That is nothing. Back in the 8088 days I had an XT PC where the 5.25" drive stopped reading. The head had problems moving back and forth. I fixed it with a couple of rubber bands and it worked like a charm.
"The Charter of Rights also does not delineate a right to poop, or read books, or sleep or throw a frisbee either but those rights exist none the less."
Thank goodness!! I've been holding it for so long!
IANAL but can the government require a lawyer communicating with a non-US citizen identified as a terrorist to turn over all communications if they believe there is a national threat?
If they can't do it now, there is always the chance that legislation will be passed allowing such a practice.
If so, that would discourage the use of PGP. Even if they can't crack PGP, the govt could require a lawyer to provied his key/password or sit in jail indefinately for comtempt.
If communications between people are recorded, there is always the possibility the communication will be available to others. Face to face talk (barring listening devices) is the only way to ensure only the parties involved in the conversation will know the contents of that conversation. A lawyer could still be questioned about what they talked about, but then he could lie, omit facts, or take some other option if he didn't want to disclose the true nature of a meeting.
Dog's are great deterrents, but I have a solution almost as good as a dog and it only costs about $100.
Get a bunch of signs, a dormat, and other items that make it look like you have a dog. Stuff like, "We love our German Shepherd", dormat with a picture of a big dog, a large water bowl by the front door, etc. When a potential burgler sees that stuff he'll most likely move on the the next house.
"Anyone know anything more about who is doing RIAA's dirty work?"
As much as they don't want you to think it is them, the artists are the cause of the RIAA. If they refused en mass to continue creating/releasing their art until the RIAA disappeared, it would cease to exist.
I don't care how many say the RIAA doesn't represent them, as long as it is funded and allowed to represent the "recording industry association" then it does represent them.
1. This may not pass in a court of law, but a way to show there is no intent to distribute but still make available would be a disclaimer when connecting sayign "Unauthorized connections or copying of this data is not permitted." The server could still allow it without resistance, but it would be posted as not allowed.
This would be like the books on a table in the front yard with a sign that says "Don't steal". No one would be stopping anyone from taking a book, but they owner would be seen as making an effort saying they do not authorize the action.
2. Regardless of thier tactics, concerns with copyright length, and the "quality" of the people they represent's product, don't you still believe that when people own IP with a valid copyright (especially if the music/movie/etc is fairly new) have a right to control the distribution of their work and somehow stop people from sharing THEIR music/movie/data/etc without authorization?
According to everyone's friend, Wikipedia, a drug is defined as "any substance that alters normal bodily function".
Using that definition, alcohols would be considered a drug. Of course, food, water, air, and every other foreign object introduced into a body could be classified as a drug. Your normal body function is to die. Taking drugs like food and water alter that and keep you alive. Air has that nasty habit also. I say let's ban drugs and see how long the human race lasts!
The average Wal-Mart customer is just lookign for the cheapest deal available. When they see a $199 PC, they will get it without wondering if I runs/comes with Windows. That would be like asking if a TV had a US power outlet connector. It doesn't even cross their minds.
As you can guess, they would get it home and it doesn't look like the Windows they know from work and their old computer. To top that, they can't install Quicken, Civ II, or any other software they bought at the SAME Wal-Mart. I would think that would prompt a lot of returns to show back up at the store.
And regards to many comments about how Wal-Mart doesn't want its staff stuck supporting Linux, do you at all feel they are currently able to support Windows in any capacity?
"*I* helped install the secret surveillance system between DNC headquarters and the FBI Washington Field Office"
FYI: Field offices are in the field. The office in DC would be the FBI HQ. And anyway, I installed that system. I had to sign a nondisclosure, but since everyone here is cool I figure it would be ok to tell. Just be sure to keep it on the downlow.
If you taxed per item of work, then anyone wanting to game the system would merely string as many works together to minimize their tax burden. A movie studio would say that every movie they made in a year was all part of one big movie whose parts were merely shown in seperate viewings.
Now many McDonalds, Krystals, Atlanta Bread Companys, Burger King, Denny's, Dunkin' Donuts, IHOP, Jack-in-the-Box, KFC, Subway, Taco Bell, Quiznos, and Wendy's offer free WIFI.
'Bucks will start losing customers who want to surf and schmooze. I'm sure they especially don't want to lose that extra $6 cupcake sale when someone has been hanging around the store for an hour and starts to get hungry.
"The distributed database could be constantly updated from the original sources, and the distributed storage then becomes in effect a giant cache that contains the entire internet."
As most people here know, possibly 80% of the internet is secured by passwords or some other mechanism. Google, Yahoosoft, or whoever only provide a small insight to what is out there. Archiving what mcdonalds.com chooses to present isn't that valuable.
"Now we could employ the distributed computing software to datamine that cache and we could have searching independent of Google or Yahoo or M$FT."
Effective datamining is more complicated than GREP. Google,Yahoo, and even M$FT have a lot of PhDs and tech gurus that have been working on optimizing search for 10+ years using servers dedicated for that effort.
Perhaps a more realistic and practical use of that space would be to redundantly backup his company's servers. He could make encrypted bite sized backups and park them on unused blocks of the desktops available. This still wouldn't be easy to implement but is theoretically doable.
This boils down to tagging. A file would have to be tagged in some way that is has a copyright. It would also need to know who DOES have the right to listen and distribute. Don't forget that every work not 95 years old is out of copyright in the US and can be freely shared, copied, traded, etc. Also, there is the possibility that people may have been given the right to share, copy, trade, etc a piece of music that has a current copyright.
I'm just not sure how any filter could determine all of the characteristics without some sort of tagging. Following that logic, all that would need to be done to circumvent the DRM would be to remove/modify such a tag. DRM like this is easy to defeat and has been done.
"Imagine being able to forward the '$4000.00' response to the Internet tax office - he's now liable for the $400 in taxes on his $4000 domain, every year. I bet he'd drop the price, or the domain pretty quick."
What if I wanted a domain you owned? I could send you an offer for $100000 for the domain that I never intended to pay. Then I could send it to the "Internet tax office" and you would either have to pay a lot of $$, dump the domain, or go through the gyrations of selling it to me and me putting off paying.
I don't think they could create 100k profiles/day
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I recently tried to programatically grab a few hundred profiles from Yahoo. I found that after I grabbed 10 or 20 they would detect it and subsequent queries from my IP address got an error page. I was able to query 24 hours later, but they are watching for excess traffic from an IP address. I did find that it was possible if you staggered the queries to one every 10 seconds. That suited my purposes, but at that rate you could only do about 8600 queries a day. I guess that if you could run the script from 12 different IP addresses you could get your 100k/day, but I bet Yahoo would detect that if they continued to have that many accounts registered daily. If you owned a class C you could do it easy enough, but how many spammers have that type of resource?
I disagree. If he was found having 10000+ files on his hard drive, then he would be screwed. A single file with no documentation would not be a big deal.
If that were applicable, then Wal-Mart could accuse me of being a shoplifter and sieze all my assets and I'd be liable for all the items that I don't have reciepts for that they stock.
"Ever since I found out more about the copyright industry vs. the public struggle, I made sure I spent absolutely nothing on what's produced by MPAA and RIAA members --no music sold through a major record label, and no movies (I used to go to theater once every month or so--not anymore)"
That sounds good and all, but are you sure you aren't funding them? Do you go to Blockbusters? Do you have Dish, DirectTV, or cable?
This makes buying a round of drinks scary. You could buy a round for your friends and not even drink alcohol. Then have a minor accident on the way home and be grilled by the local cops because they could see that you purchased 7 drinks in the last hour.
Copying and stealing are completely different....When you steal my car stereo, you have deprived me of it. I must then purchase, at my own cost, a new one. When you copy my entire music library, there is no deprivation involved. I still have my music library, and you now have an identical reproduction of it. Could the arguement be made that by copying your music I have deprived you of being in the elite class of being in posession of that music. Some people may buy music to listen to it, but others may but it to be in what they believe is the "cool" group of people who were able to afford it. By allowing anyone to copy that music an individual could be depriving them of that priviledge! While this may seem far fetched, don't forget that no one buys a Ferrari for transportation to buy groceries.
Steel isn't the only one producing their own electricity. Many lumber mills also generate their own electricity using the scraps. I even saw a carpet company was doing this on the Discovery channel.
I wouldn't be surprised if Wal-Marts in some rural areas don't grind up old products or employees and burn them to make electricity!
Since this is the new year and everyone is making predections, let me make this one. In a few years Micsosoft will be the driving force for widespread Linux adoption. They will package their own distro. In the end the masses will believe MS created Linux or at least made it usable for the masses.
I don't know how this will happen, but you have to admit it is so crazy that it could become a reality!
Why does one put strychnine in the guacamole ?
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Many people here are trying to equate her punishment to the actual damages she may have caused. You can't have a functioning society with that mentality. If you were fined actual damages when you broke the law, then everyone would try to shoplift what they were going to buy anyway. If they don't get caught, they get the stuff for free. If they get caught, they pay what they would anyway.
There has to be a lot more negative for getting caught breaking the law than the damage created. That ensures people will be discouraged from breaking the law. If you don't like the law, work to have it changed.
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That is nothing. Back in the 8088 days I had an XT PC where the 5.25" drive stopped reading. The head had problems moving back and forth. I fixed it with a couple of rubber bands and it worked like a charm.
This is all well and good, but will they blend
"The Charter of Rights also does not delineate a right to poop, or read books, or sleep or throw a frisbee either but those rights exist none the less."
Thank goodness!! I've been holding it for so long!
IANAL but can the government require a lawyer communicating with a non-US citizen identified as a terrorist to turn over all communications if they believe there is a national threat?
If they can't do it now, there is always the chance that legislation will be passed allowing such a practice.
If so, that would discourage the use of PGP. Even if they can't crack PGP, the govt could require a lawyer to provied his key/password or sit in jail indefinately for comtempt.
If communications between people are recorded, there is always the possibility the communication will be available to others. Face to face talk (barring listening devices) is the only way to ensure only the parties involved in the conversation will know the contents of that conversation. A lawyer could still be questioned about what they talked about, but then he could lie, omit facts, or take some other option if he didn't want to disclose the true nature of a meeting.
Dog's are great deterrents, but I have a solution almost as good as a dog and it only costs about $100.
Get a bunch of signs, a dormat, and other items that make it look like you have a dog. Stuff like, "We love our German Shepherd", dormat with a picture of a big dog, a large water bowl by the front door, etc. When a potential burgler sees that stuff he'll most likely move on the the next house.
"Anyone know anything more about who is doing RIAA's dirty work?"
As much as they don't want you to think it is them, the artists are the cause of the RIAA. If they refused en mass to continue creating/releasing their art until the RIAA disappeared, it would cease to exist.
I don't care how many say the RIAA doesn't represent them, as long as it is funded and allowed to represent the "recording industry association" then it does represent them.
1. This may not pass in a court of law, but a way to show there is no intent to distribute but still make available would be a disclaimer when connecting sayign "Unauthorized connections or copying of this data is not permitted." The server could still allow it without resistance, but it would be posted as not allowed.
This would be like the books on a table in the front yard with a sign that says "Don't steal". No one would be stopping anyone from taking a book, but they owner would be seen as making an effort saying they do not authorize the action.
2. Regardless of thier tactics, concerns with copyright length, and the "quality" of the people they represent's product, don't you still believe that when people own IP with a valid copyright (especially if the music/movie/etc is fairly new) have a right to control the distribution of their work and somehow stop people from sharing THEIR music/movie/data/etc without authorization?
According to everyone's friend, Wikipedia, a drug is defined as "any substance that alters normal bodily function".
Using that definition, alcohols would be considered a drug. Of course, food, water, air, and every other foreign object introduced into a body could be classified as a drug. Your normal body function is to die. Taking drugs like food and water alter that and keep you alive. Air has that nasty habit also. I say let's ban drugs and see how long the human race lasts!
The average Wal-Mart customer is just lookign for the cheapest deal available. When they see a $199 PC, they will get it without wondering if I runs/comes with Windows. That would be like asking if a TV had a US power outlet connector. It doesn't even cross their minds.
As you can guess, they would get it home and it doesn't look like the Windows they know from work and their old computer. To top that, they can't install Quicken, Civ II, or any other software they bought at the SAME Wal-Mart. I would think that would prompt a lot of returns to show back up at the store.
And regards to many comments about how Wal-Mart doesn't want its staff stuck supporting Linux, do you at all feel they are currently able to support Windows in any capacity?
"*I* helped install the secret surveillance system between DNC headquarters and the FBI Washington Field Office"
FYI: Field offices are in the field. The office in DC would be the FBI HQ. And anyway, I installed that system. I had to sign a nondisclosure, but since everyone here is cool I figure it would be ok to tell. Just be sure to keep it on the downlow.
If you taxed per item of work, then anyone wanting to game the system would merely string as many works together to minimize their tax burden. A movie studio would say that every movie they made in a year was all part of one big movie whose parts were merely shown in seperate viewings.
Now many McDonalds, Krystals, Atlanta Bread Companys, Burger King, Denny's, Dunkin' Donuts, IHOP, Jack-in-the-Box, KFC, Subway, Taco Bell, Quiznos, and Wendy's offer free WIFI.
'Bucks will start losing customers who want to surf and schmooze. I'm sure they especially don't want to lose that extra $6 cupcake sale when someone has been hanging around the store for an hour and starts to get hungry.
"The distributed database could be constantly updated from the original sources, and the distributed storage then becomes in effect a giant cache that contains the entire internet."
As most people here know, possibly 80% of the internet is secured by passwords or some other mechanism. Google, Yahoosoft, or whoever only provide a small insight to what is out there. Archiving what mcdonalds.com chooses to present isn't that valuable.
"Now we could employ the distributed computing software to datamine that cache and we could have searching independent of Google or Yahoo or M$FT."
Effective datamining is more complicated than GREP. Google,Yahoo, and even M$FT have a lot of PhDs and tech gurus that have been working on optimizing search for 10+ years using servers dedicated for that effort.
Perhaps a more realistic and practical use of that space would be to redundantly backup his company's servers. He could make encrypted bite sized backups and park them on unused blocks of the desktops available. This still wouldn't be easy to implement but is theoretically doable.
This boils down to tagging. A file would have to be tagged in some way that is has a copyright. It would also need to know who DOES have the right to listen and distribute. Don't forget that every work not 95 years old is out of copyright in the US and can be freely shared, copied, traded, etc. Also, there is the possibility that people may have been given the right to share, copy, trade, etc a piece of music that has a current copyright.
I'm just not sure how any filter could determine all of the characteristics without some sort of tagging. Following that logic, all that would need to be done to circumvent the DRM would be to remove/modify such a tag. DRM like this is easy to defeat and has been done.
"The Sony rootkit debacle began in October 2005. The PS3 was released in November 2006. How, exactly, did these two events coincide?"
On a scale spanning all of time, 13 months is but a whisper.
"Imagine being able to forward the '$4000.00' response to the Internet tax office - he's now liable for the $400 in taxes on his $4000 domain, every year. I bet he'd drop the price, or the domain pretty quick."
What if I wanted a domain you owned? I could send you an offer for $100000 for the domain that I never intended to pay. Then I could send it to the "Internet tax office" and you would either have to pay a lot of $$, dump the domain, or go through the gyrations of selling it to me and me putting off paying.
I recently tried to programatically grab a few hundred profiles from Yahoo. I found that after I grabbed 10 or 20 they would detect it and subsequent queries from my IP address got an error page. I was able to query 24 hours later, but they are watching for excess traffic from an IP address. I did find that it was possible if you staggered the queries to one every 10 seconds. That suited my purposes, but at that rate you could only do about 8600 queries a day. I guess that if you could run the script from 12 different IP addresses you could get your 100k/day, but I bet Yahoo would detect that if they continued to have that many accounts registered daily. If you owned a class C you could do it easy enough, but how many spammers have that type of resource?
I disagree. If he was found having 10000+ files on his hard drive, then he would be screwed. A single file with no documentation would not be a big deal.
If that were applicable, then Wal-Mart could accuse me of being a shoplifter and sieze all my assets and I'd be liable for all the items that I don't have reciepts for that they stock.
"Ever since I found out more about the copyright industry vs. the public struggle, I made sure I spent absolutely nothing on what's produced by MPAA and RIAA members --no music sold through a major record label, and no movies (I used to go to theater once every month or so--not anymore)"
That sounds good and all, but are you sure you aren't funding them? Do you go to Blockbusters? Do you have Dish, DirectTV, or cable?
This makes buying a round of drinks scary. You could buy a round for your friends and not even drink alcohol. Then have a minor accident on the way home and be grilled by the local cops because they could see that you purchased 7 drinks in the last hour.
Steel isn't the only one producing their own electricity. Many lumber mills also generate their own electricity using the scraps. I even saw a carpet company was doing this on the Discovery channel.
I wouldn't be surprised if Wal-Marts in some rural areas don't grind up old products or employees and burn them to make electricity!
Since this is the new year and everyone is making predections, let me make this one. In a few years Micsosoft will be the driving force for widespread Linux adoption. They will package their own distro. In the end the masses will believe MS created Linux or at least made it usable for the masses.
I don't know how this will happen, but you have to admit it is so crazy that it could become a reality!
Because it is there!
Many people here are trying to equate her punishment to the actual damages she may have caused. You can't have a functioning society with that mentality. If you were fined actual damages when you broke the law, then everyone would try to shoplift what they were going to buy anyway. If they don't get caught, they get the stuff for free. If they get caught, they pay what they would anyway.
There has to be a lot more negative for getting caught breaking the law than the damage created. That ensures people will be discouraged from breaking the law. If you don't like the law, work to have it changed.