Anyone else think these kinds of games are partly the reason why we're going to invade Iraq, North Korea, and various African countries once we're done there?
We do have a (seemingly unautomated) system of discouraging Kaaza users. Once a student has transfered over 500MB of bandwidth within 24 hours, their speed is throttled down to the speed of a 56K modem. When I made the switch to Linux a couple months ago, I downloaded roughly 1.7GB of ISO's -- all in one day. My bandwidth was never reduced, which leads me to believe that they are either not strict about it, or that they actually look to see where the traffic is coming from, and act accordingly
I'm at the better in-state school, and I've worked with the network administration here on solutions to bandwidth problems. The way I understand it, the upstream ISP for both of our colleges will periodically (daily IIRC) send a list of the IP addresses with the highest bandwidth usage to the network administration here. These users are then placed in a sort of "penalty box" -- if it is determined that their high usage is due to not-so-nice things such as P2P, their bandwidth gets throttled back.
Here at OSU, though, they implemented a totally different solution at the beginning of this semester. Students on the ResLife network are now by default placed behind a NAT configuration. If you want a public IP, fine, but you have to register for it. Thus, if you have a public IP and your IP starts sharing illegal files and generating high bandwidth usage, they don't even have to try to figure out who you are. This has been working out nicely so far; it's much better than the old configuration, in which the severely capped ResLife network was so clogged it was hardly usable. Now, there isn't any cap, and available bandwidth is plenty.
Of course, the company doesn't make any money on the printers (A one-time sale of $200-300)... all their profits are from ink, which you will always need to buy.
$200-$300? I've seen Lexmark Z22 printers on sale at Wally World for somewhere in the $28-$30 range. Checking the boxes, they come with one color cartridge. The cartridges for the Z22 cost at least as much as the printer itself, if not more.
Overture and Yahoo may have more money; however, no amount can make me want to go to a search engine that I can't view in the "Bork!" Language. Bork, Bork, Bork!
The link in the article is broken. Either the newspaper is routing webpage requests to some login page for reporters, or the actual link to the article is wrong. I can tell this because a newspaper wouldn't have it's readers log in
By contrast, Sydney Uni says it knows of one student with a handful of files on a website, which does actually sound quite a bit like one track here, one track there
John Q Student had a track, EIEIO
And on this track he had a song, EIEIO
With a "track track" here and a "track track" there
Here a "track" there a "track" everywhere a "track track"
John Q Student had a track, EIEIO!
(God I love having to stay up late to do homework)
Somebody collected 2.2 million AOL disks (not hard to do), and needed CC's to activate them all.
Most of the AOL CDs (no apostrophe in a pluralized acronym) I have seen lately state pretty loudly on the packaging that a CC is no longer required for activation of the trial account.
I know there is a Windows refund site somewhere, as long as you never click okay to a EULA you can get some money back...
Maybe this has changed, but when you buy a new, prebuilt PC, do you have to click an EULA anyway? Your "acceptance" of the EULA comes not as a product of clicking a button marked 'I Agree', but as a mere result of your using the OEM product. Thus, most refund sites stress that in order to get a refund, you must not boot into the preinstalled copy of Windows, not even a single time. They will tell you in no uncertain terms not to turn the PC on until you have boot disks for Linux/*BSD/whatever inserted into it.
Until they get hit for an anti-trust lawsuit, that is.
Given the current administration's apathetic stance towards anti-trust (witness the Microsoft case, AOL-TW being allowed to happen, etc), I doubt that that will be a problem.
Why not send the user a hex dump of the files per postal mail and have them type it in at their pc?
I remember the old Commodore 64 magazines that would do just this. There was a popular program called MLX that would let you enter the listings, which came complete with per-line checksums.
Rosenian mathematics allows for some strange inflation/deflation with numerical figures; that's probably what you're running into here. This is the same mathematical model that allows 500 CD burners to be represented as 1200, for instance.
Wow, I must really be tired...the first thing I thought of when I read this was a hampsterdance.com-esque site complete with dancing "Google"s and background music.
But seriously, why don't they just print the text of the EULA either on the back of the box in tiny font size 1 print
Because, especially with the way many Microsoft EULAs (there is no apostrophe there, thank you all very much) are, you would need an electron microscope to read the damn thing.
didn't you read the terms of service agreement you were handed at birth (us citizens only) that states any bypassing of ads during receipt of content is theft?
Two things:
1. You're under 18 at the time you "accepted" this "contract," so legally you cannot be held to it.
2. How the heck is a newborn supposed to be able to read, let alone understand, let alone be able to agree to something like that?
Slashdot Mirror
The New York Times (registration, yeah, yeah, yeah)
And this is Slashdot, where people don't like anti-privacy things such as having to log in. Not even the editors.
Gotta love the hypocrisy around here.
This is offtopic kind of but there is a HUGE difference between a geForce 4 MX model and a geForce 4 ti like mine. He was getting only 200-2100?
This is because there is a huge difference between the MX and TI models.
Anyone else think these kinds of games are partly the reason why we're going to invade Iraq, North Korea, and various African countries once we're done there?
Let us all join hands and sing "Kumbaya" then...
(hint: that won't help)
We do have a (seemingly unautomated) system of discouraging Kaaza users. Once a student has transfered over 500MB of bandwidth within 24 hours, their speed is throttled down to the speed of a 56K modem. When I made the switch to Linux a couple months ago, I downloaded roughly 1.7GB of ISO's -- all in one day. My bandwidth was never reduced, which leads me to believe that they are either not strict about it, or that they actually look to see where the traffic is coming from, and act accordingly
I'm at the better in-state school, and I've worked with the network administration here on solutions to bandwidth problems. The way I understand it, the upstream ISP for both of our colleges will periodically (daily IIRC) send a list of the IP addresses with the highest bandwidth usage to the network administration here. These users are then placed in a sort of "penalty box" -- if it is determined that their high usage is due to not-so-nice things such as P2P, their bandwidth gets throttled back.
Here at OSU, though, they implemented a totally different solution at the beginning of this semester. Students on the ResLife network are now by default placed behind a NAT configuration. If you want a public IP, fine, but you have to register for it. Thus, if you have a public IP and your IP starts sharing illegal files and generating high bandwidth usage, they don't even have to try to figure out who you are. This has been working out nicely so far; it's much better than the old configuration, in which the severely capped ResLife network was so clogged it was hardly usable. Now, there isn't any cap, and available bandwidth is plenty.
But what if the spammer sends a message to a (good) SMTP server which haven't got the system
Said SMTP server would have to be an open relay, which would hardly let it qualify as "good."
Of course, the company doesn't make any money on the printers (A one-time sale of $200-300)... all their profits are from ink, which you will always need to buy.
$200-$300? I've seen Lexmark Z22 printers on sale at Wally World for somewhere in the $28-$30 range. Checking the boxes, they come with one color cartridge. The cartridges for the Z22 cost at least as much as the printer itself, if not more.
Overture and Yahoo may have more money; however, no amount can make me want to go to a search engine that I can't view in the "Bork!" Language. Bork, Bork, Bork!
I like the h4x0r version of Google, personally.
The link in the article is broken. Either the newspaper is routing webpage requests to some login page for reporters, or the actual link to the article is wrong. I can tell this because a newspaper wouldn't have it's readers log in
You're new here, aren't you?
By contrast, Sydney Uni says it knows of one student with a handful of files on a website, which does actually sound quite a bit like one track here, one track there
John Q Student had a track, EIEIO
And on this track he had a song, EIEIO
With a "track track" here and a "track track" there
Here a "track" there a "track" everywhere a "track track"
John Q Student had a track, EIEIO!
(God I love having to stay up late to do homework)
Somebody collected 2.2 million AOL disks (not hard to do), and needed CC's to activate them all.
Most of the AOL CDs (no apostrophe in a pluralized acronym) I have seen lately state pretty loudly on the packaging that a CC is no longer required for activation of the trial account.
I know there is a Windows refund site somewhere, as long as you never click okay to a EULA you can get some money back...
Maybe this has changed, but when you buy a new, prebuilt PC, do you have to click an EULA anyway? Your "acceptance" of the EULA comes not as a product of clicking a button marked 'I Agree', but as a mere result of your using the OEM product. Thus, most refund sites stress that in order to get a refund, you must not boot into the preinstalled copy of Windows, not even a single time. They will tell you in no uncertain terms not to turn the PC on until you have boot disks for Linux/*BSD/whatever inserted into it.
Until they get hit for an anti-trust lawsuit, that is.
Given the current administration's apathetic stance towards anti-trust (witness the Microsoft case, AOL-TW being allowed to happen, etc), I doubt that that will be a problem.
Really?
Why not send the user a hex dump of the files per postal mail and have them type it in at their pc?
I remember the old Commodore 64 magazines that would do just this. There was a popular program called MLX that would let you enter the listings, which came complete with per-line checksums.
Tomorrow they'll be the only ones who can call me at home to solicit the things telemarketers always have
Tell them that they will lose you as a customer if they telemarket to you.
How on earth is that an eight digit IP address?
Rosenian mathematics allows for some strange inflation/deflation with numerical figures; that's probably what you're running into here. This is the same mathematical model that allows 500 CD burners to be represented as 1200, for instance.
It's called the "Google Dance"
Wow, I must really be tired...the first thing I thought of when I read this was a hampsterdance.com-esque site complete with dancing "Google"s and background music.
But seriously, why don't they just print the text of the EULA either on the back of the box in tiny font size 1 print
Because, especially with the way many Microsoft EULAs (there is no apostrophe there, thank you all very much) are, you would need an electron microscope to read the damn thing.
Access to source code results in insecurity as the viewer may find holes in your application that they can exploit
Not having access to Microsoft's source code sure prevented the script kiddies from finding all the holes they've found so far in MS products...
Gee, I wonder if they really have the 25 000 CD roasters ready to rumble when the concert ends. :)
They'll just have 1000 or so...by the RIAA's math, this will count as 25000 burners since they'll be fast burners.
Have you ever received a telemarketer call or postal junk mail from a foreign country?
Quite possibly. It is becoming more and more common to outsource telephone marketing campaigns to call centers in India.
That the customers have opted in, or that they have an existing business relationship with them. It's what they already do...
didn't you read the terms of service agreement you were handed at birth (us citizens only) that states any bypassing of ads during receipt of content is theft?
Two things:
1. You're under 18 at the time you "accepted" this "contract," so legally you cannot be held to it.
2. How the heck is a newborn supposed to be able to read, let alone understand, let alone be able to agree to something like that?
Call me ignorant, but what exactly is SDF
Standiford Field, aka Louisville International Airport.
And she's buying a stairway...to heaven...