You don't even need a shortwave radio to listen in anymore. There are dozens of shortwave radios hooked up to web servers located all over the world running WebSDR, allowing anyone with an Internet connection and little to no knowledge of radios to hear this kind of stuff.
Do you really need to save all those Blu-ray rips of the latest Hollywood blockbusters? Just delete them after you watch them. That way you'll have plenty of room for all those raw uncompressed video.
What use would HTML5 have if Google insists on streaming crystal-clear high-definition unskippable ads to me in a few seconds, but streams the video to me bit-by-bit to the point where it takes five minutes to watch a one minute HD video.
In the film "Out of Time" (a film about a cop, played by Denzel Washington, whose secret girlfriend shows up dead, and the cop keeps his affair with her a secret until he can figure out who "killed" her), there is a scene where Denzel's character has to alter his "dead" lover's phone records to keep his affair with her a secret, so he snatches the records from the fax machine before anyone notices, scans them into his Windows 2000 PC, and uses some low-tech imaging program to delete each of his phone numbers from the list, then sends the altered phone records to the fax machine, all while his partner is on the phone with the phone company getting them to re-fax the records.
His PC ran Windows 2000 with no fancy graphics, and even had a slowly moving progress bar.
Journalists use a writing style that provides a bulk of the information towards the beginning of the article. This report is akin to someone who picks up a newspaper while, for instance, waiting in line at a supermarket, skims over the headlines, but doesn't purchase the paper.
The sad thing is, what the fuck are you going to watch with your fancy HTML5-compliant capitalist copyright Nazi video "sharing" site we call YouTube? The only actual "user-generated" content on that garbage site consists of one-minute "vlogs" from idiots who think they're cool because they say "fuck" "gay" and "faggot" after every word.
Start sending fake DMCA notices?
If no one thinks its a problem except a bunch of basement-dwelling nerds, the problem won't go away until someone shows the braindead masses who browse youTube that there is a problem.
When some idiot blows his dick off (quite literally), we have proven that we cannot have nice things like air travel, and proven that we need more surveillance and shit.
This is a really bad idea because Twitter can so easily be utilized to spread misinformation. Look at all the "x is dead!!!!!!!!!!!!" shit that happens with celebrities.
You buy an Xbox 360. You plug it in. You go through the setup screens, then crate an Xbox Live account, which binds you to Microsoft's EULA, which specifically states that you are not allowed to mod the console. You mod the console anyway. You get banned for violating the EULA.
Simple, logical, legal. Lawsuits like this simply clog the American legal system.
From what I understand, the digital distribution of the.PDFs did not sell very well, and the sales figures for digital distribution were very low when WoTC pulled the service (remember, they are a corporation, not a nerd-utopia). Combined with the fact that a majority of the PDFs available on torrent sites and file-sharing sites were the digitally disturbed.PDFs, it makes no sense, from a business perspective, to continue distributing products in a way that ended up costing a company more in lost sales figures than actual sales.
And yes, I know, you can't stop piracy. But they did cut off the main source of piracy.
Then again, I could never read e-books or role-playing game manuals on a computer screen, so whenever I'd pirate things like role-playing game manuals, I'd usually end up buying them if I liked them anyway (that included the 4th edition, which I purchased after reading the.PDFs, and I am satisfied with my purchase)...
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You don't even need a shortwave radio to listen in anymore. There are dozens of shortwave radios hooked up to web servers located all over the world running WebSDR, allowing anyone with an Internet connection and little to no knowledge of radios to hear this kind of stuff.
If you ask me, ICE should be securing America's borders, not being the Internet Police.
But there are those questions which are impossible to answer even with cutting edge science, which is where religion comes in: to answer the "why."
Do you really need to save all those Blu-ray rips of the latest Hollywood blockbusters? Just delete them after you watch them. That way you'll have plenty of room for all those raw uncompressed video.
... in $1 bills.
Except nerds don't drink, so I can't see how that could happen.
Slashdot mods were probably like "OH GOD! FINALLY! An article saying something BAD about Windows 7! MUST. PUBLISH!"
What use would HTML5 have if Google insists on streaming crystal-clear high-definition unskippable ads to me in a few seconds, but streams the video to me bit-by-bit to the point where it takes five minutes to watch a one minute HD video.
In the film "Out of Time" (a film about a cop, played by Denzel Washington, whose secret girlfriend shows up dead, and the cop keeps his affair with her a secret until he can figure out who "killed" her), there is a scene where Denzel's character has to alter his "dead" lover's phone records to keep his affair with her a secret, so he snatches the records from the fax machine before anyone notices, scans them into his Windows 2000 PC, and uses some low-tech imaging program to delete each of his phone numbers from the list, then sends the altered phone records to the fax machine, all while his partner is on the phone with the phone company getting them to re-fax the records.
His PC ran Windows 2000 with no fancy graphics, and even had a slowly moving progress bar.
In Soviet Russia, police corrupt you!
Journalists use a writing style that provides a bulk of the information towards the beginning of the article. This report is akin to someone who picks up a newspaper while, for instance, waiting in line at a supermarket, skims over the headlines, but doesn't purchase the paper.
"FLOSS" sounds like what I use to clean my teeth.
Who the fuck is Jack Benny, and why the fuck should I care that CBS has committed the atrocity of refusing to "preserve" his films?
The sad thing is, what the fuck are you going to watch with your fancy HTML5-compliant capitalist copyright Nazi video "sharing" site we call YouTube? The only actual "user-generated" content on that garbage site consists of one-minute "vlogs" from idiots who think they're cool because they say "fuck" "gay" and "faggot" after every word.
Start sending fake DMCA notices? If no one thinks its a problem except a bunch of basement-dwelling nerds, the problem won't go away until someone shows the braindead masses who browse youTube that there is a problem.
When some idiot blows his dick off (quite literally), we have proven that we cannot have nice things like air travel, and proven that we need more surveillance and shit.
This is a really bad idea because Twitter can so easily be utilized to spread misinformation. Look at all the "x is dead!!!!!!!!!!!!" shit that happens with celebrities.
Man receives $25,000 hospital bill following a car crash in a $500 car! Details at '11!
It's true: Nerds have way too much time on their hands.
"The connection between downloading an image off of limewire and the sexual abuse of a child is so tenuous it's absurd."
Oh really? Tell that to the face of the child in the image he downloaded.
So, Obama's going to announce extending the War in Afghanistan. Discuss.
You buy an Xbox 360. You plug it in. You go through the setup screens, then crate an Xbox Live account, which binds you to Microsoft's EULA, which specifically states that you are not allowed to mod the console. You mod the console anyway. You get banned for violating the EULA.
Simple, logical, legal. Lawsuits like this simply clog the American legal system.
I'd spell and grammar check that potential headline first.
Shouldn't you be DRIVING YOUR CAR instead of worrying about what radio station you can hear or when that meeting is at work?
From what I understand, the digital distribution of the .PDFs did not sell very well, and the sales figures for digital distribution were very low when WoTC pulled the service (remember, they are a corporation, not a nerd-utopia). Combined with the fact that a majority of the PDFs available on torrent sites and file-sharing sites were the digitally disturbed .PDFs, it makes no sense, from a business perspective, to continue distributing products in a way that ended up costing a company more in lost sales figures than actual sales.
And yes, I know, you can't stop piracy. But they did cut off the main source of piracy.
Then again, I could never read e-books or role-playing game manuals on a computer screen, so whenever I'd pirate things like role-playing game manuals, I'd usually end up buying them if I liked them anyway (that included the 4th edition, which I purchased after reading the .PDFs, and I am satisfied with my purchase)...