The Proton uses nitrogen tetroxide (N2O4, oxidizer) and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH, fuel). See this page. Both of these chemicals are highly toxic. They were popular for liquid fueled ICBMs because they were non-cryogenic and storable.
Playing it on the radio does not put a song in the public domain.
Taping the song is legal. Giving a copy to a friend is more questionable, but probably legal. Running off 100 copies and selling them on the street corner is definitely illegal.
It isn't that simple. If you want society, in the form of the government, to spend time and money on creating and maintaining a system of property rights, along with the enforcement mechanisms, there are going to be strings attached. The system is going to have to be in the public interest, providing tangible benefits to society, not just to the "owners" of property. All of the "natural rights" in the world are worthless if there is no remedy for their violation.
These companies and their customers need to recognize that you can't prevent someone from getting at the raw bits, all you can do is to slow them down. Software is easily hacked, even hardware can be hacked with enough effort. At some point a hardware or software device is going to have to decrypt the bits for playback. Even if you use NSA style tamper-resistant hardware modules, the bits are vulnerable when they are converted to analog audio/video.
They would be better off if they looked for ways to add value to the bits. Offer the customer something they will be willing to pay for, such as quality, convenience and selection.
I get the impression that these companies are "drinking the kool-aid" of Digital Rights Management because they yearn for a world where they can extract a fee for every use of their bits.
I can think of two problems for someone with a legitimate court order.
How do you get the IP address associated with the dialup port being used by the target.
Incoming mail is being delivered to a SMTP server, not directly to the target. If you want to capture the target's incoming email, you have to sniff port 25 on the SMTP server(s).
Coca-Cola sold out when they replaced cane sugar with corn syrup. The only time you can get real Coca-Cola is during Passover, when they switch back to cane sugar.
... when will they address the problem of the damage by radiation caused by cell phone antennas, which are overwhelmingly placed in poor communities?
Never. It's all part of the genocidal conspiracy to corrupt the DNA of the poor, to lower their birth rate and destroy their communities. They also scan your brain for subversive thoughts.
I mean, since cell phone users are predominantly white, middle to upper class males, of course this gets investigated.
How else can we coordinate the global conspiracy (The Plan(TM)) to keep you down if we don't have our cell phones?
At work, we have several NSA certified tape degaussers. The degaussers are certified for media up to 750 oersted at better than -90 dB erasure. They are strong enough to erase the credit cards in your wallet if you stand too close to one that is in operation. Signs are posted that warn people with heart pacemakers to stay out of the area. As strong as they are, they are not powerful enough to securely erase the high coercivity media used in many modern tape cartridges and disk drives. The other problem is that a hard disk enclosure is going to shield the platters inside the drive.
Has anyone looked at the use of non-latin alphabets for domain names and TLDs? There are countries, such as China and Russia, that might prefer to use other alphabets in their domain names. How would you like it if all Internet domain names were written in Hindi?
These folks must have a yellow line down the middle of the floor so that they can find the rest rooms at high noon.
Don't make the assumption that these people are stupid, they aren't. They are smarter than 95% of the public.
They are perfectly aware that the North Koreans, and whoever else is the bad guy of the month, can download and use strong cryptography from the Internet. They aren't worried about geeks running some obscure operating system like Linux or OpenBSD.
What they have successfully accomplished is preventing strong cryptography from becoming a transparent, easy-to-use component of commodity software like Outlook Express and Windows 98. They have also been extremely successful at keeping strong cryptography out of the standards for wireless telephones.
Ask yourself, what percentage of my email and telephone calls use strong cryptography?
I've been getting lots of blue screens lately, caused by a buggy USB CD-RW device driver. Usually they are uncommon and seem to be related to hardware problems. I've had a few that were caused by bugs in the networking software.
My family lived in Cupertino and San Jose when I was a young boy. In Cupertino, there was a huge plum orchard across the street from our house. My friends and I used to steal plums from it and try to catch the little lizards that were common in the area. It was a nice place for kids. The major businesses in the area were the cement plant and Hewlett-Packard. Except for the cement trucks, there was little traffic on the roads. A new tract house sold for $20,000.
I haven't been back there in years. A coworker brought back a map from his business trip to Sunnyvale. I couldn't believe it. All of the wide open spaces were gone. It was sad to see how everything had changed. Even if I wanted to, I couldn't afford to live in my old neighborhood.
I recently complained to a webmaster that the primary function of his site did not work on IE 5 for the Mac. He told me to buzz off, they only support the "dominant platform". I fear this will become a common attitude, write for the 80% using IE on Windows and screw everyone else.
This appears to be related to proposed legislation that would ban the use of data channels (datacasting) in digital television broadcast transmissions for streaming audio/video. The goal of the legislation is to prevent people from competing with the Australian television networks by stuffing video programming in a datacasting stream. See this article for a fuller description of the controversy.
In the English system, what stops the Prime Minister from doing whatever he wants? From what I've read, Labour is eager to gut the House of Lords. The Monarch doesn't have any real power, and short of triggering a no-confidence vote from the House of Commons, the Prime Minister has unlimited power if he can keep his party in line.
An important feature of old-style voting is the inability of a voter to prove that he voted for or against a particular candidate. This makes it more difficult to buy or obtain votes through intimidation.
It's a false economy, plus at one time, Intel and other vendors were telling people that they didn't need parity or ECC RAM.
ECC RAM is more expensive and it can be hard to find. Many stores don't stock it. In some computers it can be a bit slower than regular RAM.
After having repeatedly dealt with RAM with pattern sensitivity problems, I am a firm believer in ECC RAM. Trying to diagnose and repair a computer that crashes every few days, or only when certain programs are run, can be a major headache. Is the problem the RAM, other hardware, application programs, device drivers or the flakey operating system?
In general, space technology is classified as "dual use", meaning that it has civilian and military applications. The purpose of the export control review is to prevent the export of militarily useful hardware and technology to possibly hostile countries. We don't want to sell rocket guidance systems to China, only to see them installed on their ICBMs.
The thing is, everyone knows that musicians need money to create music. It's painfully obvious in every single person's life that money is required to survive.
As soon as you say "everyone knows", someone will disagree with you:-).
I would argue that the majority of musicians do not make a living from music. They have to find other means of paying the bills. It's a bit like sports. An elite few get rich, a somewhat larger group make a living at it, the vast majority make little or no money at it. So are we talking about musicians in the broader sense or the relatively small number of musicians who can quit their day job?
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You can get PAL/NTSC/SECAM sets that will run on 110/220V 50/60 Hz power. See this page for some Sony models.
The Proton uses nitrogen tetroxide (N2O4, oxidizer) and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH, fuel). See this page. Both of these chemicals are highly toxic. They were popular for liquid fueled ICBMs because they were non-cryogenic and storable.
It's a Jewish religious holiday.
Taping the song is legal. Giving a copy to a friend is more questionable, but probably legal. Running off 100 copies and selling them on the street corner is definitely illegal.
A very educational dissertation, Weaving Webs of Ownership, covers the historical background of copyright. I highly recommend it.
It isn't that simple. If you want society, in the form of the government, to spend time and money on creating and maintaining a system of property rights, along with the enforcement mechanisms, there are going to be strings attached. The system is going to have to be in the public interest, providing tangible benefits to society, not just to the "owners" of property. All of the "natural rights" in the world are worthless if there is no remedy for their violation.
They would be better off if they looked for ways to add value to the bits. Offer the customer something they will be willing to pay for, such as quality, convenience and selection.
I get the impression that these companies are "drinking the kool-aid" of Digital Rights Management because they yearn for a world where they can extract a fee for every use of their bits.
Coca-Cola sold out when they replaced cane sugar with corn syrup. The only time you can get real Coca-Cola is during Passover, when they switch back to cane sugar.
Never. It's all part of the genocidal conspiracy to corrupt the DNA of the poor, to lower their birth rate and destroy their communities. They also scan your brain for subversive thoughts.
I mean, since cell phone users are predominantly white, middle to upper class males, of course this gets investigated.
How else can we coordinate the global conspiracy (The Plan(TM)) to keep you down if we don't have our cell phones?
The Man(TM)
At work, we have several NSA certified tape degaussers. The degaussers are certified for media up to 750 oersted at better than -90 dB erasure. They are strong enough to erase the credit cards in your wallet if you stand too close to one that is in operation. Signs are posted that warn people with heart pacemakers to stay out of the area. As strong as they are, they are not powerful enough to securely erase the high coercivity media used in many modern tape cartridges and disk drives. The other problem is that a hard disk enclosure is going to shield the platters inside the drive.
See A Guide to Understanding Data Remanence in Automated Information Systems for the National Computer Security Center guide to the subject.
Has anyone looked at the use of non-latin alphabets for domain names and TLDs? There are countries, such as China and Russia, that might prefer to use other alphabets in their domain names. How would you like it if all Internet domain names were written in Hindi?
Don't make the assumption that these people are stupid, they aren't. They are smarter than 95% of the public.
They are perfectly aware that the North Koreans, and whoever else is the bad guy of the month, can download and use strong cryptography from the Internet. They aren't worried about geeks running some obscure operating system like Linux or OpenBSD.
What they have successfully accomplished is preventing strong cryptography from becoming a transparent, easy-to-use component of commodity software like Outlook Express and Windows 98. They have also been extremely successful at keeping strong cryptography out of the standards for wireless telephones.
Ask yourself, what percentage of my email and telephone calls use strong cryptography?
I've been getting lots of blue screens lately, caused by a buggy USB CD-RW device driver. Usually they are uncommon and seem to be related to hardware problems. I've had a few that were caused by bugs in the networking software.
Even if you assume that MAPS is slandering Yesmail, slander is not a crime, it is a tort, or civil wrong.
I haven't been back there in years. A coworker brought back a map from his business trip to Sunnyvale. I couldn't believe it. All of the wide open spaces were gone. It was sad to see how everything had changed. Even if I wanted to, I couldn't afford to live in my old neighborhood.
I recently complained to a webmaster that the primary function of his site did not work on IE 5 for the Mac. He told me to buzz off, they only support the "dominant platform". I fear this will become a common attitude, write for the 80% using IE on Windows and screw everyone else.
This appears to be related to proposed legislation that would ban the use of data channels (datacasting) in digital television broadcast transmissions for streaming audio/video. The goal of the legislation is to prevent people from competing with the Australian television networks by stuffing video programming in a datacasting stream. See this article for a fuller description of the controversy.
In the English system, what stops the Prime Minister from doing whatever he wants? From what I've read, Labour is eager to gut the House of Lords. The Monarch doesn't have any real power, and short of triggering a no-confidence vote from the House of Commons, the Prime Minister has unlimited power if he can keep his party in line.
An important feature of old-style voting is the inability of a voter to prove that he voted for or against a particular candidate. This makes it more difficult to buy or obtain votes through intimidation.
When we asked for a ROM, they handed you a PC board covered with diodes and a pair of wire cutters.
Bonus geezer points for anyone who knows what a "schmoo chart" is.
ECC RAM is more expensive and it can be hard to find. Many stores don't stock it. In some computers it can be a bit slower than regular RAM.
After having repeatedly dealt with RAM with pattern sensitivity problems, I am a firm believer in ECC RAM. Trying to diagnose and repair a computer that crashes every few days, or only when certain programs are run, can be a major headache. Is the problem the RAM, other hardware, application programs, device drivers or the flakey operating system?
In general, space technology is classified as "dual use", meaning that it has civilian and military applications. The purpose of the export control review is to prevent the export of militarily useful hardware and technology to possibly hostile countries. We don't want to sell rocket guidance systems to China, only to see them installed on their ICBMs.
As soon as you say "everyone knows", someone will disagree with you :-).
I would argue that the majority of musicians do not make a living from music. They have to find other means of paying the bills. It's a bit like sports. An elite few get rich, a somewhat larger group make a living at it, the vast majority make little or no money at it. So are we talking about musicians in the broader sense or the relatively small number of musicians who can quit their day job?
The link on the page is bad, their home page is here.