There's no reason they couldn't just setup solar panel "power plants" in Arizona and add that power into the grid. I see an old dated power grid as a big concern though.
How is this any different than the radio? That's free, has popular music and is paid for by sponsors. Of course this on-demand model works better than a request to the radio, especially since lots of stations have stopped taking them.
I've never heard of this leaving the land fallow. Do industrial hemp growers have to do this? Why will ditch weed grow back year after year after year on the riverbed? Fish nutrients?
Do you have SP2 installed? Later on someone said this forced updating was a feature of SP2. Someone else had 400+ machines do it at work (he saw the 3AM reboot when no one installed updates as well.)
I double checked the configuration when I saw the "shutdown to install upgrades" option... and the machine that rebooted itself claimed to be configured to notify only. Could be user error, no way to really prove it now.
I told Windows to download and not install updates, this one installed itself. On another machine I had notify only, and it downloaded and installed this one as well, even rebooted without my approval. It was not a typical update.
Regardless of how they got a hold of the phone, they're now in possession of stolen goods and should return it, or face possible criminal charges. Otherwise you can just claim you "found" anything you stole and it would be ok...
And last 3x longer for not that much more. Plus you could use old desktop hardware (that would otherwise be thrown away) indefinitely, it just needs one app. While I'm sure vendors don't want to support it, I haven't run into many modern apps that you couldn't get to work with Citrix Metaframe and TS.
Anonymizer annouced plans to support Chinese citizens for free. With plans to change, dns, ip, etc. on a regular basis to avoid blocks. Who knows if it'll work. BoingBoing covered this the other day. There are probably many others, with good info available on FreeNet.
Any organization can call itself a "non-profit" or "not for profit" organization. They have to register with the state and/or federal government as such. A typical non-profit can do whatever it wants, but the company will show little/no profit, maybe because the executives take a $1M pay check and lobby congress to get rid of copyrights with the other $2M it takes in each year. You can give them all the money you want, but you won't get a tax break. However, they will not have to pay any corporate taxes since they're non-profit.
Other companies form as a non-profit and then additionally apply for IRS 501(c)(3) (a section of the tax code) saying they agree to not do certain things with the money (like lobby congress with more than 10% of what they take in.) The OpenBSD project would use the money for coding, whatever... The Red Cross uses the money to help people. Donations to these organization are tax deductible.
What you really need isn't a PO Box. You need to get one of them fandangled PMB's at the UPS store or similar. They generally have 24 hours access if you look around a little (and you can make copies 24/7 if you need to) and are not "PO Boxes" so most anywhere will send you stuff there (including FedEx and UPS.) I've had one for years and no place has refused to mail anything there (although I usually tell them it's 1234 Main St. Suite 42 instead of PMB 42, technically there's some law that says it I have to use PMB (Personal Mail Box) now, but it was Suite 42 when I got the service, so I still use that.
GFS is ok, but I think you should checkout GNBD. The Redhat thing might be true, but you can get it going on Debian and other distributions. I'm still experimenting with it, but things seem ok thus far.
As near as I can tell all he did was violate an NDA and he's a poor student. What is Apple really going to get out of the guy? In the article they both pretty much say they cooperated with Apple 100% b/c they though Apple would leave them alone then. In the end, Apple sued them anyway.
because if the rest of the world was paid the American Minimum Wage
Maybe this was implied since I'm not sure what embargo(s) are being discussed but I imagine the poster is more interested in seeing workers get a living (or at least good) wage for the area with reasonable working conditions. Of course I don't consider current min. wage in the U.S. to be a living wage in most locations. (you can't live off $6.50, let alone $5.15 in SF, but you might be able to in rural Alabama.)
That's true no matter what client you run (unless its a bad client.) BitTorrent checks each part of the file (SHA1 for each part is included with the.torrent) before declaring it complete. Banning the client sending too bad data is a nice bonus though.
They are real worried about people time shifting or illegally rebroadcasting baseball games for some reason... those exclusive contracts must be a huge source of revenue or something.
they would have to keep track of your online BitTorrent activity for quite a while to collect multiple infringements.
They also need to:
Make sure your dynamic IP doesn't change.
Monitor a LARGE number of torrents without being blacklisted for being with the RIAA/MPAA/etc.
Not engage in sharing the said copyrighted material themselves which would make the download a legal one.
I think many of these are the same reasons IRC and Usenet can go along without being bothered too much, plus the critial mass of people aren't there, but that's how a lot of the files get out to FastTrack or BitTorrent I'm sure.
May I remind you that hemp and marijuana at one time could be found growing in road-side ditches along half of all US roads? it's not called 'weed' for nothing.
What do you mean used to? Try driving around the midwest sometime if you think ditch weed has been eliminated. Riverbeds might be the perfect place to look. Indiana didn't declare cannabis a noxious weed without reason.
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Almost all the Cowon stuff does, they also play FLAC. iRiver plays ogg vorbis too I believe, there might be others.
Maybe if you live in the UK. But what if you really forgot? or the HD with the public key is destroyed (that message is on the server, right.)
There's no reason they couldn't just setup solar panel "power plants" in Arizona and add that power into the grid. I see an old dated power grid as a big concern though.
Not many, of those that don't, how many appreciate the redirection service? Those that care, have alternatives.
How is this any different than the radio? That's free, has popular music and is paid for by sponsors. Of course this on-demand model works better than a request to the radio, especially since lots of stations have stopped taking them.
I've never heard of this leaving the land fallow. Do industrial hemp growers have to do this? Why will ditch weed grow back year after year after year on the riverbed? Fish nutrients?
Do you have SP2 installed? Later on someone said this forced updating was a feature of SP2. Someone else had 400+ machines do it at work (he saw the 3AM reboot when no one installed updates as well.)
I double checked the configuration when I saw the "shutdown to install upgrades" option... and the machine that rebooted itself claimed to be configured to notify only. Could be user error, no way to really prove it now.
I told Windows to download and not install updates, this one installed itself. On another machine I had notify only, and it downloaded and installed this one as well, even rebooted without my approval. It was not a typical update.
It's all subject to man-in-the-middle. If you want to safely use public hotspots, tor might be a reasonable option.
Regardless of how they got a hold of the phone, they're now in possession of stolen goods and should return it, or face possible criminal charges. Otherwise you can just claim you "found" anything you stole and it would be ok...
WIndows thin clients cost MORE than desktop PCs.
And last 3x longer for not that much more. Plus you could use old desktop hardware (that would otherwise be thrown away) indefinitely, it just needs one app. While I'm sure vendors don't want to support it, I haven't run into many modern apps that you couldn't get to work with Citrix Metaframe and TS.
Anonymizer annouced plans to support Chinese citizens for free. With plans to change, dns, ip, etc. on a regular basis to avoid blocks. Who knows if it'll work. BoingBoing covered this the other day. There are probably many others, with good info available on FreeNet.
Any organization can call itself a "non-profit" or "not for profit" organization. They have to register with the state and/or federal government as such. A typical non-profit can do whatever it wants, but the company will show little/no profit, maybe because the executives take a $1M pay check and lobby congress to get rid of copyrights with the other $2M it takes in each year. You can give them all the money you want, but you won't get a tax break. However, they will not have to pay any corporate taxes since they're non-profit.
Other companies form as a non-profit and then additionally apply for IRS 501(c)(3) (a section of the tax code) saying they agree to not do certain things with the money (like lobby congress with more than 10% of what they take in.) The OpenBSD project would use the money for coding, whatever... The Red Cross uses the money to help people. Donations to these organization are tax deductible.
Some sort of Windows Media DRM I'm sure, just not time crippled as it currently is.
What you really need isn't a PO Box. You need to get one of them fandangled PMB's at the UPS store or similar. They generally have 24 hours access if you look around a little (and you can make copies 24/7 if you need to) and are not "PO Boxes" so most anywhere will send you stuff there (including FedEx and UPS.) I've had one for years and no place has refused to mail anything there (although I usually tell them it's 1234 Main St. Suite 42 instead of PMB 42, technically there's some law that says it I have to use PMB (Personal Mail Box) now, but it was Suite 42 when I got the service, so I still use that.
GFS is ok, but I think you should checkout GNBD. The Redhat thing might be true, but you can get it going on Debian and other distributions. I'm still experimenting with it, but things seem ok thus far.
GNBD or GFS. Possibly Coda or AFS as well.
Satelitte radio is not very wide spread at all, only 3-4M subscribers. And we don't have BBC One or anything that is broadcast across the country.
As near as I can tell all he did was violate an NDA and he's a poor student. What is Apple really going to get out of the guy? In the article they both pretty much say they cooperated with Apple 100% b/c they though Apple would leave them alone then. In the end, Apple sued them anyway.
because if the rest of the world was paid the American Minimum Wage
Maybe this was implied since I'm not sure what embargo(s) are being discussed but I imagine the poster is more interested in seeing workers get a living (or at least good) wage for the area with reasonable working conditions. Of course I don't consider current min. wage in the U.S. to be a living wage in most locations. (you can't live off $6.50, let alone $5.15 in SF, but you might be able to in rural Alabama.)
That's true no matter what client you run (unless its a bad client.) BitTorrent checks each part of the file (SHA1 for each part is included with the .torrent) before declaring it complete. Banning the client sending too bad data is a nice bonus though.
Office of the Commisioner of Baseball (wtf?)
They are real worried about people time shifting or illegally rebroadcasting baseball games for some reason... those exclusive contracts must be a huge source of revenue or something.
they would have to keep track of your online BitTorrent activity for quite a while to collect multiple infringements.
They also need to:
I think many of these are the same reasons IRC and Usenet can go along without being bothered too much, plus the critial mass of people aren't there, but that's how a lot of the files get out to FastTrack or BitTorrent I'm sure.
May I remind you that hemp and marijuana at one time could be found growing in road-side ditches along half of all US roads? it's not called 'weed' for nothing.
What do you mean used to? Try driving around the midwest sometime if you think ditch weed has been eliminated. Riverbeds might be the perfect place to look. Indiana didn't declare cannabis a noxious weed without reason.