I have 3 of them. Up until very recently, I didn't have a DVD burner. I taught the kids to play with the discs. Then, I showed them the right and wrong way to handle a CD/DVD. Now that the two older ones are tall enough to reach the player, they get a disc and load it themselves. In seven years, I've lost one DVD and one CD, total. And those were from the first child, when I was still learning.
Not that the child reason isn't a good one for backups, and not that you shouldn't be allowed to make backups, but it shouldn't be that necessary.
heh... waiting to buy until you could create backups.... right.
because of my 200 disc DVD library, I've backed-up so many of them. in fact, if I couldn't make backups, there's no way I would have bought DVD's./sarcasm
Let's be honest, this is good for only two reasons:
(1) the legit side: ripping movies to a media server of some sort for use in your home. (maybe even just as a "backup" archive.)
(2) the non-legit side: making copies of movies for your friends, making perfectly clean BlueRay torrents, getting movies you didn't pay for, etc.
I'm all for #1. #2, not so much. But to each his own.
lovely. we've come so far as to imagine that the semiconductor industry constitutes "an environmentally friendly" solution. The fabrication steps to make any semiconductor device typically involve very nasty chemicals, including CFC's, and fall very far down the green list.
"Now, this time there are conditions attached to the winning bid that will supposedly prevent some of the previous worst practices from being repeated, but corporations are famous for circumventing, capturing, and generally corrupting attempts by the government to regulate them"
this time their method will be very straightforward. Simple, even: "Oh, you want to run anything on our network? Well that obviously will cost us more, or at least trim our relative per customer profit margin. As such, to maintain corporate competitiveness, accessing this open spectrum will cost more than our closed spectrum. Thank you, and have a nice day."
seriously, will I be able to dynamic crop an image yet? I.e., click the toolbar button, and drag the image handles? The extra crop dialog window with the 'specify crop distance in inches from each edge' BS is really annoying.
side curtain airbags cost more. they are not in all cars. they tend to come standard in many more expensive cars. The cars without them are not unsafe. They are merely less safe in certain instances. Because these things are in more expensive cars, they are not available to those who cannot pay for them. Thus, car safety is inherently biased toward the wealthy, at least above a certain minimum standard.
long range spy. i.e., not a "toss 'em up in the air, let him circle around a few times, and then he can come home for dinner" kind of drone. Should we hang a sign around his neck saying: "Excuse me, Mr. Adversary, sir. Would you kindly plug me in to the nearest cigarette lighter? I can't keep spying on you if you don't. Pretty please?"
The goal is to operate for extended duration away from friendly operators. A longer mission time equals a longer stored energy payload, or some ability to recharge. Since the former is counterproductive to a light weight system, you opt for the latter. Since recharge cannot rely on an external function (someone plugging it into a HMMWV, etc.), recharge has to be internal and passive. Hence hoping for solar, thermal, vibrational scavenge, etc.
They can't meet the spec, but that doesn't mean the goals weren't picked for a reason.
Hmmm... are any of these FIPS 140-2 compliant? I think last I checked some were going through the cert process, but only one flash drive I know of has the certification. (Kanguru offers the only one I've found, making it the only one people will approve for use in the building.) Not sure if that cert is even worth the paper its written on, though.
FYI, please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spambot
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet
Your network would be a prime target for a botnet. By the time the complaints come in, the damage has been done long ago, and the do-er doesn't care about retaliation on the sending computer. They'll just find a different one to abuse next time, because they know each one will send the full payload for each job.
"unless they are compelled,"
But they were compelled, by a legal subpoena, issued because of evidence of illegal activity taking place. So how is what the University did wrong? They held out as long as they legally could, but you can't expect the University to take a contempt charge over students' illegal activities.
and unless you visiting all those dirty websites was somehow illegal, the university would be under no obligation to divulge any of that information. a legal subpoena would have to be based on evidence of illegal activity.
The problem is that where a paint coating of measurable thickness will take a certain amount of time to wear once direct exposure sets in, the super thin modified metal layer will only take an extremely short time to wear away. You'd have to be careful when waxing the car to apply very gently.
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ooohhh... can we start on computer engineers next ??
See that big building over there? That's the public library...
heh....NOT to play with the discs. :)
Not that the child reason isn't a good one for backups, and not that you shouldn't be allowed to make backups, but it shouldn't be that necessary.
no, if at all, I'm typically on the receiving end of such an arrangement. But, usually not at all.
I concede that point. Had forgotten it. Well played.
because of my 200 disc DVD library, I've backed-up so many of them. in fact, if I couldn't make backups, there's no way I would have bought DVD's. /sarcasm
Let's be honest, this is good for only two reasons:
(1) the legit side: ripping movies to a media server of some sort for use in your home. (maybe even just as a "backup" archive.) (2) the non-legit side: making copies of movies for your friends, making perfectly clean BlueRay torrents, getting movies you didn't pay for, etc.
I'm all for #1. #2, not so much. But to each his own.
lovely. we've come so far as to imagine that the semiconductor industry constitutes "an environmentally friendly" solution. The fabrication steps to make any semiconductor device typically involve very nasty chemicals, including CFC's, and fall very far down the green list.
this time their method will be very straightforward. Simple, even: "Oh, you want to run anything on our network? Well that obviously will cost us more, or at least trim our relative per customer profit margin. As such, to maintain corporate competitiveness, accessing this open spectrum will cost more than our closed spectrum. Thank you, and have a nice day."
it's funny how we create something, and then hate it for being exactly how we created it. Mary Shelley anyone?
seriously, will I be able to dynamic crop an image yet? I.e., click the toolbar button, and drag the image handles? The extra crop dialog window with the 'specify crop distance in inches from each edge' BS is really annoying.
long range spy. i.e., not a "toss 'em up in the air, let him circle around a few times, and then he can come home for dinner" kind of drone. Should we hang a sign around his neck saying: "Excuse me, Mr. Adversary, sir. Would you kindly plug me in to the nearest cigarette lighter? I can't keep spying on you if you don't. Pretty please?"
The goal is to operate for extended duration away from friendly operators. A longer mission time equals a longer stored energy payload, or some ability to recharge. Since the former is counterproductive to a light weight system, you opt for the latter. Since recharge cannot rely on an external function (someone plugging it into a HMMWV, etc.), recharge has to be internal and passive. Hence hoping for solar, thermal, vibrational scavenge, etc.
They can't meet the spec, but that doesn't mean the goals weren't picked for a reason.
and what happens the first time you randomly wget yourself some kiddy porn?
Hmmm... are any of these FIPS 140-2 compliant? I think last I checked some were going through the cert process, but only one flash drive I know of has the certification. (Kanguru offers the only one I've found, making it the only one people will approve for use in the building.) Not sure if that cert is even worth the paper its written on, though.
no. even if the value changes, it'll still be 1.337
speed disk and calibrat FTW!
AI?
10 print This device is addictive
20 print this label's addictive, too
30 print so's that one
40 goto 30
no, we'll just make up for the GDP loss by pushing for economic sanctions of some sort on those countries for their cross-border pollution.
FYI, please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spambot and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet Your network would be a prime target for a botnet. By the time the complaints come in, the damage has been done long ago, and the do-er doesn't care about retaliation on the sending computer. They'll just find a different one to abuse next time, because they know each one will send the full payload for each job.
and unless you visiting all those dirty websites was somehow illegal, the university would be under no obligation to divulge any of that information. a legal subpoena would have to be based on evidence of illegal activity.
and seriously, since when should I have to worry about firmware updates when buying a piece of A/V equipment? Utterly Redonculous.
The problem is that where a paint coating of measurable thickness will take a certain amount of time to wear once direct exposure sets in, the super thin modified metal layer will only take an extremely short time to wear away. You'd have to be careful when waxing the car to apply very gently.