- And then other people rate your trojan as bad and its rating goes down. Actually, I expect some technique like you describe could work, but it is a heck of a lot more effort to go to than with no rating system at all.
I can't wait to sit in my window shouting 'TUMBLE DRIER!' into the ears of passing motorists. I shall let you all know how long it takes for one to pull up and offer me a cigarette.
Patriots tend to know who non-combatants are. Terrorists don't know the meaning of the term.
What an extraordinarily sweeping statement! - Do you suppose the IRA (not that I approve of them), took no care to restrict its attacks to 'legitimate targets'? - Even though they failed to do that, plenty of times? Or how about the not-very selective bombing of cities (by all sides) in WW2? Having said that, this recent batch of fighters are less selective than most, but their goal isn't to attack the military power of the west, but to scare tourists and stir-up race hatred.
It's funny that the music industry will actually pay out money sneakily to get airplay via the radio and tv, to boost sales, but for some reason airplay via p2p services can only damage their sales. Of course p2p could result in the listeners having a permanent copy, but so can radio and tv. - And then there are all the streamripping and peercasting options to grey-out the difference even more.
That's a possibility for the motive yes - that does mean that the bombings were not required to end the war though, which takes us back to my original comment.
haha - no surprise on my part from your response. To answer your question, no I don't think more firebombing would have been better. It wasn't the only other option though. - One option was to do nothing militarily and await the outcome of the surrender negotiations which were underway.
The Museum in Hiroshima holds that 40,000 of the Hiroshima victims were POWs - but that they were POWs from Asia, rather than European or US.
Of the 5 shortlisted targets for the two bombs, none of them would have been particularly free from collateral damage, however.
What's more interesting is the whole question of whether the atomic attacks were necessary to end tha war - I shall say no more on this here but I invite all readers to look into it - it wasn't as easily justified as you may think.
true, true, but you with kazaa etc you still have the question "would they have bought it if they couldn't download it?", and often with MP3s the answer is no. With RotS i think it is fair to say lots of casual fans would pay to see it in the cinema, but might choose something different when out at the flicks if they already downloaded it. However, I don't really care. It isn't like Lucas is short of a bob or two. If it wasn't for Jar Jar Binks I might feel sorry for him, but it's too late for that now.
How is it possible to find out who you are downloading from (not who is proxying), using Freenet ? Anyway, to defeat copyright enforcers, it is not required to be 100% anonymous - it just has to be sufficiently expensive for them to remove reasonable doubt about the source.
Of course I confronted him. I expect my children not to use their internet privileges to look at pornography.
You are missing the point, just because an ad from a porno site appears on the logs does not mean your progeny has been looking at porno. Given that even very good adblockers don't filter everything (or require lots of knowledge to use), it isn't the average surfer's fault if they get porny ads. Such is the nastiness of unregulated advertising. Asking him to not use sites that have those ads is pointless as they could pop up on any site which deals in R0mz (Incidentally, most of the emulator roms out there are for abandonware, so pretty much free of moral quandries about Intellectual Property).
As you run a home network with logging, why not block the domains that are bothering you? (just the ad domains, not the sites your son is learning from).
There is a good windows DNS utility here: http://www.extratools.com/ -It is a souped-up local DNS cache, it might be the sort of thing you are looking for, and the full version works over a LAN.
Understand the difference between a.torrent file, which is most often served by web-servers which are being slashdotted in this instance, and can be mirrored, and the torrent tracker, which supplies the IPs of some of the peers and seeds currently in the swarm.
Is the tracker really slashdotted in this case? -I never heard of that happening before, but if anything can do it, then a Starwars Torrent on Slashdot might...
Of course, once you have a.torrent file your BT client will keep checking the tracker every 5 mins or so until it gets some IPs of peers to start trading with, after that there should be no bottleneck.
It is entirely normal for BT to begin slowly and then speed up - you need to have a few pieces to offer in order to strike up good piece-trading. As for the notion that it is better for small files, *every* manner of transferring data is better for small files. The strength of BT is that it cuts large files up into smaller pieces to transfer separately.
As I don`t have access to my own machine right now, how many seeds and peers are there in the swarms? Is the tracker performing ok?
Has anyone posted the.torrents to alt.binaries.torrents ?
They're, their and there are 'homonyms', if you fancy learning a new English word. I think the growth of this error is due to an increase in written or typed comunication, instead of spoken. I find I make this error a lot when typing quickly, even though I know perfectly well which is correct in any context. I think it would be helpful if spellcheckers could be set to always query certain words, which could be tweaked to individual users' needs. I also find I mistype 'from' as 'form' a lot, which also gets past spelling/grammar checkers. - I would like to have these flagged-up all the time. The MS spellcheck wont even react sensibly to capitalisation. Why does it query the spelling of proper nouns which begin with a capital? I do agree that there is plenty more that could be done to improve it in MS word.
The things I never see the US gun-lobby admitting is that although guns are good as defensive weapons, they are even better as offensive weapons, and that they are dangerous and cause accidents.
The net effect of more guns around is more gun-related injuries, whichever way you try to cut it:
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=new+york+shooting&word2=london+shooting
Sure illegal guns are a problem, but the number of shootings is still a lot less per capita in countries that limit legal gun-ownership. - In the UK having an unlicenced gun will get you a mandatory 3-year prison sentence. - I think the lady you refer to was calling for this to be increased.
As for "break-ins and rapes and stuff", I doubt gun-ownership was a deterrent for those in the past, as we have not banned gun-ownership here, only tightened the safety-checks on licensing and banned automatic weapons (also handguns have been banned for many years). You can still get a shotgun if you have no criminal record, have a need for a shotgun, and will store it securely.
Regarding hate-speech, anything is legal in print, or on the net, but there is a crime of "inciting racial hatred" here, which refers to political speeches and the like. - I don't think this conflicts with our wish for a tolerant society - you can legitimately supress factions which are a danger to freedom, - The US has been particularly keen on this approach, for a long time. - or hadn't you noticed?
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It is not theft,it is infringement, no matter how similar to theft you may feel it to be.
- And then other people rate your trojan as bad and its rating goes down.
Actually, I expect some technique like you describe could work, but it is a heck of a lot more effort to go to than with no rating system at all.
I can't wait to sit in my window shouting 'TUMBLE DRIER!' into the ears of passing motorists.
I shall let you all know how long it takes for one to pull up and offer me a cigarette.
Still, I recall seeing the back of a VHS copy of Alien describing the beast as 'galactic', which was worse, or something.
Patriots tend to know who non-combatants are. Terrorists don't know the meaning of the term.
What an extraordinarily sweeping statement! - Do you suppose the IRA (not that I approve of them), took no care to restrict its attacks to 'legitimate targets'? - Even though they failed to do that, plenty of times?
Or how about the not-very selective bombing of cities (by all sides) in WW2?
Having said that, this recent batch of fighters are less selective than most, but their goal isn't to attack the military power of the west, but to scare tourists and stir-up race hatred.
gee, perhaps the other poster didn't know that water is bad for notebooks? Thanks for setting him straight on that one ;-)
Why not just pull the cable?
It's funny that the music industry will actually pay out money sneakily to get airplay via the radio and tv, to boost sales, but for some reason airplay via p2p services can only damage their sales.
Of course p2p could result in the listeners having a permanent copy, but so can radio and tv.
- And then there are all the streamripping and peercasting options to grey-out the difference even more.
That's a possibility for the motive yes - that does mean that the bombings were not required to end the war though, which takes us back to my original comment.
haha - no surprise on my part from your response.
To answer your question, no I don't think more firebombing would have been better. It wasn't the only other option though. - One option was to do nothing militarily and await the outcome of the surrender negotiations which were underway.
The Museum in Hiroshima holds that 40,000 of the Hiroshima victims were POWs - but that they were POWs from Asia, rather than European or US.
Of the 5 shortlisted targets for the two bombs, none of them would have been particularly free from collateral damage, however.
What's more interesting is the whole question of whether the atomic attacks were necessary to end tha war - I shall say no more on this here but I invite all readers to look into it - it wasn't as easily justified as you may think.
true, true, but you with kazaa etc you still have the question "would they have bought it if they couldn't download it?", and often with MP3s the answer is no.
With RotS i think it is fair to say lots of casual fans would pay to see it in the cinema, but might choose something different when out at the flicks if they already downloaded it.
However, I don't really care. It isn't like Lucas is short of a bob or two. If it wasn't for Jar Jar Binks I might feel sorry for him, but it's too late for that now.
Keep trying this link, you never know! http://search.ebay.com/sense-of-irony_W0QQfkrZ1QQf romZR8/
How is it possible to find out who you are downloading from (not who is proxying), using Freenet ?
Anyway, to defeat copyright enforcers, it is not required to be 100% anonymous - it just has to be sufficiently expensive for them to remove reasonable doubt about the source.
Of course I confronted him. I expect my children not to use their internet privileges to look at pornography.
You are missing the point, just because an ad from a porno site appears on the logs does not mean your progeny has been looking at porno. Given that even very good adblockers don't filter everything (or require lots of knowledge to use), it isn't the average surfer's fault if they get porny ads. Such is the nastiness of unregulated advertising.
Asking him to not use sites that have those ads is pointless as they could pop up on any site which deals in R0mz
(Incidentally, most of the emulator roms out there are for abandonware, so pretty much free of moral quandries about Intellectual Property).
As you run a home network with logging, why not block the domains that are bothering you? (just the ad domains, not the sites your son is learning from).
That's why you get crappy service.
There is a good windows DNS utility here:
http://www.extratools.com/
-It is a souped-up local DNS cache, it might be the sort of thing you are looking for, and the full version works over a LAN.
Understand the difference between a .torrent file, which is most often served by web-servers which are being slashdotted in this instance, and can be mirrored, and the torrent tracker, which supplies the IPs of some of the peers and seeds currently in the swarm.
.torrent file your BT client will keep checking the tracker every 5 mins or so until it gets some IPs of peers to start trading with, after that there should be no bottleneck.
Is the tracker really slashdotted in this case? -I never heard of that happening before, but if anything can do it, then a Starwars Torrent on Slashdot might... Of course, once you have a
Anyone else think BT (formerly British Telecom) should rename themsleves again out of deference to BiTorrent?
It is entirely normal for BT to begin slowly and then speed up - you need to have a few pieces to offer in order to strike up good piece-trading. As for the notion that it is better for small files, *every* manner of transferring data is better for small files. The strength of BT is that it cuts large files up into smaller pieces to transfer separately.
.torrents to alt.binaries.torrents ?
As I don`t have access to my own machine right now, how many seeds and peers are there in the swarms? Is the tracker performing ok? Has anyone posted the
Why do people fall "head over heels"? What way up are they to begin with?
FFS - It's "A whelk's chance in a supernova" Your spelling *and* apostrophe are wrong!
They're, their and there are 'homonyms', if you fancy learning a new English word. I think the growth of this error is due to an increase in written or typed comunication, instead of spoken. I find I make this error a lot when typing quickly, even though I know perfectly well which is correct in any context.
I think it would be helpful if spellcheckers could be set to always query certain words, which could be tweaked to individual users' needs. I also find I mistype 'from' as 'form' a lot, which also gets past spelling/grammar checkers. - I would like to have these flagged-up all the time.
The MS spellcheck wont even react sensibly to capitalisation. Why does it query the spelling of proper nouns which begin with a capital?
I do agree that there is plenty more that could be done to improve it in MS word.
The things I never see the US gun-lobby admitting is that although guns are good as defensive weapons, they are even better as offensive weapons, and that they are dangerous and cause accidents. The net effect of more guns around is more gun-related injuries, whichever way you try to cut it: http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=new+york+shooting&word2=london+shooting
Sure illegal guns are a problem, but the number of shootings is still a lot less per capita in countries that limit legal gun-ownership. - In the UK having an unlicenced gun will get you a mandatory 3-year prison sentence. - I think the lady you refer to was calling for this to be increased.
As for "break-ins and rapes and stuff", I doubt gun-ownership was a deterrent for those in the past, as we have not banned gun-ownership here, only tightened the safety-checks on licensing and banned automatic weapons (also handguns have been banned for many years). You can still get a shotgun if you have no criminal record, have a need for a shotgun, and will store it securely.
Regarding hate-speech, anything is legal in print, or on the net, but there is a crime of "inciting racial hatred" here, which refers to political speeches and the like. - I don't think this conflicts with our wish for a tolerant society - you can legitimately supress factions which are a danger to freedom, - The US has been particularly keen on this approach, for a long time. - or hadn't you noticed?