No idea, but I know that someone who pissed off some phreaks a long time ago had his phones (work and home) rerouted to porncalls. It only took about 6 weeks before he caved.
Yes, I've known phreaks, but I am not now, nor have ever been one. All of them I knew were friendly easygoing people. It took a lot to set them off, but if you were dumb enough to do that, you'd be better off never using a phone again, and possibly moving to a cave somewhere.
Of course there's that little federal thing of innocent until proven guilty. Therefor, if you aren't proven guilty, you are still innocent and there is no ruling necessary.
You have a network that is congested, so you pay the provider extra money, and for a short time, they make your data the priority over everyone else, which of course means they go down in priority. That totally favors not just their own company/customers, but only those customers that pay more money. And yes, it really would degrade service for everyone not paying.
It's the whole slices of pie thing. If it's fair and everyone gets an equal slice, no biggie, unless too many people want some, then the slices get smaller (network congestion, not enough bandwidth to go around). Then along comes Fred who's friends with the guy serving the pie, he slips Fred some cash, and suddenly he's got a slice that's bigger. Since neither the number of people wanting slices hasn't changed nor has the pie gotten larger (the network didn't miraculously gain capacity) everybody else's pieces get smaller. So you see, they not only get a larger piece of pie, they take away pie from everyone else.
This is exactly the types of shenanigans Net Neutrality is supposed to prevent.
No, it's not a cache, unless it has time travel to allow it to cache Skype data streams that don't even exist yet... (Yes, it was Hugh Fletcher, associate director for technology in Verizon's Product Development and Technology team that used Skype as an example.)
The Starshield series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman is very similar. Though in that series, the zones move, they include all types of technologies and magics, and most species think they are natural. It was published later than Vinges stuff, so maybe it was inspired by it.
When you're staring at gray walls and bars all day, I'm pretty sure you can consider Batman: Arkham mental stimulation. As for me, I find chess, go, and backgammon mind-numbing boredom, little better than counting your fingers...
I think that is usually referred to as "the god of the empty spaces". It's the delusion where anything that isn't already explained by science is declared to be the realm and hand of god.
There are very very few new viruses anymore, it's been like that for years. The problem is the media calls bloody everything a virus, even program glitches on occasion. But it is malware, and it's a lot more than just a trojan. It's also backdoor, and phisher. It's a nasty little package, especially for anyone that thinks macs are immune. Didn't see any mention of it having and poison pill functions if someone tries to remove it.
How can they be charged with receiving stolen property, when they are also being charged with stealing that same property? They apparently weren't given the stolen stuff, they stole it. They didn't buy it, they were trying to sell it.
Sure, they're trouble making thieves with a destructive streak, but that's still no reason for the 'justice' system to falsify charges.
Kind of makes me wonder if you speed in Pennsylvania, will they not only charge you with speeding, but also stealing gas from the cop car that pulled you over...
If I remember the statistics correctly, only about 1 in 3 shots to the head result in penetration of the skull. ( Yeah, Hollywood got it wrong, but what do you expect from a group that shows nearly every car crash catching on fire and exploding, as well as guns firing about 10-20 times their full load without ever reloading or having a scene cut where you can imagine they reloaded...) Along with that, few of the people shot are hit in the head in the first place, most shooters are lucky to hit the main body mass at 20', so head shots are more for movies and video games than reality.
I think the main problem is that there aren't enough people getting shot in the head to make an impact on the overall species survival needs. So with appx 7 billion people (that's 7,000,000,000) on the planet, and probably only a few hundred shot in the head in any given year, that's a really small percentage, even if you just look at particular hot spots.
They were scaremongers. The techies & IT people knew about it and were endeavoring to fix it in the early to mid 80s. The scare mongers started up much later and even hyped the 'dangers' to items that don't even have date functions in them and thus would never have been at risk even hypothetically.
As an example, in 84 I was in high school, I knew about the y2k issue. My school liked using Bankstreet software. I rewrote it so that all databases you saved had 4 digit years. I wrote a separate tool that would scan the databases on the drive for 2 digit years, and alter them to 4 digit years. With those two hacks my schools issue with Y2K disappeared, too bad Bankstreet did too. (I actually liked it.)
Talk about brain-rot. He said NOTHING about any browser being required by the OS, rather that there SHOULD be one there even if only for the reason that you can EASILY GET THE BROWSER YOU WANT.
I like the idea of the head honchos at the company going to jail for the crimes they oversee, as well as elimination of those "golden parachutes". But I tend to get rather vindictive towards those that act with impunity simply because they think they can get away with it.
Of course some people feel we are in the same predicament as the guy that's been thrown out of an airplane without a parachute. He really wants to try and use his shirt as chute and maybe even flap his arms, and he's getting really sick of the guy putting him in a bear hug and yelling in his ear, "Go slow and think it through, those ideas probably won't work"...
Yep. Anytime they change your contract, you can opt out without any penalties what-so-ever. It's the law. Those guys hate it, and certainly will never tell you about it, but it's true.
To repeat: ANY time they alter your agreement/contract, you may cancel it with NO penalties. This is by FEDERAL LAW.
No, I'm not a lawyer, but I've used this little gem myself when a provider decided to screw up things.
Yes, and besides that, what if you don't remember enough about the email to get a reasonably short result list from a search, but you had filed it in a reasonable fashion that made finding it much easier.
I use both, but the folders give me categories that make it easier to filter my searches. It could be even better if I were able to attack multiple tags to email, then it would be much easier to find what I wanted, but at least folder/label is better than nothing.
any patent, trademark, copyright, or other "ip" related attempts at ownership of any simple basic polygonal based shapes should be responded to with a red hot poker up the backside. (And I really don't care if that poker is a metal rod used to prod burning wood, or an entire 52 card deck, with or without jokers, so long as it's red hot.)
You do realize that 50 years ago, there wasn't even an 'online', and as to scanners, I'm not sure if they existed, but you can bet a pack of religious scholars couldn't get their hands on them if they did exist.
False advertisement, software bug trashing your console (or data or other software), inability of a system that meets the listed requirements being unable to run and company refusing to give a full refund, and a whole host of other things that I couldn't think of within 5 seconds.
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No idea, but I know that someone who pissed off some phreaks a long time ago had his phones (work and home) rerouted to porncalls. It only took about 6 weeks before he caved.
Yes, I've known phreaks, but I am not now, nor have ever been one. All of them I knew were friendly easygoing people. It took a lot to set them off, but if you were dumb enough to do that, you'd be better off never using a phone again, and possibly moving to a cave somewhere.
Of course there's that little federal thing of innocent until proven guilty. Therefor, if you aren't proven guilty, you are still innocent and there is no ruling necessary.
You have a network that is congested, so you pay the provider extra money, and for a short time, they make your data the priority over everyone else, which of course means they go down in priority. That totally favors not just their own company/customers, but only those customers that pay more money. And yes, it really would degrade service for everyone not paying.
It's the whole slices of pie thing. If it's fair and everyone gets an equal slice, no biggie, unless too many people want some, then the slices get smaller (network congestion, not enough bandwidth to go around). Then along comes Fred who's friends with the guy serving the pie, he slips Fred some cash, and suddenly he's got a slice that's bigger. Since neither the number of people wanting slices hasn't changed nor has the pie gotten larger (the network didn't miraculously gain capacity) everybody else's pieces get smaller. So you see, they not only get a larger piece of pie, they take away pie from everyone else.
This is exactly the types of shenanigans Net Neutrality is supposed to prevent.
No, it's not a cache, unless it has time travel to allow it to cache Skype data streams that don't even exist yet...
(Yes, it was Hugh Fletcher, associate director for technology in Verizon's Product Development and Technology team that used Skype as an example.)
The Starshield series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman is very similar. Though in that series, the zones move, they include all types of technologies and magics, and most species think they are natural. It was published later than Vinges stuff, so maybe it was inspired by it.
When you're staring at gray walls and bars all day, I'm pretty sure you can consider Batman: Arkham mental stimulation. As for me, I find chess, go, and backgammon mind-numbing boredom, little better than counting your fingers...
I have a feeling I would go insane in prison.
I think that is usually referred to as "the god of the empty spaces". It's the delusion where anything that isn't already explained by science is declared to be the realm and hand of god.
Yeah, and he's so stupid, he's threatening someone other than the ones that are being mean. What an @hole.
There are very very few new viruses anymore, it's been like that for years. The problem is the media calls bloody everything a virus, even program glitches on occasion.
But it is malware, and it's a lot more than just a trojan. It's also backdoor, and phisher. It's a nasty little package, especially for anyone that thinks macs are immune.
Didn't see any mention of it having and poison pill functions if someone tries to remove it.
How can they be charged with receiving stolen property, when they are also being charged with stealing that same property?
They apparently weren't given the stolen stuff, they stole it.
They didn't buy it, they were trying to sell it.
Sure, they're trouble making thieves with a destructive streak, but that's still no reason for the 'justice' system to falsify charges.
Kind of makes me wonder if you speed in Pennsylvania, will they not only charge you with speeding, but also stealing gas from the cop car that pulled you over...
If I remember the statistics correctly, only about 1 in 3 shots to the head result in penetration of the skull.
( Yeah, Hollywood got it wrong, but what do you expect from a group that shows nearly every car crash catching on fire and exploding, as well as guns firing about 10-20 times their full load without ever reloading or having a scene cut where you can imagine they reloaded...)
Along with that, few of the people shot are hit in the head in the first place, most shooters are lucky to hit the main body mass at 20', so head shots are more for movies and video games than reality.
I think the main problem is that there aren't enough people getting shot in the head to make an impact on the overall species survival needs. So with appx 7 billion people (that's 7,000,000,000) on the planet, and probably only a few hundred shot in the head in any given year, that's a really small percentage, even if you just look at particular hot spots.
Then that opens up the whole field to "faerie" planets, and I have no idea what that would be. (But I bet it sparkles.)
They were scaremongers. The techies & IT people knew about it and were endeavoring to fix it in the early to mid 80s. The scare mongers started up much later and even hyped the 'dangers' to items that don't even have date functions in them and thus would never have been at risk even hypothetically.
As an example, in 84 I was in high school, I knew about the y2k issue. My school liked using Bankstreet software. I rewrote it so that all databases you saved had 4 digit years. I wrote a separate tool that would scan the databases on the drive for 2 digit years, and alter them to 4 digit years. With those two hacks my schools issue with Y2K disappeared, too bad Bankstreet did too. (I actually liked it.)
Talk about brain-rot. He said NOTHING about any browser being required by the OS, rather that there SHOULD be one there even if only for the reason that you can EASILY GET THE BROWSER YOU WANT.
Sheesh, some peoples hatchlings...
I like the idea of the head honchos at the company going to jail for the crimes they oversee, as well as elimination of those "golden parachutes".
But I tend to get rather vindictive towards those that act with impunity simply because they think they can get away with it.
Define public... If you don't do that sufficiently, they'll find a way to worm out of it.
Of course some people feel we are in the same predicament as the guy that's been thrown out of an airplane without a parachute. He really wants to try and use his shirt as chute and maybe even flap his arms, and he's getting really sick of the guy putting him in a bear hug and yelling in his ear, "Go slow and think it through, those ideas probably won't work"...
Yep. Anytime they change your contract, you can opt out without any penalties what-so-ever. It's the law. Those guys hate it, and certainly will never tell you about it, but it's true.
To repeat: ANY time they alter your agreement/contract, you may cancel it with NO penalties. This is by FEDERAL LAW.
No, I'm not a lawyer, but I've used this little gem myself when a provider decided to screw up things.
I know one guy with a concealed carry permit who's fanny pack is also a quick release concealed holster for his 9mm.
I always thought Dungeon Master was much better than Eye of the Beholder.
Yes, and besides that, what if you don't remember enough about the email to get a reasonably short result list from a search, but you had filed it in a reasonable fashion that made finding it much easier.
I use both, but the folders give me categories that make it easier to filter my searches. It could be even better if I were able to attack multiple tags to email, then it would be much easier to find what I wanted, but at least folder/label is better than nothing.
any patent, trademark, copyright, or other "ip" related attempts at ownership of any simple basic polygonal based shapes should be responded to with a red hot poker up the backside.
(And I really don't care if that poker is a metal rod used to prod burning wood, or an entire 52 card deck, with or without jokers, so long as it's red hot.)
You do realize that 50 years ago, there wasn't even an 'online', and as to scanners, I'm not sure if they existed, but you can bet a pack of religious scholars couldn't get their hands on them if they did exist.
False advertisement, software bug trashing your console (or data or other software), inability of a system that meets the listed requirements being unable to run and company refusing to give a full refund, and a whole host of other things that I couldn't think of within 5 seconds.
That's funny, they already did that by purchasing the GPS software/device in the first place.