Yeah, I wonder how much energy passes through the human body in an average developed area. We are transparent to radio waves, but I'd love to see how many micro/milliwatts pass through our skin. I wouldn't be surprised if you add up all man made signal types (ignoring EMF from electricity lines, appliances, and the like) would be less than 1 milliwatt if you're not really near a tower. Sure you could run a long line antenna along your roof to suck up that power, but why bother? You'd probably have to keep it up and running for years to pay for the materials/work to get it set up.
Recently, this Twit has one tweet on his account. I registered a while ago to save my name and tweeted. I think that may be the dynamic. If Harvard and Nielsen managed to get thier names and not squatters, they may have been doing the equivalent of protecting their tweet space name.
Like playing lawn darts or sliding from the top of a huge metal slide, the stories like the above make me feel sorry for kids of this generation. I wonder when the last cub scout tour of that firing range was...
yup, just like cars (Once upon a time, you could spend 36k USD for a pt cruiser), houses, internet subscriptions, insurance, meat, items on ebay, and just about anything that has a varied price range and is subject to advertising, brand loyalty, or outright cons.
I've always tended to get right behind the cutting edge, processors usually take a dive in price and speed, Like when i bought my processor, i paid 300 for a quad core intel last summer, the next step up was 395, then 600, then 1000, but the 1000 wasn't 3.3x faster, the 600 wasn't 2x faster, etc. However, the $150 intel chip was 40% slower, so the price/performance sort of follows a log function where the trick is finding the right place before the price starts to skyrocket in relation to performance. I'm sure that if you could find a bunch of old pentium 1 processors on the super cheap, in bulk, you might get the same price/performance as a new mid-level intel chip, but why would you want to run a beowulf cluster to get the same throughput? (Ignoring the price of all of the other components, since the article is price/cost of the cpu alone, that was the metric i went by as well).
I wonder what the price/performance ratio of a pentium 1 that cost $0.01 is.
Well, I suppose that running a beowulf cluster is it's own reward.
But that was the sega system generating the license message, and not the cartridge claiming to be licensed, but if the sega system required the cartridge to present the message to play, then that may have been fraud and not a use of the "sega" word mark.
What I was hinting at was that instead of using IP laws to prevent distribution, they'd use the strengthened fraud laws to do the same job. Is there a functional fraud defense? That'd be interesting to see played out. I can't think of a way to build first the disclaimer and then the prosecution, but there are people who are paid to think about ways to game the legal system when a new law comes out.
Not a criticism, but merely a clarification that you may want to think about a little:
And in the event that this situation isn't covered by fraud (e.g. your state's fraud laws only apply to products being sold, not given away), I fully support extending fraud laws to cover it.
What if the RIAA or other interests used fraud laws in distribution. "In reciting these words, I am {Corporation X}" or embedding a snippet of text "In distributing this file, I am {Corporation X}". This would work for Itunes (Apple) or Amazon or Corporation X, or Money Grubbing Individual Y.
Beware of giving too much power to corporations by way of the law.
The prevailing attitude in the medical industry is that unless patients are telling you where it hurts, they're lying. Doctors will tell you that patients are "forgetful" or possibly "confused about their past conditions and may not understand what was wrong with them". Their lawyers tell them that patients are drug addicts looking for the next narcotic hit or looking to sue them for a big fat malpractice settlement. If I say I'm allergic to iodine, but forget about an allergic reaction I had to antibiotics when I was 3, and they administer antibiotics, they're still on the hook if I decide to sue. "Look at my file! It says I'm allergic ot antibiotics! I said I was allergic, but he wasn't listening!"
The NTA stealth is forensically acceptable as it mounts the filesystem in a read-only fashion, as do most (if not all) of the bootable sticks. Live sticks are more iffy, but being forensic is both being justifiable and documented. It doesn't say anything about not leaving footprints. If making minor-windows based changes to the system is justified, it is acceptable.
Its not quite like that, but there have been USB forensic incident response sticks for a while, although the oldest ones I'm aware have primarily been used by parole officers to see if their parolees have been surfing porn. If the NTA scan turns up positive, they then sieze the computer and investigate further.
There are also a few more sophisticated ones that I don't have bookmarked on this computer. I've used a few my self, like there's a rapid response stick that can be used for mass computer identification. I.E. walk into a corporate environment and ID all computers that were logged into by Joe S., Pull the IE/Firefox browsing history, documents accessed by him on that computer, and other assorted usage items.
These stick's aren't going to provide final evidence, but they will help prevent having all the computers in a corporate environment from being seized and analyzed, which will prevent them from having to do a full forensic workup on your computer if a person of interest has never logged into your system.
I think that if VLC runs on windows 7, 3rd party codecs will too. However, Microsoft is making the new versions of media player less useful by not playing 3rd party codecs.
BTW, ts TFA just FUD or a guy promoting his own agenda??
He's probably disappointed that Microsoft won't license his codec from him and pay him lots of money for lots of installs that will rarely use it.
Well, since there is no abuse policy/software in place, why don't we start gaming it to bring attention to the DMCA, copyright, the broken patent system and the like?
The American economy recovered from the great depression by draining UK's coffers via the lend-lease act. That recovery turned into a boom which lasted nearly 50 years.
The current Chinese boom is a result of draining America's coffers. Its only a matter of time before the Chinese economy becomes self sustaining and they won't need us anymore. I'm afraid of what will happen when China becomes the new superpower and America takes up France's position of Ex-Superpower Turned Whiney Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys...
1) Develop semi-public transmission protocol and patent it
2) Convince/Lobby/Bribe FCC to require your protocol/device to be sole method of data transmission for a widely used and veeery popular (populous?) medium
3) Profit!
Oh Sorry, I forgot the ??? Step, guess there isn't one in this corrupt equation.
As an explanation of my above post, the wings are supporting the body due to the lifting force applied to the wings balancing out the gravity of the torso. The joints lock into place and prevent the wings from forming too much of a V shape. If you've ever broken apart a whole chicken, you'd feel the resistance put in place when you try to put the wings at more than 90 degrees perpendicular from the body. Its the same reason why you can't reach stick your arms straight out from the body at 90 degrees perpendicular to the body (similar to the pose in leonardo da vinci's man-in-circle sketch), and bring them much further back without twisting, the bones prevent it. (I know you can touch your hands behind your back, but that's not the positions birds fly in)
I have a treo which does 3g on AT&T's (first cingular's) network. I would use the mobile test from dslreports.com on my treo to check my speed from various locations, just to play with my new toy. I got a pretty good feel for how fast it would go at my workplace, at my favorite lunch spots, etc and in different kinds of weather. The iphone came out and i saw a 25% drop in speed, the iphone 3g came out and i saw another 25% drop in speed. It seems like on most networks, if you want to get your advertised speeds, get away from where everybody is using it and attach to a cell tower without too many people attached. While these mifi tests may test the theoretical-realistic speeds (data transfer speeds in real world situations), if this catches on, users will experience realistic-realistic speeds (data transfer speeds in real world with real world congestion).
Standard disclaimer may apply, a single user's empirical tests do not cover even a fraction of a percent of the real world. Please feel free to post your anecdotes which prove or disprove my anecdote.
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Yeah, I wonder how much energy passes through the human body in an average developed area. We are transparent to radio waves, but I'd love to see how many micro/milliwatts pass through our skin. I wouldn't be surprised if you add up all man made signal types (ignoring EMF from electricity lines, appliances, and the like) would be less than 1 milliwatt if you're not really near a tower. Sure you could run a long line antenna along your roof to suck up that power, but why bother? You'd probably have to keep it up and running for years to pay for the materials/work to get it set up.
Recently, this Twit has one tweet on his account. I registered a while ago to save my name and tweeted. I think that may be the dynamic. If Harvard and Nielsen managed to get thier names and not squatters, they may have been doing the equivalent of protecting their tweet space name.
Well, yeah, but how would you be able to get kids or spouses to wear old people shoes?
Like playing lawn darts or sliding from the top of a huge metal slide, the stories like the above make me feel sorry for kids of this generation. I wonder when the last cub scout tour of that firing range was...
yup, just like cars (Once upon a time, you could spend 36k USD for a pt cruiser), houses, internet subscriptions, insurance, meat, items on ebay, and just about anything that has a varied price range and is subject to advertising, brand loyalty, or outright cons.
I've always tended to get right behind the cutting edge, processors usually take a dive in price and speed, Like when i bought my processor, i paid 300 for a quad core intel last summer, the next step up was 395, then 600, then 1000, but the 1000 wasn't 3.3x faster, the 600 wasn't 2x faster, etc. However, the $150 intel chip was 40% slower, so the price/performance sort of follows a log function where the trick is finding the right place before the price starts to skyrocket in relation to performance. I'm sure that if you could find a bunch of old pentium 1 processors on the super cheap, in bulk, you might get the same price/performance as a new mid-level intel chip, but why would you want to run a beowulf cluster to get the same throughput? (Ignoring the price of all of the other components, since the article is price/cost of the cpu alone, that was the metric i went by as well).
I wonder what the price/performance ratio of a pentium 1 that cost $0.01 is.
Well, I suppose that running a beowulf cluster is it's own reward.
But that was the sega system generating the license message, and not the cartridge claiming to be licensed, but if the sega system required the cartridge to present the message to play, then that may have been fraud and not a use of the "sega" word mark.
What I was hinting at was that instead of using IP laws to prevent distribution, they'd use the strengthened fraud laws to do the same job. Is there a functional fraud defense? That'd be interesting to see played out. I can't think of a way to build first the disclaimer and then the prosecution, but there are people who are paid to think about ways to game the legal system when a new law comes out.
How could we miss an opportunity for a sexual joke with this?
Because every slashdotter knows that a black-hole spits as it swallows.
And in the event that this situation isn't covered by fraud (e.g. your state's fraud laws only apply to products being sold, not given away), I fully support extending fraud laws to cover it.
What if the RIAA or other interests used fraud laws in distribution. "In reciting these words, I am {Corporation X}" or embedding a snippet of text "In distributing this file, I am {Corporation X}". This would work for Itunes (Apple) or Amazon or Corporation X, or Money Grubbing Individual Y.
Beware of giving too much power to corporations by way of the law.
Chuck Norris can divide by zero.
Here i was hoping it'd drop bars of soap or censor bars for those items.
We call them "Ice Tits"
The prevailing attitude in the medical industry is that unless patients are telling you where it hurts, they're lying. Doctors will tell you that patients are "forgetful" or possibly "confused about their past conditions and may not understand what was wrong with them". Their lawyers tell them that patients are drug addicts looking for the next narcotic hit or looking to sue them for a big fat malpractice settlement. If I say I'm allergic to iodine, but forget about an allergic reaction I had to antibiotics when I was 3, and they administer antibiotics, they're still on the hook if I decide to sue. "Look at my file! It says I'm allergic ot antibiotics! I said I was allergic, but he wasn't listening!"
Yeah, i suppose that just about anything goes when it comes to a few letters in the address bar of people's browsers.
The NTA stealth is forensically acceptable as it mounts the filesystem in a read-only fashion, as do most (if not all) of the bootable sticks. Live sticks are more iffy, but being forensic is both being justifiable and documented. It doesn't say anything about not leaving footprints. If making minor-windows based changes to the system is justified, it is acceptable.
Its not quite like that, but there have been USB forensic incident response sticks for a while, although the oldest ones I'm aware have primarily been used by parole officers to see if their parolees have been surfing porn. If the NTA scan turns up positive, they then sieze the computer and investigate further.
There are also a few more sophisticated ones that I don't have bookmarked on this computer. I've used a few my self, like there's a rapid response stick that can be used for mass computer identification. I.E. walk into a corporate environment and ID all computers that were logged into by Joe S., Pull the IE/Firefox browsing history, documents accessed by him on that computer, and other assorted usage items.
These stick's aren't going to provide final evidence, but they will help prevent having all the computers in a corporate environment from being seized and analyzed, which will prevent them from having to do a full forensic workup on your computer if a person of interest has never logged into your system.
BTW, ts TFA just FUD or a guy promoting his own agenda??
He's probably disappointed that Microsoft won't license his codec from him and pay him lots of money for lots of installs that will rarely use it.
Well, since there is no abuse policy/software in place, why don't we start gaming it to bring attention to the DMCA, copyright, the broken patent system and the like?
I'm sure they would have eventually driven out the Germans under their own steam... Twice. Really!
The American economy recovered from the great depression by draining UK's coffers via the lend-lease act. That recovery turned into a boom which lasted nearly 50 years.
The current Chinese boom is a result of draining America's coffers. Its only a matter of time before the Chinese economy becomes self sustaining and they won't need us anymore. I'm afraid of what will happen when China becomes the new superpower and America takes up France's position of Ex-Superpower Turned Whiney Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys...
1) Develop semi-public transmission protocol and patent it
2) Convince/Lobby/Bribe FCC to require your protocol/device to be sole method of data transmission for a widely used and veeery popular (populous?) medium
3) Profit!
Oh Sorry, I forgot the ??? Step, guess there isn't one in this corrupt equation.
American Culture: Made in China
As an explanation of my above post, the wings are supporting the body due to the lifting force applied to the wings balancing out the gravity of the torso. The joints lock into place and prevent the wings from forming too much of a V shape. If you've ever broken apart a whole chicken, you'd feel the resistance put in place when you try to put the wings at more than 90 degrees perpendicular from the body. Its the same reason why you can't reach stick your arms straight out from the body at 90 degrees perpendicular to the body (similar to the pose in leonardo da vinci's man-in-circle sketch), and bring them much further back without twisting, the bones prevent it. (I know you can touch your hands behind your back, but that's not the positions birds fly in)
wings provide lift and they're balancing the up force on the wings against the down force of the body with massive pecs.
Beyond that, how did Bush mortgage someone's future?
with a sub-prime mortgage?
*Rimshot*
*crickets chirp*
Ok, Tip your waitress, you've been a great audience!!
I have a treo which does 3g on AT&T's (first cingular's) network. I would use the mobile test from dslreports.com on my treo to check my speed from various locations, just to play with my new toy. I got a pretty good feel for how fast it would go at my workplace, at my favorite lunch spots, etc and in different kinds of weather. The iphone came out and i saw a 25% drop in speed, the iphone 3g came out and i saw another 25% drop in speed. It seems like on most networks, if you want to get your advertised speeds, get away from where everybody is using it and attach to a cell tower without too many people attached. While these mifi tests may test the theoretical-realistic speeds (data transfer speeds in real world situations), if this catches on, users will experience realistic-realistic speeds (data transfer speeds in real world with real world congestion).
Standard disclaimer may apply, a single user's empirical tests do not cover even a fraction of a percent of the real world. Please feel free to post your anecdotes which prove or disprove my anecdote.