Obviously, Canada puts more importance to somebody's right to a fair trial, unencumbered by media babblings and ranting than into freedom of the owners of presses.
After all, unlike the USA, Canada is still the british villain...
Forget stilettos as the foot fetishist shoe of choice, a new Melbourne magazine is delving into the seductive world of joggers. ...
The magazine's creator, Simon Wood, aka Woody, said that sneakers were sexy.
About damnn fucking time! I've been jerking-off with my sneakers on when I was a kid, and having sex with sneakers is a very big turn-on for me! Shit, you should see the boner I have while writing this!!!!
In Canada, there is *ALREADY* a tax on blank CDs and cassettes specially for that.
And, you know what? it's **PERFECTLY LEGAL TO BORROW ANYTHING AND MAKE A COPY FOR YOUR OWN USE**. Up to now, I have more than 10 gigabytes of MP3, all ripped from borrowed CDs from public libraries, and I'm not about to stop.
True, but the US is the second largest producer of movies in the world. Not sure about music (a Carlin routine I saw last year claimed 15K CDs/year), or TV.
Of crappy movies, perhaps. After all, those are engineered to appeal to the most people, so they have to be crappy because you have to cater to the lower end of the bell curve, since those who are on the upper end are too smart to enjoy Hollywood drivel...
The US is only 5% of the population of the world. The rest of the world will be unencumbered by that silly decision; and the creative work will continue unhindered elsewhere in the world, and no one will notice. After all, there aren't very much creative stuff coming from the USA, most especially from Disney...
Obviously, apart from the multiplatform thingy, the bloat surely comes from evolving code; that is, you start with a neat, swift & cool architectyre (Netscrape 1), then add some bells and whistles (Netscrape 2), then you get featuritis (Netscrape 4) until the bloat becomes unmanageable (Netscape 7).
At one point, it's necessary to stop and redo everything from scratch.
Star Radionics, a Kalamazoo*, Michigan technology startup has announced a new line of products in it's immensely successful CloZapper line of microwave clothing-zappers. The new line of products do not call anymore for the clothing to be totally enclosed in a resonating cavity, as before. Furthermore, the new line, being tuned to the resonant frequency of silicon, is no longer is harmful to chordates, thus enabling zapping of clothes whilst being worn.
The top of the line models include a state-of-the-art spectrum analyzer that's useful to track down the femtochip before zapping it, so only the affected area can be "treated" and that the zapping can positively be ascertainted, not to mention the power savings afforded by the unit.
* Yes, there really is a Kalamazoo (any/.er from there can attest that the sign at the station is still up?).
President Georges W. has announced a new US NAVY/USAF taskforce destined to take out the communication equipment of foreign ISPs who are complained against by the *AA. The technology used is a combination of EMP and smoke-signal broadcasting.
I would have to say that what you get punished would depend on what you broke into. Walking in a unlocked employee only door at the mall is technically a crime but I doubt you could be arrested for it. Walking into the open vault at a bank is also technically a crime but you almost certainly would be arrested for that.
Owww. I'm a criminal. The business I work is in an old bank, and we did put the servers in the old safe. So every time I go to tend the servers, I am performing a criminal act...
(Note: some details have been altered to protect the innocent and cover-up the guilty)
Read properly. I said 23 years ago, so that's 1980. I was only 18 at the time, but I had experience in computer graphics programming plotters (I volunteered for a computer graphics art group - this was waaaaay before Postscript) so it was only natural that I'd be the one they turn to to generate the barcode sheets.
They were done on a HP-9847 graphics terminal (a company oddball that was lying in a corner 'cause no one had any use for it. I learned years later that it was a demo unit THAT HP FORGOT THERE!!!!) onto which you could load a (surprisingly good - compared to the usual Microsoft crap - yes, Microsoft used to do crap then) BASIC interpreter, all this driving a IEEE-488 plotter. But eventually, I found the setup so disgusting (can't stand BASIC) that I wrote a device driver for the mainframe and I reprogrammed the barcode sheet programs. All in PL-1. Needless to say, that pretty well annoyed the dinosaur tenders of the time that I'd be using THEIR big iron to make graphics... Not to mention asking them all sorts of technical information in order to hack this...
In that project, I eventually also programmed the database on the mainframe that received the data, as well as the mainframe-side communication program, after my bosses saw that I managed to write a plotter driver for the dinosaur...
Anyway, the project was eventually canned because there was to much high-management interference (this was for a Fortune-500 ** CANDY ** company!!!) which brought the progress to a crawl. Only 10 prototypes of the computer were built, and I believe some still exist to this day.
* * *
Nowadays, I manage the computer department for a design company which designs museums (we're currently doing a museum for the Smithsonian, amongst other things), and I have a tax-credit consulting sideline.
For fun, I troll on Slashdot and NANAE, and have plenty of sex.
Now, for those who imply that there is no life beyond 30 years, I say you're fucking bunch of peepsqueaks whippersnappers; first of all, my sex drive went waaaay up when I hit 32 (went from 5 screws/week to 3/day), and I don't have any problems to pick-up; heck, a few months ago, a 19 year old jumped on me, and whas subsequently duly fully fucked by myself (and this happenned in a city park).
23 years ago, I was involved in a project to make a portable computer for data-entry, to replace optically-readed mark-sense sheets.
The final solution was to have no keyboard at all, but rather a computer whose motherboard was embedded in a 3-ring binder, with sheets.
On the sheets, were some barcodes, arranged in roughly the same layout the mark-sense cards were.
(For the geeks, the machine was MC6809-based, and had 56K CMOS RAM. The LCD display was always powered, but the computer shut down after it finished decoding a barcode and processing the "keystroke".)
... however, unlike automobiles and hair salons, whose technology haven't changed much in the last 100 years (a car's engine still works the same as 100 years ago, no matter how many microchips it has), so keeping a tech current is no big deal.
However, this is not the case with computers, given the wide variation in platforms AND software. Keeping a tech current just to satisfy "legal" requirements would take 100% of the tech's available time.
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The measure may be as simple as letting one listen to the song as it is downloaded, and having the users "moderate" it, à la Slashdot.
What we have is a huge cluon deficit on the part of the record companies.
Did they think putting-in slashdotted companies?
After all, unlike the USA, Canada is still the british villain...
No, it wasn't that long ago; more like in the early 80's...
Being a jerk should never be outlawed. It's so comforting to oneself when one sees a jerk acting-up...
Anybody else remember that National Lampoon parody?
And, you know what? it's **PERFECTLY LEGAL TO BORROW ANYTHING AND MAKE A COPY FOR YOUR OWN USE**. Up to now, I have more than 10 gigabytes of MP3, all ripped from borrowed CDs from public libraries, and I'm not about to stop.
CDs don't play at all.
The US is only 5% of the population of the world. The rest of the world will be unencumbered by that silly decision; and the creative work will continue unhindered elsewhere in the world, and no one will notice. After all, there aren't very much creative stuff coming from the USA, most especially from Disney...
My favourite method is to put them down, and run over them with a EMD SD90MAC...
At one point, it's necessary to stop and redo everything from scratch.
Aren't geeks supposed to have region-free DVD players????
The top of the line models include a state-of-the-art spectrum analyzer that's useful to track down the femtochip before zapping it, so only the affected area can be "treated" and that the zapping can positively be ascertainted, not to mention the power savings afforded by the unit.
* Yes, there really is a Kalamazoo (any /.er from there can attest that the sign at the station is still up?).
President Georges W. has announced a new US NAVY/USAF taskforce destined to take out the communication equipment of foreign ISPs who are complained against by the *AA. The technology used is a combination of EMP and smoke-signal broadcasting.
I don't drink "Dew". I drink San-Pellegrino Limonata. Now that's a power-drink, not for sweet-tooth geeks!!!!
Read properly. I said 23 years ago, so that's 1980. I was only 18 at the time, but I had experience in computer graphics programming plotters (I volunteered for a computer graphics art group - this was waaaaay before Postscript) so it was only natural that I'd be the one they turn to to generate the barcode sheets.
They were done on a HP-9847 graphics terminal (a company oddball that was lying in a corner 'cause no one had any use for it. I learned years later that it was a demo unit THAT HP FORGOT THERE!!!!) onto which you could load a (surprisingly good - compared to the usual Microsoft crap - yes, Microsoft used to do crap then) BASIC interpreter, all this driving a IEEE-488 plotter. But eventually, I found the setup so disgusting (can't stand BASIC) that I wrote a device driver for the mainframe and I reprogrammed the barcode sheet programs. All in PL-1. Needless to say, that pretty well annoyed the dinosaur tenders of the time that I'd be using THEIR big iron to make graphics... Not to mention asking them all sorts of technical information in order to hack this...
In that project, I eventually also programmed the database on the mainframe that received the data, as well as the mainframe-side communication program, after my bosses saw that I managed to write a plotter driver for the dinosaur...
Anyway, the project was eventually canned because there was to much high-management interference (this was for a Fortune-500 ** CANDY ** company!!!) which brought the progress to a crawl. Only 10 prototypes of the computer were built, and I believe some still exist to this day.
* * *
Nowadays, I manage the computer department for a design company which designs museums (we're currently doing a museum for the Smithsonian, amongst other things), and I have a tax-credit consulting sideline.
For fun, I troll on Slashdot and NANAE, and have plenty of sex.
Now, for those who imply that there is no life beyond 30 years, I say you're fucking bunch of peepsqueaks whippersnappers; first of all, my sex drive went waaaay up when I hit 32 (went from 5 screws/week to 3/day), and I don't have any problems to pick-up; heck, a few months ago, a 19 year old jumped on me, and whas subsequently duly fully fucked by myself (and this happenned in a city park).
The final solution was to have no keyboard at all, but rather a computer whose motherboard was embedded in a 3-ring binder, with sheets.
On the sheets, were some barcodes, arranged in roughly the same layout the mark-sense cards were.
(For the geeks, the machine was MC6809-based, and had 56K CMOS RAM. The LCD display was always powered, but the computer shut down after it finished decoding a barcode and processing the "keystroke".)
However, this is not the case with computers, given the wide variation in platforms AND software. Keeping a tech current just to satisfy "legal" requirements would take 100% of the tech's available time.