My great grandfather fought for this country, my grandfather fought for this country, my father fought for this country, and my friends have fought for this country. So you can play the Veteran card and act like that has any real bearing on the situation, and I'll just go on stating the facts of the matter. Don't get me wrong; I respect your service to the greatest nation on the face of the Earth, but just as you have spared me no harsh words, I shall act accordingly.
You may not think that we found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but I'll tell you right now, you are WRONG. In Iraq alone they found 1.77 metric TONS of enriched uranium. They found 1,500 GALLONS of chemical weapons. They found 17 chemical warheads containing cyclosarin. Do you know what cyclosarin is? It's a deadly nerve agent with five times the effectiveness of sarin gas. But more importantly, they found 1,000 radioactive materials that are used in dirty bombs. Don't believe me? Well, CNN sure as hell won't cover that. MoveOn.org won't have that on their front page. And you damn well better believe that the Democrats did their best to cover that up.
If I could, I'd spit in the face of everyone to refer to the US as a police state, a totalitarian regime, or a fascist dictatorship ruled by "teh 0mGz uberRepublicans". Why do they complain, and compare the greatest nation in the world to Nazi Germany or pre-war Italy? Because Gore didn't win, Kerry didn't win, and for the love of God, Hillary better not win.
Go on, cry about our lack of freedoms and our supreme oppression while you openly speak your beliefs on a public website that continues to remain standing, especially with the rather anti-Bush, anti-Republican stance it's known for. Oh yeah, and thank freedom that you can even view sites like Slashdot.
Reminder: There's a reason that there is no "-1: Disagree" modpoint. Go ahead, call me a troll. Censor me with modpoints. I could care less what the rest of you think about me.
This essentially flies in the face of proven medical cases in which ENS (electrical nerve stimulation) has treated symptoms such as clinical depression and eplilepsy.
What a load of crap. Now, I'm no doctor, but this flies in the face of basic medicine.
The internet doesn't need a capacity upgrade. We don't even need to lay any more fiber. What we DO need to do is light the good 90% of the current laid fiber, the stuff that's currently dark (Assuming that Google hasn't bought it all yet).
What I find appalling is that ISPs can charge upwards of $50/Mbps for direct connections, and upwards of $80 for a 10Mbps cable line (Although my 15Meg is usually very reliable). And I'm not talking about resellers, I'm talking about the datacenters themselves. The ISPs who own all that dark fiber aren't spending any more money by lighting it, other than having a few more telco-grade routers in use.
I'm just glad to be living in Omaha - redundant links to the global network, courtesy of Stratcom.;) (And yet there are no decent datacenters in town.)
Twenty minutes? Damnit. There goes my idea for the first Martian-hosted Counter-Strike server.
The article really does little explaining of the actual protocol they're planning to use and how they're going to counter the lag. If it weren't a NASA project fronted by a Google VP, it would look suspiciously like a smoke-and-mirrors operation, IAVRT for instance.
By your logic, anything that releases CO2 is contributing to Global Warming, am I correct?
Well, in that case, let's kill all the animals. Dogs, cats, cows, every last one. After all, they're creating dangerous CO2. And then we can all starve to death and we'll die too. That should teach us for breathing. *cough*:P
Or maybe you could read up a bit and see what happens to that CO2.
No disrespect or flamebait in any way. It just gets on my nerves when people assume that CO2 is the driving factor behind global warming. (Cow farts are more dangerous than CO2. So do the world a favor and eat steak.)
By the way, good job at shamelessly plugging your political views in a scientific discussion.:/
WTF is a "Quad Core 2 Duo Xeon"? There's a Core 2 Duo, which is a dual-core desktop/laptop processor, and then there's the quad-core Xeon, which is a workstation/server processor... Perhaps the Core 2 Duo and the Xeon did a little bit of "networking"?
But really, I can't take any product review seriously if they don't know one processor from another.
At one point, the RIAA could have been negotiated with. That point has passed us by very, very fast. If it weren't illegal, I'm positive that most people would have taken up arms months ago and "settled" all the MAFIAA's court cases themselves.
The RIAA homepage needs to be slashdotted, repeatedly, and with no end in sight. Just like with the P2P networks, they'll feel the wrath of nerds with lots of bandwidth.
Re-enactment of the creation of the OpenMacGrid...
Person 1: "Hey, I've got an idea!" Person 2: "Yeah?" Person 1: "Yeah! Let's make a compute grid... except, it won't be like those other compute grids. Except, it kinda will. But it won't. But that's not the point. People will be able to submit their own projects!" Person 2: "Oh, you mean like BOINC, GPU, The World Community Grid, distributed.net, Leiden, Grid.org, OurGrid..." Person 1: "Well, uh... yeah... I guess... except, um... let's run it on a Mac!" Person 2: "Hey, yeah, that's a totally original and cool plan, as opposed to actually devoting processor time to worthwhile and established projects like Folding@Home and SETI!"
Thought: Maybe, instead of everybody making their own little grid system... we could all make things go ALOT faster by devoting our processors to more than simulating chess games (Yes, I'm talking to you, Chess960) and focus it where it really counts, like finding a cure to debilitating diseases or searching for intelligent life. (Not a whole lot of it on Earth.)
Read any ISP's TOS and AUP and you'll see clauses which specify indemnity in the event of illegal use of their service. (It applies to more than ISPs and webhosts, too.) The jist of it is that if a user (or employee in this case) is using pirated software, the user (or employee) is contractually obligated to indemnify and hold harmless the service provider.
In layman's terms, it's an ignorance clause. "We can't keep track of everything our users do, therefore we cannot be held responsible for their actions."
Back to the point, if one of your employees downloads a pirated Microsoft/random vendor's product, having such clauses in a contract ensures that your organization is protected from legal recourse.
Now, back to the topic: Microsoft/BSA shouldn't be going after the headmaster. They should press charges against the IT personnel or even the computer vendors in some cases. In the US at least, school administrations often have little to do with the happenings of the IT department other than check-signing.
subpoena duce tecum ("dü-s&s-'tE-k&m): a writ commanding a person to produce in court certain designated documents or evidence.
Sure, you can call the police, but that'll be kind of hard if they're the ones that come a'knockin'. It doesn't matter that you use open-source software. What does matter is (in the case of a workplace or other public location) is that you contractually protect yourself from what your employees/customers do with your internet connection.
Why are we acknowledging this article? Any site that refers to Web 2.0 as anything other than a stupid marketing buzzword has no clue who the real IT heroes are. How about a hurrah for the poor sap working the graveyard shift in the NOC, or the overworked sysadmin who needs to restore a server or correct daemon errors every time the hyped-up "Web 2.0" services break?
For one, the fact that you can read a book at Barnes and Noble for free is more of a marketing strategy than just a convenience. Unless you intend to come back every day for X days to keep reading the book, you're most likely going to buy it. I doubt anyone could read an entire book during a visit to a bookstore like Barnes and Noble.
However, when it comes to movies, you're talking about a solid one to two hour viewing. If Blockbuster worked like Barnes and Noble, they'd have little to no rentals or purchases - people would watch a movie and leave.
But anyway, back to the topic. It's doubtful that any DRM will work swimmingly with BitTorrent, simply because the method with which you activate the DRM/authenticate the movie would most likely be transferred in the torrent. (Like Windows XP, you can just hand off the CD key with the ISO.)
I can see an effective DRM being an IP-based solution. For instance, a client would have the movie file downloaded and the player for that file would contact a central server for a one-time key. If the client's IP doesn't match, then no key is issued. But this has its downside as well (Dial-up and dynamic IPs... although if you're downloading at those speeds, just buy the damn DVD.)
DRM is a useless trend, just like SOA and 'Web x.0' and all the other buzzwords (People put DRM on podcasts, for Christ's sake). Give it time and it will die.
So, you bring up the Republicans' slang terms for the Democratic party, and yet you throw around "neo-GOP" like we're a bunch of Neo-Nazis. Smart, prove to the world that Democrats are truly hypocritical, in more ways than one. ("Oh, we can have numerous campaign sites and astroturfing sites, but you can't run Littlegreenfootballs.com because you disagree with us!" Smart, Dems.)
I'm out of mod points. Somebody wanna rate the parent post as a flamebait?
Now that the Democrats have a majority in the legislative branch, they're starting to completely twist all their campaign promises. Remember the Democrats who were complaining about the price of oil? Well, they just approved about $15 billion in Big Oil taxes. And now they're trying to effectively restrict or silence the mainly-Conservative grassroots/astroturf efforts just in time for 2008. (I don't believe it's a coincidence that MoveOn.org doesn't fall under their definition of astroturfing.)
Politicians (all politicians, mind you) will say and do anything to get re-elected.
Because there's something called Intellectual Property. I doubt you'd like it if I copied all your comments and posted them as my own unique thoughts.
Writing songs that fit into a music style of a previous composer has nothing to do with blatantly copying somebody else's song without even giving them credit, let alone paying them any sort of royalty. And BTW, those hundreds of instrument designers get their money when you buy the instruments.
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Whoa, not so fast with the violence, Tarantino. Remember the pattern.
Soap, ballot, jury, ammo.
My great grandfather fought for this country, my grandfather fought for this country, my father fought for this country, and my friends have fought for this country. So you can play the Veteran card and act like that has any real bearing on the situation, and I'll just go on stating the facts of the matter. Don't get me wrong; I respect your service to the greatest nation on the face of the Earth, but just as you have spared me no harsh words, I shall act accordingly.
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You may not think that we found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but I'll tell you right now, you are WRONG. In Iraq alone they found 1.77 metric TONS of enriched uranium. They found 1,500 GALLONS of chemical weapons. They found 17 chemical warheads containing cyclosarin. Do you know what cyclosarin is? It's a deadly nerve agent with five times the effectiveness of sarin gas. But more importantly, they found 1,000 radioactive materials that are used in dirty bombs. Don't believe me? Well, CNN sure as hell won't cover that. MoveOn.org won't have that on their front page. And you damn well better believe that the Democrats did their best to cover that up.
I'll even post my sources. I'll be fully transparent in this, and I'll be ACCOUNTABLE for what I say... which is more than I can say for you, Anonymous Coward. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ART
If I could, I'd spit in the face of everyone to refer to the US as a police state, a totalitarian regime, or a fascist dictatorship ruled by "teh 0mGz uberRepublicans". Why do they complain, and compare the greatest nation in the world to Nazi Germany or pre-war Italy? Because Gore didn't win, Kerry didn't win, and for the love of God, Hillary better not win.
Go on, cry about our lack of freedoms and our supreme oppression while you openly speak your beliefs on a public website that continues to remain standing, especially with the rather anti-Bush, anti-Republican stance it's known for. Oh yeah, and thank freedom that you can even view sites like Slashdot.
Reminder: There's a reason that there is no "-1: Disagree" modpoint. Go ahead, call me a troll. Censor me with modpoints. I could care less what the rest of you think about me.
If that were the case, there would be no such thing as "emo". The problem would literally fix itself.
This essentially flies in the face of proven medical cases in which ENS (electrical nerve stimulation) has treated symptoms such as clinical depression and eplilepsy. What a load of crap. Now, I'm no doctor, but this flies in the face of basic medicine.
The internet doesn't need a capacity upgrade. We don't even need to lay any more fiber. What we DO need to do is light the good 90% of the current laid fiber, the stuff that's currently dark (Assuming that Google hasn't bought it all yet).
;) (And yet there are no decent datacenters in town.)
What I find appalling is that ISPs can charge upwards of $50/Mbps for direct connections, and upwards of $80 for a 10Mbps cable line (Although my 15Meg is usually very reliable). And I'm not talking about resellers, I'm talking about the datacenters themselves. The ISPs who own all that dark fiber aren't spending any more money by lighting it, other than having a few more telco-grade routers in use.
I'm just glad to be living in Omaha - redundant links to the global network, courtesy of Stratcom.
Twenty minutes? Damnit. There goes my idea for the first Martian-hosted Counter-Strike server.
The article really does little explaining of the actual protocol they're planning to use and how they're going to counter the lag. If it weren't a NASA project fronted by a Google VP, it would look suspiciously like a smoke-and-mirrors operation, IAVRT for instance.
By your logic, anything that releases CO2 is contributing to Global Warming, am I correct?
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Well, in that case, let's kill all the animals. Dogs, cats, cows, every last one. After all, they're creating dangerous CO2. And then we can all starve to death and we'll die too. That should teach us for breathing. *cough*
Or maybe you could read up a bit and see what happens to that CO2.
No disrespect or flamebait in any way. It just gets on my nerves when people assume that CO2 is the driving factor behind global warming. (Cow farts are more dangerous than CO2. So do the world a favor and eat steak.)
By the way, good job at shamelessly plugging your political views in a scientific discussion.
WTF is a "Quad Core 2 Duo Xeon"? There's a Core 2 Duo, which is a dual-core desktop/laptop processor, and then there's the quad-core Xeon, which is a workstation/server processor... Perhaps the Core 2 Duo and the Xeon did a little bit of "networking"?
But really, I can't take any product review seriously if they don't know one processor from another.
...And then sue the children.
This kind of action just becomes unacceptable.
At one point, the RIAA could have been negotiated with. That point has passed us by very, very fast. If it weren't illegal, I'm positive that most people would have taken up arms months ago and "settled" all the MAFIAA's court cases themselves.
The RIAA homepage needs to be slashdotted, repeatedly, and with no end in sight. Just like with the P2P networks, they'll feel the wrath of nerds with lots of bandwidth.
Re-enactment of the creation of the OpenMacGrid...
Person 1: "Hey, I've got an idea!"
Person 2: "Yeah?"
Person 1: "Yeah! Let's make a compute grid... except, it won't be like those other compute grids. Except, it kinda will. But it won't. But that's not the point. People will be able to submit their own projects!"
Person 2: "Oh, you mean like BOINC, GPU, The World Community Grid, distributed.net, Leiden, Grid.org, OurGrid..."
Person 1: "Well, uh... yeah... I guess... except, um... let's run it on a Mac!"
Person 2: "Hey, yeah, that's a totally original and cool plan, as opposed to actually devoting processor time to worthwhile and established projects like Folding@Home and SETI!"
Thought: Maybe, instead of everybody making their own little grid system... we could all make things go ALOT faster by devoting our processors to more than simulating chess games (Yes, I'm talking to you, Chess960) and focus it where it really counts, like finding a cure to debilitating diseases or searching for intelligent life. (Not a whole lot of it on Earth.)
Read any ISP's TOS and AUP and you'll see clauses which specify indemnity in the event of illegal use of their service. (It applies to more than ISPs and webhosts, too.) The jist of it is that if a user (or employee in this case) is using pirated software, the user (or employee) is contractually obligated to indemnify and hold harmless the service provider. In layman's terms, it's an ignorance clause. "We can't keep track of everything our users do, therefore we cannot be held responsible for their actions." Back to the point, if one of your employees downloads a pirated Microsoft/random vendor's product, having such clauses in a contract ensures that your organization is protected from legal recourse. Now, back to the topic: Microsoft/BSA shouldn't be going after the headmaster. They should press charges against the IT personnel or even the computer vendors in some cases. In the US at least, school administrations often have little to do with the happenings of the IT department other than check-signing.
subpoena duce tecum ("dü-s&s-'tE-k&m): a writ commanding a person to produce in court certain designated documents or evidence.
Sure, you can call the police, but that'll be kind of hard if they're the ones that come a'knockin'. It doesn't matter that you use open-source software. What does matter is (in the case of a workplace or other public location) is that you contractually protect yourself from what your employees/customers do with your internet connection.
Why are we acknowledging this article? Any site that refers to Web 2.0 as anything other than a stupid marketing buzzword has no clue who the real IT heroes are. How about a hurrah for the poor sap working the graveyard shift in the NOC, or the overworked sysadmin who needs to restore a server or correct daemon errors every time the hyped-up "Web 2.0" services break?
For one, the fact that you can read a book at Barnes and Noble for free is more of a marketing strategy than just a convenience. Unless you intend to come back every day for X days to keep reading the book, you're most likely going to buy it. I doubt anyone could read an entire book during a visit to a bookstore like Barnes and Noble.
However, when it comes to movies, you're talking about a solid one to two hour viewing. If Blockbuster worked like Barnes and Noble, they'd have little to no rentals or purchases - people would watch a movie and leave.
But anyway, back to the topic. It's doubtful that any DRM will work swimmingly with BitTorrent, simply because the method with which you activate the DRM/authenticate the movie would most likely be transferred in the torrent. (Like Windows XP, you can just hand off the CD key with the ISO.)
I can see an effective DRM being an IP-based solution. For instance, a client would have the movie file downloaded and the player for that file would contact a central server for a one-time key. If the client's IP doesn't match, then no key is issued. But this has its downside as well (Dial-up and dynamic IPs... although if you're downloading at those speeds, just buy the damn DVD.)
DRM is a useless trend, just like SOA and 'Web x.0' and all the other buzzwords (People put DRM on podcasts, for Christ's sake). Give it time and it will die.
For a second there, I thought Slashdot would drop this stupid anti-Microsoft bullshit and at least show some compassion.
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This was discussed a few days ago. Check yesterday's news.
The parent post uses it alongside "GOP" which is a reference to the Republican Party. RTFP.
So, you bring up the Republicans' slang terms for the Democratic party, and yet you throw around "neo-GOP" like we're a bunch of Neo-Nazis. Smart, prove to the world that Democrats are truly hypocritical, in more ways than one. ("Oh, we can have numerous campaign sites and astroturfing sites, but you can't run Littlegreenfootballs.com because you disagree with us!" Smart, Dems.)
I'm out of mod points. Somebody wanna rate the parent post as a flamebait?
Now that the Democrats have a majority in the legislative branch, they're starting to completely twist all their campaign promises. Remember the Democrats who were complaining about the price of oil? Well, they just approved about $15 billion in Big Oil taxes. And now they're trying to effectively restrict or silence the mainly-Conservative grassroots/astroturf efforts just in time for 2008. (I don't believe it's a coincidence that MoveOn.org doesn't fall under their definition of astroturfing.) Politicians (all politicians, mind you) will say and do anything to get re-elected.
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rawr. The evil Finns are time-travelers who come to the future to pirate hip-hop tracks! SUESUESUE!
Because there's something called Intellectual Property. I doubt you'd like it if I copied all your comments and posted them as my own unique thoughts. Writing songs that fit into a music style of a previous composer has nothing to do with blatantly copying somebody else's song without even giving them credit, let alone paying them any sort of royalty. And BTW, those hundreds of instrument designers get their money when you buy the instruments.