No, read the parent post again. The context was: "how is he going to distribute by himself, without a big label behind him?" Hmm, whoops. I did just read it again, and to me it still seems like he was referencing right now (since it was right now Trent gave his permission to 'steal' his music) But if you are correct, then yes, never mind my point. After his contract is up with the label, then yes after that his permission is gold.
He can distribute as much as he wants, as often as he wants, and people by the millions will help him do it. It's called P2P. LimeWire, BitTorrent, and even Kazaa. And nobody can legally interfere, because if they have his permission, it isn't stealing. The problem is, his permission means nothing because it's not his music he's making (fucked up, eh?), it belongs to his label. And as the label owns the music outright, you need their permission. So this is still a copyright violation. What a world:/
Health should come before work and play, people! Your job is worthless if you are dead or ill from a terrible lifestyle. Don't let your boss force this behavior on you, and don't let companies like Microsoft force it on students. Unfortunately that is exactly why I am unemployed right now, and while I agree 100% (both vocally and in my actions), i can also add that health is hard to keep maintained with no job (money & insurance being in the US).
So for most people without bad health problems, its a trade off they are more than glad to make, and for the rest of us With bad health problems, we are screwed either way.
Question for the RF geeks out there: Do you even need the copper mesh? My house has old metal lath in some of the walls. If you have never seen it, it serves the purpose of wood lathe, but was faster because you simply tacked this rolled screen material onto the walls and plastered over that. The holes of sort of oblong/diamond shaped, approximately 1/4 inch wide at their midpoint and each is about 3/4 inch long. The thickness of the metal (ie, the distance between holes) is about 3/16" .
Could this stuff be used to block RF? Do they all need to be grounded together? What else would you need to do when installing this stuff to make an efficient Faraday cage? Two comments on that.
1) The two bedrooms and bathroom on the 2nd floor of my house have the exact same metal lath and plaster over it as you describe (It was apparently popular for older housing, or mid new/old houses with extensions added on later.)
I have similar issues with poor RF reception on my 2nd floor as well. I get 0-1 bar on my cell phone, when walking to the stair well gives me a full 5 bars. I once tired to setup a point-to-point wireless link between two access points. easier than running wiring in old houses like this, as i'm sure you are aware (or so i thought.) That had problems as well.
But that leads in to 2) A true faraday cage must have NO points of escape for RF/EMI. This means if you do not have your own power generator inside the cage, that RF can leak out over the power lines. If you are connected to the outside world with anything but fiber optics, RF can leak out over the wiring.
While a cage with holes will block a lot of signal, even most, it won't block it all. If your goal is to simply lessen the RF interference to the inside of the cage, it will help. But if your goal is to keep anyone from outside the cage from picking up your EMI, it will not. Even if you block 99.9%, there is still that 0.1% making it out, and if they are Trying to pick it up, they will.
If you want to aid in the blocking of RF, you should make sure there is continuity between each wall of metal, as well as the floor and ceiling sheets of metal (I've never looked, but it seems unlikely this metal lath will be under the floor. I'd guess it wouldn't be in the ceiling either but wouldn't be surprised at all if it was.) This means running a wire between walls so they are all electronically connected. But do NOT connect this to earth ground. Also you must remove all other conductive wiring that normally would pass through the walls (electrical wiring, phone and network, any plumbing, etc etc)
Also, the size of the holes in the mesh matter for what wavelength of RF they try bouncing through it. A fine copper mesh will block most every wavelength if made correctly. The metal lath in the wall was not designed with that in mind, so while it might block a chunk of the RF spectrum, enough to block say 700mhz up to the multi ghz, I know I can still receive AM radio through the walls, and FM only comes in slightly (which means while i cant listen to radio, SOME of the RF is making it through)
If you look at an Electromagnetic Spectrum chart, you'll see the order of RF frequency goes: AM, shortwave, TV, FM, Radar, IR, visible light, UV, x-rays, and gamma rays.
As i said, i Know AM can make it through. I also know visible light could make it through if the plaster wasn't there to block it. FM does make it through but is defiantly interfered with. It is quite possible IR will make it through this mesh just fine. Without testing its hard to say, but if you are basing a security choice on it, assume it will not be blocked.
If you want to force people to view the content so rigidly, use a PNG or PDF. Off the main topic, but that comment reminded me of just such a system I ended up designing for a client of a past company. Basically I used the exact same argument when he made a similar complaint, and he thought it over and asked what it would cost for a cgi package to render all pages as a single image, as an imagemap in a form. For each 'page' it keeps track of what areas look like links and all were 640x480. I explained all of the downsides right up front before I even put thought into how this could be done; bandwidth costs to him, limited image size, very slow page loads, zero handycap access in any form, no mobal browsers, dialup users would not put up with that and you chase them away before your home page finishes loading, and potentially extra fees from his web designer, and someone would have to make those image->url cordinate mappings whenever a page is to be changed, which will not be my job, and not likely to become the web designers job (but he could ask.)
He used it for a month. We noticed in the logs that the traffic actually dropped. Only a handful of IPs actually sent a request for anything but the main page, a couple of which were myself and the site owner. An interesting detail about the version of apache we used at the time.. Sometimes, when a user hits stop in the browser and the connection is reset is a specific but common way, the entry goes to errorlog instead of accesslog. The 'less page hits' was compared to html (not all hits like images etc) on the old site, to both access and error entrys together for the new.
Anyways, needless to say, afterward he replaced that mess with his old website, however a few more ads to makeup for lost visitors. The traffic level dropped due to using html instead of one jpg, then rose slowly, but never came close to what it was before all the changes.
One step closer to Mind Uploading:D
The Mind Uploading home page is dedicated to the putative future process of copying one's mind from the natural substrate of the brain into an artificial one, manufactured by humans. This technology will radically alter society in many ways, as science fiction authors have begun to illustrate. Through this server, explore the science behind the science fiction! -- Dissy
Sometimes it just winds me up that we have intelligent people focusing their efforts on things of no immediate consequence when there are far more important things to worry about- that's why I'm betting on the extinction future scenario. My question to you would have to be, why are you not out there doing all of this 'important' science research, and if you are, what exactly have you done to enrich the lives of all human beings? Maybe your postings to slashdot?
It just winds me up that some people bitch about what others choose to do with their life, think they know what these other people should be doing instead, yet cant or wont do those things them selfs.
Since when has an object that has traditionally attracted planets to it because of its gravity been able repel planets when its size has changed to be larger? It may engulf the orbits but it is bigger and its gravity still works and would be felt stronger by the planets thus sucking them in, not repelling them. Yes, gravity still works. However, SIZE has nothing to do with it, only MASS. In the red giant stage, the sun gets larger and loses mass, due to it burning itself away and ejecting more mass out into space.
When mass goes down, gravity does too. When gravity is less, things are attracted less. Not sucked in (which would require More gravity), and not repelled (which would require anti-gravity), like you seem to suggest.
So, when the gravitational pull of the sun lessens, its quite possible for the planets to be attracted less, and fall into further out orbits.
I thought OpenDNS was the greatest thing, until I noticed if you type in a URL that isn't valid it doesn't deliver the standard "non-existent domain" return, but instead gives you an OpenDNS search results page. Bleh. I'll stick with running Bind on my own server, thank you. Actually, if you signup for a free account, and add your IP(s) in their dashboard webapp, you can configure all sorts of things, including to return NXDOMAIN on resolution failure.
I too agree that breaking NXDOMAIN is a bad thing, but OpenDNS at least does let you change this yourself. It just has the wrong default, so to speak.
I strongly urge you to signup for a free account, and look over their settings available, before you judge.
There is no need for a IE-Compatibility mode in Firefox/Mozilla, simply get MSIE to use the accepted standards and the problem is solved. I'll bet the former would be MUCH easier to accomplish than the later.
But I'd like to know what consists a measurement. Generally at the quantum level, a measurement or observation is when you bounce a particle (usually a photon) off another particle. It's similar to how you see things. Light bounces off of a thing, and that light bouncing into your eye is how to observe and measure things. Just lower the scale to a single photon of light (or even a smaller particle) and youre set.
The reason you can't measure all the details of a particle at this level is because when the photon you bounce off it actually hits the particle youre measuring, the photon will disturb what you are measuring and thus changes it. Similar how if you rolled one pool ball on the table to hit another.. It disturbs the other ball and moves it too, so any data you can draw from your reflected ball is no longer accurate since it modified what you just measured after the fact.
I didn't realize they would be automatic weapons. In that cause, the fire count makes more sense. Around here, unless specially arranged, i've only seen cops carry semiauto's
The four officers fired forty-one shots, hitting Diallo nineteen times. Investigation found no weapons on Diallo's body- the item he had pulled out of his jacket was not a gun, but a wallet. Wow. 41 shots, 19 hit. Not only do these cops suck (for shooting so many times), but they suck at sucking (by missing so much!)
How do you know that you aren't a simulation for some real Joe Blow out there, hmm? Chances are, you are. http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.htmlABSTRACT This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a "posthuman" stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed.
Are you seriously complaining because your illegal software doesn't function correctly?
Yes, yes we are... but we only complain about our illegal microsoft software not functioning correctly around slashdot. Any other illegal software not functioning is more or less ok;}
The fact that she has ordered the defendant to CREATE evidence (log files), in order to turn it over to the plaintiff as part of their discovery request is absurd.
No thank you your honour, my server and I both plead the 5th. One can't be forced to encriminate themself, so this order doesn't need to be followed, by law (A law a tad higher ranked than anything this judge can create atleast.)
"Dismantle organically-evolved law from the top-down". Fantastic. What the hell does that even *mean*?
My guess is:
* 90% chance its a new buzzword / troll crossbreed hybrid creation * 10% chance its someone that owns some of those overly broad submarine patents and doesnt want the law actually fixed between now and the time he pops up with it in the next decade.
Wow. The description is not at all like my experence with OS X. However is frighteningly describing my usual Windows experence.
Saying OS-X has no freeware is both wrong directly (there is plenty of good freeware for OS X) and indirectly (Alot of open source unix apps compile directly, have premade binaries, or have ports going) Using fink one even has the full apt functionality from debian and debian based systems.
Although things have been changing slightly in the past couple years, freeware for windows is harder to find, and before then almost impossible. Everyone was on the bandwagon of crappy worthless shareware apps, and worse, apps labeled as freeware but require a serial to unlock, by definition shareware.
I'd say only recently has windows even come close to a freeware pool like the OSS crowd has enjoyed, and continue to enjoy under OS X.
The primary focus should not be wiring. You should be installing 3-5" plastic conduits in the walls, that run between all rooms and a central location such as attic, basement, or a wiring closet. With the wiring closet method, you might end up with more than one (IE a closet on each floor) in which case youll also want to run conduit between the closets, and possibly between there and the attic/basement.
This way you can pull cheap cat5e now, and later easily upgrade to cat6 or fiber, as well as run low grade cat5 for simple wiring purposes (IE phone, security, alarm, or any electronics you want to wire up together or to a computer.)
This not only lets you upgrade as needed, but you don't have to waste money on fiber you won't use just yet, or worry that whatever you ran won't be compatible later. You just run what you need when you need it, as you need it.
Another thing to keep in mind, do NOT run electricity/power lines in the conduits! Not to mention it wont meet electrical codes, but will cause interfearance with data/signal cables. So you'll want to do/have-done the power lines seperate, and lots of them. Even if the house is only rated for a set amount of amperage from the mains, and youre limited in circuits in the breakerbox, it's still a good idea to run extra wiring to plug outlets in the wall and simply leave the lines unused by the breaker box. This way if you ever move your server room/closet, you can disconnect and reconnect outlets as needed when the time comes.
So ok, you have 20+mb/s between your computer and your ISP along that coax cable.
But what do you really honestly thing happens to those packets then? They magically appear on 'teh intarwebz' at the speed of light (or faster) for everyone?
No. The ISP has data lines that link each of their areas (Usually cities, or sections between large citys) together. These links are shared between all of the ISPs customers.
Then, and here is the expensive part, the ISPs have to have links to OTHER ISPs. This is the whole concept of the internet, its not some magical place you get to, its a collection of networks linked together. These rather slow speed links cost an assload of money. All packets sent by an ISPs customer that isnt destined to another customer of the same ISP, or to the ISP itself, must travel over these slow links.
If you dont believe me, go out and price how much it would cost to get an OC-3 link to your home. Or an OC-12, which is what most of these ISP-to-ISP links are over.
Whats that? A quarter of a million dollars a month is too much for you? You want to use all that bandwidth but for $20/month?
I'm not giving you the answer to your problem.. Just explaining why your screwed in getting what you want.
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I did just read it again, and to me it still seems like he was referencing right now (since it was right now Trent gave his permission to 'steal' his music)
But if you are correct, then yes, never mind my point. After his contract is up with the label, then yes after that his permission is gold.
And as the label owns the music outright, you need their permission.
So this is still a copyright violation. What a world
So for most people without bad health problems, its a trade off they are more than glad to make, and for the rest of us With bad health problems, we are screwed either way.
Could this stuff be used to block RF? Do they all need to be grounded together? What else would you need to do when installing this stuff to make an efficient Faraday cage? Two comments on that.
1) The two bedrooms and bathroom on the 2nd floor of my house have the exact same metal lath and plaster over it as you describe (It was apparently popular for older housing, or mid new/old houses with extensions added on later.)
I have similar issues with poor RF reception on my 2nd floor as well. I get 0-1 bar on my cell phone, when walking to the stair well gives me a full 5 bars. I once tired to setup a point-to-point wireless link between two access points. easier than running wiring in old houses like this, as i'm sure you are aware (or so i thought.) That had problems as well.
But that leads in to
2) A true faraday cage must have NO points of escape for RF/EMI. This means if you do not have your own power generator inside the cage, that RF can leak out over the power lines. If you are connected to the outside world with anything but fiber optics, RF can leak out over the wiring.
While a cage with holes will block a lot of signal, even most, it won't block it all.
If your goal is to simply lessen the RF interference to the inside of the cage, it will help.
But if your goal is to keep anyone from outside the cage from picking up your EMI, it will not. Even if you block 99.9%, there is still that 0.1% making it out, and if they are Trying to pick it up, they will.
If you want to aid in the blocking of RF, you should make sure there is continuity between each wall of metal, as well as the floor and ceiling sheets of metal (I've never looked, but it seems unlikely this metal lath will be under the floor. I'd guess it wouldn't be in the ceiling either but wouldn't be surprised at all if it was.)
This means running a wire between walls so they are all electronically connected. But do NOT connect this to earth ground.
Also you must remove all other conductive wiring that normally would pass through the walls (electrical wiring, phone and network, any plumbing, etc etc)
Also, the size of the holes in the mesh matter for what wavelength of RF they try bouncing through it.
A fine copper mesh will block most every wavelength if made correctly.
The metal lath in the wall was not designed with that in mind, so while it might block a chunk of the RF spectrum, enough to block say 700mhz up to the multi ghz, I know I can still receive AM radio through the walls, and FM only comes in slightly (which means while i cant listen to radio, SOME of the RF is making it through)
If you look at an Electromagnetic Spectrum chart, you'll see the order of RF frequency goes:
AM, shortwave, TV, FM, Radar, IR, visible light, UV, x-rays, and gamma rays.
As i said, i Know AM can make it through. I also know visible light could make it through if the plaster wasn't there to block it. FM does make it through but is defiantly interfered with. It is quite possible IR will make it through this mesh just fine. Without testing its hard to say, but if you are basing a security choice on it, assume it will not be blocked.
He used it for a month. We noticed in the logs that the traffic actually dropped. Only a handful of IPs actually sent a request for anything but the main page, a couple of which were myself and the site owner.
An interesting detail about the version of apache we used at the time.. Sometimes, when a user hits stop in the browser and the connection is reset is a specific but common way, the entry goes to errorlog instead of accesslog.
The 'less page hits' was compared to html (not all hits like images etc) on the old site, to both access and error entrys together for the new.
Anyways, needless to say, afterward he replaced that mess with his old website, however a few more ads to makeup for lost visitors. The traffic level dropped due to using html instead of one jpg, then rose slowly, but never came close to what it was before all the changes.
Just thought i'd share that experence.
This email is to confirm that your complaint has been received. :D
It just winds me up that some people bitch about what others choose to do with their life, think they know what these other people should be doing instead, yet cant or wont do those things them selfs.
In the red giant stage, the sun gets larger and loses mass, due to it burning itself away and ejecting more mass out into space.
When mass goes down, gravity does too.
When gravity is less, things are attracted less. Not sucked in (which would require More gravity), and not repelled (which would require anti-gravity), like you seem to suggest.
So, when the gravitational pull of the sun lessens, its quite possible for the planets to be attracted less, and fall into further out orbits.
I too agree that breaking NXDOMAIN is a bad thing, but OpenDNS at least does let you change this yourself. It just has the wrong default, so to speak.
I strongly urge you to signup for a free account, and look over their settings available, before you judge.
-- Jon
It's similar to how you see things. Light bounces off of a thing, and that light bouncing into your eye is how to observe and measure things. Just lower the scale to a single photon of light (or even a smaller particle) and youre set.
The reason you can't measure all the details of a particle at this level is because when the photon you bounce off it actually hits the particle youre measuring, the photon will disturb what you are measuring and thus changes it.
Similar how if you rolled one pool ball on the table to hit another.. It disturbs the other ball and moves it too, so any data you can draw from your reflected ball is no longer accurate since it modified what you just measured after the fact.
I didn't realize they would be automatic weapons. In that cause, the fire count makes more sense.
Around here, unless specially arranged, i've only seen cops carry semiauto's
http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.htm
This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a "posthuman" stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed.
Who signed the original deal and what did he/she get out of it?
;P
My guess is $5million worth of computers
Are you seriously complaining because your illegal software doesn't function correctly?
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Yes, yes we are... but we only complain about our illegal microsoft software not functioning correctly around slashdot. Any other illegal software not functioning is more or less ok
The fact that she has ordered the defendant to CREATE evidence (log files), in order to turn it over to the plaintiff as part of their discovery request is absurd.
No thank you your honour, my server and I both plead the 5th.
One can't be forced to encriminate themself, so this order doesn't need to be followed, by law (A law a tad higher ranked than anything this judge can create atleast.)
"Dismantle organically-evolved law from the top-down". Fantastic. What the hell does that even *mean*?
My guess is:
* 90% chance its a new buzzword / troll crossbreed hybrid creation
* 10% chance its someone that owns some of those overly broad submarine patents and doesnt want the law actually fixed between now and the time he pops up with it in the next decade.
Wow. The description is not at all like my experence with OS X. However is frighteningly describing my usual Windows experence.
Saying OS-X has no freeware is both wrong directly (there is plenty of good freeware for OS X) and indirectly (Alot of open source unix apps compile directly, have premade binaries, or have ports going)
Using fink one even has the full apt functionality from debian and debian based systems.
Although things have been changing slightly in the past couple years, freeware for windows is harder to find, and before then almost impossible. Everyone was on the bandwagon of crappy worthless shareware apps, and worse, apps labeled as freeware but require a serial to unlock, by definition shareware.
I'd say only recently has windows even come close to a freeware pool like the OSS crowd has enjoyed, and continue to enjoy under OS X.
The primary focus should not be wiring. You should be installing 3-5" plastic conduits in the walls, that run between all rooms and a central location such as attic, basement, or a wiring closet.
With the wiring closet method, you might end up with more than one (IE a closet on each floor) in which case youll also want to run conduit between the closets, and possibly between there and the attic/basement.
This way you can pull cheap cat5e now, and later easily upgrade to cat6 or fiber, as well as run low grade cat5 for simple wiring purposes (IE phone, security, alarm, or any electronics you want to wire up together or to a computer.)
This not only lets you upgrade as needed, but you don't have to waste money on fiber you won't use just yet, or worry that whatever you ran won't be compatible later. You just run what you need when you need it, as you need it.
Another thing to keep in mind, do NOT run electricity/power lines in the conduits! Not to mention it wont meet electrical codes, but will cause interfearance with data/signal cables. So you'll want to do/have-done the power lines seperate, and lots of them.
Even if the house is only rated for a set amount of amperage from the mains, and youre limited in circuits in the breakerbox, it's still a good idea to run extra wiring to plug outlets in the wall and simply leave the lines unused by the breaker box.
This way if you ever move your server room/closet, you can disconnect and reconnect outlets as needed when the time comes.
And how many planets is that?
1, Earth.
So ok, you have 20+mb/s between your computer and your ISP along that coax cable.
But what do you really honestly thing happens to those packets then?
They magically appear on 'teh intarwebz' at the speed of light (or faster) for everyone?
No. The ISP has data lines that link each of their areas (Usually cities, or sections between large citys) together. These links are shared between all of the ISPs customers.
Then, and here is the expensive part, the ISPs have to have links to OTHER ISPs.
This is the whole concept of the internet, its not some magical place you get to, its a collection of networks linked together.
These rather slow speed links cost an assload of money. All packets sent by an ISPs customer that isnt destined to another customer of the same ISP, or to the ISP itself, must travel over these slow links.
If you dont believe me, go out and price how much it would cost to get an OC-3 link to your home. Or an OC-12, which is what most of these ISP-to-ISP links are over.
Whats that? A quarter of a million dollars a month is too much for you?
You want to use all that bandwidth but for $20/month?
I'm not giving you the answer to your problem.. Just explaining why your screwed in getting what you want.