so maybe the future holds P2P networks owned and managed by Hollywood?
No way. I'm gald to support the legal P2P community; I frequently leave Knoppix or other Linux distros running for weeks on end on a spare system here and make available my modest upstream bandwidth. And I can understand that some may want to use their bandwidth to share material that might anger the MPAA or RIAA (and particularly in the case of the RIAA I don't have very negative feelings about that). But that's a far cry from ever thinking that the RIAA or MPAA could ever get P2P working where others contribute their paid for bandwidth for these thugs to make a profit on. And for those few who do there will be plenty more like me who may go out of our way to poison the streams and keep the scheeme from working.
And before everyone gives feedback that it might work if the criminal organizations give a "discount" in return for leaving the feed up for so long, perhaps the public would indeed be stupid enough to fall for that, after all they buy songs and ringtones at insane prices in formats that lock them into DRM scheems and keep them from moving them to the next device they own. But in reality these groups will not be giving any discounts, they will just inflate the prices further and then tell people how much they "save" if they contribute bandwidth to support these rackets. Yes, maybe some people are stupid enough to fall for this, but it certainly should not be encouraged.
Of course we all know a recall would get nearly 100% of these offending boxes. I know I certainly would return my box, particularly if I really had DVDs with different region codes and the box could play them all, or if I knew I could use the box to othherwise get around DRM. Heck, who wouldn't want to rush to send back their recalled player for one that was hobbled?
Of course, the more cynical might say that the only boxes they would get back on a recall would be those that have already died or those used by people who would never use the device to get around DRM anyway, and that a recall would only serve to alert consumers that this model has a feature they might want and find hard to get.
It will be interesting to see how this works out.
Obsolescence is great for security. My DOS 2 systems and my VIC20 never get infected. Of course, there are some downsides to staying with this technology....
It was pretty obvious from watching even a few episodes of the show that the writers had no idea of where they were going with the main plot of the show and were just winging it as they went. That tells me it's pointless to watch and try to figure out what will happen on the show, since the illusion of any logic behind the story is only created later.
The supposed cliff hanger certainly reinforces my belief. And knowing that there will never be anything resolved, one has to wonder why anyone would watch this even if they had not seen it first time around.
100,000 personnel over to Firefox and Thunderbird (70,000 and 45,000 respectively)
You can't just add them that way! The 70K that use Firefox likely account for almost all of the 45k that use Tbird, it's very unlikely that anywhere near 100k personnel are involved if there are only 70k Firefox users.
Good numbers still for one organization, but an awful flawed statement to have found it's way into a Slashdot front page. How did this get past our meticulous editors?
Oh, come on! A Play-Doh mold is a reverse of the finger it was molded from. You right hand finger prints are not mirror images of your left hand finger prints. So while you might come up with some more complex technique to cast a false finger and somewhere in that technique use Play-Doh, the impilcation that you can just use Play-Doh to mold a finger and use that as a finger substitute is obviously false for any system that has any sense at all.
The report found that owner data for 5.14% of the domains it looked at was clearly fake as it used phone numbers such as (999) 999-9999; listed nonsense addresses such as 'asdasdasd' or used invalid zip codes such as 'XXXXX'. In a further 3.65% of domain owner records data was missing or incomplete in one or more fields.
Gee, if we only had some sort of device that could scan these records and pick out such easy to spot bogus data and delete or deactivate the record so that it didn't work any more. Something like a clerk, but faster, so it could look through lots more records in a day. Oh well, I guess that's too much to expect. I'm sure the registration agencies would do it if they could, they certainly arn't just acceptng registration fees and then letting criminals do whateve they want.
And it's an unmodofied naturally occuring virus. Been around for meninum. May even be responsiable for some of the unexplained "miracle" cancer curse. But now somehow it's patented.
Sure, you should try "fixing" your new $400 device (plus the cost of feeding it) with string. Of course, this will likely void your warranty, and when the damn thing kills someone or burns your house or entire appartment complex down Microsoft can point to what you did as the cause. Or maybe you could just ask Microsoft nicely and share the pure joy in the laughter of their response.
I didn't say anything about Zero Coors, so your comment is suspect. It could well be that Zero Coor is better than any positive number of Coors, but that three Coors is still better than two Coors, couldn't it?
Orangutan - without the trailing G, seems to be the most accepted spelling, but there are enough cases of Orangutang as a spelling that I take it to be an alternate spelling that has come into wide use (Google gets about 125,000 hits). It's certainly not the only case of a word that has more than one recognized English spelling.
So what's the problem with Orangutang? It seems like a perfectly valid word to use in such a "puzzle" to me.
And the real solution to the problem seems obvious. Considering that the term "Cyber Monday" was only created two weeks ago but is now being reported by all the major news organizations as a real thing, it would seem to me that all one needs to do to solve this problem is to work out a solution where one or two of the words look reasonably well formed and sound ok even if they are in no dictionary. Then start using them, work them into some blogs, get them some mention in the news, and wait a year or two for them to show up as new words in the dictionary (what's a year or two to an immortal?) Problem solved.
I don't see the issue here. What could be copyrighted? The name (lets ignore that you can't copyright a name!)? Just change the name, call it World Domination, or Bush's Dream or something else. That will get past the trademark issue, which is a bigger problem than copyright. Obviously don't copy the printed rules for Risk, that might be a copyright infringement. He clearly isn't using the Risk copyrighted map. And it certainly isn't a patent issue, the game has well past any patent age (in fact, if it's been patented then the fact that the patent has expired goes a long way to saying that the game has validly passed into public domain, which is the public's right for granting a patent).
Windows would have a hard time running on this low-spec laptop, but there are many distributions of Linux that will work exceptionally well.
OK, I've used DSL. It is OK, and small (around a 50 meg ISO). But it's based on Knoppix and is intended to be run as a Live CD, not installed onto a system. Plus DSL has not been updated in quite some time, so it's pretty old by Linux standards and is missing a lot of fixes. Still, it's GUI can be a resource hog and it demands at least as much in the way of resources as Windows. The statement Windows would have a hard time running on this low-spec laptop is just dead wrong. Sure, maybe XP would have probblems, but even Win98 would run fine (I still use a much slower 64 meg P150 with Win98 as a FTP server and as a testbed for things I don't want to trust to my main system).
I like bashing Microsoft as much as the next guy, but to suggest that DSL will run better on this system than Win98 is just wrong. And in misrepresenting both Linux and Windows this way we don't really help the Linux community, rather it make Linux advocates look more like zelots than technical experts.
Those crazy Canadian hosers! They should blindly trust our administration. We have good secret inteligence which we can't release for security reasons that the aliens are working on weapons of planetary destruction and it is our duty to destroy them in just in case they maybe might do something against us. We must destroy them! Why do they hate us and distrust us? It must be hatred for our economy. So to protect us the administration is doing all it can to destroy that economy, but in the meantime we must destroy the Interplanetary Axis of Evildoer, before they actually do any evil. Anyone who can't see the logic of that must be locked away in our secret prisons. Sure people will be locked away in secret prisons, all records of the activity will be classified secret, and there will be torture and the occasional (frequent) death. But that's the price we pay to live in a free society.
They believe that internet publishing would harm the exchange of knowledge between researchers
Of course Internet publishing would harm the exchange of knowledge between researchers. Any way to distribute information that doesn't cost hundreds of dollars a year per subscription would harm the exchange of knowledge, as anyone drawing a paycheck from this out of date and over priced industry well knows.
You can't heat water up quickly enough with conventional resistance-based electric elements, as it would require huge amount of electricity. Not so with microwaves.
OK, I'll buy the first part, you can't heat water quickly enough for on-demand use such as a shower, as it would require unreasonably high current, even if the electric water heater was 100% efficent. I've done the math on that. The thing is, that holds true for any way you try to heat water by electricity, including microwave, not just "resistance-based" heating. Assume 100% efficency; do the math. You don't get more than 100% efficency just because you use microwaves. You'll see that you can't heat water fast enough to maintain a flow rate in a shower. So unless you plan to have a tank of water at each point where you use hot water and heat it a few munutes before you need it, this just doesn't pass the math. And, of course, heating tanks of water all around the house isn't pratical either; if you heat a large tank and then just wash your hair you waste a lot of hot water that will cool down before it is needed; if the tank is not large enough then the flow turns cold long before the shower is over.
Yea, it would be really neat, and I'm sure that some people who really want this will mode me down because they don't like what I'm saying. But the math doesn't work. And I did read the links. Zilch on the official website. The linked article shows no power usage math and get as technical as saying the thing is the size of a "stereo speaker". I have had a lot of stereo equipment over the years but I have absolutely no idea how to translate that unit of measurement.
"I teach at a community college and.... How would you honestly describe the IT job market to students considering this major?
I would tell them that an IT degree from a community college screams to me short order cook. I would have much higher expectations from someone with a real degree or even someone who is self-taught but shows good skills over someone who expects a community college IT degree to open any doors for him.
I've had an absurd number of problems trying to get Netmeeting to work behind a NAT firewall (the type in all home DSL/Cable routers). No amount of port forwarding worked and putting a Microsoft box in the DMZ is extremely unsafe. So I've been keeping my eyes open for an alternative that doesn't have this problem. Maybe it will be different in that it will actually work for me.
I read the article which clearly states that Korea uses a 12 year school system including high school. Perhaps you could at least read the article, or at least refrain from telling those who do what they can't know or accuse them of making assumptions.
It would be rather hard to spot such a mistake for someone not familiar with the Korean school system
It's not hard at all to spot. The U.S. system uses a highschool / 12 year system too, not counting pre-school and kindergarden. So it should have been obvious to any/. editor in the US that for a system where people typically graduate from highschool at age 17 or 18 that they don't enter first grade at age 8. Perhaps it requires math skills that many educated in this country (the U.S.) no longer have.
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No way. I'm gald to support the legal P2P community; I frequently leave Knoppix or other Linux distros running for weeks on end on a spare system here and make available my modest upstream bandwidth. And I can understand that some may want to use their bandwidth to share material that might anger the MPAA or RIAA (and particularly in the case of the RIAA I don't have very negative feelings about that). But that's a far cry from ever thinking that the RIAA or MPAA could ever get P2P working where others contribute their paid for bandwidth for these thugs to make a profit on. And for those few who do there will be plenty more like me who may go out of our way to poison the streams and keep the scheeme from working.
And before everyone gives feedback that it might work if the criminal organizations give a "discount" in return for leaving the feed up for so long, perhaps the public would indeed be stupid enough to fall for that, after all they buy songs and ringtones at insane prices in formats that lock them into DRM scheems and keep them from moving them to the next device they own. But in reality these groups will not be giving any discounts, they will just inflate the prices further and then tell people how much they "save" if they contribute bandwidth to support these rackets. Yes, maybe some people are stupid enough to fall for this, but it certainly should not be encouraged.
Of course we all know a recall would get nearly 100% of these offending boxes. I know I certainly would return my box, particularly if I really had DVDs with different region codes and the box could play them all, or if I knew I could use the box to othherwise get around DRM. Heck, who wouldn't want to rush to send back their recalled player for one that was hobbled? Of course, the more cynical might say that the only boxes they would get back on a recall would be those that have already died or those used by people who would never use the device to get around DRM anyway, and that a recall would only serve to alert consumers that this model has a feature they might want and find hard to get. It will be interesting to see how this works out.
Obsolescence is great for security. My DOS 2 systems and my VIC20 never get infected. Of course, there are some downsides to staying with this technology ....
The supposed cliff hanger certainly reinforces my belief. And knowing that there will never be anything resolved, one has to wonder why anyone would watch this even if they had not seen it first time around.
You can't just add them that way! The 70K that use Firefox likely account for almost all of the 45k that use Tbird, it's very unlikely that anywhere near 100k personnel are involved if there are only 70k Firefox users.
Good numbers still for one organization, but an awful flawed statement to have found it's way into a Slashdot front page. How did this get past our meticulous editors?
The lesson here is the same one as in the U.S. with Jay Leno's Tonight Show: You get to be on TV if you can act like you are really stupid.
Oh, come on! A Play-Doh mold is a reverse of the finger it was molded from. You right hand finger prints are not mirror images of your left hand finger prints. So while you might come up with some more complex technique to cast a false finger and somewhere in that technique use Play-Doh, the impilcation that you can just use Play-Doh to mold a finger and use that as a finger substitute is obviously false for any system that has any sense at all.
Gee, if we only had some sort of device that could scan these records and pick out such easy to spot bogus data and delete or deactivate the record so that it didn't work any more. Something like a clerk, but faster, so it could look through lots more records in a day. Oh well, I guess that's too much to expect. I'm sure the registration agencies would do it if they could, they certainly arn't just acceptng registration fees and then letting criminals do whateve they want.
And it's an unmodofied naturally occuring virus. Been around for meninum. May even be responsiable for some of the unexplained "miracle" cancer curse. But now somehow it's patented.
Sure, you should try "fixing" your new $400 device (plus the cost of feeding it) with string. Of course, this will likely void your warranty, and when the damn thing kills someone or burns your house or entire appartment complex down Microsoft can point to what you did as the cause. Or maybe you could just ask Microsoft nicely and share the pure joy in the laughter of their response.
I didn't say anything about Zero Coors, so your comment is suspect. It could well be that Zero Coor is better than any positive number of Coors, but that three Coors is still better than two Coors, couldn't it?
Well, yes, the crashing is a problem, so lets just agree that 3 Coors are better than two unless you're driving.
Orangutan - without the trailing G, seems to be the most accepted spelling, but there are enough cases of Orangutang as a spelling that I take it to be an alternate spelling that has come into wide use (Google gets about 125,000 hits). It's certainly not the only case of a word that has more than one recognized English spelling.
And the real solution to the problem seems obvious. Considering that the term "Cyber Monday" was only created two weeks ago but is now being reported by all the major news organizations as a real thing, it would seem to me that all one needs to do to solve this problem is to work out a solution where one or two of the words look reasonably well formed and sound ok even if they are in no dictionary. Then start using them, work them into some blogs, get them some mention in the news, and wait a year or two for them to show up as new words in the dictionary (what's a year or two to an immortal?) Problem solved.
I don't see the issue here. What could be copyrighted? The name (lets ignore that you can't copyright a name!)? Just change the name, call it World Domination, or Bush's Dream or something else. That will get past the trademark issue, which is a bigger problem than copyright. Obviously don't copy the printed rules for Risk, that might be a copyright infringement. He clearly isn't using the Risk copyrighted map. And it certainly isn't a patent issue, the game has well past any patent age (in fact, if it's been patented then the fact that the patent has expired goes a long way to saying that the game has validly passed into public domain, which is the public's right for granting a patent).
OK, I've used DSL. It is OK, and small (around a 50 meg ISO). But it's based on Knoppix and is intended to be run as a Live CD, not installed onto a system. Plus DSL has not been updated in quite some time, so it's pretty old by Linux standards and is missing a lot of fixes. Still, it's GUI can be a resource hog and it demands at least as much in the way of resources as Windows. The statement Windows would have a hard time running on this low-spec laptop is just dead wrong. Sure, maybe XP would have probblems, but even Win98 would run fine (I still use a much slower 64 meg P150 with Win98 as a FTP server and as a testbed for things I don't want to trust to my main system).
I like bashing Microsoft as much as the next guy, but to suggest that DSL will run better on this system than Win98 is just wrong. And in misrepresenting both Linux and Windows this way we don't really help the Linux community, rather it make Linux advocates look more like zelots than technical experts.
Those crazy Canadian hosers! They should blindly trust our administration. We have good secret inteligence which we can't release for security reasons that the aliens are working on weapons of planetary destruction and it is our duty to destroy them in just in case they maybe might do something against us. We must destroy them! Why do they hate us and distrust us? It must be hatred for our economy. So to protect us the administration is doing all it can to destroy that economy, but in the meantime we must destroy the Interplanetary Axis of Evildoer, before they actually do any evil. Anyone who can't see the logic of that must be locked away in our secret prisons. Sure people will be locked away in secret prisons, all records of the activity will be classified secret, and there will be torture and the occasional (frequent) death. But that's the price we pay to live in a free society.
Of course Internet publishing would harm the exchange of knowledge between researchers. Any way to distribute information that doesn't cost hundreds of dollars a year per subscription would harm the exchange of knowledge, as anyone drawing a paycheck from this out of date and over priced industry well knows.
OK, I'll buy the first part, you can't heat water quickly enough for on-demand use such as a shower, as it would require unreasonably high current, even if the electric water heater was 100% efficent. I've done the math on that. The thing is, that holds true for any way you try to heat water by electricity, including microwave, not just "resistance-based" heating. Assume 100% efficency; do the math. You don't get more than 100% efficency just because you use microwaves. You'll see that you can't heat water fast enough to maintain a flow rate in a shower. So unless you plan to have a tank of water at each point where you use hot water and heat it a few munutes before you need it, this just doesn't pass the math. And, of course, heating tanks of water all around the house isn't pratical either; if you heat a large tank and then just wash your hair you waste a lot of hot water that will cool down before it is needed; if the tank is not large enough then the flow turns cold long before the shower is over.
Yea, it would be really neat, and I'm sure that some people who really want this will mode me down because they don't like what I'm saying. But the math doesn't work. And I did read the links. Zilch on the official website. The linked article shows no power usage math and get as technical as saying the thing is the size of a "stereo speaker". I have had a lot of stereo equipment over the years but I have absolutely no idea how to translate that unit of measurement.
I would tell them that an IT degree from a community college screams to me short order cook. I would have much higher expectations from someone with a real degree or even someone who is self-taught but shows good skills over someone who expects a community college IT degree to open any doors for him.
Can anyone shed any light (unpolarized) on the 10^33 states of polorization that light can have? Where did that number come from????
I've had an absurd number of problems trying to get Netmeeting to work behind a NAT firewall (the type in all home DSL/Cable routers). No amount of port forwarding worked and putting a Microsoft box in the DMZ is extremely unsafe. So I've been keeping my eyes open for an alternative that doesn't have this problem. Maybe it will be different in that it will actually work for me.
Who is it unclear to? And what are they smoking?
I read the article which clearly states that Korea uses a 12 year school system including high school. Perhaps you could at least read the article, or at least refrain from telling those who do what they can't know or accuse them of making assumptions.
It's not hard at all to spot. The U.S. system uses a highschool / 12 year system too, not counting pre-school and kindergarden. So it should have been obvious to any /. editor in the US that for a system where people typically graduate from highschool at age 17 or 18 that they don't enter first grade at age 8. Perhaps it requires math skills that many educated in this country (the U.S.) no longer have.