You just KNOW that no one will get in trouble over this unenforced law until a politician in dire need of newspaper attention will send a 16 year old kid to jail for looking at screenshots of Grand Theft Auto.
You know that a vulnerability is bad when Microsoft goes out of its regular patching cycle to hurry and plug the hole so quickly, instead of following their usual philosophy of saying "What are you talking about? There is no security hole in Windows!" and quietly patching it a few months later amidst a flood of inocuous driver updates.
How long until ethically underfunded governments decided to "offer relief" from "dangerous memories" to their political detractors? Happy shiny people, indeed.
This article sounds to me like software big business wishful thinking, hoping to convince everyone that free stuff is not meant to be, and please just forget open source and return to buying triple and quadruple digits software suites already.
This would be useful not just for spammers and telemarketers, but also for those idiots who just refuse to believe me that no, Nikki doesn't live here, this is not her number and would you please stop calling here 10 times a day already.
Try and look up my biggest labor, the stub entry for the Gamepsy.com webcomic "Flintlocke's Guide to Azeroth" where I sank many working hours to bring up to par and was then picked up by many other wiki fellows and turned into a full fledged page... can't find it? Oh right, it was deleted because apparently, a gamespy.com regular feature isn't notable!
There's also the accepted rule that "Celebrity equals Existance." Don't believe me? Try and write a highly detailed wiki entry about a webcomic that has been consistently updating for years but won no awards, or a music band who has been steadily working on the independant scene but went largely unnoticed by the major labels. Your hard work is sure to be rewarded by a "lack of notability" deletion notice. Does this mean that I don't exist until I get the cover page of People magazine? Wikipedia seems to think so...
Once your phone number or email address is spoofed by a spammer, it's as good as dead. Some years ago my email address got spoofed by a spammer and my inbox got flooded by "you have a virus" and "stop spamming me!" threats, and no matter what I tried the damage was done. My only solution was a quick email change, and I never heard of this again.
What I really want to know is where do you find a repair outlet equipped to deal with the specific problems involved with opening and repairing an oil-filled cube? I can't help it but giggle when I imagine someone calling Dell tech support and being asked to 'please open the PC and reseat the memory'...
Doubtful that anything so catastrophic would happen. Even in the unlikely event that President Bush decides to become Emperor George the First, his republican cronies would get the heebie-jeebies so fast that they'd scatter in the cracks like cockroaches, leaving their king to rot. This isn't simple cronyism or mere abuse of power - that's outright high treason, and the hanging noose is going to scare everyone into realizing just how epicly BAD an idea that would be. Then the emperor would be left alone to realize that he's wearing no clothes.
... they can just cry more, for all we care. The RIAA has been using its massive juggernaut weight to bully and crush defensless single individuals for insane amounts that would bring financial ruin to each and every one of them, who are they kidding, really?
But in a way, you can understand their financial motivation for doing so. If they can win a six digits jackpot for every single Peer-to-Peer user they crush under their foot, they stand to make billions of dollars with the blessing of the judicial system. That's a LOT more money than they could ever earn by releasing crappy "best of" albums with just one new song...
I'm not asking for a specific day necessarily, or even a specific month - just a year and quarter will satisfy me, I'm not picky. That would be awesome.
I absolutely love graphics and sounds on Xbox360, especially on FPSes, but for the life of me I can't unlearn mouse and keyboard to get used to a standard controller. And don't get me started on RTS control schemes...
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You just KNOW that no one will get in trouble over this unenforced law until a politician in dire need of newspaper attention will send a 16 year old kid to jail for looking at screenshots of Grand Theft Auto.
We've got a winner here! Sig line updated to reflect the new champ!
You know that a vulnerability is bad when Microsoft goes out of its regular patching cycle to hurry and plug the hole so quickly, instead of following their usual philosophy of saying "What are you talking about? There is no security hole in Windows!" and quietly patching it a few months later amidst a flood of inocuous driver updates.
I find that a senatorial comitee subpoena is much more effective. Oliver North demonstrated this to great effect!
How long until ethically underfunded governments decided to "offer relief" from "dangerous memories" to their political detractors? Happy shiny people, indeed.
No, just that it makes it easier to guess what's inside the gift wrapping!
Now, where do we find a birthday cake with ten million candles?
This article sounds to me like software big business wishful thinking, hoping to convince everyone that free stuff is not meant to be, and please just forget open source and return to buying triple and quadruple digits software suites already.
This would be useful not just for spammers and telemarketers, but also for those idiots who just refuse to believe me that no, Nikki doesn't live here, this is not her number and would you please stop calling here 10 times a day already.
Here's a crazy idea - let's burn less gasoline! Give me a nobel prize!
Try and look up my biggest labor, the stub entry for the Gamepsy.com webcomic "Flintlocke's Guide to Azeroth" where I sank many working hours to bring up to par and was then picked up by many other wiki fellows and turned into a full fledged page... can't find it? Oh right, it was deleted because apparently, a gamespy.com regular feature isn't notable!
There's also the accepted rule that "Celebrity equals Existance." Don't believe me? Try and write a highly detailed wiki entry about a webcomic that has been consistently updating for years but won no awards, or a music band who has been steadily working on the independant scene but went largely unnoticed by the major labels. Your hard work is sure to be rewarded by a "lack of notability" deletion notice. Does this mean that I don't exist until I get the cover page of People magazine? Wikipedia seems to think so...
Once your phone number or email address is spoofed by a spammer, it's as good as dead. Some years ago my email address got spoofed by a spammer and my inbox got flooded by "you have a virus" and "stop spamming me!" threats, and no matter what I tried the damage was done. My only solution was a quick email change, and I never heard of this again.
Shouldn't "global anti-piracy day" be called "global ninja domination day" instead?
What I really want to know is where do you find a repair outlet equipped to deal with the specific problems involved with opening and repairing an oil-filled cube? I can't help it but giggle when I imagine someone calling Dell tech support and being asked to 'please open the PC and reseat the memory'...
Is this going to be another one of those hollow claims backed up by a viral video, like unlocking car doors with a tennis ball?
Doubtful that anything so catastrophic would happen. Even in the unlikely event that President Bush decides to become Emperor George the First, his republican cronies would get the heebie-jeebies so fast that they'd scatter in the cracks like cockroaches, leaving their king to rot. This isn't simple cronyism or mere abuse of power - that's outright high treason, and the hanging noose is going to scare everyone into realizing just how epicly BAD an idea that would be. Then the emperor would be left alone to realize that he's wearing no clothes.
But in a way, you can understand their financial motivation for doing so. If they can win a six digits jackpot for every single Peer-to-Peer user they crush under their foot, they stand to make billions of dollars with the blessing of the judicial system. That's a LOT more money than they could ever earn by releasing crappy "best of" albums with just one new song...
You forgot "Corporate Ethics", but I stand by my original choice ;)
I was talking about Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2... I already have my order placed for Lich King.
I'm not asking for a specific day necessarily, or even a specific month - just a year and quarter will satisfy me, I'm not picky. That would be awesome.
Makes me wonder how much money Microsoft shelled out to a PR firm to come up with a winning name. This brilliant idea reaks of focus group thinking...
Proof of concept, or it doesn't exist.
I absolutely love graphics and sounds on Xbox360, especially on FPSes, but for the life of me I can't unlearn mouse and keyboard to get used to a standard controller. And don't get me started on RTS control schemes...
God knows that gaming graphics is the only reason left why I'm still hanging on to the PC platform...