Yes they do say what they use to encode on their FAQ at the site:
They encode using lame 3.92 --alt-preset standard. That's an ideal VBR setting. Overall average around 192kbps (more or less depending on the track) designed to be CD quality. Its what I use to encode all of my CDs.
agreed, emusic will have problems or need to delve further into indy-dom if other online music stores become popular enough to persuade artists to go the DRM route rather than letting people listen to their music when/however they want.
no, cisco stock was one of the good ones. it should have been obvious to any shareholder that it was time to sell as soon as cisco's market cap was briefly larger than microsoft. you'd have made your money.
rdiff-backup is based on rsync but allows you to keep incrementals as well as full backups. great for disk based backups while maintaining lots of history.
for redundancy and recoverability just use it to multiple backup disks at whatever level of redundancy you need. each one will have its own full set of incrementals so if you lose one, no big deal.
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So if someone wants to have say, a video blog, they shouldn't have to pay for the zillions of megabytes in bandwith
What?!? Of course they should. If someone wants to have a video blog they sure as hell are going to have to host it somehow. bandwidth doesn't grow on cat5 trees.
slashdotters obviously have no clue how bittorrent works and the actual details about what bandwidth it can actually partially recover. so i'll explain something to all of your deaf ears and eyes:
it is only going to be useful when the bandwidth load on the server is high due to sudden large instant demand (ie: slashdotting) for large objects (cd images, large distributions, hi-hi-red images, videos, etc). at that point many of the peers downloading will help save bandwidth by serving the portion they have already downloaded to others. but after the initial rush is off, not many seeds will be left as most people have downloaded it and bittorrent has been closed or exited on its own (nor should there be any) as the server has plenty of bandwidth to satisfy requests itself at that point. that's the servers job. to be the reliable source of content. bittorrent just helps lower the peaks during high load (peaks over short periods of time are often what server-colo sites charge for).
quit trying to use bittorrent as your sole hosting solution so that you never have to use any bandwidth. that's what MNet is for (distributed storage and hosting) or possibly freenet.
(a) Both GSM and CDMA encryption are flawed and can be broken.
(b) It doesn't matter if the encryption is bad, all GSM phones listen for a single bit from the tower they're communicating with that tells it if it should encrypt or not. It is trivial for anyone with the resources to eavesdrop on a digital phone call to setup their own fake tower to tell your phone to turn encryption off.
(c) so what if mobile phones encrypt, phone lines that they connect to don't.
never trust commercial "encryption" to be anything more than the magic decoder ring from your cerial box wrapped in a DMCA wrapper calling anyone that points out that its made of cheap injection molded plastic an information terrorist.
the 1% of the time when there are network problems and you indavertantly left something you need in your "always accessable everywhere" network mounted home directory you're shit out of luck.
even more so if whatever way you use to "mount" this network home directory blocks when the network/server is inaccessable.
Its not a defeat, its just that all corporations and institutions do things this way (using the SSN, having poor security, etc) because its cheap.
the guarantee of "if something bad happens we'll fix it for you" is given but all burden of time, proof, investigation, research and argument falls on the consumer. the catch is that the consumer often doesn't have the time or money to do that without serious hardship. yet the corporations are absolved of all responsibility for your lost opportunities while you fight to prove that your credit rating has false entries on it, etc. even a simple two week hold put on a bank account while you dispute an address change or fradulent charge is a serious hardship for many.
An ID card of any sort doesn't matter; those are easy to fake. the entire financial security of most people in this country rests on their widely-distributed SSN and their mailing address or possibly their mothers maiden name. that's not likely to change so long as its always "somebody else" statistically insignificant that gets screwed. raise id theft crime enough and watch heads start rolling and stupid laundry list ideas (like extra id cards) start flying.
if you allow paid subscribers to post comments in stories early you are asking for trouble. your moderation system does not work. whoever posts first always has the best chance of getting rated up no matter how stupid they are.
don't allow people to pay to sway the masses.
take a hint from kuro5hin, early posts into stories should only be -editorial- comments meant to make suggestions to the editors. they should disappear when the story goes live.
so software could now require you to have a CD-R drive and write unique computer id info to the CD-R at license verification time so that you can't use it in more than N computers or more than N times?
other than the random smattering of linux and bsd users who use vmware to run windows come tax season, how many serious vmware licensees actually use it to run different OSes rather than to turn one server into 10 virtual servers running the same OS?
Reading through the document it looks like this is designed to only add a tax/surcharge to customers generating their own power that actually feed their excess back into the power grid (known as banking).
So no, a geo-thermal heating/cooling system or turning off your air conditioner on a hot day could not be taxed.
This proposal appears to hide behind an attempt to say "running+managing the grid costs money, even power producers should pay if they are hooked up." That is only true to a point. Until a significant number of customers start doing consumer power generation (10%, etc) this makes no sense whatsoever except when you realize that the PUC would rather consumers live in completely cold black boxes that need tons of light and heat with no way to generate their own power and efficiently use it.
The PUC companies would be better served by scrapping this law and adjusting their variable rate schedule power prices at different times of day to recoup their grid operation and management enrichmet costs from consumer generation.
most of them overcharge and have poor service while at the same time forcing you to use them because the agreement will require that you use their slow overpriced system rather than get your own DSL line from one of many DSL ISPs or cable modem (yuck, evil) connection.
stop putting yourself at the mercy of your apartment complex management company.
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they = 30 second samples should not be copyrightable either.
(ever notice how the cheap movies never play more than 30 seconds of a song
Yes they do say what they use to encode on their FAQ at the site:
They encode using lame 3.92 --alt-preset standard. That's an ideal VBR setting. Overall average around 192kbps (more or less depending on the track) designed to be CD quality. Its what I use to encode all of my CDs.
agreed, emusic will have problems or need to delve further into indy-dom if other online music stores become popular enough to persuade artists to go the DRM route rather than letting people listen to their music when/however they want.
no, cisco stock was one of the good ones. it should have been obvious to any shareholder that it was time to sell as soon as cisco's market cap was briefly larger than microsoft. you'd have made your money.
rdiff-backup is based on rsync but allows you to keep incrementals as well as full backups. great for disk based backups while maintaining lots of history.
for redundancy and recoverability just use it to multiple backup disks at whatever level of redundancy you need. each one will have its own full set of incrementals so if you lose one, no big deal.
beat that apple.
So if someone wants to have say, a video blog, they shouldn't have to pay for the zillions of megabytes in bandwith
What?!? Of course they should. If someone wants to have a video blog they sure as hell are going to have to host it somehow. bandwidth doesn't grow on cat5 trees.
slashdotters obviously have no clue how bittorrent works and the actual details about what bandwidth it can actually partially recover. so i'll explain something to all of your deaf ears and eyes:
it is only going to be useful when the bandwidth load on the server is high due to sudden large instant demand (ie: slashdotting) for large objects (cd images, large distributions, hi-hi-red images, videos, etc). at that point many of the peers downloading will help save bandwidth by serving the portion they have already downloaded to others. but after the initial rush is off, not many seeds will be left as most people have downloaded it and bittorrent has been closed or exited on its own (nor should there be any) as the server has plenty of bandwidth to satisfy requests itself at that point. that's the servers job. to be the reliable source of content. bittorrent just helps lower the peaks during high load (peaks over short periods of time are often what server-colo sites charge for).
quit trying to use bittorrent as your sole hosting solution so that you never have to use any bandwidth. that's what MNet is for (distributed storage and hosting) or possibly freenet.
No they don't.
(a) Both GSM and CDMA encryption are flawed and can be broken.
(b) It doesn't matter if the encryption is bad, all GSM phones listen for a single bit from the tower they're communicating with that tells it if it should encrypt or not. It is trivial for anyone with the resources to eavesdrop on a digital phone call to setup their own fake tower to tell your phone to turn encryption off.
(c) so what if mobile phones encrypt, phone lines that they connect to don't.
never trust commercial "encryption" to be anything more than the magic decoder ring from your cerial box wrapped in a DMCA wrapper calling anyone that points out that its made of cheap injection molded plastic an information terrorist.
it appears that privoxy is stripping all content from the page. how nice.
www.winehq.com has shown up as blank for me any time i try to load it in mozilla for the past year or two. it still does.
way to redesign.
the page source is just empty html and body tags.
the 1% of the time when there are network problems and you indavertantly left something you need in your "always accessable everywhere" network mounted home directory you're shit out of luck.
even more so if whatever way you use to "mount" this network home directory blocks when the network/server is inaccessable.
oh it's stimulating growth alright. growth in the number and cost of lawyers to repeatedly attempt to undo what they did.
great, so how long before i can enable wireframe mode for the real world to see when my boss is coming around the corner?
aren't gauss canon bullets about the size of VW bugs? or are they usually compared to chevy engines?
regardless, they'll rip your mech to shreds.
Its not a defeat, its just that all corporations and institutions do things this way (using the SSN, having poor security, etc) because its cheap.
the guarantee of "if something bad happens we'll fix it for you" is given but all burden of time, proof, investigation, research and argument falls on the consumer. the catch is that the consumer often doesn't have the time or money to do that without serious hardship. yet the corporations are absolved of all responsibility for your lost opportunities while you fight to prove that your credit rating has false entries on it, etc. even a simple two week hold put on a bank account while you dispute an address change or fradulent charge is a serious hardship for many.
An ID card of any sort doesn't matter; those are easy to fake. the entire financial security of most people in this country rests on their widely-distributed SSN and their mailing address or possibly their mothers maiden name. that's not likely to change so long as its always "somebody else" statistically insignificant that gets screwed. raise id theft crime enough and watch heads start rolling and stupid laundry list ideas (like extra id cards) start flying.
if you allow paid subscribers to post comments in stories early you are asking for trouble. your moderation system does not work. whoever posts first always has the best chance of getting rated up no matter how stupid they are.
don't allow people to pay to sway the masses.
take a hint from kuro5hin, early posts into stories should only be -editorial- comments meant to make suggestions to the editors. they should disappear when the story goes live.
you think computers made entirely of commodity components are going to start adding additional ram and batteries to the mix as a standard feature?
hahaha. tell another one.
so software could now require you to have a CD-R drive and write unique computer id info to the CD-R at license verification time so that you can't use it in more than N computers or more than N times?
as if anyone will buy that shit.
karma whore! mod parent down!
It weighs 3 lbs. That's plenty much like a notebook to me. Anything weighing more than 3.5-4lbs should be considered a desktop replacement luggable.
other than the random smattering of linux and bsd users who use vmware to run windows come tax season, how many serious vmware licensees actually use it to run different OSes rather than to turn one server into 10 virtual servers running the same OS?
Reading through the document it looks like this is designed to only add a tax/surcharge to customers generating their own power that actually feed their excess back into the power grid (known as banking).
So no, a geo-thermal heating/cooling system or turning off your air conditioner on a hot day could not be taxed.
This proposal appears to hide behind an attempt to say "running+managing the grid costs money, even power producers should pay if they are hooked up." That is only true to a point. Until a significant number of customers start doing consumer power generation (10%, etc) this makes no sense whatsoever except when you realize that the PUC would rather consumers live in completely cold black boxes that need tons of light and heat with no way to generate their own power and efficiently use it.
The PUC companies would be better served by scrapping this law and adjusting their variable rate schedule power prices at different times of day to recoup their grid operation and management enrichmet costs from consumer generation.
DirecTiVo owners can record both at the same time.
there are three perfectly good sets of BSD code to copy from with zero repercussions that do the exact same thing.
most of them overcharge and have poor service while at the same time forcing you to use them because the agreement will require that you use their slow overpriced system rather than get your own DSL line from one of many DSL ISPs or cable modem (yuck, evil) connection.
stop putting yourself at the mercy of your apartment complex management company.
Speakeasy does allow connection sharing. The DSL line owner is responsible for all activity that occurs on the line naturally.