The hardliners are tremendously unpopular. If free elections were held, estimates are that the various reformist parties would've won a massive landslide of somewhere around 70-85% of the seats in parliament.
I don't know about you, but my local gas station doesn't carry anything over 93 octane. And even that's pretty damn expensive (at least $0.25/gal more than 89 octane).
In the US they never have been, and shouldn't be. Listing factual information about when television shows will broadcast should not under any circumstances be copyrightable--it's just factual information.
A lot of DVD players these days can be region-free, just not officially. Many include a hidden menu that you access through a sequence of remote-control keypresses, that lets you disable region coding. I'm not entirely sure, but it's probably for plausible deniability ("we didn't know our programmers slipped that in there!").
As one option, the LiteOn LVD-2002 (or -2001 or -2003) has such a feature (just google for "LiteOn Secret Menu" or "LiteOn region free menu" or some variant), and plays DivX's burned onto CD-R's as an added bonus.
Humans have huge processing power, just not in the same sense as computers do. You say the human player rejects the vast majority of possible moves and concetrates on only a few of them. But how does he decide which ones to concentrate on? Through some sort of processing--whether it be excellent pattern-recognition, or some sort of explicit processing going on we don't yet understand. There's a lot of neuron-firing going on during even simple thought, and that's all processing power of one sort or another.
Phone-to-phone VoIP: the telco somewhere in the middle uses VoIP to transmit the data, avoiding the intermediary routes it'd normally have to take, but the end-user is just using a normal phone on both ends
PC-to-phone or phone-to-PC: one end is using a PC, sending to a telco, which is sending to a phone
I don't think they're interested in PC-to-PC, because as you mentioned, that's simply impossible to regulate effectively.
If an artist can't put together a good album, they're not worth listening to. Unless you just like listening to an endless parade of one-hit wonders instead of quality music.
If it's worth listening to, it'll be better as an album: good albums are not just a collection of random tracks thrown together.
I thought I recalled Mudge being fired about a year ago. In any case, I can't find his name on any advisories written recently (but he was all over the ones from 1999/2000).
It's one of the two generally used systems when dealing with computer data: one based on the SI units (base 10), and one based on base 2. Arguably the latter were ill-chosen without much foresight: 1024 bits was "close enough" to 1000 to call it a kilobyte, but as you go up, it gets worse, so 2^10, 2^20, 2^30, etc. should have had their own names, not recycled the SI prefixes. Of course, that's what's happened now (kibibyte, Mebibyte, etc.), but nobody uses those.
In any case, the lawsuit doesn't make much sense to me. It's fairly common practice to measure things this way, even with computers. Your 56k modem actually transfers 56000 bits per second; your 128kbps mp3 is 128000 bits per second (not 128 x 1024), and so on.
In this context, kilobits means 1000 bits, not 1024. So a 56 kbps modem corresponds (ideally) to around 6.84 kilobytes (of the 1024-bit variety) per second.
I agree about transporting, but storing books is one of their good sides. A collection of 500 ebooks isn't nearly as impressive as a wall full of bookshelves.
If data should be taxed, then do that -- tax by the megabyte or whatever. But there's no particularly good reason that some data should be taxed more than other data. Downloading slashdot's mainpage travels over the same infrastructure as making a VoIP call, so why should the latter be subject to special taxes?
While writing simple text notes is indeed faster on a computer than by hand (at least for those of us who type well), writing complex equations is generally much faster by hand, especially if they happen to use symbols you haven't encountered before (which is not infrequently the case -- you are after all supposed to be learning things you didn't already know in these classes). No matter how proficient you are at LaTeX, it's not very fast to write down formulas filled with stuff you've never seen before, while with pen and paper you can just copy them down immediately.
You must really have no idea of the rest of the world if you think bribery is more rampant in the US than elsewhere. If anything it's far less rampant in the US than elsewhere, and some US corporations have even complained that they're hampered doing business abroad because they're legally prevented from bribery, and so lose out to foreign corporations which aren't so prevented.
There's dozens of countries I could cite, but if you want an EU country with rampant bribery, you need look no further than Silvio Berlusconi's Italy, to name just one.
In the US at least, shady inventors have a long tradition dating back to Thomas Edison, whose patent trickery and idea-stealing is somewhat legendary (he even invented the electric chair to make the competing A/C current look dangerous).
A major blockbuster movie typically gets several million viewers on opening weekend alone. Typical blockbuster opening weekend grosses are in the range of $25-30m. If you figure even $10/ticket average (probably a bit high), that's 2.5-3m people in a single weekend.
I'm not denying that there is an OS that's gone for the past 15 years without a single remote root exploit, but I can't think of any offhand (even OpenBSD has had one).
The few critical flaws Linux has had have been truly catastrophic. The Apache and SSH ones were particularly bad, because these (especially SSH) often operate on even stripped down secured systems.
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The hardliners are tremendously unpopular. If free elections were held, estimates are that the various reformist parties would've won a massive landslide of somewhere around 70-85% of the seats in parliament.
I don't know about you, but my local gas station doesn't carry anything over 93 octane. And even that's pretty damn expensive (at least $0.25/gal more than 89 octane).
Your car now takes advantage of the fine "$0.10/gallon more to fill up" feature.
In the US they never have been, and shouldn't be. Listing factual information about when television shows will broadcast should not under any circumstances be copyrightable--it's just factual information.
A lot of DVD players these days can be region-free, just not officially. Many include a hidden menu that you access through a sequence of remote-control keypresses, that lets you disable region coding. I'm not entirely sure, but it's probably for plausible deniability ("we didn't know our programmers slipped that in there!").
As one option, the LiteOn LVD-2002 (or -2001 or -2003) has such a feature (just google for "LiteOn Secret Menu" or "LiteOn region free menu" or some variant), and plays DivX's burned onto CD-R's as an added bonus.
If females are supposedly so interested in technological devices, why do relatively few female undergrads volunteer for this data collection?
that's a one-way converter though. the male to female conversion is more tricky, and less reversible.
Humans have huge processing power, just not in the same sense as computers do. You say the human player rejects the vast majority of possible moves and concetrates on only a few of them. But how does he decide which ones to concentrate on? Through some sort of processing--whether it be excellent pattern-recognition, or some sort of explicit processing going on we don't yet understand. There's a lot of neuron-firing going on during even simple thought, and that's all processing power of one sort or another.
I don't think they're interested in PC-to-PC, because as you mentioned, that's simply impossible to regulate effectively.
If your LAN at Cisco was subscribed to AOL, then you'd have a problem. However, I assume it was not.
The simple fact is that there's really no reason an AOL subscriber would ever use the messenger service.
If an artist can't put together a good album, they're not worth listening to. Unless you just like listening to an endless parade of one-hit wonders instead of quality music.
If it's worth listening to, it'll be better as an album: good albums are not just a collection of random tracks thrown together.
I thought I recalled Mudge being fired about a year ago. In any case, I can't find his name on any advisories written recently (but he was all over the ones from 1999/2000).
Can't find any mention of any former l0pht members on their site anymore.
It's one of the two generally used systems when dealing with computer data: one based on the SI units (base 10), and one based on base 2. Arguably the latter were ill-chosen without much foresight: 1024 bits was "close enough" to 1000 to call it a kilobyte, but as you go up, it gets worse, so 2^10, 2^20, 2^30, etc. should have had their own names, not recycled the SI prefixes. Of course, that's what's happened now (kibibyte, Mebibyte, etc.), but nobody uses those.
In any case, the lawsuit doesn't make much sense to me. It's fairly common practice to measure things this way, even with computers. Your 56k modem actually transfers 56000 bits per second; your 128kbps mp3 is 128000 bits per second (not 128 x 1024), and so on.
In this context, kilobits means 1000 bits, not 1024. So a 56 kbps modem corresponds (ideally) to around 6.84 kilobytes (of the 1024-bit variety) per second.
I agree about transporting, but storing books is one of their good sides. A collection of 500 ebooks isn't nearly as impressive as a wall full of bookshelves.
If data should be taxed, then do that -- tax by the megabyte or whatever. But there's no particularly good reason that some data should be taxed more than other data. Downloading slashdot's mainpage travels over the same infrastructure as making a VoIP call, so why should the latter be subject to special taxes?
While writing simple text notes is indeed faster on a computer than by hand (at least for those of us who type well), writing complex equations is generally much faster by hand, especially if they happen to use symbols you haven't encountered before (which is not infrequently the case -- you are after all supposed to be learning things you didn't already know in these classes). No matter how proficient you are at LaTeX, it's not very fast to write down formulas filled with stuff you've never seen before, while with pen and paper you can just copy them down immediately.
You must really have no idea of the rest of the world if you think bribery is more rampant in the US than elsewhere. If anything it's far less rampant in the US than elsewhere, and some US corporations have even complained that they're hampered doing business abroad because they're legally prevented from bribery, and so lose out to foreign corporations which aren't so prevented.
There's dozens of countries I could cite, but if you want an EU country with rampant bribery, you need look no further than Silvio Berlusconi's Italy, to name just one.
In the US at least, shady inventors have a long tradition dating back to Thomas Edison, whose patent trickery and idea-stealing is somewhat legendary (he even invented the electric chair to make the competing A/C current look dangerous).
A major blockbuster movie typically gets several million viewers on opening weekend alone. Typical blockbuster opening weekend grosses are in the range of $25-30m. If you figure even $10/ticket average (probably a bit high), that's 2.5-3m people in a single weekend.
You used the phrase "making bank," so now I must destroy you.
That is all.
And if you look at the membership list, it seems quite obvious that what they hope to push for is the adoption of their proprietary software.
I'm not denying that there is an OS that's gone for the past 15 years without a single remote root exploit, but I can't think of any offhand (even OpenBSD has had one).
The few critical flaws Linux has had have been truly catastrophic. The Apache and SSH ones were particularly bad, because these (especially SSH) often operate on even stripped down secured systems.