Those individuals were "uncapping" their cable modems by changing their modem config file and uploading it to their modems. That could be labeled theft of service as you are effectively stealing bandwith that you didn't pay for.
Silly question... how does one measure the amount of theft in these cases? By the byte? If you are not paying for the service this is easy, the theft would be equal to the monthly rate normally charged. But if you are paying for service how can you measure the amount of theft that took place?
So far we've had had many replies about how this will violate ToS and is Theft of Service. I would not presume to disagree... it's generally a stupid idea to do something illegal with any broadcast device.
But what about applications that don't involve the cable company what so ever? For example is it possible to set one modem in host and the other to client so one could use a pair to communicate? If so would there be an advantage in terms of range over let's say cat5 ethernet?
I believe it. My old 76 and 79 corolla, both with a 1.6l engine 90/75hp respectively could reach 120mph on a regular basis. While I've never gone that fast in a rabbit for 2.5hrs at a time to get more fuel, I've noticed that petrol Rabbits from the same vintage were roughly equal at least for 5 miles stretches.
I've seen 80mph in a diesel Rabbit on a flat road once. It was a result of being tail gated by some jarhead in a bitchen Camero. I heard the most gawd awful noise and a large ball of black smoke was spewed out the tail pipe that covered the Camero in black soot and the Rabbit took off like a bat out of hell... well... more like an old lady out of walmart.
In my experience 100-120mph is a respectable top speed for a 4 banger 1.6l. I've seen faster in the 1.5/1.6l class but with some modification.
They already have holes in their apartments for those roof-mounted satellite antennas anyway. No more wasting time with wireless setup, eliminating all WiFi security risks.
That is a good idea except for one problem. It would likely be a violation of your agreement with the apartment for good reason. Most apartments won't even let you change the wall plate on your phone to a double jack if you get a 2nd line installed, you have to wire both lines into the single jack and get a splitter.
You might think cat5 isn't a big deal, after all they allow you to use coax to hookup to a dish, but your right to do even this had to be fought for. Cat5 used for data interchange is a different animal and may be required to be inspected. Simply put, it's not TV wire nor is it phone wire, it's low voltage wire used for data interchange. It falls under a different category according to the NEC and may have different rules in your area despite the fact that it's the same stuff you would use for telephone.
You assume your neighbors/clients are just like you. The trick is finding neighbors whose intended application is getting e-mail and browsing the web. This way you get your big arse pipe and they get something better than dialup for about the same price. You get a fat pipe for less and they get something better than what they have.
You could reach 5-6 houses if you're lucky, and not all will want to share a connection.
If this is your game plan... you could buy WiFi repeaters. Each client is connected to your network via the repeater. They in turn either connect via CAT5 for a single machine or WiFi devices for all PCs.
You're right, people have been selling external battery packs for awhile now. But this article seems to be talking about a home-made one called the "Altoids iPod Battery"
One of your batteries cost $40.00. That seems fair. But for $3.00 each or so you can one time use batteries. I could see that being useful for when you are planning to be away from power sources yet want music. And you can replace the cells when they stop holding a charge unlike many battery packs on the market today.
For example... I keep a AA backup pack for my nokia. These batteries last a long time without discharging and are very useful in a pinch. Could come in handy
Do you really believe Jesus was born? I mean, I know it is a fashionable belief, but so is the little mermaid...
I imagine it could be a big conspiracy theory... but I would think it at least likely for there to at least have been a man called Jesus born there and abouts of 2000 years ago who thought it was a good idea to give up fishing and become a prophet. After all prophets were a dime a dozen in those days.
Beta was better than VHS is many respects, but Beta cost more. Standards are formed not by what is better but what is cheapest. Who ever bought early were screwed.
This country was founded on money, asshat. Taxation without representation. Not values, not religious freedom, not anything but cold hard cash.
America was colonized by a various people including those interested in religious freedom. Our government was founded on money and ideals. It would be accurate to say our country was founded on money and God which is why we have on our cash "In God We Trust". I wish sometimes that we were founded on religious ideals rather than ideology.
There are those who believe they should this day wish a Mary Christmas to all *good* people rather than all people.
JESUS WAS BORN IN MARCH! CHRISTMAS IS A PAGAN HOLIDAY!
It wouldn't shock me if Jesus was born in March. I believe I spoke of that when in Catholic School. I got hit by a ruler. Not only are dates near the winter solstice common among many cultures, I believe it was an excellent political move to celebrate the birth of Jesus on a holiday that was already in practice.
One of the benefits of the commercialization of Christmas is the fact that one of the important sermons of Jesus can be observed by all, "All men are brothers, love thy neighbor". You don't have to believe in Jesus or even Santa Claus to respect that one time a year many people wish the best for each other regardless. Truth is truth whether it's wrapped in dogma or a white fluffy beard. And perhaps if one day people can set aside their differences we will remember it's actually very nice.
And fuck, someone remind me of this tomorrow.
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It seems that a similar transformation is occurring (has occurred?) in the computer industry. Instead of having one computer you use for everything, a multitude of small computerized devices now exists for fulfilling specific functions. Of course, a great deal of this is just natural, considering you wouldn't want to lug a desktop PC around with you whenever you wanted some tunes on the go.:-)
Why would you need to lug around a PC when, technology permitting, you are able to store all your media at home and just access them from your smart phone?
True, I should have mentioned this, the program (was it called yaboot?) is kinda strange on the old world macs. You do have to have some os9 installed to actually boot 2 linux, it is not perfect... but luckily I don't have to reboot often!
Perhaps that was my problem. I only had system 7.5, the last version you can download directly from Apple. I don't remember seeing anything about system 9.x but i'm willing to believe it required what ever I didn't have.
I have "brought back to life" a fairly useless 6100 series PowerPC via Yellow Dog
Consider yourself lucky. I never managed to get Yellow Dog 3 installed on a PowerPC 6100 series. IIRC it was sort of a kludge to begin with requiring much of the system's native OS to boot but then switching to yellow dog where it expects to find system. I gave up with much frustration.
Your average soccer mom buys her Dell with Windows installed and is good to go for the next three to five years, at a cost of about $45, or roughly the price of a single pair of ink jet cartridges.....It is not worth her time to spend hours or days retrieving a blocky, artifact-ridden, low-res DiVX rip of a movie she'll be able to buy for $20 or rent for $5 in all it's wide-screen, surround-sound DVD glory next spring
Your average soccer-mom would ask their child how to get movies for free, and save that $5 to $20 for a down payment on a new Toyota. Assuming only one flick a week that is $260 to $1040.
Selling space on a virtual server is not a new concept. Very handy when a client needs full autonomy over their own server but you don't want them to have root everywhere. They have the rights to install all the services they need but it doesn't necessarily affect the over all security of the rest of the machine. You can do this with a product called Vmware which is basicly a host OS that allows you to spawn independent virtual machines. It looks like they plan to do this on the hardware level.
Not too useful for a home user but very useful for a Blade Server.
C'mon, man. You can't have a DISPLAY for the blind. A display means you can SEE it, the blind are sightless. Conclusion? THEY CAN'T SEE IT!
They could not see a graphic relief map but they could feel it. They can't see a tactile display but they can feel it, and chances are a sighted person could SEE it too.
in response to 1), I am not talking about a braille terminal. I'm talking about a text-to-speech synthesizer.
Well, i'm not trully familar with the modern form of text-to-speech systems used by IT professionals, only the basic ones that say "ree colin whi cant thae ucee za see el ei?". While they are helpful they can be very slow and tedius even using some old *nix utilities that don't use any form of cursor control.
I could *learn* to do much with text-to-speech but it is NO replacement for a full screen display. Why shouldn't we explore tactile displays?
Why can't they just use the CLI? The only good reason not to is for multimedia, which obviously a blind person wouldn't care about, and multiple virtual terminals, which nowadays you can just do with Ctrl+F1, Ctrl+F2, etc. Why not use that instead of this presumably horribly expensive item?
1) Brail terminals that i've seen only offer one line of text. They are already horribly expensive items. The diffrence would be using *nix mail vs mutt. Anything with cursor control doesn't work well with this or even phonics. It's damn helpful in lynx to have at least a 80*25 screen display.
2) While CLI would be cool for most things, this device would translate much of regular computer's display into a textured font making more existing applications useable. Something like XMMS or Winamp could conceivably be used on a tactile display.
Is there any way this could somehow do color/images?
Color is a function of the human eye receptors. A person who was blind at birth would have no clue what blue, yellow, or red is. You could say the sun is yellow but that would have about as much meaning as the sun is *kikjij*. How to would one represent *kikjij* as a texture?
Tactile senses can only really tell you shape, texture (firmness/feel), and temperature. Color can not be directly translated into feel. A first step in translating the images into textures would be to work in monochrome needlepoint. You could translate your x-mas webcam for example into a large rectangle with a triangle on top decorated with balls of different materials such as metal, plastic, and wood. It would be a subjective effort but one which could at least communicate what is seen. All of this seem presently beyond the scope of these 10x10 modules.
(title)503 Service Unavailable(/title) (h1)Error: 503 Service Unavailable(/h1)(br) www.kingstreetmedia.tv: No such file or directory (i)Server CoralWebPrx/0.1 (See http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/coral/) at 192.20.225.1
And why exactly would (9) be protectable but not (3)?
Because a list of other people's credit card numbers can be used for theft. There is no reason for me to have anyones credit card number unless I was billing them for something. A list of e-mail addresses are much like a list of phone numbers... as in the phone book.
Or why would (7) be protectable but not (3)?
Because with passwords I could gain access to e-mail, bank accounts, and peform all sorts of acts of theft. The worst I can do with e-mail addresses or phone numbers is contact people.
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Those individuals were "uncapping" their cable modems by changing their modem config file and uploading it to their modems. That could be labeled theft of service as you are effectively stealing bandwith that you didn't pay for.
Silly question... how does one measure the amount of theft in these cases? By the byte? If you are not paying for the service this is easy, the theft would be equal to the monthly rate normally charged. But if you are paying for service how can you measure the amount of theft that took place?
So far we've had had many replies about how this will violate ToS and is Theft of Service. I would not presume to disagree... it's generally a stupid idea to do something illegal with any broadcast device.
But what about applications that don't involve the cable company what so ever? For example is it possible to set one modem in host and the other to client so one could use a pair to communicate? If so would there be an advantage in terms of range over let's say cat5 ethernet?
I believe it. My old 76 and 79 corolla, both with a 1.6l engine 90/75hp respectively could reach 120mph on a regular basis. While I've never gone that fast in a rabbit for 2.5hrs at a time to get more fuel, I've noticed that petrol Rabbits from the same vintage were roughly equal at least for 5 miles stretches.
I've seen 80mph in a diesel Rabbit on a flat road once. It was a result of being tail gated by some jarhead in a bitchen Camero. I heard the most gawd awful noise and a large ball of black smoke was spewed out the tail pipe that covered the Camero in black soot and the Rabbit took off like a bat out of hell... well... more like an old lady out of walmart.
In my experience 100-120mph is a respectable top speed for a 4 banger 1.6l. I've seen faster in the 1.5/1.6l class but with some modification.
No, but a steam powered vehicle did hit 127.66 mph in 1906.
I imagine that a steam power vehicle would have a key advantage in acceleration. Simply put, gas powered cars need a gear box. Steam engines do not.
They already have holes in their apartments for those roof-mounted satellite antennas anyway. No more wasting time with wireless setup, eliminating all WiFi security risks.
That is a good idea except for one problem. It would likely be a violation of your agreement with the apartment for good reason. Most apartments won't even let you change the wall plate on your phone to a double jack if you get a 2nd line installed, you have to wire both lines into the single jack and get a splitter.
You might think cat5 isn't a big deal, after all they allow you to use coax to hookup to a dish, but your right to do even this had to be fought for. Cat5 used for data interchange is a different animal and may be required to be inspected. Simply put, it's not TV wire nor is it phone wire, it's low voltage wire used for data interchange. It falls under a different category according to the NEC and may have different rules in your area despite the fact that it's the same stuff you would use for telephone.
You assume your neighbors/clients are just like you. The trick is finding neighbors whose intended application is getting e-mail and browsing the web. This way you get your big arse pipe and they get something better than dialup for about the same price. You get a fat pipe for less and they get something better than what they have.
You could reach 5-6 houses if you're lucky, and not all will want to share a connection.
If this is your game plan... you could buy WiFi repeaters. Each client is connected to your network via the repeater. They in turn either connect via CAT5 for a single machine or WiFi devices for all PCs.
OTOH, studying Klingon or Quenyan as part of a linguistics degree could be a useful mental exercise.
But it's hard to pickup chicks when you can speak Klingon, except other chicks that also speak Klingon.
You're right, people have been selling external battery packs for awhile now. But this article seems to be talking about a home-made one called the "Altoids iPod Battery"
One of your batteries cost $40.00. That seems fair. But for $3.00 each or so you can one time use batteries. I could see that being useful for when you are planning to be away from power sources yet want music. And you can replace the cells when they stop holding a charge unlike many battery packs on the market today.
For example... I keep a AA backup pack for my nokia. These batteries last a long time without discharging and are very useful in a pinch. Could come in handy
Do you really believe Jesus was born? I mean, I know it is a fashionable belief, but so is the little mermaid...
I imagine it could be a big conspiracy theory... but I would think it at least likely for there to at least have been a man called Jesus born there and abouts of 2000 years ago who thought it was a good idea to give up fishing and become a prophet. After all prophets were a dime a dozen in those days.
Beta was better than VHS is many respects, but Beta cost more. Standards are formed not by what is better but what is cheapest. Who ever bought early were screwed.
I'd also think a two-sided medium could be faster than single-sided medium if you combined the surfaces together in a RAID-0 kind of striping setup.
Downward compatibility. A two sided disk one side at a time assures the fact that it can be read, at least in part, by a single sided drive.
This country was founded on money, asshat. Taxation without representation. Not values, not religious freedom, not anything but cold hard cash.
America was colonized by a various people including those interested in religious freedom. Our government was founded on money and ideals. It would be accurate to say our country was founded on money and God which is why we have on our cash "In God We Trust". I wish sometimes that we were founded on religious ideals rather than ideology.
There are those who believe they should this day wish a Mary Christmas to all *good* people rather than all people.
JESUS WAS BORN IN MARCH! CHRISTMAS IS A PAGAN HOLIDAY!
It wouldn't shock me if Jesus was born in March. I believe I spoke of that when in Catholic School. I got hit by a ruler. Not only are dates near the winter solstice common among many cultures, I believe it was an excellent political move to celebrate the birth of Jesus on a holiday that was already in practice.
One of the benefits of the commercialization of Christmas is the fact that one of the important sermons of Jesus can be observed by all, "All men are brothers, love thy neighbor". You don't have to believe in Jesus or even Santa Claus to respect that one time a year many people wish the best for each other regardless. Truth is truth whether it's wrapped in dogma or a white fluffy beard. And perhaps if one day people can set aside their differences we will remember it's actually very nice.
And fuck, someone remind me of this tomorrow.
It seems that a similar transformation is occurring (has occurred?) in the computer industry. Instead of having one computer you use for everything, a multitude of small computerized devices now exists for fulfilling specific functions. Of course, a great deal of this is just natural, considering you wouldn't want to lug a desktop PC around with you whenever you wanted some tunes on the go. :-)
Why would you need to lug around a PC when, technology permitting, you are able to store all your media at home and just access them from your smart phone?
test: What is the average flight-speed of a sparrow?
a: african or european?
test: I don't know arrrrrggggggggg
True, I should have mentioned this, the program (was it called yaboot?) is kinda strange on the old world macs. You do have to have some os9 installed to actually boot 2 linux, it is not perfect... but luckily I don't have to reboot often!
Perhaps that was my problem. I only had system 7.5, the last version you can download directly from Apple. I don't remember seeing anything about system 9.x but i'm willing to believe it required what ever I didn't have.
I have "brought back to life" a fairly useless 6100 series PowerPC via Yellow Dog
Consider yourself lucky. I never managed to get Yellow Dog 3 installed on a PowerPC 6100 series. IIRC it was sort of a kludge to begin with requiring much of the system's native OS to boot but then switching to yellow dog where it expects to find system. I gave up with much frustration.
Your average soccer mom buys her Dell with Windows installed and is good to go for the next three to five years, at a cost of about $45, or roughly the price of a single pair of ink jet cartridges.....It is not worth her time to spend hours or days retrieving a blocky, artifact-ridden, low-res DiVX rip of a movie she'll be able to buy for $20 or rent for $5 in all it's wide-screen, surround-sound DVD glory next spring
Your average soccer-mom would ask their child how to get movies for free, and save that $5 to $20 for a down payment on a new Toyota. Assuming only one flick a week that is $260 to $1040.
Selling space on a virtual server is not a new concept. Very handy when a client needs full autonomy over their own server but you don't want them to have root everywhere. They have the rights to install all the services they need but it doesn't necessarily affect the over all security of the rest of the machine. You can do this with a product called Vmware which is basicly a host OS that allows you to spawn independent virtual machines. It looks like they plan to do this on the hardware level.
Not too useful for a home user but very useful for a Blade Server.
C'mon, man. You can't have a DISPLAY for the blind. A display means you can SEE it, the blind are sightless. Conclusion? THEY CAN'T SEE IT!
They could not see a graphic relief map but they could feel it. They can't see a tactile display but they can feel it, and chances are a sighted person could SEE it too.
Clearly you have eyes but they do not see.
in response to 1), I am not talking about a braille terminal. I'm talking about a text-to-speech synthesizer.
Well, i'm not trully familar with the modern form of text-to-speech systems used by IT professionals, only the basic ones that say "ree colin whi cant thae ucee za see el ei?". While they are helpful they can be very slow and tedius even using some old *nix utilities that don't use any form of cursor control.
I could *learn* to do much with text-to-speech but it is NO replacement for a full screen display. Why shouldn't we explore tactile displays?
Why can't they just use the CLI? The only good reason not to is for multimedia, which obviously a blind person wouldn't care about, and multiple virtual terminals, which nowadays you can just do with Ctrl+F1, Ctrl+F2, etc. Why not use that instead of this presumably horribly expensive item?
1) Brail terminals that i've seen only offer one line of text. They are already horribly expensive items. The diffrence would be using *nix mail vs mutt. Anything with cursor control doesn't work well with this or even phonics. It's damn helpful in lynx to have at least a 80*25 screen display.
2) While CLI would be cool for most things, this device would translate much of regular computer's display into a textured font making more existing applications useable. Something like XMMS or Winamp could conceivably be used on a tactile display.
Is there any way this could somehow do color/images?
Color is a function of the human eye receptors. A person who was blind at birth would have no clue what blue, yellow, or red is. You could say the sun is yellow but that would have about as much meaning as the sun is *kikjij*. How to would one represent *kikjij* as a texture?
Tactile senses can only really tell you shape, texture (firmness/feel), and temperature. Color can not be directly translated into feel. A first step in translating the images into textures would be to work in monochrome needlepoint. You could translate your x-mas webcam for example into a large rectangle with a triangle on top decorated with balls of different materials such as metal, plastic, and wood. It would be a subjective effort but one which could at least communicate what is seen. All of this seem presently beyond the scope of these 10x10 modules.
(title)503 Service Unavailable(/title)
(h1)Error: 503 Service Unavailable(/h1)(br)
www.kingstreetmedia.tv: No such file or directory
(i)Server CoralWebPrx/0.1 (See http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/coral/) at 192.20.225.1
And why exactly would (9) be protectable but not (3)?
Because a list of other people's credit card numbers can be used for theft. There is no reason for me to have anyones credit card number unless I was billing them for something. A list of e-mail addresses are much like a list of phone numbers... as in the phone book.
Or why would (7) be protectable but not (3)?
Because with passwords I could gain access to e-mail, bank accounts, and peform all sorts of acts of theft. The worst I can do with e-mail addresses or phone numbers is contact people.