You mean, serving the citizens of their countries, who are trying to make money by selling software? You mean, enforcing the law?
Yah, I agree with you on that one -- however this isn't like music and movies, where more often than not, people do steal these.
This is a generic argument, but it is nevertheless valid: I'll occasionally warez a game when a demo is not available. If I'm actually going to play it, I'll buy it. If not, I'll erase it. I hvae no problem with paying $40 for something that's going to provide 40 hours of entertainment. To get that in a movie theater, I'd have to pay $200
Enforcing a law like this with FBI raids and then calling warez groups "syndicates" is a bit overkill, no? That's like having the swat team drop from a helicopter to bust jaywalkers. Sure, they're breaking the law -- but come on. Where do you draw the line on how your taxpayer dollars are spent? Next, Ashcroft will bring back the decency laws and raid magazines and pornsites. Oh wait, he already is trying to bring on the old decency laws.
What about the university bandwidth? I for one am glad that my workplace is cracking down hard on all P2P use. I want a working net for doing my job. So, run a client, get caught and after one warning you're expelled/fired - doesn't matter if you are staff or a student.
Woah, there -- back up a sec. There's nothing wrong with P2P use in and of itself. I'll say it again (just for effect): There's nothing wrong with P2P use in and of itself. Unless you're a government like the Chinese government who is afraid of giving people a voice, you have to understand that P2P is an incredible tool that can make everyone their own publisher. It can make everyone their own record label, and everyone their own private movie studio. Just because people are (widely) using P2P for piracy doesn't mean that it's automatically a horrible thing. It's a great way to distribute content for a small amount of resources.
University bandwidth? Are you kidding? You think that every chunk of bandwidth that doesn't go to P2P goes to educational use? That's not right -- I went to college within the last 10 years, and I know what we used the bandwidth for: Porn, games, music, websurfing, screwing around. Sure there was some research, but if you think that the majority of that bandwidth is used for research, you're kidding yourself.
And no, you can't just pipe the stuff over another port or encrypt it. Your bandwidth use, source+destination IP and a variety of other things will give you away.
This statement is just plain wrong. Check out Freenet. This is a network which anonymizes content creators and allows people to share with confidence. If you don't want to spend alot of time researching it, here's a basic summary. It's partially intended to be a tool to get around folks like the Chinese government (who are afraid of giving people a voice) by encrypting the data and distributing the content in a way that's anonymous.
I hate to see it, but in a way I hope that they will make arrests here. Then that will turn the spotlight on the real crime here: congressional whoring for corporate interests (Disney RIAA MPAA) that has given us everlasting copyrights.
Yes, let's expose the dirty secret of congressional whoring. Wait...it's been going on for centuries. Nobody is doing anything about it -- why? Because that's how it works. That's how it's always worked here, and it will continue to. Our economy is an important thing, and our government wants to create a climate where companies (you know, businesses -- AKA corporations [why is that a bad word now?]) can make a buck. This way we all get to have an incredibly high standard of living. That stuff doesn't just happen because we're all happy free Americans.
Is the latest RIAA/DoJ/FBI action the right thing? Probably not...although the details of it are totally scant. But come on -- the real crime? There is so much other horrible crap going on in this world (even in this country). The way our political system works is not a real crime.
...although I agree that Ashcroft's priorities are incredibly fucked up. However, if he got away with going after online head shops and he's getting away with going after ordinary porn (bringing back the decency laws) -- I don't think that the outrage will begin with his treatment of piracy. We'll see what happens in November -- it'd be nice to get rid of that loser.
Well you obviously don't know anything about proper RAID then do you?
Hey...be nice.
The cheapest dual redundant RAID controllers I've seen are these for about 10k all up, these are rebadge d infotrend devices, so something similar should be available where ever you are.
Dell sells some cheapie dual/redundant controllers for well under $10K -- I know that they're available in their tower servers for sure.
At the end f the day, I'm more concerned about what the Bible actually says, rather than what people claim it does.
While what the bible "says" is interesting, in this context, it's more important how it's widely interpreted however. What the bible "says" is hardly relevant anyway, because it's a translation of a translation (unless you speak Aramaic as well as other really old languages). Our current bible is already an interpretation (because you can't translate without interpreting, especially when it's a document written thousands of years ago -- there are cultural differences, etc.).
I see where you're coming from, but what's important to me (in a cultural discussion, like this one) is how the text is applied and interpreted across relegions and sects. To go back to Judiasm, the Old Testament may say one thing, but a Rabbi may say one thing, the Torah may say another, and the Talmud may say another. Maybe I used a bad example because Judiasm is a little different in that regard -- it seems less organized than most sects of Christianity -- Judiasm tends to stress the core beliefs and leave alot for the congregation and the individual to decide on.
Doesn't help if you're the nontechnical user stuck with the bad card because the nice man at the store said it works just fine.
Does that mean that it's Windows fault when the nice man at the store said that a Sparc (or insert your favorite architecture here) would would work just fine?
At the very least, heaven and hell are mentioned in Isaiah and Satan in Job.
Yes, they are mentioned in the old testament, but ask any Rabbi about an afterlife (or ressurection). You'll likely get a different answer depending on the Rabbi, but I've pretty consistently been asked the same question back "what do you think?".
That's akin to saying: "Nazism is primarily a Jewish construct... an embrace and a rejection of the Jewish diaspora.". i.e. Vague nonsense.
Be clearer with your words.
No, it's not that far out -- and Nazism was far different from simply just latching onto a different part of the Jewish ideal. Nazim was a combination of an imperialistic effort and a hatred of anything other than "pure" German. The difference should be clear. In order for one to be "satanic", one has to believe in the Christian concepts of God, Satan, Heaven and Hell. It actively embraces the core beliefs. However, it is also a rejection of the traditional worship of God and the Christian sense of "good". To go back to your abstraction; wthout Judiasm, Nazism would have still existed...they'd have just found someone else to persecute (Gypsies, Homosexuals, Blacks, etc) along with the various other Nazi ideals.
I don't know enough about Islam to know if there are any parallels between that and Satanism. However, the parallels between Satanism and Judiasm are virtually nonexistant, since there really is no formal concept of Heaven, Hell, or Satan. The thing to remember here is (AFAIK) Satan is a Christian construct -- Satanism is a product of Christianity...for one to practice Satansim, one must accept many of the core Christian beliefs.
I know that your point has nothing to do with this, but I just wanted to bring up that Satanism is still a Chritsian construct. Whenever bringing up Satanism a context like this, it's important to remember that it's both an embrace and a rejection of the Christian faith.
I think that I actually did read it, and it just went in one ear and out the other. That's what I get for reading/posting while one the phone. Great comic though. I don't understand though -- is it suggesting that a war on terror can't be won? But the Bush administration promised that our suspension of civil liberties would be temporary -- until the war on terror was won! Boy, do I feel ripped off.;)
What exactly is wrong with the MPAA not wanting people to film movies? That is, after all, a crime and is also immoral to a degree. Slashdotters have yet to legally or morally justify pirating movies.
There is nothing wrong with the MPAA not wanting people to film movies. However, I believe that there is something wrong with a lobbying group like the MPAA taking an existing law and tacking on additional penalties because the crime involves a computer (and worse, our congress approving such a measure). It's just wrong. Were the penalties not sufficient before? What really makes the crime any different now to justify such a steep penalty? Does one get a year in prison for stealing the film reel -- what about shoplifting a DVD from Blockbuster? I doubt it -- those sound more like misdemeanor petty larceny than a year-in-jail-felony-type-crime. Do you see where the discrepancy is now?
As far as the war on drugs message goes -- I agree with you, it was totally out of left field. However, I didn't detect any sarcasm in the posting and don't agree with your analysis. I couldn't believe that I saw the word "success" appearing in a sentence with "war on drugs" without some kind of counterindicating word. Whoever wrote that musta been pretty high on something...I fail to see how the war on drugs has succeeded in any of its stated objectives.
on a more practical note, do you want a hermetically sealed case? Thats seems like it would be a lot more expensive and much more difficult to maintain.
Why not just seal up the mobo itself? There's no reason to totally hermetically seal the whole case. You could even use it to seal around the hot parts of the system -- power supply, CPU, memory, graphics card, northbridge, etc...leaving the physical drive media alone.
I'd say that the biggest problem is the weight that coolant (and related equipment) will add...not to mention that you're going to have to circulate that liquid a whole lot (pumps will add weight as well). I never really cared much about the weight of a system until I bought an aluminum case (just for the hell of it) and I found that it's nice to have a system that I can haul around with ease.
Sure, you can configure compilers as narrowly as you like, but in most cases, compliation will be targeted at the lowest common denominator.
If your compiling for yourself, you have the luxury of building for your own CPU. This isn't the case here.
Why do you think Linux binary rpm's, for years, were compiled for 386 chips. It's only recently that some (all?) distributions have started distributing 586 based rpms.
Sounds like many people are forgetting -- this is what a lot of people do (in part) with a makefile. Identify the architecture and pass flags to the compiler to optimize for said architecture. Sure, it has to be tested -- but it's not like Java code doesn't need to be tested on all platforms it's being used on.
I'm actually surprised it took NASA this long to adapt something that has been in use publicly for many years. It used to be that technology was developed by NASA and then the public sector adopted it.
This does a little more than the Holters. It records BP as well as blood gas. The blood pressure test is the kicker for me. I have absolutely no idea how it records BP without a cuff, but is one of the more telling vital signs.
I also assume that since it's being compared to a "black box", it can stand up to significantly more abuse than the Holter devices.
What's the first thing do you do with a subwolfer that size? Why play the brown noise (that certain frequency that causes someone to lose bowel control and crap their pants) of course.
LOL. That was the first thing I thought when I saw this. Great minds think alike...either that, or like me, you still think that potty humor is funny as hell.
Try making a table in OO.o and then displaying it in Word some time.
I just created a table in OO.o 1.1 and Office XP. They looked the same. They printed the same. I tried sizing the table differently -- no change. What version(s) are you using?
I'm actually legitimately curious about OO.o issues, I'm trying to replace the stupidly expensive MS Office with OO in some of our offices (for people who don't need all of Office's functionality).
Sorry -- I forgot my disclaimer: I've never worked on an OSS project...only internal and commercial projects. I only know what to expect on an ideal level. I'm aware that things are handled differently in OSS projects...I just don't know much about the specifics.
I can imagine similar sorts of things for a word-processor. Now, I'll usually just delete these after a few months have gone by without any updates to the report, but the OO developers might not believe in doing that sort of thing.
When bugs like this linger for years, it tends to reflect on the quality of the project management. It's by no means a de-facto indicator of product quality -- but it's indicative of sloppiness on one level. A BS bug is a BS bug -- if you have a proper QA team, you can turn it back to them asking for more detail. However, in a publicly accessible bug DB, you don't get to do that. Ideally, there needs to be someone grouping similar bugs together, or weeding out the ones impossible to resolve given the data...you know...managing what comes in.
not just the sender of the spam but those who benefit from it targeted.
It's about freaking time. If cigarette companies are responsible for advertising practices by an agent of the company, why shouldn't this apply to Spam?
So...when can we expect something like this to trickle down to the home of the DEA^H^H^Hfree?
I believe that Costco sells Dells now...here's their computers & peripherals page. There are a few of these stores in the NYC area. Go to their site and find a retailer closest to you. It's far easier than doing it mail-order (with your specific case in mind). You'll also (unfortunately) need to get a membership there which will cost you about $75 -- unless you've got a friend in the area with a membership or are really crafty.
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Yah, I agree with you on that one -- however this isn't like music and movies, where more often than not, people do steal these.
This is a generic argument, but it is nevertheless valid: I'll occasionally warez a game when a demo is not available. If I'm actually going to play it, I'll buy it. If not, I'll erase it. I hvae no problem with paying $40 for something that's going to provide 40 hours of entertainment. To get that in a movie theater, I'd have to pay $200
Enforcing a law like this with FBI raids and then calling warez groups "syndicates" is a bit overkill, no? That's like having the swat team drop from a helicopter to bust jaywalkers. Sure, they're breaking the law -- but come on. Where do you draw the line on how your taxpayer dollars are spent? Next, Ashcroft will bring back the decency laws and raid magazines and pornsites. Oh wait, he already is trying to bring on the old decency laws.
Woah, there -- back up a sec. There's nothing wrong with P2P use in and of itself. I'll say it again (just for effect): There's nothing wrong with P2P use in and of itself. Unless you're a government like the Chinese government who is afraid of giving people a voice, you have to understand that P2P is an incredible tool that can make everyone their own publisher. It can make everyone their own record label, and everyone their own private movie studio. Just because people are (widely) using P2P for piracy doesn't mean that it's automatically a horrible thing. It's a great way to distribute content for a small amount of resources.
University bandwidth? Are you kidding? You think that every chunk of bandwidth that doesn't go to P2P goes to educational use? That's not right -- I went to college within the last 10 years, and I know what we used the bandwidth for: Porn, games, music, websurfing, screwing around. Sure there was some research, but if you think that the majority of that bandwidth is used for research, you're kidding yourself.
This statement is just plain wrong. Check out Freenet. This is a network which anonymizes content creators and allows people to share with confidence. If you don't want to spend alot of time researching it, here's a basic summary. It's partially intended to be a tool to get around folks like the Chinese government (who are afraid of giving people a voice) by encrypting the data and distributing the content in a way that's anonymous.
Yes, let's expose the dirty secret of congressional whoring. Wait...it's been going on for centuries. Nobody is doing anything about it -- why? Because that's how it works. That's how it's always worked here, and it will continue to. Our economy is an important thing, and our government wants to create a climate where companies (you know, businesses -- AKA corporations [why is that a bad word now?]) can make a buck. This way we all get to have an incredibly high standard of living. That stuff doesn't just happen because we're all happy free Americans.
Is the latest RIAA/DoJ/FBI action the right thing? Probably not...although the details of it are totally scant. But come on -- the real crime? There is so much other horrible crap going on in this world (even in this country). The way our political system works is not a real crime.
Hey...be nice.
Dell sells some cheapie dual/redundant controllers for well under $10K -- I know that they're available in their tower servers for sure.
Great -- their education has succeeded. Now they can stop going after file sharers...right?
While what the bible "says" is interesting, in this context, it's more important how it's widely interpreted however. What the bible "says" is hardly relevant anyway, because it's a translation of a translation (unless you speak Aramaic as well as other really old languages). Our current bible is already an interpretation (because you can't translate without interpreting, especially when it's a document written thousands of years ago -- there are cultural differences, etc.).
I see where you're coming from, but what's important to me (in a cultural discussion, like this one) is how the text is applied and interpreted across relegions and sects. To go back to Judiasm, the Old Testament may say one thing, but a Rabbi may say one thing, the Torah may say another, and the Talmud may say another. Maybe I used a bad example because Judiasm is a little different in that regard -- it seems less organized than most sects of Christianity -- Judiasm tends to stress the core beliefs and leave alot for the congregation and the individual to decide on.
Does that mean that it's Windows fault when the nice man at the store said that a Sparc (or insert your favorite architecture here) would would work just fine?
Yes, they are mentioned in the old testament, but ask any Rabbi about an afterlife (or ressurection). You'll likely get a different answer depending on the Rabbi, but I've pretty consistently been asked the same question back "what do you think?".
No, it's not that far out -- and Nazism was far different from simply just latching onto a different part of the Jewish ideal. Nazim was a combination of an imperialistic effort and a hatred of anything other than "pure" German. The difference should be clear. In order for one to be "satanic", one has to believe in the Christian concepts of God, Satan, Heaven and Hell. It actively embraces the core beliefs. However, it is also a rejection of the traditional worship of God and the Christian sense of "good". To go back to your abstraction; wthout Judiasm, Nazism would have still existed...they'd have just found someone else to persecute (Gypsies, Homosexuals, Blacks, etc) along with the various other Nazi ideals.
I don't know enough about Islam to know if there are any parallels between that and Satanism. However, the parallels between Satanism and Judiasm are virtually nonexistant, since there really is no formal concept of Heaven, Hell, or Satan. The thing to remember here is (AFAIK) Satan is a Christian construct -- Satanism is a product of Christianity...for one to practice Satansim, one must accept many of the core Christian beliefs.
Still vague nonsense?
I know that your point has nothing to do with this, but I just wanted to bring up that Satanism is still a Chritsian construct. Whenever bringing up Satanism a context like this, it's important to remember that it's both an embrace and a rejection of the Christian faith.
I think that I actually did read it, and it just went in one ear and out the other. That's what I get for reading/posting while one the phone. Great comic though. I don't understand though -- is it suggesting that a war on terror can't be won? But the Bush administration promised that our suspension of civil liberties would be temporary -- until the war on terror was won! Boy, do I feel ripped off. ;)
There is nothing wrong with the MPAA not wanting people to film movies. However, I believe that there is something wrong with a lobbying group like the MPAA taking an existing law and tacking on additional penalties because the crime involves a computer (and worse, our congress approving such a measure). It's just wrong. Were the penalties not sufficient before? What really makes the crime any different now to justify such a steep penalty? Does one get a year in prison for stealing the film reel -- what about shoplifting a DVD from Blockbuster? I doubt it -- those sound more like misdemeanor petty larceny than a year-in-jail-felony-type-crime. Do you see where the discrepancy is now?
As far as the war on drugs message goes -- I agree with you, it was totally out of left field. However, I didn't detect any sarcasm in the posting and don't agree with your analysis. I couldn't believe that I saw the word "success" appearing in a sentence with "war on drugs" without some kind of counterindicating word. Whoever wrote that musta been pretty high on something...I fail to see how the war on drugs has succeeded in any of its stated objectives.
Why not just seal up the mobo itself? There's no reason to totally hermetically seal the whole case. You could even use it to seal around the hot parts of the system -- power supply, CPU, memory, graphics card, northbridge, etc...leaving the physical drive media alone.
I'd say that the biggest problem is the weight that coolant (and related equipment) will add...not to mention that you're going to have to circulate that liquid a whole lot (pumps will add weight as well). I never really cared much about the weight of a system until I bought an aluminum case (just for the hell of it) and I found that it's nice to have a system that I can haul around with ease.
Sounds like many people are forgetting -- this is what a lot of people do (in part) with a makefile. Identify the architecture and pass flags to the compiler to optimize for said architecture. Sure, it has to be tested -- but it's not like Java code doesn't need to be tested on all platforms it's being used on.
This does a little more than the Holters. It records BP as well as blood gas. The blood pressure test is the kicker for me. I have absolutely no idea how it records BP without a cuff, but is one of the more telling vital signs.
I also assume that since it's being compared to a "black box", it can stand up to significantly more abuse than the Holter devices.
Yah, I found the same thing:
LOL. That was the first thing I thought when I saw this. Great minds think alike...either that, or like me, you still think that potty humor is funny as hell.
Not a fair comparison against DSL...they multiplexed the pigeons. This is just more anti-DSL FUD
;P
Who needs the book when you've got a persuadertron?
I just created a table in OO.o 1.1 and Office XP. They looked the same. They printed the same. I tried sizing the table differently -- no change. What version(s) are you using?
I'm actually legitimately curious about OO.o issues, I'm trying to replace the stupidly expensive MS Office with OO in some of our offices (for people who don't need all of Office's functionality).
Sorry -- I forgot my disclaimer: I've never worked on an OSS project...only internal and commercial projects. I only know what to expect on an ideal level. I'm aware that things are handled differently in OSS projects...I just don't know much about the specifics.
When bugs like this linger for years, it tends to reflect on the quality of the project management. It's by no means a de-facto indicator of product quality -- but it's indicative of sloppiness on one level. A BS bug is a BS bug -- if you have a proper QA team, you can turn it back to them asking for more detail. However, in a publicly accessible bug DB, you don't get to do that. Ideally, there needs to be someone grouping similar bugs together, or weeding out the ones impossible to resolve given the data...you know...managing what comes in.
It's about freaking time. If cigarette companies are responsible for advertising practices by an agent of the company, why shouldn't this apply to Spam?
So...when can we expect something like this to trickle down to the home of the DEA^H^H^Hfree?
I believe that Costco sells Dells now...here's their computers & peripherals page. There are a few of these stores in the NYC area. Go to their site and find a retailer closest to you. It's far easier than doing it mail-order (with your specific case in mind). You'll also (unfortunately) need to get a membership there which will cost you about $75 -- unless you've got a friend in the area with a membership or are really crafty.