"A New Jersey man who pleaded guilty to illegally copying and posting a digital version of summer action movie "The Hulk" on the Internet received a three-year probation, was fined us $2,000 and was ordered to serve six months confinement in his home. He also must pay $5,000 in restitution to Universal, the company that produced and distributed the movie. Kerry Gonzalez pleaded guilty to one count of copyright infringement. He admitted to receiving an unfinished copy of the movie from a friend who in turn sourced the 'work print' from a third party who worked for an advertising agency. No one from the ad agency has been charged. The FBI traced the Internet copy back to Gonzalez through an encoded "security tag" on the print."
Yeah, interesting that they never tracked the 'friend' he got it from, or which ad agency that friend worked for/shrug
Another site says he got 6 months of 'home confinement', 3yrs probabtion, and fines for his part in distributing the film.
> You never hear about the leaker getting in trouble
That's not entirely true... didn't some guy get fired from his movie production job and fined up the wahzoo for releasing an early version of The Hulk movie?
I drive a 1998 VW Passat and get 27mpg pretty constantly when I drive 70+mph. If I use cruise control about 60mph-65mph, I get an average of 31mpg-32mpg.
... just enjoy what you do. I whole heartedly agree with Matt King who was the second post in the comments here.
I started out in elexctronics, circuit design. It was 70% hardware, 30% software, but I found I was devoting upwards of 80% of my time working on the software assignments because I found I enjoyed it a lot more. So I switched majors, and schools, to a course which was 70% software and 30% hardware - so I still got some hardware design and circuit theory, just not as intensely.
We had a very high attrition rate though - only 20% of the first term's attendees made it to the final term, and only about 90% of us graduated.
And then it takes eight bloody hours to install a new version of Firefox. Urgh.
Geez, what are you running, a 386?? I download and compiled the full 30MB Firefox 1.0.2 release via emerge (using nearly 100 USE flags) in about 45 minutes on a 2.6GHz laptop...
I've been an avid fan of Gentoo for quite a while now, so I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this article or the postings so far.
I guess I've always had a sense of pride of being able to compile the OS during the installation, but yes it's true, it's a pain in the arse to get a 'quick' installation going. Hopefully a graphical installation won't "taint" the perception that the speed and efficiency of an OS compiled for your own hardware isn't worth the time it takes.
I currently run gentoo 2005.0 on my Toshiba laptop and love it, and will be changing my primary linux fileserver/workstation to gentoo in the next little while.
No kidding... I'm not a parent yet, but when I do have a litter of "mini Me" clones running around, you can bet I'll be involved in my kids' lives more than my own parents were.
... at least, that's the plan. I'm sure every parent has the *intention* of being in their kids' lives, but life always seems to get in the way. Thankfully I'm engaged to a great young lady who has similar principles and values as I do, so raising our kids will be a great team effort.
Ironically enough, about the same time that Weird Al's song "The White Stuff" came out (parody of "The Right Stuff", about the middle of Oreo cookies), I was reading a novel from a series my dad was into, The Destroyer (don't recall the exact issue), about a politician who was mixing trace amounts of cocain in Oreo cookies and giving them away at campaign meetings to get people addicted and "feeling good" at his meetings to entice them to vote.
Three cheers for the DoubleStuff!
Regarding the original post, I'd love to see a build-it-yourself standard akin to building your own PC to do various robotic tasks. I'm guessing the technology would be prohibitively expensive for a while, along with gov't regulations to make sure you don't make a robot with motion sensors chase your neighbors down and kill them or something ridiculous.
The whole thing of losing an hour's sleep last weekend sucked.
If I were president, I'd move clocks ahead by only 30 minutes this coming fall and JUST FRICKIN' LEAVE IT THERE !!!
The Earth's rotation means we'll have to deal with some mornings or evenings being dark anyhow - heck it's still dark out at 6am in California right now, but it stays light until 8pm now. Big deal - I still have half of my commute in the dark one way or the other: in the fall my mornings will have a little more light and it'll be dark at 5pm instead.... and use this money you're gonna spend (ahem, MY tax dollars 'hardly' at work) to promote better fuel uses. I heard some guy on talk radio talk about how there's some type of oil that can be made/grown any time we want (sounded like a byproduct of something else) that could be converted into gasoline with the right types of refineries... and that there was more of this type of oil in the US than has EVER EXISTED worldwide. Forget the name of the stuff though, but wow!/rant off
Home of bittorrent (bt.etree.org), they have a bunch of torrents from artists who specifically say that users can post live performances but not anything that's commercially sold.
Raises the question though - if you pay for a ticket to attend the concert, doesn't that mean the performance is 'commercially sold' ?
I've only recently gotten on the torrent bandwagon, and have enjoyed some live performances of the artists from etree.org
Wonder how a controlling stake from DirecTV would influence the ComCast deal... Or better, whether the DirectTV deal with sour *because* of the ComCast deal?
Either way, with a generic tv capture card and a spare linux box with sufficient cron jobs, I have my own digital recorder. No need to invest in TiVo...
I avoid my parent's computer at all costs. I've done so for many years, because my parents are 'tweakers'. "Hmm, wonder what would happen if I do *this*?" My brother in law takes care of them now, poor guy.
For close friends, I do stuff for free, but usually hint that I want dinner or something in return, and they all happily oblige.
I'm getting married in the fall and a family that my fiancee used to babysit for is going to let all 3 of their kids be in our wedding but refusing to let us help pay for the dresses and a tux, so they got their repairs for free 'cause I feel guilty that they're shelling out big bucks for two gowns and shoes and makeup and hair, and a tux with shoes and maybe a haircut.
Otherwise, I'm $20/hr, including travel time. If someone asks if I know anyone who can fix computers, even if it's a friend, I always ask "How much are you willing to pay someone to come fix it if it's only an hour or two of work?"
If a job turns out to be a long, tedious recovery project, I'll flat-rate it, or barter for some other service like fixing my car. But I make sure to test every little thing on the system once I'm done so I don't get harassed with follow-up phone calls with things like "Thanks for fixing my modem, but now my mouse doesn't work." End up losing money that way.
Well, if you read on the site, they're working on an open source engine that everyone can have (assumably for free) so that everyone can be their own I-broker, if they so choose.
That, in itself, is definitive proof that Gates and his minions are not behind this.;o)
I'm a keyboard player, have some music out on the radio and XM. Been playing for about 20 years or so and love it. Not much time to play lately with all of the side programming projects I have on the go.
I was a little disappointed that Blizzard did a character wipe, but I guess it's understandable. I'm just reluctant to rush out and buy the game if all of the newb areas are going to be crowded with 500,000 lvl 1 players.
I enjoyed the beta myself, but found the characters a little bit cartoon-ish compared with other MMORPGs.
I hear ya. The company that hired me on my first TN-1 flew me down from Canada to 'try before you buy' and set me up in a hotel with a rental car for two weeks just to see if I even *liked* the job, then gave me a bucket of money to move to Los Angeles from Ottawa, Canada if I signed the rest of their NDA's and employment contract.
I've been in Los Angeles on a TN-1, and while the salaries here used to be better than Canada (came from Silicon Valley North - Kanata/Ottawa area), the salaries have dropped even for people doing systems analysis work, so they seem to match what I'd otherwise be making in Ottawa for the same kind of work.
Except now I'm making US dollars... and having fun figuring out the cost of living here vs back home, etc. for the next year or so.
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use BugMeNot to get at the article To summarize:
"A New Jersey man who pleaded guilty to illegally copying and posting a digital version of summer action movie "The Hulk" on the Internet received a three-year probation, was fined us $2,000 and was ordered to serve six months confinement in his home. He also must pay $5,000 in restitution to Universal, the company that produced and distributed the movie. Kerry Gonzalez pleaded guilty to one count of copyright infringement. He admitted to receiving an unfinished copy of the movie from a friend who in turn sourced the 'work print' from a third party who worked for an advertising agency. No one from the ad agency has been charged. The FBI traced the Internet copy back to Gonzalez through an encoded "security tag" on the print."
Yeah, interesting that they never tracked the 'friend' he got it from, or which ad agency that friend worked for /shrug
Another site says he got 6 months of 'home confinement', 3yrs probabtion, and fines for his part in distributing the film.
And the movie wasn't even that good ...
That's not entirely true ... didn't some guy get fired from his movie production job and fined up the wahzoo for releasing an early version of The Hulk movie?
sith happens ...
I drive a 1998 VW Passat and get 27mpg pretty constantly when I drive 70+mph. If I use cruise control about 60mph-65mph, I get an average of 31mpg-32mpg.
I guess this means that since hell has officially frozen over, I can start betting money on the Toronto Blue Jays again ...
I started out in elexctronics, circuit design. It was 70% hardware, 30% software, but I found I was devoting upwards of 80% of my time working on the software assignments because I found I enjoyed it a lot more. So I switched majors, and schools, to a course which was 70% software and 30% hardware - so I still got some hardware design and circuit theory, just not as intensely.
We had a very high attrition rate though - only 20% of the first term's attendees made it to the final term, and only about 90% of us graduated.
And then it takes eight bloody hours to install a new version of Firefox. Urgh.
Geez, what are you running, a 386?? I download and compiled the full 30MB Firefox 1.0.2 release via emerge (using nearly 100 USE flags) in about 45 minutes on a 2.6GHz laptop ...
I've been an avid fan of Gentoo for quite a while now, so I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this article or the postings so far.
I guess I've always had a sense of pride of being able to compile the OS during the installation, but yes it's true, it's a pain in the arse to get a 'quick' installation going. Hopefully a graphical installation won't "taint" the perception that the speed and efficiency of an OS compiled for your own hardware isn't worth the time it takes.
I currently run gentoo 2005.0 on my Toshiba laptop and love it, and will be changing my primary linux fileserver/workstation to gentoo in the next little while.
Here's one of my favorite bash.org quotes about gentoo. Got a good chuckle out of it...
... at least, that's the plan. I'm sure every parent has the *intention* of being in their kids' lives, but life always seems to get in the way. Thankfully I'm engaged to a great young lady who has similar principles and values as I do, so raising our kids will be a great team effort.
Ironically enough, about the same time that Weird Al's song "The White Stuff" came out (parody of "The Right Stuff", about the middle of Oreo cookies), I was reading a novel from a series my dad was into, The Destroyer (don't recall the exact issue), about a politician who was mixing trace amounts of cocain in Oreo cookies and giving them away at campaign meetings to get people addicted and "feeling good" at his meetings to entice them to vote.
Three cheers for the DoubleStuff!
Regarding the original post, I'd love to see a build-it-yourself standard akin to building your own PC to do various robotic tasks. I'm guessing the technology would be prohibitively expensive for a while, along with gov't regulations to make sure you don't make a robot with motion sensors chase your neighbors down and kill them or something ridiculous.
The whole thing of losing an hour's sleep last weekend sucked.
... and use this money you're gonna spend (ahem, MY tax dollars 'hardly' at work) to promote better fuel uses. I heard some guy on talk radio talk about how there's some type of oil that can be made/grown any time we want (sounded like a byproduct of something else) that could be converted into gasoline with the right types of refineries ... and that there was more of this type of oil in the US than has EVER EXISTED worldwide. Forget the name of the stuff though, but wow! /rant off
If I were president, I'd move clocks ahead by only 30 minutes this coming fall and JUST FRICKIN' LEAVE IT THERE !!!
The Earth's rotation means we'll have to deal with some mornings or evenings being dark anyhow - heck it's still dark out at 6am in California right now, but it stays light until 8pm now. Big deal - I still have half of my commute in the dark one way or the other: in the fall my mornings will have a little more light and it'll be dark at 5pm instead.
Home of bittorrent (bt.etree.org), they have a bunch of torrents from artists who specifically say that users can post live performances but not anything that's commercially sold.
Raises the question though - if you pay for a ticket to attend the concert, doesn't that mean the performance is 'commercially sold' ?
I've only recently gotten on the torrent bandwagon, and have enjoyed some live performances of the artists from etree.org
Wonder how a controlling stake from DirecTV would influence the ComCast deal... Or better, whether the DirectTV deal with sour *because* of the ComCast deal?
...
Either way, with a generic tv capture card and a spare linux box with sufficient cron jobs, I have my own digital recorder. No need to invest in TiVo
I avoid my parent's computer at all costs. I've done so for many years, because my parents are 'tweakers'. "Hmm, wonder what would happen if I do *this*?" My brother in law takes care of them now, poor guy.
For close friends, I do stuff for free, but usually hint that I want dinner or something in return, and they all happily oblige.
I'm getting married in the fall and a family that my fiancee used to babysit for is going to let all 3 of their kids be in our wedding but refusing to let us help pay for the dresses and a tux, so they got their repairs for free 'cause I feel guilty that they're shelling out big bucks for two gowns and shoes and makeup and hair, and a tux with shoes and maybe a haircut.
Otherwise, I'm $20/hr, including travel time. If someone asks if I know anyone who can fix computers, even if it's a friend, I always ask "How much are you willing to pay someone to come fix it if it's only an hour or two of work?"
If a job turns out to be a long, tedious recovery project, I'll flat-rate it, or barter for some other service like fixing my car. But I make sure to test every little thing on the system once I'm done so I don't get harassed with follow-up phone calls with things like "Thanks for fixing my modem, but now my mouse doesn't work." End up losing money that way.
Heh, bet they will next time...
All your base are belong to us
That, in itself, is definitive proof that Gates and his minions are not behind this. ;o)
There are plenty out there to pick from...
I'm a keyboard player, have some music out on the radio and XM. Been playing for about 20 years or so and love it. Not much time to play lately with all of the side programming projects I have on the go.
"Yeah, we'll hire you, you're on probation for the next 90 days where we can terminate you for any (legal) reason..."
Every job I've had in the last decade has had exactly that written into their contracts...
The original posting said the 'last' major mmorpg. Perhaps you just read it wrong?
I enjoyed the beta myself, but found the characters a little bit cartoon-ish compared with other MMORPGs.
I hear ya. The company that hired me on my first TN-1 flew me down from Canada to 'try before you buy' and set me up in a hotel with a rental car for two weeks just to see if I even *liked* the job, then gave me a bucket of money to move to Los Angeles from Ottawa, Canada if I signed the rest of their NDA's and employment contract.
I've been in Los Angeles on a TN-1, and while the salaries here used to be better than Canada (came from Silicon Valley North - Kanata/Ottawa area), the salaries have dropped even for people doing systems analysis work, so they seem to match what I'd otherwise be making in Ottawa for the same kind of work.
Except now I'm making US dollars ... and having fun figuring out the cost of living here vs back home, etc. for the next year or so.
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