Besides torrent sites with legal content, are there any good sites describing how best to configure Bit Torrent in Linux so that a person using it doesn't mess up and open up their whole hard drive to the world?
I would highly doubt it. It's a fair concern, but it doesn't apply to bittorrent. With Bittorrent, you only make available that which you have explicitly shared.
Unless you make a torrent of c:\ or / you don't have anything to worry about.
That is, utterances such as someone giving insider trading information can have active results that cause harm to people; it thus qualifies as conduct, since it has a locutionary force that separates it from harmless, mundane speech.
If someone makes a public statement, that's not the same as a secret whispered in a dark hallway. If the insider information is made public, there is no transgression because it is no longer "insider" information.
That's the point of journalism, statements are made in public where they can receive scrutiny.
Remember Martha Stewart? She went to jail because she lied about recieving insider information. Not for recieving the information.
Apple doesn't need to rely on positive press. Apple doesn't need to rely on drawing in potential customers.
Apple's faithful will support Apple, no matter what.
It was the Apple faithful who kept the company afloat during the dark days of Skully and Amelio. At the time I was one of them. I too used to rationalize every time that Apple screwed me over. Those who are still a part of the fold will continue to do so.
But I doubt that you can teach or even "certify" ethics. You have them, or your don't.
In a manner of speaking, everyone has ethics but they're not always the same.
For example, Bill Clinton's ethics allow him to cheat on his wife. George Bush's ethics allow him to wage an unnecessary war in Iraq. My ethics have allowed me to do things that some people may find unethical.
I think that NVidia and ATI should release open source drivers and that they have to expend money and effort needlessly to publish proprietary drivers. It's not like someone can step line by line through their source code and then run to a chip fab and make bogus copies of their chips.
But, it's also their right to do things the hard way. So I don't really mind proprietary drivers in the "Information MUST be free" sense. I just think that they're counter-productive even though hardware vendors have the right to make their drivers that way.
I've never bought a PC from a bricks-and-morter[SIC] store.
It's obvious that you weren't buying computers 20 years ago. I got my first computer for my 8th birthday. There was no place other than a bricks and mortar store. I still prefer to go and get the things that I buy in person. If for no other reason than if I'm unlucky enough to get a lemon, I can get it replaced that day.
bonus points if you can figure out 1 from where was she shot* 2 aproximate caliber/type of bullet
The powder burns on her forehead and the apparent lack of stippling indicate that the shot was fired from close range, VERY close range. The end of the barrel or silencer was pressed into her forehead at the time the shot was fired.
The size of the entry wound AND my knowledge of the previous three hitman games lead me to believe that the gun was a.45 acp and the lack of an enormous spatter indicates that the bullet was a full metal jacket. My guess would be a 230 grain. A big heavy bullet travels slower and will remain subsonic so that there is no "crack" and thus a silencer will be more effective.
I am having problems finding details on the case. Did Echostar rip off TiVo IP in their DVRs or is TiVo claiming to have a patent on the idea of digitally recording a satellite TV broadcast for later viewing?
There is a reason for the infamous recommendation to "First, Kill all the lawyers."
While I agree with you about the idiocy that is passing for software licensing these days, I need to disagree with you here. Time and time again people keep misunderstangind the purpose of Shakespear's line.
At one time, the best, brightest and most noble members of western society became lawyers. Men like Abraham Lincoln come to mind. Shakespear's recommendation to "First, kill all the lawyers." is a recipe for destroying a culture. If you wanted to conquer a soverign power you do so by destroying their intellectual elite and the men who were most able to mount an sort of serious defense.
Kill the lawyers and the invaded country would be yours.
A lot of people love to bitch about lawyers, but when THEY have legal troubles the first thing they do is to retain a lawyer.
I'm wondering if they are really dropping Starforce because of customer complaints/boycott or because Starforce tried to strongarm them and Ubi called their bluff.
I don't think making law enforcement's job harder and making Al-Qaeda's job easier is going to result in much benefit for society at large.
Are you talking about law enforcement's job in theory or in practice? In theory it's to enforce the law, but in practice it's to enforce order. The police exist primarily to keep certain people "in their place" in the 1960's we saw the FBI get unprecedented powers to go after "radicals" and even then they STILL broke the law to bring down people that they labeled as subversives.
The job of law enforcement SHOULD be hard. Because if they have to go through headaches and jump through hoops that will leave them with less time to pull people over and make stops just for the hell of it.
My hometown (pop 30,000) has caught something like 7 online preditors in the past 2 years. Without the logs as evidence, how else are they supposed to catch these scumbags?
Don't you watch Dateline? When they show up at the sting location with alcohol and condoms meant for a 12 year old boy.
Supressing propangda which might cost you money; I don't think any business wouldn't consider that; and most, if not all, would try it.
Unfortunately you are correct. The big problem that comes of that is that it puts a very convincing argument into the hands of people who advocate for draconian rules regulating business.
The internet is a public network with private components. Anyone who attempts to assert too much control over that is asking to get whacked with the big stick of legislation.
I do not play MMORPGS, I likely never will. I have issues with them(ethical and cheapskate).
But I think that all of this opposition to gold farming is pointless. The games are designed to require large amounts of gold to get the good items. Gold takes a lot of time to acquire in any large quantity. So people who don't have the time to put in to get all of that gold but still want the good items in order to play the better quests are either locked out of them or forced to acquire the gold by other means.
I have seen some people liken this to the "war on drugs" and in one respect they make a valid point but the point that seems to get overlooked is that Blizzard(and the other game companies) is pretty much impotent to do anything about the practice outside of their game.
They can make it impossible to give any item away, but that would unfaily punish the people who are trying to help out a real-world friend who is new to the game. In the end I'm sure that would only decrease the number of people who renew their subscriptions. It's a stalemate and the gold farmers can't lose.
Either change the dynamic of the game, or quit bitching.
But I wonder how much energy did it consume to produce those huge amounts of Hydrogen & Oxygen? Will it be lesser than the power generated by the reaction between them?
Short answer. NO.
Long answer. NO, because it would violate the rules of thermodynamics.
What you're asking is can you get more energy out of a battery than you put into it.
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Besides torrent sites with legal content, are there any good sites describing how best to configure Bit Torrent in Linux so that a person using it doesn't mess up and open up their whole hard drive to the world?
I would highly doubt it. It's a fair concern, but it doesn't apply to bittorrent. With Bittorrent, you only make available that which you have explicitly shared.
Unless you make a torrent of c:\ or / you don't have anything to worry about.
LK
Not unlike Star Trak era Lithium Crystals, I suspect that
Don't you know that this is slashdot? Geeks hang out here.
It's Dilithium, bitch!
LK
How can they be so sure that it's a dinosaur bone? Why couldn't in be a bone from some long extinct whale?
LK
That would really suck because it's the day before my birthday.
Do you know the time? If it's going to be 00:00 GMT then I'm fucked.
LK
That is, utterances such as someone giving insider trading information can have active results that cause harm to people; it thus qualifies as conduct, since it has a locutionary force that separates it from harmless, mundane speech.
If someone makes a public statement, that's not the same as a secret whispered in a dark hallway. If the insider information is made public, there is no transgression because it is no longer "insider" information.
That's the point of journalism, statements are made in public where they can receive scrutiny.
Remember Martha Stewart? She went to jail because she lied about recieving insider information. Not for recieving the information.
LK
Apple doesn't need to rely on positive press. Apple doesn't need to rely on drawing in potential customers.
Apple's faithful will support Apple, no matter what.
It was the Apple faithful who kept the company afloat during the dark days of Skully and Amelio. At the time I was one of them. I too used to rationalize every time that Apple screwed me over. Those who are still a part of the fold will continue to do so.
LK
United Nations Resolutions are not international law.
Why then have we not attacked Israel? They have violated more UN Resolutions than Iraq.
LK
But I doubt that you can teach or even "certify" ethics. You have them, or your don't.
In a manner of speaking, everyone has ethics but they're not always the same.
For example, Bill Clinton's ethics allow him to cheat on his wife. George Bush's ethics allow him to wage an unnecessary war in Iraq. My ethics have allowed me to do things that some people may find unethical.
LK
I really want to know who Dvorak's weed hook up is. I stopped smoking years ago, but if it's that good I might consider a "for old time sake" session.
LK
So, in other words, you spend that 4 hours lying to people on slashdot. =)
Not me, I unmask liars.
LK
I think that NVidia and ATI should release open source drivers and that they have to expend money and effort needlessly to publish proprietary drivers. It's not like someone can step line by line through their source code and then run to a chip fab and make bogus copies of their chips.
But, it's also their right to do things the hard way. So I don't really mind proprietary drivers in the "Information MUST be free" sense. I just think that they're counter-productive even though hardware vendors have the right to make their drivers that way.
LK
I run Windows, MacOS, OSX AND Linux. I have no kids, I'm divorced, and I have a girlfriend that I can hump.
Typo, r and d are so close you know.
LK
I've never bought a PC from a bricks-and-morter[SIC] store.
It's obvious that you weren't buying computers 20 years ago. I got my first computer for my 8th birthday. There was no place other than a bricks and mortar store. I still prefer to go and get the things that I buy in person. If for no other reason than if I'm unlucky enough to get a lemon, I can get it replaced that day.
LK
bonus points if you can figure out
.45 acp and the lack of an enormous spatter indicates that the bullet was a full metal jacket. My guess would be a 230 grain. A big heavy bullet travels slower and will remain subsonic so that there is no "crack" and thus a silencer will be more effective.
1 from where was she shot*
2 aproximate caliber/type of bullet
The powder burns on her forehead and the apparent lack of stippling indicate that the shot was fired from close range, VERY close range. The end of the barrel or silencer was pressed into her forehead at the time the shot was fired.
The size of the entry wound AND my knowledge of the previous three hitman games lead me to believe that the gun was a
LK
LK
Please, dead God, don't let them use Starforce.
LK
if Hitman 2 utterly sucks I'll probably end up finishing it anyway.
This ad is for the FOURTH Hitman. Hitman 2 was out years ago.
LK
I am having problems finding details on the case. Did Echostar rip off TiVo IP in their DVRs or is TiVo claiming to have a patent on the idea of digitally recording a satellite TV broadcast for later viewing?
LK
There is a reason for the infamous recommendation to "First, Kill all the lawyers."
While I agree with you about the idiocy that is passing for software licensing these days, I need to disagree with you here. Time and time again people keep misunderstangind the purpose of Shakespear's line.
At one time, the best, brightest and most noble members of western society became lawyers. Men like Abraham Lincoln come to mind. Shakespear's recommendation to "First, kill all the lawyers." is a recipe for destroying a culture. If you wanted to conquer a soverign power you do so by destroying their intellectual elite and the men who were most able to mount an sort of serious defense.
Kill the lawyers and the invaded country would be yours.
A lot of people love to bitch about lawyers, but when THEY have legal troubles the first thing they do is to retain a lawyer.
LK
I'm wondering if they are really dropping Starforce because of customer complaints/boycott or because Starforce tried to strongarm them and Ubi called their bluff.
LK
I don't think making law enforcement's job harder and making Al-Qaeda's job easier is going to result in much benefit for society at large.
Are you talking about law enforcement's job in theory or in practice? In theory it's to enforce the law, but in practice it's to enforce order. The police exist primarily to keep certain people "in their place" in the 1960's we saw the FBI get unprecedented powers to go after "radicals" and even then they STILL broke the law to bring down people that they labeled as subversives.
The job of law enforcement SHOULD be hard. Because if they have to go through headaches and jump through hoops that will leave them with less time to pull people over and make stops just for the hell of it.
LK
My hometown (pop 30,000) has caught something like 7 online preditors in the past 2 years. Without the logs as evidence, how else are they supposed to catch these scumbags?
Don't you watch Dateline? When they show up at the sting location with alcohol and condoms meant for a 12 year old boy.
LK
Supressing propangda which might cost you money; I don't think any business wouldn't consider that; and most, if not all, would try it.
Unfortunately you are correct. The big problem that comes of that is that it puts a very convincing argument into the hands of people who advocate for draconian rules regulating business.
The internet is a public network with private components. Anyone who attempts to assert too much control over that is asking to get whacked with the big stick of legislation.
LK
take it for what it's worth.
I do not play MMORPGS, I likely never will. I have issues with them(ethical and cheapskate).
But I think that all of this opposition to gold farming is pointless. The games are designed to require large amounts of gold to get the good items. Gold takes a lot of time to acquire in any large quantity. So people who don't have the time to put in to get all of that gold but still want the good items in order to play the better quests are either locked out of them or forced to acquire the gold by other means.
I have seen some people liken this to the "war on drugs" and in one respect they make a valid point but the point that seems to get overlooked is that Blizzard(and the other game companies) is pretty much impotent to do anything about the practice outside of their game.
They can make it impossible to give any item away, but that would unfaily punish the people who are trying to help out a real-world friend who is new to the game. In the end I'm sure that would only decrease the number of people who renew their subscriptions. It's a stalemate and the gold farmers can't lose.
Either change the dynamic of the game, or quit bitching.
LK
But I wonder how much energy did it consume to produce those huge amounts of Hydrogen & Oxygen? Will it be lesser than the power generated by the reaction between them?
Short answer. NO.
Long answer. NO, because it would violate the rules of thermodynamics.
What you're asking is can you get more energy out of a battery than you put into it.
LK