Converting your CD collection to mp3 isn't illegal either, but that's not what the RIAA is suing for. They're suing because it's illegal to distribute those mp3s. It's the same story with recording from TV or radio. It's legal for personal use, but not for distribution.
Dude, don't even worry about it. Girls are really good at being wimps and taking the easy road by standing guys up. After breaking up with my second girlfriend after nearly five years, I got stood up a few times before I actually went out on a date. It still happens to me occasionally, but I don't take it personally. Of course, sometimes you'll be surprised. The other night, I called a girl at a predetermined time to confirm our second date and I got her answering machine. I knew I was stood up and decided to just shrug it off. I fell asleep about half an hour later then fifteen minutes or so into my nap, she called. Second date went well and we would be going out tonight for a third date if it weren't for a bout of strep throat she got. Also, Wednesday I got the phone number of a bombshell waitress, newly employed at a poolhall. I played it cool by waiting until today to call her (The other girl's out of play this weekend, so why not?). She told me she works tonight, but not tomorrow. She's carving pumpkins tomorrow, but I gave her my number and she promised to call after she's done so we could go on a date. Telling by how she was blushing and nervous when I asked for her number on Wed. and by how nervous she sounded on the phone today, I think she'll call tomorrow afternoon/evening, but you never know. Point of the story is that girls are weird beings and you can't count on most of them to be sincere and honest. I still don't know if girl number 1 really is sick and I really don't know that girl number 2 has work tonight. It's all a big game to them and they don't feel bad when they lie because they think they're sparing your feelings.
If you want to better your chances of scoring a date, play it cool and leave them guessing as to how much you want to see them. Instead of giving them your number, take control by getting their number. Then wait a few days to call so they're surprised and happy when you do call. We hate when girls play games like that with us, but girls seem to find it exciting and mysterious. Suddenly they feel like they need to put some effort into raising your interest. They see you as a challenge.
Are you including the Service Pack for XP in that number because you are going to have a shitload of patches in that one.
Only a limited number of those patches will be security related. If you really want to see how many security patches have been released for a microsoft product, simply go to technet's security bulletin page.
Try building a comparable system on mwave.com using OEM parts wherever possible instead of the bling-bling sites that make Apple look reasonably priced.
That Macs don't run software as well as Windows does when it comes to software that has been available for Windows longer?
That has nothing to do with it. Do you really think that the most recent version of Office for Windows uses the same code base as the original version? A more valid argument would be that Microsoft has a higher budget for the Win32 version of Office than the Mac OS version, which makes sense considering the respective revenue.
Wow, I haven't heard anyone actually use that word. Nice job!
For those that wonder, "grok" was coined by Robert Heinlein in his novel, Stranger in a Strange Land. It basically means to completely understand something.
The ONLY valid criticism in that whole freaking review is that part about Internet Explorer not having tabs. Instead, you have to open a new window and switch between them using the taskbar. Big friggin deal. All other complaints were due to ignorance. I would be just as ignorant if I made the switch to Linux, but at least I would be open-minded enough to realize that I'm a newbie and it'll take time to adjust.
"During the more than two weeks that Site Finder has been operational, there is no data to indicate that the core operation of the Domain Name System or stability of the Internet has been adversely affected. ICANN is using anecdotal and isolated issues to attempt to regulate non-registry services, but in the interests of further working with the technical community we will temporarily suspend Site Finder."
WTF is this bastard smoking? If I ever run into this guy on the streets, I'm going to shove a pineapple up his ass and say that there's no data to indicate that he's going to have trouble pooping.
ICANN can always instruct the root DNS servers to point elsewhere for com. and net. instead of verisigns gTLD servers. That would effectivly remove verisign from the game totally.
One of the thirteen root servers is operated by Verisign. Good luck!
I completely agree that copyright law should be refined and corrected. I disagree with you on the Mickey example, but there's plenty of other examples where there is nobody seeking to make a profit from the copyrighted work. Regardless of how you and I feel though, it's still the law and it should be obeyed by us, the citizens. If we don't like a law, we shouldn't break it and hope that a massive rebellion causes the law to stop functioning. Instead, we should fight the law through public awareness and legal battles.
Just because my argument goes against the popular opinion of the Slashdot crowd, that doesn't mean I'm trolling. Heck, I believe that I presented good, valid arguments. Out of curiousity, are you telling me that it should be legal to hand out copies of copyrighted work?
Just because millions of people are blatantly stealing copyrighted work, that doesn't make it right. It just proves that humans have no respect for a law that isn't enforced regularly.
I believe that the RIAA (and soon the MPAA, I'd imagine) are on the right track by filing lawsuits against 12 year old kids and grandparents. Why? Because with the news of indiscriminate lawsuits against normal people being filed on a regular basis, people will go back to paying for their music. Responsible adults will punish their kids for pirating as if they were being punished for shoplifting. They won't turn the other cheek.
Some argue that they are innocent for this or that reason. Nobody with an IQ greater than 70 downloads an album or movie for free and thinks that it's all perfectly legal. People know it's a petty theft and they'll continue to do it until they're afraid of getting busted. If grandpa gets sued because his grandson pirated, he'll pay the fine and his grandson will be punished by the parents. It's the same way with most other fines resulting from illegal activity conducted by a minor.
According to this google post and this one, the ISO spec of a floppy disk says it's 3mm thick. One floppy holds 1.44MB of data in decimal format. Divide 1.2TB by that and you get 833,333 and 1/3. Multiply that by 3mm and convert to a larger unit understood by Americans and you get: 1.55 mile-high stack of floppies.
The Library of Congress holds 10TB of data. Convert the 1.2 decimal terabytes to hexadecimal and you get ~1.12TB. Divide the exact number into 10 and you get: 11.18% of the Library of Congress
I always thought the term used is "Blacklist" as in DNS Blacklist (DNSBL). Is it just a common blunder in journalism or what? Is this comparable to the I in RAID (Inexpensive/Independent)?
After you mentioned that list, I could have sworn that I configured our SMTP gateway to use them. Sure enough, I am. Must have missed them in the mad rush to get my post out there quickly.:(
One thing to note is that some of these organizations have multiple lists with different aggressiveness levels. I'm only using the safest of them and block roughly 85% of spam at no cost to my employer. How are you blocking 99%? Are you using the more aggressive lists?
Reading through this thread, it's obvious that there's a lot of confusion on how DNS works. AC was close by saying that it's hierarchal, but (s)he missed a step or two. When a client needs to resolve a DNS name, it sends a recursive query to the DNS server it's configured to use. Assuming the server isn't using any forwarders (Forwarding the query on to another DNS server), it goes through the name resolution process. Let's say you type in www.slashdot.org in your web browser. Your computer will send a DNS query to the configured DNS server. The query will ask for "www.slashdot.org.". The extra dot is usually not seen by us end users, but it's there. The full host name with the trailing dot is a fully qualified domain name (FQDN). That DNS server (Let's say the ISP) will then contact the root servers (That trailing dot) and ask for the record, www.slashdot.org.. The root servers will respond that they don't have that record, but they do know where the org servers are. The DNS server will then send the same query to an org server. The org server will respond that it doesn't have the record, but it does know where the slashdot.org servers are. Finally, the DNS server sends the query to the slashdot.org servers and gets the host record for www.slashdot.org.
You're a little confused. A virus isn't an exploit. A virus is a program that uses exploits to spread. If the virus used an unknown exploit or if it were coded and launched the same day an exploit was announced, then it would qualify as zero-day.
1) As I said in response to someone else, the network traffic generated by a worm is a dead giveaway to its existence.
2) As I said in response to someone else, the worm would be captured with a honeypot, then disassembled.
What makes you such an expert to say that Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 is swiss cheese? Have you gone over the source code? Do you realize how many exploits are found in open source software?
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If you want to better your chances of scoring a date, play it cool and leave them guessing as to how much you want to see them. Instead of giving them your number, take control by getting their number. Then wait a few days to call so they're surprised and happy when you do call. We hate when girls play games like that with us, but girls seem to find it exciting and mysterious. Suddenly they feel like they need to put some effort into raising your interest. They see you as a challenge.
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Since when is stealing (Copyright infringement) not wrong?
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Only a limited number of those patches will be security related. If you really want to see how many security patches have been released for a microsoft product, simply go to technet's security bulletin page.
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That has nothing to do with it. Do you really think that the most recent version of Office for Windows uses the same code base as the original version? A more valid argument would be that Microsoft has a higher budget for the Win32 version of Office than the Mac OS version, which makes sense considering the respective revenue.
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Wow, I haven't heard anyone actually use that word. Nice job!
For those that wonder, "grok" was coined by Robert Heinlein in his novel, Stranger in a Strange Land. It basically means to completely understand something.
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WTF is this bastard smoking? If I ever run into this guy on the streets, I'm going to shove a pineapple up his ass and say that there's no data to indicate that he's going to have trouble pooping.
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One of the thirteen root servers is operated by Verisign. Good luck!
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Just because my argument goes against the popular opinion of the Slashdot crowd, that doesn't mean I'm trolling. Heck, I believe that I presented good, valid arguments. Out of curiousity, are you telling me that it should be legal to hand out copies of copyrighted work?
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I believe that the RIAA (and soon the MPAA, I'd imagine) are on the right track by filing lawsuits against 12 year old kids and grandparents. Why? Because with the news of indiscriminate lawsuits against normal people being filed on a regular basis, people will go back to paying for their music. Responsible adults will punish their kids for pirating as if they were being punished for shoplifting. They won't turn the other cheek.
Some argue that they are innocent for this or that reason. Nobody with an IQ greater than 70 downloads an album or movie for free and thinks that it's all perfectly legal. People know it's a petty theft and they'll continue to do it until they're afraid of getting busted. If grandpa gets sued because his grandson pirated, he'll pay the fine and his grandson will be punished by the parents. It's the same way with most other fines resulting from illegal activity conducted by a minor.
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The Library of Congress holds 10TB of data. Convert the 1.2 decimal terabytes to hexadecimal and you get ~1.12TB. Divide the exact number into 10 and you get: 11.18% of the Library of Congress
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One thing to note is that some of these organizations have multiple lists with different aggressiveness levels. I'm only using the safest of them and block roughly 85% of spam at no cost to my employer. How are you blocking 99%? Are you using the more aggressive lists?
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I'd never even hear of the two sites that closed down. Personally, I use Spamcop's DNSBL, DSBL, and ORDB.
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2) As I said in response to someone else, the worm would be captured with a honeypot, then disassembled.
What makes you such an expert to say that Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 is swiss cheese? Have you gone over the source code? Do you realize how many exploits are found in open source software?
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