All right! It's good to know that it's impossible to get away with cheating, since you can't possibly get special access with the developers' normal characters. I mean, can you imagine what would happen if, say, a dev's "normal character" were able to simply spawn blueprints to give to his corporation?
Some items can be soulbound, either when they are first obtained ("Bind on Pickup") or when they are first worn / wielded ("Bind on Equip"). However, even soulbound items can be sold to NPC merchants. Also, there is no way to soulbind gold, or any item not already marked as bindable.
I got my PS2 on release day, and had it home, and hooked up within an hour of the store opening. I can assure you that mine did not need any kind of update to play DVDs, and still works just fine. Heck, it had no problem with my hooking it up to my 73" 1080p HDTV with component cables, and allowing me to rock out all day long with Guitar Hero 2 in widescreen / progressive scan.
You might want to try checking some current pictures, from people who actually have the systems, rather than pre-production mockups. Looks to me like the difference in width and height are less than an inch each. Unfortunately, we can't really tell from the pictures how deep each console is.
Last time I checked, Windows still ran on a network.
Yeah, and cars run on roads, but I don't think that it is right to call an auto mechanic a civil engineer.
If they are running a system on the network, then they are a Systems Administrator. If they are running the network itself, then they are a Network Administrator. It doesn't matter what the O/S is, or which brand of gear they are using. It seems clear enough a distinction to me.
Right. Because there are no small ISPs, no mailing list owners, nobody else that could have a small number of employees, but a large number of email recipients.
Apparently you seem to think that you need an employee for every 10 emails that pass through your system on a regular basis. Perhaps you should go and tell Randy Cassingham that he needs to hire another 12,000 employees to help send to the subscribers on his mailing lists.
This morning I received an email regarding pre-orders sometime after 10am GMT-6. I immediately called the six closest retail locations & they were ALL already out of pre-orders.
You think that is bad? I found out about the preordering from Joystiq at about noon, and everybody in the Dallas/Fort Worth area was already sold out. I griped a bit to friends. Then I got the email from GameStop a little after 3pm.
"In the process of data transmission, other than light energy, no other elements are involved and the customers are paying for the same. This proves that light energy constitutes goods, which is liable for levy of tax. Therefore, the State has every legal competence and jurisdiction to tax it," the department has contended.
You know, if we just replace the word "light" with "electic" (being just another form of energy), then doesn't that mean they can tax *all* data transmission services, whether ISPs, phone companies, cable companies, or any others I may be leaving out?
Being arrested for a felony will cause tons of problems if you decide to try and get secret or top secret clearance down the line.
Which is as it should be. Remember that felonies are those offences which once carried the death penalty; the state out of its mercy is allowing one to continue to live, thus one should expect certain hassles--e.g. felons can't own weapons or vote.
I think you misunderstand. This was not talking about a felony conviction. This was talking about an arrest on suspicion of a felony, which was later cleared. Unless, of course, you believe that one should expect certain hassles with the rest of their life because somebody, somewhere, thought (incorrectly) that they *might* be responsible for a crime?
You may want to double-check your numbers. The area may diminish as the sqare of the distance, but we aren't talking about a forty square inch screen. We are talking about a linear measurement, which is a proportionate difference. Twice the distance appears to be half the size. So forty inches at seven feet is the same as 5.7 inches at one foot, or just under one inch (.952 inches) at two inches distant.
"6. Sixth, the system provides additional security and control over computer viruses which spread by e-mail - Client (1)'s connection with Server (2) is much harder to hack into than simply taking control of a regular e-mail client. Large and suspect amounts of key (4) requests from suspect client (1) can simply be blocked at the server level."
Who said anything about hacking "the connection"? Once we have everybody using the same client, I am sure it is only a matter of time before somebody finds a vulnerability in it, and crafts a virus / trojan to take control of it. And you *know* that people will open it up. "It came completely verified from somebody on my whitelist! It can't be faked or a virus!"
So Mom gets infected. It sends to everybody on her list. Because it was verified, it gets through to all of them, and they open it. Then to all of their friends. And so forth and so on. Not enough key requests from any one client to result in a block at the server level, and impossible to get ahead of it without blocking a significant portion of your userbase.
Congratulations. You've reinvented Outlook, and given people a better reason to click on that attachment and perpetuate it.
According to the article, this system is completely unbreakable! Unless, of course, the spammers decide to do things that are against the law.
Heck, since we know that all spammers are good, law-abiding citizens, why don't we just pass laws against the spam, instead of trying to convince everybody in the world to use the same mail client?
Well, if you had read the article, you would see that there are quite a few non-modded boxes that are experiencing the same problem as the modded ones. They are pissing off a lot more than the pirates here.
The message referenced indicates that this is a security feature, which will allow the individual system calls to be executed with escalated privileges. This is an advantage in that you do not need to have the entire binary executed with the escalated privileges, and so reducing the number of potential privilege escalation attacks.
I think that the simile used here is flawed. I think a better one would be to discuss the roads.
"We make and sell cars, and provide roads for them to drive on. If you are driving on our roads, we check to make sure that you are using a legal car, looking for license plates, drivers' licenses, and inspection stickers. By making their own roads on their own lands, not only are the BRoadD team copying our techniques of having a solid, flat surface to drive on, but they are allowing people to drive unlicensed, perhaps even stolen cars! They must have stolen our blueprints, since solid, flat surfaces are obviously a difficult thing, and we believe they may even charge for access to these private roads in the future. This is clearly an infringement on our rights, and must be stopped."
I said, "Seargeant, you got a lot of damn gall to ask if I've rehabilitated myself.
I mean...
I mean....
I mean, I'm sitting here on the bench.
I mean I'm sitting here on the group W bench because you want to know if I'm moral enough to join the Army, burn women, kids, houses, and villages after ripping MP3s."
DESCRIPTION OF PLAYER AND CONTENT
The compact disc you are using contains copy protection technology. When you use the compact disc in a conventional CD player, it operates like any other CD. When you use the compact disc in a CD ROM drive, the technology launches an audio player (the "Player"), and plays compressed audio files (the "Content").
This seems to indicate that only the "compressed audio files" portion of the discs are included when the EULA refers to "Content" Aren't CD Audio files uncompressed audio? By my reading (IANAL, etc), it would seem that, by defining it like this, UMG has put no further restrictions on the CD Audio on the disc, so you can do whatever you like with it, within the normal legal bounds, without being held to this contract.
Does anybody with more knowledge than I care to comment?
Hm. This late in the discussion, I doubt anybody will ever see this, but he was right. Belief in the the existence of god(s) or goddess(es) is not the same as a belief in a religion. A religion is typically a collection of beliefs and practices, to which a particular group adheres. It is certainly possible to believe in dieties and spirituality, without subscribing to a pre-formed set of ideas.
This is something like saying that if you are not part of a bowling league, then you aren't actually bowling.
Myself, I'd be far more amused if this were modified to work its way through *.microsoft.com. Perhaps each one could hit a random section of their IP range. The most amusing part about this is that it could well end up with MS's servers attacking themselves.
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Absence of proof, and proof of absence are two completely different things.
I may not be able to prove that unicorns exist, but neither can you prove that they don't. Can you prove that small grey aliens don't exist? They have been witnessed and reported upon. So have coelocanths. I am sure that you believe in at least one of these, and not the other, in spite of the fact that you have as much proof of the existence of one as the other. Have you ever seen an alien? No? How about the coelocanth? Haven't seen that one, either, huh? Well, sure, you have seen pictures of the coelocanth, but you've also, I'm sure, seen some of the pictures offered of the aliens, too.
As far as the exercise that was left to the reader, I present this counter-challenge: Prove that the aliens don't exist. I've got a box of cookies for the first person to do so.
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All right! It's good to know that it's impossible to get away with cheating, since you can't possibly get special access with the developers' normal characters. I mean, can you imagine what would happen if, say, a dev's "normal character" were able to simply spawn blueprints to give to his corporation?
Some items can be soulbound, either when they are first obtained ("Bind on Pickup") or when they are first worn / wielded ("Bind on Equip"). However, even soulbound items can be sold to NPC merchants. Also, there is no way to soulbind gold, or any item not already marked as bindable.
I got my PS2 on release day, and had it home, and hooked up within an hour of the store opening. I can assure you that mine did not need any kind of update to play DVDs, and still works just fine. Heck, it had no problem with my hooking it up to my 73" 1080p HDTV with component cables, and allowing me to rock out all day long with Guitar Hero 2 in widescreen / progressive scan.
Perhaps if yours differed significantly from the other three billion out there?
And, even then, it could be seen as an easily substitutable good, as described earlier in this thread.
If they are running a system on the network, then they are a Systems Administrator. If they are running the network itself, then they are a Network Administrator. It doesn't matter what the O/S is, or which brand of gear they are using. It seems clear enough a distinction to me.
Right. Because there are no small ISPs, no mailing list owners, nobody else that could have a small number of employees, but a large number of email recipients.
Apparently you seem to think that you need an employee for every 10 emails that pass through your system on a regular basis. Perhaps you should go and tell Randy Cassingham that he needs to hire another 12,000 employees to help send to the subscribers on his mailing lists.
Because God Knows there haven't been any going on so far...
Good job, guys.
From the article:
"In the process of data transmission, other than light energy, no other elements are involved and the customers are paying for the same. This proves that light energy constitutes goods, which is liable for levy of tax. Therefore, the State has every legal competence and jurisdiction to tax it," the department has contended.
You know, if we just replace the word "light" with "electic" (being just another form of energy), then doesn't that mean they can tax *all* data transmission services, whether ISPs, phone companies, cable companies, or any others I may be leaving out?
I think you misunderstand. This was not talking about a felony conviction. This was talking about an arrest on suspicion of a felony, which was later cleared. Unless, of course, you believe that one should expect certain hassles with the rest of their life because somebody, somewhere, thought (incorrectly) that they *might* be responsible for a crime?
You may want to double-check your numbers. The area may diminish as the sqare of the distance, but we aren't talking about a forty square inch screen. We are talking about a linear measurement, which is a proportionate difference. Twice the distance appears to be half the size. So forty inches at seven feet is the same as 5.7 inches at one foot, or just under one inch (.952 inches) at two inches distant.
From the article:
"6. Sixth, the system provides additional security and control over computer viruses which spread by e-mail - Client (1)'s connection with Server (2) is much harder to hack into than simply taking control of a regular e-mail client. Large and suspect amounts of key (4) requests from suspect client (1) can simply be blocked at the server level."
Who said anything about hacking "the connection"? Once we have everybody using the same client, I am sure it is only a matter of time before somebody finds a vulnerability in it, and crafts a virus / trojan to take control of it. And you *know* that people will open it up. "It came completely verified from somebody on my whitelist! It can't be faked or a virus!"
So Mom gets infected. It sends to everybody on her list. Because it was verified, it gets through to all of them, and they open it. Then to all of their friends. And so forth and so on. Not enough key requests from any one client to result in a block at the server level, and impossible to get ahead of it without blocking a significant portion of your userbase.
Congratulations. You've reinvented Outlook, and given people a better reason to click on that attachment and perpetuate it.
According to the article, this system is completely unbreakable! Unless, of course, the spammers decide to do things that are against the law.
Heck, since we know that all spammers are good, law-abiding citizens, why don't we just pass laws against the spam, instead of trying to convince everybody in the world to use the same mail client?
Well, if you had read the article, you would see that there are quite a few non-modded boxes that are experiencing the same problem as the modded ones. They are pissing off a lot more than the pirates here.
Probably. Years of IT have blurred the lines between jokes and cluelessness in others.
IHBT. I will HAND.
I think you misunderstand.
The message referenced indicates that this is a security feature, which will allow the individual system calls to be executed with escalated privileges. This is an advantage in that you do not need to have the entire binary executed with the escalated privileges, and so reducing the number of potential privilege escalation attacks.
I think that the simile used here is flawed. I think a better one would be to discuss the roads.
"We make and sell cars, and provide roads for them to drive on. If you are driving on our roads, we check to make sure that you are using a legal car, looking for license plates, drivers' licenses, and inspection stickers. By making their own roads on their own lands, not only are the BRoadD team copying our techniques of having a solid, flat surface to drive on, but they are allowing people to drive unlicensed, perhaps even stolen cars! They must have stolen our blueprints, since solid, flat surfaces are obviously a difficult thing, and we believe they may even charge for access to these private roads in the future. This is clearly an infringement on our rights, and must be stopped."
I said, "Seargeant, you got a lot of damn gall to ask if I've rehabilitated myself.
I mean...
I mean....
I mean, I'm sitting here on the bench.
I mean I'm sitting here on the group W bench because you want to know if I'm moral enough to join the Army, burn women, kids, houses, and villages after ripping MP3s."
This seems to indicate that only the "compressed audio files" portion of the discs are included when the EULA refers to "Content" Aren't CD Audio files uncompressed audio? By my reading (IANAL, etc), it would seem that, by defining it like this, UMG has put no further restrictions on the CD Audio on the disc, so you can do whatever you like with it, within the normal legal bounds, without being held to this contract.
Does anybody with more knowledge than I care to comment?
Well, next year I will be eligible for the 2.5x pay. This year, I am still a contractor, so I'm working for straight pay.
Of course, it's far better than not having a job at all, so I am not complaining.
Hm. This late in the discussion, I doubt anybody will ever see this, but he was right. Belief in the the existence of god(s) or goddess(es) is not the same as a belief in a religion. A religion is typically a collection of beliefs and practices, to which a particular group adheres. It is certainly possible to believe in dieties and spirituality, without subscribing to a pre-formed set of ideas.
This is something like saying that if you are not part of a bowling league, then you aren't actually bowling.
This would be The Matrix, according to The Internet UPC Database.
Do I get a prize?
Absence of proof, and proof of absence are two completely different things.
I may not be able to prove that unicorns exist, but neither can you prove that they don't. Can you prove that small grey aliens don't exist? They have been witnessed and reported upon. So have coelocanths. I am sure that you believe in at least one of these, and not the other, in spite of the fact that you have as much proof of the existence of one as the other. Have you ever seen an alien? No? How about the coelocanth? Haven't seen that one, either, huh? Well, sure, you have seen pictures of the coelocanth, but you've also, I'm sure, seen some of the pictures offered of the aliens, too.
As far as the exercise that was left to the reader, I present this counter-challenge: Prove that the aliens don't exist. I've got a box of cookies for the first person to do so.