What you are saying is totally unacceptable from a performance perspective. I have *TWO* software tuners in my Myth box and it runs without issues. And you sare saying MediaPortal can't even timeshift with *ONE*?
I mean, in this day and age you have to be a complete baffoon to let your domain expire. My registrart ( GoDaddy.com ) sends me notices about it needing renewal 1 month, 1 week,3 days, and 1 day before expiry. I imagine other registrars are simmilar - after all, they want you to renew with them.
How can you not notice all these??? If you let the date slip by after all these, then you don't care baout the domain very much, or are a moron. Or both.
I tried this software a few months back, and I must say, while I was comparing it to an already mature piece of software (MythTV), it was certainly not up to snuff. It was incredibly slow to launch from my standpoint (this was on an Athlon 2400XP ), took over 20 seconds for the GUI to launch - probably due to it being in.Net. After launch, only a few functions were usable, and the system frequently crashed.
On the whole - if you are looking for some free PVR software NOW, get MythTV or Freevo. There are excellent tutorials on the net on how to set up a MythTV system - from scratch - no hardcore Linux skills required.
The military doe snot screen general enlistments for stress sensitivity very much.
But they sure as hell do for special ops people. You don't want a Seal who is going to be out of radio contact for 14 days to fail his mission and be killed because he got "stressed out".
Stress has as much to do with psychology as your environment. Stress is created by your brain - the threshold of what you perceive as stressful and what I perceive as stressful are likely totally different, as I am a pretty easy-going guy. Some people just flip out over nothing, others can smile and laugh while their world comes crashing down upon them. And you can do tai-chi till you're blue in the face and it won't change any of that, all it will result in is the people who can't cope with their situations properly will be wasting their whole days doing tiger-crane.
What *really* should be happening is that people who are likely to be put into high-stress situations should be screened beforehand to avoid breakdowns and other health problems.
The military can do it, why not the private sector? Sure, there would likely be legal challenges at first under equal rights, but really, I don't see what the difference is between a programming company giving a psyche profile and an insurance company asking you to fill out a health form.
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People, please stop saying that "this is a win for Skype since it will get exposure to Kazaa's huge audience". If anything, this would be a move to try to attract the Skype audience back to Kazaa.
Kazaa is on the way down and had only 2.48 million users last month (http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/archive/index.php/t-2 3858), and is falling fast compared to other P2P networks like Bittorrent and eDonkey. Meanwhile, Skype is over the 20 million download mark and is currently serving over 1 million simultaneous users at any given time (http://www.skype.com/company/news/2004/1million_o nline.html), and is gaining popularity at a nearly exponential rate.
Because it costs nothing to make everything, space travel is now also costless.
So anyone can just fab up a space shuttle and some scavenger robots and set them lose in the solar system, collecting any elements that are sufficintly rare enough on Earth to warrant such a hassle.
In fact, I would *embrace* this kind of change - if society was ready for it. Unfortunatly, I don't think we as a species have evolved to the point where we can exist without primal competition among one another for resources.
These kinds of things need to be treade don lightly, or we will bring about our own destruction.
Ah - but, how would such an economy work? Think about it.
What service would you possibly sell? And what are the people paying you with, and why do you want it? You don't have to buy anything anymore, you can make it with your fab. Food, water, shelter, entertainment. all are costless. So why would you bother providing services to anyone in exchange for something?
Such a revolution could only lead to one of two inevitable systems:
1) The world becomes a Star-Trek like Utopia. poverty, hunger, and want are all eliminated almost overnight. People spend their daily lives pursuing things that challenge them intellectually , or work to further the species as a whole.
2) The world descends into utter chaos. Since everything is free, no one has any power over anyone any longer. Governments are thrown into disarray. Wars erupt. The whole species is nearly anniahlated in thermonuclear holocost.
..in say, 25 years, when they are advanced enough, you could tell such a fab to fab the parts for itself?!?!
You then have a fab that can fab fabs. That's the economic singularity point - the initial cost of the fab is then irrelevant - it could be millions, or billions, it doesn't matter because one can create another, ad-infinitum.
At that point you have an economic breakdown on a global scale, since anyone can create anything from anything else.
...once created, throw the entire world economy into chaos? Of course I am referring to not a simple fab as the article is talking about, but what it is insinuating at, a device capable of assemling things at the atomic level.
Think about it.. once you buy such a device, no matter *what* the initial cost, you could use it to make almost anything... including, other devices!
Such a device would make physical goods value-less. The only things of value any longer would be services and artistic creations.
Then again, this all sounds way too good to be true. We're not evolved enough as a sepcies to have that kind of tech - think also - everyone instantly has access to unlimited weapons. Great.
We would kill ourselves off as a species within days.
No, marijuana affects your brain in ways entirely different from alcohol.
Er.. there is a comma in that sentence. It changes the meaning quite drastically from the same thing without the comma, which is what you seem to have somehow read.
With the comma it means "both alcohol and marijuana affect your brain", which is obviously true.
"Of the many psychotropic drugs, licit and illicit, that are available and used by people who subsequently drive, marijuana may well be among the least harmful."
I don't care if it is the least harmful. If it is harmful at all it should not be allowed.
When you drive you are not just taking your life and the lives of your family member into your hands, you are taking the lives of everyone on and near the road into your hands as well. There should be zero tolerance for people who drive under the influence, *any* influence. Anyone caught doing such a thing should all have manditory jail terms, 1-5 years minimum IMO. Will make them think twice about every trying that nonsense again.
I am quite liberal and support 100% the decriminalization and eventual full legalization of marijuana and other drugs. But when you say things like this...
there is no impairment of coordination, most activites you can do sober you can do stoned.
.. you do nothing but harm the cause and make us all look like idiot potheads.
If and when marijuana is legalized, I hope that they have the sense to outlaw things like driving and operating heavy machinery while stoned. You *are not* the same stoned as sober, marijuana affects your brain, just like alcohol, and I sure as hell wouldn't want some tweaker cruising down the freeway being distracted by some trivial thing on the side of the road while my kids were out playing.
The DMCA exemtoins to ISPs have absolutely nothing to dow ith child pornography. As a parent poster said, the law does not care how or why you have the child porn in your posession. Even if you got it by accident, or via a service you provide to other parties, you can still be prosecuted and convicted.
An ISP whose HTTP cache contained child porn *could* be prosecuted and convicted as well. But it would be quite obvious to the Feds that they were an unknowning intermediary, so the likelihood of that would be small.
But how obvious would it be to the Feds that the HTTP download from X porn site was being made by someone else but not you? Good luck with that - I will stay away thanks.
A cache would take things you have downloaded and share them with others. THis is what all other P2P does. This is good.
Dijjer shares things you *havent* downloaded - it downloads things you never requested using yoru spare bandwidth and shares them with others. As in, it downlods and shares things I never asked it to download.
This is why it opens up logal problems. My Dijjer client could be downloading kiddie porn even though I never requested it, just because someone else on the Dijjer network did and I was connected to him at the time.
Sure, here is some proof. I downloaded the dijjer.jar of the download page. I ran it, and clicked the test link on the main Dijjer page - the link for the Linux kernel. I clicked no other link and did nothing else except look at the status page.
Meanwhile, check out some of the output from the server, printed right to STDOUT. Remember - I did not download this file, or make a request for it, and it certianly does not exist on my machine:
8950 -1 -> lysanderspooner.xs4all.nl:9114 : acknowledgeRequest {uid=-363110451 Dispatcher: Retrieving http://www.archive.org/download/Evolutio2001/Evolu tio2001.mpeg chunk 3 at ttl 9 LOOP: Find peer for requestData Dispatcher: Connecting to http://www.archive.org/download/Evolutio2001/Evolu tio2001.mpeg to retrieve chunk 3 9023 9114 lysanderspooner.xs4all.nl:9114 : acknowledgeRequest {uid=-2112834057 Dispatcher: Retrieving http://www.archive.org/download/Evolutio2001/Evolu tio2001.mpeg chunk 1 at ttl 9 LOOP: Find peer for requestData Dispatcher: Connecting to http://www.archive.org/download/Evolutio2001/Evolu tio2001.mpeg to retrieve chunk 1 Retrieved block 50
Cars are not computers, yes. Computers are not cars, yes. You get a gold star.
But both computers and cars are complex multi-purpose devices. They are not commodity television sets or VCRs whose software only perform one basic function (watching a channel, recording a channel).
The more you can lock down and restrict the software on a device, the more secure and useable it can be. This is why crashes in phones and PDAs are so much less common than PCs.
The instant you give the user the ability to install whatever they want, all bets are off. Flexability and Idiocy-proofness are inversely proportional for any complex system. There is no way around it, you can't have your cake and eat it too.
No I don't expect that Joe user should know how to swap out a DIMM. But I do expect that he should read the manual. I also expect him to read and heed warnings from his ISP about malware. If they can't do that then either
a) They can't complain when they get malware / virii b) They shouldn't use a PC, since they won't take the time, they should use a locked down Internet Appliance.
Just tried it out, so this is speaking from actual experience. Digger doesn't limit itself to sharing files you have already downloaded - it will *actively* download files other people are requesting, so that it can share them.
This is simmilar to freenet, and indeed will maximize everyone's bandwidth. But it has grave issues when not combined with Freenet's huge anonymimity factors like encryption and hiding IPs , and will open you up to all sorts of legal problems.
I don't want the FBI knocking down my door because my Dijjer client has been downloading kiddie porn for someone else without my knowledge. Sure, I *may* be able to argue in court that it was not me, and hey, I may even be able to prove it. But is that potential trouble worth my saving on some bandwidth? I think not.
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And if you did any of the above, and you failed to remember to renew the domain, then it's your own damn fault. It sure as hell isn't the registrars.
What you are saying is totally unacceptable from a performance perspective. I have *TWO* software tuners in my Myth box and it runs without issues. And you sare saying MediaPortal can't even timeshift with *ONE*?
No thanks.
I mean, in this day and age you have to be a complete baffoon to let your domain expire. My registrart ( GoDaddy.com ) sends me notices about it needing renewal 1 month, 1 week,3 days, and 1 day before expiry. I imagine other registrars are simmilar - after all, they want you to renew with them.
How can you not notice all these??? If you let the date slip by after all these, then you don't care baout the domain very much, or are a moron. Or both.
On the whole - if you are looking for some free PVR software NOW, get MythTV or Freevo. There are excellent tutorials on the net on how to set up a MythTV system - from scratch - no hardcore Linux skills required.
The military doe snot screen general enlistments for stress sensitivity very much.
But they sure as hell do for special ops people. You don't want a Seal who is going to be out of radio contact for 14 days to fail his mission and be killed because he got "stressed out".
Stress has as much to do with psychology as your environment. Stress is created by your brain - the threshold of what you perceive as stressful and what I perceive as stressful are likely totally different, as I am a pretty easy-going guy. Some people just flip out over nothing, others can smile and laugh while their world comes crashing down upon them. And you can do tai-chi till you're blue in the face and it won't change any of that, all it will result in is the people who can't cope with their situations properly will be wasting their whole days doing tiger-crane.
What *really* should be happening is that people who are likely to be put into high-stress situations should be screened beforehand to avoid breakdowns and other health problems.
The military can do it, why not the private sector? Sure, there would likely be legal challenges at first under equal rights, but really, I don't see what the difference is between a programming company giving a psyche profile and an insurance company asking you to fill out a health form.
People, please stop saying that "this is a win for Skype since it will get exposure to Kazaa's huge audience". If anything, this would be a move to try to attract the Skype audience back to Kazaa.
2 3858), and is falling fast compared to other P2P networks like Bittorrent and eDonkey. Meanwhile, Skype is over the 20 million download mark and is currently serving over 1 million simultaneous users at any given time (http://www.skype.com/company/news/2004/1million_o nline.html), and is gaining popularity at a nearly exponential rate.
Kazaa is on the way down and had only 2.48 million users last month (http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/archive/index.php/t-
For one, the VPN would not run over the WLAN, it would run over the hard links.
For two, you could easily disable the WLAN interface if you do not have the knowhow on how to set up a DMZ with it.
.. you could just buy a Linksys WRT54G, flash the firmware, and have a VPN solution for under 60 bucks USD (oh, plus a bonus WAP).
Because it costs nothing to make everything, space travel is now also costless.
So anyone can just fab up a space shuttle and some scavenger robots and set them lose in the solar system, collecting any elements that are sufficintly rare enough on Earth to warrant such a hassle.
In fact, I would *embrace* this kind of change - if society was ready for it. Unfortunatly, I don't think we as a species have evolved to the point where we can exist without primal competition among one another for resources.
These kinds of things need to be treade don lightly, or we will bring about our own destruction.
Ah - but, how would such an economy work? Think about it.
What service would you possibly sell? And what are the people paying you with, and why do you want it? You don't have to buy anything anymore, you can make it with your fab. Food, water, shelter, entertainment. all are costless. So why would you bother providing services to anyone in exchange for something?
Such a revolution could only lead to one of two inevitable systems:
1) The world becomes a Star-Trek like Utopia. poverty, hunger, and want are all eliminated almost overnight. People spend their daily lives pursuing things that challenge them intellectually , or work to further the species as a whole.
2) The world descends into utter chaos. Since everything is free, no one has any power over anyone any longer. Governments are thrown into disarray. Wars erupt. The whole species is nearly anniahlated in thermonuclear holocost.
..in say, 25 years, when they are advanced enough, you could tell such a fab to fab the parts for itself?!?!
You then have a fab that can fab fabs. That's the economic singularity point - the initial cost of the fab is then irrelevant - it could be millions, or billions, it doesn't matter because one can create another, ad-infinitum.
At that point you have an economic breakdown on a global scale, since anyone can create anything from anything else.
...once created, throw the entire world economy into chaos? Of course I am referring to not a simple fab as the article is talking about, but what it is insinuating at, a device capable of assemling things at the atomic level.
Think about it.. once you buy such a device, no matter *what* the initial cost, you could use it to make almost anything... including, other devices!
Such a device would make physical goods value-less. The only things of value any longer would be services and artistic creations.
Then again, this all sounds way too good to be true. We're not evolved enough as a sepcies to have that kind of tech - think also - everyone instantly has access to unlimited weapons. Great.
We would kill ourselves off as a species within days.
Then again maybe that's not a bad thing.
.. a way to DISABLE THE FSCKING SPLASH SCREEN because all splash screens blow.
No, marijuana affects your brain in ways entirely different from alcohol.
Er.. there is a comma in that sentence. It changes the meaning quite drastically from the same thing without the comma, which is what you seem to have somehow read.
With the comma it means "both alcohol and marijuana affect your brain", which is obviously true.
"Of the many psychotropic drugs, licit and illicit, that are available and used by people who subsequently drive, marijuana may well be among the least harmful."
I don't care if it is the least harmful. If it is harmful at all it should not be allowed.
When you drive you are not just taking your life and the lives of your family member into your hands, you are taking the lives of everyone on and near the road into your hands as well. There should be zero tolerance for people who drive under the influence, *any* influence. Anyone caught doing such a thing should all have manditory jail terms, 1-5 years minimum IMO. Will make them think twice about every trying that nonsense again.
there is no impairment of coordination, most activites you can do sober you can do stoned.
.. you do nothing but harm the cause and make us all look like idiot potheads.
If and when marijuana is legalized, I hope that they have the sense to outlaw things like driving and operating heavy machinery while stoned. You *are not* the same stoned as sober, marijuana affects your brain, just like alcohol, and I sure as hell wouldn't want some tweaker cruising down the freeway being distracted by some trivial thing on the side of the road while my kids were out playing.
It is just common sense.
The DMCA exemtoins to ISPs have absolutely nothing to dow ith child pornography. As a parent poster said, the law does not care how or why you have the child porn in your posession. Even if you got it by accident, or via a service you provide to other parties, you can still be prosecuted and convicted.
An ISP whose HTTP cache contained child porn *could* be prosecuted and convicted as well. But it would be quite obvious to the Feds that they were an unknowning intermediary, so the likelihood of that would be small.
But how obvious would it be to the Feds that the HTTP download from X porn site was being made by someone else but not you? Good luck with that - I will stay away thanks.
Quote:
"Now all you need is a program to turn a UPC picture into a bar code (can probably find one already) and you're off to the races"
Combine this perl with the browser of your choice and you have the same thing.
9 21'|");
$!/usr/bin/perl
my $searchURL = "http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=%1";
my $browser = "kfmclient openURL";
open( F, "lynx -source 'http://www.upcdatabase.com/item.pl?upc=659556585
while()
{
if(/Description.+<td>([^<]*)<\/td>/ ) {
$searchURL =~ s/%1/$1;
system("$browser \"$searchURL\"");
}
}
close(F);
Now all you need is a program to turn a UPC picture into a bar code (can probably find one already) and you're off to the races
It would be more like a super-efficient and easy to use Bittorrent that works through any firewall.
IMO this feature has to go - the thing is still immensly usefull without it.
It is not just a cache. It is like Freenet.
A cache would take things you have downloaded and share them with others. THis is what all other P2P does. This is good.
Dijjer shares things you *havent* downloaded - it downloads things you never requested using yoru spare bandwidth and shares them with others. As in, it downlods and shares things I never asked it to download.
This is why it opens up logal problems. My Dijjer client could be downloading kiddie porn even though I never requested it, just because someone else on the Dijjer network did and I was connected to him at the time.
Sure, here is some proof. I downloaded the dijjer.jar of the download page. I ran it, and clicked the test link on the main Dijjer page - the link for the Linux kernel. I clicked no other link and did nothing else except look at the status page.
u tio2001.mpeg chunk 3 at ttl 9u tio2001.mpeg to retrieve chunk 3u tio2001.mpeg chunk 1 at ttl 9u tio2001.mpeg to retrieve chunk 1
Meanwhile, check out some of the output from the server, printed right to STDOUT. Remember - I did not download this file, or make a request for it, and it certianly does not exist on my machine:
8950 -1 -> lysanderspooner.xs4all.nl:9114 : acknowledgeRequest {uid=-363110451
Dispatcher: Retrieving http://www.archive.org/download/Evolutio2001/Evol
LOOP: Find peer for requestData
Dispatcher: Connecting to http://www.archive.org/download/Evolutio2001/Evol
9023 9114 lysanderspooner.xs4all.nl:9114 : acknowledgeRequest {uid=-2112834057
Dispatcher: Retrieving http://www.archive.org/download/Evolutio2001/Evol
LOOP: Find peer for requestData
Dispatcher: Connecting to http://www.archive.org/download/Evolutio2001/Evol
Retrieved block 50
Cars are not computers, yes. Computers are not cars, yes. You get a gold star.
But both computers and cars are complex multi-purpose devices. They are not commodity television sets or VCRs whose software only perform one basic function (watching a channel, recording a channel).
The more you can lock down and restrict the software on a device, the more secure and useable it can be. This is why crashes in phones and PDAs are so much less common than PCs.
The instant you give the user the ability to install whatever they want, all bets are off.
Flexability and Idiocy-proofness are inversely proportional for any complex system. There is no way around it, you can't have your cake and eat it too.
No I don't expect that Joe user should know how to swap out a DIMM. But I do expect that he should read the manual. I also expect him to read and heed warnings from his ISP about malware. If they can't do that then either
a) They can't complain when they get malware / virii
b) They shouldn't use a PC, since they won't take the time, they should use a locked down Internet Appliance.
Just tried it out, so this is speaking from actual experience. Digger doesn't limit itself to sharing files you have already downloaded - it will *actively* download files other people are requesting, so that it can share them.
This is simmilar to freenet, and indeed will maximize everyone's bandwidth. But it has grave issues when not combined with Freenet's huge anonymimity factors like encryption and hiding IPs , and will open you up to all sorts of legal problems.
I don't want the FBI knocking down my door because my Dijjer client has been downloading kiddie porn for someone else without my knowledge. Sure, I *may* be able to argue in court that it was not me, and hey, I may even be able to prove it. But is that potential trouble worth my saving on some bandwidth? I think not.