How could that shut down Bittorrent? You may be able to use it against the USERS, but not Bittorrent itself. If you could, the RIAA would have shut down Bittorrent years ago (ie. by making the protocol responsible for the user's actions...).
And here I was thinking that 'multi' (ie. 'multiple') just meant "more than one" ( eg. http://www.answers.com/multiple&r=67 ). Just because 'bi' means "two" doesn't mean that 'multi' can't be two as well.
Otherwise where do you stop? I don't know for sure, but I would guess that technically there is a way to refer to any number in that way ("bi", "tri", "quad"...) so if you can't use 'multi' when you can also use 'bi' then when can you use it, exactly?
If a package isn't included in Ubuntu, your only option is either to compile it from source (good luck with that if you aren't technical) or using something like an autopackage. Neither Windows nor MacOS X practice this kind of software censorship.
That line intrigued me. This is an honest question: nothing else. Can you explain to me, please, how 'source or autopackage' for Ubuntu (specifically) is different to 'source or installer' for Windows, say? I mean, Windows installers don't magically appear... the developer has to create it, so how is 'requiring' an installer different to 'requiring' an autopackage package (or whatever it's called)?
Hopefully you understand the question... Following on from that: a Windows installer isn't required as you could just put a built executable in a ZIP file and run it like that. But can you not do that in Ubuntu, too (so long as the app is built for Ubuntu)?
I mean, as far as I can see, there are a number of options for Windows: download source, provide a ZIP of the built code or provide an installer, which the developer has to create: it's not magically there. For Ubuntu, you could provide source, a ZIP of the built code or an autopackage (which again is not magic: the developer needs to make it). So how is it that Ubuntu is 'censoring' while Windows is not? The way I see it, Ubuntu is ENABLING by providing a way to install many pre-selected packages while Windows does not. For the situations where a package has not been selected for this 'enablement' (which is the case for all packages in Windows), how is the Ubuntu process any worse than the Windows one?
OK, but that's now. In the past it wasn't like that! In the past, if you bought a PC (from Dell, HP, or the guy on the corner that puts the boxes together) you paid for Windows because if you wanted to resell Windows at all, no matter who you were, there was only one way to do it, and that was by paying a fee per computer distributed.
Remember that whole thing with MS making computer sellers pay them per computer sold, not per copy of the OS installed? Therefore the sellers were required to pay MS whether or not their OS was installed, therefore the customers were required to pay whether or not they bought it with their OS installed...
FYI: in PEI, at least, Zellers of all places had them for pre-order about a week and a half ago. Admittedly, it wasn't the console by itself (the pre-order was for console + Zelda + Extreme Trucking) but it was definitely available.
This is a fundamental problem. What happens when you get caught up in this because one of your co-workers does something unacceptable to whomever might be in power. The thing to realize is that this government as it currently stands, may represent you and your beliefs, but individuals change and governments slowly morph and the constituency changes (and the US is changing). So, if you are willing to give your government so much power, what happens in 50 years when they do not represent you or your beliefs? Think down the road just a little more...
The thing that scares me even more is the "frailty" of people. That guy working for the DHS that was found to be a paedophile. Boy am I glad that he may have had access to untold files and phone calls of all the children out there. I hate to be the one to yell "think of the children" but this is something that I believe needs to be said.
The one thing that I keep thinking of is my daughter growing up and breaking the heart (or catching the eye) of some freak who has access to this kind of information. Then I'm the one that'll get my arse kicked for shooting the bastard, no doubt.
Prove to us that the files will only be used for 'good', by people that have been proven to be 'good'. Unfortunately, that's not possible, so I just hope and pray that the children of all of these "I have nothing to hide" people never end up being followed by some freak that knows everything about them...
Does the wording of the notification matter at all? All recordings I hear are along the lines of "this call may be recorded for such and such" as opposed to "this call may be recorded by us for such and such". Could it be assumed that the former gives you permission to record as well?
Interesting... I was under the impression that even Windows XP couldn't play DVDs until you installed something from a CD when you get your DVDROM drive.
True, but disk compression never had to deal with applications that were written specifically to change the compression rate of certain files... I mean, you can always write better compression software, but what that software is working on is not actively trying to skew results either way, if you get my drift.
I know that it probably doesn't help you, but here in the Maritimes we have Eastlink, too. 10Mbps connection and seemingly no restrictions. The speed is unbelievable!
The funny thing is, I'm actually downloading less now that I'm on this connection. I don't know why, but my guess goes something like this: a) I'm downloading something, taking a while b) Log in to torrent server, looking at stats and to see if there's any new, faster, torrents with the same stuff in it c) Find other stuff I think I might want, so grab it too
Nowadays, though, my downloads finish so quickly I couldn't care less about finding new, faster, torrents. So I don't even go to the torrent servers anymore, so I don't download as much crap.
I'm a bit annoyed with myself, though, now, as I have all this bandwidth and I hardly ever use it:)
I would just like to add: although there's 45,000 pages submitted by SCO, 33,000 pages of that were made 'useless' when SCO dropped one of their hundred-odd points of argument.
That's right: 33,000 pages were submitted regarding just one of those points and now they've dropped that one point anyway!
Every company that's being traded could have problems that are unforeseen. It's still a bit of a gamble.
Then, on the other hand, you have people that see horse racing as a game of skill. Yes, there's always the possibility that unforeseen circumstances will hit a horse, but it can happen on the stock exchange too.
When you know people that own mansions on the beach, buy brand new BMWs each year, spend tens of thousands of dollars with you and still have over $100,000 to play with each year, you have to begin to doubt that all gambling is 'a game of luck'.
Even then, that's not just one person: I personally know 2 or 3 people that fit that category (although I was lucky enough to be closer to horse racing from the financial side of things than most people)...
The easiest way it seems to get a bank account in England is to come in from overseas with a work visa and jobs lined up through employment agents.
A friend of mine went there as a teacher and the employment agent set her up not only a bank account but also a company in one of those tax havens so that she didn't have to worry about income tax either.
I find it most interesting that he bags it out for not having a hard drive and yet just a couple of weeks ago he was telling us all that 'network applications' are the way of the future and that hard drives aren't important!
Which War has been declared under which these Muslims were captured as POWs?
Unless you can enlighten us, the US and its Allies have not declared war on any country or group. At the moment, from an international perspective, they're in another country killing people fighting against them.
Can you by any chance point us to that law? Because, no offence, that's bullshit.
They exist at the whim of the shareholders, but they are not required by law to increase their wealth. This is fact if only for the fact that it would not be enforcable. If none of your shareholders care that it's not making money, how can any government step in and force them to do so? What if the reason they don't make any money is because they're donating all of the money to charities?
If public companies are required to make their shareholders money by law, what is the definition of 'making money for shareholders'?
If they are required to make shareholders money, why isn't every company that turns a loss shut down by the feds for breaking the law?
Sorry for the offtopic rant, but man am I sick of this meme...
I always wonder about the "jilted ex" scenarios... it's not about you doing anything wrong, it's about someone having access to all that data that decides to do something wrong.
If we were tracking everyone, anyone with even a bit of access could decide to track down that woman that left him. Imagine he beat her and so she steals away in the middle of the night. He decides to get even and so tracks her down. Or he decides that you, her new lover, need to be taught a lesson. Or maybe her parents or her kids.
Man the Slashdot collective is impressive. I've seriously been trying (on and off) for over a year to find that package. One comment and three minutes later.... and I'm shown that lions had nothing to do with it. Oh well, maybe v2:)
I swear I remember reading about something like this years ago but for the life of me, I haven't been able to find it mentioned anywhere.
Although it wasn't email / spam related, the system I'm thinking of used jungle sounds (birds, rivers etc.) but had things like lion roars when the firewall detected a hack attempt.
Am I just dreaming this, or can someone give me any more information?
That's basically how some of the public toilets in NSW work. I don't know if these are the guys that do the ones that I'm thinking of, but it's basically the same thing.
Every X number of uses the room shuts itself up and automatically sprays itself down with various sprinklers and so on. Quite interesting, I thought...
How about feeling bad for everybody that gets spammed by people using these machines as zombies?
Well to be honest, we only need to get Bill Gates to decide on a date that will see spam ended, then we wouldn't have that problem, either:)
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How could that shut down Bittorrent? You may be able to use it against the USERS, but not Bittorrent itself. If you could, the RIAA would have shut down Bittorrent years ago (ie. by making the protocol responsible for the user's actions...).
And here I was thinking that 'multi' (ie. 'multiple') just meant "more than one" ( eg. http://www.answers.com/multiple&r=67 ). Just because 'bi' means "two" doesn't mean that 'multi' can't be two as well.
Otherwise where do you stop? I don't know for sure, but I would guess that technically there is a way to refer to any number in that way ("bi", "tri", "quad"...) so if you can't use 'multi' when you can also use 'bi' then when can you use it, exactly?
When parts of a spec say 'and implement this how Word 95 did it', then it's not really open as it doesn't actually tell you how to implement it...
That's one reason, at least.
That line intrigued me. This is an honest question: nothing else. Can you explain to me, please, how 'source or autopackage' for Ubuntu (specifically) is different to 'source or installer' for Windows, say? I mean, Windows installers don't magically appear... the developer has to create it, so how is 'requiring' an installer different to 'requiring' an autopackage package (or whatever it's called)?
Hopefully you understand the question... Following on from that: a Windows installer isn't required as you could just put a built executable in a ZIP file and run it like that. But can you not do that in Ubuntu, too (so long as the app is built for Ubuntu)?
I mean, as far as I can see, there are a number of options for Windows: download source, provide a ZIP of the built code or provide an installer, which the developer has to create: it's not magically there. For Ubuntu, you could provide source, a ZIP of the built code or an autopackage (which again is not magic: the developer needs to make it). So how is it that Ubuntu is 'censoring' while Windows is not? The way I see it, Ubuntu is ENABLING by providing a way to install many pre-selected packages while Windows does not. For the situations where a package has not been selected for this 'enablement' (which is the case for all packages in Windows), how is the Ubuntu process any worse than the Windows one?
OK, but that's now. In the past it wasn't like that! In the past, if you bought a PC (from Dell, HP, or the guy on the corner that puts the boxes together) you paid for Windows because if you wanted to resell Windows at all, no matter who you were, there was only one way to do it, and that was by paying a fee per computer distributed.
He said forced to buy, not forced to use.
Remember that whole thing with MS making computer sellers pay them per computer sold, not per copy of the OS installed? Therefore the sellers were required to pay MS whether or not their OS was installed, therefore the customers were required to pay whether or not they bought it with their OS installed...
FYI: in PEI, at least, Zellers of all places had them for pre-order about a week and a half ago. Admittedly, it wasn't the console by itself (the pre-order was for console + Zelda + Extreme Trucking) but it was definitely available.
The thing that scares me even more is the "frailty" of people. That guy working for the DHS that was found to be a paedophile. Boy am I glad that he may have had access to untold files and phone calls of all the children out there. I hate to be the one to yell "think of the children" but this is something that I believe needs to be said.
The one thing that I keep thinking of is my daughter growing up and breaking the heart (or catching the eye) of some freak who has access to this kind of information. Then I'm the one that'll get my arse kicked for shooting the bastard, no doubt.
Prove to us that the files will only be used for 'good', by people that have been proven to be 'good'. Unfortunately, that's not possible, so I just hope and pray that the children of all of these "I have nothing to hide" people never end up being followed by some freak that knows everything about them...
Just out of curiosity:
Does the wording of the notification matter at all? All recordings I hear are along the lines of "this call may be recorded for such and such" as opposed to "this call may be recorded by us for such and such". Could it be assumed that the former gives you permission to record as well?
Interesting... I was under the impression that even Windows XP couldn't play DVDs until you installed something from a CD when you get your DVDROM drive.
That was the case with me, anyway...
True, but disk compression never had to deal with applications that were written specifically to change the compression rate of certain files... I mean, you can always write better compression software, but what that software is working on is not actively trying to skew results either way, if you get my drift.
I know that it probably doesn't help you, but here in the Maritimes we have Eastlink, too. 10Mbps connection and seemingly no restrictions. The speed is unbelievable!
:)
The funny thing is, I'm actually downloading less now that I'm on this connection. I don't know why, but my guess goes something like this:
a) I'm downloading something, taking a while
b) Log in to torrent server, looking at stats and to see if there's any new, faster, torrents with the same stuff in it
c) Find other stuff I think I might want, so grab it too
Nowadays, though, my downloads finish so quickly I couldn't care less about finding new, faster, torrents. So I don't even go to the torrent servers anymore, so I don't download as much crap.
I'm a bit annoyed with myself, though, now, as I have all this bandwidth and I hardly ever use it
One of my lecturers once said that the NSA measures (measured?) computing power not in terms of speed or memory size but 'in square miles'.
:)
Probably a joke but he definitely got me thinking about the scale that they were on
I would just like to add: although there's 45,000 pages submitted by SCO, 33,000 pages of that were made 'useless' when SCO dropped one of their hundred-odd points of argument.
That's right: 33,000 pages were submitted regarding just one of those points and now they've dropped that one point anyway!
Every company that's being traded could have problems that are unforeseen. It's still a bit of a gamble.
Then, on the other hand, you have people that see horse racing as a game of skill. Yes, there's always the possibility that unforeseen circumstances will hit a horse, but it can happen on the stock exchange too.
When you know people that own mansions on the beach, buy brand new BMWs each year, spend tens of thousands of dollars with you and still have over $100,000 to play with each year, you have to begin to doubt that all gambling is 'a game of luck'.
Even then, that's not just one person: I personally know 2 or 3 people that fit that category (although I was lucky enough to be closer to horse racing from the financial side of things than most people)...
Agreed.
The easiest way it seems to get a bank account in England is to come in from overseas with a work visa and jobs lined up through employment agents.
A friend of mine went there as a teacher and the employment agent set her up not only a bank account but also a company in one of those tax havens so that she didn't have to worry about income tax either.
I find it most interesting that he bags it out for not having a hard drive and yet just a couple of weeks ago he was telling us all that 'network applications' are the way of the future and that hard drives aren't important!
POWs are Prisoners of War.
Which War has been declared under which these Muslims were captured as POWs?
Unless you can enlighten us, the US and its Allies have not declared war on any country or group. At the moment, from an international perspective, they're in another country killing people fighting against them.
Declare war first, then keep your POWs...
Which is kinda funny because that NZ e-gov site appears to be actually running Plone: a GPL application!
Run for the hills NZ: you've been infected!!
Can you by any chance point us to that law? Because, no offence, that's bullshit.
They exist at the whim of the shareholders, but they are not required by law to increase their wealth. This is fact if only for the fact that it would not be enforcable. If none of your shareholders care that it's not making money, how can any government step in and force them to do so? What if the reason they don't make any money is because they're donating all of the money to charities?
If public companies are required to make their shareholders money by law, what is the definition of 'making money for shareholders'?
If they are required to make shareholders money, why isn't every company that turns a loss shut down by the feds for breaking the law?
Sorry for the offtopic rant, but man am I sick of this meme...
I always wonder about the "jilted ex" scenarios... it's not about you doing anything wrong, it's about someone having access to all that data that decides to do something wrong.
If we were tracking everyone, anyone with even a bit of access could decide to track down that woman that left him. Imagine he beat her and so she steals away in the middle of the night. He decides to get even and so tracks her down. Or he decides that you, her new lover, need to be taught a lesson. Or maybe her parents or her kids.
They're the kinds of scenarios I worry about...
Hmmm... I reckon that's the one, yes.
:)
Man the Slashdot collective is impressive. I've seriously been trying (on and off) for over a year to find that package. One comment and three minutes later.... and I'm shown that lions had nothing to do with it. Oh well, maybe v2
Thanks!
I swear I remember reading about something like this years ago but for the life of me, I haven't been able to find it mentioned anywhere.
Although it wasn't email / spam related, the system I'm thinking of used jungle sounds (birds, rivers etc.) but had things like lion roars when the firewall detected a hack attempt.
Am I just dreaming this, or can someone give me any more information?
Every X number of uses the room shuts itself up and automatically sprays itself down with various sprinklers and so on. Quite interesting, I thought...
How about feeling bad for everybody that gets spammed by people using these machines as zombies? :)
Well to be honest, we only need to get Bill Gates to decide on a date that will see spam ended, then we wouldn't have that problem, either