That Rowling guy must feel pretty good with the success of his books... in anticipation of the movie, my girlfriend and I have tried to read the Harry potter books, but they are not to be found in the library unless you reserve them, and they are completely unavailable in used book stores. I don't think i want to pay retail price for them (usually like $15) so i guess i'll just have to wait for the hype to die down.
It will be cool to see what the NASA coders have up their sleeves. It will be interesting to see just how they think. Of course, as a younger coder, i'm not sure i'm going to want to learn FORTRAN just to do it.
Okay, the 5 minute bandwidth usage average on skylab.org (where this is hosted) is currently sitting at 6.8MBit (which is, coincidentally, just how fat our entire network connection is.)
Just how much bandwidth does a site need to _not_ get slashdotted?
Would be cool to do a somewhat scientific experiment. Then again, i would bet that there are so many variables (time of day, subject, which editor posts) that to do an adequate study would require too many test front page posts that people would stop clicking and the data set would be ruined.
So for now, the answer to your question is a HELL of a lot.
Actually, pr0n sites want as many paying customers as humanly possible, since this is the only way to earn money. Even with banner ads and through refferrals and all that, someone somewhere has to have a credit card and pay to get his pr0n. Kids have no credit cards and thus are not the people that the pr0n sites are after. If they are not paying, all they are doing is eating up bandwidth which, for pr0n sites, is really expensive since they pay a premium for pr0n bandwidth.
Besides, the worse rating they have, the better they can say their content is. Look we have a XXX rating, the nastiest stuff on the net!
The problem is that pr0n operators will ALL want these ratings. Don't believe me? There are two compelling reasons. First, the raunchier and nastier and worse rated the site is, the more traffic it will get, that's a fact. Second, and more importantly, the pr0n sites actually do want kids off of their sites. Why? Because kids don't have credit cards. If they don't have credit cards, they aren't paying to see their pr0n, they are just eating up bandwidth. Nobody wants their bandwidth eaten up. There would be no financial reason to mislabel their sites as kid friendly.
Now, the real problem with this is that it does open the door for government regulation. If site owners accept a voluntary rating system, and everything goes well, pretty soon there will be a mandated system, and not too long after that, the sites that are somewhat controversial, but speak about important issues are then censored.
This being a voluntary rating system, it will do about ZERO good. The only sites that will utilize them will be pr0n sites, but big WHOOP! The net nannys and other censorship organizations of the world will still base their censorship based on keywords and other flawed methods. So, what's the point?
I played the demo box at target. There were like 9 different demos that were just presentations, but there was at least one (the topmost option) that you could actually play... you had to run around and gather coins basically. It wasn't much of a game, being just a demo, but the controls were good and the graphics were cool. As long as the Xbox doesn't get a reputation for blue screen of deathing all the time.... i might consider buying one.
Song lyrics and movie lines get mis-understood all the time. Check here and here for two sites that host databases of misunderstood song lyrics. In fact, i forget what song it was... way back in the day, i heard about it on VH1... it was like the monkees or something, that the song was banned because someone put out an alternate set of lyrics that were less than tasteful (sex and drug related)... but the best part of it was that if you had these alternate lyrics in front of you, it does actually sound like they are saying it.
While i'm actually fond of both companies (well, recently very much less so with adobe over Dmitry/eBooks and the KIllustrator deal) i feel that this is just another patent squabble that will affect nothing in any future products, nothing in anyone's lives and will not be over anything ground breaking. It's all about the bottom line for two pretty wealthy companies and as such isn't much to talk about, especially with the sparse details.
I'm kind of with you on the idea of forming a PAC, but as you said, where the hell do you start? I suppose a google search would be the first place.... Not that I think you're going to find any good set of instructions. Not like anyone would bother to write that stuff down.
This would still allow them to move from server to server and each one would be delayed by having to identify that the IP is a piker. I think that it would be cool that after identifying a RIAA suspected IP address that the nex-gen file trading servers will then share the suspect IP address with the whole network.
If it's done in such a way that the bans are not permanent, you could avoid permanently banning innocent IP addresses, and ones that consistantly come up suspect will continuously be excluded. It wouldn't take very long to completely identify and disable their whole range of IPs. If they drop them and go for more, those that they had previously used will not be screwed over and the ones that they are still using or now using will be quickly excluded and won't affect anyone.
There is always the fact that Java is being natively excluded from Win XP. The conspiracy theorists among us would probably argue that this move is to have the J# initiative and thus the.NET initiative to be more successful and quash everyone else.
Well, then in that case, it becomes a trivial matter to play the "notes" of the musical representation with different note durations, and different pauses.
As it is a musical thing, beeeeeep bop buuup is distinctly different from beep bop buuuuup. Thus negating any tangible use of this copyright.
As for the digital non-copyright-ability of anything since it all boils down to a stream of 0s and 1s. Well, I prefer to think of that as perfectly correct, but any judge you ask will tell you differently. It IS the music, or the source or video representation of those numbers being copyrighted. In this case, as I said earlier, playing the phone number at different rates is trivial (which is the copyright-able representation), so they must be trying to copyright the number. This would be akin to copyrighting the number 2. Or, more valuably, the set of mersenne primes. You can't do it.
But every good computer geek knows that just number strings are non-copyright-able and non-trademark-able (yes, i know neither of those are actually words)
Everyone on this site should remember this fact when Intel changed their chip naming scheme from numbers, 8086, 286, 486 etc. to Pentium and Pentium Pro etc. The reason for this was that the numbers could be neither copyrighted nor trademarked and other manufacturers were able to call their chips 486 as well thus leading to a loss of brand value for intel.
I totally agree, talk radio hosts used to amuse me somewhat, but when you put those same radio "personalities" in front of a serious topic like this, they turn into some real frigging morons! It's like they've never HEARD of any events before the attack.
"What they bombed our embassies in africa?"
"I think i heard that there was a marine base somewhere that they blew up too."
"Apparently Clinton is going to... wait, no, he isn't president anymore, who's the new guy?"
I mean it's really that bad, some hosts are pretty good, but for the most part, I've been hearing some damn stupid people trying to act damn serious. They can't hack it.
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Lol, i stand corrected....
S/he could well be.... i was under the impression it was a guy, but if you thought so, who knows?? :)
That Rowling guy must feel pretty good with the success of his books... in anticipation of the movie, my girlfriend and I have tried to read the Harry potter books, but they are not to be found in the library unless you reserve them, and they are completely unavailable in used book stores. I don't think i want to pay retail price for them (usually like $15) so i guess i'll just have to wait for the hype to die down.
And you thought you escaped racing little model cars when you got out of boyscouts.
Then again, the 24 boot items and a few other features aren't bad.
Are there other examples of NASA released code?
Just how much bandwidth does a site need to _not_ get slashdotted?
Would be cool to do a somewhat scientific experiment. Then again, i would bet that there are so many variables (time of day, subject, which editor posts) that to do an adequate study would require too many test front page posts that people would stop clicking and the data set would be ruined.
So for now, the answer to your question is a HELL of a lot.
Thumbnails won't work, but you didn't need to see them.
Besides, the worse rating they have, the better they can say their content is. Look we have a XXX rating, the nastiest stuff on the net!
Now, the real problem with this is that it does open the door for government regulation. If site owners accept a voluntary rating system, and everything goes well, pretty soon there will be a mandated system, and not too long after that, the sites that are somewhat controversial, but speak about important issues are then censored.
This being a voluntary rating system, it will do about ZERO good. The only sites that will utilize them will be pr0n sites, but big WHOOP! The net nannys and other censorship organizations of the world will still base their censorship based on keywords and other flawed methods. So, what's the point?
I played the demo box at target. There were like 9 different demos that were just presentations, but there was at least one (the topmost option) that you could actually play... you had to run around and gather coins basically. It wasn't much of a game, being just a demo, but the controls were good and the graphics were cool. As long as the Xbox doesn't get a reputation for blue screen of deathing all the time.... i might consider buying one.
True, but actually breaking the protection would mean 5-10 in prison and up to $1,000,000 in fines.
Song lyrics and movie lines get mis-understood all the time. Check here and here for two sites that host databases of misunderstood song lyrics. In fact, i forget what song it was... way back in the day, i heard about it on VH1... it was like the monkees or something, that the song was banned because someone put out an alternate set of lyrics that were less than tasteful (sex and drug related)... but the best part of it was that if you had these alternate lyrics in front of you, it does actually sound like they are saying it.
I didn't even notice it until i read that it was there.... but thanks for the option to disable.
While i'm actually fond of both companies (well, recently very much less so with adobe over Dmitry/eBooks and the KIllustrator deal) i feel that this is just another patent squabble that will affect nothing in any future products, nothing in anyone's lives and will not be over anything ground breaking. It's all about the bottom line for two pretty wealthy companies and as such isn't much to talk about, especially with the sparse details.
I'm kind of with you on the idea of forming a PAC, but as you said, where the hell do you start? I suppose a google search would be the first place.... Not that I think you're going to find any good set of instructions. Not like anyone would bother to write that stuff down.
If it's done in such a way that the bans are not permanent, you could avoid permanently banning innocent IP addresses, and ones that consistantly come up suspect will continuously be excluded. It wouldn't take very long to completely identify and disable their whole range of IPs. If they drop them and go for more, those that they had previously used will not be screwed over and the ones that they are still using or now using will be quickly excluded and won't affect anyone.
Hmmm.... good idea?
There is always the fact that Java is being natively excluded from Win XP. The conspiracy theorists among us would probably argue that this move is to have the J# initiative and thus the .NET initiative to be more successful and quash everyone else.
It's especially incriminating when you show everyone that the path he took draws out an extended middle finger.
As it is a musical thing, beeeeeep bop buuup is distinctly different from beep bop buuuuup. Thus negating any tangible use of this copyright.
As for the digital non-copyright-ability of anything since it all boils down to a stream of 0s and 1s. Well, I prefer to think of that as perfectly correct, but any judge you ask will tell you differently. It IS the music, or the source or video representation of those numbers being copyrighted. In this case, as I said earlier, playing the phone number at different rates is trivial (which is the copyright-able representation), so they must be trying to copyright the number. This would be akin to copyrighting the number 2. Or, more valuably, the set of mersenne primes. You can't do it.
Everyone on this site should remember this fact when Intel changed their chip naming scheme from numbers, 8086, 286, 486 etc. to Pentium and Pentium Pro etc. The reason for this was that the numbers could be neither copyrighted nor trademarked and other manufacturers were able to call their chips 486 as well thus leading to a loss of brand value for intel.
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I keep forgetting that people around here need to see that stuff to tell.
"What they bombed our embassies in africa?"
"I think i heard that there was a marine base somewhere that they blew up too."
"Apparently Clinton is going to... wait, no, he isn't president anymore, who's the new guy?"
I mean it's really that bad, some hosts are pretty good, but for the most part, I've been hearing some damn stupid people trying to act damn serious. They can't hack it.