If that were his problem then yes, it'd be a whole lot different. But that's not his problem.
I've run into variations of this time and time again, people with floppies, people with CDs and Zip drives, with a whole library of them, and needing to get them organized. People going out and buying a CD-R jukebox with 7 CD drives in it to stick on their server, when it'd be cheaper to copy the data to a hard drive and serve it that way.
When you have a bunch of removable media you need to archive, in the last decade it has almost always been less expensive to copy that data to a big volume than to try and organize it - especially when you consider the man-hours lost to indexing and to finding the data you want. Add in the convenience factor and it's a no-brainer.
I have a proposal for a fair solution to this problem of net neutrality, one that allows ISPs to offer enhanced services and also gives people a good way to decide between service providers. Simply require that, when they advertise bandwidth numbers, an ISP may not throttle below that bandwidth for any service. They can offer specialty services that exceed that bandwidth, but they may not advertise it as "internet speed" or as an unspecified data rate. For instance, if Time Warner advertises a 5000/384 connection, they may not throttle ad hoc traffic below this rate, but they may also offer other features beyond this rate, eg movie/music streaming or download.
Most routers only do this when you're running in the DMZ. They assume you're playing a game, and many games send the local IP over TCP and won't work right if you're behind a firewall. The router helpfully replaces instances of the local IP with the remote IP, which usually doesn't cause much trouble in a game, but causes approx. 1 hash fail per gigabyte of data. If you update your router's firmware and forward ports rather than setting DMZ, you ought to be able to solve the problem.
That is possible, but more likely the guy was behind a bad router. Some routers can cause consistent data corruption, and the client ends up downloading the same thing over and over. Difficult to fix.
Hey, if I can be prosecuted for decoding satellite TV photons I'm not considered entitled to, why can't I object to photons being sent across my property?
The reason P2P lends itself to abuse is because peers typically depend on data from non-authoritative sources (other peers) for information. BitTorrent's classical tracker communication doesn't allow spurious inserted IP addresses to be broadcast to other peers, which prevents BitTorrent networks from being used as DoS amplifiers.
I can't say the same for certain non-standard extensions to BitTorrent, or for official's DHT-based trackerless system, unfortunately; I haven't studied them enough to assert their infallibility.
Splitting up a single task can be a lot of trouble, but modern programs, games and applications with lots of creeping featurism, can benefit enormously by sticking those tasks in separate threads and letting them run on different processors. Time effects on 3D scenes, AI for NPCs, real-time changes in embedded data, all can be offloaded, which improves the response time for the main thread to the user.
The MPAA/RIAA/MPA is well aware of this effect, which is why you aren't seeing them taking EVERYTHING down. But they fear - and probably correctly - that if piracy gets TOO popular it will destroy their businesses. Therefore they've been working hard to keep things limited. Good luck to them; they're gonna need it.;-)
It's a great reward if you've stumbled across a hole. Also, you may be able to collect multiple bounties from different organizations for the same hole. I think the bounty system has plenty of merit.
Get some sets of good wireless speakers. Use one transmitter and tune all the other speakers to it. Voila, you have the same music all through the house, no delays, no extra wiring, little expense.
With such a low mark-up, I'm surprised CDs are still as expensive as they are. It indicates there's plenty of room for shaking out more expense and lowering prices further still. If things keep dropping, the recording industry may survive. Hell, if prices can reach $6 or so per CD, I may start buying the damned things again.
<IANAL> If the contract says nothing about who owns the code, it may probably be treated as a work-for-hire, which would mean you owned it. OTOH, if they assert copyright and you don't fight it, you probably won't be entitled to list it as a company asset. Contact your attorney. </IANAL>
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Maybe there's a way to utilize https for validation purposes? Grab that site's public key and ask it for a signature for the page it sent?
All I can say is, if you see Al Gore, Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky wearing robes and riding camels... run like hell.
If that were his problem then yes, it'd be a whole lot different. But that's not his problem.
I've run into variations of this time and time again, people with floppies, people with CDs and Zip drives, with a whole library of them, and needing to get them organized. People going out and buying a CD-R jukebox with 7 CD drives in it to stick on their server, when it'd be cheaper to copy the data to a hard drive and serve it that way.
When you have a bunch of removable media you need to archive, in the last decade it has almost always been less expensive to copy that data to a big volume than to try and organize it - especially when you consider the man-hours lost to indexing and to finding the data you want. Add in the convenience factor and it's a no-brainer.
...copy them all to one or two terabyte HDs and be done with it.
ISO 50 film is not very sensitive, and I suspect that over 30 years even cosmic ray exposure won't cause much fogging.
You'll need a FLV player. http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/article/flv-pl ayer-133-released
http://shambala.net/misc/BigMan400%5B2%5D.flv
I have a proposal for a fair solution to this problem of net
neutrality, one that allows ISPs to offer enhanced services and also
gives people a good way to decide between service providers. Simply
require that, when they advertise bandwidth numbers, an ISP may not
throttle below that bandwidth for any service. They can offer
specialty services that exceed that bandwidth, but they may not
advertise it as "internet speed" or as an unspecified data rate.
For instance, if Time Warner advertises a 5000/384 connection, they
may not throttle ad hoc traffic below this rate, but they may also
offer other features beyond this rate, eg movie/music streaming or
download.
'nuf said.
...welcome these new business cards. Just go to a trade show, collect business cards, and build a Beowulf cluster out of them!
This theory is obviously defective, as it makes no mention of the Great Green Arkleseizure.
Most routers only do this when you're running in the DMZ. They assume you're playing a game, and many games send the local IP over TCP and won't work right if you're behind a firewall. The router helpfully replaces instances of the local IP with the remote IP, which usually doesn't cause much trouble in a game, but causes approx. 1 hash fail per gigabyte of data. If you update your router's firmware and forward ports rather than setting DMZ, you ought to be able to solve the problem.
That is possible, but more likely the guy was behind a bad router. Some routers can cause consistent data corruption, and the client ends up downloading the same thing over and over. Difficult to fix.
They could put up jammers; that'd work nicely.
Hey, if I can be prosecuted for decoding satellite TV photons I'm not considered entitled to, why can't I object to photons being sent across my property?
The reason P2P lends itself to abuse is because peers typically depend on data from non-authoritative sources (other peers) for information. BitTorrent's classical tracker communication doesn't allow spurious inserted IP addresses to be broadcast to other peers, which prevents BitTorrent networks from being used as DoS amplifiers.
I can't say the same for certain non-standard extensions to BitTorrent, or for official's DHT-based trackerless system, unfortunately; I haven't studied them enough to assert their infallibility.
Splitting up a single task can be a lot of trouble, but modern programs, games and applications with lots of creeping featurism, can benefit enormously by sticking those tasks in separate threads and letting them run on different processors. Time effects on 3D scenes, AI for NPCs, real-time changes in embedded data, all can be offloaded, which improves the response time for the main thread to the user.
And if you put 'em all in one big group, it makes it easier to drop bombs on them!
Take an old notebook PC, disassemble the hinge so you can mount the display front-side-out, put Linux on it, and ta-daa!
The MPAA/RIAA/MPA is well aware of this effect, which is why you aren't seeing them taking EVERYTHING down. But they fear - and probably correctly - that if piracy gets TOO popular it will destroy their businesses. Therefore they've been working hard to keep things limited. Good luck to them; they're gonna need it. ;-)
It's a great reward if you've stumbled across a hole. Also, you may be able to collect multiple bounties from different organizations for the same hole. I think the bounty system has plenty of merit.
http://www.1014.org/code/blorpscript/
One of Justin Frankel's (from Winamp) works. Not as structured as Flikr, but is also more flexible.
...the addition of this chip means you only have 48 hours to stick the DVD into your computer and run your DVD copier program.
Get some sets of good wireless speakers. Use one transmitter and tune all the other speakers to it. Voila, you have the same music all through the house, no delays, no extra wiring, little expense.
With such a low mark-up, I'm surprised CDs are still as expensive as they are. It indicates there's plenty of room for shaking out more expense and lowering prices further still. If things keep dropping, the recording industry may survive. Hell, if prices can reach $6 or so per CD, I may start buying the damned things again.
<IANAL>
If the contract says nothing about who owns the code, it may probably be treated as a work-for-hire, which would mean you owned it. OTOH, if they assert copyright and you don't fight it, you probably won't be entitled to list it as a company asset. Contact your attorney.
</IANAL>