Expect this to get worse. We're not even at the peak of the solar flare season yet, if I've understood things correctly. This one could easily send the control systems on satellites haywire, resulting in some interesting (and expensive!) atmospheric special effects.
Geosync. satellites aren't going zooming anywhere. And the faster Iridium comes down the better.
As we get further into the year, things could easily get a lot worse.
Worse than worse? Worser? Worstest.
Now is NOT a good time to buy shares in telecom satellite companies. Also, expect trans-continental Internet service to stagger.
That's total BS. You are just making this up now!
Yes, there -are- undersea cables, but much of the NSF equiptment used satellite feeds. If those are interfered with (likely) or destroyed (entirely possible), the Internet is likely to suffer severe lag, or even fragment until alternative links can be brought in.
If WHAT is interfered with? The fiber optics under a mile of conducting salt water? At 40 degrees latitude? Safest place to be in a magnetic storm.
The only things that is manmade and conducts electricity are pipelines and powerlines. And you can bet the utility companies are watching this one carefully.
Just keep your eyes out for another Anik, but your packets are in no danger. Just the Spice Channel.
kabloie
P.S. Just keep your beady eyes on this plot. If the density hits 50/cc, look up!
I had to watch the damn trailer 3-4 times before I could identify all the characters. Where is Cyke in the big blue suit? Or the hot white robe on Storm? Or how bout Wolvie in the old costume!?
At least they got Mystique colored just right.:)
Oh well, I am looking forward to it. I hope MUCHO that it does not suck!
The movie is kept at http://www.apple.com/main/media/trailers/fox/x-men /x-men_320.mov
I get a 23K file which is just the opening picture which matches the webpage. No more frames:(
It must load it straight into memory, unless I missed it. I read the page source but could not find any other link to the.mov except the one listed above.
So, they have me beat for now! If anyone has anymore ideas...I wanna see it in fullscreen!
Agreed. They could have been protesting was the size of their own dicks. (Yes, I am assuming GUYS were behind this). Leaving us to guess their motive is the ultimate in lameness. Jesus, flood infoseek or someone associated with _something_. EBay? They sell hardware for ridiculous low prices. CNN? Well, that is not bad. But SAY SO.
It will be interesting if this happens again, say 5 days before Xmas.
Usually you keep your means and ideas for a defense under wraps until the court date, at least partially. I like the idea of leaving your defense totally open so 1000 dorks can pick at it. By the time you lay it on the court, it should be pretty tough. If you have a good case (we do) and if the presentation is right (oh, I'm sure it will be:P ), you can't lose.
It's how Open Source works. And threads like this one are already a start. Where on the internet will you find a discussion about the merits and benefits of the Digital Millenium Act? Well, it could have been this thread, but the opinion is pretty damn clearly against.
It makes one cringe to think what ABC COULD do with this story. We will get some suit from the MPAA saying that this PIRACY is illegal and has to be stopped to protect the consumer. That unfortunately they've had to prosecute to protect us all. I expect we will also see come close ups of warez sites on someone's monitor. Heavy on the patronizing, oh-so-holy tones.
Will they get any choice comments from the EFF for their piece? Maybe showing a DVD playing under Linux? How about someone saying that watching a DVD you bought with the player you want is not piracy? We can only hope.
Maybe I'll even turn the TV on, if indeed they are actually going to run this story.
Somehow they managed to avoid looting and rioting, too.
It was a different situation. The civil rights marches were not designed to interrupt the operation of anything. The WTO protesters have that in mind.
Nor were they goaded by police who blasted them in the face point blank with pepper spray. I bet if someone tear gassed the DC mall back during the march on Washington, you would have ended up with one HELL of a riot.
And it's an extremely sad statement about society if companies can get away with this when individuals cannot.
Oh, the drama... Just get busy and write a game that steals people's rights. Call it 'Your Rights: Stolen Online!'. Then we won't all get so extremely sad when evil companies like id find out your vid card driver version.
We basically need a code of practice whereby any data collection needs the prior consent of the customer. It's only good manners, it's not difficult to do, and it's the only fair solution. If no code of practice is forthcoming, we may need to resort to regulation. This would be less than satisfactory given the average government's competence with technology regulation.
The Q3 demo test has always been represented as a test of people's video hardware, since the game is hardware only. It has always said, up to the latest version (oopsy) that information was being provided to id. The test was built to help id make a better game. If you don't want to help, don't play the demo. Or get to the console and turn it off. It is QUITE simple.
Furthermore, if notices about this kind of thing are going to get put on a product they need to be a little more prominent than the small print in the EULA. A reasonable person would not expect to be signing away their privacy rights when they sign a license to use software.
Ah yes, the 'Here, take My Rights Away' form. Yes, we definitely need that in all future game installs. And a good amount of new rules and regulations. What other legal click-boxes are we missing?
You work on that and get back to me. I am busy playing Q3.
Maybe someone can enlighten me, why not do jpgs? What's in a format? I realize.png is the best thing since [insert favorite religious figure here], but since 1 out of 3 browsers pukes on it...why not jpegs!?
It's never in bad taste to point out that once the/any government gets a taste of some of your rights, they get quite haughty about it and start eating the rest, at an increasingly rapid rate.
Gun owners do not feel the need to be apologetic about their rights. When the KKK gets their parade in NYC, do people in the press sulk around, afraid to exercise their freedom to speak?
Anyway, to the topic, I think the Aussie public will eventually give this one a good fight and win. Idiot anachronistic polititians have to die sometime, though having sold your soul tends to prolong your life, it seems. -kabloie
>I don't know about you buddy, but I like the judicial system the way it is.
You like the outcome of a case such as this? 140 Million for the law firm? This is nuts.
Lawyers should get paid by the hour (200 dollars an hours is pretty nice) and never get any of the settlement money. EVER. This is one of the MAIN reasons our judicial system is so forked, it allows lawyers to suck our blood.
Other countries laugh at us. A couple ladies in California suffered bad burns after a drunk driver plowed into their car and it burst into flames. Who did they sue? General Motors! Worse, the jury awarded these ladies 10 Billion dollars. GM was pretty surprised, so was I. They MIGHT get it down to a Billion on appeal.
Bet you a US dollar that nobody on the jury could even write out 10 Billion, being the lowest educated people that the prosecuting lawyers could find.
So, 2 things are needed immediately. Flat rate lawyers and review of jury members by an independent party (judge).
Since > half of our lawmakers are lawyers (big surprise), you will never get legislation passed and we will continue in this spiral till the whole thing falls apart. It will take the bankruptcy of Boeing or GM to actually get anything to happen. Too bad, eh?
My apartment complex is 3 years old. So I heat with electric and have running water and use a top-loader. Shoot me.
I've also got 1.5/0.128 Mbps in/out w/unlimited flat-rate access for the price of a second phone line. Drool, goddamnit, drool. Just cause we suck at lots of things doesn't mean you don't. We all suck! (and I prefer ding-dongs to twinkies, thank you)
Next time I want to live in a 300 year old building, however, I know right where to go. Thanks!
OK then, by your argument he committed a crime by linking the files. How 'bout he just links to a page on the offending server, one which lists the files. THAT is just information. The 17 year old 'punk' is not providing the filez or even the exact URLs to the files, just a way to find them yourself.
If that is illegal then so is a link to a link to a link. You want that?
Jezus, the files don't go through is machine, do not exist on his hard-drive...Like someone said, what if he just provided the URL in a non-linking format? It's information, and either it's free or not. Sure, the mp3s MAY BE illegal, so go after the guy serving them. Not the rest of the internet. You typed warez.com, that's a link! They have mp3z and you are gettin sued!
It's legal to own guns,(has anyone even read the Second Amendment? If you're not in a well regulated milita defending the security of your state, you don't need a gun)
You mean we've gotten it wrong this whole time? Wow, revelation! So it is _actually_ unconstitutional for me to own guns! Whoah, trippin, dude!
Your interpretation is relatively new and is, of course, wrong. You quote your favorite part of the amendment, which out of context implies something else.
Every movie poster should just be a bar chart of murders, rapes, swearing, naked people, etc. I disagree with Lieberman and all these dumbasses in Congress, but the knee-jerk reaction of you folks in LA (Hollywood) to Lieberman is to immediately point out that we should not have guns. What the hell is that about!?
Natural Born Killers, for example, was a true piece of shit movie. No, don't even try it, it sucked. It was a study in putresence (sp?). It should never have been a 'hit', but it was because of media hype. Similar to gun makers creating the 'Street Sweeper'. It is going to call attention to your little world. Sure it makes a guy some bucks but it brings on calls for regulation like these. If Hollywood continues to push bullshit on us in movies and TV (btw, I don't watch TV anymore), you are going to get more and more calls from dorks like Lieberman trying to stop you.
I've got plenty of European friends over here and the ones that like it stay and have a great time. The ones that can't adjust leave. America is fine, you read too much media babble. I am looking at a job in England. Sorry to say, I'm not quite looking forward to it. Can't own even the simplest target rifle, get videotaped wherever I go, my ISP is forced to tap my lines on demand, by VPN will be tapped or illegal, concealing my password => guilt and imprisonment. And Tony Blair will be my fearless leader. Bombs away!
Low taxes? You call the government taking half your money low? Then they take half of what you are worth when you die! Hate to hear what you pay.
You people bitch about something you know very little about, then wonder why we get defensive.
I've lived in Europe (France) and liked it very much. The meat and other food in Europe is much better by me (no hormones in my milk, thanks). But I sure would rather be in France than England.
And keep bitchin' about how Americans came and saved your asses late in the war. Just makes the point all the better. Europe cannot control it's own shop any better than the U.S. I do not defend our policies of intervention (or lack thereof). Our policies suck. And so do yours.
-kabloie
P.S. Our shitty education system is full of foreigners trying to get advanced degrees. What are they thinking? A U.S. degree will brand them as stupid!:P
More Simpsons and WHAT? Family Guy is the worst thing that Fox has inflicted on us since...their inception! More Futurama, possibly. Family Guy is putrid. Boooooo!!!
It's TV you fool. Look at that thing. Idiot box is a nice way to put it. Country of fat lazy fuxs who jack in and are fed babble like what you just spit out.
"The most overweight country on Earth." A CLUE maybe?
Semiauto handguns have been around a long time. Longer than since the 1960s when the whole thing started going to hell. Which is right around the time TVs per household reached about 0.5.
Prove to me that God said it. Forget the whole creation myth. Just prove God said anything to anybody. Without that Bible. Try it.
If that new version of a translation of a revision of a copy of a king's decree is your 'evidence', you are not convincing anybody of anything except for the easily influenced and brainwashed.
If you see no reason not to believe a 3000 year old tome's explanation for where we came from, disregarding all obvious evidence that the Earth is more than 4000 years old and that life is as well, then you sure don't belong in a teaching position.
If english was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!
Help the lowly./ reader with some evidence that all these cool things that god hath wrought actually happened.
The flood was supernatural. Great. Which one? The one that all those geologists and hydrologists are studying and presenting results about? Hmm, haven't seen anything about the sea level rising 4000 meters in any of the science journals going across my desk recently!
Oh, I forgot, 99% of them are closed minded! Whoopsie! The good ones, those with open minds, are at the University of Kansas. I'm sure they know all about that flood 3000 years ago. Go ask 'em!
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If only moderators knew what they were doing:
Expect this to get worse. We're not even at the peak of the solar flare season yet, if I've understood things correctly. This one could easily send the control systems on satellites haywire, resulting in some interesting
(and expensive!) atmospheric special effects.
Geosync. satellites aren't going zooming anywhere.
And the faster Iridium comes down the better.
As we get further into the year, things could easily get a lot worse.
Worse than worse? Worser? Worstest.
Now is NOT a good time to buy shares in telecom satellite companies. Also, expect trans-continental Internet service to stagger.
That's total BS. You are just making this up now!
Yes, there -are- undersea cables, but much of the NSF equiptment used satellite feeds. If those are interfered with (likely) or destroyed (entirely possible), the Internet is likely to suffer severe lag, or even fragment until alternative links can be brought in.
If WHAT is interfered with? The fiber optics under a mile of conducting salt water? At 40 degrees latitude? Safest place to be in a magnetic storm.
The only things that is manmade and conducts electricity are pipelines and powerlines. And you can bet the utility companies are watching this one carefully.
Just keep your eyes out for another Anik, but your packets are in no danger. Just the Spice Channel.
kabloie
P.S. Just keep your beady eyes on this plot. If the density hits 50/cc, look up!
Oooh, Oooh, pick me!
"why are manhole covers round?" anyone?
So you can move the fucking things? (wheel/least mass, etc.)
kabloie
Well, the Matrix was green, anyway.
:)
I had to watch the damn trailer 3-4 times before I could identify all the characters. Where is Cyke in the big blue suit? Or the hot white robe on Storm? Or how bout Wolvie in the old costume!?
At least they got Mystique colored just right.
Oh well, I am looking forward to it. I hope MUCHO that it does not suck!
kabloie
Thx for the tip/link.
kabloie
I get a 23K file which is just the opening picture which matches the webpage. No more frames :(
It must load it straight into memory, unless I missed it. I read the page source but could not find any other link to the .mov except the one listed above.
So, they have me beat for now! If anyone has anymore ideas...I wanna see it in fullscreen!
-kabloie
It will be interesting if this happens again, say 5 days before Xmas.
kabloie
It's how Open Source works. And threads like this one are already a start. Where on the internet will you find a discussion about the merits and benefits of the Digital Millenium Act? Well, it could have been this thread, but the opinion is pretty damn clearly against.
Just babblin,
kabloie
Valenti is some sort of fascist. Is that what happens to you when you get filthy rich? (I know, that's not polite. :P )
kabloie
Will they get any choice comments from the EFF for their piece? Maybe showing a DVD playing under Linux? How about someone saying that watching a DVD you bought with the player you want is not piracy? We can only hope.
Maybe I'll even turn the TV on, if indeed they are actually going to run this story.
kabloie
It was a different situation. The civil rights marches were not designed to interrupt the operation of anything. The WTO protesters have that in mind.
Nor were they goaded by police who blasted them in the face point blank with pepper spray. I bet if someone tear gassed the DC mall back during the march on Washington, you would have ended up with one HELL of a riot.
-kabloie
And it's an extremely sad statement about society if companies can get away with this when individuals cannot.
Oh, the drama... Just get busy and write a game that steals people's rights. Call it 'Your Rights: Stolen Online!'. Then we won't all get so extremely sad when evil companies like id find out your vid card driver version.
We basically need a code of practice whereby any data collection needs the prior consent of the customer. It's only good manners, it's not difficult to do, and it's the only fair solution. If no code of practice is forthcoming, we may need to resort to regulation. This would be less than satisfactory given the average government's competence with technology regulation.
The Q3 demo test has always been represented as a test of people's video hardware, since the game is hardware only. It has always said, up to the latest version (oopsy) that information was being provided to id. The test was built to help id make a better game. If you don't want to help, don't play the demo. Or get to the console and turn it off. It is QUITE simple.
Furthermore, if notices about this kind of thing are going to get put on a product they need to be a little more prominent than the small print in the EULA. A reasonable person would not expect to be signing away their privacy rights when they sign a license to use software.
Ah yes, the 'Here, take My Rights Away' form. Yes, we definitely need that in all future game installs. And a good amount of new rules and regulations. What other legal click-boxes are we missing?
You work on that and get back to me. I am busy playing Q3.
kabloie
Yes, install OS2 on a VA box right away!
Arg! Jez, practice what you freakin preach, eh?
Maybe someone can enlighten me, why not do jpgs? What's in a format? I realize .png is the best thing since [insert favorite religious figure here], but since 1 out of 3 browsers pukes on it...why not jpegs!?
-Kabloie
Gun owners do not feel the need to be apologetic about their rights. When the KKK gets their parade in NYC, do people in the press sulk around, afraid to exercise their freedom to speak?
Anyway, to the topic, I think the Aussie public will eventually give this one a good fight and win. Idiot anachronistic polititians have to die sometime, though having sold your soul tends to prolong your life, it seems. -kabloie
>I don't know about you buddy, but I like the judicial system the way it is.
You like the outcome of a case such as this? 140 Million for the law firm? This is nuts.
Lawyers should get paid by the hour (200 dollars an hours is pretty nice) and never get any of the settlement money. EVER. This is one of the MAIN reasons our judicial system is so forked, it allows lawyers to suck our blood.
Other countries laugh at us. A couple ladies in California suffered bad burns after a drunk driver plowed into their car and it burst into flames. Who did they sue? General Motors! Worse, the jury awarded these ladies 10 Billion dollars. GM was pretty surprised, so was I. They MIGHT get it down to a Billion on appeal.
Bet you a US dollar that nobody on the jury could even write out 10 Billion, being the lowest educated people that the prosecuting lawyers could find.
So, 2 things are needed immediately. Flat rate lawyers and review of jury members by an independent party (judge).
Since > half of our lawmakers are lawyers (big surprise), you will never get legislation passed and we will continue in this spiral till the whole thing falls apart. It will take the bankruptcy of Boeing or GM to actually get anything to happen. Too bad, eh?
-kabloie
My apartment complex is 3 years old. So I heat with electric and have running water and use
a top-loader. Shoot me.
I've also got 1.5/0.128 Mbps in/out w/unlimited flat-rate access for the price of a second phone line. Drool, goddamnit, drool. Just cause we suck at lots of things doesn't mean you don't.
We all suck! (and I prefer ding-dongs to twinkies, thank you)
Next time I want to live in a 300 year old building, however, I know right where to go. Thanks!
-kabloie
I decided to start reading Heinlein with Number of the Beast. Whoops!
That is the one novel I read up to ~50 pages from the end, leafed through the rest and gave up. Did not care anymore what happened to anyone.
Think I'll try Stranger in a Strange Land.
-kabloie
OK then, by your argument he committed a crime by linking the files. How 'bout he just links to a page on the offending server, one which lists the files. THAT is just information. The 17 year old 'punk' is not providing the filez or even the exact URLs to the files, just a way to find them yourself.
:P
If that is illegal then so is a link to a link to a link. You want that?
Jezus, the files don't go through is machine, do not exist on his hard-drive...Like someone said, what if he just provided the URL in a non-linking format? It's information, and either it's free or not. Sure, the mp3s MAY BE illegal, so go after the guy serving them. Not the rest of the internet. You typed warez.com, that's a link! They have mp3z and you are gettin sued!
Gimme that Come on crap!
-kabloie
It's legal to own guns,(has anyone even read the Second Amendment? If you're not in a well regulated milita defending the security of your state, you don't need a gun)
;P
You mean we've gotten it wrong this whole time? Wow, revelation! So it is _actually_ unconstitutional for me to own guns! Whoah, trippin, dude!
Your interpretation is relatively new and is, of course, wrong. You quote your favorite part of the amendment, which out of context implies something else.
Every movie poster should just be a bar chart of murders, rapes, swearing, naked people, etc. I disagree with Lieberman and all these dumbasses in Congress, but the knee-jerk reaction of you folks in LA (Hollywood) to Lieberman is to immediately point out that we should not have guns. What the hell is that about!?
Natural Born Killers, for example, was a true piece of shit movie. No, don't even try it, it sucked. It was a study in putresence (sp?). It should never have been a 'hit', but it was because of media hype. Similar to gun makers creating the 'Street Sweeper'. It is going to call attention to your little world. Sure it makes a guy some bucks but it brings on calls for regulation like these. If Hollywood continues to push bullshit on us in movies and TV (btw, I don't watch TV anymore), you are going to get more and more calls from dorks like Lieberman trying to stop you.
Bah, maybe I made a point, you decide.
-kabloie
/rant
:P
I've got plenty of European friends over here and the ones that like it stay and have a great time. The ones that can't adjust leave. America is fine, you read too much media babble. I am looking at a job in England. Sorry to say, I'm not quite looking forward to it. Can't own even the simplest target rifle, get videotaped wherever I go, my ISP is forced to tap my lines on demand, by VPN will be tapped or illegal, concealing my password => guilt and imprisonment. And Tony Blair will be my fearless leader. Bombs away!
Low taxes? You call the government taking half your money low? Then they take half of what you are worth when you die! Hate to hear what you pay.
You people bitch about something you know very little about, then wonder why we get defensive.
I've lived in Europe (France) and liked it very much. The meat and other food in Europe is much better by me (no hormones in my milk, thanks). But I sure would rather be in France than England.
And keep bitchin' about how Americans came and saved your asses late in the war. Just makes the point all the better. Europe cannot control it's own shop any better than the U.S. I do not defend our policies of intervention (or lack thereof). Our policies suck. And so do yours.
-kabloie
P.S. Our shitty education system is full of foreigners trying to get advanced degrees. What are they thinking? A U.S. degree will brand them as stupid!
I don't think they are stars, either. Earth is very bright. Reflections from lights inside Mir is my guess. But they are really small, so I am unsure!
:(
So long Mir
-kabloie
More Simpsons and WHAT? Family Guy is the worst thing that Fox has inflicted on us since...their inception! More Futurama, possibly. Family Guy is putrid. Boooooo!!!
-kabloie
#1 overwhelming culprit is guns?
*laff*
It's TV you fool. Look at that thing. Idiot box is a nice way to put it. Country of fat lazy fuxs who jack in and are fed babble like what you just spit out.
"The most overweight country on Earth." A CLUE maybe?
Semiauto handguns have been around a long time. Longer than since the 1960s when the whole thing started going to hell. Which is right around the time TVs per household reached about 0.5.
Just wake up for a minute, eh?
-kabloie
Prove to me that God said it. Forget the whole creation myth. Just prove God said anything to anybody. Without that Bible. Try it.
If that new version of a translation of a revision of a copy of a king's decree is your 'evidence', you are not convincing anybody of anything except for the easily influenced and brainwashed.
If you see no reason not to believe a 3000 year old tome's explanation for where we came from, disregarding all obvious evidence that the Earth is more than 4000 years old and that life is as well, then you sure don't belong in a teaching position.
If english was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!
-kabloie
Help the lowly ./ reader with some evidence that all these cool things that god hath wrought actually happened.
The flood was supernatural. Great. Which one? The one that all those geologists and hydrologists are studying and presenting results about? Hmm, haven't seen anything about the sea level rising 4000 meters in any of the science journals going across my desk recently!
Oh, I forgot, 99% of them are closed minded! Whoopsie! The good ones, those with open minds, are at the University of Kansas. I'm sure they know all about that flood 3000 years ago. Go ask 'em!
-kabloie