Ashcroft wasn't a member of Congress -- so it could not have been HIS bill, unless the US govt workings changed since I last checked. He may be pushing for it, but someone else wrote it and sponsored it.
It will be a long time before i will get on an airplane with a towel head on it. You never can tell and the attitude that the US has about "trust everyone" is what got us here in the first place. I had to fly home from Phoenix today and had there been one raghead on that plane, he would have got off or I would. I will not apologize for what is a reasonable concern in this current world atmosphere.
right after the WTC went down, the Petrona towers announced the message "Attention, the Petronas Towers are now the tallest buildings in the world." Or soemthing along those lines, i'm not kidding, my local news station reported that.
It was very early in the morning (0545 Eastern), thank goodness! So, hopefully actual casualities will be much, much lower than 50000! One can only hope.
Fluffy articles with little to no technical content, error-prone reporting (especially of anything not MS or Intel), superficial quotes from "analysts", for example: "shutting down Napster will cause problems for their users" or "The slowdown will cause a decline in tech spending among companies" -- they get paid for this???
Also, most of their articles touting new products, etc are really thinly-veiled adverts for MS, Intel, etc. and never seem to badmouth anything too badly. Their "videos" are also little more than mouthpieces for company spokespeople to get their point across.
What happened to him, the teenager from Norway who was arrested by the Norwegian police, even before the 2600/MPAA case? Was he let go, or is there a trial pending, or was he acquitted/convicted?
Stopping these DDOS attacks in software is a step, but still, you're using bandwidth and CPU cycles you otherwise wouldn't have. Network infrastructure companies like Cisco etc. could probably play a good role.
Imagine if routers could be dynamically updated to intelligently scan traffic for DDOS attack patterns and block these before any host in the internal network even sees it.
MIT has done a lot of work in this area of "Active Networking".
Seeing as DVD quality MPEG 2 is 4 GB or more for feature films, I doubt they are using striaght MPEG 2 compression. Either they are using an alternative codec, and/or the resolution and quality is significantly less than DVD. 500 MB is less than DiVX, less than VCD.
Possibly something crappy like Real.
Although, it would be quite ironic if they were to adopt DiVX as a codec!
most players in the past that use proprietary storage technology
Nearly every MP3 player I've seen use standard Compact Flash, Smart Media, or Memory Stick media -- all widely used standards used in everything from digital cameras to PDAs, and hardly proprietary!
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Dude, what university was THAT?
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Have you noticed that they are using Akamai now to distribute the content of whitehouse.gov? I guess it's so that they can't be DDOSed in the future with a variant of Code Red (changing the IP address of whitehouse.gov was only a stopgap measure).
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FBI? Secret Service? I've heard both names... who has the jurisdiction for computer related crimes in the US, anyways? Or some other agency?
CD player SPDIF output => computer soundcard with digital in.
Presto!
XM and Sirius units use different standards and are incompatible with each other.
Imagine if I had to buy a different TV for watching ABC, CBS, NBC, HBO, Disney, etc...
Deja vu... can't we all get along?
How easy will it be to circumvent -- anyone know?
Ashcroft wasn't a member of Congress -- so it could not have been HIS bill, unless the US govt workings changed since I last checked. He may be pushing for it, but someone else wrote it and sponsored it.
Better a few people that are offended at discrimination, than 6000 more innocent people dead.
It will be a long time before i will get on an airplane with a towel head on it. You never can tell and the attitude that the US has about "trust everyone" is what got us here in the first place. I had to fly home from Phoenix today and had there been one raghead on that plane, he would have got off or I would. I will not apologize for what is a reasonable concern in this current world atmosphere.
If you attempt to pronounce SSSCA, it sounds sort of like "sucker" -- I guess that's what the sponsors of the bill take us Americans for!
in the Beer sense? How about speech (ie opensource?)?
Is this the same "MPEG-4" as used by the DiVX codec? Will we see standalone DiVX players possibly, like we have MP3 players for audio?
The obvious workaround for advertisers desparate to be as annoying as possible:
var w = window.open(...);
if(w == null)
window.location = "popups_required.html";
redirecting you to a message telling you that you need to enable popups to use the site
right after the WTC went down, the Petrona towers announced the message "Attention, the Petronas Towers are now the tallest buildings in the world." Or soemthing along those lines, i'm not kidding, my local news station reported that.
Correction, sorry, 0845 Eastern! Still hoping that people didn't show up too early for work...
It was very early in the morning (0545 Eastern), thank goodness! So, hopefully actual casualities will be much, much lower than 50000! One can only hope.
Also, most of their articles touting new products, etc are really thinly-veiled adverts for MS, Intel, etc. and never seem to badmouth anything too badly. Their "videos" are also little more than mouthpieces for company spokespeople to get their point across.
Pioneer DVR-7000, available NOW!
What happened to him, the teenager from Norway who was arrested by the Norwegian police, even before the 2600/MPAA case? Was he let go, or is there a trial pending, or was he acquitted/convicted?
So, will they have the right to monitor your email, since it's a service provided by the government?
Imagine if routers could be dynamically updated to intelligently scan traffic for DDOS attack patterns and block these before any host in the internal network even sees it.
MIT has done a lot of work in this area of "Active Networking".
Possibly something crappy like Real.
Although, it would be quite ironic if they were to adopt DiVX as a codec!
Yay, we can watch it go under a SECOND time! :=) Just like Hollywood tradition to produce bad sequels...
Nearly every MP3 player I've seen use standard Compact Flash, Smart Media, or Memory Stick media -- all widely used standards used in everything from digital cameras to PDAs, and hardly proprietary!
Dude, what university was THAT?
Have you noticed that they are using Akamai now to distribute the content of whitehouse.gov? I guess it's so that they can't be DDOSed in the future with a variant of Code Red (changing the IP address of whitehouse.gov was only a stopgap measure).