What I would like to know in regards to this is: where is the license shown on the distributed media?
That is, is there something on the outside of the packaging which states that media are licensed for non-commercial use? Is it in the instruction manual. During the game install?
If it's on the inside of the box - as with many pieces of software - this is just playing dirty. Especially since, in many cases, stores have a no-return policy on software media (due to piracy issues) unless it's provably defective.
Lastly, are there ways to circumvent this? Perhaps it could be worded that customers are renting the game temporarily during their stay at the cafe (are licenses different for rental places such as, say, Blockbuster), or they are purchasing a share of ownership for that time block.
Whilst Valve may be able to dictate their own licensing terms, I still find the direction this takes as frightening. Cafes not only bring the revenue for games purchased, but quite often they are where kids are introduced to new games they would like to buy (hey Valve, listen, we're talking FREE advertising).
At $9/mo/machine, that's about $54/year. For 10 machines that's $540. Not huge... but consider if every game was charged this way. To make a cafe work, you'll probably need 10-20 games. That's anywhere from $5000-$10000 or so per year. A considerable amount of change in "licensing" for a product that you've paid for, and which the home user doesn't pay for.
I think the paid-license model is flawed. If you want gaming centres to pay monthly for using the service, provide a service (such as the online servers) and a means to charge them for that. With CD-KEYs and IP addresses, this really isn't all that hard to do.
SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE CAUSE
DUE TO TOO MANY VISITER ON PHOTOS
I just changed all photos under other web-hosting........
hope problem will not come again
Does ebay have its own area for photo-hosting, or are all photos generally held offsite? I'm really hoping that this guy put that notice up after his image-host got slashdotted, rather than before (otherwise he's going to have a bad day in the bandwidth arena)
Yes, but that's assuming that the source signal actually reaches your destination antenna. Having an antenna of the same size but better reception might allow you to better pickup existing signals, but radio signals also have a falloff point (different for AM/FM) and penetration ratio.
I don't know about Atlanta radio, but the signal itself still have to reach Charlotte well enough for the antenna. Also, for an in-windshield antenna, you could probably just get a portable antenna and re-route the hookup from your deck if you wanted to use an alternate antenna.
In fact, we should also have a network of cameras monitoring the interiors of police stations, so that we (their employers) can monitor their performance
a) I think it not too unlikely that police stations already have internal camera
b) Public camera in police stations is a bad idea. Do you really want your neighbours to see on TV or their monitor that you've been taken to the station even though later it turns out to be false arrest?
Seriously... given the negetive reaction from various groups over the not-guilty verdict, and the b.s. that happened in the first place - would you want to stick around if you were him.
Deportation sucks, but I'd rather get the hell outta dodge regardless. I wouldn't doubt that somebody might come a'looking for him otherwise.
No basically what you're saying is that, because I am paying a monthly electrical bill for what is essentially the power company's power, they should have a right to disconnect me for any reason the please, however frivolous. Perhaps if somebody complains I have a grow-op at my house, they should automatically pull my plug, because I *might* have a grow up and it's too much of a hassle to actually make a legitimate investigation into the complaint.
How about, as a customer of a service that I have paid for, I expect that reasonable measures to be taken in investigating the legitimacy of a complaint before disconnecting or crippling/changing said services.
And in this article, there was NO legimate complaint. Rather, it was a test of whether the ISP would do a proper investigation of a complaint before acting. They fail that test.
That only police can track an RFID #. It's a unique identifier, and equipment to read them (while expensive for the average consumer) is readily available.
OK, so VIN is the Vehicle Identification #. How would the manufacturer know what the VIN # is of whatever vehicle the tires go into (assuming tire manufacturer and vehicle manufacturer differ). Consider also that this dissappears once you buy new tires, and I believe it's legal to buy tires from overseas so long as they meet road condition requirements for local roads?
You grab the RFID of plates for whatever dumb politicians allowed this to go though, and then replicate them for anyone who feels like taking a quick little spin down the road?
You don't even need the RFID on your plates, in fact it might would better with a seperate RFID responder (RFID is fairly passive, can you send a boosted return signal?).
The safety/privacy concerns of this are staggering. Yes, I can always sit and watch for "license plate X" on the highway, but I'm sure that it wouldn't be hard for a non-governmental person/corp could actively scan plates with a homebrew scanner. Think advertisement, lots of advertisement (as they start to track your movements and where you frequently park your car), or perhaps even stalkers.
First of all, let's put something straight: KDE/Gnome are not the linux desktop. Sure, they can be part of it, but there are many other alternatives. Second, KDE/Gnome are among the most popular because they tend to be easy to adjust, and have a lot of features.
However, one does have the choice of alternate WM's such as "iceWM" (which I use and is fairly light), "windowmaker", etc. In fact, I find that while IceWM is lighter than gnome, it does thing in a fashion that makes more sense.
Remember, choice may = bloat if you choose everything with the kitchen sink. But with choice you can also streamline and avoid much of the bloat, which you can't do in OS's that offer "all or nothing" or many cases.
You can have an upload stream and a download stream. Upload/download signifies whether you are the sender/recipient of the intended data. Streaming refers to the way that the data is sent so that it can be read on-the-fly (or with a little caching), as well as some more technical merits around such.
I understand, however, that you are refering to the paradigm of downloading a complete file VS a streamed (semi-realtime viewable) copy, but this doesn't mean that the article is incorrect.
Our school district uses OO, and we don't burn CD's. That's what network shares are for. For unconnected machines, sure - you can use a CD - we techs have them. A user could burn a copy if needed.
It's easier to network-install 3-5 copies rather than popping CD's in and out anyhow, and I'd imagine most PC's are not standalone these days.
Actually, the server is running a PROMISE raid controller, and dual 2200 CPUs, etc. The point was that one can just as easily make a cheap "backup machine" that will handle offsite backups and/or be able to swap in the event of an emergency. Other servers still do the primary work, but this one makes sure that if one of them goes down - the data is still around.
We have a server here with dual-200GB drives in RAID-1. It's primarily used to backup several offsite servers on a nightly schedule. Assuming that there was space elsewhere in the building, putting another server in there with RAID-1 drives and doing networked backup should be fine.
With 'nix, even software RAID-1 works well. RAID-5 is also a choice. Doesn't take an insanely fast CPU (or a monitor that that matter)... so you can manage a multidrive backup machine for under $2000 or even under $1000.
Humans go though puberty at about 11-13, yet we are not suppose to be attracted to people in this age group since 500,000 years of evolution is simply wrong, very wrong, and evil.
So if two 15 year olds manage to get together outside of adults' knowledge and experiment, fine, not illegal either so far as I know.
You can't throw everyone in a large group though. A 40-year-old and a 15-year-old is a huge gap in maturity in most cases. Most cannot argue that at 15 there were as ready for such things as you are now.
Puberty is a stage of evolution yes. It's a stage of change, and growing. At that age, they are coming into a knowledge of sex and desire, but they do not necessarily fully understand it.
Forcing a young person into sexual acts at that age is destroying his/her ability to grow. Moreover, it will often destroy a young person's ability to enjoy sexual experience later in life. How many abused children are seriously f***ed up about the opposive sex later in life?
Puberty is not the age of readiness, it's an age of change. Evolution isn't saying "hey, come get me," it's saying "I might be ready to learn more sometime soon."
The spam emails I got just awhile ago (obfuscated to hell, but still readable) advertising a kiddy pr0n site would indicate to me that yes there is probably a market. Now do most of us see it? Probably not, but that's because we're not looking for it. I don't know what kind of site would have popped up had I clicked the link, but I have a strong feeling that it probably would have been something distasteful, most likely illegal, and quite possibly a paysite.
The point is, only those accessing such sites - and perhaps those actively crusading against - know exactly what goes on.
What I wonder is how they collect. Paypal won't allow such sites, and I'd imaging that VISA wouldn't knowingly do so either (or are profits triumphing that much over morals). Money order... who would make a money order out to "Uncle Dan's kiddy fiddlers" and expect not to get caught.
Still, I'm sure there's money in it. Possibly even from those who don't have a sexual interest in children themselves, but would have a strong interest in a supply-vs-demand profit.
I wonder how they are blocking sites, by IP or address?
If kp'ers are anything like warez/etc sites, it may be a moving target. Not to mention the issue of sites on "free" hosts (geocities, etc) that sneak up for awhile before being knocked down.
So what happens if somebody pops up a KP site on an IP that is cohosted with other sites. I'm sure it won't last long, but it could be long enough to get that (and other sites) blocked off. It could be that blocking KP comes down to the same issues with blacklisting spammers...
I see a lot of porn. Occasionally I'll run across the abusive variety... in which case it gets dunked in the trash bin.
Same with games. I play tons... generally ones that focus 99% on violence just don't tweak my crank.
Maybe it might introduce behavioral changes in those forcefed it... but I believe that many people would just "change the channel" if they run across it in the first place.
If you think of it this way... you can't breed a dog and a cat, or a human and chimpanzee (although the intelligence of some of the locals here suggests it may have happened), but you can graft or crossbreed a lot of different trees.
Oranges, Apples, most fruits... and they've managed to crossbreed with nicotine plants. Granted that many of these plants are still fairly related... but I've heard of some very interesting crosses in the world of flora. Fauna is a bit behind on that, I think.
I'm somewhat of an amateur photographer, and tend to carry my digital camera around with me almost everywhere. The case I carry it in is pretty standard though, and could easily carry a camcorder. Every time I bring it through the theatre with me (leaving it in the car is just inviting theft), I wonder if somebody will call me on it and want me to book it at the front or check it for video capability. So far though, no problems, I walk right in.
Of course, in the US now I could apparently be charged for even bringing it into the theatre - since it is capable of recording video (but would suck for such and need a 1GB+ card at least)... but so far no problems with that around here.
I think most theatre personnel are more concerned with checking your ticket than your bags. Try dealing with a lineup of long coats, bags, etc etc on opening night when people are cramming to get into Harry Potter or whatever is out recently.
I meant router as in personal routing/protection appliance which NATs an internet connection to local IPs (as opposed to the Cisco/gateway type router which I believe is the type you are thinking of).
I think that in many cases a standard NAT policy is to let:
a) All out
b) Related in
Meaning that the virus won't be able to contact your machine in the first place, as it has not established an outbound connection with the infecting machine.
For example, when I go to visit a site:
-http request send to 66.35.250.150 on port 80
-Firewall allows related connections from 66.35.250.150 back.
If your local machine IP is 192.168.253.4, and your router is accepting connections from the internet on 233.232.231.230 - unrelated connections not implicitely allowed will NOT get in.
I've seen a lot of these ads. Their comparison between windows servers and linux servers is really stupid. It's the same tricks that many companies use: compare with different hardware specs, unoptimized kernels/applications, and don't take into account viruses and other related issues. It's not right and I really do get sick of seeing them on OSDN and other networks.
That being said, I understand that OSDN and other sites do need revenue. I also think that most linux users realize the ads are bunk. Rather than a boycott, I'd like to see pro-Linux advertisement in the same way (with real stats) that shows the advantages of linux over windows.
How about graphs comparing: Infection rate, loss due to downtime, webpage serving stats with optimized machines on the same hardware, etc?
I have to ask this question: Will these and other instavirii (such as the windows RPC worms) affect machines behind a router. I've been using a linux/iptables based firewall at home and work for some time - so far no problems at all with these virii. I'm assuming that most need a live IP to connect to, or failing that a file/webpage to infect from - and thus will not be able to infect NAT'ed connections.
Really, not everyone can make their own linux firewall (or switch to a linux-based OS), but I think that I've seen routers for as cheap as $50CAD. How many people out there are getting hit by these viruses, paying tons of $$$ for repair, but not installing a router?
Anyone out there been infected through a router (on machines that aren't in the DMZ etc)?
According to this, max segway speed is about 12.5 mph (20 km/h). Sidewalk speed is about 8 mph (12.9 km/h).
On my blades, my last trip on even ground was about 18.2km/h. That puts the segway at a little over me when maxed, but probably fairly under at sidewalk speed. I'm sure I'm not the fastest blader around...
The point being, the safety issues with the segway aren't so much centric to speed as they probably are to weight and carelessness. The added weight of the machine could be somewhat of a danger, but only when you've got a careless driver... which makes a segway not much more dangerous than a nut on rollerblades.
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What I would like to know in regards to this is: where is the license shown on the distributed media?
That is, is there something on the outside of the packaging which states that media are licensed for non-commercial use? Is it in the instruction manual. During the game install?
If it's on the inside of the box - as with many pieces of software - this is just playing dirty. Especially since, in many cases, stores have a no-return policy on software media (due to piracy issues) unless it's provably defective.
Lastly, are there ways to circumvent this? Perhaps it could be worded that customers are renting the game temporarily during their stay at the cafe (are licenses different for rental places such as, say, Blockbuster), or they are purchasing a share of ownership for that time block.
Whilst Valve may be able to dictate their own licensing terms, I still find the direction this takes as frightening. Cafes not only bring the revenue for games purchased, but quite often they are where kids are introduced to new games they would like to buy (hey Valve, listen, we're talking FREE advertising).
At $9/mo/machine, that's about $54/year. For 10 machines that's $540. Not huge... but consider if every game was charged this way. To make a cafe work, you'll probably need 10-20 games. That's anywhere from $5000-$10000 or so per year. A considerable amount of change in "licensing" for a product that you've paid for, and which the home user doesn't pay for.
I think the paid-license model is flawed. If you want gaming centres to pay monthly for using the service, provide a service (such as the online servers) and a means to charge them for that. With CD-KEYs and IP addresses, this really isn't all that hard to do.
SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE CAUSE DUE TO TOO MANY VISITER ON PHOTOS
........
I just changed all photos under other web-hosting
hope problem will not come again
Does ebay have its own area for photo-hosting, or are all photos generally held offsite? I'm really hoping that this guy put that notice up after his image-host got slashdotted, rather than before (otherwise he's going to have a bad day in the bandwidth arena)
Yes, but that's assuming that the source signal actually reaches your destination antenna. Having an antenna of the same size but better reception might allow you to better pickup existing signals, but radio signals also have a falloff point (different for AM/FM) and penetration ratio.
I don't know about Atlanta radio, but the signal itself still have to reach Charlotte well enough for the antenna. Also, for an in-windshield antenna, you could probably just get a portable antenna and re-route the hookup from your deck if you wanted to use an alternate antenna.
In fact, we should also have a network of cameras monitoring the interiors of police stations, so that we (their employers) can monitor their performance
a) I think it not too unlikely that police stations already have internal camera
b) Public camera in police stations is a bad idea. Do you really want your neighbours to see on TV or their monitor that you've been taken to the station even though later it turns out to be false arrest?
Seriously... given the negetive reaction from various groups over the not-guilty verdict, and the b.s. that happened in the first place - would you want to stick around if you were him.
Deportation sucks, but I'd rather get the hell outta dodge regardless. I wouldn't doubt that somebody might come a'looking for him otherwise.
No basically what you're saying is that, because I am paying a monthly electrical bill for what is essentially the power company's power, they should have a right to disconnect me for any reason the please, however frivolous. Perhaps if somebody complains I have a grow-op at my house, they should automatically pull my plug, because I *might* have a grow up and it's too much of a hassle to actually make a legitimate investigation into the complaint.
How about, as a customer of a service that I have paid for, I expect that reasonable measures to be taken in investigating the legitimacy of a complaint before disconnecting or crippling/changing said services.
And in this article, there was NO legimate complaint. Rather, it was a test of whether the ISP would do a proper investigation of a complaint before acting. They fail that test.
That only police can track an RFID #. It's a unique identifier, and equipment to read them (while expensive for the average consumer) is readily available.
OK, so VIN is the Vehicle Identification #. How would the manufacturer know what the VIN # is of whatever vehicle the tires go into (assuming tire manufacturer and vehicle manufacturer differ). Consider also that this dissappears once you buy new tires, and I believe it's legal to buy tires from overseas so long as they meet road condition requirements for local roads?
You grab the RFID of plates for whatever dumb politicians allowed this to go though, and then replicate them for anyone who feels like taking a quick little spin down the road?
You don't even need the RFID on your plates, in fact it might would better with a seperate RFID responder (RFID is fairly passive, can you send a boosted return signal?).
The safety/privacy concerns of this are staggering. Yes, I can always sit and watch for "license plate X" on the highway, but I'm sure that it wouldn't be hard for a non-governmental person/corp could actively scan plates with a homebrew scanner. Think advertisement, lots of advertisement (as they start to track your movements and where you frequently park your car), or perhaps even stalkers.
First of all, let's put something straight: KDE/Gnome are not the linux desktop. Sure, they can be part of it, but there are many other alternatives. Second, KDE/Gnome are among the most popular because they tend to be easy to adjust, and have a lot of features.
However, one does have the choice of alternate WM's such as "iceWM" (which I use and is fairly light), "windowmaker", etc. In fact, I find that while IceWM is lighter than gnome, it does thing in a fashion that makes more sense.
Remember, choice may = bloat if you choose everything with the kitchen sink. But with choice you can also streamline and avoid much of the bloat, which you can't do in OS's that offer "all or nothing" or many cases.
You can have an upload stream and a download stream. Upload/download signifies whether you are the sender/recipient of the intended data. Streaming refers to the way that the data is sent so that it can be read on-the-fly (or with a little caching), as well as some more technical merits around such.
I understand, however, that you are refering to the paradigm of downloading a complete file VS a streamed (semi-realtime viewable) copy, but this doesn't mean that the article is incorrect.
Generally only for admin machines, but there are 2 advantages:
a) Nobody getting our data
b) Nifty rare-earth magnets (3 on my fridge at the moment, and various others given to friends).
Our school district uses OO, and we don't burn CD's. That's what network shares are for. For unconnected machines, sure - you can use a CD - we techs have them. A user could burn a copy if needed.
It's easier to network-install 3-5 copies rather than popping CD's in and out anyhow, and I'd imagine most PC's are not standalone these days.
Actually, the server is running a PROMISE raid controller, and dual 2200 CPUs, etc. The point was that one can just as easily make a cheap "backup machine" that will handle offsite backups and/or be able to swap in the event of an emergency. Other servers still do the primary work, but this one makes sure that if one of them goes down - the data is still around.
We have a server here with dual-200GB drives in RAID-1. It's primarily used to backup several offsite servers on a nightly schedule. Assuming that there was space elsewhere in the building, putting another server in there with RAID-1 drives and doing networked backup should be fine.
With 'nix, even software RAID-1 works well. RAID-5 is also a choice. Doesn't take an insanely fast CPU (or a monitor that that matter)... so you can manage a multidrive backup machine for under $2000 or even under $1000.
Humans go though puberty at about 11-13, yet we are not suppose to be attracted to people in this age group since 500,000 years of evolution is simply wrong, very wrong, and evil.
So if two 15 year olds manage to get together outside of adults' knowledge and experiment, fine, not illegal either so far as I know.
You can't throw everyone in a large group though. A 40-year-old and a 15-year-old is a huge gap in maturity in most cases. Most cannot argue that at 15 there were as ready for such things as you are now.
Puberty is a stage of evolution yes. It's a stage of change, and growing. At that age, they are coming into a knowledge of sex and desire, but they do not necessarily fully understand it.
Forcing a young person into sexual acts at that age is destroying his/her ability to grow. Moreover, it will often destroy a young person's ability to enjoy sexual experience later in life. How many abused children are seriously f***ed up about the opposive sex later in life?
Puberty is not the age of readiness, it's an age of change. Evolution isn't saying "hey, come get me," it's saying "I might be ready to learn more sometime soon."
The spam emails I got just awhile ago (obfuscated to hell, but still readable) advertising a kiddy pr0n site would indicate to me that yes there is probably a market. Now do most of us see it? Probably not, but that's because we're not looking for it. I don't know what kind of site would have popped up had I clicked the link, but I have a strong feeling that it probably would have been something distasteful, most likely illegal, and quite possibly a paysite.
The point is, only those accessing such sites - and perhaps those actively crusading against - know exactly what goes on.
What I wonder is how they collect. Paypal won't allow such sites, and I'd imaging that VISA wouldn't knowingly do so either (or are profits triumphing that much over morals). Money order... who would make a money order out to "Uncle Dan's kiddy fiddlers" and expect not to get caught.
Still, I'm sure there's money in it. Possibly even from those who don't have a sexual interest in children themselves, but would have a strong interest in a supply-vs-demand profit.
I wonder how they are blocking sites, by IP or address?
If kp'ers are anything like warez/etc sites, it may be a moving target. Not to mention the issue of sites on "free" hosts (geocities, etc) that sneak up for awhile before being knocked down.
So what happens if somebody pops up a KP site on an IP that is cohosted with other sites. I'm sure it won't last long, but it could be long enough to get that (and other sites) blocked off. It could be that blocking KP comes down to the same issues with blacklisting spammers...
Basically, the way I see it:
I see a lot of porn. Occasionally I'll run across the abusive variety... in which case it gets dunked in the trash bin.
Same with games. I play tons... generally ones that focus 99% on violence just don't tweak my crank.
Maybe it might introduce behavioral changes in those forcefed it... but I believe that many people would just "change the channel" if they run across it in the first place.
If you think of it this way... you can't breed a dog and a cat, or a human and chimpanzee (although the intelligence of some of the locals here suggests it may have happened), but you can graft or crossbreed a lot of different trees.
Oranges, Apples, most fruits... and they've managed to crossbreed with nicotine plants. Granted that many of these plants are still fairly related... but I've heard of some very interesting crosses in the world of flora. Fauna is a bit behind on that, I think.
I'm somewhat of an amateur photographer, and tend to carry my digital camera around with me almost everywhere. The case I carry it in is pretty standard though, and could easily carry a camcorder. Every time I bring it through the theatre with me (leaving it in the car is just inviting theft), I wonder if somebody will call me on it and want me to book it at the front or check it for video capability. So far though, no problems, I walk right in.
Of course, in the US now I could apparently be charged for even bringing it into the theatre - since it is capable of recording video (but would suck for such and need a 1GB+ card at least)... but so far no problems with that around here.
I think most theatre personnel are more concerned with checking your ticket than your bags. Try dealing with a lineup of long coats, bags, etc etc on opening night when people are cramming to get into Harry Potter or whatever is out recently.
I meant router as in personal routing/protection appliance which NATs an internet connection to local IPs (as opposed to the Cisco/gateway type router which I believe is the type you are thinking of).
I think that in many cases a standard NAT policy is to let:
a) All out
b) Related in
Meaning that the virus won't be able to contact your machine in the first place, as it has not established an outbound connection with the infecting machine.
For example, when I go to visit a site:
-http request send to 66.35.250.150 on port 80
-Firewall allows related connections from 66.35.250.150 back.
If your local machine IP is 192.168.253.4, and your router is accepting connections from the internet on 233.232.231.230 - unrelated connections not implicitely allowed will NOT get in.
I've seen a lot of these ads. Their comparison between windows servers and linux servers is really stupid. It's the same tricks that many companies use: compare with different hardware specs, unoptimized kernels/applications, and don't take into account viruses and other related issues. It's not right and I really do get sick of seeing them on OSDN and other networks.
That being said, I understand that OSDN and other sites do need revenue. I also think that most linux users realize the ads are bunk. Rather than a boycott, I'd like to see pro-Linux advertisement in the same way (with real stats) that shows the advantages of linux over windows.
How about graphs comparing: Infection rate, loss due to downtime, webpage serving stats with optimized machines on the same hardware, etc?
I have to ask this question: Will these and other instavirii (such as the windows RPC worms) affect machines behind a router. I've been using a linux/iptables based firewall at home and work for some time - so far no problems at all with these virii. I'm assuming that most need a live IP to connect to, or failing that a file/webpage to infect from - and thus will not be able to infect NAT'ed connections.
Really, not everyone can make their own linux firewall (or switch to a linux-based OS), but I think that I've seen routers for as cheap as $50CAD. How many people out there are getting hit by these viruses, paying tons of $$$ for repair, but not installing a router?
Anyone out there been infected through a router (on machines that aren't in the DMZ etc)?
According to this, max segway speed is about 12.5 mph (20 km/h). Sidewalk speed is about 8 mph (12.9 km/h).
On my blades, my last trip on even ground was about 18.2km/h. That puts the segway at a little over me when maxed, but probably fairly under at sidewalk speed. I'm sure I'm not the fastest blader around...
The point being, the safety issues with the segway aren't so much centric to speed as they probably are to weight and carelessness. The added weight of the machine could be somewhat of a danger, but only when you've got a careless driver... which makes a segway not much more dangerous than a nut on rollerblades.