The instance I'm running right now(with very few extensions installed, I might add) that has been running(idling mostly) for about 12 hours is already at 102meg and once I start using it again, it'll soon jump over 200 meg easily. If I restart it, it'll start around 40meg and then within 10 minutes(without me doing much more than visiting google) it'll be around 80meg again. I can repeat this time and time again without fail. Eventually it starts hogging enough that it requires another restart. I might get a whole 24 hours out of one instance before a restart is require IF I don't use it that often, usually 6 hours of use equals at least one restart of FF. Mozilla Suite(Seamonkey?) never used more than 80 megs with everything running so this is a bit confusing at this point.
do you really consider that to be "invisible" though? I know they had mostly close-ups but one might guess that anything that remotely resembled a helicopter's rotors, which is exactly what it looked like to me, might be prone to being shot(a shotgun would do the job quite well) anyway in a hostile situation, and since that's about the only place these would be used, those chances are high.
It's funny how you act like you have the slightest clue where I was going. I guess you've had to talk like that that all your life to fool people into thinking you're really smart and with it. Never had to use metaphor and simile to make someone understand your point I guess. Now why don't you go play with all the other kiddies and let us get back to a real discussion.
Right, and the issue is that this doesn't have anything to do with the actual local office in Brazil, or didn't you catch that part? If our government got sneaky and had a foreign power put pressure on a local office in their country to hand over the search data that the department of (in)justice wants so badly but has been refused, that would be undermining OUR local laws. Understand how that could be used against you now?
First of all, that's MJPEG which might have some of the JPEG standards but is not the same thing by any means. If you'd read that wiki you'd know that. Sorry, the gap isn't bridged by dragging in a "new" format(if you consider 1995-ish technology to be new, that is), for one it's more for speed than compression(I can tell you from first hand experience that 30 min of vhs quality video is about 2Gb), and it was designed with non-linear editors in mind, not video for playback on the web. Speaking of the web though, everytime I've seen an MJPEG, it's required Quicktime so it's even less favorable since jpg, gif and png are useable in almost every browser available without modification.
well if you can show me how jpg is animated or that the animated PNG, aka MNG, is fully supported in browsers, I'll grant you "better" otherwise there are just tools that are better for different uses. Color depth isn't always the biggest concern any more than is a format being capable of animation.
Maaaaybeee because you're the only one paying attention? Seriously, you're not talking about one single person doing this, it's many people and you just happen to have the reality tunnel that likes to notice it. Lighten up.
I don't know about anyone else but 120kb of disk space is not what I'd refer to as a significant savings, and with the savings being about 3%, one might argue that it's not statistically significant either.
Back in the day of 20mb hard drives, 120k might have meant something but these days my drives are 30gb or larger and the block-size on my filesystem is 32k, so I lose more space by writing four 1k files(for the uninitiated, that actually translates to 128k of disk space that's used) than what using AAC would save. I know that means a lot to some but it's not that important to some(most?) of us.
My player(a Philips) accepts music on CDR as mp3(and maybe Ogg, I forget), cost me about $300 less than an IPOD and can immediately play the CD's I buy so I don't have to wait to get home to rip/listen, and if someone likes the music I happen to be listening to(minus the CD I just bought for obvious reasons), I can hand them the CDR and tell them to enjoy, no need for finding a computer, copying, etc. Right now, that flexibility is far cooler to me than having 40 gig of music I can shuffle(and I do NOT want to shuffle my spoken word with my doom metal with my psychedelia with my hip hop nor be forced to make a conscious decision to tell the player NOT to do so)...I already have a 100cd wallet but now it contains CDR's full of mp3's rather than plain CD's. Know how much CDR media I can buy with that $300?
Besides, most of the music I download are already mp3s and I just rip to high quality(224kbs or higher typically) mp3 when I'm rippng my own music and I fit the same number of albums on each CD as I do with a 160kbs since the space savings a 160 might give me will not equal enough to add much more than a couple extra songs. I'm not saying my choices are better but they definitely differ from the ipod's audience and have more thought than "oooh, look..it's SHINY AND NEW...MY PRECIOUS"
"Um, no. This was an aberration; nothing more, even if its use for those reasons was deliberate on his part."
You just might be surprised. I know for certain that one of the ways of hiding sensitive data by many hackers, at least until a few years ago, involved using a C=64 datasette and one of the old school answering machines that used cassettes. Put your data on a cassette with the C=64 and then put the cassette inside of the answering machine. From here there are a lot of things you can do with it: one can hook the answering machine up and in the event of trouble, you call yourself, the answering machine answers and overwrites your data; put the answering machine and C=64 in a closet/junk drawer and no one will pay the least bit of attention to them especially if you have the proper context for old machines as such...the list goes on and on.
"although I'm sure that paypal has the right to do whatever the hell they want short of taking all your cash"
Actually, Paypal can take all your cash too. I was going to use them for my[shameless plug] locals-only dating site but upon seeing how freakin' limiting they are and how quickly/easily they can deem a site to be "adult content" no matter how G-rated it actually is, I went with other options, especially since I was considering branching out into more adult-oriented content eventually. Google wasn't one of them since at the time they hadn't decided to allow dating sites and may not have at this time.
Yeah, true but it works for the majority of people I send to including those using yahoo, hotmail, etc. I think my t-bird install had simple-html as the default but it's been a while since I last installed it for my own use.
The problem there is, it isn't obvious that someone is trying to bypass the security settings but your real issue is your attitude toward someone who might actually NEED to know you read an email. I guess you never thought of actually figuring out how to bypass such a thing instead of ignoring your friends, etc.
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WTF!?!?!? I just got modded down as "Overrated" twice?!?!? I haven't even been RATED!!! idiot newbie mods.
...but I use MsgTag(www.msgtag.com) as they are infinitely more reliable than sending a return-receipt or the like. I know I could create my own system like this but overall it's been pretty cool.
Admittedly, if you write to unix geeken who still use pine, elm, etc. then it won't work(it uses html tags inside the messages) but it's a fairly accurate indicator of when someone has read your messages.
If anyone knows of a freeware project like MsgTag, I'd love to hear about it.
No, it's the downloading that's illegal too. I've had to deal with DMCA Takedown notices(from the side of the ISP receiving them as complaints) from people downloading. Don't fool yourself into thinking you're safe because you're not sharing.
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Someone mod the parent +10 Funny!! I'd do it if I had mod points right now.
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Come on!!! Every geek knows that was Captain Kirk!!!!!
The instance I'm running right now(with very few extensions installed, I might add) that has been running(idling mostly) for about 12 hours is already at 102meg and once I start using it again, it'll soon jump over 200 meg easily. If I restart it, it'll start around 40meg and then within 10 minutes(without me doing much more than visiting google) it'll be around 80meg again. I can repeat this time and time again without fail. Eventually it starts hogging enough that it requires another restart. I might get a whole 24 hours out of one instance before a restart is require IF I don't use it that often, usually 6 hours of use equals at least one restart of FF. Mozilla Suite(Seamonkey?) never used more than 80 megs with everything running so this is a bit confusing at this point.
do you really consider that to be "invisible" though? I know they had mostly close-ups but one might guess that anything that remotely resembled a helicopter's rotors, which is exactly what it looked like to me, might be prone to being shot(a shotgun would do the job quite well) anyway in a hostile situation, and since that's about the only place these would be used, those chances are high.
It's funny how you act like you have the slightest clue where I was going. I guess you've had to talk like that that all your life to fool people into thinking you're really smart and with it. Never had to use metaphor and simile to make someone understand your point I guess. Now why don't you go play with all the other kiddies and let us get back to a real discussion.
Oh please post a link to who this is!! A friend and I use poker sites all the time and this would be the way to equalize this BS law.
Right, and the issue is that this doesn't have anything to do with the actual local office in Brazil, or didn't you catch that part? If our government got sneaky and had a foreign power put pressure on a local office in their country to hand over the search data that the department of (in)justice wants so badly but has been refused, that would be undermining OUR local laws. Understand how that could be used against you now?
First of all, that's MJPEG which might have some of the JPEG standards but is not the same thing by any means. If you'd read that wiki you'd know that. Sorry, the gap isn't bridged by dragging in a "new" format(if you consider 1995-ish technology to be new, that is), for one it's more for speed than compression(I can tell you from first hand experience that 30 min of vhs quality video is about 2Gb), and it was designed with non-linear editors in mind, not video for playback on the web. Speaking of the web though, everytime I've seen an MJPEG, it's required Quicktime so it's even less favorable since jpg, gif and png are useable in almost every browser available without modification.
well if you can show me how jpg is animated or that the animated PNG, aka MNG, is fully supported in browsers, I'll grant you "better" otherwise there are just tools that are better for different uses. Color depth isn't always the biggest concern any more than is a format being capable of animation.
Maaaaybeee because you're the only one paying attention? Seriously, you're not talking about one single person doing this, it's many people and you just happen to have the reality tunnel that likes to notice it. Lighten up.
I don't know why I never thought of that but it wouldn't surprise me if it worked.
Way-Back Machine anyone?
Aye! IIRC, in Sweden there aren't any laws against those actions so "illegal" is simply a sick bird in this context.
Though the first thought through my head when I read the headline was "Great, now the useless standards outweigh the semi-decent ones by 2-to-1".
Back in the day of 20mb hard drives, 120k might have meant something but these days my drives are 30gb or larger and the block-size on my filesystem is 32k, so I lose more space by writing four 1k files(for the uninitiated, that actually translates to 128k of disk space that's used) than what using AAC would save. I know that means a lot to some but it's not that important to some(most?) of us.
My player(a Philips) accepts music on CDR as mp3(and maybe Ogg, I forget), cost me about $300 less than an IPOD and can immediately play the CD's I buy so I don't have to wait to get home to rip/listen, and if someone likes the music I happen to be listening to(minus the CD I just bought for obvious reasons), I can hand them the CDR and tell them to enjoy, no need for finding a computer, copying, etc. Right now, that flexibility is far cooler to me than having 40 gig of music I can shuffle(and I do NOT want to shuffle my spoken word with my doom metal with my psychedelia with my hip hop nor be forced to make a conscious decision to tell the player NOT to do so)...I already have a 100cd wallet but now it contains CDR's full of mp3's rather than plain CD's. Know how much CDR media I can buy with that $300?
Besides, most of the music I download are already mp3s and I just rip to high quality(224kbs or higher typically) mp3 when I'm rippng my own music and I fit the same number of albums on each CD as I do with a 160kbs since the space savings a 160 might give me will not equal enough to add much more than a couple extra songs. I'm not saying my choices are better but they definitely differ from the ipod's audience and have more thought than "oooh, look..it's SHINY AND NEW...MY PRECIOUS"
You just might be surprised. I know for certain that one of the ways of hiding sensitive data by many hackers, at least until a few years ago, involved using a C=64 datasette and one of the old school answering machines that used cassettes. Put your data on a cassette with the C=64 and then put the cassette inside of the answering machine. From here there are a lot of things you can do with it: one can hook the answering machine up and in the event of trouble, you call yourself, the answering machine answers and overwrites your data; put the answering machine and C=64 in a closet/junk drawer and no one will pay the least bit of attention to them especially if you have the proper context for old machines as such...the list goes on and on.
Actually, Paypal can take all your cash too. I was going to use them for my[shameless plug] locals-only dating site but upon seeing how freakin' limiting they are and how quickly/easily they can deem a site to be "adult content" no matter how G-rated it actually is, I went with other options, especially since I was considering branching out into more adult-oriented content eventually. Google wasn't one of them since at the time they hadn't decided to allow dating sites and may not have at this time.
Yeah, true but it works for the majority of people I send to including those using yahoo, hotmail, etc. I think my t-bird install had simple-html as the default but it's been a while since I last installed it for my own use.
The problem there is, it isn't obvious that someone is trying to bypass the security settings but your real issue is your attitude toward someone who might actually NEED to know you read an email. I guess you never thought of actually figuring out how to bypass such a thing instead of ignoring your friends, etc.
WTF!?!?!? I just got modded down as "Overrated" twice?!?!? I haven't even been RATED!!! idiot newbie mods.
Admittedly, if you write to unix geeken who still use pine, elm, etc. then it won't work(it uses html tags inside the messages) but it's a fairly accurate indicator of when someone has read your messages.
If anyone knows of a freeware project like MsgTag, I'd love to hear about it.
Absolute power is kinda neat.
I read your subject and thought it said "Going Badly"...which isn't all that far from the truth.
No, it's the downloading that's illegal too. I've had to deal with DMCA Takedown notices(from the side of the ISP receiving them as complaints) from people downloading. Don't fool yourself into thinking you're safe because you're not sharing.
Someone mod the parent +10 Funny!! I'd do it if I had mod points right now.