3) Jumping at the right frequency can make you run much faster, by allowing you to only accelerate and never deccelerate
4) Moving diagonally (both forward and sideways at the same time) can make you run 3% faster
5) Jumping at the same time that you run out from behind cover and fire won't make your firing less accurate, but will reduce your chances of getting hit
So... have a SAW set up with blanks next to your head, and have the simulator be able to trigger it at appropriate times. As sadistic as it sounds (I don't know that I'd volunteer for such a thing), it probably still wouldn't be 100% realistic, but it's closer than speakers.
GPL doesn't protect software authors from patents. GPL doesn't prevent RedHat from creating a submarine patent and not telling anyone about it until a number of companies have based their business strategy around it.
So... 1) Netflix will probably have to charge a higher monthly fee for people who want HD discs, and 2) for companies like Netflix, HD is going to make them a ton of money.
Bzzt. Brainiac (an alternative to Mythbusters) tried this with 100 phones, and the phones were literally covering the egg, and they left the egg under there for a while. It definitely didn't cook, and they reported it didn't even get remotely warm either.
Not massive download in the sense that it's an astonishing amount, but massive in the sense that it's nearly constantly near the max upload rate (whatever that is). Most apps don't constantly use $max_upload_cap *.98, for hours at a time, while simulataneously using 500% download rate of the average user. Those two indicators combined are a very likely indication that some sort of P2P traffic is going on. (yes, there are services that upload, things like VoIP, although VoIP uses a smaller frame size, and doesn't use a large download rate at the same time. Things like flickr image uploads are also distinguishable by using 100% (instead of 98%) of the upload cap, not downloading at all, and not lasting for 30+ minutes).
As TFA notes: encrypted or not, you're still pushing a massive amount of upload and download traffic. That in itself is enough to get noticed.
Second, the more data there is to analyze, the easier it becomes to distinguish noise from data.
Third, Again as TFA notes, if a lot of connections are being made, they can analyze the first chunk of data sent by both sides. If it's an unencrypted connection, you'll see a roughly consistent set of data being sent across at the beginning. If even the headers are encrypted, and you use BitTorrent a lot, eventually it will be pretty obvious.
The article mentions that there's quite a bit more of it than normal matter, and that it's about 10,000 degrees (... C?). Is that consistent? It just sounds odd for dark matter to have such a higher energy level than normal matter, weakly interacting or not.
That's the biggest one for me. Though I'm consistently learning new things about Photoshop despite learning quite a bit about it, and am consistently running into roadblocks with GIMP. As far as I can tell , GIMP isn't actively catching up, it's still got a long ways to go.
So all you need to do is find one unlucky zombie on a government IP, and use it to break in to random computers, and people will assume you're a good guy?
Google is also reported to be setting up several small sovereign nations, strategically placed near backbones around the world. Google will provide its own infrastructure, including custom and open-source electricity distribution, custom wall sockets, and custom rules of the road for drivers.
Does presumption of innocence apply here? I guess that's mostly for criminal trials, but still, I can't see the judge requiring the defendent to spend a ton of money for a lawyer over such a relatively trivial issue.
Maybe they're implying that just about anyone who connects to the internet pirates stuff? And so, if you're going to charge one guy... you might as well charge them all?
Also, most fair-use cases fall under comment-and-criticism... eg. it's okay to use one image of Homer Simpson on the Homer Simpson Wikipedia page, because that's one way to identify Homer while commenting about him.
Also, fair use says that companies that profit off of other's copyrighted work, and especially companies who diminish the profits of the copyright holders, is unlikely to have a judge rule in their favor.
The legislative branch uses democratic processes to defend itself from the executive. The judicial uses non-democratic processes to defend itself from the legislative! When will the madness end?
Offline newspaper stories can be difficult to verify for other people, but if you clearly put them on a ==Sources== section, and try to make the article as encyclopedic-sounding as possible (eg. don't write it about your dog, or some scuffle you had with a neighbor at school, etc), then there's a much better chance it will be kept. Also, stories that have a more local interest may not be notable enough to be on Wikipedia.
So you added something that was later modified or deleted, because it was a copyright violation, or didn't have any reputable sources to back it up, or it wasn't notable enough to be in an encyclopedia. But how does this indicate that it's easier to sift through the rest of the internet instead?
The fact that there's a whole profession centered around surgical measures to enforce weight-loss, surgical procedures which can have serious complications, means that for at least some people, it's not simply a matter of will power.
Despite my attempts to keep this comment civil, I'm sure some will take offense...
Are there enough people on Slashdot who have edited Wikipedia that we can start quoting WP:CIVIL and other policies?:)
Revert wars are strongly frowned upon, and are grounds for a temporary block.
The problem with branching into a "stable" branch and a "development" branch is similar to the reason that Wikipedia doesn't block anonymous users: we want random people to drop by, see a little mistake, and fix it without undue effort. If there's a "development" branch that's only viewed by 25% of the long-time users, then mistakes are going to get noticed and fixed much slower than they otherwise would.
Oh yeah, and if we would have found out that a Congressperson was using Tor, and at the same time, voting for higher accountability and less anonymity on P2P networks, that wouldn't have been a marvelous contradiction at all.
One of the lessons from Monica-gate was that politicians who go to some lengths to lie and cover up their actions make themselves an even bigger target than they were before.
You can't travel on the roads without a license plate, and I believe police have a wide variety of ways to stop you to ask more questions.
You're not required to have a license plate to ride a dirt bike, but if you go without a license plate, you're not legally allowed to cross state roads, so you can't go very far. Also, I think there are still laws that allow cops to stop you to make sure you're not trespassing on someone else's property?
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Hopefully the proliferation of BluRay / HD-DVD drives will bring blue lasers' size and prices down.
3) Jumping at the right frequency can make you run much faster, by allowing you to only accelerate and never deccelerate
4) Moving diagonally (both forward and sideways at the same time) can make you run 3% faster
5) Jumping at the same time that you run out from behind cover and fire won't make your firing less accurate, but will reduce your chances of getting hit
So... have a SAW set up with blanks next to your head, and have the simulator be able to trigger it at appropriate times. As sadistic as it sounds (I don't know that I'd volunteer for such a thing), it probably still wouldn't be 100% realistic, but it's closer than speakers.
GPL doesn't protect software authors from patents. GPL doesn't prevent RedHat from creating a submarine patent and not telling anyone about it until a number of companies have based their business strategy around it.
So... 1) Netflix will probably have to charge a higher monthly fee for people who want HD discs, and 2) for companies like Netflix, HD is going to make them a ton of money.
Bzzt. Brainiac (an alternative to Mythbusters) tried this with 100 phones, and the phones were literally covering the egg, and they left the egg under there for a while. It definitely didn't cook, and they reported it didn't even get remotely warm either.
Not massive download in the sense that it's an astonishing amount, but massive in the sense that it's nearly constantly near the max upload rate (whatever that is). Most apps don't constantly use $max_upload_cap * .98, for hours at a time, while simulataneously using 500% download rate of the average user. Those two indicators combined are a very likely indication that some sort of P2P traffic is going on. (yes, there are services that upload, things like VoIP, although VoIP uses a smaller frame size, and doesn't use a large download rate at the same time. Things like flickr image uploads are also distinguishable by using 100% (instead of 98%) of the upload cap, not downloading at all, and not lasting for 30+ minutes).
As TFA notes: encrypted or not, you're still pushing a massive amount of upload and download traffic. That in itself is enough to get noticed.
Second, the more data there is to analyze, the easier it becomes to distinguish noise from data.
Third, Again as TFA notes, if a lot of connections are being made, they can analyze the first chunk of data sent by both sides. If it's an unencrypted connection, you'll see a roughly consistent set of data being sent across at the beginning. If even the headers are encrypted, and you use BitTorrent a lot, eventually it will be pretty obvious.
The article mentions that there's quite a bit more of it than normal matter, and that it's about 10,000 degrees (... C?). Is that consistent? It just sounds odd for dark matter to have such a higher energy level than normal matter, weakly interacting or not.
That's the biggest one for me. Though I'm consistently learning new things about Photoshop despite learning quite a bit about it, and am consistently running into roadblocks with GIMP. As far as I can tell , GIMP isn't actively catching up, it's still got a long ways to go.
So all you need to do is find one unlucky zombie on a government IP, and use it to break in to random computers, and people will assume you're a good guy?
Google is also reported to be setting up several small sovereign nations, strategically placed near backbones around the world. Google will provide its own infrastructure, including custom and open-source electricity distribution, custom wall sockets, and custom rules of the road for drivers.
Does presumption of innocence apply here? I guess that's mostly for criminal trials, but still, I can't see the judge requiring the defendent to spend a ton of money for a lawyer over such a relatively trivial issue.
Maybe they're implying that just about anyone who connects to the internet pirates stuff? And so, if you're going to charge one guy... you might as well charge them all?
Also, most fair-use cases fall under comment-and-criticism... eg. it's okay to use one image of Homer Simpson on the Homer Simpson Wikipedia page, because that's one way to identify Homer while commenting about him.
Also, fair use says that companies that profit off of other's copyrighted work, and especially companies who diminish the profits of the copyright holders, is unlikely to have a judge rule in their favor.
Congressional Aides Found Scribbling "douche!" In a Drug-Rehabilitation Novel ?
The legislative branch uses democratic processes to defend itself from the executive. The judicial uses non-democratic processes to defend itself from the legislative! When will the madness end?
Offline newspaper stories can be difficult to verify for other people, but if you clearly put them on a ==Sources== section, and try to make the article as encyclopedic-sounding as possible (eg. don't write it about your dog, or some scuffle you had with a neighbor at school, etc), then there's a much better chance it will be kept. Also, stories that have a more local interest may not be notable enough to be on Wikipedia.
So you added something that was later modified or deleted, because it was a copyright violation, or didn't have any reputable sources to back it up, or it wasn't notable enough to be in an encyclopedia. But how does this indicate that it's easier to sift through the rest of the internet instead?
There's biased material, and then they're outright vandalism. Calling someone a douche? Are congressional staffers adults, or middleschoolers? [2]
When some people undergo procedures that have a 1 in 50 chance of dying, it's clearly not about money.
Despite my attempts to keep this comment civil, I'm sure some will take offense...
Are there enough people on Slashdot who have edited Wikipedia that we can start quoting WP:CIVIL and other policies? :)
The problem with branching into a "stable" branch and a "development" branch is similar to the reason that Wikipedia doesn't block anonymous users: we want random people to drop by, see a little mistake, and fix it without undue effort. If there's a "development" branch that's only viewed by 25% of the long-time users, then mistakes are going to get noticed and fixed much slower than they otherwise would.
One of the lessons from Monica-gate was that politicians who go to some lengths to lie and cover up their actions make themselves an even bigger target than they were before.
You're not required to have a license plate to ride a dirt bike, but if you go without a license plate, you're not legally allowed to cross state roads, so you can't go very far. Also, I think there are still laws that allow cops to stop you to make sure you're not trespassing on someone else's property?