Better than that, I think any good university should take your (correctly modded) interesting suggestion and employ it for their own use.
1. On a weekend or another "off" time, the university hires someone to set up a table outside the UC, where credit card vendors often wallow.
2. The person sits at the table and offer credit card applications to students. He gives them lollipops or something equally stupid as reward, or just promises them a T-shirt in the mail once their application has been approved.
3. He packs up and leaves in 30-45 minutes.
About a week later, the university contacts anyone who filled out an application, explains to them that the person was posing as a ID theft criminal posing as a credit card salesman, and that, had it been an actual criminal, their credit would already be trashed.
That could be a sober lesson for many naive young college kids. I bet the local police would be happy to orchestrate something like this.
Again, once you publish something, you forever lose the "right" to keep it from entering the public domain, free for all use with no restrictions, at some point in the future. This is no different that your "right" to prevent a library from owning and lending a copy of your book, long after its out of print. Neither exist, and neither should.
That's a basic tenet of copyright. Without copyright, too many people would keep their works unpublished and hidden, preventing great art from ever becoming part of human heritage.
Whatever archive.org does is a courtesy, nothing more. You can't take back what you publish.
No No... There's no reason for ME to repeat what HE said. He summed up the problems well.
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I think I bought mine at Fry's Electronics. There's one in Washington, if you're near that end of Canada. Amazon.com also seems to carry them, though Amazon.ca doesn't.
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Do you happen to have a kill-a-watt? What's the power in use / standby?
The newegg reviews seem negative, but they involve formatting drives without first backing up data, or streaming video. Since I don't plan to do either, maybe it's not so bad.
My first home server ran Xandros. After a failed attempt many years ago with Redhat, then a half-way working attempt with Debian, I found Xandros (2.0 at the time, I think) to be something that "just worked". I kept that server running for a few years, before I switched to Ubuntu.
At the time it was $99 well spent, since it made Linux work for a non-user, hardware engineer. Since then Ubuntu (and OpenOffice) have filled that gap well and it's just not necessary to buy a distribution for those benefits.
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I would assume most of the NAS run Linux. Why don't they do this, then? Review after review on Newegg talked about how their product was a noisy furnace, with the drives up and active nonstop despite hours of non-use. Then the drive would die.
I just don't see reliability or energy conservation being built into the products. Those are the sole reasons to buy a NAS instead of building another of my own, so why buy a NAS?
My queue is filled with low-grade sci fi / adventure, Futurama DVDs, and TV shows I missed on the air.
My wife's queue is filled with Sex and the City, Victorian biographies, and documentaries.
Interestingly we watch a lot of the same stuff: Dr. Who / Top Gear / Graham Norton Show / Good Eats / Daily Show / Colbert Report / Law & Order. We just don't want the same thing sitting around whenever one of us decides to watch a movie.
This would have been pretty stupid on their part. We have a 2-out unlimited account, divided into two queues. I watch 1-2 a month on mine (more if I had time), and my wife watches one every three months on hers (but won't cancel it despite my suggestion). For that we pay $15 a month.
Were they to eliminate this feature, we'd absolutely switch to A) a once-every-other-month allowance for her to buy DVDs, and B) a 3-a-month 1-out account for me. That costs Netflix like $7 a month for no change in the number of movies we watch or postage they pay.
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Can you post a list of some of the pieces you chose? (Still have your newegg/etc. shopping list?)
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I was looking to buy a NAS device earlier this year, to replace an aging machine running Ubuntu acting as a file server only.
Every device I read reviews for had the same problem. The drives are never spun down, so they consume way, way too much power and die a premature death.
I want a device that can go into low-power standby after 30 minutes of non-use and wake on any LAN event. I just can't find anything out there capable of this.
Device needs to support Samba or another cross-platform utility. It needs to be able to interact with OSX / XP / Ubuntu desktops.
Well of course not. But an amount of power from wind and hydro is put on the grid to match my power usage. And that means that an amount of power from a coal plant was taken off the grid, which means the plant burns a little slower and a little less coal exhaust is pumped in the sky.
The electrons moving through my house don't really move very far regardless, they just get pushed back and forth. But it works out at the other end that there's less pollution.
(Green Mountain Energy doesn't sell polluting power, so there's no little check box.)
Your sarcastic reply neglects to mention that most Americans are free to move around the country to find the jobs in their field, but most Americans aren't free to immigrate to India or China or Malaysia to keep their job.
As long as labor can't flow as freely as jobs can, there's a place for tariffs.
Most of those choices don't offer retention mechanisms. No one wants power that won't stay in the socket in response to a little tug. The only one that offers decent retention is the Molex connector, and that one has too much.
A house-wide system of 12V power based on a basement fuel cell or attic solar cell would be a good thing, but I do think a new connector expressly for that purpose would be a valuable standard.
As long as you leave a copy of the source code on each of those distributed computers, you've met the "source code along with the binary" requirement and should be just fine, right?
What's a little more hard disk space compared with the benefit of reusing a stable, extensive code base?
Since this device just takes existing data from the brain and feeds it back in, it's hard to believe it would be of any help, or we would have evolved the same thing. The system we evolved was "good enough" to get us to age 30 or so and pass on our genes. It's not necessarily good enough to recognize someone on the horizon with a shoulder-mounted RPG launcher pointed at you. Sure, we can be trained to recognize the shapes and shadows which indicate that, but then we have to look at it and focus for a second to consciously realize what we're seeing.
Our brains are incredibly good at parallel pattern matching. We can see patterns - real or spurious - in almost anything. But those thousands of parallel pattern matching units have to be funneled through a single consciousness to be useful. If a computer can sort through the synapses, find the ones that are looking to match "man with RPG in the distance", and figure out when they fire, it can perhaps bring something up on the display faster than the person can. Computers, after all, can process a small number of things faster than we can. They just can't process as many complex things in parallel.
Then the definition of 'treason' needs to change. Perhaps Congress could slip that into the bill that already redefines "illegal wiretaps"? If we're redefining things to suit our whims, let's be consistent.
It's already well established that robots.txt is required to avoid having your data indexed and archived. Perhaps mom and pop websites don't know this, but I would argue that mom and pop don't understand large portions of the copyright law, and that this is just one small part. I think at this point that any "copyright law for dummies" book, if not bought and paid for by the xxAA, would include this information in the section on web publishing.
The price of that coal still doesn't properly reflect its true cost, because the people who burn coal don't have to pay for the air they pollute or the CO2 they release. And too many of them get away without installing the available technologies to scrub the exhaust, such as what almost happened here in Texas when Rick Perry fast-tracked a bunch of plants and forgave them from pollution controls.
When the real cost of coal in considered, and nuclear scales with more regular plant production, I think the prices will be more equitable.
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Yeah, just make sure the program thoroughly shreds all the forms it receives, and it's good.
Now, if the forms with the SSNs are just thrown away intact, and data is actually stolen from them . . . yeah that's probably not so good.
Note I said "the local police would be happy to orchestrate something like this".
Police are free to lie to you. They can't entrap you, but in this case there are no real criminals - just an education campaign.
Better than that, I think any good university should take your (correctly modded) interesting suggestion and employ it for their own use.
1. On a weekend or another "off" time, the university hires someone to set up a table outside the UC, where credit card vendors often wallow.
2. The person sits at the table and offer credit card applications to students. He gives them lollipops or something equally stupid as reward, or just promises them a T-shirt in the mail once their application has been approved.
3. He packs up and leaves in 30-45 minutes.
About a week later, the university contacts anyone who filled out an application, explains to them that the person was posing as a ID theft criminal posing as a credit card salesman, and that, had it been an actual criminal, their credit would already be trashed.
That could be a sober lesson for many naive young college kids. I bet the local police would be happy to orchestrate something like this.
Again, once you publish something, you forever lose the "right" to keep it from entering the public domain, free for all use with no restrictions, at some point in the future. This is no different that your "right" to prevent a library from owning and lending a copy of your book, long after its out of print. Neither exist, and neither should.
That's a basic tenet of copyright. Without copyright, too many people would keep their works unpublished and hidden, preventing great art from ever becoming part of human heritage.
Whatever archive.org does is a courtesy, nothing more. You can't take back what you publish.
No No... There's no reason for ME to repeat what HE said. He summed up the problems well.
I think I bought mine at Fry's Electronics. There's one in Washington, if you're near that end of Canada. Amazon.com also seems to carry them, though Amazon.ca doesn't.
Do you happen to have a kill-a-watt? What's the power in use / standby?
The newegg reviews seem negative, but they involve formatting drives without first backing up data, or streaming video. Since I don't plan to do either, maybe it's not so bad.
My first home server ran Xandros. After a failed attempt many years ago with Redhat, then a half-way working attempt with Debian, I found Xandros (2.0 at the time, I think) to be something that "just worked". I kept that server running for a few years, before I switched to Ubuntu.
At the time it was $99 well spent, since it made Linux work for a non-user, hardware engineer. Since then Ubuntu (and OpenOffice) have filled that gap well and it's just not necessary to buy a distribution for those benefits.
I would assume most of the NAS run Linux. Why don't they do this, then? Review after review on Newegg talked about how their product was a noisy furnace, with the drives up and active nonstop despite hours of non-use. Then the drive would die.
I just don't see reliability or energy conservation being built into the products. Those are the sole reasons to buy a NAS instead of building another of my own, so why buy a NAS?
My queue is filled with low-grade sci fi / adventure, Futurama DVDs, and TV shows I missed on the air.
My wife's queue is filled with Sex and the City, Victorian biographies, and documentaries.
Interestingly we watch a lot of the same stuff: Dr. Who / Top Gear / Graham Norton Show / Good Eats / Daily Show / Colbert Report / Law & Order. We just don't want the same thing sitting around whenever one of us decides to watch a movie.
This would have been pretty stupid on their part. We have a 2-out unlimited account, divided into two queues. I watch 1-2 a month on mine (more if I had time), and my wife watches one every three months on hers (but won't cancel it despite my suggestion). For that we pay $15 a month.
Were they to eliminate this feature, we'd absolutely switch to A) a once-every-other-month allowance for her to buy DVDs, and B) a 3-a-month 1-out account for me. That costs Netflix like $7 a month for no change in the number of movies we watch or postage they pay.
Can you post a list of some of the pieces you chose? (Still have your newegg/etc. shopping list?)
I was looking to buy a NAS device earlier this year, to replace an aging machine running Ubuntu acting as a file server only.
Every device I read reviews for had the same problem. The drives are never spun down, so they consume way, way too much power and die a premature death.
I want a device that can go into low-power standby after 30 minutes of non-use and wake on any LAN event. I just can't find anything out there capable of this.
Device needs to support Samba or another cross-platform utility. It needs to be able to interact with OSX / XP / Ubuntu desktops.
And? What is the name of your registrar. I have one domain with Go Daddy and one still with Register.com, and I'm looking to move both.
jez9999 below sums it up nicely. No need to repeat what he said.
And if that means it's cheaper to build nuclear plants than to build clean coal plants, then let's build nuclear plants!
Well of course not. But an amount of power from wind and hydro is put on the grid to match my power usage. And that means that an amount of power from a coal plant was taken off the grid, which means the plant burns a little slower and a little less coal exhaust is pumped in the sky.
The electrons moving through my house don't really move very far regardless, they just get pushed back and forth. But it works out at the other end that there's less pollution.
(Green Mountain Energy doesn't sell polluting power, so there's no little check box.)
Your sarcastic reply neglects to mention that most Americans are free to move around the country to find the jobs in their field, but most Americans aren't free to immigrate to India or China or Malaysia to keep their job.
As long as labor can't flow as freely as jobs can, there's a place for tariffs.
Most of those choices don't offer retention mechanisms. No one wants power that won't stay in the socket in response to a little tug. The only one that offers decent retention is the Molex connector, and that one has too much.
A house-wide system of 12V power based on a basement fuel cell or attic solar cell would be a good thing, but I do think a new connector expressly for that purpose would be a valuable standard.
As long as you leave a copy of the source code on each of those distributed computers, you've met the "source code along with the binary" requirement and should be just fine, right?
What's a little more hard disk space compared with the benefit of reusing a stable, extensive code base?
Our brains are incredibly good at parallel pattern matching. We can see patterns - real or spurious - in almost anything. But those thousands of parallel pattern matching units have to be funneled through a single consciousness to be useful. If a computer can sort through the synapses, find the ones that are looking to match "man with RPG in the distance", and figure out when they fire, it can perhaps bring something up on the display faster than the person can. Computers, after all, can process a small number of things faster than we can. They just can't process as many complex things in parallel.
It's already well established that robots.txt is required to avoid having your data indexed and archived. Perhaps mom and pop websites don't know this, but I would argue that mom and pop don't understand large portions of the copyright law, and that this is just one small part. I think at this point that any "copyright law for dummies" book, if not bought and paid for by the xxAA, would include this information in the section on web publishing.
Hmm, I hear Opera just released an upgrade.
The price of that coal still doesn't properly reflect its true cost, because the people who burn coal don't have to pay for the air they pollute or the CO2 they release. And too many of them get away without installing the available technologies to scrub the exhaust, such as what almost happened here in Texas when Rick Perry fast-tracked a bunch of plants and forgave them from pollution controls.
When the real cost of coal in considered, and nuclear scales with more regular plant production, I think the prices will be more equitable.
(My home is powered from wind and hydro. http://www.greenmountainenergy.com/)