Some wise guy just noticed one day that all known incidents happened near the locations of Taco Bell toilet sewer pipe connections, and so extrapolated the other locations from all known franchise pipe connections.
How about just... not connecting EVERYTHING to the net? The best way to prevent an unauthorized user access to the main control switches of a power plant is to simply have those commands input manually by someone you reach directly by phone. You won't be able to hack those employees directly until those nifty GITS full body replacements roll in (ETA Q4 2013)
Anyone who has experience working with remote desktop applications knows how awful remote mouse response can be. Just imagine playing Starcraft through PCanywhere.
Seems like George set himself up into a Minority Report catch-22... if this laser CAN cut him in half, then he dies but wins his point that this laser infringes on his copyright. If it cannot cut him, then he lives but loses his point.
The whole "there's no smoke without fire!" mob mentality has destroyed more lives than we can ever keep track. These are the sorts of accusations that even being found innocent is still a form of "guilt", because people will always ASSUME that "there had to be a reason why they investigated such and such"...
No matter how badly your computer, home or car gets damaged, there is no service in the world that will spontaneously, out of the blue, show up at your door to offer to fix it. They will all wait for you to call them first.
Some years ago, I got one such phone call from someone who said they were my bank manager, and they needed my account info to prevent a possible fraud attempt. I knew something was up, so I grinned and immediately offered to show up IN PERSON in order to assist them combat this fraud. The scammer panicked and offered a dozen reasons why it would be better to just give it over the phone. I said "it's no bother, I live across the street from you guys, I can see your front door from my window right now!" He of course immediately hung up and never called back. If he had access to my banking file legitimately, he'd have seen my home address was nowhere NEAR the place.
Some games offer interesting compromises. Half-Life starts with no hud, until Gordon gets hsi suit and the suit's control explains why you see that display on your screen. Dead Space has the HUD components show as holographic displays for Issac's viewing, with his health bar on his spine as the power source of his life support.
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Exactly HOW is this news? Anyone with a lick of tech savvy knew about this years ago, even when the entire computer industry denied there was a batch of bad korean caps floating around.
And now imagine that through any combinaison of lobbying, negotiation, kickbacks and possibly blackmail, Symantech gets the EXCLUSIVE contract to have Norton be the ONLY allowed antivirus to be accepted by law. Ever paid 250$ for your antivirus? It could happen.
Considering that ad banners can be infected with java viruses, does that mean that any website with ads should be, by this law, taken offline? Pretty soon the computer users will have the legal obligation to stop using the internet entirely...
Law enforcement is always difficult for instances where the chance of getting caught is incredibly low. If you pile on the penalties you start looking like jack booted thugs, and if you give a fair penalty, there is no deterrent.
This is why they're so desperately trying to make music sharing a crime under criminal law - so they don't have to spend money to catch us, just let the taxpayer funded police and justice system do it FOR them.
When it becomes impossible or cost prohibitive to track down and pay the holder of specific headlines, or when the amount of headlines patented makes it near impossible to create a current one... why bother? It will eventually become easier for german magazines to simply NOT put a title to their articles and just stick them under the correct category. Politics, national, regional, sports and so on. When everyone realizes just how crazy the whole deal was and this silly idea gets dropped, headlines will return.
It's not bowing to pressure, it's ensuring their survival by making damn sure that some lunatic with deep pockets doesn't put a million dollar death sentence bounty on their head. Salman Rushdie still can't come out of hiding to this day...
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Some wise guy just noticed one day that all known incidents happened near the locations of Taco Bell toilet sewer pipe connections, and so extrapolated the other locations from all known franchise pipe connections.
"Yeah Frank, my controls here don't show any fires, what's your authorization override code?"
How about just... not connecting EVERYTHING to the net? The best way to prevent an unauthorized user access to the main control switches of a power plant is to simply have those commands input manually by someone you reach directly by phone. You won't be able to hack those employees directly until those nifty GITS full body replacements roll in (ETA Q4 2013)
Anyone who has experience working with remote desktop applications knows how awful remote mouse response can be. Just imagine playing Starcraft through PCanywhere.
Or when apple released the iPad which is functionally the same as the data pads in TNG.
Seems like George set himself up into a Minority Report catch-22... if this laser CAN cut him in half, then he dies but wins his point that this laser infringes on his copyright. If it cannot cut him, then he lives but loses his point.
The whole "there's no smoke without fire!" mob mentality has destroyed more lives than we can ever keep track. These are the sorts of accusations that even being found innocent is still a form of "guilt", because people will always ASSUME that "there had to be a reason why they investigated such and such"...
You're thinking of midichlorians here.
... Prince's about to be played off by Keyboard Cat.
No matter how badly your computer, home or car gets damaged, there is no service in the world that will spontaneously, out of the blue, show up at your door to offer to fix it. They will all wait for you to call them first.
Some years ago, I got one such phone call from someone who said they were my bank manager, and they needed my account info to prevent a possible fraud attempt. I knew something was up, so I grinned and immediately offered to show up IN PERSON in order to assist them combat this fraud. The scammer panicked and offered a dozen reasons why it would be better to just give it over the phone. I said "it's no bother, I live across the street from you guys, I can see your front door from my window right now!" He of course immediately hung up and never called back. If he had access to my banking file legitimately, he'd have seen my home address was nowhere NEAR the place.
If it was, hundreds of politicians would be scrambling for the paper shredders.
This new theory could lead to the large head-on collider to discover the until now mythical higgs-moron particle.
Some games offer interesting compromises. Half-Life starts with no hud, until Gordon gets hsi suit and the suit's control explains why you see that display on your screen. Dead Space has the HUD components show as holographic displays for Issac's viewing, with his health bar on his spine as the power source of his life support.
... how long until someone FINDS a way of putting in the batteries where it STILL doesn't work? Smart money says about 30 seconds.
But that's just because Bigfoot and Elvis are visible in the corner.
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Exactly HOW is this news? Anyone with a lick of tech savvy knew about this years ago, even when the entire computer industry denied there was a batch of bad korean caps floating around.
Informative link: www.badcaps.net
The force is strong in this one.
Is the real story that Bilski case got thrown out over machine-or-transformation test failure, or that the article contains "Supreme's" in the name?
The new regulations explicitly 'forbid content advocating pornography, cults, superstitions, gambling, and violence in all online games.'
So what's left to play with?
And now imagine that through any combinaison of lobbying, negotiation, kickbacks and possibly blackmail, Symantech gets the EXCLUSIVE contract to have Norton be the ONLY allowed antivirus to be accepted by law. Ever paid 250$ for your antivirus? It could happen.
Considering that ad banners can be infected with java viruses, does that mean that any website with ads should be, by this law, taken offline? Pretty soon the computer users will have the legal obligation to stop using the internet entirely...
Law enforcement is always difficult for instances where the chance of getting caught is incredibly low. If you pile on the penalties you start looking like jack booted thugs, and if you give a fair penalty, there is no deterrent.
This is why they're so desperately trying to make music sharing a crime under criminal law - so they don't have to spend money to catch us, just let the taxpayer funded police and justice system do it FOR them.
When it becomes impossible or cost prohibitive to track down and pay the holder of specific headlines, or when the amount of headlines patented makes it near impossible to create a current one... why bother? It will eventually become easier for german magazines to simply NOT put a title to their articles and just stick them under the correct category. Politics, national, regional, sports and so on. When everyone realizes just how crazy the whole deal was and this silly idea gets dropped, headlines will return.
It's not bowing to pressure, it's ensuring their survival by making damn sure that some lunatic with deep pockets doesn't put a million dollar death sentence bounty on their head. Salman Rushdie still can't come out of hiding to this day...
The message is worse than just "don't come do business here", it's "don't piss us off from anywhere in the world."