"I just don't want to have to put up with all the brain-dead restrictions placed on it solely because I'm foolish enough to actually attempt to support the content creators. \
The majority of the support you give goes to the distributors, not the creators, and therein lies the problem.
Doesn't anyone remember Jeff Arnolds method of protecting his software? One of his methods was to have his software write coasters, the other was to write hidden, empty files to the hardrive untill the drive was full and the OS failed. There was such a user backlash it was stopped after 3.8.
The feds aren't going to give him credit for time spent in another country fighting extradition. The other DoD leaders got 46 mos. Looks like the short side of 7 years. Complete and utter bullshit.
NO TIME??? Jeeze, he already spent 3 Years locked up in Australia without being convicted! Now he has to defend stateside. All for something where no profit was made and no one was physically injured. Armed robbery has less a penalty. Fucked up legal system here (stateside).
Didn't Seagate have a disaster with stiction on their RLL drives?... Seems I remember taking apart some 10 mb RLL drives and cleaning them with windex. Worked every time.
"One of our key findings has been the lack of a consistent pattern of higher failure rates for higher temperature drives or for those drives at higher utilization levels."
"Our results confirm the findings of previous smaller population studies that suggest that some of the SMART parameters are well-correlated with higher failure probabilities. We find, for example, that after their first scan error, drives are 39 times more likely to fail within 60 days than drives with no such errors."
er not...
"Despite those strong correlations, we find that failure prediction models based on SMART parameters alone are likely to be severely limited in their prediction accuracy, given that a large fraction of our failed drives have shown no SMART error signals whatsoever."
That's all they're willing to offer the public (probably for free). Useless...
All GSM phones have SIM cards. It amazes me that verizon and sprint have built a cellular network on CDMA. Another BetaMax story. Guess there's still owners of QCOM that bought in at $40s per share:-)
"Even without the code requirement, getting a license still requires a good deal of work" -- NOT! Any monkey with a memory can pass an exam where the question pool is published before the exam. VEC's aren't allowed to change 1 word in any of the questions and are mandated what questions to ask.
If memorization is what you consider a "good deal of work" wait until you have to pass a real test.
", you have to plan ahead, as the delivery is no where near instant,"
It's sure much quicker then it was in the past. For instance, we are now seeing domestic (us) TV shows released apx 40min to 1hr past eastern air time. It takes "my friend" apx 14-18 minutes to have all the bits for a 1hr (44 min) HDTV show (340mb). So motivated users at looking at what, 1hr lag time? The boat has already launched.
Slashdot Mirror
How many more times are we going to hear this?
the sky is falling.. the sky it falling!!
Are you sure you didn't mean..
"'Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borogoves,And the mome raths outgrabe".
Sorry... it was the 1st thing I thought of when I read the article
" hypervisor-level virtualization technology that allows multiple operating systems to be run with and without para-virtualization "
I don't know about you but it still makes my eyes hurt!
"regular old cell phones that could be used to make calls, text, and maybe take the occasional photo"
Wow! All I wanted in my 1st cell phone was to make calls:-)
"I just don't want to have to put up with all the brain-dead restrictions placed on it solely because I'm foolish enough to actually attempt to support the content creators. \
The majority of the support you give goes to the distributors, not the creators, and therein lies the problem.
here's the video direct link
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http://zebbler.com/friends/ATHF/Ignignokt_and_Err
http://zebbler.com/friends/friends.html#
Pretty hard to defend against this. Assuming you should have to!
"That could possibly give them the power to take over a country, or receive some big payments from a political party who would really like to win"
Sounds like a diebold system to me.
reminds me of an old Marx saying,,
"Religion is the opiate of the masses"
It's called a wet dream....
Doesn't anyone remember Jeff Arnolds method of protecting his software? One of his methods was to have his software write coasters, the other was to write hidden, empty files to the hardrive untill the drive was full and the OS failed. There was such a user backlash it was stopped after 3.8.
It "rendites"
Rendition:-)
Laugh.. it's funny...
The feds aren't going to give him credit for time spent in another country fighting extradition. The other DoD leaders got 46 mos. Looks like the short side of 7 years. Complete and utter bullshit.
NO TIME??? Jeeze, he already spent 3 Years locked up in Australia without being convicted! Now he has to defend stateside. All for something where no profit was made and no one was physically injured. Armed robbery has less a penalty. Fucked up legal system here (stateside).
Didn't Seagate have a disaster with stiction on their RLL drives? ... Seems I remember taking apart some 10 mb RLL drives and cleaning them with windex. Worked every time.
ps... they cost about $300 then.
And you call yourself an antique:-)
Here's what they will tell us:
"One of our key findings has been the lack of a consistent
pattern of higher failure rates for higher temperature
drives or for those drives at higher utilization levels."
"Our results confirm the findings of previous smaller
population studies that suggest that some of the SMART
parameters are well-correlated with higher failure probabilities.
We find, for example, that after their first scan
error, drives are 39 times more likely to fail within 60
days than drives with no such errors."
er not...
"Despite those strong correlations, we find that
failure prediction models based on SMART parameters
alone are likely to be severely limited in their prediction
accuracy, given that a large fraction of our failed drives
have shown no SMART error signals whatsoever."
That's all they're willing to offer the public (probably for free).
Useless...
Do no evil??? how bout make no data free..
ps.. all their farm is ata/ide?
All GSM phones have SIM cards. It amazes me that verizon and sprint have built a cellular network on CDMA. Another BetaMax story. Guess there's still owners of QCOM that bought in at $40s per share:-)
To intimidate others from attack while you develop your nuclear program? One nuke trumps all the bio.
It looks to me like this can (somewhat) finger print a given machine but I sure don't see how it can discover an IP on TOR.
"Even without the code requirement, getting a license still requires a good deal of work" -- NOT!
Any monkey with a memory can pass an exam where the question pool is published before the exam. VEC's aren't allowed to change 1 word in any of the questions and are mandated what questions to ask.
If memorization is what you consider a "good deal of work" wait until you have to pass a real test.
The people I know that down load current TV torrents tell me there's NEVER commercials. Take a look sometime, I bet you won't find one.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-920346214 8706105599&q=Municator&pl=true
here's a demo of the product.
", you have to plan ahead, as the delivery is no where near instant,"
It's sure much quicker then it was in the past. For instance, we are now seeing domestic (us) TV shows released
apx 40min to 1hr past eastern air time. It takes "my friend" apx 14-18 minutes to have all the bits for a 1hr (44 min) HDTV show (340mb). So motivated users at looking at what, 1hr lag time? The boat has already launched.
"The two companies also agreed to work together to promote the use of genuine versions of Windows"
All three copies!
The 'ol 3 finger salute, CTL-ALT-DEL. You'll need it LOTS!