they allow people w/ pirated versions to install the service pack because of industry pressure. lobbyists say things like "worm X caused $1,337,000,000,000,000,000 in damage to companies! what a huge problem! something must be done!". with so many people running pirated windows out there, NOT offering the patch makes it look like the problem isnt as severe as its made out to be.
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the samsung sgh-e715 has a built in LED flash nothing amazing, but it works well enough
the problem i see with this is as follows (forgive me if someone has already pointed this out):
lots of bets are placed on 'assassination of the president'. if this is actually being treated as intelligence then something will be done to prevent it from happening and nobodies bet will pay off. wising up, they bet on 'prevented assassination attempt of the vice president' the next time around.
for occurances such as this, only 2 parties will know about the event: the people who hatched the scheme, and the people who prevented it from being thwarted.
so only the government and the assassins can say that this bet should have paid off. assuming that we don't listen to the assassins (theyre just saying things at this point, nothing would keep them from saying anything they want) then all we have is the government telling us what 'prevented' bets paid off and which ones didn't. of course, the government can also say whatever it wants, but they're on 'our side' so we'll be more likely to listen to them.
with a government that is ridiculously tight-fisted regarding information on events that actually DID happen (sept. 11 anyone?), to assume that they would be any more lax in disclosing events that might have happened is silly. there are plenty of reasons they could supply to justify not divulging info that would have profited a speculator (national security would be the first one they'd use), but the consequence of this is that the market would reflect on whatever the government wants it to reflect, rather than the real world.
about a year ago it was either popular mechanics or popular science that had an article on this subject, talked about 'digital ink', etc. if it was in popular mechanics, you could prob find it at their web site pmzone. If it was in pop sci, then your guess is as good as mine as to where to find it.
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the wikirati!
I just like the fact that blogerati was in quotes, but digerati was not. Wouldn't it be digIrati?
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durrrrrr
so for your average outlook user, it'd be business as usual...
they allow people w/ pirated versions to install the service pack because of industry pressure. lobbyists say things like "worm X caused $1,337,000,000,000,000,000 in damage to companies! what a huge problem! something must be done!". with so many people running pirated windows out there, NOT offering the patch makes it look like the problem isnt as severe as its made out to be.
the samsung sgh-e715 has a built in LED flash
nothing amazing, but it works well enough
correction:
prevented it from being thwarted
should read:
prevented it
the problem i see with this is as follows (forgive me if someone has already pointed this out):
lots of bets are placed on 'assassination of the president'. if this is actually being treated as intelligence then something will be done to prevent it from happening and nobodies bet will pay off. wising up, they bet on 'prevented assassination attempt of the vice president' the next time around.
for occurances such as this, only 2 parties will know about the event: the people who hatched the scheme, and the people who prevented it from being thwarted.
so only the government and the assassins can say that this bet should have paid off.
assuming that we don't listen to the assassins (theyre just saying things at this point, nothing would keep them from saying anything they want) then all we have is the government telling us what 'prevented' bets paid off and which ones didn't. of course, the government can also say whatever it wants, but they're on 'our side' so we'll be more likely to listen to them.
with a government that is ridiculously tight-fisted regarding information on events that actually DID happen (sept. 11 anyone?), to assume that they would be any more lax in disclosing events that might have happened is silly.
there are plenty of reasons they could supply to justify not divulging info that would have profited a speculator (national security would be the first one they'd use), but the consequence of this is that the market would reflect on whatever the government wants it to reflect, rather than the real world.
that, and it's barbaric.
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about a year ago it was either popular mechanics or popular science that had an article on this subject, talked about 'digital ink', etc. if it was in popular mechanics, you could prob find it at their web site pmzone. If it was in pop sci, then your guess is as good as mine as to where to find it.