I know of one great way to stop DDOS kiddies and spammers : make it a capital offence. When we start shooting their brains out on national TV, I think they'll seriously think about a career change.
Here's the lazy solution: just email the stories to each other and run them through the M$ speech synthesizer for fun. Then you don't have to worry about doing re-takes.
But seriously, any half-decent recording software will let you do this. Whether it's prose, or rap, or a bunch of powder-nosed sampler whores that need 42 takes to get each line right, the machine doesn't care what your voice sounds like. It's going to take whatever you dare input through the mic, and let you edit until your ears bleed. Sound forge, Cool Edit.. heck there are others but those are my faves.
Now tell me more about these short stories ? Typically the only short stories I'd share with my buddies are the ones involving alcohol, drugs and gratuitous sex =)
The average CDRW blank costs 2-3 bucks. The average CDR blank costs 15 cents. Therefore you can burn 13-20 CDRs for the cost of one CDRW. If the video data you're recording is worth burning, then it might be worth collecting too (entire star trek series or something). My suggestion is to source a truckload of cheap CDR discs (think 2000+ qty, get a discount). CDRW is flaky, slow and unreliable. You can burn a CDR in about 2 minutes with the latest 48x burners, while CDRW is still stuck at 10-12x. This one's a no-brainer.
Look people, this Bill was introduced by a member of the NDP party. Anyone remember Preston Manning ? These guys are kind of like the government's pet cat.. they make up big fusses to try and gain attention, we pet their back and give them a (cash) treat, then they go back to sleep for a few months until the next federal elections roll around.
This is just a PR stunt for the NDP, so they can come back and say "Look at us, we tried to crack down on kiddie porn, and Jean Chretien's government turned us down. Liberal is evil! NDP is your friend!".
Hey we get the same kind of police fraud here in Canada. I once got pulled over for speeding, which in itself is okay except for the fact that the guy was out of his district (I traveled four close cities to/from work, and he was about a mile beyond the borders - bah). Anyways I fought the ticket in court and got shut out by the judge who had an obvious grudge against 21-year olds who earn more money than he does, so I pay the fine and go on with my life, slightly irate.
3 months later I get arrested for driving without a license because they decided to charge late fees on my fine but never bothered informing me, so a sneaky (fraudulent?) 40$ late fee ended up costing 300$ (the fine for an invalid license) and another 600$ in hiked insurance premiums because of the big ugly mark on my record for having my license suspended.
I have recently moved to the sneaky police's district, and I see them everyday, camping out the same traffic trap, arresting at least a hundred drivers at that intersection PER DAY for the same 130$ ticket and 2 points on the license, for changing lanes during rush hour in 2 kph traffic, something that has never killed anyone here, and certainly doesn't deserve the attention of FOUR cars and 6-7 police agents, leaving two cars to cover the remaining 1400 square kilometers of the region (an aggregate of small country towns, perhaps 25000 habitants).
I swear every time I drive by that intersection, I get this urge to just ram them all into a sheet-metal sandwich. Police (and the rest of government) are supposed to be non-profit. We pay taxes for this shit, and we get raped in return. Police state, meet Anarchy village!
The problem isn't the battery's shape or size, it's the content. NiMH isn't something you want close to your skin, might as well run around holding a car battery with the top off, in your birthday suit! Lead acid, yippee.
I see a lot of people mentioning HUD-on-Glasses, but there is one problem: electronics require power to run, and I don't like the idea of carring 7 lbs of NiMH on the tip of my nose. Even a watch battery would be bulky on the frames.
Automotive HUDs are a big problem, because to present an accurate image, the display controller needs to know where you're sitting in the car, so it can adjust the projection angles to your viewing position, else nothing will line up properly with the real stuff that lies beyond the windshield. This isn't as much an issue with head-mounted displays because they are stationary to your eyes.
And of course the passengers would be totally confused because from their POV the HUD would be radically off-target.
Now who was on mars to witness this warmth and wetness ? Sure, we can figure a bit of the past by looking at the present, but 3.5 million years on a planet we still don't know that well yet ? Somebody hold a gun to these "researchers'" heads so the bullshit comes to an end.
Well the (stupid) reason behind the 10$ surcharge for non-subcribers is because they have to give you basic cable tv along with the internet (probably some misconfigured software restriction - they're really dumb). So rather than having everyone get free tv they make you pay some stupid amount (still less than regular cable).
The BIOS does check for a mouse and keyboard, because it needs to reserve an IRQ for each if present. No mouse/kb on bootup ? then it doesn't grab an IRQ and you can't hot-plug them later on. But you can if you had them on bootup, but later unplugged them.
It's one of those annoying quirks I wish they had an "Always ON" option in the BIOS.
Why pay 15 grand for a domain when you can just "su" the current owner for it ? ICANN is so retarded you can probably bullshit your way into a free domain.
>That's a very narrow view, IMHO. Can I suggest you walk by a local university and/or a college in Canada?
Oh that I don't argue with. I mean the people who arrive here, in their mid-30s or older. They come here to tap into small businesses. Their kids, they usually grow up fine and become model citizens (except for those driving Hondas of course).
>And running cheap ass apartment buildings is bad?
Yes, I don't mean "cheap == inexpensive", i mean "cheap == poorly maintained". At least up here we've got a cartel of Lebanese folk who own half the town's apartment buildings, and wouldn't you know they're all infested and falling apart. And they hardly ever get the snow out in the winter... but they're not inexpensive, at 600 + heating for a 2 bedroom it's certainly no deal. These people are good at spotting exploitable situations and they get their ruthless fingers into every wallet, but I wouldn't want my kids working their butts off for minimum wage, helping out these low-life crooks.
>>and pretend to not understand english/french when we try to reason with them
Believe me, I've worked plenty of retail/public service jobs and I can spot the troublemakers before they even greet me. It's as if some people were raised to be lying profiteers, like it's a homeland tradition or something. Say I'm selling movies, and I get some guy who tells me my movies are too expensive and offers me half of what's on the pricetag. I tell him "no can do, buddy", so he starts calling me names and saying I'm a bad clerk, or saying my movies suck. Yet when I ask them to leave they don't.. or they come back an hour later and complain because the evening guy's not in yet, again with the insults. I get those every single day, they're worse than the rednecks.
If it's so much trouble to keep the military paperwork in order, the can the fucking military paperwork and start over with something sensible that costs less than 6 bazillion to implement.
It's easier to get a personal gun license that I can shoot in the street, than it is to get in the military as a jeep washer.
The reason he can't be stopped from pimping your mailbox full of spam is because the post office gets PAID to do that. When you get a P.O. box, you're PAYING for that box, so they can give you a break because they're making money with you already.
First of all, many of the immigrants coming here to Canada are rich, filthy stinking rich and they're starting businesses left and right, hiring idiot teenagers at minimum wage to run corner stores, 42-for-1 pizza, and cheap ass apartment buildings. They piss us off because they screw us broke and pretend to not understand english/french when we try to reason with them. At least around my neighborhood, they're practically all racist penny-snatchers who despise the locals as if we were wild animals. And the few who are honest and civilised, they're integrating with us, working regular jobs with regular wages with regular kids. They are no longer immigrants, they are good faring canadians like the rest of us.
Canada doesn't assimilate immigrants, they either fit in with us, or THEY try to enslave us. For some, racism is taught from parent to child; for the rest it is a learned reflex from being burned so damn often. Being nice sucks in the long run.
Lab tests have shown that such irrational, knee-jerk marketing decisions are produced by a very specific hormone found only in pregnant mammals. An anonymous tipster has noted that Apple's execs are gay. Experts have come to the conclusion that Apple is being run by pregnant she-males.
Get an old tape deck from a pawn shop, and disassemble it. Now reposition the parts so that the recording head and playback head are running separate input/output. Adjust the distance between both heads until it syncs up with your video. Tada!
Add more playback heads and you can sell it to your neighbor as a home-made guitar delay box:)
I'd rather see NASA stop spending money PERIOD. We're not going anywhere, the problem isn't in outer space, it's right here on the planet we're currently occupying. Get rid of all these kids who don't understand which way to wear a baseball cap, driving sticker-laden cheap import cars with noise-laden stereo systems that seem to play only one bass note (typically A#), no matter what kind of input you feed it. Once we turn them all into Alpo dog food, then we'll have plenty of room for kids and old folk.
That's the plan: Turn NASA into a human garbage disposal service! Your tax dollars at work!
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I know of one great way to stop DDOS kiddies and spammers : make it a capital offence. When we start shooting their brains out on national TV, I think they'll seriously think about a career change.
Here's the lazy solution: just email the stories to each other and run them through the M$ speech synthesizer for fun. Then you don't have to worry about doing re-takes.
But seriously, any half-decent recording software will let you do this. Whether it's prose, or rap, or a bunch of powder-nosed sampler whores that need 42 takes to get each line right, the machine doesn't care what your voice sounds like. It's going to take whatever you dare input through the mic, and let you edit until your ears bleed. Sound forge, Cool Edit.. heck there are others but those are my faves.
Now tell me more about these short stories ? Typically the only short stories I'd share with my buddies are the ones involving alcohol, drugs and gratuitous sex =)
Let's run down some numbers for media costs:
The average CDRW blank costs 2-3 bucks. The average CDR blank costs 15 cents. Therefore you can burn 13-20 CDRs for the cost of one CDRW. If the video data you're recording is worth burning, then it might be worth collecting too (entire star trek series or something). My suggestion is to source a truckload of cheap CDR discs (think 2000+ qty, get a discount). CDRW is flaky, slow and unreliable. You can burn a CDR in about 2 minutes with the latest 48x burners, while CDRW is still stuck at 10-12x. This one's a no-brainer.
Look people, this Bill was introduced by a member of the NDP party. Anyone remember Preston Manning ? These guys are kind of like the government's pet cat.. they make up big fusses to try and gain attention, we pet their back and give them a (cash) treat, then they go back to sleep for a few months until the next federal elections roll around.
This is just a PR stunt for the NDP, so they can come back and say "Look at us, we tried to crack down on kiddie porn, and Jean Chretien's government turned us down. Liberal is evil! NDP is your friend!".
Hey we get the same kind of police fraud here in Canada. I once got pulled over for speeding, which in itself is okay except for the fact that the guy was out of his district (I traveled four close cities to/from work, and he was about a mile beyond the borders - bah). Anyways I fought the ticket in court and got shut out by the judge who had an obvious grudge against 21-year olds who earn more money than he does, so I pay the fine and go on with my life, slightly irate.
3 months later I get arrested for driving without a license because they decided to charge late fees on my fine but never bothered informing me, so a sneaky (fraudulent?) 40$ late fee ended up costing 300$ (the fine for an invalid license) and another 600$ in hiked insurance premiums because of the big ugly mark on my record for having my license suspended.
I have recently moved to the sneaky police's district, and I see them everyday, camping out the same traffic trap, arresting at least a hundred drivers at that intersection PER DAY for the same 130$ ticket and 2 points on the license, for changing lanes during rush hour in 2 kph traffic, something that has never killed anyone here, and certainly doesn't deserve the attention of FOUR cars and 6-7 police agents, leaving two cars to cover the remaining 1400 square kilometers of the region (an aggregate of small country towns, perhaps 25000 habitants).
I swear every time I drive by that intersection, I get this urge to just ram them all into a sheet-metal sandwich. Police (and the rest of government) are supposed to be non-profit. We pay taxes for this shit, and we get raped in return. Police state, meet Anarchy village!
The problem isn't the battery's shape or size, it's the content. NiMH isn't something you want close to your skin, might as well run around holding a car battery with the top off, in your birthday suit! Lead acid, yippee.
I see a lot of people mentioning HUD-on-Glasses, but there is one problem: electronics require power to run, and I don't like the idea of carring 7 lbs of NiMH on the tip of my nose. Even a watch battery would be bulky on the frames.
Of course we all know SEX is short for Software EXchange :)
Automotive HUDs are a big problem, because to present an accurate image, the display controller needs to know where you're sitting in the car, so it can adjust the projection angles to your viewing position, else nothing will line up properly with the real stuff that lies beyond the windshield. This isn't as much an issue with head-mounted displays because they are stationary to your eyes.
And of course the passengers would be totally confused because from their POV the HUD would be radically off-target.
Now who was on mars to witness this warmth and wetness ? Sure, we can figure a bit of the past by looking at the present, but 3.5 million years on a planet we still don't know that well yet ? Somebody hold a gun to these "researchers'" heads so the bullshit comes to an end.
Well the (stupid) reason behind the 10$ surcharge for non-subcribers is because they have to give you basic cable tv along with the internet (probably some misconfigured software restriction - they're really dumb). So rather than having everyone get free tv they make you pay some stupid amount (still less than regular cable).
Ok see, 18 bucks for GOOD music. That's discount candy pop. Linkin Park ? Geeze! Try some Mushroomhead my friend.
Well boys, you're on a crime scene, which means those nitro-powered toys will have to be confiscated as evidence. *snicker*
Damn I hate cops.. almost as much as I hate lawyers.
The BIOS does check for a mouse and keyboard, because it needs to reserve an IRQ for each if present. No mouse/kb on bootup ? then it doesn't grab an IRQ and you can't hot-plug them later on. But you can if you had them on bootup, but later unplugged them.
It's one of those annoying quirks I wish they had an "Always ON" option in the BIOS.
Why pay 15 grand for a domain when you can just "su" the current owner for it ? ICANN is so retarded you can probably bullshit your way into a free domain.
Nevermind the strike, their problem is pricing.. they're so 1989 with their TV and Internet prices it's absurd.
"6 gigs should be enough for everyone"
ri-ight.
"20$/mo gets you eighteen standard channels, for another 29.99$ you can get 15 more"
su-ure.
"Digital cable starting at 59.99$/mo"
and then ?
I hate monopolies.
>That's a very narrow view, IMHO. Can I suggest you walk by a local university and/or a college in Canada?
Oh that I don't argue with. I mean the people who arrive here, in their mid-30s or older. They come here to tap into small businesses. Their kids, they usually grow up fine and become model citizens (except for those driving Hondas of course).
>And running cheap ass apartment buildings is bad?
Yes, I don't mean "cheap == inexpensive", i mean "cheap == poorly maintained". At least up here we've got a cartel of Lebanese folk who own half the town's apartment buildings, and wouldn't you know they're all infested and falling apart. And they hardly ever get the snow out in the winter... but they're not inexpensive, at 600 + heating for a 2 bedroom it's certainly no deal. These people are good at spotting exploitable situations and they get their ruthless fingers into every wallet, but I wouldn't want my kids working their butts off for minimum wage, helping out these low-life crooks.
>>and pretend to not understand english/french when we try to reason with them
Believe me, I've worked plenty of retail/public service jobs and I can spot the troublemakers before they even greet me. It's as if some people were raised to be lying profiteers, like it's a homeland tradition or something. Say I'm selling movies, and I get some guy who tells me my movies are too expensive and offers me half of what's on the pricetag. I tell him "no can do, buddy", so he starts calling me names and saying I'm a bad clerk, or saying my movies suck. Yet when I ask them to leave they don't.. or they come back an hour later and complain because the evening guy's not in yet, again with the insults. I get those every single day, they're worse than the rednecks.
HAIL SONY! *grunt grunt*
All your games are belong to us
Your eyes are keen, the CompactFlash is actually the disc drive; you stick the SFFO micro-disc in there and jack it in.
Amazing!
If it's so much trouble to keep the military paperwork in order, the can the fucking military paperwork and start over with something sensible that costs less than 6 bazillion to implement.
It's easier to get a personal gun license that I can shoot in the street, than it is to get in the military as a jeep washer.
The reason he can't be stopped from pimping your mailbox full of spam is because the post office gets PAID to do that. When you get a P.O. box, you're PAYING for that box, so they can give you a break because they're making money with you already.
Riight..
First of all, many of the immigrants coming here to Canada are rich, filthy stinking rich and they're starting businesses left and right, hiring idiot teenagers at minimum wage to run corner stores, 42-for-1 pizza, and cheap ass apartment buildings. They piss us off because they screw us broke and pretend to not understand english/french when we try to reason with them. At least around my neighborhood, they're practically all racist penny-snatchers who despise the locals as if we were wild animals. And the few who are honest and civilised, they're integrating with us, working regular jobs with regular wages with regular kids. They are no longer immigrants, they are good faring canadians like the rest of us.
Canada doesn't assimilate immigrants, they either fit in with us, or THEY try to enslave us. For some, racism is taught from parent to child; for the rest it is a learned reflex from being burned so damn often. Being nice sucks in the long run.
Lab tests have shown that such irrational, knee-jerk marketing decisions are produced by a very specific hormone found only in pregnant mammals. An anonymous tipster has noted that Apple's execs are gay. Experts have come to the conclusion that Apple is being run by pregnant she-males.
Get an old tape deck from a pawn shop, and disassemble it. Now reposition the parts so that the recording head and playback head are running separate input/output. Adjust the distance between both heads until it syncs up with your video. Tada!
:)
Add more playback heads and you can sell it to your neighbor as a home-made guitar delay box
I'd rather see NASA stop spending money PERIOD. We're not going anywhere, the problem isn't in outer space, it's right here on the planet we're currently occupying. Get rid of all these kids who don't understand which way to wear a baseball cap, driving sticker-laden cheap import cars with noise-laden stereo systems that seem to play only one bass note (typically A#), no matter what kind of input you feed it. Once we turn them all into Alpo dog food, then we'll have plenty of room for kids and old folk.
That's the plan: Turn NASA into a human garbage disposal service! Your tax dollars at work!