The "depend the Constitution" ad campaign mentioned is $3.5M large
Do you mean defend the Constitution, or do you really mean depend the Constitution (i.e. use the Constitution as a pair of Depends, which some would argue the government has been doing lately)?
Lose the 'one-big-volume' syndrome. Create a/home partition, leave it untouched (except maybe for the.dot files) during a rescue. The user's data is untouched. Better yet, in this context, mount/usr ro, and (/tmp/home) noexec.
A useful variant of this for home users, or college students like myself, is to create a large files partition to go along with your OS partition. Put all your work, homework, MP3, etc. files on it. Also, have an 'installfiles' folder on it in which you archive the installers for the programs that you use. This makes rescuing and/or reinstalling Windows much less painful; you lose very little data, if any, and you don't have to download everything again.
That gives me a thought...instead of using methanol, how about using methane? Sure, it's a gas, but methane can be used as a fuel, and hey, it's easy to come up with a refill for it.
Please note that the recording industry thinks they can change this sort of thing, by requiring all analog to digital converts (ADCs) to respect some sort of digital protection
I find it hard to imagine how a simple DAC circuit could be "improved" to support DRM. But even a circuit like this would be required to support DRM, no?
If I speed because my wife is ill, because getting there 5 seconds sooner might make a difference, does not exempt me from the possible ticket for breaking the law.
#include <ianal.h>
Actually, in this case, you pretty much are exempt from getting the ticket. If you are speeding to the hospital because of a life or death situation and a police officer pulls you over, you can (in some states anyway) tell him that because a life or death situation exists, he MUST escort you to the hospital IMMEDIATELY. Ignoring a life or death situation constitutes dereliction of duty for a police officer. Not to mention that, if something happens, he can be held personally liable if evidence suggests that the time wasted giving you the ticket could have made a difference.
At the bail hearing for Johnston, Tinney and three other defendants in Houston, the FBI's Kristen Sheldon... testified that an IP address is, "in very simple terms, a Social Security number. Only one person at one specific time can have that number." In fact, an IP address identifies a computer, rather than a person, and may not even consistently map to a particular machine in networks that use dynamic IP addressing.
IP addresses are more analogous to phone numbers. One computer, one IP is typical, but different configurations are certainly possible. You can have multiple IPs on one computer, for instance, or you can have multiple computers NATd onto one IP. Likewise, one location, one phone number is typical, but can be done differently. You can have multiple phone numbers at one location, as in the example case of households with extra phone lines for fax, modem, teen, whatever, or you can have one phone number that auto-routes the caller to your nearest office. Also central to this analogy is that phone numbers do not necessarily keep the same owner over a period of time, and the same is true for IP addresses. This does not hold true for SSNs.
Did the industry give the politician money, and then they voted they way they want, or does industry just give money to people who have the same attitudes to them
With all the absurd crap Congress has been pushing lately, the former seems much more likely.
There are countless examples I can go into but hey my time is worth cash. But also noote one thing, this is a US bill. I am in canada, so what happens when they do a DOS attack that goes over the border. If my companey is hit because soem one ran kazaa on our network even tho its not alowed. Then well they can mess up corporate data and such. Now this just became a VERY tuchey subject.
Allow me then to make it a less touchy, much clearer subject:
When in the hell is the DoJ going to take anti-trust action against the RIAA?
Say my DSL account got shut down one day and I found out it was because my daughter did a book report on a band and it had mentioned song titles in it. I use my connection for business, as I'm a freelancer. I wonder what legal action one could take against them. I have a feeling it would become quit expensive for them.
First of all, this would be a prime example of Fair Use, so legally they couldn't do a damn thing about it.
Not that they should be trusted however. If they were to take action against you for this, it would pretty much be up to you to prove that you were in the right (side note: isn't it supposed to be innocent until proven guilty? that's not what is happening nowadays). I'd give you some estimates on how much that would cost, but I don't want to give you nightmares. You would of course be legally clear here, and clear according to any AUP your ISP might have, but don't expect overzealous IP lawyers to give a damn about your rights.
It is quite sad how our legal system has been reduced to a system of "survival of the wealthiest."
But DALnet, as with any other network that reaches this size -- including EFnet -- has more than its fair share of problems. The lag and netsplits get intolerable at this level. Also, networks of this size can be difficult to connect to due to script kiddies, server overload, etc (or in the case of EFnet, yellowbellied admins who refuse to open up their I: lines). I personally know of large channels that have recently moved off of both networks because of these problems. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing that it has hit this size, but no network can handle infinite users. A userload like this brings out a network's weaknesses in full force.
You'll need to get the process started, of course. File whatever applications you need to file, and get the concept in place for your station. Then, when Clear Channel sees that another radio station is popping up that they don't already own, they'll buy you out. They'll handle the rest.
Re:"Gaining speeds of up to 140mph"?
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Mass is irrelevant. If you drop a bowling ball and an apple off a building, they will hit ground at the same time.
This is assuming no air resistance. Air resistance makes a pretty big difference; without air resistance, the concept of terminal velocity would not exist. A freefalling object would just keep accelerating and accelerating until it hit the ground.
As a quick demonstration of this, compare the real-world terminal velocity of a human body in the belly-to-earth position -- 120 mph -- with what it would hit on a typical skydive from 12000 feet, minus the parachute pull. I'll use an arbitrary weight of 190 lbs for the purposes of these calculations.
Gravitational potential energy = mass * g * height
Kinetic energy = (1/2) * mass * velocity^2
Energy is conserved between GPE and KE considering that we are assuming no air resistance.
Setting (190/32.2) * 32.2 * 12000 equal to (1/2) * (190/32.2) * v^2 and solving for v yields an impact velocity of 878 feet per second, or 599 mph. This is a far cry from the real-world result of 120 mph, so you can see that friction caused by air resistance makes an enormous difference. As for mass not mattering, mass only doesn't matter if you don't take air resistance into consideration because, as I demonstrated above, the mass is on both sides of the equation so it cancels out. But if you consider air resistance [sum of energy before = sum of energy after plus energy lost to friction], mass no longer cancels out. Incidentally, yes, different skydivers (IAAS) do fall at somewhat different rates, but 120 mph is the generally accepted standard. Different people have different masses and different surface areas, so their terminal velocities will be slightly different.
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140mph? Is that right? It seems awfully slow to me. I would have thought that the terminal velocity of a car would have been much higher than that.
Sounds about right to me, especially when you consider that in the normal belly-to-earth position, the human body will hit a terminal velocity of around 120 mph. Cars have more mass, but they also have a lot more surface area against which air molecules will press as they fall, balancing out the extra mass.
Incidentally, I am both a licensed skydiver (A-38847, getting my B before too much longer) and an engineer.
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The "depend the Constitution" ad campaign mentioned is $3.5M large
Do you mean defend the Constitution, or do you really mean depend the Constitution (i.e. use the Constitution as a pair of Depends, which some would argue the government has been doing lately)?
Hope there weren't any fish living there ;)
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a block of sodium he can fish with, you feed him for life.
Lose the 'one-big-volume' syndrome. Create a /home partition, leave it untouched (except maybe for the .dot files) during a rescue. The user's data is untouched. Better yet, in this context, mount /usr ro, and (/tmp /home) noexec.
A useful variant of this for home users, or college students like myself, is to create a large files partition to go along with your OS partition. Put all your work, homework, MP3, etc. files on it. Also, have an 'installfiles' folder on it in which you archive the installers for the programs that you use. This makes rescuing and/or reinstalling Windows much less painful; you lose very little data, if any, and you don't have to download everything again.
recharge my methanol supply
That gives me a thought...instead of using methanol, how about using methane? Sure, it's a gas, but methane can be used as a fuel, and hey, it's easy to come up with a refill for it.
Please note that the recording industry thinks they can change this sort of thing, by requiring all analog to digital converts (ADCs) to respect some sort of digital protection
I find it hard to imagine how a simple DAC circuit could be "improved" to support DRM. But even a circuit like this would be required to support DRM, no?
If I speed because my wife is ill, because getting there 5 seconds sooner might make a difference, does not exempt me from the possible ticket for breaking the law.
#include <ianal.h>
Actually, in this case, you pretty much are exempt from getting the ticket. If you are speeding to the hospital because of a life or death situation and a police officer pulls you over, you can (in some states anyway) tell him that because a life or death situation exists, he MUST escort you to the hospital IMMEDIATELY. Ignoring a life or death situation constitutes dereliction of duty for a police officer. Not to mention that, if something happens, he can be held personally liable if evidence suggests that the time wasted giving you the ticket could have made a difference.
At the bail hearing for Johnston, Tinney and three other defendants in Houston, the FBI's Kristen Sheldon ... testified that an IP address is, "in very simple terms, a Social Security number. Only one person at one specific time can have that number." In fact, an IP address identifies a computer, rather than a person, and may not even consistently map to a particular machine in networks that use dynamic IP addressing.
IP addresses are more analogous to phone numbers. One computer, one IP is typical, but different configurations are certainly possible. You can have multiple IPs on one computer, for instance, or you can have multiple computers NATd onto one IP. Likewise, one location, one phone number is typical, but can be done differently. You can have multiple phone numbers at one location, as in the example case of households with extra phone lines for fax, modem, teen, whatever, or you can have one phone number that auto-routes the caller to your nearest office. Also central to this analogy is that phone numbers do not necessarily keep the same owner over a period of time, and the same is true for IP addresses. This does not hold true for SSNs.
We also need laws to deal with idiotic laws. Oh wait, we already have those amendments to the constitution
You mean the same Constitution that Congress has been wiping its collective ass with lately?
We NEED a law to deal with idiotic lawsuits. That is to say, one that carries penalties for those use lawsuits as a continual source of revenue.
The RIAA would not like that.
Did the industry give the politician money, and then they voted they way they want, or does industry just give money to people who have the same attitudes to them
With all the absurd crap Congress has been pushing lately, the former seems much more likely.
Oh that stinkin' Fourth ammendment.. it was useless anyways. Sigh
It's still useful...as toilet paper for members of Congress.
Or is the MPAA only evil on days that are not December 18?
Today is a Monday. The MPAA isn't evil on Mondays.
I can't help but feel like there are other motives here than "securing the network"
Such as, say, UCSB taking kickbacks from Microsoft in exchange for promising to sell more copies of WinXP...
So spoof the User Agent field then. It's quite easy.
There are countless examples I can go into but hey my time is worth cash. But also noote one thing, this is a US bill. I am in canada, so what happens when they do a DOS attack that goes over the border. If my companey is hit because soem one ran kazaa on our network even tho its not alowed. Then well they can mess up corporate data and such. Now this just became a VERY tuchey subject.
Allow me then to make it a less touchy, much clearer subject:
When in the hell is the DoJ going to take anti-trust action against the RIAA?
Say my DSL account got shut down one day and I found out it was because my daughter did a book report on a band and it had mentioned song titles in it. I use my connection for business, as I'm a freelancer. I wonder what legal action one could take against them. I have a feeling it would become quit expensive for them.
First of all, this would be a prime example of Fair Use, so legally they couldn't do a damn thing about it.
Not that they should be trusted however. If they were to take action against you for this, it would pretty much be up to you to prove that you were in the right (side note: isn't it supposed to be innocent until proven guilty? that's not what is happening nowadays). I'd give you some estimates on how much that would cost, but I don't want to give you nightmares. You would of course be legally clear here, and clear according to any AUP your ISP might have, but don't expect overzealous IP lawyers to give a damn about your rights.
It is quite sad how our legal system has been reduced to a system of "survival of the wealthiest."
of Debbie does Dallas. Anyone know where I can get it? I promise to turn myself in before I watch it.
If you go to prison for violating the DMCA, you will get to play the role of Debbie.
The spam doesn't come from Hotmail
Some of it does. Hotmail likes to send its users MSN spam about once a month.
Will it be jumpable?
I'm sure that some Nigerian 419er would be happy to get a hello.jpg-renamed-to-passport.jpg in their email :-P
Well, seeing how they were dumb enough to use the James T Kirk passport, do you think there's a chance they'd actually use the Goatse Man passport?
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But DALnet, as with any other network that reaches this size -- including EFnet -- has more than its fair share of problems. The lag and netsplits get intolerable at this level. Also, networks of this size can be difficult to connect to due to script kiddies, server overload, etc (or in the case of EFnet, yellowbellied admins who refuse to open up their I: lines). I personally know of large channels that have recently moved off of both networks because of these problems. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing that it has hit this size, but no network can handle infinite users. A userload like this brings out a network's weaknesses in full force.
You'll need to get the process started, of course. File whatever applications you need to file, and get the concept in place for your station. Then, when Clear Channel sees that another radio station is popping up that they don't already own, they'll buy you out. They'll handle the rest.
Mass is irrelevant. If you drop a bowling ball and an apple off a building, they will hit ground at the same time.
This is assuming no air resistance. Air resistance makes a pretty big difference; without air resistance, the concept of terminal velocity would not exist. A freefalling object would just keep accelerating and accelerating until it hit the ground.
As a quick demonstration of this, compare the real-world terminal velocity of a human body in the belly-to-earth position -- 120 mph -- with what it would hit on a typical skydive from 12000 feet, minus the parachute pull. I'll use an arbitrary weight of 190 lbs for the purposes of these calculations.
Gravitational potential energy = mass * g * height
Kinetic energy = (1/2) * mass * velocity^2
Energy is conserved between GPE and KE considering that we are assuming no air resistance.
Setting (190/32.2) * 32.2 * 12000 equal to (1/2) * (190/32.2) * v^2 and solving for v yields an impact velocity of 878 feet per second, or 599 mph. This is a far cry from the real-world result of 120 mph, so you can see that friction caused by air resistance makes an enormous difference. As for mass not mattering, mass only doesn't matter if you don't take air resistance into consideration because, as I demonstrated above, the mass is on both sides of the equation so it cancels out. But if you consider air resistance [sum of energy before = sum of energy after plus energy lost to friction], mass no longer cancels out. Incidentally, yes, different skydivers (IAAS) do fall at somewhat different rates, but 120 mph is the generally accepted standard. Different people have different masses and different surface areas, so their terminal velocities will be slightly different.
140mph? Is that right? It seems awfully slow to me. I would have thought that the terminal velocity of a car would have been much higher than that.
Sounds about right to me, especially when you consider that in the normal belly-to-earth position, the human body will hit a terminal velocity of around 120 mph. Cars have more mass, but they also have a lot more surface area against which air molecules will press as they fall, balancing out the extra mass.
Incidentally, I am both a licensed skydiver (A-38847, getting my B before too much longer) and an engineer.