Banks can write those losses anywhere. They do a ton of investing, and when an investment tanks, they lose money. So they just write it up as money lost in a bad investment, and its there, but you have to know what to look for to find it.
As it stands right now, IPS aren't expected to enforce the legality of stuff traveling across their networks.
It seems like a major bad idea to start doing that, just for the hell of it. They open themselves up to the same charge as all the p2p filesharing apps---that it is they who should be held responsible, as enablers, rather than the individual who is actually breaking the law.
I mean really, if you were the RIAA, who would you rather sue? Some joker who has 50 cents in his bank account and 11k on his credit card, or Comcast?
Written works are automatically copyrighted if you put your name on it. You then have unlimited rights, etc, etc, etc.
The problem lies in proving that you put your name on it before anyone else put their name on it, and that can get hairy.
Not sure if having your email on the top counts as putting your name on it or not, but having a.sig on the bottom with your name in it would certainly count.
If you actually file for a copyright on music or anything, you can sue for infringment if someone samples a piece of your copyrighted work or reproduces it for someone else.
It's a shame because Java is good tech. It'd benefit from a broader contributer base, but it's still a hell of a lot better than.Net, which is the only language that competes in the same niche (Don't talk Php, Ruby, Perl, or any of that group. They're interpreted languages.)
I could give a damn about most of Sun (And I've got years of Sun experience) but I'd miss Java if they went into the toilet and took it with them.
Actually I did try it. I got inconsistent results.
The windows BSOD errors kept saying there was a fault with my harddrive. I sent so far as to replace cabling, and switch out drives.
I googled every error message, and those were so all over the place, at one point I thought there was a driver issue with my graphics card. It was ridiculous.
I don't know why they bother trying to up the security. There is no way to secure media content that is compatible with mass distribution. It's the same problem they had with DVD encryption---you can't cut out the illegitimate users while not cutting out the legitimate users at the same time.
They need to work on their business model, because this piecemeal anti-cracking stuff is a joke.
Well, I tell ya, I had this one problem that eventually got narrowed down to a bad DIMM, which was nearly impossible to isolate under XP. I ran every diagnostic I could think of, I beat my head against the wall for a fricking week. BSOD BSOD BSOD.
Finally scrapped the XP load, and loaded Linux, which told me, immediately, that I had a RAM fault. Pulled the DIMM, and the problem went away.
Not that hardware is windows' problem, but from the error messages that went with the BSOD, I spent twice as much time as I should have had to trying to isolate it. They're getting better, but if something goes wrong it's still BSOD city.
The DMCA does not supercede the constitution. So, until it becomes a consitutional amendment, newspapers and TV stations and anyone else has the right to file a freedom of information request.
Why would you need a worm activity detecting program on a Windows box? If there's a lot of worm activity that is close enough that the windows box could monitor it, you'll know.
It's like the canary in the mineshaft...Works fine for detecting hazards, but a little rough on the bird.
I completely agree about DAT tapes. I HATE DAT backup, and a DAT backup system (or just plain tape backup, might as well call it that), would cost a freaking fortune. On top of the cost, I have never had a good experience restoring from tape. DLT is kick ass, but pricey.
My advice would be to invest in an extra hard drive and keep a secondary backup of everything you care about. Hard drives are cheapish, and they last 5-6 years usually, so you get two and pray you don't hit the 1 in 100000000 lottery grand prize and have both of them die at the same time.
For what amounts to a dollar a gig, you can string until something better comes along.
You'd be surprised. 8-track actually saw use in commercial radio up until the early 90's...They sucked and were error prone, but the sound reproduction wasn't bad--it was an idea vehicle for sound bites and other disposable crap. As opposed to cassette, which never made it on the air anywhere except college radio.
The 8-track carts got replaced by DAT and Mini-disks---the only place those media actually got a fair shot.
Cassette is the WORST FORMAT EVER RELEASED. It is the lowest quality, and the most error prone, even more error prone than r2r AND the fidelity is terrible. If you HAVE r2r then dear god, copy it to some high end format, not cassette.
The number of things that can go wrong with old magnetic media is so long I won't even go there. If nothign else, the magnetic tape will get old and brittle. It also stretches slightly when you play it, which could leave granddad sounding like James Earl Jones in a few years. Certain types of mildew love it. AAAAAA! Make a copy! Make a copy!
Add to that the cost of replacing r2r tech, and you've got a scary situation. I agree with the parent. CD may not be the answer, but digital sure as hell is. I'd be super paranoid having anything I cared about stuck on old tape.
Linux isn't all that great at sound, though the article is complete FUD. I've never had a problem running a Soundblaster card on a Linux machine. They always autodetect fine. And since Soundblaster is about the most common soundcard on the market...
At any rate, I've hardly ever had a linux machine with a soundcard in it. I hardly ever have the GUI enabled. If I want to play games, I use my windoze box...that's what it's there for, to be a toy.
That's what Windows is for. Not to do anything real, or useful. Can't check your email on it, or browse the internet without worrying that its executing code from every damn website, or that its autorunning attachments. Doesn't come with any useful compilers or development tools. The included webserver sucks. Windows is a toy, and it has always been a toy, and the fact that people are looking at a kick-ass powertool and complaining that it's not a toy is absurd.
I had a dual booting box at work, and my boss, being a total asshole, refused to give me the driver disk for the super jazzy sound card on the damn thing, I guess thinking that music might ruin my productivity. Now for WINDOWS, this was a huge problem, because you couldn't install the drivers without the original cd, don't ask me why. Couldn't download them from the site, couldn't do crap.
With Linux, on the other hand, the card autodetected and played fine, using, of course, the hacked up, jury-rigged driver that linux always has to use because NO MAJOR SOUND CARD VENDOR RELEASES LINUX DRIVERS, a point not mentioned by the dumbass who wrote the article.
Thus the point is proven totally false by the fact that Linux is capable of doing 2 things a Windows 2000 box couldn't: 1) use a mainstream sound card, and 2) be a server.
That's crap. They knew he was a slacker and they knew he was a problem, but if they knew he was MAKING UP NEWS they would have fired the hell out of him.
There was a similar situation where I live recently, with a reporter who had been a slacker and a problem, and shuffled all over the place, and had his incompetence nodded at...but when he was caught in plagarism they fired him so hard he bounced when he hit the pavement. Print can't afford that crap because their market share is too low already.
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Banks can write those losses anywhere. They do a ton of investing, and when an investment tanks, they lose money. So they just write it up as money lost in a bad investment, and its there, but you have to know what to look for to find it.
Heh. Their lawyers probably charge 1000 dollars just for the threatening letter.
As it stands right now, IPS aren't expected to enforce the legality of stuff traveling across their networks.
It seems like a major bad idea to start doing that, just for the hell of it. They open themselves up to the same charge as all the p2p filesharing apps---that it is they who should be held responsible, as enablers, rather than the individual who is actually breaking the law.
I mean really, if you were the RIAA, who would you rather sue? Some joker who has 50 cents in his bank account and 11k on his credit card, or Comcast?
Nope, you're wrong.
.sig on the bottom with your name in it would certainly count.
Written works are automatically copyrighted if you put your name on it. You then have unlimited rights, etc, etc, etc.
The problem lies in proving that you put your name on it before anyone else put their name on it, and that can get hairy.
Not sure if having your email on the top counts as putting your name on it or not, but having a
If you actually file for a copyright on music or anything, you can sue for infringment if someone samples a piece of your copyrighted work or reproduces it for someone else.
It's a shame because Java is good tech. It'd benefit from a broader contributer base, but it's still a hell of a lot better than .Net, which is the only language that competes in the same niche (Don't talk Php, Ruby, Perl, or any of that group. They're interpreted languages.)
I could give a damn about most of Sun (And I've got years of Sun experience) but I'd miss Java if they went into the toilet and took it with them.
Actually I did try it. I got inconsistent results.
The windows BSOD errors kept saying there was a fault with my harddrive. I sent so far as to replace cabling, and switch out drives.
I googled every error message, and those were so all over the place, at one point I thought there was a driver issue with my graphics card. It was ridiculous.
I don't know why they bother trying to up the security. There is no way to secure media content that is compatible with mass distribution. It's the same problem they had with DVD encryption---you can't cut out the illegitimate users while not cutting out the legitimate users at the same time.
They need to work on their business model, because this piecemeal anti-cracking stuff is a joke.
Well, I tell ya, I had this one problem that eventually got narrowed down to a bad DIMM, which was nearly impossible to isolate under XP. I ran every diagnostic I could think of, I beat my head against the wall for a fricking week. BSOD BSOD BSOD.
Finally scrapped the XP load, and loaded Linux, which told me, immediately, that I had a RAM fault. Pulled the DIMM, and the problem went away.
Not that hardware is windows' problem, but from the error messages that went with the BSOD, I spent twice as much time as I should have had to trying to isolate it. They're getting better, but if something goes wrong it's still BSOD city.
I thought Microsoft and W had already perfected Spintronics.
Seems like a D20 would win if you had shoes, but I agree.
Stepped on a handful of D4s once, walking across my room in the dark...To this day I wince.
No way a D8 beats a D4. It may roll with your foot, but the sides are rounded and flat, not sharp pointy pyramids.
Battlefield Earth wasn't a video game first, it was a crappy book by L Ron Hubbard first.
Hehe. Anyone else find the Windows Nazi's more strident and foaming than the Linux Zealots?
They remind me of Southern Baptists.
The DMCA does not supercede the constitution. So, until it becomes a consitutional amendment, newspapers and TV stations and anyone else has the right to file a freedom of information request.
Why would you need a worm activity detecting program on a Windows box? If there's a lot of worm activity that is close enough that the windows box could monitor it, you'll know.
It's like the canary in the mineshaft...Works fine for detecting hazards, but a little rough on the bird.
I keep thinking of Neal Stevenson:
"Sintered ArmorGel...Feels like gritty jello, protects like a stack of telephone books"
I completely agree about DAT tapes. I HATE DAT backup, and a DAT backup system (or just plain tape backup, might as well call it that), would cost a freaking fortune. On top of the cost, I have never had a good experience restoring from tape. DLT is kick ass, but pricey.
My advice would be to invest in an extra hard drive and keep a secondary backup of everything you care about. Hard drives are cheapish, and they last 5-6 years usually, so you get two and pray you don't hit the 1 in 100000000 lottery grand prize and have both of them die at the same time.
For what amounts to a dollar a gig, you can string until something better comes along.
You'd be surprised. 8-track actually saw use in commercial radio up until the early 90's...They sucked and were error prone, but the sound reproduction wasn't bad--it was an idea vehicle for sound bites and other disposable crap. As opposed to cassette, which never made it on the air anywhere except college radio.
The 8-track carts got replaced by DAT and Mini-disks---the only place those media actually got a fair shot.
Cassette is the WORST FORMAT EVER RELEASED. It is the lowest quality, and the most error prone, even more error prone than r2r AND the fidelity is terrible. If you HAVE r2r then dear god, copy it to some high end format, not cassette.
The number of things that can go wrong with old magnetic media is so long I won't even go there. If nothign else, the magnetic tape will get old and brittle. It also stretches slightly when you play it, which could leave granddad sounding like James Earl Jones in a few years. Certain types of mildew love it. AAAAAA! Make a copy! Make a copy!
Add to that the cost of replacing r2r tech, and you've got a scary situation. I agree with the parent. CD may not be the answer, but digital sure as hell is. I'd be super paranoid having anything I cared about stuck on old tape.
Linux isn't all that great at sound, though the article is complete FUD. I've never had a problem running a Soundblaster card on a Linux machine. They always autodetect fine. And since Soundblaster is about the most common soundcard on the market...
At any rate, I've hardly ever had a linux machine with a soundcard in it. I hardly ever have the GUI enabled. If I want to play games, I use my windoze box...that's what it's there for, to be a toy.
That's what Windows is for. Not to do anything real, or useful. Can't check your email on it, or browse the internet without worrying that its executing code from every damn website, or that its autorunning attachments. Doesn't come with any useful compilers or development tools. The included webserver sucks. Windows is a toy, and it has always been a toy, and the fact that people are looking at a kick-ass powertool and complaining that it's not a toy is absurd.
It's crap, actually.
I had a dual booting box at work, and my boss, being a total asshole, refused to give me the driver disk for the super jazzy sound card on the damn thing, I guess thinking that music might ruin my productivity. Now for WINDOWS, this was a huge problem, because you couldn't install the drivers without the original cd, don't ask me why. Couldn't download them from the site, couldn't do crap.
With Linux, on the other hand, the card autodetected and played fine, using, of course, the hacked up, jury-rigged driver that linux always has to use because NO MAJOR SOUND CARD VENDOR RELEASES LINUX DRIVERS, a point not mentioned by the dumbass who wrote the article.
What was the card, you ask? Soundblaster Audigy Platinum To my tiny brain, that would qualify as mainstream.
Thus the point is proven totally false by the fact that Linux is capable of doing 2 things a Windows 2000 box couldn't: 1) use a mainstream sound card, and 2) be a server.
You don't consider O'Reilly and Hannity/Colmes appearing back to back as proof of a conservative bias?
I could care less if they're biased, what bothers me is that they try and claim that they're not.
I agree. Who the hell watches the Today show?
That's crap. They knew he was a slacker and they knew he was a problem, but if they knew he was MAKING UP NEWS they would have fired the hell out of him.
There was a similar situation where I live recently, with a reporter who had been a slacker and a problem, and shuffled all over the place, and had his incompetence nodded at...but when he was caught in plagarism they fired him so hard he bounced when he hit the pavement. Print can't afford that crap because their market share is too low already.