Not a challenge on taxes, but here: "You are free to publish other's works, which they have secured for limited times. However they must adhere to "fair use" provisions until the work is out of copyright protection. This is how congress [sic] allowes free speech and copyright to coexist." That is how congress allows free speech and copyright to coexist? Are you kidding me? If just by calling restrictions on speech "fair use provisions" you can silence speech then how does that allow free speech and copyright to coexist? The fact is, the constitution explicitly made an exception for copyrighted speech when dealing with the first amendment. All I said was that the constitution has many contradictions but unless you are a semantic prick it isn't a big deal. The constitution protects free speech in a big blanket statement and then also allows for copyrights. These are two things that do not go hand in hand, and yet since its in there we are forced to put some interpretation on it and do the best we can. Same with income taxes. It's in there that the Feds can have them, it's also in there that they can't. Deal with it.
" the license only specifies under what terms the non-copyright holder may distribute the software (usually, none)." Have you ever heard of an exclusive licensing agreement?
Kazaa and fast track in general have always been bugged. Their main downfall was not fully hashing files to save speed--why hash at all? The result has been the network can be polluted extremely easily, they only check every other byte so you can insert random noise into 1 out of 2 bytes in a file.. ever downloaded an MP3 off of kazaa and get that loud hiss? You may even have downloaded one off another network and gotten one (it originated on kazaa, believe me).
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Who would have thought articles could have bias? An anti-spam law was passed. Spam numbers went up. These two statements don't just magically turn into "Spam numbers went up because of the anti-spam law that was passed." The article gives a little justification with the theory that spam was somewhat legitimized by this act but doesn't look into things like bandwidth being cheaper, the number of zombie boxes constantly rising, etc. etc. etc.
The constitution can not be in conflict with itself? Are you crazy? Copyright is established in the constitution and later the first ammendment establishes free speech. Stories like Beowulf were created by thousands of people retelling the story and adding their views to it. Currently with copyright anything you publish perform etc. is by default covered by copyright and there is no compulsory licensing available for the extension of a work.
All of this is in conflict with the first ammendment, yet we still have copyright and we still have a (somewhat limited) first ammendment. The court has to look at things reasonably and with a sound mind--that's what they do.
It's more for copyright infringement liability. Back when iTunes streamed over the net to cover their asses (even though you could be streaming public domain stuff... they could have just done this with DRM'd songs from iTunes) apple only allowed you to stream one thing at a time, kind of like how a library can loan out books with violating copyright. However the legality of all this is still shaky as hell and there is certainly no clear law, it's all from case law made by people who were alive shortly after the dawn of audio recording.
I hate responding to trolls but let's assume you aren't one. Here goes, the 16th Amendment: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. Are you seriously telling me that you read the constitution (and though you talk of "digging deeper" you apparently didn't get past...ARTICLE ONE) and figured out that no one has to pay income tax and everyone who has read the constitution since the passing of the 16th has somehow misinterpretted it? I'm still chewing.
It has already been said in the other responses, but I must reiterate. If everything is working properly your computer should run cooler with the case closed than with it open. Having an open case really messes up convection. You certainly aren't the first to have made this mistake, but rest assured, it is a mistake.
You do realize that each bit doubles the amount of possibilities? Being able to crack 16 bit encryption in your head I would hope you do. 64 bit might not be sufficient for a lot of things, but it's not just "64/16"% stronger than 16 bit encryption; the fraction you are looking for is more like "(2^64)/(2^16)".
That example kinda works with the arm example. To the mind both arms are kind of mirrors of each other. But is the brain's reference to your index finger and middle finger anything like the difference between your brain's reference to your right and left arm? No. Try this exercise with people: "Point at me." I doubt too many will give you the middle finger.
Sometimes when you are participating in a discussion on the internet, you have to read. From the parent: "I wonder what kind of performance you could get out of it if you overclocked it to the point where its power requirements were similar to the P4." He said nothing about clock speeds whatsoever. He said run the processor at a speed where it's power usage is equal to that of a Pentium 4. Power usage pretty much has a direct correlation to heat dissipated as long as you ignore minor EM radiation, etc.
Now that I've gotten that out of the way I'll go ahead and sort of make your point for you. The die size of the Centrino is much smaller than that of the Pentium 4. Therefore if it is run at similar power levels and dissipates around the same amount of heat, that heat will be concentrated on a smaller area and will be harder to keep cool.
Most of the attacks come in retaliation to gambling sites spamming blogs and message boards. If the charity was spamming people's blogs and message boards then no, the guy doesn't have to feel sorry for them.
Off-topic whatever. This must be said. Roland Piquepaille is gaming/. and constantly plagiarising actual journalists. He is going to wind up getting sued if he keeps it up. Get the word out there and maybe Slashdot editors will take notice: Roland Piquepaille is the worst kind of human trash and we don't need anymore of that here at/. . Please, discuss.
That's what he was thinking though. Perhaps a better wording would have been "no criminal about that." But even then he is only somewhat right. There are industrial espionage laws that in many cases do make things like this criminal. But really he isn't a competing company and (logisticians: I didn't say or =P) he didn't entice someone to break their NDA. This will most likely be protected as freedom of speech/press though it may be a little shakey. In all likelyhood it won't go to court but seeing that he is a Harvard Undergraduate it would be interesting.
Yeah my brother had that problem. Power cycling our shitty ass wireless router completely fixed it. You aren't running over a Netgear router are you? My brother was, and they are awful. Torrents would crash it like no ones business. I think there is a problem with their NAT tables as power cycles tend to fix it for long periods of time.
"Remember, for a long time EQ was the most successful US mmporg despite having very outdated graphics." When EQ came out it had the best graphics of any MMORPG. They were dated compared to other games of the time but when M59, UO, and AC are your competition... Well I don't see your point.
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Look no one should really even want Wish opened up. It had a HORRIBLE engine. They decent premises for how the world was going to operate and the gameplay but they were just premises and ideas; if you played the beta you would see that almost none of them were truely implemented. Open source advocates should be way more pumped up about the upcoming release of RunUO than they would with even a full server and client being released by Wish. We'll see what license RunUO goes ends up with. However they did say it will be OSI approved (no not Origin Systems Inc... heh).
Windows Remote Desktop is very commonly used as a trojan as well, the trojan you download enables it and sets a password. Does Microsoft remove Windows Remote Desktop? No. The next release will uninstall Firefox and leave IE.
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Not a challenge on taxes, but here: "You are free to publish other's works, which they have secured for limited times. However they must adhere to "fair use" provisions until the work is out of copyright protection. This is how congress [sic] allowes free speech and copyright to coexist." That is how congress allows free speech and copyright to coexist? Are you kidding me? If just by calling restrictions on speech "fair use provisions" you can silence speech then how does that allow free speech and copyright to coexist? The fact is, the constitution explicitly made an exception for copyrighted speech when dealing with the first amendment. All I said was that the constitution has many contradictions but unless you are a semantic prick it isn't a big deal. The constitution protects free speech in a big blanket statement and then also allows for copyrights. These are two things that do not go hand in hand, and yet since its in there we are forced to put some interpretation on it and do the best we can. Same with income taxes. It's in there that the Feds can have them, it's also in there that they can't. Deal with it.
" the license only specifies under what terms the non-copyright holder may distribute the software (usually, none)." Have you ever heard of an exclusive licensing agreement?
Kazaa and fast track in general have always been bugged. Their main downfall was not fully hashing files to save speed--why hash at all? The result has been the network can be polluted extremely easily, they only check every other byte so you can insert random noise into 1 out of 2 bytes in a file.. ever downloaded an MP3 off of kazaa and get that loud hiss? You may even have downloaded one off another network and gotten one (it originated on kazaa, believe me).
Who would have thought articles could have bias? An anti-spam law was passed. Spam numbers went up. These two statements don't just magically turn into "Spam numbers went up because of the anti-spam law that was passed." The article gives a little justification with the theory that spam was somewhat legitimized by this act but doesn't look into things like bandwidth being cheaper, the number of zombie boxes constantly rising, etc. etc. etc.
The constitution can not be in conflict with itself? Are you crazy? Copyright is established in the constitution and later the first ammendment establishes free speech. Stories like Beowulf were created by thousands of people retelling the story and adding their views to it. Currently with copyright anything you publish perform etc. is by default covered by copyright and there is no compulsory licensing available for the extension of a work.
All of this is in conflict with the first ammendment, yet we still have copyright and we still have a (somewhat limited) first ammendment. The court has to look at things reasonably and with a sound mind--that's what they do.
It's more for copyright infringement liability. Back when iTunes streamed over the net to cover their asses (even though you could be streaming public domain stuff... they could have just done this with DRM'd songs from iTunes) apple only allowed you to stream one thing at a time, kind of like how a library can loan out books with violating copyright. However the legality of all this is still shaky as hell and there is certainly no clear law, it's all from case law made by people who were alive shortly after the dawn of audio recording.
I hate responding to trolls but let's assume you aren't one. Here goes, the 16th Amendment:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on
incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment
among the several States, and without regard to any census or
enumeration.
Are you seriously telling me that you read the constitution (and though you talk of "digging deeper" you apparently didn't get past...ARTICLE ONE) and figured out that no one has to pay income tax and everyone who has read the constitution since the passing of the 16th has somehow misinterpretted it? I'm still chewing.
The folks at mirror dot apparently can afford a monster server, but somehow can't afford a slashdot subscription.
And what of Helen Keller?
Humourous yes, but nothing is more humourous than Roland Piquepaille's serial plagiarism.
It has already been said in the other responses, but I must reiterate. If everything is working properly your computer should run cooler with the case closed than with it open. Having an open case really messes up convection. You certainly aren't the first to have made this mistake, but rest assured, it is a mistake.
You do realize that each bit doubles the amount of possibilities? Being able to crack 16 bit encryption in your head I would hope you do. 64 bit might not be sufficient for a lot of things, but it's not just "64/16"% stronger than 16 bit encryption; the fraction you are looking for is more like "(2^64)/(2^16)".
That example kinda works with the arm example. To the mind both arms are kind of mirrors of each other. But is the brain's reference to your index finger and middle finger anything like the difference between your brain's reference to your right and left arm? No. Try this exercise with people: "Point at me." I doubt too many will give you the middle finger.
The grandparent is not necessarily right. Have a look at this.
The size they take up isn't the only concern. SRAM puts off MUCH more heat.
Sometimes when you are participating in a discussion on the internet, you have to read. From the parent: "I wonder what kind of performance you could get out of it if you overclocked it to the point where its power requirements were similar to the P4." He said nothing about clock speeds whatsoever. He said run the processor at a speed where it's power usage is equal to that of a Pentium 4. Power usage pretty much has a direct correlation to heat dissipated as long as you ignore minor EM radiation, etc.
Now that I've gotten that out of the way I'll go ahead and sort of make your point for you. The die size of the Centrino is much smaller than that of the Pentium 4. Therefore if it is run at similar power levels and dissipates around the same amount of heat, that heat will be concentrated on a smaller area and will be harder to keep cool.
If you want to run a native freebsd browser and not a linux emulated one you tend to have to compile java to get the plugin to work in freebsd.
Most of the attacks come in retaliation to gambling sites spamming blogs and message boards. If the charity was spamming people's blogs and message boards then no, the guy doesn't have to feel sorry for them.
Off-topic whatever. This must be said. Roland Piquepaille is gaming /. and constantly plagiarising actual journalists. He is going to wind up getting sued if he keeps it up. Get the word out there and maybe Slashdot editors will take notice: Roland Piquepaille is the worst kind of human trash and we don't need anymore of that here at /. . Please, discuss.
s/no/nothing
opps.
That's what he was thinking though. Perhaps a better wording would have been "no criminal about that." But even then he is only somewhat right. There are industrial espionage laws that in many cases do make things like this criminal. But really he isn't a competing company and (logisticians: I didn't say or =P) he didn't entice someone to break their NDA. This will most likely be protected as freedom of speech/press though it may be a little shakey. In all likelyhood it won't go to court but seeing that he is a Harvard Undergraduate it would be interesting.
Yeah my brother had that problem. Power cycling our shitty ass wireless router completely fixed it. You aren't running over a Netgear router are you? My brother was, and they are awful. Torrents would crash it like no ones business. I think there is a problem with their NAT tables as power cycles tend to fix it for long periods of time.
"Remember, for a long time EQ was the most successful US mmporg despite having very outdated graphics." When EQ came out it had the best graphics of any MMORPG. They were dated compared to other games of the time but when M59, UO, and AC are your competition... Well I don't see your point.
Look no one should really even want Wish opened up. It had a HORRIBLE engine. They decent premises for how the world was going to operate and the gameplay but they were just premises and ideas; if you played the beta you would see that almost none of them were truely implemented. Open source advocates should be way more pumped up about the upcoming release of RunUO than they would with even a full server and client being released by Wish. We'll see what license RunUO goes ends up with. However they did say it will be OSI approved (no not Origin Systems Inc... heh).
Windows Remote Desktop is very commonly used as a trojan as well, the trojan you download enables it and sets a password. Does Microsoft remove Windows Remote Desktop? No. The next release will uninstall Firefox and leave IE.