O.K, that should have said "look at my supermarket". All of the meat is prepackaged. There is a guy in back, but he's not a butcher, he just stocks the meat shelves. This is true in all of the major three supermarkets in Southern California.
Sheesh, you're a touchy AC. This isn't a "fact" to get "wrong". It was an attempt to show where the economy is going and why big business is scrambling for money.
The article is wrong. The only people who were sued were not just downloading they were offering up files to be downloaded. That's why they got sued and agreed to settle. Becasue they had no legal ground to stand on. Oops.
It's a tough lesson for a kid, but one they're going to have to learn as if you think it's going to get any better you're living in a dream.
With the economy tanking corporations are looking for unclaimed revenue streams to bring their profits back up and areas they didn't really care about are now the core of their thinking.
Look at your supermarket - only prepackaged meat, not a butcher in sight. He's mowing lawns now. Wallmart being sued for not paying overtime to employees were too scared to report the violation out of fear of losing even *that* job. It's a buyer's market when it comes to employment and a litigator's market when it comes to IP.
It's just reality. Sure try to change it, go ahead. I prefer to be practical about it and just not buy the products and I don't take them either. If you stopped buying them AND taking them they'd go out of business in a MONTH.
On Wednesday 10 December 2003, Windows Update and Software Update Services (SUS) prompted some Windows XP users who were not at risk to install the security update MS03-051. This was due to a change in the Windows Update detection mechanism. This is being updated to ensure that Windows Update and SUS only prompts those Windows XP users who need it to install the security update MS03-051.
Customers who installed the security update MS03-051 do not need to take any action; the update is fully tested and supported on Windows XP. However, those customers who determine that they do not need the Windows XP update for MS03-051 and want to remove it can do so as discussed in the "Security Update Information" section of the Security Bulletin.
More information is available in the FAQ section of the Security Bulletin. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms03-051.asp
Sorry. I'm too tired to be a good parent (according to some of the postings from obviously childless people.)
First you tell them:
"Pretend I'm standing behind you while you're using the computer and don't do anything you would be ashamed or embarassed to have me see."
At the same time buy and install eblaster on every one of the kid's computers and set it to report to you every hour what is going on. If it keeps your daughter from getting pregnant at 13 or your son from becoming a junkie then all ethics go out the window.
I don't care if my son looks at porn or talks dirty on a chat line. It's going to happen no matter what I do. I'm more worried about what goes on at school than I am in his room.
I talked to him early about drugs, sex, back stabbing vindictive bitches like his mother (er, sorry, I digress) and all the other important things and he chose to ignore me and make the same mistakes. Now at the ripe old age of 14 we talk about these things all the time and he's happy he doesn't have to recreat the past to learn.
Just be practical about how you confront them with what you find.
Actually I believe it is now illegal to loan a gun to someone (as in handing it over to them and then letting them out of your sight). This is seen as a transfer of a weapon, which is illegal without a background check, under the Brady bill.
Um, half the country doesn't even have access to home computers. The half that does mostly doesn't have broadband. You're still in a minority.
What you propose is that the music industry go back to what it was in the 1950's. Check out the history of that and see if you think it will work for today's world (of course updated with idea of P2P). I'll tell you, I'm optomistic, but I can't imagine it working the way you see it.
Even when you says artists break away and form their own record companies, they eventually became greedy and started exloiting other artists the same as the record companies they left. I could name a couple, but don't feel like a lawsuit right now.
Thermite plates in the top with neat little safety pins and rings to pull.
The idea was that when the "evil horde" came into over run the facility you smartly yank the rings and the resulting incendiary mess melts down through the cabinet/safe turning the contents into nothing recognizable.
Apple doesn't have that kind of money anymore. Maybe 4 billion in cash equivalent reserves if you're being generous (check todays news sites.) Vivendi won't take stock either - they need cash to pay down their debt. This "deal" will never happen unless Jobs can get somebody to pony up 2 billion in guarantees.
The music business is still to unstable for anyone in their right mind to invest in it (from a banking perspective.) I can see why Apple would want it, but then again we all want things we can't have.
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...not even close. Less than 100 years old. It might have meant something - for awhile - as one other poster pointed out; being a safety measure for an engaged woman to have something left even if the man backed out, but now it's all marketing and monopoly tactics.
You're kidding yourself if you think there's precident that applies to ISPs. There is none. Find it and post it if you believe there is.
The differences between an ISP and the phone company are obvious and tangible.
ISPs barely have common carrier status and will lose it due to an act of Congress if there is fear of corporate America losing big $$$.
The difference is that everything that crosses their switches could easily be checked, filtered, and dropped using a specific set of rules. You may not like the rules, but they're not hard to implement. Businesses have done this on their own already, as have schools.
Common Carrier status is only given to those services that are considered "vital" and cannot be done without on a national level. If you really feel that AOL and Earthlink fit that definition then lobby your congress person when the bill comes around.
So come on, give me one instance of case law that states ISPs are "vital" and have common carrier status. Just one. You said there are plenty. Just one.
Besides, I just said "Congress will be lobbied..." I didn't say it will work.
But if it does pass and is challenged what do you think that this Supreme Court will do with the case (if it ever reaches them?)
This is one branch of a multi-pronged attack that will send your "fair use" rights the way of the Dodo.
Congress will be lobbied that ISPs must be responsible for the traffic that passes across their switches. The proof that this is needed is that even though music is available in a format the public demands (MP3 on the Internet), for a price of almost half the cost of a store purchase, stealing still continues.
The fact that the world economy sucks will help bolster the above as anything that helps the big companies continue their revenue stream will be seen as "good for the country".
Your "secure" operating system is just around the corner and it's possible that by 2006 you wont have the RIAA anymore because you won't be able to do anything that they wouldn't like!
There's a fundamental flaw in what you're asking. They don't have to prove any of what you say. Even if everything that they've said is just FUD raising banter (as well it may be.)
The law is on their side and no matter how much we scream about "fair use" or "...but I wanna!" the facts remain that the U.S. is run by industrialists who have a sympathetic administration in power.
Feel free to take the high moral ground, but in this country you have no rights to ask the things you ask. Period. Sure I want to know the answers too, but you should really spend your time fighting the fight on the same field of play where the battle is actually occuring as opposed to in some theoretical sandbox where everybody plays by the rules of a gentleman.
In the power struggles of corporations perception=reality. No contest. Look, all hackers are Kevin Mitnick and he is evil. CNN said it so it must be true.
If Hillary says the music industry will collapse unless the U.S. Congress enacts a bill that denys Common Carrier status to ISPs then it will happen. You can hold your breath waiting for that to happen because you won't be going blue in the face waiting. As soon as the trial runs of "we're doing what the consumer asked and selling our music on the Internet" fail that will be all the proof your elected official needs to roll over. Now he'll have some tangible evidence that people want to steal and won't buy at any price. Then it's all over.
So fight the fight on the terms on the table or be prepared to be a casualty.
You're going to be reamed out and cross-threaded by Big Brother and don't even know why.
I don't believe you can really save money building a system yourself anymore. Check around.
What it does allow you to do is get exactly what you need for your specific application.
You can enhance any functions you depend on (sound, video, etc.) or add more ports of your choosing and type.
Or go to Wallmart and check and see what the whiteboxs go for. Cheaper than you can build it for unless your a student or have access to a nice supply of "spare parts".
How is listening to a radio station all day, waiting for that "new hit single" to be played (so that you can record it) anything like going on gnutella and downloading that same song in two minutes?
Instant access to everything you specifically want does not equal instant access to a random assortment of songs broadcast over the airwaves.
I should have been more specific. Since I just play and don't run a server I was referring to my desktop crashing when it gets interrogated by CSguard and HLguard - not the server itself crashing.
I don't know about you guys, but CSGuard and HLGuard have just about killed Counterstrike for me. If I go into servers without them there's no problem, with them and it's constant crashing.
I don't mind products to even the playing field (a 12 year old with OGC can ruin a whole game you've been in for hours), but when they interfere with game play, what's the point?
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O.K, that should have said "look at my supermarket". All of the meat is prepackaged. There is a guy in back, but he's not a butcher, he just stocks the meat shelves. This is true in all of the major three supermarkets in Southern California.
Sheesh, you're a touchy AC. This isn't a "fact" to get "wrong". It was an attempt to show where the economy is going and why big business is scrambling for money.
The article is wrong. The only people who were sued were not just downloading they were offering up files to be downloaded. That's why they got sued and agreed to settle. Becasue they had no legal ground to stand on. Oops.
It's a tough lesson for a kid, but one they're going to have to learn as if you think it's going to get any better you're living in a dream.
With the economy tanking corporations are looking for unclaimed revenue streams to bring their profits back up and areas they didn't really care about are now the core of their thinking.
Look at your supermarket - only prepackaged meat, not a butcher in sight. He's mowing lawns now. Wallmart being sued for not paying overtime to employees were too scared to report the violation out of fear of losing even *that* job. It's a buyer's market when it comes to employment and a litigator's market when it comes to IP.
It's just reality. Sure try to change it, go ahead. I prefer to be practical about it and just not buy the products and I don't take them either. If you stopped buying them AND taking them they'd go out of business in a MONTH.
then you would know this isn't how it's done.
Well, at least the answer for the moment is:
n /ms03-051.asp
On Wednesday 10 December 2003, Windows Update and Software Update Services (SUS) prompted some Windows XP users who were not at risk to install the security update MS03-051. This was due to a change in the Windows Update detection mechanism. This is being updated to ensure that Windows Update and SUS only prompts those Windows XP users who need it to install the security update MS03-051.
Customers who installed the security update MS03-051 do not need to take any action; the update is fully tested and supported on Windows XP. However, those customers who determine that they do not need the Windows XP update for MS03-051 and want to remove it can do so as discussed in the "Security Update Information" section of the Security Bulletin.
More information is available in the FAQ section of the Security Bulletin. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulleti
Sorry. I'm too tired to be a good parent (according to some of the postings from obviously childless people.)
First you tell them:
"Pretend I'm standing behind you while you're using the computer and don't do anything you would be ashamed or embarassed to have me see."
At the same time buy and install eblaster on every one of the kid's computers and set it to report to you every hour what is going on. If it keeps your daughter from getting pregnant at 13 or your son from becoming a junkie then all ethics go out the window.
I don't care if my son looks at porn or talks dirty on a chat line. It's going to happen no matter what I do. I'm more worried about what goes on at school than I am in his room.
I talked to him early about drugs, sex, back stabbing vindictive bitches like his mother (er, sorry, I digress) and all the other important things and he chose to ignore me and make the same mistakes. Now at the ripe old age of 14 we talk about these things all the time and he's happy he doesn't have to recreat the past to learn.
Just be practical about how you confront them with what you find.
Actually I believe it is now illegal to loan a gun to someone (as in handing it over to them and then letting them out of your sight). This is seen as a transfer of a weapon, which is illegal without a background check, under the Brady bill.
...I have someone I can fire if they don't know the answer to this question.
Um, half the country doesn't even have access to home computers. The half that does mostly doesn't have broadband. You're still in a minority.
What you propose is that the music industry go back to what it was in the 1950's. Check out the history of that and see if you think it will work for today's world (of course updated with idea of P2P). I'll tell you, I'm optomistic, but I can't imagine it working the way you see it.
Even when you says artists break away and form their own record companies, they eventually became greedy and started exloiting other artists the same as the record companies they left. I could name a couple, but don't feel like a lawsuit right now.
What if you "bragging rights" consist of a multimillion dollar lawsuit for copyright infringement?
Thermite plates in the top with neat little safety pins and rings to pull.
The idea was that when the "evil horde" came into over run the facility you smartly yank the rings and the resulting incendiary mess melts down through the cabinet/safe turning the contents into nothing recognizable.
Apple doesn't have that kind of money anymore. Maybe 4 billion in cash equivalent reserves if you're being generous (check todays news sites.) Vivendi won't take stock either - they need cash to pay down their debt. This "deal" will never happen unless Jobs can get somebody to pony up 2 billion in guarantees.
The music business is still to unstable for anyone in their right mind to invest in it (from a banking perspective.) I can see why Apple would want it, but then again we all want things we can't have.
...in the captain's quarters on the Enterprise?
C'mon! You KNOW!
...not even close. Less than 100 years old. It might have meant something - for awhile - as one other poster pointed out; being a safety measure for an engaged woman to have something left even if the man backed out, but now it's all marketing and monopoly tactics.
...but did you notice that the cost of your cable service went up? Or is your bill actually lower than it was previously?
My modem rental went down and the service cost went up. The total remains the same.
There was a slashdot article on this a few weeks ago.
You're kidding yourself if you think there's precident that applies to ISPs. There is none. Find it and post it if you believe there is.
The differences between an ISP and the phone company are obvious and tangible.
ISPs barely have common carrier status and will lose it due to an act of Congress if there is fear of corporate America losing big $$$.
The difference is that everything that crosses their switches could easily be checked, filtered, and dropped using a specific set of rules. You may not like the rules, but they're not hard to implement. Businesses have done this on their own already, as have schools.
Common Carrier status is only given to those services that are considered "vital" and cannot be done without on a national level. If you really feel that AOL and Earthlink fit that definition then lobby your congress person when the bill comes around.
So come on, give me one instance of case law that states ISPs are "vital" and have common carrier status. Just one. You said there are plenty. Just one.
Besides, I just said "Congress will be lobbied..." I didn't say it will work.
But if it does pass and is challenged what do you think that this Supreme Court will do with the case (if it ever reaches them?)
...then you're going to be really surprised.
This is one branch of a multi-pronged attack that will send your "fair use" rights the way of the Dodo.
Congress will be lobbied that ISPs must be responsible for the traffic that passes across their switches. The proof that this is needed is that even though music is available in a format the public demands (MP3 on the Internet), for a price of almost half the cost of a store purchase, stealing still continues.
The fact that the world economy sucks will help bolster the above as anything that helps the big companies continue their revenue stream will be seen as "good for the country".
Your "secure" operating system is just around the corner and it's possible that by 2006 you wont have the RIAA anymore because you won't be able to do anything that they wouldn't like!
There's a fundamental flaw in what you're asking. They don't have to prove any of what you say. Even if everything that they've said is just FUD raising banter (as well it may be.)
The law is on their side and no matter how much we scream about "fair use" or "...but I wanna!" the facts remain that the U.S. is run by industrialists who have a sympathetic administration in power.
Feel free to take the high moral ground, but in this country you have no rights to ask the things you ask. Period. Sure I want to know the answers too, but you should really spend your time fighting the fight on the same field of play where the battle is actually occuring as opposed to in some theoretical sandbox where everybody plays by the rules of a gentleman.
In the power struggles of corporations perception=reality. No contest. Look, all hackers are Kevin Mitnick and he is evil. CNN said it so it must be true.
If Hillary says the music industry will collapse unless the U.S. Congress enacts a bill that denys Common Carrier status to ISPs then it will happen. You can hold your breath waiting for that to happen because you won't be going blue in the face waiting.
As soon as the trial runs of "we're doing what the consumer asked and selling our music on the Internet" fail that will be all the proof your elected official needs to roll over. Now he'll have some tangible evidence that people want to steal and won't buy at any price. Then it's all over.
So fight the fight on the terms on the table or be prepared to be a casualty.
You're going to be reamed out and cross-threaded by Big Brother and don't even know why.
As always YMMV.
Sheesh, ya gotta know I'd bite on that one.
Easy peasy.
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Dual Athlon Workstation
CPU type: Dual Athlon MP 1900
Two AMD Athlon MP CPUs
Asus A7M266-D dual motherboard
IO port: 2 x USB, 1 x Parralel, 1 x Serial, 1 x PS2 keyboard, 1 x PS2 mouse
1024mb PC2100 DDR SDRAM, 2 DIMMs
WD 80gb Caviar ATA100 drive, 7200RPM
Toshiba SD-R1202 16x10x12x40 DVD/CD-RW combo drive, ATAPI
nVidia GeForce4 TI4400 graphics card, 128mb w/ DVI
ViewSonic PF790 19" monitor, flat
Teac 1.44mb floppy drive
Mid tower ATX case with 6 drive bays
Logitech 3 button mouse
IBM 104-key PS/2 keyboard
SoundBlaster Live! 5.1
Altec Lansing AVS500 5PC speaker system
MS Windows XP Professional installed for multi-boot, w/ CD/docs
Total = $2,950
Please note that I just used up as much of your 3k as I could, by upgrading the monitor, processor speed, speakers and giving you XP Pro.
Don't even mind giving the source.
http://www.swt.com/duala.html
I don't believe you can really save money building a system yourself anymore. Check around.
What it does allow you to do is get exactly what you need for your specific application.
You can enhance any functions you depend on (sound, video, etc.) or add more ports of your choosing and type.
Or go to Wallmart and check and see what the whiteboxs go for. Cheaper than you can build it for unless your a student or have access to a nice supply of "spare parts".
Well, if it's in my tooth I don't have much of a choice.
I do turn of my cell phone whenever I feel like.
I do leave my cell phone at home when I go on trips (poor coverage anyway) away from my local area.
I do turn off my cell phone after I commit a crime and have my friend drive the getaway white Bronco down the San Diego Freeway.
Oh, sorry that last one was somebody else who SHOULD have turned off his cell phone...
Just what I want - an electronic dog collar implanted in my mouth so that I can be electronically followed anywhere I go.
Seriously.
How is listening to a radio station all day, waiting for that "new hit single" to be played (so that you can record it) anything like going on gnutella and downloading that same song in two minutes?
Instant access to everything you specifically want does not equal instant access to a random assortment of songs broadcast over the airwaves.
I should have been more specific. Since I just play and don't run a server I was referring to my desktop crashing when it gets interrogated by CSguard and HLguard - not the server itself crashing.
I don't know about you guys, but CSGuard and HLGuard have just about killed Counterstrike for me. If I go into servers without them there's no problem, with them and it's constant crashing.
I don't mind products to even the playing field (a 12 year old with OGC can ruin a whole game you've been in for hours), but when they interfere with game play, what's the point?
Hi, I know you're Unisys now, but do you still have any mothballed UNIVACs around? I have a secure project that I need one for.
A UNIVAC I? Mmmmmm, mercury delay line storage, 500 microsecond memory speed, and 5,600 tubes. What more could I ask for!