He wasn't talking about allocating addresses, he was talking about valid addresses being contaminated because of prior use. That said, your point still applies; there's a truckload of ip addresses available in IPv6, so contaminated old addresses just won't be that big of a problem because of the availablity of new ones.
OK, I'm way behind the curve when it comes to the latest gadgets and stuff. Can anyone explain what this PTT feature does and what it's good for? I may not have a good imagination, but it seems to me to be a cell phone that you hold out in front of you, instead on next to your head. Is there more to it than that?
Just to clear up the parasite question... From the Biotech Life Sciences dictionary:
parasitism (parasite)
A type of symbiosis where two (or more) organisms from different species live in close proximity to one another, in which one member depends on another for its nutrients, protection, and/or other life functions. The dependent member (the parasite) benefits from the relationship while the other one (the host) is harmed by it.
From Webster's Third New International Dictionary of The English Language, unabridged: Parasitism - biology:
a relationship in which an organism of one kind lives in, on, or in intimate association with an organism of another kind at the expense of which it obtains food and usually other benefits
I think the technical definition of parasite makes it clear that different species are involved. The nature of the fetus/mother relationship has many characteristics that are distinctly different from the biological definition of parastism.
You are right that however the fetus is classified is largely irrelevant to the question.
"That's because my post had nothing to do with the regimes in iran and cuba."
Right, it didn't discuss the regimes; rather it ignored clear evidence of what was really going on by implying it was the Americans behind it all. Wake up an smell the roses, it was clear from the story who was doing the jamming and why.
"US routinely jams signals all over the world. It's much more likely they jammed this one by mistake then for the cubans to do one act of jamming in it's entire history and never repeat it again."
See, there's some of that ignorance showing through. You are correct, the US does have sophisticated abilities to monitor, jam, and replace broadcasts, and has used it recently in war zones. (Ask the Iraqi soldiers who received our broadcasts on their military frequencies telling them that their particular installation was a target and they should leave to preserve their own lives.) However, you are sadly mistaken thinking that Cuba does not have this capability and doesn't use it. Cuba maintains their own electronic warfare capabilities and uses them constantly; they are quite experienced in radio and TV jamming. Just ask the folks at Radio Marti. They spend a lot of time and money trying to get around the Cuban jammers. Cuba has even been able to jam broadcasts coming from moving airplanes (operated by Cuban dissidents in Florida) which isn't an easy task. Cuba has a large electronic base near Havana, built by the Russians in the early 90's that they use for monitoring and jamming.
Here's some more news for you. Loral, the owner of the satellite, fixed the location of the jamming signal near Havana, on the opposite end of the island from Guantanamo.
Let's look at some more details of what actually happened. (feel free to google for the information, it will clearly be educational for you). This station had been jammed before, with the jamming signal coming from within Iran. Iranian-American groups have recently been increasing their broadcasts on this station. Last week, the Voice of America began transmitting in Farsi, and that broadcast was joined in the same uplink to the satellite. In short order, the jamming from Cuba began. Again, this happened right before the protests were scheduled to happen in Iran, when information coming from pro-democracy groups could have been influential. Further, the jamming has continued.
Our military does make mistakes, no oranization is infallible. I'll even concede that there have probably been instances where something was done intentionally and passed off as a mistake to cover some tracks. But let's not be willingly naive. This jamming of the Iranian broadcast serves a clear purpose; limiting the access of dissidents within Iran from information that may be of use to them in their struggle against an oppressive government. This time the jamming began just after a Farsi language VOA broadcast began, and just before large protests where scheduled to begin. The signal has been jammed before, by Iran. Cuba has likewise jammed similar Spanish language broadcasts.
My comment was directed more to the moderators who scored that post of yours insightful/interesting. I'm amazed at the willingness of some to ignore the facts about the regimes in Iran and Cuba. Oh, let's see, it must have been those silly Americans again; the Iranian theocracy wouldn't have any reason to remove a pro-democracy TV broadcast from the air at the same time large scale protests are planned. The Cubans wouldn't have had any reason to accept money from Iran in order to tweak the Americans noses. What an insightful thought! There's your bullshit.
So let's talk about your post. What does the lack of Farsi speakers in Cuba have to do with Cuba doing a job for the Iranian government to upset a US sponsored TV station? How does speaking Farsi have anything to do with the ability to jam a broadcast?
Ask Occam, what's the more likely scenario? The government in Iran, using an intermediary, disables a US sponsored pro-democracy broadcast at the same time pro-democracy forces are planning massive strikes and protests. Or, the US military is trying to jam a specific satellite broadcast and hits the wrong station on the wrong satellite. BTW, any ideas about which station they were trying to block, but missed?
Oh wait, the US military doesn't make mistakes. All those bad things, like the journalist who was killed, were *intentional*. Or so you insinuate. Let's leave insinuation for facts. Cuba recently moved to imprison large numbers of dissidents. Iran recently forced the cancellation of pro-democracy protests and has been removing pro-democratic Iranian voices from the internet. Two tyrannical regimes, desperately trying to hold on to power.
That post was modified insightful/interesting? Do people have any idea of the nature of the governments in Iran and Cuba?
A large student protest in Iran was just cancelled by the student leaders, because the theocracy made it clear that if they protested, they would face Tiananmen type reprisals. After the protests were cancelled, the student leaders were abducted by government backed paramilitaries.
Meanwhile, let's talk about 'deliberately targetting journalists'. Recently, Cuba used the global news distraction with the war in Iraq to jail large numbers of dissidents, including 26 reporters. See the 'Reporters without Frontiers' website for details.
Two very oppressive regimes, both with a huge hatred of the US, working together to jam a US sponsored pro-democracy Iranian broadcast at the same time anti-government protests are being planned in Iran.
Hmmm. A plot by the Americans to set up an excuse to invade Iran, or the mullahs in Iran using the Cubans to knock an independent TV station off the air at the same time large student organizations are planning protests against the Iranian government. Who has the largest interest in stopping the broadcast of a US sponsored Iranian TV station, that is used to support pro-democracy forces in Iran?
You decide.
BTW, the protests were largely cancelled because the mullahs made it clear to the student leaders that if they protested they would be facing a Tiananmen Square type reprisal. After the protests were called off, the student leaders were abducted by govenment-sponsored paramilitary types.
It looks like there might be some liability concerns.
From the FAQ for the NetShare Admins:
Am I responsible for the NetShare customer usage?
As a NetShare Admin, you are responsible for all traffic taking place on your circuit, whether generated by yourself or your NetShare Customers. This covers abuse, reasonable use, etc.
So what liability will you incur if your neighbor you just signed up :
sends fraudulent spam
defaces a website
cracks a site and steals cc info
publishes libel and slander
distributes child porn
distributes the latest eminem track
etc
This might be taking on more than I'd want to deal with!
They do indeed get their dime from this. Each DVD/VHS that is subsequently edited is a legally purchased copy. They get their two bits whether it is Cleanflicks et. al. buying and renting copies or Blockbuster buying and renting copies. This isn't about money, it's about control.
I wish more people understood this. All this talk of a buying a license when I buy a CD really confuses the issue. When I buy a CD (or any other content), I now own that CD and the songs on it. Laws have been enacted that place limitations on what I can do with my legal property -- this is a result of the bargain made between the public and content creators to provide the creators with an incentive to create. All the songs on my latest Lyle Lovett CD belong to me, just like all of the songs on your Lyle Lovett CD (you do have one, right?) belong to you.
I think that the point is that they are in largely identical sequences. What does it say about a system that can produce such widely different organisms with largely the same chunks of DNA? Stretching your analogy - I change 3% of "Ender's Game" and come up with my child's First Grade Reader text.
I may be wrong, but isn't that one of the primary teachings of Islam? That Mohammed was the culmination of a line of prophets and there are to be no more prophets?
Yea, this is closer to how I think of things. Once expressed and disseminated, no one can truly own the idea. We can still recognize the creator as the one who first came up with the idea, but he now longer 'owns' the idea any more than I do.
Yes, copyrights are transferrable, but they do expire at a time that is determined by law. They are available for purchase pretty much like any other property. The copyright term does not automatically get extended when the copyright is sold to a new party. All works for which the copyright has expired *are* in the public domain. The problem is that Congress continues to retroactively extend the length of the copyright.
You don't own the music on the disc or the words on the paper.
I may be wrong, but I believe that you do indeed own the music on the cd, or the words on the paper. However, copyright law restricts what you can do with that music or those words. These restrictions last until the copyright term expires, at which time you're free to do whatever you want with your possession, including distribute copies willy-nilly. Of course, so is everyone else.
This idea that the actual content of the media is the property of the creator is something we need to be careful with. Like you mentioned at the end of your post, what the creator owns is the exclusive (time-limited) right of distribution on that work. The media industry actively works to push the idea that 'intellectual property' is the content, and not the trademarks, copyrights, and patents on that content. Accepting that the content is owned by the creator and is just licensed to us makes it easier for the content publishing industry to increase their control over media, at the expense of our rights. Ideas and the expressions of those ideas cannot be owned.
Maybe he's right. It could be that a combination of the running and the boost from well-trained 'pot-grunting' could get him into this time range.
There must be a big difference between being a pilot and qualifying for AFROTC. The Cadets only have to run 2 miles in between 12:30 and 18:00. I guess you can run faster as a commissioned officer. AFROTC Male Scoresheet
You (and the rest of the pilots) ran 2.5 miles in 8 minutes 30 seconds? Damn!, you're fast! That means you averaged a 3:24 mile. Spectacular, when you consider that in 1999 the world record for the mile was 3:43.13. Time for the Air Force to start putting some pilots in the Olympics.:)
If you're that fast on the track, I can only imagine your 'grunting' prowess...
You're kidding, right? First, let's assume that your assertion he was killed by the Israelis is correct (likely, but not proven). Your plan would be to let him complete the gun, then fly a military air strike into Iraq to destroy the weapon at a great risk of life of Israeli pilots, Iraqi ground forces (including other 'innocent' scientists at the gun sight, and significant risk to Israel itself by starting another war and/or intesifying the terrorist activities targeting Israel. Risk all that, so that this 'visionary' man could go on with his life's work? By this time, Bull had turned himself into an arms merchant and scientific mercenary working for some of the worst governments on the planet.
Let's say he was successful in building a super-gun capable of launching significant payloads into space, cheaply. Remind me again, who would have this device? The Iraqi's? We all know how they would use it to siginigicantly enhance the peaceful development of space.
Certainly. Copyright is a government imposed restriction on the ability to copy and disseminate an original work. Only the copyright holder can do so. If I don't produce copies for everyone else, I am free to make my own computer-animated version of all of the Star Wars movies. The minute the Lucas' copyright expires (possibly not until after the year 2300), my derivative work can hit the shelves.
This is the kind of thing that should be published as a web site because of the rate of change. Sounds like a better task for an online tech magazine to review different applications for Linux.
Slashdot Mirror
He wasn't talking about allocating addresses, he was talking about valid addresses being contaminated because of prior use. That said, your point still applies; there's a truckload of ip addresses available in IPv6, so contaminated old addresses just won't be that big of a problem because of the availablity of new ones.
OK, I'm way behind the curve when it comes to the latest gadgets and stuff. Can anyone explain what this PTT feature does and what it's good for? I may not have a good imagination, but it seems to me to be a cell phone that you hold out in front of you, instead on next to your head. Is there more to it than that?
Just to clear up the parasite question...
From the Biotech Life Sciences dictionary:
parasitism (parasite)
A type of symbiosis where two (or more) organisms from different species live in close proximity to one another, in which one member depends on another for its nutrients, protection, and/or other life functions. The dependent member (the parasite) benefits from the relationship while the other one (the host) is harmed by it.
From Webster's Third New International Dictionary of The English Language, unabridged:
Parasitism - biology:
a relationship in which an organism of one kind lives in, on, or in intimate association with an organism of another kind at the expense of which it obtains food and usually other benefits
I think the technical definition of parasite makes it clear that different species are involved. The nature of the fetus/mother relationship has many characteristics that are distinctly different from the biological definition of parastism.
You are right that however the fetus is classified is largely irrelevant to the question.
"That's because my post had nothing to do with the regimes in iran and cuba."
Right, it didn't discuss the regimes; rather it ignored clear evidence of what was really going on by implying it was the Americans behind it all. Wake up an smell the roses, it was clear from the story who was doing the jamming and why.
"US routinely jams signals all over the world. It's much more likely they jammed this one by mistake then for the cubans to do one act of jamming in it's entire history and never repeat it again."
See, there's some of that ignorance showing through. You are correct, the US does have sophisticated abilities to monitor, jam, and replace broadcasts, and has used it recently in war zones. (Ask the Iraqi soldiers who received our broadcasts on their military frequencies telling them that their particular installation was a target and they should leave to preserve their own lives.)
However, you are sadly mistaken thinking that Cuba does not have this capability and doesn't use it. Cuba maintains their own electronic warfare capabilities and uses them constantly; they are quite experienced in radio and TV jamming. Just ask the folks at Radio Marti. They spend a lot of time and money trying to get around the Cuban jammers. Cuba has even been able to jam broadcasts coming from moving airplanes (operated by Cuban dissidents in Florida) which isn't an easy task. Cuba has a large electronic base near Havana, built by the Russians in the early 90's that they use for monitoring and jamming.
Here's some more news for you. Loral, the owner of the satellite, fixed the location of the jamming signal near Havana, on the opposite end of the island from Guantanamo.
Let's look at some more details of what actually happened. (feel free to google for the information, it will clearly be educational for you). This station had been jammed before, with the jamming signal coming from within Iran. Iranian-American groups have recently been increasing their broadcasts on this station. Last week, the Voice of America began transmitting in Farsi, and that broadcast was joined in the same uplink to the satellite. In short order, the jamming from Cuba began. Again, this happened right before the protests were scheduled to happen in Iran, when information coming from pro-democracy groups could have been influential.
Further, the jamming has continued.
Our military does make mistakes, no oranization is infallible. I'll even concede that there have probably been instances where something was done intentionally and passed off as a mistake to cover some tracks. But let's not be willingly naive. This jamming of the Iranian broadcast serves a clear purpose; limiting the access of dissidents within Iran from information that may be of use to them in their struggle against an oppressive government. This time the jamming began just after a Farsi language VOA broadcast began, and just before large protests where scheduled to begin. The signal has been jammed before, by Iran. Cuba has likewise jammed similar Spanish language broadcasts.
My comment was directed more to the moderators who scored that post of yours insightful/interesting. I'm amazed at the willingness of some to ignore the facts about the regimes in Iran and Cuba. Oh, let's see, it must have been those silly Americans again; the Iranian theocracy wouldn't have any reason to remove a pro-democracy TV broadcast from the air at the same time large scale protests are planned. The Cubans wouldn't have had any reason to accept money from Iran in order to tweak the Americans noses. What an insightful thought! There's your bullshit.
So let's talk about your post.
What does the lack of Farsi speakers in Cuba have to do with Cuba doing a job for the Iranian government to upset a US sponsored TV station? How does speaking Farsi have anything to do with the ability to jam a broadcast?
Ask Occam, what's the more likely scenario? The government in Iran, using an intermediary, disables a US sponsored pro-democracy broadcast at the same time pro-democracy forces are planning massive strikes and protests. Or, the US military is trying to jam a specific satellite broadcast and hits the wrong station on the wrong satellite. BTW, any ideas about which station they were trying to block, but missed?
Oh wait, the US military doesn't make mistakes. All those bad things, like the journalist who was killed, were *intentional*. Or so you insinuate. Let's leave insinuation for facts. Cuba recently moved to imprison large numbers of dissidents. Iran recently forced the cancellation of pro-democracy protests and has been removing pro-democratic Iranian voices from the internet. Two tyrannical regimes, desperately trying to hold on to power.
That post was modified insightful/interesting? Do people have any idea of the nature of the governments in Iran and Cuba?
A large student protest in Iran was just cancelled by the student leaders, because the theocracy made it clear that if they protested, they would face Tiananmen type reprisals. After the protests were cancelled, the student leaders were abducted by government backed paramilitaries.
Meanwhile, let's talk about 'deliberately targetting journalists'. Recently, Cuba used the global news distraction with the war in Iraq to jail large numbers of dissidents, including 26 reporters. See the 'Reporters without Frontiers' website for details.
Two very oppressive regimes, both with a huge hatred of the US, working together to jam a US sponsored pro-democracy Iranian broadcast at the same time anti-government protests are being planned in Iran.
Get a clue!
Hmmm. A plot by the Americans to set up an excuse to invade Iran, or the mullahs in Iran using the Cubans to knock an independent TV station off the air at the same time large student organizations are planning protests against the Iranian government. Who has the largest interest in stopping the broadcast of a US sponsored Iranian TV station, that is used to support pro-democracy forces in Iran?
You decide.
BTW, the protests were largely cancelled because the mullahs made it clear to the student leaders that if they protested they would be facing a Tiananmen Square type reprisal. After the protests were called off, the student leaders were abducted by govenment-sponsored paramilitary types.
On the other hand...
Animated hockey pucks.
Advertisements overlayed on the playing field.
Don't forget the advent of instant replay.
Wow. Am I that old?
Am I responsible for the NetShare customer usage?
So what liability will you incur if your neighbor you just signed up :sends fraudulent spam
defaces a website
cracks a site and steals cc info
publishes libel and slander
distributes child porn
distributes the latest eminem track
etc
This might be taking on more than I'd want to deal with!
I disagree. What the studio owns is a time-limited monopoly on distribution; the copyright.
They do indeed get their dime from this. Each DVD/VHS that is subsequently edited is a legally purchased copy. They get their two bits whether it is Cleanflicks et. al. buying and renting copies or Blockbuster buying and renting copies.
This isn't about money, it's about control.
I wish more people understood this. All this talk of a buying a license when I buy a CD really confuses the issue. When I buy a CD (or any other content), I now own that CD and the songs on it. Laws have been enacted that place limitations on what I can do with my legal property -- this is a result of the bargain made between the public and content creators to provide the creators with an incentive to create.
All the songs on my latest Lyle Lovett CD belong to me, just like all of the songs on your Lyle Lovett CD (you do have one, right?) belong to you.
I think that the point is that they are in largely identical sequences. What does it say about a system that can produce such widely different organisms with largely the same chunks of DNA? Stretching your analogy - I change 3% of "Ender's Game" and come up with my child's First Grade Reader text.
A meteorite that small probably hit terminal velocity much higher up, so it didn't have much impact.
I may be wrong, but isn't that one of the primary teachings of Islam? That Mohammed was the culmination of a line of prophets and there are to be no more prophets?
Yea, this is closer to how I think of things. Once expressed and disseminated, no one can truly own the idea. We can still recognize the creator as the one who first came up with the idea, but he now longer 'owns' the idea any more than I do.
Yes, copyrights are transferrable, but they do expire at a time that is determined by law. They are available for purchase pretty much like any other property. The copyright term does not automatically get extended when the copyright is sold to a new party.
All works for which the copyright has expired *are* in the public domain. The problem is that Congress continues to retroactively extend the length of the copyright.
I may be wrong, but I believe that you do indeed own the music on the cd, or the words on the paper. However, copyright law restricts what you can do with that music or those words. These restrictions last until the copyright term expires, at which time you're free to do whatever you want with your possession, including distribute copies willy-nilly. Of course, so is everyone else.
This idea that the actual content of the media is the property of the creator is something we need to be careful with. Like you mentioned at the end of your post, what the creator owns is the exclusive (time-limited) right of distribution on that work. The media industry actively works to push the idea that 'intellectual property' is the content, and not the trademarks, copyrights, and patents on that content. Accepting that the content is owned by the creator and is just licensed to us makes it easier for the content publishing industry to increase their control over media, at the expense of our rights. Ideas and the expressions of those ideas cannot be owned.
Maybe he's right. It could be that a combination of the running and the boost from well-trained 'pot-grunting' could get him into this time range.
There must be a big difference between being a pilot and qualifying for AFROTC. The Cadets only have to run 2 miles in between 12:30 and 18:00. I guess you can run faster as a commissioned officer.
AFROTC Male Scoresheet
You (and the rest of the pilots) ran 2.5 miles in 8 minutes 30 seconds? Damn!, you're fast! That means you averaged a 3:24 mile. Spectacular, when you consider that in 1999 the world record for the mile was 3:43.13. Time for the Air Force to start putting some pilots in the Olympics. :)
If you're that fast on the track, I can only imagine your 'grunting' prowess...
You're kidding, right? First, let's assume that your assertion he was killed by the Israelis is correct (likely, but not proven). Your plan would be to let him complete the gun, then fly a military air strike into Iraq to destroy the weapon at a great risk of life of Israeli pilots, Iraqi ground forces (including other 'innocent' scientists at the gun sight, and significant risk to Israel itself by starting another war and/or intesifying the terrorist activities targeting Israel. Risk all that, so that this 'visionary' man could go on with his life's work? By this time, Bull had turned himself into an arms merchant and scientific mercenary working for some of the worst governments on the planet.
Let's say he was successful in building a super-gun capable of launching significant payloads into space, cheaply. Remind me again, who would have this device? The Iraqi's? We all know how they would use it to siginigicantly enhance the peaceful development of space.
Certainly. Copyright is a government imposed restriction on the ability to copy and disseminate an original work. Only the copyright holder can do so. If I don't produce copies for everyone else, I am free to make my own computer-animated version of all of the Star Wars movies. The minute the Lucas' copyright expires (possibly not until after the year 2300), my derivative work can hit the shelves.
This is the kind of thing that should be published as a web site because of the rate of change. Sounds like a better task for an online tech magazine to review different applications for Linux.
A great idea.