1) Install a firewall that sniffs traffic 2) See if it's not bittorrent or bittorrent sites 3) if it is, BLOCK IT 4) Put the MPAA toolkit in a machine behind the firewall! Ta-da!:D
Really good idea, perhaps we could... errm... how about... oh I don't know... use metallic cables to distribute the energy.
Oh, you mean those heavy, inefficient copper wires that waste an enormous amount of energy as heat?
Think of energy as data, and cables as bandwidth. Why do you think bittorrent is so popular? Because they save resources by distributing the data flow. What makes you think distributed energy won't be different?
So we have lots of little, local power sources - which are harder to regulate (both in terms out power output and in terms of ensuring that emissions are clean up etc.), less efficient in terms of materials consumption, and need yet more batteries to store energy at times when the generator is not working.
I think you fail to understand that if every house had a tiny eolic or solar generator, massive power plants wouldn't be necessary. Or what about the single-home-sized nuclear plants that China is already working on?
I know, let's cover the world in lead, acid, lithium and cadmium - that will solve lots of problems.
I guess you have completely dismissed the possibility of storing energy in hydrogen fuel cells (remember, this article is about the future), haven't you?
I understand your anger, but the issue here is whether the low-carb propaganda is really bullshit or not. It is a matter that should be investigated, otherwise those dismissing it as bullshit would effectively act as anti-low-carb zealots, instead of following the scientific method.
Also, we have to wonder why the US (the country where the Food Pyramid originated) is also where the "fatness" phenomenon originated, and why the countries that start to follow the "american way of life" (fast food, sedentary life, high-calory carb snacks) tend to follow american's fatness. This phenomenon, at least country-wise, behaves like an epidemic.
It seems to me like the programs work but if you want more advanced features or a prettier/easier to use interface you have to buy the non-OSS software.
Exactly. This is a trend I've seen in OSS applications. Most of the time, they're miles (or even light years) behind their proprietary competitors. GIMP? Can't support advanced color spaces, needs to replicate all the Photoshop features (however, as I'm not user of Gimp nor photoshop, I can only say what I've heard). OOo? The MS compatibility phantom is luring around. Audacity? Lacks professional features found in commercial packages. Oh, is there an OSS alternative for Adobe Premiere Pro? Zero. Nich. None.
Well, what is to be expected from apps written by hobbyists? If only people began to produce actual clones of existing applications: Imagine something like "PicShop" (tfeaturing a 1-to-1 equivalent for all Photoshop features), or something called "Showtime!" replicating all the Premiere Pro features, or something called "AudioStudio Pro" replicating all the Adobe Audition features. And we're still missing the Visual Basic OSS alternative (for Windows, because Linux has Gambas, but there's no windows version, and there will never be).
Why? Why do OSS programmers fail to realize that Windows users want something to work just like the PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE they have spent hundreds of dollars in? Perhaps it's that OSS programmers haven't even TRIED the commercial apps? And don't even mention REGULAR USE.
Perhaps The FLOSS community needs something that I would call "The Proprietary Software Free documentation project" that showed and explained the menus, interfaces and case uses for 100% of the features implemented in the latest versions of commercial software. Documentation like this would serve as the basis for making actual cross-platform clones of existing proprietary software.
Think of Linux. It wanted to be "A better Minix than Minix". And Firefox is certainly "a better IE than IE",even if that's not its motto. So where's the "A better photoshop than photoshop", or "A better audition than audition", or "A better premiere than premiere"?
So why has nobody started these projects? OSS zealots want a revolution, but fail to produce the weapons. And then they complain about people who prefer to pay hundreds or thousands or dollars than using their ackward and/or inferior products.
Is it a shame to try to clone existing applications? Is it a sin? Is it?
she was caught red handed having used p2p programs to download and distribute a ton of music she didn't pay for
Wrong! She was caught having 24 songs in a folder which happened to be configured for sharing by Kazaa. Proof of actual distribution to a downloader was NOT presented.
Saying the war with consumers WAS (past tense) wrong, implies that the war has finished already. But what about the College Opportunity and Affordability Act, concerning colleges and filesharers?
No, the war ain't over, and we haven't won yet. But be warned: We WILL win. Sooner or later, we will win. Whether you make peace with us or are mercilessly defeated, depends on you.
ah an abusive retort from an anoynmous coward, typical of the piracy-justifying crowd.
Grandparent poster most probably refers to the first amendment being **** on by the recording companies. No fair use, no personal copying, just give'em the money.
That _IS_ illegal, but nobody has dared to challenge them in courts. And those who dare challenging them in real life are called robbers and pirates, and are fined with $222,000 dollars.
As Trent said, "one way or another these motherfuckers will get it through their head that they're ripping people off and that that's not right."
So, here I am, no AC, and yet, justifying piracy. Make me your foe if you want.
* WHAT WE ARE NOT SAYING: NIST intentionally put a backdoor in this PRNG
* WHAT WE ARE SAYING: The prediction resistance for this PRNG (as presented in NIST-SP800-90) is dependent on solving one instance of the elliptic curve discrete log problem. (And we do not know if the algorithm designer knew this beforehand.)
On the last slide, the researchers add some suggestions:
Truncate off more than the top 16 bits of the output block. - Results on extractors from x coordinates of EC points of prime curves suggest truncating off the top bitlen/2 bits is reasonable. * Generate a random point Q for each instance of the PRNG.
does this mean that WoW *DOES NOT VALIDATE CLIENT INPUT*? This is basic PHP programming, for Turing's sake!
Intead of doing rootkit-or-whatever-complicated-check-by-the-client, they should check stuff AT THE SERVER to make sure things are 100% valid. If they're not, then they can implement the appropriate penalties or error-correction routines (like disconnecting the user or preventing certain actions from taking place).
Logically, you're not capable of voting if you're dead - your statement is patriotic but makes no sense.
I'd give my life for *OUR* right to vote. Also, I'd like to remind the ignorants out there that you can vote for WHOMEVER YOU WANT. It doesn't matter if it's not one of the big 2, your vote is NOT wasted (unless you have to decide on imminent dangers, like if one candidate is for war and the other is against war).
The biggest lie Americans have been told is that very few people will vote for the right candidate if he's not republican or democrat. BULLSHIT. People do not vote for third-party candidates PRECISELY because THEY BELIEVE that lie.
In other words, if you want to change America you have to vote for your candidate of choice and convince others. True change always comes from below. And that's precisely the problem. People need a leader because they're too lazy to do things on their own, even if they're simple things.
And this is why the people have the government they deserve.
I used an AMP-CLAMP with a custom-made extension. Unfortunately it doesn't calculate the watts, you have to multiply by 127 by youself. But that saved me from spending over 70 Watts per hour (No wonder our electricity bill was so high).
How much money does it cost to save that much energy as well? I kind of scanned the article, but one thing I did notice was that $200 was spent on a new LCD monitor to replace the CRT. If we assume 100% of the energy savings came from that one purchase (which it didn't), it will take more than 2 years to recoup the money spent on that one purchase
And for this reason, the government must subsidize energy-efficient monitors and TV's (like LCD's) so the change is viable for the consumer (and subsidizing the newest LED light bulbs wouldn't be a bad idea, either).
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Dear MPAA and RIAA:
You've noticed that the number of students who think downloading movies and music via the internet is OK. Well, here's some news for you:
Vox populi, vox Dei.
install an anti-MAFIAA toolkit!
:D
1) Install a firewall that sniffs traffic
2) See if it's not bittorrent or bittorrent sites
3) if it is, BLOCK IT
4) Put the MPAA toolkit in a machine behind the firewall! Ta-da!
You must DEFINITELY be new here!
If you have an account, cancel it "due to my disagreement with your 1-click patent that stiffles innovation".
Who dares to put his money where his mouth is?
Ah hah... I supposed.
"Ecma receives 3,522 Comments on Open XML Satan darts".
:)
There, fixed it for ya.
Oh, you mean those heavy, inefficient copper wires that waste an enormous amount of energy as heat?
Think of energy as data, and cables as bandwidth. Why do you think bittorrent is so popular? Because they save resources by distributing the data flow. What makes you think distributed energy won't be different?
I think you fail to understand that if every house had a tiny eolic or solar generator, massive power plants wouldn't be necessary. Or what about the single-home-sized nuclear plants that China is already working on?
I guess you have completely dismissed the possibility of storing energy in hydrogen fuel cells (remember, this article is about the future), haven't you?
Someone care to explain why simple browsing consumes so much damn memory?
Because each rendered page, and I mean the pixels, is kept in memory. Uncompressed.
We have your limited edition Star Wars Princess Leia figurine still in its original packaging.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Not more of this low-carb propaganda bullshit.
I understand your anger, but the issue here is whether the low-carb propaganda is really bullshit or not. It is a matter that should be investigated, otherwise those dismissing it as bullshit would effectively act as anti-low-carb zealots, instead of following the scientific method.
Also, we have to wonder why the US (the country where the Food Pyramid originated) is also where the "fatness" phenomenon originated, and why the countries that start to follow the "american way of life" (fast food, sedentary life, high-calory carb snacks) tend to follow american's fatness. This phenomenon, at least country-wise, behaves like an epidemic.
That's not a very good disguise.
:D
Exactly! That's why it's the PERFECT diguise!
Exactly. This is a trend I've seen in OSS applications. Most of the time, they're miles (or even light years) behind their proprietary competitors. GIMP? Can't support advanced color spaces, needs to replicate all the Photoshop features (however, as I'm not user of Gimp nor photoshop, I can only say what I've heard). OOo? The MS compatibility phantom is luring around. Audacity? Lacks professional features found in commercial packages. Oh, is there an OSS alternative for Adobe Premiere Pro? Zero. Nich. None.
Well, what is to be expected from apps written by hobbyists? If only people began to produce actual clones of existing applications: Imagine something like "PicShop" (tfeaturing a 1-to-1 equivalent for all Photoshop features), or something called "Showtime!" replicating all the Premiere Pro features, or something called "AudioStudio Pro" replicating all the Adobe Audition features. And we're still missing the Visual Basic OSS alternative (for Windows, because Linux has Gambas, but there's no windows version, and there will never be).
Why? Why do OSS programmers fail to realize that Windows users want something to work just like the PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE they have spent hundreds of dollars in?
Perhaps it's that OSS programmers haven't even TRIED the commercial apps? And don't even mention REGULAR USE.
Perhaps The FLOSS community needs something that I would call "The Proprietary Software Free documentation project" that showed and explained the menus, interfaces and case uses for 100% of the features implemented in the latest versions of commercial software. Documentation like this would serve as the basis for making actual cross-platform clones of existing proprietary software.
Think of Linux. It wanted to be "A better Minix than Minix". And Firefox is certainly "a better IE than IE",even if that's not its motto. So where's the "A better photoshop than photoshop", or "A better audition than audition", or "A better premiere than premiere"?
So why has nobody started these projects? OSS zealots want a revolution, but fail to produce the weapons. And then they complain about people who prefer to pay hundreds or thousands or dollars than using their ackward and/or inferior products.
Is it a shame to try to clone existing applications? Is it a sin? Is it?
she was caught red handed having used p2p programs to download and distribute a ton of music she didn't pay for
Wrong! She was caught having 24 songs in a folder which happened to be configured for sharing by Kazaa. Proof of actual distribution to a downloader was NOT presented.
Saying the war with consumers WAS (past tense) wrong, implies that the war has finished already. But what about the College Opportunity and Affordability Act, concerning colleges and filesharers?
No, the war ain't over, and we haven't won yet. But be warned: We WILL win. Sooner or later, we will win. Whether you make peace with us or are mercilessly defeated, depends on you.
that and why not the same for anti drug and gun policies
But there is something like that. It's called certification.
ah an abusive retort from an anoynmous coward, typical of the piracy-justifying crowd.
Grandparent poster most probably refers to the first amendment being **** on by the recording companies. No fair use, no personal copying, just give'em the money.
That _IS_ illegal, but nobody has dared to challenge them in courts. And those who dare challenging them in real life are called robbers and pirates, and are fined with $222,000 dollars.
As Trent said, "one way or another these motherfuckers will get it through their head that they're ripping people off and that that's not right."
So, here I am, no AC, and yet, justifying piracy. Make me your foe if you want.
I smell an XKCD comic approaching....
Can someone explain to me what E8 is? The wikipedia article left me with more questions than answers :(
On the last slide, the researchers add some suggestions:
does this mean that WoW *DOES NOT VALIDATE CLIENT INPUT*? This is basic PHP programming, for Turing's sake!
Intead of doing rootkit-or-whatever-complicated-check-by-the-client, they should check stuff AT THE SERVER to make sure things are 100% valid. If they're not, then they can implement the appropriate penalties or error-correction routines (like disconnecting the user or preventing certain actions from taking place).
Sheesh, is that so hard to do?
Logically, you're not capable of voting if you're dead - your statement is patriotic but makes no sense.
I'd give my life for *OUR* right to vote. Also, I'd like to remind the ignorants out there that you can vote for WHOMEVER YOU WANT. It doesn't matter if it's not one of the big 2, your vote is NOT wasted (unless you have to decide on imminent dangers, like if one candidate is for war and the other is against war).
The biggest lie Americans have been told is that very few people will vote for the right candidate if he's not republican or democrat. BULLSHIT. People do not vote for third-party candidates PRECISELY because THEY BELIEVE that lie.
In other words, if you want to change America you have to vote for your candidate of choice and convince others. True change always comes from below. And that's precisely the problem. People need a leader because they're too lazy to do things on their own, even if they're simple things.
And this is why the people have the government they deserve.
I used an AMP-CLAMP with a custom-made extension. Unfortunately it doesn't calculate the watts, you have to multiply by 127 by youself. But that saved me from spending over 70 Watts per hour (No wonder our electricity bill was so high).
How much money does it cost to save that much energy as well? I kind of scanned the article, but one thing I did notice was that $200 was spent on a new LCD monitor to replace the CRT. If we assume 100% of the energy savings came from that one purchase (which it didn't), it will take more than 2 years to recoup the money spent on that one purchase
And for this reason, the government must subsidize energy-efficient monitors and TV's (like LCD's) so the change is viable for the consumer (and subsidizing the newest LED light bulbs wouldn't be a bad idea, either).
HAH! I use a manual bycicle! Try EMP'ing that!
Which also makes me wonder why, if someone were intent on illegality, they couldn't put their own little faraday cage...
Faraday Cage: Your CPU's tinfoil hat. Never leave home without it!
1. Telepathy
2. Time Travel
3. Prescience
4. Anomie
5. 4D Interface
6. Zen
7. Levitation
8. ??
9. Profit!!