The only reason we use federal money is because they stick us in a cage if we don't.. "what is cesar's" isn't just cesar's stuff, it's things of real value that cesar has no right to.
That's approx $46.26 per person (according to census.gov numbers). That's more than 6 hours of work (at my minimum wage).. nice to know that the next time I go to work I'll earn nothing that day so that people can be forced to register their movements within their own country.
BitTorrent traffic is a significant percentage of all internet traffic.. so they just decide to free a third of their infrastructure at a sweep? Do these people even realize that the reason bittorrent uses so much bandwidth is because so many paying customers USE it? And what are they paying for anyway.. $50/month only buys me 50KB/s and some 300GB or so cap (comcast just drops your account if you use more than a few hundred gigs)... why shouldnt I be able to use what little bandwidth they meter me for whatever I want? If I paid for 50KB/s then what on earth does it matter if I download a linux iso over the http protocol or the bittorrent protocol? This is a ridiculous situation- how do they just arbitrarily decide which protocols they don't want their customers using? If someone makes up a slightly different protocol called BT2 would ISPs still block it?
Yeah, except for those pesky "inline" ads (like slashdot's "Services" menu in the lower left) I haven't seen a single ad since I subscribed to ABP. Not to mention peerguardian blocking HTTP traffic from half the internet.. Can't imagine anything could be more effective.
Ahaha, 2.9GB? That's the text alone. Images will net you more than 200GB more. And yes, you do need a LAMP/WAMP and working mediawiki, but it wouldn't take 'days' it would take a few hours max. Also is this guy aware that wikipedia is available on DVD already?
I actually walked around the perimeter of a room once rather than going straight across, and about halfway around I realized that I was checking corners for enemies:)
Agreed. For the developer, the kernel is the operating system. For the user they have all sorts of apps and things but when developing a "userland tool" when you're trying to interface with the OS you're trying to interface with the kernel. It's the basis of the whole OS and every single userland dev has to be familiar with the kernel, not each others tools.
Is this anything new? Pirated versions of movies and games have always been superior. No unskippable (UOP) fbi warnings and previews on DVDs, no region codes, games that don't require a disc in the drive... plus movie pirates are the best in the industry when it comes to video compression with minimal loss of quality. We've been taught over and over again that the legitimate options always fall short of the abolutely unrestricted nature of pirated IP
Hm, it seems to be referring to UPnP (which I have vehemently disabled on my router).. but I wonder if they have any idea what they're talking about. If you can't accept incoming connections that just means that your client initiates all transfers of data, not that you're completely incapable of uploading. Good clients like utorrent (and apparently not Bittorrent 6.0) will give/trade data without being asked if there's available upload bandwidth. Not the best for efficiency (though I should think it'd at least volunteer less-available data first) but it gets you a high ratio nonetheless.
I'm confused by their product description of "Bittorrent 6.0" - No hardware configuration - reduced hassle of fast downloads. How can their program forward ports on my router for me... sounds bogus.
From wikipedia: "The [MRI] scanners used in medicine have a typical magnetic field strength of 0.3 to 3 teslas. Construction costs approximately US$ 1 million per tesla, and maintenance an additional several hundred thousand dollars per year." X ray machines are significantly cheaper, but they'd still make $40k seem cheap.
Yes, this is a ridiculous claim. There's no way to possibly know how big the biggest galaxies are. Also, does anyone realize how stupid that analogy is of "sand trucks flinging sand everywhere"? What?!
What does it matter what people do with your product? You make a mod chip to learn about the hardware and show off your skillz, maybe make some money. You're customizing the hardware. The old Altair and Atari PCs absolutely depended on people building their own mod chips.. and it's still perfectly legal of course to design your own hardware components for your computer... but somehow these gaming companies have made it illegal to modify your own hardware if you bought it from them! It's really a ridiculous situation, and as a promoter of common sense I say **** off.
Even if they did somehow get your session cookie, you're logged in via a secure connection (:443) and I'm sure it would be noticed by google if they tried to use your session cookie to log in without your SSL credentials- which of course there's no way to get.
You're right- what's the big deal anyway? We don't have to use jpeg.. lossless compression is better anyway, especially in this era of 700gb hard drives and verizon fios
There are higher laws that protect people.. just because some movie theater law says the manager can kill you and not be responsible if you were caught with a video camera doesn't mean the judge will uphold it.
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The only reason we use federal money is because they stick us in a cage if we don't.. "what is cesar's" isn't just cesar's stuff, it's things of real value that cesar has no right to.
That's approx $46.26 per person (according to census.gov numbers). That's more than 6 hours of work (at my minimum wage).. nice to know that the next time I go to work I'll earn nothing that day so that people can be forced to register their movements within their own country.
BitTorrent traffic is a significant percentage of all internet traffic.. so they just decide to free a third of their infrastructure at a sweep? Do these people even realize that the reason bittorrent uses so much bandwidth is because so many paying customers USE it? And what are they paying for anyway.. $50/month only buys me 50KB/s and some 300GB or so cap (comcast just drops your account if you use more than a few hundred gigs)... why shouldnt I be able to use what little bandwidth they meter me for whatever I want? If I paid for 50KB/s then what on earth does it matter if I download a linux iso over the http protocol or the bittorrent protocol? This is a ridiculous situation- how do they just arbitrarily decide which protocols they don't want their customers using? If someone makes up a slightly different protocol called BT2 would ISPs still block it?
I think it drops RST packets. That's supposesedly how comcast restricts traffic- by flooding open connections with RST so the clients close up.
Yeah, except for those pesky "inline" ads (like slashdot's "Services" menu in the lower left) I haven't seen a single ad since I subscribed to ABP. Not to mention peerguardian blocking HTTP traffic from half the internet.. Can't imagine anything could be more effective.
Cyber bullying is a lot easier to solve... you have 2 options, kill -9 or F10.
Yes.
You mean they didn't already have them?
Ahaha, 2.9GB? That's the text alone. Images will net you more than 200GB more. And yes, you do need a LAMP/WAMP and working mediawiki, but it wouldn't take 'days' it would take a few hours max. Also is this guy aware that wikipedia is available on DVD already?
I actually walked around the perimeter of a room once rather than going straight across, and about halfway around I realized that I was checking corners for enemies :)
Agreed. For the developer, the kernel is the operating system. For the user they have all sorts of apps and things but when developing a "userland tool" when you're trying to interface with the OS you're trying to interface with the kernel. It's the basis of the whole OS and every single userland dev has to be familiar with the kernel, not each others tools.
And since when is "avi" useful information to put next to the link? It's just a container format..
Is this anything new? Pirated versions of movies and games have always been superior. No unskippable (UOP) fbi warnings and previews on DVDs, no region codes, games that don't require a disc in the drive... plus movie pirates are the best in the industry when it comes to video compression with minimal loss of quality. We've been taught over and over again that the legitimate options always fall short of the abolutely unrestricted nature of pirated IP
Hm, it seems to be referring to UPnP (which I have vehemently disabled on my router).. but I wonder if they have any idea what they're talking about. If you can't accept incoming connections that just means that your client initiates all transfers of data, not that you're completely incapable of uploading. Good clients like utorrent (and apparently not Bittorrent 6.0) will give/trade data without being asked if there's available upload bandwidth. Not the best for efficiency (though I should think it'd at least volunteer less-available data first) but it gets you a high ratio nonetheless.
I'm confused by their product description of "Bittorrent 6.0" - No hardware configuration - reduced hassle of fast downloads. How can their program forward ports on my router for me... sounds bogus.
From wikipedia: "The [MRI] scanners used in medicine have a typical magnetic field strength of 0.3 to 3 teslas. Construction costs approximately US$ 1 million per tesla, and maintenance an additional several hundred thousand dollars per year." X ray machines are significantly cheaper, but they'd still make $40k seem cheap.
No, she said not to hold your breath- she was right. That's why they were practically turning blue after only a few seconds.
Doesn't anyone remember that episode of TNG when geordi and crusher had to open the cargo bay so the radioactive containers wouldn't kill them?
Yes, this is a ridiculous claim. There's no way to possibly know how big the biggest galaxies are. Also, does anyone realize how stupid that analogy is of "sand trucks flinging sand everywhere"? What?!
What does it matter what people do with your product? You make a mod chip to learn about the hardware and show off your skillz, maybe make some money. You're customizing the hardware. The old Altair and Atari PCs absolutely depended on people building their own mod chips.. and it's still perfectly legal of course to design your own hardware components for your computer... but somehow these gaming companies have made it illegal to modify your own hardware if you bought it from them! It's really a ridiculous situation, and as a promoter of common sense I say **** off.
Oh yes THANK you!
Argh, what's the from?!
Even if they did somehow get your session cookie, you're logged in via a secure connection (:443) and I'm sure it would be noticed by google if they tried to use your session cookie to log in without your SSL credentials- which of course there's no way to get.
You're right- what's the big deal anyway? We don't have to use jpeg.. lossless compression is better anyway, especially in this era of 700gb hard drives and verizon fios
There are higher laws that protect people.. just because some movie theater law says the manager can kill you and not be responsible if you were caught with a video camera doesn't mean the judge will uphold it.