This seems a little extremist. Sure, the cop reacted very poorly, but plenty of civilians also decide to speed when they think nobody is looking. Are they on a "power trip"? No. The cop wasn't necessarily on a power trip so much as doing something that plenty of other people, cops or otherwise, decide to do on occasion. What he did was just as wrong as any other person speeding down a street at night, probably even more so given that he was on the roads to protect and uphold the laws he was breaking. The issue is the fact that he retaliated with such anger against something I'm sure he figured he was relatively immune to, which was the concept of being punished for breaking laws.
Read this:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/28/09gripe_ 1.html
Around the time when VHS and cassette tapes came out, it was ruled that a customer may do what he/she likes with their property. This very same issue was brought up by TV networks who were afraid that VHS tapes would make it easier to fast forward through commercials, and share network programming with friends who weren't paying for it, and with music labels who detested the cassette for the ability to record, and therefore copy music. It was found that copying a cassette was no different than giving a book to a friend, and is thus covered by Fair Use.
The Hauppage PVR-250 card has an MPEG-2 encoder chip, which offloads a bit of strain from the processor. It's definately useful for lower-powered PVR machines (heat/noise concerns), and the picture tends to look better. Hauppage did recently release the PVR-150, which is around the $60-70 mark, and also encodes to MPEG-2 with (supposedly) equal quality.
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MythTV now supports capturing TV from a set-top box through Firewire-which would also save you the expense of a TV tuner card.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but the way in which the author concludes the results of each test makes it seem like the firewall didn't fully protect the computer against attack, and yet it appeared to pass each test (the only possible exception being the ports for SMB and RPC, which are reported as "closed"; however, the author fails to provide a coherent explanation for this result)
Because it's larger, more expensive, has only one ethernet port, and isn't optimized for those types of tasks.. it'd be a huge waste of equipment and money.
Dell has a pretty good deal on a computer that would already be overkill:P
The PowerEdge 500SC has a 1.2GHz Celeron processor, 128MB 133MHz ECC SDRAM, a 20GB hard drive which you might want to use in conjunction with a PCI RAID card, and a builtin ethernet controller.. all for $499 as advertised in PC Mag
Instead of trying to use this like a CompactFlash, like most of you would like to do, you could embed this into, say, a PDA. You could replace the usual 64mb flash that comes with them, to possibly eliminate the need for extra power hogging storage devices.. Maybe someone should embed this into a cd player so you can record your cds to it, and not have to fumble with them again (before the government outlaws the device because everyone rips their friend's cds)
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This seems a little extremist. Sure, the cop reacted very poorly, but plenty of civilians also decide to speed when they think nobody is looking. Are they on a "power trip"? No. The cop wasn't necessarily on a power trip so much as doing something that plenty of other people, cops or otherwise, decide to do on occasion. What he did was just as wrong as any other person speeding down a street at night, probably even more so given that he was on the roads to protect and uphold the laws he was breaking. The issue is the fact that he retaliated with such anger against something I'm sure he figured he was relatively immune to, which was the concept of being punished for breaking laws.
Read this: http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/28/09gripe_ 1.html
Around the time when VHS and cassette tapes came out, it was ruled that a customer may do what he/she likes with their property. This very same issue was brought up by TV networks who were afraid that VHS tapes would make it easier to fast forward through commercials, and share network programming with friends who weren't paying for it, and with music labels who detested the cassette for the ability to record, and therefore copy music. It was found that copying a cassette was no different than giving a book to a friend, and is thus covered by Fair Use.
The Hauppage PVR-250 card has an MPEG-2 encoder chip, which offloads a bit of strain from the processor. It's definately useful for lower-powered PVR machines (heat/noise concerns), and the picture tends to look better. Hauppage did recently release the PVR-150, which is around the $60-70 mark, and also encodes to MPEG-2 with (supposedly) equal quality.
MythTV now supports capturing TV from a set-top box through Firewire-which would also save you the expense of a TV tuner card.
Yet another processor that requires liquid nitrogen.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but the way in which the author concludes the results of each test makes it seem like the firewall didn't fully protect the computer against attack, and yet it appeared to pass each test (the only possible exception being the ports for SMB and RPC, which are reported as "closed"; however, the author fails to provide a coherent explanation for this result)
I forgot to mention in the article that I also got cologne :P
Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
Because it's larger, more expensive, has only one ethernet port, and isn't optimized for those types of tasks.. it'd be a huge waste of equipment and money.
Dell has a pretty good deal on a computer that would already be overkill :P
The PowerEdge 500SC has a 1.2GHz Celeron processor, 128MB 133MHz ECC SDRAM, a 20GB hard drive which you might want to use in conjunction with a PCI RAID card, and a builtin ethernet controller.. all for $499 as advertised in PC Mag
Most modern powerline technology incorporates 56-bit DES encryption.
Instead of trying to use this like a CompactFlash, like most of you would like to do, you could embed this into, say, a PDA. You could replace the usual 64mb flash that comes with them, to possibly eliminate the need for extra power hogging storage devices.. Maybe someone should embed this into a cd player so you can record your cds to it, and not have to fumble with them again (before the government outlaws the device because everyone rips their friend's cds)