Correct. If they charged *more* for the subtitled movies, then it'd be wrong. I agree with how you suggested the site should capitalize on the irony and congratulate them through a press release.
However, there is something to be said if they have gone on record lamenting piracy and then did this. But that still doesn't invalidate your point.
Town better start writing some zoning regulation laws. The very thing the fresh air is attracting will attract more things which will attract more things which will take the fresh air away. That's not even considering the potential of the then thriving server farm industry driven economy tanking if those server farms pull out to go to fresher air, causing a cascading effect of failing businesses and massive job losses..... But then again I'm one of those "worst case scenario" kind of persons.
how exactly do you expect to "harness the power of dark matter"?
So, what is it about dark matter that makes it so it can't be harnessed?:) I'm being facetious somewhat, since we don't know what dark matter is, and can only see the massive effects of it in a macro view of space.
However, he might mean that if dark matter is made up of particular particles, then we can 'collect or create' those particles into an array so as to create gravity in space, for one. Propulsion in our atmosphere for another. Really, there is a ton of things we could do if we found it and knew how to manipulate it.
Maybe we can form an anonymous-esque group dedicated to DOS'ing (or worse if possible) IP's known to sweep numerous hosts and ports (i.e., each have our own servers listening for the same type of requests). If nothing else, at least knock them down for a while, each time they pop up on the radar.
Won't be effective against blind servers, and on second thought, we don't want to DOS blind servers anyway.:(
What we geeks don't fully grasp is that no one, and I mean NO ONE, other than us even knows about this supposed "controvery". More people know about the death rate of Sudanese bisexuals than this.
Someone educate me here, but if WGA sends the product key to Windows, how can that be "hacked"? In other words, Windows, before it sends an update, has WGA send the product key that is compared to a huge database of "legit" keys. If that product key sent by WGA has either 1. not been diciminated in any release of the OS, or 2. is used from more than one (or more) IP's or hardware profiles, than no updates are given.
However, if Microsoft was stupid enough to NOT have WGA send the product key, and just trust whatever WGA tells it ("Yeah, this computer is legit. Send the update"), than I can see how that can be hacked.
"Wait a minute... you're assuming people actually *read* blogs and MySpace pages? They can get away with skins precisely *because* nobody reads.:)"
Ah. but that all depends on the demographic. (By the way, I agree about those ridiculous MySpace backgrounds, making the pages unreadable... I don't read ANY of my friends MySpace pages who do this, not out of spite, but really, because they are truly unreadable). Anyway, about the demographic: Those who are on LiveJournal and have already generated a social network won't leave it even though all my LJ friends have MySpace pages as well (they'll use both MySpace and LJ, but won't abandon LJ due to the addictive nature of what I am about to describe that MySpace can't offer). MySpace doesn't really offer anything more than Live Journal, but LiveJournal does offer something MySpace doesn't. However, that thing LiveJournal offers only entices those who want to use it, and does nothing for those who couldn't care less. That is "forced" reading of blog entries, and by result, a "forced" almost constant contact with the daily musings of your friends (which has benefits I'll describe in a moment).
There's really nothing else to do on LiveJournal but to read the journal entries of your friends (whereas with MySpace, a user has to make an important looking "bulletin" to contact all their friends at once). LJ layers these posts in sequential order on your "friends posts" page (Whereas with MySpace, your blog first has to be subscribed to by a friend, and then that "friend" has to devote her clicking to "YOUR blog only" for that session of reading). But again, with LJ, the blog entries of all of a members friends, are individually posted, in chronological order, all friends on one page. This provides a very effective means of keeping friends in contact, as they mention some of the most mundane things in their daily lives, or introspective musings on things that happened to them that day. (Myspace, on the other hand, is not typically used for this... most users don't want to make a "bulletin" about their trip to buy a refrigerator that day, and if they put it in their MySpace "blog", most "friends" won't get around to reading it due to the effort required unlike with LJ). On LJ, all other friends in the "network" see these posts whether they like it or not, since "looking at you comprehensive 'friends posts' page" is about the only thing to do on LJ. However, many LJ users LIKE reading the daily blah blah blah of their friends, and by result, comments to each entry and mutual friends comments to comments creates a virtual connection with everyone. Plans to go camping and road trips to meet up in some city, to planning a trip to the local natural foods store on Sunday, to planning to rent a movie someone mentioned and watching it at someone's house, all happens out of these posts. I've made several trips and had several impromptu outings that initiated from LJ posts and comments.
I do have some friends who have no desire to be in that close of contact with everyone, so they are exclusively on MySpace. However, those of us who are in LJ addictively log in and look at our "friends posts" pages every day, making comments, and creating our own comments that no matter how mundane, are appropriate for LJ entries, but not appropriate for MySpace bulletins. For example, I just posted yesterday a picture I took of a little girl and a puppy (fairly "awww") and it generated several comments, one of which initiated to other friends to get together for a photo shoot. I would not have posted that picture as a bulletin on MySpace. Thus, if someone LIKES having that kind of close, daily, sometimes intimate contact with all their fiends, LJ is the ticket. Otherwise, MySpace will serve them well.
yeah, I recall vising Xenia, Ohio about 10 years ago... it was the town that was infamous for being hit by a 1/4 mile wide F2 or F1 tornado back in 74, destoyed. When I was driving past, I noticed that there was an almost perfect "path" of buildings in a wide long row that were clean and shiney new, while all the buildings everywhere else were old and brown. It was a few moments later that I realized that was the path of the tornado. Kinda eerie.
Here in Ohio, they say "Is Pepsi okay?" as well, and I am glad.
But an aside, I was on a no-caffiene kick there for a few years, and always bought caffiene free coke at the store. But no restaurant serves that, unless it was diet also. So I realized my preference was any black, non-diet, caffiene free soda. Well, rootbeer fit that bill since rootbeer tradionally has no caffiene in it. Mug or A&W were always available at any restaurant. That is until Coke, with their marketing behemoth, got restaruants to start carrying their "new" soda, Barq's rootbeer with caffiene. So all the restaurants traded their A&W or Mug rootbeer taps for Barq's taps. I could no longer get a dark caffiene free non diet soda at a restaurant after they did that. Shortly thereafter, I fell off the wagon.
"I suspect that you're right about not fully understanding the system. The speed of cars coming at the sensors in real time is going to be approximately zero for half the time."
That's all I had to read of you reply to know what I was missing. It's not important to know the average speed of vehicles since they are having to stop and go (the result is meaningless)... the data they want is how long it takes car X to get from point A to point B, after they have had to stop and go through intersections.
Maybe I'm not fully understanding this, but with all that "in-and-out" tracking of partial licemse plate numbers and parsing time differences, etc, isn't is far simpler for those machines to simply measer the speed of the cars coming at them in real time (as opposed to delayed time) and report that figure?
Second issue, while I knew the GPS tracking existed, I didn't think of the implications of how all of us with these cell phones have a "black box" with us, relative to our whereabouts an speed, that is entirely subpeona-able for law enforcment or other branches of governement. Probably already slahsdotted at some point in the distant past, but it just occured to me.
Digg? What's the site? I'm moving there if it delivers news for nerds. For the first time ever a few days ago, one of my posts was rated "Troll" by some dumbass. I simply gave my opinion why MAC is void of security vulnerabilities, and how they are 1/10th the market share, and how if they were 90% of the market share, 15 year olds everywhere would start finding vulnerabilities. Hell, I may be wrong, but "troll"??? That's enough to get me to go somewhere else and never come back if the alternative has as much to offer as/. But, if not, I will stick with/. because of what it offers, and deal with the occasional dumbass who rates my posts.
"Somehow Macs do this and manage to be sexy at the same time"
That "somehow" is by remaining to be only 10% of the PC market share. If they were 90%, 15 year olds everywhere would find many security flaws and vulnerabilities.
Family Ties WKRP The Drew Carey Show Herman's Head Normal, Ohio
Not to mention all the times I have seen a character (usually secondary) in a movie or tv show, when the script at some point asks where they are from, and if where they are from is not important to the plot, it's almost always "Ohio".
Can someone explain to me (I am not a programmer) if Microsoft has it in their easy to reach power to allow users to do the following, if they choose:
1a. Blacklist any executable the user desires from running, no exceptions.
1b. And make this very easy by simply right-clicking on a process and selecting "Don't allow to relaunch".
2. And break down all the SVHOST.EXE programs into their individual component processes so when a virus adds itself under the svhost.exe, that virus is seen as a seperate process.
2a. Stop writing the Windows program to name several processes the same damned name (i.e. SVHOSTS.EXE)
This is a pretty odd claim. The only scientific theories I know of that were actually tossed out were some early views on the geological evolution of the planet. Theories are very rarely ever thrown out. They may be subsumed into another theory (as Newtonian mechanics was subsumed into Relativity), but scientific theories are such rigorous entities, and based solely on the evidence, that it's very unlikely that theories will be outright thrown out.
You can explain how rigorous a theory is to a non-scientific minded idiot till they drop their bible, and they still won't get it.
Your suggestion made me think of Wikipedia having branches of whoever edited the document. I.e., if someone makes an edit, along with the current page being updated, a new page is created under the authors name. When you want to see what, say, the original poster, say, a professor, edited in history, you click on some link (to be determined) that is akin to "history", but just shows the history of that author along with their page they most recently updated. Something like that.
Precisely. What caused 9/11 can't happen again, because most passengers will risk getting cut with a box cutter to beat the fuck out of a terrorist then believe him when he says 'cooperate, and everyone will be fine". It just won't happen again that way. What WILL happen is a deadly biological agent will be used, until the FAA figures out a way to thwart that.
Precisely. What caused 9/11 can't happen again, because most passengers will risk getting cut with a box cutter to beat the fuck out of a terrorist then believe him when he says 'cooperate, and everyone will be fine". It just won't happen again that way. What WILL happen is a deadly biological agent will be useduntil the FAA figures out how to thwart that.
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I don't see how that means it's stealing.
Correct. If they charged *more* for the subtitled movies, then it'd be wrong. I agree with how you suggested the site should capitalize on the irony and congratulate them through a press release.
However, there is something to be said if they have gone on record lamenting piracy and then did this. But that still doesn't invalidate your point.
Town better start writing some zoning regulation laws. The very thing the fresh air is attracting will attract more things which will attract more things which will take the fresh air away. That's not even considering the potential of the then thriving server farm industry driven economy tanking if those server farms pull out to go to fresher air, causing a cascading effect of failing businesses and massive job losses..... But then again I'm one of those "worst case scenario" kind of persons.
lol. retard alert.
how exactly do you expect to "harness the power of dark matter"?
So, what is it about dark matter that makes it so it can't be harnessed? :) I'm being facetious somewhat, since we don't know what dark matter is, and can only see the massive effects of it in a macro view of space.
However, he might mean that if dark matter is made up of particular particles, then we can 'collect or create' those particles into an array so as to create gravity in space, for one. Propulsion in our atmosphere for another. Really, there is a ton of things we could do if we found it and knew how to manipulate it.
Maybe we can form an anonymous-esque group dedicated to DOS'ing (or worse if possible) IP's known to sweep numerous hosts and ports (i.e., each have our own servers listening for the same type of requests). If nothing else, at least knock them down for a while, each time they pop up on the radar.
Won't be effective against blind servers, and on second thought, we don't want to DOS blind servers anyway. :(
What we geeks don't fully grasp is that no one, and I mean NO ONE, other than us even knows about this supposed "controvery". More people know about the death rate of Sudanese bisexuals than this.
Someone educate me here, but if WGA sends the product key to Windows, how can that be "hacked"? In other words, Windows, before it sends an update, has WGA send the product key that is compared to a huge database of "legit" keys. If that product key sent by WGA has either 1. not been diciminated in any release of the OS, or 2. is used from more than one (or more) IP's or hardware profiles, than no updates are given.
However, if Microsoft was stupid enough to NOT have WGA send the product key, and just trust whatever WGA tells it ("Yeah, this computer is legit. Send the update"), than I can see how that can be hacked.
OJ
"Wait a minute... you're assuming people actually *read* blogs and MySpace pages? They can get away with skins precisely *because* nobody reads. :)"
Ah. but that all depends on the demographic. (By the way, I agree about those ridiculous MySpace backgrounds, making the pages unreadable... I don't read ANY of my friends MySpace pages who do this, not out of spite, but really, because they are truly unreadable). Anyway, about the demographic: Those who are on LiveJournal and have already generated a social network won't leave it even though all my LJ friends have MySpace pages as well (they'll use both MySpace and LJ, but won't abandon LJ due to the addictive nature of what I am about to describe that MySpace can't offer). MySpace doesn't really offer anything more than Live Journal, but LiveJournal does offer something MySpace doesn't. However, that thing LiveJournal offers only entices those who want to use it, and does nothing for those who couldn't care less. That is "forced" reading of blog entries, and by result, a "forced" almost constant contact with the daily musings of your friends (which has benefits I'll describe in a moment).
There's really nothing else to do on LiveJournal but to read the journal entries of your friends (whereas with MySpace, a user has to make an important looking "bulletin" to contact all their friends at once). LJ layers these posts in sequential order on your "friends posts" page (Whereas with MySpace, your blog first has to be subscribed to by a friend, and then that "friend" has to devote her clicking to "YOUR blog only" for that session of reading). But again, with LJ, the blog entries of all of a members friends, are individually posted, in chronological order, all friends on one page. This provides a very effective means of keeping friends in contact, as they mention some of the most mundane things in their daily lives, or introspective musings on things that happened to them that day. (Myspace, on the other hand, is not typically used for this... most users don't want to make a "bulletin" about their trip to buy a refrigerator that day, and if they put it in their MySpace "blog", most "friends" won't get around to reading it due to the effort required unlike with LJ). On LJ, all other friends in the "network" see these posts whether they like it or not, since "looking at you comprehensive 'friends posts' page" is about the only thing to do on LJ. However, many LJ users LIKE reading the daily blah blah blah of their friends, and by result, comments to each entry and mutual friends comments to comments creates a virtual connection with everyone. Plans to go camping and road trips to meet up in some city, to planning a trip to the local natural foods store on Sunday, to planning to rent a movie someone mentioned and watching it at someone's house, all happens out of these posts. I've made several trips and had several impromptu outings that initiated from LJ posts and comments.
I do have some friends who have no desire to be in that close of contact with everyone, so they are exclusively on MySpace. However, those of us who are in LJ addictively log in and look at our "friends posts" pages every day, making comments, and creating our own comments that no matter how mundane, are appropriate for LJ entries, but not appropriate for MySpace bulletins. For example, I just posted yesterday a picture I took of a little girl and a puppy (fairly "awww") and it generated several comments, one of which initiated to other friends to get together for a photo shoot. I would not have posted that picture as a bulletin on MySpace. Thus, if someone LIKES having that kind of close, daily, sometimes intimate contact with all their fiends, LJ is the ticket. Otherwise, MySpace will serve them well.
OJ
yeah, I recall vising Xenia, Ohio about 10 years ago... it was the town that was infamous for being hit by a 1/4 mile wide F2 or F1 tornado back in 74, destoyed. When I was driving past, I noticed that there was an almost perfect "path" of buildings in a wide long row that were clean and shiney new, while all the buildings everywhere else were old and brown. It was a few moments later that I realized that was the path of the tornado. Kinda eerie.
Sorry about that, I wasn't being accusational. I was making an excuse to use the word "wikied". :)
OJ
PS. I wonder why "eBay" is not as often used as a verb like google is, given it's equal or possibly greater prominence.
Here in Ohio, they say "Is Pepsi okay?" as well, and I am glad.
But an aside, I was on a no-caffiene kick there for a few years, and always bought caffiene free coke at the store. But no restaurant serves that, unless it was diet also. So I realized my preference was any black, non-diet, caffiene free soda. Well, rootbeer fit that bill since rootbeer tradionally has no caffiene in it. Mug or A&W were always available at any restaurant. That is until Coke, with their marketing behemoth, got restaruants to start carrying their "new" soda, Barq's rootbeer with caffiene. So all the restaurants traded their A&W or Mug rootbeer taps for Barq's taps. I could no longer get a dark caffiene free non diet soda at a restaurant after they did that. Shortly thereafter, I fell off the wagon.
OJ
""Do you 103569872, take 324091256 to be your lawfully wedded wife?"
I don't know if you did that on purpose or not, but one of those is my actual Social Security number.
OJ
Your post is so informative, I suspect you wikied it.
OJ
"I suspect that you're right about not fully understanding the system. The speed of cars coming at the sensors in real time is going to be approximately zero for half the time."
That's all I had to read of you reply to know what I was missing. It's not important to know the average speed of vehicles since they are having to stop and go (the result is meaningless)... the data they want is how long it takes car X to get from point A to point B, after they have had to stop and go through intersections.
Maybe I'm not fully understanding this, but with all that "in-and-out" tracking of partial licemse plate numbers and parsing time differences, etc, isn't is far simpler for those machines to simply measer the speed of the cars coming at them in real time (as opposed to delayed time) and report that figure?
Second issue, while I knew the GPS tracking existed, I didn't think of the implications of how all of us with these cell phones have a "black box" with us, relative to our whereabouts an speed, that is entirely subpeona-able for law enforcment or other branches of governement. Probably already slahsdotted at some point in the distant past, but it just occured to me.
OJ
Digg? What's the site? I'm moving there if it delivers news for nerds. For the first time ever a few days ago, one of my posts was rated "Troll" by some dumbass. I simply gave my opinion why MAC is void of security vulnerabilities, and how they are 1/10th the market share, and how if they were 90% of the market share, 15 year olds everywhere would start finding vulnerabilities. Hell, I may be wrong, but "troll"??? That's enough to get me to go somewhere else and never come back if the alternative has as much to offer as /. But, if not, I will stick with /. because of what it offers, and deal with the occasional dumbass who rates my posts.
OhioJoe
"Somehow Macs do this and manage to be sexy at the same time"
That "somehow" is by remaining to be only 10% of the PC market share. If they were 90%, 15 year olds everywhere would find many security flaws and vulnerabilities.
OJ
Family Ties
WKRP
The Drew Carey Show
Herman's Head
Normal, Ohio
Not to mention all the times I have seen a character (usually secondary) in a movie or tv show, when the script at some point asks where they are from, and if where they are from is not important to the plot, it's almost always "Ohio".
Joe
..or how Microsoft can beat them to it.
Can someone explain to me (I am not a programmer) if Microsoft has it in their easy to reach power to allow users to do the following, if they choose:
1a. Blacklist any executable the user desires from running, no exceptions.
1b. And make this very easy by simply right-clicking on a process and selecting "Don't allow to relaunch".
2. And break down all the SVHOST.EXE programs into their individual component processes so when a virus adds itself under the svhost.exe, that virus is seen as a seperate process.
2a. Stop writing the Windows program to name several processes the same damned name (i.e. SVHOSTS.EXE)
Joe
This is a pretty odd claim. The only scientific theories I know of that were actually tossed out were some early views on the geological evolution of the planet. Theories are very rarely ever thrown out. They may be subsumed into another theory (as Newtonian mechanics was subsumed into Relativity), but scientific theories are such rigorous entities, and based solely on the evidence, that it's very unlikely that theories will be outright thrown out.
You can explain how rigorous a theory is to a non-scientific minded idiot till they drop their bible, and they still won't get it.
Joe
"OO.org took half the time to load that Excel did and took up just over half the space for the files."
I wonder what Vince Calloway is doing to get that kind of file opening rate.
(5 points if you know what I am talking about)
(10 points if you don't care)
OJ
Man, how many weeks worth of time have you spent tranfering your sent emails to new computers over the years?
OJ
How else can you eat something called "Apple jacks" and it not taste like apples or any guy named jack you might have known well in college.
OJ
Your suggestion made me think of Wikipedia having branches of whoever edited the document. I.e., if someone makes an edit, along with the current page being updated, a new page is created under the authors name. When you want to see what, say, the original poster, say, a professor, edited in history, you click on some link (to be determined) that is akin to "history", but just shows the history of that author along with their page they most recently updated. Something like that.
OJ
Precisely. What caused 9/11 can't happen again, because most passengers will risk getting cut with a box cutter to beat the fuck out of a terrorist then believe him when he says 'cooperate, and everyone will be fine". It just won't happen again that way. What WILL happen is a deadly biological agent will be used, until the FAA figures out a way to thwart that.
OJ
Precisely. What caused 9/11 can't happen again, because most passengers will risk getting cut with a box cutter to beat the fuck out of a terrorist then believe him when he says 'cooperate, and everyone will be fine". It just won't happen again that way. What WILL happen is a deadly biological agent will be useduntil the FAA figures out how to thwart that.
OJ