The fact is though, that these students have to "illegally" copy songs off of somebodies ipod, rip songs off of a cd and copy them when they aren't supposed to, or use limewire/torrents to download these files. Maybe the RIAA thinks that it is easier to stop people from sharing these files over the internet, because you can't really effectively stop sneakernets...
Also, here in Canada, the music industry gets a few cents off of every blank CD purchase, to offset the cost of piracy.
Actually they did not expect an improvement, so their experiment was biased, I won't repeat what everybody said above, but read comments before posting. FYI, it's triple, not tripple, get firefox with the google toolbar, it fixes spelling:)
I had a shitty old hard drive that was failing CRC (cyclic redundancy checks) but the file I had downloaded was 4 gigs, and there were a few corrupt pieces, but by copying it to another hard drive, and replacing just the corrupt pieces I saved myself a shit load of bandwidth.
As a student I do a lot of printing, but I don't have enough money to warrant buying a laser printer, because I get ink jet cartridges for $6 instead of $40. I haven't had any issues, and have saved a lot of money. Also, I bought an expired color cartridge (like over $40) for $1 at a garage sale, it was unused, and it's been in my printer for 3 months and still prints fine. Maybe it's just because I'm so damned cheap, but I do not think that I would ever buy an OEM cartridge....but I'm also too lazy to refill it myself. Also, i have noticed that refill places only do it a max of 3 times, and they wouldn't refill my color cartridges for some reason.
I spent over $500 on textbooks, and when I dropped my chemistry course (I'm in arts, but I wrongly decided to take chem), they said that I can't get a refund because I had had the books for over 2 weeks. It was 1 week into the semester, and I had bought the books 2 weeks before classes started. As a first year, I mistakenly assumed that if I had a textbook in sealed packing with a receipt, that they should return it. I now refuse to buy textbooks from my university bookstore (here at UBC), and instead look to alternatives. Here there a few, there is the discount book store that sells books at a reasonable discount, and also buys books back for much more than the ripoff UBC bookstore. Unfortunately, selection is limited, but as a first year taking popular classes its all good. The most interesting one however, is the iBook union, where a group of students will sell your textbooks on your behalf and give you more money that any bookstores would.
The best solution, which only applies if your pretty smart and taking easy classes, is to just not buy textbooks. I didn't buy any textbooks this year, photocopied important parts from friends, got my poli sci text from my local library (and renewed it twice, saved $60), or just suck it up and actually attend classes.
www.safecanada.ca [Canadian National Security]
www.n-somerset.gov.uk [UK Local Government]
events.un.org [United Nations]
www.unicef.org.uk [UNICEF]
These are a list of infected sites, don't click unless you know what you're doing. But I am worried when they affecting reasonably high traffic sites, whos visitors are not too likely to be running noscript.
If I do not have noscript for ffx, then I am vulnerable, and I am also unsure of what happens when you are infected with one of these trojans or w/e. Is it really that bad if my computer is a POS that I use for nothing important? Is there a threat of keyloggers? I have zonealarm running and AVG antivirus,,,,,,
Small, portable EEG monitors are already available. Indeed, they have even been incorporated into baseball caps. A lightweight head device is also being developed for people to interact mentally with computer games. So, if EEG features can be found that correspond to the change in brain activity which the researchers have observed, then a hat that gives warning of an imminent mistake might one day become reality.
I think that if this becomes more realistic, and employers get a hold of this then they would be able to screen applicants for their prone-ness to mistakes (sorry english is not my first language:/)
exactly, in the US they have a huge selection of TV shows and movies, but here in Canada there are only a handful, not that I would download them anyways....no HDTV and that's what torrents are for (the TV shows, which aren't illegal to download)
I REALLY apologize for my scattered thoughts, but it's 4/20, so we have been getting baked since early this morning, and I am burnt out as fuck.
this isn't that big a of a deal. I mean, sure the government knows who you are, and that you have wifi access, but even then that doesn't mean they can break encrypted data. And people with stuff to hide won't register it. Shouldn't be that hard to get around it. I wouldn't be suprised if China tried this too, but they would be more worried about their economy, the russians have oil at least.
What about starbucks? My native village in the northern (poor as fuck) region of Punjab, India has a few starbucks coffee shops with wifi, and if we have them, so does russia, and i seriously doubt home users will agree to this bullshit.
registering a hotspot â" including a home network â" is more complicated, involving a set of documents and technological certifications akin to putting in a cell tower. I doubt this, because there are probably thousands of wifi hotspots per cell tower, and i just don't believe it.
maybe the russians should try some of BC's finest bud, it made me stop caring about what people say.
In Soviet Russia,
To deter thieves from jacking my laptop I engraved my name, social security number, mothers maiden name, phone number, home address and birth date on the laptop SCREEN. They can't do anything without a screen right? Plus, when I catch the punks who did it, I can prove that I am the owner of the laptop. Nobody has stolen my laptop yet.
Works Cited:
"Tree Book â" Subalpine Fir." Tree Book. 5 Dec. 2006
.
"Nearest Neighbour Analysis." 5 Dec. 2006
.
"Mount Garibaldi." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 5 Dec. 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Garibaldi>.
"Juan de Fuca Plate." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 5 Dec. 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Fuca_plate>.
"Soil Horizon." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 5 Dec. 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_Horizon>.
"Noble Fir." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 5 Dec. 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Fir>.
"Devilâ(TM)s Club." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 5 Dec. 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devilâ(TM)s_Club>.
" Polystichum munitum." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 5 Dec. 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polystichum_munitum>.
Thats from an IB paper that I handed in during the 12th grade. I still got a 6/7 which is pretty good seeing as I did all my research and writing on Dec 5th. Wikipedia is reliable, and according to wikipedia, it is more reliable than traditional online encyclopedias like encarta.
Better than some of the shit they have now. Personally a show based entirely around sponsors sounds alright, as long as there is a show sponsored by the Canadian Government, where it would be a bunch of eskimos chilling (pun intended) in our nations capital of toronto, chugging beers and smokin aboot 3 maple syrup flavoUred joints each. yeee
dismiss MS Office users as drinking Purple Kool-Aid
Hey! I know plently of black people who don't use office and are perfectly content with Open Office. Racial fucking profiling is rampant down there eh?
Having 20 different parties doesn't matter, because of 'wasted votes' people only vote for parties that have a shot at winning.
when the liberal party here in BC won 57% of the vote, because of the first past the post system they got 97% of the seats. STV or MMP proportional representation will give smaller parties a voice, what we need is electoral reform, so I can continue to vote for the marijuana party, while giving the communists my support as well.
"which are thankfully based on calculated probabilities of terrorist attacks"
Which translates to:
Which are unfortunately based on probability that the suspect is of middle eastern descent...
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The fact is though, that these students have to "illegally" copy songs off of somebodies ipod, rip songs off of a cd and copy them when they aren't supposed to, or use limewire/torrents to download these files. Maybe the RIAA thinks that it is easier to stop people from sharing these files over the internet, because you can't really effectively stop sneakernets...
Also, here in Canada, the music industry gets a few cents off of every blank CD purchase, to offset the cost of piracy.
unless one of them is Duke Nukem forever, nobody on /. cares.
Actually they did not expect an improvement, so their experiment was biased, I won't repeat what everybody said above, but read comments before posting. FYI, it's triple, not tripple, get firefox with the google toolbar, it fixes spelling :)
I had a shitty old hard drive that was failing CRC (cyclic redundancy checks) but the file I had downloaded was 4 gigs, and there were a few corrupt pieces, but by copying it to another hard drive, and replacing just the corrupt pieces I saved myself a shit load of bandwidth.
As a student I do a lot of printing, but I don't have enough money to warrant buying a laser printer, because I get ink jet cartridges for $6 instead of $40. I haven't had any issues, and have saved a lot of money. Also, I bought an expired color cartridge (like over $40) for $1 at a garage sale, it was unused, and it's been in my printer for 3 months and still prints fine. Maybe it's just because I'm so damned cheap, but I do not think that I would ever buy an OEM cartridge....but I'm also too lazy to refill it myself. Also, i have noticed that refill places only do it a max of 3 times, and they wouldn't refill my color cartridges for some reason.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/21/2316212
this is old news, all the details were in fact "leaked" weeks ago on microsoft's website.
I spent over $500 on textbooks, and when I dropped my chemistry course (I'm in arts, but I wrongly decided to take chem), they said that I can't get a refund because I had had the books for over 2 weeks. It was 1 week into the semester, and I had bought the books 2 weeks before classes started. As a first year, I mistakenly assumed that if I had a textbook in sealed packing with a receipt, that they should return it. I now refuse to buy textbooks from my university bookstore (here at UBC), and instead look to alternatives. Here there a few, there is the discount book store that sells books at a reasonable discount, and also buys books back for much more than the ripoff UBC bookstore. Unfortunately, selection is limited, but as a first year taking popular classes its all good. The most interesting one however, is the iBook union, where a group of students will sell your textbooks on your behalf and give you more money that any bookstores would.
The best solution, which only applies if your pretty smart and taking easy classes, is to just not buy textbooks. I didn't buy any textbooks this year, photocopied important parts from friends, got my poli sci text from my local library (and renewed it twice, saved $60), or just suck it up and actually attend classes.
A taxpayer...
www.safecanada.ca [Canadian National Security] www.n-somerset.gov.uk [UK Local Government] events.un.org [United Nations] www.unicef.org.uk [UNICEF]
These are a list of infected sites, don't click unless you know what you're doing. But I am worried when they affecting reasonably high traffic sites, whos visitors are not too likely to be running noscript.
If I do not have noscript for ffx, then I am vulnerable, and I am also unsure of what happens when you are infected with one of these trojans or w/e. Is it really that bad if my computer is a POS that I use for nothing important? Is there a threat of keyloggers? I have zonealarm running and AVG antivirus,,,,,,
I think that if this becomes more realistic, and employers get a hold of this then they would be able to screen applicants for their prone-ness to mistakes (sorry english is not my first language
exactly, in the US they have a huge selection of TV shows and movies, but here in Canada there are only a handful, not that I would download them anyways....no HDTV and that's what torrents are for (the TV shows, which aren't illegal to download)
can be found here at http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9924689-57.html?tag=nefd.lede
my bad, im still baking and i didnt finish my post.
In Democratic Russia, internet surfs you!
If you see that happening, lay off the acid, or tell your mom to finish up, get her clothes back on, and get out.
To deter thieves from jacking my laptop I engraved my name, social security number, mothers maiden name, phone number, home address and birth date on the laptop SCREEN. They can't do anything without a screen right? Plus, when I catch the punks who did it, I can prove that I am the owner of the laptop. Nobody has stolen my laptop yet.
Works Cited: "Tree Book â" Subalpine Fir." Tree Book. 5 Dec. 2006
.
"Nearest Neighbour Analysis." 5 Dec. 2006
. "Mount Garibaldi." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 5 Dec. 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Garibaldi>.
"Juan de Fuca Plate." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 5 Dec. 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Fuca_plate>.
"Soil Horizon." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 5 Dec. 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_Horizon>.
"Noble Fir." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 5 Dec. 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Fir>.
"Devilâ(TM)s Club." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 5 Dec. 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devilâ(TM)s_Club>.
" Polystichum munitum." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 5 Dec. 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polystichum_munitum>.
Thats from an IB paper that I handed in during the 12th grade. I still got a 6/7 which is pretty good seeing as I did all my research and writing on Dec 5th. Wikipedia is reliable, and according to wikipedia, it is more reliable than traditional online encyclopedias like encarta.
Better than some of the shit they have now. Personally a show based entirely around sponsors sounds alright, as long as there is a show sponsored by the Canadian Government, where it would be a bunch of eskimos chilling (pun intended) in our nations capital of toronto, chugging beers and smokin aboot 3 maple syrup flavoUred joints each. yeee
they changed their address 4 times if I remember rightly, can't remember which news article it was though..
Hey! I know plently of black people who don't use office and are perfectly content with Open Office. Racial fucking profiling is rampant down there eh?
tell us something we don't know http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/07/1457218 http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/29/2217231 http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/27/149253 http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/25/035200
Having 20 different parties doesn't matter, because of 'wasted votes' people only vote for parties that have a shot at winning. when the liberal party here in BC won 57% of the vote, because of the first past the post system they got 97% of the seats. STV or MMP proportional representation will give smaller parties a voice, what we need is electoral reform, so I can continue to vote for the marijuana party, while giving the communists my support as well.
"which are thankfully based on calculated probabilities of terrorist attacks"
Which translates to:
Which are unfortunately based on probability that the suspect is of middle eastern descent...