People are clearly afraid of the RIAA, but is terrorizing prospective customers the way to get them to buy from you?
Let's ask our defense industry...
Well you see Mr. Laden, the thing is, my country has these bombs that are even smarter than our president and he felt it would only be fair if you had a chance to buy some as well.
would machines realy need to write source?, it seems like they'd be able to write down to the assembly level at least. If not, the compilers would be in control
who cares 96% of the matrix is just comments anyway
Yes, I'm a firm believer in the 2nd amendment, in fact in all of them. The only thing I would change is the order of the list, because without the 2nd, we would not now have anything that even remotely resembles the 1st, which is vital to this conversation.
Or as the bumper sticker says: (mostly - I saw it a week ago on the back of an H2) "So long as we have the second ammendment we will always have the first"
Has anyone else seen a phrase like this and laughed, not at it's content but it's logic.
I mean to have a second ammendment you must have a first ammendment, regardless of the content of either.
For shock value though, the maggot from farscape that John eats for the translater microbes makes a better scene./blockquote
Errr... ok, i've seen almost all of the eps 'cept a few from season 3. I don't remember the microbes coming from the maggot thing, the microbes were injected by a DRD shortly after he showed up on the bridge and slightly before Dargo knocked him out (been a while since I saw ep 1 though) IIRC that maggoty thing was ment to clean his teeth "Hmm, tastes kinda minty" "Just don't swallow it"
and there was that later episode Thank Goodness It's Friday where the rebels put the worm in his navel to remove the drug from his system.
The other good thing about Kingston is that almost every other light is demand-timed, so if no one is waiting at a light, that direction never turns green.
Heh I've got one light out of 17 on my way home from work that is anti-demand timed by the time I'm coming home (usually after 2 am on weekends so everyting else is either demand timed or blinking yellow for the major thru-road), I've stopped at a park just a bit down the street from the intersection and watched the light, it only turns red when a vehicle aproaches.
I theorize that it has something to do with it being the only light within 5 miles either way on a rural dual motorway with a 60 mph speed limit between an Naval Air Station and the only bar near it. Either that or i'm a looney (there is a.5 probability of either)
after Darl and chums have been slowly and viciously tortured to the point of jibbering insanity (although it might be hard to tell when this has happened).
I don't think we've quite perfected the torture techniques required to make a person more sane.
Then again if anyone has a spare time machine my squad of samurai banana troopers can get a head start.
I would encourage them to sue more 12 year old girls.
YES! SUE THEM! SUE THEM FOR HOT GOATSE!!! WHEEEE!!!!
What better way to get bad laws to go away than to make little girls cry in court.
Little Sue: "Yeah I'd have gone to college, but the RIAA sued me and took the money my parents were saving for college. So now I'm a whore/junkie/lead-programmer-at-microsoft. I had potential, I coulda been a contenda" MPAA Goons bust in Goon 1: "We're sueing you for unliscenced use of that quote. Boys, subpeona the place up a bit." Goons procede to break stuff.
Does anybody know what, exactly, the penalty would be for recieving copyrighted material? I mean, it's not copyright infringement, that's distributing the copies. What's buying the pirated DVD? That's what downloading is. Uploading is distribution, clearly, but what's buying the DVD? Is there a crime there? What's it called?
Someone may have mentioned this further down already but I seem to recall recently that the courts decided that downloading music involved initiating the act of copy. It's sort of like going into a music store where they let you "preveiw" (a few stores still let you listen before you buy) the music and recording the CD while "preveiwing" it.
Then again this may all be a sleep deprevation induced halucination.
That's not 838 people, it's realy just 1 guy with a t3, a P4 ftp server, a 32x burner and a few hundred gigs of music (including many recordings of his own jazz ensamble, and other loacal artists with permission to distribute)
[to my Fellow Americans] Do you remember that stupid sign in your school history classroom: "Those that forget the past are condemned to repeat it."?
It doesn't seem to sound so stupid these days does it? If you haven't seen "1984" - WATCH IT, and be VERY AFRAID.
2 points: 1) The sign in our history class (way back when I was in High School) was worded, "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it." Severely true, as the teacher dropped your final percentage 2 points for goofing off in class.
2) I have seen the movie, and read the book. I personally felt the book made more sense, the movie seemed to leave out something
I suspect what SCO is arguing is not that all of the changes were stolen, but rather something like "function f() was illegally released by IBM. Function g() calls function f(), so all the code in g() is derivative. Functions h1(), h2(), and h3() all call, g(), so they are all derivative. etc etc etc."
Which, if they could get it accepted, would put a big hole in the "we'll just rewrite whatever SCO code is out there in a couple of days" argument.
So the my car is a derivative work of Shell Oil? It has to be because the transmition() calls engine(), which calls gasoline() which calls crude_oil().
I don't realy think a function can be called a derivitive of something just because it calls a certain function, then again IANA(ip)L. If the offending f() gets changed to produce the correct data manipulation is it still dirivative. If f() is no longer a dirivative, are g() h1() h2() and h3() still a dirivative?
I'm actually curious how that would be handled, no experience with it since I don't program anything for other people to use.
I love my cell number, very easy to remember pattern ( xyx y[x-1][y-1]0 ) and I'd love to move it over to Nextel. Since my employer is the main source of phone traffic to my cell, I can get added to the company plan if I have a NexTel phone.
I'd also like to get a slightly larger phone. My current one is too small for my hands.
The moral of the story, never let your S.O. pick out something as personal as your cell phone.
...thinking that it was already called Ununnilium.
Umm, forgive my horrible latin/greek since i don't know either but isn't calling it ununnilium just like calling it one-one-zero-ium in english (except it doesn't sound like Leonardo of Quirm named it)
Addendum: If you wanted to get really fancy, you could make the virus check the web, newsgroups, and IRC for cryptographically signed updates that could include new instructions and new vulnerabilities to take advantage of.
<Obligatory MS Bashing> I think that's called Windows </Bash>
And I was one of them, since it's not one we covered in the 2 phi courses I took a long time back. It's not even listed in the chapter on Logical Falacies.
This was taken from waaay down the page if youre looking
Paradigm: taking one's own encapsulated world view, or system of thought (paradigm), or culture, as the standard by which all other paradigms may be judged
It's located under "Fallacies Of Explanation" as a subset of 'Untestable' Hopefully i didn't just commit the logical fallacy of Failure to Elucidate
I never maintained that every human being is worthy of life, though that is a reasonable presumption. There are times when I think a human being is not worthy of life, specifically, when a human is taking or takes the life of another human. That is one of the reasons I do favor abortion if the child is putting the mother's life in danger.
Umm, not to incite the flame war a bit more but... How is killing the child to save the mother any more logically/morally (I think I've lost track by now) correct than killing the mother to save the child? Isn't the person performing the abortion consciously taking a deadly action against another human (that isn't aware that it is causing harm)?
It seems, perhaps, that you are determining a Homo Sapian's worthieness to live is fixxed at some arbitrary developemental stage.
Then again as a child who had mom's immune system fighting me the entire time, I can't realy say that I was more than a parasite for 7.6 months. In any case YMWV. I personally think humans should lay eggs, like their cousins the echidna, or platypus(sp?). Anyone have any tips on engineering a retrovirus to alter the correct genes?
I just started thinking about this <Mode = "Hypothetical situation">
Let's say you have a country with lots and lots of nearly identical desert and you're descretely making let's say 1 medium sized WMD/BCW a week.
Now, I would have them cart the thing out to some not-previously-determined spot in the desert and descretely bury it, and take a GPS reading of the spot.
So people don't find the GPS co-ordinates just written down somewhere, I'd make a deposit in an off-shore numbered account related to the Co-ords and let it earn intrest at a fixxed rate so it would be easy to calculate the original value.
Then again that's only how I'd do it... not that I've tried it... yet... ummm... </mode>
I've just realized this is completely off topic, but since my brain has shut back down to/. mode I guess I'll post it anyway
So if i had my lawyer friend defend me and agree to pay her TWO MILLION DOLLARS!(tm) [insert evil laugh] for the case and we win and are awarded legal fees, would DTV have to pay us TWO MILLION DOLLARS!(tm) that we could split?
And if we weren't awarded legal fees, she would settle for a bit of TWO MILLION DOLLAR!(tm) nookie.
The only Pirate Devices I don't think I could argue the definition of woul be a Parrot, a Wooden Leg, an Eye Patch, a Funny hat with skull and cross bones, a wine bottle wrapped in dried grasses, a sword, potentially a mustache?
I have an Eye patch and a funny hat with a skull and crossbones on it, also have a (plastic) sword. Feh, at least they pay me enough to dress like that for work
Hackers traditionaly hold to the ethic of do no harm. It's one thing to get into a box poke around get some evidence that you were there and not damamge anything besides covering your tracks (and thats a bit of a new thing due to the excessive laws against it) A script kiddie is just that a script kiddie lets try to not confuse the two. If they call themselves a hacker thats fine it dosent make it true. The hackers of the world know who they are and how to tell there own.
If I had to define the term "Hacker", I think I'd go with; Someone who finds unintended ways to do cool things with hardware/software that was never intended by it's creators.
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Let's ask our defense industry...
Well you see Mr. Laden, the thing is, my country has these bombs that are even smarter than our president and he felt it would only be fair if you had a chance to buy some as well.
would machines realy need to write source?, it seems like they'd be able to write down to the assembly level at least. If not, the compilers would be in control
who cares 96% of the matrix is just comments anyway
Or as the bumper sticker says: (mostly - I saw it a week ago on the back of an H2)
"So long as we have the second ammendment we will always have the first"
Has anyone else seen a phrase like this and laughed, not at it's content but it's logic.
I mean to have a second ammendment you must have a first ammendment, regardless of the content of either.
Dubbya: He has indepundant thoughts? 41153x TAKE HIM TO THE RE-EDUCATION CLAMPS!
Underling #41153x: Sir, don't you mean re-education camps?
Dubbya: I meant what I said, do you think i'm an mormon or something?
Underling $41153x: the thought never crossed my mind, sir.
Dubbya: And a give himfull cavity search for weapons of mass destruction.
Underling #41153x: (sighs) Yes sir.
dammit I didn't catch my broken block quote, even when i preveiwed
Heh I've got one light out of 17 on my way home from work that is anti-demand timed by the time I'm coming home (usually after 2 am on weekends so everyting else is either demand timed or blinking yellow for the major thru-road), I've stopped at a park just a bit down the street from the intersection and watched the light, it only turns red when a vehicle aproaches.
I theorize that it has something to do with it being the only light within 5 miles either way on a rural dual motorway with a 60 mph speed limit between an Naval Air Station and the only bar near it. Either that or i'm a looney (there is a
I'm waiting for the perpetually improving mail protocol (PIMP)
I don't think we've quite perfected the torture techniques required to make a person more sane.
Then again if anyone has a spare time machine my squad of samurai banana troopers can get a head start.
YES! SUE THEM!
SUE THEM FOR HOT GOATSE!!!
WHEEEE!!!!
What better way to get bad laws to go away than to make little girls cry in court.
Little Sue: "Yeah I'd have gone to college, but the RIAA sued me and took the money my parents were saving for college. So now I'm a whore/junkie/lead-programmer-at-microsoft. I had potential, I coulda been a contenda"
MPAA Goons bust in
Goon 1: "We're sueing you for unliscenced use of that quote. Boys, subpeona the place up a bit."
Goons procede to break stuff.
Someone may have mentioned this further down already but I seem to recall recently that the courts decided that downloading music involved initiating the act of copy. It's sort of like going into a music store where they let you "preveiw" (a few stores still let you listen before you buy) the music and recording the CD while "preveiwing" it.
Then again this may all be a sleep deprevation induced halucination.
That's not 838 people, it's realy just 1 guy with a t3, a P4 ftp server, a 32x burner and a few hundred gigs of music (including many recordings of his own jazz ensamble, and other loacal artists with permission to distribute)
2 points:
1) The sign in our history class (way back when I was in High School) was worded, "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it." Severely true, as the teacher dropped your final percentage 2 points for goofing off in class.
2) I have seen the movie, and read the book. I personally felt the book made more sense, the movie seemed to leave out something
So the my car is a derivative work of Shell Oil?
It has to be because the transmition() calls engine(), which calls gasoline() which calls crude_oil().
I don't realy think a function can be called a derivitive of something just because it calls a certain function, then again IANA(ip)L.
If the offending f() gets changed to produce the correct data manipulation is it still dirivative. If f() is no longer a dirivative, are g() h1() h2() and h3() still a dirivative?
I'm actually curious how that would be handled, no experience with it since I don't program anything for other people to use.
I love my cell number, very easy to remember pattern ( xyx y[x-1][y-1]0 ) and I'd love to move it over to Nextel. Since my employer is the main source of phone traffic to my cell, I can get added to the company plan if I have a NexTel phone.
I'd also like to get a slightly larger phone. My current one is too small for my hands.
The moral of the story, never let your S.O. pick out something as personal as your cell phone.
Off on a tangent as usual
Umm, forgive my horrible latin/greek since i don't know either but isn't calling it ununnilium just like calling it one-one-zero-ium in english (except it doesn't sound like Leonardo of Quirm named it)
<Obligatory MS Bashing>
I think that's called Windows
</Bash>
And I was one of them, since it's not one we covered in the 2 phi courses I took a long time back. It's not even listed in the chapter on Logical Falacies.
This was taken from waaay down the page if youre looking
It's located under "Fallacies Of Explanation" as a subset of 'Untestable'
Hopefully i didn't just commit the logical fallacy of Failure to Elucidate
Umm, not to incite the flame war a bit more but...
How is killing the child to save the mother any more logically/morally (I think I've lost track by now) correct than killing the mother to save the child?
Isn't the person performing the abortion consciously taking a deadly action against another human (that isn't aware that it is causing harm)?
It seems, perhaps, that you are determining a Homo Sapian's worthieness to live is fixxed at some arbitrary developemental stage.
Then again as a child who had mom's immune system fighting me the entire time, I can't realy say that I was more than a parasite for 7.6 months.
In any case YMWV.
I personally think humans should lay eggs, like their cousins the echidna, or platypus(sp?).
Anyone have any tips on engineering a retrovirus to alter the correct genes?
I just started thinking about this
/. mode I guess I'll post it anyway
<Mode = "Hypothetical situation">
Let's say you have a country with lots and lots of nearly identical desert and you're descretely making let's say 1 medium sized WMD/BCW a week.
Now, I would have them cart the thing out to some not-previously-determined spot in the desert and descretely bury it, and take a GPS reading of the spot.
So people don't find the GPS co-ordinates just written down somewhere, I'd make a deposit in an off-shore numbered account related to the Co-ords and let it earn intrest at a fixxed rate so it would be easy to calculate the original value.
Then again that's only how I'd do it... not that I've tried it... yet... ummm...
</mode>
I've just realized this is completely off topic, but since my brain has shut back down to
So if i had my lawyer friend defend me and agree to pay her TWO MILLION DOLLARS!(tm) [insert evil laugh] for the case and we win and are awarded legal fees, would DTV have to pay us TWO MILLION DOLLARS!(tm) that we could split?
And if we weren't awarded legal fees, she would settle for a bit of TWO MILLION DOLLAR!(tm) nookie.
nudge, nudge
wink, wink
say no more
I have an Eye patch and a funny hat with a skull and crossbones on it, also have a (plastic) sword.
Feh, at least they pay me enough to dress like that for work
If I had to define the term "Hacker", I think I'd go with; Someone who finds unintended ways to do cool things with hardware/software that was never intended by it's creators.
I beleive it a Galagher that pointed out that our Defense Department hes first strike capability.