Atleast in Finland we pay outrageous prices for blank media so that we could legaly make copies of music. Funny enough, I think it's still illegal to copy music. It's a weird situation. But Teosto and Gramex are the evil brothers of copyright. Those are the local RIAA. I'm member of both and it's not even easy to resign from them. I tried once but was told to mail in my resign letter in certain time frame when they "process such requests". Surprisinlgy enough, I never remembered to do it at that certain time. I think they have a ton of guys like me who have like one registered demo tape from their teens. Atleast they can boast to have beeelliyons of members whose intellectual property they are protecting. Oh yeah. If I register a song with them, I'm not allowed to even publish it on my web page anymore without paying royalties. Royalties which should be paid to me ofcourse. In reality all the small guys pennies will go to a common pool which will be divided to the artists "fairly" based on other visibility. eg. The big artists take the 2 cents which would be rightfully mine!
I actually just started downloadin the client.I played a bit maybe two years ago, and found it boring. I'll have a stab at it now. Perhaps I can make my cargo business work better now.
Hmm, my intuition immediately says this won't work for reason or another. I haven't yet seen a compelling argument why it won't work in all its simplicity, but I'm positive it's BS. My intuition seldomly fails when talking about matters I think I understand (...I Think...).
(Random rambling) Eve has a probe in the line. It attaches to the line near Alice and Bob. It is effectively very big resistor and a small power source, which circulates small current through the wires and his own resistor. Now, Alice attaches her resistor. Presumably it is smaller or atleast not hugely larger than Eve's resistor. Eve can now see the voltage difference in her probes near Alice and Bob. She can deduct from the change that it was Alice who attached resistor. She can also calculate how big the resistor is. At this point Eve can shut down her active probe before Bob attaches his own resistor. If the active tap would still be connected, it would mess the communication totally. Ehum. Infact, given enough sopisthication, even the resistance or inductance from a passive tap would mess up the communication and/or reveal Eve. However, as the wires certainly cannot be infinitely superconductive, there has to be rather big frame in which Eve can insert her passive tap in the setup. Now the question is, can Eve deduct Bob's resistor by knowing Alice's resistor. If I understood correctly how this is supposed to work, I think it actually follows, that if Alice can decrypt Bob's comunication, which he sends by connecting/disconnecting his resistor, Eve should equally easily be able to deduct the communication by knowing alices resistance. (Stupid run-on sentence)
PS. Actually the active probe needs not to be "near" Alice nor Bob. Just having the probes ends sufficiently far from each other to have some resistance from the signal wire to figure out which end connected the resistor first.
Well, muslims in europe should be shot and ground up into live stock feed anyway. Why can't the fuckers stay in their own sthit hole countries? It's not like they would tolerate such huge immigration of westerns into their "holy grounds".
Ah, the loser-goodguy-moviesque answer? Would you like to elaborate what you feel pity for? Or do you think everyone on your side of the looking glass see why the GP should be pitied? And no-one should aggree with him because they would then commit to some unknown sin, lowering themselves to a state where they only be pitied by likes of you from the other side who know better?
Argue with real posts or fuck off, kid. Your playground psychology won't cut it here.
Oh yeah, forgot my real content: I think GP had a valid point. BSD guys should have just handled it as an error in process rather than taking it as some kind of great crusade by GPL towards BSD.
Digital Audio Tape wasn't a flop. Althou it never made it into consumer space, it was and still is used extensively in music production. It is very efficient storage, archival and transport media. Today ofcourse everything is moved around on DVD's, through FTP or other "consumer grade" medias, because they are as bit-perfect-copies as anything. Back in the 90's it was the standard to move the tracks from reels to DAT's for transportation from recording studio to the mixing/mastering studio. And then from there to CD plant for press mastering. DAT's also have the advantage of magnetic media. It doesn't deteriorate as fast as optical media. (I'm going off topic here but give me some slack.) For example, I never reuse my MiniDV video tapes. I just rip to harddrive what I expect to use in near future and stash the original to my safe box in a bank vault -- A humidity controlled, cool, dark place. This way, I expect to be able to access the originals for decades to come.
Google should be forced to publish their search engine core to prevent vendor lock-in to Google search.
No Now, try to find out why...
And as Google willingly publishes a ton of API's to make it possible to interoperate and integrate their technologies, I think they are really going out of their way to play nice.
http://www.fixedearth.com/geosynchronous_sa.htm [fixedearth.com] (I had to post that link because it's a hoot. His proof is that a LaGrange point is where gravity stops because it's where it balances out. Give the man a Nobel!)
My eyes! I want to gouge my them out with a spoon because of that link. Man the LSD-trip-rainbow colour scheme is terrible. I guess I have to read it in Lynx to enjoy the deeper wisdom within.
Actually, half of the Finland lives in very small area in Helsinki and surrounding cities. Anything north from the road Kehä III is jokingly called the "untamed wilderness". Maybe half of the rest live in the other bigger cities (Tampere, Turku, Oulu, and couple of others) and thus the rest 25% of population is scattered around the rest of the country. Yet, we can get DSL and GSM+E-GPRS in pretty much anywhere in the country. 3G is still picking up. You can only get that in bigger cities at the moment.
Ah, yes. Maybe I gave a wrong impression in my post. I simply ment that I feel sympathy for someone who is living in a place where she doesn't know her neighbours and cannot know everyone around him, being threatened with violence online. Having very limited personal space. I ment that I can shrug it off as shit talk by some random dweeb without even considering possible consequences. She cannot.
I'm under the impression, that solid state drives cycle through the available space somehow, so all the blocks would get approximately equal read/write cycles. So that a) it lasts as long as possible b) when it starts having bad blocks, you better replace the thing pretty fast.
Ah, it is nice to live in secluded place where no insane troll would dare to come. It calms my nerves to be able to operate chain saw in single hand. It's also nice to own a character of mean fucking lunatic when need be. I laugh at kids who threaten me online, taunting with my home address and inviting them for a visit.
I guess the situation would be entirely different if I was living in a city condo with no implementations of destruction and sense of personal space. Every day, all day, surrounded by people unknown.
Called "selective screens". Used everywhere here in Finland. They let heat in but not out. However, they are not of any use for blocking radio signals. (I guess they are also used in other parts of the world for the opposite effect)
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Atleast in Finland we pay outrageous prices for blank media so that we could legaly make copies of music.
Funny enough, I think it's still illegal to copy music. It's a weird situation. But Teosto and Gramex are the evil brothers of copyright.
Those are the local RIAA. I'm member of both and it's not even easy to resign from them. I tried once but was told to mail in my resign letter in certain time frame when they "process such requests". Surprisinlgy enough, I never remembered to do it at that certain time. I think they have a ton of guys like me who have like one registered demo tape from their teens. Atleast they can boast to have beeelliyons of members whose intellectual property they are protecting.
Oh yeah. If I register a song with them, I'm not allowed to even publish it on my web page anymore without paying royalties. Royalties which should be paid to me ofcourse. In reality all the small guys pennies will go to a common pool which will be divided to the artists "fairly" based on other visibility. eg. The big artists take the 2 cents which would be rightfully mine!
Holy shit! This man is a genious! Mod +5 interemightful!
Structured coding! Why they didn't thought of that!?
Adding 0 to 0 is still 0.
Thank you captain obvious.
(What the hell is structured coding anyway? You mean those newfangled classes and objects and stuff I've heard about?)
I actually just started downloadin the client.I played a bit maybe two years ago, and found it boring. I'll have a stab at it now. Perhaps I can make my cargo business work better now.
Hmm, my intuition immediately says this won't work for reason or another.
I haven't yet seen a compelling argument why it won't work in all its simplicity, but I'm positive it's BS. My intuition seldomly fails when talking about matters I think I understand (...I Think...).
(Random rambling)
Eve has a probe in the line. It attaches to the line near Alice and Bob. It is effectively very big resistor and a small power source, which circulates small current through the wires and his own resistor. Now, Alice attaches her resistor. Presumably it is smaller or atleast not hugely larger than Eve's resistor. Eve can now see the voltage difference in her probes near Alice and Bob. She can deduct from the change that it was Alice who attached resistor. She can also calculate how big the resistor is. At this point Eve can shut down her active probe before Bob attaches his own resistor. If the active tap would still be connected, it would mess the communication totally. Ehum. Infact, given enough sopisthication, even the resistance or inductance from a passive tap would mess up the communication and/or reveal Eve. However, as the wires certainly cannot be infinitely superconductive, there has to be rather big frame in which Eve can insert her passive tap in the setup.
Now the question is, can Eve deduct Bob's resistor by knowing Alice's resistor. If I understood correctly how this is supposed to work, I think it actually follows, that if Alice can decrypt Bob's comunication, which he sends by connecting/disconnecting his resistor, Eve should equally easily be able to deduct the communication by knowing alices resistance. (Stupid run-on sentence)
PS. Actually the active probe needs not to be "near" Alice nor Bob. Just having the probes ends sufficiently far from each other to have some resistance from the signal wire to figure out which end connected the resistor first.
Uhoh.. I think racist hate speech is illegal in my country. Let's pretend it was just a sick joke which's punchline I forgot to add.
Well, muslims in europe should be shot and ground up into live stock feed anyway.
Why can't the fuckers stay in their own sthit hole countries? It's not like they would tolerate such huge immigration of westerns into their "holy grounds".
Very captivating story. I just don't like the way they had to have a "bad guy" in the story and thus the documentary maker was painted as such.
Instead of just placing filter on their own banners in adsense settings?
Define all you want, it's still fucking retarded.
They should have invented new name for the New Bigger megabyte. Say, marketroidbait^H^H^H^Hbyte.
...But what the hell is this article about? One more iota of randomness and the summary could be used as an entropy bucket for a PRNG.
I think you will find 'dd' will have much more sophisticated controls over bitflow than both 'ds' or 'cat'.
NiMH light and expensive? Muahaha... Say hello to 90's from me.
:/ :) ;D :D :D|- o_O ^_^ :F/-\
Lipo for teh win!
(I actually tagged the article lipoftw)
Oh wait. I think you were trying to be funny. Please add some smilies for us humour impaired
Here's some free samples:
_o/
Cell phones used for communication! How terribly clever! What will they come up with next?!
Ah, the loser-goodguy-moviesque answer?
Would you like to elaborate what you feel pity for? Or do you think everyone on your side of the looking glass see why the GP should be pitied? And no-one should aggree with him because they would then commit to some unknown sin, lowering themselves to a state where they only be pitied by likes of you from the other side who know better?
Argue with real posts or fuck off, kid. Your playground psychology won't cut it here.
Oh yeah, forgot my real content: I think GP had a valid point. BSD guys should have just handled it as an error in process rather than taking it as some kind of great crusade by GPL towards BSD.
Now that I call progress! Holy shit! Electrical?!?
None of that old fashioned, noisy, pneumatic video signalling for ASUS!
Digital Audio Tape wasn't a flop. Althou it never made it into consumer space, it was and still is used extensively in music production. It is very efficient storage, archival and transport media.
Today ofcourse everything is moved around on DVD's, through FTP or other "consumer grade" medias, because they are as bit-perfect-copies as anything. Back in the 90's it was the standard to move the tracks from reels to DAT's for transportation from recording studio to the mixing/mastering studio. And then from there to CD plant for press mastering.
DAT's also have the advantage of magnetic media. It doesn't deteriorate as fast as optical media. (I'm going off topic here but give me some slack.) For example, I never reuse my MiniDV video tapes. I just rip to harddrive what I expect to use in near future and stash the original to my safe box in a bank vault -- A humidity controlled, cool, dark place. This way, I expect to be able to access the originals for decades to come.
And as Google willingly publishes a ton of API's to make it possible to interoperate and integrate their technologies, I think they are really going out of their way to play nice.
My eyes! I want to gouge my them out with a spoon because of that link. Man the LSD-trip-rainbow colour scheme is terrible. I guess I have to read it in Lynx to enjoy the deeper wisdom within.
Actually, half of the Finland lives in very small area in Helsinki and surrounding cities. Anything north from the road Kehä III is jokingly called the "untamed wilderness".
Maybe half of the rest live in the other bigger cities (Tampere, Turku, Oulu, and couple of others) and thus the rest 25% of population is scattered around the rest of the country. Yet, we can get DSL and GSM+E-GPRS in pretty much anywhere in the country. 3G is still picking up. You can only get that in bigger cities at the moment.
Ah, yes. Maybe I gave a wrong impression in my post. I simply ment that I feel sympathy for someone who is living in a place where she doesn't know her neighbours and cannot know everyone around him, being threatened with violence online. Having very limited personal space.
I ment that I can shrug it off as shit talk by some random dweeb without even considering possible consequences. She cannot.
I'm under the impression, that solid state drives cycle through the available space somehow, so all the blocks would get approximately equal read/write cycles. So that a) it lasts as long as possible b) when it starts having bad blocks, you better replace the thing pretty fast.
Ah, it is nice to live in secluded place where no insane troll would dare to come. It calms my nerves to be able to operate chain saw in single hand. It's also nice to own a character of mean fucking lunatic when need be.
I laugh at kids who threaten me online, taunting with my home address and inviting them for a visit.
I guess the situation would be entirely different if I was living in a city condo with no implementations of destruction and sense of personal space. Every day, all day, surrounded by people unknown.
Damn, that's gonne ruin my Atkins :(
Called "selective screens". Used everywhere here in Finland. They let heat in but not out. However, they are not of any use for blocking radio signals. (I guess they are also used in other parts of the world for the opposite effect)