In other news:
HMS Vigilant's captain, Commander Bob Anstey allegedly accidentally fired a nuclear missile at Redmond, Washington in an attempt to complete the Windows Activation of the newly installed 'Submarine Command System Next Generation' customized Windows XP system. "It was a bug, yes, that's it. Some kind of unfortunate bug triggered the 19-step launch sequence," said Commander Anstey. Nobody at or near Microsoft could be reached for a comment.
and if this just happened suddenly out of blue (pardon the pun), at least it would put ultimately to rest the question if Windows secretly "calls home" every now and then....
I can just see this happening..
MC: Okay...the competition is ready to start... We have three computers, Vista, XP and Mac....crack it and it's yours.. Are you ready? On your marks, get set, g.......OKAY OKAY! Not funny...We have now XP and MAC available...the competition will start on my mark....On your marks, get set...go!!
Oh give the Swedish police a break. This is the first time they got to use sirens in a potential spy-case since the russian sub beached in Sweden http://compunews.com/s139/sp2.htm
Where's the fun in policing if you can't run your sirens obscenely early in the morning at least once during your career!!
eh?? Why is SETI waste then? Unless of course you prefer not to know when the 'nasty invadery alieny thingies' attack. SETI in only about searching...it says nothing about contacting.
law is the law...sure...and the law was broken if there really was distribution done on them...
But to draw a conclusion that making available == distribution without any burden of proof of actual file-transfers between her and other people is just wrong.
So personally I believe that no evidence was presented that actual distribution did take place....you and I and the rest of the world know that it probably did...but since when is 'probably' sufficient in the eyes of the law.
btw...we should have a 'guessing-contest' on how much of the 220k$ going to make it's way to the artist. I reserve 0$ as my answer....anyone else?
As a father of 2, I applaud the idea....just too bad about the execution of it... I agree with others that the discounts would've been better.
To those who say that it is their right to do their shopping in that shop...yeah maybe so...but it's also your right not to shop there. You don't like the policies of the shop...don't go there.
As far as the rights of the kids go, let's face it...the age-limit of 18 (to be considered adult)is there for a reason. They do not have enough life-experience to understand the value of education. Yes I know there are exceptions and I am sure some here will violently disagree with me, but hey...what do I know...
As far as the comments about parents being responsible for the education of the kids, I agree...this is their responsibility. What's wrong with the business giving a hand in it? Just because you devise a program to encourage good grades in school is hardly them taking over the parental responsibilities!
I think the store-owner should've checked with the owners first but the principle was fine I think.
cheers,
Kimmo
...until DVD-Jon equivalen Torrent-tom comes up with a design for quantum-RAM....sure you can have it but as soon as you observe it it will change value....traceroute that punk!:)
now let me get this right...
She took a bunch of historical information about wars, built a model and then when run on that historical information it was able to get 80% of the results of wars correctly? wow:)
I'll give about 10% chance that the outcome of the war is considered when starting the war:)
stop burning coal-based stuff...actually...stop using coal-based-stuff for anything...alternatively....do an orbit-exchange -program with Mars and 'chill-out' in the outer parts of the solar-system for a while..
now show me da money!!!
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I am just waiting for Tesla to start using a well known song by Five Finger Deathpunch as their marketing-jingle
In other news: HMS Vigilant's captain, Commander Bob Anstey allegedly accidentally fired a nuclear missile at Redmond, Washington in an attempt to complete the Windows Activation of the newly installed 'Submarine Command System Next Generation' customized Windows XP system. "It was a bug, yes, that's it. Some kind of unfortunate bug triggered the 19-step launch sequence," said Commander Anstey. Nobody at or near Microsoft could be reached for a comment.
and if this just happened suddenly out of blue (pardon the pun), at least it would put ultimately to rest the question if Windows secretly "calls home" every now and then....
sure...another Plug'n'Pray system....except this time it takes a little more than just 'pop the hood and replace the part' if things go pear-shaped :)
I ain't believing in no darn darkmatter 'til I see some photos!!
I can just see this happening.. MC: Okay...the competition is ready to start... We have three computers, Vista, XP and Mac....crack it and it's yours.. Are you ready? On your marks, get set, g.......OKAY OKAY! Not funny...We have now XP and MAC available...the competition will start on my mark....On your marks, get set...go!!
I am still waiting for someone to throw in unlimited amount of monkeys equipped with typewriters and see if they can improve on Shakespear.
well of course there was the Palme thingy...but still
Where's the fun in policing if you can't run your sirens obscenely early in the morning at least once during your career!!
eh?? Why is SETI waste then? Unless of course you prefer not to know when the 'nasty invadery alieny thingies' attack. SETI in only about searching...it says nothing about contacting.
Swiss, Finns, overlords...need I say more?
law is the law...sure...and the law was broken if there really was distribution done on them...
But to draw a conclusion that making available == distribution without any burden of proof of actual file-transfers between her and other people is just wrong.
So personally I believe that no evidence was presented that actual distribution did take place....you and I and the rest of the world know that it probably did...but since when is 'probably' sufficient in the eyes of the law.
btw...we should have a 'guessing-contest' on how much of the 220k$ going to make it's way to the artist. I reserve 0$ as my answer....anyone else?
especially since governments around the world are known to be cradles of efficiency and cost-effectiveness
As a father of 2, I applaud the idea....just too bad about the execution of it... I agree with others that the discounts would've been better. To those who say that it is their right to do their shopping in that shop...yeah maybe so...but it's also your right not to shop there. You don't like the policies of the shop...don't go there. As far as the rights of the kids go, let's face it...the age-limit of 18 (to be considered adult)is there for a reason. They do not have enough life-experience to understand the value of education. Yes I know there are exceptions and I am sure some here will violently disagree with me, but hey...what do I know... As far as the comments about parents being responsible for the education of the kids, I agree...this is their responsibility. What's wrong with the business giving a hand in it? Just because you devise a program to encourage good grades in school is hardly them taking over the parental responsibilities! I think the store-owner should've checked with the owners first but the principle was fine I think. cheers, Kimmo
...until DVD-Jon equivalen Torrent-tom comes up with a design for quantum-RAM....sure you can have it but as soon as you observe it it will change value....traceroute that punk! :)
now let me get this right... She took a bunch of historical information about wars, built a model and then when run on that historical information it was able to get 80% of the results of wars correctly? wow :)
I'll give about 10% chance that the outcome of the war is considered when starting the war :)
oh don't forget the nulls! don't forget the nulls! *** there are only 10 different types of people, those understand binary and those who don't ***
in Soviet Russia, people would've been happy to receive spam...you should've seen the lines for just bread!
stop burning coal-based stuff...actually...stop using coal-based-stuff for anything...alternatively....do an orbit-exchange -program with Mars and 'chill-out' in the outer parts of the solar-system for a while.. now show me da money!!!