The Edison study shows that 53% of 12-17 year olds have burned a CD instead of buying it. Unless you disagree with the data (and I mean scientifically, not just "no way, man!"), you can't argue that such activities don't cost the copyright holders money in the form of a lost sale.
Uh, yes you can. You can like a band enough to listen to them if it is free, but not enough to shell out $15 for them if you couldn't get it for free. $15 is a lot of money for someone 12-17.
Now I could still lie, or mess with the algorithms in the Javascript, but what would be the point?
95% or more of web users won't know or understand a client side function vs. a server side one. This might work with some site that marketed only to geeks that did know the difference.
I don't see how people would trust this any more than entering it normally.
Typical session: What is your age? (Results will be randomized) 23
OK, we're putting down you are 28 based on a random number we picked. Aren't we good to protect your privay?
(Then behind the scenes the database gets the real age put into it, how will the user ever know?)
Even if the user can view their profile later on, the database can just store their real age + the so-called random modifier, and the user will be none the wiser.
It's difficult to get that with a/24 or smaller, and with NAT and the like, convincing your ISP you need more than a/24 can be tricky. Qwest, for instance, gives out a/31 by default, and you must justify the need for more.
I agree, and I just donated $5 US. I don't really care about Blender, but I know how much it means to other people, and how much it means for Linux. So I'll eat a cheap lunch tomorrow to make up for it, big deal.
If every Slashdotter that cared about Open Source does as I did, and eats beans and rice for lunch tomorrow, then they will hit their $100,000 goal by the end of the day today. We can make it happen.
1. Counterfeit billions of Euros to flood the money supply, and weaken the euro. 2. Donate $100 US which will convert to 100,000 EU 3. Open Blender Source 4. ???? 5. Profit!!
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As things are right now, new IDE hard drives are very well capable of transferring data at 20- 50M/s depending on drive and position of data on it.
As much as I advocate ATA disks even for most servers, this isn't really realistic.
You have to use sustained speed for something like a 650M transfer, and even the 7200 RPM drives max out around 20M/s, and even that is a stretch.
RAID0,3,5 of course can get your ATA read speed up very high, I can easily max out the PCI bus with 8 5400 RPM ATA drives and a 3ware card (130M/s or so).
It's not that bad if only you do it, but if everyone on the Internet did it, DNS traffic would increase a lot. It also might slow down lookups somewhat when people access your site, since their local server won't cache your DNS info for very long. It also means if your DNS server is down, your site will become inaccessible in short order.
We have a T1 from Qwest at work, and they are also being investigated. My agent at bandwidth.com keeps sending me unsolicited reassuring emails, but that makes me more nervous than anything else.
Yes, but that's difficult without portable address space. Even if you have redundant links, if you need to push through a DNS change to activate incoming connections on the alternate line, then you are screwed for several days, unless you keep your SOA TTL very low at all times, which is inefficient.
The Federal Government just doesn't have the resources to persecute a lot of people.
Trying to avoid Godwin's here, but it's hard.
What are you smoking? The US government has a budget of over 2 trillion dollars a year. Do you have any concept of how much money that is?
If every byte on your hard disk were one dollar, it would be 2 terabytes.
If you wanted to count that much money, counting 1 dollar bill per second, it would take about 64 thousand years.
It's 2 million million dollars.
So year, they have enough resources to throw the whole IT industry in jail on a whim, or to say... throw all of any religion they don't like into jail.
I guess you have never heard of ssh tunneling. Yes, there is slightly more overhead, but it works just fine, and doesn't force you to use closed source facist operating systems.
Let me throw in my 2 cents for industrial hemp advocacy while we are on the topic.
Banning the industrial use of non-drug hemp in the US is a large mistake, one that can be corrected with the stroke of a pen by certain lawmakers, with little impact on their precious drug laws.
Hemp has hundreds of uses, including producing a cheap oil that can be used for these biodiesel applications. The left over fibers have at least as many uses as cotton, it can be used for paper, rope, or any other common application for natural fibers.
Companies that had a vested interest in pushing synthetic fibers managed to get the US to ban the industrial use of hemp years ago, this is a great injustice that can be corrected.
The Virginia legislature, a few years back, passed a resolution asking the federal government to allow the industrial use of hemp, farmers in VA would definitely benefit from a new cash crop, and the situation is the same in most states.
The people that are holding this down are the commercial interests that produce products that would have a hard time competing with hemp fibers and products, namely synthetics producers and cotton growers.
We must not let corporate protectionist interests crush this obvious alternative. Write your federal lawmaker next time you get the chance. Our economy needs a boost, and hemp would help provide that boost.
When you say something like 802.1X and you mean all wireless, you are showing ignorance.
802.1 encompasses a large number of wired standards in addition to wireless.
Or maybe the poster meant the actual standard named 802.1x? Port Based Network Access Control? I thought that was used for tying switch ports to certain MAC addresses.
I propose if you mean to say "all the 802.11 standards" you say 802.11*, since IEEE uses letters such as "x" to denote certain standards, not as a wildcard.
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The Edison study shows that 53% of 12-17 year olds have burned a CD instead of buying it. Unless you disagree with the data (and I mean scientifically, not just "no way, man!"), you can't argue that such activities don't cost the copyright holders money in the form of a lost sale.
Uh, yes you can. You can like a band enough to listen to them if it is free, but not enough to shell out $15 for them if you couldn't get it for free. $15 is a lot of money for someone 12-17.
Now I could still lie, or mess with the algorithms in the Javascript, but what would be the point?
95% or more of web users won't know or understand a client side function vs. a server side one. This might work with some site that marketed only to geeks that did know the difference.
What's the point of living if you can't screw with market research?
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Dr. Ann Cavoukian sounds like she can help you with that too. Maybe that was her plan in the first place.
I don't see how people would trust this any more than entering it normally.
Typical session:
What is your age? (Results will be randomized)
23
OK, we're putting down you are 28 based on a random number we picked. Aren't we good to protect your privay?
(Then behind the scenes the database gets the real age put into it, how will the user ever know?)
Even if the user can view their profile later on, the database can just store their real age + the so-called random modifier, and the user will be none the wiser.
What a pointless "technology".
It's difficult to get that with a /24 or smaller, and with NAT and the like, convincing your ISP you need more than a /24 can be tricky. Qwest, for instance, gives out a /31 by default, and you must justify the need for more.
Shit man, I didn't mod you down, don't lay into me because of it.
I took the class in 1997, to me it just seemed like a simpler example, k?
Do you happen to be an editor at memepool?
A simpler example to anyone who has had intro to calc is a mathematical limit such as at an asymptote.
Yes, but think of the amount or raw energy that quantity of methane represents! We can harness this unexplored avenue for renewable energy.
I agree, and I just donated $5 US. I don't really care about Blender, but I know how much it means to other people, and how much it means for Linux. So I'll eat a cheap lunch tomorrow to make up for it, big deal.
If every Slashdotter that cared about Open Source does as I did, and eats beans and rice for lunch tomorrow, then they will hit their $100,000 goal by the end of the day today. We can make it happen.
Yes, but a large chunk goes to military (30%?), and when it comes down to it, that is a weapon that can be wielded against the US public if necessary.
1. Counterfeit billions of Euros to flood the money supply, and weaken the euro.
2. Donate $100 US which will convert to 100,000 EU
3. Open Blender Source
4. ????
5. Profit!!
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As things are right now, new IDE hard drives are very well capable of transferring data at 20- 50M/s depending on drive and position of data on it.
As much as I advocate ATA disks even for most servers, this isn't really realistic.
You have to use sustained speed for something like a 650M transfer, and even the 7200 RPM drives max out around 20M/s, and even that is a stretch.
RAID0,3,5 of course can get your ATA read speed up very high, I can easily max out the PCI bus with 8 5400 RPM ATA drives and a 3ware card (130M/s or so).
It's not that bad if only you do it, but if everyone on the Internet did it, DNS traffic would increase a lot. It also might slow down lookups somewhat when people access your site, since their local server won't cache your DNS info for very long. It also means if your DNS server is down, your site will become inaccessible in short order.
We have a T1 from Qwest at work, and they are also being investigated. My agent at bandwidth.com keeps sending me unsolicited reassuring emails, but that makes me more nervous than anything else.
Any Qwest insiders care to comment as AC?
Yes, but that's difficult without portable address space. Even if you have redundant links, if you need to push through a DNS change to activate incoming connections on the alternate line, then you are screwed for several days, unless you keep your SOA TTL very low at all times, which is inefficient.
The Federal Government just doesn't have the resources to persecute a lot of people.
Trying to avoid Godwin's here, but it's hard.
What are you smoking? The US government has a budget of over 2 trillion dollars a year. Do you have any concept of how much money that is?
If every byte on your hard disk were one dollar, it would be 2 terabytes.
If you wanted to count that much money, counting 1 dollar bill per second, it would take about 64 thousand years.
It's 2 million million dollars.
So year, they have enough resources to throw the whole IT industry in jail on a whim, or to say... throw all of any religion they don't like into jail.
I guess you have never heard of ssh tunneling. Yes, there is slightly more overhead, but it works just fine, and doesn't force you to use closed source facist operating systems.
Cygwin with ssh takes like an hour to set up, max.
Let me throw in my 2 cents for industrial hemp advocacy while we are on the topic.
Banning the industrial use of non-drug hemp in the US is a large mistake, one that can be corrected with the stroke of a pen by certain lawmakers, with little impact on their precious drug laws.
Hemp has hundreds of uses, including producing a cheap oil that can be used for these biodiesel applications. The left over fibers have at least as many uses as cotton, it can be used for paper, rope, or any other common application for natural fibers.
Companies that had a vested interest in pushing synthetic fibers managed to get the US to ban the industrial use of hemp years ago, this is a great injustice that can be corrected.
The Virginia legislature, a few years back, passed a resolution asking the federal government to allow the industrial use of hemp, farmers in VA would definitely benefit from a new cash crop, and the situation is the same in most states.
The people that are holding this down are the commercial interests that produce products that would have a hard time competing with hemp fibers and products, namely synthetics producers and cotton growers.
We must not let corporate protectionist interests crush this obvious alternative. Write your federal lawmaker next time you get the chance. Our economy needs a boost, and hemp would help provide that boost.
And no condensation within the case due to temporal differences?
Modern laptops overcome temporal distortions by using tachyon pulsed field lasers.
The MS codec only produces WMA files, not mp3.
"Why did you take your laptop into the bathroom? Were you looking at porn?"
"No"
"Then what's that on the front of your pants?"
"Oh, the water cooling sprung a leak"
This will save marriages everywhere.
When you say something like 802.1X and you mean all wireless, you are showing ignorance.
802.1 encompasses a large number of wired standards in addition to wireless.
Or maybe the poster meant the actual standard named 802.1x? Port Based Network Access Control? I thought that was used for tying switch ports to certain MAC addresses.
I propose if you mean to say "all the 802.11 standards" you say 802.11*, since IEEE uses letters such as "x" to denote certain standards, not as a wildcard.