My provider gives 3 strikes, but there's no due process. I suppose one rationalization might be that if you can't lock down your network after 2 violations, maybe it is time to cut you off regardless of your personal guilt or innocence. We're not talking about fines or jail time here. Merely a violation of ToS and disconnection. It isn't entirely unfair or unjustified but it would certainly suck to be at the business end of a clerical error 3 times in a row.
A file hash/sum couldn't work because the new version would most certainly be different. Dunno about audio fingerprinting or how that would work. Who knows, it might be as trivial as looking at the ID3 tags. Now that would be easy to trick.
Well, you haven't paid the original artists for the music, but you've paid someone. And apparently that's all the law really cares about it. So long as that "someone" has some kind of agreement with the record labels to be able to grant "licenses" all willy nilly on their behalf. The whole system is ridiculous.
As someone who does download illegally, I don't fear lawsuits so much as being permanently banned from my broadband provider. But they don't care if at some point I buy a legal copy of something. They only respond to letters from content owners saying my IP was used to download some content from bittorrent. They're not going to care if I say "Oh, but I paid Apple $25 to make it legit. Please turn my internet back on!"
Maybe I'll try Terraria. The video I saw didn't look all that interesting though. I just can't imagine how much there can be to do in a 2D side scroller like that.
I dunno. I've been playing Minecraft on and off for about a year now and it just doesn't feel like that much as really changed. THere's still really not that much to do. I've turned off mobs because they were a nuisance. The whole combat/health/spawn system is awkwardly tacked onto what is essentially a a builder "game." I guess the mobs are there to motivate the player to actually build a base? I dunno. I also had to give myself unlimited TNT because digging with a pick was just SOO tedious. If I ever get the urge to build anything again, I'll probably just edit my inventory and give myself all the components needed. Or at least use a TNT mod so my TNT doesn't destroy valuable materials.
Maybe I'm just not suited for such a wide open sandbox. I need more tangible goals, I guess.
I want to say that being creative in Minecraft is difficult because of the materials and functions are so limited, but I know that should push me to do more with less. I do find making intricate things to be very difficult. For example, anything that involving curves is very tedious. Also, without using some cheats, collecting materials can be extremely tedious. I resorted to giving myself infinite TNT because I couldn't stand hackign away at stone ad nauseum. And I turn off mobs because they're just a nuisance. So basically it is just a virtual lego set:)
Problem is that the fighting system is just not very robust. It is more like a prototyping tool for a better game. I find the mobs in the game to be nothing more than a nuisance.
They sit around for 23 hours a day because they CAN. They cover all of their survival needs in 1 hour a day. That's not lazy. That's efficient. U jelly.
My Mac eats small children too. OS X Lion is fitting.
As opposed to the people that believe government has a solution for every problem and consistently refuse to acknowledge its many failures?
I saw no such thing in the comment you were replying to. You made that up.
I mean, we'll totally ignore his bashing of the private sector since that "wasn't" polarizing the issue, right?
So, you're using the "he started it" defense, eh? Be that as it may, you're still in the wrong.
I guess the state, much like the church of yesterday, should be immune to criticism...
Not at all. Just try not to be so blatantly reactionary about it. Clearly you've had many discussions like this before and you've built up this imaginary opponent who embodies every silly pro-government/anti-corporation comment ever made. And that's just not constructive.
Your precious government is no more noble than they are.
Why is it that that a person can't even hint that the goverment might be better suited to address a particular problem without people saying things like "your precious government." Way to polarize the discussion.
It's not entirely the fault of the private sector. Shareholders - people who have money to invest but flat-out don't understand business - are just as much of (if not bigger) part of the problem.
Um, shareholders are part of the private sector. You can't really speak of them as being separate entities.
I had read that there's actually at lot of capacity that just goes to waste over night. If most EVs charged over night, it wouldn't be much of a burden on the grid as a whole (though local transformers might need upgrading). At least not for a while. I mean, it would be a while before most peopel ha gone electric.
, but I would like Canonical to spend a bit of time on dev workflow and make sure the popular modern dev tools (Eclipse & Netbeans) works well in Ubuntu -
It is Java. What do you expect? Unless it is using the GTK plugin for the UI, it is going to stick out like s sore thumb and there's nothing you can do about it.
We can discuss how good filtering has become and question why anyone should be getting spam at all despite the huge volume of it out there. If you still get spam in your inbox, you really need to consider changing email providers. Spam is actually far less profitable than it used to be.
But if the rat droppings are the only real problem and the rats aren't otherwise being a nuisance, what's wrong with automating the removal of the rat droppings? I know in principal it would be nice if spammers/rats were completely out of business, but looking at it from an end user's perspective, what's the difference?
It is such a fuzzy line though between legitimate marketing email and spam. A lot of people don't consider it spam if you give the user some way to opt out (that works). Personally, I consider any unsolicited marketing email to be spam. Mass mailing lists must be opt-in. And checkboxes for such emails on registration forms must be unchecked by default.
Or people could just start implementing the very good filtering solutions that are out there. I know it sounds like a bad idea to enter an arms race with spammers, but this is probably one of those rare cases where it has worked. We're winning. Filtering solutions are GOOD. Turns out the more things spammers do to try to slip through filters, the more obvious their attempts become and the easier they are to pick out.
When was the last time you saw spam in your gmail account? I haven't seen a single instance in months except for a few messages coming through some poorly maintained mailing lists, from which I usually unsubscribe when I start getting spam.
Seriously, who still gets spam email these days? Filtering solutions are fairly mature and effective. I might go so far as to say we're winning the battle... if it weren't for the fact that like 90% of all email is spam. Still, I publish my gmail address all over the feakin' place including usenet and I can't remember the last time I got a single piece of spam in my inbox or a missed email due to filtering. When I ran my own mail server I could filter out most spam as well using free tools and techiques. So, what's the big deal? Who is still getting spam and why haven't you changed email providers?
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Not ironic at all. It is just smart.
Solar-thermal is a proven technology. And besides, it is just a loan guarantee. Not a grant.
My provider gives 3 strikes, but there's no due process. I suppose one rationalization might be that if you can't lock down your network after 2 violations, maybe it is time to cut you off regardless of your personal guilt or innocence. We're not talking about fines or jail time here. Merely a violation of ToS and disconnection. It isn't entirely unfair or unjustified but it would certainly suck to be at the business end of a clerical error 3 times in a row.
Microevolution of hacking tools is OK. Macroevolution of hacking tools just doesn't exist.
A file hash/sum couldn't work because the new version would most certainly be different. Dunno about audio fingerprinting or how that would work. Who knows, it might be as trivial as looking at the ID3 tags. Now that would be easy to trick.
Well, you haven't paid the original artists for the music, but you've paid someone. And apparently that's all the law really cares about it. So long as that "someone" has some kind of agreement with the record labels to be able to grant "licenses" all willy nilly on their behalf. The whole system is ridiculous.
As someone who does download illegally, I don't fear lawsuits so much as being permanently banned from my broadband provider. But they don't care if at some point I buy a legal copy of something. They only respond to letters from content owners saying my IP was used to download some content from bittorrent. They're not going to care if I say "Oh, but I paid Apple $25 to make it legit. Please turn my internet back on!"
Maybe I'll try Terraria. The video I saw didn't look all that interesting though. I just can't imagine how much there can be to do in a 2D side scroller like that.
I dunno. I've been playing Minecraft on and off for about a year now and it just doesn't feel like that much as really changed. THere's still really not that much to do. I've turned off mobs because they were a nuisance. The whole combat/health/spawn system is awkwardly tacked onto what is essentially a a builder "game." I guess the mobs are there to motivate the player to actually build a base? I dunno. I also had to give myself unlimited TNT because digging with a pick was just SOO tedious. If I ever get the urge to build anything again, I'll probably just edit my inventory and give myself all the components needed. Or at least use a TNT mod so my TNT doesn't destroy valuable materials.
Maybe I'm just not suited for such a wide open sandbox. I need more tangible goals, I guess.
I would be surprised if he threw in something as crazy as missions or NPCs. So far additions have been limited to less functional things like weather.
I want to say that being creative in Minecraft is difficult because of the materials and functions are so limited, but I know that should push me to do more with less. I do find making intricate things to be very difficult. For example, anything that involving curves is very tedious. Also, without using some cheats, collecting materials can be extremely tedious. I resorted to giving myself infinite TNT because I couldn't stand hackign away at stone ad nauseum. And I turn off mobs because they're just a nuisance. So basically it is just a virtual lego set :)
Problem is that the fighting system is just not very robust. It is more like a prototyping tool for a better game. I find the mobs in the game to be nothing more than a nuisance.
They sit around for 23 hours a day because they CAN. They cover all of their survival needs in 1 hour a day. That's not lazy. That's efficient. U jelly.
My Mac eats small children too. OS X Lion is fitting.
As opposed to the people that believe government has a solution for every problem and consistently refuse to acknowledge its many failures?
I saw no such thing in the comment you were replying to. You made that up.
I mean, we'll totally ignore his bashing of the private sector since that "wasn't" polarizing the issue, right?
So, you're using the "he started it" defense, eh? Be that as it may, you're still in the wrong.
I guess the state, much like the church of yesterday, should be immune to criticism...
Not at all. Just try not to be so blatantly reactionary about it. Clearly you've had many discussions like this before and you've built up this imaginary opponent who embodies every silly pro-government/anti-corporation comment ever made. And that's just not constructive.
It was a simple question. What is the private sector doing about it?
Your precious government is no more noble than they are.
Why is it that that a person can't even hint that the goverment might be better suited to address a particular problem without people saying things like "your precious government." Way to polarize the discussion.
It's not entirely the fault of the private sector. Shareholders - people who have money to invest but flat-out don't understand business - are just as much of (if not bigger) part of the problem.
Um, shareholders are part of the private sector. You can't really speak of them as being separate entities.
I had read that there's actually at lot of capacity that just goes to waste over night. If most EVs charged over night, it wouldn't be much of a burden on the grid as a whole (though local transformers might need upgrading). At least not for a while. I mean, it would be a while before most peopel ha gone electric.
And what is the private sector doing to update the antiquated power grid?
, but I would like Canonical to spend a bit of time on dev workflow and make sure the popular modern dev tools (Eclipse & Netbeans) works well in Ubuntu -
It is Java. What do you expect? Unless it is using the GTK plugin for the UI, it is going to stick out like s sore thumb and there's nothing you can do about it.
Also a Mac fan... doesn't the dock on the side make more sense as a default in a world of wide screen displays?
We can discuss how good filtering has become and question why anyone should be getting spam at all despite the huge volume of it out there. If you still get spam in your inbox, you really need to consider changing email providers. Spam is actually far less profitable than it used to be.
But if the rat droppings are the only real problem and the rats aren't otherwise being a nuisance, what's wrong with automating the removal of the rat droppings? I know in principal it would be nice if spammers/rats were completely out of business, but looking at it from an end user's perspective, what's the difference?
It is such a fuzzy line though between legitimate marketing email and spam. A lot of people don't consider it spam if you give the user some way to opt out (that works). Personally, I consider any unsolicited marketing email to be spam. Mass mailing lists must be opt-in. And checkboxes for such emails on registration forms must be unchecked by default.
Or people could just start implementing the very good filtering solutions that are out there. I know it sounds like a bad idea to enter an arms race with spammers, but this is probably one of those rare cases where it has worked. We're winning. Filtering solutions are GOOD. Turns out the more things spammers do to try to slip through filters, the more obvious their attempts become and the easier they are to pick out.
When was the last time you saw spam in your gmail account? I haven't seen a single instance in months except for a few messages coming through some poorly maintained mailing lists, from which I usually unsubscribe when I start getting spam.
Seriously, who still gets spam email these days? Filtering solutions are fairly mature and effective. I might go so far as to say we're winning the battle... if it weren't for the fact that like 90% of all email is spam. Still, I publish my gmail address all over the feakin' place including usenet and I can't remember the last time I got a single piece of spam in my inbox or a missed email due to filtering. When I ran my own mail server I could filter out most spam as well using free tools and techiques. So, what's the big deal? Who is still getting spam and why haven't you changed email providers?