You properly use the contraction "it's" and you use it twice in the same sentance. This is a record on/..
Beware of my typos. I make them frequently.
However, the PIs that I use don't need to spoof phone numbers and anybody who spoofs the name of a major company is diluting a trademark and is also violating the Lantham Act.
I wasn't talking about someone who tries to pretend that they work for a division of IBM to get a sale. I'm talking about a small local outfit who wants to look like a much bigger company so that they will be taken seriously when they bid on contracts.
You're suggesting it's use as a marketing tool is a good reason to allow it?
Not at all. In a free society, we don't have to come up with reasons to allow a new technology. It's the place of people who are against it to come up with reasons to now allow it.
The only use of it is deception. It can only do harm - there are no legitimate uses for it.
I just named several legitimate uses, the fact that you think that those people can go another route doesn't make those uses any less legitimate.
Death threats may be going a bit far, but I don't really see a "legitmate" reason for a service like this.
Credit and Collection agencies can't use this, but what about Bail Bondsmen? Or Private Investigators? Repo Men? All of them have a legitimate reason to hide their identities from the people that they call.
Pretention. You're a small company, but you can give the impression that you're a BIG company in order to make potential clients trust you with their business.
How about practical jokes? Call someone and have "God-The Almighty Himself" appear on their caller ID. It's not high brow, but not necessarily illegitimate either.
I don't anticipate having any desire to use this "service", but it's cool that it's out there.
The resulting data, which represents about 20 terabytes, will be available to everyone in the months to come, at least to people with a high-bandwidth connection.
How can you accurately simulate the computer that is simulating the entire universe?
Basically, you'd end up infinitely short on processing power. The faster you make the computer, the faster you need the computer to be. It's like working out so that you can get strong enough to pick yourself up by the bootstraps. The stronger you get, the more you weigh and you make the impossible less possible.
Copland turned out to be just nothing but very expensive vaporware
Not exactly, much of the work put into Copland was used to advance Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9. Copland never made it out of Apple's labs, but the work gave Apple new ideas and Mac users benefitted from it.
Apple's last chance to survive was to purchase NeXT, with their Unix experience, and thus MacOS X was born.
BS, Apple could have purchased Be and gotten all of their IP. The BeOS was ahead of its time. Written from the ground up in C, no legacy code and even managed to make aging machines a bit snappier. Apple bought NeXT so they could get Steve Jobs back.
1. No physical presence = no jurisdiction. That keeps things simple, superficially. By that token, 419 scammers are not breaking any US laws, and there would be no ground to arrest them or ask for their extraditions.
419 scammers aren't breaking US law. We don't have any right to ask for them to be extradited.
Problem is that my country is so powerful, that it can forcer weaker nations to give in and bend to its will.
Able to do something != designed with it in mind. My car will run through a little sand but that doesn't mean I'm taking it offroading.
The Mac Plus had a built in networking functionality, not something that had to be added on. So it WAS designed with networking in mind.
The printer port did double duty as a localtalk network port. A machine designed to be marketed in 1986 HAD been designed as a business machine with built in networking.
French comes pretty close to being fixed. The French government is very protective of their language. Does anyone have a link for when they banned the use of the term "hard drive'?
What I'm worried about is that the guy down the block is an FBI agent.
What if you are secretly laying the bone to an FBI agent's wife or daughter? Just imagine the hell he can make your life by misusing surveillance equipment.
It may suck to be him, but there is a difference between parents and goverment (save the argument that insurance companies are private, the goverment mandates that people be insured. The insurance company is acting as the proxy of the government.) snooping on you.
Parental snooping sucks, government snooping (even by proxy) is dangerous.
With HD-DVD incorporating Microsoft's patented video codecs as well, what will happen to the state of media players on Open Source?
My prediction is this, someone will reverse engineer the codec and release it a la DeCSS and everyone will have it. Microsoft will try to shut it down and there will be T shirts with the code printed on them.
Well, personally I think Dante's reaction to Veronica's past sexual history was a bit unreasonable in Clerka. Esepcially since for Veronica sucking a penis isn't anywhere near as intimate as actual sex.
What's relevant to his response isn't how SHE felt about oral contact, it's the way HE felt about it.
37 is an outrageous number of dicks for a college aged woman to have sucked. That would be a deal breaker for me too.
I could understand plans being cancelled so that someone could appear on a game show. In Mallrats the other contenstant had DIED and the spot needed to be filled to save the show.
Julie's death wasn't TS's problem, but his girlfriend waits until he's there to pick her up to tell him that she's cancelling the trip with him so that she can go on a romantic getaway with the winner of the game show. He was supposed to take this well?
As for the "fingercuffs" situation... well Chasing Amy is a whole different kettle of fish and can hardly be compared to "normal" situations... but even in that movie, Holden really has some big issues and seriously overreacts to quite a lot...
Holden had an issue with being mislead. Perfectly normal.
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You properly use the contraction "it's" and you use it twice in the same sentance. This is a record on /..
Beware of my typos. I make them frequently.
However, the PIs that I use don't need to spoof phone numbers and anybody who spoofs the name of a major company is diluting a trademark and is also violating the Lantham Act.
I wasn't talking about someone who tries to pretend that they work for a division of IBM to get a sale. I'm talking about a small local outfit who wants to look like a much bigger company so that they will be taken seriously when they bid on contracts.
LK
PI's and co can withhold their caller ID.
And "Private Caller" on the caller ID is suspicious. "John J Smith 415-555-2341" will not draw any undue attention.
LK
You're suggesting it's use as a marketing tool is a good reason to allow it?
Not at all. In a free society, we don't have to come up with reasons to allow a new technology. It's the place of people who are against it to come up with reasons to now allow it.
The only use of it is deception. It can only do harm - there are no legitimate uses for it.
I just named several legitimate uses, the fact that you think that those people can go another route doesn't make those uses any less legitimate.
LK
Death threats may be going a bit far, but I don't really see a "legitmate" reason for a service like this.
Credit and Collection agencies can't use this, but what about Bail Bondsmen? Or Private Investigators? Repo Men? All of them have a legitimate reason to hide their identities from the people that they call.
Pretention. You're a small company, but you can give the impression that you're a BIG company in order to make potential clients trust you with their business.
How about practical jokes? Call someone and have "God-The Almighty Himself" appear on their caller ID. It's not high brow, but not necessarily illegitimate either.
I don't anticipate having any desire to use this "service", but it's cool that it's out there.
LK
The resulting data, which represents about 20 terabytes, will be available to everyone in the months to come, at least to people with a high-bandwidth connection.
And a lot of fucking storage.
LK
Why do you think people do simulations of computer systems instead of just implementing?
Because you can sometimes make a simulator that is better than the real thing.
LK
How can you accurately simulate the computer that is simulating the entire universe?
Basically, you'd end up infinitely short on processing power. The faster you make the computer, the faster you need the computer to be. It's like working out so that you can get strong enough to pick yourself up by the bootstraps. The stronger you get, the more you weigh and you make the impossible less possible.
LK
Copland turned out to be just nothing but very expensive vaporware
Not exactly, much of the work put into Copland was used to advance Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9. Copland never made it out of Apple's labs, but the work gave Apple new ideas and Mac users benefitted from it.
Apple's last chance to survive was to purchase NeXT, with their Unix experience, and thus MacOS X was born.
BS, Apple could have purchased Be and gotten all of their IP. The BeOS was ahead of its time. Written from the ground up in C, no legacy code and even managed to make aging machines a bit snappier. Apple bought NeXT so they could get Steve Jobs back.
LK
I can play on GameSpy for free. The All Seeing Eye makes you pay if you want to play for longer than 3 weeks.
LK
1. No physical presence = no jurisdiction. That keeps things simple, superficially. By that token, 419 scammers are not breaking any US laws, and there would be no ground to arrest them or ask for their extraditions.
419 scammers aren't breaking US law. We don't have any right to ask for them to be extradited.
Problem is that my country is so powerful, that it can forcer weaker nations to give in and bend to its will.
LK
I guess all we're missing now is GameSpy support.
LK
Those elements point toward some form of intent to reach a market beyond Russia.
So what? If he never had a physical presence within the jurisdiction of the US, then US law wouldn't apply. It's an open and shut case.
LK
Able to do something != designed with it in mind. My car will run through a little sand but that doesn't mean I'm taking it offroading.
The Mac Plus had a built in networking functionality, not something that had to be added on. So it WAS designed with networking in mind.
The printer port did double duty as a localtalk network port. A machine designed to be marketed in 1986 HAD been designed as a business machine with built in networking.
LK
LK
CNN is reporting: 'Scientists say more storms like Frances -- both very intense and very large -- are likely.
So what CNN is basically saying is that we'll continue to have seasonal storms just like we have for all of human history.
They really needed "scientists" to tell them that?
LK
In any case, no language is fixed.
French comes pretty close to being fixed. The French government is very protective of their language. Does anyone have a link for when they banned the use of the term "hard drive'?
I have the link for when they banned e-mail.
LK
How do you look up a word that you've forgotten in a dictionary?
Seriously.
LK
That's like saying that you don't need to use condoms as long as you know you're having sex with people who are safe.
It's a true statement, but unless you're in a long term monogamous relationship and she's on the pill, it doesn't apply to you.
The internet is like a sleazy singles bar, there is bad stuff out there. If you're connected to the internet, it's a good idea to use AV software.
If you think it's a ripoff, get a free one like Avast or AVG.
LK
What I'm worried about is that the guy down the block is an FBI agent.
What if you are secretly laying the bone to an FBI agent's wife or daughter? Just imagine the hell he can make your life by misusing surveillance equipment.
LK
It may suck to be him, but there is a difference between parents and goverment (save the argument that insurance companies are private, the goverment mandates that people be insured. The insurance company is acting as the proxy of the government.) snooping on you.
Parental snooping sucks, government snooping (even by proxy) is dangerous.
LK
With HD-DVD incorporating Microsoft's patented video codecs as well, what will happen to the state of media players on Open Source?
My prediction is this, someone will reverse engineer the codec and release it a la DeCSS and everyone will have it. Microsoft will try to shut it down and there will be T shirts with the code printed on them.
LK
I started using Star Office about 5 years ago. I use OpenOffice now, and I haven't looked back once.
LK
Dude - you were married to your grandma?!?
As soon as I hit the submit button, I knew that some asshat would try to make this lame joke.
You do know the difference between "is" and "are" as well as "nurse" and "nurses" right? It's obvious that I was talking about two separate people.
LK
Mmmmm Naked Nurses :)
My grandmother and ex-wife are nurses. The naughty nurse fantasy was ruined for me.
LK
All of that shit going on will require a cpu that will put out some heat...In your pocket.
LK
Well, personally I think Dante's reaction to Veronica's past sexual history was a bit unreasonable in Clerka. Esepcially since for Veronica sucking a penis isn't anywhere near as intimate as actual sex.
What's relevant to his response isn't how SHE felt about oral contact, it's the way HE felt about it.
37 is an outrageous number of dicks for a college aged woman to have sucked. That would be a deal breaker for me too.
I could understand plans being cancelled so that someone could appear on a game show. In Mallrats the other contenstant had DIED and the spot needed to be filled to save the show.
Julie's death wasn't TS's problem, but his girlfriend waits until he's there to pick her up to tell him that she's cancelling the trip with him so that she can go on a romantic getaway with the winner of the game show. He was supposed to take this well?
As for the "fingercuffs" situation... well Chasing Amy is a whole different kettle of fish and can hardly be compared to "normal" situations... but even in that movie, Holden really has some big issues and seriously overreacts to quite a lot...
Holden had an issue with being mislead. Perfectly normal.
LK