This is a "feature" of German cars due to a law in Germany mandating that the speedometer must NEVER read lower than real speed... even if the car has non-standard wheels and tires fitted.
Porsche and BMW exaggerate speed the most, and the theory is because owners of these cars are quite likely to upsize their rolling stock (and thus make the speedo read lower). It's annoying, but it's simply in response to a legal requirement.
Car and Driver did a test on several vehicles a bit over a year ago. GM vehicles were the most accurate... around +1 mph on average.
Because they can fearmonger alongside claiming these powers.
Do you hear fearmongering about Saddam anymore? Nope, because he's dead. Saddam's execution was used for a short term goal... the elections which took place just days after his death.
The OP asked why they haven't caught Osama, and I'm just asserting that perhaps it is not in the government's interest to do so.
What he was doing is more akin to modifying your debit card so it lets you withdraw from other people's bank accounts. Of course, there is infinite supply of 0s and 1s, and a finite supply of money (although the US Treasury seems to be doing all they can to change that!)
It's curious that the security in the system is assigned not within the system itself, but to the end user's hardware... that seems just plan lazy, and implies that what they are selling isn't worth enough to really bother securing it.
Who cares? The powers our government have assumed for themselves in the name of "fighting the War on Terrorism" won't be given up even if they catch "Terrorist #1" Osama.
Osama is more useful to power-hungry US politicians when he is free to roam than dead or captured.
You can still run Windows 2000 if you want to pirate without cracking WGA... security patches will be provided for another 8 months or so. I suppose it probably won't install on a lot of newer hardware, though.
Cracking WGA is really a one-click affair with the current tools, so I don't see what the issue is for even causal pirates.
Nah, they just give you the chance to register in case you have not already done so... the two things aren't really related, but they are rolled together for convenience.
A example of shit being tied together in the weird vein you were thinking of would be the fact that men have to be registered with Selective Service to get government loans for college.
Umbrella Corporation (from the Resident Evil series) cultivated some funky flowers in Africa which led to their biological weapon development... zombies, Majini, etc. were the result.
I totally agree, especially since the stated goal is to browse the web. You can certainly find software to run on that old hardware, but the internet has moved on to be much more hardware demanding these days.
Ideas like this have been floated before, mentioning places like Iran, Somalia, etc. as well.
The problem is that these places are all about censorship (or worse), and they couldn't really be trusted to honor an agreement to be a safe harbor... it would be trivial for the same forces that work against TPB now to aim at a new location in these countries. The poorer a country is, the easier it is to bribe people to do your dirty work for you.
Being free from legal threat means nothing if you can't power the servers and connect to the internet consistently... or worse, if you actually live in physical danger from local police or thugs. It's a bit of a step to go from living in Sweden (rated one of the top three countries to live in for a long time now) to living in North Korea, for example.
Ex-Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde, who appears to be excluded from the decision, is notably annoyed, noting that neither the founders nor the site are located in Sweden. He argues that the Swedish court has no jurisdiction in this case.
“It means nothing,” Peter told TorrentFreak, adding that it is bothersome that they have to invest time in cases like this.
“The Stockholm City Court is located in Stockholm. Stockholm is in Sweden. Swedish borders apply. Frederick and Godfrid live outside Sweden, even outside the EU. The Pirate Bay is outside the EU,” he told SR earlier today.
“How then can the Stockholm District Court, Sweden, get to decide that people abroad must not work on a site in another country?”
I have heard they and/or the site's servers are based in a former nuke bunker in the Netherlands, but I have also heard that they are now based in the Ukraine... Peter's comment seems to point to the latter, I guess. Moving to the Netherlands (and BREIN) seemed like a dumb idea, IMO.
Learned what from napster? I haven't used another P2P client since it went away. All the replacements are asstastic and are nothing compared to what napster was in its day.
Bullshit. If you don't want to share music the way you used to, fine... but don't make up some crap like this in the process. The scene is far bigger and better than the Napster days in every way.
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This is a "feature" of German cars due to a law in Germany mandating that the speedometer must NEVER read lower than real speed... even if the car has non-standard wheels and tires fitted.
Porsche and BMW exaggerate speed the most, and the theory is because owners of these cars are quite likely to upsize their rolling stock (and thus make the speedo read lower). It's annoying, but it's simply in response to a legal requirement.
Car and Driver did a test on several vehicles a bit over a year ago. GM vehicles were the most accurate... around +1 mph on average.
Maybe he lives in Antarctica...
Because they can fearmonger alongside claiming these powers.
Do you hear fearmongering about Saddam anymore? Nope, because he's dead. Saddam's execution was used for a short term goal... the elections which took place just days after his death.
The OP asked why they haven't caught Osama, and I'm just asserting that perhaps it is not in the government's interest to do so.
What he was doing is more akin to modifying your debit card so it lets you withdraw from other people's bank accounts. Of course, there is infinite supply of 0s and 1s, and a finite supply of money (although the US Treasury seems to be doing all they can to change that!)
It's curious that the security in the system is assigned not within the system itself, but to the end user's hardware... that seems just plan lazy, and implies that what they are selling isn't worth enough to really bother securing it.
Who cares? The powers our government have assumed for themselves in the name of "fighting the War on Terrorism" won't be given up even if they catch "Terrorist #1" Osama.
Osama is more useful to power-hungry US politicians when he is free to roam than dead or captured.
Sofware "piracy" != theft
Slipstreamed installs are convenient... but you can't really tell what else might have been slipstreamed in.
Safer to use normal install media and get the keys separately.
You can still run Windows 2000 if you want to pirate without cracking WGA... security patches will be provided for another 8 months or so. I suppose it probably won't install on a lot of newer hardware, though.
Cracking WGA is really a one-click affair with the current tools, so I don't see what the issue is for even causal pirates.
From what I understand Windows 7 is MUCH harder to pirate
Nope, the process is exactly the same as with XP or Vista.
Nah, they just give you the chance to register in case you have not already done so... the two things aren't really related, but they are rolled together for convenience.
A example of shit being tied together in the weird vein you were thinking of would be the fact that men have to be registered with Selective Service to get government loans for college.
Actually, it's impossible to be anywhere other than the present.
Umbrella Corporation (from the Resident Evil series) cultivated some funky flowers in Africa which led to their biological weapon development... zombies, Majini, etc. were the result.
Whatcouldpossiblygowrong?
You're still gonna need a torrent client to run on that seedbox.
FTMFW = For The MotherFucking WIn
Oops, Friday math fail.
Time to stop posting and start drinking... :)
Actually, a 486 dates this hardware as circa 1994... 25 years ago, making your point even more valid.
I totally agree, especially since the stated goal is to browse the web. You can certainly find software to run on that old hardware, but the internet has moved on to be much more hardware demanding these days.
It's just not worth it.
If want to understand the Windows family, use this chart.
Or if you're enough of a geek, rock out with your cock out and play with windows 7.
FTFY... /. isn't GameFAGs, you know.
WIndows 7 uses the same drivers that Vista does... there isn't anything to wait for.
Actually, Vista is on SP2 currently... so you should be calling Windows 7 "Vista SP3".
Ideas like this have been floated before, mentioning places like Iran, Somalia, etc. as well.
The problem is that these places are all about censorship (or worse), and they couldn't really be trusted to honor an agreement to be a safe harbor... it would be trivial for the same forces that work against TPB now to aim at a new location in these countries. The poorer a country is, the easier it is to bribe people to do your dirty work for you.
Being free from legal threat means nothing if you can't power the servers and connect to the internet consistently... or worse, if you actually live in physical danger from local police or thugs. It's a bit of a step to go from living in Sweden (rated one of the top three countries to live in for a long time now) to living in North Korea, for example.
From TorrentFreak's article:
Ex-Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde, who appears to be excluded from the decision, is notably annoyed, noting that neither the founders nor the site are located in Sweden. He argues that the Swedish court has no jurisdiction in this case.
“It means nothing,” Peter told TorrentFreak, adding that it is bothersome that they have to invest time in cases like this.
“The Stockholm City Court is located in Stockholm. Stockholm is in Sweden. Swedish borders apply. Frederick and Godfrid live outside Sweden, even outside the EU. The Pirate Bay is outside the EU,” he told SR earlier today.
“How then can the Stockholm District Court, Sweden, get to decide that people abroad must not work on a site in another country?”
I have heard they and/or the site's servers are based in a former nuke bunker in the Netherlands, but I have also heard that they are now based in the Ukraine... Peter's comment seems to point to the latter, I guess. Moving to the Netherlands (and BREIN) seemed like a dumb idea, IMO.
Because lockdown of the hardware is the apparent goal of all mobile devices these days? You can't do that if you make things open and share them.
Learned what from napster? I haven't used another P2P client since it went away. All the replacements are asstastic and are nothing compared to what napster was in its day.
Bullshit. If you don't want to share music the way you used to, fine... but don't make up some crap like this in the process. The scene is far bigger and better than the Napster days in every way.