Honestly, why would you want to hack in? To cheat of course! One reason I avoid online massive games is because of the rampant cheating. It drives away good customers and players and leaves the cheating scum behind who are generally people you don't like to associate with anyway (their personalities are distinctly lacking...)
So I can see why Sony wants to stop people from doing this kind of thing. Cheating ruins online gaming, so why is/. so upset when they try to stop it? Worry more about Sony and their backing of the RIAA/MPAA and DMCA. Don't waste energy worrying becuase you can't be unfair in Everquest anymore.
What you are thinking of is when Apple used "Carl Sagan" as an internal code word for a product and the real Carl Sagan sued (or threatened to sue). So they changed it to "BHA" which stood for "Butt Head Astronomer". Sagan then sued (or at least threatened to sue) again and then finally changed it to LAW "Lawyers are Wimps."
Seriously. I wish someone would have the balls to stand up and fight this kind of crap. Hell, if we all started crap flooding Phoenix.com's email inboxes with hate letters, they might give up on pressuring the Phoenix browser team.
Let's face it, the courts generally don't care about you unless you have money or influence. So now we must take our battle against greedy and stupid corporations to the streets, or at least the net. Its not right we have to resort to this, but the more I read/. every day, the more angry I get and the more I see that the system is failing the people entirely.
Its time to take it back the only way we have left, though a massive grassroots campaign to fill their boxes with angry letters and to push every negative thing about that company into the limelight as much as possible until they cave in to our rightful demands that they use some fucking common sense.
That is why ad blockers like Proxomitron will still work. They can be used to filter out the offending javascript along with the pop up and ad code so you won't even see the space where the banner ads should be (let alone no popups anymore).
I use it to read/. ad-free for free. I wonder what the/. team thinks about that? Seriously, do they consider that stealing?
Actually musicians for a much longer time DID have the power. They wrote the songs and went around performing them for money. That others could also sing the songs never bothered them as long as they could keep making money as well. When too many other performers were singing the same songs, they could then write new songs and start performing them.
What we have now is a global market which didn't work as well for giving the music out for free and making money off of performances, at least until the Internet came about. Now once again, musicians are in a position to give out their music freely and make money off of live peformances. What the labels should do is get out of trying to make money on performances, distributing the music free on the internet using a website similar to mp3.com.
Since the labels still have a lot of money, artists would want to sign for concert promotion help and to get their songs listed on the site. It would only help the label if people also traded it on Kazaa and the like.
That would also mean that on the radio, music would be free to play so stations could cut back on commercials just to cover operating costs and make some profit instead of to pay shitloads in royalty payments. Competition between artists would become fiercer because people would be able to pick and choose what was good and what wasn't and music would get better as a result of the crap being cut out when it was obvious no one was downloading it much. Better bands would get more fans and thus more money for themselves and the label and we would get better music over all.
So as you can see, the record industry has a way out right now. The movie industry on the other hand can't work off of live performances and thus is going to have to find a better way to make money when file sharing starts to hit them harder.
Disseminating it anonymously is easy. Post it to hotline or carracho and it will make its way around the world in a few weeks and no one will really know where it actually started from.
As for fair use, we really need to form a consumer's lobby and start taking on these jokers in congress. If the EFF, ACLU and others joined forces to create a big lobbying group, we just might have enough clout and voting power to scare congress into listening to us again. It's sad that we have to resort to this, but until campaign finance reform starts taking effect in earnest, we don't have a lot of choice.
Problem with that is that all the luggage and fuel have to go somewhere after that, and that means down towards the ground. The fuel might largely evaporate but the luggage is going to hit a wide area on the ground like a shotgun blast from above. If this happened over a populated area, you might end up with a ton of property damage and a lot of people hurt of killed on the ground. So with jets, its generally going to be a save all or nothing effort.
For the most part, if even a jet has an engine failure, they have enough other engines to limp to the nearest airport they can land at. If all engines fail, then they can coast as far as they can and do their best to bring it down in a field or into water if they can since it will likely float long enough to get people out.
Yes but it would only impart a tiny bit if that energy into you as it struck. It would for the most part just pass right through you and do little to no damage that you could notice in the process.
After all, if it dumped all its energy right then and there, it would create an energetic event equal to an asteriod hitting the planet.
While it does dump 50kt worth of energy on its way through Earth, think about how thick the Earth is and then calculate how much damage is done per square centimeter. Not a lot really.
So yes it has a lot of energy, but it loses it only a bit at a time as it zips through objects. It will have to zip through a lot more very large objects before it ever could be stopped (or hit with a huge enough repelling force which would require enormous amounts of energy to generate).
The chute on a small plane like a Cessna172 is already pretty big. Most planes these are fitted on are likely less than 8,000 lbs or so.
Airliners full of people and baggage and fuel are incredibly heavy and you would need multiple chutes of massive size.
To get an idea of how massive these things are, when I took a trip to Australia back in September, on the way there the captain announced that we were going to "burn 130 tons of kerosene on the way there". That is 130 *tons* of jet fuel for, in this case a 15 hour flight. Even a domestic flight of just a couple hours is going to have a lot of weight just in fuel. Add on the plane itself, passengers and crew and baggage and you start to see the problem.
So I don't see this working even on a small commuter jet such as the Embraer or the MD-88.
Now NASA does use parachutes to recover spent boosters from Shuttle launches and they are fairly heavy, but they are also different shaped and maybe its easier to slow them down than a large jet.
So it could be possible, but only time and research will tell.
For the most part flying is VERY safe. Not the most comfortible way to travel unless you are in First Class or Buisiness Class.
As for small planes, those are also very safe IF you have a competent pilot behind the yoke. Percentage wise, you have far fewer plane crashes than car crashes, for ALL types of planes.
As for the big airlines, most of the guys flying these things are ex military jocks who have thousands of hours of jet time and can and many can put a fighter plane onto the pitching deck of an aircraft carrier on the ocean. At the very least they have flown many types of jets large and small and they know what they are doing. 99.9% of all Airline captians and crew are very professional. The horror stories you hear or experience are the rare events which the media always blow out of proportion.
So don't be afraid to fly. The worst I fear when flying is dry skin and nasal passages (due to low humidity on board) and leg cramps from sitting in one place too long.
My biggest worry is that I won't get the window seat.
Pulling the ads was the right thing, it will generate mass publicity (like getting it on/.) and will make the corporations look even more wrong (which they are). Next step is to put a section on the front page in nice plain view stating that these comapnies are evil and that FatWallet will no longer help advertize for them. Then add a section thanking all the other stores that did not DMCA them and encourage shoppers to go there instead, thus funneling people towards Best Buy and such's competition.
Better yet, charge for a number of email sent over a certain amount. Set it at 1000 emails and you would be good I think. Who would send over 1000 email a month other than a spammer? I suppose if you were on a LOT of mailing lists or had a lot of time on your hands you might...
Even setting it at 10000 might work. Make the charge per email pretty high over 1000 or 10000 and that may well be the end of most domestic spam at least if enough US ISP's do it.
All well and good so long as you are a beancounter. But it looks rather suspicious if you are a coder. After all no coder worth his salt could stay awake in front of a sheet of financials.
Exactly, all this letter shows is just how badly these companies are starting to flounder now. They are like a deperate man on the edge of a cliff by his fingers and suddenly that extremely prickly weed nearby which is a bit sturdier than the grass looks a lot better despite the pain it will cause and the fact that he will likely be unable pull himself up by it anyway.
Recently I saw a very interesting article (can't remember where it is or I would link to it) with the idea that music will go free and patrons to the arts will donate to keep them going. (This is how artists got paid long long long ago, or via money collected at performances).
In the modern case, it will be fans paying to go to their concert and buy their t-shirts, etc in return for free music they can swap and trade and listen to anywhere.
In otherwords, you will make money off the public performances and related merchandice sales rather than the music itself. True artists will continue to make music because it is what they love, not because they may get rich. As long as they can eat and keep a roof over their head from the proceeeds, many will be more than happy to give music away and get paid for the fun of being cheered on stage.
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On my Beige G3/266 with 320 MB of ram, it was usable but slow enough to be painful at times. Certain operations were worse than others. I only ran as far as 10.1.5 on that machine.
I now have a Dual 1.25 GHZ G4 with 1 GB of RAM and the speed is as good as I could want it to be.
In some cases I think the animation gives the OS the illusion of being slower than it really is. If that was completely turned off it might be percieved to be much faster.
However even if there is a tradeoff in speed vs OS 9, I think that the stability and features (unix command line, better networking, etc) makes it well worth the switch to Mac OS X.
Ah, that would explain it. We have two Apple stores here in Ohio and Apple also (or used to anyway) have a building in downtown Cincinnati. I remember getting a tour of it back in high school (1992 or 1993 I think) because my physics teacher's husband worked there. I remember them demoing Quicktime, which was a brand new thing back then and being in awe of it as well as of the Powerbooks they let us play with.
Ok, offtopic there, but that would explain why I got taxed. Thanks for the info!
I bought a new G4 a couple weeks ago from the online Apple store and they charged me tax anyway. Is it because they are shipping from California (probably some goofy CA law) or did they forward this on to my state?
I don't know which but I do know that I did have to pay tax and wasn't too happy about it either.
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Honestly, why would you want to hack in? To cheat of course! One reason I avoid online massive games is because of the rampant cheating. It drives away good customers and players and leaves the cheating scum behind who are generally people you don't like to associate with anyway (their personalities are distinctly lacking...)
/. so upset when they try to stop it? Worry more about Sony and their backing of the RIAA/MPAA and DMCA. Don't waste energy worrying becuase you can't be unfair in Everquest anymore.
So I can see why Sony wants to stop people from doing this kind of thing. Cheating ruins online gaming, so why is
They can just change it to Kentucky Department of Edumacation.
No it didn't. It was from the Apple Records case.
What you are thinking of is when Apple used "Carl Sagan" as an internal code word for a product and the real Carl Sagan sued (or threatened to sue). So they changed it to "BHA" which stood for "Butt Head Astronomer". Sagan then sued (or at least threatened to sue) again and then finally changed it to LAW "Lawyers are Wimps."
Seriously. I wish someone would have the balls to stand up and fight this kind of crap. Hell, if we all started crap flooding Phoenix.com's email inboxes with hate letters, they might give up on pressuring the Phoenix browser team.
/. every day, the more angry I get and the more I see that the system is failing the people entirely.
Let's face it, the courts generally don't care about you unless you have money or influence. So now we must take our battle against greedy and stupid corporations to the streets, or at least the net. Its not right we have to resort to this, but the more I read
Its time to take it back the only way we have left, though a massive grassroots campaign to fill their boxes with angry letters and to push every negative thing about that company into the limelight as much as possible until they cave in to our rightful demands that they use some fucking common sense.
That is why ad blockers like Proxomitron will still work. They can be used to filter out the offending javascript along with the pop up and ad code so you won't even see the space where the banner ads should be (let alone no popups anymore).
/. ad-free for free. I wonder what the /. team thinks about that? Seriously, do they consider that stealing?
I use it to read
Not to mention that you can just alt-printscreen to capture the whole browser.
On the Macintosh (Which I use) its even easier. Command-Shift-4 and then draw a square around the image and its mine.
Exactly. Besides, if your car radio is sending signals out and through the billboard, they have every right to detect them.
They aren't identifying you personally so I don't see the issue either.
Now if the billboard had a camera on it, then I would be upset.
Actually musicians for a much longer time DID have the power. They wrote the songs and went around performing them for money. That others could also sing the songs never bothered them as long as they could keep making money as well. When too many other performers were singing the same songs, they could then write new songs and start performing them.
What we have now is a global market which didn't work as well for giving the music out for free and making money off of performances, at least until the Internet came about. Now once again, musicians are in a position to give out their music freely and make money off of live peformances. What the labels should do is get out of trying to make money on performances, distributing the music free on the internet using a website similar to mp3.com.
Since the labels still have a lot of money, artists would want to sign for concert promotion help and to get their songs listed on the site. It would only help the label if people also traded it on Kazaa and the like.
That would also mean that on the radio, music would be free to play so stations could cut back on commercials just to cover operating costs and make some profit instead of to pay shitloads in royalty payments. Competition between artists would become fiercer because people would be able to pick and choose what was good and what wasn't and music would get better as a result of the crap being cut out when it was obvious no one was downloading it much. Better bands would get more fans and thus more money for themselves and the label and we would get better music over all.
So as you can see, the record industry has a way out right now. The movie industry on the other hand can't work off of live performances and thus is going to have to find a better way to make money when file sharing starts to hit them harder.
Disseminating it anonymously is easy. Post it to hotline or carracho and it will make its way around the world in a few weeks and no one will really know where it actually started from.
As for fair use, we really need to form a consumer's lobby and start taking on these jokers in congress. If the EFF, ACLU and others joined forces to create a big lobbying group, we just might have enough clout and voting power to scare congress into listening to us again. It's sad that we have to resort to this, but until campaign finance reform starts taking effect in earnest, we don't have a lot of choice.
Problem with that is that all the luggage and fuel have to go somewhere after that, and that means down towards the ground. The fuel might largely evaporate but the luggage is going to hit a wide area on the ground like a shotgun blast from above. If this happened over a populated area, you might end up with a ton of property damage and a lot of people hurt of killed on the ground. So with jets, its generally going to be a save all or nothing effort.
For the most part, if even a jet has an engine failure, they have enough other engines to limp to the nearest airport they can land at. If all engines fail, then they can coast as far as they can and do their best to bring it down in a field or into water if they can since it will likely float long enough to get people out.
Yes but it would only impart a tiny bit if that energy into you as it struck. It would for the most part just pass right through you and do little to no damage that you could notice in the process.
After all, if it dumped all its energy right then and there, it would create an energetic event equal to an asteriod hitting the planet.
While it does dump 50kt worth of energy on its way through Earth, think about how thick the Earth is and then calculate how much damage is done per square centimeter. Not a lot really.
So yes it has a lot of energy, but it loses it only a bit at a time as it zips through objects. It will have to zip through a lot more very large objects before it ever could be stopped (or hit with a huge enough repelling force which would require enormous amounts of energy to generate).
The chute on a small plane like a Cessna172 is already pretty big. Most planes these are fitted on are likely less than 8,000 lbs or so.
Airliners full of people and baggage and fuel are incredibly heavy and you would need multiple chutes of massive size.
To get an idea of how massive these things are, when I took a trip to Australia back in September, on the way there the captain announced that we were going to "burn 130 tons of kerosene on the way there". That is 130 *tons* of jet fuel for, in this case a 15 hour flight. Even a domestic flight of just a couple hours is going to have a lot of weight just in fuel. Add on the plane itself, passengers and crew and baggage and you start to see the problem.
So I don't see this working even on a small commuter jet such as the Embraer or the MD-88.
Now NASA does use parachutes to recover spent boosters from Shuttle launches and they are fairly heavy, but they are also different shaped and maybe its easier to slow them down than a large jet.
So it could be possible, but only time and research will tell.
For the most part flying is VERY safe. Not the most comfortible way to travel unless you are in First Class or Buisiness Class.
As for small planes, those are also very safe IF you have a competent pilot behind the yoke. Percentage wise, you have far fewer plane crashes than car crashes, for ALL types of planes.
As for the big airlines, most of the guys flying these things are ex military jocks who have thousands of hours of jet time and can and many can put a fighter plane onto the pitching deck of an aircraft carrier on the ocean. At the very least they have flown many types of jets large and small and they know what they are doing. 99.9% of all Airline captians and crew are very professional. The horror stories you hear or experience are the rare events which the media always blow out of proportion.
So don't be afraid to fly. The worst I fear when flying is dry skin and nasal passages (due to low humidity on board) and leg cramps from sitting in one place too long.
My biggest worry is that I won't get the window seat.
The space shuttle's parachute is to slow the craft down, NOT to let it drift slowly to Earth in case they lose control!
This parachute system for planes is meant to bring the plane down to the ground slowly, not to simply act as an aide to braking.
Pulling the ads was the right thing, it will generate mass publicity (like getting it on /.) and will make the corporations look even more wrong (which they are). Next step is to put a section on the front page in nice plain view stating that these comapnies are evil and that FatWallet will no longer help advertize for them. Then add a section thanking all the other stores that did not DMCA them and encourage shoppers to go there instead, thus funneling people towards Best Buy and such's competition.
I'm not, I'm calling to make her an incredible offer! :)
Good idea :) I not only went but hit shift-reload about 50 times to make it all the worse.
Better yet, charge for a number of email sent over a certain amount. Set it at 1000 emails and you would be good I think. Who would send over 1000 email a month other than a spammer? I suppose if you were on a LOT of mailing lists or had a lot of time on your hands you might...
Even setting it at 10000 might work. Make the charge per email pretty high over 1000 or 10000 and that may well be the end of most domestic spam at least if enough US ISP's do it.
With her name and a complaint that she sent us spam, whether she did or not. Let's see how quickly she finds herself permanently without an ISP. :)
All well and good so long as you are a beancounter. But it looks rather suspicious if you are a coder. After all no coder worth his salt could stay awake in front of a sheet of financials.
Exactly, all this letter shows is just how badly these companies are starting to flounder now. They are like a deperate man on the edge of a cliff by his fingers and suddenly that extremely prickly weed nearby which is a bit sturdier than the grass looks a lot better despite the pain it will cause and the fact that he will likely be unable pull himself up by it anyway.
Recently I saw a very interesting article (can't remember where it is or I would link to it) with the idea that music will go free and patrons to the arts will donate to keep them going. (This is how artists got paid long long long ago, or via money collected at performances).
In the modern case, it will be fans paying to go to their concert and buy their t-shirts, etc in return for free music they can swap and trade and listen to anywhere.
In otherwords, you will make money off the public performances and related merchandice sales rather than the music itself. True artists will continue to make music because it is what they love, not because they may get rich. As long as they can eat and keep a roof over their head from the proceeeds, many will be more than happy to give music away and get paid for the fun of being cheered on stage.
On my Beige G3/266 with 320 MB of ram, it was usable but slow enough to be painful at times. Certain operations were worse than others. I only ran as far as 10.1.5 on that machine.
I now have a Dual 1.25 GHZ G4 with 1 GB of RAM and the speed is as good as I could want it to be.
In some cases I think the animation gives the OS the illusion of being slower than it really is. If that was completely turned off it might be percieved to be much faster.
However even if there is a tradeoff in speed vs OS 9, I think that the stability and features (unix command line, better networking, etc) makes it well worth the switch to Mac OS X.
Our friends at Macslash have an article about Apple recently jumping to the #5 server vendor, behind Sun Microsystems.
In another MacSlash article, Why use Linux? there is quite a lot of discussion about the merits of both Linux and Mac OS X.
Both make rather interesting reading!
Ah, that would explain it. We have two Apple stores here in Ohio and Apple also (or used to anyway) have a building in downtown Cincinnati. I remember getting a tour of it back in high school (1992 or 1993 I think) because my physics teacher's husband worked there. I remember them demoing Quicktime, which was a brand new thing back then and being in awe of it as well as of the Powerbooks they let us play with.
Ok, offtopic there, but that would explain why I got taxed. Thanks for the info!
I bought a new G4 a couple weeks ago from the online Apple store and they charged me tax anyway. Is it because they are shipping from California (probably some goofy CA law) or did they forward this on to my state?
I don't know which but I do know that I did have to pay tax and wasn't too happy about it either.