One of my professors is aiding the legal team defending one of the people being sued.. from what I understand, the case against the poor guys looks like this:
- A "consultant" of the CRIA sits at his computer, and puts certain queries in. - When he finds a file he's looking for, he downloads it. - He then proceeds to "View user's other files", and if there is a large collection of stuff he doesn't want to see, he records that person's IP address. - If that IP Address belongs to one of several targeted Canadian ISPs, it's added to the to-sue list.
Their main evidence against these people are screenshots of shared files and IP addresses.
The case that the defense is working on (or was trying to work on at least, when my aid was momentarily solicited 2 weeks or so ago on fasttrack protocol matters) is that there's no way to be sure that a) the IP address reported is correct, and b) the song came entirely from that IP address.
I don't get Comedy Central here, so I have to DL eps to watch the show. The episodes I download have commercials cut out.. but I'll definitely be buying the DVDs.
"one client decided to reverse his credit card charge to the tune of $600"
How is this Paypal's fault exactly? Your client was dishonest. If you don't want to take the risk of chargebacks, then don't accept credit-card funded payments.. only payments from a paypal balance or a bank account which cannot be reversed.
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I was also an admin of one of the sites bought up by eFront during the boom, and then left to die when the cash dried up.
I think the logs just made us all angry; the inability to adjust with changing markets when the.com bubble burst is what really killed eFront. What gets me is that they were dicks about it. They never came to me and asked to renegotiate the contract because funds were running slim, or anything like that.. they just stopped paying and (Sam) dissapeared from ICQ.
So why didn't I just take my site offline when they stopped sending cheques? They were paying for it's hosting, and that machine had one hell of an uplink;) Anyone who used to frequent Dalnet's tv channels and remembers kRYPTdCC01, raise your hands.
New Epson models do the latter.. there's some kind of chip in the cartridges that supposedly tells you how much ink you have left.
In reality, it makes the cartridge crap out way sooner by giving the printer an excuse to bork when there's 30% of the cartridge left, and it makes getting a 3rd party cartridge that works near-impossible.
Sounds like you need to get a better computer, turn everything ON, and crank the reasolution to 1280x1024... then maybe you can stop being bitter that your system sucks and enjoy the game!
The Onslaught game is so totally not decided in the first 30-40 seconds. I was in a game yesterday that took 52 minutes. That's right! Thes server did not have overtime mode turned on (this is usually at 15 mins, and get triggered a lot). I've been in many games where the tides turned against the team that looked like they were going to win.
The rocket launcher has been replaced with Anti-Vehicle rockets.. I'm not sure if you understand this or not. And it can hold a lot more then 3 rockets. I do miss the pistol though..
Grenades may suck, but spider mines are definitely nice. I think the vehicles are implemented much better then they are in Halo.. the Manta, for one, is the perfect vehicle for running over groups of unsuspecting members of the opposite team.
What do you have against the gun turrets? They give you both an inside and outside view (press F4; this works in everything you can get inside), let you zoom in, and are VERY powerful. What more do you want from a gun turrets?
I agree that UT2003 was dissapointing.. but UT2004 just plain rocks in my opinion.
The reason is simple: Some people (like me) don't want realism.
The game is called UNREAL Tournament for a reason, and I'm glad the people who made it made it the way they did... I get enough realism at school, working my ass off in hopes of a future.. don't need any more realism then that thankyouverymuch.
I love the floaty crosshairs, impossible weapons, guided redeemer missles, and getting-pumped-full-of-led-and-not-caring-cuz-you- got-200-health-and-100-armor-in-an-800-health-tank ! It's a totally different world, and that's what makes the game so enjoyable.
Good idea.. maybe call it a "slashmanged URL".. or a "slashfucked URL".
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You CAN do this, it's called Slipstreaming..
I know for sure you can Slipstream Service Packs and hotfixes, but I'm also pretty sure if you find the correct almost-undocumented-hidden-behind-a-door-that-has- a-sign-saying-"Beware-of-the-Leopard"-in-it switch to pass to the IE updater application, that it will also allow you to Slipstream in IE updates.
I was just about to say "Cool! I want to make my own distro!".. but then I noticed the total and complete lack of documentation and ran away with my tail between my legs.
Is there a HOWTO that actually has some content? (A quick Google turns up nothing...)
I run POPFile to help me manage my inbox. I've found that over the past few months, I've received and increasing ammount of spams filters. These come in [at least] 2 flavors:
a) Spams that contain a large number of "innocent" words, HTML formatted to be white on white. The real spam message is the (innocently named) inline image.
b) Spams that intentionally mis-spell "spammy" words (how many different ways have you seen viagra spelt by spammers?) by inserting random letters here and there. Sometimes this is done to the point of near-unreadability.
The point here is, the spammers are learning. When new anti-spam techniques come out, they will find [feeble] ways to attack them... but they're definitely on losing. A few clicks and I've re-trained my filter to deal with their latest and greatest.
What I don't understand is why spammers go through the trouble of pulling tricks like the ones above. Bayesian filtering is almost exclusively a client-side system, and if I'm going through all the trouble of setting up a spam filtering system, do the spammers really think I will buy something from them?
Spend the few extra dollars on a good motherboard with the nForce2 chipset. I run an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe and in my experience it's very speedy (compared to my old ECS K7S5A, bleh) and packed to the tits with features (FireWire, SATA+RAID, USB2.0, etc..).
Also, good memory (we're talking at least the lifetime warranty kind here) is totally necessary if you want your system to be stable at high frequencies, it seems AMD CPUs are more sensitive to bad/cheap memory (particularly in ECS boards, they're cheap, but avoid them if you at all can).
On a side note, AIDA32 shows the chipset bus on this board as being 8-bit HyperTransport v1.0.. totally cool:)
There are places where drugs and hooking ARE legal, and it's working very well. These things are not legal everywhere, but only legal within designated recreational zones. Drugs can only be sold by people who operate recreational establishments in these parts of the city. Hookers are required to get weekly check-ups and STD tests. It doesn't mean you can kill someone there..
Don't you mean hamster-powered? It'd be tough to make a hamster-controller webserver.. I don't think hamster are very well suited for parsing HTTP requests.
You don't think there's a difference between AGP4x and AGP8x? I bought a Radeon 9600 Pro, and was stuck in an AGP4x SIS motherboard for a long time.. performance was "ok" in games, couldn't really go past 800x600 without slowdowns.
Got myself a nice new ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe (great board for the money.. loaded to the tits), with the NForce2 Chipset and AGP8x, my system now screams (exact same cpu, memory, video, just swapped mobo).. 1280x1024 in most games (max resolution my LCD will support).
In conclusion, bandwidth makes a difference. Especially when you're trying to crank the resolution.
Not everything needs to be XML.. there are only a few things it is good for (such as a standardized document formats.. which are mostly text, with mark-up anyway). Trying to wrap any kind of binary data in XML should carry the penalty of death.
This would actually be a very neat idea, here's my take on it:
a) Can you specifically choose something to play? Or does the system "decide" what you like and feed you more of the same? Maybe keep track of the number of times a song has played.. and if it hits like, 20, pop up a notice "It seems you really like song X, would you like to purchase a high-quality copy?".. this brings me to
b) Streaming is all well and good, but it's fairly expensive to send out even a 128 kbit/sec (16 kB/sec) stream to hundreds, not to mention thousands, of users. Perhaps something like ogg could be used at 64kbit (so it still sounds listenable, which mp3 is not at such a low bitrate).. good enough to sample the music, but not quite up to CD quality. Once money is paid, perhaps different versions of songs would cost differently? (ie, a lossless FLAC copy that would be in the "tens of megs" range would cost more then a 192kbit MP3 or 128kbit OGG, which are usually in the "few megs" range).
It would definitely be cool to have new music recommened for you, and have the ability to purchase (a high quality copy) instantly..
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One of my professors is aiding the legal team defending one of the people being sued.. from what I understand, the case against the poor guys looks like this:
- A "consultant" of the CRIA sits at his computer, and puts certain queries in.
- When he finds a file he's looking for, he downloads it.
- He then proceeds to "View user's other files", and if there is a large collection of stuff he doesn't want to see, he records that person's IP address.
- If that IP Address belongs to one of several targeted Canadian ISPs, it's added to the to-sue list.
Their main evidence against these people are screenshots of shared files and IP addresses.
The case that the defense is working on (or was trying to work on at least, when my aid was momentarily solicited 2 weeks or so ago on fasttrack protocol matters) is that there's no way to be sure that a) the IP address reported is correct, and b) the song came entirely from that IP address.
I don't think the parent was talking about boolean values, but rather about logic.
<anything> OR NOT <anything> is a tautology, it's true for all values of anything.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
I don't get Comedy Central here, so I have to DL eps to watch the show. The episodes I download have commercials cut out.. but I'll definitely be buying the DVDs.
"one client decided to reverse his credit card charge to the tune of $600"
How is this Paypal's fault exactly? Your client was dishonest. If you don't want to take the risk of chargebacks, then don't accept credit-card funded payments.. only payments from a paypal balance or a bank account which cannot be reversed.
I was also an admin of one of the sites bought up by eFront during the boom, and then left to die when the cash dried up.
.com bubble burst is what really killed eFront. What gets me is that they were dicks about it. They never came to me and asked to renegotiate the contract because funds were running slim, or anything like that.. they just stopped paying and (Sam) dissapeared from ICQ.
;) Anyone who used to frequent Dalnet's tv channels and remembers kRYPTdCC01, raise your hands.
I think the logs just made us all angry; the inability to adjust with changing markets when the
So why didn't I just take my site offline when they stopped sending cheques? They were paying for it's hosting, and that machine had one hell of an uplink
New Epson models do the latter.. there's some kind of chip in the cartridges that supposedly tells you how much ink you have left.
In reality, it makes the cartridge crap out way sooner by giving the printer an excuse to bork when there's 30% of the cartridge left, and it makes getting a 3rd party cartridge that works near-impossible.
I will never again buy anything from Epson..
Sounds like you need to get a better computer, turn everything ON, and crank the reasolution to 1280x1024... then maybe you can stop being bitter that your system sucks and enjoy the game!
The Onslaught game is so totally not decided in the first 30-40 seconds. I was in a game yesterday that took 52 minutes. That's right! Thes server did not have overtime mode turned on (this is usually at 15 mins, and get triggered a lot). I've been in many games where the tides turned against the team that looked like they were going to win.
The rocket launcher has been replaced with Anti-Vehicle rockets.. I'm not sure if you understand this or not. And it can hold a lot more then 3 rockets. I do miss the pistol though..
Grenades may suck, but spider mines are definitely nice. I think the vehicles are implemented much better then they are in Halo.. the Manta, for one, is the perfect vehicle for running over groups of unsuspecting members of the opposite team.
What do you have against the gun turrets? They give you both an inside and outside view (press F4; this works in everything you can get inside), let you zoom in, and are VERY powerful. What more do you want from a gun turrets?
I agree that UT2003 was dissapointing.. but UT2004 just plain rocks in my opinion.
The reason is simple: Some people (like me) don't want realism.
- got-200-health-and-100-armor-in-an-800-health-tank ! It's a totally different world, and that's what makes the game so enjoyable.
The game is called UNREAL Tournament for a reason, and I'm glad the people who made it made it the way they did... I get enough realism at school, working my ass off in hopes of a future.. don't need any more realism then that thankyouverymuch.
I love the floaty crosshairs, impossible weapons, guided redeemer missles, and getting-pumped-full-of-led-and-not-caring-cuz-you
Good idea.. maybe call it a "slashmanged URL" .. or a "slashfucked URL".
You CAN do this, it's called Slipstreaming..
- a-sign-saying-"Beware-of-the-Leopard"-in-it switch to pass to the IE updater application, that it will also allow you to Slipstream in IE updates.
I know for sure you can Slipstream Service Packs and hotfixes, but I'm also pretty sure if you find the correct almost-undocumented-hidden-behind-a-door-that-has
I was just about to say "Cool! I want to make my own distro!".. but then I noticed the total and complete lack of documentation and ran away with my tail between my legs.
Is there a HOWTO that actually has some content? (A quick Google turns up nothing...)
Damnit, I used preview too!
I've received an increasing ammount of spams specifically designed to thwart bayesian-based filters.
I run POPFile to help me manage my inbox. I've found that over the past few months, I've received and increasing ammount of spams filters. These come in [at least] 2 flavors:
a) Spams that contain a large number of "innocent" words, HTML formatted to be white on white. The real spam message is the (innocently named) inline image.
b) Spams that intentionally mis-spell "spammy" words (how many different ways have you seen viagra spelt by spammers?) by inserting random letters here and there. Sometimes this is done to the point of near-unreadability.
The point here is, the spammers are learning. When new anti-spam techniques come out, they will find [feeble] ways to attack them... but they're definitely on losing. A few clicks and I've re-trained my filter to deal with their latest and greatest.
What I don't understand is why spammers go through the trouble of pulling tricks like the ones above. Bayesian filtering is almost exclusively a client-side system, and if I'm going through all the trouble of setting up a spam filtering system, do the spammers really think I will buy something from them?
Spend the few extra dollars on a good motherboard with the nForce2 chipset. I run an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe and in my experience it's very speedy (compared to my old ECS K7S5A, bleh) and packed to the tits with features (FireWire, SATA+RAID, USB2.0, etc..).
.. totally cool :)
Also, good memory (we're talking at least the lifetime warranty kind here) is totally necessary if you want your system to be stable at high frequencies, it seems AMD CPUs are more sensitive to bad/cheap memory (particularly in ECS boards, they're cheap, but avoid them if you at all can).
On a side note, AIDA32 shows the chipset bus on this board as being 8-bit HyperTransport v1.0
I know, it's Flamebait, but I'll bite..
There are places where drugs and hooking ARE legal, and it's working very well. These things are not legal everywhere, but only legal within designated recreational zones. Drugs can only be sold by people who operate recreational establishments in these parts of the city. Hookers are required to get weekly check-ups and STD tests. It doesn't mean you can kill someone there..
I always pictured Marvin as looking something like Bender from Futurama, maybe a bit taller.
Don't you mean hamster-powered? It'd be tough to make a hamster-controller webserver.. I don't think hamster are very well suited for parsing HTTP requests.
You don't think there's a difference between AGP4x and AGP8x? I bought a Radeon 9600 Pro, and was stuck in an AGP4x SIS motherboard for a long time.. performance was "ok" in games, couldn't really go past 800x600 without slowdowns.
Got myself a nice new ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe (great board for the money.. loaded to the tits), with the NForce2 Chipset and AGP8x, my system now screams (exact same cpu, memory, video, just swapped mobo).. 1280x1024 in most games (max resolution my LCD will support).
In conclusion, bandwidth makes a difference. Especially when you're trying to crank the resolution.
It had excellent music! I was addicted to the tunes in the first level..
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Sometimes folks deserve their karma..
AMEN brother!
Not everything needs to be XML.. there are only a few things it is good for (such as a standardized document formats.. which are mostly text, with mark-up anyway). Trying to wrap any kind of binary data in XML should carry the penalty of death.
This would actually be a very neat idea, here's my take on it:
.. good enough to sample the music, but not quite up to CD quality. Once money is paid, perhaps different versions of songs would cost differently? (ie, a lossless FLAC copy that would be in the "tens of megs" range would cost more then a 192kbit MP3 or 128kbit OGG, which are usually in the "few megs" range).
a) Can you specifically choose something to play? Or does the system "decide" what you like and feed you more of the same? Maybe keep track of the number of times a song has played.. and if it hits like, 20, pop up a notice "It seems you really like song X, would you like to purchase a high-quality copy?".. this brings me to
b) Streaming is all well and good, but it's fairly expensive to send out even a 128 kbit/sec (16 kB/sec) stream to hundreds, not to mention thousands, of users. Perhaps something like ogg could be used at 64kbit (so it still sounds listenable, which mp3 is not at such a low bitrate)
It would definitely be cool to have new music recommened for you, and have the ability to purchase (a high quality copy) instantly..
Assembly will get panties off her faster once you've finished implementing the algorithm.. but by that time, she'll be asleep.
.. a digital watch is most definitely _not_ a device that's built to last a lifetime.
When the battery dies.. you buy a new watch.
I'm a university student. I almost never know what day it is, my days and nights meld together.. sometimes, I don't even know what month it is..
I use the date readout on my digital watch (mine also shows the month, and day of the week) on a daily basis, I cannot do without it.