I moved two months ago, from an apartment with 100/100Mb to this one, where I can only get 30/30Mb. Now it takes minutes to download the latest 24/Caprica/In Plain Sight/Criminal Minds etc. Sure, not really a problem and I'm much better off than people in the 3rd world etc etc, but the point is that you always "need" the best available once you've gotten used to it.
Isohunt is already located in "another country". It's in Toronto.
Why should they care about DMCA notices?
I don't know if they do - but probably (by now, half of the world is brainwashed into thinking that the DMCA is some kind of UN resolution). But that was just a sidenote where I tried to point out that whatever some Judge in country X says doesn't matter in country X (usually).
I don't like isohunt (for reasons I can't remember) and I think copyright violations are wrong in some/most cases (I'm in the 10-20 year copyright crowd), but why would isohunt or anyone else who gets hit by judgements care much? It doesn't take too many hours to move the site to some other country. And as a former abuse-handler of a large webhost, I know that simply hosting whatever you're doing in a different country that the people who wants to shut you down will make it very hard for them (at least in countries not ruled by the RIAA or MPAA.)
(as abuse-handler, the best part of my job was to tell all morons sending me DMCA-notices to stuff it, since the DMCA is a US-thing and if they had a valid complaint to make they would say so instead of using silly DMCA-mails to abuse@xxx.com).
> I was told by an archaelogist associate of mine that carbon dating gives
> very wild results unless its properly calibrated with something found nearby
> that can be historically verified.
You must have misunderstood something. Of course it has to be calibrated, but it doesn't need any historical context.
> He mentioned that the last time the French tested a nuke in the pacific (?) that
> messed up calibrations worldwide and they had to redo all their calibation data sets.
Yes, you did most certainly misunderstand what he was saying. C14 dating is not used to date anything less than 65 years of age, since the amount of C14 in the atmosphere has been screwed up since 1945. It has nothing to do with French nukes though, no calibration or recalibration will help for stuff that has taken in C14 after 1945.
> Carbon-14 dating isn't all its cracked up to be.
It's exactly what it's cracked up to be, a good way to determine the age of organic material. However, it might not be what people might imagine it to be - some kid of magic that can be use to date anything.
I was wondering what you were talking about, and had to look it up on wikipedia. Turns out there's a rock/metal group called Skid Row that I had totally forgotten about. Unlike the much more memorable Skid Row that I know very well from the Amiga-scene.
"Which came first, chicken or the egg? Evolution has taught is it was the egg."
Eh, what? No. An almost-chicken lays an egg with a mutated embryo (the 100%-chicken). The egg is still an almost-chickenegg, and the first chicken egg is later laid by the chicken.
Okay. So you don't have any archaeological training and you haven't studied them under a microscope to verify that they were indeed used as tools (this can be determined by examining the amount and direction of... uhm, microscopic marks. Don't know what it's called in English).
But just because you don't know anything about a subject doesn't mean you have to have opinions about it.
+1 seconded. AC is still the best in the series. I love Civ IV, but miss the ability to design my own units. An updated AC for Linux would also be acceptable (low resolution and 256? Colours doesn't look good on a modern widescreen monitor).
1985-1995 were the years of the Amiga Desktop. (not that Win95 was better in any way, but it managed to finally kill the Amiga commercially, most active Amigausers I know gave up around 95-96.)
How could this possibly be modded "troll"? He's pointing out something obvious FFS! Please mod him up, but above all I'd really like to see an explanation from the person who slapped the -1 on the partent (as AC, ofcourse).
I really don't care what most publishers says, I only care about what the laws in my country says. That's what matters, unless you live in some place where the publishers owns the government and make their own laws (or licenses that supersedes the law). And in my country I have every right to play what I own on any device I feel like.
(don't know for how long though, given the current copyright jihad.)
What website do you expect to give you more than a 30Mbps connection?!
There's more to the internet than websites, but, well: nzbmatrix.com, demonoid.com (when it's up again), bitmetv.org and of course cheggit.net to mention a few.
Anything should do. I guess your d-link is a few years years old? I worked for D-link support (yes, yuck) around 5 years ago when people started getting 100/100 at home, and we got plenty of complaints about specifications vs reality. But that wasn't a problem with the "new" models back then, and I can't imagine any home router for sale now that can't handle 100Mb with NATing and Firewalling etc.
Don't worry about speed, look at the price, support (do you have to a broken unit to china or can you get it replaced in the store?) and features instead.
Or even better: bring up an old computer with two NICs from the basement, install Linux or FreeBSD and add a cheap switch. That beats any home router in price and features!
This doesn't make any sense at all. The second article says it's 800 email addresses, not websites. I doubt the scammers has many websites hosted in Nigeria, if needed they usually set up accounts on European webhotels where neither Nigeria nor the Microsoft Empire has any form of jurisdiction.
In other words: 800 email addresses somehow shut down. Wow. I bet it will be really hard for new scammers to open new accounts on gmail or yahoo.hk, or set up a new somescammingbank.co.uk at some cheap webhotel using fake names.
Crackers have a reputation to uphold. I trust some cracking groups more than Microsoft, Apple and Symantec. I've "known" some of them since the Amiga-days, and know that they would never risk their reputation by releasing stuff infected with malware. Shady companies do that, not well-known crackers. Fairlight, Razor 1911 and Skid Row has very good reputations, I'd trust them over Google any day.
These "cracker/warez websites" you mention is a different matter, they have nothing to do with the actual crackers - no reputable cracking group has a website where they release their (illegal) stuff, everybody knows that. On a site like that you're just as likely to find infected OSS, anything that they think clueless newbies will download will be infected.
I didn't get it either, until a friend sent me an invite so that I could try it for myself.
a). you can only play it through spotify and lose access as and when you stop renewing your monthly subscription (as I understand it)
Sure, but it's the same thing with TV.
b). you have to surrender your bandwidth not only for streaming songs (although I think it does make use of a local cache) but also as a node in the spotify p2p network
I'm not sure how much bandwidth spotify uses, but it's not noticeable for me or anyone I know, OTOH we all have at least 10Mb in the wall. I can see that this might, possibly, be a problem in "developing" countries. But not in where Spotify is available right now (Europe).
c). you don't get access to some mega bands (e.g. Metallica, ACDC, Pink Floyd etc.)
Bah, listen to Megadeth, Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath instead!
Spotify isn't perfect, but it's the best legal alternative we have right now. Sure, my collection of 12000 mp3's (about half of them are pirated) is better if I lose my internet connection or if I want to listen to some really hard-to-find-stuff that I have in my collection, but Spotify has 99,9% of the music I like, makes it easy to find new music, makes it easy to share playlists with friends... etc. Which makes it better for me as long as I'm online.
"Would you be 'disturbed' if someone went to jail for modifying odometers on automobiles?"
I would be even more disturbed if someone went to jail for putting in new car stereos (that enables the owner to use USB-sticks instead of just CDs) in automobiles, which is a better analogy.
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> And you use it for what, exactly?
Downloading stuff?
I moved two months ago, from an apartment with 100/100Mb to this one, where I can only get 30/30Mb. Now it takes minutes to download the latest 24/Caprica/In Plain Sight/Criminal Minds etc. Sure, not really a problem and I'm much better off than people in the 3rd world etc etc, but the point is that you always "need" the best available once you've gotten used to it.
Isohunt is already located in "another country". It's in Toronto.
Why should they care about DMCA notices?
I don't know if they do - but probably (by now, half of the world is brainwashed into thinking that the DMCA is some kind of UN resolution). But that was just a sidenote where I tried to point out that whatever some Judge in country X says doesn't matter in country X (usually).
I don't like isohunt (for reasons I can't remember) and I think copyright violations are wrong in some/most cases (I'm in the 10-20 year copyright crowd), but why would isohunt or anyone else who gets hit by judgements care much? It doesn't take too many hours to move the site to some other country. And as a former abuse-handler of a large webhost, I know that simply hosting whatever you're doing in a different country that the people who wants to shut you down will make it very hard for them (at least in countries not ruled by the RIAA or MPAA.)
(as abuse-handler, the best part of my job was to tell all morons sending me DMCA-notices to stuff it, since the DMCA is a US-thing and if they had a valid complaint to make they would say so instead of using silly DMCA-mails to abuse@xxx.com).
> I was told by an archaelogist associate of mine that carbon dating gives
> very wild results unless its properly calibrated with something found nearby
> that can be historically verified.
You must have misunderstood something. Of course it has to be calibrated, but it doesn't need any historical context.
> He mentioned that the last time the French tested a nuke in the pacific (?) that
> messed up calibrations worldwide and they had to redo all their calibation data sets.
Yes, you did most certainly misunderstand what he was saying. C14 dating is not used to date anything less than 65 years of age, since the amount of C14 in the atmosphere has been screwed up since 1945. It has nothing to do with French nukes though, no calibration or recalibration will help for stuff that has taken in C14 after 1945.
> Carbon-14 dating isn't all its cracked up to be.
It's exactly what it's cracked up to be, a good way to determine the age of organic material. However, it might not be what people might imagine it to be - some kid of magic that can be use to date anything.
...or even SAW one, was in 1997. And that was in the 19th century country Ireland. I really didn't think anybody still used checks.
No country is anywhere near as litigious as the US.
I was wondering what you were talking about, and had to look it up on wikipedia. Turns out there's a rock/metal group called Skid Row that I had totally forgotten about. Unlike the much more memorable Skid Row that I know very well from the Amiga-scene.
"Which came first, chicken or the egg? Evolution has taught is it was the egg."
Eh, what? No. An almost-chicken lays an egg with a mutated embryo (the 100%-chicken). The egg is still an almost-chickenegg, and the first chicken egg is later laid by the chicken.
Well, since Xerox invented practically everything, that would make sense.
Okay. So you don't have any archaeological training and you haven't studied them under a microscope to verify that they were indeed used as tools (this can be determined by examining the amount and direction of ... uhm, microscopic marks. Don't know what it's called in English).
But just because you don't know anything about a subject doesn't mean you have to have opinions about it.
+1 seconded. AC is still the best in the series. I love Civ IV, but miss the ability to design my own units. An updated AC for Linux would also be acceptable (low resolution and 256? Colours doesn't look good on a modern widescreen monitor).
Only one legal defence should be needed: I have the right to do whatever I want with stuff I've bought.
Luckily I live in a free country where I'm able to do that (and buy/sell modchips for whatever purpose) - at least for now.
Too bad there's no "+1 Cool" option for mods, that would really work here.
Yes, much too soon. I enjoy tasteless jokes, but people are still dying over there.
1985-1995 were the years of the Amiga Desktop.
(not that Win95 was better in any way, but it managed to finally kill the Amiga commercially, most active Amigausers I know gave up around 95-96.)
How could this possibly be modded "troll"? He's pointing out something obvious FFS! Please mod him up, but above all I'd really like to see an explanation from the person who slapped the -1 on the partent (as AC, ofcourse).
I really don't care what most publishers says, I only care about what the laws in my country says. That's what matters, unless you live in some place where the publishers owns the government and make their own laws (or licenses that supersedes the law). And in my country I have every right to play what I own on any device I feel like.
(don't know for how long though, given the current copyright jihad.)
What website do you expect to give you more than a 30Mbps connection?!
There's more to the internet than websites, but, well: nzbmatrix.com, demonoid.com (when it's up again), bitmetv.org and of course cheggit.net to mention a few.
Anything should do. I guess your d-link is a few years years old? I worked for D-link support (yes, yuck) around 5 years ago when people started getting 100/100 at home, and we got plenty of complaints about specifications vs reality. But that wasn't a problem with the "new" models back then, and I can't imagine any home router for sale now that can't handle 100Mb with NATing and Firewalling etc.
Don't worry about speed, look at the price, support (do you have to a broken unit to china or can you get it replaced in the store?) and features instead.
Or even better: bring up an old computer with two NICs from the basement, install Linux or FreeBSD and add a cheap switch. That beats any home router in price and features!
This doesn't make any sense at all. The second article says it's 800 email addresses, not websites. I doubt the scammers has many websites hosted in Nigeria, if needed they usually set up accounts on European webhotels where neither Nigeria nor the Microsoft Empire has any form of jurisdiction.
In other words: 800 email addresses somehow shut down. Wow. I bet it will be really hard for new scammers to open new accounts on gmail or yahoo.hk, or set up a new somescammingbank.co.uk at some cheap webhotel using fake names.
At least until Duke Nukem Forever is released.
Crackers have a reputation to uphold. I trust some cracking groups more than Microsoft, Apple and Symantec. I've "known" some of them since the Amiga-days, and know that they would never risk their reputation by releasing stuff infected with malware. Shady companies do that, not well-known crackers. Fairlight, Razor 1911 and Skid Row has very good reputations, I'd trust them over Google any day.
These "cracker/warez websites" you mention is a different matter, they have nothing to do with the actual crackers - no reputable cracking group has a website where they release their (illegal) stuff, everybody knows that. On a site like that you're just as likely to find infected OSS, anything that they think clueless newbies will download will be infected.
I didn't get it either, until a friend sent me an invite so that I could try it for myself.
a). you can only play it through spotify and lose access as and when you stop renewing your monthly subscription (as I understand it)
Sure, but it's the same thing with TV.
b). you have to surrender your bandwidth not only for streaming songs (although I think it does make use of a local cache) but also as a node in the spotify p2p network
I'm not sure how much bandwidth spotify uses, but it's not noticeable for me or anyone I know, OTOH we all have at least 10Mb in the wall. I can see that this might, possibly, be a problem in "developing" countries. But not in where Spotify is available right now (Europe).
c). you don't get access to some mega bands (e.g. Metallica, ACDC, Pink Floyd etc.)
Bah, listen to Megadeth, Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath instead!
Spotify isn't perfect, but it's the best legal alternative we have right now. Sure, my collection of 12000 mp3's (about half of them are pirated) is better if I lose my internet connection or if I want to listen to some really hard-to-find-stuff that I have in my collection, but Spotify has 99,9% of the music I like, makes it easy to find new music, makes it easy to share playlists with friends... etc. Which makes it better for me as long as I'm online.
"Would you be 'disturbed' if someone went to jail for modifying odometers on automobiles?"
I would be even more disturbed if someone went to jail for putting in new car stereos (that enables the owner to use USB-sticks instead of just CDs) in automobiles, which is a better analogy.
For those of us who has never heard of Segway before:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segway
I don't get why people would do that to themselves, I'd rather walk around with nothing but underwear and a trashbin over my head. But anyway.