the MPAA didn't get copyright protection re-instated on those that had lapsed. The states were trying to retroactively change the statues, not proactively change them.
If the MPAA tried to re-copyright Shakespere, I'm sure the Supreme Court would say the same thing that it did to the states.
I don't have any personal experience with 900mhz, but i do know that it is the same frequency that cordless phones use. Some phones today use 2.4ghz and they cause interference with.11b and g (my friend's neighbor has a phone that is so powerful it knocks my friend offline everytime the neighbor turns it on.) There are many more 900mhz phones that 2.4ghz phones, so I'd assume the problem is worse.
However, you are in a rural area, so maybe the congestion on that band will be somewhat less (We live in a major metro area).
Well, if energy was free, then it would still be free today, and I'd imagine that most of the aftereffects would have already occured.
However, if energy were free (note use of subjuctive), which i think is what you meant, I take the cynical view that it would only destroy ourselves more quickly.
For example, it's not that we can't get to Mars via rocket today, we simply can't get enough energy crammed into a feasible size. If it were cheaper nothing would change.
At the same time, you are assuming that just because the mass/energy ratio of fusion is much higher, that makes it cheaper. This is not the case. In fact, coal is an order of magnitude cheaper than nuclear power. Looking at current research into fusion technology, the extremely highpowered lasers and plasma contol technologies would be very expensive to build.
I haven't seen any major new discoveries regarding factory effiecentcy for industy, or any new pollution control technologies. At the same time, Europe is almost certainly producing more and more, and hence more and more pollution.
Anyone else wonder why it took so long to collect data? I'm always surprised that the FBI releases statistics for 2 years in the past. Perhaps the EU doesn't want a mass hysteria caused by reports of massive pollution.
Well, slashdot tends to be biased. Of course, CNN tends to be biased too. (And all major media sources, for that matter)
The difference?
CNN trys to be objective and pretend that it isn't slanted, whereas the slashdot editors love spouting out opinions. Plus,/. just wouldn't be/. without the zealousness, no?
It's not quite the same, obviously. The Navy software engineers can easily tweak and fix any holes they find. With Windows you are limited to the framework MS provides and the hope that they will fix any problems discovered.
The NSA released documents on how to secure WinXP and Win2K server not too long ago- it was even posted on/.
This sounds similar to the crash landing one of the mars spacecraft had when the operators forgot to convert English units to metric units.
You'd think that in such operations, where you only ever get one chance, they would have the most error free systems possible. I'm surprised they didn't feed the computer simulated data and found where it would take them.
I've run into these things all over the net, usually on the *ahem* underground sites. Imho, a full screen pop-up ad is better than those stupid pop-under applets that create new pop-up ads every 20 seconds. I prefer in my face advertising to the subversive type.
As long as the ad doesn't spawn an infinite loop of more ads, it's not too bad. A simple alt+f4 will take it out.
Here at Berkeley all of the Windowsupdates come from an internal server instead of externally. That way they control who gets the updates and when.
You can download the updates individually, and there is probably a way to have them downloaded to the server automatically. All you have to do is convince the users to download them from you and install them manually. Can you block traffic from the autoupdate applet? I bet that would significantly reduce traffic, at the cost of insecure customers.
What about running an internal WU server and changing the DNS entry at the local level to a local server? You'd have to keep the catalog of updates stocked and refreshed constantly, for multiple OS's, so I don't know how cost effective it might be.
Those students witnessed a crime and are now in possession of material evidence. Imagine if I took a chance picture of your significant other being fatally wounded. Wouldn't you want the police to have that information to provide evidence to the killer's identity?
Is it different because the students commited a misdeamenor? What if they vandalized your property?
I'm skeptical of anything that goes through a college newspaper and then to slashdot. That sort of centrifuge can generate quite a spin.
The one concession I will make is the police must request the evidence from those in posession. If they refuse to comply they are impeding justice.
Everywhere he says life could not exist in any other universal properties and constants should be modified to state "life as we know it."
quote: Life would probably be impossible with more (or less) than three dimensions to work with, so our seeing three is then no surprise. Similar arguments apply to other supposedly fixed properties of the cosmos, such as the strengths of the fundamental forces or the masses of the various subatomic particles.
Why exactly is life impossible with more than 3 dimensions? He subscribes to the fundenmental flaw that all science fiction writers subscribe to: all alien life forms breath, walk on legs, and "see" through eyes. Sure, it's hard to change a human actor on a movie screen by too much, but the world of books and pages ought to be able to create something better.
I also agree with the other post that says, paraphrased, if we live in a giant simulation, does that make existance different? If you can't get out of, or control the simulation, what difference does it make? I, for one, am not worried about hyperintelligence alien giants looking at me showered naked, and the like.
Along those same lines, if we can eventually create computer simulations with sentiant beings, why can we not create a universe with different parameters and force life to exist within it?
Lastly, if we can't get out of this universe into another one, what difference does it make? And if we somehow break the barrier and jump universes, the link between them makes them one universe with localized properties doesn't it?
force licencers of the newer computer busses to include some sort of anti-overclock mechinism directly on the bridge chips on the MB itself (since the article says the clock speed isn't controlled by the processor, I'm assuming that's where it's done)
Sure, it's facist, but it seems cheaper and a bit simpler.
I again, will restate that if you are going to spend that much money on her (a cheap engagement ring is about the same price, after all), then you should have her buy the laptop in Japan.
It looks like the power supplies are about the same, so you shouldn't have a huge problem there. My one word of advice: make sure you buy from a company who will let you transfer the warrenty between the US and Japan. Dell does not do that very easily. I've seen several posters on The dell msg board who moved to the US from somewhere else and now Dell wants them to ship the laptop back to where it was bought to have it fixed. (i.e. sweden).
Of course the key was going to be leaked- it was only a matter of time. It's the same way with all key based systems. Microsoft will still make just as much money as ever. (Keys were leaked all the time before product activation anyway)
the poster spins this as though this is going to cause mass hysteria and pandemonium.
What is meant by "closed source security"? An open source security program would be exceptionally easy to bypass, I'd think, since you'd have direct access to any encryption mechanism used.
Assuming a person lives for exactly 76 years....
With that sum of money a person would have to spend $40.78 every second for his/her entire life, every day, and including during the night. That isn't taking into account the massive interest it would generate.
Isn't that amount of money larger that the GNP of the US for a several year period.
Honestly though, how do they expect to prove that each and every song did $150,000 worth of damage. If each album has 12 tracks and retails for $15, they'd have to prove that each album he offered caused 120,000 less copies of that album to be sold. Please!
Berkeley allows only 5gb of out of campus bandwidth per person/week. While this is several times what cornell charges, you can still draw some comparions.
They use MAC address verification, so if I change NICs (as i did when i got a wireless card, I have to go down to the Computing center and get the RCC to add it to my profile). Each building has it's own switch and subnet, so I can only connect to the network within my building. This keeps people from spoofing my MAC, as only those within my building would be able to get any gain.
We've also found that many people download the same file, which wastes bandwidth. Using some clever tricks, I have a Kazaa supernode running in my room that only allows connections from within berkeley. Then, after forcing the kazaa client to connect to that supernode, I can see all of the files of people on campus. I find files locally 2/3 of the time and save on bandwidth that way. Some weeks I hardly use any bandwidth while my roomates use almost all of theirs. We put 4 nics in a server and use it as a NAT with load balancing and bandwidth monitoring so that all of us are sharing the same 15gb pool. It turns off file sharing at 14.5gb, which allows us enough room to get web and email through. We have yet to meet a problem.
I doubt people will try to hack and get around the limit. I can't think of a legitimiate use for that much bandwidth anyway, unless you own a massive amount of DVDs and would like to download the DivX files instead of making them yourselves.
I also don't think Cornell needs to go to the step of charging people for access after 2gb. Why not just turn the connection off?
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Yes, there was a third vulnerability patched, but it only affected win9X and not the newer NT kernal OS's
No, you kick them out of the EU, thus taking away the Euro, the favored trading status, the collective bargaining power with other nations, etc...
It's almost a fair comparison, but-
the MPAA didn't get copyright protection re-instated on those that had lapsed. The states were trying to retroactively change the statues, not proactively change them.
If the MPAA tried to re-copyright Shakespere, I'm sure the Supreme Court would say the same thing that it did to the states.
I don't think this is true. Bandwidth is not directly proportional to frequency.
It's not 2400 million waves/sec it's 2400 million peaks per second on a single wave.
The major differnce is the depth to which the signals will penetrate, and their loss over distance.
I don't have any personal experience with 900mhz, but i do know that it is the same frequency that cordless phones use. Some phones today use 2.4ghz and they cause interference with .11b and g (my friend's neighbor has a phone that is so powerful it knocks my friend offline everytime the neighbor turns it on.) There are many more 900mhz phones that 2.4ghz phones, so I'd assume the problem is worse.
However, you are in a rural area, so maybe the congestion on that band will be somewhat less (We live in a major metro area).
Actually, cira 1991, the correct end phrase to that statement is "off the mc donalds, nuthin but net" Anyone else remember those ads?
Well, if energy was free, then it would still be free today, and I'd imagine that most of the aftereffects would have already occured.
However, if energy were free (note use of subjuctive), which i think is what you meant, I take the cynical view that it would only destroy ourselves more quickly.
For example, it's not that we can't get to Mars via rocket today, we simply can't get enough energy crammed into a feasible size. If it were cheaper nothing would change.
At the same time, you are assuming that just because the mass/energy ratio of fusion is much higher, that makes it cheaper. This is not the case. In fact, coal is an order of magnitude cheaper than nuclear power. Looking at current research into fusion technology, the extremely highpowered lasers and plasma contol technologies would be very expensive to build.
I haven't seen any major new discoveries regarding factory effiecentcy for industy, or any new pollution control technologies. At the same time, Europe is almost certainly producing more and more, and hence more and more pollution.
Anyone else wonder why it took so long to collect data? I'm always surprised that the FBI releases statistics for 2 years in the past. Perhaps the EU doesn't want a mass hysteria caused by reports of massive pollution.
Well, slashdot tends to be biased. Of course, CNN tends to be biased too. (And all major media sources, for that matter)
/. just wouldn't be /. without the zealousness, no?
The difference?
CNN trys to be objective and pretend that it isn't slanted, whereas the slashdot editors love spouting out opinions. Plus,
It's not quite the same, obviously. The Navy software engineers can easily tweak and fix any holes they find. With Windows you are limited to the framework MS provides and the hope that they will fix any problems discovered.
/.
The NSA released documents on how to secure WinXP and Win2K server not too long ago- it was even posted on
This sounds similar to the crash landing one of the mars spacecraft had when the operators forgot to convert English units to metric units.
You'd think that in such operations, where you only ever get one chance, they would have the most error free systems possible. I'm surprised they didn't feed the computer simulated data and found where it would take them.
I've run into these things all over the net, usually on the *ahem* underground sites. Imho, a full screen pop-up ad is better than those stupid pop-under applets that create new pop-up ads every 20 seconds. I prefer in my face advertising to the subversive type.
As long as the ad doesn't spawn an infinite loop of more ads, it's not too bad. A simple alt+f4 will take it out.
Since something like 80% of the net traffic is porn related, maybe you'll actually get more traffic with it listed this way.
I suggest you change your page title to "scat titty licker teen pussy horse hardcore" to amplify this effect.
Hey, looks like Will Smith of Maxis was right. Microwave Power was available after 2020 in Simcity 2000.
Of course, does it also miss sometimes and cause a massive line of fire straight down the middle of your city?
Here at Berkeley all of the Windowsupdates come from an internal server instead of externally. That way they control who gets the updates and when.
You can download the updates individually, and there is probably a way to have them downloaded to the server automatically. All you have to do is convince the users to download them from you and install them manually. Can you block traffic from the autoupdate applet? I bet that would significantly reduce traffic, at the cost of insecure customers.
What about running an internal WU server and changing the DNS entry at the local level to a local server? You'd have to keep the catalog of updates stocked and refreshed constantly, for multiple OS's, so I don't know how cost effective it might be.
Those students witnessed a crime and are now in possession of material evidence. Imagine if I took a chance picture of your significant other being fatally wounded. Wouldn't you want the police to have that information to provide evidence to the killer's identity?
Is it different because the students commited a misdeamenor? What if they vandalized your property?
I'm skeptical of anything that goes through a college newspaper and then to slashdot. That sort of centrifuge can generate quite a spin.
The one concession I will make is the police must request the evidence from those in posession. If they refuse to comply they are impeding justice.
and in another universe Microsoft started as an OSS company and is now making the leading Linux distro.
Everywhere he says life could not exist in any other universal properties and constants should be modified to state "life as we know it."
quote:
Life would probably be impossible with more (or less) than three dimensions to work with, so our seeing three is then no surprise. Similar arguments apply to other supposedly fixed properties of the cosmos, such as the strengths of the fundamental forces or the masses of the various subatomic particles.
Why exactly is life impossible with more than 3 dimensions? He subscribes to the fundenmental flaw that all science fiction writers subscribe to: all alien life forms breath, walk on legs, and "see" through eyes. Sure, it's hard to change a human actor on a movie screen by too much, but the world of books and pages ought to be able to create something better.
I also agree with the other post that says, paraphrased, if we live in a giant simulation, does that make existance different? If you can't get out of, or control the simulation, what difference does it make? I, for one, am not worried about hyperintelligence alien giants looking at me showered naked, and the like.
Along those same lines, if we can eventually create computer simulations with sentiant beings, why can we not create a universe with different parameters and force life to exist within it?
Lastly, if we can't get out of this universe into another one, what difference does it make? And if we somehow break the barrier and jump universes, the link between them makes them one universe with localized properties doesn't it?
states attorney generals? since when do you need to pluralize the adjective to make something plural, let alone 2 of them?
State Attorneys General, or maybe the States' Attorneys General.
force licencers of the newer computer busses to include some sort of anti-overclock mechinism directly on the bridge chips on the MB itself (since the article says the clock speed isn't controlled by the processor, I'm assuming that's where it's done)
Sure, it's facist, but it seems cheaper and a bit simpler.
I again, will restate that if you are going to spend that much money on her (a cheap engagement ring is about the same price, after all), then you should have her buy the laptop in Japan.
It looks like the power supplies are about the same, so you shouldn't have a huge problem there. My one word of advice: make sure you buy from a company who will let you transfer the warrenty between the US and Japan. Dell does not do that very easily. I've seen several posters on The dell msg board who moved to the US from somewhere else and now Dell wants them to ship the laptop back to where it was bought to have it fixed. (i.e. sweden).
Of course the key was going to be leaked- it was only a matter of time. It's the same way with all key based systems. Microsoft will still make just as much money as ever. (Keys were leaked all the time before product activation anyway) the poster spins this as though this is going to cause mass hysteria and pandemonium. What is meant by "closed source security"? An open source security program would be exceptionally easy to bypass, I'd think, since you'd have direct access to any encryption mechanism used.
Assuming a person lives for exactly 76 years.... With that sum of money a person would have to spend $40.78 every second for his/her entire life, every day, and including during the night. That isn't taking into account the massive interest it would generate. Isn't that amount of money larger that the GNP of the US for a several year period. Honestly though, how do they expect to prove that each and every song did $150,000 worth of damage. If each album has 12 tracks and retails for $15, they'd have to prove that each album he offered caused 120,000 less copies of that album to be sold. Please!
Berkeley allows only 5gb of out of campus bandwidth per person/week. While this is several times what cornell charges, you can still draw some comparions.
They use MAC address verification, so if I change NICs (as i did when i got a wireless card, I have to go down to the Computing center and get the RCC to add it to my profile). Each building has it's own switch and subnet, so I can only connect to the network within my building. This keeps people from spoofing my MAC, as only those within my building would be able to get any gain.
We've also found that many people download the same file, which wastes bandwidth. Using some clever tricks, I have a Kazaa supernode running in my room that only allows connections from within berkeley. Then, after forcing the kazaa client to connect to that supernode, I can see all of the files of people on campus. I find files locally 2/3 of the time and save on bandwidth that way. Some weeks I hardly use any bandwidth while my roomates use almost all of theirs. We put 4 nics in a server and use it as a NAT with load balancing and bandwidth monitoring so that all of us are sharing the same 15gb pool. It turns off file sharing at 14.5gb, which allows us enough room to get web and email through. We have yet to meet a problem.
I doubt people will try to hack and get around the limit. I can't think of a legitimiate use for that much bandwidth anyway, unless you own a massive amount of DVDs and would like to download the DivX files instead of making them yourselves.
I also don't think Cornell needs to go to the step of charging people for access after 2gb. Why not just turn the connection off?
-Ryan
Perhaps it's been posted before, but has anyone noticed the rather obvious irony in the choice of code name?
The Palladium was a statue of Athena that protected Troy from invasion. Ulysses and Diomedes stole the statue right from under Troy's nose.
How, you ask? With a trojan horse!
-Ryan
Under Capitalism people exploit other people.
Under Communism it's just the opposite.