Anyone care to comment on the service (price, quality, availability) between the two? I have a Palm III now, but might want to upgrade in a few months.
Any possibility that some of the items in the NSA collection can go on a tour around the country? Not all of us can make it to MD. There's a good number of items there including some parts from the U2 shot down over Russia to some enigma machines (at least one) and some other items dating back to the civil war.
E-music has a $9.95/mo subscription service where you can download and play any of their music. Too bad the only stuff on there I like is TMBG and the assorted '80s music.
Destuction of property implies someone else's property. You are of course free to destroy your own property, by putting that new shiny DVD in the microwave.
The point is that having the ability to break access control (be it a physical lock or a software code) shouldn't be illegal, unless you're using it for an illegal purpose. Breaking into your own house is fine. Breaking into my house is right out. Watching a DVD on your own machine is okay, but copying it and distributing it to people that didn't pay for that copy is not okay.
Well...smashing or breaking a lock would be destruction of property, as the lock does have a physical value. However, picking the lock is not illegal (nor is owning lockpicks illegal), unless you're using the picks or picking a lock to commit a crime.
By the same logic, people are happy to pay taxes, as they trade money for the right to stay in the country.
Having to do something (trade money for gasoline or paying overinflated prices for CDs) is different from having a choice. There are relatively few choices aside from gasoline for transportation (this is changing, but slowly). The option of going without transportation or using public transportation is of very limited value to a majority of americans.
Getting back to the RIAA, if I don't want to support the RIAA and it's overinflated prices, I then don't buy CDs. However, I am no longer entertained by the artists I do like unless I can find the CD used (rare, and the RIAA tried to squash that) or get it from Napster (illegal and immoral).
True, as far as it goes. However, corporations are regulated by the market. If it doesn't please a sufficient number of people, a corporation goes out of business.
For some companies, maybe (see DIVX). Microsoft doesn't please anyone. It's what you get. Exxon-Mobil just announced their profits doubled (to $4.15BILLION in the quarter - that's profit) while gas prices skyrocket. I'm not sure people paying $2.00/gallon are really pleased with them. It's what you get. Be, Apple, and Linux please lots of people and are still considered to be on the fringe. The RIAA doesn't please its artists, but it's still around.
It's nice to see when consumers revolt and get a bad idea off the market. Problem is, there's too many bad ideas out there that got entrenched while we were working on the other bad ideas.
I got the same thing in MA. However, the phone company gave me the address for the direct marketing association and send them a letter to quit calling me. Hasn't really worked much.
Some areas where Bell Atlantic are offer anonymous call rejection, where callers that don't identify themselves via caller ID get a message saying that the recipient of the call is rejecting them. Of course, it's not available (yet) in my area...
Don't gripe about the $1 while sitting at your $500+ PC. . . and don't bitch about your $1 not making a difference. If you'd like to see more of this, then do the right thing and support it.
I believe you misunderstand. I'd download and pay the $1, but I don't want to read it. Giving a false impression of support is probably worse than downloading and not paying.
There are many books and short stories I'd pay $1 for. King just isn't one of them. I downloaded the free PDF he gave away a few months ago and didn't like it. However, I did download, enjoy, and pay for a They Might Be Giants CD from emusic.com at more than $1. I'll continue to support artists I like in the way I see fit and pass over artists that I don't prefer to benefit. Isn't that really what the street performer protocol is all about? I purchased previous performances (the older books), decided I didn't like them, and am now passing by on the latest performance without "watching" the entertainment or paying.
No matter what happens, you do better by not sending in your dollar. (It's fair to ignore the infinitesimal chance that your single dollar will be the one to hit the 75% mark.)
This is the same logic that has kept the democratic and republican parties "in power" for the past 200+ years: the idea that your dollar (vote) doesn't matter.
On the smallest level (you) that's right. Your dollar (vote) won't change anything. From a macro view, 1000 people saying that they'll pay (vote) does make a difference. You (the individual) are now part of the 1000 people that made a difference.
$1/book isn't bad. It's better than buying used books. Then again, I prefer King's short stories over the long-drawn-out novels so I won't download or pay for it.
Copying DVDs is not the answer. There's noone out there that disagrees that copying and distributing DVDs is illegal, and if you do, you need a morality check. The issue is what I can do with my legally purchased DVD. Why do I have to sit through 10 minutes of commercials to watch Tarzan? Why am I limited to viewing DVDs only on authorized players?
The real answer is to use DeCSS and unauthorized players to watch your DVDs. The instant you start distributing DVDs, you give the final bit of ammunition that the MPAA has been hoping for: piracy. So far, there has been no proof that piracy has occured as a result of DeCSS. And until there is, that's a big check against the MPAA. Once piracy starts, the MPAA can quantify the loss in $, and then have it all shut down.
It's just as easy to block DDOS (smurf) attacks both if you are the target or an unknowing accomplice. The problem is that ISPs don't want to slow down their connection by a few bits/second, and they don't want to do that. Slow connections mean fewer customers which means less money.
Quantum has a new drive (lct20?) that spins at 4004 RPM but with the performance of a 5400RPM. The slightly slower speed drastically cuts down on noise and vibration. I got a demo unit here in the lab, and powered it up. I couldn't tell the thing was running until I started reading and writing data.
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If anything, this shows why MAPS and ORBS should not be used. Centralized "blacklists" are a bad idea to begin with, as:
a) The server admin has no control over what sites are blocked b) They change dynamically and could potentially block sites you were talking to days before. c) Petty disputes like this one will cause trouble.
If you want to do your own spam filtering on your own site, that's fine. Depending on someone else to tell you who you should block is just asking for trouble.
Sorry to see that Alan has to use draconian filtering. Without it, I'm sure he's going to get a lot of e-mail, mostly spam. As it is, I get 200+ a day, and noone knows me.
IMO PoPToP has some serious issues. Unfortunately, most are outside the scope of what the PoPToP developers can work with:
1) Kernel patches (yay). There seem to be problems getting these patches to work with some distros (read: Red Hat) that have slightly-customized kernels 2) Windows only supports some real lame encryption out-of-the-box. To get 128 bit, you have to go through some real hoops to get the software from Microsoft, only to find it doesn't work. 3) Firewall/IPMasq causes even more fun, depending on which side of the firemasq the PPTP server is on. 4) Browsing windows shares over a VPN link is akin to black magic and seldom works.
These are the most common issues I've seen (and I'm a lurker on the PoPToP list). To their credit, the gang that make this software have integrated it into a hardware box (look for the NetTel) that does both PPTP and Firewall functionality. It's pretty inexpensive at $399US, and I'm pondering just buying that instead of hacking around on my own.
I've been using StarOffice for close to two years at work. The next "killer app" that Linux has to overcome is being able to read and write Office files. So far, Star is the only application that can do this with any sense of quality. Sure there are problems, it's bloated, slow, and has a nasty GUI. So what? It does the job that I need - read and write.DOC and.PPT files.
I don't think fuel cells are efficient or cost-effective enough yet. It'll be nice to see more electric-gas hybrid cars out there, but with the 3-gallons-per-mile SUV craze going on, I don't think it'll happen all that soon.
It'll be hard to take care of big lengthy replies and things like that, but I've been doing some tinkering with Listar. Documentation is really spotty, but it appears to do things like strip out most attachments, and convert HTML attachements to plain text. There's also apparently a quoting limit (I haven't tested this).
Rosen did not say that making a copy for the car is fair use. She hemmed and hawed, and it was up to Hatch to say that it should be fair use. Quote from article:
''Can I make a copy of a CD that I buy and put it into a car?'' asked Hatch. When Rosen hemmed and hawed, Hatch muttered, ''The answer is yes.''
Nope, the quote says "somewhat" to "extremely". That would mean what is left is "low to no", which is pretty much the same thing said of the over 65 crowd.
But there's a huge trade off for this convenience. Inforum's l999 Survey from the MEDSTAT group, reports American Demographics, found that adults aged 35 and younger were the most stressed people in the population. Nearly seven in 10 said they were "somewhat" to "extremely" stressed, an astonishing contrast to adults over 65: 31 percent of them said they had almost no stress in their lives at all.
Huh? 7 in 10 is 70 percent. That would imply that 30 percent had no stress. That's pretty darn similar to the 31 percent of those over 65 who had no stress. What's the point?
The Flourinert is returning directly onto the CPU, so the CPU should be the coldest part. At 115 fsb, you'll have a lot of components getting toasty that need cooling off too.
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Anyone care to comment on the service (price, quality, availability) between the two? I have a Palm III now, but might want to upgrade in a few months.
Any possibility that some of the items in the NSA collection can go on a tour around the country? Not all of us can make it to MD.
There's a good number of items there including some parts from the U2 shot down over Russia to some enigma machines (at least one) and some other items dating back to the civil war.
Which will prompt said artists to choose a different distribution model (like emusic.com).
TMBG has done it. Seems to be doing rather well.
E-music has a $9.95/mo subscription service where you can download and play any of their music. Too bad the only stuff on there I like is TMBG and the assorted '80s music.
Ow hey quit it.
Destuction of property implies someone else's property. You are of course free to destroy your own property, by putting that new shiny DVD in the microwave.
The point is that having the ability to break access control (be it a physical lock or a software code) shouldn't be illegal, unless you're using it for an illegal purpose. Breaking into your own house is fine. Breaking into my house is right out. Watching a DVD on your own machine is okay, but copying it and distributing it to people that didn't pay for that copy is not okay.
Well...smashing or breaking a lock would be destruction of property, as the lock does have a physical value. However, picking the lock is not illegal (nor is owning lockpicks illegal), unless you're using the picks or picking a lock to commit a crime.
IANAL. YMMV. Check your local laws (CYLL)
By the same logic, people are happy to pay taxes, as they trade money for the right to stay in the country.
Having to do something (trade money for gasoline or paying overinflated prices for CDs) is different from having a choice. There are relatively few choices aside from gasoline for transportation (this is changing, but slowly). The option of going without transportation or using public transportation is of very limited value to a majority of americans.
Getting back to the RIAA, if I don't want to support the RIAA and it's overinflated prices, I then don't buy CDs. However, I am no longer entertained by the artists I do like unless I can find the CD used (rare, and the RIAA tried to squash that) or get it from Napster (illegal and immoral).
True, as far as it goes. However, corporations are regulated by the market. If it doesn't please a sufficient number of people, a corporation goes out of business.
For some companies, maybe (see DIVX). Microsoft doesn't please anyone. It's what you get. Exxon-Mobil just announced their profits doubled (to $4.15BILLION in the quarter - that's profit) while gas prices skyrocket. I'm not sure people paying $2.00/gallon are really pleased with them. It's what you get. Be, Apple, and Linux please lots of people and are still considered to be on the fringe. The RIAA doesn't please its artists, but it's still around.
It's nice to see when consumers revolt and get a bad idea off the market. Problem is, there's too many bad ideas out there that got entrenched while we were working on the other bad ideas.
Hrm...is this like the trace buster buster buster?
I got the same thing in MA. However, the phone company gave me the address for the direct marketing association and send them a letter to quit calling me. Hasn't really worked much.
Some areas where Bell Atlantic are offer anonymous call rejection, where callers that don't identify themselves via caller ID get a message saying that the recipient of the call is rejecting them. Of course, it's not available (yet) in my area...
Don't gripe about the $1 while sitting at your $500+ PC. . . and don't bitch about your $1 not making a difference. If you'd like to see more of this, then do the right thing and support it.
I believe you misunderstand. I'd download and pay the $1, but I don't want to read it. Giving a false impression of support is probably worse than downloading and not paying.
There are many books and short stories I'd pay $1 for. King just isn't one of them. I downloaded the free PDF he gave away a few months ago and didn't like it. However, I did download, enjoy, and pay for a They Might Be Giants CD from emusic.com at more than $1. I'll continue to support artists I like in the way I see fit and pass over artists that I don't prefer to benefit. Isn't that really what the street performer protocol is all about? I purchased previous performances (the older books), decided I didn't like them, and am now passing by on the latest performance without "watching" the entertainment or paying.
No matter what happens, you do better by not sending in your dollar. (It's fair to ignore the infinitesimal chance that your single dollar will be the one to hit the 75% mark.)
This is the same logic that has kept the democratic and republican parties "in power" for the past 200+ years: the idea that your dollar (vote) doesn't matter.
On the smallest level (you) that's right. Your dollar (vote) won't change anything. From a macro view, 1000 people saying that they'll pay (vote) does make a difference. You (the individual) are now part of the 1000 people that made a difference.
$1/book isn't bad. It's better than buying used books. Then again, I prefer King's short stories over the long-drawn-out novels so I won't download or pay for it.
Copying DVDs is not the answer. There's noone out there that disagrees that copying and distributing DVDs is illegal, and if you do, you need a morality check. The issue is what I can do with my legally purchased DVD. Why do I have to sit through 10 minutes of commercials to watch Tarzan? Why am I limited to viewing DVDs only on authorized players?
The real answer is to use DeCSS and unauthorized players to watch your DVDs. The instant you start distributing DVDs, you give the final bit of ammunition that the MPAA has been hoping for: piracy. So far, there has been no proof that piracy has occured as a result of DeCSS. And until there is, that's a big check against the MPAA. Once piracy starts, the MPAA can quantify the loss in $, and then have it all shut down.
It's just as easy to block DDOS (smurf) attacks both if you are the target or an unknowing accomplice.
The problem is that ISPs don't want to slow down their connection by a few bits/second, and they don't want to do that. Slow connections mean fewer customers which means less money.
It was mentioned under the Finding the right online credit card merchant story from yesterday.
Quantum has a new drive (lct20?) that spins at 4004 RPM but with the performance of a 5400RPM. The slightly slower speed drastically cuts down on noise and vibration. I got a demo unit here in the lab, and powered it up. I couldn't tell the thing was running until I started reading and writing data.
If anything, this shows why MAPS and ORBS should not be used. Centralized "blacklists" are a bad idea to begin with, as:
a) The server admin has no control over what sites are blocked
b) They change dynamically and could potentially block sites you were talking to days before.
c) Petty disputes like this one will cause trouble.
If you want to do your own spam filtering on your own site, that's fine. Depending on someone else to tell you who you should block is just asking for trouble.
Sorry to see that Alan has to use draconian filtering. Without it, I'm sure he's going to get a lot of e-mail, mostly spam. As it is, I get 200+ a day, and noone knows me.
IMO PoPToP has some serious issues. Unfortunately, most are outside the scope of what the PoPToP developers can work with:
1) Kernel patches (yay). There seem to be problems getting these patches to work with some distros (read: Red Hat) that have slightly-customized kernels
2) Windows only supports some real lame encryption out-of-the-box. To get 128 bit, you have to go through some real hoops to get the software from Microsoft, only to find it doesn't work.
3) Firewall/IPMasq causes even more fun, depending on which side of the firemasq the PPTP server is on.
4) Browsing windows shares over a VPN link is akin to black magic and seldom works.
These are the most common issues I've seen (and I'm a lurker on the PoPToP list). To their credit, the gang that make this software have integrated it into a hardware box (look for the NetTel) that does both PPTP and Firewall functionality. It's pretty inexpensive at $399US, and I'm pondering just buying that instead of hacking around on my own.
I've been using StarOffice for close to two years at work. The next "killer app" that Linux has to overcome is being able to read and write Office files. So far, Star is the only application that can do this with any sense of quality. Sure there are problems, it's bloated, slow, and has a nasty GUI. So what? It does the job that I need - read and write .DOC and .PPT files.
I don't think fuel cells are efficient or cost-effective enough yet. It'll be nice to see more electric-gas hybrid cars out there, but with the 3-gallons-per-mile SUV craze going on, I don't think it'll happen all that soon.
It'll be hard to take care of big lengthy replies and things like that, but I've been doing some tinkering with Listar. Documentation is really spotty, but it appears to do things like strip out most attachments, and convert HTML attachements to plain text. There's also apparently a quoting limit (I haven't tested this).
Rosen did not say that making a copy for the car is fair use. She hemmed and hawed, and it was up to Hatch to say that it should be fair use. Quote from article:
''Can I make a copy of a CD that I buy and put it into a car?'' asked Hatch. When Rosen hemmed and hawed, Hatch muttered, ''The answer is yes.''
Nope, the quote says "somewhat" to "extremely". That would mean what is left is "low to no", which is pretty much the same thing said of the over 65 crowd.
But there's a huge trade off for this convenience. Inforum's l999 Survey from the MEDSTAT group, reports American Demographics, found that adults aged 35 and younger were the most stressed people in the population. Nearly seven in 10 said they were "somewhat" to "extremely" stressed, an astonishing contrast to adults over 65: 31 percent of them said they had almost no stress in their lives at all.
Huh? 7 in 10 is 70 percent. That would imply that 30 percent had no stress. That's pretty darn similar to the 31 percent of those over 65 who had no stress. What's the point?
The Flourinert is returning directly onto the CPU, so the CPU should be the coldest part. At 115 fsb, you'll have a lot of components getting toasty that need cooling off too.