If you have an ip address combined with a date and time most isps can tell what account was using the address. Also, most providers state something along the lines of you are responsible for whatever happens with your account even if someone broke into your house and held you at gunpoint to provide them with internet access.
Also, if companies did a better job of integrating commercials with their programming the commercials would be a LOT less annoying.
Going from on demand Ax Men (history channel) with mediacom to some of their ads (the 100 calorie pack of some food where there are 20 people doing nothing but screaming) when you are using a stereo for sound makes me want to throw the remote across the room.
In addition, with regular programming when you go from a quiet program to ultra loud commercials is bad enough on a regular tv, let alone a stereo turned up loudly. One random commercial had my cabinets rattling from my subwoofer.
Also... poor attempts at targeted advertising are worse than good untargeted advertising. On hulu I see four or five products advertised only. Some hotel, condoms, anti drunk driving, a random energy drink, and relief/non for profit groups.
When you are watching straight through five seasons of a program it gets very repetitive.
Again, I don't have a problem with ads or paying for tv. Just if you are going to show ads and charge, make sure it is worth it or people are going to go the illegal routes.
I would drop cable almost instantly if I could get a service with similar options online. Mediacom wants $15-$20 for every DVR or about $10 for every cable box if you want on screen guide.
I THINK they said the calculated efficiencies would be along the lines of 15-25% depending on materials, temperature differentials, and the actual temperatures. It may have been higher than that though.
I was visiting Illinois State University's physics department because I am planning on attending this fall. They were working on a material along these lines with a fairly high efficiency rate but they were just starting actually trying to make small amounts of the material.
Their intended use of the material would be in steel foundries, etc. where millions of dollars are spent on power and even something not very efficient could save a ton of money.
From what I gathered talking to the professor there the same efficiency increasing techniques could be used even with smaller temperature differentials as long as you had different materials used.
Sorry but they don't have too much information on their website. They had a few posters with information in the building but not much online.
So what would it take to get sections of your DNA copyrighted? Enough where they can't verify your DNA but also enough where you could at least have some fun going to court for copyright infringement if they put it in a database.
I thought model rockets were just when you were following a kit and/or exact instructions..... I would think this would just fall under amateur rocketry....
From wikipedia:
A model rocket is a small rocket capable of being launched by anybody, to generally low altitudes (usually to around 100-500 m (300-1500 ft) for a 30 g (1 oz.) model) and recovered by a variety of means.
According to the National Association of Rocketry, (NAR) Safety Code[1], model rockets are constructed of paper, wood, plastic and other lightweight materials.
Someone could just cut a small hole in some random document needing signed and put something else underneath it. It is doubtful someone could tell the difference and the machine would be signing directly onto the paper. Just shred the document that was SUPPOSED to be signed and claim something happened to it.
Unless you sign your documents slightly differently when you use the robo-arm there would be no way to tell. Maybe a special ink could be used or a tiny code that indicated the machine that signed it could be added.
That gets problematic when you start having to open windows in december in illinois because your room is 95F (yes, it happened once) with the furnace vents blocked off. Then you fall asleep and when you wake up it is a wonderful 30F in your room.
If you can use fiber optic links for Ethernet, why not take it a step further and use lasers? Probably have to be a pretty powerful laser to get out of the atmosphere with a usable signal but once you get past that it could probably be done.
Tricky part would be aiming the beams but you might be able to use a combination of GPS signals or something equivalent, triangulation, and trajectory prediction.
If you consider the rates for dedicated lines. 1 mbit (when purchased in the small quantity of 100mbit) cost (last I checked) $10/month. That was the absolute cheapest provider at the time (cogent). Average was along the lines of $30-$40/mbit (level3, and other companies I typically see major ISPs using).
So figure if your cable connection is 10mbit and you are maxing that out a lot of the time $150 is NOT that unreasonable. Billing at 95% (which could be done for residential use) is typically around the same price.
If I remember correctly Project Gutenberg only accepts books that are truly in public domain. If this was the case they could just copy the text from Google and put it on their website anyway.
If you hit the hammer against the screwdriver just right, you could potentially integrate the functions of the two together...... Or you could integrate your screwdriver into the table
The parent post has a reasonable comment, don't see why it was marked troll.
Is there anything to stop malware, etc. from abusing the 'disabled' files? Also, what happens when someone looks at windows update and thinks there is no point in these internet explorer updates because it is 'disabled'
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Unfortunately in a lot of areas CLEAN water doesn't fall free from the sky.
How about a couple hundred gold bars and a gun arsenal? (Of course if I had that available I would be in an underground bunker somewhere typing this)
If you have an ip address combined with a date and time most isps can tell what account was using the address. Also, most providers state something along the lines of you are responsible for whatever happens with your account even if someone broke into your house and held you at gunpoint to provide them with internet access.
Also, if companies did a better job of integrating commercials with their programming the commercials would be a LOT less annoying.
Going from on demand Ax Men (history channel) with mediacom to some of their ads (the 100 calorie pack of some food where there are 20 people doing nothing but screaming) when you are using a stereo for sound makes me want to throw the remote across the room.
In addition, with regular programming when you go from a quiet program to ultra loud commercials is bad enough on a regular tv, let alone a stereo turned up loudly. One random commercial had my cabinets rattling from my subwoofer.
Also... poor attempts at targeted advertising are worse than good untargeted advertising. On hulu I see four or five products advertised only. Some hotel, condoms, anti drunk driving, a random energy drink, and relief/non for profit groups.
When you are watching straight through five seasons of a program it gets very repetitive.
Again, I don't have a problem with ads or paying for tv. Just if you are going to show ads and charge, make sure it is worth it or people are going to go the illegal routes.
I would drop cable almost instantly if I could get a service with similar options online. Mediacom wants $15-$20 for every DVR or about $10 for every cable box if you want on screen guide.
I THINK they said the calculated efficiencies would be along the lines of 15-25% depending on materials, temperature differentials, and the actual temperatures. It may have been higher than that though.
I was visiting Illinois State University's physics department because I am planning on attending this fall. They were working on a material along these lines with a fairly high efficiency rate but they were just starting actually trying to make small amounts of the material.
Their intended use of the material would be in steel foundries, etc. where millions of dollars are spent on power and even something not very efficient could save a ton of money.
From what I gathered talking to the professor there the same efficiency increasing techniques could be used even with smaller temperature differentials as long as you had different materials used.
Sorry but they don't have too much information on their website. They had a few posters with information in the building but not much online.
http://www.phy.ilstu.edu/programs/research.html
A link to the professors bio:
http://www.phy.ilstu.edu/facandstaff/marx.html
So what would it take to get sections of your DNA copyrighted? Enough where they can't verify your DNA but also enough where you could at least have some fun going to court for copyright infringement if they put it in a database.
I thought model rockets were just when you were following a kit and/or exact instructions..... I would think this would just fall under amateur rocketry....
From wikipedia:
A model rocket is a small rocket capable of being launched by anybody, to generally low altitudes (usually to around 100-500 m (300-1500 ft) for a 30 g (1 oz.) model) and recovered by a variety of means.
According to the National Association of Rocketry, (NAR) Safety Code[1], model rockets are constructed of paper, wood, plastic and other lightweight materials.
Someone could just cut a small hole in some random document needing signed and put something else underneath it. It is doubtful someone could tell the difference and the machine would be signing directly onto the paper. Just shred the document that was SUPPOSED to be signed and claim something happened to it. Unless you sign your documents slightly differently when you use the robo-arm there would be no way to tell. Maybe a special ink could be used or a tiny code that indicated the machine that signed it could be added.
Why is this considered Troll? Because they say they don't fileshare or because they are mentioning a problem with a privacy supporting ISP?
Well about 99% of the time that would be a GOOD thing....
That gets problematic when you start having to open windows in december in illinois because your room is 95F (yes, it happened once) with the furnace vents blocked off. Then you fall asleep and when you wake up it is a wonderful 30F in your room.
If you can use fiber optic links for Ethernet, why not take it a step further and use lasers? Probably have to be a pretty powerful laser to get out of the atmosphere with a usable signal but once you get past that it could probably be done. Tricky part would be aiming the beams but you might be able to use a combination of GPS signals or something equivalent, triangulation, and trajectory prediction.
Of course.... most data centers charge $0.10-$0.25/GB but 1mbit continuous averages around 300GB per month so either way it is about the same.
If you consider the rates for dedicated lines. 1 mbit (when purchased in the small quantity of 100mbit) cost (last I checked) $10/month. That was the absolute cheapest provider at the time (cogent). Average was along the lines of $30-$40/mbit (level3, and other companies I typically see major ISPs using). So figure if your cable connection is 10mbit and you are maxing that out a lot of the time $150 is NOT that unreasonable. Billing at 95% (which could be done for residential use) is typically around the same price.
If I remember correctly Project Gutenberg only accepts books that are truly in public domain. If this was the case they could just copy the text from Google and put it on their website anyway.
This would be a very bad thing to do.... What about the poor servers that are hit by the blast when the agents come in?
At least they were somewhat creative and put a little effort into this one rather than linking to other stupid jokes.
If you hit the hammer against the screwdriver just right, you could potentially integrate the functions of the two together...... Or you could integrate your screwdriver into the table
The parent post has a reasonable comment, don't see why it was marked troll. Is there anything to stop malware, etc. from abusing the 'disabled' files? Also, what happens when someone looks at windows update and thinks there is no point in these internet explorer updates because it is 'disabled'