A good suggestion to speed up connectivity AND learn about new pages:
Run the freenet spider. That thing will help you discover all sorts of new content, fill your cache, and basically do all the boring parts of surfing without taking much of your time. Its a great exploration tool.
The catch-22 is that you actually have to be already connected to the freenet to download it...
The one thing that everyone forgets...is that music must be decoded to listen to it. and if it comes out a speaker, IT CAN BE COPIED. There is no way to lock down this "hole", short of establishing a police state.
DRM will always fail. There is no way to "lock the system down completely" other than to NOT DISTRIBUTE THE CONTENT AT ALL.
And if Apple gets out of the music business, fine. They're supporting the record cartels, just like a convience store fronting a crime ring.
What does it take to recieve the signals from these satellites?
*whack* That was a clue-by-four hitting you squarely on the head.
First, they're NOT SATELLITES! They're probes nearing the EDGE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM!
Second, it takes three aimable 75-meter-wide satelite dishes evenly spaced across the planet earth to constantly monitor their signals. Only one of these dishes can be found in the United States - in the Mojave Desert.
That, plus a massive processing center is required to receive a deep space signal signal with the strength of one billionth of one billionth of a watt - Voyager 1's current approximate carrier signal strength.
And I like MPAA's little adds in the movie theatres how they show this poor set designer who claims the pimply-faced hackers stole his money. Why don't they show the billionaire owners and executives of the studios? I can almost see the add:
[Sad marimba music in the background...]
"Because of the wide-spread piracy the poor CEO of [insert name] studio won't be able to afford a Ferrari for his 16 year old daughter. Look what piracy has done! His daughter will be forced to drive a BMW now. How does that make you feel?"
I was in a movie theater in Pasadena last summer and one of those pathetic ads came on. The entire theater BOOED and LAUGHED at it, because of the obvious absurdity.
I don't know why more people aren't aware of this, and I know that I'm a day late and a dollar short posting this, but...THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY did an in-depth analysis on the feasiblity of a boost-phase ballistic missile intercept system, and you know what they found? IT WON'T WORK. They physicists are saying that the entire concept is simply impossible. WHY THE HELL ARE WE SPENDING MONEY ON THIS?
Will someone please explain to the Bushtard that you can't change the laws of physics, even for matters of national security? I mean, seriously. This is getting out of hand.
Wouldn't it make more sense to simply regulate the actual devices responsible for communication, such as modems and ethernet cards? I mean, a computer doesn't necessarily have to be connected to a network, and therefore can't always be subject to FCC regulation.
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Flip 'em the proverbial bird by getting a couple of 'old school' (pre-insecure) gigabit ethernet cards, and make a DIY linux router.
And Bush is a moron. The end.
Run the freenet spider. That thing will help you discover all sorts of new content, fill your cache, and basically do all the boring parts of surfing without taking much of your time. Its a great exploration tool.
The catch-22 is that you actually have to be already connected to the freenet to download it...
Too bad it looks like comets are made mostly of fine powder. Trying to move that with force applied at a small point might not work so well.
Look no further:
http://www.ccsds.org
(Vint Cerf has a irons in this fire)
Vent Cerf = 1
AC = 0
If I can't find a non-DRMed (read: uncrippled) recording of the movie, I won't be watching it.
And Visual Basic coding.
The one thing that everyone forgets...is that music must be decoded to listen to it. and if it comes out a speaker, IT CAN BE COPIED. There is no way to lock down this "hole", short of establishing a police state.
DRM will always fail. There is no way to "lock the system down completely" other than to NOT DISTRIBUTE THE CONTENT AT ALL.
And if Apple gets out of the music business, fine. They're supporting the record cartels, just like a convience store fronting a crime ring.
*whack* That's me hitting myself squarely with a clue-by-four.
Interferometers are proven to be very effective in signal reception...good call.
*whack* That was a clue-by-four hitting you squarely on the head.
First, they're NOT SATELLITES! They're probes nearing the EDGE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM!
Second, it takes three aimable 75-meter-wide satelite dishes evenly spaced across the planet earth to constantly monitor their signals. Only one of these dishes can be found in the United States - in the Mojave Desert. That, plus a massive processing center is required to receive a deep space signal signal with the strength of one billionth of one billionth of a watt - Voyager 1's current approximate carrier signal strength.
[Sad marimba music in the background...]
"Because of the wide-spread piracy the poor CEO of [insert name] studio won't be able to afford a Ferrari for his 16 year old daughter. Look what piracy has done! His daughter will be forced to drive a BMW now. How does that make you feel?"
I was in a movie theater in Pasadena last summer and one of those pathetic ads came on. The entire theater BOOED and LAUGHED at it, because of the obvious absurdity.
The obvious answer is Knoppix.
Will someone please explain to the Bushtard that you can't change the laws of physics, even for matters of national security? I mean, seriously. This is getting out of hand.
Wouldn't it make more sense to simply regulate the actual devices responsible for communication, such as modems and ethernet cards? I mean, a computer doesn't necessarily have to be connected to a network, and therefore can't always be subject to FCC regulation.