The way I understand it, the whole point was to reduce the rate of organ rejection so that now a pig can safely receive a human heart. A great stride in angio-porcine research indeed!
IAAALS (I Am An Australian Law Student) and can state the following.
- The decision was on summary judgment, which means that the court simply decided that the plaintiff's was unable to make his case.
- The plaintiffs case was that the defendant had contacted SPEWS and placed the plaintiff on the blacklist and that being placed on the blacklist had cost him economically.
- Being unable to prove that the defendant had in fact contacted SPEWS, the rest of the claim is moot.
- The decision on summary judgment is NOT binding in any way shape of form on any case that comes up in the future.
- The decision as to whether its illegal to place someone on a blacklist such as SPEWS was not decided. If the plaintiff was able to prove that the defendant HAD contacted SPEWS, then the claim might not have been dismissed on summary judgment. THEN it might have allowed the court to decide if it is illegal put someone on a blacklist.
- Australia is a 'common law' country. A judgement in an Australian jurisdiction such as Western Australia would only ever been seen as 'persuasive precedence' in any jurisdiction besides WA.
- Western Australia is one of 2 states in Australia who have a codified legal system. This means that the common law is generally superseded by specific coded laws.
The long and the short of the above points is that there was absolutely nothing in the decision which can have any impact on any other spammers activities anywhere in the world. For starters it was on summary judgement, so in a common-law state it wouldnt hold any precedence. It was in a codified state in which the decision was made, so even if it was decided on the facts, the decision would have no more than persuasive precedence anywhere else. Finally, because WA is codified, the persuasive precedence would hold less sway than precedence from another jurisdiction.
Seriously dude, why bother overclocking the first place? I mean overclocking was a useful thing back in the day of the Celeron and P3 where you actually experienced a significant increase in the performance, but these days its such an incremental improvement that its not worth the bother. Just save on the water-cooled rig and get the new whiz-bang vid card when it comes out 6 months after the last one did and 6 months before the next one's due out.
The only real purpose I could see to your rig would be a living-room DVD/OGG player where you want no extraneous sound.
That aside, I'd happily take it off your hands if my knocking it has made you want to get rid of it;)
Personally I see it as more of a supplement to a PDA. I mean if you could hook up 5 gigs of storage to a Zaurus, you'd have something rivallling a laptop in functionality but fitting in your pocket. I kinda like the idea of having my harddrive in my pocket while I tap away at my Zaurus:)
Of course its off-topic. I mean it isnt about how insecure MS products are, so it must be.
Truth is, it was probably modded down by someone who hadnt even read the article and so didnt know about what the trojan actually does (open port 6667)
As of today, nobody uses Linux IN PRODUCTION with more than 8 CPU, so actually, Linux is playing catch up with Windows in this field also.
Yeah, but only cause you need a 32 processor machine just to get XP to run at a reasonable clip!!
In all seriousness though, all the benchmarks indicate that you get better performance and scalability from multi-node versus multi-cpu machines anyway.
The Asteroids@Home bit was more of a quip at the end than a serious idea. I was talking more about the use of the telescope time, but as the poster above and yourself mentioned, a radio telescope isnt the right tool for the task, so its pretty much a moot point.
I just get pissed off at how issues as large as the failure to search for civilisation desroyers get forgotten as easy as they do. Oh well, its not like we'd leave anyone grieving the loss of humankind.
It strikes me as funny that we spend all this time and money looking for something that might exist when we could use the telescope time to search for near earth crossing (NEC) asteriods, which certainly do exist and represent a much greater potential danger than little green men.
There are essentially no searches being carried out in the Southern hemisphere at the present after the Howard government in Australia chose to withdraw all funding back in 1996.
In 1996 the Howard Government withdrew funding for Australia's only asteroid
tracking research project at the Siding Springs observatory in central New South Wales. In 1994, the SA Government announced plans for a $140 million optical telescope at Freeling Heights in the Flinders Ranges and a $200 million particle detector radio telescope near Woomera, but they were not built. [The Age 22/9/00]
Maybe someone could look at an Asteroid@Home option as well?
Does anybody really believe that in, say, 20 years time, patents will still exist?
I bloody well do.
Think about it. Rich people hold patents. Rich people have money. Money buys people who make laws.
Laws dont get changed when rich people buy politicians, and this is the ultimate case. Every corporation holding a patent would be against it. Just because a law is stupid doesnt mean it wont get changed, doubly so when you've got a big lobby group campaigning against the change and this would be the biggest lobby group of them all.
Yeah, but not so easy to say after its been out for 6 years and still struggles to stay up that long. Meanwhile the AS400s are still churning away, up as long as the UPS will keep em that way....
Hell, the MCSE credo is "If the server's playing up, reboot it".
I think that parent post was refering to the "no-rest-for-the-weary-MSCE" misspelling in the story, but regardless, why would you abuse someone to point out something so obvious to I think 99.99% of people who read./?
So, um, how do you tell which parts are the interesting parts?
You listen to it once, making a note of the time elapsed when you heard an interesting bit. Then you go back to the start and skip to the bits you made a note of.
They set it to something sensible like their surname so they can't forget it. Plus I'm sure theres something in the DMCA about using Linux tools on Windows systems....
I had a cdrom drive with a bigger problem than that. Basically it wouldnt spin up to speed when you put a cd in it, so being the intrepid type that I am (and the poor starving student that I was), I popped the lid on the drive and checked it out.
Long story short, the only way I could get the drive to work was to manually spin it up to speed by sticking my finger on the cd and spinning away, at which point it kicked in and I was away.
Thankfully it was only a 6X though. I dont think I could have kept up if it was a 52X!;)
Except for hot-swappable PCI of course. I always get a little freaked out whenever I have to pull a card while a box is on though....it just seems to be wrong somehow.
How could the box know you bought a car or your lease is up
Now thats the bit they dont want to tell you. In actual fact the STB gets up late at night when you're asleep and goes through your financial documents and receipts looking for spending habits!
In all seriousness, one wonders how long before this kind of thing enables someone like Motorola to have their STB 'divert' during a Nokia mobile phone add to one of Motorola's own offerings?
The point is _not_ to make it sound better necessarily. The point is to make it sound as close to the original CD audio as possible, despite the compression. The point of the CD recording is to make it sound as close to what the artist wanted.
Some people just can't hear the differences though.
The thing is that most people really couldnt care less about the sound quality of their music. They're happy to listen to tape recordings of radio broadcasts of music on shitty boom-boxes. They simply don't know the difference.
For mine, this explains the massive boom in P2P music swapping networks. The chimps on campuses and in homes around the States download these tunes in mp3 format and play them through 10W speakers and really don't give a shit. These are the people who are costing the music industry while people who actually care about music quality are still buying, because they actually care about the sound. This also explains the steady increase (and current mini-boom) in vinyl sales.
The point is that MP3 will continue to grow, despite its flaws. OGG will remain a somewhat niche format, preferred by audiophiles. Just like VHS and Windows, they hold the market share despite their flaws.
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Ummmm, that would defeat the purpose.
The way I understand it, the whole point was to reduce the rate of organ rejection so that now a pig can safely receive a human heart. A great stride in angio-porcine research indeed!
Now I'm getting confused....So if a McDonald's worker drives his Ford to Burger King is he allowed to order drive-through or not?!?
IAAALS (I Am An Australian Law Student) and can state the following.
- The decision was on summary judgment, which means that the court simply decided that the plaintiff's was unable to make his case.
- The plaintiffs case was that the defendant had contacted SPEWS and placed the plaintiff on the blacklist and that being placed on the blacklist had cost him economically.
- Being unable to prove that the defendant had in fact contacted SPEWS, the rest of the claim is moot.
- The decision on summary judgment is NOT binding in any way shape of form on any case that comes up in the future.
- The decision as to whether its illegal to place someone on a blacklist such as SPEWS was not decided. If the plaintiff was able to prove that the defendant HAD contacted SPEWS, then the claim might not have been dismissed on summary judgment. THEN it might have allowed the court to decide if it is illegal put someone on a blacklist.
- Australia is a 'common law' country. A judgement in an Australian jurisdiction such as Western Australia would only ever been seen as 'persuasive precedence' in any jurisdiction besides WA.
- Western Australia is one of 2 states in Australia who have a codified legal system. This means that the common law is generally superseded by specific coded laws.
The long and the short of the above points is that there was absolutely nothing in the decision which can have any impact on any other spammers activities anywhere in the world. For starters it was on summary judgement, so in a common-law state it wouldnt hold any precedence. It was in a codified state in which the decision was made, so even if it was decided on the facts, the decision would have no more than persuasive precedence anywhere else. Finally, because WA is codified, the persuasive precedence would hold less sway than precedence from another jurisdiction.
So the decision means squat.
Seriously dude, why bother overclocking the first place? I mean overclocking was a useful thing back in the day of the Celeron and P3 where you actually experienced a significant increase in the performance, but these days its such an incremental improvement that its not worth the bother. Just save on the water-cooled rig and get the new whiz-bang vid card when it comes out 6 months after the last one did and 6 months before the next one's due out.
;)
The only real purpose I could see to your rig would be a living-room DVD/OGG player where you want no extraneous sound.
That aside, I'd happily take it off your hands if my knocking it has made you want to get rid of it
Personally I see it as more of a supplement to a PDA. I mean if you could hook up 5 gigs of storage to a Zaurus, you'd have something rivallling a laptop in functionality but fitting in your pocket. I kinda like the idea of having my harddrive in my pocket while I tap away at my Zaurus :)
who developed it while walking the beat in Vancouver and reading about the hunting patterns of African lions
Is it just me or does anyone else think they might have more chance of catching the guy if cops dont walk the beat reading a book!!
Of course its off-topic. I mean it isnt about how insecure MS products are, so it must be.
Truth is, it was probably modded down by someone who hadnt even read the article and so didnt know about what the trojan actually does (open port 6667)
As of today, nobody uses Linux IN PRODUCTION with more than 8 CPU, so actually, Linux is playing catch up with Windows in this field also.
Yeah, but only cause you need a 32 processor machine just to get XP to run at a reasonable clip!!
In all seriousness though, all the benchmarks indicate that you get better performance and scalability from multi-node versus multi-cpu machines anyway.
Yes, because people are _bound_ to confuse a 2048 processor cluster with an operating system when LANL start marketing them.......duh.
The Asteroids@Home bit was more of a quip at the end than a serious idea. I was talking more about the use of the telescope time, but as the poster above and yourself mentioned, a radio telescope isnt the right tool for the task, so its pretty much a moot point.
I just get pissed off at how issues as large as the failure to search for civilisation desroyers get forgotten as easy as they do. Oh well, its not like we'd leave anyone grieving the loss of humankind.
There are essentially no searches being carried out in the Southern hemisphere at the present after the Howard government in Australia chose to withdraw all funding back in 1996.
Maybe someone could look at an Asteroid@Home option as well?
Does anybody really believe that in, say, 20 years time, patents will still exist?
I bloody well do.
Think about it. Rich people hold patents. Rich people have money. Money buys people who make laws.
Laws dont get changed when rich people buy politicians, and this is the ultimate case. Every corporation holding a patent would be against it. Just because a law is stupid doesnt mean it wont get changed, doubly so when you've got a big lobby group campaigning against the change and this would be the biggest lobby group of them all.
Yeah, but not so easy to say after its been out for 6 years and still struggles to stay up that long. Meanwhile the AS400s are still churning away, up as long as the UPS will keep em that way....
Hell, the MCSE credo is "If the server's playing up, reboot it".
Maybe with an alternative title "How I breached the DMCA".
I think that parent post was refering to the "no-rest-for-the-weary-MSCE" misspelling in the story, but regardless, why would you abuse someone to point out something so obvious to I think 99.99% of people who read ./?
Anway it stands for Moron Cheated then Sat Exam.
So, um, how do you tell which parts are the interesting parts?
;)
You listen to it once, making a note of the time elapsed when you heard an interesting bit. Then you go back to the start and skip to the bits you made a note of.
Geez. Is it that hard
Nah, most MCSE never need to recover a password.
They set it to something sensible like their surname so they can't forget it. Plus I'm sure theres something in the DMCA about using Linux tools on Windows systems....
A few years back he hooked up with some young exec-type working for him in Redmond (cant remember her name) and got married.
:(
At the time there was speculation that his settling down and having kids might slow the MS juggernaut as he wouldnt be at the wheel so much......
No such luck.
I had a cdrom drive with a bigger problem than that. Basically it wouldnt spin up to speed when you put a cd in it, so being the intrepid type that I am (and the poor starving student that I was), I popped the lid on the drive and checked it out.
;)
Long story short, the only way I could get the drive to work was to manually spin it up to speed by sticking my finger on the cd and spinning away, at which point it kicked in and I was away.
Thankfully it was only a 6X though. I dont think I could have kept up if it was a 52X!
forgot that PCI video cards are not hot-swappable
Except for hot-swappable PCI of course. I always get a little freaked out whenever I have to pull a card while a box is on though....it just seems to be wrong somehow.
I'm really hoping you look like Marlon Brando ;)
I prefer the term "Space Age". I love hearing about a new product that's space age. Hmmmm. So its 50's technology then?
Always gives me a good laugh.
How could the box know you bought a car or your lease is up
Now thats the bit they dont want to tell you. In actual fact the STB gets up late at night when you're asleep and goes through your financial documents and receipts looking for spending habits!
In all seriousness, one wonders how long before this kind of thing enables someone like Motorola to have their STB 'divert' during a Nokia mobile phone add to one of Motorola's own offerings?
The point is _not_ to make it sound better necessarily. The point is to make it sound as close to the original CD audio as possible, despite the compression. The point of the CD recording is to make it sound as close to what the artist wanted.
Some people just can't hear the differences though.
The thing is that most people really couldnt care less about the sound quality of their music. They're happy to listen to tape recordings of radio broadcasts of music on shitty boom-boxes. They simply don't know the difference.
For mine, this explains the massive boom in P2P music swapping networks. The chimps on campuses and in homes around the States download these tunes in mp3 format and play them through 10W speakers and really don't give a shit. These are the people who are costing the music industry while people who actually care about music quality are still buying, because they actually care about the sound. This also explains the steady increase (and current mini-boom) in vinyl sales.
The point is that MP3 will continue to grow, despite its flaws. OGG will remain a somewhat niche format, preferred by audiophiles. Just like VHS and Windows, they hold the market share despite their flaws.