From both accounts I've read, it seems like stores might not be playing by the rules. Rumors that only 2 per store were for friends or family, with one store selling six to friends and family and another selling all of theirs... I think it would be fitting if Sony did an investigation and refused to give ANY to a store that had a problem like that. Many of the 'friends and family' are probably just making money on EBay...
HOWEVER, unless they also have given you explicit reproduction rights, that does not allow you to re-share it.
HOWEVER, they are fully aware of the uses of the P2P network. Its very purpose is to enable more people to download and share files, offloading the bandwidth from you to others that have already downloaded the file. One could argue that the sharing of a file on a P2P network gave implicit permission for others to upload it to users of the same network.
Not Mediacom at least. I don't think that I have EVER had my phone go out due to the phone company's problem. One time I couldn't use my phone because we had a storm and it fried a modem, but when I disconnected my modem the phone worked. However my cable internet has been a nightmare in two different places that I have lived. The two other people I know that have cable internet have also had it go down regularly. The only way that I could see PacketCable being more reliable is if it uses a total different channel for its traffic than their internet service. I doubt that's the case however since a friend of mine just had trouble with his cable phone...
Also, the quality of other VOIP providers is probably based on their internet connection. Ironically, the people with cable internet connections probably have some of the worst results using other providers since my experience with cable internet has been downtime and packet loss. It was very fast and had low ping times for the most part when it was up, but there was still packet loss. It was never as fast or reliable as my 5mbit DSL from QWest/NetINS has been.
Well, we opened a phone book to a random page and...
Well, actually they have the company the guy has his internet through (SBC) saying that his account was the one that had the IP that was used to infringe on their copyrights. This is a lot different from picking a random name from the phone book. They had the guy's IP and already went through the process of serving a subpoena on SBC to find out who to sue. I think that passes muster for filing a case.
I don't see however why discovery should be so burdensome or intrusive. Handing over my computer is not something I would want to do. My computer has everything about me in it. The privacy implications are staggering. I would demand a protective order in the case, and have the plantiffs request the information they wish, which I could then hand over to them after me and my lawyers determined if it was relevant.
Keep in mind that in the eat-or-be-eaten scenario, the eater need only know how to digest and make use of the opponent's raw materials. The eatee has to know how to disable or kill the attacker, a much more difficult problem. Without our immune system, we're equivalent to 150-pound bags of rich growth medium...
The bacteria you talk about have also spent billions of years evolving here on earth, to attack the life forms that evolved with them. Our immune system is also able to fight off attackers that it hasn't specifically evolved to attack. The passive immune system actually keeps us pretty safe. Scavengers and insects play a large role in decomposition, as does a person's own body when the cells self-destruct when they die. I'm not saying there couldn't be an organism on another planet that could take us, but it is far from certainly.
Of course it is safe to have LEAD Sulphide particles all over your face. I recommend you do that, replace your copper pipes with lead ones, repaint your house with lead-based paint, start using lead silverware, and start drinking out of lead cups too. While you're at it, why not re-do the insulation in your house with asbestos, which also happens to be a nanoparticle?
Seriously, could you have possibly found a worse example of ancient nanotechnology to argue its safety?
wiped? from a different computer? Is it me or does it neither makes sense nor have anything to do with what I said before? Or did you mean swapped instead of wiped?
How do you (or they) know that? All the article says is that she wiped her hard drive before giving it to them. So we know two things:
She gave them a hard drive
They determined the hard drive she gave them was wiped
I mean 'wiped' and not 'swapped' because it doesn't say she gave them the entire computer, just the hard drive. So she could still be using her old computer and have just sent them a different hard drive (from a different computer or a new one purchased form a store).
Number 2 is a little fuzzy. If she wiped the entire hard drive, there would be absolutely no way to tell what was on it before. Wiping using certain tools could be detected because they leave patterns on the hard drive. Some methods write over all the data on the drive several times using different patterns of data each time. This helps because even overwriting data with 0s is not entirely secure. The magnetic head on the hard drive doesn't move in exactly the same place every time and some data may be missed, or even though the hard drive will read 0s, more sensitive equipment may be able to determine what the data was before.
Forensic hard drive examination is used a lot, they have specialized equipment that reads magnetic patterns the hard drive platters directly when removed from the hard drive. These magnetic patterns are much more detailed than what a hard drive head reads from the platter. Once they have this detailed information, sophisticated algorithms can many times detect what the data was prior to being overwritten.
Think of it this way, imagine you have a phonographic record, and the elevation is what is used to represent data instead of magnetism. Let's say that something flat with the disc represents '0' and a peak at 1mm represents a '1'. The record will NOT have perfectly level '0's and '1's. The hard drive head will detect anything above say 0.5mm as a '1'. Let's say you have the following elevations: 0.9, 0.2, 0.8, 0.9, representing 1011. If this is overwritten with '0's, the actual elevations may be changed to 0.3, 0.1, 0.3, 0.4. Using the algorithms (which can include statistical calculations and making combinations until the checksum for the sector is valid), they can determine that since the 1rst, 3rd, and 4th bits are higher values than the second bit, the pattern could be 1011. If the 4th bit is a parity bit, that would match up and be a possible value prior to wiping.
Since all I know from the article is that she gave them "a hard drive", she may not have even removed it from her computer. She could have taken a hard drive from a different computer, or purchased one from CompUSA. Then she could have "wiped" it using wiping tools to leave the patterns they detected, and sent it to them. From what I read, she could still be using her original hard drive, with all her downloaded music. Let's she didn't just 'send' them the hard drive, they actually took it from her computer. They still noticed it had been 'wiped'. She could have removed her hard drive prior to delivering the computer to them and put a different hard drive in, then wiped that hard drive. So her original hard drive could still be in her possession.
Are you saying SCO should do that? You can charge for giving the source code out, but only enough to recoup your costs in giving it to them. And once they have it, they can give it freely to anyone they want. SCO doesn't want that, the first time they distributed the source code under the GPL, they would bascially be doing away with their proprietary claims. Actually they have distributed it quite a lot as they were a Linux company until McBride came on board, and it is doubtful that they could win any infringement claim against a Linux user since they have distributed it themselves under the GPL.
Now I have to throw away my DVD of "Basic Instinct" or face 3 years in jail? That movie almost pushed me over the edge to ice-pick someone... I know, they say there's an exception to "mainstream" media working within current obscenity laws, but how to you quantify something to see if it's "mainstream"? If I had that video of terrorists beheading someone, would I go to jail for 3 years? Does it have to be sexual in nature?
Is a computer software maker selling your copyrighted software (GPL) without the making the source vailable? If so, they could face six years in jail! Let's lock SCO's management up now since they are attempting to sell "IP Licenses For Linux" which go against the GPL.
Maybe she wiped a hard drive from a different computer, or just bought an unformatted one and sent it. How would the court know? Isn't giving over your hard drive so that the entire contents can be copied a little unusual though? On a person's private computer they could have many personal unrelated things. In the SCO vs. IBM case they didn't get unfettered access to IBM's hardware. I couldn't be without my hard drive long enough to send it in to have copied as I work from home. I could get another computer setup maybe, but that is a huge pain and would cost me money. What about private letters and pictures that have nothing to do with file sharing? I don't want some RIAA people looking at naked pictures of my wife, or going through my private email for the last 7 years. That would be as bad as giving them a blank search warrant and letting them tear up my house.
Well, tellin' the truth aint about what it can get you, it's a matter of principle and honor. They messed up, they came forward, they paid the price. Good for them. They didn't lie about it, but doing right doesn't cancel out the wrongs you've done. "Yes officer, I killed the man. Can I go home now because I told the truth?" I do have more respect for them that if they would have lied, and the offense doesn't seem all that serious. It looks like they just downloaded it when someone else made it available, they didn't post it themselves. They did probably use Bittorrent though, which means they distributed it while they were downloading it, helping out the network.
This was not a loaner or misplaced, Clifton paid for the movie reel. Since they couldn't find the footage, Clifton came forward with his own personal copy. Now they need to find other film makeres that may have purchased reels of Apollo footage to make up the rest:). They actually hope that the documentation he received with his purchase will show where he got it from and possibly lead to the original footage. It seems to me that over the years, they've forgotten which facility they stored the footage in. Reminds me of the ending of "Raiders of the Lost Ark"...
Reminds me of the old cylinder bicycle locks. I had one with four spinners on it, but my friend broke it in a couple minutes. The problem was that when you got one number right, you could feel that the cable moved a little differently so you knew it was correct.
If we could just get the legislature to create a "fine" for this, the police would probably be happy to comply as they could collect money for themselves...
"Among teens aged 12 to 17 who were polled, 69 percent said they thought it was legal to copy a CD from a friend who purchased the original."
If those 69% of students live in Canada and the copy is for personal use, they are correct. You can legally make a copy of whatever music you wish, as long as you don't distribute it, publicly perform it, or sell it.
The patent system is there for the benefit of the public. Do you know why Hollywood became a center for movie-making? Studios fled west to avoid having to pay Edison for his patents and they weren't enforced out west. There are better ways the court could have seen to it that Tivo was reimbursed for their invention. Shutting devices of millions of people on short notice who paid for them should not have been on the table. When radio came about, they started playing copyrighted songs. Copyright holders weren't getting paid. Instead of forcing the stations off the air or preventing them from playing songs the copyright holders didn't want them to play, congress came up with a system that let the radio stations play whatever songs they wished for a predetermined price. Copyright and Patents aren't absolute property rights.
It looks like the appeals court has wisely blocked the injunction.
We should be able to resolve two points at that distance (400 light-years) without any problem, if they are briht enough to see. Hubble has imaged the star Betelgeuse, a red giant that is about 10 au in diameter and 600 light-years away. These "planemos" would be closer (400 light-years) and further apart (240 au). The main problem with looking for planets around stars is the glare from the star washing out the planet, which by comparison is very, VERY dim.
You are asking "Why create a game engine from scratch when you have a perfectly good six year old, multiplayer only game engine available?" You might as well ask ID why they didn't use the Quake III engine for Doom 3.
First, there's always a remote possibility of a billing mixup. That's unlikely though.
I notice you say you've noticed only incoming calls. If someone dialed your number and your phone was on, they would normally get you. Have you had anyone tell you they tried to call you when you know your phone was on and not get through, or get hung up on by someone? Can you call TMobile and get a detailed report of calls on your account? That might show which number (you or your partner's) was being called. They may also be able to show you which cell tower the phone was registered with for the start and end of the call.
If they are all calls to your partner's number, I would look seriously at him cheating on you. Have you noticed him taking many private calls lately and moving away from you to talk? Have you answered your home phone to have people hanging up or claiming they got the wrong number? Has he been working out more or taking a greater than normal interest in his own appearance?
If you're worried about cloning, you don't need to just change your number, but get a different SIM card from your phone. That card is what would be cloned and has an IMSI number that is used to register you on the network.
* Two northern sky discs (with and without constellations)
Yes, they have a disc without constellations, and a picture of it.
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He bought a laptop on ebay from a guy with 0 feedback score and only 50% positive feedback. Also the grammer in the ebay posting was terrible (spelling errors are right from the ebay listing):
This is an office laptop that i gave to one of my employees who i have recently dismissed, there is nothing wrong with this laptop it just needs a charger, which needs a charger due to he stole the charger childishly. If you take it to any computer dealer they will be able to provide a charer no problem. Windows Xp, it's fast relaible and has never had a problem whats so ever. comes with all neccisary paper work...
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RTFP. Jack disobeyed a court order, and Take-Two's lawyers are pointing it out to the judge and telling the judge to ask him why he did what he did.
Ever heard of MSNBC? Where's GOOTV?
From both accounts I've read, it seems like stores might not be playing by the rules. Rumors that only 2 per store were for friends or family, with one store selling six to friends and family and another selling all of theirs... I think it would be fitting if Sony did an investigation and refused to give ANY to a store that had a problem like that. Many of the 'friends and family' are probably just making money on EBay...
Also, the quality of other VOIP providers is probably based on their internet connection. Ironically, the people with cable internet connections probably have some of the worst results using other providers since my experience with cable internet has been downtime and packet loss. It was very fast and had low ping times for the most part when it was up, but there was still packet loss. It was never as fast or reliable as my 5mbit DSL from QWest/NetINS has been.
I don't see however why discovery should be so burdensome or intrusive. Handing over my computer is not something I would want to do. My computer has everything about me in it. The privacy implications are staggering. I would demand a protective order in the case, and have the plantiffs request the information they wish, which I could then hand over to them after me and my lawyers determined if it was relevant.
Seriously, could you have possibly found a worse example of ancient nanotechnology to argue its safety?
- She gave them a hard drive
- They determined the hard drive she gave them was wiped
I mean 'wiped' and not 'swapped' because it doesn't say she gave them the entire computer, just the hard drive. So she could still be using her old computer and have just sent them a different hard drive (from a different computer or a new one purchased form a store).Number 2 is a little fuzzy. If she wiped the entire hard drive, there would be absolutely no way to tell what was on it before. Wiping using certain tools could be detected because they leave patterns on the hard drive. Some methods write over all the data on the drive several times using different patterns of data each time. This helps because even overwriting data with 0s is not entirely secure. The magnetic head on the hard drive doesn't move in exactly the same place every time and some data may be missed, or even though the hard drive will read 0s, more sensitive equipment may be able to determine what the data was before.
Forensic hard drive examination is used a lot, they have specialized equipment that reads magnetic patterns the hard drive platters directly when removed from the hard drive. These magnetic patterns are much more detailed than what a hard drive head reads from the platter. Once they have this detailed information, sophisticated algorithms can many times detect what the data was prior to being overwritten.
Think of it this way, imagine you have a phonographic record, and the elevation is what is used to represent data instead of magnetism. Let's say that something flat with the disc represents '0' and a peak at 1mm represents a '1'. The record will NOT have perfectly level '0's and '1's. The hard drive head will detect anything above say 0.5mm as a '1'. Let's say you have the following elevations: 0.9, 0.2, 0.8, 0.9, representing 1011. If this is overwritten with '0's, the actual elevations may be changed to 0.3, 0.1, 0.3, 0.4. Using the algorithms (which can include statistical calculations and making combinations until the checksum for the sector is valid), they can determine that since the 1rst, 3rd, and 4th bits are higher values than the second bit, the pattern could be 1011. If the 4th bit is a parity bit, that would match up and be a possible value prior to wiping.
Since all I know from the article is that she gave them "a hard drive", she may not have even removed it from her computer. She could have taken a hard drive from a different computer, or purchased one from CompUSA. Then she could have "wiped" it using wiping tools to leave the patterns they detected, and sent it to them. From what I read, she could still be using her original hard drive, with all her downloaded music. Let's she didn't just 'send' them the hard drive, they actually took it from her computer. They still noticed it had been 'wiped'. She could have removed her hard drive prior to delivering the computer to them and put a different hard drive in, then wiped that hard drive. So her original hard drive could still be in her possession.
Are you saying SCO should do that? You can charge for giving the source code out, but only enough to recoup your costs in giving it to them. And once they have it, they can give it freely to anyone they want. SCO doesn't want that, the first time they distributed the source code under the GPL, they would bascially be doing away with their proprietary claims. Actually they have distributed it quite a lot as they were a Linux company until McBride came on board, and it is doubtful that they could win any infringement claim against a Linux user since they have distributed it themselves under the GPL.
Now I have to throw away my DVD of "Basic Instinct" or face 3 years in jail? That movie almost pushed me over the edge to ice-pick someone... I know, they say there's an exception to "mainstream" media working within current obscenity laws, but how to you quantify something to see if it's "mainstream"? If I had that video of terrorists beheading someone, would I go to jail for 3 years? Does it have to be sexual in nature?
It's Windows Media DRM, not Windows Audio DRM. P0rn sites must be DRMing their movies now...
Is a computer software maker selling your copyrighted software (GPL) without the making the source vailable? If so, they could face six years in jail! Let's lock SCO's management up now since they are attempting to sell "IP Licenses For Linux" which go against the GPL.
Maybe she wiped a hard drive from a different computer, or just bought an unformatted one and sent it. How would the court know? Isn't giving over your hard drive so that the entire contents can be copied a little unusual though? On a person's private computer they could have many personal unrelated things. In the SCO vs. IBM case they didn't get unfettered access to IBM's hardware. I couldn't be without my hard drive long enough to send it in to have copied as I work from home. I could get another computer setup maybe, but that is a huge pain and would cost me money. What about private letters and pictures that have nothing to do with file sharing? I don't want some RIAA people looking at naked pictures of my wife, or going through my private email for the last 7 years. That would be as bad as giving them a blank search warrant and letting them tear up my house.
Well, tellin' the truth aint about what it can get you, it's a matter of principle and honor. They messed up, they came forward, they paid the price. Good for them. They didn't lie about it, but doing right doesn't cancel out the wrongs you've done. "Yes officer, I killed the man. Can I go home now because I told the truth?" I do have more respect for them that if they would have lied, and the offense doesn't seem all that serious. It looks like they just downloaded it when someone else made it available, they didn't post it themselves. They did probably use Bittorrent though, which means they distributed it while they were downloading it, helping out the network.
This was not a loaner or misplaced, Clifton paid for the movie reel. Since they couldn't find the footage, Clifton came forward with his own personal copy. Now they need to find other film makeres that may have purchased reels of Apollo footage to make up the rest :). They actually hope that the documentation he received with his purchase will show where he got it from and possibly lead to the original footage. It seems to me that over the years, they've forgotten which facility they stored the footage in. Reminds me of the ending of "Raiders of the Lost Ark"...
Reminds me of the old cylinder bicycle locks. I had one with four spinners on it, but my friend broke it in a couple minutes. The problem was that when you got one number right, you could feel that the cable moved a little differently so you knew it was correct.
If we could just get the legislature to create a "fine" for this, the police would probably be happy to comply as they could collect money for themselves...
If those 69% of students live in Canada and the copy is for personal use, they are correct. You can legally make a copy of whatever music you wish, as long as you don't distribute it, publicly perform it, or sell it.
It looks like the appeals court has wisely blocked the injunction.
We should be able to resolve two points at that distance (400 light-years) without any problem, if they are briht enough to see. Hubble has imaged the star Betelgeuse, a red giant that is about 10 au in diameter and 600 light-years away. These "planemos" would be closer (400 light-years) and further apart (240 au). The main problem with looking for planets around stars is the glare from the star washing out the planet, which by comparison is very, VERY dim.
You are asking "Why create a game engine from scratch when you have a perfectly good six year old, multiplayer only game engine available?" You might as well ask ID why they didn't use the Quake III engine for Doom 3.
I notice you say you've noticed only incoming calls. If someone dialed your number and your phone was on, they would normally get you. Have you had anyone tell you they tried to call you when you know your phone was on and not get through, or get hung up on by someone? Can you call TMobile and get a detailed report of calls on your account? That might show which number (you or your partner's) was being called. They may also be able to show you which cell tower the phone was registered with for the start and end of the call.
If they are all calls to your partner's number, I would look seriously at him cheating on you. Have you noticed him taking many private calls lately and moving away from you to talk? Have you answered your home phone to have people hanging up or claiming they got the wrong number? Has he been working out more or taking a greater than normal interest in his own appearance?
If you're worried about cloning, you don't need to just change your number, but get a different SIM card from your phone. That card is what would be cloned and has an IMSI number that is used to register you on the network.