True, but that small amount probably wouldn't be a problem.
I think that's still a matter of legal debate. The question then becomes, "how much of a copyrited work do you have to download to constitute infringement? More than half? More than a chapter of a book? Any one complete song from a CD? What about half a song? Where do you draw the line?
I don't think that question has been answered clearly within the context of bittorrent. It could easily be interpreted as completing even one single piece, and I'm sure that's how the MPAA/RIAA would like it go swing when persecuting (oops sorry I meant prosecuting) peers. But of course they don't want it to work that way when they have wolves in the swarm.
GMail has imap, though you have to deliberately turn it on (it's off by default) and the switch isn't exactly glaringly obvious.
I believe the reason it's still "beta" is right now a LOT of people are using it as NON beta, for business, other important uses, or perhaps it's their only email address. Google probably knows that there's always that 1-in-1000 chance that something they do will break it in a way that causes data loss, or scrambles things badly enough for a few users that there won't be any reasonable way to fix it short of reset their mailboxes. When this happens, having the "beta" tag still on it will soften the public backlash a lot.
There's a couple ISPs in this area that have horrid email systems. One of them (Qwest) farmed out their email to MSN Live last year, and that has been an unrelenting nightmare for their customers. Whenever they approach us to help with their email, we convert them to gmail, and all of their problems instantly go away. That was after spending TWO hours on the phone being bounced between MSN and Qwest, each telling us that all the issues were the other's problem. We're very thankful to have GMail as an alternative to give to our customers.
GMail also happens to be the only imap email account I have, which is probably unusual since I have six of them, but that makes it something I can access from my ipod touch, which is a nice bonus. (yes it does pop too but you can't do concurrent pop on multiple computers without headaches)
I really do hope they keep it going, though I could personally care less if it never loses the "beta" tag.
when you see ships going by ABOVE the horizon level shouldn't that be a hint that you might not be in the safest place?
There are a number of places you can see that, where there's a diked river that runs through a bottoms area, and you look off to the right and see a barge or something up above you on the other side of the dike. Ya, New Orleans isn't the only place where people are living one downpour from disaster.
Second, you can set your client to not download anything but the tiny.NFO file for every torrent, and then share it back. Doing this, you get to watch the IPs connected to the tracker, but never share anything dangerous.
That doesn't work how you think it does. Files are divided into "pieces", which vary in size but are a tradeoff to keep piece size reasonable (~2mb) yet keep total piece count reasonable. (~1000) Too big of a piece size and it takes too long to get each piece. (and too much to redownload if a hash fails) Too many pieces means more tracker overhead and larger.torrent files.
So that.NFO at the front is bundled with perhaps 1.98mb of the start of the next file, in the first piece. There's no way to get (or share) just the.NFO file itself. The torrent pieces are made from a single giant (think TAR) file of the entire torrent. You can see this when you tell your client to download just one specific file. Look at the % complete and you'll notice the file before and after the one you wanted, you have like 2% of. That's because file boundaries rarely match piece boundaries. If you just select the first file, (say its the.NFO) you will download a percentage of the next file also. (you will get all of the first piece) It's totally unavoidable.
Only one peer has to be a wolf in the sheep. In a swarm of that popularity, there may be 3500 peers. Odds are slim indeed that all 3500 of them are NOT mpaa agents running BT logging tools. That safepeer or whatever it is isn't providing much beyond a false sense of security. They mainly block known subnets. If someone takes a logger home and loads it on their PC, (and I'm sure they do) then it will sneak into the swarm no matter what you try.
I know several people that have received multiple letters from their ISPs. A couple have been told "one more and we disconnect you". I haven't ran into anyone that's actually gotten the boot though so I don't know if they don't carry through, or if everyone just gives up on BT after the warnings look genuine.
Private trackers (and I don't mean "demonoid" private) are probably the safest way to BT at this time. Those users have to keep a ratio, and the wolves don't usually upload to the swarm, (seeing as that would either #1 be infringement, or #2 produce bad checksums and get you kicked) they just connect and quietly log IPs from the tracker scrapes. Those servers usually introduce some level of responsibility to the inviter for his invite tree also so people don't just invite random individuals, and invites are in too limited a supply to waste.
It's also worth remembering that some of the most populated parts of the Earth are also very close to sealevel.
But the reason for this is, populations tend to settle where there is water, usually for transportation.
So if the water level changes, they don't just sit there and starve or whatever.
they move to where the water is
This really isn't a big deal. It's worked this way for a long long time. They are there now because the water is there, not the other way around. People follow the water, water does not follow the people.
The MPAA/FOX may very well have their eyes on those seeder and peer lists.
I'll take anyone's bet to the otherwise. I have absolute confidence that all the peers in that torrent that have a flimsy ISP will get an email in a week.
It's probably more targeting people like me. I've already considered writing an app to scrape the pages, and download ALL their movies to a large hard drive or two.
I'm sure it's on a lot of other people's minds too with similar skills.
I do that from time to time for web archives of images too. Curse that 1000 hit limit on images.google.com!
actually when you plug in an ipod to a different computer, and open itunes, you can see all the music on the ipod. You just can't drag and drop it FROM the ipod (copy it) to the computer.
Actually with slightly more retrospect on this, I think the entire group that wrote in Colbert shouldn't even count. They didn't vote. They did what Colbert asked them to do. Someone that actually votes is expressing an opinion on an issue. This group that wrote in Colbert weren't expressing their opinion, they were just doing what he asked them to to. If he had asked them to write in "MrColbert" instead of "Colbert", then MrColbert would have won. None of them had any actual interest in "Colbert" being the elected name.
("beware the power of stupid people in large groups")
I wouldn't be surprised if they justify things by saying simply that the people that were actually interested in naming the module, voted Serenity, and that was the point of the vote, not to see who could dig up the most voters for unrelated reasons. Really, they didn't vote to name the module after Colbert, they voted to do what Colbert asked them to do, with absolutely no interest in what it was.
Based on that it would seem like a good compromise to name the module Serenity, yet name some significant part or component of the module after Colbert.
Because really in 2 months very few of those that voted Cobert are going to care one way or the other about it, they'll have already moved on to Colbert's next PR stunt. There's no reason for the rest of the planet to be stuck with the stunt's legacy. The people that voted Serenity do care and have an interest in its future.
This is probably the first time I have EVER seen anything even remotely approaching a good justification-by-example for the electoral college.
Looking back at the pre-american-revolution era, it's incredible the similarities the to-be-americans faced with what we are going through now.
Things like the Writ of Assistance etc. Basically "we're going to ignore any laws or rights you thought you had for a little while here, please step aside." These NSLs are basically doing that sort of thing.
regardless of the trip time, the layover stinks. I believe the article said it was going to take a very long time (2 yrs?) for earth and mars to get back to a favorable alignment for the return trip.
But still, 2 months being Canned Spam is worse than economy class
it looks like they're going to block audio and video conferencing, I bet they block bittorrent and anything else that can eat traffic too. 3mbps won't get them very far though if any significant chunk of the plane books time on the net. They're talking about passengers streaming video to watch... can you just imagine 25 passengers trying to stream video at 3mbps?
Better investment by far in that arena is a larger hard drive and load it up with media to watch while you fly. I've got overkill here, the media folder on my laptop has 135gb in it which is enough to keep me entertained for a weekend, let alone a flight. Will be nice to text IM (if allowed) or at least get email. But I'm sure they'll have the mother of all firewalls throttling and blocking traffic. Better have your VPN tunnels ready to rock. If they're going to allow email, that means imap, and if I can have imap and https they're not going to stop me from ssh'ing easily.
I can see fitting three in the smaller 60's craft, and maybe packing 5-6 in that bigger orion, for a trip to the moon. But MARS? How can you possibly cram 5-6 people in THAT for such a long trip? That's insane.
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anyone who is capable of getting themeslves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
There's a very old observation that doing well at your current job gets you promoted into a different job, but doing poorly does not, and therefore people tend to get promoted repeatedly until they land in a position they are ill-suited for, where they are kept. Sad, so very sad, but so very true.
(short version, "most systems tend to promote people into positions of incompetence")
Reminds me of "anger management" classes. I don't need anger management.... I'm managing my anger just fine thank you very much. Now quit squirming, you're making for a difficult target.
are you enabling someone to download or find pirated content? Then the RIAA might have something to say about that. I'm not sure what the current legal stance on that is, but that's an argument that a layer would probably make.
I'm enabling them to download pirated content if I'm their cable provider. SueSueSue!
Oh wait, I'm enabling them to download pirated content if I'm their power company! SueSueSue!
And I'm enabling them to download pirated content by selling them a computer without rootkits preinstalled! SueSueSue!
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What I mean is I don't care if they rename it Poptarts 3 Revenge of the Toaster, as long as I/we can continue to use it.
True, but that small amount probably wouldn't be a problem.
I think that's still a matter of legal debate. The question then becomes, "how much of a copyrited work do you have to download to constitute infringement? More than half? More than a chapter of a book? Any one complete song from a CD? What about half a song? Where do you draw the line?
I don't think that question has been answered clearly within the context of bittorrent. It could easily be interpreted as completing even one single piece, and I'm sure that's how the MPAA/RIAA would like it go swing when persecuting (oops sorry I meant prosecuting) peers. But of course they don't want it to work that way when they have wolves in the swarm.
Speaking of fastflux, is there anything they can do with DNS to discourage the botnets from using fastflux techniques to keep ahead of justice?
GMail has imap, though you have to deliberately turn it on (it's off by default) and the switch isn't exactly glaringly obvious.
I believe the reason it's still "beta" is right now a LOT of people are using it as NON beta, for business, other important uses, or perhaps it's their only email address. Google probably knows that there's always that 1-in-1000 chance that something they do will break it in a way that causes data loss, or scrambles things badly enough for a few users that there won't be any reasonable way to fix it short of reset their mailboxes. When this happens, having the "beta" tag still on it will soften the public backlash a lot.
There's a couple ISPs in this area that have horrid email systems. One of them (Qwest) farmed out their email to MSN Live last year, and that has been an unrelenting nightmare for their customers. Whenever they approach us to help with their email, we convert them to gmail, and all of their problems instantly go away. That was after spending TWO hours on the phone being bounced between MSN and Qwest, each telling us that all the issues were the other's problem. We're very thankful to have GMail as an alternative to give to our customers.
GMail also happens to be the only imap email account I have, which is probably unusual since I have six of them, but that makes it something I can access from my ipod touch, which is a nice bonus. (yes it does pop too but you can't do concurrent pop on multiple computers without headaches)
I really do hope they keep it going, though I could personally care less if it never loses the "beta" tag.
Intel, Dell, Toshiba, Asus, Netgear, D-Link, Belkin, SMC, Accton, 3-Com, Buffalo, Microsoft and Nintendo."
Notice one missing? What happened there? (did they actually license rather than "borrow without permission"?)
Actually I suppose I don't see Compaq anywhere in there either. Any other big names I'm overlooking?
when you see ships going by ABOVE the horizon level shouldn't that be a hint that you might not be in the safest place?
There are a number of places you can see that, where there's a diked river that runs through a bottoms area, and you look off to the right and see a barge or something up above you on the other side of the dike. Ya, New Orleans isn't the only place where people are living one downpour from disaster.
Second, you can set your client to not download anything but the tiny .NFO file for every torrent, and then share it back. Doing this, you get to watch the IPs connected to the tracker, but never share anything dangerous.
That doesn't work how you think it does. Files are divided into "pieces", which vary in size but are a tradeoff to keep piece size reasonable (~2mb) yet keep total piece count reasonable. (~1000) Too big of a piece size and it takes too long to get each piece. (and too much to redownload if a hash fails) Too many pieces means more tracker overhead and larger .torrent files.
So that .NFO at the front is bundled with perhaps 1.98mb of the start of the next file, in the first piece. There's no way to get (or share) just the .NFO file itself. The torrent pieces are made from a single giant (think TAR) file of the entire torrent. You can see this when you tell your client to download just one specific file. Look at the % complete and you'll notice the file before and after the one you wanted, you have like 2% of. That's because file boundaries rarely match piece boundaries. If you just select the first file, (say its the .NFO) you will download a percentage of the next file also. (you will get all of the first piece) It's totally unavoidable.
(and yes, I wrote a bittorrent client)
No, what they'll learn is to install even more offensive DRM that prevents you from reselling your game, so they can sell more new copies.
oh wait they're already starting to do that aren't they?
Only one peer has to be a wolf in the sheep. In a swarm of that popularity, there may be 3500 peers. Odds are slim indeed that all 3500 of them are NOT mpaa agents running BT logging tools. That safepeer or whatever it is isn't providing much beyond a false sense of security. They mainly block known subnets. If someone takes a logger home and loads it on their PC, (and I'm sure they do) then it will sneak into the swarm no matter what you try.
I know several people that have received multiple letters from their ISPs. A couple have been told "one more and we disconnect you". I haven't ran into anyone that's actually gotten the boot though so I don't know if they don't carry through, or if everyone just gives up on BT after the warnings look genuine.
Private trackers (and I don't mean "demonoid" private) are probably the safest way to BT at this time. Those users have to keep a ratio, and the wolves don't usually upload to the swarm, (seeing as that would either #1 be infringement, or #2 produce bad checksums and get you kicked) they just connect and quietly log IPs from the tracker scrapes. Those servers usually introduce some level of responsibility to the inviter for his invite tree also so people don't just invite random individuals, and invites are in too limited a supply to waste.
I do that from time to time for PORN too. Curse that 1000 hit limit on images.google.com!
Google Images actually has filters for that, that are on by default. You won't find much porn at all unless you sign in and disable safe browsing.
It's also worth remembering that some of the most populated parts of the Earth are also very close to sealevel.
But the reason for this is, populations tend to settle where there is water, usually for transportation.
So if the water level changes, they don't just sit there and starve or whatever.
they move to where the water is
This really isn't a big deal. It's worked this way for a long long time. They are there now because the water is there, not the other way around. People follow the water, water does not follow the people.
The MPAA/FOX may very well have their eyes on those seeder and peer lists.
I'll take anyone's bet to the otherwise. I have absolute confidence that all the peers in that torrent that have a flimsy ISP will get an email in a week.
It's probably more targeting people like me. I've already considered writing an app to scrape the pages, and download ALL their movies to a large hard drive or two.
I'm sure it's on a lot of other people's minds too with similar skills.
I do that from time to time for web archives of images too. Curse that 1000 hit limit on images.google.com!
I don't think anyone said it had any copyrighted music on it? maybe it was all free stuff.
actually when you plug in an ipod to a different computer, and open itunes, you can see all the music on the ipod. You just can't drag and drop it FROM the ipod (copy it) to the computer.
that has got to be the best one I've read all day
Actually with slightly more retrospect on this, I think the entire group that wrote in Colbert shouldn't even count. They didn't vote. They did what Colbert asked them to do. Someone that actually votes is expressing an opinion on an issue. This group that wrote in Colbert weren't expressing their opinion, they were just doing what he asked them to to. If he had asked them to write in "MrColbert" instead of "Colbert", then MrColbert would have won. None of them had any actual interest in "Colbert" being the elected name.
("beware the power of stupid people in large groups")
I wouldn't be surprised if they justify things by saying simply that the people that were actually interested in naming the module, voted Serenity, and that was the point of the vote, not to see who could dig up the most voters for unrelated reasons. Really, they didn't vote to name the module after Colbert, they voted to do what Colbert asked them to do, with absolutely no interest in what it was.
Based on that it would seem like a good compromise to name the module Serenity, yet name some significant part or component of the module after Colbert.
Because really in 2 months very few of those that voted Cobert are going to care one way or the other about it, they'll have already moved on to Colbert's next PR stunt. There's no reason for the rest of the planet to be stuck with the stunt's legacy. The people that voted Serenity do care and have an interest in its future.
This is probably the first time I have EVER seen anything even remotely approaching a good justification-by-example for the electoral college.
Looking back at the pre-american-revolution era, it's incredible the similarities the to-be-americans faced with what we are going through now.
Things like the Writ of Assistance etc. Basically "we're going to ignore any laws or rights you thought you had for a little while here, please step aside." These NSLs are basically doing that sort of thing.
regardless of the trip time, the layover stinks. I believe the article said it was going to take a very long time (2 yrs?) for earth and mars to get back to a favorable alignment for the return trip.
But still, 2 months being Canned Spam is worse than economy class
it looks like they're going to block audio and video conferencing, I bet they block bittorrent and anything else that can eat traffic too. 3mbps won't get them very far though if any significant chunk of the plane books time on the net. They're talking about passengers streaming video to watch... can you just imagine 25 passengers trying to stream video at 3mbps?
Better investment by far in that arena is a larger hard drive and load it up with media to watch while you fly. I've got overkill here, the media folder on my laptop has 135gb in it which is enough to keep me entertained for a weekend, let alone a flight. Will be nice to text IM (if allowed) or at least get email. But I'm sure they'll have the mother of all firewalls throttling and blocking traffic. Better have your VPN tunnels ready to rock. If they're going to allow email, that means imap, and if I can have imap and https they're not going to stop me from ssh'ing easily.
I can see fitting three in the smaller 60's craft, and maybe packing 5-6 in that bigger orion, for a trip to the moon. But MARS? How can you possibly cram 5-6 people in THAT for such a long trip? That's insane.
anyone who is capable of getting themeslves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
There's a very old observation that doing well at your current job gets you promoted into a different job, but doing poorly does not, and therefore people tend to get promoted repeatedly until they land in a position they are ill-suited for, where they are kept. Sad, so very sad, but so very true.
(short version, "most systems tend to promote people into positions of incompetence")
It's sort of an applied Murphy's Law.
Reminds me of "anger management" classes. I don't need anger management.... I'm managing my anger just fine thank you very much. Now quit squirming, you're making for a difficult target.
are you enabling someone to download or find pirated content? Then the RIAA might have something to say about that. I'm not sure what the current legal stance on that is, but that's an argument that a layer would probably make.
I'm enabling them to download pirated content if I'm their cable provider. SueSueSue!
Oh wait, I'm enabling them to download pirated content if I'm their power company! SueSueSue!
And I'm enabling them to download pirated content by selling them a computer without rootkits preinstalled! SueSueSue!
Thankfully it doesn't work that way.