You might not care about the effects smoking has own your own health, but you cannot deny that tobacco use is harmful. Its a fact, just like the fact that childen imitate role models. Why would you want to encourage dangerous behavior in a 12 year old boy. They get themselves into enough trouble themselves.
With the book, you will only have one copy. If you were to remove the software off the computer and give it to a friend to install, that is within most EULA's. Similarly, its just as illegal to copy every page out of a book on a photocopier as it is to copy a piece of software.
Just because the ipod may have 32MB of buffer for data, doesn't mean it could decode Ogg Vorbis files. As the engineer states in the article, the PP5002 has a relatively small cache, with a relatively expensive penalty if the instruction is not found in the cache but rather in the permanent memory(ROM) of the ipod. Wheter or not the Ogg codec can be optimized to fit in the cache is a different story, and definitely something to be explored before claiming that the gen1-3 iPod's can't handle the job. Technical details aside, this guy works for a competing business, and would bad mouth it regardless. Its like posting a story that Rush Limbaugh doesn't like John Kerry- big surprise.
The author of the article brings up a good point, that many home/home-office computers have important personal and financial data on it. Although I'm sure that all of these digiticians (horrible word) have pretty good troubleshooting skills, what happens when they forget to make a backup? They can't replace the data, that was the sole copy. They can try and sell the owner a backup system, but that makes it look like the data was lost to sell another unit. Do these companies carry any sort of malpractice insurance, or do they just operate on a "we break it, you buy it" principle?
/*As part of the kernel evolution *toward modular naming, the *funxtions malloc and mfree are being renamed to rmalloc and rmfree. *Compatibility will be maintained by the following assembler code: *(also see mfree/rmfree below) */
While I'm sure alot of Identity Theft occurs on-line, as compared to stolen cards being used in stores. I work in retail, and there is really no enforcement of using signature for verification. People all over the place use cards with signatures scratched off, unsigned cards, and any other type of defacement you can imagine. We're supposed to ask for ID (license, passport, military ID) when the signature is damaged. Often times people don't have a license on them, so we aren't supposed to sell them their purchase. Instead of letting our store lose out in sales, we just let the customer go and hope its actually their card. There are other places where reform should happen in the retail industry, but this is one of the areas that deserve attention when dealing with CC fraud.
I've been using NiMH rechargables for over a year now, with the same set and haven't noticed any major decrease in performance. My charger cost 25 dollars, I wouldn't even know where to find a charger that cost 50-100 dollars, there's no reason to spend that much money on a charger.
There have been at least 10 comments stating that the files would be lost if the physical object was lost.While it wasn't stated in the article, I would be surprised if that was the case. Most likely, you would also be able to retrieve the file by filename. This device isn't meant for high-reliability applications, but more as a novelty for consumers.
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I'd like to think that I'm somewhat neutral in this debate as I have gone through high school, but don't yet have kids. While its true that parents deserve access to their child's acamdemic records, they should also be directed on how to act towards them. If anything, micro-managing their child will only produce more problems.
My home naming scheme is really the only one of interest. What's better than naming your boxes after a prostitution business? The firewall is called pimp, because it protects the internal lan boxes (whores). Coincidentally these are named after my ex-girlfriends. A web server in the DMZ is named thug, because it takes case of the outside world. Of course, this leads to great amusement when they crash, "Dawn went down again!!" Not exactly good for a work area though
Dave Matthews also tried a similar approach on his new (semi) CD, Busted Stuff. Along with the actual CD release (which contained 90% leaked songs, another story entirely) a DVD with concert footage and special features, was included along with a sticker. It made a great incentive to actually buy the CD. However, I was disappointed at the quality of the DVD music video, its quality was way off.
I'll second this RPI comment, as I will be attending there next year. While Troy and Albany may not be the cleanest or neatest city in the Northeast, it does have several advantages over other places. Albany is centrally located in relation to other cities, just over 3 hours from Boston and NYC, and maybe 5 or 6 to Buffalo. Lots of recreational activities, Adirondacks and Lake George are just a short trip up the Northway(I-87). More importantly, this area needs jobs. Anyone who lives in this area and has seen downtown Schenectady lately (Home of GE) knows that the city has seen it's heyday. Higher taxes and a lack of modern companies seem to be repelling college graduates from staying in the area. My current town, Guilderland has a population of 30,000 people, 40% of which are senior citiziens. Its scary for a teenager to live in a town where politics are dominated by a demographic 4 times your age. I would guess that the largest employer around here is New York State itself. If Pataki can manage to bring those jobs here, it would be a virtual revival to the Capital District. I would love to stay in the area after college, but as experienced by one of my good friends, an MIS major from SUNY Albany- there are just no jobs here. Hopefully in 6-8 years, I can walk through the streets and be reminded of the days when GE kept this area on top. (Except, without all the pollution this time)
I see you harshly and in the second case unjustly criticizing someone for attempting to be helpful. Instead of merely pointing out problems in logic, your response would have been better used offering suggestions. In my opinion, the only solution to this problem is a high capacity battery. All other forms of electricity, solar, friction, etc are not suitable for this use. Since the laptops need to be used continually, having an extra battery setup for each laptop would be appropriate. The only downtime in this case would be switching the batteries out, however you have to ensure that it takes the batteries longer to drain during use, than it takes to charge. Also, the user should be sure that as many power saving features as possible are enabled to cut down on any unnecessary use.
Part of the problem with current credit cards, and with this system as well is, as the parent said, the 18 year-old clerks. I'm speaking from experience, as a 17 year-old clerk at a clothing store that does lots of sales with credit cards. I realize that credit fraud occurs commonly, yet I don't do anything about it. I rarely check signatures and only ask for photo id if the CC says to. There's no reason for me to do otherwise. No penalities from the cards are directly passed on to the cashiers. If some accountability was placed on me, like a 50 dollar fine for each stolen CC I allowed to be used you can bet I would be checking alot more signatures.
Another part of the problem is lack of consumer awareness. You would be amazed at the number of people that don't even bother to sign the back of their cards. We're supposed to ask for id in that case, but when you've got a line of 15 customers, waiting for someone to dig their license out isn't the greatest idea.
To solve the problem, I think credit cards should come with a mandatory PIN number, one which isn't stored on the card (so theives can't crack the card). In addition, some responsibility is due for the cashiers. If my cash drawer is 5 dollars under (or over) what it should be, I get written up. Why not do this for cards not used by their owners?
I've got a Microtek XL6 (i think- too lazy to go check the real name) The scanner has a SCSI interface, 11x17, supposedly 600x1200 dpi and works great for me. I received it as a gift, so I'm not sure of the cost. It's a bit on the noisy side, but thats not an issue considering all my cooling fans. Also, I know it works in Windows using Microtek ScanSuite, not sure about any other platforms.
I picked this technique up from my high-school precalc teacher. Convert the message to some sort of number(a=1, b=2) possibly applying a shift or substitution cipher first if you feel like it. Create the necessary number of 2x2 matrices and multiply them all by a key. Result is 2x2 matrices with the ciphertext. Convert this back to letters and your set. I can't remember if there was a single 2x2 as the key or if there were multiple ones. He claimed it was unbreakable, what are your thoughts?
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If you use minidiscs as a portable format instead of carrying around a CD player, you might want to invest in a portable md recorder instead of a component sized one. I know that I prefer to use MDs to cds because of their live recording, smaller size, easier editing and of course coolness factor.
Firstly, does the music industry really know what its doing? They may be profession salespeople and market analysts, but look at the way they approached the problem. Just as any parent, dictatorship or record company in this case learns, forbidding something just makes it more desirable.
Secondly, firing a paintball is a much different situation. Someone's personal safety and property is threatened by the paintball gun. It could break a window, hit you in the eye, whatever. Never has the free sharing of music taken the paint off of your car. Pardon my philsophy, but John Locke said everyone should be guaranteed life, liberty, and property. Sharing music doesn't infringe on any of these rights. You may claim that it interferes with the right to property, but the music companies are still making tons of money. Record sales may have decreased twenty-some percent in the last few years, but these must be considered in context with the state of the current economy.
Firing a paintball gun could injure me in some way, or in a more remote chance even kill me. While this may be an abstract interprepation of Locke's natural rights philosphy, almost everyone will agree that I have an implied right to safety(including the right to walk outside my house without fear of projectiles.)
The artist does gain from the sharing (illegal or legal) of his music. If one's music is spread, they will reach a wider group of people and hopefully become more popular. This is the whole point of advertising. Share the music, and hope for people to buy the rest of it. This is the main purpose of radio stations. The only two differences between the illegal and legal sharing of music are the permission of the copyright holder (Many times not even the artist.), and whether royalties are paid (Many times not even to the artist). Either way, the record company is benefiting more from the sharing of music than the artists. So don;t complain that the artist is losing this or that; we should complain that the record companies are robbing us. But wait, we are complaining- just in a not quite so legal way.
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You might not care about the effects smoking has own your own health, but you cannot deny that tobacco use is harmful. Its a fact, just like the fact that childen imitate role models. Why would you want to encourage dangerous behavior in a 12 year old boy. They get themselves into enough trouble themselves.
With the book, you will only have one copy. If you were to remove the software off the computer and give it to a friend to install, that is within most EULA's. Similarly, its just as illegal to copy every page out of a book on a photocopier as it is to copy a piece of software.
The scary thing is that I recognize this as the Vanilla Ice quote comparing Ice Ice Baby to Queen's Under Pressure. I think it was a VH1 interview...
Just because the ipod may have 32MB of buffer for data, doesn't mean it could decode Ogg Vorbis files. As the engineer states in the article, the PP5002 has a relatively small cache, with a relatively expensive penalty if the instruction is not found in the cache but rather in the permanent memory(ROM) of the ipod. Wheter or not the Ogg codec can be optimized to fit in the cache is a different story, and definitely something to be explored before claiming that the gen1-3 iPod's can't handle the job.
Technical details aside, this guy works for a competing business, and would bad mouth it regardless. Its like posting a story that Rush Limbaugh doesn't like John Kerry- big surprise.
The author of the article brings up a good point, that many home/home-office computers have important personal and financial data on it. Although I'm sure that all of these digiticians (horrible word) have pretty good troubleshooting skills, what happens when they forget to make a backup? They can't replace the data, that was the sole copy. They can try and sell the owner a backup system, but that makes it look like the data was lost to sell another unit. Do these companies carry any sort of malpractice insurance, or do they just operate on a "we break it, you buy it" principle?
/*As part of the kernel evolution
*toward modular naming, the
*funxtions malloc and mfree are being
renamed to rmalloc and rmfree.
*Compatibility will be maintained by
the following assembler code:
*(also see mfree/rmfree below)
*/
While I'm sure alot of Identity Theft occurs on-line, as compared to stolen cards being used in stores. I work in retail, and there is really no enforcement of using signature for verification. People all over the place use cards with signatures scratched off, unsigned cards, and any other type of defacement you can imagine. We're supposed to ask for ID (license, passport, military ID) when the signature is damaged. Often times people don't have a license on them, so we aren't supposed to sell them their purchase. Instead of letting our store lose out in sales, we just let the customer go and hope its actually their card. There are other places where reform should happen in the retail industry, but this is one of the areas that deserve attention when dealing with CC fraud.
I've been using NiMH rechargables for over a year now, with the same set and haven't noticed any major decrease in performance. My charger cost 25 dollars, I wouldn't even know where to find a charger that cost 50-100 dollars, there's no reason to spend that much money on a charger.
I read the page, it won't detect DSSS, which if I remember correctly is the protocol that .11b uses. It would work to find a cordless phone though.
wow, now I really feel stupid for saying "I caught a mistake in the movie. You can't log in as root" DOH
There have been at least 10 comments stating that the files would be lost if the physical object was lost.While it wasn't stated in the article, I would be surprised if that was the case. Most likely, you would also be able to retrieve the file by filename. This device isn't meant for high-reliability applications, but more as a novelty for consumers.
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I'd like to think that I'm somewhat neutral in this debate as I have gone through high school, but don't yet have kids. While its true that parents deserve access to their child's acamdemic records, they should also be directed on how to act towards them. If anything, micro-managing their child will only produce more problems.
My home naming scheme is really the only one of interest. What's better than naming your boxes after a prostitution business? The firewall is called pimp, because it protects the internal lan boxes (whores). Coincidentally these are named after my ex-girlfriends. A web server in the DMZ is named thug, because it takes case of the outside world.
Of course, this leads to great amusement when they crash, "Dawn went down again!!"
Not exactly good for a work area though
Dave Matthews also tried a similar approach on his new (semi) CD, Busted Stuff. Along with the actual CD release (which contained 90% leaked songs, another story entirely) a DVD with concert footage and special features, was included along with a sticker. It made a great incentive to actually buy the CD. However, I was disappointed at the quality of the DVD music video, its quality was way off.
I'll second this RPI comment, as I will be attending there next year. While Troy and Albany may not be the cleanest or neatest city in the Northeast, it does have several advantages over other places. Albany is centrally located in relation to other cities, just over 3 hours from Boston and NYC, and maybe 5 or 6 to Buffalo. Lots of recreational activities, Adirondacks and Lake George are just a short trip up the Northway(I-87). More importantly, this area needs jobs. Anyone who lives in this area and has seen downtown Schenectady lately (Home of GE) knows that the city has seen it's heyday. Higher taxes and a lack of modern companies seem to be repelling college graduates from staying in the area. My current town, Guilderland has a population of 30,000 people, 40% of which are senior citiziens. Its scary for a teenager to live in a town where politics are dominated by a demographic 4 times your age. I would guess that the largest employer around here is New York State itself. If Pataki can manage to bring those jobs here, it would be a virtual revival to the Capital District. I would love to stay in the area after college, but as experienced by one of my good friends, an MIS major from SUNY Albany- there are just no jobs here. Hopefully in 6-8 years, I can walk through the streets and be reminded of the days when GE kept this area on top. (Except, without all the pollution this time)
I see you harshly and in the second case unjustly criticizing someone for attempting to be helpful. Instead of merely pointing out problems in logic, your response would have been better used offering suggestions. In my opinion, the only solution to this problem is a high capacity battery. All other forms of electricity, solar, friction, etc are not suitable for this use. Since the laptops need to be used continually, having an extra battery setup for each laptop would be appropriate. The only downtime in this case would be switching the batteries out, however you have to ensure that it takes the batteries longer to drain during use, than it takes to charge. Also, the user should be sure that as many power saving features as possible are enabled to cut down on any unnecessary use.
Hmmmmm, so Is printing a file on paper considered a copy-protection device? Should we outlaw Xerox copiers now?
Thats the worst thing to do because it makes you look stupid like you dont care. Try writing Please SEE ID on the back. It might help.
Part of the problem with current credit cards, and with this system as well is, as the parent said, the 18 year-old clerks. I'm speaking from experience, as a 17 year-old clerk at a clothing store that does lots of sales with credit cards. I realize that credit fraud occurs commonly, yet I don't do anything about it. I rarely check signatures and only ask for photo id if the CC says to. There's no reason for me to do otherwise. No penalities from the cards are directly passed on to the cashiers. If some accountability was placed on me, like a 50 dollar fine for each stolen CC I allowed to be used you can bet I would be checking alot more signatures.
Another part of the problem is lack of consumer awareness. You would be amazed at the number of people that don't even bother to sign the back of their cards. We're supposed to ask for id in that case, but when you've got a line of 15 customers, waiting for someone to dig their license out isn't the greatest idea.
To solve the problem, I think credit cards should come with a mandatory PIN number, one which isn't stored on the card (so theives can't crack the card). In addition, some responsibility is due for the cashiers. If my cash drawer is 5 dollars under (or over) what it should be, I get written up. Why not do this for cards not used by their owners?
I've got a Microtek XL6 (i think- too lazy to go check the real name) The scanner has a SCSI interface, 11x17, supposedly 600x1200 dpi and works great for me. I received it as a gift, so I'm not sure of the cost. It's a bit on the noisy side, but thats not an issue considering all my cooling fans. Also, I know it works in Windows using Microtek ScanSuite, not sure about any other platforms.
I picked this technique up from my high-school precalc teacher. Convert the message to some sort of number(a=1, b=2) possibly applying a shift or substitution cipher first if you feel like it. Create the necessary number of 2x2 matrices and multiply them all by a key. Result is 2x2 matrices with the ciphertext. Convert this back to letters and your set. I can't remember if there was a single 2x2 as the key or if there were multiple ones. He claimed it was unbreakable, what are your thoughts?
If you use minidiscs as a portable format instead of carrying around a CD player, you might want to invest in a portable md recorder instead of a component sized one. I know that I prefer to use MDs to cds because of their live recording, smaller size, easier editing and of course coolness factor.
Firstly, does the music industry really know what its doing? They may be profession salespeople and market analysts, but look at the way they approached the problem. Just as any parent, dictatorship or record company in this case learns, forbidding something just makes it more desirable.
Secondly, firing a paintball is a much different situation. Someone's personal safety and property is threatened by the paintball gun. It could break a window, hit you in the eye, whatever. Never has the free sharing of music taken the paint off of your car. Pardon my philsophy, but John Locke said everyone should be guaranteed life, liberty, and property. Sharing music doesn't infringe on any of these rights. You may claim that it interferes with the right to property, but the music companies are still making tons of money. Record sales may have decreased twenty-some percent in the last few years, but these must be considered in context with the state of the current economy.
Firing a paintball gun could injure me in some way, or in a more remote chance even kill me. While this may be an abstract interprepation of Locke's natural rights philosphy, almost everyone will agree that I have an implied right to safety(including the right to walk outside my house without fear of projectiles.)
The artist does gain from the sharing (illegal or legal) of his music. If one's music is spread, they will reach a wider group of people and hopefully become more popular. This is the whole point of advertising. Share the music, and hope for people to buy the rest of it. This is the main purpose of radio stations. The only two differences between the illegal and legal sharing of music are the permission of the copyright holder (Many times not even the artist.), and whether royalties are paid (Many times not even to the artist). Either way, the record company is benefiting more from the sharing of music than the artists. So don;t complain that the artist is losing this or that; we should complain that the record companies are robbing us. But wait, we are complaining- just in a not quite so legal way.