Maybe you can understand it better if it were you selling something.
Suppose you made something intangible and "infinitely reproducible", like an ebook or an android app. You sell it for $20.
Scenario 1:
I give you $20
I get a copy of the product
Scenario 2:
I get a copy of the product
The net difference between these two is that you don't get the $20 yet I still get the product. If I were not a potential customer to begin with (this has been discussed on/. before and I agree with it), then you really didn't lose anything since I was never going to pay anyway. However, if I were a potential customer and I pirated it, it would be the same as me buying it then stealing my $20 back, except you never really got the $20 to begin with. It's obvious that you not getting paid is the same as stealing, how can you disagree?
Is there something similar available commercially anyone can recommend? We may end up needing to scan large amounts of pdf's to a shared drive somewhere and need the whole thing to be searchable for keywords, but a requirement for that would be a commercial product that has 24x7 support.
I created a contacts folder in gmail with my favorite addresses. Then I configured android not to display that folder in the phone contacts list, but it does show up when I go to the contacts in the maps app. Kind of a pain but it works.
When Manning told Lamo that he leaked a quarter-million classified embassy cables, Lamo contacted the Army, and then met with Army CID investigators and the FBI at a Starbucks near his house in Carmichael, California, where he passed the agents a copy of the chat logs.
If you're going to do something illegal that you don't want anyone to know you did, perhaps you shouldn't tell people about it on the internet. Whether it was the morally right thing to do or not, leaking it anonymously then bragging you were the source makes no sense and is stupid.
What happened to "responsible spending"? Regardless of if this is a good idea or not, couldn't this money be better used elsewhere or, god forbid, not at all?
The internet runs the BGP routing protocol. It is by design a 'trust' system. You explicitly neighbor with autonomous systems you want to directly connect to and you freely exchange routes. It's possible to filter that routing information if you wanted (both in and out), but because you explicitly connected with them there's a certain level of "I trust anything you tell me, as I you should of me."
How sad your world must be if that is what gives you a feeling of accomplishment and self worth.
Furthermore you don't even know the circumstances (or seemed to imply you don't) to which he was working there. What if he's just doing his friend a favor by giving him some help on a busy day? What if he lost a bet and had to work there for a few hours? What if he owns or co-owns the place? If you merely saw him there then you know nothing and to assume you are better than him shows how shallow you really are.
Streaming is neat and probably what everything will convert to eventually. I just got a subscription for Netflix, and while being able to stream movies or tv shows on demand is really cool, they just don't have a big enough streaming library. With these types of services I don't really see any one service becoming dominate anytime soon. For example, Fox doesn't seem to stream anything on netflix (can't find king of the hill, simpsons, american dad, house, etc) but all their stuff is on Hulu. Well that's fine, until Hulu starts charging access fees too; now you have to buy subscriptions to two different companies instead of just one. Maybe that's not a huge deal, but it's annoying and will turn people off; I'd rather pay twice as much to access everything in one place than have to constantly guess which service I need to view X, Y, or Z.
On top of this, you have ISPs who want to cap your bandwidth. Comcast says 250GB/mo. Sure that's plenty now, but in 2-3 years when highdef streaming becomes much more mainstream, 250GB might be nothing. Now you've got an awesome (unlimited, for netflix anyway) service you can't use to its full potential because the company you pay to help deliver it from that other company you pay to your house doesn't want to (not unlimited).
I think that the challenges in bringing streaming services to the web are great enough that physical media isn't really going to go away anytime soon. Sad really, it's a damn cool idea and works pretty well.
I only have one broadband option available to me (that I know of). Unless I want to go back to dialup or get some ridiculously expensive air card or satellite link, I'm stuck with just one service provider: our local cable company.
The cable company decides to implement a cap or traffic shaping/policing to reduce throughput? I've got no choice other than drop them and go with some other even worse option. I suspect many people are in the same boat.
Are you implying that no other operating system has bugs, or that open source guarantees bug free code? I'm pretty sure you'd be wrong.
(Disclaimer: I love Linux and have been using it at home for years, but I'm sure as hell not going to go around and tell everyone that it's rock solid and bug free just because it's open and I like it.)
id is small. They used to have a list of everyone who worked there on their site, but I can't find it anymore. It was no more than a two dozen people, most of which were artists.
I don't understand why the ISP companies aren't excited about this.
If their network utilization is increasing then they must be doing something right as their customers are using their service more. Any other business would be thrilled about this.
Instead of limiting what their customers are able to do, they should invest more in building their infrastructure to accommodate the increase in demand and grow their business.
Instead they opt to shoot themselves by limiting their service and hinder growth so that they can make slightly more money now rather than potentially much more later on.
Also, why aren't we hearing more from the services you mentioned (hulu, google, netflix, etc) about bandwidth capping?
It will rip it as a DVD5 and also offer to make a backup copy (or copies) at the end if you wish. I just keep the DVD5 stuff it makes and don't make copies though since I'm just using it for central storage.
One thing I did notice though is that I can't even play some DVD's on my linux box, so how can I rip it? Even with the patched libdvdread I get some DVDs that are just all scrambled and I can't make a backup. Oh well.
When Pakistan decided to block youtube they inadvertently caused a global routing blackhole. The internet is built with the BGP routing protocol, which is based on trust. You trust that your peers will advertise correct routes. If they don't then you get misinformation like in the Pakistan/Youtube situation and it spreads, pretty soon everyone thinks going through Pakistan is the best way to reach youtube so all traffic (or almost all) goes there, then Pakistan simply drops those packets.
Of course this was an accident, but a malicious attack could simply advertise lots of incorrect routes and hose up everything... at least for a little while.
I thought the same thing. If he's still a developer, he really missed a huge opportunity. On the other hand, he can still say that some of his work was used in a commercial game for the iPhone, selected by Carmack himself, which is a pretty cool thing to be able to put on your resume.
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Maybe not
Why don't you just run custom firmware on your router so you can have a local DNS server you idiot!
What firmware allows me to do this?
Oh I don't know that..
I don't have a USB or ethernet port on my TV. It would be a nice option but AC is still necessary for many of us old-fashioned people.
increase image quality?
Maybe you can understand it better if it were you selling something.
/. before and I agree with it), then you really didn't lose anything since I was never going to pay anyway. However, if I were a potential customer and I pirated it, it would be the same as me buying it then stealing my $20 back, except you never really got the $20 to begin with. It's obvious that you not getting paid is the same as stealing, how can you disagree?
Suppose you made something intangible and "infinitely reproducible", like an ebook or an android app. You sell it for $20.
Scenario 1:
I give you $20
I get a copy of the product
Scenario 2:
I get a copy of the product
The net difference between these two is that you don't get the $20 yet I still get the product. If I were not a potential customer to begin with (this has been discussed on
Is there something similar available commercially anyone can recommend? We may end up needing to scan large amounts of pdf's to a shared drive somewhere and need the whole thing to be searchable for keywords, but a requirement for that would be a commercial product that has 24x7 support.
I created a contacts folder in gmail with my favorite addresses. Then I configured android not to display that folder in the phone contacts list, but it does show up when I go to the contacts in the maps app. Kind of a pain but it works.
If you're going to do something illegal that you don't want anyone to know you did, perhaps you shouldn't tell people about it on the internet. Whether it was the morally right thing to do or not, leaking it anonymously then bragging you were the source makes no sense and is stupid.
According to AT&T
What happened to "responsible spending"? Regardless of if this is a good idea or not, couldn't this money be better used elsewhere or, god forbid, not at all?
There was a post on /. a while ago called "A Master's In CS or a Master's In Game Programming?"
John Carmack had an interesting comment on the subject here: http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=207072&cid=16891904
The internet runs the BGP routing protocol. It is by design a 'trust' system. You explicitly neighbor with autonomous systems you want to directly connect to and you freely exchange routes. It's possible to filter that routing information if you wanted (both in and out), but because you explicitly connected with them there's a certain level of "I trust anything you tell me, as I you should of me."
I work in IT and I like the web interface.
How sad your world must be if that is what gives you a feeling of accomplishment and self worth.
Furthermore you don't even know the circumstances (or seemed to imply you don't) to which he was working there. What if he's just doing his friend a favor by giving him some help on a busy day? What if he lost a bet and had to work there for a few hours? What if he owns or co-owns the place? If you merely saw him there then you know nothing and to assume you are better than him shows how shallow you really are.
Do the above and consider me a customer.
Can you explain why Linux would be better suited for this?
Streaming is neat and probably what everything will convert to eventually. I just got a subscription for Netflix, and while being able to stream movies or tv shows on demand is really cool, they just don't have a big enough streaming library. With these types of services I don't really see any one service becoming dominate anytime soon. For example, Fox doesn't seem to stream anything on netflix (can't find king of the hill, simpsons, american dad, house, etc) but all their stuff is on Hulu. Well that's fine, until Hulu starts charging access fees too; now you have to buy subscriptions to two different companies instead of just one. Maybe that's not a huge deal, but it's annoying and will turn people off; I'd rather pay twice as much to access everything in one place than have to constantly guess which service I need to view X, Y, or Z.
On top of this, you have ISPs who want to cap your bandwidth. Comcast says 250GB/mo. Sure that's plenty now, but in 2-3 years when highdef streaming becomes much more mainstream, 250GB might be nothing. Now you've got an awesome (unlimited, for netflix anyway) service you can't use to its full potential because the company you pay to help deliver it from that other company you pay to your house doesn't want to (not unlimited).
I think that the challenges in bringing streaming services to the web are great enough that physical media isn't really going to go away anytime soon. Sad really, it's a damn cool idea and works pretty well.
Pick your ISP?
I only have one broadband option available to me (that I know of). Unless I want to go back to dialup or get some ridiculously expensive air card or satellite link, I'm stuck with just one service provider: our local cable company.
The cable company decides to implement a cap or traffic shaping/policing to reduce throughput? I've got no choice other than drop them and go with some other even worse option. I suspect many people are in the same boat.
Are you implying that no other operating system has bugs, or that open source guarantees bug free code? I'm pretty sure you'd be wrong.
(Disclaimer: I love Linux and have been using it at home for years, but I'm sure as hell not going to go around and tell everyone that it's rock solid and bug free just because it's open and I like it.)
id is small. They used to have a list of everyone who worked there on their site, but I can't find it anymore. It was no more than a two dozen people, most of which were artists.
I don't understand why the ISP companies aren't excited about this.
If their network utilization is increasing then they must be doing something right as their customers are using their service more. Any other business would be thrilled about this.
Instead of limiting what their customers are able to do, they should invest more in building their infrastructure to accommodate the increase in demand and grow their business.
Instead they opt to shoot themselves by limiting their service and hinder growth so that they can make slightly more money now rather than potentially much more later on.
Also, why aren't we hearing more from the services you mentioned (hulu, google, netflix, etc) about bandwidth capping?
It will rip it as a DVD5 and also offer to make a backup copy (or copies) at the end if you wish. I just keep the DVD5 stuff it makes and don't make copies though since I'm just using it for central storage.
One thing I did notice though is that I can't even play some DVD's on my linux box, so how can I rip it? Even with the patched libdvdread I get some DVDs that are just all scrambled and I can't make a backup. Oh well.
When Pakistan decided to block youtube they inadvertently caused a global routing blackhole. The internet is built with the BGP routing protocol, which is based on trust. You trust that your peers will advertise correct routes. If they don't then you get misinformation like in the Pakistan/Youtube situation and it spreads, pretty soon everyone thinks going through Pakistan is the best way to reach youtube so all traffic (or almost all) goes there, then Pakistan simply drops those packets.
... at least for a little while.
Of course this was an accident, but a malicious attack could simply advertise lots of incorrect routes and hose up everything
I thought the same thing. If he's still a developer, he really missed a huge opportunity. On the other hand, he can still say that some of his work was used in a commercial game for the iPhone, selected by Carmack himself, which is a pretty cool thing to be able to put on your resume.