some monitors that had "fallen off the truck". And they were only $100! This guy has really shown Best Buy that it's possible to sell a $1,000 monitor for $100, cover all distribution costs, and still make a profit
You seem to be saying AllofMP3 are thieves. They pay licence fees under Russian law, basically operating under the compulsory licensing model as used for radio broadcasters in many countries. The various foreign music companies could get their cut, admittedly not as much as they'd like, if they filled out a few forms. As for the profit margin, obviously Allof MP3 is covering their costs with their very low prices. So that implies the bulk of iTunes, et al., fees for similar services are pure profit.
I was saying since before the Iraq war that we were attacking the wrong country. We should have gone into Iran in the first place, since they are the epicenter of world terrorism
The epicenter? 16 of the 19 WTC hijackers were Saudi, as is Osama.
The US has been fucking around with Iran for over 60 years. They removed their democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953 and replaced him with the Shah. Finally the people revolted against this dictator propped up by the US and went to a Islamic government. Then the US encouraged and financed Saddam to go to war with them for 10 years. Nevertheless, more moderate leaders are popular, but are undercut by the extremists who can play the American card every time.
You've literally created your own nemesis. Short of nuking the whole country, you can't stop terrorism by military action. (And if you did nuke Iran, you'd radicalise every muslim nation in the world.) Try to wean yourself off cheap oil if you want to make the world, and America, safer.
It would have had to have some pretty impressive computer controlled landing software for 1969!?!
There had already been a few robot landers. Three Rangers, which crashlanded; five Surveyers (1966-68) which successfully softlanded. The Apollo 12 astronauts visited the Surveyer 3 site.
If it was wrong for the US in colonial days, it's wrong for China now.
US companies pirated books and copied industrial processes in the 19th C. But I don't recall any reverse-engineering a protocol. There is little similarity; and I see no moral problem at all.
it's still "wrong" for China (defined as the collective group of infringing companies, government agencies and individuals which happen to reside and work in China) to do it.
What "infringement"? As TFA says, THERE IS NO PATENT. They reverse-engineered a protocol. A week ago, some Americans did the same to the Galileo GPS signal. And that will lead to a direct monetary loss to Galileo. Was that "wrong"?
Downloading music is the least of the problems you could face: what if they downloaded kiddie porn or used your connection to communicate with "terrorist groups"? You might get out of it after a nice friendly chat with an FBI agent, but you might find yourself fighting criminal charges.
Why more so than the owners of an Internet cafe, or any business that provides free or paid wifi? Or for that matter, any ISP? Providing one more access point when there are literally millions already is hardly enabling crime.
Someone (the government, a religious group, etc) tries to get you shut down for providing this bad material to children. You counter that it is the parent's responsibility to control what their children do online....and that argument is shot down, because this decision is saying that the person who owns the method of access (the parent in this case) is NOT responsible for how their children use it (illegal filesharing in this case).
For maximizing freedom, I think the decision we want is that parents ARE responsible for what their children do on the net, or at least are responsible for taking reasonable steps to monitor and control their children.
There are many possible parties who could be held "responsible". By exonerating one, you don't automatically condemn another. Sometimes unfortunate things happen (kid sees porn), and there isn't anyone to sue. Sometimes kids suddenly run onto the road and get killed, everyone feels bad but no one has to go to jail. Ultimately, the parents are responsible for protecting their children, but even they can't be held to blame for everything.
Suspending someone in animation has at least one application: the military. I don't know how complicated the process is , but if you can suspend a wounded soldier in a forward area
Maybe you could RTFA? The process involves replacing the entire blood supply with a chilled fluid. I don't think you could do that in the field. Once they get him to the OR it would help.
I sincerely doubt that MS will lose much market share
But it could be a niche that MS neglects in favour of pushing out newer software. Most customers would fall into line and upgrade, a few might choose ReactOS rather than an unsupported MS OS.
If a password is so secure that it can't be guessed, then why change it?
They're assuming a decay of password security; that a proportion of people will write them down on odd bits of poaper and lose them, that they'll reuse the password in another context and have it spied out, keylogged, etc. Changing the password cleans up these leaks; unless you're just incrementing as above. If I was cracking and a stolen password failed I'd use it as the seed of an attack.
While very high quality originals (and ability to create high quality copies) may exist, those who profit from the copies will only allow lower quality copies to be made, to maximize the number of times to re-sell the copy. Meanwhile if the "owner" looses interest, the original fades into nothing.
Something like this happened with the
Gospel of Judas. It was found in the desert, preserved by the aridity, and passed through a few hands to a Swiss antiquities dealer. He wanted $3 million for it; when he couldn't get it he stashed it in a safe deposit box, for 17 years, where it rapidly crumbled away. Finally in 2000 it was sold and they spent 5 years reassembling and restoring it; but about 20% was lost.
If greed can almost destroy a gospel, none of our cultural heritage is safe.
No corporation would go to some OS that is a kludgey combination of both!
Further down the road, the only supported MS OSs will be laden with DRM and anti-piracy "features that may well refuse to run for whimsical reasons. You may not be able to buy a licence for a vintage MS OS at all. So it may be a solution a corporation, and not just a geek in his basement, could use for running legacy apps, especially under virtualisation.
his allows ISPs to make sure that developing connectivity can in fact, keep up with the explosive demand
Really? It says NOTHING about the total connectivity, just about how they want to carve up what conectiviy there is. In fact, it seems likely to discourage growth of capacity; if the premium services are running tight, they can just downgrade the "normal" services a bit more.
The Internet Archive is not interested in preserving or offering access to Web sites or other Internet documents of persons who do not want their materials in the collection. By placing a simple robots.txt file on your Web server, you can exclude your site from being crawled as well as exclude any historical pages from the Wayback Machine.
I really hate that. A site goes offline; then some completely unrelated company, often a link spammer, buys the domain; puts up an exclusionary robots.txt, and the information that they had nothing to do with and no claim on is suddenly gone forever from the archive (or more precisely, is not shown, they do keep it, but it's not displayed).
Yeh, because people are so much more familiar with 'point defense systems' than they are bubbles.
Better to use the wrong but familiar word rather than the right one? In any case "bubble" leaves a strong, incorrect, image if you just read the headline. If you read "point defence system" you may not know immediately how it works, but you understand it's a "defence" and can RTFA if you want to know more.
What would be the economic impact of even one passenger jetliner downed by terrorists? According to Wikipedia, the U.S. stock market lost $1.2 trillion in the week...Maybe a $10B price tag doesn't sound so bad after all?
That's all true; but you're assuming this system actually would work. Even if the threat is real, the "solution" has never been shown to work reliably, if at all.
But before we all bash them too too hard -- where, again, are the usable Linux desktops that we'd like to have to replace Windows???
If there was a plug-in replacement OS, then there wouldn't be a monololy, or any need for this. MS has stifled competition for decades, it's amazing there is anything viable left at all.
the fools on Myspace who have unique names, or even the ones with common names but specific addresses (or other identifying personal info) posted. In all liklihood every single trivial fact, every single inane/insane rant has been archived *somewhere* and it'll eventually turn up in a Google search
Google doesn't keep archives of websites permanently (or doesn't make them available if they do). When they re-spider a site they replace their copy with the current data; old pages will disappear from its search results after a few months. Archive.org may do so however, but they're a long way from complete.
Want a good example of how that "top site" statistic is a bunch of bullshit? I don't know a single person that uses Myspace
They claim "4.5% of all the US Internet visits". Obviously, some people spend hours on it per day and count for thousands of those hits. So it may well be true without impinging on your circle at all. I've only ever clicked on a few links that took me there, never felt the urge to go back.
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Rhetorical question, obviously Cowboy Neal didn't want to spend more than 30 seconds on it.
You seem to be saying AllofMP3 are thieves. They pay licence fees under Russian law, basically operating under the compulsory licensing model as used for radio broadcasters in many countries. The various foreign music companies could get their cut, admittedly not as much as they'd like, if they filled out a few forms. As for the profit margin, obviously Allof MP3 is covering their costs with their very low prices. So that implies the bulk of iTunes, et al., fees for similar services are pure profit.
The epicenter? 16 of the 19 WTC hijackers were Saudi, as is Osama.
The US has been fucking around with Iran for over 60 years. They removed their democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953 and replaced him with the Shah. Finally the people revolted against this dictator propped up by the US and went to a Islamic government. Then the US encouraged and financed Saddam to go to war with them for 10 years. Nevertheless, more moderate leaders are popular, but are undercut by the extremists who can play the American card every time.
You've literally created your own nemesis. Short of nuking the whole country, you can't stop terrorism by military action. (And if you did nuke Iran, you'd radicalise every muslim nation in the world.) Try to wean yourself off cheap oil if you want to make the world, and America, safer.
There had already been a few robot landers. Three Rangers, which crashlanded; five Surveyers (1966-68) which successfully softlanded. The Apollo 12 astronauts visited the Surveyer 3 site.
US companies pirated books and copied industrial processes in the 19th C. But I don't recall any reverse-engineering a protocol. There is little similarity; and I see no moral problem at all.
What "infringement"? As TFA says, THERE IS NO PATENT. They reverse-engineered a protocol. A week ago, some Americans did the same to the Galileo GPS signal. And that will lead to a direct monetary loss to Galileo. Was that "wrong"?
copyrights are in principal wrong
The word is "principle".
Why more so than the owners of an Internet cafe, or any business that provides free or paid wifi? Or for that matter, any ISP? Providing one more access point when there are literally millions already is hardly enabling crime.
There are many possible parties who could be held "responsible". By exonerating one, you don't automatically condemn another. Sometimes unfortunate things happen (kid sees porn), and there isn't anyone to sue. Sometimes kids suddenly run onto the road and get killed, everyone feels bad but no one has to go to jail. Ultimately, the parents are responsible for protecting their children, but even they can't be held to blame for everything.
Plus a large amount of benefits and support for his family for decades. If you can get him functional it could save a lot of money.
Maybe you could RTFA? The process involves replacing the entire blood supply with a chilled fluid. I don't think you could do that in the field. Once they get him to the OR it would help.
But it could be a niche that MS neglects in favour of pushing out newer software. Most customers would fall into line and upgrade, a few might choose ReactOS rather than an unsupported MS OS.
By itself, it didn't give access. It was used to elevate privileges AFTER the password was compromised.
They're assuming a decay of password security; that a proportion of people will write them down on odd bits of poaper and lose them, that they'll reuse the password in another context and have it spied out, keylogged, etc. Changing the password cleans up these leaks; unless you're just incrementing as above. If I was cracking and a stolen password failed I'd use it as the seed of an attack.
Something like this happened with the Gospel of Judas. It was found in the desert, preserved by the aridity, and passed through a few hands to a Swiss antiquities dealer. He wanted $3 million for it; when he couldn't get it he stashed it in a safe deposit box, for 17 years, where it rapidly crumbled away. Finally in 2000 it was sold and they spent 5 years reassembling and restoring it; but about 20% was lost.
If greed can almost destroy a gospel, none of our cultural heritage is safe.
The Iron Chef is good, but I like Jamie Oliver too.
Further down the road, the only supported MS OSs will be laden with DRM and anti-piracy "features that may well refuse to run for whimsical reasons. You may not be able to buy a licence for a vintage MS OS at all. So it may be a solution a corporation, and not just a geek in his basement, could use for running legacy apps, especially under virtualisation.
Really? It says NOTHING about the total connectivity, just about how they want to carve up what conectiviy there is. In fact, it seems likely to discourage growth of capacity; if the premium services are running tight, they can just downgrade the "normal" services a bit more.
As teachers or students?
I really hate that. A site goes offline; then some completely unrelated company, often a link spammer, buys the domain; puts up an exclusionary robots.txt, and the information that they had nothing to do with and no claim on is suddenly gone forever from the archive (or more precisely, is not shown, they do keep it, but it's not displayed).
Better to use the wrong but familiar word rather than the right one? In any case "bubble" leaves a strong, incorrect, image if you just read the headline. If you read "point defence system" you may not know immediately how it works, but you understand it's a "defence" and can RTFA if you want to know more.
That's all true; but you're assuming this system actually would work. Even if the threat is real, the "solution" has never been shown to work reliably, if at all.
If there was a plug-in replacement OS, then there wouldn't be a monololy, or any need for this. MS has stifled competition for decades, it's amazing there is anything viable left at all.
Didn't work out so well for Nixon.
Google doesn't keep archives of websites permanently (or doesn't make them available if they do). When they re-spider a site they replace their copy with the current data; old pages will disappear from its search results after a few months. Archive.org may do so however, but they're a long way from complete.
They claim "4.5% of all the US Internet visits". Obviously, some people spend hours on it per day and count for thousands of those hits. So it may well be true without impinging on your circle at all. I've only ever clicked on a few links that took me there, never felt the urge to go back.