there's no "magic" percentage when something transfers from legit use to non-legit use.
Sure there is. When it's used legitimately 0.00% of the time. A mathemetician would say that's improbable, though, and an engineer would say that's impossible:D As long as we got guys like MacGuyver around, anyways.
according to some popular sites on the web, the human being is worth real rough about 2 million bucks, if you want to buy the parts, i mean. so at 2 million a person... (no really, at least one site told me 2 million- www.humanforsale.com).. er.. this is the part where i wish i finished high school math (i was worth about 850k so bear with me) 97 trillion = 97 000 000 000 000 divided by 2 000 000. so ugh. thats like 97 000 000 divided by 2, right? so 48.5 million people. So the RIAA should just collect those college students and their immediate and distant families and stop when they hit 48.5 million people. then they can just pack 'em up and drive them over and shut the hell up.
Let me ask one of those laymen/borderline stupid questions that are insightful as long as someone answers it. If google does an IPO and becomes a publically traded company, in time that will make them suck, right? Cause then they'll have to listen to investors? Do companies ever go "we dont care what the investors want. We will do what pleases us, not them."
Nah, it's cool.. I was reading about these paint mods they have, you can actually turn them opaque after a few hours of work. Crazy stuff these people come up with...
what will information-access-over-electronic-networks look like in 2013?
To the 2003 web surfer, I'd have to guess it's going to be strangley, deafeningly mute of spam and popups and junk in general. And if you casually leaned over and asked the 2013 web surfer where the spam went, I bet they'd go "the whuh?" I'll leave it wide open how I'm supposing something like that could happen...
SSL VPNs have one advantage going for them that IPSEC can't compete with- "stealth" mode. Ok, it's surely not invisible, but you can usually configure the port you want it to run on. OpenVPN is what I have converted five of us over to from working FreeS/WAN VPNs, as most of us have the same ISP who has claimed they will be blocking IPSEC packets from residential customers. We don't want our VPN to disappear, so we're forced to use this TLS VPN package.
I'm unaware of any weaknesses this has versus a real IPSEC solution, but I'm not an expert and that does lead me into my point- lots of people here have struggled with FreeS/WAN- OpenVPN takes about 3 hours to read up on, build, install, configure, and get running.
Kinda, but you're prolly paying more like 1/8 of the bandwidth in reality. If 8 random people rent a basketball court together, what happens when one of them wants to lay down basketball court sized paper and paint basketball court sized murals? Shouldn't he have to get his own court instead?
What I want to know, is does anybody have a copy of this?:D I remember my dad stealing "Big Blue Disk" disks from my Uncle's trailer back in about 1986, 1987ish. And I think that's where I first encountered Space Wars. The first video game I ever played. When you quit the game it said "may the farce be with you!" I just spent about an hour looking for this, and then other games I used to know. Anyone who was old enough back then to know what was going on care to enlighten any of us who want to grab a copy of the game to see what they're talking about?
the real reason that no one has apparently solved it is cause every time someone does, the Men in Black get sent out with ray guns and melt the poor person- it's cheaper than developing new tech for ecommerce transactions. if someone DID solve this, do you suppose banks would like... publically panic?
Tech: How can I help you? Customer: I would like to cancel my account. Tech: Ok... [procedure] And if I may ask, why are you leaving us? Customer: Yeah, I got wireless internet access. Tech: Oh? There's a wireless provider in your area? Customer: Yep- my neighbor's offering it. Tech: Goodness, we had no idea- what is the name of their business? Customer: Oh he ain't no business, he doesnt even know I'm using it. Anyways, thanks, goodbye
We were all astonished that someone would steal like that and then tell the truth to one of the few organizations that would actually bother figuring out who was letting people leech like that unknowingly...
If you could float your processor in the depths of space where the ambient temperature were a degree above absolute zero, your processor would probably perform worse than in your office- a vacuum makes a pretty good insulator, and all that heat would just kind of float there with it, charging up. There'd be nothing to carry the heat away.
My friends and I were walking around last week and I had a great idea. Wouldn't it be fun to strap one of your passed-out drunkard friends to a Segway and just let it drive them around? It doesnt fall over- they could wake up somewhere really cool!!!
Isn't corporate greed the other way around? The reason I'm using a PII 200?
I am rather fond of those protein folding programs. I'd run something like that if I didn't understand that I pay less for electricity letting my machines idle (which would burn more of the the coal that gives us the cancers we're trying to cure by folding proteins with our computers!)
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there's no "magic" percentage when something transfers from legit use to non-legit use.
:D As long as we got guys like MacGuyver around, anyways.
Sure there is. When it's used legitimately 0.00% of the time. A mathemetician would say that's improbable, though, and an engineer would say that's impossible
If successful, perhaps one day you could give your love a diamond engagement CPU instead of a ring!
Arghh!!! paradox!!! get it off, get it off!!!
sed s/grand/"14 grand"/
according to some popular sites on the web, the human being is worth real rough about 2 million bucks, if you want to buy the parts, i mean. so at 2 million a person... (no really, at least one site told me 2 million- www.humanforsale.com).. er.. this is the part where i wish i finished high school math (i was worth about 850k so bear with me) 97 trillion = 97 000 000 000 000 divided by 2 000 000. so ugh. thats like 97 000 000 divided by 2, right? so 48.5 million people. So the RIAA should just collect those college students and their immediate and distant families and stop when they hit 48.5 million people. then they can just pack 'em up and drive them over and shut the hell up.
whoops, sorry about the italics.
Simple question: How could you beat Google?
Simple- clone Google and then get rid of all the pop up ads. You'd have a perfect search engine, nothing could beat it!
Let me ask one of those laymen/borderline stupid questions that are insightful as long as someone answers it. If google does an IPO and becomes a publically traded company, in time that will make them suck, right? Cause then they'll have to listen to investors? Do companies ever go "we dont care what the investors want. We will do what pleases us, not them."
sadly, yes. thats 4 weeks of ghetto mart food!
I was gonna get an ibook in April-ish. Would any Apple users care to comment on whether they would wait until June to get it with 10.3 or not?
Is there a grace period where Apple will typically give you a free upgrade if you just bought one of their computers?
does this affect monolythic kernels? as in a kernel you cannot load modules into.
Nah, it's cool.. I was reading about these paint mods they have, you can actually turn them opaque after a few hours of work. Crazy stuff these people come up with...
what will information-access-over-electronic-networks look like in 2013?
To the 2003 web surfer, I'd have to guess it's going to be strangley, deafeningly mute of spam and popups and junk in general. And if you casually leaned over and asked the 2013 web surfer where the spam went, I bet they'd go "the whuh?" I'll leave it wide open how I'm supposing something like that could happen...
SSL VPNs have one advantage going for them that IPSEC can't compete with- "stealth" mode. Ok, it's surely not invisible, but you can usually configure the port you want it to run on. OpenVPN is what I have converted five of us over to from working FreeS/WAN VPNs, as most of us have the same ISP who has claimed they will be blocking IPSEC packets from residential customers. We don't want our VPN to disappear, so we're forced to use this TLS VPN package.
I'm unaware of any weaknesses this has versus a real IPSEC solution, but I'm not an expert and that does lead me into my point- lots of people here have struggled with FreeS/WAN- OpenVPN takes about 3 hours to read up on, build, install, configure, and get running.
I am paying for the bandwidth
Kinda, but you're prolly paying more like 1/8 of the bandwidth in reality. If 8 random people rent a basketball court together, what happens when one of them wants to lay down basketball court sized paper and paint basketball court sized murals? Shouldn't he have to get his own court instead?
What I want to know, is does anybody have a copy of this? :D I remember my dad stealing "Big Blue Disk" disks from my Uncle's trailer back in about 1986, 1987ish. And I think that's where I first encountered Space Wars. The first video game I ever played. When you quit the game it said "may the farce be with you!" I just spent about an hour looking for this, and then other games I used to know. Anyone who was old enough back then to know what was going on care to enlighten any of us who want to grab a copy of the game to see what they're talking about?
Just remember that these battery packs are for fueling your computer, not for drinking them like alcohol and then getting drunk with them...
guess that's why they say "never drink your laptop battery!" ba dum bum!
speaking of drinking laptop batteries as a substitute for alcohol, could I get another? ooh.. where do I come up with this stuff, I'm funnier than ALF
the real reason that no one has apparently solved it is cause every time someone does, the Men in Black get sent out with ray guns and melt the poor person- it's cheaper than developing new tech for ecommerce transactions. if someone DID solve this, do you suppose banks would like... publically panic?
Then why don't we just fire those 20 guys?! Crimony!
2 million years eh? Ok, here's a thought to ponder. Think some...thing from Earth will go get it before it gets to the next local star?
"Baker's Dozen"
Actually we found that looking his neighbor up in the phone book worked quite well :P
We lost a customer that way about 8 weeks ago.
Tech: How can I help you?
Customer: I would like to cancel my account.
Tech: Ok... [procedure] And if I may ask, why are you leaving us?
Customer: Yeah, I got wireless internet access.
Tech: Oh? There's a wireless provider in your area?
Customer: Yep- my neighbor's offering it.
Tech: Goodness, we had no idea- what is the name of their business?
Customer: Oh he ain't no business, he doesnt even know I'm using it. Anyways, thanks, goodbye
We were all astonished that someone would steal like that and then tell the truth to one of the few organizations that would actually bother figuring out who was letting people leech like that unknowingly...
If you could float your processor in the depths of space where the ambient temperature were a degree above absolute zero, your processor would probably perform worse than in your office- a vacuum makes a pretty good insulator, and all that heat would just kind of float there with it, charging up. There'd be nothing to carry the heat away.
My friends and I were walking around last week and I had a great idea. Wouldn't it be fun to strap one of your passed-out drunkard friends to a Segway and just let it drive them around? It doesnt fall over- they could wake up somewhere really cool!!!
Isn't corporate greed the other way around? The reason I'm using a PII 200?
I am rather fond of those protein folding programs. I'd run something like that if I didn't understand that I pay less for electricity letting my machines idle (which would burn more of the the coal that gives us the cancers we're trying to cure by folding proteins with our computers!)