Even if the headers/ip addresses is all that they want, what is stopping some hacker from making a botnet/virus that makes your computers perform 'highly suspicious' tcp/ip traffic on hundreds of thousands of innocent people's computers?
I thought that the MPAA/RIAA were campaigning for the government to give them special exemption status with regard to the anti-hacking laws in the Patriot Act so that they could hack with impunity, even in the case of causing lost data, on the suspicion of copyright infringement.
The real problem is that people are typically assuming that email is a reliable and secure technology, when it is not at all. People just need to learn about using 'return receipts'. The alternative is to use an entirely different communications protocol for messaging.
I like how case-insensitive systems properly compare the German 'B' (beta-like symbol) with the equivalent lowercase 'ss'. That is handy.
Unfortunately the problem comes when you try to untar or copy a linux kernel source tree, where the netfilter directory is filled with multiple files differing only by case! ipt_ECN.c and ipt_ecn.c are different files! subversion svn co fails and halts, cvs co fails silently later. tar silently erases...
The interesting thing here is that iTunes and iTunes store does not provide a 'legal' way for you to purchase and burn the 'party favour' songs. You can't purchase a song more than once!
When you take an OO.org file and save it as.doc file and then open it with Word, formatting and bullets end up being wrong... Unless your document is something that could be rendered easily in textpad....
Can't we begin to 'enforce' standards... a sort of ISO-31337 certification of some sort?
Problem is that so many of these 'standards' suck. Even our ubiquitous HTTP/1.1 standard has no automated test suite for clients or servers to tell developers 'Yes your client and/or server meets the HTTP/1.1 standard including WebDAV.'. Same thing with Samba, NFS, afs, etc... So we are all left with strange protocol handlers with exceptions for specific clients or obscure workarounds, and using the customers as beta test subjects.
I'll believe that there have been ANY successful blows against the RIAA when those articles you link to are shown as news on cnn. Articles in p2pnet and blogs do not matter. The RIAA is pretty good at their own public relations and political contributions.
This was most definitely the case with the 8088 and 80286. But I BELIEVE that some intel processors utilized dynamic logic, and as such, had a minimum clock frequency. With these processors you could not just reduce the clock, so they would simulate the slowing of the clock by disabling the cache which is very effective in slowing down your system.
So the pure theoretical value of PI in a euclidian space is not what we would measure in this universe. Does that mean that if there were multiple universes, regardless of any other physical quantities or constants changing, our concept of PI would not change? Because PI is a concept not a measurement - PI 'transcends universes'.. heh, i'm starting to sound new age.
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Even if the headers/ip addresses is all that they want, what is stopping some hacker from making a botnet/virus that makes your computers perform 'highly suspicious' tcp/ip traffic on hundreds of thousands of innocent people's computers?
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Betcha that the 'almost-chicken' would taste JUST LIKE CHICKEN.
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I thought that the MPAA/RIAA were campaigning for the government to give them special exemption status with regard to the anti-hacking laws in the Patriot Act so that they could hack with impunity, even in the case of causing lost data, on the suspicion of copyright infringement.
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Read the article. Wired is not breaking ANY rules here.
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But Wired did not violate any rules here....
EFF was under the gag order. Wired was not.
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The real problem is that people are typically assuming that email is a reliable and secure technology, when it is not at all. People just need to learn about using 'return receipts'. The alternative is to use an entirely different communications protocol for messaging.
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But WHICH version of Microsoft Word doc format do they specifically mandate?
ie. Can I give them a doc file from word v6? or v2?
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I like how case-insensitive systems properly compare the German 'B' (beta-like symbol) with the equivalent lowercase 'ss'. That is handy.
Unfortunately the problem comes when you try to untar or copy a linux kernel source tree, where the netfilter directory is filled with multiple files differing only by case! ipt_ECN.c and ipt_ecn.c are different files! subversion svn co fails and halts, cvs co fails silently later. tar silently erases...
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Obviously it did not collapse because of chaos theory then! It collapsed because of the time-dilation pressure caused by it going backwards in time!
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The interesting thing here is that iTunes and iTunes store does not provide a 'legal' way for you to purchase and burn the 'party favour' songs. You can't purchase a song more than once!
--jeffk++
When you take an OO.org file and save it as .doc file and then open it with Word, formatting and bullets end up being wrong... Unless your document is something that could be rendered easily in textpad....
--jeffk++
Well, yes, I wouldn't be able to write that much. But Nettwerk has an internet radio station and broadcasts their own talent...
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Okay, so if I write my own music and stream it from my own web server, would this law affect me?
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Problem is that so many of these 'standards' suck. Even our ubiquitous HTTP/1.1 standard has no automated test suite for clients or servers to tell developers 'Yes your client and/or server meets the HTTP/1.1 standard including WebDAV.'. Same thing with Samba, NFS, afs, etc... So we are all left with strange protocol handlers with exceptions for specific clients or obscure workarounds, and using the customers as beta test subjects.
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The Secret Life Of Ian Flemming
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I'll believe that there have been ANY successful blows against the RIAA when those articles you link to are shown as news on cnn. Articles in p2pnet and blogs do not matter. The RIAA is pretty good at their own public relations and political contributions.
--jeffk++
Does this mean that people who invest in Microsoft can be personally liable?
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Stalin and Mao would be proud!!!
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I guess they will need to come up with a separate patent to cover that problem too!!
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Well, good point.
Does FreeBSD utilize Zero-copy for data transferred via aio?
jeff
But that does not apply in this case where freebsd uses COW for a normal blocking write() call...
jeff
This was most definitely the case with the 8088 and 80286. But I BELIEVE that some intel processors utilized dynamic logic, and as such, had a minimum clock frequency. With these processors you could not just reduce the clock, so they would simulate the slowing of the clock by disabling the cache which is very effective in slowing down your system.
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Good points, but... Why does the concept of PI require intelligent beings? Are there any intelligent beings in OUR universe?
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I believe that most of those turbo switches on 386's and higher did not actually change the clock speed - they just disabled/enabled cache.
--jeffk++
So the pure theoretical value of PI in a euclidian space is not what we would measure in this universe. Does that mean that if there were multiple universes, regardless of any other physical quantities or constants changing, our concept of PI would not change? Because PI is a concept not a measurement - PI 'transcends universes'.. heh, i'm starting to sound new age.
--jeffk++