(Has anyone considered a positive use of P2P to split such large files over several clients?)
Im not trolling here. If the company wants to boost sales (or attempt to) by releasing a demo, they should be the ones to supply the bandwith for it. They should not rely, or expect, a user base to pay for an internet connection to distribute their files, so they can profit.
This is fine for out of warranty items, but promoting this for items that are still covered by Apple care, is promoting fraud. here's how: if someone ( a novice) takes this manual and then tries to fix a hardware problem themselves while a unit is still under warranty, then can't fix it or breaks something else, then brings the item in for repair under warranty, Apple and I have to pay for it! Hmmmm...
One problem here....
If the person who is trying to fix the computer actually needs to purchase a manual to repair it, and the computer is still under warranty to begin with, why would he even bother trying. I would not spend any money for a manual to fix something, pay for parts, and spend my time repairing something that I could have done for free as part of the warranty. If you buy a new car and a week later one of the power windows breaks, you dont buy a book, buy the parts and try to fix it, you return it for repair to the manuf. I fail to see how this is fraud.
That kid is 19, now. In 1996 he would have been what, 10 or 11 years old? From my understanding the crimes are tried as the age they were comitted at. In other words, a minor. He can admit all he wants, but it doesn't look like they can really touch him too severely.
It usually pays to buy some higher quality RAM. I have used cheepo generic and higher quality RAM and have witnessed the difference. The more expensive top grade RAM is more stable and I ahve had less issues with bad modules.
As a side thought, with ever increasing RAM densities/capacities the chance for error and bad modules up. It's just a fact of the manufacturing process. Make sure not to forget about that.
What is so bad about someone actually wanting to place some information in a childs hands, especially kids who *want* to learn. I think it's great. It's too bad our own government doesn't value educating our children and giving them constructive things to do the way this person does, the govt. would much rather be off imposing our will on foreign countries through military force. Nowadays it seems as if being imperialists is all us Americans are good at. We have declining industry, an eroding educational system, health care is in a downward spiral wiht an economy to match, but we can deliver munitions via rockets within 1 meter of target. Its too bad, more people, especialy our leaders, dont value education as much as this individual.
Doom stated on the PC, it is only logical, taht with such a huge fan base using the PC platform to release it for the PC first. Woul not make good business sense not to.
Second why would they go through all the R&D of making a PC Alpha (I have seen it) and then scrap it?
As I was a student there in 2000, they had signed a contract with Microsoft, basically giving all staff and students free copies of Office 2000, Win2000, etc. Quite a drastic change in a short time frame, transitioning from exclusively MS office products to endorsing open source.
Lots or routers, etc, have an option to spoof a MAC address. So you spoff the MAC so it looks like a NIC, not a router etc. Maybe I am missing something, but seems like that would work.
I completely agree anyone who really wants to pirate the music will. Simple as that. How is this going to stop womeone who has a great soundcard, or even mediocre at that, from just plugging in a patch cord and playing it back into the computer. With a decent sound card there will be no real audible degradation of the sound, definately nothing mores than MP3 introduces to begin with.
This reminds me of a mod chip in reverse. People are not trying to steal anything here, which is what the mod chip is mainly used for. I am a bit peeved at the idea of a complany attempting to stop someone from modifying what they legelly own (IE. print cartridge).
I suppose legally this falls under the unauthorized access portion of the law. For those that will say, "well, he left his wireless open so it's his problem", if you leave your car unlocked then I guess it is okay for someone to come in and take all of your change, after all you didn't lock your door. Just because you have security measures available does not mean that if you do not use them you are at fault for someone elses unauthorized access.
That being said, any decent person, and especially someone who has moved from dial-up to broadband would probably care less if you used it for a brief moment to save a headache of a download. Seriously, would you personally care if someone did it for a moment on your wireless network if you had one (under certain conditions).
The only thing that gets me is if this guy is on one of thoses metered broadband connections. I guess in that case it might cost him some money, another little spin on it.
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(Has anyone considered a positive use of P2P to split such large files over several clients?)
Im not trolling here. If the company wants to boost sales (or attempt to) by releasing a demo, they should be the ones to supply the bandwith for it. They should not rely, or expect, a user base to pay for an internet connection to distribute their files, so they can profit.
This is fine for out of warranty items, but promoting this for items that are still covered by Apple care, is promoting fraud. here's how: if someone ( a novice) takes this manual and then tries to fix a hardware problem themselves while a unit is still under warranty, then can't fix it or breaks something else, then brings the item in for repair under warranty, Apple and I have to pay for it! Hmmmm ...
One problem here....
If the person who is trying to fix the computer actually needs to purchase a manual to repair it, and the computer is still under warranty to begin with, why would he even bother trying. I would not spend any money for a manual to fix something, pay for parts, and spend my time repairing something that I could have done for free as part of the warranty. If you buy a new car and a week later one of the power windows breaks, you dont buy a book, buy the parts and try to fix it, you return it for repair to the manuf. I fail to see how this is fraud.
yeah.. i think i misread that one. whoops...
That kid is 19, now. In 1996 he would have been what, 10 or 11 years old? From my understanding the crimes are tried as the age they were comitted at. In other words, a minor. He can admit all he wants, but it doesn't look like they can really touch him too severely.
Has anyone considered how the man in the moon feels about this? Maybe he uses that water for drinking.
It usually pays to buy some higher quality RAM. I have used cheepo generic and higher quality RAM and have witnessed the difference. The more expensive top grade RAM is more stable and I ahve had less issues with bad modules.
As a side thought, with ever increasing RAM densities/capacities the chance for error and bad modules up. It's just a fact of the manufacturing process. Make sure not to forget about that.
.. Enron: An Insiders Guide
What is so bad about someone actually wanting to place some information in a childs hands, especially kids who *want* to learn. I think it's great. It's too bad our own government doesn't value educating our children and giving them constructive things to do the way this person does, the govt. would much rather be off imposing our will on foreign countries through military force. Nowadays it seems as if being imperialists is all us Americans are good at. We have declining industry, an eroding educational system, health care is in a downward spiral wiht an economy to match, but we can deliver munitions via rockets within 1 meter of target. Its too bad, more people, especialy our leaders, dont value education as much as this individual.
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Caffine speeds you up, and alcohol slows your fuctions down. Sounds like we have something here!
Cant be true, two reasons.
Doom stated on the PC, it is only logical, taht with such a huge fan base using the PC platform to release it for the PC first. Woul not make good business sense not to.
Second why would they go through all the R&D of making a PC Alpha (I have seen it) and then scrap it?
.. the pros at Enron.. negative earnings!
I can vouch for this, I have a Netgear wireless RTR, had problems with WEP, upgraded the firmware/drivers on wireless cards, problem solved.
..now with 16 character addresses!
BRAIN has performed an illegal operation in AMD64 at 0123456789ABCDEF. BRAIN will now terminate.
..faster than a turbo charged yugo.
As I was a student there in 2000, they had signed a contract with Microsoft, basically giving all staff and students free copies of Office 2000, Win2000, etc. Quite a drastic change in a short time frame, transitioning from exclusively MS office products to endorsing open source.
The final stage of Leprosy.
Lots or routers, etc, have an option to spoof a MAC address. So you spoff the MAC so it looks like a NIC, not a router etc. Maybe I am missing something, but seems like that would work.
Great post!
I completely agree anyone who really wants to pirate the music will. Simple as that. How is this going to stop womeone who has a great soundcard, or even mediocre at that, from just plugging in a patch cord and playing it back into the computer. With a decent sound card there will be no real audible degradation of the sound, definately nothing mores than MP3 introduces to begin with.
That the guiness book of world records is sponsoring an event to use it to attempt create the worlds largest pizza.
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Might be something there.
This reminds me of a mod chip in reverse. People are not trying to steal anything here, which is what the mod chip is mainly used for. I am a bit peeved at the idea of a complany attempting to stop someone from modifying what they legelly own (IE. print cartridge).
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look kinda like a pen*s wearing a hat?
I suppose legally this falls under the unauthorized access portion of the law. For those that will say, "well, he left his wireless open so it's his problem", if you leave your car unlocked then I guess it is okay for someone to come in and take all of your change, after all you didn't lock your door. Just because you have security measures available does not mean that if you do not use them you are at fault for someone elses unauthorized access.
That being said, any decent person, and especially someone who has moved from dial-up to broadband would probably care less if you used it for a brief moment to save a headache of a download. Seriously, would you personally care if someone did it for a moment on your wireless network if you had one (under certain conditions).
The only thing that gets me is if this guy is on one of thoses metered broadband connections. I guess in that case it might cost him some money, another little spin on it.
The first chocolate hazlenut P2P network....
I am a manager at a McDonalds and have the same concern. That damn hamburgler is always calling, I don't need the fry guys calling me too.