Or you could, I dunno, provide competent and effective _oversight_ to ensure the nuclear plants are being operated safely? I know - that's just crazy talk.
Yes, but they don't always _have_ to make a sale. Spam-list sellers get paid by the number of addresses in their lists, and I expect some telemarketing companies get paid based on the number of answered phone calls... they could call every single patient in a mental hospital, knowing in advance they wouldn't make a single valid sale, and still bill every call as a legit customer contact. The question is - will they make enough money from busting through telezappers to pay for the software?
I hope not... maybe they'll bankrupt themselves through their own stupidity & greed...
You gotta be kidding me! *That's* your solution to "unbreakable"? Does anyone know what this "Virtual Matrix Encryption" they're talking about is, or is it just another Keanu Reeves joke?
...will they even actually be supplying wideband access? Or continuing to live off their monopoly & forcing out any competing technology... Good God, are the cable companies really our only hope? Ouch.
The biggest problem with this set-up has already been mentioned above... once you buy a "good" gaming system's basic rules, you don't "need" to buy anything else ever again. Therefore, the best games' companies go out of business. The only way to stay in business is to release new & different games (which eventually reaches saturation & begins losing you money on production costs), release modules/supplements (as above, useful, but not necessary & therefore not a reliable stream of income), or change the game every so often with a completely new edition. C'mon, you guys are college geeks; they do the same thing with textbooks... every so often a "new" edition forces you to stop trading the old book around & buy a new one for class. How do you think TSR stayed around as long as they did? The problem is how to mak a "good" game reliably produce money for the publisher, and I'm afraid I don't have an answer to that...
I got into the military coming out of the college in the early 90s... Turned out to be a good deal short-term; my starting salary was pretty good compared to my fellow new-gradjiates. Now, of course, I could be making much more on the outside, but frankly, job security is pretty lame out there, and you're just as likely to be uprooted & moved to chase a job in the "real World" as in here.
Basically, if you have a solid, well-paying offer now, it'd be best to jump on it, but if you're at all uncertain, it might not be bad to sign up for a few years, get some skills, certifications, and experience, and ride out the dot-com shakeout someplace you can't get pink-slipped from...
IANAL, but it soundslike you should contact one _now_. Just threatening you like they did (and make no bones about it, that _was_ a threat) may be actionable. If they so much as breathe to your current employer, they're blown.
800 pounds sterling!?! Christ on a stick, man, we're looking at toys here that center around... lemme see... 200 pounds or less. For 800 sterling I could build an absolutely kick-ass gaming machine with a top-flight dvd-player, tv-out, hot-n-cold running Evian, and a blowjob from the sales clerk as well! And still have enough money left over to buy a mediocre tv to watch it on...
You gotta be kidding me. At least JJ's people had energy weapons when they took on the Empire... Ewoks fought the 'crack' troopers who were supposed to be guarding the Emperor's life with sticks and rocks...and won! I'd rather see Jar-Jar naked than another buncha damn ewoks. Er, maybe not...
If I understand your post, you're saying that _every_ time a password need to be reset, the user needs to generate a completely new one?!? Rather than just having the admin unlock the account?!? That's totally nuts! I'm in the military, and even I can't think of a system so sensitive it would justify that level of lameness... it's _far_ more trouble than it's worth. A much simpler workaround, other than just having the user identify himself to the helpdesk & having the account unlocked, is to have the account lock _for a limited time_ after too many bad tries... 15 min. is good for a basic non-sensitive system; longer for more critical areas. This will quickly shoo away/highlight brute force crack attempts, which are the only thing your current policy really protects against in the first place. It will also lower your helpdesk calls noticeably...
The problem is that it wouldn't be OSHA coming into people's homes to inspect, rather, it would be the companies that still allowed telecommuting... "Hey! You can't keep porn on your home PC - you might spill something on the keyboard!"
Nice ideas, man, but wrong target. As you say, the people working at the theaters & enforcing the rules are no older than the people they're pissing off. The people making the rules are the corporate fat-cats that own the mega-chains, and they're so insulated they wouldn't know a geek-boycott if it fell on 'em. These rules are low-IQ knee-jerk reactions to current event, and they too will pass. The REAL root of the problem here is just what Matt & Trey are the latest in a long line of moviemakers to cry foul about; Jack Valenti and his MPAA goon squad. These hypocritical, sanctimonious (oooohhh... big words) bastards feel compelled to 'protect' us from foul language & sex, while realistic ultra-violence and drug abuse is perfectly ok for kids of all ages. When I went to see 'Starship Troopers', there was a guy a couple of rows back with his daughter, who couldn't have been more than 8. I don't know if they stayed through the whole show, but that movie was damn disturbing, and got off much easier that South Park. Unfortunately, I can't think of any way to really affect the MPAA's stranglehold on America movies. Atleast Valenti's old and will probably be dead before my children have to suffer through his personal brand of 'morality'...
Yeah, but as the initial article mentioned, this literally turns the Rio into nothing more than a portable HD with an audio-out plug. The day the RIAA tries to get my portable HD or PC tagged as a recording device is the day they get the big fat-fingered Dis they deserve...
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You assume:
A) it was an accident in either instance, and
B) law enforcement (NSA) wasn't directly involved in both.
Or you could, I dunno, provide competent and effective _oversight_ to ensure the nuclear plants are being operated safely? I know - that's just crazy talk.
And yet those same executives will be the ones with the easiest time getting new jobs...
...and I predict everyone (who has any say in it) will skip 8.x too.
Yes, but they don't always _have_ to make a sale. Spam-list sellers get paid by the number of addresses in their lists, and I expect some telemarketing companies get paid based on the number of answered phone calls... they could call every single patient in a mental hospital, knowing in advance they wouldn't make a single valid sale, and still bill every call as a legit customer contact. The question is - will they make enough money from busting through telezappers to pay for the software?
I hope not... maybe they'll bankrupt themselves through their own stupidity & greed...
You gotta be kidding me! *That's* your solution to "unbreakable"? Does anyone know what this "Virtual Matrix Encryption" they're talking about is, or is it just another Keanu Reeves joke?
Nope, you're thinking of BF Skinner. The researcher, not the FBI guy from the X-files. And I think he mainly used mice.
Awwwwww yeah. I wanna see some guy spending the whole day in bed comatose 'cause he's dedicating his "spare cycles" to SETIAtHome...
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Dude. You _did_ just finish compiling 2.2 :-)
...will they even actually be supplying wideband access? Or continuing to live off their monopoly & forcing out any competing technology... Good God, are the cable companies really our only hope? Ouch.
The biggest problem with this set-up has already been mentioned above... once you buy a "good" gaming system's basic rules, you don't "need" to buy anything else ever again. Therefore, the best games' companies go out of business. The only way to stay in business is to release new & different games (which eventually reaches saturation & begins losing you money on production costs), release modules/supplements (as above, useful, but not necessary & therefore not a reliable stream of income), or change the game every so often with a completely new edition. C'mon, you guys are college geeks; they do the same thing with textbooks... every so often a "new" edition forces you to stop trading the old book around & buy a new one for class. How do you think TSR stayed around as long as they did? The problem is how to mak a "good" game reliably produce money for the publisher, and I'm afraid I don't have an answer to that...
I got into the military coming out of the college in the early 90s... Turned out to be a good deal short-term; my starting salary was pretty good compared to my fellow new-gradjiates. Now, of course, I could be making much more on the outside, but frankly, job security is pretty lame out there, and you're just as likely to be uprooted & moved to chase a job in the "real World" as in here.
Basically, if you have a solid, well-paying offer now, it'd be best to jump on it, but if you're at all uncertain, it might not be bad to sign up for a few years, get some skills, certifications, and experience, and ride out the dot-com shakeout someplace you can't get pink-slipped from...
legion
I am many...
IANAL, but it soundslike you should contact one _now_. Just threatening you like they did (and make no bones about it, that _was_ a threat) may be actionable. If they so much as breathe to your current employer, they're blown.
800 pounds sterling!?! Christ on a stick, man, we're looking at toys here that center around... lemme see... 200 pounds or less. For 800 sterling I could build an absolutely kick-ass gaming machine with a top-flight dvd-player, tv-out, hot-n-cold running Evian, and a blowjob from the sales clerk as well! And still have enough money left over to buy a mediocre tv to watch it on...
...the Candian gov't (or at least this org) isn't a wholly-owned subsidiary of any particular industry...
... is a delay in $400 video cards really going to rochambeau the PC gaming industry? I think not...
You gotta be kidding me. At least JJ's people had energy weapons when they took on the Empire... Ewoks fought the 'crack' troopers who were supposed to be guarding the Emperor's life with sticks and rocks...and won! I'd rather see Jar-Jar naked than another buncha damn ewoks. Er, maybe not...
If I understand your post, you're saying that _every_ time a password need to be reset, the user needs to generate a completely new one?!? Rather than just having the admin unlock the account?!? That's totally nuts! I'm in the military, and even I can't think of a system so sensitive it would justify that level of lameness... it's _far_ more trouble than it's worth. A much simpler workaround, other than just having the user identify himself to the helpdesk & having the account unlocked, is to have the account lock _for a limited time_ after too many bad tries... 15 min. is good for a basic non-sensitive system; longer for more critical areas. This will quickly shoo away/highlight brute force crack attempts, which are the only thing your current policy really protects against in the first place. It will also lower your helpdesk calls noticeably...
The problem is that it wouldn't be OSHA coming into people's homes to inspect, rather, it would be the companies that still allowed telecommuting... "Hey! You can't keep porn on your home PC - you might spill something on the keyboard!"
Holy crap, they actually may have realized that this would effectively end telecommuting. Wow.
That blows chunks!
...by the work of a truly twisted genius.
Nice ideas, man, but wrong target. As you say, the people working at the theaters & enforcing the rules are no older than the people they're pissing off. The people making the rules are the corporate fat-cats that own the mega-chains, and they're so insulated they wouldn't know a geek-boycott if it fell on 'em. These rules are low-IQ knee-jerk reactions to current event, and they too will pass. The REAL root of the problem here is just what Matt & Trey are the latest in a long line of moviemakers to cry foul about; Jack Valenti and his MPAA goon squad. These hypocritical, sanctimonious (oooohhh... big words) bastards feel compelled to 'protect' us from foul language & sex, while realistic ultra-violence and drug abuse is perfectly ok for kids of all ages. When I went to see 'Starship Troopers', there was a guy a couple of rows back with his daughter, who couldn't have been more than 8. I don't know if they stayed through the whole show, but that movie was damn disturbing, and got off much easier that South Park. Unfortunately, I can't think of any way to really affect the MPAA's stranglehold on America movies. Atleast Valenti's old and will probably be dead before my children have to suffer through his personal brand of 'morality'...
Yeah, but as the initial article mentioned, this literally turns the Rio into nothing more than a portable HD with an audio-out plug. The day the RIAA tries to get my portable HD or PC tagged as a recording device is the day they get the big fat-fingered Dis they deserve...