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As a child of the 80's I'd also recommend you introduce him to Mr. Wizard and give him the fun side of it as well which I believe increases interest in the subject nicely.
While he passed away, you are still able to order the shows from his website.
http://www.mrwizardstudios.com/
Okay, I understand why they did it but what a wasted opportunity.
Why not quietly add a hidden pixel on the website and semi secretly track all the ip's and timestamps of visitors to their site. Lots of information to glean from that....
Why not just have a simple white list requiring you to approve every website (temp/perm/block) that attempts to open? Yeah its annoying but its less annoying than pop up spam.
With the number of lawsuits the RIAA throws out, this will pressure them into not only having better evidence but 'real geeks' answering tech questions in court instead of noobs saying what their puppet master tells them.
I look forward to a time where if the RIAA sues someone and at the last minute drops the case because they're about to lose - that they have to pay to get out of the lawsuit. In fact I'd like to a fine equal to the amount they sued for being given to the defendants if the RIAA runs from a case they start.
If this is declined - we're going to see many more lawsuits from the RIAA because they will have free license to sue anyone without risk beyond their own legal costs.
What they should really call this is "Pay for power scheduling to allocate the use of more green power." instead of making it sound like you, yourself, will be using green power.
Power is power when it hits the lines - electrons can't be distinguished from one another. So, yes, you're paying the power company to have their schedulers and power traders to work with cow-power plants instead of Natural Gas or Coal Fired plants - your power is whatever hits your home.... a mix of everything.
The only way to ensure you're on green power is buy solar panels and a battery system and disconnect from the grid.
You know, I've been stuck behind the kbd for many, many years and I'm ready for a change that seems obvious to me as needing to be done.
Get the Gfx 'card' out of the computer. Add a GPU socket to the motherboard and expandable video-ram slots.
I could spend an hour on why I think this solution would be better but here are a few of my reasons: 1) As fast as PCI-E is, a direct motherboard interface would be faster 2) Directly upgradeable memory allows you to afford the better chips and expand the ram as you have the money instead of 'settling' for a lower card because the higher memory version doubles the price. 3) The ability to use the same memory and JUST upgrade your GPU since many revisions happen to cards while the memory stays the same. 4) You could use standard CPU cooling on the GPU to have a much more efficiently cooled GPU instead of adding more weight to a relatively flimsy PCI-E connector saving the occasional card/mb damage. 5) A forced standard all chipmakers would have to produce chips under the same interface standard for new boards and motherboard mfr's as well as CPU mfr's would have to be on the ball too. A GFX chip that you could buy for one year would still plug into new boards 5 years later as would the vid-ram, CPU and the system ram. Also, once any of them are upgraded the bios would need to auto-set to handle the faster speeds...so I want them to predict the speed of the GPU/CPU/RAM 10 years from now and at least try to make motherboards that can support the changing times for a realistic amount of time.
Sure, have boards with dual GPU's or more but it's time to get off the slot and move into a better format.
I know, the motherboards would cost more because the expectation would be that you could use the same motherboard for 10 years and frequent upgrades to the CPU/GPU/Ram/Gfx-Ram but I'd pay more for a board I didn't have to keep freaking changing while still being able to keep my game on and upgrade only the pieces that need upgraded, as I can AFFORD them.
I've been using Sunrocket's voip service for months over my Comcast connection without any problems so from my standpoint I'd sooner think the reason ppl are having problems with VOIP is their own technical inexperience rather than Comcast (I could be wrong but given my flawless experience thus far it's the only option I see).
Since VOIP service really only requires 128k up/down to perform, I have a hard time understanding why anyone on Comcast's lines would have a problem since I believe the slowest upload on Comcast now is 384k.
As for internet over power lines - I'll pass thanks, since it'd kill ham radios globally with the interference. I'll hold off until fiber lines are finished being ran in my area before moving off cable.
Have you ever turned on your TV and watched anything broadcast over the air instead of using paid cable TV? You have? THIEF!! Oh the shock?!!
People leave their lines wide open all the time, on purpose, so who's responsibility is it to know the difference? The end user, who's a lamer and shouldn't be allowed to use WiFi without reading the instruction book or the guy who uses the wide-open network to browse the internet?
If people are going to bitch, it needs to be because some 'real' cracking has occured... The headers of a protected network can be captured and decrypted... then the real hijacking can occur - as they use the 'protected' key they snatched out of the air... THAT's wrong and THAT should be punished..
but....not using something that 'any one of us' would use if available...... If you leave your network open, I'm going to use it - so will the rest of your geek neighbors... Thanks for the gift of your bandwidth.
"to start sniffing packets within 10 minutes of identifying a suspicious passenger and getting court approval"
US Patriot Act killed that waiting game.... They are able to act and get the court order later and frankly I'm surprised they are 'asking' for permission when in reality they're already doing it and got caught or we'd never have heard about it.
It's them trying to protect themselves - but when p2p hubs put up notes that users are liable for their own use the Fed's storm down their doors anyway.... but the p2p program writers seem to be protected so far... unless they host the files on a centralized network.... then their screwed.
What ever happened to sending someone an email instead of exploiting the problem to make money?
He may not have broken any laws but... never mind, ethics have no place in modern society, why bother - ironic that I got rated troll for the first time 'ever' since coming to/.
Oh well.
After looking at the guy's site, its quite obvious he wanted caught - to advertise his business.... Google should bill him for his increase in sales... *sigh*
Something tells me this guy didn't expect to be caught - since the site's registered with his own information LOL..
I expect he's already had calls from Google.
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There are tons of anon proxies people can connect to to mask what sites they're going to. I'm sure the tech-savy are just using one them and surfing anyway.... The only way around that is to block all access to all ip ranges outside China's blocks.
"Hands-free systems apparently don't help much either as they still require a driver to 'actively be part of a conversation."
So whats really being said here is that if the driver talks to anyone, they become impared.....
Dear God, what if that driver has kids and is listening to the radio, with the passenger talking to them and the kids screaming in the back.... I guess that driver would be about 450 years old in that comparison... lol
Fair use rights (as they were before US Patriot Act and DMCA garbage was added) allowed us to share copies of movies as long as we did not make money from them - since we're not making money letting others download movies from us there is no violation of the Fair Use doctrine as set out through the Betamax case.
The only difference is the format of media - If I were mailing out copies of betamax/vhs movies for FREE there would be no laws broken, so what's the difference?
That's been the driving reality for most people downloading movies and music.
I was a member within dozens of Direct Connect Hubs for years. Movies, music, programs - all are available for download 24/7/365. 99.995% of the people who download these items fit under a few categories:
a) Previous Customers, who are still potential customers for current and newer product, but tight on their wallet - if the product is good they will buy it when they can
b) Potential Customers, who have never been customers, but trying various products and don't want to waste money up front unless its decent and worth the money.
c) Kids, Elderly, Disabled People and the Working-Poor, who have no intention of ever being customers due to monetary problems and have no plans on buying products they download.
Let's simplify though. The downloaders are not demons trying to kill the companies they download the products of - many of them feel they are exercising the fairly dead concept of Fair Use that the US Patriot Act and DMCA have all but killed entirely. They are not going anywhere and the group of people who download is increasing every day.
If the MPAA/RIAA/ETC choose to sue these 'potential' customers they will lose their friends, family as customers.... Needless to say, the lowly movie/music industries are only a puny fraction of the global economy and frankly they don't deserve the attention from Government they have received. Why doesn't the Gov't spent more time helping the starving families in our Country - if they spent even ½ the effort on that, which they do for the movie/music industries there would be no kids starving in our country........ but that's right, the only reason our Gov't officials care is their pockets are being lined by the RIAA/MPAA.... Take Orin Hatch for example and the hundreds of thousands of dollars he's been given.... and there are countless others in our Gov't just like him.
... In closing I only have one word... regarding this travesty of Fair-Use: BETAMAX!
With the advent of the US Patriot Act and the DMCA, they would prolly get away with whatever they want, since even simple downloaders of music are 'International Terrorists' under the standing laws... lol
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As a child of the 80's I'd also recommend you introduce him to Mr. Wizard and give him the fun side of it as well which I believe increases interest in the subject nicely. While he passed away, you are still able to order the shows from his website. http://www.mrwizardstudios.com/
Okay, I understand why they did it but what a wasted opportunity. Why not quietly add a hidden pixel on the website and semi secretly track all the ip's and timestamps of visitors to their site. Lots of information to glean from that....
Why not just have a simple white list requiring you to approve every website (temp/perm/block) that attempts to open? Yeah its annoying but its less annoying than pop up spam.
I guess they played too much FFXI and decided to make real Mithra to play with, lol.
It should be noted he's not the CIO of EMI, he's the President of Digital Business. http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-interview-douglas-merrill-president-emi-digital-business/ http://www.emigroup.com/Press/2008/press40.htm
Jeeze - i got rated troll for having the common opinion expressed here - Thanks a lot guys.
With the number of lawsuits the RIAA throws out, this will pressure them into not only having better evidence but 'real geeks' answering tech questions in court instead of noobs saying what their puppet master tells them.
I look forward to a time where if the RIAA sues someone and at the last minute drops the case because they're about to lose - that they have to pay to get out of the lawsuit. In fact I'd like to a fine equal to the amount they sued for being given to the defendants if the RIAA runs from a case they start.
If this is declined - we're going to see many more lawsuits from the RIAA because they will have free license to sue anyone without risk beyond their own legal costs.
What they should really call this is "Pay for power scheduling to allocate the use of more green power." instead of making it sound like you, yourself, will be using green power.
Power is power when it hits the lines - electrons can't be distinguished from one another. So, yes, you're paying the power company to have their schedulers and power traders to work with cow-power plants instead of Natural Gas or Coal Fired plants - your power is whatever hits your home.... a mix of everything.
The only way to ensure you're on green power is buy solar panels and a battery system and disconnect from the grid.
You know, I've been stuck behind the kbd for many, many years and I'm ready for a change that seems obvious to me as needing to be done.
Get the Gfx 'card' out of the computer. Add a GPU socket to the motherboard and expandable video-ram slots.
I could spend an hour on why I think this solution would be better but here are a few of my reasons:
1) As fast as PCI-E is, a direct motherboard interface would be faster
2) Directly upgradeable memory allows you to afford the better chips and expand the ram as you have the money instead of 'settling' for a lower card because the higher memory version doubles the price.
3) The ability to use the same memory and JUST upgrade your GPU since many revisions happen to cards while the memory stays the same.
4) You could use standard CPU cooling on the GPU to have a much more efficiently cooled GPU instead of adding more weight to a relatively flimsy PCI-E connector saving the occasional card/mb damage.
5) A forced standard all chipmakers would have to produce chips under the same interface standard for new boards and motherboard mfr's as well as CPU mfr's would have to be on the ball too. A GFX chip that you could buy for one year would still plug into new boards 5 years later as would the vid-ram, CPU and the system ram. Also, once any of them are upgraded the bios would need to auto-set to handle the faster speeds...so I want them to predict the speed of the GPU/CPU/RAM 10 years from now and at least try to make motherboards that can support the changing times for a realistic amount of time.
Sure, have boards with dual GPU's or more but it's time to get off the slot and move into a better format.
I know, the motherboards would cost more because the expectation would be that you could use the same motherboard for 10 years and frequent upgrades to the CPU/GPU/Ram/Gfx-Ram but I'd pay more for a board I didn't have to keep freaking changing while still being able to keep my game on and upgrade only the pieces that need upgraded, as I can AFFORD them.
But that's just my 10 cents.
I've been using Sunrocket's voip service for months over my Comcast connection without any problems so from my standpoint I'd sooner think the reason ppl are having problems with VOIP is their own technical inexperience rather than Comcast (I could be wrong but given my flawless experience thus far it's the only option I see).
Since VOIP service really only requires 128k up/down to perform, I have a hard time understanding why anyone on Comcast's lines would have a problem since I believe the slowest upload on Comcast now is 384k.
As for internet over power lines - I'll pass thanks, since it'd kill ham radios globally with the interference. I'll hold off until fiber lines are finished being ran in my area before moving off cable.
Guess I was too slow lol.
I'd rather AMD over Intel anyway but bought an Intel based Dell since I didnt have the option at the time.
Have you ever turned on your TV and watched anything broadcast over the air instead of using paid cable TV? You have? THIEF!! Oh the shock?!!
People leave their lines wide open all the time, on purpose, so who's responsibility is it to know the difference? The end user, who's a lamer and shouldn't be allowed to use WiFi without reading the instruction book or the guy who uses the wide-open network to browse the internet?
If people are going to bitch, it needs to be because some 'real' cracking has occured... The headers of a protected network can be captured and decrypted... then the real hijacking can occur - as they use the 'protected' key they snatched out of the air... THAT's wrong and THAT should be punished..
but....not using something that 'any one of us' would use if available...... If you leave your network open, I'm going to use it - so will the rest of your geek neighbors... Thanks for the gift of your bandwidth.
"to start sniffing packets within 10 minutes of identifying a suspicious passenger and getting court approval"
US Patriot Act killed that waiting game.... They are able to act and get the court order later and frankly I'm surprised they are 'asking' for permission when in reality they're already doing it and got caught or we'd never have heard about it.
It's them trying to protect themselves - but when p2p hubs put up notes that users are liable for their own use the Fed's storm down their doors anyway.... but the p2p program writers seem to be protected so far... unless they host the files on a centralized network.... then their screwed.
What ever happened to sending someone an email instead of exploiting the problem to make money? He may not have broken any laws but ... never mind, ethics have no place in modern society, why bother - ironic that I got rated troll for the first time 'ever' since coming to /.
Oh well.
After looking at the guy's site, its quite obvious he wanted caught - to advertise his business.... Google should bill him for his increase in sales... *sigh*
Something tells me this guy didn't expect to be caught - since the site's registered with his own information LOL..
I expect he's already had calls from Google.
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There are tons of anon proxies people can connect to to mask what sites they're going to. I'm sure the tech-savy are just using one them and surfing anyway.... The only way around that is to block all access to all ip ranges outside China's blocks.
"Hands-free systems apparently don't help much either as they still require a driver to 'actively be part of a conversation."
So whats really being said here is that if the driver talks to anyone, they become impared.....
Dear God, what if that driver has kids and is listening to the radio, with the passenger talking to them and the kids screaming in the back.... I guess that driver would be about 450 years old in that comparison... lol
LOL, You're funny, so I had to reply.
Fair use rights (as they were before US Patriot Act and DMCA garbage was added) allowed us to share copies of movies as long as we did not make money from them - since we're not making money letting others download movies from us there is no violation of the Fair Use doctrine as set out through the Betamax case.
The only difference is the format of media - If I were mailing out copies of betamax/vhs movies for FREE there would be no laws broken, so what's the difference?
That's been the driving reality for most people downloading movies and music.
I was a member within dozens of Direct Connect Hubs for years. Movies, music, programs - all are available for download 24/7/365. 99.995% of the people who download these items fit under a few categories:
a) Previous Customers, who are still potential customers for current and newer product, but tight on their wallet - if the product is good they will buy it when they can
b) Potential Customers, who have never been customers, but trying various products and don't want to waste money up front unless its decent and worth the money.
c) Kids, Elderly, Disabled People and the Working-Poor, who have no intention of ever being customers due to monetary problems and have no plans on buying products they download.
Let's simplify though. The downloaders are not demons trying to kill the companies they download the products of - many of them feel they are exercising the fairly dead concept of Fair Use that the US Patriot Act and DMCA have all but killed entirely. They are not going anywhere and the group of people who download is increasing every day.
If the MPAA/RIAA/ETC choose to sue these 'potential' customers they will lose their friends, family as customers.... Needless to say, the lowly movie/music industries are only a puny fraction of the global economy and frankly they don't deserve the attention from Government they have received. Why doesn't the Gov't spent more time helping the starving families in our Country - if they spent even ½ the effort on that, which they do for the movie/music industries there would be no kids starving in our country........ but that's right, the only reason our Gov't officials care is their pockets are being lined by the RIAA/MPAA.... Take Orin Hatch for example and the hundreds of thousands of dollars he's been given.... and there are countless others in our Gov't just like him.
... In closing I only have one word... regarding this travesty of Fair-Use: BETAMAX!
With the advent of the US Patriot Act and the DMCA, they would prolly get away with whatever they want, since even simple downloaders of music are 'International Terrorists' under the standing laws... lol
That depends on if the people who find the holes in security are black-hats or not........