I would say go back to school. There are programs at various schools, including but not limited to state and private universities, that offer study abroad. Pick your country. I went to Spain this past summer for 2 months on a program to learn Spanish. That was it. Cost was $3600 including room and board and school. After the program was over I spent the next month hooving it around western Europe. With a month railpass, I was able to visit 12 different countries. Stay at hostels which are safe and offer clean, comfortable nightly accomodations for as little as $10 a night. Overall, the trip cost me about $6000. The best part of it was that I was able to get stafford loans to finance almost the entire trip. Nothing like a government gauranteed 3.4% interest loan that you don't have to pay back until you are not taking any more classes.
I definitely agree with the above poster on 1, 2,4. As far as coming up with the $20,000, find a lawyer that will draw up a rock solid non disclosure agreement and then shop it around to rich businessmen and patent lawyers after you get a signed NDA.
my vote is for tea as well. It does not have any of the crap that most sodas do unless you add any sugar. It also has tons of caffeine. I went to a huge lan party in Los Angeles earlier this year and for the event I made 3 gallons of sun tea and then kept them in a cooler next to my computer.
I swear, some of the kids that were slurping down the Dew, Bawls, Red Bull, etc. looked fatter by the end of the lan and looked more drained than any of my friends who were chugging the tea.
Tea Rules.
I believe the latency to a Geostationary satellite is 250ms round trip. I do data transfers daily across the Magnastar radiotelephone systems and Inmarsat Satcom systems for aircraft and can vouch that the bandwidth sucks. I have had to drop data speeds to about 2400 bps just to get a reliable link. Lucky bastardos in the government though have nice Satellite T1 links to play with. At least they have link problems too.
I am a user of Sprint PCS, as is my dad, my mom, my sister, and my girlfriend. Each one of use regularly receive calls that flash an "Unkown ID" on the caller id screen, and every time we answer the call it quickly hangs up. Each time it does this I am charged a minute. While I have plentiful minutes, how about the people that regularly go over their minutes?
Is the PCS company using autodialers to generate revenue?
Check out software available through Karlnet. They made the firmware for most 802.11 devices out there and have software that would allow control over who has access and who doesn't, bandwidth throttling, etc. Some of the stuff only works with specific APs and their own Turbocell drivers but it all looks pretty nifty.
I had a similar experience riding Goliath at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, CA. I was completely dissoriented and needed help getting out of the ride. In addittion to that my vision greyed out around the fringes on one of the high G parts, the rising corkscrew part of the ride. I enjoy roller coasters but will not get on that ride ever again. Just to make a point that these things happen to everybody, I am a perfectly healthy 20 year old male.
Interesting.. Once again Microsoft proves just how stupid their Rhode's scholar winning, 4.0 GPA, full ride to Haaahhhhvaaad (MIT, Cal-tech, Yale, etc.), over achieving, 1600 on the SAT, employees really are.
I find it very interesting that AOL would partner with TIVO to provide services at the same time that the CEO of one of its holdings would decry TIVO users as thieves.
screw going to the movie theater, let me just load this VCD I made into my DVD player. The MPAA/RIAA is evil. With 48 million downloads, they still believe that they can stop the decentralized Music City network. (morpheus, kazaa...) I liken their actions to Bush and Clintons laughable attempts at stemming the flow of drugs into the US. Just as with drugs, the only way the RIAA/MPAA is going to stop piracy by anything more than a percentage I can count on one hand ( 5)is to stop underhanded/wrong enforcement on things that are obviously broken (ie DMCA, et. al.), remove the demand for pirated copies by lowering prices (damn! No new Lear Jet this year ($30 mil!!).), and bring back consumer trust in the big companies. I mean seriously, how many of you has listened to EVERY mp3 you have downloaded? Heck, I download them just to provide another reliable source other than your local Virgin Megastore.
Lets see Adobe has used it on a foreign national, the purveyors of the crappy SDMI copyright control software has used it on a university educator, what other big ones? I know there are more.
Ok, I cannot figure out how the hell the DMCA would apply here. It appears to me that the product allows the download of the data off of the cartridges and onto the computer, as well as the upload of data from the computer to the GBA.
It would seem to me that if that were illegal computer CD players and CDRW burners would be illegal as well as they allow COPYRIGHTED data to be transfered to a computer, and then through use of a burner transfered from the computer onto the media. Somebody should hand the NintenDUH people a cluestick.
I don't know much about laser communications, but wouldn't things like the above cause the laser to scatter making it unusable in the above conditions? I could especially see this with rain because of the refractive properties of water. I do know my school uses this to get bandwidth, and all I have known it for is unreliability.
Ok, has anybody thought to just back up your necessary data, buy any necessary software, and reformat your hard drive? Its pretty tough for the BSA to come after you when you have 200 machines with 200 copies of freshly installed copies of MS Office and 200 licenses. You may have been pirating before but now, because of the format, the registry keys the BSA goes after all show recent dates and are registered under valid keys. While this may take a lot of time in a big company, certainly it would save you some money paid to the BSA in the form of a settlement for piracy.
I run a one person operation out of my house and I got one of these letters. What do they do, go down the list of businesses in an area and figure EVERYBODY is pirating their software? I am ingnoring everything they send me. If they want to send a federal marshall to my house, I will see their ass in court. I haven't run windows for about 2 years now, and have never had any employees to rat on me for using "illegal software." Pirate my ass. More than anything this makes me want to start doing file sharing on every piece of software I own.
The proof of the BS in their statement has reared its ugly head. Only fools do not listen to public opinion, and I can't think of any greater example of that than the internet.
yes, but in today's world of diplomacy and news/media how many times does a seemingly trivial occurence snowball and blow up into an item of massive proportions? Diplomacy is the real threat because a politician will extradite just about anybody if it makes his powerful connections in another company happy. Singapore flogging incident sounds like a good example.
If you are doing illegal stuff, never deal with people that you haven't met or reccommended by someone you know well. And if you run a webserver, block all blocks of IP addresses that are owned by Federal, State, and Local governments, and the military. Boom, you have instantly kept the desk jockeys and beauraucrats out of your webspace.
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It is obvious that this l00ser doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. If he actually could go out to Castillios in Roppongi and meet a fine Japanese chick to fuck the snot out of, he would already be there. Not sitting in front of his computer posting here.
That's typical registrar behavior, especially with NSI/Verisign. Since they have had to deal with competition, they have been doing some pretty nasty things including not doing domain transfers. Their reasoning is that they don't know whether it is actually the owner requesting the domain being transfered, and they don't want to be liable for domain jacking. Well, that should be solved by a phone call and maybe a fax of ID, right? Wrong. They have made it super tough to transfer a domain because to transfer a domain means they are losing business to competition so they are going to hold onto your domain for as long as they can. Call it Reverse Domain Jacking if you will.
>>>...when digital music is a seamless experience for fans-from the tops of their desks to the palms of their hands to the dashboards of their cars and beyond.
Here the RIAA apparently advocates the ability to freely use music wherever the user wants. Why is it then that they are pushing DRM crap that would force me to buy 3 copies of the music to use on my desk AND in my hand AND in my car?
Let's just hope that Aerie comes to its senses and doesn't grossly overprice the service. For those of you that advocate 802.11B networks to replace something such as Ricochet: 802.11 works in densely populated areas where things were built up instead of out. (Examples would be San Francisco, and most definitely New York) On the flip side, places that grew out such as Southern California and 802.11 network is useless because without a sophisticated directional antenna, and/or illegal power outputs all that's going to be on the network is a few of your neighbors. Ricochet was a godsend to those of us that wanted to sit at the beach, visit the park, go to the coffee shop, and commute down the freeway while connected. My dad is a regional sales manager and spends all day driving. With Ricochet he was able to order stuff for his customers from his laptop mounted in his truck and he had access everywhere he went. Now he does it over the phone. People say 802.11B rocks, but unfortunately it will never be feasible for a Wide Area public network.
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I would say go back to school. There are programs at various schools, including but not limited to state and private universities, that offer study abroad. Pick your country. I went to Spain this past summer for 2 months on a program to learn Spanish. That was it. Cost was $3600 including room and board and school. After the program was over I spent the next month hooving it around western Europe. With a month railpass, I was able to visit 12 different countries. Stay at hostels which are safe and offer clean, comfortable nightly accomodations for as little as $10 a night. Overall, the trip cost me about $6000. The best part of it was that I was able to get stafford loans to finance almost the entire trip. Nothing like a government gauranteed 3.4% interest loan that you don't have to pay back until you are not taking any more classes.
I definitely agree with the above poster on 1, 2 ,4. As far as coming up with the $20,000, find a lawyer that will draw up a rock solid non disclosure agreement and then shop it around to rich businessmen and patent lawyers after you get a signed NDA.
my vote is for tea as well. It does not have any of the crap that most sodas do unless you add any sugar. It also has tons of caffeine. I went to a huge lan party in Los Angeles earlier this year and for the event I made 3 gallons of sun tea and then kept them in a cooler next to my computer. I swear, some of the kids that were slurping down the Dew, Bawls, Red Bull, etc. looked fatter by the end of the lan and looked more drained than any of my friends who were chugging the tea. Tea Rules.
No, you cand do whatever you want with your copy as long as you don't SELL it to other people, or distribute it as the original it is not.
I believe the latency to a Geostationary satellite is 250ms round trip. I do data transfers daily across the Magnastar radiotelephone systems and Inmarsat Satcom systems for aircraft and can vouch that the bandwidth sucks. I have had to drop data speeds to about 2400 bps just to get a reliable link. Lucky bastardos in the government though have nice Satellite T1 links to play with. At least they have link problems too.
Now all of that is great and all, but will it run my WINDOZE!!
I am a user of Sprint PCS, as is my dad, my mom, my sister, and my girlfriend. Each one of use regularly receive calls that flash an "Unkown ID" on the caller id screen, and every time we answer the call it quickly hangs up. Each time it does this I am charged a minute. While I have plentiful minutes, how about the people that regularly go over their minutes? Is the PCS company using autodialers to generate revenue?
Check out software available through Karlnet. They made the firmware for most 802.11 devices out there and have software that would allow control over who has access and who doesn't, bandwidth throttling, etc. Some of the stuff only works with specific APs and their own Turbocell drivers but it all looks pretty nifty.
I had a similar experience riding Goliath at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, CA. I was completely dissoriented and needed help getting out of the ride. In addittion to that my vision greyed out around the fringes on one of the high G parts, the rising corkscrew part of the ride. I enjoy roller coasters but will not get on that ride ever again. Just to make a point that these things happen to everybody, I am a perfectly healthy 20 year old male.
Interesting.. Once again Microsoft proves just how stupid their Rhode's scholar winning, 4.0 GPA, full ride to Haaahhhhvaaad (MIT, Cal-tech, Yale, etc.), over achieving, 1600 on the SAT, employees really are.
Is it possible to hook an external antenna up to a desktop WiFI card for increased range?
I find it very interesting that AOL would partner with TIVO to provide services at the same time that the CEO of one of its holdings would decry TIVO users as thieves.
screw going to the movie theater, let me just load this VCD I made into my DVD player. The MPAA/RIAA is evil. With 48 million downloads, they still believe that they can stop the decentralized Music City network. (morpheus, kazaa...) I liken their actions to Bush and Clintons laughable attempts at stemming the flow of drugs into the US. Just as with drugs, the only way the RIAA/MPAA is going to stop piracy by anything more than a percentage I can count on one hand ( 5)is to stop underhanded/wrong enforcement on things that are obviously broken (ie DMCA, et. al.), remove the demand for pirated copies by lowering prices (damn! No new Lear Jet this year ($30 mil!!).), and bring back consumer trust in the big companies. I mean seriously, how many of you has listened to EVERY mp3 you have downloaded? Heck, I download them just to provide another reliable source other than your local Virgin Megastore.
Lets see Adobe has used it on a foreign national, the purveyors of the crappy SDMI copyright control software has used it on a university educator, what other big ones? I know there are more.
Ok, I cannot figure out how the hell the DMCA would apply here. It appears to me that the product allows the download of the data off of the cartridges and onto the computer, as well as the upload of data from the computer to the GBA. It would seem to me that if that were illegal computer CD players and CDRW burners would be illegal as well as they allow COPYRIGHTED data to be transfered to a computer, and then through use of a burner transfered from the computer onto the media. Somebody should hand the NintenDUH people a cluestick.
I don't know much about laser communications, but wouldn't things like the above cause the laser to scatter making it unusable in the above conditions? I could especially see this with rain because of the refractive properties of water. I do know my school uses this to get bandwidth, and all I have known it for is unreliability.
Ok, has anybody thought to just back up your necessary data, buy any necessary software, and reformat your hard drive? Its pretty tough for the BSA to come after you when you have 200 machines with 200 copies of freshly installed copies of MS Office and 200 licenses. You may have been pirating before but now, because of the format, the registry keys the BSA goes after all show recent dates and are registered under valid keys. While this may take a lot of time in a big company, certainly it would save you some money paid to the BSA in the form of a settlement for piracy.
I run a one person operation out of my house and I got one of these letters. What do they do, go down the list of businesses in an area and figure EVERYBODY is pirating their software? I am ingnoring everything they send me. If they want to send a federal marshall to my house, I will see their ass in court. I haven't run windows for about 2 years now, and have never had any employees to rat on me for using "illegal software." Pirate my ass. More than anything this makes me want to start doing file sharing on every piece of software I own.
The proof of the BS in their statement has reared its ugly head. Only fools do not listen to public opinion, and I can't think of any greater example of that than the internet.
yes, but in today's world of diplomacy and news/media how many times does a seemingly trivial occurence snowball and blow up into an item of massive proportions? Diplomacy is the real threat because a politician will extradite just about anybody if it makes his powerful connections in another company happy. Singapore flogging incident sounds like a good example.
If you are doing illegal stuff, never deal with people that you haven't met or reccommended by someone you know well. And if you run a webserver, block all blocks of IP addresses that are owned by Federal, State, and Local governments, and the military. Boom, you have instantly kept the desk jockeys and beauraucrats out of your webspace.
It is obvious that this l00ser doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. If he actually could go out to Castillios in Roppongi and meet a fine Japanese chick to fuck the snot out of, he would already be there. Not sitting in front of his computer posting here.
That's typical registrar behavior, especially with NSI/Verisign. Since they have had to deal with competition, they have been doing some pretty nasty things including not doing domain transfers. Their reasoning is that they don't know whether it is actually the owner requesting the domain being transfered, and they don't want to be liable for domain jacking. Well, that should be solved by a phone call and maybe a fax of ID, right? Wrong. They have made it super tough to transfer a domain because to transfer a domain means they are losing business to competition so they are going to hold onto your domain for as long as they can. Call it Reverse Domain Jacking if you will.
>>>...when digital music is a seamless experience for fans-from the tops of their desks to the palms of their hands to the dashboards of their cars and beyond. Here the RIAA apparently advocates the ability to freely use music wherever the user wants. Why is it then that they are pushing DRM crap that would force me to buy 3 copies of the music to use on my desk AND in my hand AND in my car?
Let's just hope that Aerie comes to its senses and doesn't grossly overprice the service. For those of you that advocate 802.11B networks to replace something such as Ricochet: 802.11 works in densely populated areas where things were built up instead of out. (Examples would be San Francisco, and most definitely New York) On the flip side, places that grew out such as Southern California and 802.11 network is useless because without a sophisticated directional antenna, and/or illegal power outputs all that's going to be on the network is a few of your neighbors. Ricochet was a godsend to those of us that wanted to sit at the beach, visit the park, go to the coffee shop, and commute down the freeway while connected. My dad is a regional sales manager and spends all day driving. With Ricochet he was able to order stuff for his customers from his laptop mounted in his truck and he had access everywhere he went. Now he does it over the phone. People say 802.11B rocks, but unfortunately it will never be feasible for a Wide Area public network.