And the last time I planned something big and illegal we sure as hell didn't EMAIL each other about it, we met in person. (3 friends of mine all worked at Taco Bell through High School. Summer before college we planned a heist of the flags off the top. I still have a flag I fly on Rugby trips with the Taco Bell Dog.)
If it's really reasonable, we should be able to apply it to other basic utilities, like phone, electricity, and water. Accused of making prank calls three times? No more phone for you. Accused of watering on no-water days, or using the water for illegal purposes? No more water for you. Accused of playing the stereo too loudly? No more electricity for you.
How can a security-conscious end-user verify that my data is encrypted on one of these drives, as opposed to simply being stored in the clear and the drive just refusing to read it? Sure seems it'd be cheaper if they just left out the crypto and had the drive lie, taking only a few hundred bytes of extra firmware and no extra processing power to implement the new "encryption" command set. Who's going to know?
I mean hell, so they finger you as the one who recorded the movie, since their flawless watermarking system said so. How are you going to prove you didn't? Not that I've been to a movie theater in about 5 years now...
If needed for API's that require them, or if you turn them back on, they're available, but otherwise don't get loaded.
That's pretty slick... the computer doesn't load them unless they're needed. I just have this odd feeling I encountered this on some system a while back...
He could even have it "predict" today's train schedule, by using a complex extrapolation algorithm that displays the schedule from seven days ago. Surely predictions aren't also copyrighted in Australia!
Dear Adobe, please fix your flash plugin. Seems that once a day if I go to a page with considerable flash (which is most pages these days), the browser will crash [...]
Without executable content in documents, how can we make them smart and clickable and do lots of stupid things? If we did as you suggested, we'd only be able to read the document. BORING!
Often I'm actually surprised they are allowed to keep operating. Them and rental companies. They just seem like a gaping hole in the copyright regime's stranglehold.
If there is one thing I'll complain about, it's the choice of the value 0. It's almost impossible to trace it. When we do hardware debug of chips, we prefer to use a much more visible value such as 0xdeadbeef for instance. Otherwise a bad pointer will bland too much with all the uninitialized values out there.
Recently, my tinnitus got significantly worse. During my research, I happened to come across the fact that many commonly-prescribed drugs are ototoxic and can thus cause tinnitus. Even though I only take prescription medication once every few years, I wish I had known that there were non-ototoxic drugs in many cases.
BTW, you DO NOT WANT to get tinnitus. Think ringing in your ears that NEVER GOES AWAY, and is especially loud when sleeping.
Since SCO has quieted down, I wouldn't be surprised if the RIAA goes through a decade-long undead phase as well, the company-without-a-plan that keeps on going...
Just the fact that copy restriction schemes require lots of resources to police will be their downfall, as some countries show that they can make more without them, and not waste any resources on trying to prevent people from copying culture.
The system contains both a methanol fuel cell and a Li-on battery. [...] Sony intends to show off two models claimed to power your cell for a week or a month
... or until it explodes in a ball of fire, like their previous batteries.
So that's why it includes a conventional Li-Ion battery inside as well.
Yeah, except I had this image of a Greek goddess, with snakes in her hair and flowing robes. I thought it might be some kind of fashion advice book (really, well except the Greek goddess part).
And that's the way Apple users would like it; working well is more important than being really cheap and available anywhere (not that Apple is perfect in eliminating all problems of course).
and allows a reader to disable all signatures if he is not interested in them.
You answered your own question.
I'd just like to hear it from the person actually doing it, in order to decide how to respond. Why would someone want to bypass a user's preference to not see signatures, especially since it requires extra work?
I'm just curious as to why you manually add a signature to your postings (a link to some website), rather than use the standard signature mechanism that automatically adds it, and allows a reader to disable all signatures if he is not interested in them.
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Even better, you posted about it on Slashdot!
If it's really reasonable, we should be able to apply it to other basic utilities, like phone, electricity, and water. Accused of making prank calls three times? No more phone for you. Accused of watering on no-water days, or using the water for illegal purposes? No more water for you. Accused of playing the stereo too loudly? No more electricity for you.
How can a security-conscious end-user verify that my data is encrypted on one of these drives, as opposed to simply being stored in the clear and the drive just refusing to read it? Sure seems it'd be cheaper if they just left out the crypto and had the drive lie, taking only a few hundred bytes of extra firmware and no extra processing power to implement the new "encryption" command set. Who's going to know?
Actually, it's because Apache's contract renewal team forgot to send them a notice, due to a backlog. Oh, wait...
I mean hell, so they finger you as the one who recorded the movie, since their flawless watermarking system said so. How are you going to prove you didn't? Not that I've been to a movie theater in about 5 years now...
That's pretty slick... the computer doesn't load them unless they're needed. I just have this odd feeling I encountered this on some system a while back...
He could even have it "predict" today's train schedule, by using a complex extrapolation algorithm that displays the schedule from seven days ago. Surely predictions aren't also copyrighted in Australia!
Those Japanese trains are so smart, they even commit suicide!
There's a third-party fix available: Flashblock
Without executable content in documents, how can we make them smart and clickable and do lots of stupid things? If we did as you suggested, we'd only be able to read the document. BORING!
On a more serious note, will any accesses to the site be logged by ISPs so they know who to watch?
I have something similar in my resume to help employers filter out the irrelevant things:
"John Doe" -drunk -idiot -fired -"bad worker" -theft -stole
Often I'm actually surprised they are allowed to keep operating. Them and rental companies. They just seem like a gaping hole in the copyright regime's stranglehold.
Actually, I think writers should be able to get paid for their work, just as others do... work, as in labor. And only paid once.
There's nothing stopping a C compiler from using 0xDEADBEEF for the internal representation of a null pointer. The fact that 0 can be a null pointer constant in the source text isn't an issue.
BTW, you DO NOT WANT to get tinnitus. Think ringing in your ears that NEVER GOES AWAY, and is especially loud when sleeping.
Since SCO has quieted down, I wouldn't be surprised if the RIAA goes through a decade-long undead phase as well, the company-without-a-plan that keeps on going...
Just the fact that copy restriction schemes require lots of resources to police will be their downfall, as some countries show that they can make more without them, and not waste any resources on trying to prevent people from copying culture.
So that's why it includes a conventional Li-Ion battery inside as well.
No, but perhaps Watson and Crick might be.
Yeah, except I had this image of a Greek goddess, with snakes in her hair and flowing robes. I thought it might be some kind of fashion advice book (really, well except the Greek goddess part).
And that's the way Apple users would like it; working well is more important than being really cheap and available anywhere (not that Apple is perfect in eliminating all problems of course).
A beowolf cluster? I think you mean an outlet strip full of these!
I'd just like to hear it from the person actually doing it, in order to decide how to respond. Why would someone want to bypass a user's preference to not see signatures, especially since it requires extra work?
I'm just curious as to why you manually add a signature to your postings (a link to some website), rather than use the standard signature mechanism that automatically adds it, and allows a reader to disable all signatures if he is not interested in them.