From the article: I managed to lose 20GB of data that was on a hard drive I had in my rucksack was taking it to friends house to copy the data. I was also driving a rather powerful motorbike in dreadful conditions, I rolled on the power hit, the back wheel spun out on a tram track and bang I went down right on my rucksack.
...his laptops and phones and pagers were often "disappearing" out of his car, or his apartment when he'd "get lucky" with guys from the bars......not that there's anything wrong with that.:)
...including this/. post. It is copyright 2003, Mike Wren, All Rights Reserved.
Once a work (including music, video, text) is in a fixed tangible form, it is covered by copyright law.
The issue is that if you read between the lines, it appears that the RIAA is asking the ISPs/telcos to decide what copyrighted works users can download (the latest Dave Matthews or David Gray concert) and what users can't download (the latest 50cent studio CD from KaZaA). Not only is the RIAA putting them in the impossible position of monitoring and reporting, but also differentiating what is legal and what isn't.
Take-home message is this: It appears that the RIAA is expecting the Telcos/ISPs to do their job for them... all the RIAA would have to do then is file the court paperwork and/or bully the end-users directly for a nice quick and easy out-of-court settlement.
Where exactly do you use a *portable* player that is accoustically sound anyways? The bus? The subway? The streets?
At the office on my Bose system? Or in the park while jogging? I could load up the player with FLAC files I downloaded leagally from sites like bt.etree.org or musicfreaks.net... it would save me from having to transcode them to ogg, anyway.
Also, noise canceling headphones have really come a long way. You should check em out. Just because you are unable to hear the difference doesn't mean others can't.
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My 7130 crashes almost daily. Reverse screen of death. It's the old Alltel firmware, and even though I have it activated on the Verizon network, the local stores refuse to flash it to the Verizon firmware (they say it will take the new firmware no problem, just they won't want to assume the liability).
I've tried composing emails with both the thumboard and graffiti, and I gotta tell ya, the error rate, speed, and ease-of-use is on the side of the thumboard (I've had a Palm organizer in some form since 1995).
Want an extra 7135 with foldup keyboard, USB data cable and car adapter? Name your price!
What about FurthurNET? Legal P2P appears way under-reported by the media. Perhaps it's because it isn't as sexy as all the geeks and kiddies 'breakin the law' and stealing music.
Are you willing to give up reliability? Are you willing to give up 911. What?
My vonage line rings to a local emergency dispatcher when I dial 911 on my vonage phone. If that is out (which it hasn't in the 6 weeks I've had it), then I have a cellphone. If that's out, I have neighbors.
Actually, I've had better luck with my local police dispatcher, rather than the 911 system. Often when the local 911 system becomes overburdoned, calls will get bumped to another call center. I prefer to talk to someone locally. I also have a cellfone for redundancy.
However, the point at hand is that dialing 911 on a Vonage line (after sending them your address via their website) will direct an emergency call to the local authorities. It *does* work.
Do you want reliable telephone service? Even if there is a power failure?
During the northeast blackout a month ago, my landline phone went dead also. Meanwhile, if Roadrunner had backup juice on their network, my broadband would not go out even in the event of a blackout (my home server, firewall, Tivo and Vonage ATA can live for 4 hours off the grid).
Do you want guaranteed availability of telephone service at uniform and reasonable rates, even if you live on a farm or in a slum?
Where there is broadband Internet, there can be VoIP. As last-mile broadband gets more economical via wireless and optical (along with traditional copper and cable), so will VoIP.
Do you want 911 service that works?
I can dial 911 from my Vonage home telephone just fine, thank you very much.
If Vonage starts overcharging, I will be happy to switch to another VoIP service, such as packet8.
(There are other examples, but that's the largest one I can think of off the top of my head.)
For legal audio distribution via Bittorrent, check:
MusicFreaks.net, PhishHook... there's a few more, but I can't remember them off the top of my head.
I can only hope that the BBC will eventually use FLAC or some other lossless audio codec to distribute and preserve their archive for future generations!
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Wow, first distributed serving of Linux ISO's, Paris Hilton pron and music. Now BT can predict the future too? What can't BT do? ;)
2. Find A Telephone
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Do you have access to a telephone line?
Great... glad I dumped my landline for Vonage
Hopefully we'll get a few less of that spam now
...I use Spamassassin
Don't know if anyone else saved the GOES XRay Flux image:
http://cyberial.com/images/cme.gif
Pretty impressive saturation!
Will this be the first of more kernel backdoors, now that the idea is out there?
From the article: I managed to lose 20GB of data that was on a hard drive I had in my rucksack was taking it to friends house to copy the data. I was also driving a rather powerful motorbike in dreadful conditions, I rolled on the power hit, the back wheel spun out on a tram track and bang I went down right on my rucksack.
Wha? Translator?!?
...his laptops and phones and pagers were often "disappearing" out of his car, or his apartment when he'd "get lucky" with guys from the bars... ...not that there's anything wrong with that. :)
...including this /. post. It is copyright 2003, Mike Wren, All Rights Reserved.
Once a work (including music, video, text) is in a fixed tangible form, it is covered by copyright law.
The issue is that if you read between the lines, it appears that the RIAA is asking the ISPs/telcos to decide what copyrighted works users can download (the latest Dave Matthews or David Gray concert) and what users can't download (the latest 50cent studio CD from KaZaA). Not only is the RIAA putting them in the impossible position of monitoring and reporting, but also differentiating what is legal and what isn't.
Take-home message is this: It appears that the RIAA is expecting the Telcos/ISPs to do their job for them... all the RIAA would have to do then is file the court paperwork and/or bully the end-users directly for a nice quick and easy out-of-court settlement.
Where exactly do you use a *portable* player that is accoustically sound anyways? The bus? The subway? The streets?
... it would save me from having to transcode them to ogg, anyway.
At the office on my Bose system? Or in the park while jogging? I could load up the player with FLAC files I downloaded leagally from sites like bt.etree.org or musicfreaks.net
Also, noise canceling headphones have really come a long way. You should check em out. Just because you are unable to hear the difference doesn't mean others can't.
...for when mini-itx is just too big.
My 7130 crashes almost daily. Reverse screen of death. It's the old Alltel firmware, and even though I have it activated on the Verizon network, the local stores refuse to flash it to the Verizon firmware (they say it will take the new firmware no problem, just they won't want to assume the liability).
I've tried composing emails with both the thumboard and graffiti, and I gotta tell ya, the error rate, speed, and ease-of-use is on the side of the thumboard (I've had a Palm organizer in some form since 1995).
Want an extra 7135 with foldup keyboard, USB data cable and car adapter? Name your price!
Phonenumber portability is around the corner. Verizon has no plans to carry the new Treo 600? My contract is up in November? Hrm...
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? I gotta ebay it quick! :)
Hell, if Mossberg loves it, it must be good!
...nor should it. P2P is a legal means for easy distribution of large audio/video filesets... see:
FurthurNet.com, musicfreaks.net, and etree.org list of legal Bittorrent download sites.
The clients share the load, and there's no more leechers. What's not to love?
Correct link: furthurnet.com. Remember kiddies, preview posts *first*. :)
What about FurthurNET? Legal P2P appears way under-reported by the media. Perhaps it's because it isn't as sexy as all the geeks and kiddies 'breakin the law' and stealing music.
Are you willing to give up reliability? Are you willing to give up 911. What?
:)
My vonage line rings to a local emergency dispatcher when I dial 911 on my vonage phone. If that is out (which it hasn't in the 6 weeks I've had it), then I have a cellphone. If that's out, I have neighbors.
I'm also a very happy Vonage customer, and will provide the obligitory Vonage referral link.
No, you need to go here (obligitory Vonage referral link) :)
Actually, I've had better luck with my local police dispatcher, rather than the 911 system. Often when the local 911 system becomes overburdoned, calls will get bumped to another call center. I prefer to talk to someone locally. I also have a cellfone for redundancy.
However, the point at hand is that dialing 911 on a Vonage line (after sending them your address via their website) will direct an emergency call to the local authorities. It *does* work.
Do you want reliable telephone service? Even if there is a power failure?
During the northeast blackout a month ago, my landline phone went dead also. Meanwhile, if Roadrunner had backup juice on their network, my broadband would not go out even in the event of a blackout (my home server, firewall, Tivo and Vonage ATA can live for 4 hours off the grid).
Do you want guaranteed availability of telephone service at uniform and reasonable rates, even if you live on a farm or in a slum?
Where there is broadband Internet, there can be VoIP. As last-mile broadband gets more economical via wireless and optical (along with traditional copper and cable), so will VoIP.
Do you want 911 service that works?
I can dial 911 from my Vonage home telephone just fine, thank you very much.
If Vonage starts overcharging, I will be happy to switch to another VoIP service, such as packet8.
...bong hits for Trey Anastasio? What?
...the fastest supercomputer runs *you*.
modbait: Are these even funny anymore?
...and never open my 'caughtspam' folder. I don't know (nor care) if the amount of spam I don't see is higher or lower :)
I only really care about spam that Spamassassin doesn't catch.
(There are other examples, but that's the largest one I can think of off the top of my head.)
For legal audio distribution via Bittorrent, check:
MusicFreaks.net, PhishHook... there's a few more, but I can't remember them off the top of my head.
I can only hope that the BBC will eventually use FLAC or some other lossless audio codec to distribute and preserve their archive for future generations!
Lecture Hall Back-Channeling
:)
So, this doesn't have anything to do with sex in the back of the classroom?
OK, go ahead... waste your modpoints