"You won't be able to see behind the object or anything insane like that, but you could concievably take two pictures of someone's face, and get a 3d snapshot of the face which would require only small changes to look normal."
I seem to recall a short story somewhere(can't remember where, or by who) where the protagonist was working with the same kind of technology but found that he COULD see the back of objects. If I remember correctly, he could see the back of objects, but when he went and actually looked there himself, at the back of the objects he photgraphed, what he observed was entirely different then what his camera recorded. Essentially, he had stumbled onto a sort of alternate reality.
Fiction, obviously, but it made for an interesting read.
One, I wonder what the results would be if this was implemented with a standard emulsion film camera and a double-exposure of the same film. One exposure being with a flash, the other without. I no longer own a emulsion film camera, so I cannot test it and evaluate the results.
Two, this also might explain something odd I experienced in the desert of California, at a ghost town called Rhyolite. My wife and I were approaching the town late at night and we noticed bright flashes coming from the direction of the ghost town. Very bright. As we approached closer, we saw that someone was aiming what appeared to be a modified, hand-held aircraft landing light(with a momentary trigger) at the old bank building. They had a single camera set up and then proceeded to light the outside of the building, from different angles, repeatedly. They did this for quite some time. I am not sure if they had a single, running exposure going, or multiple exposures. I am not sure what their goal was, but this might be an explanation. They could quite possible have been trying to achieve a 3D effect with emulsions film (this was 20+ years ago, so I doubt they were doing digital photography).
While I agree with you regarding the artistic merit of WoW ("stunning" was the word I found myself using a lot)and the storyline(very immersive), I have to agree with the parent poster. I found the repetitiveness of faction grinding, material acquisition, etc., very annoying. I found myself doing the same thing over and over just to do something different. Also, as a regular highend raider, I found that I had to obligate myself, in order to keep raiding, to times that were not really available for gaming. It was, in effect, effecting other non-gaming aspects of my life. I felt locked into the game. This realization was what made me decide to cancel my account. I do miss it, but I am glad to have no more obligation to the game.
The thing I liked about it the most was large-scale cooperation of many players, many good friends. But eventually, the repetition outweighed the benefits.
I reactivated my Ultima Online accounts (I have two) and now I can play wherever and whenever I want(I can take a brand new character into the hardest dungeon in the game, if I choose, but would probably not last long). I have zero obligation to do something in the game I do not want to, in order to be allowed access to other content. It is a very NON-linear game, as opposed to WoW being very linear, in that you have to do certain things, many times, in order to experience certain content. Sure, Ultima Online has repetition. But it not required.
To this day, and after trying most of the MMOs that have come out since UO, I have YET to find a game that gives me the freedom Ultima Online does.
I was booked for a crime I didn't commit, and, in fact, nobody committed. The sheriffs at the jail soon realized this, dropped the charges and released me(I was out in less then an hour).
Several months later, while pursuing a job, I was perplexed by the fact that I was striking out badly in the job market. I was usually able to get a job after the first or second interview (Not to toot my own horn, but I'm good at what I do).
Trying to find an answer, I googled my own name.
What I found was highly distressing. The booking reports for the local jail are ALL posted to the web, REGARDLESS OF THE CASE OUTCOME. To make matters worse, the booking report was WRONG. It claimed I had been arrested for a far more serious crime.
After contacting the sheriffs office, I was informed that it is state law that all public records must be published to the web (apparently, accurate or not). What a crock. I was indignant with the sheriffs that had arrested me, made them look like fools (unintentionally, was just trying to get due process) and so they jerked me over knowing that whatever they wrote up would be published to the web.
I have no recourse, according to everyone I have spoken to about it.
So. No crime committed by me, and suddenly I can't get a job. I have no respect for the justice system of this country after all that. Idiot cops taking out petty revenge on an innocent person.
Needless to say, I think that an assumed gag-order should be in place for ALL criminal suspects until found GUILTY and ALL avenues of appeal have been addressed. Period.
There may be a silver lining here. I have since decided to work for myself, rather then have some employer turn around and fire me after he decides to google my name months after I am hired. Seriously considered having my name legally changed after this.
I find it hard to believe that no encryption software out there has a self-destruct mechanism built in. Give them one passphrase and it decrypts. Give them another passphrase and it attempts to re-encrypt but with an unknown key, leaving NOBODY with access.
Passphrases that are obtained under duress would be a non-issue, more because the people trying to get the information would already know that there is a good chance the info will be lost anyways.
Get tossed in jail for Contempt of Court? They would have to prove that the information was there in the first place. Kind of hard to do at that point.
This is a perfect situation for the REST of the world to voice its opinion.....by its own action.
C'mon, you guys. You know damn well that if enough/.ers got it together, the response to all this doesn't have to come from Georgia. The only requirement to respond is a conscience.
A background in IT is most certainly useful, though.
The problem is finding out who is in the wrong, and who is in the right.
Where the hell is all the Tinfoil-hat suspicion I usually see around here?
The guy more then likely had money stashed. He more then likely went to others for help once he escaped. Doesn't anyone think its possible that he was killed for this money by someone even sleazier then himself?
Nobody questions that there is an unrelated teenage FEMALE and a BABY involved? WTF?
C'mon/.
Escape, THEN kill yourself and family? Why not just fucking bedsheet yourself at the first "lights-out"?
This sounds HIGHLY suspect to me. Cheeeerist! I can think of dozens of scenarios that would explain this just as well as the scenario posited by the "authorities". And none of them as cheery as a murder/suicide.
How about they make an electric car I can fucking plug in to a wall outlet?
Seriously though, I thought the DMV for most states decided who can see good enough to drive. You fail the fucking test and reply, "But I have a "Buick Riviera Golden Years Edition"!"? And suddenly your on the road again?
To be honest, with old folks, I am more concerned that they should not be on the road, less because of vision issues, but for all the OTHER ailments associated with advanced aging.
My wife, daughters and myself were all nearly run over by some 70-something that had a heart attack behind the wheel of a 1-ton Dodge truck. The guy had to be dragged out of the wreckage of his truck carefully so as not to dislodge his oxygen supply. The guy can't even fucking BREATHE on his own and he is driving around as if he had all the right in the world to endanger everyone else on the road.
I can already hear the lawyers trying to figure out how to sue GM for all the fatalities this false-impression of safety causes.
A fee that AT&T charges you for simply being a customer that pays taxes on service(pretty much all of us, unless covered by a government contract for service. They government does not tax itself). They CAN tell you what that one is, per month, as they determine the amount, not a government agency. They simply choose not to. The name is misleading. It has NOTHING to do with the Federal Government. AT&T pays a fee to the Government, they simply pass that fee onto you although they are not mandated to do so.
Regulatory Cost Recovery Charge:
A fee AT&T charges you to recoup the cost of PROCESSING taxes on BEHALF of government agencies. It costs them money to do the accounting for your taxes and they, quite simply, pass the cost to you directly. This is not a tax or government-imposed fee. They CAN tell you what this one is, per month, as they determine the amount, not a government agency. They simply choose not to.
911 Training Fee:
This is a fee AT&T charges you. Unless it specifically mentions a municipality, state or other entity, the fee is going to AT&T. It is always on the bill, yet some areas do not have this fee as the training is usually paid for by the "911 Service Fee". If your local or state governments do not have such a fee, it is replaced on the bill by AT&T's own fee, and thus, they can tell you what it amounts to, each month, as it is determined by them, not a government agency. If it DOES specifically mention a entity other then AT&T, then AT&T may decline to tell you specifically what the amount will be, month to month, as they have no control over changes to the fee made by this other entity.
State Sales tax:
An actual tax! The state gets this fee. AT&T may decline to tell you the month to month cost of this tax as they have no control over the changes in such a tax. AT&T spends money calculating and billing you for this tax. The cost of such calculating and billing is passed on to you in the form of a "Regulatory Cost Recovery Fee"(see above)imposed on you by AT&T.
911 Service Fee:
A fee many local and state governments charge to offset the cost of 911 Emergency systems. AT&T collects this tax from you on behalf of the government. AT&T charges you to do this in the form of a "Regulatory Cost Recovery Fee"(see above)
If ANY of these charges apply to you, the cost of calculating them and billing you for them is passed onto you, the customer, in the form of the "Regulatory Cost Recovery Charge", imposed entirely by, and for the benefit of, AT&T.
I might add that there are NO regulations regarding the inherently slimy practice of a company putting their OWN fees in the same portion of your bill as the REAL taxes and fees. It is a con to give the impression these charges originate outside the company and to lend an air of authenticity, to state their own fees in the guise of of a governmentally-imposed fee. It is, quite simply put, a scam.
AT&T is not the only company that does this. They all do. Look at your bill. Then go read the FCC page regarding these fees/taxes/ripoffs at....
My logic is that it would be far easier to make a ONE GRAM sphere, then multiply the results by 1000.
What am I missing here? Harder to detect flaws?
And ANOTHER thing.
Why are they not just using a computer simulation, considering the weight of ONE silicon-28 atom is known? Mathematically construct one, then, if capable of producing a PERFECT sphere(which apparently, they are not), spend the million bucks.
Just seems, to me, like they are putting the cart in front of the donkey.
Why are we finding no extraterrestrial civilizations?
They all get to this step in technological advancement and "Black Hole" themselves?
Maybe a significant portion of existing black holes are not the results of collapsed stars, but rather previous Hadron-like mistakes of monumental proportions?
The "cat is out of the bag" as far as government electronic snooping is concerned.
Look at how "low-tech" the 9/11 attack was. Fake IDs and boxcutters.
Does anyone really believe that Terrorists are still using email and cellphones(other then bomb triggers)?
My guess is they have gone back to face-to-face MeatMeetings and good old SnailMail(with re-posting networks) in conjunction with simple codewords.
That being said, I seriously doubt all this Security "Theater" is aimed at Terrorists, if, indeed, it is more then theater. My guess is that it is all to head off the "revolution" by average citizens when they snap out of complacency.
The thing I like the most about the article is that the it specifically states the NAMES of the morons that thought they could get away with this.
All to often, articles simply list the name of the company in question, and the people actually behind the theft(I consider it theft) hide behind that, thus circumventing any real lasting public derision.
The article destroyed any credibility these idiots may have had in the gaming marketplace, and rightfully so. A simple Google search by potential employers/investors will be all it takes to bring up that article.
.....I can most assuredly state that I would not exist. My entire family on my father's side would have been wiped out.
My Grandfather was a German Jew. The ONLY reason he survived the War/Holocaust was due to the fact that he didn't fit the standard physical description, or have any easily recognizable attributes that the Nazi Party had deemed indicative of being jewish.
In short, he didn't look like a Jew.
You can bet your jackboots the Nazis would have used this technology to root out every single jew they could, and it would have indicted my Grandfather, without question.
"Well, as pointed out above, not only by me, if DRM accomplished anything, it's that people who got dicked over by DRMcrippled software they bought start looking for a way around DRM, find out about cracks and then you lost a customer. And unfortunately, not only the companies using DRM to harrass their customers lose them, everyone does. Someone who has found cracked soft doesn't discriminate anymore between "good" companies that employ either no DRM or less invasive DRM, and "bad" companies who try to enforce something as ridiculous as the crap we're discussing here."
This.
You just described ME. I was that smart guy that copied all my CD keys into both digital format and on paper, then tossed the mountains of boxes, jewelcases, etc in the trash. I literally had a bookcase full of the stuff.
Then, just to keep in goosestep with Murphy's Law, I not only lost the digital version of my keys(stolen thumb drive), but, as one would expect, I eventually upgraded to a new machine and had myself a problem. I had misplaced the paper/pen copy of my keys. Nowhere to be found. I now had literally thousands of dollars worth of software that I couldn't use.
The result? I went looking online for keys, and after ONE page of Google, I found The Pirate Bay. It took me all of 30 mins to find everything I needed to play my games again(as well as a key for Photoshop).
But that is not all I found.......
If it were not for the early form of DRM, CD keys, I would never have found what I did, because I would never have had a reason to LOOK.
The example we are all talking about is pretty much the equivalent of the company itself being the one that stole my thumb drive and tossing my paper copy of my keys. Why on earth would I buy a product that I KNOW is going to have that happen to it? And if I DID buy it, and it stopped working after the 3rd install, what do they think I am going to do? Buy it AGAIN? Of course not. I'm going to go find a crack to play what I paid for.
Call me a simpleton, but that whole DRM scenario just doesn't make any sense to me, from a business practicality point of view.
Tell ANYONE, that you expect to call you, to dial, wait for 2 rings, hang up, then call back.
I do not answer any call unless they call back in a short time.
The number of rings can be used to "prioritize", or screen people, that you actually expect to call you, i.e., two rings for the Boss, three rings for family, etc.,etc.. Another benefit is that allows me more time to actually get to my phone. If the rings do not fit the profile, I do not even have to go and pick up the phone to see the caller ID info. I just keep doing what I was doing.
Applying for a job but fear that your prospective employer may find the process restrictive and not call you back? Do not worry. Almost every single person I have told about this, and explained the reasoning behind it, has praised me...."Gee! Why didn't I think of that? Good idea!". You've already set yourself apart from the other people applying for the job.
Now, I have not used VoiP, so I do not know if the rings are the same as on a phone, but I am sure the same system could be adapted.
I continue to read the CNN website, but once I read a story, I go look for the "real" story elsewhere.
I wish everyone would do that.
Ever notice that some of the stories on CNN have a "Comments from the readers" section at the bottom? But when you read the story about Kucinich trying to get Bush impeached, all there is is links to Blogs condemning the idea? Where are the reader comments on THAT particular story? Trust me, I would have actually posted a comment on that story if provided the means.
I plan on using this impeachment attempt to sample the people in power.
The people that try to push this to the back burner, or fight it, will never receive a vote from me again. Not that I can vote in most of the areas these people are from anyways, but I am sure a lot of you folks can.
Slashdot Mirror
"You won't be able to see behind the object or anything insane like that, but you could concievably take two pictures of someone's face, and get a 3d snapshot of the face which would require only small changes to look normal."
I seem to recall a short story somewhere(can't remember where, or by who) where the protagonist was working with the same kind of technology but found that he COULD see the back of objects. If I remember correctly, he could see the back of objects, but when he went and actually looked there himself, at the back of the objects he photgraphed, what he observed was entirely different then what his camera recorded. Essentially, he had stumbled onto a sort of alternate reality.
Fiction, obviously, but it made for an interesting read.
One, I wonder what the results would be if this was implemented with a standard emulsion film camera and a double-exposure of the same film. One exposure being with a flash, the other without. I no longer own a emulsion film camera, so I cannot test it and evaluate the results.
Two, this also might explain something odd I experienced in the desert of California, at a ghost town called Rhyolite. My wife and I were approaching the town late at night and we noticed bright flashes coming from the direction of the ghost town. Very bright. As we approached closer, we saw that someone was aiming what appeared to be a modified, hand-held aircraft landing light(with a momentary trigger) at the old bank building. They had a single camera set up and then proceeded to light the outside of the building, from different angles, repeatedly. They did this for quite some time. I am not sure if they had a single, running exposure going, or multiple exposures. I am not sure what their goal was, but this might be an explanation. They could quite possible have been trying to achieve a 3D effect with emulsions film (this was 20+ years ago, so I doubt they were doing digital photography).
Just a couple thoughts.
Beauty is not confined to the exterior of people.
A beautiful person can be as homely as they get. Conversely, The most physically attractive person can be a mass-murderer.
Your assumption about previous posters comment was quite possibly faulty.
Mixed feelings about WoW.
While I agree with you regarding the artistic merit of WoW ("stunning" was the word I found myself using a lot)and the storyline(very immersive), I have to agree with the parent poster. I found the repetitiveness of faction grinding, material acquisition, etc., very annoying. I found myself doing the same thing over and over just to do something different. Also, as a regular highend raider, I found that I had to obligate myself, in order to keep raiding, to times that were not really available for gaming. It was, in effect, effecting other non-gaming aspects of my life. I felt locked into the game. This realization was what made me decide to cancel my account. I do miss it, but I am glad to have no more obligation to the game.
The thing I liked about it the most was large-scale cooperation of many players, many good friends. But eventually, the repetition outweighed the benefits.
I reactivated my Ultima Online accounts (I have two) and now I can play wherever and whenever I want(I can take a brand new character into the hardest dungeon in the game, if I choose, but would probably not last long). I have zero obligation to do something in the game I do not want to, in order to be allowed access to other content. It is a very NON-linear game, as opposed to WoW being very linear, in that you have to do certain things, many times, in order to experience certain content. Sure, Ultima Online has repetition. But it not required.
To this day, and after trying most of the MMOs that have come out since UO, I have YET to find a game that gives me the freedom Ultima Online does.
I was booked for a crime I didn't commit, and, in fact, nobody committed. The sheriffs at the jail soon realized this, dropped the charges and released me(I was out in less then an hour).
Several months later, while pursuing a job, I was perplexed by the fact that I was striking out badly in the job market. I was usually able to get a job after the first or second interview (Not to toot my own horn, but I'm good at what I do).
Trying to find an answer, I googled my own name.
What I found was highly distressing. The booking reports for the local jail are ALL posted to the web, REGARDLESS OF THE CASE OUTCOME. To make matters worse, the booking report was WRONG. It claimed I had been arrested for a far more serious crime.
After contacting the sheriffs office, I was informed that it is state law that all public records must be published to the web (apparently, accurate or not). What a crock. I was indignant with the sheriffs that had arrested me, made them look like fools (unintentionally, was just trying to get due process) and so they jerked me over knowing that whatever they wrote up would be published to the web.
I have no recourse, according to everyone I have spoken to about it.
So. No crime committed by me, and suddenly I can't get a job. I have no respect for the justice system of this country after all that. Idiot cops taking out petty revenge on an innocent person.
Needless to say, I think that an assumed gag-order should be in place for ALL criminal suspects until found GUILTY and ALL avenues of appeal have been addressed. Period.
There may be a silver lining here. I have since decided to work for myself, rather then have some employer turn around and fire me after he decides to google my name months after I am hired. Seriously considered having my name legally changed after this.
I find it hard to believe that no encryption software out there has a self-destruct mechanism built in. Give them one passphrase and it decrypts. Give them another passphrase and it attempts to re-encrypt but with an unknown key, leaving NOBODY with access.
Passphrases that are obtained under duress would be a non-issue, more because the people trying to get the information would already know that there is a good chance the info will be lost anyways.
Get tossed in jail for Contempt of Court? They would have to prove that the information was there in the first place. Kind of hard to do at that point.
This is a perfect situation for the REST of the world to voice its opinion.....by its own action.
C'mon, you guys. You know damn well that if enough /.ers got it together, the response to all this doesn't have to come from Georgia. The only requirement to respond is a conscience.
A background in IT is most certainly useful, though.
The problem is finding out who is in the wrong, and who is in the right.
Where the hell is all the Tinfoil-hat suspicion I usually see around here?
The guy more then likely had money stashed. He more then likely went to others for help once he escaped. Doesn't anyone think its possible that he was killed for this money by someone even sleazier then himself?
Nobody questions that there is an unrelated teenage FEMALE and a BABY involved? WTF?
C'mon /.
Escape, THEN kill yourself and family? Why not just fucking bedsheet yourself at the first "lights-out"?
This sounds HIGHLY suspect to me. Cheeeerist! I can think of dozens of scenarios that would explain this just as well as the scenario posited by the "authorities". And none of them as cheery as a murder/suicide.
How about they make an electric car I can fucking plug in to a wall outlet?
Seriously though, I thought the DMV for most states decided who can see good enough to drive. You fail the fucking test and reply, "But I have a "Buick Riviera Golden Years Edition"!"? And suddenly your on the road again?
To be honest, with old folks, I am more concerned that they should not be on the road, less because of vision issues, but for all the OTHER ailments associated with advanced aging.
My wife, daughters and myself were all nearly run over by some 70-something that had a heart attack behind the wheel of a 1-ton Dodge truck. The guy had to be dragged out of the wreckage of his truck carefully so as not to dislodge his oxygen supply. The guy can't even fucking BREATHE on his own and he is driving around as if he had all the right in the world to endanger everyone else on the road.
I can already hear the lawyers trying to figure out how to sue GM for all the fatalities this false-impression of safety causes.
Federal Universal Service Charge:
A fee that AT&T charges you for simply being a customer that pays taxes on service(pretty much all of us, unless covered by a government contract for service. They government does not tax itself). They CAN tell you what that one is, per month, as they determine the amount, not a government agency. They simply choose not to. The name is misleading. It has NOTHING to do with the Federal Government. AT&T pays a fee to the Government, they simply pass that fee onto you although they are not mandated to do so.
Regulatory Cost Recovery Charge:
A fee AT&T charges you to recoup the cost of PROCESSING taxes on BEHALF of government agencies. It costs them money to do the accounting for your taxes and they, quite simply, pass the cost to you directly. This is not a tax or government-imposed fee. They CAN tell you what this one is, per month, as they determine the amount, not a government agency. They simply choose not to.
911 Training Fee:
This is a fee AT&T charges you. Unless it specifically mentions a municipality, state or other entity, the fee is going to AT&T. It is always on the bill, yet some areas do not have this fee as the training is usually paid for by the "911 Service Fee". If your local or state governments do not have such a fee, it is replaced on the bill by AT&T's own fee, and thus, they can tell you what it amounts to, each month, as it is determined by them, not a government agency. If it DOES specifically mention a entity other then AT&T, then AT&T may decline to tell you specifically what the amount will be, month to month, as they have no control over changes to the fee made by this other entity.
State Sales tax:
An actual tax! The state gets this fee. AT&T may decline to tell you the month to month cost of this tax as they have no control over the changes in such a tax. AT&T spends money calculating and billing you for this tax. The cost of such calculating and billing is passed on to you in the form of a "Regulatory Cost Recovery Fee"(see above)imposed on you by AT&T.
911 Service Fee:
A fee many local and state governments charge to offset the cost of 911 Emergency systems. AT&T collects this tax from you on behalf of the government. AT&T charges you to do this in the form of a "Regulatory Cost Recovery Fee"(see above)
If ANY of these charges apply to you, the cost of calculating them and billing you for them is passed onto you, the customer, in the form of the "Regulatory Cost Recovery Charge", imposed entirely by, and for the benefit of, AT&T.
I might add that there are NO regulations regarding the inherently slimy practice of a company putting their OWN fees in the same portion of your bill as the REAL taxes and fees. It is a con to give the impression these charges originate outside the company and to lend an air of authenticity, to state their own fees in the guise of of a governmentally-imposed fee. It is, quite simply put, a scam.
AT&T is not the only company that does this. They all do. Look at your bill. Then go read the FCC page regarding these fees/taxes/ripoffs at....
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/phonebills/samplePhonebill.html#Carrier%20Universal%20Service%20Charge:
My logic is that it would be far easier to make a ONE GRAM sphere, then multiply the results by 1000.
What am I missing here? Harder to detect flaws?
And ANOTHER thing.
Why are they not just using a computer simulation, considering the weight of ONE silicon-28 atom is known? Mathematically construct one, then, if capable of producing a PERFECT sphere(which apparently, they are not), spend the million bucks.
Just seems, to me, like they are putting the cart in front of the donkey.
.........Maybe that explains why I cannot view the 2nd link in the summary.
Copy/Pasted into a permanent file on my machine.
May I use that as an attributable reference?
Why are we finding no extraterrestrial civilizations?
They all get to this step in technological advancement and "Black Hole" themselves?
Maybe a significant portion of existing black holes are not the results of collapsed stars, but rather previous Hadron-like mistakes of monumental proportions?
Hrmm.
Maybe I should have mentioned the complicity on the part of PRIVATE companies in regards to the Nazi regime?
I.G. Farben, Kruup, etc.
Trust me, if the money is there, these companies do not care who their customers are.
The "cat is out of the bag" as far as government electronic snooping is concerned.
Look at how "low-tech" the 9/11 attack was. Fake IDs and boxcutters.
Does anyone really believe that Terrorists are still using email and cellphones(other then bomb triggers)?
My guess is they have gone back to face-to-face MeatMeetings and good old SnailMail(with re-posting networks) in conjunction with simple codewords.
That being said, I seriously doubt all this Security "Theater" is aimed at Terrorists, if, indeed, it is more then theater. My guess is that it is all to head off the "revolution" by average citizens when they snap out of complacency.
The thing I like the most about the article is that the it specifically states the NAMES of the morons that thought they could get away with this.
All to often, articles simply list the name of the company in question, and the people actually behind the theft(I consider it theft) hide behind that, thus circumventing any real lasting public derision.
The article destroyed any credibility these idiots may have had in the gaming marketplace, and rightfully so. A simple Google search by potential employers/investors will be all it takes to bring up that article.
Back to McDonald's with you, fryboy!
.....I can most assuredly state that I would not exist. My entire family on my father's side would have been wiped out.
My Grandfather was a German Jew. The ONLY reason he survived the War/Holocaust was due to the fact that he didn't fit the standard physical description, or have any easily recognizable attributes that the Nazi Party had deemed indicative of being jewish.
In short, he didn't look like a Jew.
You can bet your jackboots the Nazis would have used this technology to root out every single jew they could, and it would have indicted my Grandfather, without question.
"Well, as pointed out above, not only by me, if DRM accomplished anything, it's that people who got dicked over by DRMcrippled software they bought start looking for a way around DRM, find out about cracks and then you lost a customer. And unfortunately, not only the companies using DRM to harrass their customers lose them, everyone does. Someone who has found cracked soft doesn't discriminate anymore between "good" companies that employ either no DRM or less invasive DRM, and "bad" companies who try to enforce something as ridiculous as the crap we're discussing here."
This.
You just described ME. I was that smart guy that copied all my CD keys into both digital format and on paper, then tossed the mountains of boxes, jewelcases, etc in the trash. I literally had a bookcase full of the stuff.
Then, just to keep in goosestep with Murphy's Law, I not only lost the digital version of my keys(stolen thumb drive), but, as one would expect, I eventually upgraded to a new machine and had myself a problem. I had misplaced the paper/pen copy of my keys. Nowhere to be found. I now had literally thousands of dollars worth of software that I couldn't use.
The result? I went looking online for keys, and after ONE page of Google, I found The Pirate Bay. It took me all of 30 mins to find everything I needed to play my games again(as well as a key for Photoshop).
But that is not all I found.......
If it were not for the early form of DRM, CD keys, I would never have found what I did, because I would never have had a reason to LOOK.
The example we are all talking about is pretty much the equivalent of the company itself being the one that stole my thumb drive and tossing my paper copy of my keys. Why on earth would I buy a product that I KNOW is going to have that happen to it? And if I DID buy it, and it stopped working after the 3rd install, what do they think I am going to do? Buy it AGAIN? Of course not. I'm going to go find a crack to play what I paid for.
Call me a simpleton, but that whole DRM scenario just doesn't make any sense to me, from a business practicality point of view.
Simply do what I do.
Tell ANYONE, that you expect to call you, to dial, wait for 2 rings, hang up, then call back.
I do not answer any call unless they call back in a short time.
The number of rings can be used to "prioritize", or screen people, that you actually expect to call you, i.e., two rings for the Boss, three rings for family, etc.,etc.. Another benefit is that allows me more time to actually get to my phone. If the rings do not fit the profile, I do not even have to go and pick up the phone to see the caller ID info. I just keep doing what I was doing.
Applying for a job but fear that your prospective employer may find the process restrictive and not call you back? Do not worry. Almost every single person I have told about this, and explained the reasoning behind it, has praised me...."Gee! Why didn't I think of that? Good idea!". You've already set yourself apart from the other people applying for the job.
Now, I have not used VoiP, so I do not know if the rings are the same as on a phone, but I am sure the same system could be adapted.
Hopefully they wont get squished by big pissed-off trees while they "meander".
Oh, please.
Just because there are idiots out there that believe anything they read does not mean that I myself need to be protected, "for my own protection".
As I stated in a previous post, I seriously doubt anyone has more concern about my well-being then myself. I do NOT need your concern.
Sure, go help the idiots, but I'm doing just fine.
Your exactly correct.
I continue to read the CNN website, but once I read a story, I go look for the "real" story elsewhere.
I wish everyone would do that.
Ever notice that some of the stories on CNN have a "Comments from the readers" section at the bottom? But when you read the story about Kucinich trying to get Bush impeached, all there is is links to Blogs condemning the idea? Where are the reader comments on THAT particular story? Trust me, I would have actually posted a comment on that story if provided the means.
Yellow journalism is alive and well.
Thank you.
:)
Now I can just cut/paste that line in to all of my future Slashdot posts.
I plan on using this impeachment attempt to sample the people in power.
The people that try to push this to the back burner, or fight it, will never receive a vote from me again. Not that I can vote in most of the areas these people are from anyways, but I am sure a lot of you folks can.