In theory, yes, although I don't know any cases that go either way on this. But the descrambling your cable will probably result in the cable company terminating your service. They will probably also sue you for breach of contract. The difference is that there is no way a satellite company can get their broadcast off that guy's property, and there was no contract between him and the satellite stations.
Don't they have to be able to track books on an individual level to know what books need to be returned when? I've never heard of a library that does not have this ability on some level.
No, the corps are woried about their profits. If they are successful in stopping digital copying through encryption, then the pirates will just move to digitized analogue, and the same effect will be had. Considering now pirates use analogue tapes, which have generational problems, having a digital copy of a first or second generation analogue rip will be better than what we have now. Most people will be dropping this on to VCR tape anyways, since they have a VCR and a DVD-R will be expensive for a while.
Although manufacturers can build content protection of public television streams into their devices, Dvorak and others made reference to a Supreme Court case a few years old that gives consumers an absolute right to record these public streams.
This is an incorrect interpretation of the ruling. We do not have an inalienable right to timeshift, but the Supreme Court said that individuals cannot be brought up on criminal charges for recording a public broadcast. If the MPAA can come up with a way to scramble the recording, then it doesn't violate this ruling. But this ruling does say a home user recording content is are within their rights, even if that recording is scrambled to the point that it is not viewable.
This is similar to a California ruling where the judge upheld a Californian resident's right to descramble satellite broadcasts, stating if they didn't want him to see their content, then get it off of his property. This doesn't mean that the judge said satellite broadcasts cannot be scrambled, just that if they aren't scrambled sufficiently, then they cannot prosecute home users that descramble the signal..
I would imagine that they would have the DNA assemble at ~290K, and only cool it during use. Once it is assembled, its DNA properties are not important.
and yet is making decisions based on it. From the article
How much harm? That's the key question. In the eBay case, which Judge Jones relied upon, eBay offered evidence that the burden on its computer servers from Bidder's Edge's web crawler represented between 1.11 percent and 1.53 percent of the total load. However slight, that degree of interference was harm enough, the judge said, because eBay in effect was prevented from using that portion of its personal property for its own use.
This is 1.11% of the "total load", meaning 1.11% of the CPU usage, not 1.11% of the CPU. Nothing here argues that the machines were fully loaded. Had they been, then yes, eBay was prevented from using that load. But it's doubtful that eBay had a 100% load all of the time, so it's doubtful they were using those resources.
Doubtful. The intruders would have had to check their changes into the source control. Thus it would be easy to find all of the changes in the source code during that time. This would be a very limited amount of code to overlook.
So, back to your original point: Don't believe that innovation, freedom, basic needs and all else that you require for sustenance would vanish if Corporations did - that somehow they have 'given' us these things: It is very untrue.
You seem to be reading to much into the statement of the previous poster. The top level asked why it is this way, and the second level explained why. He didn't say that this is the only way is can occur, but why it occurs given the society that we have. You stated that society has been infected by the corporations, and the sencond level post was explaining a consequence of that. I don't doubt that there are alternatives to the societies that we have that can still produce technological advances, but that doesn't invalidate statements about the societies we have.
He was saying NAT would be incompatable with UDP based games.
I probably should have been more clear. My firewall allows me to forward both TCP and UDP ports. This is how I got Net2Phone working. I can even forward TCP port X and UDP port X to two different places (which means you don't have to tie up the TCP port that you are using for a UDP game). I'm sure that linux firewalls will allow this too.
My NAT router (linksys) allows me to forward ports to chosen IPs in the private network. I have port 80 point to my linux box, for example. I would imagine that these games have standard ports they will use for communication, so you can set up port X to point at your dreamcast. If they are reasonably unused ports, you can just keep the setting that way since you probably only have one dreamcast.
if a society as a whole gets used to killing everyone who's a criminal, then the individuals in that society will be comfortable with killing as a solution to problems.
doesn't make sense given the example of pro-lifers killing physicians. Why do you feel that the above statement doesn't make sense?
This makes sense when you relate it to pro-lifers that kill physicians who aid in abortin. It is their belief that they are executing the capital punishment the physicians "deserve". In this way, capital punishment may have made things worse.
For example, it is possible that quantum computing can greatly increase 3D rendering. Basically, the main problem in ray tracing is finding the correct number of solutions that will lead a light ray to the point the eye is looking at. There are stochastic methods, like Metropolis, that greatly speed up the process of determining these solutions, but like most stocastic methods when compared to quantum methods, they are unreliable and slow (although when compared to deterministic methods, they are unreliable and fast). In a quantum 3D chip, you can theoretically easily find all of the solutions in a very short time, and thus determine the light levels for the point. This would in effect give you a perfect ray trace in a few cycles/point.
And even then, given enough qbits, you could be running those raytracing calculations on all of the points, oversampled by 256 to give a nice antialias.
But this is all in theory, because there are severe limitations on the logic that one can do with a quantum computers today. While the above could be modeled, I don't think we'll know for a while if it can be.
On the other hand...the CD-standard is nearly 20 years old by now, but I think it's time for something larger.
I agree, but much larger. 3x isn't exciting me. Even 5x isn't exciting me. 100x, that's better. 500x, is more like it. With proper multisessioning and rewritablity
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That was a different occurance. IIRC, that happened around 1990. The theif was caught by police after taking a picture with his license plate in it somewhere in upstate New York.
Or maybe I'm recalling yet another occurance of this.
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C|Net had a video interview with Wooly Gary (the attorney defending the plaintifs). This that interview, Gary makes it clear that the percentages are not enough to say "discrimination", but that the people there have testimony that their white counterparts do the same jobs but get more promotions and bonus. A woman told that she will never get promoted out of her cubicle, etc. There are actual cases of discrimination, in addition to the skewed proportion of workers.
802.11b specifies WEP, but it does not have to be used. I would imagine that they will enable WEP however. Plus, the SS should help keeping things private.
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There are two levels of security in WLAN. First, the RF communication is protected by the special transmission method called Spread Spectrum, SS. The SS method is not the "tune in" method used in normal radio transmission, it is almost impossible to tune. Secondly, 802.11 wireless communications have a function called WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy), a form of encryption which provides privacy comparable to that of a traditional wired network. If the wireless network has information that should be secure then WEP should be used, ensuring the data is protected at traditional wired network levels. Also it should be noted that traditional Virtual Private Networking (VPN) techniques are not supported in the current firmware. The firmware upgrade will be available in the 2nd quarter of 2001.
Like the title says, I used to be against cert programs. My attitude was that they are just a way of the companies involved making money. A common response to "How does Sun make money of of Java if they give it away free?" is "The certification programs."
However, I've recently been studying for my weblogic certification, which has Sun Java Programmer as a prereq, and I've found the experience to be quite satisfying. Like most tests, it actually has me learning in depth stuff that I normally wouldn't look into while on a project. Even things I sort of knew, I know really well now, because I have to know them for the test (I will be taking it next Friday).
Of course, I don't think I would do it if I had to pay for the test. But when an employer is paying, it can be really worth it.
So, from a less practical standpoint, so you feel that you have to learn stuff you don't know for this test? Do you have to cement stuff you kind of knew. If so, then I'd say it's worth it.
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In theory, yes, although I don't know any cases that go either way on this. But the descrambling your cable will probably result in the cable company terminating your service. They will probably also sue you for breach of contract. The difference is that there is no way a satellite company can get their broadcast off that guy's property, and there was no contract between him and the satellite stations.
Don't they have to be able to track books on an individual level to know what books need to be returned when? I've never heard of a library that does not have this ability on some level.
No, the corps are woried about their profits. If they are successful in stopping digital copying through encryption, then the pirates will just move to digitized analogue, and the same effect will be had. Considering now pirates use analogue tapes, which have generational problems, having a digital copy of a first or second generation analogue rip will be better than what we have now. Most people will be dropping this on to VCR tape anyways, since they have a VCR and a DVD-R will be expensive for a while.
This is an incorrect interpretation of the ruling. We do not have an inalienable right to timeshift, but the Supreme Court said that individuals cannot be brought up on criminal charges for recording a public broadcast. If the MPAA can come up with a way to scramble the recording, then it doesn't violate this ruling. But this ruling does say a home user recording content is are within their rights, even if that recording is scrambled to the point that it is not viewable.
This is similar to a California ruling where the judge upheld a Californian resident's right to descramble satellite broadcasts, stating if they didn't want him to see their content, then get it off of his property. This doesn't mean that the judge said satellite broadcasts cannot be scrambled, just that if they aren't scrambled sufficiently, then they cannot prosecute home users that descramble the signal..
I would imagine that they would have the DNA assemble at ~290K, and only cool it during use. Once it is assembled, its DNA properties are not important.
How about a beowulf cluster of me!
This is 1.11% of the "total load", meaning 1.11% of the CPU usage, not 1.11% of the CPU. Nothing here argues that the machines were fully loaded. Had they been, then yes, eBay was prevented from using that load. But it's doubtful that eBay had a 100% load all of the time, so it's doubtful they were using those resources.
I thought black holes can't exist.
Doubtful. The intruders would have had to check their changes into the source control. Thus it would be easy to find all of the changes in the source code during that time. This would be a very limited amount of code to overlook.
You seem to be reading to much into the statement of the previous poster. The top level asked why it is this way, and the second level explained why. He didn't say that this is the only way is can occur, but why it occurs given the society that we have. You stated that society has been infected by the corporations, and the sencond level post was explaining a consequence of that. I don't doubt that there are alternatives to the societies that we have that can still produce technological advances, but that doesn't invalidate statements about the societies we have.
I probably should have been more clear. My firewall allows me to forward both TCP and UDP ports. This is how I got Net2Phone working. I can even forward TCP port X and UDP port X to two different places (which means you don't have to tie up the TCP port that you are using for a UDP game). I'm sure that linux firewalls will allow this too.
My NAT router (linksys) allows me to forward ports to chosen IPs in the private network. I have port 80 point to my linux box, for example. I would imagine that these games have standard ports they will use for communication, so you can set up port X to point at your dreamcast. If they are reasonably unused ports, you can just keep the setting that way since you probably only have one dreamcast.
If they built a toilet in, I'd never leave the seat!
I fail to see how the statement
doesn't make sense given the example of pro-lifers killing physicians. Why do you feel that the above statement doesn't make sense?This makes sense when you relate it to pro-lifers that kill physicians who aid in abortin. It is their belief that they are executing the capital punishment the physicians "deserve". In this way, capital punishment may have made things worse.
The simple answer is "possibly"
For example, it is possible that quantum computing can greatly increase 3D rendering. Basically, the main problem in ray tracing is finding the correct number of solutions that will lead a light ray to the point the eye is looking at. There are stochastic methods, like Metropolis, that greatly speed up the process of determining these solutions, but like most stocastic methods when compared to quantum methods, they are unreliable and slow (although when compared to deterministic methods, they are unreliable and fast). In a quantum 3D chip, you can theoretically easily find all of the solutions in a very short time, and thus determine the light levels for the point. This would in effect give you a perfect ray trace in a few cycles/point.
And even then, given enough qbits, you could be running those raytracing calculations on all of the points, oversampled by 256 to give a nice antialias.
But this is all in theory, because there are severe limitations on the logic that one can do with a quantum computers today. While the above could be modeled, I don't think we'll know for a while if it can be.
Simple, just use a green marker or paint around the edge of the CD.
I agree, but much larger. 3x isn't exciting me. Even 5x isn't exciting me. 100x, that's better. 500x, is more like it. With proper multisessioning and rewritablity
Yes, like in a kiosk
That was a different occurance. IIRC, that happened around 1990. The theif was caught by police after taking a picture with his license plate in it somewhere in upstate New York.
Or maybe I'm recalling yet another occurance of this.
C|Net had a video interview with Wooly Gary (the attorney defending the plaintifs). This that interview, Gary makes it clear that the percentages are not enough to say "discrimination", but that the people there have testimony that their white counterparts do the same jobs but get more promotions and bonus. A woman told that she will never get promoted out of her cubicle, etc. There are actual cases of discrimination, in addition to the skewed proportion of workers.
802.11b specifies WEP, but it does not have to be used. I would imagine that they will enable WEP however. Plus, the SS should help keeping things private.
From the Buffalo AirStation FAQ:
there is an interesting cross story on kuro5hin.
Don't mod me up. I already have 50 points.
Like the title says, I used to be against cert programs. My attitude was that they are just a way of the companies involved making money. A common response to "How does Sun make money of of Java if they give it away free?" is "The certification programs."
However, I've recently been studying for my weblogic certification, which has Sun Java Programmer as a prereq, and I've found the experience to be quite satisfying. Like most tests, it actually has me learning in depth stuff that I normally wouldn't look into while on a project. Even things I sort of knew, I know really well now, because I have to know them for the test (I will be taking it next Friday).
Of course, I don't think I would do it if I had to pay for the test. But when an employer is paying, it can be really worth it.
So, from a less practical standpoint, so you feel that you have to learn stuff you don't know for this test? Do you have to cement stuff you kind of knew. If so, then I'd say it's worth it.
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