And whenever you think of Google, do you think of a 1 followed by 100 zeroes? I learned that a googol is that number, and pronounced the same (only recently noticed they were spelled differently), yet I only think of the search engine (etc) when I think of Google.
Pay attention, and just notice how many things are loaded with greek prefixes/suffixes, yet you didn't notice them before because it was just a name, not a word that needed analyzed.
Keep in mind that AMD has a similar line of numbers, they just call it K: K6 (K6-2, K6-3; for variations of their 686) K7 (Athlon, Athlon XP) K8 (Athlon64)
And for anyone out there that might put Celeron and Duron in the list, they are relative lines- Celeron goes as far back as Pentium 2, and up to Pentium 4. They are nothing more than scaled-back, budget versions of their major line.
MPAA also forgets they are in competition with piracy. I damn near swore off all pressed DVDs because of P-UOPs. I bought the fucking thing. I paid for its content. If I'm going to be forced to see ads *FOREVER*, then make the damn advertiser pay. Similarly, I don't need to be forced to watch another damn FBI warning. Or prevented from pausing on a good screen (e.g. Fake FBI warning on Fight Club). Or anything else I want to do.
In contrast, 0 pirated movies (should) have P-UOPs, and those few that do are simple to fix. I'd rather spend money on a pirated version than get the legit version free.
50 friends is no different than 2 friends, right? While one seems to be a casual get-together and the other's more of a party, still all the same, unless there's an actual cut-off point. 10? 25? When does it go from private viewing to public performance?
Not theft, but receiving stolen property. That's why pawn shops have to take a lot of precautions to make sure they only buy from the actual owner, and that they can track down the guy if it comes up stolen.
No, not ALL, at least not usually... However, most of it does typically go towards the MPAA (I remember there was something about Star Wars and early ticket sales being 0% profit for theaters), while the concessions are pure profit. I suspect this makes it easier for the theater to claim the profits as its own, being paid for their own services, rather than for the content being provided.
Something I can't figure out, if I went to a CD store and physically stole 10 CDs (valued at ~$150), and was caught, I would be charged with petty theft, and given a modest fine (probably around $1000), maybe some LIGHT jail time (3-10 days), and/or community service. (Unless I missed a few new laws)
Now, if I were to get caught illegally downloading those exact 10 CDs (in a lossy format), I could be held to...(quick math here)... 15 songs * 10 CDs * $250,000 per song... $37.5 Million.
Apparently, it is 37,500x as bad to leave the original owner with a copy.
Why can't they let people walk in without paying? (Because everyone would walk in without paying.)
What if only a small minority of people were capable of doing so, e.g. climbing through the heating ducts? Then a significant minority could and did... Then a majority...
RIAA/MPAA believe they can stop every dedicated pirate, and that every pirated copy equals a sale they would've had otherwise (or even multiple sales, since they were a big fan of the movie, or burned it at high speeds). This is obviously wrong, but what about every Joe 6-pack that can use KaZaA to get the latest album from their favorite band? Or can figure out how to use BT and suprnova to get the latest movie while it's still in theaters? These are the people that most likely WOULD buy it, if they couldn't pirate it.
If it's limited to the elite few, it's not cost-effective. When it becomes something of the masses, it becomes an issue. NNTP has about 1.5TB of material passing over it every day. Much of this is unique (while KaZaA's 43PB right now) is redundent, yet there is no major campaign. This is simply because you can't teach Harry Homeowner how to access NNTP and download movies free and easy. Therefore, it's not cost-effective, and certainly less so than attacking Napster/KaZaA/Bit Torrent/Whatever's new tomorrow.
uhh, I seem to remember there being an option during the Fedora Core 2 install where it asked about firewall (and basically said I probably needed it, enabled by default). Being being behind NAT on such a low-end box, it wasn't really worth it, so I couldn't tell you how well it works.
Yes, some versions of Windows (SP2 only) do have firewalls enabled by default. All the rest have to get a third party firewall like ZoneAlarm. ZA itself probably wouldn't have helped with this worm, since ZA would pop up a box asking if the program (MySQL) should be allowed to run as server. If the admin is going to allow blank passwords, they're probably not going to think twice about allowing it to run as server.
What if they've heard all the bad press lately about IE, or the good press about FF? Sounds like a good reason to get some people to try it, and a few stick- not much has changed, but now they can find out how to work even better (but yeah, tabbed browsing and extensions are at the top of that list)
Not quite. Intel already has fab plants all over the world. They are still subject to U.S. patents, if for nothing else because they still have business presence here. Now, if Intel moved all operations overseas, it would make things more complicated, but it could lead to a situation of Intel chips being illegal in the U.S. (and hence, HP, etc are selling illegal products). That's why MS complied with the EC in their antitrust case (not sure about how strong their actual business presence is in Europe)- If they refused to comply, they lose an entire market- Just like when Windows 95 was outlawed somewhere around India (and why newer versions of Windows don't have shading over different world regions- the country has a law regarding a disputed region, and how it must be referred to)
umm, Dell is the one solidly in bed with Intel. Dell doesn't even OFFER a PC with anything except an Intel CPU, and I don't think it's available in the bigger systems either. This suggests that they are thoroughly in bed with Intel, hence Dell has a few different clauses in their contract with Intel (i.e. indemnity).
However, I think the settlement with Intel should've covered all violations, past and future. Otherwise, any of the many patents that are used in a CPU could result in a patent infringement suit, unless the chipmaker (Intel/AMD/etc) signed a license contract that included passing the license on to the consumers (from HP all the way down to grandma).
Get some better fans, then. I've been running grid.org for about 2.5 years on several computers 24/7, and none of the fans throttled, and I've only had to replace 2 case fans out of at least 12 (and those 2 probably were unrelated), and never a CPU fan. Ambient temperature is almost room temp.
Fans should not die every 4 months. If they are, either the fans are crap or something's going wrong.
Your math on power consumption is accurate, tho (AMD's aren't quite 70W, and the new 90nm AMD's are almost negligible)
Lexus is simply Toyota's upper line. The SC 400/430/470 is basically a Supra, the IS300 is a performance car, etc. So yeah, they make a few stick shifts.
Have you ever heard a cop talk about other cops? The F.O.P. (Fraternal Order of Police) is close enough to a cult that it's disturbing. I suspect that, presented with even such a chilling scene as the parent, most cops would think twice about squealing on their brothers. Some would actually remain silent.
Not sure exactly what the cutoff point is, or what the the throttled speed is, but I've heard many complaints about this. Mainly because those that complain about this will promptly get their account terminated by Jonah (CEO of Giganews, and a bit of a dick)
I kinda doubt that at this point, RoadRunner Ohio actually has one of the best ISP NNTP servers around (~3 days retention, and nearly as complete as Easynews). The Time Warner cable division has much stronger ties to the RIAA/MPAA than the AOL division ever had.
I myself have downloaded several files that probably were poisoned, the mistakes were just too obvious to be accidental (e.g. neglecting to include *ANY* sound on a DVD). These are rare, but do exist.
Ever tried explaining to a newbie what IE and Netscape are, and how they're different? People are lazy, but to a greater extent, people are stupid. The fact that the icon on the desktop said "The Internet" was all they knew. They made no choice, Microsoft made it for them.
The fact that the Mozilla suite is gaining marketshare is actually quite surprising.
Not quite- IE2 was included on Win95 original. AFAIK, same for 95A. IE3 was bundled with 95B (with that damn boot logo), and probably the same for 95C.
I remember using IE2. Its only real functionality was to go online and get IE3.
This may not be a problem of ALSA, but I'm currently trying to learn Linux (dedicated box and all), with Fedora Core 2 and a Mad Dog 4.1 sound card. tested it, and it worked fine. At some point I broke ALSA without actually touching it directly (probably when trying to install mplayer). All diagnostics say no problem, but no sound. Tested since with Knoppix (and ALSA) and it works right.
This might not be a problem of ALSA, but it is indeed a problem related to it. Easy enough to do by accident, and too hard for many people to resolve.
I don't think so, Microsoft was already growing into a monopoly during the Reagan and Bush Sr. years. Granted, it wasn't complete until Clinton was in office, but they DID do something- they recognized a monopoly and filed an antitrust suit. Not as good as preventing it, but it was a corrective step (and a good one, considering how ill-informed most politicians are about technology, even now)
Arguing party politics won't accomplish anything, be specific- it was the Attorney General Ashcroft that dropped the case. Blaming it on all Democrats or Republicans only causes people to stop listening or cry, "Amen!" without changing a single thought.
More to the point, I don't see the standard Embrace, Extend, Eliminate line here- Unless it was a gradual movement towards making it more difficult (and eventually impossible) while providing some sort of perceived benefit to the consumer, it would be way too easy to leverage another Antitrust case against them- and those aren't cheap (hell, the one the US pussied out on cost MS quite a chunk of change in lawyer fees). All for a small group of people that probably will refuse to buy a legit license anyway (and will find a way around it).
Besides, Europe just nailed MS over WMP- the US isn't the only country that can do something about monopolistic behavior.
I dunno, there are a few things that started as tinfoil hat paranoia on these very forums, and eventually gained major press coverage. The most recent would be the whole electronic voting issue and paper trails.
Unfortunately, when the spotlight was on it, there was nothing to see, so most people forgot it. But the issue did go mainstream eventually (after spreading well beyond the walls of slashdot).
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And whenever you think of Google, do you think of a 1 followed by 100 zeroes? I learned that a googol is that number, and pronounced the same (only recently noticed they were spelled differently), yet I only think of the search engine (etc) when I think of Google.
Pay attention, and just notice how many things are loaded with greek prefixes/suffixes, yet you didn't notice them before because it was just a name, not a word that needed analyzed.
Keep in mind that AMD has a similar line of numbers, they just call it K:
K6 (K6-2, K6-3; for variations of their 686)
K7 (Athlon, Athlon XP)
K8 (Athlon64)
And for anyone out there that might put Celeron and Duron in the list, they are relative lines- Celeron goes as far back as Pentium 2, and up to Pentium 4. They are nothing more than scaled-back, budget versions of their major line.
MPAA also forgets they are in competition with piracy. I damn near swore off all pressed DVDs because of P-UOPs. I bought the fucking thing. I paid for its content. If I'm going to be forced to see ads *FOREVER*, then make the damn advertiser pay. Similarly, I don't need to be forced to watch another damn FBI warning. Or prevented from pausing on a good screen (e.g. Fake FBI warning on Fight Club). Or anything else I want to do.
In contrast, 0 pirated movies (should) have P-UOPs, and those few that do are simple to fix. I'd rather spend money on a pirated version than get the legit version free.
50 friends is no different than 2 friends, right?
While one seems to be a casual get-together and the other's more of a party, still all the same, unless there's an actual cut-off point. 10? 25? When does it go from private viewing to public performance?
Now, 2 or 50 strangers (paying or not)....
Not theft, but receiving stolen property.
That's why pawn shops have to take a lot of precautions to make sure they only buy from the actual owner, and that they can track down the guy if it comes up stolen.
No, not ALL, at least not usually...
However, most of it does typically go towards the MPAA (I remember there was something about Star Wars and early ticket sales being 0% profit for theaters), while the concessions are pure profit. I suspect this makes it easier for the theater to claim the profits as its own, being paid for their own services, rather than for the content being provided.
Something I can't figure out, if I went to a CD store and physically stole 10 CDs (valued at ~$150), and was caught, I would be charged with petty theft, and given a modest fine (probably around $1000), maybe some LIGHT jail time (3-10 days), and/or community service. (Unless I missed a few new laws)
Now, if I were to get caught illegally downloading those exact 10 CDs (in a lossy format), I could be held to...(quick math here)...
15 songs * 10 CDs * $250,000 per song...
$37.5 Million.
Apparently, it is 37,500x as bad to leave the original owner with a copy.
Follow the logic a bit further.
Why can't they let people walk in without paying?
(Because everyone would walk in without paying.)
What if only a small minority of people were capable of doing so, e.g. climbing through the heating ducts?
Then a significant minority could and did...
Then a majority...
RIAA/MPAA believe they can stop every dedicated pirate, and that every pirated copy equals a sale they would've had otherwise (or even multiple sales, since they were a big fan of the movie, or burned it at high speeds). This is obviously wrong, but what about every Joe 6-pack that can use KaZaA to get the latest album from their favorite band? Or can figure out how to use BT and suprnova to get the latest movie while it's still in theaters? These are the people that most likely WOULD buy it, if they couldn't pirate it.
If it's limited to the elite few, it's not cost-effective. When it becomes something of the masses, it becomes an issue. NNTP has about 1.5TB of material passing over it every day. Much of this is unique (while KaZaA's 43PB right now) is redundent, yet there is no major campaign. This is simply because you can't teach Harry Homeowner how to access NNTP and download movies free and easy. Therefore, it's not cost-effective, and certainly less so than attacking Napster/KaZaA/Bit Torrent/Whatever's new tomorrow.
uhh, I seem to remember there being an option during the Fedora Core 2 install where it asked about firewall (and basically said I probably needed it, enabled by default). Being being behind NAT on such a low-end box, it wasn't really worth it, so I couldn't tell you how well it works.
Yes, some versions of Windows (SP2 only) do have firewalls enabled by default. All the rest have to get a third party firewall like ZoneAlarm. ZA itself probably wouldn't have helped with this worm, since ZA would pop up a box asking if the program (MySQL) should be allowed to run as server. If the admin is going to allow blank passwords, they're probably not going to think twice about allowing it to run as server.
I find that prefbar works well for that in the full Mozilla.
http://prefbar.mozdev.org/
What if they've heard all the bad press lately about IE, or the good press about FF? Sounds like a good reason to get some people to try it, and a few stick- not much has changed, but now they can find out how to work even better (but yeah, tabbed browsing and extensions are at the top of that list)
Not quite. Intel already has fab plants all over the world. They are still subject to U.S. patents, if for nothing else because they still have business presence here. Now, if Intel moved all operations overseas, it would make things more complicated, but it could lead to a situation of Intel chips being illegal in the U.S. (and hence, HP, etc are selling illegal products).
That's why MS complied with the EC in their antitrust case (not sure about how strong their actual business presence is in Europe)- If they refused to comply, they lose an entire market- Just like when Windows 95 was outlawed somewhere around India (and why newer versions of Windows don't have shading over different world regions- the country has a law regarding a disputed region, and how it must be referred to)
umm, Dell is the one solidly in bed with Intel. Dell doesn't even OFFER a PC with anything except an Intel CPU, and I don't think it's available in the bigger systems either. This suggests that they are thoroughly in bed with Intel, hence Dell has a few different clauses in their contract with Intel (i.e. indemnity).
However, I think the settlement with Intel should've covered all violations, past and future. Otherwise, any of the many patents that are used in a CPU could result in a patent infringement suit, unless the chipmaker (Intel/AMD/etc) signed a license contract that included passing the license on to the consumers (from HP all the way down to grandma).
Get some better fans, then. I've been running grid.org for about 2.5 years on several computers 24/7, and none of the fans throttled, and I've only had to replace 2 case fans out of at least 12 (and those 2 probably were unrelated), and never a CPU fan. Ambient temperature is almost room temp.
Fans should not die every 4 months. If they are, either the fans are crap or something's going wrong.
Your math on power consumption is accurate, tho (AMD's aren't quite 70W, and the new 90nm AMD's are almost negligible)
Lexus is simply Toyota's upper line. The SC 400/430/470 is basically a Supra, the IS300 is a performance car, etc. So yeah, they make a few stick shifts.
Have you ever heard a cop talk about other cops? The F.O.P. (Fraternal Order of Police) is close enough to a cult that it's disturbing. I suspect that, presented with even such a chilling scene as the parent, most cops would think twice about squealing on their brothers. Some would actually remain silent.
Not sure exactly what the cutoff point is, or what the the throttled speed is, but I've heard many complaints about this. Mainly because those that complain about this will promptly get their account terminated by Jonah (CEO of Giganews, and a bit of a dick)
I kinda doubt that at this point, RoadRunner Ohio actually has one of the best ISP NNTP servers around (~3 days retention, and nearly as complete as Easynews). The Time Warner cable division has much stronger ties to the RIAA/MPAA than the AOL division ever had.
Now, if this drops off, then I'd be worried.
I myself have downloaded several files that probably were poisoned, the mistakes were just too obvious to be accidental (e.g. neglecting to include *ANY* sound on a DVD). These are rare, but do exist.
Ever tried explaining to a newbie what IE and Netscape are, and how they're different? People are lazy, but to a greater extent, people are stupid. The fact that the icon on the desktop said "The Internet" was all they knew. They made no choice, Microsoft made it for them.
The fact that the Mozilla suite is gaining marketshare is actually quite surprising.
Not quite- IE2 was included on Win95 original. AFAIK, same for 95A. IE3 was bundled with 95B (with that damn boot logo), and probably the same for 95C.
I remember using IE2. Its only real functionality was to go online and get IE3.
This may not be a problem of ALSA, but I'm currently trying to learn Linux (dedicated box and all), with Fedora Core 2 and a Mad Dog 4.1 sound card. tested it, and it worked fine.
At some point I broke ALSA without actually touching it directly (probably when trying to install mplayer). All diagnostics say no problem, but no sound. Tested since with Knoppix (and ALSA) and it works right.
This might not be a problem of ALSA, but it is indeed a problem related to it. Easy enough to do by accident, and too hard for many people to resolve.
I don't think so, Microsoft was already growing into a monopoly during the Reagan and Bush Sr. years. Granted, it wasn't complete until Clinton was in office, but they DID do something- they recognized a monopoly and filed an antitrust suit. Not as good as preventing it, but it was a corrective step (and a good one, considering how ill-informed most politicians are about technology, even now)
Arguing party politics won't accomplish anything, be specific- it was the Attorney General Ashcroft that dropped the case. Blaming it on all Democrats or Republicans only causes people to stop listening or cry, "Amen!" without changing a single thought.
More to the point, I don't see the standard Embrace, Extend, Eliminate line here- Unless it was a gradual movement towards making it more difficult (and eventually impossible) while providing some sort of perceived benefit to the consumer, it would be way too easy to leverage another Antitrust case against them- and those aren't cheap (hell, the one the US pussied out on cost MS quite a chunk of change in lawyer fees). All for a small group of people that probably will refuse to buy a legit license anyway (and will find a way around it).
Besides, Europe just nailed MS over WMP- the US isn't the only country that can do something about monopolistic behavior.
I dunno, there are a few things that started as tinfoil hat paranoia on these very forums, and eventually gained major press coverage. The most recent would be the whole electronic voting issue and paper trails.
Unfortunately, when the spotlight was on it, there was nothing to see, so most people forgot it. But the issue did go mainstream eventually (after spreading well beyond the walls of slashdot).