Oh.. and on the subject of DRM... DRM sucks, but if it comes to watching a low-quality, one-time-broadcast over my television from my cable provider, or getting a higher-quality download with replay, FOR THE SAME PRICE... Relatively, it is a much better deal to get the DRM-infected file... and in regard to fair-use, the "analog hole" ensures that the DRM-infected file is no worse than the SDTV broadcast when piped into a VCR -- not to mention other, higher-quality ripping methods available for the digital file.
Well plenty of people pay over 100$ a month for cable. At 2 hours a day that's 1.67+$ / hour...
Although for me, the economics were slightly different, this is essentially why I started buying TV on iTunes.
I was looking at a $40/mo cable bill, figuring that for $40/mo on iTunes, I could buy 20 hours of television. Not exactly two hours a day, I don't have that much time for TV anyway. However, here are the real kickers -- first, for your money, you're getting replay value from your television. You pay the same, but can rewatch your shows whenever. Secondly, when May sweeps are over, you have the option of paying very little over the summer while you wait for the new shows -- your cable provider won't do this, you're gonna have less original programming over the summer and still pay their insane rates!
I will admit, though, that with the major networks now having their shows online, I haven't powered up iTunes in months. I will still consider it for purchasing seasons for later viewing, plus I will probably power it up a bit over the summer to catch up on some reruns.
By the way, what these articles don't mention is that sometimes you're not looking for promotions when you switch to telecommuting.
I feel that I mashed a bunch of ideas together... I forgot to elaborate on the above.
Some people are looking for other opportunties otherside their normal office rather than promotions. Rather than spending time around the water cooler, teleworkers can get their jobs done and still have time to pursue other interests... hobbies, contract work, etc.
Now, some might not think this fair to their employer, but neither is spending time at the watercooler, or taking long walks to the restroom (the restroom often being a shorter walk at home); however, it is important that you get your work done and don't create a major conflict of interest.
Not to have this bite me in the ass in the future when someone data-mines this later and out of context... my point is that many jobs have 'down time', and its better for an employee to use that time productively than unproductively, even if that productive 'down time' isn't exactly directly beneficial for the company. Google knows this, you should too. (note, I don't work for google, but they do have a policy *requiring* employees work on personal projects)
It can be difficult, but also rewarding. My wife hates telecommuting, she doesn't like the fact that she is stuck in the house all day long; however, I felt the same way when I first started. I had actually worked 2 years telecommuting, and then 2 years in an office, before returning to telework.
So far, I'm enjoying the time that I spend at home, and I too moved to Europe -- so I get to enjoy the culture and the cafes, even when working. With highspeed wireless internet (up to 1.8mbps with UMTS/HSDPA), I can work from anywhere.
By the way, what these articles don't mention is that sometimes you're not looking for promotions when you switch to telecommuting. The truth is that telecommuting has fewer social distractions and if you live in a small enough flat, you have shorter distances to the restroom and coffee pot / water cooler. What this means is that while you might feel bad for firing up the tv, remember that almost no matter how much you goof off, you're probably doing more than you would if you had gone to the office. The important thing, of course, is that you can get the work done.
2. Between your comment about.app's not being recognized by bash and the fact that I can't CD into a EXT2 FS alias, I think I've finally been tipped into modding bash to include that capability on the Mac. Any other requests for bash while I'm at it?
What do you mean that.app's aren't recognized by bash? They're recognized. Bash's built-in 'echo *' can see into it fine, and bash's built-in 'cd' can change directory into the.app. If you want to make them executable, that isn't a job for bash. What you *can* do with bash is edit/etc/completion, if your tab-completion for these files isn't working as you expect.
If you want to make.app directories executable, you're looking at a kernel hack. Which, luckily, the OSX kernel (darwin) is open source, so this could be facilitated by a determined hacker.
They can do it in a very clever way. Just sell the game and throw in a free controller with it.
Yeah, because this model worked so well with the Multitap (with Bomberman) and the Zapper (duck hunt)... or any of the other gimmick controllers and addons that never took off.
While the multitap didn't take off and NES and SNES 4-player games didn't take off... the N64 actually had 4-player games because it had, by default, 4 controller ports. Likewise, there will be more shooting games with the Wii than any past console, due to the motion sensing controller, because it won't need any add-ons.
Game developers don't want to market to a niche. Probably the only 3rd-party addon that received any fanfare were DDR mats. I admit, they were quite popular.
What I find interesting, that nobody has mentioned, is the possibility that this may degrade the media?
We know very little about the half-life of DVD media, but enough to know that its "reasonable". However, media that gets activated according to some proprietary process... I highly suspect it will have a lower half-life than a pressed DVD. Perhaps not much less, but I would guess it to be certainly less than a standard DVD.
I suppose, depending on the implementation, it may not be any worse than DVD-/+R disks... which isn't necessarily saying much in its favor. (having lost data to cheap CDR's in the past)
As others have suggested, this can have various political consequences. For those that don't believe so... take a look at what is happening in Poland to communist-era "collaborators" / "spies". Poland is on a witch-hunt.
Government ministers have lost their positions from this, even Warsaw's Archbishop resigned over the matter.
It is likely that these documents will cause similar problems in Germany.
You don't know much about encryption or one time keys, do you? A one time pad provides absolute plausible deniability. It is the only "perfect" encryption mechanism, as long as the key isn't revealed.
However, I will admit right now, that there IS a corresponding key that, if XOR'ed against the number on my blog post, will provide the magic AACS number. However, that is true of ANY 32-bit integer! As far as you or anyone else can prove, the key on my site is as much the AACS number as is the (decimal) numbers 1, 32, 192929, or 99999.
Brute-force attacks are impossible against a OTP. If you know the "secret", and one half of a OTP, then you can at most determine the other half of the OTP. It does not prove that either half of the OTP was intentionally designed as such.
What is posted on my blog cannot possibly be used against myself. It is a 32-bit integer, to which there is a corresponding 32-bit integer which will produce the AACS key; however, since that is true of any 32-bit integer, that doesn't exactly scare me.
That is UTTERLY the wrong solution. I'd settle for- no arrest, referal to mental health professionals, keep the kid with his friends so he has an outlet for his feelings, and give him his very own entry in the state gun control lookup database to prevent him from legally buying a firearm. The 2nd and 3rd parts are more important than the 1st and the 4th- but ALL need to happen given recent events. The arrest probably accomplishes #4 at best- and leaves #2 and #3 completely undone.
I agree with this, except I say that this is worse than what was done with preists. The fact that they are aliened this student, removing him from his friends, humiliated him... these are the things that CREATE monsters. I believe a better analogy regarding the priest situation would be if the Church took priests that they *suspected* may become child molestors, and intentionally put them in charge of orphanages. What was done to this student was not only unjust, it was dangerous.
However, that said, I do not feel that any single writing, or even a small group of writings should qualify as much as a mental health evaluation -- As a long fan of Poe, I've written plenty of matters of dark fiction. That doesn't make me crazy. Likewise, I'm sure that readers of Steven King also have been influenced in their writings. Should we burn the works of Poe or King? Should students be forbidden from such literary persuits? What will happen to tomorrow's writers? Should books also have a rating system like that of movies and video games? If not, then should movies and video games NOT have ratings? If a student can read The Pit and the Pendulum, why can they not purchase an R rated movie?
For some reason there is a negative light cast upon burning books, and yet its perfectly accepted when it comes to the censorship of cds, television, video games, and movies. I'm not advocating the burning of books. I'm just highlighting the hypocrisy.
Censoring the writings of your child is burning the books of your grandchildren. If your children can not write, then your grandchildren will not read.
The included file can't have multiple
elements at the top level, because then it's not a well-formed XML document by itself, and XSL can only include complete well-formed xml documents with the document() function. Yes, this can be worked around. But why should we have to? (Personally, I think this is a problem with XML in general. I've never heard the rationale for why XML requires a single root node. I'm sure there is one; I'm not sure that it's good.)
It isn't that hard to have a root element in your included file. Plus, if you're including XHTML documents, you will already have an html top-level element.
(X)HTML is for structure, i.e. "here is a division of text (DIV)," "here is a span of text (SPAN)," "here is a very important header (H1)" -- of which I say nothing about how it shall appear to the user.
It isn't the markup that specifies how it should display to the user, it is the order and hierarchy of the elements that, in XHTML, specifies the layout. The reality is that, unless only using absolutely positioned elements, CSS has only limited control over the presentation of a webpage.
A CSS stylesheet can specify how to style a navigation bar, but cannot actually specify WHAT will appear in that navigation bar. To elaborate, imagine Slashdot, applying a new CSS stylesheet cannot reposition the "Preview" button, nor can it reposition the "Logout" link onto the left-hand navigation menu. This *is* a matter of layout, and this is handled not in CSS, but in XHTML.
Hmm interesting. But XSL has some disadvantages. It's a huge spec to implement and a lot of processing overhead just to get an <include> element.
HTML is a huge spec as well, so I don't see much argument there, and it isn't like the XSL parsers haven't been written, there are many available. Computers are plenty fast today to process such things, and I even have mobile devices that happily, and quickly, support such pages.
It isn't *just* about an <include>-esque element, it is about providing a full suite of client-side layout templating. I consider XML the data, XHTML the layout, CSS the style, and XSL the glue;-) I believe that many of the purported advantages of CSS are lost without implementing the full suite of XML/XSL/XHTML/CSS.
My idea of a "3.0" webapp is something that outputs XML, transforms with client-side XSL into XHTML, and stylizes with CSS. Such development allows not only for user-specified CSS files, but also for alternative page templates. My deepest concern with this movement is with phishing and cross-site attacks, something that we will be seeing enough of with the growth of web services.
It will never be supported everywhere, it requires splitting code into a separate stylesheet file,
It is already supported... and splitting code into a stylesheet file?? Don't we already do that with CSS? Don't you already do that with your existing templating system? This replaces, to some extent, your existing templating systems such as HTML::Mason.
it requires XHTML so you have to do your doctype and xmlns incantations just so, you can only include complete well-formed XML documents with a single root element (so you couldn't include multiple paragraphs without wrapping them in one div
The <html> tag is the single root element. What other root elements do you use in (X)HTML?
and perhaps worst of all it disables incremental rendering
A defect of modern implementations, as I understand it. This is not a defect of the standard. Sure, this might mean that its slightly premature, but it *is* supported by yesterday's browsers. It might not be the best support, but enough to appease those that choose not to upgrade when "The Next Big Thing" comes along.
HTML isn't for layout. CSS is for layout, and CSS3 has methods of creating true multicolumn pages.
I choose to advertise that XHTML is the layout, and CSS is for style/fashion.
The truth is that it is nearly impossible to write XHTML such that CSS can have full control over the layout. Much of CSS's abilities are dependent on the positioning of the elements within the XHTML. That is why the real layout must be in XHTML. Luckily, we can openly, and easily, create XHTML layouts in a dynamic and open way through the use of templates, aka. XML/XSLT.
For example... While CSS might be able to position a navigation bar on the left or right side a page, it is limited in its ability to re-sort or move items. It can assign alignment or displacement amongst items, but cannot and does not define the layout.
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The good news is that this now provides a way for people to purchase EMI's music DRM-free. This should not be understated, as EMI has led the DRM-war in Europe with copy-protected cds.
Does this also mean a reversal in policy regarding copy-protected CDs? Will *normal* Phillips-compatable cds now become available on shelves?
Make that "some curses apps like top". While PuTTY has made improvements in this area, it still has various bugs, glitches, and limitations with graphics.
The truth is that PuTTY is not all that good. However, being designed for Windows users, it is "just enough" for many. I would need time to compile a list of complaints, but I know that using it highly irks me. On the other hand, it is the *best* free terminal emulator for Windows.
Of course, cmd.exe/command.com is a whole heck of a lot worse. There is rxvt for Windows, but that isn't as easily installed or utilized... and xterm requires an X11 server to be run.
AssignUserId only works with the perchild MPM, which has the following caveat: "This module is not functional. Development of this module is not complete and is not currently active. Do not use perchild unless you are a programmer willing to help fix it."
Thus, AssignUserId should NOT be used. SuExec can be used, of course, but that has its own limitations.
Personally, I give users their own Apache processes on their own port (>1024) and use a reverse proxy. I make a living on it.
I had this problem too when a harddrive failed. I ran badblocks and smartctl against the drive, both reported failures. However, they refused to replace it, as we ran Linux.
After 8 hours of phone conversation and repeated readings of the warranty, verbatim, to the manager, I finally was able to have them consent to accepting the use of their disk-testing utility from a bootable DOS disk, rather than from within a pre-installed Windows OS. They refused to accept the smartctl and badblocks output, regardless of having support for Linux. Apparently, the hardware we had did not quality for Linux support, thus they would not allow us to use Linux-based utilities to prove a hardware failure.
With the amount of time that they spent with me on the phone, it would have been far less expensive for them to simply send me a new drive, rather than waste time debating semantics.
"I'm quite certain at this point, that by running a small-business, esspecially online, you're just asking for reasons to be put into Guantanamo. Not that they need reasons, anymore."
Why dont you just put on your tin foil hat
The whole point is that these laws are far-extending, if not simply vague. Will they arrest the average joe-business-owner? Probably not. However, they could. The fact that they can is scary enough, as demonstrated by the famous quote of Martin Niemöller.
Being that I didn't indicate *what* group, I hope it should be safe enough. Besides, I no longer reside in the US. They can either extridite me, or wait until I decide to risk getting Sklyarov'ed. Not that I really expect them to get all riled up by vague references to events that might not have actually happened, it is the internet, after all.
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Oh.. and on the subject of DRM... DRM sucks, but if it comes to watching a low-quality, one-time-broadcast over my television from my cable provider, or getting a higher-quality download with replay, FOR THE SAME PRICE...
Relatively, it is a much better deal to get the DRM-infected file... and in regard to fair-use, the "analog hole" ensures that the DRM-infected file is no worse than the SDTV broadcast when piped into a VCR -- not to mention other, higher-quality ripping methods available for the digital file.
Although for me, the economics were slightly different, this is essentially why I started buying TV on iTunes.
I was looking at a $40/mo cable bill, figuring that for $40/mo on iTunes, I could buy 20 hours of television. Not exactly two hours a day, I don't have that much time for TV anyway. However, here are the real kickers -- first, for your money, you're getting replay value from your television. You pay the same, but can rewatch your shows whenever. Secondly, when May sweeps are over, you have the option of paying very little over the summer while you wait for the new shows -- your cable provider won't do this, you're gonna have less original programming over the summer and still pay their insane rates!
I will admit, though, that with the major networks now having their shows online, I haven't powered up iTunes in months. I will still consider it for purchasing seasons for later viewing, plus I will probably power it up a bit over the summer to catch up on some reruns.
I feel that I mashed a bunch of ideas together... I forgot to elaborate on the above.
Some people are looking for other opportunties otherside their normal office rather than promotions. Rather than spending time around the water cooler, teleworkers can get their jobs done and still have time to pursue other interests... hobbies, contract work, etc.
Now, some might not think this fair to their employer, but neither is spending time at the watercooler, or taking long walks to the restroom (the restroom often being a shorter walk at home); however, it is important that you get your work done and don't create a major conflict of interest.
Not to have this bite me in the ass in the future when someone data-mines this later and out of context... my point is that many jobs have 'down time', and its better for an employee to use that time productively than unproductively, even if that productive 'down time' isn't exactly directly beneficial for the company. Google knows this, you should too. (note, I don't work for google, but they do have a policy *requiring* employees work on personal projects)
It can be difficult, but also rewarding. My wife hates telecommuting, she doesn't like the fact that she is stuck in the house all day long; however, I felt the same way when I first started. I had actually worked 2 years telecommuting, and then 2 years in an office, before returning to telework.
So far, I'm enjoying the time that I spend at home, and I too moved to Europe -- so I get to enjoy the culture and the cafes, even when working. With highspeed wireless internet (up to 1.8mbps with UMTS/HSDPA), I can work from anywhere.
By the way, what these articles don't mention is that sometimes you're not looking for promotions when you switch to telecommuting. The truth is that telecommuting has fewer social distractions and if you live in a small enough flat, you have shorter distances to the restroom and coffee pot / water cooler. What this means is that while you might feel bad for firing up the tv, remember that almost no matter how much you goof off, you're probably doing more than you would if you had gone to the office. The important thing, of course, is that you can get the work done.
What do you mean that
If you want to make
Yeah, because this model worked so well with the Multitap (with Bomberman) and the Zapper (duck hunt)... or any of the other gimmick controllers and addons that never took off.
While the multitap didn't take off and NES and SNES 4-player games didn't take off... the N64 actually had 4-player games because it had, by default, 4 controller ports. Likewise, there will be more shooting games with the Wii than any past console, due to the motion sensing controller, because it won't need any add-ons.
Game developers don't want to market to a niche. Probably the only 3rd-party addon that received any fanfare were DDR mats. I admit, they were quite popular.
What I find interesting, that nobody has mentioned, is the possibility that this may degrade the media?
We know very little about the half-life of DVD media, but enough to know that its "reasonable". However, media that gets activated according to some proprietary process... I highly suspect it will have a lower half-life than a pressed DVD. Perhaps not much less, but I would guess it to be certainly less than a standard DVD.
I suppose, depending on the implementation, it may not be any worse than DVD-/+R disks... which isn't necessarily saying much in its favor. (having lost data to cheap CDR's in the past)
As others have suggested, this can have various political consequences. For those that don't believe so... take a look at what is happening in Poland to communist-era "collaborators" / "spies". Poland is on a witch-hunt.
Government ministers have lost their positions from this, even Warsaw's Archbishop resigned over the matter.
It is likely that these documents will cause similar problems in Germany.
You don't know much about encryption or one time keys, do you? A one time pad provides absolute plausible deniability. It is the only "perfect" encryption mechanism, as long as the key isn't revealed.
However, I will admit right now, that there IS a corresponding key that, if XOR'ed against the number on my blog post, will provide the magic AACS number. However, that is true of ANY 32-bit integer! As far as you or anyone else can prove, the key on my site is as much the AACS number as is the (decimal) numbers 1, 32, 192929, or 99999.
Brute-force attacks are impossible against a OTP. If you know the "secret", and one half of a OTP, then you can at most determine the other half of the OTP. It does not prove that either half of the OTP was intentionally designed as such.
What is posted on my blog cannot possibly be used against myself. It is a 32-bit integer, to which there is a corresponding 32-bit integer which will produce the AACS key; however, since that is true of any 32-bit integer, that doesn't exactly scare me.
Yes, you're right about this. I thought the same, as have others.
Note, that I did not post the key to my OTP... although the key is pretty simple to figure out.
I agree with this, except I say that this is worse than what was done with preists. The fact that they are aliened this student, removing him from his friends, humiliated him... these are the things that CREATE monsters. I believe a better analogy regarding the priest situation would be if the Church took priests that they *suspected* may become child molestors, and intentionally put them in charge of orphanages. What was done to this student was not only unjust, it was dangerous.
However, that said, I do not feel that any single writing, or even a small group of writings should qualify as much as a mental health evaluation -- As a long fan of Poe, I've written plenty of matters of dark fiction. That doesn't make me crazy. Likewise, I'm sure that readers of Steven King also have been influenced in their writings. Should we burn the works of Poe or King? Should students be forbidden from such literary persuits? What will happen to tomorrow's writers? Should books also have a rating system like that of movies and video games? If not, then should movies and video games NOT have ratings? If a student can read The Pit and the Pendulum, why can they not purchase an R rated movie?
For some reason there is a negative light cast upon burning books, and yet its perfectly accepted when it comes to the censorship of cds, television, video games, and movies. I'm not advocating the burning of books. I'm just highlighting the hypocrisy.
Censoring the writings of your child is burning the books of your grandchildren. If your children can not write, then your grandchildren will not read.
It isn't that hard to have a root element in your included file. Plus, if you're including XHTML documents, you will already have an html top-level element.
It isn't the markup that specifies how it should display to the user, it is the order and hierarchy of the elements that, in XHTML, specifies the layout. The reality is that, unless only using absolutely positioned elements, CSS has only limited control over the presentation of a webpage.
A CSS stylesheet can specify how to style a navigation bar, but cannot actually specify WHAT will appear in that navigation bar. To elaborate, imagine Slashdot, applying a new CSS stylesheet cannot reposition the "Preview" button, nor can it reposition the "Logout" link onto the left-hand navigation menu. This *is* a matter of layout, and this is handled not in CSS, but in XHTML.
HTML is a huge spec as well, so I don't see much argument there, and it isn't like the XSL parsers haven't been written, there are many available. Computers are plenty fast today to process such things, and I even have mobile devices that happily, and quickly, support such pages.
It isn't *just* about an <include>-esque element, it is about providing a full suite of client-side layout templating. I consider XML the data, XHTML the layout, CSS the style, and XSL the glue
My idea of a "3.0" webapp is something that outputs XML, transforms with client-side XSL into XHTML, and stylizes with CSS. Such development allows not only for user-specified CSS files, but also for alternative page templates. My deepest concern with this movement is with phishing and cross-site attacks, something that we will be seeing enough of with the growth of web services.
It is already supported... and splitting code into a stylesheet file?? Don't we already do that with CSS? Don't you already do that with your existing templating system? This replaces, to some extent, your existing templating systems such as HTML::Mason.
The <html> tag is the single root element. What other root elements do you use in (X)HTML?
A defect of modern implementations, as I understand it. This is not a defect of the standard. Sure, this might mean that its slightly premature, but it *is* supported by yesterday's browsers. It might not be the best support, but enough to appease those that choose not to upgrade when "The Next Big Thing" comes along.
I choose to advertise that XHTML is the layout, and CSS is for style/fashion.
The truth is that it is nearly impossible to write XHTML such that CSS can have full control over the layout. Much of CSS's abilities are dependent on the positioning of the elements within the XHTML. That is why the real layout must be in XHTML. Luckily, we can openly, and easily, create XHTML layouts in a dynamic and open way through the use of templates, aka. XML/XSLT.
For example... While CSS might be able to position a navigation bar on the left or right side a page, it is limited in its ability to re-sort or move items. It can assign alignment or displacement amongst items, but cannot and does not define the layout.
There is a client-side include, it is called XSL.
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Awesome. Of course, it doesn't help push the inventory already at the stores.
I tried 4 stores in Poland to find a CD and couldn't find a single copy without DRM.
The good news is that this now provides a way for people to purchase EMI's music DRM-free. This should not be understated, as EMI has led the DRM-war in Europe with copy-protected cds.
Does this also mean a reversal in policy regarding copy-protected CDs? Will *normal* Phillips-compatable cds now become available on shelves?
Make that "some curses apps like top". While PuTTY has made improvements in this area, it still has various bugs, glitches, and limitations with graphics.
The truth is that PuTTY is not all that good. However, being designed for Windows users, it is "just enough" for many. I would need time to compile a list of complaints, but I know that using it highly irks me. On the other hand, it is the *best* free terminal emulator for Windows.
Of course, cmd.exe/command.com is a whole heck of a lot worse. There is rxvt for Windows, but that isn't as easily installed or utilized... and xterm requires an X11 server to be run.
AssignUserId only works with the perchild MPM, which has the following caveat: "This module is not functional. Development of this module is not complete and is not currently active. Do not use perchild unless you are a programmer willing to help fix it."
Thus, AssignUserId should NOT be used. SuExec can be used, of course, but that has its own limitations.
Personally, I give users their own Apache processes on their own port (>1024) and use a reverse proxy. I make a living on it.
For many states, not wearing a seatbelt is a crime. If a cop pulls you over for this, can you really prove otherwise? Judges tend to the cop's side.
A cop *can* pull you over for driving out of a dealer's lot.
I had this problem too when a harddrive failed. I ran badblocks and smartctl against the drive, both reported failures. However, they refused to replace it, as we ran Linux.
After 8 hours of phone conversation and repeated readings of the warranty, verbatim, to the manager, I finally was able to have them consent to accepting the use of their disk-testing utility from a bootable DOS disk, rather than from within a pre-installed Windows OS. They refused to accept the smartctl and badblocks output, regardless of having support for Linux. Apparently, the hardware we had did not quality for Linux support, thus they would not allow us to use Linux-based utilities to prove a hardware failure.
With the amount of time that they spent with me on the phone, it would have been far less expensive for them to simply send me a new drive, rather than waste time debating semantics.
The whole point is that these laws are far-extending, if not simply vague. Will they arrest the average joe-business-owner? Probably not. However, they could. The fact that they can is scary enough, as demonstrated by the famous quote of Martin Niemöller.
Being that I didn't indicate *what* group, I hope it should be safe enough. Besides, I no longer reside in the US. They can either extridite me, or wait until I decide to risk getting Sklyarov'ed. Not that I really expect them to get all riled up by vague references to events that might not have actually happened, it is the internet, after all.