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In short, the settlement requires that these speeches be treated as financial resources and treated as such.
So wait a sec, this could be interesting...
So if someone steals physical property or money from me, and then gets caught, isn't the legal remedy that the thief returns the stolen property? (Assuming it's still in the thief's possession and that's even possible of course)
If copyrighted works are considered financial resources and treated as such, and if every "work" (which includes speeches) is instantly under copyright from the moment I utter it...
Couldn't we just go up to the congress critters responsible for supporting current copyright, make a little speech, and then demand either license payment compensation, OR to have the stolen property returned? *Pinky-in-mouth* sucks to be them, unable to afford my *One Septillion Dollars!*
I'll bring the power tools! Time to forcibly extract my property then! >:D Perhaps a sharp drill bit... It's still assumed I should aim for the prefrontal lobes of the cortex yes?
[ P.S. Yes this is just a contrived excuse to drill into someones brain;P ]
it would seem that buying it used is exactly identical to the developer NOT receiving money
How exactly do you think it is possible for a game to become USED if it was never purchased NEW? When it is purchased new, the developer got paid. One copy, one sale, one lump of money. What happens to that game afterward is none of the developers business.
Using your logic, you are a dirty thieving pirate, because you only bought ONE copy of the game new, instead of 45 copies of the same disc new. The developer requires your money for those other 44 copies after all, and it's your fault for not buying the extras that the developer only got one payment, which you say is not enough.
Another option is to use a Captive Portal built into a routing device. If you can throw together a machine with two NIC or some wireless cards, the software side can be handled with ZeroShell, or if you prefer a paid support contract, the previously open source Untangle
Captive Portal requires registration with a username/password to use the wifi, and can perform metering for if you wish to charge or just limit time. You can also setup different sets of web filters or firewall rules that change on a set schedule.
The Web Filtering modules will likely make your committee chair happy, as you can easily block most categories like pornography, gambling, hacking, etc. It isn't impossible to get around of course, but should be enough for due diligence.
I too have a box of such LCDs, and wrote a few LCDproc modules back in the day.
You are quire correct about all the companies involved with the raw construction of the LCD, not to mention the HD chip itself was another addition made by a separate OEM company. These days there are plenty of additional controllers that can sit between that chip and either the LCD (to provide pixel based addressing commands) and the user (4 bit parallel? Too hard for most, so now there are serial converters, USB controllers, and higher level command sets in chips that drive the HD controller, etc)
You can pop over to MatrixOrbital(.com) and see this recent state of the art built around those LCDs. Each incremental improvement is likely an entire new OEM company between even what you were used to back then, and what is sold today.
Where it becomes bad is if they harass or in any way mistreat people who aren't threatening violence.
Where it becomes bad is that they harass or in any way mistreat people who aren't threatening violence.
FTFY
Is there any evidence that they're doing that?
It's called "Flying" I envy you for not having to do so at all in the past decade, I truly wish I could say the same. Since you haven't been there to see first hand, nor seen the news and stories of what's going on, here is the evidence you requested:
We can look at the precedent set by the Microsoft antitrust case and use the same conclusions made there.
When you go to the Google search page, it can check for the google cookie, and if it doesn't see it, show a screen as such:
"Hello, we noticed you typed google.com into your browser. The courts have forced us to ask you if you are really really sure you meant to go to google.com when you typed google.com. Are you absolutely positively pinky-swear sure you didn't mean to reach one of these other search engines when you typed google.com?" (Insert list of links to other search engines)
According to the results of the Microsoft anti-trust case, this would put them in full compliance once again.
How is it that you allow young people, let alone whole families, to be homeless, to live in "shelters".
What do YOU do to stop it?
Which country are you in, and what does that country do to stop it?
WTF is wrong with you people?!
Same thing as is wrong with you. I don't see you helping this girl either.
what matters is resolving it, providing the social, housing, and financial support to ensure that every body can call somewhere home.
If I gave away ALL of my measly income (Which is barely keeping ME in a cheap rented place), not only would I then become homeless, but then who would help me? Should I rely on the housing you personally will provide for me? Judging by the housing you have provided to this girl and her family, I am guessing I wouldn't be too well sheltered at all.
You want to blame the US government? Fine. You want to blame US corporations? Fine there too. But where the fuck do you get off blaming me personally when I barely have the means to make ends meet.
I have had to ask my neighbor to use their wifi password, just to remain on the internet. I have no cable, no phone, am a month behind on my electric, haven't bought a new computer in so many years I can't even remember. Yet you have the gall to blame me personally?!
I seriously doubt you have donated enough of your income to help even one person, let alone one family, to get off the street for more than a month. Which pretty much makes this your fault. (That's what happens when you fling blame around without knowing what you are talking about)
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for bashing the TSA and their dubious practices in the name of 'security' when it's warranted, but whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?
According to the TSA, you are guilty by reasonable suspicion and must prove your innocents in court. It only makes sense we hold them to their own standards.
Perhaps she is chatting on IRC, the Internet Relay Crap Or maybe paying for an ebay order with PeePal That's one heck of a core dump
Just imagine the poor guy who has fore play with her. The packet route goes from bathroom floor - laptop - desk - her lap - his face - him realizing what he really actually ate - back to bathroom floor. Isn't the round-trip of life beautiful?
There was a wonderful paper in Nature titled "The Ultimate physical limits to computation" by Seth Seth Lloyd (Yes the guy with the funny laugh), which discussed exactly how small computation and processing can ever get (Short of discovering new physics of course)
It's a fascinating read, which I highly recommend. I believe it will answer your questions as well.
The summary of the paper:
Computers are physical systems: what they can and cannot do is dictated by the laws of physics. In particular, the speed with which a physical device can process information is limited by its energy and the amount of information that it can process is limited by the number of degrees of freedom it possesses. This paper explores the physical limits of computation as determined by the speed of light $c$, the quantum scale $\hbar$ and the gravitational constant $G$. As an example, quantitative bounds are put to the computational power of an `ultimate laptop' with a mass of one kilogram confined to a volume of one liter.
Porn would be one of the few special cases where such a drive capacity would be useful (Unless of course you are very serious about your porn!)
Data backups by nature require making a duplicated copy of the used space on the drive. If you fully utilize the drive, that would translate to copying the entire 2 PB drive, and at best only having one backup every 37 days (assuming a continuously running backup process)
So with current bus technology, it would be easiest to simply not make a backup of such a drive, and only use it for storing files you don't mind losing. 2 PB is a bit over the top for/tmp and swap space, but if most people lost their porn collection that didn't have a backup, it wouldn't be the end of the world.
I certainly wouldn't use it in a RAID configuration, or store too much of anything important on it however.
At least not until HDs use multi-fiberoptic interconnects at terabyte speeds;}
I pretty much have to agree with you on that one however. Waiting too long won't send any message to them about why you are moving away.
It's kinda like when you catch the dog pissing on the carpet, you need to discipline him right in the act, or seconds afterward. If you wait until the next day to smack the dog on the head with a paper, not only will it not apply the negative reinforcement to the behavior you don't want, but you create another negative reinforcement that just confuses the poor dog.
Not to say GoDaddy is the poor dog of course;} But that the negative feedback (Moving domains away) needs to be done close to the bad behavior you want to discourage.
I assumed it would be the first three months where the majority of it happens. But I was very disappointed with last months numbers... They only had a net loss of like a thousand domains. Hopefully the next months stats show a much much larger number of lost domains.
I figure the 3rd month would just be stragglers, and the smallest numbers. But going by the last report, things don't look promising:/
Yea that one was a typo. I meant a 1 TB internal drive for $80.
It's been quite some time since 1 GB drives cost that much, although my second ever hard drive was an external 1 GB SCSI "Quantum Fireball" drive which when new was $250. Seeing as most systems shipped with 40-80 MB at the time, a full gig was a ton of space.
As for the link, it was at NewEgg, specifically the western digital "green" drives, although they had some Seagates at that price too. After the flooding and price hike, they all seem to be around the $130+ range now.
You said it yourself, the US NETWORK is what is tapped. Apple is not a phone network in the US or anywhere else.
The wiretaps are done at the phone company. AT&T even admitted such and it was covered on slashdot multiple times. You trolled that thread too so you are well aware of it.
The US government doesn't need a backdoor in any phones, the data is intercepted and logged at the phone company, and the government has retroactively indemnified them of any wrong doing.
So I'm supposed to say good job to Apple for standing up against the Indian government (which is really no concern of mine) while bowing to the slightest pressure of the US police state?
No you are supposed to say good job Apple for for not bowing to anything you have claimed. But you're too pissed off at their success to bother with pesky facts and the truth, as normal.
Then again, I remember when the only storage computers had was 4KB of RAM... and I'm sure some on here can remember when you had to fit it all on a punch card. Those were a bit bulky to carry on a flight, I'm sure.
Warning: Pure nostalgia only below!
I still have a working 10 meg MFM hard drive, that requires two 5.25" bays to mount in. My 8086 only has 8 bit ISA slots, and the only IDE controllers I've come across have required 16 bit ISA or PCI.
Before I gave up the display shelf space, I had 4 drives sitting next to each other to show off how physical size is shrinking while storage size is growing. http://i39.tinypic.com/20a9jsl.jpg
Left to right is: 10 MB - 2x 5.25" bays and 8" deep (And about 10 pounds) 300 MB - 3.5" IDE drive 750 MB - 2.5" IDE drive 1 GB - 1" wide Compact Flash card
Now I just need to add in a 32 GB micro SD card...
Not to mention a few boxes of 8" floppy disks, and a crate of 5.25" floppies (Back when floppy disks actually flopped!) http://i41.tinypic.com/3588aza.jpg
I say this because... swiss army knife = $15 on a good day, 1 tb usb drive = $10 on any day,
Could you please provide a link where you purchased your 1 TB drive for $10? please? Or was that "$10" a typo of "$100"? Or was the "1 TB" a typo for "1 GB"?
Looking at your provided links, Amazon sells that encrypted 1 TB drive for $700. The other link doesn't have 1 TB drives at all, they max out at 32 GB for $300. Even their 1 GB modals are $80.
Even with RAID-0 (Only spanning, no redundancy) you would need 32 of those flash drives to reach the 1024 GB mark, and at $300 each that's a total of $9600. ($9900 for 33 of them to do RAID-5)
Even before the flooding in Taiwan a 1 GB internal sATA drive was around $80 or so, and currently seem to be averaging over $100.
It's OK though, in 4-5 days after this article falls off the front pages and no real moderators are watching the comments any longer, the trolls will come back and finish modding me down to -1. It's already begun.
Trolls live for making a presence where they know they aren't wanted.
There's a group of them that do this to me every few weeks. They always wait until the thread is almost a week old but just before it gets locked for archival. Then no one is around to fix the down mods. It's pretty flattering actually:D
But I wish Slashdot would consider upping the +5 cap a couple points to help counter that.
Also from the whois results, the domain is paid up until 2015, with no modifications/renewals since 2009.
So he is being true to his word, which was "We are moving. They will not get another penny. We are being thoughtful about choosing."
Luckily for him, he can sit on his hands for another 3 years and still keep his promise of not sending GoDaddy another cent, with plenty of wiggle room left over.
I usually only pay 1-2 years on my domains, depending how important the particular domain is to me. But I had one ready to expire Feb 1st, so had to move pretty quick. 1-2 months is "down to the last minute" when it comes to domain transfers and the tricks they can pull to legally steal your domain.
I also note that the zones SOA record shows the last DNS record update was Nov 10th 2011. So they haven't touched any of this dns/domain stuff since a while before deciding and announcing they would leave GoDaddy.
I'll give Jimmy the benefit of the doubt here that he truly is just really busy.
Perhaps events on the upcoming Jan 23rd will be more telling. If Wikipedia joins in on the SOPA internet blackout, I'll take that as a favorable sign. If not, I admit I will be disappointed.
The purposes of the copyright monpoly vary between legislations, so there is not "one" purpose.
In the United States, it is "to promote the progress and the useful arts", nothing more, nothing less. That is a direct quote from the constitution.
And yet out of the 33 comments currently at +3 at this time, 24 of them out right state the only purpose of copyright law is for people to make profit and money. These comments then get modded up by others, who also mistakenly believe copyright only exists for profit.
Do you ever feel it get you down, like it's a losing battle? You never seem to, even in face of people like these. For myself, it feels horribly depressing and futile even trying to get someone to click a provided link to the constitution, as they simply ignore it and continue to parrot this made up notion that art only exists to make money.
I've used the previous method on my own IRC network, not to block Tor outright, but to prevent people from clicking 'refresh' to get a new IP and avoid channel bans or client side/ignores placed on them after spamming, harassing others, and generally trying to go where their behavior makes them unwanted.
With a daemon linked to tor, my server can send some info to the tor network to ask if this is a tor connection. It needs my servers IP and port, as well as the users IP and source port. Upon a successful reply, services changes that users vhost to @tor It's fully up to each channels ops how to handle it, if at all.
Some channels do +b *!*@tor while others have the same ban but add exceptions for registered nicks using +e nick!*@tor while yet other channels are nothing BUT tor users.
I've never seen someone refresh their Tor IP and reconnect from a node that wasn't also detected by this method. I haven't heard of tor bridges until just today, however their use doesn't seem to aid with harassment or spamming from what I can tell.
We also do bayesian filtering where if the IP is on 4 or more of the 8 DNS blacklists checked, they get a temporary 10 minute gline with a URL showing which blacklists failed, and links to each for figuring out exactly why one is listed, and after cleaning up any infections they can request a delisting. As that process usually takes more than 10 minutes, this filtering method only stops bots and other automations, while a human can easily fix the problem and not be denied their chatting.
It's pretty hard these days to find a decent balance between allowing privacy while at the same time preventing obvious abuses like spamming, harassment, and bots trying to DCC trojans to not-so-net-savvy newbies.
I had absolutely no issues with Tor when their goal was only to provide privacy and anonymity. But if their new goals are to provide an easy and one-click way to avoid bans set on a particular user with bad behavior through their service, then it will only serve to harm their reputation (for good reason this time)
But... who gets to decide what actions is "for the will of the people"? I don't know if replacing the dictatorship of corporations with the dictatorship of thugs is any real improvement.
I fully agree.
Like I mentioned, I don't think those on the side of violence are anywhere close to a majority.
Unfortunately with all the tampering and mucking about with election results our government has done lately, it's next to impossible to say for sure how many people are for or against something. And that is the best system we have.
People who clearly once cared, are now frustrated and feeling powerless. They are giving up on even that. That is how I interpret the declining voter turnout anyway. Declining turnout numbers seems to say to me they did once care, and did once vote, but since then have stopped. After all, if no one cared from the start, wouldn't voter turn out remain the same, while the population grew?
It might be a lot easier for those with similar values and views on such subjects to be able to easily communicate and be heard. The Internet was supposed to be that method. Of course now with SOPA, even that option will be removed from us and labeled a criminal activity.
Kinda makes one wonder if that was part of the plan. But that way lies paranoia, even if it's true.
Their jobs? How about their lives? Some old school assassination is in order. And not just the politicians, but the executives of the corporate interests controlling them. These people need to die.
Now, now... if that would accomplish anything, maybe you'd have a point, but what if you wipe out congress? What changes? Nothing changes. The next line of seat warmers just gets moved in. Different people get their pockets filled, else, nothing changes.
If one is really at the point to go that far, then you don't start the battle and stop early.
When the next ones move in, upon first acting against the will of the people, you get them too. And the next one, and the next. You can't ever stop until their actions change. Until they get the idea that they will be next if they don't listen to the people.
You just gave up too soon;} (Granted, not without good reason, and granted, I understand that is why you wouldn't 'start' such a thing either. Neither would I.)
I don't advocate actually killing anyone either. Sure it feels good to wish for, but the level of work required to succeed in that line means an all out civil war. I don't think any measurable percentage of the population would be willing to fight the people they work with and live by, for any of their rights back anymore.
SO in the end, you are exactly right. It will have no effect and is pointless. Because there are not enough people willing to do it correctly.
Personally I don't think anything short of another government would have the ability to use deadly force consistent enough to pull such a thing off. At least for the time being, our military force is still one of the strongest on the planet, so that has about a snowballs chance in hell of happening either.
However I now see that most people are happy with this country being this way, and that I am in the minority. Far be it from me to try and change a country to something the majority is really against. I guess it's time to move to someplace who's legal values are more in tune with my own. I just hope I don't have to learn another language, I'm too old for that:/
Most Americans are suffering fro such a horible case of Stockholm syndrome, that they will never wake up or believe you.
You can see it perfectly here on/. It's frothing over in the summary and article!
"If only I can change him, he wouldn't be such a bad person. I just need to get him to understand" while at the same time getting the crap beaten out of them daily. People refuse to look at the actions and still believe the words.
Our government is very aware of the results of SOPA. This is their goal and plan. Making them "understand" is exactly like trying to convince the abusive husband to stop what he's convinced is the proper behavior for his entire life.
You see it in the comments here as well, and arguing with such people is just as frustrating as trying to get your childhood female friend to leave the guy that beats her nightly but just won't leave because "Next time will be different" She will actively fight any help you try to give her, since your "help" goes contrary to what she wants to believe.
So they put the blinders on and convince themselves that it's the government that doesn't understand the SOPA effects, and if only they can bring them around...
The one and only goal of SOPA, is so they can point at any random website they wish, and be 100% assured that website is performing criminal activity, because they made sure ALL websites are performing criminal activity. SOPA never did and never will have squat to do with copyright or piracy or justice.
To the parent poster: Thank you for existing! At least there are a tiny handful of us who aren't suffering from this Stockholm affliction, and even if we are less than 1% of the population, it gladdens me to see there are still at least a few left.
It only pains me deeply to know what kind of country, and what type of people, we will be surrounded by and immersed in next month:{ Just like how a lot of Chinese citizens fully support their governments censorship, and there are not enough left against it to be able to do anything about it. We are now in a similar situation.
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In short, the settlement requires that these speeches be treated as financial resources and treated as such.
So wait a sec, this could be interesting...
So if someone steals physical property or money from me, and then gets caught, isn't the legal remedy that the thief returns the stolen property? (Assuming it's still in the thief's possession and that's even possible of course)
If copyrighted works are considered financial resources and treated as such, and if every "work" (which includes speeches) is instantly under copyright from the moment I utter it...
Couldn't we just go up to the congress critters responsible for supporting current copyright, make a little speech, and then demand either license payment compensation, OR to have the stolen property returned?
*Pinky-in-mouth* sucks to be them, unable to afford my *One Septillion Dollars!*
I'll bring the power tools! Time to forcibly extract my property then! >:D
Perhaps a sharp drill bit... It's still assumed I should aim for the prefrontal lobes of the cortex yes?
[ P.S. Yes this is just a contrived excuse to drill into someones brain ;P ]
it would seem that buying it used is exactly identical to the developer NOT receiving money
How exactly do you think it is possible for a game to become USED if it was never purchased NEW?
When it is purchased new, the developer got paid. One copy, one sale, one lump of money. What happens to that game afterward is none of the developers business.
Using your logic, you are a dirty thieving pirate, because you only bought ONE copy of the game new, instead of 45 copies of the same disc new.
The developer requires your money for those other 44 copies after all, and it's your fault for not buying the extras that the developer only got one payment, which you say is not enough.
Another option is to use a Captive Portal built into a routing device.
If you can throw together a machine with two NIC or some wireless cards, the software side can be handled with ZeroShell, or if you prefer a paid support contract, the previously open source Untangle
Captive Portal requires registration with a username/password to use the wifi, and can perform metering for if you wish to charge or just limit time. You can also setup different sets of web filters or firewall rules that change on a set schedule.
The Web Filtering modules will likely make your committee chair happy, as you can easily block most categories like pornography, gambling, hacking, etc.
It isn't impossible to get around of course, but should be enough for due diligence.
Good luck!
I believe you mean the hd44780 controller.
I too have a box of such LCDs, and wrote a few LCDproc modules back in the day.
You are quire correct about all the companies involved with the raw construction of the LCD, not to mention the HD chip itself was another addition made by a separate OEM company. These days there are plenty of additional controllers that can sit between that chip and either the LCD (to provide pixel based addressing commands) and the user (4 bit parallel? Too hard for most, so now there are serial converters, USB controllers, and higher level command sets in chips that drive the HD controller, etc)
You can pop over to MatrixOrbital(.com) and see this recent state of the art built around those LCDs. Each incremental improvement is likely an entire new OEM company between even what you were used to back then, and what is sold today.
Where it becomes bad is if they harass or in any way mistreat people who aren't threatening violence.
Where it becomes bad is that they harass or in any way mistreat people who aren't threatening violence.
FTFY
Is there any evidence that they're doing that?
It's called "Flying"
I envy you for not having to do so at all in the past decade, I truly wish I could say the same.
Since you haven't been there to see first hand, nor seen the news and stories of what's going on, here is the evidence you requested:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=europe-bans-x-ray-body-scanners
http://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/tsa-pat-down-search-abuse
http://tsaabuse.blogspot.com/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/18/1027775/-TSA-Arrests-Me-for-Using-the-Fourth-Amendment-as-a-Weapon-(Tales-from-the-Edge-of-a-Revolution-2)
http://www.prisonplanet.com/tsa-groping-out-of-control.html
This should be pretty easy for Google to fix.
We can look at the precedent set by the Microsoft antitrust case and use the same conclusions made there.
When you go to the Google search page, it can check for the google cookie, and if it doesn't see it, show a screen as such:
"Hello, we noticed you typed google.com into your browser. The courts have forced us to ask you if you are really really sure you meant to go to google.com when you typed google.com. Are you absolutely positively pinky-swear sure you didn't mean to reach one of these other search engines when you typed google.com?"
(Insert list of links to other search engines)
According to the results of the Microsoft anti-trust case, this would put them in full compliance once again.
Bitsy Boffin (I'm addressing you personally)
How is it that you allow young people, let alone whole families, to be homeless, to live in "shelters".
What do YOU do to stop it?
Which country are you in, and what does that country do to stop it?
WTF is wrong with you people?!
Same thing as is wrong with you. I don't see you helping this girl either.
what matters is resolving it, providing the social, housing, and financial support to ensure that every body can call somewhere home.
If I gave away ALL of my measly income (Which is barely keeping ME in a cheap rented place), not only would I then become homeless, but then who would help me?
Should I rely on the housing you personally will provide for me?
Judging by the housing you have provided to this girl and her family, I am guessing I wouldn't be too well sheltered at all.
You want to blame the US government? Fine. You want to blame US corporations? Fine there too.
But where the fuck do you get off blaming me personally when I barely have the means to make ends meet.
I have had to ask my neighbor to use their wifi password, just to remain on the internet.
I have no cable, no phone, am a month behind on my electric, haven't bought a new computer in so many years I can't even remember.
Yet you have the gall to blame me personally?!
I seriously doubt you have donated enough of your income to help even one person, let alone one family, to get off the street for more than a month.
Which pretty much makes this your fault. (That's what happens when you fling blame around without knowing what you are talking about)
Fucking hypocrite.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for bashing the TSA and their dubious practices in the name of 'security' when it's warranted, but whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?
According to the TSA, you are guilty by reasonable suspicion and must prove your innocents in court. It only makes sense we hold them to their own standards.
Oblg.: http://www.crazywebsite.com/Website-Clipart-Pictures-Videos/Funny-People/Girl-Laptop-Bathroom-1LG.jpg
Perhaps she is chatting on IRC, the Internet Relay Crap
Or maybe paying for an ebay order with PeePal
That's one heck of a core dump
Just imagine the poor guy who has fore play with her. The packet route goes from bathroom floor - laptop - desk - her lap - his face - him realizing what he really actually ate - back to bathroom floor.
Isn't the round-trip of life beautiful?
There was a wonderful paper in Nature titled "The Ultimate physical limits to computation" by Seth Seth Lloyd (Yes the guy with the funny laugh), which discussed exactly how small computation and processing can ever get (Short of discovering new physics of course)
Entry page: http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9908043
Direct PDF Link: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/quant-ph/pdf/9908/9908043v3.pdf
It's a fascinating read, which I highly recommend. I believe it will answer your questions as well.
The summary of the paper:
Computers are physical systems: what they can and cannot do is dictated by the laws of physics. In particular, the speed with which a physical device can process information is limited by its energy and the amount of information that it can process is limited by the number of degrees of freedom it possesses. This paper explores the physical limits of computation as determined by the speed of light $c$, the quantum scale $\hbar$ and the gravitational constant $G$. As an example, quantitative bounds are put to the computational power of an `ultimate laptop' with a mass of one kilogram confined to a volume of one liter.
Porn would be one of the few special cases where such a drive capacity would be useful (Unless of course you are very serious about your porn!)
Data backups by nature require making a duplicated copy of the used space on the drive. If you fully utilize the drive, that would translate to copying the entire 2 PB drive, and at best only having one backup every 37 days (assuming a continuously running backup process)
So with current bus technology, it would be easiest to simply not make a backup of such a drive, and only use it for storing files you don't mind losing. /tmp and swap space, but if most people lost their porn collection that didn't have a backup, it wouldn't be the end of the world.
2 PB is a bit over the top for
I certainly wouldn't use it in a RAID configuration, or store too much of anything important on it however.
At least not until HDs use multi-fiberoptic interconnects at terabyte speeds ;}
Fair enough.
I pretty much have to agree with you on that one however. Waiting too long won't send any message to them about why you are moving away.
It's kinda like when you catch the dog pissing on the carpet, you need to discipline him right in the act, or seconds afterward.
If you wait until the next day to smack the dog on the head with a paper, not only will it not apply the negative reinforcement to the behavior you don't want, but you create another negative reinforcement that just confuses the poor dog.
Not to say GoDaddy is the poor dog of course ;} But that the negative feedback (Moving domains away) needs to be done close to the bad behavior you want to discourage.
I assumed it would be the first three months where the majority of it happens.
But I was very disappointed with last months numbers... They only had a net loss of like a thousand domains.
Hopefully the next months stats show a much much larger number of lost domains.
I figure the 3rd month would just be stragglers, and the smallest numbers. But going by the last report, things don't look promising :/
Yea that one was a typo. I meant a 1 TB internal drive for $80.
It's been quite some time since 1 GB drives cost that much, although my second ever hard drive was an external 1 GB SCSI "Quantum Fireball" drive which when new was $250. Seeing as most systems shipped with 40-80 MB at the time, a full gig was a ton of space.
As for the link, it was at NewEgg, specifically the western digital "green" drives, although they had some Seagates at that price too.
After the flooding and price hike, they all seem to be around the $130+ range now.
Meanwhile, under the provisions of various US laws and policies your iPhone on a US network can still be wiretapped and information accessed.
https://www.eff.org/issues/nsa-spying
You said it yourself, the US NETWORK is what is tapped. Apple is not a phone network in the US or anywhere else.
The wiretaps are done at the phone company. AT&T even admitted such and it was covered on slashdot multiple times. You trolled that thread too so you are well aware of it.
The US government doesn't need a backdoor in any phones, the data is intercepted and logged at the phone company, and the government has retroactively indemnified them of any wrong doing.
So I'm supposed to say good job to Apple for standing up against the Indian government (which is really no concern of mine) while bowing to the slightest pressure of the US police state?
No you are supposed to say good job Apple for for not bowing to anything you have claimed. But you're too pissed off at their success to bother with pesky facts and the truth, as normal.
Then again, I remember when the only storage computers had was 4KB of RAM... and I'm sure some on here can remember when you had to fit it all on a punch card. Those were a bit bulky to carry on a flight, I'm sure.
Warning: Pure nostalgia only below!
I still have a working 10 meg MFM hard drive, that requires two 5.25" bays to mount in. My 8086 only has 8 bit ISA slots, and the only IDE controllers I've come across have required 16 bit ISA or PCI.
Before I gave up the display shelf space, I had 4 drives sitting next to each other to show off how physical size is shrinking while storage size is growing.
http://i39.tinypic.com/20a9jsl.jpg
Left to right is:
10 MB - 2x 5.25" bays and 8" deep (And about 10 pounds)
300 MB - 3.5" IDE drive
750 MB - 2.5" IDE drive
1 GB - 1" wide Compact Flash card
Now I just need to add in a 32 GB micro SD card...
Not to mention a few boxes of 8" floppy disks, and a crate of 5.25" floppies (Back when floppy disks actually flopped!)
http://i41.tinypic.com/3588aza.jpg
I say this because... swiss army knife = $15 on a good day, 1 tb usb drive = $10 on any day,
Could you please provide a link where you purchased your 1 TB drive for $10? please?
Or was that "$10" a typo of "$100"? Or was the "1 TB" a typo for "1 GB"?
Looking at your provided links, Amazon sells that encrypted 1 TB drive for $700.
The other link doesn't have 1 TB drives at all, they max out at 32 GB for $300.
Even their 1 GB modals are $80.
Even with RAID-0 (Only spanning, no redundancy) you would need 32 of those flash drives to reach the 1024 GB mark, and at $300 each that's a total of $9600.
($9900 for 33 of them to do RAID-5)
Even before the flooding in Taiwan a 1 GB internal sATA drive was around $80 or so, and currently seem to be averaging over $100.
Welcome to Slashdot ;}
It's OK though, in 4-5 days after this article falls off the front pages and no real moderators are watching the comments any longer, the trolls will come back and finish modding me down to -1. It's already begun.
Trolls live for making a presence where they know they aren't wanted.
There's a group of them that do this to me every few weeks. :D
They always wait until the thread is almost a week old but just before it gets locked for archival. Then no one is around to fix the down mods.
It's pretty flattering actually
But I wish Slashdot would consider upping the +5 cap a couple points to help counter that.
Also from the whois results, the domain is paid up until 2015, with no modifications/renewals since 2009.
So he is being true to his word, which was "We are moving. They will not get another penny. We are being thoughtful about choosing."
Luckily for him, he can sit on his hands for another 3 years and still keep his promise of not sending GoDaddy another cent, with plenty of wiggle room left over.
I usually only pay 1-2 years on my domains, depending how important the particular domain is to me. But I had one ready to expire Feb 1st, so had to move pretty quick. 1-2 months is "down to the last minute" when it comes to domain transfers and the tricks they can pull to legally steal your domain.
I also note that the zones SOA record shows the last DNS record update was Nov 10th 2011. So they haven't touched any of this dns/domain stuff since a while before deciding and announcing they would leave GoDaddy.
I'll give Jimmy the benefit of the doubt here that he truly is just really busy.
Perhaps events on the upcoming Jan 23rd will be more telling.
If Wikipedia joins in on the SOPA internet blackout, I'll take that as a favorable sign. If not, I admit I will be disappointed.
The purposes of the copyright monpoly vary between legislations, so there is not "one" purpose.
In the United States, it is "to promote the progress and the useful arts", nothing more, nothing less. That is a direct quote from the constitution.
And yet out of the 33 comments currently at +3 at this time, 24 of them out right state the only purpose of copyright law is for people to make profit and money.
These comments then get modded up by others, who also mistakenly believe copyright only exists for profit.
Do you ever feel it get you down, like it's a losing battle? You never seem to, even in face of people like these.
For myself, it feels horribly depressing and futile even trying to get someone to click a provided link to the constitution, as they simply ignore it and continue to parrot this made up notion that art only exists to make money.
How do you do it?
I've used the previous method on my own IRC network, not to block Tor outright, but to prevent people from clicking 'refresh' to get a new IP and avoid channel bans or client side /ignores placed on them after spamming, harassing others, and generally trying to go where their behavior makes them unwanted.
With a daemon linked to tor, my server can send some info to the tor network to ask if this is a tor connection. It needs my servers IP and port, as well as the users IP and source port.
Upon a successful reply, services changes that users vhost to @tor
It's fully up to each channels ops how to handle it, if at all.
Some channels do +b *!*@tor while others have the same ban but add exceptions for registered nicks using +e nick!*@tor while yet other channels are nothing BUT tor users.
I've never seen someone refresh their Tor IP and reconnect from a node that wasn't also detected by this method.
I haven't heard of tor bridges until just today, however their use doesn't seem to aid with harassment or spamming from what I can tell.
We also do bayesian filtering where if the IP is on 4 or more of the 8 DNS blacklists checked, they get a temporary 10 minute gline with a URL showing which blacklists failed, and links to each for figuring out exactly why one is listed, and after cleaning up any infections they can request a delisting.
As that process usually takes more than 10 minutes, this filtering method only stops bots and other automations, while a human can easily fix the problem and not be denied their chatting.
It's pretty hard these days to find a decent balance between allowing privacy while at the same time preventing obvious abuses like spamming, harassment, and bots trying to DCC trojans to not-so-net-savvy newbies.
I had absolutely no issues with Tor when their goal was only to provide privacy and anonymity. But if their new goals are to provide an easy and one-click way to avoid bans set on a particular user with bad behavior through their service, then it will only serve to harm their reputation (for good reason this time)
You were supposed to say "say 'what' again!"
But I didn't want to get shot before getting to finish my tasty kahuna burger :{
If you click the "parent" link twice on the post you quoted/replied to, you would see it was a reply to this:
For nor make pc tunner's and cable co's for makeing cable card a joke. Most people use the cable or dish / directv box GUI on there TV.
So yes, that was a perfectly valid question :P
But ... who gets to decide what actions is "for the will of the people"? I don't know if replacing the dictatorship of corporations with the dictatorship of thugs is any real improvement.
I fully agree.
Like I mentioned, I don't think those on the side of violence are anywhere close to a majority.
Unfortunately with all the tampering and mucking about with election results our government has done lately, it's next to impossible to say for sure how many people are for or against something. And that is the best system we have.
People who clearly once cared, are now frustrated and feeling powerless. They are giving up on even that. That is how I interpret the declining voter turnout anyway.
Declining turnout numbers seems to say to me they did once care, and did once vote, but since then have stopped.
After all, if no one cared from the start, wouldn't voter turn out remain the same, while the population grew?
It might be a lot easier for those with similar values and views on such subjects to be able to easily communicate and be heard. The Internet was supposed to be that method. Of course now with SOPA, even that option will be removed from us and labeled a criminal activity.
Kinda makes one wonder if that was part of the plan. But that way lies paranoia, even if it's true.
Their jobs? How about their lives? Some old school assassination is in order. And not just the politicians, but the executives of the corporate interests controlling them. These people need to die.
Now, now... if that would accomplish anything, maybe you'd have a point, but what if you wipe out congress? What changes? Nothing changes. The next line of seat warmers just gets moved in. Different people get their pockets filled, else, nothing changes.
If one is really at the point to go that far, then you don't start the battle and stop early.
When the next ones move in, upon first acting against the will of the people, you get them too. And the next one, and the next. You can't ever stop until their actions change. Until they get the idea that they will be next if they don't listen to the people.
You just gave up too soon ;}
(Granted, not without good reason, and granted, I understand that is why you wouldn't 'start' such a thing either. Neither would I.)
I don't advocate actually killing anyone either.
Sure it feels good to wish for, but the level of work required to succeed in that line means an all out civil war. I don't think any measurable percentage of the population would be willing to fight the people they work with and live by, for any of their rights back anymore.
SO in the end, you are exactly right. It will have no effect and is pointless. Because there are not enough people willing to do it correctly.
Personally I don't think anything short of another government would have the ability to use deadly force consistent enough to pull such a thing off.
At least for the time being, our military force is still one of the strongest on the planet, so that has about a snowballs chance in hell of happening either.
However I now see that most people are happy with this country being this way, and that I am in the minority. Far be it from me to try and change a country to something the majority is really against. :/
I guess it's time to move to someplace who's legal values are more in tune with my own. I just hope I don't have to learn another language, I'm too old for that
Most Americans are suffering fro such a horible case of Stockholm syndrome, that they will never wake up or believe you.
You can see it perfectly here on /.
It's frothing over in the summary and article!
"If only I can change him, he wouldn't be such a bad person. I just need to get him to understand" while at the same time getting the crap beaten out of them daily.
People refuse to look at the actions and still believe the words.
Our government is very aware of the results of SOPA. This is their goal and plan.
Making them "understand" is exactly like trying to convince the abusive husband to stop what he's convinced is the proper behavior for his entire life.
You see it in the comments here as well, and arguing with such people is just as frustrating as trying to get your childhood female friend to leave the guy that beats her nightly but just won't leave because "Next time will be different"
She will actively fight any help you try to give her, since your "help" goes contrary to what she wants to believe.
So they put the blinders on and convince themselves that it's the government that doesn't understand the SOPA effects, and if only they can bring them around...
The one and only goal of SOPA, is so they can point at any random website they wish, and be 100% assured that website is performing criminal activity, because they made sure ALL websites are performing criminal activity.
SOPA never did and never will have squat to do with copyright or piracy or justice.
To the parent poster: Thank you for existing! At least there are a tiny handful of us who aren't suffering from this Stockholm affliction, and even if we are less than 1% of the population, it gladdens me to see there are still at least a few left.
It only pains me deeply to know what kind of country, and what type of people, we will be surrounded by and immersed in next month :{
Just like how a lot of Chinese citizens fully support their governments censorship, and there are not enough left against it to be able to do anything about it. We are now in a similar situation.