Oh, let me guess, you are the type of person that would scream bloody murder if you got caught speeding on the highway.
If you haven't noticed, this fight over IP and copyright has far reaching consequences. If you don't pay attention, some big bad association like the RIAA might be knocking on your door about something that your childern or wife has done, and BLAMING YOU!
Plus, this is/. , you need to lighten up and have an open mind.
I agree that having this guy's thesis as common public knowledge is bad. But, he can do this. The government already wants him to not publish, but, what if he worked with say, the FBI, NSA, and CIA, and sell the data that he has gathered to companies that have been cleared by the fore mentioned authorities? Pretty simple, and he would pay for his college pretty quick.
I know a few Telcos and cable providers that would love to have the maps he has made so far. Plus the government could see where the US is ACTUALLY more in danger of being attacked.
Plus, I would get really pissed if for some reason, a terrorist cut a long haul fiber line and I couldn't call my girlfriend in Japan.
You forget one thing, if you counter-sue the RIAA, and they can't prove that you did have the forementioned file or files, you could recoup your legal cost plus any money that you lost from wages from having to take off work or class to be in court. If you get a really good judge or jury, you could end up with more money than what you started out with.
If the college pays for the cost of the on campus students to download the mp3s, it would work much like how royalities are paid by college radio stations works. Plus, blocking outside downloading like kazaa would force the students to use the college's server. Plus the university can offer better quality mp3s, something that can be tough to do with kazaa.
If the college worked it right, and the students didn't have to pay a huge amount of money, I think most students that were living in the dorms would like this. And if the college is worried about students eating up all the bandwidth on the campus, just make the mp3 servers only available to the dorms, not the rest of the network, that is simple to do. As for administrating the server and all, students could that with faculity oversight to keep the cost down.
I would have rather paid the college that I went to for a service like this rather than paying $125 to Student Government every semester. At least I would have gotten my money's worth of music.
I agree with most of the replies here. I graduated two years ago, it took five months to find a job, lost that because of the bad economy. Then I got a job in a field that really stinks, litigation support (over-glorifed copy clerk). Most of the people graduated with got really bad jobs not because they didn't look hard enough or had contacts, but because of the economy. If recent grads would have graduated four or five years ago, we would be reading this and saying, "too bad for those people".
The other thing is, yes, college is getting too expensive for average high school students to go to college. The University of Kansas is raising it's tuition by 20% next year. Why? Because they have to pay for coachs that make more in one year than I will in 15 years. Here is the problem. There are some people that teach and coach in colleges that are not worth it. Then there are the professors that are really good that don't paid what they are worth. We should tell the universities to stop paying huge saleries to basketball and football coaches and save that money to pay the people that really deserve it, the support staff of the colleges, the people that clean up, feed, help students find things in the libraries, those people. Professors once they have 10 years of sinority in, don't need to get a pay increase every year.
Plus, why should colleges pay companies to take interns, like some colleges do. Why don't the companies pay the colleges for use of the students, like temp companies or something. That could bring in huge amounts of money to the colleges. The colleges supply labor that is somewhat already trained, and the students get valuable experience which makes it easier to find jobs after they graduate. Pretty simple.
But, that is just my opinion, I am probably wrong.
But, we all knew this was going to happen. It's a shame that there isn't a great pro bono lawyer out there that would love to take a case like this. A free lawyer that would fight tooth and nail for the common man. Wishful thinking again.
That makes sense. But, you forgot that most judges in the united states are liberals and would never let a settlement of billions dollars on one person to stand. In the end, the judge and set a dollar amount for the settlement. If the student just admits his was in the wrong, then the judge will set a limit of more or less in the area of a couple thousand dollars.
But, I think we are also forgetting that the RIAA said a few years ago that they would not sue any person directly like this. But that is so typical of a business. Say one thing one day, and go against the next.
Ok, I have commented on this before. I am still curious as to if the RIAA has it's way and wins this lawsuit, will it prove anything?
I mean, unless the student is very rich family, along the lines of Bill Gates rich, the RIAA would never see the money. And, on a appeal, the settlement would be thrown out on the fact that the amount, millions and millions of dollars is too much for anyone to pay.
I am still curious if the RIAA is just doing this for headlines, or to scare people from sharing music.
Ok, it sounds great. But, I am sure there is going to be some fine print on this project.
For one, how big is the actual pipe to the Internet going to be?
Two, servers of any kind are going to have to be serverly limited or not allow at all.
Three, Terms of Service. The number one most important thing of this project. The people of this college town, including the college students are going to have to read and sign that TOS. If they read and sign it, there will be less confusion as to the punishment for people that abuse having fast connections. Plus, it covers the City's butt.
Four, cost of fiber optic cable and equipment for the city and the customers. We all know how expensive fiber is. The last mile and Customer Premise Equipment can be prohibitively expensive. Also, I don't know know how many people are going to want to work for a city to support a network of that size. I mean, I don't care where you are, government work is goverment work.
But hey, this is just my opinion, I could be way off..
I remember going through college. Ahhh, the memories. I also remember how I didn't have enough money to buy cds, some times, even books for class. I think that the RIAA has jumped the shark tank. I can't even believe that the RIAA and thier pack of money hungry lawyers would think to do this. But, then again, I have seen the stupidity of lawyers and people skyrocket over the last 20 years. I wouldn't be suprised if all of us that shared music with out friends get a letter from RIAA saying that they are going to sue us for the same amount of money.
Ok, let's face it, our elected and appointed leaders are dipshits.
Now, let's look at some facts.
Most model rockets are made of what? Cardboard, Plastic and balsa wood.
Range of this supposed "weapons" is what, 500 to 1500 feet vertical. So, if you do some number crunching, you get maybe a mile from a rocket fired at a 45 degree angle.
The biggest payload I have heard anyone lifting with a model rocket is a uncooked chicken egg. And if I remember right, that didn't always going up very high, and the egg ended up mostly just small shards of shell and scrambled.
Also, have anyone tried to aim a unguided model rocket to any degree of accuratcy? You are lucky to get the rocket to land in your own neighborhood after you launch it.
Even with bigger engines, the risk to anyone in this country of getting gassed or sickened with bioweapons from a model rocket is just stupid.
Make sure you write President Bush about this, maybe something will finally get through his thick skull and leave the hobbies of thousands of people alone.
If that doesn't work, we could always egg the White House with the model rockets that carry the eggs!
My heart and prayers go out to the families of the astronauts. But to get back to why I am replying.
"because of cracks in the propellant feed lines to the 3 main engines. A defect that could have caused catastrophic failure. Did the fix work or not?"
Ok, if they didn't fix the cracks in the main engines feed lines, it would have blown up on launch, not during reentry. But, again, it is too early for speculation.
If it was some sort of pilot error, the telemitry from the shutle would have show so, since Mission Control was still getting info from the orbitor just moments before it broke up. I am sure that someone at NASA would have leaked that by now.
I guess we will all find out some how or another in the next few days. I urge all/.ers that work in the space program to not stay slient and come forward if the powers that be try to cover up anything.
Or, just find the person that was responsible for the DDoS attack on the Root Servers a few weeks ago, Find the IP address of the "King of Spam" router. Then commence to DDoSing the guy out of exsistance.
I do believe this was a quote from the arcticule: "Isn't Technology great?".
Use technology to beat technology. Even better
Well, hell yeah M$ is afraid of this. A lot of people that I know started out on a Apple IIe, and when windblows came on the scene, it was just easier to use, but most of the people I know said they would go back to Mac if they would use the same hardware as x86 machines. And if Mac can sell OS X for less than M$ does for XP, there could be a whole new leader of the pack. And Steve Jobs will finially be happy.:P
I don't understand why we need to go to 64 bit. We need to start to invest in Asynchonous processor technology. That is where the real speed increase and internal bandwith is at. We have been doing for ages with networking, why not with processors?
The FCC will allow a college to have a up to 100 watt AM transmitter for next to nothing and a 50 watt FM transmitter for the same. Look at the FCC website and look for the loop holes. But my suggestion is this. Go with Macintosh!!! You don't have to pay a per stream price like with RealNetwork, or Win Med Player. If you get a Mac Server, and a cheap old beige Mac G3, and use quicktime, the price is actually pretty cheap. But again, you will need money to get the Macs. And as we all know, Macs are not cheap.
As a reluctant citzen of Missouri, I have this to say about Ashcroft, he was a horrible Governor. And now, after 9-11, everything that he doesn't understand becomes a target. So, I propose this, Screw it, Download everything you can. Piracy is nothing compared to the crimes that Ashcroft has committed in the last year.
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Oh, let me guess, you are the type of person that would scream bloody murder if you got caught speeding on the highway.
/. , you need to lighten up and have an open mind.
If you haven't noticed, this fight over IP and copyright has far reaching consequences. If you don't pay attention, some big bad association like the RIAA might be knocking on your door about something that your childern or wife has done, and BLAMING YOU!
Plus, this is
I agree that having this guy's thesis as common public knowledge is bad. But, he can do this. The government already wants him to not publish, but, what if he worked with say, the FBI, NSA, and CIA, and sell the data that he has gathered to companies that have been cleared by the fore mentioned authorities? Pretty simple, and he would pay for his college pretty quick.
I know a few Telcos and cable providers that would love to have the maps he has made so far. Plus the government could see where the US is ACTUALLY more in danger of being attacked.
Plus, I would get really pissed if for some reason, a terrorist cut a long haul fiber line and I couldn't call my girlfriend in Japan.
You forget one thing, if you counter-sue the RIAA, and they can't prove that you did have the forementioned file or files, you could recoup your legal cost plus any money that you lost from wages from having to take off work or class to be in court. If you get a really good judge or jury, you could end up with more money than what you started out with.
Heh, law, what a f'ed up field....
If the college pays for the cost of the on campus students to download the mp3s, it would work much like how royalities are paid by college radio stations works. Plus, blocking outside downloading like kazaa would force the students to use the college's server. Plus the university can offer better quality mp3s, something that can be tough to do with kazaa.
If the college worked it right, and the students didn't have to pay a huge amount of money, I think most students that were living in the dorms would like this. And if the college is worried about students eating up all the bandwidth on the campus, just make the mp3 servers only available to the dorms, not the rest of the network, that is simple to do. As for administrating the server and all, students could that with faculity oversight to keep the cost down.
I would have rather paid the college that I went to for a service like this rather than paying $125 to Student Government every semester. At least I would have gotten my money's worth of music.
I agree with most of the replies here. I graduated two years ago, it took five months to find a job, lost that because of the bad economy. Then I got a job in a field that really stinks, litigation support (over-glorifed copy clerk). Most of the people graduated with got really bad jobs not because they didn't look hard enough or had contacts, but because of the economy. If recent grads would have graduated four or five years ago, we would be reading this and saying, "too bad for those people".
The other thing is, yes, college is getting too expensive for average high school students to go to college. The University of Kansas is raising it's tuition by 20% next year. Why? Because they have to pay for coachs that make more in one year than I will in 15 years. Here is the problem. There are some people that teach and coach in colleges that are not worth it. Then there are the professors that are really good that don't paid what they are worth. We should tell the universities to stop paying huge saleries to basketball and football coaches and save that money to pay the people that really deserve it, the support staff of the colleges, the people that clean up, feed, help students find things in the libraries, those people. Professors once they have 10 years of sinority in, don't need to get a pay increase every year.
Plus, why should colleges pay companies to take interns, like some colleges do. Why don't the companies pay the colleges for use of the students, like temp companies or something. That could bring in huge amounts of money to the colleges. The colleges supply labor that is somewhat already trained, and the students get valuable experience which makes it easier to find jobs after they graduate. Pretty simple.
But, that is just my opinion, I am probably wrong.
I am just curious to see how many /.ers will be coming to Kansas City for this meeting. I am lucky to be just 20 minutes away.
But, we all knew this was going to happen. It's a shame that there isn't a great pro bono lawyer out there that would love to take a case like this. A free lawyer that would fight tooth and nail for the common man. Wishful thinking again.
That makes sense. But, you forgot that most judges in the united states are liberals and would never let a settlement of billions dollars on one person to stand. In the end, the judge and set a dollar amount for the settlement. If the student just admits his was in the wrong, then the judge will set a limit of more or less in the area of a couple thousand dollars.
But, I think we are also forgetting that the RIAA said a few years ago that they would not sue any person directly like this. But that is so typical of a business. Say one thing one day, and go against the next.
Ok, I have commented on this before. I am still curious as to if the RIAA has it's way and wins this lawsuit, will it prove anything?
I mean, unless the student is very rich family, along the lines of Bill Gates rich, the RIAA would never see the money. And, on a appeal, the settlement would be thrown out on the fact that the amount, millions and millions of dollars is too much for anyone to pay.
I am still curious if the RIAA is just doing this for headlines, or to scare people from sharing music.
Ok, it sounds great. But, I am sure there is going to be some fine print on this project.
For one, how big is the actual pipe to the Internet going to be?
Two, servers of any kind are going to have to be serverly limited or not allow at all.
Three, Terms of Service. The number one most important thing of this project. The people of this college town, including the college students are going to have to read and sign that TOS. If they read and sign it, there will be less confusion as to the punishment for people that abuse having fast connections. Plus, it covers the City's butt.
Four, cost of fiber optic cable and equipment for the city and the customers. We all know how expensive fiber is. The last mile and Customer Premise Equipment can be prohibitively expensive. Also, I don't know know how many people are going to want to work for a city to support a network of that size. I mean, I don't care where you are, government work is goverment work.
But hey, this is just my opinion, I could be way off..
I remember going through college. Ahhh, the memories. I also remember how I didn't have enough money to buy cds, some times, even books for class. I think that the RIAA has jumped the shark tank. I can't even believe that the RIAA and thier pack of money hungry lawyers would think to do this. But, then again, I have seen the stupidity of lawyers and people skyrocket over the last 20 years. I wouldn't be suprised if all of us that shared music with out friends get a letter from RIAA saying that they are going to sue us for the same amount of money.
Ok, let's face it, our elected and appointed leaders are dipshits. Now, let's look at some facts. Most model rockets are made of what? Cardboard, Plastic and balsa wood. Range of this supposed "weapons" is what, 500 to 1500 feet vertical. So, if you do some number crunching, you get maybe a mile from a rocket fired at a 45 degree angle. The biggest payload I have heard anyone lifting with a model rocket is a uncooked chicken egg. And if I remember right, that didn't always going up very high, and the egg ended up mostly just small shards of shell and scrambled. Also, have anyone tried to aim a unguided model rocket to any degree of accuratcy? You are lucky to get the rocket to land in your own neighborhood after you launch it. Even with bigger engines, the risk to anyone in this country of getting gassed or sickened with bioweapons from a model rocket is just stupid. Make sure you write President Bush about this, maybe something will finally get through his thick skull and leave the hobbies of thousands of people alone. If that doesn't work, we could always egg the White House with the model rockets that carry the eggs!
My heart and prayers go out to the families of the astronauts. But to get back to why I am replying. "because of cracks in the propellant feed lines to the 3 main engines. A defect that could have caused catastrophic failure. Did the fix work or not?" Ok, if they didn't fix the cracks in the main engines feed lines, it would have blown up on launch, not during reentry. But, again, it is too early for speculation. If it was some sort of pilot error, the telemitry from the shutle would have show so, since Mission Control was still getting info from the orbitor just moments before it broke up. I am sure that someone at NASA would have leaked that by now. I guess we will all find out some how or another in the next few days. I urge all /.ers that work in the space program to not stay slient and come forward if the powers that be try to cover up anything.
Or, just find the person that was responsible for the DDoS attack on the Root Servers a few weeks ago, Find the IP address of the "King of Spam" router. Then commence to DDoSing the guy out of exsistance. I do believe this was a quote from the arcticule: "Isn't Technology great?". Use technology to beat technology. Even better
Well, hell yeah M$ is afraid of this. A lot of people that I know started out on a Apple IIe, and when windblows came on the scene, it was just easier to use, but most of the people I know said they would go back to Mac if they would use the same hardware as x86 machines. And if Mac can sell OS X for less than M$ does for XP, there could be a whole new leader of the pack. And Steve Jobs will finially be happy. :P
I don't understand why we need to go to 64 bit. We need to start to invest in Asynchonous processor technology. That is where the real speed increase and internal bandwith is at. We have been doing for ages with networking, why not with processors?
Hmm, A case a beer huh? Might want to ask for two cases of beer.
The FCC will allow a college to have a up to 100 watt AM transmitter for next to nothing and a 50 watt FM transmitter for the same. Look at the FCC website and look for the loop holes. But my suggestion is this. Go with Macintosh!!! You don't have to pay a per stream price like with RealNetwork, or Win Med Player. If you get a Mac Server, and a cheap old beige Mac G3, and use quicktime, the price is actually pretty cheap. But again, you will need money to get the Macs. And as we all know, Macs are not cheap.
As a reluctant citzen of Missouri, I have this to say about Ashcroft, he was a horrible Governor. And now, after 9-11, everything that he doesn't understand becomes a target. So, I propose this, Screw it, Download everything you can. Piracy is nothing compared to the crimes that Ashcroft has committed in the last year.