Personally, I think its my god given right to use allocated bandwidth however I choose. Its one thing to limit bandwidth, quite another to censor what bytes are allowed in my incoming or outgoing tcp segments.
Of course, you may want to check your agreement with your provider. You may have signed away your god given right on the dotted line when you signed up for service.
It's not the act of creating DeCSS, it's the act of supplying DeCSS. If you had a field of hemp plants before marajuana was made illegal they couldn't arrest you for it...unless you still had it after it was illegal. They have been doing the same thing here in California with guns. They declare a particular type illegal and you have to go turn them in. If you don't they arrest you not for having had them before they were illegal, but for having them when they are illegal.
Yea, imagine that, we USians have to arrest and detain a Russian to keep this the home of the free. When he leaves I hope he remembers to take the first amendment with him.
The worm goes dormant permenently on the 29th of the month. So all those sites which haven't rebooted will just have dormant worm threads running but doing nothing. They won't attempt to spread, they won't try to DoS the Whitehouse. The reason servers with wrong dates is a problem is that if they still show a date before the DoS phase (which starts on the 20th of the month), they will still be trying to infect other systems. As that continues starting today, the newely infected systems will start attempting to spread instead of immediately going dormant as they did yesterday. Again, previously infected systems where the worm went dormant won't start infecting again, unless (until?) they get reinfected. It will be just as bad as before except that the IIS systems which have been patched (hopefully alot) won't participate.
Just keep going back and returning the CDs. After a while they will get tired of sending "defective" CDs back to the distributor or destroying them. Eventually they'll run out of the CD. Also, the record companies will get the idea when they only sell 50 out of every hundred they make because 50 are returned as defective.
I won't complain about a free service (which I don't even use). I will, however, complain when this service is going to be used to provide me services I will pay for. Remember, much of the.NET will use IM to notify people of events. Those services will not be free. MS will be charging us for them. Imagine that the phone was free (really, imagine it is). You pay someone to call you when your stock goes up (OK, you probably have to imagine it goes up too). Your stock goes through the roof, and the guy can't call you because the phone service is down for a week. As long as we only use the phone for chatting with our buddys, no biggie. MS's IM is poised to be a critical part of our lives, just like the phone. We will complain about that.
How long before this info gets added to your pasport file? I think this is the beginning of a very slippery slope into MS owning all information. The hash may not exactly identify the equiptment, but what will be next?
A real estate agent in a local area is the one who will know the neighborhoods, crime areas, shopping and schools, churchs, and so on. She'll know the dirty little secrets that it's not politically correct to mention in an ad.
I just bought a house and started with the Internet sites you've also found and it gave me an idea of what I could find. Mind you, just an idea. When I talked to a realtor, he took me to a few houses, briefed me about the location, and showed me the house I finally bought. The house had only been listed for three days and was not on any of the Internet sites yet. I might not have ever found it if he hadn't shown it to me.
Don't forget that these guys do this day in and day out. There are good ones and I'm sure some bad ones as well. You wouldn't suggest that people should write they're own programs by pointing and clicking--they should hire a professional. You should do the same.
You could say that America is Open-Source and that's why it has grown so quickly. The Closed-Source countries which preceeded it contributed much, but the freedom of America allowed each to reach his own potential quiclky. The great diversity we now enjoy comes from this.
Nah, it won't be a flop. Why? Because it will come pre-installed on every PC sold. Maybe people won't go out and buy an upgrade to it, but the next PC they buy *will* have it on it for sure.
Although it'll probably only be for a free month's rental of your.NET/Pasport space. So be sure to save all your Free Software stuff there! (just don't read the terms of service)
Ok, I get up at 3:00 AM (Los Angeles). It's warm enough outside to stand around in long sleeves and watch the sky. The sky is crystal clear and the stars (at least the ones in LA:) are bright. 4:00 AM, not a single meteor. 4:30 AM, nothing. 5:00 AM, still nothing!
At least the morning wasn't a complete waste. I took my laptop outside and finally setup xplns and learned a few star's names.
And the ultimate corp will be the one that controls the browser. That corp will not be beholding to ICANN and can have it's own DNS to find sites registered with it before it checks ICANN's DNS.
The large scale houses which just press bit-for-bit copies of DVDs are only one venue of piracy.
As far as the DeCSS enabled piracy goes, there is the risk of large scale piracy by dealing in downgraded versions of movies copied from the DVD and then compressed and encoded onto CD-ROM using the like of DIVX. These become cheap to produce, small enough to exchange over high speed Internet connections, etc. The quality is not as good as the orignal DVD but may still eat into sales of those DVDs.
This does not detract from all the arguments FOR DeCSS, but I hope it better explains what the risk to the movie producers is.
Why not just melt some glass and spin it, let freeze, and voila, mirror. I expect that the freezing process causes some distortion. As the material shrinks, currents caused by different densities, lumps floating around; you get the idea. Still it would be a good way to form the initial shape, just some polishing to finish it up. Then again, how do they make those really big mirrors?
How do you make liquid Hydrogen? The same way you make electricity, off at a plant somewhere.
Not so!
Take a look at this article from Home Power magizine. It's a 5KW fuel cell system that runs off natural gas, kerosine, gasoline, etc. It uses a catalyst to extract the Hydrogen from the fuel source. It is still a little large for powering a car but it would fit nicely in a small minivan. It costs $6000-8000 US.
In our environment, we have lots of users of different systems, few of which talk to each other (the systems, that is). Many of the systems we create can only address one small part of the overall need but do solve all of that one part. In a small app we're doing now, we have a need to print out a form for the user to sign after he enters a bunch of data. We also keep that data in a database so we can use it when we automate the rest of the system. That will require working with other divisions and departments and is not a small task. There is no reason not to provide a useful product even though it is not perfect.
Creating a PDF document from the web app is the best way to make sure the form can be used, since the users may need to have HTML fonts, colors, etc. overriden for their use, but the form must be properly formatted with specified fonts, etc.
The reason a speaker is stiff is because it is transmitting vibration from a coil around a magnet to the air. If it is not stiff, it will simply flex and the vibration energy will be lost in the speaker cone. One of the problems with a speaker is that the mass of the stiff cone keeps the speaker from responding to high frequencies. Thus the need for smaller tweeters with less massive cones.
A vibrating lump of plastic will be transmitting the vibration directly to the air so it's stiffness is not an issue. The flexing of the plastic is what is puting the energy into the air.
One of the best sounding speakers I ever heard was even less stiff than a glob of plastic. It was a flame speaker. It consisted of a critical flame with ionized material in the flame. Two wires were put in the flame and a high voltage audio signal was put across the wires. The flame vibrated and produced sound. Several construction articles existed, the technology just wasn't feasable for any long term use (there was enough heat from the tubes). This was in the mid '60s.
I vaguely remember a sci-fi story from around 1970 where there were transporters on the street corners. They looked vaguely like telephone booths. You'd step in and enter your destination, get scanned, reconstructed at the destination transporter, and then the floor would open up and you'd fall into (something-I forget) and your old body would be destroyed. Since the transport took place before the destruction, no one ever knew about the trap doors.
The story involves a man who manages to avoid falling through the trap door and escapes the transporter to find that there are now two of him. A legal process ensues and, eventually, since it was his intention to transport, the new body was declared the real him. I forgot what happened to the old him. And of course, people were not happy to find out that they were being zapped every time they used these things.
Anyone remember this book? Now I want to re-read it.
Slashdot Mirror
Personally, I think its my god given right to use allocated bandwidth however I choose. Its one thing to limit bandwidth, quite another to censor what bytes are allowed in my incoming or outgoing tcp segments.
Of course, you may want to check your agreement with your provider. You may have signed away your god given right on the dotted line when you signed up for service.
It's not the act of creating DeCSS, it's the act of supplying DeCSS. If you had a field of hemp plants before marajuana was made illegal they couldn't arrest you for it...unless you still had it after it was illegal. They have been doing the same thing here in California with guns. They declare a particular type illegal and you have to go turn them in. If you don't they arrest you not for having had them before they were illegal, but for having them when they are illegal.
Yea, imagine that, we USians have to arrest and detain a Russian to keep this the home of the free. When he leaves I hope he remembers to take the first amendment with him.
The worm goes dormant permenently on the 29th of the month. So all those sites which haven't rebooted will just have dormant worm threads running but doing nothing. They won't attempt to spread, they won't try to DoS the Whitehouse.
The reason servers with wrong dates is a problem is that if they still show a date before the DoS phase (which starts on the 20th of the month), they will still be trying to infect other systems. As that continues starting today, the newely infected systems will start attempting to spread instead of immediately going dormant as they did yesterday.
Again, previously infected systems where the worm went dormant won't start infecting again, unless (until?) they get reinfected.
It will be just as bad as before except that the IIS systems which have been patched (hopefully alot) won't participate.
I never wanted to trade music online, but now I gotta get gnutella!
Just keep going back and returning the CDs. After a while they will get tired of sending "defective" CDs back to the distributor or destroying them. Eventually they'll run out of the CD. Also, the record companies will get the idea when they only sell 50 out of every hundred they make because 50 are returned as defective.
I won't complain about a free service (which I don't even use). I will, however, complain when this service is going to be used to provide me services I will pay for. .NET will use IM to notify people of events. Those services will not be free. MS will be charging us for them.
Remember, much of the
Imagine that the phone was free (really, imagine it is). You pay someone to call you when your stock goes up (OK, you probably have to imagine it goes up too). Your stock goes through the roof, and the guy can't call you because the phone service is down for a week.
As long as we only use the phone for chatting with our buddys, no biggie. MS's IM is poised to be a critical part of our lives, just like the phone. We will complain about that.
How long before this info gets added to your pasport file? I think this is the beginning of a very slippery slope into MS owning all information. The hash may not exactly identify the equiptment, but what will be next?
A real estate agent in a local area is the one who will know the neighborhoods, crime areas, shopping and schools, churchs, and so on. She'll know the dirty little secrets that it's not politically correct to mention in an ad.
I just bought a house and started with the Internet sites you've also found and it gave me an idea of what I could find. Mind you, just an idea. When I talked to a realtor, he took me to a few houses, briefed me about the location, and showed me the house I finally bought. The house had only been listed for three days and was not on any of the Internet sites yet. I might not have ever found it if he hadn't shown it to me.
Don't forget that these guys do this day in and day out. There are good ones and I'm sure some bad ones as well. You wouldn't suggest that people should write they're own programs by pointing and clicking--they should hire a professional. You should do the same.
You could say that America is Open-Source and that's why it has grown so quickly. The Closed-Source countries which preceeded it contributed much, but the freedom of America allowed each to reach his own potential quiclky. The great diversity we now enjoy comes from this.
Nah, it won't be a flop. Why? Because it will come pre-installed on every PC sold. Maybe people won't go out and buy an upgrade to it, but the next PC they buy *will* have it on it for sure.
Yikes!
.NET/Pasport space. So be sure to save all your Free Software stuff there! (just don't read the terms of service)
We need a new mod catagory: +1 Scarey.
Although it'll probably only be for a free month's rental of your
The definitive resource for copyright is http://www.loc.gov/copyright/.
They have a FAQ and the forms.
At least the morning wasn't a complete waste. I took my laptop outside and finally setup xplns and learned a few star's names.
And the ultimate corp will be the one that controls the browser. That corp will not be beholding to ICANN and can have it's own DNS to find sites registered with it before it checks ICANN's DNS.
The large scale houses which just press bit-for-bit copies of DVDs are only one venue of piracy.
As far as the DeCSS enabled piracy goes, there is the risk of large scale piracy by dealing in downgraded versions of movies copied from the DVD and then compressed and encoded onto CD-ROM using the like of DIVX. These become cheap to produce, small enough to exchange over high speed Internet connections, etc. The quality is not as good as the orignal DVD but may still eat into sales of those DVDs.
This does not detract from all the arguments FOR DeCSS, but I hope it better explains what the risk to the movie producers is.
Wait a minute, didn't Al Gore invent the OS?
Why not just melt some glass and spin it, let freeze, and voila, mirror. I expect that the freezing process causes some distortion. As the material shrinks, currents caused by different densities, lumps floating around; you get the idea. Still it would be a good way to form the initial shape, just some polishing to finish it up. Then again, how do they make those really big mirrors?
Take a look at this article from Home Power magizine. It's a 5KW fuel cell system that runs off natural gas, kerosine, gasoline, etc. It uses a catalyst to extract the Hydrogen from the fuel source. It is still a little large for powering a car but it would fit nicely in a small minivan. It costs $6000-8000 US.
In our environment, we have lots of users of different systems, few of which talk to each other (the systems, that is). Many of the systems we create can only address one small part of the overall need but do solve all of that one part. In a small app we're doing now, we have a need to print out a form for the user to sign after he enters a bunch of data. We also keep that data in a database so we can use it when we automate the rest of the system. That will require working with other divisions and departments and is not a small task. There is no reason not to provide a useful product even though it is not perfect.
Creating a PDF document from the web app is the best way to make sure the form can be used, since the users may need to have HTML fonts, colors, etc. overriden for their use, but the form must be properly formatted with specified fonts, etc.
I really liked their Z80 CP/M card for the Apple ][.
Maybe I'm the biggest. I'm 6'6" and 405 lbs.
Gotta go, it's lunch time!
It has been observed by the inventor and witnesses that accelerated plant growth can occur using the present invention.
And even though they don't say what plant they were watching grow, we all know what it was.
Hemp. It's not just for breakfast anymore.
The reason a speaker is stiff is because it is transmitting vibration from a coil around a magnet to the air. If it is not stiff, it will simply flex and the vibration energy will be lost in the speaker cone. One of the problems with a speaker is that the mass of the stiff cone keeps the speaker from responding to high frequencies. Thus the need for smaller tweeters with less massive cones.
A vibrating lump of plastic will be transmitting the vibration directly to the air so it's stiffness is not an issue. The flexing of the plastic is what is puting the energy into the air.
One of the best sounding speakers I ever heard was even less stiff than a glob of plastic. It was a flame speaker. It consisted of a critical flame with ionized material in the flame. Two wires were put in the flame and a high voltage audio signal was put across the wires. The flame vibrated and produced sound. Several construction articles existed, the technology just wasn't feasable for any long term use (there was enough heat from the tubes). This was in the mid '60s.
I vaguely remember a sci-fi story from around 1970 where there were transporters on the street corners. They looked vaguely like telephone booths. You'd step in and enter your destination, get scanned, reconstructed at the destination transporter, and then the floor would open up and you'd fall into (something-I forget) and your old body would be destroyed. Since the transport took place before the destruction, no one ever knew about the trap doors.
The story involves a man who manages to avoid falling through the trap door and escapes the transporter to find that there are now two of him. A legal process ensues and, eventually, since it was his intention to transport, the new body was declared the real him. I forgot what happened to the old him. And of course, people were not happy to find out that they were being zapped every time they used these things.
Anyone remember this book? Now I want to re-read it.