Okay, I'll won't fight you, as long as you don't do documentation too.
Otherwise we'll likely be seeing "licenced" code for "colour" displays which aids one with the "organisation" of files or some such thing.:):)
Just kidding around, this ain't flamebait.
P.S. You thought you had bad weather back home, just wait until you see Seattle. Worst weather in the whole USA - it rains almost every day. I'm glad I live in Las Vegas.
P.P.S. Do you really think Washington (home of Redmond and a large non-UNIX company) is a good state for a UNIX programmer?:)
I never use the automated checkout lines. A lot of people feel and act the same way. I encourage people to not use those checkout systems.
They are inconvenient, annoying, and worst of all they CAUSE PEOPLE TO GET LAID OFF.
We do have a choice to not use them.
You might say they'll get rid off all the people. The first stores to do that will be the first I stop shopping at. And at the ones with a choice, if no one uses the automated machines, and everyone uses the humans, they likely won't make such a switch.
Use a L*xm*rk printer and you don't even need to worry about the destruction step, it will be performed for you. Use the resulting fire to destroy evidence.:)
If you are going to encourage criminals, at least do it right. Here is what to suggest.
Steal printer in dead of night while wearing masks. Register printer to people in rival crime syndicates. Use printer to weigh down the bodies you throw in the river. Use the counterfeit money to buy drugs, sell the drugs (at a nice profit, thanks to the DEA helping keep prices high by limiting supply to those who know how to be effective criminals) to get real money and use that money to buy new masks and paper for the printer. Sure you could steal those too, but that is beneath you if you call yourself a professional criminal.:)
For those that think this is a bad thing, don't blame the FDA. The FDA's only job should be to ensure medical safety, that unsafe products don't harm people, not to prevent the abusive use of a product which is not intriniscally bad. It is the use of the product which can be bad. Isn't that the argument you use in stating P2P software should stay legal?
Saying the FDA should ban this technology because it can be abused is like saying they should ban cough syrup because of DXM abuse or that the MPAA should ban Linux DVD software because it can be used by movie pirates, or that the RIAA should be able to ban P2P software because someone could use it to distribute a billion copies of the latest Britney Spears album.
How about an RFID that can be used as a credit card?
It would be so much more convenient than having to carry a credit card, worry about dropping it, or not having it (e.g. you are ordering drinks poolside). One wouldn't need cash either.
Implantation in the hand would be more convenient, one could just wave it over a scanner at a supermarket.
If the RIAA would spend even half the money it uses on lawsuits, prosecutions and lobbying on actually supporting real talent in the music industry, there would be a lot more good music and likely a lot more profits too.
Maybe not in your or my reality, but it the fantasy land of the US court system, you (likely) are.
Too bad they can make very real judgements which take your money and give it to a plaintiff who has been "harmed" (or even not harmed, in the case of statutory damages).
Probably yes, if not in the letter of the law, still true accoding to the court which ill confiscate your assests and turn them over to the plaintiff.
VCRs that didn't suffer from the AGC bug which makes Macrovision work are required by the DMCA to add that bug or something else to make Macrovision work!
If I were a VCR manufacturer, I'd record a screen with the following text: "This VCR is refusing to record this signal because to do so would be a violation of Federal law 17 USC 1201(k)". Make it obvious it is their gov't setting the rules - so people could vote out those people who pass such laws.
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Wells Fargo Online Banking does stuff like that so a printed version of your account history is "printer friendly".
Actually works extremely well, so such things can be used for good.
Could one actually push start an automatic if one could get it up to that speed? Very hard to do with human power alone, but using a hill or another car might work.
Pontiac Grand Prix cars (and probably many others) have an overheat protection mode.
Some of the cylinders are run without fuel or spark, letting them cool. It switches which cylinders are running and which are cooling off every so often.
Your post makes me thing that might actually work well. Luckily I never had to find out.
Please come down from your prohibitionist mentality and let adults make their own decisions about what they put in their own bodies - provided they don't plan on operating heavy equipment or firearms while under the influence.
Can we add computers to that list? Maybe then there wouldn't be so many security holes in applications and stupid Slashdot posts.
They don't need a EULA for that. US Copyright law (US Code, title 17) prohibits "performing" a work (i.e. letting others listen to it) without permission.
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Okay, I'll won't fight you, as long as you don't do documentation too.
:) :)
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Otherwise we'll likely be seeing "licenced" code for "colour" displays which aids one with the "organisation" of files or some such thing.
Just kidding around, this ain't flamebait.
P.S. You thought you had bad weather back home, just wait until you see Seattle. Worst weather in the whole USA - it rains almost every day. I'm glad I live in Las Vegas.
P.P.S. Do you really think Washington (home of Redmond and a large non-UNIX company) is a good state for a UNIX programmer?
I never use the automated checkout lines. A lot of people feel and act the same way. I encourage people to not use those checkout systems.
They are inconvenient, annoying, and worst of all they CAUSE PEOPLE TO GET LAID OFF.
We do have a choice to not use them.
You might say they'll get rid off all the people. The first stores to do that will be the first I stop shopping at. And at the ones with a choice, if no one uses the automated machines, and everyone uses the humans, they likely won't make such a switch.
The power is in our hands.
"All Your Base Are Belong to Us". "For Great Injustice". "Someone set us up the loophole".
Use a L*xm*rk printer and you don't even need to worry about the destruction step, it will be performed for you. Use the resulting fire to destroy evidence. :)
If you are going to encourage criminals, at least do it right. Here is what to suggest.
:)
Steal printer in dead of night while wearing masks. Register printer to people in rival crime syndicates. Use printer to weigh down the bodies you throw in the river. Use the counterfeit money to buy drugs, sell the drugs (at a nice profit, thanks to the DEA helping keep prices high by limiting supply to those who know how to be effective criminals) to get real money and use that money to buy new masks and paper for the printer. Sure you could steal those too, but that is beneath you if you call yourself a professional criminal.
For those that think this is a bad thing, don't blame the FDA. The FDA's only job should be to ensure medical safety, that unsafe products don't harm people, not to prevent the abusive use of a product which is not intriniscally bad. It is the use of the product which can be bad. Isn't that the argument you use in stating P2P software should stay legal?
Saying the FDA should ban this technology because it can be abused is like saying they should ban cough syrup because of DXM abuse or that the MPAA should ban Linux DVD software because it can be used by movie pirates, or that the RIAA should be able to ban P2P software because someone could use it to distribute a billion copies of the latest Britney Spears album.
How about an RFID that can be used as a credit card?
It would be so much more convenient than having to carry a credit card, worry about dropping it, or not having it (e.g. you are ordering drinks poolside). One wouldn't need cash either.
Implantation in the hand would be more convenient, one could just wave it over a scanner at a supermarket.
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That slogan is already used by Java.
If the RIAA would spend even half the money it uses on lawsuits, prosecutions and lobbying on actually supporting real talent in the music industry, there would be a lot more good music and likely a lot more profits too.
Well Netware is reliable, which is more than one can say about most Windows software.
Wasn't it a Novell Netware server that stayed up for 4 years after it was accidently entombed in drywall?
Umm, Novell is based in Utah too you know. :)
Someone (jokingly) compared PAC-MAN to ecstasy taking
Yeah, you are likely violating the DMCA.
Maybe not in your or my reality, but it the fantasy land of the US court system, you (likely) are.
Too bad they can make very real judgements which take your money and give it to a plaintiff who has been "harmed" (or even not harmed, in the case of statutory damages).
Probably yes, if not in the letter of the law, still true accoding to the court which ill confiscate your assests and turn them over to the plaintiff.
VCRs that didn't suffer from the AGC bug which makes Macrovision work are required by the DMCA to add that bug or something else to make Macrovision work!
If I were a VCR manufacturer, I'd record a screen with the following text: "This VCR is refusing to record this signal because to do so would be a violation of Federal law 17 USC 1201(k)". Make it obvious it is their gov't setting the rules - so people could vote out those people who pass such laws.
Wells Fargo Online Banking does stuff like that so a printed version of your account history is "printer friendly".
Actually works extremely well, so such things can be used for good.
And one of them got caught driving 90 in a 65 mph zone just days before the attack!
And no one noticed they were a terrorist.
Nevada license numbers used to be a trival numeric transformation of the SSN and year of birth, but they changed that.
Now you can have an NV License with no SSN and a number which doesn't relate to your SSN.
With the old system, if someone put there license number on a check, you could figure out their SSN and year of birth!
Could one actually push start an automatic if one could get it up to that speed? Very hard to do with human power alone, but using a hill or another car might work.
BTW, 15 to 30 km/h is about 9 to 18 mph.
Pontiac Grand Prix cars (and probably many others) have an overheat protection mode.
Some of the cylinders are run without fuel or spark, letting them cool. It switches which cylinders are running and which are cooling off every so often.
Your post makes me thing that might actually work well. Luckily I never had to find out.
Putting it back to ON with the engine turning will cause it to run again. The fact the car is moving and in gear will keep the engine turning.
If you turn the ignition on and off before the RPMs drop too low, it will resume running without having to have the ignition put into START.
My ignition has 5 positions
ACCESSORY-LOCK-OFF-ON-START.
Putting it into OFF is what you'd want to do to just stop the engine.
There are some days on my morning commute where even doing a quarter of that speed would be an improvement.
:)
Back in NYC, on their freeways (e.g. the Long Island "Expressway"), even a tenth of that speed would be an improvement.
What's even funnier about this comment is that someone would likely get home before 911 even answers the phone.
Please come down from your prohibitionist mentality and let adults make their own decisions about what they put in their own bodies - provided they don't plan on operating heavy equipment or firearms while under the influence.
Can we add computers to that list? Maybe then there wouldn't be so many security holes in applications and stupid Slashdot posts.
Or you use Jabber because you're conducting business you don't want someone else to find out about.
Just wait until someone claims it is used by criminals and terrorists.
They don't need a EULA for that. US Copyright law (US Code, title 17) prohibits "performing" a work (i.e. letting others listen to it) without permission.