Novice, yes, only played a couple times, but a novice that managed to get a paint robot to paint his character blue. GM didn't realize what he'd done until it was too late. Of course being paranoia, I did well to last almost one whole session before my guy was killed and the blue was gone.
Bush's science adviser, John Marburger, called the report biased and said he was troubled that some very prestigious scientists had signed the statement.
Drunk driving is a problem, every four years or so we get enough people killed by drunk drivers to equal the number of Americans lost during all of Vietnam. It kills somewhere around 15,000 people a year. Fine, it's a problem, I can accept that. So why don't they enforce the laws they already have? Better yet, why not have a California style three strikes and your out law. Drunk drivers are a menace to society, so why not lock them up for life without after their third DUI conviction?
Having said all that, leave my car the fuck alone. It's mine, got it? Big brother riding shotgun, I don't think so. Under the auspices of the slippery slope of this program we might as well have gps governors, insurance tracking and automated tickets. Just because technology can do a thing, does not mean that is should do a thing, especially for the masses. At some point, a line must be drawn that says you may not exceed X just because technology allows you to.
Your point is not without merit, especially with regards to coupon settlements. If coupons aren't good enough for the lawyers, they aren't good enough for the plaintiffs.
That being said, the class action lawsuit does benefit society with respect to one thing. It strongly influences how often a recall is done on shoddy or unsafe merchandise when it would otherwise not be done. By making not recalling known defective products more expensive than recalling known defective products, the public (which paid for those products in the first place) benefits. Without these class action lawsuits companies would shaft their customers on a far more routine basis than they already do.
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Hate to tell you this, but most people with laptops don't run them on battery power that often. Even on airplanes many seats come with power plugs for laptops. If you have a laptop it just means that your looking for a portable computer. In fact some laptops don't even come with batteries. This laptop is not marketed at somebody concerned with battery life any more than a full size truck is marketed for fuel economy. If someone wants that they'll just get one of dell's many other laptops that are lightweight and capable of good battery time. It's an apples to oranges comparison.
That's why the no longer say "CD" or "Compact Disc", they also no longer carry the old "CD" label. It's an attempt to sell something that people will think is a cd without actually selling them a CD. Pretty weasely, but they just don't claim to sell CD's anymore.
Is this damaging because 15% of the source to the NT / W2K tree was leaked and we're all suddenly vulnerable or is this no big deal since the code is three years old and it's only 15%? I haven't heard anyone talking about DRM, activation or serial code being in the leak, so I just don't see how this could affect MS other than to help interoperability of other software.
Actually, I found and read the article before slashdot posted a link to it. I also happen to know how tempting it could be for a lab tech to be told that the bad guy of the month could get off, and by the way just how clear can you make that photo with photoshop? It's ok to enhance a photo to give the cops a pointer on what direction to go in a case, as long as the enhanced photo isn't used for evidence. If you read the article you'll see they were talking specificly about enhancing photos that were to be used as evidence in trials. You did read the article, right?
Someone who is highly skilled in photoshop can easily manipulate an image well enough that even people in the image can't quite tell what if anything is different. This is quite common with photos used for magazine covers, advertising and the like.
Seems kinda funny, the more you know about technology, the less trusting of it you are. Seems a bit like long time cops that remain paranoid for years after leaving the job. Witness electronic voting regularly get scoured here, as do other forms of tech that are supposed to be accepted as "unquestionable".
Ah yes, very insenstive of me. I just need to adjust to less than a $1 an hour here in the US. Hm, I just need to make sure I'm not lazy, at 168 hours each week I can afford food and a cardboard box on the street!
How many here simply dream of a job? Wont be long until there are no more employed westerners outside of wally worlds, fast food and politicians. Can we outsource our politicians and ceo's to India too?
I also don't particurly have a problem with preventing the counterfeiting of currency. If someone makes funny money they should go to jail. That's what the secret service is for, not hp or whatever other company has an inkling to play big brother. At some point a line has to be drawn where hardware manufactures can no longer implement untold restrictions. Especially when many of these restrictions very likely are unknown.
It doesn't matter why to be perfectly frank. Why do you need to reply as anonymous coward? Why aren't you putting your name out? Perhaps you have something to hide and we need to send the corporate morality police over to make sure your in compliance? Perhaps you don't feel too confident of your first amendment right to free speech?
Perhaps you live in a country where free speech is usually tolerated - but isn't garaunteed? Perhaps you live in a country where there is no free speech? Obviously you must have something to hide, right anonymous coward? I think the more likely scenario is that your a shill astroturfing for a DRM oriented company and organization. No else would hide behind "anonymous coward" and write like that any more than someone is going to write "I used adobe photoshop to enhance an image I had license to use".
Point is, choices are there for people to make as individuals to make. If I decide to start widespread copyright infringement and start selling adobe photoshop on the street corner for a buck a pop, I can be thrown in jail. Cars can be used to speed, baseball bats to kill, and matches to start fires - should those things be outlawed? Perhaps Louisville sluggers should come with a self destruct device that activates if a the internal radar doesn't pick up an officialy licensed baseball?
With queen carly declaring her love for all things drm and protecting the megacorps from the great unwashed masses, one has to wonder where it stops. How long until my printer wont print a copy of a cd label with "adobe" on it? How long until my scanner refuses to scan in the most recent article from "time"? At what point do they stop trying to make my choices for me? This is probably just practice under the auspices of preventing counterfeiting to get things right for upcoming DRM castrated mobos and hard disks. At what point while I stop "owning" hardware I buy and discover in actuality I have license that includes some hardware on the side?
My teaching skills involve having the person do what I just taught them in front of me. Until they can do it without my intervention, I stay the course. Most of these people though are afflicted with an attitude that they would rather I "just do it". Do you blame all teachers when people don't do what they were told to? Perhaps you blame tech writers when people ignore what they read in tech manuals? People have to practice good computer usage just like anything else, if they don't do it, they'll forget it. I can't make them practice safe hex once I finish teaching and leave.
I think the real issue here is geeks becoming jaded. It starts with a problem, and sometimes can take many hours to fix. One relatives computer took somewher in the range of a couple hundred hours to remove thousands of virus infected files (two dozen some viruses), spyware, and the like. What made this frustrating though was that I had previously taught this person how to use anti-virus, spy ware tools, safely browse the internet and the like. It wasn't the first time either.
Look here's the deal. I'm willing to do work for you, many hours of work in some cases. I'll fix what geeksquad, compusa, or whatever other halfass outfit has fucked up for free. But I expect you to sit down with me and learn how to prevent what got hosed. I don't mind teaching, I've mentored a lot of techs over the years, but I do mind if people dont implement what I teach them.
It's a little like having someone's engine freeze because they ran out of oil. You explain to them that they need to get an oil change, you tell them the enormous number of hours involved, and you repair their engine for them. They thank you and you forget about it, until a year later their now rebuilt engine once more seizes because it ran out of oil. There are only so many times you will fix it before telling them to take care of it on their own.
The issue is not the doing, the issue is the redoing when someone now knows better. I think the solution may be a really basic newbie web page somewhere that teaches people very basic lessons. It has to be made so as not to be patronizing, or people will dismiss it and ignore.
If it covered just these 5 things the Internet would be a much better place.
Dont open attachments from anybody that hasn't verbally told you they one.
Get a popup blocker and do not accept any "offer" that you didn't go looking for.
Antivirus software, use it, update it, and run it at least once a week - all of which can be automated.
Get Ad-Aware and use it. Treat it just like you do your antivirus.
Patch your computer! Go to the appropriate OS update site and use it.
People need to take some responsibility for their own computers. As tempting as the idea for a license is, it would become to easy to politicize. Perhaps we should start holding inviduals financially responsible when their system gets hijacked and inflicts damage on other systems?
Did they fix anything beyond the DRM pieces that leaked with the game? The game was seriously incomplete, so have they taken advantage of their time to do things right this time, or have they just fscked with DRM?
I think my head shall explode. Have loved the books for longer than I can remember. I even adapted part of one book for a play in college - went over well. Have also been boycotting Disney for longer than I can remember. Refuse to give them any money since long before their whole DRM, MPAA etc behavior. Head going to explode! Have I been sent to hell, with this as my punishment?
Couple of things here. First, I have been playing off and on with Linux since Red Hat 6.2, I have not however been using it consistently since then. My skill with Linux is rudimentary, I don't claim otherwise. What I do know is that I went through several nic's trying to get one that was stable, hawking, linksys, dlink and finally settled on netgear. Could it be be kernel error? Possible, again I am by no means a skilled user of Linux.
I am in the learning stages, and this was what I encountered. I am by no means anti-linux, if anything I am beginning to become anti-mandrake. I also ran into problems where if certain options were selected during install, there was no way to go back or cancel. Selecting advanced networking does this as I recall. I have used Mandrake 9.0 before this and didn't have as many problems.
I do generaly try looking for hardware compatibility when buying hardware, but no one ever seems to mention Linux compatible, even when I know they are. For example I recently tried looing for an 802.11 pcmcia cards with Linux compatibility. Most hardware manufacture sites claim only ms or ms + apple compatibility, even when groups over at google shows some of these cards working just fine - dependant on the chipset though.
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Novice, yes, only played a couple times, but a novice that managed to get a paint robot to paint his character blue. GM didn't realize what he'd done until it was too late. Of course being paranoia, I did well to last almost one whole session before my guy was killed and the blue was gone.
Will the tinfoil for hats come in blue?
Drunk driving is a problem, every four years or so we get enough people killed by drunk drivers to equal the number of Americans lost during all of Vietnam. It kills somewhere around 15,000 people a year. Fine, it's a problem, I can accept that. So why don't they enforce the laws they already have? Better yet, why not have a California style three strikes and your out law. Drunk drivers are a menace to society, so why not lock them up for life without after their third DUI conviction?
Having said all that, leave my car the fuck alone. It's mine, got it? Big brother riding shotgun, I don't think so. Under the auspices of the slippery slope of this program we might as well have gps governors, insurance tracking and automated tickets. Just because technology can do a thing, does not mean that is should do a thing, especially for the masses. At some point, a line must be drawn that says you may not exceed X just because technology allows you to.
Your point is not without merit, especially with regards to coupon settlements. If coupons aren't good enough for the lawyers, they aren't good enough for the plaintiffs.
That being said, the class action lawsuit does benefit society with respect to one thing. It strongly influences how often a recall is done on shoddy or unsafe merchandise when it would otherwise not be done. By making not recalling known defective products more expensive than recalling known defective products, the public (which paid for those products in the first place) benefits. Without these class action lawsuits companies would shaft their customers on a far more routine basis than they already do.
Hate to tell you this, but most people with laptops don't run them on battery power that often. Even on airplanes many seats come with power plugs for laptops. If you have a laptop it just means that your looking for a portable computer. In fact some laptops don't even come with batteries. This laptop is not marketed at somebody concerned with battery life any more than a full size truck is marketed for fuel economy. If someone wants that they'll just get one of dell's many other laptops that are lightweight and capable of good battery time. It's an apples to oranges comparison.
That's why the no longer say "CD" or "Compact Disc", they also no longer carry the old "CD" label. It's an attempt to sell something that people will think is a cd without actually selling them a CD. Pretty weasely, but they just don't claim to sell CD's anymore.
Is this damaging because 15% of the source to the NT / W2K tree was leaked and we're all suddenly vulnerable or is this no big deal since the code is three years old and it's only 15%? I haven't heard anyone talking about DRM, activation or serial code being in the leak, so I just don't see how this could affect MS other than to help interoperability of other software.
So, does the leak coverage story mean no more Microsoft ads? Haven't seen one since the story broke and they've started to become a staple here.
Actually, I found and read the article before slashdot posted a link to it. I also happen to know how tempting it could be for a lab tech to be told that the bad guy of the month could get off, and by the way just how clear can you make that photo with photoshop? It's ok to enhance a photo to give the cops a pointer on what direction to go in a case, as long as the enhanced photo isn't used for evidence. If you read the article you'll see they were talking specificly about enhancing photos that were to be used as evidence in trials. You did read the article, right?
Someone who is highly skilled in photoshop can easily manipulate an image well enough that even people in the image can't quite tell what if anything is different. This is quite common with photos used for magazine covers, advertising and the like.
Seems kinda funny, the more you know about technology, the less trusting of it you are. Seems a bit like long time cops that remain paranoid for years after leaving the job. Witness electronic voting regularly get scoured here, as do other forms of tech that are supposed to be accepted as "unquestionable".
Have we finally found a legitimate use for DRM?
Ah yes, very insenstive of me. I just need to adjust to less than a $1 an hour here in the US. Hm, I just need to make sure I'm not lazy, at 168 hours each week I can afford food and a cardboard box on the street!
How many here simply dream of a job? Wont be long until there are no more employed westerners outside of wally worlds, fast food and politicians. Can we outsource our politicians and ceo's to India too?
I also don't particurly have a problem with preventing the counterfeiting of currency. If someone makes funny money they should go to jail. That's what the secret service is for, not hp or whatever other company has an inkling to play big brother. At some point a line has to be drawn where hardware manufactures can no longer implement untold restrictions. Especially when many of these restrictions very likely are unknown.
It doesn't matter why to be perfectly frank. Why do you need to reply as anonymous coward? Why aren't you putting your name out? Perhaps you have something to hide and we need to send the corporate morality police over to make sure your in compliance? Perhaps you don't feel too confident of your first amendment right to free speech?
Perhaps you live in a country where free speech is usually tolerated - but isn't garaunteed? Perhaps you live in a country where there is no free speech? Obviously you must have something to hide, right anonymous coward? I think the more likely scenario is that your a shill astroturfing for a DRM oriented company and organization. No else would hide behind "anonymous coward" and write like that any more than someone is going to write "I used adobe photoshop to enhance an image I had license to use".
Point is, choices are there for people to make as individuals to make. If I decide to start widespread copyright infringement and start selling adobe photoshop on the street corner for a buck a pop, I can be thrown in jail. Cars can be used to speed, baseball bats to kill, and matches to start fires - should those things be outlawed? Perhaps Louisville sluggers should come with a self destruct device that activates if a the internal radar doesn't pick up an officialy licensed baseball?
With queen carly declaring her love for all things drm and protecting the megacorps from the great unwashed masses, one has to wonder where it stops. How long until my printer wont print a copy of a cd label with "adobe" on it? How long until my scanner refuses to scan in the most recent article from "time"? At what point do they stop trying to make my choices for me? This is probably just practice under the auspices of preventing counterfeiting to get things right for upcoming DRM castrated mobos and hard disks. At what point while I stop "owning" hardware I buy and discover in actuality I have license that includes some hardware on the side?
You even got my "sending" I missed. Hazaa!
My teaching skills involve having the person do what I just taught them in front of me. Until they can do it without my intervention, I stay the course. Most of these people though are afflicted with an attitude that they would rather I "just do it". Do you blame all teachers when people don't do what they were told to? Perhaps you blame tech writers when people ignore what they read in tech manuals? People have to practice good computer usage just like anything else, if they don't do it, they'll forget it. I can't make them practice safe hex once I finish teaching and leave.
Look here's the deal. I'm willing to do work for you, many hours of work in some cases. I'll fix what geeksquad, compusa, or whatever other halfass outfit has fucked up for free. But I expect you to sit down with me and learn how to prevent what got hosed. I don't mind teaching, I've mentored a lot of techs over the years, but I do mind if people dont implement what I teach them.
It's a little like having someone's engine freeze because they ran out of oil. You explain to them that they need to get an oil change, you tell them the enormous number of hours involved, and you repair their engine for them. They thank you and you forget about it, until a year later their now rebuilt engine once more seizes because it ran out of oil. There are only so many times you will fix it before telling them to take care of it on their own.
The issue is not the doing, the issue is the redoing when someone now knows better. I think the solution may be a really basic newbie web page somewhere that teaches people very basic lessons. It has to be made so as not to be patronizing, or people will dismiss it and ignore.
If it covered just these 5 things the Internet would be a much better place.
Dont open attachments from anybody that hasn't verbally told you they one.
Get a popup blocker and do not accept any "offer" that you didn't go looking for.
Antivirus software, use it, update it, and run it at least once a week - all of which can be automated.
Get Ad-Aware and use it. Treat it just like you do your antivirus.
Patch your computer! Go to the appropriate OS update site and use it.
People need to take some responsibility for their own computers. As tempting as the idea for a license is, it would become to easy to politicize. Perhaps we should start holding inviduals financially responsible when their system gets hijacked and inflicts damage on other systems?
Hmm, and I just bought some tshirts the other day that were advertised as "tagless". Perhaps if I took a scissors to random parts of my clothes?
Did they fix anything beyond the DRM pieces that leaked with the game? The game was seriously incomplete, so have they taken advantage of their time to do things right this time, or have they just fscked with DRM?
I think my head shall explode. Have loved the books for longer than I can remember. I even adapted part of one book for a play in college - went over well. Have also been boycotting Disney for longer than I can remember. Refuse to give them any money since long before their whole DRM, MPAA etc behavior. Head going to explode! Have I been sent to hell, with this as my punishment?
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Couple of things here. First, I have been playing off and on with Linux since Red Hat 6.2, I have not however been using it consistently since then. My skill with Linux is rudimentary, I don't claim otherwise. What I do know is that I went through several nic's trying to get one that was stable, hawking, linksys, dlink and finally settled on netgear. Could it be be kernel error? Possible, again I am by no means a skilled user of Linux.
I am in the learning stages, and this was what I encountered. I am by no means anti-linux, if anything I am beginning to become anti-mandrake. I also ran into problems where if certain options were selected during install, there was no way to go back or cancel. Selecting advanced networking does this as I recall. I have used Mandrake 9.0 before this and didn't have as many problems.
I do generaly try looking for hardware compatibility when buying hardware, but no one ever seems to mention Linux compatible, even when I know they are. For example I recently tried looing for an 802.11 pcmcia cards with Linux compatibility. Most hardware manufacture sites claim only ms or ms + apple compatibility, even when groups over at google shows some of these cards working just fine - dependant on the chipset though.