A game that depicts and rewards as much violence as the GTA series has, has missions where killing cops and civillians gains you status and money, and is generally about the rise to power of a crime lord, and they're worried about a sex scene that porn collectors wouldn't waste the time to download. Geez, priorities are out of whack.
A company cannot be allowed to profit from deceit. So pick a relatively small company to go after, since the bigger ones are so much harder. You think Rockstar is the only or even one of the worst companies making money from deceit? Think again
If someone has money, you have no privacy.
Like most things, depends where you are. We have pretty strong privacy legislation in Canada.
Its a mircale that marketing firms are not claiming to 'own' the cookies and sue you if you delete them for destruction of property. Again, probably depends where you live, but I doubt it could happen in most countries. This example is about a physical piece of property, but I'm fairly certain that same laws would apply to cookies (IANAL). I came home one day to find a sample bottle of some hair or skin product in my mailbox along with contact information for a local sales agent. I checked, my wife was interested, so I threw out the contact information and through the bottle in the bathroom and forgot about it. A week or so later, along comes this sales agent asking if we tried it. I said no. She said we either had to pay her $20 for the product or return it to her. Under Canadian law, I am under no obligation to either return or pay for the product since it was placed in my posession (my mailbox) without any agreements to any such terms.
And what if I'm using my VoIP phone in my basement... no GPS signal there. Or in a large building, no signal there. There is no reliable way at this time to give an accurate physical location automatically to a 911 call centre when you are using VoIP. Canada went through this same issue recently and the CRTC decided that VoIP providers had to inform customers of these limitations. In fact, most VoIP providers have had to setup call centers that will take the initial 911 call, and by hand, route the call to the appropriate 911 call centre since there is no reliable way to do it automatically.
Isn't this the bigger problem? I mean how many of these parents are probably complaining about the sex scene in the game. They're okay if the kid is playing a game that encourages you to pick up a hooker, pay for sex, have sex, then beat up the hooker to get your money back. However, actually show a realistic sex scene just goes to far!
Note: The hooker stuff I know was in GTA Vice City - not sure if its in this one, and I've never actually seen what's in this Hot Coffee scene.
Scotty had to be one of the most beloved Star Trek characters of all time and Mr. Doohan really made the character. I only hope that someone somewhere will play Amazing Grace on the pipes for him as he did for Spock at the end of Star Trek II.
What I wouldn't give to see the contents of this contract. Since Valve really wanted to be able to distrubte electronically and bypass a publisher, I would imagine that's in their somewhere. Still, I think any publisher could make a lot of money still of HL2. Lets face it, there's still mods coming (DoD) and with an XBox version on its way, store shelves will be packed again with HL2 boxes.
I've done some work for people through sitepoint. Basically, it involves a lot of trust on both parties, which in a lot of cases, will leave somebody screwed. I've almost always done the work in advance and trusted that the party involved would pay me when the work was completed. So far this has worked out well for me, but in time, I'm sure I'll get burned. Generally speaking, searching the history of that user in the forums will give me some idea of my likelihood of getting paid. For larger jobs, there are a variety of escrow services out there.
Because the husbands and wives don't always agree on what exactly happened in any given situation.
Probably should be:
Because the husbands and wives don't agree on what exactly happened in any situation.
I see your point, but I must disagree. Doing something that you believe is wrong, even though you are told to do so buy your (parents|employer|superior officer|other) is as wrong in my mind as doing it of your own free will. In essence, you are doing it of your own free will. You always have a choice, and sometimes dignity and pride should be chosen over a pay check. I risked my job once by not doing what I was told. I didn't lose my job over it, but that action was at least partly responsibly for ending my career with that employer, and I'm proud of it.
They even say that roughly 1/3 or respondants say they "waste" this time because they have don't have enough work.
Near the bottom of the salary.com article is this little blurb: Populations surveyed included AOL users, Salary.com Salary Wizard users and corporate human resource professionals
So, a good portion of the surveyed group are visitors to salary.com. I would guess that a majority of people visiting salary.com are at least somewhat unhappy with their job. I don't think I would consider they're numbers worth anything. Its like asking people coming out of a theatre if they're willing to pay current admission prices to see a movie.
I doubt the chunk would have hurt you anyway.
If we're talking about the boat scene where you take out the helicopter, you're mistaken. The first time I actually managed to kill the helicopter, it landed on me and killed me. Annoying, but I still loved the experience.
Exactly. While I would love 100Mbps at home, I'm more interested in relatively high speed wireless internet that is portable and doesn't require line of sight. I'd rather be able to have a 1Mbps connection in my car and on my PDA. Things like VoIP, mapping services with real time info, and such will become commonplace. Hence my intrest in WiMax.
Remember though, you're little 18" dish is receive only. Up in Canada, Bell Express Vu offers internet over satellite. You still have to dial in though. It works by using your dial up connection to do the requests, and you're satellite gets the receive. There's also the issue of latency with satellite based internet. You won't find online gamers moving to satellite.
The most promising thing I've seen is WiMax (yes, I do run a site about WiMax). You get high frequency signals in a licensed spectrum which means no interferance. A wide coverage from a base station without the need for line of sight. Its able to do high speeds (70MB/s). Intel already has a consumer grade chip available. There's lots of places around the world that are running trials on it right now. My only current worries are how good is the range in an actualy setup in a metropolitan area, and how fast of a connection can we really expect?
While very possible, I doubt that was the case. I think we (as those who know about these sorts of things) need to force vendors and sales people to communicate these kinds of things to consumers. The commission sales junkie at as no interest (and probably no idea) in tell Joe Sixpack that the wireless hub he bought has no security on by default. Joe Sixpack bought it because his buddy got one and its "cool" to not need network cables anymore. That being said, if this guy wasn't doing anything criminal, I really don't think there should be any criminal charges laid. Maybe pursue a civil case.
I would have moded insightful instead of funny. I'm a fan of php, and one of the reasons I like it so much, is their website. Its a very complete reference to the language, and the user comments included with each function are inavluable. In fact, one of the best things about the website is its ease of use. If I'm trying to remember exactly how a function works, its as easy as http://ca.php.net/function
Who modded that up? isohunt.com is registered by a Canadian. However, the IP address (69.64.61.30) is registered to Server 4 You out of St. Louis. And Canada IS on the list.
No, we have a levy we pay on blank media. This levy is charged to consumers and supposedly distributed to artists. The idea is, we're downloading music, burning it to CDs. We pay a tax on the CDs and the artists collect that tax, everyone is happy. However, that levy is only for music. Its not for movies or other forms of media.
I find it worrisome that the verification of something as personal and important as someone's identity is based on something as common and repeatable as the pattern and layout of veins.
I haven't done the research, but I doubt this is any more "repeatable" than fingerprints, or for that matter DNA.
I don't think you're going to find this equipment in stores that bare the "less than $50 after dark" and "employees do not have safe combination" type signs. That being said, this might be nice in some applications...
single sign on and never having to change passwords every 90 days
No more keys for your front door... unless you have cold winters like we do... I don't want to hold my hand in front of a camera at -40C
No more PIN numbers, or signatures for verification for bank and credit cards
I don't think you'll get flamed too bad. Its what I was going to suggest. I run iptables as I'm sure many others here do. Its simple, there's lots of open source tools to make management of those rules easier, and a basic install of Linux will run on some pretty lightweight machines. Heck, there's always the distros on a CD to make things even more secure, and by putting the rules on a floppy set to read_only makes for relatively simple updates to the rules if/when needed.
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A game that depicts and rewards as much violence as the GTA series has, has missions where killing cops and civillians gains you status and money, and is generally about the rise to power of a crime lord, and they're worried about a sex scene that porn collectors wouldn't waste the time to download. Geez, priorities are out of whack.
A company cannot be allowed to profit from deceit. So pick a relatively small company to go after, since the bigger ones are so much harder. You think Rockstar is the only or even one of the worst companies making money from deceit? Think again
If someone has money, you have no privacy. Like most things, depends where you are. We have pretty strong privacy legislation in Canada.
Its a mircale that marketing firms are not claiming to 'own' the cookies and sue you if you delete them for destruction of property.
Again, probably depends where you live, but I doubt it could happen in most countries. This example is about a physical piece of property, but I'm fairly certain that same laws would apply to cookies (IANAL). I came home one day to find a sample bottle of some hair or skin product in my mailbox along with contact information for a local sales agent. I checked, my wife was interested, so I threw out the contact information and through the bottle in the bathroom and forgot about it. A week or so later, along comes this sales agent asking if we tried it. I said no. She said we either had to pay her $20 for the product or return it to her. Under Canadian law, I am under no obligation to either return or pay for the product since it was placed in my posession (my mailbox) without any agreements to any such terms.
And what if I'm using my VoIP phone in my basement... no GPS signal there. Or in a large building, no signal there. There is no reliable way at this time to give an accurate physical location automatically to a 911 call centre when you are using VoIP. Canada went through this same issue recently and the CRTC decided that VoIP providers had to inform customers of these limitations. In fact, most VoIP providers have had to setup call centers that will take the initial 911 call, and by hand, route the call to the appropriate 911 call centre since there is no reliable way to do it automatically.
So rewarding you with health and money is not encouraging you?
Isn't this the bigger problem? I mean how many of these parents are probably complaining about the sex scene in the game. They're okay if the kid is playing a game that encourages you to pick up a hooker, pay for sex, have sex, then beat up the hooker to get your money back. However, actually show a realistic sex scene just goes to far!
Note: The hooker stuff I know was in GTA Vice City - not sure if its in this one, and I've never actually seen what's in this Hot Coffee scene.
"God help us, we're in the hands of engineers" -same guy same movie.
Scotty had to be one of the most beloved Star Trek characters of all time and Mr. Doohan really made the character. I only hope that someone somewhere will play Amazing Grace on the pipes for him as he did for Spock at the end of Star Trek II.
What I wouldn't give to see the contents of this contract. Since Valve really wanted to be able to distrubte electronically and bypass a publisher, I would imagine that's in their somewhere. Still, I think any publisher could make a lot of money still of HL2. Lets face it, there's still mods coming (DoD) and with an XBox version on its way, store shelves will be packed again with HL2 boxes.
I've done some work for people through sitepoint. Basically, it involves a lot of trust on both parties, which in a lot of cases, will leave somebody screwed. I've almost always done the work in advance and trusted that the party involved would pay me when the work was completed. So far this has worked out well for me, but in time, I'm sure I'll get burned. Generally speaking, searching the history of that user in the forums will give me some idea of my likelihood of getting paid. For larger jobs, there are a variety of escrow services out there.
Because the husbands and wives don't always agree on what exactly happened in any given situation.
Probably should be:
Because the husbands and wives don't agree on what exactly happened in any situation.
I see your point, but I must disagree. Doing something that you believe is wrong, even though you are told to do so buy your (parents|employer|superior officer|other) is as wrong in my mind as doing it of your own free will. In essence, you are doing it of your own free will. You always have a choice, and sometimes dignity and pride should be chosen over a pay check. I risked my job once by not doing what I was told. I didn't lose my job over it, but that action was at least partly responsibly for ending my career with that employer, and I'm proud of it.
They even say that roughly 1/3 or respondants say they "waste" this time because they have don't have enough work.
Near the bottom of the salary.com article is this little blurb:
Populations surveyed included AOL users, Salary.com Salary Wizard users and corporate human resource professionals
So, a good portion of the surveyed group are visitors to salary.com. I would guess that a majority of people visiting salary.com are at least somewhat unhappy with their job. I don't think I would consider they're numbers worth anything. Its like asking people coming out of a theatre if they're willing to pay current admission prices to see a movie.
I doubt the chunk would have hurt you anyway. If we're talking about the boat scene where you take out the helicopter, you're mistaken. The first time I actually managed to kill the helicopter, it landed on me and killed me. Annoying, but I still loved the experience.
Exactly. While I would love 100Mbps at home, I'm more interested in relatively high speed wireless internet that is portable and doesn't require line of sight. I'd rather be able to have a 1Mbps connection in my car and on my PDA. Things like VoIP, mapping services with real time info, and such will become commonplace. Hence my intrest in WiMax.
Remember though, you're little 18" dish is receive only. Up in Canada, Bell Express Vu offers internet over satellite. You still have to dial in though. It works by using your dial up connection to do the requests, and you're satellite gets the receive. There's also the issue of latency with satellite based internet. You won't find online gamers moving to satellite.
The most promising thing I've seen is WiMax (yes, I do run a site about WiMax). You get high frequency signals in a licensed spectrum which means no interferance. A wide coverage from a base station without the need for line of sight. Its able to do high speeds (70MB/s). Intel already has a consumer grade chip available. There's lots of places around the world that are running trials on it right now. My only current worries are how good is the range in an actualy setup in a metropolitan area, and how fast of a connection can we really expect?
Here's a reference that has it spelled Mogwai. To continue on with the joke, since Project Gizmo has hit the light of day, is it going to die?
While very possible, I doubt that was the case. I think we (as those who know about these sorts of things) need to force vendors and sales people to communicate these kinds of things to consumers. The commission sales junkie at as no interest (and probably no idea) in tell Joe Sixpack that the wireless hub he bought has no security on by default. Joe Sixpack bought it because his buddy got one and its "cool" to not need network cables anymore. That being said, if this guy wasn't doing anything criminal, I really don't think there should be any criminal charges laid. Maybe pursue a civil case.
I would have moded insightful instead of funny. I'm a fan of php, and one of the reasons I like it so much, is their website. Its a very complete reference to the language, and the user comments included with each function are inavluable. In fact, one of the best things about the website is its ease of use. If I'm trying to remember exactly how a function works, its as easy as http://ca.php.net/function
Who modded that up? isohunt.com is registered by a Canadian. However, the IP address (69.64.61.30) is registered to Server 4 You out of St. Louis. And Canada IS on the list.
No, we have a levy we pay on blank media. This levy is charged to consumers and supposedly distributed to artists. The idea is, we're downloading music, burning it to CDs. We pay a tax on the CDs and the artists collect that tax, everyone is happy. However, that levy is only for music. Its not for movies or other forms of media.
I find it worrisome that the verification of something as personal and important as someone's identity is based on something as common and repeatable as the pattern and layout of veins.
I haven't done the research, but I doubt this is any more "repeatable" than fingerprints, or for that matter DNA.
I'm going to guess Febuary 20th 1995. I saw a date in some old docs of March 5th and figure it predates that.
Surely the bigger problem here is the zombied boxes!
Not necessarily. If your server is vulnerable from inside the network then it is vulnerable.
I don't think you'll get flamed too bad. Its what I was going to suggest. I run iptables as I'm sure many others here do. Its simple, there's lots of open source tools to make management of those rules easier, and a basic install of Linux will run on some pretty lightweight machines. Heck, there's always the distros on a CD to make things even more secure, and by putting the rules on a floppy set to read_only makes for relatively simple updates to the rules if/when needed.