"DRM only works when it's illegal to circumvent it."
Isn't that like saying encryption only works when it's illegal to circumvent it. Encryption doesn't work because cracking it is illegal. It works because it is impractical to crack.
If they would just have improved the strength of their copy protection, they wouldn't have had to buy the DMCA. An additional benefit would have been that the hackers, who should be trying to convince their friends and family to not support the RIAA, would be kept busy trying to break the latest scheme.
"AFAIK IANAL," (As Far As I Know I Am Not A Lawyer,)
You're not really sure that you aren't a lawyer? It should be easy to figure out. A good indictation would be a law degree hanging on the wall of your office.
Working from my own statistical evidence ( 4 washers) I erroneously assumed most/all washers use 2 hoses. 3 of the 4 were supplied by landlord so undoubtedly they were the cheapest models they could find. The other was an outrageously expensive, high efficiency, front loading washer that my parents bought last year.
Ah, from your bio I see you are in Denmark. The difference is probably just due to us wasteful americans not caring about the energy savings of heating on demand or the additional cost of running a hot water pipe.
I don't know about your washer but mine has both a hot and cold water hose. I would be very surprised if to get warm water they overlook the obvious mixing of hot and cold and instead increase cost by adding a heating coil to heat the cold water. Maybe the difference is just because my washer is so old.
I never thought I would post a IANAL post but an NDA is a contract and breaking it would result in a civil suit not a criminal trial. I would think that just like in any other instance where you witness a criminal offense, you are obligated to report it. You should be protected by whistle blower laws or the non-binding nature of contracts that require you to break the law.
I'm not sure how smart the installers are in W2K or XP but if you hold down the shift key while selecting reboot from the start menu, the system doesn't reboot, only windows does. The fact that you don't go back to the bios, check memory, check removable media, and all that other stuff cuts down the time spent on those 20 reboots.
Why would we have to wait until november if they only released the box set? Are they still filming the movie that came out last year? The additional 30 minutes was stuff that was cut so presumably it was already in the movie once. I suppose they could be waiting to put some very last minute ttt stuff on one of the extra discs but is there any other reason why we would have had to wait until november?
I just looked at the back of my 17 inch CRT and my 15 inch LCD.
The ratings on the back of the CRT are 110 Volts and 2 Amps so thats 220 Watts. The Power supply for the LCD is rated for 110 Volts and 1.2 Amps or 132 Watts. The actual LCD screen is rated at 12 V and 3.5 Amps, 42 Watts.
So based on this it looks like LCDs are more efficient but alot of that efficiency may be lost in the AC->DC convertion. If the Solar panels can generate 12 V, the LCD would be a much more efficient way to go.
The windows dynamic swap file can cause a "running out of virtual memory" error even when the HD is no where near filled. I was running some matlab code on Windows 98 that kept crashing because it ran out of virtual memory. I forced Windows to use a fixed size swap file and the code ran without problems. I don't like the idea of windows playing around with the size of the swap file so all of my Windows machines have fixed size swap file.
Just today I was working on getting some molecular dynamics code to work on a DEC PWS 500au. This code writes some large (3GB-500MB) files to the disk. On a fresh striped down (~400MB) install of RedHat 7.1 using ext2, bonnie showed throughputs of about 20MB/s for sequential read/writes of a 512 MB file.
On a fresh install of FreeBSD 4.6 using UFS, bonnie reported more than 30 MB/s on the same machine.
I know this isn't really what you were looking for but it surprised me that there was that much of a difference.
That book caused me nothing but problems too. Years ago in my college prep english course we were having a class discussion during which I argued that romance novels aren't really books. The teacher then asked what book was on my desk, "what do I consider to be a real book?" I had a hard time convincing people that The Color of Her Panties wasn't that type of book.
I know, bad form replying to myself but after reading all the posts in hear about DU being used because it is so dense, I just wanted to point out that there are a number of materials more dense than uranium. In the link above, A DU shell was compared to a tungsten shell for use as an armor piercer. Tungsten is a more dense material (19.35 g/cc for pure W) but does not perform nearly as well.
DU is not the most dense material known to man. Osmium, for example, is a metal with a density of 22.6 g/cc versus 18.5 g/cc for DU.
Although the density of DU makes it good for armor, I believe the reason it is often used for armor piercing shells is its self sharpening property. Unlike lead bullets that mushroom out on impact, DU cleaves off at a certain degree, thus retaining a tip as it travels through the armor. A sharp tip of course concentrates the force, easing pentration. This is illustrated in the same domain as your link
You're right that "reducing a product to an insanely cheap price" won't stop all piracy but reducing the price will lower the number of "pirates". Since not all software/music is stolen, it is possible to beat free. There will always be people that steal software and music but making these things more affordable will stop those that "pirate" just to be able to play/listen to the "must play" game/bands.
Without getting into the nitty gritty details, it's kinda like that. Think of light traveling down a fiberoptic cable. It's not really the same but a similar idea. Although most of what you see in a tunnel is concrete, there is undoubtedly a lot of metal hidden from view, rebar in the concrete for instance. This allows it to act as a "electromagnetic pipe" commonly called a waveguide.
EM will pass through concrete at these frequencies but most tunnels are built to go under something, and that something usually reflects or absorbs a large portion of the wave.
Your FM will work but AM probably doesn't. You recieve FM in a tunnel because it acts as a wave guide, much like TV coax cable. AM wavelengths are much longer and most tunnels won't support a propogation mode. So although you can't "see" the broadcast antenna from your car, the entrance to the tunnel can.
Thanks for the response. I guess I naively assumed that if there were a large number of people that some law was hurting, someone could organize them and they would become a special interest group which can wield its power to get a law repealed. I've always thought that unless you are willing to overthrow the current system, then you should work within that system to affect changes.
I'm not happy about the Disney representatives in congress or the xxAA trying to make it illegal to hum a song or imagine a scene in a movie but that doesn't mean that I'm going to download illegal mp3s or movies. I vote with my dollar and support the bands that care enough about their fans to release mp3 and unprotected discs. I also tell my friends who are unaware of the evils being done. Undoubtedly, my actions will not be enough to bring about change but if enough people do the same, I believe things would change with anyone having to break the current law. Granted, I've never been part of a law being repealed so maybe this is all just a bit idealistic but, is there any reason this can't work?
This is something I've never quite understood. If there is a law/rule that nobody wants, why don't people work to get it repealed by educating people and putting pressure on lawmakers? If you are willing to just break the law/rule, what is the point in having laws in the first place? Why must you break a law to re-examine it?
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I have a problem paying a levy on blank media to compensate artists for piracy when I'm using the media in a purely legal way. I have a stack of 60-70 CD-Rs and have never copied an audio cd. Only 1 of those cd has anything music related, it's a disc of legal mp3s.
I seem to remember a previous topic on slashdot about the proposed levies being applied to hard-drives, and portable mp3 players, as well as blank cdrs. Should I have to pay more for these things even though I've never illegally downloaded copyrighted material or copied a cd?
I understand why people hate the XXIA and the current state of IP laws but I can't figure out how these people think it is okay to copy something because they don't think it's worth the price being charged. If you think something is too expensive, don't buy it but find/make a cheaper alternative. If you don't agree with a law, don't blatantly disregard it, work to get the law changed.
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"DRM only works when it's illegal to circumvent it."
Isn't that like saying encryption only works when it's illegal to circumvent it. Encryption doesn't work because cracking it is illegal. It works because it is impractical to crack.
If they would just have improved the strength of their copy protection, they wouldn't have had to buy the DMCA. An additional benefit would have been that the hackers, who should be trying to convince their friends and family to not support the RIAA, would be kept busy trying to break the latest scheme.
"AFAIK IANAL,"
(As Far As I Know I Am Not A Lawyer,)
You're not really sure that you aren't a lawyer? It should be easy to figure out. A good indictation would be a law degree hanging on the wall of your office.
Right, just like the "competition" keeps the price of CDs reasonable.
A fortran programming challenge?
Working from my own statistical evidence ( 4 washers) I erroneously assumed most/all washers use 2 hoses. 3 of the 4 were supplied by landlord so undoubtedly they were the cheapest models they could find. The other was an outrageously expensive, high efficiency, front loading washer that my parents bought last year.
Ah, from your bio I see you are in Denmark. The difference is probably just due to us wasteful americans not caring about the energy savings of heating on demand or the additional cost of running a hot water pipe.
I don't know about your washer but mine has both a hot and cold water hose. I would be very surprised if to get warm water they overlook the obvious mixing of hot and cold and instead increase cost by adding a heating coil to heat the cold water. Maybe the difference is just because my washer is so old.
I never thought I would post a IANAL post but an NDA is a contract and breaking it would result in a civil suit not a criminal trial. I would think that just like in any other instance where you witness a criminal offense, you are obligated to report it. You should be protected by whistle blower laws or the non-binding nature of contracts that require you to break the law.
Maybe we are "Personally Protected" from lawsuits for distributing copyrighted material?
I'm not sure how smart the installers are in W2K or XP but if you hold down the shift key while selecting reboot from the start menu, the system doesn't reboot, only windows does. The fact that you don't go back to the bios, check memory, check removable media, and all that other stuff cuts down the time spent on those 20 reboots.
Why would we have to wait until november if they only released the box set? Are they still filming the movie that came out last year? The additional 30 minutes was stuff that was cut so presumably it was already in the movie once. I suppose they could be waiting to put some very last minute ttt stuff on one of the extra discs but is there any other reason why we would have had to wait until november?
I just looked at the back of my 17 inch CRT and my 15 inch LCD.
The ratings on the back of the CRT are 110 Volts and 2 Amps so thats 220 Watts.
The Power supply for the LCD is rated for 110 Volts and 1.2 Amps or 132 Watts.
The actual LCD screen is rated at 12 V and 3.5 Amps, 42 Watts.
So based on this it looks like LCDs are more efficient but alot of that efficiency may be lost in the AC->DC convertion. If the Solar panels can generate 12 V, the LCD would be a much more efficient way to go.
Would somebody mod this up? Why are the wrong links +3 Informative and the correct ones 0 Redundant?
The windows dynamic swap file can cause a "running out of virtual memory" error even when the HD is no where near filled. I was running some matlab code on Windows 98 that kept crashing because it ran out of virtual memory. I forced Windows to use a fixed size swap file and the code ran without problems. I don't like the idea of windows playing around with the size of the swap file so all of my Windows machines have fixed size swap file.
Just today I was working on getting some molecular dynamics code to work on a DEC PWS 500au. This code writes some large (3GB-500MB) files to the disk. On a fresh striped down (~400MB) install of RedHat 7.1 using ext2, bonnie showed throughputs of about 20MB/s for sequential read/writes of a 512 MB file.
On a fresh install of FreeBSD 4.6 using UFS, bonnie reported more than 30 MB/s on the same machine.
I know this isn't really what you were looking for but it surprised me that there was that much of a difference.
I was well aware of the irony. I don't consider the Xanth novels to be real books either. More like potato chips for the mind.
That book caused me nothing but problems too. Years ago in my college prep english course we were having a class discussion during which I argued that romance novels aren't really books. The teacher then asked what book was on my desk, "what do I consider to be a real book?" I had a hard time convincing people that The Color of Her Panties wasn't that type of book.
I know, bad form replying to myself but after reading all the posts in hear about DU being used because it is so dense, I just wanted to point out that there are a number of materials more dense than uranium. In the link above, A DU shell was compared to a tungsten shell for use as an armor piercer. Tungsten is a more dense material (19.35 g/cc for pure W) but does not perform nearly as well.
Although the density of DU makes it good for armor, I believe the reason it is often used for armor piercing shells is its self sharpening property. Unlike lead bullets that mushroom out on impact, DU cleaves off at a certain degree, thus retaining a tip as it travels through the armor. A sharp tip of course concentrates the force, easing pentration. This is illustrated in the same domain as your link
You're right that "reducing a product to an insanely cheap price" won't stop all piracy but reducing the price will lower the number of "pirates". Since not all software/music is stolen, it is possible to beat free. There will always be people that steal software and music but making these things more affordable will stop those that "pirate" just to be able to play/listen to the "must play" game/bands.
I've used up all my "" for the day.
Without getting into the nitty gritty details, it's kinda like that. Think of light traveling down a fiberoptic cable. It's not really the same but a similar idea. Although most of what you see in a tunnel is concrete, there is undoubtedly a lot of metal hidden from view, rebar in the concrete for instance. This allows it to act as a "electromagnetic pipe" commonly called a waveguide.
EM will pass through concrete at these frequencies but most tunnels are built to go under something, and that something usually reflects or absorbs a large portion of the wave.
Your FM will work but AM probably doesn't. You recieve FM in a tunnel because it acts as a wave guide, much like TV coax cable. AM wavelengths are much longer and most tunnels won't support a propogation mode. So although you can't "see" the broadcast antenna from your car, the entrance to the tunnel can.
Google ingnores special characters like : and / so your search for "gopher://" includes links to all the little furry critters as well.
Thanks for the response. I guess I naively assumed that if there were a large number of people that some law was hurting, someone could organize them and they would become a special interest group which can wield its power to get a law repealed. I've always thought that unless you are willing to overthrow the current system, then you should work within that system to affect changes.
I'm not happy about the Disney representatives in congress or the xxAA trying to make it illegal to hum a song or imagine a scene in a movie but that doesn't mean that I'm going to download illegal mp3s or movies. I vote with my dollar and support the bands that care enough about their fans to release mp3 and unprotected discs. I also tell my friends who are unaware of the evils being done. Undoubtedly, my actions will not be enough to bring about change but if enough people do the same, I believe things would change with anyone having to break the current law. Granted, I've never been part of a law being repealed so maybe this is all just a bit idealistic but, is there any reason this can't work?
This is something I've never quite understood. If there is a law/rule that nobody wants, why don't people work to get it repealed by educating people and putting pressure on lawmakers? If you are willing to just break the law/rule, what is the point in having laws in the first place? Why must you break a law to re-examine it?
I have a problem paying a levy on blank media to compensate artists for piracy when I'm using the media in a purely legal way. I have a stack of 60-70 CD-Rs and have never copied an audio cd. Only 1 of those cd has anything music related, it's a disc of legal mp3s.
I seem to remember a previous topic on slashdot about the proposed levies being applied to hard-drives, and portable mp3 players, as well as blank cdrs. Should I have to pay more for these things even though I've never illegally downloaded copyrighted material or copied a cd?
I understand why people hate the XXIA and the current state of IP laws but I can't figure out how these people think it is okay to copy something because they don't think it's worth the price being charged. If you think something is too expensive, don't buy it but find/make a cheaper alternative. If you don't agree with a law, don't blatantly disregard it, work to get the law changed.