Sure, Windows 2000/XP support FAT32, but the maximum size for a file on a FAT32 filesystem is 4GB. The OP said that he was working with files bigger than that, which can't be stored on an FAT32 file system.
And if there's no alcohol, then people can't get it and get behind the wheel of a car drunk...except that alcohol is legal, it's driving while intoxicated that's not. So why are drugs so different?
The first MP3 I downloaded was Don't Fear (The Reaper) by Blue Oyster Cult. I remember just how excruciatingly slow it was on the 56k modem I had at the time, but it all seemed worth it to be able to play the song whenever I wanted, at first through the Napster play but through Winamp shortly thereafter.
Almost all radio stations now have live feeds to the internet
In what universe? Most radio stations I know that used to offer live 'net feeds don't anymore, because of the royalty rules that say they have to pay again for Internet rebroadcasts of the same stuff being broadcast over the air.
The only 'radio' stations I know of that are streaming on the Internet are the ones that only do net streams, and not actual radio broadcasts.
Exactly. It's a huge tradeof between privacy and convienience. There are plenty of people who will find it better to read their mail in electronic form from anywhere, hell, I'd like to be able to do that too. I (and presumably others) just don't want a third party reading all our personal mail, like bank statements and credit card statement (which include account information).
Secondly, if I'm not mistaken, it's a federal crime to open mail addressed to someone who isn't you. Would that restriction apply to this for the company that opens and converts the mail? Also, I would think that once the mail is in electronic form, it loses that protection and it's not illegal for anyone else to open and read it in the event it's misdirectered to someone else.
It should be interesting to see how many people opt for a service like this, and how soon it is before there are reported cases of employees revealing personal information to third parties.
Anyone have any idea which colleges/universities are involved with this? The article doesn't mnetion any, and I'd like to know if mine (or any of my friends') schools are involved so that I can get something together to express my opinion on (against) this.
Things are pretty much the same at Stevens Tech, $1500-$2000 craptops for all incoming freshmen, but no class ever uses them in a meaningful or useful way, and most profs tell people to not bring their laptops to class.
Apache just isn't ready for mission-critical enterprise level operations like this.
If not Apache, then what would be considered ready for this "mission-critical enterprise operation"? IIS? Neither is perfect, but IIS has had more major reported vulernabilities (and exploits) than Apache.
If the code for our vote server is open, then anybody can hack it.
If the code for our vote server is done right, then nobody can hack it, whether the code is open or not.
Remember, Linux is a european operating system.
Just because it's creator is European doesn't make the whole OS European. Contributions to Linux come from people all over the world, including the US.
We're talking about electing the leader of the free world here
Is that really what you believe? That the US is the free world? Look around, there are countries just as free as we are, more so in some regards.
One of the ideas the RIAA is trying to push is that when you buy a CD/tape/etc, you're really buying a license to play the music on that media. If we take this view, then unless this 'license' accounts for quality, then the buyer should be entitled to posses a copy of that album/track in any format with any quality, so long as it is the same song/album as the one they own on some other media.
Quoting 17 USC 512(c)(3)(A)(i) [the portion of the DMCA relating to the sending of takedown notices]:
A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
This doesn't require it to be digitally signed with a verifiable signature, only to have the name and contact information for someone who would be authorized to send this information.
In cases where takedown notices were sent errently (the BSA's one to shut down an OpenOffice.org mirror and the more recent RIAA mishaps come to mind), the messages were sent by an automated program, but with the name of a person authorized to send a notice. This person didn't look at the notice and decide to send it, or otherwise they would have clearly seen that the notice was wrong.
I'm not saying that copyright should only be for the life of the author/creator (or less). I'm only saying that a copyright term which spans 3 generations is a bit much.
Let's suppose that copyright were to go back to a fixed length (say 28 years, which it once used to be). You write your book, and it doesn't sell so well. You're hit by the car, and you're killed. Assuming that your children inherit the rights to the book, they can still make the profits off it until the end of it's term. That way, they're covered during the hyper-sales of the book.
due to the penalty of purjury assumed by the plaintiff illegitimate accusations can easily cause a counter-suit and thus the system is balanced.
Except that most of the time, the notices are automated, and sent without any sort of human interaction. It's likely that if it ever went to court, a judge or jury wouldn't find that a bot was capabable of "knowingly misrepresenting" or being able to commit perjury.
Can you tell me WHY you feel your children and grandchildren deserve to profit from your work? When you try and reconcile that with the purpose of copyright in the US ("promot[ing] the progress of science and useful arts"), it doesn't make any sense.
The purpose of copyright is to allow an author/creator the fair chance to make a profit for a while after he creates something. It's not to ensure that he/she makes a profit, or that his/her grandchildren have a chance to make a profit.
Just because you consider your work to be perfect and deserving of eternal protection, doesn't make it true.
You'd end up with the IDSA on you, instead of the RIAA or the MPAA. The IDSA is the industry body for the games industry, basically the game industry analog of the RIAA or MPAA.
Actually, region coding (in movies and games) was the big topic of the DMCA hearing I was a part of (May 2). Basically, the movie industry admitted that it was nothing more than a way of allowing "price discrimination" (exact words) based on where someone lives; when questioned about why they felt region coding was necessary as opposed to just not marketing a game in area, they didn't have a response.
I imagine the situation to be the same with the games industry, and by not allowing playing of imported games, they get more control over how much people have to pay to be able to play a game in a certain area.
The fact that it could possibly be used against people not doing anything illegal is the problem. These bills are too general in what they restrict, and while the provisions can (and likely will) certainly be used against those doing illegal things, it's not much of a stretch to use them against law-abided people as well.
Take the DMCA (the actual DMCA) for example. It was never intended to be used to cover security flaw disclosures, or garage door openers, or printer catridges, but it's being interpreted by some to cover exactly those things. This interpretation is based on what's written, not on what that bill was intended to cover. And it's that potential that we need to worry about.
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The wing damage happened as the shuttle was lifting off. At that point, there's not much you can do except wait for it to reach orbit.
Once it got there, the engineers looked at the video and concluded it wasn't a problem; even though it seems they were wrong, there wasn't anything they could have done. Columbia was the oldest of the shuttles and couldn't reach ISS, the crew didn't have the material or the expertise to repair any damage, and it would have taken at least 2 weeks to get another shuttle into orbit to help.
From what I remember (some ways back), Apple was sending C&D letters to people making Aqua theme clones. While I'm sure there are some out there, it's doubtful they'll be too mainstream, I would think.
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Coincidence != causality.
Just because two events may coincide does not mean one is a result of the other.
Sure, Windows 2000/XP support FAT32, but the maximum size for a file on a FAT32 filesystem is 4GB. The OP said that he was working with files bigger than that, which can't be stored on an FAT32 file system.
1201(a)(3)....good choice - violating definitions for access controls ;)
And if there's no alcohol, then people can't get it and get behind the wheel of a car drunk...except that alcohol is legal, it's driving while intoxicated that's not. So why are drugs so different?
The first MP3 I downloaded was Don't Fear (The Reaper) by Blue Oyster Cult. I remember just how excruciatingly slow it was on the 56k modem I had at the time, but it all seemed worth it to be able to play the song whenever I wanted, at first through the Napster play but through Winamp shortly thereafter.
http://phil.codeallday.com/lists.tgz
The only 'radio' stations I know of that are streaming on the Internet are the ones that only do net streams, and not actual radio broadcasts.
Exactly. It's a huge tradeof between privacy and convienience. There are plenty of people who will find it better to read their mail in electronic form from anywhere, hell, I'd like to be able to do that too. I (and presumably others) just don't want a third party reading all our personal mail, like bank statements and credit card statement (which include account information).
Secondly, if I'm not mistaken, it's a federal crime to open mail addressed to someone who isn't you. Would that restriction apply to this for the company that opens and converts the mail? Also, I would think that once the mail is in electronic form, it loses that protection and it's not illegal for anyone else to open and read it in the event it's misdirectered to someone else.
It should be interesting to see how many people opt for a service like this, and how soon it is before there are reported cases of employees revealing personal information to third parties.
Anyone have any idea which colleges/universities are involved with this? The article doesn't mnetion any, and I'd like to know if mine (or any of my friends') schools are involved so that I can get something together to express my opinion on (against) this.
Things are pretty much the same at Stevens Tech, $1500-$2000 craptops for all incoming freshmen, but no class ever uses them in a meaningful or useful way, and most profs tell people to not bring their laptops to class.
Here, here! I've been using POPFile for about a year, and I love it.
If not Apache, then what would be considered ready for this "mission-critical enterprise operation"? IIS? Neither is perfect, but IIS has had more major reported vulernabilities (and exploits) than Apache.
If the code for our vote server is done right, then nobody can hack it, whether the code is open or not. Just because it's creator is European doesn't make the whole OS European. Contributions to Linux come from people all over the world, including the US. Is that really what you believe? That the US is the free world? Look around, there are countries just as free as we are, more so in some regards.
One of the ideas the RIAA is trying to push is that when you buy a CD/tape/etc, you're really buying a license to play the music on that media. If we take this view, then unless this 'license' accounts for quality, then the buyer should be entitled to posses a copy of that album/track in any format with any quality, so long as it is the same song/album as the one they own on some other media.
Quoting 17 USC 512(c)(3)(A)(i) [the portion of the DMCA relating to the sending of takedown notices]: This doesn't require it to be digitally signed with a verifiable signature, only to have the name and contact information for someone who would be authorized to send this information.
In cases where takedown notices were sent errently (the BSA's one to shut down an OpenOffice.org mirror and the more recent RIAA mishaps come to mind), the messages were sent by an automated program, but with the name of a person authorized to send a notice. This person didn't look at the notice and decide to send it, or otherwise they would have clearly seen that the notice was wrong.
I'm not saying that copyright should only be for the life of the author/creator (or less). I'm only saying that a copyright term which spans 3 generations is a bit much.
Let's suppose that copyright were to go back to a fixed length (say 28 years, which it once used to be). You write your book, and it doesn't sell so well. You're hit by the car, and you're killed. Assuming that your children inherit the rights to the book, they can still make the profits off it until the end of it's term. That way, they're covered during the hyper-sales of the book.
due to the penalty of purjury assumed by the plaintiff illegitimate accusations can easily cause a counter-suit and thus the system is balanced.
Except that most of the time, the notices are automated, and sent without any sort of human interaction. It's likely that if it ever went to court, a judge or jury wouldn't find that a bot was capabable of "knowingly misrepresenting" or being able to commit perjury.
It sucks, but that could easily be the result.
Can you tell me WHY you feel your children and grandchildren deserve to profit from your work? When you try and reconcile that with the purpose of copyright in the US ("promot[ing] the progress of science and useful arts"), it doesn't make any sense.
The purpose of copyright is to allow an author/creator the fair chance to make a profit for a while after he creates something. It's not to ensure that he/she makes a profit, or that his/her grandchildren have a chance to make a profit.
Just because you consider your work to be perfect and deserving of eternal protection, doesn't make it true.
You'd end up with the IDSA on you, instead of the RIAA or the MPAA. The IDSA is the industry body for the games industry, basically the game industry analog of the RIAA or MPAA.
Actually, region coding (in movies and games) was the big topic of the DMCA hearing I was a part of (May 2). Basically, the movie industry admitted that it was nothing more than a way of allowing "price discrimination" (exact words) based on where someone lives; when questioned about why they felt region coding was necessary as opposed to just not marketing a game in area, they didn't have a response.
I imagine the situation to be the same with the games industry, and by not allowing playing of imported games, they get more control over how much people have to pay to be able to play a game in a certain area.
The fact that it could possibly be used against people not doing anything illegal is the problem. These bills are too general in what they restrict, and while the provisions can (and likely will) certainly be used against those doing illegal things, it's not much of a stretch to use them against law-abided people as well.
Take the DMCA (the actual DMCA) for example. It was never intended to be used to cover security flaw disclosures, or garage door openers, or printer catridges, but it's being interpreted by some to cover exactly those things. This interpretation is based on what's written, not on what that bill was intended to cover. And it's that potential that we need to worry about.
The wing damage happened as the shuttle was lifting off. At that point, there's not much you can do except wait for it to reach orbit.
Once it got there, the engineers looked at the video and concluded it wasn't a problem; even though it seems they were wrong, there wasn't anything they could have done. Columbia was the oldest of the shuttles and couldn't reach ISS, the crew didn't have the material or the expertise to repair any damage, and it would have taken at least 2 weeks to get another shuttle into orbit to help.
There's a (IMHO) humorous poke at this (and Mac users) at BBSpot.
From what I remember (some ways back), Apple was sending C&D letters to people making Aqua theme clones. While I'm sure there are some out there, it's doubtful they'll be too mainstream, I would think.
Yep.
Full schedule w/ names.
I'll be testifying at the May 2nd hearing, regarding playback of media on operating systems such as Linux.