From the article:...In a subpoena addressed to MIT, the association is demanding the name, address, and phone number of a student who used the nickname ''crazyface'' to download at least five songs, including Radiohead's ''Idioteque'' and Dave Matthews Band's ''Ants Marching.''...
So lets get this straight - the (alleged) student used the nickname "crazyface" to download "at least" 5 songs? How do they know this unless they were sharing the songs and monitoring who downloaded them in the first place? Does this mean that the RIAA were sharing songs on KaZaa??
If this is the case, are they also not liable under the DMCA?
I'm curious why it has to run at midnight? Would it be so awful if it ran at 1am local time?
I suppose the obvious thing is to keep the local clocks at local time and set the job to run at midnight.
Use NTP to keep the clocks in sync.
I've seen some strange moderation in my time, however could anyone explain to me how the above post could possibly be considered "offtopic"?
GMT doesn't change, but the offset changes at least twice a year. Currently here (Sweden) it's GMT+2 since we are in daylight saving period, but usually we are in the GMT+1 timezone. So then you have to twice a year adjust when the script is run, and apparently not everyone change to/from daylight saving time at the same time, which means even more headache
I thought you could use NTP on each machine to keep the time correct even during offset months?
...actually I think I might have missed the point. Is the original question that scripts need to run on a box in one time zone at midnight in the other time zone?
GMT doesn't change so all you need to do is keep a list of each machine and it's GMT offset and schedule your scripts accordingly.
Since older videogames had relatively simple graphics, box art artists often had to "embellish" and conjure up visions of what they imagined the game would look like if the creators had more than 16k of memory to work with.
Unfortunately, the guy who did the artwork for the Atari Computer port of Pac-Man envisioned Pac-Man as a buck-toothed, Frisbee eating, washed-up marathon runner with high socks who lived in a castle.
There's a rumor that a live-action Pac-Man movie may be in the works, but it won't be nearly as good as my version. If I directed the film, Pac-Man would be an unemployed guy in a yellow suit who lives in a dirty apartment and verbally abuses his wife (Mrs. Pac-Man). At the beginning of the film, Mrs. Pac-Man leaves Pac-Man for Dig Dug ("At least that way I'll get a good pumping every once in awhile," she'll say) and Pac-Man soon spirals deep into a crippling "power pellet" addiction. To make matters worse, the ghosts buy Pac-Man's apartment complex and threaten to evict him. Pac-Man is powerless to stop the ghosts, so he gets chased from his home and ends up chomping up marbles on the street. Eventually, he starts having seizures due to pellet withdrawal and ends up in rehab. He's cured and released, but ends up overdosing on power pellets, bursting into the landlord's office, and eating all the ghosts to death. Then Pac-Man goes on trial for murder and it's really dramatic.
Hollywood will no doubt steal my brilliant story idea. Just you wait.
If you've ever been tricked by one of those ads telling you that your "connection is not optimized" or that you have "1 new message waiting," you could be part of the class.
If you've ever been tricked by one of _those_ ads then what are you doing reading/. ? Get yourself back to AOL and stop getting big ideas.
What could I do in Premiere that I couldn't do in Final Cut Express?
How about "more or less anything?" Premiere is awkward to use, but once learned is an extremely powerful package. The amount of layers that you can use alone makes it more "powerful" than FCP.
FCP is a good package - lets make no mistake about that - if you want simple video editing, then it can do it, however Premiere is a lot more flexible, if a lot more complicated, however with power comes the knowledge pre-requisite.
You want to do extremely complicated edits, use Premiere and perhaps consider After Effects. You want pain free relatively basic editing, get FCP.
In the superb MMORPG Neocron I'm, perhaps rather unsurprisingly, "Skinfitz". I like consistency for things like nicks and it's always interesting when you get people asking "hey are you the same xxx from yyy?".
I think my fav nicknames from Neocron at the moment are there is a guy called "anima" and a female char called "anima's sex toy". (Mind you I am in a clan with someone called "clitoris" and someone else called "Fur lined mixing bowl" but there you go.)
To expound on your thoughts a little bit, I think the govt. could abuse this technology if they wanted to. However, what 1984 crying wolf types forget is that only a govt bent on it's own aims rather than insuring individual freedoms for its constituants would abuse such a system. Luckily in a free society, the free press can act as a watchdog for us and prevent govts. from abusing their power by giving us the information to make good decisions during elections. That said, rather than focusing our energy on banishing RFID technology, which does have good uses, it may be better to focus our energy on correcting real abuses of the govt with the power we've given them.
Are you actually serious? If you are, then I am genuinely worried. Take the US Govt for example - are you seriously suggesting that a government that fabricates evidence to go to war to keep the price of "gas" down is not bent on it's own aims?? Are you seriously suggesting that the press could report anything that the government really really didnt want it to? Are you suggesting that all the information you see before elections is TRUE? Even during the election that the vote counts are not fiddled?
I don't recall giving any government any power. It is a hegemony.
Start adding cameras to consoles with broadband links and one wonders how long its going to be before they could realistically be used to spy on people, either by exploit or built in game back door.
Why can't we run random executables without worrying that they'll delete everything/spam/etc.
For precisely the same reasons as why should walking down the street minding your own business be dangerous? Many attacks and muggings however are carried out daily against people for doing just this.
Most people in the US just don't know how to shop around. I have unlimited anytime minutes, unlimited SMS (text messaging), and unlimited WAP just about anywhere in the state of Maryland. All this for around $70.00. I also don't get charged for long-distance unless I'm outside my home-coverage area.
Lets be honest here - having unlimited time is nice, however pointless as you are simply not going to be constantly using voice, SMS and data 24/7. You should examine your bills and work out how much you actually use on average and get a contract that matches your needs.
In the UK you could have a phone where you pay nothing to receive calls for around $40 a year (yes, a year).
Anyhow, how much do you pay for 1.5 Megabit Broadband Internet in the UK?
I have 2Mbit cable and pay around $75 a month for that, however I still dont pay to receive data...
Yes you DO pay for incoming calls with a cell phone.
Not in the UK you don't.
I still find it hard to accept that in the US people actually put up with paying to RECIEVE calls - but SMS as well??? That is just utterly idiotic!!! I wonder what total moron thought THAT would be a good idea? - So lets see - you dont like someone so you send a kabillion SMS messages to their cell phone by using a free SMS gateway and bankrupt them.
No wonder the whole mobile phone system is backwards in the US - I'm amazed anyone bothers with cellphones at all.
...3D Realms will not release the game until they are sure it is the best first person shooter ever.
Yes but each time it's delayed and a new game comes out that might be considered "the new standard" - i.e Return to Castle Wolfenstein or Quake 3, then surely they have to return to the drawing board to make something even better?
Actually, given that the nature of property is to control access to a particular resource, a more accurate term would be "not yours."
If I own a hammer, I can control who has access to it. I can prevent you from using it. So the important point is not that I can use it, but that I can prevent you from using it.
"Mine!" - i.e. to have complete and utter say in it's use. If you get to use or access the resource then it's because "I" said you could use it.
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From the article: ...In a subpoena addressed to MIT, the association is demanding the name, address, and phone number of a student who used the nickname ''crazyface'' to download at least five songs, including Radiohead's ''Idioteque'' and Dave Matthews Band's ''Ants Marching.''...
So lets get this straight - the (alleged) student used the nickname "crazyface" to download "at least" 5 songs? How do they know this unless they were sharing the songs and monitoring who downloaded them in the first place? Does this mean that the RIAA were sharing songs on KaZaa??
If this is the case, are they also not liable under the DMCA?
I'm curious why it has to run at midnight? Would it be so awful if it ran at 1am local time? I suppose the obvious thing is to keep the local clocks at local time and set the job to run at midnight. Use NTP to keep the clocks in sync.
I've seen some strange moderation in my time, however could anyone explain to me how the above post could possibly be considered "offtopic"?
GMT doesn't change, but the offset changes at least twice a year. Currently here (Sweden) it's GMT+2 since we are in daylight saving period, but usually we are in the GMT+1 timezone. So then you have to twice a year adjust when the script is run, and apparently not everyone change to/from daylight saving time at the same time, which means even more headache
I thought you could use NTP on each machine to keep the time correct even during offset months?
...actually I think I might have missed the point. Is the original question that scripts need to run on a box in one time zone at midnight in the other time zone?
GMT doesn't change so all you need to do is keep a list of each machine and it's GMT offset and schedule your scripts accordingly.
I'm curious why it has to run at midnight? Would it be so awful if it ran at 1am local time?
I suppose the obvious thing is to keep the local clocks at local time and set the job to run at midnight.
Use NTP to keep the clocks in sync.
From GameSpy
Since older videogames had relatively simple graphics, box art artists often had to "embellish" and conjure up visions of what they imagined the game would look like if the creators had more than 16k of memory to work with.
Unfortunately, the guy who did the artwork for the Atari Computer port of Pac-Man envisioned Pac-Man as a buck-toothed, Frisbee eating, washed-up marathon runner with high socks who lived in a castle.
There's a rumor that a live-action Pac-Man movie may be in the works, but it won't be nearly as good as my version. If I directed the film, Pac-Man would be an unemployed guy in a yellow suit who lives in a dirty apartment and verbally abuses his wife (Mrs. Pac-Man). At the beginning of the film, Mrs. Pac-Man leaves Pac-Man for Dig Dug ("At least that way I'll get a good pumping every once in awhile," she'll say) and Pac-Man soon spirals deep into a crippling "power pellet" addiction. To make matters worse, the ghosts buy Pac-Man's apartment complex and threaten to evict him. Pac-Man is powerless to stop the ghosts, so he gets chased from his home and ends up chomping up marbles on the street. Eventually, he starts having seizures due to pellet withdrawal and ends up in rehab. He's cured and released, but ends up overdosing on power pellets, bursting into the landlord's office, and eating all the ghosts to death. Then Pac-Man goes on trial for murder and it's really dramatic.
Hollywood will no doubt steal my brilliant story idea. Just you wait.
With all the references to razor blades in his story, perhaps George Orwell was trying to tell us something in 1984.
"Got any razor blades brother?"
If you've ever been tricked by one of those ads telling you that your "connection is not optimized" or that you have "1 new message waiting," you could be part of the class.
/. ? Get yourself back to AOL and stop getting big ideas.
If you've ever been tricked by one of _those_ ads then what are you doing reading
What could I do in Premiere that I couldn't do in Final Cut Express?
How about "more or less anything?" Premiere is awkward to use, but once learned is an extremely powerful package. The amount of layers that you can use alone makes it more "powerful" than FCP.
FCP is a good package - lets make no mistake about that - if you want simple video editing, then it can do it, however Premiere is a lot more flexible, if a lot more complicated, however with power comes the knowledge pre-requisite.
You want to do extremely complicated edits, use Premiere and perhaps consider After Effects. You want pain free relatively basic editing, get FCP.
Dude - go and talk to a dentist. This is /.
...er how is my post a troll when I am a /. reader and the question is "what do I think about a potential football game hoax?"
/.???)
Moderators wouldn't be into football now would they? (on
Shame on you.
In the superb MMORPG Neocron I'm, perhaps rather unsurprisingly, "Skinfitz". I like consistency for things like nicks and it's always interesting when you get people asking "hey are you the same xxx from yyy?".
I think my fav nicknames from Neocron at the moment are there is a guy called "anima" and a female char called "anima's sex toy". (Mind you I am in a clan with someone called "clitoris" and someone else called "Fur lined mixing bowl" but there you go.)
Actually I got mentioned in the Neocron monthly magazine (NEMA) last month... Not that I'm bragging or anything...
To expound on your thoughts a little bit, I think the govt. could abuse this technology if they wanted to. However, what 1984 crying wolf types forget is that only a govt bent on it's own aims rather than insuring individual freedoms for its constituants would abuse such a system. Luckily in a free society, the free press can act as a watchdog for us and prevent govts. from abusing their power by giving us the information to make good decisions during elections. That said, rather than focusing our energy on banishing RFID technology, which does have good uses, it may be better to focus our energy on correcting real abuses of the govt with the power we've given them.
Are you actually serious? If you are, then I am genuinely worried. Take the US Govt for example - are you seriously suggesting that a government that fabricates evidence to go to war to keep the price of "gas" down is not bent on it's own aims?? Are you seriously suggesting that the press could report anything that the government really really didnt want it to? Are you suggesting that all the information you see before elections is TRUE? Even during the election that the vote counts are not fiddled?
I don't recall giving any government any power. It is a hegemony.
Consensus in the boards on his site seems to be that this is a hoax by Sega - what do Slashdot readers think?"
I think it has "football" in the title and so I'm simply not interested.
So 6305 mails in total, one of which was a valid email from someone wanting to contact them.
Signal to noise ratio of 1/6304
So how is this different to anyones email these days?
Start adding cameras to consoles with broadband links and one wonders how long its going to be before they could realistically be used to spy on people, either by exploit or built in game back door.
There is a message board for comments on the story...
Guess that's the short end of the stick, huh.
Surely you mean the short end of the stock.
Why can't we run random executables without worrying that they'll delete everything/spam/etc.
For precisely the same reasons as why should walking down the street minding your own business be dangerous? Many attacks and muggings however are carried out daily against people for doing just this.
Oh no - wait...
The incoming call charges are reasonable in the US.
I'm sorry but I don't see how any incoming call charge could ever be described as anything other than "a total and complete rip off".
Most people in the US just don't know how to shop around. I have unlimited anytime minutes, unlimited SMS (text messaging), and unlimited WAP just about anywhere in the state of Maryland. All this for around $70.00. I also don't get charged for long-distance unless I'm outside my home-coverage area.
Lets be honest here - having unlimited time is nice, however pointless as you are simply not going to be constantly using voice, SMS and data 24/7. You should examine your bills and work out how much you actually use on average and get a contract that matches your needs.
In the UK you could have a phone where you pay nothing to receive calls for around $40 a year (yes, a year).
Anyhow, how much do you pay for 1.5 Megabit Broadband Internet in the UK?
I have 2Mbit cable and pay around $75 a month for that, however I still dont pay to receive data...
Yes you DO pay for incoming calls with a cell phone.
Not in the UK you don't.
I still find it hard to accept that in the US people actually put up with paying to RECIEVE calls - but SMS as well??? That is just utterly idiotic!!! I wonder what total moron thought THAT would be a good idea? - So lets see - you dont like someone so you send a kabillion SMS messages to their cell phone by using a free SMS gateway and bankrupt them.
No wonder the whole mobile phone system is backwards in the US - I'm amazed anyone bothers with cellphones at all.
...3D Realms will not release the game until they are sure it is the best first person shooter ever.
Yes but each time it's delayed and a new game comes out that might be considered "the new standard" - i.e Return to Castle Wolfenstein or Quake 3, then surely they have to return to the drawing board to make something even better?
Blimey - no wonder it's been delayed.
Actually, given that the nature of property is to control access to a particular resource, a more accurate term would be "not yours." If I own a hammer, I can control who has access to it. I can prevent you from using it. So the important point is not that I can use it, but that I can prevent you from using it.
"Mine!" - i.e. to have complete and utter say in it's use. If you get to use or access the resource then it's because "I" said you could use it.