I'm suprised that Apple (computers) are bothering to fight this actually - they clearly wrong, so sell music under the brand of 'iTunes' and be done with it; no rebranding needed since the music already comes from the iTunes program. Seems easy enough, unless I'm being really dumb here.
You call that geeky? How about a laser-controlled sound based pain inducer - only $550 to kit out your home and car;-) I know it sounds like a joke, and to be honest reading that site leaves me feeling a little like it was designed to impress people into buying science they barely understand, but it's not too pricey and assuming it works as advertised it'll get rid of tresspassers without doing them any lasting damage.
On a semi-related note, why is it that all new-ish connections are flat 'blade' type connectors rather than pins? Serial (pins) was replaced by USB (flat), IDE (pins) is being replaced by SATA (flat) and so on. Why are these new connections better, and why can you get more data through a small flat connection than down a whole load of pins?
It's not blocking the illegal content that violates the first amendment, it's the ~1.5 million completely legal sites which were also caught on the secret block list that are the problem.
30 G's??? I'd say that last millisecond was more like 300 G's.:-)
Cool, that means my hard drive can survive re-entry;-)
Seriously though, isn't 300Gs a hell of a lot of force? - the sticker on the top of my Seagate SATA drive says that the warranty is invalid only if the drive is exposed to a shock in excess of that.
This one seems a little more real (not a case study), as the company already has some temp technology products that are further along
I don't know about the rest of the world, but here in the UK you don't have to look very hard to find a self-heating can of coffee/tea alongside the Coke and milkshakes. I guess a self-cooling can could work too but when the drinks come out of a fridge anyway it seems a litte redundant.
People with one way tickets frequently come up on security lists
So someone who's going to give up their life and is backed by multibillion dollar organisations is going to buy a one way ticket so that they don't waste money on the return journey they know they won't make? That sure is fucking smart profiling.
There is more to it and what defines it as life, obviously, but assuming you could directly replicate every atom in a living thing the duplicate would theoretically be an identical living thing, would it not? Since you could construct a living thing atom by atom in that way it stands that life is, therefore, fundementally a complex arrangement of atoms although that does not mean it is 'nothing more' since that arrangement has many further properties.
There are plenty of robust, cheap phones that will make calls and hold a phonebook perfectly well if that's what you want (think Nokia 3330 - can be had for very little money and is damn near indestructible). As for uploading voicemails, they're stored remotely so how would a phone handset upload them? I'm sure you could dial into your voice mailbox with a modem and some software and then grab the sound output on your PC.
If you don't want a phone with all the new things then don't buy one, but why deride the manufacturers for catering to the market? I personally own a PDA/Camera/Phone combo and I'm very happy with it; the phone functions are excellent quality, it allows me to keep organised and browse books, documents, music and video on the move and the camera is perfect when I just need to take a quick snap and send it to someone - a traditional camera is no use for saying 'do you like this shirt?' just as a phone camera is no use for taking family pictures. Nobody's forcing you to buy a top of the range handset, and I do agree that some people waste money on them but for people like me it's extremely useful.
Download all the relevant updates from AutoPatcher on a secure machine and burn them to a CD. Install 2k on the new machine and don't even plug in a network cable until you've installed the patches from the CD - that way you never have to let an unsecured box out onto the net.
That's exactly what I thought (and I believe that we're right). What's interesting here though is that it claims to be low-latency, a quality rarely associated with Freenet and probably the primary reason that Freenet remains largely used by people who need/want _extreme_ anonymity rather than your average movie downloader wanting to avoid one of those nasty lawsuits.
That's not working either (for me at least), and even the faithful NYT link bookmarklet isn't functioning properly. Is this a new level of registration-nitpicking from the NYT?
...it was pretty much implied that he does not have control over his ISP's networking equipment at their office(s).
True, but he was asking us about specific hardware purchases to help his situation. I reccomend the purchase of a set of lock-picks and a map to the premesis where the router is located;-)
I've taken to linking this Penny Arcade strip whenever I hear a zealot mention M$ (and I'm as anti-microsoft as you get; this is being typed on a Mac and there's a Mandrake box whirring away next to it). It's suprisingly effective since even if the strip accurately represents the poster, they tend to shut up in an effort to keep self respect and not face the ridicule of the community, plus it helps them see how they appear to the great unwashed who they had hoped to convert.
I agree that lowly individuals such as ourselves are unlikely to 'win' on Google stock, but that's why you and I aren't buying it however tempting it may sound. Major investors can put in the time, money and effort to make this pay off, we can stay well clear and anyone who invests without the proper research is asking for it anyway so they might as well throw their money away in Google's direction.
Well it is 'Your rights' although online doesn't really come into it. Don't you have the right to a fair trial? If so then why is this person being charged with murder despite the fact he clearly did not intend to cause death and it is therefore manslaughter.
While the points in the article show that patents aren't easy to use in order to scrub out OSS projects, I know plenty of people would simply fold when faced with the prospect of a long expensive legal battle with a team of lawyers who have funding that is, for all realistic purposes, limitless even if the leader of the open source project knew they were in the right.
If you write something that [big company] doesn't like, they sue and you have to either drop the project that's taking up time anyway or fight and risk a chunk of your own money then you are quite likely to pick the path that doesn't potentially leave you in the gutter, particularly if you have a family depending on your income and the program was just a little 'spare time' project.
The true legalities may not be too bad, but the big corporations have yet another way to threaten the little guy and I wish we could count on them to do the right thing and not abuse there cash reserves by draining people dry, but past experience shows that companies often don't have this kind of common decency.
Besides, whose to say it won't have harmful side effects that aren't seen until later?
I don't know whether it's meant as a veiled insult to this idea, but the reporter directly compares it to the UK's nationwide MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) combined vaccinations. The same vaccinations that many thousands of parents are refusing to allow their children to be given due to research linking the combined shot to autism. The same vaccinations that the Government has refused to offer as 3 separate vaccinations, forcing parents to choose between expensive private singles or free combined jabs that risk autism in the child if they can't afford the singles. Suddenly the author of the article doesn't sound so much on the side of this 'drug vaccine'.
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I'm suprised that Apple (computers) are bothering to fight this actually - they clearly wrong, so sell music under the brand of 'iTunes' and be done with it; no rebranding needed since the music already comes from the iTunes program. Seems easy enough, unless I'm being really dumb here.
You call that geeky? How about a laser-controlled sound based pain inducer - only $550 to kit out your home and car ;-) I know it sounds like a joke, and to be honest reading that site leaves me feeling a little like it was designed to impress people into buying science they barely understand, but it's not too pricey and assuming it works as advertised it'll get rid of tresspassers without doing them any lasting damage.
With the caviet that you told them what they could do with your money when you signed the "Terms of Service" contract.
I didn't sign anything. I might have clicked in agreement, but I didn't sign.
On a semi-related note, why is it that all new-ish connections are flat 'blade' type connectors rather than pins? Serial (pins) was replaced by USB (flat), IDE (pins) is being replaced by SATA (flat) and so on. Why are these new connections better, and why can you get more data through a small flat connection than down a whole load of pins?
It's not blocking the illegal content that violates the first amendment, it's the ~1.5 million completely legal sites which were also caught on the secret block list that are the problem.
30 G's??? I'd say that last millisecond was more like 300 G's. :-)
;-)
Cool, that means my hard drive can survive re-entry
Seriously though, isn't 300Gs a hell of a lot of force? - the sticker on the top of my Seagate SATA drive says that the warranty is invalid only if the drive is exposed to a shock in excess of that.
It's called a Tinchilla :-)
This one seems a little more real (not a case study), as the company already has some temp technology products that are further along
I don't know about the rest of the world, but here in the UK you don't have to look very hard to find a self-heating can of coffee/tea alongside the Coke and milkshakes. I guess a self-cooling can could work too but when the drinks come out of a fridge anyway it seems a litte redundant.
People with one way tickets frequently come up on security lists
So someone who's going to give up their life and is backed by multibillion dollar organisations is going to buy a one way ticket so that they don't waste money on the return journey they know they won't make? That sure is fucking smart profiling.
But if your brain is reconstructed atom by atom wouldn't it be identical and therefore think identically?
Well the warp core does look like a stack of toruses (tori?) and it does contain plasma. Maybe they were onto something?
/me retires to geek hole...
I see little reason to think otherwise.
There is more to it and what defines it as life, obviously, but assuming you could directly replicate every atom in a living thing the duplicate would theoretically be an identical living thing, would it not? Since you could construct a living thing atom by atom in that way it stands that life is, therefore, fundementally a complex arrangement of atoms although that does not mean it is 'nothing more' since that arrangement has many further properties.
There are plenty of robust, cheap phones that will make calls and hold a phonebook perfectly well if that's what you want (think Nokia 3330 - can be had for very little money and is damn near indestructible). As for uploading voicemails, they're stored remotely so how would a phone handset upload them? I'm sure you could dial into your voice mailbox with a modem and some software and then grab the sound output on your PC.
If you don't want a phone with all the new things then don't buy one, but why deride the manufacturers for catering to the market? I personally own a PDA/Camera/Phone combo and I'm very happy with it; the phone functions are excellent quality, it allows me to keep organised and browse books, documents, music and video on the move and the camera is perfect when I just need to take a quick snap and send it to someone - a traditional camera is no use for saying 'do you like this shirt?' just as a phone camera is no use for taking family pictures. Nobody's forcing you to buy a top of the range handset, and I do agree that some people waste money on them but for people like me it's extremely useful.
It says that it cost >$800 to get the machine fixed. For that money you could've bought not only a new OS but a whole new PC to go with it.
I think that the moral of this story is 'people are dumb'.
Download all the relevant updates from AutoPatcher on a secure machine and burn them to a CD. Install 2k on the new machine and don't even plug in a network cable until you've installed the patches from the CD - that way you never have to let an unsecured box out onto the net.
OTOH, they have bought a shitload of 60GB microdrives while stating that a 60GB iPod isn't in the works...
That's exactly what I thought (and I believe that we're right). What's interesting here though is that it claims to be low-latency, a quality rarely associated with Freenet and probably the primary reason that Freenet remains largely used by people who need/want _extreme_ anonymity rather than your average movie downloader wanting to avoid one of those nasty lawsuits.
That's not working either (for me at least), and even the faithful NYT link bookmarklet isn't functioning properly. Is this a new level of registration-nitpicking from the NYT?
...it was pretty much implied that he does not have control over his ISP's networking equipment at their office(s).
;-)
True, but he was asking us about specific hardware purchases to help his situation. I reccomend the purchase of a set of lock-picks and a map to the premesis where the router is located
I've taken to linking this Penny Arcade strip whenever I hear a zealot mention M$ (and I'm as anti-microsoft as you get; this is being typed on a Mac and there's a Mandrake box whirring away next to it). It's suprisingly effective since even if the strip accurately represents the poster, they tend to shut up in an effort to keep self respect and not face the ridicule of the community, plus it helps them see how they appear to the great unwashed who they had hoped to convert.
I agree that lowly individuals such as ourselves are unlikely to 'win' on Google stock, but that's why you and I aren't buying it however tempting it may sound. Major investors can put in the time, money and effort to make this pay off, we can stay well clear and anyone who invests without the proper research is asking for it anyway so they might as well throw their money away in Google's direction.
Well it is 'Your rights' although online doesn't really come into it. Don't you have the right to a fair trial? If so then why is this person being charged with murder despite the fact he clearly did not intend to cause death and it is therefore manslaughter.
While the points in the article show that patents aren't easy to use in order to scrub out OSS projects, I know plenty of people would simply fold when faced with the prospect of a long expensive legal battle with a team of lawyers who have funding that is, for all realistic purposes, limitless even if the leader of the open source project knew they were in the right.
If you write something that [big company] doesn't like, they sue and you have to either drop the project that's taking up time anyway or fight and risk a chunk of your own money then you are quite likely to pick the path that doesn't potentially leave you in the gutter, particularly if you have a family depending on your income and the program was just a little 'spare time' project.
The true legalities may not be too bad, but the big corporations have yet another way to threaten the little guy and I wish we could count on them to do the right thing and not abuse there cash reserves by draining people dry, but past experience shows that companies often don't have this kind of common decency.
Besides, whose to say it won't have harmful side effects that aren't seen until later?
I don't know whether it's meant as a veiled insult to this idea, but the reporter directly compares it to the UK's nationwide MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) combined vaccinations. The same vaccinations that many thousands of parents are refusing to allow their children to be given due to research linking the combined shot to autism. The same vaccinations that the Government has refused to offer as 3 separate vaccinations, forcing parents to choose between expensive private singles or free combined jabs that risk autism in the child if they can't afford the singles. Suddenly the author of the article doesn't sound so much on the side of this 'drug vaccine'.
Wish I had a strong alternative
Fire! And lots of it.