The Director called me and first asked me to remove any link to the university from my website, and also to "hide" the fact that I was teaching there. Then he told me about the pressures and threats he and the Program received (to be subjected to software licenses inspection, copyright violations inspections, or anything that may damage them). Obviously I had to resign to save his job (and everybody else's at the Masters Program). So I did.
I'm not trying to say what happened was at all right, but it does not help the argument to start stories with the claim that he was fired. Fudging the little facts to get attention always in the long run will be held against you, and your side will not be taken as seriously.
Also, one should remember that this teacher was not approved to give the lecture and decided to go without permission and give it in the cafeteria. This would be grounds for inspecting someones future at most companies/universities.
Once again, I think what happened was a shame, but I also think that ignoring these facts is just unacceptable.
Um, if you want to warn anyone maybe you should warn the sys admin of the server that hosts the PDF file that you just put a link to on the main page of slashdot. I think they'll care a little more about the super slashdot effect (I'm coining that term for when a non-html file is linked to from slashdot - be it pdf, mpg, avi, etc.) than we will about taking the extra time to load.
I remembered being in grade school and watching the movie and craving to try Turkish Delight. Well we had a "party" one time in class and one of the teachers brought it in. It was disgusting! So much for childhood dreams... As you can see, it's mainly just water, sugar and corn starch (corn flour).
Anyways, here's a link to the recipe for those that are interested.
Ingredients:
1lt (1¾ Pints) Water
900g (2lb) Sugar
285g (10oz) Corn Flour
225g (8oz) Icing Sugar
1½ tbsp Rosewater
2 tsp Lemon Juice
Red Food Colouring (optional)
Scariest Part! Maybe $4.3k for a TB HD in your CPU
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Dutch Pass iPod Tax
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· Score: 5, Interesting
From the article...
The idea of all levy based legislation is that some form of copyright collections agency collects tax by imposing a surcharge at the point of sale for any storage devices that could possibly be used to store pirated works.
Already in Germany there is a levy on PC hard drives, that will soon become larger than the entire PC industry revenue if it is left in place. Within two years, as disk drive sizes move to terabyte class on notebooks, and petabyte levels on home DVRs, the tax will come to far outweigh not just the cost of the drive, but the cost of the device. Under this Netherlands law, if it were extended to the PC, the cost of 1,000 GB would be 3,280 ($4,300) and yet drives of this size will be delivered by 2007.
Dupe of comments from the last article. This idea was actually mentioned manytimes.
The Washing Machine Test - PQI Intelligent Stick
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USB Flash Drive Round-up
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· Score: 5, Interesting
The PQI stick is absolutely amazing. I have one and leave it in the cargo pocket of whatever pants I'm wearing and hardly remember it's there until it's needed. My roomate also has one (he actually got me mine for this past Christmas) and he has put his through the wash twice already and it still works perfectly.
One thing that's weird in the review is they act so shocked that the I-Stick can be so small and still be so good... but have they ever opened up any other USB thumb drive? Most have what looks like a I-Stick inside them. The case broke off my cruzer titanium (yeah, its titanium, but the part that holds the two halfs together definitely was not!) and I used to carry around the inside piece after that which was about the size of the I-Stick, but of course was not as strong of plastic and couldn't survive like the I-stick has.
And what would the effect be if you were affected?
The effect would be a slashdot effect, obviously!
As if slashdotting a server once isn't enough!!
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The Bender PC Case
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· Score: 3, Insightful
Be sure to click the link at the bottom of the page to see the next page in the sequence
Good job promoting slashdotting the server twice. No wonder the site went down so fast.
The only thing I would actually want Microsoft to do is freakin make an XP product that can run from a USB key or a bootable CD. That would be a valid competitor to the various thin-client projects.
We've seen many dupes lately here on slashdot, so this is a welcome non-dupe, however, anyone else find it weird that in such a short summary there is essentially a dupe of the sentences from the article?
"According to PCPro, the FCC has handed out a $15,000 fine to Madison River Communications Corp for blocking access to VoIP calls. The action is seen as a warning to other telcos not to prevent the growth of VoIP over their networks. The complaint was made to the FCC by two companies Vonage Holdings and Nuvia, which specialise in VoIP services. It appears that Vonage CEO Jeffrey Citron was willing to act on his earlier tirade about VoIP blocking." From the article: "The action is seen as a warning to other telcos not to prevent the growth of VoIP over their networks. Many of these companies see VoIP as a threat to their landline revenues as calls made over the internet can be made to anywhere in the world for the price of a local call."
First I have to say that I do not agree at all with what the MPAA is doing, but I must comment on the absurdity of people drawing conclusions of things by looking at a single definition or example. You are claiming, or at least implying, that theft is not occuring because you are not "removing" the file. So let's take a second to go back to Webster and look at their definition for the word remove.
remove:
1.To move from a place or position occupied: removed the cups from the table.
2.To transfer or convey from one place to another: removed the family to Texas. 3.To take off: removed my boots.
4.To take away; withdraw: removed the candidate's name from consideration.
5.To do away with; eliminate: remove a stain.
6.To dismiss from an office or position.
Once again, I am not trying to make any conclusions as to what theft is, but just trying to point out how relying on a defition all by itself to make some conclusion is ludicrous.
This is just my 2 cents though.
The main one that most people overlook is the ability to edit a section of a document and only have that section change. With binary files, like MS Word, if someone opens it up and makes one small change, then the whole file gets changed. This difference comes into play when you start considering the ability to diff files, and to use these diffs for applications such as LBFS (low bandwidth file system), or log based file systems. There is a lot of technology out there that could lead to great improvements on network/disk usage if non-binary filetypes are adopted more regularly. Currently you can only use text based files in these systems. Imagine if you could use CVS with binary files (and actually harvest the benefits of using such a system).
Just my 2 cents though.
1. slice your songs into 10 equally sized chunks (10% each) 2. name them original_song_title.mp3.X where X = (0-9 corresponding to the chunk that it is). 3. Have each smaller file shared on P2P network. 4. Laugh at the RIAA
It's ok... SP1 is coming soon
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A Worm's Worm
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· Score: 5, Funny
The author in response to the news announce that he will be releasing Service Pack 1 within the next week. Make sure to set up your computer to get updates automatically from update.sasser.com.
Google is known for their new and interesting technologies. I stumbled across this search engine right before reading this article actually. A search engine that clusters your results! It makes it even faster and simpler to get right to what you want. It's nice to see new ideas like this coming out and helping to change the direction of search engines as google did several years ago.
Slashdot Mirror
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The Director called me and first asked me to remove any link to the university from my website, and also to "hide" the fact that I was teaching there. Then he told me about the pressures and threats he and the Program received (to be subjected to software licenses inspection, copyright violations inspections, or anything that may damage them). Obviously I had to resign to save his job (and everybody else's at the Masters Program). So I did.
I'm not trying to say what happened was at all right, but it does not help the argument to start stories with the claim that he was fired. Fudging the little facts to get attention always in the long run will be held against you, and your side will not be taken as seriously.
Also, one should remember that this teacher was not approved to give the lecture and decided to go without permission and give it in the cafeteria. This would be grounds for inspecting someones future at most companies/universities.
Once again, I think what happened was a shame, but I also think that ignoring these facts is just unacceptable.
Warning: link is to a PDF"
Um, if you want to warn anyone maybe you should warn the sys admin of the server that hosts the PDF file that you just put a link to on the main page of slashdot. I think they'll care a little more about the super slashdot effect (I'm coining that term for when a non-html file is linked to from slashdot - be it pdf, mpg, avi, etc.) than we will about taking the extra time to load.
I remembered being in grade school and watching the movie and craving to try Turkish Delight. Well we had a "party" one time in class and one of the teachers brought it in. It was disgusting! So much for childhood dreams... As you can see, it's mainly just water, sugar and corn starch (corn flour).
Anyways, here's a link to the recipe for those that are interested.
Ingredients:
1lt (1¾ Pints) Water
900g (2lb) Sugar
285g (10oz) Corn Flour
225g (8oz) Icing Sugar
1½ tbsp Rosewater
2 tsp Lemon Juice
Red Food Colouring (optional)
From the article...
The idea of all levy based legislation is that some form of copyright collections agency collects tax by imposing a surcharge at the point of sale for any storage devices that could possibly be used to store pirated works.
Already in Germany there is a levy on PC hard drives, that will soon become larger than the entire PC industry revenue if it is left in place. Within two years, as disk drive sizes move to terabyte class on notebooks, and petabyte levels on home DVRs, the tax will come to far outweigh not just the cost of the drive, but the cost of the device. Under this Netherlands law, if it were extended to the PC, the cost of 1,000 GB would be 3,280 ($4,300) and yet drives of this size will be delivered by 2007.
Dupe of comments from the last article. This idea was actually mentioned many times.
The PQI stick is absolutely amazing. I have one and leave it in the cargo pocket of whatever pants I'm wearing and hardly remember it's there until it's needed. My roomate also has one (he actually got me mine for this past Christmas) and he has put his through the wash twice already and it still works perfectly.
One thing that's weird in the review is they act so shocked that the I-Stick can be so small and still be so good... but have they ever opened up any other USB thumb drive? Most have what looks like a I-Stick inside them. The case broke off my cruzer titanium (yeah, its titanium, but the part that holds the two halfs together definitely was not!) and I used to carry around the inside piece after that which was about the size of the I-Stick, but of course was not as strong of plastic and couldn't survive like the I-stick has.
Just my $0.02
And what would the effect be if you were affected?
The effect would be a slashdot effect, obviously!
Be sure to click the link at the bottom of the page to see the next page in the sequence
Good job promoting slashdotting the server twice. No wonder the site went down so fast.
The only thing I would actually want Microsoft to do is freakin make an XP product that can run from a USB key or a bootable CD. That would be a valid competitor to the various thin-client projects.
There is such a thing as a LiveCD for windows, you might want to check out Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD for more information. It's actually pretty usefull sometimes. Check it out.
We've seen many dupes lately here on slashdot, so this is a welcome non-dupe, however, anyone else find it weird that in such a short summary there is essentially a dupe of the sentences from the article?
"According to PCPro, the FCC has handed out a $15,000 fine to Madison River Communications Corp for blocking access to VoIP calls. The action is seen as a warning to other telcos not to prevent the growth of VoIP over their networks. The complaint was made to the FCC by two companies Vonage Holdings and Nuvia, which specialise in VoIP services. It appears that Vonage CEO Jeffrey Citron was willing to act on his earlier tirade about VoIP blocking." From the article: "The action is seen as a warning to other telcos not to prevent the growth of VoIP over their networks. Many of these companies see VoIP as a threat to their landline revenues as calls made over the internet can be made to anywhere in the world for the price of a local call."
First I have to say that I do not agree at all with what the MPAA is doing, but I must comment on the absurdity of people drawing conclusions of things by looking at a single definition or example. You are claiming, or at least implying, that theft is not occuring because you are not "removing" the file. So let's take a second to go back to Webster and look at their definition for the word remove.
remove:
1.To move from a place or position occupied: removed the cups from the table.
2.To transfer or convey from one place to another: removed the family to Texas.
3.To take off: removed my boots.
4.To take away; withdraw: removed the candidate's name from consideration.
5.To do away with; eliminate: remove a stain.
6.To dismiss from an office or position.
Once again, I am not trying to make any conclusions as to what theft is, but just trying to point out how relying on a defition all by itself to make some conclusion is ludicrous.
This is just my 2 cents though.
The main one that most people overlook is the ability to edit a section of a document and only have that section change. With binary files, like MS Word, if someone opens it up and makes one small change, then the whole file gets changed. This difference comes into play when you start considering the ability to diff files, and to use these diffs for applications such as LBFS (low bandwidth file system), or log based file systems. There is a lot of technology out there that could lead to great improvements on network/disk usage if non-binary filetypes are adopted more regularly. Currently you can only use text based files in these systems. Imagine if you could use CVS with binary files (and actually harvest the benefits of using such a system). Just my 2 cents though.
Buffalo soldier... dreadlock rasta
Just follow these simple steps
1. slice your songs into 10 equally sized chunks (10% each)
2. name them original_song_title.mp3.X where X = (0-9 corresponding to the chunk that it is).
3. Have each smaller file shared on P2P network.
4. Laugh at the RIAA
The author in response to the news announce that he will be releasing Service Pack 1 within the next week. Make sure to set up your computer to get updates automatically from update.sasser.com.
Google is known for their new and interesting technologies. I stumbled across this search engine right before reading this article actually. A search engine that clusters your results! It makes it even faster and simpler to get right to what you want. It's nice to see new ideas like this coming out and helping to change the direction of search engines as google did several years ago.
http://vivisimo.com/