Hell, that sounds like a good business proposition if you were unlikely to average whatever the price for the room was -$10/hour. I don't even see why it's your business what people are doing in the rooms, and since you don't have to pay yourself for a room (just his $10 cut), it seems like there are some fringe benefits as well.
How is the guy being a pimp for sex any different from him being some other form of marketing force? It's not that much different than offering "champagne and chocolates on arrival", just targetting a different demographic.
I think this is something that should be solved. PErsonally I'm flying my Terran flag, and urging all Earthlings to form a unified race working for the good of all.
If you are indeed rippoing it from itunes AAC format to MP3, then it is *not* 100% of the quality of the original file. If you are keeping an untranscoded AAC file, then perhaps it is 100% of the quality.
And while it is perhaps 10% better suited to international viewers, there is 20% as much of it, thus leading to a 22% goodness level compared to watching the dubiously legal download version.
Some routers have trouble with the high number of connections utilised by p2p. I know a few DSL modems need firmware updates to prevent lockups when using connection heavy software (e.g. bittorrent). You might want to check if you can get a firmware update.
Only problem with the upgrade theory, is that many (most?) peripherals have a maximum needed performance level required to do their job, and usually one that would be more efficiently performed with custom hardware (e.g. DSPs). If the host processor is too slow to drive them, there will be issues, but anything faster than that doesn't make any difference. They may as well be supplied with this processing capability on board, so as to have zero load on the CPU, thus speeding up everything else that the CPU is trying to do.
I have set up my own mail server so I can tune my mail filtering to my own liking, and not have to rely on whichever ISP I'm using at the moment (I'm happy to switch ISPs when I find a better deal). Of course I also save money by not paying for ISP spam filtering. I would have to pay extra to get a reverse DNS PTR, but my email server sends no spam. Unfortunately it sometimes gets blocked, bit of a hassle, but I just generally don't talk to those people or I don't give them my business. There's plenty of people out there who aren't interested in knocking the little guy out of the game.
umm, did you read the comment you replied to? Because I think a whoosh might have gone your way too. (granted it wasn't as funny as it's parent, but it was supposed to be funny).
Sorry no, not all cars have 5 digit odometers, most modern cars I know of (In Australia) have 6 digits (allows for 999,999 kms), but older cars had less. I also have a registered vehicle with 4 digits (max 9999 kms). It's only up to 3800 though.
Nothing is 100%, but at least if the home environment is a good one, you've done all you can to prevent it. You can never guarantee anyones safety though.
Hell, there is no way to be perfectly safe in this world. Not for children, not for adults. There is always the chance of a shotgun wielding maniac bursting through your door, or being hit by a meteorite.
Of course, if you don't put in a reasonable amount of time keeping track of your childs whereabouts and associates, you are asking for trouble. There is a chance your child will be fine, but you are certainly increasing the odds of them finding a bad character. Good parenting does require time, But infinite time will not make for perfect parenting.
There may be a fine line, but there is one. The monitoring tool a parent needs, is knowing where their child is, having some idea of who they are spending time with, and some assesment of the character of those persons. They don't need to know the intimate details of their daughters chats with his/her friends and potential boyfriends/girlfriends, just like they don't need to read the childs diary. They should have enough of a channel of communication open with their child to know how far to trust them. They should educate their child to know when to walk away from or avoid a situation.
In my opinion, myspace comes into the "conversations between friends" category, but it is also the "where you are, who you are spending time with category". The parents should ask about their friends (from myspace or otherwise). The other thing to remember is that none of these children got abused *on* myspace. They met someone in real life. Now when I was young, my parents knew where I physically was. I expect to know where my kids are too. I expect them not to be meeting people from the internet, at least not without taking reasonable steps to ensure safety (e.g. meeting them at home in presence of parents.)
I hope I showed how this is not hypocritical. You don't need myspace monitoring tools as a parent to know dropping your 14/15 yr old daughter off at 19 year old random males place is a bad idea. You should have enough of a leash or alternaticely trust with the child to know they aren't going to make their own way there, or invite strangers to your home. If you can't trust them enough, or keep track of them closely enough to know they aren't getting into trouble then you may as well cut off the phone, and lock them in the basement now.
You don't need an official media to have a valid installation, but your not allowed to copy anything without permission from the copyright holder. Maybe somewhere in the EULA it says your allowed to copy the media?
Only if he was the person responsible for preventing payment of the fine. That seems reasonable. Sure, there would be pressure from your workplace to not do it, but you would have to, since your workplace can't require you to break the law. If you were then fired, you could sue your former employer for wrongful termination, and you'd probsably pocket the 300,000 to 400,000 pounds yourself.
Even when working from inside an immoral organisation, a moral person is required to take the moral path. Of course, in the case of Microsoft, you probably aren't going to wake up with a stallions head in your bed for disobeying them.
They would have to overcome their own court precidents to do that. Considering the "bobbys" didn't show up when the German government appealed for intervention to the UK when sealand held some of it's citizens as Prisoners of War, I think they are in OK shape. That is also where the UK courts ruled they had no jurisdiction over sealand.
Tele commuting doesn't prevent you from phoning people. You can phone the guy who wrote the code you're fixing right now. Hell, I call people across the other side of the office now, if I did it from home there'd just be less echo.
I crank through 120Gb+ a month in a regional area of NSW, you should probably look at broadbandchoice on www.whirlpool.net.au. (Unless of course you are trying to keep your costs below $50/mo)
HD from QAM is compressed video.
That said, 1080i transcoded to xvid by someone who takes as much tuning effort as those transcoding DVD to xvid, does have a point. Going from DVD to an appropriate bitrate xvid should be roughly comparable to going from 1080i to appropriate bitrate xvid in terms of quality loss.
The world might not have wronged them, but it certainly put them in an environment they don't function well in. I imagine you might think about it differently if the world didn't suit you.
Yeah, but maybe he can do their jobs as well, better than them, both combined, and they should be fired instead.
Society imposes a lot of things upon people. You can argue society benefits people as well (and it does if you play by the rules), but no-one asked to be born into this. I don't see a practical alternative, but I see a lot of people struggling to fit, and with basically no interest in fitting in.
I don't feel you have a great appreciation for the nature of technology at the time, or you lack perspective of a deep thirst for knowledge. The phreaking community wasn't about free phone calls, it was about exploring technology, and understanding it in a way that the designers didn't. Until you can see it from the point of view that he got lectured by a judge after his 3rd arrest for exploring the intangible, you haven't considered it well enough. (I don't mean you have accept this view as your own, you just need to be able to see it as valid).
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Sorry, but there was a recent article referencing a study posted on slashdot that demonstrated class mobility was higher in India than in the US.
Hell, that sounds like a good business proposition if you were unlikely to average whatever the price for the room was -$10/hour. I don't even see why it's your business what people are doing in the rooms, and since you don't have to pay yourself for a room (just his $10 cut), it seems like there are some fringe benefits as well. How is the guy being a pimp for sex any different from him being some other form of marketing force? It's not that much different than offering "champagne and chocolates on arrival", just targetting a different demographic.
I think this is something that should be solved. PErsonally I'm flying my Terran flag, and urging all Earthlings to form a unified race working for the good of all.
Even the piratebay's trackers have legal linux ISOs on them..... I doubt there are many trackers where 100% of the content is illicit.
The original MAC is visible to the OS, but that doesn't mean the OS provides access to the rest of the machine.
If you are indeed rippoing it from itunes AAC format to MP3, then it is *not* 100% of the quality of the original file. If you are keeping an untranscoded AAC file, then perhaps it is 100% of the quality.
Because only the manliest of mans men play such masculine titles as My Little Pony.
And while it is perhaps 10% better suited to international viewers, there is 20% as much of it, thus leading to a 22% goodness level compared to watching the dubiously legal download version.
Some routers have trouble with the high number of connections utilised by p2p. I know a few DSL modems need firmware updates to prevent lockups when using connection heavy software (e.g. bittorrent). You might want to check if you can get a firmware update.
Only problem with the upgrade theory, is that many (most?) peripherals have a maximum needed performance level required to do their job, and usually one that would be more efficiently performed with custom hardware (e.g. DSPs). If the host processor is too slow to drive them, there will be issues, but anything faster than that doesn't make any difference. They may as well be supplied with this processing capability on board, so as to have zero load on the CPU, thus speeding up everything else that the CPU is trying to do.
I have set up my own mail server so I can tune my mail filtering to my own liking, and not have to rely on whichever ISP I'm using at the moment (I'm happy to switch ISPs when I find a better deal). Of course I also save money by not paying for ISP spam filtering. I would have to pay extra to get a reverse DNS PTR, but my email server sends no spam. Unfortunately it sometimes gets blocked, bit of a hassle, but I just generally don't talk to those people or I don't give them my business. There's plenty of people out there who aren't interested in knocking the little guy out of the game.
umm, did you read the comment you replied to? Because I think a whoosh might have gone your way too. (granted it wasn't as funny as it's parent, but it was supposed to be funny).
Sorry no, not all cars have 5 digit odometers, most modern cars I know of (In Australia) have 6 digits (allows for 999,999 kms), but older cars had less. I also have a registered vehicle with 4 digits (max 9999 kms). It's only up to 3800 though.
Nothing is 100%, but at least if the home environment is a good one, you've done all you can to prevent it. You can never guarantee anyones safety though.
Hell, there is no way to be perfectly safe in this world. Not for children, not for adults. There is always the chance of a shotgun wielding maniac bursting through your door, or being hit by a meteorite.
Of course, if you don't put in a reasonable amount of time keeping track of your childs whereabouts and associates, you are asking for trouble. There is a chance your child will be fine, but you are certainly increasing the odds of them finding a bad character. Good parenting does require time, But infinite time will not make for perfect parenting.
There may be a fine line, but there is one. The monitoring tool a parent needs, is knowing where their child is, having some idea of who they are spending time with, and some assesment of the character of those persons. They don't need to know the intimate details of their daughters chats with his/her friends and potential boyfriends/girlfriends, just like they don't need to read the childs diary. They should have enough of a channel of communication open with their child to know how far to trust them. They should educate their child to know when to walk away from or avoid a situation.
In my opinion, myspace comes into the "conversations between friends" category, but it is also the "where you are, who you are spending time with category". The parents should ask about their friends (from myspace or otherwise). The other thing to remember is that none of these children got abused *on* myspace. They met someone in real life. Now when I was young, my parents knew where I physically was. I expect to know where my kids are too. I expect them not to be meeting people from the internet, at least not without taking reasonable steps to ensure safety (e.g. meeting them at home in presence of parents.)
I hope I showed how this is not hypocritical. You don't need myspace monitoring tools as a parent to know dropping your 14/15 yr old daughter off at 19 year old random males place is a bad idea. You should have enough of a leash or alternaticely trust with the child to know they aren't going to make their own way there, or invite strangers to your home. If you can't trust them enough, or keep track of them closely enough to know they aren't getting into trouble then you may as well cut off the phone, and lock them in the basement now.
You don't need an official media to have a valid installation, but your not allowed to copy anything without permission from the copyright holder. Maybe somewhere in the EULA it says your allowed to copy the media?
Only if he was the person responsible for preventing payment of the fine. That seems reasonable. Sure, there would be pressure from your workplace to not do it, but you would have to, since your workplace can't require you to break the law. If you were then fired, you could sue your former employer for wrongful termination, and you'd probsably pocket the 300,000 to 400,000 pounds yourself. Even when working from inside an immoral organisation, a moral person is required to take the moral path. Of course, in the case of Microsoft, you probably aren't going to wake up with a stallions head in your bed for disobeying them.
They would have to overcome their own court precidents to do that. Considering the "bobbys" didn't show up when the German government appealed for intervention to the UK when sealand held some of it's citizens as Prisoners of War, I think they are in OK shape. That is also where the UK courts ruled they had no jurisdiction over sealand.
Tele commuting doesn't prevent you from phoning people. You can phone the guy who wrote the code you're fixing right now. Hell, I call people across the other side of the office now, if I did it from home there'd just be less echo.
I crank through 120Gb+ a month in a regional area of NSW, you should probably look at broadbandchoice on www.whirlpool.net.au. (Unless of course you are trying to keep your costs below $50/mo)
HD from QAM is compressed video. That said, 1080i transcoded to xvid by someone who takes as much tuning effort as those transcoding DVD to xvid, does have a point. Going from DVD to an appropriate bitrate xvid should be roughly comparable to going from 1080i to appropriate bitrate xvid in terms of quality loss.
The world might not have wronged them, but it certainly put them in an environment they don't function well in. I imagine you might think about it differently if the world didn't suit you.
Yeah, but maybe he can do their jobs as well, better than them, both combined, and they should be fired instead. Society imposes a lot of things upon people. You can argue society benefits people as well (and it does if you play by the rules), but no-one asked to be born into this. I don't see a practical alternative, but I see a lot of people struggling to fit, and with basically no interest in fitting in.
I don't feel you have a great appreciation for the nature of technology at the time, or you lack perspective of a deep thirst for knowledge. The phreaking community wasn't about free phone calls, it was about exploring technology, and understanding it in a way that the designers didn't. Until you can see it from the point of view that he got lectured by a judge after his 3rd arrest for exploring the intangible, you haven't considered it well enough. (I don't mean you have accept this view as your own, you just need to be able to see it as valid).