Oops..Forgot the relevant AT&T response from one of the links above:
"Reached Wednesday morning, Claudia Jones, an AT&T spokeswoman, said the company's letters do include a mention that company retains the right to terminate service. She wanted to make it clear that AT&T has no intention of doing so, however. Jones also said the ISP never shares customers' names or any other personal information. What the company does do is send a "cover letter" to the accused customer along with the letter the ISP received from the RIAA stating that the person's IP address was flagged."
AT&T as well since they are following the rule of law and requiring a court order before suspending a user account. Not only is this good business but it makes sense. Something our laws rarely get right it seems.
If Comcast is ever complicit with the RIAA in any way that violates the DMCA I for one will be more than happy to jump ship to get FIOS.
"Comcast said in a statement. "This is the same process we've had in place for years--nothing has changed. While we have always supported copyright holders in their efforts to reduce piracy under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and continue to do so, we have no plans to test a so-called 'three-strikes-and-you're-out' policy." "
and
"Comcast was careful to state that it isn't considering terminating customers' service."
I'm sorry but did no one even read TFA? AT&T has refused to suspend a users account without a court order. Seems they are taking the correct approach here.
"Reached Wednesday morning, Claudia Jones, an AT&T spokeswoman, said the company's letters do include a mention that company retains the right to terminate service. She wanted to make it clear that AT&T has no intention of doing so, however. Jones also said the ISP never shares customers' names or any other personal information. What the company does do is send a "cover letter" to the accused customer along with the letter the ISP received from the RIAA stating that the person's IP address was flagged.
AT&T goes on to tell the accused customer that the problem may be caused by a teenager in the house who may be illegally downloading or that the customer might have an insecure Internet connection and that someone could be using it to steal content.
The ISP also informs the customer that downloading unauthorized copies is illegal and should be prevented. As for chronic offenders, Jones was less specific but said: "We can't assume that people are stealing. All we know is that they are using a lot of bandwidth. We can't be the police or the copyright enforcer...that's up to the content owner."
Agreed. I like how Roy Brown of the International Humanist and Ethical Union responded to this:
"...it is the believer not the belief that the ICCPR seeks to protect. The sponsors of this resolution have failed to understand that Freedom of Religion or Belief depends on Freedom of Expression. If the beliefs of one religion are to be deemed âdefamationâ(TM) of another, society is on a very slippery slope.â
Tolerance is a double edged sword. Unfortunately, most religions are NOT tolerant of those who don't believe. They become aggressive, hateful, and even insane with rage when their 'beliefs' are attacked.
Isn't that the basis for Islamic Terrorism? Infidels?
Christians are no better. They force their religion into civil matters at every opportunity. Abortion, Gay Rights, Right to Life/Death. Does these things disturb them? Of course. They they go counter to their religious beliefs? Of course. Does it hurt them personally in any way? Not at all, yet they will fight tooth and nail to force everyone else to comply with their belief system.
I disagree. 95 was revolutionary for the GUI itself, but only for the Windows platform. It was the first stumbling step away from the 'old school' gui's like Windows for Workgroups and Windows 3.1. It boasted mostly 32 bit code (although it still sat on top of DOS), 256 color desktop icons, 24 bit color, DirectX and compatibility with old DOS applications. It was a key step for Windows.
It was also the basis for the current crop of GUI's from NT4 all the way to Windows 7. Although they've tweaked them substantially and there, the basic menuing system, start button, registry, etc, are still there. The current windows iterations all have roots in 95.
Love it or hate it, Windows 95 was revolutionary for the Windows world. Everything that's followed since has been evolutionary IMO.
"...The judge in the case read into his decision evidence that was not presented in the case. (anti-hate activist, OPS)
The judge is a member of the board of a Jewish Community Center where Warman had spoken about his fight against anti-semitism. I don't know what the laws are in Canada, but in the US this apprehension of bias would be more than enough to have the judgement overturned.
The judge should have recused himself."
Yes and no. All Politicians want to get re-elected, but many politicians actually do work (some of it even good) in off election seasons. No so with Perry. You won't hear a peep from him or about him until he's up for election.
Probably one of the most relevant arguments I've read to date. Why would they treat this theory any differently than any other theory taught in science classes? Kudos.
Well said. It's a known fact that when they did set the light timings for yellow to proper DOT standards or longer, the cost of the cameras typically become more than the revenue that they collected.
In those situations, cities who had invested in these found that they could either accept their losses, remove the cameras and accept the losses, or decrease the yellow times to increase revenue. Unfortunately they seem to take the dark path.
I think your suggestion to prevent vendors from reaping profit from law enforcement is an excellent one.
No. I already paid that cost for the phone and internet connection before I even knew that WiFi control was possible. This is just gravy. I don't think $3.99 is unreasonable for a HTPC remote.
Memory is a bit more key than processor speed IMO. Any recent Core 2 Duo should be more than adequate to run a VM. You'll find you can run Vista, and XP in 1 GB and 512 MB very comfortably. If you plan on running multiple VM's at the same time, you will definitely need 3-4 GB of RAM.
If you have need for each VM to have access to specific hardware like a DVDRW or whatnot, you can either connect and disconnect it as needed to each VM, or if you need it on both at the same time, you'll want a box that you can physically mount both at once. I go the cheap route and just connect them to the VM that needs them;)
I run Windows XP, and Ubuntu 8.10 on my iMac (dual core 3.06 Ghz and 4 GB of memory) via VMWare fusion. My XP machine is actually a VM image of my work box. The XP VM uses 1 GB and the Ubuntu 512 MB. XP runs very well including IP phone, even with 512 MB though.
I guess I'm saying you shouldn't go crazy on hardware, but do spend a bit extra for more ram. you'll need it if you plan to run multiple VM's at once.
I have no intention of getting rid of my old bluetooth keyboard or mouse, but I can put up the keyboard and leave the mouse on the charger. I am the only one who operates the MediaPC but if someone needs to, they can pull out the keyboard and mouse.
This isn't a replacement for your standard infrared electronics under normal circumstances. It works over WiFi meaning HTPC's unless you want to pop for the WiFi infrared adapters. I have a harmony remote (880) which cost $250 dollars new a few years ago. It serves well enough but it doesn't work with my MediaPC.
I would have paid substantially more than $3.99 for a nice touchpad mouse for the mediapc. These 3d Gyro mice suck not to put too fine a point on it. The keyboard is just a bonus.
Given what you've said here, what if there was some sort of API that was written to allow apps to take advantage of multiple cores so that the api managed timing for non-asynchronous apps? Dump some code for execution onto an API and let the API manage the wait states for any lagging instructions.
Is that the gist of the article? Suggesting that the OS could take on some of those duties?
I have to disagree. I spent 50 bucks for a bluetooth keyboard, and I have an old Gyration 3D RF mouse which at the time was $79 bucks. The mouse is a pain in the arse and often sends the mouse scurring in some random direction because it's 'level' sensor sucks or whatnot. I tried a touchpad bluetooth mouse I read about on/. but the range was horrible and my dog eventually ate it.
I just bought an app based on TFA;) I had no idea folks were writing WiFi apps to control HTPC's. All I can say is it's about time!
For 3.99 I now have a full remote keyboard and touchpad mouse that seems to work VERY well. I could care less about charging as I only need the mouse or keyboard to open a video or whatnot. A few seconds of use will not add any substantial 'drain' to my iPhone. It also appears to close the app when I closed the remote software as it asked me to re-authenticate each time I launched it until I told it to save my password.
For those that are interested, I went with "Zemote" for $3.99. Much cheaper than the $24 dollar app mentioned in TFA. It comes with basic paring security (password over WiFi on a custom port), keyboard, touchpad mouse functionality or tilt mouse functionality..whichever you prefer, and a media remote for Win Media Center, WMP, VLC, or GOM.
But can't the OS micromanage CPU queue's? I see what your saying about distinct URL requests and that makes perfect sense to me, but isn't an app, taken down to a command by command level the same thing? Couldn't it dole out the CPU queue among any number of processors?
I apologize is these are rather basic questions. I do basic programming but not at the level where I have to actively multithread any apps I write.
#1 That Blizzard demands that every ISP provide free service
or
#2 That any addons built for a product that Blizzard owns be fairly available to all users?
Since Blizzard can't dictate what ISP's do and what ISP's provide, I vote #2.
Obviously every person who plays WOW has internet access. There is no possible way that Blizzard can ensure that every user has proper latency and lag free experience other than banning lagggy connections from playing and that wouldln't make good business either.
They CAN easily control some things and this is one of them. It doesn't hurt their business model (since they already have the paying customer). It also ensures that some people don't have an unfair advantage over others that are within the control of Blizzard themselves.
If your backing a user's data, you should grab everything in the users folder. Not just My Documents, or My Pictures, or Desktop. You copy EVERYTHING under Users\Username or Documents and Settings\Username. Your asking for data loss if you don't.
I've made that mistake before trying to grab the big stuff, and assuming they would never have data elsewhere. That works until you realize you've lost their Mozilla bookmarks/cookies, or their local PST files or their Nifty Notes whatnot in appdata.
I'll probably get modded down for this, but I still hate that I can't just type CD DirName and end up in the proper directory. My old Amiga OS used to do this, and that was 15 years ago. Why is this so difficult to keep a simple index of folder paths? Thousands upon thousands of folder paths would take up a few hundred KB to index. If there were multiple choices, AmigaOS would simply warn you.
The proper case FS thing is a nag for me as well. I hear everyone talk about the benefits of using proper case, then everyone turns around and uses lower case to work around it. Of course this is my opinion only so I can't speek for others, but I never have two files with the same name in the same DIR but with different case. Although I'm sure there are people who could potential need this feature, does the common user really need this? What other reason is a case sensitive FS really for except to allow multiple files with the same name but different case in the same dir? Blegh
There are also some basic usability features that should be addressed. I have to agree with the above post. Why would someone need to Google to find an app to sudo to root via a GUI 'button' app? I don't think it's unreasonable to simply click a button to do that and be prompted for a password. Why isn't something so basic already included in the distro?
I love Linux. Don't get me wrong, but many of the Linux crowd have this huge chip on their shoulder that works along the line of "if it ain't broke, it doesn't need fixing, because it's FOSS and we can do no wrong". Unfortunately, if your not fixing/adding needed/wanted features, then you're stagnant.
These folks out here give so much of their free time and do great things, but some times they are too focused on the big things and they never address the little things.
I also think this is the mistake that Vista made IMO. MS was so focused on Searching and the new db based FS, and pre-caching apps to speed things up, that they forgot the small things that may not be the foundation of the os, but they are sorely missed when they aren't there or don't work well. When some of their big ticket items didn't even make it into Vista, what were we left with?
When can we get this ported to Mac and Linux? Insensitive bastards always write these for Windows only. Don't they know there's millions of Mac owners out there who want to be in the "in" crowd? What about Linux? I hear their "Year of the Desktop" is coming any time now.;)
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Oops..Forgot the relevant AT&T response from one of the links above:
"Reached Wednesday morning, Claudia Jones, an AT&T spokeswoman, said the company's letters do include a mention that company retains the right to terminate service. She wanted to make it clear that AT&T has no intention of doing so, however. Jones also said the ISP never shares customers' names or any other personal information. What the company does do is send a "cover letter" to the accused customer along with the letter the ISP received from the RIAA stating that the person's IP address was flagged."
There are two that I believe deserve kudos:
http://newscenter.verizon.com/press-releases/verizon/2003/page.jsp?itemID=29713865
AT&T as well since they are following the rule of law and requiring a court order before suspending a user account. Not only is this good business but it makes sense. Something our laws rarely get right it seems.
If Comcast is ever complicit with the RIAA in any way that violates the DMCA I for one will be more than happy to jump ship to get FIOS.
"Comcast said in a statement. "This is the same process we've had in place for years--nothing has changed. While we have always supported copyright holders in their efforts to reduce piracy under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and continue to do so, we have no plans to test a so-called 'three-strikes-and-you're-out' policy." "
and
"Comcast was careful to state that it isn't considering terminating customers' service."
I'm sorry but did no one even read TFA? AT&T has refused to suspend a users account without a court order. Seems they are taking the correct approach here.
"Reached Wednesday morning, Claudia Jones, an AT&T spokeswoman, said the company's letters do include a mention that company retains the right to terminate service. She wanted to make it clear that AT&T has no intention of doing so, however. Jones also said the ISP never shares customers' names or any other personal information. What the company does do is send a "cover letter" to the accused customer along with the letter the ISP received from the RIAA stating that the person's IP address was flagged.
AT&T goes on to tell the accused customer that the problem may be caused by a teenager in the house who may be illegally downloading or that the customer might have an insecure Internet connection and that someone could be using it to steal content.
The ISP also informs the customer that downloading unauthorized copies is illegal and should be prevented. As for chronic offenders, Jones was less specific but said: "We can't assume that people are stealing. All we know is that they are using a lot of bandwidth. We can't be the police or the copyright enforcer...that's up to the content owner."
Agreed. I like how Roy Brown of the International Humanist and Ethical Union responded to this:
"...it is the believer not the belief that the ICCPR seeks to protect. The sponsors of this resolution have failed to understand that Freedom of Religion or Belief depends on Freedom of Expression. If the beliefs of one religion are to be deemed âdefamationâ(TM) of another, society is on a very slippery slope.â
Tolerance is a double edged sword. Unfortunately, most religions are NOT tolerant of those who don't believe. They become aggressive, hateful, and even insane with rage when their 'beliefs' are attacked.
Isn't that the basis for Islamic Terrorism? Infidels?
Christians are no better. They force their religion into civil matters at every opportunity. Abortion, Gay Rights, Right to Life/Death. Does these things disturb them? Of course. They they go counter to their religious beliefs? Of course. Does it hurt them personally in any way? Not at all, yet they will fight tooth and nail to force everyone else to comply with their belief system.
I disagree. 95 was revolutionary for the GUI itself, but only for the Windows platform. It was the first stumbling step away from the 'old school' gui's like Windows for Workgroups and Windows 3.1. It boasted mostly 32 bit code (although it still sat on top of DOS), 256 color desktop icons, 24 bit color, DirectX and compatibility with old DOS applications. It was a key step for Windows.
It was also the basis for the current crop of GUI's from NT4 all the way to Windows 7. Although they've tweaked them substantially and there, the basic menuing system, start button, registry, etc, are still there. The current windows iterations all have roots in 95.
Love it or hate it, Windows 95 was revolutionary for the Windows world. Everything that's followed since has been evolutionary IMO.
lol...Fair enough!
"...The judge in the case read into his decision evidence that was not presented in the case. (anti-hate activist, OPS) The judge is a member of the board of a Jewish Community Center where Warman had spoken about his fight against anti-semitism. I don't know what the laws are in Canada, but in the US this apprehension of bias would be more than enough to have the judgement overturned. The judge should have recused himself."
Anyone know if it's true?
Yes and no. All Politicians want to get re-elected, but many politicians actually do work (some of it even good) in off election seasons. No so with Perry. You won't hear a peep from him or about him until he's up for election.
That's a GREAT idea. Maybe we tell them we'll leave them in there for 60 'creation' days, which in the real world is 6,000,000 days.
Probably one of the most relevant arguments I've read to date. Why would they treat this theory any differently than any other theory taught in science classes? Kudos.
Well said. Mod up!
It's funny. Every time he is up for election, he's all over the Texas news. You never hear about him at any other time.
He only has a mission and that mission is to get re-elected.
Well said. It's a known fact that when they did set the light timings for yellow to proper DOT standards or longer, the cost of the cameras typically become more than the revenue that they collected.
In those situations, cities who had invested in these found that they could either accept their losses, remove the cameras and accept the losses, or decrease the yellow times to increase revenue. Unfortunately they seem to take the dark path.
I think your suggestion to prevent vendors from reaping profit from law enforcement is an excellent one.
Not in the slightest. Why would I feel ripped off? It works better than my Gyration mouse and it comes with a keyboard built in.
No. I already paid that cost for the phone and internet connection before I even knew that WiFi control was possible. This is just gravy. I don't think $3.99 is unreasonable for a HTPC remote.
Memory is a bit more key than processor speed IMO. Any recent Core 2 Duo should be more than adequate to run a VM. You'll find you can run Vista, and XP in 1 GB and 512 MB very comfortably. If you plan on running multiple VM's at the same time, you will definitely need 3-4 GB of RAM.
;)
If you have need for each VM to have access to specific hardware like a DVDRW or whatnot, you can either connect and disconnect it as needed to each VM, or if you need it on both at the same time, you'll want a box that you can physically mount both at once. I go the cheap route and just connect them to the VM that needs them
I run Windows XP, and Ubuntu 8.10 on my iMac (dual core 3.06 Ghz and 4 GB of memory) via VMWare fusion. My XP machine is actually a VM image of my work box. The XP VM uses 1 GB and the Ubuntu 512 MB. XP runs very well including IP phone, even with 512 MB though.
I guess I'm saying you shouldn't go crazy on hardware, but do spend a bit extra for more ram. you'll need it if you plan to run multiple VM's at once.
I have no intention of getting rid of my old bluetooth keyboard or mouse, but I can put up the keyboard and leave the mouse on the charger. I am the only one who operates the MediaPC but if someone needs to, they can pull out the keyboard and mouse.
This isn't a replacement for your standard infrared electronics under normal circumstances. It works over WiFi meaning HTPC's unless you want to pop for the WiFi infrared adapters. I have a harmony remote (880) which cost $250 dollars new a few years ago. It serves well enough but it doesn't work with my MediaPC.
I would have paid substantially more than $3.99 for a nice touchpad mouse for the mediapc. These 3d Gyro mice suck not to put too fine a point on it. The keyboard is just a bonus.
Thank you. A very clear understandable reply.
Given what you've said here, what if there was some sort of API that was written to allow apps to take advantage of multiple cores so that the api managed timing for non-asynchronous apps? Dump some code for execution onto an API and let the API manage the wait states for any lagging instructions.
Is that the gist of the article? Suggesting that the OS could take on some of those duties?
I have to disagree. I spent 50 bucks for a bluetooth keyboard, and I have an old Gyration 3D RF mouse which at the time was $79 bucks. The mouse is a pain in the arse and often sends the mouse scurring in some random direction because it's 'level' sensor sucks or whatnot. I tried a touchpad bluetooth mouse I read about on /. but the range was horrible and my dog eventually ate it.
I just bought an app based on TFA ;) I had no idea folks were writing WiFi apps to control HTPC's. All I can say is it's about time!
For 3.99 I now have a full remote keyboard and touchpad mouse that seems to work VERY well. I could care less about charging as I only need the mouse or keyboard to open a video or whatnot. A few seconds of use will not add any substantial 'drain' to my iPhone. It also appears to close the app when I closed the remote software as it asked me to re-authenticate each time I launched it until I told it to save my password.
For those that are interested, I went with "Zemote" for $3.99. Much cheaper than the $24 dollar app mentioned in TFA. It comes with basic paring security (password over WiFi on a custom port), keyboard, touchpad mouse functionality or tilt mouse functionality..whichever you prefer, and a media remote for Win Media Center, WMP, VLC, or GOM.
But can't the OS micromanage CPU queue's? I see what your saying about distinct URL requests and that makes perfect sense to me, but isn't an app, taken down to a command by command level the same thing? Couldn't it dole out the CPU queue among any number of processors?
I apologize is these are rather basic questions. I do basic programming but not at the level where I have to actively multithread any apps I write.
Someone help me out here, but wouldn't even single threaded apps benefit if the OS was able to properly load balance CPU load?
Which sounds more ridiculous to you?
#1 That Blizzard demands that every ISP provide free service
or
#2 That any addons built for a product that Blizzard owns be fairly available to all users?
Since Blizzard can't dictate what ISP's do and what ISP's provide, I vote #2.
Obviously every person who plays WOW has internet access. There is no possible way that Blizzard can ensure that every user has proper latency and lag free experience other than banning lagggy connections from playing and that wouldln't make good business either.
They CAN easily control some things and this is one of them. It doesn't hurt their business model (since they already have the paying customer). It also ensures that some people don't have an unfair advantage over others that are within the control of Blizzard themselves.
If your backing a user's data, you should grab everything in the users folder. Not just My Documents, or My Pictures, or Desktop. You copy EVERYTHING under Users\Username or Documents and Settings\Username. Your asking for data loss if you don't.
I've made that mistake before trying to grab the big stuff, and assuming they would never have data elsewhere. That works until you realize you've lost their Mozilla bookmarks/cookies, or their local PST files or their Nifty Notes whatnot in appdata.
I'll probably get modded down for this, but I still hate that I can't just type CD DirName and end up in the proper directory. My old Amiga OS used to do this, and that was 15 years ago. Why is this so difficult to keep a simple index of folder paths? Thousands upon thousands of folder paths would take up a few hundred KB to index. If there were multiple choices, AmigaOS would simply warn you.
The proper case FS thing is a nag for me as well. I hear everyone talk about the benefits of using proper case, then everyone turns around and uses lower case to work around it. Of course this is my opinion only so I can't speek for others, but I never have two files with the same name in the same DIR but with different case. Although I'm sure there are people who could potential need this feature, does the common user really need this? What other reason is a case sensitive FS really for except to allow multiple files with the same name but different case in the same dir? Blegh
There are also some basic usability features that should be addressed. I have to agree with the above post. Why would someone need to Google to find an app to sudo to root via a GUI 'button' app? I don't think it's unreasonable to simply click a button to do that and be prompted for a password. Why isn't something so basic already included in the distro?
I love Linux. Don't get me wrong, but many of the Linux crowd have this huge chip on their shoulder that works along the line of "if it ain't broke, it doesn't need fixing, because it's FOSS and we can do no wrong". Unfortunately, if your not fixing/adding needed/wanted features, then you're stagnant.
These folks out here give so much of their free time and do great things, but some times they are too focused on the big things and they never address the little things.
I also think this is the mistake that Vista made IMO. MS was so focused on Searching and the new db based FS, and pre-caching apps to speed things up, that they forgot the small things that may not be the foundation of the os, but they are sorely missed when they aren't there or don't work well. When some of their big ticket items didn't even make it into Vista, what were we left with?
When can we get this ported to Mac and Linux? Insensitive bastards always write these for Windows only. Don't they know there's millions of Mac owners out there who want to be in the "in" crowd? What about Linux? I hear their "Year of the Desktop" is coming any time now. ;)