The sad thing is that a handle is just circumstantial evidence (the defendant could have seen somone else use that handle, and adopted it as her own), and the file shareing programs themselves are totally legal.
Instead of spending $100s so get the the newest "wifi" standard, make the real upgrade, the one that actually makes your network faster, the one that operates almost at advertised speed, rather than 1/6th of it, the one that doesn't require you behind your computer aligning your antenna to transmit on the same plane as your AP's antenna to squeeze out that extra 10 ft of connectivity. Good ol' 802.3ab
Shurely it will have DRM and a total lack of intercompatibility. What happens in 10 years when the amazon movie player is no longer maintained? Do we still get to watch the content we bought?
SE Linux policies get rid of this sort of thing, after all the wireless networking driver doesn't need total root access. Apple could have easily implemented a similar system in mac os to prevent this 3rd party flaw from ever becomming an issue.
back in my High School days we used babelfish as our proxy(translate an english site from chinese to english), sure it would mix a few words around once in a while, but it was fast, and would get you to where you wanted to go.
BitTorrent currently has many great legal uses, but the drawbacks of bitTorrent are the need to upload, slow downloading when incomming requests are blocked by a firewall, and the 100s of connections even a single download might establish. Many OSS projects use bitTorrent to reduce the load on their own servers.
But what happens when money hungry companies turn to bitTorrent? They end up using you. Why should your network's performance degrade when your computer is establishing 100s of connections to download expensive content? Why should you have to put up with a slow download behind a firewall? There is absolutely no reason to force legal movie downloads on to p2p, they can afford to host this content on dedicated servers!
Dell tried selling Redhat 7.2 to home users several years ago, and gave up quickly. They still sell one discount system with freedos and a blank HD to consumers, but its on the very low end, and is not a very good deal compared to buying the equivalent system with windows and coupon codes.
hmm it seems like he probably say the telcos propiganda page calling net neutrality a dumb pipe (then describing QoS rather than the real issue).
here is a link: http://www.internetofthefuture.com/. I really do feel bad putting the link here, I really dont want to increase the pagerank on google:(
Sure laptop drives have gotten faster, but desktop drives have also. the next wave on the internet will require regular users to have space for HD content, and chances are, desktop drive will continue to hold their ~5x lead in storage per drive. That along with the increased reliability, speed, etc has me sold.
well...I think it would be esier to manage a completely "dumb" teminal, one which uses PXE to load a small boot image off of the network it is connected to (similar, but not exactly, Sun's solution to the problem if managing thin clients). This would make it easier on network administration, because there is no data that could possibly be changed locally on the thin client.
Most people I see runing linux on thier laptops are useing a Lenovo/IBM:( those guys are idiots (but then again ms probably gives them a price cuts for their domination of a PC lineup).
From what I am reading most of us dont know what a thin client is. There is no reason a thin client actually needs an OS, and that is even contrary to what a thin client is designed to do.
Some of the later posts mention that Windows CE is a great viable option and one even went to say PXE was jsut a boot method, nothing more (what is that suposed to mean?) PXE is a great idea for thin clients, not only does it lower the required number of periphials, but it also allows for easy administration, because the thin clients would not store any settings etc, they would jsut conect to one central server.
Hmm...a gas powered laptop! great! When will this energy efficient improvement hit the automobile market....oh....wait....
I guess fuelcell is a little bit better than regular gas engines, but what is wrong with batteries? (electricity can be made in bulk, cutting waste, and hell, they could create that with fuelcell technology.
Why is it that every *nix shows screenshots of the latest KDE or gnome? how does this actually prove anything about the distro? (other then showing they use the newest KDE or GNOME release).....yeah....screenshots are kind of pointless......
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The sad thing is that a handle is just circumstantial evidence (the defendant could have seen somone else use that handle, and adopted it as her own), and the file shareing programs themselves are totally legal.
These have been in japan for at least 15 years....by now their toilets are probably bluetooth enabled
Instead of spending $100s so get the the newest "wifi" standard, make the real upgrade, the one that actually makes your network faster, the one that operates almost at advertised speed, rather than 1/6th of it, the one that doesn't require you behind your computer aligning your antenna to transmit on the same plane as your AP's antenna to squeeze out that extra 10 ft of connectivity. Good ol' 802.3ab
The difference is Beta max was actually better than vhs........
Shurely it will have DRM and a total lack of intercompatibility. What happens in 10 years when the amazon movie player is no longer maintained? Do we still get to watch the content we bought?
Don't copy that floppy!
I had to do the pull out the plug one on a computer before :(....it was a faulty power supply :(
SE Linux policies get rid of this sort of thing, after all the wireless networking driver doesn't need total root access. Apple could have easily implemented a similar system in mac os to prevent this 3rd party flaw from ever becomming an issue.
Maybe he put his illegally downloaded mp3s are in his will. the RIAA is just doing what it can to cover all the bases
back in my High School days we used babelfish as our proxy(translate an english site from chinese to english), sure it would mix a few words around once in a while, but it was fast, and would get you to where you wanted to go.
Blu-ray is going to top out at 200GB, not 50GB link: http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/28/tdk-ok-were-don e-with-the-200gb-recordable-blu-ray/
:)
and its the same size as a traditional CD
I'm just waiting for the wristwatch version.
BitTorrent currently has many great legal uses, but the drawbacks of bitTorrent are the need to upload, slow downloading when incomming requests are blocked by a firewall, and the 100s of connections even a single download might establish. Many OSS projects use bitTorrent to reduce the load on their own servers.
But what happens when money hungry companies turn to bitTorrent? They end up using you. Why should your network's performance degrade when your computer is establishing 100s of connections to download expensive content? Why should you have to put up with a slow download behind a firewall? There is absolutely no reason to force legal movie downloads on to p2p, they can afford to host this content on dedicated servers!
Dell tried selling Redhat 7.2 to home users several years ago, and gave up quickly. They still sell one discount system with freedos and a blank HD to consumers, but its on the very low end, and is not a very good deal compared to buying the equivalent system with windows and coupon codes.
hmm it seems like he probably say the telcos propiganda page calling net neutrality a dumb pipe (then describing QoS rather than the real issue).
:(
here is a link: http://www.internetofthefuture.com/. I really do feel bad putting the link here, I really dont want to increase the pagerank on google
Sure laptop drives have gotten faster, but desktop drives have also. the next wave on the internet will require regular users to have space for HD content, and chances are, desktop drive will continue to hold their ~5x lead in storage per drive. That along with the increased reliability, speed, etc has me sold.
One of my friends' xbox exploded last year, turned out to be the fault of a capacitor./ xbox/dereksbox006.jpg / xbox/dereksbox011.jpg / xbox/dereksbox002.jpg / xbox/dereksbox008.jpg :-/ .
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In this case only one small cap blew, but it still filled the whole room with smoke, made fire visible though the vents, burned a hole in the bottom of the xbox, and set off the fire alarm
well...I think it would be esier to manage a completely "dumb" teminal, one which uses PXE to load a small boot image off of the network it is connected to (similar, but not exactly, Sun's solution to the problem if managing thin clients). This would make it easier on network administration, because there is no data that could possibly be changed locally on the thin client.
Most people I see runing linux on thier laptops are useing a Lenovo/IBM :( those guys are idiots (but then again ms probably gives them a price cuts for their domination of a PC lineup).
From what I am reading most of us dont know what a thin client is. There is no reason a thin client actually needs an OS, and that is even contrary to what a thin client is designed to do.
Some of the later posts mention that Windows CE is a great viable option and one even went to say PXE was jsut a boot method, nothing more (what is that suposed to mean?) PXE is a great idea for thin clients, not only does it lower the required number of periphials, but it also allows for easy administration, because the thin clients would not store any settings etc, they would jsut conect to one central server.
Hmm...a gas powered laptop! great! When will this energy efficient improvement hit the automobile market....oh....wait....
I guess fuelcell is a little bit better than regular gas engines, but what is wrong with batteries? (electricity can be made in bulk, cutting waste, and hell, they could create that with fuelcell technology.
I dont think everyone investigates thier possibilities like that...for all you know he has a high volume printer conencted to his pc...
/. never thought about that one b4, nice abbreviation.
Why is it that every *nix shows screenshots of the latest KDE or gnome? how does this actually prove anything about the distro? (other then showing they use the newest KDE or GNOME release).....yeah....screenshots are kind of pointless......
Most people who visit/contribute to slashdot are probably engineers....why should we have to profread?!?
That elevator is probably controlled by a mac.
does this not go aginst their philosophy