All this talk of Pandora is making me long for the service again.
Thanks to the wonders of international copyright law, we can't legally listen to Pandora in Canada. (Yes, I am aware that I can just use a proxy to get around it, but bandwidth can be an issue).
Here up north in Canada, entry grade is decided by year. ie: My tenth grade class is composed almost exclusively of students born in 1992 (except for special cases such as acceleration and out-of-country transfers).
I'm not quite sure how well oil would keep over the several billion years since mars was warm enough to support liquid water, but it is an interesting thought.
We could get it off Mars if we invested in reusable launch systems on the Martian surface, such as space elevators and mass drivers; however by the time we get the project rolling we'd be long out of Earth-based oil and on to a new energy source.
So you're suggesting that if somebody doesn't want to pay ICANN, then they're a criminal?
Don't forget that most ISPs assign a fully qualified domain name for all static and dynamic IPs. If a file sharing client used these, then wouldn't it be legal, defeating your law?
Piracy has been possible on the 360 for a long time now due to DVD firmware hacks. It's homebrew that's not yet available.
My original Xbox with XBMC is probably the best hack there is. Streaming media to my living room over Samba on my local network is incredibly convenient.
"Persian or Afghani" ? You mean indo-European ? Those are countries, not ethnic groups. You cannot recognize an Afghan from a Dutch, except for language and predisposition to blowing himself up (oh sorry it's called "religion")
This kind of ignorance about Islam really sickens me. Have you even read the Qur'an? Or Islamic history? You can't take the actions of a few ultra-radical fundamentalists as a mark of the religion as a whole.
No matter how well intentioned this is, it'll be heavily regulated once people start using it as an easily-accessible, high-yield still.
Not sure why this is so expensive, though, when a dedicated individual can build a still which will give the same purity for next to nothing out of old parts, and large volumes at that. The technology isn't exactly complex, it can be traced as far back as the Babylonians, and later the Greeks.
Who knows, this could even rekindle the fire of the dying moonshine culture. Modern mind-altering substances like marijuana have mostly taken its place, but this could get some people interested for old time's sake.
>> something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
Yeah, right. As though that's possible. There is another theory stating that this has already happened.
Physical cable isn't the only way to gain internet access. Satellite is really taking off in remote areas now. Of course, that's a bad example because satellite's line-of-sight, but there's other technologies that could be used for radio internet access underground.
And when the machines break down, or perhaps are destroyed by an enterprising terrorist group who manage to build some sort of EMP device, such as a nuclear weapon in the upper atmosphere?
Suddenly you've got a lot of helpless people on your hands.
Personally, I've always favored a chemical gas approach.
A very simple method would be to smuggle a quantity of (solid) sodium cyanide and a (liquid) concentration of purified sulfuric acid. Enough could be brought under the 100g liquid limit without too much trouble (put in in a small glass cologne bottle or something).
Once airborne, head up towards the cockpit and combine the two chemicals outside the door (or throw it in, if they leave it open). While the amount of hydrogen cyanide you produce might typically be trivial, on an airplane, I'm willing to bet that the air circulation might prove fatal to a significant number of the passengers and crew, ideally the pilots. Without people to fly, after all, air travel doesn't work too well.
so unless they happened to be broadcasting their encyclopedia galactica
That would would really suck. But on the other hand, they might be broadcasting their Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and we can finally mix up some Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters.
Since this is a US issue only... more business for Ubisoft/Ubisoft Montreal/2K Australia/Bioware/Nintendo/Konami/Capcom, among countless other foreign publishers?
What may be misfortune to one man is a gift to another.
If google were selling email to spammers, it's kinda contradictory that they would include an excellent antispam feature. I've had my email address published in various places across the web, obscured. I get on average 20-30 spam messages a day as a result. They all go to the spam folder, and I've never had a false positive.
Which is why I like the local, privately-owned (as opposed to just being one more acquired outlet of Cineplex Odeon or some other corporate film giant) theatre the small town I live in. It's been running continuously for over 90 years, having started life as a stage theatre and converting to a movie theatre later on. One screen, an actual projectionist in the booth running 35mm film through the projector, reasonably priced concession, and a theatre staff that doesn't care if you bring your own food in or not.
But probably the best feature of the theatre is the total lack of anti-piracy propaganda. I didn't even think that this was a big issue until I went to see a movie in the city. Posters plastered over the walls from the MPAA's you-can-click-but-you-can't-hide campaign (which is odd, considering the MPAA has no power in Canada) and a surly staff that patrolled the interior of the "theatre" threatening to have anyone with a camcorder held and arrested. Next time I go there, I'm bringing a few friends and Pirate Bay posters and taping them over the MPAA signs while the staff isn't looking.
It used to be. The functionality was dropped in the 1.5 series.
You can get it back, though. Head to wikipedia, right click on the search field, and choose "add a keyword for this search." Enter "Wikipedia" as the name and "wp" as the keyword. This works with any form, so you can add it for any site you visit with a search field.
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All this talk of Pandora is making me long for the service again.
Thanks to the wonders of international copyright law, we can't legally listen to Pandora in Canada. (Yes, I am aware that I can just use a proxy to get around it, but bandwidth can be an issue).
Here up north in Canada, entry grade is decided by year. ie: My tenth grade class is composed almost exclusively of students born in 1992 (except for special cases such as acceleration and out-of-country transfers).
I'm not quite sure how well oil would keep over the several billion years since mars was warm enough to support liquid water, but it is an interesting thought.
We could get it off Mars if we invested in reusable launch systems on the Martian surface, such as space elevators and mass drivers; however by the time we get the project rolling we'd be long out of Earth-based oil and on to a new energy source.
So you're suggesting that if somebody doesn't want to pay ICANN, then they're a criminal?
Don't forget that most ISPs assign a fully qualified domain name for all static and dynamic IPs. If a file sharing client used these, then wouldn't it be legal, defeating your law?
Piracy has been possible on the 360 for a long time now due to DVD firmware hacks. It's homebrew that's not yet available.
My original Xbox with XBMC is probably the best hack there is. Streaming media to my living room over Samba on my local network is incredibly convenient.
In Windows, a screensaver is just an executable with its extension changed to .scr
This kind of ignorance about Islam really sickens me. Have you even read the Qur'an? Or Islamic history? You can't take the actions of a few ultra-radical fundamentalists as a mark of the religion as a whole.
No matter how well intentioned this is, it'll be heavily regulated once people start using it as an easily-accessible, high-yield still.
Not sure why this is so expensive, though, when a dedicated individual can build a still which will give the same purity for next to nothing out of old parts, and large volumes at that. The technology isn't exactly complex, it can be traced as far back as the Babylonians, and later the Greeks.
Who knows, this could even rekindle the fire of the dying moonshine culture. Modern mind-altering substances like marijuana have mostly taken its place, but this could get some people interested for old time's sake.
Yay, mods on crack.
Neither of the parent posts are offtopic.
Yeah, right. As though that's possible. There is another theory stating that this has already happened.
wget? Hah! Real die hards telnet directly to the server and pass the HTTP commands themselves.
Physical cable isn't the only way to gain internet access. Satellite is really taking off in remote areas now. Of course, that's a bad example because satellite's line-of-sight, but there's other technologies that could be used for radio internet access underground.
And when the machines break down, or perhaps are destroyed by an enterprising terrorist group who manage to build some sort of EMP device, such as a nuclear weapon in the upper atmosphere?
Suddenly you've got a lot of helpless people on your hands.
Personally, I've always favored a chemical gas approach.
A very simple method would be to smuggle a quantity of (solid) sodium cyanide and a (liquid) concentration of purified sulfuric acid. Enough could be brought under the 100g liquid limit without too much trouble (put in in a small glass cologne bottle or something).
Once airborne, head up towards the cockpit and combine the two chemicals outside the door (or throw it in, if they leave it open). While the amount of hydrogen cyanide you produce might typically be trivial, on an airplane, I'm willing to bet that the air circulation might prove fatal to a significant number of the passengers and crew, ideally the pilots. Without people to fly, after all, air travel doesn't work too well.
That would would really suck. But on the other hand, they might be broadcasting their Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and we can finally mix up some Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters.
Since this is a US issue only... more business for Ubisoft/Ubisoft Montreal/2K Australia/Bioware/Nintendo/Konami/Capcom, among countless other foreign publishers?
What may be misfortune to one man is a gift to another.
It could be worse.
It could be Grey's Anatomy. *shudder*
If google were selling email to spammers, it's kinda contradictory that they would include an excellent antispam feature. I've had my email address published in various places across the web, obscured. I get on average 20-30 spam messages a day as a result. They all go to the spam folder, and I've never had a false positive.
Which is why I like the local, privately-owned (as opposed to just being one more acquired outlet of Cineplex Odeon or some other corporate film giant) theatre the small town I live in. It's been running continuously for over 90 years, having started life as a stage theatre and converting to a movie theatre later on. One screen, an actual projectionist in the booth running 35mm film through the projector, reasonably priced concession, and a theatre staff that doesn't care if you bring your own food in or not.
But probably the best feature of the theatre is the total lack of anti-piracy propaganda. I didn't even think that this was a big issue until I went to see a movie in the city. Posters plastered over the walls from the MPAA's you-can-click-but-you-can't-hide campaign (which is odd, considering the MPAA has no power in Canada) and a surly staff that patrolled the interior of the "theatre" threatening to have anyone with a camcorder held and arrested. Next time I go there, I'm bringing a few friends and Pirate Bay posters and taping them over the MPAA signs while the staff isn't looking.
It used to be. The functionality was dropped in the 1.5 series.
You can get it back, though. Head to wikipedia, right click on the search field, and choose "add a keyword for this search." Enter "Wikipedia" as the name and "wp" as the keyword. This works with any form, so you can add it for any site you visit with a search field.
Karma, subscriber.
Absolutely impossible to get caught. It's not like an unnanounced rocket launch would start a war or anything, would it?
Don't forget thermonuclear weapons.
*whoosh*