Come on, you can't claim to know what goes on in other people's heads. You can say the same about anything (people prefer not to have their heads bashed in with hammers because that's what they're more familiar with, etc.)
Just because it's free doesn't mean it has no value to the listener. For example, I would prefer to have the Hope Diamond delivered to my house free of charge than to buy it from Sotheby's. That doesn't mean that I see the Hope Diamond as worthless, by any means.
PPP over ethernet would obviously require a MAC address, but your dialup modem, for example, certainly won't have one. If windows for some reason generates a MAC-type address for PPP then it's not PPP anymore, it's windows-special-proprietary-sorta-ppp-but-not-comp atible-with-the-rest-of-the-world protocol.
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I don't think the RIAA is too upset about people downloading small numbers of unknown artist's music. Most of the crap on kazaa is mainstream garbage like 50 Cent and the like. Not that I don't enjoy it, or anything, though. But the point is that the vast majority of kazaa users just want to download the very product that the "agents" are contracted to find for them. They obviously like what they're being fed. If everyone left Ludakris' new album alone and instead ripped and traded Joe Banner's Nostalgia Quartet and Ukelele Band then there would be no problem.
So basically, what I'm saying is this: complaining about the quality of the choices that the music industry makes when they decide which artists to market is completely a moot point. All they are upset about is that they do their job only to have the consumer reneg on their side of the bargain and download their products for free, but only after benefiting from the music industry's work and investment. The proof that they have held up their end is that the consumer vastly prefers to steal music industry supported artists to unknown independents.
There's no need for an address for a PPP adapter, 'cause it's Point to Point Protocol, meaning that it's just one wire between two machines. The purpose of the various addresses (MAC, IP, etc.) is to differentiate between the many peers on a network. At layer 2 on a PPP link there are only two hosts, so no address is needed.
It's a midsized city with a very nice ballet company where you can go on a nice ferry ride in the bay on the weekend and the little chinese dogs taste like fish.
I agree wholeheartedly. It's a little sad that the net has progressed to the point that social issues are destroying the underlying mechanisms that made it such a great place for the free exchange of ideas. I can imagine a day when some central authority has to approve every communication from my machine and taxes me for the service, to boot. I'm not glad that they've been DOSed to death. That would be their way. But I do feel better now that they're gone...
The parent hit the nail on the head, I think. It's hard for me to see the benefit of 3-d here. They have basically redisplayed the flat tree in this ring structure, but you get the same information if you flatten the "ferris wheel" out into a standard 2-d tree shape. And it's a very tall order to create something that will be much better than the find/grep/sed/awk combination that we have already without making changes to the actual filesystem (like reiser4's metadata in the filesystem).
When you leave a binder of CDs on the seat of your car and they get stolen the thief causes harm to *you*, but when you leave music out on the internet for people to make copies of they hurt the *RIAA*. So I would guess it would be a bit different.
Because people feel they are entitled to whatever they want. That's how people think in this day and age, and honestly, it's really rather depressing.
This statement is ironic in the wake of Enron, Microsoft, SCO, and the utter contempt that megacorporation executives show toward the consumer. I say they made their bed, and now they will sleep in it. Their priorities are crystal clear, and believe me, we consumers are not anywhere near the top half of that list. We do not deserve to be cowed and bullied about by these jokers-- treated as if we are the commodity, to be exploited and controlled by the powerful corporate lobbying groups. I'm sure they'd love to completely dismantle the entire internet, anything to keep the status quo. Unfortunately (for them) they will ultimately fail.
The article is absurd. If everyone's unemployed then how are the fat cats who own the robots going to make enough cash to keep the factories running? Who's going to buy their products if eveyone's on welfare?
Ah. Sorry about that. I don't know much about windows, but there are SSH servers/clients for it. There is a tutorial here: http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html. Maybe someone knows of a way to do it without having to install cygwin...
Well, this is simply a classic example of vaporware. It's a sham. The tip-off is at the end of the article where the company spokesman claims to be surprised that pilots would object to this idea. Who are they trying to kid? The pilot's job is to fly the airplane, and as professionals (mostly ex-military), they take their responsibility very seriously. Any suggestion that installing a relatively simple-minded solution such as this would replace their hard earned skills hits them right where they live. What pilot who's worth a damn would submit to "flying" an aircraft which is designed to disregard human control, ever? We are never going to see this deployed. We'll probably have totally autonomous passenger aircraft first. There are always people suggesting technological solutions to social/economic/etc. problems. The power of today's computer systems just encourages wild utopian schemes like this one. Yeah, computers are going to solve all our problems. That's the microsoft mantra. All these problems that have been pondered by great minds for hundreds of years? Trivial! We'll just write some code and fix you guys right up. Be done by dinnertime, even.
Adding a fan on the same power supply could use too much power. My DSL router's transformer fried (I accidentally plugged it into another piece of equipment =)) and I replaced it with one which is just slightly less powerful. Now it doesn't have enough power to do DHCP reliably or run its little http server. So watch out with the fan.
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Whew! Had me worried there for a minute.
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That sounds cool. I think I'll check it out.
Come on, you can't claim to know what goes on in other people's heads. You can say the same about anything (people prefer not to have their heads bashed in with hammers because that's what they're more familiar with, etc.)
Just because it's free doesn't mean it has no value to the listener. For example, I would prefer to have the Hope Diamond delivered to my house free of charge than to buy it from Sotheby's. That doesn't mean that I see the Hope Diamond as worthless, by any means.
PPP over ethernet would obviously require a MAC address, but your dialup modem, for example, certainly won't have one. If windows for some reason generates a MAC-type address for PPP then it's not PPP anymore, it's windows-special-proprietary-sorta-ppp-but-not-comp atible-with-the-rest-of-the-world protocol.
I don't think the RIAA is too upset about people downloading small numbers of unknown artist's music. Most of the crap on kazaa is mainstream garbage like 50 Cent and the like. Not that I don't enjoy it, or anything, though. But the point is that the vast majority of kazaa users just want to download the very product that the "agents" are contracted to find for them. They obviously like what they're being fed. If everyone left Ludakris' new album alone and instead ripped and traded Joe Banner's Nostalgia Quartet and Ukelele Band then there would be no problem.
So basically, what I'm saying is this: complaining about the quality of the choices that the music industry makes when they decide which artists to market is completely a moot point. All they are upset about is that they do their job only to have the consumer reneg on their side of the bargain and download their products for free, but only after benefiting from the music industry's work and investment. The proof that they have held up their end is that the consumer vastly prefers to steal music industry supported artists to unknown independents.
What were NYC cops doing in Los Angeles, my brother?
You're saying that realtek shipped a line of ethernet cards that all had the same MAC address?!? That makes absolutely no sense.
There's no need for an address for a PPP adapter, 'cause it's Point to Point Protocol, meaning that it's just one wire between two machines. The purpose of the various addresses (MAC, IP, etc.) is to differentiate between the many peers on a network. At layer 2 on a PPP link there are only two hosts, so no address is needed.
oh yeah. logging in to your servers from an internet cafe to fix problems sounds like a real good plan.
True, true. Nothing near the credibility that the Sci-Fi channel has these days, professor Arturo especially.
No.
It's a midsized city with a very nice ballet company where you can go on a nice ferry ride in the bay on the weekend and the little chinese dogs taste like fish.
I agree wholeheartedly. It's a little sad that the net has progressed to the point that social issues are destroying the underlying mechanisms that made it such a great place for the free exchange of ideas. I can imagine a day when some central authority has to approve every communication from my machine and taxes me for the service, to boot. I'm not glad that they've been DOSed to death. That would be their way. But I do feel better now that they're gone...
I got a girlfriend to get better at the internet but all get is lots of sex. Oh, well.
Hahaha! You're still funny, dude.
The parent hit the nail on the head, I think. It's hard for me to see the benefit of 3-d here. They have basically redisplayed the flat tree in this ring structure, but you get the same information if you flatten the "ferris wheel" out into a standard 2-d tree shape. And it's a very tall order to create something that will be much better than the find/grep/sed/awk combination that we have already without making changes to the actual filesystem (like reiser4's metadata in the filesystem).
well he said AND die, so obviously they should die if fsck completes successfully
When you leave a binder of CDs on the seat of your car and they get stolen the thief causes harm to *you*, but when you leave music out on the internet for people to make copies of they hurt the *RIAA*. So I would guess it would be a bit different.
Because people feel they are entitled to whatever they want. That's how people think in this day and age, and honestly, it's really rather depressing.
This statement is ironic in the wake of Enron, Microsoft, SCO, and the utter contempt that megacorporation executives show toward the consumer. I say they made their bed, and now they will sleep in it. Their priorities are crystal clear, and believe me, we consumers are not anywhere near the top half of that list. We do not deserve to be cowed and bullied about by these jokers-- treated as if we are the commodity, to be exploited and controlled by the powerful corporate lobbying groups. I'm sure they'd love to completely dismantle the entire internet, anything to keep the status quo. Unfortunately (for them) they will ultimately fail.
The article is absurd. If everyone's unemployed then how are the fat cats who own the robots going to make enough cash to keep the factories running? Who's going to buy their products if eveyone's on welfare?
Dude, Darth Vader used the force. He knew where to send those probes ;)
Ah. Sorry about that. I don't know much about windows, but there are SSH servers/clients for it. There is a tutorial here: http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html. Maybe someone knows of a way to do it without having to install cygwin...
ftp through an ssh tunnel?
Well, this is simply a classic example of vaporware. It's a sham. The tip-off is at the end of the article where the company spokesman claims to be surprised that pilots would object to this idea. Who are they trying to kid? The pilot's job is to fly the airplane, and as professionals (mostly ex-military), they take their responsibility very seriously. Any suggestion that installing a relatively simple-minded solution such as this would replace their hard earned skills hits them right where they live. What pilot who's worth a damn would submit to "flying" an aircraft which is designed to disregard human control, ever? We are never going to see this deployed. We'll probably have totally autonomous passenger aircraft first. There are always people suggesting technological solutions to social/economic/etc. problems. The power of today's computer systems just encourages wild utopian schemes like this one. Yeah, computers are going to solve all our problems. That's the microsoft mantra. All these problems that have been pondered by great minds for hundreds of years? Trivial! We'll just write some code and fix you guys right up. Be done by dinnertime, even.
Hah! Name any 3 major important incidents in the world which don't involve the US, if you can.
Adding a fan on the same power supply could use too much power. My DSL router's transformer fried (I accidentally plugged it into another piece of equipment =)) and I replaced it with one which is just slightly less powerful. Now it doesn't have enough power to do DHCP reliably or run its little http server. So watch out with the fan.