Every time I get this stupid scam call on my parent's phone (we are living with them temporarily) I tell the guy on the other end that I don't have a computer but would love one to be delivered overnight. I don't give out my address or anything though... just hang up usually after that.
They are missing the boat. Wii want a wii streetfighter.... Make it 3d and make it use the balance board and nunchuck. Your actual real kicks and punches will cause the characters to move. No jumping on the board is allowed, but you could do the stand straight type of movements like wii fit's ski jumps require... It's probably just a matter of time. Wii boxing in wii sports and wii fit is about the highest calorie burning, and funnest game on the wii. Taking that idea and expanding it to a full fledged street fighter type of thing would be fantastic.
Homebrew = invalid warantee and extended warantee... and possibly total system corruption and no future official updates... not smart to get in to this junk. Use your precious time doing more productive things... for instance, making wii compatible flash games on your websites! There's even a full api on how to do it somewhere out there on the internet... and guess what, flash games are 100% legal and won't void your warantee.
Deep Freeze won't completely fix any problems that are already there either on the computer or in the relationship, but it can "freeze" the hard drive, or drives so that any changes made to them won't stay on the next reboot. There are ways to work around it if you boot from a floppy, but just remove the floppy drive and you are set. Deep Freeze's website is http://www.deepfreezeusa.com/... also a great secondary use for deep freeze is to use it on main OS's drive so that it'll keep whatever virii or other problems you run in to, whether it's that time limited demo software's timer or something else from remembering that it's been installed once you reboot. Makes an awesome little sandbox, and lots of universities use it to keep students from installing junk on the comptuers for good - even though it does arguably encourage downloading and installing software since it lets most record of downloaded and installed stuff, warez or otherwise, from being too traceable once you reboot,... which leaves some kiddies installing time delay demos over and over and over without any repurcussions.
This murder has resulted in a new law in Missouri that has a proposed effective date of 8/28/2008.
Here is a link:
http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills081/bills/hb1505.htm
This law seems to make it illegal to cuss or use "course language" on the phone, internet or any form of writing, make anonymous phone calls if the intent is to frighten or disturb... so ANY prank calls could now potentially be a felony if the person on the receiving end is a minor and the person on the other end is adult. Making repeated phone calls is in this too - so if you get a collection ageny on your butt, you could possibly use this law and say they were frigtening you... especially if you are a minor - just have your kid screen your calls... if the kid answers, you have a case...
Basically, any flame forum threads can become a possible felony if a kid is reading and feels disturbed or threatened in any way when reading...
Something interesting in it - adult is defined as 21 years or older, child is any person under 17 years. I guess if you are 18, 19, or 20 you are not considered an adult so any crimes you commit under this law would be a misdemeanor instead of felony?...
Something else interesting - repeat harassment is considered "aggravated stalking" so if flame wars are going to definitely fall under here if they go on and on and on... and if the person doing that stalking (flame ware) is adult and person receiving it is child, you it's a class D felony! Second offense in 5 years and it's Class C felony!
Now the real kicker is in number 6... Any law enforcement officer may arrest, without a warrent, any person he or she has probable cause to believe has violated the provisions of this section...
WOW! That means cops can arrest anyone at any time if the see that person on a phone, near a computer, or anywhere at any time doing anything more or less... What ever happened to privacy, free speech, and not to mention illegal search policies that actually meant something... This is just as bad, if not worse than what Bush is doing with illegal wiretaps since this is on a state level so it can be implemented or made harsher in other states. Hopefully this thing can be found to be unconstitutional in the near future.
Two words - render farm! Yes, slower machines will take longer to do 3d renders, but if each machine can eat one frame and you have a really complex animation with tons of frames, you have yourself a nice little thing to set up to render all night for you and it might actually get done in time. Don't need all that yourself, why not rent out your renderfarm to nearby animators in the community?
wired article on this says it's up to 20 years...that's wrong... it's up to 20 years for each of the 4 counts against here.. up to a max of 80 years.
They should throw the book at her. Speaking as someone who has been harassed on other online form of communication, it would set a good example for others to look to. Yes, that's a lot of years, but that little girl isn't going to get up again... which really sucks. People don't use their manners online and it's starting to go out in to the real world with cell phones and junk.... People that do crap like this need to be set straight because it's not right. Yes, you do have free speech but there can and should be limits to that.
U of MO has a regularly scheduled surplus auction and ebay auction to go along with it. The auctions apply to both junk like old dorm sofas, desks and stuff as well as to old computers. All Computers have hdd stripped but everything else is ok. What sucks is they sell an entire pallate of stuff and you have to bid on auction for the entire pallate... you can't just pick and choose, so you may end up with one pentium 4 machine in a pallette and 6 ancient pre-pentium windows 95 computers.... along with a lot of other useless junk. Most of the extra junk usually ends up either in a landfill after the buyer buys and dumps or ends up going to someone on freecycle.
I have a pvr that records satellite. I just edit the ads out of movies before recording to dvd for later playback. No skipping involved if you have the right software that automatically detects the ads.
If you don't like that, go live somewhere where they don't matter... Cuba, China maybe... go for it, and don't come back.
Artists, singers, and others need to make a living too, no matter how much you don't think so.
not that it's always easy to get stuff, is freecycle. Who can beat free?!? Of course, you usually have to pay for gas to get yourself to wherever to pick up stuff. The only major problem with freecycle is that it fills your email's inbox with literally thousands of emails, many of which are not useful to you. I'd really like it if someone would build an ebay like site for freecycle! It'd make life so much easier, especially for those situations where you want something, someone offers it, and someone else besides you gets to it before you and then you don't get the email in time to see that the taken email if there is a taken email sent at all... in other words, some highly sought after item that's made available may have 20 takes all looking for it, but only the first to show up got it, and all other 19 have been lead on a wild gooschase, which may have resulted in having to drive half a state away or more in hopes to get something that isn't there...
If you are going to mention it, at least mention it correctly..
In January Pope Benedict XVI called off a visit to Sapienza University, Rome, after staff and students accused him of defending the Inquisition's condemnation of Galileo.
should read
In January Pope Benedict XVI called off a visit to Sapienza University, Rome, after staff and students accused him of defending the Inquisition's condemnation of Galileo using false information that they found on Wikipedia.
Remember all those "to catch a preditor" shows? The preditors could countersue under this law, and claim the guys that nabbed them, whether police or otherwise, were harrassing... something to think about.
http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills081/bills/hb1505.htmhttp://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills081/biltxt/intro/HB1505I.htm
What's interesting is this thing isn't limited to emails... or the web for that matter...
565.090. 1. A person commits the crime of harassment if for the purpose of frightening or disturbing another person, he
(1) Communicates in writing or by telephone a threat to commit any felony; or
(2) Makes a telephone call or communicates in writing and uses coarse language offensive to one of average sensibility; or
(3) Makes a telephone call anonymously; or
(4) Makes repeated telephone calls.
===
(3) "Electronic communications", the origination, emission, dissemination, transmission, or reception of data, images, signals, sounds, or other intelligence or equivalence of intelligence of any nature over any communications system by any method, including, but not limited to, a fiber optic, electronic, magnetic, optical, digital, or analog method. Such electronic communications shall include, but not be limited to electronic mail, Internet-based communications, pager service, and electronic text messaging;
(4) "Electronic communications device", any instrument, equipment, machine, or other device that facilitates telecommunication, including, but not limited to, a computer, computer network, computer chip, computer circuit, scanner, telephone, cellular telephone, pager, personal communications device, transponder, receiver, radio, modem, or device that enables the use of a modem.
So... written stuff and scanned and faxes as well as phone calls apply... In theory, this law could be applied to any "scary" advertisement on TV!
It's true. Catholics do belive in evolution, and all science since science gives us proof of God's greatness. It's the Baptists that don't believe in evolution and shootoff other Christian religions that is the issue. Those literalists don't really understand or care to understand the real meaning of the Bible. They don't see that there can be more than one side to a story and that the Bible has much evidence of this.
One of the most ironic things about schools fighting piracy is that a lot of system admins at schools across the nation have installed Deepfreeze from http://www.deepfreezeusa.com/ That program allows the main OS on the hard drive to be "frozen" while secondary internal or external drives can be unfrozen and still saved too. What's super duper ironic about this sort of junk is that it allows any student at any time to download whatever software they want to the computer, time limit demos, or otherwise, reboot, and the computer will forget the stuff was ever installed... therby letting the student install whatever stuff they want at any time, erasing most, but not all, signs the install ever happened. There's been many articles about this software in 2600 hacker mag. The more they fight piracy the more they are actually encouraging it. It's sort of like if you want people to walk on the grass, be sure to put up big signs that say please don't walk on the grass.
and they say that science isn't a religion. If you spread your belief in a theory, the theory of evolution, and you do so with the zeal of those in other religions, and you think your way is the only right persepective, you got yourself a religion... the religion of science and athiesm has started growing lately, and will probably continue to do so in the future. It's probably just a matter of time before scientist start asking for money to support their religion... Actually, that probably won't happen since they already take money through other methods that steal from the tax payor's coffers... If it looks like a religion, smells like a religion, tastes like a religion, by golly, it might just be a religion.
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Every time I get this stupid scam call on my parent's phone (we are living with them temporarily) I tell the guy on the other end that I don't have a computer but would love one to be delivered overnight. I don't give out my address or anything though... just hang up usually after that.
That good ol Tom Swift and his dad, Barton...
They are missing the boat. Wii want a wii streetfighter.... Make it 3d and make it use the balance board and nunchuck. Your actual real kicks and punches will cause the characters to move. No jumping on the board is allowed, but you could do the stand straight type of movements like wii fit's ski jumps require... It's probably just a matter of time. Wii boxing in wii sports and wii fit is about the highest calorie burning, and funnest game on the wii. Taking that idea and expanding it to a full fledged street fighter type of thing would be fantastic.
Homebrew = invalid warantee and extended warantee... and possibly total system corruption and no future official updates... not smart to get in to this junk. Use your precious time doing more productive things... for instance, making wii compatible flash games on your websites! There's even a full api on how to do it somewhere out there on the internet... and guess what, flash games are 100% legal and won't void your warantee.
www.addventure.com has you beat by a decade or so as the first.
True... but not for LW... 1 seat of Lightwave gets you almost an unlimited amount of render nodes.
Deep Freeze won't completely fix any problems that are already there either on the computer or in the relationship, but it can "freeze" the hard drive, or drives so that any changes made to them won't stay on the next reboot. There are ways to work around it if you boot from a floppy, but just remove the floppy drive and you are set. Deep Freeze's website is http://www.deepfreezeusa.com/ ... also a great secondary use for deep freeze is to use it on main OS's drive so that it'll keep whatever virii or other problems you run in to, whether it's that time limited demo software's timer or something else from remembering that it's been installed once you reboot. Makes an awesome little sandbox, and lots of universities use it to keep students from installing junk on the comptuers for good - even though it does arguably encourage downloading and installing software since it lets most record of downloaded and installed stuff, warez or otherwise, from being too traceable once you reboot,... which leaves some kiddies installing time delay demos over and over and over without any repurcussions.
This murder has resulted in a new law in Missouri that has a proposed effective date of 8/28/2008. Here is a link: http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills081/bills/hb1505.htm This law seems to make it illegal to cuss or use "course language" on the phone, internet or any form of writing, make anonymous phone calls if the intent is to frighten or disturb... so ANY prank calls could now potentially be a felony if the person on the receiving end is a minor and the person on the other end is adult. Making repeated phone calls is in this too - so if you get a collection ageny on your butt, you could possibly use this law and say they were frigtening you... especially if you are a minor - just have your kid screen your calls... if the kid answers, you have a case... Basically, any flame forum threads can become a possible felony if a kid is reading and feels disturbed or threatened in any way when reading... Something interesting in it - adult is defined as 21 years or older, child is any person under 17 years. I guess if you are 18, 19, or 20 you are not considered an adult so any crimes you commit under this law would be a misdemeanor instead of felony?... Something else interesting - repeat harassment is considered "aggravated stalking" so if flame wars are going to definitely fall under here if they go on and on and on... and if the person doing that stalking (flame ware) is adult and person receiving it is child, you it's a class D felony! Second offense in 5 years and it's Class C felony! Now the real kicker is in number 6... Any law enforcement officer may arrest, without a warrent, any person he or she has probable cause to believe has violated the provisions of this section... WOW! That means cops can arrest anyone at any time if the see that person on a phone, near a computer, or anywhere at any time doing anything more or less... What ever happened to privacy, free speech, and not to mention illegal search policies that actually meant something... This is just as bad, if not worse than what Bush is doing with illegal wiretaps since this is on a state level so it can be implemented or made harsher in other states. Hopefully this thing can be found to be unconstitutional in the near future.
Two words - render farm! Yes, slower machines will take longer to do 3d renders, but if each machine can eat one frame and you have a really complex animation with tons of frames, you have yourself a nice little thing to set up to render all night for you and it might actually get done in time. Don't need all that yourself, why not rent out your renderfarm to nearby animators in the community?
wired article on this says it's up to 20 years...that's wrong... it's up to 20 years for each of the 4 counts against here.. up to a max of 80 years. They should throw the book at her. Speaking as someone who has been harassed on other online form of communication, it would set a good example for others to look to. Yes, that's a lot of years, but that little girl isn't going to get up again... which really sucks. People don't use their manners online and it's starting to go out in to the real world with cell phones and junk.... People that do crap like this need to be set straight because it's not right. Yes, you do have free speech but there can and should be limits to that.
U of MO has a regularly scheduled surplus auction and ebay auction to go along with it. The auctions apply to both junk like old dorm sofas, desks and stuff as well as to old computers. All Computers have hdd stripped but everything else is ok. What sucks is they sell an entire pallate of stuff and you have to bid on auction for the entire pallate... you can't just pick and choose, so you may end up with one pentium 4 machine in a pallette and 6 ancient pre-pentium windows 95 computers.... along with a lot of other useless junk. Most of the extra junk usually ends up either in a landfill after the buyer buys and dumps or ends up going to someone on freecycle.
I have a pvr that records satellite. I just edit the ads out of movies before recording to dvd for later playback. No skipping involved if you have the right software that automatically detects the ads.
If you don't like that, go live somewhere where they don't matter... Cuba, China maybe... go for it, and don't come back. Artists, singers, and others need to make a living too, no matter how much you don't think so.
not that it's always easy to get stuff, is freecycle. Who can beat free?!? Of course, you usually have to pay for gas to get yourself to wherever to pick up stuff. The only major problem with freecycle is that it fills your email's inbox with literally thousands of emails, many of which are not useful to you. I'd really like it if someone would build an ebay like site for freecycle! It'd make life so much easier, especially for those situations where you want something, someone offers it, and someone else besides you gets to it before you and then you don't get the email in time to see that the taken email if there is a taken email sent at all... in other words, some highly sought after item that's made available may have 20 takes all looking for it, but only the first to show up got it, and all other 19 have been lead on a wild gooschase, which may have resulted in having to drive half a state away or more in hopes to get something that isn't there...
If you are going to mention it, at least mention it correctly.. In January Pope Benedict XVI called off a visit to Sapienza University, Rome, after staff and students accused him of defending the Inquisition's condemnation of Galileo. should read In January Pope Benedict XVI called off a visit to Sapienza University, Rome, after staff and students accused him of defending the Inquisition's condemnation of Galileo using false information that they found on Wikipedia.
Remember all those "to catch a preditor" shows? The preditors could countersue under this law, and claim the guys that nabbed them, whether police or otherwise, were harrassing... something to think about.
http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills081/bills/hb1505.htm http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills081/biltxt/intro/HB1505I.htm What's interesting is this thing isn't limited to emails... or the web for that matter... 565.090. 1. A person commits the crime of harassment if for the purpose of frightening or disturbing another person, he (1) Communicates in writing or by telephone a threat to commit any felony; or (2) Makes a telephone call or communicates in writing and uses coarse language offensive to one of average sensibility; or (3) Makes a telephone call anonymously; or (4) Makes repeated telephone calls. === (3) "Electronic communications", the origination, emission, dissemination, transmission, or reception of data, images, signals, sounds, or other intelligence or equivalence of intelligence of any nature over any communications system by any method, including, but not limited to, a fiber optic, electronic, magnetic, optical, digital, or analog method. Such electronic communications shall include, but not be limited to electronic mail, Internet-based communications, pager service, and electronic text messaging; (4) "Electronic communications device", any instrument, equipment, machine, or other device that facilitates telecommunication, including, but not limited to, a computer, computer network, computer chip, computer circuit, scanner, telephone, cellular telephone, pager, personal communications device, transponder, receiver, radio, modem, or device that enables the use of a modem. So... written stuff and scanned and faxes as well as phone calls apply... In theory, this law could be applied to any "scary" advertisement on TV!
Know you know why everyone should avoid GPL junk like a plague and move over and only use stuff with MIT liscenses.
It's true. Catholics do belive in evolution, and all science since science gives us proof of God's greatness. It's the Baptists that don't believe in evolution and shootoff other Christian religions that is the issue. Those literalists don't really understand or care to understand the real meaning of the Bible. They don't see that there can be more than one side to a story and that the Bible has much evidence of this.
One of the most ironic things about schools fighting piracy is that a lot of system admins at schools across the nation have installed Deepfreeze from http://www.deepfreezeusa.com/ That program allows the main OS on the hard drive to be "frozen" while secondary internal or external drives can be unfrozen and still saved too. What's super duper ironic about this sort of junk is that it allows any student at any time to download whatever software they want to the computer, time limit demos, or otherwise, reboot, and the computer will forget the stuff was ever installed... therby letting the student install whatever stuff they want at any time, erasing most, but not all, signs the install ever happened. There's been many articles about this software in 2600 hacker mag. The more they fight piracy the more they are actually encouraging it. It's sort of like if you want people to walk on the grass, be sure to put up big signs that say please don't walk on the grass.
and they say that science isn't a religion. If you spread your belief in a theory, the theory of evolution, and you do so with the zeal of those in other religions, and you think your way is the only right persepective, you got yourself a religion... the religion of science and athiesm has started growing lately, and will probably continue to do so in the future. It's probably just a matter of time before scientist start asking for money to support their religion... Actually, that probably won't happen since they already take money through other methods that steal from the tax payor's coffers... If it looks like a religion, smells like a religion, tastes like a religion, by golly, it might just be a religion.
You want a 7 year old girl to have free reign on the internet... no wonder Dateline can find so many pervs to put on their to Catch a Preditor series.