That could be very well intentional. Maybe they were subtly trying to hint "hey our shit works with Mac too!" without having to actually come out and say it (and therefore have to back it up when the shit hits the fan).
it's easy as pie to take the TPB site code and turn it into 'art':
Step 1) RAR the whole thing, break it down into, say, 50MB files
Step 2) View those files in Notepad, which you are running from the copy of Windows XP that you downloaded last week from TPB
Step 3) Copy the ASCII text into a new image in the copy of Photoshop that you downloaded three months ago from TPB
Step 4) Apply some filters, gradients, throw in some flames and fractals at random, maybe a lens flare or two
Step 5) Be sure not to add too much crap to it, so that it can be OCR'ed later
Step 6) Save as ThePirateBaySiteRipPart1of4200.rar.JPG and post it somewhere
Because you know where to get hookers on your credit card?
putting blow on your credit card is easy. Step 1, buy blow with cash. Step 2, distribute some on the surface of a credit card. There you have it, blow on a credit card!
think of it like this: you are quite obese from a lifetime or poor eating habits. you know that your chances of health problems are far higher than if you were in better shape. it's not guaranteed, but you know the risk is there. you also know that you have two methods of shedding pounds: excercise and eat healthy (i.e. lower CO2 emissions) and surgery/medication (geoengineering). Surgery can reverse your condition temporarily, but if you don't cut down on the mcdonald's and go out for a jog every now and then, you'll just end up back in the same place a few years down the line.
this is pretty much the same thing. geoengineering can help cut down on atmospheric CO2 levels, it can change various weather systems, lower the overall temperature of the earth, but if we keep doing what we're doing, we're just going to end up back where we are now, and eventually no amount of liposuction will ever get rid of your man-boobs.
I would say that mounting a high res still camera in parallel with the CCTV camera and taking, say 1 picture every 10 seconds after the CCTV montion sensors are tripped, which would have quality comparable to a high-end consumer camera (i.e. 7-8 Mpixels), then use that data to enhance the video taken to aid in identifying suspects
That said, I don't think these 'enhanced' videos should be admissible as evidence, since the videos have been effectively tampered with and given the possibility of altering identifying features of a suspect using superimposition of a different picture on the video could either cause the wrong person to be jailed, or the actual criminal set free
Simple. You wouldn't attempt to gain access to network files from the command prompt. You would use that to CHANGE the password of a user on the machine that DOES have access (IIRC, if you change your password in the gui, it changes your password on the domain too). then log in normally using your new password and pilfer away. Remember, you've had enough physical access time to: 1) reboot the machine with a linux disc in, 2) rename a file on the NTFS drive and reboot again then 3) attempt to gain access through the cmd prompt. So, odds are in the 5-10 minutes you've sat at this machine, if someone hasn't caught you yet, you prolly have another 5 or so minutes to steal a bunch of company crap:)
Games like the traditional JRPG or most MMORPGs probably shouldn't be played by children, as they teach that the way to succeed is not to improve your own skills, but to put in a lot of time leveling up. This perspective will be useless in the real world unless they get one of the few seniority-based union jobs.
I honestly don't see it that way, at least for MMORPGs. "putting in time" does not necessarily equal leveling up your character, as to even kill progressively higher enemies, you must improve your skills and co-ordination, your ability to observe and multi-task (higher level areas feature tighter concentrations of enemies that can add to your fight, or more complex fight patterns that you need to apply more of your characters special skills to combat). You must learn social skills (albeit in a text-chat sort of way) when forming groups to tackle dungeons etc. However, the real progression is after you've leveled your character. That's when you have to figure out how you can use the skills that you've learned to benefit a raid of anywhere from 10 to 40 players to take down the hardest bosses in the game. All through this time leveling up and afterwards when you're raiding in a guild, there's thousands of trial and error, die, wipe, go back and try again situations, and each time you need to re-evaluate what you or your group did wrong and what you need to correct for the next time. You also need to learn a certain amount of maturity, a sense of responsibility, and dedication. You're not going get from being a lvl 1 to raiding bosses in an afternoon, rather days upon days of playing (the quickest time I've heard of in WoW for a player to go from 1 to 70 was 6 days played IIRC). some people spend months leveling up their character; most who do spend far more time in raids, learning the bosses, teaching other players etc.
To conclude, while arcade style and FPS games can help hand-eye co-ordination, I would definitely say that a good MMORPG like WoW or LotR can teach some very valuable life skills, not just twitch reflexes.
Given the tremendous amount of grass clippings likely needed to make enough ethanol to run a car (if we're talking about using the car on a regular basis), and the frequency at which grass clippings can be 'harvested', odds are that you'd be able to make enough to run your lawn mower(s), and the equipment to convert the grass clippings to ethanol (assuming you want to produce ethanol from grass clippings using no external energy sources), with little ethanol to spare.
you don't need to put 'work' and 'employee' in quotes, because that is exactly what they're trying to accomplish. They want to have the capability to fill more orders without having to hire more people. Considering that one robot is probably comparatively priced to a forklift operator + forklift over a couple years (given that licensed fork lift operators in North America make $15-$20/hour). The other advantage is that these robots can carry a bigger stack of pallets, and the pallets can both be stacked higher and closer together (since the robots only need on lane, and each lane only needs to be as big as the pallet), increasing the capacity of warehouses; which then allows the company to build less warehouses, again saving money.
I can't agree with that more. I love tinkering with electronic gadgets, as a kid I used to take apart RC cars and make stuff with the motors. One of the first lessons I learned was to check for short circuits when I burned my fingers connecting a wire to a shorted battery terminal. I learned to wear safety goggles, and to pour chemicals carefully when I splashed a chem set experiment in my eye (that stung!). I learned to cut away from myself when I sliced my finger open while building a model car. You can't learn that sort of stuff from a virtual chem/electronic/modelling program. Besides, at an age where you learn best by getting your hands dirty, clicking a mouse just doesn't cut it.
The excuse that 'Terrorists' use the chem sets for bombs and chemical warfare is ridiculous. If they are used for malicious purpose, it's more likely from your average neighbourhood punk kid making a smoke bomb or something similar. People wanting to cause REAL harm will be busy getting Ammonium Nitrate (fertilier) and Diesel (makeshift ANFO, a powerful explosive), or gunpowder, or Javex and Drano (cheap and easy way to get mustard gas) and causing all sorts of deadly havoc that way. one must wonder if DHS took the anarchist's cookbook a little too seriously..maybe next week, they'll be banning 3.25" floppies because you can embed match heads in them to cook floppy drives..
Not surprising, I've come across alot of people who could tell you what looks good on a website, but lack either the technical or creative ability to produce it themselves.
I was fully expecting to see Mythbusters in the lineup, or something similar. This is just tripe spat out from some retarded marketing department to get ratings from joe six-pack who thinks that 'geek shows' must feature some napoleon dynamite type who, using their ability to recite the Periodic Table, or the entire ASCII character set in binary, somehow manages to save the world, but still can't talk to girls..
It's simple and has been partially touched on already. Even though it's more data to make a voice call, it's still essentially free money to the phone company once the infrastructure is in place. What they want you to do is run out of minutes so they can charge you the $0.25/min extra. Therefore, they encourage you to use SMS at $0.15, but at the same time, the charge for messaging, however small, will encourage people to make voice calls and creep ever closer to the point when they have to pay out the nose.
I've worked for cell companies before, i've seen $2k phone bills. Almost always the customer said 'well it seemed cheaper than sending text messages...'
That's basically right. The underlying basis behind the levy in Canada (IAAC, BTW) was that since most people who had internet, a CD/DVD burner/flash card reader/external HDD etc. would either a) download from P2P sources or b) backup all their multimedia content to the above media, and all of their friends' content as well or c) all of the above. Therefore, the Canadian government struck a deal with the media associations in Canada to levy all recordable media as a way of payment to the content creators for a percentage of the pirated content. It's not to say that those who stick out can't be prosecuted, since copyright law supersedes this, however it does protect the average person from random litigation.
The gist was 'we can't possibly sue everyone for copyright infringement, so we'll just levy the means by which to copy, and only pursue those that exceed the levy by a significant amount'
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However, if you do add 8 women, you could conceivably get 1 baby per month for nine months.
That could be very well intentional. Maybe they were subtly trying to hint "hey our shit works with Mac too!" without having to actually come out and say it (and therefore have to back it up when the shit hits the fan).
it's not so much from advertising, it's from all those episodes of COPS
it's easy as pie to take the TPB site code and turn it into 'art':
Step 1) RAR the whole thing, break it down into, say, 50MB files
Step 2) View those files in Notepad, which you are running from the copy of Windows XP that you downloaded last week from TPB
Step 3) Copy the ASCII text into a new image in the copy of Photoshop that you downloaded three months ago from TPB
Step 4) Apply some filters, gradients, throw in some flames and fractals at random, maybe a lens flare or two
Step 5) Be sure not to add too much crap to it, so that it can be OCR'ed later
Step 6) Save as ThePirateBaySiteRipPart1of4200.rar.JPG and post it somewhere
And you're done!
Because you know where to get hookers on your credit card? putting blow on your credit card is easy. Step 1, buy blow with cash. Step 2, distribute some on the surface of a credit card. There you have it, blow on a credit card!
think of it like this: you are quite obese from a lifetime or poor eating habits. you know that your chances of health problems are far higher than if you were in better shape. it's not guaranteed, but you know the risk is there. you also know that you have two methods of shedding pounds: excercise and eat healthy (i.e. lower CO2 emissions) and surgery/medication (geoengineering). Surgery can reverse your condition temporarily, but if you don't cut down on the mcdonald's and go out for a jog every now and then, you'll just end up back in the same place a few years down the line.
this is pretty much the same thing. geoengineering can help cut down on atmospheric CO2 levels, it can change various weather systems, lower the overall temperature of the earth, but if we keep doing what we're doing, we're just going to end up back where we are now, and eventually no amount of liposuction will ever get rid of your man-boobs.
And here i thought they paid $250M for the first person to taste test it
Like Monday morning when your peak traffic is just beginning to hit the server?
I would say that mounting a high res still camera in parallel with the CCTV camera and taking, say 1 picture every 10 seconds after the CCTV montion sensors are tripped, which would have quality comparable to a high-end consumer camera (i.e. 7-8 Mpixels), then use that data to enhance the video taken to aid in identifying suspects
That said, I don't think these 'enhanced' videos should be admissible as evidence, since the videos have been effectively tampered with and given the possibility of altering identifying features of a suspect using superimposition of a different picture on the video could either cause the wrong person to be jailed, or the actual criminal set free
that wouldn't work anyways..simply take the magazine page and hold it up to your face like a mask, the thermal sensor wouldn't know the difference
Simple. You wouldn't attempt to gain access to network files from the command prompt. You would use that to CHANGE the password of a user on the machine that DOES have access (IIRC, if you change your password in the gui, it changes your password on the domain too). then log in normally using your new password and pilfer away. Remember, you've had enough physical access time to: :)
1) reboot the machine with a linux disc in,
2) rename a file on the NTFS drive and reboot again then
3) attempt to gain access through the cmd prompt.
So, odds are in the 5-10 minutes you've sat at this machine, if someone hasn't caught you yet, you prolly have another 5 or so minutes to steal a bunch of company crap
not to mention when things go sour, horses taste better than dirt bikes too :D
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I honestly don't see it that way, at least for MMORPGs. "putting in time" does not necessarily equal leveling up your character, as to even kill progressively higher enemies, you must improve your skills and co-ordination, your ability to observe and multi-task (higher level areas feature tighter concentrations of enemies that can add to your fight, or more complex fight patterns that you need to apply more of your characters special skills to combat). You must learn social skills (albeit in a text-chat sort of way) when forming groups to tackle dungeons etc. However, the real progression is after you've leveled your character. That's when you have to figure out how you can use the skills that you've learned to benefit a raid of anywhere from 10 to 40 players to take down the hardest bosses in the game. All through this time leveling up and afterwards when you're raiding in a guild, there's thousands of trial and error, die, wipe, go back and try again situations, and each time you need to re-evaluate what you or your group did wrong and what you need to correct for the next time. You also need to learn a certain amount of maturity, a sense of responsibility, and dedication. You're not going get from being a lvl 1 to raiding bosses in an afternoon, rather days upon days of playing (the quickest time I've heard of in WoW for a player to go from 1 to 70 was 6 days played IIRC). some people spend months leveling up their character; most who do spend far more time in raids, learning the bosses, teaching other players etc.
To conclude, while arcade style and FPS games can help hand-eye co-ordination, I would definitely say that a good MMORPG like WoW or LotR can teach some very valuable life skills, not just twitch reflexes.
And we ALL know how effective their copy protection schemes are...
Given the tremendous amount of grass clippings likely needed to make enough ethanol to run a car (if we're talking about using the car on a regular basis), and the frequency at which grass clippings can be 'harvested', odds are that you'd be able to make enough to run your lawn mower(s), and the equipment to convert the grass clippings to ethanol (assuming you want to produce ethanol from grass clippings using no external energy sources), with little ethanol to spare.
you don't need to put 'work' and 'employee' in quotes, because that is exactly what they're trying to accomplish. They want to have the capability to fill more orders without having to hire more people. Considering that one robot is probably comparatively priced to a forklift operator + forklift over a couple years (given that licensed fork lift operators in North America make $15-$20/hour). The other advantage is that these robots can carry a bigger stack of pallets, and the pallets can both be stacked higher and closer together (since the robots only need on lane, and each lane only needs to be as big as the pallet), increasing the capacity of warehouses; which then allows the company to build less warehouses, again saving money.
I can't agree with that more. I love tinkering with electronic gadgets, as a kid I used to take apart RC cars and make stuff with the motors. One of the first lessons I learned was to check for short circuits when I burned my fingers connecting a wire to a shorted battery terminal. I learned to wear safety goggles, and to pour chemicals carefully when I splashed a chem set experiment in my eye (that stung!). I learned to cut away from myself when I sliced my finger open while building a model car. You can't learn that sort of stuff from a virtual chem/electronic/modelling program. Besides, at an age where you learn best by getting your hands dirty, clicking a mouse just doesn't cut it.
The excuse that 'Terrorists' use the chem sets for bombs and chemical warfare is ridiculous. If they are used for malicious purpose, it's more likely from your average neighbourhood punk kid making a smoke bomb or something similar. People wanting to cause REAL harm will be busy getting Ammonium Nitrate (fertilier) and Diesel (makeshift ANFO, a powerful explosive), or gunpowder, or Javex and Drano (cheap and easy way to get mustard gas) and causing all sorts of deadly havoc that way. one must wonder if DHS took the anarchist's cookbook a little too seriously..maybe next week, they'll be banning 3.25" floppies because you can embed match heads in them to cook floppy drives..
No, but they'll have to fill out a schedule H21-B now to get authorization to be paid 30 minutes overtime :D
Not surprising, I've come across alot of people who could tell you what looks good on a website, but lack either the technical or creative ability to produce it themselves.
I was fully expecting to see Mythbusters in the lineup, or something similar. This is just tripe spat out from some retarded marketing department to get ratings from joe six-pack who thinks that 'geek shows' must feature some napoleon dynamite type who, using their ability to recite the Periodic Table, or the entire ASCII character set in binary, somehow manages to save the world, but still can't talk to girls..
well, that's simple..you'll have to come back to earth sometime, they'll just arrest you then.
and yet, still they cannot find a machine with enough RAM to run it...
It's simple and has been partially touched on already. Even though it's more data to make a voice call, it's still essentially free money to the phone company once the infrastructure is in place. What they want you to do is run out of minutes so they can charge you the $0.25/min extra. Therefore, they encourage you to use SMS at $0.15, but at the same time, the charge for messaging, however small, will encourage people to make voice calls and creep ever closer to the point when they have to pay out the nose.
I've worked for cell companies before, i've seen $2k phone bills. Almost always the customer said 'well it seemed cheaper than sending text messages...'
That's basically right. The underlying basis behind the levy in Canada (IAAC, BTW) was that since most people who had internet, a CD/DVD burner/flash card reader/external HDD etc. would either a) download from P2P sources or b) backup all their multimedia content to the above media, and all of their friends' content as well or c) all of the above. Therefore, the Canadian government struck a deal with the media associations in Canada to levy all recordable media as a way of payment to the content creators for a percentage of the pirated content. It's not to say that those who stick out can't be prosecuted, since copyright law supersedes this, however it does protect the average person from random litigation.
The gist was 'we can't possibly sue everyone for copyright infringement, so we'll just levy the means by which to copy, and only pursue those that exceed the levy by a significant amount'