While there is no way any users could have acquired the album through Last.fm, the site's statistics suggest that more than 8,000 users have played the unreleased album on their machines."
Sure, nobody could recorded it, ***Cough**Analog*Hole*Cough*** but 8.000 listened to it.
A good engineering challange is building a something launcher. Whether it be eggs, taters, t shirts, etc., the project will provide many reasons to do the engineering. Recently I participated in an engineering challange for high school students to build a t shirt launcher.
Some of the items needed solved were what type of stored energy to use, how to release it quickly and effeciently, and how to transfer the energy with little loss of energy.
Some of the material was beyond HS physics, so some stuff came to measurement, trial and error, and tweaking for best performance.
Here is the web page dedicated to finding out the best diameter and length of a launch tube to match the stored enengy supply in both volume, pressure, and flow rate from the valve.
We measured the acceleration of stuff in the launch tube to find the point where the acceleration dropped off at the peak speed and cut it there.
We won the competition. Arlington HS is the overall winner.
Those guys have me hooked now on competition marshmallow launching. I just built a small version (0.8L tank) of the launcher. From the sound, I think it's supersonic. I'll be getting near a shooting chrono later to find out if I made supersonic.
The t shirt cannon was launching apples in excess of 800 FPS. I'm hoping I'm getting marshmallows in excess of 1100 FPS.
Which distro? Because I use Ubuntu for my desktop and I'm a geek, and I still get frustrated (fuck pulseaudio).
If you are primarily using the PC for AV stuff, the real time kernel and bundled apps in Ubuntu Studio are hard to beat. I use it for my studio recording and production. Jack and related apps can be a pain to set up and use, but provide huge flexibility when working. For simpler stuff, Audacity is hard to beat. At the moment, stick with USB interfaces. There are still a few bugs with some of the firewire capture stuff. Read the Forums to see what works.
Audacity is very flexible. We even used it for an engineering project to design a t shirt launcher for a competition. We needed a way to figure out how long to make the launch tube. Audacity provided a way to measure the acceleration of the t shirt in the launch tube to figure out at what point it stopped accelerating and thus the length to cut for maximum launch velocity.
In a link in the old article was the full testing. In a nutshell, they cloned some Washington Drivers licenses into the same chip. Then tested sending the kill command at low power, when there is not enough power to complete the operation, the chip reports a low power comman fail. After the power needed to produce low power fails and kills, it was tested on real licenses to see if the kill was enabled or protected by a PIN. It is unprotected.
The Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean are at different levels (that is why locks are needed in the Panama canal).
Correction, they have different tide levels and times. A big hydro dam wouldn't be of much use. A closed off large bay with a hydro plant to take advantage of the tidal current would be just as useful. It would be easier to close off San Fransisco Bay to use for hydro than to cut a sea level channel through Panama for a hydro plant.
Other than letting pollution build up and killing off the sea port, closing that bay for hydro power whould have huge costs.
Maybe instead of all the trouble of finding the owner of an IP address, they will wait for filesharers to get lazy and confess. Now that Erin's full name is known with an admission of guilt, the case should be easy.
The only thing missing is the list of songs shared, so who is the copyright owner? I wonder if suspicion of downloading one of my songs is enough even without proof.
Geexbox is a portable version. Stick in it a PC, boot it, remove the ejected CD and insert the movie. It writes nothing to the hard drive leaving no recored of the DMCA violation.
Just for grins, I flipped through a few old copies. An example of nude women and children making pottery is in the FEB 1964 issue page 174. Now you can get arrested for photos like this? Who knew we would become that crazy.
When you're super-conservative, nudity=thinking forbidden thoughts=sin. Logical solution? Remove sources of nudity to prevent sin. As an added bonus, Think of the Children will garner votes.
I hope I don't get arrested for the back issues of National Geographic in my bookcase. Check issues from the 1950's and 1960's where photos of natives in far away places often included nude children playing.
On a more serious note, when did mere nudity = porn? There are nude beaches, nudist colonies, clothing optional hotels, cruises, etc. I think someone may have crossed nudity with porn. Was there a sex act or adult involved?
Which add up to what - 10% of domestic energy in the US? 15%?
In some parts of the country, this is true, but living a short distance from a huge windfarm and the Columbia river, a coal plant is a far distant and exotic power source to me. It would be expensive to ship in coal over the vast expanse of the great plains and continental divide.
They make an everyday wage and they're about to layoff 400+ people from their offices.
Seen any other industry in the same downturn? You are quick to lay the blame.
Companies that adapt and find the needs to be met do better. For example, Music is still sold for private home use only. By definitation, it is not in the license to place it on a personal music player and take it jogging with you, play it in your car away from home etc.
Multimedia is expanding the uses for the product, but the product license prohibits it's use. Here are a few places I am unable to use your product;
A slide show at a wedding reception set to music. A dance at the wedding reception. A public Christmas display set to music. A video clip to place on youtube.
In short, the uses for music has exploded, but you still sell for private home use only. Do you have any idea of how many songs I didn't purchase because the intended use was prohibited?
Do you have any idea how expensive it is for a weekend hobbiest to obtain permission for any of the above listed uses?
The license is too expensive, too difficult to obtain. Unable to use the product directly converts into lost sales. It's time to update the usefulleness of the product to provide value to the consumer.
At some point, they're going to get slapped down hard for these tactics and on that day, there will be much cheering from Slashdot.
I think it will come in the form of a rush to get ISP's headquartered in Austin. Many shools looking to avoid the legal problems would change ISP's as a risk avoidance move. Does anyone know if any Portland area ISP's are based in Austin?
In actuality, Microsoft gained its monopoly using questionably dubious, but well documented, business tactics
In reality, much of the Windows is from white box computers. Computers on a budget, a pirated copy of an OS, and lots of free downloadable applications, plus an open interface.
Macs were sealed boxes with the OS pre installed for the most part with little 3rd party hardware support.
When the PC clones were all the rage, they could run Windows, but not Mac software. This is where the PC and the Windows culture outgrew the Mac. Weak copy protection on Windows and DOS were a huge reason for the growth of the OS as the system of choice.
Now that Microsoft is reigning in on Piracy and naked PC's are not as common as pre-built boxes are cheap, many machines are migrating to alternatives as Windows now has relibility and dependability issues for pirated copies.
I stopped using Windows at home on home built stuff for this very reason. I no longer transplant the old OS to the new box when faster hardware comes out. I use Ubuntu instead. MS shot them selves in the foot when you could no longer transplant the OS from the old box to the new one without phoning home and begging. It's much easier to simply install Ubuntu.
Regardless, it is expensive to fight. The outcome is not guranteed. This is why America is rapidly becommin a service industry with no manufacturing. Manufacturing is moving elsewhere in a rapid fashion.
Unless the trend can be reversed, then this country will continue to see money drain to elsewhere.
We need reform so America can be a leader in manufacturing again.
but if you are that concerned about television you should be able to drop $40 on a converter box and not have the government pay for it.
Got that right. Let's face it. It is typically less than a monthly high speed internet connection. Do some real good and see if you can get $10/mo off my internet bill.
At the very least, the FTC should make it illegal to advertise any product infected with DRM as a "sale" as opposed to a "rental" or "lease". As it's impossible to own them, that's false advertising.
At the very least, the FTC should make it illegal to sell software that hides itself and makes it difficult or impossible to remove when you are done with it.
Uninstalling the game should not leave your PC in a reduced functionality state.
The FTC should also require the game to isolate the game functions from the rest of the computer functions. Playing a game and exiting should never leave your CD burner inop.
Slashdot Mirror
While there is no way any users could have acquired the album through Last.fm, the site's statistics suggest that more than 8,000 users have played the unreleased album on their machines."
Sure, nobody could recorded it, ***Cough**Analog*Hole*Cough*** but 8.000 listened to it.
A good engineering challange is building a something launcher. Whether it be eggs, taters, t shirts, etc., the project will provide many reasons to do the engineering. Recently I participated in an engineering challange for high school students to build a t shirt launcher.
Some of the items needed solved were what type of stored energy to use, how to release it quickly and effeciently, and how to transfer the energy with little loss of energy.
Some of the material was beyond HS physics, so some stuff came to measurement, trial and error, and tweaking for best performance.
Here is the web page dedicated to finding out the best diameter and length of a launch tube to match the stored enengy supply in both volume, pressure, and flow rate from the valve.
https://inteltrailblazerschallenge.wikispaces.com/Barrel+length+trim+method
We measured the acceleration of stuff in the launch tube to find the point where the acceleration dropped off at the peak speed and cut it there.
We won the competition. Arlington HS is the overall winner.
Those guys have me hooked now on competition marshmallow launching. I just built a small version (0.8L tank) of the launcher. From the sound, I think it's supersonic. I'll be getting near a shooting chrono later to find out if I made supersonic.
The t shirt cannon was launching apples in excess of 800 FPS. I'm hoping I'm getting marshmallows in excess of 1100 FPS.
Impact of fruit against 1 L water bottles can be seen here.
https://inteltrailblazerschallenge.wikispaces.com/Photos
Tons of fun. Think safety if you embark on this trial.
Which distro? Because I use Ubuntu for my desktop and I'm a geek, and I still get frustrated (fuck pulseaudio).
If you are primarily using the PC for AV stuff, the real time kernel and bundled apps in Ubuntu Studio are hard to beat. I use it for my studio recording and production. Jack and related apps can be a pain to set up and use, but provide huge flexibility when working. For simpler stuff, Audacity is hard to beat. At the moment, stick with USB interfaces. There are still a few bugs with some of the firewire capture stuff. Read the Forums to see what works.
Audacity is very flexible. We even used it for an engineering project to design a t shirt launcher for a competition. We needed a way to figure out how long to make the launch tube. Audacity provided a way to measure the acceleration of the t shirt in the launch tube to figure out at what point it stopped accelerating and thus the length to cut for maximum launch velocity.
Scroll down to the Audacity screenshot to see how we did it.
https://inteltrailblazerschallenge.wikispaces.com/Barrel+length+trim+method
We won the overall competition.
https://inteltrailblazerschallenge.wikispaces.com/Blazer+Game
Why make up a story title whose claims are unsupported by TFA? Nothing was 'cloned' here.
The cloned chip article is here;
http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/staff/bios/ajuels/publications/EPC_RFID/Gen2authentication--22Oct08a.pdf
It was on pasport and Washington Driver license chips.
How did you test this to make sure?
In a link in the old article was the full testing. In a nutshell, they cloned some Washington Drivers licenses into the same chip. Then tested sending the kill command at low power, when there is not enough power to complete the operation, the chip reports a low power comman fail. After the power needed to produce low power fails and kills, it was tested on real licenses to see if the kill was enabled or protected by a PIN. It is unprotected.
Here is the info;
PDF alert http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/staff/bios/ajuels/publications/EPC_RFID/Gen2authentication--22Oct08a.pdf
See table 4 in the PDF for the kill bit testing on Washington State Drivers Licenses.
The Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean are at different levels (that is why locks are needed in the Panama canal).
Correction, they have different tide levels and times. A big hydro dam wouldn't be of much use. A closed off large bay with a hydro plant to take advantage of the tidal current would be just as useful. It would be easier to close off San Fransisco Bay to use for hydro than to cut a sea level channel through Panama for a hydro plant.
Other than letting pollution build up and killing off the sea port, closing that bay for hydro power whould have huge costs.
Maybe instead of all the trouble of finding the owner of an IP address, they will wait for filesharers to get lazy and confess. Now that Erin's full name is known with an admission of guilt, the case should be easy.
The only thing missing is the list of songs shared, so who is the copyright owner? I wonder if suspicion of downloading one of my songs is enough even without proof.
Can we start discovery?
Geexbox is a portable version. Stick in it a PC, boot it, remove the ejected CD and insert the movie. It writes nothing to the hard drive leaving no recored of the DMCA violation.
http://www.geexbox.org/en/index.html
As a bonus, it in an introduction to the many versions of Linux to non-geek types. Print up a few disks and pass them out at work.
Why? Just download ubuntu and play with it, you'll figure it out in no time.
Which version?
Studio,
Server,
gobuntu,
mythbuntu,
Edubuntu,
Kubuntu,
CE,
???
Personally, I am using Studio for AV recording & editing.
Just for grins, I flipped through a few old copies. An example of nude women and children making pottery is in the FEB 1964 issue page 174. Now you can get arrested for photos like this? Who knew we would become that crazy.
When you're super-conservative, nudity=thinking forbidden thoughts=sin. Logical solution? Remove sources of nudity to prevent sin. As an added bonus, Think of the Children will garner votes.
I hope I don't get arrested for the back issues of National Geographic in my bookcase. Check issues from the 1950's and 1960's where photos of natives in far away places often included nude children playing.
On a more serious note, when did mere nudity = porn? There are nude beaches, nudist colonies, clothing optional hotels, cruises, etc. I think someone may have crossed nudity with porn. Was there a sex act or adult involved?
Which add up to what - 10% of domestic energy in the US? 15%?
In some parts of the country, this is true, but living a short distance from a huge windfarm and the Columbia river, a coal plant is a far distant and exotic power source to me. It would be expensive to ship in coal over the vast expanse of the great plains and continental divide.
Electric cars aren't clean, they're hypocritic.
It depends on the fuel source.
Wind
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2135/2220294203_2023ebf503.jpg%3Fv%3D0&imgrefurl=http://flickr.com/photos/12954724%40N00/2220294203&usg=__DkEq9CvwRsc7OiH5jhGtatUa4Sw=&h=360&w=500&sz=94&hl=en&start=4&um=1&tbnid=KHGmIM39nWPf3M:&tbnh=94&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Deastern%2Boregon%2Bwindfarm%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
Solar
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.sciencemusings.com/blog/uploaded_images/SolarFarm-709019.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.sciencemusings.com/blog/blogarchive/2006_05_01_blogarchive.html&usg=__4M8Xi6hBoJClzTyvkokYoVT8ZhI=&h=282&w=400&sz=47&hl=en&start=4&um=1&tbnid=ORdJrubuEimFfM:&tbnh=87&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsolar%2Bfarm%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den
Tides and waves
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.greenbizcafe.com.au/blog/content/energy_tide_newyork.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.greenbizcafe.com/blog/%3Ftag%3Dtide&usg=__nnGK5xs9BdYu1AFjKgl5bSoiFiY=&h=300&w=450&sz=76&hl=en&start=5&um=1&tbnid=sXcjq4QL8BLnxM:&tbnh=85&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtide%2Bgeneration%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den
Hydropower
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t054/T054559A.jpg&imgrefurl=http://encarta.msn.com/media_461568445_1741500822_-1_1/Grand_Coulee_Dam.html&usg=__YPdBLSdMPOAC1OU9k7Wf9-09HSM=&h=340&w=517&sz=34&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=wnlEoGk6C5jleM:&tbnh=86&tbnw=131&prev=/images%3Fq%3DGrad%2Bcoulee%2Bdam%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den
They make an everyday wage and they're about to layoff 400+ people from their offices.
Seen any other industry in the same downturn? You are quick to lay the blame.
Companies that adapt and find the needs to be met do better. For example, Music is still sold for private home use only. By definitation, it is not in the license to place it on a personal music player and take it jogging with you, play it in your car away from home etc.
Multimedia is expanding the uses for the product, but the product license prohibits it's use. Here are a few places I am unable to use your product;
A slide show at a wedding reception set to music.
A dance at the wedding reception.
A public Christmas display set to music.
A video clip to place on youtube.
In short, the uses for music has exploded, but you still sell for private home use only. Do you have any idea of how many songs I didn't purchase because the intended use was prohibited?
Do you have any idea how expensive it is for a weekend hobbiest to obtain permission for any of the above listed uses?
The license is too expensive, too difficult to obtain. Unable to use the product directly converts into lost sales. It's time to update the usefulleness of the product to provide value to the consumer.
Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too.
The world still needs PHD's.
(Post Hole Diggers)
It doesn't matter. Any area of the country will be looking at ways to avoid online pitfalls and legal action will be interested in this.
Portland, Oregon or Portland, Maine?
I have been to both, but now reside in neither. They both have schools.
At some point, they're going to get slapped down hard for these tactics and on that day, there will be much cheering from Slashdot.
I think it will come in the form of a rush to get ISP's headquartered in Austin. Many shools looking to avoid the legal problems would change ISP's as a risk avoidance move. Does anyone know if any Portland area ISP's are based in Austin?
In actuality, Microsoft gained its monopoly using questionably dubious, but well documented, business tactics
In reality, much of the Windows is from white box computers. Computers on a budget, a pirated copy of an OS, and lots of free downloadable applications, plus an open interface.
Macs were sealed boxes with the OS pre installed for the most part with little 3rd party hardware support.
When the PC clones were all the rage, they could run Windows, but not Mac software. This is where the PC and the Windows culture outgrew the Mac. Weak copy protection on Windows and DOS were a huge reason for the growth of the OS as the system of choice.
Now that Microsoft is reigning in on Piracy and naked PC's are not as common as pre-built boxes are cheap, many machines are migrating to alternatives as Windows now has relibility and dependability issues for pirated copies.
I stopped using Windows at home on home built stuff for this very reason. I no longer transplant the old OS to the new box when faster hardware comes out. I use Ubuntu instead. MS shot them selves in the foot when you could no longer transplant the OS from the old box to the new one without phoning home and begging. It's much easier to simply install Ubuntu.
That's a lot of BIG companies to be suing.
Regardless, it is expensive to fight. The outcome is not guranteed. This is why America is rapidly becommin a service industry with no manufacturing. Manufacturing is moving elsewhere in a rapid fashion.
Unless the trend can be reversed, then this country will continue to see money drain to elsewhere.
We need reform so America can be a leader in manufacturing again.
edit hosts file and make a back up
Better is to use an OS where only the Admin account can edit the hosts file.
User programs should not edit the hosts file.
CD keys were always written on the CD with a sharpie. It fixes that problem.
Changing to Ubuntu made life even easier. I don't see CD keys anymore.
but if you are that concerned about television you should be able to drop $40 on a converter box and not have the government pay for it.
Got that right. Let's face it. It is typically less than a monthly high speed internet connection. Do some real good and see if you can get $10/mo off my internet bill.
At the very least, the FTC should make it illegal to advertise any product infected with DRM as a "sale" as opposed to a "rental" or "lease". As it's impossible to own them, that's false advertising.
At the very least, the FTC should make it illegal to sell software that hides itself and makes it difficult or impossible to remove when you are done with it.
Uninstalling the game should not leave your PC in a reduced functionality state.
The FTC should also require the game to isolate the game functions from the rest of the computer functions. Playing a game and exiting should never leave your CD burner inop.
Im my case, the one for the GPS maps is in the GPS. The one for the camera is in the camera. The one for the MP3 player is in the MP3 player.
If I need more space for an extended trip, I just upgrade the size and give the undersize one away. There is no inventory of loose cards.