So did "jay" delete his mp3s when he lent her the CD?
Otherwise I'm seeing two copies, in two hands. Not one dude with a backup. If he made 50 backups and lent them to his friends - is that allowed?
Not that I agree with the state of copyright or anything, but lending one 'backup' or format shift is just as wrong as lending the same to many people, no? Copies were created. There are multiple people in possession of copies concurrently, with only one licence paid.
There's been some other changes in the last decade, especially the last few years...
Gas has doubled, food is up, wages are fairly stagnant. Unemployment is up. Global recession and all that jazz.
Certainly the ease of copying these days has some effect, but the fact that a lot of folks have much less dispensable income is probably a bigger factor, I'd think.
Goes to show that if you want security, use something you control. I don't want any government or corporation (benevolent or otherwise) with keys to my data.
There's just way too much room for abuse. You have to assume anything that a third party has keys to isn't secure.
I'm not sure of the system in the US. Here, they usually collect federal tax on delivery (of intl items), but you are obliged to remit uh... state tax. (if you buy in country, VAT would be applied at the sellers end - so it's irrelevant) A lot of folks don't, but if you have massive out of state purchases I suppose you could get audited. Is the situation the same in the US? If so, then this is only closing a loophole, you are already supposed to pay.
Or do you actually not have to pay on out of state purchases, and this is then a new tax?
Some of the ex Soviet states have better internet than North America, so I wouldn't laugh quite so hard.
Armenia is a little more backwater than european ex-SU, though. I'm not familiar with the rates or service in the Caucasus, but most everything else was somewhat less available there than in Moscow, afaik...
If one shallow cable knocks a country out, someone failed pretty hard in the first place.
I don't know an awful lot about backbone type setups, not being in the industry, but I was under the impression that a self healing ring was a fairly common way of dealing with important fiber. That way as long as you don't cut two cables at once, you're golden, and can take your sweet ass time fixing a broken link without a whole bloody country losing internet access.
But of course, redundancy costs money. Hopefully not as much as downtime...
I read about this years ago, and also nuclear aircraft more recently. a bit hazy on the rocket theory, but I was rather amazed they actually attempted airborne... the potential for fail is beyond ridiculous... like a B-52 doesn't make a big enough mess with just nuclear weapons, never mind a reactor on board...
Not to mention that if a smoker dies at 60, the state saves 20 years of pension...
Most everyone dies of cancer and heart disease anyhow, smoking just makes it happen earlier, so that cash is spent either way. They also get to skip out on the decade or two of hip replacements and so on.
Depends I guess, I seem to notice for a lot of things... from archaic 74xx glue logic chips, to SMPS controllers and such, natsemi chips are usually double the price of a identical or similar TI chip.
National has a big selection of random analog stuff that TI doesn't seem to produce, so I guess its a way to get a wider presence...
Not sure about their microprocessors and shit like that - didn't natsemi sell theirs years back anyway? - geode at least.
"UK ISP BT" is pretty unambiguous. The first acronym is known world wide, the second by everyone that uses/., and the third can be inferred by the first two.
Is "US ISP AT&T" also a problem? - but yeah, i'd have worded it differently.
I was just reasoning that things that expect to be able to sync every once in a while probably have a less accurately tuned crystal, because, well, it doesn't really matter, if you've got an occasional sync, that is.
That implies that the ISP cares about whether the bits are legal or not. I don't think they do. What they care about is having to actually give people the bandwidth they paid for.
Make $HIGH_BW_PROTOCOL so slow that people just don't bother, save money on not upgrading routers and not paying for bandwidth. Funnel extra profit to CEO. win.
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification^Wnetworkification of the whole country. - V.I. Lenin
As for the GP, no one said you had to run ethernet over the CAT5. DSL will give you a lot more range than ethernet over the same copper. But it would be stupid to lay copper at this point anyway.
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You'd have to buy up the spectrum for 3G, it's licenced. And you would require an awful lot of money to do so.
This. If I lived in Europe, I'd want 3G. - In North America, fuck it. The price is just not justifiable.
Qt creator looked pretty snazz last time I played with it. Cross platform is a nice bonus too...
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So did "jay" delete his mp3s when he lent her the CD?
Otherwise I'm seeing two copies, in two hands. Not one dude with a backup.
If he made 50 backups and lent them to his friends - is that allowed?
Not that I agree with the state of copyright or anything, but lending one 'backup' or format shift is just as wrong as lending the same to many people, no? Copies were created. There are multiple people in possession of copies concurrently, with only one licence paid.
There's been some other changes in the last decade, especially the last few years...
Gas has doubled, food is up, wages are fairly stagnant. Unemployment is up. Global recession and all that jazz.
Certainly the ease of copying these days has some effect, but the fact that a lot of folks have much less dispensable income is probably a bigger factor, I'd think.
and remote jamming
Took me a while to figure out they meant in a band. I was wondering how they were going to jam some sort of signal with this codec.
Goes to show that if you want security, use something you control. I don't want any government or corporation (benevolent or otherwise) with keys to my data.
There's just way too much room for abuse. You have to assume anything that a third party has keys to isn't secure.
That would be a rig for main-lining, not a main rig. ;-)
I like KDE a fair bit, an generally use it on my main rig... but it's plugged into the wall.
I think they're gonna have to do a lot of slimming down for a mobile rig, to the point where you might not recognise it as KDE...
Debian has supported arm since potato (2000)...
I'm not sure of the system in the US.
Here, they usually collect federal tax on delivery (of intl items), but you are obliged to remit uh... state tax. (if you buy in country, VAT would be applied at the sellers end - so it's irrelevant) A lot of folks don't, but if you have massive out of state purchases I suppose you could get audited. Is the situation the same in the US? If so, then this is only closing a loophole, you are already supposed to pay.
Or do you actually not have to pay on out of state purchases, and this is then a new tax?
Please enlighten me.
No, of course this wasn't an accident exactly, but it does happen.
I'm sure there has been more than one case of a construction crew or farmer screwing up and chopping through some cable...
Some of the ex Soviet states have better internet than North America, so I wouldn't laugh quite so hard.
Armenia is a little more backwater than european ex-SU, though. I'm not familiar with the rates or service in the Caucasus, but most everything else was somewhat less available there than in Moscow, afaik...
If one shallow cable knocks a country out, someone failed pretty hard in the first place.
I don't know an awful lot about backbone type setups, not being in the industry, but I was under the impression that a self healing ring was a fairly common way of dealing with important fiber. That way as long as you don't cut two cables at once, you're golden, and can take your sweet ass time fixing a broken link without a whole bloody country losing internet access.
But of course, redundancy costs money. Hopefully not as much as downtime...
I read about this years ago, and also nuclear aircraft more recently. a bit hazy on the rocket theory, but I was rather amazed they actually attempted airborne... the potential for fail is beyond ridiculous... like a B-52 doesn't make a big enough mess with just nuclear weapons, never mind a reactor on board...
That's how it was for me a few days ago, but now even with them expanded, right click does SFA.
And I can't middle click links. or left click them for that matter. dislike.
Not to mention that if a smoker dies at 60, the state saves 20 years of pension...
Most everyone dies of cancer and heart disease anyhow, smoking just makes it happen earlier, so that cash is spent either way. They also get to skip out on the decade or two of hip replacements and so on.
Real calculators are RPN anyway.
Depends I guess, I seem to notice for a lot of things... from archaic 74xx glue logic chips, to SMPS controllers and such, natsemi chips are usually double the price of a identical or similar TI chip.
National has a big selection of random analog stuff that TI doesn't seem to produce, so I guess its a way to get a wider presence...
Not sure about their microprocessors and shit like that - didn't natsemi sell theirs years back anyway? - geode at least.
"UK ISP BT" is pretty unambiguous. The first acronym is known world wide, the second by everyone that uses /., and the third can be inferred by the first two.
Is "US ISP AT&T" also a problem? - but yeah, i'd have worded it differently.
Yeah, quartz can be quite good.
I was just reasoning that things that expect to be able to sync every once in a while probably have a less accurately tuned crystal, because, well, it doesn't really matter, if you've got an occasional sync, that is.
Good thing there is still GPS, NTP, etc.
Worst case a few clocks have to fall back to quartz and lose a couple seconds a day, no?
That implies that the ISP cares about whether the bits are legal or not. I don't think they do. What they care about is having to actually give people the bandwidth they paid for.
Make $HIGH_BW_PROTOCOL so slow that people just don't bother, save money on not upgrading routers and not paying for bandwidth. Funnel extra profit to CEO. win.
It seems somewhat over reactive, but I see the idea. It's not like they show bugs bunny nips the nips any more either.
On the flip side, they're allowed to show tits on TV in Austria, and the US has a meltdown when that happens.
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification^Wnetworkification of the whole country. - V.I. Lenin
As for the GP, no one said you had to run ethernet over the CAT5. DSL will give you a lot more range than ethernet over the same copper. But it would be stupid to lay copper at this point anyway.