Why don't they use the same algorithm to blur the naughty bits? Those naughty bits earned me the secondary alias, Mustaf Fuqya, obviously you can't blur my terrorist weapon of choice!
I also see it as if someone else gets in there and does the same thing, people will just be like, oh look, another Jack Thompson. I doubt anything will really change if he does get disbarred other than we wont have to hear about him as much. Instead, he'll just start writing letters to the editor and blogging, but his creditability will be shot so it wont matter.
Well, adding SMS/IM capability to Exchange is inexpensive and practical for many work environments.
On the network I'm in charge of, we could probably eliminate 50% of our emails if we had SMS.
You also have to consider something SETI produced, that has had a profound effect on us...
SETI@Home, to my knowledge one of the first effective massively online grid computing projects...which saw enough success to get big players in the game to produce something else useful. I.e. World Community Grid, and later Berkeley's own BOINC platform.
Extending the development cycle to add extra polish didn't put the "nail in the coffin" for Unreal Tournament. Read the gamasutra postmortem on it. This is a great move, it shows they are doing everything they can to get people to like their game. World of Warcraft is likely to lose a lot of players to this game, so they have to KEEP those people from moving BACK to WoW.
WoW has almost zero polish anyways, and a lot of people that play it would likely agree:)
If there are no current real world applications that are programmed for or depend on quantum computers, the proper response is "so what?"
It's a good thing Tesla didn't feel the same way about A/C electricity.
IANAL, but couldn't it be argued this reverse-engineering is being used for interoperability? I mean, you shouldn't HAVE to run Apple's OS on their iPods -- you bought it.
I wish I could agree that Apple's moment to 'strike a hot iron' is a good thing -- however, Apple is just as bad about vendor lock in as Microsoft is. Some might venture to say worse. Especially in a situation like this where our main gripe is Microsoft's overall control of your computer regardless of the situation. Apple can in theory do the same thing, but so far, hasn't bothered except to make it overly difficult to run their flagship OS on standard off the shelf hardware.
Oh well, maybe someday we'll see a cool thing like Apple's hardware actually becoming as cost-efficient to own as normal x86 hardware...but I don't intend to hold my breath.
Yea, I guess you're right about that. But if that had happened to me, I would have at least tried to get my money back out of the drive by shooting for a replacement and reselling the new one (bare minimum). However, losing a single drive from Seagate probably wont cause me to move to another manufacturer...then again, I have a lot of backups since I have lost smaller harddrives in the past from other manufacturers. Either way, it is still a major inconvenience and I certainly understand why you might not even worry about it after that.
Your hard drive was likely still under warranty through Seagate -- did you look into it and see if they would replace it for you? I've had very good luck with Seagate data storage over the years (*knocks on wood*).
Although the Google report on hard drives scares me still.
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No, but it can tell you that it is both spam and not spam.
NO!
Yep, I've been using this on my 500GB External for quite some time under Fedora 7 and 8. Works beautifully.
And hence, this perpetrator will get the good cop/bad cop/job recruitment officer.
I also see it as if someone else gets in there and does the same thing, people will just be like, oh look, another Jack Thompson. I doubt anything will really change if he does get disbarred other than we wont have to hear about him as much. Instead, he'll just start writing letters to the editor and blogging, but his creditability will be shot so it wont matter.
Well, adding SMS/IM capability to Exchange is inexpensive and practical for many work environments. On the network I'm in charge of, we could probably eliminate 50% of our emails if we had SMS.
You also have to consider something SETI produced, that has had a profound effect on us...
SETI@Home, to my knowledge one of the first effective massively online grid computing projects...which saw enough success to get big players in the game to produce something else useful. I.e. World Community Grid, and later Berkeley's own BOINC platform.
Extending the development cycle to add extra polish didn't put the "nail in the coffin" for Unreal Tournament. Read the gamasutra postmortem on it. This is a great move, it shows they are doing everything they can to get people to like their game. World of Warcraft is likely to lose a lot of players to this game, so they have to KEEP those people from moving BACK to WoW.
:)
WoW has almost zero polish anyways, and a lot of people that play it would likely agree
Task Manager also has some process names hardcoded into it that it wont let you kill, for example, csrss.exe.
Exactly! Just lop enough significant figures off and you'll get back to the 2K bug conspiracy with 8.3!
I was thinking more along the lines of, 'watch out for ceramic tips' so the US can get these big drives :)
I never have been able and still can't use FOIL -- I just multiply it out, and that works for all orders of polynomials :)
How many intertubes will it take to move all those Libraries of Congress?
It's a good thing Tesla didn't feel the same way about A/C electricity.
Feathered Raptors...Tar? it's Un'Goro Crater all over again!
IANAL, but couldn't it be argued this reverse-engineering is being used for interoperability? I mean, you shouldn't HAVE to run Apple's OS on their iPods -- you bought it.
Sigh, I hate the DMCA sometimes.
Hmm H2S...no wonder the old geeks swore by thinkpads, farts can collect in mother's basement.
I wish I could agree that Apple's moment to 'strike a hot iron' is a good thing -- however, Apple is just as bad about vendor lock in as Microsoft is. Some might venture to say worse. Especially in a situation like this where our main gripe is Microsoft's overall control of your computer regardless of the situation. Apple can in theory do the same thing, but so far, hasn't bothered except to make it overly difficult to run their flagship OS on standard off the shelf hardware.
Oh well, maybe someday we'll see a cool thing like Apple's hardware actually becoming as cost-efficient to own as normal x86 hardware...but I don't intend to hold my breath.
I'd also like to suggest www.vivisimo.com
It has served me well in the past where google has occasionally failed.
Yea, I guess you're right about that. But if that had happened to me, I would have at least tried to get my money back out of the drive by shooting for a replacement and reselling the new one (bare minimum). However, losing a single drive from Seagate probably wont cause me to move to another manufacturer...then again, I have a lot of backups since I have lost smaller harddrives in the past from other manufacturers. Either way, it is still a major inconvenience and I certainly understand why you might not even worry about it after that.
Your hard drive was likely still under warranty through Seagate -- did you look into it and see if they would replace it for you? I've had very good luck with Seagate data storage over the years (*knocks on wood*). Although the Google report on hard drives scares me still. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/ 18/0420247