I got one of these letters too, for a domain I registered with jumpdomain. I actually submitted this story with more info attached on saturday, but it got rejected! ARG!
Passports, regardless of what country they are from, hold to a pretty good convention as to where stuff is and what it's supposed to look like. Drivers licenses on the other hand aren't that consistent. In the 8 years that I've had a drivers license, california has gone through *4* different designs, and there's one older design than that. If we consider that there is still part of the population with this design, that's 5 different possible license designs for this STATE.
Not to mention that certain states have the most god awful looking drivers licenses... so easy to create fakes it's not even funny. Hell, my roommate in college printed out a florida drivers license on his inkjet printer, got a picture at kinko's, and used it for THREE YEARS before a bouncer took it away.
Yeah... last place I worked had 8 tape robots, with a total of *3800Tb* of storage space- yeah, 3.8 *peta* bytes. So, using your math, that array could play music for FIFTY NINE years. Hell, I might even double the bitrate, i think 30 years of music would still work out just fine!
As other posters have pointed out, the figure is closer to 750. What they haven't pointed out is that this is giga *BITS* not giga *BYTES*. So, at the maximum density, you're talking 750/8, or less than 100 gigabytes, which seems a lot more resonable
I can't fathom people using an IM service for anything but idle chat. People actually use this for anything they care about!?! Holy shit! Pardon my French, but that's absolutely mind-blowing.
How long ago was it that someone would have said the same thing about e-mail? IM services save a lot of time for some businesses... and money too. Sure it would be great if everyone designed their own IM systems for work environments, but sometimes the point is having contact with your customers. Take the example of customer support. What does it cost to have a "call" center where people can answer questions over IM? virtually nothing in comparison to a full-blown phone system. It's nearly as effective too, at least for users who know what they're doing.
Makes me wonder how much business-critical traffic passes through MS's (and AOL's) servers in the clear every day. Wow.
We're not talking swiss bank account numbers here, were talking dumb stuff anyways. If you're dumb enough to send bank account numbers, credit card numbers, etc through IM or e-mail, you deserve a darwin award.
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that's actually somewhat misleading. The amount of DAMAGES that you may recieve is capped at $350k.. the rest of the money goes straight to the govt. You can still sue people for 10 million, but you will only ever see $350k of it. I totally agree with it, because it keeps people from using lawsuits as a "get rich quick" scheme... and it still has the effect of 'hurting' the other party financially.
This may not be the case in virginia, but I know other states have laws like this.
The problem is not that the sun is more damaging during an eclipse- it's that it is damaging by the same ammount, only there's less light that would cause you to turn away. You can comfortably stare into an eclipse for hours, but it will cause the same damage that staring into the sun would cause. Staring into the sun for hours is just a lot more uncomfortable.
yeah, we're all sheep. To parahprase somebody else, I don't know about you man but my eyes are wide f'in open. If you believe that "evil corporations" are gonna turn you into sheep, it's only because you let it happen. Like many of the other posters, If I don't have to watch ads for stuff about hemmoroids and soap operas, more power to em! I'd LIKE to see ads that are for stuff I would actually buy.
You talk of the "erosion" of privacy and I can understand that, but there are certain things that would never matter. What possible harm could come of someone knowing what you watch on TV?
You know, I think it's all based on the misconception that anyone actually gives a rat's ass what you're watching on TV. Have you ever been on the "other side" of this sort of thing? I have, and you know what? There's absolutely no reason to even care. They know what they're broadcasting, and they can tell that 10% of their viewers were on chanel 9 at 10pm.
I mean seriously, do you expect someone to come up and knock on your door and arrest you for watching blue's clues or something?
so, if you watch a regular movie converted (or even displayed?) in pal it will be 4 percent shorter? Jeez, if only I knew that earlier... anything that would have made "Sister Act II" 10 minutes shorter would be worth a LOT of money to me.
I'm perfectly capable of going to the store and buying flour, yeast, water, eggs, and everything else you need to bake your own bread. Why don't I? CONVENIENCE. It's nice to go grab a loaf of bread that's already sliced so I can make my sandwiches. I'm sure you use many convenience products to make your life easier.
I can click 3 buttons and say "record every episode of this show." I can click another button and get an instant replay of something I just saw on live tv, or pause it and go to the bathroom. I can view a list of everything recorded on the tivo, view it's description, and then play it instantly. No need to label every tape, or re-label it when I overwrite it to put something else on it. If i was a jerry bruckheimer fan (which i'm not) I could record any movie that he ever did that comes on any channel. Same goes for any actor, type of show, or other keyword that you can input.
Some of your distinct points:
"no need for tapes..."
Tapes are great for a while, but in general the quality sucks. with my DirecTivo, I see the show just as it was when it came off the satellite. Also, with a larger drive in my tivo, it will be able to store up to 200 hours of video. That's a lot of tapes.:)
"don't want to run a phone line..."
I bought a 30-foot phone cable from radio shack, and ran it along the wall. not too bad. Of course you can also get a phone line extender that uses the power lines in your house.
"dont need or want the service..."
As for paying tivo for the service and upgrades? I'm all for it. it costs money to collect the guide data from the different sources, and make sure that it works ok with your tivo. It costs money to make the upgrades to the tivo that I'm getting for free... like the ability to record two different programs at the same time.
To each their own I guess, but the tivo has a lot of features that I like, and am willing to pay money for.
more like... for those of you that didn't subscribe to the data that tells the car how to run properly, the car won't run properly. The tivo only records a half an hour because that's all it knows about programs if it doesn't have guide data. It works in half hour "chunks", unless it has the guide data that tells it that the program you're currently watching is longer than that.
It's more akin to the "gps system" in your car not working correctly because you didn't buy the map data! Sure, it can tell you your exact latitude and longitude, but it would be nice if you could figure out what street you were on.:)
check out the Garmin E-Trex. Besides the cheezy e-Name, it's got some very cool features. My favorite is it's ability to track your path as you walk, instead of just recording waypoints. It lets you view the path you've taken so far, which is pretty cool. The best part though? You can save that path into memory, and then retrace it. When you have the gps in 'trace' mode, the compass has an arrow on it that follows the path that you've taken. All you have to do is make sure the arrow is pointing forward.:)
Cheaper gps units can only mark waypoints (which this unit can do) but navigating between waypoints can be difficult unless you mark a LOT of them. If there's a mountain between you and that waypoint, you get to figure out how you got around it the first time, instead of just retracing your exact path.
Garmin also sells tons of accesories for their gps units. I currently have a car mount on my e-trex, as well as a cigarette lighter adapter. You can also get a bike mount, which i'm planning on doing if I ever get around to getting that mountain bike.:)
Bonus hacker points: Garmin also sells a RS232 serial cable that you can use to plug the gps unit into a computer. But that's not what's cool about it. You can use garmin's proprietary output format, or choose between about 6 or 7 standard output formats.. one of which is straight ASCII text. No reverse engineering needed.
I got my e-trex for $129 at fry's, but you might be able to find it cheaper online.
You run the risk of hitting people in their IT department that don't know better and think they do, at which point they'll be even more pissed at you. Granted they probably would not have had you as a client at that point anyways.
This approach will definitely be hit and miss- it's sort of like the vacuum cleaner salesman that dumps dirt on your floor and then shows you how he can clean it up- or tells you that your house looks like shit.:) The key will be to find people at the company who will be accepting of your position- usually middle to upper management types, where some soft scare tactics can really make a big difference.
Here's how I would go about it:
-Work out a standard set of procedures for testing their servers. Probe but don't modify.
-Work out a standard report you can deliver to them. If you put lots of PHB-compliant pie charts and stuff like that in there, you're almost guaranteed to get in.
-Keep on top of bad vulerabilities, and perhaps deliver reports on that as well. It would be tough to keep this from being spamish, but you never know.
The biggest thing is to make sure you present yourself REALLY well. To most of your target audience the presentation you give is very important.
$500? Hell, i'll sell mine for $400... and it's a lot lower than yours. How dumb is this? you could probably bribe rob to give you an even lower one...
A painting really only portrays the artist's stylized view of the world- and with a limited palette. This could have certainly been a painting- but a photograph gives such striking detail of EXACTLY how the scene was at that exact moment. An artist can only hope to capture every possible nuance- the expression on his face, every intricate detail of his coat. Besides- even if it was a very good painting- it's still not the same. It goes from "a pretty good idea" to an EXACT representation of what was there.
I would like to see a painting of this that could capture all the details there. It's just not possible to freeze an instant in time like this- where the lighting is JUST perfect, and the reflection is just right. It would take an artist days or weeks to reproduce that- and days or weeks is NOT freezing an instant in time.
The realism of all these photos is what is so amazing. Black and white photographs and paintings give you a somewhat removed idea of what was actually happening. Looking at a picture like this you can actually envision the scene there as though it was yesterday- but it wasn't yesterday, it was 100 years ago.
Computers have gone a long way towards being able to create realistic scenes- but even the untrained eye can pick out sophisticated computer generated imagery. It doesn't take a fraction of a second for your brain to go "that's fake." The same can be said for just about every painting I've seen- and I've seen a lot of paintings. There's something that can't be synthezised by human hand or computer that a photograph can capture. I for one completely understand what the original poster meant. It truly is a shift in the way that I see the world "before color".
Paintings and other art forms have their place. Whoever it was that said "a picture is worth a thousand words" is right- both in the sense of a photograph and a painting. They just say different things. A photograph can be the most unbiased eye, and a painting could never hope to be this way.
I'm sure nobody thought of anything so complex as piping it through md5 and saving the output.
Yeah- this is one of those "Why didn't I think of that?" things- but I have yet to hear of a web cache or proxy that uses md5sums instead of last-modified headers- are there any out there? And if so, wouldn't that count as the all-important prior art?
Just because something seems simple once somebody else thought of it doesn't mean it wasn't a good idea in the first place.
Wow, I don't know how many of these types of messages I've seen on slashdot. The good-ol toungue-in-cheek stab at some large company while trying to remain anonymous. "I my from a company that will remain nameless, except that i'll blatantly hint to who it actually is. And BOY, does their SUCK!"
Come on, man... just because you got shafted doesn't mean there's not decent software out there. My hosting provider uses Cpanel, which has options for configuring just about anything. The UI could use a little work in some areas, but for the most part it's pretty damn good. It lets you do basic filesystem management, uploading, enabling of certain features, etc. I use the web-based tools for managing the mailing lists and mail aliases, because they're pretty slick- even though I managed to find the files that control it all myself.
The fact of the matter is, not everyone who's gonna use web hosting is going to be able to telnet to the box and administer it from there. There has to be a middle ground that provides the functionality you need without being too limiting.
Actually, the SR71 uses a hybrid turbojet/ramjet engine. At low speeds the engine acts like a standard turbojet; as speeds rise the engine begins to act more like a ramjet. Here is some good info and pictures.
Here are a couple good pictures of ramjet and scramjet engines. A scramjet is just a form of ramjet that only works above mach 1.
Ok, I know, there are 200+ other comments here about how this story pretty much blows, but I couldn't help but pitch in my two cents. There have been a shitload of these pseudo-conspiracy stories in the past few months here, and frankly I'm not impressed. I've been reading slashdot for a while (check out my user number) and there was non of this anti-this or anti-that crap until recently. If you're gonna throw around accusations, could you at least spend more than five minutes fact checking? This article looks like something that was fed to you by a slashdot article engine or something. Lets count the ways:
closed source
making a profit
snooping on your computer
Intel
Patents
So where's microsoft and BSD? too bad you didn't mention them, or you would have covered every damn story slashdot has been doing lately. ARGH!
I know that we keep exact records of how many licenses we have for each piece of software, and how many of those licenses are currently in use. Microsoft could walk in tomorrow and we can present the proof that we have x copies installed and we own y licenses, end of story.
Pardon me sir, Haywood Jablome here. I'm chief auditor for Microsoft, and I'm troubled by the figures you present in your analysis here. You mentioned "X copies installed and Y licenses", pointing to the fact that there is a DISCREPANCY between the number of copies installed and the number of licenses you have purchased. Please stay where you are; an auditing strike team will be arriving within 3 hours to verify that your values of X and Y are equal, or even better, that Y is greater than X.
Thank you for your time,
Heywood Jablome
Chief Auditor, Microsoft Corp.
"All your license are belong to us"
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I got one of these letters too, for a domain I registered with jumpdomain. I actually submitted this story with more info attached on saturday, but it got rejected! ARG!
Passports, regardless of what country they are from, hold to a pretty good convention as to where stuff is and what it's supposed to look like. Drivers licenses on the other hand aren't that consistent. In the 8 years that I've had a drivers license, california has gone through *4* different designs, and there's one older design than that. If we consider that there is still part of the population with this design, that's 5 different possible license designs for this STATE.
Not to mention that certain states have the most god awful looking drivers licenses... so easy to create fakes it's not even funny. Hell, my roommate in college printed out a florida drivers license on his inkjet printer, got a picture at kinko's, and used it for THREE YEARS before a bouncer took it away.
Seconded! jumpdomain handles all of my domains, and even some hosting for me. They rock! :)
Yeah... last place I worked had 8 tape robots, with a total of *3800Tb* of storage space- yeah, 3.8 *peta* bytes. So, using your math, that array could play music for FIFTY NINE years. Hell, I might even double the bitrate, i think 30 years of music would still work out just fine!
As other posters have pointed out, the figure is closer to 750. What they haven't pointed out is that this is giga *BITS* not giga *BYTES*. So, at the maximum density, you're talking 750/8, or less than 100 gigabytes, which seems a lot more resonable
I can't fathom people using an IM service for anything but idle chat. People actually use this for anything they care about!?! Holy shit! Pardon my French, but that's absolutely mind-blowing.
How long ago was it that someone would have said the same thing about e-mail? IM services save a lot of time for some businesses... and money too. Sure it would be great if everyone designed their own IM systems for work environments, but sometimes the point is having contact with your customers. Take the example of customer support. What does it cost to have a "call" center where people can answer questions over IM? virtually nothing in comparison to a full-blown phone system. It's nearly as effective too, at least for users who know what they're doing.
Makes me wonder how much business-critical traffic passes through MS's (and AOL's) servers in the clear every day. Wow.
We're not talking swiss bank account numbers here, were talking dumb stuff anyways. If you're dumb enough to send bank account numbers, credit card numbers, etc through IM or e-mail, you deserve a darwin award.
that's actually somewhat misleading. The amount of DAMAGES that you may recieve is capped at $350k.. the rest of the money goes straight to the govt. You can still sue people for 10 million, but you will only ever see $350k of it. I totally agree with it, because it keeps people from using lawsuits as a "get rich quick" scheme... and it still has the effect of 'hurting' the other party financially.
This may not be the case in virginia, but I know other states have laws like this.
The problem is not that the sun is more damaging during an eclipse- it's that it is damaging by the same ammount, only there's less light that would cause you to turn away. You can comfortably stare into an eclipse for hours, but it will cause the same damage that staring into the sun would cause. Staring into the sun for hours is just a lot more uncomfortable.
yeah, we're all sheep. To parahprase somebody else, I don't know about you man but my eyes are wide f'in open. If you believe that "evil corporations" are gonna turn you into sheep, it's only because you let it happen. Like many of the other posters, If I don't have to watch ads for stuff about hemmoroids and soap operas, more power to em! I'd LIKE to see ads that are for stuff I would actually buy.
You talk of the "erosion" of privacy and I can understand that, but there are certain things that would never matter. What possible harm could come of someone knowing what you watch on TV?
You know, I think it's all based on the misconception that anyone actually gives a rat's ass what you're watching on TV. Have you ever been on the "other side" of this sort of thing? I have, and you know what? There's absolutely no reason to even care. They know what they're broadcasting, and they can tell that 10% of their viewers were on chanel 9 at 10pm.
I mean seriously, do you expect someone to come up and knock on your door and arrest you for watching blue's clues or something?
so, if you watch a regular movie converted (or even displayed?) in pal it will be 4 percent shorter? Jeez, if only I knew that earlier... anything that would have made "Sister Act II" 10 minutes shorter would be worth a LOT of money to me.
I'm perfectly capable of going to the store and buying flour, yeast, water, eggs, and everything else you need to bake your own bread. Why don't I? CONVENIENCE. It's nice to go grab a loaf of bread that's already sliced so I can make my sandwiches. I'm sure you use many convenience products to make your life easier.
:)
I can click 3 buttons and say "record every episode of this show." I can click another button and get an instant replay of something I just saw on live tv, or pause it and go to the bathroom. I can view a list of everything recorded on the tivo, view it's description, and then play it instantly. No need to label every tape, or re-label it when I overwrite it to put something else on it. If i was a jerry bruckheimer fan (which i'm not) I could record any movie that he ever did that comes on any channel. Same goes for any actor, type of show, or other keyword that you can input.
Some of your distinct points:
"no need for tapes..."
Tapes are great for a while, but in general the quality sucks. with my DirecTivo, I see the show just as it was when it came off the satellite. Also, with a larger drive in my tivo, it will be able to store up to 200 hours of video. That's a lot of tapes.
"don't want to run a phone line..."
I bought a 30-foot phone cable from radio shack, and ran it along the wall. not too bad. Of course you can also get a phone line extender that uses the power lines in your house.
"dont need or want the service..."
As for paying tivo for the service and upgrades? I'm all for it. it costs money to collect the guide data from the different sources, and make sure that it works ok with your tivo. It costs money to make the upgrades to the tivo that I'm getting for free... like the ability to record two different programs at the same time.
To each their own I guess, but the tivo has a lot of features that I like, and am willing to pay money for.
more like... for those of you that didn't subscribe to the data that tells the car how to run properly, the car won't run properly. The tivo only records a half an hour because that's all it knows about programs if it doesn't have guide data. It works in half hour "chunks", unless it has the guide data that tells it that the program you're currently watching is longer than that.
:)
It's more akin to the "gps system" in your car not working correctly because you didn't buy the map data! Sure, it can tell you your exact latitude and longitude, but it would be nice if you could figure out what street you were on.
check out the Garmin E-Trex. Besides the cheezy e-Name, it's got some very cool features. My favorite is it's ability to track your path as you walk, instead of just recording waypoints. It lets you view the path you've taken so far, which is pretty cool. The best part though? You can save that path into memory, and then retrace it. When you have the gps in 'trace' mode, the compass has an arrow on it that follows the path that you've taken. All you have to do is make sure the arrow is pointing forward. :)
:)
Cheaper gps units can only mark waypoints (which this unit can do) but navigating between waypoints can be difficult unless you mark a LOT of them. If there's a mountain between you and that waypoint, you get to figure out how you got around it the first time, instead of just retracing your exact path.
Garmin also sells tons of accesories for their gps units. I currently have a car mount on my e-trex, as well as a cigarette lighter adapter. You can also get a bike mount, which i'm planning on doing if I ever get around to getting that mountain bike.
Bonus hacker points: Garmin also sells a RS232 serial cable that you can use to plug the gps unit into a computer. But that's not what's cool about it. You can use garmin's proprietary output format, or choose between about 6 or 7 standard output formats.. one of which is straight ASCII text. No reverse engineering needed.
I got my e-trex for $129 at fry's, but you might be able to find it cheaper online.
HTH
I had a really nice response to this that would have been extremely helpful, but the guys at slashdot seem to think perl code is random characters:
:)
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted.
Reason: Junk character post.
Kind of funny, since it's all written in perl. Kudos, rob- you've managed to stifle any discussion about perl code.
You run the risk of hitting people in their IT department that don't know better and think they do, at which point they'll be even more pissed at you. Granted they probably would not have had you as a client at that point anyways.
:) The key will be to find people at the company who will be accepting of your position- usually middle to upper management types, where some soft scare tactics can really make a big difference.
This approach will definitely be hit and miss- it's sort of like the vacuum cleaner salesman that dumps dirt on your floor and then shows you how he can clean it up- or tells you that your house looks like shit.
Here's how I would go about it:
-Work out a standard set of procedures for testing their servers. Probe but don't modify.
-Work out a standard report you can deliver to them. If you put lots of PHB-compliant pie charts and stuff like that in there, you're almost guaranteed to get in.
-Keep on top of bad vulerabilities, and perhaps deliver reports on that as well. It would be tough to keep this from being spamish, but you never know.
The biggest thing is to make sure you present yourself REALLY well. To most of your target audience the presentation you give is very important.
$500? Hell, i'll sell mine for $400... and it's a lot lower than yours. How dumb is this? you could probably bribe rob to give you an even lower one...
A painting really only portrays the artist's stylized view of the world- and with a limited palette. This could have certainly been a painting- but a photograph gives such striking detail of EXACTLY how the scene was at that exact moment. An artist can only hope to capture every possible nuance- the expression on his face, every intricate detail of his coat. Besides- even if it was a very good painting- it's still not the same. It goes from "a pretty good idea" to an EXACT representation of what was there.
I would like to see a painting of this that could capture all the details there. It's just not possible to freeze an instant in time like this- where the lighting is JUST perfect, and the reflection is just right. It would take an artist days or weeks to reproduce that- and days or weeks is NOT freezing an instant in time.
The realism of all these photos is what is so amazing. Black and white photographs and paintings give you a somewhat removed idea of what was actually happening. Looking at a picture like this you can actually envision the scene there as though it was yesterday- but it wasn't yesterday, it was 100 years ago.
Computers have gone a long way towards being able to create realistic scenes- but even the untrained eye can pick out sophisticated computer generated imagery. It doesn't take a fraction of a second for your brain to go "that's fake." The same can be said for just about every painting I've seen- and I've seen a lot of paintings. There's something that can't be synthezised by human hand or computer that a photograph can capture. I for one completely understand what the original poster meant. It truly is a shift in the way that I see the world "before color".
Paintings and other art forms have their place. Whoever it was that said "a picture is worth a thousand words" is right- both in the sense of a photograph and a painting. They just say different things. A photograph can be the most unbiased eye, and a painting could never hope to be this way.
I'm sure nobody thought of anything so complex as piping it through md5 and saving the output.
Yeah- this is one of those "Why didn't I think of that?" things- but I have yet to hear of a web cache or proxy that uses md5sums instead of last-modified headers- are there any out there? And if so, wouldn't that count as the all-important prior art?
Just because something seems simple once somebody else thought of it doesn't mean it wasn't a good idea in the first place.
Wow, I don't know how many of these types of messages I've seen on slashdot. The good-ol toungue-in-cheek stab at some large company while trying to remain anonymous. "I my from a company that will remain nameless, except that i'll blatantly hint to who it actually is. And BOY, does their SUCK!"
Come on, man... just because you got shafted doesn't mean there's not decent software out there. My hosting provider uses Cpanel, which has options for configuring just about anything. The UI could use a little work in some areas, but for the most part it's pretty damn good. It lets you do basic filesystem management, uploading, enabling of certain features, etc. I use the web-based tools for managing the mailing lists and mail aliases, because they're pretty slick- even though I managed to find the files that control it all myself.
The fact of the matter is, not everyone who's gonna use web hosting is going to be able to telnet to the box and administer it from there. There has to be a middle ground that provides the functionality you need without being too limiting.
Themed Cpanel example
Apparently you license the stuff from cpanel; there's more info on their site.
Actually, the SR71 uses a hybrid turbojet/ramjet engine. At low speeds the engine acts like a standard turbojet; as speeds rise the engine begins to act more like a ramjet. Here is some good info and pictures.
Here are a couple good pictures of ramjet and scramjet engines. A scramjet is just a form of ramjet that only works above mach 1.
DMCA == law
DMCA == bad
law == bad
antitrust laws == law
therefore...
antitrust laws == bad
yeah, ok... how bout this one:
god == love
love == blind
ray charles == blind
therefore...
ray charles == god
Your logic is just great! Almost as good as your overall knowledge of business practices and monopolies.
Ok, I know, there are 200+ other comments here about how this story pretty much blows, but I couldn't help but pitch in my two cents. There have been a shitload of these pseudo-conspiracy stories in the past few months here, and frankly I'm not impressed. I've been reading slashdot for a while (check out my user number) and there was non of this anti-this or anti-that crap until recently. If you're gonna throw around accusations, could you at least spend more than five minutes fact checking? This article looks like something that was fed to you by a slashdot article engine or something. Lets count the ways:
closed source
making a profit
snooping on your computer
Intel
Patents
So where's microsoft and BSD? too bad you didn't mention them, or you would have covered every damn story slashdot has been doing lately. ARGH!
I know that we keep exact records of how many licenses we have for each piece of software, and how many of those licenses are currently in use. Microsoft could walk in tomorrow and we can present the proof that we have x copies installed and we own y licenses, end of story.
Pardon me sir, Haywood Jablome here. I'm chief auditor for Microsoft, and I'm troubled by the figures you present in your analysis here. You mentioned "X copies installed and Y licenses", pointing to the fact that there is a DISCREPANCY between the number of copies installed and the number of licenses you have purchased. Please stay where you are; an auditing strike team will be arriving within 3 hours to verify that your values of X and Y are equal, or even better, that Y is greater than X.
Thank you for your time,
Heywood Jablome
Chief Auditor, Microsoft Corp.
"All your license are belong to us"
or does the name "game boy advance" just scream bad translation? I mean come on, nintendo... couldn't you have come out with a better name?