You'd be surprised how the US Supreme Court has warped the Constitution. These precedents get erroneously called the law of the land (even though it isn't the Court's job to write law) and with words like penumbra they may practically speaking write law.
Now with these guys, perhaps the DA (or equiv) is hoping to score himself some judicial activist judges who are not afraid to identify ostensible theft as theft. They may not care what a.torrent contains, instead they'll just see a festival of crime that needs to be dealt with facing little or no reprecussion from, say, a higher court overturning the verdict because the judicial branch does not wait for the legislative branch to tweak laws.
The Pirate Bay is banking on what I'm describing not happening. Of course I'm using the US as a model, I have no idea what this government is like, but I'm guessing that there are similarities.
Just like there is room for improvement in battery technology, is there any chance we can come up with a way to transport electricity over long distances without it diminishing in power as fast as it does now? Or do physics tell us otherwise? That's the one thing holding us back from making super-duper large nuclear plants in the middle of nowhere...
I think the threat of Microsoft and eBay to Google is overstated CNBC hype and that the stock market is overreacting to this. Keep in mind that Google's fundamentals include a 65 price to earnings ratio, the improvement of which has exceeded their market cap's growth, and has a one-year projection of under thirty. A 65 P/E is pretty good for a company whose revenues tend to double a lot. Even more impressive, GOOG's earnings-per-share is almost five times that of MSFT's and eight times eBay's. Regarding brand power, you can count on MicroEBay not making it into the dictionary.
When news like this hits and people start selling their GOOG shares, scoop them up because the price has solid support in the fundamentals.
So I'm thinking of starting a pr0n site that hosts amateur mp4s (so I don't have to worry about copyrights). What's a good mp4 conversion program for Linux or Win?
Linking up a router to a bunch of routers is called point to multipoint networking and if you want to wirelessly wire up your neighborhood you're going to need routers that can do this. The most economical and possibly the best option that I have found is the Buffalo
NL-3054CB3. (If you google the model number, other brands pop up,
apparently the identical device -- saw one deal for under $120 each). It
sounds a little too good to be true, but according to this website,
http://www.buffalowireless.net/wireless_equipment/ wireless_equipment.html,
this can transmit data up to 1.2KM (line of sight) and it can function
both as an access point and bridge simultaneously (it can talk to routers
and regular laptops and computers).
If you wanted to use a familiar brand, Cisco's Aironet 1300,
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5861/product s_configuration_guide_chapter09186a008021e5ca.html,
looks like another option except it costs ten times as much and I'm not
sure what advantages if any it has over the aforementioned device other
than perhaps the support you'd get from a larger company like Cisco. When
you deploy a network on such a scale, you're going to get people who use
it to download movie after movie, so advanced bandwidth throttling
(prioritizing certain types of traffic over others) would be key, and you
might have to pay up for something like this Cisco device for the traffic
shaping. Not sure about that...
For mega long range antennae to scatter around the
neighborhood, as with the city of Cleveland which went wireless, have a look at this to
learn more about the WISP (wireless internet service provider) deployment
and equipment you'd need:
http://www.trangobroadband.com/products/atlas_ptp. shtml. That company
sells products that can beam twenty miles (line of sight, of course).
Like many consumers, the only reason I'd buy this is I wouldn't want to risk compatability issues in the arms race of upgrading to the latest technology. Similarly, the only reason I'd buy SharePoint is to use this software. I'm not going to buy it because I think it will make me so much more productive to justify the cost.
I think when a company has this kind of leverage over consumers, it should be considered anticompetitive and illegal. What's the downside to tightening the threshold of the definition of monopoly?
From the article: "Companies with trademark-validated names will be able to register in June for 70 days to avoid 'cyber-squatters' registering well-known names. Registration will be open to generic names in September."
My favorites: For online scans, housecall.trendmicro.com is your way to go. Does Linux too.
NOD32 is the most impressive Windows scanner I've found. For cleaning
out and managing the registry, you want JV16 Power Tools, but running msconfig's the quickest way to clean the crap
out of the registry as you don't need anything to download. Be careful though...
With their notoriety, hackers like these have created an entire industry that races to make computers more secure. Given that you'll always have a constant number of script kiddies that don't make the news, the result is more secure computers and more people with jobs in this antivirus market.
My greatest disappointment with Google was their having rejected my site for their advertising brokering. Yes it has some T&A, but the ass is of class. You dig?
Seriously -- Whereas Microsoft has accomodated customers with risqué XBOX games, do you think they might cut struggling pr0nographers like me some slack and be less -- or more, rather:) --] anal than Google? At the least they ought to set the bar for advertising association at the same level as their content of their video games, the titles of which include Playboy: The Mansion, lest they exercise a double standard.
There are those who claim the Earth is still full of oil and that we're not running out at all and we'll only continue to discover more in new places for generations to come. I think finding a 772 foot pyramid 33% bigger than the Great Pyramid in Bosnia, in 2006 no less, lends credence to this argument.
Development-wise, how much is Debian's FreeBSD port from Debian versus FreeBSD? Or are its advancements in tandem with both projects. And does either half suffer from the combination of the other?
This is all very intriguing, but how exactly could someone exploit this RFID range to make my life worse? I can only think of things that would make it better. Could someone explain less abstractly than "Didn't you read 1984?"
I for one welcome our improved piracy countermeasure overlords. People who are savvy enough to download torrents and burn ISOs of MS warez are smart enough to use Linux. The harder MS makes it, the more users will cave and use Linux. Debian, mostly.
25 times what? A 25th of the original file? Does it matter if it's already compressed or is it the same on anything? How does bzip stack up on a text file, yo?
another thing about geeks is we know how to get porn -- tons of it and for free which leads to more masturbation which may enable an [auto]sexual addiction, either a preexisting condition or a nurtured trait
Slashdot ought to ask its visitors what their favorite features between the two that are not shared so this OSDL project can get more guidelines from the right demographic. Ask Slashdot is a powerful resource to collect knowledge, perhaps more than any other system in the galaxy.
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Their elevator got switched with David Blaine's next project...
Now with these guys, perhaps the DA (or equiv) is hoping to score himself some judicial activist judges who are not afraid to identify ostensible theft as theft. They may not care what a .torrent contains, instead they'll just see a festival of crime that needs to be dealt with facing little or no reprecussion from, say, a higher court overturning the verdict because the judicial branch does not wait for the legislative branch to tweak laws.
The Pirate Bay is banking on what I'm describing not happening. Of course I'm using the US as a model, I have no idea what this government is like, but I'm guessing that there are similarities.
Just like there is room for improvement in battery technology, is there any chance we can come up with a way to transport electricity over long distances without it diminishing in power as fast as it does now? Or do physics tell us otherwise? That's the one thing holding us back from making super-duper large nuclear plants in the middle of nowhere...
When news like this hits and people start selling their GOOG shares, scoop them up because the price has solid support in the fundamentals.
So I'm thinking of starting a pr0n site that hosts amateur mp4s (so I don't have to worry about copyrights). What's a good mp4 conversion program for Linux or Win?
If you wanted to use a familiar brand, Cisco's Aironet 1300, http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5861/product s_configuration_guide_chapter09186a008021e5ca.html ,
looks like another option except it costs ten times as much and I'm not
sure what advantages if any it has over the aforementioned device other
than perhaps the support you'd get from a larger company like Cisco. When
you deploy a network on such a scale, you're going to get people who use
it to download movie after movie, so advanced bandwidth throttling
(prioritizing certain types of traffic over others) would be key, and you
might have to pay up for something like this Cisco device for the traffic
shaping. Not sure about that...
For mega long range antennae to scatter around the neighborhood, as with the city of Cleveland which went wireless, have a look at this to learn more about the WISP (wireless internet service provider) deployment and equipment you'd need: http://www.trangobroadband.com/products/atlas_ptp. shtml.
That company sells products that can beam twenty miles (line of sight, of course).
I think when a company has this kind of leverage over consumers, it should be considered anticompetitive and illegal. What's the downside to tightening the threshold of the definition of monopoly?
Could I trademark a name now and go register it?
My favorites: For online scans, housecall.trendmicro.com is your way to go. Does Linux too. NOD32 is the most impressive Windows scanner I've found. For cleaning out and managing the registry, you want JV16 Power Tools, but running msconfig's the quickest way to clean the crap out of the registry as you don't need anything to download. Be careful though...
With their notoriety, hackers like these have created an entire industry that races to make computers more secure. Given that you'll always have a constant number of script kiddies that don't make the news, the result is more secure computers and more people with jobs in this antivirus market.
Of all the DRM tools I've encountered, the one that struck me as being most effective has got to be Apple's "Please don't steal music" sticker.
What is very much alive is the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD project. Get the best of both worlds baby.
Seriously -- Whereas Microsoft has accomodated customers with risqué XBOX games, do you think they might cut struggling pr0nographers like me some slack and be less -- or more, rather :) --] anal than Google? At the least they ought to set the bar for advertising association at the same level as their content of their video games, the titles of which include Playboy: The Mansion, lest they exercise a double standard.
On the other hand, you have different fingers.
-- Stephen Wright
There are those who claim the Earth is still full of oil and that we're not running out at all and we'll only continue to discover more in new places for generations to come. I think finding a 772 foot pyramid 33% bigger than the Great Pyramid in Bosnia, in 2006 no less, lends credence to this argument.
Development-wise, how much is Debian's FreeBSD port from Debian versus FreeBSD? Or are its advancements in tandem with both projects. And does either half suffer from the combination of the other?
This is all very intriguing, but how exactly could someone exploit this RFID range to make my life worse? I can only think of things that would make it better. Could someone explain less abstractly than "Didn't you read 1984?"
From the article: "when two massive black holes merge, all of space jiggles like a bowl of Jell-O"
Wouldn't Kraft Foods have prior art on this?
Gotta admire how Linus calls a spade a spade even when that spade is a Good Thing. Imagine how MS would spin this if it happened to them.
Like the story notes, running Mac OS on Macs was also what Mac was built upon, so don't count on it staying closed.
I for one welcome our improved piracy countermeasure overlords. People who are savvy enough to download torrents and burn ISOs of MS warez are smart enough to use Linux. The harder MS makes it, the more users will cave and use Linux. Debian, mostly.
25 times what? A 25th of the original file? Does it matter if it's already compressed or is it the same on anything? How does bzip stack up on a text file, yo?
i for one wish i'd never seen any pr0n
How do you pronounce MySQL? I've always thought it was "My S Q L" not my sequel. Oh, and Linux has a soft I people.
Slashdot ought to ask its visitors what their favorite features between the two that are not shared so this OSDL project can get more guidelines from the right demographic. Ask Slashdot is a powerful resource to collect knowledge, perhaps more than any other system in the galaxy.