I live very close to a drive-in theatre. (Yes! They still exist!)
It would be extremely easy for me to rig up a setup in my car where the camera would be impossible to notice. As an added bonus, they broadcast the movie's audio over regular FM. So I park, get the camera aimed, hook a FM radio into the camera instead of the camera's mike, and violá, I have a near-perfect bootleg of 2 new releases.
Hmm...
Coming soon, contact me for cheap cheap cheap DVDs VCDs! High-quality new releases!
I sometimes have the same problem on my laptop, but it depends on which card I have in. The Linksys 11b ver. 3 card drops the AP every few minutes but my Linksys 11g card has never dropped it. Both cards are configured by Windows. (I use the 11b one now since I can't find the 11g)
It's quite annoying since I ditched WEP in favor of just running a VPN to the rest of my network to get some real wireless security. The wireless network itself has all of the 'security' features enabled, but once you associate, the only port you'll get to is the PPTP one. Much harder encryption to break, requires real authetification. It's just a pain in the ass when the AP gets dropped and the VPN has to reconnect.
Mods, I'd like to take this oppertunity to point out that the parent is not really offtopic. He raises a good point, that the larger corporations (ClearChannel) are coming in and pounding the little stations into the ground. In my area, pretty much ALL the stations are ClearChannel, except for the (suprisingly good) local college channel.
We have a Videonics FireStore. You can hook a DV camera in one end and a FireWire drive to the other side.
It seems really cool, but in pratice, it just sits in the studio collecting dust on top of a VCR.
Tapes work for me. You can always get more of em for cheap and the time moving the DV off tape onto disk isn't all that bad since you can set it and go get something to eat while it does its thing.
So it turns out the mysterious "????" step #2 has always been "Include a built-in harddrive?" Huh....
On a more serious note, you forgot "include one hell of a battery."
My PDA probably would'nt be able to last for an entire movie, especially since the CPU is at full load for the entire thing. Now you add a faster CPU and having to power a hard drive. The battery is gone in half an hour.
As hard drive/memory chip/etc devices get smaller and smaller, I wonder how people will be able to keep track of where the hell their (physical, not logical) memory is....
I can see a new market now, not for data recovery, but for recover-the-data-device recovery....I'll make millions!
And now that I've patented this new business model before you did, it will now make me millions!
You're saying that DV on tapes is somehow not "true" digital. It's still stored as 1s and 0s, just on a tape instead of on a disk.
I work with (large amounts of) DV daily. Recording directly to disk would be much more convenient than tape, but it would not somehow increase the quality. In the end, it's the same set of digits regardless of what medi[a/ums] its been on.
I have often wondered about this, is this a valid approach??
No.
By definition, a RAM disk is kept in RAM. Therefore, you'd be swapping out of RAM... into RAM. It's the same as if you would put a divider in a storage shed because you were running out of room. You can move stuff on either side of it, but in the end, you still only have a fixed amount of space.
(Offtopic, but..) Perhaps it's not XP? It might be AV software or something of the like. Try disabling background apps and/or services to see if you can get the HD to stay spun down.
Also do an AdAware scan to make sure theres no nastyware that writes to the hard drive.
The relation is that (in theory), "cleaner" code means that in order to do the same task, the clean code will require less computational resources and therefore less energy.
However, in practice, this is not exactly the case. For example, Windows does a great job with power management on my laptop. Linux, on the other hand, does a horrible job with power management. My battery barely lasts half as long under normal use.
As much as I would love to see [Gator|Claria] go down hard, I do have concerns. Bottom line is the end user has to at some point install the adware, even if it is done in a less-than-ethical manner.
I'm seeing the typical slashbot response of "Yay! Bring down the evil spyware spam co! Burn!!!" In reality, this is not a company against "acosting their customers with guerilla-advertising." This is a company agaist losing potential customers because they saw a Gator ad when on their way to LL Bean.
So yea, perhaps this is good, but it could set very pad precedent. What happens if LL Bean wins, then some other popup advertiser uses the precedent to sue users of The Proxomitron because it is interfering with their business?
But in order to reliably (read: conclusively enough to be admissable in court) trace back the originator of content, *every* node's implementation must be compromised. As soon as you hit one node in the chain which is trustworthy, you've hit a wall.
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then gives them the option of either having each member paying their equal share of the verdict, or turning against each other and trying to piece together from any actual clues available who did it.
However, the problem with that is that Freenet doesn't keep any logs. You can't trace back what there is no record of.
Of course, this assumes that Dubya's cronies weren't watching your computer when you published it...
Would use of the public airwaves give them an excuse to regulate the Internet the way they regulate television and radio?
That's an interesting question. It is hard to say. The argument for the FCC censorship of radio/TV is that these signals come into your house "uninvited," so we need to protect the children or something like that. (Although I'd argue that you have to invite the receiver for these signals in...) This is why cable TV channels CAN say or show whatever they want. (Remember the South Park "shit" episode?) However, they usually don't becasue it would cost them advertisers.
So, my argument would be that the FCC does not have the right to regulate wireless internet becuase you must "invite in" content by clicking links, etc. This is the difference -- you don't have control over what comes in over TV, but you do with the internet.
Of course, that is just my logic, but someone is gonna scream "won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!" and... enjoy your new family-friendly internet connection.
Because some Americans, such as myself, believe that a true patriotic American who truly loves his country should follow ALL laws of this country, not just those laws that we happen to agree with. If you want a change, then exercise your rights to induce change in the law of the land. Don't just go do whatever the hell you want anyhow and pat yourself on the back for being sneaky.
Yes, and aren't you glad that the those terrorists^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H true patriots from the late 1700s felt the same way? I'm sure glad that you believe exactly what Dubya and Crew want you to.
You really must remember - no person, government, or law is infoulable. Sometimes the institution is just corrupt, and you can exercise your rights to induce change all day long, but it's not gonna do a damned thing. It's why they stood up with their guns and spoke out against the law.
They, my friend, are true patriots.
Someone who has his hand held by Big Brother and just does as he's told is nothing more than a mindless drone.
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Seriously, you just need to budget your time. A few games, then some time together doing whatever, then another game.
Or you can always just wait until she goes to bed to start playing.
I live very close to a drive-in theatre. (Yes! They still exist!)
It would be extremely easy for me to rig up a setup in my car where the camera would be impossible to notice. As an added bonus, they broadcast the movie's audio over regular FM. So I park, get the camera aimed, hook a FM radio into the camera instead of the camera's mike, and violá, I have a near-perfect bootleg of 2 new releases.
Hmm...
Coming soon, contact me for cheap cheap cheap DVDs VCDs! High-quality new releases!
Runs and hides for fear of MPAA goons...
You might give them good, effective, and resonable ideas!
"lowest common denominator"
It's quite annoying since I ditched WEP in favor of just running a VPN to the rest of my network to get some real wireless security. The wireless network itself has all of the 'security' features enabled, but once you associate, the only port you'll get to is the PPTP one. Much harder encryption to break, requires real authetification. It's just a pain in the ass when the AP gets dropped and the VPN has to reconnect.
Well, back to looking for my 11g card...
And that's exactly the problem.
As long as things aren't that bad, there's nothing to worry about, right?
I really fear for what this country is going to be like in ten years. Looks like it is time to start packing my bags.
Mods, I'd like to take this oppertunity to point out that the parent is not really offtopic. He raises a good point, that the larger corporations (ClearChannel) are coming in and pounding the little stations into the ground. In my area, pretty much ALL the stations are ClearChannel, except for the (suprisingly good) local college channel.
Considering the station is run by high school students, its not really at all strange.
It seems really cool, but in pratice, it just sits in the studio collecting dust on top of a VCR.
Tapes work for me. You can always get more of em for cheap and the time moving the DV off tape onto disk isn't all that bad since you can set it and go get something to eat while it does its thing.
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Which is all we really want to see anyways. ;)
On a more serious note, you forgot "include one hell of a battery."
My PDA probably would'nt be able to last for an entire movie, especially since the CPU is at full load for the entire thing. Now you add a faster CPU and having to power a hard drive. The battery is gone in half an hour.
Unfortunately, hardly enough to watch a movie.
And now that I've patented this new business model before you did, it will now make me millions!
I work with (large amounts of) DV daily. Recording directly to disk would be much more convenient than tape, but it would not somehow increase the quality. In the end, it's the same set of digits regardless of what medi[a/ums] its been on.
Hmm... /me starts thinking about joining the NYPD!
No.
By definition, a RAM disk is kept in RAM. Therefore, you'd be swapping out of RAM... into RAM. It's the same as if you would put a divider in a storage shed because you were running out of room. You can move stuff on either side of it, but in the end, you still only have a fixed amount of space.
Also do an AdAware scan to make sure theres no nastyware that writes to the hard drive.
However, in practice, this is not exactly the case. For example, Windows does a great job with power management on my laptop. Linux, on the other hand, does a horrible job with power management. My battery barely lasts half as long under normal use.
Something to think about.
Really, nothing suprising here, move along.
I'm seeing the typical slashbot response of "Yay! Bring down the evil spyware spam co! Burn!!!" In reality, this is not a company against "acosting their customers with guerilla-advertising." This is a company agaist losing potential customers because they saw a Gator ad when on their way to LL Bean.
So yea, perhaps this is good, but it could set very pad precedent. What happens if LL Bean wins, then some other popup advertiser uses the precedent to sue users of The Proxomitron because it is interfering with their business?
But in order to reliably (read: conclusively enough to be admissable in court) trace back the originator of content, *every* node's implementation must be compromised. As soon as you hit one node in the chain which is trustworthy, you've hit a wall.
However, the problem with that is that Freenet doesn't keep any logs. You can't trace back what there is no record of.
Of course, this assumes that Dubya's cronies weren't watching your computer when you published it...
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That's an interesting question. It is hard to say. The argument for the FCC censorship of radio/TV is that these signals come into your house "uninvited," so we need to protect the children or something like that. (Although I'd argue that you have to invite the receiver for these signals in...) This is why cable TV channels CAN say or show whatever they want. (Remember the South Park "shit" episode?) However, they usually don't becasue it would cost them advertisers.
So, my argument would be that the FCC does not have the right to regulate wireless internet becuase you must "invite in" content by clicking links, etc. This is the difference -- you don't have control over what comes in over TV, but you do with the internet.
Of course, that is just my logic, but someone is gonna scream "won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!" and... enjoy your new family-friendly internet connection.
Yes, and aren't you glad that the those terrorists^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H true patriots from the late 1700s felt the same way? I'm sure glad that you believe exactly what Dubya and Crew want you to.
You really must remember - no person, government, or law is infoulable. Sometimes the institution is just corrupt, and you can exercise your rights to induce change all day long, but it's not gonna do a damned thing. It's why they stood up with their guns and spoke out against the law.
They, my friend, are true patriots.
Someone who has his hand held by Big Brother and just does as he's told is nothing more than a mindless drone.
Oh, he must be talking about that quaint "paper" substance with the opaque chemicals where you can read day-old news.
The poor man must be from the stone ages or something!