So I'll assume this is a followup to the paper being miffed that someone is linking past the front page, and hurting their front page revenue...
Hopefully no judge in the US sees this as a precedent, or Slashdot will be a very different place...
"In Time.com's new article, (Go from the fron page, about half way down, in the tech section, click on the second link from the right, spin around in a circle, and click next to the picture of the space shuttle) there's a new flight plan being shown. In related news, go to www.cnn.com, find the Sci/Tech section, and hope that the story hasn't already changed. The link you're looking for might be called "Shuttle takes off from California" if they haven't renamed it."
And of course, this doesn't even begin to touch on the Slashdot effect, when 100,000 people have to pull down three pages (or more!) to reach the story of interest, rather than just pulling down the one page story that they're looking for. Three times the traffic means only a third of the people will be able to reach the site before it's slashdotted.
This is a scary precedent.
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No, it's a representative republic. Unfortunately, the people against MP3s are the ones who can afford the most representation (aka lobbying congressmen)... And that's the part that causes the most trouble in cases like this.
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The P2P message traffic still goes over TCP/IP. Even if the supernode you're attached to has some made up number for you, it still needs to have some way to translate that into an IP address so the movie/mp3 you're downloading can get routed over the internet to you.
That translation table would be what the RIAA goes after, as soon as they see that you're given a random user number from the P2P service.
It has two flashcard slots (cards sold seperately) and supports upto 512 megs. Onboard, it comes with 32 megs of memory out of the box.
You can buy a Rio that can put out much better sound than a GBA for a lot less than 100 bucks, and it will fit in your pocket or on your belt a lot better. (:
I'm all for geeking out my GBA (I have it painted black and dark red, with the internal light from Tritonlabs.com, and have a 256 MBit cart filled with NES games to play... but I don't need yet another device to play MP3s. My watch (Casio Wrist Audio Player), my Rio 300, portable MP3-CD player, and MP3 CD car stereo do that just fine. This device has very little use to me.
The most expensive part of it's manufacture will be the memory cards that it uses, and the batteries it will chug through. It has a headphone jack, and I *assume* that it will be where the best music quality will be piped through, with it also downgraded out to the system speaker, if you really want to listen to it that way. But if you're going to use headphones anyways, get something that was MADE for playing MP3s, and don't waste the resources of the GBA like that...
Now what might be cooler is if you could plug a regular game boy cart into the Song Pro, and listen to your favorite music while playing Tactics Ogre or something....
I thought that most places suggested using bottled "mostly" pure water in a watercooling system, to keep from gumming up the pipes, and that furthermore, the water resides in a closed system, so that no harmful chemicals (or even H2O) is released into the atmosphere...
I seem to remember another water cooling guide on TH that has the water in a radiator at the top of the loop, with a big fan blowing room temp air through it to cool down the water, then it was pumped back over the processor (which shouldn't be running hot enough to boil water in the first place).
In effect, you *should* be able to run antifreeze through the pipes, and be perfectly fine as far as the environment is concerned.
Easy way around that.. DON'T INSTALL THE SOFTWARE! Just spread it around, open up the cab files and show off the pretty pictures, etc etc. You never got to the screen that says "By accepting this, you agree to give your first born son to Microsoft, etc, etc.." so you shouldn't be legally bound by it, right?
What about the writing on every Microsoft disc out there these days? "Do not make illegal copies of this disc" Can you claim that you made a backup copy (for legal purposes) and then accidentally left the back up copy and a sticky note with the CD-key out in a public park or something?
Nah, there's no greater risk, if you were prone to staring at the sun all the time.. the problem is that the media and everyone (even Slashdot!) tells you that the sun and moon are going to be doing something worth watching on this particular day, and so a MUCH larger amount of people are going to be looking at the sun. It's not any more dangerous, but more people will be taking the risk.
Slashdot Mirror
What, People for the Eating of Tasty Animals?
I'm already a member.
Make clusters of PS2's instead. They're much thinner, and probably put out less heat.
And they WANT you to run Linux on them. (:
Sure, just like salt (sodium and chlorine) will kill you if you breathe it, and water (hydrogen and oxygen) is highly flammable.
Has he even seen his fiance in the past 24 hours?
How many stories has he posted in that time, compared to his average daily post count?
Just curious.
I hope the DVDs in your rating system aren't region locked... otherwise, they're not really good for an "open" standard, are they?
So I'll assume this is a followup to the paper being miffed that someone is linking past the front page, and hurting their front page revenue...
Hopefully no judge in the US sees this as a precedent, or Slashdot will be a very different place...
"In Time.com's new article, (Go from the fron page, about half way down, in the tech section, click on the second link from the right, spin around in a circle, and click next to the picture of the space shuttle) there's a new flight plan being shown. In related news, go to www.cnn.com, find the Sci/Tech section, and hope that the story hasn't already changed. The link you're looking for might be called "Shuttle takes off from California" if they haven't renamed it."
And of course, this doesn't even begin to touch on the Slashdot effect, when 100,000 people have to pull down three pages (or more!) to reach the story of interest, rather than just pulling down the one page story that they're looking for. Three times the traffic means only a third of the people will be able to reach the site before it's slashdotted.
This is a scary precedent.
No, it's a representative republic. Unfortunately, the people against MP3s are the ones who can afford the most representation (aka lobbying congressmen)... And that's the part that causes the most trouble in cases like this.
The P2P message traffic still goes over TCP/IP. Even if the supernode you're attached to has some made up number for you, it still needs to have some way to translate that into an IP address so the movie/mp3 you're downloading can get routed over the internet to you.
That translation table would be what the RIAA goes after, as soon as they see that you're given a random user number from the P2P service.
Feel free to list the mail servers they use here. (:
"The human rights and democracy centre said an antenna with a diameter of 3m could disrupt reception for hundreds of kilometres." "
That's ok, a Pringles can is all I need.. to take over the world!
And we all know how well the "free, ad supported" model worked for the internet, right?
It has two flashcard slots (cards sold seperately) and supports upto 512 megs. Onboard, it comes with 32 megs of memory out of the box.
You can buy a Rio that can put out much better sound than a GBA for a lot less than 100 bucks, and it will fit in your pocket or on your belt a lot better. (:
I'm all for geeking out my GBA (I have it painted black and dark red, with the internal light from Tritonlabs.com, and have a 256 MBit cart filled with NES games to play... but I don't need yet another device to play MP3s. My watch (Casio Wrist Audio Player), my Rio 300, portable MP3-CD player, and MP3 CD car stereo do that just fine. This device has very little use to me.
The most expensive part of it's manufacture will be the memory cards that it uses, and the batteries it will chug through. It has a headphone jack, and I *assume* that it will be where the best music quality will be piped through, with it also downgraded out to the system speaker, if you really want to listen to it that way. But if you're going to use headphones anyways, get something that was MADE for playing MP3s, and don't waste the resources of the GBA like that...
Now what might be cooler is if you could plug a regular game boy cart into the Song Pro, and listen to your favorite music while playing Tactics Ogre or something....
yes yes, I got 0wned.
But, I put PG on my friend list, so I can be more careful in the future...
*cry* my first time feeding a troll.. I'm so naughty...
Erk, I'm wrong. I mistook the Part four of section one as section two. Nevermind me.
*whistles innocently*
even the "Full Software" implementation route allows for the use of a mod chip that will let the XBox read unsigned code.
The hardware modification route goes WAAAY beyond soldering 29 wires or whatever... like replacing the bios and stuff.
I thought that most places suggested using bottled "mostly" pure water in a watercooling system, to keep from gumming up the pipes, and that furthermore, the water resides in a closed system, so that no harmful chemicals (or even H2O) is released into the atmosphere...
I seem to remember another water cooling guide on TH that has the water in a radiator at the top of the loop, with a big fan blowing room temp air through it to cool down the water, then it was pumped back over the processor (which shouldn't be running hot enough to boil water in the first place).
In effect, you *should* be able to run antifreeze through the pipes, and be perfectly fine as far as the environment is concerned.
Shouldn't that be "Undead-in-the-water" dept?
Ah ha! That's why I use "This page accidentally left blank"
It really messes with customers.
"Moo"
I suddenly want a Gateway computer!
It has the right to remain silent, and the right to an attorney.
See? The Miranda Rights even apply to lucite balls containing lunar material!
It was passed 99-0. Sorry.
But you're paying 100 dollars less for the junk linux than the junk MS!
Looks like a upward move to me!
Easy way around that.. DON'T INSTALL THE SOFTWARE! Just spread it around, open up the cab files and show off the pretty pictures, etc etc. You never got to the screen that says "By accepting this, you agree to give your first born son to Microsoft, etc, etc.." so you shouldn't be legally bound by it, right?
What about the writing on every Microsoft disc out there these days? "Do not make illegal copies of this disc" Can you claim that you made a backup copy (for legal purposes) and then accidentally left the back up copy and a sticky note with the CD-key out in a public park or something?
Shrug, IANAL.
Nah, there's no greater risk, if you were prone to staring at the sun all the time.. the problem is that the media and everyone (even Slashdot!) tells you that the sun and moon are going to be doing something worth watching on this particular day, and so a MUCH larger amount of people are going to be looking at the sun. It's not any more dangerous, but more people will be taking the risk.