Or another alternative... "They" are not using omnidirectional communications, but rather aimed and relatively focused comms (picture the lasers used for communications in Niven's Known Space). If we aren't in direct line with the beam, we don't get it.
Consider that a lot of terrestrial broadcast has shifted to wired (cable) and or directional communications (Satellite).
Once it gets routed through the ISP to another network the MAC is lost. If TPB doesn't keep a MACIP log, I don't really see how it can be traced. Of course, they'd better make sure their ARP caches are periodically flushed....
Do they make machines to interest tunnels as well? I mean, the tunnels must hate those machines when they're so boring. Always going on and on about themselves, and never asking the tunnel what it thinks!
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"Really High Speed"
followed by
"Really, REALLY High Speed"
followed by
"Really, Really, REALLY High Speed -- This time we mean it!"
Not a good idea. They'd probably use Sony components, and because it has to do with audio, it would have a rootkit.
Ah. Thanks. I stand (sit, actually) corrected.
I assume you mean Gandhi, not Mead.
Or were you talking about mating habits in Samoa?
It's difficult to see how a request for a public discussion and debate is an attempt to silence
Simple.
You sue for false advertising... "Own it Today!!!"
If done the way TFS says, it's a good thing.
The problem is that teachers don't want to fail students, so the D students will get Cs instead of Fs.
OK. No big deal. They used the "Overdose of lead" on last night's ep. That's all.
You offer me Vegemite??? I should kill you where you stand!
die from a rapid lead overdose.
Someone watched "The Closer" last night.
I said it was an alternative to my original hypothesis -- they're out there, and communicating, but we can't detect them.
Hypothesis 1: No E/M
Hypothesis 2: Directional communications.
Or another alternative... "They" are not using omnidirectional communications, but rather aimed and relatively focused comms (picture the lasers used for communications in Niven's Known Space). If we aren't in direct line with the beam, we don't get it.
Consider that a lot of terrestrial broadcast has shifted to wired (cable) and or directional communications (Satellite).
Perhaps advanced civilizations are not using EM transmission (radio/light), but some other form of communication that we are unable to detect.
Yes, Trek is fictional, but to use it as an example: We wouldn't detect Starfleet because they use "Subspace communications" instead of radio.
why didn't any of the tens of billions of older stars in this galaxy get lucky?
Many of them did, according to their bios. I mean, come on... Harrison Ford got Calista Flockhart.
Oops! Wrong kind of "older star"
3D lithography?
Time for Venganza to write an Open Letter to the Livingston, LA Board of Education!
Bring on the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and my His Noodly Appendage touch you all! Ramen!
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, nor do I play on on TV.
If the court ruled that a dongle is an anti-use device, rather than an anti-copying device, it seems to me that DeCSS might get cleared the same way.
Any legal types out there want to comment
For all intents and purposes, the Yankee Group *IS* Laura Didio.
Ms. Didio is famous for declaring how strong SCOX(Q)'s cases against IBM and Novell were... until they lost.
I was waiting for a CowboyNeal joke on this...
We have. Elzar is Neptunian.
Once it gets routed through the ISP to another network the MAC is lost. If TPB doesn't keep a MACIP log, I don't really see how it can be traced. Of course, they'd better make sure their ARP caches are periodically flushed....
In a PDF Writer, yes. In a PDF *VIEWER*, no.
Except that with no logs, it's impossible to match an IP to a MAC
(and yes, I know MACs can be spoofed)
I thought he was at the record store. And he gave me a copy of "Surfing Bird", too!
Do they make machines to interest tunnels as well? I mean, the tunnels must hate those machines when they're so boring. Always going on and on about themselves, and never asking the tunnel what it thinks!