Except for the fact that for a residential university, you are acting as an ISP. Why not do like everyone else and require a firewall to join the network and be done? Security on a personal computer is the student's problem...not yours (even though they will want your help when something goes wrong). As for the extra traffic...Academic institutions usually get fat pipes at favorable rates and your students are definitely paying for access...if comcast can still offer a neutral pipe for $60 a month...why can't you?
Don't you have computer science students/professors or anyone else who might be interested in investigating new technologies that rely on p2p? As for the code of conduct...if they sign a code of conduct that says they won't pirate stuff (or face the consequences), then you should either hold them to that code of conduct and allow unfettered access or trash the code and enforce. This is the ivory tower--there should be freedom.
What I would imagine is going on instead, is anyone smart enough (or with savvy friends) has figured out a bunch of workarounds and everyone else is just getting screwed. Glad I didn't go to school wherever you are.
Wow guys...seems kind of harsh. Detecting bittorrent or generic p2p equals an access ban? Are you sure you are a regular/. poster and not a clueless manager?
My school did NOT do this. My school did nothing at all unless they recieved a DMCA notice from a content owner. I believe my school even maintained a page with instructions on how to disable content uploading in popular programs like limewire. No administrator of an academic network in their right mind would disable any port/protocol...college students get really uppity on things like freedom of speech and computer science students get really angry when they can't pull down legit linux ISO torrents (and lets not forget about the wow players who need their updates).
You should only be disabling access after a confirmed infraction. My school took the DMCA notice and compared it to their logs before taking any action...and yes, there were occasions where they determined that it was an incorrect notice and the user could not have caused the infraction.
I see it all the time and it looks like some sketchy malicious AP (you know...email your secret business documents through my free airport wifi please) but I figure that it can't be since it does not actually work. If you are going to sniff peoples data and do a MITM...you need to actually provide something on the other end.
Yeah, his job only existed because they received so many RIAA requests that they needed a full time person to handle them...what a waste of money.
For those who don't know...the setup with academic institutions (maybe tied to some payment/government funds/agreement) is that all the RIAA has to do is send them a letter with the IP and content. The school will then go and find the kid and give them some sort of a slap on the wrist and tell them not to do it again. At my university, they kicked you off the network until you talked to the assistant dean of students. First offense was a slap on the wrist (delivered with the apathetic "yeah...we have to do this...its wrong...don't do it again" that you would expect). Second offense was a $2000 fine. Third offense was unclear but involved a disciplinary hearing...doubt anyone ever got past the second offense.
Compare this to how it works with a normal ISP: RIAA sends a letter with IP and content, ISP says "wtf is this?", RIAA says "we want their info", ISP says "as soon as you have a court order". ISP's have a bottom line to worry about and aren't going to pay someone to do what universities do (and their service agreements probably prevent it) and they are not going to turn over customer information without a subpoena (well...in theory). At the same time, the RIAA is not going to waste lawyer dollars getting a subpoena for every single infringer. It is much easier to spend the lawyer dollars writing letters to offenders with IP's in an academic institutions block--it kicks off one filesharer and scares them and their friends into being more careful in the future since they know that someone can see what they are doing.
I have heard many quality recordings from basement studios built on a shoestring budget. This cost has dropped significantly.
I have also heard many awful recordings from basement studios. The basement studio is not for everyone and not suited for all forms of music (what do you do when you decide you want some background sounds from a symphony orchestra? Use a synth? the record labels would pay out for the real thing if you wanted it). Small labels and independent artists simply can't fork over the cash to provide living expenses, studio, and expensive producers/engineers for a band that needs to take a month in the studio to get an entire album right. Even established bands need help meeting these costs.
This can be done cheaply on the internet. It is done all of the time.
But that doesn't get you a billboard or an opportunity to play on a late night talk show. Music is consumed much more widely than the internet--even if people get most of their music from internet sources, it doesn't mean that internet banner ads are where they find out about it.
They know who they are.
Yeah, but we don't. The RIAA have abused this power and shoved lots and lots of shit down our throats but there are still people from record labels going to every show and checking out every EP, sorting through the bad stuff so I don't have to. My preferred provider of this service is not the RIAA, but some people's tastes are more in line with the major labels.
Yea, like the internet doesn't work.
It works, but I bet it is a whole lot easier if you have a guy that you give your album to and it immediately pops up in itunes, amazon, and whatever other online source you want. Oh yeah...and how about CDs showing up in every store across the country and tracks showing up in radio station libraries (even if they don't chose to play them regularly...they will have a copy).
The RIAA have been a bunch of backward jackasses the last few years...but there is definitely a place for a large body that can take risks and provide services on behalf of the artists.
My first year physics labs were done in pen/paper during the lab section. I always thought it was pretty sweet...the chemistry kids would always be up really late the night before a lab was due but we just handed ours in, walked out the door, and were clear for another week.
Some of the boutique board games can get pretty pricey.
Of course most of them are pretty complicated so unless you have dedicated board game playing friends (in which case $100 for a game probably doesn't phase you), the games will just sit on the shelves. Even games like risk (or even monopoly) stay on the shelves because people don't want to spend the time to play them through since the games can get extremely long if nobody fouls up at the start.
I think most of the games I play with my friends came from ebay/thrift stores (although it explains why sometimes we don't get the pop culture trivia). Most of them are games that are easy to stop/start/change number of players (and usually explain the rules easily). Games like catch phrase, taboo, cutthroat uno, or pit win out over games with long setup times and rigid player structures (team games also help...since losing a teammate doesn't kill the game like losing a player in Risk might).
Having an ipad or a multitouch tabletop could be a good way solve setup times, rules calls (only allow legal moves so no arguments about bad wording in the instructions) and missing players (subbing in a mediocre AI player if somebody has to go home). the ipad might not be big enough for this to be a great plan with more than a few people...but it might get developers thinking
Yup, the goal should be to work with a standard file format so anybody can use it.
Microsoft will then just have to compete by having the best products and quite frankly they have won. Especially with excel, their features and usability are far ahead of anything else. I love being able to open excel sheets in OpenOffice on my laptop (linux..so no Excel) without any weird formatting errors, but when creating complicated shit I far prefer the MS product. If only they could do as well with their other products...
It sounded more like they needed to go somewhere that would grant them asylum instead of trying to enforce German rulings. They essentially omitted a crime and fled when the government tried to enforce the law. If they had just gone across the border, they might still be held liable and sent back (or at least forced to pay their fines).
If course it sounds like all the parent had to do to legally home school the kids was pass some exam that is probably not all that hard (at least not so hard for someone qualified to teach children). I've got no problem with this...If your parent is some wacko nutjob who can't teach you proper math or something, maybe being forced into a public school is not so bad (just like wacko parents who refuse lifesaving treatment on thier children). Parents get to decide how to raise their kids...but not to the point of screwing them over for life. Making sure the parent is at least competent as a teacher ensures this (even if you don't believe something or want to teach it to your kids...you should at least know what it is that you *don't* believe and simply choose not to teach it).
Well, it runs over the 3g data network so it is infinitely more bandwidth intensive than a voice call. Voice calls go over a different path which is why you don't need data service (although those patches of land are quite rare these days) to make a call or send a text message.
One piece I found interesting from that book "The Four Hour Work Week" (though I didn't buy into most of what that book preached) was that the author stopped consuming news to free up time. Instead of reading the paper, he would glance at the headlines in the newspaper machines on the street. Anything that seemed important, he would ask somebody to tell him about. This got him both the news he needed (obviously won't work if you are already ignorant and only ask people about Britney Spears) and helped strengthen social interactions or something...
It is not for me...I don't waste a lot of time on senseless news consumption but I get enjoyment out of reading the news and as such I don't consider time reading the paper or something to be time that could be better spent elsewhere.
Ahh, but hulu advertisers do not care about the popularity of the program.
Hulu advertisers get a guaranteed number of viewers and they can try to target specific audiences (not sure how much targeting hulu does). With traditional advertising, you buy a time block and then you hope that people are going to watch it. If the football game on another channel goes into double overtime and half of your expected viewers show up...tough cookies. If only half of the viewers show up on hulu, you only run half the amount of ads.
From that standpoint, I understand why Nielsen is doing it this way...but at the same time, their ratings end up being factors in other things (like whether or not a show gets canned) and thus they should be reporting on every medium they can. How hard would it be to add a media_source: field in their database and have different advertising and viewership statistics?
At the same time, why do we need Nielsen for online content? The page counter has existed since the geocities page--We need Nielsen because they can tell us who is watching what OTA broadcast...hulu can already tell us exactly how many times something was watched and probably exactly what parts of the program they watched.
Good thing the crackers have already made no-steam patches for just about everything then...
The only real negative for me with steam (I think there is some facility to back up your games) is that you have to tie them all together. I could sell my steam account, but I can't sell only the weird little rally car game I bought and never play. I also cant (AFAIK) play TF2 while my friend borrows my copy of L4D.
Oh, I wasn't suggesting more than a couple of minutes. I meant it literally when I said start the car before you put on your coat.
I don't personally have one (well, I've gone carless...but if I did have a car, it would not remote start) but this is the suggested use. Anything beyond that is just wasteful
People who live in cold climates (especially those with a car with a few miles on it) who frequently park outside like them.
You really shouldn't drive away until your car has had some time to warm up and reach a stable idle. Your car is also really cold so you don't want to sit in it for a couple of minutes while the engine warms up when the heater core also has to warm up. Hit the remote start button while you are putting your coat on and your car is ready to go when you get there. Also a lot of people used to install remote start systems in cars because it went hand in hand with remote locks on cars that were too old to have them originally.
You can do it in a manual car as well, it just won't work if you park in gear...so you probably wouldn't want to use it on a hill. Some of the systems also have more advanced features like a turbo timer that works on shutoff--something to do with it being better for a high boost turbocharger to run at idle for a bit before stopping completely so the car runs for 60 seconds after you actually take the key out and leave.
Is that what this is mostly based on? It seems that way because I notice a lot the firms that made it (and keep making it) are companies known for long hours and high stress.
Goldman Sachs shows up there, lists the most common job as an analyst with about $120k a year in pay. The people I know who went off to work in investment banking are not exactly what I would call happy. They are getting a pile of money, a solid resume, and a ticket to a top business school...but most of them are not planning to return after grad school. There are other finance/Big 4/mgmt. consulting firms on there that have the same sort of characteristics--strong pay and benefits but consistent 80+ hour weeks of stress and deadlines.
I just don't understand how they make it to the top of the list along with companies like SAS or Google (I've heard long hours...but you get a lot of special perks and a lot of time for your own projects). Are they paying their employees to write good reviews? Are these done like college rankings where you get a boost just for being the company that everyone applies to just to get rejected?
Yeah...while google is not making a unix user account for everyone, there is probably some system equivalent to 'su' (maybe they just login with "ChuckNorris1").
Probably the MPEG-LA will rub their hands together and think how much they could make by forcing licensing payments for every browser shipped.
Nah, I would imagine they would be open to it for a very favorable rate. If the license for free streaming content expires, anyone who wants to use h.264 online will need to pay for an encoding license. The only reason you would want to pay for a license to encode (when there are alternatives that are free on both ends) is if the tech is good and your viewers can all decode the content
If the MPEG-LA wants to sell to content distributers (who are more willing to pay since they actually depend on the content), they will want firefox's 33% of the market. They might not do it for free since mozilla also has some amount of willingness to pay but I doubt they are in a position to gouge them (and a "donation" to the nonprofit mozilla foundation might be a nice annual tax writeoff).
This is why appeals often do not happen even if there is a good chance of a benefit.
You might be able to get more money by appealing, but you run the risk of losing in a higher court and completely screwing yourself for every lower court judgment. This is also why some things are just let go/settled (possibly for LOTS of cash) in a lower court...you can't set precedent if the other side lets you win in a low court. So, if the ACLU is trying to attack someone for rights violations, they may choose to roll over because by winning, they might force an appeal to a higher court where precedent can be set.
Eh...those guys are clearly talking about the other benefits of large amounts of vitamin D.
Straight from the cow, milk has very little vitamin D, but the government mandated level is supposed to be enough to get you to the point where you don't get rickets (not something neurologists or cardiologists really deal with).
The amounts of vitamin D that the guy in the first article is talking about is insanely more than any human would ever get from natural sources. We are just talking about preventing rickets here...not some miracle health vitamin.
They already do this...the whole reason milk is loaded with vitamin D is that in the 1930's the government started forcing dairy producers to fortify their milk with vitamin D in order to combat rickets
And isn't a lot of the orange juice on the market vitamin D enriched? I know both tropicana and florida's best have one that is basically milk that tastes like orange juice (although I like pulp so I never buy it).
To give you a real answer (since noone else has done anything besides speculate about their dedicated GPS units)
My nokia maps installation gave me the choice of what maps I wanted available offline (it could download others) I could choose it by country and in the US I could choose state (and maybe even city). I added the entire US (or maybe north america). the cities folder on my microsd card is currently sitting at 1.4GB although it told me 1.2 would be used. I think the world was about 8gb.
I don't have the version with free nav yet (and it was kind of a hack to get it on my AT&T phone at all) but it is nav capable...I just have not paid for it. I think currently it connects to a server to figure out nav stuff...but that may just be to speed processing as I can't imagine navigation needs more than the already pretty detailed data I have.
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Don't you have computer science students/professors or anyone else who might be interested in investigating new technologies that rely on p2p? As for the code of conduct...if they sign a code of conduct that says they won't pirate stuff (or face the consequences), then you should either hold them to that code of conduct and allow unfettered access or trash the code and enforce. This is the ivory tower--there should be freedom.
What I would imagine is going on instead, is anyone smart enough (or with savvy friends) has figured out a bunch of workarounds and everyone else is just getting screwed. Glad I didn't go to school wherever you are.
My school did NOT do this. My school did nothing at all unless they recieved a DMCA notice from a content owner. I believe my school even maintained a page with instructions on how to disable content uploading in popular programs like limewire. No administrator of an academic network in their right mind would disable any port/protocol...college students get really uppity on things like freedom of speech and computer science students get really angry when they can't pull down legit linux ISO torrents (and lets not forget about the wow players who need their updates).
You should only be disabling access after a confirmed infraction. My school took the DMCA notice and compared it to their logs before taking any action...and yes, there were occasions where they determined that it was an incorrect notice and the user could not have caused the infraction.
I see it all the time and it looks like some sketchy malicious AP (you know...email your secret business documents through my free airport wifi please) but I figure that it can't be since it does not actually work. If you are going to sniff peoples data and do a MITM...you need to actually provide something on the other end.
For those who don't know...the setup with academic institutions (maybe tied to some payment/government funds/agreement) is that all the RIAA has to do is send them a letter with the IP and content. The school will then go and find the kid and give them some sort of a slap on the wrist and tell them not to do it again. At my university, they kicked you off the network until you talked to the assistant dean of students. First offense was a slap on the wrist (delivered with the apathetic "yeah...we have to do this...its wrong...don't do it again" that you would expect). Second offense was a $2000 fine. Third offense was unclear but involved a disciplinary hearing...doubt anyone ever got past the second offense.
Compare this to how it works with a normal ISP: RIAA sends a letter with IP and content, ISP says "wtf is this?", RIAA says "we want their info", ISP says "as soon as you have a court order". ISP's have a bottom line to worry about and aren't going to pay someone to do what universities do (and their service agreements probably prevent it) and they are not going to turn over customer information without a subpoena (well...in theory). At the same time, the RIAA is not going to waste lawyer dollars getting a subpoena for every single infringer. It is much easier to spend the lawyer dollars writing letters to offenders with IP's in an academic institutions block--it kicks off one filesharer and scares them and their friends into being more careful in the future since they know that someone can see what they are doing.
THE TERRORISTS WILL HAVE ALREADY WON
I have also heard many awful recordings from basement studios. The basement studio is not for everyone and not suited for all forms of music (what do you do when you decide you want some background sounds from a symphony orchestra? Use a synth? the record labels would pay out for the real thing if you wanted it). Small labels and independent artists simply can't fork over the cash to provide living expenses, studio, and expensive producers/engineers for a band that needs to take a month in the studio to get an entire album right. Even established bands need help meeting these costs.
This can be done cheaply on the internet. It is done all of the time.
But that doesn't get you a billboard or an opportunity to play on a late night talk show. Music is consumed much more widely than the internet--even if people get most of their music from internet sources, it doesn't mean that internet banner ads are where they find out about it.
They know who they are. Yeah, but we don't. The RIAA have abused this power and shoved lots and lots of shit down our throats but there are still people from record labels going to every show and checking out every EP, sorting through the bad stuff so I don't have to. My preferred provider of this service is not the RIAA, but some people's tastes are more in line with the major labels.
Yea, like the internet doesn't work. It works, but I bet it is a whole lot easier if you have a guy that you give your album to and it immediately pops up in itunes, amazon, and whatever other online source you want. Oh yeah...and how about CDs showing up in every store across the country and tracks showing up in radio station libraries (even if they don't chose to play them regularly...they will have a copy).
The RIAA have been a bunch of backward jackasses the last few years...but there is definitely a place for a large body that can take risks and provide services on behalf of the artists.
My first year physics labs were done in pen/paper during the lab section. I always thought it was pretty sweet...the chemistry kids would always be up really late the night before a lab was due but we just handed ours in, walked out the door, and were clear for another week.
Of course most of them are pretty complicated so unless you have dedicated board game playing friends (in which case $100 for a game probably doesn't phase you), the games will just sit on the shelves. Even games like risk (or even monopoly) stay on the shelves because people don't want to spend the time to play them through since the games can get extremely long if nobody fouls up at the start.
I think most of the games I play with my friends came from ebay/thrift stores (although it explains why sometimes we don't get the pop culture trivia). Most of them are games that are easy to stop/start/change number of players (and usually explain the rules easily). Games like catch phrase, taboo, cutthroat uno, or pit win out over games with long setup times and rigid player structures (team games also help...since losing a teammate doesn't kill the game like losing a player in Risk might).
Having an ipad or a multitouch tabletop could be a good way solve setup times, rules calls (only allow legal moves so no arguments about bad wording in the instructions) and missing players (subbing in a mediocre AI player if somebody has to go home). the ipad might not be big enough for this to be a great plan with more than a few people...but it might get developers thinking
Microsoft will then just have to compete by having the best products and quite frankly they have won. Especially with excel, their features and usability are far ahead of anything else. I love being able to open excel sheets in OpenOffice on my laptop (linux..so no Excel) without any weird formatting errors, but when creating complicated shit I far prefer the MS product. If only they could do as well with their other products...
Xming also worked for me on windows in the past.
If course it sounds like all the parent had to do to legally home school the kids was pass some exam that is probably not all that hard (at least not so hard for someone qualified to teach children). I've got no problem with this...If your parent is some wacko nutjob who can't teach you proper math or something, maybe being forced into a public school is not so bad (just like wacko parents who refuse lifesaving treatment on thier children). Parents get to decide how to raise their kids...but not to the point of screwing them over for life. Making sure the parent is at least competent as a teacher ensures this (even if you don't believe something or want to teach it to your kids...you should at least know what it is that you *don't* believe and simply choose not to teach it).
Well, it runs over the 3g data network so it is infinitely more bandwidth intensive than a voice call. Voice calls go over a different path which is why you don't need data service (although those patches of land are quite rare these days) to make a call or send a text message.
It is not for me...I don't waste a lot of time on senseless news consumption but I get enjoyment out of reading the news and as such I don't consider time reading the paper or something to be time that could be better spent elsewhere.
Hulu advertisers get a guaranteed number of viewers and they can try to target specific audiences (not sure how much targeting hulu does). With traditional advertising, you buy a time block and then you hope that people are going to watch it. If the football game on another channel goes into double overtime and half of your expected viewers show up...tough cookies. If only half of the viewers show up on hulu, you only run half the amount of ads.
From that standpoint, I understand why Nielsen is doing it this way...but at the same time, their ratings end up being factors in other things (like whether or not a show gets canned) and thus they should be reporting on every medium they can. How hard would it be to add a media_source: field in their database and have different advertising and viewership statistics?
At the same time, why do we need Nielsen for online content? The page counter has existed since the geocities page--We need Nielsen because they can tell us who is watching what OTA broadcast...hulu can already tell us exactly how many times something was watched and probably exactly what parts of the program they watched.
The only real negative for me with steam (I think there is some facility to back up your games) is that you have to tie them all together. I could sell my steam account, but I can't sell only the weird little rally car game I bought and never play. I also cant (AFAIK) play TF2 while my friend borrows my copy of L4D.
I don't personally have one (well, I've gone carless...but if I did have a car, it would not remote start) but this is the suggested use. Anything beyond that is just wasteful
You really shouldn't drive away until your car has had some time to warm up and reach a stable idle. Your car is also really cold so you don't want to sit in it for a couple of minutes while the engine warms up when the heater core also has to warm up. Hit the remote start button while you are putting your coat on and your car is ready to go when you get there. Also a lot of people used to install remote start systems in cars because it went hand in hand with remote locks on cars that were too old to have them originally.
You can do it in a manual car as well, it just won't work if you park in gear...so you probably wouldn't want to use it on a hill. Some of the systems also have more advanced features like a turbo timer that works on shutoff--something to do with it being better for a high boost turbocharger to run at idle for a bit before stopping completely so the car runs for 60 seconds after you actually take the key out and leave.
Goldman Sachs shows up there, lists the most common job as an analyst with about $120k a year in pay. The people I know who went off to work in investment banking are not exactly what I would call happy. They are getting a pile of money, a solid resume, and a ticket to a top business school...but most of them are not planning to return after grad school. There are other finance/Big 4/mgmt. consulting firms on there that have the same sort of characteristics--strong pay and benefits but consistent 80+ hour weeks of stress and deadlines.
I just don't understand how they make it to the top of the list along with companies like SAS or Google (I've heard long hours...but you get a lot of special perks and a lot of time for your own projects). Are they paying their employees to write good reviews? Are these done like college rankings where you get a boost just for being the company that everyone applies to just to get rejected?
Yeah...while google is not making a unix user account for everyone, there is probably some system equivalent to 'su' (maybe they just login with "ChuckNorris1").
Nah, I would imagine they would be open to it for a very favorable rate. If the license for free streaming content expires, anyone who wants to use h.264 online will need to pay for an encoding license. The only reason you would want to pay for a license to encode (when there are alternatives that are free on both ends) is if the tech is good and your viewers can all decode the content
If the MPEG-LA wants to sell to content distributers (who are more willing to pay since they actually depend on the content), they will want firefox's 33% of the market. They might not do it for free since mozilla also has some amount of willingness to pay but I doubt they are in a position to gouge them (and a "donation" to the nonprofit mozilla foundation might be a nice annual tax writeoff).
You might be able to get more money by appealing, but you run the risk of losing in a higher court and completely screwing yourself for every lower court judgment. This is also why some things are just let go/settled (possibly for LOTS of cash) in a lower court...you can't set precedent if the other side lets you win in a low court. So, if the ACLU is trying to attack someone for rights violations, they may choose to roll over because by winning, they might force an appeal to a higher court where precedent can be set.
also IANAL
Straight from the cow, milk has very little vitamin D, but the government mandated level is supposed to be enough to get you to the point where you don't get rickets (not something neurologists or cardiologists really deal with).
The amounts of vitamin D that the guy in the first article is talking about is insanely more than any human would ever get from natural sources. We are just talking about preventing rickets here...not some miracle health vitamin.
Maybe the real problem is the lack of milk.
And isn't a lot of the orange juice on the market vitamin D enriched? I know both tropicana and florida's best have one that is basically milk that tastes like orange juice (although I like pulp so I never buy it).
My nokia maps installation gave me the choice of what maps I wanted available offline (it could download others) I could choose it by country and in the US I could choose state (and maybe even city). I added the entire US (or maybe north america). the cities folder on my microsd card is currently sitting at 1.4GB although it told me 1.2 would be used. I think the world was about 8gb.
I don't have the version with free nav yet (and it was kind of a hack to get it on my AT&T phone at all) but it is nav capable...I just have not paid for it. I think currently it connects to a server to figure out nav stuff...but that may just be to speed processing as I can't imagine navigation needs more than the already pretty detailed data I have.