damn right. throwing in the stat-building qualities into the game were a stroke of genius. just last week I downloaded a NES emulator, just to play that game. it's still just as much as fun as when I used to go over to my friend's house everyday after school.
nice thinking, but it wouldn't work. telemarketers are typically in the same country, if not the same state as their recipiants.
spammers can be from anywhere in the world, or at least their relays are. a hell of a lot of spam is sent through relays in china. they don't care who gets spammed. even if the US makes spamming a crime, it still wouldn't eliminate much of the spam.
America may provide the bulk of the computer illiterate(*cough*AOL*cough*), but to say that other countries know their way around the internet means that you haven't been talking to very many "normal" people. Computer literacy is really not that common, no matter what country you're from. Certain countries may have a greater percentage of people that know what they're doing, but the bulk of the world is clueless to doing much more than point and click web-surfing.
you do realize that there are other sites that you can go to, to get information and that said sites are just a google search away, right? if you're going to drop 150 bucks on something, you really ought to do a little checking around to make sure you're getting the best bang for your buck.
No, he's quite right. I can't search the trademarks section of the US Patent Office site because their servers are overloaded, but if you really feel like looking it up, the address is www.uspto.gov
I've looked the same information up myself awhile ago. Virtually all CDs carry the official Phillips/Sony "CD" insignial. Anything that doesn't measure up to what Phillips and Sony require of their CDs cannot bear their trademark.
Now whether or not the concept that anyone who sells a crippled CD is commiting fraud, because everyone knows what a CD looks like (and doesn't bother checking for the "CD" logo, because they know it's there) is debateable. I think that it's perfectly reasonable to use the arguement to hang the people trying to manufacture the crippled disks to dry. their lawyers and the courts may have a different opinion, though.
yes, they do. leave an ipod on for awhile and they'll get a little toasty. same thing with hard drives in general. that's why a lot of power users stick an air intake fan directly over their hard drives. to blow cool air over the drives. I'm mean, you've got a motor generating a couple thousand RPM, something's going to heat up.
actually, depending on how many clients with bogus files they have connected to the peer to peers, they might actually pull it off.
let's run an imaginary search on kazaa for "Metallica" and "Fuel":
Metallica - Fuel 10 users
Metallica-Fuel 4 users
Metallica- Fuel 10 users
teenxxx 3 users (what? it's kazaa, every file has a porn file some how associated with it)
which file do you pick? the first or the third one? wrong. they're both 10 of the RIAA's boxes running spoofed content.
you see? for more popular files, it'll be more difficult, because there will be a lot more interest in the real files, but if the RIAA has enough boxes with crap shared out, they'll be able to get away with it.
also, they can corrupt the files themselves by faking the MD5 ID so that it appears to be the right file, but is in reality bogus. you won't even know which file is right and which one's wrong, then.
the [i]only[/i] way I see to stop this, is to use ratings systems that actually mean something. Kazaa's got one going on, but all it does is tell you who shares stuff and who's being a file whore. if they used a system that allowed you to downcheck someone for sending out a bad copy and enough people downchecked a user, they were blacklisted, then it could work. however, with enough usernames/box, the RIAA could cheat the system by downchecking legitimate users and giving their own bogus bins positive feedback.
so, right now we're at a bit of a stalemate. it'll go back and forth a bit, but I think the only answer is to go back to user-driven systems. (hosted, ran and moderated by a user) ie. IRC channels, direct connect and stuff like that. hard to infiltrate that kind of network without being found out and banned. of course, the owner/admins of the channel will be big,fat targets for legal action.
they could check it against another file, but if there was a conflict, they'd need at least a third file to check to see which is the more accepted answer.
at best, you'd drag out the download process to twice the length(which could still be corrupt, if there are more copies of the corrupt file out there than there are good ones). at worst, you'll take three times as long to download something that's nothing but random noise generated to match a specific md5 that fries your soundcard when you try to play it.
cars have been mostly recycleable for awhile. they're stripped of useable parts and then salvaged for metal. I think I read somewhere that they're the most recycled consumer product.
this isn't so much an outlandish concept car as it is a furthering of vehicle evolution. now, not only will the car run fairly clean, but it'll be entirely reclaimable. it's got promise and will attract a lot of people who "think green".
The main drawback I see with it is that people won't buy it. a car made out of organic waste just doesn't sound durable. I'm sure it is, but perception drives the public's purchase dollars. and if it's perceived as being a lump of garbage on wheels, no one's going to touch it.
nah, I've gone along with p2p since its heyday with napster, migrating from network to network, too. I use it as an enforced shareware system. it's not entirely legal in some cases, but there are things out there that I want, that aren't copyrighted or aren't illegal to download that simply aren't available anywhere else.
I understand that, however in your arguement about downloading music because you already own the CD, you would honestly be better off to rip it yourself. the same goes for video *if* you have the capability to do so on your own. if you don't have a video in, or feel like waiting the day that it'll take to extract the raw video off a DVD and reencode it to mpeg, then peer to peer may just be the way to go.
any time you're using peer to peer to get a file, you gotta think, "could I do this myself and get exactly what I want, instead of downloading and getting approximately what I want?"
then again, I'm probably just tired of files whores. I've had the same 20 downloads queued for the past two weeks and uploaded over 200 files in the same span of time.
if you already bought the album, why do you need to download another copy of it?
just do what I do and rip the audio data to mp3. depending on your computer, it'll take 3-10 minutes, whereas tracking down all the tracks for your cd and finding someone that's not being a file whore to get them from will take 1 minute- weeks. that way you don't even have to worry about mislabeling or low bitrate, because with a decent CD ripper, it'll connect to a CD database and put in the correct label for you and let you choose what bitrate you want.
everything you want, none of the hassles of trying to pull it off a peer to peer network.
back to your question, if you have a copy of the CD on hand, then you probably do have the right to seek out a backup copy for personal use. after all, the end state is the same as if you had ripped it yourself. but my way's a lot better:p
*ring*
"Oh no. It's Master. If I answer, I get shocked, but if I don't answer Master will punish me."
*ring*
"here goes nothing"
*ZZZAAAAAAPPPPP*
"Hello, I'm with Capitol One Visa and I'd like to talk to you about..."
I realize it'd be more expensive that having someone code and compile it, but if you're dealing with something that *has* to be precise, have as low of a probability of failing as possible and be able to restart as fast as possible in case of a failure, having it all on ROM would be the best bet, in my eyes.
I mean, ROM instructions are pretty much ready to go once you flick the switch. it takes a bit of time to load an OS. In the operating room, seconds can be critical.
of course, if they were your neighbor, they'd probably just give you a copy of the key when they went of vacation to take care of their cat or something. you'd also know if they have a spare key hidden somewhere or routinely leave a door or window unlocked.
fact is, no one worries about neighbors all that much. most security systems can and will easily be defeated by someone that's familiar enough with them. but if they can keep out a random burglar from breaking in, then they're doing their job.
his idea is a hell of a lot more invasive and more "wrong" than simply noting an attack, blacklisting the source and sending the ISP an email notifying them of the situation.
I realize that it's frustrating as a sysadmin to see attacks from the same place, by the same virus/worm all the time, but the answer isn't a counter strike. it's to simply contain the virus and let the people that are infected unfuck themselves and learn from their mistakes.
besides, even if it weren't morally and ethically wrong, just who would control such a program? would sysadmins have to be federally or state liscensed, much like concealed weapons holders? who would be there to ensure that the vigilante sysadmins weren't abusing their abilities and crushing boxes left and right, then claiming that they were being attacked.
no, a knee jerk reaction of "wtf! this mother fucker's infected and trying spread it on to me! fuck him! I'll fuck his box up for that shit! stupid dumbass n00b!" isn't going to advance the Internet community, sysadmins or users anywhere. just stick to blacklisting IPs and domains. it works.
The results on Linux kernel 2.4.19 show Hyper-Threading technology could improve multithreaded applications by 30%. Current work on Linux kernel 2.5.32 may provide performance speed-up as much as 51%.
while it may not be very useful for a single-user box(it actually looks like it would be a detriment), integrating it into client-server situations would give us some nice boosts in performance. web servers ought to see some real gains with this.
you can only pile on so many security procedures before Joe Whiteout in the cubical gets a glazed expression on his face. the problem with security procedures, is you've got to make them easy enough that your everyday user can use them without getting on your phone every 10 minutes asking if you can reset their account because they screwed up and got locked out of the system.
you can have extensive logging and security measures going on behind the scenes, but once it gets to the user level, you've got to make it as simple as possible for them to log in and get access to what they need to know/work with. and all it takes is someone leaving their username and password on a sticky note on their monitor or answering a phone with someone official sounding on the other end, for that account to be compromised.
I shouldn't have to mention it, but any user account that gets compromised can potentially get the whole network compromised. the human element is always the weakest link in the security chain; whether it's a sysadmin that just doesn't set everything up right and leaves default account names and passwords or the user that just gives his password out over the phone. the machines just do what they were programmed to do. nothing more, nothing less.
on screen stylus-tap keyboard for on the go
roll-up keyboard for when you've got a little extra time.
see? that wasn't that hard. it took two of us a grand total of 3 thought processes in the course of about an hour and we already came up with a system that's better than graffiti. someone ought to give us absurdly huge grants or corporate hush-money for this.
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damn right. throwing in the stat-building qualities into the game were a stroke of genius. just last week I downloaded a NES emulator, just to play that game. it's still just as much as fun as when I used to go over to my friend's house everyday after school.
no, it was like "yo motha fucka, wheeee"
nice thinking, but it wouldn't work. telemarketers are typically in the same country, if not the same state as their recipiants.
spammers can be from anywhere in the world, or at least their relays are. a hell of a lot of spam is sent through relays in china. they don't care who gets spammed. even if the US makes spamming a crime, it still wouldn't eliminate much of the spam.
America may provide the bulk of the computer illiterate(*cough*AOL*cough*), but to say that other countries know their way around the internet means that you haven't been talking to very many "normal" people. Computer literacy is really not that common, no matter what country you're from. Certain countries may have a greater percentage of people that know what they're doing, but the bulk of the world is clueless to doing much more than point and click web-surfing.
you do realize that there are other sites that you can go to, to get information and that said sites are just a google search away, right? if you're going to drop 150 bucks on something, you really ought to do a little checking around to make sure you're getting the best bang for your buck.
"Thank you for coming, I'll see you in hell!"
he obviously turns the blind eye to laws that he doesn't like, and wants the public to do the same until they're eroded into nothingness.
No, he's quite right. I can't search the trademarks section of the US Patent Office site because their servers are overloaded, but if you really feel like looking it up, the address is www.uspto.gov
I've looked the same information up myself awhile ago. Virtually all CDs carry the official Phillips/Sony "CD" insignial. Anything that doesn't measure up to what Phillips and Sony require of their CDs cannot bear their trademark.
Now whether or not the concept that anyone who sells a crippled CD is commiting fraud, because everyone knows what a CD looks like (and doesn't bother checking for the "CD" logo, because they know it's there) is debateable. I think that it's perfectly reasonable to use the arguement to hang the people trying to manufacture the crippled disks to dry. their lawyers and the courts may have a different opinion, though.
to come up with a better name than "Opteron".
yes, they do. leave an ipod on for awhile and they'll get a little toasty. same thing with hard drives in general. that's why a lot of power users stick an air intake fan directly over their hard drives. to blow cool air over the drives. I'm mean, you've got a motor generating a couple thousand RPM, something's going to heat up.
One server to update them all!
One server to find the IP!
One server to cache them all and in the darkness lastack them!
wait, isn't that what the 13th one already does?
actually, depending on how many clients with bogus files they have connected to the peer to peers, they might actually pull it off.
let's run an imaginary search on kazaa for "Metallica" and "Fuel":
Metallica - Fuel 10 users
Metallica-Fuel 4 users
Metallica- Fuel 10 users
teenxxx 3 users (what? it's kazaa, every file has a porn file some how associated with it)
which file do you pick? the first or the third one? wrong. they're both 10 of the RIAA's boxes running spoofed content.
you see? for more popular files, it'll be more difficult, because there will be a lot more interest in the real files, but if the RIAA has enough boxes with crap shared out, they'll be able to get away with it.
also, they can corrupt the files themselves by faking the MD5 ID so that it appears to be the right file, but is in reality bogus. you won't even know which file is right and which one's wrong, then.
the [i]only[/i] way I see to stop this, is to use ratings systems that actually mean something. Kazaa's got one going on, but all it does is tell you who shares stuff and who's being a file whore. if they used a system that allowed you to downcheck someone for sending out a bad copy and enough people downchecked a user, they were blacklisted, then it could work. however, with enough usernames/box, the RIAA could cheat the system by downchecking legitimate users and giving their own bogus bins positive feedback.
so, right now we're at a bit of a stalemate. it'll go back and forth a bit, but I think the only answer is to go back to user-driven systems. (hosted, ran and moderated by a user) ie. IRC channels, direct connect and stuff like that. hard to infiltrate that kind of network without being found out and banned. of course, the owner/admins of the channel will be big,fat targets for legal action.
but what would they check it against?
they could check it against another file, but if there was a conflict, they'd need at least a third file to check to see which is the more accepted answer.
at best, you'd drag out the download process to twice the length(which could still be corrupt, if there are more copies of the corrupt file out there than there are good ones). at worst, you'll take three times as long to download something that's nothing but random noise generated to match a specific md5 that fries your soundcard when you try to play it.
cars have been mostly recycleable for awhile. they're stripped of useable parts and then salvaged for metal. I think I read somewhere that they're the most recycled consumer product.
this isn't so much an outlandish concept car as it is a furthering of vehicle evolution. now, not only will the car run fairly clean, but it'll be entirely reclaimable. it's got promise and will attract a lot of people who "think green".
The main drawback I see with it is that people won't buy it. a car made out of organic waste just doesn't sound durable. I'm sure it is, but perception drives the public's purchase dollars. and if it's perceived as being a lump of garbage on wheels, no one's going to touch it.
nah, I've gone along with p2p since its heyday with napster, migrating from network to network, too. I use it as an enforced shareware system. it's not entirely legal in some cases, but there are things out there that I want, that aren't copyrighted or aren't illegal to download that simply aren't available anywhere else.
I understand that, however in your arguement about downloading music because you already own the CD, you would honestly be better off to rip it yourself. the same goes for video *if* you have the capability to do so on your own. if you don't have a video in, or feel like waiting the day that it'll take to extract the raw video off a DVD and reencode it to mpeg, then peer to peer may just be the way to go.
any time you're using peer to peer to get a file, you gotta think, "could I do this myself and get exactly what I want, instead of downloading and getting approximately what I want?"
then again, I'm probably just tired of files whores. I've had the same 20 downloads queued for the past two weeks and uploaded over 200 files in the same span of time.
if you already bought the album, why do you need to download another copy of it?
:p
just do what I do and rip the audio data to mp3. depending on your computer, it'll take 3-10 minutes, whereas tracking down all the tracks for your cd and finding someone that's not being a file whore to get them from will take 1 minute- weeks. that way you don't even have to worry about mislabeling or low bitrate, because with a decent CD ripper, it'll connect to a CD database and put in the correct label for you and let you choose what bitrate you want.
everything you want, none of the hassles of trying to pull it off a peer to peer network.
back to your question, if you have a copy of the CD on hand, then you probably do have the right to seek out a backup copy for personal use. after all, the end state is the same as if you had ripped it yourself. but my way's a lot better
*ring*
"Oh no. It's Master. If I answer, I get shocked, but if I don't answer Master will punish me."
*ring*
"here goes nothing"
*ZZZAAAAAAPPPPP*
"Hello, I'm with Capitol One Visa and I'd like to talk to you about..."
I realize it'd be more expensive that having someone code and compile it, but if you're dealing with something that *has* to be precise, have as low of a probability of failing as possible and be able to restart as fast as possible in case of a failure, having it all on ROM would be the best bet, in my eyes.
I mean, ROM instructions are pretty much ready to go once you flick the switch. it takes a bit of time to load an OS. In the operating room, seconds can be critical.
of course, if they were your neighbor, they'd probably just give you a copy of the key when they went of vacation to take care of their cat or something. you'd also know if they have a spare key hidden somewhere or routinely leave a door or window unlocked.
fact is, no one worries about neighbors all that much. most security systems can and will easily be defeated by someone that's familiar enough with them. but if they can keep out a random burglar from breaking in, then they're doing their job.
his idea is a hell of a lot more invasive and more "wrong" than simply noting an attack, blacklisting the source and sending the ISP an email notifying them of the situation.
I realize that it's frustrating as a sysadmin to see attacks from the same place, by the same virus/worm all the time, but the answer isn't a counter strike. it's to simply contain the virus and let the people that are infected unfuck themselves and learn from their mistakes.
besides, even if it weren't morally and ethically wrong, just who would control such a program? would sysadmins have to be federally or state liscensed, much like concealed weapons holders? who would be there to ensure that the vigilante sysadmins weren't abusing their abilities and crushing boxes left and right, then claiming that they were being attacked.
no, a knee jerk reaction of "wtf! this mother fucker's infected and trying spread it on to me! fuck him! I'll fuck his box up for that shit! stupid dumbass n00b!" isn't going to advance the Internet community, sysadmins or users anywhere. just stick to blacklisting IPs and domains. it works.
so you're saying AMD's response is going to be to go to LudiciousThreading?
precisely. more powerful, more efficient webservers mean lower overhead costs, which is never a bad thing.
The results on Linux kernel 2.4.19 show Hyper-Threading technology could improve multithreaded applications by 30%. Current work on Linux kernel 2.5.32 may provide performance speed-up as much as 51%.
while it may not be very useful for a single-user box(it actually looks like it would be a detriment), integrating it into client-server situations would give us some nice boosts in performance. web servers ought to see some real gains with this.
you can only pile on so many security procedures before Joe Whiteout in the cubical gets a glazed expression on his face. the problem with security procedures, is you've got to make them easy enough that your everyday user can use them without getting on your phone every 10 minutes asking if you can reset their account because they screwed up and got locked out of the system.
you can have extensive logging and security measures going on behind the scenes, but once it gets to the user level, you've got to make it as simple as possible for them to log in and get access to what they need to know/work with. and all it takes is someone leaving their username and password on a sticky note on their monitor or answering a phone with someone official sounding on the other end, for that account to be compromised.
I shouldn't have to mention it, but any user account that gets compromised can potentially get the whole network compromised. the human element is always the weakest link in the security chain; whether it's a sysadmin that just doesn't set everything up right and leaves default account names and passwords or the user that just gives his password out over the phone. the machines just do what they were programmed to do. nothing more, nothing less.
on screen stylus-tap keyboard for on the go
roll-up keyboard for when you've got a little extra time.
see? that wasn't that hard. it took two of us a grand total of 3 thought processes in the course of about an hour and we already came up with a system that's better than graffiti. someone ought to give us absurdly huge grants or corporate hush-money for this.