To add to this list. The campus library will generally have a copy or two of every book (often you can only check it out for an hour). Feel free to read the book there and photocopy (or take digital pictures of) the pages necessary to do any homework.
This is free and depends only upon availability of the book. I did this for many classes. It can get to be a problem if many people are waiting on the book, but if the library is a good one they will get more copies of the book as demand goes up.
Another, probably more plausable reason would be that any alien life is likely to use incompatible chemical processes. We would likely be quite unpalatable and possibly even poisonous.
You would probably appreciate the Distributed Hardware Evolution project. The project uses evolution and competition to design circuits with self-checked outputs (if the logic fails for some reason, built in error checking detects the error. This is particularly useful for critical systems).
The circuits discovered by this project are published for anyone to use under the GPL.
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That is a connection between your system and the box on the rogers network, but I can't tell you which side opened the connection.
The last number is the process ID on your computer that holds the socket. Go to the task manager (right click on task bar or ctrl+alt+del) and select the Processes tab. If the PID column is not visible, select View|Columns and turn on the PID column.
If you don't recognize what you find in the 'Image Name' column, you can usually do a google search and find it.
Hmm, could you levitate a black hole against the force of gravity and feed it matter at a rate equal to its evaporation rate, then use the radiated energy as a heat source?
Would such a construct be a useful direct mass to energy conversion device? Or would it just irradiate all the mass in the vicinity, producing lots of radioactive crap to get rid of?
It doesn't matter who did it. If your name is on the cable/dls/whatever bill, you're the one responsible, and your're the one who's gonna get sued. This is generally in the service contract from your ISP.
If penalties were meant only to 'hurt' to deter the behaviour, then the money from the fee (less administrative overhead) would go to the offenders choice of charity, not to the government. The fees are blatently intended to be used as revenue streams.
I think that this is because they can't tell reliably how many songs downloaders have (they'd have to get the downloader IP, then request a file list from that IP, if that feature is supported by the client software). Its easier just to sue those who share.
It would probably be legal for them to sue leaches as well (it would be great if they'd reverse tactics and just sue the leaches).
Hmm, perhaps in the future they will make limited production runs of CDs, get them in stores, market the crap out of (business as usual), but also dump high quality rips to the top sites via moles, then sue downloaders for $1000 a song. If they could get it to go through that would really bump up their average profit per song.:)
No, its not, it did exactly what what it was supposed to, gave you a legal right to collect.
Now you can hire someone who already knows how to do the collecting, or invest the time yourself to figure out what methods are available.
Pick your battles, man.
Sure, it would be nice if the system was set up so that anyone who was gyped out of something of value could get it back, but the costs of all the infrastructure would far outweigh the benefit.
Its like getting taken for 50 bucks on e-bay. Its not enough to get anybody to care, and unless the guy lives in your area, its not just not worth the effort to have him killed.
And the crappy part is, its not even worth making people like that into indentured servents, because they are worthless as workers and would probably just steal your stuff anyway.
Exactly how would one go about making such a stand? You take the stand, they ask you if you shared RIAA controlled material, you say "yes, but...", they find against you and hit you with a big fine.
I don't see any way you could defend the actions by claiming the copyright laws are wrong, particularly if you are sharing the kind of material that the p2p scanners tend to scan for, most of which is still inside the terms of the original copyright terms.
Thats a really interesting point. They produce logs that say 'Did so', I produce logs that say 'Did not'.
I'd guess that 'Did not' would loose a civil case because it is more likely that he is lying. The 'Did so' side has sued lots of other people who admitted guilt, and has been right much more often than wrong, so its likely they are being truthful.
'Did not', on the other hand, is just a knowledgable citizen with no history (good or bad) of presenting logs and both the skill and a really good reason to falsify his logs.
They way I've heard it, it doesn't matter. The person who signed up for the internet connection is responsible for all activity that occurs on it. If you run an open wifi connection and your neighbor gets on without your permission and gets you in trouble, you're still responsible.
Now, if you have detailed firewall logs of the activity, and you can match up your neighbors MAC address with the logs, you might be able to get out of it, but short of that, you're pretty much screwed.
(Bonus points for sniffing your neighbors MAC and configuring your own computer with that MAC to frame him for your activity.)
The opium here is the belief that anyone can achieve greatness in capitalism if they work hard
Actually, this is true. Anyone can achieve greatness. The trick is not in the hard work, but in knowing with and on whom one should be working. Obviously some are better positioned to learn how and make the necessary contacts (e.g., children of successful parents), some lack the necessary mental discipline and some just get screwed by random chance, but really, anyone can play the game.
Its similar to sports, if you have some natural ability, can learn how to train effectively, can avoid injury, and can learn not just the rules in the book, which are available to everyone, but also the mental and social games, you can become a top level player.
he's saying that "If you sell x songs at 99 cents a song" and that "If you drop the price to 5 cents, you will sell more than 20x songs" -- he claims the growth could be "exponential."
As far as color goes, quit buying $2 bulbs. Find something with a CRI (Color Rendering Index) in the 90's and you'll be fine. If you desperately need daylight balanced tubes, you can have them, but they'll cost you 40 bucks each. For 5 to 10 you can have a pretty pure white light, but you are not likely to find them at a hardware store. Look online, find a good bulb with a high CRI and buy a case of them. You'll like 'em, and if they are really high end models you can often sell 'em off to friends and ebay suckers for a profit.
This is actually a common complaint with low flow toilets. I suspect it is most common with people who wait 2 or 3 days between solid waste eliminations. When its come up (not that often), I've never met anyone who eliminates daily who has this problem with low-flow toilets.
You know what would be great? If designers of houses would think about airflow. I'd love to use outside air too heat/cool/ventilate my house when its appropriate, but to do so I have to put electric fans all over to get any reasonable airflow. Then I can't hear anything and I'm tripping over fans in doorways, and constantly concerned that a kid will stick a finger or something in the fans. Then, in the evening when its dropping down to 40 and I'm ready to close up the house, I have go go around and close a bunch of windows and put a way fans. What a huge pain in the ass (well, in the scale of 'climate controlling my house' its a huge pain, but I'll wager its better than, say, needing a colostomy bag).
I'll have to see if I can rig up a solution to this problem this summer. I'm stuck with the crappy windows, but I can see some possible X10 and weather station based solutions to the fans...
Porn websites make a lot of money on advertising. If it's easy to block ads based on TLD, they loose a portion of their ad-based revenue. Many of them like the current system as it is.
...a religion that many others would point at as being a snake oil organization
Oh, come now, don't you think that 'snake oil' is a little harsh? After all, the founder dictated the text of the Book of Mormon exactly as God printed it on the translation stones he held in the crown of his hat. There were numerous witnesses that swore to the divine nature of the translation. Where else could all that material have come from, what with him having his face stuck in a hat like that, surely it was the pure Word of God!
Yes, we have a history of polygamy. No, it is in no way offically endorsed by the state of Utah or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day saints, nor is it legal or common anywhere.
Historicly speaking, its sure a good thing God decided to have the Mormon leaders remove the whole polygamy thing when He did, otherwise Utah would have been denied statehood (for the 4th or 5th time).
I thought Christians were only supposed to use the Old Testament for historical reference. They are supposed to be living according to the teachings of Christ. Otherwise they'd have to do all the burn offerings and whatnot.
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To add to this list. The campus library will generally have a copy or two of every book (often you can only check it out for an hour). Feel free to read the book there and photocopy (or take digital pictures of) the pages necessary to do any homework.
This is free and depends only upon availability of the book. I did this for many classes. It can get to be a problem if many people are waiting on the book, but if the library is a good one they will get more copies of the book as demand goes up.
Another, probably more plausable reason would be that any alien life is likely to use incompatible chemical processes. We would likely be quite unpalatable and possibly even poisonous.
You would probably appreciate the Distributed Hardware Evolution project. The project uses evolution and competition to design circuits with self-checked outputs (if the logic fails for some reason, built in error checking detects the error. This is particularly useful for critical systems).
The circuits discovered by this project are published for anyone to use under the GPL.
That is a connection between your system and the box on the rogers network, but I can't tell you which side opened the connection.
The last number is the process ID on your computer that holds the socket. Go to the task manager (right click on task bar or ctrl+alt+del) and select the Processes tab. If the PID column is not visible, select View|Columns and turn on the PID column.
If you don't recognize what you find in the 'Image Name' column, you can usually do a google search and find it.
Hmm, could you levitate a black hole against the force of gravity and feed it matter at a rate equal to its evaporation rate, then use the radiated energy as a heat source?
Would such a construct be a useful direct mass to energy conversion device? Or would it just irradiate all the mass in the vicinity, producing lots of radioactive crap to get rid of?
It doesn't matter who did it. If your name is on the cable/dls/whatever bill, you're the one responsible, and your're the one who's gonna get sued. This is generally in the service contract from your ISP.
If penalties were meant only to 'hurt' to deter the behaviour, then the money from the fee (less administrative overhead) would go to the offenders choice of charity, not to the government. The fees are blatently intended to be used as revenue streams.
I think that this is because they can't tell reliably how many songs downloaders have (they'd have to get the downloader IP, then request a file list from that IP, if that feature is supported by the client software). Its easier just to sue those who share.
It would probably be legal for them to sue leaches as well (it would be great if they'd reverse tactics and just sue the leaches).
Hmm, perhaps in the future they will make limited production runs of CDs, get them in stores, market the crap out of (business as usual), but also dump high quality rips to the top sites via moles, then sue downloaders for $1000 a song. If they could get it to go through that would really bump up their average profit per song. :)
The court system is useless
No, its not, it did exactly what what it was supposed to, gave you a legal right to collect.
Now you can hire someone who already knows how to do the collecting, or invest the time yourself to figure out what methods are available.
Pick your battles, man.
Sure, it would be nice if the system was set up so that anyone who was gyped out of something of value could get it back, but the costs of all the infrastructure would far outweigh the benefit.
Its like getting taken for 50 bucks on e-bay. Its not enough to get anybody to care, and unless the guy lives in your area, its not just not worth the effort to have him killed.
And the crappy part is, its not even worth making people like that into indentured servents, because they are worthless as workers and would probably just steal your stuff anyway.
Exactly how would one go about making such a stand? You take the stand, they ask you if you shared RIAA controlled material, you say "yes, but...", they find against you and hit you with a big fine.
I don't see any way you could defend the actions by claiming the copyright laws are wrong, particularly if you are sharing the kind of material that the p2p scanners tend to scan for, most of which is still inside the terms of the original copyright terms.
Thats a really interesting point. They produce logs that say 'Did so', I produce logs that say 'Did not'.
I'd guess that 'Did not' would loose a civil case because it is more likely that he is lying. The 'Did so' side has sued lots of other people who admitted guilt, and has been right much more often than wrong, so its likely they are being truthful.
'Did not', on the other hand, is just a knowledgable citizen with no history (good or bad) of presenting logs and both the skill and a really good reason to falsify his logs.
They way I've heard it, it doesn't matter. The person who signed up for the internet connection is responsible for all activity that occurs on it. If you run an open wifi connection and your neighbor gets on without your permission and gets you in trouble, you're still responsible.
Now, if you have detailed firewall logs of the activity, and you can match up your neighbors MAC address with the logs, you might be able to get out of it, but short of that, you're pretty much screwed.
(Bonus points for sniffing your neighbors MAC and configuring your own computer with that MAC to frame him for your activity.)
The opium here is the belief that anyone can achieve greatness in capitalism if they work hard
Actually, this is true. Anyone can achieve greatness. The trick is not in the hard work, but in knowing with and on whom one should be working. Obviously some are better positioned to learn how and make the necessary contacts (e.g., children of successful parents), some lack the necessary mental discipline and some just get screwed by random chance, but really, anyone can play the game.
Its similar to sports, if you have some natural ability, can learn how to train effectively, can avoid injury, and can learn not just the rules in the book, which are available to everyone, but also the mental and social games, you can become a top level player.
he's saying that "If you sell x songs at 99 cents a song" and that "If you drop the price to 5 cents, you will sell more than 20x songs" -- he claims the growth could be "exponential."
But... Thats a linear relationship.
Such webs and scammers would make for an interesting investigative report.
As far as color goes, quit buying $2 bulbs. Find something with a CRI (Color Rendering Index) in the 90's and you'll be fine. If you desperately need daylight balanced tubes, you can have them, but they'll cost you 40 bucks each. For 5 to 10 you can have a pretty pure white light, but you are not likely to find them at a hardware store. Look online, find a good bulb with a high CRI and buy a case of them. You'll like 'em, and if they are really high end models you can often sell 'em off to friends and ebay suckers for a profit.
This is actually a common complaint with low flow toilets. I suspect it is most common with people who wait 2 or 3 days between solid waste eliminations. When its come up (not that often), I've never met anyone who eliminates daily who has this problem with low-flow toilets.
You know what would be great? If designers of houses would think about airflow. I'd love to use outside air too heat/cool/ventilate my house when its appropriate, but to do so I have to put electric fans all over to get any reasonable airflow. Then I can't hear anything and I'm tripping over fans in doorways, and constantly concerned that a kid will stick a finger or something in the fans. Then, in the evening when its dropping down to 40 and I'm ready to close up the house, I have go go around and close a bunch of windows and put a way fans. What a huge pain in the ass (well, in the scale of 'climate controlling my house' its a huge pain, but I'll wager its better than, say, needing a colostomy bag).
I'll have to see if I can rig up a solution to this problem this summer. I'm stuck with the crappy windows, but I can see some possible X10 and weather station based solutions to the fans...
If you have any of your light circuits on dimmers, make sure you get CFLs that say they are dimmable.
Since this is a geek site, its worth mentioning that very vew CFLB's are X10 dimmable. The dimmable sort tend to run about $25-30.
I'd love to switch to 100% CF, but its just not worth loosing the ability to dim my lights.
Porn websites make a lot of money on advertising. If it's easy to block ads based on TLD, they loose a portion of their ad-based revenue. Many of them like the current system as it is.
...a religion that many others would point at as being a snake oil organization
Oh, come now, don't you think that 'snake oil' is a little harsh? After all, the founder dictated the text of the Book of Mormon exactly as God printed it on the translation stones he held in the crown of his hat. There were numerous witnesses that swore to the divine nature of the translation. Where else could all that material have come from, what with him having his face stuck in a hat like that, surely it was the pure Word of God!
Yes, we have a history of polygamy. No, it is in no way offically endorsed by the state of Utah or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day saints, nor is it legal or common anywhere.
Historicly speaking, its sure a good thing God decided to have the Mormon leaders remove the whole polygamy thing when He did, otherwise Utah would have been denied statehood (for the 4th or 5th time).
I thought Christians were only supposed to use the Old Testament for historical reference. They are supposed to be living according to the teachings of Christ. Otherwise they'd have to do all the burn offerings and whatnot.