They started attacking us first, so defending ourselves is only natural. As to the Dihydrogen Monoxide issue, a town in California tried to ban it. I don't see what the big deal was, it's not like they have enough of it to start with, they keep trying to take ours we have here in Oregon every couple of years. Ok, California does have one really large supply of it, but they can't use it for too much as it's been far too contaminated with a chlorine based substance, and it's kind of expensive to purify.
Intelligent Design IS creationism with a global search and replace god with intelligent design. Those boobs that put out the paper for I.D. screwed up and didn't erase the metadata, so people dug into the edits and discovered that little gem. (A couple of times a year some group or another forgets about metadata, and the adobe stuff has a purge metadata function in it's menu... morons.)
Don't forget the court case where even the judge determined that creationism is NOT science. (If you're really interested, you can google it and dig through the mass of false hits.)
>^_^< I can't help but smile when people choose names that are already associated with something else, even if they vary the spelling. (When the Teabaggers hit the new a few years ago I roflmao'd till I turned blue!) You know folks, you can Google this stuff before you publicize your chosen names...
"...any equipment that does not stamp the appropriate mark on the discs in question, or any equipment that would make it easy to forge the mark..." in other words: "any equipment, period."
I'm not all that interested in making the unit smaller since I'd like to make something other than freaking cufflinks or shirt buttons. Make that thing bloody bigger! I want to print out a new car! Ok, that was a bit of an exaggeration, but wouldn't it be cool?
Changing the game midstream without warning on your partners while applying secret and inconsistent rules is not good business, and apple is known for screwing it's partners like this, especially with it's latest offerings. I agree with you Kreigaffe, it's nothing new for apple to shaft it's partners, but a lot of these people out there don't know apples s.o.p. of business, so forgive them for being a bit naive.
Yes, but your oven should be able to bake bread that doesn't use Walmart yeast even though you bought your oven from Walmart.
If you buy platform object A from store B, you should be able to use add-on item C (which was made for object A) even if you buy it from store D, but store B puts up a special lock that won't let anything that wasn't bought from store B into platform object A. Why do you think that's fair, right, or just.
There are a number of legal terms for this kind of lock-in, and all the ones I know of are considered illegal. No idea why there isn't an investigation, but then again, the DOJ can be really stupid and blind at times.
Anyone who transferred files before the days of broadband favored rar because it made smaller files than zip or arc, and it also was quick to support multipart archives which was useful for those sites that limited how large a single file could be. Had no more to do with piracy than BBS or Internet. Of course the pirates like it too...
Anonymous is known to have a core group that decides upon and coordinates their activities, as well as provide "spokesmen" for the media and make press releases.
What did you expect, something that large and coordinated is just a random flash mob?
somersault said "...they were just trying to (foolishly) protect themselves from GeoHot..."
What? Are you saying Sony removed OtherOS to protect themselves from the restoration of OtherOS from someone who worked out a way to restore because Sony removed it? That doesn't make sense unless you are into time machines and self-fulfilling prophecies/timeloops.
Here's another question for you then, why did Sony remove emulation from the PS3?
Sony has been screwing everyone for decades, it's their S.O.P., and they think they can get away with it. (They usually do.) They split their company into all those different pseudo-portions to dodge responsibility and things, but they are still one giant corporate organism. I'll give you an idea how much they play dirty. They had a plant here, they bounced the employees paychecks 3 times that I know of. Their paperwork said they were making a decent profit. They closed the plant when the city refused to extend the 100% tax exemptions for another 6 years. If you do a little research, you'll find out that kind of B.S. is standard for them.
Also, check this gem out: http://consumerist.com/2011/05/security-expert-sony-knew-its-software-was-obsolete-months-before-psn-breach.html
No idea, but then again, blu-ray is just a mediocre tech upgrade to dvd, composed primarily of smaller data pits and blue light lasers to read the smaller blue spectrum light rays to read those smaller pits, and some new software of course.
DVD was a bigger tech jump over cd because it also included the ability to read multiple layers in addition to greater data density.
Also, dvd had the apparent advantage of changing disks from an audio format to a video format, while blu-ray only improved the quality of the same video, assuming you had a tv or other display capable of showing it properly. (Yes, there was a video on cd format out there, but let's face it, it was a joke in this country.)
The rest of it is all marketing and lawyer junk. More or less.:)
So I take it people are getting downgraded from nvidia graphics to intel graphics? Looks like all the gamers can throw away all their games other than solitare and farmville.
Sorry, but let's face it, any kind of integrated nvidia gpus is massively superior to any of the intel gpus, or whatever is the appropriate term for those integrated graphics chips.
They exists, especially on the Mac. Due to the historically higher level of security of linux users and the lack of worthwhile targets, few malware writers ever wrote any infectors for Linux. Mac has had thousands written for it. but that pales in comparison to the vast quantity that have been written for windows boxes simply because of small market share combined with version incompatabilities. As windows is by far the biggest juiciest target, it's what most malware writers target. They want to get as many machines as possible, and when one OS has 70-90% of the market (depending on when and how you measure), it's what 99% is going to be targeted.
By the way, contrary to popular opinion, the most common symptom of being infected is having no symptoms at all. The reason why so many people start having issues, and then find an infector is because they had an infector they couldn't detect without the right tools, and never bothered until something else went wrong on the machine. Which is why the removal of the infector doesn't 'fix' their issue that caused them to finally check in the first place. (You have no idea how many times a corrupted word or excel file made them finally get an updated antivirus...)
Yes, there are exceptions to all of this, but the ONLY computer you can say isn't infected is the one that doesn't work. The closest second place goes to the one with a good antivirus with current defs that gets regularly scanned. Anything else is a nomans land of possible-probably infections. (Yeah, Linux is still unlikely to be infected, but there are infectors for it, don't be a moron.)
Now waiting for the inevitable flaming morons who haven't studied and worked with viruses, worms, trojans, and many other types of malware on various platforms for over 8 years to start yelling how wrong I am. Idiots. They are PART of the reason there's so much malware around.
Most people seem to be using spelling and grammar checking programs which are notorious at getting certain things wrong. Other than that, only grammar nazis give a rodents donkey about a their/they're mix up on an internet forum like slashdot.
If you want to complain about my lack of capitalization of nazis, go right ahead, it's intentional. They are definitely not a proper noun in my opinion.
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ask Tolkien, he invented it
They're afraid the avalanche will damage their tsunami protections, and then their screwed.
They started attacking us first, so defending ourselves is only natural.
As to the Dihydrogen Monoxide issue, a town in California tried to ban it. I don't see what the big deal was, it's not like they have enough of it to start with, they keep trying to take ours we have here in Oregon every couple of years. Ok, California does have one really large supply of it, but they can't use it for too much as it's been far too contaminated with a chlorine based substance, and it's kind of expensive to purify.
Intelligent Design IS creationism with a global search and replace god with intelligent design.
Those boobs that put out the paper for I.D. screwed up and didn't erase the metadata, so people dug into the edits and discovered that little gem.
(A couple of times a year some group or another forgets about metadata, and the adobe stuff has a purge metadata function in it's menu... morons.)
I forgot about that, thanks for the reminder :)
I guess you didn't get the memo, He's got invited to a golf game with Xenu and the Holy Trinity last minute and had to cancel that other thing.
Don't forget the court case where even the judge determined that creationism is NOT science.
(If you're really interested, you can google it and dig through the mass of false hits.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi-go
>^_^< I can't help but smile when people choose names that are already associated with something else, even if they vary the spelling. (When the Teabaggers hit the new a few years ago I roflmao'd till I turned blue!) You know folks, you can Google this stuff before you publicize your chosen names...
"...any equipment that does not stamp the appropriate mark on the discs in question, or any equipment that would make it easy to forge the mark..."
in other words: "any equipment, period."
and just where do you rate your unshaven ass and is there a rat involved by any chance?
(I've always hated undefined metrics, they are so confusing.)
I'm not all that interested in making the unit smaller since I'd like to make something other than freaking cufflinks or shirt buttons.
Make that thing bloody bigger! I want to print out a new car!
Ok, that was a bit of an exaggeration, but wouldn't it be cool?
and then a different protocol will be used, just like they were before bittorrent, so what do you outlaw next, ftp, html, what?
Changing the game midstream without warning on your partners while applying secret and inconsistent rules is not good business, and apple is known for screwing it's partners like this, especially with it's latest offerings.
I agree with you Kreigaffe, it's nothing new for apple to shaft it's partners, but a lot of these people out there don't know apples s.o.p. of business, so forgive them for being a bit naive.
Yes, but your oven should be able to bake bread that doesn't use Walmart yeast even though you bought your oven from Walmart.
If you buy platform object A from store B, you should be able to use add-on item C (which was made for object A) even if you buy it from store D, but store B puts up a special lock that won't let anything that wasn't bought from store B into platform object A. Why do you think that's fair, right, or just.
There are a number of legal terms for this kind of lock-in, and all the ones I know of are considered illegal. No idea why there isn't an investigation, but then again, the DOJ can be really stupid and blind at times.
Anyone who transferred files before the days of broadband favored rar because it made smaller files than zip or arc, and it also was quick to support multipart archives which was useful for those sites that limited how large a single file could be. Had no more to do with piracy than BBS or Internet. Of course the pirates like it too...
Anonymous is known to have a core group that decides upon and coordinates their activities, as well as provide "spokesmen" for the media and make press releases.
What did you expect, something that large and coordinated is just a random flash mob?
somersault said "...they were just trying to (foolishly) protect themselves from GeoHot..."
What? Are you saying Sony removed OtherOS to protect themselves from the restoration of OtherOS from someone who worked out a way to restore because Sony removed it? That doesn't make sense unless you are into time machines and self-fulfilling prophecies/timeloops.
Here's another question for you then, why did Sony remove emulation from the PS3?
Sony has been screwing everyone for decades, it's their S.O.P., and they think they can get away with it. (They usually do.)
They split their company into all those different pseudo-portions to dodge responsibility and things, but they are still one giant corporate organism.
I'll give you an idea how much they play dirty. They had a plant here, they bounced the employees paychecks 3 times that I know of. Their paperwork said they were making a decent profit. They closed the plant when the city refused to extend the 100% tax exemptions for another 6 years. If you do a little research, you'll find out that kind of B.S. is standard for them.
Also, check this gem out: http://consumerist.com/2011/05/security-expert-sony-knew-its-software-was-obsolete-months-before-psn-breach.html
I saw that movie.
It's not impossible, just very impractical at the moment.
No idea, but then again, blu-ray is just a mediocre tech upgrade to dvd, composed primarily of smaller data pits and blue light lasers to read the smaller blue spectrum light rays to read those smaller pits, and some new software of course.
:)
DVD was a bigger tech jump over cd because it also included the ability to read multiple layers in addition to greater data density.
Also, dvd had the apparent advantage of changing disks from an audio format to a video format, while blu-ray only improved the quality of the same video, assuming you had a tv or other display capable of showing it properly. (Yes, there was a video on cd format out there, but let's face it, it was a joke in this country.)
The rest of it is all marketing and lawyer junk. More or less.
So I take it people are getting downgraded from nvidia graphics to intel graphics?
Looks like all the gamers can throw away all their games other than solitare and farmville.
Sorry, but let's face it, any kind of integrated nvidia gpus is massively superior to any of the intel gpus, or whatever is the appropriate term for those integrated graphics chips.
They exists, especially on the Mac. Due to the historically higher level of security of linux users and the lack of worthwhile targets, few malware writers ever wrote any infectors for Linux. Mac has had thousands written for it. but that pales in comparison to the vast quantity that have been written for windows boxes simply because of small market share combined with version incompatabilities.
As windows is by far the biggest juiciest target, it's what most malware writers target. They want to get as many machines as possible, and when one OS has 70-90% of the market (depending on when and how you measure), it's what 99% is going to be targeted.
By the way, contrary to popular opinion, the most common symptom of being infected is having no symptoms at all. The reason why so many people start having issues, and then find an infector is because they had an infector they couldn't detect without the right tools, and never bothered until something else went wrong on the machine. Which is why the removal of the infector doesn't 'fix' their issue that caused them to finally check in the first place. (You have no idea how many times a corrupted word or excel file made them finally get an updated antivirus...)
Yes, there are exceptions to all of this, but the ONLY computer you can say isn't infected is the one that doesn't work. The closest second place goes to the one with a good antivirus with current defs that gets regularly scanned. Anything else is a nomans land of possible-probably infections. (Yeah, Linux is still unlikely to be infected, but there are infectors for it, don't be a moron.)
Now waiting for the inevitable flaming morons who haven't studied and worked with viruses, worms, trojans, and many other types of malware on various platforms for over 8 years to start yelling how wrong I am. Idiots. They are PART of the reason there's so much malware around.
give it up, that joke meme was worn and old 2 decades ago
Should the staff be all females that practice archery?
Most people seem to be using spelling and grammar checking programs which are notorious at getting certain things wrong. Other than that, only grammar nazis give a rodents donkey about a their/they're mix up on an internet forum like slashdot.
If you want to complain about my lack of capitalization of nazis, go right ahead, it's intentional. They are definitely not a proper noun in my opinion.