Magic interoperable DRM would give people all the features and capabilities they get with DRM-free media. Magic interoperable DRM would give people some of the features and capabilities they get with DRM-free media.
There are no written accounts, as far as I know, of a meteorite causing significant numbers of human casualties, either through an impact or through a tsunami induced by impact. Well, if it was a big meteorite, then most of the people close enough to realize what it was didn't live long enough to write it down. Those people who were far enough away that there were survivors to write about it would have probably chalked it up to 'just' an earthquake and/or Tsunami.
It's rumored(-::-) that the dinosaurs wrote about their extinction-event meteorite, but almost none of their scrolls have survived, and we humans have misconstrued the few that have been found.
Vista: Are you sure you want to overwrite this file?
I'll let this slide, because even 'cp' prompts for that. CP doesn't prompt for overwriting files. 'cp -i' does. The thing is that bashrc on many distros now alias cp to 'cp -i'.
you can test this by going '\cp file existing-file' (or '/bin/cp...') That gets around the alias. You will see that cp silently stomps on whatever file you pointed it to.
Just go 'alias' to see what other aliases your system has set up.
(That reminds me: I once set up a bunch of aliases to have Unix look like a dos system for people who didn't like the Unix command names. It never seems to have caught on).
There certainly are legal consequences if PJ is infact the Easter Bunny. Massive consueqences indeed! First of all, the easter bunny would be charged with various computer crimes for leaving millions of easter eggs on (and under) people's computers. If any Easter Eggs are found on federal computers, then the dastardly wabbit could find itself facing more than a decade in the pen.
But wait! It gets worse!
The Easter bunny isn't a US Citizen.... In fact the Easter bunny is probably stateless... This means that if an easter egg causes problems with a US Military Computer, then the Easter Bunny could end up accused of being an illegal combatant. Can you imagine what that would do to the guys that have been in Guantanimo Bay since the start of the Afghanistan war? These guys are probably already worried about their sanity. If they see a CIA agent questioning a giant bunny with a magical basket
on it's arm they're gonna be
certain that they've completely lost their grip on reality.
The result could be a mass epidemic of psychotic episodes within the prison.
And, of course, he'll never tell them where Osama Bin Ladin is:
Colonel: Any info from the rabbit? Captain: Nope. Won't say a thing, but he keeps trying to dig his way out of the cell. Colonel: Well, you better resolve the issues with him soon... You have no idea how many eggs I've sat on today.
Well, easy isn't that absolute of a word... Many people are just going to see that Vista is refusing to allow the install and give up on the idea....
And for some people, the idea of having to beg a stranger for the ability to use something that they paid $100 or more (sometimes much more) for is rather hard to swallow.
Having to prove that you're not a thief and a crook when you've got a perfectly legitimate and paid-for copy is just galling.
Then, of course, is the problem of realizing that calling Microsoft, when they have already refused to let you install your software is a bit too far of a stretch for many people. You have no idea as to how many people will just give up and walk away when they get told to piss off in an official manner. Yes, it may piss you off to see friends do something like that, but probably (at least) 15-20% of them will have that reaction.
It's not easy to break habits that have been drilled into you for your whole life (I.e. "do as you're told").
On Fido, I went through their picture download thingie with the $50 that I got with a new cell phone (to replace a dead one).... They also sell (soft) porn...
No, the constitution is more than just a piece of paper, it is an idea. Millions of Americans haven't died over the years to protect a piece of paper, they've died to protect the ideals that the constitution embodies... Oh yeah? try telling that to the Bush Administration... They'll be so happy to learn something new, that they'll give you a free Carribean Cruise.... Straight to Cuba. Sunny Guantanimo Beach... well, a couple of hundred yards back... But you'll get free room and board, for a few years.
If you take a list of what causes people to die and how many people actually die from it, terrorism is waaaaay down the list. yeah. Drunk drivers kill the same number of people as died in the 9/11 attacks about once every couple of months.
The tobacco industry kills that many every week or so.
Then of course, there's guns... Americans pointing guns at other Americans.
During Desert storm, there was a slow-burning fight over whether or not a young American would be safer fighting in Desert Storm than living in DC. I never did hear the end of that one.
Because it will be harder for Abu Mohammed to fake. Obviously, you haven't read the news for the last 5 years ---- Abu Mohammed is dead. The reason why we know this is that he used his real ID, to board the plane.
You need an ID to drive a car in all 50 states now. How is this different? You don't need to show your driver's license to the cops every time you start the car, tell them where you're going, and get permission.
There's no need to store energy if you have an agreement with the power company -- When you have extra power, they pay you for it. When you need extra power you pay them for it. You are effectively 'storing' your extra power in the power grid with near 100% effectiveness (better than batteries -- unless the power grid collapses).
Although solar cells aren't cheap, the prices have come down, and efficiency has gone up over time. It's kinda like buying a computer... If you're waiting for the fastest computer to come out before you buy yours, chances are you're reading this on a TI57 programmable calculator.
If you buy now, your savings start now. If you cover the cost of the cells in saved energy bills and rebates from the power company, then the fact that a 'better' system comes out later doesn't hurt you that much.... Once you have covered the original cost, you can always replace the system with a new one, and you really don't lose anything. (but you get the satisfaction of preventing the waste of a few barrels of increasingly precious oil, and slowing global warming by just a smidgen).
Before you do something, ask yourself "what would happen if a million people did this"?
- and I don't just mean converting the poor user to Linux either -- I mean things like Knoppix with
clamav which allow you to search for signs of rootkits without having the rootkit, itself, get in your way.
Once you've pulled out those pieces, then you can hopefully boot (what's left of) Windows, run some of the Windows-centric anti-virus ware in hopes of finding those pieces that clamav didn't find.
On a related note, if you google for "18 usc 2257" like I just did to find the wikipedia link, you find plenty of sites like met-art and all the other legal-but-looks-like-jailbait sites.
Oh, great!, so go hunting down information on the porn law, and you risk getting arrested and charged as a child pornster. (It's not like you're likely to remember where those pictures came from -- which is what you're gonna have to do to prove that those nymphettes are really over 18).
In other words, a jury is more likely to get it wrong...
Judges are used to figuring out the difference between a bamboozle and real evidence. A jury can sometimes get caught up in the glam of a lawyer (either prosecution or defense). At a guess I'm going to say that, in either case, the probability of a 'wrong' answer is relatively small but if you're going for that 'faint hope' clause, you are usually going to be better off with a jury.
An example is the comment of one law enforcement type who noted that while all the CSI courses have increased interest in the forensic sciences (a good thing because more forensic scientists are needed), it has also raised the expectations of the jury (believing that a DNA sequencing can be done at the drop of a hat and can (and should) be done in just about every case. In other words, if the crown doesn't have DNA evidence (e.g. "only" your fingerprints all over the weapon and the victim), then you should go with a jury if you're hoping for a spurious innocent verdict.
In this case, the jury got caught up in "oooooh you nasty teacher! How dare you mess with our children and didn't bother to look too closely at the question of whether or not the teacher really was being careless. Someone needed to get blamed, and she was a very convenient target.
You'd be surprised. Some bakers do just want to make the best bread and keep their customers happy -- the store is just an avenue of expression that means that they can afford to do what they like.. I know a few people like that.
The constitutions of big business (anything with widely held shares) pretty much says that they're out to make money. They are their balance sheet, and anything that the CEO says will help the balance sheet is what gets done. If you've seen the corporation, you'll understand this.
Small businesses, on the other hand, are often there because the owner likes what (s)he is doing and they get to make a living doing it.
I, for example, love solving people's problems. Many of the jobs I've had, I'd do for free, if I had the money from an independent source. Other friends of mine are completely mercenary about their jobs.
I guess that what I'm saying is that small businesses are an expression of their owners.... larger businesses too, but shareholders tend to be only interested in the profits.
Perhaps getting it right and appeasing the masses are the same thing, in this case.
... there's nothing like a media frenzy to prompt a company to appease the masses rather than taking the time do get it right.
I'm not a friend of Bush's war, but I'm also not a friend of dicking around the people who went out and volunteered to fight in our place.
If I've got a problem with the war, I take it up with bush.
If I got a problem with the strategies they're using in this war, I'll take it up with bush and fume at the High-ranking officers.
I'm only going to take it up with individual soldiers if I find out that they, personaly did something that they should have known better than to do. Even then, I'll still take it up with higher ranking officers if it seems like they turned a blind eye or even encouraged the behavior (eg: abu graib).
There are mastermind thieves (PhD in Mech Eng who learns how to crack safes with a magnet), then there are 'most' thieves (meth head looking for an easy way to get his next buzz). The former are gonna cover their tracks really well, but the latter are gonna think that they're geniuses just by the fact that they thought of selling their (your) stuff on ebay.
but most thieves aren't going to be moronic enough to leave behind identifying marks. Although I can just imagine the Q&A...
I think you'd be shocked at just how stupid some of these people get. I had a roommate who relapsed to using meth, so I got to meeting some of them. A few of them start intelligent, but a couple hundred hits of meth (or whatever), and your brain starts to yearn for some of those missing cells.
yeah. ITV in Britain, and CITV in Canada (which pushes itself as ITV).
SUN Microsystems got bit by this sort of thing when they labeled their online directory service Yellow Pages. British telecom's lawyers got all over it, and SUN ended up renaming it NIS, but they never bothered to renaim the scripts which continue to these days with names like YP, YPCAT, YPWHICH,/var/YP/....
And, of course, Apple also got into trouble with Apple Records back in the '70s... and then again when they released the I-POD (they had promised Apple records that they wouldn't go into music distribution).
As such I can see them being really itchy about releasing a TV oriented product who'se name would start dead in the sights of ITV's tradmark lawyers in both Canada and Britain (not to mention any number of other venues).
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It's rumored(-::-) that the dinosaurs wrote about their extinction-event meteorite, but almost none of their scrolls have survived, and we humans have misconstrued the few that have been found.
I'll let this slide, because even 'cp' prompts for that. CP doesn't prompt for overwriting files. 'cp -i' does. The thing is that bashrc on many distros now alias cp to 'cp -i'.
you can test this by going '\cp file existing-file' (or '/bin/cp ...') That gets around the alias. You will see that cp silently stomps on whatever file you pointed it to.
Just go 'alias' to see what other aliases your system has set up.
(That reminds me: I once set up a bunch of aliases to have Unix look like a dos system for people who didn't like the Unix command names. It never seems to have caught on).
But wait! It gets worse!
The Easter bunny isn't a US Citizen.... In fact the Easter bunny is probably stateless... This means that if an easter egg causes problems with a US Military Computer, then the Easter Bunny could end up accused of being an illegal combatant. Can you imagine what that would do to the guys that have been in Guantanimo Bay since the start of the Afghanistan war? These guys are probably already worried about their sanity. If they see a CIA agent questioning a giant bunny with a magical basket on it's arm they're gonna be certain that they've completely lost their grip on reality.
The result could be a mass epidemic of psychotic episodes within the prison.
And, of course, he'll never tell them where Osama Bin Ladin is:
And for some people, the idea of having to beg a stranger for the ability to use something that they paid $100 or more (sometimes much more) for is rather hard to swallow. Having to prove that you're not a thief and a crook when you've got a perfectly legitimate and paid-for copy is just galling.
Then, of course, is the problem of realizing that calling Microsoft, when they have already refused to let you install your software is a bit too far of a stretch for many people. You have no idea as to how many people will just give up and walk away when they get told to piss off in an official manner. Yes, it may piss you off to see friends do something like that, but probably (at least) 15-20% of them will have that reaction.
It's not easy to break habits that have been drilled into you for your whole life (I.e. "do as you're told").
The two are not mutually exclusive.
On Fido, I went through their picture download thingie with the $50 that I got with a new cell phone (to replace a dead one).... They also sell (soft) porn...
The tobacco industry kills that many every week or so.
Then of course, there's guns
During Desert storm, there was a slow-burning fight over whether or not a young American would be safer fighting in Desert Storm than living in DC. I never did hear the end of that one.
Senility. I blame senility.
Mine was a 57. I couldn't afford a 58 (with the card reader). After programming that sucker, 370 assembler was a breeze.
Although solar cells aren't cheap, the prices have come down, and efficiency has gone up over time. It's kinda like buying a computer... If you're waiting for the fastest computer to come out before you buy yours, chances are you're reading this on a TI57 programmable calculator.
If you buy now, your savings start now. If you cover the cost of the cells in saved energy bills and rebates from the power company, then the fact that a 'better' system comes out later doesn't hurt you that much.... Once you have covered the original cost, you can always replace the system with a new one, and you really don't lose anything. (but you get the satisfaction of preventing the waste of a few barrels of increasingly precious oil, and slowing global warming by just a smidgen).
Before you do something, ask yourself "what would happen if a million people did this"?
Don't worry. You don't need to spend that much if you turn down the quality settings.
I've got no problem flying out to give you what help I can, but you'll have to send me an airline ticket.
Once you've pulled out those pieces, then you can hopefully boot (what's left of) Windows, run some of the Windows-centric anti-virus ware in hopes of finding those pieces that clamav didn't find.
Judges are used to figuring out the difference between a bamboozle and real evidence. A jury can sometimes get caught up in the glam of a lawyer (either prosecution or defense). At a guess I'm going to say that, in either case, the probability of a 'wrong' answer is relatively small but if you're going for that 'faint hope' clause, you are usually going to be better off with a jury.
An example is the comment of one law enforcement type who noted that while all the CSI courses have increased interest in the forensic sciences (a good thing because more forensic scientists are needed), it has also raised the expectations of the jury (believing that a DNA sequencing can be done at the drop of a hat and can (and should) be done in just about every case. In other words, if the crown doesn't have DNA evidence (e.g. "only" your fingerprints all over the weapon and the victim), then you should go with a jury if you're hoping for a spurious innocent verdict.
In this case, the jury got caught up in "oooooh you nasty teacher! How dare you mess with our children and didn't bother to look too closely at the question of whether or not the teacher really was being careless. Someone needed to get blamed, and she was a very convenient target.
The constitutions of big business (anything with widely held shares) pretty much says that they're out to make money. They are their balance sheet, and anything that the CEO says will help the balance sheet is what gets done. If you've seen the corporation, you'll understand this.
Small businesses, on the other hand, are often there because the owner likes what (s)he is doing and they get to make a living doing it.
I, for example, love solving people's problems. Many of the jobs I've had, I'd do for free, if I had the money from an independent source. Other friends of mine are completely mercenary about their jobs.
I guess that what I'm saying is that small businesses are an expression of their owners .... larger businesses too, but shareholders tend to be only interested in the profits.
If I've got a problem with the war, I take it up with bush.
If I got a problem with the strategies they're using in this war, I'll take it up with bush and fume at the High-ranking officers.
I'm only going to take it up with individual soldiers if I find out that they, personaly did something that they should have known better than to do. Even then, I'll still take it up with higher ranking officers if it seems like they turned a blind eye or even encouraged the behavior (eg: abu graib).
'Cause, if they do, I'd like to donate $10 to their research fund.
SUN Microsystems got bit by this sort of thing when they labeled their online directory service Yellow Pages. British telecom's lawyers got all over it, and SUN ended up renaming it NIS, but they never bothered to renaim the scripts which continue to these days with names like YP, YPCAT, YPWHICH, /var/YP/ ....
And, of course, Apple also got into trouble with Apple Records back in the '70s ... and then again when they released the I-POD (they had promised Apple records that they wouldn't go into music distribution).
As such I can see them being really itchy about releasing a TV oriented product who'se name would start dead in the sights of ITV's tradmark lawyers in both Canada and Britain (not to mention any number of other venues).