There they go littering up the Moon again. It's bad enough that it's a 'fur sure dust catcher, but now it's becoming everybody's waste receptacle as well. What is the rest of the galaxy to think of us?
No matter how well they clean it up I'm guessing that there are more alpha and beta particles flying around there than on some random previously empty piece of land. And with chip geometries smaller than ever this might be an issue.
Any judge who decides on anything other than the evidence presented to them should be impeached immediately for breach of professional standards.
Nice thought, and in a perfect world yada yada yada. The problem in these ex parte cases is that only one side is being heard by the judge. A proper judge should be saying to the RIAA, "That all well and good, however, before I grant you everything you've asked for just where is the other side in this to tell their story?"
Instead of that, even in the cases where sound legal arguments are actually presented by those actually able to get to the court in time, along with serious allegations of illegal misconduct by the plaintiffs, too often the judge rules that this will all be settled at trial, which ignores 2 very crucial facts:
1: The RIAA initially gets what it wants (user's protected identity) information without actually going to trial and then dismisses that case to try and extort the user otherwise.
2: While only one other case has actually made it to trial out of 30,000+ filed (and that one was overturned by the judge afterwards so it hardly counts), the cost of defending a meritless case against an adversary with relatively unlimited funds and absolutely no scruples financially punishes the defendant to an extreme case without ever seeing the inside of a courtroom.
The judge who declines to prevent this misuse of the judicial system from happening is a very bad judge indeed.
I'm waiting for a DRM-using company to get so fully and completely ripped that no other company in the future will ever try it again. I'd hoped it would be Sony over their audio CD rootkit, but that lesson didn't seem to stick. Perhaps this will be the one.
Any judge these days who buys into the RIAA's bullshit as an absolute moron and should be impeached immediately for a lack of reasoning ability and common sense. These cases, all based on illegal investigations and no valid legal foundation, along with outright lies in the testimony of their sole "expert" at the ex parte John Doe joined subpoena phase should be stopped at that moment.
It is more than well known that the RIAA method is highly flawed and they have often demanded subscriber information for IP addresses that never existed in the ISP's log. Those are easy to filter out. The real damage comes when the IP address supplied is wrong, but valid to another user. The RIAA admits no error in their procedures and pursues many innocent people.
But the real blame is the idiot judges who seem incapable of understanding that the RIAA is using the court system in ways it was never intended to be used. It's the very same thing that Direct TV (may they rot in Hell) did only a few years earlier. These judges are apparently seduced that the RIAA members are losing billions of never proven dollars to filesharing and that somehow this must be redressed in trials that never seem to happen. I couldn't think less of the judges in too many of these cases, and am not alone in this regard.
The tsunami of data generated on any backbone should easily overwhelm any possible system long before it's realized you can't really data mine this mother lode.
But since they'll try anyway it might be time to load up on Seagate and Western Digital stock while the market is down.
Windows 7 is supposed to be like Windows Vista 2.0. No major compatibility changes have been promised such that everything that runs under Vista is supposed to run under Windows 7. This begs the question of why if your hardware already runs Vista do you need to be testing so much with the Windows 7 beta? It's like saying that although your hardware runs Windows 2000 just fine, now you've got to start from the beginning to prepare for Windows XP.
They now (and have for some time) offer 1.21 without SecureSpot; perhaps you should download and install that.
Are you saying that there are two different versions of the firmware that both identify as 1.21? That's outrageous in and of itself! How do you even know which one you have?
I don't like either of the major candidates and am still wondering how we ended up with the two of them as our only reasonable choices. Neither were front runners in the early days.
"Opera's engineers have developed a version of Opera Mini that can run on an Apple iPhone, but Apple won't let the company release it because it competes with Apple's own Safari browser."
This is exactly what will keep the iPhone a niche product once Android hits its stride. Any proper geek will want a phone that runs everything he wants it to run, and on his chosen mobile network - not what Steve Jobs feels is proper for it. Android is only one killer app that Apple denies for its iPhone away from domination.
We now know, for example, that IPv4 won't scale to the projected size of the future Internet.
Yeah, we all knew the day ArpaNet was first fired up that we'd hit 4 billion connected devices (or more with NAT) so quickly that why were we even bothering with 32-bit IPv4 on our 32-bit mainframes and 8-bit home systems. We all knew we were doing it all wrong from the beginning, but did so anyway just so this person could get his 900 seconds of fame in 2008 telling us what we already knew.
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It would be nice if this stated just what level of "evidence" is required.
There they go littering up the Moon again. It's bad enough that it's a 'fur sure dust catcher, but now it's becoming everybody's waste receptacle as well. What is the rest of the galaxy to think of us?
It sounds like greed here, which seems very out of place for a so-called non-profit organization.
4 seconds is hardly "instant". It's just faster than other methods.
And tell me that this doesn't contribute to Global Warming how?
No matter how well they clean it up I'm guessing that there are more alpha and beta particles flying around there than on some random previously empty piece of land. And with chip geometries smaller than ever this might be an issue.
Nice thought, and in a perfect world yada yada yada. The problem in these ex parte cases is that only one side is being heard by the judge. A proper judge should be saying to the RIAA, "That all well and good, however, before I grant you everything you've asked for just where is the other side in this to tell their story?"
Instead of that, even in the cases where sound legal arguments are actually presented by those actually able to get to the court in time, along with serious allegations of illegal misconduct by the plaintiffs, too often the judge rules that this will all be settled at trial, which ignores 2 very crucial facts:
1: The RIAA initially gets what it wants (user's protected identity) information without actually going to trial and then dismisses that case to try and extort the user otherwise.
2: While only one other case has actually made it to trial out of 30,000+ filed (and that one was overturned by the judge afterwards so it hardly counts), the cost of defending a meritless case against an adversary with relatively unlimited funds and absolutely no scruples financially punishes the defendant to an extreme case without ever seeing the inside of a courtroom.
The judge who declines to prevent this misuse of the judicial system from happening is a very bad judge indeed.
It's all about the headlines, that's all.
I'm waiting for a DRM-using company to get so fully and completely ripped that no other company in the future will ever try it again. I'd hoped it would be Sony over their audio CD rootkit, but that lesson didn't seem to stick. Perhaps this will be the one.
Any judge these days who buys into the RIAA's bullshit as an absolute moron and should be impeached immediately for a lack of reasoning ability and common sense. These cases, all based on illegal investigations and no valid legal foundation, along with outright lies in the testimony of their sole "expert" at the ex parte John Doe joined subpoena phase should be stopped at that moment.
It is more than well known that the RIAA method is highly flawed and they have often demanded subscriber information for IP addresses that never existed in the ISP's log. Those are easy to filter out. The real damage comes when the IP address supplied is wrong, but valid to another user. The RIAA admits no error in their procedures and pursues many innocent people.
But the real blame is the idiot judges who seem incapable of understanding that the RIAA is using the court system in ways it was never intended to be used. It's the very same thing that Direct TV (may they rot in Hell) did only a few years earlier. These judges are apparently seduced that the RIAA members are losing billions of never proven dollars to filesharing and that somehow this must be redressed in trials that never seem to happen. I couldn't think less of the judges in too many of these cases, and am not alone in this regard.
There, that felt great!
The tsunami of data generated on any backbone should easily overwhelm any possible system long before it's realized you can't really data mine this mother lode.
But since they'll try anyway it might be time to load up on Seagate and Western Digital stock while the market is down.
Don't even think of trying to run this on your iPhone. Remember, Apple doesn't like competing applications.
If it hijacks any domain name then you'd have no Internet connectivity at all.
Windows 7 is supposed to be like Windows Vista 2.0. No major compatibility changes have been promised such that everything that runs under Vista is supposed to run under Windows 7. This begs the question of why if your hardware already runs Vista do you need to be testing so much with the Windows 7 beta? It's like saying that although your hardware runs Windows 2000 just fine, now you've got to start from the beginning to prepare for Windows XP.
Microsoft, what have you changed in Windows 7?
Are you saying that there are two different versions of the firmware that both identify as 1.21? That's outrageous in and of itself! How do you even know which one you have?
This cannot be allowed to go unpunished. Google should sue since it was their domain name that was hijacked and a clear attack on their business.
Google should sue because they have lots of high-priced lawyers and can really make DLink regret this.
Just as we do our best to get .vbs files locked down someone comes up with a new scripting language just waiting for exploitation.
I don't like either of the major candidates and am still wondering how we ended up with the two of them as our only reasonable choices. Neither were front runners in the early days.
Talk about Global Warming!
This is exactly what will keep the iPhone a niche product once Android hits its stride. Any proper geek will want a phone that runs everything he wants it to run, and on his chosen mobile network - not what Steve Jobs feels is proper for it. Android is only one killer app that Apple denies for its iPhone away from domination.
Yeah, like I do that every day.
This protest sounds a lot like a Straw Man fallacy.
And probably not needing to reboot either, except each time you upgraded your hardware to a new box.
Until you rip the RIAA's financial guts through sanctions out you aren't going to stop them. A stern talking to just isn't the same thing.
Yeah, we all knew the day ArpaNet was first fired up that we'd hit 4 billion connected devices (or more with NAT) so quickly that why were we even bothering with 32-bit IPv4 on our 32-bit mainframes and 8-bit home systems. We all knew we were doing it all wrong from the beginning, but did so anyway just so this person could get his 900 seconds of fame in 2008 telling us what we already knew.
Or you could just go back to the recently used file list and resave it in the proper location.