All you say is true, but there is one thing that makes it easier for censoring over just hiding. It should be possible to detect encrypted communication. What I mean by that is an analysis of the traffic itself and the information being transfered over it should allow one to determine if someone is communicating with encryption or mearly through plain text. It shouldn't take much to just block all encrypted traffic, or forward the users IPs to some who will come knocking wondering what you are talking about. One would have to hide it, such as with steganography, in addition to encrypting it. Sure, some of this might put a damper on retail sales over the internet, but I don't think some countries care about that as much.
I'm not sure why it's so popular. I just finished a four hour session downstairs working on it too. But I think part of it has to deal with the friggin two year delay. As Ctrl+Alt+Del put it.
How come nobody ever gets upset over the ratings on Movie trailers?
Does anyone really *look* at what's in them?
Nearly every trailer you'll see is rated "For All Audiences", yet if you look at them and ask yourself "Is this trailer appropriate to show before 'Bambi'?", you'd have to say "No way".
Been thinking this for years. Glad I'm not the only one. I generally only watch G/PG movies. Mostly because I don't find the higher rated movies interesting. I've often wondered why many of those trailers right before one of Pixars movies, or even a Harry Potter movie, are for a movie rated R or a strong PG-13.
Only two legs? I'm surprised they didn't go with four. Sure, it's a little bit harder to work with. However, it would seem to be quite a bit more stable as well, especially when the power fails.
Was it not a crime already? Here in the UK the same rating system for movies is applied to certain video games, thus a game rated 18 cannot be sold to anyone under this age. Supplying GTA to a minor can land the shop keeper in a lot of trouble.
Does the US rating system differ?
As usual, YES.
To date, there have been no successfully passed laws regarding restrictions on sales of video games. Movies and Books/Magazines, on the other hand, have already been restricted. Video Games are still a relatively recent product that has only with in the past few years gottent a wide enough distribution to show up on the radar of items to be regulated.
I expect the first bill to successfully pass all constitutional chalenges would be modeled after the movie restrictions that prohibits sale and rental of R/NC-17 and above movies to minors. (R is no one under 17 without a parent, NC-17 is 17 and older only. I have no idea why it is 17 instead of 18.) There might be a law prohibiting knowingly selling tickets to a minor as well, but I have no idea on that.
Tried that. On my comp, DosBox actually runs too slowly for some of them. The video and controls are too jerky to play. Or maybe (since I don't remember setting the CPU speed) it's by default set too low?
I remember "Magic Carpet". DOS based game, same problem. I'm currently setting up an old P3 that I will have to severely downclock to play it (along with some other old ones of mine).
Granting non-living entities rights&priviledges that superceed my rights is a bad&dangerous thing to do.
Who said anything about a non-living entity? NDAs can be between two people. A trade secret can be owned by an individual as well. The same trade secret laws would still apply.
As for superceeding your rights. "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects" and it's implicit granting of privacy doesn't superseed your right to free speech. You can still say what you want, just that you may have to suffer the consequences for spying on people.
All it is doing is giving a non-living entity that is made up of living entities a few of the same rights and privlidges an individual has.
I fall squarely in the latter category, and I will continue to load proprietary modules into my kernel.
Any move by the FSF to prohibit this will only drive people away from Linux, since it's not likely that NVidia and ATI will ever open their drivers completely.
Any move by the FSF to prohibit this would essentially start "closing" Linux. Since all it would require to work around it would (hopefully) be to correct the kernel. If the FSF did prohibit the linking, how would this be any different than Microsoft forbiding non-MS approved drivers?
Something tells me that Windows Vista and future versions of Office, etc. will probably restrict their licenses somehow to prevent this. Some company had "net saving in the region of £10,000." That means Microsoft probably lost a lot more than that.
Microsoft didn't "lose" any money on this sale, neither did they "make" any money. This is similar to me buying the Monopoly(tm) board game at a garage sale. Parker Brothers neither lost nor made any money on the deal.
If by privacy, you mean trade secrets and such, then it sound like what you are talking about would essentially legalize corporate espionage. The "privacy" of a company is not necessarily related to trade secrets, but it is similar. Would you allow anyone to legally publicize/sell a companies recipies, business plans or other items that are kept secret in order to ensure that they have a chance of competing with others in the market?
What is required for something to be considered a "Trade Secret" is that the company take "reasonable measures" in order to protect the item. Coca-Cola protects the Coke recipe by keeping it in a vault that can only be opened by a majority vote of the board. Should that not be protected? What should and shouldn't be protected?
YES! People have rights - they're people. Corporations have no entitlement to the same rights.
So, does that mean I can get the local DA go to your place of business/employer and impound all computers, papers, products, etc... without charge and without having to ever give the items back in a reasonable time? I'm sorry, but BS like this breaks down when you actually consider the consequences of what this would mean.
For businesses:
No freedom of speech so no advertising, no talking about the product and they can't say anything at all.
No 3rd amendment, soldiers can be quartered in said place of business without recompence.
The DA (or any law enforcement officer) can search and seize anything in said business indefinetly without due process. (This would open things up to a whole host of corruption possibilities, say seizing a grocers produce for a month)
No 5th amendment, so double jeaprody is allowed for repeatedly suing any business into the ground.
No 6th, so you can skip Jury Trials and just find a judge that you can bribe to rule your way. Also, no right to counsel either and they can be tried in CA for something they supposedly did in CT.
No 7th, so no protection against "cruel and unusual" so fining a business $1 Trillion would be allowed for anything.
Personally I am all for the immediately quarantining utility customers on the first SPAM sent out and forcing the mandatory usage of relays. Same for DDOS, so on so fourth. And anyone who does not want to be subjected to this regime should simply pay an extra for not having it.
Define SPAM, when coming from one computer. The same can go for a DDoS. My father sends out e-mail messages to a mailing list of well over 50 individuals. That is not SPAM, but to some filters it may look like it. Maybe you suggest looking at the emails that get sent out? Well, we forward SPAM to abuse and phishing addresses. That would block me for trying to help defeat SPAM. I use Bit Torrent, and the ammount of uploading I do may look like a DDoS as well.
Define Spam and DDoS from the sending ISPs point of view where they may only have a few computers doing this and they have to detect it at the FIRST SPAM or at the begining of a DDoS.
Or you can use any old cell phone, wether it has a plan or not to call 911, by law any carrier in the area has to pick up the call and put it through.
1) Cell phones don't always have signal.
2) Cell phones don't always give the exact location of where you are.
3) When the power goes out, cell phone towers have a limited battery/generator backup.
4) Cell Phone batteries will run down, landlines run off the phone company.
5) You're nuts if you think every cell phone company can pick up the other's signals. They operate on different frequencies and are not going to go out of their way to pick up the frequencies of a cell phone they don't support.
Now, I'm not sure how much higher sector sizes will affect NCQ capability, because I thought was limited by the amount of hardware cache.
Given that the hardware cache in HDs at a minimum is 2MB and has recently gone to 8MB as pretty much a standard and I frequently see 16MB drive caches, I don't think changing the sector size from 512B to 4KB is going to be much of a problem.
Then continue to expect dissapointment. You need a base level support to get someone into the presidency. That comes from having state and local officials to campaign for your candidate. It also allows your candidate to get some experience and recognition prior to running for president. How many presidents in the past hundred years have not been governors, senators or VPs prior to winning? I can only think of one, Eisenhower.
There are places in this country that are still on Party Lines (telephony def.) and some that don't even have phone service at all. How the hell do they expect to get "broadband" out to those areas? Or are they planning massive subsidies or redfining the definition of broadband?
Guys, here's a sugestion for getting a serious third party. START AT THE LOCAL LEVEL. Get people as a state and county/town/city legislator and judges. Then get federal congressmen and senators elected along with state governors, then make a play for the White House. Trying to do otherwise is an idiotic move because you won't have any support base.
Without labor unions we wouldn't have ever gained a 40 hour work week or an end to child labor.
I think you need to retake history. The 40 hour work week was started by Henry Ford, prior to any unions being formed in his company (in fact he was very much against unions). Child labor laws weren't fully implemented enofrced until the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act in the US. Again, this had nothing to do with unions, instead coming from the more "socially concious" individuals.
What unions HAVE been good for is improving workplace safety, working conditions and a few other things. While there are unions out there that actually work for the members, there are also a lot of them that are fully corupt as well.
Further labor unions are way for workers to gain rights without government interference
Half true, half false. It is not a way for them to gain rights, it is a way for them to gain more pay, privlidges and better working conditions without government interference, which I fully support over the government having a hand in it.
A question on that (and remember that you'd need an NTSC->PAL converter or a computer card that can take in NTSC), are some of the next gen consoles going to be region free? The Nintendo DS is, as is Blue Ray (or is it HD-DVD). So mught some of the consoles be region free as well?
Ah good, an RF guy. It's been a little bit since I dealt with frequencies and filters and I wanted to double check something that the article claims, but makes little sense to me.
a phenomenon brought on in part by the fact that AM stations are packed tightly onto the dial, with only 10 kilohertz separating each one. (The problem doesn't affect FM stations much because they reside 200 kilohertz away from each other.)
Now, given that in frequency space with regard to filters, everything is logarithmic based (I'm going to use log 10 for this, but I can't remember if I should use base 20 instead, either way, it should sever for this purpose).
Now, the highest two frequencies in AM are 1490 and 1500 Khz for AM. Taking the log of both, this results in 6.176091 and 6.173186 with a distance between the two of 0.002905.
The highest two frequencies in FM are 107.7 and 107.5 Mhz. Log of both results in 8.032216 and 8.031408 with a difference of 0.00807. This tells me that the two FM stations are closer together (for the purposes of designing a filter) than the two AM stations are, and as such designing and building the filters are not a problem. Which is just the opposite that the article claims by trying to imply that it is harder to filter out something 10khz away, even though it is at the much lower frequencies.
Is that right or did I goof up on how I remember my math somewhere?
Then sue concrete and elevator manufacturers. I have yet to see a cell phone recieve a signal while in an elevator or a stairwell in an office building.
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All you say is true, but there is one thing that makes it easier for censoring over just hiding. It should be possible to detect encrypted communication. What I mean by that is an analysis of the traffic itself and the information being transfered over it should allow one to determine if someone is communicating with encryption or mearly through plain text. It shouldn't take much to just block all encrypted traffic, or forward the users IPs to some who will come knocking wondering what you are talking about. One would have to hide it, such as with steganography, in addition to encrypting it. Sure, some of this might put a damper on retail sales over the internet, but I don't think some countries care about that as much.
I'm not sure why it's so popular. I just finished a four hour session downstairs working on it too. But I think part of it has to deal with the friggin two year delay. As Ctrl+Alt+Del put it.
How come nobody ever gets upset over the ratings on Movie trailers? Does anyone really *look* at what's in them?
Nearly every trailer you'll see is rated "For All Audiences", yet if you look at them and ask yourself "Is this trailer appropriate to show before 'Bambi'?", you'd have to say "No way".
Been thinking this for years. Glad I'm not the only one. I generally only watch G/PG movies. Mostly because I don't find the higher rated movies interesting. I've often wondered why many of those trailers right before one of Pixars movies, or even a Harry Potter movie, are for a movie rated R or a strong PG-13.
Only two legs? I'm surprised they didn't go with four. Sure, it's a little bit harder to work with. However, it would seem to be quite a bit more stable as well, especially when the power fails.
Was it not a crime already? Here in the UK the same rating system for movies is applied to certain video games, thus a game rated 18 cannot be sold to anyone under this age. Supplying GTA to a minor can land the shop keeper in a lot of trouble.
Does the US rating system differ?
As usual, YES.
To date, there have been no successfully passed laws regarding restrictions on sales of video games. Movies and Books/Magazines, on the other hand, have already been restricted. Video Games are still a relatively recent product that has only with in the past few years gottent a wide enough distribution to show up on the radar of items to be regulated.
I expect the first bill to successfully pass all constitutional chalenges would be modeled after the movie restrictions that prohibits sale and rental of R/NC-17 and above movies to minors. (R is no one under 17 without a parent, NC-17 is 17 and older only. I have no idea why it is 17 instead of 18.) There might be a law prohibiting knowingly selling tickets to a minor as well, but I have no idea on that.
Tried that. On my comp, DosBox actually runs too slowly for some of them. The video and controls are too jerky to play. Or maybe (since I don't remember setting the CPU speed) it's by default set too low?
I remember "Magic Carpet". DOS based game, same problem. I'm currently setting up an old P3 that I will have to severely downclock to play it (along with some other old ones of mine).
Granting non-living entities rights&priviledges that superceed my rights is a bad&dangerous thing to do.
Who said anything about a non-living entity? NDAs can be between two people. A trade secret can be owned by an individual as well. The same trade secret laws would still apply.
As for superceeding your rights. "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects" and it's implicit granting of privacy doesn't superseed your right to free speech. You can still say what you want, just that you may have to suffer the consequences for spying on people.
All it is doing is giving a non-living entity that is made up of living entities a few of the same rights and privlidges an individual has.
I fall squarely in the latter category, and I will continue to load proprietary modules into my kernel.
Any move by the FSF to prohibit this will only drive people away from Linux, since it's not likely that NVidia and ATI will ever open their drivers completely.
Any move by the FSF to prohibit this would essentially start "closing" Linux. Since all it would require to work around it would (hopefully) be to correct the kernel. If the FSF did prohibit the linking, how would this be any different than Microsoft forbiding non-MS approved drivers?
google phone+address
http://www.reversephonedirectory.com/
BTW, you don't live that far from my grandmother.
Something tells me that Windows Vista and future versions of Office, etc. will probably restrict their licenses somehow to prevent this. Some company had "net saving in the region of £10,000." That means Microsoft probably lost a lot more than that.
Microsoft didn't "lose" any money on this sale, neither did they "make" any money. This is similar to me buying the Monopoly(tm) board game at a garage sale. Parker Brothers neither lost nor made any money on the deal.
If by privacy, you mean trade secrets and such, then it sound like what you are talking about would essentially legalize corporate espionage. The "privacy" of a company is not necessarily related to trade secrets, but it is similar. Would you allow anyone to legally publicize/sell a companies recipies, business plans or other items that are kept secret in order to ensure that they have a chance of competing with others in the market?
What is required for something to be considered a "Trade Secret" is that the company take "reasonable measures" in order to protect the item. Coca-Cola protects the Coke recipe by keeping it in a vault that can only be opened by a majority vote of the board. Should that not be protected? What should and shouldn't be protected?
YES! People have rights - they're people. Corporations have no entitlement to the same rights.
So, does that mean I can get the local DA go to your place of business/employer and impound all computers, papers, products, etc... without charge and without having to ever give the items back in a reasonable time? I'm sorry, but BS like this breaks down when you actually consider the consequences of what this would mean.
For businesses:
No freedom of speech so no advertising, no talking about the product and they can't say anything at all.
No 3rd amendment, soldiers can be quartered in said place of business without recompence.
The DA (or any law enforcement officer) can search and seize anything in said business indefinetly without due process. (This would open things up to a whole host of corruption possibilities, say seizing a grocers produce for a month)
No 5th amendment, so double jeaprody is allowed for repeatedly suing any business into the ground.
No 6th, so you can skip Jury Trials and just find a judge that you can bribe to rule your way. Also, no right to counsel either and they can be tried in CA for something they supposedly did in CT.
No 7th, so no protection against "cruel and unusual" so fining a business $1 Trillion would be allowed for anything.
Personally I am all for the immediately quarantining utility customers on the first SPAM sent out and forcing the mandatory usage of relays. Same for DDOS, so on so fourth. And anyone who does not want to be subjected to this regime should simply pay an extra for not having it.
Define SPAM, when coming from one computer. The same can go for a DDoS. My father sends out e-mail messages to a mailing list of well over 50 individuals. That is not SPAM, but to some filters it may look like it. Maybe you suggest looking at the emails that get sent out? Well, we forward SPAM to abuse and phishing addresses. That would block me for trying to help defeat SPAM. I use Bit Torrent, and the ammount of uploading I do may look like a DDoS as well.
Define Spam and DDoS from the sending ISPs point of view where they may only have a few computers doing this and they have to detect it at the FIRST SPAM or at the begining of a DDoS.
Or you can use any old cell phone, wether it has a plan or not to call 911, by law any carrier in the area has to pick up the call and put it through.
1) Cell phones don't always have signal.
2) Cell phones don't always give the exact location of where you are.
3) When the power goes out, cell phone towers have a limited battery/generator backup.
4) Cell Phone batteries will run down, landlines run off the phone company.
5) You're nuts if you think every cell phone company can pick up the other's signals. They operate on different frequencies and are not going to go out of their way to pick up the frequencies of a cell phone they don't support.
Now, I'm not sure how much higher sector sizes will affect NCQ capability, because I thought was limited by the amount of hardware cache.
Given that the hardware cache in HDs at a minimum is 2MB and has recently gone to 8MB as pretty much a standard and I frequently see 16MB drive caches, I don't think changing the sector size from 512B to 4KB is going to be much of a problem.
Then continue to expect dissapointment. You need a base level support to get someone into the presidency. That comes from having state and local officials to campaign for your candidate. It also allows your candidate to get some experience and recognition prior to running for president. How many presidents in the past hundred years have not been governors, senators or VPs prior to winning? I can only think of one, Eisenhower.
There are places in this country that are still on Party Lines (telephony def.) and some that don't even have phone service at all. How the hell do they expect to get "broadband" out to those areas? Or are they planning massive subsidies or redfining the definition of broadband?
Guys, here's a sugestion for getting a serious third party. START AT THE LOCAL LEVEL. Get people as a state and county/town/city legislator and judges. Then get federal congressmen and senators elected along with state governors, then make a play for the White House. Trying to do otherwise is an idiotic move because you won't have any support base.
Wasn't this game called 'Evolution' or something like that?
Without labor unions we wouldn't have ever gained a 40 hour work week or an end to child labor.
I think you need to retake history. The 40 hour work week was started by Henry Ford, prior to any unions being formed in his company (in fact he was very much against unions). Child labor laws weren't fully implemented enofrced until the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act in the US. Again, this had nothing to do with unions, instead coming from the more "socially concious" individuals.
What unions HAVE been good for is improving workplace safety, working conditions and a few other things. While there are unions out there that actually work for the members, there are also a lot of them that are fully corupt as well.
Further labor unions are way for workers to gain rights without government interference
Half true, half false. It is not a way for them to gain rights, it is a way for them to gain more pay, privlidges and better working conditions without government interference, which I fully support over the government having a hand in it.
A question on that (and remember that you'd need an NTSC->PAL converter or a computer card that can take in NTSC), are some of the next gen consoles going to be region free? The Nintendo DS is, as is Blue Ray (or is it HD-DVD). So mught some of the consoles be region free as well?
Insert the biggest middle finger here you have ever seen.
29. Kingdom Hearts II (2005)
I still have to wait another 22 days for this to come out in the US.
Ah good, an RF guy. It's been a little bit since I dealt with frequencies and filters and I wanted to double check something that the article claims, but makes little sense to me. a phenomenon brought on in part by the fact that AM stations are packed tightly onto the dial, with only 10 kilohertz separating each one. (The problem doesn't affect FM stations much because they reside 200 kilohertz away from each other.)
Now, given that in frequency space with regard to filters, everything is logarithmic based (I'm going to use log 10 for this, but I can't remember if I should use base 20 instead, either way, it should sever for this purpose).
Now, the highest two frequencies in AM are 1490 and 1500 Khz for AM. Taking the log of both, this results in 6.176091 and 6.173186 with a distance between the two of 0.002905.
The highest two frequencies in FM are 107.7 and 107.5 Mhz. Log of both results in 8.032216 and 8.031408 with a difference of 0.00807. This tells me that the two FM stations are closer together (for the purposes of designing a filter) than the two AM stations are, and as such designing and building the filters are not a problem. Which is just the opposite that the article claims by trying to imply that it is harder to filter out something 10khz away, even though it is at the much lower frequencies.
Is that right or did I goof up on how I remember my math somewhere?
Then sue concrete and elevator manufacturers. I have yet to see a cell phone recieve a signal while in an elevator or a stairwell in an office building.