Yes I know farmers tend to live in rural areas for obvious reasons...
But to picture a typical person riding a bicycle 10 miles to a grocery store??? ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL!
Even if the store was only 1 mile away, relatively few would walk/bike. How is one going to carry a gallon of milk, soda, meat, and dry foods 1 mile? Bicycle wouldn't be easy either.
a dual-HDTV "tuner", very capable box for like $18 a month - I doubt that comes close to covering the depreciation on the box month over month.
Why do you say that? $18/month = $216/year == $648 over three years... Just how much does just the "tuner" cost??? Keep in mind that if you cancel it, they can still rent it out to someone else...
All this on top of the ~$50-$70/month for digital cable...
The Cable company is in the business of making money And considering that it has a monopoly on wired cable TV, it shouldn't be that difficult.
My apartment complex requires all kinds of crap for 18"dishes... (Including something like $500K insurance). and they don't allow them to be mounted. They pretty much made it impossible for residents to have one. (Of about 1000 residents, nobody has one!)
Do you really think that "AOL/Time Warner" (the local cable company) didn't have ANYTHING to do with this?!?!??!?!?!?!?
BitTorrent was now consisting of 25-50% of Internet backbone traffic
I'm not sure Multicast would improve things much... It would only work if a large number of people on neighboring networks want to download the SAME file at roughly the SAME time...
It would probably be good for streaming TV over the internet and such. But for bit-torrent as it is, I don't see how it would help....
NOW, what could be interesting is to make a "batch" version of BitTorrent. Users would queue up the files they wanted to download. Then sometime later in the day, which (hopefully) many users had all requested the same file, multicast could be used to transmit its contents. Without some type of queueing, the same file could be transmitted to the same network *multiple* times in a single day (or hour, etc).
That would last the United States 3-4 days at current energy usage rates.
I think the real solution is to get the general public from doing something other than driving everywhere.
Where I live, people even use their cars to take the trash from their apartment to the trash can. (Which is about 100ft away).
Unfortunately, our leaders seem to feel that it is cheaper to wage war than it is to build a mass transit infrastructure and work towards social change.
This whole culture of "living 100 miles from where you work" has to end -- now. People seem to have forgotten there was a time when cars didn't exist. Where you could buy food one the same block as you live. Where travelling 10s of miles a day wasn't necessary.
Unfortunately, the big companies aren't real excited about this... Places like Wal-mart only enjoy large economies of scale because people have the *capability* to drive across town to get to the store. Yes, city buses also go there, but I don't think such a large store could exist if buses where the primary mode of transportation.
Why should bloggers ignore it when newspapers make money by copying their writings?
Unauthorized copying and distributing of intellectual property is generally a Federal crime... And probably even far worse when done for a profit...
Media companies (of all types) seem to be getting their way that copyright protection is essential to their business model... If they are violating their own laws, then I say let them taste their own medicine!
Forget dreams of recongition.... If the front page of NYT was copied off your blog, you wouldn't sue? Just think of the paper sales, advertisement revenue, and national recongition they they are getting from *your* work.
Aside from breakage, rebates provide a way to screw investors!
Why do companies make you wait 2-3 months for a rebate? I bet they are trying to inflate their numbers for the current fiscal year by using rebates to increase revenues.... Then they can pay the rebates back during the next fiscal year.
The warranty idea is interesting... I just bought a low-cost LCD monitor with a 3-year service plan from Fry's.... The rebate from the monitor pretty much was offset by the cost of the extended warranty...
Interestingly, the rebate was only allowed at Frys, whereas the warranty was through the manufacturer.
Users would still be allowed to enter a URL in the address ar of "explorer.exe" and browse the internet.
(*THAT's the problem with Microsoft... Their damn browser IS a part of the OS!) [in a large way]
Even if you disallowed explorer.exe and iexplore.exe (and used a different shell), 3rd party programs could still probably use the "browser window" activeX-dll control exported by the Microsoft DLLS.
The damn browser is really integrated into the OS...
The article's proposed idea would just make the entire world a tool for DOS attacks.
Imagine the havoc that would result if someone told this system that the normal "/bin/bash" or "explorer.exe" was a virus... or even worse -- ntfs.sys
Forget about worries that "the internet will go down". This would be far more destructive than any virus. (airports, banking, stock market, would all be affected)
Side note: A while back, there was an attempt to inject malicious code into the linux kernel's repository... How do we know that M$'s Windows Update website has never been hacked? Yikes... Centralized management of automatic updates/virus defs is always a security problem...
I propose that US Students (elementary,highschool,college), instead of spending $100s on a TI Graphing calc that they instead contribute $100 to programs that benefit developing countries...
US students will actually be forced to learn arithmetic. (When was the last time you saw an US person multiply a 3 digit number by a 2 digit number in their head?)
And developing countries get the support they need to improve themselves.
This is not mean to be offensive... I am also from the US... And it never ceases to amaze me how little math is actually *learned* here compared to what international students can do.
Yes there is a big difference between simple arithmetic and calculus, abstract algebra, etc... But I think even promoting the simple arithmetic could make more students a bit more amenable to studying the higher maths.
Which reminds me of something else... Currently, it is "geeky" to have a big graphing calc and use it all the time... And it is even more geeky to do the simple math in your head... WTF?!?!
If you are willing to take the approach of the pseudo-DVD device driver, you don't need DeCSS, and that converts everything from a DMCA violation to a simple copyright violation.
IANAL.... Actually, I'm not sure if either violation is applicable....
Isn't the DMCA just to prevent people from selling cable "descrambler boxes" and such... It only prohibits technology, devices, etc whose **main** use/purpose is to circumvent copyright protection. The decrypting of a DVD for playback purposes seems like it would be legal -- this is normal use of DVDs. (all commercial DVD software does this anyway).
However, "ripping" (and decrypting) a DVD to a file is a bit more questionable... This use directly disables the copyright mechanisms (where the main application would seem to be illegal reproduction) and the DMCA would appear to apply.
And wouldn't copying encrypted DVD images to a large harddisk (e.g. for a video server) be considered Fair Use? (Fair Use laws allow copies of copyrighted works to be made for the purpose of increasing computer performance)... For example, the mere fact that when you are viewing a copyrighted webpage, multiple copies exist in the CPU caches, a copy in the main memory, another in the swap-file on the harddisk, a copy in a file on the disk (browser cache), an image exists in the video-card buffers, and potentially pieces exist in the network card buffers... Thus your computer is storing *multiple copies* of a copyrighted work... This is all fine and perfectly legal, since these copies are temporary and whose sole use is to increase system performance -- not related to illegal reproduction.
Also, couldn't one claim their video server as a backup device?
Now if you load up your server and then sell/lend out your DVDs, things quickly start getting questionable...
Disclaimer: I do not own/use any such video server... I'm only trying to point out that some laws actually grant more rights than people realize... (although likely not so with the Patriot Acts).
We are weakening our own freedoms by thinking that the DMCA makes everything illegal.
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If you are willing to take the approach of the pseudo-DVD device driver, you don't need DeCSS, and that converts everything from a DMCA violation to a simple copyright violation.
IANAL.... Actually, I'm not sure if either violation is applicable....
Isn't the DMCA just to prevent people from selling cable "descrambler boxes" and such... It only prohibits technology, devices, etc whose **main** purpose is to illegaly reproduce copyrighted works. The decrypting of a DVD for playback purposes seems like it would be legal -- this is normal use of DVDs. (all commercial DVD software does this anyway).
However, "ripping" (and decrypting) a DVD to a file is a bit more questionable... This use directly disables the copyright mechanisms (where the main application would seem to be illegal reproduction) and the DMCA would appear to apply.
And wouldn't copying encrypted DVD images to a large harddisk (e.g. for a video server) be considered Fair Use? (Fair Use laws allow copies of copyrighted works to be made for the purpose of increasing computer performance)... For example, the mere fact that when you are viewing a copyrighted webpage, multiple copies exist in the CPU caches, a copy in the main memory, another in the swap-file on the harddisk, a copy in a file on the disk (browser cache), an image exists in the video-card buffers, and potentially pieces exist in the network card buffers... Thus your computer is storing *multiple copies* of a copyrighted work... This is all fine and perfectly legal, since these copies are temporary and whose sole use is to increase system performance -- not related to illegal reproduction.
Also, couldn't one claim their video server as a backup device?
Now if you load up your server and then sell/lend out your DVDs, things quickly start getting questionable...
Disclaimer: I do not own/use any such video server... I'm only trying to point out that some laws actually grant more rights than people realize... (although likely not so with the Patriot Acts).
We are weakening our own freedoms by thinking that the DMCA makes everything illegal.
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Ahhh.. I see you have been following the oil situtation.
Yes I know farmers tend to live in rural areas for obvious reasons...
But to picture a typical person riding a bicycle 10 miles to a grocery store??? ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL!
ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL!
Even if the store was only 1 mile away, relatively few would walk/bike. How is one going to carry a gallon of milk, soda, meat, and dry foods 1 mile? Bicycle wouldn't be easy either.
Well... You can kiss your Darwin Award goodbye!
Why does every group feel a need to create a new distribution for every purpose?
Wouldn't it be easier to just take whatever packages that were new/modified and maintain them for an existing distro?
The number of distros that pretty much all do the same thing is starting to get way out of hand...
What is so different about EdBuntu? A new window manager? A new color scheme? A new configuration tool?
Unless they changed the package management system and the people that maintain it, I don't see why it deserves to be called a new distribution....
Why do you say that? $18/month = $216/year == $648 over three years... Just how much does just the "tuner" cost??? Keep in mind that if you cancel it, they can still rent it out to someone else...
All this on top of the ~$50-$70/month for digital cable...
Well, looks like they cost less than $300:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ite
The Cable company is in the business of making money And considering that it has a monopoly on wired cable TV, it shouldn't be that difficult.
My apartment complex requires all kinds of crap for 18"dishes... (Including something like $500K insurance). and they don't allow them to be mounted. They pretty much made it impossible for residents to have one. (Of about 1000 residents, nobody has one!)
Do you really think that "AOL/Time Warner" (the local cable company) didn't have ANYTHING to do with this?!?!??!?!?!?!?
I'm not sure Multicast would improve things much... It would only work if a large number of people on neighboring networks want to download the SAME file at roughly the SAME time...
It would probably be good for streaming TV over the internet and such. But for bit-torrent as it is, I don't see how it would help....
NOW, what could be interesting is to make a "batch" version of BitTorrent. Users would queue up the files they wanted to download. Then sometime later in the day, which (hopefully) many users had all requested the same file, multicast could be used to transmit its contents. Without some type of queueing, the same file could be transmitted to the same network *multiple* times in a single day (or hour, etc).
Is apple normally slow with updates?
The SUDO flaw was discovered in June 2005 and a patch was released subsequently after...
So 6 months later, Apple decicdes to update their OS? WTF!?!?!
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/402741
Insightful sig!
Microsoft is the question... the question that has been driving us..........insane.
I think the real solution is to get the general public from doing something other than driving everywhere.
Where I live, people even use their cars to take the trash from their apartment to the trash can. (Which is about 100ft away).
Unfortunately, our leaders seem to feel that it is cheaper to wage war than it is to build a mass transit infrastructure and work towards social change.
This whole culture of "living 100 miles from where you work" has to end -- now. People seem to have forgotten there was a time when cars didn't exist. Where you could buy food one the same block as you live. Where travelling 10s of miles a day wasn't necessary.
Unfortunately, the big companies aren't real excited about this... Places like Wal-mart only enjoy large economies of scale because people have the *capability* to drive across town to get to the store. Yes, city buses also go there, but I don't think such a large store could exist if buses where the primary mode of transportation.
Why should bloggers ignore it when newspapers make money by copying their writings?
Unauthorized copying and distributing of intellectual property is generally a Federal crime... And probably even far worse when done for a profit...
Media companies (of all types) seem to be getting their way that copyright protection is essential to their business model... If they are violating their own laws, then I say let them taste their own medicine!
Forget dreams of recongition.... If the front page of NYT was copied off your blog, you wouldn't sue? Just think of the paper sales, advertisement revenue, and national recongition they they are getting from *your* work.
Only human arrogance would assume that AI is even possible...
Just look at the difficulty involved in finding intelligent *people*!
(or even intelligent leaders of countries for that matter)
At least the first dinosaur didn't have bird feet!
Why do they delay for so long to send the rebate?
I said in another post that it is probably to inflate their fiscal year's numbers and screw the *investors* over...
Imagine that: a marketing tool that screws both consumers and investors in one shot!
Aside from breakage, rebates provide a way to screw investors!
Why do companies make you wait 2-3 months for a rebate? I bet they are trying to inflate their numbers for the current fiscal year by using rebates to increase revenues.... Then they can pay the rebates back during the next fiscal year.
The warranty idea is interesting... I just bought a low-cost LCD monitor with a 3-year service plan from Fry's.... The rebate from the monitor pretty much was offset by the cost of the extended warranty...
Interestingly, the rebate was only allowed at Frys, whereas the warranty was through the manufacturer.
That won't do much...
Users would still be allowed to enter a URL in the address ar of "explorer.exe" and browse the internet.
(*THAT's the problem with Microsoft... Their damn browser IS a part of the OS!) [in a large way]
Even if you disallowed explorer.exe and iexplore.exe (and used a different shell), 3rd party programs could still probably use the "browser window" activeX-dll control exported by the Microsoft DLLS.
The damn browser is really integrated into the OS...
If the power cables are multiplying on their own, why not consider spaying/neutering them?
The article's proposed idea would just make the entire world a tool for DOS attacks.
Imagine the havoc that would result if someone told this system that the normal "/bin/bash" or "explorer.exe" was a virus... or even worse -- ntfs.sys
Forget about worries that "the internet will go down". This would be far more destructive than any virus. (airports, banking, stock market, would all be affected)
Side note: A while back, there was an attempt to inject malicious code into the linux kernel's repository... How do we know that M$'s Windows Update website has never been hacked? Yikes... Centralized management of automatic updates/virus defs is always a security problem...
I propose that US Students (elementary,highschool,college), instead of spending $100s on a TI Graphing calc that they instead contribute $100 to programs that benefit developing countries...
US students will actually be forced to learn arithmetic. (When was the last time you saw an US person multiply a 3 digit number by a 2 digit number in their head?)
And developing countries get the support they need to improve themselves.
This is not mean to be offensive... I am also from the US... And it never ceases to amaze me how little math is actually *learned* here compared to what international students can do.
Yes there is a big difference between simple arithmetic and calculus, abstract algebra, etc... But I think even promoting the simple arithmetic could make more students a bit more amenable to studying the higher maths.
Which reminds me of something else... Currently, it is "geeky" to have a big graphing calc and use it all the time... And it is even more geeky to do the simple math in your head... WTF?!?!
The BSOD is just the windows kernels version of a panic...
Is WinXP really stable or maybe they just found ways to *ignore* unexpected situtations?
I wonder if Larry has already given some money out to some key people...
I thought the jury was only responsible for deciding "guilty/not guilty"...
Isn't sentencing handled separately (at another trial)... I was thinking the judge decided the sentence, but I'm not very sure.
IANAL.... Actually, I'm not sure if either violation is applicable....
Isn't the DMCA just to prevent people from selling cable "descrambler boxes" and such... It only prohibits technology, devices, etc whose **main** use/purpose is to circumvent copyright protection. The decrypting of a DVD for playback purposes seems like it would be legal -- this is normal use of DVDs. (all commercial DVD software does this anyway).
However, "ripping" (and decrypting) a DVD to a file is a bit more questionable... This use directly disables the copyright mechanisms (where the main application would seem to be illegal reproduction) and the DMCA would appear to apply.
And wouldn't copying encrypted DVD images to a large harddisk (e.g. for a video server) be considered Fair Use? (Fair Use laws allow copies of copyrighted works to be made for the purpose of increasing computer performance)... For example, the mere fact that when you are viewing a copyrighted webpage, multiple copies exist in the CPU caches, a copy in the main memory, another in the swap-file on the harddisk, a copy in a file on the disk (browser cache), an image exists in the video-card buffers, and potentially pieces exist in the network card buffers... Thus your computer is storing *multiple copies* of a copyrighted work... This is all fine and perfectly legal, since these copies are temporary and whose sole use is to increase system performance -- not related to illegal reproduction.
Also, couldn't one claim their video server as a backup device?
Now if you load up your server and then sell/lend out your DVDs, things quickly start getting questionable...
Disclaimer: I do not own/use any such video server... I'm only trying to point out that some laws actually grant more rights than people realize... (although likely not so with the Patriot Acts).
We are weakening our own freedoms by thinking that the DMCA makes everything illegal.
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Websites pick YOU!
How much of that add revenue will be from slashdot?