So exactly how the hell do they know what I've downloaded? That is an interesting question. The simplest way is for them to host a few files and see who bites. But, if they do so, then they are distributing them, and since they are the authorized copyright holders, that means they are giving you permission to download them.
DESQview from Quarterdeck perhaps? They had a spiffy multitasking OS that ran on top of DOS. It was practically required if you only had one PC and hosted a BBS.
It rapidly disappeared once MS released Windows.
To your other point, there was a Windows 286 and Windows 386 that predated Windows 3.0. And yes, they sucked. I still got the floppies for one of them floating around somewhere...
If you never used NeXTSTEP (or OS X for that matter), there is a cascading menu called "Services" that do a variety of interesting, useful, or totally useless things.
One such example is highlighting a word going to the services menu and getting the definition or highlighting text and putting it into an e-mail message.
Applications can add enhancements to the OS by providing services and placing them in this menu. I used them all the time in NeXTSTEP, but in OS X I find them a bit lacking and they pretty much go unused for me. In other words, it's a great tool in OS X, but needs more support.
The closest example I can think of in the Intel world is right-clicking on a file and selecting "Add to Zip file" for computers with Winzip installed. That would be very much like how services work.
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Of course Sobig is about spam. Why else does some mysterious but well-financed entity want to control half the desktops of the world?
Hell, I'm just happy to know the identity of the non-mysterious but well-financed company that controls 95% of the desktops of the world. You know, the one repsonsible for all this mess?
52GB equates as 'big fish' the RIAA says they'll go after. That equates to 5 kilos, man. You're not just a recreational user now, you're a dealer! Federal penitentiary for you!
ROFL...
I can see it now, mandatory sentencing for copyright violations just like drug convictions. Here's a glimpse into our near future (ripped from a current drug bust article):
MP3 busts yield 17 GBs, 6 suspects Police were watching local hotels known to have WiFi
By Sarah Huntley, Rocky Mountain News August 20, 2003
Denver vice detectives dealt a major blow to local MP3 distributors this week, seizing a total of 17 GBs of ripped tunes.
The MP3s, recovered during four separate busts, are worth at least $306,000 and would likely have traded for significantly more if bundled in smaller amounts, police said.
Three of the busts targeted local hotels identified as WiFi hotspots along a popular route for "leeching," or people who download MP3s. The MP3's were being hosted from Texas, said Lt. Kris Kroncke of the Denver Police Department's Vice and Copyright Squad.
Kroncke said detectives have not determined who were supposed to receive the MP3s, but investigators believe Kazaa was the final destination.
"(With copyright investigations,) it's feast or famine, but this was an unusually good week for us, to recover that much in intellectual property," Kroncke said.
(Score:2, Insightful) for a post recommending you download patches with your network cable unplugged. Wow, Slashdot is a haven for those with technical know-how, isn't it.
Perhaps he was meaning to suggest using a wireless access point. That way there is no physical medium for the virus to travel over.
I watched the original Rollerball a few months ago on DVD (yeah, I'm a DVD whore so shoot me) and was surprised at how accurate the movie is getting nowadays. Much better than the tripe they did for the remake.
When Firestone makes the tires for Ford, they place the appropriate "Ford" chip in them. These tires are then sold only via Ford dealerships and service centers.
The reason they will give for this is that they will claim the tires were designed specifically for the vehicle, and the auto's computer, when reading the RFID tag will allow operation under the following conditions. Quite a bit of this was taken from printer manufactuers and their ink cartridges:
1. If the RFID model number and serial numbers on each of the four tires are on the "approved" list in the firmware of the ECU. (yes, four approved tires must be present) 2. The serial numbers of the tires on the car are checked with the date they were manufactured (embedded in serial number) and first installed on the vehicle. If the tires are old (too long after manufacture), or worn (in usage too long) the ECU will disable the vehicle.
All this will be done in the name of safety, not profits - even though the non OEM version of the tire will be available for substantially less money then the "Ford" version.
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Didney did this at least 7-8 years ago with the Fantasmic show. Back then they had this Fantasia deal going on and they would spray a water curtain in the air and project film/video onto it.
Yes, it's not a fog, but water droplets/vapor. You also could walk through it, but you'd have to swim out into the middle of a lake and get really wet in the process. See here or here for a description.
The family Mustelidae has been around for a very long time; it is probably the oldest extant (living) family in the Carnivora, which means there are lots of different subgroups within the major group. Weasels include weasels, mink, ferrets and polecats; martens include martens and fishers; skunks include all types of skunks; badgers include badgers and wolverine; and otters include sea and river otters. Sometimes martens are grouped within the badgers, usually with the weasels, and lately they are being kept separate.
At this website They have shockwave games for the kids to play!
Help the weasel (how ironic!) protect the city from pirates and pirated software and prevent the deep freeze!
The funniest point is that there is no goal to the game at all, you keep going until you lose. So you do your best to protect the city from pirated software and software pirates, but eventually, you will lose and the pirates take over.
How true! To bad the BSA can't take their own advice!
Looks like Russia gets all the good programming. The first picture of the sample screenshots looks like the (very) old Japanese shoujo anime classic Candy-Candy.
Ah, spoken like a true Roadie. I ride mountain bikes, and have no need for such aerodynamic folly. (Though shaving helps a lot with the road rash if you dump it).
And the bacteria feed on the secretions that come out of the sweat glands. Eccrine sweat glands are what cause you to cool off while exercising, Apocrine sweat glands are responsible for the bacteria B.O. fest:
Eccrine sweat glands The release of sweat from eccrine glands is the body's cooling process. Sweat is produced in a coiled tubule in the dermis and is transported by a sweat duct through the epidermis to be secreted. The entire body surface has 2-3 million eccrine sweat glands and can produce up to 10 L of sweat per day.
Apocrine sweat glands In humans, apocrine sweat glands serve no known function and are regarded as vestigial glands perhaps useful to our ancestors. They are located mainly in the underarm and genital areas. Like eccrine sweat, apocrine sweat is also produced in coiled tubules in the dermis, but the apocrine duct drains sweat into a hair follicle from which it reaches the skins surface. Contrary to popular belief, the sweat from apocrine glands is odorless. The action of normal skin bacteria on excreted apocrine sweat is responsible for body odor.
Not a problem. Wear bike clothes on your way to work.
In the Panniers described earlier in the thread you carry your work clothes, some deodorant and a dampened towel in a large Ziploc bag.
Get to work, hop in the restroom, use a stall as a changing station. Wipe down with the towel & put it back in the bag. Apply deodorant. Change into your work clothes and comb hair.
When you are sitting around and sweating, the sweat is more oily and you will stink. When you sweat from constant physical exertion, the sweat does not tend to stink as much.
Change back into the bike clothes for the trip back.
I read recently an interview with someone from the RIAA and he talked about this, if I understood correctly what was said he claimed that buying a CD means you have a license to listen to and own the copyright material on the CD.
This means you can record the contents to tape, rip it to your iPod, record it on a mini-disc etc, essentially do what you want with it that doesn't infringe on copyright laws. e.g. you can't broadcast it or sell copies down the local market.
That goes against their previous rants against space and format-shifting. RIAA/MPAA wants you to purchase the same license again and again every time a new media format comes out.
Only one company I recall has done differently, and they are hated as much as the RIAA and MPAA: Disney.
While they don't offer much credit, they usually rebate DVD purchasers who have "upgraded" VHS copies of their films. I am pretty sure the content recorded on the tape makes up the bulk of the net purchase price, but it is a nice gesture.
But what if that replacement could be made without causing any additional financial loss to either the producer or consumer?
It's all a matter of how you look at things. RIAA or MPAA would claim (if you bought a CD or DVD) that you purchased the physical media and also a license to play the content on the media.
So if I got to Amazon and buy "Bikini Wax" by Killer Pussy, I own the CD and have a license to play the music stored on it.
I have had lots of classic 80's albums/CD's stolen from me. Many of them are no longer in print, some still are.
I paid for the right to listen to the content of the albums and I paid for the method of delivery. If I replace the lost items with downloaded copies, the music companies aren't out any money, they've received it from me already long ago. The person who deprived the money from the RIAA is the asshat who stole the physical media, because they didn't purchase the right to listen to the content.
Since the content actually licensed to you, if the physical copies are stolen, don't I still have the license to listen to what I paid for? Isn't the CD/DVD/LP/8-track just a delivery medium?
Another example: I have a Pink Lady 8-track from the early 80's. I cannot find a player for it anywhere, but I am in physical possession of the media and still have the right to listed to the content. So why not download the content from P2P? Who is losing in this case? 8-track player manufacturers?
I rescued some equipment from a horrible fate from my university computer store. The University was phasing them out in favor of going over to Windows NT.
Now they are getting more and more into OS X. Funny how that worked out.
As for the NeXT machines, my Cube and Turbocolor served me well from 1995 to 1998, and I did pretty much all of my CS work on it.
By 1998, it was quite long in the tooth, and I reluctantly switched over to NT, and thankfully later to Windows 2000.
OS X came out (10.1) and I summarily dumped my PC and switched over to a PowerMac. I haven't looked back since.
Remember the Iopener from Netpliance? The bitty-PC with a built-in LCD that required you to use their proprietary ISP?
Once someone found out how to make it a regular PC, it really put a crimp in their plans. Those units were sold at a significant loss in the hopes of making it up in subscription fees. It later turned out more people were buying it to mod into cheap Linux boxes and MP3 players than to use it for sending email to grandma.
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So exactly how the hell do they know what I've downloaded? That is an interesting question. The simplest way is for them to host a few files and see who bites. But, if they do so, then they are distributing them, and since they are the authorized copyright holders, that means they are giving you permission to download them.
Any other way? Trojaned some pirated SW?
No you didn't, the Slashdot article is wrong. Halley's was only mentioned in the last sentence, and only then to show that it is Comet 1P.
Yes it is the same, perhaps I didn't make myself clear enough.
It is underutilized, that's all.
DESQview from Quarterdeck perhaps? They had a spiffy multitasking OS that ran on top of DOS. It was practically required if you only had one PC and hosted a BBS.
It rapidly disappeared once MS released Windows.
To your other point, there was a Windows 286 and Windows 386 that predated Windows 3.0. And yes, they sucked. I still got the floppies for one of them floating around somewhere...
If you never used NeXTSTEP (or OS X for that matter), there is a cascading menu called "Services" that do a variety of interesting, useful, or totally useless things.
One such example is highlighting a word going to the services menu and getting the definition or highlighting text and putting it into an e-mail message.
Applications can add enhancements to the OS by providing services and placing them in this menu. I used them all the time in NeXTSTEP, but in OS X I find them a bit lacking and they pretty much go unused for me. In other words, it's a great tool in OS X, but needs more support.
The closest example I can think of in the Intel world is right-clicking on a file and selecting "Add to Zip file" for computers with Winzip installed. That would be very much like how services work.
Hell, I'm just happy to know the identity of the non-mysterious but well-financed company that controls 95% of the desktops of the world. You know, the one repsonsible for all this mess?
I didn't write the article from scratch, I purloined an article from Google News and just swapped words:
kilo=GB
Narcotics = Intellectual Property
and so on. I left the numbers alone.
ROFL...
I can see it now, mandatory sentencing for copyright violations just like drug convictions. Here's a glimpse into our near future (ripped from a current drug bust article):
I've lived in the US since birth. I also live in a major city: Los Angeles.
I am 35 years old.
I have never been shot at (with the exception of military service - and that was overseas) and I own a gun.
Perhaps he was meaning to suggest using a wireless access point. That way there is no physical medium for the virus to travel over.
I watched the original Rollerball a few months ago on DVD (yeah, I'm a DVD whore so shoot me) and was surprised at how accurate the movie is getting nowadays. Much better than the tripe they did for the remake.
Please rise for the Corporate Anthem!
Ah, but it depends on OEM agreements, doesn't it?
When Firestone makes the tires for Ford, they place the appropriate "Ford" chip in them. These tires are then sold only via Ford dealerships and service centers.
The reason they will give for this is that they will claim the tires were designed specifically for the vehicle, and the auto's computer, when reading the RFID tag will allow operation under the following conditions. Quite a bit of this was taken from printer manufactuers and their ink cartridges:
1. If the RFID model number and serial numbers on each of the four tires are on the "approved" list in the firmware of the ECU. (yes, four approved tires must be present)
2. The serial numbers of the tires on the car are checked with the date they were manufactured (embedded in serial number) and first installed on the vehicle. If the tires are old (too long after manufacture), or worn (in usage too long) the ECU will disable the vehicle.
All this will be done in the name of safety, not profits - even though the non OEM version of the tire will be available for substantially less money then the "Ford" version.
Didney did this at least 7-8 years ago with the Fantasmic show. Back then they had this Fantasia deal going on and they would spray a water curtain in the air and project film/video onto it.
Yes, it's not a fog, but water droplets/vapor. You also could walk through it, but you'd have to swim out into the middle of a lake and get really wet in the process. See here or here for a description.
Surprise!
Ferrets are members of the weasel family:
The family Mustelidae has been around for a very long time; it is probably the oldest extant (living) family in the Carnivora, which means there are lots of different subgroups within the major group. Weasels include weasels, mink, ferrets and polecats; martens include martens and fishers; skunks include all types of skunks; badgers include badgers and wolverine; and otters include sea and river otters. Sometimes martens are grouped within the badgers, usually with the weasels, and lately they are being kept separate.
This is from the Ferret FAQ
At this website They have shockwave games for the kids to play!
Help the weasel (how ironic!) protect the city from pirates and pirated software and prevent the deep freeze!
The funniest point is that there is no goal to the game at all, you keep going until you lose. So you do your best to protect the city from pirated software and software pirates, but eventually, you will lose and the pirates take over.
How true! To bad the BSA can't take their own advice!
Looks like Russia gets all the good programming. The first picture of the sample screenshots looks like the (very) old Japanese shoujo anime classic Candy-Candy.
That's great, but how long can I live if all it lets me buy are Apple computers, tentacle pr0n, Pocky sticks and RC Cola?
Ah, spoken like a true Roadie. I ride mountain bikes, and have no need for such aerodynamic folly. (Though shaving helps a lot with the road rash if you dump it).
And the bacteria feed on the secretions that come out of the sweat glands. Eccrine sweat glands are what cause you to cool off while exercising, Apocrine sweat glands are responsible for the bacteria B.O. fest:
Types of sweat glands
Eccrine sweat glands
The release of sweat from eccrine glands is the body's cooling process. Sweat is produced in a coiled tubule in the dermis and is transported by a sweat duct through the epidermis to be secreted. The entire body surface has 2-3 million eccrine sweat glands and can produce up to 10 L of sweat per day.
Apocrine sweat glands
In humans, apocrine sweat glands serve no known function and are regarded as vestigial glands perhaps useful to our ancestors. They are located mainly in the underarm and genital areas. Like eccrine sweat, apocrine sweat is also produced in coiled tubules in the dermis, but the apocrine duct drains sweat into a hair follicle from which it reaches the skins surface. Contrary to popular belief, the sweat from apocrine glands is odorless. The action of normal skin bacteria on excreted apocrine sweat is responsible for body odor.
Not a problem. Wear bike clothes on your way to work.
In the Panniers described earlier in the thread you carry your work clothes, some deodorant and a dampened towel in a large Ziploc bag.
Get to work, hop in the restroom, use a stall as a changing station. Wipe down with the towel & put it back in the bag. Apply deodorant. Change into your work clothes and comb hair.
When you are sitting around and sweating, the sweat is more oily and you will stink. When you sweat from constant physical exertion, the sweat does not tend to stink as much.
Change back into the bike clothes for the trip back.
BTW: Real cyclists don't wear underwear.
That goes against their previous rants against space and format-shifting. RIAA/MPAA wants you to purchase the same license again and again every time a new media format comes out.
Only one company I recall has done differently, and they are hated as much as the RIAA and MPAA: Disney.
While they don't offer much credit, they usually rebate DVD purchasers who have "upgraded" VHS copies of their films. I am pretty sure the content recorded on the tape makes up the bulk of the net purchase price, but it is a nice gesture.
But what if that replacement could be made without causing any additional financial loss to either the producer or consumer?
It's all a matter of how you look at things. RIAA or MPAA would claim (if you bought a CD or DVD) that you purchased the physical media and also a license to play the content on the media.
So if I got to Amazon and buy "Bikini Wax" by Killer Pussy, I own the CD and have a license to play the music stored on it.
I have had lots of classic 80's albums/CD's stolen from me. Many of them are no longer in print, some still are.
I paid for the right to listen to the content of the albums and I paid for the method of delivery. If I replace the lost items with downloaded copies, the music companies aren't out any money, they've received it from me already long ago. The person who deprived the money from the RIAA is the asshat who stole the physical media, because they didn't purchase the right to listen to the content.
Since the content actually licensed to you, if the physical copies are stolen, don't I still have the license to listen to what I paid for? Isn't the CD/DVD/LP/8-track just a delivery medium?
Another example:
I have a Pink Lady 8-track from the early 80's. I cannot find a player for it anywhere, but I am in physical possession of the media and still have the right to listed to the content. So why not download the content from P2P? Who is losing in this case? 8-track player manufacturers?
Wordperfect (at least the 1.01 version, 1.0 was buggy as hell) is a treat to use. I couldn't live without it at the time.
This was WYSIWYG (and with display postscript and a postscript printer, it really was WYSIWYG) and was a very big deal at the time.
I rescued some equipment from a horrible fate from my university computer store. The University was phasing them out in favor of going over to Windows NT.
Now they are getting more and more into OS X. Funny how that worked out.
As for the NeXT machines, my Cube and Turbocolor served me well from 1995 to 1998, and I did pretty much all of my CS work on it.
By 1998, it was quite long in the tooth, and I reluctantly switched over to NT, and thankfully later to Windows 2000.
OS X came out (10.1) and I summarily dumped my PC and switched over to a PowerMac. I haven't looked back since.
You know, this method has worked in the past...
Remember the Iopener from Netpliance? The bitty-PC with a built-in LCD that required you to use their proprietary ISP?
Once someone found out how to make it a regular PC, it really put a crimp in their plans. Those units were sold at a significant loss in the hopes of making it up in subscription fees. It later turned out more people were buying it to mod into cheap Linux boxes and MP3 players than to use it for sending email to grandma.