Whats wrong with your car reporting to your insurance agency that you're speeding? Or that you drive at midnight with your lights off? Or forget to signal? Maybe if cars did this, it would force idiot drivers to get a clue and drive according to the law.
Such recording should be used in legal procedings and for determining insurance rates, nothing more.
For testing hard drives, use the install disk you can get from the manufacturer's web site. For memory, Memtest86. Cards and ram, you should have extras to swap out and test. If the system isn't POSTing, get a POST card. No software needed.
How about your car CD player, home console, digital camera, DVD player, etc etc etc? What's next, someone claiming a patent on reading magnetic or optical storage?
If this is such a bad decision (video monitoring), then I suppose we should get rid of cameras in banks, gas stations, ATMs, daycare centers, and stores too, right? This isn't an issue of privacy here. If the cameras were in the bedroom, bathroom, dressing room, or hotel room, that would be different. See where I'm going with this?
Personally, I don't see the difference at all. VCRs are products that allow you both legally and illegally distribute and copy copyrighted information. Ditto for these P2P networks. VCRs are legal. P2P networks are _____? Doesn't seem to hard to me.
The issue they are trying to raise is based around the distribution part. If you have a tape in a VCR, that tape isn't shared with other VCRs, but if you have an MP3 shared on a P2P client, it is shared with other clients. I feel it's a pretty weak argument, but thats what they're goin with.
Now, if you look at multi-purpose handheld gadgets today, what do you see? I see massive, clunky, overpriced, underperforming, fragile beasts that are marginally useable, at best...
You're exactly right. I work for a company which has taken the same approach, with great results. If we're paying you, we get to monitor your traffic to make sure you're actually working and not just goofing off posting comments on/.
They have a policy which basically allows you to download at high speeds up to a point (600MB or so I think), after which you are throttled to sub-56K speeds for 18-24 hours. This was the main reason for me cancelling the service. The limit is slightly higher if you sign up for 'Commercial' service.
The Counterfeit Access Device Law (18 USC 1029) states it is illegal to use a radio scanner "knowingly and with the intent to defraud" to eavesdrop on a wired or wireless commmunication.
Full details here
It's what you do with what you receive. Receiving the SatTV signal will give you garbage. Decrypting it runs you afoul of the law. Receiving your neighbor's cordless phone signal and monitor their conversations is also illegal. Monitoring police frequencies is legal, as long as you're not running from the cops in your car while you're doing it.
It probably didn't help that several of these people most likely had post-it notes on their monitor saying "Username pleahy Password republicanssuck12"
Not sure about StarBand, but I use DirecPC and get throttled quite a bit. If you use P2P, or lotsa downloads, or stream stuff, expect to see download speeds drop after a few hours of continued usage.
My speed tests out at a little over 500kbps, but when throttles, it drops to 90-100kbps.
And for games? Forget it. UO and DAoC work fine, but anything relying on ping is gonna suck.
If VIA had cloned AMD it would still be pitiful. You can now have a mobo that causes problems with a constantly overheating proc that causes even more!
Besides that, I think that the core legal issue that VIA would face over this would be the Intel extentions such as SSE2, MMX, etc, and not over the core x86 instruction set (which they apparently have a license for)
than any other emulation (other than this is integrated in the kernel)? WINE runs Windows apps and I don't hear many complaints about license violations there.
Perhaps something Microsoft could do better would be to allow multiple associations and one default association
WinXP has support for this. By default, my MP3s open with Winamp, but Windows Media Player and Sonique are both listed as alternatives on the Open With menu. XP handles this all automatically as far as I've been able to tell.
I've recently switched over to Debian from RedHat, the main reason being Debian's incredibly easy-to-use APT package tool. RPM and RedHatNetwork provides a similar function but is a pay service. Regardless of which is better, what do you propose should be done to develop some standard for upgrading various distributions?
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Whats wrong with your car reporting to your insurance agency that you're speeding? Or that you drive at midnight with your lights off? Or forget to signal? Maybe if cars did this, it would force idiot drivers to get a clue and drive according to the law. Such recording should be used in legal procedings and for determining insurance rates, nothing more.
Which came first, the exploit or the hole?
For testing hard drives, use the install disk you can get from the manufacturer's web site. For memory, Memtest86. Cards and ram, you should have extras to swap out and test. If the system isn't POSTing, get a POST card. No software needed.
How about your car CD player, home console, digital camera, DVD player, etc etc etc? What's next, someone claiming a patent on reading magnetic or optical storage?
Don't forget the telephone sanitizers.
We know you replayed the Jackson Boob Scene 273 times, and we're telling your mom.
I think with this, we can track him down!
If this is such a bad decision (video monitoring), then I suppose we should get rid of cameras in banks, gas stations, ATMs, daycare centers, and stores too, right? This isn't an issue of privacy here. If the cameras were in the bedroom, bathroom, dressing room, or hotel room, that would be different. See where I'm going with this?
The issue they are trying to raise is based around the distribution part. If you have a tape in a VCR, that tape isn't shared with other VCRs, but if you have an MP3 shared on a P2P client, it is shared with other clients. I feel it's a pretty weak argument, but thats what they're goin with.
You're exactly right. I work for a company which has taken the same approach, with great results. If we're paying you, we get to monitor your traffic to make sure you're actually working and not just goofing off posting comments on /.
Oh wait...dammit.....
They have a policy which basically allows you to download at high speeds up to a point (600MB or so I think), after which you are throttled to sub-56K speeds for 18-24 hours. This was the main reason for me cancelling the service. The limit is slightly higher if you sign up for 'Commercial' service.
The Counterfeit Access Device Law (18 USC 1029) states it is illegal to use a radio scanner "knowingly and with the intent to defraud" to eavesdrop on a wired or wireless commmunication. Full details here
It's what you do with what you receive. Receiving the SatTV signal will give you garbage. Decrypting it runs you afoul of the law. Receiving your neighbor's cordless phone signal and monitor their conversations is also illegal. Monitoring police frequencies is legal, as long as you're not running from the cops in your car while you're doing it.
This proves it! NASA is using LOGO to control Spirit! So that's how it is.....
It probably didn't help that several of these people most likely had post-it notes on their monitor saying "Username pleahy Password republicanssuck12"
Because the RIAA and the BPI live in BIZARRO world, where no means yes, pissed means angry, and the rules of economics are inverted!
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As for what it led you to, umm... yeah, mmmkay
Not sure about StarBand, but I use DirecPC and get throttled quite a bit. If you use P2P, or lotsa downloads, or stream stuff, expect to see download speeds drop after a few hours of continued usage.
My speed tests out at a little over 500kbps, but when throttles, it drops to 90-100kbps.
And for games? Forget it. UO and DAoC work fine, but anything relying on ping is gonna suck.
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Microsoft be required to disgorge any personal information collected fraudulently and deceptively through XP and Passport.
I don't think I want M$ a) collecting my info and b) if they have it, puking it back up on me.
If VIA had cloned AMD it would still be pitiful. You can now have a mobo that causes problems with a constantly overheating proc that causes even more!
Besides that, I think that the core legal issue that VIA would face over this would be the Intel extentions such as SSE2, MMX, etc, and not over the core x86 instruction set (which they apparently have a license for)
than any other emulation (other than this is integrated in the kernel)? WINE runs Windows apps and I don't hear many complaints about license violations there.
Perhaps something Microsoft could do better would be to allow multiple associations and one default association
WinXP has support for this. By default, my MP3s open with Winamp, but Windows Media Player and Sonique are both listed as alternatives on the Open With menu. XP handles this all automatically as far as I've been able to tell.
I've recently switched over to Debian from RedHat, the main reason being Debian's incredibly easy-to-use APT package tool. RPM and RedHatNetwork provides a similar function but is a pay service. Regardless of which is better, what do you propose should be done to develop some standard for upgrading various distributions?
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