Yes and no, with a monthly all you can eat download, you can subscribe one month, write all the songs to CD, and then unsubscribe and rip them all off the CD. No spending hours on P2P networks, no bad copies. Cost is only about 10 bucks and there is no DRM cracking required to pull it off the CD.
I have never tried this, but I believe it would work.
Why is it OK to show pictures of war, death, violence, blood, people mutilated by accidents, but not naked or half naked women?
Who's definition is used to define exactly what pornography is? There are more cultures in the world than just yours.
What of the all separate sites that have porn.com/.net/.biz/.info/.to/.tv/.ws/.ca/.de, which of them is to be given porn.xxx?
Who is going to enforce this ban of porn on the internet? Who's jurisdiction exactly is "The Internet", the US? Should US tax dolars pay for this, or should the US impose an "Internet tax" on the rest of the world to fund this?
Hate groups are welcome, but porn sites should be banned?
These are organizations whose brand name IS their address, moving them would be making them start a new company somewhere else.
Even if we could eradicate the entire internet of ALL porn and force it to.xxx for easy blocking, would more restrictions on accessing porn send more sexual predators to websites like MySpace?
Who is going to track down all porn on the internet and the people responsible for it and threaten them with fines, prison etc.?
With as lawless as the internet is today (scammers, viruses, spyware, spam etc.), do we really need to invest every resource available to begin some holy crusade against porn?
All becasue it makes filtering it easier in schools, and in your own words: "And for the rest of us it means that if you want porn it's that much easier to locate". NEWSFLASH: Kids in school have internet access at home too pal. Most kids won't risk looking for porn at school so they do it at home, so the entire effort behind this is pretty much for nothing.
The only way for this to make "porn easier to block" is if hoving porn on all the other domains was outlawed requiring it be moved to.xxx. What kind of slashdot user would be FOR banning porn on the internet?
This would likely have to be hard coded into bind, few ISP's would be interested in taking such measures especially considering it may open them up to law suits. This would _definitely_ be overstepping their bounds.
They were too good for AMD while they were on their way up and living the good life, now at the first sign of trouble and as people are starting to lose interest they embrace it.
They are not offering AMD becasue they want to but becasue they feel they have no other choice.
I wonder if this "me too" sentiment is going to extend to their AMD line of servers?
This was the right move at the wrong time
As FM and AM broadcasts become digital a "lossless" technology to record them will be just around the corner (if not already). I wonder how the RIAA plans to stop/that/? Also, can TV stations sue my cable company becasue I can save stuff to my DVR and watch it over and over again without buying a DVD of it? I think once they cross into this gray area it will be difficult to figure out exactly where to draw the line.
The things "Ordinary PC Users " need most are the things Windows is best at. They want to use the softare that came with their digital camera, play video games, install stuff for their kids, use their iPod, install AIM etc.
Why even try for the market at the expense of alienating the people that _can_ switch? You can's start at point A and skip B and C on the way to D.
You _did_ read the headline, right? It does not frighten me, but I think it might frighten 1 or 2 of the ~99.8% not using it as their desktop.
The whole "Written by programmers for programmers" is kind of thrown out the windows when you start talking desktop. I don't understand why a concept this simple remains so difficult to grasp for some. Does siding with this line of reasoning violate some sort of religious belief you hold?
I agree that the 250 Ninja is a fun bike to play with. You can get a new one from the dealer for ~$2,700. It is a super easy bike to learn on. The only warning is that you might be looking to upgrade to a 600 cc in only a year or two, but you can sell the bike used on eBay for almost the same price you paid for it. The Aprilia RS 50 is another good starter bike, it is slower but cooler looking (and more unique) than the Ninja.
I like sport bikes becasue it is kind of cold here and tucking behind the windshield and plastics helps block wind/insects/rocks etc. To me steering a sport bike feels more natural. The biggest (valid) complaint I hear from people are that the "super sport" bikes are uncomfortable on long trips because you are leaned over the bike. If you stick with "sport" rather than "super sport" you'll notice the ride position is alot more comfortable.
The smallest 4 wheeled cars you can buy in the US today are still nearly 3000 pounds. The Ariel Atom (reviewed: here is interesting, for $30,000 it smokes most $400,000+ supercars becasue it is only ~1,000 lbs (F1 inspired design).
Due to regulation, such cars will never make it in the US, which is a shame since they could get the same MPG as a hybrid car but with half the cost and twice the performance (like a motorcycle).
I'd bet my lunch the companies we are bashing (Yahoo, Google etc.) have given into more questionable American subpoena the name of "anti-terror" than Chinese over speech violations.
If you skip the one sided over sensationalized headlines typical of Slashdot and actually read what Yahoo said on the issue you will probably see their point.
BPL is only being pushed because so many people are stupid enough to believe that if they have electricity, they will be able to get BPL.
"quickly offer Internet service to millions of new customers" they say.
This is not true. They can't run the service over high voltage lines.
They have to fiber out to medium voltage (7,200 volts) lines and then offload from fiber ($$) to the unshielded lines.
The lines may be 7,200 volts, but to comply with section 15 the data is transmitted somewhere closer to 1 volt.
Emergency frequencies tend to be low because the low attenuation rate allows for greater travel. BPL being sent at 1 volt attenuates quickly so their workaround is to use EMRGENCY FREQUENCIES to transmit data on the power lines.
Even at 1 volt it is enough to disturb radio and emergency communications because med voltage power lines are basically a big antenna.
The problem with being only about 1 volt is that the signal must be cleaned and re-amplified every few hundred feed (more equipment, $).
medium voltage lines are stepped down to 240 volt drops to peoples homes but the data could not survive this. The result is the need for a CT coupler (yes, more $) to bypass the transformer and again reinsert the signal onto the shielded line.
When all is said and done you have a service that is expensive enough to run that it will no be a rural broadband solution.
At best it will be available to areas that already have a choice between Cable, DSL, Fiber, and soon WiMAX.
For the high maintenance costs of keeping BPL signal leakage from PBL deployments you could just run fiber right to the home.
Besides, internet access is a very step for power companies. By the time they establish data centers, mail platforms etc. there will be a slew of better alternatives that won't cause power outages.
Maybe they should instead focus on providing reliable power service or clean energy.
As for the latest "We can monitor equipment with it" they already have technology in place to do that that. It is simply their latest ploy to get people to sign off on their raping the radio spectrum.
I thought you were kidding about the 45 pages til lI checked the article. I am not going to sift through all that, I'll wait for Anandtech to cover it.
I never stated drivers were in user mode, it is just a made up example of what hybrid kernel would be since the GP posted made the claim they don't really exist.
It's a lengthy read, but there are numerous microkernel and monlithic aspects of WinNT.
A microkernel places everything in user space, if you have a kernel that does some things in the kernel address space (memory management, disk I/O etc.) and some things in user space (audio, drivers etc.) then it would then be considered "hybrid". I believe OSX and NT are both hybrid.
If the admin password was not even set and all he did was pull down some files, are his actions even really defined as hacking? If someone connects ftp.some.gov which permits anonymous access and pulls some files from there is that also hacking?
If using IE vuls to install spyware on windows machines is not even against the law, how can his actions be worth 70 years?
I ran into the same problem, I started supporting some people who told their friends/relitives etc. It didn't take long before it was like a full time job, and they all wanted something for nothing.
I decided the only way was to stop all of it, period. I support the machines in my household, my dad's PC, and it ends there with no exceptions. My girlfriend sometimes gets frustrated becasue I won't work on her parents stuff, but I don't care, I won't put up with it all again. If they want support they can pay for it from a PC shop or their vendor.
If they wanted to save a few bucks on the cheapie support contract with their vendor or don't want to invest the time to learn that isn't my problem.
I support exactly 4 PC's (2 are mine, 1 is GF, 1 is my dad), outside of that I don't care if Jusus rises again for the sole reason of asking me how to change his screen resultion, he can get bent.
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I have never tried this, but I believe it would work.
Even better, if you can burn then to CD, you can rip them from the same CD later in MP3 format and without the DRM :)
Who's definition is used to define exactly what pornography is? There are more cultures in the world than just yours.
What of the all separate sites that have porn .com/.net/.biz/.info/.to/.tv/.ws/.ca/.de, which of them is to be given porn.xxx?
Who is going to enforce this ban of porn on the internet? Who's jurisdiction exactly is "The Internet", the US? Should US tax dolars pay for this, or should the US impose an "Internet tax" on the rest of the world to fund this?
Hate groups are welcome, but porn sites should be banned?
These are organizations whose brand name IS their address, moving them would be making them start a new company somewhere else.
Even if we could eradicate the entire internet of ALL porn and force it to .xxx for easy blocking, would more restrictions on accessing porn send more sexual predators to websites like MySpace?
Who is going to track down all porn on the internet and the people responsible for it and threaten them with fines, prison etc.?
With as lawless as the internet is today (scammers, viruses, spyware, spam etc.), do we really need to invest every resource available to begin some holy crusade against porn?
All becasue it makes filtering it easier in schools, and in your own words: "And for the rest of us it means that if you want porn it's that much easier to locate" . NEWSFLASH: Kids in school have internet access at home too pal. Most kids won't risk looking for porn at school so they do it at home, so the entire effort behind this is pretty much for nothing.
The only way for this to make "porn easier to block" is if hoving porn on all the other domains was outlawed requiring it be moved to .xxx. What kind of slashdot user would be FOR banning porn on the internet?
This would likely have to be hard coded into bind, few ISP's would be interested in taking such measures especially considering it may open them up to law suits. This would _definitely_ be overstepping their bounds.
They were too good for AMD while they were on their way up and living the good life, now at the first sign of trouble and as people are starting to lose interest they embrace it. They are not offering AMD becasue they want to but becasue they feel they have no other choice. I wonder if this "me too" sentiment is going to extend to their AMD line of servers? This was the right move at the wrong time
As FM and AM broadcasts become digital a "lossless" technology to record them will be just around the corner (if not already). I wonder how the RIAA plans to stop /that/? Also, can TV stations sue my cable company becasue I can save stuff to my DVR and watch it over and over again without buying a DVD of it? I think once they cross into this gray area it will be difficult to figure out exactly where to draw the line.
Why even try for the market at the expense of alienating the people that _can_ switch? You can's start at point A and skip B and C on the way to D.
You _did_ read the headline, right? It does not frighten me, but I think it might frighten 1 or 2 of the ~99.8% not using it as their desktop.
The whole "Written by programmers for programmers" is kind of thrown out the windows when you start talking desktop. I don't understand why a concept this simple remains so difficult to grasp for some. Does siding with this line of reasoning violate some sort of religious belief you hold?
OK fine, but only as long as he is tall too.
If the desktop you seek then a graphical installer begin thy path.
I like sport bikes becasue it is kind of cold here and tucking behind the windshield and plastics helps block wind/insects/rocks etc. To me steering a sport bike feels more natural. The biggest (valid) complaint I hear from people are that the "super sport" bikes are uncomfortable on long trips because you are leaned over the bike. If you stick with "sport" rather than "super sport" you'll notice the ride position is alot more comfortable.
Due to regulation, such cars will never make it in the US, which is a shame since they could get the same MPG as a hybrid car but with half the cost and twice the performance (like a motorcycle).
I'd bet my lunch the companies we are bashing (Yahoo, Google etc.) have given into more questionable American subpoena the name of "anti-terror" than Chinese over speech violations.
If you skip the one sided over sensationalized headlines typical of Slashdot and actually read what Yahoo said on the issue you will probably see their point.
I noticed that you do see the foolishness in these analogies.
Many people decided to buy the PS2 in part because they needed a DVD player.
"quickly offer Internet service to millions of new customers" they say.
This is not true. They can't run the service over high voltage lines.
They have to fiber out to medium voltage (7,200 volts) lines and then offload from fiber ($$) to the unshielded lines.
The lines may be 7,200 volts, but to comply with section 15 the data is transmitted somewhere closer to 1 volt.
Emergency frequencies tend to be low because the low attenuation rate allows for greater travel. BPL being sent at 1 volt attenuates quickly so their workaround is to use EMRGENCY FREQUENCIES to transmit data on the power lines.
Even at 1 volt it is enough to disturb radio and emergency communications because med voltage power lines are basically a big antenna.
The problem with being only about 1 volt is that the signal must be cleaned and re-amplified every few hundred feed (more equipment, $).
medium voltage lines are stepped down to 240 volt drops to peoples homes but the data could not survive this. The result is the need for a CT coupler (yes, more $) to bypass the transformer and again reinsert the signal onto the shielded line.
When all is said and done you have a service that is expensive enough to run that it will no be a rural broadband solution.
At best it will be available to areas that already have a choice between Cable, DSL, Fiber, and soon WiMAX.
For the high maintenance costs of keeping BPL signal leakage from PBL deployments you could just run fiber right to the home.
Also, BPL maintenance and inline equipment = network (read Power) outages.
Besides, internet access is a very step for power companies. By the time they establish data centers, mail platforms etc. there will be a slew of better alternatives that won't cause power outages.
Maybe they should instead focus on providing reliable power service or clean energy.
As for the latest "We can monitor equipment with it" they already have technology in place to do that that. It is simply their latest ploy to get people to sign off on their raping the radio spectrum.
I thought you were kidding about the 45 pages til lI checked the article. I am not going to sift through all that, I'll wait for Anandtech to cover it.
digg already covered this last week.
Uh, see the Hybrid kernel Wiki. The concept isn't really very difficult to grasp, but you seem to be suffering from arrogance.
It's a lengthy read, but there are numerous microkernel and monlithic aspects of WinNT.
Right, which would make NT a hybrid kernel.
A microkernel places everything in user space, if you have a kernel that does some things in the kernel address space (memory management, disk I/O etc.) and some things in user space (audio, drivers etc.) then it would then be considered "hybrid". I believe OSX and NT are both hybrid.
If using IE vuls to install spyware on windows machines is not even against the law, how can his actions be worth 70 years?
I decided the only way was to stop all of it, period. I support the machines in my household, my dad's PC, and it ends there with no exceptions. My girlfriend sometimes gets frustrated becasue I won't work on her parents stuff, but I don't care, I won't put up with it all again. If they want support they can pay for it from a PC shop or their vendor.
If they wanted to save a few bucks on the cheapie support contract with their vendor or don't want to invest the time to learn that isn't my problem.
I support exactly 4 PC's (2 are mine, 1 is GF, 1 is my dad), outside of that I don't care if Jusus rises again for the sole reason of asking me how to change his screen resultion, he can get bent.
I am pretty sure RMS would first need to uninstall the previous Cox from his backend prior to installing your new, more hardened version.