable - so the whole experiment relies on philosophy rather than science.
Birds get sucked in all the time... it's a known hazard. It's not much of a stretch to imagine a person getting sucked in (provided they were in the air at the right point... parahcuting???).
Yes the show would be *so* much better if they did this.
I can't believe there aren't engineers working behind the scenes on some of the myths anyway.. eg. the large catapult where you were trying to throw buster as far as possible (forget why..) - that's 100% solvable mathematically, and presumably was off-camera, but you never showed even a laymans summary of this.