I was just trying to explain to my father how the quality of movies released in warez channels on IRC are much better quality than camcorder recordings. What exactly does it mean "DVD screener?" What is the process and why does every warez group have a copy of the movie the day before it is released to the public?
Please tell me that both of you have read LOTR since your younger ages! I read it when I was 11 or 12 but then not again until just before the first movie. WOW, the story has changed. It is amazing what your younger self and older self latch on to in the story. Also, the names and places are much easier to keep straight now.
Bah, "a book must stand in its own." What rubbish. Exactly how does Two Towers stand on its own. How does Second Foundation stand on its own. How silly.
Flying one way from Denver to Florida 5 months ago. I was moving, so I had my entire network, laptop, cables, power strips, etc all loaded into my laptop backpack (LOVE IT!) which I normally carry on the plane. Man did the security hate me, I was stopped 3 times (note the one way ticket) and had to identify every part and cable in my case. "Yes, ma'am, that's a hub, that's a wireless hub, that's a router, that's patch cable, that's more patch cable just different color, that's my mouse, yes it does look different and small, that's just a power strip, and that is a power cable." The whole time wondering why it mattered that I name every piece, like they knew or like I would slip up and say, "that is the C-4 enclosed in a linksys router.....damn busted!"
It has been over 4 years since my last time on a school campus, but the calls still come. This past December I recieved two. It's always late at night, the person is normally crying so hard I don't even know who they are. Actually now they seem to be little brothers or sisters of friends instead of actual friends. Then they say the words, "It's gone, please, please. ..tell me you can help!" It's always their final paper or some other final grade dependant file that just disappeared.
The ones that upset me the most are, "The power blinked and my computer restarted. I had not saved in hours I was in such a hurry."
The single failed recovery that I remember that really needed some counsling. I got the call early on a Monday morning. I drove to his office. He had been working on a database of all contacts for the company and integrating some new logic that would change the structure of marketing. It had been fruitless for 6 months but was within weeks of being ready for use and executive level was willing to give him a little more time to roll on the big new marketing system. It was gone, windows machine went nuts (win3.1). I examined the disk, and there were pieces of his files all over. I told him it would take days to try and piece it all back together if it could all be found. I also suggested he try one of the recovery firms who might be able to better ensure no loss occurred. He talked to his boss, took the rest of the day off and turned in his resignation on Friday. He had spent over 6 months on a gamble and had not backed up once, to a well networked and backed up, tech savy company. All he had to do was drop his working directory on his network share and it would be backed up daily. There was no money for the recovery effort.
Well, I'm heading off to go double check my backup routines and verify a recovery set (amounts to knocking on wood).
Oldest IRC channel control bot. The bot logs in, sits in a channel and manages ownership of the channel and protects the channel from take over. A bot of some sort is pretty important if some one plans to run a large channel for any length of time.
A simple way I was able to give my self the cold sweats when I was younger and thinking about teleportation via Star Trek destoy-duplicate method was to slow down the switch and do it out of order to demonstrate that you (as in your own "Self", the "I" in "I am me") will no longer exist.
Imagagine a teleporter in a room. A sending spot and a receiving spot facing each other about ten feet apart. You standing on the sending platform.
Computer starts up, reading your every particle and preparing to reproduce. A figure becomes visible on the receiving side, you see your duplicate. An instant later the machine is finished and obliterates your existance. When the duplicate is asked how it feels, it replies, that it is fine and the transfer was a success. It has all your memories right up until it was created, blessedly not remembering your last anguished thought as you became cosmic dust. You(the you that was you) no longer exist in any way, too bad you are the only one that noticed.
For you readers, this is a great 2-3 day quick read. Ignoring the science holes, it is a very enjoyable page turner.
SPOILERS BELOW!!!! PLEASE LOOK AWAY!
I was very frustrated by the fact that a virus that had been nibbling on the vat of e-coli would cause the swarms to scream and melt. I was expecting glitches and slow deterioriation and heart pounding suspense while the reader is unsure if the virus is even working. Instead, we get instant gratification. And then an explosion and super heated destruction just to make sure everything is good and wiped out.
So that sucked.
Then, why did the children just allow themselves to be given the virus and not fight back. If there were already three swarms working, why were they not already setting up a nest?
And the glow in the back yard seemed like Crichton was setting up for a sequal or something and then decided not to.
Over all, one of the best page turning and late night reading books I have enjoyed lately. Even if the science was rough, over all a very well written book.
I think that they have been successful, even if only marginally, so far. Each time they shut down one, it is replaced, although not by one, but by many. This is actually a problem for file sharing. I used to be able to hop on napster and grab the song I was interested in at the moment (within reason of course) and have it downloaded in minutes. As the *AA threaten and sue, individuals and networks continue to innovate and create their own version of something secure and viable in the face of legal attack. The P2P options continue to be more and more diluted. Finding a specific song that I am interested in is now not nearly as straight forward. If they continue to make rubble out of boulders, it will only get worse.
Actually, I have already given up on public swapping and just trade with a group of friends on a private server.
A few years ago a similar thing was all the rage for trashing people's email accounts. Sign them up for 10's of gay porn emails and they would see an avalanche. This is pretty bad since once you are on one list it spreads. I wonder how a cell company could help you if this happened to you. The number would be trashed for them even if they gave you a new one. Interesting, know the cell number of anyone you hate, sounds like time for an experiment.
The only big openning I have ever seen was for Starwars:Ep1. I thought it was really cool that they announced that there would be zero previews or ad's so that they could start the movie right at 12:01am. We even did a count down. Pretty cool, except then we were the first people to get disapointed. Maybe that is why I haven't been to another 12:01 release since.
I guess you hit my problem right on the head. There is not a clear solution. Seeing the facts as I slantedly laid them out makes you feel very sorry for Tom, but at the same time the mother is in some way right that there may have been foul play and an investigation and hearing of the facts should be completed.
I am depressed that in this situation a person is punished before being found guilty. And although he has civil options, he will probably never be back to where he was a year ago.
I was giving an example of the problem, and I am far from able to see any solution, hence my anger and frustration.
this always shakes me to my core. It is by far one of the scarier things about our legal system.
Example: An aguantance of mine ("Tom") is a guidance counselor. Tom would not give a female student a late pass to class, even though she begged because she would get detention. He refused and she stormed off to class. When asked by her teacher why she was late she started crying hysterically. The teacher and her stepped outside and she explained that Tom had made her undress and begged her to have sex with him. He said he wouldn't let her go to class unless she did. (the story is bigger and longer but anyway). Police are called in, Tom is suspended with pay (go unions) and told to get a lawyer (union said it would cover cost and then backed out).
The girl later confessed to the police that she made the whole thing up and she just didn't want detention and wanted Tom fired.
Get this, her mother said that the whole thing was too shady and that her daughter was too young to decide and she wanted to continue to press charges so that everything could be worked out in court!
Tom has now been asked to please find a job elsewhere (union prevents him from being fired outright), but this has been in the papers, so good luck. He had to sell his house to have money for the lawyer. And when all this is said and done, he will have no way to recover where he once was in life and career.
Ever driven in Colorado? I am sure other states are the same but it was really obvious in CO. There are these great high altitude roads that are scenic drives, absolutely beautiful. But there are no guard rails, no shoulders to the road, just a few thousand feet to drop. My wife was positive that this was Colorado's way to help the less able off this planet. Watching an oversize "winnie" drive along these roads with 60 mph gusts is just gut wrenching. My new beetle just loved it though.
I have not ridden one, but I was very impressed with how Disney employees managed them in very heavy crowds. They were able to zip around and through some of the heaviest of gawking tourists (toughest kind of crowd) without any issues. If Disney trusts them not to cause lawsuits, I think that says a LOT!
Please, can either one of the parents back up their claim with evidence? I am considering reserving one for my father for Christmas and I would like to hear how legislation is affecting the viability of the Segway.
I saw one at Epcot here at Disney in Orlando. The guy was not demoing but actually using it to deliver packages. At one store he had to get off and go inside, but first stood next to it with his hand in front of the handle bar to keep bumping it back because it was trying to leave him. After a few seconds it finally stopped.
Quit trying to con the masses. Everyone knows that the Netherlands is part of Germany the same way Luxemburg is. I don't know why you are trying to confuse the United States'ans.
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Wow a sane voice in the crowd! I was afraid to even jump in to the screaming today. Everyone is so fast to point at the Right for using its strength to do evil, but they don't take power until January? Strange group think going on.
I don't care who does it, I hate riders and think they should be curtailed on the congressional side. They probably never will be, but one could hope.
This has actually been their tactic all along. They always market the latest release or upgrade as fixing so many of the problems from before. When I used to be a network admin I hated getting the question from management, "Have we looked in to the new release from MS, think it will fix that problem we've been having?" I can only think to my self that no it will not fix the keyboard he dropped coffee cake in to.
yeah, but until someone sees it in action they can only imagine the way the "jerk" with the remote screws up movies. They don't realize how handy it is with TV. I hate hearing the, "it sounds cool, I just don't know that I would ever use that."
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I was just trying to explain to my father how the quality of movies released in warez channels on IRC are much better quality than camcorder recordings. What exactly does it mean "DVD screener?" What is the process and why does every warez group have a copy of the movie the day before it is released to the public?
Please tell me that both of you have read LOTR since your younger ages! I read it when I was 11 or 12 but then not again until just before the first movie. WOW, the story has changed. It is amazing what your younger self and older self latch on to in the story. Also, the names and places are much easier to keep straight now.
Bah, "a book must stand in its own." What rubbish. Exactly how does Two Towers stand on its own. How does Second Foundation stand on its own. How silly.
Thanks America, our benevolent overlord dictators of the world!
you're just jealous because we get to call our country's leader "Mr Hegemon."
Flying one way from Denver to Florida 5 months ago. I was moving, so I had my entire network, laptop, cables, power strips, etc all loaded into my laptop backpack (LOVE IT!) which I normally carry on the plane. Man did the security hate me, I was stopped 3 times (note the one way ticket) and had to identify every part and cable in my case. "Yes, ma'am, that's a hub, that's a wireless hub, that's a router, that's patch cable, that's more patch cable just different color, that's my mouse, yes it does look different and small, that's just a power strip, and that is a power cable." The whole time wondering why it mattered that I name every piece, like they knew or like I would slip up and say, "that is the C-4 enclosed in a linksys router.....damn busted!"
It has been over 4 years since my last time on a school campus, but the calls still come. This past December I recieved two. It's always late at night, the person is normally crying so hard I don't even know who they are. Actually now they seem to be little brothers or sisters of friends instead of actual friends. Then they say the words, "It's gone, please, please. . .tell me you can help!" It's always their final paper or some other final grade dependant file that just disappeared.
The ones that upset me the most are, "The power blinked and my computer restarted. I had not saved in hours I was in such a hurry."
The single failed recovery that I remember that really needed some counsling. I got the call early on a Monday morning. I drove to his office. He had been working on a database of all contacts for the company and integrating some new logic that would change the structure of marketing. It had been fruitless for 6 months but was within weeks of being ready for use and executive level was willing to give him a little more time to roll on the big new marketing system. It was gone, windows machine went nuts (win3.1). I examined the disk, and there were pieces of his files all over. I told him it would take days to try and piece it all back together if it could all be found. I also suggested he try one of the recovery firms who might be able to better ensure no loss occurred. He talked to his boss, took the rest of the day off and turned in his resignation on Friday. He had spent over 6 months on a gamble and had not backed up once, to a well networked and backed up, tech savy company. All he had to do was drop his working directory on his network share and it would be backed up daily. There was no money for the recovery effort.
Well, I'm heading off to go double check my backup routines and verify a recovery set (amounts to knocking on wood).
I apologize. I myself am old, but did not speak from experience. I was quoting the eggheads website:
"Some benefits of Eggdrop: [...]The oldest IRC bot still in active development (Eggdrop was created in 1993)" - eggheads.org
That will teach me to take a web site at its word
Oldest IRC channel control bot. The bot logs in, sits in a channel and manages ownership of the channel and protects the channel from take over. A bot of some sort is pretty important if some one plans to run a large channel for any length of time.
You can get more info here.
A simple way I was able to give my self the cold sweats when I was younger and thinking about teleportation via Star Trek destoy-duplicate method was to slow down the switch and do it out of order to demonstrate that you (as in your own "Self", the "I" in "I am me") will no longer exist.
Imagagine a teleporter in a room. A sending spot and a receiving spot facing each other about ten feet apart. You standing on the sending platform.
Computer starts up, reading your every particle and preparing to reproduce. A figure becomes visible on the receiving side, you see your duplicate. An instant later the machine is finished and obliterates your existance. When the duplicate is asked how it feels, it replies, that it is fine and the transfer was a success. It has all your memories right up until it was created, blessedly not remembering your last anguished thought as you became cosmic dust. You(the you that was you) no longer exist in any way, too bad you are the only one that noticed.
For you readers, this is a great 2-3 day quick read. Ignoring the science holes, it is a very enjoyable page turner.
SPOILERS BELOW!!!! PLEASE LOOK AWAY!
I was very frustrated by the fact that a virus that had been nibbling on the vat of e-coli would cause the swarms to scream and melt. I was expecting glitches and slow deterioriation and heart pounding suspense while the reader is unsure if the virus is even working. Instead, we get instant gratification. And then an explosion and super heated destruction just to make sure everything is good and wiped out.
So that sucked.
Then, why did the children just allow themselves to be given the virus and not fight back. If there were already three swarms working, why were they not already setting up a nest?
And the glow in the back yard seemed like Crichton was setting up for a sequal or something and then decided not to.
Over all, one of the best page turning and late night reading books I have enjoyed lately. Even if the science was rough, over all a very well written book.
I have been curious about this for a while. Does anyone have figures on the number of people that drive Yankee and those that drive British?
I don't normally moderator bitch, but why did this get modded up? It asks the same question twice and was answed in the article...
It should have been modded into oblivion with a big "read the F*n article" sign hung on it.
I think that they have been successful, even if only marginally, so far. Each time they shut down one, it is replaced, although not by one, but by many. This is actually a problem for file sharing. I used to be able to hop on napster and grab the song I was interested in at the moment (within reason of course) and have it downloaded in minutes. As the *AA threaten and sue, individuals and networks continue to innovate and create their own version of something secure and viable in the face of legal attack. The P2P options continue to be more and more diluted. Finding a specific song that I am interested in is now not nearly as straight forward. If they continue to make rubble out of boulders, it will only get worse.
Actually, I have already given up on public swapping and just trade with a group of friends on a private server.
A few years ago a similar thing was all the rage for trashing people's email accounts. Sign them up for 10's of gay porn emails and they would see an avalanche. This is pretty bad since once you are on one list it spreads. I wonder how a cell company could help you if this happened to you. The number would be trashed for them even if they gave you a new one. Interesting, know the cell number of anyone you hate, sounds like time for an experiment.
The only big openning I have ever seen was for Starwars:Ep1. I thought it was really cool that they announced that there would be zero previews or ad's so that they could start the movie right at 12:01am. We even did a count down. Pretty cool, except then we were the first people to get disapointed. Maybe that is why I haven't been to another 12:01 release since.
I guess you hit my problem right on the head. There is not a clear solution. Seeing the facts as I slantedly laid them out makes you feel very sorry for Tom, but at the same time the mother is in some way right that there may have been foul play and an investigation and hearing of the facts should be completed.
I am depressed that in this situation a person is punished before being found guilty. And although he has civil options, he will probably never be back to where he was a year ago.
I was giving an example of the problem, and I am far from able to see any solution, hence my anger and frustration.
this always shakes me to my core. It is by far one of the scarier things about our legal system.
Example:
An aguantance of mine ("Tom") is a guidance counselor. Tom would not give a female student a late pass to class, even though she begged because she would get detention. He refused and she stormed off to class. When asked by her teacher why she was late she started crying hysterically. The teacher and her stepped outside and she explained that Tom had made her undress and begged her to have sex with him. He said he wouldn't let her go to class unless she did. (the story is bigger and longer but anyway).
Police are called in, Tom is suspended with pay (go unions) and told to get a lawyer (union said it would cover cost and then backed out).
The girl later confessed to the police that she made the whole thing up and she just didn't want detention and wanted Tom fired.
Get this, her mother said that the whole thing was too shady and that her daughter was too young to decide and she wanted to continue to press charges so that everything could be worked out in court!
Tom has now been asked to please find a job elsewhere (union prevents him from being fired outright), but this has been in the papers, so good luck. He had to sell his house to have money for the lawyer. And when all this is said and done, he will have no way to recover where he once was in life and career.
It makes me very, very ill.
Ever driven in Colorado? I am sure other states are the same but it was really obvious in CO. There are these great high altitude roads that are scenic drives, absolutely beautiful. But there are no guard rails, no shoulders to the road, just a few thousand feet to drop. My wife was positive that this was Colorado's way to help the less able off this planet. Watching an oversize "winnie" drive along these roads with 60 mph gusts is just gut wrenching. My new beetle just loved it though.
I have not ridden one, but I was very impressed with how Disney employees managed them in very heavy crowds. They were able to zip around and through some of the heaviest of gawking tourists (toughest kind of crowd) without any issues. If Disney trusts them not to cause lawsuits, I think that says a LOT!
Please, can either one of the parents back up their claim with evidence? I am considering reserving one for my father for Christmas and I would like to hear how legislation is affecting the viability of the Segway.
I saw one at Epcot here at Disney in Orlando. The guy was not demoing but actually using it to deliver packages. At one store he had to get off and go inside, but first stood next to it with his hand in front of the handle bar to keep bumping it back because it was trying to leave him. After a few seconds it finally stopped.
Quit trying to con the masses. Everyone knows that the Netherlands is part of Germany the same way Luxemburg is. I don't know why you are trying to confuse the United States'ans.
Wow a sane voice in the crowd! I was afraid to even jump in to the screaming today. Everyone is so fast to point at the Right for using its strength to do evil, but they don't take power until January? Strange group think going on.
I don't care who does it, I hate riders and think they should be curtailed on the congressional side. They probably never will be, but one could hope.
This has actually been their tactic all along. They always market the latest release or upgrade as fixing so many of the problems from before. When I used to be a network admin I hated getting the question from management, "Have we looked in to the new release from MS, think it will fix that problem we've been having?" I can only think to my self that no it will not fix the keyboard he dropped coffee cake in to.
yeah, but until someone sees it in action they can only imagine the way the "jerk" with the remote screws up movies. They don't realize how handy it is with TV. I hate hearing the, "it sounds cool, I just don't know that I would ever use that."