I drive a Toyota Corolla Verso, 7-seater, 2.2 litre diesel engine. Drives really well and has loads of power when you need it. It also has tons of room inside for storage/kids/etc.. I regularly get better than 50 MPG out of it.
The police are not interested. Seriously, I had a good chat recently with a member of the UK police force, working in online criminal activity and he told me they are more concerned with "identifying and catching people grooming kids via social networks, than propping up some corporates failing business model" (I paraphrase, but they were pretty much his words..) Also, he wasn't one of the techies (who would most likely have that opinion), he actually ran the team. It renewed my faith in the police to hear that..
Of course, that was just his views on the matter, but if its a similar view across the force (and I'm led to believe it is), then unless one of these cases just drops in their laps, the police arent going to go out of their way to enforce this.
Cant he just host his tricorder app outside of the US? The DMCA is a US law, isnt it? So surely its only US sites that are subject to it, or am I being overly naive here?
This may also explain why zombies can tell the difference between another zombie and a human acting like a zombie. Perhaps zombies have their own uncanny valley..,?
GP most likely meant the Copernican Principle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_principle), that the Earth is not in an especially favoured position.. GP suggests it is, hence fail.
I'm siding with the Anthropic principle myself..
We (I'm 40) were the first generation to have video games in the home, so it makes sense that we would still be playing them.. I expect that in 20 years, the average age of gamers will be 15-20 years higher than now.
cant speak for anywhere else, but in the UK, the Motorola Xoom and Ipad 2 are the same price. Thats the 32G Wifi only versions, btw.. Features-wise, the Xoom wins, imo..
Virgin Media has (allegedly) backed away from Phorm, along with the other two ISP's that were considering it.. You are, however correct in every other statement.
Because, with your average blockbuster release, they've been slowly drip-fed hype and marketing for months to the point that they must have it at all costs on release day. The publishers themselves measure the success or failure of a game on first day sales. There's a huge pre-order market just so that people can guarantee they will get their game on release day. Everything is geared towards getting your game on release day.
And then you expect them to wait 3 days, when there are copies floating around on the internet?
I updated mine to Froyo a few weeks ago, It was due out "any day", but Orange were a bit slow off the mark, so I did it via Odin.. Its a lot faster now, the battery life seems better and GPS works as intended..
My advice, don't wait for the official update, just do it yourself.. Google has links to many howto guides.
This law would just affect California right? What percentage of the gaming market is situated in California? Im pretty sure the rest of the world will carry on as usual...
You don't need to hire a '{cr|h}acker' for this, as others have said, wolf -> hen house.. Firstly tho, don't let your CEO dictate your IT security policy. Seriously. That's your IT managers job, he should've pushed back on that one, so he should be getting flak for not doing that.
If you want to improve security, I would hire a sysadmin with a decent background in security, and get him to manage that side of things (patching, hardening, etc) and also to spread the knowledge and a more security focused attitude around the rest of the IT department, which he will more than likely have an incentive to, purely so that he isn't constantly patching up holes left by the rest of the team..
In my experience contracting stuff out to a third party costs more and you end up with less..
Exactly this.. A large webservices company I used to contract for has open Wifi throughout their building in Central London, so that visitors can get Internet access, you can only get on the corp network if you have the correct MAC + other layers behind VMPS, otherwise it just redirects you to the 'guest' network.. A feature. Not a bug. No doubt our 'ethical hacker' added this to the 'bad' list..
The cynical amongst us might think this sort of thing just reinforces the idea that "Terrorists are among us!" and we should give lots of tax and civil liberties to the government to "protect" us..
But that's just cynicism, right?
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I drive a Toyota Corolla Verso, 7-seater, 2.2 litre diesel engine. Drives really well and has loads of power when you need it. It also has tons of room inside for storage/kids/etc.. I regularly get better than 50 MPG out of it.
Because living elsewhere ensures access to apps. No place in this system of things is a perfect place to live; one has to pick the least bad.
Then, in this case, the "least bad" option is to "pirate" it. If the company doesn't sell it in Uganda, then they lose nothing by him downloading it.
Indeed. I always wondered if that movie was also inspiration for Katamari Damacy...
The police are not interested. Seriously, I had a good chat recently with a member of the UK police force, working in online criminal activity and he told me they are more concerned with "identifying and catching people grooming kids via social networks, than propping up some corporates failing business model" (I paraphrase, but they were pretty much his words..) Also, he wasn't one of the techies (who would most likely have that opinion), he actually ran the team. It renewed my faith in the police to hear that.. Of course, that was just his views on the matter, but if its a similar view across the force (and I'm led to believe it is), then unless one of these cases just drops in their laps, the police arent going to go out of their way to enforce this.
Cant he just host his tricorder app outside of the US? The DMCA is a US law, isnt it? So surely its only US sites that are subject to it, or am I being overly naive here?
This may also explain why zombies can tell the difference between another zombie and a human acting like a zombie. Perhaps zombies have their own uncanny valley..,?
..shows what a farce copyright law has become..
GP most likely meant the Copernican Principle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_principle), that the Earth is not in an especially favoured position.. GP suggests it is, hence fail. I'm siding with the Anthropic principle myself..
We (I'm 40) were the first generation to have video games in the home, so it makes sense that we would still be playing them.. I expect that in 20 years, the average age of gamers will be 15-20 years higher than now.
Funnily enough, Stephen Baxter's book, Titan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_%28Stephen_Baxter_novel%29) involves exactly that..
What exactly is so 'earnest' about creating multiple fake identities and using them to spread propaganda in order manipulate public opinion?
Possibly because its release date isnt until 2012.. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034314/
cant speak for anywhere else, but in the UK, the Motorola Xoom and Ipad 2 are the same price. Thats the 32G Wifi only versions, btw.. Features-wise, the Xoom wins, imo..
If we're talking relevancy, then surely Roujin Z fits the bill here.. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102812/
Virgin Media has (allegedly) backed away from Phorm, along with the other two ISP's that were considering it.. You are, however correct in every other statement.
Because, with your average blockbuster release, they've been slowly drip-fed hype and marketing for months to the point that they must have it at all costs on release day. The publishers themselves measure the success or failure of a game on first day sales. There's a huge pre-order market just so that people can guarantee they will get their game on release day. Everything is geared towards getting your game on release day. And then you expect them to wait 3 days, when there are copies floating around on the internet?
I updated mine to Froyo a few weeks ago, It was due out "any day", but Orange were a bit slow off the mark, so I did it via Odin.. Its a lot faster now, the battery life seems better and GPS works as intended.. My advice, don't wait for the official update, just do it yourself.. Google has links to many howto guides.
Its called Black Comedy. People should see it for what it is and move on.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_comedy
My Samsung Galaxy (Android) did the same thing.. It altered the time okay, but for some reason woke me at 5am instead of 6am.
This law would just affect California right? What percentage of the gaming market is situated in California? Im pretty sure the rest of the world will carry on as usual...
What do you mean, films? There's more than one? The Hobbit isn't a particularly big book, so why is it being made into more than one film?
There's no expert. You mean Veteran. And the game is called Modern Warfare 2, not COD6.
To compound the error, compared to Modern Warfare (COD4) and W@W (COD5), MW2's (COD6) Veteran mode was considered less of a challenge..
You don't need to hire a '{cr|h}acker' for this, as others have said, wolf -> hen house.. Firstly tho, don't let your CEO dictate your IT security policy. Seriously. That's your IT managers job, he should've pushed back on that one, so he should be getting flak for not doing that. If you want to improve security, I would hire a sysadmin with a decent background in security, and get him to manage that side of things (patching, hardening, etc) and also to spread the knowledge and a more security focused attitude around the rest of the IT department, which he will more than likely have an incentive to, purely so that he isn't constantly patching up holes left by the rest of the team.. In my experience contracting stuff out to a third party costs more and you end up with less..
Exactly this.. A large webservices company I used to contract for has open Wifi throughout their building in Central London, so that visitors can get Internet access, you can only get on the corp network if you have the correct MAC + other layers behind VMPS, otherwise it just redirects you to the 'guest' network.. A feature. Not a bug. No doubt our 'ethical hacker' added this to the 'bad' list..
The cynical amongst us might think this sort of thing just reinforces the idea that "Terrorists are among us!" and we should give lots of tax and civil liberties to the government to "protect" us.. But that's just cynicism, right?