There should be a law that says all personal data on any media including hard drives must be encrypted to military grade at all times. Just having persistently-stored unencrypted personal data should be a crime, and anyone that looses personal data should have to pay significant damages to each of the people identified by the data.
Usenet is alive and quite well. Actually I was on it this morning (before I read this article). The fact that less-informed internet users don't generally know about it is IMHO a good thing.
>> I wonder what happens if you inform a cop that you are recording him when he pulls you over.
Why inform the cop? They don't bother to tell us if/when they're filming from their car during a stop.
After fighting and loosing a blatantly ridiculous speeding ticket I've come to the unfortunate realisation you have to treat cops like they treat you... i.e. its a war. Don't make the mistake that cops are any way fair any more, they're not. Use what ever you can.
Don't wave a camera in the cop's face, just have a webcam in your car like they do. In fact you're probably more likely to capture something out of order if the cop doesn't know he's being filmed.
As far as I understand, if you can prove any part of the stop wasn't performed strictly by the book, you've got an automatic get-out.
#include all the usual statements about blocking p2p being a stupid broad-brush approach to fighting piracy, then ask yourself why do AT&T and any other ISPs choking P2P actually care?
Is it really just high bandwidth usage they fear, or is it that the RIAA/MPAA have got to them?
This retarded philosophy that Microsoft have of bloating everything to hell like by adding embedded automation in every file format they get their hands on is one of the biggest reasons I hate Microsoft. Why the hell can an audio file even open web pages in the first place?
Jeez why can't they keep it simple, such that an audio file only contains audio?
I signed up on ebay about a month ago. after a few purchases the website told me I had reached a limit I could spend on ebay without associating my bank account to it or taking one of their credit cards.
Being scared to give any 3rd part company direct access to my bank account I was obliged to sign up for one of their credit cards if I wanted to continue using ebay.
I have two other credit cards assciated with paypal already but now I have the paypal card too, much of the time it won't let me pay for stuff other than with their credit card only. I've spent several hours on the phone to paypal over several calls, but they just keep saying they have a "sceurity detector" in their computer that sees something fishy about most transactions not made with my paypal credit card so limits my payment options for safety reasons, which is total crap. Most of the time I'm buying from people with very high reputations or power sellers etc. Furthermore they claim they can't override it.
I went to make a purchase of an item thats in the UK. Even though I had my UK caredit card associated with paypal already, even for a UK purchase so I ended up having to pay using their card only, meaning I had to do a redundant currency conversion and also accept their lousy conversion rate.
Actually I'm just about to cancel my paypal plus credit card just to not allow paypal to have it as an option to force me to pay with any more, so hopefully the system will then have to allow me to use my other cards.
I know its propbably after the fact in your case, but you make a really good argument for checking Linux compatability/support of hardware BEFORE you buy it.
Some hardware manufacturers have begun to also provide Linux drivers, but there are still lots that just think all PCs=windows.
If everyone only bought linux-supported hardware we'd be hitting them in the only place that would cause a manufacturer to change policy: actual sales numbers.
As a community we need to visibly help the success of manaufacturers who do provide Linux drivers and visibly impact those who are locked into a stupid windows-only mindset.
Dude what? As you're writing for Linux (under WINE), why don't you just skip the WINE part and just write something using a Linux-native toolchain? It would be a lot more efficient.
Is that the usual level of intelligent interviewing you Americans have to put up with on TV? My 3 year old kid asked more insightful questions than those news presenters (honestly).
>> Is there a router out there that would allow me to reserve, say, 75-90kbps of bandwidth off the top for VOIP and never, ever allow any application to use that, regardless of whether there's a VOIP call going on at the moment or not?"
Why completely block out bandwidth even when you're not using the service that uses it? that seems kinda silly overkill to me. Packet prioritisation is much better.
I expect your actual problem is either: 1) Your bittorrent client doing all it can to make your bittorrent traffic not look like bitttorrent traffic so that your ISP won't throttle it, so your router can't prioritise it either.
1) The inconvenince of having to register online everytime you want to run the game. 2) Not being able to play the game if you don't have an internet connection (e.g. on a plane).
I think I'll just stick with Pingus and a million other good and free Linux games that don't have all this DRM shit.
Its not about the cost or amount of resources we have, but the escalating damage to the environment caused by sticking with burning fossil fuels. Burning yet more coal is not the answer.
Dude regardless of whether you're right or wrong, this is not the place. Even if you can't get your facts straight, at least get your manners straight.
I'm surprised you continue to let the RIAA get away with all the crap they pull. Please finally put the smackdown on them in a way that hurts them and their parent record companies enough to stop them once and for all from making a mockery of the US constituiton and our legal system.
....you can just imagine that like most companies, their business network is all MS windows boxes that also have internet access, so is completely vulnerable to outside hacking too.
If this hadn't have happened it would have probably only been a matter of time before some hacker chanced upon the fact that they could actually control the nuclear facility from some compromised windows box.
Its amazing that these days some sys-admins/network admins still don't get it. Lets just hope that this incident is enough to get them fired and for the comapny to hire people that know enough to make the system properly secure.
Netflix's current streaming video service (on the watch instantly tab) is basically useless to a lot of people because it only works under IE, thereby meaning windows only.
The advent of this technology holds out hope that someday Netflix might also actually support the rest of us customers who would like to watch streaming stuff but aren't using IE and/or Windows.
>> What do you think the music industry is going to do?
Hopefully shrivel up and die like the worthless leeches they are, so that a much less formulaic and marketing-centric music industry can take its place. Lets get back to where musical ability sells music, not just the marketing hype around image, gender, age and breast size of the performer. Do you know how many excellent musicians there are out there that we never get to hear just because they don't fit some plastic corporate exec's idea of a marketable image?
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I'm happy to report that Windows is fully comaptible with upgrading to Ubuntu :-).
We'd have ourselves a perfect business system if it wasn't for those pesky customers messing things up.
There should be a law that says all personal data on any media including hard drives must be encrypted to military grade at all times.
Just having persistently-stored unencrypted personal data should be a crime, and anyone that looses personal data should have to pay significant damages to each of the people identified by the data.
Usenet is alive and quite well. Actually I was on it this morning (before I read this article).
The fact that less-informed internet users don't generally know about it is IMHO a good thing.
>> I wonder what happens if you inform a cop that you are recording him when he pulls you over.
Why inform the cop? They don't bother to tell us if/when they're filming from their car during a stop.
After fighting and loosing a blatantly ridiculous speeding ticket I've come to the unfortunate realisation you have to treat cops like they treat you... i.e. its a war. Don't make the mistake that cops are any way fair any more, they're not. Use what ever you can.
Don't wave a camera in the cop's face, just have a webcam in your car like they do. In fact you're probably more likely to capture something out of order if the cop doesn't know he's being filmed.
As far as I understand, if you can prove any part of the stop wasn't performed strictly by the book, you've got an automatic get-out.
#include all the usual statements about blocking p2p being a stupid broad-brush approach to fighting piracy, then ask yourself why do AT&T and any other ISPs choking P2P actually care?
Is it really just high bandwidth usage they fear, or is it that the RIAA/MPAA have got to them?
yeah it will do wonders to the organ most necessary to people working in IT.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060915204035.htm
This retarded philosophy that Microsoft have of bloating everything to hell like by adding embedded automation in every file format they get their hands on is one of the biggest reasons I hate Microsoft. Why the hell can an audio file even open web pages in the first place?
Jeez why can't they keep it simple, such that an audio file only contains audio?
>> you need large real-time systems running as sufficiently as possible.
lol. Are they running vista then? oh wait.. that would be INsufficient...
I signed up on ebay about a month ago. after a few purchases the website told me I had reached a limit I could spend on ebay without associating my bank account to it or taking one of their credit cards.
Being scared to give any 3rd part company direct access to my bank account I was obliged to sign up for one of their credit cards if I wanted to continue using ebay.
I have two other credit cards assciated with paypal already but now I have the paypal card too, much of the time it won't let me pay for stuff other than with their credit card only. I've spent several hours on the phone to paypal over several calls, but they just keep saying they have a "sceurity detector" in their computer that sees something fishy about most transactions not made with my paypal credit card so limits my payment options for safety reasons, which is total crap. Most of the time I'm buying from people with very high reputations or power sellers etc. Furthermore they claim they can't override it.
I went to make a purchase of an item thats in the UK. Even though I had my UK caredit card associated with paypal already, even for a UK purchase so I ended up having to pay using their card only, meaning I had to do a redundant currency conversion and also accept their lousy conversion rate.
Actually I'm just about to cancel my paypal plus credit card just to not allow paypal to have it as an option to force me to pay with any more, so hopefully the system will then have to allow me to use my other cards.
as it has a key with a windows logo on it.
I know its propbably after the fact in your case, but you make a really good argument for checking Linux compatability/support of hardware BEFORE you buy it.
Some hardware manufacturers have begun to also provide Linux drivers, but there are still lots that just think all PCs=windows.
If everyone only bought linux-supported hardware we'd be hitting them in the only place that would cause a manufacturer to change policy: actual sales numbers.
As a community we need to visibly help the success of manaufacturers who do provide Linux drivers and visibly impact those who are locked into a stupid windows-only mindset.
Dude what?
As you're writing for Linux (under WINE), why don't you just skip the WINE part and just write something using a Linux-native toolchain? It would be a lot more efficient.
Is that the usual level of intelligent interviewing you Americans have to put up with on TV? My 3 year old kid asked more insightful questions than those news presenters (honestly).
>> Is there a router out there that would allow me to reserve, say, 75-90kbps of bandwidth off the top for VOIP and never, ever allow any application to use that, regardless of whether there's a VOIP call going on at the moment or not?"
Why completely block out bandwidth even when you're not using the service that uses it? that seems kinda silly overkill to me. Packet prioritisation is much better.
I expect your actual problem is either:
1) Your bittorrent client doing all it can to make your bittorrent traffic not look like bitttorrent traffic so that your ISP won't throttle it, so your router can't prioritise it either.
2) Your ISP is recognising you have a bittorrent going on, and is flooding you with RST or SYN packets in order to limit your download speed, which is also having an effect on your voip call.
see http://torrentfreak.com/comcast-throttles-bittorrent-traffic-seeding-impossible/
1) The inconvenince of having to register online everytime you want to run the game.
2) Not being able to play the game if you don't have an internet connection (e.g. on a plane).
I think I'll just stick with Pingus and a million other good and free Linux games that don't have all this DRM shit.
Its not about the cost or amount of resources we have, but the escalating damage to the environment caused by sticking with burning fossil fuels.
Burning yet more coal is not the answer.
Dude regardless of whether you're right or wrong, this is not the place.
Even if you can't get your facts straight, at least get your manners straight.
Woman says women are better than men. No news here. move on.
Dear Judges.
I'm surprised you continue to let the RIAA get away with all the crap they pull.
Please finally put the smackdown on them in a way that hurts them and their parent record companies enough to stop them once and for all from making a mockery of the US constituiton and our legal system.
If the government cared even half as much about their own citizens as they do about big corporations interests, we'd be in good shape.
How is it comapnies can sue for _NOT_ doing buisness with them?
Maybe I'm missing something but this sounds like the equivalent of getting a lawsuit from Dominos because I ordered a pizza from Papa Johns instead.
....you can just imagine that like most companies, their business network is all MS windows boxes that also have internet access, so is completely vulnerable to outside hacking too.
If this hadn't have happened it would have probably only been a matter of time before some hacker chanced upon the fact that they could actually control the nuclear facility from some compromised windows box.
Its amazing that these days some sys-admins/network admins still don't get it.
Lets just hope that this incident is enough to get them fired and for the comapny to hire people that know enough to make the system properly secure.
Netflix's current streaming video service (on the watch instantly tab) is basically useless to a lot of people because it only works under IE, thereby meaning windows only.
The advent of this technology holds out hope that someday Netflix might also actually support the rest of us customers who would like to watch streaming stuff but aren't using IE and/or Windows.
>> What do you think the music industry is going to do?
Hopefully shrivel up and die like the worthless leeches they are, so that a much less formulaic and marketing-centric music industry can take its place. Lets get back to where musical ability sells music, not just the marketing hype around image, gender, age and breast size of the performer. Do you know how many excellent musicians there are out there that we never get to hear just because they don't fit some plastic corporate exec's idea of a marketable image?
The world doesn't need more middle-men.