At the time the DMCA was passed, this was all very arcane stuff with no real consumer interest, which is how we got the bad law we got.
That's the way the system works - for the public to be considered part of the process, the public has to get interested, and 10 years ago there just wasn't much.
I predict that this is exactly backwards and that people with time on their hands and a desire to prove themselves will contribute more to open source, not less.
Yeah, this sounds like FUD to me, although I have no data one way or the other. I know lots of people with lots of video, and I haven't heard any screams about this, so I am inclined to doubt.
RAID is not a backup. RAID is designed to protect against hardware failures. It can also increase your I/O speed, which is more important in some cases. Backups are different.
Depending on what you are doing, you may or may need a RAID, but you definitely need backups.
Huntsville, Alabama (where the Army ensured it got the space it needed)
More likely where the Senator from Alabama (back when Southern Senators basically served for life, and thus tended to have lots of seniority) ensured that Alabama got the Federal dollars it wanted.
climbs to a defined altitude, flies for a pre-determined amount of time
Why not be specfic, since the details are available ?
There are two levels of difficulty. FTFA :
Level 1 requires a vehicle to take off vertically from a designated launch area, climb to an altitude of at least 150 feet, remain aloft for at least 90 seconds while traveling horizontally to a landing pad 300 feet away, then land vertically.
The much more difficult Level 2 requires a vehicle to take off from a designated launch area, ascend to an altitude of 150 feet, hover for 180 seconds, then land precisely on a simulated, rocky, lunar surface 300 feet away.
You get to refuel, then you have to come back in the same fashion.
I don't see the difference between refusing to turn over an encryption key and refusing to let the police in your house when they have a valid search warrant.
It is much more like refusing to tell the police where in your house the contraband is hidden, or if there is contraband at all, and being put in jail because of your refusal.
I hate to say this, but given this, plus proposals such as the Communications Data Bill (2008) (described recently in Slashdot, and intended to monitor all telecommunications traffic in the country), when will people start thinking of the UK as a former democracy, where all of the democratic forms and customs are in place, but leached of any real meaning ?
Of course, the proposal for 42 days detention without trial recently went down for defeat in the House of Lords, along with the proposal for secret inquests, so maybe the inevitable reaction to the excesses of the Blair years is setting in and people will stop this rot before it is too late.
I assume that this software costs more than $1.00, so do you think you will fool anyone ? If your first version is 6.0, people will look for reviews of 5.0, not find them, and draw their own conclusion.
Rotating fluids that are perturbed tend to form columns parallel to the axis of rotation called Taylor columns, after G.I. Taylor. On the Earth, these are sometimes seen over seamounts in the oceans, and back when people assumed that Jupiter had a surface, it was hypothesized that the Great Red Spot was a taylor column over an obstruction on the surface below. This now seems highly unlikely, as a solid surface seems highly unlikely. Some more theory is here.
More recently, it has been hypothesized that the belts of the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn (which are organized in pairs at opposite latitudes) may be Taylor columns (i.e., that they may extend part or all the way through the planet as cylinders, keeping the same distance from the rotation axis). A Taylor column at the pole could in principle go all the way through the planet, if there was nothing below it, or could mark the size of a rocky core, thousands of kilometers down. Thus my original question.
The proposed atmospheric cylinders were first demonstrated in a series of laboratory experiments 25 years ago to chart atmospheric flow in a wholly gaseous planet. Friederich Busse, University of Bayreuth, Germany, and John Hart, University of Colorado, Boulder, used liquid-filled spheres with high rotation speeds and imposed interior-exterior temperature differences. The experiments showed that the convective and most other disturbances in these fast-rotating spheres of fluid almost always produced cylindrical vortices parallel to the test vessel's spin axis, called Taylor columns.
I would be curious to know how far down these things go. They look like Taylor columns to me, and in principle could go all the way to the other side, assuming there isn't a rocky core down there somewhere.
Slashdot Mirror
Not down. It's not Earth observing, it's observing from Earth.
Details, details.
If you are having trouble with internet connectivity and suspect this is the issue you can :
Use traceroute if you can or
Go to the various looking glasses to see if you can get to your site (or the other site) from Sprint, Cogent, or an intermediate point.
The Cogent Looking glass
The Sprint looking glass.
The Traceroute.org list.
Do a traceroute, see where the path is going and where it gets dropped. On a Unix or Mac CLI, that's just
traceroute
Or, if Comcast blocks this, go to a looking glass. Here is the
Cogent Looking glass, so you can trace backwards.
They (Cogent) had fights with Level3 and AOL as well that had the same result: Customers of Sprint/Level3/AOL were cut off from Cogent.
And they have had (so far) the same resolution - the connection was restored after enough high level customers told them to knock it off.
At the time the DMCA was passed, this was all very arcane stuff with no real consumer interest, which is how we got the bad law we got.
That's the way the system works - for the public to be considered part of the process, the public has to get interested, and 10 years ago there just wasn't much.
Better than nothing. It was poorly thought through and should be repealed.
I think that this was a good marketing ploy. I hope their servers can stand the strain.
I predict that this is exactly backwards and that people with time on their hands and a desire to prove themselves will contribute more to open source, not less.
Yeah, this sounds like FUD to me, although I have no data one way or the other. I know lots of people with lots of video, and I haven't heard any screams about this, so I am inclined to doubt.
How many times does this have to be said.
RAID is not a backup. RAID is designed to protect against hardware failures. It can also increase your I/O speed, which is more important in some cases. Backups are different.
Depending on what you are doing, you may or may need a RAID, but you definitely need backups.
In History, what else is truth but the consensus view of a subject ?
Oh, and I am not quite 55
I was brought up on B&W TVs and have never, to my memory, dreamed in B&W (and I keep a dream journal).
Huntsville, Alabama (where the Army ensured it got the space it needed)
More likely where the Senator from Alabama (back when Southern Senators basically served for life, and thus tended to have lots of seniority) ensured that Alabama got the Federal dollars it wanted.
climbs to a defined altitude, flies for a pre-determined amount of time
Why not be specfic, since the details are available ?
There are two levels of difficulty. FTFA :
Level 1 requires a vehicle to take off vertically from a designated launch area, climb to an altitude of at least 150 feet, remain aloft for at least 90 seconds while traveling horizontally to a landing pad 300 feet away, then land vertically.
The much more difficult Level 2 requires a vehicle to take off from a designated launch area, ascend to an altitude of 150 feet, hover for 180 seconds, then land precisely on a simulated, rocky, lunar surface 300 feet away.
You get to refuel, then you have to come back in the same fashion.
Look at this camera comparison - all these cameras are firewire. That's a little old, so here are some newer ones :
Cannon XL H1S : IEEE 1394 (i.e., Firewire)
Sony XDCAM EX : Sony I.Link (i.e., IEEE 1394, i.e., Firewire)
I bet the (very Mac centric) video community will be pissed.
Come on. With Target mode you can use you Mac as a HD anywhere, anytime, without opening the case. That's great for a lot of stuff, not just recovery.
Isn't a sprinter who goes 7 min / mile called last ? That's ~24 seconds on a 100 yard dash (the world record is 9).
I don't see the difference between refusing to turn over an encryption key and refusing to let the police in your house when they have a valid search warrant.
It is much more like refusing to tell the police where in your house the contraband is hidden, or if there is contraband at all, and being put in jail because of your refusal.
I hate to say this, but given this, plus proposals such as the Communications Data Bill (2008) (described recently in Slashdot, and intended to monitor all telecommunications traffic in the country), when will people start thinking of the UK as a former democracy, where all of the democratic forms and customs are in place, but leached of any real meaning ?
Of course, the proposal for 42 days detention without trial recently went down for defeat in the House of Lords, along with the proposal for secret inquests, so maybe the inevitable reaction to the excesses of the Blair years is setting in and people will stop this rot before it is too late.
I assume that this software costs more than $1.00, so do you think you will fool anyone ? If your first version is 6.0, people will look for reviews of 5.0, not find them, and draw their own conclusion.
Do it the Google way - beta forever.
Rotating fluids that are perturbed tend to form columns parallel to the axis of rotation called Taylor columns, after G.I. Taylor. On the Earth, these are sometimes seen over seamounts in the oceans, and back when people assumed that Jupiter had a surface, it was hypothesized that the Great Red Spot was a taylor column over an obstruction on the surface below. This now seems highly unlikely, as a solid surface seems highly unlikely. Some more theory is here.
More recently, it has been hypothesized that the belts of the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn (which are organized in pairs at opposite latitudes) may be Taylor columns (i.e., that they may extend part or all the way through the planet as cylinders, keeping the same distance from the rotation axis). A Taylor column at the pole could in principle go all the way through the planet, if there was nothing below it, or could mark the size of a rocky core, thousands of kilometers down. Thus my original question.
This explains the idea pretty well :
The proposed atmospheric cylinders were first demonstrated in a series of laboratory experiments 25 years ago to chart atmospheric flow in a wholly gaseous planet. Friederich Busse, University of Bayreuth, Germany, and John Hart, University of Colorado, Boulder, used liquid-filled spheres with high rotation speeds and imposed interior-exterior temperature differences. The experiments showed that the convective and most other disturbances in these fast-rotating spheres of fluid almost always produced cylindrical vortices parallel to the test vessel's spin axis, called Taylor columns.
I would be curious to know how far down these things go. They look like Taylor columns to me, and in principle could go all the way to the other side, assuming there isn't a rocky core down there somewhere.
It's much too easy - we are built to interpret communication as containing understanding.
s there a technical solution to the potential danger ?
Yes - very technical. Turn down the volume.