My intro was wiring chips on a breadboard. It was really simple stuff, like making a counter with some LCDs, but when I studied assembly I found I had an intuitive idea of what was actually going on because I had a vague understanding of what an adder, half-adder, register, etc. actually was -- invaluable.
You can build these experiments for about ten bucks.
It's the next generation fully intergrated high tech state of the art advanced enterprise object commerce cyber solution, revolutionizing cross section functionality and empowering eBusiness to streamline its communications architecture across multiple platform independent management systems, thus enabling a complete competetive cutting edge on demand information infrastructure.
I've been hearing a lot of theories lately that the reason gigabit residential connections aren't on the immediate horizon in the US is because of a classic conflict of interest.
Many ISPs are also cable and voice providers. They'd like to keep the services separate so they can keep three separate revenue streams.
When gigabit residential connections become a reality the market for streaming video will begin to chip away at cable television.
In theory, that's why Verizon and Comcast (for example) have no plans to give you a home DS3.
To hear studio executives tell it, the bootleg went straight to the P2P networks and spread like a contagion.
"Bullshit," says Forest. "Trying to distribute The Hulk through the P2Ps would take months, not hours."
Isn't that like saying P2P isn't capable of doing what it was designed to do?
Start with a one movie/one hour download at midnight. At 1am you have 2 copies, at 3am 4 copies......
In a 24 hr period wouldn't the distribution be something like 2 to the power 24?
Plus, according to Nielsen and NPD, there are
now 10+ million users on P2P.
Though the intent is a noble one, the law is basically a lawyer's approach to what should be a technological solution. I understand that spyware, et el, is a problem but the Internet is global, this is just "feel good" politics for California. What now? Is every state expected to have its own law? Every country? What a waste of time. Like the can-spam act, this will have little or no affect and more likely it will be used by some powerful business interest to prosecute some kid who's just having fun playing around with stuff.
Although steam engines still need to burn hydrocarbon-based fuels like petrol and diesel, which in turn release carbon dioxide, external combustion engines can control the release and the production of CO2 more efficiently.
How so? Isn't the amount of CO2 proportional the amount of fuel you burn, no matter how you burn it?
Better to transfer the heat directly to the axles, the extra step of the steam turbine wastes enegry due to friction, not to mention the added weight of the extra crap you have to carry. This is not efficient.
But the US is still behind compared to other nations, ranked 13th in the world by a UN telecoms body.
Because the US government refuses to invest in infrastructure. Congress believes the road to Internet growth is best left up to private companies.
I'm definately not for big government, but there are some things only goverment can do. The Internet is a bit like the federal highway system and entrusting its growth to the likes of Comcast and Verizon is a bad idea.
But you won't get nearly free wi-fi. Once the telcos prevent cheaper alternatives they'll do what they've always done: invest your money in marketing schemes like credit card offers and frequent flyer miles while spending as little as possible on R&D.
Judging by the junk mail I get from SBC I figure they could build free wi-fi for an entire city for the price of what they spend on advertising themselves.
Sounds like Lexmark can't handle the competition and is using the law in a perverse way to uphold a monopoly by seeking to prevent SCC from manufacturing cheaper cartridges.
The DMCA was designed to protect copyrights and prevent IP theft, not protect monopolies and prevent competition.
You're probably right about that. The Democrats don't have a good voting record on supportng freedom in technology. It was senior Democrats like Diane Feinstein (CA) who initiated and passed the DMCA
And of the six senators who signed the failed Induce Act, four of them were Democrats.
Those companies employ a lot of people... Folks just trying to feed their kids...
They employ a lot of hangers-on. Business executives and lawyers who can't play one note of music and yet make millions by manipulating and controlling an old system of non electronic physical distribution.
Historically, this is nothing new. Whether it's ludites breaking machines or dock workers opposing automation, it's always about jobs. But the fact is, we must go on. Asking the court to make P2P software illegal is, I think you'll agree, pretty ridiculous. And pathetically futile.
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This is old news.
Set up a regular access point.
Install a web server like NoCat.
Subsitute the NoCat splash page with a copy of the T-Mobile (or whatever) login page. You can use wget to grab this.
From there you use a plain old cgi script to pipe the userID, password, credit card number, etc. into a text file.
My intro was wiring chips on a breadboard. It was really simple stuff, like making a counter with some LCDs, but when I studied assembly I found I had an intuitive idea of what was actually going on because I had a vague understanding of what an adder, half-adder, register, etc. actually was -- invaluable.
You can build these experiments for about ten bucks.
It's the next generation fully intergrated high tech state of the art advanced enterprise object commerce cyber solution, revolutionizing cross section functionality and empowering eBusiness to streamline its communications architecture across multiple platform independent management systems, thus enabling a complete competetive cutting edge on demand information infrastructure.
Now, what don't you understand?
Start here.
True.
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Not sure, but I think it goes something like:
copies = 2^(t*Mbps)
so if Mbps = 1
then after 1 second you have 2 copies, after 2 seconds 4 copies, 3 seconds 8 copies
If it takes 1 hour to distribute a 700M movies via P2P you could distribute something like 10 million copies in 24 hours. Even faster with BitTorrent.
Morality has nothing to do with it. The Internet is by design one giant file sharing mechanism. We can moralize all we want, it will change nothing.
How are they supposed to recover production costs? They can't. The world is changing.
There are a lot of similarities with the drug war ...
Except illegal drug distribution is linear, file sharing is exponential. Big difference.
I've hired quite a few people for tech positions and personally I don't like it when they call me. If I want them to work for me, I'll call them.
Exactly. Real nerds don't get tech news from 60 Minutes.
I've been hearing a lot of theories lately that the reason gigabit residential connections aren't on the immediate horizon in the US is because of a classic conflict of interest.
Many ISPs are also cable and voice providers. They'd like to keep the services separate so they can keep three separate revenue streams.
When gigabit residential connections become a reality the market for streaming video will begin to chip away at cable television.
In theory, that's why Verizon and Comcast (for example) have no plans to give you a home DS3.
To hear studio executives tell it, the bootleg went straight to the P2P networks and spread like a contagion. "Bullshit," says Forest. "Trying to distribute The Hulk through the P2Ps would take months, not hours."
......
In a 24 hr period wouldn't the distribution be something like 2 to the power 24?
Isn't that like saying P2P isn't capable of doing what it was designed to do?
Start with a one movie/one hour download at midnight. At 1am you have 2 copies, at 3am 4 copies
Plus, according to Nielsen and NPD, there are now 10+ million users on P2P.
Though the intent is a noble one, the law is basically a lawyer's approach to what should be a technological solution. I understand that spyware, et el, is a problem but the Internet is global, this is just "feel good" politics for California. What now? Is every state expected to have its own law? Every country? What a waste of time. Like the can-spam act, this will have little or no affect and more likely it will be used by some powerful business interest to prosecute some kid who's just having fun playing around with stuff.
released under the GNU Free Documentation License in PDF format.
Kind of amusing that open source documentation should be released in a proprietary format.
As far as I'm concerned, discussing news for nerds with fellow geeks on slashdot is socializing.
Customers in the U.S. who believe they have been attacked should contact their local FBI office or post their complaint online at www.ifccfbi.gov
Non MS users should contact the FBI and tell them we don't want our tax dollars to go to phel. Let Microsoft deal with it.
Scientifically, this could make for some interesting "nature vs. nurture" experiments.
Although steam engines still need to burn hydrocarbon-based fuels like petrol and diesel, which in turn release carbon dioxide, external combustion engines can control the release and the production of CO2 more efficiently.
How so? Isn't the amount of CO2 proportional the amount of fuel you burn, no matter how you burn it?
Better to transfer the heat directly to the axles, the extra step of the steam turbine wastes enegry due to friction, not to mention the added weight of the extra crap you have to carry. This is not efficient.
How long will it be before we can buy a movie on line and download it?
Those funny plastic discs, have got to go.
But the US is still behind compared to other nations, ranked 13th in the world by a UN telecoms body.
Because the US government refuses to invest in infrastructure. Congress believes the road to Internet growth is best left up to private companies.
I'm definately not for big government, but there are some things only goverment can do. The Internet is a bit like the federal highway system and entrusting its growth to the likes of Comcast and Verizon is a bad idea.
But you won't get nearly free wi-fi. Once the telcos prevent cheaper alternatives they'll do what they've always done: invest your money in marketing schemes like credit card offers and frequent flyer miles while spending as little as possible on R&D.
Judging by the junk mail I get from SBC I figure they could build free wi-fi for an entire city for the price of what they spend on advertising themselves.
Sounds like Lexmark can't handle the competition and is using the law in a perverse way to uphold a monopoly by seeking to prevent SCC from manufacturing cheaper cartridges.
The DMCA was designed to protect copyrights and prevent IP theft, not protect monopolies and prevent competition.
A President doesn't really have authority to do anything about a law that congress has already passed.
Article 2, Section 2 of the USC provides pretty limited power for a President.
The best he can do is to influence congress to pass another bill ammending the DMCA.
And given all his other priorities, the war, social security, health care, etc., he's not likely to pick a fight over this.
But don't use WEP. It's fairly easy to crack.
See How To Crack WEP Encrypted Wireless Networks
You're probably right about that. The Democrats don't have a good voting record on supportng freedom in technology. It was senior Democrats like Diane Feinstein (CA) who initiated and passed the DMCA
And of the six senators who signed the failed Induce Act, four of them were Democrats.
Those companies employ a lot of people... Folks just trying to feed their kids ...
They employ a lot of hangers-on. Business executives and lawyers who can't play one note of music and yet make millions by manipulating and controlling an old system of non electronic physical distribution.
Historically, this is nothing new. Whether it's ludites breaking machines or dock workers opposing automation, it's always about jobs. But the fact is, we must go on. Asking the court to make P2P software illegal is, I think you'll agree, pretty ridiculous. And pathetically futile.