At least the scientists try to understand what actually happened. If they find out that the big bang didn't happen like they though, they will revise the theory, like most of the theories were revised as proof was found. Classical mechanics (you can accelerate up to infinite speed) -> relativity (actually, you can only accelerate up to c, but never reach it) -> quantum mechanics (electrons do not behave as tiny spheres with a charge after all, they behave as tiny spheres with a charge and waves at the same time) is one example.
On the other hand, religious people do not revise their holy books, they just say that whatever proof to the contrary exists, it must be false/created by devil/etc.
Also, I really like when religious people argue that their religion is the only true religion when using the same arguments as all the others - "It's written so in the book". For example, why are Christians right and Muslims/Scientologists/Ancient Greeks/FSM believers/etc wrong?
I mean if Firefox starts using this model, I'll have 100 firefox.exe processes in the task manager and I don't want that. So, is there a way to run all of those processes inside a one big process? Well, other than using a full VM...
What they could have done is to negotiate into letting INPP continue working until a new power plant was built.
Hopefully Lithuania will bring a replacement nuclear plant online before too long, and the EU's ~1.3bn Euro assistance to get the plant closed will soften the blow.
Well, I don't know about other countries, but here, money transfer systems have serious leaks, it would probably cost 10 times as much to built the new power plant than it would for Russians or Belorussians (who are building two new power plants close to Lithuania, the Belorussian one is ~45km from Vilnius) because of the leaks.
As for the 1.3GEUR... well, nobody knows where that money went, because while some of it was destined to be used to build a spent fuel storage building 3 years ago. Now we have a concrete field where that building was supposed to be and 1GEUR less... There is an inquiry, but I don't think they will find anything. Or maybe the money from the EU is accounted for and we are missing 1GEUR of our own...
So, 1.3G in, 0.3G out, as I said, money is transferred in leaky pipes.
Remaining RBMK reactors were modified to make them safer, but I suppose you can consider them unsafe just like a car that kills its passengers if the driver accelerates to 200km/h and aims at a concrete wall or a tree.
And Ignalina power plant was shut down mainly because our politicians, fresh out of one Union, wanted to get into another so badly they signed whatever they were told to sign by said Union. Now most of the electricity comes from an old ~1.5GW oil and gas power plant which has ~25% efficiency (which I'm told is pretty low for these power plants).
Linux is a lot different than running as root all the time on Windows.
Let's say that there are no exploits to get root access on a Linux system. What can malware do with limited user account?
rm -rf/home/user - would work, but useless sending spam - you don't need root access to send mail, do you? participating in a botnet - you don't need root access to open a port and give shell to whoever is connecting. searching user files for valuable information - would work
I don't know if a keylogger would work without root access.
So, a trojan (malware pretending to be a legitimate app) or a browser/reader exploit would still work.
Depending on the Windows version, he could probably buy a 3G USB modem and a data plan (you would still need the plan for the ipad).
Or he could get a Windows 98/2000/XP computer and the 3G USB modem if he now uses Windows 95/NT4 or older. User interface of WinXP is very similar to Win95, so that would not be a problem (unless he now uses 3.11).
And that would still be cheaper than the ipad. And on the ipad the UI is different from Windows.
They will sell millions.
Apple fans will probably buy more than one (I remember people buying more than one iphone when it first came out - why would anybody need two identical cell phones I don't know). Less educated friends of the Apple fans will probably buy one (after hearing how great it is from their friend). Some people will be influenced by ads. And some people will buy one after doing research and seeing that it fits their needs and that other tablet PCs don't.
Also, even if that machine was secured, encrypted and such, the perp could take out the hard drive (it helps if the PC has more than one drive), format it with FAT32 (no ownership information), fill it up with kiddy porn (altering the file dates) and then send the drive to the police.
The police would still investigate, the guy would still be called a pervert until he managed to prove his innocence.
Oh, sorry. I did not know that. I don't usually listen to music when outside my home or car, and for those times that I do, I have a good cassette player (Sony WM-D6C).
I can browse the web with my cellphone (Nokia N93), also I can use the cellphone for navigation, I have an external bluetooth GPS, so I don't need an ipod, so I did not do research on their differences.
I suggest that, instead, artists give music away for free (or for Whuffie, real or imaginary), and sell the primary scarce thing they have left to sell: performance.
But then how will an artist be able to sit on his ass all day and still get paid for the few hours of work he did years ago?
In Soviet Union, the artists got paid for the actual work they did. Record a song - get paid. Do a live performance - get paid. Your recorded song sells a lot of copies - money goes to the State. Want more money - do some more actual work.
My VCR has a fast forward button, so I can choose not to see the ads.
You don't pay for internet downloads.... They don't receive money from the internet, which puts quite a dent into their business plans.
Because they don't want to. If they wanted to, they could create a legal torrent tracker where the users pay a monthly fee for the right to download. Operating a tracker is cheap (especially compared to a direct download server). It wouldn't be worse than it is now and they would get some money out of it and some > 0.
I do it manually now. When I need some free space on the downloads drive, I stop seeding one or more torrents and move the files to whatever hard drive has enough space free.
Files still downloading are in the same folder as completed files, however, I don't download all files to the same folder, I split them up according to type (anime/live action/music/software/books), but I do that when I am adding the.torrent, not after it is finished.
As for a file server, why not put the torrent ap on the file server and use remote web control. utorrent and az both have decent web uis...
I have a different computer for p2p programs, uT, ed2k and others. I control it via remote control. uTorrent has an OK remote web UI, but last time I checked, it did not allow me to specify where I want the downloaded file saved.
That computer also has vmware server installed and runs some virtual machines. It has 3x 18GB hard drives and 1x 300GB hard drive for p2p downloads.
Why don't I put uT in my file server? The file server is more likely to crash (because it is also used for recording DVDs and tapes; sometimes the DVD drive goes nuts and the only way to restore its function is to reboot the server), also, with uT running, my access to files on shared drive is slower.
300GB should be enough for torrents that are either downloading or completed, but with ratio 1.
So, I just google "release scene site" and find a way in, right? Do they also have archives of old stuff or is it just the 0day releases?
In any case, private trackers do not suck, at least not because of the reason that you stated. Yes, private trackers enforce ratio, but that also means that there are less hit-and-run leechers and more torrents have seedeers. I give back what I take either way, so that is not a problem to me. What is a problem is that less people download, so the "giving back" part might take a long time, even if the "taking" part is faster.
For some reason, a lot of people do not want to seed, but expect everyone else to do it. At least private trackers make sure that everybody keeps a good ratio.
Disk space is not expensive, but I'd rather archive to tape (the cost/GB is about the same, but tape does not need a separate place in the case and power). No, removable hard drives would not be better, since hard drives are less suited for archiving and still, if I remove it, I can't seed the files that are in it, so in that regard it's the same as tape.
I don't want to continually increase the number of always spinning hard drives because I would run out of drive bays in my PCs.
My upload speed is kinda enough (though I might get a fiber connection soon) and, on average, I download less than upload. However, I seed some torrents to ratio = 5 and others to ration =0.2 because nobody wants to download them. This is usually a case in private trackers, because there ratio is zero sum, so everybody wants to seed and nobody wants to download.
Why should they let you pay $3 for, say, 5 people (after all, it's not just you that will be watching it), when they can get $50 for the same 5 people? So 4 out of 5 decide to skip it - they're still ahead by 334%
Because otherwise those 5 people will go to torrent sites and get that movie for $0.
Yes, I would pay for a legal download if it was high quality and without DRM. Now you'll say that it would be risky for the company etc. No. I can download that movie now and without paying a cent, it won't be worse if they allowed cheap legal high quality downloads.
However, if they allowed such paid downloads, I could expect high quality on the first try (not really a problem on good torrent sites), high download speeds (sometimes a problem on torrent sites) and it would be legal and support the creators.
Hell, to reduce distribution costs and make it convenient - make a torrent tracker that requires users to pay some money each month (I can't say how much) or (maybe) less if the user uploads a lot (thus reducing the load on the company run seeders). The money is distributed to movie companies depending on how many copies of their movies were downloaded that month.
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At least the scientists try to understand what actually happened. If they find out that the big bang didn't happen like they though, they will revise the theory, like most of the theories were revised as proof was found. Classical mechanics (you can accelerate up to infinite speed) -> relativity (actually, you can only accelerate up to c, but never reach it) -> quantum mechanics (electrons do not behave as tiny spheres with a charge after all, they behave as tiny spheres with a charge and waves at the same time) is one example.
On the other hand, religious people do not revise their holy books, they just say that whatever proof to the contrary exists, it must be false/created by devil/etc.
Also, I really like when religious people argue that their religion is the only true religion when using the same arguments as all the others - "It's written so in the book". For example, why are Christians right and Muslims/Scientologists/Ancient Greeks/FSM believers/etc wrong?
How do I make it appear when I press Ctrl+Alt+Del?
I mean if Firefox starts using this model, I'll have 100 firefox.exe processes in the task manager and I don't want that. So, is there a way to run all of those processes inside a one big process? Well, other than using a full VM...
What they could have done is to negotiate into letting INPP continue working until a new power plant was built.
Hopefully Lithuania will bring a replacement nuclear plant online before too long, and the EU's ~1.3bn Euro assistance to get the plant closed will soften the blow.
Well, I don't know about other countries, but here, money transfer systems have serious leaks, it would probably cost 10 times as much to built the new power plant than it would for Russians or Belorussians (who are building two new power plants close to Lithuania, the Belorussian one is ~45km from Vilnius) because of the leaks.
As for the 1.3GEUR... well, nobody knows where that money went, because while some of it was destined to be used to build a spent fuel storage building 3 years ago. Now we have a concrete field where that building was supposed to be and 1GEUR less... There is an inquiry, but I don't think they will find anything. Or maybe the money from the EU is accounted for and we are missing 1GEUR of our own...
So, 1.3G in, 0.3G out, as I said, money is transferred in leaky pipes.
Remaining RBMK reactors were modified to make them safer, but I suppose you can consider them unsafe just like a car that kills its passengers if the driver accelerates to 200km/h and aims at a concrete wall or a tree.
And Ignalina power plant was shut down mainly because our politicians, fresh out of one Union, wanted to get into another so badly they signed whatever they were told to sign by said Union. Now most of the electricity comes from an old ~1.5GW oil and gas power plant which has ~25% efficiency (which I'm told is pretty low for these power plants).
Linux is a lot different than running as root all the time on Windows.
Let's say that there are no exploits to get root access on a Linux system. What can malware do with limited user account?
rm -rf /home/user - would work, but useless
sending spam - you don't need root access to send mail, do you?
participating in a botnet - you don't need root access to open a port and give shell to whoever is connecting.
searching user files for valuable information - would work
I don't know if a keylogger would work without root access.
So, a trojan (malware pretending to be a legitimate app) or a browser/reader exploit would still work.
Probably on MacOS, Windows, Linux.
Firefox says that Google says that this site has viruses or browser exploits in it...
Depending on the Windows version, he could probably buy a 3G USB modem and a data plan (you would still need the plan for the ipad).
Or he could get a Windows 98/2000/XP computer and the 3G USB modem if he now uses Windows 95/NT4 or older. User interface of WinXP is very similar to Win95, so that would not be a problem (unless he now uses 3.11).
And that would still be cheaper than the ipad. And on the ipad the UI is different from Windows.
They will sell millions.
Apple fans will probably buy more than one (I remember people buying more than one iphone when it first came out - why would anybody need two identical cell phones I don't know).
Less educated friends of the Apple fans will probably buy one (after hearing how great it is from their friend).
Some people will be influenced by ads.
And some people will buy one after doing research and seeing that it fits their needs and that other tablet PCs don't.
Also, even if that machine was secured, encrypted and such, the perp could take out the hard drive (it helps if the PC has more than one drive), format it with FAT32 (no ownership information), fill it up with kiddy porn (altering the file dates) and then send the drive to the police.
The police would still investigate, the guy would still be called a pervert until he managed to prove his innocence.
Oh, sorry. I did not know that. I don't usually listen to music when outside my home or car, and for those times that I do, I have a good cassette player (Sony WM-D6C).
I can browse the web with my cellphone (Nokia N93), also I can use the cellphone for navigation, I have an external bluetooth GPS, so I don't need an ipod, so I did not do research on their differences.
I sold it years ago.
I think that there is less difference between older and newer ipods than there is between P100 and Opteron 270 though.
I can't seem to get them to die, so I end up accumulating them
Then why are you buying new ones if your current ones still work?
I would still be moving stuff around all the time, because the NAS server has 9 hard drives.
vuze is slow and uses a lot of ram.
I suggest that, instead, artists give music away for free (or for Whuffie, real or imaginary), and sell the primary scarce thing they have left to sell: performance.
But then how will an artist be able to sit on his ass all day and still get paid for the few hours of work he did years ago?
In Soviet Union, the artists got paid for the actual work they did. Record a song - get paid. Do a live performance - get paid. Your recorded song sells a lot of copies - money goes to the State. Want more money - do some more actual work.
...or I really like a song on the radio...
Buy a tape deck. You'll be able to have that song and not pay the MAFIAA.
My VCR has a fast forward button, so I can choose not to see the ads.
You don't pay for internet downloads. ...
They don't receive money from the internet, which puts quite a dent into their business plans.
Because they don't want to. If they wanted to, they could create a legal torrent tracker where the users pay a monthly fee for the right to download. Operating a tracker is cheap (especially compared to a direct download server). It wouldn't be worse than it is now and they would get some money out of it and some > 0.
solution - generate the replacement string randomly.
In any case, this is only a short time solution until Foxit (hopefully) patches it. I don't want to use Adobe...
I do it manually now. When I need some free space on the downloads drive, I stop seeding one or more torrents and move the files to whatever hard drive has enough space free.
Files still downloading are in the same folder as completed files, however, I don't download all files to the same folder, I split them up according to type (anime/live action/music/software/books), but I do that when I am adding the .torrent, not after it is finished.
As for a file server, why not put the torrent ap on the file server and use remote web control. utorrent and az both have decent web uis...
I have a different computer for p2p programs, uT, ed2k and others. I control it via remote control. uTorrent has an OK remote web UI, but last time I checked, it did not allow me to specify where I want the downloaded file saved.
That computer also has vmware server installed and runs some virtual machines. It has 3x 18GB hard drives and 1x 300GB hard drive for p2p downloads.
Why don't I put uT in my file server? The file server is more likely to crash (because it is also used for recording DVDs and tapes; sometimes the DVD drive goes nuts and the only way to restore its function is to reboot the server), also, with uT running, my access to files on shared drive is slower.
300GB should be enough for torrents that are either downloading or completed, but with ratio 1.
So, I just google "release scene site" and find a way in, right? Do they also have archives of old stuff or is it just the 0day releases?
In any case, private trackers do not suck, at least not because of the reason that you stated. Yes, private trackers enforce ratio, but that also means that there are less hit-and-run leechers and more torrents have seedeers. I give back what I take either way, so that is not a problem to me. What is a problem is that less people download, so the "giving back" part might take a long time, even if the "taking" part is faster.
For some reason, a lot of people do not want to seed, but expect everyone else to do it. At least private trackers make sure that everybody keeps a good ratio.
Also the first comment there says how you can hex edit the .exe to disable this "feature".
If you can live without the /Launch functionality (I can!), edit the executable:
- search for “^@Launch^@” (^@ == null byte, file offset 7040965 in 3.13.1030) in Foxit Reader.exe,
- change it to e.g. “L!unch” (no quotes),
- save AS BINARY,
done.
Comment by Thomas — Wednesday 31 March 2010 @ 12:20
Disk space is not expensive, but I'd rather archive to tape (the cost/GB is about the same, but tape does not need a separate place in the case and power). No, removable hard drives would not be better, since hard drives are less suited for archiving and still, if I remove it, I can't seed the files that are in it, so in that regard it's the same as tape.
I don't want to continually increase the number of always spinning hard drives because I would run out of drive bays in my PCs.
My upload speed is kinda enough (though I might get a fiber connection soon) and, on average, I download less than upload. However, I seed some torrents to ratio = 5 and others to ration =0.2 because nobody wants to download them. This is usually a case in private trackers, because there ratio is zero sum, so everybody wants to seed and nobody wants to download.
And get banned from the private trackers?
Why should they let you pay $3 for, say, 5 people (after all, it's not just you that will be watching it), when they can get $50 for the same 5 people? So 4 out of 5 decide to skip it - they're still ahead by 334%
Because otherwise those 5 people will go to torrent sites and get that movie for $0.
Yes, I would pay for a legal download if it was high quality and without DRM. Now you'll say that it would be risky for the company etc. No. I can download that movie now and without paying a cent, it won't be worse if they allowed cheap legal high quality downloads.
However, if they allowed such paid downloads, I could expect high quality on the first try (not really a problem on good torrent sites), high download speeds (sometimes a problem on torrent sites) and it would be legal and support the creators.
Hell, to reduce distribution costs and make it convenient - make a torrent tracker that requires users to pay some money each month (I can't say how much) or (maybe) less if the user uploads a lot (thus reducing the load on the company run seeders). The money is distributed to movie companies depending on how many copies of their movies were downloaded that month.