the problem with DU shells is that they may be doing serious long term damage to the troops who use them instead of just the ones you shoot em at.
wonder why U-236 was found in Gulf War veterans urine, because supposedly no U-236 would be present in DU which is manufactured only from naturally occuring uranium supposedly? U-236 is not a naturally occuring isotope, so it can not be present if the process used to manufacture DU is the one they *claim* to use (seperating U-235 from naturally occuring uranium)
even playing independent music like that, you will still have to pay the $500 minimum annual fee for webcasting.
and while on the royalties for playing the songs themselves, there are certainly provisions in the CARP proposal about artists that fail to choose an agent (i.e. the RIAA/Sound Exchange), but exactly how that part all works isn't very clear at this point.
it seems to me that even using music that the RIAA has absolutely no stake in, they will still collect money from it's use under the current proposal
i guess you consider going to gamespy.com and downloading a simple client some sort of hack then i guess. a script kiddie who downloads a ICMP prog and tries to DOS you with it is a virtual CS major by your standards.
the x-box ships network "ready" and is allready usable by thoose of us who have one as is. once the network is set up it will be even more so, in the meantime we can use it anyways online, which of the other 2 (ps2, GC) can say that??? oh that's right, neiher of em can:P
yea it will be the second system to have online next to the Dreamcast...
meanwhile back at the ranch Martissimo fires up Halo that is plugged in to his *built in* ethernet connection on his x-box (not rumored broadband connector coming soon to so many other game systems), and has a good time playing against people all over the world:P
FFX is selling very well, no doubt about it. That doesnt mean that the company is in great financial shape however.
Square was in *extreme* financial trouble after the flop of the FF Movie, they approached Sony themselves to be bailed out, and asked Sony to purchase a large of amount of their company (which Sony did).
They make very good games, but they seem to be managed by terrible businessmen, heck as we speak they are working on trying to set up *another* FF TV Series (hmm sound like the last TV flop, or maybe the movie?)
try reading this for a idea of how they are doing , or maybe try your own google searchs if you dont trust me.
The fact is that they are a company which got in so much financial trouble that they ASKED Sony to buy a large chunk of em, and even after Sony did so, they still need to find new ways of making money, and are willing to market their products to the competitiors of their parent company's product.
what if they were getting sustained rates of even only 20 KB/s but had 5 or 6 downloads going concurrently though at thoose speeds, it's certainly not impossible if you ask me
6000 songs split 3 ways (2000 songs each) figuring the avg mp3 is 3-4 megs a piece comes out to 6 to 8 gigs per each of the three.
even downloadin off a fairly slow mirror i just got the two RedHat isos (bout 1.2 gigs) in under 4 hours, with my crappy power link connection i wasnt even gettin the kinda speeds im capable of. on a fast server i could have done it in half that time easily.
i'd assume that to proove his point they gave theese 3 access to a T-1 each at minimum, maybe they shared a ds-3 or somethin who knows, but im sure the bandwidth was not skimped on to proove their point most effectively.
6000 songs doesnt really seem that impressive, but then again nothing about that example they tried to make is...
is the much larger issue. it's not just that our politicians make decisions on theese entertainment industry issues based on who they take money from... it's part of almost every major vote they make. I wonder what Hollings would champion as his cause, if nobody *told* him what causes to pick.
It would be great to see finance reform, it would shake the way theese guys do their jobs up quite a bit, and surely could clean up a bit of the corruption that is present.
Heck i saw a truly telling story at DSLReports last week on the Tauzin-Dingell vote and how it passed based on contributions from the Bells. Is this how we want to choose what laws get passed?
From Wired, a judge has refused to dismiss the case against Streamcast,Kazaa, and Grokster...looks like Morpheous got out just in time. Kazaa probably did them a big favor by sending em to Gnutella (and further weakened Kazaa's own case in this lawsuit to boot)
They did not even contact the developers of Gnucleus before they ripped off their software
Uhhh they used a piece of open source software, they also added a link to the source code to their website very quickly. I agree that if i want to use the Gnucleus client it is better to choose the version without Morpheous' ads. But i really dont see how they did anything wrong by using it.
the chemical itself is labeled as non-hazardous, as in, you wont see your finger melt off if you dip it in the stuff.
id say the process of using it would be considered "non-lethal", but i suppose that certainly somebody could crack their skull open in a fall, but the site does say it "will help the Marines stop or deter threats without the use of deadly force."
beats the heck out of shootin people, but could really could cause a lot of injuries too it sounds like
theese guys include a low bandwidth version for you 56k people to use if you feel the load time will negate the ease of use of the no refresh version it's right here. Personally i like the way the form works on the flash version, it's one of the few truly usefull flash things i have seen.
If developers could make more use of flash in a usefull way like this it could certainly be good for the product, until now i have considered it primarily a toy (and usually an annoying one)
Having an external firewire connection to me makes MUCH more sense in that they can use to for additional storage for drives. They can also make the device communicate with a PC easier where it acts as a "camera"; of course these very same suggestions might get them into "hotter" water with the Media companies..
they cant add a port to connect to a PC for just that reason, it makes them a *obvious* circumvention device at that point, and franly they have allready been takin a bit of heat as it is.
if you do want to though, it is possible to add an ethernet card to your tivo and just plug that into your box, just search on google, wont take ya but a few minutes to find a full step by step walkthru
Think about it, how many people are going to be running both clients? Spyware aside (you can disable all the Kazaa junk with a few dll wipes & registry play)
Just dismissing the spyware as a minor inconvenience seems wrong to me. I may be biased and a bit of a fanatic (i run ad-aware weekly on my win box at minimum, and after every software install)...
but i certainly wouldnt consider it a minor inconvenience, how many *typical* kids who fire up Kazaa to grab music even worry about spyware, let alone are competent to use RegEdit to disable it without trashing their easily screwed up OS (ok, ok its allready screwed up when it runs right but thats another story)
Spyware is one of the huge problems that theese P2P shareware/freeware progs have, and i wish more people would take that into consideration when choosing a client...the sooner theese people realize that the end users of their product dont approove of spyware, the better.
I could think of worse things to do with one's time, heck what if he gets a job outta the deal with Apple or something makin good money... would that 250 hours seem like a waste of time then?
And if not, maybe he just flat out enjoyed the time he spent doing it. There are lots of "recreational" activities taht people pour tons of time into, to others sometimes they seem odd, but if it is what you enjoy...then (shameless Nike plug lol) "Just Do It"
If you ask me, its one of the cooler lookin boxes i've ever seen, only the BeBox would compare favorably imo
Bnetd can not put the money into legally fighting Blizzard long term, and thus their "uphill legal battle" may never even exist...and yes that's a shame.
Bnetd probably needs to find a lawyer who sides with them so strongly that he is willing to work pro-bono...and it's not the kind of case that is likely to generate much fervor among the typical legal people.
much like spam faxes, unsolicited calls to cell phones will cost the end user a *lot* of money. Its something that the consumers will never stand for.
Currently i know that if you recieve a spam fax you can send a copy to:
Consumer Information Bureau Federal Communications Commision 445 Twelfth St. SW Washington DC 20554
if you ask that appropriate legal action be taken, it works! Not only that, you can sue the people who send the faxes (not for a ton, but the maximum amt is well over the cost of printer cartridges and paper)
Since this seems like a fairly equivalent situation, i.e the cost of the spam will definitely have a fair sized impact on your own bill (unlike standard telephone telemarkating and junk mail)... i would be surprised if things didn't work out the same way once complaints start flowing
SECOND! As another reader/writer has commented, in order to own an internet domain, a valid email address MUST be supplied. This is completely unavoidable. And simply being 'vulnerable' is not an excuse or justification for someone else to unfairly exploit your resources!!!
ahh but thats what Hotmail is for, any time i sign up for anything over the Internet i use a Hotmail account...every time i goto that account to recieve a confirmation e-mail its so full of spam it's almost funny. I only ever give my real e-mail that i actually check to close friends and it has never gotten 1 piece of spam.
If you gotta sign up for something you feel will possibly result in spam, why not have MS foot the bill for the bandwidth?;)
I spent many years as a dead head, though a somewhat mainstream one (IE. i maintained a job but had a fair bit of time to tour with em as well). And then a big part of the EFF...
i mean there is no way i couldn't like or support him, you would think...
But frankly he looks like he is gettin just a little exxagerated with his claims now, i love what he stands for and all, but you will never appeal to a broad audience making such off the wall claims (even if there is some basis for a bit of it). He could serve his position much better by making very rational points supported with good fact, rather than just saying all the things he speculates could *possibly* happen someday
Even if his claim doesn't pass judicial muster, it *will* throw a monkey wrench into BT's legal plans. At the very least i bet it costs em a few million more in legal fees as they analyze things before they (hopefully) get thrown out of court on their arse
Slashdot Mirror
the problem with DU shells is that they may be doing serious long term damage to the troops who use them instead of just the ones you shoot em at.
wonder why U-236 was found in Gulf War veterans urine, because supposedly no U-236 would be present in DU which is manufactured only from naturally occuring uranium supposedly? U-236 is not a naturally occuring isotope, so it can not be present if the process used to manufacture DU is the one they *claim* to use (seperating U-235 from naturally occuring uranium)
it is very likely that DU is responsible for Gulf War Disease.
theese shells are not as innocuous as they seem, would be nice if they kind a good alternative to them
even playing independent music like that, you will still have to pay the $500 minimum annual fee for webcasting.
and while on the royalties for playing the songs themselves, there are certainly provisions in the CARP proposal about artists that fail to choose an agent (i.e. the RIAA/Sound Exchange), but exactly how that part all works isn't very clear at this point.
it seems to me that even using music that the RIAA has absolutely no stake in, they will still collect money from it's use under the current proposal
Forget the hat, in times like theese only a Full tinfoil body suit will do!
i guess you consider going to gamespy.com and downloading a simple client some sort of hack then i guess. a script kiddie who downloads a ICMP prog and tries to DOS you with it is a virtual CS major by your standards.
:P
the x-box ships network "ready" and is allready usable by thoose of us who have one as is. once the network is set up it will be even more so, in the meantime we can use it anyways online, which of the other 2 (ps2, GC) can say that??? oh that's right, neiher of em can
yea it will be the second system to have online next to the Dreamcast...
:P
meanwhile back at the ranch Martissimo fires up Halo that is plugged in to his *built in* ethernet connection on his x-box (not rumored broadband connector coming soon to so many other game systems), and has a good time playing against people all over the world
FFX is selling very well, no doubt about it. That doesnt mean that the company is in great financial shape however.
Square was in *extreme* financial trouble after the flop of the FF Movie, they approached Sony themselves to be bailed out, and asked Sony to purchase a large of amount of their company (which Sony did).
They make very good games, but they seem to be managed by terrible businessmen, heck as we speak they are working on trying to set up *another* FF TV Series (hmm sound like the last TV flop, or maybe the movie?)
try reading this for a idea of how they are doing , or maybe try your own google searchs if you dont trust me.
The fact is that they are a company which got in so much financial trouble that they ASKED Sony to buy a large chunk of em, and even after Sony did so, they still need to find new ways of making money, and are willing to market their products to the competitiors of their parent company's product.
you do the math
and its a widely recognized fact in the console gaming business.
they need to get huge sales on FF from both the GameCube and the X-BOX to get em back in black type.
Shoul be interesting, i would gues Sony would really prefer that the FF series wasn't ported to Nintendo and Microsoft, but it will happen
i guess my obfuscated version of Hello World didnt win again!
Well not a thousand times, only once. But hey theres lots of fun stuff to be found doing it!
like this!
what if they were getting sustained rates of even only 20 KB/s but had 5 or 6 downloads going concurrently though at thoose speeds, it's certainly not impossible if you ask me
6000 songs split 3 ways (2000 songs each) figuring the avg mp3 is 3-4 megs a piece comes out to 6 to 8 gigs per each of the three.
even downloadin off a fairly slow mirror i just got the two RedHat isos (bout 1.2 gigs) in under 4 hours, with my crappy power link connection i wasnt even gettin the kinda speeds im capable of. on a fast server i could have done it in half that time easily.
i'd assume that to proove his point they gave theese 3 access to a T-1 each at minimum, maybe they shared a ds-3 or somethin who knows, but im sure the bandwidth was not skimped on to proove their point most effectively.
6000 songs doesnt really seem that impressive, but then again nothing about that example they tried to make is...
is the much larger issue. it's not just that our politicians make decisions on theese entertainment industry issues based on who they take money from... it's part of almost every major vote they make. I wonder what Hollings would champion as his cause, if nobody *told* him what causes to pick.
It would be great to see finance reform, it would shake the way theese guys do their jobs up quite a bit, and surely could clean up a bit of the corruption that is present.
Heck i saw a truly telling story at DSLReports last week on the Tauzin-Dingell vote and how it passed based on contributions from the Bells. Is this how we want to choose what laws get passed?
Maybe you should compare the two stories (the opne linked here at /. from CNN, and the MSNBC one)
They are exactly word for word the same AP released story.
Im no MS fan or anything, but this MS-MSNBC reporting conspiracy you are suggesting does not exist (at least in this case)
From Wired, a judge has refused to dismiss the case against Streamcast,Kazaa, and Grokster...looks like Morpheous got out just in time. Kazaa probably did them a big favor by sending em to Gnutella (and further weakened Kazaa's own case in this lawsuit to boot)
Jury to Hear File-Trading Case
They did not even contact the developers of Gnucleus before they ripped off their software
Uhhh they used a piece of open source software, they also added a link to the source code to their website very quickly. I agree that if i want to use the Gnucleus client it is better to choose the version without Morpheous' ads. But i really dont see how they did anything wrong by using it.
the chemical itself is labeled as non-hazardous, as in, you wont see your finger melt off if you dip it in the stuff.
id say the process of using it would be considered "non-lethal", but i suppose that certainly somebody could crack their skull open in a fall, but the site does say it "will help the Marines stop or deter threats without the use of deadly force."
beats the heck out of shootin people, but could really could cause a lot of injuries too it sounds like
theese guys include a low bandwidth version for you 56k people to use if you feel the load time will negate the ease of use of the no refresh version it's right here. Personally i like the way the form works on the flash version, it's one of the few truly usefull flash things i have seen.
If developers could make more use of flash in a usefull way like this it could certainly be good for the product, until now i have considered it primarily a toy (and usually an annoying one)
Having an external firewire connection to me makes MUCH more sense in that they can use to for additional storage for drives. They can also make the device communicate with a PC easier where it acts as a "camera"; of course these very same suggestions might get them into "hotter" water with the Media companies..
they cant add a port to connect to a PC for just that reason, it makes them a *obvious* circumvention device at that point, and franly they have allready been takin a bit of heat as it is.
if you do want to though, it is possible to add an ethernet card to your tivo and just plug that into your box, just search on google, wont take ya but a few minutes to find a full step by step walkthru
Think about it, how many people are going to be running both clients? Spyware aside (you can disable all the Kazaa junk with a few dll wipes & registry play)
Just dismissing the spyware as a minor inconvenience seems wrong to me. I may be biased and a bit of a fanatic (i run ad-aware weekly on my win box at minimum, and after every software install)...
but i certainly wouldnt consider it a minor inconvenience, how many *typical* kids who fire up Kazaa to grab music even worry about spyware, let alone are competent to use RegEdit to disable it without trashing their easily screwed up OS (ok, ok its allready screwed up when it runs right but thats another story)
Spyware is one of the huge problems that theese P2P shareware/freeware progs have, and i wish more people would take that into consideration when choosing a client...the sooner theese people realize that the end users of their product dont approove of spyware, the better.
I could think of worse things to do with one's time, heck what if he gets a job outta the deal with Apple or something makin good money... would that 250 hours seem like a waste of time then?
And if not, maybe he just flat out enjoyed the time he spent doing it. There are lots of "recreational" activities taht people pour tons of time into, to others sometimes they seem odd, but if it is what you enjoy...then (shameless Nike plug lol) "Just Do It"
If you ask me, its one of the cooler lookin boxes i've ever seen, only the BeBox would compare favorably imo
Bnetd can not put the money into legally fighting Blizzard long term, and thus their "uphill legal battle" may never even exist...and yes that's a shame.
Bnetd probably needs to find a lawyer who sides with them so strongly that he is willing to work pro-bono...and it's not the kind of case that is likely to generate much fervor among the typical legal people.
much like spam faxes, unsolicited calls to cell phones will cost the end user a *lot* of money. Its something that the consumers will never stand for.
Currently i know that if you recieve a spam fax you can send a copy to:
Consumer Information Bureau
Federal Communications Commision
445 Twelfth St. SW
Washington DC 20554
if you ask that appropriate legal action be taken, it works! Not only that, you can sue the people who send the faxes (not for a ton, but the maximum amt is well over the cost of printer cartridges and paper)
Since this seems like a fairly equivalent situation, i.e the cost of the spam will definitely have a fair sized impact on your own bill (unlike standard telephone telemarkating and junk mail)... i would be surprised if things didn't work out the same way once complaints start flowing
SECOND! As another reader/writer has commented, in order to own an internet domain, a valid email address MUST be supplied. This is completely unavoidable. And simply being 'vulnerable' is not an excuse or justification for someone else to unfairly exploit your resources!!!
;)
ahh but thats what Hotmail is for, any time i sign up for anything over the Internet i use a Hotmail account...every time i goto that account to recieve a confirmation e-mail its so full of spam it's almost funny. I only ever give my real e-mail that i actually check to close friends and it has never gotten 1 piece of spam.
If you gotta sign up for something you feel will possibly result in spam, why not have MS foot the bill for the bandwidth?
I spent many years as a dead head, though a somewhat mainstream one (IE. i maintained a job but had a fair bit of time to tour with em as well). And then a big part of the EFF...
i mean there is no way i couldn't like or support him, you would think...
But frankly he looks like he is gettin just a little exxagerated with his claims now, i love what he stands for and all, but you will never appeal to a broad audience making such off the wall claims (even if there is some basis for a bit of it). He could serve his position much better by making very rational points supported with good fact, rather than just saying all the things he speculates could *possibly* happen someday
Even if his claim doesn't pass judicial muster, it *will* throw a monkey wrench into BT's legal plans. At the very least i bet it costs em a few million more in legal fees as they analyze things before they (hopefully) get thrown out of court on their arse