Exactly. So by participating, they either made the sharing legal, or they were doing the equivilant of wiretapping.
I think part of the issue is that its all farmed out anyhow. The *IAA doesn't even participate at all in any of the filesharing things, a intermediary company does, and sends its reports off to the company it was hired by. So we're both probably wrong in the end.
It probably means that since they did not have a warrent or a subpeona or some kind of court order allowing them to gather the 'evidence' that it might very well be thrown out.
I'm also suprised that noone has thought to look at the possible wiretapping laws in regards to gathering data this way. I mean, you couldn't just hook into a local pbx and listen into people's phone calls to see if they're making deals to pirate stuff. Why would they be able to gather evidence by joining a torrent swarm or on a p2p network, or sniffing network traffic? It should amount to the same thing, imo.
Yea, good luck suing someone for blocking any call made over VOIP. Can't pick and choose which regulations apply. Either the service IS regulated, and there are consequences for messing with the service, or it's NOT regulated, and anyone can do anything to the service.
It should run on XP. XP has a compatibility tab if you right-click on the shortcut and click on properties that will allow you to emulate 95, 98/ME, NT4sp5, and 2k.
So far older games of around the same era that wouldn't run in XP without compatibility mode run with it on.
The study doesn't specify which Linux distribution they used. I guess you could say "all of them" but c'mon, you just can't leave out details like that.
The international standard unit of length, approximately equivalent to 39.37 inches. It was redefined in 1983 as the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second. See table at measurement.
merriam-webster online:
Main Entry: 3meter Function: noun Etymology: French mètre, from Greek metron measure : the base unit of length in the International System of Units that is equal to the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 second or to about 39.37 inches -- see METRIC SYSTEM table
So, you see. When America finally does switch to the metric system, we'll say meter to mean a hundred centimeters. And, we'll be right.
I'd think they'd call it KludGe. Afterall, they DID Kludge it all together:)
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FreeBSD is ugly to install...but once done it's a damned fine OS for the money.
I actually find a sort of beauty in installing FreeBSD, and whatever services I want. Nothing ugly at all. Even the end result is beautiful.
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I believe that the lack of a large, centralized resource for FreeBSD binary packages is one of the biggest things holding back BSD acceptance in the open source community at the moment.
There is. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/ . Oodles and oodles of binary packages all in one centralized place. Granted, not EVERY single possible binary package is there, but most things are. You'd be amazed if you've never actually looked.
There was an on-campus apt mirror which I'd set up, and it was a simple matter for the Linux users to issue a quick 'apt-get install' command to grab the latest binaries or Justin Timberlake MP3s without compilation holdups
Its actually exceedingly trivial to do the same in FreeBSD. All you do is edit/etc/make.conf (the default make.conf is in/etc/defaults/make.conf), and tell it "Hey, when you go to get stuff, try to get it from this place first.", and if it can't? Well, it'll fall back, and do what it normally does - cycle through the list of servers it knows the binaries/source is on, and grab it from there.
That way BSD users could switch from the ports system to the tried and true apt-get when binary packages are desired.
Or, people could just use the system that's ALREADY tried and true.
The ports system has been in use much, much longer than apt-get, is MORE user-friendly, and has been more thoroughly pounded than apt-get.
Don't want to start a flame-war, just tired of people saying "(Free|Open|Net|Whatever)BSD should use OUR shiny new package management system!" instead of actually looking at how the heck to use the ports system the way it was meant to be used in the first place. Instead of trying to haphazardly slap these wacky "patches" to it. That'll work great. Yea it will. Just like porting over Gentoo's portage to the *BSDs would work. That'll make things easier! Sure.
Darwin is the open source UNIX-based foundation of Mac OS X. Darwin incorporates the Mach 3.0 microkernel, operating system services based on Free BSD 5, high performance networking facilities, and support for multiple integrated file systems. Darwin's modular design allows for dynamic loading of device drivers, network extensions, and new file systems.
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Exactly. So by participating, they either made the sharing legal, or they were doing the equivilant of wiretapping.
I think part of the issue is that its all farmed out anyhow. The *IAA doesn't even participate at all in any of the filesharing things, a intermediary company does, and sends its reports off to the company it was hired by. So we're both probably wrong in the end.
It probably means that since they did not have a warrent or a subpeona or some kind of court order allowing them to gather the 'evidence' that it might very well be thrown out.
I'm also suprised that noone has thought to look at the possible wiretapping laws in regards to gathering data this way. I mean, you couldn't just hook into a local pbx and listen into people's phone calls to see if they're making deals to pirate stuff. Why would they be able to gather evidence by joining a torrent swarm or on a p2p network, or sniffing network traffic? It should amount to the same thing, imo.
Soon, young jedi, you too will feel the power of the darkside and join us.
MUAHAHAHAHAHA
Yea, good luck suing someone for blocking any call made over VOIP. Can't pick and choose which regulations apply. Either the service IS regulated, and there are consequences for messing with the service, or it's NOT regulated, and anyone can do anything to the service.
YARR! GOLD!
# rm /bin/bash /bin/bash: No such file or directory
rm:
# Darn you, BSD! Spoiling my nefarious bunny plans once again!
What's REALLY an effort if futility is reading your post. I can't understand your incoherent writing style.
It should run on XP. XP has a compatibility tab if you right-click on the shortcut and click on properties that will allow you to emulate 95, 98/ME, NT4sp5, and 2k.
So far older games of around the same era that wouldn't run in XP without compatibility mode run with it on.
It will never relace the ports system of BSD.
;)
Well, I'll rephrase that. No BSD user will ever install portage on their system, especially if they already know how to use it.
Gentoo Linux people using BSD might, but then.. Well, they should probably just keep using Gentoo.
The study doesn't specify which Linux distribution they used. I guess you could say "all of them" but c'mon, you just can't leave out details like that.
from Dictionary.com:
meter2 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (mtr)
n. Abbr. m
The international standard unit of length, approximately equivalent to 39.37 inches. It was redefined in 1983 as the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second. See table at measurement.
merriam-webster online:
Main Entry: 3meter
Function: noun
Etymology: French mètre, from Greek metron measure
: the base unit of length in the International System of Units that is equal to the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 second or to about 39.37 inches -- see METRIC SYSTEM table
So, you see. When America finally does switch to the metric system, we'll say meter to mean a hundred centimeters. And, we'll be right.
Elshar
I'd think they'd call it KludGe. Afterall, they DID Kludge it all together :)
FreeBSD is ugly to install...but once done it's a damned fine OS for the money.
I actually find a sort of beauty in installing FreeBSD, and whatever services I want. Nothing ugly at all. Even the end result is beautiful.
There is. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles
Its actually exceedingly trivial to do the same in FreeBSD. All you do is edit
Or, people could just use the system that's ALREADY tried and true.
The ports system has been in use much, much longer than apt-get, is MORE user-friendly, and has been more thoroughly pounded than apt-get.
Don't want to start a flame-war, just tired of people saying "(Free|Open|Net|Whatever)BSD should use OUR shiny new package management system!" instead of actually looking at how the heck to use the ports system the way it was meant to be used in the first place. Instead of trying to haphazardly slap these wacky "patches" to it. That'll work great. Yea it will. Just like porting over Gentoo's portage to the *BSDs would work. That'll make things easier! Sure.