1) Buy/borrow a 2 Kilowatt gas generator. Start it up, and run it for 1 hour with no load. Note how much gasoline it burns. This represents the energy used to overcome internal friction. Then run it for 1 hour with a 1,500 watt blow-dryer running continuously. Note how much gasoline it burns. You'll be surprised at the difference in fuel consumption!
2) Get a Gb switching hub, 2 computers, and an amp-meter. Plug the computers into the wall, plug the switch into the amp meter. Note the power usage of the switch with no load. Then set up a load where you are using 1 Mbps of traffic between the two computers, and note the Amp load. Then try 10 Mbsp, 100 Mbps, and 1000 Mbps. You'll notice that the amperage (for most switching hubs) climbs very little as you do so, and that the total power consumption is insignificant.
3) Buy ten 2 KW gas generators and sell power in your neighborhood. Run them for an hour with customers drawing power. Note how all your customers have power. Now start selling power to twice as many people in your neighborhood. Note how many customers were without power, due to insufficient supply. Buy ten more generators, and note how all your customers are now powered.
Up until saturation, the networking equipment uses (virtually) the same amount of power as when idle, but over that, you need to buy more equipment, which increases power (and maintenance) costs per transferred byte.
I remember getting chewed out by a teacher because I had a 2% match on a 10 page paper. Things like "that is" "before that" ect. were interpreted as plagiarism because somebody on the face of the earth had written them before./blockquote>
It also seems quite ironic that they have a fair use right to the full work for the goal in enforcing that no one else can reuse even the smallest snippet.
Copyright covers what can be published. This site is about what teachers will give students a grade for. This site isn't about limiting what students can publish.
I typed this message with brain waves. I did this making waves that actuated the input mechanism. The input mechanism is a complex chemical-based detector which translates the waves into physical movements, which it then translates into electrical signals using crude switches. In the article, a device is described which uses a mechanism which is different in particulars, but gives the exact same result (though slower).
I hope he pulls through too. Because if he dies he will do so without being having accepted his gift of salvation through Jesus Christ. God is not going to ask Stephen Hawking what his GPA was, or how many department chairs he has held, or how many papers he has published. No, there is only one question that Mr. Hawking will be asked... Did you believe upon my Son for the forgiveness of your sins?
Lets see, who would I rather listen to - a self-righteous imbecile who apparently feels the need to post anonymously, despite being so sure of themselves, or a man who was bound to a wheelchair most of his life, can't speak without the help of a computer and despite being told he only had a couple of years to live, managed to do more in a few years than 99.99% of other human beings on the planet have ever accomplished in their entire lives?
I'd rather listen to the anonymous coward whose joke post went way over your negative head. This is Slashdot, where half the posts are meant to be funny and be laughed at.
Eh? It wasn't an analogy. I really meant having a hover camera follow his car around (and I'm quite sure there will be such a thing in a few decades, given the direction things are going).
His car is private property. Now if you have a little hover camera that follows his car everywhere, that's just fine, since he shouldn't expect anything he does in public to not be logged and cross-referenced extensively. If he doesn't want that, he should avoid doing things in public.
Yes, I believe Google should stop helping people find copyrighted content online. I think they actually did this for a few minutes several Sundays ago, when all searches were failing.
The GPL is not about preserving copyright. The GPL is about using copyright to "undo" copyright inside the Free software world. If copyright disappeared tomorrow, it would not be a problem for Free software, since people could continue to use it and modify it as they do now.
The BSD-style license is what you're thinking of above. A copyrighted work licensed under it can be used mostly as a public-domain work can. GPL is different; without copyright, it wouldn't be able to require that derivitive works have their source code distributed with them, so in a copyrightless world, everything could be closed-source (and before any license zealots jump on this, I'm not saying it would be good or bad, just noting what the effect would be).
If ABC can't control the merchandising of the show Lost -- like, if they were to produce it, and someone downloaded it and started selling DVD's of it at Target -- ABC wouldn't produce TV shows, and I happen to like Lost, thank you very much.
OK, so the CURRENT means of making that (and other) TV shows depends on the CURRENT copyright situation. Suddenly ending copyright might upset the CURRENT scheme of things, but do you really think that no TV shows would ever be made again? Hmmm, you might actually be right, seeing as there were no books or music written before copyright began.
I'm sorry. Where do we have a right to copy others' work? Although I download a lot of stuff, I don't try to delude myself into thinking what I'm doing is acceptable. If I had spent 2-3 years creating a novel, I certainly don't want somebody taking my labor without pay... it can go into the public domain after I'm dead, but not before.
I'm sorry. Where do we have a right to prevent others from copying our ideas? Although I come up with lots of ideas, I don't try to delude myself into thinking what I'm doing is mine. If I had spent 2-3 years creating a novel, I certainly don't think I created it without massive cultural input that I got for free... it can go into the public domain after a reasonable period (10 years or so), possibly before.
Most Americans I know are so lazy they'll circle the parking lot for minutes looking for a place in the first few rows instead of (*gasp*) walk from the far side, or even the middle of the lot.
The rare times I'm driving, because I'm lazy, I'll park farther away from the entrance since it means I don't have to circle around waiting for a close space. It usually also means I don't even have to park next to any vehicles, so there's less chance of collision and scratches from doors. When leaving, I don't have to avoid as many people and vehicle traffic.
Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker held that "a ratio of no more than one-to-one between compensatory and punitive damages is generally appropriate in maritime cases". In other words, punitive damages cannot exceed compensatory damages. If this were applied to copyright infringement[...]
Copyright infringement? This clearly applies to all acts of piracy, both on and off sea!
Your solution only works with "kids in tree-house" strength encryption. With any of the modern and well-regarded encryption algorithm, the position *does* effect the output.
Yes, obviously. If position couldn't affect the encoding, then all you can use is a substitution cipher, because the anything else depends on state, of which there is none. That, along with rot-13, were my hints that I wasn't being serious.
This is modded insightful on slashdot? Even for those not versed in crypto, I'd have hoped that "rot13 twice" was enough of a meme to make people think twice any time it's mentioned . ..
Nono, it doesn't apply rot-13 TWICE, just once. It's the COMBINATION of that and XOR that makes it so powerful. I XOR with the byte value 0x00, but you can choose any of the 256 available values. Just don't tell anyone which one you use. It'd take them forever to try all 256! (and I too sincerely hope that everyone replying to this in a serious tone is just playing along with the joke)
Many people abuse the flexible Costco return policy. Some of these people get their memberships revoked. At no time does Costco come in and say that they can no longer use items they've already bought.
They aren't saying he can't use his Kindle; in fact, he is free to use it precisely as kindling if he desires. It's just that their servers won't give it the time of day when it phones home, or however it verifies that the user is still authorized to read books... well on the Kindle at least.
The problem is, if the text is REALLY encrypted, then there shouldn't be enough information to do this - the encrypting of the original text should make it impossible to even match against it.
NOT TRUE! I use a combination of XOR and rot-13 encryption and I'm able to do text searches just fine. The trick is to encrypt the search string, then it'll work perfectly. This is because the encryption doesn't depend on the position within the text, but that shouldn't hurt security too much.
As a Ferengi, I'm deeply offended that you would use my member in such a way. How would YOU like to put your peni..oh, this will only be used on... humAn ears. Well, it seems we are on the winning side this time!
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3) Buy ten 2 KW gas generators and sell power in your neighborhood. Run them for an hour with customers drawing power. Note how all your customers have power. Now start selling power to twice as many people in your neighborhood. Note how many customers were without power, due to insufficient supply. Buy ten more generators, and note how all your customers are now powered.
Up until saturation, the networking equipment uses (virtually) the same amount of power as when idle, but over that, you need to buy more equipment, which increases power (and maintenance) costs per transferred byte.
Copyright covers what can be published. This site is about what teachers will give students a grade for. This site isn't about limiting what students can publish.
I typed this message with brain waves. I did this making waves that actuated the input mechanism. The input mechanism is a complex chemical-based detector which translates the waves into physical movements, which it then translates into electrical signals using crude switches. In the article, a device is described which uses a mechanism which is different in particulars, but gives the exact same result (though slower).
It turns out the real reason for the 3-application limit is that there they could only spare two bits of memory for the application count.
I'd rather listen to the anonymous coward whose joke post went way over your negative head. This is Slashdot, where half the posts are meant to be funny and be laughed at.
We should just put a (P) after their name, meaning "politician". That's all the information you need to know.
Perhaps like a butterfly flapping its wings?
Haha, same here; my first glance at the headline left me thinking it was some joke "uber secret 127.0.0.1 network". The I2P looks like 127...
Eh? It wasn't an analogy. I really meant having a hover camera follow his car around (and I'm quite sure there will be such a thing in a few decades, given the direction things are going).
Hmmm, what about tubes outside my control?
His car is private property. Now if you have a little hover camera that follows his car everywhere, that's just fine, since he shouldn't expect anything he does in public to not be logged and cross-referenced extensively. If he doesn't want that, he should avoid doing things in public.
Interesting points, but there are those lone-programmer types who never release their source code, just executables (often without charging anything).
Yes, I believe Google should stop helping people find copyrighted content online. I think they actually did this for a few minutes several Sundays ago, when all searches were failing.
The BSD-style license is what you're thinking of above. A copyrighted work licensed under it can be used mostly as a public-domain work can. GPL is different; without copyright, it wouldn't be able to require that derivitive works have their source code distributed with them, so in a copyrightless world, everything could be closed-source (and before any license zealots jump on this, I'm not saying it would be good or bad, just noting what the effect would be).
OK, so the CURRENT means of making that (and other) TV shows depends on the CURRENT copyright situation. Suddenly ending copyright might upset the CURRENT scheme of things, but do you really think that no TV shows would ever be made again? Hmmm, you might actually be right, seeing as there were no books or music written before copyright began.
I'm sorry. Where do we have a right to prevent others from copying our ideas? Although I come up with lots of ideas, I don't try to delude myself into thinking what I'm doing is mine. If I had spent 2-3 years creating a novel, I certainly don't think I created it without massive cultural input that I got for free... it can go into the public domain after a reasonable period (10 years or so), possibly before.
The rare times I'm driving, because I'm lazy, I'll park farther away from the entrance since it means I don't have to circle around waiting for a close space. It usually also means I don't even have to park next to any vehicles, so there's less chance of collision and scratches from doors. When leaving, I don't have to avoid as many people and vehicle traffic.
Copyright infringement? This clearly applies to all acts of piracy, both on and off sea!
Yes, obviously. If position couldn't affect the encoding, then all you can use is a substitution cipher, because the anything else depends on state, of which there is none. That, along with rot-13, were my hints that I wasn't being serious.
Nono, it doesn't apply rot-13 TWICE, just once. It's the COMBINATION of that and XOR that makes it so powerful. I XOR with the byte value 0x00, but you can choose any of the 256 available values. Just don't tell anyone which one you use. It'd take them forever to try all 256! (and I too sincerely hope that everyone replying to this in a serious tone is just playing along with the joke)
They aren't saying he can't use his Kindle; in fact, he is free to use it precisely as kindling if he desires. It's just that their servers won't give it the time of day when it phones home, or however it verifies that the user is still authorized to read books... well on the Kindle at least.
What does the "i" stand for, you ask? Why YOU of course! Devices with this prefix put your and your convenience first.
NOT TRUE! I use a combination of XOR and rot-13 encryption and I'm able to do text searches just fine. The trick is to encrypt the search string, then it'll work perfectly. This is because the encryption doesn't depend on the position within the text, but that shouldn't hurt security too much.
As a Ferengi, I'm deeply offended that you would use my member in such a way. How would YOU like to put your peni..oh, this will only be used on... humAn ears. Well, it seems we are on the winning side this time!