What the hell is this about? 3 strikes for what? One link is in french, one doesn't really say what this is about, the the other only mentions "downloading protected content"...
So this means DRM is illegal in France? Couldn't someone write a summary that actually explains what the hell this is about?
You could have used a analog capture card instead and encoded it to whatever format you wanted, and even done inverse telecine and deinterlacing to make it look really nice.
I guess with a nickname like yours, you are nostalgic for the 80s.
But that doesn't mean you need to use tape. As long as your backup plan takes failure into account, there's no problem. I have put millions of dollars worth of data onto spinning media only, and I sleep just fine at night.
That said, RAID alone is not a replacement for backups, as some seem to think. Your backup strategy isn't valid if "rm -rf" destroys every copy you have of something.
Aluminum foil is not a good choice for anti-static material.
Mainly, it's too conductive. For a hard disk it's not that big of a deal, but suppose you used it on a motherboard. You'd have an exploded lithium battery.
In a hard disk, I can imagine an unlikely scenario where a charged capacitor on the board killed another component through the foil.
Anyway there's good reasons that anti-static material is only slightly conductive. At 1000+ volts it is plenty conductive, but at lower voltages, it's more like an insulator.
In the case of Alienware, if they sent a random customer who asked for a part a note saying "Sorry, but your PC is reported stolen, please bring it to the cops,"
That's not what happened. They said to send a warranty number that would prove he bought it from them. Alienware hasn't said that the laptop was reported stolen.
Those laws don't work. You get douchebag rich kids like "critical mass" who throw their bikes under traffic so they can demonstrate how "oppressed" they are as white, rich, bicyclists, and the cops don't do shit, because it would just escalate the violence.
I'm not defending the carriers lying and saying unlimited when they never meant it, but this idea that bandwidth is somehow free or unlimited is silly.
If those services were multicast or something, then I might buy the argument. But they aren't. I'm assuming from your comments that they do indeed use massive amounts of bandwidth, which is a limited resource.
But people aren't saying the price is too high, they are saying that metered bandwidth is inherently and somehow morally wrong. Man, paying for what you use, what a novel concept.
In other words, the people whining are probably the ones that leave torrents running 24/7 and suck down multiple terabytes per month, and don't want to lose their subsidy that is provided by the other 99% of normal users that have to pay for their insane usage.
And yet people still whine about this price increase. Maybe they should learn what bandwidth costs before they whine about getting what amounts to multiple T1s and expecting to be able to max them out all the time for $40/month.
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The USDA exists to serve the farm interests, and only farm interests.
It really doesn't matter what the results of the study were, there was only one possible "scientific" outcome if the large farm interests wanted this.
No structure works too -- for tasks where there is a body of people who understand every part of that task. Think a Shaker barn raising.
You mean like every editor on Wikipedia understanding every detail about how to write an encyclopedia?
If this is a licensing agreement issue, why isn't this a contract negotiation instead of a court case?
What the hell is this about? 3 strikes for what? One link is in french, one doesn't really say what this is about, the the other only mentions "downloading protected content"...
So this means DRM is illegal in France? Couldn't someone write a summary that actually explains what the hell this is about?
I don't know if you were joking or not but...
You could have used a analog capture card instead and encoded it to whatever format you wanted, and even done inverse telecine and deinterlacing to make it look really nice.
I guess with a nickname like yours, you are nostalgic for the 80s.
I am speaking on the behalf of long-term, zero maintenance storage
Such a thing does not exist. Well, maybe stone tablets.
Why is it OK for cable companies to "store video for later use by subscribers"... but MP3.com was shut down for doing the exact same thing?
I guess MP3.com needed better lobbyists.
Actually, hard disks have a 100% failure rate.
All mechanical devices have a finite lifespan.
But that doesn't mean you need to use tape. As long as your backup plan takes failure into account, there's no problem. I have put millions of dollars worth of data onto spinning media only, and I sleep just fine at night.
That said, RAID alone is not a replacement for backups, as some seem to think. Your backup strategy isn't valid if "rm -rf" destroys every copy you have of something.
Aluminum foil is not a good choice for anti-static material.
Mainly, it's too conductive. For a hard disk it's not that big of a deal, but suppose you used it on a motherboard. You'd have an exploded lithium battery.
In a hard disk, I can imagine an unlikely scenario where a charged capacitor on the board killed another component through the foil.
Anyway there's good reasons that anti-static material is only slightly conductive. At 1000+ volts it is plenty conductive, but at lower voltages, it's more like an insulator.
In the case of Alienware, if they sent a random customer who asked for a part a note saying "Sorry, but your PC is reported stolen, please bring it to the cops,"
That's not what happened. They said to send a warranty number that would prove he bought it from them. Alienware hasn't said that the laptop was reported stolen.
Those laws don't work. You get douchebag rich kids like "critical mass" who throw their bikes under traffic so they can demonstrate how "oppressed" they are as white, rich, bicyclists, and the cops don't do shit, because it would just escalate the violence.
I think it's because people are using CDs and DVDs to do things like boot disks (and often to move data around) these days.
As flash based technology displaces read-only optical, I think you'll see a resurgence in old style sneakernet viruses.
What is the big O notation for dealing with and supporting a company that is actively hostile toward their users?
"High tech"...
If by "high tech" you mean "pay $250,000 for the same speed you can get on a commodity desktop in 6 months"... then sure.
People realized how stupid it was to waste money on mainframes when commodity hardware is moving so quickly.
Maybe it should be.
I'm not defending the carriers lying and saying unlimited when they never meant it, but this idea that bandwidth is somehow free or unlimited is silly.
If those services were multicast or something, then I might buy the argument. But they aren't. I'm assuming from your comments that they do indeed use massive amounts of bandwidth, which is a limited resource.
But people aren't saying the price is too high, they are saying that metered bandwidth is inherently and somehow morally wrong. Man, paying for what you use, what a novel concept.
In other words, the people whining are probably the ones that leave torrents running 24/7 and suck down multiple terabytes per month, and don't want to lose their subsidy that is provided by the other 99% of normal users that have to pay for their insane usage.
3.9 angstroms?
And yet people still whine about this price increase. Maybe they should learn what bandwidth costs before they whine about getting what amounts to multiple T1s and expecting to be able to max them out all the time for $40/month.
They couldn't even manage to put the logo right side up either.
It's not that important of a distinction, because P2P stuff uploads without people's consent and often without their knowledge.
I disagree strongly. History shows that when a strong unified political will exists, the shit really hits the fan... Not the other way around.
It's a version of Linux that uses hurd as a kernel or something. :)
There are other ways to accomplish that without a big centralized database that everyone has access to.
The insurance companies are going to love this.
You can't practice that. If you say ECMAScript no one will know you really mean Javascript. Except maybe a few people that use Opera.
Bureaucracy expands to fill the capabilities of the technology it's given.