Keeping the OS with the machine is the same thing as keeping those tags matresses. They are required to be on there if you are a company that sells matresses, but once an individual buys the matress, they can do whatever they like to the tag. It's their property at that point. If they then give away or donate the matress, the lack of the tag really doesn't matter.
I'm really curious what law they are referring to when they saw "legal requirement". If they're going to say stuff like that, I'd like to see where it was written. Anyone can just say that something is "legally required". I can say it's "legally required" to mod all my posts up. That don't make it true, tho.
"Warning: This product may or may not have addictive effects, and may or may not harm a user physically, emotionally, mentally or socially. Possible side effects of using this product could be just about anything you can imagine. We're really not sure. If you begin to be affected in any negative way STOP USING THIS PRODUCT."
Put that label on all products, and that way people with no common sense can't sue.
A better system might be to put a bounty on the heads of any PKers, and post the username in some sort of "post-office" type place. The person who kills that player not only gets to keep his stuff, but gets a reward (and gets to PK without being branded a PK'er). You would quite quickly see a large number of bounty hunters spring into being, along with a rapid drop in random pk'ing.
"911"("nine-one-one") bothered me, because that's not even a date. It's almost like some reporters started saying that in order to tie it with the police emergency phone number. "9/11" ("nine-eleven")did not, because it is actually a date. I understand what you mean though. It almost seems like people were searching for a quick name that could be easily marketed.
Better yet, find the site and monitor it. Monitor the people coming to it, and where they go. Find more sites, and repeat. Keep going until you have all the evidence you could possibly get, then pull "Operation Candyman II" and get these people into a jail cell where they can't hurt anyone.
Surfing for this stuff makes these people vulnerable. Take this away, and you take away one more tool to catch the molesters, who will simply go back to their old (pre-internet) ways of distribution. I'm sure no ISP in the world would have a problem assisting with this type of thing, especially if the agents have a warrent.
Note the quotation marks around "wealth". He was speaking hypothetically. This was more of a philosophical rant then anything else. In no way do I see Piro endorsing any kind of theft in this statement.
I like how this article seems to want to tie a decline in music sales to Napster, and not to the fact (Ok, it's actually my opinion) that music seems to really suck right now.
Nope, I didn't read the article before I posted. Usually I do, but this time I was replying to the header and not the content of the article. Sorry. Admittedly, I jumped the gun on that post. If this were a case of the investigators intercepting a communication, then yes, they should obtain a court order, IMHO. However, this is a case of someone turning over evidence of wrongdoing, and should be allowed.
It seems to me that any time during the course of an investigation you intercept a communication intended to be private that it should require a court order... But after all, if it involves the internet, common sense doesn't apply (legally speaking, at least).
I remember seeing something on Discovery about an early disk-jocky who went without sleep for a number of days as a charity promotion. He would be fine while on the air, but when his mind wandered, he began having slurred speach (in the first day or so) and hallucinations (he started seeing spiders after a while).
After this, his friends and family reported a change in his personality, and he became moodier and less friendly. Sleep-deprivation seems pretty dangerous to me. If you're tired, you should sleep.
Anyway, I'll look for a link to that, and post it if I find it.
I think the main point to listening to techs over consultants is that the resident staff usually has to live with the decisions made a lot longer then the consultants do. The example you made with the SQL server database is a good example... Let them live with their own mistakes, but not with yours.
I'm curious... why don't you like the netvista line? Personally, I love the case design. I have to open up PC's a lot to swap around harddrives and such, and I've never had an easier time getting to the hardrives/cd-roms, etc as I do with this line. And I've never had any of the hardware fail on me yet (Can't say the same about IBM monitors tho... We've had a few of them die right out of the box)
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In a supernatural sense, at least. I was riding my bicycle late at night (It was about 2:00 am) and I was on a road with almost no lights. However, I did have one of those friction-powered lights on my bike, the kind that runs off of your front wheel.
I was riding past a graveyard, and just had time to think about how bad it would be to be walking past this instead of riding, when I ran over something in the road. Both of the tires on my bike blew, and I fell half sideways. As the glow faded from my light, I could just make out a tombstone with "Eternal Rest" written on it. I remember thinking that this was how many horror movies started out. I don't think I EVER walked as fast in my life as I did the rest of the way home.
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Reset all IP laws to what they were prior to the release of "Snow White" in theaters. Then update them to cover current (and projected future) tech.
Katz bashes all over "Final Fantasy" and then recommends this piece of garbage? Man...
Keeping the OS with the machine is the same thing as keeping those tags matresses. They are required to be on there if you are a company that sells matresses, but once an individual buys the matress, they can do whatever they like to the tag. It's their property at that point.
If they then give away or donate the matress, the lack of the tag really doesn't matter.
I'm really curious what law they are referring to when they saw "legal requirement". If they're going to say stuff like that, I'd like to see where it was written. Anyone can just say that something is "legally required". I can say it's "legally required" to mod all my posts up. That don't make it true, tho.
Blazing Saddles:
Harvey Korman: Hedley Lamarr, State Procurer/Attorney
"Warning: This product may or may not have addictive effects, and may or may not harm a user physically, emotionally, mentally or socially. Possible side effects of using this product could be just about anything you can imagine. We're really not sure. If you begin to be affected in any negative way STOP USING THIS PRODUCT."
Put that label on all products, and that way people with no common sense can't sue.
Depends on how you play it, I imagine. I suppose you could be just as withdrawn and socially retarded in a game as in real life.
A better system might be to put a bounty on the heads of any PKers, and post the username in some sort of "post-office" type place. The person who kills that player not only gets to keep his stuff, but gets a reward (and gets to PK without being branded a PK'er). You would quite quickly see a large number of bounty hunters spring into being, along with a rapid drop in random pk'ing.
"911"("nine-one-one") bothered me, because that's not even a date. It's almost like some reporters started saying that in order to tie it with the police emergency phone number. "9/11" ("nine-eleven")did not, because it is actually a date.
I understand what you mean though. It almost seems like people were searching for a quick name that could be easily marketed.
That would be tricky during a board meeting. HR might get called in on that one.
Surfing for this stuff makes these people vulnerable. Take this away, and you take away one more tool to catch the molesters, who will simply go back to their old (pre-internet) ways of distribution.
I'm sure no ISP in the world would have a problem assisting with this type of thing, especially if the agents have a warrent.
Good Lord, where you been driving in the US? I go 80 on the freeway, and I'm in the fricken' "slow" lane, getting passed by people going waaay faster.
If that becomes a problem, start naming them after the "7 Duffs" from the Simpsons. My NT box is named "Surly"
Good lord.
Note the quotation marks around "wealth". He was speaking hypothetically. This was more of a philosophical rant then anything else. In no way do I see Piro endorsing any kind of theft in this statement.
I like how this article seems to want to tie a decline in music sales to Napster, and not to the fact (Ok, it's actually my opinion) that music seems to really suck right now.
If this were a case of the investigators intercepting a communication, then yes, they should obtain a court order, IMHO. However, this is a case of someone turning over evidence of wrongdoing, and should be allowed.
Sorry, I'm apparently set to "idiot mode" today.
It seems to me that any time during the course of an investigation you intercept a communication intended to be private that it should require a court order... But after all, if it involves the internet, common sense doesn't apply (legally speaking, at least).
Ah, Here it is
After this, his friends and family reported a change in his personality, and he became moodier and less friendly. Sleep-deprivation seems pretty dangerous to me. If you're tired, you should sleep.
Anyway, I'll look for a link to that, and post it if I find it.
I think the main point to listening to techs over consultants is that the resident staff usually has to live with the decisions made a lot longer then the consultants do. The example you made with the SQL server database is a good example... Let them live with their own mistakes, but not with yours.
Straight and to the point. Nice.
That's sort of the way people see my home LAN.
I just think it's funny that they are, after a fashion, patenting a part of my body.
I'm curious... why don't you like the netvista line? Personally, I love the case design. I have to open up PC's a lot to swap around harddrives and such, and I've never had an easier time getting to the hardrives/cd-roms, etc as I do with this line. And I've never had any of the hardware fail on me yet (Can't say the same about IBM monitors tho... We've had a few of them die right out of the box)
In a supernatural sense, at least. I was riding my bicycle late at night (It was about 2:00 am) and I was on a road with almost no lights. However, I did have one of those friction-powered lights on my bike, the kind that runs off of your front wheel.
I was riding past a graveyard, and just had time to think about how bad it would be to be walking past this instead of riding, when I ran over something in the road. Both of the tires on my bike blew, and I fell half sideways. As the glow faded from my light, I could just make out a tombstone with "Eternal Rest" written on it.
I remember thinking that this was how many horror movies started out. I don't think I EVER walked as fast in my life as I did the rest of the way home.