I guess things are handled differently in the UK. In the US it's illegal to buy stolen property, and if you do you are subject to having it confiscated from you (at the least). The police should have demanded the information (geting a court order if necessary) and then retrived the stolen property as 'evidence'. The original owner (after submitting proof that the stolen property is really his) should then have been able to get his dog back. In this case he would not only have needed to have had his dog 'chipped' (which might have been proof enough that it was his dog if he had written proof of the chip's ID) but maybe also had a copy of his dog's DNA.
Nothing new. Big Blue used to do the same thing with their 360/370 mainframes. When a customer ordered a memory upgrade the tech would show up with a wirewrap gun and install a few jumpers on the backplane to activate the memory that was ALREADY INSTALLED IN THE COMPUTER AT THE FACTORY!
If I understand this correctly, the BD encryption has NOT been cracked. THIS hack only opens the communication over the HDMI cable between the BD player and your TV. Cracking the encryption on the BD disks themselves is another matter that has not yet been fully cracked. However, this exploit should allow reading the digital data flowing out of the BD player to be captured and saved to disk. This might require some hardware hacking, I don't think there are any PCI video cards that have HDMI INPUTS available.
Even if China or someother NON-DMCA country builds such devices they will (eventually) be destroyed by customs and whoever smuggles them into this country will be treated the same as a drug dealer.
Actually the ISP's should bill the content providers for the cost of delivering their goods to the end user. The content providers want to rent movies on line, ISP's want a piece of the action.
In the 2061 novel Jupitor underwent contraction to implode into a star. Being composed of Hydrogen and Methane (which is part carbon and part hydrogen) the emplosion caused the methane to split into its' compoent parts and the carbon was ejected as diamond which landed on Europa. I'm not sure how correct the science here is, but it sounds possible. Clark called the mountain 'Lucy' after the Beatles song. Interresting to speculate that the Beatles would still be popular in 2061, which will probably be true.
Because these frequencies are line of sight in coverage the FCC can have it both ways. Where the channels are needed for TV they can be used for this, in parts of the country where they are not used for TV they could be used for other services. Roaming devices would have to be able to switch channels when used in parts of the country where the channels are used for TV.
I'm glad the FCC is leaning toward unlicensed use of the spectrum instead of selling it to some M$ like concern. I hope they put enough common sense regulation in place to allow the spectrum to be used without mutual interference with itself. Digital TV is somewhat more imune to interference than analog, but the new wifi devices do need to be self configurable to avoid assigned TV channels.
Patent numbers are also history. A family friend has an old Steinway piano that has various internal parts marked with a list of patent numbers as long as your arm. Most of these date back to the 19th century. I think this piano was made at the turn of the LAST century (before "T.R." was president).
The law should apply ONLY to product that was packaged and marked AFTER the patent expired. Otherwise, a company could be liable for product shipped YEARS ago but is STILL sitting on a shelf someplace for sale. Not likely for products such as clothing or food, but for more durable goods such as vacuum tubes, pencils, crayons, hand tools, etc.
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The quote by Semour Cray is correct, but I don't think he actually ever met Jobs. However that kind of rant is typical of the kind of asshole that is Steven Jobs.
Just how fast do you think the Cray-1 ran? I mean with all the attention to wiring length, gate delays and such you'd think this was a very fast machine. It "only" ran at an 80mhz clock rate. That's it! At the time when the fastest microprocessor had a 4mhz clock (Z80) that was fast, but mini computers and 360's probably had cycle clock rates in the low ten's of mhz. What made the Cray the the speed demon of the day was pipelining. It could execute several instructions per clock, something that didn't happen in the microprocessor world till much later (with the Pentium-Pro I think).
IANAL, but I don't see how the city can tag internet blogs, since the internet is regulated by the FCC or other federal agencies and the city has no say in the matter. The ONLY thing the city can (try) and do is collect SALES TAX due on items sold over the internet (IF the buyer was in the city).
Mostly true, unless some federal statute is involved. I was let go once while on medical leave which is against federal law for employers with more than 50 employees. The company had 49 so it didn't apply to me.
Yes the nano is a token response to that, though on second thought the nano is probably their biggest selling ipod model. Be nice if the ipod touch or classic models had a radio in them. Would also be nice if itunes ran on Linux, but that's another story.
The cost of adding an FM radio to any device is very small, the entire radio is available on a single chip. The headphone cord is used as the antenna. Given a choice I'd rather buy an MP3 player with a radio than one without (hey Apple do you hear me?). I'm not sure that a radio belongs in a phone, but then again I don't think a phone makes a good camera either. If they craft the regulation requiring any digital music player to come with a radio, that might make sense. So phones without mp3 players would not have to come with a radio. Actually, I'm waiting for Victorinox to make a cell phone. It would be interresting to see what they stuff into it.
I started out with Slackware and Redhat, then installed Debian Bo, Hamm, and on down till Sarge. For some reason I skipped Sarge and moved on to Gentoo. Part of the reason for that was that Gentoo had a kick ass AMD64 distro while Debian was still trying to figure out how best to do AMD64.... I came back to Debian with Etch about the time my Gentoo system melted down for the last time after an upgrade..... Right now I'm running Linux Mint, but I can't stand Gnome and will probably install Mint KDE (finally available) or perhaps try Debian Testing, now that Squeeze is frozen. I've used Ubuntu,and it's not bad, especially on older machines (P4, Duron, Celeron, etc). I don't think I could stomach anything that used RPM.....
I think I'm 50-50 on this. Some nights the slightest sound keeps me awake, othertimes I could sleep through an explosion. I guess it all depends on how sleep deprived I am, because after several nights being kept awake I WILL sleep like a log.
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I guess things are handled differently in the UK. In the US it's illegal to buy stolen property, and if you do you are subject to having it confiscated from you (at the least). The police should have demanded the information (geting a court order if necessary) and then retrived the stolen property as 'evidence'. The original owner (after submitting proof that the stolen property is really his) should then have been able to get his dog back. In this case he would not only have needed to have had his dog 'chipped' (which might have been proof enough that it was his dog if he had written proof of the chip's ID) but maybe also had a copy of his dog's DNA.
Nothing new. Big Blue used to do the same thing with their 360/370 mainframes. When a customer ordered a memory upgrade the tech would show up with a wirewrap gun and install a few jumpers on the backplane to activate the memory that was ALREADY INSTALLED IN THE COMPUTER AT THE FACTORY!
Then the price of jet fuel went up and the only way the plane made sense was as an overstuffed bus.
If I understand this correctly, the BD encryption has NOT been cracked. THIS hack only opens the communication over the HDMI cable between the BD player and your TV. Cracking the encryption on the BD disks themselves is another matter that has not yet been fully cracked. However, this exploit should allow reading the digital data flowing out of the BD player to be captured and saved to disk. This might require some hardware hacking, I don't think there are any PCI video cards that have HDMI INPUTS available.
Even if China or someother NON-DMCA country builds such devices they will (eventually) be destroyed by customs and whoever smuggles them into this country will be treated the same as a drug dealer.
I should have been more specific....
Does it work with Hulu on Linux x86-64?
Not too many people are probably using windows7-64 bit.
Hulu hasn't worked with x86-64 for some time. Hulu blames flash, and Adobe blames Hulu. Wonder if this new vesion will fix things.
Actually the ISP's should bill the content providers for the cost of delivering their goods to the end user. The content providers want to rent movies on line, ISP's want a piece of the action.
In the 2061 novel Jupitor underwent contraction to implode into a star. Being composed of Hydrogen and Methane (which is part carbon and part hydrogen) the emplosion caused the methane to split into its' compoent parts and the carbon was ejected as diamond which landed on Europa. I'm not sure how correct the science here is, but it sounds possible. Clark called the mountain 'Lucy' after the Beatles song. Interresting to speculate that the Beatles would still be popular in 2061, which will probably be true.
Because these frequencies are line of sight in coverage the FCC can have it both ways. Where the channels are needed for TV they can be used for this, in parts of the country where they are not used for TV they could be used for other services. Roaming devices would have to be able to switch channels when used in parts of the country where the channels are used for TV.
I'm glad the FCC is leaning toward unlicensed use of the spectrum instead of selling it to some M$ like concern. I hope they put enough common sense regulation in place to allow the spectrum to be used without mutual interference with itself. Digital TV is somewhat more imune to interference than analog, but the new wifi devices do need to be self configurable to avoid assigned TV channels.
It's turtles all the way down!
Or whom created the law of gravity. Still room for the all mighty.
Patent numbers are also history. A family friend has an old Steinway piano that has various internal parts marked with a list of patent numbers as long as your arm. Most of these date back to the 19th century. I think this piano was made at the turn of the LAST century (before "T.R." was president).
The law should apply ONLY to product that was packaged and marked AFTER the patent expired. Otherwise, a company could be liable for product shipped YEARS ago but is STILL sitting on a shelf someplace for sale. Not likely for products such as clothing or food, but for more durable goods such as vacuum tubes, pencils, crayons, hand tools, etc.
The quote by Semour Cray is correct, but I don't think he actually ever met Jobs. However that kind of rant is typical of the kind of asshole that is Steven Jobs.
Just how fast do you think the Cray-1 ran? I mean with all the attention to wiring length, gate delays and such you'd think this was a very fast machine. It "only" ran at an 80mhz clock rate. That's it! At the time when the fastest microprocessor had a 4mhz clock (Z80) that was fast, but mini computers and 360's probably had cycle clock rates in the low ten's of mhz. What made the Cray the the speed demon of the day was pipelining. It could execute several instructions per clock, something that didn't happen in the microprocessor world till much later (with the Pentium-Pro I think).
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Then they won't see ya!
IANAL, but I don't see how the city can tag internet blogs, since the internet is regulated by the FCC or other federal agencies and the city has no say in the matter. The ONLY thing the city can (try) and do is collect SALES TAX due on items sold over the internet (IF the buyer was in the city).
Mostly true, unless some federal statute is involved. I was let go once while on medical leave which is against federal law for employers with more than 50 employees. The company had 49 so it didn't apply to me.
Yes the nano is a token response to that, though on second thought the nano is probably their biggest selling ipod model. Be nice if the ipod touch or classic models had a radio in them. Would also be nice if itunes ran on Linux, but that's another story.
The cost of adding an FM radio to any device is very small, the entire radio is available on a single chip. The headphone cord is used as the antenna. Given a choice I'd rather buy an MP3 player with a radio than one without (hey Apple do you hear me?). I'm not sure that a radio belongs in a phone, but then again I don't think a phone makes a good camera either. If they craft the regulation requiring any digital music player to come with a radio, that might make sense. So phones without mp3 players would not have to come with a radio. Actually, I'm waiting for Victorinox to make a cell phone. It would be interresting to see what they stuff into it.
I started out with Slackware and Redhat, then installed Debian Bo, Hamm, and on down till Sarge. For some reason I skipped Sarge and moved on to Gentoo. Part of the reason for that was that Gentoo had a kick ass AMD64 distro while Debian was still trying to figure out how best to do AMD64.... ..... .....
I came back to Debian with Etch about the time my Gentoo system melted down for the last time after an upgrade
Right now I'm running Linux Mint, but I can't stand Gnome and will probably install Mint KDE (finally available) or perhaps try Debian Testing, now that Squeeze is frozen.
I've used Ubuntu,and it's not bad, especially on older machines (P4, Duron, Celeron, etc). I don't think I could stomach anything that used RPM
So why HASN'T Steve Job's head appered on Futurerama yet?
I think I'm 50-50 on this. Some nights the slightest sound keeps me awake, othertimes I could sleep through an explosion. I guess it all depends on how sleep deprived I am, because after several nights being kept awake I WILL sleep like a log.
tmosley wins the brass figlagee with bronze oak leaf palm!