When the British police confiscate cell phones as they are
apparently "empowered to do so" are they allowed to go though the
phones call list and stored numbers or would that require a warrant?
The ol' "guilt by association" thing...
I'm in Canada. If I were to walk into a bank with a note that said "I have a gun" the teller would tell me to "fuck off" then proceed to throw rolls of pennies at my head.
Seriously, can't the tech industry rise above this Enron-ish nonsense?
You seem to think that the IT industry has some eerie ethics that govern all. That is not the case. The IT industry is just another industry with shares, stockholders, filings, profits and losses. Money is what counts. The size of the profits and payouts of high ranking executives are just numbers on a scoresheet those people play like a game. Trouble is, real people get hurt and those assholes get a slap on the wrist at the white-collar country club jail for a while.
If you or I were to walk into a bank with a note that said "I have a gun." and walked away with a few $K, once caught we'd be in jail longer than the white collar criminals that steal tens or hundreds of millions of dollars.
I'm interested in new some accountants who will would be real "stand up guys" for the company and hear you're looking for work. Please call me at 801-932-5800.
see what happens when you let anyone grab the code
Look for the string "// don't be a lamer" (that's from memory) in the emule source. That's where you can set your upload/download ratio.
I used eMule for a long time (yeah, with a mod as I mentioned above) and it was good. BitTorrent, though, is way better. I have to share and I get quick results. Sharing is good, but when you send out 10x what you bring in then you get PO'd and edit the source as I mentioned above.
I mean, let's have higher resolution FMV's! Crisp! Less artificing. But seriously, the game itself -- Do you suppose they'll ever make a 50 gigabyte PS3 game?
It's not just about games. Once the Blu-Ray readers are more common and available for a few hundred bucks for your AV rack you'll see the push to re-buy the movies you've already bought on VHS and DVD.
"Star Wars Special BluRay Edition in 300 channel THX certified blah blah blah" (and Greedo will still shoot first in that release)
From the article: argue the complexities of the game and the changing strategies
ensure that creation of a program that can "read" opponents' cards
using screen scanning techniques and respond in real time is years
away at best.
Why would the software have to scan the
screen? The card image would be a unique filename, right? ie:
"jack_spades.jpg" or something less easy to recognize but just as
unique. That doesn't require funky programming and OCR.
Even Sir Conan-Doyle's termination of his main character wasn't so mean-spirited - Holmes died fighting Moriarity - he wasn't simply wiped from existance!
True enough, yet there was enough of an outcry at the time to have Doyle come up with a story where Holmes survived the plunge over the falls and made it back to London years later.
I don't buy that. Internet Explorer defaults to MSN for its searches yet it isn't the top used search engine even though IE is still the top used browser. People have decided to use google over their default MSN search.
"Ask Jeeves is touting its service as more user-friendly because it doesn't require the installation of any toolbars or software programs."
FUD. Google and other search engines don't require toolbars or software installation.
"The next generation of search isn't going to be about who can build the biggest indexes (of Web pages)," said analyst Charlene Li of Forrester Research. "It's going to about finding better ways to personalize search results and modify the way the results are presented."
That's outright idiotic. I want the most relevant search results based on the largest index possible.
I just 'asked jeeves' to look up my real name in quotation marks: 481 hits. Google? 1420. A quick glance to the last hits on Google are indeed relevant. What has AskJeeves missed?
Google isn't going to rest on their laurels, AskJeeves will be playing perpetual catch-up. Now when have you heard "Ask Jeeves" used in the common vocabulary? What about Google? It's a used as a verb now.
So this latest benchmark suggests that HyperThreading doesn't do a whole lot. Is this the case on all unixy systems (ie: is HT geared more to Windows?) or is lacklustre performance on Windows the case as well?
I'm leaning heavily to the AMD 64 stuff for my next home unixy machine, any arguments for the P4?
They also discuss the future of the franchise and the direction he intends to take it.
Lucas: I intend to rape the franchise for every nickel I can. I'll destroy as many childhood memories as needed to acomplish this. It doesn't matter if I have to rewrite it so the planet Dantoine shoots att he Death Star first.
Just as Microsoft learned when they had a DDoS against their DNSs and subsequently went to Akamai, the spammers will learn from this. After all, email is their livelyhood.
We imagine Apple won't be willing to play ball on this front.
Likely not, but what if the files are DMR-locked (somehow) to only play with a Longhorn-capable client? Reverse engineering would go against the DMCA likely.
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When the British police confiscate cell phones as they are apparently "empowered to do so" are they allowed to go though the phones call list and stored numbers or would that require a warrant? The ol' "guilt by association" thing...
He's got a much higher UID than you but still... I'll wager 200 Quatloos on the newcomer! duu du DAA DAA DAA DAA DAA daa da daaa....
Now if my neighbor had been sunbathing at the time...
...you'd be checking out his package?
I'm in Canada. If I were to walk into a bank with a note that said "I have a gun" the teller would tell me to "fuck off" then proceed to throw rolls of pennies at my head.
Seriously, can't the tech industry rise above this Enron-ish nonsense?
You seem to think that the IT industry has some eerie ethics that govern all. That is not the case. The IT industry is just another industry with shares, stockholders, filings, profits and losses. Money is what counts. The size of the profits and payouts of high ranking executives are just numbers on a scoresheet those people play like a game. Trouble is, real people get hurt and those assholes get a slap on the wrist at the white-collar country club jail for a while.
If you or I were to walk into a bank with a note that said "I have a gun." and walked away with a few $K, once caught we'd be in jail longer than the white collar criminals that steal tens or hundreds of millions of dollars.
September 23, 2004
Dear Mr. Kumar,
I'm interested in new some accountants who will would be real "stand up guys" for the company and hear you're looking for work. Please call me at 801-932-5800.
Darl McBride
de-Uglied version of this story: here
see what happens when you let anyone grab the code
Look for the string "// don't be a lamer" (that's from memory) in the emule source. That's where you can set your upload/download ratio.
I used eMule for a long time (yeah, with a mod as I mentioned above) and it was good. BitTorrent, though, is way better. I have to share and I get quick results. Sharing is good, but when you send out 10x what you bring in then you get PO'd and edit the source as I mentioned above.
Independant bands are all well and good, but Id like to see the major bands signing on with these.
Won't happen. EMUSICs focus is small, indie bands (for the most part) because the big labels won't let their stuff be released with DRM 'protection'.
It's good for the indies, really, as all the big stuff is available for free anyhow so this gives the indies some exposure.
I mean, let's have higher resolution FMV's! Crisp! Less artificing. But seriously, the game itself -- Do you suppose they'll ever make a 50 gigabyte PS3 game?
It's not just about games. Once the Blu-Ray readers are more common and available for a few hundred bucks for your AV rack you'll see the push to re-buy the movies you've already bought on VHS and DVD.
"Star Wars Special BluRay Edition in 300 channel THX certified blah blah blah" (and Greedo will still shoot first in that release)
If someone compromises their network and server enough to install and run a script, they've got considerably more at their fingertips.
When you have the CEO of Diebold saying "I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President next year." why do you think the evilness has to come from outside Diebold?
here you go
My programmer and Garcia's are having a slashdot-version of Core Wars.
From the article: argue the complexities of the game and the changing strategies ensure that creation of a program that can "read" opponents' cards using screen scanning techniques and respond in real time is years away at best.
Why would the software have to scan the screen? The card image would be a unique filename, right? ie: "jack_spades.jpg" or something less easy to recognize but just as unique. That doesn't require funky programming and OCR.
Even Sir Conan-Doyle's termination of his main character wasn't so mean-spirited - Holmes died fighting Moriarity - he wasn't simply wiped from existance!
True enough, yet there was enough of an outcry at the time to have Doyle come up with a story where Holmes survived the plunge over the falls and made it back to London years later.
I don't buy that. Internet Explorer defaults to MSN for its searches yet it isn't the top used search engine even though IE is still the top used browser. People have decided to use google over their default MSN search.
"Ask Jeeves is touting its service as more user-friendly because it doesn't require the installation of any toolbars or software programs."
FUD. Google and other search engines don't require toolbars or software installation.
"The next generation of search isn't going to be about who can build the biggest indexes (of Web pages)," said analyst Charlene Li of Forrester Research. "It's going to about finding better ways to personalize search results and modify the way the results are presented."
That's outright idiotic. I want the most relevant search results based on the largest index possible.
I just 'asked jeeves' to look up my real name in quotation marks: 481 hits. Google? 1420. A quick glance to the last hits on Google are indeed relevant. What has AskJeeves missed? Google isn't going to rest on their laurels, AskJeeves will be playing perpetual catch-up. Now when have you heard "Ask Jeeves" used in the common vocabulary? What about Google? It's a used as a verb now.
Hrm... $150K isn't a bad deal if it can still sing "Daisy"...
Huh? Nowhere in the article was Apple mentioned...
So this latest benchmark suggests that HyperThreading doesn't do a whole lot. Is this the case on all unixy systems (ie: is HT geared more to Windows?) or is lacklustre performance on Windows the case as well?
I'm leaning heavily to the AMD 64 stuff for my next home unixy machine, any arguments for the P4?
Related article on NewScientist says "[t]housands of zombie PCs created daily" Also if you want this story de-uglied click here
Oh, Alexander Fleming? where art thou now?
He's right here, silly.
They also discuss the future of the franchise and the direction he intends to take it.
Lucas: I intend to rape the franchise for every nickel I can. I'll destroy as many childhood memories as needed to acomplish this. It doesn't matter if I have to rewrite it so the planet Dantoine shoots att he Death Star first.
Just as Microsoft learned when they had a DDoS against their DNSs and subsequently went to Akamai, the spammers will learn from this. After all, email is their livelyhood.
We imagine Apple won't be willing to play ball on this front.
Likely not, but what if the files are DMR-locked (somehow) to only play with a Longhorn-capable client? Reverse engineering would go against the DMCA likely.
...but I got F157 pr057 for GNAA!