Sorry, no pictures online yet, other people have plenty however. I got my kit from cool-computers.com, but there's lots of other ones out there. You don't use alcohol in a liquid cooled system because not only is it flammable, the vapours are extremely explosive. If you had a minor vapour leak, the slightest spark inside your computer - like, oh, say, a motor, a bad capacitor, your power supply, whatever - would cause an explosion. Alcohol at near purity running at ~40C is also extremely flammable. That's INSANE.
Please, nobody attempt to use alcohol to liquid cool a PC. It's dangerous. If you want to experiment with other liquids with higher specific heats, try an oil instead, but understand the risks. No, I'm not responsible if you blow up your machine. Distilled water is a wonderful insulator, too. No worries there. $1 buck for 4 liters at the local Walmart. Hardly exotic.
I'm running a athlon 1.2G mildly overclocked (1.3g) with the entire apparatus inside a mid tower case. I got sick of my work machine locking up because of overheating (the lab I work in has poor ventilation and gets extremely hot). Liquid cooling works extremely well, but it's far from plug and play and definately not something for beginners.:)
Hell, that's why I bought an athlon.. AMD chips have a reputation for being faster, on average, than Intel chips, especially for 3D gaming. Now, factor in the bang for the buck factor along with a little bit more screwing with to make work nicely, and the choice for me was a no brainer.. athlon..
One of the things I wanted to do when my HP48G dies (which might be never) or when I find a broken HP calculator is to figure out how to build a snap on, or maybe a wireless linked, keyboard to the Palm platform. I know it's possible, it just might need a little PIC chip doing the translations. That calculator was always with me through my EE degree, and we used to joke that the engineering jackets used to have oversized inside pockets to store them perfectly.
A palm with the HP keys would be the ultimate. The tactile feedback on the 48GX is incredible and allowed me to "know" I did a calculation right, whereas the other ones and later models TI lacked that positive "thunk" feel.
Ok, I'm sure I could run through my submission records and just find something to cut copy paste, but everyone here (or a good number) has missed a very important point about the GPL and Open Software, and always miss it. Maybe that's an american thing too:). Anyhow, just to repeat myself (and I'm sure others are typing this up as I am right now).
Just because I sell software under the GPL -does not mean I have to give it to you free-. It just means that whoever I distribute - or trade for women, booze, chests of gold, fast cars, whatever - binaries to also gets the source code and the ability to do whatever they want with that source code. Nothing stopping them from turning around and selling it for even more chests of gold! The key point is that they are free to do whatever they want with the software what they want after delivery of the product, as long as they stick with the terms of the GPL.
In many open source projects, everyone can get a binary, so everyone gets the source, too.
This means there's great money to be made in producing customized software for people, scratching other people's itches, you name it. What I see open source doing is commoditizing the common tools - the compilers, the kernel, the window managers - and providing a free platform that the customized stuff can be executed and manipulated on. The customized software, or the engineers working it, is where the money part comes in for most companies, that I can see. The things that Ximian is going with gnome is part of this. I'd have no problem chucking Ximian a few bucks a month to maintain versions and dependencies so I have a up-to-date framework to work on.
There's lots of money in Free software, and it's about freedom - those who pay for software can do what they want with it. Read the GPL. It is quite a departure from how things work now, though.
This stuff works wonders, and it's possible to remove it if you really want to. I also used hot melt on any kinda carpetting that I'd use for covering subwoofer/speaker boxes, too. $5cdn for a gun and sticks at walmart.
I used to do a LOT of car audio stuff.. line your case panels with Dynamat Extreme or regular Dynamat (accept no subsitutes, if you're cheap, go get some Ice Guard material at the hardware store - but it doesn't work as well). This stuff will remove most of the high frequency sound from the case. I went with a water cooling solution and lined my case. The PC is SILENT now. (when it's put together, heh).
I mention this because I've never seen anyone do it on any of the case modding sites, and it works well. Ask anyone with more than 500W worth of bass in their trunk:).
There aren't consumer level apps that max out existing memory yet, by orders of magnitude, anyhow. There are also still gains to be had from conventional storage. So it's the chicken-egg problem. Once existing technology is nearing it's limit, then someone will produce an alternative to keep up.. but it's nice to know there's lots of choices.
Ever flown a commercial flight simulator, like CAE produces? These things are the bomb - picture a 30 foot high room that can spin like a top. There are lots of companies working on much less expensive versions of exotic simulators - namely flight and automotive/racing - that make use of cheaper projection technology to immerse the player in an environment that you're just not going to get at home.
The conventional model is dead, yeah. Nobody is going to make money with games like Centipede or even Tekken anymore, and the arcades are dying quick. But - I could definately see people getting bored with playing GT4 on their TV and want to get into a mockup of an Acura NSX and try the same thing, though, especially if they're networked and competitive against other people. Or the same thing with flight sims. Set up national tournaments in immersive environments. Racing for example has a huge following, but most people will never race a indy car. Technology will advance to the point where you could do a life-like simualtion of the indy car circuit virtually, for example.
There's lots of companies working on this, and before you shirk it too much, I've flown a flight sim based on three projectors and a real cockpit, and it's definately real enough to amaze - even if you never actually move.
I'm using my hearing and my backside to tell you MP3s at less than 320k do not have the same sonic quality as an original CD.
First off: I had at one point in time a very expensive stereo system in my car. I have a nice system now, but no quad subwoofer anymore:). Kinda hurts accelleration..
Anyhow, what you are hearing isn't the difference in "sonic quality" from the mp3. It's more likely the deck you're using. Most decks have much more time devoted to the circuitry and preamps on the CD than the auxillary in, or even the internal mp3. Most aux in jacks will hurt quality because they assume you've already done all the processing.
How to test this theory? Take a CD. Rip a song (you still can do that, I think.. but hurry) and encode it at 192 or 128. 128 for the sake of arguement. Play it. It'll sound different, because the circuitry needs to be retuned. Then take that mp3, decode it, and burn it again. You'll notice all that "lost" quality reappeared, because it really didn't go anywhere.
Unless your ears are trained, you'll never hear a difference. At least I don't. If you think mp3s suck that bad.. have fun with the mountain o cds (or limited selection).
If you live in a desert, poor, miserable area (like, oh, say, afganistan) which might benefit from increased rainfall and crop production, you might think that OUTLOOK_QUITE_GOOD.
People automatically assume a warmer climate is bad, something that can't exactly be claimed given we have no good scientific model for weather and climate modelling. Not enough understanding exists, and by some theories which are quite compelling (for example, read the book 'Chaos'), it may never be possible to predict the weather.
Now, a warmer climate might be bad for a specific area or populace. Islands will probably dissapear as oceans rise, and coastal areas will be changed. There's more evidence that some areas might become wetter and better for agricultural production; that some marginal farmland might produce much higher yields, and that previously inhospitable areas in northern climates might become much more temperate. Of course, by the same blade, storms will possibly be more frequent and of higher magnitude.
We just don't know. Global temperature change is an inevitable result of modern civilization. It's entirely possible that we're headed for huge disasters as a result of the dominance of man, and there's nothing "wrong" about that. We just need to develop technologies that prolong our stay here as long as possible until we can do something else. There -are- 6 billion people here, and most models project it stabilizing at around 12-20 billion. That's also a lot of minds working on the problem.
If your country is so messed up that they're going to ban you from using linux.. maybe you have worse things to worry about than the dominance of the microsoft empire. Move someplace with sane politicians, and fight those laws before they go into place. Unless you go see your elected reprentatives in person, take some time out of your day to stop these things, then they'll happen. Politicians cater to those who want change, and if nobody objects, or not enough people object, things become law. It's not a dictatorship you live in.
It's not that bad to immigrate to Canada, or even countries in Europe where software patents aren't applicable. If running linux and "free" software ever actually became illegal and people were arrested for it, then I would hazard a guess the American claim to be a "Free" nation went down the drain, too.
What an arrogant thing to say. On the time scale of evolution, modern man is just a blip.
Whenever a species has evolved to the point where they can flame-broil all life on their home planet, land members of their species on natural satellites in orbit, send probes into space, and somehow manage to sustain 6+ billion members, they're allowed to be a little arrogant.
Ummm, now, I don't know about you.. but this doesn't strike me as handy. It strikes me as a pain in the posterior. Why do I want my fridge to be connected to the interenet? That'll inflate the cost of the appliance at least $100, and it will likely get out of sync with the products I buy - I'm sure as hell not going to waste time tracking food. I buy whatever suits my fancy at the time, toss it in the fridge, and chuck it when it starts getting nasty. End of story.
Internet appliances are all going to flop on their ass. Hell, set-top units are having a pretty tough go of it. It's the PITA factor. If I want internet in the kitchen or bathroom, I'll get a discount notebook and 802.11, problem solved. No subscriptions required, even.
If it's a pain in the ass for me, your average 5-cpu linux hippie with goatee, the odds of a soccer mom buying one of these are slightly below those of Aimee Sweet deciding the pr0n business doesn't pay good enough and moving into VLSI engineering.
Yes and no. It takes about 0.183A (IIRC) to cause your heart to go into an irregular pattern, resulting in a heart attack. Higher current loads through the heart are different; They cause it to stop, and (likely) start beating again. This is the principle used to start your heart again after it's stopped beating.
Much has to do with the resistance in ohms of your skin when you have the electrical shock applied; Are you doing something stupid like working on a grounded metal roof in wet bare feet with power tools (case study in class, that one), etc etc etc.
Many variables are at play here; Power is dangerous and something to be resepected at any level. I zapped myself real good with 25kV once, never again..:)
No, he's absolutely correct. Cites below.
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Also speaking as a Canadian you are wrong. You're saying that it's legal to borrow a CD, make a copy and give the original CD back, but it's illegal to make a copy and give it to someone else (???).
This is exactly what the law says. The levy gives you the right to copy for your personal use, so long as you personally make the copy. The levy would not be legal under Canadian law as worded otherwise. (I am a Canadian, btw).
From the CDR-FAQ:
The rules for music are more lenient. Because of the media tax imposed by the Canadian government (see section (7-13)), you are allowed to copy any music for your own personal use. This means that you can go over to a friend's house and copy any number of discs you like, so long as they are for your own use. You are not allowed to make copies of music and then give them to others.
More information can be found at: http://neil.eton.ca/copylevy.shtml
The Copyright Board of Canada's web site: http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/ the decision on private copying is listed there. They moved the location of the act, but it's there.
Please take a more active role in what our government is doing, it helps stop them from doing stupid things. I wouldn't want to end up with a situation like the USA has now; Go visit your MP and MLA provincially and let them know what you think about these things.
I used to have one of these many, many, many years ago. I have the graphic they used to make the shirt someplace, if that's any help. Should be able to get one made (or print one yourself) from that.
I hope the ARRL or someone is lobbying to keep the 2Ghz bands open. It's not even that large of an allocation! Organized community wireless efforts have a real potential to put a great big ding in the profits of some of these commercial providers and users of bandwidth.
Remember, the RF spectrum is a public resource. The FCC in the US is supposed to act in the best interests of the public, and I think you could make a good case it's in the interests of the public to keep those bands open. The more 802.11 hardware out there, the harder it will be to stop, as well - so write your representatives (Congressmen, FCC Ombudsman, Member of Parliment, whatever).
I remember reading something about those bands being open by global agreement, too.. but I'm not sure.
Ever so much as USED GPS in a car? It cuts out all the time, especially in large cities and depending on where you are geographically (never mind the quality of the equipment you're using). I've done a few experiments, and it sometimes takes quite awhile for the GPS unit to start up and get a lock - and maintaining a signal on 3 or more satellites is difficult. GPS isn't all that accurate either!
And this isn't getting into what someone who wanted to fsck with the system could do. Civilian, consumer level, ground-based GPS is not as robust as you might think.
The espresso machine uses steam head to generate the ~18bar pressure (ideal) to force the water through the coffee. I froth a mean pitcher of milk... mmm, foamy..
Check out the rec.drugs.caffeine FAQ (or rec.foods.coffee, perhaps). What happened to the usenet people?:)
Wait... you think shooting an AIR RIFLE is a NONVIOLENT APPROACH? Do you people even READ what you post?
Yes, I read what I post most closely. It is nonviolent in that it does not advocate or involve you going and throttling the politicians that let this kind of thing go on. The odds of a well aimed air rifle doing anything beyond superficial damage to anyone's person or property, aside from the aforementioned camera, are slim to nil.
Perhaps the people who might perform such a "crime" also think that automatic police survilence is a crime? Or an excessive violation of the rights given to them in the consitiution? (I'm not an American, mind you).
Buy yourself a target air rifle, not a cheap one, but a good one with a nice scope. You can easily find angles to hit the camera without being easily seen by the camera. Shoot said camera out. When they fix it, shoot it out again, later. Enough people doing that will make them go away.
The security gestapo at my old univesity (University of New Brunswick) actually noticed someone breaking into a house several kilometers away with a ultra-high-power security camera. (The University is on a large hill). One might wonder what the hell they were doing looking at houses several kilometers away - or for that matter, who's windows they're looking in. Entertainment value, indeed.
Security cameras are just one step closer.. Safe or Free, your pick.. and Prisons aren't the safest places last I checked.
Whoop-de-do. Has the demise of napster made a dent in file sharing? Nope. People just use ICQ/AIM or any number of other alternatives. (www.musiccity.com). Rather than have the problem in one, great big centralized location where the record industry could reap a fortune from it, they've thrown water in the oil fire and now it's everywhere. Great long-range thinking, guys.
The fight wasn't about file sharing, anyhow. The music industry makes their money of prepackaged crap that the kiddies buy and the marketting therefrom. They were worried napster could spawn a indy revolution with the illegal file trading as the catalyst, and they brought the smackdown.
What do I care, anyway - I'm CANADIAN, and I can copy music for MY OWN USE, LEGALLY. Hahaha. Go CDR levy. There's one fact the RIAA and napster aren't spreading around.. but they got their little levy.
From the article:
"breaks that cycle--that is, it makes it impossible for a commercial company to use any of that work or build on any of that work. So what you saw with TCP/IP or Sendmail or the browser could never happen. We believe there should be free software and commercial software; there should be a rich ecosystem that works around that."
Holy FUD Batman! Too bad the FSF couldn't get Gates on commercial damages in a court of law. The GPL allows you to sell code to whoever you want. You can use it internally to your hearts content! You can even change it for your own internal use and not give the changes to anyone, if you want - and don't people know how large the custom software market is?
You are PERFECTLY free to SELL GPL CODE. All you have to do to stay within the terms of the liscence is to give the source code to anyone to whom you have given a binary to. They in turn can do what they want, so long as they don't violate the GPL. Doesn't this make sense? If I paid someone to write code for me, I'd expect to be given the source as well as the binary. With that, I'd want to be able to do whatever I wanted with it - give it away to a million people, fine. Lock it in a closet, fine. The only restriction on ME if the code is GPL is that whoever I in turn give the binaries to, they get the source code. The code is treated as if it's "free" - in that no party can restrict the "freedom" of a user of the code to make changes or modifications to that codebase.
How does this interfere with business? OH, WAIT A MINUTE. It interferes with Mr. Bill Gates's business and profits! Oooops. This must be legislated away! If it hurts my monopoly, then there's just no way anyone else could make money doing it! They're all a bunch of dirty linux hippie communist baby-eating monsters! (Sarcasm, for the humor-impared..)
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Sorry, no pictures online yet, other people have plenty however. I got my kit from cool-computers.com, but there's lots of other ones out there. You don't use alcohol in a liquid cooled system because not only is it flammable, the vapours are extremely explosive. If you had a minor vapour leak, the slightest spark inside your computer - like, oh, say, a motor, a bad capacitor, your power supply, whatever - would cause an explosion. Alcohol at near purity running at ~40C is also extremely flammable. That's INSANE.
Please, nobody attempt to use alcohol to liquid cool a PC. It's dangerous. If you want to experiment with other liquids with higher specific heats, try an oil instead, but understand the risks. No, I'm not responsible if you blow up your machine. Distilled water is a wonderful insulator, too. No worries there. $1 buck for 4 liters at the local Walmart. Hardly exotic.
I'm running a athlon 1.2G mildly overclocked (1.3g) with the entire apparatus inside a mid tower case. I got sick of my work machine locking up because of overheating (the lab I work in has poor ventilation and gets extremely hot). Liquid cooling works extremely well, but it's far from plug and play and definately not something for beginners. :)
Hell, that's why I bought an athlon.. AMD chips have a reputation for being faster, on average, than Intel chips, especially for 3D gaming. Now, factor in the bang for the buck factor along with a little bit more screwing with to make work nicely, and the choice for me was a no brainer.. athlon..
One of the things I wanted to do when my HP48G dies (which might be never) or when I find a broken HP calculator is to figure out how to build a snap on, or maybe a wireless linked, keyboard to the Palm platform. I know it's possible, it just might need a little PIC chip doing the translations. That calculator was always with me through my EE degree, and we used to joke that the engineering jackets used to have oversized inside pockets to store them perfectly.
A palm with the HP keys would be the ultimate. The tactile feedback on the 48GX is incredible and allowed me to "know" I did a calculation right, whereas the other ones and later models TI lacked that positive "thunk" feel.
Anyone wanna send me a busted HP? :)
Ok, I'm sure I could run through my submission records and just find something to cut copy paste, but everyone here (or a good number) has missed a very important point about the GPL and Open Software, and always miss it. Maybe that's an american thing too :). Anyhow, just to repeat myself (and I'm sure others are typing this up as I am right now).
Just because I sell software under the GPL -does not mean I have to give it to you free-. It just means that whoever I distribute - or trade for women, booze, chests of gold, fast cars, whatever - binaries to also gets the source code and the ability to do whatever they want with that source code. Nothing stopping them from turning around and selling it for even more chests of gold! The key point is that they are free to do whatever they want with the software what they want after delivery of the product, as long as they stick with the terms of the GPL.
In many open source projects, everyone can get a binary, so everyone gets the source, too.
This means there's great money to be made in producing customized software for people, scratching other people's itches, you name it. What I see open source doing is commoditizing the common tools - the compilers, the kernel, the window managers - and providing a free platform that the customized stuff can be executed and manipulated on. The customized software, or the engineers working it, is where the money part comes in for most companies, that I can see. The things that Ximian is going with gnome is part of this. I'd have no problem chucking Ximian a few bucks a month to maintain versions and dependencies so I have a up-to-date framework to work on.
There's lots of money in Free software, and it's about freedom - those who pay for software can do what they want with it. Read the GPL. It is quite a departure from how things work now, though.
This stuff works wonders, and it's possible to remove it if you really want to. I also used hot melt on any kinda carpetting that I'd use for covering subwoofer/speaker boxes, too. $5cdn for a gun and sticks at walmart.
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I used to do a LOT of car audio stuff.. line your case panels with Dynamat Extreme or regular Dynamat (accept no subsitutes, if you're cheap, go get some Ice Guard material at the hardware store - but it doesn't work as well). This stuff will remove most of the high frequency sound from the case. I went with a water cooling solution and lined my case. The PC is SILENT now. (when it's put together, heh).
I mention this because I've never seen anyone do it on any of the case modding sites, and it works well. Ask anyone with more than 500W worth of bass in their trunk :).
There aren't consumer level apps that max out existing memory yet, by orders of magnitude, anyhow. There are also still gains to be had from conventional storage. So it's the chicken-egg problem. Once existing technology is nearing it's limit, then someone will produce an alternative to keep up.. but it's nice to know there's lots of choices.
Ever flown a commercial flight simulator, like CAE produces? These things are the bomb - picture a 30 foot high room that can spin like a top. There are lots of companies working on much less expensive versions of exotic simulators - namely flight and automotive/racing - that make use of cheaper projection technology to immerse the player in an environment that you're just not going to get at home.
The conventional model is dead, yeah. Nobody is going to make money with games like Centipede or even Tekken anymore, and the arcades are dying quick. But - I could definately see people getting bored with playing GT4 on their TV and want to get into a mockup of an Acura NSX and try the same thing, though, especially if they're networked and competitive against other people. Or the same thing with flight sims. Set up national tournaments in immersive environments. Racing for example has a huge following, but most people will never race a indy car. Technology will advance to the point where you could do a life-like simualtion of the indy car circuit virtually, for example.
There's lots of companies working on this, and before you shirk it too much, I've flown a flight sim based on three projectors and a real cockpit, and it's definately real enough to amaze - even if you never actually move.
Something to think about, anyhow.
I'm using my hearing and my backside to tell you MP3s at less than 320k do not have the same sonic quality as an original CD.
First off: I had at one point in time a very expensive stereo system in my car. I have a nice system now, but no quad subwoofer anymore :). Kinda hurts accelleration..
Anyhow, what you are hearing isn't the difference in "sonic quality" from the mp3. It's more likely the deck you're using. Most decks have much more time devoted to the circuitry and preamps on the CD than the auxillary in, or even the internal mp3. Most aux in jacks will hurt quality because they assume you've already done all the processing.
How to test this theory? Take a CD. Rip a song (you still can do that, I think.. but hurry) and encode it at 192 or 128. 128 for the sake of arguement. Play it. It'll sound different, because the circuitry needs to be retuned. Then take that mp3, decode it, and burn it again. You'll notice all that "lost" quality reappeared, because it really didn't go anywhere.
Unless your ears are trained, you'll never hear a difference. At least I don't. If you think mp3s suck that bad.. have fun with the mountain o cds (or limited selection).
If you live in a desert, poor, miserable area (like, oh, say, afganistan) which might benefit from increased rainfall and crop production, you might think that OUTLOOK_QUITE_GOOD.
People automatically assume a warmer climate is bad, something that can't exactly be claimed given we have no good scientific model for weather and climate modelling. Not enough understanding exists, and by some theories which are quite compelling (for example, read the book 'Chaos'), it may never be possible to predict the weather.
Now, a warmer climate might be bad for a specific area or populace. Islands will probably dissapear as oceans rise, and coastal areas will be changed. There's more evidence that some areas might become wetter and better for agricultural production; that some marginal farmland might produce much higher yields, and that previously inhospitable areas in northern climates might become much more temperate. Of course, by the same blade, storms will possibly be more frequent and of higher magnitude.
We just don't know. Global temperature change is an inevitable result of modern civilization. It's entirely possible that we're headed for huge disasters as a result of the dominance of man, and there's nothing "wrong" about that. We just need to develop technologies that prolong our stay here as long as possible until we can do something else. There -are- 6 billion people here, and most models project it stabilizing at around 12-20 billion. That's also a lot of minds working on the problem.
If your country is so messed up that they're going to ban you from using linux.. maybe you have worse things to worry about than the dominance of the microsoft empire. Move someplace with sane politicians, and fight those laws before they go into place. Unless you go see your elected reprentatives in person, take some time out of your day to stop these things, then they'll happen. Politicians cater to those who want change, and if nobody objects, or not enough people object, things become law. It's not a dictatorship you live in.
It's not that bad to immigrate to Canada, or even countries in Europe where software patents aren't applicable. If running linux and "free" software ever actually became illegal and people were arrested for it, then I would hazard a guess the American claim to be a "Free" nation went down the drain, too.
What an arrogant thing to say. On the time scale of evolution, modern man is just a blip.
Whenever a species has evolved to the point where they can flame-broil all life on their home planet, land members of their species on natural satellites in orbit, send probes into space, and somehow manage to sustain 6+ billion members, they're allowed to be a little arrogant.
Ummm, now, I don't know about you.. but this doesn't strike me as handy. It strikes me as a pain in the posterior. Why do I want my fridge to be connected to the interenet? That'll inflate the cost of the appliance at least $100, and it will likely get out of sync with the products I buy - I'm sure as hell not going to waste time tracking food. I buy whatever suits my fancy at the time, toss it in the fridge, and chuck it when it starts getting nasty. End of story.
Internet appliances are all going to flop on their ass. Hell, set-top units are having a pretty tough go of it. It's the PITA factor. If I want internet in the kitchen or bathroom, I'll get a discount notebook and 802.11, problem solved. No subscriptions required, even.
If it's a pain in the ass for me, your average 5-cpu linux hippie with goatee, the odds of a soccer mom buying one of these are slightly below those of Aimee Sweet deciding the pr0n business doesn't pay good enough and moving into VLSI engineering.
Yes and no. It takes about 0.183A (IIRC) to cause your heart to go into an irregular pattern, resulting in a heart attack. Higher current loads through the heart are different; They cause it to stop, and (likely) start beating again. This is the principle used to start your heart again after it's stopped beating.
Much has to do with the resistance in ohms of your skin when you have the electrical shock applied; Are you doing something stupid like working on a grounded metal roof in wet bare feet with power tools (case study in class, that one), etc etc etc.
Many variables are at play here; Power is dangerous and something to be resepected at any level. I zapped myself real good with 25kV once, never again .. :)
Also speaking as a Canadian you are wrong. You're saying that it's legal to borrow a CD, make a copy and give the original CD back, but it's illegal to make a copy and give it to someone else (???).
This is exactly what the law says. The levy gives you the right to copy for your personal use, so long as you personally make the copy. The levy would not be legal under Canadian law as worded otherwise. (I am a Canadian, btw).
From the CDR-FAQ: The rules for music are more lenient. Because of the media tax imposed by the Canadian government (see section (7-13)), you are allowed to copy any music for your own personal use. This means that you can go over to a friend's house and copy any number of discs you like, so long as they are for your own use. You are not allowed to make copies of music and then give them to others.
More information can be found at: http://neil.eton.ca/copylevy.shtml
The Copyright Board of Canada's web site: http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/ the decision on private copying is listed there. They moved the location of the act, but it's there.
Please take a more active role in what our government is doing, it helps stop them from doing stupid things. I wouldn't want to end up with a situation like the USA has now; Go visit your MP and MLA provincially and let them know what you think about these things.
I used to have one of these many, many, many years ago. I have the graphic they used to make the shirt someplace, if that's any help. Should be able to get one made (or print one yourself) from that.
$50 for 1Meg, or get a 802.11 device ..
I hope the ARRL or someone is lobbying to keep the 2Ghz bands open. It's not even that large of an allocation! Organized community wireless efforts have a real potential to put a great big ding in the profits of some of these commercial providers and users of bandwidth.
Remember, the RF spectrum is a public resource. The FCC in the US is supposed to act in the best interests of the public, and I think you could make a good case it's in the interests of the public to keep those bands open. The more 802.11 hardware out there, the harder it will be to stop, as well - so write your representatives (Congressmen, FCC Ombudsman, Member of Parliment, whatever).
I remember reading something about those bands being open by global agreement, too.. but I'm not sure.
Ever so much as USED GPS in a car? It cuts out all the time, especially in large cities and depending on where you are geographically (never mind the quality of the equipment you're using). I've done a few experiments, and it sometimes takes quite awhile for the GPS unit to start up and get a lock - and maintaining a signal on 3 or more satellites is difficult. GPS isn't all that accurate either!
And this isn't getting into what someone who wanted to fsck with the system could do. Civilian, consumer level, ground-based GPS is not as robust as you might think.
The espresso machine uses steam head to generate the ~18bar pressure (ideal) to force the water through the coffee. I froth a mean pitcher of milk... mmm, foamy..
Check out the rec.drugs.caffeine FAQ (or rec.foods.coffee, perhaps). What happened to the usenet people? :)
Wait... you think shooting an AIR RIFLE is a NONVIOLENT APPROACH? Do you people even READ what you post?
Yes, I read what I post most closely. It is nonviolent in that it does not advocate or involve you going and throttling the politicians that let this kind of thing go on. The odds of a well aimed air rifle doing anything beyond superficial damage to anyone's person or property, aside from the aforementioned camera, are slim to nil.
Perhaps the people who might perform such a "crime" also think that automatic police survilence is a crime? Or an excessive violation of the rights given to them in the consitiution? (I'm not an American, mind you).
Don't be a sheep.
Buy yourself a target air rifle, not a cheap one, but a good one with a nice scope. You can easily find angles to hit the camera without being easily seen by the camera. Shoot said camera out. When they fix it, shoot it out again, later. Enough people doing that will make them go away.
The security gestapo at my old univesity (University of New Brunswick) actually noticed someone breaking into a house several kilometers away with a ultra-high-power security camera. (The University is on a large hill). One might wonder what the hell they were doing looking at houses several kilometers away - or for that matter, who's windows they're looking in. Entertainment value, indeed.
Security cameras are just one step closer.. Safe or Free, your pick.. and Prisons aren't the safest places last I checked.
Whoop-de-do. Has the demise of napster made a dent in file sharing? Nope. People just use ICQ/AIM or any number of other alternatives. (www.musiccity.com). Rather than have the problem in one, great big centralized location where the record industry could reap a fortune from it, they've thrown water in the oil fire and now it's everywhere. Great long-range thinking, guys.
The fight wasn't about file sharing, anyhow. The music industry makes their money of prepackaged crap that the kiddies buy and the marketting therefrom. They were worried napster could spawn a indy revolution with the illegal file trading as the catalyst, and they brought the smackdown.
What do I care, anyway - I'm CANADIAN, and I can copy music for MY OWN USE, LEGALLY. Hahaha. Go CDR levy. There's one fact the RIAA and napster aren't spreading around.. but they got their little levy.
Once you realize national boundaries are swiftly dissolving, a common international law makes a lot of sense.
Spoken like a true, center of the world, American. Ever try to immmigrate to the US, leader of this "global family" recently? Apparently not.
From the article: "breaks that cycle--that is, it makes it impossible for a commercial company to use any of that work or build on any of that work. So what you saw with TCP/IP or Sendmail or the browser could never happen. We believe there should be free software and commercial software; there should be a rich ecosystem that works around that."
Holy FUD Batman! Too bad the FSF couldn't get Gates on commercial damages in a court of law. The GPL allows you to sell code to whoever you want. You can use it internally to your hearts content! You can even change it for your own internal use and not give the changes to anyone, if you want - and don't people know how large the custom software market is?
You are PERFECTLY free to SELL GPL CODE. All you have to do to stay within the terms of the liscence is to give the source code to anyone to whom you have given a binary to. They in turn can do what they want, so long as they don't violate the GPL. Doesn't this make sense? If I paid someone to write code for me, I'd expect to be given the source as well as the binary. With that, I'd want to be able to do whatever I wanted with it - give it away to a million people, fine. Lock it in a closet, fine. The only restriction on ME if the code is GPL is that whoever I in turn give the binaries to, they get the source code. The code is treated as if it's "free" - in that no party can restrict the "freedom" of a user of the code to make changes or modifications to that codebase.
How does this interfere with business? OH, WAIT A MINUTE. It interferes with Mr. Bill Gates's business and profits! Oooops. This must be legislated away! If it hurts my monopoly, then there's just no way anyone else could make money doing it! They're all a bunch of dirty linux hippie communist baby-eating monsters! (Sarcasm, for the humor-impared..)