Before you flame me on my headline, I am talking about the.torrent files, not what can be downloaded from them.
I feel a.torrent file is just like a movie review. Both contain information about the movie, the only difference being that a computer reads the hashes and a human reads the review. This make be a bit of a loose analogy, but go with me here.
You can't figure out the whole movie just by reading one review, just like a computer can't figure out the file based on what hashes it recieves from the tracker.
But with the same information, you can make sure you are going to see the right movie by reading a review, just as a computer can make sure you are downloading the right file by comparing hashes.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think any defense will stand for making torrents illegal. If they declare them illegal, they will have to make movie reviews, and everything else that even describes a movie illegal.
We just had a bad infection of Nachi that hit about 500 of our Win2k computers, granted that doesn't add much to the already possibly skewed numbers, but it shows that they couldnt have counted every single successful attack against MS products. Heck with just blaster and friends' numbers added to that, I'm sure that the linux number would be at least half of the MS number.
Sure US copyright law allows one copy, that is well understood. But if you release it under the GPL, isnt that considered a different kind of copyright with the rules set forward under the license that every geek knows by heart?
For example: If you release it under the US copyright system, one copy is allowed, thats it, no exceptions. But if you release it under the GPL, the US copyright laws are null and void against this software and they go by the GPL laws which allows unlimited copies as long as its compliant with the GPL laws.
Your right about the electricity and royalties, but I'm pretty sure that its a FCC rule that you have to say your call letters and frequency every couple minutes to identify your station.
I completely agree with that except for the part about making it illegal to host spammers.
Now if they are knowingly hosting them, thats a different thing, but I know where I work, we had one try to start spamming people. When we got the notices that this was happening, we promptly deleted his account and put his name and address on the perma-ban list.
ISP's shouldn't be held liable unless they are purposely letting the spammer create headaches in the mailboxes of millions.
if it realistically simulates a government hellbent on passing the income tax, so the money coming in from the state gets smaller and smaller due to "needing to tighten the belt". Its getting rediculous here in TN.
I got into a discussion with a government prof where I go to college and we both came to the same conclusion.
Either a whole new government needs to be put in place with a revoultion, or we need to elect an entire whole new set or reps and congressmen. Without one of those happening, the government is gonna dig a hole so deep, its going to be illegal to own "TECH" (Relavance to a Sliders Episode)
I'm not pushing for any one type of government, we just need people in there that dont give a flying rats ass about major corporations giving them millions of dollars behind everyone's back. Also, Im not looking for the black g-men to come knocking at my door because I want a new government.
If you look hard enough, you will see that all the government cares about is the stuff that they get from major corporations that want them to draft this kind of stuff. They don't care about what effect laws have on them. They'll just stay in session all year long so that the constitution protects them from prosicution if the shit hits the fan.
They say the U.S. is the best place to live in the world. Well I'm starting to think different.
The only way that people can excape this law will be to move to another country. And if it happens it wouldnt suprise me if Canada saw a lot more of Americans asking for residency.
So write up your congressman and say:
"Hell no, don't vote for this.
A vote for this is a vote for total control by the government.
I dont want total control like the major corporations want and I'm the one that matters because you represent me.
And it doesnt matter how much they pay you to say how much you like it becuase if you vote yes... I'll vote no next election."
This seems a bit odd to me...
With the new filter, won't it limit legal music?
It seems that they want only approved songs on Napster now...
If they weasel their way through this one, it will block out a major port for artists who legally put their music on the net.
Thats not right... The school should have nothing to do with your doings off school property.
The school I go to is pretty good about that.
The only time that you would get in trouble for anything off school grounds is from the time you leave the gate until you get to your house/job.
Now there have been rednecks that go to the local gas station up the road and fight. That they get in trouble for. But if they went home and then went to the gas station, the cops would come.
So even though im not writing this in the school,
I can say that Central f***ing sucks and get away with it.
If you wanted to go through it, you should take that to court and let students have their freedoms that the government cant restrict outside schools.
It will be easyer to hack linux onto this.
If you remember... the Xbox runs on a right off the shelf Pentium.
Now, I don't know a lot about linux, but if you can put the kernel libs on a cd that the XBox can read..., it wouldn't require any special kernel hacking
Well, there is only one company that I know will now buy into M$'s bull: TechTV.
I've watched it for about half a year now and I don't think I've heard them refer to M$ as Microsoft once. No matter what they are talking about its always something like Microshaft, Moneysoft, etc...
Truly though, the only people who are gonna buy into this is all about of 10 people who are microsoft whores.
And anyways, shouldn't Windows be on Microsoft's threat list? I mean, my god, Win98, well 'nuff said there, we know the rest.
I work at Software Etc (which is the coolest job:)) and I noticed that the store is also taking reserves on the broadband adapter.
And if my store takes them, that means that nearly every store is now taking them.
So run to your nearest store and put that money down!
I feel that, while we should have a FCC to hand out licences for airwaves, but also allow other people to transmit as loud as they want as long as they dont interfere with the licensed stations. Then and only then they should be able to step in.
This seems a safe way for the government to actually govern something with out overpowering the little guys.
You know... i have two words for that movie: Bastard GM.
I'm just waiting for someone to turn the movie into a actual campaign, but they would have to be really pissed at the players to do pull something like that
Ok, back in the day when I was a Junior in HS, I was talking my AP Comp.Sci. course.
One day, after seeing that the computers had slowed down quite considerably, I began poking aroundon my system and found a virus chewing at CPU cycles.
So, trying to play Mr Nice Geek, I fired up the anti-virus and removed it.
It just so happened that the teacher watched me do it, and gave me a pat on the back for it and told me to clean it from the lab (turns out every computer had it...)
The next day, all the computers had been turned off and unplugged, and we were not to even touch the PC's. When I got in there I saw the prinipal and the county netadmin, and they pulled me into a office.
What they had to say just blew my mind. They told me that i was responsible for infecting the lab with the virus I had discovered the day before. After hearing all this BS, i tryed to prove that I didnt do it, but trying to get a idea to them is about as hard as trying to cut a tree down with a herring.
When I confronted the teacher that said to clean the lab, he swore up and down that he saw me put the virus on the computer. So I took the punishment, not being able to change their minds.
But I did get the last laugh, every one of my grades shot through the roof, and I continue to this day to fix their computers.
I just get so tired of the school administrators taking their stupidity out on the kids. When they dont know how they did something or dont understand it, they try to lock away that knowledge so it wont happen anymore.
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The Holmes comet coma is bigger than the sun... such a appropriate name.
Frak me, thats the day my office is switching phone systems... and I'm in charge.
Hope its not too late to pawn it off onto the other phone guy...
Before you flame me on my headline, I am talking about the .torrent files, not what can be downloaded from them.
.torrent file is just like a movie review. Both contain information about the movie, the only difference being that a computer reads the hashes and a human reads the review. This make be a bit of a loose analogy, but go with me here.
I feel a
You can't figure out the whole movie just by reading one review, just like a computer can't figure out the file based on what hashes it recieves from the tracker.
But with the same information, you can make sure you are going to see the right movie by reading a review, just as a computer can make sure you are downloading the right file by comparing hashes.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think any defense will stand for making torrents illegal. If they declare them illegal, they will have to make movie reviews, and everything else that even describes a movie illegal.
Now not only does windows crash your computer, it literally crashes whatever it is controlling.
I was thinking more along the lines of a Pooter, but that works too.
It's too bad most of the original skit members of SNL's Jeopardy have left. This would be a great time to start the skits back up.
:)
For once, maybe someone will actually have a positive score
We just had a bad infection of Nachi that hit about 500 of our Win2k computers, granted that doesn't add much to the already possibly skewed numbers, but it shows that they couldnt have counted every single successful attack against MS products.
Heck with just blaster and friends' numbers added to that, I'm sure that the linux number would be at least half of the MS number.
This is one thing that I'm wondering about.
Sure US copyright law allows one copy, that is well understood. But if you release it under the GPL, isnt that considered a different kind of copyright with the rules set forward under the license that every geek knows by heart?
For example: If you release it under the US copyright system, one copy is allowed, thats it, no exceptions.
But if you release it under the GPL, the US copyright laws are null and void against this software and they go by the GPL laws which allows unlimited copies as long as its compliant with the GPL laws.
Am I right or am I just seeing this wrong?
With respect to the Fark cliches.
Its a Trap!
Your right about the electricity and royalties, but I'm pretty sure that its a FCC rule that you have to say your call letters and frequency every couple minutes to identify your station.
I completely agree with that except for the part about making it illegal to host spammers.
Now if they are knowingly hosting them, thats a different thing, but I know where I work, we had one try to start spamming people. When we got the notices that this was happening, we promptly deleted his account and put his name and address on the perma-ban list.
ISP's shouldn't be held liable unless they are purposely letting the spammer create headaches in the mailboxes of millions.
Stage One: Have 14 male volunteers spending 3 months carrying out all activities while lying on their backs.
Stage two:
Stage Three: Profit!
if it realistically simulates a government hellbent on passing the income tax, so the money coming in from the state gets smaller and smaller due to "needing to tighten the belt". Its getting rediculous here in TN.
Also I noted that today's numerical date is 9-11. As in 911.
I got into a discussion with a government prof where I go to college and we both came to the same conclusion.
Either a whole new government needs to be put in place with a revoultion, or we need to elect an entire whole new set or reps and congressmen. Without one of those happening, the government is gonna dig a hole so deep, its going to be illegal to own "TECH" (Relavance to a Sliders Episode)
I'm not pushing for any one type of government, we just need people in there that dont give a flying rats ass about major corporations giving them millions of dollars behind everyone's back. Also, Im not looking for the black g-men to come knocking at my door because I want a new government.
If you look hard enough, you will see that all the government cares about is the stuff that they get from major corporations that want them to draft this kind of stuff. They don't care about what effect laws have on them. They'll just stay in session all year long so that the constitution protects them from prosicution if the shit hits the fan.
They say the U.S. is the best place to live in the world. Well I'm starting to think different.
The only way that people can excape this law will be to move to another country. And if it happens it wouldnt suprise me if Canada saw a lot more of Americans asking for residency.
So write up your congressman and say:
"Hell no, don't vote for this.
A vote for this is a vote for total control by the government.
I dont want total control like the major corporations want and I'm the one that matters because you represent me.
And it doesnt matter how much they pay you to say how much you like it becuase if you vote yes... I'll vote no next election."
This seems a bit odd to me...
With the new filter, won't it limit legal music?
It seems that they want only approved songs on Napster now...
If they weasel their way through this one, it will block out a major port for artists who legally put their music on the net.
Thats not right... The school should have nothing to do with your doings off school property.
The school I go to is pretty good about that.
The only time that you would get in trouble for anything off school grounds is from the time you leave the gate until you get to your house/job.
Now there have been rednecks that go to the local gas station up the road and fight. That they get in trouble for. But if they went home and then went to the gas station, the cops would come.
So even though im not writing this in the school,
I can say that Central f***ing sucks and get away with it.
If you wanted to go through it, you should take that to court and let students have their freedoms that the government cant restrict outside schools.
I can just see it now...
Headline: Napster is being sued from parents worried about kids misspelling everything.
Parent:"My kid can no longer spell because he was using that... that Napster (crying)"
It will be easyer to hack linux onto this.
If you remember... the Xbox runs on a right off the shelf Pentium.
Now, I don't know a lot about linux, but if you can put the kernel libs on a cd that the XBox can read..., it wouldn't require any special kernel hacking
Well, there is only one company that I know will now buy into M$'s bull: TechTV.
I've watched it for about half a year now and I don't think I've heard them refer to M$ as Microsoft once. No matter what they are talking about its always something like Microshaft, Moneysoft, etc...
Truly though, the only people who are gonna buy into this is all about of 10 people who are microsoft whores.
And anyways, shouldn't Windows be on Microsoft's threat list? I mean, my god, Win98, well 'nuff said there, we know the rest.
Oh well, nuff rant, Later yall
I work at Software Etc (which is the coolest job :)) and I noticed that the store is also taking reserves on the broadband adapter.
And if my store takes them, that means that nearly every store is now taking them.
So run to your nearest store and put that money down!
I feel that, while we should have a FCC to hand out licences for airwaves, but also allow other people to transmit as loud as they want as long as they dont interfere with the licensed stations. Then and only then they should be able to step in.
This seems a safe way for the government to actually govern something with out overpowering the little guys.
You know... i have two words for that movie: Bastard GM.
I'm just waiting for someone to turn the movie into a actual campaign, but they would have to be really pissed at the players to do pull something like that
Ok, back in the day when I was a Junior in HS, I was talking my AP Comp.Sci. course.
One day, after seeing that the computers had slowed down quite considerably, I began poking aroundon my system and found a virus chewing at CPU cycles.
So, trying to play Mr Nice Geek, I fired up the anti-virus and removed it.
It just so happened that the teacher watched me do it, and gave me a pat on the back for it and told me to clean it from the lab (turns out every computer had it...)
The next day, all the computers had been turned off and unplugged, and we were not to even touch the PC's. When I got in there I saw the prinipal and the county netadmin, and they pulled me into a office.
What they had to say just blew my mind. They told me that i was responsible for infecting the lab with the virus I had discovered the day before. After hearing all this BS, i tryed to prove that I didnt do it, but trying to get a idea to them is about as hard as trying to cut a tree down with a herring.
When I confronted the teacher that said to clean the lab, he swore up and down that he saw me put the virus on the computer. So I took the punishment, not being able to change their minds.
But I did get the last laugh, every one of my grades shot through the roof, and I continue to this day to fix their computers.
I just get so tired of the school administrators taking their stupidity out on the kids. When they dont know how they did something or dont understand it, they try to lock away that knowledge so it wont happen anymore.