Blackmail is the extortion of money by threats or overtures towards criminal prosecution or the destruction of a person's reputation or social standing.
It's blackmail if I know that my brother-in-law is cheating on my sister and I demand that he pay me or else I'll inform her. But if I tell him that I'm planning to tell her about it tomorrow and that he has until then to come clean, it's just a statement of fact. I'm sure he'd feel threatened, but only because he made himself vulnerable by choosing a poor "marriage model".
They offered MS a chance to participate in the project and MS silently declined.
When cellular phones became popular many people started eavesdropping on them with simple scanning radios. The FCC mandated that scanner makers black out the telephone bands. AFAIK, that was the first time there was a federal regulation against reception.
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The maximum acceptable response time would also depend on the acceptable distance from start of swipe to start of printing, and maximum allowable acceleration.
Put the book online and let any reader select a block of text and associate it with a thread of discussion. The text would then be highlighted so that other readers would know that it is being discussed.
I have a disc, formerly known as a cd, containing music by an artist formerly known as Prince, and it won't play thru my USB port, formerly known as 1.1.
Morally opposed to stealing, and you choose Gates as your poster-victim? -- "How would that level the playing field, anyway? "
By punishing vendors for engaging in the type of unfair trade practice the court found MS guilty of. -- "Microsft needs to fail as a business on it's own merits"
Ideally, they would. The fact that they haven't is evidence that something is rotten in Denmark. Windows is the first system most people ever encounter and they don't realize that MS OSes set the computing world back at least a decade.
The term microcomputer was coined to refer to a computer based on a "cpu on a chip". For example, when Data General implemented a Nova 3 on a chip (the MicroNova), the machine was called a microcomputer instead of a minicomputer.
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"...used that name for his dog..."
That was my wife.
You misspelled "fascism"
And the penalty is death!
I can just see some poor bastard trying to serve papers to Heywood Jablome.
BlinkenX?
+0 Veeeery intereshting... but shtupid.
Notice the effect of reverse psychology on (some of) the mods.
He said "flying cars", not "flying pickup trucks".
this glossary of legal terms says:
Blackmail is the extortion of money by threats or overtures towards criminal prosecution or the destruction of a person's reputation or social standing.
Thank you sir. May I have another?
+2 flamebait for dissin' a guy named George on 7/4. I like it.
...the definition of blackmail
It's blackmail if I know that my brother-in-law is cheating on my sister and I demand that he pay me or else I'll inform her. But if I tell him that I'm planning to tell her about it tomorrow and that he has until then to come clean, it's just a statement of fact. I'm sure he'd feel threatened, but only because he made himself vulnerable by choosing a poor "marriage model".
They offered MS a chance to participate in the project and MS silently declined.
Solar Sailboard - Great for chasing roadrunners
Contents:
Board
Solar sail
Giant spotlight
Warning: Climb aboard BEFORE you turn on the light!
"The data entry chicks had much more sophisticated keyboards on their tape encoding machines (remember those?)"
Flexowriter?
We're very sorry, Mr. DiMaggio.
"data loss, crashes, blue screens"
Don't blame MS. It's all your fault for not properly shutting down your computer.
It is now safe to mod me troll.
Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!
When cellular phones became popular many people started eavesdropping on them with simple scanning radios. The FCC mandated that scanner makers black out the telephone bands. AFAIK, that was the first time there was a federal regulation against reception.
Was it your aunt who was driving the car?
The maximum acceptable response time would also depend on the acceptable distance from start of swipe to start of printing, and maximum allowable acceleration.
"big capacitors"
Flux capacitors maybe?
* Ass gaskets not included
Put the book online and let any reader select a block of text and associate it with a thread of discussion. The text would then be highlighted so that other readers would know that it is being discussed.
I have a disc, formerly known as a cd, containing music by an artist formerly known as Prince, and it won't play thru my USB port, formerly known as 1.1.
"Stealing 10% from Microsoft"
Morally opposed to stealing, and you choose Gates as your poster-victim?
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"How would that level the playing field, anyway? "
By punishing vendors for engaging in the type of unfair trade practice the court found MS guilty of.
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"Microsft needs to fail as a business on it's own merits"
Ideally, they would. The fact that they haven't is evidence that something is rotten in Denmark. Windows is the first system most people ever encounter and they don't realize that MS OSes set the computing world back at least a decade.
AC is wrong.
The term microcomputer was coined to refer to a computer based on a "cpu on a chip". For example, when Data General implemented a Nova 3 on a chip (the MicroNova), the machine was called a microcomputer instead of a minicomputer.
The term "personal" was used to refer to non-shared systems well before the IBM PC. Here's a famous example from 1974.