So, it's a really tiny computer. One that you still have to plug into a docking station. If you want to use the same computer everywhere you go, use a laptop. If you want to bring your work home with you, there's ZIP disks or CompactFlash cards. What, exactly, does this get us besides "Hey, look what we can do, even tho nobody'll use it?"
Someone spammed me a resume. I replied back that if they wanted a position as webmaster, they should read thw 'Shiffman is a moron spammer' page about a moron who sends out his resume as spam... and that if he wrote me again, I'd bill him for the time to download and read his mails, minimum three hours a day, hundred bucks an hour. I haven't heard back since.
What are the laws on file-sharing and Peer-to-peer networking in Aussie-land? Does this mean they can be blacklisted? Or does it mean that they can't be sued as easily?
Am I the only one who didn't see the advertising link in question? I know there's this large banner on the right that says 'ADVERTISEMENT' at the top, but they've had that for months, and you'd have to be a moron to think they're putting it forward as real news...
I've got fifty karma, let's play devil's advocate and see how many people I can get torqued at me.
When you purchase a DVD, you are paying for the ability to play it on players approved by the people who made the disc. As much as everyone hates to admit it, there is nothing illegal about this. You can buy a DVD without owning a player, and if you do you can't sue about not being able to watch it. Likewise, you can't write a program that lets you watch it on something the makers don't want you to watch it on. Because if they knew you were doing that, they wouldn't sell you the movie.
We have no 'rights' to view any movie, really. If we did, theaters couldn't make a profit off of tickets, and DVDs would only be priced high enough to cover costs.
If you want to watch a movie, get a real DVD player. Don't complain because you can't do it on your Linux box. Don't write software that does something illegal. Just like you shouldn't sell de-scrambler kits for cable TV. Same thing, only software.
Seriously, though... you're saying they can stand up to repeated shelling by artillery? Or infantry-placed demo charges? Or anything else an invading force is likely to have?
WHY????
If you're being invaded, you've got more important things to worry about than if your company's web site will stay up!
The other half of this is: What if the invasion is an invasion of illegal immigrant workers? Can this thing survive having a janitor who's been slipped a hundred bucks (three weeks pay) to pull out a wire here and there?
Why don't these people put their worms to work doing somethign constructive? A SETI/RC5/whatever else you can do distribured worm would waste even more bandwidth, but at least it would have a purpose beyond just screwing things up.
You know, reporting new Windows worms is right up there with reporting that there's renewed fighting in the middle east. It's always been there, it always will be there, it's not really news unless that's exactly the sort of thing you're interested in.
Terrorists have hijacked my laptop! That's why it crashed into my filing cabinet! That's why it never lets me buy anything online, the goernment's frozen the assets of any account that goes through it!.NET Passport is really a way to sneak terrorists across the border!
Geeze, guys. Don't you know that Osama Bin Gates is really just a nice, freedom-loving buisnessman and innovator and not a murdering monopolist?
I remember the original Game Genie for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Much fun was had having infinite lives and all the money you could want in RPGs and fun things like that.
Of course, when you can beat the game without even trying, the fun goes away.
Seriously. Everyone acts all indignant when MS does something like this. I hear you need to be a US Citizen to be able to vote in the US, too. How dare we force people to be citizens if we want them to take part in our government?
Yeah, I know it's a flawed arguement. But it's not that far off.
Does anyone else thing that this sounds an awful lot like someone got a fake email? A hoax, a sham, an untruth? It just seems too... too... too much like what we geeks would want to hear.
But the EU doesn't have an e-government. Various member countries do or are working towards it. But the EU does not. Likewise, various states in the US are looking into it (one would hope, at least), but the US Federal Government has a larger part in the life of it's citizens than the EU does in theirs.
Simple answer: Because we're an order of magnitude bigger. More population. More beaurocracy (yes, I know it's mis-spelled). More variables. Instead of having 30 million personal pages listing the same information, we need well over a hundred million pages, with different senators, different information, more extensive tax data... not to mention, someone has to decide who's in charge of all this. Does the IRS have to run the site? Who else would?
From employees in two different chains in Salem, NH: They are not allowed to sell early. in fact, Nintendo has a special hotline set up to report stores that are selling early, and the sales reps for those stores will get fired if the thing is sold early.
Dunno if this is out-of-date bullshit or up-to-the-minute rumor-quashing... doesn't mean I won't check the stores at my local mall when I get home.
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So, it's a really tiny computer. One that you still have to plug into a docking station. If you want to use the same computer everywhere you go, use a laptop. If you want to bring your work home with you, there's ZIP disks or CompactFlash cards. What, exactly, does this get us besides "Hey, look what we can do, even tho nobody'll use it?"
This is the sort of thing that should be handled in the NDA and other paperwork you have beta-testers sign.
Someone spammed me a resume. I replied back that if they wanted a position as webmaster, they should read thw 'Shiffman is a moron spammer' page about a moron who sends out his resume as spam... and that if he wrote me again, I'd bill him for the time to download and read his mails, minimum three hours a day, hundred bucks an hour. I haven't heard back since.
MTV is, last I knew, owned by Viacom and is in some way related to Universal.
What are the laws on file-sharing and Peer-to-peer networking in Aussie-land? Does this mean they can be blacklisted? Or does it mean that they can't be sued as easily?
If I ride a Sewgay, can I fit it onto one of these cars to that I don't run the battery down if I'm going across town?
I -so- want to see the list of the top search terms for that...
"pr0n"
"Where is Osama?"
"missing equipment"
"JFK"
"Castro"
...et multiple cetera...
Am I the only one who didn't see the advertising link in question? I know there's this large banner on the right that says 'ADVERTISEMENT' at the top, but they've had that for months, and you'd have to be a moron to think they're putting it forward as real news...
I've got fifty karma, let's play devil's advocate and see how many people I can get torqued at me.
When you purchase a DVD, you are paying for the ability to play it on players approved by the people who made the disc. As much as everyone hates to admit it, there is nothing illegal about this. You can buy a DVD without owning a player, and if you do you can't sue about not being able to watch it. Likewise, you can't write a program that lets you watch it on something the makers don't want you to watch it on. Because if they knew you were doing that, they wouldn't sell you the movie.
We have no 'rights' to view any movie, really. If we did, theaters couldn't make a profit off of tickets, and DVDs would only be priced high enough to cover costs.
If you want to watch a movie, get a real DVD player. Don't complain because you can't do it on your Linux box. Don't write software that does something illegal. Just like you shouldn't sell de-scrambler kits for cable TV. Same thing, only software.
Movies are a visual medium. They work best when they show you things. Have Sauron just be this vague, nebulous 'evil thing' works in the books.
But for a movie, the bad guy has to look intimidating and powerful.
In a book, you can simply have someone tell the story about how Sauron was defeated and the One Ring taken.
In a movie, you have to show someone slicing it off the guy's freakin' arm.
No movie has ever been 100% faithful to a book and been good. Simply because it's a movie, not a book.
"Remember thealamo.com!"
Seriously, though... you're saying they can stand up to repeated shelling by artillery? Or infantry-placed demo charges? Or anything else an invading force is likely to have?
WHY????
If you're being invaded, you've got more important things to worry about than if your company's web site will stay up!
The other half of this is: What if the invasion is an invasion of illegal immigrant workers? Can this thing survive having a janitor who's been slipped a hundred bucks (three weeks pay) to pull out a wire here and there?
Why don't these people put their worms to work doing somethign constructive? A SETI/RC5/whatever else you can do distribured worm would waste even more bandwidth, but at least it would have a purpose beyond just screwing things up.
You know, reporting new Windows worms is right up there with reporting that there's renewed fighting in the middle east. It's always been there, it always will be there, it's not really news unless that's exactly the sort of thing you're interested in.
Wait, I forgot where I was. Nevermind.
How could we not have noticed this!
.NET Passport is really a way to sneak terrorists across the border!
Terrorists have hijacked my laptop! That's why it crashed into my filing cabinet! That's why it never lets me buy anything online, the goernment's frozen the assets of any account that goes through it!
Geeze, guys. Don't you know that Osama Bin Gates is really just a nice, freedom-loving buisnessman and innovator and not a murdering monopolist?
I remember the original Game Genie for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Much fun was had having infinite lives and all the money you could want in RPGs and fun things like that.
Of course, when you can beat the game without even trying, the fun goes away.
Nothing but the human mind.
Seriously. Everyone acts all indignant when MS does something like this. I hear you need to be a US Citizen to be able to vote in the US, too. How dare we force people to be citizens if we want them to take part in our government?
Yeah, I know it's a flawed arguement. But it's not that far off.
Horses gone. Lawyers hired to close barn door. Non-farmers sick and tired of hearing about it.
Okay, yes, companies are posessive about their software, even when they're stupid with it. We know this. It's not news. Yeesh.
Does anyone else thing that this sounds an awful lot like someone got a fake email? A hoax, a sham, an untruth? It just seems too... too... too much like what we geeks would want to hear.
But the EU doesn't have an e-government. Various member countries do or are working towards it. But the EU does not. Likewise, various states in the US are looking into it (one would hope, at least), but the US Federal Government has a larger part in the life of it's citizens than the EU does in theirs.
Simple answer: Because we're an order of magnitude bigger. More population. More beaurocracy (yes, I know it's mis-spelled). More variables. Instead of having 30 million personal pages listing the same information, we need well over a hundred million pages, with different senators, different information, more extensive tax data... not to mention, someone has to decide who's in charge of all this. Does the IRS have to run the site? Who else would?
Is a Telepong anything like a Telefrag? If not, what's the point?
What happens if someone throws a pencil through the keyboard's on/off zone?
Well... that's just Prime.
From employees in two different chains in Salem, NH: They are not allowed to sell early. in fact, Nintendo has a special hotline set up to report stores that are selling early, and the sales reps for those stores will get fired if the thing is sold early.
Dunno if this is out-of-date bullshit or up-to-the-minute rumor-quashing... doesn't mean I won't check the stores at my local mall when I get home.