I'd be curious to know exactly how FTP transfers themselves are slowed by the protocol. I'm aware that FTP uses a bass-ackwards scheme involving opening too damned many ports and only using one of them at a time, but I'm still curious about how the actual transfer could be made faster.
Where can you get these prepaid credit cards? I've never seen them; how do they work? Can they be purchased online?
If I want to buy internet porn and not have it show up on my bill (yes, even as "CCBill, Inc" or whatever) this'd be ideal. Or for buying programs from a certain kind of store before they get busted by the feds. Or a zillion other things, I'm sure.
Wait, what was wrong with MI3? I loved MI3, and was going to go back and play the first two if I could ever find 'em.
--grendel drago
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Because the extra data is there for a reason. Regular data is burned in "Mode 1", which takes 2048 bytes of data per sector. It then pads this out to 2352 bytes (or something close to that; I forget) with error-correcting information.
VCDs are burned in "Mode 2", which uses all 2352 bytes per sector. If there's some kind of chip or scratch, you're SOL. With VCDs, which use MPEG-1, this isn't a problem. But if you're putting programs or even DivX movies on a CD, believe me, you want that error-correcting information.
Here's an article that's not up, but the Google cache is still working.
I dunno, I think Russ Allbery's rant about malicious and unremitting crapflooding is a lot more salient, not to mention inspirational. True, I have no idea what's up with Usenet2, but it gives me a warm fuzzy to see someone who still takes (or took) that kind of pride in their work.
It'd be really scary if you lived here and didn't know the fourth amendment:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
This is the basis of pretty much any ruling on privacy in the US. (Remember, this was written way, way before wiretapping.)
Could something be done like in RF tags, where the power source is the radio signal used to find the item as well? It'd work if the sensors didn't need much power, and only had to be read at intervals, right?
The grandparent poster was implying that the First Amendment gave the citizen carte blanche to say whatever they want: Sounds to me like "you can say what you want, when you want, and no consequences" to me.
Where does it guarantee no consequences? You mean I can piss on a flag in front of the VA and not get my ass kicked? That I can burn a cross on my lawn in a black community and not be set on fire myself? That I can wear a Nazi uniform in downtown Skokie and walk out of there alive?
Mmm. Yeah, Hugh Jackman would have been a huge acting success story in any other movie. Working alongside Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, he gets props for not looking like a hack in comparison.
Indeed---you can see the staples where Spielberg looked at Philip K Dick's glorious, dark vision and said, "hey, that's great, but I think we can plus that up a little, don't you? I mean, does Anderton have to end up like that? We can have him rescued and then throw the 'rules' for the pre-cogs that we set up in the first act completely out the window to score some dramatic tension in the last act. We can even make them into happy people at the end---everyone lives happily ever after!"
(Clue: Phil's visions frequently involved humanity being killed off and replaced by utterly inhuman mutants, aliens or machines. His protagonists frequently die lonely, pointless deaths (at least in the short stories) and do not have hearts of gold.)
Yes, Minority Report was tremendously good. But Steven Spielberg can tell only one story: the story of the lost little boy trying to get home. He told it in "AI", in "Saving Private Ryan", in "Hook", in "ET". He only doesn't suck when he can draw from someone else's inspiration and vision.
It seems that Hollywood loves Philip K Dick's dark stories and tragic antiheroes, but can't stomach his twist endings. (The man, after all, was mentally ill.)
Bah. How come Darin Morgan's work on "The X-Files" never got the kind of recognition it deserves, while George Lucas is canonized? Hollywood wouldn't know quality if it shit in their Cheerios.
How would multicasting have helped with this? Isn't multicasting only good for having multiple sources trying to receive the same data at the same time---e.g., broadcasting?
See, at my school it was exactly the opposite (until this latest lawsuit)---the ResNet folks actually encouraged the Phynd hub, because it cut down on external bandwidth use. Since the University is in the middle of a terrible money problem, they care more about staying in the black than appeasing some far-off corporation.
Of course, now that the far-off corporation can cost them more money than even the most ridiculous bandwidth use, the equation has changed.
Holy crap! Does that mean that suddenly my ISP is responsible for what I do with the connection? Is the RIAA going to start suing cable companies and telcos next?
There was the same brouhaha about kiddie porn in the early days of the net---is the provider of a connection responsible for the content passing through it? If you make them responsible for monitoring one type of traffic, they have to then monitor all types of traffic.
Sorry, but I just don't buy it. Don't the words "common carrier" mean anything any more?
This isn't about those schools. It didn't matter whether the President of MTU, of Princeton or of Wake bent down and licked the choccy starfish of the RIAA---they wanted to make this a loud, ugly lawsuit. Two reasons:
(1) Chilling effect. Every local sharing service I know of is shut down. The UConn Phynd hub had a message up the day of the lawsuit, and the website had vanished the next day. By making every kid in American thinking "I could be next0rz!!", they shut down every Phynd/Direct Connect/Flatlan system in the nation. But that's just gravy, because the real goal is...
(2) Precedent. If they can get these kids to knuckle under (which they most certainly will do, given the threat) and waive their federal appeal in return for a reduced settlement (pay $1k/year for the rest of your life, for instance), a big, shiny precedent will have been set---that the original settlement amount ($98B or whatever it gets reduced to) is a legit fine for the offense. Then, armed with precedent, they go after the bigger fish---KaZaA, ShareReactor---for setting up similar services.
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Errm. They're called "sequels", not "postquels". At least, they'd better be...
--grendel drago
I'd be curious to know exactly how FTP transfers themselves are slowed by the protocol. I'm aware that FTP uses a bass-ackwards scheme involving opening too damned many ports and only using one of them at a time, but I'm still curious about how the actual transfer could be made faster.
--grendel drago
I was about to ask the same thing, but you beat me to it.
Avogadro's number is a defined constant, so far as I can tell.
And since a molecule of C-12 is defined to be 12 amu, and since 1 mole of x-amu molecules masses x grams... isn't this already settled?
--grendel drago
Where can you get these prepaid credit cards? I've never seen them; how do they work? Can they be purchased online?
If I want to buy internet porn and not have it show up on my bill (yes, even as "CCBill, Inc" or whatever) this'd be ideal. Or for buying programs from a certain kind of store before they get busted by the feds. Or a zillion other things, I'm sure.
--grendel drago
You know, there may still be someone on the planet who hasn't heard this one, but I wouldn't bet on him reading slashdot.
Don't pretend that a well-known anecdote is your own creation. That's just... crass.
--grendel drago
Wait, what was wrong with MI3? I loved MI3, and was going to go back and play the first two if I could ever find 'em.
--grendel drago
Because the extra data is there for a reason. Regular data is burned in "Mode 1", which takes 2048 bytes of data per sector. It then pads this out to 2352 bytes (or something close to that; I forget) with error-correcting information.
VCDs are burned in "Mode 2", which uses all 2352 bytes per sector. If there's some kind of chip or scratch, you're SOL. With VCDs, which use MPEG-1, this isn't a problem. But if you're putting programs or even DivX movies on a CD, believe me, you want that error-correcting information.
Here's an article that's not up, but the Google cache is still working.
--grendel drago
I dunno, I think Russ Allbery's rant about malicious and unremitting crapflooding is a lot more salient, not to mention inspirational. True, I have no idea what's up with Usenet2, but it gives me a warm fuzzy to see someone who still takes (or took) that kind of pride in their work.
--grendel drago
Where did Heinlein say that? I remember that it's bad when people are rude to each other, or need to carry ID cards...
Anyone serious about it is getting their tape in large boxes, not from Wal-Mart. miniDV tapes run about five bucks each.
Dude, Microsoft MAKES a MANHOLE COVER!
It'd be really scary if you lived here and didn't know the fourth amendment:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
This is the basis of pretty much any ruling on privacy in the US. (Remember, this was written way, way before wiretapping.)
--grendel drago
Could something be done like in RF tags, where the power source is the radio signal used to find the item as well? It'd work if the sensors didn't need much power, and only had to be read at intervals, right?
--grendel drago
*sigh* I'll bite.
The grandparent poster was implying that the First Amendment gave the citizen carte blanche to say whatever they want: Sounds to me like "you can say what you want, when you want, and no consequences" to me.
--grendel drago
Where does it guarantee no consequences? You mean I can piss on a flag in front of the VA and not get my ass kicked? That I can burn a cross on my lawn in a black community and not be set on fire myself? That I can wear a Nazi uniform in downtown Skokie and walk out of there alive?
No legal consequences, maybe.
--grendel drago
How come we can post Win2k3 serial keys in the slashdot forums, but no one posts how to get phr33 as in c0ke c0kes? Sheesh. What bullshit.
Come *on*, someone toss a practical exploit in here!
--grendel drago
Mmm. Yeah, Hugh Jackman would have been a huge acting success story in any other movie. Working alongside Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, he gets props for not looking like a hack in comparison.
--grendel drago
Indeed---you can see the staples where Spielberg looked at Philip K Dick's glorious, dark vision and said, "hey, that's great, but I think we can plus that up a little, don't you? I mean, does Anderton have to end up like that? We can have him rescued and then throw the 'rules' for the pre-cogs that we set up in the first act completely out the window to score some dramatic tension in the last act. We can even make them into happy people at the end---everyone lives happily ever after!"
(Clue: Phil's visions frequently involved humanity being killed off and replaced by utterly inhuman mutants, aliens or machines. His protagonists frequently die lonely, pointless deaths (at least in the short stories) and do not have hearts of gold.)
Yes, Minority Report was tremendously good. But Steven Spielberg can tell only one story: the story of the lost little boy trying to get home. He told it in "AI", in "Saving Private Ryan", in "Hook", in "ET". He only doesn't suck when he can draw from someone else's inspiration and vision.
It seems that Hollywood loves Philip K Dick's dark stories and tragic antiheroes, but can't stomach his twist endings. (The man, after all, was mentally ill.)
Bah. How come Darin Morgan's work on "The X-Files" never got the kind of recognition it deserves, while George Lucas is canonized? Hollywood wouldn't know quality if it shit in their Cheerios.
--grendel drago
nor will I watch XMEN2 to see a superb ensemble cast.
*cough* Patrick Stewart *cough* Ian McKellen *cough*
How would multicasting have helped with this? Isn't multicasting only good for having multiple sources trying to receive the same data at the same time---e.g., broadcasting?
--grendel drago
Say the name of that site five times fast, in a thick Southern accent.
See, at my school it was exactly the opposite (until this latest lawsuit)---the ResNet folks actually encouraged the Phynd hub, because it cut down on external bandwidth use. Since the University is in the middle of a terrible money problem, they care more about staying in the black than appeasing some far-off corporation.
Of course, now that the far-off corporation can cost them more money than even the most ridiculous bandwidth use, the equation has changed.
--grendel drago
Holy crap! Does that mean that suddenly my ISP is responsible for what I do with the connection? Is the RIAA going to start suing cable companies and telcos next?
There was the same brouhaha about kiddie porn in the early days of the net---is the provider of a connection responsible for the content passing through it? If you make them responsible for monitoring one type of traffic, they have to then monitor all types of traffic.
Sorry, but I just don't buy it. Don't the words "common carrier" mean anything any more?
--grendel drago
I... I can't believe that actually exists.
This isn't about those schools. It didn't matter whether the President of MTU, of Princeton or of Wake bent down and licked the choccy starfish of the RIAA---they wanted to make this a loud, ugly lawsuit. Two reasons:
(1) Chilling effect. Every local sharing service I know of is shut down. The UConn Phynd hub had a message up the day of the lawsuit, and the website had vanished the next day. By making every kid in American thinking "I could be next0rz!!", they shut down every Phynd/Direct Connect/Flatlan system in the nation. But that's just gravy, because the real goal is...
(2) Precedent. If they can get these kids to knuckle under (which they most certainly will do, given the threat) and waive their federal appeal in return for a reduced settlement (pay $1k/year for the rest of your life, for instance), a big, shiny precedent will have been set---that the original settlement amount ($98B or whatever it gets reduced to) is a legit fine for the offense. Then, armed with precedent, they go after the bigger fish---KaZaA, ShareReactor---for setting up similar services.
It's dastardly clever.
--grendel drago