This is a very bad test, since advertisement on some of the sites you were loading could have been hosed, using flash or whatever, and loading your cpu up to 100%.
And no, stopping flash when you change tab is not a good idea, some people use flash web based radio, and are not staying on that tab.
Some people pirate music they already own just because it`s faster (downloading 60mb? not even a minute) than the hassle of putting the cd in the tray, clicking convert, and picking it out. And the filenames are already typed in a convenient way.
Did you infringe someones copyright ? It would be hard to say so on this, since you made a copy for yourself of something you had the right to make a copy for yourself..
In the US, it seems so. In other places it's not so much of an interesting price.
The racket comes much more in light when you start looking at the 24" iMacs, with prices, once reduced by the software cost, still over twice as high as equivalently built computers.
You might save space (no tower..) but you lose on the upgrade possibilities & facilities, so any higher price is very hard to accept.
Although taking someoneâ(TM)s trademark is a serious matter, we have simply asked retailers and manufacturers to transition to a different descriptive term over a 3 month term. We have not sought compensation at all from any party contacted. We have no intention of selling the âNetbookâ(TM) trademark registrations either, valuable as they may be, or of licensing them on a for-profit basis. We simply wish to continue use of our âNetbookâ(TM) trademark, and to be free to use it on our future products.
There's an easy way to prevent you from doing this. They will have you sit in the waiting room for 48+ hours, and you won't have the right to leave it until seen by a doctor. You'll learn fast enough not to come back until you really need it;)
Until recently, the best choices where DSL resellers, with a very low price tag and great speed (8mpbs). Sadly, bell got the right to slow down their resellers lines when they detected p2p stuff on it. And if you lived in a good area, the connection quality (uptime) was great too!
Some where offering contract free service, or services without any logging etc...
Nowadays, you need to go live further away and get a DSL or cable service from the community, and if you are sawwy enough you could even become the admin of the network itself..
I've tried a N router with a 2x2 link, in the 130mbps reported connection speed, and I still got random stutter with 1080p content, but not with 720p. It might have been environmental issues reducing the bandwidth available, but it's not acceptable anyway.
I believe that all the parts of the law needs to be what is encountered, merely encountering one (can be used for bypassing access control) is not enough to be prosecuted.
Unless you mean that ink is outdated, and they only sell it for blinding video camera preventing us to enter in a theater by a side door ?
Honeypots are necessary, no matter if you give the list or the hashes. For the hashes, you also need to use something to prevent dictionnary attacks, as it would be very easy to hash all of the possible canadian phone numbers to test them against the list (23 area codes for the whole of canada, which means 230 million hashes operation to build the full dictionnary, not skipping any of the invalid numbers)
A web service would be easy to farm from (400k units botnets each request a few numbers for call or not, and you have the up-to-date list).
It is easier to just harvest the numbers from canada411 and not check for do not call list.
If it becomes problematic for you, you can prevent 'invalid' phone callers from reaching you, ie, if you were to phone the showed number, it is required for it to work and match the source (as far as the carrier can tell). At least some carriers offer that.
How are people supposed not to call you, if they don't have the list ? That list has to be handed out so people will skip you when you are on it.
Thing is, it seems the law is not strong enough, and hard to enforce oversea.
Maybe make sure to sell only the list to canadians and have them suffer for selling it ? But then I guess it's hard to know 'who' leaked it too.
Personnaly, all the spam phone calls I used to get stopped. I was previously getting between 2 and 4 calls per months (Mostly free bahamas vacation, just had to give your name, credit card number and expiration date to validate you were over 18, and some junkie out of some part of africa who had managed to get 50 millions locked up because he had not paid his taxes, which amounted to 20k, and needed to provide it in order to get the money out.. blah blah blah), and I've been on the list for what, 4 months ? That's a good chance of it being very effective.
Lets say that we use 90% of the sale volume ( ~10% of the songs) at 1.29, then the next 5% of the sale volume at 0.99 (let's guesstimate 20% of the songs) and a big 70% (remaining sales) at 0.69.
That would bring the average price of sale to 1.245 while the average price of the songs would be down to 0.81.
Considering that recent stats. show that less than 10% of the full catalog make 90% of the sale volume, price those at 1.29, 70% at 0.99 and the remaining 20% at 0.69 just to show some goodwill, and everyone will pay an higher price.
You will pay more, unless you really are into those rather odd songs..;)
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This is a very bad test, since advertisement on some of the sites you were loading could have been hosed, using flash or whatever, and loading your cpu up to 100%.
And no, stopping flash when you change tab is not a good idea, some people use flash web based radio, and are not staying on that tab.
What if there's 2 of your extensions which are broken ? Disable them all..
Also, did you play with the about:config values ?
Some people pirate music they already own just because it`s faster (downloading 60mb? not even a minute) than the hassle of putting the cd in the tray, clicking convert, and picking it out. And the filenames are already typed in a convenient way.
Did you infringe someones copyright ? It would be hard to say so on this, since you made a copy for yourself of something you had the right to make a copy for yourself..
No, just wait until it tells you it hit rock bottom...
Can that happen ?
In the US, it seems so. In other places it's not so much of an interesting price.
The racket comes much more in light when you start looking at the 24" iMacs, with prices, once reduced by the software cost, still over twice as high as equivalently built computers.
You might save space (no tower ..) but you lose on the upgrade possibilities & facilities, so any higher price is very hard to accept.
From apple website, you can buy the OS & all you listed for 219$. Build a PC without an OS, add that 219$ and see, you get a much lower price tag.
They are not there to sue
From Psion themselves:
Is Psion looking for financial compensation?
Although taking someoneâ(TM)s trademark is a serious matter, we have simply asked retailers and
manufacturers to transition to a different descriptive term over a 3 month term. We have not
sought compensation at all from any party contacted. We have no intention of selling the
âNetbookâ(TM) trademark registrations either, valuable as they may be, or of licensing them on a
for-profit basis. We simply wish to continue use of our âNetbookâ(TM) trademark, and to be free to
use it on our future products.
There's an easy way to prevent you from doing this. They will have you sit in the waiting room for 48+ hours, and you won't have the right to leave it until seen by a doctor. You'll learn fast enough not to come back until you really need it ;)
Until recently, the best choices where DSL resellers, with a very low price tag and great speed (8mpbs). Sadly, bell got the right to slow down their resellers lines when they detected p2p stuff on it. And if you lived in a good area, the connection quality (uptime) was great too!
Some where offering contract free service, or services without any logging etc...
Nowadays, you need to go live further away and get a DSL or cable service from the community, and if you are sawwy enough you could even become the admin of the network itself..
copy / paste is your friend.
I've tried a N router with a 2x2 link, in the 130mbps reported connection speed, and I still got random stutter with 1080p content, but not with 720p. It might have been environmental issues reducing the bandwidth available, but it's not acceptable anyway.
I ran 22 gb lines through my house :)
That was left as an exercise to the reader
Answer is the one that you load it on last will win, since the slashdot effect tend to disappear with time.
That's what you THINK!
I could use them, who do I message ? :)
I believe that all the parts of the law needs to be what is encountered, merely encountering one (can be used for bypassing access control) is not enough to be prosecuted.
Unless you mean that ink is outdated, and they only sell it for blinding video camera preventing us to enter in a theater by a side door ?
Don't worry, it won't even be that long.
Wait until any of the big companies that want to build this see http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jeff_han_demos_his_breakthrough_touchscreen.html ;)
Just use a high definition camera with hours of recording time. You'll have lots of fun with that, I guess.
Honeypots are necessary, no matter if you give the list or the hashes. For the hashes, you also need to use something to prevent dictionnary attacks, as it would be very easy to hash all of the possible canadian phone numbers to test them against the list (23 area codes for the whole of canada, which means 230 million hashes operation to build the full dictionnary, not skipping any of the invalid numbers)
A web service would be easy to farm from (400k units botnets each request a few numbers for call or not, and you have the up-to-date list).
It is easier to just harvest the numbers from canada411 and not check for do not call list.
If it becomes problematic for you, you can prevent 'invalid' phone callers from reaching you, ie, if you were to phone the showed number, it is required for it to work and match the source (as far as the carrier can tell). At least some carriers offer that.
How are people supposed not to call you, if they don't have the list ? That list has to be handed out so people will skip you when you are on it.
Thing is, it seems the law is not strong enough, and hard to enforce oversea.
Maybe make sure to sell only the list to canadians and have them suffer for selling it ? But then I guess it's hard to know 'who' leaked it too.
Personnaly, all the spam phone calls I used to get stopped. I was previously getting between 2 and 4 calls per months (Mostly free bahamas vacation, just had to give your name, credit card number and expiration date to validate you were over 18, and some junkie out of some part of africa who had managed to get 50 millions locked up because he had not paid his taxes, which amounted to 20k, and needed to provide it in order to get the money out .. blah blah blah), and I've been on the list for what, 4 months ? That's a good chance of it being very effective.
It was only one zero of 400 though ;)
You've not been following slashdot lately, have you?
Definitely. Lets put some better numbers =)
Lets say that we use 90% of the sale volume ( ~10% of the songs) at 1.29, then the next 5% of the sale volume at 0.99 (let's guesstimate 20% of the songs) and a big 70% (remaining sales) at 0.69.
That would bring the average price of sale to 1.245 while the average price of the songs would be down to 0.81.
Considering that recent stats. show that less than 10% of the full catalog make 90% of the sale volume, price those at 1.29, 70% at 0.99 and the remaining 20% at 0.69 just to show some goodwill, and everyone will pay an higher price.
You will pay more, unless you really are into those rather odd songs.. ;)
Monitor + USB Keyboard + wireless mouse >>> Dock