Whether we agree with the law or not, Joe broke it. The University appears to be interested in protecting him (and all students) as much as possible.
You seem to instantly agree with the RIAA's allegations and this got me thinking that the school is doing the same thing. Now that he's faced with a 97 billion dollar lawsuit they're not doing anything to protect him and the university is supporting the RIAA's assertion that he is guilty. In court, the case could now be even tighter because lines from the letter like no matter how much education we provide, people will still break the law / situation with Joe Nievelt... allowed the problem to grow to the size and scope that it is today / seriousness of the allegations against Mr. Nievelt state that the university fully agrees with the allegations.
Also, by writing this letter the university is admitting that it is their duty to police the network, so the RIAA may now be able to sue the school itself for providing the sharing network and computers and not effectively monitoring.
..as long as they don't show, in full panoramic glory, last week's SNL skit with Tracy Morgan and Selma Hayek giving King Kong's Dong a rubdown.
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Like how the Patriot is targeting friendly aircraft?
On Sunday, a Patriot Missile battery on the Kuwait border accidentally shot down a British Royal Air Force (RAF) Tornado GR-4 aircraft that was returning from a mission over Iraq . Two British pilots were killed in the incident. Then on Monday a U.S. F-16 fighter jet fired at and destroyed a Patriot battery's radar dish after the pilot said the Patriot had "locked on" to the plane. Published reports have linked the mishaps to software problems with the Patriot.
I just read that Microsoft's XML spec for documents is going to embed script macros anywhere within the XML document. The founder of Sophos says that this is going to make detecting viruses harder and slower since the whole document must be examined instead of just the macro section and that sending these documents in email could soon be an easy way to Dos mail gateway servers. Argh!
How do they know it wasn't just high traffic? If even your mom is forwarding the link, then it seems likely that the link was getting passed around to a lot of people.
WASHINGTON, DC--At a Pentagon press conference Monday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld touted the military's upcoming Gulf War II: The Vengeance as "even better than the original."
"If you thought the first one was good, just wait until you see the sequel," Rumsfeld said of Gulf War II, scheduled to hit Iraqi theaters of operation March 22. "In the original, as you no doubt know, we defeat Saddam Hussein, only to let him slip away at the very end. This time, we're going back in to take out the trash."...
I was about to ask the same thing, but looked it up instead. According to the Marriage to a US Citizen FAQ, it takes up to five years to get a green card, and becoming a permanent resident/citizen takes 12-18 months. She's probably in the waiting period. I guess we've been watching too 'marriage of convenience' movies.
He's the buyer on most of those reviews.. mostly wrestling vids. My guess is that he bought this thing, it didn't work, and now he's trying to sell it.
From the interview with Creative's worldwide marketing manager..
Q: The digital outputs are disabled during DVD Audio playback, are there any plans to add more Digital Right Management and copy limitations to the Audigy 2 or any future product?
A: At Creative we don't look at it as adding "limitations" to our technology. We wanted to add DVD-Audio, which we feel (and I am sure all your readers will agree) adds a massive benefit to our product line. However, DVD-Audio incorporates certain copy-protection features that MUST be in place before support of the format is allowed. This is not unique to our card. Even standard DVD-Audio players are not allowed any form of "bit-for-bit" digital output while playing DVD-Audio. Some solutions use proprietary digital connections to deliver the digital content to their amp, etc., which means that you can't plug the digital output into a digital recording device.
Therefore as an "Enabler," we evaluate the benefit of a format against the limitations to the user. For instance, we also support WMA. This has requirements to support their DRM implementation, which we do. Remember that all these technologies do NOT stop you from making personal copies of unprotected media. They simply protect that content using the protection methods of the format.
In short, will we ever add generic "Copy-Protection" technologies to our products that stop users doing what they want with their music/ audio? No.
Will we ever add more formats that may incorporate stringent copy-protection technologies to protect itself? Most definitely, if the format is desirable to our users.
Finally, although there may be very stringent copy-protection formats, it is normally in the field of protecting "exact" digital copies. There is normally flexibility where analog/ low quality copies wish to be made. For instance, the DVD-Audio format does give some flexibility in the areas of 16-bit/ 44.1kHz Digital outputs, or for making analog copies. It was not possible to enable this from day one, but we will work to expose this and provide as much flexibility to our users as we move forward.
True, but only for pages that have been indexed. Since Google does a better job formatting, it would be great if they had a conversion that you could do on demand. I've used the Adobe utility a number of times on small scientific sites that aren't fully indexed.
You should try xblast, it's actually much more fun in my opinion. It's available here or for other platforms try the left links at the (noisy) homepage, or grab the Debian package.
Their pricing is confusing. I looked through the site and it looked to me like personal access with no running of servers is truly unlimited. Nowhere does it say that that service has a cap. The business service, at the same price of $39.95 caps at 5Gb and $3 per additional Gb. Don't most ISPs mean gigabyte in the hard drive company sense of 5,000,000,000 bytes when they say this? Anyway, the only real difference between the two plans seems to be server use of upstream bandwidth.
Also, what do they mean by 'Point-to-point' connections? Do they physically wire you up with someone else in the community? If you both have a 100Mbs connection to the Internet, why would you even want that?
I destroyed my boot partition trying to remove c-dilla. It was my fault, but I was desperate to get rid of it. I tried various things like deleting reg keys, deleting files, and uninstalling but it just kept coming back. Finally I followed the advice in various places like this thread that suggested using a hex editor to wipe out sector 32 or 64 of the hard drive and, of course, then I couldn't boot. I probably could have fixed it with fdisk/mbr or a linux boot disk, but I had everything backed up and just decided to low level format the drive.
Also, it looks like at least one big boycott ended a while ago with Intuit saying they would remove c-dilla later this fall and never use it again, however I think I'll be using Taxcut next year.
Things have improved since those days. Check out some screenshots of Matrox's reef demo by scrolling to the bottom of this page. There's instructions there to get it working with other video cards.
Why don't we have ubiquitous, easy power for laptops on jets yet? I saw what looked like a power socket on a United flight last summer, but didn't have an adapter. Actually, an article by David Strom from two years ago said that airlines were making progress but still had a long way to go. The article points to a list of laptop services (old?) provided by each airline.
Accoding to this article from NASA, Ion engines don't create anything near 1g of thrust. In fact, the acceleration is so slight that scientists have to test in a vacuum to measure it. Like you mentioned, they get their efficiency from the speed of the ejected ions, however this article states that 80 kg of fuel would last 1 to 2 years and could accelerate a rocket up to 22,000 mph.
And for propellantless propulsion we have the space tether, solar sails, and (for a good laugh) vacuum propellers which are big props that are supposed to push against the 'quantum vacuum'.
I thought this sounded somewhat pro-Lindows, so I poked around the Lindows site and found that although Scarlett Pruitt at IDG News take credit for writing this, it actually appears to be a press release from the Lindows marketing department.
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Whether we agree with the law or not, Joe broke it. The University appears to be interested in protecting him (and all students) as much as possible.
... allowed the problem to grow to the size and scope that it is today / seriousness of the allegations against Mr. Nievelt state that the university fully agrees with the allegations.
You seem to instantly agree with the RIAA's allegations and this got me thinking that the school is doing the same thing. Now that he's faced with a 97 billion dollar lawsuit they're not doing anything to protect him and the university is supporting the RIAA's assertion that he is guilty. In court, the case could now be even tighter because lines from the letter like no matter how much education we provide, people will still break the law / situation with Joe Nievelt
Also, by writing this letter the university is admitting that it is their duty to police the network, so the RIAA may now be able to sue the school itself for providing the sharing network and computers and not effectively monitoring.
But, luckily, as soon as they're observed they'll disappear.
..as long as they don't show, in full panoramic glory, last week's SNL skit with Tracy Morgan and Selma Hayek giving King Kong's Dong a rubdown.
Like how the Patriot is targeting friendly aircraft?
On Sunday, a Patriot Missile battery on the Kuwait border accidentally shot down a British Royal Air Force (RAF) Tornado GR-4 aircraft that was returning from a mission over Iraq . Two British pilots were killed in the incident. Then on Monday a U.S. F-16 fighter jet fired at and destroyed a Patriot battery's radar dish after the pilot said the Patriot had "locked on" to the plane. Published reports have linked the mishaps to software problems with the Patriot.
I just read that Microsoft's XML spec for documents is going to embed script macros anywhere within the XML document. The founder of Sophos says that this is going to make detecting viruses harder and slower since the whole document must be examined instead of just the macro section and that sending these documents in email could soon be an easy way to Dos mail gateway servers. Argh!
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How do they know it wasn't just high traffic? If even your mom is forwarding the link, then it seems likely that the link was getting passed around to a lot of people.
Military Promises 'Huge Numbers' For Gulf War II: The Vengeance
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WASHINGTON, DC--At a Pentagon press conference Monday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld touted the military's upcoming Gulf War II: The Vengeance as "even better than the original."
"If you thought the first one was good, just wait until you see the sequel," Rumsfeld said of Gulf War II, scheduled to hit Iraqi theaters of operation March 22. "In the original, as you no doubt know, we defeat Saddam Hussein, only to let him slip away at the very end. This time, we're going back in to take out the trash."
As Bush would say, 'the Terra alert has been set to Yellow'.
I was about to ask the same thing, but looked it up instead. According to the Marriage to a US Citizen FAQ, it takes up to five years to get a green card, and becoming a permanent resident/citizen takes 12-18 months. She's probably in the waiting period. I guess we've been watching too 'marriage of convenience' movies.
He's the buyer on most of those reviews.. mostly wrestling vids. My guess is that he bought this thing, it didn't work, and now he's trying to sell it.
From the interview with Creative's worldwide marketing manager..
Q: The digital outputs are disabled during DVD Audio playback, are there any plans to add more Digital Right Management and copy limitations to the Audigy 2 or any future product?
A: At Creative we don't look at it as adding "limitations" to our technology. We wanted to add DVD-Audio, which we feel (and I am sure all your readers will agree) adds a massive benefit to our product line. However, DVD-Audio incorporates certain copy-protection features that MUST be in place before support of the format is allowed. This is not unique to our card. Even standard DVD-Audio players are not allowed any form of "bit-for-bit" digital output while playing DVD-Audio. Some solutions use proprietary digital connections to deliver the digital content to their amp, etc., which means that you can't plug the digital output into a digital recording device.
Therefore as an "Enabler," we evaluate the benefit of a format against the limitations to the user. For instance, we also support WMA. This has requirements to support their DRM implementation, which we do. Remember that all these technologies do NOT stop you from making personal copies of unprotected media. They simply protect that content using the protection methods of the format.
In short, will we ever add generic "Copy-Protection" technologies to our products that stop users doing what they want with their music/ audio? No.
Will we ever add more formats that may incorporate stringent copy-protection technologies to protect itself? Most definitely, if the format is desirable to our users.
Finally, although there may be very stringent copy-protection formats, it is normally in the field of protecting "exact" digital copies. There is normally flexibility where analog/ low quality copies wish to be made. For instance, the DVD-Audio format does give some flexibility in the areas of 16-bit/ 44.1kHz Digital outputs, or for making analog copies. It was not possible to enable this from day one, but we will work to expose this and provide as much flexibility to our users as we move forward.
True, but only for pages that have been indexed. Since Google does a better job formatting, it would be great if they had a conversion that you could do on demand. I've used the Adobe utility a number of times on small scientific sites that aren't fully indexed.
If that doesn't work, Adobe has an online converter you can use to view the pdf as html.
Snopes also weighs in on the Bush/Clinton binocular lens cap issue.
Atomic Bomberman is a dream
You should try xblast, it's actually much more fun in my opinion. It's available here or for other platforms try the left links at the (noisy) homepage, or grab the Debian package.
Well, the first question was modded to +5 and asks this very question so I guess we'll be hearing his thought on this topic when he replies.
Their pricing is confusing. I looked through the site and it looked to me like personal access with no running of servers is truly unlimited. Nowhere does it say that that service has a cap. The business service, at the same price of $39.95 caps at 5Gb and $3 per additional Gb. Don't most ISPs mean gigabyte in the hard drive company sense of 5,000,000,000 bytes when they say this? Anyway, the only real difference between the two plans seems to be server use of upstream bandwidth.
Also, what do they mean by 'Point-to-point' connections? Do they physically wire you up with someone else in the community? If you both have a 100Mbs connection to the Internet, why would you even want that?
I destroyed my boot partition trying to remove c-dilla. It was my fault, but I was desperate to get rid of it. I tried various things like deleting reg keys, deleting files, and uninstalling but it just kept coming back. Finally I followed the advice in various places like this thread that suggested using a hex editor to wipe out sector 32 or 64 of the hard drive and, of course, then I couldn't boot. I probably could have fixed it with fdisk /mbr or a linux boot disk, but I had everything backed up and just decided to low level format the drive.
Also, it looks like at least one big boycott ended a while ago with Intuit saying they would remove c-dilla later this fall and never use it again, however I think I'll be using Taxcut next year.
Things have improved since those days. Check out some screenshots of Matrox's reef demo by scrolling to the bottom of this page. There's instructions there to get it working with other video cards.
Why don't we have ubiquitous, easy power for laptops on jets yet? I saw what looked like a power socket on a United flight last summer, but didn't have an adapter. Actually, an article by David Strom from two years ago said that airlines were making progress but still had a long way to go. The article points to a list of laptop services (old?) provided by each airline.
Accoding to this article from NASA, Ion engines don't create anything near 1g of thrust. In fact, the acceleration is so slight that scientists have to test in a vacuum to measure it. Like you mentioned, they get their efficiency from the speed of the ejected ions, however this article states that 80 kg of fuel would last 1 to 2 years and could accelerate a rocket up to 22,000 mph.
And for propellantless propulsion we have the space tether, solar sails, and (for a good laugh) vacuum propellers which are big props that are supposed to push against the 'quantum vacuum'.
Like many backdoors, what if an enemy of the USA is able to figure out how to exploit this vulnerability?
Slashdot has legitimized this concept by linking to Raging Cow since the site is high on Google's pagerank index. I hope Michael enjoys his new hat.
I thought this sounded somewhat pro-Lindows, so I poked around the Lindows site and found that although Scarlett Pruitt at IDG News take credit for writing this, it actually appears to be a press release from the Lindows marketing department.