As the DMCA is an American Law, what would happen if they distribute the servers over different nations and continents?
I listen to Digitally Imported Radio at home, school, work, and I know they have multiple servers. Although the majority of them seem to come from europe, etc, what are the ramifications as to the charges if they are not US-Based non-profit organizations/servers?
I know DI is asking for monetary and bandwidth contributions, as their bandwidth is a real b*tch. On average -- 2000 users @ 16KBps = 31MBps.
I see some server-to-server bandwidth sharing ala p2p, as tonnes of individual servers maybe take 100 or so users. Splits the bandwidth over multiple hosts and multiple locations, and can't be shut down very easily. We're talking something Morpheus-like.
I think they have a bit too much information on these cards (no shit, Sherlock!)
In the article it says something along the lines of "Police departments have called bars to see if certain names and Social Security numbers show up on their customer lists."
Umm... They got this all ass-backwards
The *bars* should not have this certain information, maybe only a private area of the card that gives out age (for convenience stores, liquor stores, etc) but the authorities should be able to get a more detailed list once proper authorization has been given. The Feds give the bar a 'search-warrant' to the bar, so they can access the encrypted (to the bar employees) information to help the case or whatever. That way, the bar COULDN'T "find out how many blond women named Karen over 5 feet 2 inches came in over a weekend, or how many of his customers have the middle initial M."
I go to school at SAIT in Calgary (www.sait.ab.ca) and they issue all their IT students brand new Toshiba Laptops.
I managed to get a $0-Deductable thru my insurance company for like $35CDN, so I'm not really worried if it gets stolen.
On the other side of the coin tho, if I lost my laptop, I lose all my assignments, work, and valuable movies I trade around the network:)
As I just had my bike stolen recently (was locked to a cement fence post outside my house) I really know, that there is no absolute security. If they want your laptop, they're gonna get it.
If $5USD is going to send you to the poorhouse, this dot-com crash has hurt more people than I thought!
I am probably not gonna chip out the money right away, but seriously, if I was gonna do this, what the hell is $5??? You tip that much if you eat out twice a week!
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So how many of you felt kinda dirty just clicking on that Microsoft link?:)
Kidding aside, its good to have a broad range or responses, especially when one is from the hive itself.
So, if I told you guys that I was getting 1.5Mbps down and 640Kbps upstream with my Telus DSL up here in Canada for only $40CDN/month ($26US) and unlimited bandwidth, I can be sure you guys will wanna chase me down the street, beating me with a pickle fork and stabbing me with a baseball bat?
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God did not create the world in seven days; he screwed around for six
days and then pulled an all-nighter.
"I think this is a glimpse of the future," said P.J. McNealy, a digital-entertainment analyst with GartnerG2, a division of research company Gartner. "This meets both sides' needs. It gives people the compressed audio (to play on computers), and it protects copyrights."
Obviously not meeting everyone's needs. MP3 is the current standard, and by which, means EVERYONE can listen to it. WMA, or wimpy music audio does nothing for ppl on older PCs, Linux boxes, and most likely even older Macs
"I think the reality here is that none of these (CD copy-protection) techniques is going to be successful in the long term," said Jupiter Research analyst Aram Sinnreich. "They're fraught with technical difficulties, and if they did surmount those, they would meet with a severe consumer backlash."
No protection scheme is 100% Everything can and will be cracked, given enough time and will power.
"I have a right to make personal copies and refuse to buy protected CDs," reader Steve Groen wrote in an e-mail to CNET News.com. "If Hollywood had invented the toilet, it would be five times as expensive and you'd pay $1 every time you flush."
Obviously, the best (!!) and wide-spread opinion around.
Excuse me, but slashdot has a job to do here. Yes, it's a very hard time to go through, but sooner or later, we just have to get back to work. Slashdot gracefully only posted news about the tragedy yesterday, and was the best resource around to deliver people quality links, and great opinions.
My sympathies go out to the family, friends and co-workers that died in this unfathomable event.
Get a bigger Power Supply. Happened to my roommate as well.
He had a 1.33 athlon and would not play any 3D apps until he upgraded his PS. He happened to get a 431W Enermax PS for like $109CDN. He now happily runs at 1.46
Yes, it is true that Microsoft's Products sure do a lot to encompass multiple aspects of the net community, but people better look at the big picture as to what their plans are. Everyone laughs at World Domination, but taking over the web server market is one hell of a step. Apache is (soon could be "would"?) one of Open Source's best arguments, and if that is lost, dwindling popularity in the server market can become very inevitable.
Slashdot Mirror
120MHz you say?
Sounds like you should put something really interesting on there, and get it slashdotted!
As the DMCA is an American Law, what would happen if they distribute the servers over different nations and continents?
I listen to Digitally Imported Radio at home, school, work, and I know they have multiple servers. Although the majority of them seem to come from europe, etc, what are the ramifications as to the charges if they are not US-Based non-profit organizations/servers?
I know DI is asking for monetary and bandwidth contributions, as their bandwidth is a real b*tch.
On average -- 2000 users @ 16KBps = 31MBps.
I see some server-to-server bandwidth sharing ala p2p, as tonnes of individual servers maybe take 100 or so users. Splits the bandwidth over multiple hosts and multiple locations, and can't be shut down very easily. We're talking something Morpheus-like.
Any thoughts?
I think they have a bit too much information on these cards (no shit, Sherlock!)
In the article it says something along the lines of "Police departments have called bars to see if certain names and Social Security numbers show up on their customer lists."
Umm... They got this all ass-backwards
The *bars* should not have this certain information, maybe only a private area of the card that gives out age (for convenience stores, liquor stores, etc) but the authorities should be able to get a more detailed list once proper authorization has been given.
The Feds give the bar a 'search-warrant' to the bar, so they can access the encrypted (to the bar employees) information to help the case or whatever.
That way, the bar COULDN'T "find out how many blond women named Karen over 5 feet 2 inches came in over a weekend, or how many of his customers have the middle initial M."
I go to school at SAIT in Calgary (www.sait.ab.ca) and they issue all their IT students brand new Toshiba Laptops.
:)
I managed to get a $0-Deductable thru my insurance company for like $35CDN, so I'm not really worried if it gets stolen.
On the other side of the coin tho, if I lost my laptop, I lose all my assignments, work, and valuable movies I trade around the network
As I just had my bike stolen recently (was locked to a cement fence post outside my house) I really know, that there is no absolute security. If they want your laptop, they're gonna get it.
Oh dear god no!
http://www.google.com/linux
What happens when someone else's favorite search engine teams up with their hated O/S?
The Google Toolbar has a "Vote this site" button that you can click, and it sends the results back to Yours Truly.
It is a toolbar plugin for IE, so I guess we might have to scratch a large portion of the users here.
Darcy
If $5USD is going to send you to the poorhouse, this dot-com crash has hurt more people than I thought!
I am probably not gonna chip out the money right away, but seriously, if I was gonna do this, what the hell is $5??? You tip that much if you eat out twice a week!
So how many of you felt kinda dirty just clicking on that Microsoft link? :)
Kidding aside, its good to have a broad range or responses, especially when one is from the hive itself.
So, if I told you guys that I was getting 1.5Mbps down and 640Kbps upstream with my Telus DSL up here in Canada for only $40CDN/month ($26US) and unlimited bandwidth, I can be sure you guys will wanna chase me down the street, beating me with a pickle fork and stabbing me with a baseball bat?
--
God did not create the world in seven days; he screwed around for six
days and then pulled an all-nighter.
Of course you wouldn't need more than that!
Hell at home, my box still only has 640K RAM!
Site is being naughty, MySQL database has already farted, so I grabbed the URL to the file, if anyone is interested.
_ 22 .zip
http://home.pacbell.net/mariusm/NetStumbler_0_3
I noticed he just added this quote to the bottom of his web page.
"I think this is a glimpse of the future," said P.J. McNealy, a digital-entertainment analyst with GartnerG2, a division of research company Gartner. "This meets both sides' needs. It gives people the compressed audio (to play on computers), and it protects copyrights."
Obviously not meeting everyone's needs. MP3 is the current standard, and by which, means EVERYONE can listen to it. WMA, or wimpy music audio does nothing for ppl on older PCs, Linux boxes, and most likely even older Macs
"I think the reality here is that none of these (CD copy-protection) techniques is going to be successful in the long term," said Jupiter Research analyst Aram Sinnreich. "They're fraught with technical difficulties, and if they did surmount those, they would meet with a severe consumer backlash."
No protection scheme is 100% Everything can and will be cracked, given enough time and will power.
"I have a right to make personal copies and refuse to buy protected CDs," reader Steve Groen wrote in an e-mail to CNET News.com. "If Hollywood had invented the toilet, it would be five times as expensive and you'd pay $1 every time you flush."
Obviously, the best (!!) and wide-spread opinion around.
Harboring or providing advice to a hacker would be terrorism as well
Hmm... So if you socially engineer some dumb secretary, they're gonna be your cellmate as well?
Just a thought...
I Think the government is going too far, and before you know it, there are gonna be loopholes for the crackers, and the hackers are gonna get screwed.
I have two of the files mirrored on my server right now. /. for too long :)
Someone mind helping? I dont think it will handle a heavy
con.jpg
VRML1.jpg
Excuse me, but slashdot has a job to do here. Yes, it's a very hard time to go through, but sooner or later, we just have to get back to work. Slashdot gracefully only posted news about the tragedy yesterday, and was the best resource around to deliver people quality links, and great opinions.
My sympathies go out to the family, friends and co-workers that died in this unfathomable event.
Amazon.com - Donate to the Red Cross
Get a bigger Power Supply. Happened to my roommate as well.
He had a 1.33 athlon and would not play any 3D apps until he upgraded his PS. He happened to get a 431W Enermax PS for like $109CDN. He now happily runs at 1.46
Yes, it is true that Microsoft's Products sure do a lot to encompass multiple aspects of the net community, but people better look at the big picture as to what their plans are. Everyone laughs at World Domination, but taking over the web server market is one hell of a step. Apache is (soon could be "would"?) one of Open Source's best arguments, and if that is lost, dwindling popularity in the server market can become very inevitable.
Just my thought...
Darcy