I have not read about this - has anyone heard any anecdotes on this subject?
Yes. There are many stories now by the people who have had to process them of the RIAA sending DMCA takedowns and subpoenas with IP addresses and timestamps where the logs show no DHCP or static IP addresses allocated for the times in question. Some IP addresses were in ranges never allocated.
1: Find a network printer assigned an IP address.
2: Set your NATting wireless router to mimic that printer's MAC address.
3: Insert your NATting router between the printer and the LAN and steal its IP address.
4: Connect to router and fileshare to your heart's content.
5: Watch printer be arrested for your piracy.
6: PROFIT!
If I were voting on tech issues alone, I'd have to go with McCain (the other Democrat in the race). Barak has yet to say anything of substance. His speeches are all, "Change! Change! Lots of Change! More Change than any of my opponents Change!" That all sounds great -- and means nothing!
Fortunately there will be many opportunities for Barak and McCain to debate head-to-head (McCain has already called for 10 town halls in 10 weeks) before I have to make a decision on this issue.
Fight it now, fight it hard, or everyone is going to be faced with this crap. I doubt usage is metered in Japan or Korea, who are far ahead of us in broadband.
This is nothing more than trying to do broadband on the cheap, instead of lighting up all that fiber that was pulled during the dot.com boom.
I have a movie script. Not an idea, not random scribbling, but a 120 page script in proper format (courtesy Final Draft) on a topical item (robots), with a proper beginning, middle, and end.
What I don't have is an agent, contacts in the industry, or a lot of money to spend to pay other people to read my work on my own dime. What is my most effective course of action next to lead to an eventual sale and resulting movie? Are there new places to look beyond the traditional venues for an aspiring screenplay writer?
This may be great, but I'm rather certain I won't reasonably be able to afford the drive and media for my home system in the next 5 years, making it of no use, and hence no real interest to me now.
It's like being told that the next Rolls Royce will be by far the best one ever, but I'm never going to be able to afford the Rolls.
In spite of the weak internal security, TJX now has a firm that scours the internet to find bad things posted about them, which is how they found the message and fired him for it.
The ones I'll keep are The Incredible Machine and Roller Coaster Tycoon, along with all the Myst games. The never grow old because the first two become what you create in them, while Myst always remains stunningly beautiful and alien at the same time.
search for similar pictures through millions of images in less than a second on a typical PC.
Of course that typical PC is a dual quad-core machine running at 3GHz with 8GB of memory, GPU X3 running offloading co-processing software, and 1TB of hard drive space.
Yeah and I'm allergic to other people. They are the major sources of disease and distress in the world and I'm particularly sensitive to that. I DEMAND that government create a Other People Free area just for me to do my business in or I'm going to sue!
Get a grip, people. This world isn't perfect and we can't afford to ban everything that upsets anybody. I can't restore an amputated limb to make things fair again, and I don't think a few of you hypochondriacs should be allowed to stop useful technologies for everybody else. Get yourself some RF shielded clothing and quit trying to tell the vast majority of the rest of us that we have to accommodate you no matter what the cost.
Give you this and the next thing you'll be complaining about is your neighbor's home router.
Your complaints that cell phones and WiFi both cause your symptoms appear bogus due to the widely different frequencies in use there. Furthermore, by your logic, all cell phone towers must be shut down since they continuously broadcast even more strongly than cell phones.
I don't buy it. Your town is already known for crazies, and you seem to fit the mold.
SSD will not only be on price parity with high-end Fibre Channel disk drives
Yeah, right, just what I buy for my home system right now. The really high-end expensive stuff.
For nearly all of us, this isn't news until SSD is competitive at the consumer disc drive level.
And competitive means price and projected lifetime. Watching my SSD start dying in pieces after only weeks, or months, isn't current hard drive reliability.
You are leaving. The company is far less interested in what you can do for them in your last few weeks than they are in learning how to live without you. That basically requires that they cut you out of the loop as soon as possible.
Is this in some high-level manager's training handbook? At the top level of management do the courses teach you especially how to handle I.T. departures as a special case? This approach appears so common that one is left to believe that it must be being taught in secret (secret so that I.T. doesn't rebel overall when they find out about it) to managers everywhere.
Yes it's stupid. Yes it's common throughout the industry. Yes if you're the one giving your departure date and you're smart enough to actually be successful in I.T. then you've already thought this thing out and put into place any malware before you gave them your departure date. And yes, they're morons who are going to pay the price for not having you finish up your tasks before you depart.
You've upheld your end of the deal by giving them proper notice. Now finish out your end of the deal quietly and completely. Show up, do what you still can do, and shut up about it. They don't want to hear how stupid this all is. Either they know it already and did it anyway, or think they're smarter than you are. Either way, silence is your friend.
Lastly, find out what the absolute highest I.T. consulting rate for your area is. If you're not in NYC or Silicon Valley, don't take their rate. Just find the highest rate for your area. And when/if they call you back to help out with the "tribal knowledge" you still possess that you couldn't impart or complete before your departure, tell them up front that this is your rate per hour and would they like to sign a consulting contract. Just point out quietly that you'd like to deal with is in a professional manner.
Oh, did I say, they're idiots - and this is typical throughout the industry, including where I have worked before, and where I do work now? In fact, until you've been terminated with no notice, and then been escorted out of the building 15 minutes later by a guy with a gun on his hip you really haven't worked in I.T. yet. I've had that experience too, and it wasn't atypical at all for that employer.
One of the charming, and important, features of Wikipedia is the timely updating on current events. Often by the time I've read something in the daily news the Wikipedia article has already been updated with even better information by the people who care about and watch over their articles. This feature is missed in any offline reader.
Also having to download the entire Wikipedia DB to update the offline version each time will be time consuming for the user, and bandwidth killing for the Wikipedia site if this becomes popular.
Now if Wikipedia could organize themselves in a manner that allowed you to download the updates since your last update, you'd have a win-win on both sides.
Maybe Google needs to change their community standards. Community standards are not written in stone, and these standards don't seem to be my standards.
The AMD/ATI 780G chipset has gotten great reviews otherwise, so why isn't it in the initial list - even if it still needed to be paired with an external graphics card?
Would be nice, after BC shows how it's traffic is exceeding its system capabilities and preventing broadband users from being able to achieve the speeds they purchased if the ruling authorities dropped the hammer on Bell by telling them: You shouldn't have oversold your network in the first place, and then made them rebate all their profits for the last 10 years to their ratepayers.
I see it as a question of just who's data is this?
Is it the customer's data (and how do you plan to keep one customer out of another competitor's data of they both have this access?) in the first place and you're just storing it for them? If so, then there's a strong case that they should be allowed access to their own data.
Or is it your company's data that you provide to them on request? In that case they have no rights to anything beyond what you're already providing to them.
it seems to say his instruction was "simply uploading music to a P2P network without any proof that anyone actually downloaded it", but that's not an instruction. It's not even a complete statement.
For starters, you don't "upload" to a P2P network. An "upload" only occurs in conjunction with its matching "download" onto another computer. It's a single transaction that has two different names applied to it depending on which end of the transaction you are viewing it from.
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Yes. There are many stories now by the people who have had to process them of the RIAA sending DMCA takedowns and subpoenas with IP addresses and timestamps where the logs show no DHCP or static IP addresses allocated for the times in question. Some IP addresses were in ranges never allocated.
1: Find a network printer assigned an IP address.
2: Set your NATting wireless router to mimic that printer's MAC address.
3: Insert your NATting router between the printer and the LAN and steal its IP address.
4: Connect to router and fileshare to your heart's content.
5: Watch printer be arrested for your piracy.
6: PROFIT!
Fortunately there will be many opportunities for Barak and McCain to debate head-to-head (McCain has already called for 10 town halls in 10 weeks) before I have to make a decision on this issue.
One is reminded of the old programming challenge to write a program that accepts no input, and its sole output is an exact copy of its own source.
This is nothing more than trying to do broadband on the cheap, instead of lighting up all that fiber that was pulled during the dot.com boom.
I have a movie script. Not an idea, not random scribbling, but a 120 page script in proper format (courtesy Final Draft) on a topical item (robots), with a proper beginning, middle, and end.
What I don't have is an agent, contacts in the industry, or a lot of money to spend to pay other people to read my work on my own dime. What is my most effective course of action next to lead to an eventual sale and resulting movie? Are there new places to look beyond the traditional venues for an aspiring screenplay writer?
It's like being told that the next Rolls Royce will be by far the best one ever, but I'm never going to be able to afford the Rolls.
Then they've found a Gold Mine here on Slashdot.
The ones I'll keep are The Incredible Machine and Roller Coaster Tycoon, along with all the Myst games. The never grow old because the first two become what you create in them, while Myst always remains stunningly beautiful and alien at the same time.
Of course that typical PC is a dual quad-core machine running at 3GHz with 8GB of memory, GPU X3 running offloading co-processing software, and 1TB of hard drive space.
Get a grip, people. This world isn't perfect and we can't afford to ban everything that upsets anybody. I can't restore an amputated limb to make things fair again, and I don't think a few of you hypochondriacs should be allowed to stop useful technologies for everybody else. Get yourself some RF shielded clothing and quit trying to tell the vast majority of the rest of us that we have to accommodate you no matter what the cost.
Give you this and the next thing you'll be complaining about is your neighbor's home router.
Your complaints that cell phones and WiFi both cause your symptoms appear bogus due to the widely different frequencies in use there. Furthermore, by your logic, all cell phone towers must be shut down since they continuously broadcast even more strongly than cell phones.
I don't buy it. Your town is already known for crazies, and you seem to fit the mold.
Yeah, right, just what I buy for my home system right now. The really high-end expensive stuff.
For nearly all of us, this isn't news until SSD is competitive at the consumer disc drive level.
And competitive means price and projected lifetime. Watching my SSD start dying in pieces after only weeks, or months, isn't current hard drive reliability.
Marshall Texas should be ashamed of themselves over this -- but they probably aren't.
Is this in some high-level manager's training handbook? At the top level of management do the courses teach you especially how to handle I.T. departures as a special case? This approach appears so common that one is left to believe that it must be being taught in secret (secret so that I.T. doesn't rebel overall when they find out about it) to managers everywhere.
Yes it's stupid. Yes it's common throughout the industry. Yes if you're the one giving your departure date and you're smart enough to actually be successful in I.T. then you've already thought this thing out and put into place any malware before you gave them your departure date. And yes, they're morons who are going to pay the price for not having you finish up your tasks before you depart.
You've upheld your end of the deal by giving them proper notice. Now finish out your end of the deal quietly and completely. Show up, do what you still can do, and shut up about it. They don't want to hear how stupid this all is. Either they know it already and did it anyway, or think they're smarter than you are. Either way, silence is your friend.
Lastly, find out what the absolute highest I.T. consulting rate for your area is. If you're not in NYC or Silicon Valley, don't take their rate. Just find the highest rate for your area. And when/if they call you back to help out with the "tribal knowledge" you still possess that you couldn't impart or complete before your departure, tell them up front that this is your rate per hour and would they like to sign a consulting contract. Just point out quietly that you'd like to deal with is in a professional manner.
Oh, did I say, they're idiots - and this is typical throughout the industry, including where I have worked before, and where I do work now? In fact, until you've been terminated with no notice, and then been escorted out of the building 15 minutes later by a guy with a gun on his hip you really haven't worked in I.T. yet. I've had that experience too, and it wasn't atypical at all for that employer.
He may have won the suit, but does he get any money for his legal bills, months of lost sales, damage to selling reputation, and other damages?
Also having to download the entire Wikipedia DB to update the offline version each time will be time consuming for the user, and bandwidth killing for the Wikipedia site if this becomes popular.
Now if Wikipedia could organize themselves in a manner that allowed you to download the updates since your last update, you'd have a win-win on both sides.
Does this mean that if you stay within the Comcast network that MediaSentry can't illegally find you any longer?
Maybe Google needs to change their community standards. Community standards are not written in stone, and these standards don't seem to be my standards.
The AMD/ATI 780G chipset has gotten great reviews otherwise, so why isn't it in the initial list - even if it still needed to be paired with an external graphics card?
Of course, I have such low expectations for liberals anyway, so I have no one but myself to blame for being so disappointed in them.
Would be nice, after BC shows how it's traffic is exceeding its system capabilities and preventing broadband users from being able to achieve the speeds they purchased if the ruling authorities dropped the hammer on Bell by telling them: You shouldn't have oversold your network in the first place, and then made them rebate all their profits for the last 10 years to their ratepayers.
Is it the customer's data (and how do you plan to keep one customer out of another competitor's data of they both have this access?) in the first place and you're just storing it for them? If so, then there's a strong case that they should be allowed access to their own data.
Or is it your company's data that you provide to them on request? In that case they have no rights to anything beyond what you're already providing to them.
For starters, you don't "upload" to a P2P network. An "upload" only occurs in conjunction with its matching "download" onto another computer. It's a single transaction that has two different names applied to it depending on which end of the transaction you are viewing it from.
What if you made files available on the Internet and nobody downloaded them?
This leads inevitably to the question: What if you made war on the RIAA - would anybody download them?