Technically, Napster hasn't gone away. People are still sharing files, just using different services and protocols. The cat in question isn't BitTorrent or Kazaa, but file sharing.
Unless **AA starts wiretapping every single MAC Address in the nation, it's gonna be real easy to share files.
I'd be willing to bet the college student's University has a bigger pipe than the high schooler's parent's cable modem
I'd bet the opposite: When I was at college (Penn State), the network was so clogged (not to mention they had a 1.5GB/week download limit) that I would rarely get 50KB/sec downloading from Apple. I have a 3.0Mb cable modem through Comcast, and even shared between three computers I still get 150+KB/s, even during peak hours.
Colleges do have bigger pipes, but they're also splitting those pipes between thousands or tens of thousands of users. (40,000 undergrads at PSU alone, and about half using the University's network.)
There's no disputing that RFID tags (at the very least - MIGHT!) represent the Mark of the Beast from the Book of Revelations. If so, the payoff for your faithfulness will be far greater than the immediate gains you make in this life, and they will last longer.
Stow the Xian Fundie crap. It doesn't work here. The fear of having a chip implanted is plenty for people to not do it. There are many benefits "in this life" for not having a chip implanted than to offer people another life that may or may not exist.
"I say your three cent titanium tax goes to far!"
"And I say your three cent titanium tax doesn't go to far enough!"
Seriously, anyone who *can't* see the similarities needs to look harder. They're no different. Both are simply trying to get more power for themselves. Neither are concerned about "America" other than the pesky "voting" thing in November. They seek victory, nothing more.
Me, I'm voting for Jack Johnson instead of John Jackson. (You know, the one who went to Yale and was in the Skull and Bones Society.)
Unless your body temperature is below zero and its latent pressure is the equivalent of being buried 10km under ice, I don't think you'll have a problem.
Oblig. Reply: "But I'm Mr. Freeze you insensitive clod!"
This is precisely why we should conserve power in addition to finding cleaner sources of it. Intelligent home design, full-cycle building materials (where you get paid to return the scrap that can be used to make more product), and total-cost-accounting for energy (make the price of energy equal not to the cost of generation, but the total cost from digging it up to cleaning up its effects).
I don't think of it as taxation, I think of it as total-cost-accounting. People who use the gas are paying for the roads they travel on, as well as maintaining its supply. Imagine if the $80 billion that was going towards the Iraq war went into taxes on items that Iraq could supply, like oil. We'd pay a lot more for gas, but a lot less in our income taxes.
What if nuclear power wasn't subsidized, or was subsidized through a tax on power being generated. The cleanup would be paid by people who use nuclear power. If the cost was too high, they wouldn't use as much and the demand would be lower.
This would cause people to conserve power instead of wasting it by building energy efficient homes and buying energy efficient products. But people would still be allowed to buy gas guzzlers and live in 250 year-old houses with no insulation if they had the money to waste.
Yes, the NYC library might have the latest trends, but my local library has very few computing or science books from after 1993. That's not a real help to someone who needs to be up-to-date on the latest computing trends. And with computer books running $40+, I can't justify the expense. (O'Reilly's Safari is an inferior replacement, but you need Internet access to reach it.)
However, many people in college should make good use of their interlibrary loans or local collections. I discovered too late the amazing selection of books in my university's library system. I read 8 books over the course of four months because it was as simple as logging on to the library's site, requesting the book, and picking it up the next day at the branch campus. Shipping was free, and I could keep the book for a month before having to return it.
Perhaps there should be a system like this for libraries.
Yes, it is their responsibility to educate themselves, and they should suffer if they choose not to. (Stupidity should be painful, and the stupid should be the ones not finding jobs instead of us geeks.)
However, their ignorance, in this case, affects other people, namely me. So it's in my interest to educate other users. And it's in Microsoft's interest to either make a browser that doesn't allow Windowsboxen into spam zombies, or educate their users as to how they can secure their systems.
I downloaded a backup of my MySQL DB to restore it, and it had BAGLE.U in it. Because the IT security guys didn't know the difference between a blog and webmail, I may have lost my job for doing this.
This is why I don't use automatic debits. I have PSECU (a credit union) with automatic bill pay. When a check for a bill is outstanding, they withhold that money. If I don't have enough at the time they want to write the check, they send me an email that the procedure failed. It's a good system, and stuff shows up immediately, including ATM deposits and mail-in deposits.
Of course, I never use checks because I have a check card, so I don't have the problem of writing a check and then making sure that it won't bounce when it clears.
1) Most people I deal with during the day are idiots. Half the population has an IQ under 100. Methinks this would explain why most people are stupid. Women, however, tend to take the "innocent idiocy" explanation, hoping their cuteness will excuse them. Men just get angry when you show them they're idiots.
2) I do not surround myself with such people. You might be a masochist, but I'm not.:-)
I read Scientific American, MIT Technology Review, and Macworld. I got a subscription to Car & Driver, but it's a sophomoric publication that doesn't see any value in automobiles that aren't grossly overpowered, gigantic SUVs, or cost less than $80,000.
Slashdot Mirror
Unless **AA starts wiretapping every single MAC Address in the nation, it's gonna be real easy to share files.
I'd bet the opposite: When I was at college (Penn State), the network was so clogged (not to mention they had a 1.5GB/week download limit) that I would rarely get 50KB/sec downloading from Apple. I have a 3.0Mb cable modem through Comcast, and even shared between three computers I still get 150+KB/s, even during peak hours.
Colleges do have bigger pipes, but they're also splitting those pipes between thousands or tens of thousands of users. (40,000 undergrads at PSU alone, and about half using the University's network.)
I didn't hit pr0n sites till I moved out of the dorms. It was easy enough to browse the network and find all the pr0n I need.
I prefer "If you spend years developing a better mousetrap, you'll either be surrounded by mice or your wife will buy a cat."
Stow the Xian Fundie crap. It doesn't work here. The fear of having a chip implanted is plenty for people to not do it. There are many benefits "in this life" for not having a chip implanted than to offer people another life that may or may not exist.
That depends. Does the link promise free pr0n, money, or chocolate? Or does the link say it will find and destroy malware or pr0n on your system.
Social engineering is the most effective exploit of any system.
I'd rather have the 15" Powerbook with the 128MB graphics card. Fewer pixels to push means faster performance. But size does matter, to the ladies...
"And I say your three cent titanium tax doesn't go to far enough!"
Seriously, anyone who *can't* see the similarities needs to look harder. They're no different. Both are simply trying to get more power for themselves. Neither are concerned about "America" other than the pesky "voting" thing in November. They seek victory, nothing more.
Me, I'm voting for Jack Johnson instead of John Jackson. (You know, the one who went to Yale and was in the Skull and Bones Society.)
America is like my fiancée's family: When they're not fighting other people, they're fighting amongst themselves.
Oblig. Reply: "But I'm Mr. Freeze you insensitive clod!"
This is precisely why we should conserve power in addition to finding cleaner sources of it. Intelligent home design, full-cycle building materials (where you get paid to return the scrap that can be used to make more product), and total-cost-accounting for energy (make the price of energy equal not to the cost of generation, but the total cost from digging it up to cleaning up its effects).
What if nuclear power wasn't subsidized, or was subsidized through a tax on power being generated. The cleanup would be paid by people who use nuclear power. If the cost was too high, they wouldn't use as much and the demand would be lower.
This would cause people to conserve power instead of wasting it by building energy efficient homes and buying energy efficient products. But people would still be allowed to buy gas guzzlers and live in 250 year-old houses with no insulation if they had the money to waste.
However, many people in college should make good use of their interlibrary loans or local collections. I discovered too late the amazing selection of books in my university's library system. I read 8 books over the course of four months because it was as simple as logging on to the library's site, requesting the book, and picking it up the next day at the branch campus. Shipping was free, and I could keep the book for a month before having to return it.
Perhaps there should be a system like this for libraries.
However, their ignorance, in this case, affects other people, namely me. So it's in my interest to educate other users. And it's in Microsoft's interest to either make a browser that doesn't allow Windowsboxen into spam zombies, or educate their users as to how they can secure their systems.
Not exploring, LIBERATING!
Is it a faucet, or one of those small animal watering devices?
Mac OS X user. However, what's the blank window that shows up when I Exposé Firefox?
How's that for a fsck up?
Of course, I never use checks because I have a check card, so I don't have the problem of writing a check and then making sure that it won't bounce when it clears.
What a fucked up ruling.
So that's why the space shuttle has such slow computers!
Maybe I'm growing up...
2) I do not surround myself with such people. You might be a masochist, but I'm not. :-)
Let's hear it for sub-ms ping times!
I read Scientific American, MIT Technology Review, and Macworld. I got a subscription to Car & Driver, but it's a sophomoric publication that doesn't see any value in automobiles that aren't grossly overpowered, gigantic SUVs, or cost less than $80,000.