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| Acmlm's Board - I3 Archive - - Posts by emcee |
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emcee Red Super Koopa                   Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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Originally posted by ||bass No, Grokster ran on a decentralized network. And that fact won them several cases until appeals made it to the supreme court. The intial verdicts were that since they didn't control the network their software ran on they weren't taking affirmative steps to promote piracy, and therefor weren't resposible for the action of those using their product under the precedent of the Betamax case. However, SCOTUS said that since the network is overwhelmingly used for piracy, supporting that network (in this case, by making software to access it) without taking steps to discourage piracy, was in itself promoting piracy. Since pretty much all modern filesharing software run on a decentralized network, shutting the software venders down won't make the software stop working. But the AA's have started suing individual users, not in an attempt to shut down the network one user at a time, but instead to scare other users into switching to legal pay services. Since it can easily be proven that these users have commited piracy, there is no need to use the Grokster ruling. But if this OFF system ever catches on, then they can just switch to using that. The Grokster ruling wasn't so much that they had directly promoted piracy but that they supported a network that promoted piracy. So it wouldn't matter whether it could proven what copyrighted file a user transfered to who, or whether a copyrighted file was transfered at all, only that their computer acted as a node on a network primarily used for piracy. Originally posted by windwaker No that's not it either. It's more like you have two bags of gravel that when mixed together a statue pops out that in no way resembles the gravel. A very simple example, say this is the file: 68144209 So the program would create files like this: 1307 0303 And files like this: 0502 1403 The files created in no way resemble the original file or each other. But when combined: 13*05=68 07*02=14 14*03=42 03*03=09 They create the original file. This obviously isn't exactly how it works, and much larger numbers are involved, but this is the basic concept. (edited by emcee on 08-19-06 04:34 AM) |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| I think that was actually funnier because I didn't understand a word he was saying. All the pieces falling at once was pretty funny. | |||
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| I'm not sure I understand the issue here. If you think your OS is the best one available, then keep using it. Why be concerned with what OS other people are using?
That guy getting beat up over Linux, though, gave me a pretty good laugh. It just made me imagine a school full of incredibly violent nerds. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| You should be happy it's not actually like a prison, or you'd have to hoof the water to get it in.
As for uniforms, I would've been happy if they had implemented them when I was in school, it would force people to wear pants that fit instead of having their butt hanging out. So actually uniforms would have made it less like a prison. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| I got 135, which if the the test really does rank between 75 and 144 means I got about 5 wrong (assuming all carry the same wieght). There were two I guessed on because I didn't know the answer, and one that seemed to have two equally likely "correct" answers. Which means there's atleast two I thought I got right that I got wrong. Which is odd since the rest seemed ridiculously easy. Although it did seem odd that I had to break out the Pythagorean (Wow, spelled that right on the first try) Theorem on one (I wonder if I was cheating by using windows calculator). I had also never heard alot of the quotes, but I think the idea was to read through the options and pick the only one that makes sense.
Anyway, I have to know, what number did John like? And not knowing what an apricot is, is a little odd. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| Not to be mean, but the third pic is clearly a female. | |||
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| I just saw it, there was about 10 people in the theatre. Not enough to be fun, but too many for me to talk through the whole movie. Oh well, I always MSTie the trailers reguardless of how many people are there. There was some horse movie promo, but when it showed a bunch of them running across a field, no one seemed to get my "Horses On a Plain" joke.
As for the movie it wasn't bad. The seemingly endless array of cliche characters was very amusing. And the fact that the first people killed were simultaneously doing drugs and having sex, was pure genius. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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Originally posted by HyperHacker They all do that. But apparently that wasn't enough. I think the ruling said something about filtering results, or blocking transfers. Which isn't really technically feasible. Content owners could contact the software venders about intellectual property violations on a network being accessed by their software, and the vender could then add filters for files matching that checksum (probably through so auto-update system), but then just changing a single byte anywhere in the file would easily bypass the filter. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa  Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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Originally posted by setz I brought that up because that style actually started in prisons. I won't go into why, but it has to do with why SuperLuigi64 should be very, very happy his school isn't actually like a prison. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| What is it about the Virgin Mary that people seem to see her in particular in just about everything. Awhile back people were gathering around a rust stain from a drain pipe in Chicago because they thought it looked like the Virgin Mary. | |||
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| You know, I don't see anyone trying to make machines that create matter out of absolutely nothing, why do the think they can do that with energy? | |||
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| No, its not plausible.
For example, the earth is revolving around the sun, and will continue to revolve around it for the next 5 billion years, at which point the sun will collapse. However if the Sun never collapsed, the Earth would eventually stop reolving aroung the sun due to contact with metors and dust, which take energy from it. The movement of the earth around the sun is kinetic energy. It isn't being created or destroyed, its just there, and if the earth never came in contact with anything else, it would never stop or slow down. If ran in a perfect vacuum (something, that as far as I know, doesn't exist), this guy's invention may very well run forever, but that does nobody any good, besides giving you something neat to look at (come to think of photons would likely slow it down too, so you couldn't even look at it). But as soon as any of the kinetic energy is transfered to something else (like to, say, run an appliance), it will stop or slow down. (edited by emcee on 08-20-06 05:16 PM) (edited by emcee on 08-21-06 12:50 AM) |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| The law of conservation of energy is one of the basic concepts that most mordern physics are based around, and its the first law of thermodynamics. The law of inertia is Newton's first law of motion, and part of the basis for Newtonian physics. I don't have to prove what other much smarter men already have. | |||
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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Originally posted by ||bass By your logic Einstein was a complete moron. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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Originally posted by 182077607309.34 + Well, yeah, it would fall into the sun. The same way man made satellites fall to earth eventually. As far as no perfect vacuums go, I think it has something to do with quantum mechanics, I'm not really sure. Originally posted by "Guy Perfect" I think the pendulum on a clock just keeps time, I don't they actually powers the clock, I think they have to be wound. I could be wrong about that, but either way it will eventually slow down due to friction even if it takes a long time. The amount of friction acting on a clock is alot less than a car though. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| I don't keep weapons near me when I sleep. I'm a very deep sleeper, so having a weapon in my room would just be giving the intruder a weapon. | |||
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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Originally posted by drjayphd It's one of the "powertoy" addons you can download from Microsoft's site. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| Seeing as both lack the ability to actual attack each other, the outlet would win just due to stamina (the plant will eventually die on its own). | |||
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| I thought it was great how it didn't even try to make sense. I mean sure if this bad guy had enough access to put a huge crate of deadly snakes on a plane, he could just as easily put a bomb in there instead. But I guess there's nothing really funny about "Bomb On a Plane".
Come to think of it, though, as cheesy as this movie is it doesn't even come close to "Eraser". And that was all unintentional cheesiness. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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Originally posted by Vyper 25%? Where did you get that number from? |
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And what do you mean by “If ran in a perfect vacuum (something, that as far as I know, doesn't exist)”? I always thought making a vacuum was as simple as pumping the air out of a sealed container….