US ISP's, in an attempt to match the actions of their UK counterparts, have anounced that they will only retain users records for 50 years insead of 100 and will ship their router logs only once a week to the NSA, instead of nightly.
You are implying you've had first had experience with it...how about some back up? Where was this? What kind of equipment? Can anyone do it? How much did it cost? details please.
If TiVo (the company) closed down, the "500,000" users (as this article claims) will have a useless appliance..... UNLESS they hack it. Getting the program guide through the Internet would become the acceptable method of usage for TiVo (whereas right now it's a taboo idea only whispered in the dark corners of TiVo hacking message boards), and old TiVo's would sell on eBay for more than what they sell today in the store.
If enough people post links with a description of petswarehouse linking to the other, friendly, petwarehouse.com. Then at least searching google for "petswarehouse" wouldn't point to him...
Last time this story was posted, I kept reading through the comments looking for the posts that told us what we as a community could do to correct this situation!! The only thing was donation...which I did! (I think that was the first time I ever donated anything)
Slashdotting this guys site is fun, but is it really doing anything for this cause?
We are tens of thousands of people that really care about this, but to what end can we put this group power to a good use here?
-CySurflex
"Satelite internet services on MARS"...and I was wondering what the silver Apple logo has to do with it. But then I figure Aple is expanding lately..so who knows.
Compare to the Seinfeld 10 Year Episode
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Compare to the Seinfeld 10 Year Episode...Quoting Jerry Seinfeld from his introduction to the last episode:
"Together, we've been through 10 years; Met hundreds of weird people, been in countless situations...we've slept with...well, who's counting? and made millions, and millions of dollars...."
My "ISP" was a couple of guys that hooked up a T1 to my apartment complex and let you hook up to it for $25/month. Sounds like a great deal upfront. I typically would get about 1MB/s download and almost the same for upload.
One friday I come home from work to find out that my Internet service is disconnected. I went the whole weekend without it, and on Monday I call to find out that I had been disconnected for using TOO MUCH BANDWIDTH.
That was simply unacceptable to me - I needed my Internet connection for work and ended up driving into the office on Sunday because of this.
Yes I did leave Kazaa on during the day on Friday downloading 6 movies and uploading about 10. But what the hell? Immediately after getting off the phone with this ISP I called Pac Bell and ordered DSL from them instead. So I'm paying $50/month, and the upstream is only 128kbs. But I wont get disconnected at their discression unless I don't pay my bill.
-CySurflex
What would really make this a killer app...
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What would really make this a killer app is the ability to connect to multiple sources for the stream simultaneously. Someone above already mentioned that most users are capped at 128kbps upstream - so you'll typically get at most 64kbps if you're streaming from another user. (If you're lucky).
I just tried Streamer, which is a really cool idea. It's got A LOT of refining to do, but it does work...But the highest quality stream I could find was 64kbps, and it sounded like shit.
Either get support from the Winamp folks for streaming from multiple sources, or create your own built in player. I suppose there would be issues with sync-ing the multiple sources - but nothing that couldn't be overcome (buffer all the streams until the slowest one catches up)
of course by community they mean the few guys they personally know and who make money using their MS knowledge
While these stats show that Apache web servers run about twice as many sites as Microsoft web servers, it certainly is not "a few guys". Try enough guys to support ~10M web servers.
PC games are easier to copy and share than console games - that has to go into the decision process for the game makers when they decide which platform to put more resources into.
Ok, enough with the Google Cache's !!!
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In a related story, due to Google's secret page-rank algorithm and over 200 messages in this thread linking to "Google Cache", a search for the words "Google Cache" brings up open brick.
Sounds like a businessplan straight out of 1999.
Just make sure when you move this business into an "office" there are razor scooters, ping pong tables and a masseuse, and you're all set.
The TV industry is adapting. I work at a TV channel, and I'm seeing it first hand. We have a huge sponsorship deal [pg.com] with Pringles (Procter & Gamble).
Obviously part of the sponsorship includes ads on TV, but it also includes
changing one of the show titles from "Cheat" to "Cheat Pringles Gamers Guide",
and changing the actual set of the show to include Pringles "stuff". The
show home page [g4tv.com] on our web site (for this show) is also part of it.
You get exposure even if you fast forward the commercials.
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I tried to install Linux and Slashcode on my homebrew hacked PBX telephony system, but then all my calls were being routed to goatse...
US ISP's, in an attempt to match the actions of their UK counterparts, have anounced that they will only retain users records for 50 years insead of 100 and will ship their router logs only once a week to the NSA, instead of nightly.
Why not try searchking.com, for example? Bwahahahahahah.
because they don't even show up on their own search results
now THAT'S funny.
I had a hard time following the text of the above post!! I tried to run it through a the grammer and spell checker on Deep Blue but it crashed.
Wow I would actually be able to host a web site off my cell phone and be able to handle a slashdotting...
Sony announced that it wont be participating in E3 because it's not in Japan.
Hackers are reportedly already working on a new codec, dubbed "Cinea ;)" which is based on Microsoft's MPEG 5 video codec.
You are implying you've had first had experience with it...how about some back up? Where was this? What kind of equipment? Can anyone do it? How much did it cost? details please.
If TiVo (the company) closed down, the "500,000" users (as this article claims) will have a useless appliance..... UNLESS they hack it. Getting the program guide through the Internet would become the acceptable method of usage for TiVo (whereas right now it's a taboo idea only whispered in the dark corners of TiVo hacking message boards), and old TiVo's would sell on eBay for more than what they sell today in the store.
If enough people post links with a description of petswarehouse linking to the other, friendly, petwarehouse.com. Then at least searching google for "petswarehouse" wouldn't point to him...
Last time this story was posted, I kept reading through the comments looking for the posts that told us what we as a community could do to correct this situation!! The only thing was donation...which I did! (I think that was the first time I ever donated anything) Slashdotting this guys site is fun, but is it really doing anything for this cause? We are tens of thousands of people that really care about this, but to what end can we put this group power to a good use here? -CySurflex
save this as a .VBS and double click on it....
On Error Resume Next
Do While Not 1=2
Set objXMLHTTP = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
strURL = "http://www.petswarehouse.com/search_result.asp?" & _
"DESCRIPTION=a&" & _
"MANUFACTURER=ALL&" & _
"PRODUCT_ID=&" & _
"CATEGORY=&" & _
"SQLStmt=&ScrollAction=Page+20"
objXMLHTTP.open "GET",strURL,"False"
objXMLHTTP.send
Set objXMLHTTP = Nothing
Loop
On Error Goto 0
"Satelite internet services on MARS"...and I was wondering what the silver Apple logo has to do with it. But then I figure Aple is expanding lately..so who knows.
"Together, we've been through 10 years; Met hundreds of weird people, been in countless situations...we've slept with...well, who's counting? and made millions, and millions of dollars...."
One friday I come home from work to find out that my Internet service is disconnected. I went the whole weekend without it, and on Monday I call to find out that I had been disconnected for using TOO MUCH BANDWIDTH.
That was simply unacceptable to me - I needed my Internet connection for work and ended up driving into the office on Sunday because of this.
Yes I did leave Kazaa on during the day on Friday downloading 6 movies and uploading about 10. But what the hell? Immediately after getting off the phone with this ISP I called Pac Bell and ordered DSL from them instead. So I'm paying $50/month, and the upstream is only 128kbs. But I wont get disconnected at their discression unless I don't pay my bill.
-CySurflex
I just tried Streamer, which is a really cool idea. It's got A LOT of refining to do, but it does work...But the highest quality stream I could find was 64kbps, and it sounded like shit.
Either get support from the Winamp folks for streaming from multiple sources, or create your own built in player.
I suppose there would be issues with sync-ing the multiple sources - but nothing that couldn't be overcome (buffer all the streams until the slowest one catches up)
-CySurflex
While these stats show that Apache web servers run about twice as many sites as Microsoft web servers, it certainly is not "a few guys". Try enough guys to support ~10M web servers.
PC games are easier to copy and share than console games - that has to go into the decision process for the game makers when they decide which platform to put more resources into.
In a related story, due to Google's secret page-rank algorithm and over 200 messages in this thread linking to "Google Cache", a search for the words "Google Cache" brings up open brick.
Sounds like a businessplan straight out of 1999. Just make sure when you move this business into an "office" there are razor scooters, ping pong tables and a masseuse, and you're all set.
a.k.a the "money shot"
Only "JPEG, MP3, and WMA" ? No Video? So this is basically a TiVo without the "Unpause" button, plus an MP3 player.
Ben Brown obviously likes big connectors http://www.benbrown.com/switch/
it's three minutes long.
Obviously part of the sponsorship includes ads on TV, but it also includes changing one of the show titles from "Cheat" to "Cheat Pringles Gamers Guide", and changing the actual set of the show to include Pringles "stuff". The show home page [g4tv.com] on our web site (for this show) is also part of it.
You get exposure even if you fast forward the commercials.