Actually no what? What part of my statement are you negating? I never said Israel had a DMCA like law. In fact, I suspected middle eastern countries probably didn't.
DMCA is a US law. It can only be enforced in the US. This is why, for example, piratebay.org has been able to get by ignoring DMCA take down notices for the past several years.
That said, I believe most EU countries, as well as Australia and recently Canada have laws similar to the DMCA. Other than Sweden I'm not sure of any specific countries that don't, though I'd venture to guess Russia, the middle east, india, china, the Koreas, africa, and most S american countries.
Well, they don't *have* to take it down. It's just that if the DMCA complaint is valid, then Google and the person responsible for posting the content can both be held liable if Google doesn't.
From a legal standpoint, it looks like it's wise for Google to always take stuff down. However, from a customer retention standpoint, it might be wise for Google to occasionally refuse when DMCA notices are blatantly inaccurate.
but it also doesn't require the original torrent file tracker to work anymore More importantly, this can be done without access to the internet. The lack of an available tracker is already made unnecessary by DHT. Just on the internet, it sometimes takes a while for Azureus to find someone else with the file through DHT.
As per the topic, Bittorrent fixed the problems - didn't cause them - so a failing router is not likely the problem. You misunderstood his comment; please read it again. In his story, bittorrent didn't cause any problem either--it identified a problem by use of the same mechanism (hash checks of file parts) that it solved the problem in the OP.
While I agree that bad ram is most likely the issue, it's still possible bad ram in a router or even something goofy going on in a router, such as the firmware bug described, could have caused problems. The bits were mangled before they were written to the disk. They could have been mangled by anything that processed those bits as they traversed from apple's website to his HD, including Apple's website and the HD itself. That embedded devices tend to be more reliable does not mean they don't break and do weird things sometimes.
Partnering with VIA gives nVidia about as much CPU as Intel already has GPU, though... Having class A components (even if they're really only A- or B+) in house could prove to be a big advantage for AMD.
Intel has CPU but their graphics are severly lacking. nVidia has GPU, but no CPU at all (unless they pair with VIA or someone else). AMD is the only one of the 3 that has both. How is that statement self contradicting?
Root doesn't have a password and can't be logged into directly, so the user logs in with an "administrator" user (an account that's a member of the admin group) instead. By default, everyone in the admin group has sudo access to all commands.
On a unix server, each major system process runs under it's own user. There's an apache user, a samba user, an lp user, a mail user, a backup user, a HALdaemon user, a display manager user, a mysql user...
>if that were to happen, Firefox and Opera would do everything possible to catch up immediately.
But firefox doesn't pass acid2 either. I must have missed your point (or you're wrong) You must have. His statement is as follows: if( IEPasses(ACID2) && IEPasses(ACID3) ) {
FirefoxWorkHarder(StandardsCompliance);
OperaWorkHarder(Standardcompliance); } else {
continue(PresentSituation); } We're stuck in the else case since, you know, IE doesn't pass both tests yet...
Not technically, but what he paid for was the SageTV PVR software specifically. Since the listings are tied to SageTV (can't use them with MythTV AFAIK) it's not really something that would interest me, anyhow, but at least it's not an annual subscription like the alternatives.
No, but about 85% of computer users do, and financial information is a question of hitting as many people as possible.
Bullshit. AV penetration might be that high, but what's the percentage when expired 90-day "came with my computer" trials are excluded? I work at a University, and if college students are any indicator of what they're parents are doing, even with our best efforts to educate them and provide campus purchased AV for use on personal computers, a large number either have nothing or don't realize AV can expire. I don't have statistics, but it's something I see daily. I can only imagine their parents are at least as clueless as they are.
Regardless of that, even with your stats, that leaves 15% of internet users, or some 150 million, completely unprotected. That's a lot of credit cards, especially when you can steal the same person's identity over and over until they finally clean the virus off their computer.
And since time and the physical universe stop forever when a rootkit gets defeated, it doesn't matter that they'll lose enormous amounts of money afterwards by being shut out afterwards.
Huh? You're reading about this on Slashdot. The AV companies are going to take notice and do something about this. That will happen to the same degree regardless of how many customers the virus authors take.
Don't forget--botnet owners often sell out usage of their networks to many customers, and they're working entirely within the percentage of unprotected internet users. (As defined by no AV or out of date AV).
I guess I can agree with that sentiment, but as someone who's been dealing with depression for the last couple of years, that wording doesn't bother me. I'm one of those pig-headed guys who has refused medication and chosen a purely behavioral-therapeutic approach. I don't abject to the wording because I don't see sincerely trying as something like "you have 5 minutes to be happy. Go. Not working, try harder!" It's more about fixing the thought and behavioral processes that get you down: building confidence, learning to be more assertive without being passive aggressive, and the like.
Perhaps had I heard intonation with the phrasing it would have set me in a rant, but reading it in print I just read it as a classification of exactly what I've been working on.
I guess by loading I meant of applications, not of bootup. I use it if I'm going to use the livecd for an extended period of time rather than doing something quick like re-install grub.
As a side note, from my experience even repeated loadings take a long time. If I open firefox it will often hang waiting for the disk to spin up after it's open and again if I close and reopen it. Even using the terminal can cause this. I pretty much hate using LiveCDs if they aren't cached in ram, but often I don't feel like waiting. Thanks for correcting that.
No, seriously, he's right. It's not so simply like you can just say, "I'm not going to be depressed" but just being depressed is itself a real downer than sucks you in deeper. Antidepressants, even if they only work through placebo affect, provide a patient with hope, which could help the roller coaster move gradually upward.
The best days are usually the days you've made a plan of action and convinced yourself it will change everything and you'll be better--you're thinking positively and not fixated on your depression. The worst days are when you realize you plan of action didn't do shit and everything still the same.
The series of comments to which you replied is about Linux LiveCDs, which don't require/touch the hard disk unless you explicitly tell them to. Using "toram" or "dochache" or similar kernel switches allows the entire contents of the CD to be loaded to the ramdisk, dramatically speeding up loading and allow one to remove the CD.
Even if your particular LiveCD is set to watch for and automatically use swap partitions, a HD is still significantly faster than an optical drive. If you install Linux permanently to your HD those particular kernel switches no longer do anything.
Can you make an pun involving "Second Treatise on Civil Government" or "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding"? Social contracts and philosophical blank slates are great, but they're not very funny...
AMD Processor Driver allows the computer to manage AMD Cool'n'Quiet to save electricity when the CPU is idle. You sure you have customers? Do they pay you?
I can understand the banning the playing of a purchased or rented DVD on a large screen, but non-time shifted broadcast television? All this could possibly do is decrease the size of the audience who were going to see the advertisements at the event just like someone at home
Now, if they were TIVOing the Superbowl and playing it an hour or 2 later so they could skip commercials, I can see how 400 people in an auditorium might be a problem, but live broadcast? Really? Are they retarded?
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Actually no what? What part of my statement are you negating? I never said Israel had a DMCA like law. In fact, I suspected middle eastern countries probably didn't.
DMCA is a US law. It can only be enforced in the US. This is why, for example, piratebay.org has been able to get by ignoring DMCA take down notices for the past several years.
That said, I believe most EU countries, as well as Australia and recently Canada have laws similar to the DMCA. Other than Sweden I'm not sure of any specific countries that don't, though I'd venture to guess Russia, the middle east, india, china, the Koreas, africa, and most S american countries.
Well, they don't *have* to take it down. It's just that if the DMCA complaint is valid, then Google and the person responsible for posting the content can both be held liable if Google doesn't.
From a legal standpoint, it looks like it's wise for Google to always take stuff down. However, from a customer retention standpoint, it might be wise for Google to occasionally refuse when DMCA notices are blatantly inaccurate.
While I agree that bad ram is most likely the issue, it's still possible bad ram in a router or even something goofy going on in a router, such as the firmware bug described, could have caused problems. The bits were mangled before they were written to the disk. They could have been mangled by anything that processed those bits as they traversed from apple's website to his HD, including Apple's website and the HD itself. That embedded devices tend to be more reliable does not mean they don't break and do weird things sometimes.
Hence why I mentioned VIA specifically ;)
Partnering with VIA gives nVidia about as much CPU as Intel already has GPU, though... Having class A components (even if they're really only A- or B+) in house could prove to be a big advantage for AMD.
Intel has CPU but their graphics are severly lacking. nVidia has GPU, but no CPU at all (unless they pair with VIA or someone else). AMD is the only one of the 3 that has both. How is that statement self contradicting?
Root doesn't have a password and can't be logged into directly, so the user logs in with an "administrator" user (an account that's a member of the admin group) instead. By default, everyone in the admin group has sudo access to all commands.
Much like gksudo taking control of the mouse and keyboard.
On a unix server, each major system process runs under it's own user. There's an apache user, a samba user, an lp user, a mail user, a backup user, a HALdaemon user, a display manager user, a mysql user...
Take a managerial position somewhere. It should provide the added clout without the need to know anymore than you already do.
But firefox doesn't pass acid2 either. I must have missed your point (or you're wrong) You must have. His statement is as follows:
if( IEPasses(ACID2) && IEPasses(ACID3) ) {
FirefoxWorkHarder(StandardsCompliance);
OperaWorkHarder(Standardcompliance);
} else {
continue(PresentSituation);
}
We're stuck in the else case since, you know, IE doesn't pass both tests yet...
Not technically, but what he paid for was the SageTV PVR software specifically. Since the listings are tied to SageTV (can't use them with MythTV AFAIK) it's not really something that would interest me, anyhow, but at least it's not an annual subscription like the alternatives.
Ha! I knew you were at least as much of a pedant as I am. "Don't bother replying because I won't read it" my ass. You even replied!
Give me back my jacket, you fat lard! I said you could borrow it, not keep it!
Bullshit. AV penetration might be that high, but what's the percentage when expired 90-day "came with my computer" trials are excluded? I work at a University, and if college students are any indicator of what they're parents are doing, even with our best efforts to educate them and provide campus purchased AV for use on personal computers, a large number either have nothing or don't realize AV can expire. I don't have statistics, but it's something I see daily. I can only imagine their parents are at least as clueless as they are.
Regardless of that, even with your stats, that leaves 15% of internet users, or some 150 million, completely unprotected. That's a lot of credit cards, especially when you can steal the same person's identity over and over until they finally clean the virus off their computer.
Huh? You're reading about this on Slashdot. The AV companies are going to take notice and do something about this. That will happen to the same degree regardless of how many customers the virus authors take.
Don't forget--botnet owners often sell out usage of their networks to many customers, and they're working entirely within the percentage of unprotected internet users. (As defined by no AV or out of date AV).
I guess I can agree with that sentiment, but as someone who's been dealing with depression for the last couple of years, that wording doesn't bother me. I'm one of those pig-headed guys who has refused medication and chosen a purely behavioral-therapeutic approach. I don't abject to the wording because I don't see sincerely trying as something like "you have 5 minutes to be happy. Go. Not working, try harder!" It's more about fixing the thought and behavioral processes that get you down: building confidence, learning to be more assertive without being passive aggressive, and the like.
Perhaps had I heard intonation with the phrasing it would have set me in a rant, but reading it in print I just read it as a classification of exactly what I've been working on.
I guess by loading I meant of applications, not of bootup. I use it if I'm going to use the livecd for an extended period of time rather than doing something quick like re-install grub.
As a side note, from my experience even repeated loadings take a long time. If I open firefox it will often hang waiting for the disk to spin up after it's open and again if I close and reopen it. Even using the terminal can cause this. I pretty much hate using LiveCDs if they aren't cached in ram, but often I don't feel like waiting. Thanks for correcting that.
Sorry, I misread disk as "HD" and not as "DVD" on my first pass. Obviously your in the right place.
No, seriously, he's right. It's not so simply like you can just say, "I'm not going to be depressed" but just being depressed is itself a real downer than sucks you in deeper. Antidepressants, even if they only work through placebo affect, provide a patient with hope, which could help the roller coaster move gradually upward.
The best days are usually the days you've made a plan of action and convinced yourself it will change everything and you'll be better--you're thinking positively and not fixated on your depression. The worst days are when you realize you plan of action didn't do shit and everything still the same.
The series of comments to which you replied is about Linux LiveCDs, which don't require/touch the hard disk unless you explicitly tell them to. Using "toram" or "dochache" or similar kernel switches allows the entire contents of the CD to be loaded to the ramdisk, dramatically speeding up loading and allow one to remove the CD.
Even if your particular LiveCD is set to watch for and automatically use swap partitions, a HD is still significantly faster than an optical drive. If you install Linux permanently to your HD those particular kernel switches no longer do anything.
Can you make an pun involving "Second Treatise on Civil Government" or "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding"? Social contracts and philosophical blank slates are great, but they're not very funny...
AMD Processor Driver allows the computer to manage AMD Cool'n'Quiet to save electricity when the CPU is idle. You sure you have customers? Do they pay you?
TrueCrypt is an OSS project hosted by Sourceforge. All of their CVS and release files are stored on SourceForge.
I can understand the banning the playing of a purchased or rented DVD on a large screen, but non-time shifted broadcast television? All this could possibly do is decrease the size of the audience who were going to see the advertisements at the event just like someone at home
Now, if they were TIVOing the Superbowl and playing it an hour or 2 later so they could skip commercials, I can see how 400 people in an auditorium might be a problem, but live broadcast? Really? Are they retarded?