I guarantee you will flat-out HATE Monster Cable. Guess the kind of product this description applies to:
... features a unique, advanced nitrogen gas-injected cellular dielectric, Xtra Low Noise® construction and high-density, triple-layer shielding to help reject interference and deliver fast and accurate signal transfer. Advanced design and construction maintain proper impedance to reduce jitter, optimizing focus, clarity and extended dynamic range.
Hint: it's 7 feet long and runs for US$30.
It's hard for me to fully plumb the depths of their shitfulness.
(Oh, okay. The above prose describes an IEEE1394 cable. Digital transmission. Seven feet. Thirty bucks. SHEEEEEEEEEESH.)
I think the RIAA could gather fairly strong evidence on this easily - set themselves up as a fake sharer of the same file and record how many people tried to downloaded from them. I think that would be very strong circumstancial evidence that copyright infringement does occur for others sharing the file. The standard of proof is after all quite low. What does that prove? If someone downloads a fake file, that doesn't say jack about infringement of copyright. Saying otherwise is like an undercover cop selling someone a baggie of road salt and then busting them for possession of crack.
The standard of proof isn't all that low: they have to prove not only that someone knowingly made the file available with intent to distribute, but that the file contained copyrighted material, and the file was actually transferred to another party. (Current copyright law allows me to make [contrary to most EULAs] umpty-zillion backups of something, but does not allow me to convey that something to someone else unless I get rid of all my copies in the process.)
Suppose I make available a file called, say, "Windows Vista Ultimate.iso", but it happens to contain a couple of gigabytes of trash. (Yes, I know, the real one already does.) The RIAA wants it so that I am already breaking some sort of law, even if 1) what I am conveying contains absolutely no protected content (at least until somebody files a patent claim on/dev/random), and 2) nobody downloads my bogus Vista ISO in the first place.
Many other courts have already stomped the "making available" argument into the mud and paved it over, and the RIAA itself has abandoned many lawsuits based on that premise for fear of further stompage.
Sysadm: Okay, power-cycle the patient and see if he reboots. Asst: Uh, he's not powering back up. Sysadm: Okay, that's a hardware problem. Shitcan him and install a new one.
Some people won't or can't adapt to a world where they can't make a living selling copies of information: a world where their talent as artists and authors is still valuable, but only when it's applied directly, not indirectly via copyright.
So how does an author "directly" apply his talent? Personally, I don't think Don Knuth would be too willing to hit the road and read "The Art of Computer Programming" to an audience... and I don't think I'd be all that willing to sit through the whole thing and take notes when he gets to the algorithm I would have otherwise looked up in a book.
Next on Fantastic Nooz: Scientist proves earth was created by asteroid collision with Moon, not the other way around. IAU rocked by the revelation and immediately reinstates Pluto as a full-fledged planet, with all rights and privileges. "Smaller bodies should have rights!", proclaim cosmologists.
Today on Fantastic Nooz: Jupiter rocked by accusations of illegally capturing dozens of minor orbiting bodies; plunges into deep depression over being called "solar system's largest gas giant" and attempts to commit suicide by standing in front of hurtling comet!
Thompson claims that the complaints violate state religious protections because his advocacy is motivated by his Christian faith.
I suggest Mr. Thompson read up on the Gospel of Matthew, noting especially Chapter 22, and remember whose park he's in and whose ground rules he's playing under.
If you're going to spend more than one night on the train and don't have much tolerance for marginal personal hygiene, it behooves you to drop the extra coin for a sleeper. My wife and I spent half our honeymoon (not so long ago) on the California Zephyr (Chicago-Oakland), which is about a three-day trip. We greatly appreciated being able to 1) sleep in peace, and 2) shower. Up in coach, you're pretty much at the mercy of the number of crying babies-in-arms and the amount of beer sold the night before.
Some time ago (pre-Katrina), I'd actually gotten my company to send me to a convention in New Orleans via Amtrak, after my having pointed out to them that it was actually cheaper for them to buy my train fare plus a sleeper (round trip, yet) than to fly me back and forth. Although the "City of New Orleans" is by no means the romantic American adventure Steve Goodman sang about, I still had a relaxing and productive trip.
Too bad Amtrak gets the budgetary shaft every year.
1. HAS paid the priority fee, AND
2. UA loses their luggage?
UA "customer" "service" "representative": We unloaded your luggage first, just like you paid for. It's just that someone else picked it up before you did.
More likely it alerts ground crews (or your friendly underpaid TSA luggage screeners) that the luggage belongs to people who carry stuff worth confiscating "for reasons of national security".
I wonder just how much time you've spent waiting for your luggage to show up. I don't know about those foo-foo boutique one-carrier airports on the edges of the continent, but if you're terminating at a hub airport like ORD, it usually works that everyone on the arriving flight arrives at the luggage claim pretty much at the same time and waits half an hour until those hypothetical orange-tagged bags come wheezing down the conveyor. United usually makes that worse by routing three or four flights' worth to the same baggage claim.
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And all they have to do is to send Frank out there with a replacement AE-35 unit.
Yeah, it just makes you look like a moraine.
I wonder what sin you had to commit in a previous life to find yourself the official dog poop examiner of Petah Tikva, Israel.
Islamic suicide bomber.
Hey, this means that the time spent watching cartoons was EDUCATIONAL after all!
Uh, I think you're talking about LARAMIE, not Larrabee.
Where are you getting yours, Nieman-Marcus?
I can go to, say, Newegg and get a 10' FW cable for three bucks.
I guarantee you will flat-out HATE Monster Cable. Guess the kind of product this description applies to:
Hint: it's 7 feet long and runs for US$30.
It's hard for me to fully plumb the depths of their shitfulness.
(Oh, okay. The above prose describes an IEEE1394 cable. Digital transmission. Seven feet. Thirty bucks. SHEEEEEEEEEESH.)
Personally, I'm looking forward to Windows 7, Quipu Edition.
The standard of proof isn't all that low: they have to prove not only that someone knowingly made the file available with intent to distribute, but that the file contained copyrighted material, and the file was actually transferred to another party. (Current copyright law allows me to make [contrary to most EULAs] umpty-zillion backups of something, but does not allow me to convey that something to someone else unless I get rid of all my copies in the process.)
Suppose I make available a file called, say, "Windows Vista Ultimate.iso", but it happens to contain a couple of gigabytes of trash. (Yes, I know, the real one already does.) The RIAA wants it so that I am already breaking some sort of law, even if 1) what I am conveying contains absolutely no protected content (at least until somebody files a patent claim on /dev/random), and 2) nobody downloads my bogus Vista ISO in the first place.
Many other courts have already stomped the "making available" argument into the mud and paved it over, and the RIAA itself has abandoned many lawsuits based on that premise for fear of further stompage.
Ramsey Electronics has a decent range of kits covering all sorts of subjects and skill levels.
Sure it does.
Sysadm: Okay, power-cycle the patient and see if he reboots.
Asst: Uh, he's not powering back up.
Sysadm: Okay, that's a hardware problem. Shitcan him and install a new one.
So how does an author "directly" apply his talent? Personally, I don't think Don Knuth would be too willing to hit the road and read "The Art of Computer Programming" to an audience... and I don't think I'd be all that willing to sit through the whole thing and take notes when he gets to the algorithm I would have otherwise looked up in a book.
Guess we'll have to accept martian packets now.
I first read that title as "Millions in Middle East Lose Interest".
Then I thought, "yeah, like *I* care."
"A security researcher calling himself porkythepig [...]"
How come I never hear of a cancer researcher calling herself "Bubba the Shithammer"? Or a nuclear scientist who calls himself "Fluffy Huggy Bunny"?
And people wonder why computer security is consistently ignored.
Next on Fantastic Nooz: Scientist proves earth was created by asteroid collision with Moon, not the other way around. IAU rocked by the revelation and immediately reinstates Pluto as a full-fledged planet, with all rights and privileges. "Smaller bodies should have rights!", proclaim cosmologists.
Today on Fantastic Nooz: Jupiter rocked by accusations of illegally capturing dozens of minor orbiting bodies; plunges into deep depression over being called "solar system's largest gas giant" and attempts to commit suicide by standing in front of hurtling comet!
Thompson claims that the complaints violate state religious protections because his advocacy is motivated by his Christian faith.
I suggest Mr. Thompson read up on the Gospel of Matthew, noting especially Chapter 22, and remember whose park he's in and whose ground rules he's playing under.
Anyone else thinks that this thing probably looked like this?
Amen to traveling by train... mostly.
If you're going to spend more than one night on the train and don't have much tolerance for marginal personal hygiene, it behooves you to drop the extra coin for a sleeper. My wife and I spent half our honeymoon (not so long ago) on the California Zephyr (Chicago-Oakland), which is about a three-day trip. We greatly appreciated being able to 1) sleep in peace, and 2) shower. Up in coach, you're pretty much at the mercy of the number of crying babies-in-arms and the amount of beer sold the night before.
Some time ago (pre-Katrina), I'd actually gotten my company to send me to a convention in New Orleans via Amtrak, after my having pointed out to them that it was actually cheaper for them to buy my train fare plus a sleeper (round trip, yet) than to fly me back and forth. Although the "City of New Orleans" is by no means the romantic American adventure Steve Goodman sang about, I still had a relaxing and productive trip.
Too bad Amtrak gets the budgetary shaft every year.
UA "customer" "service" "representative": We unloaded your luggage first, just like you paid for. It's just that someone else picked it up before you did.
More likely it alerts ground crews (or your friendly underpaid TSA luggage screeners) that the luggage belongs to people who carry stuff worth confiscating "for reasons of national security".
I wonder just how much time you've spent waiting for your luggage to show up. I don't know about those foo-foo boutique one-carrier airports on the edges of the continent, but if you're terminating at a hub airport like ORD, it usually works that everyone on the arriving flight arrives at the luggage claim pretty much at the same time and waits half an hour until those hypothetical orange-tagged bags come wheezing down the conveyor. United usually makes that worse by routing three or four flights' worth to the same baggage claim.
"Priority baggage handling", my ass.
(Today's captcha: "lawsuit".)
Most *nix systems that have a DNS implementation also have a /bin/dnsdomainname command. (Like an "automatic ATM machine"?)
And a few years later:
"Kiss my shiny metal ass, you feeble meat puppet!"
And it'll taste better, and be more nutritious!
Brings a new meaning to the phrase "server farm".