I use the Enron archive format for backing up my records. It's easy, but time consuming:
1. Print out emails.
2. Shred them.
Man, it's so nice not being burdened by the embarrasing history of all the emails I sent. Besides, that was a long time ago, way before Score: 5, Funny.
This ruling makes the publication of security vulnerabilities and their proof of concept through reverse engneering illegal in France.
Awesome! French software manufacturers can now use the threat of prosecution to avoid having faulty software criticized. French software manufacturers thus have less incentive to fix their broken software products.
Hopefully the French will start buying their software products from America!
"The patent infringement claim by Rambus, the SCO of the chip world, against Infineon have been dismissed by a judge in Virginia due to Rambus destroying documents relating to the lawsuit." Of course, Rambus is already planning an appeal, so this may not be over just yet.
Man, I really hope they win the appeal. I'd hate to see them lose their ability to innovate.
And how many of those distributors have direct ties to a major television network? Let's see:
Warner --> WB
Fox --> Fox
UMVD --> NBC
Buena Vista --> ABC
Yup, you're absolutely right. Not a single one of them is a "TV company."
As far as I know, many companies have direct ties to many other companies. What's your point?
Waaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! Nobody in the Slashdot community recognizes my superior intellect and that my submissions are uber newsworthy!!! If only I could get an article posted on Slashdot, then my life would be complete. Waaaaaaa!!!
Have fun, coward? At least I post under my user id.
And I think my rant is well founded. Slashdot is so inconsistent in the submissions it accepts, it discourages members with legitimate news stories from submitting them. Instead, this drivel crap gets posted.
Strange. I could swear that these were on broadcast TV.
Congratulations. You've just mentioned products that are distributed by Warner Home Video, Fox Home Entertainment, Umvd, and Buena Vista Home Entertainment. These are not "TV companies" per se, they are distributors.
An Extremely Anonymous Coward asks: "I've been thinking about the mass downloading of TV episodes."
Congratulations, thanks for sharing. It's good to see submissions like this get accepted, whilst my newsworthy sumbissions get bounced.
The TV companies appear to not be so desperate to sue people into bankruptcy for watching an illicit episode of _Friends_ or _The OC_.
Which "TV companies?" Are you referring to broadcasting networks? Given that broadcasted networks do not sell TV programs yet, program piracy has yet to impact the "market". But try stream a live event, such as SuperBowl, over P2P and you'll likely get sued. Especially how the NFL grants no unauthorized individual the ability to reproduce or rebroadcast the show, included "verbal descriptions" of the show.
Does this mean they really are wondering about using this new media, rather then foaming at the mouth and suing twelve year olds?
The networks discovered that suing 12 year olds reduced the effectiveness of commercials against said individuals.
Will TV show production companies be the first to show some sense and offer their own downloads on a pay per view basis?
Hopefully it will be before they allow the customer to skip past commercials.
This has enormous ramifications for the lay person. Let me break it down.
The "slit" was a crafted femtosecond pulse consisting of one-and-a-half cycles--say, two maxima and one minima--passed through an argon gas.
Anyone who has a femtosecond pulse generator should feel comfortable with this. If not, get access to a two-photon UV femtosecond pulse generator which uses nanosecond-time-scale infrared laser to deplete the terminal state of an F2 laser, based on F2 transitions.
Next, you'll want a healthy dose of argon gas. Argon is used to reduce heat loss in sealed units by slowing down convection inside the air space. You can get argon gas cartridges to prevent wine oxidation, which is a neat little side benefit. A 50L cylinder filled with argon gas to a pressure of 10130 kPa at 30C has approximately 201 moles of argon. Just remember that if you're going to lase with argon, its most efficient transitions are at 488 nm and 514.5 nm.
So now you'll need to create an ion chamber using the argon gas. You'll need a metal conducting can, and a wire electrode in the center which is well insulated from the chamber walls. The chamber, of course, will be filled with argon.
Next, you'll need to use your femtosecond pulse generator to apply a DC voltage between the outer can and center electrode. This will create an electric field, of only a few volts, that sweeps the ions to the oppositely charged electrodes. For some additional fun, if you apply a few hundred volts, the electron emissions will produce "secondary emissions", which amplify the results. I wouldn't recommend creating one of these by hand if you haven't already done so, but remember to use a 4.7uF capacitor with non-polar film, a 100,000 megohm resistor and a 2N4117A electrometer-grade JFET.
Anyways, generating a local maxima shouldn't be too difficult if you keep the phase dynamics of your pulse generator within one half delta of the wavelength propogation delay of your argon gas cylinder. This, as always, varies according to room temperature, so be sure to calibrate your scales before attempting the experiment.
The trickiest part of the experiment is to build a ray tube to display your intereference pattern. I suggest using a Tektronix Type 453 Oscilloscope, which may be hard to find but has the best bang per buck.
In no time at all, you'll be generating double slits in time!
SP 1 was attacked 4,857 times. It was infested within 18 minutes by the Blaster and Sasser worms. Within an hour it became a "bot," or a machine controlled by a remote computer, and began attacking other Windows computers.
From what I remember in Tron, this visually looks very cool. Digital warriors fighting on a neon grid, etc.
I'm pretty stumped, though. I tried to get my box pwned eight times, just to see the digital battle. I thought at the least Norton Antivirus would sent a digital probe destroyer bot out to eradicate the trojans. But all that happened was my computer got really slow, and pop-ups kept showing up, advertising herbal virility pills for men.
Come to think of it, Hollywood movies never seem to match up with what my computer does. That's it, I'm going to stop believing them movies and start reading Wikipedia instead.
I once worked for a professional services IT firm where the president did not have much technical knowledge. However, he did a great job of leveraging the people below him, and was able to set and execute his vision very well.
I contrast that to Amazon, where I interviewed last year for a senior management position. I got to the last round interviews, but was discounted from futher consideration because I didn't have "enough technical skills". Which is funny, because they didn't ask me a single challenging technical question.
They really wanted their senior managers to be able to code hands-on, instead of managing developers via a solid SDLC methodology. Which might explain why their web site crashes so often during the holiday season.
It looks like one video card is not going to cut it any more, at least for the hardcore gamers out there.
One video card will more than enough "cut it", at least until Unreal Engine 3 is released.
Also keep in mind that it will soon become a standard process to integrate multiple GPUs onto a single video card. This has the benefits of SLI performance while reducing voltage and memory requirements.
One interesting episode describes an engineer squatting CEO's office seeking solutide from the noise surrounding him in the cube area.
Say that fast five times in a row.
Strange coincedence?
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Let me share with you a strange event that just happened to me. It may be slightly offtopic, but is strongly reminiscent of this book review.
I was just about to post to/. in order to try to get another Score 5, Funny, when all of the sudden I received an email from myself.
Now, this is very dubious, since no one on my LAN would spoof an email to me. So I read it, and it said "Dear null etc., I know this sounds strange, but I am you, and must warn you (or me, for that matter) that you should not post to/. and get another Score 5, Funny. If you do (and I did, that's why I'm warning you), the consequences will be dire, and the overall quality of the posts on/. will decline."
So I quickly deleted my post and sent this one instead. Now, I'll wait patiently and hope I don't get Score 5, Funny.
This reminds me of Smallville, where one guy would get bitten by a bug who ate meteor rock, and the guy would develop bug powers. Another guy would fall on a hot meteor rock, and would develop heat powers. I can't wait for the stem cell meteor rock episode.
Before anyone jumps in and talks about lost sales, let me just say I don't believe you. There is _no way_ all the people I know who download this stuff would have bought it if it weren't available "for free" They all buy just as much (or just as little) as they did before they got broadband.
Let's pretend that in one year you illegally download 25 films and watch them, spending 60 hours and no money. If none of those films were available for download, it's true that you wouldn't buy all 25 films. But you might buy 2 of them, which translates to $30 to $60 in sales.
Furthermore, if you didn't spend those 60 hours illegally watching films, you would have to find some other way to entertain yourself. You might go out and buy Grand Thef Auto: San Andreas for $50, and play it for 50 hours.
So while it's true that downloaders would almost never pay for everything they watch, it's also true that downloaders would almost always pay for at least one thing they watch, or a substitute.
No, but DRM technologies make it so that the bits alone do not allow the content to be played. The bits must be supplemented with some other identifying characteristics which identify the possessor as having permission to play the content.
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I just hope they patent it before anyone else can use it. I'd hate to see them give up their ability to innovate.
1. Print out emails.
Man, it's so nice not being burdened by the embarrasing history of all the emails I sent. Besides, that was a long time ago, way before Score: 5, Funny.2. Shred them.
I'd like to be the developer that codes the algorithm for dimming the unimportant parts of pr0n images. I'd need plenty of research images, of course.
GNOME does put (certain) users first! (i.e. the developers and designers of GNOME)
I think alot of the world's problems would be solved if everyone was taxed 100% on everything.
Awesome! French software manufacturers can now use the threat of prosecution to avoid having faulty software criticized. French software manufacturers thus have less incentive to fix their broken software products.
Hopefully the French will start buying their software products from America!
Next, they will develop specialized chips for enemy AI. Hope that your enemy doesn't hack it's way out of the chip and set your toaster on fire.
Man, I really hope they win the appeal. I'd hate to see them lose their ability to innovate.
As far as I know, many companies have direct ties to many other companies. What's your point?
Have fun, coward? At least I post under my user id.
And I think my rant is well founded. Slashdot is so inconsistent in the submissions it accepts, it discourages members with legitimate news stories from submitting them. Instead, this drivel crap gets posted.
Congratulations. You've just mentioned products that are distributed by Warner Home Video, Fox Home Entertainment, Umvd, and Buena Vista Home Entertainment. These are not "TV companies" per se, they are distributors.
Congratulations, thanks for sharing. It's good to see submissions like this get accepted, whilst my newsworthy sumbissions get bounced.
The TV companies appear to not be so desperate to sue people into bankruptcy for watching an illicit episode of _Friends_ or _The OC_.
Which "TV companies?" Are you referring to broadcasting networks? Given that broadcasted networks do not sell TV programs yet, program piracy has yet to impact the "market". But try stream a live event, such as SuperBowl, over P2P and you'll likely get sued. Especially how the NFL grants no unauthorized individual the ability to reproduce or rebroadcast the show, included "verbal descriptions" of the show.
Does this mean they really are wondering about using this new media, rather then foaming at the mouth and suing twelve year olds?
The networks discovered that suing 12 year olds reduced the effectiveness of commercials against said individuals.
Will TV show production companies be the first to show some sense and offer their own downloads on a pay per view basis?
Hopefully it will be before they allow the customer to skip past commercials.
I love how patents encourage innovation. Now Symantec will be able to lock up the market and really innovate some cool stuff!
The "slit" was a crafted femtosecond pulse consisting of one-and-a-half cycles--say, two maxima and one minima--passed through an argon gas.
Anyone who has a femtosecond pulse generator should feel comfortable with this. If not, get access to a two-photon UV femtosecond pulse generator which uses nanosecond-time-scale infrared laser to deplete the terminal state of an F2 laser, based on F2 transitions.
Next, you'll want a healthy dose of argon gas. Argon is used to reduce heat loss in sealed units by slowing down convection inside the air space. You can get argon gas cartridges to prevent wine oxidation, which is a neat little side benefit. A 50L cylinder filled with argon gas to a pressure of 10130 kPa at 30C has approximately 201 moles of argon. Just remember that if you're going to lase with argon, its most efficient transitions are at 488 nm and 514.5 nm.
So now you'll need to create an ion chamber using the argon gas. You'll need a metal conducting can, and a wire electrode in the center which is well insulated from the chamber walls. The chamber, of course, will be filled with argon.
Next, you'll need to use your femtosecond pulse generator to apply a DC voltage between the outer can and center electrode. This will create an electric field, of only a few volts, that sweeps the ions to the oppositely charged electrodes. For some additional fun, if you apply a few hundred volts, the electron emissions will produce "secondary emissions", which amplify the results. I wouldn't recommend creating one of these by hand if you haven't already done so, but remember to use a 4.7uF capacitor with non-polar film, a 100,000 megohm resistor and a 2N4117A electrometer-grade JFET.
Anyways, generating a local maxima shouldn't be too difficult if you keep the phase dynamics of your pulse generator within one half delta of the wavelength propogation delay of your argon gas cylinder. This, as always, varies according to room temperature, so be sure to calibrate your scales before attempting the experiment.
The trickiest part of the experiment is to build a ray tube to display your intereference pattern. I suggest using a Tektronix Type 453 Oscilloscope, which may be hard to find but has the best bang per buck.
In no time at all, you'll be generating double slits in time!
What's a doner?
From what I remember in Tron, this visually looks very cool. Digital warriors fighting on a neon grid, etc.
I'm pretty stumped, though. I tried to get my box pwned eight times, just to see the digital battle. I thought at the least Norton Antivirus would sent a digital probe destroyer bot out to eradicate the trojans. But all that happened was my computer got really slow, and pop-ups kept showing up, advertising herbal virility pills for men.
Come to think of it, Hollywood movies never seem to match up with what my computer does. That's it, I'm going to stop believing them movies and start reading Wikipedia instead.
I contrast that to Amazon, where I interviewed last year for a senior management position. I got to the last round interviews, but was discounted from futher consideration because I didn't have "enough technical skills". Which is funny, because they didn't ask me a single challenging technical question.
They really wanted their senior managers to be able to code hands-on, instead of managing developers via a solid SDLC methodology. Which might explain why their web site crashes so often during the holiday season.
One video card will more than enough "cut it", at least until Unreal Engine 3 is released.
Also keep in mind that it will soon become a standard process to integrate multiple GPUs onto a single video card. This has the benefits of SLI performance while reducing voltage and memory requirements.
I now open this forum up to suggestions.
Say that fast five times in a row.
I was just about to post to /. in order to try to get another Score 5, Funny, when all of the sudden I received an email from myself.
Now, this is very dubious, since no one on my LAN would spoof an email to me. So I read it, and it said "Dear null etc., I know this sounds strange, but I am you, and must warn you (or me, for that matter) that you should not post to /. and get another Score 5, Funny. If you do (and I did, that's why I'm warning you), the consequences will be dire, and the overall quality of the posts on /. will decline."
So I quickly deleted my post and sent this one instead. Now, I'll wait patiently and hope I don't get Score 5, Funny.
This reminds me of Smallville, where one guy would get bitten by a bug who ate meteor rock, and the guy would develop bug powers. Another guy would fall on a hot meteor rock, and would develop heat powers. I can't wait for the stem cell meteor rock episode.
Let's pretend that in one year you illegally download 25 films and watch them, spending 60 hours and no money. If none of those films were available for download, it's true that you wouldn't buy all 25 films. But you might buy 2 of them, which translates to $30 to $60 in sales.
Furthermore, if you didn't spend those 60 hours illegally watching films, you would have to find some other way to entertain yourself. You might go out and buy Grand Thef Auto: San Andreas for $50, and play it for 50 hours.
So while it's true that downloaders would almost never pay for everything they watch, it's also true that downloaders would almost always pay for at least one thing they watch, or a substitute.
No, but DRM technologies make it so that the bits alone do not allow the content to be played. The bits must be supplemented with some other identifying characteristics which identify the possessor as having permission to play the content.