Unless you buy the CD with cash and use an open source ripper. Squishy DRM is pointless unless you outlaw at least one of those two things. My money is on both.
Still people miss the point that the failure in Florida in 2000 was not the technology but the process.
Problem 1: No user feedback. You punch the chads, you hand in the card. No-one tells you what your card says, so you can agree that that is what you meant. There is no consistency checking. Everything is deferred until the stack of ballots go to the counting machine, by which time it is too late.
Problem 2: No defined recount procedures. There was a recount in a Michigan congressional race in 2000. The Michigan voters used the same machines as those in Miami-Dade. The Michigan recounters had clear, written, legal guidelines: if the chad is connected to the ballot by two or less connectors, it's a vote. Three connectors, it's not a vote. Miami-Dade and Broward had ambiguous language that was being interpreted on the fly by partisan election officials and reinterpreted in Tallahassee a day later.
Now, whoever bought these systems and bought the line of bull that said anyone could get them up and running with no training needs to be fired. Termination with extra prejudice if the machines are in fact unauditable.
The pen and paper system of balloting works. It scales linearly. Everyone understands it. But people live in Florida mainly because it's cheap. So they thought they could save on election costs by choosing a solution that was more expensive but requires a smaller fraction of the electorate to operate. Now, as in 2000, they're seeing that it doesn't pay not to value your vote.
This is more a mechanism to get a packet to pay its own way across a network. You can see why Worldcom, and its employee, Mr. Cerf, would be interested in this.
For all he invented the internet, Vint, whether making proposals of this kind or wielding a knife in the draughty halls of ICANN, shows no signs of putting its well-being over that of his employer.
Here in Minnesota, you can vote in the primary for any party, so long as you are eligible to vote (with same-day registration that's usually not difficult), and only vote in one party's primary.
I'd still have to vote according to what the law says, not what it means
Do a Google search on jury nullification (there, I did it for you). The theory is that you are allowed to decline to convict because the law is unjust.
... by the time a movie reaches DVD it has usually already made a profit from its cinema release. CDs would be a lot cheaper if bands only released them *after* the tour. Just like movie studios throw a lot of movies at the cinemas, most of which flop, record studios throw out a lot of CDs. Since they are crap at their job, and don't know which ones are good, they price them all the same.
Who remembers Altavista?
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The answer is in the article. Six years ago, everyone used Yahoo. Then Yahoo went all portal on us, so the smart geeks started using Altavista. Then Altavista started selling #1 listings, so we all decamped to Google. Now everyone uses Google.
Brandt's complaint appears to be that he has a database of citations, but when you search for Donald Rumsfeld his site is more than 10 pages down, where nobody ever looks. And that's fine with me. That's what I expect from Google. He obviously expects something else (like united.com appearing higher than United Airlines real site), and being the kind of person he apparently is, he expects Google to change to become how he expects them to be, rather than realigning his expectations with reality.
I'm not sure you can claim that any given subset of OpenBSD has the same level of security as the real thing. Presumably they're only including code that's been through a security audit, but how tested is any given configuration going to be?
Except behaviour in mammals is largely learned. With an Indian elephant for a surrogate mother, this 88% mammoth is going to grow up thinking it's an elephant, albeit hairier than other elephants, and will behave accordingly.
It appears to be legal to do this kind of price fixing with jeans, at least in the UK. I don't see why, but one would think the judge had some reasoning behind his decision.
Haven't tried my Belkin 4-port with a "raw" laptop, but it works just fine with the port replicator I plug my Dell Latitude into.
I wish it worked better with my scrollwheel mouse, though. When you switch away from my wife's Win98 box it forgets it ever had a mouse. This doesn't happen with the 2button.
Sure, 3Mbps would be nice for only double the price of 1.5Mbps, but it's not going to help AT&Ts finances. The people who are causing them a problem are the people who are using 1.5Mbps all the time. If these people upgrade to 3Mbps they are going to be using 3Mbps all the time, so AT&Ts bandwidth bill will double, while their revenue will not.
What AT&T needs is tiered bandwidth. You get 1.5Mbps for the first 5GB per month. Then you get on a nice sliding scale where the more you download the less bandwidth you get, until your worst bandwidth hogs are getting 28.8kbps. Pay more, and the slope is gentler. Pay lots, and you can have 1.5Mbps all the time. However, since AT&T now needs an extra T1 to support your pr0n habit, expect to pay that kind of price.
I have Time Warner Road Runner, and apart from the occaisional.ISO download session, I rarely make use of my 1.2Mbps down. But they don't hassle me about running http, smtp* and ssh servers, it's always on and the latency is low.
* apart from when they tested for open relays and asked me to upgrade sendmail
12% of people buying HDTVs are buying digital receivers.
The other 88% realize that broadcast TV sucks. Why do you need to see Jennifer Aniston's head four feet across? Will your viewing experience be enhanced if you can see the individual grains of grit on Survivor XXVII?
I was just re-reading Terry Pratchett's Maskerade (my copy is signed by the cast of this production). "The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its least intelligent member divided by the number of people in the mob".
Back when I worked for IBM in telecomm, we "merged" with a company consisting of four guys in Santa Clara. Much use was made afterwards of the Far Side cartoon with the penguin singing "I just gotta be me".
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Unless you buy the CD with cash and use an open source ripper. Squishy DRM is pointless unless you outlaw at least one of those two things. My money is on both.
Still people miss the point that the failure in Florida in 2000 was not the technology but the process.
Problem 1: No user feedback. You punch the chads, you hand in the card. No-one tells you what your card says, so you can agree that that is what you meant. There is no consistency checking. Everything is deferred until the stack of ballots go to the counting machine, by which time it is too late.
Problem 2: No defined recount procedures. There was a recount in a Michigan congressional race in 2000. The Michigan voters used the same machines as those in Miami-Dade. The Michigan recounters had clear, written, legal guidelines: if the chad is connected to the ballot by two or less connectors, it's a vote. Three connectors, it's not a vote. Miami-Dade and Broward had ambiguous language that was being interpreted on the fly by partisan election officials and reinterpreted in Tallahassee a day later.
Now, whoever bought these systems and bought the line of bull that said anyone could get them up and running with no training needs to be fired. Termination with extra prejudice if the machines are in fact unauditable.
The pen and paper system of balloting works. It scales linearly. Everyone understands it. But people live in Florida mainly because it's cheap. So they thought they could save on election costs by choosing a solution that was more expensive but requires a smaller fraction of the electorate to operate. Now, as in 2000, they're seeing that it doesn't pay not to value your vote.
Apparently several people already did.
It's unfortunate, but /.s favorite CPU maker is already on the TCPA bandwagon.
This is more a mechanism to get a packet to pay its own way across a network. You can see why Worldcom, and its employee, Mr. Cerf, would be interested in this.
For all he invented the internet, Vint, whether making proposals of this kind or wielding a knife in the draughty halls of ICANN, shows no signs of putting its well-being over that of his employer.
Here in Minnesota, you can vote in the primary for any party, so long as you are eligible to vote (with same-day registration that's usually not difficult), and only vote in one party's primary.
Does anyone know where this is? I can't find it on CPAN.
I'd still have to vote according to what the law says, not what it means
Do a Google search on jury nullification (there, I did it for you). The theory is that you are allowed to decline to convict because the law is unjust.
As usual, IANAL.
... by the time a movie reaches DVD it has usually already made a profit from its cinema release. CDs would be a lot cheaper if bands only released them *after* the tour. Just like movie studios throw a lot of movies at the cinemas, most of which flop, record studios throw out a lot of CDs. Since they are crap at their job, and don't know which ones are good, they price them all the same.
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The Gate is down.
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The answer is in the article. Six years ago, everyone used Yahoo. Then Yahoo went all portal on us, so the smart geeks started using Altavista. Then Altavista started selling #1 listings, so we all decamped to Google. Now everyone uses Google.
Brandt's complaint appears to be that he has a database of citations, but when you search for Donald Rumsfeld his site is more than 10 pages down, where nobody ever looks. And that's fine with me. That's what I expect from Google. He obviously expects something else (like united.com appearing higher than United Airlines real site), and being the kind of person he apparently is, he expects Google to change to become how he expects them to be, rather than realigning his expectations with reality.
If I can read the contents of the disk, I can write it to another disk. If I can't read it (with my existing hardware and software) then it's broken.
Besides, how many warez d00ds are actively swapping copied CDs, anyway? Isn't it all ISO images in these days of broadband?
I'm not sure you can claim that any given subset of OpenBSD has the same level of security as the real thing. Presumably they're only including code that's been through a security audit, but how tested is any given configuration going to be?
Except behaviour in mammals is largely learned. With an Indian elephant for a surrogate mother, this 88% mammoth is going to grow up thinking it's an elephant, albeit hairier than other elephants, and will behave accordingly.
It appears to be legal to do this kind of price fixing with jeans, at least in the UK. I don't see why, but one would think the judge had some reasoning behind his decision.
Contains the code:
#define MAX_CHRISTS 5
Kind of sets an upper limit on second comings.
Haven't tried my Belkin 4-port with a "raw" laptop, but it works just fine with the port replicator I plug my Dell Latitude into.
I wish it worked better with my scrollwheel mouse, though. When you switch away from my wife's Win98 box it forgets it ever had a mouse. This doesn't happen with the 2button.
I forget where I was (but it wasn't as far north as I am now) when I saw this bumper sticker:
Jefferson Davis might have quit but I ain't!
Sure, 3Mbps would be nice for only double the price of 1.5Mbps, but it's not going to help AT&Ts finances. The people who are causing them a problem are the people who are using 1.5Mbps all the time. If these people upgrade to 3Mbps they are going to be using 3Mbps all the time, so AT&Ts bandwidth bill will double, while their revenue will not.
.ISO download session, I rarely make use of my 1.2Mbps down. But they don't hassle me about running http, smtp* and ssh servers, it's always on and the latency is low.
What AT&T needs is tiered bandwidth. You get 1.5Mbps for the first 5GB per month. Then you get on a nice sliding scale where the more you download the less bandwidth you get, until your worst bandwidth hogs are getting 28.8kbps. Pay more, and the slope is gentler. Pay lots, and you can have 1.5Mbps all the time. However, since AT&T now needs an extra T1 to support your pr0n habit, expect to pay that kind of price.
I have Time Warner Road Runner, and apart from the occaisional
* apart from when they tested for open relays and asked me to upgrade sendmail
The government could repeal the laws that make disclosure of vulnerabilities illegal.
Winternet were my dialup ISP before I got cable. They are still going.
12% of people buying HDTVs are buying digital receivers.
The other 88% realize that broadcast TV sucks. Why do you need to see Jennifer Aniston's head four feet across? Will your viewing experience be enhanced if you can see the individual grains of grit on Survivor XXVII?
I was just re-reading Terry Pratchett's Maskerade (my copy is signed by the cast of this production). "The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its least intelligent member divided by the number of people in the mob".
Back when I worked for IBM in telecomm, we "merged" with a company consisting of four guys in Santa Clara. Much use was made afterwards of the Far Side cartoon with the penguin singing "I just gotta be me".