Excuse me? If we're operating on the assumption that she has blocked sharing (both uploading and downloading), and is simply using this to play her files how exactly is she increasing the bandwidth?
Oh well. I did like how you straddled that fence very nicely. "Kazaa bad no matter what, but I support her, please don't hurt me Slashdot..."
They were found guilty. Part of the settlement is to pay this pittance to people. I have in fact bought a CD in that period, so why shouldn't I take the cash? Unless I want to sue them myself, which would fail, the only other thing you can do is not buy CD's as you said. That is what I do as well, I only buy maybe 1 mainstream CD every year. Anything else is usually purchased direct from a local band.
I assume all of those MP3's you have are free downloads from somewhere? Otherwise you haven't accomplished anything by not buying the CD's, you have just resorted to stealing instead.
Figure out what point you're trying to make before posting a rant.
I have posted something with the same sentiments several times. Since we know the editors never take the time to read anything on the site I doubt we'll see a change, but lets keep pushing.
I don't give a shit about case mods or any other cosmetic tweak. I do like to hear about new useful and innovative hardware...
Excellent point, I have been trying to point this out to people for some time now. Everything is going to the subscription model now, and most people aren't smart enough to realize what is happening.
To most people who are not mindful of their budget, a monthly bill of $15 or so here or there is nothing. They fail to take into account what happens when they have 10 or more of those.
If you offered the same 10 services in a package for $150 a month, they wouldn't even consider it.
Personally, I don't have Cable TV or phone line anymore, and I won't use a bank or ATM with fees.
That leaves me with the utility/DSL/gym which I can manage.
Now wait a minute here, people are actually wanting easier hours, more money, and better working conditions to just DO their jobs without learning anything new.
In other words, doing a repetitive task eventually easily automated?
Why on earth would an employer pay more for something like that. They would try to automate and elminate it entirely if they are smart.
The constant need to learn requires a competent human being who deserves being compensated fairly.
This article skims over one very important fact, what is to become of the money earmarked from local option taxes?
I personally hate the fact that each city can have its own different tax, and would love to see a consistent sales tax everywhere I go.
However...the reason that most of these local option taxes exist is to fund a specialized project that otherwise would not happen. Several area towns have used this to direct money toward schools, rec centers, etc.
All in all, seems as though the government is trying to stuff their large, greedy paws in the cookie jar, and they may not even come away with anything except crumbs. The administration of the plan, and the sharing of profits with vendors that is mentioned in the article may in fact eat up most of the profits that the government thinks they would see.
Following that logic, I want to know what Walter Fagan is up to...
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Amen, a hearty thank you for all your work.
I first began using Linux in network-design related jobs. Without all of the excellent Ethernet drivers, it's hard saying when/if I would have picked it up.
It always frustrated me to no end when English teachers exacted their "style" grading upon me.
Even more frustrating was trying to explain to them what they were doing. Usually, this simply led to increased penalty on additional assignments.
By contrast, I had an English teacher who constantly graded me stricter than other students. However, he used this as a way to push me to be a better writer. He did not grade on style, simply on mechanics. In then end, he forced me to be a much more disciplined writer.
If the teachers mentioned in this article are following his example, then kudos to them. We need more of this in our educational system.
Does anyone else find the title of this article horribly stupid?
Why did they make a point to compare Austrailia to the "entire" United States. Being both countries as they are, I would think a simple comparison would suffice.
The reverse might have made sense. To say something like "State of Florida taps more phones than the entire Eastern hemisphere" would have been interesting.
I know it's a rant, but man I would like headlines to be somewhat relevent...
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Why would this foil them exactly?
You're most likely right, since they are likely doing this for sport, not hacking. If you are using this simply as a deterrent, not security, then you are correct.
However, any hacker who actually wanted in your network could do so in seconds:
1. Listen for a unicast frame to determine a valid MAC address on the network. 2. Change MAC address on his/her card to be one of the MAC addresses. 3. Pillage the network of the person sitting dumb, fat, and happy on their unsecured net.
The short and sweet of this is that it is not hard to spoof MAC addresses. Therefore, Access Control Lists (ACL) can not be the only level of security.
Is there some way we can get a new topic for overclocking, case mods, and all the other shit that I just plain don't care about anymore?
I'm not looking to troll here, and I must admit that back in the day of 486, AMD-K6 and the like, I was very much interested in overclocking.
Now, I would prefer to buy my absurdly cheap processor, and just let it run.
I would just block the hardware category, but cool new hardware tends to be one of my favorite things to read about. We just need some additional segmentation.
It's interesting that the poster mentions that spending on hardware is easier to justify.
I have a P3-500 that I use for all of my development. Same machine I use at home. It does all of my builds and daily work just fine.
Now, our IT department has went and bought several hundred new multi-jiggahertz machines. I'm wondering, who exactly needs all of this power?
We aren't a company of gamers(at least nobody is paid to be). If my development environments don't need that speed, I surely doubt that Solitaire and minesweeper will run any faster for our Marketing drones.
I could however use a new copy of Airopeek, but forget ever getting the money for that...
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The requirement for a patent is not whether it is trivial to implement, but whether it was an obvious idea or not.
Whether or not there is prior art to Microsoft or not, this is a patentable idea.
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Excuse me? If we're operating on the assumption that she has blocked sharing (both uploading and downloading), and is simply using this to play her files how exactly is she increasing the bandwidth?
Oh well. I did like how you straddled that fence very nicely. "Kazaa bad no matter what, but I support her, please don't hurt me Slashdot..."
In other news, a Slashdot reader claimed that Marc Andreeson is a whiny bitch and hasn't done anything useful in years.
If he thinks innovation ended at Netscape 4.5, force him to use the web with it. He'll chew his own damn hands off...
So sue them yourself. Or stop buying CD's.
Or continue to sit here on slashdot and bitch about morals without putting forth any effort. It is the slashdot way after all.
What the fuck is your point?
They were found guilty. Part of the settlement is to pay this pittance to people. I have in fact bought a CD in that period, so why shouldn't I take the cash? Unless I want to sue them myself, which would fail, the only other thing you can do is not buy CD's as you said.
That is what I do as well, I only buy maybe 1 mainstream CD every year. Anything else is usually purchased direct from a local band.
I assume all of those MP3's you have are free downloads from somewhere? Otherwise you haven't accomplished anything by not buying the CD's, you have just resorted to stealing instead.
Figure out what point you're trying to make before posting a rant.
Amen.
I have posted something with the same sentiments several times. Since we know the editors never take the time to read anything on the site I doubt we'll see a change, but lets keep pushing.
I don't give a shit about case mods or any other cosmetic tweak. I do like to hear about new useful and innovative hardware...
Do I hear 1? Okay...flip that digit!
Excellent point, I have been trying to point this out to people for some time now. Everything is going to the subscription model now, and most people aren't smart enough to realize what is happening.
To most people who are not mindful of their budget, a monthly bill of $15 or so here or there is nothing. They fail to take into account what happens when they have 10 or more of those.
If you offered the same 10 services in a package for $150 a month, they wouldn't even consider it.
Personally, I don't have Cable TV or phone line anymore, and I won't use a bank or ATM with fees.
That leaves me with the utility/DSL/gym which I can manage.
As one co-worker used to correctly say:
"God intended everything to be big-endian"
Now wait a minute here, people are actually wanting easier hours, more money, and better working conditions to just DO their jobs without learning anything new.
In other words, doing a repetitive task eventually easily automated?
Why on earth would an employer pay more for something like that. They would try to automate and elminate it entirely if they are smart.
The constant need to learn requires a competent human being who deserves being compensated fairly.
This article skims over one very important fact, what is to become of the money earmarked from local option taxes?
I personally hate the fact that each city can have its own different tax, and would love to see a consistent sales tax everywhere I go.
However...the reason that most of these local option taxes exist is to fund a specialized project that otherwise would not happen. Several area towns have used this to direct money toward schools, rec centers, etc.
All in all, seems as though the government is trying to stuff their large, greedy paws in the cookie jar, and they may not even come away with anything except crumbs. The administration of the plan, and the sharing of profits with vendors that is mentioned in the article may in fact eat up most of the profits that the government thinks they would see.
My $.02
Here goes:
What drives a guy working at NASA to develop a plethora of Ethernet drivers and architect a distributed computing system?
Was this based on a need for better tools at work? Spare time?
Following that logic, I want to know what Walter Fagan is up to...
Amen, a hearty thank you for all your work.
I first began using Linux in network-design related jobs. Without all of the excellent Ethernet drivers, it's hard saying when/if I would have picked it up.
Don't forget good old Apache/Perl/PHP. Just in case they want to publish their own website or whatever.
A good way to convince them not to install Microsoft IBS(Internet Bug Server).
So, who does he think will be writing the Engineer in a box software? Marketing? 1,000,000 monkees?
Hope they use lint...
Well said, Wil.
It always frustrated me to no end when English teachers exacted their "style" grading upon me.
Even more frustrating was trying to explain to them what they were doing. Usually, this simply led to increased penalty on additional assignments.
By contrast, I had an English teacher who constantly graded me stricter than other students. However, he used this as a way to push me to be a better writer. He did not grade on style, simply on mechanics. In then end, he forced me to be a much more disciplined writer.
If the teachers mentioned in this article are following his example, then kudos to them. We need more of this in our educational system.
Does anyone else find the title of this article horribly stupid?
Why did they make a point to compare Austrailia to the "entire" United States. Being both countries as they are, I would think a simple comparison would suffice.
The reverse might have made sense. To say something like "State of Florida taps more phones than the entire Eastern hemisphere" would have been interesting.
I know it's a rant, but man I would like headlines to be somewhat relevent...
You're right, it's a really, really ridiculously good OS.
I would pose the first sentence of your post back to you...
On a related note, you won't mind if I bring in 20 access points, or a few microwave ovens and place them in range of your network right?
Since you have invincible bandwidth and all.
Ummm, no.
Why would this foil them exactly?
You're most likely right, since they are likely doing this for sport, not hacking. If you are using this simply as a deterrent, not security, then you are correct.
However, any hacker who actually wanted in your network could do so in seconds:
1. Listen for a unicast frame to determine a valid MAC address on the network.
2. Change MAC address on his/her card to be one of the MAC addresses.
3. Pillage the network of the person sitting dumb, fat, and happy on their unsecured net.
The short and sweet of this is that it is not hard to spoof MAC addresses. Therefore, Access Control Lists (ACL) can not be the only level of security.
Is there some way we can get a new topic for overclocking, case mods, and all the other shit that I just plain don't care about anymore?
I'm not looking to troll here, and I must admit that back in the day of 486, AMD-K6 and the like, I was very much interested in overclocking.
Now, I would prefer to buy my absurdly cheap processor, and just let it run.
I would just block the hardware category, but cool new hardware tends to be one of my favorite things to read about. We just need some additional segmentation.
It's interesting that the poster mentions that spending on hardware is easier to justify.
I have a P3-500 that I use for all of my development. Same machine I use at home. It does all of my builds and daily work just fine.
Now, our IT department has went and bought several hundred new multi-jiggahertz machines. I'm wondering, who exactly needs all of this power?
We aren't a company of gamers(at least nobody is paid to be). If my development environments don't need that speed, I surely doubt that Solitaire and minesweeper will run any faster for our Marketing drones.
I could however use a new copy of Airopeek, but forget ever getting the money for that...