The middlemen in the law is the judge/jury and getting rid of them would result in the lawyers on both sides just coming to your house with a baseball bat and forcibly taking your money =P
Could you point me to where it said Burst.Net shut it down before even bothering to view the webpage for themselves? I don't see that anywhere in the article. Are you assuming just because the article uses the word alleged that burst.net believes it's only alleged? The media uses that word with anything that they (the media) can't personally verify. So even if Burst.Net found the site on their own and shut it down unless the media was shown the full site the contents would still be "alleged" in the article.
One account on burst.net, yes, but it serviced 70,000+ people! You are claiming that the host had no responsibility whatever to all those people? Just because a few OTHER people violated the TOS? How do you figure?
How many of those 70,000 people pay Burst.Net for services or had a contract with them? Zero. They are not customers, they are not paying for data storage, they did not sign a ToS. The only person they have a contract with is the single person that is running that entire blog site and taking gambles with 70,000 other people's data by not having his own resources to do it. The guy running bloggerty is the one with responsibility to those 70,000 users and by not having his own resources to handle their data or the ability to properly ensure all the users were within his Terms of Services he failed them.
Being an American who's been following the spill closely on the news and cspan radio, I have to say I really haven't seen that much anti-British sentiment other then the odd kook protester with a funny replacement for the acronym "BP". We as Americans are more than happy blaming ourselves (and by ourselves I mean everyone else in America who isn't our-self or in the political party of our choice). I think if BP was fully American based you'd see the exact same questioning and whatnot going on.
My suspicion is, that your local/national news is cherry picking incidents where Britain is mentioned or anti-British sentiment is shown because those incidents will of course interest you and draw viewers. I'm not saying there aren't isolated incidents and the odd slogan coined to try to get some face-time on TV but I suspect your coverage focuses more on these incidents because they are of interest and thus this filter makes the problem appear large whereas over here it's unnoticeable and anyone suggesting the spill is any fault of Britain's or the British people would be laughed at. There may be people who say stupid thing, but on the whole there is not really anti-British sentiment. Well, other than usual ribbing that's to be expected between us;)
If this technology forces enemies to spend time, effort and money developing delivery packages/methods to release "millions of balloons" near our warships as a precursor to any missile attack than it's about 10^10 times more useful than I thought it was.
Yet there's tons of talent available to make intelligence software and other sexy defense systems. I think it's highly more likely that the field of network security itself is just far less attractive. It is extremely narrow, difficult, detail oriented, un-sexy field that often puts you in the position of defense where your only success is not having massive failures. As such it interests a very very small subset of Computer Science geeks.
It's never going to happen because it's a lose-lose situation. It doesn't actually mean anything or affect anything so the only point of lowering it would be public sentiment and right now no one cares about it, but god forbid you lower it and then another times square bomber incident happens and there's going to be public outrage and congressional hearing about how we got caught with our pants down and lowered the alert level just before this event and how the people could have been more prepared blahdy blahdy blah I'm a congressmen and I need to look like I'm doing something useful and get a good soundbite for my next campaign.
Jesus Christ people, why does everyone think patriotism has to be either 100% for the government to defend our country or 100% fighting against it to defend our rights. What happened to individual citizens examining a situation and deciding for themselves which course of action they support?
If the private citizen running Burst.Net doesn't believe hosting hit list and bomb making instructions for terrorists is something he wants to participate in he has every right to pull the plug is he so chooses. He is under no patriotic duty to request warrants and support the site just because the government was the one that pointed it out to him instead of a friend. You say there was no evidence, but the site wasn't shut down till Burst.net shut it down so they could still check and confirm at the time it was pointed out to them. It wasn't alleged to them, they could go and look at the site before they shut it down and see exactly what they were doing.
My point is, where the fuck do you get off calling someone else an unpatriotic pussy and cheat for deciding they didn't want to host terrorist hit lists and bomb making instructions that likely violated their TOS anyways. If your so up on the idea do it yourself. Burst.net is under no moral or patriotic obligation to do so.
Lastly, CUSTOMER (singular). The entire Blog site was run by a single entity that was paying for a single hosting account. That's like saying Time Warner would be responsible for cheating thousands of people out of internet if I had hooked up tons of wireless repeaters with free access to a single modem and one person happened to be running a spam server and they shut down my account.
They don't teach you that in driving lessons. And before you get the experience you are fully vulnerable.
This totally makes me want to open up a driving school where I get to throw buckets of cold water at the student driver at random times on the closed course.
Or, they could be evaluating the fact that the GPS is right 97% of the time and that there is no risk in safely merging left and it might benefit them if the road suddenly splits ahead thus evaluating risk vs reward like a rational human being. It's like driving with someone that knows the area, if they tell you to merge left and you safely do so are you operating on "blind faith" or are you evaluating their advice and giving them credence based on their knowledge and past performance. But sure, maybe they just have "blind faith" and are devout followers, hallowed are the Garmin! =P
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For them not to be the entire defense industry would have to be running exclusively linux or something. Which would you find more surprising?
Maybe if that Dutch Ship carried delicious tacos and burritos like the Mexican Military Convoy we allowed in we would have considered it.
In all seriousness though, we allowed flagged and uniformed Mexican military units in to help, so I doubt some Dutch flagged ship was turned down due to pride rather than logistics vs worth, I'm pretty sure needing help from Mexico Military would be a bigger hit to your theory of American Pride than needing help from a single dutch flagged ship.
Two days ago? We must be talking different platforms. On Xbox 360 we got the 2nd map pack a month ago (Carnival, Trailer Park, Fuel, Vacant, and Strike) and they are definitely available in the normal game modes and always were as long as everyone in your party has them.
First of all if you want to play the new maps you have to play them in specific gamemode that rotates between team deatchmatch, demolition, sabotage and all the other modes.
This is either intentionally misleading or you are misinformed. As long as everyone in your party has the new maps they will show up in all the game modes (at least all the standards like TDM, domination, ground war, CTF, ect). What they did was ADD a NEW game mode that allowed you to play ONLY the new maps and that game mode rotated between the various game types.
This devalues the game for the old players, as they have much less people to play with and possibly can't even find a game to join.
This is just absurd. you clearly have no concept of the size of the player base. Most of my friends got the DLC but a few don't and we convince more of our friends to pick up the game every few weeks. I've noticed no difference in ability to pick up a game between having the DLC or not. I have noticed the non DLC players seem to be easier on average, but I think that's likely caused by all brand new players being in that category.
Coming from someone whose spent a lot of time on the water with both motor boats and crewing on racing yachts it's really not that hard to cause an accident with anything on the water in the best of conditions. 65 feet isn't going to be more than three boat lengths for anything they're taking out there. Anything less than that and all is required for an accident is one wrong push of the throttle, one misjudgment of how the next wave is going to push you or where/if there's an anchor line on that ship your photographing and then you're going to F something up. Maybe you'll just knock into the boom and not really cause any harm. Maybe you'll foul it in your prop destroying it. Maybe you'll damage a skimmer ship your trying to get a good shot of it and take it out of service. Maybe you'll just scare the captain because he doesn't want to depend on you for getting out of the way and cause him to change course or halt operations costing time and money. There's a lot of crap that can go wrong, and it's very easy for a small mistake to turn into very dangerous situations on open water. You break someones car on the highway and they get out and a squad car and tow truck comes. You break someones boat on the ocean and they swim or drown and the response vehicles (helicopters, cutters, patrol boats) cost a lot more to get out there. And then add to that the fact that you'd be interrupting disaster response efforts. There's your difference.
That is correct, they're called Embassy Attaches;)
That's only in half jest actually. They could do most of the things these people did with impunity (recruiting and trying to run agents) but the difference is they are declared and marked and therefore the people they meet with and try to recruit would be made and marked thus making them much more impotent.
I'm not a stickler for grammar or spelling and God knows I'm terrible at both but is there not even a forced preview for summaries like there is for comments? There is no way you can even quickly proofread that sentence and not stumble trying to string those words together. Get it together editors.
I literally read this comment while switching between episodes on netflix's watch instantly. I love netflix, it's great. But it's only good for watching TV shows that are old. The only current show I've ever found on it is Bones. It doesn't have Stargate Universe, it doesn't have burn notice or psych or House or Family Guy, or Futurama, or V, or Flash Forward or any other of the current tv shows that Hulu offers (Feel free to now make fun of the TV shows I watch =P ).
Netflix's quality and delivery (Xbox and other TV connected devices) is better, but it's content offering falls way behind Hulu when it comes to current TV shows. And I'd argue that Hulu doesn't really mean to compete with netflix that much as far as movies, but current TV shows are it's intended niche. And since it's owned by NBC Universal I'd imagine they are going to make sure their own site always has a leg up over netflix in how soon they get the content.
It's illegal to act as the agent of a foreign government on US soil without declaring yourself as such. I believe most of them are being charged for conspiracy to do just that, while some are being charged with money laundering, which humorously enough carries a much longer maximum sentence.
Or the (Sprint or Verizon?) commercials where their advertising gimmick is that they let you skip the commercial to get to what you want faster, just like their company...whatever it is. See how well that ad campaign worked for them? =P
High Def...check (high, medium, and low res available)
That's like complaining that the your 32oz "large" soda is now a "medium" because they introduced a 42oz version. The "high" resolution was 480, I don't think 720 was available before.
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The middlemen in the law is the judge/jury and getting rid of them would result in the lawyers on both sides just coming to your house with a baseball bat and forcibly taking your money =P
One account on burst.net, yes, but it serviced 70,000+ people! You are claiming that the host had no responsibility whatever to all those people? Just because a few OTHER people violated the TOS? How do you figure?
How many of those 70,000 people pay Burst.Net for services or had a contract with them? Zero. They are not customers, they are not paying for data storage, they did not sign a ToS. The only person they have a contract with is the single person that is running that entire blog site and taking gambles with 70,000 other people's data by not having his own resources to do it. The guy running bloggerty is the one with responsibility to those 70,000 users and by not having his own resources to handle their data or the ability to properly ensure all the users were within his Terms of Services he failed them.
Being an American who's been following the spill closely on the news and cspan radio, I have to say I really haven't seen that much anti-British sentiment other then the odd kook protester with a funny replacement for the acronym "BP". We as Americans are more than happy blaming ourselves (and by ourselves I mean everyone else in America who isn't our-self or in the political party of our choice). I think if BP was fully American based you'd see the exact same questioning and whatnot going on.
My suspicion is, that your local/national news is cherry picking incidents where Britain is mentioned or anti-British sentiment is shown because those incidents will of course interest you and draw viewers. I'm not saying there aren't isolated incidents and the odd slogan coined to try to get some face-time on TV but I suspect your coverage focuses more on these incidents because they are of interest and thus this filter makes the problem appear large whereas over here it's unnoticeable and anyone suggesting the spill is any fault of Britain's or the British people would be laughed at. There may be people who say stupid thing, but on the whole there is not really anti-British sentiment. Well, other than usual ribbing that's to be expected between us ;)
Not really. Balloons tend to, y'know, stay in the air for some time.
And ships tend to, y'know, move? ;)
If this technology forces enemies to spend time, effort and money developing delivery packages/methods to release "millions of balloons" near our warships as a precursor to any missile attack than it's about 10^10 times more useful than I thought it was.
Yet there's tons of talent available to make intelligence software and other sexy defense systems. I think it's highly more likely that the field of network security itself is just far less attractive. It is extremely narrow, difficult, detail oriented, un-sexy field that often puts you in the position of defense where your only success is not having massive failures. As such it interests a very very small subset of Computer Science geeks.
It's never going to happen because it's a lose-lose situation. It doesn't actually mean anything or affect anything so the only point of lowering it would be public sentiment and right now no one cares about it, but god forbid you lower it and then another times square bomber incident happens and there's going to be public outrage and congressional hearing about how we got caught with our pants down and lowered the alert level just before this event and how the people could have been more prepared blahdy blahdy blah I'm a congressmen and I need to look like I'm doing something useful and get a good soundbite for my next campaign.
Jesus Christ people, why does everyone think patriotism has to be either 100% for the government to defend our country or 100% fighting against it to defend our rights. What happened to individual citizens examining a situation and deciding for themselves which course of action they support?
If the private citizen running Burst.Net doesn't believe hosting hit list and bomb making instructions for terrorists is something he wants to participate in he has every right to pull the plug is he so chooses. He is under no patriotic duty to request warrants and support the site just because the government was the one that pointed it out to him instead of a friend. You say there was no evidence, but the site wasn't shut down till Burst.net shut it down so they could still check and confirm at the time it was pointed out to them. It wasn't alleged to them, they could go and look at the site before they shut it down and see exactly what they were doing.
My point is, where the fuck do you get off calling someone else an unpatriotic pussy and cheat for deciding they didn't want to host terrorist hit lists and bomb making instructions that likely violated their TOS anyways. If your so up on the idea do it yourself. Burst.net is under no moral or patriotic obligation to do so.
Lastly, CUSTOMER (singular). The entire Blog site was run by a single entity that was paying for a single hosting account. That's like saying Time Warner would be responsible for cheating thousands of people out of internet if I had hooked up tons of wireless repeaters with free access to a single modem and one person happened to be running a spam server and they shut down my account.
They don't teach you that in driving lessons. And before you get the experience you are fully vulnerable.
This totally makes me want to open up a driving school where I get to throw buckets of cold water at the student driver at random times on the closed course.
Or, they could be evaluating the fact that the GPS is right 97% of the time and that there is no risk in safely merging left and it might benefit them if the road suddenly splits ahead thus evaluating risk vs reward like a rational human being. It's like driving with someone that knows the area, if they tell you to merge left and you safely do so are you operating on "blind faith" or are you evaluating their advice and giving them credence based on their knowledge and past performance. But sure, maybe they just have "blind faith" and are devout followers, hallowed are the Garmin! =P
For them not to be the entire defense industry would have to be running exclusively linux or something. Which would you find more surprising?
Yea, all those dregs working on their Masters and Doctorates looking for a summer job =P
Maybe if that Dutch Ship carried delicious tacos and burritos like the Mexican Military Convoy we allowed in we would have considered it.
In all seriousness though, we allowed flagged and uniformed Mexican military units in to help, so I doubt some Dutch flagged ship was turned down due to pride rather than logistics vs worth, I'm pretty sure needing help from Mexico Military would be a bigger hit to your theory of American Pride than needing help from a single dutch flagged ship.
Two days ago? We must be talking different platforms. On Xbox 360 we got the 2nd map pack a month ago (Carnival, Trailer Park, Fuel, Vacant, and Strike) and they are definitely available in the normal game modes and always were as long as everyone in your party has them.
First of all if you want to play the new maps you have to play them in specific gamemode that rotates between team deatchmatch, demolition, sabotage and all the other modes.
This is either intentionally misleading or you are misinformed. As long as everyone in your party has the new maps they will show up in all the game modes (at least all the standards like TDM, domination, ground war, CTF, ect). What they did was ADD a NEW game mode that allowed you to play ONLY the new maps and that game mode rotated between the various game types.
This devalues the game for the old players, as they have much less people to play with and possibly can't even find a game to join.
This is just absurd. you clearly have no concept of the size of the player base. Most of my friends got the DLC but a few don't and we convince more of our friends to pick up the game every few weeks. I've noticed no difference in ability to pick up a game between having the DLC or not. I have noticed the non DLC players seem to be easier on average, but I think that's likely caused by all brand new players being in that category.
He's got Politics, he's got Religion, can he go for the Hat-trick? He does, he scores the Trolling Hat-trick with Microsoft! The crowd goes wild!!!! ;)
You mean my profile picture of me under the steet sign for "Awesome Street" has unsanitized geolocation data embedded in it?!?!
Coming from someone whose spent a lot of time on the water with both motor boats and crewing on racing yachts it's really not that hard to cause an accident with anything on the water in the best of conditions. 65 feet isn't going to be more than three boat lengths for anything they're taking out there. Anything less than that and all is required for an accident is one wrong push of the throttle, one misjudgment of how the next wave is going to push you or where/if there's an anchor line on that ship your photographing and then you're going to F something up. Maybe you'll just knock into the boom and not really cause any harm. Maybe you'll foul it in your prop destroying it. Maybe you'll damage a skimmer ship your trying to get a good shot of it and take it out of service. Maybe you'll just scare the captain because he doesn't want to depend on you for getting out of the way and cause him to change course or halt operations costing time and money. There's a lot of crap that can go wrong, and it's very easy for a small mistake to turn into very dangerous situations on open water. You break someones car on the highway and they get out and a squad car and tow truck comes. You break someones boat on the ocean and they swim or drown and the response vehicles (helicopters, cutters, patrol boats) cost a lot more to get out there. And then add to that the fact that you'd be interrupting disaster response efforts. There's your difference.
That is correct, they're called Embassy Attaches ;)
That's only in half jest actually. They could do most of the things these people did with impunity (recruiting and trying to run agents) but the difference is they are declared and marked and therefore the people they meet with and try to recruit would be made and marked thus making them much more impotent.
There were are few places
I'm not a stickler for grammar or spelling and God knows I'm terrible at both but is there not even a forced preview for summaries like there is for comments? There is no way you can even quickly proofread that sentence and not stumble trying to string those words together. Get it together editors.
I literally read this comment while switching between episodes on netflix's watch instantly. I love netflix, it's great. But it's only good for watching TV shows that are old. The only current show I've ever found on it is Bones. It doesn't have Stargate Universe, it doesn't have burn notice or psych or House or Family Guy, or Futurama, or V, or Flash Forward or any other of the current tv shows that Hulu offers (Feel free to now make fun of the TV shows I watch =P ).
Netflix's quality and delivery (Xbox and other TV connected devices) is better, but it's content offering falls way behind Hulu when it comes to current TV shows. And I'd argue that Hulu doesn't really mean to compete with netflix that much as far as movies, but current TV shows are it's intended niche. And since it's owned by NBC Universal I'd imagine they are going to make sure their own site always has a leg up over netflix in how soon they get the content.
It's illegal to act as the agent of a foreign government on US soil without declaring yourself as such. I believe most of them are being charged for conspiracy to do just that, while some are being charged with money laundering, which humorously enough carries a much longer maximum sentence.
Or the (Sprint or Verizon?) commercials where their advertising gimmick is that they let you skip the commercial to get to what you want faster, just like their company...whatever it is. See how well that ad campaign worked for them? =P
High Def...check (high, medium, and low res available)
That's like complaining that the your 32oz "large" soda is now a "medium" because they introduced a 42oz version. The "high" resolution was 480, I don't think 720 was available before.