While possible, this tactic may not be a good idea. If you are in China and attempt to repeatedly circumvent the filter, I suspect sooner or later you will get a knock on the door.
"Three balloons will be able to take the place of 1,100 cell phone towers, and will remain aloft for 24 hours. "
My guess is this is a test run. If the baloons aren't able to stay up for more than a day it would be a headahce to constantly deploy them. It would be nice to remove 1100 towers that easy. I've heard that a tower can cont in excess of $1M.
Even if the baloons were pricy, it would take a lot of failures to cost as much as the towers do. If you could keep them up for a week to a month and only needed 3 baloons then I would have about 30 baloons available.
I would have 6 in the air at any one time. I would have standby crews ready to launch new baloons at a moments notice. That would ensure connectivity, redundancy, and still likely be cheaper than the current system. It would also provide extra capacity in case a disaster happened.
"Why do we still drive cars that use an internal combustion engine and only get 30 miles per gallon?"
2 points, 1 question
1. I guess your 30mpg is an average. I know most SUVs don't come close to that.
2. Frankly, I find it amazing that you can take a 1 gallon jug of liquid and slowly burn it and propel yourself and 3000 pounds of vehicle 30 miles. I know there are vehicles that can even do better, but 30 miles is a lonnnnnnnnng way. To be able to do that will 1 gallon of dinosaur juice seems pretty good.
Q1. If the US decided to move to 1 compact New York style location and didn't require the massive amounts of fuel to move bodies from home to work to the mall to the grocery store to school to etc, how would that affect the economy?
Everyone is complaining about the fact that it will be "similar to the cost of a DVD." What if it will be 1/2 the cost of a DVD. Would you want to use it then. Would that make it worth the hassle of downloaded, potentially using up dl quotas, DRM, etc?
When you can illegally download nearly anything for free or goto Blockbusters and rent whatever for $5, what would you pay to be able to legally download content using P2P that will be DRMed?
"It's a jail. Things only need to escape once. Once they escape they're on the internet in open formats and the game is over."
The game will only be over for technophiles. A day will come where it will take a bit of hacking to get and listen to content that had DRM. It won't be impossible, but difficult. Yes, people will be able to defeat it but most won't know how or care to bother. It used to be a pain to copy an album onto a cassette and wans't worth the trouble to many people. Soon a DRM will come that will be equally painful and most but not all will be stymied.
I'm not saying I approve or disapprove of DRM, but it will not go away. It will slowly become more accepted and move covert.
"It's like those Barbies that got shipped out with G.I. Joe voice boxes a few years ago."
Actually, members of the Barbie Liberation Organization performed that act. They somehow acquired hundreds of the dolls and swapped the voice boxes of GI Joe and Barbie dolls. The GI Joes said "I like to go shopping with you" and Barbie said "Dead men tell no lies."
It was not a quality control issue. It was purposefully done as some type of sexual stereotyping statement.
This wouldn't even be necessary if the King of all Cosmos didn't get drunk and make all the stars burn out. I don't see why we need to be burdened with finding all the stardust when he was the one who messed it up. At the least he could get his son the prince to take care of it.
"They may have illegally borrowed your car, but if they intend to return it, it is not stealing"
Yeah, tell that to the cops when they pull you over driving around a car that has been reported missing. "But officer, I was going to return it so at most I was illegally borrowing it."
There are several trivial ways for this system to be defeated.
I've seen several sprays and license plate covers that produce a glare when attempting to photograph. They can be applied to license plates to prevent speed trap cameras. They still allow the plate to be visible to the eye but cameras can't get a good picture. They are cheap and will become commonplace if such a widespread system is put in place. You could probably get the stuff at any gas station. I don't normally speed or run lights, but I'd get it if I knew I was going to be under the eye of such a system.
If lots and lots of people were being fined by such a system, I would suspect there would eventually be a bit of civil disboedience arise. Some people may start taking bb guns or wire cutters and dsiabling the cameras that exist on their way to work.
It could even turn into a sport like geocacheing. People who get tickets could go to a website and describe where they got a ticket and the approximate locaation of the camera. Next, someone will disable the camera.
Yes it is true, these people are pirates. Don't forget though, they may have a higher purpose. The Flying Spaghetti Monsterism loves pirates and He may have led them down that path. If that is the case, can they really be blamed?
"Definitly don't accept a deal going like I'll send you a check on a higher amouth, you send me the item and the money left over. The check WILL be false.
See my above comment. There is nothing wrong with accepting money orders or cheques. Just make sure you wait until they clear at your bank before you ship the item. Anyone who sent a legitimate payment will understand this, and it only takes 3-5 days."
If a check looks real, it may very well post funds in 3-5 days. If the check is fake, it will eventually be found out and it make take 15-30 days for the bank to figure it out. Guess what? Those funds are debited form your account. That's right, the bank will tell you the funds are good, then determine they are not and take the money back. When dealing with international money orders or checks this can be especially true. To top all that, the back may even charge you a fee for depositing a check that is fake. Therefore your accepting a bogus check can cost you money even if you dont sent the item.
Shipping overseas is doable, but be sure you have your money first.
"People accept windows XP product activation forcing them to buy a copy for each computer they own."
That's nothing new. You were supposed to buy a copy of DOS, Win95, 98, 2000, and milinium for every computer you placed it on also. XP just attempts to enforce that via product activation.
"Uh...a phone line?:)"
Again, many people don't have phone lines in every room in their house. There is also a large and growing segment of people who don't even have landlines. They have only cell phones. Are you supposed to have a $50'/month phone bill just to be able to watch a movie?
"The movie industry wants to drive blockbuster out of business."
Blockbuster is owned by Viacom who also owns Paramount. They use each other to make money. Video rentals is big business and the movie industry does not want it to go away.
"Most people don't think about the futrue. They're not going to consider the possibilty of their player dying in a few years, they only think about seeing the hot new movie today."
You grossly underestimate people. Early adoptors will especially consider the possibilty of their player dying in a few years if they are paying big bucks for the player and planning on building a large library of movies. Does DIVX sound familiar?
Hands on is important and all but ISDN is a dead horse. There are many newer and better things out there now. At best you will see 1 or 2 ISDN questions and they will be basic questions. I got the CCNA back in 98 and as I recall there weren't more than a few ISDN questions back then! I'm sure the same goes for the CCNP/DP. If you go for the CCIE, then you need to know more. The fact that you are just now attempting the CCNA means that the CCIE will likely not be doable for another few years. By then ISDN may likely disappear form the test.
If you know these facts you should be more that prepared...
Data goes over 2 64kb B channels and there is one 16kb D channel handling signaling
There are two basic types of ISDN service: Basic Rate Interface (BRI) and Primary Rate Interface (PRI). BRI consists of two 64 kb/s B channels and one 16 kb/s D channel. PRI is intended for users with greater capacity requirements. Typically the channel structure is 23 B channels plus one 64 kb/s D channel for a total of 1536 kb/s. In Europe, PRI consists of 30 B channels plus one 64 kb/s D channel for a total of 1984 kb/s.
Its true that most people are technically illiterate. Nonetheless, they do know about portability. While it may be possible to create such a device, no one would buy it. Many people have several DVD players in their house and would like the ability to watch the content on both or all of them.
Many people don't have internet connections throughout their house and will not be bothered to hook a DVD player up to it. How else is your player going to get permission?
People also know that those players die and aren't going to accept losing their entire media collection because a laser died. At the least there would be ways around it since that would drive Blockbuster out of business.
This means that about 5% of supposedly claimed domains are potentially hikackable. Most register services have certain TOS and those include you providing accurate info. If you have 999 999 9999 as a phone # and abcdef as an address that looks like a violation. If I wanted your site I think I could have that domain ownership invalidated and stake a claim. Another tactic would be to say that you registered the site with invalid info and now want to correct the informaion. After that is completed the domain is in your name. Who can argue that they own a domain when it was originally registered by Bugs Bunny?
A scammer could do this, then offer to sell the domain to the original owner for $100, $500, or whatever they felt they could get. That would be like...
To take it a step further, you could start a website/company that purchases one copy of every CD it possibly can. To be a partial owner costs $10. As a partial owner you then own 1/1000000 of each CD and therefore are able to retain an archival copy. Then if you are found to be downloading/sharing you can say that you own that piece of music. You could only share on services that require people to acknowlege they are also partial owners of the company.
As others have said, archival copies are often kept offsite and in multiple locations. If you only share with other co-owners of that music then no one isn't sharing anything that everyone doesn't already have a right to posess.
The capital to create a library would initially be a lot, but not as much as you might think. There are plenty of used CD stores that could do this without spending a dime. Find me the problem with this system.
Since everyone else is quoting that part of the article, I don't want to be the only one who isn't...
"Six single-letter names already claimed at the time [1993] -- "q.com," "x.com, "z.com," "i.net," "q.net," and "x.org" -- were allowed to keep their names for the time being."
"I make games for a living, and I want to ensure that my games will run on as many Linux distros as possible."
Are you saying that you make a living making games for Linux? Its a great OS and gaining support every day, but I find it hard to believe anyone is making a living creating games for it. I can see making a living creating games for PDAs or cell phones, but not for Linux PCs today. Perhaps in 5 years it will be possible, but not today. Its good someone is out there making games and trying, but making a living?
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Don't forget AOL! They charged by the minute for quite a while. That was an effective bandwidth charge.
While possible, this tactic may not be a good idea. If you are in China and attempt to repeatedly circumvent the filter, I suspect sooner or later you will get a knock on the door.
true, true
"Three balloons will be able to take the place of 1,100 cell phone towers, and will remain aloft for 24 hours. "
My guess is this is a test run. If the baloons aren't able to stay up for more than a day it would be a headahce to constantly deploy them. It would be nice to remove 1100 towers that easy. I've heard that a tower can cont in excess of $1M.
Even if the baloons were pricy, it would take a lot of failures to cost as much as the towers do. If you could keep them up for a week to a month and only needed 3 baloons then I would have about 30 baloons available.
I would have 6 in the air at any one time. I would have standby crews ready to launch new baloons at a moments notice. That would ensure connectivity, redundancy, and still likely be cheaper than the current system. It would also provide extra capacity in case a disaster happened.
"Why do we still drive cars that use an internal combustion engine and only get 30 miles per gallon?"
2 points, 1 question
1. I guess your 30mpg is an average. I know most SUVs don't come close to that.
2. Frankly, I find it amazing that you can take a 1 gallon jug of liquid and slowly burn it and propel yourself and 3000 pounds of vehicle 30 miles. I know there are vehicles that can even do better, but 30 miles is a lonnnnnnnnng way. To be able to do that will 1 gallon of dinosaur juice seems pretty good.
Q1. If the US decided to move to 1 compact New York style location and didn't require the massive amounts of fuel to move bodies from home to work to the mall to the grocery store to school to etc, how would that affect the economy?
Everyone is complaining about the fact that it will be "similar to the cost of a DVD." What if it will be 1/2 the cost of a DVD. Would you want to use it then. Would that make it worth the hassle of downloaded, potentially using up dl quotas, DRM, etc?
When you can illegally download nearly anything for free or goto Blockbusters and rent whatever for $5, what would you pay to be able to legally download content using P2P that will be DRMed?
"Only those rich scuba divers care about coral reefs."
"Tell them Disney Land will be under 20 feet of water. "
You've got a point. We don't want those rich scuba divers having all the fun!!
"Anyone read about a thing called the Ice Age?"
No, but I saw the movie. That squirel was kinda funny.
"These people will be dead in 30-40 years so not see the worse of it, I on the other hand have another 50-60 if I keep myself in a good condition."
What are you, like 10 years old? Should't you be in school now? I think there is a spelling test today.
"It's a jail. Things only need to escape once. Once they escape they're on the internet in open formats and the game is over."
The game will only be over for technophiles. A day will come where it will take a bit of hacking to get and listen to content that had DRM. It won't be impossible, but difficult. Yes, people will be able to defeat it but most won't know how or care to bother. It used to be a pain to copy an album onto a cassette and wans't worth the trouble to many people. Soon a DRM will come that will be equally painful and most but not all will be stymied.
I'm not saying I approve or disapprove of DRM, but it will not go away. It will slowly become more accepted and move covert.
"It's like those Barbies that got shipped out with G.I. Joe voice boxes a few years ago."
Actually, members of the Barbie Liberation Organization performed that act. They somehow acquired hundreds of the dolls and swapped the voice boxes of GI Joe and Barbie dolls. The GI Joes said "I like to go shopping with you" and Barbie said "Dead men tell no lies."
It was not a quality control issue. It was purposefully done as some type of sexual stereotyping statement.
This wouldn't even be necessary if the King of all Cosmos didn't get drunk and make all the stars burn out. I don't see why we need to be burdened with finding all the stardust when he was the one who messed it up. At the least he could get his son the prince to take care of it.
"They may have illegally borrowed your car, but if they intend to return it, it is not stealing"
Yeah, tell that to the cops when they pull you over driving around a car that has been reported missing. "But officer, I was going to return it so at most I was illegally borrowing it."
There are several trivial ways for this system to be defeated.
I've seen several sprays and license plate covers that produce a glare when attempting to photograph. They can be applied to license plates to prevent speed trap cameras. They still allow the plate to be visible to the eye but cameras can't get a good picture. They are cheap and will become commonplace if such a widespread system is put in place. You could probably get the stuff at any gas station. I don't normally speed or run lights, but I'd get it if I knew I was going to be under the eye of such a system.
If lots and lots of people were being fined by such a system, I would suspect there would eventually be a bit of civil disboedience arise. Some people may start taking bb guns or wire cutters and dsiabling the cameras that exist on their way to work.
It could even turn into a sport like geocacheing. People who get tickets could go to a website and describe where they got a ticket and the approximate locaation of the camera. Next, someone will disable the camera.
Yes it is true, these people are pirates. Don't forget though, they may have a higher purpose. The Flying Spaghetti Monsterism loves pirates and He may have led them down that path. If that is the case, can they really be blamed?
Let he who is innocent, boil the first noodle!
"Definitly don't accept a deal going like I'll send you a check on a higher amouth, you send me the item and the money left over. The check WILL be false.
See my above comment. There is nothing wrong with accepting money orders or cheques. Just make sure you wait until they clear at your bank before you ship the item. Anyone who sent a legitimate payment will understand this, and it only takes 3-5 days."
If a check looks real, it may very well post funds in 3-5 days. If the check is fake, it will eventually be found out and it make take 15-30 days for the bank to figure it out. Guess what? Those funds are debited form your account. That's right, the bank will tell you the funds are good, then determine they are not and take the money back. When dealing with international money orders or checks this can be especially true. To top all that, the back may even charge you a fee for depositing a check that is fake. Therefore your accepting a bogus check can cost you money even if you dont sent the item.
Shipping overseas is doable, but be sure you have your money first.
"Put the CEO of sony in jail and you creater a recursive loop that will make all RIAA and MPAA members heads explode."
Since jail is where you have your tail attacked, wouldn't this be tail recursive?
"People accept windows XP product activation forcing them to buy a copy for each computer they own."
:)"
That's nothing new. You were supposed to buy a copy of DOS, Win95, 98, 2000, and milinium for every computer you placed it on also. XP just attempts to enforce that via product activation.
"Uh...a phone line?
Again, many people don't have phone lines in every room in their house. There is also a large and growing segment of people who don't even have landlines. They have only cell phones. Are you supposed to have a $50'/month phone bill just to be able to watch a movie?
"The movie industry wants to drive blockbuster out of business."
Blockbuster is owned by Viacom who also owns Paramount. They use each other to make money. Video rentals is big business and the movie industry does not want it to go away.
"Most people don't think about the futrue. They're not going to consider the possibilty of their player dying in a few years, they only think about seeing the hot new movie today."
You grossly underestimate people. Early adoptors will especially consider the possibilty of their player dying in a few years if they are paying big bucks for the player and planning on building a large library of movies. Does DIVX sound familiar?
Hands on is important and all but ISDN is a dead horse. There are many newer and better things out there now. At best you will see 1 or 2 ISDN questions and they will be basic questions. I got the CCNA back in 98 and as I recall there weren't more than a few ISDN questions back then! I'm sure the same goes for the CCNP/DP. If you go for the CCIE, then you need to know more. The fact that you are just now attempting the CCNA means that the CCIE will likely not be doable for another few years. By then ISDN may likely disappear form the test.
If you know these facts you should be more that prepared...
Data goes over 2 64kb B channels and there is one 16kb D channel handling signaling
There are two basic types of ISDN service: Basic Rate Interface (BRI) and Primary Rate Interface (PRI). BRI consists of two 64 kb/s B channels and one 16 kb/s D channel. PRI is intended for users with greater capacity requirements. Typically the channel structure is 23 B channels plus one 64 kb/s D channel for a total of 1536 kb/s. In Europe, PRI consists of 30 B channels plus one 64 kb/s D channel for a total of 1984 kb/s.
Its true that most people are technically illiterate. Nonetheless, they do know about portability. While it may be possible to create such a device, no one would buy it. Many people have several DVD players in their house and would like the ability to watch the content on both or all of them.
Many people don't have internet connections throughout their house and will not be bothered to hook a DVD player up to it. How else is your player going to get permission?
People also know that those players die and aren't going to accept losing their entire media collection because a laser died. At the least there would be ways around it since that would drive Blockbuster out of business.
This means that about 5% of supposedly claimed domains are potentially hikackable. Most register services have certain TOS and those include you providing accurate info. If you have 999 999 9999 as a phone # and abcdef as an address that looks like a violation. If I wanted your site I think I could have that domain ownership invalidated and stake a claim. Another tactic would be to say that you registered the site with invalid info and now want to correct the informaion. After that is completed the domain is in your name. Who can argue that they own a domain when it was originally registered by Bugs Bunny?
A scammer could do this, then offer to sell the domain to the original owner for $100, $500, or whatever they felt they could get. That would be like...
Step 4 Profit
To take it a step further, you could start a website/company that purchases one copy of every CD it possibly can. To be a partial owner costs $10. As a partial owner you then own 1/1000000 of each CD and therefore are able to retain an archival copy. Then if you are found to be downloading/sharing you can say that you own that piece of music. You could only share on services that require people to acknowlege they are also partial owners of the company.
As others have said, archival copies are often kept offsite and in multiple locations. If you only share with other co-owners of that music then no one isn't sharing anything that everyone doesn't already have a right to posess.
The capital to create a library would initially be a lot, but not as much as you might think. There are plenty of used CD stores that could do this without spending a dime. Find me the problem with this system.
Since everyone else is quoting that part of the article, I don't want to be the only one who isn't...
"Six single-letter names already claimed at the time [1993] -- "q.com," "x.com, "z.com," "i.net," "q.net," and "x.org" -- were allowed to keep their names for the time being."
"I make games for a living, and I want to ensure that my games will run on as many Linux distros as possible."
Are you saying that you make a living making games for Linux? Its a great OS and gaining support every day, but I find it hard to believe anyone is making a living creating games for it. I can see making a living creating games for PDAs or cell phones, but not for Linux PCs today. Perhaps in 5 years it will be possible, but not today. Its good someone is out there making games and trying, but making a living?
"A slashdotter who did not build his own computer is like a jedi who did not build his own lightsaber."
If I'm not mistaken, Luke didn't build his own lightsaber. He got it as a hand-me-down from his dad.