Is a goatse different than puckering, making a faux 'thoughtful' face with hand on chin, and making a gang-style hand sign that means nothing a dozen times into the webcam with poor lighting in the photo gallery?
Hard to reveal evidence if you don't have any. And it's happened a couple times where when pressed the RIAA admitted they didn't have enough to go to trial with. No wonder they want this to be on a need-to-know basis, since they need to know before they start.
I didn't mean to say anyone deserves to be phished. I meant that if a person shifts responsibility for their online safety to software and doesn't use their wetware, shit happens.
And thank you to the people who modded this from 5 to 2. Kisses!
Look, if you're not checking what's in the URL of your browser, or are in the habit of clicking on links in email blindly, you get the phishing you deserve. The best protection mechanism in any browser against phishing is your eyes, looking at the address bar.
snark: And Safari users are advised to stop using PayPal.
> The University of Utah, for instance, claims that it has reduced MPAA and RIAA complaints by 90 percent...
The number of MPAA and RIAA complaints directed toward grandmothers and elementary school students has also gone down without the use of filtering. Coincidence?
That, and the U of U is in SLC so chances are the students can just walk over to the nearest temple and listen to a tabernacle choir for free.:-D
At what point did the RIAA claim that they were going through all these lawsuits on behalf of the artists? Uh... okay... those were the words in the broadside. Hmm.
Let's try again. At what point did they claim they were doing this to pay the arts for "lost profits"? There, that's it.
Sci-fi story stereotype: mining asteroids or planets, as part of the backstory to give a character a job. So now that person actually has a reason to be doing that.:)
While I don't disagree that some eggs have to be cracked to make an omlette (coal for electricity, petroleum for hydrogen), the technology to make electric cars exists and we're not gouged on coal, whereas we're getting reamed on gasoline and subsequently would get reamed on hydrogen (and they'd still have to make gas to get hydrogen).
Let's agree that there has to be a cleaner way of powering a vehicle than using compressed plant or dinosaur parts. Hydrogen, if from a different source than petroleum production, would be good.
But, you know, conversely, the present US government has expressed a desire to go in the direction of hydrogen. Mostly because it's a byproduct of petroleum production, so they'd not be seeing that cash cow go dry. By extention, this should mean the US government will get behind making nanoparticle-driven hydrogen cars... further marginalizing actual clean energy sources like electricity even further.
Germany had a mad dictator at one time stomping on personal freedoms, and the country learned from that about how democracy and freedom should work. The country has pledged never to let that crap happen again.
America will pick that lesson up in, oh, about eleven months or so if we're lucky. You don't know what you've got until it's gone.
Roadrunner's not-found page seems roughly as useful as the default MSN Search page that IE puts up automatically if a page can't be found. Which is to say, not very.
But it's still nowhere near as worthwhile as the "what you want, when you want it" domain squatter pages where most of the links are porn and ads. Catch up, Roadrunner!!
Good science isn't necessary (in the public's eye) when it's a celebrity doing the talking. Seriously, consider Jenny McCarthy talking about autism, Tom Cruise talking about mental health issues, or Paris Hilton on drunken elephants. [grinning on the last one] While science and truth should matter, and in the end do, people still prefer the people who play doctors on TV -- or play the fool on TV, radio, magazines, etcetera -- to the folks who actually know what the f#&* they're talking about.
Because, you know, terrorists always watch pirated movies and download pop albums, and they're constantly Torrenting weapons of mass destruction (though it takes awhile with their throughput).
RIAA, Homeland Security... who knew they were one and the same?
Yes, it does appear to be a centralized way of converting A to B. And contrary to the article title, it does not kill DRM -- it just converts what you rightfully own to another format. You still have to purchase those iTunes songs in order to convert them, you can't just convert what you find on the net, thus is no different than using WMP or iTunes to burn to disk then rip the disks to files (if those two programs don't convert directly to MP3 or your preferred flavor without the intermediary disk step).
Keep trying, Jon, you'll liberate some oppressed music yet.:)
I heard this exact story several years ago, possibly right here on/. (I'm too lazy to hunt for it, and figure Google would produce the recycled story, not the original).
Everything old is new again cuz the problems haven't gone away?
Some years ago the author of the Atarisoft rendition of "Mario Bros" for the Apple// was writing about the title in a Usenet post, saying that Atarisoft never released the game yet it was leaked and everyone had it... and for that reason, he was still able to list it on his resume.:) That's gotta be weird, everyone knows your work yet you didn't get paid properly for it.
Loderunner definitely made the Apple// a gaming platform, as did Wizardry.
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Scamming on the fat chicks: ...has not yet worked for me. ;-)
Is a goatse different than puckering, making a faux 'thoughtful' face with hand on chin, and making a gang-style hand sign that means nothing a dozen times into the webcam with poor lighting in the photo gallery?
I can't really tell the difference.
Hard to reveal evidence if you don't have any. And it's happened a couple times where when pressed the RIAA admitted they didn't have enough to go to trial with. No wonder they want this to be on a need-to-know basis, since they need to know before they start.
I didn't mean to say anyone deserves to be phished. I meant that if a person shifts responsibility for their online safety to software and doesn't use their wetware, shit happens.
And thank you to the people who modded this from 5 to 2. Kisses!
Look, if you're not checking what's in the URL of your browser, or are in the habit of clicking on links in email blindly, you get the phishing you deserve. The best protection mechanism in any browser against phishing is your eyes, looking at the address bar.
snark: And Safari users are advised to stop using PayPal.
> The University of Utah, for instance, claims that it has reduced MPAA and RIAA complaints by 90 percent ...
:-D
The number of MPAA and RIAA complaints directed toward grandmothers and elementary school students has also gone down without the use of filtering. Coincidence?
That, and the U of U is in SLC so chances are the students can just walk over to the nearest temple and listen to a tabernacle choir for free.
At what point did the RIAA claim that they were going through all these lawsuits on behalf of the artists? Uh... okay... those were the words in the broadside. Hmm.
Let's try again. At what point did they claim they were doing this to pay the arts for "lost profits"? There, that's it.
Sci-fi story stereotype: mining asteroids or planets, as part of the backstory to give a character a job. :)
So now that person actually has a reason to be doing that.
While I don't disagree that some eggs have to be cracked to make an omlette (coal for electricity, petroleum for hydrogen), the technology to make electric cars exists and we're not gouged on coal, whereas we're getting reamed on gasoline and subsequently would get reamed on hydrogen (and they'd still have to make gas to get hydrogen).
Let's agree that there has to be a cleaner way of powering a vehicle than using compressed plant or dinosaur parts. Hydrogen, if from a different source than petroleum production, would be good.
High probability.
But, you know, conversely, the present US government has expressed a desire to go in the direction of hydrogen. Mostly because it's a byproduct of petroleum production, so they'd not be seeing that cash cow go dry. By extention, this should mean the US government will get behind making nanoparticle-driven hydrogen cars... further marginalizing actual clean energy sources like electricity even further.
Germany had a mad dictator at one time stomping on personal freedoms, and the country learned from that about how democracy and freedom should work. The country has pledged never to let that crap happen again.
America will pick that lesson up in, oh, about eleven months or so if we're lucky. You don't know what you've got until it's gone.
--- can't get anyone to look at their MySpace page.
Roadrunner's not-found page seems roughly as useful as the default MSN Search page that IE puts up automatically if a page can't be found. Which is to say, not very.
But it's still nowhere near as worthwhile as the "what you want, when you want it" domain squatter pages where most of the links are porn and ads. Catch up, Roadrunner!!
Good science isn't necessary (in the public's eye) when it's a celebrity doing the talking. Seriously, consider Jenny McCarthy talking about autism, Tom Cruise talking about mental health issues, or Paris Hilton on drunken elephants. [grinning on the last one] While science and truth should matter, and in the end do, people still prefer the people who play doctors on TV -- or play the fool on TV, radio, magazines, etcetera -- to the folks who actually know what the f#&* they're talking about.
Nah, they only look pasty like that. I can't speak on statistics of non-Caucasians securing student loans to law schools, though.
Because, you know, terrorists always watch pirated movies and download pop albums, and they're constantly Torrenting weapons of mass destruction (though it takes awhile with their throughput).
RIAA, Homeland Security... who knew they were one and the same?
Yes, it does appear to be a centralized way of converting A to B. And contrary to the article title, it does not kill DRM -- it just converts what you rightfully own to another format. You still have to purchase those iTunes songs in order to convert them, you can't just convert what you find on the net, thus is no different than using WMP or iTunes to burn to disk then rip the disks to files (if those two programs don't convert directly to MP3 or your preferred flavor without the intermediary disk step).
:)
Keep trying, Jon, you'll liberate some oppressed music yet.
Two words, once you've located them: white-out
I heard this exact story several years ago, possibly right here on /. (I'm too lazy to hunt for it, and figure Google would produce the recycled story, not the original).
Everything old is new again cuz the problems haven't gone away?
You sure? I saw the ad for the season finale and I could swear the ghosts of Bob Denver and Alan Hale, Jr. were in the Island Six.
You've never watched "The King Of Queens", have you? Yes, you can write a whole episode that fast.
Good that we have writers so we don't have to deal with reruns anymore.
Now we can get back to rehashed stories with slapdash writing as usual.
May as well get a reward for this, you know.
:)
What they forget: you can watch a lot of big-screen porn and go-it-alone with a big TV, so who needs company?
Wait, do they count solo acts?
> GM you better hurry is you want to be able to call your Volt the second production electric car 'since god knows when'.
GM should know when since they made the first contemporary electric, the EV1. And then, God knows why GM had all of them destroyed.
Some years ago the author of the Atarisoft rendition of "Mario Bros" for the Apple // was writing about the title in a Usenet post, saying that Atarisoft never released the game yet it was leaked and everyone had it... and for that reason, he was still able to list it on his resume. :) That's gotta be weird, everyone knows your work yet you didn't get paid properly for it.
// a gaming platform, as did Wizardry.
Loderunner definitely made the Apple