rootkit on CD's - I stopped purchasing CDs retroactive feature lockout - the PS3 is the last game console I will purchase from Sony, for all its wonder Sony has shown once again that they have nothing but contempt and arrogance toward their customers, a let them eat bread approach, needs to be addressed with a vote from the pocketbook.
As much as it pains me to do so, anyone who will ask me about a game box will get a 'build one' or purchase an XBox 360, I don't see Microsoft as any friendlier towards their consumers but I have seen them act in a fairly straight forward manner regarding DRM and dealing with flawed hardware.
To date Sony has taken away legitimate functionality with the PS3, first with the Linux 'disable' to prevent jailbreaks, which strangely enough, came to be because Sony disabled Linux.
Cassini also has the advantage of little if any other material around it to have an adverse effect on measurement, measured decay could be affected by surroundings. I'm not even certain how you would go about having a closed system to measure, you can know a speed or a location but.....
or proximity to the sun? could the amount of ambient energy have an effect on decay rates? Ice melts faster in the summer than in winter, or does it? observed decay is relative to an average state.... balanced equations and all that stuff I tried to forget from school come back....
Not a big fan of $1000 cables, but I will add my 2 cents, first I buy the cheapest cables I can find, generally speaking its monoprice dot com for me; that said, 'super' sata cables *might* increase your audio quality if a set number of other dingbat conditions exist. 1. the cables they replace are CRAP, 0's and 1's might transmit fine but if your cables give off RF and.... 2. your audio subsystem is subpar, not shielded properly, possibly analog out from the PC (use the TOS, though certainly someone is going to scream about optical 'SUPER' cables next, or it is subject to.... 3. the power supply on your mains (house) or computer is CRAP, again, noise in, noise out.
so, buying quality isn't the same as buying SUPER, if you have CRAP in your equation SUPER cables might help you but really no more than cables that at least meet the spec for what your doing (cat5e or cat6 for gig, not 5 or 3 cause it works, it works all right but not as well as you think).
This weapon does more harm to those 'making' it then those it is deployed on. Truly a bad idea though, now this chump is going to be brought up on the charges he intended for his victim.
Looks to me like they tested all of their phones with iphone 3 'covers' which prevent the user from touching the antenna.
Maybe Apple should ship these 'identity' masking 3g covers to all 4 users, which would make me happy as most upgraded to have folks see their shiny bit of unobtanium.
I use Bose QC2's in the DC for long stays, they have a phone connection kit, the mic seems to be very able to keep things quiet on both ends, they keep your ears warm and while not serving as a phoneset they can be used to listen to tunes, I do not recommend these headsets lightly or for anyone not in a NOISY environment, they add noise to the sound in quiet environments.
Yes, but I believe you could argue that you infringed on the album and not the individual tracks, I've looked at several albums and see clearly that the 'work' is copyrighted but I have yet to see track 1 copyright, track 2 copyright, etc. It could be assumed but if you were to download tracks that I ripped and subsequently stripped the copyright notice from, how would you know? Unless it is a bit for bit exact copy how could it be asserted that the copy you pulled from a file share service was in fact from a copyrighted source? I would love to see someone take two files one lossless and one at 128kbps MP3 and compare to a judge the checksums as they are, or transcode the mp3 to a CD native track and compare once more.
The more I read on this specific case the more I hate the RIAA, the defendant was 16 at the time??? I am more than twice that and still don't understand copyright as well as the RIAA seems to expect, does anyone other than these lawyers believe that this kid should have known better?
again IANAL but: In a fair use analysis, the concern over unauthorized copying of digital material is heightened because digital works may be distributed and reproduced more rapidly than print works, for example via email or peer-to-peer file sharing systems. The digital medium also enhances the quality of reproductions; digital copies are often near-perfect reproductions of a work while print copies are typically poorer versions of their originals. While use of a digital work may still be fair use, the quality of the reproduction and the ease of distribution make it more likely that the market for the original work will be effected by the proposed use and courts will see the risks presented by the use as greater than in the print area. For example, in several cases, reproductions which are of inferior quality have been permitted as fair use (e.g digital "thumbnail" copies of prints used for purposes of evaluating whether to license the original) while high-quality reproductions have not.
So for archival copies I agree with you bit for bit and/or lossless that yields bit for bit when converted back is good, but for a copy where the possibility of parallel playback (a CD playing and a copy in my ipod, in two locations) it might be considered fair use to have an 'inferior' copy. Truly I am surprised that this tact hasn't been taken and/or argued. I suppose it depends on why your doing your transcode and/or backup.
I've always wondered about this portion of the law and thought that it would be more appropriate not to just find the files on the file-sharing user's computer but to also find the work being infringed.
The record companies have used the 'making available' justification to fry some and I almost buy that, if I take my purchased CD's and transcode them to a compressed format for personal use that could be fair use, bit for bit copies might not be but compressed should be.
If I take the same 'inferior' copies and place them on a file-sharing tool for the purpose of allowing others access I have, if I believe what I read made them available, this is where I suppose the IANAL bit comes into play but... posting the files with the copyright notice should make it clear that others are violating the copyright (my copy, archival or not) posting the files without the copyright notice should open the other users of the file-sharing tool to 'innocent infringer' status.
And since when did individual tracks count as a work infringed? If I copy the CD that was sold as a single item (oh I love this) how can the twelve tracks on it be anything other than fractions of the whole? If you can prove it was itunes or singles thats one thing but we are clearly talking about songs ripped from a CD, I think even if innocent infringement is tossed someone should be arguing (as the record companies and artists have tried to prevent Apple from doing) that a track represents a portion of the 'art' and as such should be treated as such in compensation. I would still like to meet the *moron* who thinks suing your customer base is a good business plan, than again, maybe I don't.
People are complaining about services they accepted/knew were controlled, for some this control is a benefit, for others its something to whine about, I have an iPod Touch and an iPhone, Steve isn't stopping me from putting porn on my devices, its there; itunes will gladly import chix with dix and tijuana dawn key show just fine; what Steve is doing is making the end user make the choice and not having his storefront require an offensive version and a non offensive version (who chooses?).
I am LMAO, if your a geek and you bought an iDevice and expected something else your not a very bright geek, it is a better sign of customer service to say no once in a while, Steve apparently believes this and identified someone that was not the targeted customer for his services, recognizing this and suggesting a product that does suit the needs of the person asking even when its a competitors product is newsworthy and a fair share better than what his competitors would do.
Well, a quick check on wikipedia shows that the average cost per flight over the life of the shuttle has been about 1.0 Billion per, lately as cheap as 750 million and historically as high as 1.7 Billion, minimum seating is 2, typical is 7, max is 11, do the math and see that if the payload is just astronauts its a good amount cheaper to do this; I wonder what the luggage limit is, 2 carry-ons ? 2 checked? addition 50 lbs?
I have to ask, did you watch the footage? there is clearly an RPG and clearly several AK variants (47 or 74, I'm not that good)
to be fair though, the cameraman is clearly holding a Canon with an easy to identify 'L' lens (white coloring) though I heard radio chatter on this video stating small arms fire (which I believe) I did not see any of the folks in the group attacked leveling/shouldering their weapons in the direction of the copters; I can't claim to understand the rational of what prompted the first attack it *might* have been justified given previous events, what I can say is the attack on the van with the good samaritans and their children, that in itself is enough to make me think we have failed in attempting to bring our 'values' to this region, they were rendering assistance to wounded and had NO weapons; the f*ck it attitude of the folks in the chopper is unbelievable, we should respect life even when taking it and to dehumanize an unprovoked attack on someone who was kind enough to stop for a man wounded an crawling? shame. And while we are talking about watching the footage, go to youtube and get the 39 minute uncut version, the third attack (left off the murder site) has three hellfire missiles being lobbed into a building that the 'armed' suspects went into, I can only hope that the building was abandoned as stated.
April Fools, but this is a little early and it looks like though not a joke, it is quite foolish, I purchased a system that had this functionality, they're removing it; could you imagine Microsoft pushing out an update that made your pretty duel boot fail forever?
I think there are enough consoles to be consider a 'class' and I paid a lot more for my fat PS3 than the current rate, maybe a refund to match the current stripped model is due.
I have never believed this to be an issue of licensing, but one of technical difficulty, having a fair amount of experience with ZFS, Solaris and MacOS I can say a few things with some conviction.
1. ZFS is very aggressive and can expect a lot of a system, look at its early effects on Oracle DB and NFS and you will see a lot has gone into its implementation in Solaris.
2. ZFS boot took a good amount of time to get working in a supported fashion on Solaris, it would be an assumption that boot would be one of the requirements/reasons to port this to MacOS, the snapshot/backup/upgrade possibilities would be to great to pass.
3. It would not be unfair to say that the Darwin kernel is not as mature as the Solaris kernel in regards to fine tuning, especially in the area of memory management, if you doubt this, take two comparable systems and load them up.
4. I've got an external drive that I was at one point sharing with both a Solaris host and a MacOS host, when I put the Mac under a heavy load and than let it get idle strange things would start to happen, I suspect but can't say for a fact that some of the aggressive caching mentioned in my first point ended up in a VM file, and I suspect that my third point would explain this, Solaris can/does limit the amount of ZFS memory cache dynamically so that this scenario will in most cases simply not occur.
"That's worthy but flawed. Unfortunately, Abubakr's arrangement means that the table can only be read by rotating it. That's tricky with a textbook and impossible with most computer screens."
I spent endless hours (and quarters) playing tempest, that seemed to work quite well on a computer screen and was the first thing that came to mind when I saw this ring 'o' elements
My problems are that its default behaviour is 'on' put a @#$^@^% switch on it and be done with it, you want to scan me? ask and I will enable, you don't ask, you don't scan I simply can't wait for smart bombs that target by RFID, it should scare the Feds, I know it would scare me, kudos to the person who thought this up, I hope they don't take retribution in kind.
This is one sideshow I wish I didn't have a front seat to; it was hard enough dealing with the re-branding every 2 months, not being one of the elite (try being a contractor supporting folks that 'wrote' what your supporting, especially when they didn't) lip service to a eat our own dog-food policy and an internal culture that expects weekly heroic acts; add to that the company trying very hard to sell itself for nearly the last year, being in offer status for half of that and having absolutely no forward momentum because no one seems to know what the 'Oracle' has in mind so why bother, well really, I would like to see this end so we can all see where the chips fall; unfortunately for me I believe I will be on the losing side of this deal, Oracle seems to avoid contract/outsource like the plague and I fall squarely in that bucket.
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I thought the legal staff was the only value add at SCO, am I missing something?
rootkit on CD's - I stopped purchasing CDs
retroactive feature lockout - the PS3 is the last game console I will purchase from Sony, for all its wonder Sony has shown once again that they have nothing but contempt and arrogance toward their customers, a let them eat bread approach, needs to be addressed with a vote from the pocketbook.
As much as it pains me to do so, anyone who will ask me about a game box will get a 'build one' or purchase an XBox 360, I don't see Microsoft as any friendlier towards their consumers but I have seen them act in a fairly straight forward manner regarding DRM and dealing with flawed hardware.
To date Sony has taken away legitimate functionality with the PS3, first with the Linux 'disable' to prevent jailbreaks, which strangely enough, came to be because Sony disabled Linux.
Idiots and fools.
Cassini also has the advantage of little if any other material around it to have an adverse effect on measurement, measured decay could be affected by surroundings.
I'm not even certain how you would go about having a closed system to measure, you can know a speed or a location but.....
and here I thought C : Enter was a DOS thing.
Silly poster, tricks are for hookers.
or proximity to the sun? could the amount of ambient energy have an effect on decay rates? Ice melts faster in the summer than in winter, or does it? observed decay is relative to an average state.... balanced equations and all that stuff I tried to forget from school come back....
Not a big fan of $1000 cables, but I will add my 2 cents, first I buy the cheapest cables I can find, generally speaking its monoprice dot com for me; that said, 'super' sata cables *might* increase your audio quality if a set number of other dingbat conditions exist.
1. the cables they replace are CRAP, 0's and 1's might transmit fine but if your cables give off RF and....
2. your audio subsystem is subpar, not shielded properly, possibly analog out from the PC (use the TOS, though certainly someone is going to scream about optical 'SUPER' cables next, or it is subject to....
3. the power supply on your mains (house) or computer is CRAP, again, noise in, noise out.
so, buying quality isn't the same as buying SUPER, if you have CRAP in your equation SUPER cables might help you but really no more than cables that at least meet the spec for what your doing (cat5e or cat6 for gig, not 5 or 3 cause it works, it works all right but not as well as you think).
This weapon does more harm to those 'making' it then those it is deployed on. Truly a bad idea though, now this chump is going to be brought up on the charges he intended for his victim.
Al Gore has been sighted in the Black forest, the search for Manbearpig continues.
up in arms, get it? arms.
Looks to me like they tested all of their phones with iphone 3 'covers' which prevent the user from touching the antenna.
Maybe Apple should ship these 'identity' masking 3g covers to all 4 users, which would make me happy as most upgraded to have folks see their shiny bit of unobtanium.
I use Bose QC2's in the DC for long stays, they have a phone connection kit, the mic seems to be very able to keep things quiet on both ends, they keep your ears warm and while not serving as a phoneset they can be used to listen to tunes, I do not recommend these headsets lightly or for anyone not in a NOISY environment, they add noise to the sound in quiet environments.
Yes, but I believe you could argue that you infringed on the album and not the individual tracks, I've looked at several albums and see clearly that the 'work' is copyrighted but I have yet to see track 1 copyright, track 2 copyright, etc. It could be assumed but if you were to download tracks that I ripped and subsequently stripped the copyright notice from, how would you know? Unless it is a bit for bit exact copy how could it be asserted that the copy you pulled from a file share service was in fact from a copyrighted source? I would love to see someone take two files one lossless and one at 128kbps MP3 and compare to a judge the checksums as they are, or transcode the mp3 to a CD native track and compare once more.
The more I read on this specific case the more I hate the RIAA, the defendant was 16 at the time??? I am more than twice that and still don't understand copyright as well as the RIAA seems to expect, does anyone other than these lawyers believe that this kid should have known better?
again IANAL but:
In a fair use analysis, the concern over unauthorized copying of digital material is heightened because digital works may be distributed and reproduced more rapidly than print works, for example via email or peer-to-peer file sharing systems. The digital medium also enhances the quality of reproductions; digital copies are often near-perfect reproductions of a work while print copies are typically poorer versions of their originals. While use of a digital work may still be fair use, the quality of the reproduction and the ease of distribution make it more likely that the market for the original work will be effected by the proposed use and courts will see the risks presented by the use as greater than in the print area. For example, in several cases, reproductions which are of inferior quality have been permitted as fair use (e.g digital "thumbnail" copies of prints used for purposes of evaluating whether to license the original) while high-quality reproductions have not.
So for archival copies I agree with you bit for bit and/or lossless that yields bit for bit when converted back is good, but for a copy where the possibility of parallel playback (a CD playing and a copy in my ipod, in two locations) it might be considered fair use to have an 'inferior' copy. Truly I am surprised that this tact hasn't been taken and/or argued. I suppose it depends on why your doing your transcode and/or backup.
I've always wondered about this portion of the law and thought that it would be more appropriate not to just find the files on the file-sharing user's computer but to also find the work being infringed.
The record companies have used the 'making available' justification to fry some and I almost buy that, if I take my purchased CD's and transcode them to a compressed format for personal use that could be fair use, bit for bit copies might not be but compressed should be.
If I take the same 'inferior' copies and place them on a file-sharing tool for the purpose of allowing others access I have, if I believe what I read made them available, this is where I suppose the IANAL bit comes into play but... posting the files with the copyright notice should make it clear that others are violating the copyright (my copy, archival or not) posting the files without the copyright notice should open the other users of the file-sharing tool to 'innocent infringer' status.
And since when did individual tracks count as a work infringed? If I copy the CD that was sold as a single item (oh I love this) how can the twelve tracks on it be anything other than fractions of the whole? If you can prove it was itunes or singles thats one thing but we are clearly talking about songs ripped from a CD, I think even if innocent infringement is tossed someone should be arguing (as the record companies and artists have tried to prevent Apple from doing) that a track represents a portion of the 'art' and as such should be treated as such in compensation. I would still like to meet the *moron* who thinks suing your customer base is a good business plan, than again, maybe I don't.
15 minutes might be long enough to tag the passport with RFID or a a radioactive substance to make him trackable.... :) tin-foil hats need not apply.
People are complaining about services they accepted/knew were controlled, for some this control is a benefit, for others its something to whine about,
I have an iPod Touch and an iPhone, Steve isn't stopping me from putting porn on my devices, its there; itunes will gladly import chix with dix and tijuana dawn key show just fine; what Steve is doing is making the end user make the choice and not having his storefront require an offensive version and a non offensive version (who chooses?).
I am LMAO, if your a geek and you bought an iDevice and expected something else your not a very bright geek, it is a better sign of customer service to say no once in a while, Steve apparently believes this and identified someone that was not the targeted customer for his services, recognizing this and suggesting a product that does suit the needs of the person asking even when its a competitors product is newsworthy and a fair share better than what his competitors would do.
mod me as a fanboy, mod me as a troll.
Well, a quick check on wikipedia shows that the average cost per flight over the life of the shuttle has been about 1.0 Billion per, lately as cheap as 750 million and historically as high as 1.7 Billion, minimum seating is 2, typical is 7, max is 11, do the math and see that if the payload is just astronauts its a good amount cheaper to do this; I wonder what the luggage limit is, 2 carry-ons ? 2 checked? addition 50 lbs?
I have to ask, did you watch the footage?
there is clearly an RPG and clearly several AK variants (47 or 74, I'm not that good)
to be fair though, the cameraman is clearly holding a Canon with an easy to identify 'L' lens (white coloring)
though I heard radio chatter on this video stating small arms fire (which I believe) I did not see any of the folks
in the group attacked leveling/shouldering their weapons in the direction of the copters; I can't claim to understand the rational of what prompted the first attack it *might* have been justified given previous events, what I can say is the attack on the van with the good samaritans and their children, that in itself is enough to make me think we have failed in attempting to bring our 'values' to this region, they were rendering assistance to wounded and had NO weapons; the f*ck it attitude of the folks in the chopper is unbelievable, we should respect life even when taking it and to dehumanize an unprovoked attack on someone who was kind enough to stop for a man wounded an crawling? shame. And while we are talking about watching the footage, go to youtube and get the 39 minute uncut version, the third attack (left off the murder site) has three hellfire missiles being lobbed into a building that the 'armed' suspects went into, I can only hope that the building was abandoned as stated.
April Fools, but this is a little early and it looks like though not a joke, it is quite foolish, I purchased a system that had this functionality, they're removing it; could you imagine Microsoft pushing out an update that made your pretty duel boot fail forever?
I think there are enough consoles to be consider a 'class' and I paid a lot more for my fat PS3 than the current rate, maybe a refund to match the current stripped model is due.
This has all happened before and apparently will happen again:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/lr247770l2272741/
I recall these earthquakes were triggered by chemical weapon disposal, same plot though, dig a big deep hole and put liquid in.....
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Consumers state that they would pick another cable company rather than demands, if there were another cable company.
I have never believed this to be an issue of licensing, but one of technical difficulty, having a fair amount of experience with ZFS, Solaris and MacOS I can say a few things with some conviction.
1. ZFS is very aggressive and can expect a lot of a system, look at its early effects on Oracle DB and NFS and you will see a lot has gone into its implementation in Solaris.
2. ZFS boot took a good amount of time to get working in a supported fashion on Solaris, it would be an assumption that boot would be one of the requirements/reasons to port this to MacOS, the snapshot/backup/upgrade possibilities would be to great to pass.
3. It would not be unfair to say that the Darwin kernel is not as mature as the Solaris kernel in regards to fine tuning, especially in the area of memory management, if you doubt this, take two comparable systems and load them up.
4. I've got an external drive that I was at one point sharing with both a Solaris host and a MacOS host, when I put the Mac under a heavy load and than let it get idle strange things would start to happen, I suspect but can't say for a fact that some of the aggressive caching mentioned in my first point ended up in a VM file, and I suspect that my third point would explain this, Solaris can/does limit the amount of ZFS memory cache dynamically so that this scenario will in most cases simply not occur.
"That's worthy but flawed. Unfortunately, Abubakr's arrangement means that the table can only be read by rotating it. That's tricky with a textbook and impossible with most computer screens."
I spent endless hours (and quarters) playing tempest, that seemed to work quite well on a computer screen and was the first thing that came to mind when I saw this ring 'o' elements
My problems are that its default behaviour is 'on' put a @#$^@^% switch on it and be done with it, you want to scan me? ask and I will enable, you don't ask, you don't scan I simply can't wait for smart bombs that target by RFID, it should scare the Feds, I know it would scare me, kudos to the person who thought this up, I hope they don't take retribution in kind.
This is one sideshow I wish I didn't have a front seat to; it was hard enough dealing with the re-branding every 2 months, not being one of the elite (try being a contractor supporting folks that 'wrote' what your supporting, especially when they didn't) lip service to a eat our own dog-food policy and an internal culture that expects weekly heroic acts; add to that the company trying very hard to sell itself for nearly the last year, being in offer status for half of that and having absolutely no forward momentum because no one seems to know what the 'Oracle' has in mind so why bother, well really, I would like to see this end so we can all see where the chips fall; unfortunately for me I believe I will be on the losing side of this deal, Oracle seems to avoid contract/outsource like the plague and I fall squarely in that bucket.