Another post where it looks cool at first, but not really. So the guy used magnets FROM OLD HARD DRIVES (tech connection = yay) to power a standard homebrew generator. Whoopie. Of course, the hard thing, as in all electric generation, is getting the generator to spin, which isn't done with the hard drives. If he had powered up an old computer and used spinning hard drives to run a motor WHILE they were working, and powering a led from the spinning of the hard drives, that would have been cool. Sorry, not an impressive hack.
Perhaps what's more interesting is what happens to like, a registered Caldara user using Red Hat. Are they targeted? (well, of course not, but in theory are they liable?)
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
amendment 14, section i. It's fairly exact if you ask me. IANAL.
Yeah, the DMCA was a bit of an omnibus bill... That's why I say it'll be overriden. Often the Supreme Court removes a whole bill if an unconstitutional bit of it is inseperable from the rest, see Marlbury v. Madison.
Don't give in man. The DMCA will eventually be overruled, using it to bully people into compliance makes you as bad as all the other companies who use it. Normal copyright laws make it illegal to break the lock or scale the fence, the DMCA makes it illegal to look at the gate. Sue the guy for breaking your copyleft license. That's breach of contract, I think, and I think you're entitled to the profits. IANAL, and this is not legal advice. So don't sue me.
There's this nifty little thing called prior restraint that says you can't stop people from speaking, even if it would cause a riot/break a law/etc. In effect, the letter was a warning. They can't sue until after the lecture. IANAL.
Well, if you aren't even able to TALK about security flaws *Cough*First Amendment*Cough* they'll never get fixed. The DMCA again makes the net less secure instead of more.
Is it ethical for/. to link to a tiny server when/. know it's traffic will bring the site down, causing problems for the owner and possible extra expense to the owner? Does/. have an obligation to warn the owner? And if the owner says no, then what? Can/. not post the article? And can a person sue/. because/. knows it will cause a problem for the server?
Yikes. That's really confusing. To define stuff:
1. Ramdrive-a virtual memory drive created in RAM
2./home/$yourname/ -It's where you store your stuff in unix/linux
3. USB memory stick-something like one of these
4. CD-R: CD-recordable- it's write only, meaning you can only change it once by burning something to it. Compared to the CD-RW, which is a CD-rewritable, which can be written more than once.
6. Boottime-when the computer starts up.
To claify, say you want file winfix. It's not included on the Knoppix distro, so you make a USB memory stick with you home directory. You'd put winfix on that stick, and it'd register at boottime, and when it was fully loaded, your winfix file from the stick would be in/home/$yourname/, easily accessable. It's because 1. you can't write to a CD-R (duh) and 2. any files you create would be stored on a ramdrive, unless you acessed the hard drive, in which case they would be stored locally on that one box. Storing files on a USB memory stick allows you to keep all your knoppix tools and stuff togather. I hope this helps to clear things up.
I suppose the obvious solution would be to find a relitivly straight road between the two points and build a small, gas powered vehicle to follow the line on the insideside of the road,between highways. Assuming no cars are pulled over, you're good... Of course getting off the highway is a slight problem... but what fun would it be without a challange?
If an area is completely covered by a conductor (such as a metal case), the electric field in the conductor will cancel to 0 (unless, of course, you have an electric field coming in through the conductor in an insulated wire (such as a power cord) leaving only the electric field created inside the metal. By this phenomanon, a case will be EMR shielded. However, plexiglass is an insulator, and would not provide this shielding. There aren't any definitive studies on this, but I wouldn't host a server on it or anything requiring perfect stability.
Normally, I would agree. But it's not just about the explosion. It's about getting front page on slashdot, and perhaps CNN. It's about supporting an anti-SUV movement. Then, as a footnote, at the end of a news broadcast, the program lists some statistic about the environmental impact of SUV's. Which might encourage someone not to buy/to get rid of an SUV.
It's not about destroying one SUV. It's about encouraging the prevention of pollution from larger numbers of SUV's through the media and public attention and education. It's the same reason why peaceful demonstrations turn to riots. To get on TV. Right or wrong, this is the fact of the matter.
In finland, do they have Fair Use? Because Nursery Rymes and such would be the stereotypical fair use type deal, I mean, it should be argued that that's for educational purposes, which is generally covered under fair use. It's specifically menchioned as an exception here.
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Another post where it looks cool at first, but not really. So the guy used magnets FROM OLD HARD DRIVES (tech connection = yay) to power a standard homebrew generator. Whoopie. Of course, the hard thing, as in all electric generation, is getting the generator to spin, which isn't done with the hard drives. If he had powered up an old computer and used spinning hard drives to run a motor WHILE they were working, and powering a led from the spinning of the hard drives, that would have been cool. Sorry, not an impressive hack.
Perhaps what's more interesting is what happens to like, a registered Caldara user using Red Hat. Are they targeted? (well, of course not, but in theory are they liable?)
because we all know compiling, building, and installing xfree is easy... :-)
Well, not only that, but the Xbox is ungodly large. I wouldn't want to have to find a spot to put it in my car.
Yeah, here's the google cache Jeez, were they hosting the server on the Palm?
Not only that, see:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
amendment 14, section i. It's fairly exact if you ask me. IANAL.
Yeah, the DMCA was a bit of an omnibus bill... That's why I say it'll be overriden. Often the Supreme Court removes a whole bill if an unconstitutional bit of it is inseperable from the rest, see Marlbury v. Madison.
Don't give in man. The DMCA will eventually be overruled, using it to bully people into compliance makes you as bad as all the other companies who use it. Normal copyright laws make it illegal to break the lock or scale the fence, the DMCA makes it illegal to look at the gate. Sue the guy for breaking your copyleft license. That's breach of contract, I think, and I think you're entitled to the profits. IANAL, and this is not legal advice. So don't sue me.
There's this nifty little thing called prior restraint that says you can't stop people from speaking, even if it would cause a riot/break a law/etc. In effect, the letter was a warning. They can't sue until after the lecture. IANAL.
Well, if you aren't even able to TALK about security flaws *Cough*First Amendment*Cough* they'll never get fixed. The DMCA again makes the net less secure instead of more.
Blah blah blah New Free Stuff! Woohoo!
Is it ethical for /. to link to a tiny server when /. know it's traffic will bring the site down, causing problems for the owner and possible extra expense to the owner? Does /. have an obligation to warn the owner? And if the owner says no, then what? Can /. not post the article? And can a person sue /. because /. knows it will cause a problem for the server?
Or better yet, create a simcity and watch it divide into gangs and let the gangwars ensue!
In case you missed it the first few times... Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's another dupe!
It doesn't validate... they break the standards they try to protect...
Yikes. That's really confusing. To define stuff: 1. Ramdrive-a virtual memory drive created in RAM /home/$yourname/ -It's where you store your stuff in unix/linux
2.
3. USB memory stick-something like one of these
4. CD-R: CD-recordable- it's write only, meaning you can only change it once by burning something to it. Compared to the CD-RW, which is a CD-rewritable, which can be written more than once.
6. Boottime-when the computer starts up.
To claify, say you want file winfix. It's not included on the Knoppix distro, so you make a USB memory stick with you home directory. You'd put winfix on that stick, and it'd register at boottime, and when it was fully loaded, your winfix file from the stick would be in /home/$yourname/, easily accessable. It's because 1. you can't write to a CD-R (duh) and 2. any files you create would be stored on a ramdrive, unless you acessed the hard drive, in which case they would be stored locally on that one box. Storing files on a USB memory stick allows you to keep all your knoppix tools and stuff togather. I hope this helps to clear things up.
Personally, I think Bezos should apply for a patent on patenting things on the web :-)
I suppose the obvious solution would be to find a relitivly straight road between the two points and build a small, gas powered vehicle to follow the line on the insideside of the road,between highways. Assuming no cars are pulled over, you're good... Of course getting off the highway is a slight problem... but what fun would it be without a challange?
D'Oh! *smacks self*
:-)
It might suck for the human, too.
Some general info about EMR shielding...
If an area is completely covered by a conductor (such as a metal case), the electric field in the conductor will cancel to 0 (unless, of course, you have an electric field coming in through the conductor in an insulated wire (such as a power cord) leaving only the electric field created inside the metal. By this phenomanon, a case will be EMR shielded. However, plexiglass is an insulator, and would not provide this shielding. There aren't any definitive studies on this, but I wouldn't host a server on it or anything requiring perfect stability.
They'll probably both appeal anyway. :-)
Normally, I would agree. But it's not just about the explosion. It's about getting front page on slashdot, and perhaps CNN. It's about supporting an anti-SUV movement. Then, as a footnote, at the end of a news broadcast, the program lists some statistic about the environmental impact of SUV's. Which might encourage someone not to buy/to get rid of an SUV.
It's not about destroying one SUV. It's about encouraging the prevention of pollution from larger numbers of SUV's through the media and public attention and education. It's the same reason why peaceful demonstrations turn to riots. To get on TV. Right or wrong, this is the fact of the matter.
In finland, do they have Fair Use? Because Nursery Rymes and such would be the stereotypical fair use type deal, I mean, it should be argued that that's for educational purposes, which is generally covered under fair use. It's specifically menchioned as an exception here.
1. The site uses blink tags. yick.
2. The title of the page is New Page 3.
3. It's being hosted on Win 98! with IIS!