I hate to break it to you, but consumers are a bunch of idiots. Every month, if not every week, you can read about someone doing something utterly stupid, so stupid that warning labels are now affixed to everything.
Do not lift push mower while it is running.
"Not for use as a flotation device" labeled on an inflatable bird smaller than my hand.
And don't even mention the Darwin awards...
In contrast to many critics of Windows Product Activation, we think that WPA does not prevent typical hardware modifications and, moreover, respects the user's right to privacy.
Typical hardware modifications....
If you change more than three things, you have to go through whatever hoops Microsoft wants to put you through to use something you've already paid for...
I don't know about you (or the guys who did this), but the last time I upgraded a machine, I increased the memory (1 change), added a hard drive (2 changes), replaced both the modem and the video card (3 and 4 changes)... Whoops... Went too far, must now cope with Mr. Bill and the XP nonesense...
The Chinese could decode ultra-secure CSS encoded video orders to US submarines transmitted via the ELF antennas in Michigan and Wisconsin.
(Now, to see who is smart enough to figure out what is wrong with the above.)
Well, since the operating frequency is 76 Hz, video orders are right out. IIRC, the communication rate is so low that transmissions are limited to coded text.
Smart tag headers at the top of pages only apply to that page.
Do you know that for sure?
MS software has a laundry list of unintended uses/abuses. Word macro viruses, those damn.vbs attachments in Outlook, etc. (There are more, I'm just too tired to look them up now.)
I haven't seen the code, so I don't know how it could be abused, and given the MS track record on "functionality", I don't like it.
I fully expect that if it were rolled out, an exploit, would be found within weeks, if not days.
What would the USA do if the chinese kept flying planes up the cost of California, just outside the territorial boundaries? What would they do if one of these planes came down at an American air-base?
There would be an over 50% chance that the pilot would defect, and since we already know what Chinese jet technology is, they would probably get it back pretty quick.
International treaties only recognize out to 12 miles. Hell, if they Chinese had the technology to do a 13 mile fly-by of the West Coast, we'd have to let them.
That these appear to be in no particular order, but Shigeru Miyamoto should have been first.
I mean without his contributions, where would we be? I think Donkey Kong was the first game I ever played, if only there was an egg crate there so I could reach the controls...
I can't seem to think of any religion that condemns eating meat
From the Principia Discordia, Commandment 3 of the Pentabarf:
A Discordian is Required during his early Illumination to Go Off Alone & Partake Joyously of a Hot Dog on a Friday; this Devotive Ceremony to Remonstrate against the popular Paganisms of the Day: of Catholic Christendom (no meat on Friday), of Judaism (no meat of Pork), of Hindic Peoples (no meat of Beef), of Buddhists (no meat of animal), and of Discordians (no Hot Dog Buns).
Ok, with the loss of $5.6 at 4 cents a share indicates a total number of shares of 140 million. (I have no idea if this is the actual amount of RH shares; fractional amounts of cents aren't listed.)
A loss of $600,000 divided by that 140 million is a loss of $.0042857 per share. Since you can't have.4 cents, it's considered a break even loss.
Likewise, if they had a profit of $600,000, it would be considered a break even gain.
What is a "reply brief", who writes it and what is it for?
IANAL, and all that rot...
A reply brief is a legal brief in responce (reply)to another legal brief. It's written by the lawyers representing one side of a suit.
Basically, it goes like this:
X and Y have a court case. X wins.
Y appeals based on one or more issues. This is called the appellate brief.
X responds to the appeal describing how the issues raised by Y are not issues. This is a reply brief.
Usually, the appeallate gets a chance to reply to the reply. Or, using the above example, Y gets to say why X is still full of it.
There are also other kinds of briefs, such as an amicus brief, filed by an amicus curiae for one side or the other.
What was the original Judge smoking to rule against 2600?
Some of the money the MPAA paid him off with? I understand you can get a wicked buzz off of a fresh $100 bill, and I'm sure they gave him enough that he could smoke a couple dozen...
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Converting to .pdf wasn't the crime. Anyone can do that with the proper application/plug-in.
It was that the Russian "broke" an "encryption method" that caused him to "violate" the DMCA.
Of course, since it wasn't illegal in the country he performed it in....
BTW, anyone know if his embassy has been notified?
I hate to break it to you, but consumers are a bunch of idiots. Every month, if not every week, you can read about someone doing something utterly stupid, so stupid that warning labels are now affixed to everything.
Do not lift push mower while it is running.
"Not for use as a flotation device" labeled on an inflatable bird smaller than my hand.
And don't even mention the Darwin awards...
Hell, I want one at the local Kinkos....
In contrast to many critics of Windows Product Activation, we think that WPA does not prevent typical hardware modifications and, moreover, respects the user's right to privacy.
Typical hardware modifications....
If you change more than three things, you have to go through whatever hoops Microsoft wants to put you through to use something you've already paid for...
I don't know about you (or the guys who did this), but the last time I upgraded a machine, I increased the memory (1 change), added a hard drive (2 changes), replaced both the modem and the video card (3 and 4 changes)... Whoops... Went too far, must now cope with Mr. Bill and the XP nonesense...
The Chinese could decode ultra-secure CSS encoded video orders to US submarines transmitted via the ELF antennas in Michigan and Wisconsin.
(Now, to see who is smart enough to figure out what is wrong with the above.)
Well, since the operating frequency is 76 Hz, video orders are right out. IIRC, the communication rate is so low that transmissions are limited to coded text.
Smart tag headers at the top of pages only apply to that page.
.vbs attachments in Outlook, etc. (There are more, I'm just too tired to look them up now.)
Do you know that for sure?
MS software has a laundry list of unintended uses/abuses. Word macro viruses, those damn
I haven't seen the code, so I don't know how it could be abused, and given the MS track record on "functionality", I don't like it.
I fully expect that if it were rolled out, an exploit, would be found within weeks, if not days.
...and most importantly, Pacman ultimately always loses.
Check out The First Church of Pac Man. The ultimate score has been achieved.
Last I checked the median income in the US was about 35K. Which is pretty pathetic if you ask me.
Depends on where in the US you are. In the Southeast, excluding Atlanta and the Triangle, 35K a year provides a fairly comfortable living.
Unless Mindspring/Earthlink becomes a Baby Bell, that's at least 6. And, M/E has a heck of a lot of mindshare in the southeast...
Actually, since at least some of the alleged crimes took place inside the boundries of the US, it's the FBI's job to handle.
...scientists want the access available.
After all, how often has scientific work been duplicated because the second (or third+) scientist didn't know what the first had done?
Probably the press.
This is Nintendo, after all. They've got some developers who will write games for them no matter what the specs for the box are.
True, but the Fishman Affidavit is part of the public record, and thus may be quoted by anyone.
Tho, just to be safe, I always put the "Fair Use" disclaimer at the top of it...
A school system responding not to the actual issue, that of school bullies, but in a knee-jerk hyper-paranoid manner.
*sigh*
Your forgetting index of refraction.
Since diamonds have such a high index, light that would normally not be captured by the cells may be utilized.
I don't know about spy planes, but I seem to recall a couple of MIG pilots defecting with their jets... Try this link
Why am I thinking that we need a new mod type: Paranoid Fantasy...
What would the USA do if the chinese kept flying planes up the cost of California, just outside the territorial boundaries? What would they do if one of these planes came down at an American air-base?
There would be an over 50% chance that the pilot would defect, and since we already know what Chinese jet technology is, they would probably get it back pretty quick.
Libya tried the same thing over a decade ago.
They got bombed for their trouble.
International treaties only recognize out to 12 miles. Hell, if they Chinese had the technology to do a 13 mile fly-by of the West Coast, we'd have to let them.
Why would you want to uninstall IE?
Because I don't want that bloat on my machine?
Because I never use IE?
Because I prefer using a browser that doesn't cause unrelated, third-party apps to crash?
That these appear to be in no particular order, but Shigeru Miyamoto should have been first.
I mean without his contributions, where would we be? I think Donkey Kong was the first game I ever played, if only there was an egg crate there so I could reach the controls...
From the Principia Discordia, Commandment 3 of the Pentabarf:
Ok, with the loss of $5.6 at 4 cents a share indicates a total number of shares of 140 million. (I have no idea if this is the actual amount of RH shares; fractional amounts of cents aren't listed.)
.4 cents, it's considered a break even loss.
A loss of $600,000 divided by that 140 million is a loss of $.0042857 per share. Since you can't have
Likewise, if they had a profit of $600,000, it would be considered a break even gain.
What is a "reply brief", who writes it and what is it for?
IANAL, and all that rot...
A reply brief is a legal brief in responce (reply)to another legal brief. It's written by the lawyers representing one side of a suit.
Basically, it goes like this:
X and Y have a court case. X wins.
Y appeals based on one or more issues. This is called the appellate brief.
X responds to the appeal describing how the issues raised by Y are not issues. This is a reply brief.
Usually, the appeallate gets a chance to reply to the reply. Or, using the above example, Y gets to say why X is still full of it.
There are also other kinds of briefs, such as an amicus brief, filed by an amicus curiae for one side or the other.
What was the original Judge smoking to rule against 2600?
Some of the money the MPAA paid him off with? I understand you can get a wicked buzz off of a fresh $100 bill, and I'm sure they gave him enough that he could smoke a couple dozen...