Based on the pirated films that acquaintences may have described viewing, which of the following do you perceive as the likely source of the majority of these dubs?
1) screening releases are already on DVD and easy to copy 2) reels go by sneakernet out to the van for conversion to video and then back to the projection booth. 3) projectionist sets up a camera and dubs from the booth 4) hustler with camera sits in audience and dubs a copy.
We all KNOW he's innocent until it's proven otherwise.
We also all KNOW why his liberty has been compromised and we can all WATCH to see that he is treated as he should be under the LAW.
In some countries he might have just DISAPPEARED!
I've been arguing this with my 'environmentally concious' friends for 20 years.
The microclimate effects are the real worm in the windpower apple. Any place you've got topography concentrating wind into a stream, say through a mountain pass (simple example) you've got an attractive spot for a wind farm. These 'streams' are usually quite limited in vertical extant but have a major impact on local weather 'downstream'. Read parents reference on vertical mixing and remember all that stuff you read about 'fluidic computers' and pneumatic controls. Take 10-20% of the energy out of one of these 'streams' and you may well end up turning an arable valley into a desert.
The worm, is that the most attractive locations for wind farms are the same locations that cause the greatest impact on climate.
When will these guys take a cue from altavista.com and incorporate the NEAR operator. For example Pussy NEAR cat returns a much higher density of feline related URLs.
AC writes, "have them give back to the community or something constructive"
1)because forced labor is cruel and unusual punishment 2)because prisoner labor competes with people trying to earn a living 3)because stinkin spammers should rot in jail with no worldly contact other than spam email
no no no... other options exist waiting until it's a mature product and then excerising GPL copyright comes to mind. isn't this accepted business practice for some commercial SWD's
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If one has a long commute on crowded train or bus, I can see some utility. My P2120 is the perfect air coach computer, but there's no way I could manage it while standing on a train.
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States can't tax the interstate aspects of POTs calls. The loophole, if a state does want to tax, is at the POTs interface. But hey, they alread tax this for in state calls. Do we want them taxing twice? Now I can see an argument for taxing intrastate VOIP calls becausethey are effectively the same thing from the callers perspective. I don't see how they might discriminate inter/intra though. I can also see an argument against taxing VOIP. States don't tax two way radio calls. Perhaps if the states really want the tax revenue, they might be able to force the sales and use tax aspect of the business. Wy do they want to tax? What service would a state VOIP tax pay for? The state PSC doesn't have any regulatory expenses assocoated with VOIP.
MP4 is pretty efficient.
We're not talking ATSC quality of your dog(s) stream(s).
Was looking at pocket MP4 video cameras at fry's yesterday while waiting for the sales babe to find me a $1 'handsfree headset'. Some of these are not much bigger than a zippo lighter.
Caring? That's what you do for the dog. Internet is for play.
My recent experience with BB on a rebate problem was reasonably pleasant. Phoned rebate center, otained case number, visited local BB, used local BB fax to resubmit rebate, had check in 3 days! I say reasonably pleasant because I had to visit the store. It wasn't all bad, picked up dvd's; videodrome, scanners, and invasion of the body snatchers for $20 plus tax, total.
Arbin writes, " I'm unsure as to how VoIP is going to pan out"
I see VOIP making inroads to the point that the exchanges that own the wire are trying to get the rules changed.
As it is now, a CLEC pays the same his connection and CO equipment as the company that owns the wire and building.
I've a buddy who is chief engineer at one VOIP company and another boddy who owns a VOIP company. The game now is cash for growth and both companies are targeting small business. VOIP allows these companies ot offer their customers the same functionality that the telcos offer for half the price! Plus, the customer gets internet service and if he wants, dynamic bandwith allocation between internet and VOIP.
Also have a friend who has vonage which is aimed more at home and very small business. Their service works with typical cable internet service. He bought because he needed cheap long distance and fax. It works great.
Myself, spouse, and two kids all have cell phones. No wire. We all move around a lot, travel, school related, work related and it is less expensive and more convenient without the wire. Why do I mention this? Because if you use a cell phone, odds are you're already using VOIP. If it's packet switched odds are good that it's also IP somewhere enroute.
I do not know how the cell phone companies will handle folks generating their own VOIP over broadband wireless. SPRINT (with their 1xRTT) learned that the market wants all you can eat data at fixed price. QOS is pretty poor and not even there when voice traffic is heavy. I suspect the wireless telcos fear broadband wireless deployment because it will eat into their billable minutess.
The opteron is getting a good bit of coverage and I can see the advantages of the dual-core flavor and for 4x and 8x systems.
I'm looking for a dual processor 64 bit box and can't see much advantage of opteron over A64 in this setup. Please tell me if I'm missing something?
Bees are capable of extended dormancy. Unlike dinosaurs, they store food so when 'awake' they don't 'need' forage. Under adverse conditions, if a lot of bees in a colony die, there is just that much food for the others. Kind of like the Donner party (not to be confused with dinner party).
The e-touch optical scan comparison referenced as 'strange anomaly' may be explained if one considers that counties with small populations used optical machines and those with large populations used the e-touch machines. Bush's campaigners focused on the demographic more likely to be found in rural areas. The red vs blue by county results and the swing from expected to actual vote in rural Florida suggest it was a pretty successful campaign. I know some of the progressive democrats are painting this as an ignorant, rural, right-wing christian uprising. The variation in swing vote as a function of population size, supports at least the 'rural' aspect of their claimed uprising.
The remainder has been pretty well covered by other/. posters
I guess the article from Aa href="http://www.michigancityin.com/articles/2004/ 11/04/news/news02.txt">Laporte Michigan might lead one to believe: poll workers experienced a huge operator error; election systems and software only sold ONE system and it's fscked; one, the other, or both of the aforementioned parties conspired to screw up the count. The traditional trick is extra vote, not tossing a huge number in the $hitcan. My bet is operatorerror. I mean no one ever screws up when using a computer!
Reading the Broward County article we learn, "Bad numbers showed up only in running tallies through the day, not the final one."
The bit from NM doesn't reflect much weirdness. Obviously all those folks that were too ignorant to check their paper MUST have been Bush supporters.
Yes folks, right here on slashdot.
Michael knows damn well the previous slashdot he references [also posted by him] does not come close to constituting evidence.
Michael, you misrepresent to further your cause.
That's fucking evil. I'd tell you to your face if you were here. Why should we believe anything you say? I'm calling you out. You are a fucking liar!
Money Laundering Activities was already DEA's kuleana and with DEA a member of the JIATF the effective potential for abuse preceeded USAPATRIOT.
If anything USAPATRIOT, by wadding all this crap into a handy digestable MRE, has made it easier for citizens to recognize the BS that's been playing in the background for years. on an immediate level, it's much more important to know your rights under legislation than to fight a losing battle based on ill informed and uneducated synopses of said legislation. Once you know your rights, the next step is question them in Constitutional context and THEN fight. Mucj more insidious than USAPATRIOT is the myriad of selectively enforced laws on the books already. Here is a simple example. The speed limit on I-75 North of Atlanta is 65mph. Police make it known that 75mph is OK and most people drive 75 with many pushing 90. I've yet to see someone stopped for anything less than 90, UNLESS they met a certain profile. If you meet the profile, you'll get stopped at 66mph. Now, this sort of back door profiling makes for a shitload of drug transportation arrests. It could just as easily be used to stop people who 'look like terrorists' under the guise of stopping them for speeding. Funniest of all is a contradictory law that require one to drive at a speed that does not impede the smooth flow of traffic. If 99% of the cars are running 75+mph and you are driving 60, they can STILL pull you over! This is but one example...
"It is the potential bearer of every form of communication"
I get the feeling this refers to access and content, not protocol. There is something inherently evil in the concept that communication must be governed.
The internet represents global free press and a global means for people to assemble. The calls for 'protection from bits' is a smokescreen. We should all be thinking, 'who behind that screen will benefit from governance?' I doubt it's a friendly fat wizard.
UNITED STATES PHONE: (818) 728-8127 Email: MPAA.23@Gateway.net Anti-Piracy Operations
Joe Monkey Any Town USA 96818
Date: November 5, 2004
RE: Illegal copying of copyrighted film "Air Bud" via IP 203.119.12.252
Dear Joe Monkey;
The Motion Picture Association of America is authorized to act on behalf of the following copyright owners:
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Disney Enterprises, Inc. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. Paramount Pictures Corporation TriStar Pictures, Inc. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation United Artists Pictures, Inc. United Artists Corporation Universal City Studios, Inc. Warner Bros., a Division of Time Warner Entertainment Company, L.P.
We have knowledge that the above-referenced Internet site circumvented normal distribution channels and downloaded Intellectual Property Material, namely the copyrighted motion picture 'Air Bud' [henceforth referred to as 'the IP].
We wish to inform you that development and production costs incurred by those named above who may or may not have participated in creating the IP exceed $20, which represents a significant sum to the aforementioned owners of said IP. We also wish to inform you that we have no option but to recover our investment and lost revenues. However, we are a kind and friendly MPAA, not the beast represented on/. and offer you the selection of one of the two following options.
* Have your ass sued and then hauled off to Bolivia to work at our Air Bud 7 set building facility.
* Compensate our loss in the amoun tof $20 and three bags of Delta Air Lines peanuts and a 5 bottles of Delt Airlines Mr. Boston Vodka
Dick says, "Anybody who uses the technology to steal our property may be targeted. We want to get across the point that people are not anonymous on the Internet."
Tell you what Dick. If you offer... riding the world those 'not anonymous' spammers perhaps the world will offer to stop swapping fillums in exchange
How would one deal with a situation where a hacker used your server to swap movies? I mean if you don't know he's there...
Or the situation where you're WiFi hooked up to your 5mpbs cable ends up running bittorrent on supernova torrents for the three weeks you're vacationing in cancun. Will MPAA sue the baby sitter, you, or your precocious 4 year old triplets.
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Based on the pirated films that acquaintences may have described viewing, which of the following do you perceive as the likely source of the majority of these dubs?
1) screening releases are already on DVD and easy to copy
2) reels go by sneakernet out to the van for conversion to video and then back to the projection booth.
3) projectionist sets up a camera and dubs from the booth
4) hustler with camera sits in audience and dubs a copy.
We all KNOW he's innocent until it's proven otherwise.
We also all KNOW why his liberty has been compromised and we can all WATCH to see that he is treated as he should be under the LAW.
In some countries he might have just DISAPPEARED!
This is why I've been begging google folks to implement NEAR operator!
Here is an example msn search: http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?FORM=SMCRT&q=f
I've been arguing this with my 'environmentally concious' friends for 20 years.
The microclimate effects are the real worm in the windpower apple. Any place you've got topography concentrating wind into a stream, say through a mountain pass (simple example) you've got an attractive spot for a wind farm. These 'streams' are usually quite limited in vertical extant but have a major impact on local weather 'downstream'. Read parents reference on vertical mixing and remember all that stuff you read about 'fluidic computers' and pneumatic controls. Take 10-20% of the energy out of one of these 'streams' and you may well end up turning an arable valley into a desert.
The worm, is that the most attractive locations for wind farms are the same locations that cause the greatest impact on climate.
namely my brain!
When will these guys take a cue from altavista.com and incorporate the NEAR operator. For example Pussy NEAR cat returns a much higher density of feline related URLs.
AC writes, "have them give back to the community or something constructive"
1)because forced labor is cruel and unusual punishment
2)because prisoner labor competes with people trying to earn a living
3)because stinkin spammers should rot in jail with no worldly contact other than spam email
no no no...
other options exist
waiting until it's a mature product and then excerising GPL copyright comes to mind. isn't this accepted business practice for some commercial SWD's
Santa thinks he can dance sez,"...do you really NEED such a device?"
If one has a long commute on crowded train or bus, I can see some utility. My P2120 is the perfect air coach computer, but there's no way I could manage it while standing on a train.
An e-mail address is not available for Swami. Your prayers to Him in any form reach Him directly
States can't tax the interstate aspects of POTs calls. The loophole, if a state does want to tax, is at the POTs interface. But hey, they alread tax this for in state calls. Do we want them taxing twice? Now I can see an argument for taxing intrastate VOIP calls becausethey are effectively the same thing from the callers perspective. I don't see how they might discriminate inter/intra though. I can also see an argument against taxing VOIP. States don't tax two way radio calls. Perhaps if the states really want the tax revenue, they might be able to force the sales and use tax aspect of the business. Wy do they want to tax? What service would a state VOIP tax pay for? The state PSC doesn't have any regulatory expenses assocoated with VOIP.
MP4 is pretty efficient.
We're not talking ATSC quality of your dog(s) stream(s).
Was looking at pocket MP4 video cameras at fry's yesterday while waiting for the sales babe to find me a $1 'handsfree headset'. Some of these are not much bigger than a zippo lighter.
Caring? That's what you do for the dog. Internet is for play.
My recent experience with BB on a rebate problem was reasonably pleasant. Phoned rebate center, otained case number, visited local BB, used local BB fax to resubmit rebate, had check in 3 days! I say reasonably pleasant because I had to visit the store. It wasn't all bad, picked up dvd's; videodrome, scanners, and invasion of the body snatchers for $20 plus tax, total.
Arbin writes, " I'm unsure as to how VoIP is going to pan out"
I see VOIP making inroads to the point that the exchanges that own the wire are trying to get the rules changed.
As it is now, a CLEC pays the same his connection and CO equipment as the company that owns the wire and building.
I've a buddy who is chief engineer at one VOIP company and another boddy who owns a VOIP company.
The game now is cash for growth and both companies are targeting small business. VOIP allows these companies ot offer their customers the same functionality that the telcos offer for half the price! Plus, the customer gets internet service and if he wants, dynamic bandwith allocation between internet and VOIP.
Also have a friend who has vonage which is aimed more at home and very small business. Their service works with typical cable internet service.
He bought because he needed cheap long distance and fax. It works great.
Myself, spouse, and two kids all have cell phones. No wire. We all move around a lot, travel, school related, work related and it is less expensive and more convenient without the wire. Why do I mention this? Because if you use a cell phone, odds are you're already using VOIP. If it's packet switched odds are good that it's also IP somewhere enroute.
I do not know how the cell phone companies will handle folks generating their own VOIP over broadband wireless. SPRINT (with their 1xRTT) learned that the market wants all you can eat data at fixed price. QOS is pretty poor and not even there when voice traffic is heavy. I suspect the wireless telcos fear broadband wireless deployment because it will eat into their billable minutess.
The opteron is getting a good bit of coverage and I can see the advantages of the dual-core flavor and for 4x and 8x systems.
I'm looking for a dual processor 64 bit box and can't see much advantage of opteron over A64 in this setup. Please tell me if I'm missing something?
TNX
life is high school!
Bees are capable of extended dormancy.
Unlike dinosaurs, they store food so when 'awake' they don't 'need' forage.
Under adverse conditions, if a lot of bees in a colony die, there is just that much food for the others. Kind of like the Donner party (not to be confused with dinner party).
The e-touch optical scan comparison referenced as 'strange anomaly' may be explained if one considers that counties with small populations used optical machines and those with large populations used the e-touch machines. Bush's campaigners focused on the demographic more likely to be found in rural areas. The red vs blue by county results and the swing from expected to actual vote in rural Florida suggest it was a pretty successful campaign. I know some of the progressive democrats are painting this as an ignorant, rural, right-wing christian uprising. The variation in swing vote as a function of population size, supports at least the 'rural' aspect of their claimed uprising.
/. posters
/ 11/04/news/news02.txt">Laporte Michigan might lead one to believe: poll workers experienced a huge operator error; election systems and software only sold ONE system and it's fscked; one, the other, or both of the aforementioned parties conspired to screw up the count. The traditional trick is extra vote, not tossing a huge number in the $hitcan. My bet is operatorerror. I mean no one ever screws up when using a computer!
The remainder has been pretty well covered by other
In the very article referenced by commandantTaco one reads (if on is able) "...Palm Beach County appears to have accounted for the discrepancy..."
I guess the article from Aa href="http://www.michigancityin.com/articles/2004
Reading the Broward County article we learn, "Bad numbers showed up only in running tallies through the day, not the final one."
The bit from NM doesn't reflect much weirdness. Obviously all those folks that were too ignorant to check their paper MUST have been Bush supporters.
Yes folks, right here on slashdot. Michael knows damn well the previous slashdot he references [also posted by him] does not come close to constituting evidence. Michael, you misrepresent to further your cause. That's fucking evil. I'd tell you to your face if you were here. Why should we believe anything you say? I'm calling you out. You are a fucking liar!
Money Laundering Activities was already DEA's kuleana and with DEA a member of the JIATF the effective potential for abuse preceeded USAPATRIOT. If anything USAPATRIOT, by wadding all this crap into a handy digestable MRE, has made it easier for citizens to recognize the BS that's been playing in the background for years. on an immediate level, it's much more important to know your rights under legislation than to fight a losing battle based on ill informed and uneducated synopses of said legislation. Once you know your rights, the next step is question them in Constitutional context and THEN fight. Mucj more insidious than USAPATRIOT is the myriad of selectively enforced laws on the books already. Here is a simple example. The speed limit on I-75 North of Atlanta is 65mph. Police make it known that 75mph is OK and most people drive 75 with many pushing 90. I've yet to see someone stopped for anything less than 90, UNLESS they met a certain profile. If you meet the profile, you'll get stopped at 66mph. Now, this sort of back door profiling makes for a shitload of drug transportation arrests. It could just as easily be used to stop people who 'look like terrorists' under the guise of stopping them for speeding. Funniest of all is a contradictory law that require one to drive at a speed that does not impede the smooth flow of traffic. If 99% of the cars are running 75+mph and you are driving 60, they can STILL pull you over! This is but one example...
Maybe you can push a string after all.
But only if it's a really tiny string and there's enough grant money.
no KIM?
no Pacific Micro! (Sun 1 was a Pacific Micro)
no Mac XL (what an abortion, it's not a Lisa, it's not a Mac)
I know it's bad form but here goes anyway... What we need is an internet declaration of independence, FROM GOVERNMENT.
"It is the potential bearer of every form of communication"
I get the feeling this refers to access and content, not protocol. There is something inherently evil in the concept that communication must be governed.
The internet represents global free press and a global means for people to assemble. The calls for 'protection from bits' is a smokescreen. We should all be thinking, 'who behind that screen will benefit from governance?' I doubt it's a friendly fat wizard.
Dick says, "Anybody who uses the technology to steal our property may be targeted. We want to get across the point that people are not anonymous on the Internet."
...
Tell you what Dick.
If you offer
riding the world those 'not anonymous' spammers
perhaps the world will offer to stop swapping fillums in exchange
How would one deal with a situation where a hacker used your server to swap movies? I mean if you don't know he's there...
Or the situation where you're WiFi hooked up to your 5mpbs cable ends up running bittorrent on supernova torrents for the three weeks you're vacationing in cancun. Will MPAA sue the baby sitter, you, or your precocious 4 year old triplets.