If I were to write something groundbreaking and interesting (sure, it's far-fetched but it's just an example folks) then newspapers or other sites may pick up on the story and link to my site. Then I change the content they link to into some sort of top 100 list of what the MPAA and friends track and sue over. Will the MPAA not only come after me, but all the newspapers too? Will the newspapers be at fault? Will I be at fault both for my "crime" and the newspapers now illegal links?
This is the sort of things that makes me feel like I have too much spare time...
Good point. However, by shutting down the machine you can often lose any chance you had of ever gaining access to the data on an encrypted partition this side of the milennia. (Or atleast within budget and political spans.) Unless you utilize methods like "coldbooting" or such attacks.
There would also be systems that use thumbdrives to store massive keys for the actual encryption. If the accused was not home when the machines were seized he might have the key somewhere else.
Why has noone pointed out that these devices are using security holes to gain access and that these holes are being or should be blocked on most OS'es. It's probably just a matter of time before they will need a different ploy anyways.
A simple web-search turns up a tonn of comercial solutions already. Many companys already require usb security suits to be installed on all company computers.
In the meantime disabeling drivers and locking down the policys required to re-enable (in windows that is) might be one way.
My sister has Nethertons Syndrome. It's relevant implication for this case is that her skin is replaced faster than normal. This causes her to have weak if any fingerprints.
When visiting Florida for christmas last year my entire family was held back for about half an hour. Only after the "security person" had consulted his superior, and that superior had consulted yet another superior, were this 16 year old obvious thread to national security allowed to pass into America. They also tried to wipe her fingertips with alcohol. Very pleasant on what you can compare to a first to second degree burn.
I think this actually had a good reason. A nice old PS2 mouse generates interrupts when wiggled. This breaks up the boring routines. (Blocking routines actually.) And presto, a little more progress on transfering your data...
This phenomenon is not gone btw. 1. Start notepad in a window, not full screen. 2. Open long text file 3. Mark your text from beginning of document and try to scroll down. When mouse exits window, keep holding but with mouse stationary. Nothing happens? 4. Wiggle mouse outside window and presto it continoues to mark text towards the bottom of your document!!!
This one is a hard nut to crack. Innocent/law-abiding citizens should have the right to be anonymous. Criminals and the like only have the right to remain silent, but not to be anonymous?
Why should Apple be allowed to print money? If a regular store sells a product from a supplier, and you are not satisfied with said product due to production-flaws etc, the store has to give you back the money. They have had expenses in locale, personell and management as well as possibly shipping/handling. Still, they have to repay the full ammount so they lose on the deal. An on-line store should be no different! I agree that it's a good way to force developers to think twice about what they submit but this doesn't excuse finding a way to print money.
I am interested in the virtual aspect of this all. If a drawing of an illegal act contains a victim and thus be illegal, it must also contain a culprit must it not? Is that depicted "person" responsible? Is the artist? Or is the audience?
Can't we say you may draw it, but not look at it? That should fix it all without fiddling around with freedom of speech or expression etc.
Adding the benefit of non-flamable base compund? Wait a minute... Paraffine/wax does not burn without a wick either and as such are safer than alcohol burners or gas containers for camping.
The problem with China as I see it, is that they reherse, prepare and pre-approve of everything that is to be said , done or published. This boils down to one thing: They do not trust the people entrusted with saying, doing or publishing. In short, they do not trust their people.
Other countrys have it like this too, but they still have to trust their people in the end. If a news reporter has read the script 3 times, but decides to say: "This has been the news, and I'm a little teapot." at the end of his segment, then nobody in their right mind would blame his country for that. Grow up! People are teapots!
With todays advances in automatic algorithms to distort, hide and now finally swap faces I have come up with another breath-taking idea. You read it first on/. and I claim dibs to any and all comercial rights one could wring out of it.
Chin-recognition etcetera!
claims: 1; a way, means, method, algorithm or systematic process to identify a person or other humanoid being by using the chin-region of the anatomy. 2; as in 1, but using a different part of the anatomy including obscene or in other circumstances covered parts. 3; further extending 2, covering behavioural patterns unless already patented. 4; extending on 3 to also cover thought patterns and possibly also auras
I could make a great patent-troll, all I need is money and someone to take my soul.
The title sais it all really. We have moved away from generation x, y or whatever and over to IGG. The best way to describe this new generation is with the fantastic notion from Leslie in The Big Bang Theory... Stick electrodes in a rats brain and give it a button that causes an orgasm every time it's pressed. The rat would keep pressing the button till it died of starvation. This is exactly what the new games are; orgasm buttons. Short bursts of good feeling with only one lasting effect. After 1 hour of gameplay; you are one hour older.
* Neither the company owning the billboard at work now the janitor responsible for it is held responsible for sale of stolen goods performed via stickers on it. * Neither tv-networks nor radio-stations are held responsible for false advertizing done by advertizers buying airtime.
Anyone checked what a limit would mean for their favourite online game? I just checked BF2142 and it appears to only use around 15kB/s. That's enough to eat 52 MB/hour while playing. Looking at the stats online it appears people are playing as much as 10 hours a day! This isn't enough to make a dent in a 90GB/Month limit though. Even the extreemes only rack up 15 GB/Month playing BF2142.
Anyone know of more bandwidth intensive games? I figure you can bust a 90GB/Month limit playing 7-8 hours/day if you use around 125kB/s.
Over to videos... (Yes, the legal kind!) Watching videos online gives me 1500kb/s streams. That's 187 kB/s and at 80 minutes each you would have to watch 105 movies in a month to bust the quota. That's only 4-5 hours a day and definately doable if you wanted to.
There are a few other things you can do if you hate advertisements, advertisers and general sales-people...
1. Telephone sales:
- Leave person waiting. That is, first ansver, let him/her start up then say "oh, just a sec..." and go take a bath. I'm not talking quick shower here, take a real long soaker. Then go back and see if they're still there. I have actually never experienced a person calling back after this treatment. It also works great for busy people as you don't have to waste time on the phone.
- Blow off some steam. I know this isn't nice to the poor people on the other end of the line, but hey! They called me!
2. Advertising material and catalogs:
- The bin-trick. Have a special bin available near your mailbox or wherever you get your mail. Now simply shake your newspaper over it before you read it. I also use it to sort out the other folders and stuff dumping in unaddressed. I don't recycle this, I use it in my fireplace. Hey, it's free!
- Readdressing. In many cases you can readdress the material and dump it back in the mail. "Return to sender" is my favorite. Be sure it ends up at a real mailbox and not in some no-go end address or the work will have been for nothing. If you don't accept the mail, the company sending it will have to pay for the return postage!!!
There are tonns of other stuff one can do, if one has some energy to waste... Maby someone has some ideas I haven't thought of? Post em!
Oh, and don't say shooting at the mailboy with BB-gunns or stuff. I've tried that, and it hurts to be shot at. (I was doing the delivery...)
Yepp, like Microsoft... They would deny it and then when it is proven, call it a "feature":-) We have begun to like, or atleast except, the Microsoft "features" have we not? If nothing else, they give us something to joke about...
You may say what you like about dual processors but when you reach a certain point you have two alternatives: 1. Wait for the next and faster processor. 2. Slap 2 or 3 processors on there and fly alot faster:-) This should aply to the GeForce altso... If they can figure out the cooperative glitches (problems), then you would benefit bigtime from a dual GeForce.
When it comes to memory... I am dissapointed at the availability of the DDR RAM for the GeForce cards. I really want DDR, but I don't want to wait. So I say; give me a dual GeForce based card and slap on a huge chunk of DDR memory! Then I would be almost as happy as if the programmers were to write code based on HW T&L and drivers that work:-)
I don't consider drivers to work if i have to include any words like: sometimes, often, if not, if you're lucky, etc... That's what I'd expect from beta drivers, not release. (Thinking alot of ATI here:-)
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If I were to write something groundbreaking and interesting (sure, it's far-fetched but it's just an example folks) then newspapers or other sites may pick up on the story and link to my site. Then I change the content they link to into some sort of top 100 list of what the MPAA and friends track and sue over. Will the MPAA not only come after me, but all the newspapers too? Will the newspapers be at fault? Will I be at fault both for my "crime" and the newspapers now illegal links?
This is the sort of things that makes me feel like I have too much spare time...
Good point.
However, by shutting down the machine you can often lose any chance you had of ever gaining access to the data on an encrypted partition this side of the milennia. (Or atleast within budget and political spans.)
Unless you utilize methods like "coldbooting" or such attacks.
There would also be systems that use thumbdrives to store massive keys for the actual encryption. If the accused was not home when the machines were seized he might have the key somewhere else.
Why has noone pointed out that these devices are using security holes to gain access and that these holes are being or should be blocked on most OS'es. It's probably just a matter of time before they will need a different ploy anyways.
A simple web-search turns up a tonn of comercial solutions already.
Many companys already require usb security suits to be installed on all company computers.
In the meantime disabeling drivers and locking down the policys required to re-enable (in windows that is) might be one way.
My sister has Nethertons Syndrome. It's relevant implication for this case is that her skin is replaced faster than normal. This causes her to have weak if any fingerprints.
When visiting Florida for christmas last year my entire family was held back for about half an hour. Only after the "security person" had consulted his superior, and that superior had consulted yet another superior, were this 16 year old obvious thread to national security allowed to pass into America. They also tried to wipe her fingertips with alcohol. Very pleasant on what you can compare to a first to second degree burn.
Basically, I am sure I have it because I am so annoyed all the time at all these doctors and their oddball patients.
It has gotten to the point where I am seeing most of the world as annoying.
- I am not bitter about it though.
I think this actually had a good reason.
A nice old PS2 mouse generates interrupts when wiggled. This breaks up the boring routines. (Blocking routines actually.) And presto, a little more progress on transfering your data...
This phenomenon is not gone btw.
1. Start notepad in a window, not full screen.
2. Open long text file
3. Mark your text from beginning of document and try to scroll down. When mouse exits window, keep holding but with mouse stationary. Nothing happens?
4. Wiggle mouse outside window and presto it continoues to mark text towards the bottom of your document!!!
Fun and entertainment for the whole family!
Time to support hijab?
This one is a hard nut to crack.
Innocent/law-abiding citizens should have the right to be anonymous.
Criminals and the like only have the right to remain silent, but not to be anonymous?
Knowledge should be derived from input such as measurements or observations,
never synthesized, or it's called fiction.
Why should Apple be allowed to print money?
If a regular store sells a product from a supplier, and you are not satisfied with said product due to production-flaws etc, the store has to give you back the money. They have had expenses in locale, personell and management as well as possibly shipping/handling. Still, they have to repay the full ammount so they lose on the deal.
An on-line store should be no different!
I agree that it's a good way to force developers to think twice about what they submit but this doesn't excuse finding a way to print money.
I am interested in the virtual aspect of this all.
If a drawing of an illegal act contains a victim and thus be illegal, it must also contain a culprit must it not?
Is that depicted "person" responsible?
Is the artist?
Or is the audience?
Can't we say you may draw it, but not look at it?
That should fix it all without fiddling around with freedom of speech or expression etc.
Adding the benefit of non-flamable base compund?
Wait a minute... Paraffine/wax does not burn without a wick either and as such are safer than alcohol burners or gas containers for camping.
White gas liquid fuel stove:
http://www.brunton.com/product.php?id=619
More on fuel types:
http://stovecollector.tripod.com/fuel_types.htm
Umm, if the government published the blacklist then you'd have a target for when you wanted to try and circumventing the block right?
Most people with Alzheimers have drunk coffee (even though they may not remember it) and so:
coffee -> Alzheimers! (EOD)
Where is the research?
Where is the data?
If they hijack my request for a text-only site, and I pay for bandwidth or overuse, do I pay for the graphical ads they attack me with?
I think this question alone is enough cause to call any such modification/hijacking illegal.
The problem with China as I see it, is that they reherse, prepare and pre-approve of everything that is to be said , done or published. This boils down to one thing: They do not trust the people entrusted with saying, doing or publishing. In short, they do not trust their people.
Other countrys have it like this too, but they still have to trust their people in the end.
If a news reporter has read the script 3 times, but decides to say: "This has been the news, and I'm a little teapot." at the end of his segment, then nobody in their right mind would blame his country for that. Grow up! People are teapots!
With todays advances in automatic algorithms to distort, hide and now finally swap faces I have come up with another breath-taking idea. /. and I claim dibs to any and all comercial rights one could wring out of it.
You read it first on
Chin-recognition etcetera!
claims:
1; a way, means, method, algorithm or systematic process to identify a person or other humanoid being by using the chin-region of the anatomy.
2; as in 1, but using a different part of the anatomy including obscene or in other circumstances covered parts.
3; further extending 2, covering behavioural patterns unless already patented.
4; extending on 3 to also cover thought patterns and possibly also auras
I could make a great patent-troll, all I need is money and someone to take my soul.
The title sais it all really. We have moved away from generation x, y or whatever and over to IGG. The best way to describe this new generation is with the fantastic notion from Leslie in The Big Bang Theory... Stick electrodes in a rats brain and give it a button that causes an orgasm every time it's pressed. The rat would keep pressing the button till it died of starvation. This is exactly what the new games are; orgasm buttons. Short bursts of good feeling with only one lasting effect. After 1 hour of gameplay; you are one hour older.
I guess I am just getting old.
* Neither the company owning the billboard at work now the janitor responsible for it is held responsible for sale of stolen goods performed via stickers on it.
* Neither tv-networks nor radio-stations are held responsible for false advertizing done by advertizers buying airtime.
Common sense people!
Anyone checked what a limit would mean for their favourite online game?
I just checked BF2142 and it appears to only use around 15kB/s. That's enough to eat 52 MB/hour while playing. Looking at the stats online it appears people are playing as much as 10 hours a day! This isn't enough to make a dent in a 90GB/Month limit though. Even the extreemes only rack up 15 GB/Month playing BF2142.
Anyone know of more bandwidth intensive games?
I figure you can bust a 90GB/Month limit playing 7-8 hours/day if you use around 125kB/s.
Over to videos... (Yes, the legal kind!)
Watching videos online gives me 1500kb/s streams. That's 187 kB/s and at 80 minutes each you would have to watch 105 movies in a month to bust the quota. That's only 4-5 hours a day and definately doable if you wanted to.
I'm just glad I don't have a limit.
There are a few other things you can do if you hate advertisements, advertisers and general sales-people...
1. Telephone sales:
- Leave person waiting. That is, first ansver, let him/her start up then say "oh, just a sec..." and go take a bath. I'm not talking quick shower here, take a real long soaker. Then go back and see if they're still there. I have actually never experienced a person calling back after this treatment. It also works great for busy people as you don't have to waste time on the phone.
- Blow off some steam. I know this isn't nice to the poor people on the other end of the line, but hey! They called me!
2. Advertising material and catalogs:
- The bin-trick. Have a special bin available near your mailbox or wherever you get your mail. Now simply shake your newspaper over it before you read it. I also use it to sort out the other folders and stuff dumping in unaddressed. I don't recycle this, I use it in my fireplace. Hey, it's free!
- Readdressing. In many cases you can readdress the material and dump it back in the mail. "Return to sender" is my favorite. Be sure it ends up at a real mailbox and not in some no-go end address or the work will have been for nothing. If you don't accept the mail, the company sending it will have to pay for the return postage!!!
There are tonns of other stuff one can do, if one has some energy to waste... Maby someone has some ideas I haven't thought of? Post em!
Oh, and don't say shooting at the mailboy with BB-gunns or stuff. I've tried that, and it hurts to be shot at. (I was doing the delivery...)
Yepp, like Microsoft... :-)
They would deny it and then when it is proven, call it a "feature"
We have begun to like, or atleast except, the Microsoft "features" have we not? If nothing else, they give us something to joke about...
You may say what you like about dual processors but when you reach a certain point you have two alternatives: :-)
:-)
:-)
1. Wait for the next and faster processor.
2. Slap 2 or 3 processors on there and fly alot faster
This should aply to the GeForce altso... If they can figure out the cooperative glitches (problems), then you would benefit bigtime from a dual GeForce.
When it comes to memory... I am dissapointed at the availability of the DDR RAM for the GeForce cards. I really want DDR, but I don't want to wait. So I say; give me a dual GeForce based card and slap on a huge chunk of DDR memory!
Then I would be almost as happy as if the programmers were to write code based on HW T&L and drivers that work
I don't consider drivers to work if i have to include any words like: sometimes, often, if not, if you're lucky, etc... That's what I'd expect from beta drivers, not release. (Thinking alot of ATI here