I have a feeling these guys were just waiting for the chance to invoke extreme measures of DRM and are praising the idea that China will let them do anything they want as long as the DRM works..
[quote]You may have noticed, however, that your mobile phone seems to spend an awful lot of time with its battery gauge saying it's full, or at least almost full.
Then, once you get to the half-full mark, the battery seems to go flat surprisingly quickly[/quote]
My phone actually spends almost no time at 'full' or 'almost full'. At least.. not compared to that single remaining battery bar.. I've guesstimated That my phone's battery bars exist between 50% and 100% charge. Where the last bar is 50% AND everything less than that. Because you know.. People who almost never use their phone, and pay for that 'just in case' air time is where the profit is.. not in the people that buy 5,000 minutes and use 4,900 minutes because their phone still says full power.
Over time, people usually tend to damage their ears a bit. Typically from the loud noises of a busy city, rocking out too much, or being in other situations that cause your ears to ring.
19KHz(what the article poster uses) is within the human range of hearing (20Hz - 20KHz.)
Using around a 35KHz sign would drive your dog nuts, but no one should be able to perceive it. (Assuming the compression doesn't drop the frequency any.)
actually.. the local government doesn't do much about water..
Go watch "Stossel Goes to Washington" You'll see a segment about Jersey City, where the government was doing a really bad job and ended up bidding the city water off to a private corporation where the city water then became drinkable, and was cheaper afterwords as well.
So, does the government do absolutely nothing? no.. But what they DO do is often barely perceivable worth paying the workers doing it $15 an hour or more.
The 15% goes away if you're a member. It's just a business based incentive to convince you to pay for the membership.
The idea would be that at 15%, you'd have to donate ~$334 to pay for that 1 time membership fee. $334 is probably more then most people would donate.
so, to pay for tracker hosting costs (which is more extremely frequent requests for small amounts of information, opposed to fewer requests of large amounts of information) you can either pay $50 to become a member, or donate over $300 to have essentially paid for membership.
And how long do you think it would take to crack a mere 4.3(rounded off) billion possible combinations for a hash that's watched a given music video 37 times, or even the one that uploaded it?
Now, I don't know about you.. but my tiny little computer can run over 6 million attempts on the RC-5 challenge per second, in the background.. putting me at 12 minutes to go through ever IP address out there.
Ontop of that, I'm pretty sure the RC5 challenge is a more complex hash then the one mentioned here.
With how aggressive the RIAA has been, you don't really think 12 minutes on someone's mere 2 year old bottom line home PC would stop them, do you?
Isn't it that Google has to have a physical building in the U.S. personally owned by them for Google to be affected by U.S. law? (yes, I realize they do, I'm just double checking)
haven't heard of them, but doesn't mean they aren't here somewhere... lol After all.. I never heard of PMT until my apartment complex forced them upon us -.-'
over here in Southern Idaho, We have a wireless broadband provider that will at least give you 256k for $20 a month. (for those that require cites. www.tetonwireless.com ) Heck of an improvement over dialup, and the same price. Also, if you're in a low population area, the install and all equipment minus the router is free.
There's a page on eyestrain caused from the computer.
white background and black foreground seems to be their recommendation. Though they go over all causes of eye pain.
You will not and have not sold, allowed the resell, schemed, plotted, or remained unaware of sales of any of [insert company name] products, ideas, images, trademarks, copyrights, materials both existent and non existent belonging to [insert company name] if it violets what [insert company name] believes to be it's profit margin with or without justification. Failure to adhere to this notice from this point forward, and or up until this point shall result in the immediate suing of every penny we believe we may acquire through the original purchase, and all subsequent purchases of product for it's entire existence in time including but not limited to the resell of the product after it has been recycled and put into pieces of many other commodities, all without deduction of expected or unexpected expenses involved with re-acquiring and reselling said product.
I believe those 2 clips are a perfect analogy of the RIAA. Especially Cartman's quote at the end of clip 2. "Just goes around imposing his will on people"
"World's 5th richest enters poverty this week after purchasing a 20 minute flight in space. Fox asks this man, as he cries on the corner. 'was it worth it?'"
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I have a feeling these guys were just waiting for the chance to invoke extreme measures of DRM and are praising the idea that China will let them do anything they want as long as the DRM works..
Do the kids have flash drives? because that would be like a bio hazard suit with pockets.
TechCrunch claims to have spoken to a source close to Amazon with direct knowledge of the company's sales figures.
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My friend talked to his brother who knows a guy And said He has all the answers.
What the heck kind of Journalism is that?!..
Then, once you get to the half-full mark, the battery seems to go flat surprisingly quickly[/quote]
My phone actually spends almost no time at 'full' or 'almost full'. At least.. not compared to that single remaining battery bar.. I've guesstimated That my phone's battery bars exist between 50% and 100% charge. Where the last bar is 50% AND everything less than that. Because you know.. People who almost never use their phone, and pay for that 'just in case' air time is where the profit is.. not in the people that buy 5,000 minutes and use 4,900 minutes because their phone still says full power.
19KHz(what the article poster uses) is within the human range of hearing (20Hz - 20KHz.)
Using around a 35KHz sign would drive your dog nuts, but no one should be able to perceive it. (Assuming the compression doesn't drop the frequency any.)
you mean that high pitched squeal that is driving me nuts in the example more then the audio compression? Yea.. that's filtered out all right...
Go watch "Stossel Goes to Washington" You'll see a segment about Jersey City, where the government was doing a really bad job and ended up bidding the city water off to a private corporation where the city water then became drinkable, and was cheaper afterwords as well.
So, does the government do absolutely nothing? no.. But what they DO do is often barely perceivable worth paying the workers doing it $15 an hour or more.
you're sudden startle reflex though would change it to the Simpson's instantly, and coincidentally just in time for Homer to go "D'oh!"
There's nothing inconvenient about the TV switching to porn during commercials..... ever..
Why do I ask that? Because 1/7th of a second is roughly how long it takes for an electric pulse from your brain to reach your fingers.
Why is that important?
First Person Shooters...
The idea would be that at 15%, you'd have to donate ~$334 to pay for that 1 time membership fee. $334 is probably more then most people would donate.
so, to pay for tracker hosting costs (which is more extremely frequent requests for small amounts of information, opposed to fewer requests of large amounts of information) you can either pay $50 to become a member, or donate over $300 to have essentially paid for membership.
The choice is yours.
err.. Viacom.. RIAA.. Is there really a difference? :P
Now, I don't know about you.. but my tiny little computer can run over 6 million attempts on the RC-5 challenge per second, in the background.. putting me at 12 minutes to go through ever IP address out there.
Ontop of that, I'm pretty sure the RC5 challenge is a more complex hash then the one mentioned here.
With how aggressive the RIAA has been, you don't really think 12 minutes on someone's mere 2 year old bottom line home PC would stop them, do you?
Isn't it that Google has to have a physical building in the U.S. personally owned by them for Google to be affected by U.S. law? (yes, I realize they do, I'm just double checking)
$6,000 for the rig? You can buy and build a small personal helicopter for that much...
haven't heard of them, but doesn't mean they aren't here somewhere... lol After all.. I never heard of PMT until my apartment complex forced them upon us -.-'
over here in Southern Idaho, We have a wireless broadband provider that will at least give you 256k for $20 a month. (for those that require cites. www.tetonwireless.com ) Heck of an improvement over dialup, and the same price. Also, if you're in a low population area, the install and all equipment minus the router is free.
There's a page on eyestrain caused from the computer. white background and black foreground seems to be their recommendation. Though they go over all causes of eye pain.
So.. what happens when we Viacom can't find a judge on this planet who's IP address isn't on the list that has viewed copyrighted material?
Any defense attorney can get the case thrown out of court based on possible bias of any judge that's on that list.
have a policy that says "ID everyone they have a 10 year + history and relationship with the bank, and you recognize them immediately"
Wait, was that said correctly? Or did you mean ID everyone they don't implicitly know?
The human element.
Have a nice day.
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I believe those 2 clips are a perfect analogy of the RIAA. Especially Cartman's quote at the end of clip 2. "Just goes around imposing his will on people"
"World's 5th richest enters poverty this week after purchasing a 20 minute flight in space. Fox asks this man, as he cries on the corner. 'was it worth it?'"
If you use atomic mass, you multiply instead of divide, and then also multiply by 1mol.