Would people be so frustrated, if they were only suffering from hardware failures? Most crashes these days are software problems, and OSX isn't the one suffering from them...
I wanted to mod you down, but then I'd not be able to point out how simplistic and wrong your reasoning is.
Copyright infringement of other people's stuff, no matter how many people try to justify it, is ethically wrong.
If the only method that can successfully enforce copyright is to turn our nation, and the internet itself into some little fascist paradise, well then, it can't ethically be wrong. If the only method, is to force-feed propaganda to schoolchildren at taxpayer expense, well then, again, the law is more of a crime than the crime itself.
I'd much rather never be able to sell my own intellectual property than to have to live in a world turned into a shithole.
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Unfortunately, those really are irrelevant, being that they're rarely the type of criminal that authorities ever bother getting a wiretap warrant on.
1760s: The indians can be relied upon to help drive the british from america 1803: Let's sell the Louisiana Territories 1934: Let's overlook Germany's military buildup
Uncompressed text, maybe markup, and you're looking at about 20 terabytes I believe. Adding in the works with either illustrations or photographs, in some decent but lossy compressed format, and you're easily quadrupling that (just a guess).
Indexing, by what, subject, author, and title? 1% overhead at most. Fancier googlesque searching though, could be a big hit.
And correct me if I'm wrong, but there are quite a few videos too.
Not to mention some historical stuff that can't even be digitized all that well (think texts and other documents that could only be stored as images, because Unicode Consortium hasn't worked out the encoding for that language yet).
At 5 Mbit, my cable broadband outstrips anything the telcos can offer, and without that embarrassing DSL 18,000-33,000 ft range problem.
Not for some, apparently.
Besides, is it no longer a monopoly when the cable company still owns the HFC, but leases access out to a reseller? I fail to see how that's getting rid of a monopoly...
Having both, I can say that they both have their advantages.
DSL - static IP address, more upstream bandwidth, liberal use policy
Cable modem - more downstream bandwidth, and in a few cases about 2 hops closer to key backbones
Would I give up either? Not unless I can no longer afford to. They're both down up to 3 days a month, and thankfully those 3 days haven't overlapped yet. Plus, since I use a real linux router, and not some lameass linksys piece of shit, I can make use of both simultaneously. Not just failover, mind you, but round-robin connection marking through both. Can I download a single large file, making use of both? Not yet...
But supposing I scrape together enough talent to patch wget, I might be able to download a piece of the file over each, simultaneously.
So, let's just stop with the cable vs. dsl bullshit already, folks. Whichever you can get, or if both, whichever suits you, is best. It wasn't so long ago that we were all struggling along on 28.8k modems anyway.
I never said "grand conspiracy". But that's a nice strawman, if you need one. I would say it's a conspiracy of convenience that doesn't need much, if any, high level cooperation. The companies don't compete for the best worker, who needs a good worker when 20 mediocre workers can do the same? And if those 20 workers are contract workers, all the better.
So we should just allow large corporations to manipulate the job market in collusion? What if there were no FT jobs to accept, because these asshats manage to keep any from existing? Does that change anything? The DoJ antitrust division is toothless, unable to win even the most obvious cases, let alone something subtle like this. And you want to remove their one possible redress. Nice going.
Yes, and after you're done there, you can count every grain of sand at the beach, all the protons in Australia, and look for a snowflake in the shape of your initials at the north pole.
Here's a hint: There are too many.
There is almost certainly a finite number of spammers, and I would guess that this number is somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000 or so (obviously on some type of curve, where there might even be more that still account for 1% of spam or less). Eliminating 10,000 spammers still sounds like a big number, but most people tend to think it more manageable. The trick is just to get them all in one place at one time, I suggest an all-expenses-paid convention to Las Vegas, and a nuclear weapon. We can even evacuate the Las Vegasans first.
Haha. Even as an atheist, I was with him until he started talking about schooling, and it's role in civilizing children. You could more easily civilize them by giving them a spear and sending them out to live in the jungle until age 18. Just goes to prove that christians only have good ideas as long as they agree with their bible, eh?
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Even the klingons don't speak klingon, not since hte first few seasons of TNG. They just grunt out vaguely klingon-like sounds called "Paramount Hol" by those who care about such things...
No, it doesn't. Otherwise, the FBI would be going after the scriptkiddy that hacks Joe Sixpack's computer just as much as the one that hacks Acme Inc.'s network. Somehow, we'll get the shaft, like we always do.
If people wanted to play it, it would not be necessary to advertise. It simply wouldn't. These mystery players would be trading tips on the best places to play, digging out URLs just to be able to gamble.
Instead, it would seem, they have to stuff it down the morons' throats. Sure it's profitable, so is an extortion racket. Doesn't mean want it.
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Would people be so frustrated, if they were only suffering from hardware failures? Most crashes these days are software problems, and OSX isn't the one suffering from them...
I'm so damn close to getting a free ipod [freeipods.com],
No wonder you know so much about whores, ipod-boy.
And it's only half as full of stinky shit as say, an eMachines running XP Home Edition.
I wanted to mod you down, but then I'd not be able to point out how simplistic and wrong your reasoning is.
Copyright infringement of other people's stuff, no matter how many people try to justify it, is ethically wrong.
If the only method that can successfully enforce copyright is to turn our nation, and the internet itself into some little fascist paradise, well then, it can't ethically be wrong. If the only method, is to force-feed propaganda to schoolchildren at taxpayer expense, well then, again, the law is more of a crime than the crime itself.
I'd much rather never be able to sell my own intellectual property than to have to live in a world turned into a shithole.
Unfortunately, those really are irrelevant, being that they're rarely the type of criminal that authorities ever bother getting a wiretap warrant on.
Paramount's Deep Impact is $5.99 in Walmart bargain bins!
It will look like XP SP9, because Longhorn will be delayed once more. Duh.
1760s: The indians can be relied upon to help drive the british from america
1803: Let's sell the Louisiana Territories
1934: Let's overlook Germany's military buildup
Uncompressed text, maybe markup, and you're looking at about 20 terabytes I believe. Adding in the works with either illustrations or photographs, in some decent but lossy compressed format, and you're easily quadrupling that (just a guess).
Indexing, by what, subject, author, and title? 1% overhead at most. Fancier googlesque searching though, could be a big hit.
And correct me if I'm wrong, but there are quite a few videos too.
Not to mention some historical stuff that can't even be digitized all that well (think texts and other documents that could only be stored as images, because Unicode Consortium hasn't worked out the encoding for that language yet).
All we need is another robot with a stungun that chases the alarm clock. Problem solved!
Yes, but do they measure units of T-rex repulsiveness in Goldblums? Inquiring minds want to know.
(e.g. "It is generally believed that an odor have to be at least 3 goldblums in strength to make the T-rex run away from you...")
No, but they're still welcome to feed the original to the T-rex.
At 5 Mbit, my cable broadband outstrips anything the telcos can offer, and without that embarrassing DSL 18,000-33,000 ft range problem.
Not for some, apparently.
Besides, is it no longer a monopoly when the cable company still owns the HFC, but leases access out to a reseller? I fail to see how that's getting rid of a monopoly...
Having both, I can say that they both have their advantages.
DSL - static IP address, more upstream bandwidth, liberal use policy
Cable modem - more downstream bandwidth, and in a few cases about 2 hops closer to key backbones
Would I give up either? Not unless I can no longer afford to. They're both down up to 3 days a month, and thankfully those 3 days haven't overlapped yet. Plus, since I use a real linux router, and not some lameass linksys piece of shit, I can make use of both simultaneously. Not just failover, mind you, but round-robin connection marking through both. Can I download a single large file, making use of both? Not yet...
But supposing I scrape together enough talent to patch wget, I might be able to download a piece of the file over each, simultaneously.
So, let's just stop with the cable vs. dsl bullshit already, folks. Whichever you can get, or if both, whichever suits you, is best. It wasn't so long ago that we were all struggling along on 28.8k modems anyway.
I never said "grand conspiracy". But that's a nice strawman, if you need one. I would say it's a conspiracy of convenience that doesn't need much, if any, high level cooperation. The companies don't compete for the best worker, who needs a good worker when 20 mediocre workers can do the same? And if those 20 workers are contract workers, all the better.
So we should just allow large corporations to manipulate the job market in collusion? What if there were no FT jobs to accept, because these asshats manage to keep any from existing? Does that change anything? The DoJ antitrust division is toothless, unable to win even the most obvious cases, let alone something subtle like this. And you want to remove their one possible redress. Nice going.
Yes, and after you're done there, you can count every grain of sand at the beach, all the protons in Australia, and look for a snowflake in the shape of your initials at the north pole.
Here's a hint: There are too many.
There is almost certainly a finite number of spammers, and I would guess that this number is somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000 or so (obviously on some type of curve, where there might even be more that still account for 1% of spam or less). Eliminating 10,000 spammers still sounds like a big number, but most people tend to think it more manageable. The trick is just to get them all in one place at one time, I suggest an all-expenses-paid convention to Las Vegas, and a nuclear weapon. We can even evacuate the Las Vegasans first.
Or unless you need a non-windows machine (which everyone does, whether they know it or not) without being forced to learn to use linux or bsd.
Haha. Even as an atheist, I was with him until he started talking about schooling, and it's role in civilizing children. You could more easily civilize them by giving them a spear and sending them out to live in the jungle until age 18. Just goes to prove that christians only have good ideas as long as they agree with their bible, eh?
Even the klingons don't speak klingon, not since hte first few seasons of TNG. They just grunt out vaguely klingon-like sounds called "Paramount Hol" by those who care about such things...
That'll never work. There's simply no way to know what ISO codepage they use.
Get a goddamned 800 number, and use less-spoofable ANI identification? I mean, really.
No, it doesn't. Otherwise, the FBI would be going after the scriptkiddy that hacks Joe Sixpack's computer just as much as the one that hacks Acme Inc.'s network. Somehow, we'll get the shaft, like we always do.
Editors that could remember the stories that they put up the day before.
If people wanted to play it, it would not be necessary to advertise. It simply wouldn't. These mystery players would be trading tips on the best places to play, digging out URLs just to be able to gamble.
Instead, it would seem, they have to stuff it down the morons' throats. Sure it's profitable, so is an extortion racket. Doesn't mean want it.